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Tonight with Annabel Tiffen and Roger Johnson. Our top story. Two | :00:04. | :00:06. | |
earthquakes and warnings over greenhouse gases, but drilling for | :00:06. | :00:16. | |
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shale gas can resume. It is such an unpredictable process. It really is | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
an unknown quantity. Fracking gets the go-ahead subject | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
to new safety measures. Also in the Programme: | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Failing to care for Amelia. A scandal-hit hospital apologises to | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
the parents of a newborn baby who died there. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
Bringing shame on their families. A father's disgust at his daughter's | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
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role in this fast-food fracas. I heard what had been happening, it | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
was of disgust, disappointed in there, particularly. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
An accident waiting to happen. A court's told how a crane collapsed | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
and paralysed its driver. And preparing for showtime. The | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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volunteers who'll bring this huge Last year it caused two earthquakes | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
and widespread concern among some environmentalists. Today, experts | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
said the controversial process of drilling for shale gas in | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
Lancashire should be allowed to continue. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
An independent panel has given the green light provided new safety | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
measures are put in place. Fracking, as it's known, could result in huge | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
quantities of natural gas. But what is it? Here's our Environment | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
Correspondent Colin Sykes. A bore hole is sunk into the rock | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
at incredible depths, up to 9,000 feet. Then water and lubricants are | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
forced down the pipeline at high pressure to fracture the rock and | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
release the gas in the shale. With the water pumped out, the gas flows | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
back up the pipeline for the next 20 years or so. It's estimated | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
there's around 200 trillion cubic metres of gas in the shale, enough | :01:57. | :02:05. | |
to supply the UK for several years. The aftermath of drilling for gas | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
op farmland around Blackpool. Once the drill rig has gone. All that's | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
left is the gas well-head. Exploratory drilling had been | :02:15. | :02:24. | |
taking place for the past two years but stopped after the earth tremors. | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
We are trying to put into place a mechanism of monitoring that allows | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
us to see very small earthquakes very early in the process to take | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
some remedial action. If that is done properly, I think we should be | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
able to prevent larger earthquakes happening. This is an | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
unconventional well. This is not new, this well head is still | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
producing gas. But new techniques means the reserves are increasingly | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
attractive. This was the last phase of the testing, but we are very | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
optimistic. We know there is an enormous amount of gas here and | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
this last phase of the programme is to determine how much we get out of | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
the commercial rate. We hope we will know later this fall and have | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
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an announcement. Market day in the village of Poulton. It was here the | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
two tremors were felt last year. am not sure if they are doing | :03:34. | :03:43. | |
enough to make sure that people are safe. The problem with cracking is, | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
it is such an unpredictable process. It really is an unknown quantity. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
It is deep down beneath the surface of the Earth. For that reason, it | :03:52. | :04:00. | |
is something we cannot possibly predict precisely. The report's | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
findings goes out to public consultation with the ruling before | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
the end of the year. There are concerns about this, how | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
will the Government to address these concerns? This has been very | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
controversial in the States and some developers have been under | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
regulated so the Government is very anxious to get this right. What | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
will happen after this report, there will be a consultation period | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
for six weeks were local residents' groups and bodies will have the | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
chance to have their say and then this is highly regulated so the | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Environment Agency at the Health and Safety Agency and Lancashire | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
County Council, they will have their say, and it is only after | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
that process that the Government will finally make a ruling on | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
whether it will allow the extract some. A long way off being definite | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
yet. A hospital at the centre of | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
investigations into its maternity unit has apologised to the parents | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
of a baby girl who died hours after being born there. Amelia Jade Bower | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
died at Furness General Hospital after being admitted twice | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
following her birth by an emergency caesarean. The hospital admitted | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
the standards of its paediatric care hadn't been good enough. Our | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Health Correspondent Nina Warhurst has been following the first day of | :05:15. | :05:24. | |
her inquest in Barrow and joins us now. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
She was less than one day old when she died because her breathing was | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
lost by a form of waste that is not uncommon in the stomach of a young | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
baby. Today questions about how and why this happened. Solicitors | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
