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Good evening. On a day of depressing unemployment news, the | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
North East, the area with the highest jobless rate in the country, | :00:07. | :00:15. | |
has received an extra kick in the teeth. | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
The opposition leader blames the Government - we week -- we ask him | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
what he would do. Also tonight, a story to cheer you | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
up - the baby that a live -- arrived at 11 minutes past 11 on | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
the 11th day of the 11th month of 2011. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
And more good reasons to support Children In Need - we need to be | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
youngsters looking after their parents, thanks to your donations. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Fans rushed on line to welcome the big shake-up of Yorkshire County | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Cricket Club. And one of our oldest established sports grounds has been | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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celebrated in print. On a day if depressing unemployment | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
news, the North East has received an extra kick in the teeth. The | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Alcan aluminium smelting plant in Northumberland is to close, with | :01:13. | :01:22. | |
the loss of over 500 jobs. Other jobs will go, too, unless another | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
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buyer can be found. The closure is devastating for the Lynemouth area | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
of South East Northumberland. Since the loss of the coal mines, Alcan | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
has been one of the key sources of employment. And while its future | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
has been in doubt for some time, the workforce, and their families, | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
have clung to the hope that a survival package would be found. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
Well, today those hopes were dashed. Our Chief Reporter Chris Stewart | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
joins us from the smelter now. Chris. I am sorry we cannot hear | :01:56. | :02:06. | |
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Chris at the moment. He compiled this report Phil stopped this plant | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
was once powered by coal from a colliery next door. | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Costs were easy to control and emissions were not much of an issue. | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
Now the coal is more expensive and coal also cops sit for big bill in | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
environment tax. That means that the company has not seen the return | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
it would like to see on its investment. If the company has high | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
aspirations for the returns. This plant has not met those aspirations. | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
It is a very competitive global market place. So this place is not | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
making enough money for the shareholders, so it is gone? This | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
is a high-cost operation - the costs of compliance and producing | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
energy. There are only going to increase and therefore it is no | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
longer a sustainable business. The workers said they knew what was | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
coming. It has been coming for a while. It is not like it is out of | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
the blue or anything. It was expected. Do you mind me asking how | :03:16. | :03:26. | |
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old you are? 24. How long have you be in working here? -- been working | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
here? Three years. There are already 14 people looking for every | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
job in the North East. It is going to get worse. We wish you the best | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
of luck. There is nothing we can do about it. There is no point | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
worrying yourself, really, because there is nothing you can do. You | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
have to accepted. Obviously, everyone is going to be upset about | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
it. You are an apprentice? Yes. Will you finish your | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
apprenticeship? I am not sure what is going to happen. | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
A company had considered converting the plan for biomass fuel, but that | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
would have been too costly. There is still hope that a buyer can be | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
found on a power station but the smelter closes next month - -- next | :04:23. | :04:33. | |
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smelter closes next month - -- next month May Phil,. | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
We have been speaking to people around here and, while they had an | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
idea this might happen, they found it hard to bear. It is devastating | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
for the local community, absolutely devastating. I have a few friends | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
who work there and of what there all their lives. -- and have worked | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
there all their lives. I am taken aback by the news. It is sad and | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
devastating. I think the Government should jump in and help Alcan out, | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
put some money in or try to find someone who will buy it. It is a | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
disgrace. There we have it, Chris. We cannot | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
over-emphasise how crucial Alcan is to the area. | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
Absolutely. There is something about this that shows how 0 linked | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
this company is with their area. All around, we have the farm land | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
that is owned by Alcan. Bizarrely, we have 10 farm workers who tonight | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
a worrying what is going to become of them. I picked up the company | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
magazine. Inside it talks about career opportunities for young | :05:54. | :06:03. | |
people. Well, none of them work here. | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
The timing of that announcement has rendered the latest unemployment | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
figures for the region, well, redundant. But they still make | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
bleak reading. Although unemployment fell slightly in the | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
north-west, the north-east is still the country's unemployment | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
blackspot. 146,000 were without a job in the three months from July | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
to September - a rate of 11.6% of the workforce. 20,000 more people | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
were without a job compared to the previous quarter. And, most | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
worryingly, unemployment amongst the young has, as predicted, soared. | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
Our business correspondent, Ian Reeve, reports. | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
Nathan Graham may be walking in the shadow of the soon to be reopened | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
Redcar blast furnace, but it won't be giving him a job. At 18, he | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
hasn't worked since August. He has posted out 75 copies of his CV, | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
with stamped addressed envelopes, but had just one interview. I had a | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
job and it was going well, then I got made redundant. If it is any | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
consolation to him, Nathan's not alone. The number of 16 to 24-year- | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
