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Welcome to Look North. The headlines: A bionic bid - soldier | :00:06. | :00:11. | |
from South Tyneside is set to make little history. | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
The families of victims of asbestos related cancer struggling to get | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
compensation. Mission accomplished, a Newcastle | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
student becomes the youngest Briton to ski to the in South Pole. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
And fans and well-wishers gathered around to give Darlington Football | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Club a sporting chance of survival. The plenty of other big games ahead. | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
We will look to those. And from Ivory Coast to Cumbria - quite a | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
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A soldier from South Tyneside is about to make medical history when | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
he becomes the first person in this country to be fitted with a | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
pioneering bionic limb. Corporal Andrew Garthwaite, from South | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
Shields, lost his right arm during a rocket attack in Afghanistan. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
This weekend he is travelling to Austria for specialist surgery. The | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
doctors hope he will be able to control his new prosthetic arm | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
using his mind. For corporal Andrew Garthwaite, | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
making a cup of tea is no longer an easy task. Yet this soldier was | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
once fighting the Taliban on Afghanistan's front line. It was | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
there that he was hit in a rocket attack. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
A rocket just came straight in from the side. | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
E then became the first person in the UK to have a bionic arm fitted. | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
The hand will open. Another arm was made so he could | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
write his motorbike. But now corporal Andrew Garthwaite's story | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
is said to make medical headlines. This weekend he is flying to | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Austria, where surgeons will undertake a complex operation for | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
one of the most advanced bionic reconstructions in the world. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
This is all going to be happening on Tuesday morning, so it is going | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
to take six hours. I'm excited about going over, a bit nervous, | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
but I think the outcome will be great. | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Now he can move his arms through flexing his chest muscles, but the | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
movements are limited. Indiana, Andrew will undergo what is called | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
complex targetted reinervation. That involves re-routing the nerves | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
that controlled his arm to his chest. He will then learn to | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
control those muscles and surgeons hope he will be able to have a | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
sophisticated limb which she moves with his mind. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Instead of me having to flex my muscle back and forth when I want | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
to move stuff, I should do it all in 11 movement. It will be one | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
actual movement. -- in one movement. What does it mean to you to be put | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
forward like this? I am lost for words. The MoD and | :03:04. | :03:12. | |
everybody else... It has taken a long time, but to be the first | :03:12. | :03:22. | |
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And Sharon will be in Vienna talking to both Andrew's surgeons | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
and the bionics team and will bring you a special report next week. | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
She is exhausted, but Bryony has succeeded in her bid to become the | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
youngest Briton to ski the some hundred miles to the South Pole. It | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
took her to the six days and she celebrated her 21st birthday on the | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
way. At times, temperatures dropped to -45 degrees. | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
These are Bryony Balen's latest pictures from Antarctica. In 56 | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
days, she coped with high winds, white outs, and an uphill struggle | :04:00. | :04:09. | |
on the earth's hardest content. She was the youngest Briton to Dougie | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
trip and described the journey. We had been going for 15.5 hours by | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
the time we got to the South Pole. We could see the research station | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
from 24 miles away. We thought we must be nearly there, and renew, | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
finally, that we had four kilometres left. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
The three of the group of six had to pull out. Bryony believes her | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
three stone in weight that she put on hold to complete the expedition. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Before she left England, Look North introduced her to Conrad Dickinson, | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
who did the trek with his wife eight years ago. He gave Bryony | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
some tips. It is magnificent. She will be | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
there exhausted but elated. She will be really suffering. She could | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
have filled a doctor's surgery 10 times over. She will have muscular | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
skeletal injuries. Her feet will be killing her. She will be going | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
through a lot of pain in her joints, knees and hips. | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
A truly remarkable achievement. Amazing! Well, Bryony's mother and | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
father joined us now. How proud are you? | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
We are thrilled. It has been an ambition for Bryony for the past | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
three years. She is determined and she has shown that she can pull it | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
off. Did you ever had any doubts, | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
knowing that the extreme conditions would be there? | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
Know. We knew she was determined. We thought there if -- that if | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
anybody could do it, she could. We're glad that it is over. | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
Have you had a chat with her? brief chat this morning after she | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
reached the South Pole. She did sound very tired but absolutely | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
over the moon. So elated to be there at last. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
So, relief for you guys, I imagine, but as parents, you must think she | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
is one to watch, really? What his next? | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
We're used to it after the time she climbed a mountain when she was at | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
school. I hope the next thing will be returning to Newcastle and | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
finishing her degree. Do me a favour and safer some of the | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
