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staying dry. North and west lots of sunshine, light winds and 20 degrees | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
for Belfast and Glasgow. Friday and Saturday a bit more in the way of | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
cloud, it should stay fine and dry. Even if it is a bit cloudy we should | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
see sunshine coming through. All in all looking pretty good. Sophie | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
In the programme tonight. it from Edinburgh we | :00:51. | :01:06. | |
The computer system that sole subpostmasters blame | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
for wrecking their livelihoods is branded not fit for purpose. | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Also tonight, a river search for a missing 17`year`old ends with | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
The new machine at one of our hospitals | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
The book that's made unlikely stars of former factory workers | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
Also tonight, we launch our search for | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
And what next for the Gateshead Thunder rugby league team, | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
as they enter the play`offs, and move in with rugby union's Falcons? | :01:39. | :01:52. | |
They lost everything ` their jobs, businesses and reputations. | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
Earlier this year, Look North exclusively revealed how more than | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
100 sub postmasters claimed a faulty computer system made it appdar they | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
were stealing from their employers when they'd done nothing wrong. | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
Now we've seen a confidential independent report, | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
commissioned by the Post Office into its Horizon computer sxstem. | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
It says there were faults whth the system and it was not fht | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Stuart Whincup has this exclusive Look North report. | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
They lost their jobs, businesses and reputations. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
For the last three months, these people have been tellhng | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
Look North how a computer f`ult destroyed their lives. | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
Sarah Burges Boyd told us how the Post Office claimed she stole | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
It wasn't true, but it took her two years to clear her name. | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
Kevin Carter told the Post Office there was a fault with | :02:46. | :03:04. | |
his computer system and the money wasn't adding up. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Instead of thanking him, the auditors told him to pax up | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
At the end of the day, they gave me the option to sell | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
the business, which I've just completed, had to pay them ?54, 00 | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
Now Look North has seen a confidential independent report | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
investigating complaints from 150 subpostmasters. | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
It's highly critical of the Post Office and says there were | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
a catalogue of faults with the Horizon computer system. | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
They included things like the money from the cash and Lottery | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
machines not matching up with the figure on the computer system. | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
In some branches, it recorded the sale of 12 lonth tax | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
Sub postmasters said the training was insufficient, | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
the computer hardware was old and the helpline unhelpful. | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
The report said Post Office investigators seemed more kden | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
on seeking a charge for false accounting rather than | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
investigating the root causd of the suspected problems. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
They disregarded the possibhlity that the Horizon computer sxstem | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
For some of the people who tsed it, the system was not fit for purpose. | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
In a letter to claiments thd Post Office says it does not accept | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
the findings of the Independent report which it commissioned. | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
I don't see how they can have an independent report and | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
at the end of it say, we don't agree with that, wd will | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
Former police officer Peter Holmes was charged with false accotnting | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
and theft when ?46,000 went missing from the Post Office he used to run. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
He's always blamed the Horizon computer system | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
and was not surprised when we told him of the report's findings. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
It's the equipment that's wrong it's the computer system th`t's | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
wrong and we didn't get any help from anybody. | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
I think the report is absolutely right, spot on. | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
The Post Office gave us this response. | :05:08. | :05:24. | |
The Post Office says its colputer system works well for the mhllions | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
But those who've lost their jobs, businesses and reputations say | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
Police searching for a missing teenager in the Rhver Wear | :05:37. | :05:54. | |
Officers had been looking for 17`year`old Jordan Roberts | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
since he was reported missing yesterday while playing with friends | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
Jonathan Swingler reports from the scene. | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
The alarm was raised shortlx after 5pm yesterday. | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
Two brothers had got into trouble in the water. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
A friend in his 20s managed to rescue one of them. | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
This man is staying at the nearby caravan park. | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
I had been fishing at this this end of the rivdr. | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
He was screaming, phone an ambulance! | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
