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have ever seen. And that is all the sport.

Good evening. A man has been charged had their Good

Good evening. A man has been charged with murder after the death of a man

in Middlesbrough. Police were called to Carlow Street yesterday. A

postmortem examination confirmed the man died as a result of a stab

wound. A 26``year`old man's due to appear before Teesside magistrates

tomorrow. A 23`year`old pedestrian has been

critically injured, after being hit by a bus in Newcastle. The accident

happened just after eight o'clock last night in the city centre. The

woman was taken to the RVI, where she is in a stable condition.

Security measures have been improved at an American hospital where a

County Durham woman was found dead in a stairwell. 57`year`old Lynne

Spalding, from Haswell, went missing at San Francisco General Hospital

last October. Despite a search, it was 17 days before her body was

discovered in the stairwell, just yards from her bed. Health

inspectors have now completed an investigation into patient safety,

privacy and security at the hospital.

A Teesside MP has highlighted the case of a job`seeker who had his

benefits stopped because he was not looking for work, because he was in

a coma at the time. Alex Cunningham told the BBC's

Sunday Politics that it was one of several cases he had dealt with

where sanctions against job`seekers had been applied unfairly. We have

people coming to us who are unfairly sanctioned. We had one person in a

coma in a hospital and another, who was sent the wrong ticket from the

wrong bus company was sanctioned for not turning up at an interview.

For the government, Berwick MP Sir Alan Beith said such mistakes needed

to be resolved fairly, but stressed sanctions were necessary to prevent

the welfare system being abused. The government is quite clearly trying

to crack down on abuse of the system. They are wanting to reform

the welfare system so that the taxpayers, who often do not have

much money themselves, so that it goes to those who need it and

deserve it, who are trying to get work or are genuinely unable to

work. She is one of the Navy's most famous

ships and is due to be decommissioned, but HMS Illustrious

could be saved rather than broken up. Built on Tyneside, with a career

spanning 32 years, three famous ports are in the bidding to provide

her final resting place. Portsmouth, Hull and Newcastle all want to

secure the navy's last aircraft carrier for future generations and

tomorrow's Inside Out programme hears what the plans are. Her former

commander, who later became First Sea Lord, told Inside Out that he is

backing Tyneside. I would love that it was retained here. I hope it goes

to the North East. My question is, whether that is a practical

proposition. A decision should be made later this

year and watch Inside Out tomorrow night BBC One at 7.30pm as the

contenders bidding for HMS Illustrious set out their stalls.

The Bishop of Newcastle has called for couples getting married to

return to the church. Since 1970, church weddings have fallen by two

thirds. The Right Reverend Martin Wharton was speaking this weekend,

at one of the biggest wedding shows in the country.

Around 30,000 couples will tie the knot this year and, at the North

East wedding show in Newcastle this weekend, many were preparing for the

biggest day of their lives. school?

Alongside the glitz and glamour, Alongside the glitz and glamour, the

Church of England was making its presence felt, with the Bishop of

Newcastle, who has presided over hundreds of weddings, selling what

the church has to offer. One of the stalls is advertising Acehnese what

I was there for. I said, just think about it. I think the church as a

key role to play. And for those planning their big day, there is, of

course, lots to consider. As well as the vicar, there is the dress, cake,

cars and wedding rings. For Chris and Lindsay from

Sunderland, the July 12 is their chosen date and, with hundreds of

ideas to consider, the perfect day is beginning to take shape. I was

not sure what style I wanted. I have found what I want. Expensive? Very!

In fact, creating the prefect wedding now costs on average

?20,000, so a call to the bank manager may be on the cards!

Football now and after yesterday's 1`0 victory over Kiddermister,

Sunderland will play Southampton in the fifth round of the FA Cup. The

home tie will be played over the weekend of the 15th and 16th of

February. The weather prospects for the start

of the week now, from Kay Crewdson. Good evening. We have a yellow

warning in force from the Met office for ice. We have showers falling

overnight, which may come down as snow, and not just in the hills.

There could be a dust of snow tomorrow morning. So, if you are

going out tomorrow morning, watch out for these stretches, which could

turn to ice. I temperatures only getting up to about seven Celsius in

the West. That is it for now. We are back with

the late news at around 10.20pm. Until then, enjoy your evening.

Until then, plenty more news on our Until then, plenty more news on our

website. Bye-bye. Good evening.

will keep going through the nights tonight and as the air turns

colder, tonight and as the air turns

wintry. A mixture of sleet and snow leaving us with the risk advice The

band of rain has cleared his leaving us with the risk advice The

cloud on the satellite picture, the centre of the low. Around that,

strong winds at cross -- strong winds across the Western Isles.

strong winds at cross -- strong possibility of sleet and snow at

lower levels into the morning. As temperatures fall close to freezing,

it is the ice that is our main concern for Monday morning.

of showers still with us on Monday. It will be another windy day, with

of showers still with us on Monday. lines of showers to the south,

turning back to sleet and rain lines of showers to the south,

the afternoon. More frequent showers further north. Mainly wintry across

the afternoon. More frequent showers the high ground, particularly parts

of the Highlands and Grampians. Temperatures tomorrow afternoon at

around 80 degrees. Temperatures tomorrow afternoon at

pretty unsettled on Tuesday and Wednesday with that low pressure

bringing workload and outbreaks of rain. Temperatures still between

five and eight. But there is a change on