21/03/2012 Look North (North East and Cumbria)


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Hello. Welcome to the programme. No budget will be for drivers to sing

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record prices at the Poms especially in rural areas. It is

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appalling, and that has been for a very long time. But if you can

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afford to drive, good news for users of one of our main routes.

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Underfunding cut puts into doubt the future of a charity caring for

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more than 500 children. And what the Archbishop of York thinks about

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being the bookmaker's favourite to become the next Archbishop of

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Canterbury. I am not a horse, so you can do whatever you like.

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counting the cost of the Derby dust up, big fines for Newcastle and

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Sunderland, but good news as Middlesbrough help to burst the

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exam's promotion double. -- Big Sam's. The Budget has been

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delivered. The winners and losers have been declared. The analysis

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will go on for days. But one bill which just seems to keep rising,

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for many people, is the cost of running a car. Petrol and diesel

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prices are at a record high. And the Government is going ahead with

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a 3% increase in fuel duty in August. In towns and cities,

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there's a price war at the pumps. But people living in rural areas

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can't shop around and pay, on average, 4p a litre more. The

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Countryside Alliance says the situation is becoming

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"intolerable." This was the picture in Cumbria today. A typical garage

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forecourt in Carlisle was charging 138p a litre for unleaded, and 144p

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for diesel. Contrast that with Warwick Bridge - just five miles

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outside Carlisle, where the price was 142p and 149p a litre. And this

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is what drivers filling up there think about the price they have to

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pay. It is absolutely appalling, and it has been for his very long

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time. It has seriously affected my business and I have clients who

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phone up and what the book or an event and one of the first things

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they ask is, where are you based, and they say Cumbria, and they say,

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oh. I am in the car quite a lot so that is obviously going to cost was

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more. A everybody has to travel to work every day. You want to be

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competitive. We paeon of tax as it is, the Government take enough tax

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from us without paying for fuel duty. Well, that's the picture in

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Cumbria. Our Political Editor, Richard Moss is at another rural

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filling station for us tonight, this time in Northumberland.

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Richard. There has been some celebration year to do because this

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put a station has reopened after a closing in at 2,000 and dick. Some

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of the people living around here had to do a 70 mile round trip to

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fill up their tanks. When this station close it was charging one

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per and its expense for unleaded, now that is just short of �1.50.

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There has been on a call around here for a cut in fuel duty to help

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out in what is said to be a crisis in the countryside. Since 2008,

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villagers have had to take long trips to fill their petrol tanks.

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To this have been left high and dry at have to rely on locals to bail

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them out. On a Saturday and Sunday you have to travel a long way. It

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is a good community spirit for finding spare fuel, but there is

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only so much you can do. Sometimes you are spending many hours,

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waiting for fuel. It has taken four years of hard work to get the

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station open again. It is fantastic. It is a shining example for

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communities around the country. Community cannot offer locals a

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cut-price fuel and the cost of petrol is profoundly affecting this

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there was. For our five houses have gone up for sale because people

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travelling to work in Newcastle are starting to look at how much it is

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costing them to travel to work are ready and they are looking for

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houses near to where they work. quite angry because we won't be

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some fuel in a bit, because we're going to do the Kielder Forest

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Drive. This couple think it is time for the Chancellor to offer drivers

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a helping hand. It is ridiculous. It does not just affect people

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driving, it affects the commercial vehicles who take goods round the

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country and tourism as well because people are not going to think about

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coming out here when it is so expensive. For visitors and locals

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it is good news that they can go up but what they really want is for

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prices to be cut at the pumps. petrol is going to go up 3p in

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August. Steve where who runs the village shop joins me now. The

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country needs the money. Does it work for you here in Kielder

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Forest? Yes, were Strafford on the roads, yes. However, we do not have

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an option for public transport. It is limited. We are forced to use

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Arona vehicles, and we have to drive further with more expensive

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fuel. I think that price-capping in certain areas, in places -- should

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be looked at strongly to make sure that places that are extremely

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rural get some help. That would be beneficial. It is not a trying out

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in England that the moment - which you want five there's less for

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rural areas? I think we're a good case, good example. You can see,

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looking around, that it would help they are rare, both in business,

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and for people living here. -- it would help the area. So this

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station opening the end will mean shorter trips, but they will not be

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playing in the West at the pump. Moving on to other budget matters,

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the Chancellor said the Government's pressing ahead with

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its plans for regional pay rates, which would mean public sector

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workers in the North being paid less than equivalent staff in the

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South. It could do eventually. The devil is in the detail. The

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Government has said that certain departments will be able to get the

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local peer rate. But at the moment most public sector workers have a

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frozen salary amounts anyway, but in places like the naughties and

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Cumbria public sector workers get higher pay than those in the

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private sector. This only applies to civil servants. The review of

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pay for nurses and teachers will go on. And there was good news for

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people struggling with slow internet broadband speeds - but

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only if you live in Newcastle. the don't knows what it will mean

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for places like San the Mowats -- Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Carlisle,

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York, whether they will get money to join this broadband fast lane in

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A North Yorkshire school, which was criticised for banning pupils from

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wearing Help for Heroes wristbands has now made "Help for Heroes" its

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official charity. This means pupils will now be able to wear the bands.

