:00:00. > :00:08.Hello and welcome to Thursday's Look North. Tonight: Seven Newcastle
:00:08. > :00:12.United fans are locked up for their part in the derby day violence.
:00:12. > :00:18.Police launch a murder investigation after a body is found in woodland.
:00:18. > :00:23.Could this be the way to boost brain power in the classroom? An exclusive
:00:23. > :00:26.report coming up. And why hundreds of buildings across
:00:26. > :00:30.the North East and Cumbria are at risk from neglect or decay.
:00:30. > :00:33.Where have all the Englishmen gone? A worrying football survey on the
:00:33. > :00:37.state of the game. And like father, like son. A
:00:37. > :00:53.footballing dynasty linking Teesside and Wearside.
:00:53. > :00:57.Seven Newcastle United football fans have been sentenced to at least a
:00:57. > :01:00.year in prison or a Young Offenders Institution for their part in the
:01:00. > :01:05.derby day violence following the club's defeat by Sunderland in
:01:05. > :01:08.April. The sentences come on the day the Home Office published figures
:01:08. > :01:12.which put the Magpies at the top of a list of the number of arrests at
:01:12. > :01:15.home football matches, with half as many more than the second highest,
:01:15. > :01:20.Manchester United. 175 fans were arrested in total, 156 of them at
:01:21. > :01:26.home. Sunderland meanwhile had 71 fans arrested, 45 of them at the
:01:26. > :01:29.Stadium of Light. Let's cross live now to Adrian Pitches who joins us
:01:29. > :01:33.from outside Newcastle Crown Court. First of all remind us of the events
:01:33. > :01:44.of April the 13th and the judge's comments about the violence after
:01:44. > :01:51.the game. This was the famous 3—0 victory for Sunderland at St
:01:51. > :01:59.James's Park. Afterwards there was not violent disorder. Newcastle fans
:01:59. > :02:04.tracked the Sunderland fans back from the ground to Newcastle Central
:02:04. > :02:11.Station, throwing bottles, rocks, one fan even through a police at a
:02:11. > :02:19.police —— a punch at a police horse. That was caught on CCTV and seven
:02:19. > :02:23.people appeared in court today. The judge talked about persistent
:02:23. > :02:28.intimidation and violence along the route. He said that those who wish
:02:28. > :02:34.to attend a football match or visit a city ad entitled to do so without
:02:34. > :02:39.fear of violence and there was fear of violence for people in Newcastle
:02:39. > :02:43.that day. People in the city centre and the station were terrified. Who
:02:43. > :02:50.was in court today and what were their crimes? There were seven
:02:50. > :02:54.people in court who had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to
:02:54. > :03:00.violent disorder. They came from Gateshead, South Shields,
:03:00. > :03:04.Northumberland, and sentenced to a minimum of 12 months in prison or a
:03:04. > :03:10.young offenders and digestion, up to 18 months, depending on previous
:03:10. > :03:13.convictions —— institution. All those arrests must have helped push
:03:13. > :03:24.Newcastle to the top of the arrests league? Yes, unusually for
:03:24. > :03:30.Newcastle, topping the league, 175 arrest, 156 at home. 100 of them
:03:30. > :03:35.were on derby day. If it had not been for those arrests, Newcastle
:03:35. > :03:43.would be much more lower down the league. Perhaps where they used to
:03:43. > :03:47.be. A murder investigation is underway
:03:47. > :03:50.tonight after a body was found in a makeshift grave in woodland in
:03:50. > :03:54.County Durham. The discovery was made by a member of the public in
:03:54. > :03:57.Darlington. Police have yet to confirm the identity of the body,
:03:57. > :04:08.but they've been searching for a missing 25—year—old.
