29/12/2016 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Tributes have been paid to a mother of baby triplets who died

suddenly at her home in Whitehaven in Cumbria.

Rachel Park and her husband Steven had been spending their first

Christmas at home in Bransty with Poppie, Mollie and Evelyn -

who were born in March, at just 26 weeks.

The girls have only recently returned home from hospital.

This morning's Whitehaven News reported that Mum Rachel,

who was 39, died in the early hours of Tuesday.

An online fundraising page has been set up, to help the family.

She was an inspiration to me and to a lot of

She was so selfless and if we could take a little bit of

pressure off the family, we're aiming to raise

money long-term, so it won't

just be a short-term fundraiser to begin with.

We wanted to carry it on so that Steven and the girls

A father and son have appeared before Scarborough magistrates

charged with the murder of 49-year-old

Shaun Atkinson, who was found dead in a property

in St John's Avenue in the town on Tuesday.

Local men Barry and Ruben Rewcroft, aged 51 and 20, were

A man who was attacked in Sunderland nine months ago, has died.

Police say Michael Stead, who was 34, was assaulted on March

21st in Brady Street in the Pallion area of the city.

He was transferred from hospital in Newcastle

to the Sunderland Royal Hospital, where he had been in

Four people have been charged in connection with the attack.

They have one of the strongest rivalries in football.

But today fans of Sunderland and Newcastle put that aside

to raise money for young Bradley Lowery -

As Mark Denten reports, supporters came together

in Sunderland for a different Wear-Tyne Derby.

There have been 153 Sunderland and Newcastle derby games

Because despite the committed tackles on the pitch,

these fans and arch rivals are actually playing

for the same team, raising money for five-year-old Sunderland fan

We thought this was the best way to get two teams that really dislike

each other in footballing terms, get them together and have a game.

Newcastle and Sunderland have a history of disliking each other,

but this proves that family and football can work.

Bradley's family were given his terminal diagnosis

He has been a mascot twice at the Stadium of Light,

and his name has been chanted by Newcastle fans as well.

It shows cancer has no colours, we are fighting

And for the lads to do this, I am over the moon.

We're going straight back to the pub in Sunderland,

I do not think this top is the best option.

We are looking to make this an annual thing.

I do not want to spend too much time in this part of the world,

but once a year I can do that for the kids.

All the passion you would expect from a north-east derby,

but channelled into one very good cause.

The A1M in North Yorkshire was closed today,

The driver of the HGV, which was carrying straw,

was unhurt, but the road was shut for several hours.

Just over a year since floodwater inundated York's famous

It follows months of renovation work, and managers are promising

an improved visitor experience following the multi-million pound

One of the main themes is the fact that Jorvik was a multicultural

They spoke different languages, so you will hear those.

We have illustrated that through the usual techniques

you would expect in Jorvik, sights, sounds and smells.

Football now and news of another injury blow for Premier League

strugglers Sunderland ahead of the New Year fixtures.

Manager David Moyes has confirmed that his star goalkeeper

Jordan Pickford will be out for up to eight weeks after damaging his

knee in this collision with team-mate Papy

and Man United's Zlatan Ibrahimovich.

Pickford is the club's sixth long-term injury worry.

It is a major disappointment to us. He has been saving us points. I saw

that as working on him and you tend to think it must be OK but the scans

the next day showed that he needed rest and recovery.

We will have a round-up of the main fixtures tomorrow. Here is the

weather. Many of us enjoyed cold, crisp winter sunshine. Tomorrow

there will be more cloud. Cloud filtering in through this evening.

There may well have been missed and fork but overnight any dense patches

will tend to lift although some will persist across the hills. By the end

from 1 degrees in the East to 6 from 1 degrees in the East to 6

and there will be slippery patches. and there will be slippery patches.

Tomorrow there will be cloud, drizzle for the hills. Temperatures

will be above average for the time of year. New years eve, it looks

like showers across Cumbria, by the many places enjoying dry conditions.

Cooler to start the New Year. We will be back with news, travel and

weather updates in the morning. Good night.

Hello. Fold and frost has been a feature of the weather in recent

mornings in England and Wales, producing a wintry scene with Frost

in Oxfordshire this morning. In Highland Scotland, a completely

different story. Thank you to our weather watchers for the photos.

Snow on the hills but temperatures reaching double figures as the wind

picked up and the weather systems knocking on the door. That will be

hanging around with outbreaks of rain, blasting into Friday and

Saturday as well. Further south, barely any wind, so fog patches

coming and going with some dense patch as possible. This is where we

will find the lowest