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A million more seats for rail passengers but commuters see it is

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not enough to end the problem of overcrowding. Also tonight, claims

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that this woman's son developed a barrier sleep disorder as a result

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of a flu vaccine. Charged with trying to blackmail Call Lane

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Relief -- calling Rennie, two men call in charge -- two men go on

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trial in Manchester. Also tonight, a warning of wintry weather on the

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way. We have wet weather on the way before that. The Met Office have

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issued a weather warning for that. After midnight the rain should

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gradually start to die out and will be replaced by a wintry conditions,

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we have another warning about that. Full details and the end of the

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programme. Squashed in like sardines with no room to move and

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no chance of a seat. Commuters on our region's trains have had to put

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up with chronic overcrowding, especially at rush-hour, for years.

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Today, 50 extra carriages were added to trains on some of the

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busiest routes across the north- west, to try to combat the problem.

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Northern Rail says the move will provide more than 1 million extra

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seats for passengers every year. But many commuters we spoke to says

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it does not go far enough. For many commuters, this is the reality of

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rush-hour. Crammed into carriages, too many passengers for seats.

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spent too many times pressed against other people stood up on

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the trains. It is not pleasant when it is particularly crowded,

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especially if it is really warm. Manchester last year, passengers

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stood on 33% of rush-hour teatime services. In Liverpool, it was 27%.

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This morning, Northern Rail added 50 extra carriages to its network.

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Six trains in the morning and five in the evening and afternoon will

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have over 4000 more seats. Among them, the 7: 13 from Leeds. But

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there were still people standing when it arrived at Manchester

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Victoria. For many, the carriages were not enough. This morning... I

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would say at the weekends on a Saturday night they could put more

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on. We went for the 8: 20 train and the lowest it about three minutes

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before it was due to set off because they could not get any more

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people on it. They turned about 50 people a week. Of course we would

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like to deploy more but to increase our fleet by 50 carriages is a

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major step forward. When Northern Rail to Colin be Ritz there -- took

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on the routes they did not expect a 40% increase in passenger numbers.

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Faced with such a jump in rail users, campaigners argue adding 50

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carriages is a drop in the ocean. But Northern Rail says it's a move

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in the right direction in tackling scenes like this. We are joined now

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by a campaigner. You must hear all the time about people having

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carriage doors shut on them. We do indeed. In if you had a blank

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cheque tomorrow morning and you could provide the right number of

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seats, what would you do? It was estimated back in 2006 that 180 new

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carriages were needed. How many seats is that each day? Do not ask

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me that! There are opportunities with electrification. This is one

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of the things we have heard in the Government budget? They are going

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to electrify Manchester to Leeds which is brilliant news but with

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that electrification process will come a load of surplus carriages

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and we are asking for those carriages to stay in the north-west

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and be used. People are not saying they won't fancy new trains but

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anything that they can use they want to use it. People cannot get

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on the train in the morning. Drink companies did not anticipate the

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40% increase in demand. I wonder why that is. -- train companies.

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The anticipated an increase in demand but I don't think anybody

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expected D X potential growth that we have had since the 19 nineties.

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What we do not want to do is go back to what we had in the 70s when

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people were either priced off the real or for stock of the railways

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back onto the roads again. obviously feel positive about what

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has happened today but it is not enough in itself. We will Cottier

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again. Thank you very much, see you soon. We've had a big response from

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many of you on this story today. Many nominating the most

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overcrowded route via Twitter, possibly from commuters on board

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one of the region's trains. Lady Littleton says the Manchester

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Airport to Barrow-in-Furness route often has only three carriages and

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is almost always overcrowded. Tom Elliot tweeted to say, without a

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doubt, the Manchester to Clitheroe route. I get on at Bolton and quite

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frankly it's a severe health hazard. Ben Blackman writes, easy. Ormskirk

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to Preston. One line, one carriage. Always standing room only in

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morning and evening. Is there any other one carriage service? And

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James Athie jokes that the Wigan to Manchester Victoria Line is such as

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squash that it should be sponsored by John West. What were you going

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to say? Some of those routes will be sorted out by the

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electrification of the Manchester to Preston and Blackpool but the

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one that comes in to Victoria, the announcement as part of the

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northern hub solution will join up Victoria with Piccadilly which is

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more good news. Thank you, that will hopefully cheer someone up.