representing her mother asked why when the substance was seen in our | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
waters when they broke, when there were problems with her heart, why | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
Kelly had been left alone for 15 minutes and why it took 90 minutes | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
for a Caesarean section to be carried out? Today, and number of | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
nurses and midwives to found to their behaviour in court and said | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
that no point was Kelly neglected. A hospital maintains that no | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
mistakes were made before the best, but today they have apologised, | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
what did they apologise for? That apology was far paediatric | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
treatment after her birth. We heard from this lady, she was the | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
paediatric registrar in charge of resuscitating Amelia. She was asked | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
if it was appropriate to begin resuscitation before the substance | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
was removed. There were questions raised about its X-rays should have | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
been carried out sooner and if Amelia should have been transferred | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
to intensive care in Manchester or Liverpool because her breathing was | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
that bad. Tonight, the trust offered their unreserved apologies | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
for standards of paediatric treatment that Emilia received. | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
They say that their hearts go out to the family as they know how | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
difficult this last year has been. Regular viewers will know that a | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
hospital and the broader trust that runs Furness General Hospital is | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
struggling to rebuild itself, how well this impact? There is an | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
ongoing investigation into a number of deaths at Furness General | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Hospital connected to this maternity ward and no doubt be Care | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Quality Commission will keep an eye on what happened here at the end of | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
the inquest. It is expected to conclude on Thursday and we expect | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
to be re- number of recommendations from the coroner. Thank you. | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
The police are trying to trace teenagers who brought terror to a | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
fast food restaurant in Wigan. More than a hundred besieged the | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
McDonald's outlet, abusing staff and stealing food. The father of | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
one of those involved has told BBC Northwest Tonight he's disgusted by | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
the actions of his daughter. But he says, she at least is truly sorry | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
for what she did. Our Chief Reporter, Dave Guest, has the story. | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
A baying mob terrorise staff at a McDonald's Restaurant. Some jump | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
over the counter while others shout abuse. These images have been | :08:03. | :08:13. | |
viewed by tens of thousands on the internet. It is a bit of a shock to | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
the system, and I heard they had so much trouble there. What can I say? | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
It is just ridiculous. These students at Wigan and Leigh College | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
share the sense of outrage. They say the pictures show a minority | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
who've brought shame on the majority of young people. We are | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
nice people! It is not like that would use all there! Mike Donal | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
said they are appalled by the deplorable behaviour seen here. | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
They say staff were given full support to do with the shock of | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
what happened. The council says it's determined to help track down | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
those involved. We had been working Kisii with schools and head | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
teachers and we have identified eight of the perpetrators and are | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
working with the police to take action against them. The staff were | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
terrified and we need to take positive action and arrest those | :09:02. | :09:10. | |
involved and they can expect to spend some time in a police cell. | :09:10. | :09:18. | |
This man's 15-year-old daughter was involved. I was disgusted with her. | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
She was prescribed anti-depressants. We contacted the doctor that | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
describe the mounties said this could have been a contributing | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
factor to her behaviour. He says his daughter has written to | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
restaurant staff to apologise. He hopes others involved in this will | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
also be made to face up to their actions. | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
More than 200 jobs are under threat, with plans to close a dairy on | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
Merseyside. The supermarket milk supplier Dairy Crest wants to shut | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
its plant in Aintree. The company says the market for liquid milk is | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
"extremely challenging". Its contract to supply Tesco ends in | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
July. Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
failed to comply with two major national targets, according to the | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
independent health watchdog Monitor. In the last nine months the trust | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
failed to ensure that 95% of Accident and Emergency casualties | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
waited no more than four hours for treatment. It also missed the 18- | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
week target for treating 90% of in- patients after they've been | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
referred by their GP. A caretaker from Liverpool who | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
systematically abused young boys over a 30-year period has been | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
jailed for 13 and-a-half years at the City's Crown Court. The judge | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
branded 69-year-old Austin Kelly from Staffordshire Close in Everton | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
a "depraved and predatory" paedophile. The court heard that | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
for three decades from the late 1960s Kelly had continuously and | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
systematically groomed and abused young boys who were all aged under | :10:41. | :10:49. | |
