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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson. | :00:06. | :00:16. | |
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And Annabel Tiffin. Our top story: Great Manchester Police answer. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
Never would we expect in our worst nightmares PC Ian Terry would be | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
killed by one of his colleagues. The force will be fined. | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Also tonight: Have the jab. Liverpool parents are | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
urged to get their children vaccinated as a measles outbreak | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
spreads. Victims of the recession - why more and more horses and ponys | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
are being abandoned because their owners can't afford to keep them. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
And winning hearts, minds and medals - Dame Kelly Holmes visits | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Lancashire to inspire youngsters about the Olympics. Everyone is | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
going to think this is the biggest showcase of sport in the world ever, | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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and it's come to our country. Who Greater Manchester Police is to be | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
prosecuted over the death of one of its officers. PC Ian Terry was shot | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
dead by a fellow officer during a training exercise in 2008. An | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
inquest ruled he'd been unlawfully killed. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Yesterday the Crown Prosecution Service said it wouldn't be | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
bringing charges. But today the Health and Safety Executive said it | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
would be taking the force to court. Our Chief Reporter Dave Guest is | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
here in the studio with more. Ian Terry knew his job was | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
potentially dangerous. He was, after all, expected to catch | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
criminal, but it was a fellow officer, not a felon, who killed | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
him. It was June 2008, and PC Ian Terry was playing the part of an | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
armed suspect during a training exercise. A colleague shot him with | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
one of these - it's called a rip round, and it's intended to | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
puncture tyres or shoot through wood. | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
Fired at close range, it killed him. In 2010, a jury decided he had been | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
unlawfully killed. They had been told he was not wearing body armour. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
They deemed GMP's practisings to be inappropriate. Twice the Crown | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
Prosecution Service has considered whether to press criminal charges | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
and twice has decided not to, recently yesterday. Today, though, | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
the Health and Safety Executive announced it would be taking GMP to | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
court. In June this year it will be nearly four years since Ian | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
tragically died, four years that his family and his colleagues have | :02:40. | :02:50. | |
had to wait for this protected decision to be made., and today I | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
would like again to extend our deepest apologies for the tragic | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
loss of a much-loved father, son, brother and husband. His family's | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
frustration was clear this afternoon. Although we welcomed | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
today's decision by the HSE to prosecute Greater Manchester Police | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
and two of the officers involved, we feel bitterly disappointed that | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
the Crown Prosecution Service have decide not to prosecute anyone, | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
including the individual who killed Ian. The real tragedy here is not | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
only that we as a family have lost a wonderful husband, father, son | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
and brother, but that Greater Manchester Police have lost a young, | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
dedicated police officer who wanted to serve and protect others. | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
Meanwhile, eight other officers have misconduct proceedings hanging | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
over them. Four years on from his death, the Terry case is still far | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
from resolved. Thank you very much. | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
Meanwhile, a mother has been speaking for the first time about | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
the death of her son - who was shot dead by Greater Manchester Police. | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
An Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation is | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
underway into the death of Anthony Grainger during a Police operation | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
in the Cheshire village of Culcheth last weekend. No weapons have been | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
found. Ian Haslam reports. Anthony Grainger was shot dead by a | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
Police Officer, but it's not known why the officer opened fire. That, | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
is what an Independent Police Complaints Commision investigation | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
will now try to determine. It was in this car that he was killed, as | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
officers from Greater Manchester Police investigated an alleged | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
robbery plot. I expect to get that the police have murdered my son. | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
And if it comes to that conclusion, I want the officer charged with | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
murder and the other officers charged with conspiracy to murder. | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
That's what I want at the end of the day. If it comes out that this | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
is an unlawful killing, that's what I hope and pray for. | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
It was in this car he was killed as officers from Greater Manchester | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Police investigated a robbery plot. His mother is unsure why he was in | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
the car. I don't know why. I mean, he was a grown man. He was 36 years | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
