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

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 the industry.

Nobody is going to throw away thousands of well-paid jobs

and I think it's important that we continue to try and get

A Durham man, who at seven feet 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 Game Of Thrones and Dr Who.

It's reported he suffered heart failure.

North Yorkshire's Roseberry Topping 29 times

to raise money for an 11-year-old girl seriously injured

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

She's got lots of operations and lots of treatment yet that she will

need, and there's so much they can do with the money that it will just

make a big difference in her life in lots of different ways.

I can't put into words just how generous and

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 have never seen anything like this before. This is where you'll find

clues about the amazing life of John Kent. History maker. John Kent was

this country's first black policeman, striving the streets with

his staff top hat carrying an oak and staff, striking terror into the

local children. Is that him there? The officer joined Carlisle police

force in 1837. Now he has caught the eye of Lenny Henry who wants to turn

his life into a TV drama and these records are a gold mine. I am

interested in how he would have interacted with the local community.

It says here he was used as a kind of bogeyman, he will come and get

you. John Kent's father was a slave who arrived in Whitehaven and then

won his freedom. I have traced his descendants. My reaction was

surprise being a white farmer. All the feedback I have had in the past

years have been positive. I would years have been positive. I would

like to look at the transcript. Lenny Henry will be pitching his

script to broadcasters soon. And there's more about the amazing

life of John Kent, on Inside Out, tomorrow night at 7.30,

here on BBC One. Let's catch up with the weather

prospects now, from Jen Bartram. Good evening. It stays fairly windy

as we go through the night tonight. One or two scattered showers, some

of three or 4 degrees. Quite a cold of three or 4 degrees. Quite a cold

start to Monday. A scattered showers and some are going to be quite

heavy, expect some hail, thunder and sleet or snow on higher ground.

Plenty of spells of sunshine. Feeling colder, temperatures of

seven Celsius. As we go through the next few days, into the middle of

next week, expect the weather to be quite unsettled and temperatures in

single figures. We're back with more

in Breakfast tomorrow morning. Good evening. We saw the fist named

storm of the season today. It was Storm Ewan, named by the Irish

meteorological service, because it was in Ireland we expected the

biggest impacts. For the rest of the UK it was quite windy and wet, but

the worst