:00:00. > :00:00.effort to put people off smoking. That is all from the BBC News at
:00:07. > :01:06.The people of Morpeth should have something to celebrate this
:01:07. > :01:10.Christmas. Six years after the River Wansbeck flooded 1,000 propdrties in
:01:11. > :01:12.the town, a new dam upstreal will protect them from any repethtion.
:01:13. > :01:16.The initial budget was ?21 lillion. Now it could be more like ?27
:01:17. > :01:18.million. So who's making up the shortfall? Our Environment
:01:19. > :01:29.Correspondent. Adrian Pitchds, is in Morpeth now.
:01:30. > :01:35.Yes, this is Morpeth, right beside the river. This was badly affected
:01:36. > :01:39.by those floods. You can sed the construction of flood walls behind
:01:40. > :01:44.me. Those walls have taken tp a substantial amount of the btdget.
:01:45. > :01:48.Once complete, theoreticallx, we will never see a repeat of those
:01:49. > :01:52.floods. They're building a dam that will prevent a one in 137`ydar
:01:53. > :01:57.flood. That was the scale of the September 2008 flood in Morpeth
:01:58. > :02:00.1,000 homes and businesses were inundated in a few hours and, ever
:02:01. > :02:05.since, the townspeople have campaigned to prevent a repdtition.
:02:06. > :02:10.The statistics of the civil engineering project taking shape
:02:11. > :02:15.upstream are impressive. It's probably about the sizd of two
:02:16. > :02:25.football fields. The height of it is about 40 metres from the riverbed to
:02:26. > :02:28.the highest point in the dal. It's about 70,000 cubic metres. The
:02:29. > :02:31.ponded water water, if the dam is full, is about 1.4 million cubic
:02:32. > :02:34.metres. It's quite a size. In Morpeth itself, new walls to
:02:35. > :02:38.protect riverfront homes have been built. And as new weak spots to
:02:39. > :02:42.defend are identified, the bill for the work has spiralled. It's now ?6
:02:43. > :02:47.million over budget. Will it go even higher?
:02:48. > :02:51.No, it won't go further than that. It's actually the scheme has
:02:52. > :02:58.developed in time. Some parts have changed. It's not unusual for a
:02:59. > :03:03.project of this complexity to cost more than you thought at thd outset.
:03:04. > :03:06.We're really happy with progress. Is the funding there in the budget We
:03:07. > :03:10.work in close partnership whth Northumberland County Counchl, we're
:03:11. > :03:16.a partnership. Between us, the funding has been made avail`ble to
:03:17. > :03:21.finish the scheme. Locals are concerned that the final
:03:22. > :03:27.bill will land on their doormats. They know that there is an
:03:28. > :03:32.overspend. The budget has increased or an overspend. We have to find out
:03:33. > :03:35.who is going to pay for this and let's hope it won't be put onto
:03:36. > :03:42.Northumberland County Counchl, affecting taxpayers.
:03:43. > :03:45.How that bill will be paid hs the main item on the agenda at the
:03:46. > :03:48.Environment Agency flood colmittee meeting in Newcastle tomorrow. The
:03:49. > :03:55.big question is, can the Government bail out the Somerset Levels and
:03:56. > :03:58.ignore Northumberland? There is a lot of money involved.
:03:59. > :04:01.Adrian, a substantial part of the budget has gone to an unlikdly
:04:02. > :04:15.recipient? Yes, to the former chairman of
:04:16. > :04:23.Newcastle Freddy Shepherd. He is a landowner whom and he has to be
:04:24. > :04:30.compensated for the work. And for the disruption. I understand it is a
:04:31. > :04:35.seven figure sum. The funding shortfall will have to be mdt from
:04:36. > :04:43.either council taxpayers or government, or by a mixture of both.
:04:44. > :04:46.We should find that out tomorrow. Police divers are again searching
:04:47. > :04:50.the River Ouse in York. This time, they're looking for an 18`ydar`old
:04:51. > :04:54.man who's thought to have gone into the river early this morning. Heidi
:04:55. > :04:57.Tomlinson reports. The underwater unit arrived at a
:04:58. > :05:07.familiar location, the liver River Ouse in York. `` River. Thex are
:05:08. > :05:13.looking for an 18`year`old lan who was seen to enter the river ball
:05:14. > :05:24.entirely and did not emerge. A mountain rescue team was called out.
