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Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest Tonight with Gordon Burns and | :00:03. | :00:10. | |
Ranvir Singh. Our top story: At top story trouble at the top. | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
Doctors are one of the region's biggest hospitals has balloted on | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
the way it is run. We have an exclusive report that | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
all is not well at Arrowe Park Hospital in the Wirral. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
The teenagers who swap gifts for sex. Report on the increase on so- | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
called grooming. I felt nice and I had friends. It felt right at the | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
time. Trending, the birds who are | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
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tweeting on Twitter. And a burly's got talent. We | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
introduce the little girl with a huge voice who has shunned the TV | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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talent shows. -- Burnley has got talent. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
Also tonight: Toll on his carrying the torch for the sports desk. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
What happens when you are a favourite for Olympic gold in BMX | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
cycling but you crash out in the final? You get back in the sacking | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
-- on the saddle and get ready for 2012. Join me when Shanaze Reade | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
recycles her dream. But first, we have exclusively | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
reveal that doctors at a Merseyside hospital are so concerned about the | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
way it is being run that they have August the ballot to engage the | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
depth of feeling. Concerns about Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
include allegations that managers want to move services away from the | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
hospital against the wishes of doctors and that there is a climate | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
of fear there. Our reporter Andy Gill is outside | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Arrowe Park Hospital. Tell us about the concerns senior medical staff | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
have at the hospital. They are often grumbles within the | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
NHS. It is an organisation would change happens a lot. It is unusual | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
for doctors to take this kind of action. Morale I am told is very | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
few low here. There are concerns to move vascular surgery from Arrowe | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
Park Hospital here to Chester. There is no decision based on that | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
yet but the doctors feel so strongly about it that that is one | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
of the issues that they are being balloted on. There is also a | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
feeling amongst doctors here that of the speak out too much against | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
management decisions then the cat - - they could face a disciplinary | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
hearing. We have been told there is a climate of fear here. We | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
understand that Dr -- family doctors have their own concerns | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
that there changes happening here which the senior hospital doctors | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
are not happy with. You mention the ballot their by | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
doctors. Tell us more about that. My understanding is that the | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
consultants have organise their own ballot to gauge the depth of | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
feeling here. It is important to stress this is not a formal vote of | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
no confidence in the chief executive of the hospital board. | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
But the ballot had three questions on and one of the questions related | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
to whether the senior doctors here believed that senior management | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
listen to their concerns properly. My understanding is that this | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
ballot is underway now but summoned some doctors have already voted. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
What is the hospital's response to this? | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
Arrowe Park Hospital is run by an organisation called Wirral | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. It is said it is | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
an active dialogue on a number of issues with the Medical Board. That | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
is the doctor's body here at the hospital. It also says that the | :03:52. | :04:01. | |
disagreement on issue -- critical issues. Staff need to have the | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
disability -- the ability to have their say. People have a longer | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
journey time to hospital and they would have better outcomes to | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
treatment. On a disciplinary matter, it follows national NHS guidelines | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
on disciplinary matters. It can begin with presents - mobile | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
phones, close and alcohol. Soon there is a demand for something | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
more, sex. This is what is known as sexual exploitation are grooming. | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
In the last six months they have had more than 570 cases, some | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
children as young as 13. Today the mother of a victim told her story | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
to a Conference to highlight the issue. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
We can assure you their names but on this wall there are 29 young | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
girls. 29 children in Preston a loan that police believe are being | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
sexually exploited. How worried are you about these | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
children? We're very concerned. Some of them are very young. You | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
are talking about 13 years old and upwards. It was at 13 that this | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
girl was targeted by a group of men. They pick me up by texting made and | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
we would go out and drink. And we would do his stuff off. She was | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
