:00:00. > :00:12.Hello, good evening. for the news where you are.
:00:13. > :00:15.Middlesbrough's stay in football's Premier League is over.
:00:16. > :00:18.They were beaten 3-0 by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge tonight and can't
:00:19. > :00:31.Stuart Whincup is in London for us, and it was a tall order, Stuart.
:00:32. > :00:38.In truth, Middlesbrough were completely outplayed. They hang when
:00:39. > :00:41.in 42 years and there was never a point when that looked like it was
:00:42. > :00:45.to change. Here are the goals that sent Middlesbrough down. The ball
:00:46. > :00:51.came in from Fabregas for the cost to score, ten minute later the same
:00:52. > :00:58.thing happened again. A boil over the top, and this time it was Alonzo
:00:59. > :01:00.who put the ball in. It could've been a cricket score. Midway through
:01:01. > :01:06.the second half Chelsea made it three. At the full-time whistle we
:01:07. > :01:07.caught up with a few Middlesbrough fans and got their reaction.
:01:08. > :01:10.Shocking, really, but we didn't deserve anything better all season.
:01:11. > :01:16.That's where from, you know, we'll support them.
:01:17. > :01:24.Obviously seven years in the Championship before, tough
:01:25. > :01:26.times, but hopefully we'll bounce back.
:01:27. > :01:35.Always with Steve Gibson - up the Boro!
:01:36. > :01:39.So, Middlesbrough relegated to the championship, but till two games
:01:40. > :01:47.remaining. We'll have more tomorrow. Hartlepool United are also facing
:01:48. > :01:50.up to a future outside the Football League after relegation
:01:51. > :01:52.at the weekend. Newcastle United are celebrating
:01:53. > :01:55.after winning the Championship title and Carlisle United
:01:56. > :01:57.are into the League two promotion play-offs,
:01:58. > :02:00.as Andrew Hartley reports. Dramatic endings with such
:02:01. > :02:05.different outcomes. After 96 years, Hartlepool United
:02:06. > :02:10.are out of the FootballLeague. After 96 years, Hartlepool United
:02:11. > :02:12.are out of the Football League. I feel terrible, but life
:02:13. > :02:15.goes on, doesn't it? I hope they can bounce
:02:16. > :02:18.back next year. They say it's best to have
:02:19. > :02:21.a football club in the league at the moment, isn't it, because it
:02:22. > :02:24.helps the town, boost the economy That's something else
:02:25. > :02:28.we've lost now, isn't it? Meanwhile, this afternoon,
:02:29. > :02:30.the club put season tickets on sale for the next campaign,
:02:31. > :02:32.when they will be in facing fixtures against the likes
:02:33. > :02:37.of Gateshead and Guiseley. But there are huge
:02:38. > :02:41.question marks over the club's immediate future
:02:42. > :02:42.after Gary Coxall, the man who owns half
:02:43. > :02:44.of the club, stood down
:02:45. > :02:47.as chairman last week. What worries me more is
:02:48. > :02:52.the direction off the pitch, because there are too many bad decisions
:02:53. > :02:56.being made at Hartlepool in the last year or two, which has
:02:57. > :02:58.resulted in the team where it was on Saturday
:02:59. > :03:00.at Meanwhile at St James' Park,
:03:01. > :03:09.euphoria mixed with disbelief. That is by far the best game
:03:10. > :03:13.of the season, and to snatch Never experienced that
:03:14. > :03:20.since the Fairs Cup years. Newcastle are champions
:03:21. > :03:22.of the championship, thanks to an unexpected late
:03:23. > :03:25.equaliser from ten man Aston Villa And here's the real trophy, making
:03:26. > :03:35.a star appearance on look North And here's the real trophy, making
:03:36. > :03:38.a star appearance on Look North In the two, Carlisle United
:03:39. > :03:42.are in the promotion play-offs, after a three to win
:03:43. > :03:44.at Exeter on Saturday. We should have got promoted
:03:45. > :03:49.but I'm delighted. With a knockout,
:03:50. > :03:51.really, from now on. You know, it's a sprint now,
:03:52. > :03:53.it's not a marathon. The first hurdle,
:03:54. > :03:56.a two-legged semifinal, again Northumberland Conservatives have
:03:57. > :04:03.vowed to cancel a multi-million pound scheme to move the council's
:04:04. > :04:05.headquarters from Labour say their proposals
