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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 Rochdale sex abuse scandal which

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helped highlight the widespread weakness and failings in caring for

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the town's vulnerable young girls. We'll hear from the local MP as a

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report says 17 agencies failed girls in the town. Also tonight: it is a

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controversial subject that simply won't go away, but could fracking

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now be coming to South Cumbria? This is appreciation for all you

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have done for the lifeboat. The Southport mum who launched a

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lifeboat after her son's death gets a Christmas star.

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Why the season's not so festive if you happen to be a footballer.

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Normally on Christmas Day, our dad has two types of work. One to fix

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the presents and then two to go to work.

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And as work gets under way on Bethlehem's Christmas tree, the

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decorators from Liverpool show they've got a head for heights.

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Vulnerable girls in Rochdale were allowed to be sexually abused by a

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gang of Pakistani and Afghan men after a widespread pattern of

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weaknesses and failings, it's been revealed. The police, social

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services and 15 other agencies were all to blame. That's the conclusion

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of an independent review into the scandal. It found the seven girls

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were failed by all agencies they had contact with. The gang was jailed

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last year, as Mark Edwardson reports.

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The nine men found their victims by trawling takeaways in the Heywood

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area of Rochdale. Found guilty of rape, sexual assault and

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trafficking, they were given sentences totalling 77 years. It was

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that case that sparked the review. Today's report from the Rochdale

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Safeguarding Children Board points the finger at, amongst others,

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police, Rochdale Council, the NHS and the Crown Prosecution Service.

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It says... Policies and procedures were poorly

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understood on front line. Resource pressures and high workloads in key

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agencies contributed to sense of helplessness. Culture, policies and

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attitudes were at times actively unhelpful when working with

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adolescents. Greater Manchester Police is heavily

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criticised for the way it viewed victims and how it investigated

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their accusations. It is pretty shameful, isn't it? Because it is

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just not that easy. If it were that easy we would do it tonight. Or we

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are dealing with his young people who constantly go missing from care

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homes and homes and we find them and take them back. Obviously some

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people say the common`sense approaches lock them up, but we know

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that will do more long`term damage. Rochdale Council's social services

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failed in its role to protect vulnerable girls from child sexual

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exploitation. Disciplinary 's have taken place and there have been

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dismissals and other actions. I think it is really important we

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don't just focus on individuals because what we have heard is this

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whole system West failures. `` system's failures. Victims were

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seeking emergency contraception in the middle of the night, sometimes

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presenting with injuries. Yet no`one in the NHS thought to raise the

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alarm. This is some of the most extreme abuse I have seen. You are

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talking about young girls, 13, 4, being raped by men on a daily basis,

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so it is very extreme because it is over a series of years and it will

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take years to recover, but they do want to rebuild their lives and make

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the changes to when sure this doesn't happen in the future. `` to

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ensure. Teamwork and communication were almost absent between 2003 and

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2011, but that's changed, according to the board's independent Chair.

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I'm not here to apologise but well we have staff sitting in the same

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room in the same environment with the same priority, that gives me

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hope, and that single priority being to protect children. Police and

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Rochdale Social Services believe there are more prosecutions to come.

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Today's findings will probably come as no surprise to Rochdale's MP

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Simon Danczuk, who joins me now For several years now, you've

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accused Greater Manchester Police and Rochdale Social Services of

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failing these children, and today you've been proved correct, but was

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there anything in this report that even you weren't expecting? I think

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the information about Greater Manchester Police has been quite

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surprising, really. We raised a lot of the arguments with Rochdale

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councils and social services in how they failed young girls but this

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review has shone a light more clearly on the performance of

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Greater Manchester Police, and that gives me concern because it was

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significant, the failures, with regard to the police. They took a

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view that these girls were poor white, working`class vulnerable

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girls and they should be ignored, and that is what exactly happened.

