:00:00. > :00:00.Hello, and welcome to Wednesday's Look North.
:00:07. > :00:12.An inquest hears how a woman raised concerns with staff at a troubled
:00:13. > :00:15.care home about the treatment of her elderly husband.
:00:16. > :00:18.Residents claim they're counting the cost after homes for vulnerable
:00:19. > :00:22.Lifeboat Launch - after months of fundraising volunteers welcome
:00:23. > :00:28.And this is one of just ten sites that are going to be taking part
:00:29. > :00:31.in a unique exhibition along the full length of Hadrian's Wall.
:00:32. > :00:36.In football - more misery for David Moyes.
:00:37. > :00:41.It's now six games without a win or a goal for Sunderland.
:00:42. > :00:44.And after a traumatic winter for Durham County Cricket Club,
:00:45. > :00:59.they're hoping the fightback is about to begin.
:01:00. > :01:02.An inquest into the deaths of three men at a care home
:01:03. > :01:05.in North Yorkshire has heard that one of those who died was emaciated
:01:06. > :01:12.Albert Pooley died last year at Sowerby House -
:01:13. > :01:15.a care home in Thirsk that's been at the centre of recent controversy.
:01:16. > :01:18.At today's inquest, his wife said prior to his death she'd raised
:01:19. > :01:23.Phil Connell's been at today's inquest and joins us now
:01:24. > :01:38.The inquest heard today from Albert Pooley's wife Kathleen who said that
:01:39. > :01:44.she had raised concerns with staff at Abbey house about the levels of
:01:45. > :01:48.care that he'd been receiving. -- at sour the house. Mrs Pooley was seen
:01:49. > :01:51.here arriving in the dark jacket saying she feared that he wasn't
:01:52. > :01:56.being fed properly or being given enough to drink. She also had
:01:57. > :01:59.concerns about him being bathed and showered. The inquest has also heard
:02:00. > :02:04.evidence from Christina Parsons, a nurse who did one shift here at the
:02:05. > :02:07.home in April of last year. She described how residents have been
:02:08. > :02:12.left that in your ring and how one man was left to have his breakfast
:02:13. > :02:19.with hundreds of ants covering the table. -- left sat in you're in. She
:02:20. > :02:22.spoke to me outside the court. I was horrified. I was trying to
:02:23. > :02:26.address the problem so that others could deal with it. I spoke to the
:02:27. > :02:30.nurse that I was working alongside. I spent to the manager, but nothing
:02:31. > :02:35.was getting done about these incidents during this has been a
:02:36. > :02:42.troubled care home? That's right. The home has been the
:02:43. > :02:46.focus of controversial headlines in recent years. In 2015 the death of
:02:47. > :02:49.one resident here sparked a major investigation, while last year the
:02:50. > :02:54.quality of care was strongly criticised in a report by the Care
:02:55. > :02:57.Quality Commission. That led to the home being downgraded to
:02:58. > :03:01.residential. Just this week, one member of its nursing staff faced a
:03:02. > :03:10.misconduct proceedings after falling asleep while she was on duty. Has
:03:11. > :03:13.the home had anything to say, Phil? The owners of the home have said
:03:14. > :03:18.that mistakes have been corrected and that a new management team has
:03:19. > :03:22.now been put in place. We did here today from Joe Rankin, the former
:03:23. > :03:25.manager here at the home. She admitted that there were
:03:26. > :03:28.deficiencies in record keeping, because she said staff at the time
:03:29. > :03:33.just didn't recognise its importance. She was asked by the
:03:34. > :03:38.coroner, did you have proper control? Two that she replied, I
:03:39. > :03:39.think I tried my very best. The inquest continues tomorrow. Thank
:03:40. > :03:44.you. A man's been jailed after pointing
:03:45. > :03:48.a fake gun at a young family in a road rage incident
:03:49. > :03:51.on the A1 in Gateshead. 38-year-old Craig Mafhan was driving
:03:52. > :03:53.on the Western Bypass last He pulled alongside the other
:03:54. > :03:59.driver, whose two children were in the car, and pointed
:04:00. > :04:03.what looked like a handgun at him. He was jailed for 27 months
:04:04. > :04:06.after pleading guilty to possession of an imitation firearm
:04:07. > :04:13.with intent to cause fear. An investigation is under way
:04:14. > :04:18.after claims a workman was seen with a can of beer at a demolition
:04:19. > :04:22.site hours after a major incident. He was in the site office
:04:23. > :04:25.of the Odeon demolition on Pilgrim Street in Newcastle
