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Derek Llambias, the former managing director of Newcastle United, has been employed as a consultant by Rangers Football Club.

It is unclear how this role relates to him applying to become chief executive, the vacancy created by Graham Wallace's resignation on Monday.

Lambias was at Ibrox on Tuesday and football board chairman Sandy Easdale told reporters it was for an interview.

The top local headlines at 15:00 include:

• BBC Newcastle: A man has been arrested as part of Northumbria Police's inquiry into historic rape cases.
• BBC Tees: The Newport Bridge in Middlesbrough will reopen tomorrow at 05:00 after being closed since July.

A protest is being held over plans to move Northumberland County Council's headquarters to a different town.

This month the Labour-controlled council voted to push ahead with proposals to move from County Hall in Morpeth to a new base in Ashington.

Conservatives called the move expensive and politically motivated and are staging a protest outside County Hall, holding a banner of a white elephant. The council said the move would bring economic benefits.

Two vehicles have collided, closing a section of the A69, Northumbria Police have said.

The crash happened at about 13:40 half-a-mile west of Haltwhistle, Northumberland.

Diversions are in place between the B6322 Tyne View Road junction and the B6318 junction. Motorists are advised there is congestion in the area.

Outbreaks of rain, heavy at times, are spreading across the area during the afternoon, before becoming dry again this evening. Mild at first but becoming colder later.

Maximum temperature: 17C (63F). Check the forecast near you here.

Two people have been charged after a specially adapted bike was stolen from a County Durham girl who lost her hands to meningitis.

Eight-year-old Tilly Lockey's bike was taken from a garage in Consett along with the bikes of her sisters Tia and Lucy-Anna in September.

The bikes were recovered by police days later. Four people were arrested in connection with the burglary and two have been charged with handling stolen goods.

The top local headlines at 14:00 include:

• BBC Newcastle: A report about the controversial suspension of child heart surgery in Leeds 18 months ago has concluded it was done in the interests of patient safety rather than for any other reason. The report for NHS England also says the re-organisation of 10 child heart units - including Newcastle's - had put hospitals in competition
• BBC Tees: The first clothes bank for the North East has opened its doors today in County Durham.

A woman who lost her leg in an accident has welcomed a pioneering regeneration programme which hopes to help amputees grow back lost limbs thanks to Sir Bobby Charlton.

An injured County Durham man was taken to hospital from Bexleyheath railway station, west of Dartford on Sunday morning, it has emerged.

The 41-year-old was taken to King's College Hospital, where he remains in a critical but stable condition.

A British Transport Police spokesman said: "The full circumstances of the incident are still under investigation, and officers would like to speak to anyone who was at the station at the time, but has not yet come forward to police."

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It's 31 years since a Hartlepool man committed one of the most notorious crimes the North has seen.

Arthur Hutchinson, who became known as The Fox, broke into a house in Sheffield and stabbed to death three members of one family. He's now serving a "life means life" sentence.

The barrister who had to defend Hutchinson, James Stewart QC (pictured) has spoken out for the first time about the crime and subsequent trial - hear what he has to say on BBC Look North at 13:30 on BBC One.

The top local headlines at 13:00 include:

• BBC Newcastle: A report about the controversial suspension of child heart surgery in Leeds 18 months ago has concluded it was done in the interests of patient safety rather than for any other reason. The report for NHS England also says the re-organisation of 10 child heart units - including Newcastle's - had put hospitals in competition
• BBC Tees: Middlesbrough Council could raise £30,000 a year by fining motorists who misuse bus lanes.

Businesses in the region are being urged to grab the opportunities on offer after Newcastle Airport announced more direct flights to New York for 2015.

Bosses are being urged to use the new five-times a week flight to boost trade links with the region.

Mark Stephenson from the North East Chamber of Commerce said: "The US is the biggest single export market for North East businesses, we export more than £2.5bn of goods there every year... so there's big benefit there as far as business community is concerned."

The dad of a Sunderland serviceman killed in Afghanistan says he has "mixed feelings" as British troops finally depart the war-torn country.

A woman has been charged with being in charge of a dog which was dangerously out of control after a man was attacked in Washington.

A 36-year-old man was jogging in Biddick Lane when he was bitten by two dogs on 11 October. The Staffordshire Bull Terriers were off the lead at the time.

The 38-year-old woman from Washington will appear before Sunderland Magistrates' Court on 14 November.

The top local headlines at 12:00 include:

• BBC Newcastle: Conservative councillors will be arguing against plans to move Northumberland County Council's headquarters at a meeting today.
• BBC Tees: Middlesbrough Council could raise £30,000 a year by fining motorists who misuse bus lanes.

My documentary The Last Lap - Goodbye Clairville will be on BBC Tees tonight at 18:00.

I take a closer look at the story of the legendary Teesside sports venue.

A 12-year-old girl from Whitley Bay remains in hospital with a fractured spine and internal injuries after a crash on Teesside.

All four occupants of a car that was involved in a collision at about 22:40 on Monday on the A19 at the junction with the A139 in Norton were treated at James Cook University Hospital.

