:00:08. > :00:10.Good evening. The Easter Bank That's it.
:00:11. > :00:13.Good evening. The Easter Bank Holiday is considered the
:00:14. > :00:18.traditional start to the tourist season in a vital industry for our
:00:19. > :00:22.region. And one Northumberland seaside town has had the equivalent
:00:23. > :00:25.of three weeks' worth of visitors ` in just three days ` as Julie Smith
:00:26. > :00:28.has been finding out. It may have been forgotten in the
:00:29. > :00:31.1980s but Newbiggin`by`the`Sea is determined to restore itself on the
:00:32. > :00:35.tourism map. And this weekend the Maritime Centre put on a two day
:00:36. > :00:38.kite festival that brought a flying start to the tourism season.
:00:39. > :00:47.Three weeks' worth of visitors in just three days.
:00:48. > :00:52.We've had a fantastic total, over 1500 people through the doors. The
:00:53. > :00:55.car park has been filled every day, crowds on the beach and the
:00:56. > :01:02.promenade. The more people that come to visit us, the more everyone
:01:03. > :01:06.benefits. A short walk away is the town's
:01:07. > :01:09.original ice cream parlour. It's been in the family of the current
:01:10. > :01:17.owner, Frank Bertorelli, since the 1930s. Frank Bertorelli has spent
:01:18. > :01:20.six years restoring it. Now we have sea defences, art
:01:21. > :01:24.sculptures, cafes all over. What more can you ask for? People come to
:01:25. > :01:28.the beach, walk their dogs, relax, have a coffee or an ice cream. It's
:01:29. > :01:31.all on the up at Newbiggin. Believing in the town's tourism,
:01:32. > :01:33.Frank spent six years restoring the cafe.
:01:34. > :01:41.We've been busy and quiet, today has just ticked over, but yesterday and
:01:42. > :01:43.the day before where hectic. An encouraging start to the tourist
:01:44. > :01:52.season for this Northumberland seaside town.
:01:53. > :01:57.Meanwhile visitor numbers in the Yorkshire Dales are between two and
:01:58. > :02:00.three times higher than last year. The Director of Park Services for
:02:01. > :02:04.the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority thinks the rise is down to
:02:05. > :02:07.the Tour De France coming to the region in July. It's hoped the Grand
:02:08. > :02:09.Depart will put Yorkshire firmly on the world map and leave a lasting
:02:10. > :02:12.legacy. Nearly 1500 cases of abuse of
:02:13. > :02:15.vulnerable adults were recorded in Cumbria last year according to new
:02:16. > :02:18.figures. The Cumbria Adults Safeguarding Board says there are
:02:19. > :02:21.likely to be more that go unreported. Now a new campaign will
:02:22. > :02:23.be launched to encourage more people to speak out if they think a
:02:24. > :02:32.vulnerable adult is being abused. A unique artistic performance is
:02:33. > :02:35.taking place at Durham Cathedral tonight, in which percussion is
:02:36. > :02:37.combined with live painting, with the results projected onto the
:02:38. > :02:40.architecture of the Cathedral. Animotion is the work of Russian
:02:41. > :02:42.artist Maria Rud, and Percussion Virtuoso Dame Evelyn Glennie ` who
:02:43. > :02:56.is profoundly deaf. A fusion of music and art. Animotion
:02:57. > :02:59.sees Maria Rud painting her interpretation of what she sees,
:03:00. > :03:02.hears and feels from her musical accompaniment. Modern technology
:03:03. > :03:07.means her work can be projected live onto the walls of the venue. Dame
:03:08. > :03:15.Evelyn Glennie says the performance is partly rehearsed but with room
:03:16. > :03:19.left for inspiration. We choose certain pieces of music
:03:20. > :03:22.and Maria would practice with those. She would think about the concept of
:03:23. > :03:33.the paintings. We have improvised sections as well. It is quite
:03:34. > :03:36.extraordinary because you never know what is going to happen visually or
:03:37. > :03:43.indeed aurally. That combination is really important.
:03:44. > :03:46.For artist Maria Rud, the environment in which the performance
:03:47. > :03:58.is carried out is just as important as the material itself. And emotion
:03:59. > :04:02.is inseparable from architecture. It is a response to architecture and
:04:03. > :04:13.music. Architecture has a rhythm, just as music does. If you come
:04:14. > :04:15.tonight, you could probably see our interpretation of the cathedral. It
:04:16. > :04:18.is difficult to explain. Animotion begins tonight at 8.30pm
:04:19. > :04:26.and there are tickets available on the door.
:04:27. > :04:30.A Dutch naval submarine has sailed out `of the Port of Tyne. The 68
:04:31. > :04:33.metre`long sub spent the past four days at the Northumbrian Quay in
:04:34. > :04:37.North Shields. HNL`MS Walrus is the first submarine to visit the Quay in
:04:38. > :04:41.ten years. If you have ever tried to cater for
:04:42. > :04:44.a fussy eater ` then you'll sympathise with folk ` at the
:04:45. > :04:47.International Centre for Birds of Prey ` in Helmsley in North
:04:48. > :04:51.Yorkshire. They're trying to tempt a sea bird to eat fish. At first,
:04:52. > :04:54.Inowashi, a rare Steller's sea eagle, would only eat chicken. Now
:04:55. > :04:58.she's turning her beak up at that and only eating rats. So a local
:04:59. > :05:02.fish and chip shop has been drafted in to supply her with prime raw cod
:05:03. > :05:07.fillets ` and they seem to be working.
:05:08. > :05:11.She has proved rather a challenge to feed, this bird. To start with, he
:05:12. > :05:15.used to eat the same date as the rest of the birds here, which is all
:05:16. > :05:19.based on chicken. Then one day she decided she never wanted to eat a
:05:20. > :05:26.piece of chicken ever again. Then we find out she's rather keen on eating
:05:27. > :05:29.rats! Some Bank Holiday Football League
:05:30. > :05:32.results to bring you. In League One, Carlisle are deeper
:05:33. > :05:35.in relegation trouble tonight, after a 4`1 defeat at Peterborough.
:05:36. > :05:38.In League Two, Hartlepool also flirting with the drop, slashed
:05:39. > :05:42.ticket prices to a fiver for today's game with Morecambe and fans were
:05:43. > :05:45.rewarded with a precious 2`1 win. York meanwhile got a tighter grip on
:05:46. > :05:47.that last playoff place, beating Bury 1`0.
:05:48. > :05:49.And in the Conference, Gateshead are almost in the playoffs themselves
:05:50. > :05:58.after their 2`0 win at Macclesfield. Cricket ` and on Day Two of the
:05:59. > :06:01.County Championship games at Chester le Street, Durham ticking along
:06:02. > :06:04.nicely, having dismissed Somerset for 185, the home side are now 123
:06:05. > :06:07.for four intheir second innings. And Yorkshire also at home, having
:06:08. > :06:09.declared on 459 against Northants, they bowled out the visitors today
:06:10. > :06:22.for 94. Good evening. For most, it has been
:06:23. > :06:29.an absolutely beautiful bank holiday Monday. But things are slowly going
:06:30. > :06:38.downhill overnight. Some cloud and fog coming in. Low temperatures of
:06:39. > :06:41.seven degrees. Tuesday will be a cloudy day, with outbreaks of rain
:06:42. > :06:46.spreading up from the South East. Some heavy rain. A little drier and
:06:47. > :06:51.brighter later. The best temperatures across Cumbria, 14 or
:06:52. > :06:55.15 Celsius. And I'll be back with our late
:06:56. > :07:03.update tonight at around 10:15pm. Bye for now.