:00:00. > 3:59:59to change? Will they? Can they? Thank you. That is all from us for
:00:00. > :00:08.this evening. It is UKIP has won its first MEP in the
:00:09. > :00:12.North East but Labour also did well The party topped the poll
:00:13. > :00:18.and won the first seat declared UKIP took the second while Labour
:00:19. > :00:23.got enough votes to gain The Conservatives lost their MEP,
:00:24. > :00:27.though, while the Lib Dems were Gathered in London to celebrate last
:00:28. > :00:41.night's election success, A 12 percentage point rise
:00:42. > :00:46.in the party's vote making him Absolutely delighted,
:00:47. > :00:50.but I think we saw from the council election results that things were
:00:51. > :00:53.moving in that direction. We?ve had a fantastic reaction
:00:54. > :00:56.across the region on the doorstep and I think it really shows UKIP are
:00:57. > :00:59.the main challengers to Labour in the north east, given that we
:01:00. > :01:03.took more votes than the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives
:01:04. > :01:06.and the Greens put together. Labour also
:01:07. > :01:08.have reason to celebrate though. They won the most votes
:01:09. > :01:11.in the north east, polling 36%, Enough to double their
:01:12. > :01:14.representation and take two seats. But one of their winners
:01:15. > :01:17.realises not every voter was In the north east we see
:01:18. > :01:23.a massive value of being in the EU in terms of economic value,
:01:24. > :01:28.jobs and trade but also social value, those European employment
:01:29. > :01:32.rates, consumer rates, these are Our job as MEPs is to start getting
:01:33. > :01:39.that message out to people. Conservative Martin Callanan lost
:01:40. > :01:43.his North East seat So after 15 years
:01:44. > :01:50.as an MEP he's open to offers. Like anybody who has recently been
:01:51. > :01:52.made redundant, I have to put my CV together
:01:53. > :01:56.and start looking for a job. So if anybody is looking
:01:57. > :02:00.for an ex`MEP with experience of engineering in Newcastle
:02:01. > :02:04.and European political processes, And there are plenty of Lib Dems
:02:05. > :02:09.revising career plans today, including
:02:10. > :02:11.their north east candidate. The party lost its seat finishing
:02:12. > :02:15.only just ahead of the Greens. We have to go back to
:02:16. > :02:19.the drawing board, see what has been right in this campaign,
:02:20. > :02:22.see what went wrong, learn from it. I do not think that internal
:02:23. > :02:25.squabbles at this stage help I think we need to speak to voters
:02:26. > :02:30.and not have internal discussions The Lib Dems also lost
:02:31. > :02:34.their seats in Yorkshire, where UKIP got three seats,
:02:35. > :02:43.Labour two, and Conservatives one. In the North West, which includes
:02:44. > :02:46.Cumbria, the Lib Dems also lost. The Conservatives won two seats, and
:02:47. > :02:51.Labour and UKIP got three apiece. Look at five years ago,
:02:52. > :02:53.absolutely devastated. Yes, I won my seat
:02:54. > :02:56.but we lost out to the second seat by a mere 1000 votes and promised it
:02:57. > :03:00.would not happen again . We have trebled our representation
:03:01. > :03:04.in the North West so very happy. But the turnout of just over 30%
:03:05. > :03:09.was only slightly up on 2009. Two thirds of us didn't engage with
:03:10. > :03:16.the European elections at all. Police have released
:03:17. > :03:19.a man they were holding on suspicion They found the body of a man
:03:20. > :03:24.at Leazes Court on Barrack Road in Detectives say he's now been
:03:25. > :03:29.released, and the results of a postmortem
:03:30. > :03:34.examination have been inconclusive. The people of Yarm are to be asked
:03:35. > :03:38.to vote on whether the town should leave Stockton Borough Council
:03:39. > :03:41.and join the Hambleton district Supporters
:03:42. > :03:44.of the proposal accuse Stockton Council of ignoring local people on
:03:45. > :03:48.issues such as housing and parking. But opponents say tomorrow's
:03:49. > :03:51.referendum is a waste With its Victorian viaduct
:03:52. > :03:57.and Georgian High Street, Yarm does not look
:03:58. > :04:01.like a place ripe for rebellion. But tomorrow this genteel market
:04:02. > :04:04.town votes on a radical plan to break away from its local Stockton
:04:05. > :04:10.Council and rejoin North Yorkshire. We do not feel represented
:04:11. > :04:13.by Stockton Borough Council. They have mismanaged Yarm
:04:14. > :04:16.in the past and have done They do not know how to manage
:04:17. > :04:21.the market town effectively. We feel that our historical
:04:22. > :04:26.roots are in Yorkshire. The reasons behind this highly
:04:27. > :04:30.unusual local referendum are really On the one hand there is a sense
:04:31. > :04:36.of historic belonging to North On the other there are far more
:04:37. > :04:40.recent controversies involving Stockton Council, from the approval
:04:41. > :04:44.of hundreds of new homes to the introduction of pay and display car
:04:45. > :04:49.parking here in the town centre. The vote on Yarm's future is not
