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Cheshire. Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger | :00:02. | :00:07. | |
Johnson and Eleanor Moritz. Our top story. A dumping ground for the | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
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vulnerable - why Blackpool is trapped in a cycle of poverty. | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
money we do get we try and put into bed-and-breakfast for the night. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
What else can we do? The council tells us what it's doing to try to | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
turn the town around. Also tonight. Tragedy at sea - a man drowns | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
despite the best efforts of these rescue workers. I am on a farm near | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
Knutsford in Cheshire to find out why rural crime has plummeted. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
even got the rain right! A revamped Old Trafford shares in England's | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Ashes triumph. And more big news for Doctor Who fans. There are reports | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
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tonight of a giant Dalek invasion in Cheshire! | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Blackpool's become a dumping ground for society's poor. That's the | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
verdict of the latest damning report on the town - this time by the think | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
tank, the Centre for Social Justice. It says people on low incomes are | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
attracted by cheap accommodation - many bringing with them a host of | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
social problems. Blackpool Council says the answer is to limit the | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
supply of cheap rooms, but how are they going to do it? Stuart Flinders | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
has been finding out - he joins us from Blackpool now. Its a depressing | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
picture, isn't it? It is depressing but I do not think | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
it will come as a great surprise to many people who live here, who have | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
seen these changes come over the town. What a reporters talking about | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
specifically is such things Alf high levels of failure at school, high | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
levels of teenage pregnancy, of lone parenting and unemployment. These | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
exist in all towns and cities but this report suggests there is a | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
particular problem for resorts like this. In a town famous for its | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
traditional auditing houses, this man raises money for accommodation | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
by taking. We don't get any benefits. What money we do get we | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
try and put into a bed-and-breakfast for the night. What else can we do? | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
The Centre for Social Justice report says resorts like pipe will have | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
become dumping ground for society's four. Men have got the shortest life | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
expectancy here of anywhere in the country, 66 years will stop that is | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
very local pair to everywhere else. You have people living in houses of | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
multiple addict -- occupation, you have people with drug addiction, and | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
it seems to attract people then the streets are paved with gold when | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
they are not. The millions who used to flood to Blackpool for the summer | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
holidays now see it as a day out, if they come here at all. It is noted | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
less for fresh air and fun than for what to report called severe social | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
break down. There is poverty and in towns and cities across the | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
Northwest of course, that the council believes this town has more | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
than its fair share. They believe the answer is to change the kind of | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
accommodation on offer and that will attract a different mix-up people. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
We are demolishing a large number of one and two person flats and | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
rebuilding family homes. Secondly, it is about clamping down on bad | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
landlords in the private sector. With that allow you to attract a | :04:01. | :04:11. | |
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different kind of person. Yes, it is about... The report presents a | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
depressing picture and suggests seaside resorts need special help. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
Stuart - how optimistic can the people of Blackpool be that | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
anything's actually going to change? It is certainly not getting any | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
easier. A study carried out at Sheffield Hallam University Park | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
noted that the cost the economy in black ball of recent benefit changes | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
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is �82 million a year -- Blackpool. It gives you an idea of some of the | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
kind of problems that results like lack pool are up against. -- | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
Blackpool. A coroner has begun an investigation | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
after a father from Manchester drowned while trying to rescue his | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
sons off the coast of Anglesey. John Lawrence from Urmston had been | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
airlifted to hospital on Friday afternoon after the RNLI pulled the | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
three from the water in strong winds at Rhosneigr. Dave Guest has the | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
story. Unlike ode rushes to the rescue of | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
the young lad caught out by the unpredictable waters that surround | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
