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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Gordon Burns and | :00:04. | :00:13. | |
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Ranvir Singh. - Annabel Tiffin. Our top story: Blown out - the region's | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
hit by the tail end of a tropical storm, with warnings of more to | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
come. A Cumbrian maternity being | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
investigated over the deaths of babies is told, "Improve quickly or | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
you could be closed down." I expected to going to that hospital | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
and bring my son home. I trusted them. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Another hospital in trouble - Stepping Hill in Stockport. Police | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
investigating deaths there find milk contaminated by bleach. | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
And we go in search of the lost tribe of Lancashire in the brand | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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new village no-one can find. can forget postcodes. It would be | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
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easier to find some of the lost Also, if you're a pub quiz fan, | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
we've got a challenge for you. We're going to take a look at | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
what's thought to be one of the world's toughest general knowledge | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
quizzes. Just to give you a taste of what's to come, see if you can | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
work this one out. Here goes. What tale begins "A week has passed | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
since the funeral of my poor boy Harry"? We'll give you the answer | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
later, unless you get it first, of course. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
First, though, we got a bit of a battering earlier today, and we | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
might be in for another one tonight. High winds, the remnants of a | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
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tropical storm. We will have the latest forecast | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
shortly. First, let us join Dave in Blackpool. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
It is still quite blustery but, because the tide is now Loat, the | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
scene is not quite as dramatic as it was earlier on. It was so bad | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
here today that they had to cancel a major sporting event. More about | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
that in a moment, but first let's take a look at how the winds | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
affected the region today. This car in Liverpool was among the | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
casualties. A tree came crashing down on to it this morning. Luckily | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
no-one was hurt. Throughout the day, the region's coastline has been | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
battered by the remnants of Hurricane Katia. Ferry sailings to | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
and from the Isle of Man were cancelled throughout the day. On | :02:47. | :02:56. | |
the roads, drivers were urged to exercise caution and speed | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
restrictions were imposed on many motorways. More problems are | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
expected tonight. It will be exposed roots that will be most | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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badly affect -- affected. Two-flailed travellers experienced | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
problems of the run. The second stage of the tour of Britain was | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
cancelled. Competitors had to satisfy themselves with a lap of | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
honour around Kendal when the organisers decided it was not safe | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
enough for them to travel to the planned route in Blackpool. It is a | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
shame but it is better to be safe than sorry. It is really bad | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
conditions here. He run Blackpool it is easy to see why they had to | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
postpone that race. It is difficult to keep up right on two legs, never | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
mind two wheels. The peer has been closed for obvious reasons. Would | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
you fancier ride on the big wheel today? | :04:05. | :04:14. | |
Airport remained for open for business. It is when you have | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
crosswind so that there is a problem. Luckily, we do not have | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
those today. Country parks have been closed with | :04:20. | :04:30. | |
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fears of fallen trees posing a danger to walkers. | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Of course, many people will be nervously watching the weather to | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
see whether Hurricane Katia has done her worst. The hope is that | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
the winds will subside over night. Let's find out how it is going to | :04:48. | :04:58. | |
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The winds actually reached their peak of the last couple of hours. | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
There were gusts of over 60 mph in Cumbria. We have by yellow all out | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
for strong winds issued by the Met Office, but the wellies down | :05:13. | :05:23. | |
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overnight. -- they will ease down over light. A Cumbrian maternity | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
unit at the centre of a major investigation into the deaths of | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
babies has been ordered to improve The NHS watchdog, the Care Quality | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Commission has issued a rare warning notice to the unit at the | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Furness General Hospital. The news came on the day that a mother whose | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
baby died after she received treatment at the hospital welcomed | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
the police investigation. Lisa Brady's son, Alex, is one of the | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
cases that are being re-examined. Peter Marshall reports. Lisa Brady | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
has treasured memories of her son, Alex. She will never forget him and | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
will never forget the pain of losing him. I have lived a | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
nightmare. I expected to going to that hospital and bring my son warm. | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
I trusted them, I thought I was in a safe place. It ripped my heart | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
out. Alex was stillborn at Furness General Hospital in September 2008. | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
The hospital has admitted failings in the way he was monitored. It | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
happened just a few weeks before another child died. His death | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
sparked an investigation which is now believed to be looking into how | :06:26. | :06:36. | |
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four babies and two mothers died. It is suggested... It follows | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
claims that a high percentage of serious untoward cases at the unit | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
involved mothers from ethnic minorities. Cumbria police do say | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
that, at this early stage, it is impossible to rule anything out of | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
the inquiry. The investigation has been welcomed by this man, whose | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
wife and baby son died at the hospital in 2,000 abate. I had been | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