:04:50. > :04:53.legally binding and critics question whether the ?4000 cost of
:04:54. > :04:58.the referendum is worth the money. It is certainly not going to
:04:59. > :05:01.deliver the results people want. I am not even convinced
:05:02. > :05:04.Hambleton District Council is the We will be much further
:05:05. > :05:09.from the administrative centre in Northallerton
:05:10. > :05:11.which could potentially restrict Stockton Borough Council refused to
:05:12. > :05:17.give an interview but said its services were valued
:05:18. > :05:21.by most residents. In some eyes, Yarm has always been
:05:22. > :05:26.a white rose town. The question is, does it need a
:05:27. > :05:36.local authority to match the symbol? Thousands of barber shop singers
:05:37. > :05:38.have descended on North Yorkshire this bank holiday for a special
:05:39. > :05:41.global gathering of crooners. The 40th anniversary of the
:05:42. > :05:43.British Association of Barbershop Singers has been taking place at
:05:44. > :05:48.the Harrogate International Centre. Audience participation is rarely
:05:49. > :05:50.this tuneful Many have come thousands of miles to
:05:51. > :05:56.help their British counterparts celebrate their 40th year including
:05:57. > :06:00.a huge American contingent who have We are here to support the
:06:01. > :06:09.organisation and their 40 years of We have been around for 76 years
:06:10. > :06:17.and we are just here to support them and came with a contingency
:06:18. > :06:20.from America. This annual convention is said to be
:06:21. > :06:23.getting a little too big for Harrogate
:06:24. > :06:26.but the singers love to come back. We have invited people, from
:06:27. > :06:32.America, Finland, Sweden, Holland, We have had a great time
:06:33. > :06:42.and a lot of singing. There will be even more singing with
:06:43. > :06:44.the special relationship The relationship is
:06:45. > :06:49.about singing and spreading harmony through singing and the voice
:06:50. > :06:52.and we get together with thousands and thousands of people, and
:06:53. > :06:56.our convention is in a month in Las Vegas when we will bring 7000 people
:06:57. > :07:01.to sing harmonies for a full week. With the next big convention being
:07:02. > :07:09.in Vegas many singers here have A North Tyneside seaside town held
:07:10. > :07:24.its first carnival The event is part
:07:25. > :07:28.of a community initiative to put the heart back into Whitley Bay,
:07:29. > :07:32.thanks to an army of volunteers. Whitley Bay has been hungry
:07:33. > :07:35.for a carnival since the eighties. Finally, its appetite
:07:36. > :07:37.has been sated. What did you think
:07:38. > :07:39.about today?s event? I liked all the dancing
:07:40. > :07:44.and drumming. The procession marks the beginning
:07:45. > :07:51.of the Big Local Partnership. A ?1 million lottery funded
:07:52. > :07:54.project over the next ten years. The idea is to bring
:07:55. > :07:59.the heart back into the community. People said,
:08:00. > :08:09.bring back the carnivals. In a very short space of time, in
:08:10. > :08:14.about six weeks, a group of us have managed to do what we can to bring
:08:15. > :08:21.this event together. It is a chance to come outside, meet each other,
:08:22. > :08:25.listen to music, have some fun. The success of the event was down to an
:08:26. > :08:29.army of volunteers young and old and the glorious bank holiday sunshine
:08:30. > :08:38.certainly helped. Something different. It has brought everyone
:08:39. > :08:42.out. It has been really nice. It is giving it a boost. There are a lot
:08:43. > :08:46.of people I met who I know really well. And a lot of people who have
:08:47. > :08:52.not been here before who have come down. It is brilliant. Organisers
:08:53. > :08:57.had no idea just how many people would turn up today but they did
:08:58. > :08:59.turn up in their hundreds for what has turned out to be the first big
:09:00. > :09:21.community event of the summer. Unsettled weather to come over the
:09:22. > :09:31.next few days with some rain. That is a lot of cloud. Temperatures down
:09:32. > :09:35.to 10 degrees. Tomorrow is cool and cloudy. A few showers around. The
:09:36. > :09:39.showers will merge into longer spells of rain. Those pushing in
:09:40. > :09:44.from the south`east through the course of the day. Some of that rain
:09:45. > :09:49.could be on the heavy said. `` side.
:09:50. > :10:17.Good evening. If I were to conduct a straw poll about the weather events
:10:18. > :10:21.today, I suspect we would get a split decision. There were
:10:22. > :10:26.significant differences around, we have sunshine and some warmth, but
:10:27. > :10:32.also this cloud and rain coming up through the Channel into the north
:10:33. > :10:36.of England. On top of that, some showers in the north-west, some of
:10:37. > :10:42.them thundery from Northern Ireland and Scotland, so a real eclectic
:10:43. > :10:47.mix. This will drift away over the next few hours, we will keep the
:10:48. > :10:49.cloud overnight, and we will see more significant rain pushing in off
:10:50. > :10:50.the north