:00:12. > :00:16.up tonight: No more, a North East charity calls for an immediate end
:00:17. > :00:22.to onshore wind farm approvals in North England.
:00:22. > :00:24.The disabled man who says his records were illegally accessed by a
:00:24. > :00:32.private investigator plans legal action.
:00:32. > :00:40.A Police Commissioner spending �100,000 to improve brand identity.
:00:40. > :00:45.And why do so few of us fail to learn the local lingo?
:00:45. > :00:55.Teesside long jumper Chris Tomlinson... After eight years this
:00:55. > :00:58.
:00:59. > :01:02.man is the coach in charge of one of The arguments over how we should be
:01:02. > :01:05.producing our future energy continue to rage. This summer's hot topic, of
:01:05. > :01:10.course, is fracking. It's dominated the national headlines, and pushed
:01:10. > :01:14.more local issues over things like wind turbines, into the background.
:01:14. > :01:18.But pictures like these have brought the wind farm debate sharply back
:01:18. > :01:24.into focus. This is a view of Dunstanburgh Castle, in
:01:24. > :01:28.Northumberland, which you'll only see from a boat. This is a shot
:01:28. > :01:30.taken further South, near Coquet Island. They've been issued by the
:01:30. > :01:33.Northumberland and Newcastle Society, with the message - enough
:01:33. > :01:39.is enough. The Society's calling for an immediate end to wind farm
:01:39. > :01:47.approvals in Northumberland. Our Political Editor Richard Moss is in
:01:47. > :01:53.Northumberland near Dunstanburgh for us now. Richard. This is the middle
:01:53. > :01:58.fields wind farm, the very turbines you can apparently see looming over
:01:58. > :02:01.the castle in those dramatic pictures. It is that kind of impact
:02:01. > :02:07.on the historic and beautiful scenery of Northumberland that is
:02:07. > :02:14.worrying the society. They were initially rejected by local planners
:02:14. > :02:19.only to be approved by government planning inspectors. The society
:02:19. > :02:22.wants an immediate band on onshore wind farms in this society.
:02:22. > :02:32.don't see the landscape, you just see the blades of the wind farm.
:02:32. > :02:36.
:02:36. > :02:43.But, of course, the vast majority are put in Northumberland. 20 times
:02:43. > :02:47.than art -- 20 times more than placed in Oxfordshire.
:02:47. > :02:53.perspective when you get down to the castle is very different. From the
:02:53. > :02:57.coast you can't see them at all. When I spoke to visitors going to
:02:57. > :03:03.and from the castle, they were much less exercised than the society
:03:03. > :03:08.about the impact of turbines on the landscape. They changed the
:03:08. > :03:16.landscape. I don't know if I agree or disagree with them, to be honest.
:03:16. > :03:21.I would not favour them, if it is a difference between nuclear energy
:03:21. > :03:28.and wind power I would go for wind power every time. It is a necessary
:03:28. > :03:37.evil. What is the future now for these wind farms, Richard? More
:03:37. > :03:42.applications are coming in. More iconic Northumberland views are
:03:42. > :03:48.affected. The public seems to be conflicted about this. The
:03:48. > :03:51.Conservatives don't really want to see more onshore developments, but
:03:51. > :03:58.the Secretary of State for climate change is a Liberal Democrat and has
:03:58. > :04:02.been more positive. Today I spoke to a number of Green representatives
:04:02. > :04:07.who backed these wind farms. They aren't so keen these days. They
:04:07. > :04:11.believe the future is to go off the coast. But it depends on your
:04:11. > :04:16.perspective. Look at those shots from the sea and they look
:04:16. > :04:22.terrific. From the land they don't seem to make quite as big an impact.
:04:22. > :04:25.-- horrific. So should we accept them, or has the
:04:25. > :04:28.countryside seen enough wind turbines? You can join the debate on
:04:28. > :04:32.the Look North Facebook page, the address is on your screen The
:04:32. > :04:38.unemployment rate in the North East is still the highest in the country.
