:00:02. > :00:05.Hello and welcome to Thursday's Look North. Tonight:
:00:05. > :00:10.A popular adventure park is closed to the public after a neighbour
:00:10. > :00:13.complains about noise. The glimmer of hope in the long-
:00:13. > :00:23.running fight to bring the region's fishing industry back from the
:00:23. > :00:26.brink. The American teenager on a trip of
:00:26. > :00:36.a lifetime to the Yorkshire Dales, and all because she wants to follow
:00:36. > :00:41.
:00:41. > :00:44.in the footsteps of James Herriot. Bath and we are live in Berwick on
:00:44. > :00:47.the first anniversary of the torch relay.
:00:47. > :00:49.In sport - Warner's suspended and Joe Root hits back after the
:00:49. > :00:52.weekend's altercation with a half century for England.
:00:52. > :01:02.And the Great North swimmers taking the plunge in memory of lost
:01:02. > :01:04.
:01:04. > :01:09.It was a popular adventure park visited by thousands of people
:01:09. > :01:12.every week. But now Beamish Wild in County Durham has been closed to
:01:12. > :01:15.the public because it's too noisy. The park was a favourite among
:01:15. > :01:18.children, but a neighbour complained and the site was issued
:01:18. > :01:21.with a noise abatement order. That means there's been a big drop in
:01:21. > :01:31.visitor numbers and only small pre- booked groups are allowed at the
:01:31. > :01:34.Beamish Wild used to be a buzz of activity as children climbed,
:01:34. > :01:37.whizzed through the air, made their way across obstacles and tried to
:01:37. > :01:40.solve puzzles. There were tractor rides, too.
:01:40. > :01:47.But not everybody was happy. A house backs onto this land and the
:01:47. > :01:50.owners complained about the sound of rowdy youngsters. A noise
:01:50. > :01:56.abatement order was issued by the local authority. Now, just an eerie
:01:56. > :02:01.silence and 15 jobs have been lost. As a result of the noise abatement,
:02:01. > :02:07.or we had to take the decision that we have to close to the public and
:02:07. > :02:12.only offer the type of activities that we offer two groups and
:02:12. > :02:17.advance bookings. Said the number of people that we can actually
:02:17. > :02:19.accommodate it has been reduced dramatically.
:02:19. > :02:21.We've been unable to contact the neighbour who made the complaint.
:02:21. > :02:24.Meanwhile Durham County Council gave us a statement:
:02:24. > :02:28.The council is always keen to help businesses work through what they
:02:28. > :02:29.can do to reduce the impact of noise from their premises which is
:02:29. > :02:32.causing a statutory nuisance to local residents.
:02:32. > :02:35.As such we have continued to discuss any problems the company
:02:35. > :02:38.has raised in an effort to help resolve the matter to the
:02:38. > :02:46.satisfaction of all involved. Beamish Wild say it would be
:02:46. > :02:54.difficult to reduce the noise of excited children. We are a very
:02:54. > :03:01.family orientated attraction. It aimed at children between eight and
:03:01. > :03:04.12. The vast amount of our visitors were young families. On busy days
:03:04. > :03:07.they'd have up to 800 visitors. The site is still open to smalll pre-
:03:07. > :03:09.booked groups, like schools visiting here, but not the general
:03:09. > :03:12.public. Now, the only part open to all of
:03:12. > :03:16.us is the high ropes course. That by itself doesn't make too much
:03:16. > :03:21.noise. A few metres away is the restaurant and bar. It still gets
:03:21. > :03:26.busy, but they have noticed a difference. Business is OK because
:03:26. > :03:31.of the weather, but we have noticed a reduction in the number of
:03:31. > :03:41.families coming down and spending a fault day with us. Before the noise
:03:41. > :03:42.
:03:42. > :03:45.abatement order, we had a lot of activities. So the park is
:03:45. > :03:49.surviving. But it's not the roaring success
:03:49. > :03:52.with general public it could be. The former chair of Cleveland
:03:52. > :03:55.Police Authority has told a court it was possible he was driving his
:03:55. > :03:58.car when it was caught speeding. Dave McLuckie is accused of
:03:58. > :04:00.persuading a friend to accept his penalty points because he feared he
:04:00. > :04:04.would lose his licence and that, it's claimed, would have
:04:04. > :04:14.jeopardised his chances of becoming head of the police authority.
