25/11/2011 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Welcome to Friday's Look North. No, Deputy Prime Minister. The

Government's billion pounds scheme to tackle youth unemployment gets

short shrift from this job-seeker. Just watch me, how Lily's

successful struggle to walk has inspired another youngster to

follow in her footsteps. Winter draws on, or does it? A year

ago it looked like theirs. Our predictions of another white hell

wide of the mark? The new Bishop of Durham reveals a

path that might surprise you. We meet the Manchester United fan

doing his best to help Newcastle upset the odds at Old Trafford. And

the Sunderland boss Steve Bruce on coping with the pressure, the

He is the Deputy Prime Minister, she is an unemployed young person

from Teesside and today they have had a disagreement. On the day the

Government unveiled its �1 billion plan to tackle youth unemployment

Nick Clegg took to the airwaves. He told the BBC national radio

programme that 20 year-old Krystina Robinson could benefit from the

Government's plans. The trouble is, she does not agree.

Krystina Robinson is 20 and has been out of work for five months,

so she was today Caerphilly taking in the Government's 1 bn town plans

to tackle youth unemployment. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg

says he will help young people to learn or learn. No one is giving

young people a chance to get experience in work. They want

people with experience, but you cannot get experience unless you

have a job. By the time Krystina caught up with the news, her case

had already featured on BBC network radio and she had a very personal

response to the Deputy Prime Minister. I've applied online and

handed in my CV and no one has got back to us. Krystina is 20 and has

been out of work for five months and feels demoralised and it is

heart-wrenching to listen to it. She will be able to take up work

experience locally where employers at no cost to them will be able to

employ her for eight weeks. That is a big step change in the life of

Krystina. But Krystina does not feel like that. It is eight weeks

doing work. When the eight weeks are up you will be back to square

one. You might not have a job. There might be somebody who gets a

employed, but there will be a few who do not. Tonight the Deputy

Prime Minister said as a statement saying he felt Chris Dean and

others like her will still find the Government's Youth Contract Scheme

youths will -- useful. A six-year-old girl who overcame

the odds to learn to walk has inspired another child to try to do

the same. Earlier this year we met Lily Gordon. Cerebral palsy meant

that Lily could not walk on her own, but major surgery in the US has

helped her and now another youngster, Callum Brown from

Northumberland, has his heart set on the same surgery and the same

goal, to be able to walk. Lily Gordon underwent major

pioneering surgery in Missouri to help her walk for the first time.

just took a couple of steps and fell over. She was quite tearful.

She walked for the first time about four weeks ago. She was sat on the

sofa and I was only about two feet away, but she stood up and walked

towards me. She got excited and collapsed on top of me. We met her

before she flew out on her 6th birthday. Her parents had heard of

the operation, Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy, radical surgery on the

spine and nerves, but surgery that means Lily can now walk. Now I can

take a couple of steps by myself. Her story has inspired another

youngster, Callum Brown from Northumberland. Seven year-old

Callum also has cerebral palsy. His legs are in a constant crab and his

family are now raising the �50,000 they need for the same operation.

want to walk. It is unbelievable how much it has made such a

difference to Lily's life and I can only watch and hope we get there to

do the same. Holly Mills, thought to be the longest surviving person

with variant CJD has died. Holly, 26, died at home in North Yorkshire.

She had battled for eight years with a condition which was linked

to mad cow disease. There were men seriously ill in hospital after

taking so-called legal high tablets in Newcastle.

It is thought she bought the polls from a shop called the happy ship -

- Happy Chip on Waterloo Street. The woman is in a critical but

stable condition. Two men and a 17 year-old boy have been arrested on

suspicion of drugs offences. Plans to make cuts to the BBC's

local radio stations have upset politicians and listeners. It plans

licence fee settlement and has proposed cuts to regional current

affairs programmes and some live weather forecasting and 20% staff

cuts to local radio stations. The stations in Tees, Newcastle and

Cumbria will lose local programmes and share staff. The BBC insists it

will protect the most popular programmes.