:04:26. > :04:27.on Tuesday morning. Part of the building
:04:28. > :04:29.and scaffolding collapsed They complain that their worst fears
:04:30. > :04:38.have been realised - crime has increased and their
:04:39. > :04:40.repeated complaints ignored. That's what some people living
:04:41. > :04:43.near two care homes for vulnerable They say the police have been
:04:44. > :04:52.called 200 times in nine months. Stockton Council opened the homes
:04:53. > :04:55.so children didn't have to be sent and it says the majority of police
:04:56. > :05:00.calls have nothing to do with crime. In packed public meetings,
:05:01. > :05:04.some claimed the homes would bring crime, vandalism and anti-social
:05:05. > :05:07.behaviour to their quiet villages. Now, those same people say
:05:08. > :05:11.they've been proved right. They say the police have recived
:05:12. > :05:15.119 calls about this care home We are hearing about general
:05:16. > :05:21.vandalism, assaults in the home. How can you be sure
:05:22. > :05:24.the vandalism and We just generally
:05:25. > :05:30.approached the police. You just don't get that police
:05:31. > :05:38.activity if there is no issues. Before the home was opened,
:05:39. > :05:41.we had one community police officer, That was how much criminal
:05:42. > :05:45.activity there was in People living near the care homes
:05:46. > :05:49.in Hartburn and Stillington say between last May and this
:05:50. > :05:51.January, Cleveland Police received 200 calls about
:05:52. > :05:53.incidents at the two homes. The figures from a Freedom
:05:54. > :05:56.of Information request showed the majority involved
:05:57. > :05:59.children going missing. But there were 19 incidents
:06:00. > :06:01.of violence against a person, and 23 reported incidents
:06:02. > :06:05.of criminal damage We are very anxious that the
:06:06. > :06:10.residents have a quiet life, really. The new manager starts in the home
:06:11. > :06:15.next week and we want to work alongside him and the existing staff
:06:16. > :06:18.at Red Plains to achieve the best The homes were set up so vulnerable
:06:19. > :06:26.children would no longer have to be moved to other parts of the country
:06:27. > :06:30.away from family and friends. The aim was to give them
:06:31. > :06:33.a better start in life. Nobody from Stockton Council
:06:34. > :06:37.would talk camera today. But in a statement it said
:06:38. > :06:41.the homes were well-run It said it's not uncommon
:06:42. > :06:53.for the police to be called to children's homes because staff
:06:54. > :06:55.have to follow strict guidelines. They must call the police every time
:06:56. > :06:58.a child or young person does And that's the reason, it says,
:06:59. > :07:02.for the vast majority The council says these
:07:03. > :07:05.are not "bad children" What they really need now, it says,
:07:06. > :07:13.is support from local people. "Like exchanging an old
:07:14. > :07:17.Cortina for a Ferrari" - that's the view of one member
:07:18. > :07:22.of the Workington Lifeboat team after taking delivery of a new,
:07:23. > :07:26.?2.1 million rescue vessel. The Shannon-class boat,
:07:27. > :07:29.called the Dorothy May after the woman who left
:07:30. > :07:32.?1 million to the RNLI in her will, is quicker and more manoeuvrable
:07:33. > :07:34.than her predecessor. Mark McAlindon joined
:07:35. > :07:40.the fanfare for her arrival. Flat out at 25 knots,
:07:41. > :07:44.the Dorothy May White is a speedier successor to the John Fisher she's
:07:45. > :07:49.come to a place in Workington. And at a cost of ?2.1 million
:07:50. > :07:54.is a substantial investment. It's a bit like going from a Ford
:07:55. > :07:58.Cortina to a nice new Ferrari. You're getting to look inside,
:07:59. > :08:04.everything is fly-by wires, It's got jets instead of propellors,
:08:05. > :08:16.and she's capable of doing 25 knots, where is our current lifeboat
:08:17. > :08:20.does 16, 17 knots. But this is a tough business,
:08:21. > :08:24.saving lives at sea. The crew here say that this
:08:25. > :08:27.is a light sea, but there It just shows you how brave these
:08:28. > :08:32.guys are that when they do head out to sea at times of crisis,
:08:33. > :08:34.this environment can In dreadful seas, a pair
:08:35. > :08:39.of distressed and seasick sailors are towed 30 miles over seven hours
:08:40. > :08:42.to safety by this team. The new boat will mean getting two
:08:43. > :08:44.incidents much quicker. This boat and its capabilities,
:08:45. > :08:46.the old boat was great, This is the edge of
