:00:00. > :00:00.combat for the first time. That's all from the BBC News.
:00:00. > :00:09.Welcome to Look North. In the programme tonight. 158 arrests, 93
:00:10. > :00:13.charged, 90 found guilty. An exclusive report on the scale of the
:00:14. > :00:18.violence that scarred a Tyne Wear football derby. An alarming rise in
:00:19. > :00:23.dog attacks in the region. This six`year`old is one of the latest
:00:24. > :00:27.victims. She's been missing since 2005. Now film extra Janet Brown's
:00:28. > :00:33.lover is on trial, accused of her murder. It's been seen by five
:00:34. > :00:39.million people worldwide ` now the musical Dirty Dancing makes it to
:00:40. > :00:42.the stage on Tyneside. And in sport, there's only one story that matters
:00:43. > :00:45.today ` Sunderland's Great Escape. For many people here on Wearside,
:00:46. > :00:52.last night's win was much, much more than just another football match.
:00:53. > :01:14.Unbelievable. It is like having a new grandchild. As this football
:01:15. > :01:17.season draws to a close, shocking scale of the violence that marred
:01:18. > :01:21.the Tyne`Wear football derby in the Spring of 2013 can now be fully
:01:22. > :01:24.revealed as the last of the hooligans, aged from 12 to 45, have
:01:25. > :01:28.finally been brought to justice. We can reveal that the Trouble erupted
:01:29. > :01:30.outside St James's Park and in the city centre after Sunderland beat
:01:31. > :01:33.Newcastle three`nil. Hundreds of police fought to contain the mob in
:01:34. > :01:36.a spontaneous outbreak of drink`fuelled madness that made
:01:37. > :01:39.national headlines and ruined dozens of young lives. In all, 158 people
:01:40. > :01:43.were arrested. 93 were charged with violent disorder or affray. 90 of
:01:44. > :01:48.them were found guilty and three were acquitted. The maximum sentence
:01:49. > :01:51.imposed ` 21 months. Look North has spoken to the police officers
:01:52. > :02:08.involved and some of those convicted. Dan Farthing has this
:02:09. > :02:13.exclusive report. April 2013. More than a thousand police officers were
:02:14. > :02:22.on duty and the powderkeg atmosphere of a local derby erupted. When the
:02:23. > :02:29.third goal went in my experience said this will be a difficult day. I
:02:30. > :02:34.was a bit strong. I was stood outside the stadium. Everybody
:02:35. > :02:41.started sinking so I thought I go and join in. We had to escort a
:02:42. > :02:49.sizeable number of fans from the station. The police formed a block.
:02:50. > :02:54.Unable to get at the Sunderland fans, the crowd turned on the
:02:55. > :02:57.police. Among the first arrests words Barry Rogerson who were like
:02:58. > :03:14.most of the mob had been at the game. Some sort of flower descended
:03:15. > :03:18.on us. I was stupid. He was not typical of the average person
:03:19. > :03:22.involved. It will be more likely somebody in their late teens or
:03:23. > :03:27.early 20s who has not been to the match. Half an hour after the final
:03:28. > :03:32.whistle the violence moved to Westgate Road whether police had
:03:33. > :03:35.formed a chord in. It was a distraction tactic. They were taken
:03:36. > :03:38.along with the fury of the crowd while I was able to get an escort
:03:39. > :03:43.through to the station as quickly as possible without any of the
:03:44. > :03:46.Sunderland fans being hurts. Examined in close detail, the images
:03:47. > :03:52.reveal how young some of the troublemakers were. This lad here is
:03:53. > :03:57.only 12. He has to run out of the way of a missile. He has been
:03:58. > :04:01.convicted now. He was convicted of a violent disorder. You can see he
:04:02. > :04:07.goes on to throw bottles at the police. 50 minutes after the match,
:04:08. > :04:11.the mob moved and again tried to attack the Sunderland escort passing
:04:12. > :04:17.through the city quadrant and heading to the central station.
