:00:15. > :00:18.Good evening. More than 100 campaigners took to the streets
:00:18. > :00:22.today to protest at plans for a slaughter house in East Cleveland.
:00:22. > :00:25.For more than 40 years people in the village of Boosbeck lived side-
:00:25. > :00:28.by-side with an abattoir, but it closed several years ago. Now there
:00:28. > :00:31.are plans for a new one on the same site and some local people are
:00:31. > :00:33.horrified. Stephanie Lloyd reports. Taking their fight to the streets.
:00:33. > :00:42.These families celebrated when the village abattoir closed. Now they
:00:42. > :00:46.say they won't accept another one. We put up with it for 40 years, the
:00:46. > :00:50.torture and the smells that came from the place. People don't want
:00:50. > :00:54.it again. It should not be in the middle of a village, and the
:00:54. > :00:58.location is impressed -- inappropriate. The avatar of --
:00:58. > :01:04.abattoir closed in 2007 and since then the surrounding area has
:01:04. > :01:06.changed a great deal. There are new air -- houses and a wildlife area
:01:06. > :01:11.for children and which is why so many families are against the plan
:01:11. > :01:16.to reopen it as an abattoir. The company concerned says that jobs
:01:16. > :01:20.would be created and they would take steps to address concerns.
:01:20. > :01:23.have lived here all my life and grown up with it and I know what
:01:23. > :01:28.it's like. We do not want to go through that again, the smell, the
:01:28. > :01:33.rats. It is disgusting they are even considering it to be reopened
:01:33. > :01:37.again. The kids in the village over the last he is have been able to
:01:37. > :01:41.get out and about and play down the pars, and the council had spent
:01:41. > :01:46.�50,000 doing it up. Redcar and Cleveland council will discuss the
:01:46. > :01:50.objections with the company in the New Year. Out-of-town industrial
:01:50. > :01:54.locations would be more tenable when you have the industrial estate
:01:54. > :01:57.where there is vacant space. Thinking about it reasonably, it's
:01:57. > :02:00.not the right thing for this area and I would suggest that this land
:02:00. > :02:08.is better used for housing. campaigners say they'll take their
:02:08. > :02:12.fight to court. Stephanie Lloyd, BBC Look North, Boosbeck. A man
:02:12. > :02:14.from Sunderland has been killed in a road accident on the A1 in North
:02:14. > :02:17.Yorkshire. Police say the victim had stopped
:02:17. > :02:20.and got out of his car on the southbound carriageway at Allerton
:02:20. > :02:21.Park. The driver of an HGV was arrested in connection with the
:02:21. > :02:25.accident. A lorry that overturned in
:02:25. > :02:28.Newcastle came to rest leaning against a pub. It happened on
:02:28. > :02:36.Plummer Street between Railway Street and Scotswood Road. The
:02:36. > :02:39.lorry ended up leaning on the side Football now, and it's back to the
:02:39. > :02:42.future for Hartlepool United. The League One club have appointed
:02:42. > :02:50.former Pools manager Neale Cooper as the new head coach at Victoria
:02:50. > :02:52.Park. Caretaker boss Micky Barron will stay on as reserve team coach.
:02:52. > :02:55.Meanwhile, it's emerged that the Liverpool striker Luis Suarez will
:02:55. > :02:58.miss Friday night's game against Newcastle after being banned by the
:02:58. > :03:01.FA for a gesture made towards Fulham fans. As for the Magpies,
:03:01. > :03:04.their manager Alan Pardew today confirmed he wouldn't try to sign a
:03:04. > :03:14.striker in January, following the collapse of Modibo Maiga's proposed
:03:14. > :03:17.
:03:17. > :03:20.move to Tyneside from French club The Magpies have long known that
:03:20. > :03:23.they would be losing 14-goal striker Demba Ba to African Nations
:03:23. > :03:26.Cup duty in the coming weeks but following the collapse of the Maiga
:03:26. > :03:29.move before Christmas, the club will target a new forward during
:03:29. > :03:32.the summer when prices aren't so inflated. It was unfortunate and
:03:32. > :03:40.for the player. The player is probably more disappointed than
:03:40. > :03:44.anyone else. But these things happen and we will have to do do
:03:44. > :03:47.some work between now and the summer to get another striker.