:04:38. > :04:41.The unemployment rate in the North East is still the highest in the
:04:41. > :04:44.country. Latest figures show that 7,000 more people lost their jobs in
:04:44. > :04:48.the last three months. Workers in the region lucky enough to have a
:04:48. > :04:51.job are paid some of the lowest average wages in Britain. But behind
:04:51. > :04:53.those grim figures, parts of the region have actually seen falling
:04:53. > :05:03.unemployment. Our Political Correspondent, Mark Denten, is with
:05:03. > :05:03.
:05:03. > :05:07.me now. Mark, at first sight these pictures do look pretty grim.
:05:07. > :05:09.they do. It is the highest unemployment in the country, but how
:05:09. > :05:13.do we compare to the rest of Britain?
:05:13. > :05:17.While unemployment is up 5.6% in the North East, it's fallen by a quarter
:05:17. > :05:21.in the South East. But the jobless rate is increasing even more in some
:05:21. > :05:24.areas. In the West midlands it is up 18%, more than three times the
:05:24. > :05:29.increase in this region. And a different picture emerging depending
:05:29. > :05:34.on your age? Yes, there does appear to be an age divide in this region.
:05:34. > :05:39.Youth unemployment in the North East went up 5,000 in a year. That's for
:05:39. > :05:44.people aged 16-24. But in exactly the same period unemployment among
:05:44. > :05:47.older workers those age 50-64 dropped by 8,000. Now, there have
:05:47. > :05:51.been some high profile campaigns by major supermarkets to recruit older
:05:51. > :05:53.workers that may just be having an impact - little comfort, though, for
:05:53. > :06:03.those younger workers, and indeed the thousands expecting their
:06:03. > :06:04.
:06:04. > :06:07.A-level results tomorrow. And a mixed picture on wages? Yes, people
:06:07. > :06:11.in the North East still have the lowest average weekly wages in
:06:11. > :06:18.England. The average weekly wage across the country is �568. In the
:06:18. > :06:22.North East it is �492. And one final worrying point - women are still
:06:22. > :06:26.falling behind. While both men's and women's wages went up in the region
:06:26. > :06:36.by about �30 a week in the last year, women in the North East are
:06:36. > :06:39.
:06:39. > :06:42.still on average earning �85 a week The family of a disabled Cumbrian
:06:42. > :06:45.man whose personal finance records were illegally obtained by a private
:06:45. > :06:48.investigator are planning legal action. Daniel Morton's bank
:06:48. > :06:53.statements and benefits records were obtained whilst he was pursuing an
:06:53. > :06:55.insurance claim over a car crash. A private investigator was jailed for
:06:55. > :06:59.obtaining the information but the insurance companies dealing with Mr
:07:00. > :07:08.Morton's claim say they had nothing to do with the crime. Alison Freeman
:07:08. > :07:14.reports. Even simple tasks are difficult for
:07:14. > :07:17.Daniel Morton. It was thought he'd never walk or talk again, after a
:07:17. > :07:19.car crash in 2007. But whilst Daniel battled to get better and receive
:07:20. > :07:29.compensation, a private investigator was illegally obtaining his personal
:07:30. > :07:34.
:07:34. > :07:39.financial records. It is ruthless, really. That they are trying to get
:07:39. > :07:42.involved in a disabled person's life. Daniel, now 32, was a
:07:42. > :07:45.passenger in an uninsured driver's car which crashed on the A66 near
:07:46. > :07:49.Great Clifton. A private eye admitted - and was jailed for -
:07:49. > :07:55.getting records belonging to Daniel and some of the others who were
:07:55. > :08:04.hurt. It's not clear who the information was for. I taught him to
:08:04. > :08:09.walk and talk. I brought him to how he is now. And for people to come
:08:09. > :08:16.and say that it wasn't like that, that he was putting it on and trying
:08:16. > :08:18.to dig out on him... It's ruthless. The Serious Organised Crime Agency
:08:18. > :08:21.said the investigator used a technique called 'blagging' which
:08:21. > :08:27.means getting past security measures simply using persuasion or
:08:27. > :08:33.pretending to be someone else. The Motor Insurers' Bureau, deals with
:08:33. > :08:35.compensation claims where the driver is uninsured. In a statement, the
:08:35. > :08:38.bureau vigoriously denied any involvment, saying IT had not
:08:38. > :08:43.initiated any enquiries by private investigators or instructed them,
:08:43. > :08:50.either directly or indirectly. Insurance company Tradex was
:08:50. > :08:52.appointed by MIB to handle and pay out on the claims. It refused to
:08:52. > :08:59.comment until it had completed enquiries with the independent
:08:59. > :09:02.claims agent it appointed. Daniel is likely to need greater care in the
:09:03. > :09:06.future and the family says it plans to sue for invasion of privacy.
