:00:00. > :00:11.the Turner Prize in 1999. Christie's said it had been bought by an
:00:12. > :00:20.Finally, though, the residents are moving back in.
:00:21. > :00:25.Spencer Court in Newburn became infamous after scenes like this.
:00:26. > :00:28.A collapsed culvert led to a huge section of the development being
:00:29. > :00:33.But in a new development, Northumberland Estates,
:00:34. > :00:38.which owned the culvert, is about to be sued for ?8 million.
:00:39. > :00:45.Here's our chief reporter, Chris Stewart.
:00:46. > :00:49.Derek bought this place nine years ago.
:00:50. > :00:53.All he is waiting for now is his boiler to be reconnected.
:00:54. > :00:55.This is a wonderful place to live, he says.
:00:56. > :01:03.Then again, it always was ` until the day that Derek and his
:01:04. > :01:09.neighbours were told they had 10 minutes to get out of their flats.
:01:10. > :01:19.Two blocks of flats had to be sacrificed.
:01:20. > :01:25.But what if we had another Thunder Thursday, the day that brought
:01:26. > :01:32.I'm quite happy with what they've done.
:01:33. > :01:38.It's rained a few times since they've done all the repairs here.
:01:39. > :01:42.Seen a few of the reports, and I don't accept what they've said.
:01:43. > :01:53.The developers at Spencer Court, though, not so happy.
:01:54. > :01:56.They say Northumberland Estates are to blame for what happened here,
:01:57. > :01:59.and they are off to court to get what they say they are owed.
:02:00. > :02:04.I was in London yesterday meeting with the insurers and their lawyers.
:02:05. > :02:08.The insurance company today spent over ?4 million.
:02:09. > :02:11.Dunelm have now spent over ?2 million.
:02:12. > :02:15.The estimates we provided them with just yesterday for the remaining
:02:16. > :02:20.works to be carried out to the open dene are another ?2 million.
:02:21. > :02:23.So the draft letter of claim that was emerging from yesterday's
:02:24. > :02:30.This has already cost Northumberland Estates ?12 million, and the Duke of
:02:31. > :02:33.Northumberland is selling artworks and antiques to help pay for it all.
:02:34. > :02:36.Nobody from the estate would be interviewed today.
:02:37. > :02:38.A spokesman said everyone was delighted.
:02:39. > :02:47.Residents are finally moving back in.
:02:48. > :02:49.A man from Middlesbrough arrested in connection with the murder
:02:50. > :02:51.of 19`year`old Rachel Wilson has tonight been released
:02:52. > :02:56.Rachel, who was a sex worker, was last seen alive in Middlesbrough
:02:57. > :03:04.Anyone with information is asked to contact Crimestoppers or
:03:05. > :03:11.The BBC has learned Cumbria County Council's former chief executive was
:03:12. > :03:16.paid more than ?400,000 when she took early retirement.
:03:17. > :03:19.Jill Stannard left the council last May,
:03:20. > :03:22.but details of her payoff, which includes pension payments, have been
:03:23. > :03:28.The county council said in response that it's making an
:03:29. > :03:32.annual saving of more than ?500,000 because of staff restructuring, but
:03:33. > :03:39.Newcastle's reputation as one of Europe's top centres
:03:40. > :03:43.for childhood cancer research could be enhanced even further,
:03:44. > :03:48.The money will be spent on a new research centre
:03:49. > :03:50.at Newcastle University, which will bring together
:03:51. > :03:55.They'll be researching ways of reducing some of the severe
:03:56. > :04:06.Charlotte Lee has been a patient at the Great North Children's
:04:07. > :04:09.She survived a brain tumour as a child but still lives with
:04:10. > :04:13.the severe side effects brought on by the treatment she underwent.
:04:14. > :04:19.The side effects for me, personally, are worse than the treatment.
:04:20. > :04:25.Well, you expect to have a few, but I think the best way I can explain
:04:26. > :04:27.is, though it is nowhere near the same,
:04:28. > :04:35.I have no idea how to cope with that, and six years later I still
:04:36. > :04:39.Today has seen the launch of a new fundraising effort to
:04:40. > :04:43.develop a centre for advanced childhood cancer research with
:04:44. > :04:47.the emphasis on reducing the side`effects of survivors.
:04:48. > :04:51.?5.5 million will bring the top specialists together under one roof
:04:52. > :04:57.We need more specific drugs that really kill the cancer cells
:04:58. > :05:03.Is that the problem at the moment, that the cancer is dealt with,
:05:04. > :05:06.but because the treatment is so harsh, it has a lasting effect
:05:07. > :05:13.One of the key problems is that when children are on treatment,
:05:14. > :05:21.They have to grow up with the consequences of the treatments.
:05:22. > :05:24.For Charlotte, this new emphasis on post`cancer quality of life is
:05:25. > :05:27.the most important development for children with cancer, eight
:05:28. > :05:33.of ten of whom survive but face a lifetime of severe side`effects.
:05:34. > :05:37.It will make a huge difference, especially on children, because they
:05:38. > :05:51.It's hoped that over the next 12 months, around 70`80% of the money
:05:52. > :05:55.will be raised through individual wealthy donors, through charities,
:05:56. > :05:58.and through health trusts, and that the rest of the money will
:05:59. > :06:10.The Government has turned down a bid for York to have a say in the burial
:06:11. > :06:15.York lost a legal challenge to have the king buried in the city, after
:06:16. > :06:21.his bones were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester in 2012.
:06:22. > :06:25.York Central MP Hugh Bayley said he was promised a meeting on the issue.
:06:26. > :06:33.But the Justice Minister Simon Hughes has turned him down.
:06:34. > :06:36.Time to see if the sunshine is going to stay with us.
:06:37. > :06:42.The dry weather is set to continue over the next day or two.
:06:43. > :06:44.Things more unsettled later in the week.
:06:45. > :06:48.Overnight, most places fine, dry and largely clear skies.
:06:49. > :06:51.Temperatures down to single figures in a few spots.
:06:52. > :06:54.You might see the odd misty patch through
:06:55. > :07:02.Unbroken sunshine for many of us through the first half of the day.
:07:03. > :07:05.A veil of crowd encroaching from the west later in the day.
:07:06. > :07:08.You will notice the breeze picking up as well.
:07:09. > :07:12.Not before temperatures in the east make 22 or 23 Celsius.
:07:13. > :07:15.Places on the north`east coast feeling a lot warmer than they
:07:16. > :07:20.If you are out and about, still plenty of dry,
:07:21. > :07:28.The national forecast shortly, but in the meantime, I'll leave you
:07:29. > :07:35.more cloud on Friday. None of this survives into the weekend, some rain
:07:36. > :07:43.around on Saturday. It's certainly been a feast of
:07:44. > :07:49.football again. The temperature in S?o Paulo was much the same as we
:07:50. > :07:50.had in Glasgow and Bristol. Here, temperatures are set to climb