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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson and

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Annabel Tiffin. Our top story: The state of our health. Why people

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here are more likely to die early than anywhere else in the country.

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The Health Secretary says the findings are shocking.

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Also tonight: A teenager goes on trial accused of

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killing four siblings in a house fire at Freckleton last year.

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The gambler jailed for a vicious attack at a bookmakers after he

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lost 200 pounds on a gaming machine. Lending a hand, the local high

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school taking over a Manchester library to save it from closure.

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think it is the way forward for a lot of buildings now, that they are

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shared by different groups, different partnerships and they

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think it is great. And it may be half-past six in most of the

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country but I will be reporting from the town where it is always

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five to 10. A teenager has gone on trial

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accused of murdering five brothers and sisters. Dyson Allen is accused

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of setting fire to a wardrobe where children were sleeping. Their elder

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brother died trying to get to them through the smoke. Our chief

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reporter has been following proceedings at Preston Crown Court.

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The fire broke out during the early hours of the morning on 7th January

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last year at a three bedroomed bungalow in Freckleton. The

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bungalow was home to the Smith family. There were four-year-old

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twins and a two-year-old brother that were fast asleep in an attic

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room when the fire started. Their teenage brother fought desperately

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to try to get to the children to save them but sadly all four

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perished. The prosecution here says that the four children died because

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someone deliberately set fire to or wardrobe in the bedroom. The

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prosecution say that that person was Dyson Allen, a family friend.

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He denies killing the for sale billings. These children died in

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the place that they should have felt the safest, their bedroom.

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They stood little chance as the smoke filled the room during a fire.

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Their 19-year-old brother died as he tried to save them. The fire

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started in a wardrobe in the bedroom. That fire was lit, say the

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prosecution, by Dyson Allen. The children's mother had thrown a

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party to celebrate her birthday on the night the fire started. Most of

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the guests had left before they broke out and of those that

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remained, everyone was downstairs apart from Dyson Allen. He was a

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family friend and he had been planning to spend the night and he

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was upstairs when the fire began. The prosecutor went on to say there

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were inconsistencies in the accounts that Dyson Allen had given

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about the events leading up to the fire starting. He said that months

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later during a conversation over the internet Dyson Allen had said,

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I did something bad in my past and now the police on my back. Dyson

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Allen denies four counts of murder and for alternative counts of

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manslaughter. He will have his say at the trial progresses and the

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trial is expected to last eight weeks.

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Thank you very much. You are more likely to die

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prematurely in the North West than anywhere else in the country. And

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your local NHS and council are least likely to help you make life-

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saving choices. That's the message in a new league table out today.

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The Health Secretary has described it as shocking that life expectancy

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is so much lower in parts of the North West and, he says social

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deprivation can no longer be used as an excuse.

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Our Health Correspondent Nina Warhurst is here with more.

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Thank you very much This map might not come as a big

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surprise. Out of 150 councils in England, nine of the areas where

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you're most likely to die before you're 75 are here in the North

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west. We thought we knew why. High levels of poverty, unemployment,

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low levels of education and exercise. But this new table

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directly compares areas with the same levels of social deprivation

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and the results are striking. For example, Manchester has the

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same concentrated populations with high levels of social deprivation

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as Birningham, and Hackney in London and yet they have much lower

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rates of premature deaths. So an area being poor is no longer an

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excuse for people dying young. So what are they doing differently?

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Why do we seem to care less about our health than in other parts of

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England? This is the big help us which tours Manchester, one of the

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most deprived parts of England. lot of people do not access the

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health services so we come to them and provide them with the

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information they need to make health changes. Despite the healthy

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messages not many people are listening, why is that?

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Government will help those who want to be helped. Scotland and the

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North of England are much more and healthy eaters and the self-. --

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much more unhealthy eaters than the South.

