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29/01/2014

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Good evening. Her family and friends are desperately hoping the police

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are wrong. But the search for missing student Megan Roberts is

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becoming more and more focused on the River Ouse in the centre of

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York. 20`year`old Megan's been missing for six days now.

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It has been dark here for about five hours. Police divers have been

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searching the River Ouse. It is a weak sense Megan Roberts went

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missing and police say that foul play is unlikely. She had been

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drinking and police say it is likely she fell into the river. On one of

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the coldest days of the winter. The strongest and most probable line of

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inquiry being pursued by the police is that Megan, affected by alcohol,

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has entered the river. Clearly we will not be any position to confirm

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this to be the case until Megan is found. The police have been

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searching the area, looking around about a half`mile stretch of river

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bank. Police said there is no link to the Claudia Lawrence

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investigation. Speculation about her having a stock which appeared in the

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press and on social media can be discounted. Police said a family are

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desperate for information and they want anyone with information to

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contact them on 101. The search will resume in the morning.

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A nursery worker's described her horror at learning that a toddler

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she'd been looking after had been strangled in an accident on a

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playground slide. Sophee Redhead denies the manslaughter by gross

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negligence of three`year`old Lydia Bishop at York College Nursery.

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Lydia Bishop died tragically on the first full day of the York nursery

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on September the 17th 2012. She had been under the supervision of

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part`time nursery assistant Sophee Redhead. She had been sitting on a

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picnic bench on the playground after a lunch break. Everything seemed to

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be normal. She dabbed her eyes as she recalled when the alert had been

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raised about Lydia being missing she had run to the slide seeing

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something white there. It turned out to be Lydia's trousers. She had been

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strangled by a rope hanging from the slide. She had carried Lydia into

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the nursery building. The assistant said she was shocked and all the

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staff were crying. The court had heard that the ropes had not been

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removed from the slide after play and children should not have been

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allowed there unsupervised. Cross`examined, Sophee Redhead

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denied she had seen Lydia Bishop walk past her on her way to the

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slide that day. She said she thought Lydia had gone back inside the

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nursery after playing in the sand pit. She denied failing in her duty

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of supervision. The jury were told that York College Nursery, who deny

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breaches of health and safety regulations, had enjoyed good

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reports since it was opened in 2007. As well as the gross negligence

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charge, Sophee Redhead also denies failing to take reasonable care of

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Lydia Bishop. The trial continues. Police investigating alleged sexual

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abuse of teenage girls and young women on Tyneside have made a

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further five arrests after raids in Newcastle and South Tyneside. It

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takes the number of people arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to rape

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to 26, including two women. Carlisle City Council is removing

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slides and swings from some of its play parks because it says it can't

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afford to maintain them. The council will save ?25,000.

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Having fun close to home. These few items of play equipment in Belah are

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a focal point for families. But soon they're being removed. The council

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says budget cuts mean it's unaffordable. The first thing

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children should have is a safe place to play. The government talk about

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levels of obesity and crime in local areas and yet at the same time they

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want to save peanuts, really. The NHS is spending billions on obesity

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and child obesity is upwards towards 20%. Carlisle City Council says it's

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not shutting the 21 play parks across the city from which it's

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removing its equipment. In fact it says they're still very much open

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for what they are calling "imaginative play". I'm not happy

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having to do this. If I'm going to blame anybody, I'm blaming the

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government. They are hammering local authorities by cutting funds. We

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could spread the jam thinly, but by doing so we would be making some of

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the play areas unsafe. I don't believe that the priorities of

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Carlisle should be an arts centre at ?1 million and another ?125,000 a

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year to run. A fraction of that money could be used to reinvest in

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the play areas around Carlisle. It would be of far more benefit to the

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children. The council says every Carlisle child will still have a

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play park within 500 metres of home. And ?60,000 is being spent on

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improving those that remain. The route of the Queen's Baton Relay

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in England has been announced ahead of this summer's Commonwealth Games

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in Glasgow. The baton will come to Newcastle and Gateshead on July 13th

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visiting the Angel of the North and the Quayside before travelling to

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Alnwick for an overnight stay at the Castle on its way to Scotland.

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Football, and if you don't want to know the score tonight of

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Sunderland's match against Stoke, you know what to do. The Black Cats

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won 1`0, giving them three points. Adam Johnson scored the winning goal

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after 17 minutes meaning Sunderland climb out of the bottom three for

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the first time since August. And you can see highlights from

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tonight's game on Match of the Day, which follows this bulletin.

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It is cold overnight. He met F is `` email offers warning for ice. There

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might be one or two showers in the east but many places will have a dry

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night. The cloud will be broken further west. Temperatures down to

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minus one or minus two. Icy stretches to watch out for first

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thing tomorrow. One or two showers in the east through the morning.

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Becoming more widespread later in the day. Sleet over the higher

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ground. Drier and greater further west. Temperatures will struggle.

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Why is all five Celsius. He cold east or southeasterly wind. As we

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head towards the tail end of the week, wet and windy weather,

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blustery showers and sunny intervals for the weekend.

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Goodnight. Hello. The next dose of wet and

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windy weather is due to arrive on Friday from the Atlantic. Today we

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have had an easterly wind bringing the chill as the threat of icy

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patches comes to the north where the cloud breaks. More cloud further

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south. Maybe some sleet and snow in parts of East Wales as we engage the

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cold air. Temperatures in the south-east are not changing much

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because the rain keeps going. It will be colder further north,

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though. Icy patches are possible. More wintry showers in the

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north-east. Quite a few flood warnings in Tayside. Write to the

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west of the Pennines. -- brighter.

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