:04:14. > :04:15.
:04:15. > :04:25.Stuart Whincup was in court. Dave McLuckie told the court that a
:04:25. > :04:26.
:04:26. > :04:33.good friend of his what regularly used his car. When his car was
:04:33. > :04:43.clocked, he thought his friend was driving and he agreed to take the
:04:43. > :04:49.
:04:49. > :04:54.penalty points. But a few years later, the two men fell out.
:04:54. > :05:01.Maurice became bitter because he had cancer and wanted to sue the
:05:01. > :05:06.local health a authority and wanted help from Dave McLuckie. Dave
:05:06. > :05:15.McLuckie also told the court that he never feared losing out on the
:05:15. > :05:21.top job at the police authority. He said it was possible to do the job
:05:21. > :05:25.even if he did not have a driving licence. He said he had no
:05:25. > :05:33.recollection of what happened that day it eight years ago and he said
:05:33. > :05:40.it was possible he could have been driving, but Maurice Ward accepted
:05:40. > :05:45.that he was driving. The prosecution said that Maurice Ward
:05:45. > :05:52.was a sitting duck and Dave McLuckie was convinced he would get
:05:52. > :05:57.away with it. He did get away with it, but that was until now. The
:05:57. > :06:00.case continues. The Government has announced more
:06:00. > :06:03.than �10 million is to be spent to encourage business growth on
:06:03. > :06:06.Teesside. Around half the money is coming from the European Union.
:06:06. > :06:09.It's being targeted mainly at the St Hilda's area of Middlesbrough
:06:09. > :06:12.and Darlington's Central Park. Much of the cash is intended to create
:06:12. > :06:15.jobs in the digital and creative media sectors.
:06:15. > :06:18.It seems there's a glimmer of hope in the long-running fight to bring
:06:18. > :06:22.the region's fishing industry back from the brink. After years of
:06:22. > :06:25.quotas and restrictions, cod stocks in the North Sea seem to be on the
:06:25. > :06:34.rise. But for fishermen who continue to face tough times, it's
:06:34. > :06:43.difficult to see any light at the end of the tunnel.
:06:43. > :06:47.It is for a Ian and this boat edges out of the harbour. The trawler
:06:47. > :06:55.cuts a lonely figure and the owner can only reflect on how this once
:06:55. > :07:05.vibrant industry has changed. communities have been devastated.
:07:05. > :07:08.
:07:08. > :07:14.There is no fishing left. 10 years ago, there were 30 trawlers working
:07:14. > :07:20.out of Whitby. Now this is the only one, but as fish stocks improved,
:07:20. > :07:29.things are looking up. A recent survey by the Marine stewardship
:07:29. > :07:39.Council suggests that cod levels are increasing and they could reach
:07:39. > :07:41.
:07:41. > :07:50.sustainable levels, allowing Whitby cod lovers to tuck in, guilt-free.
:07:50. > :07:57.We had been waiting a long time for this. We have been seen increases
:07:57. > :08:01.in the cod stock. Now it is coming close to the level that is deemed
:08:01. > :08:06.to be sustainable. It is just a matter of time before we get there.
:08:06. > :08:16.For most would-be fishermen at time is something they do not have. They
:08:16. > :08:25.have either sold up or diversified. Preserving that way of life is a
:08:25. > :08:32.major importance and now things are heading in the right direction. But
:08:32. > :08:36.there are some hoops that are hurdles too far. We have to declare
:08:36. > :08:46.our catch before we go into the harbour, but how do we know what it
:08:46. > :08:47.
:08:47. > :08:52.will be? At least now, there odds are looking good. -- the odds are
:08:52. > :08:54.looking good. A full-scale flood emergency
:08:54. > :08:57.exercise took place in a County Durham village this morning,
:08:57. > :09:00.complete with a search and rescue helicopter. Lanchester was flooded
:09:00. > :09:05.on so-called Thunder Thursday last June and again only last month. Now
:09:05. > :09:09.villagers are taking flood response action into their own hands.
