:00:05. > :00:08.Hello again and welcome to Wednesday's Look North. Tonight:
:00:08. > :00:18.I'm not guilty, says the man accused of murdering a pensioner.
:00:18. > :00:25.
:00:25. > :00:28.Graeme Jarman tells a court he's been set up.
:00:28. > :00:34.Why police use that taser de Nantes Raoul Moat.
:00:34. > :00:38.There man who fears time may be running out for getting
:00:38. > :00:43.compensation for abuse he suffered in a Catholic care home.
:00:43. > :00:46.We have action from Accrington as the Blues lose their grip on the
:00:46. > :00:56.Johnstone's Paint Trophy. But we will meet another Olympic Coppell
:00:56. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:05.is up for the fight and dreaming of London 2012.
:01:05. > :01:08."I'm innocent and I've been set up." That's what Graeme Jarman told
:01:08. > :01:11.a court when he appeared for the first time today, charged with
:01:11. > :01:14.murder. Mr Jarman, from Consett in County Durham, is accused of
:01:14. > :01:16.killing 77-year-old Judith Richardson. She was found dead at
:01:16. > :01:26.her home in Hexham in Northumberland last month. Our
:01:26. > :01:27.
:01:27. > :01:31.correspondent, Mark Denten, was in court today.
:01:31. > :01:38.Graeme Jarman appeared before Newcastle magistrates for six
:01:38. > :01:44.minutes. Wearing a blue sweatshirt, a balding, with cropped grey hair,
:01:44. > :01:48.he spoke confidently when saying his name. Speaking in court, Jarman
:01:48. > :01:51.said, "I am not guilty of these charges and, as far as I'm
:01:51. > :01:55.concerned, it is a set-up." He is charged with the murder of
:01:55. > :01:58.pensioner Judith Richardson at her home in Hexham. She was battered to
:01:59. > :02:02.death at her home in St Wilfred's Close in the town with a hammer.
:02:02. > :02:05.Police had called to her house to return her handbag which was found
:02:05. > :02:08.by a passer-by in a litter bin on Clayton Street in Newcastle. Graeme
:02:08. > :02:11.Jarman was arrested in Filey on Saturday at a library after a
:02:11. > :02:20.member of staff called North Yorkshire police. He was questioned
:02:20. > :02:23.by officers and charged with murder yesterday. Graeme Jarman was
:02:23. > :02:30.remanded in custody and will appear before Newcastle Crown Court on
:02:30. > :02:33.21st September. The police have today been
:02:33. > :02:37.explaining why they fired an unauthorised taser gun in a stand-
:02:37. > :02:40.off with the fugitive gunman Raoul Moat. An inquest was told that
:02:40. > :02:45.officers believed it was the best chance of taking him alive, even
:02:45. > :02:49.though its use had yet to be approved. Moat died last year after
:02:49. > :02:52.he was cornered by police in the Northumberland town of Rothbury.
:02:52. > :03:02.Live now to Peter Harris, who has been following the inquest at
:03:02. > :03:02.
:03:02. > :03:07.Newcastle Crown Court. They wanted to take him alive, that
:03:07. > :03:12.is the crux of the police case. They thought that any stand-off
:03:12. > :03:17.Woodend one of two ways - either they would kill -- he would kill
:03:17. > :03:22.them more he would kill himself. That is why they brought in a taser
:03:22. > :03:26.gun, even though it had not been authorised yet for use in this
:03:26. > :03:32.country. They thought it was worth the risk because they thought it
:03:32. > :03:40.was their best chance, perhaps their only chance, of bringing
:03:40. > :03:43.Raoul Moat out alive. The shotgun taser. This is the weapon the
:03:43. > :03:46.police were given as they hunted Raoul Moat. Described as non-lethal,
:03:46. > :03:56.they thought it was an option to arrest him without him ending up
:03:56. > :03:59.dead. There was a catch. It had not yet been approved for use in the UK.
:04:00. > :04:03.The police wanted it anyway. Assistant Chief Constable Steve
:04:03. > :04:06.Ashman told Moat's inquest they feared Moat would seek a showdown.