olds across the country without a job has risen to 1.2 million. In | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
the north-east alone, in the 18-24 group, there are nearly 30,000 | :07:08. | :07:18. | |
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young people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance. So what's to blame? Well, | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
the boss of this company, a utilities business that supplies | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
heat, steam and power to the giant Wilton chemical complex on Teesside, | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
says that, in part, it's down to wrong academic choices being made | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
at school. It is the children who pick the subjects that they like | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
but do not have an end game that I think are suffering now, and not | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
understanding what the work force or the local industry requires from | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
them. They do not have the skills or the experience. And if the right | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
choices are made, as Jade and Dan have found out, then there are some | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
jobs to be had. After an apprenticeship here they are in | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
secure, well-paid posts. For the North East, it is quite | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
unusual to get a job at this time. I felt like every Sir at -- every | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
single person on my course, all of us got jobs. It is very challenging | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
and very good. The contrast with Nathan couldn't | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
be greater. A plumbing job is what he wants. Failing that, any job. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
The only problem is so, it appears, do more than a million other young | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
people across the country. The rise in youth unemployment is | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
sounding alarm bells. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, was in | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
Sunderland win today's jobless figures came out. He was visiting | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
the Liebherrs crane factory, and the young apprentices who work | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
there. Adrian Pitches reports. On most Wednesday lunchtimes, Ed | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Miliband is facing David Cameron in the House of Commons at Prime | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Minister's Questions. But today he was in Sunderland facing factory | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
workers and hearing their stories. His particular interest was the | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
young apprentices who are learning a trade when 1 million of their | :09:04. | :09:12. | |
contemporaries are out of work. am incredibly impressed by what I | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
have seen here today. This shows what our economy could be like. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Jobs in manufacturing, jobs for young people, apprenticeships which | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
could make an enormous difference to our economy under country for | :09:24. | :09:33. | |
the future. -- and our country. Manufacturing has a proud heritage | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
on Wearside and the young men who have landed apprenticeships at | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
Liebherr are grateful that they can carry on that tradition. It has | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
given all of us a chance to get back into engineering and get the | :09:45. | :09:54. | |
Trades. It means everything be cops that -- because it keeps all of us | :09:54. | :10:04. | |
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in work. I enjoy it. I am learning new tasks, hands on tasks. | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
parent company is in Austria. I went there for a few months. It is | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
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better than you would get in any other place. "A better | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
apprenticeship than any other place" is a ringing endorsement. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
But many more apprenticeships will be needed to remove 1 million young | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
people from the unemployment register. Everyone believes that | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
youth unemployment is too high. We're creating double the number of | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
apprenticeships compared to last year. We have invested �25 million | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
specifically in hi-tech manufacturing apprenticeships will | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
stop that is the government might doing something about this problem. | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
-- that is the Government. Adrian Pitches, BBC Look North, Sunderland. | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
After that visit, Ed Miliband came here to the BBC Look North studio. | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
With our grim employment figures, a heavy reliance on public sector | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
jobs and the blow of losing another 660 today at Alcan, I asked him if | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
we need special help. It is a terrible day, isn't it? It is a day | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
when youth unemployment across the country has gone above one million. | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
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I grew up and 90 C/ 80s -- I grew up in the 1980s. I hope the | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
Government sees reason and understands that this cannot go on | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
as it is. We have some proposals. Let us attacks bankers' bonuses and | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
use it for jobs for young people to stop unless we get the growth we | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
need I do not think things will get better. If we cannot afford that as | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
a country, we cannot afford that lost generation. Business leaders | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
have been telling us that Labour got it wrong, 13 successive years | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
of Labour government. You got it wrong because you produced a | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
bloated public sector in the North East and we are paying for that now, | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
under investment in the private sector. I do not think that the | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
reason we do not have a large private sector is because of the | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
size of the private -- the public sector. I think we need to look to | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
the future and ask how we can make things better. This region can do | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
very well in the manufacture in the future. The green industries, | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
making wind turbines and so forth. We need a Government to work with | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
the private sector to make that happen. All I see with this | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
government is that they want to get out of the way and cut back | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
government. I do not think that is good for the future. You say that | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
we should tax the bankers - we need more than that, don't we? It is not | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
the only proposal. We should cut VAT. Why? Because we need more | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
money in people' pockets so they can start spending again. We have | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
problems in the European economy, problems at home - the problem with | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
the Government's plans is that they were not working well before this | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
eurozone crisis. That may make it worse. They have tried, though, | :13:12. | :13:20. | |
haven't they? 15 of the 19 grants awarded under the Regional Growth | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
