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to change? Will they? Can they? Thank you. That is all from us for

this evening. It is UKIP has won its first MEP in the

North East but Labour also did well The party topped the poll

and won the first seat declared UKIP took the second while Labour

got enough votes to gain The Conservatives lost their MEP,

though, while the Lib Dems were Gathered in London to celebrate last

night's election success, A 12 percentage point rise

in the party's vote making him Absolutely delighted,

but I think we saw from the council election results that things were

moving in that direction. We?ve had a fantastic reaction

across the region on the doorstep and I think it really shows UKIP are

the main challengers to Labour in the north east, given that we

took more votes than the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives

and the Greens put together. Labour also

have reason to celebrate though. They won the most votes

in the north east, polling 36%, Enough to double their

representation and take two seats. But one of their winners

realises not every voter was In the north east we see

a massive value of being in the EU in terms of economic value,

jobs and trade but also social value, those European employment

rates, consumer rates, these are Our job as MEPs is to start getting

that message out to people. Conservative Martin Callanan lost

his North East seat So after 15 years

as an MEP he's open to offers. Like anybody who has recently been

made redundant, I have to put my CV together

and start looking for a job. So if anybody is looking

for an ex`MEP with experience of engineering in Newcastle

and European political processes, And there are plenty of Lib Dems

revising career plans today, including

their north east candidate. The party lost its seat finishing

only just ahead of the Greens. We have to go back to

the drawing board, see what has been right in this campaign,

see what went wrong, learn from it. I do not think that internal

squabbles at this stage help I think we need to speak to voters

and not have internal discussions The Lib Dems also lost

their seats in Yorkshire, where UKIP got three seats,

Labour two, and Conservatives one. In the North West, which includes

Cumbria, the Lib Dems also lost. The Conservatives won two seats, and

Labour and UKIP got three apiece. Look at five years ago,

absolutely devastated. Yes, I won my seat

but we lost out to the second seat by a mere 1000 votes and promised it

would not happen again . We have trebled our representation

in the North West so very happy. But the turnout of just over 30%

was only slightly up on 2009. Two thirds of us didn't engage with

the European elections at all. Police have released

a man they were holding on suspicion They found the body of a man

at Leazes Court on Barrack Road in Detectives say he's now been

released, and the results of a postmortem

examination have been inconclusive. The people of Yarm are to be asked

to vote on whether the town should leave Stockton Borough Council

and join the Hambleton district Supporters

of the proposal accuse Stockton Council of ignoring local people on

issues such as housing and parking. But opponents say tomorrow's

referendum is a waste With its Victorian viaduct

and Georgian High Street, Yarm does not look

like a place ripe for rebellion. But tomorrow this genteel market

town votes on a radical plan to break away from its local Stockton

Council and rejoin North Yorkshire. We do not feel represented

by Stockton Borough Council. They have mismanaged Yarm

in the past and have done They do not know how to manage

the market town effectively. We feel that our historical

roots are in Yorkshire. The reasons behind this highly

unusual local referendum are really On the one hand there is a sense

of historic belonging to North On the other there are far more

recent controversies involving Stockton Council, from the approval

of hundreds of new homes to the introduction of pay and display car

parking here in the town centre. The vote on Yarm's future is not

legally binding and critics question whether the ?4000 cost of

the referendum is worth the money. It is certainly not going to

deliver the results people want. I am not even convinced

Hambleton District Council is the We will be much further

from the administrative centre in Northallerton

which could potentially restrict Stockton Borough Council refused to

give an interview but said its services were valued

by most residents. In some eyes, Yarm has always been

a white rose town. The question is, does it need a

local authority to match the symbol? Thousands of barber shop singers

have descended on North Yorkshire this bank holiday for a special

global gathering of crooners. The 40th anniversary of the

British Association of Barbershop Singers has been taking place at

the Harrogate International Centre. Audience participation is rarely

this tuneful Many have come thousands of miles to

help their British counterparts celebrate their 40th year including

a huge American contingent who have We are here to support the

organisation and their 40 years of We have been around for 76 years

and we are just here to support them and came with a contingency

from America. This annual convention is said to be

getting a little too big for Harrogate

but the singers love to come back. We have invited people, from

America, Finland, Sweden, Holland, We have had a great time

and a lot of singing. There will be even more singing with

the special relationship The relationship is

about singing and spreading harmony through singing and the voice

and we get together with thousands and thousands of people, and

our convention is in a month in Las Vegas when we will bring 7000 people

to sing harmonies for a full week. With the next big convention being

in Vegas many singers here have A North Tyneside seaside town held

its first carnival The event is part

of a community initiative to put the heart back into Whitley Bay,

thanks to an army of volunteers. Whitley Bay has been hungry

for a carnival since the eighties. Finally, its appetite

has been sated. What did you think

about today?s event? I liked all the dancing

and drumming. The procession marks the beginning

of the Big Local Partnership. A ?1 million lottery funded

project over the next ten years. The idea is to bring

the heart back into the community. People said,

bring back the carnivals. In a very short space of time, in

about six weeks, a group of us have managed to do what we can to bring

this event together. It is a chance to come outside, meet each other,

listen to music, have some fun. The success of the event was down to an

army of volunteers young and old and the glorious bank holiday sunshine

certainly helped. Something different. It has brought everyone

out. It has been really nice. It is giving it a boost. There are a lot

of people I met who I know really well. And a lot of people who have

not been here before who have come down. It is brilliant. Organisers

had no idea just how many people would turn up today but they did

turn up in their hundreds for what has turned out to be the first big

community event of the summer. Unsettled weather to come over the

next few days with some rain. That is a lot of cloud. Temperatures down

to 10 degrees. Tomorrow is cool and cloudy. A few showers around. The

showers will merge into longer spells of rain. Those pushing in

from the south`east through the course of the day. Some of that rain

could be on the heavy said. `` side.

Good evening. If I were to conduct a straw poll about the weather events

today, I suspect we would get a split decision. There were

significant differences around, we have sunshine and some warmth, but

also this cloud and rain coming up through the Channel into the north

of England. On top of that, some showers in the north-west, some of

them thundery from Northern Ireland and Scotland, so a real eclectic

mix. This will drift away over the next few hours, we will keep the

cloud overnight, and we will see more significant rain pushing in off

the north