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Outwood Academy in Ripon says the school continues to support the

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local garrison, and is organising an event in Ripon Cathedral at the

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end of the year to raise funds for the charity. Police have had more

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than 30 calls following last night's BBC Crimewatch appeal to

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catch the man who raped a woman in Whitley Bay. She was attacked, and

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her male friend knocked out, early on Sunday 16th October. The suspect

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is white, in his mid 20s, between 5 feet 6 and 5 feet 9 inches tall,

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and chubby - with dark brown hair. He spoke with a local accent. For

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three years it's been the biggest construction project in the North

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of England. The 50 miles an hour speed limit has frustrated

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drivers.The miles of cones have driven them mad. But, by the end of

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the month, the A1 upgrade in North Yorkshire will finally have been

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completed. In fact, the latest section - between Baldersby and

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Gatenby - opened just this week. So what benefits will this �300

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million investment bring to the region? Peter Lugg's been finding

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out. The cones are in full retreat. Day by day they're being collected

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in their thousands.The matrix signs are being tested.The landscaping

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sculpted. It's all on the list of things to do for the man preparing

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to open a motorway. We have all the final finishes to do, which

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involves the final brush up with road sweepers and traffic

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management and spraying these planted areas to our right with

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seed. Beside the motorway a wild life corridor.Verges planted with

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oak and alder,blackthorn and holly.There are balancing ponds

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which take away the carriageway surface water but in doing so

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create a superb wildlife habitat. This work has been going on with

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56,000 because each day passing by. And the new stretch of motorway us

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to of miles long. There are 11 new bridges. At its peak, the project

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employs 700 people. And there were 10,000 road cones. This upgrade got

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in just before the recession. Phase two between Leeming and Scotch

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Corner is on the back burner and any prospect of improving the A1 in

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Northumberland looks miles away. But even this fairly modest 12

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miles of new blacktop is expected to make a difference to the

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regional economy. Being in the north-east as we are, anything that

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improves links to the centre, particularly to the south-east and

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the North-East can only be good for the economy and this project

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certainly Tixall of the relevant boxes. -- ticks all. If it does

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open at the end of the month as promised then the A1 upgrade will

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have been compelted three months ahead of schedule, �10 million

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under budget, but perhaps most important of all, without a single

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workplace accident. They offer help and support to more than 500

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children with disabilities. For 13 years Stockton Parent Support has

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helped provide activities and short breaks to children with special

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needs. But the charity is now at risk after receiving the news - via

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an e-mail - that its �80,000 a year funding is to be cut. Stuart

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Whincup reports. Joanne Bolton has five children - three have special

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needs. Often she says she's made to feel like a leaper, like her

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children are from hell. But Stockton Parent Support group

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allows her to feel normal. You do, with your kids, no matter how hard

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you try, people look at you and they judge you, and I would like to

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have in normal family because I do not want to feel like an outcast

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and have people accuse me of being a bad mother, when I am not.

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charity helps more than 500 famalies. Unlike other charities

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parents don't have to wait for an official diagnosis for their

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children's condition. They get help, support and respite care straight

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away. My son has learning difficulties. This service is

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brilliant. I need that extra support because it can be quite

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expensive. People with children with multiple disabilities will

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have no were to go. The council said that it wanted to reassure

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parents and carers that providing services for young people with

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disabilities was a priority. That money wannabe given to of charities,

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it says, to provide the same services. Parents say this charity

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feels like a family - their children are happy. Now, they say

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the one service that offered them help is being taken away. It's

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going to be a record year for the Port of Tyne. At least 37 cruise

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ships will berth there this year, almost doubling last year's number.