old, so you don't know, do you? I just know he was my son, a loving | :05:08. | :05:16. | |
son. He was good to his brothers, and he adored his two children. | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
That's - that's all. Three men have since been remanded in custody | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
charged with conspiracy to commit robbery. No mother should have to | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
hear a child's died, especially in the circumstances in which he died. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
He was murdered on my birthday. From that day forward, I will never, | :05:35. | :05:45. | |
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ever celebrate my birthday again. How could I? | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Hundreds of disabled people in the north-west could be at risk of | :05:50. | :06:00. | |
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losing their jobs as Remploy plans to close seven factories, including | :06:04. | :06:14. | |
Bolton, Manchester, Oldham, Wigan, Barrow, Birkenhead and Preston. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
The new Dean of Liverpool Cathedral is to be Canon Dr Pete Wilcox. | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
Canon Wilcox is currently based at Lichfield Cathedral - but will | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
start in Liverpool in September. The father of two - who's married | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
to the novelist Catherine Fox - will be the seventh holder of the | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
post. Next, one of the six UK soldiers | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
thought to be killed in Afghanistan is from the 1st Battalion the Duke | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
of Lancaster's Regiment - which recruits mainly in the North West. | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
The soldier and five others from the 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Regiment were travelling in a Warrior armoured vehicle when it | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
caught in an explosion. Peter Marshal is at Fulwood Barracks. We | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
don't know the identity of the soldier or where he was based but | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
it still must be a sombre day there at the barracks. They're actually | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
based at Catterick barracks. These feelings are felt by everyone at | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
headquarters and indeed in the local area. The regiment has been | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
given the freedom of 25 cities and towns in the north-west. That gives | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
you an idea of the esteem they're held with in this area. It's | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
looking more and more likely this vehicle was hit by an IED laid by | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
the Taliban, and the loss of six soldiers is the biggest loss of | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
life in a single incident in Afghanistan since 2006 since 14 | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
personnel were killed when a nimrod crashed. One local MP around here, | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
films a former soldier, has had this to say. Indeed, one of the | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
soldiers was a member of the Duke of Lancashire's Regiment. My | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
thoughts are with his family and all of those who have given the | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
ultimate sacrifice in fighting in Afghanistan. The soldiers were in a | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Warrior. These have been the subject of controversy in the past, | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
haven't they? Yes, four soldiers were killed in Iraq in April 2007 | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
in one of these. Among them was 19- year-old Kingsman Adam Smith, just | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
19 from Liverpool serving with the 2nd Battalion Duke of Lancaster | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
Regiment. At the inquest into their deaths, the coroner said soldiers | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
needed better equipment. The Government responded saying there | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
would be a �1 billion upgrade. It's not known whether the latest | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
vehicle involved in the incident had been involved in the upgrade | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
process. Thank you very much. The RSPCA says it's struggling to | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
cope with a record number of dead or dying horses being dumped in the | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
north-west. It says imagines which could be rehomed are being | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
abandoned because their owners can't or won't pay for treatment. | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
One pony was found stumbling around in an industrial estate, another | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
was dumped in Bolton. You may find this report upsetting. | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
This is Delilah. She was found in Rochdale around three weeks ago in | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
a terrible state full of lice, worms and very, very thin. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
I called the vet out, and the vet said another 24 hours, she would | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
have probably had to be put to sleep. The vet certified she needed | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
removing. Otherwise that would have happened. | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
The horses taken in by the charity are making good progress with food | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
and proper care, but it's expensive. Throughout the country, the RSPCA | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
is looking after about 500 horses and ponies like this. Around half | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
of those are in the north. One of the main reasons is the cost of | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
keeping an animal, around �15 a day to keep a pony like this in good | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
condition. With some ponies only fetching �25 at sales, the number | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
of abandoned animals has soared. This dead two-year-old was | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
discovered on a street in Bolton. Another pony was found in Foal | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
wandering around an industrial estate in Stockport. She could give | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
birth at any time. She has a leg injury. We called the vet out to | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
have a look, and that leg injury is a chronic one. It has been there | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
for over 12 months untreated. It's an injury that could have been | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
treated very easily at the beginning. The RSPCA blames | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
