:00:06. > :00:08.Hello, and welcome to Look North. In the programme tonight - two very
:00:08. > :00:11.different Christmas presents. They beat up a teenager, now
:00:11. > :00:13.Magistrates have relaxed their curfew order so that they can go to
:00:13. > :00:18.a football match. And Christmas cheer for Sir Bobby's
:00:18. > :00:22.foundation as a major donation boosts his cancer research goal.
:00:22. > :00:26.Also tonight - You can stop now! Sharon breaks all the records as
:00:26. > :00:29.her treadmill marathon reaches a triumphant conclusion.
:00:29. > :00:35.And lost in translation - how the French cast of a hit play about
:00:35. > :00:41.Sunderland are trying to cope with the language problem. Howay? What
:00:41. > :00:44.is howay? In sport, we'll look ahead to this
:00:44. > :00:47.evening's big Premier League matches at both ends of the table.
:00:47. > :00:57.And what's gone wrong at Hartlepool - and can the new caretaker boss
:00:57. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:07.Two men who beat up a teenager have had their curfew orders changed by
:01:07. > :01:10.a court so they can attend a football match. Karl Smith and
:01:10. > :01:14.Jeffrey Burton will now be on their way to St James' Park to watch
:01:14. > :01:17.Newcastle United play West Bromwich Albion tonight. They were told by
:01:17. > :01:27.Magistrates that the decision was in the spirit of Christmas, but
:01:27. > :01:29.
:01:29. > :01:35.it's a decision a national victims' charity says is astonishing.
:01:35. > :01:41.This is Karl Smith who is 22, and this is his friend, Jeffrey Burton
:01:41. > :01:45.who is 32, on a Friday night during the summer and they attacked an 18-
:01:45. > :01:49.year-old and were arrested. It happened outside a bar in Newcastle
:01:49. > :01:55.and they were charged for the salt, occasioning actual bodily harm
:01:55. > :02:00.which can carry up to five years in jail. When the matter came to court,
:02:00. > :02:05.the men were made the subject of a curfew which would be measured by
:02:05. > :02:10.an electronic tag. They are not allowed to leave their homes
:02:10. > :02:16.between 9pm and 6am. Then they bought tickets for tonight's
:02:16. > :02:21.Newcastle match which kicks off tonight. They came back to ask for
:02:21. > :02:25.the curfew to be relaxed so they can go. It was relaxed, the
:02:25. > :02:31.chairman of the bench described it as a Christmas present. As seasonal
:02:31. > :02:35.spirit in which not everyone has welcomed. Here are two criminals
:02:35. > :02:38.being let off in the Christmas spirit to go to a football match.
:02:38. > :02:42.At the same time, other criminals up and down the country will be
:02:42. > :02:47.planning to commit further offences over the Christmas period because
:02:47. > :02:56.they think people will be easy victims. There will be homes fall
:02:56. > :02:59.of valuables, people will be out and leaving things in the house. At
:02:59. > :03:03.a time when criminals are showing precious little sympathy for
:03:03. > :03:09.victims, it does not feel right the criminal-justice system is doing
:03:09. > :03:15.that. The judicial office says courts does have the discretion to
:03:15. > :03:19.vary curfew orders. The men could not be contacted.
:03:19. > :03:21.Now here's a story about a more uplifting kind of Christmas present.
:03:21. > :03:24.When Sir Bobby Robson set up his Foundation to raise money for a
:03:24. > :03:31.cancer research trials centre he had a target of half a million
:03:31. > :03:35.pounds. Now, his charity has raised almost eight times that. The latest
:03:35. > :03:38.boost came from a special online auction. That brought in more than
:03:38. > :03:41.�100,000 and today the money was handed across to his widow, Lady
:03:41. > :03:43.Elsie. Lady Elsie Robson chats to Frances
:03:43. > :03:48.Sheeran at the Cancer Trials Research Centre named after her
:03:48. > :03:53.late husband. All the patients here at the unit in Newcastle's Freeman
:03:53. > :03:59.Hospital have terminal cancer. Frances is a primary school teacher
:03:59. > :04:03.and has been coming here since August.
