:00:10. > :00:15.Unions say a firm making over two hundred cable workers redundant has
:00:16. > :00:20.It's emerged AEI Cables of Birtley wants to use a legal procedure
:00:21. > :00:25.The Company Voluntary Arrangement would mean taxpayers
:00:26. > :00:28.But as our News Correspondent Mark Denten reports,
:00:29. > :00:33.After over 170 years of producing cables for everyone
:00:34. > :00:35.from the Royal Navy to Manchester Airport,
:00:36. > :00:41.the vast majority of AEI Cables workers here, nearly 200 people,
:00:42. > :00:44.will be out of a job by the end of this week.
:00:45. > :00:48.Most of the rest will follow in March.
:00:49. > :00:54.Over 120 workers at AEI Cables had turned up for work and found
:00:55. > :01:01.One of the sacked workers, Bill Doyle, summed up the mood.
:01:02. > :01:04.Nobody can explain to them from the company why or how
:01:05. > :01:10.they have been finished or the criteria used.
:01:11. > :01:11.Back then, AEI used a legal process to
:01:12. > :01:13.dismiss those workers, but one which meant
:01:14. > :01:17.fraction of their redundancy payments, money which ended up
:01:18. > :01:25.Six years on and AEI wants to do the same thing.
:01:26. > :01:28.It's called a Company Voluntary Arrangement.
:01:29. > :01:33.It's used where a company is in financial difficulties
:01:34. > :01:35.and is an agreement between a company and its creditors
:01:36. > :01:40.But the redundancy letter to staff at AEI Cables obtained by Look North
:01:41. > :01:42.confirms AEI Cables wants to follow the same process again.
:01:43. > :01:49.a CVA because of the significant losses which it continues to incur.
:01:50. > :01:51.In circumstances where a CVA is proposed, employers made
:01:52. > :01:54.redundant as part of the CVA process are directed to the Redundancy
:01:55. > :02:06.Payments Office to make a claim for statutory redundancy pay."
:02:07. > :02:12.The arrangement was put there in able for the government to help
:02:13. > :02:17.people out, it was made in the teeth of the recession.
:02:18. > :02:20.This company are using this as a ruse to get out of
:02:21. > :02:29.How in God's name can we have the same thing
:02:30. > :02:38.happening all over again, the same procedures and methods of getting
:02:39. > :02:44.For Bill Doyle, it's all bringing back bad memories.
:02:45. > :02:47.After he lost his job, he fought a four-year legal
:02:48. > :02:49.battle with AEI Cables to try to get his
:02:50. > :03:01.Six years ago we'd tried to go to Parliament,
:03:02. > :03:15.Now what we have is exactly the same again, because companies are just
:03:16. > :03:26.Well, earlier I spoke to our News Correspondent Mark Denten
:03:27. > :03:29.and asked him what AEI Cables is saying about the
:03:30. > :03:35.They did not want to be interviewed but they said they are certainly not
:03:36. > :03:44.They have issued a new statement tonight.
:03:45. > :03:46.They say the reason they have gone down this
:03:47. > :03:49.company voluntary arrangement route is that it is flexible and allows
:03:50. > :03:55.That will be confirmed at a creditors' meeting which we don't
:03:56. > :03:59.have a date for but the bulk of those workers, going on to 200, will
:04:00. > :04:03.be out of a job at the end of this week, so it raises the question
:04:04. > :04:06.One other detail from the letter to staff is
:04:07. > :04:09.that there were actually two offers for the factory and the company says
:04:10. > :04:12.neither was suitable and they can't give details because they are
:04:13. > :04:21.Cumbria Police want to speak to four boys after a 15-year-old girl
:04:22. > :04:25.reported she'd been raped in West Cumbria.
:04:26. > :04:28.The attack is said to have happened at around 7.30pm last
:04:29. > :04:30.night on a grassed area near the Cloffocks car
:04:31. > :04:37.Hundreds of people gathered in the Lake District to mark
:04:38. > :04:39.the 50th anniversary of the death of Donald Campbell.
:04:40. > :04:44.Mr Campbell died when his jet powered boat Bluebird crashed
:04:45. > :04:48.as he tried to break the world water speed record on Coniston water.
:04:49. > :04:53.NEWSREEL: It was soon after dawn that Bluebird was got ready
:04:54. > :04:57.There was little wind, the water was smooth.
:04:58. > :05:00.The evening before, Donald Campbell drew the ace and queen of spades.
:05:01. > :05:02.The deadly shadow of remorseless fate.
:05:03. > :05:09.The shadows of daybreak that day on Coniston may
:05:10. > :05:11.have been portentous, as Bluebird soared and then
:05:12. > :05:16.Donald Campbell's instant death was to trigger an endless tale
:05:17. > :05:23.This morning his daughter sailed to that very spot and dropped
:05:24. > :05:30.I know it's 50 years and we use these anniversaries as a milestone,
:05:31. > :05:33.but every year I'm reminded, every day I'm reminded
:05:34. > :05:36.about what a great man my father was, and why me?
:05:37. > :05:39.Why am I so lucky to be his daughter?
:05:40. > :05:41.Over time the names Coniston and Campbell have become
:05:42. > :05:47.For a long time I think the village people were reluctant to sort
:05:48. > :05:51.of make anything of it because they felt that they didn't
:05:52. > :05:53.want to sort of impinge on what was a tragedy.
