29/12/2011 Look North (North East and Cumbria)


29/12/2011

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Good evening. It's thought Darlington Football Club is about

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to release a statement about its future. It's understood one of the

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possibilities is the Conference side will go into administration.

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The club faces serious financial problems and has even asked players

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to take a wage cut. Nothing official. The owner and

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contactable, but as seems inevitable these days, clues from

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players boasting on social network sites. It is thought the statement

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will be made tonight or tomorrow. If it is administration, it will

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not be a shock. The chairman has previously said he has not been

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able to find a buyer willing to take over and he cannot continue

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putting his own money in to keep the cup going. Darlington have had

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their glory days, but this is 18 now playing in front of crowds of

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less than 2,000 in a stadium built to accommodate 25,000. Some players

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have not been paid and one of them have either resigned. -- has even

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designed. -- resigned. North Yorkshire Police are

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appealing for witnesses after the death of a Wearside man on the A1

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motorway yesterday. Police say the dead man from Sunderland had got

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out of his car on the southbound carriageway at Allerton Park. An

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HGV driver was arrested in connection with the crash.

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More than a million people visited the Eldon Square shopping centre in

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Newcastle in the week leading up to Christmas. Management at the centre

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say it's a record and the overall figures for the whole of the

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festive period are also up on 2010. The man who proposed to his

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girlfriend in the back of a police van - after the engagement ring

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he'd bought was stolen in a burglary - has been offered a free

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replacement by a jeweller. Jason Lyon popped the question to Nicola

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Waites as they gave police a list of what had been taken from their

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home in Pelton in County Durham. Now, jeweller Sue Sinton from

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Newcastle has offered the couple a new ring.

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And a North Yorkshire couple have been celebrating today after

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winning �1 million on the Lottery. Frank and Judy Whitmore from

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Tockwith, near York, won the Euro Millions Raffle draw on Christmas

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Eve. They kept the ticket in an antique teapot while the family

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celebrated Christmas. Celebrating a Christmas present

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that Frank and Judy Whitmore say will change their lives.

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Today, the retired couple were remembering the moment they

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discovered they were millionaires. I said you weren't win. He started

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reading the numbers out. I went tell you what I said because you

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would be able to print it! It is unbelievable. It has not sunk in.

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The couple, who've been married for 43 years, say there will be no

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lavish spending. But with �1 million in the bank, where do the

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couple now dream of holidaying? like to go to Northumberland.

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Sorry! Frank and Judy say their new found

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wealth still hasn't really sunk in, but they intend to use the money to

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help out their family. More football news now, and League

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One club Hartlepool United wasted no time in formally unveiling their

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new head coach. Neale Cooper takes charge again more than six years

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after stepping down as manager for family reasons.

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Back in English football just days after receiving Christmas wishes

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from another Scot who has enjoyed success south of the border - so

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Alex fall -- So Alex Ferguson. -- Sir Alex Ferguson. It was a

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wonderful feeling, walking through the doors. A great Christmas

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present. He knows he will not have much money to spend, but Cooper

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says target in the play-offs is not unrealistic. However first task is

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to turn around a run of eight consecutive defeats. There has been

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a lack of goals. There has not been a massive defeat. Cooper's first

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game is at Sheffield United on Saturday. Good to see him back.

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A glimpse into the world of Hollywood and the musical greats of

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the '60s and '70s is on show in Harrogate over the Christmas

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holidays. A collection of photographs taken by Knaresborough

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snapper Terry Cryer can be seen at the town's theatre. They include

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previously unseen pictures of stars like Charlton Heston and Peter

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Sellers. Little did they know it, but the

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band playing carols outside this theatre were being photographed by

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a Slabber of some distinction. Terry crier is a legend. He once

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got the brush-off from Elizabeth Taylor. Back in the sixties and

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seventies, his territory was the nightclubs and stage tours of

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London's West End. Today, visitors can see the results of his misspent

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youth in the theatre bar. They did not have a bodyguard and things. I

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worked for the Associated Press and that gave me a lot of cloud. I had

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a press card, and I was trusted. Steve McQueen, I it did the

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photography Bobby golf while corporation. -- I did the

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photography of the Gulf Oil Corporation. One of Terry's

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favourite haunts were the jazz clubs of Sheffield. The exhibition

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runs until the end of next month. And now for the weather.

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Temperatures dropping away like a stone. A cold night tonight,

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turning wet from the West tomorrow. No surprises there. Through the

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evening, p showers will continue to disappear. -- showers. A cold start

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to the day with a crisp winter scene and the North East.

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Eventually the brain will push him from the Irish Sea, working its way

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eastwards. It will be heavy in places. Elsewhere, top temperatures

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between 3 and 4 and perhaps seven and eight Celsius. Into the new

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year and Saturday looks unsettled. It will start to clear later on New

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