:00:05. > :00:09.Welcome to Tuesday's Look North. In tonight's headlines. More than a
:00:09. > :00:14.dozen arrests at police target a multi-million pound heroin ring
:00:14. > :00:20.across three countys. Jail for four men caught badger baiting. They
:00:20. > :00:23.laughed as dogs killed the animals. A convicted murderer is cleared of
:00:23. > :00:27.attacking three Prison Officer, now an investigation is under way into
:00:27. > :00:32.whether the jury in the trial was interfered with. And power struggle.
:00:32. > :00:35.The community that has been without mains electricity since Christmas
:00:36. > :00:39.Eve. In sport the Durham cricketer preparing to make a shock return to
:00:39. > :00:43.Test Match cricket. We immediate the author of the first biography
:00:43. > :00:53.of Brian Clough and find out what the current Sunderland manager
:00:53. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:05.The aim is to arrest toez who believe they are untouchable. That
:01:05. > :01:08.was the promise as a series of dawn raids were carried out on Teesside,
:01:08. > :01:12.targeting a criminal network which it is claimed is behind a multi-
:01:12. > :01:17.million pound heroin ring. Cleveland Police led the operation,
:01:17. > :01:23.arrests were made in Manchester and Bedford. So far, 17 people have
:01:23. > :01:30.been arrested. Stuart Whincup joined the early morning raids.
:01:30. > :01:36.Police! Get down. On the floor. This detectives said was about
:01:36. > :01:46.taking out a criminal network. are under arrest for conspiracy to
:01:46. > :01:48.
:01:48. > :01:52.supply Class A. The police say today's targets are part of a well
:01:52. > :01:55.resourced, well-organised gang that bring misery to local communities.
:01:55. > :01:58.People who think they are untouchable. The members of the
:01:58. > :02:02.public who say they are driving round in nice cars living beyond
:02:02. > :02:06.their mean, who appear not to be getting looked at. Today is their
:02:06. > :02:10.day to answer a lot of difficult questions and for to us say to the
:02:10. > :02:16.public we listen to the information you pass to us, hopefully this will
:02:16. > :02:20.be a step in the right direction. 120 officers were involved in the
:02:20. > :02:24.raids, and the operation which has taken 12 months in the planning was
:02:24. > :02:28.followed closely at police headquarters. 15 houses throughout
:02:28. > :02:31.Teesside have been targeted this morning, while at the same time
:02:31. > :02:35.arrests have been made in Manchester. Detectives believe
:02:35. > :02:37.criminals there have been smuggling heroin into the country and it has
:02:37. > :02:42.been brought to the North East where it has been distributed as
:02:42. > :02:46.part of a multi-million pound operation. This officers said was
:02:46. > :02:56.about breaking up a criminal gang. That thought they were ufpbtbl,
:02:56. > :03:00.
:03:00. > :03:07.that thought they would never be A man's admitted sexually abusing
:03:07. > :03:11.four young girls in attacks stretching back over decades. David
:03:11. > :03:17.Bryant pleaded guilty to kidnapping two youngsters in the 1980s. He
:03:17. > :03:21.admitted taking two girls aged four and five from Newcastle in 1995.
:03:21. > :03:25.All four were indecently assaulted. He was remanded in custody and will
:03:25. > :03:28.be sentenced in March. A man has died in hospital after suffering a
:03:28. > :03:34.head injury at a house party in South Tyneside on Saturday night.
:03:34. > :03:38.He has been named at 29-year-old Gareth Phillips from South Tyneside.
:03:38. > :03:42.Police are treating the incident which took place at this house as
:03:42. > :03:46.suspicious. Neighbours claim they heard nothing unusual at the time.
