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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight. Our top story: I eight | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
years on, I really thought it would be easier to deal with but it is | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
not. The widower's eight year wait. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
Vinny Derrick's White talks of her devastation after his body is | :00:23. | :00:32. | |
finally found. All so, the child shot by Gaddafi's | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
sniper for giving water to a rebel, and the Preston medical team | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
helping him recover. The bird's eye view of the �50 | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
billion scheme you might not know about. | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
It is a gardener's world. Clitheroe's answer to a young Percy | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
Thrower. And the basket case, who left | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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�21,000 in cash on this couple's doorstep in Lytham St Anne's? | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
She waited eight long years the foreword of her missing husband. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
Now Vicki Derrick says she can finally lay him to rest and say | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
goodbye properly. Vinny Derrick disappeared after a night out in | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
Manchester in August 2003. His remains were found just two days | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
ago. His heartbroken wife says now her worst fears have finally been | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
confirmed the passage of time has not made any easier to bear. As our | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
chief reporter explains, there are still many questions to be answered | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
in the case. Vicki Derrick's face said it all. | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
After eight years, she finally had been used she both longed for and | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
dreaded. She discovered the fate of her husband, Vinny. The human | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
remains discovered on this piece of land on Wednesday were the remains | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
of the man she had last seen in 2003. I always believed that | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
whatever happened on that night... The need is appeared on a night out | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
with work colleagues in Manchester. He got into a cab and headed out of | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
the city centre, intending to meet a colleague at their home, but he | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
never arrived. On rich, he phoned to say there had been a dispute | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
over the taxi fare. That was the last anyone ever heard from him. In | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
the intervening years, his family always maintained there was no way | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
he would have walked out on his young wife and son. I never | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
believed Vinny had chosen to disappear. Eight years on, I really | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
thought it would be easier to deal with but it is not. I thought we | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
would go for years and years still hoping and praying that he was | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
going to come back through that door. For some unknown reason. But | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
I suppose in your heart of hearts, you knew that was not going to | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
happen, knowing of the knee as a guy, that he would never have left | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
home in the first place. -- knowing Binney. In 2003 the police mounted | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
an extensive search, including Possil Gatley, the area where the | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
body was eventually found. -- parts of Gatley. However today the police | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
are unclear as to whether the exact spot was included in their original | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
search. One of my priorities is to go back and look at the Parameters | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
and seek where was searched. they are keeping an open mind about | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
suspicious circumstances. What the family do not know as yet is how it | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
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Vinny Derrick came to be down there Next, two men who previously served | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
in the armed forces have been jailed with another man for a total | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
of over 30 years for bringing heroin and cocaine into the country. | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
Liverpool Crown Court was told Brian Miller and another man had | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
served their country with distinction but had gone on to | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
disgrace themselves by being involved in a conspiracy to import | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
high-purity drugs in this to the UK. They were jailed today along with | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
Ian Adderley. A covert investigation tracks a | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
lorry arriving at Dover from Dunkirk. Concealed in this | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
specially adapted lorry, drugs worth at least �1.5 million. The | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
drivers are Kyle Robinson and Graeme Miller, both previously | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
served in the armed forces. Near Skelmersdale, BHB is picked up | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
again. Robin gets into a waiting car before transferring the drugs | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
into the boot. The backs are put into another car outside my's home. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
The men had previously followed his routine, only this time police were | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
waiting. Heroin and cocaine was packed into a white back and handed | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
over under the M 58 to Ian Adderley, the third man in this operation. | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
The two men were arrested, followed later by Robinson. All three | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
admitted conspiracy to import and supply heroin and cocaine. The | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
judge told the three men that the drugs had gone into circulation -- | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
if the drugs had gone into circulation they would have caused | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
further misery and addiction. They had shown a great degree of | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
