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Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson and Annabel Tiffin.

following an armed siege in Liverpool.

The wounded man remains in a stable condition in in hospital.

Also in the programme, remembering Riggers,

thousands of people, many of them bikers, pay their respects

on the anniversary of Lee Rigby's death.

Former Manchester United manager David Moyes

after allegations of assault in a wine bar.

We are with survivors as they prepare to commemorate the 30th

anniversary of the disaster in which 16 people lost their lives.

And from the devastation, a new beginning `

the drama centred on the IRA's bombing of Manchester.

An inquiry is under way into how police came to shoot a man

at an armed siege in Liverpool this morning.

The man was shot in the chest and is in a serious but stable condition.

Officers were called to a house in the Dovecot area of Liverpool

after reports that a man armed with a gun and a knife

Our Merseyside reporter, Andy Gill, has been at the scene,

and earlier I asked him how the incident began.

Merseyside Police say they were called here

after reports that a man armed with a gun and a knife

was holding hostage a woman who he knows.

He was said to be threatening to harm her

Armed police came to the scene to contain it,

with an officer or officers shooting the man and injuring him.

There's been a heavy police presence here throughout the day.

have been examining the house and surrounding area,

Neighbours described what they saw and described the moment

when police used smoke bombs before they went into the house.

He wouldn't open the door. And he had this knife.

And then he started waving the knife at the police.

Seeing the armed response everywhere,

They were standing on the corner of the road with their gas masks.

And then they had to throw bombs into the house.

Another witness recorded the moment on his phone.

This afternoon, a senior police officer

gave a statement about what happened.

At approximately 8:45 this morning,

due to increasing concerns for the safety of the woman,

a decision was made for armed officers to enter the address,

which they did using distraction devices,

Police say two children, aged 11 and seven,

got out of the house safely before the siege began.

The woman was safely taken from the house to a police station.

Officers found a gun and knives at the house.

whenever the police shoot a member of the public

the Independent Police Complaints Commission,

and that's exactly what has happened in this case.

Merseyside police are carrying out a criminal inquiry into the incident.

Thousands of people around the country have been taking part

in services to remember Fusilier Lee Rigby

The 25`year`old father from Middleton was killed outside

his barracks in Woolwich by Islamic extremists.

she will never be able to forgive her son's killers,

who are both serving life sentences.

His uncle said it was important to remember the good times with Lee.

They came to remember Fusillier Lee Rigby `

a soldier, a father and one of their own.

A year has past since his brutal murder, and emotions are still raw.

Cut down in the prime of his life on the streets of London, a massive

shock to the family. The last time I saw him, he was in my living room,

with the little baby rolling around. Jack is now a toddler walking

around. It is about the family treasuring memories for Jack as he

gets older. Fusilier Rigby's death

shocked the world, the televised images

hard to comprehend. A young soldier from Middleton

murdered on the streets of London by extremists Michael Adebolajo

and Micheal Adebowale. To see him actually murdered like

that is horrible. And we are soldiers or ex`soldiers.

Well`wishers and bikers gathered outside his barracks in Woolwich.

A poem was read out on behalf of Lee Rigby's mum, Lyn.

Today was about respect, remembrance and communities coming together.

This is something that went far beyond any one community. These two

murderers claimed to be from the Muslim community, but they did not

represent us or our faith. We have become, through this horrible crime,

we have become more united as communities.

Fusiler Rigby's name will be added to a list of fallen soliders

a life and death that will never be forgotten.

Elaine Dunkley, BBC North West Tonight.

A hearing is under way in Manchester to decide

whether a house belonging to the family of a convicted terrorist

the first time the Terrorism Act has been used in this way.

Munir Farooqi was given four life sentences for trying to recruit

two undercover police officers for jihad in Afghanistan.

Farooqi's family say it is unfair as they've done nothing wrong.

A former Greater Manchester Police officer

jailed for using a patrol car while trying to buy heroin

has had his appeal against sentence dismissed.

Robert Carroll was sentenced to 14 months in February.

He claimed he became addicted after carrying out test purchases.

Voting is under way for the European and local elections.

In the North West, elections are taking place in 26 councils.

Eight Euro MPs will also be elected to represent our region.

