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Tonight with Stuart Flinders and Annabel Tiffin. Our top story: A gas | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
goldmine - claims of major new discoveries in the Liverpool | :00:09. | :00:18. | |
Manchester corridor. Yes, it is said there could be | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
enough gas beneath my feet to keep rates on going for years. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
But opponents say we can't rely on fracking to meet our energy needs in | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
the long term. Also tonight: On trial for abusing a | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
teenage boy. A court's told Coronation Street actor Andrew | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Lancel used his status to gain his trust. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Keira the breakthrough baby - the first born in the world using new | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
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IVF technology. The stress off IVF is difficult for a man and a burly | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
difficult for a woman. Probably I am the luckiest man on the planet right | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
now. Keeping it in the family. The young | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
TT rider living up to the famous Dunlop name. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
And scaling new heights - the injured soldiers taking on | :01:03. | :01:11. | |
Blackpool's Big One. I've never actually been on the right, to be | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
honest. You just set yourself a goal, if you work hard you can | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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First tonight, claims that there could be enough shale gas under | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
parts of Cheshire to mean the UK would not need to import gas for a | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
decade. That's according to energy firm I-Gas which has been given | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
permission to explore parts of the county. It says there could be far | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
more down there than previously thought. Our chief reporter, Dave | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
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Guest, is in Cheshire for us now. Yes, somewhat better place to be on | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
a glorious evening and this. This place is not only about Roland | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
Rowell lands date, there is also a lot of industry. The petrol refinery | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
is just across mayor. However, it is what is under the ground, not under | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
the ground that is interesting. Tests carried out here and other | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
parts of Cheshire show there could be enough shale gas to keep Britain | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
going for a decade. I guess say they have survey the | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
vast area of 300 square miles. The company believes that patch could | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
contain up to 170 trillion cubic feet of shale gas. Enough to keep | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
Britain in gas for a decade or more. If Britain can be self-sufficient, | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
that is good for the country, local business, it gives people security, | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
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con density in bed and will help a lot of energy intensive farms. | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
Another company hopes to extract more gas. The process of extracting | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
it is known as fracking is highly controversial. Initial operations | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
were halted when they were linked to earth tremors. Government has now | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
given the go-ahead for operations to resume, but opponents of remain | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
unconvinced. His time as into building more gas power stations | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
which will be around more years longer than the gas resources could | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
cover so we are then back to buy in from abroad. They also point out | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
that estimates vary widely. One geology insists that this region is | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
rich in the stuff. That is a significant amount of shale gas that | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
they have calculated and stand by the figures. Clearly there is | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
certainly enough of them to make the investment decision to drill and | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
Tess. The company says they want to carry out further work to fully | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
assess the Chew level of shale gas in Cheshire. | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
Towards the end of the year. How do they intend to do that? | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
Sorry about that, basically, what they want to do is think more test | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
running towards the end of this year to establish exactly what they | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
believe the reserves are shale gas. As I said, currently the estimates | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
vary widely. However, they say they are still in the early stages of | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
this project and fracking would not happen for some way down the line | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
and not until the planning consents have been sought and local people | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
consulted. Thanks very much. | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
A court has heard that the former Coronation Street star, Andrew | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Lancel, used his status as an actor to gain the trust of a teenage boy | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
before sexually assaulting him 20 years ago. The 42-year-old, whose | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
real name is Andrew Watkinson, denies six counts of indecent | :05:05. | :05:15. | |
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assault. Naomi Cornwell reports from Liverpool Crown Court. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
Andrew Lancel is now best known for his role as Frank Foster in | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Coronation Street. The offence is he went on trial or today were alleged | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
to have happened in the early 1990s. He was about to appear on television | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
in his first major role and, having filmed it, returned to his hometown | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
where he visited local theatre groups. It is there he is alleged to | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
have met the victim who was 14 years old at the time. The court heard | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