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Compare it to Rotherham in South Yorkshire, also an area of high

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desperation, but when Jamie Oliver came to town authorities were so

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embarrassed by pictures of parents sneaking fast food through railings

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that they invested millions in a health awareness campaign. And it

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paid off. Between them 2,000 people, young and old, shed six tonnes of

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fat in the space of a year. So why is Rotherham winning while

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we continue to die younger? Perhaps it's the North West's turn to be

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embarrassed. It is pretty obvious that despite all of the variables

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something is going wrong in this region. What needs to happen?

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that is the challenge for local authorities. We can only achieve

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these by working with local people. We must initiate new programmes in

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the schools without the population and voluntary section - receptor

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and the local authority of the best place to do that.

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Councils in England now between them have �6 billion to spend on

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Public health. And of course we make choices too, every time we

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drink alcohol and smoke or decide to eat well and take exercise. But

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is it fair that some authorities are so much better at getting the

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message across when the cost to us is dying younger.

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Thank you very much. To discuss this report in greater

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detail, we're joined by Professor Paul Johnstone, the Director of

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Public Health for the North of England.

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Whatever you're doing to make us healthier, it does not seem to be

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working. Well, it is working and we have a long track record of success

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for public health interventions. There is still a lot to do. This

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publication today shows that there are areas, and councils have only

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just taken the responsibility for public health and some areas have a

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better legacy of intervention than others. This is about putting that

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on record and allowing a conversation to understand why some

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areas are doing better than others. It is not just down to deprivation,

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there are other factors here as well. The deprivation point is

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interesting. In its -- give another one to -- in another part of the

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country with similar areas of deprivation are faring better, then

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people here are being let down. I said the local authorities have

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only just taken on the responsibilities and they are very

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excited about taking on the new role for improving the public's

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health. It comes down to three things at the end of the day. It is

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about personal choice, it is about the environment that people grow

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and living and have access to health care, and it is about

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government policy. Those three things interact. It is a very

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complex area but there are a lot of reasons why there is deprivation in

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some areas than others. It might be due to inability to get a job or

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poor schools or not being able to buy fruit and vegetables in the

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local area... Sorry to interrupt but surely you can buy fruit and

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vegetables. Surely you can get them everywhere. This is a huge

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variation. As you said, there are places that are doing better than

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others and this is an opportunity for local areas to learn. It is my

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role as regional director with my colleagues in public health to

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support my colleagues and local authorities you are taking on these

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new roles and we must understand why there is this variation are

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really to know what to do about it. Thank you very much.

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Other news from around the North West now:

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The Trust that runs Aintree Hospital, which has been criticised

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for failing to meet a number of targets, says improvements have

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already been made. The health watchdog Monitor said it was

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concerned standards had not been met for Accident & Emergency

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waiting times, treatment waiting times and the control of C

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Difficile and MRSA. Focusing on things like hand hygiene and making

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sure we keep up the cleaning regimes because we have a really

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good and clean hospital and we need to make sure it stays like that and

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in particular we are looking at the way that we use antibiotics.

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A new scheme to protect young and vulnerable victims from the trauma

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of appearing in court will be tested in Liverpool. It's aimed at

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preventing cases like that of Frances Andrade, who took her own

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life after giving evidence against her former music teacher at

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Manchester Crown Court. The scheme will enable some witnesses to be

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questioned on video before trials begin.

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Nick Griffin, the BNP leader has thrown out to meet representatives

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of the Assad regime in Syria. He said he was invited as part of a

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fact-finding mission and he wants to warn against Britain being

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dragged into another war in the Middle East.

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Spectators who were injured in a crash at the TT races are lucky to

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be alive according to the surgeon who operated on them. Isle of Man

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police say this was the first year since 2006 that no-one died on the

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open roads. But ten spectators were injured when a rider crashed into

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the crowd during Friday's senior race. If parts of a motorcycle

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flying at 150 mph catches you in the head of Chick -- the head or

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the chest then it will do a lot of damage. Because the impact was

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below waist height, there were no fatalities but there were a lot of

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injuries. The Culture Select Committee is to

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investigate plans which could result in the closure of

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Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry. It's one of three

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northern museums facing being shut down because of budget cuts.

