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Hello and welcome to Thursday's Look North. In the headlines | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
tonight. A coroner's damning verdict on the | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
mental health charity which sent a young care worker to her death at | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
the hands of a deranged man. The girl hit by a high speed train. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Surgeons are confident they've saved the arm severed by the impact. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
Bring your own booze. The nightclub owner who says he can't compete | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
with cheap supermarket alcohol. Rather than drink it before you | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
come into town, bring it with you. Bring it in a more convenient way | :00:29. | :00:38. | |
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and enjoy your night. An inspiration to us all. BBC Radio | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Cumbria's Val Armstrong is Cumbria's Woman of the Year. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
And another high flyer. The astronaut from East Cleveland who's | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
been honoured by Teesside University. I could see England | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
from Southampton to the Scottish Borders and I could very clearly | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
see the coast of North Yorkshire. That reminded me that, as far away | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
as you go, you are never far from home. | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
In sport. Newcastle's longest running fans mag takes a leap into | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
the 21st century. And looking on the bright side of | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
life. The caretaker boss who has just lost six of his first team | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
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A verdict of unlawful killing has been recorded by the coroner at the | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
inquest into the death of a young charity worker. 22-year-old | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Ashleigh Ewing was killed in Newcastle in 2006 in a frenzied | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
knife attack. She died at the hands of paranoid schizophrenic Ronald | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
Dixon after she had been sent to visit him alone by the mental | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
health charity that housed him and that she worked for. Dixon admitted | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility in 2007 | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
and was detained indefinitely at Rampton Hospital. At the inquest, | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Ashleigh's employers, Mental Health Matters, were criticised. Stephanie | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Lloyd's been at the inquest today. Some shocking revelations were | :01:59. | :02:08. | |
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made? Yes, we heard about the major | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
failings in the management of Mental Health Matters. Ashleigh was | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
just starting her career when she was brutally killed after being | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
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sent to his house alone. He had recently been released from a high- | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
security prison. He had stopped taking his anti-psychotic | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
medication and was drinking. Despite all this, alarm bells did | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
not bring and Ashleigh was stabbed repeatedly. The charity had not | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
carried out an annual risk assessment on it Dixon for over | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
three years despite knowing he had stopped taking his medication. The | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
director of the charity said that vital information had not been | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
passed on. She did not know about his violent past. She admitted that | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
she should have known. Has it there been a change in | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
procedure? Mental Health Matters has accepted | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
a lack of assessment and they were fined �30,000 for failing to | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
protect Ashleigh. The chief operating officer of the charity | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
has said a better protection has been put in place. We offer our | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
sincere sympathies to the family of Ashleigh Ewing. There has been a | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
The coroner has been rightly critical of the management of the | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
service in which Ashleigh worked. We acknowledge that mistakes were | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
made. The service manager is no longer employed by Mental Health | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
Matters. The tragic death of Ashleigh has affected us all and we | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
will live with us for ever. Be deeply regret the failings that | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
have been identified. Our practices and controls have been reviewed and | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
revised and we carry on are a vital and much-needed work in supporting | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
1500 people every day who live in the community with mental health | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
needs. Has Ashleigh's family said anything? | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
Yes, they have. Tonight, a statement was read out on behalf of | :04:41. | :04:49. | |
the family. Ashleigh's untimely and avoidable death was, in our opinion, | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
due to systematic failures Bice -- by various agencies in failing to | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
share knowledge and failing to carry out accurate risk assessment. | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
Ashleigh wanted to make a difference to people's lives. But | :05:13. | :05:21. | |
it is heartbreaking that she had to pay with her own life. During the | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
inquest, Ashleigh's cousin at read an emotional statement saying that | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
the family's only hope was to gain safer working practices for the | :05:34. | :05:44. | |
Ashleighs of the future. Saved, but with just minutes to | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
spare. It has emerged just how close the Newcastle schoolgirl | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
whose arm was severed by a high speed train was to losing the limb. | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
Surgeons in Newcastle managed to reattach 12-year-old Rebecca | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
Huitson's arm shortly before the arm became lifeless. Our health | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
reporter Sharon Barbour has the story. | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
