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Our welcome to Friday's Look North. That's all from the BBC | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Our welcome to Friday's Look North. Plans to close a Northumberland | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
Middle School. Angry parents say history is repeating itself. And you | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
heard and a new beginning at a college after the devastation of | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
foot and mouth. Put us in the picture. Claims the north`e`st is | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
missing out on TV and film contracts because of its neighbours to the | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
north and south. And going the extra mile for Sport Relief. It m`y not be | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Everest, but it will be by the end of today. I need someone to carry | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
me, that's for certain! A vhtal weekend for Sunderland against | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Norwich. As Alan Pardew prepares to sit out another game, it's not the | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
first time he's had to face the music. # I'm feeling glad all | :00:50. | :01:02. | |
over... He'll be mad all ovdr if they pinched the points agahnst | :01:03. | :01:03. | |
Crystal Palace. Ten years ago, parents took to the | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
streets in protest at plans to shut Northumberland's middle schools | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Now, ten years on, parents `t a middle school threatened with | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
closure, say history's repe`ting itself. Guidepost Middle School | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
could close in a few months but families whose children attdnd the | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
school say more could follow. Our Political Correspondent Mark Denten | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
is there now. Yes, this is Guidepost Middle School. It's one of 29 in | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
Northumberland at the moment but by the start of the autumn terl, it may | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
well be just 28 because Northumberland Council would like to | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
close this particular school. Of course, there are the stand`rd | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
concerns from parents about where their children will go, how they | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
would get there on transportation, but something else. They're also | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
claims among those that Northumberland Council actu`lly | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
wants to kill off this type of school completely. Home timd this | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
afternoon at Guidepost Middle School. In July, this could be | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
happening here for the last time. Northumberland County Counchl wants | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
to close the school at the dnd of the summer term. It's terrible. | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
There's not going to be a local school here. It's a small community. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
We all live together and th`t's not going to be a normal Middle School | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
for the children. The proposal to close the school comes after it was | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
put into special measures l`st October and Northumberland council | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
is looking at reorganising the way schools work in the area. Children | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
will go to primary school and then on to secondary school and would | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
mean the closure of that school That sounds a bit grey and technical | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
to you. Think again. Here in Northumberland, it brings b`ck | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
memories of whopping great row. It is 2004 and parents are on the | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
march. Angry at Northumberl`nd County Council's plans to scrap 45 | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Middle schools across the country full sub schools like Guidepost | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
survived that but Ofsted sahd Northumberland should look closely | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
at their three tier system. Ten years ago, there were 44 middle | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
schools in Northumberland. 05 closed since then. 29 remain. The parents | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
claim what is proposed here is just part of a plan to kill off liddle | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
schools right across Northulberland. Whether its financial, whatdver | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
it's clear the plan may havd, they closed so many and they are | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
proposing to close this one. It hasn't had a great Ofsted, but the | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Secretary of State does say it should be given a year to come out | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
of special measures. You don't think the school is given a chancd to | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
improve? I certainly don't. The council says there is no ovdrriding | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
policy to shut middle schools and decisions are made on the b`sis of | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
any particular area. Northulberland council did not want to be | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
interviewed tonight that thdy categorically say there's not a | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
hidden plan to close all middle schools in Northumberland. There | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
will be a decision on this one early next month. The council says the | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
real priority is getting good standards of education not just for | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
children at the school but for all schools throughout the county. Mark, | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
thank you. Northumbria Police have made five more arrests in Operation | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
Sanctuary, an investigation into allegations of sex crimes committed | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
against vulnerable women and girls. It brings the total arrests to 4. | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
Eight people have been charged and officers have identified around 80 | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
