:00:04. > :00:11.Hello. Welcome to Look North. In the programme tonight: The cuts go
:00:11. > :00:15.deeper. Durham has to look for £20 million in savings on top of the
:00:15. > :00:18.£200 million it's already committed to.
:00:18. > :00:21.In the shadow of a waste mountain. People living near this landfill
:00:21. > :00:25.site say it's blighted their homes. The giant pipe that siphons water
:00:25. > :00:30.from Cumbria to supply a quarter of the North West's needs gets its
:00:30. > :00:33.first inspection for 50 years. The willowy figures which so
:00:33. > :00:36.enchanted Prince Charles that he's had his favourite dog commemorated
:00:37. > :00:41.in twigs. In sport, two of our teams take a
:00:41. > :00:44.step closer to Wembley glory. The former Newcastle keeper with the
:00:44. > :00:59.lowdown on the new man chosen to keep Sunderland in the Premier
:00:59. > :01:03.League. Every service will be under review.
:01:03. > :01:07.That's the grim news for people in County Durham as the County Council
:01:07. > :01:11.embarks on yet more cuts. The authority says it has to find an
:01:11. > :01:17.extra £20 million in savings on top of its existing target of more than
:01:17. > :01:23.£200 million. That brings the total savings that need to be made by 2017
:01:23. > :01:27.to £222 million. Casualties could include five care homes for older
:01:27. > :01:32.people. Our Political Editor is outside County Hall in Durham now.
:01:32. > :01:45.Just how big is the financial challenge still facing Durham? That
:01:45. > :01:49.£222 million represents about a quarter of the Council's budget. It
:01:49. > :01:54.has managed to find about half of that since 2011 which has caused
:01:54. > :02:02.1500 jobs and put pressure on services, but there is still around
:02:02. > :02:08.50% to find. That means more jobs to go and more pressure on services. I
:02:08. > :02:11.do not think there are any services we run that have not been reviewed
:02:11. > :02:16.already, but I think all of them are going to have to be looked at again.
:02:16. > :02:20.There is no other way we can approach this to find a quarter of
:02:20. > :02:26.everything we do that will need to be reduced. We will run a major
:02:26. > :02:29.consultation that will start in a couple of weeks right across County
:02:29. > :02:33.Durham for people to tell us what their priorities are. More details
:02:33. > :02:42.to come, but five care homes for older people are definitely under
:02:42. > :02:45.threat? Yes, another decision being discussed was the future of these
:02:45. > :02:49.care homes. You may remember a protest that took place not that
:02:49. > :02:53.long ago about the future of the council run care homes, people
:02:53. > :02:56.desperate to save them because they were under pressure. Some did
:02:56. > :03:01.close, but around five were kept open. It seems that the battle might
:03:01. > :03:11.have to start again because those five are under review. Those council
:03:11. > :03:17.homes are in Durham and other places. The cost almost twice as
:03:17. > :03:22.much to keep in a council run home as an independent sector home. You
:03:22. > :03:24.can see the pressure is there, but it will be uncertain times for the
:03:25. > :03:27.Humber residents. We're used to hearing councils telling us they're
:03:27. > :03:34.struggling to meet Government targets of course. But how do we
:03:34. > :03:37.square that with the BBC poll, that's just been released, which
:03:37. > :03:46.shows a majority of the public think services have improved since the
:03:46. > :03:49.cuts started? That is right. The government has seized on this and
:03:49. > :03:54.pointed councils in the north—east and said, you can take money out of
:03:55. > :03:58.the system, you can make efficiencies without hitting council
:03:58. > :04:02.services. The Conservative group leader here, although he is
:04:02. > :04:07.sympathetic to Labour, he believes his own government have taken too
:04:07. > :04:09.much money out of County Durham, he says that are efficiencies the
:04:09. > :04:15.council could still make without hitting services to the public. If
:04:15. > :04:22.you look at executive pay, better people sitting around the Cabinet
:04:22. > :04:29.table, we are one of the highest paying councils in the country. We
:04:29. > :04:34.announced very large capital spending, £95 million of public
:04:34. > :04:39.money, perhaps some of these egg capital projects need to be
:04:39. > :04:47.scrutinised carefully. One other qualification to that survey, it was
