:00:00. > 3:59:59whether that is legal or not. Full coverage for you online and on the
:00:00. > :00:11.BBC Newcastle's Freeman Hospital
:00:12. > :00:16.is facing uncertainty tonight over its flagship Child
:00:17. > :00:19.and Adult Heart Surgery Unit. It may have to be moved
:00:20. > :00:23.to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, if Newcastle is to continue
:00:24. > :00:30.to provide children's heart surgery. Here's our health
:00:31. > :00:31.reporter Sharon Barbour. Undertaking complex heart
:00:32. > :00:35.surgery on a child - sometimes on a tiny baby -
:00:36. > :00:38.is one of the most difficult It's operating on a heart that can
:00:39. > :00:44.be as little as a walnut. Making sure every surgeon has enough
:00:45. > :00:48.expertise and experience to do it safely has been at the centre
:00:49. > :00:52.of a raging battle across the country for the last 16 years,
:00:53. > :00:56.since the scandal of high death The question being
:00:57. > :01:03.which hospitals can continue Newcastle's Freeman Hospital has
:01:04. > :01:13.been at the centre of that debate, but its battle for survival
:01:14. > :01:17.has been boosted by the fact that it's one of the few
:01:18. > :01:20.in the country that undertakes a public consultation
:01:21. > :01:30.on the standards hospitals have to reach to be able
:01:31. > :01:32.to continue complex surgery. But for Newcastle, one
:01:33. > :01:36.of the standards is a major concern. And that has major implications,
:01:37. > :01:59.because, for the whole of the North East and Cumbria,
:02:00. > :02:02.heart surgery is at the Freeman and specialist children's services
:02:03. > :02:05.is based on the other side of the city,
:02:06. > :02:07.at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. The challenge of moving the entire
:02:08. > :02:10.children's and adult heart surgery across to another
:02:11. > :02:13.hospital is enormous. This will be down to local hospitals
:02:14. > :02:16.to work out and local hospital trusts to work out how this might be
:02:17. > :02:20.achieved and, if it can't be achieved, NHS England will need
:02:21. > :02:31.to know it can be achieved and we will have to take
:02:32. > :02:34.the appropriate action In terms of money there is no
:02:35. > :02:38.additional money, so that has Newcastle hospital staff
:02:39. > :02:40.are coming to terms with the enormity of the news and,
:02:41. > :02:54.in a statement, told us... The death of man in a cemetery
:02:55. > :02:57.in Sunderland is not The police said tonight there was no
:02:58. > :03:01.third party involvement in the death of the man found fatally injured
:03:02. > :03:03.at Monkwearmouth Cemetery There had been an earlier appeal
:03:04. > :03:07.for information about how the man had come to be there.
:03:08. > :03:10.He hasn't been named. Three local men been charged
:03:11. > :03:13.in connection with a shooting at a nightclub in Newcastle city
:03:14. > :03:20.centre in 2015. They were arrested along with nine
:03:21. > :03:23.other men yesterday after police searched 12 addresses in the east
:03:24. > :03:26.end of the city and Gateshead. It was part of an ongoing
:03:27. > :03:28.inquiry into a drive-by A male door supervisor was shot
:03:29. > :03:31.and seriously injured. The business and energy secretary
:03:32. > :03:33.has reaffirmed the government's commitment to a new nuclear power
:03:34. > :03:38.station in West Cumbria, despite uncertainty about the future
:03:39. > :03:40.of the Moorside project. Greg Clark has been visiting
:03:41. > :03:42.a nuclear engineering firm near Egremont today,
:03:43. > :03:44.ahead of the Copeland by-election. He said he'd held talks with
:03:45. > :03:47.Toshiba, one of the companies behind Toshiba is part of a consortium,
:03:48. > :03:55.NuGen, as you know. We are very clear, very determined,
:03:56. > :04:02.that we want to see a new generation of nuclear new-build,
:04:03. > :04:07.including here in Moorside. I visited the site myself before
:04:08. > :04:09.Christmas and it's something Well Labour says it's also
:04:10. > :04:16.committed to the nuclear And you can see a full list
:04:17. > :04:20.of candidates in the Copeland Cumbria's Ambulance Service has
:04:21. > :04:27.expressed support for plans to downgrade maternity services
:04:28. > :04:29.at the West Cumberland Hospital In a letter written in December
:04:30. > :04:34.the North West Ambulance Service Chief Executive said plans
:04:35. > :04:36.to transfer more pregnant women from Whitehaven to Carlisle
:04:37. > :04:39.were clinically unsafe Today the Ambulance Trust confirmed
:04:40. > :04:44.those concerns had been addressed and it now supports plans
:04:45. > :04:51.for midwifery led care. Workington MP Sue Hayman has been
:04:52. > :04:54.appointed as Labour's The move is part of a reshuffle
:04:55. > :04:59.triggered by a dispute Last night, Newcastle Central's Chi
:05:00. > :05:05.Onwurah joined her fellow Tyneside MP Catherine McKinnell
:05:06. > :05:10.and York's Rachael Maskell by opposing Article 50 legislation
:05:11. > :05:12.that paves the way for Their concern about Brexit
:05:13. > :05:16.is shared by EU nationals living in this region,
:05:17. > :05:18.as our political correspondent It was a night when the UK moved
:05:19. > :05:26.closer to the EU exit. But though the bill
:05:27. > :05:31.to trigger Article 50 passed by a huge majority,
:05:32. > :05:33.more Labour MPs came out in opposition, in defiance
:05:34. > :05:36.of their party leader. Frontbencher and Tynesider Chi
:05:37. > :05:39.Onwurah went from supporting the legislation on the second
