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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight. Our top story: Jailed for | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
eight months. The juror who contacted a defendant on Facebook | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
collapses as she is sent to prison. It is important the integrity of | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
our justice system and jury system is maintained and preserved. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
As the High Court issues a warning on social media, we speak to the | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
other defendant in the case. Also tonight: The increasingly thin | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
blue line. As police forces slash their budgets, one chief constable | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
asks what you would cut. The size of the reduction we're facing means | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
we have to fundamentally change the way that we do policing. | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
This time last year, this school in Coniston was failing. Now it has | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
been given a clean bill of health. And chatting to the chatty man. | :00:58. | :01:07. | |
Alan Carr on how his comedy career kicked off here in the North West. | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
Joanne Fraill was a respectable member of her community who had | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
never been in trouble with the law. Then she was called to do jury | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
service and that has now resulted in her going to jail. She broke the | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
rules of jury service by discussing the case outside of court. In fact, | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
she discussed it with one of the defendants using the social | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
networking site Facebook. Tonight, she is paying the price. Here is | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
our Chief Reporter. Last year, she was been called to | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
court to perform her civic duty as a juror. Today, Joanne Fraill | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
arrived at court knowing she wouldn't be leaving through the | :01:41. | :01:49. | |
front door. A judge had warned her she would be going to jail for | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
breaking the golden rule which governs all jurors. It is important | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
that the integrity of our justice system and jury system is | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
maintained and preserved and seen to be so. When Joanne Fraill was | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
sworn in as a member of the jury on a major drugs trial here at | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Manchester's Minshull Street Court, the judge warned them all not to | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
discuss the case with anyone outside of their number. And they | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
were told they should resist the temptation to conduct their own | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
research on the internet. It is a standard warning. But it is one | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Fraill ignored and she is now paying a heavy price. She used | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
Facebook to strike up a conversation with this woman, Jamie | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Sewart. She was a defendant acquitted by the jury. But as that | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
jury considered other verdicts in the case, she and Fraill exchanged | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
comments about those deliberations. Today at the High Court, Fraill was | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
jailed for eight months. Sewart was given a suspended sentence. She | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
expressed sympathy for the disgraced juror. I feel sorry for | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
the woman. I seriously do. She has a mother. I felt for her. | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
courts hope this case will convince others of the need to respect the | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
rules of jury service. There have been warnings over the last 12 | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
months for -- from the Lord Chief Justice that if anyone was caught | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
doing this, they would be caught -- Dame -- there would be severe | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
consequences. We are joined now by Jamie | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
Sewart'solicitor, Keith Dyson. Was she aware she was doing something | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
wrong? She had just been acquitted and she was not sure if it was | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
genuine. Later on, she had misgivings about whether it was | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
genuine. At the time of replying, she thought it was the juror who | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
was showing some empathy for what she had been through. There was a | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
series of quite sure Facebook messages between them. Then your | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
client went on to ask about how the deliberations were going. She must | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
have known that was irregular and dangerous? It was an ambivalent | :04:09. | :04:19. | |
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question. Joanne Fraill made a mess tent -- made mention of what is | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
going on. If you start to delve into what is going on in the jury | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
room, it is dangerous. Briefly, their conversation but this. | :04:34. | :04:43. | |
did she denied contempt of court? She did not think the question that | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
he asked was calculated to ascertain what it had been | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
happening in the jury deliberation room. Is that you review? That was | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
her view of it. The question was asking when the case was likely to | :05:01. | :05:10. | |
finish. The response that then was received touched upon matters that | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
had been discussed in the jury room and that is completely prohibited. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
With the prevalence of iPhones and jury members having a lot of time | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
on our hands, it is surprising this has not already happened. It is | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
quite a dangerous situation. If you run a jury and you start to discuss | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
what has taken place in the jury room, you are run very thin ice. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
People on the receiving end of the conversation are also on thin ice. | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
That was only part of the story. Thank you. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
A man has been charged in connection with the murder of | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
Giuseppe Gregory. Moses Mathias was arrested in Amsterdam and was flown | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
back to the UK today. 16-year-old Giuseppe died two years ago after | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
being shot outside the Robin Hood Pub in Stretford. Two teenagers are | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
already serving life sentences for his murder. | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport has been told it needs to do more | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
to meet the nutritional needs of some elderly patients. Inspectors | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
found one patient lost 12 pounds in 17 days and another was left | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
without a drink for several hours. Stockport NHS Trust says most | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
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patients are happy with the food, but it has taken action. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
