:00:09. > :00:13.Welcome to Friday's Look North. In tonight's headlines: Fighting back.
:00:13. > :00:15.The man called the laziest MP in Britain takes to the streets to
:00:15. > :00:19.defend his reputation. Six women arrested in an inquiry
:00:19. > :00:21.into two York nurseries. The last moments - a police
:00:21. > :00:23.negotiator tells an inquest jury about the circumstances surrounding
:00:24. > :00:29.Raoul Moat's death. And the moving story of the women
:00:29. > :00:33.who all lost a child, but all gained a sister.
:00:33. > :00:35.In sport, we'll be looking ahead to the best of the weekend action.
:00:35. > :00:45.While Sunderland's latest signing prepares to make his debut, find
:00:45. > :00:53.
:00:53. > :00:55.out what the manager thinks is He was knighted for services to
:00:55. > :01:00.parliament but Middlesbrough's Sir Stuart Bell has been accused of
:01:00. > :01:04.being the laziest MP in Britain. A local newspaper says his office
:01:04. > :01:08.failed to answer 100 calls from a reporter over a three month-period.
:01:08. > :01:11.That's led to painful headlines and awkward questions. But the Labour
:01:11. > :01:14.MP insists he's not quitting, And today he was back on the streets.
:01:14. > :01:23.Our Political Editor Richard Moss has spent the day with him and is
:01:23. > :01:26.in Middlesbrough now. It has been a week to forget for
:01:26. > :01:33.Stuart Bell. Some allegations have been thrown against him which are
:01:33. > :01:38.true, that he pays �35,000 to be having his wife as constituency
:01:38. > :01:42.secretary, or that he has not had a set -- constituency meeting for
:01:42. > :01:46.four years, but what do we know about him? He was first elected in
:01:46. > :01:55.Middlesbrough in 1983. He was knighted for services to Parliament
:01:55. > :01:59.in 2004. He has paid -- been paid a basic salary of �65,000. But one
:01:59. > :02:03.title someone to give him is Britain's laziest MP, something he
:02:03. > :02:08.firmly rejects. And to prove his point, he allowed us to film him at
:02:08. > :02:13.work in Middlesbrough this afternoon. If you read most papers
:02:13. > :02:17.this week, you would think it was a rare sight, Sir Stuart Bell on the
:02:17. > :02:21.streets he represents. He insists he is busy here every Friday. So
:02:21. > :02:27.what does he make of been called Britain's laziest MP? It will not
:02:27. > :02:31.look good on my tombstone or in my obituary, but it's totally untrue.
:02:31. > :02:35.We work seven days a week and have done for 28 years, coming up to 30
:02:35. > :02:38.soon. We have been re-elected seven times and had seven mandates from
:02:38. > :02:43.the people of Middlesbrough and I live here and among them. The
:02:43. > :02:46.people know what we do. We get on very well. And so begins a meeting
:02:46. > :02:50.with a local charity. Sir Stuart doesn't hold surgeries after being
:02:50. > :02:52.assaulted during one in 1997. This though is one of a series of
:02:52. > :02:55.appointments he says have been arranged today, some with
:02:55. > :03:01.constituents in their own homes. And he firmly denies this is a
:03:01. > :03:05.stunt. I would be here today even if you weren't here. The next
:03:05. > :03:09.meeting we have is a range, and this has been arranged for some
:03:09. > :03:13.time. Every Friday I am on the housing estates. Come on down and
:03:13. > :03:17.look around, I will see. Every Friday. We spend four days a week
:03:17. > :03:20.in Middlesbrough. Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. As for the phone
:03:20. > :03:23.calls from the local paper, Sir Stuart says his office has no
:03:23. > :03:27.record of them. And Sir Stuart's constituents seem to be split on
:03:27. > :03:29.his merits To his opponents this week, has made Sir Stuart look like
:03:29. > :03:32.damaged goods, but the Middlesbrough MP insists he's still
:03:32. > :03:34.a worthwhile investment for people in this town. The Evening Gazette
:03:34. > :03:37.seem to be standing by their story. The Chief Whip had a stern
:03:37. > :03:41.conversation with Sir Stuart Bell and has been asked to provide a
:03:41. > :03:47.letter of explanation to the party leader, Ed Miliband. The
:03:47. > :03:53.constituency in to beat split on his merits. I have heard people on
