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Good evening and welcome to North West Tonight with Kate Simms and | :00:05. | :00:12. | |
Roger Johnson. The top story: �125 million investment, 2000 jobs | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
secured and 700 Moore created. Celebrations as a new generation of | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
Vauxhall Astra's comes to Ellesmere Port. It just shows how hard we | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
actually work and the quality vehicles we produce every day. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
is brilliant news for me. I have got a new family so I need a good | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
job. We will be lived inside the factory. Also: At the car is the | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
star - what a booming Automobile Industry can bring to a town. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
A right royal splash. The Queen takes to the water in Liverpool on | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
her Diamond Jubilee tour. She took the flowers but she wondered if | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
they were for her. She is a cultural icon, bigger than at Queen | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
of the band, bigger than David Beckham. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
The first player ever to land at Manchester Airport - 75 years later, | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
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For several months, a shadow has hung over the Vauxhall car plant at | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
Ellesmere Port. General Motors said it had to shut a European plant and | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
many feared eight you up -- at Ellesmere Port would be the one to | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
go. But today, fantastic news - Vauxhall announced it would build a | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
new Astra there, a multi-million- pound investment securing thousands | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
of jobs and creating new ones. Our Economics Correspondent is at the | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
factory now, where they must be delighted. | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
Indeed! I am in the Body Shop of the factory, which has a par we | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
rarely see. This is where they build the frame of the car. Part of | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
it has already been done and now robots are starting to add the | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
doors and the roof of the car. It is quite something! Once that | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
happens, the plant will move down the conveyor belt and they will | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
start and the bonnet, the doors and the engines will be billed by some | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
of the people who work here who have received a massive boost today. | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Two weeks ago, many told me they were sure they would be out of work | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
and some had started looking for a job. Today, this brand new massive | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
contract for the new Astra has come, which will guarantee the planned's | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
future until at least 2020. -- of the factory's future. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
They arrived with little fanfare - the Business Secretary and Head of | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
Vauxhall, who started his career here at Ellesmere Port and today | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
came back to save the jobs of more than 2000 people. People like | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
Barbara, who has worked here for 14 years. It just shows how hard we | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
work and the quality vehicles that we produce every day. It has | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
finally been recognised. Tyrone has not been here long but needed this | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
job. It is brilliant news for me. I have a young family so I need a | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
good job. Couldn't get any better! And Joe, too, had also nearly given | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
up. I honestly thought we were shutting but today's news is great | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
for everyone. This year marks the 50th birthday of car-making in | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
Ellesmere Port. The Vauxhall Viva was the first car produced here, | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
but recently the European arm of the company had made losses and | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
there were fears that the plant may be closed. Ellesmere Port was in | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
the firing line. To survive they need the new Astra, and today they | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
got it. It was a team effort. The business worked very well with the | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
unions and with government. I was very heavily involved in it with 19. | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
I went to the United States a couple of times to talk to the top | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
people and endeavour to persuade them that Britain was the place to | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
be and that Ellesmere Port was a good plant. Key to Ellesmere Port | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
secure in his contract were two things - firstly, the plant's | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
productivity. They make 47 cars that our here, a company record. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
Secondly, the workers agreeing to a new pay and conditions deal, which | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
means the plant will be able to open 24 hours a day, 51 weeks a | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
year. The company offered us a set of conditions if we wanted the next | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
Astra. We told to the workforce, they accepted and we balloted and | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
now we have a long-term future. future which workers here could | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
scarcely have imagined just a few weeks ago. It's is great news. You | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
can tell yourself - you have been around the plant - everyone is | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
happy days. There will be a few beers tonight. They will start | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
making the new Astra hearing 2015. This is no doubt great news for | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
Vauxhall but does it help the car industry in the UK? You would have | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
to hope so because this news was very unexpected. We were expecting | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