:04:06. > :04:11.The taser, which fires a high- voltage charge, could allow them to
:04:11. > :04:17.take him alive and bring him to justice. And so he decided to issue
:04:17. > :04:21.the weapon, even though it was still being tested. Mr Ashman told
:04:21. > :04:31.the jury: "It might prevent him killing himself or putting us in a
:04:31. > :04:33.
:04:33. > :04:36.position where we had to kill him." Later it was put to the jury that
:04:36. > :04:40.the company who supplied the taser was a respected supplier, it was
:04:40. > :04:45.not, the jury was told, some kind of Arthur Daley operation being
:04:45. > :04:49.offered off the back of a lorry. The police had been contacted by
:04:49. > :04:52.Peter Boatman while Moat was on the run, offering the taser shotgun. He
:04:52. > :04:55.was described in court as a respected figure and a former
:04:55. > :05:00.police officer. He said they had considered the European Human
:05:00. > :05:10.Rights Act and Moat's right to life. And so they hired the taser, he
:05:10. > :05:14.
:05:14. > :05:17.said - unauthorised, but their best chance of taking him alive. Use all
:05:17. > :05:22.there the assistant Chief Constable. He was questioned by the solicitor
:05:22. > :05:28.representing Raoul Moat's family. He asked if if it was right to use
:05:28. > :05:35.the weapon if they were not sure of what the consequences would be. The
:05:35. > :05:38.officer replied, "we thought it was our only chance of getting Raoul
:05:38. > :05:48.Moat out alive, bringing him to justice. Therefore, it was worth
:05:48. > :05:51.the risk." The woman who survived a 60 foot fall from a ferry into the
:05:51. > :05:55.North Sea says she thought she was going to die. Jeni Anderson spent
:05:55. > :05:57.up to 30 minutes in the water after falling from a DFDS ferry from
:05:58. > :06:00.Newcastle to Amsterdam on Monday. She says she kept swimming and
:06:00. > :06:03.screaming to make sure she was found. The 23-year-old says she
:06:03. > :06:11.can't remember how she ended up falling from the deck. The ferry
:06:11. > :06:15.turned around and found her before she was airlifted to safety.
:06:15. > :06:18.A man who claims he was one of dozens of boys abused at a Catholic
:06:18. > :06:23.community home in Yorkshire fears he may not live long enough to get
:06:23. > :06:27.any compensation. Robert Maxwell, from York, lived in the St
:06:27. > :06:30.William's home in Market Weighton in the Sixties. Legal wrangles are
:06:30. > :06:40.continuing in the courts, but Mr Maxwell is now battling a terminal
:06:40. > :06:42.
:06:42. > :06:49.illness. John Cundy reports. St William's College - for 30 years,
:06:50. > :06:56.for some boys, a home run under her reign of fear or. One headmaster
:06:56. > :07:01.was found guilty and jailed for 14 years. Robert Maxwell is one of
:07:01. > :07:07.more than 150 former pupils seeking compensation. But, with terminal
:07:07. > :07:13.cancer, time is running short for him. The lads did not talk about it
:07:13. > :07:17.properly. You did not sit and talk about it, but we all knew. This
:07:17. > :07:20.legal wrangle has already been going on for more than six years
:07:20. > :07:25.and, even if the Supreme Court rules against the Catholic church
:07:25. > :07:34.next year, it may be several years beyond that before any compensation
:07:34. > :07:37.is won by anyone. This solicitor represents all of the complainants.
:07:37. > :07:41.For this to happen in such a secluded spot with people who were
:07:41. > :07:47.entirely trusted has been a shocking experience for me. What
:07:47. > :07:50.are Robert's options now? He can pursue justice right to the very
:07:50. > :07:57.end, in which case he will not see the end of his case. His relatives
:07:57. > :08:03.will continue the case to the end. Another option could be for him to
:08:03. > :08:11.ask for some compassion from the diocese of Middlesbrough and seek
:08:11. > :08:18.an early settlement of his case before he passes away. I cannot
:08:18. > :08:23.believe it. They say they have got justice but a lot of them have been
:08:24. > :08:33.not getting the justice that they deserve. A 60s scandal still
:08:33. > :08:36.without resolution for many. It's been branded as "a victory for
:08:36. > :08:38.the Keep Cumbria Boring campaign". Well, that was the reaction today
:08:38. > :08:41.from one high-profile supporter of proposals for a controversial mile-
:08:41. > :08:44.long mountain zip wire which were turned down by Lake District
:08:44. > :08:46.planners. The owners of the Honister Slate Mine near Keswick
:08:46. > :08:50.wanted to build the daring attraction to attract new, younger
:08:50. > :09:00.tourists. But members of the National Park Authority said it was
:09:00. > :09:01.
