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Hello, and welcome to Monday's Look North. In the programme tonight. | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
Marathon fire. It's been burning for three days, and could keep | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
going all week. We are live at the scene. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
The row that's threatening to derail plans to stage World Cup | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Rugby League in West Cumbria. How eight months fighting for his | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
benefits lead to another breakdown for this man. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
And the voice of experience. How care home resident Sarah played her | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
part in bringing a new play to the stage. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
In sport - gunning for the Gunners - can Newcastle push Arsenal for | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Champions League football? And not for the first time | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Sunderland get the luck of the bounce against Liverpool to go 8th | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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in the Premier League. Good evening. | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Roads were closed, businesses evacuated and people warned to stay | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
inside their properties. Now - two days after a major blaze started on | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
Teesside - fire crews remain at the scene. And they could be there all | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
week. Thousands of tonnes of timber, at the Jigsaw Wood Recycling Plant | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
near Middlesbrough, were set alight on Saturday lunchtime. Three people | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
have been arrested on suspicion of arson. Our reporter, Stuart Whincup, | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
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is at the scene and joins us now. Stuart. Does let us do Sharia this | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
size of the problem firefighters face here. -- let us show you. This | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
is about the size of to fit all pitches. Fire fighters are trying | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
just to contain it. The wind has been quite gentle so far, but it | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
has changed in the last couple of hours and there are fears the fire | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
could spread. Despite his huge distraction, it has been business | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
as usual for people in Port Clarence. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
At its height fifty fire fighters tackled the blaze. The smoke could | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
be seen for miles. This morning - two days on - the fire's still | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
going strong and the smoke continues to drip through people's | :02:07. | :02:15. | |
homes and businesses. This is the third time and it is atrocious. It | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
should not be there. Where else would they allow it? Tell me that. | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
All the houses are full of smoke. It is terrible and, especially with | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
the children walking up and down the road. Small is getting in the | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Houses and damaging curtains and things. -- smoke. | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
The tactics have changed. Fire fighters are no longer trying to | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
put the blaze out - they're just trying to contain it. The heat from | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
the fire is still very intense appear. You can only stay here for | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
a couple of minutes. The thick plumes of smoke have been living up | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
beyond the site and over the top of neighbouring houses. Despite the | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
destruction - shops and business have re-opened as has the nearby | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
school. Although children have been kept inside all day. This may go on | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
for five days, so children would not be receiving education if we | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
close the school. I spoke to the staff, they are fantastic, and the | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
holiday to comment so we think it is business as usual. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Three people - in their late teens and early twenties have been | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
arrested on suspicion of arson - and have now been released on | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
police bail pending further inquires. You are seeing 12,000 | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
tons of timber being built. This yard takes wood and shreds and | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
sells it for chipboard. I spoke to the owner earlier and he is | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
devastated. He says there has been a number of attacks by vandals in | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
recent years. They have tried to prevent it but he said that trying | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
to stop something like this is impossible. | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
Amazing pictures, thank you for that. | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
The BBC has learned that Whitehaven could lose out on being one of the | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
venues for next year's Rugby League World Cup. The council is at a | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
critical point in negotiations with Whitehaven Miners - which owns the | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
land the new Pow Beck Stadium could be built on. If an agreement over | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
the contract isn't made within the next few days, the site wouldn't be | :04:27. | :04:36. | |
ready in time. Alison Freeman reports. The announcement was | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
hugely popular in a rugby league town. Whitehaven's new and yet to | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
be built stadium would host an international club as well as being | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
a venue for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, but now all that has | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
been thrown into doubt. It is understood that the honours of the | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
access land want �750,000 for the development to take place. The | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
partnership behind the development includes the council and the | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
Whitehaven rugby league club and if they do not agree, it could delay | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
the development which will signal the end of World Cup involvement. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Neither the council nor the rugby league would speak on camera to | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
take but confirm bigger stations where at a critical stage. I am | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
