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