:05:25. > :05:31.`` enter the river ball had only `` voluntarily. We have been sdarching
:05:32. > :05:35.the river banks and underwater where we can to see if there is anything
:05:36. > :05:42.in the water. For the third time this year, police divers begin a
:05:43. > :05:50.search in York for our body. Last week, it was decided a patrol scheme
:05:51. > :06:00.should be put in place to ilprove student safety on nights out. One
:06:01. > :06:05.month ago, Megan Roberts was found. 22`year`old Ben Clarkson disappeared
:06:06. > :06:11.in similar circumstances. Hd was seen outside a nightclub at the
:06:12. > :06:15.beginning of March. Two weeks later, his body was found. Today, the boats
:06:16. > :06:20.begin yet another underwater search in York with the divers all too
:06:21. > :06:34.aware it could be a slow process. It's been revealed there's now a
:06:35. > :06:37.critical shortage of senior consultants at the West Cumberland
:06:38. > :06:41.Hospital in Whitehaven. Thrde junior doctors have had to be removed
:06:42. > :06:43.because there was no`one senior to supervise them. Seven vacancies are
:06:44. > :06:48.having to be filled by temporary, and costly, locums. And the hospital
:06:49. > :06:56.is already in special measures. Our health reporter Sharon Barbour joins
:06:57. > :07:00.me now. What's happening? These doctors have been removed
:07:01. > :07:07.because of a lack of senior doctors to oversee their work. In rdsponse,
:07:08. > :07:14.the trust has announced tod`y that the law, or temporary doctors will
:07:15. > :07:21.be recruited. `` locum. Thex are trying to find consultants to work
:07:22. > :07:29.in elderly care, emergency care and anaesthetics. This is causing real
:07:30. > :07:36.problems for a school that `` for a hospital but was already in special
:07:37. > :07:45.measures. A Care Quality Colmission inspection is due later this month,
:07:46. > :07:49.putting great pressure on the trust. The local MP and Shadow Health
:07:50. > :08:01.Secretary Jamie Reid feels that the quitting locums as a short`term fix
:08:02. > :08:05.until after the... Bringing in locums to run the hospital hs pretty
:08:06. > :08:08.much like bringing in supplx teachers to run a school or fetching
:08:09. > :08:12.in people on short`term contracts to run a business. There is no plan for
:08:13. > :08:16.the future in doing that. Mx fear is that by bringing people in on
:08:17. > :08:19.short`term basis on a locum basis, it will only provide short`term the
:08:20. > :08:22.assurance to get the hospit`l trust beyond acquisition stage and it is
:08:23. > :08:25.then that we will see significant change, service withdrawal
:08:26. > :08:28.happening. We need to see that clarity now and that permandnce now.
:08:29. > :08:34.If we don't see that permandnce I think there will be more trouble
:08:35. > :08:37.ahead. The Royal College of Nursing have
:08:38. > :08:43.told us in a statement that the use of locum doctors is not sustainable
:08:44. > :08:46.and is expensive for a trust already facing a bleak financial future
:08:47. > :08:58.adding they must get to grips with recruiting consultant doctors and
:08:59. > :09:04.nurses. It remains a challenging issue. The trust say they h`ve
:09:05. > :09:06.attracted some fantastic clhnicians and are beginning a recruitlent
:09:07. > :09:09.campaign. Another health story today. A new
:09:10. > :09:11.cluster of measles cases on Tyneside, what can you tell us about
:09:12. > :09:17.that? Yes, six cases have been confirmed.
:09:18. > :09:23.But we understand 2000 children have not been given the MMR vacchnation.
:09:24. > :09:31.If you are concerned about xour child, say your GP.
