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Hello, welcome to Look North. In the programme tonight: More | :00:03. | :00:06. | |
customers, more jobs - the American billionaire behind Virgin's | :00:06. | :00:11. | |
takeover of Northern Rock reveals his plans for the bank. Second only | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
to terrorism - that's how seriously transport police are treating metal | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
theft in the region. Don't bank on it - how some of our businesses are | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
being frustrated by a lack of financial help while others are | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
thriving. And the big moment's nearly here. After the success of | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
the Turner Prize exhibition, the winner's about to be unveiled. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
We're live from the Baltic. In sport Newcastle lost more than just | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
the game at the weekend. Could the Magpies' double injury blow derail | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
their season? And Santa was there, but there was no early Christmas | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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present for Sunderland's new It was Sir Richard Branson who | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
grabbed all the headlines with the planned takeover of Northern Rock | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
by Virgin Money. But the real dealmaker is this man - a 73-year- | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
old Wall Street billionaire who's pumping in more than five times the | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
amount of money that Sir Richard is. Wilbur Ross will end up co-owning | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
the currently nationalised Newcastle-based bank. He's stayed | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
in the background until now. Our Business Correspondent, Ian Reeve, | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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met him in London where Mr Ross revealed his plans. Wilbur Ross, | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
American investor in distressed companies and an expert in turning | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
them around. His is the big money behind the deal for Virgin to take | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
over Northern Rock. Some though call him a vulture investor, saying | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
he exploits the weak. People use these terms. If we had a bird | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
symbol, it wouldn't be the vulture, but it would be the Phoenix A | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
vulture picks dead meat off a carcass. We are more like the | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Phoenix, we're trying to help a bird re-create itself out of its | :02:07. | :02:16. | |
own ashes. Mr Ross has big plans for the Rock. He wants to attract | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
750,000 of Virgin's 3 million internet customers and get 250,000 | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
of the existing million Rock customers. And if that happens, the | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
new services are vo deuced will see jobs being -- introduced will see | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
jobs being created. Many of the ideas will involve adding staff. | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
will own about 44% of the merged Rock and Virgin money and this is | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
why. He has put �1 hundred million into Virgin Money itself. But now | :02:55. | :03:05. | |
he will pump in about �260 million. The Virgin Group puts in 50 million | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
and an Abu Dhabi investment puts in 50 million. But that leaves a short | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
fall. This is how it is thoughts it will be made up. Northern rock has | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
cashry serves which the bank holds. Wilbur Ross wants to free up �250 | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
of that cash and give it to the Government. �150 million of similar | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
cash would also go to the Government. So in part Northern | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
Rock would be paying to buy itself. Mr Ross won't talk about the | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
details of the deal, other than to say he is not hit and return | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
investor. We have no immediate plans for exit. We have been in | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
some situations for many years and we have been in banks for quite a | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
while in the United States and even before that in Japan. The Financial | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
Services Authority has to say yes to all aspects of the deal. If it | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
does, the Rock takeover will go ahead in January. Well Ian is here | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
now. So, if Wilbur Ross is the real money man in the Rock deal, why | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
have most of us not heard of him, until now? If you look at the | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
statement put out by the Government by UKFI, the body set up to look | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
after the Government's hold ngs bank, the statement that Northern | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
Rock was to be taken over made no mention of Mr Ross. The Government | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
feel it it is more palatable to say that Richard Branson will take over, | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
rather than Virgin Money is being taken over and financed by a | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
billionaire investment banker from New York and there is a bit of | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
middle eastern finance. And of course the Virgin brand has an aura | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
of success, we know the planes and trains and is a lot of good will | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
associated with it. The Government helps that will rub off on the new | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
bank and make it a success. Thank you. British Transport Police is | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
making cable theft its second- highest priority after terrorism. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
It costs the country �43 million pounds a year and the North East is | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
the worst hit area. Well tonight's Inside Out programme follows the | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
work of the police's dedicated cable team, Operation Leopard. And | :05:26. | :05:35. | |
it's heard first hand from one of the thieves. Chris Jackson has more. | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
British Transport Police patrolling a cable theft hotspot in bed | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
lington. This as a priority comes second only to terrorism. The | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