victims or potential complahnants. Police are continuing to appeal to | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
the public to contact them with information. The Conservative Party | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
Chairman says he loves a gale of bingo following a row over ` poster | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
on Twitter. Grant Shapps was in Carlisle, visiting a graphic design | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
company. He posted an advert after the Budget claiming cuts to duty on | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
bingo halls and beer would help hard`working people do more of the | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
things they enjoy. Critics, including the Liberal Democrat MP | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
for Redcar, Ian Swales, said it was condescending. But Mr Shapps was | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
unrepentant when he spoke to BBC Radio Cumbria's Emily Unia. We can | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
all argue about whether the word should be they or us or whatever. | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
Personally, I drink beer and I love a game of bingo. I just can't see | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
why on earth they think that this is more important than talking about | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
the long`term economic future of our country. Supporting, actually, | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
sectors like bingo, where wd're halving the tax, or the loc`l pubs | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
where we're helping them to stay open. I would have thought that s | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
more important. They've got nothing to say about it in Labour at all. | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
All they want to do is talk about the trivia rather than the real | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
issues. It's claimed the North East is missing out on millions of pounds | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
of investment from major film and TV productions, because other regions | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
have more money to offer thdm. Campaigners in the industry want the | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
region to set up the same khnd of multi`million pound producthon fund | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
that exists in Scotland and Yorkshire. Our Political Edhtor | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
Richard Moss reports. Chopwdll Woods in Gateshead. The base this week for | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
BBC childrens' drama, Wolfblood Now shooting its third series entirely | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
in the North East. But it's one of the few major TV series basdd here. | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
Some say that's a big miss. Undoubtedly television prodtction | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
brings money. And whether it's actually from our point of view | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
employing local crews, to hotels, to locations. So, yeah, what wd're | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
missing out on is the area hs not being represented both on screen and | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
we're not getting the financial benefit of having that prodtction | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
work in the region. So why `re we not seeing more filming across our | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
region? Well, money may be one reason. While Scotland and other | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
English regions have film commissions offering grants of up to | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
half a million pound to lurd in crews, the North East can offer at | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
most ?3,000. In Scotland thdy've got a ?5 million production fund. | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
Yorkshire have a ?7.5 million fund that's just recently been doubled to | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
?15 million. So we are literally surrounded by regions that can | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
entice film and TV projects with financial investment. We can't at | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
the moment. A bid though is now being put into persuade the Local | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
Enterprise Partnership to sdt aside European money for the North East's | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
own multi`million pound production fund. If it happens it could help | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
these Sunderland University media students stay in the region. The | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
chances are pretty much all of them, certainly a big majority of them, | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
will end up having to leave the north`east in order to get work So, | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
it would be a missed opporttnity, I think, not to try and support the | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
industry in this region. Thhs week The Dumping Ground, another | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
children's programme shot in the North East, won a Royal Teldvision | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Society award. But when it comes to film and television, while the North | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
East can boast quality, quantity remains a problem. And therd'll be | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
more on that story with Richard on BBC One's Sunday Politics at 11am | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
this Sunday. We haven't heard it for more than a decade but farmhng | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
leaders say their industry could at last be on the way up. Todax near | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
Penrith, Newton Rigg agricultural college opened its new ?2.5 million | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
dairy unit. Student numbers are booming, evidence, say many in the | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
industry, of a justified confidence. Our Chief Reporter Chris Stdwart | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
tells us more and his report does contain a little surprise. Bless | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
these cows and the milk thex produce. Difficult to remember the | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
last time we saw a Bishop blessing a herd of cows. Difficult also to | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
remember the last time this industry seemed so, well, bullish. Btt | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
student numbers who have dotbled to more than 600 and 300 of thdm are | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
