:00:14. > :00:18.Welcome to Tuesday's Look North. In tonight's headlines: At risk of
:00:19. > :00:26.collapse. Homes are evacuated after a sinkhole opens up on a housing
:00:27. > :00:29.estate. I moved in a week ago. It is quite a shock. Suspensions and a
:00:30. > :00:33.police inquiry after accusations of financial irregularities at a County
:00:34. > :00:37.Durham special school. And a Valentine's scam ` the couple conned
:00:38. > :00:48.out of money for a luxury lodge that didn't exist. In sport: A Wembley
:00:49. > :00:59.the union and plans to end the exile for one of our league clubs. Also
:01:00. > :01:09.the winter is over but we are does the likes of Amanda go from here?
:01:10. > :01:14.Part will be North Yorkshire town remains cordoned off tonight after a
:01:15. > :01:18.large sinkhole appeared next to houses. It is viewed one particular
:01:19. > :01:24.house could be swallowed up. Able living nearby are worried their
:01:25. > :01:31.homes could be next. Sinkholes are common in this area we are the
:01:32. > :01:38.houses are built on gypsum rock. Imagine if this was your home. This
:01:39. > :01:42.house has stood in Britain for 100 years. Tonight, structural engineers
:01:43. > :01:48.were assessing whether it should be pulled down. A massive sinkhole
:01:49. > :01:52.underneath it is causing one aimed to slip away. The next door
:01:53. > :02:00.neighbour waited to hear what was happening. The wanted me to stay out
:02:01. > :02:06.until they assess what is happening to the land and surrounding
:02:07. > :02:12.properties. I only moved in a week last Saturday so it is quite a
:02:13. > :02:17.shock. Other youngsters could see the drama unfolding from their
:02:18. > :02:21.driveway. I feel sorry for them because it must be off to have half
:02:22. > :02:28.of your house disappearing, it is so close to where we live. It could so
:02:29. > :02:33.easily be one of our houses. I'd macro rep and is no stranger to
:02:34. > :02:39.sinkhole problems. This was the spectacular scene back in 1997 when
:02:40. > :02:48.part of the garden was swallowed up while children played nearby. Gipson
:02:49. > :02:52.dissolves very quickly, a block of around the size of the van dropped
:02:53. > :02:57.in need of will dissolve within 18 months. We lifted the good heavy
:02:58. > :03:00.solid rock it will dissolve and the amount of ground water coming
:03:01. > :03:05.through and coming up as springs in the river will dissolve it causing
:03:06. > :03:13.the wall to get bigger and the singles will develop. 75 new homes
:03:14. > :03:18.plans new the property were thrown out by councillors. Structural
:03:19. > :03:23.engineers have spent the day assessing the damage to the
:03:24. > :03:27.property. While we have been standing here the gap and the track
:03:28. > :03:34.has been getting bigger as the day has gone on. It is possible recall
:03:35. > :03:39.building may have to be demolished. `` the whole building. Police and
:03:40. > :03:41.education officials are investigating serious financial
:03:42. > :03:44.irregularities at a County Durham special school. Inspectors believe
:03:45. > :03:47.more than ?160,000 that should have been spent on children with special
:03:48. > :03:52.needs at Glendene Arts Academy was misappropriated. Instead, the money
:03:53. > :03:58.seems to have funded a private company. Our Political Editor
:03:59. > :04:01.Richard Moss reports. There were celebrations in April 2013, when the
:04:02. > :04:06.Duke of Edinburgh officially opened Glendene Arts Academy in Easington
:04:07. > :04:09.Colliery. But today the school is at the centre of serious allegations.