:09:01. > :09:08.a step too far. Mark McAlindon reports. At 1,200 metre zip wire
:09:08. > :09:16.was a bold idea, offering, said the orders, adventurer and exciting
:09:16. > :09:18.experience. But today a majority of members of the Lake District
:09:18. > :09:21.National Park Authority couldn't bring themselves to approve it,
:09:21. > :09:23.saying it would destroy the tranquillity of the high fells.
:09:23. > :09:26.That has provoked bitter disappointment. They can be very
:09:26. > :09:29.pleased with themselves. It is another example of not really in it
:09:29. > :09:35.-- engaging with the young Joe debt -- the younger generation are
:09:35. > :09:41.moving with the times. It is something that you cannot see and
:09:41. > :09:44.the only sign would be a few people calling out. If it had gone ahead
:09:44. > :09:48.it would have been the biggest in the northern hemisphere and
:09:48. > :09:55.comparable only to a wire ride in Sun City, South Africa. Here, its
:09:55. > :09:59.backers claimed Lake District planners were stuck in the past.
:09:59. > :10:03.They have hidden behind a policy that was written too long ago. The
:10:03. > :10:09.majority was written in the 1950s, their newest was right it --
:10:09. > :10:13.written in the 1970s. How can we live by that now? The world is a
:10:13. > :10:16.different place. But those who opposed the zip wire said it was
:10:16. > :10:22.just a step too far in a delicate environment with wider issues at
:10:22. > :10:28.stake. We have always said that it is a concept we support. -- it can
:10:28. > :10:32.encompass lots of different things. There are lots of high adrenaline
:10:32. > :10:36.activities that would attract a wider demographic to the Lake
:10:36. > :10:40.District. There is room to incorporate these sorts of things
:10:40. > :10:43.without damaging the environment in such a significant in her --
:10:43. > :10:46.significant way, like this development would have done.
:10:46. > :10:49.owners of Honister Slate Mine say they will fight on, but their hopes
:10:49. > :10:52.of a new attraction in the Lake District ready for next summer are,
:10:52. > :10:55.for now, dashed. Mark McAlindon, BBC Look North, Cumbria.
:10:55. > :10:58.And there'll be more reaction to that decision on Ian Timms'
:10:58. > :11:01.breakfast show on BBC Radio Cumbria from 6:30 in the morning. Still to
:11:01. > :11:04.come on tonight's Look North: Wednesday's Sportsdesk, plus John
:11:04. > :11:12.Grundy takes us upstairs and downstairs in two of Britain's best
:11:12. > :11:20.loved stately homes. And I will be here with the weather
:11:20. > :11:23.forecast, including a look forward to the weekend.
:11:23. > :11:26.A doctor has been describing the horrors of treating people wounded
:11:26. > :11:31.in the fight for Libya. Dr Tareq Etri has just returned from a
:11:31. > :11:34.second journey to his homeland, torn apart by war. Dr Etri normally
:11:34. > :11:44.works with sick children at North Tyneside Hospital, but says he felt
:11:44. > :11:46.
:11:46. > :11:53.compelled to go to the front line. Gerry Jackson reports. His work as
:11:53. > :11:57.a Tyneside paediatrician is vital enough, but the scenes of war in
:11:57. > :12:01.Libya Amboise a call that Tareq Etri could not ignore. He set up an
:12:01. > :12:07.intensive care unit close to the rebel front lines. He shot his own
:12:07. > :12:13.video. Much of it we cannot show. You have somebody without flesh,
:12:13. > :12:16.you will have a limb - half of it is not there. Tareq found himself
:12:16. > :12:26.treating wounded from both sides, and those with no quarrel with
:12:26. > :12:26.
