:00:00. > :00:08.Hello, welcome to Look North. In the programme tonight: Another blow for
:00:09. > :00:12.the former cable workers sacked without redundancy pay.
:00:13. > :00:15.Now they owe thousands of pounds for the use of the community centre
:00:16. > :00:19.where they meet. Pay rises for MPs. We ask this
:00:20. > :00:23.region's parliamentarians what they intend to do with theirs.
:00:24. > :00:27.Wonder stuff. It's 100 times stronger than steel, and it's being
:00:28. > :00:31.made in the North East. And as police crack down on bikes
:00:32. > :00:42.without lights, we ask why so many cyclists are in the dark. I think it
:00:43. > :00:45.is a bit patronising. I did not know about the law that you had to have
:00:46. > :00:48.lights on your bike. In sport, we meet three youngsters
:00:49. > :00:52.aiming for the Olympics on two wheels. And in our region, which has
:00:53. > :01:03.no velodrome of its own, they're defying the odds to make the grade.
:01:04. > :01:10.In 2011 they were made redundant, with no compensation. And two years
:01:11. > :01:12.on, more than 120 former workers at the Birtley`based AEI Cables in
:01:13. > :01:17.Gateshead have still received nothing. But the group has now
:01:18. > :01:20.suffered another financial blow. They've been told they owe thousands
:01:21. > :01:22.of pounds to a local community association, where they've been
:01:23. > :01:27.holding their weekly support meetings. They say they can't ` and
:01:28. > :01:34.won't ` pay. Our political correspondent Mark Denten has this
:01:35. > :01:38.exclusive report. Remember these people? Two and a
:01:39. > :01:45.half years ago they were marching for their jobs. They were sacked by
:01:46. > :01:50.AEI Cables in Birtley in May 2011 with no redundancy and no
:01:51. > :01:54.compensation. Because a legal procedure allowed the firm to do it.
:01:55. > :02:01.But since then, they have been struggling. Back in August, I met
:02:02. > :02:04.one of them. After 28 years at AEI, Bill and his wife Linda had received
:02:05. > :02:18.nothing. Some of your feelings right now.
:02:19. > :02:25.Just put the camera on her. And here is built today. At a weekly
:02:26. > :02:29.meeting of the AEI workers at a local community centre. He still has
:02:30. > :02:38.nothing. It is tough financially because you cannot do the things you
:02:39. > :02:44.want to do. In past years, you could do this or that, no you cannot. But
:02:45. > :02:47.while legal wrangling continues, they have a new fight on their
:02:48. > :02:52.hands, not with the company or the legal system, but with an
:02:53. > :02:57.organisation much closer to home. They have been told by the community
:02:58. > :03:01.association that runs this hole that they owed nearly ?2000 for using it
:03:02. > :03:08.over the last two years. `` hall. From now, the group has been asked
:03:09. > :03:16.to pay ?45 every week to hold their meeting. These lads have to pay bus
:03:17. > :03:25.fares or petrol money to get here, it is a real kick in the guts for
:03:26. > :03:31.our cause. Whilst our association has every sympathy for the group and
:03:32. > :03:34.has supported the group since 2011, the association has reviewed its
:03:35. > :03:45.accounts and overall financial position, and decided that we could
:03:46. > :03:52.not continue to allow this debt to Mike up in the name of a particular
:03:53. > :03:55.group. The community association says the
:03:56. > :03:58.workers will not be expected to pay what they owe before they get a
:03:59. > :04:03.pay`out from the company. These workers say they cannot, and will
:04:04. > :04:12.not, pay. Well, from one end of the pay scale
:04:13. > :04:21.to the other. Our MPs are mulling over plans to hand them an 11% rise.
:04:22. > :04:24.The independent body charged with setting their salaries believes they
:04:25. > :04:28.should be given an increase of ?7,600 a`year ` pushing their pay by
:04:29. > :04:32.2015 to ?74,000 pounds. Some of our MPs have already said they'd give
:04:33. > :04:35.away that increase ` others haven't been as forthcoming. Our political
:04:36. > :04:38.editor Richard Moss is here. So Richard, what are our MPs saying?
:04:39. > :04:43.We sent an e`mail to them yesterday, fewer than half have responded, but
:04:44. > :04:50.this is what they said. One said he would donate to charity, and another
:04:51. > :04:59.said she would ask her constituents what charities she would donate to.
