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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Gordon Burns.

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And Ranvir Singh. Our top story, a judge frees a woman jailed for

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accepting goods looted in the riots after she complained the sentence

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was too harsh. It's thought to be the first appeal

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after a week when the courts cracked down on the rioters. Also

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tonight, as police release new pictures of an attack on a

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Manchester jewellers, how the courts are helping to restore

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confidence in our city centres. When they saw the sentences from

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the court, they realised the judiciary will on the side of

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people in Manchester. Passenger numbers bloom on the

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branch lines as more of us had to the countryside.

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The sign says go but a government committee says stop. We are in

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Liverpool to hear more on the report which is calling for the

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government to put this hospital's rebuild on ice.

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And why it is called for coups in Cheshire, as for rare cheetah cubs

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make their first appearance. -- After the riots, the reckoning. The

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courts have been in the news all week for the tough sentences given

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to those involved in arson and looting.

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But in what's thought to be the first appeal, a judge has

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overturned a jail term given to a 24-year-old mother who accepted a

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pair of shorts that had been looted. He admitted it was too harsh for

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what she actually did. But does that mean more appeals are

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likely to be successful? Our reporter Yunus Mulla has been

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following the case at Manchester Crown Court. Tell us more about

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this particular case and what happened.

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Ursula Nevin was in bed at the time of the widespread disorder in

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Manchester city centre where her lodger, Gemma Corbett, helped

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herself to clothing and footwear from the Vans store and then took

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them back to the house they shared in Stretford, Greater Manchester.

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Ursula Nevin tried on a pair of stolen shorts and then kept them

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and for that she was sentenced to five months in prison, a sentence

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that her family and lawyers said was too harsh. Today Judge Andrew

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Gilbert QC agreed and said a distinction had to be made between

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someone who had actually taken part in the rioting and others who had

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received looted items and crucialy had not joined in the disturbances.

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The court heared she should be punished for keeping quiet but

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sending her to jail was too severe and instead she was told do 75

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hours of unpaid work. She left without making any comment but this

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is what her solicitor had to say. This is a statement from Ursula

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Nevin. I'm very sorry about the events of the last 10 days. The

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last week has been a traumatic experience for me, one I wanted to

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get -- forget. I want to go home and see my children.

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I'll we now likely to see a spate of jail sentences being overturned

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by the Court of Appeal? What the judge said here today was

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the original sentence was wrong in principle because it Ursula Nevin

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was not involved in those disturbances. But her lodger was

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and she was in fact given an 18 month sentence today for her part

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in that rioting. In fact before she -- he sentenced her, he said he

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would not be departing from what some have called high sentences

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because they are very -- were very severe disturbances. Meanwhile, the

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tough sentences handed down to some rioters have helped restore

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confidence in Manchester, according to a senior councillor. Pat Karney

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says shop workers and customers believe the threat of prison will

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keep troublemakers off the streets. Free parking and tram travel is

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being offered to persuade people to return to the city after a slump in

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the number of shoppers last weekend. Stuart Flinders is in the city

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centre. It doesn't look too bad right now.

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Last weekend, the real problem was a dip in people coming into the

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city centre and a drop in confidence. Many other people who

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work in the shops that at the end of their night shift, they will

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have to head back to the. And the writers might return. Right now, it

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is all about restoring confidence. 10 days on and Manchester looked as

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busy as ever today but everywhere there were signs of what happened

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last week. His music shop is open but some of its windows remain

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boarded up, decorated by a street artist. Last week, one writer can

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be seen carrying away a guitar from the shop, shortly before the police

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arrived. The window itself landed on a 25,000 pound piano. We had a

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fire extinguisher but was found underneath the piano which had

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parts of piano keys wedged into the bottom of it. It didn't make any

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sense. I understand the need to steal something, but I don't

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understand why you would just destroy something. This TV and hi-

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fi shop cannot even reopen yet. Last night, the pictures of rioters

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looting the shop were shown on BBC's Crimewatch. What are you

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hoping the appeal is going to do? Put some more vermin away. Is that

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how for strongly you feel about it? Absolutely, yeah. They had no right

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ought to do what they did a pilot to my shop or the City. Put them

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away. Crimewatch also show the pictures of looting in Manchester

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and Salford. We've had won a rest overnight and that was in relation

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to one of the stills we featured, showing Tesco Express in Manchester.