exactly the opposite - and it comes not too far after the news from | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Jaguar a few weeks ago that they were creating bond 1000 jobs at | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Halewood because of the success of their Range Rover. Another key | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
thing to mention is that one of the problem as Vauxhall announced | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
before in terms of trying to persuade GM to build the new Astra | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
here was that they had to import a lot of the parts that they used to | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
to build the car, which is expensive. One other things they | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
have promised to date is to try and increase the supply chain and they | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
are talking about 3,000 new jobs. It is worth noting that for every | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
job in the plant, another five that are created in the supply chain. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
That is important in getting a bright future and a real great | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
feature for manufacturing here in the region. | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
-- future. Earlier, I spoke to the Vauxhall UK | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
managing director, Bernard Batey, and asked him why Ellesmere Port | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
had been chosen for the new Astra. The UK is a good place to invest | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
from a manufacturing point of view. Second day, we have a great track | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
record of efficiency and very high quality, and very good | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
effectiveness in the UK. -- second lead. With the new labour agreement | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
we have made, we have great flexibility, which means we can run | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
for 51 weeks a year, getting production levels at Ellesmere Port | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
but we have never seen before. Let's talk about the new labour | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
agreement. Vince Cable has said that some of the changes you | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
required workers to take are tough. Can you explain what they have had | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
to agree to? It is about added flexibility, so the workforce have | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
agreed to to more flexible shift patterns, to three shifts instead | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
of two. We will not have a summer closure any more. So it is not a | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
case of more hours for less money? No, it is not a case of more hours | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
for less money. It is more flexibility and it is really in | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
appropriate -- it is really appropriate for the Times and | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
assures the future of manufacturing into the next decade. You have | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
committed to use local suppliers in order to build his calf. Can you | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
give them any guarantees? Many, many more jobs will depend on that. | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
They are commitments. They are part of our agreement and part of the | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
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terms which we get. Thank you very much. Thank you. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
That was Vauxhall's managing director. Later in the programme, | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
we will be reporting from Ellesmere Port Town Centre on what the news | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
means for the people who live there. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee tour of | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
the north-west has had a wildlife theme today. It featured wind -- | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
rhinos and docks, though the dogs had wheels, not wings. The Queen | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
took to the water in a tour of the Albert Dock in Liverpool, in a | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
bright yellow amphibious vehicle called the dock. She also saw | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
Chester's suit breeding or rare rhinos. It is all quiet there now | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
but I bet it was very exciting earlier! | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
It was, and we are at the Waterfront where the Queen start of | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
the Liverpool leg of her visit. She also went to Chester Zoo and opened | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
a new �30 million jubilee Park in Warrington. My guess is that the | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
party will remember is one that involved a lot of water and a big | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
splash! This is all about 60 years on the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
throne but be yellow "duck-marine" the Queen Rodin today has been | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
around even longer. It dates from World War II and here is what it | :08:40. | :08:50. | |
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does in Liverpool these days - Not much reaction from Her | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
Majesty... We heard her at Shea! think it was her, anyway. She and | :09:03. | :09:11. | |
Prince Philip Cup the thought tourist experience. -- Prince | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Philip got the fault tourist experience. I don't think many | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
people have this on a bucket list! Back at Merseyside Maritime Museum, | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
C received flowers from Brownies also celebrating their Diamond | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
Jubilee. She took the flowers from us but she wondered if they were | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
for her. The crowd loved it all. was my first time to see her. | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
exciting. She is a cultural icon bigger bank Queen of the band, | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
bigger than David Beckham. I think she is a fantastic example of | :09:43. | :09:53. | |
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public service and has been doing a THEY SING. | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
Earlier, at Chester, drizzle didn't dampen enthusiasm after the soup. | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
The I came here from Arizona, where we love the Queen and I came here | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
to see the Queen. The Queen took them on a rail to see the rhinos. | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
The particularly interested in the rhinos. That was because we were | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
explaining that rhinos are very similar to walls and there is a | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
