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Welcome to Look North. Tonight: Sold for nearly �750 million. The

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bank that almost collapsed. Now the Northern Rock name will be

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consigned to history. It is good news for the North East.

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It is good news for Newcastle. Under new ownership, Northern Rock

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can go from strength to strength. Is there a glimmer of hope for the

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Alcan plant? Could the Blues be on the move?

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Speculation that Carlisle United may leave its Brunton Park ground

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is growing. We are live at Lumiere, the

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spectacular light show that's back in the North.

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We take to the water with our latest Sportskid and the only way

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is up for Kat as the world number one aims to bounce her way through

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Sold for �747 million, the Northern Rock has been bought by Virgin

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Money. News of the deal which will mean no compulsory job cuts for the

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next three years has been widely welcomed. Since the Rock was

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nationalised in 2008, 3,000 jobs have gone but today there were

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cheers at the bank's Newcastle headquarters from where Chris

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Stewart joins us now. The taxpayer has taken a hit,

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although it could have been worse. We must not forget those jobs that

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have been lost, 3,000 of them, as you say. It is better news for our

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region today. It's the kind of news we need.

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Meeting the Minister and smiles all round. If you want to know what it

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has been like here, you don't have to look far. The deal was kept

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secret until this morning and then... A big woop! A cheer. Quite

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a lot of shock because people weren't expecting to hear so soon.

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On a Thursday as well. We usually here at the end of the week.

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reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. There was an audible

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cheer in the building when the news came out this morning. Staff are

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delighted. They have every reason to be. It is a very good outcome

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for the company, for staff and for the North East. The Minister has a

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constituency in Hampshire but he just happens to be from the North

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East. His parents still live in Durham. It is where I come from. It

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is where my roots are. You didn't want to get told off by your mum

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and dad either?! No smiles four years ago. Customers queued to get

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their money out of the Rock, those with shares didn't know what to do

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for the best. Those who hung on to them lost the lot when the

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Government took over. They have now gone to the European Courts looking

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for compensation. I'm hopeful, the hedge funds have spent �5 million

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on legal fees, they wouldn't be wasting their money unless they

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thought they had a case. The pensioners who have lost everything,

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they deserve to get compensation for having their assets for their

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grandchildren taken off them without any say so. What about the

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bloke who told the world that the Rock was on the rocks? The tragedy,

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and it is a tragedy, is... Yes, him. Does he think Richard Branson can

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take this new North East business to the top? Northern Rock when

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combined with Virgin Money is still a small operation, perhaps a tenth

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of the size of its main UK competitors. So at this stage, you

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would see him as being a bit of a thorn in the side of the big banks

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rather than somebody who is going to transform the banking landscape.

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Virgin Money says it won't make any redundancies and in fact it wants

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to open more branches. And the price? A good one, for everyone.

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think we have made a really strong financial offer. We are also

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committed to Newcastle and the North East and all of the great

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people that I think have been brilliant in getting Northern Rock

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to where it is today and creating a business that is so ripe for this

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sort of move. So, praise for her new employees and she wasn't the

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only one who wanted to reassure them. I really want to say to them,

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you know, I know, everybody knows, this was not the fault of the

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individual employees, especially at that level in the company. This was

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about taking the wrong kind of banking model and applying it in

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the wrong way and looking for short-term profits rather than

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long-term sustainable business which will bring profits back to

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the community and secure people's jobs. We are over the moon with it.

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We think that the previous four years, the redundancies, 2,500,

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3,000, to get stability back will be great. The criticisms will come,

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sold too cheap, sold too late. But sold not at all? That was the

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alternative. As well as the criticism, there

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will be a certain amount of speculation as to why this deal is

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going ahead now? Yes, there will. One theory doing the rounds is that

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the Chancellor, George Osborne, sold the Rock now because he

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expects the eurozone to get an awful lot worse very quickly. Then

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he would find it very hard to sell. There is another theory, though,

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slightly more fundamental. Richard Branson isn't the kind of chap who

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would spend four years trying to buy a dud.

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One of the first questions posed by the Virgin takeover is what will

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happen to the Northern Rock Foundation? The charitable body has

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supported good causes across the North East and Cumbria for 15 years.

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In 2010 it distributed �12 million in grants.

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Very few theatre groups have roles for people with learning

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disabilities, but Headway Theatre does. That is the only

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qualification for joining the group. Like thousands of charitable groups

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in our region, they have had a helping hand from the Northern Rock

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Foundation. The Northern Rock Foundation money has been crucial

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to Seven Stars. They would be devastated if they lost the funding.