Breakfast on BBC Tees, peak listening time. The BBC's says cuts

it should not affect the show, but afternoon, evening and some weekend

programme will be shared regionally or across the whole of England.

Breakfast, at mid-morning, dried thyme sport is where 86% of the

audience spend their time. Where we have less money and if we can

detect that side of the business, that is more important than

spending money in off-peak times. But that is not what Brian wants to

hear. He has been tuning in to BBC Tees for 40 years. Since his wife

died, it has become a lifelike and says Sherrin programmes will be a

mistake. It will no longer be local radio anymore. You will get

programmes from Manchester and Leeds. It loses its identity.

Unions fear all programmes will be affected. Sharing programmes and

the afternoon would save perhaps two jobs on the station that did

not have its programme. They are talking about seven and nine, so

where are the other jobs coming from? Of course other programmes

will be affected. The cuts are also worrying the region's politicians.

Listeners have until the end of the year to make their views known.

The proposed BBC regional cuts will be discussed on the Politics Show

this Sunday. The Metro operator Nexus says its

ban on mobility scooters on the Tyne and Wear Metro will stay in

place. It was introduced in 2008 after four incidents in which users

fell onto the line twice after crashing through closed train doors.

Nexus says it cannot find a way they can be carried without an

unacceptable level of risk. George Michael's concert at

Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena next Saturday has been postponed. He is

ill with pneumonia. The dates are being re-scheduled.

Small businesses in Whitby claim that closure of part of one of the

town's Peers has had a devastating effect on trade. Scores of anglers

who usually fish off the West Pier extension are going elsewhere,

taking their spending power with them. For Jackie Greaves the

closure three months ago of Whitby's West Pier extension has

been a disaster. Her two angling shops in the town have been hit

hard. We went from selling 20 kits the day to none. The phone started

ringing, people were asking if it was true that the peer was close to,

saying they would ring back in a few weeks and now the phone never

rings. The business as a health the online store and that is expanding,

but other businesses in Whitby do not have that luxury. 50 anglers a

day have just melted away from the town. They don't go to the

newsagents, the pub, they don't eat out, they don't use the guest

houses and that tackle shops. extension was closed because the

old crossing was unsafe. A temporary one will be in place next

week and a permanent one will follow. But for Paul Kilpatrick who

takes anglers out on his boat he cannot understand why it has taken

Scarborough Borough Council so long to get that temporary crossing in

place. It is shocking it has taken so long. Three months, it is crazy.

The man from the council has the answer. It is bureaucracy,

basically, but also making sure it is done properly. Work will start

next week and we are told with a fair wind it will be completed next

week. There is one angler on the Pier at Whitby. Sadly for Martin

and Jackie's shop and Paul's boat it is only this oversized, metal

sculpture. Can you remember what you're doing

a year ago today? If you were digging your car out of a snow

drift or looking after a child whose school was closed I bet you

do. November 25th was when the big freeze came. But this year it is

one of the mildest November as on record. Adrian were shivering last

year, but not tonight. No, it is milder tonight, but still

a little bit chilly. November 25th last year was when the big freeze

started. We were caught napping by that huge snowfall which came a

month before Christmas. At daybreak on November 25th last year, we were

all waking up to a winter Wonderland, or in other words a

driver's nightmare commute to work. Roads were blocked, schools were

closed and we were digging in for two weeks of very cold weather.

were selling twice the amount in terms of numbers of customers and

there were 10 times more and we were rushed off our feet. But one

year on, the retailers are praying for snow to shift their stock.

is nice for her as being out on the crowds and the sun, but in terms of

business it has not been very good. Will it be the third hard winter in

a row? We thought a Russian man might know. I think this winter is

going to be cold. If you see the berries, it is only the sign. I

suggest the winter is going to be culled. The a keep saying we are

going to have a hard one, but we are hoping we will not get one.

you think it is scare stories? Sometimes, sometimes. They

exaggerate a bit, I think. It is looking like we are going to get

away with it at the moment, but closer to the end of the year it

might start kicking in. I think it will definitely snow, maybe a

little bit late after Christmas this time. Do you like there is no?