:04:08. > :04:13.A popular walking route, today taken over by forensics teams, a body
:04:13. > :04:19.found in a makeshift grave in the woods. It has taken two days for us
:04:19. > :04:24.to recover the body of a man who was buried in the woods. We are working
:04:24. > :04:28.to do a formal identification which is not always easy. It is important
:04:28. > :04:33.we formally identify the person before we say who we believe it to
:04:33. > :04:38.be, because we have to share that information with family members. The
:04:38. > :04:46.police have been looking for Alan Youngson, missing since August. His
:04:46. > :04:51.family are being kept informed. The family just want to know all where
:04:51. > :04:57.he is. We are keeping in daily contact with them to share
:04:57. > :05:03.information as quickly as we can. There are 50 police officers working
:05:03. > :05:13.on mass murder investigation alongside —— working on this murder
:05:13. > :05:16.investigation. As police carried out door—to—door inquiries, the shock of
:05:16. > :05:24.such a grim discovery was sinking in. Horrendous. It is awful. Such a
:05:24. > :05:30.busy thoroughfare here, it could have come from anywhere. I would not
:05:30. > :05:38.expect it to be round the back of my house, it does not really bother me
:05:38. > :05:41.because it is a rough area. This investigation will take time. The
:05:41. > :05:50.next step to confirm who was the man found buried in the woods?
:05:50. > :05:54.A British woman, originally from the North East, has been found dead in a
:05:54. > :05:57.stairwell at a hospital in the United States. It's more than two
:05:57. > :06:00.weeks since she went missing from her hospital room. Lynne Spalding,
:06:00. > :06:04.57, originally from Peterlee, had lived in the States for 23 years.
:06:04. > :06:08.She'd been admitted to San Francisco General Hospital with an infection,
:06:08. > :06:12.but vanished two days later. Officials say they're investigating
:06:12. > :06:18.how she found her way to the outside stairwell, what caused her death and
:06:18. > :06:21.why a search didn't find her sooner. Four people have been arrested on
:06:21. > :06:24.suspicion of violent disorder and assault, following a man's death on
:06:24. > :06:27.Teesside. Benji Bolsenbroek, 23, died after a disturbance at the Park
:06:27. > :06:31.Hotel in Middlesbrough on Saturday night. Two women, aged 19 and 22,
:06:31. > :06:37.have been bailed, while a 24—year—old woman and a 26—year—old
:06:37. > :06:42.man are in police custody. Two other men who were arrested on Tuesday
:06:42. > :06:45.have been bailed. The father of the missing York chef
:06:45. > :06:49.Claudia Lawrence has today been marking 40,000 hours since she
:06:49. > :06:53.vanished. Nothing has been heard of Claudia since March 2009. Her dad,
:06:53. > :06:56.Peter, marked the occasion at York Minster. He's also been discussing
:06:56. > :07:06.the case with the new North Yorkshire Chief Constable, Dave
:07:06. > :07:09.Jones. It's 11 years since York teenager
:07:09. > :07:12.Caroline Stuttle was murdered while backpacking in Australia. And today
:07:12. > :07:15.her family launched a new mobile phone device, which, it's hoped,
:07:15. > :07:19.will save lives in the future. The Safer Travel App is the first of its
:07:19. > :07:21.kind. It'll provide up—to—the—minute information on cities around the
:07:21. > :07:32.world, including crime blackspots, environmental disasters and
:07:32. > :07:36.political unrest. It is a concept for laptops and
:07:36. > :07:44.mobile phones, conceived and developed from the family's own
:07:44. > :07:50.tragic story. In 2002, Caroline Statoil was murdered while
:07:50. > :07:57.backpacking in Australia —— Caroline Stuttle. 11 years on, and a special
:07:57. > :08:10.foundation established in her memory launched a phone at —— called Safer
:08:10. > :08:18.Travel App. When I was 19—24, I was a mortal, like many young people,
:08:18. > :08:21.but when that happens to Caroline, there were maybe a few steps she
:08:21. > :08:28.could have taken, but looking into it further we realise there are a
:08:28. > :08:34.lot of precautions you can take. The travel up contains information on
:08:34. > :08:40.250 cities around the world. It includes York, where Caroline left.