:04:10. > :04:12.Auditors were called in after whistle`blowers raised concerns
:04:13. > :04:16.about financial irregularities. Their allegations centre on a
:04:17. > :04:19.company that was set up by the chair of governors and Principal. The firm
:04:20. > :04:24.was supposed to generate income for the academy. But instead, ?154,000
:04:25. > :04:28.of school money was used to pay four of its staff. Another ?8,000 of
:04:29. > :04:33.academy money helped fund its running costs. The company even used
:04:34. > :04:38.the school's mini buses, forcing the academy to hire some in for its
:04:39. > :04:42.students. Yet inspectors found no evidence the firm had produced any
:04:43. > :04:45.financial benefit for the school. Instead ?162,000 that should have
:04:46. > :04:56.been spent on pupils subsidised the firm. When these allegations first
:04:57. > :05:01.emerged last July, the chair of governors resigned and the principle
:05:02. > :05:05.of the Academy took sick leave. Since then, some of the staff who
:05:06. > :05:13.worked for the company have since been suspended. The Department for
:05:14. > :05:16.Education plans to recover the money by April. But Durham Police's
:05:17. > :05:19.serious crime unit is still investigating the possible illegal
:05:20. > :05:22.use of school funds. And teaching unions say they're concerned that
:05:23. > :05:25.financial problems can happen too easily in academies like Glendene,
:05:26. > :05:30.which are free of council control. Jill macro in the last few weeks
:05:31. > :05:36.there have been a number of stories like this coming to the fore. It is
:05:37. > :05:41.interesting they have only come to the fore because whistle`blowers
:05:42. > :05:45.have made it known to people. If it were a local authority school they
:05:46. > :05:49.would be subject to close scrutiny and oversight from the local
:05:50. > :05:52.authority would be looking in detail at their budgets and expenditure.
:05:53. > :05:56.The Department for Education insists the finances of academies are
:05:57. > :06:00.rigorously policed. But it does appear pupils at Glendene missed out
:06:01. > :06:04.on money that should have been spent on them. And Richard is with me now.
:06:05. > :06:19.What happens next with this investigation? There have been no
:06:20. > :06:27.arrests as yet. I cannot tell you what the firm is called because
:06:28. > :06:32.there are rules against that. There have been new appointments to the
:06:33. > :06:38.staff to run the school in the absence of the principal at the
:06:39. > :06:41.moment. They want to reassure people that nations made to the school
:06:42. > :06:46.during that time have gone to the school and have been spent on
:06:47. > :06:52.pupils. The auditors are concerned that some donations previously we
:06:53. > :06:57.have gone into this private company but the investigation continues as
:06:58. > :07:00.does the recovery of the money. Three men arrested in Darlington in
:07:01. > :07:04.an operation involved armed police officers have been released on bail.
:07:05. > :07:08.The three, aged 30, 22 and 19 were arrested after officers shot out the
:07:09. > :07:14.tyres of the van in which they were travelling on Yarm Road in the town.
:07:15. > :07:17.No`one was injured. A flight from Amsterdam to Newcastle Airport was
:07:18. > :07:21.grounded on the runway for more than two hours last night, after a group
:07:22. > :07:27.of school children on board decided they didn't want to take off. The
:07:28. > :07:30.Easyjet plane finally landed at Newcastle Airport after 16 of the
:07:31. > :07:34.group, and their luggage, were taken off and returned to the airport.
:07:35. > :07:37.Easyjet says it was due to a nervous young passenger in the group who
:07:38. > :07:40.raised a security issue prior to take off. Journalists on the The
:07:41. > :07:44.Northern Echo and its sister titles were on strike today. The 24`hour
:07:45. > :07:47.long action was in response to eleven staff on the papers being
:07:48. > :07:51.given the choice of moving 270 miles away to Wales, or losing their jobs.