I like it when you do not have to go out in it. Christmas Day would

be perfect. There is one young lady's Christmas wish. We are all

amateur weather forecasters and I have got a professional with me

here. How far in advance can we One thing that forecasters be

dealer cat is pressure over the North Pole. Last year and then you

before, pressure over the North Pole was unusually high. This year,

pressure over the North Pole is normal. They are getting snow

storms, so we might not. But it is early days.

How that will be back for the full weather forecast for the weekend at

the end of the programme. Thank you very much.

An ancient and traditional ceremony has taken place in County Durham.

The new Lord Bishop of Durham was welcomed into his diocese ahead of

his official enthronement tomorrow. The Right Reverend Justin Welby

walked over Croft Bridge from North Yorkshire into County Durham where

he was met by an official party and presented with a ceremonial sword.

Bishop Justin will be officially installed in his role at another

ceremony at Durham Cathedral tomorrow. For tonight's Look North

Report Peter Lugg went to meet him Consecration day at York Minster as

the new Bishop of Durham takes his place at the top of the Anglican

Church. Their new incumbent, Right Reverend Justin Welby looks at --

it looks a godly enough sort, but could be counted as one of the

awkward squad. The new bishop has a background in the oil industry. He

can boast a former Deputy Prime Minister in the family. My mother's

uncle was a Rab Butler. She was brought up by him during the Second

World War. He was a very big influence on her and, through her,

on me. It was the late 1970s, things were very bad economic cliff.

What goes around comes around. I applied for jobs and did not get

them. I got a job working for a French a company in Paris.

tragedy struck the new Executive when his first child was killed in

a road accident. In a strange way, we were both of us closer to God

than at almost any other time in our lives. I think I learnt what it

means to have a relationship with God. It is not about saying, you

are wonderful, if you look at the sums in the Bible, it is a

willingness to be very angry and to ask hard questions and see what he

says back. After studying for the priesthood, Bishop of well be found

herself working for the international or reconciliation

service in Africa. They talked about the family's been tortured

and killed, even in recent days. We met extraordinary people and

terrible people. And terrible people who have changed. He comes

to a Diesis looking a little frayed at round the edges. Can an

auditorium of from a privileged background relate to economic

misery that the rest of us are going through. The will have to ask

people I have worked with as a parish priest, living in

communities like this, taking children to school, all at the

things you do every day. What has gone on in the City of the last few

months must have been fascinating for you? People who have those huge

privileges have equal responsibilities. The grass outside

Durham Cathedral would make a good campsite? Yes, and if they want to

camp out in this weather, they are welcome to it.

12 Days to raise money for 12 potentially life saving flights.

That's the target the Great North Air Ambulance Service has set

itself. The charity's Christmas fundraising campaign was launched

today with a little help from people they've saved in the past.

Mary Askew reports. Everyone in this picture owes their

life, or the life of their child to the work of the Great North Air

Ambulance Carol Foreshaw was in a motorbike crash.

It took my leg off and severed a major artery. I lost a lot of blood.

It took me to ambulant -- it took me to hospital in just about 10

minutes, it would have taken about one hour by road.

Each time the helicopter and its crew takes off, it costs on average

�2,500. Without money, simply, the charity wouldn't exist.

It's the speed of the Air Ambulance that saves lives. Nikita Battye was

four when she was kicked in the head by a horse. The road ambulance

would have taken too long. The air ambulance to go but 10 minutes.

That is the difference between net saving a life and a child dying.

We'll come to Newcastle's big game at Old Trafford in a moment. But

first, Sunderland striker Fraizer Campbell is moving towards a long-

awaited return to action. Campbell hasn't played for the first team

since August last year after suffering two serious knee injuries.