Operation Leopard team has made nearly 2 hundred arrests. People | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
like Joe Smithson from Teesside. took copper from the railways, from | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Billingham. Me friends said, we will do this. I thought I will go | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
along and MEP them. I will give them a hand. It is a crime costs | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
�43 million a year. -- help them. The north-east is the worst region | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
in the country. There has been over three and a half million pounds | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
worth of business lost due the cable theft this year. On a hundred | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
occasions we have had delay to thousands of rail passengers. | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
recent months it has spread to the metro system. But the question is | :06:35. | :06:43. | |
why is it happening more here? There is a high level of | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
unemployment and a lot of mining villages, towns, where we have | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
these mining villages there does seem to be a proportion of the | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
community do tend to be stealing cable. Much of the copper stolen | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
from rail ways ends up being shipped to China, where economic | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
development has led to high demand and petty criminals here are facing | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
tough sentences. Not because of the amount they steal, but the | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
disruption they cause. Joe has been warned he faces jail. I would | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
rather have me freedom than be in jail over a bit of copper. It is | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
not worth it all one. And you can see the full story on Inside Out - | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
tonight at 7.30, here on BBC1. A man's been arrested, after a | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
pedestrian was killed in a bus crash in Newcastle. The 68-year-old | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
woman died in hospital after the accident on Westgate Road yesterday | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
lunchtime. A 53-year-old man's been bailed on suspicion of causing | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
death by dangerous driving. The future of 117 jobs at Cumbrian | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
Seafoods in Whitehaven remains unclear after the business went | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
into administration today. It's been bought by Lion Capital, which | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
owns Young's Seafood. Cumbrian Seafoods was founded in 1997, but | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
moved its main production site to County Durham, ten years later. The | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
Government has said it's doing all it can to persuade banks to lend to | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
businesses. But one County Durham company says it can't get the help | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
it needs. Millennium Hardwoods is struggling to fund an expansion | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
which could create vital jobs at its Shildon factory. It's a | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
familiar problem for many firms, but some have found solutions. Our | :08:30. | :08:40. | |
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Political Editor, Richard Moss, reports. When many businesses are | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
cutting back, here is one firm keen to expand. Millennium Hardwoods has | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
invested in new equipment and become the first in Britain to | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
produce this type of flooring. But the company needs more money to | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
ramp up production. But after talking to banks, the firm hasn't | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
been offered a single penny. All of the banks are keen to talk us to, | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
but common have said no, but none have said yes. So we're in between | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
a rock and a hard place. I have been in business 32 years and I'm | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
more concerned now than I have ever been. Because we cannot get the | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
finance that we require to do the work that we're trying to do. | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
is little growth on show here in the high street, South shields has | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
its share of closed shop. When this shop look ford help, they found out | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
they were on their own. If you read the papers, there is support. But | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
we have found out that there is little support, if not at all. We | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
found we can't get any more support from the bank we have been with for | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
five years. But some firms have got help. Jarrow brewery struggled to | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
get loans and had to limit production. But it has got a grant | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
from a regional growth fund and will move to a new premises and | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
create 22 jobs. We have been at full capacity and this grant will | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
fast track the brewery and allow us to push on with quadrupling the | :10:26. | :10:34. | |
size of our plant in a regeneration area. So causes for a celebratory | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
drink, but putting the fizz in the rest of the economy will be more of | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
a challenge. The Government says there is room for optimism, but for | :10:42. | :10:52. | |
many the glass looks at best half empty. Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
has been at a school on Teesside helping to promote next year's 2012 | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
London Olympic Games. The former paralympic athlete is one of a | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
number of sporting personalities and business leaders that are | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
travelling around the country this week giving inspirational talks to | :11:02. | :11:11. | |
pupils. Fantastic to be involved and I think one of the amazing | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
things about the education programme that has been run it | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
getting young people to think about Olympic and Paralympic values. It | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
is not necessary, it is not about elite sport, but getting people to | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
think about they can be involved with the games. It will be the | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
biggest thing, the biggest sporting vent that will happen in the UK in | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