:09:09. > :09:12.No athletics this morning. There's a helicopter landing on the school
:09:12. > :09:15.playing field. Very exciting for the pupils of St Bede's High School
:09:15. > :09:17.in Lanchester. But it's serious business for
:09:17. > :09:22.Teesdale and Weardale Mountain Rescue practising their drills for
:09:22. > :09:26.a genuine flooding emergency. And Lanchester is very familiar
:09:26. > :09:35.with floods. Twice within the past year the village has been under
:09:35. > :09:39.water. Lanchester is in a valley and there are hills. The water
:09:39. > :09:46.comes down like a river and the drains are not coping. That is the
:09:46. > :09:48.main reason for the floods. Today's exercise was designed to
:09:48. > :09:51.encourage the community to help themselves when widespread flooding
:09:51. > :09:56.could stretch the emergency services and local people will be
:09:56. > :10:00.the first responders. Historically, Lanchester has flooded and number
:10:00. > :10:07.of times over the last hundred years, but in recent times, the
:10:07. > :10:12.floods have been particularly high. The floods last year affected a lot
:10:12. > :10:20.of properties. Today is very much about how the community can help
:10:20. > :10:24.itself, what is available to them, either in the early stages when the
:10:24. > :10:27.warnings come. A stockpile of aquasacs is
:10:27. > :10:32.Lanchester's first line of defence. They're bags filled with a special
:10:32. > :10:40.gel that swell up when soaked with floodwater to become sandbags. The
:10:40. > :10:43.local agencies have chosen a good day for this trial. This community
:10:43. > :10:48.has experience flooding and number of time in recent years, but they
:10:48. > :10:52.are now prepared for any future flooding. What they have learned
:10:52. > :10:58.here can be shared with other communities in County Durham and
:10:58. > :11:01.beyond. A scheme to harness the power of
:11:01. > :11:03.the River Tyne to produce electricity has been abandoned. The
:11:03. > :11:06.Hexham Hydro project beat 900 others across the country to win
:11:06. > :11:09.initial funding of �100,000, but supporters say rising costs now
:11:09. > :11:13.make it impractical. The project would have involved a hydro turbine
:11:13. > :11:15.at the weir at Hexham, producing electricity for up to 200 homes.
:11:15. > :11:18.But today its organisers said costs have risen from an initial �1
:11:18. > :11:28.million to an estimated �2.5 million - too high a price for a
:11:28. > :11:32.
:11:32. > :11:40.community project. Still to come, Thursday's sports
:11:40. > :11:47.news. Also, we are live in Berwick on the first anniversary of the
:11:47. > :11:56.Olympic torch relay. Join me for details of an unsettled forecast
:11:56. > :12:00.and the wall and fell away winning photograph for May. -- and we will
:12:00. > :12:03.reveal our were winning photograph for May.
:12:03. > :12:06.She has a lifelong ambition to become a vet. So what better place
:12:06. > :12:09.to visit than the World of James Herriot in the Yorkshire Dales?
:12:09. > :12:12.Rose Wright is 15 and has a brain tumour. But she's travelled
:12:12. > :12:16.thousands of miles from her home in Illinois in the United States after
:12:16. > :12:19.becoming a fan of the Herriot books when she was a little girl. Peter
:12:19. > :12:22.Lugg has been to meet her. The petty cash jar on the mantle
:12:22. > :12:24.piece, Mrs Pumphrey's pampered pooch Tricky Woo and some of
:12:24. > :12:34.Siegfried's magic potions. An American girl in Darroby, otherwise
:12:34. > :12:43.
:12:43. > :12:47.known as Thirsk - the real life All Creatures Great and Small has
:12:47. > :12:50.no bigger fan that 15-year-old Rose Wright from Illinois. Rose has been
:12:50. > :12:53.very ill recently, but now she's feeling a little better, she's
:12:53. > :13:03.determined to enjoy a family holiday to a world she's only read
:13:03. > :13:04.
