06/01/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

After 170 years in business, the vast majority of staff at AEI

Earlier this week, the firm in Birtkey announced its loss-making

North East England has seen a meltdown in manufacturing

We've lost our mines, our steelworks, our shipyards.

AEI Cables is just the latest casualty, albeit a company that has

And the loss of the cable workers' jobs will be felt

In the small town of Birtley, other businesses will also suffer,

the businesses that rely on AEI and its workers for their custom.

We do deliver to them as well, a couple of times a

The ones on different shifts, but wheels have them coming in the

shop all the time, so it will be a massive impact for us.

People's livelihoods that have been working there a long time.

My family work there, I have a cousin

who has been in there for about 40 years now.

It is all he has known since he has left school, so what is

There are a lot of people in Birtley who have either

I think, yes, there are a lot of people going back over generations

of the same family who have worked at AEI Cables.

People who live locally in Birtley, but also in the

surrounding towns as well, people who don't have to travel a huge

amount of distance to work, and obviously,

council with our partners to minimise the effect on them and

hopefully get people into employment as soon as possible will make a big

Birtley has been a centre for heavy manufacturing for nearly 200 years.

This plant here's the last remaining plant, with 400 workers, but with

the loss of AEI Cables and the move of BAE

Systems five years ago to

Washington, this is the last bastions of manufacturing in the

Recruiting and keeping staff is a huge issue

for hospitals in Cumbria - and one of the main reasons

for the proposed changes to children's and maternity services

But now staff themselves have launched a video they hope

will persuade other professionals to move to the county,

Generally, if your doctor recommends a course of action, you listen.

I started my nurse training in this trust in 2002,

found it to be a really friendly and supportive place to work,

Only in this video, they're appealing to colleagues to come

What we're trying to do with the video is to promote Cumbria

To live and work, to study, to bring up your families,

and to live and work across both the community and the

The trust, which remains in special measures,

is under a special resume appointed by the government, and has

acknowledged retaining and recruiting staff is among

the most difficult in the whole of the NHS.

We have been using other initiatives and recruitment campaigns.

We have been looking at reward packages for consultants to come

and live and work in Cumbria, but this campaign and all the others

we have been doing are made to bring in consultants to work permanently

Five teenagers arrested on suspicion of raping

a 15-year-old girl in Cumbria, have been released.

Three 13-year-old boys and two aged 14, were arrested

following an incident near the Cloffocks car park

One 13-year-old was released without charge and the other four

Police say a man found in the back of a van in Northumberland still has

The 29-year-old from the Durham area was found in a purple Mercedes Vito

van on Monday afternoon, next to Low Leam Farm

in West Woodburn, between Hexham and Bellingham.

The North Yorkshire town of Hawes has been

in the spotlight this week but not for its beauty and tranquility.

Steve Bloom - the owner of Bloomindales Bookshop -

has been accused of being "rude and offensive" after charging

But he says it's his right and the money goes to charity.

It is the book shop with certain rules.

But in the market town of Hawes, some believe Steve Bloom's customer

John Blackie, the leader of the parish council, has received

Personally, I found the man's attitude most offensive,

and I am sure it will reflect on the town's businesses.

Have you bought anything here before?

No, we came here about five years ago.

And it is this more entry charge that has made things

less than civil here, with some customers refusing to pay.

A lot of what gets categorised as rudeness is simply me asking

From the point of view of someone who doesn't

want to pay it, he says, what, I'm not paying

50p to go in a shop, if you were to stop them

on the street outside, they were probably say that

The owners of the building say Mr Bloom has not breached any

terms and conditions, though in the village,

comparisons are now being drawn to a certain Fawlty Towers.

If you want to charge people, Ferrer, but it is

The damage to our reputation in the wider world is quite

considerable, and it comes at a time when enough is enough.

It is my shop, it is my little world.

This is my little world, I run it, I am comfortable with people coming

in and appreciating it, and I feel it is my right.

The council hopes peace can still be restored here,

with Steve agreeing to display a sign telling customers

In Sport, one result tonight: in the Rugby Union Premiership,

it was a great win for Newcastle Falcons who went up

to sixth place after beating Bath 24 to 22.

That's it from me, time for a look at the weekend

Good evening. A very cloudy but relatively dry weekend on the

clouds. Tomorrow morning we start off with some mist and murk across

parts of Cumbria. Lots of low cloud around but the cloud will lift and

break and in places we will see decent spells of sunshine. Feeling

milder than the last few days, temperatures up to a high of eight

Celsius. For Sunday we do it all again. Mist or tilt across Cumbria

to start with but a dry start to the day. Cloudy on Sunday than Saturday.

We will see some spells of sunshine at times. Sunday's top temperature

around nine or 10 Good evening. The weather has been

turning milder and also cloudier through the course of the day. We

did see some clear spells moving in from the North will stop this was

the sunset, captured in Dundee. Some clear spells as we headed through

the course of the afternoon into the evening. Really, through the

weekend, wiki with a similar theme. Much milder than it has been. A lot

of cloud around in general, but for most of us think. Dry. Not dry

everywhere at the moment, particularly across central and

southern parts of England and Wales. We have a lot of cloud, bringing

outbreaks of light rain and drizzle. The patchy