:00:12. > :00:16.He was banned from driving only to get behind the wheel of ` car
:00:17. > :00:19.after a night of drinking and taking drugs.
:00:20. > :00:21.Then 20-year-old Tyrone Quinn drove his friends through
:00:22. > :00:24.a city centre at speed before losing control and killing
:00:25. > :00:29.Today Quinn sobbed in the dock as the victim's mother
:00:30. > :00:32.told the court he has devastated their lives.
:00:33. > :00:39.Caught on CCTV, the BMW speeds through Newcastle.
:00:40. > :00:43.The driver, Tyrone Quinn, had had a night on the drink,
:00:44. > :00:47.he'd taken cocaine and he w`s already a banned driver.
:00:48. > :00:53.killing promising young basketball player James Docherty.
:00:54. > :00:58.Today, a court heard of the moments before the tragedy.
:00:59. > :01:00.At this point, the city was still busy
:01:01. > :01:05.Witnesses described hearing the BMW's wheels screeching.
:01:06. > :01:08.Another said he had seen it rocking from side to side.
:01:09. > :01:12.And another said he had nevdr seen driving as reckless
:01:13. > :01:15.as he saw from Tyrone Quinn that night.
:01:16. > :01:19.The driving was probably thd worst you could possibly imagine.
:01:20. > :01:23.Not only with drugs, but with alcohol.
:01:24. > :01:32.This is a tragic event for James and his family.
:01:33. > :01:38.And he hasn't helped himself at all during this case.
:01:39. > :01:41.Quinn sat with his head bowdd as the court was addressed
:01:42. > :01:46."Why would you drive a car when you are under the infltence
:01:47. > :01:49."of drink and drugs?" she asked.
:01:50. > :01:51.She spoke of the "sadness, anger and disbelief"
:01:52. > :01:57.There is "a sense of emptindss without his presence," she said
:01:58. > :02:00.Quinn was jailed for six ye`rs and nine months.
:02:01. > :02:04.The judge told him, "You will have to live in the knowledge th`t
:02:05. > :02:10.Well, earlier I spoke to Peter and asked him if Tyrone Quinn
:02:11. > :02:17.What aggravated this is his history of being banned from driving,
:02:18. > :02:21.Added to that, only six days before this crash,
:02:22. > :02:24.he had been released from prison for a separate offence
:02:25. > :02:29.We were told in court today that Tyrone Quinn suffers
:02:30. > :02:34.from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder over the crash that killed his
:02:35. > :02:37.friend, though obviously anx remorse he is now suffering
:02:38. > :02:41.is nothing to what the victhm's family is going through.
:02:42. > :02:44.Indeed, the victim's mother, James Docherty, told the cotrt
:02:45. > :02:51.today, "I want my son back but that's not going to happen.
:02:52. > :02:55.After months of debate, the National Grid has announced
:02:56. > :02:58.proposals to bury power cables underneath the Lake District
:02:59. > :03:02.National Park instead of building large pylons.
:03:03. > :03:05.The 100 miles of power lines will connect the proposed
:03:06. > :03:08.new nuclear power station in West Cumbria
:03:09. > :03:15.They serve a crucial function but their presence in this landscape
:03:16. > :03:21.Campaigners have fought passionately to ensure that new 50m-high pylons
:03:22. > :03:25.are not built within the Lake District National Park.
:03:26. > :03:27.They are just too high, too wide
:03:28. > :03:30.and too much of an impact on this beautiful environment.
:03:31. > :03:33.And now it seems they've had some success.
:03:34. > :03:36.Plans released today by the National Grid show
:03:37. > :03:39.from a substation near Heysham it's proposed an underground tunnel
:03:40. > :03:42.will cary power lines beneath Morecambe Bay,
:03:43. > :03:44.with overhead lines being used through the Duddon Estuary
:03:45. > :03:46.before the cables are buried as they pass through
:03:47. > :03:52.The lines will then return to pylons as they pass through
:03:53. > :03:58.And this is where those linds would end up - Harker subst`tion
:03:59. > :04:02.It's humming away quietly in the background today.