:03:46. > :03:51.A 41-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder, and remains in
:03:51. > :03:55.police custody. A Prison Officer who was seriously injured by a I
:03:55. > :03:59.violent inmate says he hopes his attacker will be retried. Craig
:03:59. > :04:02.Wylde and two others were slashed with a broken bottle by convicted
:04:02. > :04:05.murderer Kevan Thackrar who was acquitted of all charges. The jury
:04:05. > :04:09.accepted he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, but
:04:09. > :04:16.Durham Police are investigating the possibility that the trial jury was
:04:16. > :04:21.interfered with. Craig Wylde and two fellow prison officers were
:04:21. > :04:25.attacked while on duty in Frankland Prison in March 2010. Look North
:04:25. > :04:29.has seen pictures of the injuries suffered by Craig Wylde, but they
:04:29. > :04:32.are too horrific to be shown. Controversially Kevan Thackrar was
:04:32. > :04:35.acquitted after the jury accepted he was suffering from post-
:04:35. > :04:40.traumatic stress disorder, but Craig and his wife have never come
:04:40. > :04:48.to terms with the verdict I thought it was a joke. It didn't sink in. I
:04:48. > :04:54.couldn't see from the CCTV footage, from the pictures, from our
:04:54. > :04:58.evidence, to Kevan Thackrar admitting, he came out and he
:04:58. > :05:03.stabbed us, it was just... We were destroyed. Just absolutely
:05:03. > :05:06.destroyed. Couldn't believe it. Yeah. But in a new development it
:05:06. > :05:12.has been subjected that the trial jury may have been interfered with.
:05:12. > :05:15.A man was seen in the public box noting the juror's names and
:05:15. > :05:19.positions and Durham Police have confirmed they are taking it
:05:19. > :05:24.seriously and are investigating. will see how we go for a retrial.
:05:24. > :05:29.If there is a lot of public support and new evidence is brought it is
:05:29. > :05:32.grounds for a retrial. So, we are trying to keep our fingers crossed
:05:32. > :05:36.and keep our feet on the ground. This week Craig received a bravery
:05:36. > :05:41.award for his actions during the attack. He says he is proud to
:05:41. > :05:51.civet, but it will be locked away until he feels justice has been
:05:51. > :05:53.
:05:53. > :05:56.done. A former Cleveland Police officer who was wrongfully sent to
:05:56. > :06:01.prison has been told he will have to wait to learn how much he will
:06:01. > :06:06.receive in damages. Sultan Alam was imprisoned for 18 months in 1996
:06:06. > :06:10.for conspiracy. But was later cleared. He was reinstated but
:06:10. > :06:13.retired in 2009 on health grounds. He could be awarted more than �800
:06:13. > :06:18.thousand. The judge said he would need some time to determine the
:06:18. > :06:21.appropriate amount. Four men are beginning prison sentences for
:06:21. > :06:25.badger baiting. In what has been described as one of the worst cases
:06:25. > :06:30.of its kind to come to court. A group of six men and a teenage boy
:06:30. > :06:35.dug out and killed two badgers from a set on farmland outside York. The
:06:35. > :06:38.District Judge said she was sending out a clear signal to anyone
:06:38. > :06:43.involved in such activities they would be sent to prison. You may
:06:43. > :06:47.find some of the pictures in 24 report disturbing. Badger, they are
:06:48. > :06:52.one of the nation's favourite wild animals and they are a protected
:06:52. > :06:56.species. Badger baiting has been illegal for well over 100 years but
:06:56. > :06:59.the law means nothing to some. Seven men arrived at Scarborough
:06:59. > :07:03.magistrates to face sentencing after being found guilty of taking
:07:03. > :07:08.part in one of the most brutal attack s on a set of badgers. On
:07:08. > :07:12.the 13th January last year, these men spent the day in a field near
:07:12. > :07:18.York, they took 13 dogs with them and five weapons. They were there
:07:18. > :07:21.for one reason. To track down and kill badgers. Local wildlife artist
:07:21. > :07:26.Robert Fuller was walking and was shocked by what he came across.
:07:26. > :07:32.crept through the hedge, and out in front of us here, I could see this
:07:32. > :07:36.horrific sight, of two large pitbull cross, lur cher type dogs
:07:37. > :07:41.worrying a badger, they were tearing it to, tearing it and
:07:41. > :07:45.shaking at it. There was a group of men stood here up against the fence.