:03:53. > :03:56.the radio having a go at him, but I think he has done all right. They
:03:56. > :04:01.seem to vote him in every year, so he can't be that bad. A I don't
:04:01. > :04:09.think it sounds very good. If he is representing the people he should
:04:09. > :04:12.be available for them. We used to have a meeting where we lived, and
:04:12. > :04:18.we try to get in touch with him, and we couldn't. You could never
:04:18. > :04:22.get in touch with him. To his opponents, this week has made him
:04:22. > :04:26.look like damaged goods. But the Middlesbrough MP insists he is a
:04:26. > :04:29.worthwhile investment for people in this town. Stuart Bell told me this
:04:29. > :04:32.afternoon he believes he has satisfied the Labour Party he is
:04:33. > :04:36.doing his job properly. If that is the case, despite a horrible
:04:36. > :04:42.headlines, he is likely to remain MP for Middlesbrough until at least
:04:42. > :04:45.the next general election. A Durham Police officer and a staff
:04:45. > :04:48.member have been accused of beating a man who was being held in police
:04:48. > :04:50.custody. Sergeant Stephen Harvey, who's 50, and 60 year-old Detention
:04:50. > :04:53.Officer Michael Mount have both been charged with two counts of
:04:53. > :04:56.assault by beating. The alleged offence involves a 47-year-old man
:04:56. > :05:03.at Peterlee Police Station last March. They're due before Teesside
:05:03. > :05:05.Magistrates' Court next month. Six people who work at two
:05:05. > :05:09.privately-owned children's nurseries in York have been
:05:09. > :05:12.arrested by the police. The nurseries are Little Joes in
:05:12. > :05:15.Fishergate and Heworth House in Melrosegate. It's part of a joint
:05:15. > :05:19.investigation with the local council which has been on-going for
:05:19. > :05:28.the last two weeks. A short time go, I spoke to John Cundy in York for
:05:28. > :05:33.the latest. What we know it is that the six women who have been
:05:33. > :05:37.arrested in the course of the last few days are all aged between 18
:05:37. > :05:40.and 28. They have been arrested under the children and Young
:05:40. > :05:44.Persons Act before been given police bail. The covers both of the
:05:44. > :05:48.nurseries. The police are stressing that it is not an investigation
:05:48. > :05:53.into any question of sexual or physical or mental abuse, but what
:05:53. > :05:57.we understand is that the questions are connected with the possible
:05:57. > :06:01.neglect of some children. We have already been previously told that
:06:01. > :06:05.the investigation takes in the running of the nursery and the
:06:05. > :06:11.quality and care and welfare of the 80 children affected by this
:06:11. > :06:16.investigation. So nothing to specific at this stage? Other
:06:16. > :06:20.police revealed any more details? - - have the police revealed? They
:06:20. > :06:26.are stressing that in an investigation of this time it is
:06:26. > :06:29.standard practice to make arrests where they believe that the fences
:06:29. > :06:34.could have been committed, but they also stressed that should not be
:06:34. > :06:39.taken as read that anything more sinister has been discovered in the
:06:39. > :06:44.past fortnight of the investigation. Uppermost in everybody's minds are
:06:44. > :06:46.the parents and the reaction of them today. There have not been too
:06:46. > :06:53.many children at either of the nurseries today. They have remained
:06:53. > :06:57.open throughout. The six people arrested, and originally suspended
:06:57. > :07:02.by the employer, are not here. Nobody would speak on camera to us
:07:02. > :07:06.today. Some said that they were being kept informed of Torpoint by
:07:06. > :07:09.the city council who are in a joint investigation with the police. No
:07:09. > :07:19.one is coming out in the open and saying anything specific about what
:07:19. > :07:21.
:07:21. > :07:24.A Sunderland football fan who attacked Newcastle goalkeeper Steve
:07:24. > :07:27.Harper during a derby match has been banned from games for three
:07:27. > :07:29.years. Ross Miller, who's 17, pleaded guilty to going into the
:07:29. > :07:32.playing area, a public order offence and common assault at the
:07:32. > :07:42.Wear-Tyne match in January. He won't be allowed at any Sunderland
:07:42. > :07:43.