:04:03. > :04:09.If it wasn't for Sir Bobby Robson I wouldn't be getting on this special
:04:09. > :04:14.trial. Without this, I don't know what would have happened. It has
:04:14. > :04:17.given new hope? Definitely. Kerry Browne is from Carlisle. The mother
:04:17. > :04:20.of two has secondary cancer in her lungs. She's been having treatment
:04:20. > :04:29.every fortnight since January, made possible by the Sir Bobby Robson
:04:29. > :04:34.Foundation. I am like a front line guinea pig, but happy to be it. If
:04:34. > :04:38.it was not doing me good, it could be doing other people. But there is
:04:38. > :04:44.no guarantee it will work for you because cancer has a mind of its
:04:44. > :04:46.own. It is working for me and I am lucky I have been given the chance.
:04:47. > :04:51.Just two patients who've been given hope. Hope financed by public
:04:51. > :04:53.donations. The latest cheque was handed across today. More than
:04:53. > :04:56.�100,000 raised from an online auction of items donated by famous
:04:56. > :05:06.people. Including Jose Mourinho's World Coach of the Year award,
:05:06. > :05:10.
:05:10. > :05:15.which fetched �26,000. He was a deer family friend and it seemed a
:05:15. > :05:19.fitting thing to do for an amazing man. He was so liked throughout the
:05:19. > :05:24.world, to do an online auction. However, we thought it would be
:05:24. > :05:26.quite small and it became an incredible global success.
:05:26. > :05:34.Bobby aimed to raise �500,000 and in about three years they've
:05:34. > :05:39.actually got �3.9 million. It is beyond our wildest dreams, it is an
:05:39. > :05:44.enormous amount of money. What would your father thing of people
:05:44. > :05:48.having donated so much? I don't know, I think he would be astounded,
:05:48. > :05:53.he would be embarrassed. Extraordinarily thankful. I don't
:05:53. > :05:57.think he would believe it really. He was always very careful with his
:05:57. > :06:07.money and to get in nearly �4 million is incredible. I cannot
:06:07. > :06:08.
:06:08. > :06:11.thank people enough, it is Cumbria police have announced the
:06:11. > :06:16.sale and closure of up to a dozen local stations in an attempt to
:06:16. > :06:19.help meet multi-million-pound savings targets. The force says the
:06:19. > :06:26.stations, including several in west Cumbria, are out of date and simply
:06:26. > :06:30.not needed. Senior officers say it could raise as much as �3 million.
:06:30. > :06:35.Cumbria police must save more than �20 million by 2016 - a fifth of
:06:35. > :06:40.its budget. It must do it while continuing to patrol a vast,
:06:40. > :06:49.largely rural county. The plan to shut some stations, say officials -
:06:49. > :06:53.makes sense. We have to put police officers were they are required.
:06:53. > :06:57.The way the new neighbourhood policing teams work will ensure
:06:57. > :07:01.that. We will make sure the people of this county get the best
:07:01. > :07:06.possible service they can with the money we have available. West
:07:06. > :07:08.Cumbria will see the bulk of the sales and closures. Police stations
:07:08. > :07:12.in Cleator Moor, Cockermouth, Keswick, Aspatria, Silloth and
:07:12. > :07:15.Wigton will be sold. In some places, new offices will be found, in
:07:15. > :07:18.others the police will share with the fire service, such as Egremont
:07:18. > :07:26.near Whitehaven. But one of the county's top officers says it will
:07:26. > :07:30.actually mean better policing. have to take 20% out of the Budget.
:07:30. > :07:36.We could have 20% less police officers. I think the community
:07:36. > :07:43.would be up in arms about that. We have tried to use every means
:07:43. > :07:46.possible to keep the numbers of police officers and staff high.
:07:46. > :07:53.Cumbria's wide open spaces, maintaining a police presence has
:07:53. > :07:59.always been a challenge. But the force insists on modern technology
:07:59. > :08:01.offices -- offers help the old buildings could not.
:08:01. > :08:04.Cumbria's chief constable, Craig Mackey, has been appointed Deputy
:08:04. > :08:09.Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. He replaces Tim Godwin, who
:08:09. > :08:12.retired in November. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, says Mr
:08:12. > :08:17.Mackey has a "strong track record in public order, and will bring a
:08:17. > :08:21.new dynamism". The Thai steel company SSI has
:08:21. > :08:25.delayed restarting iron and steel making at its Redcar site. The
:08:25. > :08:27.blast furnace had been due to be fired up on 6th January. The
:08:27. > :08:30.company says a combination of bad weather, industrial action and
:08:30. > :08:34.unforeseen work has delayed the process to an unspecified date in
:08:34. > :08:36.the New Year. The Mayor of Hartlepool, Stuart
:08:36. > :08:43.Drummond, has been appointed as the new Chair of Cleveland Police
:08:43. > :08:45.Authority. Mr Drummond has been its Vice Chair since July last year.
