16/06/2014 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

In the programme tonight: No`go.

The speedway match which had to be abandoned

because the ambulance service couldn't provide emergency cover.

It's the smoking capital of the North East,

but Middlesbrough is launchhng its own tobacco wars.

Whitehaven makes a play to attract holiday cruise ships.

And bringing the World Cup to life for a young generation.

A visit from that rarest of footballers...

In sport, the region's well represented as Team England announce

their athletics squad for the Commonwealth Games.

And Sunderland are in talks to bring former Man City goalkeeper Costel

And is the counterterrorism investigation at Newcastle

University. A young man has been charged with two offences. The

manufacture of an explosive substance contrary to the explosive

substances act. He has been remanded in custody and will appear before

magistrates. A second man arrested in connection with the ongohng

investigation remains in custody pending further enquiries.

Speedway meeting in Cumbria had to be abandoned because organisers were

told ambulances would not rdach an injured rider for more than an hour.

Workington Comets had to call off the remainder of Saturday evening's

Premier League speedway match with Edinburgh Monarchs because hts

on`site ambulance had to take one of their team to hospit`l,

leaving the event without enough medical cover.

Alison Freeman is in our Carlisle studio for us now.

Alison, has this ever happened before?

Now, racing has been going on at the Park since 1999 and they have never

had to cancel an event before because of this reason. The injured

rider was being treated by the on`site doctor for suspected broken

ankle. Normally an ambulancd would come and taken to hospital. However,

organisers were told that the nearest ambulance was 66 minutes

away and it would probably take longer for it to get there hf they

wanted it. So they decided to take the right to hospital in thd St

John's ambulance, which was already on site. But in doing so, they were

left without medical cover, and they had to cancel the next races.

Johnnie Jackson explained. The regulations say you need to have a

track ambulance and the medhcal room. You could not put him in a

car, the ambulance went, and if you cannot race you cannot have a

meeting. Mr Jackson said he appreciated a broken ankle light not

be seen as an emergency, but he said it raised further questions. It

makes you wonder what happens if you have a heart attack. The ne`rest

ambulance was over an hour `way and if there had been a serious

emergency, if somebody has ` heart attack, you were quick to gdt the

ambulance within an hour. What have the Ambulance Service had to say? A

spokesperson told us there were 25 ambulances and rapid response

vehicles in Cumbria and the more can be areas that time. This was not a

priority, but if it had been an emergency they would have dhverted

more resources to the area. This comes at a time in the Ambulance

Service is being criticised. That's right, lives could be put at risk if

Carlisle's night service cotld be cut back and the rapid response

vehicle was taken overnight from Penrith. An MP has written to the

Ambulance Service asking th`t they do not go ahead with these cuts

Both of these proposals havd been put on hold today. Just before you

go, details coming in of an unrelated medical story, an outbreak

of gastroenteritis at a school in Penrith? That's right, 90 of the

pupils at a primary school hn Penrith have been admitted to

hospital. Public Health England have been trying to find the cause of

this can drive traitors `` gastroenteritis outbreak. Thanks for

that. Closing down the "tab houses",

the private homes that sell cheap cigarettes

smuggled into the country. And checking on business to see if

they're breaking the smoking ban. as it tries to reduce the ntmber

of people smoking. More than 30,000 people

in Middlesbrough are said to smoke. That's higher than anywhere else

in the North East, On their way to school,

children call into the tab houses. Around 50 are operating

throughout Middlesbrough. There's no age limit

for the customers. The youngest we have had was about

seven years old. But there hs quite a lot who are under 12, and we have

had even talk from some headteachers where they have had some chhldren

addicted from 11 years old. Organised by criminal gangs

making them in factories and transporting them in

huge containers across the country. And it's getting a younger

generation hooked on smoking. In Middlesbrough, it is esthmated

just around 30,000 people sloke To put that into some sort of context,

but there's enough people to fill every single seat here inside the

Riverside Stadium. Those big figures mean that Middlesbrough has the

highest number of adult smokers anywhere in the north`east. When it

is all put together, the cost of all of this in terms of hospital

appointments and doctors' vhsits, just over ?4 million a year.

As part of a crackdown Middlesbrough Council is

sending officers into pubs, shops and businesses

to see if they're breaking the smoking ban.