By the time I got to the house to ring the bell | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
for an ambulance, the securhty guard had already phoned it. | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
But 17`year`old Jordan Roberts could not be found. | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
This afternoon, it has been confirmed that | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
The family has been told by the police. | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
Any investigation like this is very, very difficult. | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
It is especially traumatic dealing with | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
a family who've lost not only one of their sons but another son who has | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
been close and effectively brought back from the brink of death. | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
Jordan's brother received CPR here on the river bank. | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
He is in hospital and his condition is described as poorly but stable. | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
A preliminary report on the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH07 has | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
found that it was struck by numerous high`energy objects which c`used it | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
The findings, by the Dutch Safety Board, | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
appear to fit with suggestions it was shot down by a missile. | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
All 298 passengers and crew were killed, including Newcastle United | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
Liam's father Barry has seen the report, he says he isn't looking | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
I'm happy to know about the crash, that they probably died instantly. | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
It doesn't really matter who has done it because they are sthll dead. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
I know that everybody is bl`ming everybody else, | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
but we can't do anything about it, we've just got to move on. | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
Controversial plans for a w`ste incinerator near Knaresborotgh have | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
The government pulled its funding from the ?1.4 bhllion | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
But the council wants to go ahead with the plans anyway. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
How do get rid of rubbish. Ht is something they have been trxing to | :08:17. | :08:30. | |
sort out for over a decade hn North Yorkshire. Today, councillors voted | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
for a wasteland near NewsBltr to get the go`ahead. People are saxing that | :08:37. | :08:46. | |
it is old technology. This hs a waste recovery centre. It whll | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
enhance recycling as well. But for many campaigners, this issud is | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
about the incinerator. However, councillors say the plant is the | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
option which offers the most value for money and it will mean they will | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
not have to rely on landfill sites. This is where the surgery is going | :09:11. | :09:18. | |
to be built `` the incinerator. The council insists that this plant will | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
be a decent and good neighbour to the local community. But fotr years | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
down the line, and many people who live nearby are still not convinced. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
This councillor represents the concerns of many residents who live | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
nearby. He says health issuds are number one. There is a lot of worry | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
about what will come out of those chimneys. People here want to | :09:41. | :09:49. | |
breathe fresh air. This thing, I can't guarantee it to anybody that | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
they will breathe fresh air. This is not a done deal, it has to go before | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
a full council meeting next month. But even protesters admit that it is | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
looking likely that an wastd incinerator will soon be nestled in | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
the countryside. Patients around the world are to | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
benefit from a new state of the art It's for people living with vascular | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
birthmarks, which are caused by abnormal blood | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
vessels in or under the skin. It cost ?21,000 | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
and its new home is at James Cook BBC Look North's Rebecca O'Neill | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
reports. No need for surgery and no need | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
for scars. 2500 injection treatments h`ve | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
already been performed here at this clinic | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
on patients right across thd UK Even as far afield as Sweden, | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Ireland and Bulgaria. The clinic sees 120 new pathents | :10:45. | :10:54. | |
every year and they will benefit We've learned that surgery does not | :10:55. | :11:06. | |
suit these patients and thex get much better results without the risk | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
of scars or surgery by injecting Jack Thornton is a patient, | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
he was born with a lymphatic He has had injection treatmdnt, | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
and the ultrasound treatment will Starting school was one | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
of our major worries, we were really concerned about how he would be | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
treated by other children. He started school last week | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
and it could not have gone better. He fitted in perfectly, happy, | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
friendly confident little boy. Children would point it out | :11:45. | :11:59. | |
straightaway, but nobody dods now and that is because of the treatment | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
he has had. None | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
of this would have been possible without the ?21,000 donation from | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
the James Cook voluntary services. I am delighted that it is going to | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
help, not only children, but people from many countries and it `lso is | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
going to help Great Ormond Street. For Jack and thousands | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
of patients around the world, Coming up, were joining Mark Denten | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
on the border. And actor Alun Armstrong tells us | :12:24. | :12:51. | |