connection there. She looked very beatable and it is really exciting. | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
-- beautiful. She got a closer look at the rhinos and performed some | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
official opening duties. Back in Liverpool, she had lunch of north- | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
west delicacies, including overall asparagus. Hundreds of people | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
waited outside the museum to see if she would do a walkabout. She did | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
not but the Royal police protection officers - a serious chaps with a | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
serious job - physically lifted out small children with posies of | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
flowers and took them along so that they could give their flowers to | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
the Queen. It is what you call a nice touch. | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
What a lovely touch! Thank you. You can see more about the royal | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
family's close links to the region this Saturday in a special | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
programme at 4:20pm on BBC One. Some of the other main stories: Be | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
extraction of shale gas on Lancashire's Fylde coast should be | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
allowed to go ahead, according to a council report. | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
The committee concluded that the controversial drilling process, | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
known as fracking, will have energy benefits for the country if strict | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
environmental safeguards are in place. Campaigners against the | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
process have criticised the report. A man has pleaded guilty to | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
stealing a handbag from a woman who had just been killed crossing a | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
road in Manchester poor stock 62- year-old Sarwari Ashraf from Long | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
sight died after being hit by a lorry in March. Minutes later, 46- | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
year-old Marc Kirvin from Altrincham run into the road and | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
stole her handbag, containing �1,600 in cash. He will be | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
sentenced next month. A playwright from Cameroon who has | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
been living as a refugee in Greater Manchester has today been told she | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
does not have to return to her native country. Lydia Besong and | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
her husband Bernard Batey sought asylum in Britain, saying they | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
feared for their safety in Cameroon after being imprisoned and tortured | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
for their political beliefs. The UK Border Agency opposed their | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
application and says it is disappointed with the decision. | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
We have discovered there are official concerns about the way | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
Lancashire County Council is managing its finances. They come in | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
a report from the local government watchdog, the district auditor, | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
which was published earlier this year. The council says those issues | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
are minor and have been sorted out. Our political editor has been | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
looking into this. Give us some background to this. The local | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
authorities are all under economic pressure. Lancashire County Council | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
has decided to respond to that more actively than most by getting into | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
the financial markets and investing in them. They have hired somebody | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
from the City of London to run the service. They have Bloomberg | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
financial terminals in there for it all to get going. They have been | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
pretty successful and invested into government bonds and that turned | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
into a windfall of �47 million, which they could then put into | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
services. That sounds great! What is the problem? The county council | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
asked the audit committee from did check above what they were doing | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
and see it was OK. The answer was that it was not an there were two | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
areas of concern. There was a lack of oversight by senior officers and | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
councillors and the second one - perhaps more seriously - is that | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
the Audit Commission could not be certain why the county council had | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
been borrowing all the money that it had been. What they cannot do is | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
borrowed money to invest back into the market. That is not allowed. | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
But the Audit Commission seemed to have some concerns because of lack | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
of paperwork. If we take a look at one of their quotes from the report, | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
it might be considered as indicative of adopting a policy of | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
borrowing for the purposes of reinvestment. But they did not go | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
so far as to say it had happened. The Audit Commission does not | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
actually say that the council borrowed for a particular purpose. | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
The main interest of the report is that people do not know why the | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
council was borrowing. It is not clear from the council's own | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
financial reports. That is what the commission wants to tighten up. | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
This is public money and the public have a right to know. The what have | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
the council said? A very robust response. They say they are doing a | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
good job when it comes to the Budget and that the worst of the | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
issues have all been sorted out. I put it to the Conservative leader | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
of Lancashire County Council, Geoff Driver, that the District Auditor | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