overbreeding and the economic climate, but says owners should | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
call for help rather than leave an animal to suffer. | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
Still to come: The practicalities of bereavement - | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
our series on partners who have been widowed young examines the | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
realities of everyday life. Apparently, there's a benefit for | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
widows with children. And I have been widowed for 18 months. I only | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
found out yesterday. And no reprieve - wind mere's Canada geese | :10:51. | :11:01. | |
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The great operas are full of jealousy, murder and revenge, and | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
Mozart even sends one of his characterers to hell, but we wonder | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
what audiences will make of a new opera being performed for the first | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
time in Liverpool tonight. Yes,Anya 17 traffics the grim subject of | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
people trafficking. It tells the story of young woman tricked into | :11:21. | :11:30. | |
coming to the UK into the sex trade. SINGING | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Anya is about to enter a seedy world of sexual exploitation. | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
characters is representative of many young girls in - particularly | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
Eastern Europe, but many places across the world. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
# I don't know # She's a young, innocent girl who | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
falls in love, but it turns out to be a trick for her to fall into sex | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
slavery in the West. Instead of digging into a romantic | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
past, the opera focuses on a real problem of our times. We're talking | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
about women that have been deceived, been told that they may have a job | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
here. They're brought over by traffickers from other countries | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
and then forced into the sex industry in brothels. I think as | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
communities, we need to know what we're looking for and to raise | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
awareness of that. It's a scaled- down concert performance. With | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
backing, it could become a major production. Just two performances - | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
one here tonight at the Philharmonic Hall here in Liverpool, | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
another at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, but | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
is there an audience for an opera about people trafficking? At the | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
moment, there is an opera on in London, The Death of Klinghoffer | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
about terrorism. I think opera can do that. If you go back to subjects | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
like Kharmen and others, they were quite close to the bone, and they | :13:00. | :13:10. | |
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Parents on Merseyside are being urged to get their children | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
vaccinated following an outbreak of measles. | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
Health professionals say the majority of cases are in children | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
under five who haven't had the MMR vaccine and among babies and | :13:27. | :13:35. | |
toddler whros are too young to be vaccinated. | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
Three children got measles and so did her granddaughter because she | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
never got them vaccinated after the scare over autism a few years ago. | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
A link to MMR has since been shown to be unfounded, and her advice to | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
parents is to get the vaccine. Definitely get it because I | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
wouldn't like any other parent to go through what I have gone through | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
this last month. It has been quite bad. In Merseyside and Cheshire | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
there are 48 confirmed cases. There could be many more. 7,300 children | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
could be at risk. Here at the Health and Safety Executive in | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
Liverpool, a team is working full- time on measles cases and is being | :14:14. | :14:24. | |
treated in thea same way as the swine flu pandemic three years ago. | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
We will hopefully limit the transmission, and also by | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
identifying vulnerable contacts of cases and offer them some | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
protection, we can minimise transmission. The outbreak has | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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spread from Liverpool to Halton and St Helens, Knowsley, Sefton, Wirral | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
and Warrington. At this lab in Manchester, the samples are being | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
tested and monitored daily. Normally, we don't see measles | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
except for particular times of the year. Now we're seeing two to three, | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
five cases - it varies day to day, but we're seeing that number | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
regularly on a daily basis. Measles is serious, and in some cases can | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
be fatal. People who have not yet responded are being urged to | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
contact their GPs to bring this For the next part in our series | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
looking at the experiences of people who have lost their partners | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
at a young age. We have been talking to Peter, who lost his wife | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
Sophie, and Clare, whose husband John died when they were both in | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
their 30s. It's a day they have been telling | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
Stuart Polit what it's like to deal with the practicalities in the | :15:41. | :15:51. | |
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midst of losing a loved one. When she went, that was massive | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
hole in the practical finance end of things, which you don't really | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
want to think about, but at the end of the day, you need to pay the | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
mortgage. Obviously, you have to let everybody know - all the banks | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