I have just come in today to do a routine check for smoke`fred

legislation. Men in some parts of Middlesbrough

have some of the shortest life expectancy

in the country and smoking is seen

as the main reason for that. What we now is that smoking accounts

for almost half of the life expectancy gap that exists between

ourselves and the national `verage. The sale of illegal cigarettes,

the council says, shouldn't be seen as

victimless crime, especially when half of all

smokers die from their habit. A man who died after taking part in

the Great North Swim on Windermere has been named as Colin Pringle who

was 52 and lived in South London. He became ill during the two`mile

swim on Friday afternoon. He was taken by Air Ambulance to the

Cumberland Infirmary but later died. His death isn't being

treated as suspicious. A 12`year`old boy who was injured in

a head`on`bus crash in County Durham 50 children, from two schools,

were involved in the collishon on the A693 in Stanley

just under two weeks ago. 28 children and

both bus drivers were hurt. The 12`year`old suffered

serious head injuries. The cost of creating jobs

from a government pot of money has been robustly defended by the

Business Minister, Michael Fallon. The Regional Growth Fund

gives grants to companies But a recent audit found each

job costs more than ?37,000. Mr Fallon was on a visit to

a Teesside company that's bden Our Business Correspondent,

Ian Reeve, reports. This is great news. I have just

received the e`mail, I have been notified that we have been `warded a

?1 million grant. Three years ago,

the then`boss of Teesside engineering company Darchem had

some good news in his email inbox. Today we can see what the money

from the government's ?3 billion Regional Growth Fund pot,

was spent on. The million pounds was added to

seven million of the companx's own. And here's a new factory,

creating 86 jobs. It is advantageous and shows

commitment from the British government to the industry sector

and manufacturing in general, especially in the north`east.

Happy here, but the Regional Growth Fund has its critics.

The National Audit Office found more than ?400 million

promised to companies has yet to be released.

But about half of that total are accounted for

And the cost of creating each job is more than ?37,000.

This is the 8 million investment, with 1 million from us in the

Regional Growth Fund? But the Business Minister Mhchael

Fallon, admiring the handiwork his government has funded

on Teesside, rebuts the criticism. Is it right that each job created

costs more than ?37,000 to create? These are important and high`value

jobs in an area where we nedd to drive up private sector employment.

From the government's point of view this is money well spent.

And the scheme is, at least, giving apprentices like Libby

the promise of a job, whatever the cost of creating it.

Finishing the apprenticeship, we have been offered a full`tile job

here, and an opportunity for further qualifications to move on up through

the ladder. There are three more years of

the Regional Growth Fund. And applications to make a bid

for Round Six cash Now, as you might have seen,

from today, forcing someone to marry becomes

a criminal offence, carrying a jail But a North East charity

which works with abused womdn from all over the country s`ys it's

concerned the new provision could deter potential victims

from reporting family members. For tonight's Look North report

Sharuna Sagar's been talking to one mother who started a

new life in the North East. She had to take civil action

to stop her husband arranging forced

marriages for her children. The abuse started within months

of him coming into England. Anything he ever did was never

questioned. In fact, me questioning him, beating raping me was putting

me in the wrong straightawax. It was horrible.

Sima was forced by her family to marry a cotsin

She suffered 13 years of phxsical, sexual and mental abuse.

And when her family starting making plans

to force them into marriage too she'd had enough.

It was cut`off point. I was not going to have my daughters with the

same life I had lived. So I left for them. I left so they could have a

better life. Sima went through the civil

courts to protect her children. It meant giving evidence

against her entire family. I don't think they had ever thought

they had done anything wrong. Probably the hardest thing for me is

exposing them. Exposing thel for what they were. Having a judge tell

them that they were wrong. So you felt overwhelming guilt putting them

through that? I still do, it is the one thing that absolutely broke me.

Going through the civil courts, getting a forced marriage

protection order, was the only legal route open to Sima at the thme.

For the first time it is now a criminal offence to forciblx make

someone marry either here or take them abroad and marry them. They

talk about luring people to a different state or country to force

them into marriage. They will be looking at a fine or a prison

sentence of seven years in dxtreme cases.

Last year more than 1,300 c`ses were reported to the

Out of them 40% of those involved the Pakistani commtnity,

and 40% involved girls under the age of 17.

The new law is designed to send a strong message to communities

saying forced marriage will not be tolerated.

On the ground, organisations who work with abused women

like the Angelou Centre in Newcastle have reservations.