:04:47. > :04:50.a thousand people, north—east —— the north—east council feel they have
:04:51. > :04:54.been hit particularly hard. People living in the shadow of a
:04:54. > :04:57.massive landfill site in Hartlepool say their homes are virtually
:04:57. > :05:01.unsellable because of it. The site at Seaton Carew is in the process of
:05:01. > :05:04.being landscaped. But a campaign group set up by local people says
:05:04. > :05:13.work being carried out at a Waste Transfer Station nearby continues to
:05:13. > :05:17.make their lives a misery. The duck pond paints a picture of
:05:17. > :05:20.suburban bliss in this part of Hartlepool. But behind the manicured
:05:20. > :05:24.lawns lies a row between locals and the council that's been going on for
:05:24. > :05:27.years. It's all because of this, a massive landfill site that residents
:05:28. > :05:35.say is too big and too close to their homes. When we first moved
:05:35. > :05:40.into the property, we were told that the site, it was trees and
:05:40. > :05:45.wildlife, wild flowers, we were told that was how it would remain, as a
:05:45. > :05:50.wildlife garden, forest trails. Five years on, the landfill site has been
:05:50. > :05:54.opened and it has probably tripled in size. We have had our house on
:05:54. > :06:00.the market for months and have ended up taking it off because nobody is
:06:00. > :06:03.interested. When the estate agents valued the property they said we
:06:03. > :06:06.have lost up to £60,000. Locals say their lives continue to be made a
:06:06. > :06:09.misery by smells and vermin now coming from a nearby waste transfer
:06:09. > :06:12.station. Niramax was granted planning permission in 2010 to
:06:12. > :06:16.upgrade and extend facilities here. But locals say the smell is often as
:06:16. > :06:24.bad as when the landfill site was open. Some days, I take my dog for a
:06:24. > :06:28.walk and I want passed the landfill site and the smell is so severe it
:06:28. > :06:34.makes me rich and I have to turn round and cut the walk short —— it
:06:34. > :06:38.makes me feel sick. Although no—one from Niramax would appear on camera
:06:38. > :06:41.they did invite me onto their site. Locals accuse the company of being
:06:41. > :06:44.in breach of planning regulations by storing these bails outside. Niramax
:06:45. > :06:53.says they're a much greener way of processing waste. The council says
:06:53. > :06:56.it is concerned by locals concerned but while the planning application
:06:56. > :06:59.is being processed it would be inappropriate to comment. Although
:06:59. > :07:00.they wouldn't provide anyone for interview, the council has issued a
:07:00. > :07:18.statement. Back on the other side of the mound,
:07:18. > :07:33.locals say they feel let down by the council and left unable to sell
:07:33. > :07:37.their homes. Police searching for a missing
:07:37. > :07:45.Darlington man have found a body. The man has not been seen since
:07:45. > :07:47.August 15. The body was discovered close to the A1 motorway. It has
:07:48. > :07:54.been removed for postmortem examination.
:07:54. > :07:57.A family from Middlesbrough has staged a protest at the Foreign
:07:57. > :08:02.Office in London calling for better treatment for relatives of people
:08:02. > :08:05.who die abroad. Matthew Cryer was just 17 when he died outside a
:08:05. > :08:09.nightclub on the Greek island of Zante in 2008. A UK inquest found he
:08:09. > :08:12.had been unlawfully killed. Now his family wants other bereaved families
:08:12. > :08:19.to get more support from Foreign Office officials. You are kind of
:08:19. > :08:23.left feeling quite bereft and on your on and you do not feel
:08:23. > :08:26.supported. You feel that the organisation is more concerned with
:08:26. > :08:31.that self, the career progression of its staff and its own image not to
:08:31. > :08:38.us, the UK citizens, but foreign governments. —— to foreign
:08:38. > :08:41.governments. Now, have you any idea where this
:08:42. > :08:44.might be? It's inside the giant pipe which carries water from the
:08:44. > :08:47.Haweswater Reservoir in the Lake District to the massive conurbations
:08:47. > :08:51.of Greater Manchester. The building of the aqueduct from Haweswater to
:08:51. > :08:53.Bury was one of the country's biggest engineering projects. It now
:08:54. > :08:58.supplies 25% of the North West's water needs. For the first time in
:08:58. > :09:05.almost 50 years, engineers have been inspecting it.