and the building societies. I had to go to Chester to go to the bank | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
and sat there heavily pregnant saying, "My husband has just died. | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
What do I do about these accounts?" I had to sort out a headstone. I | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
had to go to the stone mason's and look at the lettering. I was 33. I | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
didn't expect I was going to have to deal with that. Luckily, less | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
than a week before we'd both taken out life insurance which I would | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
advise to everyone. I know times are hard, but if we hadn't had it, | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
I don't know what we would have done. Thank goodness he was in | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
Kimberly Clark's pension scheme. We received financial help from them, | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
without whom we wouldn't have been able to survive. Is there enough | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
help for people like you to deal with that side of it? I don't think | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
there is any help. I know sometimes the Government does say that there | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
is this and there is that, but I only found out yesterday that | :17:01. | :17:10. | |
apparently there is a benefit for widows with children. That is one | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
of the great things about the Wave Foundation. We're all in the same | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
boat. You put something on either the message board or the WAY page | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
on Facebook, and you can guarantee somebody else would have had the | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
same issue. Everything was straight forward.. I know a lot of people in | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
Way who had a lot of problems. Neither of us had a will. It was | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
hard work. It took ages and ages to sort out. It would be good if you | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
could make one call or just stopping junk mail, which can be | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
upsetting to the kids when they see mummy's name every day. From that | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
point of view, it does take a lot of sorting out, then probably at | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
the point of life when you're least likely to want to do any paperwork. | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Peter and Clare have spoken very candidly and emotionally about | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
their situation. It struck a chord with everybody. Please do get in | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
touch if you have something to say. We may revisit some of your stories | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
later in the week. Stuart's piece continues tomorrow. | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
Now, the proposed cull of Canada geese on wind mere is to go ahead. | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
The authorities in the Lake District ruled today there are too | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
many of them, and some will have to But the campaign to save them is | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
hotting up, as Mark Edwardson explains. | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
For almost one in five of these birds, their goose is already | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
cooked. The Lake District National Park Authority and its partners are | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
going to cull between 15 and 20% of wind mere's Canada geese because | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
it's felt they're an unpleasant nuisance and big polluters. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
Canada goose will go to the toilet 26 times a day. They can deposit as | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
much as two pounds of droppings. If you multiply that with a large | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
number of birds, particularly when they're flocking together, that has | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
a big impact on the ground and people's enjoyment. 200 geese will | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
be shot this year. That might be followed by another cull. | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
A lot of visitors are going to be put off. It might be short term, | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
but nevertheless, it's not good. It's not good for the Lake District. | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
This is a beautiful area. It's one I am passionate about and its | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
wildlife, and I can see no reason whatsoever for the way in which the | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
National Park Authority have gone about this matter. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Visitors, often blamed for encouraging large numbers of the | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
geese because of they feed them, had mixed views. It's a great | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
impact on what they're doing to the virplt - I can't see it. It's a | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
good idea, yeah. They are very messy. I don't agree. Leave nature | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
to itself. As far as the National Park authority is concerned the | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
cull of Canada geese like these is going to start as soon as spring | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
arrives that could be as early as next month. The campaigners say | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
they're going to keep up their protests starting Saturday in | :20:02. | :20:12. | |
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On to sport. Tony is here. More revelations today about the amount | :20:12. | :20:22. | |
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of money Blackpool Football Club has paid to companies run by Owen | :20:23. | :20:32. | |
Oyston. On Monday we told you that Owen | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
Oyston's company, Zabaxe, had received eleven million pounds from | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
Blackpool Football Club. That was more than the wages paid to all the | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
players and the manager put together. Some fans were so angry | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
they called on Mr. Oyston to pay some of that money back. What was | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
the money for? Some for the stadium complex. | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
The club has bought the freehold of the hotel back from him. The other | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
repayment of the item was money lent to the club. Some fans are | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
angry, but others are more relaxed. They say he saved them from | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