Anglesey. It was a difficult journey. It was for seven wind. The | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
minute they rounded the headland, they took a full round of the wind. | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
The makings of the drama were laid at this beach near Rosneigr on | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
Friday afternoon. John Lawrence and his family from Ernst and in greater | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
Manchester, had been enjoying a break here. The sons got into | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
difficulty and Mr Lawrence went in to try and help, with disastrous | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
consequences. This RNLI video shows the moment when the rescue craft | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
page one sons who managed to scramble to safety on rocks. His | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
father and brother had already been winched up ought -- aboard the RAF | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
hello copter and taken to hospital where his father was announced dead. | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
There are hidden dangers here. There are many underwater rocky outcrops | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
and rip tides can catch out the unwary. The manager of this | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
beach-side bar says people have to be careful. You do to people who | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
just take Bordeaux for the day go out there occasionally. The waters | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
are pretty risky and I would not advise people who do not know the | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
waters well. Tonight one of the boys remained in hospital where he is | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
recovering and the other one was released. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Two men from Lancashire have pleaded not guilty to endangering an | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
aircraft. 32-year-old Tayyab Subhani and 41-year-old Mohammed Safdar from | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
Nelson were on a Pakistan International Airways flight - | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
originally bound for Manchester Airport - when the aircraft was | :07:07. | :07:15. | |
diverted to Stansted in Essex. The pair are due to stand trial in | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
November. A murder investigation is under way | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
after a man was stabbed to death and his partner was left in a critical | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
condition. Police were called to Stud Farm Holiday Park in Heysham in | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
the early hours of Sunday morning where they found the 28-year-old man | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
and a 26-year-old woman with significant stab wounds. A | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
26-year-old man's been arrested in Stoke-on-Trent on suspicion of | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
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murder and attempted murder. The chief Executive of Lancashire | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
County Council has been suspended from work pending the outcome of a | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
disciplinary investigation. It follows an independent review of the | :07:58. | :08:08. | |
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tender process for a contract to run the council 's fleet services. | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
The renovation at a hospital in the whirl allies radiation technology to | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
be used more effectively. It involves pioneering treatment in a | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
chair. Andy Gill visited the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre to find | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
out more. Diane Place from Blackburn had | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
treatment for her eye tumour at Clatterbridge last month. Today | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
she's helping us demonstrate the centre's new sophisticated | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
equipment. It's the chair patients sit in to have what's called proton | :08:40. | :08:49. | |
beam therapy. It was fine. I got in the chair. They have to make a mask | :08:49. | :08:57. | |
for you which is painless. I did not feel any worry, I knew I was in good | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
hands. Diane's tumour was at the back of her eye. So doctors had to | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
use a beam of powerful particles to destroy it. But it's really | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
important to get the beam in the right place. Otherwise it can damage | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
healthy tissue. And that's where the new chair, all quarter of a million | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
pounds worth of it, comes in. Staff can move it by tiny amounts, just | :09:19. | :09:28. | |
millimetres, to get the patient's head in exactly the right spot. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
bridge Cancer Centre had this machine for 24 years and have the | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
same chair that we built in-house -- Clatteridge. We now have a bespoke | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
chair built in Switzerland which is more accurate, quieter and more | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
sophisticated. Without proton beam therapy many cancer patients would | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
have to have their eye removed. They have been using the proton beam at | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
Clatterbridge for more than 20 years. But the new chair means they | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
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can do it much more quickly and much more accurately. | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
It is amazing how something so seemingly simple can have such an | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
impact. The former chairman of Wigan Warriors and Preston North End says | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
he almost died after eating ox tongue containing deadly bacteria. | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
70-year-old Maurice Lindsay was bought the meat from the North West | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
supermarket chain Booth's. It was infected with listeria, which kills | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
30% of humans it infects. Today Booth's pleaded guilty to ten food | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
safety charges and was fined almost �30,000. They say they've made | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
significant steps to address the issues. | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
