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Welcome to North West Tonight. Our top story. Wicked beyond belief the | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
father whose son was killed in the 7/7 bombings, challenges Rupert | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
Murdoch to meet him over the telephone hacking scandal. If News | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
International really want to meet the family, they should be brave | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
enough to field their top man. the eve of the anniversary of these | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
killings Graham Foulkes tells us what the effect has had on his | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
family. Also tonight. Could do better. Head teachers say SATs | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
results are being badly marked. A menace to the medics. The pensioner | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
given an ASBO for being a nuisance patient is accused of breaking | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
conditions. How to your children get to school? I bet it is not the | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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same way these three do. Join me Tomorrow, is the sixth anniversary | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
of the 7/7 bombings when 52 people were killed in the morning rush | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
hour in London. One of the was a 22-year-old from Oldham, about to | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
start a new job in London. For the family of 22-year-old David Foulkes, | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
those six years have been harrowing. This year's anniversary will be all | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
the harder to bear because Graham Foulkes has been told his phone may | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
have been hacked by a private detector. We will hear from him how | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
shocking that news has been, first we have the background. Life was | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
good for David Foulkes when he board add tube bound for Edgware | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
Road on the seventh July 2005. The 22-year-old from Oldham had a new | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
job, was planning to move in his girlfriend and had travelled to the | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
capital to meet a colleague. That wasn't btofpblt David was one of 52 | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
people who lost their lives to terrorism in London that day. For | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
more than six months David's father and other families sat through an | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
inquest that gave the harrowing details of their deaths. Last | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
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Glenn Mulcaire was imprisoned in 2007 for phone hacking but returned | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
to dominate the headlines this week, over allegations that he | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
intercepted and deleted messages left on the phone of murdered | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
schoolgirl Milly Dowler. On the've of the anniversary of the bomb, the | :02:39. | :02:47. | |
latest revelation will add to public outrage of phone hacking. | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
Well earlier I asked David Foulkes' father Graham how he reacted after | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
learning his phone might well have been hacked into by the News of the | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
World. There was a couple of seconds when I didn't comprehend | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
what I was being told, because we listened to the hacking stories | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
about celebrity, and frankly thought that was entertaining, and | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
a bit of, you know light humour, and then, Janet and I had been | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
chatting about the Milly Dowler case when we heard they had been | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
about that because we had been in a dark place, we couldn't understand | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
what the family must have been going through, we thought about | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
them a great deal. Then, really just moved on. Then last night, | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
when the police phoned me up, and said that they had a file with my | :03:38. | :03:46. | |
name on it, and my contact details, going back to 2005, as part of the | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
hacking investigation, and they were phoning me up to tell me that | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
this story buzz r was going in the press the next day. There was a | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
pause when I thought, "Why is that..." then I realised he was | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
telling me we may have been involved as well. How does it make | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
you feel to know that somebody has actually hacked into your telephone, | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
your messages? You know in 2005, that was a very difficult, very | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
dark time for us. The phone conversations we had were desperate | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
pleas to find out information about where David was b and if he was | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
still alive. And talking to friends and family, in confidence, very | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
intimate and personal information. The thought that somebody may have | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
been listening to that, just, it is wicked beyond wicked. It is... It | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
is indescribely horrible. I think these people really do need to be | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
brought to book for this. It must be more difficult coming at this | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
tiepblgs which is just the day before the anniversary of the | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
bombings and David's death Absolutely. In fact, we spent the | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
last six years, on the anniversary, and we just about kind of get into | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
grips with our emotions on the day, and each year we are a bit more in | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
control, and now, completely destabilised again, and, it is very | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
difficult. That is all I can say about that, I'm sorry. What action, | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
if any, can you plan to take because, as I understand it, you | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
want to go right to the top of News International and see them face to | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
face? Maybe even Rupert Murdoch? Well, earlier on today, there was a | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
suggestion that the News International might call a meeting | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
