:00:00. > :00:09.Government hopes for a third high speed rail line across the North
:00:10. > :00:14.Rubbish idea from the man who's spotted a gap in the market.
:00:15. > :00:18.Peak Fitness ` super Steve breaks the Wainwright fells record.
:00:19. > :00:25.And how a stolen Lowry insphred an artist with a unique refdrence
:00:26. > :00:30.In sport ` more wickets for Yorkshire's Liam Plunkett in
:00:31. > :00:34.And going for gold ` England's lawn bowls captain hopes
:00:35. > :00:51.to put the disappointment of Delhi behind him this summer in Glasgow!
:00:52. > :00:53.The Chancellor, George Osborne, has floated the possibility
:00:54. > :00:57.of a High Speed Three railw`y line between Leeds and Manchester to help
:00:58. > :01:01.create an Northern economic powerhouse to rival London.
:01:02. > :01:04.But, of course, the North doesn't stop at Ldeds
:01:05. > :01:08.Our news correspondent, Adrian Pitches, is at
:01:09. > :01:14.HS2 is still a distant prospect but already George Osborne and David
:01:15. > :01:35.Anybody who has come on this cross`country train from Newcastle
:01:36. > :01:44.to Manchester via Leeds would like to see that sped up. The new link
:01:45. > :01:49.could be between Leeds and Manchester. For HS2, there hs some
:01:50. > :01:57.great futuristic video of the trains travelling and shaving the journey
:01:58. > :02:03.time. The timeline for that is that the London to Birmingham le`gue
:02:04. > :02:10.would end in 22 `` opening 2026 and the Spurs will not open unthl 2 32.
:02:11. > :02:19.That is before we get a link between Manchester and Leeds. Does this lead
:02:20. > :02:24.the north`east in the sidings? I spoke to the newly appointed
:02:25. > :02:29.regional director of the CBH and she has worked in the north`east for 25
:02:30. > :02:34.years. She was very upbeat `nd said anything that is great for the great
:02:35. > :02:39.North will be good for the north`east. Anything that brings
:02:40. > :02:44.more economics to the Northdrn region can only be positive. We are
:02:45. > :02:51.good at getting outside of our region and integrating anything It
:02:52. > :03:01.can only be a good thing for the north`east. What about political
:03:02. > :03:06.reaction? Labour MPs have bden rather snooty about this because
:03:07. > :03:11.Leeds is 100 miles to the south and we're not seeing age high street ``
:03:12. > :03:16.high`speed rail for that jotrney up to Newcastle, Sunderland and
:03:17. > :03:19.Middlesbrough. Having spoken to the leader of County Durham and the
:03:20. > :03:25.chair of the north`east combined authority, he said he did ghve it
:03:26. > :03:32.qualified welcome. It looks that way but I do think it is welcomd that we
:03:33. > :03:42.have potentially an improved railway line between Manchester, Ledds and
:03:43. > :03:46.other cities. Clearly, Manchester needs the M 62 corridor and it is
:03:47. > :03:50.only a small part of the North. It will be wrong to think that
:03:51. > :03:57.improving the railway line hmpacts on the whole of the North of
:03:58. > :04:01.England. HS2 is still on thd drawing board. HS three hasn't reached that
:04:02. > :04:12.stage but the debate has st`rted. Well,
:04:13. > :04:14.earlier I spoke to the Consdrvative He defended George Osborne's
:04:15. > :04:28.announcement saying it was good news It is good that we enhance the
:04:29. > :04:32.cities in the North. These `re the cities that we need to grow and
:04:33. > :04:34.build and I am delighted he is talking about the issues and the
:04:35. > :04:49.connectivity we need. You mentioned in Newcastle `nd
:04:50. > :04:52.the high`speed line is coming as far What economic fallout could
:04:53. > :04:56.the north`east get from this? The key point is our city ddals
:04:57. > :04:59.to Newcastle and Sunderland. There is the work being dond on
:05:00. > :05:02.the A1, the northern hub, HS2 goes What they are trying to do hs grow
:05:03. > :05:09.the cities and make them I want to see Newcastle and
:05:10. > :05:16.Sunderland building, growing and becoming super cities like London
:05:17. > :05:21.and Manchester going forward. How can they become super chties
:05:22. > :05:24.when they haven't got that sort What they have got is city deals,
:05:25. > :05:31.the support and devolution that We have everything and what we have
:05:32. > :05:38.going forward is proper invdstment in the north`east so we can have the
:05:39. > :05:48.cities and support that we want A lot of the reaction
:05:49. > :05:50.on our Facebook page is people saying it does seem like a cynical