:09:06. > :09:10.Alison Freeman, BBC Look North, Workington.
:09:10. > :09:13.A man's been charged after an incident in which a police horse was
:09:13. > :09:16.allegedly punched in the face at the Tyne Wear derby match. Trouble
:09:16. > :09:20.flared at the match at St James' Park in April. 45-year-old Barry
:09:20. > :09:25.Rogerson, from Bedlington, has been charged with violent disorder. He's
:09:25. > :09:28.due before Newcastle magistrates in September.
:09:28. > :09:32.An expensive new brand and logo for North Yorkshire's Police and Crime
:09:32. > :09:36.Commissioner has caused anger in the county. Julia Mulligan, who started
:09:36. > :09:40.in the role late last year, says she's saved the police money in
:09:40. > :09:44.other areas. But she's under fire for spending more than �10,000 for
:09:44. > :09:53.the new branding when the Force is facing millions of pounds of cuts.
:09:53. > :09:57.Phil Chapman has this report. There have been many famous
:09:57. > :10:03.re-brands over the years, whether for corporate reasons or design
:10:03. > :10:06.trends. Even these proved controversial at some stage. But is
:10:06. > :10:11.this public money well spent for the Police and Crime Commissioner for
:10:11. > :10:15.North Yorkshire? The people of North Yorkshire are well aware of the
:10:15. > :10:20.impact cuts are having on the police force, so it is inevitable that
:10:20. > :10:28.these projects will attract attention from the public and
:10:28. > :10:35.serving members of the police. Around the corner from the Police
:10:35. > :10:44.Federation's office, what do people think of the rebranding? I think it
:10:44. > :10:49.is a waste of taxpayer money for a logo I could probably do at home.
:10:49. > :10:54.�10,000 is excessive given that money is very tight at the moment.
:10:54. > :10:59.think maybe more police on the street. The Police and Crime
:10:59. > :11:03.Commissioner has defended the move today. It is important to get the
:11:03. > :11:07.basics in place. There are a whole range of practical business tools
:11:07. > :11:12.that we needed to do and now that we have them we ourselves efficient and
:11:12. > :11:19.can crack on and do the job. We are saving money, we have saved money in
:11:19. > :11:22.my own office and we are maintaining police officer numbers. There was a
:11:22. > :11:27.missed opportunity here. If you look at what Police and Crime
:11:27. > :11:32.Commissioners around the region have done, in some cases they have gone
:11:32. > :11:41.out and engaged with the public, particularly young people, and had
:11:41. > :11:44.then designed logos. It's not exactly The Ashes, but the
:11:44. > :11:47.goings-on at another of the region's cricket grounds have created quite a
:11:48. > :11:53.stir. 81-year-old Margaret Burn has been a stalwart of the Marsden
:11:53. > :11:56.Cricket Club on South Tyneside, for 60 years. Now she's been banned from
:11:56. > :12:00.the ground, amid allegations about her behaviour towards younger
:12:00. > :12:10.members. She says she's disgusted by her treatment. Gerry Jackson
:12:10. > :12:13.
:12:13. > :12:18.reports. It is an unlikely looking battle ground, and she is an
:12:18. > :12:21.unlikely villain of the piece. Margaret Burn has never taken the
:12:21. > :12:29.field, but she's been one of those vital backroom staff a place like
:12:29. > :12:31.this relies on. I'd use to do all the tea. I have done my bit, yes.