It happened in seconds. 12-year-old Rebecca Huitson was hit by a high | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
speed train at an un-manned crossing in Dudley, North Tyneside. | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
Her arm was ripped off. Rebecca was raced to hospital. Then it is | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
understood her severed arm was found by a police officer. | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
As the arm was intact, there was a chance it could be reattached. But | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
the surgeons here at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary were | :06:22. | :06:32. | |
racing against the clock. Altogether, it was about five hours | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
the arm was without blood supply. The limit is four to six hours. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
further delay, and the surgery may not have been possible. But after a | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
six-hour operation, the surgeons are now cautiously optimistic | :06:40. | :06:50. | |
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Rebecca will be able to use her arm again. Now I can say I am pretty | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
confident. It is nearly 48 hours and the blood supply to the arm has | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
been re-established for that time. It would be very unlikely for it to | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
fail now. Doctors at the Royal Victoria | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
Infirmary say replantation of a completely severed limb is a rare | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
and complex procedure and the surgical team had to prepare the | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
arm to be reattached. They had to reattach the bone and reconnent the | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
blood supply. That it appears to have all worked is a remarkable | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
achievement. In a statement, Rebecca's parents have expressed | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
their thanks to the paramedics and the police at the scene. They also | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
thank the nursing and medical staff at the hospital. Rebecca's parents | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
are at her bedside. Back at the scene, the council is already | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
looking at the safety of the crossing. A has to be consultation | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
before changing a write-off way. But we do have to look at it. | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
is a full investigation underway but it appears that it was an | :07:53. | :08:03. | |
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accident. Now, on the surface, it seems like | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
a great idea. Buy your alcohol in a supermarket and then go to a | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
nightclub and drink it. But this is what one nightclub owner says he is | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
being forced to do in order to stay open. Durham Live club says it can | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
no longer compete with the cheap supermarket booze, so for a small | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
fee you can drink your off-sales on their premises. The radical | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
approach does have its critics though. There is flash photography | :08:26. | :08:35. | |
Partying hard at Durham's Live club. It's a city not known as a hot spot | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
for clubbers. But with a huge student population, it should be a | :08:38. | :08:48. | |
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goldmine for bar owners. But it isn't. We are competing against the | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
supermarket prices, which are cheaper. So Bob's answer is to | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
charge six quid at the door and you can bring your own booze. It's a UK | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
first and is being trialled on Fridays and Mondays. It's either | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
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this or close. We are saying, and bring it with you, do not drink are | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
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there at home, enjoy your night. Without this radical measure, the | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
nightclub will close. He says he is not in breach of licensing laws. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
The police will monitor the situation closely. But the idea | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
does have its critics. Not least from the Safer Durham Partnership | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
which fears the idea could catch on. They are likely to be bringing him | :09:45. | :09:53. | |
up spirits rather than beer. The amount they will consume is higher. | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
There is a greater risk of anti- social behaviour. This city is home | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
to 20,000 thirsty students. But there wasn't overwhelming support | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
for the club's radical new approach. If people bring their own drink, | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
they will be absolutely hammered and there will be lots of fights. | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
Usually, you pay for drinks in there. If you pay for your own, you | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
can take as much as you want. can go to Tesco's and by drink at | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
50 pence Akam. It is a controversial idea. Licensees and | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
health experts do agree on one thing though - the need for minimum | :10:31. | :10:41. | |
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An area of Northumberland badly hit with the expected loss of 500 jobs | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
at the Alcan smelter has something to celebrate this evening. 80 jobs | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
are being created. With new customers already on its books, | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
Tharsus Engineering has been offered nearly �700,000 from the | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
Government's Regional Growth Fund. Recruitment begins in January. | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Julie Smith reports. Growing bigger for a global market. | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
The injection of �690,000 of Government funds is a financial | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
boost to Tharsus Engineering. Part of a total �3 million of investment | :11:09. | :11:19. | |
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by them in new technology and expansion of premises. We have a | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
number of significant new customers who have recently started to trade | :11:29. | :11:37. | |
with us and a couple of bigger opportunities. We could not have | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
convinced those businesses to give us the opportunities if we had not | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
invested. The money allows us to invest confidently. | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