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That is unforgivable, I think. What is your predominant feeling about

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what went wrong? We heard about young ghost turning up with injuries

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looking for contraception at night. These sorts of things should have

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been picked up. Yes. I've pushed for the case review 18 months ago and it

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probably wouldn't have taken place if hadn't raised it with the Prime

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Minister and the Children's Minister. But Greater Manchester

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Police should have intervened. I'm concerned about the Chief

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Constable's comments today, where he was very defensive, talking about

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children's homes. He will know very well that only one of the victims

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was staying in a children's home and none of the others were, so why he

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keeps raising that, that puzzles me. They need to come out and tell us

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that the culture is going to change. Have you any confidence anything

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will change? There are recommendations that say the police

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have to train their front`line workers better and that is

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important. They have to have the skills to deal with victims of this

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kind. That is what has been missing. Many of the victims would not come

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forward and speak to the police because they don't have confidence

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in them and that is something you have raised with the Chief

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Constable. During the investigation, other

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victims have come to light. It's taken nearly five years, but

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tonight, these five men will finally be behind bars, each one guilty of

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sexual exploiting a profoundly vulnerable under aged girl in

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Rochdale. This is Freddie Kandakamara, a refugee from the

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Congo. In 2008, he'd raped a girl when she was 15. Today he received

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the longest sentence of ight and half years. It is shameless. They

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have taken an opportunity to accuse a very vulnerable young girl. Not

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only have they done that, but then they have not been prepared to admit

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their guilt when faced with the wealth of evidence on offer. `` to

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abuse. And I have to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the

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strength of character this young lady, as she is now, has shown. This

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case, like so many others, has highlighted failings within

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organisations there to protect. Greater Manchester Police had

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recorded 23 hours of video interviews with the girl but did not

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proceed with the case. In 2009, she made further allegations against a

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Abdul Huq Chola Chancer, Mohammed Abu baker and Roheez Khan ` again,

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no action was taken. Today, a statement made by the girl was read

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out in court. "I found the two court cases the hardest thing I've ever

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had to do. I felt my life and my personality were under the spotlight

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and that I was being branded a liar. In sentencing, the judge said in

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this case there was knowledge in the locality that young and therefore

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vulnerable young girls were susceptible to sexual activity in

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return for affection, drugs and alcohol. He went on to say, it is

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just such situations that the law seeks to protect. The men have been

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sentenced to a total of 26 and a half years in prison.

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The head of the Christie Hospital in Manchester has been temporarily

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suspended as part of a disciplinary investigation. Caroline Shaw has

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been Chief Executive of the Christie Trust since 2005. The Trust says the

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situation won't affect patient care. Direct flights between the Isle of

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Man and Glasgow are to resume next year. Isle of Man Chief Minister

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Allan Bell met Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond in July and

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pledged to restore the link ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

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next year. There will be nine flights a week from the end of

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March. Sir Tom Jones has confirmed he will

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perform at next year's Lytham Proms Weekend. The singing legend, who's

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also a judge on BBC One's The Voice, will appear at the music festival in

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August. A Cumbrian MP is tonight expressing

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concern that fracking could spoil the area's landscape and damage

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tourism. It follows a report suggesting that land not far from

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the Lake District National Park could be opened up to shale gas

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exploration. The Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron says instead of fracking,

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money should be invested in renewable energy. Here's our

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environment correspondent, Judy Hobson.

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The countryside just a few miles from the late district and an area

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of stunning natural beauty. The British geological Society things

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deep underground, there could also be shale oil. The local MP hopes it

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won't allow the energy companies to extract it by drilling fracking The

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reality is, if you think of a place be desecrated by fracking or burying

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nuclear waste, dare I say it, then that damages the ground and makes it

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far less likely people will come and visit, especially from overseas The

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main concern is climate change, the biggest threat that we face as a

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species. If we are signing up to another fossil fuel, that just seems

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daft. But some ministers believe producing more energy at home would

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benefit the country and create thousands of jobs. It is proving

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controversial, though, in places like nearby Lancashire, which has

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several potential fracking sites. Now the Government is looking at

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whether to open up other parts of the UK. The latest report showed new

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areas under consideration, including, for the first time, areas

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in Cumbria, like Mill thought. We all want fuel and we don't want to

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pay too much for it, so it is a case of where they get it. There has been

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a lot of investment and it seems to be working for the Americans, so I

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don't know. South Lakeland is one area that should be considered for

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shale gas or drilling, according to the report. But they still do not

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know how much is under the ground. Ministers still have till the spring

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to decide whether to go ahead with a new round of licensing.