:12:31. > :12:35.But now Margaret is suspended and, pending an investigation, banned
:12:35. > :12:38.from the ground. A few weeks ago, Margaret confronted a group of
:12:38. > :12:47.children who were playing on this pitch, while a match was going on.
:12:47. > :12:52.It's alleged her language was inappropriate. The club says it was
:12:52. > :12:57.by no means the first time. She has had several warnings over the years
:12:57. > :13:01.with regard to her behaviour towards children in the club and also to
:13:01. > :13:10.other members of the club as well. As a committee, we've decided we
:13:10. > :13:16.have had to take a strict stance. Yes, I do go on at them but I have
:13:16. > :13:19.never ever sworn. I would put my husband's life on the line for that.
:13:19. > :13:23.Margaret's husband John, who has Alzheimer's, is a former player at
:13:23. > :13:26.the club. Until her suspension, she used to bring him to watch games
:13:26. > :13:30.once a week. The club says Mr Burn is always welcome here and that
:13:30. > :13:33.other committee members are on hand to look after him, albeit without
:13:33. > :13:37.Margaret. The club knows that as far as publicity on this goes, it is on
:13:37. > :13:45.a sticky wicket. But it says it must keep the welfare of all its members,
:13:45. > :13:50.old and young, in mind. Personally, I wouldn't want to be umpiring this
:13:50. > :13:55.one. Coming up next - mind your language.
:13:55. > :14:03.And later: Boom time for Benidorm. We continue our look at the rise and
:14:03. > :14:06.fall of our seaside resorts. And not the weather for cricket, I
:14:06. > :14:13.will be here with a full forecast after the rest of this evening's
:14:13. > :14:19.While many of us are no strangers to foreign holidays a survey out today
:14:19. > :14:23.suggests we're still embarrassed by our inability to speak languages.
:14:23. > :14:26.The British Council says nearly a fifth of us have spoken English in a
:14:26. > :14:35.fake foreign accent - a trap the former Middlesbrough manager Steve
:14:35. > :14:41.McLaren fell into on Dutch television, have a listen to this.
:14:41. > :14:48.I, sort of, knew when I came here in the Champions League, Liverpool or
:14:48. > :14:55.Arsenal, I thought we would draw one of them. It was one of the reasons I
:14:55. > :15:03.came to draw Arsenal. It is exciting for everybody. Arsenal is a big
:15:03. > :15:12.team, what are your chances against Arsenal? We are not what you would
:15:12. > :15:15.call underdogs, but massive underdogs. I'm cringing for him, but
:15:15. > :15:25.as our correspondent found out in York today, overseas visitors seem
:15:25. > :15:42.
:15:43. > :15:49.to have no problem at. All with our The really annoying thing about this
:15:49. > :15:59.lot is that most of them are as fluent in English as they are in
:15:59. > :16:03.their native language. I listen to news from the BBC every day.
:16:03. > :16:09.learned it being at school. Singing songs, doing really easy stuff, and
:16:09. > :16:19.then it got harder and harder. different for the English. Take
:16:19. > :16:19.
:16:19. > :16:26.Gordon. He learned from the McLaren School of language. We have
:16:26. > :16:31.apricots, a nice apple. It seems we are just lazy. Everyone speaks our
:16:31. > :16:34.language so we don't need to learn bears, but according to the British
:16:34. > :16:40.Council, that attitude could cause embarrassment or even get some
:16:40. > :16:50.ripped off. I ended up at the wrong airport in France. My friend had to
:16:50. > :16:59.drive back four hours to France. And then I couldn't find the gate.
:16:59. > :17:03.struggled in France, no-1's book a word of English. We live in the
:17:03. > :17:13.Middle East but everyone speaks English. The lesson seems to be that
:17:13. > :17:14.
:17:14. > :17:24.if you want respect, try harder and just give it a go.
:17:24. > :17:36.