:05:40. > :05:42.reading to voting against on the third, responding
:05:43. > :05:47.to what she says is Government They didn't accept
:05:48. > :05:52.one amendment, and it is absolutely clear
:05:53. > :05:54.from what they're saying that this isn't about the result
:05:55. > :05:56.of the referendum, this is about the Tory party's plan for
:05:57. > :06:00.Britain to become sort of some sort of tax haven and that is bad
:06:01. > :06:04.for the north-east. Another Labour rebel
:06:05. > :06:06.was Rachel Maskell who resigned from the Shadow Cabinet
:06:07. > :06:09.to make her stand. She represents York,
:06:10. > :06:13.a constituency that voted remain, as, narrowly at least,
:06:14. > :06:16.did Newcastle, and Newcastle North's
:06:17. > :06:18.Catherine McKinnell accusing ministers
:06:19. > :06:24.of failing to consult. But with the most of the region
:06:25. > :06:27.and the country voting Brexit, a leading Teesside leave campaigner
:06:28. > :06:29.says his Government;s approach We've had bad referendum,
:06:30. > :06:35.the judges people have voted, it is right now that
:06:36. > :06:38.Parliament respect that result and delivers on the instructions that
:06:39. > :06:41.it's been given by the British For this north-east academic
:06:42. > :06:44.and anti Brexit campaigner, Originally from Spain,
:06:45. > :06:51.he says he and other EU nationals The amendment presented in order
:06:52. > :07:00.to protect the status of European Union citizens
:07:01. > :07:04.was also defeated. This in a sense for many
:07:05. > :07:11.of us confirmed our Beyond the legal uncertainty,
:07:12. > :07:16.it has produced a feeling of being unwanted, of being somehow a
:07:17. > :07:21.spectator in a show in which we are the protagonists, but we don't
:07:22. > :07:27.actually have a say. Now, he was Ashington's
:07:28. > :07:29.favourite son. And today - the bronze
:07:30. > :07:31.statue of footballing legend Jackie Milburn,
:07:32. > :07:32.was officially unveiled Two generations down the line,
:07:33. > :07:43.Jackie's granddaughter, and his great-grandchildren
:07:44. > :07:45.were on hand to help Proud moments, of course,
:07:46. > :07:51.but it seems, when you're still at primary school,
:07:52. > :07:54.being related to a footballing legend isn't as easy
:07:55. > :07:57.as it might seem. What do the other kids
:07:58. > :08:00.say at school, then? They say, "Is he really?"
:08:01. > :08:03.And they don't believe us! I asked them and they
:08:04. > :08:09.say, "Is he really?" And then they just
:08:10. > :08:11.don't believe her! Yeah.
:08:12. > :08:13.Yeah. His goals helped Newcastle lift
:08:14. > :08:23.the FA Cup three times in the '50s. He left his indelible mark
:08:24. > :08:28.on Ashington, Newcastle United and the whole of the footballing
:08:29. > :08:31.world, as much for his humility and grace as for his undoubted
:08:32. > :08:35.prowess on the pitch. He worked at the pit
:08:36. > :08:37.on a Saturday morning. He'd come out of the pit,
:08:38. > :08:42.had a cigarette, got the bus to Newcastle and played for Newcastle,
:08:43. > :08:46.knocked a few goals in, came home, went to bed for a shift
:08:47. > :08:49.on Sunday night. That's the type of character
:08:50. > :08:51.we're talking about - Are you proud of him?
:08:52. > :08:59.BOTH: Yeah! Why are you proud of him?
:09:00. > :09:01.Because, um... Well, he played very
:09:02. > :09:02.well at football. He scored lots of goals
:09:03. > :09:08.and he did very, very well. And so, after a brief
:09:09. > :09:11.spell out the limelight, "Wor Jackie" is back
:09:12. > :09:14.where he rightfully belongs - at the heart of his home town -
:09:15. > :09:17.where his memory is Jim Knight,
:09:18. > :09:29.BBC Look North, Ashington. That's it from me tonight. Here is
:09:30. > :09:41.the weather forecast. Hello. It was pretty chilly out and
:09:42. > :09:47.about today and Cumbria got the best deal. As a mention of snow in the
:09:48. > :09:48.forecast more on that in a second. Tomorrow yes we will see wintry
:09:49. > :09:53.showers, fairly cloudy, and it's showers, fairly cloudy, and it's
:09:54. > :09:57.going to be told. Chilly tonight, temperatures falling below freezing,
:09:58. > :10:01.and tomorrow morning, yes, there's a lot of cloud around, I used to the
:10:02. > :10:04.west, this is where we are likely to see the best of the brightness,
:10:05. > :10:08.across Cumbria, however eastern parts I'm afraid it will be pretty
:10:09. > :10:11.great, pretty murky with showers continuing to come in on what will
:10:12. > :10:16.be a pretty chilly easterly breeze. Highs of about four Celsius.
:10:17. > :10:24.Tomorrow night come into Saturday, it yes, cold, still lose a map, dry
:10:25. > :10:28.at this stage but showers start drifting in from the east, sleet,
:10:29. > :10:35.snow, on high ground, and potentially falling to lower levels
:10:36. > :10:39.as well. As a result of this weather front can hear it comes, slowly
:10:40. > :10:43.making its way in a cross towards the west, so first things Thursday
:10:44. > :10:47.morning we could see a dusting of snow to lower levels, but I don't
:10:48. > :10:51.think we need to get too excited about building snowmen, cat kind of
:10:52. > :10:54.thing, it will quickly turn to rain across the east but high ground, and
:10:55. > :10:59.the Pennines, the Cheviots, the Cumbrian fells, we are likely to see
:11:00. > :11:03.a bit more that snow. A change on the way over the next few days, less
:11:04. > :11:07.cold, then, as we head towards next week,
:11:08. > :11:08.will turn a bit less cold again. All the way up seven