sophistication and planning. They have played for high stakes and | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
lost. The men, including Miller, who had spent two years in Bosnia, | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
were jailed for nine-and-a-half years. Robinson toured Afghanistan. | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
He was charged for an extra -- given an extra three months for a | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
friend. The third man was given extra time for cannabis production. | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
It sends a message out to people who are organised by it -- | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
approached by organised crime gangs and asked to bring commodities back | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
into UK. The convictions represent a significant step in tackling | :06:02. | :06:11. | |
crime gangs and the flow of drugs The leader of the Labour Party, Ed | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Miliband, has cited the abolition of the North West Development | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Agency for the lack of private sector jobs here in this region. | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
Earlier this week, an 8.8 % rise was announced in the number of | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
people looking for jobs in the North West. If you look at what we | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
did with regional development agencies, which have been sad be | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
abolished by his Government, including in the North West, it was | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
precisely about generating the private sector job growth. Now what | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
we see happening in our economy, and a welcome developments such as | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
the Peel development, he is that jobs are being cut in the public | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
sector but not replaced at the same pace in the private sector. | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
A year after the Libyan revolution began, more than 40 -- 30 of those | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
injured are up being treated in Preston. Many have lost arms, legs | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
or fingers and need months of rehabilitation. Their treatment is | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
being paid for by the Libyan Government. Staff at the unit which | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
is part of the Manchester teaching hospitals are working overtime or | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
on their days off even to make sure all their patients get the care | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
they need. The few would just like to put your | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
sock on. Mhemed was just 13 when he was shot in his country's civil war. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
He lost his left eye and his right arm had to be amputated below the | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
elbow. TRANSLATION: I was serving water to | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
revolutionaries when I got shot by a sniper. I was taken to a hospital. | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
It was very painful. I could not resist the pain. Mhemed is one of | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
more than 30 Libyan patience being treated here at the Specialist | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Mobility Rehabilitation Centre in Preston, one of the biggest and | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
best units in the country. Most have lost a limb. Allmey months of | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
intense rehabilitation. The All -- the aim of the programme is for | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
patients to be able to use their artificial limb. There is little in | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
the wake of prosthetic service in Libya at the moment. This man was | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
shot in the chest. The nerves in his right leg were so badly damaged | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
that four months ago he could barely stand. We I came here, I was | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
like someone dying. -- when. But now it is getting better. We are | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
just working on his steps and the way he's walking. In a few short | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
months, he has learnt to walk again. It is still painful but it is now | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
possible. All he wants to do is walk again in a free Libya. I feel | :08:54. | :09:04. | |
freedom. Freedom for my country and for my people. They did not die for | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
nothing. Gaddafi has gone forever. If there is any pain... But for | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
others, too, there is still plenty more to face before they can go | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
home. Ahmed is missing his family but he has come here to get a new | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
hand and fingers. When I came here I was very excited. I am so excited | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
to have new hands. To get them as natural as possible. All the | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
treatment is paid for by the Libyan Government. Staff here are working | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
overtime so it does not affect the care of other NHS patients, doing | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
all they can to help those who have gone through so much. | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
That is a wonderful story. They are getting a fresh start at life. Yes, | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
and bear has been through experiences we cannot imagine. | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
And the job satisfaction the staff must get. | :10:01. | :10:11. | |
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Still to come, we will be live at the Olympic velodrome with | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
Manchester's cycling team. And what would you do if you found | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
�21,000 of these on your doorstep? That is what happened to a couple | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
from Lytham and I am going to find out what they did. | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
First, in might be impossible to peer into the future but one of the | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
North West's most powerful companies, Peel, plans to shake it | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
with a startling regeneration strategy. It is a plan called the | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
Ocean Gateway, made up of dozens of smaller projects, building into one | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
massive scheme. One element is it - - of it is Media City, where we are | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
broadcasting from now. Our reporter is outside in Salford Quays. | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
The point here is that Peel Holdings owned the Manchester Ship | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
Canal and you can see one of the completed projects, Media City, | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