:07:45. > :07:50.One turned round to his mates as if to say you see that, that was great
:07:50. > :07:55.and smiling and laughing. The men had dug down into a badger sett and
:07:55. > :08:01.released their dogs on the animals. One of the badgers bled to death.
:08:01. > :08:04.After a long fight another one shot in the head. Robert kept his
:08:04. > :08:07.distance but managed to take photographs: To catch somebody in
:08:07. > :08:13.the act sun usual. Robert was very brave that day. We continue have
:08:13. > :08:17.had a better man on the field. During sentencing the judge
:08:17. > :08:20.described the so-called sport of badger baiting as abhorrent and
:08:20. > :08:23.barbaric. She said it was something that filled the community with
:08:23. > :08:27.revulsion, she said this case should send out a clear message,
:08:28. > :08:32.that anybody appearing in front of her, for crimes of this nature
:08:32. > :08:36.would face a prison sentence. And she kept her word. Today, four men
:08:36. > :08:41.were sentenced to four months in prison. They were Alan Alexander,
:08:41. > :08:44.Richard Simpson and Paul Tindall from York, and William Anderson
:08:44. > :08:48.from Pickering. Christopher Holmes and Malcolm Warner received
:08:48. > :08:52.suspended prison sentences, a 17- year-old defendant was given a
:08:52. > :09:00.youth rehabilitation order. It has been described as the worst case of
:09:00. > :09:05.its kind by the RSPCA. The administrator running Darlington
:09:05. > :09:08.Football Club has told the BBC tonight he has no reason to be
:09:08. > :09:13.optimistic about the club's survival chances. Harvey Madden
:09:13. > :09:16.says there has been interest but potential buyers have fallen away.
:09:16. > :09:21.It merged that Darlington council discussed demolishing the stadium
:09:21. > :09:27.and selling the laid for a are tail development could have raised cash
:09:27. > :09:31.for the club. That has been ruled out as a superstore would break
:09:31. > :09:35.planning rules, unless a buyer comes in last Saturday's game at
:09:35. > :09:40.Barrow will have been the club last. Here is a date for your diary.
:09:40. > :09:43.January 26th when the great and good will it is down at a economic
:09:43. > :09:49.summit. It will happen in South Africa but Sunderland council wants
:09:49. > :09:58.to be there too. They want to send a delegation along. Critics say
:09:58. > :10:07.it's a huge waste of money. Sunderland, firmly on Wearside. But
:10:07. > :10:13.connected to South Africa. Really? Mbomela is 5 836 miles that way, or
:10:13. > :10:20.maybe more than wa. The thing is a council delegation from here wants
:10:20. > :10:26.to go there. The council wants to attend and economic summit in
:10:26. > :10:32.Mbomela. Cost to the council taxpayer �4500. Two delegates from
:10:32. > :10:37.the council would attend. brought about �1.5 billion
:10:37. > :10:43.investment into the city. With the same strategy and the way we are
:10:43. > :10:47.working, so I would agree it is not to be sniffed at, we believe it is
:10:47. > :10:52.money well spent. It is disgusting. I am sure they shouldn't spend that
:10:52. > :10:56.kind of money, when the country and the town is the way it is. They
:10:56. > :11:02.want to get their own economics right before they start going to
:11:02. > :11:06.South Africa. You think �4500 could be better spent? Of course it could.
:11:06. > :11:13.The council spent almost �62,000 on foreign trip last year, it is
:11:13. > :11:18.winneded with esen in Germany, Washington and a town in China.