saying that there were serious issues there for over three years. | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
I feel vindicated that I was right. The barrel when p met today with | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
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hospital staff. -- the Barrow MP. was very clear with managers that | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
their needs to be proper investment to sort out what are still in some | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
respects serious shortcomings. The Care Quality Commission tonight | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
issued a rare warning met it -- not his, setting a deadline for | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
improvements. The hospital says it is co-operating fully with the | :07:48. | :07:57. | |
police inquiry. Police say a body found in the | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
River Mersey near Birkenhead is that of 21-year-old Robbie Crofts. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
He had been missing since the body of his teenage girlfriend, Hayley | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Holmes, was found at New Brighton two weeks ago. Post mortems have | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
shown that the couple both drowned. An inquest into the deaths will be | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
opened later this week. A man who was hit by a bus as he | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
chased a robber in Manchester city centre has died. Police say 21 | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
year-old David Mark Schofield had his mobile phone stolen and was | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
chasing a cyclist down Oxford Road in Manchester. Officers are | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
appealing for two women who saw the collision happen to come forward. | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
They are also asking for the man who stole the phone to give himself | :08:28. | :08:37. | |
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up. That man can bring resolution to David's family. I ask him to | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
surrender himself for the theft - and not murder or manslaughter. He | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
has the key to bringing comfort to a family in difficult circumstances. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
Police investigating deaths at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
say there has been another incident of tampering after a bottle of milk | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
was contaminated with bleach. Earlier today officers looking into | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
the deliberate poisoning of saline drips ruled out the deaths of six | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
patients from that investigation. Stuart Pollitt reports. | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
A new reason for security to stay tight at Stepping Hill hospital. On | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Saturday evening staff told police they had found a bottle of milk | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
apparently contaminated with bleach. A small amount had been drunk by a | :09:16. | :09:26. | |
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patient. Thankfully, no-one has been harmed in this latest incident | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
but police have stressed that, at this stage, there is nothing to | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
link what happened over the weekend with the ongoing inquiry. That | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
inquiry, into the deliberate poising of saline drips with | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
insulin, was launched on 15th July. At its height, 60 officers were | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
working on the case. A week later police discharged nurse Rebecca | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
Leighton, but on September 2nd the case against her was discontinued | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
because of a lack of evidence. Rebecca Leighton said her life had | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
been made a living hell. Today police ruled out six deaths from | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
their inquiry. They said three people - Tracey Arden, Alfred | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Weaver and Arnold Lancaster - did receive the contaminated Saleem, | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
but it will take several weeks to establish exactly what caused their | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
deaths, all of which has shaken some people's faith in the hospital | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
and the police. I would not particularly like to go to this | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
hospital at the moment. I know they have security but you do not know | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
what is going to happen. I do not think they are going to catch them. | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
My aunt is 94 and has broken her neck. She recently came out of | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
Stepping Hill and said she would be very worried about going in in the | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
future. Two months after the original investigation was launched, | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
there are lots of questions but precious few answers surrounding | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
this hospital. Stuart Pollitt, BBC North West Tonight, Stockport. | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
The former Chief Constable of Merseyside Police has been given | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
the top job in British policing. Bernard Hogan Howe is now the | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. He was tipped as the | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
Government's preferred choice for the job when the Home Office | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
brought him to Scotland Yard in the wake of the phone hacking scandal. | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
The parents of a young woman who disappeared from a cruise ship she | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
was working on met a Government minister earlier to ask for a | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
change in the law. Rebecca Coriam from Chester disappeared six months | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
ago while working on the Disney Wonder. Her parents want British | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
authorities to be allowed to investigate. We have just got to | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
carry on, haven't we? We want to find out answers. That is what we | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
need because we do not know what has happened to Rebecca. We just | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
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get by day to day, and hopefully we will hear something. | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
The Chief Minister on the Isle of Man has told the BBC that the UK | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Government almost ended a historic deal in which it shares VAT with | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
the island. A general election will be held there in just over a | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
fortnight. Many voters are angry that the Isle of Man's share of the | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
total has been reduced by more than a third. But the outgoing Chief | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
Minister says it could have been worse. The United Kingdom could | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
have pushed even further, they could have taken the view that, in | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
fact, having such an agreement was not in the best interests of the | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
United Kingdom. The Isle of Man believes that having a customs | :12:09. | :12:19. | |
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agreement is in the best interests of us bought. -- both of us. | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
There is a special programme on the Isle of Man general election which | :12:23. | :12:33. | |
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is available on the BBC iPlayer. In fact, it was on last night. I | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
watched it. You won't find it in the history | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
books, you might not find it on a map. I wouldn't chance a sat nav. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