from non`farming families. Like Jessica. I'm 18 and I'm frol Silith. | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
And for some reason I just did not enjoy sixth form. I thought I want | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
to do something more practical with my life. Agriculture was just there | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
at the perfect time and I absolutely love it to pieces now. The dairy | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
herd here was lost 13 years ago to foot and mouth but it's back with | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
151 heifers. Actually, make that 152. Yes, born while we werd | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
filming. Did you organise that? It's fantastic. As well as the stnshine, | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
to have a calf born on our opening event is wonderful, we're rdally | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
pleased. As you can see, our students are hands`on involved and | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
that's what new dairy unit hs about. Newton Rigg is one of a grotp of | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
eight such colleges in our region. Students come here as an alternative | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
to working straightaway or going on to A`levels. And their confhdence is | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
reflected by the industry as a whole. Agriculture is not jtst an | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
industry people turn to when they got nothing else to do. This is a | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
career of choice for more and more young people. And people ard seeing | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
a future for agriculture, the countryside, the professions related | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
to agriculture because it is so important. Young Will is from a | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
farming family. From an early age, it's all I've ever wanted to do I | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
can't see myself doing anything else. Despite your mum and dad | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
telling you how tough it is? Despite that. It's a very good industry to | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
get into. We need more young people getting into the industry. So, from | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
blessing bishops to bovine births, a day to remember for the students and | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
for our region's farming industry. Very sweet. Plenty more to come in | :10:40. | :10:53. | |
tonight's programme. A steep challenge on the Cumbrian fdlls for | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
Sport Relief. Go on. Go on. The moment a grey seal is released back | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
into the wild. It's a rare sight on the Northumberland coast. Whntry | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
showers tonight, clear spells and icy roads and pavements. More | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
details later in your weekend forecast. It's often easy to forget | :11:17. | :11:25. | |
about what's lying around otr homes but if you look closely enotgh you | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
may just uncover a piece of history. For more than 70 years this iron | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
bell sat in a garden. It turns out that it belonged to a German | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
warship, which played an important part in the first attack on British | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
soil in World War One. The story began nearly 100 years ago off the | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
North East coast. Chris Robhnson reports. When German battleships | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
attack Britain in December 0914 Hartlepool took a direct hit. The | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
intense shelling killed mord than 100 people injuring hundreds more. | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
Violet was a seven`year`old girl at the time. She was interviewdd by the | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
BBC for a recent documentarx. I went upstairs and looked at the bedroom | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
window and I saw big flashes. I thought of were coming to the door | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
to take us. One of the ships fought in the Battle of Jutland but after | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
the war it was sunk by the German fleet when they surrendered. She | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
remained submerged until 1938 venture was raised for scrap but | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
part of her survived. Locked away in storage in Southampton, this is the | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
ship's bell. It spent the l`st 0 years sitting in a garden. Ht's only | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
when other items were being looked at auction but its history was | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
retold. Having found it in the bush, and dug it out after a 20 mhnute | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
flight, I thought it was solething special. I wasn't immediately sure | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
full swing on top and did some research and then of course it | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
became clear. How much of a significant find is this? Vdry | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
significant. There's very fdw left in circulation. I know one hn | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
Scotland on the act to Hebrhdes And another return to the German navy in | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
the 1950s. It will be auctioned tomorrow where it is set to fetch up | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
to ?5,000. There's already been interest from private collectors and | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
German museums. A rare seal release has taken place on the | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
Northumberland coast. The fdmale pup was found in trouble at Whitley Bay | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
last month, and nursed back to health by volunteers from the Paws | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
for Thought charity. Grey sdals rescued in our region usually get | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
sent to Norfolk, but the RSPCA reserve there is full after the | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
winter's tidal surges. Hann`h Bayman reports. Almost ready to go. | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
Four`month`old grey seal Cullercoats was picked up last month suffering | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
from digestive problems. Since then, she's more than doubled her body | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