:05:00. > :05:08.One said she would hand some money back to the Treasury.
:05:09. > :05:11.Others are dead against it, but would not say whether they would
:05:12. > :05:17.donate the money to charity. They will all be a bit wary of what
:05:18. > :05:27.their constituents think. Yes, let us look at a particular figure here.
:05:28. > :05:36.The annual average wage was 25,160 pounds, down 8.3% on the previous
:05:37. > :05:44.year. The organisation that is proposing this say that taking money
:05:45. > :05:51.off MPs' pensions and some allowances will cost the taxpayer no
:05:52. > :05:57.more. It is an interesting one. Thank you
:05:58. > :06:01.for coming in. An inquest into the death of a young
:06:02. > :06:06.film maker in Newcastle has found he died from natural causes.
:06:07. > :06:09.Lee Halpin ` who was 26 ` planned to spend a week living on the streets
:06:10. > :06:13.to make a documentary about homelessness. His body was found in
:06:14. > :06:17.a derelict building. Today's inquest found he died as a result of Sudden
:06:18. > :06:19.Adult Death Syndrome ` after a pathologist ruled out any other
:06:20. > :06:23.causes. The wife of a man who died in an
:06:24. > :06:26.industrial steam oven has told the inquest into his death she can't
:06:27. > :06:30.believe he killed himself. Andrea Falder ` seen here in the
:06:31. > :06:33.grey jacket ` told the coroner her husband George would never have put
:06:34. > :06:37.her, their children and his workmates through such trauma. The
:06:38. > :06:40.body of 48`year`old Mr Falder was found in an autoclave at the Pirelli
:06:41. > :06:43.factory in Carlisle in September last year. The inquest also heard he
:06:44. > :06:49.had previously tried to kill himself, and had a history of
:06:50. > :06:51.depression. The hearing continues. It's a product that could
:06:52. > :06:55.revolutionise manufacturing, and it's being made right here in the
:06:56. > :06:59.region. Graphene is a wonder material that's tougher than steel,
:07:00. > :07:02.and more flexible than rubber. It can be added to paints, oils and
:07:03. > :07:05.plastics and then used to make things like bendy mobile phones,
:07:06. > :07:08.super`light batteries ` and even artificial retinas. Our business
:07:09. > :07:12.correspondent Ian Reeve has had the first look at the Teesside facility
:07:13. > :07:16.where graphene is made. I don't know if it'll work. But I
:07:17. > :07:18.think I've seen the future. Here on Teesside they're making the
:07:19. > :07:28.so`called "miracle material" graphene. It is extremely strong,
:07:29. > :07:36.about 100 times the tensile strength of this deal `` steel, it is
:07:37. > :07:40.extremely stiff, Ed conducts electricity higher than copper, it
:07:41. > :07:44.also conducts heat, five times that of aluminium.
:07:45. > :07:51.This is it in powdered form. But with that list of properties, its
:07:52. > :07:56.uses are endless. It will help dissipate heat, so take heat away
:07:57. > :08:01.from engine blocks and engines can therefore work harder, people are
:08:02. > :08:07.interested on `` in putting it onto flexible membranes and ultimately
:08:08. > :08:10.making flexible phones or iPads. The company cashed in on the
:08:11. > :08:13.excitement that surrounds graphene development. It issued shares last
:08:14. > :08:17.month. And they jumped 40% in value in the first day of trading. For
:08:18. > :08:20.Robert, who spent 29 years in the more traditional industry of making
:08:21. > :08:23.heavy chemicals at ICI, the difference to his old job and
:08:24. > :08:34.potential in his new one is mind`blowing. The potential is
:08:35. > :08:38.almost as far as your imagination could take you, because if you keep
:08:39. > :08:43.track of it on the Internet, everyday somebody comes up with an
:08:44. > :08:47.application. It could potentially be involved in every aspect of our
:08:48. > :08:51.lives. The company wants to make eight
:08:52. > :08:55.tonnes of graphene a year, to go into a predicted world market of 400
:08:56. > :08:59.tonnes a year by 2017. It's made in that building over there. But don't
:09:00. > :09:02.even think about looking at it ` so secret does the company want to keep
:09:03. > :09:04.the production process. Not surprisingly perhaps. There are only
:09:05. > :09:09.three manufacturers of graphene in this country. But as the product
:09:10. > :09:11.could play as big a part in our daily lives as plastic, it's
:09:12. > :09:19.certainly doesn't want to give anything away.
