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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight. Our top story... | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
This grandmother dies after saline poisoning at Stockport's Stepping | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
Hill Hospital. The death toll now rises to five. | :00:15. | :00:24. | |
We are live at the hospital. Also in the programme... Under the knife | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
again. Relief as Vanessa's ruptured implant is finally removed. You can | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
see it is all in bits. The original shell has disintegrated. That is | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
shocking! $$NEWLINEJail for the poppy appeal thief who stole | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
collection boxes on Remembrance day. Mario's latest misdemeanour. City | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
and United win but should Balotelli have seen red? | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
And monkey business. The gorilla pregnancy test that is not to be | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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A fifth patient who was treated with contaminated saline at | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport has died. She is 60-year-old Linda | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
McDonagh, who was a mother and grandmother. Linda was one of a | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
number of patients given the saline between June and July last summer. | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
Kate Simms is at Stepping Hill Hospital now. What more do we know | :01:24. | :01:33. | |
about the woman who died? Linda McDonagh died in the early hours of | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
last Saturday morning, 14th January. She was 60 years old and lived | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
locally. She leaves behind both her parents, husband, three children | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
and two grandchildren. Her family paid tribute to heart. | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
A loving daughter, wife, mother and grandmother. Linda McDonagh's death | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
has left a huge hole in her family. She was depressed mother anyone | :01:59. | :02:08. | |
could hope for, putting everyone first, kind and caring. Very gentle. | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
Very gentle and got on with life in a graceful manner. Linda had motor | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
neurone disease. It attacked her muscles and meant she could not | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
speak, drink or eat. Last June, she went to Stepping Hill Hospital with | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
pneumonia. She had been coping well. But one night, doctors noticed | :02:25. | :02:34. | |
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something strange. Her blood levels were Bury low. The saline back was | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
changed. And glucose. That brought levels back-up and doctors remarked | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
that it was strange. And it should not have happened. Police believe | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Linda was one of 20 people at Stepping Hill given contaminated | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
saline. Four other people believed to have been poisoned in the same | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
way have already died. 44-year-old Tracy Arden. 71-year-old Arnold | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
Lancaster. 83-year-old Derek Weaver. All of them died last summer. A few | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
weeks ago, 82-year-old Bill Dickson passed away. Linda McDonagh died | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
last week after a second bout of pneumonia left her able to breathe | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
only on a ventilator. She and her family decided to turn the machine | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
off. They do not believe the saline contamination caused her death. | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
might have made her weaker, but she was going to die anyway. It was | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
just a matter of time. Last year, police charged nurse Rebecca | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Leighton in relation to the contamination. All charges were | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
later dropped. Male nurse, Victorino Chua, remains on police | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
bail after being questioned on suspicion of murder and GBH. | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
Meanwhile, officers say they are now carrying out tests to establish | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
exactly how Linda McDonagh died. You get a sense of just how vast | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
and complicated this investigation has become for police, particularly | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
because of their health problems that people like Linda McDonagh at. | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
Today, Linda McDonagh's family bank this that at this hospital, saying | :04:08. | :04:17. | |
the treatment from the NHS was second to none. Back to the studio. | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
Next tonight. One Lancashire woman's remarkable story after she | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
had to have her ruptured PIP breast implants replaced. Vanessa Halstead | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
has told North West Tonight she was left in excruciating pain after one | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
disintegrated inside her. The controversial implants have been | :04:34. | :04:42. | |
back in the headlines again. Women who have had them staged a protest | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
outside the private clinic Surgicare in Manchester. The | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
French-made implants were filled with the wrong kind of silicon. And | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
these women want them replaced for free. They put this in my body. I | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
did not ask them to put this into my body. I wante it removed and | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
replaced. We should not have to replace them. We need to have to go | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
through surgery again. At a cost to ourselves again unless these are | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
remove. I will be a different woman. I am having them removed. My health | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
is more important than what my body looks like. 300,000 PIP implants | :05:16. | :05:25. | |
In this country, it is estimated 40,000 women have had them. The | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
government has pledged to pay for the 3000 women who had them fitted | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
on the NHS, but no more. Vanessa Halstead had to have hers replaced | :05:32. | :05:42. | |