Chorley Council is appealing for the names of vandals who caused | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
thousands of pounds of damage at Astley Hall to be given to the | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
police. On Tuesday evening, more than 20 panes of glass, dating back | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
hundreds of years, were smashed by teenagers throwing stones at the | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
building. Final approval has been given for a | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
massive windfarm in the sea off Barrow, which will double the | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
number of turbines there and create hundreds of jobs. The West of | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Duddon Sands windfarm will lie further out to sea than the | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
existing sites off Walney Island and provide energy for up to | :06:59. | :07:09. | |
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300,000 homes. An inquest jury has decided a | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
break-down driver who died attending to a car on the M60 was | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
unlawfully killed. Denis Livesley from Oldham died when a car | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
ploughed into the back of his recovery truck. The coroner said he | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
would write to the police and Highways Agency to see if they | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
could do more to help recovery workers. | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
The whole family has been devastated by this death. The | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
inquest has provided answers as to what happened on the day he died. | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
We want lessons to be learned from the mistakes that were made, so | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
that no one else doing the job that he did dies in the same | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
circumstances. Fewer bobbies on the beat or more | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
station closures. They are among the choices facing Greater | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
Manchester Police as it looks to save �134 million over the next | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
four years. The force says it needs to lose about 3,000 staff after its | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
budget was cut by 4%. And it is a similar picture across the region. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
Merseyside is looking at cuts of �66 million by 2015. Lancashire, 42 | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
million. Cheshire, 35 million. Cumbria, 19 million. Last night, | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
Greater Manchester Police held the first in a series of public | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
meetings to gauge residents' views on where to make the cuts. Our | :08:17. | :08:27. | |
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reporter was there. Every Year in his 34 year career, | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
police have enjoyed ever-bigger budgets, and to allow. So, at | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Stockport Town Hall, the Chief Constable invited members of the | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
public to see the scale of the task ahead. These are the cuts that they | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
are discussing. �134 million. That means one quarter of staff going in | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
the next four years. Just short of half of those will be officers. The | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
question is, will they be able to deliver these cuts and still | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
achieve the cuts in crime that they have done it in 10 years -- over | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
the last 10 years? We have to fundamentally change the way that | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
we do policing. That is not about giving an easier life to criminals. | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
He hoped to get the public on board. They have got to do this. I do not | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
think you can make cuts without having an effect on crime. The key | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
message was this. Don't get hung up on the number of officers. Instead, | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
what they're very. I am worried about police numbers and I will | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
continue to be worried about police numbers. His predecessors said that | :09:42. | :09:52. | |
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we needed more police officers on the beat. What about statistics? | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
The kind of statistics that tell us that crime is falling in | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
Manchester? How many people believe those statistics? That is | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
interesting. Nobody in the meeting trusts crime statistics. We put a | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
huge amount of effort into collecting statistics, but nobody | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
here trusts them for all stop he thinks they can make cuts and | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
protect the service. A seemingly impossible challenge. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
We would like to know what you would cut. You can contact us on e- | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
mail, [email protected], Twitter, @bbcnwt, or | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
Facebook.com/bbcnorthwesttonight. People in parts of Tameside say a | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
stench which has been seeping into their houses for months has got so | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
bad there are days when they have to leave their homes. The bad odour | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
has been traced to a chemical leak which happened at a local factory | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
more than 25 years ago. Our reporter is at the site in | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
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Stalybridge now. This is a detergents factory. At | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
the time of the leak, a different company operated from you. The | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
smell has been intermittent since then. The current operators of the | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
side say they're working hard to try to get rid of the bad smell | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
which affects residents, even a couple of miles away. | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
This family have lived here for 8 mac years. They say the bad smell | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
pervading their home has got steadily worse. I cannot sit in | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
here, when it is bad, which has a lot of the time. We have been | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
confined to an upstairs bedroom. work from home and some days it has | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
been so bad that have had to leave the house. Other residents agree. | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
It is a chemical smell which I would compare to blue. On a bad day, | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
it is unbearable. You have to leave your house. There was a chemical | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
leak here in 1985. It is thought the current fumes are linked to | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
that week. There are now coming up into the cellars of some houses | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
through the drains. I have concerns that those chemicals are still down | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
there and they might migrate someone else. I will be speaking to | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
the council and ask them to speak to the company, so they can bring | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
those chemicals from the trains up so that there are no longer a | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
problem. Last week, children were taken to hospital because of sore | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