:08:40. > :08:45.It will be updated for travellers of all ages. It could potentially save
:08:45. > :08:50.lives, according to its developer. Students in York have also played a
:08:50. > :08:55.part in the project's development, providing their own ideas on how to
:08:55. > :09:01.travel safely. My dad is always telling me, you have to watch out
:09:01. > :09:07.for dodgy areas. It is a much more relevant tool to travel with because
:09:07. > :09:12.it will not be out of date. Year in York, overseas visitors described
:09:12. > :09:19.the app is a great idea with safety for many a main priority. Any and
:09:19. > :09:27.all information that you can get is critical. And informed traveller is
:09:27. > :09:32.a happy traveller. It would be interesting for me as a parent to
:09:32. > :09:39.use for my children. The travel up can be downloaded free from today.
:09:39. > :09:44.Providing key information that will hopefully keep thousands of
:09:44. > :09:47.travellers safe. You're watching Thursday's Look
:09:47. > :09:50.North. Dawn's here, shortly, with tonight's sports desk. Also coming
:09:50. > :09:53.up: At risk, hundreds of buildings in the North face neglect or decay,
:09:53. > :10:03.according to a report published today.
:10:03. > :10:15.Stormy conditions continue to affect the region. I will have the weather
:10:15. > :10:19.for the weekend. The Prime Minister has also been in
:10:19. > :10:22.York today. During his visit, David Cameron said Yorkshire's economy had
:10:22. > :10:25.turned a corner and claimed more than 100,000 new jobs had been
:10:25. > :10:28.created there over the past three years. But Labour MPs say families
:10:28. > :10:36.are facing a cost of living crisis. Unemployment is still rising.
:10:36. > :10:44.In York, there was an up the message from the Prime Minister, who said
:10:44. > :10:47.the county's economy was on the up. Yorkshire and Humberside is the area
:10:47. > :10:52.outside London where the number of people in work is growing the fast
:10:52. > :11:06.as. There are a more private—sector jobs today than there were in 2010
:11:06. > :11:12.—— 110,000 more. He spoke to workers at a firm which is seeing a growing
:11:12. > :11:15.order book. We are seeing an increase in education and health
:11:15. > :11:20.orders and the private sector is coming back. As David Cameron was
:11:20. > :11:24.speaking, the talk at this club was dominated by the cost of living and
:11:24. > :11:29.what the government is or is not doing to help. What good David
:11:30. > :11:39.Cameron do to help you? Stop the price hike in energy suppliers. All
:11:39. > :11:49.the money is down there, and we do not have a lot. Anywhere south of
:11:49. > :11:54.Doncaster. My message to David Cameron is to stop giving out money
:11:54. > :12:01.to people on benefits, benefit cheats, who get all the money.
:12:01. > :12:10.People like us, you apply for money or to get something, do I get it?
:12:10. > :12:14.No. Labour rejected the Prime Minister'soptimistic message to
:12:14. > :12:18.voters. Families facing a cost of living prices will be shaking their
:12:18. > :12:25.heads. They know from going shopping and filling up the car that prices
:12:25. > :12:29.are rising faster than wages. Yet another energy company has announced
:12:29. > :12:36.a big increase in prices. David Cameron's comments have sparked a
:12:36. > :12:50.fierce political debate. Are we starting to see some green shoots
:12:50. > :12:54.here in the white rose economy? A new report says the north—east
:12:54. > :12:58.needs a direct flight to the United States to help its economy. Firms in
:12:58. > :13:04.the region could win extra business if there was a direct link to New
:13:04. > :13:08.York from Newcastle, according to a report. It also says it needs its
:13:08. > :13:12.own version of London's Oyster card to make it easier to travel on
:13:12. > :13:16.public transport. A school in Sunderland is the first
:13:16. > :13:19.in the country to use a pioneering new system which involves short
:13:19. > :13:22.bursts of activity in the classroom to boost learning. It's an idea
:13:22. > :13:34.which comes from America and it could be heading for every primary