:09:32. > :09:34.Thank you. A man has died after an alldged
:09:35. > :09:37.assault in the Cumbrian town of Egremont. 46`year`old Andrew
:09:38. > :09:40.Armstrong, from Egremont, w`s taken to hospital on Sunday but dhed
:09:41. > :09:43.today. Two men were arrested on suspicion of attempted murddr, but
:09:44. > :09:45.have been released on bail. Police investigating alleged fraud
:09:46. > :09:49.at a County Durham academy have arrested two men and a woman. It
:09:50. > :09:50.comes after concerns were r`ised about alleged financial
:09:51. > :09:53.irregularities at Glendene @rts Academy in Easington, which caters
:09:54. > :10:08.for pupils who have learning difficulties.
:10:09. > :10:11.Now, it's a scheme that's staggering in the size of its ambition. A 100
:10:12. > :10:15.million leisure park, planndd on more than 100 acres of land in
:10:16. > :10:17.Bishop Auckland, below its historic castle. Details of the Elevdn Arches
:10:18. > :10:21.project were unveiled today. And it's a scheme that promises to bring
:10:22. > :10:22.jobs, money and tourists to the County Durham town. Our Bushness
:10:23. > :10:31.Correspondent, Ian Reeve, rdports. Could this really happen in Bishop
:10:32. > :10:36.Auckland. This is Puy Du Fot, a French theme park. The plan is to
:10:37. > :10:42.replicate its light shows, historic recreations, music and fireworks on
:10:43. > :10:45.a former golf course in the town. It's the idea of Jonathan Rtffer.
:10:46. > :10:53.Millionaire. Philanthropist. And owner of Auckland Castle. Pty du
:10:54. > :10:56.Fou, which operates in one of the world's great armpits, miles from
:10:57. > :11:08.anywhere, can get 14,000 people every time they do it. They are sold
:11:09. > :11:12.out. This is the site of thd proposed leisure Park. 800,000
:11:13. > :11:15.visitors a year might come here The scheme will be developed in two
:11:16. > :11:20.phases. The first is a light show, up and running by 2016. Ten jobs
:11:21. > :11:25.will be created. But 600 local volunteers will also be needed. The
:11:26. > :11:29.second phase will celebrate the region and the country's history. By
:11:30. > :11:38.2024, it's hoped that 300 jobs will have been generated. But how will
:11:39. > :11:42.this Auckland attraction be funded? We are trying to get grants for what
:11:43. > :11:46.is basically a not`for`profht venture. We hope to get EU funding
:11:47. > :11:53.as well, community funding `nd charity funding.
:11:54. > :11:56.There will certainly be somd scepticism about the project. It
:11:57. > :12:00.will be built on a flood pl`in, new roads will be needed. But some in
:12:01. > :12:05.Bishop Auckland can't wait. It can do nothing but be very good for
:12:06. > :12:10.business. We are in a very good position.
:12:11. > :12:14.And the fear of some, that the tranquility of the nearby c`stle `
:12:15. > :12:17.former home to the Bishops of Durham ` will be disturbed, is forcefully
:12:18. > :12:21.dismissed. The tranquillity of Bishop @uckland
:12:22. > :12:27.is to some degree the silence of the tomb. What they need is vibrancy.
:12:28. > :12:40.Young people don't want tranquillity. What they want is life
:12:41. > :12:49.and that is what this will bring Disneyland comes to Dylan.
:12:50. > :12:52.John Campbell. 92 years old. A Second World War veteran who died
:12:53. > :12:56.without any living relatives. But the people of Whitley Bay ddcided
:12:57. > :13:00.his passing deserved better than a few lines in the local paper. And
:13:01. > :13:02.more than 500 of them turned out this afternoon at the town's
:13:03. > :13:04.crematorium to pay their respects. Our Chief Reporter, Chris Stewart,
:13:05. > :13:08.was there too. It was thought nobody would remember
:13:09. > :13:12.him, but that is not quite how it worked out. Local people who had
:13:13. > :13:16.seen the death notice in thd paper were there, people who knew him from
:13:17. > :13:19.when he was fit enough to vhsit local pubs, and other veter`ns were
:13:20. > :13:26.there too. Like 89`year`old Bill who fought at Normandy. We have a
:13:27. > :13:40.special bond when we meet. Ht's great to come and pay our l`st
:13:41. > :13:44.respects to this lad. I didn't know him, but I respect what he did.
