A 9-year-old boy is in hospital with life threatening injuries after being in collision with a grey Range Rover in Hartlepool. It happened on Marina Way around 5:45pm this evening. Police believe the boy was with several other young boys and girls at the time. The Great North Air Ambulance air lifted him to James Cook University hospital and his family is with him. His condition is described as critical. Police are appealing for witnesses after a boat was stolen in Hendon, Sunderland. Police appeal for information. The theft happened around 8pm on Saturday, February 11th, at a location on Tower Street. The boat had been left on the grass at the bottom of the street. It is described as a small blue and white fibreglass racing boat approximately 17 ft long and 5ft wide. It has the letters GBH written down the side. Officers are carrying out enquiries and appealing for witnesses. Nick Dunn's family are heading out to India to visit him again
The father of a North East soldier is on his way to India to see his son for the first time since he was arrested and imprisoned for alleged weapons offences. James Dunn is travelling to Chennai with his daughter Lisa to see Nick Dunn from Ashington. He was jailed for five years last year after weapons were found on board a security ship he was working on in 2012. He and five others detained alongside him have always insisted the weapons were legitimate. His family are still waiting for the outcome of an appeal against his sentence.Subscribe to all the latest news & offers Subscribe to all the latest news & offersBBC News website takes New Year's Eve breakError 500, but normal service now restored Updated The BBC News website evidently decided earlier today that it'd had enough of 2015, and took a New Year's Eve break which extended to several hours. In solidarity with the hard-working site, we at El Reg knocked off for a few lunchtime liveners ahead of welcoming in 2016 tonight.
We'll be back at our desks on Monday, by which time we hope BBC News has made a full recovery. Happy New Year to all our readers. The BBC confirmed earlier that all of its websites were knocked offline this morning due to a "large web attack". Happily, all now appears to be well, mercifully for those reduced to near panic across the UK by the inability to tell exactly what the weather was, or catch up with Eastenders on iPlayer. The BBC website is now back up and operating normally. We apologise for any inconvenience you may have experienced. — BBC Press Office (@bbcpress) December 31, 2015 According to Auntie sources, the titsup was "thanks to what is known as a 'distributed denial of service' attack", although earlier this afternoon the BBC had "yet to confirm or deny that such an attack was responsible for the problems". More from The Register BBC admits iPlayer downloads are broken BBC surrenders 'linear' exclusivity to compete with binge-watch Netflix
BBC to demand logins for iPlayer in early 2017 A non-Standards Soviet approved measure of weight? Who do you want to be Who? VOTE for the BBC's next Time Lord Your top 5 cloud Data challenges solved Detecting malware and viruses in a dynamic threat environment Worldwide object-based storage 2016 vendor assessment Secure DevOps Survival GuideTV Review Jackie K Cooper "Dancing On the Edge" (Starz) October is the month if not the year of actor Chiwetel Ejiofor. He not only has a major motion picture, "12 Years A Slave," being released in theaters, he also is the leading man for the Starz original mini-series "Dancing On the Edge." In both he is a presence who can't be ignored. The movie shows his dramatic capabilities but it is the mini-series that shows his ability to be a romantic leading man. Ejiofor plays Louis Lester, a band leader whose musical group rises to prominence in London in the 1930's. They are a very talented group but it is the interest by the Royal family in their music that makes them in demand.
Once Prince George gives his seal of approval then the upper crust of London's society follows suit. And though the members of the band are black they are accepted for the most part in all areas of London's high society. Aside from Prince George, their most influential supporter is the reclusive Lady Cremone (Jacqueline Bisset). Their music and friendship brings her out of the state of depression she has been in since the deaths of her sons during World War I. She becomes particularly close to Stanley Mitchell (Matthew Goode), a writer about the musical scene in London. He has adopted the band as his own personal favorite in his magazine. Also on the edge of the group is a wealthy man named Masterson (John Goodman). He is completely eccentric and sometimes exhibits bizarre behavior but his wealth keeps him protected from criticism. He has a lackey of sorts in Julian Luscombe (Tom Hughes) who is the clean up guy for his bad behavior. The drama in the show comes when there is a brutal assault and some of the band members are thought to be involved.
They go from overnight favorites to pariahs in some areas. Louis particularly finds himself caught in the crosshairs of the police. The acting in this show is amazing. Ejiofor is completely believable as the suave band leader who captures the attention of the masses as well as that of the beautiful photographer Sarah (Janet Montgomery). He acts in the manner of a young Cary Grant with sophistication and charm seeping from every pore. The supporting cast is also strong with Bisset presenting a character of beauty and wisdom. The mini-series belongs to Ejiofor but Bisset is the standout among the rest of the cast. This is not to distract from the contributions of Goode, Goodman and Hughes, as well as Angel Coulby as the smoky and seductive Jessie, a singer with the band. The look and feel of the series is 1930's London from top to bottom. This is mostly because of the hauntingly beautiful jazz music that permeates every scene and the carefully designed clothes the actors wear.