that over the next year, at least four times they met for coffee | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
before the actor invited the boy to his home where it is alleged he in | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
these of assaulted him. The prosecution barrister told the court | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
the defendant used his status as an actor to flatter and gain the trust | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
of the victim. The jury was shown a video of the victim telling police, | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
in a joking way he would say I could get in trouble for this but I would | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
deny it. When asked why he waited 18 years to report the assault, the | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
victim replied no, not at all. The prosecution claimed sexual | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
encounters continued into adulthood, but the court heard Andrew Lancel | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
told police there was never sexual activity between them. He denies all | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
charges against him and the trial continues. | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Other news from around the North West now and the Prime Minister has | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
described the attack on the Middleton soldier, Drummer Lee | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
Rigby, as a betrayal of Islam. Two men, accused of his murder, have | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
made separate appearances in court today and have been remanded in | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
custody. Merseyside Police have insisted they | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
didn't break any rules, after it emerged a taser stun gun was used on | :07:00. | :07:10. | |
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British soldier who studied for our country and our way of life. It was | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
a betrayal of Islam and the Muslim communities who give so much to our | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
country. Merseyside police say they did not break any rules using a stun | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
gun on a 12-year-old girl. It happened in St Helens in 2011, but | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
the details have only just been released. The girl, who was armed | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
with two knives, wasn't injured. Five men who stole thousands of | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
pounds worth of copper wiring in the Ribble Valley and left hundreds of | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
homes without power have been jailed. The men, who are from | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Birmingham, were arrested in July. More than a tonne of copper was | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
found in their van. The Government's launched a campaign | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
at Knowsley Safari Park to try to help save the elephant from | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
extinction. With huge demand for ivory, it's estimated up to 30,000 | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
are poached each year. Four of Knowsley's seven elephants arrived | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
from Africa, but the chances of future generations coming over now | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
look increasingly unlikely. This is down to violent criminals | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
earning significant sums of money, often for terrorism and we have | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
simply got to raise public awareness and reduced demand, otherwise there | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
will be a shocking indictment of our generation if we let these animals | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
And JLS, Little Mix and Neil Young will be among the performers at the | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
Liverpool International Music Festival. The event replaces the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Mathew Street Festival and will run between mid August and mid | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
September. There'll be a mix of classical, rock, pop, soul and | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
blues. A nurse cleared of poisoning | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
patients at Stockport's Stepping Hill Hospital is planning to sue | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
Greater Manchester Police. Rebecca Leighton spent six weeks in prison | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
after being arrested in 2011 and says Greater Manchester Police | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
leaked her name to the press and changed her Facebook settings so the | :08:53. | :09:03. | |
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media would have access to private photos. Elaine Dunkley reports. | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
In 2011, Nurse Rebecca Leighton was at the centre of a murder | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
investigation following the deaths of five elderly patients at Stepping | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
Hill Hospital. Saline solution used in drips had | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
been contaminated. Rebecca Leighton was arrested. She was named and | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
images from her Facebook account were shown all over the media. Some | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
newspapers called her "angel of death". | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
Days later she was charged with poisoning patients. She spent six | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
weeks in prison before charges against her were dropped because of | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
insufficient evidence. Now, two years later, Rebecca Leighton is | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
suing Greater Manchester Police, claiming they leaked her name to the | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
media and gave the public access to her Facebook account so private | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
photos and messages could be viewed. She is now suing the force over a | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
breach of confidence and misuse of private information. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
If it is correct that police leaked the information when they should not | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
and change face of settings, then of course that may give rise to a | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
breach of confidence and a massive infringement of her privacy because | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
all of these people, who she is specifically excluded from access, | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
have been able to do so and use that in many media articles. | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
If successful, Rebecca Leighton could claim up to �100,000 in | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
damages. Greater Manchester Police confirmed it had received a claim, | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
but would not comment any further on the case. | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
Elaine is here now. Elaine, it's almost two years now since the | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