:04:18. > :04:21.Something happened at the station which I have never seen before in
:04:22. > :04:25.all my years of experience. Newcastle fans started scaling walls
:04:26. > :04:31.to try get into the station. British transport police colleagues are very
:04:32. > :04:35.bravely stood their ground. I did think this is going to hurt. I was
:04:36. > :04:40.tried to dodge the missiles are as much is possible that there was no
:04:41. > :04:45.way we could move back. I got hurt. But it was just bruising. Had I been
:04:46. > :04:51.a couple of inches shorter, I dread to think what would have happened.
:04:52. > :04:55.It would have been my head. Most of them had jobs and were in
:04:56. > :05:28.education. They have to not away for now. It was the heat of the moment
:05:29. > :05:31.situation. Stupid really. The legacy is disorder in Newcastle.
:05:32. > :05:48.12`year`old and new football banning orders. Not a great adverts. And in
:05:49. > :05:52.tomorrow night's Look North, Dan Farthing reports on how the police
:05:53. > :05:56.managed to track down so many people involved in the derby day riots.
:05:57. > :05:59.Look North has discovered a six`year`old girl attacked by two
:06:00. > :06:02.American Bulldogs this week is just one of a series of recent dog`bite
:06:03. > :06:05.victims in a Northumberland Town. Ellie Hall, from Ashington, was
:06:06. > :06:08.taken to hospital after she was bitten while out playing with
:06:09. > :06:12.friends. We've discovered there's been a spate of serious attacks in
:06:13. > :06:16.the town ` and even the local MP is calling for action. It comes a week
:06:17. > :06:18.after a report claimed the rate of hospital admissions from dog bites
:06:19. > :06:26.was higher in the North East than any other region. Andrew Hartley
:06:27. > :06:29.reports. Second from death. Six`year`old Ellie Hall from
:06:30. > :06:34.Ashington were set upon this week by a pair of American Bulldogs.
:06:35. > :06:37.horrific. She would not be here worried for the neighbour who saved
:06:38. > :06:43.her. She was just playing with her friends. She did nothing wrong.
:06:44. > :06:48.She's so lucky. A few more minutes and she would have been gone. I
:06:49. > :06:58.thought they were nice dogs. But they were bad dogs. They got my leg,
:06:59. > :07:14.then my arm and then my ear. I was screaming. My friend was frightened.
:07:15. > :07:17.Both dogs were destroyed. Ellie is not the only person to suffer a dog
:07:18. > :07:22.bite injury in this town in recent weeks. There have been a series of
:07:23. > :07:29.incidents. The Holroyd was attacked a few days ago. He had to have
:07:30. > :07:35.plastic surgery. I was attacked by an English bull terrier. I was
:07:36. > :07:44.attacked in the face. It does not seem to be `` there are not a lot of
:07:45. > :07:48.attacks at the moment and owners should be held responsible. They are
:07:49. > :07:51.victims in a year when a serious bug attacks have become big news. Here
:07:52. > :07:57.in Ashington it is so bad the town's postman were giving a safety
:07:58. > :08:00.briefing about violence dogs yesterday. A new study shows that it
:08:01. > :08:06.is a problem that affects the whole region. The dark areas are where the
:08:07. > :08:09.rate of attacks are highest. Just look at the North East. Last year
:08:10. > :08:15.across County Durham and he sighed alone, 269 people were hospitalised
:08:16. > :08:20.by dogs. A worse rate than anywhere else in the country apart from
:08:21. > :08:25.Merseyside. The survey's conclusion is that dog attacks are highest in
:08:26. > :08:28.the most deprived areas. But this Newcastle solicitor deals with
:08:29. > :08:33.dogged by compensation claims from all over the country. She is not
:08:34. > :08:37.convinced. the types of incident are the same, whether it is in the North
:08:38. > :08:42.East or one that happens in the Home Counties. Often, very young children
:08:43. > :08:51.are attacked by dogs have bad facial injuries and quite frequently...
