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Hello. Welcome to Tuesday's Look BBC One we join | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello. Welcome to Tuesday's Look North. In tonight's headlinds. A | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
police inquiry into activithes at a funeral parlour after a gridving | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
daughter is refused the right to say her final goodbyes. A warning that | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
money problems at UK Coal could leave the North with a big clean`up | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
bill. Overwhelmed and underfunded. It s | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
claimed our local charities are running out of cash. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Meet Lauren the life`saver ` a cool`headed seven year`old, who knew | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
what to do when her mum slipped into a coma. | :00:34. | :00:43. | |
I knew she was having a hypdr so I picked up the phone and called the | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
police. In sport ` Sunderland boss Gus Poyet says only a miracle can | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
save them now. A fabulous fhrst goal for Lee Cattermole isn't enough to | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
change their fortunes as a thrashing at Spurs leaves the Black C`ts | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
rooted to the bottom of the Premier League. Police have begun a theft | :00:59. | :01:12. | |
and fraud investigation at ` funeral parlour after a grieving datghter | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
was refused permission to s`y her final goodbyes. Pauline Kent had | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
died from breast cancer. But the funeral director told her d`ughter | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
Tina she couldn't see the body because of a highly contagious | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
infection. The coroner becale involved. This afternoon, | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
Northumbria Police confirmed they're now involved. Our chief reporter, | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
Chris Stewart, has the storx. Pauline Kent died from breast | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
cancer. She was 58. The hospital mortuary contacted a funeral | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
director and she was taken to this funeral parlour at South Hylton in | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Sunderland. Her daughter Tina asked to see her one last time, btt was | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
told no, because of the presence of a highly contagious infection. That | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
wasn't correct. Tina has bedn asked by the police not to speak `bout | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
what happened. But a friend says she was left devastated. She is | :02:01. | :02:10. | |
brokenhearted. She is having to see a counsellor. She has been put on | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
medication because she is not sleeping. The whole family hs | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
absolutely distraught and trying to make sense of everything. The | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
funeral director involved is Tony Clarke, seen here on his colpany | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
website. Unusually, the Coroner s Office intervened and there has now | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
been an inquest. At that inpuest, Mr Clarke said a form given to him by | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
the mortuary led him to belheve there was an infection presdnt. The | :02:35. | :02:44. | |
coroner said he found Mr Cl`rke s evidence unreliable and if he was | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
unclear, all he had to do w`s ring the hospital. He said what he did | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
undermined the integrity thd death certificate. | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
the hospital. He said what he did undermined the integrity thd The | :02:56. | :02:56. | |
police are saying little, other than that they've received a number of | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
reports relating to possibld theft or fraud offences involving a | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
50``year`old man. And that hnquiries are ongoing. | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
or fraud offences involving a 50``year`old man. Pauline Kdnt's | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
body was removed from Mr Cl`rke s funeral parlour and she was laid to | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
rest after a second undertaker was instructed to take over. We did | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
manage to speak to Mr Clarkd by telephone, but he declined to | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
comment. There's a warning that financial problems at UK Co`l could | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
damage the environment in the North and cost taxpayers thousands of | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
pounds. The firm says it nedds to raise ?10 million of investlent | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
within weeks to save itself from insolvency. Now, an environlental | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
group called the Loose Anti`Opencast Network says the Government should | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
halt UK Coal's plans for fotr new surface mines in our region. Mark | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
Denten, has been following the story. UK Coal has financial | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
problems. Why could that be an issue for our region? Last month, UK Coal | :03:55. | :04:03. | |
said it was consulting on plans to close two pits in Yorkshire and | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Nottinghamshire leading to 0,30 job losses. The firm says it nedds to | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
raise ?10 million in investlent within weeks to stave off | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
insolvency. The firm does rtn three surface mines in our region. But it | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
also has planning applications in for another four and that's where | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
there are concerns. Calls for plans for those new pits to be halted | :04:21. | :04:33. | |
That is what some people want. The sites near Whittonstall in | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
Northumberland, Marley Hill near Gateshead and Bebside near Blyth and | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
this site seen here at Bradley near Consett. The group the Loosd | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
anti`Opencast Network has now written to the Local Governlent | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Secretary Eric Pickles callhng for him to put a moratorium on those | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
planning applications. They say if UK Coal does fold and the ndw mines | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
are in operation there would be uncertainty over who would be | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
responsible for operating the sites. Campaigners I met agree. As a group | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
we raised it with the plannhng authority, whose say UK coal would | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
be minded to agree to some sort of Bond. We do not feel it is good | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
enough. We feel that UK Coal will go into liquidation and we will be left | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
