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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Gordon Burns and | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
Ranvir Singh. Our top story: Save the city's heritage - Unesco warns | :00:08. | :00:17. | |
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Liverpool against a multi-billion- pound Docklands development. They | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
want to build Shanghai on the Mersey. So how would losing its | :00:23. | :00:32. | |
World Heritage status damage the city? Also in the programme: 26 new | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
services from Manchester as Ryanair patches up its relationship here. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Consultants at one of our biggest hospitals pass a vote of no | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
confidence in the Chief Executive and other management. Tonight we | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
ask if Liverpool Football Club is ripping off its fans? | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
And joining the Tatton tea party - how you are helping to set the | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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scene for our garden at next week's Liverpool's status as a World | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Heritage Site ranks it alongside the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
China. But that status could be at risk if it approves controversial | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
plans to redevelop its waterfront. That's the warning from Unesco - | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
the United Nations body that awards the status. Its unhappy with plans | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
submitted by Peel Holdings to invest billions in revamping | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
derelict stretches of land alongside the Mersey. Our chief | :01:33. | :01:42. | |
reporter, David Guest, is there now. Dave. Yes, and that truly is one of | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
the world's iconic sights. It was designated a World Heritage Site in | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
2004, but what has that meant in practical terms? Well, the status | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
is said to have brought great pride to the city, helping build its | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
confidence. It has enhanced Liverpool's image around the globe. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
And it has brought extra funding for heritage and regeneration | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
projects. But plans to invest billions regenerating the area | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
further along the waterfront could cost Liverpool that status if the | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
council approves the proposals as they currently stand. It hardly the | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
most attractive stretch of waterfront at present, but this is | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
how it could look, according to Peel Holdings. They want to spend | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
�5.5 billion creating Liverpool Waters - a huge development of | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
homes, shops, commercial space and visitor attractions. It would | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
radically alter the waterfront appearance, but it's a little too | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
radical for some. They want to build Shanghai on the Mersey. | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
UNESCO had said this is a bit alien to Liverpool and its historic World | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
Heritage Site. After all, we are Mercantile and maritime city. | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
key will be to balance the city fit for the 21st century, creating jobs | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
and investment, with the need to preserve Liverpool's rich cultural | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
heritage. UNESCO fear that the Liverpool Water's plan as it stands | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
may well come preside -- compromise the city's World Heritage status. | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
The environmental impact assessment did not take into account the | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
values for which it was recognised. Some people we spoke to agreed that | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
the plan has too many high rise buildings. Everything is getting | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
cut off, all the views are going. would like to keep it the way it is | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
rather than going for the skyscrapers. And you are from | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
America? I am. UNESCO will send a delegation over in the autumn to | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
take a closer look at what is planned. | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
Are you worried about this? Every development of that has been | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
proposed has been controversial. When the live a building was | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
proposed it was deeply controversial. When the Liverpool | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
Museum was proposed the UNESCO Commission were interested and | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
wanted to come over and see it. They satisfied themselves that it | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
was appropriate and our World Heritage status remained. We are | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
confident that these proposals will not only bring much-needed jobs and | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
investment to the city, but will be sympathetic to the World Heritage | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
Site status. Are you going to propose -- support the proposals as | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
they stand? There has been a dialogue with Peel Holdings. There | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
is a dialogue between the planning officers and the developers. As a | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
result of that, the planning application will go through the | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
planning process and then we will wait and see whether there is any | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
further intervention after that. it comes to a straight choice | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
between World Heritage status or the development, which is it to be? | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
We are firmly of the view that there is no incompatibility between | :05:08. | :05:17. | |
the two back. No doubt UNESCO no longer want to see the docks being | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
