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That's all from the BBC News at Six. It's goodbye from me. On | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to North West Tonight with Annabel Tiffin and Roger Johnson. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Claims the abuse of boys at a Rochdale residential school was | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
covered up after the authorities were told what was happening. | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
It could have been hidden and locked away. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
Among the allegations are claims boys as young as eight were sold | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
The two women whose starving dog mauled a pensioner to death. | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
These birds may not know it yet, but their lifestyle could improve where | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
Find out why this Lytham golfer defied odds of 40 million to one | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
A dog that savaged a pensioner to death hadn't been fed | :00:55. | :01:12. | |
Cliff Clarke never stood a chance when he was attacked in his own back | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Tonight, the neighbours who owned and cruelly neglected that dog | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
The judge said they might have got longer had the tragedy happened | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
This was the moment when police cornered the dog that had viciously | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
But it was all too late for the 79`year`old ` | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
When I went out in the garden, I heard him shouting. I looked over | :01:41. | :01:54. | |
the fence and I saw the dog attacking him. | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
Della Woods and Hayley Sulley lived in the house adjoining Cliff's. | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
In fact they had three dogs which they neglected. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
On the day of the tragedy, they left two of them | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
in the back garden in scorching weather without food or water. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
The dogs found their way into Cliff Clarke's garden and one, | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
a Presa Canario called Charlie, attacked him. | :02:14. | :02:14. | |
Shoe repairer Michael Rankin was Cliff's other next door neighbour. | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
He did his best to help, but was powerless. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
I was on the top of the fence, trying to scare the dog off, but it | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
In court, the owners admitted breaking the dangerous dog laws | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
The dog was completely out of control. Eventually, the dog was | :02:35. | :02:44. | |
shot dead. A postmortem showed that it had not been fed for 45 hours | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
before the attack. In court, the owners admitted breaking the | :02:51. | :02:51. | |
and causing unnecessary suffering to their animals. | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
laws there are no words. I will never see my brother again. | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
What you feel towards those two women? I think that the women should | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
be punished. Those children will miss their mother, who won? | :03:15. | :03:23. | |
If he had been charged under different laws, they would have | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
spent longer in prison. A second racer has died during the | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
motorbike races on the Isle of Man. He was a three`time British sport | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
champion. He made his debut in 2012. The rest of the day's racing was | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
suspended. Five people have now been arrested | :03:49. | :03:49. | |
in connection with the shooting of a man at the Ashley Brook pub | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
in Salford last week. The victim is still in hospital | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
after being shot seven times. The five detained by the police | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder are a 16`year`old`boy, | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
a girl of 17, two women and a man. Tests are being carried out to find | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
out how two men whose bodies were The men, aged 47 and 54, | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
were discovered at a bungalow in Bebington in the early hours | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
of Monday. Detectives are investigating | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
the deaths, which they describe The Government is being urged to | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
spend more on transport in the A report by a committee | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
of MPs has warned that, otherwise, It says spending on transport | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
infrastructure is weighted The man who first investigated | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
allegations of sexual abuse at Knowl View School | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
in Rochdale has told the BBC he believes his report was deliberately | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
covered up by the council. Phil Shepherd, | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
a health professional, looked into He sent a detailed account to | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
Rochdale Council, but Mr Shepherd The police are looking at a | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
cover`up. Knowl View School closed two | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
decades ago, but the scandal It opened in May 1969 to cater | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
for what were then called But soon after it opened, vulnerable | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
boys were being sexually abused by It was 30 years before he was | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
brought to justice and jailed. In 1991, a confidential report spoke | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
of a potential "public scandal", with allegations young pupils were | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
subjected to sexual abuse, The school was closed | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
three years later. Until, in 2012, the | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk accused his predecessor Sir Cyril Smith | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
of being a serial child abuser. Smith was on the management board | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
at Knowl View. Former pupils came forward | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
and claimed he'd abused them there. Earlier this year, | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