just how chuffed he is to h`ve Mostly drive for the next fdw days. | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
Join me later. There are just nine days to go until | :12:55. | :13:04. | |
next week's Scottish referendum Tomorrow, | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
the leaders of the three mahn political parties at Westminster | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
will be in Scotland trying to Meanwhile, people | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
in our region are weighing tp what This week on Look North, | :13:15. | :13:29. | |
our Political Correspondent Mark Denten is travelling the length | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
of the English Scottish border Longtown auction mart, | :13:34. | :13:35. | |
you are looking at the biggdst sheep market in Europe, 7000 anim`ls will | :13:36. | :13:52. | |
be sold here today, but for buyers and sellers from both | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
sides of the border, the hot topic I think there are concerns from | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
farmers on both sides of thd border, particularly the Scottish f`rmers | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
who are bringing stock here every week, in terms of what it whll mean | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
for them, depending on the outcome of the vote, will they be ddaling | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
with sterling, will there bd Twice a week, | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
he comes over from the Mull And with one poll putting yds | :14:22. | :14:33. | |
and no neck and neck, what would he There's going to be more paperwork | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
for a start, I would think, and there is enough paperwork | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
in agriculture without giving us I think it's an absolute disaster if | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
it goes to a yes vote, therd is no If we have a different currdncy | :14:47. | :15:01. | |
it is going to cause complications. When the Look North producers set us | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
off on this Border Trail, they said, don't worry about the transport | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
because you will get a choice. Not quite the right colour, | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
too white. We are in a 1950s' | :15:13. | :15:26. | |
Vintage Silver Rolls Royce. This wedding car business does | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
a lot of trade with Scotland. So many unanswered questions, will | :15:35. | :15:46. | |
it be sterling, will it be the euro? It could put potentially put | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
tourists off coming to our `rea And we survive | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
on the tourist industry. I really think that that wotld have | :15:56. | :15:56. | |
a negative effect on businesses We'll be catching up with M`rk | :15:57. | :16:09. | |
in tomorrow night's Look North. And you can add your thoughts on the | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
referendum debate on Twitter, using Former factory workers from Carlisle | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
have become unlikely stars thanks to a new book by writer Hunter Davies | :16:20. | :16:34. | |
which chronicles their working lives at one of the | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
country's last biscuit factories. The women, known locally | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
as cracker packers, worked `t Some of this work is now allost | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
fully automated ` machines effectively packing | :16:42. | :16:51. | |
the little round crackers that have In years gone by, | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
this work was done by hand, Their story, according to | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
the author in his new book, is the story of social change in the | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
last decades of the 20th century. It's basically the history | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
of the six women who are retired The publisher did not | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
like the title. Or is it cracker meaning wh`t | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
a scorcher. So it's been called The Biscuit | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
Girls, it's social history `nd I just wanted to commemorate | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
the lives of these women. Sadly, one of the women featured | :17:26. | :17:34. | |
in the book has died, but the five others were at a special latnch | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
inside the factory they werd all I came from school | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
and always enjoyed it. Most of the time, I think it's nice | :17:41. | :19:38. | |
when people come up and say hello, especially if they say they have | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
enjoyed what you have done. Alan was brought up in | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
Annfield Plain. Now his achievements have bden | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
recognised in more solid form. Stanley's Civic Hall has now been | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
renamed the Alun Armstrong Theatre. Appropriately, | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
his stage career began therd. All actors have a terrible nightmare | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
where they are suddenly in ` theatre and they haven't learned thd lines | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
and they wake up in a cold sweat. Well, for years, I would have | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
a dream where I was on this stage and I didn't know the lines and I | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
used to wake up in a cold sweat Said Mistress Bell, | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
you had better clean the st`irs .. From Geordie music hall herd with | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
Tim Healey to blockbuster movies with Clint Eastwood to | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
Les Miserables in the West Dnd. To have something | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
like this is incredible and, of course, my parents would have | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
been proud as peacocks. Now, never short of our showbiz | :20:31. | :20:54. | |
story. A friend of mine is in the opening | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
scene in get Carter. That's amazing. What have you got? | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
There's a rugby double headdr on Tyneside this Sunday. | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
League side Gateshead Thunddr will play their biggest game for years | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
in the Championship One plaxoffs straight after their new owners | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
Newcastle Falcons, play thehr first home game of the season. | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
And it could be the start of more Thunder games at Kingston P`rk. | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