:13:34. > :13:39.school in the UK. History made in the classroom. These
:13:39. > :13:45.children at Fulwell Infant School are the first in the UK to try out a
:13:45. > :13:49.new idea to boost their learning. Known as activity breaks, the system
:13:49. > :13:52.consists of a number of energetic exercises which the children do four
:13:52. > :13:58.or five times every day close to their desks. Each session lasts up
:13:58. > :14:06.to five minutes and when it's over, the children sit down and go back to
:14:06. > :14:11.doing their schoolwork. Our children have really taken to it. They have
:14:11. > :14:16.really enjoyed them. They understand it is a quick activity they can do
:14:16. > :14:20.in between lessons and it gets them ready to learn and energised and
:14:20. > :14:26.they are really focused. It is a lot of fun for them. It is an idea
:14:26. > :14:34.brought to this country by the former London Marathon one and
:14:34. > :14:40.Olympic medallist Charlie Spedding. Physical exercise helps us to
:14:40. > :14:52.concentrate and especially for young children, their attention span
:14:52. > :14:56.cannot be held for very long. Experiments in America show that
:14:56. > :14:59.short bursts of activity boosted brainpower and attention span. The
:14:59. > :15:02.reason our school should do this is that it helps the children do better
:15:02. > :15:05.at their school work. Sunderland University is now carrying out
:15:05. > :15:13.research at the school into the new scheme, but the children there
:15:13. > :15:21.already know what they think. When we go to our tables to learn, they
:15:21. > :15:26.help us to concentrate. They help you to learn and they are really
:15:26. > :15:35.fun. You do them because it makes your brain go. It is hoped that this
:15:35. > :15:42.will be introduced into all primary schools, a real challenge that will
:15:42. > :15:46.once again put the pioneering to the ends —— into the history books.
:15:46. > :15:49.Campaigners say hundreds of beautiful old buildings in our
:15:49. > :15:53.region face falling into dereliction unless funds can be found to save
:15:53. > :15:58.them. English Heritage has published its latest list of historic
:15:58. > :16:06.buildings which have been neglected. Some will be brought back to life
:16:06. > :16:13.while others need urgent attention. In Whitehaven, the grade listed ——
:16:13. > :16:20.grade two listed YMCA has been a blight, but this is one of the lucky
:16:20. > :16:26.ones. With funding from the Heritage lottery fund and other sources this
:16:26. > :16:29.building will be brought back into use as somewhere where young people
:16:29. > :16:34.can learn new skills, particularly those from disadvantaged
:16:34. > :16:38.backgrounds. There will be 17 bedrooms out the back and so you
:16:38. > :16:48.have a fantastic historic building that will fill a useful social
:16:48. > :16:53.purpose. Buildings and identified by volunteers keen to see them
:16:54. > :17:01.rejuvenated. This town is wonderful. History is incredible. It should be
:17:01. > :17:05.brought back. I understand we have been concentrating on grade one
:17:05. > :17:10.staff and now we are looking at grade two. That is marvellous. To
:17:10. > :17:20.get the town centre brought up to be Richard B. —— to where it should be.
:17:20. > :17:23.Two buildings and structures have been added to the North East
:17:23. > :17:26.register, the Union suspension bridge in Northumberland — it's
:17:26. > :17:34.listed Grade I and spans the River Tweed — and Home Farm in County
:17:34. > :17:39.Durham. It was at risk and it was important to us that we took our
:17:39. > :17:45.past to help it to the future and then we had to try to get money
:17:45. > :17:50.together for that, so working with English Heritage, lottery money,
:17:50. > :17:59.European money and council money. The million pounds has been spent
:17:59. > :18:04.specifically. —— three. This demonstrates you cannot do it on
:18:04. > :18:09.your own, but in a group you can. This gives the businesses, local
:18:09. > :18:12.community and local authority coming together in terms of regeneration
:18:12. > :18:21.and the result is what you see, including the work on other sport.