:05:51. > :05:54.attempt to win votes in the North and doesn't promise an awful lot to
:05:55. > :06:00.be north`east and Cumbria. The north`east Chamber of Commerce
:06:01. > :06:03.contacted me today and say they supported the
:06:04. > :06:07.investment in the infrastructure That is an organisation representing
:06:08. > :06:21.4000 separate businesses. And you can have your say and quite
:06:22. > :06:25.a lot of people have alreadx A Russian student,
:06:26. > :06:37.arrested after bomb scares `t Newcastle University, has appeared
:06:38. > :06:39.before the city's crown court. The 18 year`old is charged with
:06:40. > :06:42.having an explosive substance He's further charged with
:06:43. > :06:49.carrying two lock knives. Vladimir Vladimirovich Aust was
:06:50. > :06:53.arrested on June 10th after two evacuations from these buildings
:06:54. > :06:58.and a controlled explosion. His arrest came in central London
:06:59. > :07:02.near the Russian Embassy whdn it is He is being held at the Pentonville
:07:03. > :07:08.prison and appeared The court was told he was ddtained
:07:09. > :07:16.under terrorism prevention provisions but that those provisions
:07:17. > :07:20.no longer apply, but the cotrt was also told that the case agahnst him
:07:21. > :07:24.can proceed only with the consent of the Attorney General
:07:25. > :07:30.and that that is now in hand. The judge said his trial wotld
:07:31. > :07:55.take place in November and ht A woman has died after a collision
:07:56. > :08:00.this morning. The pedestrian who the police have described as an elderly
:08:01. > :08:03.woman has since died. Policd are appealing for witnesses.
:08:04. > :08:06.Now, in the last few years, many of us have seen changes
:08:07. > :08:10.Some local councils have moved from weekly rubbish collecthons to
:08:11. > :08:14.But in Harrogate, Andrew Brown has set himself up
:08:15. > :08:21.It's clearly time the bins were collected,
:08:22. > :08:24.but the council came last wdek and won't be back until next week.
:08:25. > :08:27.So this pile of bags is an opportunity.
:08:28. > :08:31.Andrew Brown has started a business filling a niche.
:08:32. > :08:35.People will pay to have their rubbish removed.
:08:36. > :08:38.You've got to be realistic and say that, nowadays, with
:08:39. > :08:43.so much packaging, processed food and disposable items, that for some
:08:44. > :08:53.people it is just not practhcal to wash out plastic food contahners.
:08:54. > :08:56.And then you've also got the nappies and things like that,
:08:57. > :08:58.which for young families, is just very difficult.
:08:59. > :09:02.People like property developer Richard Bancroft.
:09:03. > :09:06.We've got nine people living here and we've got four wheelie bins
:09:07. > :09:09.It soon equates to quite a lot of rubbish, which is fine until
:09:10. > :09:14.the bins are full, and then we have black sacks on top of the bhns.
:09:15. > :09:16.It doesn't take long before the foxes and the cats
:09:17. > :09:19.and birds get involved into the bags and then we'vd got
:09:20. > :09:24.Some people can't help producing rubbish.
:09:25. > :09:27.If you are going to cut flowers you are going to have waste.
:09:28. > :09:30.Recyclable waste, but waste nonetheless.
:09:31. > :09:36.Andrew's service recycles 80% of what he collects.
:09:37. > :09:39.I've struggled trying to get rid of the green waste that's from the
:09:40. > :09:46.We used to have buckets of things sitting around
:09:47. > :09:49.the back before we could take them to the tip and then it was dxpensive
:09:50. > :09:52.to actually go to Harrogate tip to recycle what you want to recycle.
:09:53. > :09:54.Andrew's business has only been going a week
:09:55. > :09:57.but he gets new customers every day, proving once again that where
:09:58. > :10:09.A Cumbrian runner is celebr`ting and recovering today,
:10:10. > :10:11.after beating a record which stood for nearly 30 ydars
:10:12. > :10:15.Let's look at Steve Birkinshaw's amazing achievement which hd
:10:16. > :10:21.He ran up and down all 214 of Wainwright's mountains.
:10:22. > :10:26.He completed the challenge in six days and 13 hours.
:10:27. > :10:29.So the time of seven days, one hour and 25 minutes set by Joss Naylor
:10:30. > :10:59.Six days and 13 hours after he started, Steve completed his epic
:11:00. > :11:06.challenge. His wife and children were a welcome sight. He conquered
:11:07. > :11:12.all 214 Wainwright Mountains consecutively with limited sleep.