:08:52. > :08:56.This sanctuary takes unwanted dogs. When I moved in four years go, we
:08:57. > :09:02.had 12 dogs will stop we have about 50 now. It is desperate to be
:09:03. > :09:09.honest. We do taking dogs that have bitten. And we have to try and
:09:10. > :09:12.correct what caused them to bite in the first place. It is often dogs
:09:13. > :09:20.have been beaten and used as deterrents, it is not all about
:09:21. > :09:30.mental abuse. That has got worse over the last two years. Ashington
:09:31. > :09:34.seems to have a particular problem at the moment. Why? It is not to
:09:35. > :09:38.pick on Ashington, because across the country more than 6000 people
:09:39. > :09:43.were hurt by dog attacks last year. That is a 5% rise in one year. It is
:09:44. > :09:48.clear there is a live issue for Ashington, so much so that the local
:09:49. > :09:51.MP, Ian Lavery, issued a warning to dog owners to take more
:09:52. > :09:55.responsibility and people I spoke to on the street are clearly concerned
:09:56. > :10:01.about the issue and they want action. So what can be done? The new
:10:02. > :10:04.law which amends the Dangerous Dogs Act out Julie comes into force this
:10:05. > :10:10.month. It includes increased sentencing but it does not
:10:11. > :10:15.include... Which has led some people disappointed. I should leave the
:10:16. > :10:20.final word to brave little Ellie who you saw in my film. She wants to say
:10:21. > :10:32.a big thank you to the neighbours who her parents believe saved her
:10:33. > :10:35.life. A man who was killed at a level crossing in North Yorkshire
:10:36. > :10:37.has been named by police. 77`year`old Eric Ireland, from
:10:38. > :10:40.Scampston, near Malton, died when his car was struck by a
:10:41. > :10:43.Trans`Pennine express travelling from Scarborough to Liverpool. The
:10:44. > :10:49.crossing is on private land at Scampston, where a farm track
:10:50. > :10:51.crosses the railway line. The Trust which runs hospitals in
:10:52. > :10:54.Middlesbrough and Northallerton could be declared "unsatisfactory"
:10:55. > :10:56.by Monitor, the health regulator, if it fails to address multi`million
:10:57. > :11:00.pound budget problems. The South Tees NHS Trust has to save ?50
:11:01. > :11:08.million. It's hired consultants to look for savings, but health unions
:11:09. > :11:12.have criticised the decision. A court's been told a film extra was
:11:13. > :11:15.murdered by her lover, who then used hundreds of thousands of pounds of
:11:16. > :11:18.her money to buy expensive cars. 45`year`old Janet Brown, from Hexham
:11:19. > :11:22.in Northumberland, vanished in June 2005 after apparently going on
:11:23. > :11:26.holiday to France. But the jury at Newcastle Crown Court was told she
:11:27. > :11:29.vanished off the face of the earth and has never been heard of since.
:11:30. > :11:34.Our news correspondent, Peter Harris, reports. Janet Brown booked
:11:35. > :11:47.a holiday to France and was never seen again. It said Janet Brown
:11:48. > :11:51.never reached France because she had been murdered by the man she was due
:11:52. > :11:55.to go with. The long`term lover Don Graham. It is alleged he then went
:11:56. > :11:58.on to spend thousands of pounds of her money and in due course that of
:11:59. > :12:01.her elderly parents. The court heard Janet had savings of ?400,000 and an
:12:02. > :12:06.inheritance to come from her parents' ?300,000 farm house near
:12:07. > :12:10.Hexham. It's alleged after killing her, Don Graham spent some of her
:12:11. > :12:15.money on cars, like this one, as well as a Porsche and Range Rover.
