01/06/2014 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Good evening. back with the late news at 10.

Rescuers searching for a missing walker in the

Lake District have found the body of a man on Helvellyn.

61`year`old Richard Hayne from Northamptonshire has been

missing from nearby Glenridding since Wednesday.

Police said the body was found at Browncove Crags just

Keswick and Patterdale Mountain rescue teams had been searching

the area along with the police helicopter.

Durham has taken a step closer to being the only UK city`centre with

An Archimedes Screw was lowered into place in a two`hour operation today,

which will harvest energy from the River Wear, providing most of the

power a new riverside development, as Damian O'Neil reports.

At 13 metres long and weighing in at 20 tons, the Archimedes screw

required a mix of delicacy and brute force to lower into place.

It's a crucial stage in an innovative project that can't

It's the only real, city centre hydro that there will be.

It's unusual to have the right combination of the river and the

In terms of the planning, we've probably been working

The hydro`turbine is at the centre of a regeneration project

called Freeman's Reach, which will accommodate commercial buildings

Around 800 jobs are expected to be created or retained in Durham

The ability to generate electricity on site was seen as a top priority.

It's going to provide 75% of the energy for the

That's from a carbon`neutral point of view

Obviously, it saves on our own carbon thing.

But also, in terms of keeping the jobs here,

which is really what we needed to do, keeping the jobs in the city

of Durham, obviously that keeps the spend in the city of Durham.

Now that the screw is in place, the developers will have to dig out

that bank and all of the rubble across there to divert the flow

of the river through the concrete and then through the screw.

They hope that this will all be in place by September.

Almost 50 years ago the American civil rights leader

Martin Luther King was honoured by Newcastle University.

While on Tyneside to receive his honorary doctorate, he delivered a

the actor and comedian Lenny Henry tells the story of King's visit

Your honouring me today, in this very meaningful way,

He just told you how it was, from his heart.

All the students were so enthusiastic when he got the degree.

This is something important for a man who did

Martin Luther King on Tyneside " is at five to eleven on BBC One

We've heard a lot about council cuts in recent months.

But one group in west Cumbria has decided to step in to help keep

The Copeland Action Group was out in Whitehaven today, where Mark

Meet a new breed of community activists.

Here, the only cutbacks volunteers from

the Copeland Action Group will talk about are those to the overgrown

They're all taking before`and`afters of their own little area.

You're buzzing about yourself and then when you're driving past

the area it's like a bit of pride ` I've done that.

The equipment has been loaned free of charge.

Similarly, the time given by those keen to keep standards high.

It's quite impressive what just a small band of volunteers have

These guys say they're here to improve community spirit and to

If you get all of the weeds out of the wall it looks prettier.

I think the more people see what's going on, the more publicity we

can get, I think a lot more people will get involved.

We should all get together and do our part, really.

If we get all this moss of the top of the wall, we can make

These people here today insist they're in for the long haul, too.

Olympic gold medallist rower Kat Copeland's made a strong return

to the sport at the European Championships this weekend.

Copeland, from Tees Rowing Club, was half of the duo which took

bronze in the final of the light double sculls in Belgrade.

She'd taken a year`long break from the sport after her win

Time for the region's weather forecast

Some unsettled weather on the cards this week.

Some heavy showers about and it is going to start to feel cooler, too.

The cloud will spill eastwards and towards the end of the night travel

push into western parts. Temperatures down to 11 or 12

Celsius. Tomorrow, some potentially bright spots. The rain Wilson built

eastwards. A more unsettled day than today. Temperatures will reach the

mid teens. Unsettled, with showers and long spells of rain. It will

feel cooler. We'll have an update,

and more on the weather Hello. Most of us have enjoyed at

least one day of lovely weather this weekend. That weather will be harder

to come by this week. It has been up and down. Yes, rain or showers at

times. Drier, sunny weather, turning cooler. Signs are that by the end of

the week temperatures will recover. We have seen rain today in Glasgow,

Edinburgh, western fringes of the UK too. The cloud will spread east

overnight, with further outbreaks of rain into the west. Temperatures are

in double figures as Monday begins. We get the sunshine - a lot of cloud