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The headlines: a grieving mother believes a hospital's financial | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
problems could have caused her baby's death. He would have | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
survived, given the right medical attention. People need to learn | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
from their mistakes. It is not good enough. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
A detective sergeant is in court. He and his wife are accused of | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
buying and selling cocaine. How hard are you working? A survey | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
suggests that a fifth of the workforce are clocking up long | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
hours. Going nowhere - �5,000 spent on a | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
new shelter on a road which has not seen buses for two years. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
In sport, Middlesbrough are back in action after being frozen out of | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
the weekend. And back to school for a couple of Newcastle United stars | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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as they bring a new look to language lessons. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
A grieving mother believes financial problems at Scarborough | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
Hospital might have led to her son's death. Sarah Wallace says she | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
was told she could not see her newborn baby before he died because | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
of staff shortages. She claims hospital staff failed to follow | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
procedures that might have helped him survive. Harry Wallace was | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
delivered eight weeks early by Caesarean section and taken to the | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
special care baby unit. He died before his mother had a chance to | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
hold him. The hospital has now settled a medical negligence case. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
I never met him. Briefly, when he was brought around the curtain | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
after my C-section, I gave him a kiss. Then he was whisked off. I | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
never saw his little toes or his hands. I never saw his just move, | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
and I was not given him the opportunity to bond. Harry was | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
eight weeks premature when born in Scarborough Hospital at 10pm one | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
night. He was fine. There was nothing wrong with him at first. It | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
was due to the hospital not carrying out tests and not | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
intervening sooner to get him to the nearest neonatal unit. It is in | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
their report that he would have survived, given the right medical | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
attention. He was not intubated until after four in the morning. He | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
should have been worked on at 12:30PM. Our evidence is clear that | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
had he received the appropriate Respiratory Support, his death | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
would have been avoided. Sarah says that at no point was the family | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
told that Harry was in crisis. He was born at 10 and after the | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
effects of her epidural wore off towards midnight, she repeatedly | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
asked to be taken to see him in the special care baby unit. From | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
11:40pm until 6:15am, I beg to see my son. What were you told? They | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
were short staffed. That was the only reason, not because of your | :02:59. | :03:08. | |
welfare? No. Short staffed. In a meeting six days later at the | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
hospital, it was said they were short staffed. In a statement, the | :03:16. | :03:25. | |
Harry's brother and mum have had to have counselling after his death. | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
All Sarah wanted was a letter of apology. The financial settlement | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
cannot, she says, ever compensate for their loss. A catalogue of | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
errors. Huge mistakes made by various people contributed to my | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
son's death. People need to learn from their mistakes. It is not good | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
enough. A detective has appeared in court | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
charged with buying and selling Class A drugs. Detective Sergeant | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
Paul Thompson from Northumbria Police is also accused of ensuring | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
that his criminal friends stayed ahead of the law by accessing | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
confidential police records. He and his wife, who was described in | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
court as a high-flying Housing Executive, allegedly supplied their | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
friends with cocaine. They deny all charges. | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
This case at Newcastle Crown Court is the result of months of | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
undercover surveillance. Officers keeping watch on a fellow policeman, | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
his wife and their associates. Detective Sergeant Paul Thompson | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
and Susan Thompson from Dipton in County Durham deny conspiracy to | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
supply Class A drugs. Mr Thompson denies separate misconduct in | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
public office and cocaine possession charges. | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
The prosecuting QC said that this is the extraordinary situation of a | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
successful business executive source in the supply of Class A | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
drugs via her husband, a serving police officer, via a criminal | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
network whose back he is covering by checking the police computer | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
system. The Crown says it was a criminal network headed by a man | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
from Northumberland who invested half a million pounds in stocks and | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
shares when he previously sold a few second-hand cars. The drugs | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
were distributed by his brother using safe houses and low-level | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
dealers like Brian Thompson, who supplied his half brother Paul and | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
Susan Thompson, who in turn supplied their friends. The family | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
admit conspiracy to supply a class A drug, but deny conspiracy to | :05:29. | :05:37. | |
commit misconduct in public office. The prosecuting QC continued that | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
all the time Paul Thompson, in flagrant contravention of his role | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
in the police, is acting as the eyes and ears of the organisation. | :05:44. | :05:54. | |
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The trial is expected to last six weeks. | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
Prosecutors have recovered more than half a million pounds from the | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
wife of back from the dead canoeist on Darwin. Darwin fake to her own | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
death in a canoeing accident in 2002 so that his wife Anne could | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
claim on insurance policies and pension schemes. The couple, from | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
Seaton Carew, were jailed at Teesside Crown Court in 2008 for | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
the swindle. A long awaited City bypass opened | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
this afternoon in Cumbria. The Carlisle bypass has been 12 years | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