More than 300 passengers have finally taken off from Manchester | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
Airport after their flight to Pakistan was delayed for more than | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
two days. There were angry scenes as passengers became upset waiting for | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
the plane, which left at around one o'clock this morning. The Airblue | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
flight to Islamabad was due to fly on Friday night but the plane | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
developed a fault. Still to come on North West Tonight. | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
There's a brave new world at Bury, but did the team get their new | :11:06. | :11:15. | |
owners off to a winning start? The day after the new Doctor Who was | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
revealed, could his new archenemy piece here in Chesterfield? | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
A terrifying sight. Tractors used to be one of the most expensive items | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
targeted by local thieves. But figures out today show security | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
measures like trackers and fob keys have drastically cut thefts. For the | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
first time, insurers NFU Mutual have released crime figures for every | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
region. And one area in particular is doing well in the fight against | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
rural criminals. And it's mostly down to one man. Judy Hobson is here | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
to tell us more. Rural crime cost the economy in the | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
North West �3.9 million last year. That's down 24%. Lancashire was | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
worst hit. �1.3 million worth of goods were stolen In Cheshire it was | :12:02. | :12:11. | |
�1.1 million and Merseyside �270,000. Quad bikes, tools and | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
vehicles were main targets. And sheep rustling is on the increase. | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
But the general fall is rural crime is being put down to new measures to | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
secure tractors. One area that is leading the way in the fight against | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
rural crime is Knutsford in Cheshire, thanks to a Rural Watch | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
Scheme set up by a local police officer. | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
Dairy farmer Antony Millington has 160 cows and acres of crops. Three | :12:38. | :12:47. | |
years ago thieves stole his tractor, worth �40,000. They went three to | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
hedges, through a gate onto the main road, and it is my belief that 50 | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
yards from that Kate was loaded onto a wagon never to be seen again. | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Although it was insured, he relies on it every day. Trying to borrow | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
other machinery isn't easy, especially at harvest time. Antony | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
called PC Mark Dawber from Knutsford's rural neighbourhood | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
police unit. He advised him on making his property safe. This | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
tractor is fitted with a security system. On the inside of the tractor | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
there's a triangle with the registration number which is unique | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
to the track. It looks like a sticker, can you not just take it | :13:32. | :13:42. | |
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off? No, it will shatter and rape. The rural crime rate in the area has | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
plummeted. Every other day a piece of equipment was being stole from | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
farms, dairies and stables. By arresting those individuals and | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
taking them off the street it virtually stopped overnight. The | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
officer has now set up a auroral watch scheme to farmers can report | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
any suspicious behaviour. The National Farmers Union believes | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
rural crime in the Knutsford area could have fallen by as much as 70% | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
thanks to the work of PC Mike Dawber and his team, and they are working | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
with police in other areas to set up similar Rural Watch schemes. | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
On to sport now - and the weather wasn't to everyone's liking for the | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
final day of the Ashes Test at Old Trafford today. But a local artist | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
has found the whole experience picture perfect. Rob Wilson from | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
Whaley Bridge in the Peak District was commissioned by Lancashire | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
County Cricket Club to record the encounter between England and | :14:40. | :14:50. | |
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Australia in a series of paintings. A mixed media artist, Rob combines | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
traditional paints, with other textures and even fragments of the | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
match programme. The works will be at the Contemporary Six Gallery in | :14:58. | :15:06. | |
Manchester for a fortnight from mid-August. Whether or not he | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
painted the scenes of jubilation when England retain the Ashes, I do | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
not know. The weather intervened in the kindest of ways. The good old | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
Northwest weather help England win the Ashes. | :15:20. | :15:29. | |
Yes. Manchester's secret weapon came to the aid of England. A slightly | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
unsatisfactory way for England to retain the Ashes but a lot of the | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
fans will not care about that. Overall, the return of Ashes cricket | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
to Old Trafford has been talked about as a huge success. A rain | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
affected final day but the long awaited return of Ashes cricket to | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
Old Trafford has been far from a damp squib. Good morning, welcome | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
the sunny Manchester! For me, cricket is everything and this is | :16:01. | :16:11. | |
