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Hello and welcome to Friday's Look North. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Shocking new figures show the North is the worst area of the country | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
for alcohol`related admissions to hospital. | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
New arrests in Operation Sanctuary ` 91 men have now been held | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
in the police investigation into alleged abuse of women | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Army doctors demonstrate what it's like to work in some | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
of the most hostile and dangerous parts of the world. | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
And the street busker turned top musician ` | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
we meet the young saxophonist who's won a prestigious new award. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
In sport, Ashes cricket hero Andrew 'Freddy' | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Flintoff could face Cumbrian opposition this weekend as he | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
And why one of our best`known ex football managers | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
One drinker is admitted to hospital with | :00:50. | :01:05. | |
an alcohol`related problem every eight minutes here in the North. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
That's one of the shocking statistics revealed in a new survey | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
which shows this region as the worst in England for alcohol abuse. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Middlesbrough is top of the list, with nearly 3,300 hospital | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
But it's closely followed by South Tyneside in fourth place, | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
Sunderland in seventh place and North Tyneside in ninth. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Look North has been gauging reaction to those figures. | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Let's cross live now to Phil Connell who's at James Cook Hospital | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
The North East is still top of this league table Dornoch, despite | :01:38. | :01:50. | |
concerted efforts by health officials to try and persuade people | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
to drink more sensibly. Here at the James Cook Hospital in | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Middlesbrough, doctors say they are treating patients for all kinds of | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
drink related problems. They are doing themselves and their families | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
incredible amount of harm. Some of the most tragic cases we see are | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
people that have developed complications to their brain | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
function related to long`term alcohol abuse and are unable to look | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
after themselves. Or people with severe liver problems that are | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
irreversible. We can only patch it up, not cure it. Middlesbrough is | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
being described as the worst place in the country, with almost 4.5 | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
thousand hospital admissions. 65% of those are said to be men, and today | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
we have been in Middlesbrough to ask people why they think the town has | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
such a significant problem. Drink is always cheaper around here. It is | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
probably because people drink at home and then go out and do not know | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
their limits. Educating people is good. People do not know their own | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
limits. When employment. People have nothing to do, youngsters have | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
nowhere to go. So they just drink. Anti`social behaviour, a lot of | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
children start trading early because they see their parents doing it and | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
think it is the norm. A vicious circle. Five years ago in the | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
north`east, a special project was launched to look at alcohol`related | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
issues. It is called the balance north`east and is the only project | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
of its kind in the country. They campaign on three main issues: The | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
availability of drink, its promotion and its price. We the voice of the | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
north`east and carry out year`on`year perception surveys. We | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
are sending a clear message from the north`east that enough is enough. We | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
have run many campaigns saying there is a lot of support here for things | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
like minimum unit price. We trying to a message to Government and hope | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
they hear it. Doctors here are James Cook say they are beginning to see a | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
slight fall in alcohol`related admonitions, but despite that, | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Middlesbrough is still top of this league table with no clear | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
indications tonight as to when its position will improve. | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
And you can have your say on that story by logging onto | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
A charity working with vulnerable children on Tyneside has warned | :04:24. | :04:35. | |
of men trying to lure teenagers into sexual abuse. | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
The comments, from The Children's Society, | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
come as a police investigation into the alleged abuse of women | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
Today Northumbria Police's Operation Sanctuary made further arrests ` | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
meaning almost 100 men have been held in the last four months. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
It's an investigation into a twilight world. | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
Women and girls, often under the influence of drink or drugs, who | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
are taken to addresses and then, it's alleged, raped or assaulted. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Allegations which brought the launch of Operation Sanctuary. | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
Those in the frontline say the risks to the vulnerable are clear. | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
There are adults in the city who will try to lure | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
vulnerable young people to addresses in the city where really horrible | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Young people will be plied with alcohol or drugs | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
Operation Sanctuary started in January when the first | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
Within days, 27 people had been arrested | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
By then, the police had identified dozens | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
Today two further arrests brought the total to 91 in four months. | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
These are allegations yet to be tested in court. | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
The police have been keen to stress those arrested come | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
from different communities, not one ethnic or religious group. | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
They've been at pains to avoid community tensions | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
` a point clearly not accepted by members of the English Defence | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
League, who marched through Newcastle earlier this month. | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
This kind of grooming is not limited to one race or one religion. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
It can be a rock star it can be someone in the shop down the road. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
What we need to do is make sure the victims are protected and those | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
who prey on the vulnerable like this are identified and jailed. | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