in the making and cost �170 million to build. The Northern Development | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
rig should ease congestion through the city by diverting traffic from | :06:34. | :06:43. | |
the M6 heading for West Cumbria. Our reporter is there. | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
Yes, there have been plenty of cars using the bypass since two p and | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
this afternoon. Everyone we have spoken to is delighted that it is | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
finally opened. People who live in the City say they are glad that | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
congestion will be used. Those who just want to get from the M6 to the | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
rest of the county say they are happy that they will get a faster | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
route. It was a relatively slow start to | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
the opening of the road which aims to speed things up in and around | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
Carlisle. The not so snappily named Carlisle northern development which | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
will send traffic from junction 44 of the M6 to the west of Cumbria, | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
avoiding the city centre. It will open up the avenues of transport | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
links into West Cumbria, which will give businesses the chance to | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
increase turnover, improve the economy and employment | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
opportunities. It will be good for our business for us but we do | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
transport a lot of materials into white heaven, so it will help us on | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
that side and reduce our cost base by saving time. It will also free | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
up the traffic going into Carlisle. The bypass is just over five miles | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
long. It cost �176 million to build, and took 15 years to create from | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
designed to today's opening. The road is made up of nine roundabouts. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
It turns into Weybridge in two places. But it is not just about | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
the motor vehicles. It has a foot and cycle path which runs the | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
entire length of it. It is safer for us, because it gives us a nice, | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
easy route from the north to the West, hopefully traffic-free now. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
We have family that lived in the west of the city. It will be so | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
much quicker and safer to get across. It will be great! It is | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
half-term this week, so it might be another seven days before we see | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
how much good the new bypass is doing. But today the road got | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
plenty of visits from first-time users. One person I spoke to this | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
morning said she believed this route could revolutionise her life, | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
cutting one of her regular journeys from 30 minutes to 10. Early | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
indications are good. There were far fewer cars in Carlisle this | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
evening. It is 20 years to be based in | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
Sunderland became a city. It was an honour bestowed on it by the Queen | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
to mark her 40th year on the throne. She will create another city to | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
mark her 60th, and among the town's hoping to get the not this time are | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Middlesbrough and Gateshead. They both believe the prestige will mean | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
greater prosperity, but has that happened to Sunderland? Our chief | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
reporter found something of a surprise in Wearside. | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Within view of the bridge is the story of how this city has changed. | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
They used to be a colliery. There is now a football stadium. There | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
was a shipyard. There is now a university. There was a brewery. | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
There is now a big gap. But jobs lost have been replaced by jobs won | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
and the council will tell you more than 60 foreign companies have been | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
brought here, which together employ nearly 18,000 people. There is a | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
long list of countries keen to invest on Wearside. The United | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
States, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden. This lot are from | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
Luxembourg. But were they attracted here because Sunderland is a city? | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
We don't know. Astonishingly, nobody thought to find out. | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
city has changed immeasurably over the last 20 years. Can you put it | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
down to city status? Is in to do with the University becoming a | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
university? Is it the general economy? Nobody has done the | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
research. It would be a challenging piece to do if you did. There was a | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
lot of euphoria in that year, 1992. We had city status and the | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Polytechnic became a university. It was a great year. Perhaps there was | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
a case of, what next? A lot of it was down to individuals to drive | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
their own positive agendas. Back to the brewery. It was making money, | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
but those pulling the financial strings in London decided that they | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
want to concentrate on hotels instead, so the brewery was closed. | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
It's hard broken manager there was Frank Nicholson, a man who lives | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
and breathes Sunderland. His grandfather was the aldermen who | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
oversaw the building of where mouth Bridge. What does he think city | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
status has meant? It is harder to say that city status, nationally or | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
regionally, has particularly helped. Perhaps internationally. If you go | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
to Japan, people would talk with huge pride about the City of | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
Sunderland on the back of the great Nissan. Is Nissan more important | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
than city status will ever be? course city status is a matter of | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
civic pride. But for civic prosperity, Nissan is commercial | :12:05. | :12:15. | |
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pride and prosperity, and it is the latter that matters. Oh ye, O ye. | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
The Borough of Sunderland shall have the status of a city. That | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
Sunderland got city status in 1992 was perhaps a surprise. Look at the | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
sign. It looks as if it was made that morning. The next 20 years | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
could bring equally dramatic changes. What will stay the same, | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
they say, is the spirit to deal with whatever those changes might | :12:41. | :12:49. | |
A north-east council has been left red-faced after it build a new bus | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
shelter on a road which judges thought has not seen any buses for | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
two years. Durham County Council spent over �5,000 on the shelter at | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