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after one ruptured. This report It is a day that Vanessa has waited | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
four long months for. The operation to remove a faulty implant for her | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
body. Vanessa, a promotions model, had PIP implants put in in 2004. | :05:52. | :06:01. | |
Last October, the pain began. was excruciating. Once its that it, | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
everything was triggered off by a run. -- once it started. | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
ultrasound showed one of Vanessa's implants had ruptured inside her. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
She went back to the company who had fitted them, Surgicare in | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
Manchester. She said she was told she would need to pay full price | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
all over again. Something they have refused to comment on. Angry, | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
disappointed, let down. Where do I go next? There was just not enough | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
support. Finally, on the recommendation of a friend, she has | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
come to a private clinic in Preston. Under local anaesthetic, she will | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
be awake for the entire procedure. The operation will last less than | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
an hour and a half. The clinic is not making a profit. It is only | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
covering its costs. Something private surgeons across the country | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
have been asked to consider doing by the British Association of | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
Plastic Surgeons. The it is out. Slowly and carefully, the ruptured | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
implant is removed. Broken into piece after piece, it is stained a | :07:08. | :07:18. | |
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bright yellow. The Shell feels brutal, like an eggshell. That | :07:22. | :07:31. | |
should have come out in one piece? Yes, many others would do that. The | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
Once removed, both implants are replaced and the operation is | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
quickly over. This is the implant from the right breast. There is no | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
reason why one would rupture and one would not. The capsule I am | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
holding now, of the PIP implied, it is poor quality than what we | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
consider good standard. Any minor trauma to the chess -- chest, such | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
as playing sport, may lead to rupture. And just minutes later, | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
Vanessa comes face-to-face with what was inside her. That is | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
shocking. Which is why I want to know why Vanessa was so determined | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
to replace her implants. I went up quite a few sizes, so my skin was | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
stretched, I would feel funny or look up normal. I know these | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
implants will be fine. Vanessa has now set up a website offering | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
advice and support to other women like her. | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
That is quite astonishing to see that. We are joined by Kevin | :08:54. | :09:04. | |
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Hancock, a consultant plastic surgeon based in Liverpool. The | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
government says there is no increased chance of rupture with | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
PIP implants. But anyone watching that would worry. People will be | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
and rightly sold. It is difficult to get figures on all of this, but | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
those who have seen patients with PIP implants think the rupture rate | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
is higher than we would expect with normal implants. Do you think that | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
cowboy plastic surgeons have used these? The majority have been put | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
in by commercial cosmetic clinics. In those clinics, the surgeon has | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
little say over what implant is used, very much told by what will | :09:49. | :09:58. | |
be used by the clinic. What is highlight is how commonplace, | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
almost trivialised, invasive surgery has become, advertised next | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
to any other product. That is right, which is why the Association of | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Plastic Surgeons has called for a ban on this sort of advertising, | :10:16. | :10:26. | |
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putting it in the same bracket as tobacco and other banks. -- things. | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
What is the advice to women? I have seen a large number of patients | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
with this problem. One difficulty is getting information. A lot of | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
doctors are not aware of these problems and a lot of private | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
clinics have refused to talk to patients, some even charging | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
patients for any sort of information. The main thing at the | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
moment is that these ladies should not panic, this is not a life and | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
death emergency and we had some time to consider what is going on | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
and make the right decision. But ladies do need to be seen by a | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
plastic surgeon and assessed and quite a few of them will also need | :11:11. | :11:20. | |
some sort of scan to see whether the implant has ruptured. Thank you | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
poor that information. Kevin Hancock, based in Liverpool. | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
Some other news this evening. It is thought a terror suspect who fled | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
Manchester for Pakistan has been killed by US forces. Aslam Awan was | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
part of a group that trained in the Lake District and tried to lure | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
muslims to Pakistan to fight jihad. US officials say he was killed by a | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
drone missile attack on the country's border with Afghanistan. | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
