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Welcome to North West Tonight. Our top story: Was the Met to blame? | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Greater Manchester's top policeman says the riots came here because | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
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looters in London got away with it. If London had been under control | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
sooner, we would not her face the problems in Manchester. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
But one MP says that doesn't excuse the police response here. Also in | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
the programme: Are they the saviours of Liverpool's skyline? | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
The UN delegates who will decide if a dock development destroys the | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
city's heritage. Lancashire is to lose 14 police | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
stations across the county to save money but is community safety | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
compromised? Saying goodbye to a football legend - Burnley pays its | :00:50. | :00:58. | |
respects to former captain Jimmy Adamson. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Hayley Mills may have been the star but we meet the Lancashire village | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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children who made this a silver screen classic 50 years ago. It is | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
difficult to forget the violence and rioting which hit Liverpool, | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Salford and Manchester in August but could they have been avoided if | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
the Metropolitan police had stopped the riots in London sooner? That is | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
the view of the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, Peter | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
Fahy. He is appearing on the BBC's Panorama this evening. Our | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
political editor is here. 100 days since those riots started. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Yes, they began in London on Saturday 6th August following a | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
protest over the shooting by police of Mark Duggan. The violence grew | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
in intensity and spread rapidly. By the Monday, trouble began in | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
Liverpool. The following day, August 9th, riots flared in Salford | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
and Manchester with serious violence and looting. Compare what | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
has happened since. So far the Metropolitan Police in London has | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
arrested 3000 people. Merseyside police, 200, and Greater Manchester | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Police, around 370. Now Manchester's Chief Constable has | :02:14. | :02:24. | |
suggested that could have been avoided. | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Unforgettable but still difficult to explain. Once the rioting began, | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
it was difficult to stop but could this have been avoided if there had | :02:31. | :02:41. | |
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been a sharper response in London? There needed to be control of | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
London because that was just creating more and more copycat | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
violence up here. You feel you could stop it in Manchester if | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
London got control? The Blunden had been under control sooner, we would | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
not have faced the problems in Manchester. Maybe there are clues | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
to the causes in the newly released police interviews with some of | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
those convicted. 18 year-old Michael Fitzpatrick apparently | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
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dreamed of university and But this radical also spotted a | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
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Today a conference was held at Manchester Business School to | :03:26. | :03:35. | |
discuss what happened. What the Chief Constable of Greater | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
Manchester said today, I personally have enormous respect for. Do you | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
think there was a failure to get to grips with that in London? I think | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
that much is obvious. But critics say Peter Fahy should have been | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
better prepared. Greater Manchester police sent well over 100 fully- | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
trained officers to London when the riots took place but we knew when | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
the riots in Manchester would take place. The leadership didn't do | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
everything they could to protect the people and property in | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
Manchester. After such an exceptional event, all police | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
forces are reviewing how they coped. What do you think lies behind this | :04:15. | :04:25. | |
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It is certainly unusual but Peter Fahy is someone who clearly speaks | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
his mind. There has been a defensive response by the Police | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Federation which represents rank and file officers and they point | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
out that the scale of the violence in London, it was always going to | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
be difficult to get control of that particularly when it started to | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
spread so quickly across the capital. When people saw that kind | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
of criminal shopping spree taking place, people around here clearly | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
felt, I want some of that and they got involved so to an extent, Peter | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Fahy is absolutely right in his analysis of what happened but the | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
problem for him is that when he apparently criticises what happened | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
in London, people like Graham Stringer look at what happened in | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
Manchester and said, we're not sure you got it right either, | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
particularly that criticism of people sitting as officers stood | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
back. The Commons home affairs committee is doing a report into | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
the policing across the country and it will be interesting to see what | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
conditions they come to. Inspectors from UNESCO, the United Nations | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