very surprised because I would have thought the council would be | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
fighting to get something like that in the area. I'm sure people are | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
not aware of that, that in mind not be happening because everyone is | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
cleared up for international activity in the town. Hopefully, | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
they will pursue forward and it will go through. Everybody here | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
would be a lot happier. It will bring people in from further afield. | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
This would be a boost for the whole town. Any investment for the town, | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
can only be good for the community. They governing body says it is | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
getting ready to publish its schedule for the tournament in 2013. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
It has contingency plans in place in case Whitehaven stadium is not | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
ready. Well the argument about the access land goes on, time ticks | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
away and it could be spent on talks for developing the stadium. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
A woman has been jailed for life, after stabbing her brother to death | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
so she could return to jail, because - she said - she had no | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
friends outside. Claire Gray, who's 22, killed her 24 year-old brother, | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Ashley, at his house-warming party in Ferryhill in County Durham, last | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
October. She was jailed for life with a minimum term of 12 years, | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
after pleading guilty to murder. Charges against the Sunderland | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
footballer Nicklas Bendtner - of vandalising cars in a Newcastle | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
street have been dropped. He'd been accused - together with | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
his captain and team-mate Lee Cattermole - of causing more than | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
�4,000 worth of damage. Cattermole appeared at Newcastle Magistrate's | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
Court today, where he entered no plea. The case against him was | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
adjourned for two weeks. Work begins this week to re-connect | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
an electricity supply for people living in Wasdale Head in Cumbria. | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
Residents have been relying on generators since Christmas Eve. The | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
new cable will be laid under a road beside Wastwater, rather than under | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
the lake itself. That means it'll be much more accessible, so any | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
future faults can be fixed more quickly. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
A man with schizophrenia - who suffered a breakdown, after eight | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
months fighting for the benefits he was entitled to - says the system | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
is failing people with mental health problems. Andrew Carr, who's | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
from Scarborough, is highlighting the difficulties he faced, to try | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
to help others in the same situation. Carla Fowler's been to | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
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meet him. Andrew Carr has schizophrenia, depression and | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
addictions. In 2011, after four years in hospital he was discharged | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
and set up home independently. The Disability Living Allowance he was | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
entitled to was not paid to them, despite sending off forms and | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
phoning up the benefit office for eight months he was without support. | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
He had to borrow money and just weeks ago had another breakdown and | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
was re hospitalised. My sister came up with the money to keep me out of | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
going to court. It has been a running battle and it made me | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
really stressed out. They are not working fast enough to help people. | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
They do not concentrate on who needs the money, it is like it is | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
not important. She went to the Citizens Advice expert in | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
Scarborough where there experts got his claim excepted and backdated. | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
There is no question that he qualified for the alliance but you | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
have to go through this application process. Someone with the diagnosis | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
of schizophrenia, there are claims need to be targeted and prioritise. | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
The benefits process was an obstacle he could not overcome | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
alone. Now he's speaking out for others like him, falling through | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
the cracks of a system which are supposed to support them. | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
Campaigners, fighting to save Darlington Football Club, say the | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
battle has reached a crucial stage. Tomorrow the administrator will try | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
to thrash out a deal with the Quakers' creditors. But the meeting | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
comes as donations to an appeal fund have slowed to a trickle - and | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
attendances at matches are falling again. Peter Harris reports. | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
They were the images that captured the hearts of football fans | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
everywhere. But from the brink of bankruptcy, a rush of donations saw | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
�300,000 raised by a group looking to buy the club for its supporters. | :09:47. | :09:57. | |
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Survival though remains touch and go. This is the site which allows | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
you to track the progress of the you to track the progress of the | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
investment. You can see the initial surge of excitement on the graph, | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
they had raised �300,000 in February. When you look after that, | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
it flat lines which suggests it is it flat lines which suggests it is | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
not going anywhere. A There are no guarantees but, we sat last night | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