There is no clue as to when Operation Sanctuary will end. | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Peter, Operation Sanctuary is now four months old. | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
How much help have the police had in tackling this kind of abuse? | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
They have a information from taxi firms, from the public and from | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
hotels. They believe that some women and girls were taken to hotels where | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
there were allegedly abused. In other cases it was houses. It is | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
also clear this is broad ranging. For instance, those arrested are | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
from right across Wear and it seems we are not dealing with an organised | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
gang as such, it's really pockets of abuse. It's also clear that we are | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
likely to be talking about sanctuary for a long time to come, because it | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
far too early now to say exactly what has gone on and who might be | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
responsible. Thank you. They've worked in some of the most | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
hostile and dangerous parts of the world, dealing with the worst | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
battlefield injuries imaginable. But today, | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
British army reserve medics were hoping to persuade health staff from | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
the North East to join them and An exercise on the Tyne gave NHS | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
workers a glimpse of what life in countries like Iraq | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
and Afghanistan has been like. Volunteer today came from health | :07:54. | :08:09. | |
trusts across the north`east. Some front`line medical staff others were | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
from management or admin. They all had to attend to and deal with the | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
terrible of casualties. These are a compliment part of the Army's reach | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
into providing medical support to our soldiers in the field wherever | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
they are serving. Recently we were they are serving. Recently we were | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
in Afghanistan and we have also been based in Iraq and wherever there is | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
a requirement in reserve service for medical personnel to be involved. | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
Nationally there are 19,000 army reservists, | :08:38. | :08:38. | |
with the government hoping to push that figure up to 30,000 | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
And reservists admit they face key shortages. | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
So, could they be persuaded to join up? | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
We are short in specific areas. At the moment we have one IT nurse. A | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
is another field we are looking for as well. We are always desperate for | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
a knee nurses and doctors. Theatre and scrub nurses, too. There are | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
always specific ones we looking for. These people face challenges in | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
their everyday lives as professionals anyway. The Army is | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
keen to give them a glimpse of what life is like as a reserve medic. The | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
hospital runs hospitals in combat zones across the world and hope | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
these people may be tempted to join up. Could they be persuaded? I like | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
the physical side of it. But it is just time and shifts and I do not | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
know how it would work. It has been good so far. It has been a good | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
experience so, maybe. I do not know an awful lot about the Army. I knew | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
something of it, but they have really show me what they do and it | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
looks quite impressive. After all the excitement of | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
One Direction's appearance at Sunderland's Stadium of Light this | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
week, it's the turn of Newcastle's American rock band Kings of Leon, | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
seen here on Later With Jools Holland, will entertain | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
the crowds tomorrow night. They're the first act to play | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
at the Newcastle United ground for seven years and the football | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
club says it will make more than And the football club has called | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
in specialist help for Chris Vaughan was the production | :10:13. | :10:25. | |
director for the closing ceremony It is a very imposing | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
and beautiful stadium. It has massive high stands meaning | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
it will be great from the public's point of view | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
and also for any artist who walks It is great experience | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
for the artist. In recent years it's been | :10:41. | :10:50. | |
Sunderland's Stadium of Light, where big bands | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
like Take That have performed. And you have to go back to 2007 for | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
the last big concert at St James But before that, big acts like | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
the Rolling Stones played there. So there's just one question ` | :11:02. | :11:16. | |
why have we had to wait so long? Just getting the right model | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
and the right people on board. This is obviously our first year | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
for seven years to have a concert here so we have to get our name back | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
out there and get people to want to We are doing it ourselves | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
and there is a lot of a risk The football club says it will make | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
more than ?500,000 Around 25,000 people will gather on | :11:36. | :11:54. | |
the pitch for tomorrow's concert. The club says if it is a success, | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
more events will follow as once again it tries to attract | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
the biggest names Now, the moving | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
and remarkable story of ten brothers from York who all served in | :12:08. | :12:21. | |
the First World War ` and survived. At the end of the 19th century, | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
the Calpin brothers grew up in the city's slums with little | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
money or prospects. The war offered them | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
a chance to escape their impoverished lives, so they joined | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
up and were sent into battle. They were hailed as heroes ` but | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
their story was quickly forgotten. In the late 19th century, | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
York was notorious Sarah Macdonald and Patrick Calpin | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
were born in the slums. Both | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
their parents had moved there from The couple married | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
and had 11 children. They all lived in a house on | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
Hope Street. By the time World War I had broken | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
out, the boys had grown into men and one by one they signed up to | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
fight for King and country. And miraculously, one by one, | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
they all returned home again. Today, the grandson still proudly | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
displays an original poster of all My dad had had this | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
since I was little. | :13:37. | :13:43. |