:00:08. > :00:12.Four people were held hostage by a man with a firearm
:00:13. > :00:15.at a bookmakers in Jarrow in South Tyneside this evening.
:00:16. > :00:18.Northumbria Police marksmen spent three hours at the scene,
:00:19. > :00:21.before bringing the siege to an abrupt end.
:00:22. > :00:39.Aren't police were called here to Jarrow shortly after 5:45 this
:00:40. > :00:44.evening after reports of a man with a firearm at the Coral bookmakers.
:00:45. > :00:48.Relatives of Nicholas McCulloch, who was working in the shop, said they
:00:49. > :00:53.believed there were a handful of customers and another member of
:00:54. > :00:57.staff inside when Nicholas and two others were released shortly
:00:58. > :01:00.afterwards, around 8:45, another hostage was released, believed to be
:01:01. > :01:02.an elderly male customer and five minutes later the siege came to a
:01:03. > :01:20.dramatic conclusion. We were just having our tea and I
:01:21. > :01:27.saw my cousin when I came out, she was distraught. Her summers in the
:01:28. > :01:31.bookies and being held hostage. We just saw crowds, then the police,
:01:32. > :01:36.then we just saw Nick come out an hour later. His mother was
:01:37. > :01:40.absolutely traumatised when she found out and that is when she rang
:01:41. > :01:48.me and I got cut off, then I came straight down. Goodness me! . Thank
:01:49. > :01:52.god he is all right, he is out. Quite a shock for everyone.
:01:53. > :01:57.Absolutely, when you hear about your family being at gunpoint. When you
:01:58. > :02:01.notice your family, it is absolutely frightening. Paramedics have been in
:02:02. > :02:04.attendance. There has been an ambulance on the scene. Police have
:02:05. > :02:06.been here for a number of hours happily expect them to be here for a
:02:07. > :02:10.while longer. We have not as yet had while longer. We have not as yet had
:02:11. > :02:12.any details but we expect to hear more tomorrow.
:02:13. > :02:15.A Durham University history student has died after falling to his death
:02:16. > :02:22.Justin Browning had been part way through his year abroad in Tokyo.
:02:23. > :02:25.The Sunday Times says he'd gone to the top of the building to watch
:02:26. > :02:32.Durham University said he was an "exemplary student".
:02:33. > :02:35.Two police officers are in hospital after two police vehicles collided
:02:36. > :02:40.whilst responding to a call in South Tyneside.
:02:41. > :02:42.Northumbria Police said both were being treated for
:02:43. > :02:45.non-life-threatening injuries after the crash in New Road
:02:46. > :02:52.Two other officers in the vehicles were unhurt.
:02:53. > :02:55.An appeal to raise funds to send a Teesside mother-of-four
:02:56. > :02:59.for pioneering cancer treatment has raised more than ?50,000
:03:00. > :03:03.Ferzana Khan, from Middlesbrough, has received all the treatment
:03:04. > :03:08.she can in the UK, but her cancer is still spreading.
:03:09. > :03:10.Her last hope is a type of immunology treatment
:03:11. > :03:14.Today, supporters climbed Roseberry Topping,
:03:15. > :03:20.It just gives you that belief, that there are so many
:03:21. > :03:24.You hear so many bad things in the news nowadays and to see
:03:25. > :03:28.what has happened in the last two and a half days has just been
:03:29. > :03:33.On to football now, and Middlesbrough are through to
:03:34. > :03:36.the next round of the FA Cup after a 3-0 win over
:03:37. > :03:41.Despite going down to ten men, Alvaro Negredo punished the keeper's
:03:42. > :03:52.mistake to make it 2-0 before Marten de Roon sealed the win.
:03:53. > :03:59.In the second half we were better, even with ten men, we were
:04:00. > :04:03.consistent. Everyone was committed on the pitch. We scored three goals.
:04:04. > :04:06.Let's see what the weather has in store, here's Jen Bartram.
:04:07. > :04:10.There was a fair amount of cloud today and that cloud will increase
:04:11. > :04:14.We are going to see some outbreaks of drizzly rain over the fells,
:04:15. > :04:19.The cloud will help to keep the temperatures from
:04:20. > :04:23.So, we are expecting a minimum overnight of around 8 Celsius,
:04:24. > :04:28.Now, most of us will start off dry first thing tomorrow morning,
:04:29. > :04:32.We have a weather front sinking southeastwards,
:04:33. > :04:34.it's going to bring some outbreaks of rain through tomorrow morning.
:04:35. > :04:37.By the afternoon, it will have cleared away, but there will be
:04:38. > :04:43.Temperatures up to a high of around 9 Celsius.
:04:44. > :04:45.Further in the week, Tuesday looks like a fairly
:04:46. > :04:49.cloudy and breezy day, but turning colder by Wednesday.
:04:50. > :04:54.Colin Briggs will be back with your next update