:00:09. > :00:15.Good Evening. Two important Chinese artefacts worth almost �1.8 million
:00:15. > :00:21.have been stolen in Durham. They were taken from the university's
:00:21. > :00:25.Oriental Museum in the city last night. Richard Thomas reports.
:00:25. > :00:30.This is one of the two artefacts that were taken. A large green jade
:00:30. > :00:35.bowl, dating from 1769. It has a Chinese poem written inside. A
:00:35. > :00:38.cream Dehua porcelain sculpture with a white glaze was also stolen.
:00:38. > :00:42.Both items were from the Qing Dynasty - the last imperial dynasty
:00:42. > :00:46.in China. And this is where the break-in took place.
:00:46. > :00:49.The Oriental Museum here in Durham between 10 and 10.40 last night.
:00:49. > :00:59.The artefacts were being housed in a cabinet in the Malcolm MacDonald
:00:59. > :01:03.Gallery on the ground floor. Do you think they knew what they were
:01:03. > :01:06.looking for? It is very early stages and the investigation but
:01:07. > :01:13.there is a possibility these people had a clear idea what they were
:01:13. > :01:17.looking for. They have taken the items of more significant value.
:01:17. > :01:23.�1.8 million is a huge value. are quite distinctive items which
:01:23. > :01:26.would be of huge value to a collector. We would like to trace
:01:27. > :01:32.the men who were seen acting suspiciously inside the museum
:01:32. > :01:36.yesterday. In particular, two males of Afro-Caribbean descent and one
:01:36. > :01:39.might Mail who were seen to be taking particular interest.
:01:39. > :01:41.Both pieces are said to be priceless and fine examples from
:01:41. > :01:44.the period and the university is hoping they'll soon be returned.
:01:44. > :01:50.The museum will remain closed until further notice while the police
:01:50. > :01:52.carry out investigations. People in more than 300 homes on
:01:52. > :01:56.the North York Moors are still without electricity, following this
:01:56. > :02:01.week's severe weather. 150 engineers are out fixing the faults
:02:01. > :02:04.for Northern Powergrid. They hope that by midnight, there'll be just
:02:04. > :02:09.70 customers without power and that all of them will be back on
:02:09. > :02:12.tomorrow. People off the grid for more than 24 hours will be
:02:12. > :02:17.compensated. A 19-year-old woman has died after
:02:17. > :02:22.she was hit by a taxi on Teesside. It happened just before 5am this
:02:22. > :02:26.morning on the coast road between Redcar and Marske.
:02:26. > :02:28.The family of a man who's in a coma after being assaulted in York are
:02:28. > :02:30.being urged to come forward. Stephen Eastwood has been
:02:30. > :02:34.unconscious in York District Hospital since being found with
:02:34. > :02:38.serious head injuries. He'd been attacked with a hammer on Lawrence
:02:39. > :02:45.Street on 27th March. No-one's been to visit him in hospital, and the
:02:45. > :02:48.police are appealing for help finding his family.
:02:48. > :02:51.The world's rarest duck has managed to breed successfully in captivity
:02:51. > :02:58.thanks to the help of a Washington man who spent months hand rearing
:02:58. > :03:03.ducklings in his hotel room. It was part of a project to save the
:03:03. > :03:07.species, led by two wildlife trusts. Adele Robinson reports.
:03:07. > :03:12.This is the man who hatched 23 x and hand-reared the heiress
:03:12. > :03:17.ducklings and the world. His day job - working at the Washington let
:03:17. > :03:22.one centre. Two years ago, for two months and one hotel room in
:03:23. > :03:32.Madagascar, he made history. would wake up in the morning
:03:33. > :03:33.
:03:33. > :03:39.sometimes and it would be are rattling around of ducklings. You
:03:39. > :03:44.have half the world's population of endangered noise -- ducks here.
:03:44. > :03:52.in day out, he monitored the ducklings. The population of the
:03:52. > :03:57.rheostat in the world more than doubled. At great sense of pride
:03:57. > :04:02.but also about of comedy at the same time. It was ridiculous, but
:04:02. > :04:05.we pulled it off. They have been declared extinct twice and we are
:04:05. > :04:15.about to be again before a small group were found by chance on a
:04:15. > :04:17.
:04:17. > :04:22.lake. In 2009, own started his work. It was a great privilege.
:04:22. > :04:25.biggest challenge - with the breed in captivity? Their success story
:04:25. > :04:35.means the newly hatched ducklings bring the world population to just
:04:35. > :04:36.
:04:36. > :04:38.60. I guess I am their grandad. Around 45,000 people are expected
:04:38. > :04:43.to travel through Newcastle International Airport this bank
:04:43. > :04:46.holiday weekend. It's due to be the busiest weekend of the year so far
:04:46. > :04:51.with around 410 flights scheduled to arrive and depart over the four
:04:51. > :04:53.days. Football now, and in League One
:04:53. > :04:59.there were 1-1 draws for Carlisle United at Wycombe and Hartlepool
:04:59. > :05:04.United at Colchester. The big game of the day was Newcastle's away
:05:04. > :05:09.trip to Swansea. Success meant they move up to fifth, just two points
:05:09. > :05:12.off a Champions League place. Keith Akehurst reports.
:05:12. > :05:15.Newcastle got off to the best possible start. Yohane Cabaye's
:05:15. > :05:22.superb pass found Papiss Cisse who scored his eighth goal in eight
:05:22. > :05:25.games. Swansea had the lion's share of the possession in the first half
:05:25. > :05:30.but United kept them to the middle of the pitch. Just one shot for Tim
:05:30. > :05:33.Krul to save from Sigurdsson. The second period was very much like
:05:33. > :05:35.the first. Swansea piled on the pressure. A poor clearance from
:05:35. > :05:40.Ryan Taylor, brought another shot from Sigurdsson. But once again
:05:40. > :05:46.Krul kept the ball out. And then in the 69th minute another Cabaye pass
:05:46. > :05:50.found Cisse, who somehow makes the almost impossible look easy.
:05:50. > :05:53.Technique very few players could execute. Then nine minutes before
:05:53. > :05:57.the end Cisse might have got a hat- trick when he almost capitalised on
:05:58. > :06:04.a poor back pass. Newcastle win their fourth consecutive match for
:06:04. > :06:09.the first time since 2006. The final score: Swansea City nil,
:06:09. > :06:13.Newcastle United two. A Cumbrian tourist attraction is in
:06:13. > :06:16.line to win the country's Best Tourism Experience award. The Via
:06:16. > :06:20.Ferrata, a climbing path among the crags at the Honister Slate Mine,
:06:20. > :06:24.has been shortlisted in the Enjoy England awards. The winner will be
:06:24. > :06:34.announced next month. Now let's get the weekend weather
:06:34. > :06:35.
:06:35. > :06:39.Good evening. The Easter weekend on the whole looks to be a fairly
:06:39. > :06:43.cloudy affair. Most of us will see some rain at times. A lot of cloud
:06:43. > :06:48.around through the evening and overnight. Poor visibility up in
:06:48. > :06:53.the high ground. Any breaks in the ground could allow the temperatures
:06:53. > :06:57.to dip to as well as to Celsius. A bit chilly first thing. A little
:06:57. > :07:01.bit of brightness here and there with a mostly dry start to the day.
:07:01. > :07:05.A lot of cloud around through the afternoon in most places should
:07:05. > :07:14.stay dry through Saturday. As far as temperatures go, on the cool
:07:14. > :07:19.side. For Easter Sunday itself, rain in the East clears away and