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Hello and welcome to BBC Look North. In the programme tonight: Mind | :00:04. | :00:06. | |
power - an exclusive report on the north-east soldier injured or | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
Afghanistan, as surgeons prepare to give him an arm he can operate with | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
his brain. Also tonight: Found dead in his cell - the Tyneside | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
paedophile serving 16 years for child abuse. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
The young rower battling for a place in the British Paralympic | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
team after losing most of a leg to cancer. And the story of a football | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
club on the brink of extinction. Not Darlington, though. A new | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
exhibition recalls the nail-biting weeks when Middlesbrough faced | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
bankruptcy. Later we'll talk to one of | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Middlesbrough's current stars ahead of this weekend's FA Cup derby at | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Sunderland. And we'll find out which of these characters will be | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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tackling the region's newest marathon race. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
He is only 24 but his story is becoming ever more remarkable. Two | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
years ago, Corporal Andrew Garthwaite lost an arm when he was | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
blown up in Afghanistan, another young casualty having to come to | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
terms with life changing circumstances. Now, in an operation | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
lasting six hours, surgeons in Vienna have rewired his nervous | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
system so he can operate a bionic arm with his mind. Andrew, from | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
South Tyneside, is the first person in the UK to receive the pioneering | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
treatment. Our reporter Sharon Barbour has been following | :01:29. | :01:38. | |
developments in Vienna and has this exclusive report. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
I press the button and then I get an audible tone to say that the arm | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
has come on. Andrew Garthwaite's story is already remarkable. After | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
his arm was blown off in Afghanistan, he was the first | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
soldier from the UK to have a bionic arm fitted. He could ride | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
his bike after another arm was made for him. But the soldier's story | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
became even more extraordinary. He is about to have pioneering surgery, | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
a reconstruction of his nerve system so that he can operate a | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
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bionic arm by thought control. Andrew has come to Vienna for | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
ground-breaking surgery. Doctors hope that he will be able to | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
operate his bionic arm will using just his mind. Andrew will be one | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
of the few people in the world to have the operation, so to find out | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
what it will be like, we visited Robert Schilef. He had the nerve | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
surgery six months ago and is learning to operate a bionic arm | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
with his mind.. He thinks of flexing the elbow and it flexes. He | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
could not do that six months ago. Now I tell him, for example, to | :02:58. | :03:08. | |
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open the hand. Perfect. How much does it mean to you to have some of | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
that feeling back? He says that it makes a huge difference to him. | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
these boys made world headlines when they chose to have their own | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
hands amputated and bionic ones fitted. With a new hand it is | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
really 100% better than before. do not call it my prose thesis, | :03:33. | :03:43. | |
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this is my hand. We have come to meet the engineers | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
working closely with the surgeons at the hospital. I want to find out | :03:49. | :03:59. | |
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from them have it will be that Andrew's mind will control his arm. | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
He can use the same muscles and nerves as he did before, and the | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
nerves generate the muscle signal. So the operation tomorrow should | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
mean that, far from being robotic, his arm movement should be natural. | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
But first he needs a six-hour operation to rewire his nerves into | :04:20. | :04:28. | |
his chest. This means that we take all of the | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
nerves originally from his arm and it re-route them to muscles in his | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
chair so that, when he thinks of moving his hand, are more fingers, | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
the different muscles in his chest wall will start a fire. Then it | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
will take up to six months to start to read -- retrain my brain. It | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
will feel like it is going in my chest at first and then after 18 | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
months I should be an expert. is really a remarkable story for | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
you to be part of, isn't it? It has been. I am just back from Vienna. I | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
was really struck by the interest. There were a lot of people taking | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
photographs and a huge surgical team and bionics team working with | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
Andrew. This is the first of two parts. Tomorrow we will look at | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
surgery taking place. Because his arm was blown off in Afghanistan | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
they normally do not do that. They have to find the nerves that they | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
can rewire into his chest so that he can use his arm and his hand | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
again. We will have the second part of his story tomorrow night. Thank | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
you very much. It's one of the strangest crime stories we have | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
seen. And today it took another twist with the news that the | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
convicted paedophile Martin Smith has been found dead in his prison | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
cell. Smith was sentenced to 16 years at Carlisle Crown Court last | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
year. But before that happened, his partner was arrested for the murder | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
of their two young children in Spain. Our chief reporter, Chris | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
Stewart, has the story. He was an amateur hypnotist who wanted to | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
become famous, but he became infamous instead. Martin Smith was | :06:13. | :06:22. | |
jailed for the repeated abuse of a girl over nearly ten years. What he | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
did had a devastating effect on her. Today he begins a lengthy prison | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
sentence. And I hope that the outcome of this case will help the | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
victim move on with her life. She has shown great courage in | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
reporting what happened and in giving evidence against him during | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
the trial. The victim was Sarah, the daughter of Smith's Park are. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