:11:18. > :11:22.Some say South Africa's a trip too far. They are proposing to send two
:11:22. > :11:26.people to South Africa, to speak at a conference for just one hour, on
:11:26. > :11:29.something that isn't really of any economic when benefit for
:11:29. > :11:37.Sunderland. Sunderland council's cabinet will decide whether the
:11:37. > :11:43.trip to South Africa will happen at a meeting tomorrow. So, as your
:11:43. > :11:48.granny might say, are you spent up? Last month we told you how the
:11:48. > :11:52.shopper centres were opted mistib about a good Christmas, today the
:11:52. > :11:56.first firm set of figures are in and they seem to bear out many of
:11:56. > :12:02.the confident predictions but is it all good news. Gerry Jackson is at
:12:02. > :12:06.one of the region's big shopping centres where they are very happy:
:12:06. > :12:10.Yes. This is Eldon Square right at the heart of Newcastle. High rent,
:12:10. > :12:12.high status and just the kind of place that British Retail
:12:12. > :12:18.Consortium says has done well over Christmas and the New Year. Let us
:12:18. > :12:22.have a look at the national figures. Overall retail sales rose by 2.2%
:12:22. > :12:27.in December, compared with December 2010. If we are getting poorer how
:12:27. > :12:30.is that happening? It is generally acknowledged that this winter's
:12:30. > :12:35.early sales saw very big discounting to drag us in. And we
:12:35. > :12:39.have to remember that a year ago we were closer to the start of the
:12:39. > :12:43.downturn the weather was worse and of course, the spending was that
:12:43. > :12:47.much weaker, but before we rejoice, a warning from the consortium, just
:12:47. > :12:52.as December spending last year looked better, the rest of this
:12:52. > :12:55.year might bring us back down-to- earth. Let us see if the shoppers
:12:55. > :13:00.of Newcastle and elsewhere video been down-to-earth. Have they been
:13:00. > :13:04.feeling richer or poorer. I have been trying to find out. Personally
:13:05. > :13:11.I haven't overspent. Are you sure? Certain, yes. I have saved my money
:13:11. > :13:16.for the sales. Have you spent more or less than last year? Moresome
:13:16. > :13:21.More? How do you know. I've got my loan through. So you have been
:13:21. > :13:25.suede by the offers. I bought a lot more than normal. We haven't spent
:13:25. > :13:29.anything. You haven't spent anything? You must be the most
:13:29. > :13:34.unusual person today. Why haven't you had spending? I haven't had the
:13:34. > :13:38.time to come shopping. In is the Eldon Square manager. I said you
:13:38. > :13:41.would be a map I -- happy man. You look it. How was Christmas this
:13:42. > :13:46.year. It is very strong. The number of visitors was up on last year,
:13:46. > :13:50.December was well up, because of the different weather patterns this
:13:50. > :13:54.year, and we have also had longer trading hours, and a number of new
:13:54. > :13:58.stores so it has helped. You say that has been your best Christmas
:13:58. > :14:03.ever. How can that happen if we are getting poorer? I think what we
:14:03. > :14:08.have done is work very hard to get the additional foot fall in. We
:14:08. > :14:11.have, as I said increased the number of trading hours that we had
:14:11. > :14:21.through Christmas by 10%, we have added new retailers in, we have
:14:21. > :14:27.done a lot of marketing. There may be a price to pay for all
:14:27. > :14:30.of this, a bit of a hangover later in 2012? When everything comes down
:14:30. > :14:34.and the new year kicks in and people look at their bank balances,
:14:34. > :14:38.they may not continue that sort of spending level. That is what we
:14:38. > :14:43.have to be conscious of. December looked good against the previous
:14:43. > :14:48.year, but the coming year is going to be very tough.
:14:48. > :14:52.A final point to leave you with, however rich or poor we might feel
:14:52. > :14:56.now, the energy bills start arriving in 10 days' time. I
:14:56. > :15:01.thought you would like to know! Plenty more to come in tonight's
:15:01. > :15:06.Look North, including On the buses, how a County Durham woman became
:15:06. > :15:09.the voice which helps London commuters keep moving. And how much
:15:09. > :15:13.to Sunderland's new boss though his success to one of the all-time
:15:13. > :15:17.greats? The Christmas decorations are coming down and the
:15:17. > :15:20.temperatures are still rising. Here on Northumberland Street, I'll be
:15:20. > :15:29.asking whether spring is on the way. Tune in for the four weather
:15:29. > :15:33.It has been a bit of a noisy festive season in the usually
:15:33. > :15:35.peaceful community of Wasdale Head. Homes and businesses in the Lake
:15:36. > :15:39.District village have been running on generators for more than two
:15:39. > :15:43.weeks. They have been without mains electricity since Christmas Eve.
