:00:07. > :00:10.Welcome to Tuesday's Look North. Tonight: Mystery surrounds the
:00:10. > :00:14.departure of an award winning council boss.
:00:14. > :00:19.Friends and family bid farewell and celebrate the life of a pioneer of
:00:19. > :00:24.broadcasting. The final chapter. Roadworks are
:00:24. > :00:28.blamed for forcing the owners of this 130 year-old bookstore to shut
:00:28. > :00:34.up shop. And one council is making sure that
:00:34. > :00:39.drivers are not too old for road. In sport, behind closed doors at
:00:39. > :00:49.Newcastle's Academy. And it is good to see these Olympic hopefuls at
:00:49. > :00:52.
:00:52. > :00:56.the revamp of a multi-million-pound sports centre.
:00:56. > :01:00.He has won a national awards and earned praise and plaudits for his
:01:01. > :01:03.achievements. Peter Simpson has spent the last four years as the
:01:03. > :01:09.chief executive of Hambleton and Richmond district councils but now
:01:09. > :01:13.he has been placed on gardening leave, still on full pay, from his
:01:13. > :01:20.�125,000 a year job. His employers said the decision came after
:01:20. > :01:23.concerns were raised about serious management issues.
:01:23. > :01:27.Peter Simpson had won a national awards, merged services and
:01:27. > :01:29.delivered millions of pounds worth of savings so reports he had yet
:01:29. > :01:34.been escorted from his office and placed on gardening leave surprised
:01:34. > :01:39.many. Including the leader of Richmond should District Council,
:01:39. > :01:43.who had no idea is chief executive was leaving his job. We were rather
:01:43. > :01:48.disappointed to say the least in Richmond Show and we would have
:01:48. > :01:53.expected to have been involved, to have had discussions, we would have
:01:53. > :01:58.liked to have actually contributed to whether or not we thought the
:01:58. > :02:06.cause of action they were taking was appropriate. We were not told
:02:06. > :02:11.until afterwards. It is not good in the shed Services Partnership.
:02:11. > :02:14.afternoon, Mr Simpson's employers, Hambleton Council, praised his
:02:14. > :02:18.national awards an outstanding achievements, but if they improve -
:02:18. > :02:23.- believed he was that good, why get rid of him? The happenings of
:02:23. > :02:27.the last few days have been very difficult. Certain management
:02:27. > :02:34.issues have come to the for which has meant that I have needed to
:02:34. > :02:38.take action to safeguard the well- being of this organisation and the
:02:38. > :02:42.services that are residents receive. Some claim the problems have been
:02:42. > :02:47.caused by politics and personality clashes. This evening, Hambleton
:02:47. > :02:52.Council says it will now be speaking to Mr Simpson's advisers
:02:52. > :02:59.as they tried to agree a pay-off. We are still not clear and a reason
:02:59. > :03:03.why he left. Note that is right. There was any Mel that said that
:03:03. > :03:07.Peter Simpson would be leaving and there was a warning not to
:03:07. > :03:11.speculate on the reasons. -- Are there was an e-mail. He had been at
:03:11. > :03:18.the Council for 15 years. We are hearing about CBS management issues
:03:18. > :03:22.but nothing beyond. Hambleton Council has already appointed a
:03:22. > :03:25.temporary executive. It is quite telling, I think, that they say
:03:25. > :03:33.tonight they are already in talks about a financial settlement with
:03:33. > :03:37.Mr Simpson. Thank you. A missing pension has been found
:03:37. > :03:41.safe in Northumberland. Monica Dixon, aged four, went missing at
:03:41. > :03:45.the weekend. She was discovered in a garden in Corbridge just before
:03:45. > :03:47.4am this morning. Police say she has been taken to hospital with
:03:47. > :03:50.minor injuries consistent with a fall.
:03:50. > :03:55.The Sunderland footballer Nicklas Bendtner has been banned for
:03:55. > :03:59.driving for 56 days and fined �666 after he was caught speeding in his
:03:59. > :04:04.Porsche. Ben and a, a Danish international on loan from Arsenal,
:04:04. > :04:08.was clocked at 103mph near Newcastle Airport in December.