:03:47. > :03:50.defensive lynchpin Steven Taylor out for the rest of the season,
:03:50. > :03:54.Pardew wants to sign a defender in the January sales and hopes there
:03:54. > :03:58.won't be any last minute departures of key players this time. But we
:03:58. > :04:03.just felt the last minute staff at the end with Andy Carroll didn't do
:04:03. > :04:10.us any favours and we put a warning out to clubs that we won't be
:04:10. > :04:12.accepting that last-minute stuff Now, it wasn't the most romantic
:04:12. > :04:15.place to propose, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
:04:15. > :04:18.Jason Lyon asked his girlfriend Nicola Waites to marry him while
:04:18. > :04:21.they were sitting in the back of a police van. The couple, from Pelton
:04:21. > :04:24.in County Durham, found themselves in the van after burglars stole the
:04:24. > :04:28.engagement ring Jason had bought in advance of him popping the question
:04:28. > :04:38.to Nicola - a surprise he'd planned for New Year's Eve. Chris Stewart
:04:38. > :04:40.
:04:40. > :04:44.He got home to find a window had been forced and inside there was no
:04:44. > :04:48.television or camel or games console and upstairs, empty drawers
:04:48. > :04:53.where Jason had hidden his engagement ring. And then he and
:04:53. > :04:58.Nicola were asked to sit in a police van to list everything there
:04:58. > :05:06.had been taken. Than that meant his secret had to come out. I said,
:05:06. > :05:13.they Nicola, I had to get it out in the open and she said yes, and she
:05:13. > :05:17.said it went a bit sloppy. It went from being a bit romantic to that
:05:17. > :05:22.but it's the first time I've ever been in a police vehicle. It was a
:05:22. > :05:29.bit strange but that is were I asked her to marry me. How did you
:05:29. > :05:39.feel, Nicola? Shocked. I was just shocked. The you had no idea he had
:05:39. > :05:41.
:05:41. > :05:45.a ring? No idea at all. No idea. But she did say yes, so...? I would
:05:45. > :05:51.say that I would have liked to have done it the old way. We do know
:05:51. > :06:01.what you mean. So here is your chance. I am on one knee, and on
:06:01. > :06:01.
:06:01. > :06:08.the BBC. Gone. Nicola, I want us then the rest of my life with you.
:06:08. > :06:13.We have been through too much together. Will you marry us? Yeah.
:06:13. > :06:23.And we wish them well. Right. From harmonious to tempestuous - the
:06:23. > :06:27.Glad you clarified that. Rough conditions this evening, gusts
:06:27. > :06:32.along the north-east coast and over the hills and about 70 mph through
:06:32. > :06:38.the afternoon which will continue through tonight. And as you can see
:06:38. > :06:42.on the chart, the lines are really squeezed in close together today
:06:42. > :06:45.and through the night, but as we head through tomorrow it will ease
:06:45. > :06:48.apart very gently, so tomorrow although it will feel pretty
:06:48. > :06:52.unsettled it will not be quite as blustery as it has been today.
:06:52. > :06:59.Let's have a look at this evening. First of all a steady stream of
:06:59. > :07:04.showers coming our way on the westerly breeze and then we will
:07:04. > :07:08.stop overnight, and in Cumbria has more consistent rain. With the wind
:07:08. > :07:14.it will be a chilly night, Calder of late with loans of between one
:07:14. > :07:17.and five Celsius. Into Thursday properly, a dry start and some
:07:17. > :07:22.sunshine, but through the day a strong westerly wind propelling
:07:22. > :07:25.showers our way and just clearing the skies towards the end of the
:07:25. > :07:29.afternoon. The top temperature tomorrow just seven or eight
:07:29. > :07:35.Celsius, but in the winds it will feel colder than that. Be on
:07:35. > :07:38.Thursday, and towards the end of the week, a sunny start, especially
:07:38. > :07:41.in the east but once again we will see the rain catching up with us
:07:41. > :07:46.from the West and it will hit Keswick and the rest of Cumbria