:07:52. > :07:53.Our Business Correspondent Ian Reeve reports. Making the news rather than
:07:54. > :07:56.writing it. Northern Echo journalists are on strike over
:07:57. > :07:58.potential job losses. The paper's owner, Newsquest, wants sub editing,
:07:59. > :08:02.that's writing headlines and captions, and laying out stories, to
:08:03. > :08:05.be done at a central hub in Wales. 270 miles from Darlington. If that
:08:06. > :08:08.newspaper is done in another country, forget Wales, it may as
:08:09. > :08:10.well be India or any other country, it takes away the link that the
:08:11. > :08:14.local community and the journalists have. 11 jobs are at risk at the
:08:15. > :08:17.Echo and sister papers. Five more at the York Press. But the papers'
:08:18. > :08:23.owner says affected staff can transfer to Wales. News Qwest also
:08:24. > :08:29.says the papers will be on sale as normal tomorrow. It also promises
:08:30. > :08:32.that all key educational judgements and decisions will continue to be
:08:33. > :08:35.made in the region. But is it important that local papers are
:08:36. > :08:38.produced in their area. Teesside's Evening Gazette is printed in
:08:39. > :08:41.Sheffield, the Echo itself is printed in Middlesbrough. But the
:08:42. > :08:51.academic view is that it does matter. If you remove the artistic
:08:52. > :08:58.flare of making newspapers look good, really just throwing stock
:08:59. > :09:04.pages onto a templated why would people want to buy something like
:09:05. > :09:08.this? The Northern Echo's editor appears on BBC Tees every day. He
:09:09. > :09:11.challenges listeners to write better headlines than ones printed in the
:09:12. > :09:20.paper. Headlines that could soon have more than a hint of Welsh about
:09:21. > :09:23.them. Half a million patients are set to have their emergency care
:09:24. > :09:26.moved to a new hospital in Northumberland. And today, the
:09:27. > :09:29.country's top doctor came to see it for himself. Sir Bruce Keogh, the
:09:30. > :09:34.NHS's Medical Director, is leading the change in how patients receive
:09:35. > :09:37.emergency medical care in England. But what does this new super
:09:38. > :09:43.hospital in Cramlington mean for patients here? Here's our health
:09:44. > :09:46.reporter, Sharon Barbour. If you live in Northumberland or North
:09:47. > :09:49.Tynside and have a medical emergency, in future you'll be
:09:50. > :09:54.brought here to the new Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital.
:09:55. > :09:57.Today, England's top doctor, the NHS's Medical Director Sir Bruce
:09:58. > :10:06.Keogh, gave the plan the thumbs up as he arrived for a topping out
:10:07. > :10:23.ceremony. What you see behind me is a major improvement in the
:10:24. > :10:27.facilities we offer. When the patients come in they may come down
:10:28. > :10:32.along this corridor here for resuscitation or along this one
:10:33. > :10:38.here, the front of which will be for emergency paediatric gear. Five
:10:39. > :10:43.years ago we made the judgement that this was the right thing to do. We
:10:44. > :10:47.had to have a cute things all centralised in one area. But what
:10:48. > :10:52.does the hospital mean for patients at their own hospitals such as in
:10:53. > :10:58.Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham. There will still be some local
:10:59. > :11:07.argent key services for things which aren't particularly dangerous or
:11:08. > :11:12.life`threatening. `` urgent. The travelling time is far outweighed by
:11:13. > :11:16.the benefit of getting you to the right place where you can get the
:11:17. > :11:24.right treatment from the right people. There are concerns about the
:11:25. > :11:30.pressures the hospital will put on the Ambulance Service, it could mean
:11:31. > :11:35.an extra 2000 extra hours per week for staff. The North East Ambulance
:11:36. > :11:52.Service said they were in constant talks with the hospital trust. There
:11:53. > :11:58.have also been concerns raised by medical staff at Newcastle hospitals
:11:59. > :12:03.who already have been major trauma centre at the Royal Victoria
:12:04. > :12:07.infirmary, less than ten miles away. We already have a good trauma
:12:08. > :12:12.service but that does not equal with additional emergency keyer services
:12:13. > :12:20.to a high quality elsewhere in the region. As work continues on the
:12:21. > :12:23.site, work must also be under way to convince the north`east what the
:12:24. > :12:28.staff year and the chief doctor believed, that a new hospital will
:12:29. > :12:38.improve the outcome for patients needing emergency keyer. Plenty more
:12:39. > :12:44.to come: The Darlington campaign to bring the cup home gathers place and
:12:45. > :12:48.entertaining the young and the young at heart in Carlisle. Also what does
:12:49. > :13:04.the weather have in store? A young couple from North Yorkshire
:13:05. > :13:07.have lost hundreds of pounds after becoming victims of the fraud
:13:08. > :13:14.involving a fictitious holiday home in the Highlands. Laura booked a
:13:15. > :13:25.Valentine home through Facebook but when she went to the location at
:13:26. > :13:31.Loch Ness it did not exist. Luxury lodges on the banks of Loch Ness.