unused. What would it mean if you lost the World Heritage status? | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
Were we would be very disappointed but we are quite confident that we | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
can do both. That he is coming over in the | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
autumn to look at the proposals. That is not the last we have heard | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
The World Heritage Centre will be sending a delegation over to | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
Liverpool in the autumn to take a closer look at what's planned. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
The budget airline Ryanair is setting up a new base at Manchester | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
Airport. They say they will invest more than | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
�170 million, fly to 26 destinations and provide hundreds | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
of jobs. The move is a dramatic U- turn from the airline which pulled | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
out of Manchester just 18 months ago in a row over landing charges. | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
Our transport correspondent, Colin Sykes, reports. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
His own flight from Dublin was late, but Michael O'Leary, complete in | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
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Manchester City shirt, hit the ground running. We are here this | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
morning with great news. Ryanair flew out of Manchester 18 months | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
ago when a bitter row over fees. Its comeback will see four planes | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
based at the airport by next year, servicing 26 routes and 260 flights | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
a week. That, it claims, will ultimately safeguard 2,000 jobs. | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
think the market has changed here. The tour operators have continued | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
to decline. Manchester themselves have reached a compromise. They are | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
more keen to get us back and we have learned from our mistakes the | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
last time. Falling passenger numbers and increased competition | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
are changing the way we fly. It is the passengers who are calling the | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
shots. People are always looking for the best deal, aren't they? | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
only thing I would say with Ryanair is the amount you have to pay for | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
your cases the stock that is the only complaint I have. We always go | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
on a package tour rather than looking for cheap flights because | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
you have Critics of more flights say the move will increase aviation | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
pollution. Air transport comes at a terrible cost to the environment. | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
And to the quality of life to the people who live in the vicinity of | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
the airport. Meanwhile, as airlines battle for business, Manchester | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
Airport is clear about its own way forward. We have seen the decline | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
in passenger numbers at Manchester over the last few years and we have | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
also seen some attrition with Ryanair passengers to Liverpool and | :07:47. | :07:56. | |
Leeds. We want passengers to fly from Manchester. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Well, I'm joined live now by Simon Calder, travel writer for the | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
Independent. What do you think this move says about Manchester? | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
means it is being pragmatic. It is the biggest airport in the UK | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
outside of London. It has a huge number of really important long- | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
haul routes. Its main overseas destination is now Dubai. It has | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
always had a problem with low-cost airlines. I remember in the 90s, | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
shortly after the Easyjet started, and Liverpool airport suddenly came | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
back from the dead. Ryanair, as you have been reporting, fell out and | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
left 18 months ago. They have now come back, no doubt tempted by some | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
very good terms from Manchester Airport. Frankly, for the main | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
there -- the main airport in the north-west not a of Europe's | :08:51. | :09:00. | |
biggest airline would be a little embarrassing. As some people say in | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
aviation, the Olly thing worse than having Ryanair flying from your | :09:03. | :09:13. | |
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local airport is not having them. - - the only thing. Some of their | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
flights and as cheap as �8. Is that sustainable in the long term? | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
but let's be realistic. The average price of a Ryanair flight from | :09:27. | :09:37. | |
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Manchester will be something like �100 to �120 return. Will it dried | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
up passenger numbers? Manchester, like any airport, depends on having | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
more and more passengers going through it. They hope that this | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
will start to turn things around. Certainly, the effect that Ryanair | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
has had on many other reports suggested is the only strategy in | :09:55. | :10:05. | |
town. Thank you for joining us. Consultants at one of Merseyside's | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
biggest hospitals have overwhelmingly passed a vote of no | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
confidence in the hospital's Chief Executive and management. 200 | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
senior doctors took part in the vote at Arrowe Park Hospital in | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
Wirral. Consultants are concerned over a number of management | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
decisions, including plans to move vascular surgery from Wirral to | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Chester. Our Merseyside reporter, Andy Gill, has this exclusive | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
