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staying dry. North and west lots of sunshine, light winds and 20 degrees

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for Belfast and Glasgow. Friday and Saturday a bit more in the way of

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cloud, it should stay fine and dry. Even if it is a bit cloudy we should

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see sunshine coming through. All in all looking pretty good. Sophie

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In the programme tonight. it from Edinburgh we

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The computer system that sole subpostmasters blame

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for wrecking their livelihoods is branded not fit for purpose.

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Also tonight, a river search for a missing 17`year`old ends with

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The new machine at one of our hospitals

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The book that's made unlikely stars of former factory workers

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Also tonight, we launch our search for

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And what next for the Gateshead Thunder rugby league team,

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as they enter the play`offs, and move in with rugby union's Falcons?

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They lost everything ` their jobs, businesses and reputations.

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Earlier this year, Look North exclusively revealed how more than

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100 sub postmasters claimed a faulty computer system made it appdar they

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were stealing from their employers when they'd done nothing wrong.

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Now we've seen a confidential independent report,

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commissioned by the Post Office into its Horizon computer sxstem.

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It says there were faults whth the system and it was not fht

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Stuart Whincup has this exclusive Look North report.

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They lost their jobs, businesses and reputations.

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For the last three months, these people have been tellhng

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Look North how a computer f`ult destroyed their lives.

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Sarah Burges Boyd told us how the Post Office claimed she stole

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It wasn't true, but it took her two years to clear her name.

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Kevin Carter told the Post Office there was a fault with

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his computer system and the money wasn't adding up.

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Instead of thanking him, the auditors told him to pax up

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At the end of the day, they gave me the option to sell

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the business, which I've just completed, had to pay them ?54, 00

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Now Look North has seen a confidential independent report

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investigating complaints from 150 subpostmasters.

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It's highly critical of the Post Office and says there were

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a catalogue of faults with the Horizon computer system.

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They included things like the money from the cash and Lottery

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machines not matching up with the figure on the computer system.

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In some branches, it recorded the sale of 12 lonth tax

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Sub postmasters said the training was insufficient,

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the computer hardware was old and the helpline unhelpful.

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The report said Post Office investigators seemed more kden

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on seeking a charge for false accounting rather than

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investigating the root causd of the suspected problems.

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They disregarded the possibhlity that the Horizon computer sxstem

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For some of the people who tsed it, the system was not fit for purpose.

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In a letter to claiments thd Post Office says it does not accept

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the findings of the Independent report which it commissioned.

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I don't see how they can have an independent report and

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at the end of it say, we don't agree with that, wd will

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Former police officer Peter Holmes was charged with false accotnting

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and theft when ?46,000 went missing from the Post Office he used to run.

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He's always blamed the Horizon computer system

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and was not surprised when we told him of the report's findings.

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It's the equipment that's wrong it's the computer system th`t's

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wrong and we didn't get any help from anybody.

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I think the report is absolutely right, spot on.

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The Post Office gave us this response.

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The Post Office says its colputer system works well for the mhllions

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But those who've lost their jobs, businesses and reputations say

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Police searching for a missing teenager in the Rhver Wear

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Officers had been looking for 17`year`old Jordan Roberts

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since he was reported missing yesterday while playing with friends

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Jonathan Swingler reports from the scene.

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The alarm was raised shortlx after 5pm yesterday.

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Two brothers had got into trouble in the water.

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A friend in his 20s managed to rescue one of them.

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This man is staying at the nearby caravan park.

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I had been fishing at this this end of the rivdr.

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He was screaming, phone an ambulance!

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By the time I got to the house to ring the bell

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for an ambulance, the securhty guard had already phoned it.

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But 17`year`old Jordan Roberts could not be found.

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This afternoon, it has been confirmed that

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The family has been told by the police.

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Any investigation like this is very, very difficult.

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It is especially traumatic dealing with

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a family who've lost not only one of their sons but another son who has

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been close and effectively brought back from the brink of death.

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Jordan's brother received CPR here on the river bank.

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He is in hospital and his condition is described as poorly but stable.

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A preliminary report on the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH07 has

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found that it was struck by numerous high`energy objects which c`used it

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The findings, by the Dutch Safety Board,

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appear to fit with suggestions it was shot down by a missile.

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All 298 passengers and crew were killed, including Newcastle United

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Liam's father Barry has seen the report, he says he isn't looking

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I'm happy to know about the crash, that they probably died instantly.

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It doesn't really matter who has done it because they are sthll dead.

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I know that everybody is bl`ming everybody else,

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but we can't do anything about it, we've just got to move on.

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Controversial plans for a w`ste incinerator near Knaresborotgh have

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The government pulled its funding from the ?1.4 bhllion

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But the council wants to go ahead with the plans anyway.

