20/07/2016 Outside Source

One simple word - Pies - has mystified many

drivers in the north-west of England for years.

Our correspondent Colin Paterson has been to investigate

For three decades, it's been a motoring mystery to many.

Up to 200,000 cars a day go under this bridge over the M6 in Cheshire.

We were talking about it on the way down and on the way back.

We use it as a reference, coming up and down the motorway,

So many people in the vehicles below on the M6 driving underneath this

bridge look up and see the word pies and wonder what it's all about.

The answer is it's a band, one that has been about for a very long time.

The Pies from Liverpool have finally released their debut album,

30 years after they formed and their name first appeared

The M57, that was the famous one, the Pies, the Pies.

That was basically because we got stuck on the bridge and we didn't

know what to do so we wrote the Pies.

Alexei Sayle used to say the council painted around it.

There are people who don't like graffiti and there

are people who have to pay for their bridges to be repainted.

There possibly is people who don't like it but I certainly haven't

Year after year their name kept appearing.

They didn't put out a record and they performed in the strangest

You would have thought the marketing men would have got

hold of them and said, now everyone knows what the Pies is,

you've got a brand there, let's make albums, let's do

something, but in fact they haven't worked like that at all.

In 1993, the Pies almost made the big time.

They toured the US but turned down a record deal.

Instead Ash brought up his son and sold pottery in Wales,

What gave you the confidence to finally release the debut album?

You know, there was no ifs or buts, this is the time to put

They're celebrating with a hometown gig on Saturday and don't expect

the Pies to disappear from motorways any time soon.

Even if the people don't like us, we are mosquitoes on

So we will carry on, like, regardless!

The Turkish President has announced a state of urgency for three months

after the attempted coup last week. If you're outside of the UK,

it's World News America next. They'll be live from the Republican

party national convention - the third day willl get underway

shortly with the theme 'make Here in the UK, the

News at Ten is next. They've got a report

from South Sudan, where 500 people are thought to have been killed this

month after rival factions in the army turned their

guns on each other. President Erdogan declaring a

three-month state of emergency after the attempted coup on Friday night.

With me as an author who lived in Turkey for ten years, you listen to

all of his address on TV, what did you make of it? This is President

Erdogan clearly showing everyone he is firmly in control and that he is

stronger than he has ever been. He declared a state of emergency for

three months, what does this mean? It means it will allow him ways of

implementing his agenda which now they are purging, there have been

service, lots of purchase within the service, lots of purchase within the

military, and ongoing crackdown, basically, on any opposition to him.

In the light of what has been going on in the last few days, tens of

thousands of people arrested or removed from their positions. To

hear him repeatedly say this is in defence of democracy, the freedoms

of our citizens, very interesting. He was quick to congratulate

everybody that supported him, he said my citizens have been heroic in

the face of the coup plot. He said my citizens from all political

parties but he also said those who criticise us should stay out of our

way, but was a very clear message to anybody that would like to criticise

what's happening in the country now, what's happening in the country now,

that they should be very cautious. A show of strength, trying to show to

the outside world, he talked about investment in Turkey, don't abandon

us and talk is down, effectively. What will it mean in practice, the

three-month state of emergency, how will it affect daily life, do we

know? That's not clear but it could open the way... It would make it

easier for him to implement a curfew, let's say, if he wanted to.

He did not go that far today but that would be something that would

be possible, he did also addressed the economy. There is obviously been

concerns about what will happen now in terms of Turkey's economy,

tourism is down, a lot of people leaving the country, we are in

speaking to people who have been stuck in Turkey under wondering what

will happen on their holidays. He said standard on poor has downgraded

Turkey's economy and he addressed the credit agencies when he said

this is a political move and they shouldn't meddle in the Turkish

economy, he said the central bank will take rational decisions and

that there is no problem with liquidity in the market so he was

trying to reassure investors that Turkey is still strong. Thank you

very much. Let's go back to the screen. Let's turn our attention to

It appears as though England has its new football manager -

Confirmation is expected in the next 24 hours.

Allardyce will leave Sunderland after nine months at

the Premier League club and replace Roy Hodgson,

who resigned after the shocking defeat by Iceland at this

Hugh Ferris is in the BBC Sport Centre following this - Hugh -

He was the favourite ever since he was interviewed last Tuesday by the

English Football Association and from what we understand in the last

hours it had become a two horse race between him and Hull city manager

Steve Roos, another quintessentially English boss. He will be appointed

in the next 24 hours after the full FA board meeting tomorrow at which

the three-man panel who have been passed with finding Roy Hodgson's

replacement will make the recommendation that the 61-year-old

Sam Allardyce who has managed five Premier League clubs during his

career, never been relegated from the English top flight, most

recently yelping Sunderland stay in the Premier League, will get the

job, ratified by the FA board and so, Sam Allardyce, the man known

affectionately as big Sam has the big job in English football and his

first matter will be the World Cup qualifying away to Slovakia at the

start of September. Judging from the successes listed, what is the

thinking about his likelihood of success? If you are an English with

all find your cynicism would suggest no one would get any success in that

particular job, he'd be the 15th permanent manager of the English

side and like every other one before him he will have supporters and

style, his perceived as someone who style, his perceived as someone who

plays long ball football which is not necessarily the most attractive

but he has supporters likes Alex Ferguson, the former Manchester

United manager, he and others say he has the ability to get the best out

of his players, whether they are underperforming players like the

England players who earn up to ?150,000 a week. He has embraced

sports science and just to finish, managing the best of English

football might appeal to him because he once said he'd be better suited

rather than the likes of Alton, Blackburn in the north-west of

England to the likes of Real Madrid and Inter Milan and he might have

actually got those jobs instead of being plain old Sam Allardyce, if he

had actually called the rather more fantastically titled Sam Alla DJ! He

will and could deliver the long-awaited England trophy! Keep

the positivity going. Thank you. Sport and religion often

have an uneasy relationship. As a modern pentathlete,

Aya Medany has faced some difficult choices ever

since the International Swimming The Egyptian has had to balance

the needs of her sport