with a 40 metre deep hole bdhind us. And I was unclear who is responsible | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
for it? We do not want the burden falling on the local authorhty, | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
which is really stretched at present. Any response from the | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
government? Yes and no. The communities department said they | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
cannot comment on individual planning applications because of the | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
role of Eric Pickles. Despite repeated phone calls and e`lails to | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
the head office today in Doncaster of UK Coal, no response. | :05:47. | :05:58. | |
Canoe fraudster John Darwin, who faked his own death to clail | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
insurance money, may be orddred to pay back more of the cash. The | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
63`year`old from Seaton Cardw, who was jailed for fraud with hhs wife | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
Anne in 2008, may be ordered to use the funds from a pension whhch has | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
now matured. He appeared at Teesside Crown Court today, for a brhef | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
proceeds of crime hearing. @ further hearing, to decide the mattdr, will | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
be held in May. A Cumbrian town s main shopping street will ftlly | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
reopen to traffic in time for the summer holidays, after traddrs | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
complained of a sharp drop hn customers. One end of Cockermouth's | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
Main Street has been shut to cars since the beginning of March, while | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
new drainage is installed bdneath the surface. A second section is due | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
to shut at the beginning of May But Cumbria County Council said both | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
will be open by the end of June not August, as first thought. Work to | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
renovate pavements will, though continue throughout July. L`bour has | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
said it will reintroduce a Linister for the North East if in wins the | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
next election. The Government scrapped the post and says hts | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
already handing power to thd regions through City Deals. But the | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Newcastle MP who used to be Minister For the North East says its time to | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
bring the job back. I think it is a welcome announcement. It is good | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
news for the north`east. Thd appointment worked really wdll for | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
the Northern English planning regions until the last government. | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
Even independent assessment, say over the economic cycle, had 68 000 | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
new jobs, between 98 and 2000 and eight. A seven year`old girl from | :07:27. | :07:36. | |
County Durham, who called an ambulance when her diabetic mum | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
collapsed while driving, has been praised by paramedics. Laurdn Price, | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
from Bishop Auckland, dialldd 9 9 after her mum lost consciousness. | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
She managed to tell ambulance staff where they were. Her mum has since | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
made a full recovery. Steph`nie Cleasby has been to meet thdm both. | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
When her mother passed out `t the wheel of the car, Lauren kndw what | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
to do. Her mother is diabethc and Lauren had seen her father called an | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
ambulance before. Using her mobile phone, the seven`year`old dhalled | :08:04. | :08:13. | |
999. My mother started crashing She started shaking and she closed her | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
eyes. I knew she was having a hypo. I picked up the phone from her bag | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
and called the police. Did xou feel scared? Yes. Lauren calmly `nswered | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
questions from ambulance controllers and asked a passer`by to tell | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
paramedics their location. Her mother, who has since made ` | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
recovery, is very proud. I `m assuming I had just about enough | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
around about us to know I h`d to get the car off the road, but I do not | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
have any memories at all. I am very proud of her. We have always said if | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
mum is not well, and you ard by yourself, phone for an ambulance. | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
But it has never been put to the test before. The North East | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
Ambulance Service praised L`uren for bravery and quick thinking `nd | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
presented the life`saver with this certificate of commendation. | :09:18. | :09:26. | |
How do you feel about getting that? Happy. If you tell your children, if | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
you are diabetic, asthmatic, whatever, if something could happen, | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
you show them how to dial 989 and get help, then they take it in and | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
they can make the call when it needs to be made. Very brave little girl. | :09:47. | :09:59. | |
We may think of binge drinkhng as a modern problem. But during the First | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
World War, the government w`s so concerned by the alcoholic | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
consumption of munitions workers in Carlisle, it nationalised the local | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
brewery and pubs. It was an experiment in controlled drhnking | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
that lasted until the 1970s. Now it's hoped a living history of state | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
management can boost tourisl in the city. Carlisle became well known for | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
its nationalised brewing industry. The government's attempt to put a | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
lid on excessive drinking. Lost pubs were once part of the a | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
state`management scheme and some here believe it's a unique history | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
waiting to be told. Now a grant will help kick`start the project. The | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
first thing is to gather information people still have, their melories of | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
state funded days. There ard 16 pubs in the city centre that werd trading | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
in 1916 and we are sure manx people living in Carlisle will havd | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
memories from their fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers, about | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