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Defence analysts say a decision by the United Arab Emirates not to buy

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60 Eurofighter Typhoon jets isn t a reflection on the quality of the

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aircraft built by BAE Systems in Lancashire. It's thought the deal

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could have been rejected due to an improvement in relations between the

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Gulf state and Iran, its regional rival. In the circumstances,

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military modernisation in the context of some economic difficulty

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might be less of a priority and I think these are the factors we must

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think about. It is not that they don't like the Typhoon jet, they

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like it very much. But it is a question of, do they need it and can

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they afford it? The issue of planning and where to

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build new homes has been particularly contentious in parts of

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Cheshire. Councils have described themselves as being under siege from

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developers. Well, last night, Cheshire West and Chester passed its

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pocal plan, which should give it much greater control over where new

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properties are built. But campaigners say it's allowing too

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many, as our political editor, Arif Ansari, reports.

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It's a local plan which will redraw West Cheshire's map over the next

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two decades. How many homes should be built, and where? It's also an

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attempt to regain control of the planning system from developers

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This development just outside Chester seems to be popular. Who

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knows whether the council was in favour or not? But with the local

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plan in place, they would have much greater power to say yes or no. This

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is probably one of the most important decisions the council will

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make. It has cost us millions this year because of appeals lost, so

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having a plan in place means we have control over planning and keen keep

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it in line with what our local communities want. . But there was

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serious disagreement over the detail. Campaigners wanted no more

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than 14,500 new homes. Labour wanted about 18,000. The ruling

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Conservative group got 22,000. The green belt here is at risk. If we

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were looking at 14,000, 15,000 houses, a realistic number, it

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wouldn't be under threat but the moment you get to 22,000 we start to

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lose green belt land. But the local plan still needs government

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approval, and that means arguments over the future of Cheshire will

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stretch well into next year. And Arif's here now. So an important

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decision, but the process goes on. What should we expect and what about

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the rest of Cheshire? The other major council is Cheshire East and

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that is quite instructive as to what happens next. They got quite a way

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to improving their local plan and that got up to the government

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inspectors and it was challenged by property developers who said these

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fantasy figures. The inspectors agreed and it was rejected, and that

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has left Cheshire East in a far worse position than it was before

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because they have no local plan in place, so Cheshire West and Chester

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have passed theirs but it still needs to be cleared by the

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Government. But they are very confident now this will give them

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the authority to carry it out. Could be some to go and possibly a twist

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in the tail macro. We will see. Still to come on North West Tonight:

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And why the season's not so festive if your daddy's a famous footballer.

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And finding their head for heights ` the Liverpool tree`decorators get a

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bird's eye view of Bethlehem. When Kath Wilson lost her son Geoff

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in a fishing accident, she raised money for a new lifeboat for

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Southport. That was back in the 1980s. But Kath has never stopped

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finding new ways of supporting its important work. Now the crew has

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said thank you to Kath for all her hard work by nominating her for a

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North West Tonight Christmas star. Here's Stuart Flinders.

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This is only a drill but the Southport lifeboat could be called

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out at any moment. We have had aeroplane crashes, shrimping rigs,

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boats in distress. With the cockerel is a couple of years ago, for

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example. Keeping the lifeboat service afloat isn't easy. We are

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looking at 40,000 to ?45,000. Kath, without her, the lifeboat wouldn't

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have been here from the start. Kath has been raising money since 19 7.