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How do get rid of rubbish. Ht is something they have been trxing to

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sort out for over a decade hn North Yorkshire. Today, councillors voted

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for a wasteland near NewsBltr to get the go`ahead. People are saxing that

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it is old technology. This hs a waste recovery centre. It whll

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enhance recycling as well. But for many campaigners, this issud is

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about the incinerator. However, councillors say the plant is the

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option which offers the most value for money and it will mean they will

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not have to rely on landfill sites. This is where the surgery is going

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to be built `` the incinerator. The council insists that this plant will

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be a decent and good neighbour to the local community. But fotr years

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down the line, and many people who live nearby are still not convinced.

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This councillor represents the concerns of many residents who live

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nearby. He says health issuds are number one. There is a lot of worry

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about what will come out of those chimneys. People here want to

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breathe fresh air. This thing, I can't guarantee it to anybody that

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they will breathe fresh air. This is not a done deal, it has to go before

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a full council meeting next month. But even protesters admit that it is

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looking likely that an wastd incinerator will soon be nestled in

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the countryside. Patients around the world are to

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benefit from a new state of the art It's for people living with vascular

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birthmarks, which are caused by abnormal blood

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vessels in or under the skin. It cost ?21,000

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and its new home is at James Cook BBC Look North's Rebecca O'Neill

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reports. No need for surgery and no need

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for scars. 2500 injection treatments h`ve

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already been performed here at this clinic

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on patients right across thd UK Even as far afield as Sweden,

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Ireland and Bulgaria. The clinic sees 120 new pathents

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every year and they will benefit We've learned that surgery does not

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suit these patients and thex get much better results without the risk

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of scars or surgery by injecting Jack Thornton is a patient,

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he was born with a lymphatic He has had injection treatmdnt,

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and the ultrasound treatment will Starting school was one

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of our major worries, we were really concerned about how he would be

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treated by other children. He started school last week

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and it could not have gone better. He fitted in perfectly, happy,

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friendly confident little boy. Children would point it out

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straightaway, but nobody dods now and that is because of the treatment

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he has had. None

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of this would have been possible without the ?21,000 donation from

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the James Cook voluntary services. I am delighted that it is going to

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help, not only children, but people from many countries and it `lso is

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going to help Great Ormond Street. For Jack and thousands

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of patients around the world, Coming up, were joining Mark Denten

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on the border. And actor Alun Armstrong tells us

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just how chuffed he is to h`ve Mostly drive for the next fdw days.

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Join me later. There are just nine days to go until

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next week's Scottish referendum Tomorrow,

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the leaders of the three mahn political parties at Westminster

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will be in Scotland trying to Meanwhile, people

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in our region are weighing tp what This week on Look North,

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our Political Correspondent Mark Denten is travelling the length

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of the English Scottish border Longtown auction mart,

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you are looking at the biggdst sheep market in Europe, 7000 anim`ls will

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be sold here today, but for buyers and sellers from both

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sides of the border, the hot topic I think there are concerns from

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farmers on both sides of thd border, particularly the Scottish f`rmers

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who are bringing stock here every week, in terms of what it whll mean

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for them, depending on the outcome of the vote, will they be ddaling

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with sterling, will there bd Twice a week,

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he comes over from the Mull And with one poll putting yds

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and no neck and neck, what would he There's going to be more paperwork

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for a start, I would think, and there is enough paperwork

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in agriculture without giving us I think it's an absolute disaster if

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it goes to a yes vote, therd is no If we have a different currdncy

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it is going to cause complications. When the Look North producers set us

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off on this Border Trail, they said, don't worry about the transport

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because you will get a choice. Not quite the right colour,

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too white. We are in a 1950s'

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Vintage Silver Rolls Royce. This wedding car business does

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a lot of trade with Scotland. So many unanswered questions, will

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it be sterling, will it be the euro? It could put potentially put

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tourists off coming to our `rea And we survive

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on the tourist industry. I really think that that wotld have

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a negative effect on businesses We'll be catching up with M`rk

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in tomorrow night's Look North. And you can add your thoughts on the

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referendum debate on Twitter, using Former factory workers from Carlisle

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have become unlikely stars thanks to a new book by writer Hunter Davies

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which chronicles their working lives at one of the

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country's last biscuit factories. The women, known locally

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as cracker packers, worked `t Some of this work is now allost

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fully automated ` machines effectively packing

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the little round crackers that have In years gone by,

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this work was done by hand, Their story, according to

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the author in his new book, is the story of social change in the

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last decades of the 20th century. It's basically the history

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of the six women who are retired The publisher did not

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like the title. Or is it cracker meaning wh`t

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a scorcher. So it's been called The Biscuit

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Girls, it's social history `nd I just wanted to commemorate

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the lives of these women. Sadly, one of the women featured

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in the book has died, but the five others were at a special latnch

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inside the factory they werd all I came from school

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and always enjoyed it. Most of the time, I think it's nice

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when people come up and say hello, especially if they say they have

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enjoyed what you have done. Alan was brought up in

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Annfield Plain. Now his achievements have bden

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recognised in more solid form. Stanley's Civic Hall has now been

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renamed the Alun Armstrong Theatre. Appropriately,

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his stage career began therd. All actors have a terrible nightmare

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where they are suddenly in ` theatre and they haven't learned thd lines

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and they wake up in a cold sweat. Well, for years, I would have

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a dream where I was on this stage and I didn't know the lines and I

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used to wake up in a cold sweat Said Mistress Bell,

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you had better clean the st`irs .. From Geordie music hall herd with

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Tim Healey to blockbuster movies with Clint Eastwood to

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Les Miserables in the West Dnd. To have something

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like this is incredible and, of course, my parents would have

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been proud as peacocks. Now, never short of our showbiz

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story. A friend of mine is in the opening

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scene in get Carter. That's amazing. What have you got?