appear to be hinting that they had been borrowing to invest. There are | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
no strong hints of anything in the order to's report. The report, | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
which is a very, very complimentary report about an hour treasury | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
management operation, I suspect stock market There are all sorts of | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
criticisms! The overall report is very complimentary. It would be the | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
envy of, I suspect, every other local authority. Councillor driver | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
is right that Lancashire County Council has clearly done very well | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
but nevertheless, the district auditor is concerned about the way | :15:37. | :15:46. | |
Back now to a rare piece of good news at a time of economic doom and | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
gloom - the decision to build the new Astra at Vauxhall's Ellesmere | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
Port plant. As we told you earlier, it will create 700 new jobs and | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
save more than 2,000. Obviously, it's good news for those | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
who work there. But it's great news too for a town that depends so | :16:02. | :16:11. | |
heavily on the plant. The 9th of and really are the | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
fortunes of a town so closely tied to one of its businesses. It is 50 | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
years since Vauxhall started making cars here in Ellesmere Port. It is | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
great news for the town. People want to work, they are willing to | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
work, so the opportunity to work is great. As long as foxholes day here, | :16:34. | :16:42. | |
this time will thrive. -- box Hall. Mike Royden is a local teacher and | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
historian. This is 1962 when it was first opened, it has been the main | :16:48. | :16:57. | |
employer. This is a career that kids can go into. Hopefully that | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
ability will now be there. These are the people whose future | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
has been secured with today's announcement. Vauxhall apprentices | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
learning the skills that will make them world-class. You can be in is | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
a dead end job like in a shop where there is no way to get higher, but | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
I have done an apprenticeship and you can get more qualifications at | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
the end of it and go for a degree at university and go for a masters | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
in engineering or ball higher up in the company. They nurture them | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
through the apprenticeship process, and put them on management | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
supervisory training. The Prime Minister says today's decision is a | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
vote of confidence in Ellesmere Port. It is a vote of confidence in | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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the town as well. Football, and a decision on the | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
future of Steve Kean, the manager of relegated Blackburn Rovers, | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
appears to have been postponed. 's Wigan have given permission for | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
their manager to talk to Liverpool following the dismissal of Kenny | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
Dalglish for the second year in running. -- for the second year in | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
running, Martinez has kept Wigan in the Premier League. It is thought | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
he is facing competition for the Liverpool job from Rafa Benitez, | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
Andre Villas-Boas and several others. Liverpool say they have | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
explain the reasons for Dalglish's sacking to that club's senior | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
players. A little surprise and shock. A great warmth and love for | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
Kenny, but great support going forward. No individual is bigger | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
than Liverpool Football Club. That is important, because like | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
everybody here, from the bottom up, everybody wants to win, no more so | :18:57. | :19:07. | |
than players. Crew are on their way to Wembley | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
after the club booked their place in the Division Two play-off final. | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
It is a remarkable achievement after being on the 12th in the | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
table in February. Last night they group -- drew 2-2 at Southend. That | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
meant they won the semi-final 3-2 on aggregate. Tonight they find out | :19:25. | :19:35. | |
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if they face Torquay of Cheltenham in the final. | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
A milestone in aviation history was re-created today when the actual | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
first plane to land at Manchester's Ringway Airport 75 years ago | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
repeated the trip. The de Havilland Hornet Moth was | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
supposed to touch down at the nearby Barton aerodrome, but bad | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
weather forced it to make an emergency switch to Ringway which | :19:55. | :20:04. | |
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was still under construction. The '90s 30s Hornet Moth glided in. | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
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Inside, Duncan Menzies. The first pilot to fly. My father, who lived | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
in Wilmslow at the time, had seen at the grass strip that was going | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
to become Manchester Airport, and he decided as in matter of | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
convenience to make a precautionary landing there. | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
It would be a year later before Ringway officially opened. Catering | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
for a growing number of people discovering get trouble for the | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
first time. Ringway has changed enormously | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
since the 1930s when it was first being built. From the first | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
aircraft to land here, we now have 600 aircraft movements in and out | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
every day, including the world's largest plane. | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
