18/10/2016 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Good evening. 11.00pm in Scotland.

Her family say they have no idea why anyone would take her lhfe.

But tonight an investigation's underway after a woman

was attacked in a busy street in broad daylight

27-year-old Jodie Wilkinson died after being stabbed

Our correspondent, Peter Harris, reports.

Jodie had been walking in the middle of the afternoon.

Then there was shouting and what looked like a largd fight.

This is a live and fast-moving enquiry.

There's more people involved in this incident, we know that

I want to appeal to anybody in the area who knows

who was responsible, or those individuals themselves

to come forward as soon as possible so we can move this enquiry forward

Scenes of crime officers have been at work all day.

A 25-year-old man with Jodid, also stabbed, has now left hospital.

The fact it all happened in the middle of the

There were children coming home from school at that time,

It was a sociable time of the day, really.

It was in broad daylight and I think that's what madd

it even more shocking, just the amount of people that

We're very saddened for the community here.

We want to do our best to support the community.

Our building is open, we're open, we're available to talk to `nybody

that wants to talk over this, because obviously it

Jodie Wilkinson's family have left tributes at the scene here.

They say she was a devoted `untie and a loving sister who would do

They say they've no idea whx anybody would want to take her life.

Extra patrols are in the area to reassure the public.

The police stress what happdned to Jodie was not a random attack.

At this stage, we do not have the weapon or weapons.

Again, the appeal today is not just for information about

who was responsible, it's about potentially

People coming home last night potentially covered in blood.

That will certainly help thhs investigation if we can recover

Peter joins us from the scene now. What the latest? The update is that

two more men have been arrested one aged 18 and another age 20. That

brings the total in custody to five. The police are still appealhng for

information because they believe anything up to half a dozen more men

may have been involved in this incident. This tonight is still very

much an ongoing investigation. Thanks, Peter.

Figures show that in the past year growing numbers of patients have had

to wait in ambulances outside the region's hospitals

because there's not enough space for them on the wards.

In one case an ambulance waited outside a hospital

Hospitals can be fined by NHS England if they don't admit

This is a knotty problem that the NHS has wrestled

with across the country, and in our region, for many years.

Essentially a patient is transported to a hospital,

but then rather than getting onto a ward immediately

A freedom of information repuest submitted to all the ambulance

service trusts by the Labour Party has revealed some figures of how

In the North East Ambulance Service Trust between 2013-14,

1,314 patients waited for over an hour outside

But by 2014-15, that figure had risen to 2,042 -

There were also increases in the North West, the area

A fourfold increase for the ambulance trust

there to 15,000 patients in that category.

And in Yorkshire as well, which covers North Yorkshird,

the Ambulance Service trust also recorded

a fourfold increase - 5,000 patients.

Paul Liversedge is from the North East Ambulance Servicd Trust.

I think it's a reflection of the pressures that the NHS

I think hand over delays are something that's

I think, in a sense, it doesn't necessarily relate

to ambulance activity, but certainly demand

on hospitals is far greater now than what it's ever been.

In a separate freedom of information request,

the NHS Trust that runs this hospital revealed that 413 patients

had waited over the length of one hour to actually get out

of the ambulance and onto the wards in the final period of 2015.

The trust says that since then those waits have decreased considdrably

and a special member of staff is placed to actually monitor

the length of time that patients are being seen,

An inquest's heard a man from West Cumbria died

after being ferociously attacked by his pet dog.

Stephen Hodgson suffered injuries to his neck and head at a house

His teenage daughters tried to save him from the dog.

The Staffordshire pitbull-cross died after police used

13 people have been arrested across the North East on suspicion

of trafficking people into the UK for exploitation

Addresses were searched in the Cowgate area

of Newcastle this morning - as well as Houghton-le-Spring

Ten people, who are believed to be the victims of exploitathon,

North East Ambulance Servicd staff have been teaching hundreds

of school children how to save a life.

As part of Restart A Heart Day, pupils have been taught

basic CPR skills, which can double a patient's

Of course, at this age, even learning something potdntially

critical like life-saving - well, it just seems like a bit of fun

And unlike many adults, the children come to weightx matters

like heart massage and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

I enjoyed it because now I know how to save somebody's life

How important do you think it is to have a go

Because it could save someone's life and you could be a hero.

Although they probably don't have the strength

to save a life themselves, they have the knowledge

now that they can grab an adult they can talk the adult through

If we can save some lives by making our children

knowledgeable, that's got to be a good thing.

They all can't wait to get their hands on the mannequins.

If we can just save one person's life by training these children

Middlesborough's Institute of Modern Art is asking the public

to pick rarely seen artworks from its storerooms

The museum's been criticised for exhibitions that were too

challenging and didn't engage people on Teesside.

It's Middlesbrough's Instittte of Modern Art, but in its storage

We are looking at a Lowry painting, very famous.

The painting by Lowry is ond of hundreds of currently unseen works.

The collection belongs to the town, built up long before Mima,

so the institute now wants the town to tell it what it would

like to see from here in a new permanent display.

They can come here, spend time inside this space

Look at the work and say, "I like this, I like that,

can you explain more what this is about,

The move marked something of a change in Mima's policx.

Ten years old next year, it's exhibitions have somethmes been

seen as too challenging, to obscure and not inclusivd.

The art world as we know it is not necessarily representathve

of all people's understanding of what art is.

I think it's the responsibility of museums like this

The first tours for the public next month.

Final selection will then bd made, with the rarely seen

displayed in a new collection gallery in February.

Football now, and just one score this evening.

In the Championship Newcastle United beat hosts Barnsley 2-0.

That's it from me this evenhng, time now to take a look

It was a luxury today and that cold spell will continue over thd next

few days. -- it was a lot chillier. I mostly dry night. Close p`ls for

many. -- clear spells for m`ny. Some shelter from the north-westdrly

breeze in certain areas. Perhaps some ground frost come tomorrow

morning. A cold start tomorrow but fine and dry with plenty of

sunshine. One or two showers on the north-east coast will urge slowly

inland through the afternoon. Cumbria should they dry throughout

with good sunny spells. That's when we will see the highest aftdrnoon

temperatures up to about 14 Celsius. It will never feel that one, even

with the sunshine, because the breeze also come down from that cold

northerly direction. Over the next few days, a struggle between high

and low pressure between thd east and West. But precious rich they far

enough away from us not to bother us too much. -- that high pressure

should stay far enough away from us. After tomorrow, a fair amount of

cloud on Thursday. A dry picture with temperatures in the low teens

at best. Into Friday and thd weekend, very similar. Mostly dry.

Matt Taylor has a full national forecast shortly.