:07:43. > :07:45.An elderly man and woman arrested in connection with the murder of
:07:45. > :07:48.Hexham pensioner Judith Richardson have been eliminated from police
:07:48. > :07:51.inquiries. Miss Richardson was found dead last month. The man,
:07:51. > :07:53.who's 84, and the woman, who's 78, will no longer be required to
:07:53. > :08:00.answer bail. 47-year-old Graeme Jarman from Consett's been charged
:08:00. > :08:06.with her murder. For the first time, we've been told
:08:06. > :08:09.about the moments surrounding the death of Raoul Moat. The account
:08:09. > :08:14.came on the fifth day of the inquest into the death of the
:08:14. > :08:19.gunman. It came from the police negotiator who spent more than six
:08:19. > :08:21.hours trying to persuade Moat to give up his gun. Moat had shot and
:08:21. > :08:24.injured his former partner Samantha Stobbart, shot dead her new
:08:25. > :08:28.boyfriend Chris Brown - who Moat thought was a policeman - and shot
:08:28. > :08:33.and blinded PC David Rathband. Our chief reporter Chris Stewart can
:08:33. > :08:43.tell us more. Chris, we've never had a first-hand account before,
:08:43. > :08:45.
:08:45. > :08:48.have we? No, we haven't. The officer was identified in code and
:08:48. > :08:53.said he'd never come across anyone so determined to take his own life.
:08:53. > :08:59.He said Raoul Moat was devastated when Samantha Stoppard had lied to
:08:59. > :09:03.him. In the end, Raoul Moat took a few deep breaths, put the gun to
:09:03. > :09:06.his temple and then came a pop. That was followed by a cry of pain
:09:07. > :09:11.and the officer assumed he had missed but injured himself with the
:09:11. > :09:15.first shot. Then came a second shot, and he fell backwards. Just before
:09:15. > :09:22.he pulled the trigger he was asked if a call to Samantha would help,
:09:22. > :09:27.and his last words were, "if I can believe her". We've heard tasers
:09:27. > :09:32.were fired at Moat. What did the officer say about that? The officer
:09:32. > :09:37.said he was, in the zone, as he described it. He did not hear or
:09:37. > :09:41.see cases. The first knew about it was about 7 o'clock when he turned
:09:41. > :09:44.on the television news in the morning.
:09:44. > :09:47.Hundreds of people attended the funeral today of a union leader who
:09:47. > :09:52.was instrumental in bringing steelmaking back to Teesside. Geoff
:09:52. > :09:54.Waterfield died unexpectedly at the age of 43. He lobbied and pressured
:09:54. > :09:58.politicians, companies, and even royalty over two and a half years
:09:58. > :10:06.to try to save Corus's blast furnace in Redcar. Our Business
:10:06. > :10:11.Correspondent Ian Reeve reports on his fight.
:10:11. > :10:16.During the fight to save Teesside steel, there was one constant.
:10:16. > :10:21.Union leader Jeff Waterfield, whose funeral took place this afternoon.
:10:21. > :10:24.Hundreds came to say farewell. A passionate man who loved his
:10:25. > :10:29.industry, who never thought the mothballing of his plant was the
:10:29. > :10:33.end. I am not going to give up on one man, one family on this side.
:10:33. > :10:36.We will fight to get what we need to get. And to get what he wanted,
:10:36. > :10:44.a future for steel, he'd do anything. Ask for heavenly help and
:10:44. > :10:49.even royal patronage. I asked him if he had a few quid or his mum had
:10:49. > :10:57.a bit of cash. That didn't happen and mothballing went ahead. 1,600
:10:57. > :11:02.people lost their jobs. We have got to look after the families and the
:11:02. > :11:05.workforce over this weekend. It is a terrible time. But then the Thai
:11:05. > :11:09.company SSI bought the plant and will create jobs, the relief was
:11:09. > :11:13.palpable. It has been a long fight. We never stopped believing we would
:11:13. > :11:18.get here and it is fantastic for everybody. It is a bit surreal,
:11:18. > :11:22.really. It is sinking in now, I think. We did believe would get
:11:23. > :11:25.here, we didn't know when, we were determined to get here.
:11:25. > :11:29.terrible shame of course is that the great champion of Teesside
:11:29. > :11:39.steel didn't live to see it coming out of his plant again. But when it
:11:39. > :11:40.