Queenie fishing around the Isle of Man is in doubt

after scientists recommended it should be suspended

for a year to allow stocks to recover.

There have been record catches in the last four years,

but stock is now 53% below historic levels.

who died when he was just three months old,

against the hospital where he was born.

Luke Weaving`Shorrocks suffered a fractured skull and brain damage

saying an inquest into Luke's death, which finished today,

didn't criticise the care they provided.

Mark Edwardson was at Bolton Coroner's Court.

Luke Weaving`Shorrocks at just a few weeks old, born in May 2011.

He was beautiful, he had the most bright blue eyes.

We were just very lucky to spend that short time with him.

The former Manchester United manager David Moyes is being investigated

by police over an alleged assault in a Lancashire wine bar.

Police officers were called to the Emporium in Clitheroe

last night following reports a 23`year`old man had been assaulted.

Richard Askam has been following the story and is in Clitheroe.

This is the Emporium Bar in Clitheroe,

where the police were called at about ten o'clock last night.

It followed reports that a 23`year`old local man

had been assaulted by a 51`year`old man.

said there had been a scuffle outside the bar.

The younger man did not require hospital treatment.

Lancashire Police say there were a number of different accounts

They say inquiries are ongoing, and they're speaking to a number

of people to try to establish the circumstances.

No`one has been arrested at this stage.

It's been a difficult month for David Moyes, hasn't it, Richard?

He has. He was sacked as Manchester United manager a month ago

after less than a year in charge at Old Trafford.

David Moyes was chosen to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson as United boss,

with Sir Alex personally giving him his seal of approval.

But things didn't work out for Moyes at United,

and despite being given a six`year contract, he was dismissed

with the Reds out of the top four and out of the Champions League.

As far as this investigation is concerned,

I should re`iterate that no`one has been arrested

as the police continue their investigations.

Thank you very much, Richard. Still to come on the programme: Join me on

a journey through the largest scientific experiment ever

instructed, recreated here in Manchester. And from the Manchester

bombing to the millennium, the brand`new drama centred on the

city's darkest day. Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary

of the Abbeystead disaster, following an explosion

at a waterworks site in Lancashire. It happened at about half past seven

on the evening of May 23rd 1984. because a tour group was being shown

around the small site at the time. The building designers were found to

be liable. In the second of his special reports

to commemorate the tragedy, Peter Marshall has been speaking

to one woman who survived. 30 years is a long time

in anyone's life, of how a beautiful evening

in the Trough of Bowland turned to tragedy

remains as fresh as ever. You know when you light

your gas hob, and if you are a bit late going

with the match or the lighter and it makes a sort

of whoomph sound, well, it was like that,

only magnified lots of times, which made me look up

just in time to see flames, a big blue flame

coming out of the inner door. Pat was one of 44 people

inside the Abbeystead valve house on a Water Authority

public relations tour when a methane`gas explosion

ripped through it. Somebody had come out

of the building with his shirt on fire

and rolled over to put it out. And I don't remember hearing

any other noise from inside. Whether that has got lost

in the mists of time, I was just too busy thinking,

"What the devil has happened?" She suffered burns

to her legs, hands, neck and face. My clothes were practically

all burned off, 16 people, including a 12`year`old

boy, died in the disaster. Like Pat, most were from the village

of St Michael's on Wyre. 30 years on,

one thing still preys on her mind ` a feeling she did not do enough

to help immediately after the blast. I've always been somebody that does

things and helps and does things. And I went down

in my own estimation, But to be injured

and to be in shock, it's understandable

that you were dazed. OK, that is how it seems

to other people, but I can't change how

I feel about it, and that is that

I should have done something. I'm ashamed of myself for not,

let's put it that way. The 30th anniversary

of the Abbeystead disaster here at the parish church in St

Michael's on Wyre on Sunday morning. and a candle will be lit

for each of the 16 people who died. I mean, I've had 30 years

that they did not have. So that is one thing

that does make me go to church. Peter Marshall,

BBC North West Tonight. This is a story which could be of

interest to millions of holiday`makers.

A man from Stockport could make it easier

for millions of passengers to claim compensation

if their flights are delayed for more than three hours.