Liverpool City Council leaders want a club that hosted the British | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
National Party's annual conference to have its licence revoked. There | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
were protests outside the Cricketers Arms in Wavertree last | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
October after the venue was hired out to the far right wing political | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
party. The club's owners say they have done nothing wrong and they | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
are being supported by a local BNP representative. | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
Back to the top story and police have confirmed that they are | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
investigating a sex dead at Stepping Hill hospital. -- sixth | :12:24. | :12:34. | |
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death. Yes, police have confirmed another person given saline has | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
died. The man was 75 and died on Friday. Police are stressing that | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
it is likely that the man, along with the Linda McDonagh, that we | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
heard about earlier, and Bill Dickson will have died from natural | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
causes. It cannot be said for certain, but tests are being | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
carried out to establish the cause of death. | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
Thank you. A prolific thief who stole charity | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
collection boxes across Cheshire has been sentenced to eight months | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
in jail. Bradley Higham even stole one Poppy Appeal tin on Remembrance | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Day itself. It was while the town of Frodsham was mourning its war | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
dead. Today, a judge told him he had sunk extremely low and had | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
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little if any conscience at all. We have had clearly some problems | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
there. We will try to get back to that shortly. | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
Still to come... Penalty punch-up. The Bury players booked for this | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
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We apologise for the technical A man who was jailed in Thailand | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
for smuggling in ecstasy tablets, has returned to Britain to serve | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
the rest of his sentence. Michael Connell from Bury was 19 at the | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
time of his arrest. He's served eight of his 20-year sentence in | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
the notorious "Bangkok Hilton jail". He now must serve at least half of | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
his remaining sentence before being eligible for parole. His father | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
Derek says he's suffered enough. Bang Kwang Prison, all the Bangkok | :14:34. | :14:42. | |
Hilton as it is more commonly known, has been home to Michael for many | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
years. I knew what was going to happen to me. Anywhere in the world | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
if you get caught importing drugs, you go to prison. His sentence was | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
reduced, but he still has a 12 years left to serve. He will now | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
have to spend at least six years in a British prison before being | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
eligible for parole. His father Derek says he has suffered the | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
consequences of his crime and has learnt his lesson. Michael | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
committed a crime, he admitted he committed a crime, he has never | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
denied it. He said he was stupid, you wished he had never done it. He | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
has done years now so he has done long enough. Derek is writing to | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
the Ministry of Justice asking them to look at Michael's case. | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
And you can see more on that on tonight's Inside Out North West, on | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
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Rigid is here for the sport. The Manchester club's one against | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
London, but Mr Balotelli has grabbed all the headlines. | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
Even though it City beat Spurs and United got the better of Arsenal, | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
everyone is talking about Mario Balotelli and that challenge. Let's | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
have a look at it. The striker is involved in a clash. He Clatter it | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
-- he catches the midfielder as he spins around. But did he mean this? | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
Some observers say you cannot tell, although the Spurs manager Harry | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
Redknapp has called on the FA to take action. | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
Will they? I don't know. We were hoping for an | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
update today, but that has not come. They will only take action if the | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
referee says he did not see it. We are still waiting for the details | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
of his report, and indeed whether there is reference to a clash | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
involving another player. Either way, city of three points clear of | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
United he kept up the pressure. United he kept up the pressure. | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
It was an evening when one of the league's meanest backlines became | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
rather generous. Shocking defending by Liverpool. Kenny Dalglish has | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
warned he'll get rid of some Liverpool players unless they | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
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improve their attitude. We have got to look at ourselves. But don't | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
forget Bolton. Out of the bottom three thanks to a terrific team | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
effort. Two scrappy goals saw Everton and Blackburn share the | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
points at Goodison Park. The intervention of David Goodwillie's | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
chest not enough to keep Rovers out of the bottom three. | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