our lifetime. Our region's would-be X-Factor stars have all made it | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
through to the final of the competition. In last night's semi- | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
final, both Amelia Lily, from Middlesbrough, and Little Mix - | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
with two of the group from South Shields - both picked up enough | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
public votes to see them through to next weekend's decider. Coming up | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
next in Look North, we're live from the Baltic for the latest on this | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
year's Turner prize. And goals and more in sport, including | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
Middlesbrough getting back into the winning habit. As we have sleet and | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
snow to watch out for tonight. Esherblly -- but especially icy | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
roads and pavements. All eyes in the arts world are focussed on | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Tyneside this evening. The winner of the prestigious Turner Prize | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
will be announced in under two hours. The Baltic in Gateshead's | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
been hosting the Turner Exhibition for the last six weeks. It's only | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
the second time in the award's 27- year-history that it's been held | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
outside London. And our arts reporter, Sharuna Sagar, is there | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
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for us now. Yes I am. This is the calm before the storm. In under two | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
hours one of the four short listed Turner Prize nominees will be named | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
the best contemporary artist in Britain. And their life will change. | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
Now, 100,000 people have been to the exhibition to see what they | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
think. And soon they will be finding out if they agree with the | :13:04. | :13:13. | |
Everyone has a favourite and everyone's favourite is different. | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
This year the Turner Prize at the Baltic has opened up the world of | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
contemporary art to people who may not normally have been interested | :13:19. | :13:28. | |
in it. I think it is great that it is here in the North East. I do not | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
know what the men who work here many years ago would think about | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
some of their exhibits. But I think it is very interesting and I am | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
glad we have been. It is good to move things away from London and | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
bring them up north, to the naughtiest here. I am no expert in | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
contemporary art but it really has captured my imagination. And have | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
been interested and pleasantly surprised. I enjoyed it more than I | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
thought, I know little about art. For many of us the Turner Prize is | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
synonymous with controversy but this year's short list is less | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
startling and more thoughtful. Take Martin Boyce - his atmospherics | :14:09. | :14:19. | |
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sculptural installation for example and its subtle attention to detail. | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
Or Hilary Lloyd's portrayal of the urban environment using sound and | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
the moving image to examine the every day. | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
Then there is the more accessible paintings of George Shaw - he uses | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
Humbrol enamel paint from his childhood and depicts scenes of a | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
post-war housing estate also from his childhood. | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
And in complete contrast Karla Black's innovative sculpture | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
featuring paper, paint and polythene. All very different - how | :14:47. | :14:57. | |
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do you pick a winner? An impossible task I think. An incredible short | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
list. It is down to the brain storming of four members of a | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
distinguished jury. How they make a distinction between painting, | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
sculpture and film, art installation, who knows? It is not | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
an enviable task but exciting nonetheless. Hideous thing will win. | :15:21. | :15:29. | |
I like it to be Martin Boyce. who do you think will win. George | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
Shaw his most accessible to most people so I think he would be | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
favourite. I think the lady that made the pile of paper, she will | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
probably when. It will not be long before the winner is announced. The | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
other winner is the Baltic, and with me is the director, what has | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
at the like hosting this event? has been fantastic. This is what | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
the Baltic has been billed for, a world-class exhibition right here | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
in Gateshead and the response from our visitors has been tremendous, | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
they have really embraced it. the effects been long lasting? | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
sure it will. We already enjoy have a million visitors each year but we | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
have seen lots of new visitors coming through the doors. We feel | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
they had a really good time and they will be back to see more | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
contemporary art here. You were one of the judges, how difficult was | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
it? It is really tricky, the artists are all fabulous. It is a | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
very difficult thing to call. you obviously have made the | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
decision and you know the winner. The decision has been made and it | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
will be announced in the next couple of hours. Give us a clue? | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
cannot let but if you watch later and you will see. In my envelope | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
here, I can exclusively reveal... I am joking, I will have to wait with | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