And a morale boost too for Northumberland. It means 80 job | :11:45. | :11:53. | |
vacancies for local people. I have already been in touch with people | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
who are specifically interested in some of the apprenticeships and | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
they may not be able to complete with Alcan and will see if they can | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
join our company. The news couldn't have come at a | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
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better time for some. It is job security and, personally for me, I | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
have a newborn child coming and to hear that the business is flying is | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
excellent. It is a weight off our shoulders. It feels brilliant. | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
is really positive news, a nice Christmas present. This successful | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
Growth Fund bid was teamed with other manufacturing companies in | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
the north east. Altogether they were awarded �1.79 million and all | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
of them intend to create more jobs. Julie Smith BBC Look North Blyth in | :12:35. | :12:45. | |
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Protests from local people have forced a hostel in Carlisle to | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
close temporarily after one of its residents admitted raping a 16- | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
year-old girl. Mark Jackson, who's 50, attacked the girl last month | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
and is awaiting sentence. Impact Housing, which runs the centre in | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
the Denton Holme area, says it doesn't know when it will reopen. | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
It says it's listened to the victim's family and local people. | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
The operator of the Tyne and Wear Metro has confirmed that the entire | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
network will be shut down next Wednesday, November 30th. This | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
follows a strike ballot by members of the RMT union, who will be | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
joining other public sector workers protesting at changes to their | :13:14. | :13:23. | |
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pensions. You're watching Look North. Still | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
to come: Dawn has the sport and Trai has | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
your weather forecast. Plus: He boldly went where no man from | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
the North East had gone before. Astronaut Nicholas Patrick is | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
honoured back home, on Earth. weather looks pretty rough at times | :13:36. | :13:45. | |
BBC Radio presenter Val Armstrong has been named Cumbria Woman of the | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
Year. Diagnosed with breast cancer for a second time just last year, | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
Val has used her battle with the illness to inspire others. The | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
committee said the BBC Radio Cumbria presenter had used her | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
"honesty and humour" to reassure and encourage other women, as well | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
as being a great voice for the county. Alison Freeman went to see | :14:05. | :14:15. | |
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The 2011 Cumbria woman of the year is the formidable, redoubtable, | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
wholly admirable Val Armstrong. It was a proud and emotional moment | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
for Val Armstrong - honoured by her peers, in her home county for being | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
their Woman of the Year. And what a year it's been for the BBC Radio | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Cumbria presenter. Having been diagnosed with cancer for a second | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
time, she decided to make her fight with the illness public, to help | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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other women. I am in shock, I am still in shock. There are almost | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
100 women in the room behind us. Every single one of them has a | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
story to tell. They are amazing women. For me to be chosen among | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
them, to act to be included in the first place, I was shocked. To walk | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
away with this is just fantastic. She's been telling her painful but | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
inspiring story on the radio, TV interviews and an online blog, | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
being open about details of the treatment itself - from her double | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
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mastectomy to the side effects of chemo therapy. I was crying all the | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
way to the salon, I think I got rid of my tears. My mum is sad here, it | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
is upsetting, isn't it? But I have got to be in control of this -- my | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
mum is sat here. At her local breast cancer support group, she's | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
also taken on the role of an ambassador to help raise awareness | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
of the disease, to help more people catch cancer early. We chose one | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
lady to represent all of those ladies. For her stoicism, the voice | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
she has and the friend she is to people who have never even met her, | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
he has been a shining example to all Cumbrian women. Val says her | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
life's been filled with peaks and troughs, and today was most | :16:01. | :16:10. | |
Carlisle United fans have had their first chance to examine plans to | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
move the club's ground to an out- of-town, all-seater stadium. An | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
open day at Brunton Park this afternoon attracted a good crowd, | :16:16. | :16:24. | |
and most of them seemed to support the move. Mark McAlindon reports. | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
Club officials say it is vital that fans back their plans to move to a | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
new ground. Today they talk to those who came for a closer look | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
and said it has gone well. We have got to offer our fans, if you like, | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
our customers at the end of the day, something different from a stadium | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
that can be cold and wet and damp in the winter, no overhead shelter, | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
not necessarily good catering facilities, and still with outside | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