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A Liverpool man has been jailed for viciously assaulting two staff at a

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betting shop after losing heavily on a gaming machine. 40-year-old

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Mark Rutter stabbed one man with a pair of scissors and punched

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another at the shop in Edinburgh. Morag Kinniburgh reports.

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Mark Rutter is seen here at the top cent of the screen. He has just

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lost �200 playing roulette at William Hill in Edinburgh. He

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becomes so angry that he pushes the machine over and he is shouting and

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demanding his money back. He makes his way up to staff and tries to

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get at the tills and then climbs over, behind the counter. He grabs

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money and scissors and then punches one man and stabs another member of

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staff. 40-year-old Mark Rutter has a string of previous convictions,

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including theft, assault and rape. He is branded a highly risky

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offender. He showed a complete and utter disregard for the witnesses

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in this case or the victims of. That is reflected on the sentence

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imposed on him today which is welcomed. It is happening every 10

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or 15 seconds and you have the adrenalin rush... The High Court

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heard that these super-fast gaming machines can rake in �10 a minute

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but the lawyer blamed it to a spate of violence across Britain which

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bookies do not report because they are concerned it will affect

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business. Bookmakers reject these Mark Rutter fled from here and was

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caught by police using tracker dogs. They found bloodstains is as near

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by. He has been given an order of lifelong restriction and he will

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spend at least two years and eight months in jail before the Parole

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Board will have to decide if he continues to provide a danger to

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the public. The region's largest property

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company is defending itself against criticism that it's avoiding tax.

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Yesterday MPs on the spending watchdog, the Public Accounts

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Committee, visited our building here at Media City and attacked

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Peel. They questioned its corporate structure which means some of its

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many companies are based on the Isle of Man where corporation tax

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is much lower. But Peel says all its operating businesses are based

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in the UK. Our political editor Arif Ansari reports. The Peel Group

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It owns the Manchester Ship Canal and MediaCity, where yesterday the

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powerful Public Accounts Committee proved to be awkward guests.

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company pays a maximum 10% corporation tax. That is totting it

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up. They do not pay their fair share of corporation tax. This is

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what she's got her eye on. The little known Tokenhouse Limited is

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the ultimate parent company of the group. A clutch of other companies

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form its core, largely based on the Isle of Man. And clustered around

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dozens of interlocking companies. It is a way of maximising tax

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efficiency is, as they like to call it. It is a way of ensuring there

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is as little corporation tax as possible paid. This is what Peel

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does best, regenerating and driving forward the regional economy. Its

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expanding Liverpool Docks, and with the government's ringing support

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dredging the Mersey for new ships. But critics say its affairs are

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simply too opaque. So, this companies say they are

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doing nothing wrong even though they have come in for criticism.

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Yes, certainly nothing illegal here but the question is one of morality

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and how much tax you pay and how much tax you should pay. They must

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have seemed Margaret Hodge out of the building and felt they would

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not have her back because she has taken research that already exists,

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done by a research group in Liverpool, she has shone a light on

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it and the amazing complex web of companies and said that in her view

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they need to pay more corporation tax.

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Thank you very much. Still to come on North West

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Tonight: I am really sorry, you cannot film this.

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Design a secret. The Preston firm kitting out Team GB for the

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Commonwealth Games. And the town where it's always five

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to ten. We find out why time stands still in Stalybridge.

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In just over a fortnight, the local library in Levenshulme in

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Manchester was due to close, the victim of council budget cuts.

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Protests and press campaigns all fell on deaf ears.

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But now Levenshulme High School is to lend a hand and keep the library

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open in return for using the space for lessons out of hours. Our

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reporter Abbie Jones is at the library now. Abbie, is this what

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the Government means by the big society?