:17:36. > :17:40.THEY SPEAK ITALIAN Very nice. Now, before the advent of cheap air
:17:40. > :17:44.travel it was a familiar story. People saved all year for a week off
:17:44. > :17:47.work - and then the holiday was ruined by the British weather. But
:17:47. > :17:50.by the 1970s all that was changing. Holiday-makers were deserting our
:17:50. > :17:54.seaside resorts and flying off for a fortnight in the sun. It was boom
:17:54. > :17:57.time for Benidorm, but it marked the beginning of the decline of many of
:17:57. > :18:00.our coastal towns. Tonight in the second part of our seaside series,
:18:00. > :18:09.Peter Harris looks at the big holiday revolution, when we swopped
:18:09. > :18:14.sand castles for sangria. By the 1970s, resorts like Whitley
:18:14. > :18:22.Bay had more than just the weather to worry about. Really it was
:18:22. > :18:26.transport that made these resorts. In many ways it is transport that
:18:26. > :18:36.started to kill them off, because once people could get cheap flights
:18:36. > :18:50.
:18:50. > :18:59.to Spain there was no stopping us and Malta. It was lovely. It was a
:18:59. > :19:08.real experience. The children enjoyed it as well. Our son learnt
:19:08. > :19:12.swim there. He learned to swim underwater, believe it or not.
:19:12. > :19:20.were at a nightclub and there was a comedian. I dare not tell you the
:19:20. > :19:30.jokes. In the ten years from 1977 the number of families taking trips
:19:30. > :19:43.
:19:43. > :19:49.abroad more than doubled. Not that thought the Beachy was one of the
:19:49. > :19:56.best in Spain and we found out it was rather dirty. In my opinion,
:19:56. > :20:03.last year was a 5-star, this year was possibly a two. What about the
:20:03. > :20:09.standard of service? No waiters come to the pool now to offer you
:20:09. > :20:15.drinks. There just wasn't any service at all. And while they were
:20:15. > :20:23.whingeing their way through a fortnight abroad, at home there was
:20:23. > :20:32.a perfect storm for the seaside towns. Seaside tourism is an
:20:32. > :20:42.industry as much as coal and steel. The seaside towns will never be as
:20:42. > :20:46.
:20:46. > :20:51.popular as they once were. But when the sunshine -- sun shines it is the
:20:51. > :20:56.place people want to be. As the climate improves these places could
:20:56. > :21:06.become very popular again. Abroad you don't get the scenery, it is
:21:06. > :21:38.
:21:38. > :21:48.quite barren, but it is quite Benidorm - a life-size dinosaur has
:21:48. > :21:50.
:21:50. > :21:57.been causing a stir in Newcastle. He has been created by Extreme Quad
:21:57. > :22:07.Report Puppetry designed to mimic the movements of a stegosaurus, and
:22:07. > :22:13.he is certainly a crowd-pleaser. had spikes on the back. I think they
:22:13. > :22:21.were in the Jurassic period. I can't remember, but it looks to me like it
:22:21. > :22:28.is in the Jurassic. Do you like dinosaurs? Yeah.Why? Because they
:22:28. > :22:32.are big and they have a big teeth. resident palaeontologist is on hand
:22:32. > :22:36.to tell children all about the dinosaur and the manager is pleased
:22:36. > :22:44.about the reaction they have had. I'm particularly pleased with the
:22:44. > :22:51.loudness of the raw that greeted his entry. The museum has announced
:22:51. > :23:01.collections of dinosaur material, particularly from iguanodons, so it
:23:01. > :23:01.
:23:01. > :23:07.is exciting to bring that natural history to life. I was going to say,
:23:08. > :23:11.very lifelike, but how do we know? First up, Middlesborough long jumper
:23:11. > :23:16.Chris Tomlinson has called off his Twitter attack on the decision not
:23:16. > :23:20.to send him to the World Championships. Tomlinson posted a
:23:20. > :23:23.furious to eat in which he said, words could describe his anger, at
:23:23. > :23:33.being passed over for Olympic champion Greg Rutherford, who
:23:33. > :23:33.
:23:33. > :23:37.crashed out early in the competition.
