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Good evening and welcome to North West Tonight with Kate Simms and

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Roger Johnson. The top story: �125 million investment, 2000 jobs

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secured and 700 Moore created. Celebrations as a new generation of

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Vauxhall Astra's comes to Ellesmere Port. It just shows how hard we

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actually work and the quality vehicles we produce every day.

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is brilliant news for me. I have got a new family so I need a good

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job. We will be lived inside the factory. Also: At the car is the

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star - what a booming Automobile Industry can bring to a town.

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A right royal splash. The Queen takes to the water in Liverpool on

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her Diamond Jubilee tour. She took the flowers but she wondered if

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they were for her. She is a cultural icon, bigger than at Queen

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of the band, bigger than David Beckham.

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The first player ever to land at Manchester Airport - 75 years later,

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For several months, a shadow has hung over the Vauxhall car plant at

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Ellesmere Port. General Motors said it had to shut a European plant and

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many feared eight you up -- at Ellesmere Port would be the one to

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go. But today, fantastic news - Vauxhall announced it would build a

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new Astra there, a multi-million- pound investment securing thousands

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of jobs and creating new ones. Our Economics Correspondent is at the

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factory now, where they must be delighted.

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Indeed! I am in the Body Shop of the factory, which has a par we

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rarely see. This is where they build the frame of the car. Part of

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it has already been done and now robots are starting to add the

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doors and the roof of the car. It is quite something! Once that

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happens, the plant will move down the conveyor belt and they will

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start and the bonnet, the doors and the engines will be billed by some

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of the people who work here who have received a massive boost today.

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Two weeks ago, many told me they were sure they would be out of work

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and some had started looking for a job. Today, this brand new massive

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contract for the new Astra has come, which will guarantee the planned's

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future until at least 2020. -- of the factory's future.

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They arrived with little fanfare - the Business Secretary and Head of

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Vauxhall, who started his career here at Ellesmere Port and today

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came back to save the jobs of more than 2000 people. People like

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Barbara, who has worked here for 14 years. It just shows how hard we

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work and the quality vehicles that we produce every day. It has

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finally been recognised. Tyrone has not been here long but needed this

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job. It is brilliant news for me. I have a young family so I need a

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good job. Couldn't get any better! And Joe, too, had also nearly given

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up. I honestly thought we were shutting but today's news is great

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for everyone. This year marks the 50th birthday of car-making in

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Ellesmere Port. The Vauxhall Viva was the first car produced here,

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but recently the European arm of the company had made losses and

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there were fears that the plant may be closed. Ellesmere Port was in

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the firing line. To survive they need the new Astra, and today they

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got it. It was a team effort. The business worked very well with the

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unions and with government. I was very heavily involved in it with 19.

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I went to the United States a couple of times to talk to the top

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people and endeavour to persuade them that Britain was the place to

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be and that Ellesmere Port was a good plant. Key to Ellesmere Port

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secure in his contract were two things - firstly, the plant's

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productivity. They make 47 cars that our here, a company record.

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Secondly, the workers agreeing to a new pay and conditions deal, which

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means the plant will be able to open 24 hours a day, 51 weeks a

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year. The company offered us a set of conditions if we wanted the next

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Astra. We told to the workforce, they accepted and we balloted and

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now we have a long-term future. future which workers here could

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scarcely have imagined just a few weeks ago. It's is great news. You

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can tell yourself - you have been around the plant - everyone is

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happy days. There will be a few beers tonight. They will start

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making the new Astra hearing 2015. This is no doubt great news for

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Vauxhall but does it help the car industry in the UK? You would have

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to hope so because this news was very unexpected. We were expecting

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exactly the opposite - and it comes not too far after the news from

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Jaguar a few weeks ago that they were creating bond 1000 jobs at

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Halewood because of the success of their Range Rover. Another key

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thing to mention is that one of the problem as Vauxhall announced

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before in terms of trying to persuade GM to build the new Astra

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here was that they had to import a lot of the parts that they used to

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to build the car, which is expensive. One other things they

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have promised to date is to try and increase the supply chain and they

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are talking about 3,000 new jobs. It is worth noting that for every

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job in the plant, another five that are created in the supply chain.

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That is important in getting a bright future and a real great

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feature for manufacturing here in the region.

