24/01/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)


24/01/2017

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 24/01/2017. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

Hello, and welcome to the lunchtime Look North.

:00:00.:00:00.

The medical advances that mean Margaret has lived to see

:00:00.:00:08.

And celebrating the film industry up north and the millions it brings

:00:09.:00:15.

17 years ago, a group of patients with a rare blood cancer were given

:00:16.:00:32.

But thanks to a clinical trial which doctors in Newcastle helped

:00:33.:00:39.

lead in the year 2000, many have lived to see children grow

:00:40.:00:41.

And some are now thought to be cured - something doctors

:00:42.:00:46.

at the city's Freeman Hospital never thought possible.

:00:47.:00:50.

The long-term results of the trial have just been accepted

:00:51.:00:52.

for publication and patients have spoken exclusively

:00:53.:00:54.

I think I just thought there wasn't another option, really.

:00:55.:01:02.

I think 17 years later, it never occurred to me I'd still be alive.

:01:03.:01:05.

It never occurred to me I'd see my family grow up.

:01:06.:01:09.

I thought probably by 50, I would be dead.

:01:10.:01:11.

Even if he had been alive and been a match,

:01:12.:01:19.

I would have been too old to have a bone

:01:20.:01:21.

I would have danced with the devil to have extra time.

:01:22.:01:25.

I've seen seven grandchildren being born.

:01:26.:01:30.

Can't believe I would have lasted for 17 years

:01:31.:01:33.

and that the disease would have gone.

:01:34.:01:37.

You know, without research, half the patients with this disease

:01:38.:01:39.

would have died after five years and now they have

:01:40.:01:41.

So it's painful and expensive to do research.

:01:42.:01:47.

I feel very lucky, very blessed, to have been

:01:48.:01:52.

in Newcastle at the time when they were offering this option.

:01:53.:01:55.

For the most part, people go on the drugs that I'm

:01:56.:01:58.

on and within a few months, six months, they're back to normal.

:01:59.:02:00.

And you can see more on Look North at 6:30pm,

:02:01.:02:08.

including the next stage of research - which promises to be

:02:09.:02:11.

Cumbrian school pupils are being encouraged to consider

:02:12.:02:19.

careers in the county's emergency services.

:02:20.:02:21.

Paramedics, police officers and NHS staff are hosting two careers events

:02:22.:02:23.

where more than 600 pupils will get the chance to take part

:02:24.:02:26.

Megan Paterson sent us this report from Workington.

:02:27.:02:33.

Inside this bag, lots of things that could help save your life,

:02:34.:02:36.

help make your journey in the back of an ambulance to hospital

:02:37.:02:39.

that little bit easier, and this is just one of the bits

:02:40.:02:42.

of kit that the pupils here are going to get to see today

:02:43.:02:45.

Lauren Watson, you're a paramedic here.

:02:46.:02:50.

You're going to be chatting to the kids.

:02:51.:02:51.

What sort of things are you going to be sharing with them today?

:02:52.:02:55.

Well, we want to encourage people in the local area to come

:02:56.:02:57.

and join us in the North West Ambulance Service.

:02:58.:03:00.

We believe that the future of our workforce is here and we'd

:03:01.:03:03.

like to keep our paramedics and technicians in Cumbria if we can.

:03:04.:03:05.

We know in Cumbria that it is sometimes difficult to get people

:03:06.:03:08.

What are you hoping that the kids take away from today?

:03:09.:03:12.

We hope they'll be inspired by lots of things that we do.

:03:13.:03:15.

We're going to show them a few different things.

:03:16.:03:17.

We're going to show them how to do CPR and put airways in and show them

:03:18.:03:21.

the different kit that we carry and explain about all the different

:03:22.:03:24.

It's not just paramedics and technicians.

:03:25.:03:26.

We've got lots of urgent care, patient transport staff

:03:27.:03:28.

and lots of other jobs you wouldn't even consider.

:03:29.:03:31.

Well, I love helping people, I love the patients.

:03:32.:03:35.

My role in Cumbria is a community-based role.

:03:36.:03:38.

It is to increase survival rates of cardiac arrest so I'm out

:03:39.:03:41.

there in the community and I get to meet lots of people,

:03:42.:03:44.

engage with lots of people, every single day.

:03:45.:03:46.

So, Lauren is one of many emergency services staff who are here today

:03:47.:03:51.

to share a bit of their passion and hopefully encourage young people

:03:52.:03:54.

in Cumbria to consider a career in the emergency services.

:03:55.:04:03.

A report into severe flooding in York during Christmas 2015 has

:04:04.:04:06.

concluded the decision to open the Foss Barrier was correct.

:04:07.:04:08.

More than 600 properties were flooded,

:04:09.:04:09.

but a review panel found the action was the best option available.

:04:10.:04:14.

The report makes 85 recommendations for ways the city

:04:15.:04:16.

Football, and Sunderland have made their first January signing.

:04:17.:04:24.

As expected, he's Joleon Lescott, who's joined the Black Cats

:04:25.:04:28.

The 34-year-old defender, who spent three years

:04:29.:04:32.

with David Moyes at Everton, has put pen to paper on a deal

:04:33.:04:35.

until the end of the season after being released by AEK Athens.

:04:36.:04:51.