:08:47. > :08:52.cutting technology. This boat's capability at sea,
:08:53. > :08:56.it's a wonderful baked and it will service everything for many
:08:57. > :09:03.years to come. But there was no statutory support
:09:04. > :09:09.for these brave and selfless crews. The late Dorothy May left
:09:10. > :09:16.?1 million to the RNLI, while the trust stumped up ?500,000
:09:17. > :09:18.for this new vessel. We've had some very generous
:09:19. > :09:24.bequests, and I have to say that the support from the local
:09:25. > :09:29.community to our appeal We've been really, really grateful
:09:30. > :09:34.for everybody's help and it looks as though we will be very nearly
:09:35. > :09:37.that very shortly. So I'm very, very happy
:09:38. > :09:39.indeed about that. The John Fisher will now go
:09:40. > :09:41.into some form of retirement while the Dorothy May White will be
:09:42. > :09:44.keeping the shores they Great shot there, I hope your
:09:45. > :09:56.stomachs are settled lobbed! When the Tees Valley Mayor takes
:09:57. > :09:59.office they'll be given new powers It's certain to be a key
:10:00. > :10:03.issue in the election - so what could those
:10:04. > :10:05.new powers achieve? David Macmillan's been finding out,
:10:06. > :10:07.in the latest of our series looking at the election
:10:08. > :10:09.through five objects. When you ask people what tasks
:10:10. > :10:12.should be on the Tees Valley Mayor's to do list, improving the transport
:10:13. > :10:15.system is usually the top answer. So our next object
:10:16. > :10:17.is a humble ticket. Where trying to link
:10:18. > :10:19.people better to jobs, particularly in the city centre
:10:20. > :10:21.of Middlesbrough, with a public transport system that
:10:22. > :10:23.helps facilitate that. If you can't get good people
:10:24. > :10:25.easily and effectively from one place to another,
:10:26. > :10:27.it does put constraints on the attractiveness
:10:28. > :10:32.of the Northern economy The mayor won't have the money
:10:33. > :10:38.or power to embark on big transport But they can commission
:10:39. > :10:43.detailed plans and designs - something the region's combined
:10:44. > :10:45.authority has already done with proposals to transform
:10:46. > :10:48.Darlington's main railway station. We want people to be able to turn up
:10:49. > :10:51.to their local railway station, anywhere from Saltburn
:10:52. > :10:54.through to North Yorkshire, County Durham, right
:10:55. > :10:56.across the Tees Valley, and be able to get on a train
:10:57. > :10:59.and connect into Darlington, and then connects seamlessly
:11:00. > :11:02.onto high-speed rail Our ticket, though, is a bus ticket
:11:03. > :11:08.- a service many people in places Very important, because there's
:11:09. > :11:13.a lot of elderly people that live here, and they're stuck
:11:14. > :11:18.if there's bus service. On the whole, I think the bus
:11:19. > :11:24.service is pretty all right The mayor may get direct powers
:11:25. > :11:31.over the region's buses. New powers will give us the option
:11:32. > :11:34.to do that through different partnership arrangements
:11:35. > :11:36.with the bus operators, or potentially also
:11:37. > :11:41.for franchising those services. So buses, trains and railway
:11:42. > :11:43.stations, not to mention calls for a new road bridge over the Tees,
:11:44. > :11:48.and to secure the future of Durham Tees Valley Airport -
:11:49. > :11:51.transport could well be the defining issue for the first
:11:52. > :12:04.Tees Valley Mayor. Rare Roman artefacts are being put
:12:05. > :12:07.on display at museums along the 130-mile length
:12:08. > :12:09.of Hadrian's Wall, as part of an exhibition which launches
:12:10. > :12:12.at the end of the week. It's all part of a celebration
:12:13. > :12:15.of the role of the Roman Cavalry. Museums from Maryport
:12:16. > :12:17.to South Shields are taking part. They include Vindolanda,
:12:18. > :12:33.where our reporter, It looks fantastic. It really has
:12:34. > :12:38.been a beautiful spring evening here. That sunlight has been showing
:12:39. > :12:43.off the best that this historic site had to offer. It's one of ten over
:12:44. > :12:46.the stretch of Hadrian's Wall, which will be part of this exhibition
:12:47. > :12:51.which has seen artefacts imported from all over the UK and Europe to
:12:52. > :12:54.celebrate the role of the Roman cavalry. More on what will be going
:12:55. > :12:59.on here in a moment, but first we have been taking a look at
:13:00. > :13:01.preparations at the Great North Museum in Newcastle.