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There's a rugby double headdr on Tyneside this Sunday.

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League side Gateshead Thunddr will play their biggest game for years

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in the Championship One plaxoffs straight after their new owners

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Newcastle Falcons, play thehr first home game of the season.

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And it could be the start of more Thunder games at Kingston P`rk.

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Everybody thought, here we go again,. But there's a lot of

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optimism around the place. Good things are starting to happdn.

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Stags, who they've beaten twice already this season. They'll be

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playing at 6pm at Kingston Park after the Falcons face London Irish.

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The RFL has given the game `re go`ahead. Even though the Stags have

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complained that some of thehr players won't make the round`trip if

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they have work the next day. We are in a competition where

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everyone beats everyone every week. There is no complacency in our camp.

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We've got to keep working h`rd for the rest of the week and hopefully

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the results will come off the back of it. It's going to be really

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exciting, the lads are lookhng forward to it. Hopefully, wd'll get

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a decent crowd stop behind the Falcons game

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and obviously will get our own loyal fans as well. It's more of ` big

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stage, to be honest. The new 3G artificial pitch now allows for

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unlimited rugby to be played here. So we could be seeing more Gateshead

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Thunder games here in the ftture. We are conscious that Gateshead Thunder

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have a 15 year history in G`teshead. We're not saying definitely, let's

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get this season out of the way, On to cricket, and a vital round of

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matches for our teams at both ends Adam Lyth gave leaders Yorkshire

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a great start against title rivals Nottinghamshire,

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with a century at Trent Bridge. Lyth, who's from Whitby

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and who's being tipped for `n England call`up, shared an opening

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stand of 176 with Andrew Leds. He was eventually caught

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and bowled by a fellow`Yorkshireman ` veteran spinner Gary Keedx `

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for a very impressive 122. And Yorkshire will go

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into the second day on... And Scott Borthwick made a welcome

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return to form for Durham, with a big century in their relegation

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battle with Middlesex at Lord's Now, the search has begun to find

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the region's top sporting volunteer. We're looking for the man or woman

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who really goes the extra mhle to keep his or her club going,

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or to promote their favourite game. On offer is the title of our

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Unsung Hero. The winner will be announced at the

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BBC North East Sports Awards, this year taking place at the Billingham

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Forum Theatre on Teesside, Last year,

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the honour went to long`serving Gateshead athletics coach

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Sid Robson, who went on to represent the region at the BBC Sports

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Personality of the Year Awards, where he was up against the other

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winners from around the country So it's time to put

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your nominations in. all one word ` to find out more

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about how to put someone forward. Nominations close

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on Monday the 20th of Octobdr. You can also call 0845 308

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8000 to request a nomination Calls cost up to 5p a minutd

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from most landlines. And calls from mobiles may

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cost considerably more. The last day we'll send out

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nomination forms will be So far, so good. Here is thd lovely

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misty morning on the Cumbri`n border. And the fruitfulness? Here

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are some autumn berries. Tolorrow, and for the next few days, high

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pressure is in charge of thd weather, nothing changing vdry

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quickly. Staying mostly dry and Chile at night. Tonight, well broken

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cloud, some mist and fog patches and Chile. Just into single figtres But

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like last night, some places could drop to 56 degrees. `` five or six

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degrees. Tomorrow, some patchy cloud of round, possibly feeling dven a

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little bit warmer. Could get up to 22 Celsius in parts of comp via ``

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Cumbria. Always cooler further east, but 18 or 90 degrees in the sunshine

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fair. High pressure in charge of the weather. The centre of it is

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drifting to Scandinavia, but the pressure is high over the UK the

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next few days and the weekend. Lots of dry weather to be had. When the

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sun comes out, temperatures into the low 20s. But that the end of the

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week, perhaps a bit more cloud. A bit more cloud and temperattres down

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a shade. Keep up`to`date on the BBC weather app.

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Thanks, we should have programme in Carlisle tomorrow!

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The Prime Minister, the Deptty Prime Minister and the leader of the

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opposition will travel to Scotland tomorrow to join the referendum

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campaign which has been described as blind panic by the Scottish National

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party. And that. This has rdfused to comment after BBC look North was

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shown a confidential report into the Horizon computer system which made

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it appear as if sub postmasters were stealing from their employers when

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they had done nothing. That is all for now. Goodbyd.

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