3.4 percent which is above the national average of 3 point one percent we spoke to these communities Newcastle Central Station Oh no we didn't I met some fairly shocking stats for our region Public Health England says the typical 10 year old will have consumed 18 years worth of sugar it's trying to get parents to swap some of the food and drink they give to their kids to healthier options such as no added sugar fruit juice one in 4 ne kids age 4 to 5 are overweight or obese not increases to over a 5th 3rd by the time they reach 10 or 11 they never read and tell him it is summer that the planes have to know if it's one of the films and it doesn't matter what season you have it it's service is appalling if you want to encourage people to used transport the public transport for me to have more realistic prices and try going to time crying of the moment because my ex-husband has cancer and offer to meet me in just to support a family I'm sorry it's very very trying at the moment very expensive well as you have had that they weren't talking about sugar they were talking about the rail increases and finally if it's one of your New Year's resolutions to get fit then you might have the Great North Run as a goal in mind while today the palace is open and if anyone wants to take on the half marathon between New Castle and you can apply for a place today that's if you're 17 or older B.B.C. News I'm Philippa going Thank you Philip. The weather it's going to be dry and cold tonight we've got some frost in parts as well and lows of minus 4 my goodness tomorrow colder and then some sunny spells and highs of 4 degrees Celsius has a look in on the roads. Looking at the A one the Western bypass running OK for now I 19 as well generally not too bad a thing ever is but we're just yet after the festive holiday we had a broken down the whole transport reported earlier testers run about visit an hour ago has been fine for last 3040 minutes I think that's possibly gone already in the bulb an area the new council may be a little bit busy already at the count a light 767 on to the pontoons road a little bit slow with the sloppy but with the show. If you travel like you say not some Riverside way by the other metro center well got one problem on Wearside in Sunland area Farringdon. It's just down the road from the McDonald's by 2 big lighten up between can cite but their own road be a 690 and Allendale road the fields going on give me a cold I want I want to double 3 double slightest I'm son James thank you Simon B.C. New Castle central north east travel. And about you but I always have trouble with the slopping as well Simon at the shop and good afternoon it's just after 4 o'clock and Shelley Charlton and delighted to be with you again I hope you had a fantastic Christmas and New Year and most people have gone back to work today after the Christmas and New Year break and for those travelling by train it's going to cost them more again because rail fares are going up by an average of 3 point one percent a lot of season tickets are also going up by more than $100.00 pounds in places and a rail campaign groups describe the latest fare rises as another kick in the wallet for passengers but the rail industry says the vast majority of all the revenue they make just covers the day to day running costs railways a very expensive so what do you reckon your train tickets good value for money I caught up with some passengers outside Newcastle Central Station this lady says she's been spending a fortune very expensive and that it shouldn't pay and I think if. The 1st one over cheaper more people will be able to travel into there when I initially said that to you when it sticks good it is discussed and because it cost my $160.00 pounds come up for when I. Return to Flight sick. And I'm traveling on time cry a lot of the moment because my ex-husband has cancer so an opportunity to me job ends to support a family so it's very very trying at the moment very expensive food is expensive but when I sound also like to say I am a discount card you know you can get into students. For singletrack last fall I don't support be beneficial is round and which can get us as a family group talking of discount rail cards and the millennial cards of going on sale today there for 26 to 30 year olds who get discounts later on in the new year they're extending child fat as well so if you things are on the cards but they always say the devil's in the detail and I've been looking at the numbers for you the rail industry gets almost 10000000000 pounds from ticket sales each year. How good are the trains last year one in 7 was more than 5 minutes late added to that you have all the chaos on the timetables for northern and Thameslink you'll remember it was in bulletins on the news for a very long time but the government claims that they've invested more in the railways and that any time since the Victorian era you've got 7000 new carriages on the way thousands of more services a week are on the way. Everybody's been having their say because I'm sure like me you've been thinking this is a very complicated picture you know what goes on behind the scenes Well the government regulating less than half these factors which means it's the train companies who decide the other increases so Labor have spoken out they've said the railways should be brought back under government ownership aspect to the shadow transport secretary and McDonald Have a listen whilst fares go up they should go up at the right rate and consistently over the last several years it's been the retail prices index which is at the higher rate rather than the consumer prices in the US which is the law one but the net effect is 36 percent increase in those fares since 2010 that means that those fares are risen at a heck of a rate way beyond the rises that people may have had in wages but importantly for the North of England given the misery that people of suffered over the last 12 months there actually ought to be a freeze on those for us for a period of 12 months by way of some record recompense and gesture towards long suffering passengers OK The money can only be end in $1.00 of 2 ways which is either by those paying the fares or by paying our taxes the railways need investment we're being told by the industry that they've invested more in the last year has than since the Victorian era so is your suspicion that this money isn't being plowed into the right places of course investment is. Necessary and would be better placed to do that if we weren't wasting money on a fractured fragmented wasteful system that has cost to build into it and of course profits that leave the system altogether and a $1000000000.00 pounds could be saved over a term of parliament to put back into a real was in kept faires how. How what you do is you stop the throwing money away at the franchising system which runs at a cost for the taxpayer and running the system to the depart for transport and its subcontractors and the train operating companies that money has to be recouped and it and it