Rochdale Council appointed an That inquiry has since been widened | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
and a new lawyer appointed. Greater Manchester Police have | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
also started a new investigation. They've spoken to ten possible | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
victims and are examining more Our political editor Arif | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
Ansari is in Rochdale now. Arif, | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
how significant are today's claims? It is one of a number of | :06:22. | :06:39. | |
allegations, one that has already blown away the sign on the wall here | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
at Rochdale Council, that was here in memory of Cyril Smith. For | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
several years, Rochdale Council has been strangling `` struggling to | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
handle these allegations that some believe were ignored at the time. | :06:59. | :07:10. | |
Allegations such as this man who was sent there when he was 11. | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
I was abused on the first night. I was taken to a flat and raped. | :07:18. | :07:27. | |
While he has spoken for the first time, not all of this is new. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Rochdale council received three reports into the abuse, none were | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
published and the council has been criticised for how it responded to | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
them. Now the man who wrote the first report says that he believes | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
that it could have been cut `` covered up. | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
I cannot see any other reason that it has not come out and was not | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
dealt with effectively at the time. I still find it difficult to | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
believe. I am looking for an alternative to cover up, it could | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
have been hidden or locked away. I don't understand. | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
He says that he will be saying that to the current council inquiry which | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
is going on here and see what happens, asking questions like who | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
knew what and when, and, if there was a cover`up, who initiated it and | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
why. One of the significant political story from Rochdale to | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
tell you, and that is that the Labour leader here has been | :08:36. | :08:47. | |
replaced. He was defeated last night, `` Colin Lambert, by Richard | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Farnell, who will almost certainly become the new council leader when | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
the vote is taken tomorrow. That is significant, because Richard Farnell | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
was council leader here between 1986 and 1992, when those reports would | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
have been delivered. have been delivered. | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
Before we went on air, I spoke to the MP for Rochdale and asked him if | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
he'd thought that there had been a cover`up. | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
There is no doubt that senior council officers were aware of what | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
went on at Knowl View School. A real tragedy in terms of the victims who | :09:25. | :09:36. | |
were abused there. Some of the reports that I have read from the | :09:37. | :09:37. | |
1990s clearly show that there was terrible abuse. | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
The man in charge at the time of these allegations and the reports | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
was Richard Farr now, who tomorrow is likely to be Rochdale Council's | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
leader again? Yes, and I think they have made a | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
wise choice in choosing him to be the leader of the council. He was | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
the leader in the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. I have | :10:03. | :10:11. | |
about the situation at Knowl View about the situation at Knowl View | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
School and he has assured me that he was never made aware of the abuse | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
that was going on then. I believe him. | :10:21. | :10:20. | |
I understand what you are saying, but we cannot pre`empt this inquiry | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
that is ongoing. That is looking at who knew what and when. Do you think | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
that it is right that he is back in that it is right that he is back in | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
charge before the inquiry has had a chance to report its findings? | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
Yes, I have had concerns about the inquiry anyway. It is a council led | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
inquiry looking at if the council got things wrong. | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
But it is `` is it right that Mr Farnell is in charge? It is | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
completely right. He will be an excellent leader. | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
We have spoken to Richard Farnell and he denies ever seeing any | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
reports related to the allegations and that is what he has told you as | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
well? Yes, I believe that what we need in | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
this is less innuendo against some local politicians for political | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
gain. Take the politics out of it, we should do about the victims who | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
were abused. Think about what they had to go through. Some of them have | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
committed suicide because the abuse was so terrible. I think we need to | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
concentrate on the victims and less on the politics. | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
The jury at the Hillsborough inquests has heard the disaster | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
could have been avoided, had a decision to close 12 turnstiles not | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
been taken. Dr Wilfred Eastwood, whose engineering firm worked with | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
Sheffield Wednesday on designing and building parts of the stadium, made | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
that comment in a letter written six weeks after the fatal crush. For | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
