12/04/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Her son died from an undiagnosed heart condition when he was just 16.

It was an event that led Karen Campbell, from Middlesbrough,

to begin a fundraising campaign which has now seen 400 people

James Campbell died in his sleep while away on a school trip in 2013.

The charity, CRY, says around 12 young people a week in the UK

Just genuine, kind, funny, intelligent...

Very special, yeah, very special kid.

And...we're lost without him, really.

Karen says James was always happy and healthy.

He'd been enjoying a school trip in Hexham and had

He went to bed early, but in the morning his

When we did get to the hospital we were greeted with

It's almost like something you'd see in a film.

Really did turn our world upside down, yeah.

But then we had to come home and tell Adam,

Karen set up a fund in James's honour and that money is being used

It's available for people between 14 and 35, and it can identify some

Essentially what we're trying to look for is

structural causes of sudden cardiac death as well as electrical

abnormalities which we can see on the heart tracing.

The figure that we have is about 1 in 300 individuals

have a heart condition that could potentially lead

to sudden cardiac death, and that's why screening

The cost of individual screenings will soon go up to ?50 -

and in the majority of cases the money comes from fundraising

I don't want other families to go through it.

It shouldn't be happening and it is preventable.

A former priest has been found guilty of sexually abusing a pupil

at a Catholic boarding school in the 1970s.

Father Michael Higginbottom, who's 74 and from West Farm Road

in Newcastle, denied subjecting a teenage boy to repeated

sexual abuse while he was a teacher in Lancashire.

Dozens of children are reported missing

It's a nightmare for their parents and carers,

but it's also a big challenge for the police.

Tonight a new national TV series, Reported Missing, featured the work

of a specialised unit of Durham Police leading

"Look, we'll find your loved one, don't worry."

You can't do that, but what you can do is reassure them that

every available resource, everybody that you have

Typically 20-25% of our work involves investigating crime.

The rest of it can be dealing with vulnerable people,

and missing from homes takes up a lot of our time

And if you didn't see tonight's programme you can still watch

Police are appealing for witnesses after a serious collision

It involved a VW Polo on the northbound carriageway

The occupants of the car were taken to hospital,

and two children, aged 11 and 13, remain in hospital in

The road was closed for three and a half hours.

Despite tougher new penalties, police in North Yorkshire say

too many drivers are risking lives by using phones and other electronic

Now officers have started using an unbranded truck

to try to spot drivers breaking the law.

Phil Bodmer has been on patrol with them.

Yeah, was he texting or is he on the phone?

Texting, phone in his left hand, looking down.

It's the Vectra, he's looking down, he's been looking down

for an age as we've been filming him.

We are looking for you, we do want to catch you,

Uncompromising words of advice from traffic constable Dave Sievers

It's just after 10am and Operation Tramline is underway.

On board this unmarked truck are two police officers.

Within five minutes a driver is seen using a phone.

Yeah, he's on the phone now, look, isn't he?

The vehicle is stopped by a marked police car and the driver cautioned.

He said he was operating the screen of his iPhone,

looking through the apps - he actually denied that he was

texting or making a telephone call, but the fact is he's still got his

phone in his hand, he's using it, that's going to be a distraction

to him while he's driving, and it is an offence so he's been

People are ignoring it, they don't realise the

And we've been running, we are on day four now,

and we're catching people on a regular basis.

Yesterday we had four on a mobile phone in an hour

One of the problems the police face is

actually spotting drivers on mobile phones and using electronic devices

What the truck does is gives them the elevation

to see exactly what motorists are up to.

A short time later, the truck spots another motorist flouting the law.

White transporter, to the near side of us -

None of the drivers stopped while we filmed wanted

Police say six points and a ?200 fine reflects

the severity of the offence - if it saves a life, that's

Unemployment in the North East fell by 4,000 between

83,000 people are now without a job, equivalent

to 6.4% of the workforce - the highest total in

the country, but the lowest level since March 2008.

Meanwhile in Cumbria, 5,230 people claimed

job seekers' allowance in March, a rise of about 220

5,205 people claimed job seekers' allowance, up by about 130

Railway history has been made here in the north,

with the steam locomotive Tornado becoming the first steam engine

to reach a 100 mph for half a century.

It was driven on the East Coast Main Line last night,

and Tom Ingall was on board for the secret high speed test.

As sun set in Doncaster last night, Tornado and

her crew prepared for an extraordinary adventure.

It has been 50 years since steam was last pushed

Under a cover of secrecy and darkness,

We've proven it's got the horsepower

to run at 90 miles an hour, as we've seen.

But we now want to be able to go beyond that and just give

ourselves that extra margin of safety and performance.

Tornado is usually limited to 75 miles an hour,

like other steam engines on the mainline.

They want to be able to regularly run at 90,

and as part of the test they had official permission to reach

Everyone, everyone jump up in the air!

If there was any problem on the footplate they would have

backed off as soon as they'd done the tonne, and they're just

Smooth maybe, but with the needle all the way over,

It took two men sharing the shovel to provide tonnes of coal

to satisfy Tornado's voracious appetite.

As they returned to York, the driver and fire man were cheered.

Quite rocky so, you know, we were sort of swinging about a bit

We've got everything from 99.9-and-a-who-knows-what

to 101.6, and that's the problem with doing these things

with so many different speed recording pieces of equipment.

In '68 they said the steam age was done.

Last night proved legends are still being written.

That's all from me tonight, thanks for watching.

Remember we're back with breakfast bulletins from 6:25

First, let's take a look at the weather forecast.

Good evening. Jemilla dry still covers it over the next few days,

and generally dry overnight tonight. Enough cloud to produce the passing

shower, but long clear spells in between with the winds easing off. A

much cooler night and we have had recently. Maybe a touch cooler out

in the countryside. A chilly starting places tomorrow, but dry

and bright Femenia. Good sunny spells in the east through the early

part of the morning. The cloud fills in from the West and it will produce

some patchy, light rain. -- try and write for many. Afternoon

temperatures will peak at around 12 cents US. Similar to the last couple

of days. -- around 12 Celsius. Winds lighter than they were today,

certainly less breezy as we head through tomorrow. Over the next few

days, we keep our pressure to be south-west of the country and low

pressure to the north-east. We are stuck in this west to north-westerly

airflow. It will certainly not be unbroken sunshine as we had two

wards and through the Easter weekend. Good Friday looks like a

generally cloudy picture. Mostly dry with a moderate westerly breeze.

Temperatures up to 12-13 Celsius at best. Into the Easter weekend

itself, Saturday is bright and breezy. The winds will pick up. More

in the way of blue sky before the cloud thickens

Brighter on Saturday but cloud again on Sunday. Here is Tomasz.

Good evening. The weather in the run-up to

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