:12:16. > :12:18.And he bought a house in Seaton Delavel for another lover, who he'd
:12:19. > :12:23.met just before Janet vanished. The new lover was Elizabeth Todd, is
:12:24. > :12:27.here on the right. She knew nothing of the alleged murder of Janet, but
:12:28. > :12:31.in time, it's claimed she committed fraud and forgery to keep Brown's
:12:32. > :12:34.money flowing in. All the while, Janet's elderly parents, it's said,
:12:35. > :12:41.were conned into thinking she was alive and living in France. Don
:12:42. > :12:44.Graham allegedly sent them postcards from France pretending they were
:12:45. > :12:55.from Janet saying "still enjoying France", that she had a job, had
:12:56. > :12:59.been promoted and had a company car. The prosecution said that was all a
:13:00. > :13:03.con. Janet Brown was already dead and Don Graham knew that. Janet, the
:13:04. > :13:07.jury heard, had loved Don Graham and even had the wedding dress ready to
:13:08. > :13:11.marry her alleged killer. Don Graham denies charges including murder and
:13:12. > :13:21.Elizabeth Todd denies forgery and a fraud charge. More than 3,700 people
:13:22. > :13:25.have signed up to a Facebook group set up to buy a Cumbrian mountain
:13:26. > :13:29.for the community. Blencathra has been put up for sale by Lord
:13:30. > :13:33.Lonsdale, who wants to raise just short of ?2 million pounds to pay
:13:34. > :13:38.off taxes. The group, Friends of Blencathra, says it wants to buy the
:13:39. > :13:41.mountain, then hold it in trust. The Duchess of Cornwall has been in the
:13:42. > :13:58.region today. She was visiting RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire in her
:13:59. > :14:02.capacity as Honorary AirCommodore. She officially opened the new centre
:14:03. > :14:08.which replaces a facility dating back to the 1940s. It is a purpose
:14:09. > :14:13.tilt facility we have had. So essentially, we have a very modern
:14:14. > :14:17.primary health care facility which we can offer good quality medical
:14:18. > :14:30.care to the service people at RAF meaning from. The smash hit musical
:14:31. > :14:33.Dirty Dancing has arrived on Tyneside for the first time. Based
:14:34. > :14:37.on the 1987 film of the same name, the stage show's been seen by five
:14:38. > :14:40.million people worldwide. The month`long run at Newcastle's
:14:41. > :14:42.Theatre Royal is on track to be a sell`out. Our entertainment
:14:43. > :14:46.reporter, Sharuna Sagar, has been to meet the cast. It's the fastest ever
:14:47. > :14:50.selling West End show and it's now making it's Newcastle debut. Dirty
:14:51. > :15:01.Dancing is a coming of age romance between Johnny and Baby. It is not
:15:02. > :15:03.so smooth, there are quite substantial differences between
:15:04. > :15:11.Johnny and baby. They have very different backgrounds. Nobody puts
:15:12. > :15:15.baby in a corner! She feels squashed down by things that have happened to
:15:16. > :15:20.her and he boosts her right back up. It all ends up in a big
:15:21. > :15:26.triumphant dance number. With a big lift, with a very tough rubber very
:15:27. > :15:27.big lift! From the Mumba to the melons. The
:15:28. > :15:36.box`office`record`breaking musical recreates the classic '80s film. For
:15:37. > :15:41.the big fans out there, they are going to find these iconic moments
:15:42. > :15:45.live on stage so exciting. The script is close to the movies all
:15:46. > :15:51.the famous lines are in the show. But there are lots of added extra
:15:52. > :15:57.exciting parts. It has led to standing ovations and dancing in the
:15:58. > :16:01.aisles. If the reaction of previous audiences is anything to go by,
:16:02. > :16:04.theatre`goers who come to this run might well have the time of their
:16:05. > :16:12.life. Sharuna Sagar, BBC Look North, Theatre Royal Newcastle. Football
:16:13. > :16:15.now, and there are calls tonight for Sunderland's head coach, Gus Poyet,
:16:16. > :16:19.to be named Manager of the Year. It's really not hard to see why. The
:16:20. > :16:23.flamboyant Uruguayan said his team needed a miracle to secure Premier
:16:24. > :16:25.League survival and after a run of 13 points from the last five games,
:16:26. > :16:29.that's exactly what they've achieved. Mark Tulip's back at the
:16:30. > :16:32.Stadium of Light for us now. Does the Great Escape do it justice,
:16:33. > :16:36.Mark? I think perhaps the "Greatest" Escape Jeff. Before last night, only
:16:37. > :16:39.West Brom had been bottom of the Premier League at Christmas and
:16:40. > :16:41.stayed up. Sunderland joined that select club with their 2`0 victory
:16:42. > :16:45.here ` coincidentally against the West Midlands side. Sunday's final
:16:46. > :16:51.game at home to Swansea already feels like a 90 minute lap of
:16:52. > :16:54.honour! There was an air of expectancy before kick`off. Only one
:16:55. > :16:58.club bottom of the Premier League at Christmas had ever avoided the drop.