An appeal has been launched to raise �50,000 to buy the Furness | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Hoard of Viking treasure - so it can go on permanent display in | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
Barrow. The silver coins and ingots were found near the town. It's | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
changed thinking about 10th century history as it suggests Furness was | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
ruled by the Vikings - not English kings - at the time. | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
A court has been told that the collapse of a crane in Liverpool | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
city centre almost three years ago was "an accident that was waiting | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
to happen." Two construction companies deny breaching health and | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
safety laws in connection with the accident which left the crane | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
driver paralysed. Laura Yates reports. | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
July 2009. A 200 tonne crane topples onto an apartment block in | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
Liverpool City Centre. It was said by the prosecution today to be "an | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
accident that was waiting to happen". The crane was liable to | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
collapse at any time. The prosecution say that was because | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
the foundations of the crane were not strong enough. That they had | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
been incorrectly calculated. There was another mistake too in the | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
crane's construction and that between them the two defendants - | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
engineer and contractor - had made a complete mess of it and its | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
foundations. In court today to hear that evidence was the man seriously | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
injured in the accident. Ian Gillham, the crane's driver, was | :12:07. | :12:16. | |
flung from its cab and paralysed from the waist down. The court was | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
told today that he was in no way to blame for the accident. In a | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
statement read out, he said he remembered nothing of that day - | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
only going to bed the night before and then waking up in hospital four | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
weeks later. Both companies, Bowmer and Kirkland Ltd and Bingham Davis | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Ltd deny breaching health and safety laws. The trial is expected | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
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to last for three weeks. Still to come on North West Tonight. | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
Heading for safety - how Wigan outgunned the Gunners for their | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
latest big-name scalp. They had been fighting for this for ages. | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
Reine brilliant, the best thing to ever happen. -- really brilliant. | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
And still spinning yarns. The Cheshire couple whose lives revolve | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
around a thousand-year-old tradition. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Voters in Liverpool are starting to receive a booklet containing the | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
election addresses of all 12 people wanting to become the city's first | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
mayor. But two of them have complained that the council has | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
stopped them from saying what they wanted to. So what did they want | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
voters to know? Our political editor Arif Ansari has been finding | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
out. Four of the candidates were on | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
Radio Merseyside today - their views unfiltered. But two already | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
feel censored by the very organisation they want to control. | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
One of the quirks of a mayoral election is that councils deliver a | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
booklet containing the views of each candidate. But here in | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
Liverpool, the council hasn't liked what all the candidates wanted to | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
say. The Liberal candidate Steve Radford was stopped from referring | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
to the council's call centre Liverpool Direct as Liverpool | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
Misdirect. People who lack candidates should be allowed to say | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
what they think and the style they think. Particularly for the job but | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
they may are a councillor, it is about how you express yourself and | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
how will you go about your business. While socialist Tony Mulhearn was | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
advised not to refer to the council's Labour leadership, the | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
property developer Peel Holdings or to use the word "infest" to | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
describe NHS privatisation. you're using particular phrases | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
that you encapsulate what you mean, I say, defining the health service, | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
and you were not allowed to use a particular phrase, I think that is | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
undermining the impact of the messages were determined to convey | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
to the electorate. The council says it's: "provided supportive advice | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
to the candidates to make sure the wording they provide is in keeping | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
with the rules laid down in government legislation". But as | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
hailstones hit the town hall, one expert said he was concerned. | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
very unusual and I find it quite worrying that the returning officer | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
has the power to suggest or determine what the candidate is | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
allowed to say in their election address. But it's certainly given | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
the candidates' words much more prominence than they could have | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
hoped for. And there's a full list of | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
candidates standing for mayor on our website: | :15:29. | :15:38. | |
www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool. Football now - and after a tricky | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
spell in which the manager's position was called into question, | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
Wigan moved closer to Premier league Safety last night with their | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
latest big name scalp. The Latics followed up their first ever win | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