deaths at Stepping Hill, where is the investigation up to now? | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
In the past few minutes, solicitors have sent these documents. They | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
claim she was kept in custody for her own safety as a result of the | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
negative public opinion against her. And she received abuse on Facebook. | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
One posting said, I hope you rot in hell. Rebecca's solicitors claim she | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
has been unable to find a job because of all of this and has had | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
to move in with her parents for a crime she did not commit. | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
It is almost two years since the incident, where is the investigation | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
up to now? We must remember that this was and | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
still is a major investigation. There have been many twists and | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
turns and due to things like medical records and underlying health | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
problems of patients. Another nurse who worked on the same ward, | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Victorina Chua, has been arrested on suspicion of causing the deaths of | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
Tracey Arden, Arnold Lancaster and Derek Weaver and he remains on | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Police Bail. He is due to answer that bail next month This lovely | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
family snapshot shows Ruth Carter and John Traverse, and their new | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
baby daughter Keira. She was born in Liverpool just a | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
couple of days ago, conceived using IVF - nothing particularly unusual | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
about that. But Keira is the first test tube baby of her kind in the | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
world because of pioneering treatment at the Liverpool Women's | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Hospital. Scientists hope the technique will now give other | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
couples a better chance of starting a family. Andy Gill reports. | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
Meet Keira Traverse, born on Friday and out of her incubator today. Her | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
parents found it hard to conceive naturally and already have a son | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
born through IVF. But Keira's different because doctors knew her | :12:17. | :12:27. | |
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embryo had a greater chance of developing properly than others. | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
I am smitten. I have completely had it. I will never have any money | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
again, she will be able to twist me completely around her little finger. | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
And here is the embryo that became Keira. In IVF labs there's no UV | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
light so it all looks yellow. Here scientists develop a number of | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
embryos outside the womb and then decide which one to implant back | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
into the mother. The method pioneered here in Liverpool gives | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
scientists more information about which embryo has the best chance of | :12:54. | :13:03. | |
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growing normally. They looked very, very similar at | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
early cell stages, but we know, genetically, they are probably very | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
different. We need to identify which one of these embryos is going to | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
give us a successful pregnancy and hopefully a successful live birth. | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
The new machine takes hundreds of pictures of the embryo as it | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
divides. These make a video which allows doctors to see when cell | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
division happens. And knowing that means they can tell which embryos | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
are the healthiest. The new system not only tells scientists which | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
embryos are more likely to develop, it is also healthier because the | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
embryos are taken out less often. Keira'It's early days, but the | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
women's hospital are so convinced it'll improve IVF success rates that | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
they're going to offer it on the NHS to all couples. Andy Gill BBC North | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
West Tonight Liverpool. And he still manages to look sophisticated in | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
that blue hat. Still to come on North West Tonight: | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
Keeping it in the family. The young TT rider living up to the famous | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Dunlop name. And they're used to a challenge - | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
but this is a particularly "Big One". We'll meet the soldiers | :14:13. | :14:23. | |
scaling new heights for charity. Every six minutes, someone is raped | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
in Britain. Recovering from the emotional trauma can take years, and | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
victims need specialist support. In Manchester, that's provided by a | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
pioneering centre which has given the BBC unprecedented access to film | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
its work. St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
Centre was the first in the UK. There are now 45 other centres like | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
it. Our reporter, Abbie Jones, has been talking to victims and staff | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
and joins us now. If you report you've been raped to | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Greater Manchester Police and Cheshire Police, you'll be referred | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
to St Mary's. But victims can also refer themselves. More than 1,200 | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
people used the service last year. Just under half were children. The | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
youngest was just three weeks old, the oldest 96. Rape knows no | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
barriers - as Juliet found out. She was raped in Manchester and waved | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
her anonymity to talk to us and the documentary makers to show how | :15:17. | :15:27. | |
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important St Mary's was in helping In this city centre alleyway one new | :15:31. | :15:40. | |
year's eve, Juliet was raped by a stranger as she left a nightclub. | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
It is filthy and awful and as vile as I remember it. Confronting what | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