champagne and a short there's enough hot water for a bath! | :06:47. | :06:57. | |
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certainly will. An international karate champion | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
has been jailed for five years after committing sex offences | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
against a teenage girl he had been training. Liam O'Grady had groomed | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
his victim over a number of months. He is a 30-year-old, married, | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
father of two. He has been expelled from the Karate Club of Great | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
Britain. The police in Cumbria have revealed | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
that drink-drive cases in the county were down by a third over | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
Christmas. Compared to last year, they tested more than double the | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
number of drivers this fear. The 88 people were either over the limit | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
or refuse to give a breath test. The North East has one of the | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
highest rates of asbestos related cancer in the whole country. But an | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
increasing number of victims cannot claim compensation. This because | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
their companies have gone out of business and their insurance cover | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
can't be traced. Now they are cause for their families to be helped. | :07:52. | :08:01. | |
He could walk in the room and he would just fill it. He was quite | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
shy, Geoff, until he got known. He was just amazing. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
Liz Bradshaw remembers happier times with her husband. He died a | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
year ago from mesothelioma, a result, she says, or workplace | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
exposure to asbestos. Geoff worked as a photographer in a | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
publishing firm that published car manuals. He was present when they | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
were taking the photographs when they were taking the engines apart. | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
That is where he got the dust from. That was back in the 1970s. The | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Bradshaws are currently unable to claim compensation because Geoff's | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
employer has gone out of business. Their solicitor says many others | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
are equally frustrated. There's a need for a fund of last | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
resort. There's a long time between when the victim of a civilian was | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
exposed to asbestos dust and the disease developing. | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
The idea of a fund is being considered by the government. But | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
the insurance industry is not happy. We do not think it is right that in | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
circumstances where there may not have been injured in place for two | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
of 50 years ago, for today's employers to fund that. -- 40 or 50 | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
years ago. As for Liz Bradshaw, she has vowed | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
to continue her husband's fight to get compensation and to hold summer | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
to account for is a necessary death. -- to hold someone to account for | :09:39. | :09:49. | |
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New shopping figures released today show that sales grew last month. | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
December saw a rise of over 0.5% on a month before. That was a relief | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
for retailers. But for one city, York, Christmas shopping figures | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
were more buoyant than the national picture. That is even though some | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
retailers say they are wary of the threat of the economy slipping back | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
into recession. During the fat over December's | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
shopping figures in York. The city's retail forum meets to | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
analyse how should speak and small performed last month. Nationally, | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
sales grew. Not as much as predicted, but in York, things | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
really took off. Very positive, actually. I was | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
expecting it to be worse than it has been in my view of the fact | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
that the figures that are out from Tesco and others, but it was | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
positive. December was up on the previous year and two years before. | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
York is strong at the moment. The figures for the Minster City bear | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
him out. Footfall for the last weekend for Christmas showed | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
245,000 shoppers. That was a rise of over 6% on the same period last | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
year. It was a giant leap on 2009's figures. So what explains it? | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
The power of Christmas cake the word recession away. We are going | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
to find late in the mud that we are back in recession. It was just that | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
power bubble on Christmas Day that people did want to buy in advance | :11:21. | :11:30. | |
of that which kept December say. This so does my disposable income - | :11:30. | :11:38. | |
- disposable income is more under I certainly watch the price is now | :11:39. | :11:48. | |
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and make decisions which I did not We are seeing shoplifting almost as | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
a profession. A problem, no doubt, but perhaps | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
not as pressing as enduring those buoyant figures continue into the | :12:09. | :12:19. | |
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Still to come - what was Jo Brand doing in one of her hospitals? The | :12:24. | :12:34. | |
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wind is picking up for the weekend. The comedian Jo Brand is in the | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
North-East today officially opening the new emergency care centre at | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
South Tyneside Hospital. She is also giving this year's South | :12:42. | :12:50. | |
Shields lecture. This is organised by it David | :12:50. | :12:58. | |
Miliband. Jo Brand made herself a hard act to | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
follow this afternoon and David Miliband concentrated on the | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
importance of the new 8 million pound care centre to the South | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
Tyneside community. Having worked in the NHS as a psychiatric nurse, | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
she was well placed to remark on how much things have changed. | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
I was in the NHS Florence Nightingale was a colleague of mine | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
and it was a bit rough. All right, I was a nurse in the 1970s and | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
1980s, totally different. This is a fantastic place. It is great | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
because they are paid a huge amount of attention to the staff in | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
designing it. Staff said what they need, how many toilets they need, | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
because they work here and they know. Why are you interested in | :13:46. | :13:56. | |