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Yes, we have been hearing a lot over the last few years about the

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need for communities to get involved in local projects,

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services and so on, especially in tough economic times. The city

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council believe this partnership between the high school and the

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library, due to close on 29th June, is a prime example of that and the

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way forward. Is it really the duty of local businesses, schools and

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local people to step up when councils won't?

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One's a high school with over 1,000 pupils, in desperate need of

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somewhere to teach children who need extra help away from school.

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The other's a small local library threatened with closure. But

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they're on the same page about the way forward. It is a win/win

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situation for everybody. We get the facilities that we need a we do not

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have room for beer and the local community gets to keep the library

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open a week and have an extension of classes as well and we can

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provide more than is currently there.

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The school will pay 32,000 to maintain the library and cover the

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staff's wages. But it gets the building rent free, saving around

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�50,000. Classes will take place there out of hours. Library users

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today thought the partnership was a good news story. If that is the

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only way to keep it open then definitely. I think it is the way

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forward for a lot of places now. long as it is still go to use for

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people who do not have all the access at home then I think it is

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great. But should it be up to the

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community to step in to save public services? These are tough economic

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times and we want to make sure that the services remain open so we are

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working with everybody who wants to work with us. The city council says

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it is looking at running five other libraries in this way, perhaps with

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GPs' surgeries or housing groups. This is not the first time

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communities have stepped in to take over local services.

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In Heysham in Lancashire local people took over the public toilets

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after the council wanted to close them. And in Storth in Cumbria

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villagers bought shares in their local post office to keep it open.

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The deal in Levenshulme should be signed soon. Both the school and

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the local community now hoping it will provide a happy ending.

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Levenshulme is due to get a brand new swimming pool and library and

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2015 and if this partnership does not go ahead then this library

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would shut in June until then. If it does then it will close in just

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a few weeks for redecoration and reopen in September. Will this be a

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start of new partnerships between libraries and doctors' surgeries

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and leisure centres. Like the plot of a good book, we will have to

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wait and see how it develops. customer there was trying to get

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Now, there's just over a year to go until the Commonwealth Games in

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Glasgow. Athletes like Mo Farah, Bradley Wiggins and Jessica Ennis

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are getting ready for the big event and a company from Preston is

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making its own preparations because it's just won a contract to design

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and produce the kit for Team GB. But, as Elaine Dunkley found out,

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every detail of the design is being kept strictly underwraps!

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There's plenty to shout about in this office but everyone is keeping

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tight lipped. I am really sorry, you cannot film

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this. Under lock and key, the kit for

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Team GB for the Commonwealth Games. It's a big contact and an even

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bigger secret. What can you tell us about it? It is England colours but

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hopefully we will add a bit of a twist and it will be different from

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previous kids they have had. These are some sketches that we had done

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by the athletes down in London when we met them. Athletes have helped

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with of the design. Over 30,000 items of kit will leave this

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warehouse in Preston, destined for the locker rooms of our sporting

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stars. I think for us is is it -- it is about making athletes feel a

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part of the process and they belong to the team. There are a team

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sports and won them to look and feel very much part of the same

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team and I would like them to feel really proud. Kukri is a Preston

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Company on a fast track to success. All the designers are graduates

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from the University of Central Lancashire. Really excited. It is

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worth going to university and having a job and having something

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to be proud to tell your family and friends. We have done a lot of

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designs for Australian netball and Lancashire County Cricket Club but

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to do England is just amazing. can't wait to see Mo Farah in our

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kit, that would be amazing to see. So here's hoping for some gold

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accessories to go with the kit which will be officially unveiled

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in 2014. Elaine Dunkley BBC North West Tonight.

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As long as they win, it doesn't really matter.

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We almost got a sneak preview, didn't we? Not quite!