for those families involved. My comment was no, I'm not prepared to | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
meet junior official, this is such a big story, that if News | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
International really want to meet the family, they should be brave | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
enough to field their top man. But I don't believe he has the courage | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
to do that. Graham, I know how difficult this has been, | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
particularly with tomorrow looming. Thank you. Thank you. It is an | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
important story and I believe it needs to be told, and I am prepared | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
to tell us because they cannot be allowed to get away with it. Thank | :06:08. | :06:17. | |
you. Incredible dignity. Next tonight. In one of the hottest | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
springs for years thousands of children sat the end of year exams, | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
the so-called SATs which are as important to the pupils and their | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
parents as they are to the schools. However, tonight we can reveal that | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
there are widespread concerns among teachers here in the north-west | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
about how those papers were marked. 117 of 121 schools have reported | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
serious problems. Many head teachers are demanding whole scale | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
remarking. They were honing their tennis skills outside today but in | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
May these Preston school-children were inside a class room, taking | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
tests. Their head teacher says the results are hit-and-miss. This | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
child in particular should have got a level five from the marks we have | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
been tracking through the year and only got a level four, and he is | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
several marks out. Of the 54 children who took the tests he | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
believes 45% got the wrong grade feel angry because these marks go | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
with the children to high school, the high schools use them for | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
setting and putting the children in groups, the parents obviously want | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
their children to do the best, and also for school, these marks are | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
used by Ofsted to judge our schools. Standard Assessment Tests are given | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
at the end of year two and six to show a pupil's progress. Year six | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
SATs are sent away to be marked. It is these that heads are worried | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
about. Results from the writing parts of the English test are | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
causing more concern. Children are graded in levels. Heads say some | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
graded at 3 are coming out at level five in the test and vice versa | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
parents are worried We put a lot of work in. If it is wrong it should | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
be short -- sorted out. We expect the marks the kids have been given | :08:07. | :08:17. | |
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would mark the effort put in. e-mailed all the schools. 117 | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
reported problems. That will be replicated up and down the country, | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
therefore for something like 15, 16,000 schools it could be a huge | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
number of children who are getting, who have their Wrights not marked | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
qatly. The Department of Education said test markers have thorough | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
training and undergo quality checks. It says schools can request a | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
review. The head teacher here says he will be sending the tests back. | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
Pensioner Shaun Gillhooley was given an ASBO for abusing health | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
worker, today he was back in court again, accused of breaching that | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
order. The 64-year-old wasn't banned from receiving medical | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
treatment but he was told to behave respectfully. He denies breaching | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
his ASBO, from Bolton here is our chief reporter. Shaun Gillhooley | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
wasn't keen to show his face today. But his is a familiar face to many | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
health professionals in Bolton. He is said to have a history of | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
abusive and aggressive behaviour towards them. In September 2008 | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Shaun Gillhooley was issued with this anti-social behaviour. Now | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
among other things it forbided him from entering NHS premises without | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
making an appointment. It forbids him from using abusive language or | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
behaviour. Here at court it was said the order didn't forbid him | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
from receiving medical treatment. He is a poorly man. But it did | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
expect him to behave while receiving the treatment. He failed | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
to do so it said on several occasions. Fife breachs are alleged | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
in all. The first is said to have happened last year when he used the | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
word idiot during a conversation. It is a word he is banned from | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
using. The next came in July, when he was said to be aggressive | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
towards a hospital receptionist. The following month he was accused | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
of being offensive to a security guard at a health centre. In | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
September, he was said to have used the word "Bloody", again it son his | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
list of banned words. In October he refused to leave a health centre | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
when asked to do so. Shaun Gillhooley denies breaching his | :10:30. | :10:40. | |
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ASBO. His trial continues tomorrow. Like most Town Halls Bolton is | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
facing serious budget problems. This evening a full council is | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
meeting to discuss plans to close libraries. Meanwhile the council | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