That emerged only when Sarah we've -- waved her legal right to | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
anonymity. The Smiths had lived in Carlisle. Leanne worked in the | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
children's services department for Cumbria County Council. After his | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
arrest, the pair fled to Spain. This bizarre story became even more | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
tragic. Leanne had moved into a hotel on the Costa Brava, and it | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
was here that a two youngest children died - Rebecca, who was | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
five, and 11 month-old Daniel, who had been suffocated. Leanne was | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
arrested. Spanish police said she told them she had killed them | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
rather than risk them being taken into care because of the | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
accusations against Martin Smith. Those accusations were true and now | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Martin Smith's life has ended in a cell at Strangeways Prison in | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
Manchester. There is now to be an inquiry. No other prisoner is | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
suspected of involvement. The man at the centre of this strange case | :07:46. | :07:56. | |
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is believed to have hanged himself. A former Cleveland police officer | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
who lost his job after he was falsely imprisoned has been awarded | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
nearly �400,000 in compensation. Traffic officer Sultan Alam was | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
sacked after being convicted in a car ringing trial. He spent time in | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
prison before the conviction was overturned. As well as the six- | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
figure sum in damages, his loss of earnings is still to be calculated. | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Police say at least five families have come forward to ask about the | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
woman whose body has been a exhumed from Malton cemetery in North | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Yorkshire. Her body was discovered near Sutton Bank in 1981 but no one | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
knows who she was or how she died. Tests have been done to extract a | :08:31. | :08:40. | |
DNA to find out her identity. The body has been reburied today. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
Petrol tanker drivers on Teesside are striking for a second day. They | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
claim their employer, haulage firm Wincanton, is trying to reduce | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
their pay by as much as 20%. And as the strike is due to last until | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
next week, the drivers claim petrol supplies to motorists could be | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
affected. Our business correspondent Ian Reeve reports. | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
The striking drivers claim that their employer wants to erode their | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
terms and conditions and that new contracts will effectively mean a | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
20% pay cut. They take petrol from this refinery at Seal Sands on | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
Teesside and deliver it to nearly 400 Jet service stations around the | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
country. About 100 drivers are on strike and the claim is that we | :09:20. | :09:30. | |
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will see an impact at Jet stations, a dwindling of supplies.. What we | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
have is drivers delivering vehicles with up to 40,000 litres of fuel on | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
the back. There are 123 drivers on strike and they make up to three | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
deliveries a day. It doesn't take a mathematician to work out that we | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
are talking about and one million gallons of fuel per day. The unions | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
say that the pressure to renegotiate the drivers' terms has | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
come from the company that runs the refinery. And while it is true that | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
refining has been hit by the high price of crude oil but the low | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
price of refined products, it says it has nothing to do with the | :10:00. | :10:10. | |
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dispute. It is quite incredible saying that the oil companies -- | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
seemed that the oil companies have made the largest profits they ever | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
have. These conditions have been fought for over a number of years. | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
Enough is enough. For its part, the company that employs the drivers | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
says that it is just trying to provide a competitive service and | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
to ensure that it gets its contract renewed. By going on strike, the | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
drivers have now jeopardised In spite of that, the drivers say they | :10:42. | :10:52. | |
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will carry on with the strike until next Tuesday. -- have now | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
jeopardised their jobs. A young rower from Northallerton | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
who lost most of his right leg Is fighting for a place in the | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
British Paralympic team. Laurence Whiteley, now 20, has been | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
inspired by the memory of a North Yorkshire servicemen killed in Iraq | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
whose memorial trust is now sponsoring his campaign. A winter's | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
day on the River Tees. A biting wind and a gentle swell | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
and one determined young man. Laurence Whiteley. I started rowing | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
when I was young. I got born cancer in my leg. I am now training for | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
the Paralympics. Doctors at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
Newcastle got him back on his feet again and rebuilt his leg using | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
titanium. Since taking up adaptive rowing, Laurence's one goal has | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
been the Paralympics. He has been very successful. He decided to take | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
as -- a change of direction and start growing. He has been asked to | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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go and train with the British team. -- start row when. To help him get | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
there, he has won sponsorship from the Ben Hyde Trust, named after the | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
young Northallerton military policeman murdered in Iraq in 2003. | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
Buckle I was impressed by the courage and determination that he | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
had. He was always determined about everything that he did. I thought | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
it would make him an ideal candidate for funding. The trials | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
for the 1,000 metres adaptive rowing will be held in March. | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
a few seconds behind my main rival. I will do the race a couple of | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
times, crunch the numbers. Whatever happens, Laurence will have some | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
part to play in this summer's spectacle. He has already been | :12:48. | :12:58. | |
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selected to carry the Olympic torch. Residents in Newcastle will get the | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
chance to vote on the idea of having their own mayor sooner than | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
planned. 11 cities are set to have a referendum on the idea in May. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