:08:45. > :08:48.His election to his new role follows the resignation of Peter
:08:48. > :08:56.Race last week. Last winter's heavy snow forced
:08:56. > :08:58.some midwives at Hexham General to hitch a lift to work by tractor! So
:08:58. > :09:01.to keep their community nurses mobile in the worst weather,
:09:01. > :09:05.Northumbria Healthcare Trust has taken delivery of 30 four wheel
:09:05. > :09:13.drive Minis. The trust has the biggest geographical spread of any
:09:13. > :09:17.in England and staff visit 2,000 people in their own homes every day.
:09:17. > :09:20.Not quite Thelma and Louise. This is Lorraine and Louise taking
:09:20. > :09:23.delivery of the new four wheel drive Minis. The last two harsh
:09:23. > :09:33.winters have been very challenging for health visitors in rural
:09:33. > :09:36.Northumberland. And these new cars will be a lifeline in future.
:09:36. > :09:41.year's Severe weather conditions and made delivery of services very
:09:41. > :09:45.difficult. A lot of the calls we have to deal on fought and we have
:09:45. > :09:49.to rely on the goodwill of patients, their relatives and neighbours. We
:09:49. > :09:54.had a neighbour who was a nurse who helped us with the administration
:09:54. > :09:58.of insulin. We have to use the fire service to help get to those
:09:58. > :10:02.patients who are the least accessible, even on a good day. So
:10:02. > :10:05.last year was very, very difficult. Community nurses, midwives and
:10:05. > :10:15.physiotherapists cover thousands of miles in Northumberland every day.
:10:15. > :10:15.
:10:15. > :10:19.The new cars should help them reach their patients in all weathers.
:10:19. > :10:22.deliver over 2000 health visits the day. It is important we keep our
:10:23. > :10:30.patience healthy and safe in their own homes. The last thing we want
:10:30. > :10:34.to do is have them come into hospital. The fleet of Mini's it
:10:34. > :10:39.will be distributed to hospitals in Hexham, Berwick and out in the
:10:39. > :10:43.wiles of Northumberland. They replace the existing fleet of
:10:43. > :10:50.saloon cars. All the staff need now is a wintry weather to put them
:10:50. > :10:53.through their paces. Much needed, I was caught in that
:10:53. > :10:56.weather heavily pregnant. Campaigners have won their battle
:10:56. > :10:59.to reopen a remote petrol station in Northumberland nearly four years
:10:59. > :11:03.after it was closed. People living in and around Kielder Village have
:11:03. > :11:07.had to make a 35 mile round trip to fill up. A �90,000 project to
:11:07. > :11:09.reopen the business will start in the New Year.
:11:09. > :11:13.A 16 year-old from County Durham is celebrating Christmas with the
:11:14. > :11:17.perfect gift - his first job. Jack Richardson from Crook has been
:11:17. > :11:20.employed as an apprentice green keeper at the Mount Oswald Manor
:11:20. > :11:23.and Golf Course in Durham City. He's among 130 youngsters being
:11:23. > :11:28.offered apprenticeships as part of a council-run scheme to get young
:11:28. > :11:34.people into work. It looks like church bells will be
:11:34. > :11:37.ringing to celebrate the opening of the Olympic Games after all.
:11:37. > :11:40.Yesterday we told you how Church bell ringers in North Shields said
:11:40. > :11:44.they and other ringers around the country couldn't go along with the
:11:44. > :11:46.plans for July 27th. But now they've reached agreement with the
:11:46. > :11:53.national organisers about how to organise the peel - and the bells
:11:53. > :11:57.will be ringing out. It was an incredible mental feat as
:11:57. > :11:59.well as an extreme physical challenge. The Guisborough
:11:59. > :12:05.ultrarunner, Sharon Gayter, today became the world treadmill champion
:12:05. > :12:08.- shattering both the previous male and female records by miles. Sharon
:12:08. > :12:13.has been pounding away in a fitness suite at Teesside University for
:12:13. > :12:20.the last seven days. And while the rest of us have been working and
:12:20. > :12:25.sleeping she clocked up an incredible 517 miles.
