20/02/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

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The mum of a five year old boy with a rare brain tumour says he now

has the chance of a new life - following ground-breaking surgery.

Doctors say 90% of Finley Ingles' tumour has been

destroyed by laser treatment in an American hospital.

Remarkably, he's already been discharged just 24 hours later.

Stuart Whincup has spent the last week with the family,

and sent this report from Houston in Texas.

All the fundraising, the years of hospital

appointments - this is

Everything that we've hoped and dreamed for.

He liked the hospital's toys, but not the gown.

Surgeons made a small hole in a Finley's

skull and using the heat from a laser, tried

It was nine hours before the wait for news was over.

We think we ablated about 90% of this.

We hope that the destruction of the this lesion

Just don't be tempted to steal his box of Lego.

It is an amazing feeling, to be sat here, knowing

how brave he has been and he

has gone through this nine-hour operation and we are at the other

side of it now and now the new journey starts of enjoying his

And remarkably, because surgeons only need to make a small

hole in a Finley's skull during the operation,

he was discharged from hospital 24 hours later.

Finley and his family will remain here in

Houston for the next week and will meet with the surgeon who performed

Then they'll fly back home on Monday and his seizures

will then be monitored by doctors in the North East.

I can't describe just how grateful we are to everyone

We couldn't have done it without everybody

An area of Newcastle city centre was cordoned off

by police this afternoon, after a man was seriously injured.

Police were called to Princess Square next

to the city library, after reports that a man

He was taken to hospital but hasn't yet been named.

The Dutch-owned chemicals conglomerate, AkzoNobel,

has revealed it's to invest another ?11million in its

The money's being directed at their Felling plant on south

Tyneside, which specialises in protective coatings,

It's in addition to the ?100 million paint factory it's opening

in Ashington in Northumberland later this year.

Tributes have been paid to the veteran Labour politician,

Don Dixon, who's died at the age of 87.

Lord Dixon was MP for Jarrow until 1997, when he was elevated

Peter Harris looks backs at his life.

A shipwright who rose through the ranks of the Labour movement.

I have worked on every ship building and ship repair yard on the River

At least when people heard me speaking in the House of Commons,

they knew I was speaking from experience and I would always put

the point across for the industry and the people I knew.

years as Jarrow's MP - a stretch that coincided

with Labour's long period in opposition before 1997.

Once voted Britain's grumpiest MP, he could be scathing

of the new breed of politician who succeeded him.

Some people are saying here is typical of the constituency.

The academic MPs you get now, a lot of them are educated but they do not

have the common sense to boil a kettle.

And today in Jarrow, tributes and respect.

Don was a great man, a man of the people.

He was a legend and he will always be a legend in Jarrow.

Both by people here where he grew up and

people in parliament, where he was thought of very highly.

Local guy, did plenty for the place.

Lord Don Dixon died yesterday aged 87.

He'd retired from the House of Lords last year and leaves his wife, three

A politician who could claim that he had never

One thing I am proud of his I have always kept my feet on the bottom

and I have never changed at all, despite being in the House of

Commons and speaking to some of the most famous in the land.

For the men who discovered it, it was "the find of a lifetime."

Treasure, belonging to Vikings who traded

and settled in Cumbria, was found in 2014.

Now, after fundraising by the Beacon Museum in Whitehaven,

the collection is on permanent display in the town.

It is music to the metal detectorist's ear,

a signal of discovery which in this case turned into

It was just a big blur, to be honest.

We started to discover different objects,

this one first of all, and then the larger one there.

We dug down 12 inches and we found it all lined up in a

You can go one day and be out for four or five hours and come back

Then you can go back to the same place the

On that lucky day in 2014, Justin and his detecting partner

Daniel found four Norse Silver rings and 16 trading ingots.

They may have been brought from as far away as

All part of a jigsaw which tells the story of Scandinavian

You can hold and touch and feel them.

We know that the Norse settlers were coming here and

actually embracing the lifestyle here of Cumbria.

We know they were settling here as farmers.

How the hoard came to be buried or why the owner never

collected it still remains a mystery,

far captures imaginations, Justin and Daniel will keep looking for

Football, and Newcastle are back on top of the Championship

after a 2-0 victory at home to Aston Villa tonight.

The goals came from Yoan Gouffran just before half time

and and a Henri Lansbury own goal on the hour.

Highlights and reaction to that game in Look North

Meanwhile, Durham cricketer Ben Stokes must be a very

The all-rounder and new England Test vice-captain has become

the Indian Premier League's most expensive foreign player,

after Rising Pune Supergiants bought him for ?1.7m.

It's around twice what he earns from his international central

contract and sees him become the highest-earning

Our weather forecast for the week ahead.

We've been spoilt a bit Jen, but it felt like things

Absolutely right. We have had 15 Celsius today across parts of

Northumberland, but as we head through the week, we will see those

temperatures tumbling and by the end of the week, we are looking at highs

of five Celsius. It is a very unsettled week of weather. Spells of

rain and strong winds at times and it will be turning colder gradually

as the week goes on. Tomorrow morning, not a bad start. The winds

died out overnight. Bright spells across the North East. Dry across

Cumbria, but here it will be cloudy and the cloud will spread to all

parts as we head into the afternoon ahead of a band of rain. Tomorrow's

top temperature a little less than today. 12 Celsius in the sunshine.

Tuesday night and into Wednesday, we have a band of rain pushing in from

the West. It will be quite heavy and persistent. Some strong winds as

well. That will start to gradually pushed away through by the time we

get to dawn on Wednesday morning and the temperatures overnight will be

dropping down to seven Celsius. Wednesday looks something like this

on the pressure chart. We have a cold front which is gradually

sinking southwards. The squeeze on the Asda buys indicating strong

winds as well. A blustery day on Wednesday. Rain to get out of the

way and then we will have a brighter day. Dry with blue skies and some

wintry showers here and there, especially across the fells and it

will stay quite windy. 8-9 C. Then, will stay quite windy. 8-9 C. Then,

moving into Thursday, things change again. We are watching this area of

low pressure moving in from the West. It will bring strong winds and

a spell of rain and hail snow as well some snow could fall to lower

levels as sleet so we will keep an eye on this one. There will be an

improving day with temperatures again across some parts only up to

six Celsius. Into Friday, a different day again. We're looking

at a dry day on Friday, plenty of bright spills and colder. 4-5 C

beehive. Just to recap, we are looking at a day of cloud and some

outbreaks of rain tomorrow and then into Wednesday it will be more dry

once the rain clears through. Thursday and Friday, we are looking

at a fair amount of wet weather on Thursday. We will be expecting some

very heavy rain in the forecast Matt will be falling as snow over higher

ground. Into Friday, we are expecting there to be some sunny

spells but it will be feeling colder, saw a very unsettled time to

come. Here is the outlook As you have just seen, after a day

in which some of you have been shedding the layers, you will be

putting them back on for the rest of this week. Big changes ahead, all

down to where the air has been coming from. Today, it originated in

the Caribbean, hence the name tropical maritime air. Temperatures

peaked at 18 degrees. But later this week, the winds go to the

north-west, a different source, polar maritime air. Still over the

sea, but from a colder place, so temperatures will struggle. Bringing

about that change, a strengthening jet stream. At the moment, we still

have tropical maritime air with us across southern parts of the UK.

With it, lots of cloud. Moisture across parts of