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Sport now and Liverpool City Council have bought Everton's Finch

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Farm training ground for �13 million. They say they expect the

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deal to provide them with an income stream worth tens of millions of

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pounds over the 40 year term of the agreement, which will see the

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ground being leased back to the club. The land's previous owners

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went into liquidation. The 20-times TT winner John

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McGuinness says crowds at this year's event were bigger than he's

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ever seen. McGuinness, who's known as the Morecambe Missile, gained

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his 41st podium finish, an all time record. The Senior TT, the amount

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of Tayyab Subhani and Mohammed Safdar cause was just incredible. I

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have never seen so many people out on that track. The Isle of Man was

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bouncing out of the Irish Sea on Friday and we have had no

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fatalities and that is a fantastic thing for the Isle of Man.

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But maybe not if you live in Stalybridge, where time has stood

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still for months. The clock on the town's Civic Hall is broken and

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there are no plans to repair it. Many people there say it's an

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embarrassment. Stuart Flinders reports from the town in a

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different time-zone. At the top of the hour it will be

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seven o'clock in London. Two o'clock in New York. Three o'clock

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in Tokyo. Five to ten in Stalybridge.

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It is always five to 10 in Stalybridge because the clock on

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top of the famous Civic Hall has not worked for ages and the council

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says it cannot justify �6,000 on repairs at a time of cuts. I say 5-

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10, but on this time it is actually 10-2.

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You can get married in this grand old building, hold a meeting here

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or a conference. As long as it's at five to ten. Or ten to two,

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whichever's more convenient. It's not as if you can rely on the

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church next door. They gave up on their clock years ago. There's a

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giant sundial nearby, but on a day like today, well...

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What use is a clock that doesn't tell the time? When you are

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standing at the bus-stop, I stand over there, or I am going to work

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in the morning, it is the first thing I look at to see what time it

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has. It doesn't matter to me. because you haven't got a watch on!

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Ask anybody on the streets it is, what time is it? I just check my

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phone. Not everyone agrees, but some say

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it reflects badly on the town. market has closed, the clock has

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gone, toilers have gone, the market has closed on Friday, it is just

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another thing that makes the town kind of look, like per se, like

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people don't care, when they actually do.

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Time waits for no man except, it seems, in Stalybridge. They'd

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rather it didn't. You know what they need? They need

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to do Lorian and some lightning and Michael J Fox and it will be fixed!

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And as one of our regular correspondence has pointed out, at

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least it is right twice a day. Always on time, here she is!

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Always on time, here she is! Saved the �6,000 on by everyone in

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the town a cheap watch! That is my suggestion. Everything has changed

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weatherwise in the last 12 hours and the cloud cover has become very

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stubborn. This is how we currently look. Quite a bit of cloud cover.

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It tried to break in the last couple of hours and where it did

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break the temperature shot up to 20 degrees. That was generally in

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areas of Merseyside. Tomorrow is mostly the same. There will be

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cloud and outbreaks of drizzly rain from time to time. This was the

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last few hours with a stubborn cloud cover. But that halls have

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developed in it. If you have sunshine at the moment you will not

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hold on to it for very long because this is the next weather system.

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Like the rain throughout today, this is very fragmented. As it

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starts to move their it falls apart across many of us so it is

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dampening the ground and not much more of a matter overnight. The

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breeze is still coming towards you from the south so the air is warm

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and humid and I would not be surprised if temperatures were

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around 13 or 14 degrees. You will get up tomorrow and the story will

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be the same again. A huge amount of cloud cover and quite a bit of rain

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in the Isle of Man. For the rest of us away from Cumbria it is very

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hit-and-miss all over again. Even though it looks as though it clears

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up there is still more to come through in the tail-end of the day.

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Waiting in the wings once the sun has gone down there is another line

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of rain coming towards us. A bit of everything in the forecast. You

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might just catch a glimpse of sunshine in the afternoon. With the

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breeze continuing to come towards you from the south and bringing the

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continental end the temperatures are not too bad. If you get it done

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so sunshine it will be a little bit higher but the rain makes its

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presence felt tomorrow night. Never mind. Thank you very much.

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Whenever you say weather system changing it makes your heart sink!

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Yes, it is rarely anything good. On the subject of town clocks which

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