toilets. What we have to say is, what you expect out of football 25 | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
and 30 years later is significantly different and we have to provide | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
that. Most people coming here today will have had a long association | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
with Brunton Park, but most agree that for the club to move four, a | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
new ground is needed. You have to move with the times. I think it | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
would be a great thing for the club. A lot of questions, they don't want | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
to answer, about who is going to own the ground. The ground is not | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
up to standard as it is. Things have got to change. Big things for | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
Carlisle. The manager thinks it will help his cause. It is an | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
exciting venture, should it come off. I know the chairman's angle is | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
to progress the football club. I have always talked about | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
progressing on the football side, I think that is what John is talking | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
about. It is time for the sport now. | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
It is. Tyneside may have missed out on | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
hosting Team GB's group football matches at the Olympic Games, but | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
Stuart Pearce revealed he will be visiting the region with his | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
England Under 21 side. Defeat to Belgium put the under 21 side's | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
qualification for the championships on hold, but peers is looking | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
forward to putting it right at the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
in February. -- but Stuart Pearce is looking for. We have not been to | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
the North East during my tenure. The nearest we have been his Hull. | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
I am looking forward to coming here. I had two fantastic seasons. I have | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
an affection with the people in this part of the world, they | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
treated me fantastically well. I am looking forward to the game. Having | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
local talent as well, Middlesbrough has supported England fantastically | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
well. These are uncertain times for | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
anyone involved with Darlington Football Club. The players have | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
been asked to take a pay cut, some have left, and all eyes are on a | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
chairman who's threatened to walk away. But there's one man keeping | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
his head above water. Mark Tulip's been to meet him ahead of | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
Saturday's home game with Tamworth. As both a player and coach, this | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
isn't the first time Craig Liddle has been asked to write to | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
Darlington's rescue. Inconsistency on the pitch and uncertainty about | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
proposed redevelopment off it, led to the sacking of Mark Cooper and | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
the German issuing warnings about his commitment. Even though he has | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
lost half a dozen players -- the chairman. And players have accepted | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
a pay cut, the bill is getting on with it. -- Craig Liddle is getting | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
on with it. I have been through this a few times. Once you get out | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
on the pitch, or your Abbey Stadium, you have 90 minutes to forget your | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
problems and enjoy yourself -- and all you are at the stadium. Last | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
Saturday spoke volumes, for 90 minutes they were fantastic -- all | :19:51. | :20:01. | |
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you are at the stadium. This is You are keeping your head above | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
water, you have been here before. have got to be. If I feel down in | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
the dumps, it will affect the lads. I have do look after the youth team, | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
I just get on with it. At least striker Liam Hatch is staying for | :20:25. | :20:35. | |
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Other Newcastle fanzines have come and gone but The Mag has outlasted | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
them all. For 23 years, it's given Magpies fans news, views and | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
features on all things black and white. And now it's decided to move | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
with the times and has launched an on-line version to tap in to the | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
new media market. For almost a quarter of a century, | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
buying The Mag has been as much part of the match day routine for | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
thousands of Newcastle fans as having a pie and a pint before the | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
game - but in today's on-demand society, the man behind the Mag has | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
decided it's time for him to embrace new technology and go | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
online. There is an element of having to do it, but I think you | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
need to want to do it. You want to do something that will really | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
enhance what people expect these days. Newcastle fans have very high | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
standards. It is great that we are coming along at the same time that | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
Alan Pardew has got that team spirit going on the pitch, making | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
the odd thing -- there might be the odd thing happening off the pitch | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
that people are not happy with. The fans want the immediate thing you | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
can get from a website. One week into the project and the response | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
has been overwhelming. The website will complement rather than copy | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
the magazine. Fans can comment through links to Facebook and | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
Twitter, and Mark concedes that social media is changing the face | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
of football. There were bad experiences with Joey Barton. Danny | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
