:00:10. > :00:10.Good evening. getting married these days.
:00:11. > :00:13.A 16-year-old boy has been killed in a car crash following a police
:00:14. > :00:17.The boy - named locally - as Brandon Morris -
:00:18. > :00:20.was a passenger in the car, which was being followed
:00:21. > :00:22.by the police close to Albert Park last night.
:00:23. > :00:25.Four people have been arrested on suspicion of causing death
:00:26. > :00:33.All day, Brandon's friends and family have been coming
:00:34. > :00:36.here to place flowers, cards and letters along the wall.
:00:37. > :00:39.We can show you how many have come throughout the day.
:00:40. > :00:42.It actually goes back around 20 yards, hundreds of bouquets
:00:43. > :00:46.All of the people that we've been speaking to, understandably,
:00:47. > :00:48.say they are in complete shock by what has happened.
:00:49. > :00:54.They all describe a popular young boy who was always smiling.
:00:55. > :00:57.A fantastic friend who was always happy.
:00:58. > :01:01.That's how 16-year-old Brandon Morris has been described.
:01:02. > :01:03.Someone who the tributes say was greatly loved
:01:04. > :01:08.He died after the car he was travelling in crashed
:01:09. > :01:12.following a police chase on this road in Middlesbrough.
:01:13. > :01:15.He was one of the happiest lads I've ever known.
:01:16. > :01:17.Respectable, sound, he was one of my best mates.
:01:18. > :01:20.I could trust him with anything, and he always had my back,
:01:21. > :01:25.I still don't believe that he's gone.
:01:26. > :01:28.I just couldn't stop crying all night.
:01:29. > :01:31.Brandon had been the passenger in a Ford Focus car that was being
:01:32. > :01:37.The lights and sirens were on, and the car was only followed
:01:38. > :01:40.a short distance when it got to this point.
:01:41. > :01:42.The Ford Focus made it to the junction and then crashed
:01:43. > :01:47.Brandon suffered serious injuries and was taken
:01:48. > :01:51.to James Cook Hospital, where he died a short time later.
:01:52. > :01:58.He was a kid on the estate that was loved and always happy.
:01:59. > :02:01.Every time I saw him, he was always dead jolly and stuff.
:02:02. > :02:07.Respectful, sound, always had everyone's back.
:02:08. > :02:09.He just put a smile on everyone's face.
:02:10. > :02:16.Cleveland Police say three people were taken to
:02:17. > :02:18.Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital after the crash.
:02:19. > :02:21.They and a 29-year-old man have now all been arrested
:02:22. > :02:26.on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
:02:27. > :02:29.A GoFundMe page has now been set up to raise money for Brandon's family
:02:30. > :02:35.Cleveland Police released a statement this evening,
:02:36. > :02:39.and said its thoughts are with Brandon's family,
:02:40. > :02:41.and they are now receiving specialist support.
:02:42. > :02:43.Because the youngster was killed following a police chase,
:02:44. > :02:45.the case has now been referred to the Independent Police
:02:46. > :02:50.Complaints Commission, and it's also investigating what happened here.
:02:51. > :02:52.Meanwile, a woman has died after her car was involved
:02:53. > :02:56.in an accident with a digger being towed on a trailer in Cumbria.
:02:57. > :02:59.It happened near the village of Shap on the A6.
:03:00. > :03:01.The police are appealing for anyone who may have seen
:03:02. > :03:08.The A6 remains an important route, linking Penrith
:03:09. > :03:17.Police were called to a two-vehicle road traffic collision.
:03:18. > :03:19.A van and a trailer travelling north on the A6
:03:20. > :03:22.were in collision with a car that was travelling south.
:03:23. > :03:24.Unfortunately, a member of the public has lost
:03:25. > :03:28.It's still the very early stages of this investigation.
:03:29. > :03:30.Collision investigators are on the scene at the moment,
:03:31. > :03:34.It's still too early to say what happened.