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this? Get you! I am spending the day up here, I am doing a lecture | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
tonight on behalf of David Miliband. And doing that because he asked me! | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
I have turned him down on a couple of occasions because I had been too | :14:06. | :14:15. | |
busy, so I would just trying make political as J as the last 25 years | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
fits in with my personal experience with political changes. The lecture | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
is being hit -- held at Harton Technical College this evening. | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
Our region has produced some unforgettable moments in Olympic | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
history. This summer there will be a new generation of viewers from | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
the north competing in the capital. This Sunday there is a programme on | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
BBC One at 5:00pm, called Olympic dreams, following athletes from our | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
region as they hope to make their mark in sporting history. The | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
presenters are with me here now. Just a promising is the talent from | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
our region. Very promising. We're saying assets from all over our | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
region who dream of competing. We meet the Middlesbrough a long | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
jumper Chris Tomlinson who is probably one of our best hopes for | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
a medal. He is recovering from a knee injury. We met his wife who is | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
expecting a baby this year. He is preparing for his third Olympics. | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
We met Hartlepool boxer Amanda Coulson. Women's boxing is making | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
its debut at 2012 Olympics. This could be too late for Amanda | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
Coulson. Right now she's facing a fight of her life just to qualify. | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
There are some great stories. does 2012 mean for our Amanda | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
Coulson? A huge amount - she has been competing for 14 years. There | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
are only three weight categories for women at 2012 and abysmal only | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
enter one fighter for each category so there is huge pressure for a | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
place. -- Britain will only enter. She is working for the police and | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
can only train part-time. A any Aspley will tell you there are | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
sacrifices, my friends about parting and going on holiday and I | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
cannot go. If there is a family party, I will not be there. I miss | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
a lot of social events and also I have had to give up my job which is | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
a financial burden. It is like putting your life on hold but it | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
will be worth it in the end. Amazing. She it's really hard as | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
well! The programme will be shown on BBC One on Sunday at 5:00pm. | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
They thought their football club was dead but tomorrow Darlington | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
will take to the field once more after being granted a last gasp | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
stay of execution. Today, fans are pulled together - sweeping steps | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
and tending the pitch as the Quakers race to get ready for a | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
game they thought would never happen. The team is also | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
desperately short of players, even the 40 year old manager might have | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
to play against Fleetwood. This weekend sees the last Premier | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
League action before the FA Cup first back into life for the 4th | :17:19. | :17:28. | |
round. This is what real fans do. Ernie loves the Quakers so today he | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
volunteered in the kitchen. Sears I had been coming here. It | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
means the world to me. Everywhere the work went on, readying the | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
stadium for what they hope will be a bumper crowd. Some of the | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
volunteers had been here since Don. There is plenty for them to-do. As | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
well as the dirt, a quirk and stars to seize up as well. It has been | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
standing in damp and frost for the last couple of weeks so it is hard | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
to get things going. We do have more time, so we have to get on | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
with what we have got. lawnmower --: More proved | :18:17. | :18:26. | |
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especially difficult. Donations as well. Everything from pies, beer | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
from a local brewery, fantastic. steady stream of fans arrived | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
throughout the day to buy tickets, but for the manager it is about | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
scrambling a team together. A walk up in the middle of the night and I | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
have two teams to piece together, I used team and the first team. The | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
afternoon is a big game. I had that restless night last night but | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
hopefully And now focused on where we will go on Saturday. Back at the | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
stadium, a pleasant surprise, a player they thought had left turned | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
up again. I just thought I am a part of it now. Although I was | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
leaving, it was hard to walk away. Not everyone has rallied to help | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
the Quakers, they have suffered a cable theft which meant the phones | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
were not working. This was a minor problem for a club which very | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
nearly died. Time for the sport now. You will be | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
at that game tomorrow? Yes, I well. There will be extensive coverage on | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
BBC all day, including all line commentary. All being well, I will | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
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be live on Look North at the lunchtime and teatime bulletins. | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Both our teams have so-called a winnable games tomorrow then | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
neither will be straight forward. It isn't very often Arsenal are | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
given a football lesson, but their 3-2 defeat at promoted Swansea has | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
meant many Sunderland fans will be wary of tomorrow's Welsh visitors, | :20:11. | :20:21. | |
despite their indifferent away record. Great credit to them. And | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
of the City the manager. That is the way he believed the game should | :20:24. | :20:34. | |
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be played and it is commendable. He needs some resorts to go with it. | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
- results. O'Neill hinted that he may well keep his powder dry for | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
the summer transfer window unless a good deal comes his way, but he is | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