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We've had a number of names are being researched and hopefully we

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will have more arrests. Throughout Manchester, you will see signs of

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the City trying to reassert itself. But it is not just about restoring

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civic pride, it is about protecting this business of Manchester's

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traders. Last weekend, the number of shoppers in the City was down by

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20 %. Some free parking and Metro Link Travel is being offered to

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tempt shoppers back but according to one senior councillor, tough

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sentences have increased a sense of security here. It has seriously

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reduced the fear factor. People definitely thought these thugs and

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criminals were coming back. When they saw the sentences from the

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courts, they realised that the judiciary were on the side of

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people in Manchester. The police are planning to release more

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footage like this next week in the hope of identifying the rioters.

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Here is one where they are trying to restore confidence, a constant

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police presence at the top of Market Street in Piccadilly Gardens.

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200 officers working full-time on this investigation now, already 218

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people have been arrested in connection with those... Here is an

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interesting point, no fewer than 100 officers detailed to look at

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CCTV footage which has come in a great folly in this, which will

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help the police to identify those responsible for last week's crimes.

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To be the first person... The Monahan died in June after taking

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the her listener DEC drug which is similar to ecstasy. --

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hallucinogenic drug. The widow of a man in Manchester

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killed by a shark in the Seychelles this flying back to the UK. Ian

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Rudman was attacked twice snorkelling on his honeymoon,

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whilst his wife sold -- sunbathed on the beach. He is the second

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person to be killed by a shot in the area this month.

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A investigators looking into the death of a man from a barrow in

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Cumbria who was shot with a police Taser want to speak to a group of

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people who saw him being put into a police van. Dale Burns was Taser

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several times on Tuesday night as officers tried to arrest him on

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suspicion of causing criminal damage.

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On August 2nd, we reported on the cost of making telephone calls to

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GPs' surgeries that used 084 numbers. Our report featured local

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businessman Matthew Riley and the surgery lenders has operated by one

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of the companies he runs. In the report we suggested that surgery

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Lions pricing policy was unlawful. We gave the impression that the

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business was under investigation. It was incorrect of us to do so. We

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apologise to Mr Riley and the company for any damage caused.

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So you've got a big public projects you want to build and no money to

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pay for it. What do you do? The answer is private finance

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initiatives. That is exactly how Liverpool's brand new Royal

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Hospital is due to be funded, with a PFI.

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But today, an influential government committee called for a

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halt on the proposals. The Treasury report said it had serious doubt

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the plan would offer value for money.

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Dr Williams shows me the crumbling walls, the leaking pipes.

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estates department has 1300 calls for maintenance failures last month.

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A new hospital is planned, paid for with private cash in a PFI deal,

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paid back over 30 years. But today, this report criticised PFI. It said

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it was extremely inefficient. The Treasury committee had serious

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doubts about its use. But urged the government to hold off on the new

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hospital. -- it urged. We have to make sure these projects really do

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bring value for money to the taxpayer and at the moment, that is

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by no means clear. Right now, around 750 PFI projects are in the

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pipeline, including this one. And yet only the Royal Hospital was

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singled out in a report. If this is value for money, why do you think

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amongst all of those hundreds of schemes you have been singled out?

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Oh, I think it is because of the profile. This is a major acute

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teaching hospital. I think all parties need to be involved. They

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need to address this and we need to get rid of this delay. We need a

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new hospital. The files as all cisterns go and that hasn't changed

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today. Meetings are continuing. I spoke to one source who said that

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this isn't the first report critical of PFI and will not be the

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last. This man gave evidence to the committee. He has spent years

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saying the sums don't add up. Was this his I told you so moment?

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don't get any satisfaction out of it because the main aim is to stop

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the scheme for going ahead. Will this make any difference? A one

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would hope. The report is only advisory and yet -- we are yet to

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see what the government does with the advice. If many were ripped up,

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many became cycle paths but the old railway branch line is making a

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comeback. Latest figures show that the makes

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line to London via is one of the fastest growing in a country.

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It has seen a surge in passengers in the last few years with more

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people holidaying in the UK, rather than going abroad.

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In that the black-and-white day needs of the... The plan sounds

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were an endangered species. 4000 miles of rural railway lines were

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scrapped. How times have changed. This is the Lakes line. It is

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getting busier and busier. Welcome to this express service to

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Windermere. We've had anything up to 100 people standing because it

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has been so popular. When there are big events on like the airshow for

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the Great North swim, it was absolutely packed. The rail

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industry figures show that in 2007, 409,000 rail journeys ended on this

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branch line. Last year, that figure had risen to 491,000. That's an

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increase of about 20 %. The reasons for the rise are several.

