19/08/2014 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Hello and welcome to Tuesday's Look North.

A man is shot in a County Durham village.

Now Colin has quit after his daughter begged him to stop.

The house that inspired Charlotte Bronte to write Jane Eyre has been

The 100 youngsters doing the Junior Great North Run

And in sport, Gateshead go one better this time. And we are in

north Yorkshire to meet a trainer hoping to take the famous Ebor

Festival by storm. An armed gang has set upon another

man and shot him in the legs The incident happened in Wingate

yesterday afternoon. The victim survived and doesn't

have life`threatening injuries. yesterday afternoon, when the

victim got out of his car here on Neighbours say two cars pulled to

a halt in the street and up to ten men got out, dragged the victim into

a garden and began to beat him. and the victim was shot several

times, below his waistline. Thankfully, it would appear that

Wales the injuries are serious, it is not life threatening and he will

have further surgery today. Two men aged 24 and 27 from Wingate

were arrested yesterday on suspicion of attempted murder and remain

in custody. Police say they expect further

arrests in the very near future and are appealing

for witnesses to come forward. This was very much a targeted and

planned attack, certainly not something random, and I'm confident

we do not believe at this moment in time there will be wider risk to the

community and the investigation is centring on locating and identifying

further people that may be involved. But that's little comfort for people

living in the area. They cost our councils millions

of pounds. But, according to government

figures, thousands of the North East and Cumbria's most troubled families

have had their lives turned Now seven

of our councils are going to be at the forefront of efforts to change

the lives of more of those families, Our Political Editor

Richard Moss is here. +3 years ago, the government

announced it would try to tackle the 120,000 most troubled families,

which is said to cost about ?9 million. It is often families

involved with domestic violence, crime, anti`social behaviour,

causing problems in the community and the idea was to give councils

for thousand pounds for each family to target help for them, pivoting

classes, other help to time their lives around, and allowing 50,000

family since then have had their lives turned around, and it is

expanding the programme, to families with children under five, it is

currently for those over five, and those with psychiatric or physical

health problems, quadruple link the people targeted. Seven of the

regions, Durham, Gateshead, Hartlepool, Newcastle,

Middlesborough, and Cleveland, those will get help. How can you tell when

families are turned around? Seven factors from poor housing, whether

the child is attending school, and then you have to solve one of those

problems to be considered turned around. Some do not even need to

have employment. The government says 4448 family stand around by this

initiative, but only 261 have a steady job, which some see as

crucial. Hartlepool, 156 family stand around, but none with a

permanent job. Labour is criticising this, but the government sticks by

the fact this is making a difference. Richard, thank you for

that. He used to smoke more than

100 cigarettes a day! But Colin Docherty quit, after

his daughter begged him to stop. Every year,

more than 5500 smokers in the North Now a new campaign is using

the families of smokers to persuade Andrew Hartley reports

from Sunderland. I got into cigarettes when I was

young, aged 13. Colin Docherty was the heaviest smokers. Later life, I

smoked more. 170 cigarettes every day. I remember him putting my note,

lighting another one again. Two strokes and a heart attack followed,

she had a double bypass when his daughter was six. He blames the

cigarettes to his diseases, but was his life to his daughter. She asked

me to pack in the cigarettes, seeing she did not want to lose me like she

did her grandad. I listened to for and I could not do without her, she

is my rock. Colin and Elizabeth are backing a group which campaigns for

a smoke free north`east. It says seven out of ten smokers in the

region admit their family worry about losing them early and wish

they would quit. We started touching on it at school, what smoking is and

why it is but for a few, then my Gran died `` my grandad died. And I

wondered what would it be like if that happened to my dad, something

as six`year`old should not worry about. I want to get this over to

mothers and fathers to listen to their children before it is too

late. Before it happens to them and it will get you eventually, like it

got me, but I have a second chance to stop and I am living it.

A toddler is in a stable condition after being run over near Carlisle

The police say the 18 month`old boy from London was

He was hit by a vehicle that was reversing in the car park of

It was being driven by a 27 year`old man, also from London.

The boy was treated at the scene before being flown

by air ambulance to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.

