:00:09. > :00:09.Hello, good evening. stories on the BBC News Channel.
:00:10. > :00:12.Police investigating the death of a man in Whitley Bay have
:00:13. > :00:15.arrested five people on suspicion of his murder.
:00:16. > :00:18.Matthew Davis, who was 39, was found with fatal injuries
:00:19. > :00:20.at the Bermuda Guesthouse on North Parade late
:00:21. > :00:29.Five men, aged between 26 and 65, are currently in custody.
:00:30. > :00:32.The Government's been urged to do more to tackle discrimination
:00:33. > :00:34.against pregnant women in the workplace.
:00:35. > :00:38.Wearside MP and Shadow Minister for Public Health, Sharon Hodgson,
:00:39. > :00:43.than 50,000 women are forced out of their jobs each year
:00:44. > :00:46.because of being a mother or becoming pregnant.
:00:47. > :00:49.The Government said it was committed to removing barriers
:00:50. > :00:54.and was offering greater access to free child care.
:00:55. > :00:59.You would not think so in this day and age,
:01:00. > :01:01.100 years after women getting the vote, but 54,000 women
:01:02. > :01:04.last year alone lost their jobs through feeling they were being
:01:05. > :01:10.That's one in nine women in the workforce.
:01:11. > :01:15.Now, if that was in Parliament, that would be 21 of us.
:01:16. > :01:17.There's a warning that more young blood donors need
:01:18. > :01:21.to come forward to protect the blood transfusion service.
:01:22. > :01:24.The BBC's Inside Out programme's been told that
:01:25. > :01:27.unless numbers increase, future demand may not be met.
:01:28. > :01:33.Farah Smith's life was saved by donated blood.
:01:34. > :01:35.At 21 months she had surgery to remove
:01:36. > :01:40.She had 40 blood and platelet transfusions.
:01:41. > :01:42.Without them in her operation, she would never
:01:43. > :01:48.Blood supply at present is adequate, but donors are getting older.
:01:49. > :01:51.In the year to March, more than half the
:01:52. > :01:56.donors in the north-east were aged 45 and over.
:01:57. > :01:59.Over the last decade, we have seen a 40% fall in the number
:02:00. > :02:01.of new donors coming forward to donate for the first time.
:02:02. > :02:03.We need those new donors, otherwise we won't
:02:04. > :02:06.be able to meet the demands of hospitals in the future.
:02:07. > :02:08.To do that they need to recruit 200,000 new
:02:09. > :02:13.Like Laura, whose blood is particularly valuable.
:02:14. > :02:16.Only 7% of the population have O negative, and that can be
:02:17. > :02:24.So it is used in emergencies and things like
:02:25. > :02:28.that, if they don't have time to find out people's blood type.
:02:29. > :02:30.And in tomorrow's Inside Out, we hear from donors who gave
:02:31. > :02:32.blood in Peterlee, about their experience
:02:33. > :02:42.And Inside Out is on at 7.30 tomorrow evening here on BBC1.
:02:43. > :02:44.Thousands of people have attended BBC Radio Three's annual
:02:45. > :02:48.Free Thinking Festival at the Sage Gateshead this weekend.
:02:49. > :02:51.The station's been broadcasting music and debate during events
:02:52. > :02:55.featuring 100 speakers, including poet, Ian McMillan,
:02:56. > :03:00.and former hostage, now author, Terry Waite.
:03:01. > :03:03.It's a wonderful thing that BBC Radio Three will get out,
:03:04. > :03:05.meet ordinary people, give ordinary people
:03:06. > :03:08.a chance to question, and bring a different
:03:09. > :03:14.It's music, drama, speech, and we've been making our small
:03:15. > :03:19.contribution to the speech on Radio Three.
:03:20. > :03:23.Judges have spent two weeks tasting 3,000 entries at the annual
:03:24. > :03:28.marmalade festival at Dalemain House near Penrith in Cumbria.
:03:29. > :03:31.The event began 12 years ago with just 60 entries.
:03:32. > :03:34.It's now grown to include competitors from around the world,
:03:35. > :03:37.including Japan and Australia, with this year's winner a farmer's
:03:38. > :03:43.Football, highlights from Middlesbrough's game at home
:03:44. > :03:46.to Manchester United are on Match of the Day in a few minutes,
:03:47. > :03:56.so quick with the remote if you don't want to know the score.
:03:57. > :03:59.Time for the region's weather. What's this wind blowing in for us?
:04:00. > :04:04.Hope you've had a good weekend, despite the weather being pretty
:04:05. > :04:07.OK, let's have a look at tonight, then.
:04:08. > :04:09.It is a drier story, especially across Cumbria.
:04:10. > :04:12.Yes, we will still see some of those showers drifting
:04:13. > :04:17.Still blustery, temperatures down to six or seven Celsius.
:04:18. > :04:20.Tomorrow morning, we see another band of rain make its way
:04:21. > :04:25.Now, the air behind this is a lot colder, it's also clearer.
:04:26. > :04:28.So brightening up, but feeling colder.
:04:29. > :04:32.I think temperatures lower than that by the end of the day.
:04:33. > :04:37.This is the air mass chart for Tuesday.
:04:38. > :04:39.You can see these lovely blue colours flooding
:04:40. > :04:43.So that's colder air, which will stick around on Tuesday
:04:44. > :04:48.and on Wednesday with the risk of some wintry showers.
:04:49. > :04:50.Regular news and weather updates, on your BBC
:04:51. > :04:53.And here with Colin Briggs from early doors tomorrow.
:04:54. > :05:06.From the late team, have a peaceful night.
:05:07. > :05:12.Good evening. There is some rain coming into the southern half of the
:05:13. > :05:16.UK as we speak. I think by the end of the night it will have got into
:05:17. > :05:22.the Midlands and much of East Anglia as well. A bit of a breeze here as
:05:23. > :05:29.well. Some gusty winds and snow on the hills of Scotland. With all of
:05:30. > :05:31.that going on, it is not particularly cold overnight.
:05:32. > :05:35.Southern areas will hang on to double figures in many towns and
:05:36. > :05:39.cities. A bit of a messy picture for the start of the new week. The rain
:05:40. > :05:43.moves quickly eastwards across Scotland. For Northern England,
:05:44. > :05:50.Wales, the Midlands and South West it is a miserable start to the day.
:05:51. > :05:53.Brighter skies do follow along behind but with some showers. Wintry
:05:54. > :05:54.showers across the hills of