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-- future. Earlier, I spoke to the Vauxhall UK

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managing director, Bernard Batey, and asked him why Ellesmere Port

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had been chosen for the new Astra. The UK is a good place to invest

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from a manufacturing point of view. Second day, we have a great track

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record of efficiency and very high quality, and very good

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effectiveness in the UK. -- second lead. With the new labour agreement

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we have made, we have great flexibility, which means we can run

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for 51 weeks a year, getting production levels at Ellesmere Port

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but we have never seen before. Let's talk about the new labour

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agreement. Vince Cable has said that some of the changes you

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required workers to take are tough. Can you explain what they have had

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to agree to? It is about added flexibility, so the workforce have

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agreed to to more flexible shift patterns, to three shifts instead

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of two. We will not have a summer closure any more. So it is not a

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case of more hours for less money? No, it is not a case of more hours

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for less money. It is more flexibility and it is really in

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appropriate -- it is really appropriate for the Times and

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assures the future of manufacturing into the next decade. You have

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committed to use local suppliers in order to build his calf. Can you

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give them any guarantees? Many, many more jobs will depend on that.

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They are commitments. They are part of our agreement and part of the

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terms which we get. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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That was Vauxhall's managing director. Later in the programme,

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we will be reporting from Ellesmere Port Town Centre on what the news

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means for the people who live there. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee tour of

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the north-west has had a wildlife theme today. It featured wind --

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rhinos and docks, though the dogs had wheels, not wings. The Queen

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took to the water in a tour of the Albert Dock in Liverpool, in a

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bright yellow amphibious vehicle called the dock. She also saw

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Chester's suit breeding or rare rhinos. It is all quiet there now

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but I bet it was very exciting earlier!

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It was, and we are at the Waterfront where the Queen start of

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the Liverpool leg of her visit. She also went to Chester Zoo and opened

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a new �30 million jubilee Park in Warrington. My guess is that the

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party will remember is one that involved a lot of water and a big

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splash! This is all about 60 years on the

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throne but be yellow "duck-marine" the Queen Rodin today has been

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around even longer. It dates from World War II and here is what it

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does in Liverpool these days - Not much reaction from Her

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Majesty... We heard her at Shea! think it was her, anyway. She and

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Prince Philip Cup the thought tourist experience. -- Prince

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Philip got the fault tourist experience. I don't think many

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people have this on a bucket list! Back at Merseyside Maritime Museum,

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C received flowers from Brownies also celebrating their Diamond

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Jubilee. She took the flowers from us but she wondered if they were

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for her. The crowd loved it all. was my first time to see her.

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exciting. She is a cultural icon bigger bank Queen of the band,

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bigger than David Beckham. I think she is a fantastic example of

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public service and has been doing a THEY SING.

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Earlier, at Chester, drizzle didn't dampen enthusiasm after the soup.

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The I came here from Arizona, where we love the Queen and I came here

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to see the Queen. The Queen took them on a rail to see the rhinos.

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The particularly interested in the rhinos. That was because we were

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explaining that rhinos are very similar to walls and there is a

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connection there. She looked very beatable and it is really exciting.

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-- beautiful. She got a closer look at the rhinos and performed some

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official opening duties. Back in Liverpool, she had lunch of north-

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west delicacies, including overall asparagus. Hundreds of people

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waited outside the museum to see if she would do a walkabout. She did

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not but the Royal police protection officers - a serious chaps with a

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serious job - physically lifted out small children with posies of

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flowers and took them along so that they could give their flowers to

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the Queen. It is what you call a nice touch.

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What a lovely touch! Thank you. You can see more about the royal

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family's close links to the region this Saturday in a special

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programme at 4:20pm on BBC One. Some of the other main stories: Be

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extraction of shale gas on Lancashire's Fylde coast should be

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allowed to go ahead, according to a council report.

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The committee concluded that the controversial drilling process,

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known as fracking, will have energy benefits for the country if strict

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environmental safeguards are in place. Campaigners against the

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process have criticised the report. A man has pleaded guilty to

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stealing a handbag from a woman who had just been killed crossing a

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road in Manchester poor stock 62- year-old Sarwari Ashraf from Long

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sight died after being hit by a lorry in March. Minutes later, 46-

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year-old Marc Kirvin from Altrincham run into the road and

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stole her handbag, containing �1,600 in cash. He will be

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sentenced next month. A playwright from Cameroon who has

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been living as a refugee in Greater Manchester has today been told she

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does not have to return to her native country. Lydia Besong and

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her husband Bernard Batey sought asylum in Britain, saying they

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feared for their safety in Cameroon after being imprisoned and tortured

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for their political beliefs. The UK Border Agency opposed their

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application and says it is disappointed with the decision.