But Buckshaw Village is out there - for residents, a kind of Bermuda | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Triangle of the North West. Many moved to the new build new town for | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
the promised fabulous amenities. But a few years in and they are | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
still waiting. Some say they feel disconnected from the real world. | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
Here is Jayne Barrett. Domesday Book? Forget it. Maps? Not unless | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
they are brand new. Look for the Wicker Man, I'm told. He will guide | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
you. After that, you're on your own. We're lost. Can you tell us the way | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
to the community centre? Yes, right. You need to... I was last here | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
eight years ago when Buckshaw Village was a dream on the edge of | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
reality. I am back to hear how reality isn't quite all it should | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
be. You can forget postcodes. They do not apply. It would be easier to | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
find that some of the lost tribes of the Amazon. It is a little bit | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
like you are in limbo. Some people get text messages - we do not get | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
any in Buckshaw Village. The new school isn't big enough. Quality | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
might live here but not the promised doctor's surgery or the | :13:51. | :14:01. | |
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train station. There are councils, Councillor, development companies | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
and one local residents' Association. Thank goodness for it. | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
You have two borough councils to approach because they are not sure | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
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of what side of the boundary it falls on. Our town is going to be a | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
good place to work in. New Town experiments never seemed to get it | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
right. It's a bit like driving round a film set, so new it's not | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
real. But does that make its soulless? Absolute poppycock. There | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
are lots of village that have been around here for centuries and they | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
do not half -- they do not have half of the community spirit that | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
we have. If we will keep pushing it forward. They may have their | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
problems, but a community spirit that will overturn them, eventually. | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
Jayne Barrett, BBC North West Tonight, Buckshaw Village. It's | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
been, as we've been saying, a wild and windy day. | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
But you won't hear any complaints from Peel Energy. They run the | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
region's biggest wind farm on the Lancashire moors near Edenfield. | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
It's been so successful, according to Peel Energy, that they now want | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
to double the number of turbines on the site. But, as Stuart Flinders | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
reports, there's some opposition. Strangely beautiful, or downright | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
ugly - the Scoutmoor wind farm has divided those who live nearby since | :15:24. | :15:34. | |
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2008. Longer, in fact. Here is David Bellamy protesting against | :15:36. | :15:45. | |
the development before it was built. In three off-form ideas' time this | :15:45. | :15:55. | |
site could more than double and size. -- double in size. Now it is | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
one of 13 wind farms in the North West. Nine more are planned. Peel | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
Energy want to fill the gap on the hillside near the existing turbines | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
with at least another 26. If we expand as we intend we could be | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
supplying all of the electricity for Rochdale. Nearby Edenfield | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
remains divided. I like them because they're good for the | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
environment. It would be good if you could make something prettier. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
A decision on whether the site can be expanded will be made by | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
planning professionals in Bristol, The Infrastructure Planning | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
Committee, not the local council. It is far easier if we can make | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
those decisions locally. We are closer to the community and their | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
concerns. Decisions are made elsewhere, unfortunately. The new | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
turbines could be operating in three years' time. Stuart Flinders, | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
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BBC North West Tnight, Lancashire. It's time for sport now, and the | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
football's in full swing, but it's a different title race we start | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
with tonight, Tony. Yes, Gordon, after 77 years of hurt | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
Lancashire's cricketers have these next four days to put that right. | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
They need to beat Somerset at Taunton to have a chance of winning | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
their first outright County Championship since 1934. They made | :17:13. | :17:21. | |
a great start this morning, but it's tailed off a little bit. They | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
had their hosts struggling on 20 for 2 early on but Somerset have | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
rallied. They've ended day one on 314 for 5 in their first innings, | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
James Hildreth's hundred holding up Lancs. Main title rivals | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
Warwickshire have had a much better day against Hampshire. They'll | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
resume at Edgbaston tomorrow on 296 for 3 in their first innings. They | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
started this last round of games three points ahead of Lancs in the | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
table. Football now and Bolton Wanderers | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
captain Kevin Davies says he's been in contact with Manchester United's | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
Tom Cleverley after this challenge caused ankle ligament damage that | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
will keep the England midfielder out for a month. Sir Alex Ferguson | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
critcised Davies after the match, but the Wanderers skipper says he | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
certainly didn't intend any harm. The whole atmosphere of the law | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
kiss Daddy. That was not yet, as you could see from my frantic | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
signals! -- that was not it. Well, United ran out 5-0 winners in that | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
game, of course, but Morecambe went one better at the weekend. With the | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
rest of the best of the Football league action and a kick in the | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
teeth - literally - for Blackburn Rovers, here's The Score. | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
A point for Blackburn Rovers avoided the worst ever start to a | :18:25. | :18:33. | |
season. One player needed four stitches to a head wound after this | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
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Bobby Zamora equalised. Football League performance was at Morecambe. | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