And if people vote Yes to it, the actual elections could happen in | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
November. The Government hopes city mayors will help boost the economy. | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
The Cumbria-based Stobart Group has secured the naming rights to Rugby | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
League's elite club competition. The agreement will see the | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
competition become the Stobart Super League, and a brand new logo | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
will be put on more than 100 of its trailers. It will be launched next | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
Wednesday with a convoy of branded Eddie Stobart trucks driving from | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
Widnes to Old Trafford. Coming up: Jeff has the latest on | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
the sports front. And, go on then, give us a laugh - the challenge to | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
budding scriptwriters as the BBC looks for the next generation of | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
comedy talent. And the weather for Burns Night is | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
no laughing matter. Join me for the full core of -- forecast later. The | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
gates were padlocked and the football club just minutes away | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
from extinction. It sounds familiar but this time the plot isn't | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
centred around struggling Darlington. It's what happened to | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
Middlesbrough football club in 1986, when their financial problems left | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
them on the verge of being thrown out of the league.Now a new | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
exhibition's opened in the town, celebrating that period, as Stuart | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
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Whincup reports. The 'Back from the Brink' exhibtion is part of | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the re-birth of the | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
football club. The team - made up largely of local lads who've | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
remianed friends - trained on park pitches, sometimes without pay, | :14:39. | :14:48. | |
unsure if their hometown team would survive. We can look at our | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
neighbours in Darlington. Everybody seems to be aware of every meeting | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
that is going on. In 1986 it was a bit more closed than that. The | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
players were kept in the dark. When you hear the stories of being 37 | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
minutes from liquidation, it would have been quite daunting, I think, | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
at the time. Middlesbrough's financil problems were eventually | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
resolved, with a young Steve Gibson signing the Football League forms | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
that guarenteeing their survival just minutes before the deadline. | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
The next day they kicked off at Hartlepool and a young team went on | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
to win back-to-back promotions. There was still a lot of work to do, | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
even after the club had been saved. Out of that adversity I think we | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
had a great togetherness with the lads who stayed involved in the | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
club. I think we use that to her advantage to gain promotions. | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
exhibition also boasts memorabilia from before and after the club's | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
flirtation with liquidatiuon, including Alf Common's | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
international cap. He became the world's first �1.000 player when he | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
joined Boro from Sunderland in 1905. And there's a very special tribute | :15:51. | :16:01. | |
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to one of Middlesbrough's best Last year we told you how the North | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
East was chosen to be the centre of the BBC's search for its next | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
generation of comedy talent. So have we found it? 600 comedy | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
scripts and sketches turned up and today at team from Northern Film | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
and Media unveiled some of the best writers and performers they have | :16:23. | :16:31. | |
found. Gerry Jackson reports. If success is 1% inspiration... | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
Have a look at the chart on the far wall and read as far down as you | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
can. And 99% perspiration, back rooms | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
like these are where you sweat. Comedy is a serious business and | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
behind the glitz and the glory are hours of graft. Be careful not to | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
fall into the fiery pit of eternal damnation on your where it will -- | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
on your way out. We will have to get that fix. | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Hundreds of people sent in material. They have been whittled down to 31 | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
and they now get the chance to pitch their ideas to radio and | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
television bosses at the BBC. of them are immediately funny, | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
others you think, that is not funny yet but it could be with a bit of | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
help. There are people in the room who have written for the first time. | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
We feel like we're really going to discover people who are going to go | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
on and be the stars of tomorrow. A fantastic is that? One writer from | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
Newcastle gave up a 20-year retail Korea for a shot at comedy. She is | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
one of those shortlisted. It is really just in the last three a | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
four years that it has hit me that I did not want to do that job for | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
the rest of my career, I really wanted to do something more | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
creative. I am going to give it a go. Why not? I think this is a | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
great project because a lot of comedy comes out of London, but | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
something like this means there are a lot of people who might want to | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
do it in the region. This gives them opportunity. Ashore at | :18:10. | :18:19. | |
Newcastle's Live theatre will be broadcast on the BBC over Easter. | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
Then, who knows? Somebody might make it big and become a comedian. | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
The only way to find out if these people can do it is to do it. | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
would you advise them? I would advise them to grow thick skin and | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
keep going. Geoff, we started with something | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
tonight that I could see you signing up for. | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
I do not want to go on about my knee. | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
If you are keen runner and you fancy tackling a marathon for the | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
first time, the date for your diary is May the 6th. The Marathon of the | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
North will happen on the streets of Sunderland. It is part of a weekend | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
of Bank Holiday events. Last year the region's most successful | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
athlete launched Sunderland's owned 10 grey to run. This year there | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
will be the city's first marathon and a whole host of events centred | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
