26/02/2017

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:00:11. > :00:14.A murder investigation is now underway after a man,

:00:15. > :00:17.who was stabbed in Newcastle city centre nearly a week ago,

:00:18. > :00:22.The 22-year-old was involved in an incident last Monday.

:00:23. > :00:27.Police have already charged two people with grievous bodily harm.

:00:28. > :00:30.Voters in Copeland believed Labour was out of touch

:00:31. > :00:32.on some key issues and that contributed

:00:33. > :00:35.to the party's defeat, according to Teesside MP Alex

:00:36. > :00:40.He told BBC's Sunday Politics that Labour needed to get its message

:00:41. > :00:54.across to voters better, especially on the nuclear industry.

:00:55. > :00:56.Jeremy made it clear, I made it clear on the doorstep

:00:57. > :00:59.as well that we were very much committed to the industry.

:01:00. > :01:01.Nobody is going to throw away thousands of well-paid jobs

:01:02. > :01:04.and I think it's important that we continue to try and get

:01:05. > :01:08.A Durham man, who at seven feet seven, was Britain's tallest,

:01:09. > :01:12.Neil Fingleton made a career first as a basketball player and then

:01:13. > :01:16.as an actor and starred in TV shows like Game Of Thrones and Dr Who.

:01:17. > :01:18.It's reported he suffered heart failure.

:01:19. > :01:21.North Yorkshire's Roseberry Topping 29 times

:01:22. > :01:24.to raise money for an 11-year-old girl seriously injured

:01:25. > :01:29.Maisie Welsh, from Marske, was left blind in one eye

:01:30. > :01:32.and suffered life-changing facial injuries in the accident.

:01:33. > :01:35.Captain Chris Hames set himself the challenge to raise

:01:36. > :01:42.She's got lots of operations and lots of treatment yet that she will

:01:43. > :01:46.need, and there's so much they can do with the money that it will just

:01:47. > :01:51.make a big difference in her life in lots of different ways.

:01:52. > :01:53.I can't put into words just how generous and

:01:54. > :02:02.One of our best-known entertainers is writing a TV drama based

:02:03. > :02:08.Sir Lenny Henry has become fascinated with the story

:02:09. > :02:10.of policeman John Kent, who pounded the beat nearly

:02:11. > :02:15.He enlisted the help of historical novelist Philippa Gregory,

:02:16. > :02:32.I have never seen anything like this before. This is where you'll find

:02:33. > :02:40.clues about the amazing life of John Kent. History maker. John Kent was

:02:41. > :02:46.this country's first black policeman, striving the streets with

:02:47. > :02:54.his staff top hat carrying an oak and staff, striking terror into the

:02:55. > :02:59.local children. Is that him there? The officer joined Carlisle police

:03:00. > :03:04.force in 1837. Now he has caught the eye of Lenny Henry who wants to turn

:03:05. > :03:10.his life into a TV drama and these records are a gold mine. I am

:03:11. > :03:16.interested in how he would have interacted with the local community.

:03:17. > :03:22.It says here he was used as a kind of bogeyman, he will come and get

:03:23. > :03:28.you. John Kent's father was a slave who arrived in Whitehaven and then

:03:29. > :03:35.won his freedom. I have traced his descendants. My reaction was

:03:36. > :03:38.surprise being a white farmer. All the feedback I have had in the past

:03:39. > :03:45.years have been positive. I would years have been positive. I would

:03:46. > :03:47.like to look at the transcript. Lenny Henry will be pitching his

:03:48. > :03:50.script to broadcasters soon. And there's more about the amazing

:03:51. > :03:53.life of John Kent, on Inside Out, tomorrow night at 7.30,

:03:54. > :03:57.here on BBC One. Let's catch up with the weather

:03:58. > :04:13.prospects now, from Jen Bartram. Good evening. It stays fairly windy

:04:14. > :04:18.as we go through the night tonight. One or two scattered showers, some

:04:19. > :04:22.of three or 4 degrees. Quite a cold of three or 4 degrees. Quite a cold

:04:23. > :04:30.start to Monday. A scattered showers and some are going to be quite

:04:31. > :04:35.heavy, expect some hail, thunder and sleet or snow on higher ground.

:04:36. > :04:43.Plenty of spells of sunshine. Feeling colder, temperatures of

:04:44. > :04:49.seven Celsius. As we go through the next few days, into the middle of

:04:50. > :04:50.next week, expect the weather to be quite unsettled and temperatures in

:04:51. > :04:52.single figures. We're back with more

:04:53. > :05:13.in Breakfast tomorrow morning. Good evening. We saw the fist named

:05:14. > :05:17.storm of the season today. It was Storm Ewan, named by the Irish

:05:18. > :05:21.meteorological service, because it was in Ireland we expected the

:05:22. > :05:23.biggest impacts. For the rest of the UK it was quite windy and wet, but

:05:24. > :05:24.the worst