comes back from the taxpayer and by the past year you stop the Secondly the wasteful overlapping of cost within this fragmented system that has those costs between it and thirdly those profits you don't pay out if you can if you cut that out of the system and bring the track and train together in a single entity in public ownership at arm's length from government you can secure those savings and get that investment that's how you do it if we look at the breakdown in costs if memory serves me right 2 percent was going in profits to the rail companies but the greatest least an expenditure I think it was 35 percent was in staff wages and the point is be made that the unions have been pushing in pushing for staff to get higher and increases do you think that you could Rigi said or do you not think that would just continue to spiral in which case you will still have to keep throwing money at the railways because the staff want more well let's always always remember the one of the significant costs in any organization is this the staffing cost that's always the case and we surely in the business of making sure that people have a decent rate of pay so if you don't think there's anything that the unions have been doing wrong here in trying to well staff increases up to 3.5 percent one more well you know Chris Grayling's a done this trick today blaming the unions which is a typical trick of of his when in when in difficulties blame somebody else and if you can get away with it blame the staff and blame the servant So what do you what do you think but do you play. Look you people have got to be able to negotiate that red if he wants to have. A different system that has it not the where he should say so but it's a false hood for him to suggest that that is somehow within grasp or reach the system as it is currently dictated means that those train operating companies the many of them are negotiating separate agreement so it isn't in his gift to say that there should be a Red Bull let's get this right he doesn't suggest that the profits of the train operating companies be kept on the wages of the directors be kept in that way but it's a distraction technique for him to blame somebody else for the abject failure of his stewardship you know I don't think should get away without I think that's to miss the point entirely the system is broken and needs changing so that was the shadow transport secretary Andrew McDonald speaking to me a little bit earlier you'll hear from Chris Grayling before 5 o'clock today and of course he can have your say I had a really interesting time talking to some people outside Newcastle Central Station and on their thoughts you'll hear from a gentleman from Poland he thinks we've got a fantastic system here in the U.K. He says it's way better than what you've got the rest of Europe despite him paying more to travel up from London than it cost him to fly from Poland to Luton. 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It's 12 minutes past 4 am Charlie Charlton and it's claimed the average 10 year old has already eaten more sugar than they should have done by the time they're 18 Public Health England says British children are generally having the equivalent of 13 sugar cubes a day ate more than is recommended and the organization also wants families to cut back to help tackle obesity tooth kit to care and other illnesses which the link to excess sugar Verizon is a campaign coordinator at Sugar smart this is an effort led by the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to help encourage reducing the amount of sugar that we all take in she says the good work around healthy eating which is being done in schools needs to make it home with the children when kids are entering that school environment they're seeing a different kind of approach to food being modeled and so course when they and their parents are seeing messages around healthier eating it starts to kind of connect the dots so you're not just getting the message from one location you're really getting it everywhere at the local level and of course these local initiatives are showing that we really need more government leadership on this one idea is to cut back on sugar is a so-called pudding tax so the levy on soft drinks would be like that it would make products that have a higher sugar content that little bit more expensive others think we need a wider focus Tim Roycroft is from the Food and Drink Federation I'm disappointed that the focus is again just on the sugar the role of one nutrient in the diet when we would prefer to see a focus on the whole diet and the role of calories in calories out but it's also worth remembering it's only about 3 years since the government have the amount of sugar it recommended we should have in our diets and of course but had a very profound impact on how much sugar we're eating visa V What we should be eating and the consequence of that is that there's been a huge amount of reformulation. So you can make some swaps every day and the idea is you could remove around 2 and a half 1000 sugar cubes a year from a child's diet which sounds like an extraordinary amount so you swapped the puddings in the sweets for things like mull over sugar free jellies lower sugar coasters that type of thing and I went sugar free for a month for a B.B.C. Programme on inside out and it is still to this day one of the hottest things I have ever turned and I keep saying to people that I'll be ill be the thing that I'll do again at some point I'll remember and the thing that drives me on because I have a real problem which you're going to do you know that I was having a glass of elderflower core deal OK it was a nice fruit juice drink and with a few trees drink I found out that I was having 6 sugar cubes in every single glass then of course. It got me hot chocolate and that was a. It's quite a pass for headlines with Philip are going there it's been revealed $200.00 ne police officers were deployed to London cheering President Donald Trump's visit in July last year including $85.00 from Northumbria Police are on the London northeastern railway is increasing fares by 3.44 percent which is higher than the national average of 3 point one percent on the ballot for the Great North Run opens today if you're interested in getting a place you've got 9 months to get ready for the 13 mile Newcastle to South Shields route and I'll be getting ready to sponsor once again OK. Is it time for a new year new you and Stephanie breakfasts are going to be hearing about the story of a man from Northumberland he made the switch from submarines to teaching. Tracking down as well somebody in Northumberland called. You might have heard of him instead of. Jude Law potentially. OK Dr Cole tonight parts temperatures be wary. Tonight tomorrow a very cold and then a dry day with some sunny spells temperatures peaking at just 4 degrees Celsius looking on the roads. While looking round. Far in the east north more near the McDonald's got to break like this than I was already an hour or so down the