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In that year, her son Geoff died in a fishing accident out at sea. There

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was no Southport lifeboat in those days and Kath was determined no of

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the mother should suffer as she had. Southport's first lifeboat since the

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1920s was named in Geoff's memory but a quarter of a century on, Kath

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continues her vital work for the lifeboat in its charity shop. She

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manages all the people running it and it goes from strength to

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strength. I think you would be the best man, then, to give her this

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north`west Christmas star. This week, the crew paid Kath a surprise

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visit. For our appreciation for all you have done for the lifeboat!

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Thank you very much! Kath is now concentrating on her next big

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project, somewhere to keep the boat. It is to make sure it is up

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and going, that is my ambition. It is an expensive business, isn't it?

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But nice to be recognised? Yes. They obviously think a lot of you. So,

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Kath, now a Christmas star. Another cracking story!

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Well done, Kath. More of those next week.

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Richard's here with the sport now. And some welcome news for Liverpool

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fans first of all? Yes, ahead of their match against

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Cardiff tomorrow, Luis Suarez has signed a new four`and`a`half`year

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contract. No wonder he is smiling! Even by his standards, Suraez has

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been in sensational form this season, with 17 goals in just 1

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starts in the Premier League. The club dug their heels in over the

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summer when he tried to move away from Anfield and now they've tied

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him to this new deal, which will see the Uruguayan earn around ?160, 00 a

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week until the end of the season, and then ?200,000 a week for the

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final four years of his contract. It's an astonishing amount of money!

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But don't worry, he has been putting a bit away each week so his kids

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will have some presents! You were about to ask us to suspend disbelief

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with your next story because nobody has any sympathy with the all is!

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Possibly a bit. Maybe not Luis Suarez. Great for Liverpool. But

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footballers at this time of year have a different life from us.

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Across the region, some face five games in a fortnight. And while

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we're stuffing our faces and settling in to watch the telly, for

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them, it's business as usual. Here's Stuart Pollitt.

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You've heard of the 12 days of Christmas. Well, what about the 15

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days of festive football? For some, 15 days with five games. They will

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be the options for the weekend, I think... Not ideal when you've got

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fewer than 20 players to pick from. It seems at our level, we usually

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have smaller squads and we put a lot of pressure on the lads so far. With

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the number of matches they have played. You are at least giving them

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Christmas Day off? We are! It is a bit different this year. Burnley

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have made it to the top of the Championship tree, despite their

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small squad. Would it be helpful to have a deeper squad? Of course. Is

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it a necessity? We will see. But we have made the best of the system so

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far so we are looking forward to the games coming our way. With plenty of

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games coming up, it's a busy time for players and managers. But what

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about footballers' families at this time of year?

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The crackers are nice, aren't they? What do you think they have in them?

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The Davies family have got used to doing the decorations and plenty

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else around Christmas without Dad. Normally on Christmas Day, our dad

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has two types of work. One is to fix all the presents and then the other

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is to go to work! It is dominated by football at Christmas. My kids know

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they will open their presents and then daddy goes training. We are

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just used to it, really. He has lots of time with the kids at other

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times. And so while the football calendar takes precedence over the

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Advent calendars, at least they have those long summer holidays to look

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forward to. Enough compensation, I think!

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Tranmere Rovers will be hoping to give themselves a bit of breathing

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space from the League One relegation zone tonight. Rovers, just a couple

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of points from the bottom four, take on Gillingham. There'll be full

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match commentary on BBC Radio Merseyside, with kick`off at Prenton

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Park at 7.45pm. And in Rugby Union, Sale Sharks take

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on London Irish at the AJ Bell Stadium tonight, with commentary on

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BBC Radio Manchester. Thank you very much indeed.

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Excellent! They get the odd day off as well as that salary!

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If you've been watching all week, you know we've been following five

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Christmas tree`decorators from Liverpool who've landed the best job

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in the business ` decorating the tree in the town where it all began.

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Bethlehem. A holy town but also a town which has been at the heart of

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struggle in the Middle East. Here's Jayne McCubbin.

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Bethlehem is bustling. Thousands of pilgrims are arriving for the big

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switch`on just days away. We're being taken to the tree by

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Sari, a christian taxi driver. So are you looking forward to

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Christmas? Of course! Of course Sari points out where he'll be

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having Christmas dinner. This is the restaurant was telling you about.