:13:32. > :13:36.The website promises romantic getaways in the Highlands. For this
:13:37. > :13:40.young couple who are often apart due to his Army career it seemed like
:13:41. > :13:44.the perfect way to spend their first Valentine's Day together, that
:13:45. > :13:51.they'd is just one problem, it does not exist. Dell macro the direction
:13:52. > :13:59.is said to follow the road left and it just turned into a dark track and
:14:00. > :14:04.someone's house which it was not. We went to a local hotel to ask if they
:14:05. > :14:09.had heard of it because it was supposed to be there since 2011.
:14:10. > :14:14.They had never heard of it so it was not looking great. The website was
:14:15. > :14:24.bogus, the pictures were of another hotel. They had spent hundreds of
:14:25. > :14:31.pounds by direct cash transfer which means it is unlikely they will get
:14:32. > :14:39.the cash back. We always recommend using a credit card because it will
:14:40. > :14:44.give you additional protection. We you can protect yourself from these
:14:45. > :14:49.fraudsters also look at Google, Google maps and that kind of stuff.
:14:50. > :14:57.Also look online for any history before you book. Unfortunately this
:14:58. > :15:04.case is not unique. Please Scotland say they have had other complaints
:15:05. > :15:09.about this specific website. Laura boot through the man called Kevin
:15:10. > :15:14.Beaumont, I am going to see what he has got to say about this. It has
:15:15. > :15:22.gone straight to answer phone. Hello, I am calling from the BBC,
:15:23. > :15:25.please give me a call back as I am looking at the website you have
:15:26. > :15:34.about holiday lodges on Loch Ness which do not exist. Let's see what
:15:35. > :15:42.happens. I did not hear back from him and he is not returning any
:15:43. > :15:46.calls from Laura either. There are some lodges there and they are
:15:47. > :15:51.beautiful but just be careful who you are booking with. For this
:15:52. > :15:55.couple it should have been a doorman Tick Highland Fling, instead their
:15:56. > :16:01.Valentine 's weekend will be remembered for all the wrong
:16:02. > :16:11.reasons. `` the romantic Highland Fling. The BBC are examining how the
:16:12. > :16:17.World War I affected life on the home front. The programme launches
:16:18. > :16:26.next Monday, K the taster of what we have in store. `` here is a taster.
:16:27. > :16:32.This was the response in Newcastle city centre, seated like thousands
:16:33. > :16:38.of other memorials will stop the War has such a hold on our imagination
:16:39. > :16:46.that we have an increasing need to talk about it and not just because
:16:47. > :16:51.this is 2014. When you look at what is depicted here, the patriotism,
:16:52. > :16:58.the optimism, the clear sense of the just cause. It seems to describe a
:16:59. > :17:07.very different world, albeit in living memory. For Britain it was
:17:08. > :17:11.the first total war, practically everyone was affected in some way
:17:12. > :17:16.and the scale of loss and suffering was unlike anything we had known.
:17:17. > :17:21.Many of the stories from those days have been lost down the decades.