:12:26. > :12:30.anybody. One baby victim we tried our best to transfer from a war
:12:30. > :12:36.zone to another hospital. We could not do so. After four days of
:12:36. > :12:40.struggling we lost that baby. That left a very strong memories in my
:12:40. > :12:43.mind. Tareq's parents and seven brothers and sisters still live in
:12:43. > :12:51.Libya. As the fighting intensified last month, he returned again, this
:12:52. > :12:57.time as part of a multinational team setting up field hospitals.
:12:57. > :13:04.thought it would be a mobile building with a theatre in it and a
:13:04. > :13:08.clinic, but no, it was basically primitive equipment to stop people
:13:08. > :13:15.bleeding to death. Tareq says, if he's needed, he will return to
:13:15. > :13:19.Libya for a third time in this war. He feels certain the call will come.
:13:19. > :13:28.The war in Libya is not over. Maybe the regime is down but actually
:13:28. > :13:35.what is left behind is still there and we still need help, definitely.
:13:35. > :13:38.That is a worthwhile job, isn't it? It took 30 years to have her first
:13:38. > :13:41.book published and now Hollywood beckons. Janet Foxley, an author
:13:41. > :13:43.from Cumbria, won a competition last year which saw her book,
:13:43. > :13:47.Muncle Trogg, published. It's about a vertically challenged giant so
:13:47. > :13:51.small he decides to live with humans. Now a US production company
:13:51. > :14:01.says it's developing an animated version of the story. If you're
:14:01. > :14:07.sitting comfortably, here's Alison Freeman to tell us more.
:14:07. > :14:12.He tried to wriggle out of his brother's grip. He was going to be
:14:12. > :14:17.sick if he was dangled upside down for much longer.
:14:17. > :14:21.At 67, most people are enjoying their retirement, but not Janet
:14:21. > :14:25.Foxley. She is working on her fledgling career as a children's
:14:25. > :14:33.author and Hollywood film writer. Discovered by the same publisher
:14:33. > :14:37.who found JK rolling, she is not so keen on the comparison. I think
:14:37. > :14:42.other people's expectations of what I might do are far greater than my
:14:42. > :14:46.own, possibly because this has come to any when I have accumulated
:14:46. > :14:50.enough years and was then to be fairly realistic. Rather than
:14:50. > :14:55.excitement, I think I feel a glow of fulfilment inside. It is really
:14:55. > :15:02.nice, after having worked so hard for so many years, to have my work
:15:02. > :15:07.recognised by people who really know what a good children's book is.
:15:07. > :15:12.Squirrels on a skewer, badger burgers, crunchy hedgehog Piet...
:15:12. > :15:18.Janet has been writing for more than 30 years, but her tale of the
:15:18. > :15:24.giant who is too small to fit in one an award last year. Her book,
:15:24. > :15:34.Bookmark, is being turned into an animated film. Everyone was saying
:15:34. > :15:40.
:15:40. > :15:44.how good she was. -- Muncle Trogg. It has changed instantly from being
:15:44. > :15:49.-- from her being one of hundreds of aspiring writers to being a
:15:49. > :15:53.published author. Janet's fund is the world has been
:15:53. > :15:59.inspired by the view from her home. She does not be yet believe that
:15:59. > :16:09.all the plans form her book will become a reality. My literary
:16:09. > :16:11.executors will do very nicely out of me!
:16:11. > :16:14.Now, every year Cragside and Wallington are amongst the most
:16:14. > :16:16.visited National Trust stately homes in the country. Each of these
:16:16. > :16:20.Northumberland properties has a wealth of beautiful rooms for
:16:20. > :16:23.everyone to see, and each also has its own secrets. For the first in a
:16:23. > :16:26.new series of Grundy's North, John has been allowed upstairs to the
:16:26. > :16:36.very top of the house at Cragside, and downstairs into the cellars and
:16:36. > :16:43.
:16:43. > :16:53.tunnels beneath the state rooms at There are no finer places in the
:16:53. > :16:55.
:16:55. > :17:01.north than the National Trust's great Northumbrian houses.
:17:01. > :17:09.Wallington has fantastic gardens while Cragside is a magical place.