:13:02. > :13:04.The unveiling of a very special and eerie visitor.
:13:05. > :13:06.This rare Ribchester-style helmet would have been won
:13:07. > :13:13.It's owned by the British Museum, but for the next five months
:13:14. > :13:16.it'll be on display at Newcastle's Great North Museum.
:13:17. > :13:18.It's part of an ambitious exhibition spanning ten venues
:13:19. > :13:22.along Hadrian's Wall, from Maryport to South Shields.
:13:23. > :13:25.People, when they think of Hadrian's Wall, imagine a lonely
:13:26. > :13:28.soldier stood on the top of it peering out to the north.
:13:29. > :13:30.Actually, there were thousands and thousands of men here,
:13:31. > :13:39.So we want to put on an exhibition that really explored
:13:40. > :13:42.what it was like being a cavalrymen on Hadrian's Wall, but also
:13:43. > :13:45.in the Roman Empire as a whole, because it a much overlooked topic.
:13:46. > :13:47.Roman cavalrymen were the bling of the Roman army.
:13:48. > :13:50.These guys had all the shiny kit, from these incredible parade helmets
:13:51. > :13:53.with their beautiful facemask and really ornate pieces of art,
:13:54. > :14:06.Through to gorgeous saddle plates for horses.
:14:07. > :14:11.and helmets were used simply for show, or to
:14:12. > :14:14.Another artefact returning to the region is the helmet
:14:15. > :14:16.discovered in Crosby Garrett in Cumbria, which will be shown
:14:17. > :14:20.It's been incredible watching all of these amazing things come in.
:14:21. > :14:22.We've got loads from the British Museum,
:14:23. > :14:24.the National Museum of Scotland, from museums on the continent
:14:25. > :14:28.We really have assembled, for me, the a list of Roman
:14:29. > :14:33.The highlight in every museum, there is a piece that is just
:14:34. > :14:34.outstanding, gorgeous, no other word for it,
:14:35. > :14:50.I'm joined now by Barbara, the creator here at Vindolanda. Tell me
:14:51. > :14:54.a little bit about what people coming here can expect as part of
:14:55. > :14:57.the exhibition? We have some national and international loans.
:14:58. > :15:08.Worst of all we have a cavalry helmet coming down from Scotland, as
:15:09. > :15:11.well as a headpiece, which is a horse's ceremonial headpiece, which
:15:12. > :15:14.has come from France. Did they take as much pride in their horses as
:15:15. > :15:20.they did in themselves? Yes, they did. We even have, from the
:15:21. > :15:25.collection here at Vindolanda, a leather headpiece found in previous
:15:26. > :15:28.excavations him of the site. Exhibit of a living exhibition. Tell
:15:29. > :15:32.me what else will be going on over the summer. We have ongoing
:15:33. > :15:39.excavations over the site which means we could be working on areas
:15:40. > :15:43.where we have more cavalry equipment out. Does that mean we could find
:15:44. > :15:49.the next Roman helmet here at Vindolanda? Them that be nice! Very
:15:50. > :15:54.possibly we could. Thanks, Barbara. This is one of ten sites people are
:15:55. > :15:59.being told to take their time to visit over the next month. There
:16:00. > :16:02.will also be a very special Roman soil Trooping of the Colour taking
:16:03. > :16:05.part in Carlisle at the beginning of July. -- Roman style Trooping of the
:16:06. > :16:06.Colour. Sounds brilliant. A new play set in the world
:16:07. > :16:09.of semi-professional football opens Following its critically acclaimed
:16:10. > :16:12.run at the National Theatre, The Red Lion has been specially
:16:13. > :16:15.adapted for the North East and stars DCI Banks actor Stephen Tompkinson,
:16:16. > :16:17.The Bill's John Bowler and up-and-coming
:16:18. > :16:18.local talent Dean Bone. Our Arts Reporter,
:16:19. > :16:32.Sharuna Sagar, reports. Some big bully kicks you. If you go
:16:33. > :16:36.down, you show you are hurt because you are.