cultural organisation, have been in Liverpool today to determine | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
whether the city's waterfront should keep its world heritage | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
status. It follows concern over the style and scale of the multi- | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
billion-pound Liverpool Waters scheme to transform the docks to | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
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the north of the city. Our reporter is at Pierhead now. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
I'm in front of the world famous Three Graces, the buildings that | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
are really at the heart of the world heritage site here. Now that | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
status puts Liverpool alongside places like the Great Wall of China | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
and the Taj Mahal and although its impact here is not quantifiable, | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
there is no doubt it fuels the city's �2.8 billion tourist | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
industry. The area that Peel Holdings want to develop is | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
somewhere along the river, still within the world heritage site | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
between the Prince's and Bramley moor docks. It is what Peel have | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
proposed to do with that area that has prompted real concerns. A | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
UNESCO panel arrived here today to see if this new development | :06:31. | :06:41. | |
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jeopardises the city's world heritage status. | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
It might look like a pleasure but this trip is all about business. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
UNESCO is worried. Is it fair to say the committee is concerned? | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
course, Liverpool has been in front of the world heritage committee | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
since 2006 and that is not without reason. You wouldn't be here if | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
they weren't worried? Certainly. This is the plan they are concerned | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
about, Liverpool Water project that would take 60 hectares of Docklands | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
and use steel, glass and skyscrapers to change the skyline | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
for ever. Peel say it will cost �5.5 billion and create around | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
40,000 jobs. Its critics say it is no more than vandalism. It is a | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
load of glass shoe boxes stuck what are top of the other. Imagine if | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
they did put that in front of the Taj Mahal or the Stonehenge, there | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
would be a world average. Wain: Asked UNESCO to investigate the | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
plans, though not opposed to any development, he says the council | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
has already made mistakes here. In but - no to that under nine, this | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
very Terminal One Building magazine's carbuncle Cup for being | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
the ugliest building in the UK. City needs jobs, a north Liverpool | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
in particular is one of the most deprived areas of the country. The | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
government obviously thinks so because it made it an enterprise | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
zone. I believe it will, in the fullness of time, be good for the | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
city. Is what is good for the City good enough to maintain World | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Heritage Site status? The city council believes there is room for | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
both. I believe it to be a constructive organisation and an | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
organisation that understands not just how we should protect the | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
status of our world heritage but also how we need to respond to | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
different economic situations and look towards regenerating what is | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
after all a derelict site that has been derelict for 20 years. | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
panel will be in Liverpool considering the plans until | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
Wednesday. We understand the panel will | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
prepare a report about their visit that they intend to publish just | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
before Christmas. The council has told us today that they will delay | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
any decision on planning permission for Liverpool Waters until they | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
have heard from the panel but both UNESCO and the council insisted | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
today that there will be many more discussions before any decisions | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
are made about either the world heritage status or appeal's | :09:09. | :09:19. | |
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Liverpool Water plants. A man has been jailed for life after pleading | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
guilty to the murder of a 22 year- old in Blackburn in April. Ryan | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Livesey was found lying in car park in the town centre with fatal head | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
injuries. Kyle Kay was sentenced to a minimum of 13 years and 10 months. | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
Everton Football Club's official charity has been given permission | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
to set up a free school. From next September, Everton in the Community | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
will provide education for over 100 teenagers who may struggle to learn | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
in a traditional classroom setting. Funding from the government was | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
confirmed by the education secretary Michael Gove this | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
afternoon. I understand that a number of free | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
school opportunities have been developed for a leap provision. We | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
are using the opportunity afforded by the movement to work in | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
partnership with local schools, in partnership with the local | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
authority and local employers to provide light changing | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
opportunities for young people. Ex servicemen from the north-west | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
to said they were made ill through being exposed to radiation during | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
British nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s have taken the battle to | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