The giant Airbus A380 so's just how planes have developed. -- shows | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
just how they have developed. The directional indicator works in | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
conjunction with the compass... controls may be basic but the | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
playing is still flying high 75 years on. It is a very | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
straightforward aeroplane. It flies at about 17 knots, so there is time | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
to look around and navigate. Very easy to fly. | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
Hornet Moth marked the airport's unofficial birthday. Major | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
celebrations to mark its Sunday 5th anniversary are planned for next | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
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year. -- 75th anniversary. | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
Lots of you have waiting out for hours in the last few days to catch | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
a glimpse of the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee Tour - including | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
both of us - but perhaps the most spectacular event of the Queen's | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
year will be on June 3rd when over a thousand boats take to the River | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
Thames in London to create one of the largest flotillas the country | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
has ever seen. One of the vessels lucky enough to | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
be taking part in the historic event is the Queen of the Lake, | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
which normally carries tourists across Windermere in the Lake | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
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District. It will be quite a journey for this | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
grand old lady, if 500 mile trip from the waters of Windermere to | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
the Thames. To join a fantastic flew to laugh. It may well be | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
nerve-racking for some of the skippers, but I would imagine it | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
will be a fantastic sight. Built in 1949, she is on the | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
national register of historic vessels, but she is having a bit of | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
a facelift for her royal appointment. We are having to take | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
two seats out at the near here, because we will be on the water for | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
a long while, so we have to fit it when it in here. And the small | :23:08. | :23:16. | |
buffet unit. We have had to put an extra heavy duty Pleat on the front. | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
We are going to beat mooring overnight which has never been done | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
before. I served my apprenticeship as a boat builder on these boats, | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
so I want everything to be spot on. I want everything going beyond the | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
call of duty. She's -- she has served the Royal | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
Family before, carrying Prince Charles in 2010 after the | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
devastating floods. The Queen of the lake will be lifted out of the | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
water on 28th May, to begin her journey south. | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
We are having to put her on a large haulage wagon. Being an old board | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
we have to be careful of movement and drying out. And just making | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
sure she is protected and well secured. We do not want it dropping | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
off on the M6! There will be no mistaking her | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
Cumbrian roots when she takes her place among the Cumbrian fleet. | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
will have daffodils made by pupils from Windermere school, a fantastic | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
image of the Queen made by images of Keswick, and his superb flight | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
designed by pupils in Windermere. - - a superb flag. | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
The Thames trip will mean she is out of service to the usual | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
Lakeland tourists for a round a fortnight for. I am sure it will be | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
worth it on the day to have Cumbria represented on that stage. Can you | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
imagine a national pageant without Cumbria there? It would not be | :24:49. | :24:59. | |
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Here are the weather prospects. I am sure you did not miss it to | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
date, we have been under a blanket of cloud. We have had lied patchy | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
rain, and I think that will be the picture heading into the weekend. | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
The temperatures not particularly great event. Cool breeze heading up | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
to the weekend. We may have to wait until Monday before seeing good | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
spells of sunshine. And probably better looking temperatures. Of the | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
weekend that low pressure just swimming around us from Friday to | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
Saturday. Holding the clouds in place, the frontal system I think | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
drugging rain in on Sunday. -- dragging rain. We hang on to the | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
extra cloud, like patchy rain, and temperatures may be dropping as low | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
as six or seven Celsius, which is not bad at all. Tomorrow, lots of | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
clouds around. We have a change in the wind direction, it is in | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
easterly breeze. But cloud will try and break from time to time, across | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
parts of Merseyside and Manchester. Parts of Cumbria and the Isle of | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
Man are likely to see light patchy rain. Ten or 11 Celsius. More of | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
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the same on Saturday - quite cloudy on Sunday. Maybe brighter on Monday. | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
Burnley, Accrington, Chester, Warrington and Liverpool - it has | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
been a whirlwind tour of the north- west by the Queen over the past two | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
days. It has given many people memories | :26:46. | :26:51. |