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We have discovered there are official concerns about the way

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Lancashire County Council is managing its finances. They come in

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a report from the local government watchdog, the district auditor,

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which was published earlier this year. The council says those issues

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are minor and have been sorted out. Our political editor has been

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looking into this. Give us some background to this. The local

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authorities are all under economic pressure. Lancashire County Council

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has decided to respond to that more actively than most by getting into

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the financial markets and investing in them. They have hired somebody

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from the City of London to run the service. They have Bloomberg

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financial terminals in there for it all to get going. They have been

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pretty successful and invested into government bonds and that turned

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into a windfall of �47 million, which they could then put into

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services. That sounds great! What is the problem? The county council

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asked the audit committee from did check above what they were doing

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and see it was OK. The answer was that it was not an there were two

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areas of concern. There was a lack of oversight by senior officers and

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councillors and the second one - perhaps more seriously - is that

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the Audit Commission could not be certain why the county council had

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been borrowing all the money that it had been. What they cannot do is

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borrowed money to invest back into the market. That is not allowed.

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But the Audit Commission seemed to have some concerns because of lack

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of paperwork. If we take a look at one of their quotes from the report,

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it might be considered as indicative of adopting a policy of

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borrowing for the purposes of reinvestment. But they did not go

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so far as to say it had happened. The Audit Commission does not

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actually say that the council borrowed for a particular purpose.

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The main interest of the report is that people do not know why the

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council was borrowing. It is not clear from the council's own

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financial reports. That is what the commission wants to tighten up.

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This is public money and the public have a right to know. The what have

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the council said? A very robust response. They say they are doing a

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good job when it comes to the Budget and that the worst of the

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issues have all been sorted out. I put it to the Conservative leader

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of Lancashire County Council, Geoff Driver, that the District Auditor

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appear to be hinting that they had been borrowing to invest. There are

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no strong hints of anything in the order to's report. The report,

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which is a very, very complimentary report about an hour treasury

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management operation, I suspect stock market There are all sorts of

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criticisms! The overall report is very complimentary. It would be the

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envy of, I suspect, every other local authority. Councillor driver

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is right that Lancashire County Council has clearly done very well

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but nevertheless, the district auditor is concerned about the way

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Back now to a rare piece of good news at a time of economic doom and

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gloom - the decision to build the new Astra at Vauxhall's Ellesmere

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Port plant. As we told you earlier, it will create 700 new jobs and

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save more than 2,000. Obviously, it's good news for those

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who work there. But it's great news too for a town that depends so

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heavily on the plant. The 9th of and really are the

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fortunes of a town so closely tied to one of its businesses. It is 50

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years since Vauxhall started making cars here in Ellesmere Port. It is

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great news for the town. People want to work, they are willing to

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work, so the opportunity to work is great. As long as foxholes day here,

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this time will thrive. -- box Hall. Mike Royden is a local teacher and

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historian. This is 1962 when it was first opened, it has been the main

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employer. This is a career that kids can go into. Hopefully that

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ability will now be there. These are the people whose future

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has been secured with today's announcement. Vauxhall apprentices

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learning the skills that will make them world-class. You can be in is

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a dead end job like in a shop where there is no way to get higher, but

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I have done an apprenticeship and you can get more qualifications at

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the end of it and go for a degree at university and go for a masters

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in engineering or ball higher up in the company. They nurture them

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through the apprenticeship process, and put them on management

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supervisory training. The Prime Minister says today's decision is a

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vote of confidence in Ellesmere Port. It is a vote of confidence in

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the town as well. Football, and a decision on the

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future of Steve Kean, the manager of relegated Blackburn Rovers,

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appears to have been postponed. 's Wigan have given permission for

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their manager to talk to Liverpool following the dismissal of Kenny

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Dalglish for the second year in running. -- for the second year in

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running, Martinez has kept Wigan in the Premier League. It is thought

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he is facing competition for the Liverpool job from Rafa Benitez,

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Andre Villas-Boas and several others. Liverpool say they have

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explain the reasons for Dalglish's sacking to that club's senior

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players. A little surprise and shock. A great warmth and love for

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Kenny, but great support going forward. No individual is bigger

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than Liverpool Football Club. That is important, because like

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everybody here, from the bottom up, everybody wants to win, no more so

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than players. Crew are on their way to Wembley

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after the club booked their place in the Division Two play-off final.

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It is a remarkable achievement after being on the 12th in the

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table in February. Last night they group -- drew 2-2 at Southend. That

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meant they won the semi-final 3-2 on aggregate. Tonight they find out

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if they face Torquay of Cheltenham in the final.