:04:06. > :04:11.would have saved money in the long But the Tories have now replaced
:04:12. > :04:17.Labour as the biggest Our political correspondent
:04:18. > :04:23.Luke Walton reports. It was hailed by Labour as a plan
:04:24. > :04:26.for jobs, investment and efficiency. The idea to build this
:04:27. > :04:28.new Northumberland Council HQ in Ashington, while replacing
:04:29. > :04:30.the council's current offices in Morpeth with 200 houses,
:04:31. > :04:34.a retail park and a school. Residents weren't impressed,
:04:35. > :04:37.dubbing the scheme a waste of taxpayers cash that would cause
:04:38. > :04:40.congestion and damage Their anger spilt out not only
:04:41. > :04:54.in demonstrations but also, Local Conservatives say the issue
:04:55. > :04:58.was a key reason why they replaced Labour as the biggest party
:04:59. > :05:00.in Thursday's elections. We're going to deliver on our
:05:01. > :05:03.promises, on all of our promises, So, the county council
:05:04. > :05:07.is going to stay in Morpeth and we're going to stay in County
:05:08. > :05:09.Hall. So,instead of knocking them down,
:05:10. > :05:12.the Tory plan is to refurbish the 35-year-old offices at a cost
:05:13. > :05:18.of ?7-8 million. Campaigners see it as a reprieve
:05:19. > :05:22.for open space behind the building. There was a lot of frustration
:05:23. > :05:25.and anger at the way the plans were going and I think this has come
:05:26. > :05:29.through in the elections in the way Labour councillors turned
:05:30. > :05:34.down our request for an interview, but with work already started
:05:35. > :05:38.on what was going to be the new County Hall,
:05:39. > :05:41.there are bound to be fears of creating a white
:05:42. > :05:43.elephant in Ashington - a suggestion denied by
:05:44. > :05:47.Conservatives. It was actually the previous Labour
:05:48. > :05:49.administration that was creating a white elephant by by just moving
:05:50. > :05:52.900 jobs from one town to another and not creating
:05:53. > :05:55.anything new at all. There's a really exciting
:05:56. > :05:59.opportunity in Ashington with the council having control
:06:00. > :06:02.of that site that is so central to the town and we're going to make
:06:03. > :06:06.sure that it's the start A multi-million pound
:06:07. > :06:12.plan apparently put Even so, the long-running saga
:06:13. > :06:17.of Northumberland's County Hall may A primary school in Hartlepool
:06:18. > :06:25.has suffered serious The blaze broke out
:06:26. > :06:29.at Rift House school last night. Classes remained open
:06:30. > :06:35.for Year Six pupils only. The newly elected Mayor
:06:36. > :06:37.of Tees Valley has officially Conservative Ben Houchen beat
:06:38. > :06:42.the Labour candidate with a majority of 2,000,
:06:43. > :06:47.in last Thursday's election. Now, of all the places you might
:06:48. > :06:50.hear about with a shortage of rain, Seathwaite in the Lake District
:06:51. > :06:53.isn't one of them. Britain's wettest village normally
:06:54. > :06:56.gets between two and three metres of rain a year,
:06:57. > :07:00.but it's been so dry lately, This year, life has been a little
:07:01. > :07:12.bit easier for sheep farmer Pete It's the driest spell
:07:13. > :07:15.I've known over a period of our lambing
:07:16. > :07:17.time at Seathwaite. Normally, get some
:07:18. > :07:18.really wet weather. This year has been absolutely
:07:19. > :07:20.brilliant, getting the lambs on the ground,
:07:21. > :07:23.and they've never had a wet day. You could imagine this
:07:24. > :07:31.at the height of a long, hot summer, say in July
:07:32. > :07:34.or August, but this is only early May and the only evidence
:07:35. > :07:35.of the Derwent, which runs through,
:07:36. > :07:37.statistically, Great Britain's wettest place, is its
:07:38. > :07:39.dried out riverbed. There doesn't appear
:07:40. > :07:43.to be a drop on this long stretch of the river, stones
:07:44. > :07:47.baking in the spring sunshine. It makes my job so much
:07:48. > :07:52.easier when I have to get up in the morning
:07:53. > :07:56.and the people are just wowed by the view from
:07:57. > :07:59.hotel, rather than having to think, "Oh, my God, it's raining.