:04:08. > :04:11.Magistrates were told today he was on his way to the airport and late
:04:12. > :04:16.for a flight. Nicklas Bendtner, not present in court, admitted the
:04:16. > :04:19.offence. Police say they do not yet know how
:04:19. > :04:23.big a find they have made of cannabis plants at Haltwhistle in
:04:23. > :04:27.Northumberland. They say the plans are on a number of flaws in
:04:27. > :04:30.industrial unit on the Hadrian Enterprise Park but safety issues
:04:30. > :04:33.are preventing them from making a proper search. The plants were
:04:33. > :04:37.found after a tip-off from a member of the public.
:04:37. > :04:41.The mother of a missing York teenager has made a fresh appeal
:04:41. > :04:47.for help in finding him. Jordan Sullivan, 19, it was last seen a
:04:47. > :04:51.week ago today near the River Ouse in Naburn. Searches have been
:04:51. > :04:58.continued but since called off. am desperately begging you,
:04:58. > :05:03.gorgeous boy, just to get in touch. Just let me know you are safe. If
:05:03. > :05:08.there is an issue, you know, as always, everything, everything at
:05:08. > :05:18.all we talk about. Anything, anything and everything can be
:05:18. > :05:18.
:05:18. > :05:22.sorted, Jordan. He was, quite simply, one of the
:05:22. > :05:25.best-known faces in our region, and today friends and former colleagues
:05:25. > :05:30.of television pioneer George House were reunited at his funeral in
:05:30. > :05:34.North Yorkshire. George was the first person to appear when the BBC
:05:34. > :05:42.launched regional news in the 1950s, and went on to form a memorable on-
:05:42. > :05:46.screen partnership. They came to say farewell but this
:05:46. > :05:51.was a celebration, too. A celebration of the qualities that
:05:51. > :05:59.made George House such a popular figure. He is sense of humour. We
:05:59. > :06:05.have the same sense of humour. The material for his stage shows, for
:06:05. > :06:09.example. I would say, that is very funny. Or I would say, I do not
:06:09. > :06:13.think that is very funny and he would say, I do not, either. We
:06:13. > :06:20.would go on stage, say the line, and the audience would fall apart.
:06:20. > :06:26.And we would think, where did we go wrong? But his humour and the fact
:06:26. > :06:33.that he was just a great guy. George had first appeared on the
:06:33. > :06:39.forerunner to Look North in 1959, a pioneer of regional broadcasting.
:06:39. > :06:44.This studio equipment, small video cameras, as in to remember, no such
:06:44. > :06:48.thing as a zoom lenses... It was exciting stuff. It was pioneering
:06:48. > :06:52.days for television and we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. George spent
:06:52. > :06:59.his later life he and the village of Brompton near Northallerton, but
:06:59. > :07:04.the Broadcasting bug never lent him -- never left him, the famous boys
:07:04. > :07:08.appearing on talking newspapers. When George came on the television,
:07:08. > :07:13.people got excited. A celebrity in Paris Ritz. He had a lovely voice.
:07:13. > :07:18.He told us about his life at the BBC and how primitive the studios
:07:18. > :07:23.were and how close the camera was and all that sort of thing. And
:07:23. > :07:30.then he would always end his talks with some of his Geordie his beak,
:07:30. > :07:39.which to us was like a foreign language almost. -- speak. George
:07:39. > :07:43.was both a gentleman and a gentle man. Members of George House.
:07:43. > :07:46.There has been an apparent U-turn over plans to build homes on green
:07:46. > :07:50.belt land in Newcastle. Earlier this year, the city council
:07:50. > :07:53.announced plans for thousands of homes and this led to protests over
:07:53. > :07:58.the future of the Gosforth Nature Reserve. Now the council has
:07:58. > :08:02.unveiled plans to spend �25 million to develop more brownfield sites.