:17:22. > :17:27.Some of them we are hoping to the Discover. We are concentrating on
:17:28. > :17:34.stories from the home front. Deals of how our region was crucial to
:17:35. > :17:42.arming the vast war effort. Tales of the unprecedented sacrifices. He
:17:43. > :17:53.did, he was the last one, they brought him warm because he was the
:17:54. > :17:57.only one living. Our first series of reports begins next week. Every
:17:58. > :18:07.family has a story about the great War. We want to bring you some that
:18:08. > :18:09.we all share. That series starts next Monday year or look north and
:18:10. > :18:29.on your ABC local radio station. Tories using technology from the
:18:30. > :18:35.past have been used to entertain children at a new exhibition in
:18:36. > :18:39.Carlisle. It is a display that features moving sculptures old and
:18:40. > :18:56.new and is keeping the half term crowds amused. Our reporter went to
:18:57. > :19:01.join them. They may not be high`tech by today's standards but these
:19:02. > :19:06.wooden toys have still been mesmerising visitors here. The
:19:07. > :19:14.mechanical searches `` mechanical circus exhibition shows toys made
:19:15. > :19:21.from cogs and wheels. Simple but effective. My favourite was called
:19:22. > :19:28.locks, it was traditional to the story but keeps carries on holding
:19:29. > :19:32.while you hold the button. I like this because I do the lot of
:19:33. > :19:39.swimming gala is and I just like the way it moves. It is quite funny. I
:19:40. > :19:52.like the way he is talking. It is quite funny. Bite macro you like the
:19:53. > :20:08.way his mouth moves? Yes. It is interesting to try to understand how
:20:09. > :20:15.they work. You just dress a button and it kicks in. You watch the
:20:16. > :20:21.little cogs and wheels working and it is amazing how it happens.
:20:22. > :20:27.Science and technology can be fun. Nowadays people do not know how to
:20:28. > :20:32.fix their own washing machines. We just throw things out and buy a new
:20:33. > :20:37.one. Perhaps if we had some of these skills we could work out how to fix
:20:38. > :20:50.the car off the bike when it is broken. I'd macro the exhibition
:20:51. > :20:56.runs until June in Carlisle. Were those your childhood toys? Stop it!
:20:57. > :21:11.All the cliches come true when you have a great one to start with.
:21:12. > :21:14.Sunderland have extra time `` Sunderland fans must wait until a
:21:15. > :21:18.week tonight to finalise their travel plans for the FA Cup
:21:19. > :21:21.quarterfinal. But whatever happens one manager will definitely be
:21:22. > :21:24.taking on his former club. Brighton went in front through Leonardo
:21:25. > :21:28.Ulloa's cool finish ` raising the prospect of a return to the Amex
:21:29. > :21:31.Stadium for Black Cats head coach Gus Poyet. But Yannick Sagbo's late
:21:32. > :21:34.equaliser for Hull City will now make THEM favourites to give
:21:35. > :21:37.ex`Sunderland boss Steve Bruce the chance of a third victory this
:21:38. > :21:40.season over the Wearsiders. Another newspaper has been banned by
:21:41. > :21:44.Newcastle United. A Sunday Express article said manager Alan Pardew
:21:45. > :21:47.will be sacked if the club fails to beat Aston Villa, a claim branded
:21:48. > :21:50."completely untrue" by the club. This evening in League One BBC Radio
:21:51. > :21:53.Cumbria will have full match commentary of Carlisle's trip to
:21:54. > :21:55.Coventry. BBC Tees will be following Hartlepool's League Two game at
:21:56. > :21:59.Southend. Meanwhile Middlesbrough have now signed on loan Peterborough
:22:00. > :22:08.forward Lee Tomlin on a permanent deal. Wembley fever's already
:22:09. > :22:18.gripping Sunderland and today four stalwarts of the club's last major
:22:19. > :22:21.final were reunited. Martin Gray, Brian Atkinson and Tony Norman now
:22:22. > :22:25.work for Darlington and they were joined by their former boss as part
:22:26. > :22:28.of efforts to help the re`vamped non`league club. The Quakers hope to
:22:29. > :22:31.return to play in the town next season after two years in exile.
:22:32. > :22:36.They were reunited with their Wembley partner as part of
:22:37. > :22:43.fundraising effort to help the Quakers. Darlington are raising cash
:22:44. > :22:47.to redevelop the town's rugby club and set up home here two years after
:22:48. > :22:56.leaving the time when the old club went bust. They need their own club
:22:57. > :23:00.in their hometown so coming back to Darlington next reason is essential.