A hat-trick from Danny Carlton was the highlight. I feel a little | :18:55. | :19:05. | |
tired but I will be all right when I get a few mates around and get to | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
the bar. It is important to keep our feet on the ground. It is early | :19:08. | :19:18. | |
days. The Rochdale boss got his first win | :19:18. | :19:28. | |
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of the season. David Ball made it four. They lost Adams to a second | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
yellow. Blackburn -- Blackpool beat Ipswich | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
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2-0. Barry Ferguson made his first goal for the Seasiders. | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
The Super League dream team was named today, with more than half | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
the players coming from sides in the North West. No surprise that | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
Wigan Warriors star Sam Tomkins was selected along with his Warriors | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
team mates George Carmont and Sean O'Loughlin. The Warrington Wolves, | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
who kick off the play-offs on Friday against Huddersfield, also | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
have a trio of players in the thirteen - Gareth Carvell, Ben | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
Westwood and Joel Monaghan. And there are a couple of Saints. James | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
Roby and James Graham. Two of the top men were speaking today ahead | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
of that mouth-watering clash between Saints and Wigan at the DW | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
on Sunday. A specially with it being at PW, it has all the makings | :20:31. | :20:41. | |
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of a special game. They probably feel like the hour as one but we're | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
not going to let that happen. The Commonwealth Youth Games drew | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
to a close last night after the biggest weekend of competition the | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
Isle of Man has seen. The host nation claimed two silvers and a | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
bronze, and also featured in their first international rugby | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
tournament. Sarah Mulkerrins was there to take in the action. | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
It was pedal-powered, not petrol power, on the TT course this | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
weekend. The riders faced some wet and windy conditions. The best | :21:09. | :21:18. | |
rider from the Isle of Man finished in 13th. It was a big headwind it | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
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The host nation did well to finish six than the rugby. It is great for | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
the Isle of Man to be competing at international level in any event. | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
These guys are full internationals. You did not have to look further | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
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than the track for the future stars. One runner taking part is already | :21:51. | :22:01. | |
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set on taking part in the Olympics next year. We shall do better at | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
the Olympics. Undoubtedly the local start of | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
these games has been one of the swimmers. In a year when he has | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
suffered a broken arm, glandular fever and a broken hand, so when | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
two silvers and a bronze is unbelievable. Up it has been great | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
to get in and get back to what it is all about - a racing and | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
qualifying. I am looking forward to getting the winter Rover and going | :22:33. | :22:43. | |
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to the London trials in March. -- You would like to think it is over | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
but I am afraid it is not. We still have a yellow on alert for a strong | :23:04. | :23:13. | |
winds. They could gust up to 70 mph. They will gradually start he's darn | :23:13. | :23:23. | |
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through the night. -- start to ease down. The winds are very strong and | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
potentially damaging but the weather looks OK. It will be mostly | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
dry tonight. There may be one or two showers on the Cumbrian coast. | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
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Most places are dry and actually fairly clear. Overnight | :23:47. | :23:55. | |
temperatures may be around 12 Celsius. The wind increases | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
tomorrow through the afternoon. There will still be a yellow alert | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
for winds through the day tomorrow. Mainly that is for parts of | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
Lancashire and Cumbria. There will be patchy cloud and occasional | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
showers. The showers come quickly with the strength of the wind | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
behind them. Away from that there are reasonable spells of sunshine. | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
The wind is not coming from a cold direction. Temperatures should be | :24:34. | :24:44. | |
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around 17 Celsius. The wind will not be a feature later in the week. | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
The wind will be light. It will be fairly cloudy. It will be a quiet | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
spell heading towards Friday. It looks very unsettled through | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
Saturday and Sunday. You just spoiled it at the end | :25:07. | :25:17. | |
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How are you with general knowledge questions and quizzes? A general | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
knowledge test taken at an Isle of Man school has become the subject | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
of a new book called The World's Most Difficult Quiz. School | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
students have been sitting the tests since the early 20th century | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
and it has been a popular Christmas It includes some of the toughest | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
questions ever seen. Kelly Foran has been finding out more. Which | :25:46. | :25:56. | |
:25:56. | :25:56. | ||
European language is of origin unknown, even to the experts? | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
call it the world's most difficult quiz, and when we tried it out with | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
the regular pub quiz goers, they agreed. | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
It is a lot harder than the quiz I do. Impossible. It all started at | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
King William's College in 1905, taken every year as an unseen paper, | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
leaving most students stumped. One of them was Pat Cullen. He now | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
writes the questions. It was done in exam conditions. The papers were | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
handed round and you just had to look at it and do as many answers | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
as you could. Over 5,000 of the most cryptic ones have been | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
published. The quiz may have been going for over 100 years and these | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
general knowledge eggheads agree that it's not getting any easier. A | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
score of 20% in this exam was considered excellent. I do not | :26:49. | :26:57. | |
think anybody would find it easy. If you did not know the answer to | :26:57. | :27:06. | |
did question at the beginning, it is Busk. They call it the world's | :27:06. | :27:16. | |
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most difficult quiz. The answer to the question we asked | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
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