:18:21. > :18:30.English Heritage hopes that more volunteers can help it save at risk
:18:31. > :18:36.buildings across the region. The hot topic of the moment. When I
:18:36. > :18:43.went to my first football match, I cannot think that there was a
:18:43. > :18:46.foreign player. It partly explains why the England
:18:46. > :18:49.football team have struggled. English footballers account for less
:18:49. > :18:53.than a third of all the minutes played in the Premier League,
:18:53. > :18:56.according to a State of the Game study for BBC Sport. The figure for
:18:56. > :19:00.home country players, just under 32%, is down from more than 35% six
:19:00. > :19:03.years ago and is far lower than all other major European leagues. Both
:19:03. > :19:06.Sunderland and Newcastle have welcomed a large influx of overseas
:19:06. > :19:09.players in recent seasons. Former Magpies and England captain Alan
:19:09. > :19:19.Shearer says it's a difficult situation. When you look at
:19:19. > :19:24.managers, you have to have sympathy with them, because they have a
:19:24. > :19:28.budget to work to and foreign players are a lot cheaper than
:19:28. > :19:37.British players and managers have no time whatsoever, you have to be
:19:37. > :19:41.successful instantly. Particularly with the wealthier clubs, the demand
:19:41. > :19:49.success and have to have success otherwise the manager gets sacked.
:19:49. > :19:52.A former Premiership side that once boasted a team of 11 English players
:19:52. > :19:55.is hoping its successful academy will help it through difficult
:19:55. > :19:58.economic times. One of its products, Middlesbrough young gun Andre
:19:58. > :20:01.Bennett, is hoping to break into the first team and has plenty of advice
:20:02. > :20:14.at hand from his dad, Sunderland legend Gary.
:20:14. > :20:18.Andre Bennett is not the first footballer to follow his father into
:20:18. > :20:24.the game. He has a lot to live up to. Gary Bennett is a Sunderland
:20:24. > :20:28.hero and captain, and advice is never in short supply. I could not
:20:28. > :20:35.get anyone better, he has been there, done that. He always puts
:20:36. > :20:41.their video on of when he was scoring goals. You put them on now
:20:41. > :20:49.to give him a gentle reminder of what you were like. Not trying to be
:20:49. > :20:56.critical on his performances. I just ask the question, how have you done?
:20:56. > :20:59.I might pass on advice or ideas in regard to his development, but I
:20:59. > :21:08.leave that to the football club and the coaches as well. As a
:21:08. > :21:11.commentator and pundit, his dad does not get to watch him as often as he
:21:11. > :21:24.would like but he is keeping a close eye. I am a proud parent. He is a
:21:24. > :21:27.better player than me. You have to look at the facilities, what the
:21:27. > :21:35.train on, the day—to—day training they get, the culture, the
:21:35. > :21:38.development and support behind his development is a lot better than
:21:38. > :21:45.that which I received. Only time will tell a few will play an an FA
:21:45. > :21:51.Cup final, but it is only like father, like son to a point. Have to
:21:51. > :22:02.be quick, and my dad was quite quick, but the difference, people
:22:02. > :22:12.see me and think of my dad, but we are totally different. Years his own
:22:12. > :22:18.person. He has his own personality and way of playing. All I can do is
:22:18. > :22:22.help him, give him advice, but it is up to him, he has to make sure he
:22:22. > :22:25.takes things on board. Days after announcing his retirement
:22:25. > :22:28.from cricket, the former Durham and England fast bowler Steve Harmison
:22:28. > :22:32.is trying his hand at football this evening with a bit of help from the
:22:32. > :22:35.family. As part of his benefit year, Harmison will line up alongside
:22:35. > :22:38.brothers Ben, a fellow cricketer, and non—league footballer James in a
:22:38. > :22:44.Northumberland side taking on a Newcastle United 11. Kick—off at
