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But tonight Colin Gregg, whose family set up the Newcastle

bakery chain Greggs, is starting a 13 and a half year

prison term for a string of sex attacks on boys.

Today, a Judge told the former headteacher, he'd hidden behind

a cloak of respectability, and showed not a pang

Peter Harris was at Newcastle Crown Court for the sentencing.

He had left court when he was found guilty showing no remorse.

Today, Colin Gregg was back to be sentenced.

He evaded the waiting cameras but he could not evade justice.

Some of Colin Gregg's victims were in court.

The judge said Gregg had led a life of wealth.

He had been a teacher and a head teacher but he had used that cloak

of respectability to hide behind in order to abuse boys.

He said he had shown no remorse and not a pang of conscience.

In fact, he had shown nothing but contempt for the boys

when he abused them and now as men when they had made

The court heard from one of those victims.

He said, "I hope I never hear the name Colin Gregg again.

"I feel saddened but mostly angered that Gregg has been unable

"I hope he will reflect on this in prison."

And prison is quite a fall from grace.

Once he had rubbed shoulders with Prince Andrew when he was

administrator of the yellow Brick Road fund set up to better

His status from the 1960s onwards was an aggravating feature.

It had been the cover for abusing boys down the decades.

One boy said he had such respect for Colin Gregg he could not take

in what had happened, and as an 11-year-old

Tonight, Colin Gregg is starting 13-and-a-half years in jail

He will be in his 80s when he comes out of prison and will be

a registered sex offender for the rest of his days.

I think one of the most striking things from today's court case

was Colin Gregg's reaction - there wasn't a flicker of emotion

and there certainly does not appear to be any remorse of any kind.

Outside court the police were telling us this case shows

it is never too late for victims of abuse to come forward.

They were saying, partly off the back the Jimmy Savile

investigations, there has been a large increase in reports

of historic abuse and this case shows, with the defendant getting

more than 13 years in prison, there is always time to come forward

The police have been praised today for the thoroughness of that

investigation because it is worth bearing in mind it has

taken around 20 years, through various court cases,

Well, tonight he starts the 13 and a half year prison sentence,

condemned, in the words of the judge, as a sophisticated

Peter Harris, BBC Look North, Newcastle Crown Court.

A North Yorkshire care home's been fined ?50,000

after one of its residents killed herself by jumping

Dora Strickland, who was 90, took her own life at the Red Lodge

The owners, the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust,

were found guilty of failing to adequately assess

This trial at York Crown Court has lasted almost two weeks.

During that time, we have heard how Dora Strickland had failed

a care home on the outskirts of York.

Just weeks before she died after jumping from a second-floor

window, she had told staff at the home she was depressed

While the owners of the home, the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust,

were acquitted of putting residents' lives at risk, they were today fined

?50,000 for failing to adequately assess the risks that residents

Since 2011, we have implemented a robust risk assessment relating

to windows in our care homes, and will learn any lessons from this

case to ensure we put residents and their safety and well-being

We want to reassure our residents and families in all our care homes

they are safe and will continue to receive high-quality care.

As well as fining the trust ?50,000, the judge also ordered them

Mrs Strickland's family meanwhile have welcomed that

lessons have been learned, and believe that if things had

been done differently, their mother's suicide

It was a request for a sidecar by a dad who wanted

to take his dying son out for one last ride.

Mark Hartley's son, Jamie, has been given just months to live.

Sharon Barbour's been to meet the family in Blyth to hear

how their request for a little help went viral - and now more

than a thousand bikers are expected at Blyth Beach this weekend.

When Jamie Hartley had a massive seizure last month,

his family were told he may now only have months to live.

Instead of having a year-and-a-half left with my son in order to plan

trips and fun times, then all of a sudden it

Um, and to try and make it the best couple of months

You're on camera, you can show off now.

Jamie has always loved motorbikes and his dad wanted them

I put out to 30 members, my friends, that's all it was,

asking them if anybody could lend me a sidecar just so we could do a last

The idea was just me, a couple of friends and a sidecar.

But the post went viral and before I knew it there was thousands

and thousands of hits and ended up being several hundred thousand hits.

Jamie and his brother were both diagnosed with Juvenile Huntington's

His brother Kyle now lives in a care home.

But Jamie could die any day, and the bike ride is about creating

It's amazing that these people all came out to help.

The family hopes the event to mark Jamie's last ride at Blyth Beach

A Scottish businessman, who's hoping to run Middlesbrough's

?30 million Snow Centre, says it'll transform the town,

create hundreds of jobs and bring millions of pounds into the area.

Jamie Smith already runs two big snow and ice centres in Scotland.

Councillors will decide on the plans for Middlehaven tomorrow.

Stuart Whincup's been to meet the man supporting one of Teesside's

This is one of Europe's most successful Snow Centres.

Now, the man behind it has big plans for Teesside.

In terms of pulling in 350 jobs, I think they will make those

If anything, I think their estimates are conservative.

Jamie Smith runs Snow Factory in Braehead, he also runs

the world's largest indoor ice climbing venue.

He is now hoping to become the operator

For generations, this land was used for shipbuilding on the Clyde.

But this site was transformed and the Snow Centre now brings

in thousands of visitors to the area every week.

It can shine a spotlight on the area.

People can spend half their day at the snow centre, then spend time

within Renfrewshire contributing to the local economy.

This is how Middlesbrough's Snow Centre would look.

Now we can show you what would be inside.

At 168 metres, this main slope is around the same size as the one

There will be an ice bar, an ice climbing wall like this one.

Around the ski slopes there will be bars and cafes.

Few here believed a ?30 million Snow Centre would ever be built

There is always going to be naysayers and doubters.

But they have done their homework, the site is fantastic,

and you have got a really affluent population very close

Plans for Middlesbrough's own ?30 million Snow Centre

are expected to be approved by councillors tomorrow.

Stuart Whincup, BBC Look North, in Braehead.

-- that is it from me. We have plenty of variety and the weather

today. More rain to come overnight and Cumbria bears the brunt of the

heaviest and some persistent rain along the borders. Further south in

this dryer with clearer spells. A very mild night. Tomorrow we start

off on the cloudy side and some rain, especially in the West through

the morning. By lunchtime it is becoming drier and the afternoon

looks more promising with cloud more broken and the sun coming out for

most places was just the odd afternoon shower. Not as warm as it

has been but still a reasonable five for tomorrow although that

south-westerly wind will be quite strong. -- reasonable hive. For the

weekend low-pressure is in charge. April showers arrived right on cue

and that ridge of high pressure builds to the second half of the

weekend to bring some quieter and drier weather. Saturday a day of

sunshine and showers, some heavy and perhaps the odd rumble of thunder

but blue skies and sunshine in between. A cold mate on Saturday and

leaving as a fine and time of year. The chance of a shower

on Saturday. Sunday will be dry. Hello, it will cool off over the

next few days but that's not unusual, given how warm it was

today. This was London. We just had the warmest March day since 2012, 20

two Celsius in the Sunnis skies in the south-east. It was much warmer

than recently in north-eastern Scotland, but in between we had a

zone of outbreaks of rain. It's pretty wet in south-west Scotland

and North West England at the moment. This was the scene earlier,

with rainy skies. There's more rain to come overnight. We could see a

few splashes running eastwards into England, but most of the wet weather

is further west. We will see heavy rain arriving in Northern Ireland.

Further training north-west England and also for Scotland. -- further

rain. It will stay very mild for the