:03:35. > :03:36.Later, the police confirmed that the dead driver
:03:37. > :03:39.was a 26-year-old woman from the Penrith area.
:03:40. > :03:42.The need to know exactly what happened here is more
:03:43. > :03:45.important than rushing to reopen the road.
:03:46. > :03:48.It's now afternoon, and the police are still hoping to get this road
:03:49. > :03:51.open as soon as they can, but the fact that it's been closed
:03:52. > :03:54.since around 8:30am illustrates the difficulties involved with these
:03:55. > :03:58.Recovery vehicles have now moved some of the vans
:03:59. > :04:04.The motorist's car is still being worked on by crash investigators.
:04:05. > :04:07.Anyone who saw a Citroen car and a trailer pulled by a Mercedes
:04:08. > :04:10.van in the area this morning is asked to contact the police.
:04:11. > :04:15.Mark McAlindon, BBC Look North, near Shap.
:04:16. > :04:19.Campaigners against plans for a 2,000-home Garden Village
:04:20. > :04:22.in Northumberland say they'll ask for it to go to a public inquiry.
:04:23. > :04:26.Councillors voted today to give approval to the plans,
:04:27. > :04:29.on green belt land, on the edge of Ponteland.
:04:30. > :04:31.The developers, Lugano Property Group, say it'll be a modern project
:04:32. > :04:37.But opponents say it's too big, and will affect the whole
:04:38. > :04:45.It was the foresight of our forefathers that gave us green belt,
:04:46. > :04:49.to stop the urban sprawl of unchecked development, they said.
:04:50. > :04:53.But what if the development looked like this?
:04:54. > :04:59.Lugano Property Group bought this green belt land some ten years ago.
:05:00. > :05:01.Now it wants to build something like this,
:05:02. > :05:04.a mixed and, it says, imaginative development,
:05:05. > :05:08.where a quarter of the houses will be classed as "affordable".
:05:09. > :05:11.A garden village compliments its setting, and Dissington Garden
:05:12. > :05:15.Village will be at one with its surrounding landscape.
:05:16. > :05:17.It is a seductive vision, but many current residents
:05:18. > :05:24.They are looking to increase the population by nearly double.
:05:25. > :05:26.Personally, we are going to be completely
:05:27. > :05:36.The developer says there's pent up demand for housing just
:05:37. > :05:39.like this by young families and for commuters into Tyneside.
:05:40. > :05:42.Critics say it's simply too much for what is,
:05:43. > :05:49.For its location and the effect and the impact it would have on this
:05:50. > :05:51.village where we live, it's just too dramatic,
:05:52. > :06:00.Therefore, when they talk about a housing crisis,
:06:01. > :06:03.it's basically a housing crisis in the South.
:06:04. > :06:08.We have enough space is already that are Brownfield sites and infield
:06:09. > :06:14.sites to satisfy the need we have in our region, in our county.
:06:15. > :06:17.Nonetheless, despite the presence of many objectors at County Hall,
:06:18. > :06:20.the scheme was given outline approval by councillors today.
:06:21. > :06:23.It will be its own place with its own school, shops,
:06:24. > :06:28.leisure and recreational facilities and employment opportunities.
:06:29. > :06:31.This is a scheme that has an opportunity to be a real economic
:06:32. > :06:35.It's not that people are against change per se,
:06:36. > :06:38.it's just too much change in one fell swoop.
:06:39. > :06:43.We didn't get the opportunity to speak today.
:06:44. > :06:47.You have five minutes for all of your objectors to put their case.
:06:48. > :06:55.Gerry Jackson, BBC Look North, Northumberland.
:06:56. > :06:59.Unemployment in the North East rose in the three months to January.
:07:00. > :07:03.The total was up by 4,000 to 88,000 - that's 6.8% of the workforce.
:07:04. > :07:06.In Cumbria, nearly 5,000 people claimed job seekers'
:07:07. > :07:10.allowance in February - a rise of more than 700 on January.
