28/03/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)


28/03/2017

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Victims of a holiday scam run by a South Shields woman say they've

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been let down by the justice system after she escaped with a two year

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suspended prison sentence - because she had a baby.

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Ashleigh Turbitt pocketed nearly ?50,000 from families

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with the promise of cheap holidays to Disneyland.

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Sharuna Sagar met one angry grandmother who lost nearly ?8,500.

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It's been a difficult few years for Hilda Clayton.

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She's nursed both her ill parents till their deaths

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and then she nearly lost one of her grandchildren.

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Me grandson was in Freeman's hospital.

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He was on life support and had to have a Berlin heart in.

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He came through it, it's cutting a long story short,

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and we were so happy, so we decided to book him a holiday.

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We couldn't get him on a flight for his heart condition.

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And it was just a little thing and then people added on for to try

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and celebrate and before we knew it, there were 17 going.

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And so a dream trip to Disney Land in Paris was booked.

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And everything was perfect right up until the night before

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The bairns were packed and ready to go and had their Minnie Mouse

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ears on, their euros in their little purses.

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We were just going to order curry, chill, have an early night,

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And then we just found out it wasn't happening,

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It turned out that nothing had been booked and the whole

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The woman behind it was Ashleigh Turbitt from South Shields.

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She looked like a genuine person to me, she was with her husband and

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children on day trips that we'd booked and she seemed like a lovely

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person to me. I had no inkling whatsoever.

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And Turbitt admitted pocketing ?46,000 of their money

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but she was spared jail because the judge didn't

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It's not about the money, I have forgotten about that now.

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I feel more angry that she is getting away with it.

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People have been sent to jail for less than what she has done.

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Was the judge thinking about our children? I don't think so.

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It was a terrifying experience for disabled couple

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One night last November, a drunken man broke into their home

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in Chester-le-Street while they slept.

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When they woke, they found Michael Lee Gray asleep

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Gray later pleaded guilty to criminal damage but the couple's

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disabilities meant they couldn't travel to court

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But thanks to new technology - the court came to them.

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Here's our News Correspondent Mark Denten.

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Marie's nearly blind, Tom has cancer.

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In anyone's book they are a vulnerable couple -

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but this man Michael Lee Gray broke into their home in Chester-le-Street

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He was drunk - and then eventually fell asleep

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When they woke up they found him there...but in the front room

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there was something else waiting for them.

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He was sick here and he had wet himself there.

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You must've felt your home had been desecrated.

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Yes. We have had a lovely life here.

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The couple's disability meant it was impossible for them to travel

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A temporary video link was installed in the couple's home,

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so they could watch Gray being sentenced in court,

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I didn't believe they could do that sort of thing.

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And the judge was speaking to us and asking things.

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In a statement His Honour Judge Christopher Prince told Look North

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It was really traumatic. It was good for them to see that justice was

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Michael Lee Gray was sentenced to four and a half months in jail.

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Mark Denten, BBC Look North, Chester-le-Street.

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A jury has retired to consider its verdict in the case

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of a North Yorkshire care home accused of failing to protect

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Red Lodge - a retirement home in York - is owned

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by the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.

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The case follows the death of an elderly resident in 2011 -

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who committed suicide by jumping from an upstairs window.

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Northumbria Police has criticised plans for 3,000 people

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The Governor of Durham Prison has rejected

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criticism of the way the jail treats mentally ill prisoners.

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The Prison Independent Monitoring Board's annual inspection said

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the issue of mentally ill patients waiting for treatment,

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had been brushed under the carpet, but the Governor says he's

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The delays in transfers from the prison, from the prison

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to the community hospitals, we have always had to manage that process,

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but the care that the men receive from the mental health team,

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on the inreach team in the prison, is of

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Northumbria Police has criticised plans for 3,000 people

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to float down the River Tyne on inflatables while drinking beer.

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The event's been publicised on social media and is

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planned for July 1st - ending at the Quayside.

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Organisers claim it's based on a Finnish event.

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The police say the Tyne has a strong current,

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they're concerned about safety and they will speak

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York Minster has confirmed that its bells will ring

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The bells were last rung in December.

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The original team of 30 volunteers were sacked last October

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due to safeguarding issues, and since then the bells have only

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been rung a handful of times by volunteers from across Yorkshire.

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A music festival which was expected to attract 35 thousand

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people to Northumberland has been cancelled.

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Organisers of the Festival On The Wall, which was due

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to take place in August, made the announcement this evening,

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The line up at the private farm, near Horsley, was to include

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The Pet Shop Boys, Maximo Park and Mark Ronson.

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It's 20 years since England's last working slate mine

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Honister, in the Lake District, is now a big tourist attraction -

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famed for its Via Ferrata - which allows climbers access

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The owners say they're hoping to create more jobs

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They have been digging slate from this mine

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Over the centuries, huge caverns have been carved out by hand.

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It is very low because they would never stand up straight,

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We're in the middle of Honister, right under

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This goes on for seven or eight miles.

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All dug out by hand. Amazing.

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I know the work in drilling and suchlike.

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With mechanisation, but to do it by hand,

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When Joe's family took over the mine it was little more than a tin shed

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and today it produces 100 tonnes of roofing slate a year

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Today, Honister is about tourism and some of them remember what it

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You used to be able to park free if you bought

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something like a coaster. This is totally different.

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I remember it was all quite rudimentary.

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When you came up to the mine, you could help yourself

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to tea and coffee, you didn't have to pay for it.

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Joe's brother Mark was tragically killed in a helicopter crash

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at the time when he was fighting for planning consent for a zip wire.

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The consent was refused but he is going to try again.

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There's a few things boiling away. I'm very excited.

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June might be keeping his powder dry for the moment but it won't be too

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long before we hear what plans he has in mind.

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That's it from me, time for the weather with Paul Mooney.

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It would be boring if it was sunny all the time, Alison. A lot of cloud

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around and that is producing patchy rain here and there. Staying cloudy

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and misty, with the blanket of cloud and a southerly breeze. Tomorrow,

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early brightness will fade in the east as cloud thickens up quickly

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from the West. That will bring outbreaks of rain and most places

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will see rain at times, most persistent across Cumbria.

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Temperatures relatively mild. Thanks in part to that southerly breeze. A

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messy chart as we head through the middle of the week. Weather fronts

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bringing cloud and rain and it will be Friday before we see this front

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finally clear the way and introducing something fresher and

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brighter into the weekend. A lot of cloud around, the heaviest of the

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rain in the West. Temperatures in North Yorkshire could reach 16

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Celsius. The national forecast is coming up,

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here's tomorrow's outlook. times, but fairly mild for the time

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of year. This stay tuned for the national weather forecasts with John

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Hammond. Good evening. Your parents might

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have told you once that life 's not fair and they were right. He is the

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proof. Over the next few days some of us will enjoy some lovely

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sunshine, temperatures in the low 20s. It will feel like early summer.

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For others, quite a lot of rain around and it will feel like late

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March. This is showers earlier on today and dampness this evening in

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the West Country and Wales. That is heading north eastwards. A different

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sort of night. A lot of cloud around, quite damp and misty in

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places. Cloud cover will prevent temperatures

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