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Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest Tonight with Ranvir Singh and Roger | :00:04. | :00:11. | |
Johnson. Our top story: A toddler's preventable death at these brutal | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
hands. Joshua Jones's family give their reaction as a coroner says he | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
could have been saved. If the agencies have done their jobs | :00:22. | :00:30. | |
correctly and acted accordingly, I think that Joshua could still be a. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
-- here. Why was two-year-old Joshua sent home despite a | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
catalogue of injuries? And training the troops, in Afghanistan with | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
that the north-west men and women preparing for the front line. Also | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
in the programme: The three lions worn by England's first black | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
footballer take pride of place at a Manchester museum. And going mad | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
for Macca - we're at the Echo Arena as Sir Paul's world tour comes to | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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an end in his home town. You just have a feeling that something | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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"A long and harrowing experience". That's how the Cheshire Coroner has | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
described an inquest into the death of Joshua Jones, the Runcorn | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
toddler who died after months of horrific abuse at the hands of his | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
mother's violent boyfriend. He also concluded Joshua would probably | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
still be alive if the agencies responsible for his safety had | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
taken steps to protect him. Our reporter, Mark Edwardson was in | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Warrington. The happy, smiling face of Joshua Jones. Horrifically | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
abused by his mother's boyfriend, Wayne Davenport. Nichola Bowman had | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
been warned not to leave Joshua in the house alone with with Davenport. | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
But she ignored the advice, with tragic consequences. It was the | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
evening of November the 62007 when paramedics were called to this | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
address. They found Joshua Jones with a head injury inflicted by | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
wind of an pot. Joshua was unresponsive and was taken to | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
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Warrington District General Hospital where he was admitted. But | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
the agencies have done their jobs correctly and acted accordingly, I | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
think that Joshua would still be a. Changes have been made but there | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
has been no official apology to Joshua at his family for how the | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
agencies have let him down. October the 26th Joshua was taken | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
to Warrington Hospital with multiple suspicious injuries | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
including a broken arm. Nicola Bowman makes excuses - but medical | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
staff were suspicious. On 1st November police, Halton District | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
council and the hospital decide he can be discharged. Five days later, | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
Joshua was dead. The Cheshire coroner, recording a verdict of | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
unlawful killing, said that Joshua would probably still be alive if | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
the police and Horton does regional hospital had that sent them back to | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
an unsafe environment. The Halton Safeguarding Children Board speaks | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
for all the agencies who are charged with protecting youngsters, | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
including Joshua. At the time, the Serious Case Review look at the | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
agency's individually and collectively and the work they have | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
done with Joshua and his family and took on board the lessons they had | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
learned. The coroner said he was assured the police had learnt | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
lessons. But he's writing to Halton Borough Council and Warrington | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
Hospital with more reccommendations. They say many of their procedures | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
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have been radically improved since the death of Joshua Jones. Our | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
Health Correspondent Laura Yates joins us now. Laura, so many times | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
in these kind of stories we hear the same criticism - that agencies | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
are not working together properly. This, in this case the coroner | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
described communication between the police the hospital and the social | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
services as inadequate. The problem was they did not sure information | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
they had individually and as a whole. Because the social workers | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
and also the photographs that the hospital had of Joshua's injury. | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
The coroner has said the hospital next to review procedures of cases | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
where children come in with us suspicious injuries. But will that | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
blanket guidance work for everybody? We had a look at some of | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
the guidance nationally and it seems to be just that, Giggs. But | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
the coroner has told Warrington Hospital what they must do what | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Trojan who come in with suspicious injuries. They must see two | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
specialists and the kind of injury the child has and that all staff | :05:01. | :05:11. | |
should have mandatory training in safeguarding children. All this | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
week we're meeting the men and women from the North West serving | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
in Afghanistan, and today it's the turn of those preparing to travel | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
to the frontline. Everyone arriving at Camp Bastion in Helmand spends a | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