:09:20. > :09:22.`` it does not want to give anything away.
:09:23. > :09:26.The recent deaths of several cyclists in London have again raised
:09:27. > :09:28.the issue of bike safety. Now it's emerged that police have stopped
:09:29. > :09:34.hundreds of cyclists in Newcastle for riding without lights this year.
:09:35. > :09:37.The campaign in Jesmond's aimed at persuading students especially to
:09:38. > :09:39.take their own safety more seriously. For tonight's Look North
:09:40. > :09:43.Report, Gerry Jackson found many young people surprised that having
:09:44. > :09:53.no lights at night is against the law. Rather worrying, Gerry?
:09:54. > :09:58.Not every cosy cocoa and motorists realises or sympathises with how
:09:59. > :10:03.vulnerable cyclists can be, but it seems a great many riders are asking
:10:04. > :10:06.for trouble well after dark, zipping around without lights or bright
:10:07. > :10:13.clothing. When the streetlights come on, basically so should yours. It
:10:14. > :10:17.sounds so obvious, doesn't it? It used to be the stuff of public
:10:18. > :10:21.information films, you might call it simple common sense. But in today's
:10:22. > :10:26.traffic, "see and be seen" has probably never been more important.
:10:27. > :10:29.So on a dark winter's night in one suburb of Newcastle, how many people
:10:30. > :10:39.are risking their lives and flouting the law?
:10:40. > :10:43.We have stationed ourselves at a likely spot, and we are going to see
:10:44. > :10:47.what we can see. This is a main cyclist route between
:10:48. > :10:50.the city centre and the student heartland of Jesmond. Our rough
:10:51. > :10:53.estimate was that one in five riders is missing at least one light.
:10:54. > :11:02.Around half had no reflective or high visibility clothing.
:11:03. > :11:07.My helmet and luminous top was optional, but come nightfall, a
:11:08. > :11:10.front and rear light is a legal requirement.
:11:11. > :11:13.So if this is so common, you might wonder why the police don't pull
:11:14. > :11:18.people up for it. Well, the answer is, it seems, they do.
:11:19. > :11:24.I joined a nearby patrol to find them with no shortage of customers.
:11:25. > :11:30.I have stopped you because you have not got any lights on your bike. Did
:11:31. > :11:37.you realise it was an offence? You are receiving a verbal warning.
:11:38. > :11:44.I want to emphasise to you, get some sufficient lighting on your bike.
:11:45. > :11:49.Why do you not have them? Well, I thought reflectors were pretty much
:11:50. > :11:54.it. If there is a car there, it is going to have lights, it will see
:11:55. > :12:02.me. I do have them. You know it is not safe.
:12:03. > :12:06.If you don't have lights, it is better to cycle on the pavement.
:12:07. > :12:09.That is illegal as well. In a little over three months of
:12:10. > :12:12.this year, the police stopped nearly 400 cyclists without lights in the
:12:13. > :12:16.Jesmond area alone. Several dozen went on to be prosecuted for repeat
:12:17. > :12:20.or other riding offences. But the police approach is softly, softly `
:12:21. > :12:30.the students are even given a free bike lock. I'd tell them to think
:12:31. > :12:34.about it from a motorist Paul `` a motorist's point of view. Can the
:12:35. > :12:39.ABC `` can they be seen when it is dark?
:12:40. > :12:42.The combination of a steady and a flashing light, front and back, will
:12:43. > :12:46.make you especially visible. Extra lighting on a helmet or clothing can
:12:47. > :12:54.only help ` but you must have lights on the bike itself. It is a war out
:12:55. > :13:00.there between cyclists and motorists and the amount of light that is out
:13:01. > :13:05.there. We have now got lights as bright as cars, so now cyclists are
:13:06. > :13:08.getting blamed for lights that are too bright. So we cannot win.
:13:09. > :13:11.Back with the police, most of the night's transgressors held their
:13:12. > :13:20.hands up ` but not everyone thinks it's a fair cop. I think it is a bit
:13:21. > :13:25.patronising. I did not know about the law that you had to have lights.
:13:26. > :13:31.Dark clothing, no lights, Winter's night, you are an accident waiting
:13:32. > :13:35.to happen. What, I have never had a crash. Not yet.
:13:36. > :13:41.You are mortal. You are flesh and blood. I appreciate that, but if
:13:42. > :13:46.somebody pulls out in front of you, I do not think one might will make a
:13:47. > :13:49.difference. `` one night.
:13:50. > :13:53.The police have plenty of other things to worry about than cyclists
:13:54. > :13:58.without lights. But if they save a life ` maybe his ` they'll think it
:13:59. > :14:06.worth it. As I am sure some riders are
:14:07. > :14:10.suggesting, all road users have a duty to safeguard life and limb and
:14:11. > :14:17.flesh and blood. That is a strand of a bigger debate and a report for a
:14:18. > :14:20.bigger night perhaps. `` a report for another night.
:14:21. > :14:23.And there's plenty of opinion being voiced about cycling in the dark on
:14:24. > :14:26.our Look North Facebook page. You can join in, the address is on your
:14:27. > :14:29.screen now. Still to come tonight, Dawn's here
:14:30. > :14:32.with the sports news. And it's probably one of the most
:14:33. > :14:35.photographed rail routes in England. Celebrating the success of the
:14:36. > :14:41.Settle`Carlisle railway ` 30 years after it was earmarked for closure.
:14:42. > :14:46.Temperatures made double figures today. The mild weather is set to
:14:47. > :14:53.stay for a few days, but it is not all plain sailing. John Mineta.
:14:54. > :14:56.`` join me later. A Teesside woman helped by a
:14:57. > :15:00.debt`counselling service is not only repaying her loans ` she's also
:15:01. > :15:03.paying back the support she was given. Sue Connor was so desperate
:15:04. > :15:05.she says she thought about killing herself. But now she's almost
:15:06. > :15:07.debt`free. Chantalle Edmonds reports.
:15:08. > :15:11.Mum of three Sue from Stockton has Christmas all wrapped up, but it
:15:12. > :15:15.hasn't always been this easy. Just before Christmas 2009 her husband
:15:16. > :15:25.lost his job and she found herself with debt spiralling out of control.
:15:26. > :15:33.And no`one knew. I thought about taking my own life, and leaving my
:15:34. > :15:40.children free of debt. The bailiffs and nobody else could come knocking
:15:41. > :15:48.at the door. And it actually got to that point where I had picked my
:15:49. > :15:51.day. Just in time, she turned to
:15:52. > :15:54.Christians against Poverty, known as CAP, a debt counselling charity
:15:55. > :15:57.which sets a budget with its clients and contacts creditors on their
:15:58. > :16:05.behalf. This time of year they also give festive hampers to those most
:16:06. > :16:09.in need. Being in debt is hard, but for many people who say they need
:16:10. > :16:15.help, they are serious about it and they want to get out of debt. We
:16:16. > :16:21.want to help them in any way we can. The charity has seen demand for its
:16:22. > :16:27.services soar. This centre now has a waiting list
:16:28. > :16:31.of between three and four months, so it will be March or April before
:16:32. > :16:34.people currently in debt can get help.
:16:35. > :16:38.But help they will get ` with CAP staying with its clients until they
:16:39. > :16:47.are debt free. And for Sue, that day's almost here. I will be debt
:16:48. > :16:55.free in eight months. It will be amazing to not have debt other than
:16:56. > :16:58.house things. 30 years ago British Rail announced
:16:59. > :17:01.plans to close the famous Settle to Carlisle railway, one of the last
:17:02. > :17:06.great mainlines of the Victorian era. But campaigners fought hard to
:17:07. > :17:09.save it ` and after a long fight, they succeeded. Three decades ago,
:17:10. > :17:12.there were only two trains a day. Now it's a thriving passenger and
:17:13. > :17:20.freight route, clocking up 1.2 million journeys a year. This report
:17:21. > :17:27.from Spencer Stokes. Two of the men who helped save the
:17:28. > :17:31.Settle`Carlisle line, reunited with a sign that was supposed to kill of
:17:32. > :17:37.72 miles of railway. In December 1983 but Israel formally announced
:17:38. > :17:46.the closure of the route, with framed notices at stations. ``
:17:47. > :17:50.British rail. The first thought that came into
:17:51. > :17:56.one's head was how come they could close such a magnificent line. All
:17:57. > :18:00.right, it perhaps was not used by many passengers, there was no
:18:01. > :18:05.freight, so you can see the argument, but it was really very sad
:18:06. > :18:09.that this proposal was going through.