what it was like in the state managed pubs. In 1916 the country | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
was at war and in Carlisle, 20, 00 people came to work in the lunitions | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
industry over the border in Gretna Green. With 120 pubs, but activity | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
dipped. The government had to act and Carlisle became an experiment in | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
controlled drinking. The first ?10,000 from the Heritage Lottery | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
Fund will help create a history trail and the group behind this hope | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
future funding will allow them eventually to recreate a st`te | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
management`style pub. We want a living history within the ptbs | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
themselves. Which is why we are looking to identify pubs th`t really | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
can show off what it was like in 1916, initially, and right through | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
to 1973 at the end of state management. Still to come in | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
tonight's programme: News of the old Masters coming to County Durham | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
this, . `` this summer. And next stop, South Tyneside. Final | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
preparations are being made for the BBC's big Easter event. In the | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
sunshine today it looks likd spring, but it feel `` still felt cold in | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
the westerly wind. I will h`ve more later in the programme. Charities in | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
the North East say they are struggling to meet demand after | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
changes to the benefits system. A survey by Voluntary Organis`tions | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
Network North East found ch`rities are also suffering from cuts in | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
council grants. Forty per cdnt of them say they'll run out of money in | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
just three months. It's a forlorn place today, but just a year ago it | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
was a thriving activity centre for Hartlepool children with attention | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
deficit disorder. The charity that ran all that has closed. With | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
lottery grants ended and cotncil funding squeezed, they say they had | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
little option. If we had not, we would have run into debt and the | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
trustees would have to pay the debt. It was a decision we had to make, | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
very hard. Working with young people, it is very hard. I `m sorry. | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
It was a tough decision? Very. We learned five charities in the | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
Hartlepool area have closed in the last year. A survey by voluntary | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
organisations network north`east said over 40% of charities hn the | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
region will run out of monex in three months. This South Shhelds | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
charity helps homeless young people get the skills they need to live on | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
their own. It has survived. 19`year`old Nicole is glad. It has | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
helped us to learn new things, new skills, like cooking for myself | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
cleaning up. And general hygienic area of how to fend for mysdlf when | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
I move into my own place. Btt organisers here have also bden | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
forced to cut services. At one time, young people could st`y in the | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
house for up to two years and learn the skills necessary for thdm to | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
have a tenancy of their own. We have reduced that to six months. The | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
demand for our services has increased which is partly bdcause of | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
the impact of welfare of firms stop `` welfare reforms. Also, N`tional | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
government has reduced local government funding and local | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
government origin using the funding to charities. `` have at reducing. | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
The Department for Work and Pensions reject that. In a statement they say | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
their vital benefits changes are actually improving the lives of some | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
of the poorest families in our communities. Truth and kindness and | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
shipping containers! Just some of the ingredients that'll makd up the | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
BBC's big Easter event on South Tyneside. The Great North P`ssion is | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
a one hour special hosted bx Fern Britton, and featuring singdr | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
Alexandra Burke, together whth local people, telling the story of the | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
last moments in the life of Christ. But with just over a week to go the | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
pressure is on. Arts reportdr Sharuna Sagar has been to sde how | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
the Good Friday event is sh`ping up. A shipping container arrives at the | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
North Shields quayside. Nothing unusual there. But inside this one, | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
an installation bound for the Great North Passion. Whitley Bay `rtist | :15:29. | :15:38. | |
Brod prepares his cargo for it's maiden voyage. They will usd this | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
almighty crane to lift the box on. Then they will come over and lift | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
this on to the container. And then we have to go on the roof of the | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
container and bolts the boat down onto the container. This bo`t does | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
not float? It does not have a bottom! It definitely will not | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
float. Last weekend, the public were given their first peek at the | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
artwork ` created with the help of local fishermen and children and | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
prompting some praise. It looks really brilliant. It is excdllent. I | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
am not sure of the container, mind, it is almost as if the children s | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
stuff is on the outside but to understand you have to get hnside | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
the container. Maybe later. Meanwhile back at the water's edge, | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
there's been a minor miracld. Finally, after three hours hn the | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
cold and rain, the little boat has been lowered onto the Sir Bobby | :16:45. | :16:57. | |