happened, back at the scene and emotionally, was almost too hard to | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
do. I can't go down there. But Juliet says she found the | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
strength because of the support from staff at St Mary's. I would not be | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
the woman I am now sitting in front of you if I had not had the support | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
of Saint Mary's. He both in the easiest thing to do is bury it, but | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
it is the worst thing you can do. It eats you up inside and choose you | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
up. If you deal with it head on, that is part of the healing process. | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
When victims arrive they are listened to, medically examined and | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
forensics are taken. Samples can be stored in these freezers for up to | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
seven years. It is quite sad to open it up | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
because it is all these stories in the freezer. | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Juliet, who was a teaching assistant, went to court and saw her | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
rapist sent to jail. But not everyone feels able to speak to the | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
police. Psychological support is just as important. Not only for the | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
victim, but for their significant other. You may have an incident | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
where it is a child that has been raped whether parents need a lot of | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
support helping them to cope with what happened. Both Juliet and the | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
centre say they wanted to speak out to dispel myths about sexual | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
violence. And for Juliet, talking about what happened to her has given | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
her back some control. There is still a huge amount of shame | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
attached to rape. I have nothing to be ashamed of, what happened to me | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
was not my fault. I don't want to be defined as a rape and Tim, I won't | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
let this bury me. This has helped me to make sense of it and have her | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
purse. And you can see that programme on BBC One tomorrow night | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
at 10:35pm. Sport now. Richard is here and there's a crucial match for | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
St Helens tonight in Super League? Yes, Saints are unusually way off | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
the pace at the moment after five defeats in the last six matches in | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
all competitions. Head coach Nathan Brown is coming under a bit of | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
pressure and takes his team to his former side, Huddersfield Giants. A | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
big boost for Saints is the return of influential hooker James Robie | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
from injury. But there's no doubt it'll be difficult against a Giants | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
team who remain second in the table. Wigan stretched their lead at the | :18:02. | :18:12. | |
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There's no stopping Wigan at the moment. But Wakefield almost managed | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
a shock upset leading until late on. Josh Charnley's hat-trick and late | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
scores from Lee Mossop and Darrell Goulding made it 12 wins on the spin | :18:20. | :18:30. | |
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against Salford. Ben Westwood scored his 100th career try as the hosts. | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
After last week's win, Brian Noble said humpty dumpty had fallen off | :18:38. | :18:48. | |
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the wall in this one. Widnes' game with Catalan went right to the wire. | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
Two late tries pulled the Vikings within two points of their French | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
opponents. Jack Owens had this kick to secure a draw. He held his nerve | :19:00. | :19:10. | |
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the weekend games on the super league show on BBC One at 11:20pm. | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
And there's full coverage of Saints' match against Huddersfield Giants on | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
BBC radio Merseyside on 95.8 FM, 1485 megawatts and DAB. Kick off is | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
at quarter to eight. Now to the Isle of Man TT where the famous Dunlop | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
name has once again been setting the pace. The late Joey Dunlop won more | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
TT races than anyone else in history and now his nephew is showing the | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
same habit of crossing the finishing line first with a hat-trick of wins | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
so far. Morecambe's John McGuinness, chasing his 20th career victory on | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
the course has taken part in three races himself, but is still | :19:49. | :19:59. | |
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searching for that elusive victory. Kelly Foran reports. It's hard to | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
imagine doing just one lap at this speed - but 14 laps and three races | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
later Michael Dunlop has been unbeatable so far. Yesterday he | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
raced to victory in the superbike event and 24 hours later victorious | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
in two more. Coming here and winning the big | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
race, I'm excited and looking forward to the rest of the week. | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
Sometimes you can lose concentration after a few laps. It was good and I | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
enjoyed it. Yesterdays win an emotional one - it came 30 years | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
after his Uncle Joey Dunlop's first TT win on a Honda. The late Joey | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
Dunlop holds the record for the most ever TT wins - the man closest to | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
his tally of 26 is Morcambes John McGuinness. These cameras on the | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
bikes show the extraordinary speeds they travel - with an average of | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
131.671mph - McGuinness set a new outright lap record, but he's still | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
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yet to win one. I said that the beginning, it would | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
be really competitive and hard to win. Proving there that it is really | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