Framwellgate Moor in Durham following a mix-up between the | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
council and the bus company Arriva. At a time when people are skint and | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
councils are being squeezed, spending �5,000 on a new bus | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
shelter where no buses run seems a bit extravagant, to say the least. | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
I am from Mississippi in the States. It is good to be here. What do you | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
think of this luxurious bus shelter? It seems all right. It is | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
lacking one important thing. What is that? Bosses. Really? Yes, you | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
will not get a bus here. The council have put this bus shelter | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
up, and this is not a bus route. But his says bus stop. It does say | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
that and this is a bus shelter, but no buses come down this road and | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
haven't for some time. This cost �5,000. Someone did not get a deal. | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
Identifying the precise timetable of this sequence of events has been | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
impossible to date, but Darren council says before it built the | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
shutter, it checked with bus company Arriva and was told the | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
writ was still in place. Arriva subsequently confirmed that that | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
was not the case. Arriva says there seems to have been a | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
misunderstanding, as it has not used this stop for some time. | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
According to some local people, it has not been used for two years. | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
You might think this business has been an embarrassing waste of time. | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
And taxpayers' money. But Durham council said that because they can | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
relocate the shelter to a route that does carry buses, the cost to | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
the taxpayer will just be the cost of picking this up and putting it | :14:42. | :14:51. | |
somewhere else, in the region of �600. | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
Now, at this time of high unemployment, you might count | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
yourself lucky to have a job. But are you working too hard to keep | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
yourself in work? In the north, more than 200,000 people are | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
working more than 45 hours a week. This week, our big question is, how | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
hard are we working? In Britain, we work on average | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
nearly 43 hours a week, one of the highest figures in Europe. Let's | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
compare it with Denmark. The Danes' average working week is just 39 | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
hours. Although the North East has the highest unemployment in the | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
country, nearly 66% of us still have a job and many of us worked | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
long hours to keep it. 21% of us in the north-east would more than 45 | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
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hours every week. So how hard it are we really working? | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
A squeezed economy. Budgets are tight, redundancy a threat to the | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
many of us. But a million people in the north-east still have a job. If | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
you have one, are you working too hard to hang on to it? Paul runs | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
his own front -- printing firm near Gateshead. It has faced tough | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
economic times. Paul is working 60 to 80 hours a week. Typical hours - | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
probably start at eight-9 on a Monday morning. And I would finish | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
at seven or 8 o'clock that night. That continues for five days. | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
Usually on Saturday, a work in the morning. And sometimes on Sunday. | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
It has caused a few problems, especially when my wife was | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
pregnant with twins. I got half a day off for the birth, and then | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
back to work! But for the 200 and they juju 1000 people like Paul, | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
working long hours in the region, there could be a price to pay. | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
Working too hard could damage your health. For a lot of people in fear | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
of losing their job, in those circumstances, work may have | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
adverse effects on their health. Are we working longer to compensate | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
for the fact that in any particular how we are working, our | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
productivity is less? Working longer to combat the fact that we | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
do not work as smartly as some of our European colleagues? Council | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
library and Rachel is convinced that she is a smart worker, but | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
when we caught up with her, she was at home, finding her own books. | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
Why? She is on a zero hours contract, meaning she has no set | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
hours and could get no work at all. She is only paid when she works. It | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
is all legal. It keeps you at a very insecure level where you do | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
not know what money you have got coming in. It seems that employers | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
want to do that more and more. They do not give you different hours. It | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
is all temporary, part term contracts. People take what they | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
can get. Zero hours contracts and agency workers are becoming the | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
norm. The unions say contracts like this are on the increase. These | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
contracts are now coming into the public sector to a large extent, | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
including in local government, has -- health, universities and the | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
police service. These days, with unemployment and a squeezed economy, | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
work feels more fragile. Many of us will do anything to keep in work. | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
If we have a job, we may count our blessings, but should we also be | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
counting the cost? In tomorrow's Look North, we will | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
hear from the Tyneside factory boss who only provides sick-pay when his | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
staff have been ill for a fortnight. Time for the sport now. Some | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
Newcastle players have been back in the classroom? Yes. Not sure how | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
much work got done. With English spoken by so many | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
people around the world, we are often accused of not taking foreign | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
languages seriously enough. Two members of Newcastle United's | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
foreign legion have been back to school to spread the word about | :19:19. | :19:29. | |
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their mother tongues, Spanish and French. | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
Meet one of the Magpies' French- speaking midfielders here at the | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
Newcastle School for Boys. And in the Spanish class, the Argentinian | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