:18:10. > :18:13.Closing the line would have left communities isolated and forced to
:18:14. > :18:17.rely on cars and a patchy bus service in some of the most remote
:18:18. > :18:25.parts of Yorkshire. It had happened to thousands of places before. But
:18:26. > :18:30.the people here did not want to suffer, and their plight got
:18:31. > :18:35.national attention. There was support from constituencies all over
:18:36. > :18:40.the country, possibly an orchestrated campaign, I don't know.
:18:41. > :18:46.But I think MPs will have been getting their ears bent up and down
:18:47. > :18:49.the length of the land. The MP who would have the final say was on arch
:18:50. > :18:56.Thatcherite. Would he save a line that would need
:18:57. > :19:02.a higher public subsidy. Conservatives wanted public services
:19:03. > :19:06.to run efficiently, but of course we also had a respect for the national
:19:07. > :19:09.heritage and we knew it was a very remarkable and historic line.
:19:10. > :19:13.Fortunately we managed to bring the two things together, because the
:19:14. > :19:17.economic case for closure was very much weakened when vast numbers of
:19:18. > :19:22.people began to travel on the line. There was a sort of closing down
:19:23. > :19:25.sale, and some clever engineers discovered they could repair the
:19:26. > :19:30.Victorian structure is much more cheaply than we thought.
:19:31. > :19:32.So after six years, the Settle`Carlisle was thrown a
:19:33. > :19:41.lifeline by a sympathetic minister. It is now a jewel in Northern
:19:42. > :19:47.rail's climb's Crown. What does not kill you, makes you stronger. The
:19:48. > :19:50.stations look fantastic, there are a lot more trains, and hundreds of
:19:51. > :19:55.thousands of people using this line every single year. I think the
:19:56. > :20:01.likelihood of us seeing in the foreseeable future a notice of
:20:02. > :20:09.closure of this throwaway line, it is usually, hugely unlikely. `` this
:20:10. > :20:16.railway line. `` hugely, hugely unlikely. The line is now a mixture
:20:17. > :20:20.of antiquity and modernity. The railway that can celebrate its
:20:21. > :20:31.past, secure in the knowledge that it has a future.
:20:32. > :20:34.Time for sport now. Another cycling story.
:20:35. > :20:38.There were many success stories at last year's Olympics in London. One
:20:39. > :20:41.of them was the GB cycling team, who picked up in 2012 where they left
:20:42. > :20:45.off four years earlier in Beijing. And there's clear evidence that the
:20:46. > :20:48.12 medals won are still inspiring the next generation ` even in our
:20:49. > :20:55.region, where there's no velodrome for track cyclists. Mark Tulip
:20:56. > :21:04.reports. A bitterly cold night at the
:21:05. > :21:07.Excelsior Academy. This specially arranged get`together on Tyneside
:21:08. > :21:11.involved young riders from three North East clubs, with road and
:21:12. > :21:17.tracks racing, might buy cling around the disciplines. But is the
:21:18. > :21:24.sport still benefiting from the legacy of London 2012? In terms of
:21:25. > :21:28.competition, the number of youth riders on bikes has doubled since
:21:29. > :21:34.the Olympics. We have seen here rose on the TV, and the young riders want
:21:35. > :21:39.to emulate that. `` heroes. One of those is 15`year`old Jake who
:21:40. > :21:44.participates in the GB cycling development programme. Jake and
:21:45. > :21:54.family spend a lot of time on the road. He is currently travelling to
:21:55. > :22:03.Glasgow and Manchester, to get a five hour round trip. Sometimes we
:22:04. > :22:09.see Jason Kenny training right next to us, and it shows you that cycling
:22:10. > :22:17.is not like football, you can't train close to the professionals,
:22:18. > :22:20.other sports are not like that. But could the region one day boast its
:22:21. > :22:27.own velodrome? It is our number one priority in the
:22:28. > :22:33.region, the problem is the funding. We have some funding available, but
:22:34. > :22:38.there needs to be match funded by the local authority. `` it needs to
:22:39. > :22:44.be. At least, and biking, facilities are
:22:45. > :22:49.on the doorstep. `` at least for mountain biking. There are two
:22:50. > :22:52.forests nearby. New line Sunderland play fellow
:22:53. > :22:56.strugglers West Ham on Saturday, knowing time is running out to get
:22:57. > :22:59.the valuable points they need to get them out of the relegation zone
:23:00. > :23:02.after the weekend defeat to Spurs left them rooted to the bottom.