It will not stop families from forcing girls to marry. For many of

the women who take out civil orders, the majority have withdrawn it a few

years down the line. It is predominantly because going to court

is not seen as an honourabld thing to do. Unfortunately we think it is

going to deter people seeking support.

Despite those concerns, Northumbria police are keen

for those affected to know that they are committed to helping thdm.

Yes, specific effort is are being made to send the message out, and I

think it is key to send it to the potential victims and anyond who

sees this starting to happen or suspect that it can happen. It

sounds so simple, but this hssue is not. Cultural beliefs run ddep and

could take generations to shift That is why criminalising

perpetrators poses a moral dilemma. If this new law had been in

place... It is hard enough taking your mum or dad into a courtroom and

speaking against them. It broke my heart. But to know that I w`s going

to do all of that, and at the end there was going to be a chance going

to be more penalties against them, then, no, I don't think I would

have. Being forced into marriage is horrific enough. Seeing a loved one

behind buyers just might be worse. `` behind buyers.

There's plenty still to comd in tonight's Look North,

including World Cup winner Jack Charlton.

And going further back in hhstory, find out why this blue plaqte is

In the weather forecast, high pressure dominates in the ndxt few

days, but it is not all plahn sailing. I will have all thd

details. More and more of us

are going on cruises, with people in Britain taking more

than any other country in Etrope. And cruise ships carrying htndreds

of passengers could be on their way to Whitehaven next summer, providing

the town with a big economic boost. Holiday companies have alre`dy made

contact with the marina, showing interest

in bringing people ashore to see the west coast and the Lake District.

Mark McAlindon reports. To those who wonder why cruhse ships

would want to stop on the Wdst Cumbrian coast, the replacing is to

be, why not? On a beautiful summer's day, the harbour looks

spectacular, and the interest seems genuine. Cruise ships have visited

Whitehaven in the past. We have had the most luxurious cruise ship in

the world in 2010, a couple of hundred passengers came onshore for

that. We have strong enquirhes from Christian operators asking `bout

adding Whitehaven to their itinerary. Money has been spent

installing the shiny new infrastructure needed to get

passengers onshore. These t`xi boats will bring people in from the cruise

ships. One interesting point is since the attacks on New York on

September the 11th, securitx has to be stepped up. It means if

foreigners come on shorter, passports will have to be checked.

Whitehaven is not far from the Lake District, with attractions hn the

town keen to take advantage. Some harbour`side businesses think it is

a great idea. To bring extr` custom in through cruise ships or `ny sort

of seals is brilliant. Most people agree. I think it will be good for

the area to bring cruise shhp seven. `` to bring cruise ship 's hn. You

couldn't ask for anything bdtter. It is a lovely little town. Thdy have

really improved it. It is nhce. Great idea.

Dawn's here with the latest sports news in a moment.

But first a footballing history lesson!

England opened their World Cup campaign in Brazil

on Saturday night, sadly losing to Italy.

Watching back at home in Northumberland was a rard

sportsman indeed, an Englishman who actually won the Cup!

And today, Jack Charlton was keen to share his memories

of that historic day in 1966 with children at a school on Tyndside.

To prove he's as down`to`earth as ever, Jack brought

his most treasured possession from that World Cup final in a plastic

bag from his local supermarket. Here's Andrew Hartley.

Inside are recycled shopping bag, a priceless icon to stir the senses of

every Englishman. This is the very sure Jack Charlton wore in the 966

World Cup final. Normally locked away at home, he brought it with him

to show the children of this school in Whitley Bay. England's h`t`trick

hero Geoff Hurst's shirt had a 2.3 million price tag. But Jack's is not

for sale. I collect all my shirts, because 90% of the time when you are

coming off the field, somebody says give me your shirt. And then you go

up the stairs. Would you sthll fit in it? Yes. I was a thin lad. When

we knew Jack Charlton was coming we talk about the part he playdd in the

World Cup. But seeing him in the flesh has been amazing. We're trying

to say to the children, success does not happen overnight. To sed someone

who works hard and is totally committed like Jack, he really

inspires the children. Do you think the goal went in when it botnced off

the crossbar? When it hits the bar? It was over the line in the first

place. I believe. OK. What was it like to meet Jack Charlton? Really

good. It is really exciting to meet one of the players who won the World

Cup. We all believe it went over, don't we?

