:00:10. > :00:15.Tributes are being paid to the celebrated County Durham
:00:16. > :00:18.artist Norman Cornish who has died at the age of 84.
:00:19. > :00:20.Norman Cornish achieved nathonal recognition for his portray`ls
:00:21. > :00:24.of life ` in the mining villages where he lived and worked.
:00:25. > :00:27.Cornish himself had worked as a miner ` for 33 years.
:00:28. > :00:42.Norman was right in the middle of it. It was impossible for hhm to
:00:43. > :00:50.walk down the street or go hnto a pub without everyone turning and
:00:51. > :00:52.saying, all right, Norman? Everything that he needs to say is
:00:53. > :00:53.hanging on the walls. The region is remembering the dead
:00:54. > :00:56.of the First World War this weekend on the eve of the 100th annhversary
:00:57. > :01:00.of Britain entering the conflict. And as well as parades and
:01:01. > :01:01.church services, communities have come up with their own tribttes As
:01:02. > :01:08.Phil Chapman reports. She was born a year after the
:01:09. > :01:12.First World War ended. Irene Green from Stockton who
:01:13. > :01:17.remembers after the First World War ended, asking family about her uncle
:01:18. > :01:20.who died in the conflict. She says it was an age
:01:21. > :01:23.when people did not talk about their experiences of war and
:01:24. > :01:26.she does not even have a picture. Now Irene feels that she is finally
:01:27. > :01:29.able to honour him by planthng one of the thousands of sunflowdr seeds
:01:30. > :01:32.provided by Stockton Council to `` one of the thousands of sunflower
:01:33. > :01:44.seeds. And when I heard
:01:45. > :01:49.about the sunflowers, I thotght Even though it is 100 years
:01:50. > :01:57.since the start of the war. A century on, Irene hopes ftture
:01:58. > :02:00.generations continue to remdmber. We must help people to
:02:01. > :02:09.understand how appalling war is I was born on December 17 1819,
:02:10. > :02:40.and my name was given as Irdne Hundreds of cyclists have bden on
:02:41. > :02:41.the streets of Tyneside in ` mass cycling event.
:02:42. > :02:43.This was the second Newcastle`Gateshead Sky Ridd.
:02:44. > :02:45.Last year's event attracted nearly 8,000 riders and while the threat
:02:46. > :02:47.of rain kept a lot of entrants away today, org`nisers
:02:48. > :03:04.I have seen a family go past with children. Cycling is a great sport,
:03:05. > :03:08.a great way of getting around. All ages can do it. I know children and
:03:09. > :03:09.people in their But some cycling campaigners say
:03:10. > :03:10.there is little point getting us to fall in love with cycling if,
:03:11. > :03:25.on Monday, our roads are once again Once you close down roads and take
:03:26. > :03:30.off aggressive traffic and xou'd take drivers and cars out of the
:03:31. > :03:37.equation, people come out. like a carnival atmosphere. People
:03:38. > :03:41.enjoy themselves, it is fun and great. The problem being th`t this
:03:42. > :03:46.is here for four hours. What we need is the is this kind of atmosphere in
:03:47. > :03:53.our city centre and outside the city centre in our neighbourhoods 24`hour
:03:54. > :03:54.is a day, 365 days of the ydar. We want this to last.
:03:55. > :03:58.Paul Drinkhall from Loftus hn East Cleveland and his wife Joanna
:03:59. > :04:00.won gold in the table tennis mixed doubles.
:04:01. > :04:02.Meanwhile there was bronze in the singles for
:04:03. > :04:07.And in squash, Jenny Duncalf from Harrogatd took
:04:08. > :04:16.One viewer saw this mini`tornado over Stocksfield in Nothumbdrland
:04:17. > :04:32.Let's get the forecast now with Kawser.
:04:33. > :04:41.We have had some heavy showdrs and they will make their progress
:04:42. > :04:48.further northwards. More cloud building toward the north wdst in
:04:49. > :04:54.the early hours. Tonight, and tomorrow, it it is the case of the
:04:55. > :04:59.wind is picking up. Especially by the coast. A damp start but becoming
:05:00. > :05:00.drier in the south and That's it. Look North is back
:05:01. > :05:24.tomorrow at 6:50pm. Good evdning. It has been one of those days, Sony
:05:25. > :05:28.for some and pouring with rain for others. Locally there has been
:05:29. > :05:31.intense downpours. Further west resolutely cloudy and wet across the
:05:32. > :05:35.heart of Scotland and much of Northern Ireland, brighter skies
:05:36. > :05:40.feeding into Belfast, the process will continue, with rain edging away
:05:41. > :05:45.West, it will become confined to the northern half of Scotland, peeling
:05:46. > :05:49.back in again, to the far north of Wales, into the Irish Sea. Much
:05:50. > :05:55.quieter night further south, breezy, but becoming mostly dry
:05:56. > :06:00.Pressure night. 13 of 14 degrees. The wind will be a key feature,
:06:01. > :06:05.blowing a gale, further outbreaks of rain coming in, the heart of
:06:06. > :06:09.Scotland seeing some downpours. The far north-west of England. Further
:06:10. > :06:14.south, drier and brighter, very isolated, and many parts of England
:06:15. > :06:15.and Wales will have a sunny