:07:11. > :07:13.And North Yorkshire also saw a rise, with just over 5,000 people
:07:14. > :07:30.It's taken 13 months and cost ?23 million -
:07:31. > :07:32.but finally work to fully reopen the Settle-Carlisle railway
:07:33. > :07:36.The line at Armathwaite - between Carlisle and Penrith -
:07:37. > :07:38.was badly damaged after flooding in 2015 caused a 500,000
:07:39. > :07:42.The line will officially reopen at the end of this month
:07:43. > :07:47.The track is back in place and soon trains will be too.
:07:48. > :07:50.This is the final push in a year-long effort to reinstate
:07:51. > :07:54.services on this Victorian line after it was overcome by a landslip.
:07:55. > :07:58.We just hadn't seen a slip of that extent.
:07:59. > :08:02.It was moving hour by hour, day by day, and obviously
:08:03. > :08:05.we were concerned about how much movement was happening.
:08:06. > :08:07.The site at Eden Brows is difficult to get to.
:08:08. > :08:09.It's next to a Site of Scientific Interest,
:08:10. > :08:12.and before work could even begin, thousands of tonnes
:08:13. > :08:18.That was one of our first challenges, really, how to get here.
:08:19. > :08:21.We put in over a mile of access roads just to get here.
:08:22. > :08:24.The challenge inside of it is just the scale of it, really.
:08:25. > :08:25.We've had a massive piling operation.
:08:26. > :08:27.It's stuff that we do as a contractor every day,
:08:28. > :08:33.The train line sits 70 metres above the River Eden.
:08:34. > :08:35.To keep it in position, a retaining wall's been built
:08:36. > :08:40.and the new track has been laid on a more solid foundation.
:08:41. > :08:42.This is where the half a million tonnes landslide
:08:43. > :08:47.To stop that happening again, the track is now built on a 6,000
:08:48. > :08:49.tonne concrete slab, and to keep that slab in place
:08:50. > :08:55.are 226 steel pins drilled right into the sandstone bedrock.
:08:56. > :08:57.The project team are confident the design here will survive any
:08:58. > :09:03.The improvements here should last at least 120 years.
:09:04. > :09:07.But for now the focus is on the next two weeks and the eventual
:09:08. > :09:11.Before the official opening by the Flying Scotsman
:09:12. > :09:14.at the end of this month, test journeys will be taken to make
:09:15. > :09:16.sure drivers are familiar with the new track here -
:09:17. > :09:19.a crucial update to a much-loved Cumbrian rail route.
:09:20. > :09:45.Now it's time for the weather, with Paul Mooney.
:09:46. > :09:54.A lot of low cloud around, so poor visibility. Thick enough for parts
:09:55. > :10:02.of the region to see some light rain. Tomorrow, a fairly cloudy
:10:03. > :10:06.picture on the whole. A few bright spells, some in eastern areas. That
:10:07. > :10:12.thick cloud will bring in some outbreaks of rain throughout the
:10:13. > :10:18.morning and a second batch of heavy rain in the afternoon. But drier and
:10:19. > :10:23.brighter by tea-time following in from the north-west. A brisk
:10:24. > :10:29.south-westerly wind turning west and north-westerly as we head into
:10:30. > :10:36.evening. 54 Fahrenheit the hide tomorrow. Another series of fronts
:10:37. > :10:42.come in from the west, some fairly strong winds on Friday and into the
:10:43. > :10:48.weekend. There will be some bands of heavy rain at times, some gusty
:10:49. > :10:54.winds, and it will feel cooler than it has recently. For Friday,
:10:55. > :10:59.outbreaks of rain, a gusty westerly wind, and noticeably cooler.
:11:00. > :11:01.Temperatures start to recover on the weekend, but with showery rain and
:11:02. > :11:05.it stays dry I will be surprised. Here is Nick with the national
:11:06. > :11:10.headlines.