hard, but I can only keep trying. I enjoyed that race. Nothing more to | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
prove, I just want to be safe and write strong. Never writes John | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
McGuinness offer. He is still the man. Nephew of the greatest ever TT | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
rider, he's got some way to go to catch Joey's record, but at the | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
moment he's climbing up the all time leaderboard by the day. | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
As Manchester City edge closer to appointing Malaga's Manuel | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Pellegrini to replace sacked manager Roberto Mancini - the club's former | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
chief executive has told the BBC that Blues owner Sheikh Mansour | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
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won't accept mediocrity and expects to win the Champions League. | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
I don't like the thought of mediocrity. I don't think the owners | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
of Manchester city do, but I would hope that every sport entity that is | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
trying to win would not have mediocrity as acceptable. They want | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
to win the champions league and every football club should. | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
Rio Ferdinand has been granted a testimonial by Manchester United. | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
United will play Sevilla on August the 9th for Rio who moved to Old | :22:20. | :22:29. | |
Trafford in 2002. He is a winner, but Manchester | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
city's new man will be under pressure, went to? | :22:33. | :22:41. | |
Yes, they are expecting naturally feed each season. It is going to be | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
a battle. I hope they get paid. They get a few quid. Now it's 235 | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
feet of pure terror - and that's when you're safely strapped in to a | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
carriage on Blackpool Pleasure Beach's Big One roller coaster. So | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
imagine how scary it must be to go to the top - climb over the rail and | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
abseil down. Well forty volunteers, including | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
soldiers who've lost limbs, did just that today. All to raise money for | :23:10. | :23:20. | |
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charity. Peter Marshall was there. If you have ever wondered what it is | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
like to abseil down the UK's tallest roller-coaster, you are about to | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
find out. This footage was filmed by Andy | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
Reid, a soldier from Saint Helens who lost three limbs when hit by a | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
bomb in Afghanistan. I have never been on the ride, to be honest, so | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
never dreams about abseiling off it. He faced a challenge that would | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
cower many to raise money for the soldiers charity. I was scared when | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
I first went over, I won't lie, but then it was a surreal feeling of | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
peacefulness and being quite free. It is hard to achieve that feeling | :24:03. | :24:13. | |
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with this ability so it was fantastic. And he wasn't alone. | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
Coriander Taylor is the wife of a serving soldier from lung cancer. -- | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
Lancashire. The climb is hard on the legs and the descent is nerve | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
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shredding. Great. I can't wait to tell my husband and he can brag | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
about me to all of the lads in Afghanistan. Also on dangling duty, | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
88-year-old veteran from Manchester. The big one holds few fears when you | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
have landed on the Normandy beach. It is a good feeling once you set | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
off. It is great coming down the road and looking at the view. It is | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
a marvellous feeling. Today's plummeting will raise thousands for | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
serving and retiring soldiers. That really does look terrifying, | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
doesn't it? I don't fancy that, not at all. It | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
looked beautiful though, didn't it? It did, pretty beautiful day. Well | :25:28. | :25:36. | |
it's been a lovely sunny day so we've sent Eno outside. | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
we've sent Eno outside. It is still beautifully warm. A bit | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
of cloud around, but conditions are looking really good. Plenty of | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
sunshine in Blackpool today, but we had plenty of sunshine lit chilli | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
everywhere across the region. A beautiful, gorgeous start to the | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
first week of June with all of that sunshine around. The temperatures | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
definitely something to write home about. We saw temperatures very | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
close to 21 Celsius in greater Manchester and Cheshire today. | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
Elsewhere, we kept temperatures in the high teens and the warm air | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
continues to flow in from across the conflict -- continent across the | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
week. We will hang onto the warm air. By Thursday, we could see | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
temperatures as high as 21 Celsius. This evening, a lot of bright spells | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
to enjoy. Patchy cloud in Salford, but as we head into dawn, the cloud | :26:35. | :26:43. | |
will melt away. We may see mist and fog pockets forming in some places. | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
Temperatures may fall into single figures in some areas, but towns and | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
cities will have a mild night. The headlines for tomorrow is more of | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
the same. Plenty of sunshine from the word go. A dry, bright out | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
tomorrow morning. We will see lots of sunshine and feel really warm. | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
Very light wind around and the temperature may be disappointing in | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
the Isle of Man, but inland entity or 20 Celsius could be yours. | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
Wednesday is dry and rights. High pressure continues to build so have | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
a look at these temperatures, by Friday we cling onto 21, maybe 20 to | :27:26. | :27:29. |