:00:11. > :00:11.Good evening. for the
:00:12. > :00:14.As you may have seen on the national news,
:00:15. > :00:16.two 17-year-old boys have been found dead at cliffs at Saltburn
:00:17. > :00:22.Police were called to Huntcliff last night and a major
:00:23. > :00:29.The families of the boys are being supported by specialist officers.
:00:30. > :00:31.Cleveland Police say their thoughts are with them
:00:32. > :00:38.Hundreds of teaching assistants and their supporters marched
:00:39. > :00:40.through Durham today as part of an ongoing dispute
:00:41. > :00:45.The plans could mean a substantial pay cut for thousands of staff
:00:46. > :01:00.A show of solidarity in the sunshine.
:01:01. > :01:02.Hundreds came to join this latest effort in the march
:01:03. > :01:06.for fair contracts for Durham's teaching assistants.
:01:07. > :01:10.They were going to make us do the same hours on 23% less pay
:01:11. > :01:14.or work more hours for 10% less pay and expect us to carry on doing
:01:15. > :01:17.the same job with the same dedication we have always shown,
:01:18. > :01:18.and we just weren't prepared to accept that.
:01:19. > :01:21.The contract changes were supposed to happen in January,
:01:22. > :01:23.but following industrial action that plan has been suspended
:01:24. > :01:28.until September and negotiations are continuing.
:01:29. > :01:30.There is positive progress being made between Unison,
:01:31. > :01:35.the teaching assistants and Durham Council.
:01:36. > :01:37.We are really keen to get a resolution to this dispute quickly
:01:38. > :01:42.It has been a very stressful time for them.
:01:43. > :01:45.More than 2000 teaching assistants will be affected
:01:46. > :01:50.Today support for them came from across the country.
:01:51. > :01:53.All you are asking for ultimately in this life is a living wage and
:01:54. > :02:02.They are already low paid, and in the context of an attack
:02:03. > :02:05.where salaries were being slashed by up to 23%, I really felt
:02:06. > :02:08.it was incumbent on me to make the journey up and show support
:02:09. > :02:14.Durham County Council this week said notable progress had been made
:02:15. > :02:16.on the contract review and it is hopeful a positive
:02:17. > :02:27.Police are investigating the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Newcastle.
:02:28. > :02:29.It happened in Exhibition Park last night.
:02:30. > :02:34.They say she left the area with a male member of the group
:02:35. > :02:37.who she did not know at which point she was raped.
:02:38. > :02:39.An investigation has been launched to identify the person responsible
:02:40. > :02:41.and specialist officers are currently supporting
:02:42. > :02:50.Details of Nissan's demands from the Government when the future
:02:51. > :02:52.of the carmaker's Sunderland plant was in doubt have been revealed.
:02:53. > :02:55.But the BBC's Newsnight programme says a "smoking gun" letter over
:02:56. > :03:01.what ministers and the firm agreed over Brexit has been kept secret.
:03:02. > :03:03.They papers do reveal that the Government agreed several
:03:04. > :03:07.other measures Nissan lobbied for last November, including tax
:03:08. > :03:10.incentives for people to buy electric cars.
:03:11. > :03:13.The firm allayed fears over Wearside last year by agreeing
:03:14. > :03:19.Two sisters have marked the anniversary of their mother's
:03:20. > :03:25.Lisa Atkinson and Louise Bircham have raised thousands
:03:26. > :03:27.for Brain Tumour Research since losing their mum
:03:28. > :03:32.Lisa ran the Tokyo Marathon last month and today the sisters took
:03:33. > :03:38.part in the park run at Saltwell Park in Gateshead.
:03:39. > :03:40.Everybody in the north-east knew and loved my mum.
:03:41. > :03:43.We just want to keep her memory alive and raise as much
:03:44. > :03:45.money as we possibly can for Brain Tumour Research,
:03:46. > :03:52.Only 1% of all government funding goes to brain tumour research,
:03:53. > :03:54.so that is why we want to keep doing this.
:03:55. > :03:57.And we are both runners as well, so this was
:03:58. > :04:05.Blackpool 2-1 Hartlepool, Carlisle 0-2 Crewe.
:04:06. > :04:08.In the National League, York lost at Dagenham,
:04:09. > :04:18.Let's get the weather now with Abbie Dewhurst.
:04:19. > :04:21.After a gorgeous day across the north-east and Cumbria,
:04:22. > :04:24.I think overnight we are going to see largely clear skies.
:04:25. > :04:27.Things will remain nice and dry, but I think temperatures will drop
:04:28. > :04:29.off certainly rurally, right down to the minus figures.
:04:30. > :04:31.We could see a touch of frost forming once again
:04:32. > :04:34.and some patches of mist, some fog, some low cloud around
:04:35. > :04:37.dawn, so maybe a bit of a cloudy picture when we wake
:04:38. > :04:41.Remember these are temperatures in towns and in cities.
:04:42. > :04:43.We will start the day tomorrow, yes, with a bit of frost,
:04:44. > :04:46.a bit of fog as well, but this should soon lift
:04:47. > :04:49.Cloudy conditions through the afternoon with temperatures
:04:50. > :04:54.There's all the region's political news on Sunday Politics -
:04:55. > :04:55.that's tomorrow morning at 11am on BBC One.
:04:56. > :05:20.Good evening. What a belter of a day it has been. If you missed out on
:05:21. > :05:22.the sunshine, don't