road so close you can see 690 the road heading down to a window road fought for months not Briley much of. The were complaining it's all moving maybe a little bit busy called House run about just people get the enjoyment of the 2 significant I 90 my single player it's busy but moving I would say coming out to Newcastle on the judgement road nice and play live central on the time bridge so I build up a Calgary light so I want 67 arms for Palm seal and road come back into new cast. Scott's road to the business park may be a little bit heavy slight build up of the gates or the end of the time bridge is not quite back to life as usual many people still off working after new years so what's too bad for the roads anything else going on if you spot something give me a call I want I want to double freight of old suit of an isolated and Simon Jones thank you Simon. Travel. And because of the whole resolution thing and everybody promising that we're going to do something for January. It mine is purely to get more sleep that's all I want to do for the whole of the year of wikked out that it will completely transform our lives as a family if we get just that little bit more sleep a thing that we're going to will eat better because we want as much junk food we will probably not watch as much pint less television although I was watching Anchorman 2 The other night and it was really brilliant. And I just think we're going to want to do some exercise things will be transformed with just a little bit more sleep so what is it for you your resolutions for the coming year and the song that goes with that loads of ways to get in touch you can text 81 trouble 3 makes a star in message B.B.C. We're on social media that's B.B.C. New Castle give us a call you don't need to sing the song just tell us a song title 080-234-6565 David has sent in a wonderful one a wonderful one and I love this my song for 2019 is love is in the air by John Paul Young and the reason. He just says thanks tellin Charlie charming B.B.C. New Castle radio for the northeast. Coming up to 20 past 4 police in Manchester of raided a house in the cheating Hill area after a terrorist attack in the city's Victoria Station 3 people were stabbed there are New Year's Eve a 25 year old man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder last night under the Mental Health Act He's now in a secure medical facility now police have in just the last few minutes also said that they're confident the attacker was working alone the B.B.C.'s correspondent Ben and has been following the story the man arrested on New Year's Eve is now being detained under the Mental Health Act after he was assessed by doctors at the police it said they wanted to check his mental state Juta the frenzied nature of the attack that took place on the tram interchange part of Manchester's Victoria station the police say they are treating this as a terrorist attack in part because the man was shouting jihadi slogans but they've also said they're keeping an open mind as to the motive this all took place very close to the Manchester Arena where in 2017 there was an attack in which 22 people lots of them young people died that's when someone a baby detonated a suicide device after a concert by the pop singer Ariana Grande now while police are urging people in Manchester to stay vigilant they say there's no evidence in this case of any accomplices or a wider plot and at the moment the evidence is that this was someone acting alone overnight they've kept a presence at a house in the Cheatham Hill area of the city which is thought to be the home of the suspect locals there told the B.B.C. That a Somali family who moved to the U.K. From the Netherlands around 12 years ago lived there. Now to those who were injured in this attack a man and a woman in their fifty's who were both stabbed in the stomach and she in the face as well as still in hospital with serious but not life threatening injuries one a policeman who was stabbed in the shoulder is now recovering at home well a man from the northeast a B.B.C. Producer actually Sam clack he was at Manchester Victoria's railway station when all these events unfolded the man who was clearly the attacker was very skittish shouting slashing out. And sort of the move towards me and then as he was within probably 6 to 8 feet of me. And at this point I'm getting quite scared to be perfectly honest and I look down at his hand and he was all in a kitchen knife to me a bottle kitchen knife blade. You know a 10 inch long blade and I'm thinking OK and he's the police are coming towards him and he's backing off towards me and the only person on the bottom of this point. And is looking left is looking like he's backing off is very jittery and I was just sort of moving towards. The Tran trucks I was looking down thinking OK let's that's maybe an 8 foot drop so. You know what I'm going to have to do here is just one of the trucks and run that stuff starts up that's the point I was up at which point one of the police officers shouted taser fired the taser missed him it just fired last series left hand side again at this point thing and right is Mr Now this is getting a bit closer to May need to get out here but then that was happening spray there was another taser they brought him down on top of the. So that was some classic B.B.C. Producer who's vision from the northeast is speaking out of what's happened there on New Year's Eve And so in the last few minutes they have just confirmed that they believe the man that attack at that time was talking about there was working solely alone we needed to B.B.C. One dancers for everyone to show you special it's your soul it's who you are there's nothing like you crazy crazy but the best you know what a shame is the sign will be the greatest poet in temperature at. The. Gym complete control trust. Was the most obvious the greatest chance to start sandstone night at 8 on B.B.C. One It's 23 minutes past 4 on Charlie Chelton with the B.B.C. Newcastle to find out what the northeast is talking about and because of the date this thing. Was. I so you roll your eyes. They were you know it's the start of 29 and of course it means New Year's resolutions and actually on the way today working towards a train station I did see a number of people who were out doing their jobs there was a gentleman I passed him with not a jogger and he was like I got to do what I've got to do it today wearing his brand new sports outfit and football kit just for the run you could imagine book for a load of us we've made promises to watch what we eat we've made promises to get in shape and we've done it year after year after year how do you stick with it well woman who knows how to get people motivated is personal fitness trainer David Fallon from time math got to find something you actually want to do those that go on about the weight every single day get up in the morning go to bed at night and worry about the weight the whole point is if you want it badly enough you will. Actually do it 22 years I've been a trainer and