:15:43. > :15:48.The power company says work to rectify a fault has been held up by
:15:48. > :15:52.bad weather. Alison Freeman reports. It is one of the most tranquil and
:15:52. > :15:56.remote spots in the Lake District, but something is disturbing the
:15:56. > :16:00.peace and quiet at Wasdale Head. The mains power supply went off on
:16:00. > :16:04.Christmas Eve, and the handful of homes and businesses are running on
:16:04. > :16:10.generators. The noise means that the pub is having problems letting
:16:10. > :16:13.some rooms. There is no ambience, it is noisy. You can walk down the
:16:13. > :16:17.valley and still hear it, a constant drone. There are
:16:17. > :16:21.generators at the other farms. One of the local farmers was in the pub
:16:21. > :16:25.last night because their generator broke down, probably because no one
:16:25. > :16:29.had been to service it. It broke down, and we had to look after them
:16:29. > :16:34.last night because they had a two- year-old child. The power cable for
:16:34. > :16:38.the village runs underneath nearby Wastwater. Electricity northwest
:16:38. > :16:42.says that checking for a fault on a cable that runs beneath the lake is
:16:42. > :16:46.obviously a particularly tough job because water and electricity are
:16:46. > :16:49.not a safe mix. If the fault is beneath the waterline, it means
:16:49. > :16:56.building a new cable, either beneath the lake or around the edge.
:16:56. > :16:59.Both of those options take time and planning. The electricity company
:16:59. > :17:05.admits that there have been delays because the bad weather has caused
:17:05. > :17:08.so many problems across the county recently. This far has been going
:17:08. > :17:12.on for a number of years. We have the same problem last year, I have
:17:12. > :17:17.been told they were on generators for quite a number of weeks. We are
:17:17. > :17:21.a small committee. We should not be forgotten about. Electricity North
:17:21. > :17:24.West says it cannot say how long the repairs will take, so in the
:17:24. > :17:34.meantime it looks like the residents and visitors are stuck
:17:34. > :17:35.
:17:35. > :17:39.That cannot be much fun. Now, her voice is known to millions but she
:17:39. > :17:42.would never be recognised in the street. When Emma Hignett heard
:17:42. > :17:46.that Transport for London wanted someone to be the official voice of
:17:46. > :17:50.the famous red buses, she put herself forward. After fighting off
:17:50. > :17:53.nine other candidates, the County Durham mother got the job and now
:17:53. > :18:03.the silky tones are so familiar to Londoners that she gets fan mail.
:18:03. > :18:18.
:18:18. > :18:23.Peter Harris went to meet her for Remember the Kirklees? They are
:18:23. > :18:30.long gone, but if the human touch is a bit lacking these days on a
:18:30. > :18:35.London Transport Omnibus, there is still a reassuring voice.
:18:35. > :18:41.Hampstead Heath. And what most Londoners do not know is that every
:18:41. > :18:47.message is recorded 250 miles away in a converted bedroom in County
:18:47. > :18:51.Durham. Alight here for Carnaby Street.
:18:51. > :18:54.I get a lot of positive feedback, then you get the people who bump
:18:55. > :18:59.into me and find out that I have done it and go, oh, my God, you
:18:59. > :19:04.have told me where to go every single day! That is nice, and by
:19:04. > :19:09.friends from the north-east go down to London and fun may have to say,
:19:09. > :19:13.listen! I am listening to you on a bus! It is a project I am very,
:19:13. > :19:17.very proud of. K Bridge Circus...
:19:17. > :19:21.I certainly do not talk with my northern access when I am doing the
:19:21. > :19:27.buses recording. I try to keep it as neutral as possible. She even
:19:27. > :19:31.gets fan mail. A school but a project together where they all
:19:31. > :19:37.wrote to Emma and described what they thought about her voice, what
:19:37. > :19:40.they liked about it. Denmark Street. It was the fact that it was very
:19:40. > :19:46.clear, it always sounded friendly and like somebody they could talk
:19:46. > :19:52.back to. Of course, most Londoners would have no idea who Emma his,
:19:52. > :19:56.but she has made 35,000 of these recordings, which has taken a while,
:19:56. > :20:01.about five years. It is true what they say. You wait ages for a
:20:01. > :20:05.London bus and then three come along wall at the same time.
