In a BBC EXCLUSIVE Anthony Day goes on shift with the Special Constables of Durham Police. 

Volunteering a minimum of 16 hours a month they have the same powers as a regular police officer, including the power of arrest. 

On Shift With The Specials - Part 5

On Shift With The Specials - Part 4

On Shift With The Specials - Part 3

On Shift With The Specials - Part 2

On Shift With The Specials - Part 1

In a BBC EXCLUSIVE Anthony Day goes on shift with the Special Constables of Durham Police. 

Volunteering a minimum of 16 hours a month they have the same powers as a regular police officer, including the power of arrest. 

On Shift With The Specials - FULL Documentary

We told you about a campaign to get Take That's Gary Barlow to visit a primary school in Gateshead. 

Well - did it. He turned up for a surprise appearance and 380,000 viewed the moment on our Facebook page. 

Pupils at Lobley Hill Primary School had their dreams come true - not to mention their besotted teachers turned Take That super-fans.

BBC Newcastle's Anthony Day has spent the last fortnight speaking to Gary's 'people' to  arrange the visit and was there for THAT moment...

Gary Barlow Surprises Gateshead School

One of ITV's most expensive ever dramas debuts on the telly tonight and it was filmed in the North East. 

The former Blue Circle Cement Works and quarry in Eastgate in Weardale was transformed into a £17m film-set. 

Anthony Day spoke to fellow Hartlepudlian, Kieran Bew, who plays Beowulf...



Beowulf P1 - The BBC's Anthony Day interviews Beowulf star Kieran Bew

One of ITV's most expensive ever dramas debuts on the telly tonight and it was filmed in the North East.

The former Blue Circle Cement Works and quarry in Eastgate in Weardale was transformed into a £17m film-set.

Anthony Day was given a tour and spoke to fellow Hartlepudlian, Kieran Bew, who plays Beowulf...

Beowulf P2 - The BBC's Anthony Day takes a tour of the epic set

Three hundred and thirty thousand soldiers, trapped on a beach in southern France with the Germany army advancing on them.

As Britain faced almost the possibility of defeat in the first months of the Second World War, hundreds of ships from around the country set sail to Dunkirk to rescue them. 

96 year old Sydney Hetherington from Newcastle was there serving with the Coldstream Guards and one of the last to be evacuated. He was tasked with fighting off the Nazis so tens of thousands of others trapped alongside him could be evacuated first.

BBC Newcastle - Sydney Hetherington's Story

Work broadcast at BBC Radio Leeds in West Yorkshire.

BBC Radio Leeds - Fuel Package - 12th Nov 2012 - LIVE

It was October 1962 and a new band from Liverpool had released their first record. It was called Love Me Do and they were called The Beatles. To mark this anniversary Anthony Day revisits the time the fab four toured West Yorkshire. Find out what happened when they stayed at one 14 year olds house in Halifax, how one teenager clung to John Lennon and listen out for a rare interview of the band in Huddersfield.

This is When The Beatles came to West Yorkshire…


When The Beatles Came To West Yorkshire

A Broadcast Journalist currently working for BBC Radio Leeds. Recently won awards from the Broadcast Journalism Training Council, Royal Television Society and Impact Film Festival. I have interviewed two prime ministers during my journalism career; Sir John Major and Gordon Brown and my Beatles radio documentary has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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