week getting used to the harsh Afghan conditions - the dust, the | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
rough terrain and the extreme temperatures. Training the troops | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
here is crucial for their safety when they travel on to hostile | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
areas. Naomi Cornwell's been meeting them as they prepare to put | :05:32. | :05:42. | |
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their lives on the line. They've practised at home. Now the troops | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
are getting used to firing in the dust of Afghanistan. Before leaving | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
Camp Bastion, everyone must undergo extra training to prepare them for | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
the risks they'll face out in Helmand Province. The men and women | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
here are used to firing two or three rounds at a time. This | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
exercise is designed to boost their confidence so they can fire the | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
longer bursts needed out on the ground. Today is mandatory training | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
for the Rangers. We have to do it once a month to make sure they keep | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
up with their weapons. We have not been firing their weapons that much, | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
which is good news, but they have got to maintain that skill. Also, | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
medical training. If you hear a bang, get on the deck, someone | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
should show, a man down, man down. Blood loss is the biggest killer | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
for those caught hopping explosions. They are being trained to use a | :06:51. | :07:00. | |
simple tourniquet. Private Craig Healey is training as a first aider | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
for has Territorial Army unit. Back home user supermarkets security | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
guard. It is all look different to normal day-to-day life in civvy | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
street. It is an experience worth having. I have enjoyed it since I | :07:13. | :07:21. | |
had been you. In another part of the camp, they're having a driving | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
lesson with a difference. These huge armoured vehicles are the | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
army's main mode of transport in Afghanistan, but it's very | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
different to home. It's only here that they can really get to grips | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
with the harsh terrain. Everything is aimed at giving them a realistic | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
view of what life will be like outside the Camp. It has been a big | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
learning curve, and I am pleased that I managed to get on the | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
deployment list. They even have a mock Afghan village here to | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
practice their patrols. And Jeff the dog is teaching them a few | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
things too. He's been specially trained to find Improvised | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
Explosive Devices. I'm part of the bomb disposal team that gets called | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
out to I e ds. We have to search for them and destroy them, so that | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
the guys on the ground can operate as normal and so that the Afghan | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
civilians can do their job. It is quite a hard job mentally because | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
you have got so many things to think about all at once. And being | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
constantly on call, it takes it out of you have it, not being able to | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
switch off completely. You have good days and bad days but overall, | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
it is a good job to do, you know you are doing good and helping | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
people. Even the courts are part of the training, making sure that the | :08:39. | :08:49. | |
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dogs are used to coming across other animals. Every detail is | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
crucial. The men and women here know their lives may one day depend | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
on it. Tomorrow, we meet the medics - the NHS staff who have | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
volunteered to run the busiest trauma hospital in the world. David | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
Hunt was no good samaritan. When he found his neighbour dead in her | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
Lancashire home he didn't immediately call the police or | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
emergency services. Instead, he stole her belongings, raided her | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
bank account and went on a spending spree. Today, the electrician from | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Lytham St Annes was jailed for two and a half years for a crime | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
labelled as "despicable and callous". Peter Marshall reports. | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
David Hunt noticed when his neighbour hadn't been seen for some | :09:27. | :09:37. | |
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days - when post built up at her flat directly below his. He broke | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
in to her home - in Ansdell near Lytham - to check, and that's where | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
his neighbourliness ended. He found 61 year old Jane Melody dead in her | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
bedroom - and embarked on a callous crime. David Hunt help himself to a | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
bank art and jewellery from the bedside table. He took mobile | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
phones of carcasses from the kitchen and went on a spending | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
spree. He withdrew �200 from her account, bought a bike and went for | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
a few drinks, all the time showing a callous disregard for his poor, | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
it neighbour. It was several hours before he alerted police to miss | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
Melody's death. They became suspicious and eventually he | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
admitted his crime. At Burnley crown court he pleaded guilty to | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
one charge of burglary - and two of fraud. That was completely | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
premeditated. He had time to keep so there has actions and took these | :10:26. | :10:34. | |
items with no cure for the situation or any family members. | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
Burnley crown court was told 38 year-old Hunt had since shown | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