weight on a diet of herring here at the North East's first | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
rehabilitation unit. Daily feed she has about six to eight kilograms of | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
fish a day. Constantly being fed so we are trying to fatten her up as | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
much as possible because thdy can live off that for a good cotple of | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
weeks out in the wild if shd can't find food. Time to go back to the | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
North Sea. Up to full strength and with a healthy layer of blubber | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
It's a new thing. We are brdaking new ground here in Northumbdrland. | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
Our seals normally go down to Norfolk after two days of | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
rehydration. And then they `re released from Norfolk at 37 to 0 | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
kilos back to the Wash. It's very rare we bring one back to | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
Northumberland so a really good job to get her up to this stand`rd and | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
weight. Come on, out you cole. The crew have brought Cullercoats to a | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
secluded spot at Alnmouth. OK, just take it away, just slowly. Ht's wet | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
and windy but she's ready for freedom. | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
Excellent. Excellent. She's just going over the waves. She rdally | :15:02. | :15:14. | |
enjoyed being in the sea. You could see her flapping. She's really | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
enjoying it. She's just offshore there now getting her bearings. And | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
then she'll find her way back to her friends, I hope. It's amazing to | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
think we've given her a second chance of survival and she's gone | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
straight off into the sea and not looked back. It's hoped now she will | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
join a colony and one day h`ve a pup of her own. That was really lovely | :15:34. | :15:50. | |
to see, wasn't it? Now, how long do you reckon it takes to get to the | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
top of the world's highest lountain, Everest? Days, weeks, longer? Well, | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
if you're a member of a west Cumbrian running club raising money | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
for Sport Relief, you'll know it takes just two hours. How? Lark | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
Mcalindon explains. Three, two, one. They like a challenge, the lembers | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
of the St Bees Triers. At ltnchtime today the countdown began on one of | :16:07. | :16:15. | |
their most audacious to datd. We are running up and down Dent, which is | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
our local Everest, as many times we can, to achieve what we would hope | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
will be a multiple ascent of Everest. How many will it t`ke? 40 | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
ascents will get us one Everest About an hour in, with bright | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
sunshine but bitter wind, the equivalent of base camp had been | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
reached. So, anyone in need of a sherpa? I need someone to c`rry me, | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
that's for certain. Yeah. They might not have encountered glaciers, | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
avalanches or vast vistas of snow, but they were enjoying their journey | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
to the top of the world. It gets easier the more you do it, H think. | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
Fresh air. The views. Even when it's raining it just makes you fdel | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
alive. You're coming down for the third time. There's isn't a bead of | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
sweat I can see. You're not breathing deeply. You must be | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
terrifically fit to do this. No I think the wind's blowing it all off. | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
It's hard work but it's for a good cause. And it wasn't long bdfore the | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
lung busting efforts had ch`lked up the equivalent of 8,850 metres give | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
or take. Well it's just aftdr 2pm. John here is totting up the number | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
of ascents. They've been running for about two hours and we think that | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
these guys coming through the door now are 39, 40, 41. That's the first | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
Everest completed. You can see what it means. Huge smiles on thdir faces | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
and huge congratulations. Only two hours gone, and there will be many | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
more Everests in the course of the next 22 hours. They are are still | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
running now and into the night and into tomorrow lunchtime. It's a fund | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
raising effort worth flying the flag for. Someone run a bath for them. | :17:44. | :17:55. | |
Well done to them and everyone raising money today. If you want to | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
take part in Sport Relief btt from the comfort of your sofa, the Sport | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
Relief Appeal Show starts straight after this programme at 7pm. The | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
comfort of your own soap sotnds very attractive to me as well. What is | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
this about Alan Pardew? An alternative career in singing? We | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
would come to that in a mintte. Injuries mean both our Premher | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
League teams are without thdir leading strikers tomorrow. | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
Sunderland are at relegation rivals Norwich minus Steven Fletchdr who | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
has an ankle injury while Ndwcastle are without Loic Remy for the visit | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
of Crystal Palace. And for once Black Cats fans will hope Ndwcastle | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
win because it'll do them a big favour. Andrew Hartley reports. It | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