:12:25. > :12:31.And they have watched her in all weathers, pounding away on the
:12:31. > :12:36.treadmill for seven days and seven nights. Sharon's normal domain is
:12:36. > :12:39.the great outdoors where she has set up numerous records. Today, all
:12:39. > :12:44.her supporters and several of the charities that will benefit from
:12:44. > :12:48.her extraordinary efforts were there to cheer her home. I know she
:12:49. > :12:54.is looking down on us today and watching with pride and bringing
:12:54. > :12:58.lots of magic to Sharon. awareness of what Sharon is doing
:12:58. > :13:04.is great for the hospice and other great causes like leukaemia
:13:04. > :13:08.research. You cannot put a figure on that. The loneliness of long-
:13:08. > :13:13.distance is about to come to an end. She has been running for about a
:13:13. > :13:18.week and hopefully we can have a word with her.
:13:18. > :13:25.3-2-1... That was the moment at midday when
:13:25. > :13:30.Sharon finally stopped. She had covered an incredible 517.3 miles.
:13:30. > :13:37.50 miles further than the previous male record, let alone the women.
:13:37. > :13:43.came here to do a seven-day race. You don't stop early. You come here
:13:43. > :13:47.to break the record and put it as far as you can. I beat the men this
:13:47. > :13:51.year. To break a man's's world record is fantastic.
:13:51. > :14:01.achievement is believed to be the first time a world record has been
:14:01. > :14:03.
:14:03. > :14:07.broken on Teesside. Coming up: We have a report on the
:14:07. > :14:10.runaway success of the French play about Sunderland.
:14:11. > :14:15.And looking for the real spirit of Christmas.
:14:15. > :14:24.It might be nearly Christmas but it does not feel like the bleak
:14:24. > :14:29.midwinter. I will be back with the weather at the end of the news.
:14:29. > :14:33.In the second of our reports on the French played Sunderland, we take a
:14:33. > :14:37.closer look at how the actors get their heads around the city they
:14:37. > :14:41.have never visited. The reduction is set in a Sunderland but his
:14:41. > :14:51.playing in Paris. It is so successful it won at the theatre
:14:51. > :14:54.
:14:54. > :15:04.has been doubled. The Parisian stereotypes, one of
:15:04. > :15:11.
:15:11. > :15:21.romance. There are similarities with Sunderland! The gay way to the
:15:21. > :15:31.
:15:31. > :15:41.Champs-Elysees. The monuments, The Sunderland Empire, packing them
:15:41. > :15:43.
:15:43. > :15:51.in. And then, there is this, bridging the difference.
:15:51. > :15:56.TRANSLATION: Graham Shaw 50% of people want to see the play. They
:15:56. > :16:06.have no idea it is a city in England. They think it is the play
:16:06. > :16:08.
:16:08. > :16:13.of words. Sunderland was full of rain. The main actors don't have
:16:13. > :16:19.his advantage, they have never been to Sunderland. For them it is a
:16:19. > :16:22.case of imagination. So strange, every night you talk
:16:22. > :16:31.about this city. We talk about at Newcastle, we talk about Glasgow
:16:31. > :16:35.and we have never been there. That is my next voyage.
:16:35. > :16:44.It was the same for Vincent, who plays the boyfriend of the main
:16:44. > :16:48.character, Sally, and the football club he has never heard of. In the
:16:48. > :16:54.play I hate Newcastle. I says some bad things about Newcastle. I say
:16:54. > :16:59.some bad things about Alan Shearer. I don't know this man. You don't
:16:59. > :17:06.know Alan Shearer? I don't. And the French equivalent of a Sunderland
:17:06. > :17:12.accent? There isn't one. Abu heard there is a different accent? A lot,
:17:12. > :17:19.in French we don't have a lot of accents like you have. If you do it
:17:19. > :17:29.in England, I will be happy to see it. Why don't you try and says
:17:29. > :17:30.
:17:30. > :17:35.something. Howay? What is howay? from the glitz and glamour of Paris,
:17:35. > :17:38.to the streets of Sunderland and its critics. Apparently he worked
:17:39. > :17:43.for Nissan and fell in love with Sunderland. It shows the Parisians
:17:44. > :17:53.have a sense of humour. Totally amazed, I did not think it would go
:17:53. > :18:01.down in Paris. Why not? Sunderland is completely different isn't it?