:11:40. > :11:43.does it will in no small way be More than a month after a large
:11:43. > :11:47.music festival was cancelled in the region and hundreds of people are
:11:47. > :11:57.still waiting for thousands of pounds worth of refunds. Some have
:11:57. > :11:58.
:11:58. > :12:01.even considered taking legal action to try and get their money back.
:12:01. > :12:04.The Ignition festival was planned for 6th August at Newcastle
:12:04. > :12:10.racecourse but at the 11th hour it was pulled. Adele Robinson reports.
:12:10. > :12:15.Lisa bought two tickets for the Ignition Festival. She was promised
:12:15. > :12:18.this and this, but instead, she got this. We are currently in
:12:18. > :12:23.discussion with the remaining two websites. I don't care about the
:12:23. > :12:28.talks, I want my money back. paid over �130 and is waiting for a
:12:28. > :12:32.refund. I am really annoyed. It has taken far too long. If it is a
:12:33. > :12:38.click of a button to pay them, why can't it be to get it back? Where
:12:38. > :12:42.is the money? It is the same story for around 600 others, including
:12:43. > :12:46.Jonathan from Barnard Castle who spent �70. The whole thing has been
:12:46. > :12:50.very unprofessional and we wanted to get the money back. It is a
:12:50. > :12:55.shame, because there is a demand in the north-east from music festival
:12:55. > :12:58.that they were to one professional to organise it. The festival
:12:58. > :13:03.organisers wanted it held on 6th August but low ticket sales and
:13:03. > :13:07.critical cash flow issues meant it was cancelled two days before. The
:13:07. > :13:11.racecourse say they did not profit from the festival. The racecourse
:13:11. > :13:15.also told me they will continue to apply pressure to the festival
:13:15. > :13:20.organisers to refund customers. However the organisers say they
:13:20. > :13:23.cannot give a timescale on that but I still talking to two ticket
:13:23. > :13:27.websites and can give further information after that. They also
:13:27. > :13:32.want to reassure people that they are working very hard to resolve
:13:32. > :13:35.this and are asking for patience and understanding in the process.
:13:35. > :13:39.Lisa is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in three weeks. After that, she
:13:40. > :13:43.says, she will look into legal action. It would be good if one
:13:43. > :13:51.person represented everybody. It will be harder getting the money
:13:51. > :13:56.back of them than climbing Mount Now, an extraordinary story of
:13:56. > :14:01.three women brought together by tragedy. They all lost a child, but
:14:01. > :14:04.they all gained a sister. When charity worker Andrea Thompson
:14:04. > :14:09.responded to Karine Atay's plea for help, she discovered that she was
:14:09. > :14:12.actually her own sister and that she too had a terminally-ill child.
:14:12. > :14:22.A third sister, Anne-Marie Parkinson, had suffered the same
:14:22. > :14:23.
:14:23. > :14:29.tragedy. Adrian Pitches went to Sisters reunited, with photos of
:14:29. > :14:31.the children they loved and lost. Andrea's teenage son Jordan had
:14:31. > :14:34.leukaemia. Karine's two-year-old daughter Sophie had another cancer,
:14:34. > :14:40.neuroblastoma. And Anne-Marie's three-year-old son Jack died from a
:14:40. > :14:44.rare genetic disorder. Jordan Thompson was an inspirational
:14:44. > :14:47.teenager, a talented footballer who helped other children with cancer.
:14:47. > :14:50.His mother set up the Toma Fund to provide financial support for the
:14:50. > :14:53.families of these children. And Karine Atay approached the fund for
:14:53. > :15:03.help as she sought to raise the money for her daughter's treatment
:15:03. > :15:05.
:15:05. > :15:10.in America. I found out that, in fact, Andrea was my sister, which
:15:10. > :15:17.was amazing, because it was another sister for me, which is lovely, but
:15:17. > :15:23.also Andrea had been through a loss of her own. Her child had had
:15:23. > :15:28.cancer and she had lost person. was really so real and unbelievable.
:15:28. > :15:31.Mixed emotions, wanting to wrap my arms around her and say it was all
:15:31. > :15:38.right, but knowing I couldn't, because I didn't know if it would
:15:38. > :15:43.be. The one thing I wanted was Andrea to meet Sophy. It was
:15:43. > :15:46.emotional, because so she did not have long. Karine introduced Andrea
:15:46. > :15:53.to her other sister, Anne-Marie, who had also suffered the loss of a
:15:53. > :16:03.child. We have all grown up differently, in different families.