over Manchester United with a 2-1 win at Arsenal. Now Manager Roberto | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Martinez is challenging his players to match that intensity in their | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
final four matches, as Paresh Patel reports. | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
Wigan's second goal ensured an historic victory over Arsenal last | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
night. It takes the Latics five points clear of the relegation zone | :16:08. | :16:17. | |
much to relief of fans. It was really brilliant. The best thing | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
that has ever happened to the town. I was so proud of them last night, | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
they had been fighting this for ages. They have turned it around. | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
Earlier in the season Wigan lost eight matches in a row and were hot | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
favourites for relegation. But on the back of last week's historic | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
victory over Manchester united - The Latics came to the Emirates | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
praying for a second miracle. Their previous nine visits to third | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
placed Arsenal had all ended in defeat. So with a break on the wing | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
- and that prayer - against all odds - Franco Di Santo nonchalantly | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
fired Wigan ahead after just seven minutes. Ninety seconds later | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
Lifgtens struck again. Well Jordi Gomez scrambled a second. Wigan | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
played with belief and pounding hearts- But Arsenal used their | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
heads - Tomas Vermallin making it 2-1. In the second-half the Gunners | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
expected onslaught for an equaliser misfired. Astonishingly, Latics | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
battled on to claim their fourth victory in five games. We need to | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
have the same intensity and the same meaning that we have had today | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
in the next games so that we are ready to approach the next fixtures | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
with that urgency, knowing they are big finals. Wigan's last four | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
matches include Blackburn away an Wolves at home both in the | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
relegation zone. Victories for Latics would almost certainly ensue | :17:27. | :17:37. | |
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survival in the top flight. A great result for we get him. | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
-- for Wigan. Now this weekend, thousands of | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
people will be jogging round the capital in the London Marathon. | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
Plenty of exercise for most of us, but not for one North West Tonight | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
viewer from Manchester. Raza Barkatali has spent the last week | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
running more than 150 miles across the Sahara desert in temperatures | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
nudging 53 degrees. He's survived, not totally unscathed, and I'm | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
delighted to say that he joins us now. | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
Why did you do this? It was something I always wanted to do. I | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
had the opportunity to do it, it was a good opportunity to do the | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
race but raise money for charity. How much did you raise? About | :18:25. | :18:33. | |
�11,000. A terrific effort, it was a very famous, well known marathon, | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
but unbelievably tough, I would imagine? Yes, now just a physical | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
thing, it pays with your head as well. You have to carry on without | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
food, your water is ration each day and it is very tough. Quite often | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
you're on your own with nobody else around. Yes, the group splits up, | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
so you have elite athletes that sprint off and the rest of us are | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
left at the back, so you could be running for many hours and you Rome. | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
I said that he did not come away totally unscathed, you possibly | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
fractured her ankle? Yes, on the marathon staged, coming down to the | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
last six miles, I twisted my ankle but the adrenalin was pumping. | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
carried on running? About seven miles. The last day was I say, only | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
10 miles, but by then, if you drop out, you do not get anything. | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
is not exactly the lap of luxury were you staying in between the | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
stages, we have got some pictures of the villagers were you state, | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
basically sleeping in a tent under the stars. Yes, about eight or nine | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
days, and you have to make your own food, carry Rome food, cooked | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
around food. You have to carry everything you own way? Yes, what | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
is in here now is my sleeping bag and basically cooking utensils. | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
Earplugs? You could be next to somebody snoring. There were a few | :20:11. | :20:19. | |
people that snored! What would you say was the hardest bit? The first | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
day was the hardest bit, I attempted, I was vomiting, it was a | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
20, I was close to dropping out. Show us your medal, not many people | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
have got these medals, 800 people did it. Yes, 800 people in total. | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
How many people finish it? people finished, around 35 people | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
dropped out. Through sheer exhaustion. Exhaustion, blisters, | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
and just cannot handle the heat. gets to something like 120 degrees | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
Fahrenheit in my day. Yes, they staggered the start so that when | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
you start the race you're in the middle of the hottest part of the | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
day. Last year you run the London Marathon dressed as a woman, this | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
year if you ran in the desert, what next? I was going to do the London | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
Marathon this Sunday, but because of Bangkok, I end up doing it. -- | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
because of my ankle. How do you follow that?! | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
The UK's biggest street theatre event is going to be held in | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