:13:45. > :13:53.There is only one photograph of John Campbell and this is it. His
:13:54. > :13:56.discharge papers show he was awarded the Burma Star and that he continued
:13:57. > :13:59.to serve with the Cameron Highlanders until 1951. Among those
:14:00. > :14:06.who knew him from the town's pubs, a man who helped organise tod`y's
:14:07. > :14:09.turnout. I just spread the word on Facebook. I drove round the pubs in
:14:10. > :14:11.Whitby telling the regulars that Wacky Jacky, as we knew him, he d
:14:12. > :14:26.gone. So an old soldier remembered in a
:14:27. > :14:35.way that reflected upon him and on those who made this special effort.
:14:36. > :14:41.A lovely tribute. Coming up next, Franz Ferdinand rock
:14:42. > :14:44.Sunderland. Well, part of it. And the story of one of Cumbria s
:14:45. > :14:52.best`loved landscape artists, ahead of a unique exhibition of hdr work.
:14:53. > :14:57.It's not all good news in the weather, but is this weather front
:14:58. > :15:05.moves away, it introduces south`westerly wind.
:15:06. > :15:11.What would you do if you made a record but had nowhere to sdll it?
:15:12. > :15:14.Well, Wearside band Frankie and the Heartstrings came up with a simple
:15:15. > :15:20.solution ` open a shop. But their shop, Pop Recs, is more than just
:15:21. > :15:24.that. It's staged live performances by stars like Badly Drawn Boy and
:15:25. > :15:27.Maximo Park. And for tonight's Look North Report, Sharuna Sagar was
:15:28. > :15:42.given exclusive access to the biggest band to play there so far.
:15:43. > :15:50.# Nothing is going our Way... # That's how Frankie and the
:15:51. > :15:52.Heartstrings felt this time last year.
:15:53. > :15:55.With record shops closing and a new album to shift, the Mackem hndie
:15:56. > :16:01.band was worried they wouldn't have anywhere to sell it.
:16:02. > :16:06.That's when they decided to open their own record shop right here in
:16:07. > :16:13.Sunderland. And that's when things started to go their way. We thought
:16:14. > :16:21.that if we were going to opdn this place, we wanted it to be
:16:22. > :16:25.multipurpose. We wanted to offer a place for travelling bands `nd local
:16:26. > :16:30.artists to play. And local `rtists have been putting their work on the
:16:31. > :16:45.walls. Local musicians have been able to come in here to sell their
:16:46. > :16:50.produce. Originally a pop up, it's now a stay up that's been going for
:16:51. > :16:52.ten months. We have had a lot of wreckers donated by the people of
:16:53. > :17:01.Sunderland to like what we `re doing.
:17:02. > :17:06.Times have changed since thd record buying hey days of the '60s and '70s
:17:07. > :17:09.when millions of discs were sold every year. Despite a recent vinyl
:17:10. > :17:12.revival, the Entertainment Retail Association says the number of
:17:13. > :17:17.record shops on the high street has dropped by two thirds in a decade.
:17:18. > :17:27.It seems survival these days is about much more than selling
:17:28. > :17:30.records. It's the best thing in the Sunderland for years. It's `n
:17:31. > :17:37.amazing place. I have been coming since the opening. It's been good
:17:38. > :17:39.for Sunderland. Bringing music into the town centre instead of `lways in
:17:40. > :17:42.Newcastle. Pop Recs' reputation is sprdading
:17:43. > :17:47.and the big names are asking to play here. Like Franz Ferdinand ` their
:17:48. > :17:52.first gig in the city. It was too good an opportunhty to
:17:53. > :17:58.miss. It is a bit of a homecoming for me as well. I used to lhve in
:17:59. > :18:03.Sunderland myself and I still have a lot of family in the north`dast
:18:04. > :18:07.It's good to support the guxs here. It doesn't seem to be just ` shop,
:18:08. > :18:14.but a focal point for the community. Not just artists and record buyers,
:18:15. > :18:15.it is just bringing people together. Every city needs something like
:18:16. > :18:40.that. # Make somebody love me... # it s
:18:41. > :18:46.lovely to see a band so big that seem so genuine.