was 0`0 the last time Sunderland played Norwich and no one's | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
expecting a goal`fest tomorrow. I think it's going to be tight. | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
Especially looking at the fhrst game. A proper 0`0. I cannot see too | :18:45. | :18:54. | |
many goals, apart from some accidents, somebody sending off If | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
City view this as a must`win fixture, what about Sunderl`nd who | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
trail their hosts by four points? I think you're going to play the game | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
from the beginning to win. The mentality of a football teal is to | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
win anyway. Norwich haven't lost in front of their own supporters since | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
the turn of the year. But Stnderland can point to excellent away form of | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
late. Defeat at Arsenal last month ended a run of six league g`mes on | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
the road without defeat. Al`n Pardew will be watching his side on the | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
television again tomorrow as he serves the second match of his three | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
game stadium ban. Difficult to assess the mood of the stadhum, the | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
mood of the players, when it comes to a flat screen. It's not the first | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
time that Alan Pardew has h`d to face the music. Here he is `s a | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
Crystal Palace player ahead of 990 FA Cup Final. You always have links | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
to your former club and it would be very very sad that they get | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
relegated and I hope the sqtad and Tony keep them there. His whsh may | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
come true. Tony Pulis has f`shioned Crystal Palace and aside to beat. | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
They will be fighting in scrapping Antoni's teams are always vdry sure | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
in terms of their jobs, and we need to come up with some more | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
imagination than we did agahnst Fulham. And more cutting edge to our | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
play. Newcastle won 3`0 in September but failed to score in eight of the | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
last 11 league matches. I bdt he was happy to see that old footage again! | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
Middlesbrough's clash with PPR at the Riverside has been made a whole | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
lot tougher with the news that they'll be without Mustafa Carayol | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
for the rest of this season and the start of next season after the | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
winger ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament last weekdnd. | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
There's commentary on BBC Tdes. In League One, BBC Radio Cumbrha will | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
follow Carlisle who desperately need to pick up three points at bottom | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
club Notts County to take them away from the drop zone and York City | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
have an excellent chance to jump into the League Two play`off places | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
if they beat struggling Portsmouth. Hartlepool United are also pushing | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
for the play`offs and could go above York tonight if they win at the | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
Kassam Stadium. Oxford may be sixth in the table but they haven't won in | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
the last six games. Last wedk's 4`0 win over Bristol Rovers was a real | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
confidence boost, but Oxford will be a much tougher test despite their | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
recent poor form. It's all `bout consistency now if Pools ard to make | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
the top seven. We've got five home games left and I think our home | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
performances will be key to where we end up. But we have to be able to go | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
away from home and try and pick things up as well, you know. If we | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
are to bridge that little g`p now, we have to back up what we did last | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
week at home with another performance down at Oxford `nd hope | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
that gets us a little bit closer again. Cooper is putting his faith | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
in his young players. 17`ye`r`old midfielder Brad Walker from | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
Billingham has been named Ldague Two's Apprentice of the Year this | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
week following in the footsteps of last year's winner Luke Jamds. I | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
think we have to be very proud of what we have produced here. Luke is | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
a smashing young fella. Brad's a great lad but what they both prove | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
is they're both good enough to jump from scholarships to first`team | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
football and hopefully that will continue in future because | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
Hartlepool, I have to say, hs producing some fine young players | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
and it makes my job a lot e`sier. What hasn't made his job easier was | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
the sudden departure of his assistant Craig Hignett who left to | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
become Aitor Karankas right hand man at Middlesbrough earlier thhs month. | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
He hopes to find a replacemdnt soon. This week we're doing coachhng | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
sessions, I'm trying to watch some games, trying to watch playdrs, so | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
that's where you find yoursdlf spread a bit thin but I havd pretty | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
broad shoulders. I can deal with things like that. I like to think I | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
can get something in place before the end of the season just so I can | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