being given alcohol, cigarettes, credit for her phone in return for | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
sexual favours. Police found she was groomed by over 10 men aged 18 | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
to 28, some married. But like many victims, she did not realise she | :05:43. | :05:53. | |
was one. I just felt nice, I had Vernes. -- I had friends. It is | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
this that makes it harder for the police teams to help and talk to | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
victims. It takes social workers and nurses to speak to them. We are | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
looking at two or three times a month, Friday evenings. In my view | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
as a result of that we will get further cases to investigate. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
the last six months, cases of child exploitation in Lancashire have | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
risen by 54%. There have been more than 570 new cases referred. Some | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
victims are especially vulnerable. Greater Manchester Police yesterday | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
arrested 12 men suspected of luring girls in care in Stockport his | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
expertise. In Lancashire, police say around 90% of victims love with | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
a run family. Many run not on the street but through the internet. -- | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
many victims live with their families. This is following an | :06:48. | :06:58. | |
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allegation by a 14-year-old girl. We are in a run-of-the-mill family. | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
Across Lancashire Police say offenders are mainly aged between | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
20 and 40. There have been high profile cases of Asian men grooming | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
white girls in the North West and here in Preston there are a | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
disproportionate number of Asian offenders. But police say across | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
the county 80% of offenders are white. It is important to emphasise | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
that offenders come from all areas of to the community. It would be | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
misleading to focus on one group. This women shared our experiences | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
with police and other agencies today to plead with them and | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
parents to pick up warning signs. Make sure you know that they are | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
safe. If you feel at all that they are not, then act upon it. Do not | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
be frightened that you will be judged as a parent. Her daughter | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
has now moved out and is then a steady relationship. Prove that | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
with help, children can break free. More news stories from around the | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
North West: Unemployment may have fallen nationally but it has risen | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
here in the North West. The number went up by 30,000 to 277,000 | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
between February and April. That is over 8% of the working population. | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
It is the biggest rise in unemployment in the country. | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
Nationally, unemployment fell by 80,000 over the same period. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
The English Defence League founder Stephen Lennon has been charged | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
with assault following a demonstration in April. The 28- | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
year-old has been built and is due to appear before Blackburn | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Magistrates next week. Two men from the Manchester area | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
have been arrested in Devon over a plot to kill Joss Stone. They were | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
arrested near her home yesterday morning. Detectives have confirmed | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
they are investigating a suspected conspiracy to rob and murder. | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Cancer patients and Cumbria being treated at the brand new centre at | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
the Westmorland General Hospital in Kendal from today. Charities raised | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
�170,000 to provide equipment there. Patients previously had to travel | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
to Lancaster or Barrow. Calls to The Samaritans in one part | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
of the North West have risen by 20%. Money problems and John it -- job | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
uncertainties mean thousands more are needing their support. | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
Volunteers at the Manchester centre and will cost across the region and | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
say they are worried that cuts to other services could stretch their | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
resources to the limits. Ma does not want to be identified | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
but says he turned to The Samaritans last year when financial | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
worries coincided with a breakdown and family relations. Everything I | :09:39. | :09:48. | |
valued and wife completely fell apart. -- valued in life. I felt | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
alone with nowhere to go and no hope. He was one of 22,000 people | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
who turn to The Samaritans in Manchester last year. It was an | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
increase of more than 20% on the year before. Because the centre | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
never closes the take-off from across the region. She has worked | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
as a sonata for more than 15 years. She says there has been a | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
noticeable shift. -- as a Samaritan. People are worried about jobs. That | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
impacts on every part of the life. Some people are finding it | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
difficult to work. Here they are not just dealing with telephone | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
calls, they are also dealing with face to face chats. Volunteers are | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
working around the clock and there is concern that soon that that will | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
not be enough. With further cuts coming and job losses, even the | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
