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Their country's been torn apart by a brutal civil war, | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
but hundreds of Syrian refugees have found sanctuary in our region. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
The Government's 'vulnerable persons resettlement programme' will offer | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
new homes to 20,000 Syrians in the UK by 2020. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Gateshead Council has taken 121 people so far, | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
making it the local authority with the third highest | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
But other councils in the region haven't taken a single refugee. | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Our News Correspondent Mark Denten met one Syrian family | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
The Al Jamal family savouring the simple pleasures of Christmas. | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
They fled from the Syrian capital Damascus as a war | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
TRANSLATION: Every day is bombs and a different army in Syria. | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
The family came to Gateshead under a government programme designed | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
to bring 20,000 vulnerable Syrians to the UK by 2020. | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
TRANSLATION: The war and the bombs very dangerous | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Her mother died from the war in her country. | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
Overall, 318 Syrians have now resettled in the north-east. | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
Gateshead has taken 121, Newcastle 72 and Redcar and Cleveland 34. | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
But both Middlesbrough and Stockton haven't taken any. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Both councils say they already support a significant number | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
The Government pays full resettlement costs under | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
the scheme for a year, but are the Al Jamals | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
in a house that could have gone to a local person? | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
In terms of people really needing housing, having | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
an urgent need for housing, we are able to respond. | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
We need to meet the needs of the people of Gateshead | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
The UK has taken in 0.1% of the total Syrian refugees | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
Well earlier I asked Mark how the families | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
were selected for resettlement in the region, and beyond. | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
They haven't just turned up on our doorsteps. | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
They have been selected by the British government from refugee | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
They have been security vetted there and come over here, | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
so they haven't just turned up, they have been selected, | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
partly to avoid the tragic scenes we have seen in the last couple | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
of years of people using overcrowded boats and with the tragic loss | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
The Government will pay local authorities ?8,500 per refugee | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
After five years that just drops to just ?1000 and some | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
other figures involved, 10,500 school places according | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
to the National Audit Office will be needed if we are going to have those | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
A bus driver who's been charged with causing the death | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
of a pensioner in Darlington has appeared in court. | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
82-year-old Eileen Brennan died after the accident | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
Michael Gilbert, of Middleton St George, near Darlington, | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
appeared before Newton Aycliffe magistrates and the case | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
was adjourned to Teesside Crown Court in January. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
A County Durham man who siphoned over a quarter of a million pounds | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
from the estates of deceased clients has been jailed for four years. | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
67-year-old John Dowson from Ingleton ran a will writing | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
and probate business, but when his company hit financial | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
trouble around six years ago he began dipping | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
Durham Crown Court was told he's selling the family home | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Now, he's the lad from County Durham who's really unlocked | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
Five-year-old Bradley Lowery has a rare cancer, but his cheerful | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
attitude has endeared him to so many people that truckfulls of Christmas | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
cards have been sent from around the world - | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
and he's now received more than 200,000! | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
The total surged again today with further mail deliveries | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
to his home village of Blackhall Colliery. | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
These were the scenes at his local community centre tonight. | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
It just means that Brad's going to leave a little bit of a legacy. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
That means a lot for us, because obviously it's | :04:44. | :04:52. | |
All this, everything that's happening, just means that he's | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
going to leave name and hopefully help other children that's | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
This has really brought the community together, hasn't it? | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Like I say, one post on Facebook, everybody's decided they're | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
going to come out, so close to Christmas as well, | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
people are very busy time of year for people. | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
And they still took the time out to come and help. | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
The bells of York Minster rang out tonight, for the first time | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
since its entire team of bell-ringers was | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
The bells were expected to be silent at Christmas - | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
something which hasn't happened for hundreds of years. | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
But that was averted this evening, as Abi Jaeyola reports. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
This is the sound is York has been missing for the last two months. | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
For centuries, the bells of the Minster have chimed | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
The very thing I said to you two days after the group was stood down, | :05:33. | :05:47. | |
that we were hoping before long the bills would ring again. | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
We're very grateful for the courageous and generous | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
ringers from within the city and across the country who have come | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