:22:44. > :22:47.Ashington FC is at 7pm. On to speedway, and Redcar Bears
:22:47. > :22:50.take on the newly—crowned Premier League KO Cup winners, Somerset, at
:22:50. > :22:55.the South Tees Motorsport Park tonight. The Bears need to win to
:22:55. > :22:58.keep alive their hopes of reaching the play—off final, having been
:22:58. > :23:03.heavily beaten, 61 points to 35, by Newcastle Diamonds on Tyneside at
:23:03. > :23:06.the weekend. Newcastle, Redcar and Somerset each have a win apiece in
:23:06. > :23:09.the three—team mini—league, with the ones who top the group going on to
:23:09. > :23:13.meet Edinburgh, who've already qualified for the big final. The
:23:13. > :23:18.Diamonds head for the West Country tomorrow, before the return match at
:23:18. > :23:21.Newcastle Stadium on Sunday. Meanwhile, there was a home win at
:23:21. > :23:24.Derwent Park, as Workington wrapped up their season by hosting the
:23:24. > :23:30.Cumberland Trophy individual meeting which was won by the Comets' Danish
:23:30. > :23:34.star, Rene Bach. Finally, there's not long left to
:23:34. > :23:38.nominate someone you know for this year's BBC Sports Personality of the
:23:38. > :23:41.Year Unsung Hero award. Last year's winner in the North East and Cumbria
:23:41. > :23:46.was Peter Crawford, a gymnastics coach from Billingham. It could be
:23:46. > :23:49.someone who's unearthed a real winner or someone who gives up their
:23:49. > :23:54.time to keep a local club going behind the scenes. If you'd like to
:23:54. > :23:57.nominate someone go to bbc.co.uk/unsung hero. Closing date
:23:57. > :24:22.is October 14th, that's next Monday. It seems as if we are going from
:24:22. > :24:29.summer to winter. This was the scene earlier on the
:24:30. > :24:46.Solway Firth. The CS QuickCam to further east. On the opposite coast,
:24:46. > :24:53.very different. Sunshine in between the showers here, but another huge
:24:53. > :24:57.shower breaking over the ground. Over the next few days, things are
:24:57. > :25:03.going to stay cold. Temperatures really struggled. We only just made
:25:03. > :25:16.it into double figures. There was also a northerly wind. The wind
:25:16. > :25:23.gusted 55 mph. Coming from the cold northerly direction, it had a bite
:25:23. > :25:25.to it. Showers pushing down on the northerly winds down the eastern
:25:25. > :25:33.side of the country, things much quieter further west. That was where
:25:33. > :25:35.the best of the sunshine was. Still gusty winds along the north—east
:25:35. > :25:44.coast as we head through the evening. They Met Office warning out
:25:44. > :25:48.until midnight. The showers become fewer and further between. They do
:25:48. > :25:53.not die away completely. It will be driver Cumbria with long clear
:25:53. > :26:11.spells. —— drive for Cumbria. Still a few showers near the coast.
:26:11. > :26:15.Tomorrow, those showers will feed out through the course of the
:26:15. > :26:23.morning. It is never going to feel worn by any means. The best of the
:26:23. > :26:29.sunshine for Cumbria. There will be temperatures slightly higher than
:26:29. > :26:33.today. Nothing to write home about. Although the winds are not as
:26:33. > :26:40.strong, still pretty gusty near the north—east coast, still rough seas
:26:40. > :26:43.and feeling bitterly cold. As we head towards the week end, high
:26:43. > :26:53.pressure to the north, low pressure to the south and the isobars get
:26:53. > :26:57.squeezed in between. That moves that frontal system further north which
:26:57. > :27:04.will bring rain to places over the weekend. A lot of cloud on Saturday
:27:04. > :27:14.and Sunday, temperatures struggling. Add in the north easterly wind and
:27:14. > :27:17.it will feel quite called. —— cold. Now for a last look at tonight's
:27:17. > :27:24.headlines. Millions of people face higher energy costs, up by more than
:27:24. > :27:27.8% for SSE customers. And seven men have been jailed for
:27:27. > :27:37.violent disorder at last April's Newcastle/Sunderland derby match.
:27:37. > :27:46.We are back at 10:25pm.