:04:03. > :04:05.According to National Grid, this project is about balancing
:04:06. > :04:07.impact on the landscape with inevitable cost
:04:08. > :04:12.Spending here is driven by the need to connect a new nuclear power
:04:13. > :04:15.station at Moorside, near Sellafield,
:04:16. > :04:19.Everything National Grid dods goes back to people on their bills,
:04:20. > :04:22.so they will be picking up the tab for this.
:04:23. > :04:26.That is why we think we havd struck the right balance between the cost,
:04:27. > :04:30.We're starting our consultation on Friday.
:04:31. > :04:32.It's going for ten weeks and we really want people
:04:33. > :04:35.to tell us what they think about the route we've chosen.
:04:36. > :04:38.Today's proposals would see the removal of some old-style
:04:39. > :04:40.pylons, making the western ddge of the Lake District
:04:41. > :04:44.National Park pylon-free for the first time in 50 ye`rs.
:04:45. > :04:47.But fewer, bigger pylons like these ones at the National Grid training
:04:48. > :04:51.centre could soon be built outside the park boundary.
:04:52. > :04:54.Consultation on these plans will run until the beginning of Janu`ry
:04:55. > :04:57.and application for planning will then follow.
:04:58. > :05:04.But work on the route is not expected until 2019.
:05:05. > :05:08.Teaching assistants in County Durham have begun a week-long vigil outside
:05:09. > :05:12.County Hall in their continting dispute over major
:05:13. > :05:15.changes to the terms and conditions of employment.
:05:16. > :05:19.They say new term-time only contracts will mean a pay ctt
:05:20. > :05:25.The council says the new contracts bring the teaching assistants
:05:26. > :05:32.St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay, which attracts thousands
:05:33. > :05:36.of visitors every year, is to undergo a ?2 million lakeover.
:05:37. > :05:40.The lighthouse was decommissioned in 1984 but the refurbishment
:05:41. > :05:43.will include upgrades to the existing facilities
:05:44. > :05:46.and the addition of a lift, an exhibition area
:05:47. > :05:50.It's part of a much larger scheme to rejuvenate the whole
:05:51. > :05:55.In the past 20 years, the number of people
:05:56. > :05:59.in the North East and Cumbrha with diabetes has more than doubled.
:06:00. > :06:03.Experts have always believed that people with the most common form,
:06:04. > :06:08.But a world-renowned professor from Newcastle says he thinks
:06:09. > :06:12.he's found a way of reversing the disease, and without drtgs.
:06:13. > :06:18.He thinks his diabetes might kill him.
:06:19. > :06:21.I'm concerned about having ` stroke, heart attack, kidney failurd
:06:22. > :06:24.and different types of things that can happen and it's frightening
:06:25. > :06:29.Ed is one of more than 200,000 people in the North East
:06:30. > :06:34.That's more than 7% of the adult population.
:06:35. > :06:36.And in more than a decade, it's expected to rise
:06:37. > :06:42.Roy Taylor, professor of medicine at Newcastle University,
:06:43. > :06:49.Our hypothesis was that Typd Two diabetes was typified by
:06:50. > :06:54.If we got rid of that, things might return to norm`l.
:06:55. > :06:58.In a study, Professor Taylor asked volunteers with Type Two di`betes
:06:59. > :07:02.to go on a very low calorie diet designed to remove fat
:07:03. > :07:07.If we look at this organ, that is the liver.
:07:08. > :07:10.The level of fat is in fact 36%, extremely high.
:07:11. > :07:15.But after eight weeks of thhs diet, look at this, 2% liver fat.
:07:16. > :07:20.But the most exciting changd is the liver function.
:07:21. > :07:24.Type Two diabetes after one week, a bit of a response.
:07:25. > :07:27.Four weeks, eight weeks, it had gone back to normal.
:07:28. > :07:31.The function has been restored and that is a magic thing.
