:00:13. > :00:14.Good evening. and Emily Thornberry of Labour.
:00:15. > :00:21.Seventeen years ago, a group of patients with a rare form
:00:22. > :00:24.of blood cancer were given just a few years or months to live.
:00:25. > :00:27.But they took part in a clinical trial in Newcastle and now many have
:00:28. > :00:29.lived to have their own children and grandchildren.
:00:30. > :00:33.The long-term results of the trial have just been accepted
:00:34. > :00:35.for publication and the patients have been speaking
:00:36. > :00:42.Time with family is something Jean Boyd never takes for granted.
:00:43. > :00:48.Diagnosed with chronic myloid leukaemia 21 years ago,
:00:49. > :00:52.she was told she had just a few years to live.
:00:53. > :00:58.She was offered a place on a clinical trial in the year 2000.
:00:59. > :01:06.I was properly going to die anyway. I think I just thought there wasn't
:01:07. > :01:10.really another option. 17 years later it never occurred to me that I
:01:11. > :01:15.would still be alive. It never occurred to me I would see my family
:01:16. > :01:18.grow up. I thought by 50 I would be dead. So I'm thrilled.
:01:19. > :01:20.The long-term results of the study, which Newcastle doctors helped
:01:21. > :01:22.lead, have just been accepted for publication.
:01:23. > :01:33.This trial has really led to a complete change. This class of drug
:01:34. > :01:37.called TKIs, there are probably now about 30 or 40 that are being used
:01:38. > :01:40.to treat anything from lung cancer to breaststroke cancer do leukaemia.
:01:41. > :01:42.When the trial got under way in the year 2000,
:01:43. > :01:44.doctors were hopeful they'd be able to extend patients' lives,
:01:45. > :01:47.but what they didn't forsee was that some could potentially be cured.
:01:48. > :01:53.Like Margaret, the very first patient on the trial.
:01:54. > :02:00.I had a brother, he had died and even if he had been alive and been a
:02:01. > :02:04.match, I would have been too old to have a bone marrow transplant. So
:02:05. > :02:08.this was the only hope. It's given me a life, I've seen seven
:02:09. > :02:11.grandchildren being born. I can't believe I would have lasted for 17
:02:12. > :02:15.years and that the disease would have gone.
:02:16. > :02:17.Now the Freeman Hospital is involved in a follow-up study,
:02:18. > :02:22.where so far more than 90% of the patients have shown no
:02:23. > :02:26.evidence of relapsing, a year after reducing their dosage.
:02:27. > :02:37.I've do half of the patients don't need to remain on the drug, so we
:02:38. > :02:41.are stopping the drug for many of the patients and reducing their
:02:42. > :02:46.side-effects. So it is win-win for the patients and the hospitals.
:02:47. > :02:48.Look North has learned health managers who are closing
:02:49. > :02:50.Hartlepool Hospital's licensed fertility unit rejected a bid
:02:51. > :02:52.from a company that's already run fertility services there.
:02:53. > :02:54.Earlier this month, the local Clinical Commissioning Group
:02:55. > :02:57.announced the service would end, meaning patients will have to travel
:02:58. > :03:01.Managers said they couldn't find a new organisation to run the unit.
:03:02. > :03:11.Health managers wanted to close Hartlepool's
:03:12. > :03:14.fertility unit last year - a judge stopped them.
:03:15. > :03:27.Then, at an emotional meeting last summer, it was saved.
:03:28. > :03:29.Now those same managers say licensed fertility treatment here must end.
:03:30. > :03:31.This video is from the Care Quality Group.
:03:32. > :03:33.They have 15 fertility clinics up and down Britain.
:03:34. > :03:35.They were already supporting services in Hartlepool,
:03:36. > :03:37.but the local Clinical Commissioning Group decided they didn't pass
:03:38. > :03:41.And that means people like Jodie, waiting for licensed
:03:42. > :03:44.fertility treatment for six years, can't have it in Hartlepool.