report. Consultants at Arrowe Park met this | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
afternoon to be told that they'd voted by a significant majority in | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
favour of a motion which asked them if they had lost confidence in the | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
chief executive, Len Richards, and if their relationship with him had | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
irretrievably broken down. They voted on management's understanding | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
of clinical needs at the hospital. A third vote, critical of plans to | :10:44. | :10:53. | |
move vascular surgery from here to Chester, was also passed. More than | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
82% of the consultants eligible to vote did so. Although the actual | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
figures have not been made public, there is no doubt that this is a | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
serious rebuff to the hospital management. One senior source here | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
at Arrowe Park Hospital described the result as dynamite. The doctors | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
think moving vascular surgery would be bad for patients. Wirral MPs | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
have urged the managers to think again. The MPs are concerned about | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
how part of that change is being managed, particularly from the | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
point of view of the staff. They are raising issues which are | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
crucial for a constituents in that our patients in the future going to | :11:35. | :11:45. | |
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The Isle of Man is to lose up to �75 million a year from its | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
revenue-sharing agreement with the UK Government. The cut comes after | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
10 months of negotiation. It means a total of �30 million will be cut | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
next year, followed by �50 million the year after an increasing to �75 | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
million in three years' time. Jobs could be lost it Liverpool's | :12:29. | :12:37. | |
Tate Gallery. Managers say they are looking at ways to make it run more | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
efficiently and are currently reviewing their staffing levels. | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
The review will continue until 2013. It's not yet known how many posts | :12:43. | :12:52. | |
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will go. Thieves have stripped lead from the roofs of a model village | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
in Lancashire. It happened at Stanley Park in Blackpool. Hundreds | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
of pounds of lead was taken from the miniature buildings. Thousands | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
of students around the North west have been putting on mortar boards | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
and gowns for graduation ceremonies this week. But universities are | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
going through a difficult period as budgets are cut and fees are | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
increased. Today, half of our 12 universities have been granted | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
permission to charge the maximum �9,000 tuition fees. Our political | :13:19. | :13:28. | |
editor, Arif Ansari, is here with the breakdown. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
There are 12 universities in the North West. Of those, nine have | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
been given permission to charge the maximum �9,000 a year for some | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
courses. And seven have permission to charge the maximum for all their | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
courses: Chester, Edge Hill, Lancaster, Liverpool, Liverpool | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
John Moores, and Manchester UCLAN. So would that put potential | :13:46. | :13:56. | |
students off? For me, probably not. But for lower income groups, | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
possibly. You think about it in the here and now. I did it because of | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
my interest in the subject, not because of a career Pat. If I had | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
to pay �9,000 a year I probably would not have done it. As far as | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
volume for a -- value for money is concerned, I think about �3,000 is | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
the limit. The increases will affect courses starting next year - | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
that is September 2012. But the maximum fee was only supposed to be | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
charged in "exceptional circumstances". And this policy has | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
caused big problems for the Liberal Democrats, who campaigned against | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
an increase in fees and then voted for the policy in government. | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
fact clearly show that most of them have gone above the kind of limits | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
that the Government wanted to see. The important point is that people, | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
from whatever background, will still be able to go to university | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
are. Universities have been obliged to | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
have their plans approved by OFFA, the Office for Fair Access. OFFA | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
accepted every proposal, but in return universities must widen | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
access - in other words, attract more poorer students through things | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
like bursaries and grants. I hope that it will not put | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
students off. They have to understand what the packages are | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
that are available to them. We also need them to understand what the | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
repayment system is, that they will not repay any loans until they are | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
earning over �21,000. universities say that, once | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
bursaries and scholarships are taken into account, the real cost | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
of a degree will be lower. But will more students be attracted by the | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