:08:02. > :08:08.There will be some building still on some green belt land but much
:08:08. > :08:11.less than originally planned. Stanhope Ford in County Durham is
:08:11. > :08:15.to permanently closed to vehicles. A public inquiry recommended the
:08:15. > :08:19.closure last month after hearing how a vehicle needed rest ring once
:08:20. > :08:24.every four months. The council's high-rise committee endorsed the
:08:24. > :08:27.decision today. One of the region's last
:08:27. > :08:31.independent bookshops is closing its doors. Appleby's has been a
:08:31. > :08:35.fixture in Morpeth for more than 130 years but the owners are not
:08:35. > :08:44.blaming the recession orange net shopping. They say that road works
:08:44. > :08:50.in the town have caused greater drop -- have caused trade to drop.
:08:50. > :08:54.The bookshop has a prime location from which to observe the roadworks
:08:54. > :08:57.and one way system that have decimated trade. The much loved
:08:57. > :09:01.bookshop has been run by the Wallace family for 30 years but
:09:01. > :09:06.will close within weeks. It has been very hard in the past two
:09:06. > :09:14.years. We were keeping our head above water until the one-way
:09:14. > :09:19.system was introduced. Takings have reduced by approximately 70 %. I
:09:19. > :09:23.cannot absorb that for ten weeks. Would you like not to be paid for
:09:23. > :09:28.ten weeks? No. Nor would I, so it is the end of the line,
:09:29. > :09:35.unfortunately. Bookshops like this are hard to come by Tara days but
:09:35. > :09:41.customers are devastated. -- nowadays. It is tragic that Morpeth
:09:41. > :09:46.is going to lose a shock of this kind. It is a one-off. I had been
:09:46. > :09:50.in once it was busily on my visits and it had been virtually deserted.
:09:50. > :09:54.It is not just bookshops, it is libraries as well at the moment. So
:09:55. > :09:58.you have to ask, how much can you replicate the some internet? That
:09:58. > :10:03.is what a lot of people must be thinking. Northumberland council
:10:03. > :10:08.said that by co-ordinating roadworks for gas, water and
:10:08. > :10:12.electricity for the new traffic lights, the roadworks would be
:10:12. > :10:17.reduced to just ten weeks, but those roadworks have been the final
:10:17. > :10:24.nail in the coffin for this bookshop. The first few weeks it
:10:24. > :10:27.was bad and some shops were down about 70 %. It is very bad for Tim.
:10:27. > :10:31.It is really sad for him and his family and I am sorry they have had
:10:31. > :10:36.to do that. So yes, a lot of businesses are hanging on but we
:10:36. > :10:42.are fighting back and every week -- a week that goes by There are more
:10:42. > :10:45.people coming back to Morpeth. the message is that Morpeth is open
:10:45. > :10:49.for business but not all the businesses will be open that much
:10:49. > :10:56.longer. At what age do you become too old
:10:56. > :11:00.to drive? It is a controversial issue that has come up again, with
:11:00. > :11:03.the news that there are now more than 1 million drivers on our roads
:11:03. > :11:06.who are over 80. One lady still holds a licence at the age of 106.
:11:06. > :11:09.Well, figures suggest that drivers in their 80s are actually much
:11:09. > :11:12.safer than young drivers. And one council in our region is offering
:11:12. > :11:15.older drivers the chance to find out if they are still safe behind
:11:15. > :11:25.the wheel, as Jon Williams discovered for tonight's Look North
:11:25. > :11:26.