:05:54. > :05:56.We're actually keeping the name and the legacy alive and I'm sure
:05:57. > :06:02.The landscape here at Coniston remains pretty much unchanged
:06:03. > :06:05.from that day back in 1967, and so it seems does the memory
:06:06. > :06:10.of Donald Campbell too, and the stories that have
:06:11. > :06:15.Perhaps that's why so many were here today to continue
:06:16. > :06:19.First, a moment of solemnity at the memorial in the middle
:06:20. > :06:25.It is a measure of the man that I know as we're all gathered
:06:26. > :06:31.here today to pay our respects to him and preserve his legacy
:06:32. > :06:34.that he would wish us to remember all those brave and courageous men
:06:35. > :06:36.and women who went before him and have followed since.
:06:37. > :06:40.What he did he did for Britain and for his own achievement,
:06:41. > :06:43.but he also did it to prove to the wider world what could be
:06:44. > :06:48.done, what man can do, and what here we can in England
:06:49. > :06:50.provide the best engineering and the fastest boats
:06:51. > :06:53.and the fastest cars and the best aeroplanes, so he
:06:54. > :06:59.NEWSREEL: This epic age, which soon will know man's
:07:00. > :07:01.conquest of the moon, must count its losses, too.
:07:02. > :07:12.Great Britain mourns the loss of a great man, Donald Campbell.
:07:13. > :07:15.Now, if you're worried, anxious or upset who do you talk to?
:07:16. > :07:17.A friend, family member or maybe your doctor?
:07:18. > :07:20.A partnership between Cumbrian GPs and local vicars is giving
:07:21. > :07:25.The Listening Ear project offers people the chance
:07:26. > :07:27.to share their worries in confidence, while
:07:28. > :07:29.freeing up much-needed doctors' appointments.
:07:30. > :07:37.face in the Eden Valley, relied upon by her parishioners
:07:38. > :07:42.for advice and guidance - she also has another role in this
:07:43. > :07:46.small rural community, one where she simply listens.
:07:47. > :07:51.Listening Ear is listening to somebody, giving them time for them
:07:52. > :07:53.to tell you or talk to you about something
:07:54. > :07:56.that's on their mind, whatever that might be, doesn't
:07:57. > :08:04.People in need of a confidential chat - whether church-goers or not -
:08:05. > :08:05.can be referred to Sarah by the local GPs.
:08:06. > :08:08.The surgery here has half the doctors it had five years ago,
:08:09. > :08:14.Sometimes people just need somebody to talk to,
:08:15. > :08:19.they don't necessarily need more expert input from the
:08:20. > :08:26.mental health service or the other counselling services available.
:08:27. > :08:28.As GPs we are incredibly pressurised the Times
:08:29. > :08:35.service that we used to offer and now Sarah is able to offer that.
:08:36. > :08:39.If Sarah feels a patient needs medical advice she immediately
:08:40. > :08:46.It took the Temple Sowerby team around seven years to get this
:08:47. > :08:49.scheme safely up and running but now the project is expanding
:08:50. > :08:54.There are now 12 Listening Ear volunteers in Cumbria,
:08:55. > :08:57.each playing a small part in easing NHS pressures, as well as curing
:08:58. > :09:05.the isolation that's often found in this rural landscape.
:09:06. > :09:09.Now - you may not have felt it, but there was an earthquake
:09:10. > :09:11.off the North Yorkshire coast last night.
:09:12. > :09:13.It was detected 100 miles to the east of Scarborough
:09:14. > :09:20.The British Geological Survey said it had a magnitude of 3.8.
:09:21. > :09:23.Time for the weather now, and also time for the winter
:09:24. > :09:38.Yes, a proper frosty night ahead. Yes, overnight tonight, a widespread
:09:39. > :09:41.frost under clear skies. One or two showers still affecting North
:09:42. > :09:46.Yorkshire and the coast. That is where the main ice risk is.
:09:47. > :09:51.Temperatures down as low as minus Temperatures down as low as minus
:09:52. > :09:56.three Celsius. We could easily see minus five Celsius. So a bitterly
:09:57. > :10:02.cold start tomorrow. A widespread frost early on. After that, a fine,
:10:03. > :10:06.dry and largely sunny day. We will also see something, high cloud
:10:07. > :10:11.coming from the west later on. Most places set for a fine winter's.
:10:12. > :10:17.Temperatures struggle after that frosty start. Five Celsius if you
:10:18. > :10:20.are very lucky. But the winds will stay very light tomorrow. We are
:10:21. > :10:25.under high pressure at the minute. That is what is allowing that frosty
:10:26. > :10:29.night. It will be sent out of the way tomorrow by this frontal system
:10:30. > :10:33.before high pressure starts to build again on Friday as we head into the
:10:34. > :10:38.weekend. So for a Friday, it is all change. More cloud, outbreaks of
:10:39. > :10:43.rain. Some of that rain heavily for a time, especially in the West. Much
:10:44. > :10:49.milder as well. Temperatures should reach double figures. 10 Celsius.
:10:50. > :10:54.The weekend stays mostly dry. A lot of cloud around, especially in the
:10:55. > :10:58.West. Maybe the odd spot of rain, but generally dry. Cloud becoming
:10:59. > :10:59.more broken by Sunday. We have the national forecast