Sunderland are in toxic with Manchester City to bring ovdr the

Manchester City goalkeeper. He was in goal when Phil Bardsley scored

the winner at the Stadium of Light last November and we understand he

has been having discussions in the region today. Meanwhile, a

Sunderland striker is likelx to start for the USA tonight against

Anna in the World Cup. He could find himself up against Middlesbrough

player who hopes to make his debut for Ghana. Newcastle striker

Schaller Amiel be is hoping to feature for Nigeria as well. With

just over five weeks to go tntil the Commonwealth Games, Team England has

named its athletics squad. There will be plenty of local intdrest.

What are your years having. This young sprinter has been namdd in the

England squad three months `fter he pulled off a shock win over 600

metres. He will be looking for a win over 100 metres this time. @lison

Dixon will be using the sporting facilities her old university has.

As she prepares for the mar`thon on the streets of Glasgow. The women's

1500 metres final competitor will also be taking Fat `` taking part.

Fellow Carlisle athlete Nick Miller will also be taking part in the

hammer event. Middlesbrough's Chris Tomlinson will renew his rivalry

with Greg Rutherford. Yorkshire's batsmen have struck a

rich vein in England's first Test match. Joe Root went 20 better than

his 180 against Australia l`st summer to score his first double

century for England. That w`s followed his county team`mate, who

hit his maiden test century in some style in only his second Test match

appearance to give England ` chance at victory. They almost madd it but

it ended in a dramatic and `gonising draw. Meanwhile, Yorkshire on top in

their County Championship m`tch against Sussex. The home side was

300`9 at stumps. `` youngstdr has made a championship debut hd will

not forget, top scoring with 85 to give Durham a decent first hnnings

total before picking up thrde wickets today.

How well do you know your English history? If you are any good, North

Tyneside Council could posshbly offer you a job.

They have mounted a series of blue plaques around the borough hn

historically significant pl`ces but one of them contains a rathdr

crucial error. The blue plaques are a good guide to

important places and people in North Tyneside. This marks the site where

important visitors were met as they disembarked. There is a bit of a

problem, because according to the plaque, Charles the first vhsited

here in 1663. He was executdd in 1649, so if he was here, 14 years

after he had his head cut off, he would not have smell too good.

Charles the first was executed in 6049, but actually he did vhsit

Newcastle are in 1633 on his way up to Scotland to be correlated as King

`` 1649. It does have significant consequences to whoever is reading

that. In this photo of the original plaque, the date is correctly shown

as 1633. But has anyone even notice? The manager of the local pub was

asked if the plaque was the talk of the town. It has been there since I

have been working here. But this one was stolen and this one is `

replacement. I have never actually read it, I just know it is there. In

fact, we could not find anyone who noticed the mistake. 1663. Charles

the first was executed in 1649. All! Is it widely known but that is

wrong? Definitely not. I'm sure I would have heard about it a lot

sooner. Obviously that is wrong because that is 14 years later, yes.

I did not know that, so it hs nice! Thanks for telling me. So you have

learned something today? Yes, I m quite curious now. North Tyneside

Council has released a short statement saying, we are aw`re of

the error and have already `rranged for this to be corrected.

There you go. A history lesson. We all make mistakes. Apart from pole.

We have had some decent weather yesterday, plenty happening over the

weekend of course. A mixturd of blue sky and then cloud at the Dtrham

Regatta. Tomorrow there will be some cloud and sunshine, it will feel

warm in the sunshine, but l`ter in the day there is the risk of heavy

and thundery showers breaking out. This evening and into the nhght it

through the night, but many places There will be a fair bit of

through the night, but many places will stay dry, keep the temperatures

in double figures for most of us. in double figures

temperature in Carlisle tomorrow. We Bricks will appear in the cloud

temperature in Carlisle tomorrow. We will see highs of around 22. The

wind comes in off the North Sea and the cloud hangs around. By the end

of the day, you can see the rest of these showers breaking out, very

localised, one or two could be on the heavy side. One or two could be

thundery downpours, what vote for them at the tail end of tomorrow

afternoon. Broadly speaking, high pressure is in charge of thd weather

at the minute. That weather front brings the risk of showers tomorrow.

There will be another front sneaking around the high pressure later in

the week. Winning the risk of one or two showers. It is a mostly dry

picture. I do not think we would be breaking any temperature records.

Just about into the low 20s, there will be cloud around the high

pressure as well. If you ard out over the next few days, what vote

for the late showers later on tomorrow. `` watch out. Dry and

reasonably bright, temperattres into the low 20s. Tail end of thd working

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