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The mother of a seven year-old from Liverpool who was struck down with

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a rare sleeping disorder says she believes her son's illness could be

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linked to a vaccination he was given for swine flu. Pauline

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Carlton says her son was given Pandemrix several months after

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researchers in Finland found a 12 fold increase in cases of a rare

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condition called narcolepsy. The injection is no longer in use but

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Pauline says it should have been withdrawn sooner. This woman had

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her whole family vaccinated against swine flu but within weeks of the

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jab her son developed narcolepsy. He also developed a apoplexy which

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makes his muscles collapse if he laughs work gets excited. He used

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to do the most humorous and silly things to make me laugh. Now he

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cannot. The vaccine was given to almost one million children in the

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UK. Only seven children have been reported to have developed

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narcolepsy here but it has been reported from Finland that the

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injection may have had something to do with his illness. Before 2010 we

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have had one child less than nine years of age diagnosed, that was in

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2003. Now already in June I had five. Around 70 more cases of child

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narcolepsy then came to light so in the middle of 2010 Finland with

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true Pandemrix and alerted the regulator and the British

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Government. This woman is upset that she was not told of these

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concerns before she allowed her son to be given Pandemrix. It has left

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my child with a disability for the rest of his life. The manufacturers

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of the vaccine do not think there is a link between Pandemrix and

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narcolepsy. Patient safety is of the utmost importance to us. You

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would not pick out a drug or leave it out there if we thought there

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was a health issue. The watchdog says a similar risk of narcolepsy

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has not yet been confirmed in countries other than Finland and

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Sweden. But this woman believes many other families in the UK could

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be suffering in ignorance and silence. And there's more on that

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story in tonight's Inside Out at 7:30 on BBC One. A man appeared in

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court today, charged with the murder of his landlady and her

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mother in Southport. The bodies of Angela Holgate, who was 54, and 75-

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year-old Alice Huyton were found at Mrs Holgate's home last weekend.

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51-year-old Barry Morrow was remanded in custody and will appear

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before Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday. The MP Tim Farron has

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written to the South Cumbrian coroner - to find out if the

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removal of coronary services at Westmorland General Hospital has

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lead to an increase in death rates. The Coronary Care Unit was

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relocated to Lancaster Royal Infirmary two years ago. Artwork by

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prisoners on the Isle of Man has gone on display in a museum. Castle

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Rushen, a former prison, has been decorated for Christmas. It

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includes festive paintings and children's games made by inmates. A

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third of the prisoners have taken part in arts and craft classes. A

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man from Blackburn who was jailed for killing his wife and dumping

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her body in a French fleet has told a court in France that he had no

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reason to kill her. He is being tried for the third time for

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manslaughter. He has always claimed his wife's death was an accident.

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He appeared remarkably calm in court facing trial for the third

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time. He is taking a big gamble. Under French law, if you appeal and

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lose, you're sentence is substantially increased. He was

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found guilty for manslaughter the first time, if found guilty of

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murder this time he will face a new jail term of 30 years compared to

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the 12 he is currently serving. His wife's body was found in a car at

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the bottom of a lake near their home two years after she went

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missing. He has always claimed she must have driven into the lake by

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accident after a night of heavy drinking. His brother believes in

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his innocence. The stress levels are unbelievable. We have had that

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since the year 2000 when it happened. The family of the dead

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women say they simply want a verdict that will allow them to get

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on with their lives. We feel our lives have been put on hold for the

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last 11 years waiting for the finish of this terrible story.

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police officer for Lancashire has come here for the trial. He will

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give evidence in relation to the investigation into the woman's

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death. My brave handsome soldier boy, fearless in everything. A

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tribute from the mother of at Liverpool soldier who was buried

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today. He was killed by an improvised bomb in Afghanistan last

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month. Our Merseyside reporter was where everyone was paying respect

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to end today. The cortege of the Lance Corporal arrived. His coffin

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was taken inside the cathedral. Attribute was read on behalf of the

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family. He was a huge character. A daredevil and nothing stopped him

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achieving his goals. He was 25 and from the Dingle area of Liverpool.