:09:05. > :09:08.Haweswater is beautiful today, but this is an artificial landscape,
:09:08. > :09:11.where the valley and its villages were flooded to slake an expanding
:09:11. > :09:17.Manchester's thirst for ever more water. From here to Bury a pipe
:09:18. > :09:34.would be built to carry 400,000 tonnes of water a day.
:09:34. > :09:42.A huge piece of engineering and foresight for the builders. We have
:09:42. > :09:53.to turn the history pages back to 1919 for the start of this game. ——
:09:53. > :09:59.scheme. In 1919, it got the royal consent and permission to build the
:09:59. > :10:02.reservoir and the aqueduct. That is when they got on and started to
:10:02. > :10:05.build the dam and everything else. The aqueduct, now 90 miles long, was
:10:05. > :10:09.many years in the making, not reaching its full size until 1974.
:10:09. > :10:18.The demands placed upon it have grown too. There comes a point when
:10:18. > :10:23.you have to take the aqueduct out of service and make sure it is OK. This
:10:23. > :10:27.is where that is the huge logistical movement of water for us, we have to
:10:27. > :10:32.reverse what we have done over the past 40 years. All of these other
:10:32. > :10:35.places have to be self—supporting so we can get inside and make sure it
:10:35. > :10:39.is in tiptop condition. How to switch the water through the pipe
:10:39. > :10:41.off has been in the planning for ten years. 100 engineers, known as
:10:41. > :10:44.aquanauts, have been inside the aqueduct for a week now. They were
:10:44. > :10:51.specially chosen after undergoing training in this mock pipe in
:10:51. > :10:56.Kendal. If you imagine the dashboard or your car, the service light has
:10:56. > :11:00.definitely come on. We are going to look into it and if we have to put
:11:00. > :11:04.in more investment we can plan for that. If need be, we will go back
:11:04. > :11:07.and into or three years to do any work we need to do. Hundreds of feet
:11:07. > :11:09.underground, the restrictions are tight. Engineers must wear
:11:09. > :11:12.sterilised suits and can't even drop crumbs from their lunch boxes in
:11:12. > :11:21.case they contaminate drinking water. Nobody in United Utilities
:11:21. > :11:24.has ever done that. That aqueduct has never been drive. It is surely
:11:24. > :11:28.uncharted territory. That United Utilities are confident no major
:11:28. > :11:31.problems will be found is down to the quality of the engineering
:11:31. > :11:34.carried out from the 1930s onwards. Millions of people who take clean
:11:34. > :11:47.water for granted have a much earlier workforce to thank for that.
:11:47. > :11:52.Its roof will be covered with grass. It'll cost over £10 million. An
:11:52. > :11:55.appeal's been launched to find almost £4 million still needed to
:11:55. > :11:59.create The Sill, a major discovery centre planned near Hadrian's Wall
:11:59. > :12:04.in the Northumberland National Park. Today the building's design was made
:12:04. > :12:07.public. This is Hadrian's Wall country, an
:12:07. > :12:12.iconic landscape unchanged in centuries. Now, to maximise the
:12:12. > :12:15.potential of this World Heritage Site status, the Northumberland
:12:15. > :12:19.National Park is planning the Sill Discovery Centre. Today unveiling
:12:19. > :12:29.the ground—breaking design topped with a roof of native Whin Sill
:12:29. > :12:32.grass. What you will see here is a new landscape discovery Centre, a
:12:32. > :12:40.very innovative building with an innovative green roof which people
:12:40. > :12:43.can come and walk all over. The building is designed to seamlessly
:12:43. > :12:46.rise out of the landscape which gives people the opportunity to get
:12:46. > :12:57.onto the roof of the building and engage with when cell vegetation and
:12:57. > :13:00.also the wider views. It will be built right here on the site of the
:13:00. > :13:10.existing visitor centre. One small challenge. £3.7 million is needed to
:13:10. > :13:15.unlock lottery funding. Polar explorer Konrad Dickenson is giving
:13:15. > :13:20.his support. It is a fantastic project. It is going to become a
:13:20. > :13:27.gateway and springboard for a wide selection of people to engage in
:13:27. > :13:30.what the park has to offer. At a time of austerity and cutbacks,
:13:30. > :13:34.should we be looking at a project like this? This is the time we
:13:34. > :13:42.should be looking at it. If fundraising goes to plan the Sill
:13:42. > :13:46.could be open for business in 2017. Coming up: A new way to see the
:13:46. > :13:49.Yorkshire Dales without getting out of breath.