those who have actually wanted it badly have gone down and so I believe those that come in and so have failed to have what you have wanted it badly enough so make a decision it doesn't have to be a new year you've got to pick a time in the year or a time you're ready and then go for it and I think then you put a plan together short term plan and long term but you've got to have something to go for even over the 1st few weeks so at least you see this progression so you know a little earlier I mentioned that I did a month where there sugar it was with the help of that man and and he was frustrated with me he was completely destroyed with me because he can do things to the nth degree he has so much willpower but Howdy harness that get in touch with what your New Year's resolutions are and what the songs should be to go with them so we did have the lovely one thanks to Lynn of love is in the air and suggested her DAVID He's obviously got his plans for this year for me it's to get more sleep so I need to find the right track for that 81 trouble 3 Make sure you start that message B.B.C. Or of course get in touch on social media B.B.C. Need Cassel with a song that would fit your resolution but speak to the psychologist Professor Cary Cooper the perfect man to speak to you on a day like this but Professor Carrick Of Oh it's lovely to speak here long time. I think let's start with why we set resolutions I'm sure there is some historical context to this but what is it within us that drives us for any iconic it tends to be our iconic time so January 1st the start of the new year you know let's start as we're going to go on the old expression right sometimes I read by the way people do these kinds of resolutions white in the summer you know when they're having a holiday time in other words some reflect of time so we're off at Christmas you know we think about. Our job we think about our lifestyle we think about our hell should I be smoking was drinking less exercising more. Sleeping more whatever it is and. I think they're they're actually quite important and I think they're really interesting but the problem with that is we tend to over exaggerate what we can achieve so we don't get realistic goals so we smoking sed 30 cigarettes and we say January 1st I'm going to stop it's difficult to do that or you consume quite a lot of alcohol I'm going to cut back on back entirely or you haven't taken it so I said 10 years and I'm a go to the gym every day that's just unrealistic So what you really need to do is set realistic goals so you say I smoke 30 I'm going to go down to $25.00 my 1st month then down to 20 the next month down to 6 games that's more realistic and more to people and you know we have dry January January. Actually I quite like dry dry german think it's a good idea and you know what the evidence is a lot of people done research on this that if you do a dry January you won't stop drinking by the way so if you don't drink for the whole month. You will start drinking again but you'll drink half as much as you did before so it does temper it and so I think you know you can achieve things but it's got to be realistic and you say I'm you know I haven't taken excise in 10 years I muttered are going to join the gym and go Well joining a gym to good idea for starters because you're paid the money out there for you going to want to get your money's worth right but to say you're going to go every day's crazy so you say I'm gonna go a couple times a week but you probably don't need 3 times a week and that and you do it realistically it's going to work for you I remember the point about trying to give up smoking and the advice was always just consider one cigarette at a time sounds a little militant you think you a desperate for a cigarette just deal with that moment when that flash point comes again and he's thinking I just really want to go deal with that one and maybe that the thought that you will never smoke again is just too big to handle a brain is just beyond cope with it now by the way the other thing I think is really important in any resolution that you make in life whether it's January or summer or any time in your life I think it's always if if it's something you can do with a friend like exercise stop you know a great idea consuming us out call get a friend to do it with somebody who has a drinking problem a smoking problem a lack of exercise problem a eat too much burger problem whatever it is and do it without meeting my diary. Oh oh it is you've got all of those. Wells in a year and a lot of resolutions. And there's a real estate only one burger we know if you have want to leave this year carry what would it be oh my goodness gracious me what would I do I haven't actually made one this year but the exercise when I did about 5 years ago I wasn't doing any so I joined the gym and I started myself I paid all that money up write a better go do it and I said I'm going to go every day that was so waste so any I ended up going and now I do 3 days a week almost regularly found out I'm hardly abroad or something it's so good to talk to a Professor Cary Cooper there with his advice so he's going to go and do a little bit more exercise for me it was this one and this is my son for it. It's simple. All I need to do is to tell ya said just a little bit. To wait for the next target break just get to bed just so tired I'll make it up to 5 minutes to get more sleep this is going to be my song for that. And I need more sleep text one trouble 3 Make sure you start your message B.B.C. Or call me 080-234-6565 or alternatively if you're on social media you can tweet at B.B.C. Newcastle What is the song for your resolution. This . Time for news at hospice for the home secretary Sajid Javid his age Mike can stick claim asylum in France rather than attempt to. Cross the channel is also defended the decision to move border force courses from the Mediterranean to the channel insisting they would help save lives rail fares are on the rise London northeastern railways are putting up theirs by 3.4 percent it's higher than the national average of $3.00 and Public Health England is warning the average 10 year old has already consumed a childhood's with of sugar their aging parents to make some swaps in their children's diet. Pleasing you cancel the only place the northeast. Michael Hamilton happy ending the year how's it looking on the sport front Happy New Year Charlie Happy New Year everyone yes I'm sitting in for Brady on Total Sport this evening the transfer window is open so we want to know which one play our you'd like to see your side bring in jewelry in January or which particular position is it that needs strengthening and Sunderland manager Jack Ross teased us with this hint Speaking to B.B.C. And Castle after yesterday's went to Blackpool I think it said T.V. So you're hopeful that we would manage to get a defensive player and I would use hope that all do well that would be concluded forced to challenge it so I don't listen to see that would happen but it would give us that until