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He was killed by a roadside bomb last month. It was his second tour

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of duty and he also served in Iraq. The priest spoke for his mother

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during the service. You had so many scrapes and cruises when you were

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little because you were such a daredevil, nothing stop you, just

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like now, you grew up to be a brave big man. That is why you became a

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soldier, fearless in everything you He was buried in a private ceremony

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later. As the cortege left, mourners broke into spontaneous

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applause. Still to come on the programme: Why

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it all went so wrong at the weekend for Amir Khan.

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Another contender was knocked out but for Marcus Collins, coming

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second could yet be a key factor. A couple tried to blackmail Colleen

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Rooney after getting hold of her camera which contained hundreds of

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family photographs. Steven Malcolm and Jennifer Green are said to have

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demanded �5000 for the return of the pictures. They were arrested

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following an undercover police operation and are now on trial at

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Manchester Crown Court where we can join our chief reporter Dave Guest.

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Explain to us how Colleen Rooney appeared to have become separated

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from her phone? It was made in last year when she had gone to watch a

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concert in Manchester. The party had a private box at the Arena but

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some time during the evening, she and the camera became separated.

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She later reported it as stolen. Nearly three months passed and then

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there was a telephone call to the Old Trafford ground and a man said

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he had the camera and a memory card containing 400 pictures and he was

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willing to return it for a price of �1000. Club officials got involved

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and and announced to the black pillar,, so, too, did the police.

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What are the prosecution have to say about the people on trial

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today? The two people in the dock here in court Ark Steven Malcolm

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and Jennifer Green. They are said to be too out of three people

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involved in hatching this plot. The third person being Jennifer Green's

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partner. He admitted blackmail previously. The two in the dock

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deny those charges but in court today, it was said that Steven

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Malcolm accepts it was he who went to that meeting that the undercover

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police officer. Do we expect Colleen Rooney to give evidence?

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she will not appear in court. Today, the officer gave his evidence from

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behind a screen and he will continue giving his evidence

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tomorrow. Richard is here with the sport and

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we were hoping to be talking about another impressive win for Amir

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Khan but it all went rather wrong, didn't it? It did. Amir lost both

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of his world-title belts after controversial defeat to Lamont

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Peterson in the American's home city of Washington. Amir and his

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camp are furious about the refereeing in particular, this is

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what they're talking about. He twice had a point taken away for

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what the referee judged to be persistent holding down and pushing

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and those two points were the difference. On top of that were

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complaints about the scorecard. One of the judges gave him a card which

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appeared to show he had initially given a round to Amir before

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scribbling it out and giving it the other way. Probably just a slip of

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the pencil. Having said all that, some of the boxing correspondents

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who were at the fight had told me that in their view, a Amir's

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approach was at least partly to blame. Here is what the man himself

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had to say. I want a rematch straight away. I want my two titles

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back. We know who won that fight and I am sure everyone knows who

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won that fight. What is next for Amir Khan?

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A rematch. He has tweeted today saying it is 99% certain. I was in

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touch with his dad over the weekend who says he has no doubt this a

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setback. Amir reckons it puts him back a year. He was hoping to fight

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the man regarded as the best fighter in the world, Floyd

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Mayweather who beat Ricky Hatton of course in 2012. It won't be

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possible until 2013 now at least. A rematch which will probably happen

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in March in Las Vegas is on the cards.

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Football - as Manchester City prepare for tonight's huge game at

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Stamford Bridge, Mario Balotelli is in trouble again. He has been

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accused of breaking a curfew imposed by Roberto Mancini after

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being spotted in a Manchester restaurant after midnight on

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Saturday and could face disciplinary action. City have

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rejected an offer from AC Milan to take Carlos Tevez on loan. It is

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reported there could soon be a bid from Paris St Germain. City are

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unbeaten in the League but know Chelsea will provide a real

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challenge. Chelsea have proved in the last

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three or four weeks that they are a fantastic team. They have important

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players with experience and everything.

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Full commentary on that match on BBC Radio Manchester at 8pm.

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From the top of the table, let's look now at the three North West

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teams stuck in the relegation zone. A win for Wigan boosted their boss

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Roberto Martinez but pressure is growing on the Bolton and Blackburn

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managers after they both lost at the weekend.

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They have been on the slide for some time. Now Bolton have,

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according to the table at least, reached the bottom. Owen Coyle's

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popularity among supporters seemed to be dwindling. There is

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separately at turning tide as far as the Bolton fans are concerned.