as a board and we all still feel that this is achievable. We are | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
confident. They say they need another �300,000 | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
to be viable. Tomorrow the administrator meets the non- | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
footballing creditors hoping to agree a deal where they are paid | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
back over three years. They include the former chairman Raj Singh who | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
would be asked to take nothing The interim board will now target | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
businesses hoping they'll help push the investment total up. The | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
interim board will now a target businesses, hoping they will push | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
the Investment total up. Crowds are dropping back too, just | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
over 2,000 last time. The board though says that would be enough | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
for their business plan - and they have a Plan B should the team be | :11:00. | :11:08. | |
relegated - as looks increasingly likely. | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
Still to come in the programme, I'll be joined by Dawn for | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
tonight's Team Talk. And as more and more footballers | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
start to tweet - has Twitter put them back in touch with the fans- | :11:17. | :11:25. | |
or is it just another headache for their long-suffering managers? | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
Record-breaking temperatures across the region for the weekend, but | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
what is this weekend hold? -- what does. | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Now - how's this for a plot? It's set on the day Margaret Thatcher | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
dies, and it's a story about a dementia patient, a care-worker and | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
the closure of a day centre. Not the obvious recipe for a comedy | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
drama. But a new play - Swags and Tails - hopes to challenge our | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
preconceptions and give a voice to those who're often not heard. It's | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
being performed in various venues throughout the region until the end | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
of the month. Tonight, for our Look North report, | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
arts reporter Sharuna Sagar's been to meet a resident of a care home | :12:03. | :12:13. | |
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whose personal experience is behind one of the main characters. Looking | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
back on it, I think I had been very lucky. I have had a very good life. | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
I have done all the things I wanted to do, enjoyed my work, my has been | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
used to take us out a lot. -- my husband. | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Sarah Duffy has lived in Gateshead for sixty years. But last year she | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
had a nasty fall was no longer able to care for herself. To begin with, | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
she resisted the move to Eighton Lodge care home in low Fell. | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
first, I could not get used to not having my house. I like a lot of | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
fresh air and I like to go out. But, I have enjoyed it. They have | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
everything here, hairdressers, we go on trips. Janice takes us on | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
trips. I am quite happy. I do not think I want to be anywhere else | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
now. Sarah is part of a community which | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
is the subject of a new play by Newcastle Theatre company Open | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Clasp. She took part in drama workshops to help shape the | :13:31. | :13:40. | |
storyline and in her case, one of the lead characters. We did it | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
because we wanted to give the older person have voice. They have an | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
opinion and it gave them an opportunity to discuss their lives, | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
so they could be heard. And now - the ladies finally get | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
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their chance to see "Swags and Tails" for the first time. | :14:04. | :14:14. | |
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Julia Margaret Thatcher had died? Thank God for that. | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
The woman from the care home, the women from the day centre, they | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
have all been tremendous. It is their humour and talent I wanted to | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
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celebrate in the play. We have 60 residents! There is a | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
lot of laughter in the play. There are big decisions made in the play, | :14:40. | :14:48. | |
women want to make a stand and say we want more. I did not think he | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
was going to be like it was. I still enjoyed it. -- it was going | :14:54. | :15:03. | |
to be. I think about how it centred around a day centre and that | :15:03. | :15:12. | |
closure would be a big thing to people, that was important. Did you | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
recognise yourself in the character Gloria? Somewhere along the line. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
For Sarah and her peers - this play is art imitating life. Their life. | :15:23. | :15:33. | |
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The issues raised are important and at some stage they could be yours. | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
One of the biggest gripes about football today is that players have | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
become remote from the fans who idolise them. Well, the social | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
media site Twitter could be changing all that. On tonight's | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
Late Kick Off, they're asking the question - is Twitter just a | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
trouble maker for managers, or is it bringing footballers back in | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
touch with the supporters? Here's Jon Williams. | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
It's become an internet phenomenon. And a magnet for the modern day | :15:58. | :16:06. | |
footballer. Hundreds of them now embrace Twitter. It gives them | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
direct access to fans, to get a message across about what they have | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
been doing in their lives. Wayne Rooney tops the Twitter league with | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
3.3 million followers. While lower down the table Hartlepool United | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
have 17 first team and youth team players using Twitter. It is | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