famous for his spider Max -- Spider-Man mask goal celebration, | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Gutierrez. But what were the youngsters keen to ask? We asked, | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
do you like PlayStation or Xbox? What is your favourite food? Do you | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
like the atmosphere at St James's Park? I was asked a question in | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
French. What would you have been if he had not been a footballer? | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
have been playing football since I was young. If I had not played | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
football, I don't know what I could do. It was a good question. And the | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
message from Gutierrez is, whatever your foreign language, start | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
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learning early. I studied when I was young at school. When you start | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
to learn a language, practice and start talking. It gives you more | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
vocabulary. And you can speak more. On the pitch, it is a busy | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
programme of League and non-League football tonight. For Middlesbrough, | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
there is a chance to regain some lost ground after Saturday's wasted | :20:58. | :21:08. | |
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trip to Ipswich. All that way for nothing, and now | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
Boro need to take something from Nottingham Forest because they have | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
not won in the League since Boxing Day. The boss says it is not as bad | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
as it sounds. It is not the end of the world. In context, we have lost | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
six league matches out of the 20- odd we played this year. We need to | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
be positive. I am sure we will finish Gong Li. In League One, a | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
win for Carlisle could take Tranmere back into the play-off | :21:44. | :21:54. | |
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zone. There is a good team spirit here. If we got into the top ten, | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
that would be a big thing to build on. As well tonight, two of our | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
sides are chasing a place in the last eight of the FA Trophy. | :22:09. | :22:19. | |
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Gateshead take on Alverton at the You got one today, didn't you? | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
just the one for. I am talking about a card. You can hardly escape | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
from Valentine's Day and ladies, if you are feeling romantic, your | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
chance to pop the question is just around the corner. 2012 is a leap | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
year, so traditionally, women can propose to their sweethearts on | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
February 29th. I am spoken for already. But where is the most | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
romantic place in the north to propose? | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
OK, ladies, love is in the air and you want to find the perfect place | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
to pop the question. Yes, there are posh restaurants and flash hotels, | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
but the great outdoors have a lot going for them romance-wise, even | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
in winter. And a stroll around the snowy tops of the Lake District is | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
guaranteed to melt a few hearts. If you are rusty on the flirting front, | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
some of the local ladies can give you tips. And if we're there seems | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
a bit chilly, remember, ladies, the colder it is, the closer you will | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
have to cuddle up to keep warm. It saves on the bills, too. The | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
classic romance, you can't beat the subtle and delicate displays of | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
winter. Many of the region's stately homes, including here, have | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
carpets of these little winter Jules, just bursting out. If you | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
fancy a different way of saying it with flowers, it does not get much | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
more romantic than this. But if your sweetheart does not respond to | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
subtlety, baps the sound of wedding bells will be the helpful hint he | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
needs. The region's judges and cathedrals are some of the finest | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
in the country, and there is no harm in trying a few on for size | :24:21. | :24:30. | |
while you are out. If he does not run screaming, he is a keeper! Or | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
perhaps you need to bring out the really big guns. It may not be the | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
most subtle approach, but propose at one of the region's windswept | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
castles, and he is bound to come over all Heathcliff. And I think | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
you can take that as a yes. At the end of the day, if your budget does | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
not stretch to flash restaurants, don't worry - what man will turn | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
you down if you give him chips, especially with a killer view of | :24:56. | :25:05. | |
the seaside? Exactly. See, it works! So don't be shy, ladies, | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
make your move. The 29th is not far away. | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
And you can tell that was not set up, because she is all embarrassed! | :25:17. | :25:27. | |
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And he was not bad! He was lovely, It has been a very mild Valentine's | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Day Today, but I have been saved in this weather picture for you. | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
Apparently, the arts and the laughter about ten minutes. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
Tomorrow, it will be even milder. But there will be sunny spells | :25:42. | :25:51. | |
around. It will be generally cloudy around the region. That makes for a | :25:51. | :26:01. | |
really mild night. Tonight it is all in positive figures. Nice and | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
quiet for a change. Tomorrow morning, we start with the cloud. | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
Most of us will stay dry through the day tomorrow. And the cloud | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
will start to break up through the afternoon. We will get bright and | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
sunny spells, particularly in central and eastern parts of the | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
region. Temperatures are in double figures just about everywhere. Very | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
mild for this time of year on Wednesday. On Thursday, we start to | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
see this lovely high pressure system collapse a bit. Some rain | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
will come across us on Thursday. But it will keep heading south and | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
we should be dry in most places for the end of the week on Friday. But | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
Cumbria, tomorrow will be the brightest day and the warmest, | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
before the rain comes in on Thursday. It might be slow to clear | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
from your patch on Friday. But temperatures are staying up right | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
the way through the week. Further east, the daytime temperatures are | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
mild, but in the night time, we also have positive figures. We | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
should stay frost-free. Apart from a bit of rain on Thursday, it is | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
not looking bad for the next few days. If you are out and about, | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
send us your weather pictures. Some of you still have snow. Some of you | :27:22. | :27:26. |