:13:04. > :13:10.about in books or watched on grainy old TV shows. I think on the sleep
:13:10. > :13:17.a lot of the story lines and movies in the US right now are trendy.
:13:17. > :13:23.They will go away soon, but I think the James Herriot's stories were
:13:23. > :13:29.made in the early 1960s and 1970s and we still love them. I think it
:13:29. > :13:32.is better to invest in something that will last that long.
:13:32. > :13:40.The holiday, arranged by the Make A Wish Foundation, was the idea of
:13:40. > :13:47.Roses's parents. It's not like anything we see in America. It is
:13:47. > :13:49.very quirky and delightful. For Alf Wright's daughter Rose's
:13:49. > :13:54.visit was confirmation of her father's vetinerary tales
:13:54. > :13:59.international appeal. He would have loved the fact that he is giving
:13:59. > :14:07.this goal pleasure. She told me that when she started her first
:14:07. > :14:10.book, she could not put it down. From the top of Sutton Bank a
:14:10. > :14:13.bird's eye view of the landscape that both fictional and real life
:14:13. > :14:23.vets worked in. Tomorrow, farmyard mud, clever sheepdogs and a pair of
:14:23. > :14:26.
:14:26. > :14:33.rubber gloves. The region Sinfonia orchestra now comes by royal
:14:33. > :14:37.appointment. It is the first on it to be given for 20 years. The
:14:37. > :14:41.Sinfonia is the only full-time professional chamber orchestra in
:14:42. > :14:47.the country. Its leader says the new title is a great honour and a
:14:47. > :14:50.tribute to the international quality of its musicians.
:14:50. > :14:52.It's exactly a year since the Olympic torch relay began its
:14:52. > :14:55.momentous journey through our region. On a Thursday afternoon in
:14:55. > :14:58.June the torch crossed the Scottish border into Berwick to be greeted
:14:58. > :15:01.by thousands of people lining the route. One of the torchbearers
:15:01. > :15:07.likened the experience to her wedding day and the birth of her
:15:07. > :15:15.children. Tonight and all next week on Look North we look back at those
:15:15. > :15:21.memorable days. Peter Harris is live for us in Berwick now. Peter.
:15:21. > :15:25.I have got the torch. Yes, a year ago they were packing up after the
:15:26. > :15:32.party. The torch had come into England from Scotland. It had come
:15:32. > :15:36.over this new bridge at the start of a fortnight of momentous events
:15:36. > :15:46.across the North East and Cumbria. I am pleased to say the person who
:15:46. > :15:47.
:15:47. > :15:51.carried the torch across the bridge is here. Hello, Magritte. He told
:15:51. > :15:56.us after you had done the run that it was equal to marriage and the
:15:56. > :16:01.birth of your children. Is that right? That is right. It was
:16:01. > :16:07.unbelievable. Rather like marriage and children, you don't realise
:16:07. > :16:16.until you are in the middle of it how fantastic it is. Does describe
:16:16. > :16:24.what it was like? -- just describe what it was like. There was music,
:16:24. > :16:30.children, banners, it was almost indescribable. The mayor of Berwick
:16:30. > :16:36.is with us now. What was it like for at how might this have in this
:16:36. > :16:41.going on? There was a fantastic spirit. There are 10,000 people
:16:41. > :16:46.here. The sun was shining, music was playing, it was just everyone
:16:46. > :16:52.getting together. There was a barbecue and activities for the
:16:52. > :17:00.children. I think it was great everywhere that it went. Margaret
:17:00. > :17:05.was nominated by her grandchildren. Why did you do that? Because she
:17:05. > :17:11.helps the community and she is a school governor as well. You said
:17:11. > :17:17.she was good for her age as well, but I won't ask her how or she is!
:17:17. > :17:27.What was it like watching your grandma? It was great. I am very
:17:27. > :17:33.
:17:33. > :17:40.proud. I cannot resist, can I? From Berwick it worked its way down and
:17:40. > :17:50.we will be following the same trail. Tomorrow I will be on the Quayside.