hoping to hang on to summer signing Craig Gardner - reported to be | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
unsettled since his move from the Netherlands. He is beginning to | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
show the form I know he's capable It has been a busy week for Alan | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
Pardew, who unexpectedly tied up the club's latest number nine | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
Papiss Cisse, a move which had not been possible last summer. All eyes | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
will now be in defensive reinforcements will what about | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
tomorrow's trip to a Fulham side half Fyffes for for hefts chastened | :21:10. | :21:20. | |
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They are going to be a big threat. I think the second half of this | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
season they will do better. It is a tough game for us. | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
In the championship, Middlesbrough are at Coventry. But there will be | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
no return to East Midlands for the Sky Blues' top scorer, Lucas | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
Jutkiewic who moved to Teesside this week. He scored when the teams | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
met at the Riverside back in August. City said they would only sell him | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
to Middlesbrough if manager Tony Mowbray agreed not to play him this | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
week. Mowbray thinks Coventry will be a handful for a Middlesbrough | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
team who have picked up just one point from the last three games. | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
is a tough game, when you see them at the bottom of the table, looking | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
at the statistics, 11 of their 14 defeats was done by the odd goal. | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
I've seen them come back. The air decent football team. | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
In League One, both teams are going pretty well. Hartlepool have picked | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
up since the return of Neale Cooper for his second spell as manager. | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
Carlisle are on the fringe of a play-off, with the help of their in | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
form African striker. He is a long way from the Ivory Coast, but | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
Francois Zoko has finally settled into life at Brunton Park. | :22:25. | :22:34. | |
With six goals in his last six games, you can see the difference. | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
I came here for the first season and the first month was difficult | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
because I was alone. Now it is OK. It is nice. Our love with my family, | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
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my wife and children. Everybody Turks to me and it is OK. -- talks | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
to me. There's more competition for places up front, with Sunderland | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
youngster Jordan Cook starting a month's loan, and in the squad for | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
tomorrow's home game with struggling Walsall. So far there | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
has been no one trying to tempt players away from the club. On | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
reflection the manager thinks this is probably a good sign. | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
mainly! Where either not as good as we think we are or people will come | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
in as a last gasp. By the moment there is nothing happening. There | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
is not much happening for Nobby Solano at Hartlepool. A regular | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
under Mick Wadsworth, so far he has been left on the sidelines under | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
Neale Cooper who says the system they're playing at the moment | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
doesn't suit the Peruvian. Tomorrow, Pools are at Sheffield Wednesday. | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
This week all eyes have been on the night skies as BBC Stargazing Live | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
returned to our screens. A group of local astronomers are hoping this | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
will inspire their new project for a would-be stargazers in Africa. | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
Sunderland Astronomical Society want people to dig out broken | :23:54. | :24:04. | |
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binoculars to be turned into telescopes for children in Ethiopia. | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
Enthusiasts at BBC Stargazing Live, one of the best night's for | :24:13. | :24:23. | |
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observing so far this winter. Now astronomers here want to help | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
children see the night sky thousands of miles away. The | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
project came about because a friend of mine from South Shields is | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
working as a teacher in Ethiopia. He went out to remote school and | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
decided to give a lesson on astronomy. They fall did a piece of | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
paper and pointed at the sky and said imagine what it is like when | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
they are closes -- closer. Famine and nutrition and wore a big | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
problems out there but if we can show them science and the universe, | :25:02. | :25:10. | |
we think we can make a difference. This is an 18 inch telescope... | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
their grip is also preparing a telescope mirror for a major new | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
observatory near Addis Ababa. will get this move and then polish | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
it. At Sunderland manager will be out in Ethiopia. Unwanted | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
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binoculars can be dropped off at Washington wildfowl Trust. | :25:37. | :25:45. | |
It is not the weather this weekend to get stuck into star-gazing. | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
Last weekend was a cracker for Last weekend was a cracker for | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
star-gazing, cold and frosty. Sound you for this picture. This weekend | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
it is a complete U-turn in the weather, then a windy and gusty. | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
There will be rain coming through which will turn wintry on the tops | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
of hills. We have had a taste of the rain today. The dregs of the | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
rain still with us this evening. It will take some time to clear the | :26:17. | :26:25. | |
region. A lot of cloud leftover which will combine with the strong | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
westerly winds, gusts of 50 miles an hour, which will keep | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
temperatures up. Frost should not be a problem tonight. Tomorrow - | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
most of the rain will be gone, a mostly dry day with the odd shower. | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
Cloud over the Pennines and the North East should have some bright | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
and clear spells tomorrow afternoon. Temperatures are steady, in line | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
with today. The edge is taken of the temperatures by the strong | :26:59. | :27:07. | |
winds. Tomorrow we can expect us up to 60 mph in the North East. Not | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
great if you're driving on the A1 and A19. For the rest of the | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
weekend bash into Sunday and overnight, another batch of rain | :27:19. | :27:25. |