has started auctioning off some unwanted paintings to raise cash | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
for a new storage facility. Our political editor joins u now from | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
outside Bolton on the hall. -- us now. You can see behind me, that | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
those protestors have gathered for this meeting of the council, | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
libraries is one of those emotive issues which causes people a lot of | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
concern. Let us talk about Art Gallery first, Bolton council | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
wanted to build a new storage facility. Because of budget | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
pressures they couldn't afford it so they came one a plan of selling | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
off unwanted pain -- paintings to help out. As we have been finding | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
out some people oppose that too. Bolton's been clearing out the | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
attic. �30twhouz raised in today's action. They have a sizeable | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
collection of great big massive oils and water colours, and I know | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
that the people on Bolton council took a long time making the | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
selection of what they thought might be suitable. The council | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
insists they are not selling off the family silver Ass you can see | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
we have got paintings in here. best pieces remain in the museum | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
The store we have got needed quite a bit of money spending on it. We | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
felt we needed to have a new store that was more user-friendly, but | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
not only that, was protecting what we had got make sure that it was | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
there for posterity. But the museums association has raised | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
concerns about how this has been handled We said they should do more | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
to explore other sources of funding, rather than choose the sale as an | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
early option. We don't think they took long enough or put enough work | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
in to looking at other sources. We said they needed to do proper | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
consultation, saying to people saying this is what we think of | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
selling. So will people miss their paintings? It is shame but there is | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
nothing else they could have done. People and councils are just too | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
willing to give the past away. think it's a good thing, because | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
the council have got a lot of cuts at the moment, and you know, it is | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
money for the people. I don't think it is a good idea. Once you sell a | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
painting, it is gone. Collectors still have a chance to buy another | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
20 of the unwanted pain -- paintings. And that is of course | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
because Bolton council has those budget pressures. Now they need to | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
save �60 million over two years and that is why they are look at | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
libraries and why we have protestors here, trying to convince | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
councillors as they come in to the meeting not to close them down. | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
There are 15, nine are under threat. If they went ahead, it could save | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
500,000, not a huge amount in the overall scheme but even then the | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
protestors have a 15,000 signature petition op poesing it. We are | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
trying to say there is reasons people value their local library, | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
once they are gone they are gone. So we are urging councillors to | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
have some second thoughts about whether there is other ways of | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
doing things to keep them open. Well the latest I am told is that | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
councillors aren't going to debate the library closures tonight, but | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
the protestors will have five minutes to go in, to try to make | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
their case. It is a reminder of the really stark difficult decisions | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
that councils have to make as they try to balance their books. The | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
Homeform Group, the company that owns Moben kitchens, has gone into | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
administration, making 557 staff redundant. The group which also | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
owns Kitchens Direct, Dolphin and Sharps announced it was planning to | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
call in administrators late last month. As we reported yesterday, | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
former workers from Moben Kitchens demonstrated outside the collapsed | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
firm's headquarters in Trafford Park over claims they have not been | :14:37. | :14:46. | |
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paid. A man from Lancashire whose two | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Pitbull dogs mauled his friend which led to police being involved | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
in a 60 hour siege has been handed a suspended prison sentence. Mark | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Rowland from Baxenden left his dogs in Rishton when they attacked his | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
friend in a brutal way. A lion expert from a zoo was brought in to | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
tranquilise the animals. Rowland pleaded guilty to two charges of | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
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possessing fighting dogs and given a 12 week suspended sentence. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
Staying with pets but of a much more nicer nature. Occasionally we | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
like to bring you stories because they feature cute animals. Lost | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
cats some time, that kind of thing. But it is not cute. Here is a story | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
about an animal that is far from cute. Plug ugly even. Poor thing! | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
The naked mole rat has no fur, has tiny eyes and big front teeth. But | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
it lives longer than most rodents and is resistant to cancer. Our | :15:50. | :15:58. | |