voluntary sector is not immune to the cuts, we could possibly see an | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
increase in people Colling organisations like The Samaritans. | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
Mark now works as a Samaritan because he says they saved his life | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
and with more and more calls coming in, he wants to help make sure | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
there is always someone there to listen. | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
Still to come: Going for gold on her bike. We follow Crewe's bagel | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
and pickle for BMX glory in London. Join me in Manchester were some | :11:21. | :11:31. | |
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Peregrine's have taken the plunge to Twitter. | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
It was June 15th, 1996 when a peaceful sunny Saturday afternoon | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
were shattered by the IRA bomb which destroyed Manchester's city | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
centre. The quick, Pam actions of 20 police officers met 8,000 | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
shoppers were moved to safety. On this day, 15 years ago, this was | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
the image the went around the world, defining the terror defined by the | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
blast. It was a life-changing moment firmly Sam and her son Sam. | :12:09. | :12:19. | |
They are happy -- they are here with us today. First to the sun. As | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
I covered the troubles in Belfast, I know how terrifying it is when a | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
bomb goes off. What is your memory of that moment? Sheer panic. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Everyone was very calm on the day. We did not think the bomb was going | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
to explode. All this sudden, there was this massive bang and just | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
sheer panic. People screaming, glass breaking around us. The noise. | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
It was just complete panic because if when a few seconds, Sam was | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
screaming in his pushchair covered in blood. What was going on in this | :12:51. | :12:59. | |
picture? There was some confusion for you. We were on this day when | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
the bomb exploded. It was the implosion that cost the pains of | :13:04. | :13:13. | |
glass to shatter. Sam was picked up by my husband out of the pram and | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
then the security guards came. He took some and passed him to me. | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
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Then he took a more of May -- then he took some away. I had to me and | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
my hands covered in blood. Then this guy is running away into | :13:38. | :13:48. | |
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crowds of people. Because me quite What did you think? I do not really | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
remember it. It looks like a different person. My mum looks very | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
distressed. You still have some scars that don't you? It changed | :14:07. | :14:17. | |
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your life didn't hit? I never got back into the pace of things. Have | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
I was a career woman. Everything changed for me, nothing seemed | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
important. The only person he was important was him. I gave up work. | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
I went back part-time after my second child. Were you terrified to | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
go back into Manchester? I did not go back foray long time. Sam opened | :14:44. | :14:54. | |
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Marks & Spencer when he was free year-old -- 3. We did not going to | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
Manchester. What about your future Sam? I'm going to college, | :15:00. | :15:09. | |
hopefully I will go to the University of Manchester. I want to | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
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do something with music. Not a top job at Marks & Spencer? | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
Thank you for talking to last. -- talking to us. | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
If you think tweeting is something for birds, this story brings the | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
Twitter phenomenon full circle. Peregrine falcons in Manchester | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
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have $500 on Twitter. -- 500 of followers. | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
The moment a Peregrine falcon chick takes its first flight in | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
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Manchester. All four of chicks have the now left the nest. They like to | :16:09. | :16:19. | |
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nest in high places, they are proving successful. They are like | :16:20. | :16:29. | |
pigeons, they are quite slow, quite easy to chat -- to catch. | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
Following the Peregrine falcons is quite difficult. They have set up a | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
high-powered binoculars. You can have followed the chicks on Twitter. | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
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There page has attracted 500 followers. There is a camera that | :16:50. | :17:00. | |
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faces the nest. It takes stills. People like to watch it. He would | :17:00. | :17:08. | |
not see anything like that in Manchester it. -- you would not see | :17:08. | :17:17. | |
that. The addled Peregrine's have nested in Manchester for six years | :17:17. | :17:27. | |
on their be run. They will be gone before the end of the summer. | :17:27. | :17:37. | |
Great stuff. Now the sport. We are going to be talking about the 2012 | :17:37. | :17:45. | |
Olympics. The emphasis is on London, but many competitors we making | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
their preparations up north. Some lucky viewers will have | :17:52. | :18:02. | |
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tickets. There are 70 venues across the north-west which will be used. | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
Even Bury FC are going to host a training session. The Australian | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
swimming team will be based up the road. | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
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It could be Korea defining for many athletes first -- Korea defining. | :18:28. | :18:37. | |
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We are going to focus on showers Naze Reade -- Shanaze Reade. She | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
crashed in Beijing, she says it is all behind her. | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