:11:26. > :11:29.Report. Jostling for space. There are now
:11:29. > :11:35.almost 37 million unlicensed drivers on Britain's increasingly
:11:35. > :11:39.congested roads, it in charge of a potentially deadly weapon. More
:11:39. > :11:44.than one million of them are over 80, an age not noted for good
:11:44. > :11:48.eyesight, peak alertness and quick reactions. There seems to be a
:11:48. > :11:53.perception that all the drivers, to use the phrase, are a menace, but
:11:53. > :11:58.they are no more a menace really than any other driver. Gladys
:11:58. > :12:01.Jackson turned 80 in January. She relies on her car to get out and
:12:01. > :12:07.about on County Durham's rural roads, and sometimes for much
:12:07. > :12:15.longer trips. Shopping and church and dancing and perhaps 150 miles
:12:15. > :12:19.or so when I go off on holiday. At 80 you are not old nowadays. Once
:12:19. > :12:22.upon a time, if you got to 60 you were lucky but there are a lot of
:12:22. > :12:27.very fit a year-old I come in contact with and we are keeping
:12:27. > :12:31.going. And keeping them in means keeping her car. To reassure
:12:31. > :12:34.herself she is still up to it, or Gladys applied for one of Durham
:12:34. > :12:37.County Council's special assessment sessions for older drivers. 40
:12:37. > :12:44.minutes out on the road with a qualified driving instructor for
:12:44. > :12:51.just �10. So did Mike Meehan -- Mike McMinn, an active 56-year-old
:12:51. > :12:54.-- 76-year-old with 50 years' experience behind the wheel.
:12:54. > :12:59.would have helped to indicate to let people know you were coming off
:12:59. > :13:04.the roundabout. He still enjoys driving, taking his grandchildren
:13:04. > :13:10.out in the car. One of the reasons he wanted a professional opinion of
:13:10. > :13:14.his driving skills. I like the independence of being able to jump
:13:14. > :13:17.in the car and just go. I have developed faults which I was not
:13:17. > :13:23.aware of but these were pointed out to me and I am now doing their best
:13:23. > :13:26.to try to rectify these. I think sometimes people are concerned, may
:13:26. > :13:31.be about lanes on roundabouts or maybe they are concerned about
:13:31. > :13:34.keeping up with the traffic. Sometimes they are worried they are
:13:34. > :13:39.maybe being a bit of a nuisance on the road. Those are the sort of
:13:39. > :13:42.concerns that people have as they are getting older. Mike is above --
:13:42. > :13:46.one of those who think over seventies should face a regular
:13:46. > :13:51.compulsory driving test. I think they should and this is one of the
:13:51. > :13:56.reasons why I did apply for the assessment, because it is a kind of
:13:56. > :14:01.test in a way. I think there is a responsibility to make sure that
:14:01. > :14:04.you are competent to acceptable standards. Accident statistics show
:14:04. > :14:11.that drivers over 80 have a much better safety record than younger
:14:11. > :14:17.drivers. Less than a third of the deaths and serious injuries than
:14:17. > :14:22.those among the Under 20s. But as our road systems become ever
:14:22. > :14:25.complicated, accidents among the over fifties are growing. All the
:14:25. > :14:31.drivers do not have their crushes at rush-hour because they are not
:14:31. > :14:36.out in rush-hour. -- colder drivers. They are at 10:00am to 4pm in the
:14:37. > :14:40.day. They usually have crashes at junctions like this where a lot of
:14:40. > :14:49.Krasic -- processing is required and then quick action with the
:14:49. > :14:53.vehicle. That is where the difficulty is.
:14:53. > :14:58.Plenty more to come tonight. The sport and we are behind the scenes
:14:58. > :15:03.at Newcastle's Academy. World-class facilities are unveiled four
:15:03. > :15:07.Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls. And in the middle of a mild spell,
:15:07. > :15:10.we will be out and about with the weather.
:15:10. > :15:13.It is loved by millions of viewers and attracts the the finest up and
:15:13. > :15:17.coming classical musicians in the land. The BBC Young Musician Of The
:15:17. > :15:21.Year competition has seen many of its winners and finalists go on to
:15:21. > :15:31.have major careers. And this evening it has just been announced
:15:31. > :15:38.that the event is to be held at the Sage Gateshead.