more on this, we can talk to Ben Schofield, who's live for us at the | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Explain which turnstiles are being talked about here? | :11:57. | :12:10. | |
That is one of the larger roads through Sheffield that goes past the | :12:11. | :12:24. | |
Dr Eastwood ` who's not appearing at the inquests | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
in person, so we're hearing old statements, letters and transcripts | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
read out ` said that meant 6,000 fans for the North Stand would have | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
Dr Eastwood said he believed they were closed | :12:34. | :12:44. | |
He said that those fans would have added to the crowd that built up. He | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
said the decision was taken because the police wanted to avoid | :12:54. | :12:54. | |
confrontation. He said that the disaster would have | :12:55. | :13:12. | |
been avoided if the police had not decided to restrict the access. He | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
catered for, which was a factor of catered for, which was a factor of | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
the build`up of the crowd. Neither Sheffield Wednesday or the | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
police have told the jury why those turnstiles were closed. | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
The jewellery has been hearing from one of Doctor Eastwood's employees | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
at the time. Yes, that was John strange who was a | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
chartered engineer. He was asked to describe the character of his boss. | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
He said he was like a god in the office. He said that he could | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
deliver quite a thunderbolt. He has been asked to comment on the design | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
features, one of which I will tell you about. He said that he was | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
surprised to hear that the crash areas on the Leppings Lane side | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
were, as he said, much lower than the ones in the guidelines. | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
We'll find out why Burnley's World War One survivor is | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
And find out what perhaps did to beat the odds and entered the | :14:28. | :14:42. | |
golfing record books. It seems wherever you gaze out to | :14:43. | :14:51. | |
sea these days, chances are you'll Well, scientists are carrying | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
out some of the most detailed research ever into how those wind | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
farms affect coastal birds. The British Trust | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
for Ornithology is studying gulls on Walney Island near Barrow, so that | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
the impact of offshore wind farms It has to be done quickly to | :15:05. | :15:25. | |
minimise the interference to the colony. Trapped gulls put in sacks | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
and then fitted with a GPS system. The tags will record the location of | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
the gulls for two years, so that scientists can get an understanding | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
of where they fly and feed and how wind farms affect that. | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
We want to find out how likely it is that they could be hit by the | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
turbines or whether they might just avoid the wind farm altogether and | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
therefore have less good places to feed. Until we know that, we will | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
not know whether the wind farms are causing a problem or not. | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
There are already four wind farms of this post, including one of the | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
biggest in the world. When work here is finished, | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
scientists would have tagged 25 Lesser Black bat gulls and other | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
gulls. The data will show where it will be safest to build the wind | :16:29. | :16:29. | |
farms. Now, by their very nature, | :16:30. | :17:20. | |
stories about the First World War Most pubs might get through one | :17:21. | :18:29. | |
bottle of Benny a year, this club gets through 600. It runs at 2000 | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
litres a year. They love it. It settles your stomach. It is a | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
fantastic drink. In winter and in summer. | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
So how did this area become the capital of this drink in the world? | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
It is a legacy of the First World War. But the reason why is the | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
source of much discussion. Local historians think they have the | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
answer. The walking wounded of the battalion | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
were invited to the distillery for their Christmas party in December | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
1917 when they were given a meal with drinks. Also in the base | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
hospitals, it is recorded that it was actually administered to the | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
wounded there as a medicinal compound, knowledge with hot water. | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
Troops returning in 1918 demanded their Benny. The clubs and pubs put | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
the orders in and the Benedictine has not stopped flowing since. | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
son. That is how it has gone on. It son. That is how it has gone on. It | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
is a very tasty drink. It settles your stomach. A lot of people will | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
have a view points and then have a Benny for bigger home. They will go | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
off on the way quite happy. This tradition has created its own | :20:02. | :20:13. | |
legends. Norma D is often visited by people from the miners club. And the | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
chairman of the organisation sometimes visits Burnley. He has a | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
point. Harry's dad was known as the king of | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
the Benny. The drink was even in a poem at his funeral. | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
Here is the Benny King, don't be sorry, don't be sad, just have a | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
Benny and remember my dad. I will try some of this. God bless | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