Fund came here. That will help, wanted? What business leaders are | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
saying to me is that, at the moment, there is not the confidence or the | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
sense that things are going to get better. Unless there is that | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
businesses are not going to make the investments that we really need | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
for the future. The Government wants to sit by and say, our plan | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
is working. I think that people can see in their lives and that the | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
plan is not working and they need to change course. | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
In feels very bleak here in this region at the moment. Of we have | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
public sector strikes looming at the end of the month. That is | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
another day's payee lost or parents who have to look after children - | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
what do you say to them? Government must get round the table | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
and stop them happening. How does that happen? I think many people in | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
the trade unions understand that pensions will have to change over | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
time. This Government has essentially imposed a tax rise on | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
public centre workers -- public sector workers. I do not think that | :14:25. | :14:35. | |
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is fair. It affects dinner ladies one as little as �150 a week. | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
you supporting the strikes? I think strikes are always a sign of | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
failure but the government has a responsibility to stop them from | :14:41. | :14:50. | |
happening. Three warders have been treated in | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
hospital after being attacked by inmates at a County Durham prison. | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that they were injured | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
during an incident at HMP Durham yesterday afternoon. It is thought | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
the outbreak was connected to triple killer Kevan Thakrar being | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
found not guilty last week of attempting to murder three prison | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
officers at Frankland Prison in County Durham. | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
Cumbria Police has announced more job losses in its bid to save | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
around �20 million within the next five years. 56 more posts will go | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
after a review showed that the force could make significant | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
savings by bringing its personnel, finance and training matters onto | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
one site. Some of the staff have already decided to take voluntary | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
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redundancy. It is about finding out how we can do is better, make | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
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better use of some of their technology that we have. It will | :15:47. | :15:57. | |
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have no impact on the public and community of Cumbria. | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
The policeman shot and blinded by Raoul Moat has revealed that he is | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
separating from his wife. PC David Rathband posted a message on the | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
social networking site Twitter saying his wife has called time on | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
their 20 your marriage. The couple started to live apart in September. | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
One of the North's biggest agricultural shows is on the move. | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
The Northumberland County Show is to move from its current home at | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
Tynedale Rugby Club in Corbridge to a bigger site at Bywell near | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
Stocksfield. Next year will be its last on the present site. Last year | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
it attracted around 25,000 visitors. Now, few can have ever made a more | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
memorable arrival into the world. The odds alone are several million | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
to one. As all around the country people were observing the two- | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
minute silence to remember the nation's war dead, a Hartlepool | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
mother was preparing for the birth of her baby girl. And, at 11 | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
minutes past 11 on November 11th in 2011, she arrived. Stuart Whincup | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
reports. Meet Isabelle Poppy Flounders, a | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
girl who already knows how to make an entrance. And she made her | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
mother wait. Nikki's waters broke a month early, so when the magic | :17:02. | :17:11. | |
moment finally came the last thing she was thinking about was the time. | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
It was a shock but we were a bit emotional at the time. It was | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
afterwards, when we thought about it, it was nice. It is going to be | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
good for us because we don't know what time we were born, and I | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
suppose our parents don't, but she always will know what time she was | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
born. It is a special day all round. Yeah. After waiting four weeks for | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
Isabelle's arrival, Nikki had been rushed in and out of hospital. She | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
was induced, but when that did not speed things up she was given a | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
Caesarean section. Now, with the drama over, Nikki and Liam can | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
finally get round to enjoying their daughter's arrival. She has been | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
brilliant, absolutely fantastic. She slept through the night, so she | :18:00. | :18:10. | |
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is a good little baby. I'm just glad she wasn't 11 pounds. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
Now, in our Children In Need report earlier this week, we met some of | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
the Grand mothers and grandfathers struggling to look after their | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
grandchildren because their children's parents were no longer | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
able to. Tonight we go to Cumbria to hear about the youngsters who | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
are helping to look after their own parents, and the guidance and | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
support they get, through your Children In Need donations, from a | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
charity supporting more than 100 young carers in the Eden district | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
:18:47. | :18:51. | ||
of Cumbria. Jon Williams has He is my eyes and my legs. He helps | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
me to see and to walk and hold on to the pram and things. It's an | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
uphill struggle, battling the onset of MS while bringing up a young | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
son... And a baby daughter... But in the last year Nicola Kerr has | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
come to rely on 7-year-old Liam to help her get through. He is my | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
carer, really. On the days when I find it difficult to walk or to see | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
things, he helps me to do the things I am not able to. After a | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
series of tests, Nicola is waiting for final confirmation that she is | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
suffering from multiple sclerosis - a disease that affects the central | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