:16:03. > :16:07.But we have come together and we have this link but I am sure hardly
:16:07. > :16:11.anybody would have. All would would Dave -- or would they want to be in
:16:11. > :16:15.this situation, but the least we have each other and we understand
:16:15. > :16:17.what we will always go through. Toma Fund now has three champions,
:16:17. > :16:20.all with intense personal experience. Their charity will help
:16:20. > :16:29.families across the North East and Cumbria struggling to cope with a
:16:29. > :16:34.child with a life-limiting illness. Sophie will be the face for the
:16:34. > :16:43.north-east, and Jordan will be the face for the children within the
:16:43. > :16:48.fund that won't have children and Thank goodness they found each
:16:48. > :16:51.other. It's one of the finest music venues in the North and over the
:16:51. > :16:54.years it's played host to the likes of the Beatles and Cliff Richard.
:16:54. > :16:57.And this weekend, Newcastle City Hall is throwing open its doors as
:16:57. > :17:02.part of a Heritage Open day event. A exhibition about its colourful
:17:02. > :17:12.past will also be on show. Sharuna Sagar has been looking back for
:17:12. > :17:14.
:17:14. > :17:19.It is more intimate than the arenas of today and is loved all the more
:17:19. > :17:24.for it. From the time it opened in 1927, Newcastle City Hall has
:17:24. > :17:29.continued to attract nearly all the greats to Tyneside. From the late
:17:29. > :17:37.50s onwards, jazz was the big thing, with American stars such as Count
:17:37. > :17:41.Basie, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington performed here many times.
:17:41. > :17:47.And jazz nut Ian Miller saw them all from his particular vantage
:17:47. > :17:53.point. This is where I used to sit over 50 years ago and apart from it
:17:53. > :17:58.being the cheapest seats, you work in the band. I saw everybody at the
:17:58. > :18:02.time, in particular Dave Brubeck. I used to choose to sit here because
:18:02. > :18:08.I was behind the piano. I felt as though I was playing along with
:18:08. > :18:13.Dave Brubeck and no one else could see what he was doing. As the 60s
:18:13. > :18:17.progressed, pop and rock ruled. Fans queued around the block to get
:18:17. > :18:25.their chance to scream at their idols, in this case, the Rolling
:18:25. > :18:30.Stones. And of course, the Beatles were huge. Lennon and McCartney
:18:30. > :18:35.wrote She Loves You during one of their visits here. The tune could
:18:35. > :18:42.have been written about Elaine Collins and her obsession with glam
:18:42. > :18:46.rock. And 1972 was the first major time here. I saw Slade, David
:18:46. > :18:53.Bailey, Roxy Music, Gary Glitter, all the glam rockers. -- David
:18:53. > :18:58.Bowley. I counted all my concert tickets, and there was 272. I was
:18:58. > :19:02.usually sitting in the same seat. Beating the attendance record is
:19:02. > :19:06.Peter Brennan, and that is because he has been in charge here since
:19:06. > :19:12.1981. You've been here 30 years, say you are basically married to
:19:12. > :19:16.the city hall. That is what my wife says. What sticks in your mind?
:19:16. > :19:20.Noddy Holder came on foreign on court dressed as Father Christmas,
:19:20. > :19:25.started the song and the entire audience was bouncing up and down
:19:25. > :19:30.and as they bounced, the balcony moved -- Noddy Holder came on for
:19:30. > :19:40.an encore. Afterwards we had to have a structural survey done. But
:19:40. > :20:01.
:20:01. > :20:06.My first concert was there, and I cannot remember if it was Big
:20:06. > :20:14.Country or haircut 100. For me, it was Sparked in 1974. That takes me
:20:14. > :20:16.back. With Newcastle not taking on Joey Barton's QPR until Monday
:20:16. > :20:19.night, Sunderland will have centre- stage to themselves tomorrow. Both
:20:19. > :20:21.the Black Cats, and last season's runners-up, Chelsea, will be
:20:22. > :20:25.without key strikers. Asamoah Gyan and Didier Drogba are injured. That
:20:25. > :20:27.may give Gyan, Sunderland's record- signing, a chance to clear his head.