another way of having dressing-room banter. You can do it on an evening, | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
on an away trip, it is just a bit of fun. But not all football | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
managers are twitter fans. An outspoken comment can lead unwary | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
players into trouble with their club - or a costly legal bill. | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
have to be careful in terms of what you could end there. I think our | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
players are slowly getting to realise how important it can be, it | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
can be expensive. It annoys me when one ever player says something | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
stupid. You might as well say to the television cameras. | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
And while several big name tweets have hit the headlines. It's not | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
all good news for the sports journalists. The power with just | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
there is with the players, they do not feel they have to speak to them | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
reporters any more. It can get across their side of the story | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
without any comeback. And you can hear more about the | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
Twitter phenomenon in football on Late Kick-Off, tonight at 5-past-11 | :17:27. | :17:37. | |
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Time, once again, for Team Talk - and some breaking news. Both | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
Newcastle and Sunderland have accepted a charge of misconduct | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
from the Football Association. That's arising from last week's | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
fiery Tyne-Wear derby. They've both asked to put their case for the | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
defence. Let's just hope they don't arrive at the same time! | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
Yes - we don't want any more trouble, do we? Nothing to get to | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
worked up about, at the Stadium of Light on Saturday - apart from | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
Sunderland's winning goal! Liverpool must love going in there! | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
In case you'd forgotten, their goalkeeper, Pepe Reina, was beaten | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
by Darren Bent's famous shot in-off the beachball, back in 2009. Not | :18:06. | :18:16. | |
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quite as controversial this time - still quite funny, though! It | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
reminded me of a pinball machine. That result was also enjoyed by | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
Newcastle fans, because while Sunderland are catching Liverpool, | :18:24. | :18:33. | |
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the Magpies are looking stronger in sixth. Kenny Dalglish was not happy | :18:35. | :18:45. | |
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either. That was about the only thing Stuart Downing did all | :18:51. | :19:01. | |
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afternoon. Andy Carroll - a late substitute. �35 million. Not sure | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
yet if he will miss the quarter- final on Saturday after that | :19:07. | :19:16. | |
challenge. That will do his confidence the world of good. | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
Obviously delighted. Delighted with the team again. Outside of the game | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
with West Bromwich Albion a few weeks ago, it is very difficult to | :19:27. | :19:37. | |
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fault the team at any stage or it with any game. | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
And they could pull away with a win at Arsenal tonight, of course. | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
They certainly could - if they can repeat last year's win at the | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
Emirates. 1-0 - thanks to someone who seems to have forgotten how to | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
score goals! Yes - bit of a unfamiliar sight, this, if you're a | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
Livepool fan. Andy Carroll - scoring a goal! A good one as well | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
and they'll need something like that because the Gunners seem to be | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
firing on all cyclinders again. will find it a very tough game for | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
ourselves because they are in such good form but we are in good shape | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
as well and we will try and take that into the game and take the | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
game to Arsenal. It is a game in which we have to go and attack. If | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
we go any other way, we could get picked off. | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
On to Middlesbrough, where - before kick-off - there was a moving | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
tribute to Jack Watson, one of the grand old men of North East sport. | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
Sadly, Jack died on Saturday, at the age of 90. He'd played cricket | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
for Durham and Northumberland, been a scout for just about all the | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
region's football clubs, was caretaker manager of Darlington | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
four times, and was still working for his big friend, Tony Mowbray, | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
at the time of his death. Unfortunately, Boro couldn't do | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
anything to brighten the mood - a pretty grim performance against | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
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their Yorkshire rivals. A mistake from Jason steal there. And then | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
another mistake which allowed the second goal to go when. Kevin | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
Thomson came on. He is an injury nightmare, broke his leg falling | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
off the treadmill. He pulled his hamstring and has had a stomach | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
upset and lasted 15 minutes before getting kicked in their head. Then | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
a tussle followed - on the one of them got a red card. He will miss | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
some important games. Could perhaps have done better with that one. | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
Tony Mowbray not very happy with that one and some tough games | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
coming up. So it's Birmingham away next, followed by a trip to West | :21:48. | :21:57. | |
Ham - crucial games. This team have responded magnificently all here. | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
After a defeat, generally we go back and won a game. We have a | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
tough one next. We have been particularly good on the road this | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
year. We have had some fantastic results playing away from home. It | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