scholarships or be put off by the higher fees? | :15:41. | :15:50. | |
Discuss, as they used to say. Still to come in North West | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
Tonight: Join Kate as she inspects the latest donations to our garden | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
at Tatton. And can money really make you happy? Where better to | :15:58. | :16:06. | |
find out than a party full of lottery millionaires? I went | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
through a big phase of spending on cars when I was younger but I have | :16:10. | :16:19. | |
settled down a bit now. Booking fees - retailers say it's a | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
way to cover expenses. Consumers say it's a way to bump up profits. | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
Today the Office of Fair Trading waded into the row, saying fees for | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
debit card payments should be scrapped. So what about when you | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
pay in person, in cash, something Liverpool football club is doing on | :16:38. | :16:47. | |
some of its ticket sales? Fans are not happy. Here's Jayne Barrett. | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
Phil McKeown is a loyal fan, but these tickets had him seeing red. | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
He didn't mind the ticket price, he did mind and 90p booking fee. | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
time did I are paid to -- attempt to pay with credit cards. They | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
shrugged their shoulders. I do not like having a go at them but, at | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
the end of the day, we are the 12th man and we're getting ripped off by | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
the club. Almost all north-west clubs charge a booking fee if you | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
pay by card. But pay in cash and the fee is dropped. Today, the | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
Office of Fair Trading said it wanted fees for debit cards band. | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
In its opinion, they were the online version of cash. So what | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
about when it really is just cash? Which? Magazine led the campaign. | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
Do they see red with the Reds? is difficult to understand from | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
companies why they are actually charging us to turn up at their | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
office and hand over cash. When we got to the supermarket we do not | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
have to hand over cash for the pleasure of paying for our shopping. | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
Liverpool Football Club decided not to put anyone up for interview, but | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
they said the removed some booking fees at the start of the season for | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
fans who booked in advance. But there are still plenty of instances | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
when they are charged. We would have liked to ask them, in person, | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
of what the fee was for. Instead, they dodged the question by e-mail. | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
"The club is working to standardise fees and provide more consistency | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
and transparency." They are ripping off the loyal Liverpool fans to | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
turn up in their droves because they want to watch them. Will you | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
stop buying tickets? unfortunately not. Chatting to | :18:24. | :18:33. | |
these fans, I realised there is a common term in the language of | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
finance. It is of not -- it is not even not British, it is not | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
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Colombian. And it has provoked lots of | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
reaction from you on e-mail, Twitter and Facebook. And do carry | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
on letting us know what you feel. But here are a few we've had | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
already. This was posted on the LFC fans' forum after someone saw our | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
lunchtime report, saying, "It's not fair, it's greedy and disgraceful | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
that the club are charging loyal fans for paying cash to buy | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
tickets." Michael Day e-mailed that he drove from North Yorkshire to | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
Manchester to pay in cash for a group of tickets for Manchester | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
Pride only to find he was charged a booking fee for each individual | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
ticket. He says, "When I protested I was told it was to cover costs | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
such as electricity." Happily, Joe Mulvaney from Colne says he's a | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
Blackburn Rovers season ticket holder and he's never had to pay a | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
booking fee. Do get in touch now if you have a comment and we'll try to | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
get more of them at the end of the programme. | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
Salford City Reds' new head coach has arrived at the club to take up | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
his new role. The Australian, Matt Parish, was introduced to the media | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
earlier today. The club's moving to a new purpose-built stadium for the | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
start of next season. Parish says he's expecting the players to give | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
the Willows a great send-off. like to think that the players here, | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
particularly for the guy sitting next to me, will do their best to | :19:57. | :20:05. | |
make sure this place is left with the performances it deserves. | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
years to the day since they reached an agreement to sign Carlos Tevez, | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
Manchester City are likely to reject a bid to sign him by one of | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
his former clubs. Brazilian side Corinthians have offered �35 | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
million for the City captain, which would be his dream, according to | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
his adviser, Kia Jorabchin. It is understood City won't consider | :20:19. | :20:28. | |