:17:09. > :17:15.I have loved for a long time that Hansel and Gretel effect on the
:17:15. > :17:21.roof. Both houses have more to them than meets the eye. Cragside, in
:17:21. > :17:28.fact, has loads more than meets the eye of most casual punters.
:17:28. > :17:37.Visitors get shown 30 superb rooms but the house actually possesses
:17:37. > :17:46.103 rooms, which leaves 73 rooms which never meet anybody's I,
:17:47. > :17:56.except mine! I boldly go where other people are not allowed. I
:17:56. > :18:01.always think of this colour as servants' Brown. What lies behind
:18:01. > :18:11.these undemonstrative doors. It seems that most of them are being
:18:11. > :18:12.
:18:13. > :18:16.used as junk rooms. Good grief, it is my basket of babies! I used to
:18:16. > :18:19.bring people to see this when it was on display downstairs. It must
:18:19. > :18:26.be one of the least tasteful works of art ever made. I am delighted to
:18:26. > :18:30.see it again. Here we are at the very top of the House, at Hansel
:18:30. > :18:39.und Gretel's cottage. What mysteries luck behind this mystical
:18:39. > :18:44.door? Will there be of which? A Sleeping Beauty? -- will there be a
:18:44. > :18:50.witch? Not quite the romance I was dreaming of, but I bet the view
:18:51. > :18:55.from outside is lovely. If Cragside's hidden secrets took me
:18:55. > :19:01.high up into the roof, at Wallington I've been taken down,
:19:01. > :19:11.deep underneath the house. Underneath Wallington there is an
:19:11. > :19:15.
:19:15. > :19:21.absolute Warren of old cellars and strange, twisty corridors. Above me
:19:21. > :19:25.are some fine Georgian rooms built around 1740. Nothing down here was
:19:25. > :19:29.built then - this is all medieval stonework, and this is a medieval
:19:29. > :19:35.window. Occasionally there are storms which seemed even more
:19:35. > :19:39.ancient. There is one here that his card with the sign of the Roman 9th
:19:39. > :19:47.Legion. It is not what it seems - it was carved by one of the
:19:47. > :19:57.Trevelyan children as a successful scam to fill his mother. -- to full
:19:57. > :19:58.
:19:58. > :20:02.his mother. They would use candle smoke to write mysterious messages
:20:02. > :20:07.on the walls. The use this place as an adventure playground. And who
:20:07. > :20:11.can blame them? As you stroll around the glories of Wallington
:20:11. > :20:19.and Cragside, do not forget the curiosities that lark above your
:20:19. > :20:29.head or beneath your feet. It has been a long time since I
:20:29. > :20:30.
:20:30. > :20:32.said this, but it is time for the sport now.
:20:32. > :20:35.Six times they've been to the finals of the Football League
:20:35. > :20:39.Trophy, under all its various sponsorships. It's almost their
:20:39. > :20:42.competition. But just five months after beating Brentford at Wembley
:20:42. > :20:51.to win the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, Carlisle are no longer the holders.
:20:51. > :20:56.But that can happen when you finish a cup tie with only nine men. More
:20:56. > :21:02.than 40,000 fans had roared them to victory back in April. Just over
:21:02. > :21:06.1001 at the ground last night to see the blues fall behind to a goal
:21:06. > :21:09.from Accrington's Craig Linfield. Worse was to come when this tackle
:21:09. > :21:12.earned captain and Wembley match- winner Peter Murphy his second
:21:12. > :21:15.yellow card before half-time. Carlisle were back in it when Jon
:21:15. > :21:17.Paul McGovern levelled on the hour mark. And they looked set for Round
:21:17. > :21:20.Two when Francois Zoko headed in a Two when Francois Zoko headed in a
:21:20. > :21:23.corner from James Berret. But then Berret joined Murphy in the stands
:21:23. > :21:29.after picking up his second yellow. That left United to play the last
:21:30. > :21:33.quarter of an hour with nine. And they held out until four minutes
:21:33. > :21:36.from time. Padraig Amond made it 2- 2. And suddenly it was all over -
:21:36. > :21:44.90 minutes on the clock, the unmarked Andy Proctor with
:21:44. > :21:49.Accrington's winner. Yorkshire's battle to avoid
:21:49. > :21:56.relegation goes on. But it has been a frustrating day at Headingley.