The 44-year-old male driver, another 12-year-old and a 13-year-old were later released after suffering cuts and bruises. Police are appealing for witnesses.

The Labour MP for Middlesbrough is calling on Tata Steel to "press the pause button" on the sale of its Long Products division.

Andy McDonald was one of a number of MPs to attend a meeting with Business Secretary Vince Cable over the proposed sale to the Swiss headquartered company, the Klesh Group.

He told BBC Tees: "This was sprung on everybody just a few days ago, and yet the discussions with Klesch Group have been going on for some time, so we need to understand exactly why they've come to this position because it's a vital part of not only Tata Steel's enterprise in the UK, but the UK's industrial strategy generally, so we need to take great care over this."

A football fan, from Peterlee, is fighting for his life after falling in front of a train.

The top local headlines at 11:00 include:

• BBC Newcastle: A campaign's being launched against plans to move Northumberland County Council's Headquarters from Morpeth to Ashington.
• BBC Tees: We've heard of the rise in food banks but today sees the opening of the region's first clothes bank.

Derek Llambias is expected to have talks with the Rangers board today over the vacant chief executive position at Ibrox.

The former managing director of Newcastle United, and long-term associate of Mike Ashley, is the front runner to succeed Graham Wallace who left the job following Ashley's move for greater control of the club.

Wallace resigned from the Ibrox position on Monday morning.

A clothes bank, thought to be the first of its kind, is opening in Durham later.

It'll give free bags of clothes and toiletries to people receiving benefits, or who attend food banks and are struggling to clothe themselves.

County Durham Socialist Clothes Bank organiser Dawn Wilson explains: "We just put a notice up to start with and the donations came flooding in. You'll be amazed at the amount of people who've donated and at the moment they're stored in two houses."

The ever popular BBC2 show Autumnwatch returns to our screens tonight, and if it inspires you to find out more about nature in our region this week, we'll hopefully be able to help.

I'm at Bowesfield Nature Reserve to talk about the new Tees Valley Wildlife Trust's app that keeps track of wildlife.

Tees Valley Living Waterways app is a new way of sending your sightings to the Trust. You take a picture of your bird or animal with your phone or tablet and upload it via the app with as much information as you can and it'll be added to their database.

The top local headlines at 10:00 include:

• BBC Newcastle: A campaign's being launched against plans to move Northumberland County Council's Headquarters from Morpeth to Ashington.
• BBC Tees: We've heard of the rise in food banks but today sees the opening of the region's first clothes bank.

A record number of people in the North East trying to quit smoking for Stoptober - a 28-day challenge during October.

Public Health England says more than 13,000 smokers have signed up to kick the habit in our region and they're almost at the end of the challenge - with just three days left.

It also says those who don't smoke for 28 days are five times more likely to stay permanently cigarette-free.

The North East is the country's fat capital, according to NHS figures. All of the top eight towns plagued with obesity-related hospital admissions are in the region.

More than a dozen boys from across the North East will be performing alongside professional ballet dancers at a production of Lord Of The Flies at Newcastle's Theatre Royal next month.

The boys, some as young as 10, were selected from more than 300 who auditioned and have just about a week of rehearsal with the theatre company, before taking to the stage at the centre of an already sold-out run of performances.

The project is being run in conjunction with the charity ReBourne, which works to engage young people in theatre and dance.

The top local headlines at 09:00 include:

• BBC Newcastle: Business in the region are being urged to grab the opportunities on offer after Newcastle Airport announced more direct flights to New York.
• BBC Tees: The Labour MP for Middlesbrough, Andy McDonald, says he's feeling more positive about the future of Tata Steel in the region following a meeting with the business secretary.

If you missed the draw for the first round of the FA Cup, you can watch it again here.

However, here is a list of our teams' fixtures (to be played 7 - 10 November): Spennymoor travel south to either Basingstoke or Harrow if they beat Telford tonight. Shildon will have a home derby against Gateshead if they beat Norton in their replay.

Hartlepool have a home tie against East Thurrock from Essex, and Blyth Spartans are at home to another famous giant killing side... Altrincham.

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A campaign to oppose multimillion-pound plans to move Northumberland County Council's HQ from Morpeth to Ashington is being launched this morning.

Conservative councillors will lobby a council meeting to protest against at the move, which they say will cost the taxpayer £40m. The controlling Labour group says that by demolishing the existing headquarters and relocating, there will be a "positive benefit" to the county as a whole to the tune of more than £100m.

It'll be mostly dry and windy with some bright spells at first. Outbreaks of rain, heavy at times, spreading across the area during the afternoon, before becoming dry again this evening. Mild at first but becoming colder later.

Maximum temperature: 17C (63F). Check the forecast near you.

The A189 Jesmond Dene Road in Newcastle is partially blocked and there's slow traffic southbound at the Blue House Roundabout because of an accident involving two cars on the roundabout.

There's also slow traffic on the A19 southbound between the A689 junction in Wolviston and Portrack Interchange in Stockton. More on BBC Travel News for Teesside and Tyne and Wear.

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