:03:45. > :03:50.The top and bottom of it is, I have to have the ability to have
:03:51. > :03:55.children. And as the years go on about the months on, all that is
:03:56. > :04:05.happening with me is that my body clock is slowing down.
:04:06. > :04:17.The service aren't exactly mincing their words.
:04:18. > :04:25.It must be disappointing for everybody who is waiting to undergo
:04:26. > :04:29.fertility treatment, but it is as though they have already made their
:04:30. > :04:32.minds up. There has been no comment yet from the clinical commissioning
:04:33. > :04:37.group for Hartlepool and Stockton but in the past, managers have said
:04:38. > :04:43.that procurement rules are very strict and due process was followed
:04:44. > :04:46.in this case. I understand that Hartlepool Council's scrutiny
:04:47. > :04:51.committee will discuss this issue next month.
:04:52. > :04:53.Three men from Carlisle have been banned from all football grounds
:04:54. > :04:56.for their part in a brawl with stewards at a match
:04:57. > :04:59.between Carlisle and Hartlepool last October.
:05:00. > :05:01.Magistrates heard that trouble flared when Carlisle scored and fans
:05:02. > :05:07.Luke Hodgson, who's 18, Stephen Neaves, who's 25,
:05:08. > :05:09.and Carl Swan, who's 24, were banned from football
:05:10. > :05:18.A North Yorkshire farmers mart, that's been in existence for over
:05:19. > :05:21.100 years, says it doesn't know if it can survive a big hike
:05:22. > :05:31.From April, Hawes Mart will see its rates bill leap
:05:32. > :05:34.from ?7,500 a year to ?47,000, as part of a new government
:05:35. > :05:49.Sheep have been sold at this action mart in Hawes for 103 years,
:05:50. > :05:59.It has seen its busines rates shoot up.
:06:00. > :06:01.We have been paying business rates of about ?7,000, ?7,500,
:06:02. > :06:07.It means that the mart is not going to be viable.
:06:08. > :06:09.Business rates have been reset across the country.
:06:10. > :06:12.Some properties will see a fall, but rural enterprises are the worst
:06:13. > :06:14.hit, in the first revaluation for seven years.
:06:15. > :06:21.The figures are compiled by Whitehall's Valuation Office Agency,
:06:22. > :06:23.a London body, then, threatening the existence
:06:24. > :06:28.and jobs of an obscure northern auction mart.
:06:29. > :06:32.We've done a survey of the marts in the North of England and most
:06:33. > :06:34.of the marts have received an increase of around
:06:35. > :06:37.But nobody has had a rise like ours of 600%.
:06:38. > :06:41.100,000 sheep are sold here every year, including
:06:42. > :06:51.I would sort of regard it as sheep insurance really for your auction.
:06:52. > :06:54.You send things into an abattoir and you're certainly not as safe,
:06:55. > :06:57.I wouldn't have thought, with the money.
:06:58. > :06:59.But if the mart goes, it won't only be farmers that
:07:00. > :07:04.September and October are the busy months anyway in Hawes,
:07:05. > :07:10.but the market adds something to it because you get farmers
:07:11. > :07:14.what from all over the country coming to buy, it's a big social
:07:15. > :07:16.event and then you get the visitors that find it
:07:17. > :07:20.So it's a big part of Hawes, is the market.
:07:21. > :07:22.In its defence, the Valuation Office Agency said it sets rateable
:07:23. > :07:25.values fairly and equally, and there is an appeal process,
:07:26. > :07:33.Time enough for the mart to no longer be at the heart
:07:34. > :07:41.A car dealer from Newcastle, who's 6 feet 7 inches tall,
:07:42. > :07:43.has been banned from driving for 12 months, after pleading guilty
:07:44. > :07:46.to dangerous driving, but he maintains it was all down
:07:47. > :07:53.26-year-old Adam Elliot was accused of standing up while he was driving
:07:54. > :07:56.a convertible Ford Ka on the Tyne Bridge a year ago,
:07:57. > :07:58.but he insists he was sitting down at the time.