eyes and headaches. Residents are considering moving elsewhere. | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
we could do is move, but we could not sell this house. Who would buy | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
a house that is full of solvent chemical smells? The company has | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
now appointed Public Health Consultants. | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
In a statement, they said they are working with the council and the | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
Environment Agency to try to do something about this. They have | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
washed out the sewers and had cameras down there. The next move | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
is to line up research of the sewer system. Everyone around you is | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
They collect your bins, they fill in your potholes, and take a chunk | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
of money every year. But what else do you know about what your local | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
authority does? For one day, Tameside Council in Greater | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Manchester is publishing details of everything it gets up to on the | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
social network Twitter. Nina Warhurst has been following | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
progress. 50 departments and 5,000 employees, | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
and an annual budget of �365 million. These short Twitter | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
messages aim to show us exactly what the council are doing. At 6am, | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
a team responds to concern an elderly resident who has activated | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
a panic alarm. Later, a school minibus overheats, prompting a call | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
out from transport services. By 8am, the recycling team's already in | :14:05. | :14:15. | |
full swing. These are all ended on Tuesday. By Thursday, they are for. | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
How often is the team working? Every single day. By 10am, the | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
management at Ashton Market have tweeted about broken glass on the | :14:24. | :14:32. | |
floor, a new Italian deli due to open. As well as one crucial issue. | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
A few issues with the public toilets. Other tweets include an | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
alleged rat outbreak in Audenshaw, which actually turns out to be a | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
hedgehog. An unusual request for the crematorium team to arrange a | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
webcast of a funeral. And the council's mechanics are called on | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
to save the Stamford Bell. Today, you are one of today's Twitter | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
heroes. We heard about the breakdown at the park. Yes, we had | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
to repair it. It's all very well, but Tameside Council's just made | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
savings of �24 million, so what aren't they tweeting about? | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
don't want to impact on frontline services, so we are significantly | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
reducing management costs, back office services. Those are | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
difficult choices. The council says it wants public involvement in how | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
those decisions are made. You can tweet them, pick up the phone and | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
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call. Or if you want to be really Still to come in North West Tonight. | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
Hello, I'm Alan Carr. Later, I'll tell you why you'll | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
find me chained to the Stretford Mall railings. And springing into | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
action. Special Olympics hopeful Omar gets some top tips from a | :15:53. | :16:03. | |
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On the day the Education Secretary announced plans to turn hundreds of | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
failing primary schools into academies, one school in Cumbria is | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
celebrating its own turnaround. This time last year, Coniston's | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
only primary school was put into special measures after a series of | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
poor Ofsted reports. But now, with the help of a new head teacher, | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
it's been given a clean bill of health. Colin Sykes has been to see | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
All smiles in the playground at Coniston C of E Primary School. But | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
this time last year, it was officially failing, with poor | :16:36. | :16:46. | |
results and even worse morale. Basically, the children's behaviour | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
and morale and eagerness for learning was very low. Children | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
were not interested in learning. was a worrying situation. This is a | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
small community and we want a village school. We want to pull | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
together. Zena was brought in as acting head from a school in Barrow. | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
First job, to brighten things up. At the end of the year, everyone | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
will have been a VIP. The range of activities go beyond the curriculum, | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
like gardening and art. We all join in activities. A year ago, it | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
wasn't that good. We weren't confident doing our work. It was | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
gloomy but now everything has changed. Everyone can learn. One to | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
one sessions have been possible in a school with only 54 pupils But | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
raising morale has been important too. We have had support from | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
parents, governors, staff, the community. We have worked extremely | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
hard to pull this caught out of special measures without academy | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
status. The school's location has always been a bonus. Now it's got | :18:08. | :18:17. | |
the results to go with it too. Sport, and a campaign's been | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
launched at Westminster to make Sir Alex Ferguson a Lord. The | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
Manchester United manager was knighted 12 years ago, but now two | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
Manchester Labour MPs, Graham Stringer and Tony Lloyd, have | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
tabled a Commons motion, calling for the 69-year-old to be given a | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
seat in the House of Lords. The Liverpool International Tennis | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
Tournament got underway today, with Richard Krajicek and Greg Rusedski | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
taking to the court. The competition is used as a warm-up | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
event by some Wimbledon hopefuls. This year, we have focused on the | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
female agents. Martina Navratilova is here. And the last British | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
Wimbledon winner, Virginia Wade. Very much a Ladies' Day. | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
Olympic Games might still be more than a year away, but for some | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
athletes in the north west, their Olympics is just days away. The | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
Special Olympics, for competitors with learning disabilities, starts | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
in Athens a week on Saturday. A large proportion of Team GB is from | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