:11:13. > :11:16.Shattered, actually. Shattered but ecstatic that I have managed to
:11:17. > :11:22.complete them all and got the record. I was trying to get four
:11:23. > :11:27.hours of sleep a night but H couldn't sleep very much because my
:11:28. > :11:31.knees were so sore. The bodx felt like it was falling apart. H had to
:11:32. > :11:36.concentrate on moving and it was nice to have people around to lift
:11:37. > :11:43.me and gave me going with conversations. Joss Naylor was the
:11:44. > :11:50.last person to complete the 518 kilometre route in just over seven
:11:51. > :11:57.days. It is fantastic. It doesn t matter what you do, you havd still
:11:58. > :12:09.got the climbing to do and the time to put in. It has taken 27 xears to
:12:10. > :12:17.attempt and break that long`standing record but Joss Naylor says his
:12:18. > :12:24.efforts may encourage more people to get out onto the fells. Challenges
:12:25. > :12:28.only a challenge if you can do it or not. I didn't know whether H could
:12:29. > :12:34.compete it and after four d`ys, I didn't think I could complete it. It
:12:35. > :12:42.will be something in his mind for many days. Has it stayed with you? I
:12:43. > :12:51.had a bottle of Guinness and three or four at the finish. Both men now
:12:52. > :13:00.belong to this even very exclusive club.
:13:01. > :13:03.Some of you may recall an incident in the early 70s when a
:13:04. > :13:06.painting by LS Lowry was stolen from an art gallery in Middlesbrough
:13:07. > :13:09.Several days later it emergdd the theft by John Durkin was part
:13:10. > :13:13.Well over the years the story has inspired John's son
:13:14. > :13:16.Sean to follow in Lowry's footsteps with his own art exhibition recently
:13:17. > :13:20.Phil Connell has been to medt him and hear more
:13:21. > :13:30.It is 42 years since Sean's father stole the Lowry
:13:31. > :13:33.painting, a story which has inspired Sean to paint as well.
:13:34. > :13:37.The theft from Middlesbrough Art Gallery took place in 1972 `nd
:13:38. > :13:45.Sean's father, John, was no big criminal.
:13:46. > :13:52.He was cultured and every time he wanted to see
:13:53. > :14:00.a painting, it was closed and it used to drive him round the bend.
:14:01. > :14:07.He finally made a stand for the small man and took a pahnting.
:14:08. > :14:12.This is the original Lowry on display here in Middlesbrough
:14:13. > :14:15.until the end of the week that John Durkin store.
:14:16. > :14:20.It is a prank that was to cost him ?1500 with the painting dephcting
:14:21. > :14:26.scenes of Middlesbrough's old town hall and the church.
:14:27. > :14:34.It is a story that 42 years on has led to Sean's own display.
:14:35. > :14:40.His early illegal recollecthon has clearly influenced his work
:14:41. > :14:46.What I do remember is all the fuss that caused, that such a little
:14:47. > :14:55.How influential is your dad's story on you as an artist?
:14:56. > :15:02.I like to think I am doing the paintings he never got round to
:15:03. > :15:05.What do you think to what your dad did?
:15:06. > :15:10.To remind people of his dad's capers, he paints a
:15:11. > :15:15.special reminder on every completed painting, two stick figures of a
:15:16. > :15:38.Night`time for the sport. `` now time.
:15:39. > :15:41.For the second week running, one of the region's speedwax matches
:15:42. > :15:44.has had to be halted becausd of a lack of medical cover.
:15:45. > :15:47.Last week it was Workington Comets who had to cut short their
:15:48. > :15:48.Premier League clash with Edinburgh Monarchs,
:15:49. > :15:52.This time, Berwick Bandits' League derby with Redcar Bears was
:15:53. > :15:55.interrupted after just six of the 15 heats, when the p`ramedic
:15:56. > :15:59.After a wait of more than an hour, a replacement was found `
:16:00. > :16:02.but then there was another delay, following a crash involving
:16:03. > :16:06.The teams eventually managed to take the match up to heat 10,
:16:07. > :16:09.by which time they'd reached the council`imposed cut`off timd of half
:16:10. > :16:15.At that point The Bandits wdre leading by 32 points to 28 `
:16:16. > :16:23.It's nearly four years sincd one of the proudest but most frustrating
:16:24. > :16:27.A Commonwealth Games gold mddal eluded him by the narrowest
:16:28. > :16:32.In just a few weeks time, though, Stuart Airey, captain
:16:33. > :16:35.of the England lawn bowls tdam, will try to go one better in Glasgow
:16:36. > :16:40.Mark Tulip caught up with hhm at one of his former clubs in Cumbria.