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It is a big part of their lives. It is something that affects their

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lives but they do a lot of work with younger learning-disabled

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people so it is important that that kind role there for young people.

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Since the Foundation was launched, more than 3,700 grants have been

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awarded to more than 2,000 groups. It is from this converted chapel

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that �220 million of charitable grants have been handed out in the

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15 years since Northern Rock was demutualised and the new private

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bank started handing over a proportion of its profits to the

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charitable arm. There is still �30 million in the bank. The future

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remains uncertain with the Virgin takeover of Northern Rock.

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welcome the announcement. It is very important that we work

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successfully with the new bank owners and they have already said

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they are committing themselves a similar arrangement for the next

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two years as we already had, but I think it is important that they

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work in partnership with us and we are looking forward to discussing

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how we can do that together. Thousands of community groups

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across our region will hope that Virgin can work with the Northern

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Rock Foundation. Now, to the other big industry

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story dominating the news. The closure of the Alcan plant at

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Lynemouth in Northumberland with the loss of hundreds of jobs. One

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man who is not taking that news lying down is the Wansbeck MP Ian

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Lavery. He says there may be credible interest from potential

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buyers for the plant and he is calling on the company that runs it

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to reveal who they are. The morning after the bombshell

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before. But according to the local Northumberland MP, it doesn't have

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to be the end for aluminium smelting here in Lynemouth. He

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believes there are still buyers for the plant out there. And doubts the

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company's dismissal of them as being not credible. What the unions

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are wanting to know is who are these organisations who they deem

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to be non-credible. If we can speak to those, if we can get financial

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assistance from the Government, speak to the people who may be

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interested, give them the views of the Government, who knows, we could

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come up some sort of package that would maintain 650 well-paid jobs

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here. Pressure on the plpbt's owner Rio Tinto to reconsider -- on the

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plant's owner Rio Tinto to reconsider not ending the life of

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the plant is also coming from the unions. It is bewildering, �60

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million out of the local economy, �100 million out of the regional

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economy. There is an apparent growing fight to keep Alcan open.

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This woman's two sons work at the plant. They are taking it better

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than I thought they would. They have resigned themselves with all

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the rumours that have been going around. They are worried how they

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are going to pay their mortgage. One of them has been there 15 years,

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the other 11. So, you know, it is sad. Meanwhile, the local economy

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waits for the effects of any closure. The nearby angling shop is

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patronised by Alcan staff, as is the local takeaway.

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Ian is here now. Do we know anything about the people who

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expressed an interest in buying Alcan? Ian Lavery will be a

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disappointed man. There were a number of businesses who were

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interested but when it was explained to them by Rio Tinto the

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problems with the plant, mainly rising energy costs, they walked

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away. They also didn't have any finance in place. They hadn't

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borrowed the money to buy the business. One of the companies did

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visit Lynemouth but the proposal that it wanted to put on the table

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was particularly onerous. So it wanted Rio Tinto to pay it to take

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over the plant. It also wanted subsidies with energy costs, they

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wanted subsidies with raw materials and they also wanted a big

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Government subsidy. I think if Ian Lavery does discover who these

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people are, he will be disappointed. Newcastle United footballer Nile

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Ranger has appeared before magistrates on charges of assault

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and being drunk and disorderly. The 20-year-old has denied two counts

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of assault and two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily

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harm following an incident outside Cosy Joe's pub in Newcastle in

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August. Ranger will re-appear before

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magistrates on January 13th when the matters will be committed to

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Crown Court. BBC Look North understands that

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Carlisle United could be considering a move away from its

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Brunton Park ground. The club commissioned a report into its

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long-term future this summer and the results are expected to be

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given to shareholders tonight. It is believed one option could be to

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ask fans if they would support a move possibly to the Kingmoor area

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of the city. Carlisle United are riding high on

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the verge of the League One play- off places. The big talking about

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in the city this week has been suggestions they could be looking

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for a new home. BBC Look North understands that discussions have

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taken place and that shareholders will hear tonight the results of a

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feasibility study commissioned to look at the future of the club. So

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far, Carlisle United have refused to comment saying only that

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shareholders should be the first to know of any future plans. In

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Carlisle today, most people seemed clear that a new ground would be a

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good idea. A new stadium, as long as it doesn't cost them too much is

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good. Might get in more supporters. They should stay where they are.