this region, including Omar Haddan, 23. Today, the Cheshire gymnast was | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
given a training session he'll never forget. As Richard Aaskam | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
reports. The a special coaching session for | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
one of the Special Olympics stars of. Try to focus on that corner to | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
hold your balance. Omar Haddan has been a gymnast since he was late. | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
Ahead of the biggest competition of his life he was invited to brush up | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
on his skills with the most successful British gymnast of all | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
time at her gym in Liverpool. giving him a few pointers ready for | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
Athens next week. He is full of enthusiasm, it inspires me. He | :20:02. | :20:11. | |
keeps going and going. Do you enjoy it? Yes, I am enjoying it. Omar is | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
part of a 215 strong team. 30 competitors come from the north | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
west. The pinnacle for athletes like Omar. 178 countries will take | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
part. Omar is determined to come out on top. Eight medals. | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
wanted eight medals! Six members of his family will cheer him on in | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
Athens, including his parents, brother and sister. We are also | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
proud of him, it is fantastic. He has done something massive with his | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
life and achieved something no one in our family has been able to. | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
our little staff. A young man who may well shine on the big stage in | :20:58. | :21:06. | |
Athens. Good luck. I hope he does really | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
Now it's time for the weather. It was a little bit better. But, if | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
you are out tomorrow, bring your wellies. We have had not too bad a | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
day, a mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers. I hope you made | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
good use of the sunshine because it is a completely different picture | :21:27. | :21:35. | |
tomorrow. A wet and breezy day courtesy of low pressure. Another | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
weather front is driving in a band of rain right into the evening. | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
Tonight, still some sunshine, in between showers. The showers are | :21:48. | :21:56. | |
fading away, leaving a dry light. Heading into dawn, the showers will | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
return along coastal areas. Elsewhere, some clear skies, and a | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
brisk westerly wind. Tomorrow morning starting cloudy with | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
showers. In the afternoon, the showers will bring longer spells of | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
rain, persistent at times, heavy in some places. Also, brisk southerly | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
breezes, brimming disappointing temperatures, highs of 16 Celsius. | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
For the weekend, staying rather unsettled. Low pressure is still in | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
charge, bringing scattered showers on Saturday. Sunday could be the | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
better day, temperatures not looking very good. Highs of 17 | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
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The north west has a fine record of producing great comedians. Of our | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
current crop, you would probably reel off Peter Kaye, Jason Manford | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
and John Bishop. Stand-ups who can sell out arenas right across the | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
country. But you could add this man to that list. People do drink too | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
much, don't they? Has anybody been to others don't and emergency on | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
Friday night? Have you seen the state of the people there? I | :23:23. | :23:31. | |
thought somebody had bombed Lidl. Yes, it's that chatty man, Alan | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
Carr. As a young man, he came to Manchester, worked in a call centre, | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
lived in Stretford, and launched his comedy career here. He's now | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
about to embark on a nationwide tour, which includes Manchester and | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
Liverpool gigs. When he popped in earlier, I asked him if he'd | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
managed to nip out for a quick shop in the Stretford Mall. | :23:50. | :23:59. | |
I have heard it has been knocked down. You are going to lead a | :23:59. | :24:08. | |
campaign to save it? I could chain myself to the railings. Let us | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
pretend you are. I used to spend so much time because I used to live | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
across the road. You played the clubs around Manchester. Yes, some | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
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of the clubs aren't even there any more. It was amazing. You have done | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
pretty well for the son of a football manager who wanted him to | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
play professional football. Your dad did come up here and work with | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
Kevin Keegan at Manchester City. dad was always a bit, I watch him | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
to be a footballer. And I would become a dad, I'm going to be a | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
comedian. Why Dad heard about me doing my stand-up and Stuart Pearce | :24:57. | :25:06. | |
came up to him and went, can I get two tickets to see him? My dad was | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
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like, what! He might be quite good, my son. You are about to launch of | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
into a grand tour around the UK. When I talked to John Bishop | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
recently and asked him what it was like to walk out when there are | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
13,000 people, he said he had no nerves at all. I am such a nervous | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
performer. I can't describe the amount of wind I have before I go | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
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on. What! So people stay well away from you? Yes, yes. Hopefully that | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
goes away when you are on stage. is so funny when you watch the | :25:50. | :25:58. | |
telly now. The early days when I was living here. Mead, John Bishop, | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
Jason Manford, travelling across the Pennines. I always said, for | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
the first time in my life I was in the right place at the right time. | :26:08. | :26:17. | |
This massive, huge enthusiasm for stand-up comedy. | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
I could have heard more of him. We've had a big response to our | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
police cuts story. John Crook has emailed to say: "As a retired | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
police officer, I feel the Chief Constable should consider | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
approaching recently retired officers to see if they could do a | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
few hours on a voluntary basis." Charles Finnegan says: "If police | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
officers patrolled singly, they would cover more ground for the | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
same manpower, and be more tuned in to their patch and local | :26:43. | :26:53. | |
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