:20:27. > :20:30.Sunderland's record signing has been distinctly out of sorts this
:20:30. > :20:33.season. His club boss blames added interest from agents in the
:20:33. > :20:38.Ghanaian striker since his goal against England in a friendly at
:20:38. > :20:42.Wembley. Time to silence the rumour-mill. We have got to try and
:20:42. > :20:46.put into bed. The window he's shut. Let's get on with him,
:20:46. > :20:50.rehabilitating, and let's play some football. We know he's a very
:20:50. > :20:54.talented player, but for me, as I said, he has had his head turned
:20:54. > :20:57.and that has affected him. With Gyan nursing a thigh injury, all
:20:57. > :21:00.eyes will be on deadline day loan signing Nicklas Bendtner, who
:21:00. > :21:05.played under Bruce as a teenager at Birmingham and makes his debut
:21:05. > :21:10.tomorrow. He had a bad car crash about 12 months ago, which shook
:21:10. > :21:13.him up a bit. He hasn't really played a lot since, but he reminded
:21:14. > :21:17.everyone of his ability the other night playing for Denmark. He was
:21:17. > :21:21.absolutely fantastic and my European chief scout came back and
:21:21. > :21:25.said, Steve, you have a top player on your hands. The omens for
:21:25. > :21:27.tomorrow aren't good. After taking the lead against Chelsea in
:21:27. > :21:30.February, Sunderland were eventually out-classed in a 4-2
:21:30. > :21:33.defeat. But it's their home form in general since the turn of the year
:21:33. > :21:35.that's the biggest concern, just two wins. Also missing tomorrow
:21:35. > :21:38.will be this ex-Manchester United defender who would have relished
:21:38. > :21:48.taking on one of the Premier League's big guns again In the
:21:48. > :21:51.Last season they were flying, but then they tailed away. Maybe they
:21:51. > :21:56.need to start slowly to finish where they were, but they have got
:21:56. > :21:59.a good squad and they will be challenging. Sunderland scored
:21:59. > :22:02.twice against Chelsea last season at the Stadium of Light and that
:22:02. > :22:12.was not enough. Fans will hope with the arrival of Nicklas Bendtner,
:22:12. > :22:14.
:22:14. > :22:17.the goal drought will be open up -- over. In the Championship, fourth-
:22:17. > :22:21.placed Middlesbrough are away at Burnley. And much of Boro's success
:22:21. > :22:24.this season has been down to two players who looked to be on their
:22:24. > :22:26.way out of the Riverside, for most of the summer. He scored seven in
:22:26. > :22:31.seven games this season, and now Marvin Emnes has been named the
:22:31. > :22:35.Championship play-off of the month. A year ago he was not anywhere near
:22:35. > :22:39.being picked, but under new boss Tony Mowbray, he has found form.
:22:39. > :22:43.Helping lay on the goals is the Argentinian Julio Acre, who put
:22:43. > :22:48.loyalty to the manager head off finance, which doesn't happen often
:22:49. > :22:53.these days. It was something that was going on for weeks and months,
:22:53. > :22:58.but at the end of the day I skied - - decided to stay because I have a
:22:58. > :23:03.good relationship with the manager. He showed me respect. I probably
:23:03. > :23:08.didn't get the deal I wanted, but might playing was in the balance,
:23:08. > :23:13.and I could play here and play for good staff like this and for my
:23:13. > :23:16.team mates, so everything, I think, he made me make the decision to
:23:16. > :23:19.stay. Elsewhere tomorrow, our two League
:23:19. > :23:25.One clubs go head-to-head at Brunton Park. Unbeaten Hartlepool
:23:25. > :23:28.are the team in form. Last weekend's win over Exeter pushed
:23:28. > :23:30.Mick Wadsworth's team up to sixth and into a play-off place. But
:23:30. > :23:33.Carlisle lost their grip on the Johnstone's Paint Trophy at
:23:33. > :23:36.Accrington on Wednesday, and go into the match on the back of three
:23:36. > :23:39.straight defeats. Commentary on all those games on your BBC local radio
:23:39. > :23:42.stations. Now, Rugby Union's World Cup kicked off today, the host
:23:42. > :23:47.nation, New Zealand, beating Tonga by 41-10. England take on Argentina
:23:47. > :23:49.at 9:30am tomorrow morning, our time. A few hours before that,