around the Stadium of Light. City Council are keen to develop a | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
portfolio of events right through the summer. On the Saturday we will | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
have some kids events, toddler events. There will be some | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
entertainment at the stadium which will be free. There will be running | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
events on the Sunday. It will be sunny, I hope. I am really looking | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
forward to it. A in his first two marathons, Charlie Spedding led the | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
field home before winning bronze at the Los Angeles Olympics. He was an | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
overnight sensation. Well, sort of. The first two marathons I ran, I | :20:04. | :20:13. | |
won. I had years of preparation and then I just had to do a bit of | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
specific marathon training. Most people who are going to run the | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
marathon in the North probably do not have that much background. | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
1,500 runners have already signed up for the big one and if you fancy | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
it you have got just over three months training time left. | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
I am not sure what those characters were. There you go. | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
Talks to secure the long-term future of Darlington have been | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
going on. The players left have been reflecting on a fourth | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
successive league defeat, which leaves them just two places above | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
the conference relegation zone. The team saluted the fans who had made | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
the long journey south. York City picked up and away. Back | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
last night. Middlesbrough's at Argentinian | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
midfielder Julio Arca has been reliving the moment he realised he | :21:07. | :21:17. | |
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had been banned from Sunday's FA Cup Reunion with Sunderland. | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
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I saw the referee pulled Okada out. This was one of Julio Arca's 23 | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
goals during his spell at Sunderland. I was there from a | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
young age. I did pretty well in my six years there. That is probably | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
the reason why do people remember me. The connection with the fans | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
was excellent. That is why he did not milk the celebration when he | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
scored for Middlesbrough against Sunderland. It will be hard to | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
watch from the sidelines on Sunday. Another big season for Northumbria | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
university with its netball team due to stage his first Super League | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
home game of the new campaign against the Celtic Dragon's this | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
Saturday. Team Northumbria is one of only eight Super League | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
franchises. It boasts talent from England, Australia and Namibia. The | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
captain is back after a knee injury and is raring to go. I am back on | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
court now. Last year it was mentally tough. I would come over | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
from Australia ready to play. I have had three months of pre-season, | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
and basically I could not played this and I was just there to | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
support and learn more from a coaching perspective. It has come | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
in handy this year, stepping up to the assistant coach role. | :23:03. | :23:13. | |
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Footballers and fast cars can beer volatile mix. But Sunderland | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
Football Club has taken steps to combat that. | :23:21. | :23:30. | |
Down at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland's Young Academy players | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
are learning awareness and control. They are also ensuring that its | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
young professionals stick to the straight and narrow when it comes | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
to driving. Young footballers and fast cars, it is a heady mix. They | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
are a high risk groups so we try to get them early and prevent them | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
from getting in trouble. The club have been fantastic in supporting | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
us. Jordan is making his home debut behind the wheel. I have never | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
driven before but that was a great experience. The most important | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
thing about it I would say his safety. That is why we're doing | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
this course - there have been a few crashes. This will give us an | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
insight into what safe driving is all about. In some ways, it is a | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
good preparation for football itself as the master staying | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
information, crossing and even a bit of dribbling. And of course | :24:24. | :24:32. | |
there is dealing with a critical crowd. | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
It all seemed sensible, doesn't it? Imagine getting behind the wheel of | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
something like a Ferrari at the age of 19. | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
Happy Burns Night to you, whether or not you are Robert tartan | :24:53. | :25:03. | |
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persuasion. -- you are all the It will be raining for most of this | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
evening, that moves away, leaving a icy conditions later. The wet and | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
windy weather continues to move away to the east through the night, | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
followed by dry, clear conditions. The temperatures will be close to | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
freezing point. The ground will freeze over readily during the | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
second half of the night. The gritters will be out late in the | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
night but they will not have much time between the rain stopping and | :25:44. | :25:54. | |
the roads freezing. Tomorrow starts off icy in many places, but dry and | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
bright for most. The last of the rain clears away from the North | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
Yorkshire coursed quickly. Eastern areas will see the best of the | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
January sunshine tomorrow. A little more cloud farther west. There will | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
be one or two showers over high ground. There will be some sleet | :26:12. | :26:22. | |
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and snow one of 1,000 feet. -- sleet and snow above 1,000 feet. On | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
Thursday and Friday there could be frosty nights. A bit of a battle | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
starts to take place over the weekend. There is wet and windy | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
weather trying to push in from the Atlantic, colder easterly winds | :26:48. | :26:58. | |
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trying to keep that at bay. Friday and Saturday will be mostly dry. | :26:59. | :27:08. | |
There will be mostly bright spells, some risk of rain. | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
Finally, the headlines: There are new fears that Britain could slip | :27:13. | :27:20. | |
back into recession. The economy shrank by 0.2% in the last quarter | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
of last year. Andrew Garthwaite, who lost his arm | :27:24. | :27:28. |