:23:37. > :23:40.A year on from winning Olympic gold, the selection of Greg Rutherford for
:23:40. > :23:42.Russia enraged Chris Tomlinson, who let his feelings be known on
:23:42. > :23:46.Twitter. Rutherford was struggling with a hamstring injury while
:23:46. > :23:48.Tomlinson was fit, and in the end the decision backfired. A clearly
:23:48. > :23:51.disappointed Rutherford could only manage 14th in qualification.
:23:51. > :23:58.it absolutely everything out there. I try to make it work and it didn't.
:23:58. > :24:01.That is the hard fact. It is amazing how different a year can be. Even
:24:01. > :24:10.before the selection was made, Tomlinson's frustration had begun to
:24:10. > :24:15.show. I am a better performer than Greg at the moment. I do understand
:24:15. > :24:22.that he won the Olympics last year whereas I finished sixth, and that
:24:22. > :24:31.will be taken into account. Tomlinson now says he will not be
:24:31. > :24:36.tweeting again on the matter. Well they're no longer the new kids on
:24:36. > :24:39.the block. In fact, basketball's Durham Wildcats are gearing up for a
:24:39. > :24:42.third BBL season - hoping to continue the club's steady
:24:42. > :24:46.year-on-year improvement. And when they tip off for the new season,
:24:46. > :24:48.next month, they'll have a new man at the helm. After eight years in
:24:48. > :24:51.charge, long-serving coach Dave Elderkin has stepped down. He'll be
:24:51. > :24:57.replaced by 32-year-old Lee Davie, who's previously worked with Durham
:24:57. > :25:02.University's women's team and the Great Britain under-20s. I'm very
:25:02. > :25:05.excited about the opportunity. It is the highest level of basketball for
:25:05. > :25:08.men in our country so I am looking forward to the opportunity to get
:25:08. > :25:11.out there and compete with the best players and teams that we have at
:25:11. > :25:13.this level. Cricket finally, and County Championship leaders
:25:13. > :25:16.Yorkshire have strengthened their batting line-up by signing New
:25:16. > :25:19.Zealander Kane Williamson for the remainder of the campaign. The
:25:19. > :25:28.23-year-old has played 25 Test matches for the Kiwis, and averages
:25:28. > :25:38.just over 40 with the bat in the first-class game.
:25:38. > :25:41.
:25:41. > :25:45.Now it is time for the weather it to turn wet across the region, a
:25:45. > :25:48.band of heavy rain moving in from the South West. Through the evening
:25:48. > :25:54.rain will be widespread across Cumbria and towards the early hours
:25:54. > :26:00.of tomorrow morning it will turn wet for North Yorkshire. A real wash-out
:26:00. > :26:05.by morning rush, some heavy bursts over the Cumbrian lakes and fells.
:26:05. > :26:10.Temperatures will be 17 Celsius at the very lowest, overnight it will
:26:10. > :26:17.be the low 60s. Those are the temperatures we had in the
:26:17. > :26:21.afternoon, so mild air arriving with this weather front. Through late
:26:21. > :26:26.morning and into lunchtime there will be an easing of the rain.
:26:26. > :26:29.Possibly some isolated spells of sunshine, but it is not long before
:26:30. > :26:37.the rain returns. It is widespread across Cumbria, but drive for much
:26:37. > :26:42.of North Yorkshire at team time -- tea-time. It will be a touch warmer
:26:42. > :26:48.than today. Raining heavily across the North East and the rain will
:26:48. > :26:52.spread further eastwards across North Yorkshire. To the west it will
:26:52. > :26:56.be raining heavily by the early evening and it will become even more
:26:56. > :27:02.intense as the evening goes on and overnight into Friday. A little
:27:02. > :27:06.cooler in Cumbria, but still remarkable temperatures considering
:27:06. > :27:14.the lack of sunshine. Over the next couple of days, and improvement.
:27:14. > :27:18.Clear from Friday, we expecting mostly dry day. There will be a
:27:18. > :27:23.little more sunshine on Friday, but generally wet and unsettled on
:27:23. > :27:27.Saturday with rain or showers. Sunday also looks pretty
:27:27. > :27:31.changeable, bright spells and blustery showers but then high