26/02/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

We are back with the late news at 10 o'clock.

A murder investigation is now underway after a man who was stabbed

in Newcastle city centre, nearly a week ago,

The 22-year-old was involved in an incident last Monday.

Police have already charged two people with grievous bodily harm.

Voters in Copeland believed Labour was out of touch

on some key issues and that contributed

to the party's defeat, according to Teesside MP Alex

He told BBC's Sunday Politics that Labour needed to get its message

across to voters better, especially on the nuclear industry.

Jeremy made it clear, I made it clear on the

doorstep as well, that we were very much committed to that industry.

Nobody's going to throw away thousands of well-paid jobs, and I

think it's important that we continue to try to get that message

A Durham man who, at seven foot seven, was Britain's tallest,

Neil Fingleton made a career first as a basketball player

and then as an actor, and starred in TV shows like

It's reported he suffered heart failure.

An Army captain has climbed North Yorkshire's Roseberry Topping

29 times, to raise money for an 11-year-old girl seriously

Maisie Welsh, from Marske, was left blind in one eye

and suffered life-changing facial injuries in the accident.

Captain Chris Hames set himself the challenge to raise

Even after nearly 30 years in the Army, this was one of

Chris's toughest challenges ever, but worth every step to raise funds

And I think, probably, that's where it's going to stop.

I think that's probably round about the 80 kilometre mark.

And height climbed, I'm not sure, but it's a lot.

And every time Chris climbed the 1050 feet here to the summit,

he marked off the achievement right here.

I can't put into words just how generous and how

kind, and even his team have been supportive.

The mountain behind us, the hill - I don't know how we

describe that - but he's been up that 29 times so far.

Maisie was in my daughter's football team.

I didn't really know her that well, to be fair, or her dad.

But it's going to give her a better quality of life.

I think that's the best way of summing it up.

She's got lots of operations and lots of treatment yet

that she'll need, and there's so much they can do with the money

that it'll just make a big difference in her life

And Chris' Moving Mountains For Maisie campaign has already

One of our best known entertainers is writing a TV drama based

Sir Lenny Henry has become fascinated with the story

of policeman John Kent, who pounded the beat nearly

He enlisted the help of historical novelist Philippa Gregory

I've never seen anything like this before, it's amazing.

Carlisle Records Office is where you will find clues

about the amazing life of John Kent, a history maker.

John Kent was this country's first black

policeman, striding the streets in his swallowtail coat

with his stout top hat, carrying an oaken staff,

striking terror into the local children.

Is that him there, is that Kent there?

The swashbuckling officer joined Carlisle Police Force in 1837.

Now he has caught the eye of Lenny, who

wants to turn his life into a TV drama, and these records are a

We are interested in how someone like Kent would have

interacted with the local community, and we know that it says here that

he was used as a kind of bogeyman - if you don't behave yourself,

John Kent's father, Thomas, was a slave

who arrived in Whitehaven and then won his freedom.

My reaction, obviously, was surprise, being a white farmer,

to find out I had a black slave in the ancestry.

All feedback I've had in the past year has all

All been saying what a wonderful story.

I'd quite like to look at her transcript, really.

Lenny will be pitching his script to broadcasters soon.

And find you can out more about the amazing life of John Kent,

tomorrow on BBC Inside Out at 7:30pm, here on BBC One.

Let's have the weather forecast now, with Jen Bartram.

It's been a fairly blustery afternoon and the

strong winds continue as we head into this evening and overnight.

Most of the heavy rain from earlier across Cumbria has died away,

but through the night we will see further showers pushing in and some

of these could be a touch wintry over higher ground.

Temperatures overnight dropping down to around

So it will be quite chilly start for a morning.

There could be a few icy patches here and there, but generally

we are looking at a day of sunny spells and some scattered showers.

Some of these showers will have some hail,

some thunder as well, and over higher ground they will be

Temperatures tomorrow up to a high of around seven Celsius, so feeling

We keep the cold theme as we go into Tuesday with some

I'll be back with the late news, at 10:20pm.

Good evening. The fifth named storm of the season has been affecting the

west of the UK, and it was named Ewan by the Irish meteorological

service because that is where the impact was expected, but it has been

quite wet for some and the wettest weather is moving northwards across

the North of Scotland and the stronger winds go with that. Strong

winds pushing away towards the east with showers and then further

showers behind overnight, and some of the showers will contain some

wintry weather. It will be quite cold for