:17:50. > :17:59.Back to the studio. You were there, weren't you?
:17:59. > :18:02.I was. It was a fantastic sight. Time for the sport.
:18:02. > :18:05.9,000 swimmers are getting ready to zip up their wetsuits for the
:18:05. > :18:08.country's biggest open water swim this weekend. The first heats in
:18:08. > :18:11.the Great North Swim on Windermere are tomorrow over distances ranging
:18:11. > :18:13.from half a mile to just over three. Elite men and women are competing
:18:13. > :18:20.on Saturday, including Commonwealth champion Robbie Renwick from
:18:20. > :18:22.Scotland and Germany's Christian Reichert, ranked 6th in the world.
:18:22. > :18:25.South Shields Paralympic gold medallist Josef Craig will start
:18:25. > :18:28.them off. Some of the heats were cancelled last year because of
:18:28. > :18:34.stormy weather and while that's not on the cards this time, after the
:18:34. > :18:36.coldest Spring in 50 years the lake will be very chilly.
:18:36. > :18:42.For three young swimmers from Newcastle the event will have
:18:42. > :18:45.special significance, as Hannah Bayman's been finding out.
:18:45. > :18:50.Matthew, Rebecca and Amy taking a dip before this weekend's Great
:18:50. > :18:54.North Swim. For them the event will be particularly poignant.
:18:54. > :18:57.Matthew is swimming in memory of Lee Halpin. The 26-year-old
:18:57. > :18:59.journalist died while sleeping rough in Newcastle to make a
:18:59. > :19:09.documentary about homelessness, on a night in April when temperatures
:19:09. > :19:12.
:19:12. > :19:17.fell to minus two. It struck a chord with me personally. I am
:19:17. > :19:21.still in awe of what he was doing. It was brave and courageous. That
:19:21. > :19:28.was the kind of person he was. The money will go towards the
:19:28. > :19:32.documentary he was making and it will also go to a charity that he
:19:32. > :19:34.supported. Rebecca and Amy are fundraising for
:19:34. > :19:37.Glencoe Mountain Rescue in tribute to their university friends Una
:19:37. > :19:46.Finnegan, 25, and Rachel Majumdar, 29 - doctors who both died in an
:19:46. > :19:51.avalanche on Glencoe in January. They were such inspiring people and
:19:51. > :19:56.bullied us into doing all sorts of events. It felt right to do
:19:56. > :19:59.something and challenge ourselves. In the pool here the temperature is
:19:59. > :20:05.about 30 Celsius. In Windermere this weekend that's likely to be
:20:06. > :20:11.nearer 14 near the surface, colder below. I think it will have the or
:20:11. > :20:17.freezing. I have done some preparation in a lake, but I will
:20:17. > :20:20.prepare with socks, gloss and a wet suit.
:20:20. > :20:24.However cold this weekend's swim, these three friends will be carried
:20:24. > :20:26.to the finish line by memories of loved ones they have lost.
:20:26. > :20:29.Australia batsman David Warner has been suspended until the first
:20:29. > :20:33.Ashes Test match for punching Yorkshire and England player Joe
:20:34. > :20:36.Root in a bar in Birmingham at the weekend.
:20:37. > :20:41.Warner, who played Twenty20 cricket for Durham in 2009, was also fined
:20:41. > :20:48.�7,000 for breaching the code of behaviour. It means he'll miss the
:20:49. > :20:52.remainder of the Champions Trophy. The incident doesn't seem to have
:20:52. > :20:56.affected Root, who rode his luck at times but hit an impressive 68 in
:20:56. > :20:59.the competition against Sri Lanka this afternoon at the Oval.
:20:59. > :21:05.At Lords, four wickets apiece for Liam Plunkett and Steve Patterson
:21:05. > :21:07.meant Middlesex had to follow on after being bowled out 175.
:21:07. > :21:17.And at Chester-le-Street, four wickets from Ben Stokes helped
:21:17. > :21:22.