:13:49. > :13:57.We'll be hearing from the football manager who swears he'll never turn
:13:57. > :14:00.the air blue again. There is Stormy weather on the way
:14:00. > :14:09.for eastern areas, including our region.
:14:09. > :14:12.It's an ancient craft that's still very much in demand. For one
:14:12. > :14:16.practitioner, it's work fit for a prince. Emma Stothard, whose studio
:14:16. > :14:20.is in Whitby, sculpts animals from willow. One of her latest
:14:20. > :14:31.commissions was for Prince Charles, a sculpture of his favourite dog.
:14:31. > :14:43.From these talented hands, amazing things are being made. For a must.
:14:43. > :14:47.Art, bending and sheep in Willow is now part of her work. Dramatic
:14:47. > :14:53.sculptures made with techniques that date back thousands of years. In her
:14:53. > :14:58.workshop in Whitby, the latest commission is beginning to to life.
:14:58. > :15:09.I am working on a pheasant and I am using the Willow like drawing. Each
:15:09. > :15:12.strand is interwoven. It is quite tough but it is soaked in water
:15:12. > :15:22.first saw it becomes supple and pliable. Emma's work is now being
:15:22. > :15:36.sold around the world. In Yorkshire you will find several PCs hiding in
:15:36. > :15:40.the woods. —— examples of her work. People love them. People want to
:15:40. > :15:46.touch them and have their photograph taken. They want to come along and
:15:46. > :15:51.enjoy them. Emma's work has received royal approval. This started with
:15:51. > :15:55.the grants from the Princes trust and to thank its patron she has made
:15:55. > :16:11.him a Willow structure of his favourite dork which now sits in the
:16:11. > :16:19.grounds —— dog. I asked if I could make him his favourite gift and I
:16:19. > :16:23.was asked to make his beloved dog. Yorkshire has found itself a royal
:16:23. > :16:30.connection, art and nature which survives and thrives in all kinds of
:16:30. > :16:43.weather. Such patients. —— patience.
:16:43. > :16:46.He was caught on camera swearing and shouting. The football manager
:16:46. > :16:49.filmed barking at his players at a time the Ebac Northern League was
:16:49. > :16:52.trying to stamp out swearing. It was so worried that bad language was
:16:52. > :16:56.stopping families attending games that it sent secret shoppers to spy
:16:56. > :17:00.on its games. But now, one year on, the manager says he's changed his
:17:00. > :17:01.ways and become an ambassador for the League.
