03/01/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)


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Nearly 240 workers are to lose their jobs at an industrial cable maker.

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Birtley-based AEI Cables said the plant is running at a loss

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and just 13 sales staff will be kept on at a new location.

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It signals the end of manufacturing at the 175-year-old business.

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Our business correspondent Ian Reeve sent this report.

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This is obviously unwelcome news but not wholly unexpected.

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The company has complained it has had a tough time over

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It was bought in 2014 by a Dubai-based cable

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manufacturer called Ducab and, at the time, that deal

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was very much portrayed as having saved this plant.

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But throughout 2015 the company had complained that the plant

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In September 2015 the company then revealed it was negotiating

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Fast forward to November 2015 and the company then conceded that

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closure was possibly something it was looking at and, of course,

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I can't understand and I hope that Ducab are never allowed to trade

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Because they have actually sold us down the river again.

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They're supposed to be our parent company yet we are having

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-- go to the government for our redundancy.

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When you look at the history of AEI, we have a bit of a reputation for it

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We are a lot better off than some and a lot worse off

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198 jobs will go before this Friday, the Friday coming up,

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January the sixth, part of what it is calling

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40 other people will stay working only until March.

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13 sales staff will then be kept on permanently at another location

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somewhere in the north-east, presumably selling products made by

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The company also claimed in this statement that it has significantly

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invested in the plant in the last 2.5 years but profitable production

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A man from Sunderland and his wife have been found dead at a seaside

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The couple are believed to have died on New Year's Eve.

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They've been named locally as Robert Wells and Imogen Goldie.

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There aren't thought to be any suspicious circumstances.

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The police have named the man whose body was recovered

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from the River Ouse in York on New Year's Day.

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He was 42-year-old Craig Batters from York.

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Officers are trying to piece together his last movements.

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An aristocrat has denied dangerous driving following a crash

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76-year-old Lady Susan Zetland, of Aske Hall near Richmond,

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appeared at Teesside Crown Court for the brief hearing.

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Her vehicle was involved in a collision at the Melsonby

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The trial date will be set after the 9th of May.

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Northumberland County Council says it's "disappointed" it's not been

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given the go ahead for a garden village-style housing development.

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A possible site near Ponteland wasn't named among the 14

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But an area just to the south of Carlisle will have a garden village.

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More from Mark McAlindon in Cumbria in a moment,

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A garden village is an inclusive community and the Dissington site

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will include a wide range of affordable housing.

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The people who want to build a garden village near Ponteland say

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that they can offer something special for future residents.

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But 2000 new homes near existing properties?

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Don't be surprised if people nearby get annoyed.

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Many of us feel we are moving from living in a village or small

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town, many of us here are living on the edge of that small town

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and essentially we are going to be living in the middle of a large town

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I think it is the scale, not the fact there is some building.

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There needs to be building and are already has

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It is just the scale of the proposed development,

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Northumberland County Council told us they were disappointed the site

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outside Ponteland wasn't among the 14 new garden villages

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But supporters say it is only a matter of time.

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The developers argue it is not a housing estate and say

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there will be land around this new village.

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They expect the project to get the green light later this year.

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Firstly, this scheme brings very substantial infrastructure

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improvements in terms of a new bypass and flood

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It is also a self-sustaining community that has all its own

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facilities so it doesn't put pressure on other places nearby.

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While people will have those concerns, I think

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David has lived here for four decades.

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He is resigned to the project going ahead.

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I was very upset at first, and so was my daughter,

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and all the rest of the neighbours are as well.

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Now I'm getting more used to the idea.

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The people who own the land are confident work will start

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There's a huge tract of land south of Carlisle fringed on one

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side by the M6 motorway, and the main A595 route out to west

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Somewhere here, one of the government's new garden

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villages will be built, with the name St Cuthbert's.

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An announcement that's delighted those who drew up the plans.

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This will be a major event for Carlisle.

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A lot of work still to be done, master planning, working out

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exactly how this will work, but the government giving out

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support for that is a big boost for the city.