:16:59. > :17:01.That was West Brom ` last night's visitors to the Stadium of Light.
:17:02. > :17:09.Could Sunderland become the second with just one point required from
:17:10. > :17:17.their final two matches? He has done such a good job. He has turned us
:17:18. > :17:27.around. Now look where we are extra macro is why macro are you nervous?
:17:28. > :17:32.Know we are excited. I would like to see us win. But I will settle for a
:17:33. > :17:35.point. One of the most publicised football banners this season was
:17:36. > :17:39.there to remind everyone of Gus Poyet's dream. And his call for the
:17:40. > :17:43.players to just go for a win seemed to have been heeded early on. With
:17:44. > :17:45.12 minutes gone, Wearside was in wonderland. Alonso's cross found
:17:46. > :17:49.Jack Colback, who prodded the ball home to make the Great Escape, look
:17:50. > :17:52.almost nailed on. Half an hour gone and Larsson, reminding us all that
:17:53. > :17:56.he's a Swedish international, chipped the ball over the top for
:17:57. > :17:59.Fabio Borini to score another of his history`making goals. What a shame
:18:00. > :18:02.he heads back to Liverpool in the summer. Of course, it wouldn't be
:18:03. > :18:06.Sunderland without a few bitten nails. And in truth, West Brom were
:18:07. > :18:09.the better side for long periods of the second half. This missed sitter
:18:10. > :18:13.from Altidore and loose shot from Vergini was as close as the home
:18:14. > :18:17.side came to putting the game to bed. Had West Brom ` who went into
:18:18. > :18:24.the game all but safe ` scored, who knows, but they didn't. So cue huge
:18:25. > :18:32.celebrations: a mixture of joy and relief at the final whistle.
:18:33. > :18:40.Absolutely amazing. We have done it. I'm pinching myself a little. It is
:18:41. > :18:45.like having a new grandchild. All credit to everybody in Sunderland
:18:46. > :19:05.FC. They have brought a lot of cheer. We get to stay in the Premier
:19:06. > :19:09.League. Fabulous. Is for something unique, it was something special.
:19:10. > :19:13.The connection on the pitch between the players in the last few games,
:19:14. > :19:19.the connection with the fans, every single game, is the best five weeks
:19:20. > :19:22.I have ever had. Today is one of the best days of my life. Gus Poyet says
:19:23. > :19:30.his team's achievement will be remembered forever in Premier League
:19:31. > :19:33.folklore. Who would argue with that. Such is the size of the money on
:19:34. > :19:36.offer this season that the club that finishes at the bottom of the
:19:37. > :19:39.Premier League will rake in more cash than Manchester United last
:19:40. > :19:46.season. No wonder relief are keeping the club's high profile can be felt
:19:47. > :19:52.on and off the pitch. Sunderland have already had just like always
:19:53. > :19:56.had a good fan base. We must retain that in the Premiership. They do not
:19:57. > :20:03.just bring in the football fans and a football people are Brenda
:20:04. > :20:06.Munnings Sunderland, they also bring the big brands into the stadium.
:20:07. > :20:16.That game brings the profile of the city up and helps with the economy
:20:17. > :20:20.of the city. Here is Chris Young from the Sunderland Echo. It seems a
:20:21. > :20:25.bit of a shame that this is likely to be broken up. 13 players are out
:20:26. > :20:29.of contract or out on loan at the moment. But I still think three or
:20:30. > :20:33.four of them could stay now that the club are in the Premier League. If
:20:34. > :20:37.Sunderland had gone down, all of them would properly have departed.