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There are those that believe the chairman is a big fan of all and

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and he might retain him even if they were to go down in two The

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Championship. How much time has Steve Kean got to stop Blackburn

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going the same way? Things looked promising at Sunderland until two

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late goals did for Rovers. Today the club's owners denied newspaper

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reports that Blackburn's financial future is at risk. Wigan's Premier

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League future is still at risk despite a big win at West Brom.

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They remain in the bottom three but goals from Victor Moses and Jordi

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Gomez moved them above their North West rivals. A bad week but a good

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weekend for Manchester United. Two goals for Nani and two more for

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Wayne Rooney closed the gap on City to two points. Part of our nature

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is that we recover well. In the Football League, Blackpool were

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disappointed to only leave Southampton with a point. After the

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Saints keeper let this shot slip through his fingers, the Seasiders

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let two points slip through theirs when Rickie Lambert levelled late

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on. The less said about League One, the better. Only Preston picked up

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a point and they didn't manage a goal. Accrington were our only

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winners in League Two. A pair of carbon-copy goals at AFC Wimbledon

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enough to give them a first away win of the season.

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Finally, a bad case of mistaken Sir Chris Hoy has apparently been

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wrongly targeted on Twitter by Spurs fans, angry at referee Chris

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foyer. He made several controversial decisions but poor

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Chris Hoy has been taking it. He was so close but at the last

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minute, Marcus Collins was pipped to the post for the X Factor title.

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The 23 year-old hairdresser from Crosby was beaten by a girl group,

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Little Mix, for the prize of a recording contract last night. It

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is the third time a Merseysider has been runner-up but on Merseyside

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today, his supporters said they couldn't be prouder and the winner

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does not necessarily take it all. The winner of the X Factor 2011

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is... Little next! Marcus Collins was never favourite to win the X

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Factor, they had been high hopes for his success this year. The

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auditions and to Liverpool for the first time and found three solo

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contestants. It was Marcus Collins who made it to the final. He went

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back to his school, I hero last week but although he didn't take

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the title, his supporters here say he is a winner in their eyes.

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genuine disappointment but we are all proud of him. He has been a

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fantastic role model to the school and we're so proud of what he has

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achieved. Perhaps missing out on the X Factor title isn't such a bad

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thing. In the past three years, it is the runners up a have had the

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biggest album sales. Last year it was one direction and last night's

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Rebecca Ferguson. Ray quint is another runner up from Liverpool

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who now has a successful singing and acting career. It is no big

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deal coming second at all. I have had five years of good work and I'm

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still working so on the show, when you don't win, there is less

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pressure. There are reports today that there Gary Barlow wants to

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help him get a recording. This expert disagrees. He is an

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entertainer, he can entertain. you think he can say goodbye to his

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hairdressing career? I think so. Here's to Marcus Collins cutting it

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in his next career! I have been humming that song all

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day. A look now at the weather There are only three presents

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underneath history! It is Monday and we have a matter

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of this weather warning for every single day this week. I am afraid

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the conditions are far from ideal. It has been fairly ghastly today.

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Up to 45 miles an hour and this is the biggest story. We have a band

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of rain that will push its way in over the next couple of hours. This

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blanket of rain will be around until midnight tonight and then

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after that, the picture will start to change again and by the time we

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get to eat too am in the morning, the remote gradually start to die

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away. The Met Office have issued another warning that once the rain

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clears, we will be looking at wintry conditions piling in. As we

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head towards the early hours of the morning, some snow but not

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exclusively in the highest parts. We have winds with snow included.

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Temperatures will fall along the coast and then tomorrow, not a

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pretty picture. You can see the wintry showers and a south-westerly

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wind. Definitely falling as snow in higher parts. But for parts of

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Lancaster and Cumbria, the snow could be at low levels as well.

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Anywhere to the south of the rebels stands a better chance of missing

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the shires but it will be too close to call. It's just stay, they could

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be some snow from time to time in your area. In terms of temperatures,

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it wasn't wonderful today but with that went, it will feel rock out

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and about. Looking and feeling country.

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Don't trip on those presence! We were joking about mistaken

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identities. There is a man called Roger Johnson who plays for Wolves

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