A 23`year`old Malaysian man has been charged with the murders

of Newcastle University medical students Neil Dalton and

If he's found guilty, the charge carries the mandatory

Four other suspects who were arrested won't be charged, but will

Neil and Aidan were stabbed to death in Kuching, where they had

Flights to London from Carlisle airport could take place within one

year. After costly legal battles, work will start on the facility six

years after the attempt was to move freight distribution businesses

there. But for the challenges have not been ruled out.

This shows the scale of the ambition for Carlisle airport, but that

vision has been put on hold well costly legal battles have bought the

project down. Now it is green for go. We should be able to make bigger

board come to life and build gear and freight road distribution

centres to actually support that. The City Council and Carlisle has

long pinned hopes on the board development and believes this time

it will get what it wants. Economically, the airport is

important, showing we have growth intentions, that we are accessible,

so it is part of the offered in terms of economic development. The

decision means that the airport will be developed into an integrated

transport hub, fit right thing and disputed by road. But the company

says it is only profits from that that will allow them to develop

passenger flights, which could happen in 12 months. The plan would

be to launch the 48 seater plane, operating between London Southend

and Carlisle, Dublin, and we own the airport, part of an airline, and the

links between Southend and so much more value to the group, rather than

just Carlisle airport. But opponents believe the people of Carlisle now

have less chance of being commercial flights from the airport. What they

have done is remove the airport from the fleet this division centre and

the group, with the City Council agreement, can close the airport at

any time now. But the company insists that is not the intention

and they will begin work on the ground soon.

And Mike joined me. Andrew Tinkler says flights could start as early as

next summer, how likely is that? It is weak and see. There is a window

for challenges to come to the council and we will see if that

happens. `` it is weak and see. That is now no pressure to develop

commercial flights because the company has what they want, the

freight distribution centre, but Andrew Tinkler said they will do

it, that people want flights in and out of Carlisle, and for other

flights to Dublin, but we will see if Andrew Tinkler is as good as his

word. Thank you. The final six companies bidding to

run what the Rail Minister has described

as "a world`class rail network" Three for the Northern Rail

franchise, three for Trans`Pennine. The government has earmarked ?1

billion for rail improvements for services

which link the major cities of the The companies must submit

detailed plans by December. Police officers

in the North have been forced to resign after inappropriate use

of social media, such as commenting Figures obtained under a Freedom

of Information request show that 46 officers from the North Yorkshire

force have been disciplined in the past five years,

with two required to leave. The Northumbria Police had 24

disciplinaries, Cleveland 15, including a preview

of the Ebor race meeting at York. Plus the newly`restored country

house that inspired Jane Eyre. And the long Bank Holiday weekend

not far away, I have a full forecast, including a look towards

the weekend, later in this evening's programme. You might

recognise this chap. Patients at the Great North

Children's Hospital in Newcastle Paddington Bear dropped

by to raise awareness of the charity It funds research into illnesses

which can affect babies and young Paddington proved that they keep it

with patients this morning, but the visit to this hospital had a serious

message, that money is necessary for research into life`threatening

illnesses. Cameron was tight nose with a brain tumour aged seven and

underwent 18 months of treatment and five years on is clear of cancer and

he is keen to raise awareness of the benefits of backing medical

research. People need to know what is happening, because people make

just think it is a big event that Paddington is coming, but need to

know it is fundraising to help people survive and get through the

pain. It is not just what we have been through, it is other families,

maybe family is not as we have, it is all about fundraising, about

research and fundraising to make it that children are not scared that

their future is a more positive, that really the research can go

forward and keep progressing. Doctor Rebecca treated Camelon and for

three years she has studied the type of cancer they had, which is common

in children, and artwork is possible through funding from the charity

action medical research. We know it happens when you're an adult, when

you get older, and thankfully it is read in children, but can happen to

anybody, `` it is rare. It is important to support funding and

research. Funding is vital and her work would not have been carried out

otherwise, so fighting shimmers like the one Cameron had with not have

been made. `` feting charmers. `` fighting tumours.

Goodall panicked and `` good old Paddington.