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the top. Atmosphere is brilliant despite the rain. Runs had slowed | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
and wickets tumbled as Australia tried to keep the series alive. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Making sure that Ashes cricket return to a venue that has seen some | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
of its most memorable moments was almost ten years in the making, | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
turning the tired old ground into the revamped and rebranded Amrit Old | :16:34. | :16:43. | |
Trafford. I have not heard one bad word from anybody. As unexplained, | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
last Thursday when two recent was bellowing out and 26,000 people were | :16:47. | :16:56. | |
in, I had a in my throat. Ashes cricket is the Stooges and | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
lucrative. This one will bring in as much as �10 million of revenue. | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
are part of English cricket tradition and to have Old Trafford | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
back as one of the major grains with fantastic facilities is great for | :17:09. | :17:17. | |
the North West cricket fraternity, it is great for older players. | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
will now be remembered in 2013 as the venue where England got the hang | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
onto the famous person. That is talk about what this has meant that | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
Lancashire with the chief executive. Just reflect on the test | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
in terms of what it is meant for the club and for cricket fans in the | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
region. For Lancashire County Cricket Club, we're back as a Ashes | :17:44. | :17:53. | |
host venue. It is great for the region as a whole. Give us an idea, | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
financially, how important to a county setup like Lancashire, and | :17:57. | :18:06. | |
Ashes test is. And Ashes chess is not just the pinnacle of cricket, it | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
is the pinnacle of sport. People have talked of 20 million in terms | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
of economic spend. What about the future for Lancashire? If you had | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
not managed to redevelop the ground, what would have happened was | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
to mark huge credit has to go to the board in terms of how they brought | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
the club out of those dark times. lot of businesses would have gone | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
bust. Could that have happened to Lancashire? I think it could have | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
the strength aboard -- the strength of character of the board here. It | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
is a real platform for growth going forward. Thank you very much, it has | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
been a bit of a success. Yes, absolutely delighted and we cannot | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
wait for the next one. Lancashire's cricketers have strengthened their | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
position at the top of the County Championship Division Two table | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
after completing an emphatic victory over Leicestershire. Kyle Hogg took | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
five wickets as Lancs dismissed their hosts for 174 in their second | :19:12. | :19:22. | |
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innings to win the match by an innings and 52 runs. | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
The Wayne Rooney saga has taken another twist today with Manchester | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
United confirming that they have turned down a bid from Chelsea for | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
the striker. Chelsea are understood to have bid �25 million plus add-ons | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
for the 27-year-old, but United insist the player isn't for sale. | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
There are reports that Rooney will submit a transfer request to try and | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
force the move through. Wigan Athletic were the story on the | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
opening weekend of the Football League season. The Latics, relegated | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
from the Premier League last season, battered Barnsley 4-0 away from | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
home. New boys Grant Holt and Leon Barnett were both on target at | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
Oakwell. But how about this for a goal, scored by Oldham's Christian | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
Montano as they also scored four on their travels. Montano ran from the | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
edge of his own penalty area to score his side's third in a 4-3 win | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
at Stevenage. In League Two, Accrington Stanley managing director | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
Rob Heys has been charged by the Football Association with a number | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
of betting offences. The FA's rules prohibit players or officials | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
betting on any matches in competitions with which their club | :20:39. | :20:48. | |
is involved. He has until August ninth to respond to the charges. | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
While all thirteen of our Football League clubs started their campaigns | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
over the weekend, for one of them, it wasn't just a new season but a | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
brand new start. Bury ended last season relegated from League One on | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
the field and fighting for their very existence off it. On Saturday, | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
the Shakers new era finally kicked off and Howard Booth was there to | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
see it. It would have seemed a ridiculous | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
thing to say at the end of last season, but Bury's future finally | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
seems bright. This was the scene in March. Fans, management and | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
directors in heated exchanges as the club's desperate financial situation | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
came to light. A Football League fixture since 1885, Bury were | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
minutes from extinction until this man's intervention. Stewart Day is a | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