:16:37. > :16:40.The Red Lion is a dressing room drama set in a northern non-league
:16:41. > :16:45.soccer club, and the action is all off the pitch.
:16:46. > :16:50.Throw in, foul, offside, corner. Any decision on the rack has got to
:16:51. > :16:53.make, make him think for us. It is a three header and prime-time
:16:54. > :16:59.actor and Boro fan Stephen Tompkinson please the manager.
:17:00. > :17:05.I don't cheat. He's got ambitions to get to the premiership by hook or by
:17:06. > :17:09.crook. As they borrowed time, you are used to... Heartache! An
:17:10. > :17:14.emotional roller-coaster. This season has been no exception. You
:17:15. > :17:19.put a lot of yourself into your club and they somehow reflect you.
:17:20. > :17:23.Passion is transferred into this role stopped well I noticed your
:17:24. > :17:29.Teesside accent is very strong in the play. Absolutely, yes. It all
:17:30. > :17:35.comes flooding back. It's great, it's home. It's coming home.
:17:36. > :17:40.Guidance. You may recognise another familiar
:17:41. > :17:45.face from TV - John Bowler. He grew up in Newcastle and is making his
:17:46. > :17:49.debut at live theatre as the kick man -- kit man.
:17:50. > :17:53.He is very old school and doesn't like the business side of it. Having
:17:54. > :17:58.a knowledge of being a Newcastle United fan, you get all aspects of
:17:59. > :18:03.that also I'm just trying be tactful! How much time do you spend
:18:04. > :18:12.mass lodging your co-star? He's a lucky lad, isn't he? Lucky old Dean.
:18:13. > :18:14.That is Dean Bone, a fellow Magpie supporter and rising star from
:18:15. > :18:19.Gateshead. When I was asked what I wanted to do
:18:20. > :18:22.when I was younger it was playful. Weitzel you can relate to your
:18:23. > :18:26.character? Definitely. At least he gets to be a footballer
:18:27. > :18:33.now. The play runs until the 6th of May.
:18:34. > :18:37.Its football! It's how the poor survive.
:18:38. > :18:40.Which leads us on to me, this fully professional.
:18:41. > :18:43.Now, whether you're a Sunderland fan whose glass is half-full
:18:44. > :18:46.or half-empty, the game is almost up for the Premier League's
:18:47. > :18:49.Manager David Moyes saw his miserable and controversial week
:18:50. > :18:51.continue last night with yet another defeat - 2-0 at the
:18:52. > :18:55.The Black Cats are eight points adrift at the bottom with just
:18:56. > :19:03.The evening started as well as it could for David Moyes,
:19:04. > :19:05.with Sunderland publicly standing by its under-fire manager -
:19:06. > :19:07.despite condemning as "wholly unacceptable" off-camera remarks
:19:08. > :19:09.he made to a female BBC reporter, prompting front
:19:10. > :19:17.Moyes hopes to have drawn a line under the matter.
:19:18. > :19:19.He'll wish he could do the same to the current
:19:20. > :19:23.In fairness to a Sunderland side the 53-year-old Scot has
:19:24. > :19:25.frequently said lacks quality, they gave a decent account
:19:26. > :19:27.of themselves for an hour, keeping a rejuventated Leicester
:19:28. > :19:35.But the home side's caretaker boss Craig Shakespeare had the advantage
:19:36. > :19:37.of a substitutes bench that could change the game.
:19:38. > :19:40.And two of them, Albrighton and Slimani, combined to present
:19:41. > :19:42.the latter with a straightforward chance to break Wearside hearts.
:19:43. > :19:46.If this deflected effort from the returning Anichebe,
:19:47. > :19:49.badly missed since his injury, had gone in, well - who knows?
:19:50. > :19:51.But just over 90 seconds later a Leicester counter-attack,
:19:52. > :19:54.with Albrighton again at the fore, granted Jamie Vardy the chance
:19:55. > :19:56.to remind us how the Foxes won the league last season.