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Congestion has made roads less attractive, as has the price of

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fuel. Trains have tempted passengers back. I live in Kendal

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and am going to Windermere for a day's shopping. It is much easier

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than the bus. And it is cheaper. is the quicker way. Using it to get

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home. We've been camping up here. If it wasn't for the train, we

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would not have been here. It is the best way to travel. The trend for

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people holidaying at home instead of abroad has also helped. It has

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turned around because the country we live in his beautiful. There are

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lots of fantastic scenery and beaches. There is lots of walks

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people can go on. I think people are really appreciating that what

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is on their doorstep is just as good as what is abroad. The big

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test will be keeping passengers in future years and that could well

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come down to reliability and Still to come: I am on track with

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the fearless pre-teen trio who are already Britain's best BMX riders.

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Meet the fantastic four as these rare Cheetah cubs come out for

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Imagine a world where workers are literally tipped upside down by

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notes. This is what happens in a show in Manchester this weekend. It

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is an extraordinary aerial performance tackling climate change,

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part of Manchester's free festival A performance rolls into town,

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turning the art world on its head and setting the stage for a big

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night time finale. It is part of the platform four Festival, two

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days and two night of celebrations in Manchester.

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This company from Liverpool are the stars of the festival, with an

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aerial display titled "as the world tipped ." It is about office

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workers going about their daily business when their world is

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literally tipped upside down. based the show in the Copenhagen

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conference, the conference that happened that really was a very

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confusing conference all about climate change. It was meant to be

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a turning point where everybody got on board and helped the world get

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better, and Lowe are carbon emissions, and it didn't work.

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extraordinary aerial display it is a collaboration with Nigel Jameson,

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the creator of the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics and the

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Liverpool capital of culture. has always been very passionate

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about the issue of climate change. He thought it would be an amazing

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metaphor for a world really tipping to a critical point, where we

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cannot save ourselves any more. can see the performance tonight and

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tomorrow night at Castle Field It looks amazing!

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Here is somebody who is amazing also! Richard is here with news of

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Merseyside's big two. They operate under very different financial

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circumstances, don't they? Kenny Dalglish has splashed out about

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�100 million since he took charge at Anfield. Everton wouldn't mind a

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slice of that. First of all, Liverpool travel to Arsenal

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tomorrow, the first class between Champions League hopefuls this

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season. Arsenal have been in the spotlight with the departure of

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Cesc Fabregas and the probable departure of Samir Nasri to

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Manchester City. Roberto Mancini said today he hoped a deal would be

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concluded but the Liverpool manager doesn't think the absence of

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Fabregas or now three will make life easier. -- or Nasri. It will

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not make things any easier for us. It will still be a difficult game

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for us. We will get in there, and have the same feelings as we had

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last year, it will be a difficult game, but then hopefully we can

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make things as difficult for them as they make it for us. Everton

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finally kick-off against QPR this weekend after the Tottenham game

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was postponed. A different story there. We have talked about

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Everton's search for new investment, possibly a buyer. They just about

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break even but to try to move forward and keep up with the likes

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of Liverpool, City and United, they need cash. Bill Kenwright has said

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for some time that he is prepared to sell. He says he cannot find

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anyone, and recently spoke to a group of supporters to outline why.

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How is all of this affecting the mood at the club? I went along

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today to find out. I wish the season had started last week.

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season with familiar financial problems still there. The Blues

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haven't brought in a single permanent new player in the

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transfer window. Not everybody will be gifted with lots of money to

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spend. You have to work without it. We do our best with what we have.

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We have a good chairman who does everything he can for the club. I

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hope we have a manager who can make the club work. It is difficult

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times. Chairman Bill Kenwright declined an interview request, but

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the talk among supporters is about a meeting he agreed to with a small

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group of fans, who wanted answers about why the club couldn't find a

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buyer. I don't think Bill Kenwright is the best person to sell Everton

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Football Club. He may think he is, I don't think he is. The vast

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majority of the fan base don't think he is. The proof of the

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pudding is in the eating. He has tried to sell us 24/7 of the last

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11 years and has been unsuccessful. We need alternatives. Fans will

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take comfort in the players they do have, Fellaini, Jagielka and Baines,

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who will all wear Everton blue tomorrow. Their other stars says

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with little cash for new talent, keeping talent for performers --

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talented performers is key -- one of their other stars. It is

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important now and for the future of the club. Tamara's visit is --

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tomorrow's visitors to couldn't -- Goodison Park, QPR... It may add to

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a sense of frustration for a club which at the moment cannot seem to

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Tomorrow is Football Focus at 12:15pm. In cricket, Lancashire's

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latest County Championship match in Blackpool is in the balance.