But he's back in training, and he's hoping to play in a friendly match

in the next 10 days. Too soon for tomorrow's visit of

the Premier League's bottom club, Wigan, but a welcome piece of good

Not much has gone right for Steve Bruce this season. Every day,

you've been able to hear and read Don't worry, we've been called a

lot worse. And despite what he thinks, most of the press pack like

him! Certain parts of the media here, they are difficult, shall we

say. You try and treat them with the respect they deserve. They are

trying to do a job. But in certain parts, it has been ridiculous.

handles at the media very well. He speaks to us off the record. He is

one of the proper football people in the game and he makes us very

welcome when we come down here. He is a nice guy. But it is part of

our job, when the results are going well, you cannot ignore it. -- them

results are not going well. If you are going to manager this level,

you are going to get stick. We have not had the best of results so you

go under pressure. I have enjoyed the job tremendously despite that.

We have thousands of fantastic supporters. We need to give them a

result which they can be pleased Well, Newcastle face their second

trip to Manchester in a week. Last Saturday saw the Magpies suffer

their first league defeat of the season, at Man City. But on his

first return to Old Trafford since he left two years ago, defender

Danny Simpson reckons Newcastle have now got what it takes to beat

his old club there, for the first time in almost 40 years. Dawn

Just 48 hours before the big game at Old Trafford and defender Danny

Simpson lets youngsters from Dunston Riverside Primary into some

dressing room secrets. We make sure that we are together in this corner.

We are a bit superstitious. While Simpson is under pressure to

sign a new contract quickly or risk being moved on, it's clear he's

more than happy running out in front of 50,000 fans at Newcastle.

You get that feeling, that adrenalin rush.

There will be plenty of adrenalin this weekend as well and you can

always rely on children to ask those awkward questions like who do

you support? I am a man United fan. And we play them this weekend. I'm

want to take on three points and I am convinced we can.

And Danny will have to draw on all that self-belief on his first

return to his home town club. Obviously, I left there are few

years ago. But it was a grey move, the best move I have done. But I

still have friends that play for the team. My friends and family are

united fans, so it will be a big day.

In the Championship, Middlesbrough could be without top-scorer Marvin

Emnes at Peterborough tomorrow. The Dutchman, who has 10 goals to his

name this season, has not trained all week because of an ankle injury.

Meanwhile, in League One, Carlisle are at home to Colchester who are

managed by ex-Blues boss John Ward. He saw his side thumped 5-1, at

home, by MK Dons last weekend. But Carlisle aren't expecting an easy

afternoon. They will be organised and hard to beat and hard to break

down. Knowing John other way he works, he will be disappointed with

that. It will not be easy in terms of the way they defended and

consider the goals last week. Commentary on those matches and

some non-league games on your local BBC radio station, with medium wave,

DAB and online coverage in some cases.

In rugby union, it's David versus Goliath as bottom club Newcastle

Falcons return to Premiership action with a trip to the leaders

Harlequins on Sunday. And just over the road from there, at Twickenham

tomorrow, the England women's team, captained by Darlington Mowden

Sharks fly-half Katy McLean, will take on reigning World Champions

New Zealand. The Kiwis narrowly beat England in the final.

Thank you very much. To celebrate the fact that that winter weather

is milder than last year, what is the forecast?

It is not looking great for this We have a weather warning of strong

winds. Possibly between is 60 and 70 mph. Some gusts could even reach

80 miles an our. Overnight, clear and cold. The temperatures will

fall quite low, but still we avoid a Prost because it will be damp.

One or two showers to start Saturday, but there will be some

bright spells first thing tomorrow for North Yorkshire and for the

North East Coast and particular. On Saturday, that rain at splash is in

at from the West as the wind gets stronger. Through the afternoon

tomorrow, wind speeds of up to 70 mph. The wind will be less strong

in the West. Removing him across Cumbria. It will reach many parts

of the North East by teatime. But parts of the East Coast it will

stay dry. A very windy day to come tomorrow. The wind is blowing from

the south-west, so that means it is across the wind -- it is the

crosswind and could create tricky driving conditions. The weather

alert is still in place on Sunday postop a bright enter the weekend,

but still breezy. By Monday, it is looking cloudy with another spell