where you are sacked right now behind me. That is one of the | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
completed projects on the Ocean Gateway. But the point at prayer is | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
that in a funny kind of way, Peel one to turn the clock back and get | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
a trade flowing here again. They are going to develop the porter at | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
Liverpool and Birkenhead and from there tradable come up to Newport | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
and Salford and Warrington. The key figure for the Ocean Gateway is 50. | :11:28. | :11:37. | |
It is 50 individual projects over 50 years, costing �50 billion. | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
Plans for the Ocean Gateway Open on the Mersey. Liverpool Waters would | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
regenerate derelict docks. Wirral Waters would do the same in | :11:45. | :11:53. | |
Birkenhead. As you can say it -- see here in Birkenhead, it is very | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
desolate at the moment, so anything that happens here would be seen as | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
a bonus almost. Will it look very different? Radically. But that is | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
only the start. Increasing trade is critical. We also want to make | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
better use of the God-given asset that John Whitaker calls the | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
Manchester Ship Canal, and the docks they have in Liverpool, to | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
open up transport, there to be another gateway into the North of | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
England. The Ocean Gateway is actually a series of 50 projects, | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
stretching along the length of the Manchester Ship Canal. It is about | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
modernising transport and trade, developing renewable energy and | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
regenerating large areas. Big plans can clash with small communities, | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
though. At Frodsham, Peel wants to build a wind farm, which has led to | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
a planning battle. I quite like Peel for their energy. The fact | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
that they do things and get on with things. I wished they would just | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
pull in their horns a little bit and isn't a bit, because there is a | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
number of projects around the North West which are really good project | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
which they spoiled by just pushing it too far. Peel stands as a | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
company with an extraordinary vision. If it is realised, the | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
Ocean Gateway will strengthen the North West and tie company's | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
fortunes and the region's closer together. | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
Quite an extraordinary project are rare. We are going to be talking to | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
Peel. They will be on the Sunday Politics, at 12 noon on BBC One. We | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
will be getting their views on that. And wouldn't it be interesting to | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
come back in 50 years and find out how they get on? | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
You have got the job! He will not look a day older! | :13:49. | :13:59. | |
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It has been a big week for John He has helped build the new Blue | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
Peter Garden in between a hectic schedule running his own nursery | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
and landscaping business. Oh, and he has just won the first ever BBC | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Young Gardener Of the Year competition. And all at the age of | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
just 24. He is living proof that you do not have to be of a certain | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
age to enjoy gardening. It was never like this in Percy | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
Thrower's day. Tension mounts as 24 year-old John Foley from Clitheroe | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
narrowly pips 25 year-old Damian Jenkinson from Wigan for the | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
coveted title. The brief was for a young couple who do not have time | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
to spend on their garden. You could have this garden done and not do | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
anything with it for three years. Today John had his feet back on the | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
ground at the nursery that he runs with his girlfriend, Kate. | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
oversee it together and we get on well because we have a bit of space | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
from each other as well! John took over the family nursery in 2009. | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
John has been keen on plants since the age of seven. These lovely to | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
primroses have just started to come through now. And in the end, it was | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
his knowledge that helped him clinch the title. To be good at | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
gardening, and you do not have to have 15 years' experience under | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
your belt. Just get out there. It is so it satisfying. John has been | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
helping out with the new Blue Peter Garden, which gets a royal opening | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
at Media City in Salford next week. He will be one of the guests. But | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
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for the moment, his schedule is Richard is here with the sport. We | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
will tease you with a bit of a wardrobe malfunction that happened | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
in the sports team dressing room. We will tell you at the end of the | :16:02. | :16:12. | |
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And we have got to talk about racism in football again, I am | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
afraid, haven't we, Richard? Aimed at Manchester City's black players | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
last night. Yes, some Porto fans were guilty of racist abuse during | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
their match against City in the Europa League last night. There | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
were complaints of races noises and chanting during the game and in | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
particular when this happened... Mario Balotelli's substitution. | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
This was the striker coming off towards the end of the match with | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
Yaya Touray also saying that he could hear the abuse. Uefa are | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
going to look into that, aren't they? But on the pitch it was a | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
very good night for City and United, wasn't it? | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
Yes, City won 2-1 in the Estadio do Dragao, coming back from a goal | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
down to give themselves a great chance in the return at the Etihad. | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
Their first was an own goal. And this was the clincher. Yaya Touray | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
putting it on a plate for Sergio Aguerro, who could not miss. And | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
Manchester's reds are in even better shape after their trip to | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Ajax. Ashley Young with the first and this one from Javier Hernandez, | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
giving United a comfortable 2-0 victory. An injury to Antonio | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
Valencia that could keep him out for a month was the only downside | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
for Fergie's men. They get a few days' rest, with no Premier League | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
this weekend and attention turning to the fifth round of the FA Cup. | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
Bolton face a tricky visit to Millwall, with Liverpool also | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
facing Championship opposition. Brighton at Anfield on Sunday. But | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
perhaps the most intriguing tie sees Ian Holloway's on form | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
Blackpool travel to David Moyes' improving Everton. | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
We are on a decent run. We have to try to keep it going if we can. It | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
will be tough against Blackpool. They are a good side, doing really | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
well in the championship. Bake art in the chance of getting back into | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
automatic positions in the league. We have West Ham on Tuesday. | :17:51. | :17:59. | |
Fantastic games to have. The most important thing is keeping it fresh, | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
giving everybody opportunities, and they will grasp the opportunity. So | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
it makes it difficult. Full commentary on the those | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
matches on your local BBC radio stations - Merseyside, Manchester | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
and Lancashire. And full coverage of rugby league | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
as well, with Widnes and Salford both looking to get off the market | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
in Super League this weekend with the pair meeting at the Stobart | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
Stadium. Elsewhere, Warrington are at Huddersfield, while joint top St | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
Helens travel to Hull KR. And for Wigan Warriors, their visit to | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
Bradford is a chance to build on an excellent victory against champions | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Leeds Rhinos, something demanded by their demanding head coach Shaun | :18:31. | :18:40. | |
Wane. I caught up with Shaun for a chat at the club's training ground. | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
Good upload from Goulding. Hat- trick! The players are 100 %. When | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
they are playing it against a team like this this weekend, they know | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
everything about the team. You have had a long association with the | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
club, being a long term and popular play as well. I love the club and I | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
want to make sure that in my time, and make a difference. I want to | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
win every single game the best way I can. What are you like when you | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
get home? Do you ever switch off? No. I have not had a day off since | :19:18. | :19:26. | |
November but I do not see it as a work. Seeing players get better | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
and... Not only on the field but best of people off the field. | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
People's perceptions of us as Wigan Warriors players and people means a | :19:36. | :19:44. | |
lot to me. Do you do anything for hobbies? I have two dogs, and I | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
love them and take them for walks every day. That is my wind down | :19:50. | :19:57. | |
time. I love that. I used to play golf but I do not anymore. I have a | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
dog so do not take this the wrong way but to talk to them and run | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
tactics pass them? No! But I enjoy going out. I love the fresher and | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
countryside. You are obviously enjoying your job. I love it. I do | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
not see it as a job. When I get at home -- home at night, I stay up | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
watching the team on TV. I cannot relax until I know that the players | :20:24. | :20:34. | |
are where -- are well prepared. I really enjoyed talking to him. It | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
is a busy weekend for the successful Manchester-based cycling | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
team. They are getting their first taste of the Olympic velodrome at | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
the Track Cycling World Cup today where the likes of Chris Hoy and | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
Victoria Pendleton have been in action. Stuart Pollit is there now. | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
Is the Olympic excitement building? Real excitement here. Olympic fever, | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
something we will hear a bit more about in the next few months. There | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
are probably 6,000 cases of it amongst the crowd here this evening. | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
They are here to see the team from the National Cycling Centre in | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
Manchester. If they had competed as a country in the last Olympics, | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
they would have been Des on the medals table, with eight gold | :21:20. | :21:30. | |
medals. -- tenth. Made in Manchester, it has become | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
the envy of the cycling world. A team so good that quite often their | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
main opponents are each other. That is the case with Jason Kenny, | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
colleague of Chris Hoy in the team spent his afternoon. At the weekend | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
they are rivals in the individual sprint. You cannot give an inch, | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
otherwise the other one will take it. It is good in that respect but | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
is just a race at the end of the day. For the last decade, cyclists | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
like Jason have been based in Manchester because the facilities | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
have been unrivalled but now because of these velodrome in | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
London and another one being built in Glasgow for the Commonwealth | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
Games in two years' time, his the city's status as a home of British | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
cycling under threat? It was announced this morning that the | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
three bedrooms would share events, and devote more resources to the | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
grass roots level. -- the three bedrooms. The National Cycling | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
Centre is the home for British cycling. We have just invested �24 | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
million in the best on largest indoor BMX facility in the world. | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
So that cements that position. So we are quite confident about that. | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
The infrastructure has been invested in, the athletes have been | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
invested in, there is no reason to move from there. So it appears to | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
be that Manchester's blaze as the home of British cycling is safe for | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
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the time being. -- place. Hopefully there will be many gold medals on | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
this track this year. Here is a question for you. What | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
have you and Prince Charles got in common? | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
I happen to know we share a love. A You are both Burnley fans. It | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
turns out that the future king, that is him, not you, is a carrot | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
as well. And apparently the club has confirmed today that a gold | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
season ticket is on the way to Clarence house. -- the future king | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
is a claret as well. Let's move on. We have no time for | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
royalty! If all you have had at your door tonight is the window- | :23:59. | :24:08. | |
cleaner demanding money, take heart from this. A couple from Saint | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
Anne's arrived home to find a wicker basket waiting for them on | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
the step. Inside was �21,000 in cash. They had no idea who left it | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
and after telling the police, no one claimed it. So Ian Roberts and | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
Pam Curtis were allowed to keep it all. So how have they spent the | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
money? My wife and something on the | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
doorstep and took it in and said to me, it is money. It was unusual | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
good fortune. For many, a life- changing sum. �21,480 in crisp | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
twenties. We put a thank-you note in the window because we knew | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
whoever had donated it to know that we had got it but then we had to | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
keep quiet about it. And this is what Ian Roberts and Pam Curtis | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
have decided to spend it on... The park across the road from their | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
home. Ian is the chair of the Friends of Hope Street Park. It is | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
restoring the park with Fylde Borough Council. Pam is the group's | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
secretary. We would like to spend the money on the pavilion. It is a | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
bit dated and tired. Inside it is even worse and we would like to | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
rejuvenate the pavilion and make it into a community space. Yet and Pam | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
did the decent thing and reported the money to the police. They kept | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
it for 28 days and as no one came forward, there was no evidence of | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
criminality, they kept it. -- they were allowed to keep it. Were they | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
allowed -- ever tempted to spend it on themselves? I would have liked a | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
camper van but no, it was always going to go to the park. | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
Friends of Hope Street Park need to raise thousands of pounds so the | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
�21,000 has gone a long way towards reaching the target. The couple | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
would still like to know if you left the cash. | :25:57. | :26:06. | |
What a mystery! If it was you, let Wouldn't you like to note that if | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
it came your way you would do some think good with it? | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
A bit of a surprise through this weekend. It will turn much colder | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
and at times there will be wintery weather, sleet and snow with in our | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
forecast. The Met Office have also issued an early warning, Saturday- | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
night through to Sunday morning. There could be ice on untreated | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
services. But our problem tonight will be rain. Recently it has been | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
about this cloud cover. If you're going out tonight, the rain will be | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
going out with you. It is light and patchy before my dad but after | :26:39. | :26:47. | |
midnight, it will get more lively. -- before midnight. The rain will | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
be bouncing around tomorrow morning. Overnight temperatures will be good | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
but will not raise much higher through the day tomorrow. The rain | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
is very active first thing. But by the time you get to about 10am it | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
should have left us and behind it, look at the sun coming out. A much | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
brighter afternoon. One or two wintery showers are possible and | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
they continue through Saturday night. They could be a covering on | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
the ground in parts on Sunday morning first thing but | :27:17. | :27:26. | |
temperatures drop away. But it will Prince Charles is a fan of the | :27:26. | :27:30. |