genuine remorse for his moment of madness - and he'd paid �600 to | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
cover some of his neighbour's funeral costs. Imprisoning hunt for | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
a total two-and-a-half years, the judge said that this was no moment | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
of madness, rather, his actions were callous, premeditated and | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
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showed no conscience whatsoever. A mother has made a tearful appeal | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
for help in finding her missing son. Hayden Evans hasn't been seen since | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
leaving a Christmas party in Cheshire during the early hours of | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
Saturday. A huge police search is now underway for the 18 year old. | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
Our Chief Reporter, Dave Guest, has the story. A mother and son pose | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
for a happy snap while Christmas shopping last week. Now the son is | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
missing - and the mum is distraught. If anyone knows where my son is, we | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
just want him back. Hayden Evans is 18 and had attended a Christmas | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
Party at the Carden Park Hotel just outside Chester on Friday night. He | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
was last seen outside the front door around half past midnight. Did | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
he make his way down the drive to the men in France? The police are | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
keen to hear from anyone who thinks they may have seen them wandering | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
along you, one of the A41, during the early hours. He is 5 ft 9 | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
inches tall, short, dark brown hair, and blue eyes. Around 60 officers | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
have been involved in searching for Hayden - both within the hotel | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
grounds - and further afield. concerned because obviously it was | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
the early hours of Saturday morning and it is now Tuesday, and we know | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
that it is cold weather, it is December. We are concerned. | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
police said that someone had reported seeing someone similar to | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
him walking along the A41, and they have asked that caller to contact | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
them again. The family is in bits. We're having nightmares. We just | :12:40. | :12:50. | |
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want him back. She says she just wants her son home for Christmas. A | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
father, originally from Greater Manchester, and his two children, | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
have died in a suspected poison gas leak at a cottage in Ireland. The | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
bodies of Trevor Wallwork, his 12 year old daughter Kimberley, and 9 | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
year old son Harry, were found at their home in County Sligo. Mr | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
Wallwork's wife Susan, was in hospital being treated for cancer | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
at the time of the accident. The MP for Chorley has criticised the | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
government over BAe missing out on a defence deal worth almost 5 | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
billion dollars. Lyndsay Hoyle says the government didn't take enough | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
action to secure a contract with Japan for 42 Typhoon Jets. 1,400 | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
jobs were recently cut at BAe's plants in Warton and Salmesbury, | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
where the planes are built. Meanwhile, BAe Systems has sold its | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
site at Woodford in Cheshire to Avro Heritage Limited. BAe has had | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
a presence in Woodford since 1924 and has built more than 20,000 | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
aircraft there - including the Lancaster Bomber. Avro Heritage | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
says it wants Woodford's association with the aviation | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
industry to be reflected in the development of the site. Plans are | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
thought to include film studios. Still to come : pride of place for | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
the short of a football have made history. And Manchester Museum on | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
as England's first black player. And managers under pressure as the | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
bottom two in the Premier League going head-to-head in what could be, | :14:14. | :14:24. | |
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sack race. We will be live from he would park. -- Ewood Park. Next | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
tonight: as the rest of us gear up for a few extra calories over | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
Christmas, spare a thought for our elite athletes. Lora Turnham from | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
Liverpool is a blind cyclist who trains at the Velodrome in | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
Manchester. She's hoping to make it to next year's paralympics. In the | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
latest of our Olympic Dreams, Lindsey Prosser looks at how Lora | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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unwinds away from the track. For Laura, it is all about speed. | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
have got the wind rushing past your body. You have got the sound of the | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
bike. You know when you are going fast. You can feel it through the | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
by. Laura comes from a sporting family. Her mum, has also blind, is | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
a champion runner, and to brothers, also blind, play football and | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
cricket for England. They have always pushed me to take part in | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
sport. The Matt Cole was supported us and taking us to events and | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
Tudor's on and encouraged us to train. Laura likes to socialise but | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
vase have to make sacrifices for training and they keep in touch | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
with friends through a computer. You have got to keep your friends | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
around you when you are training because you need to stay positive | :15:47. | :15:56. | |
and they help you. Neil is Laura's boyfriend. He is also a Paralympics | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