you. It is really nice. | :20:50. | :20:58. | |
I only had a little bit. It was very nice. You asked me if I have learnt | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
anything about World War I. There is apparently a new version of the | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
Benny hot and it is the Benny bomb. The younger generation are now | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
carrying on the tradition of drinking Benny. | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
But you did not bring me a bottle back? No, I did not, it was very | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
expensive. There will be more stories from | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
World War I and York BBC local radio station at 815 every morning this | :21:33. | :21:41. | |
week. We will have another good story | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
tomorrow. Cricket, | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
and in the county championship, Lancashire are following on | :21:47. | :21:47. | |
after being bowled out for 203 in their first innings against | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
Somerset at Emirates Old Trafford. It is the third day of the | :21:51. | :22:01. | |
championship. Lankan sure 95`3. `` Lancashire. They will be keeping | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
their fingers crossed in the dressing room. | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
When Pat Smart and Marie Anderton decided to brave the rain to play | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
a round at their local golf course, they couldn't have imagined it | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
would end with a place in the sport's record books. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
The pair's efforts at Lytham Green Drive Golf Club also | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
defied bigger odds than winning the lottery, but how? | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
Approaching the sixth tee and about to walk into the history books. | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
Pat's golfing luck was about to change. | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
I have been playing for 18 years. I hit the ball, I went on the green | :22:46. | :22:55. | |
and I thought it had gone off the back. | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
I said, here it is. It was unbelievable. | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
But not as unbelievable as what happened an hour later at the 13th. | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
It's landed on the green. I was certain that it was in the hold. She | :23:08. | :23:16. | |
said that she thought it had gone in. I said that they would never | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
believe us. We looked at each other and could not believe it. | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
The hole in one is golf's holy grail. | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
Tony Jacklin hit the first televised one in 1967. | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
How rare is her achievement? This handbook lists just 15 names of | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
people who have got to holes in one. Bookmakers say that the odds of 40 | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
million to one. The reaction from friends has been overwhelming. | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
Well done. With two holes in one, what you have | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
to do? I think I will have to buy everyone to drinks, but I do not | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
mind. We did win ?25 on the lottery. There is no stopping you! | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
She will need that lottery money to help by those drinks in the | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
clubhouse. She will need to win the lottery if | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
they are all drinking Benedictine. Well done to her. We should get the | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
lottery numbers from her. And here is the weather. | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
It was not a bad day for the Isle of Man. The closer inland you were, the | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
more cloud there was, so it has been very hit and miss. It looks like it | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
will be quite wet. Thursday does not look bad, but by the time you get to | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
Saturday, it looks as if it will be a wet and lively affair. The office | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
has already given a yellow alert to say that there could be significant | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
rainfall. There could be thunder and showers. If you have plans for | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
Saturday, look out for the forecast. It can change, sometimes it gets | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
wetter, often it gets worse. Patchy clouds, sunny spells has been | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
the order of the day. Temperatures in the mid teens. Some showers in | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
the last couple of hours. It will probably move towards us over the | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
next few hours. You might see a shower in Merseyside. We are | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
expecting clear whether for a time in Cumbria. A relatively quiet | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
night. However, things change as you head into the morning. The rain | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
begins to move towards us. All of this whether through the night gives | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
temperatures at 9 degrees in the countryside. Up to 30 Celsius in the | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
town. `` 13. It will not be a complete | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
wash`out tomorrow, but false on it will be close to it. There will be a | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
heavy burst of rain now and then, but it will be patchy and on and | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
off. The theme of this weather is all and down for most of the day. | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
Over the Pennines, you can see intense weather, heavy bursts of | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
rain. The wind from the Northwest is not a | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
good direction and could be up to 20 miles an hour. No sunshine, a lot of | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
cloud, I think the best that you can expect is 13 or 14 degrees. | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
One more note about our Benny and hot. The Burnley FC players drank | :26:58. | :27:07. | |
Benny and champagne. Some people say that they will try | :27:08. | :27:08. | |
it. Good night. Find out what life's really like | :27:09. | :28:12. | |
in the favelas. | :28:13. | :28:16. |