it's all registered and get through so to get the information as well Jack Ross there on the Charlton game by the way is this weekend lots of news from Sunderland by the way including that max power has no say in the permanent deal he had been on loan from awaken How happy are you Sunderland support us with that news Newcastle United of course playing Manchester United tonight at St James' Park life here on B.B.C. In a castle and the supporters I'm interested who should play in defense tonight and how defensive should you go back 3 back 4 or even back 5 is a whole match after all and only going to social has one is 3 matches in charge of munched United scoring 12 goals I never enjoyed going of the those one game really enjoyed ourselves no in the 6 to win but that was more or less it is going to be a tough one we need to keep clean we have not done that so far so we know there's loads of things we need to work on both this is the way we want to see a self and I think all the gun assaults are there and just to clarify it was the match tonight a team and not him they have scored the 12 goals have scored 12 goals under him and other games today and could have been used to the greats of player yeah. It's called I mean you got those 2 and. Stoppage time in and out in that European Cup final and other games tonight as well as Newcastle vs match tonight at big match of the bottom to the bottom 3 hottest field versus Barnsley and the big piece of transfer unused today Chelsea beating Arsenal to the saying of 20 year old American forward Christian publicity for nearly 60000000 pounds I can see I can imagine watering among supporters 16000000 yeah when your record for Alan she was 15000000 and fight it was it was it was Michael Owen was in it for about 16000000 it was you know a long time ago when I was ago and I hear Chelsea be an arsenal to this I never an American. Like you Michael Michael ME BACK WITH told sports at 5 o'clock now has mentioned the match it's going to be cold tonight dry cold frost in parts temperatures right down to minus 4 so if you are going to St James's Park to wrap up warm tomorrow cold fears then a dry day with some sunny spells and patchy cloud temperatures creeping up ever so slightly to 4 degrees Celsius. You still have this one ongoing problem on the way aside so on the outskirts of Sunderland at Farringdon and more lane it's still close there was a 2 vehicle accident earlier with a police still of the road cordoned off this is from the 690 Kansai junction as the dirt road of to Allendale road the A one was done by person Hugh the quite heavy by now it's a little bit busier southbound we are picking up the queue coming away from Metro Center I would say Dunstan down to the cold house run about the way to the angel that's a bit slow Also the both side of the mattress and to Riverside way looking busy both ways I 90 no real delays I would say towards the 819 coming in line and from time out towards North Shields beach road that junction before you get to the turn off it was a big busy little bit more traffic coming out of New Castle on the just been roads playbill up on the time bridge you counsel the gates have but generally traffic still a fair bit like the normal There are saying anything else going on any of the problems give me a cold I want I want to double 3 to. Gold suitable 9 isolated I'm Simon Jones thank you Simon. Travel. It's 25 to 5 it's great to have you on board lovely to have accompanied or into the new year now are saying resolutions if you just miss Professor Cary Cooper he's a psychologist in his advice was don't try and do anything drastic anything that you haven't done before just take it easy bit by bit and think it is manageable just make small improvements and when to hold that with me your songs the resolutions it might just be that the entire topic of making resolutions New Year new you your songs suggestions to 81 trouble 3 and will have a blast before 5 o'clock makes you start a message B.B.C. Or of course you can send something on social media at B.B.C. Newcastle now businesses in Newcastle City Center of voted resoundingly in favor of paying cash into a scheme that aims to improve the commercial prospects and this of course comes I mean the High Street got battered in the last year and of course even over Christmas sadly we had the news about H M V as well getting into some difficulties Well this ballot as unlocked 10000000 pounds which would be invested over the next 5 years in Newcastle all $1400.00 commercial retail and leisure businesses which operate within the any one postcode were given their say and 88 percent voted yes it's the best turnout of similar schemes right across the country our business correspondent in reef has a little bit more on this it is we're told a place where every pound counts a place where shops are on the oppose but here in Newcastle businesses in the city center have voted for the 3rd time to pay money into a pot that they hope will improve their commercial environment Adrian runs the city so-called business improvement district. All bid he has 1400 businesses in these patch and 88 percent of them of just said yes to stumping up cash the biggest yes of any similar scheme in the country and that will give him 10000000000 pounds over the next 5 years we spend that levy in a number of different ways which are fundamentally all designed to help make Newcastle more attractive more interesting to help drive footfall and ultimately make this a commercially successful environment for the businesses who operate here the money provides events street ranges free parking and more a restaurant week promotion helps Robert easily claw back one percent of his properties rate a bill value that he pays into the scheme for that that we access to much more footfall and that comes via the things that restaurant week for example really heavily promoted on T.V. And radio and a local press Sean to reap the benefits of paying into the bid sees potential shoppers funneled pasties gift shop and he likes the plans for further city regeneration where we are the seaside every year which means for fall down from the kind of Monument area is the marina as well which is create and all the plans especially that have submitted recently in the renewal for the the improvements to the key side that would be a real great benefit because I think the water line can be massively improved a lot more that I mean already it's great but it can be so much better than new term for the business improvement district runs from the 1st of April until March 2024 the city center more than ready to see the 10000000 pound spend so that in River business correspondent talking about the Newcastle Business Improvement District obeyed and if you were living in another part. The northeastern thing do you think we had the same. State of affairs with all bayed Well you might be right Hexham bid was scrapped last August after a lot of criticism from some business owners and then businesses and more pathetic against having a business improvement