:17:01. > :17:08.Still vocal, still passionate. But Paul Bennett says he's now calmer
:17:08. > :17:12.and more relaxed. If you don't believe him, this is what he was
:17:12. > :17:35.like last season when he was filmed by Look North. BLEEP It was a little
:17:35. > :17:41.bit embarrassing to watch that back. I think referees will back me up
:17:41. > :17:52.that I have improved. It has changed my whole approach. I have been,. I
:17:52. > :17:55.am nice and calm nowadays. The Northern League says Paul's
:17:55. > :18:02.transformation shows what can be achieved. This is a lot to do with
:18:02. > :18:06.your programme because he saw himself and he thought, I am not
:18:06. > :18:17.like that, and he realised how awful it sounded. He thought he had to
:18:17. > :18:21.change and he suddenly discovered —— you suddenly discover that behind
:18:21. > :18:24.the nonsense is an articulate lad who enjoys himself a great deal more
:18:24. > :18:33.now he has stopped ranting and raving. Hopefully we can make
:18:33. > :18:36.improvements because we have children watching and they do not
:18:36. > :18:40.want to hear that and their parents do not want to hear that. So
:18:40. > :18:43.committed is Paul now to the cause of stamping out swearing, he wants
:18:43. > :18:51.to become an ambassador for the League.
:18:51. > :18:54.Now the sport. The Johnstone's Paint Trophy may not
:18:54. > :18:57.be the most glamorous of cup competitions, but for our lower
:18:57. > :19:01.league clubs it represents their best chance of Wembley glory this
:19:01. > :19:05.season. Last night a place in the last 16 was up for grabs and it was
:19:05. > :19:09.League Two's Hartlepool who stole the show.
:19:09. > :19:12.More heroics from Hartlepool in the Football League Trophy. After
:19:12. > :19:16.despatching League One side Bradford in the first round, they were at it
:19:16. > :19:21.again last night against other team a division above them, Sheffield
:19:21. > :19:24.United. Just one goal enough as Cooper's side progressed courtesy of
:19:24. > :19:34.a strike from James Poole, his third of the season and second in as many
:19:34. > :19:38.games. I thought we looked solid. Sheffield united hit the bar in the
:19:38. > :19:43.first minute. After that I thought we settled into it and I have to say
:19:43. > :19:48.I thought we looked solid and dealt with most things that they threw at
:19:48. > :19:51.us and we looked dangerous on the counterattack. Carlisle United are
:19:51. > :19:53.another team who've undergone a turnaround in fortunes in recent
:19:53. > :19:56.weeks and they also booked themselves into Saturday's draw for
:19:56. > :19:59.the northern section quarter finals. After a goalless draw at League Two
:19:59. > :20:02.Morecambe, they eventually won 4—3 on penalties, preserving new manager
:20:02. > :20:09.Graham Kavanagh's unbeaten record since he took over the job. But York
:20:09. > :20:12.City are out. An own goal by Chris Smith gave League One Rotherham a
:20:12. > :20:15.1—0 lead at the interval and a second—half penalty followed by Alex
:20:15. > :20:19.Revell's header saw the visitors gain revenge for their exit at the
:20:19. > :20:30.hands of the Minstermen in last season's competition.
:20:30. > :20:37.The former Newcastle goalkeeper Steve Harper was back at St James's
:20:37. > :20:42.Park today to hand over the cheque. The proceeds from his charity
:20:42. > :20:47.football match. One of the starters was Paolo Di Canio who lost his job
:20:48. > :20:53.as the court just days later. He is well placed to talk about the
:20:53. > :21:02.successor. Almost 51,000 supporters flocked to
:21:02. > :21:06.St James' Park. Teams representing Newcastle and AC Milan proved a big
:21:06. > :21:10.draw, with the Sunderland coach at the time Paolo Di Canio the target
:21:10. > :21:16.for special treatment. 11 days later, he was out of a job, so
:21:16. > :21:22.fortunate timing. He played a fantastic part in it, one of the
:21:22. > :21:26.best players on the pitch. I thought he might have scored and took the
:21:26. > :21:31.edge of the night. It was great of him to come along and I am sad for
:21:31. > :21:39.him that he lost his job. As for his successor, Parker spent a month
:21:39. > :21:47.working under him. They were just one or two players short of being a
:21:47. > :21:54.Premier League side. He has a very difficult job now. Players will