scientists have worked out its genetic blueprint. Meet the naked | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
mole rat. Not much of a looker. But what it lacks in beauty it makes up | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
for in staying power. It doesn't get cancer, it can live for more | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
than 30 years. Which is impressive for an animal just a bit bigger | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
than a moufplts Mice and rats live up to four years normally. So, the | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
naked mole rat we are talking about a massive difference. Over five | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
fold. They live under ground in hot parts of east Africa. Now, for the | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
first time, scientists at Liverpool University have worked out the | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
complete sequence o of DNA that makes it a mole rat. But having its | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
genetic blueprint is just the start. What the scientists here have ended | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
up with is billions of pieces of information about the genetic make | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
up of naked mole rats. They and other scientists round the world | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
will use computers to analyse that data, and they hope to pick out the | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
bits of the information that give the naked mole rats their | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
resistance to cancer and make them live longer. Research suggests that | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
mole rats cells have anti-tumour traits and because they are similar | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
to mice, scientists should be able to put their jeans into mice to see | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
if they -- genes into mice to see if they live longer I believe by | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
studying them we will be able to develop human applications and | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
therapies against cancer and age- related diseases. Theening long run | :17:30. | :17:38. | |
this creature could help us live longer too. -- in the long run. It | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
is sport now. We will start off with cycling. The Tour De France | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
and it has taken five days until we have had something to shout about. | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
Mark Cavendish has won his first stage. It is his 16th overall over | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
the past three tours. This is him doing what he does best. It was at | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
Cap Frehel and he held off Philippe Gilbert. He said after "It was | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
proper hard. My legs were going at the end." He sounds like a proper | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
northerner. Success of another kind for Liverpool. They got their man. | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
They have another man. Kenny Dalglish has been spending the | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
money. They have spent six months chasing this guy. They finally have | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
done a deal for Charlie Adam. He is on his way to ab field for a | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
medical. Here he is with his new shirt. This was taken in his days | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
at Rangers to promote a friendly. He cost Blackpool just �500 | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
thousand from Rangers but Sir Alex Ferguson says his corners are worth | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
�10 million alone. Now, there have been moving tributes to today at | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
the funeral of a player described as the soul of Manchester City. | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
Mike Doyle starred in city's trophy winning sides of the '60s and 70s | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
and was renowned for his love to club. He died last week from liver | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
failure. Our reporter was at his service if his home town of Ashton- | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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under-Lyne. Waving goodbye to the ultimate Blue. Mike Doyle with the | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
header. Blue through and through. All his family were Blue. He was | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
just so passionate about the club. A one eyed commitment to the cause | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
that made City fans see him as one of them. And today supporters | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
gathered at his local church, and at City's ground rnt put his hard | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
and soul into the game. He was a ledge end. May he rest in peace and | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
thanks for the memories. There was plenty of them. Mike Doyle won the | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
league Championship, FA Cup, League Cup, and European Cup winners cup. | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
As well as five caps for England. He was just an 100% player. He was | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
a lead e everything he did. On the field and off the field. He was a | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
great character. And family man as well, and as his grandson Tommy in | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
a moving tribute made clear, there is still only one colour allowed. | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
If you are a Doyle. I very much like you grandad. I love Manchester | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
City just like you when I play for the academy I am so proud to put on | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
a blue shirt. Doyle and the crowd celebrating as much as the players | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
will be. Describing someone as living and breathing a football | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
club can be an overused phrase, but not in Mike Doyle's case. His | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
family and friends have reflected that today. He was clearly | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
extremely proud of every single one of his more than 500 appearances | :20:49. | :20:59. | |
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for his beloved Blues. Well, legend is over used but he was one of then. | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
He was a great captain. I watched him many times. Now, there is | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
another world premier in Manchester tonight as part of the | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
international festival. Victoria Wood's that day we sang is a | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
musical based on a recording by the former Manchester Children's Choir, | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
more than 80 years ago. The VIPs include some of the original choir | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
members, and they have been sharing their memories with us. P 1929. 250 | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