the Supreme Court. They blame ill health, including cancer, skin | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
defects and fertility problems on their involvement in weapons tests | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
on Christmas Island. The Ministry of Defence denies negligence. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
would be amazed, knowing what I know today, with all the so-called | :10:44. | :10:53. | |
experts did not know, as I would say the guinea pig state is that we | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
were being subjected to, I am convinced that we were being used | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
as guinea pigs. Police stations across Lancashire | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
are to close to the public in an attempt to save millions of pounds. | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Following a public consultation, 14 stations are affected. It will | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
close completely and the other six, front desks were people can report | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
crimes, will be closed. Another 31 buildings will be sold. | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
The front counter at a Lancashire police station that will be | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
remaining open to the public. Others are going to save money and | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
minimise the impact on front line policing. We are going to protect | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
the front line, we got to look elsewhere in the Budget and of | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
course, none of pate lines within our budget, of which the state | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
performs quite a big part, is one of those areas that we have had to | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
visit. Lancashire Police says it will save �386,000 a year from | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
closing up 14 front counters. It will also make �4.5 million and the | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
sale of the buildings as well as saving �500,000 on the upkeep of | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
the buildings. The station has already lost its front can do | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
service as part of the cuts and it will now lose its station. It gives | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
the opportunity for break-ins and every knitter else around here. | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
needed a lot of money to redo it so while has tax payers money being | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
wasted if they are just going to shut it down? Another station | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
closure but a reprieve for its front counter service which is | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
being relocated. That, say local campaigners, still has a good | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
enough. What better location than where the police station is at the | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
moment, right in the middle of the time and time that is at the centre | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
of the wider area. We're very concerned at the prospect of | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
they're just being a front desk facility somewhere else in the town. | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Lancashire Constabulary say it is people not buildings who cut crime | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
and the policing standards on not drop. | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
Almost 1000 homes in the world are still without gas tonight. You | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
reported on Friday that a burst water main had disrupted supply is | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
there but it is hoped it would be sorted out at the weekend. The | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
National Grid says it may have to go to court to get into some houses | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
it has not been allowed into and many are still relying on the | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
electric heater is distributed by them to keep warm. | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
Engineers have been visiting homes on the world today to restore gas | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
to properties that had supply is cut now for the past three days. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
For the lucky ones, there is a huge relief. I am absolutely over the | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
moon because the weather is starting to turn up the minute so | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
it couldn't have come at a better time. The biggest problem for | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
National Grid for mains water but has managed to get into the pipe | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
work after a fractured water main disrupted the gas network on Friday. | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
The elderly and the vulnerable are relying on committee support and | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
others have been supplied with stoves. Since Friday, around 4000 | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
homes have had their supply is restored. That still leaves around | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
1000 properties without gas. Over 200,000 litres of water have been | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
pumped out of the system, that is the equivalent to 1300 bats. There | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
are still a few properties that engineers have not be able to get | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
access to and in the last resort, the National Grid will rely on a | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
warrant to get in and carried out essential work. We have to turn | :14:32. | :14:41. | |
those properties off Sol for those people, we have notified them and | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
we need to gain access, but has slowed down the process. | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Householders can claim compensation and work will continue to bring the | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
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Good news for many people. Has still to come on North West Tonight. | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
Saying goodbye to a hero from Burnley's heyday. Family friends | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
and fans bid farewell to Jimmy Adams said -- Jimmy Adamson. | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
Remembering their role in a classic, the villagers who made at the cast | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
of Whistle Down The Wind. I did not really know what a fellow Moors, | :15:28. | :15:38. | |
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what they did. I did not take it that seriously. Friday his Children | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
in Need tonight and the money you give can save lives. New figures to | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
be released tomorrow will show that more than 11,000 children run away | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
from home a cross the North west every year. Tonight we will hear | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