:21:54. > :21:58.working for him. He has the management style of knowing who
:21:58. > :22:03.needs an arm around them and he is not scared of giving people a
:22:03. > :22:08.rocket. He has a difficult first game against Newcastle but I can see
:22:08. > :22:23.him doing well. Today was about saying thank you. Six good qualities
:22:23. > :22:26.—— six charities are richer tonight. Next year's Tour de France is coming
:22:26. > :22:29.to North Yorkshire for the first time ever and the route will take on
:22:29. > :22:34.some of the most picturesque parts of the deal, which is why one couple
:22:34. > :22:45.have come up with a great idea, to travel the route on a motorised
:22:45. > :22:49.tricycle. Why have two wheels when you can
:22:49. > :22:56.have three? With an engine on the back, this couple are way ahead of
:22:56. > :23:02.the game in making the most of the Tour de France, long before it comes
:23:02. > :23:09.to Yorkshire. We are focusing on Yorkshire for next year. We say that
:23:09. > :23:13.you can experience the exact same route as the cyclist do on the
:23:14. > :23:19.tricycle but without the sweating. These cyclists have been sweating
:23:19. > :23:24.doing a section of the tour route and are very excited about the
:23:24. > :23:30.world's biggest cycling event coming to Yorkshire. Cannot wait for it to
:23:31. > :23:35.arrive. The planning is well underway. Well done is to Yorkshire
:23:35. > :23:39.for bringing it here. The Tour de France starts for the first time on
:23:39. > :23:44.the beginning of July the 5th and six. It is predicted millions of
:23:44. > :23:48.fans will like the route, bringing unprecedented numbers of visitors to
:23:48. > :23:52.the county. Stage one starts in Leeds before weaving through west
:23:52. > :23:55.and north Yorkshire, making its way through the Yorkshire Dales before
:23:55. > :24:00.finishing in Harrogate. Stage two starts in York before travelling 200
:24:00. > :24:15.colonic towers, heading west towards Harrogate before going through ——
:24:15. > :24:21.finishing in Sheffield. Combining the love of the vehicle with the
:24:21. > :24:28.love of the Yorkshire veils. People always want to stop and talk to us.
:24:28. > :24:33.—— Yorkshire Dales. I have been driving on the roads for many years
:24:33. > :24:37.but this gives you a whole new perspective. It is almost like
:24:37. > :24:43.flying over the countryside, but come next summer when hundreds of
:24:43. > :24:47.support vehicles to send it is going to be all about pedal power instead.
:24:47. > :25:06.—— vehicles descend. Stormy weather on the way for some
:25:06. > :25:10.of us. A big change took place in the weather today, because these
:25:10. > :25:20.weather fronts moved from North to South.
:25:20. > :25:29.An hour later, there was a major transformation. But that wind was
:25:29. > :25:37.picking up as well. Tomorrow, gale force winds, perhaps severe gale
:25:37. > :25:48.force. Sherry for many of us. —— showery. Cold date in store. ——
:25:48. > :25:55.night. It is going to be too windy for Frost. The northerly wind picks
:25:55. > :26:01.up across the North Coast and North Yorkshire in particular. We have the
:26:01. > :26:04.Met Office warning for the strong wind tonight and tomorrow. It will
:26:04. > :26:08.continue to bring showers to eastern areas through the day. Most other
:26:08. > :26:19.places escaped with a largely dry day. It is not going to feel warm.
:26:19. > :26:29.One of the main features is that wind along the north—east coast.
:26:29. > :26:32.Busts of 50—60 mph combined with the high tide and that could result in
:26:32. > :26:48.localised flooding. —— busts. The low pressure will swivel around
:26:48. > :26:55.and the high—pressure wins at least until the weekend. If you are out
:26:55. > :27:00.and about in Cumbria over the next few days, a lot of dry weather,
:27:00. > :27:05.gradually clouded over as the head through the weekend. It is always
:27:05. > :27:09.going to feel cooler in the north—easterly wind. Eastern areas,
:27:09. > :27:21.always stronger winds, so feeling colder. The main risk is those gusty
:27:21. > :27:30.winds tonight and tomorrow. Half a billion spent on an
:27:30. > :27:35.electronic border system that is not working.
:27:35. > :27:39.Durham County Council considers more spending cuts.
:27:39. > :27:42.Good night.