Liverpool this weekend and as well as professional artists it will | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
involve more than two hundred volunteers from Merseyside. Sea | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Odyssey will feature a thirty foot high giant girl roaming the city on | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
a quest to find news about her father, a stowaway on the Titanic. | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
The volunteers have been recruited to fill a number of important jobs | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
in the production and this afternoon they gathered for a | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
briefing. Naomi Cornwell joined them. | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
From all parts of Liverpool and all walks of life - 200 people turned | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
up today to give their time and enthusiasm to Liverpool's Sea | :22:02. | :22:12. | |
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Odyssey. My name is Maureen McCarthy. IMA Liverpool club in | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
Basseterre. My name is Brenda and I was a civil servant. The huge | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
performance will see giant marionettes roam Liverpool, telling | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
their story to an audience of a quarter of a million people lining | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
the city's streets. And these volunteers will play a big part. | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
Some people will be pulling the giant a long, some people will be | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
clearing the path for the giants and some people will be clearing | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
the path with blue T-shirts. We have people that will be giving a | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
special welcome to the city. Between them, the giant marionettes | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
will cover a distance of 23 miles around Liverpool. Jim will be among | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
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those on crowd control. It is fantastic. We just like doing it. | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
Liverpool used to have a bad name, but since 2008, we have come to the | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
front. And some have even travelled from overseas to volunteer. Their | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
enthusiasm is contagious, with just three days until the Sea Odyssey | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
begins. The programme will be there live at | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
6:30pm from Liverpool on Friday. That is made three days to not call | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
them a pop at! It is a marionette! The ancient craft of hand spinning | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
has all but died out. But - at one home in Cheshire - the thousand | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
year-old tradition continues with life revolving around spinning | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
wheels. The Bryants are the UK's leading authorities on the craft. | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
And now they've been given the ultimate job - to restore a wheel | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
made by one of the country's greatest craftsmen. Kate Simms went | :23:51. | :24:01. | |
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to meet them. Val Bryant knows how to spin a yarn. | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
Her husband can breathe new life into old wheels, and theirs is a | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
marriage in spinning will have them. Spinning is relaxing and fun, Bic | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
has I can produce a thread that has made into a garment. For me, it is | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
much more created to make a spinning wheel than a chair. I get | :24:26. | :24:34. | |
great satisfaction. Life revolves around spinning year, Val has been | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
doing this since a teenager. She passed on her passion to David, and | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
together they have created and road-tested many of the country | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
spinning wheels. Now they have the ultimate job, restoring the rarest | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
of spinning wheels. This is a jump onto his spinning wheel which is | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
very rare. He made spinning wheels that looked like bits of furniture. | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
It is just magical for us. David says this is the Rolls-Royce of | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
spinning wheels and needs a lot of love to restore it. There are perks. | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
Once it is finished, and Val gets to road test it. | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
I guess the all rise of spinning wheels must be very exciting! -- | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
the Rolls-Royce's spinning wheels. Now, the weather. Let's hope it is | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
good for Friday. Give us some good We should take one or two umbrellas | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
on Friday just in case. Good evening, it is April, so expect | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
some showers in April. A lot of sunshine today but also quite a few | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
showers. Temperatures have been average but this time of year. Very | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
close to 12 degrees Celsius today in Chester. In the north of the | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
region, much cooler. We are going to see some sunshine, but rather | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
unsettled all week. Highs of 11 or 12 Celsius at best. Much cooler | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
than this in some places. It is because of low pressure. This is | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
circling around us like a shark that the next few days. It brings | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
plenty of showers, but in between, some sunshine as well. This evening, | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
some late-evening sunshine. A few wrasses of showers. A westerly | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
breeze, heading to the morning, some more rain first time. It | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
slowly creeps in from the south. Temperatures will hold off just | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
above freezing. For tomorrow, it will be cooler. He will need your | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
umbrella because it again, a scattering of showers and a bit | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
damp to start off with. Plenty of cloud, cooler because the wind will | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
change direction. We're looking at a north-easterly breeze. It may | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
become dry at times in the afternoon, temperatures not | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
brilliant. 8, 9, ten degrees with plenty of April showers. More of | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
the same on Thursday and for Friday, look at that, because some thunder | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
and some showers! Some sunshine in between! Some | :27:23. | :27:30. |