:20:05. > :20:09.Westminster Abbey. When you're coming from work sometimes, you are
:20:09. > :20:14.sleeping, and you hear the message and you know that it is the right
:20:14. > :20:20.staff. I find them quite handy, and if I'm reading the paper, it wakes
:20:20. > :20:25.me up. Quite well-spoken, General London voice. It is very clear, it
:20:25. > :20:30.is all right. I find it quite entertaining, nice and soothing, it
:20:30. > :20:34.cheers you up when she calls out. And you know you can get off.
:20:34. > :20:38.does not have to visit the capital to update the bus routes. It is all
:20:38. > :20:44.done from home in Staindrop, but when she travels in London, at
:20:44. > :20:49.least she knows the right stock. Now I go, I'm not quite happy with
:20:49. > :20:58.that recording, and I will go and re-record one. On the whole, I have
:20:58. > :21:08.got used to it. I suppose, you know, even I use it to tell me to get off
:21:08. > :21:21.
:21:21. > :21:27.the bus. I need to get off at which Peter Harris, BBC Look North,
:21:28. > :21:30.London. What a great story! Time for the
:21:30. > :21:33.sport. Good news for one of our cricketers.
:21:33. > :21:37.Especially since he thought his international career was over at
:21:37. > :21:42.one stage. Graham Onions is in line to make his return to Test match
:21:42. > :21:45.cricket against Pakistan next week. He has been training with the squad
:21:45. > :21:49.in Dubai and will replace injured Yorkshire bowler Tim Bresnan, who
:21:49. > :21:53.is coming home because of an elbow problem. It is two years since he
:21:53. > :21:58.last played a Test match for England after a serious back injury
:21:58. > :22:03.saw him miss an entire year. Sunderland defender Myron Knowles
:22:03. > :22:07.worthy has completed a permanent move to Watford. The former fans'
:22:07. > :22:10.favourite was player of the season in 2007 when the Black Cats won the
:22:10. > :22:14.championship. He was in the final year of his contract at the Stadium
:22:14. > :22:17.of Light and joined the Hornets on a three-month loan in October. The
:22:17. > :22:21.new deal will keep him at Vicarage Road until 2014.
:22:21. > :22:24.You might think you had heard everything there is to hear about
:22:24. > :22:29.Brian Clough, born in Middlesbrough and one of the most charismatic
:22:29. > :22:32.figures English football has ever seen. But a football rider from
:22:32. > :22:36.Sunderland has brought out the first biography of the great man,
:22:36. > :22:40.who of course had black cat was Martin O'Neill under his wing
:22:40. > :22:45.during his glory days at Nottingham Forest. -- Black Cats boss.
:22:45. > :22:52.It is a pretty hefty volume, as you would expect, covering the life
:22:52. > :22:56.story of one of the regions and the country's sporting icons. Its
:22:56. > :22:59.author, Jonathan Wilson, is from Sunderland, where Brian Clough was
:22:59. > :23:04.idolised just as much as in his home town of Middlesbrough, but
:23:04. > :23:08.that does not mean Jonathan overlooks his darker side. We have
:23:08. > :23:12.an annoying tendency in this country, if somebody is a colourful
:23:12. > :23:17.figure, we let the Mark There book with things. There were times when
:23:17. > :23:20.he was utterly unreasonable and acted disgracefully. -- We let them
:23:20. > :23:27.off the hook. But other times he acted honourably and he was clearly
:23:27. > :23:31.a genius. He made his name as a goalscorer at the Boro but became a
:23:31. > :23:36.Wearside legend until his career was cut desperately short by injury.