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Unlike the south east, there is no housing shortage here in Cumbria.

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But, the local MP believes the city has to expand in order

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I have long supported further development of Carlisle.

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I think it needs to be a bigger city to support all the infrastructure

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which we want to see here, leisure facilities, retail,

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and you're starting to see that happen.

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The arrival of Primark, the development of Marks Spencer,

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the expansion of Pioneer, these are really positive signs

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and I think 2017 can be a good year for Carlisle.

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Although there are no clear details yet as to where any

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new village would go, clearly any influx of

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people will put pressure on the area's infrastructure.

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Which is why a new southern bypass could be built around

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the south side of Carlisle, linking the M6 in the East

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It is much more likely that we will get a Southern development route.

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The government have said through this process they will work

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with us and give us the technical expertise and look at

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This is something very different to just building new housing here.

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Even agreement on where St Cuthbert's could be built

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Mark McAlindon, BBC Look North, Carlisle.

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No prisoner should leave a Teesside jail without either a job to go

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That's the ambition of Stockton's Holme House Prison.

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It's part of a multi-million-pound plan which is also giving

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the governors full control over the jail and its budget,

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These Holme House prisoners are making furniture for customers,

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including Hilton Hotels, Kent University and the

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It keeps people out of their cells, not banged up all the time.

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It keeps them occupied and takes their minds off things,

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Plus, it will help people to get back into work on the out.

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It will keep them out of trouble, basically.

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I can read, but just a little bit, not much.

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I've made some qualifications while I've been here.

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And the jail has a growing order book.

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If we go back 18 months, 2 years ago, it was around

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about ?50,000 a year, the turnover, we're now

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Because we're now autonomous, the shackles have been taken off,

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and we can start to expand and work more with local people.

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What we would like to do is work with local industries,

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we would like to invite local industries in, tell us

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what they want and see if we can develop them.

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Under these Government changes, Holme House will go

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from being a Category B prison to a Category C training prison.

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That means ambitious plans for getting almost

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all of the 1,200 inmates here either into work or education.

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The prison's executive governor sees the changes as a way

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The more work we can bring in, the more employers we can work with.

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The more men that can be out every day in our workshops, working,

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then the better and the safer the prison gets, and the more we are

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So, it is a real focus around work and education.

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That means brushing up on basic maths and English skills to make

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them a more attractive prospect to employers.

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They don't want to be in here, they don't want to come back.

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The only way we can support that is by educating

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Time now to see how the weather is shaping

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up for the new year, with Paul Mooney.

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Can we expect some winter sunshine? I think so over the next couple of

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days but we will pay the price with frosty nights. Tonight I went in

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front is moving across the North. A lot of cloud at the moment and

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patchy light rain. As the front moves south so does the thick cloud

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and the rain so we have more dry clear and cold conditions by the end

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of the night. Close enough to freezing for a touch of ground frost

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and maybe one or two icy patches. Tomorrow has a chilly start but most

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places will be fine and dry, the odd shower in parts of the East Coast.

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Most places have plenty of blue sky. Temperatures. Go. -- will struggle.

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So a fairly sharp frost tomorrow night. High pressure takes charge of

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the next couple of days giving us frosty nights and fine dry days. A

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front moves in into Friday with cloud and rain but it should clear

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away with high-pressure building for the weekend keeping is mostly dry

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then as well. The next few days, after a frosty night tomorrow,

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temperatures well below freezing for most of us, first they looks fine

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and dry, temperatures struggling even with sunshine. Friday, some

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rain to the West milder later in the week. That is it

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from me but coming up next is the national picture. Good evening. But

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frost or not of frost, that is the weather question for tomorrow and

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the answer is no, probably not because of this weather front that

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is slipping south from Scotland, maybe towards the south-west where

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we might have one or two pockets of clearer skies. The real cold air is

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in the north, behind that cold front and that will be as significant as

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we move into Thursday morning. It means that overnight temperatures

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will stay just above freezing with the exception in parts of Scotland.

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Around three or 5 degrees in many towns and city centres but the cold

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air behind that fund

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