district and then you had blahs will businesses that were voting late last year to decide whether they wanted a business improvement district and we don't know what the results of that are as yet but we'll keep an eye or it's an interesting one isn't it that some are completely foreign Some just don't think it's with it. We've been talking about new year new you for one man in New Castle today it does mum the start of a whole new life after more than 40 years working for the same company in Rossiter from high heat and has retired it now he was one of the very face to be a Metro driver before working his way up to be a manager of Metro and I asked him to take us back to the early days of the eighty's and give us a peek behind the scenes of Metro life it was groundbreaking London the ground was there and had been there for a number of years but but in terms of a real and tram systems around round the U.K. It was the 1st one Glasgow still very small I was a bigger system it was more it was we couldn't edge people were utterly fascinated by it and then over your time that stand out to you Letourneau is obviously going through the difficulties because if it is aging and having to be renewed again it's funny because when we 1st started it was similar things happened because it was not many people travel or Metro the trains were absolutely jam packed with Metro start start running in the early eighty's and we even had a problem with the trains where there was an insulation in the roof. What happens is when there's a lot of people on the trains the doors close compression of the air stop the thoughts from closing suatu or who the Karajan open a window which was rather disconcerting for the customers to be able to see it although a window on the doors would should and it was and there was little the little things that we did among all the people who've been traveling on the net show you had the brush with celebrity and royalty Yeah you know went to England opened a screen came to visit and partly and partly in a change was the plan for the journey with the with the Queen so we selected a driver called Michael Scott and distil driver who he always said to me that every time you drove a treat he wanted to make sure it was the best driver to possibly make the queen always you came into Pauline and I was in the 1st Rupert I was in the 2nd growing she was introduced everybody what do you think is the future of rail as a whole for this country on the greatest challenges for it in your always going to have to have that investment in real is I think it's a bit unfortunate that the vehicles that met through house of B become so life expired at the time that the house but now a lot of the equipment on them is obsolete and in the cards in the in the debt with the cells have got to make parts machine the part to be able to get the trains fixed and to have New Paltz put on the trains I mean it's been my life my father that he was he was a signal on the real with lots of years ago my grandfather was on the real whistle the wreck or key conduit for for the economy and for people to get around that just needs to be well managed you need to have good investment in the need to have people who are forward thinking into the strategies of how we're going to we're really is better for the future because things change all the time well we've. I'm talking off a lot about railways and rail fares of course going up you'll hear more on that in just a little bit perhaps and surprisingly though in Rossiter isn't leaving trams behind he's actually setting himself up as a rail console that's definitely within his blood. So good luck in a whole new life a whole new year really on what's coming for the the coming days and weeks and months but what is it for you this year while Nora and Gates had to say hi Charlie I've given up giving up. This is the deal I'm not going to do any resolutions this year it just doesn't work for me so my song would be a never going to give you up of course everybody loves a bit of Rick Astley at some point in their lives one trouble 3 Make sure you start your message B.B.C. What would be the song for your resolution simple as let's get physicals already been thrown in there for all of the people who have been choosing to go to the gym or definitely a bit faster walking you can call us with your song for your resolution 080-234-6565 or you can tweet at B.B.C. Castle. It's quarter to 5 the top stories on B.B.C. Newcastle are going to the home secretary Sajid Javid migrants to claim asylum in France rather than attempt to cross the Channel he's also defended the decision to move border force cutters from the Mediterranean to the channel insisting they would help save lives rail fares are on the rise London north eastern railways are putting theirs up by 3.4 percent which is higher than the national average of 3 point one percent and Public Health England are warning the average 10 year old has already consumed a childhood's worth of sugar and emerging parents to make some swaps in their children's diets Yeah I gave up sugar for a month Philip what's your resolution for this year. What did you get it I was already got one and I'm very conscious of my steps and if I don't do 10000 I get a bit jittery So yeah. Caught. Up in deskbound today you know we're talking about 3800 to go for a walk several months ago for Philip or go over OK if you can suggest a song to keep or go down to the B.B.C. Do you. OK. To. Play 3 games since they point to their new manager they've scored 12 goals in the process so can be the team to derail the only go to express. Your job. John Anderson they're going to bring you all the action from St James's Park tonight right after total. And the weather it's very cold I hope they're wrapped up warm it's in James's tonight and it's going to be going down to minus 4 overnight tomorrow cold faced perhaps unsurprisingly a dry day with some sunny spells and patchy cloud highs of 4 degrees Celsius How is it looking on the roads. Still this problem in the Sunland area had not the crush earlier involving 2 because a fire in the north pole line is near the a fast food store so close from Ken Saab the Durham road the 690 up to and road a wash looks a bit busy as you approach Mulford coming down from Anna keeps moving just looks a bit heavy from Cosi Paul down to the mall to north to dare I say the I one Western bypass is quite a bit lighter than normal everybody back at work your ship new year just south on a team volley is quite slow starts queuing from Dunston down to the cold house front of us coming away from Metro Center in the Metro Center is a bit heavy as well and I'd say No that looks clay it looks a bit slow coming inland from time out was North Shields It's just before we get to Billy mill junction beach road towards coast road that's looking busy apart from that most of the route seem to be moving as always you know different spot a problem give me a cold I want I want to go 3 double to the 9th or latest I'm sorry James Simon did you come up with a resolution 