:23:49. > :23:55.Northumberland referee Dave Pearson takes charge of the group game
:23:55. > :23:58.between Romania and Scotland. The tournament runs until late
:23:58. > :24:00.October, and with so many top players missing from Premiership
:24:01. > :24:08.action, Newcastle Falcons are hoping the World Cup might work in
:24:08. > :24:12.their favour. Tomorrow, they're away at Exeter. A lot of teams are
:24:12. > :24:16.very strong still, even Leicester will have nine or 10 players away
:24:16. > :24:21.at the World Cup but they will still be difficult to beat. They
:24:21. > :24:25.are not as strong as they could be, but they still have a lot of
:24:25. > :24:28.players at Exeter who could make the running. In cricket, Yorkshire
:24:28. > :24:32.have given themselves an outside chance of winning their crucial
:24:32. > :24:34.relegation game with Somerset. They are 70 runs behind on the first
:24:34. > :24:38.innings and have reduced the innings and have reduced the
:24:38. > :24:43.visitors to 124-6. If they don't win tomorrow Yorkshire will be
:24:43. > :24:46.relegated to the second division. And it is not cricket whether
:24:46. > :24:50.either. The word Hurricane has been mentioned in connection with the
:24:50. > :24:54.weather. Yes, he has. All the details about that at the end of
:24:54. > :24:58.the forecast. Don't get too concerned. There will not be a
:24:58. > :25:03.hurricane here. We have a great picture to start of the forecast
:25:03. > :25:09.and thank you very much to Sean who snapped this sunrise in the heart
:25:09. > :25:12.of the city. The headline to go with it tomorrow is that it is a
:25:12. > :25:16.dull start but it gets pretty warm later in the day. Through the
:25:16. > :25:21.evening, dry in the north-east, but showery in the West and it turns
:25:21. > :25:25.showery later tonight and then the shower spread eastwards at times
:25:25. > :25:30.overnight. It is a grey and gloomy dawn with the temperatures very
:25:30. > :25:35.mild, no lower than 13 or 14. The kind of temperatures we have had
:25:35. > :25:39.during much of the daytime during this week, so I really mild start
:25:39. > :25:42.of the day with southerly air bumping up the temperatures. From
:25:42. > :25:45.Saturday morning there will be spells of sunshine in the north-
:25:45. > :25:52.east and a lot of showers in the West and everywhere should start to
:25:52. > :25:55.dry out a little bit by teatime. Let's take a tour through Saturday
:25:55. > :26:00.and you will notice that the temperatures are mild for the time
:26:00. > :26:06.of year. Quite possible in southerly breezes and it will feel
:26:06. > :26:12.really warm, warmer than much of July and August. As we go towards
:26:12. > :26:17.the West, dry for many places with the temperatures between about 18
:26:17. > :26:21.and 19 up to 21, and low seventies and Fahrenheit. Unseasonably mild
:26:21. > :26:26.tomorrow and the reason, tropical air driving the weather systems.
:26:26. > :26:31.Let's take a little look at the next couple of days. Sunday, the
:26:31. > :26:35.winds are picking up, over 20 mph across the region and stronger
:26:35. > :26:38.across the coast and over hills. He will blow in another spell of wet
:26:38. > :26:42.weather for the West with sunshine and showers for much of the north-
:26:43. > :26:47.east. Hartlepool possibly getting a dry day but not ruling out showers
:26:47. > :26:50.or Teesside. Looking at the big picture, Sunday lunchtime, moving
:26:50. > :26:55.out the way you can see this beast out to the south-west, this is what
:26:55. > :26:58.is left of the hurricane. It will not be a hurricane by the time it
:26:58. > :27:03.gets to us but it will bring a lot of wind and wet-weather, gale-force
:27:03. > :27:08.winds potentially across the north- east and overnight Sunday, into
:27:08. > :27:13.Monday, heavy rainfall, and look at the squeeze on the isobars,
:27:13. > :27:17.separating areas of pressure, think of that as driving winds. We will
:27:17. > :27:22.really experience some strong wins first thing Monday morning and it
:27:22. > :27:30.could be a tricky rush-hour. As I say, the remnants of the hurricane,