:00:00. > :00:09.about half hour's time, could overtake them with a
:00:10. > :00:13.Good afternoon. Road users hn Northumberland are being told the
:00:14. > :00:17.backlog of pothole repairs should be completed in the next few months.
:00:18. > :00:20.The number stood at more th`n 6 ,000 last year. That's now fallen to
:00:21. > :00:29.12,000 and should be gone completely by June, after additional money was
:00:30. > :00:39.found. Private investments for Wirral areas have been catching
:00:40. > :00:43.machines `` prime investments. The portal is cleared out and a compound
:00:44. > :00:49.is bred on to adhere the tarmac to the pothole. It is a successful
:00:50. > :00:53.method. Each day that goes by, although we have not had a lot of
:00:54. > :00:59.bad weather, new potholes are appearing, so they make cle`r the
:01:00. > :01:01.12,000 by June but there will be another 100,000 all over
:01:02. > :01:03.Northumberland in June. A six`year`old girl previously
:01:04. > :01:06.diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer has been told the
:01:07. > :01:09.disease has disappeared. Fr`ja Simpson had undergone 15 months of
:01:10. > :01:13.chemotherapy. The youngster, from RAF Leeming in North Yorkshhre, is
:01:14. > :01:17.only the third person in thd world to suffer from amplified
:01:18. > :01:20.neuroblastoma. Now, just over 100 years ago, a
:01:21. > :01:24.group of mill workers found themselves standing on top of a Lake
:01:25. > :01:27.District mountain. They werd the first to take a holiday org`nised by
:01:28. > :01:30.a man called TA Leonard, who encouraged ordinary people to
:01:31. > :01:34.explore the countryside. Thhs week marks 150 years since he was born,
:01:35. > :01:44.so ramblers have recreated that first walk. Andy Gill reports.
:01:45. > :01:49.The route for today's walkers is the same that the mill workers took in
:01:50. > :01:52.1891. Imagined this lot wearing something more tweedy and ldss
:01:53. > :01:59.practical, something like this. This is the first group brought from the
:02:00. > :02:04.clatter of a cotton mill to the calm of Cumbria, and this is the man TA
:02:05. > :02:09.Leonard, who brought them. He thought they should spend their
:02:10. > :02:13.leisure time in a more rare creative spirit and mind, so he started
:02:14. > :02:19.taking groups of his church here to the Lake District and from then on,
:02:20. > :02:23.the holiday movement mushroom. Leonard brought his first group
:02:24. > :02:29.during the mill worker's tr`ditional wakes week. He and those pioneers
:02:30. > :02:34.instinctively knew what we now know scientifically, but if you get out
:02:35. > :02:37.and take regular exercise ott doors, you will get health
:02:38. > :02:42.benefits. Some people think TA Leonard is as important a bhgger to
:02:43. > :02:46.the way the British take thdir holidays as Thomas Cook or Billy
:02:47. > :02:52.Butlin 's, having helped to set up the Ramblers Association and youth
:02:53. > :02:56.hostel Association. Leonard died in 1948, but his ideas are still going
:02:57. > :02:59.strong. Football now, and a full fixture
:03:00. > :03:01.list this afternoon. Newcastle are at Fulham, and Sunderland host
:03:02. > :03:04.Crystal Palace in the Premidr League. Middlesbrough are away at
:03:05. > :03:06.Bournemouth in the Championship Carlisle are at home to Stevenage in
:03:07. > :03:08.League One. Carlisle are at home to Stevenage in
:03:09. > :03:11.League While in League Two, both Hartlepool and York have hole
:03:12. > :03:16.matches against Bristol Rovdrs and Wycombe respectively. Gateshead are
:03:17. > :03:19.at Salisbury in the Conference. And in Scotland, Berwick play Pdterhead.
:03:20. > :03:26.Let's have the lunchtime we`ther forecast now. Here's Jennifdr
:03:27. > :03:30.Bartram. A fairly cloudy afternoon in store for many of us. We may see
:03:31. > :03:34.some brightness across the north`east, or have a touch of
:03:35. > :03:40.drizzle in Cumbria and the Pennines, the breeze eating up from the West.
:03:41. > :03:45.Temperatures could get up to 14 degrees in the sunshine. Ovdrnight
:03:46. > :03:50.Bickleigh will they again. We could see the odd spot of rain but we
:03:51. > :03:54.aren't expecting fog, temperatures dropping back to around sevdn
:03:55. > :03:59.degrees. A mild start for Stnday, then it should be dry and breezy.
:04:00. > :04:10.And that's all for now. I'll be back with our main news at 7:10pl here
:04:11. > :04:14.Following on from what has been largely dry and settled week with
:04:15. > :04:15.high pressure