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they are going to make a bigger stadium, they will make more money.

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I suppose so. Brunton Park has been Carlisle United's home since 1909.

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It survived a major fire in 1953 and the floods of 2005. Every

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supporter who has been here will no doubt have a special memory. But

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Brunton Park is an incongruous football ground. With the club at

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the top end of League One it is clear promotion is a possibility.

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Current rules are that all teams in the Championship must have all-

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satisfyer ground -- all-seater grounds. United would have to

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There will be live reaction on Ian Timms' Breakfast Show on BBC Radio

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Cumbria. So less than 24 hours to go before

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the start of this year's Children in Need Appeal and more than 200

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children from Chester-le-Street have already been very busy

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rehearsing a song for a special The wet weather was probably the

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only thing the TV crew couldn't control and with 200 school-

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children about to arrive for a dress rehearsal, this was a full

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BBC military operation. Just amazing being chosen to sing for

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Children in Need. When we got told, everyone was so excited to be on TV.

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They got off the buses, went inside, did a run-through of the song. Then

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we got BBC Look North to come in and they did a small interview with

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our teacher. Welcome to the Masonic Hall. In woman in charge is

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Joycelyn McMullen. Who have we got here? We have got 120 students and

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we have got over 102 students from the primary schools. So a lot of

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local schools from Chester-le- Street that have come together to

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sing music together, to raise money for Children in Need. It was the

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first time we could see all the different primary schools. The Look

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North people were really nice. Then we had a really good time and just

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being on TV was good. Did you enjoy that? ALL: Yes! That was brilliant.

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A nice round of applause for you all, I think. We found out we were

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probably going to do the song about a month ago. We were all selected

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because we do our choir anyway. When the opportunity came about we

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thought we would do it because it sounded really good. I love the

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song. It is a really good song, especially like for Children in

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Need. It's been really good and exciting. It's really fun getting

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together with all the different schools. I will be very nervous

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because it will be on live TV. I will probably end up being on the

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I hope they sleep tonight! If you want to watch the choir perform

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their song tomorrow night, Children in Need coverage starts tomorrow

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evening at 7.00pm on BBC One. How do you transform a city's familiar

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landmark's into a vast art gallery? That is what they are trying to do

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in Durham tonight with the launch of Lumiere. It is amazing. Mary

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Askew is live there for us now. You have joined me at exactly the

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right moment! Any minute now, all this noise is going to stop. The

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Cathedral behind me is going to be lit up. At the same time, all

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around the city of Durham more than 20 art installations are going to

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sparkle into life. The celebrations started about three-quarters of an

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hour ago when a parade of lanterns carried by over 200 children who

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made them themselves, they are spectacular. They wandered through

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the city's cobbled streets and made their way here to Palace Green. I

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am joined by one of the Festival's programmers. Can you tell us a

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little more about these lanterns that we are seeing? We wanted the

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Festival, although it is an international festival, to start

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really at home here in County Durham. So the children have been

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working with artists from the Liverpool Lantern Company and local

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artists to learn how to create these wonderful structures that

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Durham is surrounded by the River Wear, so the inspiration is the

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river. All the creatures are fish, herons... Tell us what else people

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are going to be able to see around Durham in the next four days?

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have got 35 installations spread across the city. The Cathedral has

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an enormous installation on the outside. But also a fire garden on

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the inside using candles that people in cathedrals have used the

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world over. There is an enormous amount to see. It sounds incredible.

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What is your favourite? It is like choosing between your children -

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you can't! I heard somebody say that it is like Blackpool! What do

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you say to that? It was a posh Blackpool Illuminations. That is

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pretty good. It is out to entertain, to make people think a bit and to

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make them explore the city after dark. Thank you very much. I'm also

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joined by Simon Henig. It's oftenly going to look good. What good is it

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going to do for Durham? There are thousands on the street tonight in

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Durham City that wouldn't normally be here. It is fantastic. The shops

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and the bars are full. There's people queuing up. It will be a

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tremendous economic boost. There have people that have travelled

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from further afield and we have this for the next four nights. It

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is tremendous. Thank you. If you would like to see more of these

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fantastic installations, you can tune in tonight for the late Look

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North. It looks amazing.

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Nothing like Blackpool! Sport. By her own admission, she's

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probably one of the least well- known world number ones in the

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country. Kat Driscoll, who swapped Kent for the North East when she

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was 18, is one of our best medal prospects for the London Olympics.

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She is trying to keep her feet on the ground!