31-year-old Yorkshireman who lists property as his main occupation. He | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
says a passion for football is why he bought the club and that he'll | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
run it along strict business lines. Well on the way to recovery. We are | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
debt free. I think we are very unique in what were they to bring to | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
the club. We have our fans of the different I guess the tragedy in the | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
pub or club to try to create the new. A press box fixture for BBC | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
Radio Manchester, Jimmy Wagg has seen all kinds of takeovers at all | :22:10. | :22:18. | |
kinds of clubs, So what does he make of this one? It feels like a club | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
going forward rather than one tinkering on the -- on the brink of | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
going out of business. This was Gigg Lane less than a month ago. The new | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
regime gutted large areas of Gigg Lane to improve the match day | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
experience for guests and the infrastructure for the players. This | :22:33. | :22:43. | |
is the ground now, with a brand new gym and medical room. When Bury with | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
turned for pre-season training they had just seven players. That is | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
reflected in this line-up today where seven of the 11 are making | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
their debut. They lost the match against Chesterfield, but against | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
all the excitement of rebuilding, isn't all there to good to be true? | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
I have had that, but I had to give me the time and patience, in that we | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
hope to achieve what we set out to do. I am accused by the support we | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
have had from the supporters here. Over time we will show our | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
commitment to this club. With admission fees slashed, Bury have | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
almost trebled their season ticket sales to almost 2,000 and say more | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
incentives to boost attendance will follow. While a successful season | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
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can't be guaranteed at Gigg Lane, an interesting one certainly can. | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
Finally from me, Southport's Fran Halsall won Britain's only medal at | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
swimming's World Championships. Fran made up for the disappointment of | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
finishing fourth in the 50 metre butterfly on Saturday to win bronze | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
in the 50 metre freestyle in Barcelona. | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
Last night we found out who the new Doctor Who will be. The actor Peter | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
Capaldi, in case you didn't know. But it's a giant recreation of the | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
Doctor's arch-enemy the Daleks which is drawing attention in Cheshire. | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
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Stuart Pollitt takes up the story. We have euro associate. You will | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
obey or she will be exterminated. They struck fear into a generation | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
of viewers. It seems the Daleks, in whatever guise, still have the power | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
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to shock. The genuinely terrified? Yes, a little bit. Did a jockey when | :24:46. | :24:55. | |
the mood for the first time? Yes! were inundated with suggestion from | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
customers to do something for the 50th anniversary for Doctor Who, so | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
that is where the idea came from and we thought a 35 foot Dalek would | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
look pretty cool. And it all tied in with yesterday. They've been making | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
straw statues for 15 years but this one has been more complicated than | :25:12. | :25:22. | |
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most. We have gone the extra little bit of a mile by make it interactive | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
and work. Hitachi makes their heads turn and makes the gun go up and | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
down. A team of four to three weeks building the initial steel structure | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
and then another team took another three weeks berating the straw | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
design. In total more than 700 man-hours for one weatherproof | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
Dalek. Are you a fan of Doctor Who? Not massively but I'm taking more | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
interest now! And on a rainy afternoon there were plenty taking | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
interest in the creation. That is just fantastic! Well done, | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
superb. So realistic that Diane has superb. So realistic that Diane has | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
been hiding behind the We know it has rained at Old Trafford today | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
that it has also reigned everywhere else. From two o'clock yesterday | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
until 4pm today we have some figures in and it has been very wet in | :26:24. | :26:33. | |
:26:34. | :26:37. | ||
places. This is the latest picture. Gradually the rain is moving away. | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
Most places are looking a bit more cheerful. We are still under Met | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
Office warning until around 9pm. But realistically, the rain pulls out of | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
the way and it is a quiet night. For towns and cities, 13 double 14 | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
Celsius. Tomorrow morning it is an entirely different day. It should we | :27:01. | :27:11. | |
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try and find. -- the Crowley and fine. The sunshine may be blocked | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
out for a narrow sober when it comes back out, because the winds are | :27:16. | :27:25. | |
light, temperatures will rise to 19 or 20. Not a bad day following on | :27:25. | :27:30. |