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Nearly 600,000 passengers used the terminal last season. That figure

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is set to be nearer one million in 2012. A 14-year-old girl who went

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missing from the Workington area 12 days ago has been found safe and

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well. Catalina is Romanian and speaks little English. She was

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found in the Carlisle area. With much of southern England already

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experiencing drought conditions, the prospect of wildfires breaking

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out in the countryside is an increasing danger. This week,

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firefighters from all over the world have been in Northumberland

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to learn how to deal with them, as Jon Williams reports. Fighting fire

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with fire in some of the most exposed and combustible moorland

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conditions. We have a significant wild far risk in Northumberland, we

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have got Kildare Forest, about 650 square kilometres of forest, so we

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have a significant risk. This heather grouse moor has been

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divided up into a huge practice grid for the firefighters, who then

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start small controlled fires to divert and suppress much bigger

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ones - by burning off the heather in front of it. It's part of a

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week-long European funded programme to share expertise with their

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continental colleagues. In France, we used the same techniques, but we

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want to share the best and the good practices, so we are very

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interested to sure the experience. Today was about fighting wildfires

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without water. Tomorrow, they'll see how it's done using one of the

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biggest water pumps in the country. Coming up soon,. Dawn's here with

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the sport news. And we're going with the Flow, as we find out what

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makes the �500,000 musical artwork tick. And changes in the weather

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coming up in the next few days. Join me later for the full forecast.

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In the region's long tradition of prominent churchmen, not many have

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had a higher profile than the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu.

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He's hotly tipped to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury - though

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he was playing down the speculation again today. On this Budget Day, he

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visited a community project in a deprived area of Newcastle - and

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reminded our politicians of what he believes really matters. Gerry

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Jackson reports. On the day politicians in London were shaping

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the lives of a nation, the symbolism of an Archbishop breaking

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bread with the less fortunate is hard to miss. This is the

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Cornerstone project, for 25 years a part of Benwell in Newcastle.

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Largely funded by the Church, it supplies meals, recreation and

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skills to people of all faiths and none. So what's the message from

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here on Budget Day? You have to judge a nation by how it deals with

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is vulnerable people and if you do not do that and terms of justice,

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equality and fairness, then something is wrong. As a nation, we

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need to have the moral real wakening and we need to bring those

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at the top much older and, so that inequality can be abolished. --

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much lower down. On Budget day, we all think, how will it affect me,

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but we need to think, how will it affect those who are really

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struggling. There's only one job higher than Dr Sentamu's in the

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Church of England and soon the Archbishop of Canterbury post will

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be vacant.. But this man refuses to be drawn. People can talk as much

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as you like. So speculate as much as you like, and I can hear about

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people making -- putting money on May. I am not the horse, so you can

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do whatever you like. I was asked, did I fancy the job? You cannot be

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serious, can you? And that was that but then there are many who still

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wouldn't bet against him. Let's say that if he could be persuaded, he

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has a charisma that would serve him well. I thought that I would have

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to kiss his ring, but it was all just natural, when he said he was

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coming, and I am 90 this year, so that has put the icing on the cake,

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hasn't it? A special launch event has been held today ahead of the

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opening of a �500,000 floating, musical, artwork on the River Tyne.

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"Flow" - as it's called - is located next to the Millennium

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Bridge in Newcastle. The musical creation is powered by a tide mill.

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Adele Robinson's been for a sneak preview. A floating will house and

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water wheel, a little more complicated than that, say the

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experts. -- millhouse. It is more complicated than that. It has some

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electrical and physical machines that respond to the river. --

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musical. Water passes through this gibe water wheel that powers the

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musical is the men's inside. You, we have a police samples of

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Tidewater, the more so than the water, the higher the pitch. Here,

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we have the bubble some decide -- synthesiser. People can pump air

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through these big jars. There is a laser going through this that turns

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the particles into noise, so the more de to the water, the more

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noisy it is. -- dirty. And we have ear warned that pleased its sound

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through the entire building so you can hear the mixture of the sound

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that people are creating outside. This is one of 12 public art works

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built to celebrate that 2012 volunteer. It has cost a lot of

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money, �1 million. Will it work? Yes, we hope so, and it is

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something that everyone can visit for free, so we hope to get a good

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verdict. The exhibit will stay open until after the London Olympic

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Games. Very nice, too! Sport news now and it has been an expensive

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day for our Premier League football teams. Both Newcastle and

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Sunderland have been left counting the cost of that derby dust-up,

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which flared after a challenge by the Black Cats' James McLean on

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United defender Danny Simpson. The clubs accepted a charge from the

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Football Association that they failed to control their players,

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with most of them taking part in the argy-bargy that followed.

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Sunderland were fined �20,000 but Newcastle's bill was doubled to

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�40,000 because it was their second similar offence this season. By

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contrast, it was a pretty tame performance by Martin O'Neill's

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side at Blackburn last night. They had the chance to climb back into

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eighth place in the Premier League but, instead, gave Rovers the

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chance to pull away from the relegation zone. Maybe they were

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too busy thinking about next week's FA Cup quarter-final replay with

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Everton? Maybe Saturday's original tie at Goodison took too much out

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of them? Whatever the reason, Sunderland limped through a

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disappointing 90 minutes at Ewood Park, and never really put

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struggling Blackburn under any pressure. The manager was less than

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impressed. We should have played better and we could have, and we

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didn't, and for long periods, we did not play well enough and if we

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do not do that, we will suffer the consequences. The Black Cats held

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out until just short of the hour. A clearance from Sotirios Kyrgiakos -

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on his Snuderland debut - was knocked straight back in by Junior

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Hoilett. Nicklas Bendtner was denied an equaliser when it looked

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odds-on he'd turn in James McLean's cross. And when a clear-cut chance

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finally fell the Black Cats' way, substitute Ji Dong Won somehow

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managed to put the ball over the bar from just three yards out.