extinction, helped build a new stadium and got them into the | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
Premiere League. The team was relegated last season but the club | :21:13. | :21:23. | |
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have made a healthy profit, �20 million. The argument goes on. Well | :21:27. | :21:35. | |
today it's been revealed that in total Mr. Suffered a set-back with | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
defeat at Derby. Tom Ince the seasiders ahead with just over a | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
minute gone. But the home side responded with two of their own. In | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
League One Rochdale's manager John Coleman has apologised to the | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
club's fans after his side's 2-1 defeat at Carlisle. Dale are now | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
bottom. Tranmere Rovers got a point in Ronnie Moore's first game in | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
charge with a 1-1 draw against Notts County. And in League Two | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Kevin Ellison scored twice as Morecambe came from behind to beat | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
Cheltenham 3-1. One of Britain's greatest ever Olympians was in the | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
region today just 142 days before the London Games open. So Andy | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Johnson went along to meet Dame Kelly Holmes, a double Gold medal | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
winner in Athens, to get her opinion on some of our 2012 | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
hopefuls. Dame Kelly Holmes bringing it home - | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Eight years on, and it's still one of the great sporting moments - | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
gold in the 850 metres in Athens means Dame Kelly Holmes will always | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
be regarded as an Olympic great. Your theme of going for gold of | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
course resonates with me. Today she was inspiring students and staff by | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
opening the West Lancashire College. So we took the chance to get her to | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
run the rule over three of our London hopefuls. | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
A fantastic athlete, very determined to do well and to | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
perfect her ability in that 800 metres. She's already shown that | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
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she's up there with the best of the world. | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
She was in the team when I used to run. We were very close. I think | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
she's incredible how she's moved up in diss the answer, but her | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
standard hasn't waivered. She's getting better and better. If | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
anyone was going to put a bet on a potential medallist, it's someone | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
like that she has the advantage that she knows she can compete | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
against the best in the world. lucky student who will help carry | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
the torch when it comes to the north-west even got to hold those | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
famous gold medals. I remember watching her on the telly when I | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
was 11 and being amazed - I couldn't believe she won both of | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
them. I can't believe I am holding It would be great if some of our | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
athletes could replicate that. If you're a Manchester City fan or | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
even a music fan, don't miss the show tomorrow. We've got news of a | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
very special meeting of minds - Noel Gallagher has interviewed one | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
of Manchester City's more flamboyant star, shall we say. I am | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
not allowed to say who it is, but if they're on there, will be | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
fireworks. I think you may have just given it away. A sneaky clue. | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
It was a lively day today with bouncey showers in parts. Tomorrow | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
looks like it's going to be a fairly quiet day with quite a bit | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
of cloud cover. Temperatures around 10 Celsius. Through the day today, | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
the showers, the band of rain first thing in the morning - I am | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
desperately trying to get the charts to move on so you'll have to | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
stick with what I am saying - here we go. In Blackpool this afternoon, | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
as they turned up, your temperatures went from 8 Celsius to | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
5 Celsius in the space of about ten minutes as they move their way | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
through. This is our latest picture. They're still around in parts, but | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
I think the story really should be for them to die away as you head | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
towards midnight. Before midnight, one or two will still continue, and | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
on those winds, they will be fairly lively. After midnight, many will | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
die away. We'll see a bit of clear weather before midnight. Cloud | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
afterwards. Temperatures will be cold in parting. Those showers rise | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
over the high ground and meet the cold air - there could be wintry | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
weather. 2-3 Celsius is your minimum. We go into tomorrow, and | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
the best of any winter weather will be first thing. As the morning | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
progresses, cloud cover breaking for places, so there should be some | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
spells of sunshine coming through. But after lunch the cloud cover | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
rolls on back all over again. It's quiet because the wind has changed | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
direction - it's more a south- westerly and not strong at all. In | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
theory, your temperatures could get to 9-10 Celsius. It's worth noting | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
there could be more sightings of the northern lights over the next | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
couple of nights. Tomorrow night could be a favoured sighting time, | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
We were just wondering whether you're promise of a quiet day | :26:01. | :26:06. |