Ron Huzar's flight from Malaga was delayed by 27 hours

but because the airline said this was exceptional circumstances,

His case was heard at the Court of Appeal today.

A decision has been deferred, but is lawyer joins us from London. Thank

you for joining us. Why are you so keen to prove this point? It is a

big issue for Mr Huzar. The radiation say you are entitled to

compensation and care, and on the day when this occurred, he was not

provided with that care. `` the regulations. When you still feel

angry about the way you have been treated, ultimately compensation is

your only recourse. The reality is that this fracture, potentially,

millions of people flying into the UK every year. As you say,

because the airline quote because the airline quote

exceptional circumstances. In this case, a technical problem, they have

to charter another plane. The fault in this instance was wiring, which

was part of the engine valve. Wiring is a perishable item, and the test

that the airline has to meet is that they have to prove that the

circumstances is something that is not inherent in the operation of an

air carrier and beyond their control. In effect, they seek to

argue that wiring which is perishable, breaking its

extraordinary. As a layperson who owns amid `` a motor vehicle, these

things occasionally do happen, it is inherent in the operation of a car,

and in the same way it is inherent in the operation of an aeroplane.

Isn't there a danger that if airlines face the prospect of more

compensation pay`outs, they may be tempted to cut corners? The reality

is that we are talking about less than 1% of flights that are

affected, but it is 1% of a sizeable number. This is not a safety issue.

The aviation industry year is one of the safest in the world. The reality

is that they have three hours to deal with technical problems, and it

is more the way they run rotations and safety issues. If they have to

build into their fair an extra amount to cover the cost of

insurance against compensation, cheap flights would exist, airlines

could go to the wall, jobs could be lost, all because of this case.

There was a European Commission report published last week that

showed that if everybody who could claim did claim, we would be talking

about ?2 50 on the price of every single ticket. The reality is that

less than 5% of people do claim. The second point I would like to make is

that in court today it was remarked upon that airlines already build

this into the price of the ticket. You are already playing for this

insurance, but airlines are refusing to pay the benefit of compensation

and using your money to fight a case against you. That cannot be right.

Thank you very much indeed. Just for the record, Jet2 says they will

welcome anything which clears things up and makes it easier for

passengers and airlines to know what the rules are.

It's the largest scientific experiment ever constructed.

The Large Hadron Collider is buried deep under the border

between Switzerland and France, hundreds of miles away.

The CERN complex opens to the public just once a year.

visitors to Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry

can step inside the world`famous physics laboratory

where it's been brought to life through video and sound.

Abbie Jones has been for a sneak preview.

Deep under the earth, in caverns and laboratories,

The complex is home to thousands of men and women,

This exhibition recreates their work and their play.

The team behind it visited CERN to make it as realistic as possible.

Physics is often presented as something very abstract and almost

science`fiction, and we wanted to bring home that it is a major human

endeavour, and we wanted to bring that story across. You will see the

concrete walls, you will see the working tools of people at CERN.

The most famous machine at CERN is the Large Hadron Collider.

it crashes tiny particles into one another at tremendous speeds

Telling us more about how the universe began

The exhibition brings that to life. I am standing in the heart of a

collision, you can see the proton is about to smash into each other, and

the debris that comes out. I hope that they get a sense of what it is

actually like to be at CERN... Professor Jeff Forshaw

has visited CERN many times and works on the science

being done there. I think everybody is curious about

their origins, where does everything come from? What has happened to

produce this world with some stuff in it, including as? That is the

kind of thing that is being investigated at CERN, and it is

generated by fundamental human curiosity. You don't need to be an

expert to engage with that. But who knows? Perhaps a visit here

could fire up a new passion. Abbie Jones, BBC North West Tonight,

Manchester. Joining us from the launch of the

exhibition is Professor Brian Cox from the University of Manchester,

thank you for joining us. This must be very exciting, an exhibition like

this in your home town. It is, because I worked at CERN for

many years, I was around when the big experiments were being built,

and you do get a sense of the sheer scale of this endeavour. In your

report, the answer to widen we do something on this scale is because

we are curious about the universe. I think it is a wonderful thing to be

able to come and see first`hand bits of real hardware and the real

people. It is a big exhibition, a tremendous place to come. You get a

sense of the excitement. I imagine it would have to be huge, how do you

create something like the large hadron collider in a Manchester

Museum? Well, actually, this museum has got big spaces. You are right,

though, the LHC is 27 kilometres in circumference, and we are talking

about experiments, digital cameras that are 44 metres long, 22 metres

in diameter. They are huge, cavernous spaces, but you do get a

sense of it here, and you can see the technology that went into that.