from a Lancashire teenager who was homeless and suicidal. He was saved | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
on the streets in Blackburn by Nightsafe, a charity supported by | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Children in Need. We have used an actor's voice to protect his | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
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identity. When I was at home, my life was very difficult. My mum and | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
me were always at each other's throats, arguing, it was a horrible | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
environment to be in and it got me more and more depressed. I got very | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
bad, at points I was harming myself, I would break things and you | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
something sharp to harm myself with. I used to go out at night and think | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
of jumping in front of light, or. As soon as one came past, it was | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
like should I jump in front of this, just to avoid all the hassle and | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
pain I was going through. One night, I came back and my mum had imposed | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
a 10pm curfew. I had been locked out of the house. I was 17, out on | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
the streets, not knowing where I would stop that night. At that | :17:05. | :17:14. | |
point faults, I was afraid and felt I had nowhere to turn to. I | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
contacted Nightsafe. It was an emergency shelter for homeless | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
teenagers. I was at Nightsafe for the nine-night that I was a loud. | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
Luckily, I was given a place at this project. It looked like home | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
and felt homely. You have the support workers who are there if | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
you are upset about something and something is difficult for you. You | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
can go out and talk to them and they will give you advice and help | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
you out. A have you got enough for it? We have a lounge, with the | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
television. We have a kitchen where we can make our own food. It is | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
practically like a home. I am very grateful to the project and | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
Nightsafe and Children in Need. If it were not for all these | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
organisations, I would not have a stable home now and I would be out | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
on the streets, maybe been beaten up or in hospital or even worse. | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
will have more on the causes benefiting from your money later in | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
the wake. This year, to raise money we have not got Tony in a V-neck, | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
showing off his chest, doing strictly. Let us talk about sport. | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
All these rumours about Blackburn Rovers having another possible | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
buyer, Venky's may want to sell, this is about today? They have said | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
they have got no plans to sell the club. The to go over I in one year | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
ago. They are reports linking him to Qatar Petrol. Rovers are | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
struggling at the wrong end of the Premier League table, with | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
demonstrations against manager Steve King and the owners. One of | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
the owners told BBC Radio Lancaster it that they are not interested in | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
selling. Meanwhile, the Carlos Tevez saga continues. The has | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
chosen to remain in Argentine and not attend a meeting with the club | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
today. It is believed discussions have taken place between the two | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
parties. Tevez flew home to visit his family last week, apparently | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
without permission from his employers. The run not too many | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
successes for the north-west clubs in the FA Cup. Just four of Forsyth | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
live to fight another day. Preston North End will need a replay after | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
drawing nil-nil against Southend. Macclesfield won three-0 at East | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
Thurrock and Oldham three-one at home to Burton Albion. Non-League | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Fleetwood Town got the better of Wycombe Wanderers two-0, thanks to | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
goals from Andy Mangan and Jamie Vardy. Preston play Southend in a | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
first-round replay a week tomorrow. A win would earn North End a home | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
draw against Oldham in round two. Macclesfield are at Chelmsford with | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
Fleetwood Town getting another home draw. They welcomed Yeovil. Those | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
matches will be played on the weekend of 3rd December and four. | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
The funeral has taken place of a footballer who had legendary status | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
here in the north-west and was once hailed as the best player in | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
Britain. Jimmy Adamson was 82 when he died last week after a career | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
which took Burnley to the very top. Today, fans of all generations made | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
the most of the last chance to thank him. That will have Stanley | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
Matthews,, today it was burly's turn to say goodbye to one of its | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
legends and Jimmy Adams and deserved every second of applause. | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
One he was able to do was to put together a four or five absolute | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
stars, great players, and a month then he had several bread and | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
butter players. We just gelled as a team. Every Saturday we knew we | :21:01. | :21:10. | |
were going to win. Great man, and no bigger icon was there at the | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
football club. He was a great elegant player that we were all | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
proud of. A very sad day for us all. He is funeral began and ended at | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
the club to whom he devoted all his plane like and his greatest years | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
in management. One of the greatest players this club has ever had and | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