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Former Middlesbrough striker, Yakubu, wrapped up the points with

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a late header, on a night when not too many Sunderland players lived

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up to their billing. Just about the only exception was captain for the

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night Phil Bardsley, playing through the pain of a rib injury.

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They'll need more of that fighting spirit, to keep alive their Premier

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League season and that dream of Wembley. Middlesbrough are fifth in

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the Championship and ended their run of two straight defeats with a

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hard-earned point at fellow promotion hopefuls West Ham. Mark

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Tulip takes a crash course in lip- reading! Actually this is an easy

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one. Who'd be a football manager though as Boro boss Tony Mowbray

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sees some brilliant late defending deny his battling side all three

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points at Upton Park? Early on West Ham - who like Boro draw too many

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home games - looked the likelier winners although both team had

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penalty appeals turned down. You've seen them given. There were claims

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of offside as Abdoulaye Faye's second half header looped over the

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helpless Jason Steele via Joe Bennett's head to give the

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Londoners a handy lead. And but for Steele's heroics, Boro would have

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been heading North empty-handed. But Mowbray's substitutions added

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some spark to the visitors late on and one of them, Bart Ogbeche,

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rescued a point with a sublime finish. Look what it meant to the

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manager. Boro would have taken that at 8 o'clock but nearing 10 they

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nearly won it - this was their other late effort - Jutkeviez the

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unlucky player. Three points at home to Bristol City this weekend

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would really get the play-off bid back on track. In League One

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Carlisle moved back into the playoff zone last night despite

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being held to a goalless draw by Preston. Almost 7,000 fans

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witnessed a lively affair at Brunton Park. Goalkeeper Adam

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Collin keeping out Graham Cummings, who really should have scored.

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Carlisle's best chance came when Top-scorer Lee Miller hit the post

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before Thorstenn Stuckmann tipped the rebound over the bar. Both

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sides had the chance to grab a winner late on, but in the end, the

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Blues had to settle for a frustrating point. The result moves

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them back into sixth though. At Victoria Park former Sunderland

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defender Jean-Yves M'voto saw to it that Hartlepool's six-match

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unbeaten run at home come to an end last night. And even the inclusion

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of Black Cats on-loan youngster Ryan Noble didn't do the trick,

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although he did come close. And Pools revealed today a knee

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operation means striker Colin Nish will be out for the rest of the

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will be out for the rest of the season. Time now for the weather

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forecast. Another very acceptable spring day for most of us. The

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pictures, of feather and fur. These cormorants have almost a

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prehistoric feel to them. And this is Murphy, enjoying low tide at the

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beach at Saltburn. There will be big variations in temperature

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tomorrow. Today, cloud broke up nicely and most places saw some

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sunshine. Heading into the evening, that cloud continuing to break, so

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long, clear spells, all adding up to a chilly night. Towns and cities

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will see temperatures dropping to four or five Celsius. In the 10th -

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- the countryside we will see temperatures closer to freezing,

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with a touch of ground frost possible. Some mist forming towards

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that north-east coast. And that could be a feature tomorrow morning.

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Most places will have another fine, dry, sunny day but in the afternoon,

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Mr and low cloud returning to some eastern areas. -- mist and low

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cloud. Where the Sun stays longest, Carlisle, 17, possibly 18 Celsius.

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By contrast, on the North East Coast, keeping some mist and low

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cloud on the East Coast, and struggling to make double figures.

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It is all to do with this high pressure, where it is centred, and

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what the wind direction is. As we head into the weekend, high

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pressure builds again. There is always an easterly component to the

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wind. Areas that there will shelter to the West likely to see the best

:26:42.:26:50.

of the sunshine. -- are well shuttered. On Saturday, mostly dry

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again, Western area seen the best of the brightness and the best

:26:54.:26:58.

daytime temperatures. Keep the weather pictures coming, there is

:26:58.:27:08.
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Time for a quick look at tonight's budget headlines. A 3% increase in

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fuel duty will go ahead in August. Planned rises in alcohol duty are

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also going ahead - putting prices up by 5% from next week. Duty on

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all tobacco products rose by 5% above inflation from 6pm today -

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the equivalent of 37p on a packet of cigarettes. And there are

:27:31.:27:34.

changes to the cuts planned for child benefit - only those earning

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