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A milestone in aviation history was re-created today when the actual

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first plane to land at Manchester's Ringway Airport 75 years ago

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repeated the trip. The de Havilland Hornet Moth was

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supposed to touch down at the nearby Barton aerodrome, but bad

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weather forced it to make an emergency switch to Ringway which

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was still under construction. The '90s 30s Hornet Moth glided in.

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Inside, Duncan Menzies. The first pilot to fly. My father, who lived

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in Wilmslow at the time, had seen at the grass strip that was going

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to become Manchester Airport, and he decided as in matter of

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convenience to make a precautionary landing there.

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It would be a year later before Ringway officially opened. Catering

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for a growing number of people discovering get trouble for the

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first time. Ringway has changed enormously

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since the 1930s when it was first being built. From the first

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aircraft to land here, we now have 600 aircraft movements in and out

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every day, including the world's largest plane.

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The giant Airbus A380 so's just how planes have developed. -- shows

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just how they have developed. The directional indicator works in

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conjunction with the compass... controls may be basic but the

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playing is still flying high 75 years on. It is a very

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straightforward aeroplane. It flies at about 17 knots, so there is time

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to look around and navigate. Very easy to fly.

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Hornet Moth marked the airport's unofficial birthday. Major

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celebrations to mark its Sunday 5th anniversary are planned for next

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year. -- 75th anniversary.

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Lots of you have waiting out for hours in the last few days to catch

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a glimpse of the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee Tour - including

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both of us - but perhaps the most spectacular event of the Queen's

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year will be on June 3rd when over a thousand boats take to the River

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Thames in London to create one of the largest flotillas the country

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has ever seen. One of the vessels lucky enough to

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be taking part in the historic event is the Queen of the Lake,

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which normally carries tourists across Windermere in the Lake

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District. It will be quite a journey for this

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grand old lady, if 500 mile trip from the waters of Windermere to

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the Thames. To join a fantastic flew to laugh. It may well be

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nerve-racking for some of the skippers, but I would imagine it

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will be a fantastic sight. Built in 1949, she is on the

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national register of historic vessels, but she is having a bit of

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a facelift for her royal appointment. We are having to take

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two seats out at the near here, because we will be on the water for

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a long while, so we have to fit it when it in here. And the small

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buffet unit. We have had to put an extra heavy duty Pleat on the front.

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We are going to beat mooring overnight which has never been done

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before. I served my apprenticeship as a boat builder on these boats,

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so I want everything to be spot on. I want everything going beyond the

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call of duty. She's -- she has served the Royal

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Family before, carrying Prince Charles in 2010 after the

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devastating floods. The Queen of the lake will be lifted out of the

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water on 28th May, to begin her journey south.

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We are having to put her on a large haulage wagon. Being an old board

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we have to be careful of movement and drying out. And just making

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sure she is protected and well secured. We do not want it dropping

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off on the M6! There will be no mistaking her

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Cumbrian roots when she takes her place among the Cumbrian fleet.

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will have daffodils made by pupils from Windermere school, a fantastic

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image of the Queen made by images of Keswick, and his superb flight

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designed by pupils in Windermere. - - a superb flag.

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The Thames trip will mean she is out of service to the usual

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Lakeland tourists for a round a fortnight for. I am sure it will be

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worth it on the day to have Cumbria represented on that stage. Can you

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imagine a national pageant without Cumbria there? It would not be

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Here are the weather prospects. I am sure you did not miss it to

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date, we have been under a blanket of cloud. We have had lied patchy

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rain, and I think that will be the picture heading into the weekend.

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The temperatures not particularly great event. Cool breeze heading up

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to the weekend. We may have to wait until Monday before seeing good

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spells of sunshine. And probably better looking temperatures. Of the

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weekend that low pressure just swimming around us from Friday to

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Saturday. Holding the clouds in place, the frontal system I think

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drugging rain in on Sunday. -- dragging rain. We hang on to the

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extra cloud, like patchy rain, and temperatures may be dropping as low

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as six or seven Celsius, which is not bad at all. Tomorrow, lots of

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clouds around. We have a change in the wind direction, it is in

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easterly breeze. But cloud will try and break from time to time, across

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parts of Merseyside and Manchester. Parts of Cumbria and the Isle of

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Man are likely to see light patchy rain. Ten or 11 Celsius. More of

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the same on Saturday - quite cloudy on Sunday. Maybe brighter on Monday.

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Burnley, Accrington, Chester, Warrington and Liverpool - it has

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been a whirlwind tour of the north- west by the Queen over the past two

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days. It has given many people memories

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