I was lucky to play within over the years. In fact, I look back and | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
think I have so many great years here playing with Jimmy. Of fall- | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
out with the chairman of a few years after he returned into the | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
top of the league in the 1970s kept him away from Turf Moor for decades. | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
He returned with his grandchildren to a standing tearful of Asian. He | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
was the captain of the title- winning side, a footballer of the | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
year and a coach great enough to be offered the England job for Sir | :22:02. | :22:12. | |
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Ralph Ramsay -- Sir Alf Ramsey. Manchester had the wit Tyson Fury | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
is still on course for a future shot at the world title fight | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
despite being knocked to the canvas for the first time in his career by | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
Neven Pajkic in Trafford Park on Saturday. In the third round, | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
theory took control of the fight to win when the referee stopped the | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
fight. Rugby League and England's victory over New Zealand in the | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
Four Nations fixture set up a final next week at Elland Road against | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
Australia. James Graham and Sam Tompkins have also been nominated | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
in the six man list for Rugby League's estate is golden but a | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
word. Get well soon to Liverpool legend Ray Clemence is recovering | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
in hospital. The England goalkeeping coach, who is 63, is | :22:55. | :23:05. | |
:23:05. | :23:07. | ||
having tests after falling ill on Friday. Thank you. Every one that | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
they say has the 50 minutes of fame, but for grip of Lancashire | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
schoolchildren it has to say that it lasted a good deal longer than | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
that. Richard Attenborough chose Downham for the setting for his | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
then Whistle Down The Wind, and he recruited local Lunn -- local | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
youngsters to play many of the parts. It is hard to believe would | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
you look at it now that this picture perfect postcard village in | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
Lancashire was the backdrop for one of Britain's most iconic films. | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
Whistle Down The Wind was a low- budget production produced by | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
Richard Attenborough and directed by Bryan Forbes. Alan Bates and | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
Hayley Mills were the two main storage, but it was the village of | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
Downham and the cast of hundreds of children recruited from the local | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
schools that stole the show. People like this woman who had a starring | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
role as Hayley Mills's sister, it would be many years before she | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
realised just how important the film had been. We did not know who | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
these people were, because we did not go to the cinema let children | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
do now. They were just nice people. Alan now lives in Longridge, so I | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
to come back for a walk down memory lane. By did not really know what a | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
film was, what they did. I did not take it that seriously. A screaming | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
of the financial and at Downham Village Hall as part of the 50th | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
anniversary celebrations. It means a lot really, a reminder of what we | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
looked like. Be it was a lovely film, a beautiful film, I loved | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
being in it. The it had been hope to bring Hayley Mills back for the | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
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anniversary but she was filming in South Africa. You can see loads | :25:08. | :25:17. | |
more on that in Inside Out at 7:30pm. He was a little character | :25:17. | :25:27. | |
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The weather for the next few days will be very boring. It is fairly | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
cloudy for the next two or three days. This morning and this | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
afternoon we had a lot of cloud around and because of this blanket | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
of cloud, it has not been particularly warm, 10 degrees at | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
best. Some places have troubled to see temperatures in double figures. | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, a lot of cloud around and | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
the temperatures not really improving very much at all. This | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
evening, lots of cloud around, some occasional spots of rain. It will | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
be fairly misty and murky. A bit of a south-easterly breeze and | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
temperatures may drop fairly close to freezing in some rural areas. | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
For Tuesday, same story all over again, another cloudy day, at | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
fairly cool day and we may see some breaks in the cloud. We are going | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
to start off very dull and drab tomorrow morning. The clouds are | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
there from the word go. They will try to break up through the | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
afternoon, and the some will try to break through. We may see some | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
bright spells here and there. Temperatures will not be | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
particularly warm, very similar to today. At but at the south-easterly | :26:42. | :26:49. | |
breeze. 10 or 11 degrees tomorrow. Across some parts of Lancashire, | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
highs of eight or nine degrees. Heading into Wednesday, more cloud, | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
a touch milder perhaps, with temperatures as high as 11 degrees. | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
Heading into Thursday and Friday, it is very boring, cloudy, not | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
particularly one, 12 or 13 degrees at best. Make the most of it. If | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
you are at any cent Marr, do not forget that BBC Radio Manchester | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
and Merseyside will be hosting special screenings of Grease in aid | :27:20. | :27:23. |