And despite a dazzling goal from Hugo Rodallega Wigan now sit three | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
points adrift at the bottom. In the Championship, two late goals | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
put Blackpool one place and one point outside the play-offs. Steven | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
Schumacher scored twice as Bury beat Yeovil. But the main talking | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
point was his row with teammate Giles Coke over who should take | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
this penalty. It lasted more than a minute. Both were booked for | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
fighting. But Schumacher won out in the end. He scored and today Coke | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
apologised. Someone else with a fight on his | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
hands is Preston's new manager Graham Westley. High fives on the | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
way to the dugout but his first game ended in a 2-0 defeat. | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
Dagenham keeper Chris Lewington's probably still got his head under | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
the pillow after this howler at Crewe. Although like all keepers he | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
blames the pitch. That was one of four Alex goals as they climbed | :18:14. | :18:24. | |
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And you can see more on Crewe in tonight's Late Kick Off when you | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
can also hear a very candid interview with Preston's chairman, | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
Peter Ridsdale. He says PNE's high- earning players will have to go as | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
the club tries to balance its books. The owner Trevor Hemmings is no | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
longer prepared to subsidise PNE to the tune of �750,000 a month. Don't | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
miss that outspoken interview on Late Kick Off on BBC 1 at 11:05pm | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
tonight. It is the presenter of that? | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
I don't know, but some guy! Accrington Stanley boss John | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
Coleman has agreed personal terms to become the new manager at | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
Rochdale. Coleman, who's been at the Crown Ground for thirteen | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
seasons, leaves Accrington in tenth place for a team fighting to avoid | :19:05. | :19:15. | |
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relegation. The two clubs are The British pole vault record was | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
splashed over the weekend by this woman. Polly put in a height of | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
four metres 87 in France. Only one ever woman has ever gone higher | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
indoors. The number of different skills | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
involved in doing an activity like that. | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
Just carrying it expand it is incredible. | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
Thank you very much. Back to the story week started to | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
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Time after time, caught on CCTV, Bradley Higham stole money destined | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
for the needy. Money donated by the public, raised by hardworking | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
volunteers and through fundraising events. Poppy appeal tins for the | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
British Legion were a particular target. Not only do our volunteers | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
put a lot of effort into May: Things happen in the short period | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
it happens every year, but ultimately those who would have | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
benefited from the generous nature of the public will now not do so | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
because of the actions of one person. | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
Today was the fifth time Higham appeared in court to be sentenced | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
for stealing charity boxes. He began his latest stealing spree on | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
6th November, taking a hospice collection box from a fish and chip | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
collection box from a fish and chip shop in Warrington. The next day he | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
shop in Warrington. The next day he shop in Warrington. The next day he | :20:52. | :20:52. | |
shop in Warrington. The next day he shop in Warrington. The next day he | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
stole a poppy tin from a spar shop in Grappenhall. On the 8th, he | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
stole from a Travelodge in Chester. And on the 11th of November - | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
Armistice Day itself - he stole a poppy tin from a bank in Frodsham. | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
The judge said at a time the population was thinking about those | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
who had gone before it, you would stealing money donated by the | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
public -- public. You have sunk below, it shows you have little if | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
no conscience at all. His crimes were despicable. It shows complete | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
disrespect to people out in war zones at the moment and previously, | :21:28. | :21:36. | |
and also those who have given their lives defending our country. | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
The court has now granted police powers to enforce an anti-social | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
behaviour order, banning Higham from Frodsham and Helsby when he's | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
released from jail. Police say they can only hope that when Higham does | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
leave prison, he won't go back to what the judge called his | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
despicable ways. It seems there's truth in the old | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
saying all that glitters isn't gold. How do we know? Well proof lies in | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
the gorilla house at Blackpool Zoo. Staff there have employed a novel | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
approach to working out why one of its female primates isn't getting | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
pregnant. And the technique is producing some sparkling results. | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
Peter Marshall explains. Njema is a girl gorilla, who should | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