:07:32. > :07:34.If he's right, Professor Taxlor will help hundreds of thous`nds
:07:35. > :07:38.of diabetes patients free themselves of the condition
:07:39. > :07:44.In line with Professor Taylor's model, Ed is restricting hilself
:07:45. > :07:48.to 800 calories a day for ehght weeks in the hope that he, too,
:07:49. > :07:54.It's a case of if I don't do it now, it could be too latd.
:07:55. > :07:58.I've got to think, I've got a lovely granddaughter therd,
:07:59. > :08:04.Professor Taylor is undertaking a major new study
:08:05. > :08:10.If the results are positive, he believes this diet will puickly
:08:11. > :08:13.become part of routine treatment and our understanding of how
:08:14. > :08:20.best to fight the disease will have changed forever.
:08:21. > :08:23.And you can see the full Inside Out report on the BBC iPlayer
:08:24. > :08:33.Time now to take a look at the weather for the week ahead.
:08:34. > :08:41.There will be plenty of dry weather to come in the week ahead.
:08:42. > :08:43.Certainly for the first part of the week we are expecting some
:08:44. > :08:46.very chilly mornings, some bright spells to be had
:08:47. > :08:50.as well, but by the middle part of the week things will be getting
:08:51. > :08:53.breezier and with that westdrly breeze, much milder.
:08:54. > :08:57.This is the pressure chart `s we go into tonight and into tomorrow.
:08:58. > :09:00.High pressure in charge which means Tuesday is lookhng
:09:01. > :09:05.As we go through the night tonight, this is the picture.
:09:06. > :09:09.Some showers continuing across parts of Northumberland but gener`lly it's
:09:10. > :09:14.Under those clear skies, temperatures around two or three
:09:15. > :09:18.degrees in places but anywhdre could see a touch of frost
:09:19. > :09:23.There will be some patchy mhst and fog to contend with first thing
:09:24. > :09:26.on Tuesday and after that chilly start, things will brighten up
:09:27. > :09:29.readily and it's looking like a lovely autumn day.
:09:30. > :09:32.Plenty of sunshine across the board and temperatures through
:09:33. > :09:36.the afternoon reaching a high of around 13 Celsius.
:09:37. > :09:40.The winds are fairly light on Tuesday afternoon and as we go
:09:41. > :09:43.through Tuesday night and on into Wednesday,
:09:44. > :09:46.they gradually shift to a w`rm westerly direction so that leans
:09:47. > :09:50.we're going to see some clotd pushing in from the west.
:09:51. > :09:57.That will help to keep the temperatures from
:09:58. > :10:02.We are expecting lows of around six or seven degrees as we start
:10:03. > :10:06.As you can see on the presstre chart, the isobars are very close
:10:07. > :10:08.for Wednesday so it's going to turn breezier and this weather
:10:09. > :10:11.front is going to introduce some cloud and outbreaks of rain.
:10:12. > :10:13.Here is the picture first thing on Wednesday morning.
:10:14. > :10:17.The breeze picking up from the west as well.
:10:18. > :10:20.That's going to bring outbrdaks of rain across parts of Cumbria
:10:21. > :10:23.but the North East will stax largely dry and will see the best
:10:24. > :10:33.as we go into Thursday, the isobars still packed together
:10:34. > :10:36.so it's still going to be f`irly breezy and the weather front
:10:37. > :10:39.bringing some outbreaks of rain at times.
:10:40. > :10:42.That rain will be mostly light and patchy as we head
:10:43. > :10:45.Eastern parts faring best and temperatures
:10:46. > :10:51.Friday looks like a similar picture to Thursday.
:10:52. > :10:54.We start off with a lot of cloud around, some outbreaks of r`in
:10:55. > :10:59.Here's a reminder of the week's whether and,
:11:00. > :11:01.with the national forecast, I'll now hand you to Darren Bett.
:11:02. > :11:04.around 60 degrees. Towards the weekend, more of the same, mainly
:11:05. > :11:09.dry and feeling very mild. Now your national weather.
:11:10. > :11:14.Good evening, major changes in the weather over the next couple of
:11:15. > :11:16.days, the result being it will turn