Everybody thought, here we go again,. But there's a lot of | :21:19. | :21:56. | |
optimism around the place. Good things are starting to happdn. | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
Stags, who they've beaten twice already this season. They'll be | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
playing at 6pm at Kingston Park after the Falcons face London Irish. | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
The RFL has given the game `re go`ahead. Even though the Stags have | :22:15. | :22:23. | |
complained that some of thehr players won't make the round`trip if | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
they have work the next day. We are in a competition where | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
everyone beats everyone every week. There is no complacency in our camp. | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
We've got to keep working h`rd for the rest of the week and hopefully | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
the results will come off the back of it. It's going to be really | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
exciting, the lads are lookhng forward to it. Hopefully, wd'll get | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
a decent crowd stop behind the Falcons game | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
and obviously will get our own loyal fans as well. It's more of ` big | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
stage, to be honest. The new 3G artificial pitch now allows for | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
unlimited rugby to be played here. So we could be seeing more Gateshead | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
Thunder games here in the ftture. We are conscious that Gateshead Thunder | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
have a 15 year history in G`teshead. We're not saying definitely, let's | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
get this season out of the way, On to cricket, and a vital round of | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
matches for our teams at both ends Adam Lyth gave leaders Yorkshire | :23:04. | :23:15. | |
a great start against title rivals Nottinghamshire, | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
with a century at Trent Bridge. Lyth, who's from Whitby | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
and who's being tipped for `n England call`up, shared an opening | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
stand of 176 with Andrew Leds. He was eventually caught | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
and bowled by a fellow`Yorkshireman ` veteran spinner Gary Keedx ` | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
for a very impressive 122. And Yorkshire will go | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
into the second day on... And Scott Borthwick made a welcome | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
return to form for Durham, with a big century in their relegation | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
battle with Middlesex at Lord's Now, the search has begun to find | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
the region's top sporting volunteer. We're looking for the man or woman | :23:49. | :24:02. | |
who really goes the extra mhle to keep his or her club going, | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
or to promote their favourite game. On offer is the title of our | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
Unsung Hero. The winner will be announced at the | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
BBC North East Sports Awards, this year taking place at the Billingham | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
Forum Theatre on Teesside, Last year, | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
the honour went to long`serving Gateshead athletics coach | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
Sid Robson, who went on to represent the region at the BBC Sports | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
Personality of the Year Awards, where he was up against the other | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
winners from around the country So it's time to put | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
your nominations in. all one word ` to find out more | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
about how to put someone forward. Nominations close | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
on Monday the 20th of Octobdr. You can also call 0845 308 | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
8000 to request a nomination Calls cost up to 5p a minutd | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
from most landlines. And calls from mobiles may | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
cost considerably more. The last day we'll send out | :24:53. | :25:01. | |
nomination forms will be So far, so good. Here is thd lovely | :25:02. | :25:31. | |
misty morning on the Cumbri`n border. And the fruitfulness? Here | :25:32. | :25:44. | |
are some autumn berries. Tolorrow, and for the next few days, high | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
pressure is in charge of thd weather, nothing changing vdry | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
quickly. Staying mostly dry and Chile at night. Tonight, well broken | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
cloud, some mist and fog patches and Chile. Just into single figtres But | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
like last night, some places could drop to 56 degrees. `` five or six | :26:11. | :26:24. | |
degrees. Tomorrow, some patchy cloud of round, possibly feeling dven a | :26:25. | :26:34. | |
little bit warmer. Could get up to 22 Celsius in parts of comp via `` | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
Cumbria. Always cooler further east, but 18 or 90 degrees in the sunshine | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
fair. High pressure in charge of the weather. The centre of it is | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
drifting to Scandinavia, but the pressure is high over the UK the | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
next few days and the weekend. Lots of dry weather to be had. When the | :27:01. | :27:09. | |
sun comes out, temperatures into the low 20s. But that the end of the | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
week, perhaps a bit more cloud. A bit more cloud and temperattres down | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
a shade. Keep up`to`date on the BBC weather app. | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
Thanks, we should have programme in Carlisle tomorrow! | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
The Prime Minister, the Deptty Prime Minister and the leader of the | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
opposition will travel to Scotland tomorrow to join the referendum | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
campaign which has been described as blind panic by the Scottish National | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
party. And that. This has rdfused to comment after BBC look North was | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
shown a confidential report into the Horizon computer system which made | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
it appear as if sub postmasters were stealing from their employers when | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
they had done nothing. That is all for now. Goodbyd. | :28:07. | :28:08. |