:21:22. > :21:24.Durham dismiss reigning champions Finally, congratulations to
:21:24. > :21:29.Northern Thunder, the Powerchair football team from the Percy Hedley
:21:29. > :21:32.Academy on North Tyneside. The boys who we featured on Look North a few
:21:32. > :21:35.weeks ago have won both the WFA National Premier League and the
:21:35. > :21:40.National Cup. They're off to the European Powerchair Championships
:21:40. > :21:43.in France later this month. And well done to Hartlepool's new
:21:43. > :21:46.management team of Colin Cooper and Craig Hignett, who made it to the
:21:46. > :21:54.summit of Mount Kilimanjaro this morning to raise funds for
:21:54. > :22:04.children's charities. Well done to them both. A fantastic
:22:04. > :22:11.
:22:11. > :22:16.effort. Now it is time for the weather.
:22:16. > :22:21.Our weather dog has featured in our pictures several times. She has
:22:21. > :22:31.appeared with her owner, so we thought they might both like to do
:22:31. > :22:41.
:22:41. > :22:51.the honours this time around. We have had hurt since she was two
:22:51. > :22:51.
:22:51. > :22:56.weeks old. She trains quite well. She is done here all day doing
:22:56. > :23:02.tricks and entertaining people. She has also got into surfing. She
:23:02. > :23:10.followed me into the sea, so we put her on a board and she loves it.
:23:10. > :23:20.She has got her own serve board and her life jacket. Despite the
:23:20. > :23:21.
:23:21. > :23:31.onshore wind, they were both happy to take to the waves.
:23:31. > :23:36.
:23:36. > :23:46.Make is becoming a celebrity. She has her O Facebook page -- her own
:23:46. > :23:52.
:23:52. > :24:02.Facebook page. They had a difficult time choosing the best picture.
:24:02. > :24:08.
:24:08. > :24:14.There were a lot of dull photos and also pictures from Saltburn. There
:24:14. > :24:22.was also this fantastic shot, which is the runner up. It caught a bit
:24:22. > :24:32.of a rainbow that was coming through. So, or great runners up,
:24:32. > :24:35.
:24:35. > :24:41.but which picture war be the main one? This has to be the winner. I
:24:41. > :24:51.often go their surfing. Congratulations from both of us.
:24:51. > :24:58.
:24:58. > :25:07.Well done to them both, and congratulations to the winner of
:25:07. > :25:12.the best picture. It's a spectacular shot.
:25:12. > :25:17.Tomorrow, the winds will be south- westerly. It will keep things
:25:17. > :25:24.unsettled. Today we had the tail end of this weather system that
:25:24. > :25:29.brought some will downpours. It is beginning to clear away. Some high
:25:29. > :25:37.pressure building in behind it, keeping things quiet overnight. Any
:25:37. > :25:42.showers should die away. Most of us will have a dry night. It will feel
:25:42. > :25:51.fresher and the winds will be liked. Temperatures will drop to single
:25:51. > :25:55.figures. It is a TriStar for many tomorrow, a bit of brightness
:25:55. > :26:00.especially in the east, but the cloud will thicken and the rain
:26:00. > :26:07.will spread in from the south-west. It will reach most places by the
:26:07. > :26:16.afternoon. Not a lot of brightness through the afternoon. Temperatures
:26:17. > :26:25.will peak at around 17 or 18 Celsius. Add in a brisk wind and
:26:25. > :26:30.the rain and it might not feel any warmer than it was today. The
:26:30. > :26:38.weather front will career, but the tail of it will bring wet and windy
:26:38. > :26:48.weather. Sunday it will be the best day, weather Wise. If you are out
:26:48. > :26:48.
:26:48. > :26:55.and about on Saturday, expect rain and for it to be cloudy. There will
:26:55. > :27:00.also be a gusty wind. Sunday will be a quieter day it were otherwise.
:27:00. > :27:10.It will be dry it with some bright spells. Temperatures up to 18
:27:10. > :27:16.Celsius. Very changeable forecast. We will keep you updated as we head
:27:16. > :27:18.towards the weekend. Now for a last look at tonight's
:27:18. > :27:20.headlines: Dale Cregan, who murdered four
:27:20. > :27:22.people, including two policewomen in Greater Manchester, has been