forward to try and help us move forward and are ringing for us over | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
The volunteer bell-ringers were dismissed in over concerns | :05:59. | :06:09. | |
It came after one of the ringers was accused of indecent assault | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
Since then, the Minster has struggled to find replacement | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
volunteers to take over, with accusations of intimidation | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
The previous bell-ringing team have denied any involvement | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
in that intimidation, and said they had tried | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
The Minster are now working towards a permanent solution with team. | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
We're going to be creating a new band in the New Year, so yes, | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
we've had some volunteers specially for this Christmas season. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
So yes, it's in interim to make sure that for the benefit of all those | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
coming to worship and the citizens of York, they know that there | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
is a very special service for Christmas happening tonight. | :06:50. | :07:00. | |
It was great to hear the bells again. | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
And the service was wonderful as well. | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
I thought it was absolutely wonderful. | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
It was great to hear them ringing out again across York. | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
And, you know, it is a time for forgiveness, and let's hope | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
that's what's happened and they've sorted things out. | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
Now, Peggy Ashcroft, Cleo Laine and even a young | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
A Cumbrian theatre built by a flamboyant Hungarian will soon | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Almost ?3 million has been spent giving the Rosehill Theatre | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
Built in an age before hard hats and high-vis, | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
Rosehill was once at the centre of Britain's theatrical circuit. | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
Today plans to bring it back into the limelight | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
We go through here, which is the main new entrance, | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
where you will come into the theatre. | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
Or to the restaurant or any of the other facilities. | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
This is the box office reception area there. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
And a lift to go up to the first floor or a second floor, | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
where there's a restaurant, kitchen and restaurant with | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
The old theatre goes back to 1959, this is a new building, | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
There's still some challenges ahead in getting everything | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
open and up and running, but very exciting and all the more | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
so because of the great community engagement and great community | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
The theatre was the idea Sir Nicholas Sekers, | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
a Hungarian immigrant who founded West Cumbria's once | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
He worked with Oliver Messel, one of the foremost stage designers | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
of the 20th Century to create Rosehill's unique performance space. | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
The seats have gone down to near Warrington to be refurbished. | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
The Sekers fabrics that's on the walls, they will all come | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
down and be replaced by a new generation | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
We've also got, rather wonderfully, in the stalls, an orchestra pit, | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
a small orchestra pit, so it's been given a new lease | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
of life based on this remarkable history. | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
The theatre is expected to reopen early next year. | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
Newcastle United midfielder Jonjo Shelvey has decided not | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
to appeal against his five-match ban after being found guilty | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
of a Football Association misconduct charge. | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
The 24-year-old continues to deny using racially aggravated language | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
towards an opponent but has decided not to take the case further. | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
He says he's "disappointed and frustrated" but believes | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
an appeal would be unlikely to change the panel's decision. | :09:22. | :09:30. | |
That it from me this evening. Not great news and weather, but here is | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
some good news, three sleeps till Christmas. What a weather to fit | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
into those three sleeps! Stormy weather on the way, relatively quiet | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
today. One of two showers here and there, clear spells between. By the | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
end of the night, the wind will pick up, especially in the West. Lowest | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
temperature down to three or four Celsius. Tomorrow things will start | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
to pick up wind wise especially. Met Office warning as storm Barbara | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
poachers. Wet and windy weather spreading from the West. These black | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
arrows indicate the gust speeds. This weather comes in from the West | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
at lunchtime bringing the heaviest rain. By the end of the afternoon, | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
the more persistent rain will have cleared away bringing bright | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
intervals, scattered blustery showers and the wind is telling more | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
westerly. Temperatures peaked at a reasonably mild 11 Celsius. As the | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
storm pulls away, it stays windy as we had through Christmas Eve. We are | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
watching another Atlantic low coming in by Christmas Day, which will | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
bring even windier weather for many of us. But some mild conditions as | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
well for Christmas Day. Christmas eve, between those systems, it will | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
stay windy. Generally dry, just the odd shower. Temperatures cooler, | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
staying in single figures through the day. Christmas Day, very windy | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
and mild. Temperatures heading up towards the mid-teens. I will leave | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
itself, it's not white, but it's warm. Temperatures could reach 15. | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
I suppose you could say today was the calm before the storm. A winter | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
chill, plenty of sunshine, but more wintry showers | :11:17. | :11:17. |