:18:01. > :18:07.The wind in Sunderland is better than Paris. Really? Well, you know?
:18:07. > :18:11.Paris is not the last stop for this play, theatres in Spain, Russia and
:18:11. > :18:15.Germany are interested and I am told it could be heading to the
:18:15. > :18:25.North East of England. As far as similarities go between Sunderland
:18:25. > :18:27.
:18:27. > :18:34.and Paris, SHE SPEAKS FRENCH. We had just heard Sunderland has
:18:34. > :18:38.been confirmed for a five-month tour of France.
:18:38. > :18:45.A student at Newcastle University who is scheme to the South Pole is
:18:45. > :18:53.taking a day off while celebrating her 21st birthday. Bryony and her
:18:53. > :19:03.five-strong team hope to read the North Pole by January. We are
:19:03. > :19:03.
:19:03. > :19:10.having a rest day today. I know there is a party plans for me later.
:19:10. > :19:14.I have sneaked a bit of Bailey's. There is a rumour that there is a
:19:14. > :19:18.drop of whisky left as well. And nice, quiet celebration tomorrow
:19:18. > :19:23.but obviously we have to keep skiing tomorrow. I will have a
:19:23. > :19:26.party when I get home. With the big day just five days
:19:26. > :19:31.away, many will be catching up with last minute shopping or heading off
:19:31. > :19:35.to spend time with relatives. But want Teesside charity is preparing
:19:35. > :19:40.food and offering a bed to asylum- seekers and refugees who are
:19:40. > :19:44.homeless. These are people whose application has been refused but
:19:44. > :19:50.the Home Office is unable to remove them to their home countries. We
:19:50. > :19:54.are now looking at the true spirit of Christmas.
:19:54. > :20:04.As much of Teesside prepares for their beds, for one group, the
:20:04. > :20:05.
:20:05. > :20:08.night shift is about to start. Hello, welcome. This charity runs a
:20:08. > :20:13.shelter for asylum-seekers and refugees left homeless. They are
:20:13. > :20:18.left with almost a living ghost, no right to work, no access to
:20:18. > :20:22.statutory provision, no roof over their head and left on the streets
:20:22. > :20:26.homeless. We want to befriend them and give them a roof over their
:20:27. > :20:32.heads and give them some kind of basic decency, a safe place to
:20:32. > :20:36.sleep that night. So far, six churches across Middlesbrough are
:20:36. > :20:44.opening their doors providing shelters and it is hoped more will
:20:44. > :20:47.follow. The opened a charity runs aid across Teesside. But they
:20:47. > :20:53.cannot help anyone. It is difficult for me when they asked me questions,
:20:53. > :20:57.even before the night shelter starts. They asked me, if you have
:20:57. > :21:04.no place, where shall I go to night? That is the hardest one
:21:04. > :21:09.because I have no answers. They are not allowed to work, they have no
:21:09. > :21:14.normal life and they don't have any access to public funding. Many of
:21:14. > :21:18.them are forced into illegal jobs. The charity provides help and
:21:18. > :21:26.support for more than 100 asylum- seekers but says this evening many
:21:27. > :21:31.more will remain homeless, sleeping on floors and sofas of friends.
:21:31. > :21:36.We will have more on the spirit of Christmas tomorrow.
:21:36. > :21:41.Now the sport. Big gains ahead for the Premier League tonight.
:21:41. > :21:45.Sunderland are at Queen's Park Rangers knowing they are too close
:21:45. > :21:49.to the danger zone but come back. Newcastle are at the other end but
:21:49. > :21:52.feel they are overdue a victory. They are at home to West Bromwich
:21:52. > :21:56.Albion. It is five games about a win the
:21:56. > :22:01.Newcastle after the stalemate on Saturday against Swansea. Hardly a
:22:02. > :22:06.crisis, and they are holding on to 7th place. Our best team can
:22:06. > :22:11.compete with any team in his Premier League. We have a strong
:22:11. > :22:18.enough squad to keep consistently in the top seven or year. We have a
:22:18. > :22:23.nice margin over the rest. It is about as best we can try, stay with
:22:23. > :22:28.the pack. You are talking about a very strong pack of top runners.
:22:28. > :22:34.Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea,
:22:34. > :22:38.way above us in terms of budget. We are doing fabulous. Things are not
:22:38. > :22:42.so rosy for Sunderland, they go to Loftus Road just one point and a
:22:42. > :22:47.place above the relegation zone. The new boss says he knows he
:22:47. > :22:51.cannot take too much time to settle in. Absolutely, it is the bottom
:22:51. > :22:57.line of everything, to get ourselves into a decent position.