is probably good for us that we have the majority of games away | :22:15. | :22:24. | |
from home now. As we said it is Birmingham away next, followed by a | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
trip to West Ham. In fact, only two of their next | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
eight matches are at the Riverside - which might not be a bad thing, | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
because they've actually picked up more points away from home this | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
season! Into League One, and Carlisle are | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
right up there in the play-off race after a 4-1 win over Bury. They | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
went behind, midway through the first half - but then equalised | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
with one of the goals of the season, from Liam Noble - who, we know, can | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
hit a ball pretty well. It's not the first time he's done | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
something like this - but what a fabulous shot - straight into the | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
top corner - milking the applause - and you can do that, when you score | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
a goal like that! The second one was pretty good as | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
well. And a bit special for Jordan Cook - the 22 year-old, on loan | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
from Sunderland, with only his second goal in senior football. The | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
first of three in the last 12 minutes for the Blues. | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
Yes, the third and fourth came from top-scorer Lee Miller - one from | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
the penalty spot. Notts County are sixth - that's the final play-off | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
position. Carlisle are a point behind - but they do have two games | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
in hand. Elsewhere, Hartlepool picked up a point in a pretty grim | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
goalless draw at Walsall - this, a rare chance for them. But manager | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
Neale Cooper said teenager Jack Baldwin gave: "the best individual | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
performance since I came back to the club." That was him, defending | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
well from a dangerous free-kick. He's just 18, and last season he | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
was playing for Faversham Town in the Ryman League. And Pools need | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
him, because they're missing eight first-teamers at the moment - so | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
that was a decent point. Finally, a word on the success of | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
some of our rowers at the British trials this weekend - held on the | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
Olympic course at Eton Dorney. Teesside's Kat Copeland won the | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
women's single skulls. And North Yorkshire's Andy Triggs-Hodge | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
successfully defended his men's pairs title with partner Pete Reed. | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
Well done to them - the competition for seats at the London Games is | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
intensifying. The rowers won't find out if they've make the squad until | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
June - but Triggs-Hodge says British rowing is better than it's | :24:10. | :24:20. | |
:24:20. | :24:21. | ||
ever been. We're starting to out compete the Redgraves and Pinsetts. | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
We are starting to see a few new records fall. This is exactly where | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
we need to be, we cannot rely on their ghost any more. I cannot wait, | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
the Olympics here in five months' time. You cannot feel any better. | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
It was very sunny there. I would have been cutting the grass | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
yesterday, if not for a party I went to. | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
A bit early for grass. Almost. It has been very mild indeed, we had | :24:56. | :25:04. | |
record temperatures over the weekend. More than 19 Celsius in | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
Yorkshire, breaking records for March. A beautiful image two | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
starters off. This daffodil in the sunshine, in Gateshead. Headlines | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
for tomorrow - bright spells across for tomorrow - bright spells across | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
the North-East. Cloudier in the West. Clear spells this evening, | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
not for long, bad news for those hoping to catch a glimpse of the | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
Northern Lights, there is a geomagnetic storm in the action at | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
the moment. So cloudy in the West and for the North East coast. You | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
might be lucky over the Tyne and Wear Valley's. Most places quite | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
mild overnight. Mild also for the start of Tuesday. Tomorrow morning | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
it stays cloudy in the West, misty over the hills. Brighter for the | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
North East and North Yorkshire. Sunshine breaking through the | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
clouds. Bright skies in the afternoon and a top temperature of | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
40 -- 14 Celsius. Just a bit chilly air at the coast. West's words - a | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
thicker cloud comes in with the bees. Gloomier in the West to end | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
the day. Nine Celsius is the average for the Cumbrian coast and | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
the average for this time of year. Higher than average for the rest of | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
the region. Good weather continues, high pressure brings bright skies | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
for much of the North East on Wednesday and Thursday. Misty in | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
the morning, cloudier in the West, gloomy for Carlisle on Wednesday. | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
Further south the cloud will tend to be thicker. Everywhere, | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
temperatures will remain above average for this time of year. Good | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
news for the spring flowers. Weather will remain dry indeed. We | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
do not expect any rain for the do not expect any rain for the | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
gardens as yet. Now for a look at tonight's | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
headlines. Seven water companies in southern and eastern England are | :27:17. | :27:25. | |
introducing hosepipe bans. It will affect millions of customers. And | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
firefighters tackling a blaze at a wood recycling plant on Teesside | :27:28. | :27:34. |