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And that is all from us for this evening. Now on BBC One, | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Good evening. Police have arrested a 43`year`old man on suspicion of the | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
murder of a seven`year`old girl more than 21 years ago. Nikki Allan was | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
found dead in Sunderland in 1992. Since then, her mother has fought to | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
keep the investigation alive, and a renewed appeal was made on the BBC's | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Crimewatch programme last September. Sharuna Sagar reports. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
Nikki Allan's murder is a case that has never gone away for Northumbria | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Police. The circumstances of her death appalled detectives and the | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
public alike. A seven`year`old girl, playing near her home in the Wear | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Garth area of Sunderland ` found dead in the`then derelict Old | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
Exchange building. It's been redeveloped into a venue but then it | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
was used by vagrants and drug abusers. Police are still keen to | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
speak to anyone who hung round here in those days to see if they | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
remember any information that will them with the case. There was an | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
arrest ` and trial at the time ` but the defendant was cleared. While the | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
investigation has continued over the decades. For Nikki's mother, the | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
impact of her daughter's death is still raw. I have been in hospital. | :01:28. | :01:39. | |
I have lost that much weight, I am on drugs from the doctor. I still | :01:40. | :01:48. | |
have the strength to carry on. Last September, the BBC's Crimewatch | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
programme stepped in to give a further impetus to the efforts of | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
the police's Major Crime Team. It was hoped a reconstruction of events | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
leading up to Nikki's death might jog a memory somewhere to provide | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
that vital snippet of information. This evening, as a man arrested on | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
suspicion of murder is bailed pending further enquiries, the fresh | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
call for witnesses is as important as ever. Sharuna Sagar, BBC Look | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
North, Sunderland. A controversial plan to scale down | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
children's and maternity services at the Friarage Hospital in | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
Northallerton is to go ahead. All sick children who need overnight | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
care and mothers having high`risk births will now have to travel | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
elsewhere. Doctors say it's the only way to provide sustainable care, | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
while campaigners believe it could threaten patient safety. There were | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
not prepared to listen to anything other than their own solution which | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
came forward well over two years ago and has not been changed one iota. | :02:47. | :02:56. | |
Children should be looked after in big units with lots of well`trained | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
staff who do emergency stuff every day. When people say it is a | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
world`class service, you think it is not? I think it has been but other | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
services have improved the standards. The leader of | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
Northumberland County Council has pledged that each and every pothole | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
on the county's roads will be filled by the end of June. Our Political | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
Editor, Richard Moss, reports. Suspension`wrecking, tyre`bursting, | :03:29. | :03:29. | |
anger`inducing: Potholes are part and parcel of driving in | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
Northumberland. But if you believe the leader of the County Council, | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
not for much longer. He says they'll all be gone by the end of June. When | :03:37. | :03:54. | |
we became the administration we had 35,000 potholes. We whittled it down | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
to just over 12,000 and believe over the next 18 weeks, by adding the | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
additional money from the insurance fund, we can eliminate them by that | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
time. The Council says it can make that pledge because it has invested | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
in kit like this jet patcher which can fill holes quickly. And because | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
it's putting a further ?600,000 in to the roads budget. But some are | :04:14. | :04:24. | |
deeply sceptical. It shows a lack of understanding. . To think the | :04:25. | :04:39. | |
problems can be fixed by June is clou` cuckoo land. Will you have a | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
day of celebration when you fill in the last one? We will introduce a | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
meter on the web page and people will see the numbers drop. I am sure | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
they will put a smiley face at the bottom when they are done. And the | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
challenge to achieve that smiley face ` fill the small matter of 100 | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
holes a day for the next four months. | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
Rail enthusiasts have been flocking to the Locomotion Rail Museum at | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
Shildon this week for a unique event in steam rail history. Six A4 | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
Pacific locos have been on show, attracting some 60,000 visitors | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
already, with three days of the exhibition left. Jonathan Swingler | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
reports. The museum predicted 68,000 visitors | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
over nine days. They went through that target yesterday. Entry is | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
free. A train enthusiast from China landed at Heathrow this morning. I | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
did know it was a unique gathering. I thought it was a | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
once`in`a`lifetime opportunity. John is happy. He sold his painting. A | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
gentleman came from Ipswich for the exhibition and saw it. His father | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
drove the engine and wanted it for his collection. The owners of this | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
pub are amazed people are coming from all over, with one customer | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
coming in from America. Somebody came from Los Angeles? Yes, he flew | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
in and out the next day, just to see the trains. Did he come in here? . | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
We generally have 100 people on Thursday, and at the moment it is up | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
to 300 people. It is fantastic. Visitor numbers today did not | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
disappoint with people queueing for 45 minutes to stand on the | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
footplate. It is great. Very unusual and probably the last time they are | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
together. They are here for another three days and staff can expect to | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
be busy. And they had some decent weather there. Can we all have some | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
tomorrow, Hannah Bayman? There will be some sunshine for the | :06:47. | :06:57. | |
north`east and North Yorkshire in particular but a few showers in the | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
West. Showers will be wintry over the hills but there will be bright | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
spells of global temperatures will be lower than this afternoon. They | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
will be tempered by brisk south`westerly wind is which | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
continue to be strong. Things will go downhill after the start of the | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
weekend when on Sunday there will be heavy rain on the way. | :07:32. | :07:32. | |
weekend when on Sunday there will be the outlook. On Sunday, we have grey | :07:33. | :07:33. | |
skies and a bit of drizzle, too Good evening. You may have had the | :07:34. | :07:44. | |
latest from the Met Office about the rainfall we have had this winter, | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
the wettest winter on record. It is sometimes difficult to visualise the | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
numbers. Let me explain how much rain we had. If you think about a | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
stretch of land across the UK, we had about half a metre of rainfall | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
falling so far this winter. That is, if the water didn't sleep into the | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
ground. We have a huge amount of water brought in by areas of low | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
pressure. 15 of them have been big storms, causing lots of damage. As | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
far as the shorts is concerned, it is just a breeze. We have a few | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
shells on the horizon and that is pretty much it. You can see where | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
the weather is coming from the moment. It has come in from the | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Atlantic. Just a few scatter shower words here and there. It is going to | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
be a bit colder tonight compared to last night. Last night tempered | :08:34. | :08:34. |