By her own admission, it took months to recover from. In a letter | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
no serious physical injuries, but much more psychological. She no | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
longer dwells on it. Not really, it is something in your back -- if it | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
is in the back of your mind there is no point. My last focus is | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
always the Olympic Games. I think that had a negative effect. | :19:16. | :19:24. | |
will not be short of facilities, as well as a brand new indoor track, | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
she combined a coaching with an outdoor one in Birmingham. She is | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
competing here in the European Championships. You have that the | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
British crowd behind you, the number count is going to be amazing. | :19:43. | :19:52. | |
My family get to see its, it is going to be great. My mum is coming. | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
They will see the start from crude -- from Crewe. | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
Good luck Titian days reads -- Shanaze Reade. Days after the | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
signing of Jordan Henderson Paul Liverpool, Maxi Rodriguez has said | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
he would like to go back to his old country. He scored two hat-tricks | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
in three games. He has been linked with his former club, Newells Old | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
Boys. Lancashire paceman James Anderson | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
is set to regain his place in the England cricket team tomorrow. The | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
man known as the Burnley Express missed the last Test match. He is | :20:38. | :20:46. | |
expected to start. Finally a quiz from me. The biggest | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
event in America has the north-west connection. It is the Stanley Cup | :20:53. | :21:03. | |
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final. Is that to do with Accrington Stanley. It is the | :21:11. | :21:21. | |
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Stanley Cup. It it should have been presented by Lord Stanley. He was | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
from Preston. Now the weather. | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
Any let up in the rain? Any let up in the rain? | :21:36. | :21:46. | |
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Yes and No. We have seen some very lively downpours. It was very vocal. | :21:46. | :21:55. | |
The high pressure has not changed very much. We are under the | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
influence of low-pressure coming in. We have a crafty little | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
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troublemaker coming. We are in foray rough ride -- for a rougher | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
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ride. A spell of wet and windy weather. We saw some a lovely warm | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
sunshine this morning. It did spark off some very lively showers. But | :22:31. | :22:40. | |
the rest of the night, it will stay mostly Jie -- mostly drive. It is a | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
lunar eclipse tonight. We may catch a glimpse of that, some clear | :22:45. | :22:54. | |
spells. By the end of the night, some showers across the coast. 7-8 | :22:54. | :23:04. | |
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degrees. The showers will be coming in tomorrow. There will be an army | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
of them as be going to the afternoon. Some thunder. A couple | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
of areas that could escape the showers, Cumbria, may be some parts | :23:17. | :23:27. | |
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of Lancashire. Lively showers, quite slow moving. Friday, it may | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
start dry, but in the afternoon a bit of a washout. Some strong winds, | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
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it may feel cool. Thank you very much. | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
Singing stars are getting younger. You may have seen the American girl | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
Jackie Evancho, she was on the American TV, a little dark with a | :23:57. | :24:07. | |
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very bigger boys. -- a little girl. It does not seem if humanly | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
possible to do that. Simon Cowell believes there is no one in the UK | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
to match her. Well, they may just be. Grace O'Malley from Padiham has | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
a voice that could make her a hit. a voice that could make her a hit. | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
Her mother says there is no way she will be doing that. She was happy | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
just raising money for local charities. | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
At first glass there is no one -- nothing to set Grace O'Malley apart | :24:40. | :24:50. | |
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from her classmates. That is until she opens her voice. I have been | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
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singing since I was about two-year- old. I love singing front of people. | :25:04. | :25:14. | |
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I sometimes make people cry. has only just turned or 13. She has | :25:16. | :25:25. | |
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the police are a mature woman. -- voice. She has raised there are | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
thousands of pounds for local charities. The fact she's a girl | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
with a boy so the woman would make an ideal candidate Bob Britain's | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
Got Talent. Her mother has said the know. At the end of the day you | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
only get one charted, if she wants to be a professional singer she can | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
wait till she gets older. Supposing Simon Cowell rang up and offered | :25:54. | :26:03. | |
you a contract? I do not think I would go down that road. I want to | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
be a normal child. If the family are so opposed to have been over- | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
exposed, how come she's on our programme. They did not get in | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
touch a last, if a friend he did. They only agreed she could be on | :26:19. | :26:27. | |
the programme to publicise a charity concerts. -- a charity | :26:27. | :26:34. | |
concert. To make sure she does not go the way of other child | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
performers, they will make sure she does not be too much, too young. | :26:41. | :26:49. |