:23:36. > :23:40.He then became the best manager Sunderland never had. What might
:23:40. > :23:43.have been as a player, what might have been as a manager as well. He
:23:43. > :23:48.took the youth team to the semi- final of the Youth FA Cup, but then
:23:48. > :23:52.the club decided they wanted rid of him because they wanted the money
:23:52. > :23:57.to buy a new Centre Court. It left him very bitter, thinking that
:23:57. > :24:01.football owed him a living. -- centre-forward. The highlights were
:24:01. > :24:06.many. He won the League title with unfashionable Derby and with
:24:06. > :24:10.Nottingham Forest, who he led to two European Cup wins. In the team
:24:10. > :24:17.at the time, the current Sunderland boss. What was he like to work
:24:17. > :24:20.with? One of the best that has ever been in the game. I would say
:24:20. > :24:24.certainly the most charismatic manager that has been in British
:24:25. > :24:30.history. I had five or six years with them, an experience I would
:24:30. > :24:35.not change for anything. But do not try and copy that man, you know,
:24:35. > :24:40.because he will fall flat on your face. What could Martin O'Neill do
:24:40. > :24:44.at Sunderland? What can he achieve? The tragedy is that something like
:24:44. > :24:47.what Cloughie did at Derby and Nottingham Forest is impossible in
:24:47. > :24:53.modern football. The fairy story is somebody like Blackpool hanging
:24:53. > :24:57.around for a little while. It is astonishing to think that last
:24:57. > :25:00.season's 10th place finish was their third best in 50 years. 10th
:25:00. > :25:05.would be great, and if they can knock on the door of the Europa
:25:05. > :25:09.League, brilliant. You can see the interview in a full online from
:25:09. > :25:18.tomorrow. Right, time of the weather now up
:25:19. > :25:23.and Hannah is out and about on the streets of Newcastle, probably
:25:23. > :25:29.doing a bit of shopping! The mildest night of the windows so
:25:29. > :25:34.far. Temperatures hit 11 or 12 Celsius in places. -- the winter.
:25:34. > :25:39.Maybe going down to around eight or nine Celsius, and incredibly mild
:25:39. > :25:47.night for January. Did you catch that glorious full moon last night?
:25:47. > :25:52.We can show you this beautiful Wolf Moon of January. This was shot as
:25:52. > :25:56.the moon rose over Tyneside. This was taken by Roger Bell. This one
:25:56. > :26:01.is a close-up from Sacriston, thank you very much, Dave Armstrong, who
:26:01. > :26:04.took that close-up from County Durham. Over the next few days, we
:26:04. > :26:10.should have some more clear nights. By the end of the working week, we
:26:10. > :26:13.can enjoy the waning Moon. The rest of the week sees the weather
:26:13. > :26:17.brighter, particularly as high pressure built from Thursday
:26:17. > :26:22.onwards. This evening and overnight, patchy rain in the West, clear
:26:22. > :26:26.spells possibly in the east, but generally that patchy rain could
:26:26. > :26:30.drift anywhere across the region, although once again a very mild
:26:30. > :26:36.night. Those temperatures really are unseasonably high. A mild start
:26:36. > :26:40.to a January morning, some bright theirs once again, the best place
:26:40. > :26:44.to get some sunshine would be the north-east and north Yorkshire
:26:44. > :26:49.coasts. -- some brightness once again. Over the Pennines, light
:26:49. > :26:53.rain drifting eastwards at times. Everywhere stays mild, at top
:26:53. > :26:57.temperature tomorrow just the same as today. That is the low 50s in
:26:57. > :27:02.Fahrenheit. Through tomorrow evening, the wind could get gusty
:27:02. > :27:06.for a time, breezy tonight. Tomorrow night those winds could
:27:06. > :27:11.reach 60 mph in terms of the gusts, but from Thursday onwards the
:27:11. > :27:16.weather really settles down. Bright blue skies, a glorious day on
:27:16. > :27:20.Thursday as high pressure dominates, and it stays very mild. A bit of a
:27:21. > :27:24.shock on Friday morning, getting colder. We wake up to a fast, and
:27:24. > :27:28.temperatures through the day will be not better than five Celsius.
:27:28. > :27:34.Frosty first thing on Saturday, although it will stay sunny,