:18:47. > :18:49.It's really good for the shop as well. It's great that the spaces
:18:50. > :18:56.have been used for things lhke this. The thought that all these great
:18:57. > :18:59.artists have been passing through one of the Main Street is in
:19:00. > :19:17.Sunderland is really good. Well done, boys. Great idea.
:19:18. > :19:19.A unique exhibition of work by the Cumbrian artist, Sheila Fell, is
:19:20. > :19:28.going on display in Cockermouth later this month. Just a few weeks
:19:29. > :19:38.ago, three of her paintings sold at an auction in the town for lore than
:19:39. > :19:41.?60,000. Alison Freeman reports Shelia Fell's work reflected how she
:19:42. > :19:44.felt about Cumbria. She bucked artistic trends of the
:19:45. > :19:46.'50s and '60s by becoming an acclaimed landscape painter. And
:19:47. > :19:50.next month an exhibition in Cockermouth will give fans the
:19:51. > :19:57.chance to see and buy some of her work.
:19:58. > :20:06.If you look at what contemporary artists at the time were dohng, it
:20:07. > :20:19.was very different. But it hs what she wanted to do. She found fame and
:20:20. > :20:22.critical success painting what was a lost generation type of art.
:20:23. > :20:26.Sheila Fell was born and rahsed in Aspatria but moved away to study and
:20:27. > :20:30.work. But every year she and her friend and mentor LS Lowry would
:20:31. > :20:31.return to the town to so thd could get inspiration from the Culbrian
:20:32. > :20:53.countryside. She never painted anything other
:20:54. > :21:02.than Cumbria. Cumbria was what she got up in the morning to pahnt. It's
:21:03. > :21:06.not like this every day. Shd painted how it makes you feel to st`nd on
:21:07. > :21:11.that landscape and have the wind blowing against you, to havd the
:21:12. > :21:16.majesty of everything around you. It was about her communicating what it
:21:17. > :21:20.is like to live in Cumbria. That makes it quite special.
:21:21. > :21:28.The exhibition will also fe`ture two portraits of Fell's mother. She
:21:29. > :21:32.always generally showed one of those paintings, like a talisman hn each
:21:33. > :21:35.exhibition she had. But thex were never shown together.
:21:36. > :21:39.Sheila Fell died in 1979 at the age of just 48. But her popularhty lives
:21:40. > :21:55.on and the exhibition is expected to bring art lovers from across the UK
:21:56. > :22:00.to west Cumbria. Last night, we were asking hf
:22:01. > :22:11.Newcastle would refund fans ticket money.
:22:12. > :22:14.The Newcastle United manager says everyone in the camp is detdrmined
:22:15. > :22:22.to put the crushing defeat `t Southampton behind them. Thdy take
:22:23. > :22:29.on Manchester United on Sattrday. But the Norwich city reimbursing
:22:30. > :22:41.their fans for ticket money, but Alan Pardew Dashwood Alan P`rdew do
:22:42. > :22:44.the same thing? I'm urging ly players to put in a better
:22:45. > :22:47.performance than they did on Saturday. That is the most hmportant
:22:48. > :22:49.thing for me. You get disappointments in the Premher
:22:50. > :22:53.League. We've had them before. The matter is very simple. We nded a
:22:54. > :22:56.reaction to that performancd in terms of energy levels, continuity
:22:57. > :23:00.in the team and a desire to win the game. Our fans are the best in the
:23:01. > :23:06.world and to give them that performance was not acceptable. We
:23:07. > :23:11.have to put it right on the pitch. I think the answer is, don't hold
:23:12. > :23:15.your breath. Now it's always a bonus to have a
:23:16. > :23:18.sporting success story from the region and there's one sport in
:23:19. > :23:21.particular where we seem to be excelling! Squash! The U15 girls
:23:22. > :23:24.from Dame Allans School in Newcastle have just become National Schools
:23:25. > :23:27.Champions, while the U19's were runners up for the third tile.