cyclist and understands her determination. You cannot just go | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
out to the pub and have a drink. are very good at getting the best | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
out of each other. I think we make a reasonably good team from that | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
point of view. Even at home, Laura trains four hours. How many miles | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
to you do? I have no idea. Lots! Laura hopes to make the Great | :16:22. | :16:31. | |
Britain team for the World Championships in beggary. -- in | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
February. She must look an on-site, in the conservatory, peddling a we | :16:37. | :16:47. | |
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like that! -- an odd sight peddling away. Football now, and there's a | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
crunch North West derby at the foot of the Premier League tonight - | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
with bottom club Bolton going to second from bottom Blackburn. Both | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
Managers know defeat could have major repercussions - not least for | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
their own jobs. At Ewood Park for us tonight is our reporter Ian | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
Haslam. I bet both sets of fans abating their fingernails. Yes, the | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
rain has just started here but there is very -- variable in the | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
way of festive cheer. Chance of Steve keen about ring around -- | :17:15. | :17:25. | |
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Steve Kean out ring around this stadium game after game. A short | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
while ago, I put these questions to the former Blackburn Rovers striker, | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
Kevin Gallacher. It is a tall order. That possibly could be, but who's | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
going to sack him? Is it going to come from India? Or is there when | :17:44. | :17:54. | |
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to be someone you that nobody knows about? That is the question. | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
tough times for Blackburn Rovers, and it's a similar story at Bolton. | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
In fact, Wanderers are a point worse off than their local rivals | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
and have lost more matches and conceded more goals than any other | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
Premier League side. Well here tonight as a summariser for BBC | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Radio Manchester is the former Bolton striker Alan Gowling, can | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
Owen Coyle and his team get a result tonight? Yes, I think you | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
can forget everything that has gone on previously in the season so far. | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
Tonight is a massive game and the lads will be up for it. If they up | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
for it I can see them winning. lose or draw, tonight's match could | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
have huge consequences for both Managers. If the result doesn't go | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
Bolton's way, will Owen Coyle be given time to turn things around? | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
It depends on which count you are sitting in. For myself I don't | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
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think he will get a lot of time if they lose tonight. Thanks Alan. | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
There's full match commentary on both BBC Lancashire and as | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
mentioned, BBC Radio Manchester. Should either side lose tonight | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
they'll spend Christmas bottom of the table. In 18 of the Premier | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
League's 19 seasons, the side in that position has gone on to be | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
relegated. An interesting night ahead, we'll have a full report in | :19:08. | :19:18. | |
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tomorrow's North West Tonight. has just ruin Christmas for all | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
fans of those teams there! The match at Ewood may well determine | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
the future of one of those clubs, but a landmark in football's past | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
was remembered in Manchester today. When Viv Anderson took to the field | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
for England's match against Czechoslovakia in November 1978, he | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
was making history. He was the first black player to represent his | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
country in a full international. Now, the shirt he wore that day has | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
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gone on show at the People's History Museum in Manchester. Jim | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
Callaghan was at Number 10. Rod Stewart at Number one. And a black | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
man wore Number 2 for England. Sounds unremarkable, but only a | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
week earlier a nightclub in Birmingham had been forced to lift | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
its ban on black customers. Everybody knew the significance of | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
Viv Anderson's England debut. was a big occasion. You look back | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
now and I got a telegram from the Queen, and Elton John. Obviously it | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
was a big thing at the time. shirt Viv wore that night has gone | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
on show at the People's History Museum. The first thing that | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
strikes me looking at it is how grubby it loose. They have resisted | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
the temptation to wash out of that match the crime. The shirt's been | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
conserved rather than restored. this case, it means preserving | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
grass stains and other marks and possibly some of the Anderson's | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
perspiration, warned that the shot. Viv Anderson was Alex Ferguson's | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
first signing at Manchester United. The racial abuse he experienced | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
from the terraces at some grounds has largely gone. But racism is | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
again an issue. Liverpool's Luis Suarez is defending himself from | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
allegations that he racially abused United defender Patrice Evra. Some | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
say a misunderstanding between different cultures may be at play. | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