:15:38. > :15:47.You could say this world-class concert hall and the BBC Young
:15:47. > :15:51.Asian 2012 are a match made in heaven. -- Young musician. With me
:15:51. > :15:57.is the director of the Sage Gateshead. You must be pleased to
:15:57. > :16:00.host this event again? It is one of the world's greatest music
:16:00. > :16:06.competitions and we are one of the main centres in Europe for music
:16:06. > :16:09.education. What does it mean to the area? We have had all the big BBC
:16:09. > :16:12.bans here, Antiques Roadshow, Songs of Praise, and they are really
:16:12. > :16:17.important. They give a lift to Tyneside generally and to the
:16:17. > :16:22.building. The woman who has the big job of putting on that massive
:16:22. > :16:27.event is here. You on the producer of the show. I suppose it is a bit
:16:27. > :16:33.like an upmarket X Factor, except everyone has exceptional talent and
:16:33. > :16:38.there is no boot camp. So that makes you Simon Cowell? I hope not!
:16:38. > :16:42.I hope it is a great experience for everyone. Yes, it is a huge pool of
:16:42. > :16:47.talent which we managed to draw into this competition. It takes
:16:47. > :16:51.years and years of preparation. It is not just a case of get up there
:16:51. > :16:57.and sing and play. The how important is it in the classical
:16:57. > :17:02.musical world? It is one of the most well-loved competitions in the
:17:02. > :17:06.classical world for young people. It is for 18 year-olds and under so
:17:06. > :17:11.it really can launch careers, and it has done so. It has put people
:17:11. > :17:18.into the spotlight, whether they have been category winners,
:17:18. > :17:23.finalists or overall winners. People like our 2010 winner, and
:17:23. > :17:27.Nicola Benedetti... There is a whole host of them. Standing next
:17:27. > :17:31.year is a previous winner. Peter, and you were the youngest person to
:17:31. > :17:36.win the competition backing 2008, at 12 years old. Can you remember
:17:36. > :17:39.what it was like? The whole week was a bit of a blur. I just
:17:39. > :17:43.remember a great experience and having the chance to play with a
:17:43. > :17:48.great orchestra. So the three finalists will be easier and the
:17:48. > :17:53.Sage Gateshead on 13th May to basically batted out for the title
:17:53. > :17:58.and I guess that leaves them about three months to get some serious
:17:58. > :18:01.practising in. And they will be, no doubt. It is a
:18:02. > :18:11.great venue. We are going on Saturday night in all our finery.
:18:12. > :18:14.
:18:14. > :18:18.Yes. Usually the doors are locked and
:18:18. > :18:21.most people are kept out. But today Newcastle United invited us in to
:18:22. > :18:25.show us what goes on and their academy. The club spend just short
:18:25. > :18:28.of �2 million a year on the centre, and plan to increase that
:18:28. > :18:30.investment in a bid to attract the best young talent around.
:18:30. > :18:33.Reserve players and under-18s playing football, hoping to become
:18:33. > :18:37.future stars of the Premier League. Newcastle United's academy takes
:18:37. > :18:44.boys from as young as nine and trains them up to the age of 18 and
:18:44. > :18:50.beyond. The ethos of the club is to give young players an opportunity
:18:50. > :18:54.and try to bring them through to the first team. The academy is a
:18:54. > :18:59.big part of that. We are trying to develop good players but also be
:18:59. > :19:02.one to have good young men. In the classroom today, the under 15s and
:19:02. > :19:04.16s are learning about race, as part of the Show Racism The Red
:19:04. > :19:07.Card initiative. Former Newcastle full-back Olivier Bernard
:19:07. > :19:17.reinforcing the message, removing rumour and myths, teaching them
:19:17. > :19:18.