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The Israeli security wall surrounds the town. Israel says it has reduced

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attacks on their people. Palestinians say it is squeezing the

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life out of the town. I wish you and all the crew a Merry Christmas and a

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happy New Year. Thank you. The same to your family.

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I leave Sari to find our decorators hard at it. The security issues they

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struggle to understand. Ged has some minor security issues of his own.

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Whoa! With this get past health and safety at home? Not at all, no! You

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are dangerous, I'd tell you! They are mad! BLEEP! Where is my cup of

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tea? Have you seen him hanging out of that tree?! Word is starting to

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spread of the men with strange accents who've come baring gifts.

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But to some, the accent isn't so strange at all. Ahmed has dropped by

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to see the Scousers, as he's married to one himself. Yeah, Karen. That is

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amazing! I know! For now, they live apart. They think Merseyside is a

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more stable place to bring up their son. But hopefully one day, you

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know, there will be peace in this country. Because to us as

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Palestinians, we really, really want peace. We promise to take his love

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back to St Helens. Definitely she will divorce me now! It is a message

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this man hopes is spreading. The man who brought the team to Bethlehem.

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Do you believe they think it is safe to stay here? You have to ask

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tourists after they visit here. They change their mind completely. If God

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wishes, as they say. Despite the language barrier, the team and the

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volunteers have become firm friends. On the Bethlehem sleigh! There's no

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sense of risk or threat here. You see that the people have nothing

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and they would give you anything. They would give you absolutely

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anything. And it gets me quite emotional, to be honest. I'd do feel

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honoured and privileged. We are only doing what we do. You are going to

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be a wreck when those lights switch on. I will be a wreck if they don't!

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What could possibly go wrong! Well, the night sky is shining but

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we still haven't seen the tree! The suspense is killing me! When are we

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going to see the tree in all of its quarry? On Monday we will see the

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tree lit up in Bethlehem in all of its glory. Speaking of which... Here

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is the weather! This is a proper compliment. Thank

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you! Thank you very much! Hello good evening, you will see the tree

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on Monday and you will see some rain on Monday and you will also see some

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rain tonight, I'm afraid. Through this afternoon, we have had the

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cloud building with the rain slowly making its way through Ireland and

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it will cross the Irish Sea tonight. It is breaking up as it

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crosses over what we do have a yellow weather warning for rain from

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the Met Office because it will build up again as it crosses the Irish

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Sea, so some heavy pulses for a time through this evening. They should be

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gone the other side of the night and it will leave behind some showers.

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Still very windy and maybe galeforce again across the Irish Sea, said the

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Isle of Man, over parts of Cumbria as well. By dawn it looks to be

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mostly dry with temperatures definitely much milder than we saw

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yesterday. So, for tomorrow, we start with some sunshine and we will

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see rain and some showers through the afternoon. We hang on to the

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strong winds, possibly gales around tomorrow at definitely some very

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strong winds. We start off mostly dry and with some sunshine and the

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band of rain slowly eases over quite quickly. Through the afternoon it

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comes over and leaves some sunshine and then another band of rain at the

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end of the day. All the while, keeping the strong winds with

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temperatures of ten or 11. Tomorrow night, the rain finally eases away.

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Mostly dry tomorrow night with clear skies and then a chilly night. A

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windy night with temperatures, as you can see, well above freezing.

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Possibly some wintry showers, particularly on higher ground. As we

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head into the weekend and Sunday, it will be cooler but still wintry

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showers. And I'm afraid, more rain on Monday. In fact, a yellow weather

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warning for the rain on Monday. So Christmas week won't start off too

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dry. But for tonight, if you are worried about the rain and strong

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winds, as usual, your local BBC radio stations will keep you

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updated. So, when are you getting changed for

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the Christmas party? Or are you going like that?!

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Thank you. You up for me! She always dresses immaculately. When you two

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getting changed? Annabel is doing karaoke, apparently! Get your inner

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plugs in! Have a lovely weekend

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