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BBC Newcastle's Freeman Hospital

is facing uncertainty tonight over its flagship Child

and Adult Heart Surgery Unit. It may have to be moved

to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, if Newcastle is to continue

to provide children's heart surgery. Here's our health

reporter Sharon Barbour. Undertaking complex heart

surgery on a child - sometimes on a tiny baby -

is one of the most difficult It's operating on a heart that can

be as little as a walnut. Making sure every surgeon has enough

expertise and experience to do it safely has been at the centre

of a raging battle across the country for the last 16 years,

since the scandal of high death The question being

which hospitals can continue Newcastle's Freeman Hospital has

been at the centre of that debate, but its battle for survival

has been boosted by the fact that it's one of the few

in the country that undertakes a public consultation

on the standards hospitals have to reach to be able

to continue complex surgery. But for Newcastle, one

of the standards is a major concern. And that has major implications,

because, for the whole of the North East and Cumbria,

heart surgery is at the Freeman and specialist children's services

is based on the other side of the city,

at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. The challenge of moving the entire

children's and adult heart surgery across to another

hospital is enormous. This will be down to local hospitals

to work out and local hospital trusts to work out how this might be

achieved and, if it can't be achieved, NHS England will need

to know it can be achieved and we will have to take

the appropriate action In terms of money there is no

additional money, so that has Newcastle hospital staff

are coming to terms with the enormity of the news and,

in a statement, told us... The death of man in a cemetery

in Sunderland is not The police said tonight there was no

third party involvement in the death of the man found fatally injured

at Monkwearmouth Cemetery There had been an earlier appeal

for information about how the man had come to be there.

He hasn't been named. Three local men been charged

in connection with a shooting at a nightclub in Newcastle city

centre in 2015. They were arrested along with nine

other men yesterday after police searched 12 addresses in the east

end of the city and Gateshead. It was part of an ongoing

inquiry into a drive-by A male door supervisor was shot

and seriously injured. The business and energy secretary

has reaffirmed the government's commitment to a new nuclear power

station in West Cumbria, despite uncertainty about the future

of the Moorside project. Greg Clark has been visiting

a nuclear engineering firm near Egremont today,

ahead of the Copeland by-election. He said he'd held talks with

Toshiba, one of the companies behind Toshiba is part of a consortium,

NuGen, as you know. We are very clear, very determined,

that we want to see a new generation of nuclear new-build,

including here in Moorside. I visited the site myself before

Christmas and it's something Well Labour says it's also

committed to the nuclear And you can see a full list

of candidates in the Copeland Cumbria's Ambulance Service has

expressed support for plans to downgrade maternity services

at the West Cumberland Hospital In a letter written in December

the North West Ambulance Service Chief Executive said plans

to transfer more pregnant women from Whitehaven to Carlisle

were clinically unsafe Today the Ambulance Trust confirmed

those concerns had been addressed and it now supports plans

for midwifery led care. Workington MP Sue Hayman has been

appointed as Labour's The move is part of a reshuffle

triggered by a dispute Last night, Newcastle Central's Chi

Onwurah joined her fellow Tyneside MP Catherine McKinnell

and York's Rachael Maskell by opposing Article 50 legislation

that paves the way for Their concern about Brexit

is shared by EU nationals living in this region,

as our political correspondent It was a night when the UK moved

closer to the EU exit. But though the bill

to trigger Article 50 passed by a huge majority,

more Labour MPs came out in opposition, in defiance

of their party leader. Frontbencher and Tynesider Chi

Onwurah went from supporting the legislation on the second

reading to voting against on the third, responding

to what she says is Government They didn't accept

one amendment, and it is absolutely clear

from what they're saying that this isn't about the result

of the referendum, this is about the Tory party's plan for

Britain to become sort of some sort of tax haven and that is bad

for the north-east. Another Labour rebel

was Rachel Maskell who resigned from the Shadow Cabinet

to make her stand. She represents York,

a constituency that voted remain, as, narrowly at least,

did Newcastle, and Newcastle North's

Catherine McKinnell accusing ministers

of failing to consult. But with the most of the region

and the country voting Brexit, a leading Teesside leave campaigner

says his Government;s approach We've had bad referendum,

the judges people have voted, it is right now that

Parliament respect that result and delivers on the instructions that

it's been given by the British For this north-east academic

and anti Brexit campaigner, Originally from Spain,

he says he and other EU nationals The amendment presented in order

to protect the status of European Union citizens

was also defeated. This in a sense for many

of us confirmed our Beyond the legal uncertainty,

it has produced a feeling of being unwanted, of being somehow a

spectator in a show in which we are the protagonists, but we don't

actually have a say. Now, he was Ashington's

favourite son. And today - the bronze

statue of footballing legend Jackie Milburn,

was officially unveiled Two generations down the line,

Jackie's granddaughter, and his great-grandchildren

were on hand to help Proud moments, of course,

but it seems, when you're still at primary school,

being related to a footballing legend isn't as easy

as it might seem. What do the other kids

say at school, then? They say, "Is he really?"

And they don't believe us! I asked them and they

say, "Is he really?" And then they just

don't believe her! Yeah.

Yeah. His goals helped Newcastle lift

the FA Cup three times in the '50s. He left his indelible mark

on Ashington, Newcastle United and the whole of the footballing

world, as much for his humility and grace as for his undoubted

prowess on the pitch. He worked at the pit

on a Saturday morning. He'd come out of the pit,

had a cigarette, got the bus to Newcastle and played for Newcastle,

knocked a few goals in, came home, went to bed for a shift

on Sunday night. That's the type of character

we're talking about - Are you proud of him?

BOTH: Yeah! Why are you proud of him?

Because, um... Well, he played very

well at football. He scored lots of goals

and he did very, very well. And so, after a brief

spell out the limelight, "Wor Jackie" is back

where he rightfully belongs - at the heart of his home town -

where his memory is Jim Knight,

BBC Look North, Ashington. That's it from me tonight. Here is

the weather forecast. Hello. It was pretty chilly out and

about today and Cumbria got the best deal. As a mention of snow in the

forecast more on that in a second. Tomorrow yes we will see wintry

showers, fairly cloudy, and it's showers, fairly cloudy, and it's

going to be told. Chilly tonight, temperatures falling below freezing,

and tomorrow morning, yes, there's a lot of cloud around, I used to the

west, this is where we are likely to see the best of the brightness,

across Cumbria, however eastern parts I'm afraid it will be pretty

great, pretty murky with showers continuing to come in on what will

be a pretty chilly easterly breeze. Highs of about four Celsius.

Tomorrow night come into Saturday, it yes, cold, still lose a map, dry

at this stage but showers start drifting in from the east, sleet,

snow, on high ground, and potentially falling to lower levels

as well. As a result of this weather front can hear it comes, slowly

making its way in a cross towards the west, so first things Thursday

morning we could see a dusting of snow to lower levels, but I don't

think we need to get too excited about building snowmen, cat kind of

thing, it will quickly turn to rain across the east but high ground, and

the Pennines, the Cheviots, the Cumbrian fells, we are likely to see

a bit more that snow. A change on the way over the next few days, less

cold, then, as we head towards next week,

will turn a bit less cold again. All the way up seven