:23:28. > :23:33.Remarkable achievements when you consider five years ago the school
:23:34. > :23:36.didn't even have a girls te`m! Coach Jane Dennis is the lady who's
:23:37. > :23:40.made it all happen. As sports coach at Dame Allan's junior school she's
:23:41. > :23:43.been spotting talent in children as young as three! There are no courts
:23:44. > :23:46.at school so Jane puts them through their paces at the Northumbdrland
:23:47. > :23:50.Club in Jesmond where she's also squash coach. She started the girls
:23:51. > :23:54.team just five years ago so how big an achievement is it to havd beaten
:23:55. > :24:04.some of the top public schools in the country? Massive. Massive. Two
:24:05. > :24:07.of the coaches from Millfield said well done, fabulous girls, really
:24:08. > :24:10.good match, where are they from And it was a really nice feeling to say
:24:11. > :24:13.Newcastle. Everyone was so overwhelmed, so happy. I thhnk
:24:14. > :24:18.everyone was delighted they had won and all the hard work was ptt to the
:24:19. > :24:20.test. And future success is almost
:24:21. > :24:24.guaranteed with girls like ten`year`old Jessica alreadx playing
:24:25. > :24:27.for the U15's. They beat thd holders Gosforth Academy in the all north
:24:28. > :24:32.east final, which shows just how strong the sport is in the region.
:24:33. > :24:35.Some of these girls will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of
:24:36. > :24:47.Massaro who won the world thtle in Malaysia ten days. Indeed spuash is
:24:48. > :24:51.the only sport in which Britain boasts the mens' and womens'
:24:52. > :24:54.Champions. But it's still not an Olympic sport and was rejected for
:24:55. > :24:58.the 2020 games, something which frustrates the up and coming talent.
:24:59. > :25:02.It's a bit disappointing. Wd've got the top players in the world from
:25:03. > :25:05.England so it would be really good for us. It's just some technical
:25:06. > :25:07.problems that are stopping ht. Get there eventually.
:25:08. > :25:11.But Olympic future or not coach Jane couldn't be any happier.
:25:12. > :25:22.I'm just so proud of them. H'm getting very emotional. A vdry
:25:23. > :25:24.emotional time. She nearly had me in tears `s well.
:25:25. > :25:42.Fantastic achievement. Any chance of the fog going?
:25:43. > :26:00.Things will change. Here ard a few interesting weather pictures.
:26:01. > :26:12.Thanks for all of your weather pictures. There is a change on the
:26:13. > :26:18.way. This weather front introduces a change in the wind direction
:26:19. > :26:22.tomorrow. Not all good news. The wind is coming from the south`west,
:26:23. > :26:29.but there will be a lot of cloud and some rain around as well. Btt
:26:30. > :26:32.eastern areas will lose that wind. Outbreaks of rain in the West,
:26:33. > :26:37.especially in the early part of the night. That will move eastw`rds
:26:38. > :26:42.through the night. It will be a mild night. Temperatures around six
:26:43. > :26:50.Celsius. Tomorrow, things start to change. It will be a grey and murky
:26:51. > :26:56.start again. The afternoon becomes much drier, brighter in places as
:26:57. > :27:00.well. Mainly because of a change in the wind direction. It is a light
:27:01. > :27:08.went for the afternoon, comhng in from the west. `` light wind. As we
:27:09. > :27:14.headed through the next few days, there will be a lot of cloud around,
:27:15. > :27:18.especially in the West. A lot of cloud across Cumbria for thd
:27:19. > :27:26.weekend. Been is never that far away. The wind will be gustx Andy
:27:27. > :27:30.Green quite heavy `` the rahn is never that far away. The wind will
:27:31. > :27:35.be gusty and the rain will be quite heavy. Keep up to date with the
:27:36. > :27:44.weather forecast on the website That is all for now.
:27:45. > :27:46.I'm not sure who's on the l`te bulletin. We will see you soon.