nervous system. Its symptoms can come and go, but since the birth of | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
baby Maisy she has needed more help at home. To get things like her | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
nappies or to get her yoghurt from the fridge, I do not Mrs Ardely | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
have to ask for something, if Liam sees me changing her and he sees | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
that I cannot see something or reach for something, he | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
instinctively goes to get it for me, which is great. Despite his tender | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
years, Liam has a very clear idea of why he sometimes has to take | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
charge to help his mum. Because she cannot handle my sister on her | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
Honour. She might get a little bit tired. When she is walking down the | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
hill she cannot really see properly and her legs feel dizzy and weird, | :20:18. | :20:28. | |
:20:28. | :20:31. | ||
so why have to help her down the hill and hold her hand. -- sought... | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
At Nicola was put in touch with Eden Carers, who specialise in | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
training and supporting young family members to help and | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
understand when their parents or siblings need care in the home. | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
is adapting to the combination of his mother not being as well as he | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
would wanted to be and also having a young baby on the scene. He has a | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
lot to adapt to. With funding from Children In Need, Eden Carers help | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
to support and counsel more than 100 young carers, some as young as | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
five, across a vast rural district of Cumbria. Clubs and group | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
meetings like this help them share their concerns and make friends | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
with other youngsters in a similar situation. | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
We get to go on the computers and talk to friends. Sometimes we do | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
:21:28. | :21:36. | ||
RTE staff -- arty stuff. He is fantastic. I would be lost without | :21:36. | :21:44. | |
him. Lovely boy. Here is another one - | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
Mark with the sport! The Yorkshire County Cricket | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
chairman Colin Graves admits they have put their money where their | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
mouth is with the shake-up announced yesterday. Fans are | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
broadly welcomed the return of former Australian star Jason | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
Gillespie as first-team coach, heading a new-look backroom staff. | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
The new appointments, including Aussie batsman Phil Jaques as | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
overseas player, follow last season's short relegation to the | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
second division. Martyn Moxon remains as director of cricket. | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
The runner disqualified from the Kielder Marathon after being | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
accused of cheating has suffered a further setback. Former Sunderland | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
Harrier Rob Sloan has now been banned for six months by England | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Athletics. He can appeal the decision. | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
Now, when a national rugby magazine ran a competition to sponsor the | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
writing of a local club's history, it struck a chord with a Wearside | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
historian. He won that competition and the result is this: One Among | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
Many, the story of Sunderland Rugby Club. Jeff Brown went along to one | :22:38. | :22:47. | |
of the oldest established sports grounds in the region. | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Some of the world's sporting greats have played here at - groups - the | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
New Zealand All Blacks, the Australian cricket team, even | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
Sunderland Football Club, though, confusingly, that was also the name | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
of the city's rugby club. It is their history that has been | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
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uncovered by Keith Gregson. club goes back just over 125 years. | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
It is recognised as the first sporting club in Tyne and Wear. We | :23:22. | :23:31. | |
now have a blue plaque outside that says that Sunderland AFC played | :23:31. | :23:40. | |
here for one year before the cricket arrived. There were many | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
sports clubs but eventually with many of them one sport took over. | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
It does say outside that we are the home of sport in Sunderland. | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
Virtually every sport apart from soccer, which, of course, you go | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
all over the world, and everybody knows Sunderland Football Club. | :24:01. | :24:10. | |
There was hockey, tennis, squash, rugby, cricket, bowls. The lads | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
behind the bar have formed a football team which is in the local | :24:13. | :24:23. | |
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league. Here are some shots from | :24:32. | :24:42. | |
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Northallerton. Paul is selling the calendars for Children In Need. I | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
will give you details at the end of the forecast about who you -- about | :24:47. | :24:55. | |
how you can get one. The major of Northallerton came to say hello to | :24:56. | :25:05. | |
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Pudsey and to the crowd. Pudsey is giving me a hand with the weather. | :25:07. | :25:17. | |
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A great picture to kick us off. Thank you to Malcolm for this one. | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
It will be misty start tomorrow but the sunshine soon develops. A | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
little look at this evening. It will be dry in the east, cloudier | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
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and the West. Possibly a few spots of rain for Northumberland. | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
Temperatures above average for the time of year. It will be a frosty | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
start to the day and then a really nice morning develops. The rain | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
clears away, the skies cleared, bright sunshine in a late morning | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
and into the afternoon, particularly for North Yorkshire | :26:02. | :26:12. | |
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and the North East. The after noon is mild as well. Still no sign of | :26:15. | :26:24. | |
frost and certainly no snow in this forecast. A little cloudier in | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
Cumbria to finish the afternoon. It will be mild and dry here at 4pm. | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
There is a band of rain waiting in the AVC so expect a wet evening in | :26:33. | :26:43. | |
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the West. The rain will move to the east overnight into Friday. Pudsey | :26:44. | :26:54. | |
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looks pretty happy. A little wet in the West on Friday. That clears and | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
then the weekend starts of dry, fine and mild. For all of the | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
calendar details, you can go to our website or call the number on | :27:05. | :27:15. | |
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screen. A final look at tonight's main | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
headlines... More than a million people aged between 16 and 24 are | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
now jobless. Total unemployment is now more than 2.6 million. And | :27:22. | :27:25. |