:07:59. > :08:08.This incident took place in January last year.
:08:09. > :08:10.When car dealer Adam Elliot was on his way back from buying
:08:11. > :08:16.He had the roof down and he is accused of standing up
:08:17. > :08:19.in the car while he was driving over the Tyne Bridge.
:08:20. > :08:23.Although he insists that he was sitting down
:08:24. > :08:26.and it was just his 6-foot 7 inch stature that made it look
:08:27. > :08:28.like he was standing, he took the advice of his lawyer
:08:29. > :08:31.and pleaded guilty to dangerous driving at Newcastle Crown Court.
:08:32. > :08:35.I wasn't standing up in the car, that obviously didn't happen.
:08:36. > :08:42.But I was too tall for the car and obviously that has caused
:08:43. > :08:45.a distraction to other road users and it's wrong, isn't it?
:08:46. > :08:47.The judge said you were obviously showing off,
:08:48. > :08:51.Well, I was playing up to people that were waving along,
:08:52. > :08:54.but I would have said I was just being courteous.
:08:55. > :09:01.They were waving at me, I was waving back.
:09:02. > :09:03.Mr Elliot has 12 previous convictions of driving
:09:04. > :09:06.while disqualified and he now has to wait until next month
:09:07. > :09:09.I'm worried, but I've been honest and I've
:09:10. > :09:11.accepted what I have done is wrong, so...
:09:12. > :09:13.The judge gave Mr Elliot credit, saying he very sensibly pleaded
:09:14. > :09:15.guilty to the charge of dangerous driving.
:09:16. > :09:18.But then he went on to say, "It's pretty obvious that
:09:19. > :09:19.you were showing off, demonstrating your height
:09:20. > :09:22.and distracting other drivers, in a small, open top vehicle".
:09:23. > :09:24.Mr Elliot will be sentenced on the week commencing
:09:25. > :09:30.This is Damian O'Neill for BBC Look North at Newcastle Crown Court.
:09:31. > :09:33.That's it from me this evening, time now to look
:09:34. > :09:42.Paul, I've just about had enough of this cold weather now.
:09:43. > :09:54.It's January, it's going to get colder later in the week! Some
:09:55. > :09:57.drizzly rain over Cumbria and up to the Scottish Borders. Most places
:09:58. > :10:01.will stay frost free because of the mounds of cloud and southerly
:10:02. > :10:09.breeze, temperatures around three or four Celsius and. Bright spells in
:10:10. > :10:12.the morning and even through the afternoon it stays dry and if you
:10:13. > :10:20.bright intervals here and there, breaking the cloud. 9 degrees, 48
:10:21. > :10:25.Fahrenheit, but that southerly breeze will be quite brisk at times.
:10:26. > :10:31.That will take the edge of the numbers and make it feel cooler than
:10:32. > :10:35.those numbers suggest. The wind is certainly a feature of the weather
:10:36. > :10:39.in the next few days. For Thursday, that wind coming off the continent,
:10:40. > :10:43.dry and bitterly cold air, temperatures taking a bit of a dive
:10:44. > :10:48.before slowly recovering as we head towards the weekend. Thursday,
:10:49. > :10:54.generally dry but that cold air means that after a frosty night,
:10:55. > :10:58.eastern areas will be a degree or two above freezing. Slightly less
:10:59. > :11:00.cold in the West but still bitterly cold where you are exposed to that
:11:01. > :11:19.wind. The weekend For all of us, it'll get colder and
:11:20. > :11:26.then milder again come the weekend. This shot taken earlier by a weather
:11:27. > :11:30.watcher in East Anglia. The fog becoming extensive over the next few
:11:31. > :11:32.hours in many south-eastern parts of England.
:11:33. > :11:34.Much, much milder, further north