working class children coming together, to sing purr cell. 82 | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
years on the stage where they sang ot what was the Free Trade Hall is | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
long gone. But the songs still live on in the heart of those who took | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
part. # Come away, come away # | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
When you were chosen to be in something like this, you swell with | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
pride. We were told what to do and we did it. And they told us to go | :22:00. | :22:10. | |
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to rehearsals and we did. Every Friday. The thrill it was, the | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
nerves. It is testimonies like this that inspired this. But as well as | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
looking back to the original recording, that day we sang also | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
reflects how the lives of the children may have panned out. | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
dreading December mylyisation. story became about the people who | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
were then adults in 1969, who sang on that record and what it meant to | :22:36. | :22:44. | |
them when they hear it again, after a very long time. You were a dark | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
haired girl. The record these ladies made as children sold one | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
million copies. The cast has big boots to fill. What on a honour. We | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
have had a lovely time. It is so exciting to work with the youth | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
orchestra, they are brilliant and these kids that have been brought | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
together together to re-create the choir. I hope they do them proud. | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
The girls will be tat premier tonight. They can't wait. I am very | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
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excited. But I am trying to keep it down! Should be good. And BBC Radio | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
Manchester continuing their coverage of the festival from 10.00 | :23:25. | :23:34. | |
tonight. Now I know many of you have noticed that Kay has a passion | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
for all things weather related. She has been jumping up and down | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
because we have exciting cloud because we have exciting cloud | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
action coming up. Don't say I never spoil you, because I have a treat. | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
To my favourite topic which is clouds. Pay attention! Have you | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
heard of noctilucent clouds? Well, you have now, and this is what they | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
look like. They are beautiful. Stuart waited for days and days to | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
take these beautiful shots from Kendal castle hill. The clouds form | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
a whopping 50 miles above the earth's surface and are usually | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
invisible but they usually become visible during the summer months, | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
in clear condition, when the sunlight below the horizon shines | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
on ice crystals in the atmosphere. They are beautiful. There is mot | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
much chance of seeing them tonight, because shortly after those were | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
taken, the clouds increased and the rain returned and we have had a | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
typical mix of sunshine and showers today. We better get used to it | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
because there is more to come. I thought I would show you the | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
satellite and radar image. This is just as beautiful. You can see | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
where the area of low pressure is. And the rain and cloud wrapped | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
round. It looks pretty but it is heading our way, and it is moving | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
in quickly now. The showers will give way to a band of more | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
persistent rain. There will be drier bits as there has been from | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
time to time over the past couple of days. What there hasn't been is | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
a strong wind, and those winds will be picking up through the night. | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
They will become strong and gusty. Gale force gusts, not much to talk | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
about with the temperatures though, 11 or 12 degrees the lowest but | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
tomorrow morning, heavy thundery showers moving through and feeling | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
very cool when they come along. very cool when they come along. | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
Highs of round 17 or 18. Now how do you children or grandchildren get | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
to sool? Maybe in a car, a bike, maybe they even walk. The Wakefield | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
family from Stockport do something different. They do. Edward William | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
and Sam undertake their half mile journey from home to Gatley Primary | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
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School in an unusual way. Looking forward to the school day. Time for | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
school. It is the school run, rather than their lessons that have | :26:00. | :26:10. | |
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got this lot so excited. And you Ten-year-old Edward is the leader | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
of this pack. He learned at the same time as his eight-year-old | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
brother William but the faster is young Sam. He was riding to school | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
before he was five. Do you get funny looks from people as you go | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
along is this Yes. It turns a few heads. It was quite difficult. Just | :26:33. | :26:43. | |
as hard as riding a bike. started in the kitchen, with chairs. | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
And each time we ride, we... Safely through the school gates and dad's | :26:49. | :26:57. | |
work is done The unicycle doesn't have any brakes. We have done a lot | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
of work. We have a safe way of coming to school. We are cautious | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
about that. A bike would be faster, but unicycle is more fun. While the | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
school run may be fun for the boy, spare a thought for their mum, who | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
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