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Lancashire made 248 in their second innings, Karl Brown hitting 85,

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leaving Worcestershire a tricky 329 to win. Two late wickets left them

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on 201-five, putting the red rose favourites to wrap up a win

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tomorrow. BMX rider has been the latest sport to take part in London

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today. In the north-west, the next

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generation of BMX Olympic hopefuls have been given a big boost with

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the opening of the Manchester indoor track, the first in the

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Paddy, Ross and Kim are definitely three to watch, but blink and you

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will miss them. How many trophies have you got?

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About a year ago when I checked, I had 98. I have about 108 now.

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want to become world champion and when I'm older, trained for the

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Olympics. Now I have a van with my name on it and everything. People

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come up to me asking me for stickers and things like that.

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did my first race when I was little and my brother wanted me to have a

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go, I didn't want to at first but I tried it and they liked it. Last

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year I won every race I did. This �24 million facility opened last

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year, enabling riders like Paddy to train here in the winter when

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outdoor tracks are frozen, and should give the north-west a big

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advantage over riders from other regions. They have already done

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very well, but they are still only young and have a lot to learn. This

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facility will help provide that. With the next world championships

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in Britain, this trio will be hoping practice makes perfect and

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They look pretty fearsome! 98 trophies, as well, astonishing.

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Good luck to Matthew Patten, who takes on the IBF intercontinental

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welterweight challenge tonight in Blackpool. You mentioned Lancashire

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getting two late wickets, but they need a dry day tomorrow. Will they

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If they get out early, it could be dry. Tomorrow is very much like

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today. This is how the weekend shapes up. Saturday dry and Sunday

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next, not too many showers, fingers crossed. The best weather was first

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thing up until lunchtime, with the sun with many of us and it was

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quite pleasant. Over the last couple of hours the cloud has

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rolled in, as has a line of showers that moved through the region.

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There are still one or two around if you are going out. Cloud is

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beginning all the time and as we head through the first part of the

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night, the next area of rain is waiting. When the sun goes down,

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most of us will see the worst of it. Even then, it is light and patchy.

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Like last night, it moves through shortly after midnight and in the

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early morning, it starts to dry everywhere. I would like to say

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clear but not too many clear spells. That is positive really, because

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last night it was nippy. Tonight temperatures between 9-13 foremost,

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maybe 40 will 15, so relatively mild. -- For most of us. Saturday,

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best were the first thing, cloud at the start then it thins with spells

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of sunshine in the morning. From the south-west to the day it will

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cloud up, so Lancashire, Cumbria and the Isle of Man hang on to the

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dry weather longest. Perhaps until teatime particularly on the Isle of

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Man, but for many of us as the day goes on, this line of rain starts

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to work its way in and becomes more widespread as we head towards

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teatime. In terms of temperatures, 19 or 20 degrees. The rain takes

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hold tomorrow night. Not a great picture, but once it has gone on

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Sunday, it is the nature of sunny spells and scattered showers and

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fingers crossed not to many showers Thank you. Any new addition to the

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family is exciting but when four come along at once it is extra

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special, so imagine the joy at Chester Zoo as they celebrated the

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birth of these four Cheetah cubs. The feisty nature of the female

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Cheetah has made it one of their biggest challenges ever.

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Like most new arrivals, they have no idea how special they are and

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how worried mum is already. Sudanese tutors have only ever been

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bred in a European zoo once before, and Chester has been preparing for

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this for more than three years. -- Sudanese cheetahs. So the team is

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delighted. It is the big smile on your face, it is fantastic to put

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together this plan and for the team to have carried it out. The credit

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goes to these guys, and the cheetahs, for being able to do this.

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The challenge of bringing these cubs in to the world has been big,

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sadly Cheetah mums and dads don't spend much time together apart from

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the big moment. It is often tricky catching on in the right mood. Just

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like with new kittens, the cubs need to be vaccinated and wormed as

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well as being given a unique microchip which will prove

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essential when they go on to breed. With fewer than 10,000 left in the

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wild, reproduction in captivity is growing even more important.

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they are all identified, they will stay with them for the rest of

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their lives. I found myself admiring the female Cheetah. She

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lives independently and will only interact with the male in order to

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breed. When she wants to she will take him on in a fight, and often,

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she will win. Not very romantic, and partly why it has proven so

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difficult to breed them, but the team here in Chester say now they

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know how, they hope they will be -- there will be many more to come.

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He just story of the week! Lots of laughing about the differences

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