:19:57. > :19:58.With former club Man United visiting Wearside on Sunday,
:19:59. > :20:01.Moyes knows the relegation trapdoor is opening ever wider.
:20:02. > :20:05.It's just that we didn't do a couple of really simple things right
:20:06. > :20:09.We created one or two opportunities, not many.
:20:10. > :20:17.But it was always going to be that way for us.
:20:18. > :20:20.So the two-month wait for a win and a goal goes on.
:20:21. > :20:27.The Black Cats are fast running out of lives.
:20:28. > :20:29.This is how the table looks ahead of Middlesbrough's bottom
:20:30. > :20:32.of the table clash at head coach Steve Agnew's former club,
:20:33. > :20:40.Boro have lost four of their last six games.
:20:41. > :20:42.That's one fewer than Sunderland - but they're
:20:43. > :20:47.They'll be without defender Fabio after he suffered concussion
:20:48. > :20:51.Midfielder Gaston Ramirez is also a doubt for a must-win game,
:20:52. > :20:54.where the emphasis will be on trying to end the club's goal drought.
:20:55. > :20:57.We can go on, and on, and on about tactics and
:20:58. > :21:02.The bottom line is we have to take risks in the top end of the field.
:21:03. > :21:06.And there the messages that we've been sending through to the players.
:21:07. > :21:08.We are determined to keep Middlesbrough football club
:21:09. > :21:11.in the Premier League and we will be doing everything we possibly can
:21:12. > :21:18.Newcastle were knocked off the top of the Championship table
:21:19. > :21:20.last night by Brighton, who were 3-1 winners
:21:21. > :21:24.But victory over Burton Albion at St James's Park tonight would,
:21:25. > :21:26.once again, put the Magpies out in front.
:21:27. > :21:31.A 50,000 crowd for their first visit to Tyneside could well
:21:32. > :21:33.lift the visitors - whose home gates are
:21:34. > :21:37.But it's something Newcastle have had to cope with this season.
:21:38. > :21:40.When you are in a top side in this division,
:21:41. > :21:44.the fans are expecting and you have to score, you have
:21:45. > :21:46.to attack and you have to make a lot of chances.
:21:47. > :21:49.When you are attacking, sometimes you are unfortunate when you have
:21:50. > :21:52.If you concede an early goal, it's like this.
:21:53. > :22:02.We have to go up and stay up until the end.
:22:03. > :22:05.Back to last night's action, and York City had lost just one
:22:06. > :22:08.in seven before their surprise 2-0 home defeat by Bromley
:22:09. > :22:13.It leaves the Minstermen in the National League relegation zone,
:22:14. > :22:20.The new cricket season is just around the corner.
:22:21. > :22:23.Yorkshire open their campaign in Division One of the County
:22:24. > :22:25.Championship on Friday, taking on Hampshire at Headingley.
:22:26. > :22:27.Durham, despite finishing fourth last season,
:22:28. > :22:29.were relegated to Division Two - the punishment dished out
:22:30. > :22:32.by the English Cricket Board for the county's financial problems.
:22:33. > :22:39.It feels like the club is having to start all over again.
:22:40. > :22:41.April, 1992 and Durham, with new signing Ian Botham,
:22:42. > :22:47.are about to embark on their first season as a first-class club.
:22:48. > :22:50.Fast forward a quarter of a century, and Durham, with Sir
:22:51. > :22:54.Ian Botham their new chairman, are about to embark on a season
:22:55. > :22:56.which, thanks to the ECB, sees them newly-relegated
:22:57. > :23:02.and already 48 points behind the rest of the field.
:23:03. > :23:05.There's still that sense of injustice and that sort
:23:06. > :23:12.But I wouldn't say that we're completely over it, but it's
:23:13. > :23:17.Can you actually to your advantage to maybe galvanise
:23:18. > :23:24.If the season started in November, then that might have
:23:25. > :23:29.It's quite a while to hold onto that sort of anger for six months,
:23:30. > :23:34.So we've kind of put it down now and the last three or four months
:23:35. > :23:37.basically just preparing in the normal way, and not dwelling
:23:38. > :23:39.too much on the points and the relegation.
:23:40. > :23:40.Because it's nothing we can really control.
:23:41. > :23:43.We just now need to crack on and play good cricket.
:23:44. > :23:46.South African Test star Stephen Cook will arrive in time
:23:47. > :23:48.for the Good Friday opener at home to Nottingham.
