24/07/2014 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Good evening. in Glasgow.

The family of Newcastle United fan Liam Sweeney have travelled to

Amsterdam as flights carrying bodies from the Ukraine air crash begin to

The victims' remains are behng taken to an army base

The family of John Alder, the other Newcastle supportdr killed

in the crash, have remained in the North Dast

At home in North Tyneside, Liam Sweeney's stepmother and gr`ndfather

are watching as two planes touched down in the Netherlands carrying

I am pleased that they have brought some of the bodies home

Unfortunately, we are not sure who's arrived as yet.

We hope William is amongst the first.

Or, if not, we hope he comes very shortly.

We need his body back here so we can give him a decent burial and we need

to say goodbye to him and wd need to do that as soon as possible.

Experts will begin to identhfy the dead now.

It could take days, weeks or maybe months.

Liam's father, Barry, and brother, Marc, flew to Amsterdam early this

morning even if there was no way of knowing whether Liam's body

A fund set up in memory of John Alder and Liam Sweeney has now

After a huge 48`hour search operation, the body of 20`ydar`old

David Zikhali was this afternoon recovered from the River Teds.

He got into difficulty when swimming with friends in the river

Tonight, his family described him as a kind

This morning the search restmed in silence. This usually busy `rea was

cordoned off. For a second day, the family watched every move s`ying

they were still praying for AmeriCorps. It has been really tough

for everyone. `` still prayhng for a miracle. Until you have the body, it

is a feeling that everyone has. Whilst he was talking the police

were telling family a body had been found. Minutes later a body had been

found and the search was called off. Throughout the afternoon,

David'sfriends gathered to pay their respects.

It is hard to know I won't see him again. It is hard. He was a very

bright person so he will be missed a lot. The friends said he had swum

across the river before but he got into difficulties on Monday night.

His friends were unable to find him after he disappeared under the

water. As another safety warning is issued, another family is this

evening mourning the loss of his son who died after swimming in the

sunshine. Research by scientists from

Newcastle and Oxford University indicates that children livhng

near the Sellafield nuclear plant The study conducted between 196

and 2006 looked at people under the age of 25 and concludes that there

is very little difference bdtween cancer rates around Sellafidld

and other parts of the country. The population around the Dounreay

plant was also studied. It does, however,

recognise a cancer cluster hn One little girl, Gemma D'Arcy lived

in Cleater Moor and died Her mother blamed Sellafield,

but a causal link was never proven. One theory

for the cluster is that an hnflux of workers may have brought new viruses

with them to a small communhty. Pressure group, Cumbrians Opposed to

a Radioactive Environment, Scientists say the cluster dispersed

well over ten years ago and this new First and foremost it will reassure

the local populations. We confirmed the historical clusters that were

found around Sellafield and Dounreay and we don't provide any

explanation. It would be interesting to do more research but going

forward, the incident rates are currently no differently ``

different to what we would see nationally.

A sixth`former from a Tyneshde school has died while

The 18`year`old boy, who was a student at

Harton Technology College in South Shields, is said to have suffered

Detectives investigating the disappearance

of York chef Claudia Lawrence have arrested a man on suspicion of

The 46`year`old man from thd York area was arrested this mornhng

and is being questioned in police custody while polhce carry

Claudia, who worked at York University, was

A 59`year`old man who was arrested in May on suspicion of murddring

As you may have just seen, the Opening Ceremony of the 20th

Commonwealth Games in Glasgow has now been completed, and the sporting

The North East and Cumbria is represented bymore

than 30 athletes, including two from Carlisle who you'll medt

in Tanya Arnold's special rdport from the athletes' village.

Day by day, the village is filling up.

Each nation making it a homd from home.

The athletes seem to be settling in well and getting

into the spirit of things. The hub of the village is, `s ever,

the It is exciting to see all the

different people. It is likd living in an attic where I am but ht is a

great buzz. It is the opportunity to meet people from other sports,

similar minded but who have a wide range of experiences as well.

Hopefully I will leave with a medal and some new friends fall is top the

hub of the villages the dinhng hall with 4500 athletes and support

staff. They estimate 20,000 meals a day will be served. We have recipes

and chefs cooking all the atthentic meals like Currys. They can have

traditional Scottish food lhke haggis and black and wife `` white

pudding. Note deep`fried Mars bars yet! Team England is the biggest

team here full top there has been a big investment in equipment for up

they had to sit in here for ten minutes full. It is not ple`sant but

it gives us a laugh. They are moving toward the limits of human

performance. This type of area is all about making sure based day as

well and injury free as possible. If a problem happens we get thdm back

to the field of play after treatment. Importantly, we can move

them from bronze to gold. The athletes are here and the vdnues are

ready. And estimated 1.5 le`n people will be watching as Glasgow hosts

the Commonwealth Mac games. What we really

tonight is good weather. `` the Commonwealth games.

A lot of clout and missed forming east of the Pennines. Tomorrow, low

cloud and missed in the East retreats to the east coast `nd

sunshine from the word go foremost of Cumbria. Temperatures will be

held back to the seaside. More of the same on Friday. The weekend sees

an increasing risk of showers but the low cloud on the East Coast will

start to disappear. A full national sort `` forecast shortly.

of some showers and at Wilton cooler from the north. The national picture

comes from Philip Avery. Unusually, I can say good morning.

Wednesday has been noticeable for a number of reasons. From a

meteorological point of view, it was the warmest day of the year for

Wales and Northern Ireland.