How do you photograph a mini big bang? Bits of it were built in

Manchester, which is interesting, so you can see the bits that we built

about ten years ago and installed in Geneva, and they are now discovering

particles. So bringing science to life, I suppose encouraging younger

people to come and have a look and be more interested in science, I

guess? Oh, I really hope that is the case. I would encourage anyone to

bring their children here. Actually, whether they are interested in

science or not, because it might ignite a spark. But if you are

interested in science, five, six, seven years old, you will see what

you could do. I got interested in science by visiting Jodrell Bank in

Manchester, and that set me on a path to a career in science. If

anything, this is more exciting than a radio telescope! I shouldn't say

that! But you are recreating the conditions that were present at the

beginning of the universe, 600 million times a second is a

tremendous achievement. Professor Brian Cox, thank you very much for

joining us. It is too complicated for my little

brain! By Mike you should have been paying more attention! We are going

back to 1996, the Manchester bomb. It is now the inspiration for a new

drama called From There To Here which is on BBC One tonight. Large

parts of Manchester and Stockport were transformed for the filming

last year, which tells the story of how one city and two different

families recovered. It is a drama which starts on a

long, hot summer day with many highs... It is Gascoigne! And some

terrible lows. June 15, 1996, Oasis was the top Britpop band. England

was hosting Euro 1996, the whole country looking forwards to the

England`Scotland game. For some reason, supporting England seems to

be all right for the first time in my lifetime, really. But on that

day, it was another event that stole the headlines. The IRA bombed

Manchester City centre. It provided inspiration for director James

Strong. I was walking down here on Deansgate, looking towards the other

end, the Arndale, and I remember it being so quiet you couldn't hear

anything. And suddenly there was this really low kind of third or

bang. I saw the windows go out. More than 200 people were injured that

day by the largest peacetime bomb detonated in Britain, but remarkably

nobody was killed on what was a very busy Saturday morning in Manchester

and City centre. The blast used the street as a tunnel, banging her

peer, smashing into the shop, all the windows caved in. It caused

chaos. `` up here. The story of the new BBC drama, From There To Here,

is set against this chaotic backdrop and stars some of the biggest names

in the business. It follows the tragic misadventure of two very

different families whose lives collide in the aftermath of the

bomb. That is tonight on BBC One. We all

remember where we were on that day in 1996. A bit of a change today,

wasn't it? Good evening, you will have to get

used to this weather through the next couple of days. We are heading

towards the bank holiday weekend, and there is light at the end of the

tunnel. A weather front will plague us through tomorrow, weather

conditions fairly similar, some showers on Saturday. The showers

will become less widespread on Sunday, and then by Monday the

spells of sunshine around and spells of sunshine around and

temperatures rising back up again. Monday is a long way off in terms of

weather forecasting, but it looks like things will get better

gradually. This has been the track of the rain through the day, the

worst of it through the morning, but through morning, but light and

patchy stuff, nuisance value through the night.

7 degrees could be experienced to relate, ten or 11 in the towns. Not

a brilliant day tomorrow by a long shot, a lot of cloud cover from the

word go, and when the next line of rain comes, it breaks up through the

day, but it is still with you, very slow`moving, a cloudy day with

outbreaks of drizzle. The breeze does us no favours, nothing in the

way of sunshine, 14 or 15 is as good as it gets. After that, the next

couple of days don't look so wonderful, but on Monday? Get a

smile on your face because the sunshine returns, slightly warmer

temperatures. `` but on Monday you might get.

Another bank holiday as well! I love this time of year. But it is the

last one for a while. At least it might be quite nice.

When the first travellers crossed America, they were faced with this -

from snow-capped mountains to arid plains and thick forests.

The very nature of the American personality was defined.

Ray Mears explores the land behind the Hollywood legend

and discovers the wild that made the west.