:19:18. > :19:22.there is just one race, the human race. We are very mindful that not
:19:22. > :19:29.every one of the players behind us will go on to make a good career in
:19:29. > :19:37.professional football, but we have to try to give them a life in
:19:37. > :19:40.football, hopefully somehow involved in a football, whether as
:19:40. > :19:42.physiotherapists or as teachers. The coaches played the game at the
:19:42. > :19:46.highest level, including former Everton star Dave Watson. Life for
:19:46. > :19:50.these academy scholars is a long way from what he enjoyed. When I
:19:50. > :19:52.was playing football, to see a blade of grass on the pitch was a
:19:53. > :19:56.luxury. The academy costs �1.8 million annually. Now the club
:19:57. > :19:59.plans to invest an extra �1 million a year to make it one of the new
:19:59. > :20:01."category one" academies. Instead of being restricted to taking
:20:02. > :20:09.youngsters from within 90 minutes of Tyneside, they could take talent
:20:09. > :20:13.from around the world. Anybody who plays in the Premier League at the
:20:13. > :20:17.moment has to be an international player. Ideally, we produce
:20:17. > :20:19.international players from the local area, but we have to be
:20:20. > :20:22.conscious that there may be international players from
:20:22. > :20:25.elsewhere. But if they do not succeed in getting that higher
:20:25. > :20:28.status, bigger clubs could come in and take the Magpies' most
:20:28. > :20:31.promising talent. Meanwhile, out on the pitch,
:20:31. > :20:34.Middlesbrough are in action tonight. They are down at The New Den,
:20:34. > :20:43.taking on Millwall, hoping to climb back into a play-off place in the
:20:43. > :20:45.Championship. Commentary, as usual, Down in London last night, it was a
:20:45. > :20:49.pretty grim evening for Carlisle, when they took on Brentford, the
:20:49. > :20:52.team they beat at Wembley last year. It was only last May that these two
:20:53. > :20:57.met in the capital. The Blues won that one and lifted the Johnstone's
:20:57. > :20:59.Paint Trophy. But this was almost a whitewash. Goalless until the match
:20:59. > :21:02.was almost half an hour old, Brentford scored twice within four
:21:02. > :21:06.minutes and then grabbed another before the break. Game over, and a
:21:06. > :21:10.real shock for a Carlisle side who had lost just one of their ten
:21:11. > :21:13.previous outings. That was a 4-0 defeat at Hartlepool, a scoreline
:21:14. > :21:19.repeated at Griffin Park, thanks to a superb finish by teenager Saido
:21:19. > :21:23.Berahino. The 18 year-old, on loan from Premier League West Brom,
:21:23. > :21:26.curled in his second of the night, early in the second half. The
:21:26. > :21:31.Cumbrians stay seventh in League One, a point and two places outside
:21:31. > :21:35.the play-offs, but they will not want to many more nights like this.
:21:35. > :21:39.London 2012 is just months away now so it is a crucial time for those
:21:39. > :21:42.athletes still hoping for a place in the Olympics. And the best
:21:42. > :21:46.training facilities to get them into peak condition could not be
:21:46. > :21:56.more vital. What better time, then, for the official opening of a
:21:56. > :22:01.
:22:01. > :22:05.multi-million-pound revamped sports In an Olympic year, it is
:22:05. > :22:11.fashionable to throw about the phase -- a phrase world class.
:22:11. > :22:16.Getting there is a long walk and does not come cheap. This tank cost
:22:16. > :22:21.�1 million. It can send the water passed the planes at ten feet a
:22:21. > :22:27.second. Before, I would have to go down south to get facilities like
:22:27. > :22:34.these which was a bit of a pain. So it definitely gives me the edge.
:22:34. > :22:38.is half of a �6.5 million expansion of Durham University's Maiden
:22:38. > :22:42.Castle complex. It is open to students and the rest of us, but
:22:42. > :22:47.these then single again his world standard. The only facilities I
:22:47. > :22:54.have seen to this degree are in Hungary. I am so glad at Durham has
:22:54. > :22:59.it. The head basketball coach asked me if I would like to try
:22:59. > :23:05.wheelchair fencing. I loved it. could be represented Britain at the
:23:05. > :23:11.Olympics? Yes. It would be amazing if that happened. Back at the tank,
:23:11. > :23:17.they were still hard at it. They were also getting official
:23:17. > :23:22.Government blessings. For a sports minister, it is a perfect sports
:23:22. > :23:26.photo opportunity but here who -- what does he say to the critics who
:23:26. > :23:32.say the North will not get the dividend from London 2012? They are
:23:32. > :23:35.wrong. There is a huge dividend, but in terms of athletes in the
:23:35. > :23:40.North East competing and facilities that Derby upgraded on the back of
:23:40. > :23:45.London's Olympics. This is a real driver of Britain as a sporting
:23:45. > :23:51.nation in the North East. A lot of the activity is going to be
:23:51. > :23:55.directly inspired by what happens in London. It is a lot of money but
:23:55. > :24:03.it is worth it. You have to be investing to make sure they knew
:24:03. > :24:07.what the best. -- that you are the best. However well our athletes do
:24:07. > :24:17.this summer, this is one place to watch for the next generation of
:24:17. > :24:17.