:22:57. > :23:02.We have to start picking up points. I am the first one to say, there is
:23:02. > :23:07.plenty of time, of course. Each game ticks along and it is another
:23:07. > :23:11.one gone. As long as we get points on the board, we did well against
:23:11. > :23:16.Blackburn. Our efforts against Tottenham is terrific and we need
:23:16. > :23:20.to repeat that. Both games are on Match Of the Day
:23:20. > :23:25.tonight. Hartlepool have two away games over
:23:25. > :23:29.Christmas and New Year. They have lost their last eight home games, a
:23:29. > :23:32.run which saw the head coach lose his job.
:23:32. > :23:36.Now they need to show mental strength if they are to hit their
:23:36. > :23:40.play-off target. Nicky Baron has known the glory
:23:40. > :23:46.days with Hartlepool, captaining them to League One promotion in
:23:46. > :23:50.2007. But he had to watch at the weekend as they went than to their
:23:50. > :23:55.8th successive defeat at Victoria Park. What has gone wrong? It is
:23:55. > :23:59.one of them runs we cannot put a finger on. We are desperate, of
:23:59. > :24:05.course we are. We want to entertain the fans but we have not been able
:24:05. > :24:09.to do that. We are working ever so hard to put it right, but so far we
:24:09. > :24:13.cannot seem to put the ball in the net. Us they were trying to put
:24:13. > :24:17.that right with shooting practice in the training session. But the
:24:17. > :24:24.longer this run goes on, the players believe they cannot win at
:24:24. > :24:30.home. It gets into the players' minds, and as they are about to
:24:30. > :24:35.score they might snatch at it. It is our job to get them mentally
:24:35. > :24:42.prepared for the Games as well as physically. Tried to get them
:24:43. > :24:47.confident to go and score goals. Home gates are down as well. But
:24:47. > :24:50.Hartlepool are 14th and their away form is good so with trips to a
:24:50. > :24:57.Oldham and Sheffield United, you think they would be happy to spend
:24:57. > :25:03.Christmas on the road. I would rather be an home -- at home to try
:25:03. > :25:07.to end the bad run of form. If anybody said at the beginning of
:25:07. > :25:11.the season this is where we would become I think we would be happy.
:25:11. > :25:18.People are disappointed, but rightly so but we are determined to
:25:18. > :25:22.get some results. Articled to a change of luck. I was
:25:22. > :25:27.boring Geoff about my story of being too warm in bed!
:25:27. > :25:32.It is the winter solstice tomorrow the shortest day. Seven hours and
:25:32. > :25:42.10 minutes of daylight. It is not feeling much like winter at the
:25:42. > :25:43.
:25:43. > :25:47.Overnight it is mostly dry in the east. Cloudy in the West with rain
:25:47. > :25:53.and it is foggy over the hills. Mild everywhere and the low
:25:53. > :25:56.temperature no less than around nine Celsius. Just to put that into
:25:57. > :26:03.context, higher than the average daytime maximum temperature for
:26:03. > :26:09.mid-to-late December. Once again we will be warm, and it is a mild day
:26:09. > :26:14.to come tomorrow. Bright spells in the east, particular for the North
:26:14. > :26:22.Yorkshire coast and up the north coast as well. In the West it is
:26:22. > :26:32.gloomy and grey. 12 Celsius is the top temperature of. It is more like
:26:32. > :26:33.
:26:33. > :26:40.an October. We expect more six or seven. As we go West, it is a wet
:26:40. > :26:47.for much of Cumbria by teatime. It is mild into Friday and a spell of
:26:47. > :26:51.wet weather crosses the regions. It clears first thing on Christmas
:26:51. > :26:55.leave and it is bright and fine for much of the North East and
:26:55. > :26:59.particularly for parts of North Yorkshire, it will be very pleasant
:26:59. > :27:04.for those last-minute Christmas shopping trips. As we get to the
:27:04. > :27:12.big day itself, it is not going to be a white Christmas. Not white
:27:12. > :27:22.with snow, it could be white with cloud. Christmas Day is very mild.
:27:22. > :27:23.
:27:23. > :27:28.It could be breezy. Definitely, no Snow for Christmas Day this year.