A beautiful old house in North Yorkshire has won

Over the last eight years, Norton Conyers near Ripon has been

sensitively and painstakingly renewed, after death watch beetle

It could have been disastrous, but the Historic Houses Association

has paid tribute to the perseverance and patience of the owners,

by giving its 2014 Restoration Award to the house, which will reopen to

It has been the home of 11 generations,

each making their mark on this house, Norton Conyers, near Ripon.

This is a house you can peel like an onion.

Every layer reveals some mystery from the past.

Nothing is quite what it seems at first glance.

Charlotte Bronte was inspired by this back route to the attics

She imagined mad Mrs Rochester living secretly at the top.

It is not the only secret hidden away.

These exceptionally rare Tudor boards were found

The painted patterns give way to elaborate wallpaper,

discovered behind panels and preserved in situ or as a record.

Other scraps have been salvaged and faithfully reproduced,

including a sample found behind the head housemaid's cupboard.

We spent almost ?1000 sending every bit of wallpaper to America.

I think the colours are so beautiful.

Normally, I am not a roses and ribbon lady,

In the Great Hall, virtually every floorboard had to be treated

It had bored through joists, leaving them badly damaged.

The chemicals used were so poisonous,

that, on several occasions, we had to move out of the house

The time and care taken richly deserves the restoration award.

July next year is when it is scheduled for official reopening.

