03/04/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

As you may have seen, Sunderland manager David Moyes says

he made about slapping a female reporter.

The comments were made to BBC sports journalist Vicky Sparks

after the Black Cats home draw against Burnley last month.

Sunderland Football Club and the reporter say

the matter has been resolved but not everyone thinks

Here's our news correspondent Mark Denten.

David Moyes is under pressure on the field.

His team adrift at the bottom of the Premier League.

He's now under pressure of the field, too.

After Sunderland's recent goalless draw

around the owner's appearance at the game.

He said it didn't, but with a microphone

Just watch yourself, you might get a slap

At today's press conference head of the game at Leicester, he started

It's certainly not the person who I am.

I spoke to the BBC reporter who accepted my

apology and hopefully we

The club have known about it for two weeks, I told Ellis

Sometimes these things happen in the heat of the

An apology from David Moyes but his critics say his words have

Yet again, Sunderland has been put in the national spotlight as some

kind of repository of neanderthol men with terrible attitudes to

The football Association set standards for people in this

They tell us they want to open the sport up to women and they

have to look at how they keep their house in order.

Today, Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker also

On the seafront today, fans had their views.

It is quite common play for women to be

spoken out in derogatory terms or these phrases used.

I'm surprised he has not been sacked.

Do you think the club should intervene?

The football Association have denied prison to David Moyes to ask for an

excavation. Public safety will not be put

at risk by the closure of the police helicopter base

at Durham Tees Valley Airport. That's the promise from

Cleveland's Crime Commissioner. Air support for the Cleveland Force

area could now come from Newcastle, The closure of the base

will save around one For year's Cleveland's police

helicopter provided a vital service. It offered a rapid response -

helping officers catch But at the weekend

the the National Police Air Service closed the base at Durham Tees

Valley Airport. Now in an emergency,

Cleveland Police will have to rely on helicopters being sent from other

parts of the country. And that's raised concerns

about response times. I can understand concerns but what I

can do is give reassurance that we are very much a National Service and

we will support all our communities. We will move helicopters and

aeroplanes coming initially, move them around wherever they need to

be. Cleveland's Crime Commissioner

had led a campaign to keep a police helicopter

based on Teesside. But now he's supported the decision

to move it and close I supported the idea when we were in

a much healthier financial situation and were not facing ?39 million of

Government cots. We have a lot of growth areas, such as cyber crime,

domestic abuse, child sexual abuse domestic abuse, child sexual abuse

and those crimes require a different and those crimes require a different

response, necessarily involving a helicopter or aircraft.

The National Police Air Service says diffiucult decisions had to be made

And while there'll now be no police helicopter based here -

The National Police Air Service claims the area will not lose out.

But it is hard to see how response times will not be affected

when the helicopters covering this area - may now have to travel

Many of the crew leave will go to bases across the of England.

Shops and businesses across the region are digesting

their new business rates which came into effect over the weekend.

Rates are a government tax on the rentable value of properties,

and have been redrawn for the first time in seven years.

However, many small independent traders claim they've

been hit unfairly - seeing big rises in their bills -

rises that some of them might not survive.

From Yarm, near Stockton, here's our Business Correspondent Ian Reeve.

The shop and cafe that Paddy runs in Yarm has had some

From this week, it has seen ?8,000 rise to ?28,000 per year.

For us, you've got to turn that into turnover terms.

That is obviously money that has got to come out of

what we make at the end of the year, you need to times that by

turnover and we need to find another ?25,000 turnover to cover that.

Paddy's is just one of a number of independent shops

Some of whom may not be able to survive a rise.

I would not be surprised if there are a number of

businesses that will face that decision.

Jason's ice cream shop a few doors down has seen

A hike that is already having an effect.

That means me and my wife have to work longer hours.

My wife is locally from the north-east, from

We came here to give our children what they thought would be

We find we are spending less time with them than we thought we would

Across the country, over half a million

More than 900,000 businesses will see a decrease.

And of course, businesses here in Yarm and

elsewhere can appeal over rates but the process is lengthy.

Then there's a ?300 billion relief fund announced

According to the Federation of Small Businesses,

one in five members may consider closing or selling up and due

It's been announced that Newcastle will host European rugby union's

St James Park - which staged Rugby Union

World Cup games in 2015 - will host the European Champions Cup

and Challenge Cup finals, in two years' time.

Newcastle Falcons Kingston Park Stadium will host the European

And time for Monday night's weather for the week ahead.

I know we can't complain, but you did use the word

I may well have mentioned it. In a positive way. We have some high

pressure dominating the weather through the week ahead. That means

nothing is changing very quickly, it is fairly settled weather. Mostly

dry and it means it will be a largely frost free. By same mostly

dry, not bone dry tonight. A weather front crossing the region through

the early hours of tomorrow morning. That produces a lot of cloud, patchy

rain here and there was it will also be temperatures up, no overnight

frost, no temperatures below seven Celsius. That is mid-40s Fahrenheit.

A brisk north-westerly breeze picking up as well. Tomorrow, a

great start for some others, the odds spot of rain around, that

peters out very quickly. Clouds break up and we see sunny spell

developed through the morning. In the afternoon, some clouds built in

but most places they drive. It is blue sky, bits of sunshine,

temperatures peaked at 13 Celsius. Fresher than today but that breezes

coming down from north-westerly direction. Tomorrow night, a lot of

cloud, thickening up again, bringing the odd spot of rain and drizzle

here and there as he had through the early hours of tomorrow more --

Wednesday morning. The bridge is no lower than eight Celsius heading

into Wednesday. Hanging onto more cloud in the day on Wednesday. A bit

thicker, too. More rain and drizzle over the hills, most places staying

dry if a bit on the grey side. Temperatures a shade cooler at

11-12 C for Wednesday afternoon. Again, with that north-westerly

breeze. That breeze comes round this anticyclone, big area of high

pressure centred just the south-west of Ireland are there. Dominating the

weather jobs for the next few days, continuing to keep this cool and

cloudy feed of error from the north-westerly direction as we head

towards the tail end of the week. Not a great deal of change that all

as we had through Thursday. A mostly dry day, if you break any cloud,

generally fairly cloudy skies at times with light winds and

temperature is again to 13-14 C at best. Not a great deal changes for

Friday. Sunny spells, the best of any will be weeks of the Pennines. A

bit more shower built -- shelter. Temperatures up to 13 Celsius, that

is 55 Fahrenheit. You can keep up to date with any subtle changes over

the next few days on the BBC local radio stations. I will leave you

with a summary for next is remaining settled. It will feel

fairly warm and dry as well. Good evening. Some rain spreading in

across the Atlantic overnight. As it does so we will see some fresh

Atlantic air following on from behind. The pollen levels will drop

but the temperatures will also drop. Some rain to go with the