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When Look North last featured Kat Driscoll she was ranked second best

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woman trampolinist in the world. Now, the 25-year-old is looking

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down from the highest perch hoping to qualify for the Olympics this

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weekend. First, she has to reach the finals of the home World

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Championships in Birmingham with the individual team and pair

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competitions offering medal chances. Does her ranking put her under too

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much pressure? What I have done this season has no relevance on the

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competition that is coming up here. It proves I have been the most

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consistent gymnast. It is exciting we have a group of five girls that

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are doing fantastic. We have had different girls in the top eight.

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It could be any one of us that goes to the Olympic Games. Kat will be

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well supported. The North East is fantastic. It is the only place

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that I have felt complete and utter true support from everybody in the

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region. To the Championships this weekend, all the kids I train with

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are coming down with their parents to support me. We have clubs with

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buses of kids coming down to support me. It's good being where

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I'm from. They love what I do. They are getting it out there.

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As the build-up continues to Newcastle's top of the table clash

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at Manchester City, news that Sammy Ameobi has signed a new three-and-

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a-half year contract with the club. His manager has been speaking about

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the decision to re-name St James' Park. For the traditionalists, it

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is something that they are very upset at. It's still in the same

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place. It's still the Gallowgate End. You still walk to the stadium

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from the centre of town. It is where it is. Commercially, it will

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attract a big sponsor, we hope, and give us extra revenue to go forward.

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I can understand the arguments on both sides.

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It's time for the latest in our Sportskids series. We meet a

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youngster from Teesside who has shown he is willing to make

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sacrifices for the sport he loves and that goes for his parents, too.

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My name is Kris. I'm 13. My sport It's a sport about power, skill and

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speed. It helps if you can ignore the cold. It is just really fun

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going down the big water and having the thrill and the adrenaline of

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being able to go down the big drops and nail the moves. It feels good

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when you can do that. He is quite strong. That's good for the sport.

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It is short. It is a short distance. He is a sprinter. This year, Kris

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was select for the Team GB Under 14 squad. He shot through the

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divisions and he's made the England team this year. That is good.

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sounds quite like rapid progress? It is. Hopefully, it is to do with

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me! Whether it is or not, we will see. It is down to Kris's

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dedication. He will train three eveningings on a water after a

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6.00am run. He has strength and conditioning training and travels

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to competitions at weekends, all of which keeps his parents very busy.

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All our hobbies have had to go by the by. Dad used to do a lot of

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fishing. I used to do lots of other things. We have put it on hold. We

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are willing to support him. Sometimes I will take a night off

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and get the homework out of the way and I will do a circuit session at

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home to improvise for not going canoeing. He has missed out on

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birthday parties because he wants to canoe and get to where he wants

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to be. It is fantastic to see. day, Kris hopes to compete at the

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Olympics and so far he's navigating the course pretty well.

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He's doing really well. If he keeps going like he will, who knows, the

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going like he will, who knows, the sky is the limit.

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He is dedicated. All eyes on tomorrow. It is the

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yellow bear day. You will be wanting to know what

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the weather is like for your fund- raising activities. Tomorrow, it

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does look like we will have a wet start in Cumbria tomorrow morning.

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It will stay very, very mild for the time of year. Talking of

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animals, our focus goes from bears to birds. Paul on the road to

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Gretna watching the starlings gather. He said it is not just

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starlings, it is a bit like a dolphin! Thank you very much. The

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rain has already been piling in. It will turn quite heavy at times in

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the west overnight. As it travels eastwards, it won't make too many

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inroads into the North East. So tonight, with all the cloud, and

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quite a brisk southerly wind, it will be a very mild night indeed.

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Nowhere dropping below 6 or 7 Celsius. Into tomorrow, Children in

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Need morning, a bit damp in Cumbria. Fine in the North East. Some early

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brightness breaking through. That will be with you for the afternoon

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in the North East. A particular interest in Beamish because that is

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where we are having the big event. You will get the best of the

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temperatures in the west as well. Highs of 15 Celsius.

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Into the evening, for Paul, Pudsey, Colin and Charlie at Beamish, it

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looks like it will be a fine evening. Then, of course, beyond

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Friday, we are into the weekend. This weekend, both Saturday and

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Sunday, are very similar. Mainly dry. We have the breeze coming up

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from the south-west. That will keep it mild. There will be some bright

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spells on both days. All in all, it is not looking like a bad forecast.

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Here is a quick reminder of what we have in store. Still on the mild

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