Looks fabulous. Absolutely. Neither sport, and plenty of football to

look forward to. It's just under a fortnight until

the football transfer window shuts. Middlesbrough midfielder Ritchie

Smallwood has joined Rotherham United on an emergency loan with

a view to a permanent deal. Meanwhile Boro are still waiting to

tie up a season`long loan deal for young Chelsea striker

Patrick Bamford. And will Luke James still be

a Hartlepool player at the end of the month after he put

in a transfer request? Well, Middlesbrough need to

bounce back after conceding They travel to Bolton

in the Championship. It's DAB on the same station if you

want to find out if Hartlepool can pick up their first points

of the season at home to Dagenham. BBC Radio Cumbria is following

Carlisle's trip to Cheltenham. Three defeats out of three

for Graham Kavanagh's men as well. And can York City manage to avoid

conceding a stoppage time goal All the goals in tomorrow's

Look North. Well, Cambridge United, of course,

beat Gateshead in May's Conference The Tyneside club are hoping

to achieve automatic promotion And as Nisha Joshi explains,

so far so good. Three games into the new season and,

after two wins and a draw, Gateshead are unbeaten

as they push again for promotion. The last campaign will be remembered

for the Tynesiders' first`ever trip to Wembley and narrowly missing out

on a place in the Football League after a 2`1 loss to Cambridge

in the play`off final. Losing at Wembley, that will always

be there, but what should be remembered is the season that we

had, and from the bottom three to go to third in the league at the end of

the season, we are going to take it into this season, we are not

going to talk about that day. It is Gary Mills' first full season

in charge and he has brought in nine new signings and let go

of 12 players. We just lacked that killer instinct

in the last third last season. We have scored eight goals so far,

we are leading scorers in the league after three games, so maybe that is

proving right at the moment and we But Peterborough have bid

for Gateshead's top scorer, with three goals, Marcus Madison,

and he may move Striker John Shaw

could fill any void. He re`signed in the summer,

having already scored 56 goals in 98 games for the Tynesiders

before leaving for Luton in 2012. The expectation up here has got to

be managed in public, but at the same time, getting that

goal and being part of the first couple of games, a first couple

of wins, it takes the pressure off Disappointment for North Yorkshire

diver Jack Laugher. The Commonwealth champion missed out

on the medals in the one metre springboard final

at the European Championships Meanwhile,

there was a silver medal for Cramlington's three time Paralympic

champion Stephen Miller in the F32 Club throw at the European IPC

Athletics Championships in Swansea. But he complained that the winner,

Russia's Vadislav Frolov, had been wrongly classified

and shouldn't have been allowed to The Ebor Festival gets underway

at York Racecourse tomorrow. The four`day event is expected to

attract more than 80,000 people On the opening day, North Yorkshire

trained horse The Grey Gatsby will race against the winner of the Derby

in one of the richest ever races at Shirley Henry's been to meet

The Grey Gatsby's trainer. Watch the grey horse leading

the race, the Grey Gatsby. Tomorrow,

he will bid for the European crown. The Grey Gatsby, though,

keeps them at bay. The Yorkshire`trained horse has

already won the French Derby and tomorrow he takes

on the winner of the English Derby. It doesn't matter whether

a splinter or mile and a half horse, you know, they need natural ability

and he's got everything, he's got great temperament,

a lot of speed, and he stays. Former jockey, Kevin Ryan,

began training horses in 1998. At York Racecourse,

he has had 41 wins and won more than And tomorrow, he is hoping for

another win at the richest race at The race has never been won

by a Yorkshire trainer. For any trainer in Yorkshire,

this is a big week. We try to take

the best horses to the meeting. There is no doubting this

three`year`old's ability, He's a great horse, very quiet horse

all the time I take him racing. And he has very good behaviour

and all the time improving. About 80,000 people are expected

at the four`day event. Let's hope the Grey Gatsby

does Yorkshire proud. The Great North Run

is fast approaching and, for youngsters,

the Junior Run. And one group of school friends are

running the junior race Yes, they call themselves

Oliver's Army as they're class mates of Oliver Roberts,

who's battling a brain tumour. So far, Oliver's friends have raised

?2,500 for cancer research, Oliver is a fighter and,

at nine years old, he has another battle on his hands,

a brain tumour for the second time. I have had all my scans

and everything. But now, he has his army behind him,

made up of 135 children They have signed up to run

the 4K Junior Great North Run. It's

a good cause we're doing it for. Oliver is ill at the minute

and we want to make him better. Cancer is really serious,

and I wouldn't like it. And I just wanted to

make Olly feel better. Oliver's Army are hoping to raise

?5,000 for the charity CLIC Sargent, which has been a lifeline to Oliver

and his family. They really offer advice,

but also very practical help. And also it is not just sort

of Oliver that gets the help. His brothers

as well have had help with school. They do a lot to support schools

and teachers to understand what D`Day for Oliver's Army is fast

approaching and cheering them on, as always,

will be their biggest supporter. I am very proud of everyone

and excited to see my friends. You like the microphone,

the megaphone, don't you, Well, the children are ten weeks

into an intensive 12 week training programme and, at times,

the going has been tough, but when the going gets tough,

all they have to do is look at their friend Oliver to give

them the motivation they need. And good luck to them all. Now for

the weather. You scoffed when I mentioned getting out the winter

duvet, but it was freezing this morning.

And tonight could be cold. And rough seas on the coast after the strong

wind at the weekend. Thank you for this picture. The headline for

tomorrow, another cool day after a cool night, but spells of sunshine,

through this evening, sharers across North Yorkshire and north`east,

although it is clear in Cumbria, by the early hours of tomorrow, sharers

dying away from most parts, and clear skies could allow it to get

cold. `` Shari is staying away. Temperature is possibly very as low

as four Celsius. A really chilly autumnal start to the model. But

lots of sunshine through the morning and into the afternoon, a fine start

for the racing, but through the afternoon, some showers developing

pretty much anywhere, some sharers developing and affecting the racing.

Temperatures as low as to do `` as low as today. Cool north westerly

breezes drying in that Arctic air, and crossing the Pennines where

sports, mostly fading in Cumbria, and temperatures are about the same

as the East. Picking up the pressure sequence tomorrow afternoon,

pressure still with the pressure sequence tomorrow afternoon,

pressure still with a weak weather system crossing the UK, bringing

showers or longer spell of train a time. Higher pressure tries to take

over through Friday and into the Bank Holiday weekend, high`pressure

settling things, a ridge of high pressure keeping things dry for the

start of the weekend, but things could turn more unsettled as the

head through Sunday and bank holiday Monday with the risk of sharers,

Saturday probably the best day. Looking farther forward across Calum

Murray, Thursday and Friday some longer spells of the rain, ``

looking farther forward across the week, Thursday and Friday some

longer spells of the rain, Saturday night could be the coldest,

temperatures dropping after finding. As low as seven Celsius. `` after

ratifying day. In the north`east, a similar spell of rain on Thursday,

some sharers on Friday, fine on the Bank Holiday weekend, but cold

overnight. Thank you. Anyone going off on their

summer holidays would be loving this. You can see me back at 10:25

p.m.. Goodbye.