:24:17. > :24:21.Rugby union, finally, and Newcastle Falcons' player of the year, Tim
:24:21. > :24:23.Swinson will leave the club at the end of the season. The 25 year-old
:24:23. > :24:26.lock forward hopes a move to Glasgow Warriors will help his
:24:26. > :24:31.international career with Scotland. Meanwhile, back row Mark Wilson has
:24:31. > :24:36.signed a new three-year contract at Kingston Park.
:24:36. > :24:46.That is your sport. Rumour has it we might be breaking
:24:46. > :24:46.
:24:46. > :24:52.out the barbecues this week. It is It is a very mild evening. No hat,
:24:52. > :24:56.scarf or clubs tonight. We make 13 Celsius in parts of North Yorkshire
:24:56. > :25:00.this afternoon. Over the next couple of days, we will push that
:25:00. > :25:06.up a degree or so. Not bad going at all when you think that the average
:25:06. > :25:09.for our patch for this time of year is about seven Celsius. Yes, it is
:25:09. > :25:13.going to be mild but there is always a price to pay at this time
:25:13. > :25:18.of year and it will come in the form of their very wet and windy
:25:18. > :25:22.day particularly for tomorrow. Let's have a look and see what is
:25:22. > :25:25.happening tonight. We already have some patchy rain around our patch.
:25:25. > :25:29.Nothing near Newcastle at the moment but as the night goes on
:25:29. > :25:34.that rain will increasingly become heavy and persistent and will work
:25:34. > :25:38.its way right the way down our region by dawn tomorrow. It will be
:25:38. > :25:45.a very wet end to the right. Also pretty windy. The breeze getting up
:25:46. > :25:50.already. By dawn it will be picking up quite strongly and dusty as well,
:25:50. > :25:56.particularly for the North East. The combination of cloud and wind
:25:56. > :25:59.from the South West will make for another mild night. Such as we head
:25:59. > :26:05.into tomorrow morning, it would be rain in place, the Met Office has
:26:05. > :26:11.issued a warning for that heavy rain, particularly for Cumbria. On
:26:11. > :26:17.the hills it could be up to 100 mm of rain. Three or four inches of
:26:17. > :26:20.rain around Cumbria tomorrow. The chart shows the rain will sink its
:26:20. > :26:24.way southwards, pulling its way into the North East as well,
:26:24. > :26:27.although through the afternoon it will become writer and more patchy.
:26:27. > :26:31.Said by the end of the day, the North of the region in particular
:26:31. > :26:36.looks a bit clearer, although Cumbria is stuck with the rain on
:26:36. > :26:42.and off throughout the day. The wind will pick up tomorrow.
:26:42. > :26:47.Extremely dusty, particularly on high ground. -- gusty. A horrid day
:26:47. > :26:52.to be ad and the back. But the only saving grace is that again the air
:26:52. > :26:56.comes from the South West, so it will be mild again. The rest of the
:26:56. > :26:59.week. The temperatures stay up very well to Thursday and on Thursday
:26:59. > :27:04.for the wind will be lighter and it will be drier. So much more
:27:04. > :27:12.pleasant. Those temperatures on Friday and will then start to drift
:27:12. > :27:17.downwards just in time for a cooler The headlines: A second massive
:27:17. > :27:20.bail-out for Greece has been agreed but in return for 130 billion euros
:27:20. > :27:24.Greece will have to make yet more spending cuts.
:27:24. > :27:28.Peter Simpson, the chief executive of Hambleton and Richmond should