A new charity is aiming to build top-class sporting

:04:52.:04:53.

facilities in Berwick which will serve both the local

:04:54.:04:55.

The Berwick Stadium Trust has found land near East Ord, which it hopes

:04:56.:05:00.

to develop to inspire a future generation of sporting youngsters.

:05:01.:05:02.

As well as artificial pitches indoor and out,

:05:03.:05:04.

there would be a gymnastics hall, multi sports courts and a full

:05:05.:05:07.

We've got an option on the site here, which is a fantastic location,

:05:08.:05:11.

straight off the Berwick bypass, and we're at the stage now

:05:12.:05:14.

of working from an idea on a piece of paper to making it reality.

:05:15.:05:17.

It's taken quite a long time just to get to this stage,

:05:18.:05:20.

so I wouldn't be deluded enough to think it's going to happen

:05:21.:05:23.

immediately, but already there's been a bit of a groundswell of

:05:24.:05:26.

And all it takes is the right people to speak to each other to start

:05:27.:05:30.

How many times have you heard the expression that such and such

:05:31.:05:45.

a town or city is the Hollywood of the North or the East,

:05:46.:05:48.

Well as Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake gears up for the final lap

:05:49.:05:52.

of the awards season, it's worth remembering

:05:53.:05:54.

From Stormy Monday to Hebburn, The Likely Lads to

:05:55.:06:01.

It's an incredibly gritty and authentic film

:06:02.:06:10.

Get Carter, one of the all-time gangster greats.

:06:11.:06:17.

The feature film was shot on location in and around Newcastle.

:06:18.:06:20.

Released in 1971, it put the city on the cinematic map.

:06:21.:06:27.

This is where, literally, Michael Caine's ghost walks straight

:06:28.:06:31.

This is where Sting and Tommy Lee Jones walk

:06:32.:06:42.

That's where Mr James Bond himself, Daniel Craig, as Geordie Peacock,

:06:43.:06:47.

makes that last walk with Oasis playing in the background in

:06:48.:06:50.

With no film fund currently in place, the health of the film

:06:51.:06:55.

and television industry is purely down to the region's natural assets.

:06:56.:06:59.

In 2015, the region's film and TV industry generated about ?13 million

:07:00.:07:06.

And that's with no inward investment?

:07:07.:07:11.

And that's without inward investment.

:07:12.:07:13.

So just imagine what we could do if we had those funds again.

:07:14.:07:17.

Well, the future of the industry lies firmly

:07:18.:07:18.

Maybe a Geordie soap or a rom-com could be the answer to its prayers!

:07:19.:07:36.

You can catch that full report tonight. Now to the weather. It is

:07:37.:07:43.

getting colder. Here is Abbie Dewhurst.

:07:44.:07:45.

It's quite a cloudy picture out there for most but it's

:07:46.:07:50.

There will be some sunshine to be enjoyed for parts of North Yorkshire

:07:51.:07:54.

but we'll just take a quick look at the pressure chart,

:07:55.:07:57.

showing our wind direction coming in from the South West.

:07:58.:07:59.

Quite light, I think, for most of the afternoon,

:08:00.:08:01.

but they will change as we head through the next few days.

:08:02.:08:04.

They will swing round to a southerly overnight Wednesday into Thursday,

:08:05.:08:07.

so pulling up some very cold air from the near continent

:08:08.:08:09.

But, for this afternoon, a fair bit of cloud,

:08:10.:08:13.

quite thick, low cloud, over parts of Cumbria

:08:14.:08:15.

and here we could see the odd spot of drizzle.

:08:16.:08:17.

But, elsewhere, part of North Yorkshire along the east

:08:18.:08:19.

It's still feeling very cold, though, despite the sunshine.

:08:20.:08:23.

So, through this evening and overnight, it's going to be

:08:24.:08:27.

quite a cloudy picture, certianly at first.

:08:28.:08:28.

A few spits and spots of rain just over higher ground but elsewhere,

:08:29.:08:32.

As we head through to the early hours of tomorrow morning,

:08:33.:08:35.

We'll see some breaks in the cloud and therefore the risk of a few

:08:36.:08:40.

patches of fog forming, particularly over higher ground

:08:41.:08:42.

but not quite as dense or as widespread as some

:08:43.:08:44.

We will start the day tomorrow with a fair bit of cloud, yes,

:08:45.:08:49.

but some brighter spells developing as we head through the morning,

:08:50.:08:52.

certainly for parts of the North East.

:08:53.:08:53.

In that wind, it is going to feel quite chilly, swinging

:08:54.:08:56.

round from a south-west to a southerly, so highs tomorrow

:08:57.:08:59.

of seven or eight Celsius, but the feel factor is going to be

:09:00.:09:02.

But speaking of cold, Thursday may well feel

:09:03.:09:05.

like the coldest day of winter so far.

:09:06.:09:07.

That southerly wind pulling up some very cold air

:09:08.:09:09.

from the near continent and it is going to feel bitter.

:09:10.:09:14.

I had a horrible feeling I was tempting fate earlier in the week by

:09:15.:09:20.

saying how mild it had been this winter! That's it from the lunchtime

:09:21.:09:27.

team. Have a good afternoon. We're back at 6:30pm. Until then, bye-bye.

:09:28.:09:33.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS