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Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest Tonight. Our top stories: | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
Police appeal for calm after a grooming court case in Liverpool | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
triggers attacks on Asian shops in Rochdale. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
We are live in Rochdale, where there is an increased police | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
presence tonight. Also in the programme: | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
The Chief Executive of the troubled Morecambe NHS Trust resigns after | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
months of criticism and pressure to leave. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
Is this huge development the face of the future or an affront to | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
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Liverpool's heritage? Should teenagers be able to visit a museum | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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on their own? Meet the children turned away. I am so angry. And the | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
stunning views from the top of the North West's tallest tree. And it | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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A court case heard in Liverpool today has triggered attacks on | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
Asian shops. Eight men who were accused of -- | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
have been accused of having sex with white girls. Use have gathered | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
near a takeaway shop. Our correspondent joins us. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
The police are appealing for calm, but there is certainly no evidence | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
of the tensions that last night spilled into violence here. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
The police say it was a demonstration that got out of hand. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
One officer suffered minor injuries and there were two arrests. The | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
windows of a takeaway were smashed. The main focus, this shop. 11 Asian | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
men are accused of grooming young girls for sex here. There have been | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
demonstrations by the English Defence League and the BNP in | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
recent days. The men denied the charges. The current owners of this | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
takeaway have nothing to do with the case now going on in Liverpool. | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
They only took over the premises after the incidents alleged to have | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
taken place here. The police blame media reporting of the trial for | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
the disturbances. The press and its right to publish that has raised | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
the knowledge to the wider communication -- community of | :02:36. | :02:45. | |
Rochdale. The trial is ongoing and the day-to-day coverage of the | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
trial adds tension in the community. One of those present last night | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
denied it was anything other than a peaceful protest. The children | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
organised it. A what about the BNP? They were here. Did they organise | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
it? Be it was mostly children. Asian shopkeepers here are | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
reluctant to go on camera and played down suggestions of racial | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
tension. Is there a racial problem here? No. Not with me. Not in this | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
area. People here are so good, so nice. Since I bought the shop, | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
there is no trouble. To night, the police are appealing for calm in | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
the area. The BNP say they do not have anything to do with organising | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
the event last night. They are distributing leaflets with their | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
take on the events from last night. The English Defence League will be | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
holding a rally tomorrow. The police say they will be organising | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
a robust operation there. Later tonight we will have the story of | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
one Asian shop owner who has nothing but praise for the white | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
people in this town. He said that he feared for his property after | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
the disturbances broke out. It was as white customers that came to | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
stand with him when he -- to see that he was all right. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
The man in charge of South Cumbria and Lancaster's beleaguered | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
hospitals has stepped down today despite insisting for months he was | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
the person to turn things around. The Trust has been warned about its | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
maternity services, its emergency services, and has had huge problems | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
with its appointments system. It is also the subject of a police | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
investigation into the deaths of a number of mums and babies at | :04:32. | :04:42. | |
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Furness General. Our health If you don't sort this out will you | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
resign? For months Tony Halsall has refused to leave his job. | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
After every critical report, every serious warning for his hospitals, | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
his answer always the same. course my head is on the block, but | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
what we have got to do is keep this organisation focused on improving. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
That is my focus and it has to stay on that focus. | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
And he certainly had plenty to focus on. | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
First into the spotlight were the trust's maternity services. A | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
critical inquest into the death of baby Joshua Titcombe prompted a | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
police investigation at Furness General. And countless warnings | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
from NHS regulators. North West Tonight then discovered problems | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
with the trust's appointment system. In all, 37,000 appointments missed | :05:24. | :05:33. | |
for 14,000 patients, some seriously ill with cancer. Next, an | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
investigation into the hospitals' A and E services was begun after | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
patients were left in corridors, or had to wait more than six hours to | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
be seen. Then, just a few weeks ago, new board members were imposed on | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
the trust. Those in charge no longer trusted to run it alone. And | :05:47. | :05:55. | |
so today the man at the top, Tony Halsall, stepped down. There should | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
be a change in leadership at the top of the trust. It is important | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
to acknowledge that he is a decent man and we cannot lay the entire | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
blame at his door. Tony Hallsall said today that he believes | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
considerable progress has been made in recent months but that he | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
recognises it is now appropriate for the lead to be taken by a new | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
Chief Executive. Whoever takes on this job, hugely | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
difficult for them? Very much so. Make no mistake these | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
are still hospitals with serious problems. Just a few months ago yet | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
another damning report said that mums and babies at Furness General | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
were still at significant risk. All sorts of problems from a lack of | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
equipment to low staffing and poor management. Still ongoing as well, | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
this 14 week investigation into A and E services with a serious | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
warning hanging over the hospitals' head if they don't make significant | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
improvements. And still, this backlog of appointments that won't | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
be completely cleared till the end of march. So a very difficult job. | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
On the positive side, it is clear from today's announcement that Sir | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
David Henshaw and the newly strengthened board who remember | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
have only been in post for a couple of weeks aren't wasting any time | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
and are prepared to make big decisions. | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
A taxi driver has appeared in court charged with the murders of two | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
elderly women in Southport. Andrew Flood, who is 43 and from Clifton | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
Road in the town, is charged with killing 78-year-old Margaret | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
Biddolph and 88-year-old Annie Leyland. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
A 2,500 strong petition has been handed in to the national park | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
today opposing its plans to cull hundreds of Canada Geese on | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
Windermere. The National Park Authority says the geese are an | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
environmental pest and other control methods haven't worked. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Objectors say those alternative methods haven't been given a fair | :07:23. | :07:32. | |
chance. The gloves are coming off in one of | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
the biggest planning battles the North West has seen for years. The | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
development company Peel says if its Liverpool Waters scheme is | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
referred to a public enquiry, it will pull the plug. Peel wants to | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
build shops, offices and flats on a huge area of derelict dockland just | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
north of Liverpool city centre. But English Heritage say the sky | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
scrapers will overwhelm an area that has World Heritage Status. Our | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
Merseyside Reporter is at Liverpool's Pier Head now to guide | :07:57. | :08:07. | |
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us through this story. This is part of the United Nations World | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
Heritage Site. Peel helped develop this. On one hand, they say they | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
will bring more disparity, and on the other, they are -- there are | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
people who say that he is building skyscrapers and that Liverpool will | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
have fewer tourists. This is a battle that is going -- been going | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
on for a few years now, but this could be the final round. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Peel has released new computer images of what Liverpool Waters | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
might look like. There are fewer skyscrapers than the original plan. | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
But not so few as to appease all objectors. Peel has come out | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
fighting. It has hired a shop in Liverpool to show off its plans. | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
And soften you up with free pens and chocolate. Peel say the plans | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
could create 20,0000 jobs over 30 years. Enough to win over the | :08:57. | :09:05. | |
people? I think it is brilliant. We need to move forward. This is the | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
way to go. A balance must be drawn the 20 -- between this kind of the | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
government and the Heritage kind. It's not enough for English | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
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Heritage. It says it supports regeneration. But as it stands it | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
believes, "The density and scale of the waterfront development will | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
compromise and unbalance the historic urban landscape. English | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Heritage has not said there should be a public enquiry. But a public | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
enquiry is a possibility. And if that happens, Peel says it is | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
walking away. I have got Chinese investors are lining up to look at | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
this region and if the Government says that we have to have a public | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
enquiry, what message does that send back? It says, as a government, | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
we are not very sure. That is just not the way it is. Liverpool | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
Council's planners will make their decision on March 6th. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Well down the river from here, heading away from the UNESCO site, | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
is another Peel project causing some controversy. A new commercial | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
terminal. Peel might be one of the UK's most successful companies, but | :10:14. | :10:22. | |
they get plenty of public money. And a grant heading up there to | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
Seaforth could see Merseyside wade into another water wars with | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
Southampton. Here is our Economics Correspondent. | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
Peel get things done. But behind a lot of what they have done is a lot | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
of public money. One of the latest ventures here at Seaforth. Peel is | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
getting �35 million to dredge the River. It will allow them to | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
develop this. A new terminal for the next generation of super- | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
tankers. Peel will not talk about it with us. They say it is nothing | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
to do with them as the bid for public cash has come from Sefton | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
Council. Sefton Council won't talk about it with us. This they say | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
this is Peel's project. So, cue round two in Merseyside's | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
water wars with Southampton. First it was the Cruise Line terminal. | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
Now it's the Commercial terminal. To be fair, it cannot be allowed to | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
go unchallenged. I am in Brussels next week and I am going to lobby | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
the South East MP about this and we will try and get this raised within | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
the European parliament because it is clearly a case of state aided | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
disadvantaging one part of the UK against another. Sefton say the | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
project will create 5,000 jobs in a decade. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
But should one of the UK's most successful companies tap into | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
public money? This businessman, who helps others tap into pots of | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
public cash, thinks Peel and other big companies should not. | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
You are concerned that these jobs would have been created with or | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
without the public money? Yes, in many cases it is clear to see that | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
large corporations who have already made the decision to make the | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
investment and actually the Government funding is just cream on | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
top of the cake. Unilever, Pirrelli and Volkswagon | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
the owners of Bentley are other big names that will benefit from the | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
Regional Growth Fund here in the North West. | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
A fund that will give Peel a second slice of cash to develop Port | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
Salford. Deputy PM Nick Clegg was promoting | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
the fund just yesterday. He says big bucks spent with big companies | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
is money well spent. It's important that we back success. | :12:17. | :12:26. | |
Success breeds success. Success breeds jobs which breed more jobs. | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
It's about delivering cash to companies that deliver jobs. Peel | :12:28. | :12:37. | |
has a track record. We spoke to appeal today about | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
whether they wanted public money and they said they would because it | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
would happen more quickly and create more jobs. | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
Still to come on North West Tonight: Stephen Europe prepares to | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
face his cousin at Wembley. And could this be the biggest tree | :13:02. | :13:12. | |
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in the North West? We will show you the view from the top. | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
It is an age old problem, how to while away the school holidays. Two | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
young teenagers thought they had found the ideal solution, spending | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
an odd hour in Salford Museum and Art Gallery. But they were turned | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
away because they were not with an adult. The youngsters were outraged, | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
and so were their parents. So we have been finding out more about | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
where youngsters are welcome on their own and where they are not. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
Ashley and Emily are interested in history and art. Emily's mother | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
works at Salford University. When she had to pop into work during the | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
half-term holiday, the girls went with them, planning to visit a | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
nearby art gallery. But they were turned away because they are the | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
only 13 and were not with an adult. I was very disappointed and I felt | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
angry because they would not let me in. What did you think? First of | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
all I said, were you misbehaving? They were really indignant when I | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
asked that. They said they were obviously not misbehaving. They | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
asked us if we were over 13 and -- 16, and we were told them we were | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
13 and they said no. The Museum and Art Gallery said they actively | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
welcome young people and fully endorse the kids in museums | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
manifesto, but they say that youngsters under the age of 16 | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
should be accompanied by an adult for their own safety. The museum | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
say that this is a policy adopted in many places across Greater | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
Manchester. Indeed, the Museum of Science and Industry told us they | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
have the same policy. But the Imperial War Museum said they would | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
accept anyone over 12 without an adult. The Museum of Liverpool said | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
they allowed children over 11 without adults. Salford's policy is | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
counter-productive, according to Emily's mother. You are holding | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
yourself up to the fact that they will not come at all. At least now | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
the girls know where they can and cannot go in the future. A studious | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
pair as well. This is a story which has struck a | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
chord with many of you, and visitors to our Facebook page have | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
been giving some varied opinions this afternoon. Carol Ingleby, | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
Caroline Hurlock and Pauline Worsley all made a similar point, | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
that if the girls were not misbehaving they should have been | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
allowed to stay. But museums should not be used as some kind of | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
childcare facility, so say Mark Jarman, Sue Barlow, Robert Langton | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
and Jean Grundy. And a number of people, like Andy Sexton, Helen | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
Cameron and Jenny Leonard, made the point that they used to visit | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
museums as youngsters and never had any problems. Jenny also adds that | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
if her 12-year-old daughters went into museums rather than jewellery | :16:00. | :16:10. | |
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and shoe shops when they go out together, she'd be delighted! It | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
would be a bit cheaper! In the last year we have seen | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
thousands of jobs go and millions of pounds chopped from the budgets | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
of local councils. Now those same councils are moving into a | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
difficult second round of cuts, setting next year's budgets under | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
similar tight constraints. So how do they go about it? And how | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
difficult is it for our elected councillors to make decisions that | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
can leave people without jobs or services? We have been behind the | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
scenes at Blackpool Council to find out more. | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
Last year, in these rooms, councillors had to work out how to | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
save �27 million. This year it is �10 million. Big numbers, big | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
decisions. We are about to make a very significant decision about | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
whether we can have two senior managers are made redundant. | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
The Labour run council has pledged to cut back office staff to protect | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
front lines services. Is everybody composed? In the end the | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
redundancies are agreed, but is it a false economy? He is the driving | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
force with them that department, and to say that his understudy | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
could do the same job, I do not accept. | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
Fast forward a few weeks. It is early February and the council | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
cabinet meets to fine tune the final budget they will put to the | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
full council. This time it is miserable news for an awful lot of | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
people, especially those who will lose their jobs as a direct effect | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
of this project. It is decided to put forward a | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
budget of �144.2 million, a saving of �10.6 million. 75 posts will | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
have to go. There could be around 20 compulsory redundancies. | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
develop quite a black sense of humour when you deal with these | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
things every day. If I did not have a sense of humour in my job, I | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
would slit my wrists, because of some of the jobs we have to make. - | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
- decisions we have to make. Today, the full council formally | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
adopted that budget. Sometimes there could be for meetings in a | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
day with different officers and departments. I saw tears in their | :18:24. | :18:34. | |
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eyes and it was heartbreaking. course, it is not over. The council | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
expects to have to save 9 million to �11 million next year. You could | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
feel the headiness in that room. Sport now, and Tony, it's the | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
Carling Cup final on Sunday, and the Liverpool manager Kenny | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
Dalglish is on the verge of a remarkable achievement? If his side | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
beat Cardiff he'll clock up an incredible record. He'll become | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
just the third manager ever, following Sir Alex ferguson and | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
Jose Mourinhio, to complete a domestic clean sweep of trophies - | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
League Cup, FA Cup and league title. But he will go one better than | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
those two because he has already picked up all three as a player as | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
well. Not the first though. George Graham has already beaten him too | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
it. It is not all about Kenny this weekend though as he himself points | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
out. It is Liverpool's first visit to Wembley since 1996 and, as | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Richard Askam's been finding out, fans and players are determined to | :19:23. | :19:33. | |
In the 70s and 80s, Liverpool made the Wembley journey so often the | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
fans used to call it Anfield South. And 16 years on from their last | :19:38. | :19:48. | |
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visit, they can't wait. Liverpool! There is a feeling for the fans | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
that this could lead to a whole new era of success. But some of the | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
fans are definitely getting carried away. No disrespect for Cardiff, | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
but we are going to win, aren't we? Do we are going to beat them for | :20:13. | :20:21. | |
male -- 4 - 1. Normally united behind Liverpool's | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
talismanic skipper. On Sunday there will be divided loyalties in the | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
Gerrard family. Steven's cousin Anthony plays for Cardiff and used | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
to kick about with his famous relative in their gran's back | :20:29. | :20:39. | |
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garden. We had kickabout as kids. That is about as far as our paths | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
have crossed. To be in the finals, what can I say? It is good to hear | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
he made it. There will be mixed emotions for | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
Ex-Cardiff player Craig Bellamy as well, who will be facing former | :20:57. | :21:06. | |
team mates and his home town club. It will be a strange situation | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
because it will be the first time I ever played them. It is not | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
something I am looking forward to doing. My father is a card of fan | :21:15. | :21:24. | |
and by family, it is the club we went to when I was very young. It | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
is great to have this occasion to add to a history and trophies we | :21:28. | :21:38. | |
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have already been able to amass It is going to be a nerve-wracking | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
day. It's going to be a nerve-wracking | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
day for BBC Radio Merseyside sports presenter Peter McDowell. He will | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
be on the pitch at Wembley to introduce the singing of You'll | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
Never Walk Alone. Radio Merseyside will be broadcasting live from | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
Wembley Way, talking to fans in the build-up from 1pm, and of course | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
providing full commentary on the match itself. The game is being | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
televised live on BBC One, with comedian John Bishop, an avid | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
Liverpool fan, among the programme's special guests. We | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
could still be on for an all- Manchester final in the Europa | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
League after Manchester United survived a nasty scare to qualify | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
for the last 16 last night. Already leading Ajax two- nil from the | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
first leg, it looked like it was going to be easy for United when | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
Javier Hernandez put them further ahead. But a deflected shot from | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
Aras Ozbiliz and a header from Toby Alderveireld made it two-one to the | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
Dutch side on the night. A great save from David de Gea stopped it | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
being a disaster for Sir Alex Ferguson's side, who face Atlethic | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
Bilbao in the next round. United's title rivals City face Blackburn | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
Rovers in tomorrow night's teatime kick off. Rovers are in talks to | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
sell defender Chris Samba to the Russian side Anzhi Makachkalla. The | :22:46. | :22:55. | |
27-year-old put in a transfer request last month. A deal will | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
have to be completed before the Russian transfer window closes at | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
9:00pm tonight. Finally there's Superleague action tonight for two | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
of our teams. Salford will be hoping for their second win of the | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
season in their home match against Hull while St Helens could overtake | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
Warrington at the top if they beat Catalan Dragons at their new home | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
Langtree Park. Saints will be hoping for a more convincing show | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
than last week's incredible last kick draw at Hull KR with coach | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
Royce Simmons confirming he requires a strong performance from | :23:25. | :23:35. | |
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his side. Rangers have found what they think is the tallest truck - a | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
retreat in the North West. We had been to size it up. -- tallest tree | :23:50. | :24:00. | |
in the North West. 57.8 metres, to be precise. Up a steep hillside | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
near Ambleside the Grand Fir towers above the other trees. To find its | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
true height, tree surgeons were brought in to climb it. From the | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
top they dropped a line down to get an accurate measure of it's true | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
height. The views from the top are spectacular. With a birds-eye | :24:18. | :24:28. | |
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picture of Windermere and the surrounding fells. For the | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
record,the tree is nearly 190 feet or just short of 58 metres, taller | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
than a dozen double decker buses. It does not have as much soil, but | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
if you look around, there are a plenty of big trees. There is | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
something in the climate that allows these trees to grow so tall. | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
The Grand Fir originated in Canada and is widespread across North | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
America but no so common here. The tree would have been brought over | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
here from North America and the Rangers you wanted something very | :25:02. | :25:10. | |
special. -- and the Rangers here wanted something very special. The | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
tree's in Skelghyll Woods which is managed by the National Trust. | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
They're are planning to put up a plaque to mark it's great height. | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
plaque to mark it's great height. Beautiful. We should take a look at | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
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the weather. I should have been up that tree doing the weather! | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
It is definitely getting cooler but Saturday should be dry and bright. | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
It could be damper on Sunday but there is nothing dreadful going on. | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
If you fancy a bit of star-gazing, you could see Venus tomorrow | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
evening just as the sun is setting. It sets a bit later now but if you | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
look to the left of the Crescent min, that is where you should see | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
it. Something to look forward in the skies. We saw a fair bit of a | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
cloud and drizzly rain today. Every night tonight, it is a case of an | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
awful lot of clear weather just about everywhere. A little bit of | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
Patti cloud, but there are lots of clear skies through the night. -- | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
patchy cloud. It could go down to one or two Celsius tonight. That is | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
a nippy enough but it will be three or four or in towns and cities. It | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
is a very straight for Road Day tomorrow. Patchy cloud, it sunny | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
spells. -- straightforward day tomorrow. I think we will all see a | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
bit of sunshine through bidet. I cannot promise a huge amount, but | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
it will be enough to make a difference. -- sunshine through the | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
day. There will be some north- westerly wind to take us through. | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
Not as strong as it was today. Temperatures will be at eight or | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
nine at the best. Saturday night is another cold one. On Sunday, a more | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
cloud cover. But it is the weekend! Who cares? Be to cycle to work | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
today? I did! -- did you cycle to work today? I did! I wore a lot of | :27:26. | :27:33. |