:16:41. > :16:44.Born in Sunderland, raised hn Workington and now forging ` career
:16:45. > :16:49.The big question for Stuart Airey, one of five members of the Dngland
:16:50. > :16:50.men's team, is can he bring Commonwealth gold
:16:51. > :16:53.back to Cumbria this time after bitter disappointment
:16:54. > :17:17.We were in total control and the South African player put a ball out
:17:18. > :17:21.and won in 100. It won him the gold medal and it is something that will
:17:22. > :17:27.live with me forever. I aim to put it right in Glasgow.
:17:28. > :17:29.Not surprisingly, with gold snatched from his grasp,
:17:30. > :17:43.When he got what he wanted, the water bottle was the first thing to
:17:44. > :17:48.get it and it went flying through the air. It is something I had to
:17:49. > :17:50.live with but in the heat of the moment, that is what happendd.
:17:51. > :17:53.Grabbing a quick practice sdssion during his lunch hour in Carlisle,
:17:54. > :17:55.Stuart's current bowls club in Wigton also boasts the England
:17:56. > :17:59.Despite national funding cuts, which have curtailed top`level
:18:00. > :18:11.We are going up early and h`ving a few Test matches. Hopefully we will
:18:12. > :18:14.be right on the money for that. Stuart's MD at Border Steelwork is
:18:15. > :18:17.a huge bowls fan himself, which As for the sport's newest rdcruit,
:18:18. > :18:21.well it may take just Too heavy, is net. Definitely has
:18:22. > :18:36.your Weetabix this morning. Fans and former players havd been
:18:37. > :18:39.looking back on a golden period for Carlisle United, when the team
:18:40. > :18:42.won promotion to the top flhght At a party last night, organised
:18:43. > :18:48.by BBC Radio Cumbria, ex`pl`yers and hundreds of supporters watched
:18:49. > :18:52.archive footage of games in the old First Division, which Carlisle led
:18:53. > :18:56.before eventually being reldgated. Many regarded Carlisle's achievement
:18:57. > :19:00.as one of the most incredible in the game,
:19:01. > :19:06.a feat that may never be repeated. I think it will be more
:19:07. > :19:09.difficult now with all the loney I was really disappointed
:19:10. > :19:15.when they were relegated last year but hopefully Kava `
:19:16. > :19:17.I know Kava well from Wigan, when I was there ` I hope hd can
:19:18. > :19:21.take them back up and back on the road, but I think it will bd very,
:19:22. > :19:27.very hard to do a Carlisle now. Cricket and
:19:28. > :19:29.Yorkshire's Liam Plunkett h`s taken his 9th match wicket for England on
:19:30. > :19:33.the fourth day of the second test The fast bowler from Middlesbrough
:19:34. > :19:42.who's been recalled to the squad after a seven year absence combined
:19:43. > :19:44.with his Yorkshire teammates Gary Ballance and Joe Root to dismiss
:19:45. > :19:47.Dinesh Chandimal and then Dhammika Prasad in consecutive balls
:19:48. > :19:52.at their home ground. But Sri Lanka have set England
:19:53. > :19:57.a record run chase for victory. Well Durham's Ben Stokes is doing
:19:58. > :20:00.his best to bowl himself back into contention for England taking
:20:01. > :20:02.seven wickets against Sussex who Durham will go
:20:03. > :20:09.into the third day with a ldad. And top of
:20:10. > :20:12.the table Yorkshire are in command It's now 12 days to go
:20:13. > :20:21.until the Grand Depart and only a week until the rhders
:20:22. > :20:24.start to arrive in our region. Sadly, as ever one
:20:25. > :20:27.of the big topics for conversation Matt Slater looks at the sport's
:20:28. > :20:49.troubled past and asks can we really Born into a mining family in Durham,
:20:50. > :20:58.raised on the Nottinghamshire /Yorkshire border, Tom Simson won
:20:59. > :21:04.gold. He had a secret. He doped He paid for it. Dying on his bhke
:21:05. > :21:09.during the 1967 tour, you mhght think that shocked the sport into
:21:10. > :21:15.cleaning up its act but it didn t. When Lance Armstrong when hhs record
:21:16. > :21:20.four decades later, all that I changed was the drugs had got
:21:21. > :21:27.better. Did you take drugs to enhance your cycling perforlance?
:21:28. > :21:39.Yes. In all of your Tour de France victories, did you take banned
:21:40. > :21:47.substances? Yes. After this was unheard of, it hit the sport hard.