:23:01. > :23:07.The currently sheared a ground with Bishop Auckland. So far ?65,000 has
:23:08. > :23:13.been raised to bring the club that to the town. Much of the money that
:23:14. > :23:19.has been raised the redevelop the dog the club he has come from fans.
:23:20. > :23:25.The plan is there will be a 450 seater stand there, standing areas
:23:26. > :23:32.behind either goal, and the capacity of around 3000 in the first
:23:33. > :23:38.instance. And this was a welcome publicity boost for the players.
:23:39. > :23:45.They need identity and coming back into the town gives them that. The
:23:46. > :23:49.reformed Darlington remain confident they will be setting up warm here in
:23:50. > :24:13.time for the start of the next season. `` Paul. `` home. Lee
:24:14. > :24:16.Jackson now thinks his place in the men's competition was acceptable in
:24:17. > :24:26.the wider scale of things, but what now? I might take a break for one
:24:27. > :24:30.month, put down my rifle and my skis, take a holiday, spend time
:24:31. > :24:39.with my family and reflect on the last few years to see if I have the
:24:40. > :24:43.motivation and skills to continue. I have got something to prove in
:24:44. > :24:52.myself, I want to take it forward and improved in the next four years
:24:53. > :24:56.to see what I can do. In athletics, York 400 metre runner Richard Buck
:24:57. > :24:59.has been selected for the GB team taking part in the World Indoor
:25:00. > :25:02.Championships in Poland next month. And there's been good news today for
:25:03. > :25:05.Stockton's Richard Kilty. The Gateshead Harrier, in the far lane
:25:06. > :25:09.in Birmingham last weekend, has been given the nod to run in the 60
:25:10. > :25:12.metres event, in which he came fifth behind eventual winner James
:25:13. > :25:14.Das`alu, whose injury at the Sainsbury's Grand Prix has given
:25:15. > :25:21.Kilty his big chance. Now the weather. Quite sunny at times to
:25:22. > :25:27.day? Yes, it has not been too bad and the those more in the forecast.
:25:28. > :25:34.A springlike image to start us off. The crocus blossoming there on
:25:35. > :25:41.Teeside. It's cool `` could feel a little bit like spring for most of
:25:42. > :25:46.us tomorrow. Overnight tonight just a few showers at first. These will
:25:47. > :25:52.tend to die out as we get to the early hours. It could become quite
:25:53. > :26:01.misty with light winds developing over the Lakeland 's North Yorkshire
:26:02. > :26:08.and Humberside. Four or five Celsius the lowest temperature overnight. A
:26:09. > :26:14.reasonably mild start to Wednesday. Still a few showers to come and mist
:26:15. > :26:18.lingering in parts of the West. In the east we are expecting some
:26:19. > :26:23.spells of brightness and the showers should die away by late morning and
:26:24. > :26:30.into the afternoon. Temperatures will be milder than today, 50
:26:31. > :26:37.Fahrenheit, feeling pleasant in light winds. Staying mild for this
:26:38. > :26:44.time of year for most parts. Cloudier with possibly one or two
:26:45. > :26:48.showers lingering. For most places a better day than many that we have
:26:49. > :26:55.had of late. Low pressure will bring in another weather system from the
:26:56. > :26:59.West on Thursday. Strengthening winds and it will stage breezy on
:27:00. > :27:07.Friday of all four parts it should be a dry day. Low pressure still
:27:08. > :27:12.continuing to dominate the forecast. We are expecting it to be wet across
:27:13. > :27:16.the region on Thursday with continuing heavy downpours in the
:27:17. > :27:23.West for much of Friday. Ends will continue to dry out here. Friday is
:27:24. > :27:29.likely to be drier possibly with sunshine. Tomorrow's sunshine for
:27:30. > :27:35.many sports and feeling a bit more like spring than winter. That's it
:27:36. > :27:48.for us. For now, good night.