:08:00. > :08:01.We're going to have to put our waterproofs on.
:08:02. > :08:07.And it's not just Cumbria - this is the River Tyne at
:08:08. > :08:10.Corbridge and this is Yockenthwaite in North Yorkshire.
:08:11. > :08:13.The levels may be low, but we're told there is no need to
:08:14. > :08:26.So how long will that trend carry on?
:08:27. > :08:29.We can at least look forward a few days ahead..
:08:30. > :08:31.It's been dry but not always warm, Paul...
:08:32. > :08:40.Weather was amount of temperatures today Jerry. As we had through the
:08:41. > :08:45.week ahead we will certainly start off with fine dry and largely sunny
:08:46. > :08:50.weather but it will turn a little bit unsettled as we head towards the
:08:51. > :08:54.weekend. Overnight tonight, it is bone dry again. Store that East-West
:08:55. > :08:59.split, a lot of cloud in eastern areas clear aside in the West. Where
:09:00. > :09:04.we've had the highest averages in the day, that's where will have the
:09:05. > :09:09.lowest temperatures at night. The group and a few spots cold enough
:09:10. > :09:13.for a touch of ground frost. Tomorrow a dry day, there will be
:09:14. > :09:16.some cloud, but it will tend to break up and even eastern areas that
:09:17. > :09:21.should see some sunshine breaking should see some sunshine breaking
:09:22. > :09:25.through. We will lose that called north-easterly wind, with light and
:09:26. > :09:35.variable indirection tomorrow so, many of us seeing double-figure
:09:36. > :09:39.temperatures. 13th- Celsius -- 13 - 14 Celsius. Patchy cloud in the
:09:40. > :09:46.afternoon, a south-westerly breeze by that time, so not quite as Chile
:09:47. > :09:54.as we head into Wednesday morning. It's looking about five to 6 degrees
:09:55. > :09:57.in those places. Some decent sunny spells, temperatures should make it
:09:58. > :10:05.into double figures in most places. Where you get the breeze might
:10:06. > :10:11.struggle bit but 15 degrees inland will feel quite pleasant. A very
:10:12. > :10:17.slack weather situation through the middle part of the weight -- week,
:10:18. > :10:21.as we head towards the end of the week that will bring the frontal
:10:22. > :10:25.system which will bring cloud, some rain as well for some of us by the
:10:26. > :10:29.end of the week. So, Fred Thursday, it stays mostly dry, we got that
:10:30. > :10:34.South easterly breeze perhaps a shade colour on the east coast and
:10:35. > :10:43.is inland. Western part seen the best of the temperatures, Cumbria
:10:44. > :10:47.getting 64 Fahrenheit, 18 Celsius. A lot more cloud around on Friday,
:10:48. > :10:56.spreading Saint Sharyat breaks of rain, some of it could be heavy, --
:10:57. > :11:01.spreading showers Sharyat breaks of rain. Keep up with the local
:11:02. > :11:03.forecast the new BBC radio station. Here comes the
:11:04. > :11:05.with some sunshine and showers, it will become drier and feel warm. Now
:11:06. > :11:16.the National forecast. Good evening. A quiet day on the
:11:17. > :11:20.weather front but we still managed to have some huge contrasts in the
:11:21. > :11:28.weather. This was a beautiful picture from Cumbria, blue skies and
:11:29. > :11:32.crystal clear blue skies in Argyll and Bute but closer to the north
:11:33. > :11:37.coast, it sends shivers down your spine! Chilly and cloudy all along
:11:38. > :11:42.that cost this bank of cloud that sliced the country in half, cool and
:11:43. > :11:47.cloudy to the east and to the West had sunshine. But it still been dry
:11:48. > :11:54.and it will stay that way for most of the week. As we get into Friday,
:11:55. > :11:57.there is some rain on the way. In the short-term, not much happening
:11:58. > :12:01.in the next few hours, quite a bit of cloud in most of England and
:12:02. > :12:06.Wales but many northern and western parts, the stars are out.
:12:07. > :12:08.Temperatures not too low, six or 7