:20:38. > :20:42.At least that gives them a bit of a foundation for building a side for
:20:43. > :20:48.the next season. Let us pick out some of those players. Jack Cole
:20:49. > :21:00.back has been linked with several clubs including Newcastle. It is
:21:01. > :21:09.unlikely he will be back. He has had a very good season here. I think it
:21:10. > :21:12.is likely he will go back. Jack on the other hand, Sunderland are still
:21:13. > :21:17.hoping to tie him down to a new deal. He's in a very strong position
:21:18. > :21:20.obviously, he has paid by the played a big part in the transformation of
:21:21. > :21:28.this club. But there are many clubs after him so we'll have to see how
:21:29. > :21:36.that goes. Giving the manager will get the control he wants? He's in a
:21:37. > :21:52.very strong position himself. He has seen a remarkable transformation in
:21:53. > :22:01.the club's fortunes. Thank you. Now the weather. It is unsettled as we
:22:02. > :22:04.like to say. The weather has been up and down but the bluebells are
:22:05. > :22:14.thriving at the minutes. Tomorrow, if the bluebells like
:22:15. > :22:16.showers they will not be disappointed because a very showery
:22:17. > :22:20.picture tomorrow. Especially into the early part of the afternoon,
:22:21. > :22:25.becoming drier and brighter later on in the day though. With a fair share
:22:26. > :22:29.of rain today, there were some decent prize was late on, but the
:22:30. > :22:32.clouds got their act together and most of the soils and heavy burst of
:22:33. > :22:35.rain through the afternoon and that pattern continues as we had through
:22:36. > :22:39.this evening and into the night as well. There will be some drier
:22:40. > :22:43.interludes and even one or two clear spells, but the showers are never
:22:44. > :22:48.far away, moving in from the West. Most frequent for Cumbria, that some
:22:49. > :22:52.further east as well. Overnight, temperatures will be seven or eight
:22:53. > :22:56.Celsius. It looks like quite a brisk, southerly breeze especially
:22:57. > :23:02.near those heavier showers. Tomorrow morning, a rash of showery outbreaks
:23:03. > :23:06.and some prolonged spells of rain in the West. Summer that on the heavy
:23:07. > :23:11.side, even the odd rumble of thunder. As I said, as we head to
:23:12. > :23:14.the afternoon towards tea`time and into the early part of the evening,
:23:15. > :23:19.most places will try and brighten up its search as well. There will be
:23:20. > :23:23.highs tomorrow afternoon of about 14 Celsius and the wind quite brisk at
:23:24. > :23:27.times. That is the picture for tomorrow. Into the weekend, low
:23:28. > :23:31.pressure firmly in charge of things. A band of rain coming in from the
:23:32. > :23:36.Atlantic on Saturday morning and then it is a showery picture for the
:23:37. > :23:39.rest of the weekend. By Sunday, that wind coming round from a more
:23:40. > :23:44.northerly direction so it will feel a wee bit cooler as well. For
:23:45. > :23:48.Cumbria, some showery outbreaks, certainly for a while tomorrow. More
:23:49. > :23:52.prolonged rain for a time on Saturday and the showers are never
:23:53. > :23:56.far away on Sunday. Note is that deep in the temperatures as the wind
:23:57. > :24:00.turns north`westerly. It is a similar sort of picture from
:24:01. > :24:04.westerly winds in the Northeast. If you're out and about, be prepared
:24:05. > :24:09.for some fairly sharp showers over the next few days and you will not
:24:10. > :24:16.go too far wrong. The first four months of the Look North weather
:24:17. > :24:24.calendar are already filled. Thank you. That is it for now. We will
:24:25. > :25:52.leave you with something for Sunderland fans.
:25:53. > :25:57.No-one would have believed, in the first years of the 21st century,
:25:58. > :26:01.that Britain's affairs were being watched and scrutinised
:26:02. > :26:06.With the help of our three political parties,
:26:07. > :26:08.who lie to the British public about their intentions,
:26:09. > :26:12.minds immeasurably more bureaucratic than ours
:26:13. > :26:25.slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
:26:26. > :26:30.smashing our democracy and destroying our laws...