:21:48. > :21:51.When you see Lance Armstrong who was an inspiration to many people fall
:21:52. > :21:57.to such a degree, what we h`ve to do now is say, "what can we le`rn
:21:58. > :22:06.from? Are we better than anti`doping? We have to look for the
:22:07. > :22:17.future. ". We have new riders coming through. Nobody has two tell Chris
:22:18. > :22:26.Froome what he is doing right. They are adamant now that the sport has
:22:27. > :22:29.learned his lesson. It will be amazing to know that 365 daxs a
:22:30. > :22:36.year, the authorities know where we are sleeping and where they say we
:22:37. > :22:40.are. We will get penalised for it. Cycling is cleaner now than it has
:22:41. > :22:44.ever been but it will take longer for the doubts to disappear. It is
:22:45. > :22:46.the only way we will only ever get to say we will never be fooled
:22:47. > :22:48.again. Some people, it has to be s`id,
:22:49. > :22:51.paint the town red, but there's a group in North Yorkshire who
:22:52. > :22:53.every now and again spend The horse in question is
:22:54. > :23:01.of course the White one at Kilburn Think the average two litre tin
:23:02. > :23:07.of household paint, It's supposed to be known as the
:23:08. > :23:21.Kilburn White Horse so todax, in glorious sunshine, volunteers had
:23:22. > :23:26.the difficult task of correcting this by giving the well`known North
:23:27. > :23:37.Yorkshire landmark a lick of paint. We do get a lot of observathons
:23:38. > :23:42.people saying it's gone grex. This is what we try
:23:43. > :23:48.and do to keep it white. As you can see, this is no dasy job,
:23:49. > :23:55.but ropes and harnesses do help And with over 1.5 acres to cover,
:23:56. > :23:58.the team expect to be busy `ll You can see just how big
:23:59. > :24:04.the task is going to be. It can to take a couple of days
:24:05. > :24:07.and 1,000 litres of masonry paint. I've been given my chance to make
:24:08. > :24:11.a mark. We've been putting chippings
:24:12. > :24:14.on it since the 60s, but now we ve got too many chippings on
:24:15. > :24:17.so we are having to go back to doing At 72 years old, John is now
:24:18. > :24:26.a dab hand at equestrian makeovers. But to truly appreciate his
:24:27. > :24:28.handiwork, we've invited hil to fly Thankfully, John's handiwork below
:24:29. > :24:41.is better than his camerawork. And many tourists are impressed
:24:42. > :24:45.by what they can see. We especially came down to
:24:46. > :24:50.take some photos of it todax. We've seen it as we were gohng
:24:51. > :24:53.past on the train, but have I think it could do with a bit more,
:24:54. > :24:57.couldn't it? It's been five years since the
:24:58. > :25:13.horse was last given a paint job. I love seeing that from a train You
:25:14. > :25:17.know you are nearly home whdn you see the white horse. Now for the
:25:18. > :25:28.weather. Over the next few days, there will
:25:29. > :25:42.be more cloud around and it will be a shade cooler. The Tyne Valley was
:25:43. > :25:49.one of the spots that did c`tch a shower this afternoon. Most places
:25:50. > :25:54.have stayed dry. If you are underneath those shower clotds,
:25:55. > :25:59.there are one or two downpotrs. They will Peter out as we had through the
:26:00. > :26:05.evening. The cloud starts to thicken up again and eastern areas lay see
:26:06. > :26:10.one or two spots of rain. Temperatures will stay in double
:26:11. > :26:15.figures through the night. Elsewhere, there will be a few
:26:16. > :26:20.breaks in the cloud. Tomorrow morning, that thicker cloud and
:26:21. > :26:26.patchy rain sinks southwards. There will be a few spots of rain and is
:26:27. > :26:29.some showery outbreaks. Things generally dry up as we had through
:26:30. > :26:34.the afternoon. There will bd some sunny spells for the second`half of
:26:35. > :26:42.the day. It is cooler and wd have that north`easterly breeze. Further
:26:43. > :26:48.west and Keswick should reach 2 Celsius. That is the way it is
:26:49. > :26:52.looking for tomorrow. That weather front introduces that cooler air and
:26:53. > :26:57.it is mostly dry for the next couple of days. This lake `` this low
:26:58. > :27:04.pressure stays out of the Wdst but it does push in and it looks as if
:27:05. > :27:08.it will sink to the south of us It leaves us a fair amount of dry
:27:09. > :27:11.weather. There will be more cloud than we are used to and even when
:27:12. > :27:19.the sun does come out, tempdratures will make it into the high teens
:27:20. > :27:25.rather than the low 20s. It is a similar picture for Thursdax and
:27:26. > :27:37.Friday. Remember to keep yotr weather pictures coming in. Thanks
:27:38. > :27:40.to you for watching. We will see you tomorrow. Goodbye.