:23:49. > :23:50.And despite fears he might join batsman Mark Stoneman
:23:51. > :23:52.and all-rounder Scott Borthwick in leaving the club,
:23:53. > :23:54.last summer's top scorer, Keaton Jennings, is back
:23:55. > :23:56.at the Riverside - hoping this year will be
:23:57. > :24:01.It was the year dreams are made of, really.
:24:02. > :24:04.Just from starting the season off with 200 against Somerset and ending
:24:05. > :24:07.with a Test cap at 100, which was absolutely incredible.
:24:08. > :24:10.Just a real memory that I think I will cherish.
:24:11. > :24:14.And hopefully a good story that I'll be able
:24:15. > :24:18.And by the time Keaton's grandkids are watching, the skipper,
:24:19. > :24:22.a sprightly 41 next month, might just have hung up the boots.
:24:23. > :24:27.I want to be part of a team that does something special in getting
:24:28. > :24:33.Hopefully it will be this year, but if it's not then I may have
:24:34. > :24:36.to stay on for another year next year!
:24:37. > :24:53.He's a survivor. A great lad. Tomorrow we look ahead to
:24:54. > :24:58.Yorkshire's season. I'm nervous now! It normally brings the frost and the
:24:59. > :25:01.snow. No sign of that, thankfully, for the time being.
:25:02. > :25:05.We start off tonight with a couple of April weather pictures. Starting
:25:06. > :25:12.on the Northumberland coast, a lovely April morning. Daffodils in
:25:13. > :25:16.full bloom. Further west, a lovely, peaceful end to the day on the
:25:17. > :25:21.Solway Firth. A couple of fishermen and their admiring the view.
:25:22. > :25:24.Tomorrow most places will have another dry day. Like today there
:25:25. > :25:28.will be a fair amount of cloud around on the whole, but like today
:25:29. > :25:33.it will break in places. There will be some sunny intervals. A fair
:25:34. > :25:38.amount of cloud around tonight. Cumbria stays cloudy for the bulk of
:25:39. > :25:42.the night, but mostly dry. Further east, a few breaks will appear from
:25:43. > :25:47.time to time with clearer spells. But there should be enough cloud and
:25:48. > :25:50.enough breeze to keep just about everywhere frost free. Temperature
:25:51. > :25:59.is no lower than is Evans eggs Celsius. -- seven Celsius. Tomorrow
:26:00. > :26:05.is another dry day for many of us. There will be a few gaps in the
:26:06. > :26:09.cloud. Eastern areas most likely to see those. But they tend to fill in
:26:10. > :26:13.at times through the day. I don't think anywhere will have unbroken
:26:14. > :26:17.sunshine tomorrow. Western parts tend to have fairly cloudy skies for
:26:18. > :26:23.the bulk of the day. Temperatures peaking around 13 Celsius. The wind
:26:24. > :26:27.giving a hint of changing from a north-westerly direction to more of
:26:28. > :26:30.a westerly for many of us tomorrow. That change in wind direction will
:26:31. > :26:33.continue as we head through the next few days. The centre of high
:26:34. > :26:36.pressure starts to shift away eastwards and we start to see a
:26:37. > :26:42.change from that westerly direction to a south-westerly. Eventually
:26:43. > :26:46.through the weekend, more of a southerly. That will do a couple of
:26:47. > :26:51.things to the weather. It should first of all start to break up the
:26:52. > :26:54.cloud. Still fairly cloudy skies on Friday. Temperatures again in the
:26:55. > :27:02.low teens at best. A westerly breeze. As the wind direction begins
:27:03. > :27:06.to change, it should become more broken. Saturday, a south-westerly
:27:07. > :27:11.breeze. We should be loose guys are many places. Temperatures beginning
:27:12. > :27:17.to climb towards the mid-teens for Sunday. They sell for south-westerly
:27:18. > :27:22.breeze. We should see temperatures of 18 Celsius. It wouldn't surprise
:27:23. > :27:25.me if somewhere on Sunday hit 20 Celsius. That's I was looking for
:27:26. > :27:31.the next few days and you can keep up to date on the BBC Whether App.
:27:32. > :27:54.You are the voice of reason. That's it from us tonight. Bye-bye.
:27:55. > :27:58.CHILD: This is a major scientific breakthrough.