:23:03. > :23:05.Meanwhile a buoyant Newcastle boss Alan Pardew is up against his former
:23:06. > :23:09.club Southampton, who are just one place and three points behind the
:23:10. > :23:13.Magpies. Even without the suspended Yohan Cabaye, who scored the goal at
:23:14. > :23:16.Old Trafford which saw Newcastle win there for the first time in more
:23:17. > :23:26.than 40 years, Pardew feels home advantage is key. You want to put
:23:27. > :23:30.teams on the back foot before they arrive. And certainly Southampton
:23:31. > :23:35.will be looking at tapes of us and fearing what we can do, and that
:23:36. > :23:39.gives managers a headache in how they agreed to set the team up, and
:23:40. > :23:44.gives you perhaps an advantage. We will look to exploit that on
:23:45. > :23:54.Saturday. I think it is daunting for other teams when there are 50,000
:23:55. > :23:57.Geordies in a good mood, roaring. Now, just before the weather, I'm
:23:58. > :24:00.sure you've noticed that signs of Christmas approaching are increasing
:24:01. > :24:05.daily. More and more houses are starting to light up. And one of the
:24:06. > :24:07.best displays of lights started last night.
:24:08. > :24:10.The Enchanted Parks event, which is held in Saltwell Park in Gateshead,
:24:11. > :24:13.had its official switching`on ceremony.
:24:14. > :24:16.It features works of art ` live performances and sculptures ` some
:24:17. > :24:20.of which are produced by students from Newcastle, Northumbria and
:24:21. > :24:24.Sunderland Universities. Around 20,000 people are expected to attend
:24:25. > :24:34.the display, which is on every night until Sunday.
:24:35. > :24:42.Time for the weather. Still not Christmas weather.
:24:43. > :24:49.A gorgeous sunrise today for many of us, and also higher temperatures. We
:24:50. > :24:56.will use this industrial picture, thank you to Stewart for that. The
:24:57. > :25:02.temperatures were pretty remarkable this afternoon as well, 13 Celsius
:25:03. > :25:08.at Newcastle airport, 55 Fahrenheit. As we head into tomorrow there will
:25:09. > :25:13.be a lot of cloud around. Maybe a little bit of late rightness, but
:25:14. > :25:20.the temperatures once again very, very mild. `` rightness. The air is
:25:21. > :25:23.coming right up from the south, and despite the fact we have weather
:25:24. > :25:28.fronts coming over the top of us, that southerly wind is keeping
:25:29. > :25:33.things very mild. A fair amount of heavy rain this evening, some drier
:25:34. > :25:43.interludes, but we will keep cloudy skies. Temperatures just dipping
:25:44. > :25:47.into single figures. Tomorrow it is a cloudy start, most places stay
:25:48. > :25:52.cloudy through the day. Bands of rain coming in from the west. Tail
:25:53. > :25:57.end of the afternoon, perhaps some writer whether getting into western
:25:58. > :26:05.parts of Cumbria, `` brighter weather. The wind turns a bit more
:26:06. > :26:12.south`westerly rather than southerly later on tomorrow. The picture for
:26:13. > :26:16.the next few days, a bit of a gap early in the weekend, becoming wet
:26:17. > :26:23.and windy from the West. A gap again to start Sunday of before the next
:26:24. > :26:34.Atlantic brings in wet weather from the West. We will see that wet
:26:35. > :26:37.weather spread in from the West through the second half of Saturday,
:26:38. > :26:44.and it will become very windy. Next week, I think we will start to
:26:45. > :26:47.see temperatures in the daytime back into single figures and a return to
:26:48. > :26:58.colder nights and maybe some wintry showers as well. You can keep up to
:26:59. > :27:05.date with the weather app. You can also listen to your BBC local radio
:27:06. > :27:07.station. Now a final look at tonight's
:27:08. > :27:10.headlines. 22 emergency helicopters have been
:27:11. > :27:13.grounded after a fault was discovered on an EC135. It's the
:27:14. > :27:18.same model of helicopter which crashed into a Glasgow pub last
:27:19. > :27:21.month. And another blow for former AEI
:27:22. > :27:24.workers, sacked without redundancy pay. Now they owe thousands of
:27:25. > :27:38.pounds for the community centre where they meet.
:27:39. > :27:43.That is it for now, we will be back for the late News at 10:25pm.