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be getting pregnant. They are very endangered animals in the wild soap | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
trying to breed them is very important. However, despite being | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
on very friendly terms with a silverback, there's no sign of | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
impending offspring. To find out why they need to test her droppings | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
for clues. But how do you spot and separate her droppings from all the | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
other primate poo? You need something to make a movement stand | :22:31. | :22:40. | |
out from the crowd. First, they tried food colouring | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
but it did not show up. Then they tried sweetcorn, but the guerrillas | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
found it second time around if you know what I mean. Then came the | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
idea of glitter. There's a nursery on site, with a | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
steady supply of child-friendly glitter, add that to a daily dose | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
of yoghurt and Bob's your uncle. Droppings that dazzle. They get | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
beat litter around their legs which is quite amusing, but dated to it | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
quite easily, they have not been many issues. Easy, unless the | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
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cameras are there. It's OK. eventually - success. Good girl. | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
You want something natural that is not going to cause any issues to | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
the animal. The worst thing to do what -- would be to give them | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
something that would harm them potentially. | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
They can now send the right samples for laboratory tests without the | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
stress of separating Njema from the rest of her band or whoop. It'll | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
reveal any hormonal problems - which can then be treated - and the | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
patter of little gorilla pads - may not be far away. | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
Let's hope it is a happy ending! One of the most important | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
collections of Turner watercolours has gone on displays. The Alps -- | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
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the expedition the event is being William Turner was regarded as a | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
maverick in his day. The elevated landscape art rivalled historic | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
painting. He moved watercolour away from the washed-out and almost | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
insipid to the vibrant and colourful art form we know today. | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
The word genius gets over-used, but turning really was someone who took | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
the media to heights that no one else or since has ever taken it. | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
This collection is said to be the most important private holding of | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
British 18th and nineteenth-century watercolours. We are very much in | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
his debt, the fact that the collection has not been sold off or | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
separated, and for the beauty and condition of the collection. He | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
rarely showed it and he's up -- he took great care of it. Today the | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
colours are as true as the day they were painted. These locals, who | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
were there for the exhibition's opening day, attended today. It is | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
just wonderful to be here and see him in all his glory, his glorious | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
watercolours. It is fantastic for our local gallery to bring us | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
together. The collection, which includes work from many of Turner's | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
contemporaries, is on show until 14th April. | :25:45. | :25:54. | |
I wonder if they have any of those There is a lot of blue and white on | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
this chart am afraid. There could be snow in the forecast tonight. It | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
will be very cold before midnight, and there will be snow on the | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
highest peaks. With that in mind, the Met Office have issued a | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
warning that there will be snow and it could cause problems tomorrow | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
morning. It is definitely a night of two Haase. The first part is | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
clear before midnight and that is when temperatures will be as low | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
as-two. The second half sees more cloud as well as this band of rain. | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
There could be ice on untreated surfaces for a while, but the | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
biggest problem will be as it moves in and bumps into the cold air. It | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
will form sleet and snow. They could be problems for drivers in | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
the morning, any writs over the tops of the Pennines and such | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
places could see snow on the ground. Temperatures rise in the early | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
hours of the morning, but that snow warnings stays in place during the | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
rush-hour. But wherever you are, there is a lot of rain first thing. | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
That does not want to go anywhere. It is a slow-moving weather front | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
bumping up against the Pennines. After lunch, the back edge cups | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
into the Isle of Man. But you can see another area of rain is waiting | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
for Tuesday night. Another one on Wednesday and with that in mind, | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
the Met Office are warning they could be localised flooding in some | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
places. Greater Manchester could see a lot of rain. But temperatures | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
rise nicely with highs over nine or 10 degrees. | :27:30. | :27:38. |