12/05/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Health services - GPs and hospitals -

across our region, have been hit by a cyber attack affecting the NHS.

They include the York Hospitals Trust.

North Cumbria which runs the hospitals in Carlisle

and Whitehaven and Northumbria which runs services including

Northumbria's Specialist Emergency Care Hospital.

NHS England has declared a major incident but says at this stage

there's no evidence patient data has been accessed.

We also understand NHS staff at GPs and Hospitals

across the region have been told to shut down their computer systems

completely, and they may be out of action throughout the weekend.

A former Cumbrian Scout leader Norman Thompson from Wigton,

was sentenced to 16 years in prison today after admitting abusing seven

The youngest was just nine years old.

Norman Thompson's victims saw him at first as a

He gained their trust and that of their parents,

and then he abused it, with horrific consequences.

Norman Thompson's, for want of a better word,

He's ingratiated himself into the community.

He's ingratiated himself into the Scout movement.

And he's used his position there to sexually abuse young boys.

The court heard that Norman Thompson picked favourites

Referred to as Norman's Boys, he'd take them on trips

He'd ply them with alcohol, and it was often on those trips

He took photographs of them, he showed them child pornography.

We heard today that one boy was so distressed by Thompson's

behaviour that he sewed up his sleeping bag to try

Thompson was eventually suspended from the Scouts group,

The testimony of his victims, the reason he's in prison.

I've got nothing but the utmost admiration

Norman Thompson is spending 16 years behind bars as a direct result

The court heard how the victims' lives have been scarred

In sentencing him, the judge said,

"You are disturbing and manipulative.

"People like you terrify and undermine families

Megan Paterson, BBC Look North, Carlisle Crown Court.

The Prime Minister Theresa May was in the region today and claimed

traditional North East Labour voters feel abandoned and are ready

But her rivals insist she's no friend of the region.

Here's our Political Editor Richard Moss.

She arrived by car to stand in front of a bus in

Advanced publicity suggested this visit was aimed at wooing

working-class voters who backed Labour in the past.

She is supposedly trying to appeal to working-class voters

A lot of Conservative activists here.

Not much sign of the voters on this leg of the visit.

So I asked her, would be taking time to meet some?

I will be taking the time to meet many people.

I am going out and about in various parts of the North East today,

and I will be doing so again in the future.

There are 27 days to go in this election campaign.

I'm going to be out in every community, meeting people

in all sirts of circumstances in every part of

The message I give is the same, it is about how crucial

this election is, who do people want to see as Prime Minister

Back on the bus, but even a PM with a big poll lead can't

Will her next stop bring her face-to-face with those

The location was promising, this centre in North Shields

After avoiding protesters at one door, she arrived to another

to an audience with more Conservative activists.

But she did recall to talking to Labour voters in her first election.

There were quite a few Labour voters in that constituency.

But what I found when I talked to those Labour voters were people

who were really patriotical, they loved their country.

They took great pride in their region.

They wanted to see a better future for themselves and their children.

Now, if you look at those issues, it's not the Labour Party

offering that to people, it's the Conservative Party,

it's me and my team today, offering people that brighter future.

So are 2017's voters in North Shields ready to shift?

I don't like either at the minutes, to be honest.

Tourism after the working-class, they never will.

It is still time for the Prime Minister to meet

Well, Theresa May's visit to the North East brought

criticism from Labour, which said local voters would not be

fooled by the Prime Minister's message.

The Liberal Democrats and Ukip have also been giving their view.

The people of this region are not full. They understand quite clearly

what the Tory government has done in this region. They ripped the heart

and souls out of hundreds of communities. In this region we have

unemployment levels nearly double that of the average. We have under

employment. What do you say to the claim that Labour has taken the

north-east for granted? I do not accept that. People are very

disappointed with the Labour Party that has let them down over the last

parliament. Very weak leadership from the Labour Party. From the

Conservative Party we have a lot of rhetoric. They need to see through

the Conservatives and understand that conservatives have form. They

are not going to deliver on their promises and they will not deliver

Brexit. That's all from us

have a great weekend - here's Jen to tell us

about the weather. Tomorrow morning, it

will be a mild start. Generally it is a cloudy

start to the morning. We will see spells of

sunshine breaking through. Tomorrow, top temperature

15, 16 degrees. There will be rain overnight

Saturday into Sunday which will clear away first

thing on Sunday morning. Sunday is looking

at today the weekend. Highs of 16, 17 Celsius

will feel pleasant. Into Monday, wet weather

in the forecast. With the National forecast,

here is Jay Wynne. A bit of a mixed bag earlier on

today, some of us were cloudy with rain. This is the view from one of

our weather watchers in Cornwall. But in the Highlands of Scotland, it

was completely different, find, sunny and warm. The satellite and

radar picture shows the variety of weather we have had. It brightened

up into the afternoon, early evening. The north-east of Scotland

and England have extensive low cloud, missed, fog. If you showers

getting into the south coast by the end of the night. It is not a cold

night. Into the morning, many Southern counties will do quite

well. There is the chance of a shower or two, most of them are gone

by 9am. A lot of dry weather. Variable cloud, some