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the rest of you. Time now for a team talk. It has | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
been a weekend of if only his, which meant almost a complete | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
whitewash for our football teams. I say almost, because we did have one | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
winner. So let us kick-off with Middlesbrough. | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Why not - we can save the misery until later. Beaten by West Ham in | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
midweek - bounced back a great win at Bristol City and a great goal as | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
well. We had to wait until the 90th minute, but it was worth the wait, | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
when Marvin Emnes was brought down in the final minute of normal time | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
substitute Malaury Martin won the argument over who would take a | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
free-kick - just absolutely flew into the top corner beyond David | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
James - nothing he could do about it. Brilliant! | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
Of August 1st goal he scored for Boro was another rocket - agreed | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
weapon to having your armoury. Borough had been lucky, they could | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
easily have given away a penalty but the referee mustn't have seen a | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
Julio Arca handball and Jason Steele was called into action | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
couple of times that managed to survive some late skiers. That | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
result took them up to third in the championship before they slipped | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
back to force after Cardiff's win. So that is our one winner out of | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
the way. Four defeats coming up - starting with Eric Black's | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
Sunderland - the first and last time you will hear that phrase. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
And the first of our "if onlys" - Martin O'Neill, confirmed as the | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
Black Cats manager at lunchtime on Saturday. Let us hope he's not | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
thinking if only I had not signed that contract. He will be | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
officially unveiled tomorrow afternoon - and watch from the | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
stands at Molineux as Sunderland took the lead managed to lose, for | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
the second week running - the third time in a row they've done that | :18:36. | :18:46. | |
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away at Wolves! Born-again Christian. He would not have done | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
something like this. Superb at dive! He won the penalty in in his | :18:57. | :19:07. | |
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debt. Fletcher got one there and got 110 minutes from time. Mick | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
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McCarthy enjoyed it. What next for Sunderland and Eric Black? I would | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
just have to see what happens, I leave the club on Tuesday and we | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
will go from there. Martin O'Neill is then on Monday with the good | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
players to build on. There is a really strong squad there. They are | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
a good bunch of lads and desperate to do well and I hope Martin will | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
get confidence back into them. He will galvanise them and get them | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
going. And this is what Martin O'Neill is taking on - Sunderland | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
now just one place above the relegation zone, only two points | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
off the bottom of the league. Good luck, Martin! | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
Newcastle slipping as well - down to 6th, and they will be 7th if | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
Liverpool win at Fulham tonight. The Magpies beaten 3-0 by Chelsea | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
on Saturday, losing for only the second time in the Premier League | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
this season - their first home defeat since March but, once again, | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
it was a case of if only - this time, if only referee Mike Dean had | :20:14. | :20:23. | |
been playing by the same rules as the rest of us! That has to be an | :20:23. | :20:31. | |
male don red card. Absolutely. He thought so. It would have changed | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
the whole complexion of the game. What again it was, a great penalty | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
save. The goalkeeper was in superb form. You have to hope they hang on | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
to him in January. Apparently it is bad luck to change the name of your | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
house, and it could be bad luck to change the name of your stadium | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
because nothing seemed to go right for it Newcastle, in terms of | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
action and injuries. They hit the bar and post and had significant | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
injuries. The Elysee one point from these is pre-Games and everyone was | :21:08. | :21:18. | |
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hoping for when, it is going to be tough now. Just one of those days. | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
It was one of those days for as. From the 4th minute, nothing looked | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
right. I Louise -- I lost both said to have sways -- which was a hell | :21:37. | :21:45. | |
of up law. He Chelsea celebration was galling. The manager was being | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
dignified and fair play to hand, some of his other staff need to | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
look at themselves. -- fair play to him. | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
It was of course FA Cup weekend as well - two of our teams hoping to | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
make it into the third-round draw of - the chance to be paired with | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
one of the big boys and that brings us to our third if only - if only | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
Gateshead had beaten Tamworth, they would have been looking at a trip | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
to Goodison Park because an away tie at Everton is what Tamworth | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
landed in yesterday's draw! Going behind and having Chris | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Carruthers sent off hardly helped the home side's cause but keeper | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
Jak Alnwick atoned for his earlier mistake. When Nathan Fisher | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