Robson. It is a ship sandwich. We have just left North Shields and we | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
are on the way to South Shidlds around one and a half miles. It | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
could be the only time the bottomless boat is actually on the | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
water. This will eventually be its final destination ` Bents P`rk. But | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
with just ten days to go before the huge BBC live broadcast, it's a case | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
of keeping the faith. Here we are in what looks like a field of shipping | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
containers. What are your thoughts, can you see the vision? Sort of I | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
agree, it is like a field of shipping containers. But it will | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
become a pop`up cathedral and an amazing performance space where | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
people will come inside, 3000, and watch this fantastic show that will | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
go out live on the television. By Good Friday, 50 shipping containers | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
and 12 community art projects will be here arranged in the shape of a | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
giant cross. What is your involvement? I will perform a poem | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
on the day with children from South Shields community School. Wd have | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
written this poem. We have decorated a shipping container, a random | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
kindness generators so that if people step in, they cannot step out | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
with having an urge to do something kind. So with kindness covered, back | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
at the South Shields quayside the moment of truth has arrived. And | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
it'll soon take its place in the BBC's Easter celebration. Alen to | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
that. It looks fantastic. And you can see | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
The Great North Passion livd on BBC One at midday on Good Fridax. | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
The Great North Passion livd on Time for sport. Almost time for the | :18:40. | :18:51. | |
inquest to begin on what looks like being Sunderland's farewell to the | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
Premier League. Yes, that's why we've got BBC Newcastle's Stnderland | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
commentator Nick Barnes herd and we'll talk to him in a minute. First | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
if you're a Sunderland fan xou might want to look away now. Gus Poyet | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
says his side need a miracld if they're to stay in the Premher | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
League after losing 5`1 at Tottenham last night. The Black Cats remain | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
bottom of the league and seven points from safety and relegation is | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
looking increasingly inevit`ble Sunderland started brightly enough | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
and when Lee Cattermole pounced on a horrendous defensive error to score | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
his first goal for the club with a superb finish you had to wonder if | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
this was the moment of magic that would help to save the Black Cats' | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
Premier League status. After all he had not scored in 112 games. But | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
Spurs were a constant threat and Wes Brown couldn't quite do enotgh to | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
stop Emanuel Adebayor equalhsing. Luck hasn't often been on | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
Sunderland's side this season and later replays showed the striker had | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
actually put the ball in thd net with his arm. 1`1 at half thme | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
though and the game could h`ve gone either way. Poyet had succulbed to | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
fans' demands to play top scorer Adam Johnson from the start rather | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
than as an impact sub. But ht didn't pay off and when young Harrx Kane | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
tapped in his first Premier League it was always going to be a | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
struggle. The Wearsiders kept fighting for a while. Ignacho Scocco | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
almost finding the target immediately after coming off the | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
bench. But after Christian Driksen put in the third goal for Spurs | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
With the help of a deflection off Phil Bardsley it was game over and | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
Sunderland knew it. They evdntually capitulated. Defensive mist`kes | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
allowing Adebayor to score his second before Sigurdsson put the | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
final embarrassing nail in the coffin in stoppage time to lake it | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
five. Fans may have given up hope but tried their best not to show it. | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
Gus Poyet meanwhile is left pondering life back in the | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
Championship next season ` just what will it take to keep his te`m in the | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
top flight now? I think we need a miracle. We need something tnique, a | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
shock. That is because if not, I cannot see it coming. Fans `greed. I | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
would not bet on staying up. I hope we do, but I would not bet on it. I | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
have been saying we have to win this game, this game, and they h`ve not | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
done it. Deep down, even me, who is die`hard, I think we are gohng down. | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
I have reviewed my season thcket for next year, although I think it will | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
be in the championship now we are struggling. And it's not gohng to | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
get any easier. Next up it's Champions League chasing Evdrton at | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
the Stadium of Light ` Sunddrland have the worst home record hn the | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
league. You have watched every game this | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
season. The nature of miracles is they do not happen often. They done | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
for this season? People likd to think there will be a fantastic end | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
to this season, but you are right, miracles do not happen and the | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
supporter who said he knows that Sunderland are going down, that is | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
spot on. If we are honest, we have known since August that Sunderland | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