429000. To be honest I didn't know I'm just useless at sticking to them son of how boring is that you know it's not all that sounds like you're being realistic actually so it's you're a solution should it be a dream of this year definitely. Good luck with that the B.B.C. News casts a central north east travel. A little bit of news just popped up like these little bits of news seem Peter Crouch you know. They come dancing Tinchy pretty crashes they Peter Crouch football and they're expecting their 4th child is not lovely They're just posted a little picture on Twitter baby number 4 on the why. May I blame Peter Crouch for looking like this and yet she's in a bikini with a baby bump something something I definitely didn't wear when I had my baby but congratulations lovely nice to start the new year and wish them well now we're going to talk listening to Charlie Charlton It's just after quarter to 5 we're going to talk about G.P. Appointments for a moment because people who are failing to turn up for them it's costing the N.H.S. In England more than 200000000 pounds a year. Just because people don't put around one in 20 appointments a missed it adds up to more than $15000000.00 over the course of the year Helen Stokes Lampard is the chair of the Royal College of G.P.'s and she says people just not turning up and not cancelling is just a waste of everyone's time when patients don't turn up the doctor all the nurses sitting there twiddling their thumbs while we're not to lay off them to use the finding paperwork to fill the time but it's desperately frustrating often I wonder if I one drive to have my waiting and wondering where the patient is I call for them I look around just in case they've arrived and haven't checked in but of course it's desperately frustrating everybody knows how stressed our N.H.S. Is at the moment and particularly General Practice people are struggling to get apartments because we're so short of doctors generally then to see that they're wasted is frustrating for everybody so let's add up all of these hours while N.H.S. Digital says G.P. Appointments being missed amounts to 1200000 hours of G.P.'s the just just wasted every single year 1200000 hours Dr Nikita Konami is the acting director of primary care England and she says even if you leave it late it is still best to cancel if you can't make an appointment or even if you're just feeling better these millions of G.P. Hours when appointments on council properly and what that turns into is hundreds of G.P.'s essentially sitting there losing time when they could be spending that more effectively looking off to somebody else so if you have to miss an appointment please let us know even if it's at the last minute so how do you so this will have been lots of calls for people to be fined if they continually miss appointments Helen Stokes one part doesn't think that's actually a good idea the N.H.S. Is free at the point of need for good reason and if we start charging for G.P. Appointments at a Miss Where is it going to end it's a slippery slope and for most people if you means tested then they wouldn't be able to pay anyway so you'd have a whole heap of difficulties exercise and infrastructure that would need to be put in for very much. Just getting what we want is for everybody to do all they can to make sure they either turn up or let us know they're not coming so that we can use it resources we've got most responsibly I can remember that program that was on the T.V. And I mean it was absolutely fascinating news about the decisions that the N.H.S. Has to make when it comes to funding and it said they said for you the viewer watching this now you make a choice between giving this man the latest prosthetic leg or giving this child this particular tablet or giving this lady a bed for the night you have to make these decisions news because that was the equivalence of the money well N.H.S. England says on average an appointment costs $30.00 pounds so if you add up all of the appointments that have be missed it could actually pay for the annual salary and I find this startling of more than 2300 full time G.P.'s So if you're feeling better your thing in need a counseling appointment just ring up and you never know the might end up being more doctors available for everyone else we've got 1st of it a strain at David from time Alfie and Anna and breakfasts are starting his warrior princess classes next week the worry of Princess are you. Reading it I can't stand fitness classes the thought of it and the thought of Swetnam for the people and looking like a bad tomato just terrifies me but it shouldn't because you've got to find the classes you actually want to go to enjoy the reasons put you off already just season morrow when you wake up. At breakfast C.B.C. New Castle radio for the North East So Stephanie Finn is joining Warrior Princess classes what should be the soundtrack for that resolution let us know yours what's the song for what you plan to do with this year 81 trouble 3 untaxed make sure you start that message B.B.C. Or in the build up to tell sport maybe want to get on the phone 080-234-6565 is the number just come up with a song to go with your resolution and actually even if you can't come up with a song. If you think I don't know just tell us what you're planning to do with 21000 any changes now the government has been defending today's rise in rail fares after it was revealed the passengers are facing another price hike paying rent 3 percent more on average the transport secretary Chris Grayling says the Government's made a record investment in rail and blames the fare increases on rail unions Well I got off the train this morning and introduced myself to various people outside the station here Newcastle central station said no way for the B.B.C. What's your feelings on this here's what some of them thought it to seem to be quite a lot of money and my wages are going up to reflect it that's the tricky bit yeah yeah if you look at the got the graphs of average wage increases enough it's phone calls and at the moment your wages should be just going from yes you can chips to them it's a huge. Yearly salary to pay on transport I think for somebody who's on an average wage I mean we travel quite a lot because obviously my parents live up here and we live in London so we do use the trains quite a lot but we're going to Paris in a week and going to Paris has cost less than what it's cost us to get up here what Yeah we're going on the Eurostar to Paris and not cost less than to train tickets from London to Newcastle. You hit it right it's cheaper for him to go to Paris Well it's an interesting comparison to me the cost of flights across Europe to trains inside the U.K. And I had a chat with this man he's from Eastern Europe to get his verdict on travelling right across the E.U. Because we have to support a good service to have to pay for quality obviously it could be cheaper I paid $160.00 pounds to get from London Kings Cross to Newcastle 60 is even more expensive than the price of the fly