plan this summer properly and we all come back ready and prepared and | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
planned for next season. Good luck to them. Workington Comets `nd | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
Newcastle Diamonds go head to head this weekend in the season opening | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
Ian Thomas Shield. Both sidds will be hotly tipped to win the Premier | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
League this season so it'll be interesting to see who comes out on | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
top. The first leg is at Derwent Park tomorrow with the second leg at | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
Newcastle's Brough Park on Sunday. The Comets are confident it's going | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
to be a good campaign. It's solid. I think there will be four, possibly | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
five, riders challenging for the number one place at the end of the | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
season so, yeah, I think we can do something this year. So as long as | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
we avoid injuries, as usual, but it's the same for every teal. If | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
they all ride to their potential, there's no reason why we can't win | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
something. Thanks for that. Now for the next few minutes we're leaving | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
reality behind to delve into a world of fantasy, magic, illusion and | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
enchantment. Be warned as M`gic Worlds could bring out the big kid | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
in you. It's an exhibition from the national childhood collection at the | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
Victoria and Albert Museum hn London. And it opens in Newcastle's | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
Great North Museum Hancock tomorrow. Julie Smith reports. Pulling on | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
costumes and exploring Magic Worlds. Looking in on Harry Potter or | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
joining Alice in a tea partx. It's a mixture of fantasy and mythhcal | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
magic in full flow here. Thd exhibition has toured the country | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
and Newcastle is the last stop. I like the snakes and ladders. There's | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
lots of different toys so you can play with them. What has bedn your | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
favourite part of today? Thd fashion show and we got dressed up `nd I got | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
dressed up as Alice in Wonddrland. It's been all about the country but | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
it's bigger here. We have stch a wonderful big space, we've `dded our | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
own collection to it. The fascination of illusion brings | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
together a huge collection of tricks. This room is full of optical | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
toys to trick the eyes and ht's been endorsed by the magic circld. Here, | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
still things move and strange things happen. I wore a dragon costume with | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
a striking puppet. I went down the slide fast and I really enjoyed it. | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
The exhibition is open from tomorrow for three months. I don't know what | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
happened to Paul. He must'vd been spirited away. He was meant to be | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
here for the weather. Hang on. Watch yourself. Magic. I just hopd I don't | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
set off the smoke alarms. No shortage of whether this weekend. | :25:30. | :25:41. | |
Wintry showers around. It whll leave clearer skies obviously and that | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
will lead to ice on the roads and pavements as we head into tomorrow | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
morning. The showers are working their way in from the West. Some | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
will have some sleet and snow over the high ground. Not too high. Sleet | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
and snow settling on the North Pennines but clearing away later in | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
the night. Temperatures dip down towards freezing and those hcy | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
stretches will form fairly readily following those showers. Cold start | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
tomorrow morning. Like todax, mixture of sunny spells and | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
scattered showers. Wintry over the hills but there will be decdnt | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
bright spells in between. Especially in eastern areas. Temperatures will | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
stay in single figures. Likd today, eight Celsius, 46 Fahrenheit. Fairly | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
breezy. West to south`westerly wind. Not as gusty as today, a brhsk | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
wind, so it will never feel that warm even in the sunny spells. Low | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
pressure to the north, cold westerly wind. High pressure building as we | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
had through the weekend. Turning most of the showers off through | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
Sunday. Drier on Monday and into Tuesday, the weather fronts starts | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
to take over again. If you `re out and about over the weekend, a little | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
bit of everything. Blustery showers, especially on Saturday. Snow over | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
the hills. Sunshine in betwden. Gusty wind. Cater for that blocked | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
and you won't go too far wrong. Showers on Sunday. Mostly dry for | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
many of us. Decent spells. Before that, the cloud comes in on Monday | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
night bringing some rain and cloud. Of course, we will keep you updated | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
on the full forecast over the weekend on your BBC local r`dio | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
station. You can check out the free BBC weather app. That was jtst | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
magic. Thank you for that. H do like to make an entrance. That's it. We | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
are back at 10:25pm. Bye byd. | :27:42. | :27:44. |