:00:14. > :00:15.Good evening. for the news where you are.
:00:16. > :00:18.Disgusting, disgraceful, sh`meful. That's how the behaviour of one of
:00:19. > :00:21.our councils has been descrhbed after it employed security guards at
:00:22. > :00:23.a care home where a pensiondr was celebrating his 84th birthd`y party.
:00:24. > :00:26.Don Robson and daughter in law Michelle have been staging ` sit`in
:00:27. > :00:29.against Durham County Counchl's plans to close Newton House in
:00:30. > :00:32.Stanhope. But ` on his last day in the home ` some of Don's relatives
:00:33. > :00:36.were refused entry to the p`rty The council said it employed thd
:00:37. > :00:40.security staff because the family refused to say how many people would
:00:41. > :00:44.be attending. Stuart Whincup reports.
:00:45. > :00:46.There were security guards at the front door, patrolling
:00:47. > :00:59.Friends and members of the ledia were locked out of the car park
:01:00. > :01:01.All this because an 84`year`old man was
:01:02. > :01:10.The party carried on inside while outside Don's daughter was still
:01:11. > :01:14.I'm disgusted, I'm shocked, I cannot believe that.
:01:15. > :01:17.They are spending all this loney on security when they cannot keep
:01:18. > :01:23.They will do anything to stop us going in to see him.
:01:24. > :01:27.Only 15 people were allowed inside but no one seemed to know why.
:01:28. > :01:43.This is disgusting and disgraceful behaviour.
:01:44. > :01:45.what do they think is going to happen?
:01:46. > :01:50.The countil say they were concerned it was widely advertised
:01:51. > :01:54.on social media and Mrs Robson refused to take responsibilhty
:01:55. > :02:09.It set the number for the p`rty at 16.
:02:10. > :02:11.Despite it all, he said he enjoyed his birthday
:02:12. > :02:22.So after the sirens, security and arguments Don's family
:02:23. > :02:30.Today was their last day in Newton House.
:02:31. > :02:33.Police are investigating thd death of a woman in east Cleveland.
:02:34. > :02:37.The body of the 39 year old was found at a house on New Road
:02:38. > :02:40.Officers are treating her ddath as unexplained.
:02:41. > :02:42.A 37`old man's been arrested and is being questioned by police
:02:43. > :02:46.A four`year battle over a controversial waste incindrator
:02:47. > :02:52.The County Council approved the plans this afternoon for thd site at
:02:53. > :02:54.Allerton Park near Knaresborough, despite strong protests.
:02:55. > :02:56.It'll cost ?1.4 billion over 25 years
:02:57. > :02:58.but will burn enough waste to heat more than 40,000 homes.
:02:59. > :03:01.Today's decision has been a bitter blow for campaigners who've fought
:03:02. > :03:14.Labour has promised new powers for local areas
:03:15. > :03:18.It's in the wake of the Scottish referendum and promises
:03:19. > :03:22.Our Political Correspondent Mark Denten asked the Labour Leader,
:03:23. > :03:24.on the last day of the Labotr conference in Manchester,
:03:25. > :03:34.what specific powers might be given to the North East and Cumbrha.
:03:35. > :03:44.We have made a really excithng plans to give greater powers to local
:03:45. > :03:48.government, around skills, transport and economic development. Not just
:03:49. > :03:55.powers but millions of pounds of resources as well. That is the whole
:03:56. > :04:00.country. You know the North East has particular problems with tr`nsport,
:04:01. > :04:05.health inequalities, economhc awards are going to Scotland as opposed to
:04:06. > :04:12.this region. What extra powdrs will your party gift to our region? We
:04:13. > :04:18.will get extra powers to thd North East. Those are the powers H have
:04:19. > :04:23.set out. These are the most exciting and comprehensive plans to reverse
:04:24. > :04:31.the centralisation of England that we have seen in decades. We will get
:04:32. > :04:37.more than perhaps Kent, Sussex? It is right across the country. That is
:04:38. > :04:41.why we have said we will have a convent `` constitutional convention
:04:42. > :04:46.asking people how they want to change things. There are two ways of
:04:47. > :04:51.doing this, led by Westminster, there was a referendum on the North
:04:52. > :04:57.East on a regional assembly and it got to know. Letters look at this
:04:58. > :05:06.and C what kind of power as the North East wants to see? Will that
:05:07. > :05:10.not take ages? Now, we will have a convention in autumn 2015 after the
:05:11. > :05:14.election. It is really important to have what the people in the North
:05:15. > :05:17.East want to say about changing things.
:05:18. > :05:19.The lost village of Mardald in Cumbria, flooded
:05:20. > :05:21.in the 1930s to create Haweswater Reservoir, has begun to re`dmerge.
:05:22. > :05:24.The remains of the village, last seen nearly 20 years ago
:05:25. > :05:26.have become visible because of an unusually dry Septembdr.
:05:27. > :05:30.Now in view are the remains of a church and roads which used to
:05:31. > :05:41.He suffered a 22,000 volt electric shock in an accident which put him
:05:42. > :05:45.Now John Dodsworth has been to visit the medics who rescued him.
:05:46. > :05:48.John was working on a farm hn County Durham when a piece
:05:49. > :05:56.of equipment he was using touched an overhead power line.
:05:57. > :06:06.I had severe burns to my neck. To my back, the back of my legs and my
:06:07. > :06:12.head. I needed skin grafts. They put a detainee plate my head. If it had
:06:13. > :06:17.not been for the Air Ambulance, he would not be here today. Thd also
:06:18. > :06:25.helped my brother who had a bike accident, so that is to people in
:06:26. > :06:29.the family they really helpdd. Football, if you do not want to know
:06:30. > :06:37.the score, turning the sound down now. Newcastle one 3`2 after a
:06:38. > :06:45.period of extra time. Neithdr the weather. Thank you very much. It is
:06:46. > :06:50.dry at the moment but the clothes will increase from the North
:06:51. > :06:55.bringing some drizzle to a few places. Temperatures in single
:06:56. > :07:00.figures but the breeze will pick up by the end of the night. Tolorrow
:07:01. > :07:09.morning, it is a cloudy and damp start. By lunch time you will notice
:07:10. > :07:14.eastern regions brightening up, especially through the afternoon.
:07:15. > :07:19.Further west, a lot of cloud and drizzly rain. Temperatures hn the
:07:20. > :07:25.high teens. 20 Celsius is possible in the East. Freddie and Saturday
:07:26. > :07:28.will be bright and breezy. Temperatures in the high tedns. #
:07:29. > :07:42.Friday and Saturday. The National Good evening. Many of us had some
:07:43. > :07:46.welcome rain for the gardens overnight. But away from the
:07:47. > :07:51.north-west, rain doesn't feature heavily in the forecast for the next
:07:52. > :07:53.few days. We did have some good sunshine. These were captured by Ted