from Republic to Luton forever in such a costly move to get the train. From London to Newcastle exactly they did for you to get from Poland to lift it and yet still think of when not being ripped off with the trains in England because you think we should invest in and they'll just get that. Yes indeed I believe it could be done something she have. Quite a powerful price compared to the part of the flight I don't understand that for good charity has to be paid it should not be exaggerated price What do you think is the train to do you think it was and why clean comfortable yeah yeah in terms of quality I believe it was very reliable very clear. Of a very good service compared to say transport to the trains from the mainland Europe I believe the quality is very good here and U.K. It's an interesting one isn't it it's always different perspectives I the way it does seem right across the board there you've got price rises 3 point one percent on average. I believe is going up by 3.4 percent So Labor Labor again calling for the network to be brought back into government ownership and you can hear my discussion it got heated at times with the shadow transport secretary under McDonald just have a look on the B.B.C. Sounds website so go to the B.B.C. Sounds website look for. Castle and then just look for know my name Charlie Charlton you'll be able to find it there he was very critical of the transport secretary Chris Grayling. But here is Chris Grayling and he's insistent that nationalisation when work well the reality is that the reverend Street is under huge pressure it's under pressure because it's carrying more passengers than they need Tom says the Victorian era when it was twice as big the system's overcrowded and the system is also now in my view too fragmented to deal with the pressures on it the structure set up at the time of privatisation 25 years ago in my view no longer work that's why I've set up a process to reshape and reorganize the role of the story but the argument about nationalization you know if you go back to the bad old days a procedural what happens is there is a British Rail needs a new train it would have to go to the transfer extract and so please can we have money for a new train more often than not the chance was so sorry the money's going to schools and hospitals so we end up with older trains fewer passengers I don't want to go back to that world all over again Robin Durham's got into trouble 3 and he says I flew Newcastle to Portugal return for the 60 quid that it cost me to attend to Manchester on train there's a comparison for you Well Robert Nisbet represents the industry with the rail delivery group and he says he knows 2018 was these are his words a pretty awful year for passengers but he says the rises are needed we understand that of course nobody wants to pay more but we as an industry are facing rising costs as every other industry is in this country the way that it is set at the moment is that Fair's cover the day to day running of the railways which frees up billions of taxpayers' cash to pay for record levels of investment and that means more services you know better trains and beautiful stations somewhere in the middle of an unparalleled moment of investment OK that's every side has had their say you can keep your say can ring as well on one trouble 3 Make sure you start that message B.B.C. . B.B.C. New Castle north east west. Right it's a welcome into the new Yeah Paul Mooney. You're looking great. Fits into this thing it. Doesn't look at weather wise it is cold as it's called Yeah it's been cool today with temperatures of. The single figures right through the day near the coast of Great Breezy has been big waves that's felt called say and learned the winds have been late to help quite so bad it's been mostly drive has been a lot of clothes there and as we head into this evening and overnight will tend to break up where we get the clear spells we'll see a Touch of Frost overnight clear way to spread frost and think developing the temp just dropping all the way down into Maine is for sale so it's really cold in places tomorrow but having said that it looks like have dry great love lost that northerly breeze that we just want to coastal shows today and there was big waves on the course so later winds tomorrow but temperatures again struggle up to 4 Celsius stays mostly dry as we head towards weekend so it's going to be on a chilly sate. Start to recover slowly as we head through the weekend and if you don't know. From William and from no until 1035 tonight any resolutions. The disdain with which she said that. I had a resolution a news reader today too I keep on walking Spencer Davis Group keep on reading has been suggested for you because walking simply isn't enough J.M.S. Says I'm not going to drink portal Sherry only Shandy went on Thursday so my songs are pulled out Sherry. And instead of Mandy thank you very much and David shows jump all young love is in the air. And he just simply said thanks Lynn Oh I love that what a wonderful start to the New Year so good looking she will and keep your girls coming for total sports. With the boys they'll be back just after the news at 5 o'clock. Still receive music like we've been seeing in New Castle radio for the northeast. And here is that news with Philip going good afternoon but transport secretary Chris Grayling has accused rail unions of driving the latest rise in fares with their demands for big pay increases and threats of a national strike labor has called for fires to be frozen and more government investment in the railways passenger groups say today's rises are indefensible we spoke to these commuters at Newcastle Central Station never read and tell him if it's somebody that the planes are to know if it's one of the films and it doesn't matter what season you have it it's service is appalling if they want to encourage you to be used but the public transport was made of all these devices in trouble in time Krylon the moment because my ex-husband has cancer and I've had to leave the job and just to support the family I'm sorry it's very very trying at the moment very expensive amid some fairly shocking stats for our region Public Health England says the typical 10 year old will have consumed 18 years worth of sugar already it's trying to get parents to swap some of the food and drink they give to their kids to healthy a chop your options such as no added sugar fruit juice one in 4 ne children aged 4 to 5 are overweight or obese and that increases to over a 3rd by the time they reach 10 or 11 and if it's one of your New Year's resolutions to get fit then you might have the Great North Run as a goal in mind while today the ballot is open if anyone wants to take on the half marathon between New Castle and South Shields you can apply for a place today that's if you're 17 or Olva It's a special week for local T.V. In the region it's 60 years since the B.B.C. Launched the 1st ne local news service with the program home it's. That was it seems and it was presented by Frank Taaffe.