would struggle this season. They don't stay in the bottom three if | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
they are going to be out of it. Do you think some of the blame should | :21:54. | :22:02. | |
be laid at the door of Paolo to can you? He has to take his share. | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
Realistically you have to look back two or three seasons when Stnderland | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
have flirted with relegation. They have been on the edge the three | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
years. The squad is ageing. I think it has been proved they havd been | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
caught out at this level. They are just not good enough. The players | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
have beaten Chelsea and man united on the way to the league cup final. | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
The cup run was a benefit to them if you look to it results in J`nuary | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
through February in the lead up to the league cup final, it was their | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
best period of the season. There is an argument playing in the cup helps | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
them. Since the final, things have gone off the rails. So they have two | :22:50. | :23:02. | |
left in hand. If they have lost games at home, why would thdy win | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
three out of four now? So Stnderland may well have local derbies against | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
Middlesbrough in the Championship next season, but tonight Boro take | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
on Lee Clark's Birmingham Chty at the Riverside. Karanka will be | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
hoping last weekend's win over promotion chasing Derby will inspire | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
his side to a late season strge It's claimed that the biggest | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
one`off sporting event in the North East this year will be a golf | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
tournament. The English Senhors Open at Rockliffe Hall near Hurworth is | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
expected to draw up to 15,000 spectators over three days. It's the | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
second year running the course has hosted the event. Andrew Hartley | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
reports. It was, as they say, a lovely day | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
for a game of golf. The sun shone for the launch of the English | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
Seniors Open, expected to attract thousands of fans to this course | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
over the August Bank Holidax weekend. Rockcliffe Hall is a | :23:51. | :23:59. | |
wonderful club and this part of the countryside is wonderful. The golf | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
course facility is in superb condition. The tournament, one of 15 | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
on the European Senior Tour, is just for the over 50s. But there are no | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
shortage of top golfers, including this guy, one of the star pdrformers | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
since he joined the senior circuit two years ago. You cannot bdlieve | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
two years ago I was a club pro in the shop selling Mars bars for a | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
living and now I've travelldd the world playing with the superstars | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
and winning the order of merit last year. I have two pinch myself. The | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
decision to award Rockliffe the English Senior Open reflects the | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
growing importance of the g`me to the North East with a number of new | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
upmarket golfing developments in recent years. We are trying to put | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
golf in the north`east on the map. Certainly, we should be competing | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
with any region of the country, even Scotland, which has the major | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
courses. We think the coursds in the north`east are as good as it gets in | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
the UK. The organisers clail the English senior open will be the | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
biggest sporting event in the north`east this year and thd fact | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
they can make that claim is a sign of golf's increasing import`nce in | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
the region's sporting calendar. And some late news. The head coach | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
of the Falklands, Peter Russell will leave at the end of thd season | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
the personal reasons `` Falcons It has been on the cool side, dven in | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
the sunshine. Tomorrow it whll be different with cloudy skies. | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
Especially in western areas where it will be on the damp side. It will be | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
on the breezy side once agahn. Mostly dry through the evenhng | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
tonight. The cloud will increase from the West and eventuallx the | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
thick cloud will bring patchy rain through the second half of the | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
night. Most eastern areas whll stay dry. Temperatures down as low as | :26:03. | :26:12. | |
four Celsius. Tomorrow it is an east and west split. In the east, thicker | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
cloud and outbreaks of drizzle. Towards the east, it will bd drier | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
and at times brighter. Most places should dry up by the end of the | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
afternoon and temperatures similar figures as we saw today. Yet again, | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
the wind coming in from the West will be brisk. Even in the sunshine, | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
it will not feel particularly warm. This is the picture for the next few | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
days. We offered by the weather fronts coming in from the north | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
which is why there is a lot of cloud around. By Friday, things should | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
brighten up, although they light not get that much warmer. Patchx rain on | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
Thursday in Cumbria. Drier `nd brighter by Friday. Not a lot | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
warmer, despite more blue sky. Still a fair amount of cloud around at | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
times. The temperature is only making it into double figurds. Cold | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
enough ground frost overnight in one or two places. Send your we`ther | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
pictures. We are looking for pictures that say April and that | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
picture will feature in next year's calendar. | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
That is all. We will be back at the same time tomorrow. You can join me | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
for the late news also. | :27:43. | :27:44. |