If somebody said something that in their culture mean something not | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
quite as bad as we interpret it, then you have got to take that on | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
board. You have to look for that? You have to look for everything, I | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
think. For the record, England won 1-0. But Viv Anderson's shirt tells | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
a story that goes beyond football. You remember it? You were about | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
eight years old? Yes, that was the first replica kit that I had. | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
There'll be lots of mothers trying to desperately get bloodstains out | :21:51. | :22:01. | |
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of football kit! I just remember that kit. I love it. There's always | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
an extra buzz in Liverpool when the former Beatle performs. And it's | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
the first time he's played at the city's Echo arena. Our Merseyside | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
Reporter, Andy Gill, is there now. I'm sure that the anticipation is | :22:18. | :22:26. | |
starting to build. It certainly is. A picture of Sir Paul McCartney | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
making the outside of the multi- storey car-park more decorative | :22:29. | :22:39. | |
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than it would ordinarily be. Last year, he played the o2 arena. He | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
bought the entire audience abide of chips. We're not sure if he will do | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
that again tonight but the fans are all looking forward to it anyway. | :22:54. | :23:03. | |
Here's a little taste of what the fans can expect later tonight. On | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
this afternoon's Magical Mystery Beatles tour of Liverpool lots of | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
fans had tickets for tonight's show. We won the tickets from a radio | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
station in Germany, and yes, I am very excited. Pick one out that you | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
would like him to do? It would be cool if he did at the end the life. | :23:26. | :23:36. | |
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The driver's going too. This week Sir Paul told the Liverpool Echo he | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
often drives around his childhood haunts when he comes home. Perhaps | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
the fans on this trip would bump into him? It is amazing, the | :23:48. | :23:57. | |
Revenue does come he does with perhaps not. But all agreed there's | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
something special about going to a Macca concert in Liverpool. | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
Something special happens every time he plays, but I'm sure that | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
that gives it an extra kick, it being in Liverpool. Sir Paul told | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
BBC radio why he wanted to play in Liverpool tonight. You do this big | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
show, and you go to Yankee Stadium, to big stadiums in Sao Paulo, in | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
Rio de Janeiro, then you think, it would be nice if the forks at home | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
could see this. Sir Paul played two encores in Manchester last night. I | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
You'd have thought at the age of 69 that Sir Paul McCartney might | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
slowdown but he has announced plans for a new album of cover versions | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
out next February. There will be something special at this concert | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
tonight, it will be Christmas themed and it will be something | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
that the Liverpool audience will get that no one else on this tour | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
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has had. I saw him at Anfield. Brilliant. We were particularly | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
taken with the aspect of a free bag of chips. I saw him at Manchester a | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
few years ago, and that was one of the best nights of my life, but now | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
that I know that other people got a bag of chips, my memory has been | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
ruined! Tomorrow, there is a significant difference. It is quite | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
grey and dull, but integers shook up as we go through the day. -- | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
temperatures shoot up. We stay largely dry, but what we are | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
waiting for is the next band of rain, coming into the Isle of Man | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
already, then fringing the coast over the next few hours. As the | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
night wears on it will take hold. By midnight, that has won to | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
blanket the wall of the north-west of England. There will be some | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
heavy bursts and amongst that. In terms of temperatures, dropping to | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
around three Celsius over the next couple of hours, but temperatures | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
will rise through the night, and we will start tomorrow with up to | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
seven Celsius. Tomorrow, rain will try to leave us early, mid- to late | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
morning, by most places. You should see it rising over the Pennines and | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
Clearing by 11 o'clock. There is such a lot of cloud cover, there is | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
going to be quite a bit of drizzle, just a damp kind of day, and his | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
ability will be poor over the tops of the fells. -- visibility. And | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
temperatures will be up at double figures, between 10-12 Celsius. | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
This is a significant rise on last week. Keeping these temperatures | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
over the next couple of days. By Saturday it will start to get | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
colder again, with temperatures back down to six Celsius. Just | :27:09. | :27:19. | |
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before we go, some test of fund raising. -- festive fund-raising. | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
The two Manchester football clubs have been looking down on the rest | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
- from their elevated positions at the top of the Premier League this | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
season. A stilt-walking santa and his sidekicks has been head and | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
shoulders above all others in the city today - as he walked from | :27:38. | :27:41. |