equalised on the hour it looked as though Gateshead would be in the | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
hat for the third round. But Alnwick's day was about to end on a | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
low note as his fumble allowed Tamworth to scramble the ball home | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
leaving Gateshead to concentrate on their promotion campaign. Really | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
and fought it was really unfortunate. | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Meanwhile Carlisle didn't fare any better at League One leaders | :22:40. | :22:50. | |
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Charlton. Having lost 4-0 in the league, the Cumbrians fell behind | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
to defender Michael Morrison's goal and, righted the death, the home | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
side secured their safe passage with the second from Jason Euell. | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
Just the big three left in the competition now - Newcastle a home | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
to Blackburn, who knocked them out of the Carling Cup last month. | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
will fancy that one, though, as will Middlesbrough, at home to | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
Shrewsbury, and Sunderland face a trip to Peterborough. | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
So, in football, we mostly talk to their losers, but we had a couple | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
of great winners elsewhere, Dawn? We certainly did. In basketball, | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
Newcastle Eagles are through to the final of the BBL Cup after beating | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Leicester Riders 71-63 in the semis. And there was a narrow but a vital | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
win for the Falcons in rugby union's Premiership. Bottom-of-the- | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
table Newcastle came from behind to beat Gloucester by a single point. | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
Their first try came from Gloucester Old Boy Jordi Pasqualin, | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
out to prove a point against his old side. And big ex-Blaydon centre | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
James Fitzpatrick scored his second try in two games charging through | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
the gap - no stopping him! And there were 16 points from the boot | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
of fly half Jimmy Gopperth, who has scored 100 so far this season. It | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
is just their second league win. Finally, the special tributes to | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
Gary Speed may have been postponed until the Swansea game on 17th | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
December so his widow Louise can be there but anyone who was at | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
Saturday's game against Chelsea cannot fail to have been moved by | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
the emotional scenes before kick- off as Gary Speed was remembered by | :24:06. | :24:14. | |
friends, players, coaches and fans alike. The former Newcastle | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
midfielder who played at St James's Park for six years died just over a | :24:18. | :24:28. | |
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week ago at the age of 42. Those special tributes will now take | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
place on 17th December. Thank you very much. Just ahead of the | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
weather, many of us have had the first taste of winter. Cumbria has | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
borne the brunt of it, the police report a number of incidents. Some | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
heavy snow and sleet showers over the weekend. One wintry conditions | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
in Penrith, with sleet showers leaving a slushy covering on roads | :24:54. | :25:02. | |
and pavements. Great - it is back! Most of us to read it but not all | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
of us, the skiers had been itching for this to happen. Thank you for | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
this great shots. Making the most of the wintry conditions. More | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
sleet and snow showers overnight. Some widespread icy stretches to | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
Some widespread icy stretches to watch out for as well. A rash of | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
sleet and snow showers sedate, the West got the brunt of it, across | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
Cumbria and on the Pennines. In between those shower clouds will | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
see the ice forming. Roads and pavements that had been treated | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
might well have the sort washed away with the shares. Shares become | :25:40. | :25:48. | |
less widespread as we head through the night -- showers. It is cold | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
enough anywhere for a touch of frost, so everywhere could see ice | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
forming through the course of the night and into tomorrow morning. | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
The cold start tomorrow, the frost will lift slowly. Best of the week | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
winter sunshine end the east. The showers will be few and far between | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
in the West. The cloud will thicken up again, bringing in sleet. Even | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
with sunshine, the temperatures will struggle. Westerly winds are | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
lighter than they have been and temperatures will be around four. | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
Tomorrow night - this weather system comes in from the West. | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
Sleet and hail and snow amongst it. Blustery winter showers on | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
Wednesday, then it becomes wet and windy from the West on Thursday. | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
Tomorrow will see many places dry and bright but cold. A wet night on | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
Wednesday. First Steele looks wet and windy as well, cold again by | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
Friday. -- thursday looks wet and Friday. -- thursday looks wet and | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
windy. A last look at the headlines. France and Germany want a new | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
treaty to tackle their eurozone crisis with are without Britain. | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
Wilbur Ross the billionaire behind the takeover of Northern Rock says | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
he hopes to attract new customers and create jobs. Tomorrow - we have | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
the first of two special reports into the future of the Territorial | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
Army. Our reporter travels to Cyprus but the Fusiliers for their | :27:22. | :27:30. |