:21:56. > :21:59.They resume tomorrow on 140 for 3. Now to another of the region's
:21:59. > :22:02.athletes chasing the Olympic dream. Sarah Clark from South Shields has
:22:02. > :22:05.enjoyed a long career in the sport of judo. In fact, she's a former
:22:05. > :22:11.European champion. Success at the Olympics has, so far, been beyond
:22:11. > :22:21.But, in 2012, the 33-year-old aims to put that right. Katie Gornall
:22:21. > :22:22.
:22:22. > :22:28.went to meet her at her training She is a fierce competitor,
:22:28. > :22:36.somebody who never gives up. There would be no player more deserving
:22:36. > :22:44.of an Olympic medal, as far as how dedicated, focused and professional
:22:44. > :22:47.she is. Sarah Clark is a former European
:22:47. > :22:52.champion and the Commonwealth simple -- silver-medallist. She has
:22:52. > :22:57.competed in Athens and Beijing, although she is yet to achieve
:22:57. > :23:07.their ultimate goal of winning an Olympic medal. And Sarah Clark's
:23:07. > :23:08.
:23:08. > :23:12.Olympic nightmare is revisited. have had a lot more lows than highs.
:23:12. > :23:22.I have learned to deal with that. If it were easy, we would all be
:23:22. > :23:22.
:23:22. > :23:29.Olympic champions. It is how she deals with defeat and
:23:29. > :23:34.disappointment. In Beijing we had a conversation, saying, you are world
:23:34. > :23:40.ranked and you can finish now, you can get on with the rest of your
:23:40. > :23:45.life. One day after losing the first round, she said, no, I am
:23:45. > :23:48.going to London. Team GB has already been awarded 14 judo
:23:48. > :23:56.qualification places for the London Olympics, and Clark is one of the
:23:57. > :24:02.front-runners to be selected. superpowers in judo are Franz,
:24:02. > :24:07.Japan and Korea. There is not one player from those teams that Sarah
:24:07. > :24:11.has not beaten. It is amazing that you can produce a player who has
:24:11. > :24:20.come from a club in South Shields who has got into the top of her
:24:20. > :24:23.game and can compete internationally. Sarah now trains
:24:23. > :24:26.at Scotland's National Judo Centre, and for the past seven years has
:24:26. > :24:36.lived here in Edinburgh. It is just like one big family. Everyone has
:24:36. > :24:44.chosen to be here, especially those from down south. We have the coach
:24:44. > :24:48.that you want to have with you when you are going to the Olympic Games.
:24:48. > :24:51.Putting it all together in one day in London is the hardest thing. The
:24:51. > :24:54.environment and the crowd could make that happen. To do it in front
:24:54. > :24:59.of a home crowd and my family and friends would be fantastic. It
:24:59. > :25:02.would be great for the sport. would make South Shields a very
:25:02. > :25:12.happy place as well, I imagine. would love to go back there with my
:25:12. > :25:16.
:25:16. > :25:26.medal. Hannah tells us that the weather is
:25:26. > :25:46.
:25:46. > :25:51.Tomorrow will be much less breezy and we are expecting some bright
:25:51. > :25:59.spells. A better day all round. It is still wet this evening in the
:25:59. > :26:09.West for a time. It should start to dry out by the early hours of the
:26:09. > :26:13.
:26:13. > :26:19.morning. A cooler night than last night. There will be a few showers
:26:19. > :26:25.in the West tomorrow. Those die away through the afternoon. There
:26:25. > :26:35.will be more sunshine than we had today for much of North Yorkshire.
:26:35. > :26:38.
:26:38. > :26:47.The wind will be lighter. There could be one or two showers
:26:47. > :26:54.brushing the Cumbrian coast as well. It will be showery on Friday and
:26:54. > :27:04.then strong winds and heavy winds for the weekend in the West.
:27:04. > :27:10.
:27:10. > :27:13.Saturday looks the best day of the Now for a final look at tonight's
:27:13. > :27:17.headlines. There are new calls for the 50p tax