anything less than �30 million. In cricket, Lancashire won the toss | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
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and decided to bat. A few moments ago, they had reached 99 for seven. | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
We've been asking you to get involved with helping to create the | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
North West Tonight garden at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park. With | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
just a week to go until the garden has to be ready, we asked you to | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
help us accessorised our grown from seed show feature. The brief - a | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
pretty vintage finish to the garden. And your response had Kate Simms | :20:58. | :21:08. | |
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racing round the region. The team have been growing the | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
plants for our garden for weeks. The designer needs help with the | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
finishing touches. And here is what we need - a small cafe table and | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
chairs, pretty china tea sets, Vintage cushions and pretty | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
tablecloths and napkins. I have posted an appeal on Facebook and | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
tweeted about it. Would you be able to include this appeal about what | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
we need for the Tatton garden in the breakfast bulletin? The garden | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
is ready but we need your help with accessories for it. By mid-morning | :21:46. | :21:56. | |
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I have a lead. Time to hit the road. I am off to Liverpool to see Jan's | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
china collection. Is this the sort of thing you are looking for? | :22:00. | :22:10. | |
have a lot. My mother gave me this little set. On my 20th anniversary | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
my mother gave me a tea set. you happy for us to borrow it? | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
more than happy. Thank you. Goodbye. So we can take China of the list. | :22:21. | :22:31. | |
But then the trail goes cold. Until... | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
The Office calls with news about cushions so why Hector the road and | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
go to see Judy. We have some vintage cushions. They look great. | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Or they will do once we find a table and chairs. I have some | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
things in the back garden. They look perfect. We didn't get them? | :22:53. | :23:03. | |
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Bingo, and we are on a roll. Colin Sykes is in the area to pick up | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
tablecloths. Cushions, tablecloth and napkins and China. That is it, | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
mission complete. You will be able to see what are designer does with | :23:13. | :23:22. | |
your offerings when we reveal the garden in a week's time. You have | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
been very helpful. Thank you very much. | :23:27. | :23:36. | |
Good evening to you at home. It has been a real mixture of sunshine and | :23:36. | :23:44. | |
cloud today. We have managed to hold the rain off in many places. | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
In the next couple of days, but temperatures are not great for the | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
time of year. Heading to the weekend, it looks like there will | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
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be some rain in the forecast. That is because the saviour of low | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
pressure moves in. There is a frontal system coming in from the | :24:06. | :24:16. | |
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Atlantic and, behind it, a band of rain. Tonight will be dry. It will | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
be chilly in some rural areas, despite the temperatures sticking | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
in double figures. Tomorrow we are likely to see some isolated showers | :24:30. | :24:38. | |
in the afternoon but we start off dry and bright in the morning. Some | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
cloud may move in in the afternoon bringing isolated showers. It will | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
generally be a fine day tomorrow. By Friday we may see some rain or | :24:53. | :25:02. | |
showers. Thank you. | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
It was launched in 1994 and is one of the country's most exclusive | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
clubs. So exclusive, not even Ranvir's a member. Neither is | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
Gordon, come to that. It's the North West Lottery Winners' Club | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
and it now includes 254 millionaires. Today they had a get- | :25:15. | :25:24. | |
together at a hotel in Cheshire. Stuart Flinders went along. Deborah, | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
more than �5 million. At Nigel and Sharon - more than �12.5 million. | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
Some of them are worth more than a small republic. Do you want the | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
exact figure? I cannot remember. Some of them are worth more than | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
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they realise. �24,951,259.40. I have spent the 40p. They got | :25:50. | :26:00. | |
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together to compare notes - �50 notes, prisoner by. By won in | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
February 2004. Have you spent all of it yet? Not all that. I went | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
through a big phase of spending on cars when I was younger but I have | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
settled down a bit now. The region's newest winners, Jeff | :26:12. | :26:22. | |
:26:22. | :26:24. | ||
and Hillary, are still finding their feet. We won �3 million. | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
much have you spent so far? Zeal. Nothing? When did you win? Three | :26:34. | :26:44. | |
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weeks ago. We have been quite busy It was crisps, not caviar. It may | :26:48. | :26:58. | |
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be a time of austerity but there is Work commitments?! I cannot believe | :27:02. | :27:11. | |
that. Three weeks after you have won the lottery? | :27:12. | :27:21. | |
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We have some time for more of your comments on booking fees on tickets. | :27:22. | :27:28. |