Simpson must love that he has so many followers. I think fans | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
appreciate that if they can keep on in a more intelligent level, | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
instead of may be letting themselves down, it is a way for | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
fans to connect with the players that doesn't happen a lot these | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
days. Not like me, when I used to queue for the autographs in the car | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
park. There'll be plenty of autograph hunters if Newcastle win | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
at Old Trafford - but can they beat Manchester United there for the | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
first time since 1972? Manchester City maybe showed the shortcomings | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
in terms of the size of the squad. I think everybody else is fair game. | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
Manchester United, there has to be a time when we beat them again. | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
Indeed, there does. Thanks! | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
The man dubbed Yorkshire's highest flyer - NASA astronaut Dr Nicholas | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
Patrick - today returned to the region with the message: "If I can | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
do it, so can you." Dr Patrick was born in Saltburn, and it was there, | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
at the age of just five, where it all started. | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
While watching the Apollo 11 moon landing, he decided he too would go | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
into space. Today he accepted an honorary degree from Teesside | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
University. Mary Askew went to the ceremony. | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
3, 2, 1, zero, all injured and it running, left off. We have lift-off. | :23:11. | :23:21. | |
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Astronaut Nicholas Patrick is now making his way out. | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
From Saltburn schoolboy to NASA astronaut is not exactly a well- | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
trodden career path, but it is inspirational. It is a long and | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
winding path. The key for me is I loved maths and physics. I was | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
inspired as a young boy, or five years old, when I watched the | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
Apollo 11 moon landing. I decided then I wanted to become an | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
astronaut. Teesside University hope today's ceremony will show the | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
students that this guy quite literally is the limit to their | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
potential. I am delighted to present the honorary degree of | :24:02. | :24:11. | |
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It was inspiring. I live in Teesside, live and work here. It | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
was good. You can do whatever you want if you try. You feel like you | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
can do anything now. Very exciting. To pursue his dream, Dr Patrick had | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
to become a US citizen. But he remains a Yorkshireman at heart. | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
career and the things I have experienced have been very unreal. | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
You never really get too far away. One of the things that flying in | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
space has done has given me a fresh perspective, but it has made me | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
want to come back and see more of the Earth, and returns are the | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
places I have already seen. I remember on my first fight, looking | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
out of the windows on the flight deck at England, and I could see | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
Southampton to the Scottish borders, and the coast of not sure -- of | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
North Yorkshire here. It reminded me that as far as you go, your | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
heart is always where you are born. If you're excited by outer space | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
and the stars above, then you can visit the BBC stargazing website, | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
bbc.co.uk/stargazing, ahead of a new series of Stargazing Live in | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
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What do we need? Clear skies. It is looking a little unsettled. | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
We had clear skies today. James was in the Cleveland Hills catching | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
race. This weekend, sunshine is going to be at a premium -- | :25:42. | :25:51. | |
Strong winds, a lot of cloud. It is going to be wet at times through | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
Saturday and Sunday. It is certainly wet at the moment, this | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
band of rain has been working its way in. It will continue its slow | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
journey southwards and eastwards through the night, but it clears | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
our region. Under the clear skies, temperatures will start to fall | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
away. I think in more rural areas, down to two or three Celsius. A | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
really chilly end to the night, and blowy with it. It means a bright | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
start tomorrow, albeit a brief one. They blow in the next band of rain | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
through the middle of the day. It is a strong wind, it blows it out | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
the way. For tomorrow at the end of the afternoon, back in to clear | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
skies and a bit of sunshine. Even with the sunshine, temperatures are | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
not above seven Celsius tomorrow, and feeling cooler than that in a | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
near gale force wind in places. It will be nippy to end the week on | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
Friday. Into Saturday and Sunday, you can see from how tightly packed | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
the lines on the charts are that it will be very windy. We have also | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
got a few bands of rain or showers to come, particularly in Cumbria, | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
and a more general smattering of showers in the cold north-westerly | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
wind for Sunday. A bit of a rough ride for the next few days. Here is | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
the story for the North East. Showers tomorrow. Saturday and | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
Sunday, staying very windy and cooler than it has been. And | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
Cumbria, you are always in the firing line for the first of the | :27:26. | :27:29. |