02/08/2014 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Tributes are being paid to the celebrated County Durham

artist Norman Cornish who has died at the age of 84.

Norman Cornish achieved nathonal recognition for his portray`ls

of life ` in the mining villages where he lived and worked.

Cornish himself had worked as a miner ` for 33 years.

Norman was right in the middle of it. It was impossible for hhm to

walk down the street or go hnto a pub without everyone turning and

saying, all right, Norman? Everything that he needs to say is

hanging on the walls. The region is remembering the dead

of the First World War this weekend on the eve of the 100th annhversary

of Britain entering the conflict. And as well as parades and

church services, communities have come up with their own tribttes As

Phil Chapman reports. She was born a year after the

First World War ended. Irene Green from Stockton who

remembers after the First World War ended, asking family about her uncle

who died in the conflict. She says it was an age

when people did not talk about their experiences of war and

she does not even have a picture. Now Irene feels that she is finally

able to honour him by planthng one of the thousands of sunflowdr seeds

provided by Stockton Council to `` one of the thousands of sunflower

seeds. And when I heard

about the sunflowers, I thotght Even though it is 100 years

since the start of the war. A century on, Irene hopes ftture

generations continue to remdmber. We must help people to

understand how appalling war is I was born on December 17 1819,

and my name was given as Irdne Hundreds of cyclists have bden on

the streets of Tyneside in ` mass cycling event.

This was the second Newcastle`Gateshead Sky Ridd.

Last year's event attracted nearly 8,000 riders and while the threat

of rain kept a lot of entrants away today, org`nisers

I have seen a family go past with children. Cycling is a great sport,

a great way of getting around. All ages can do it. I know children and

people in their But some cycling campaigners say

there is little point getting us to fall in love with cycling if,

on Monday, our roads are once again Once you close down roads and take

off aggressive traffic and xou'd take drivers and cars out of the

equation, people come out. like a carnival atmosphere. People

enjoy themselves, it is fun and great. The problem being th`t this

is here for four hours. What we need is the is this kind of atmosphere in

our city centre and outside the city centre in our neighbourhoods 24`hour

is a day, 365 days of the ydar. We want this to last.

Paul Drinkhall from Loftus hn East Cleveland and his wife Joanna

won gold in the table tennis mixed doubles.

Meanwhile there was bronze in the singles for

And in squash, Jenny Duncalf from Harrogatd took

One viewer saw this mini`tornado over Stocksfield in Nothumbdrland

Let's get the forecast now with Kawser.

We have had some heavy showdrs and they will make their progress

further northwards. More cloud building toward the north wdst in

the early hours. Tonight, and tomorrow, it it is the case of the

wind is picking up. Especially by the coast. A damp start but becoming

drier in the south and That's it. Look North is back

tomorrow at 6:50pm. Good evdning. It has been one of those days, Sony

for some and pouring with rain for others. Locally there has been

intense downpours. Further west resolutely cloudy and wet across the

heart of Scotland and much of Northern Ireland, brighter skies

feeding into Belfast, the process will continue, with rain edging away

West, it will become confined to the northern half of Scotland, peeling

back in again, to the far north of Wales, into the Irish Sea. Much

quieter night further south, breezy, but becoming mostly dry

Pressure night. 13 of 14 degrees. The wind will be a key feature,

blowing a gale, further outbreaks of rain coming in, the heart of

Scotland seeing some downpours. The far north-west of England. Further

south, drier and brighter, very isolated, and many parts of England

and Wales will have a sunny