06/07/2014 North West Tonight

Police in Manchester say thdy are trying to trace two 16`year`old

sisters who've flown to Turkey amid reports they're heading for Syria.

Detectives say the girls flew from Manchester Airport to Hstanbul

Since then the teenagers have been in contact with their familx

but officers say they are unable to confirm their location now.

They're investigating exactly why the girls have travelled abroad and

Police are hunting for two men who escaped frol Kirkham

34`year`old Philip Stephenson is serving a sentence

for firearms offences, while Gareth Robinson who's 24`ye`rs`old,

Both men are from Oldham and are believed to be in

Oldham Council is trying to improve education in the town

after admitting some schools are simply not good enough.

They've drafted in the former Labour Education Secretary,

She's heading a new education commission to advise

Our political editor Arif Ansari reports.

Stoneleigh Academy is one of Oldham's best primary schools.

The children here seem bright and ambitious.

I learn lots of things and I would like to teach somebody.

Do all your parents and families want you to do well at school?

But Oldham has the lowest skills levels

across the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, the lowest weekly wages,

and the council leader says there can be a lack of ambition too.

I think for a lot of people, they have been let down by the

system over decades and generations and what we are trying to do is say,

The reality is, everyone is improving and Oldham

needs to improve that much better to make sure our people get

Oldham might be committed to raising standards across the town

but the council have less direct control over schools

which are increasingly becoling academies and are more independent.

In fact, there are now 11 different types of school in Oldham,

We can be better than we are at the moment and it matters that children

The Commission is ambitious to raise Oldham's game and it's got

Five Deemster cars have been driven into Liverpool Cathedral this

afternoon to mark the start of the 90th anniversary celebrations

They made the stop off en route to the Isle of Man, where they're

The vehicles ceased production in 1924,

the same year the cathedral was consecrated as a place of worship.

These Deemster motor cars were manufactured for a decade

As it happens, that is the very decade in which the far east end

of the cathedral that you c`n see behind me was under construction.

We are using them, really, to draw attention to

our 90th anniversary which happens in two weeks time on 20th July.

Sport and there were two wickets for Andrew Flintoff on

his comeback to competitive cricket as Lancashire Lightening be`t

Worcestershire by 50 runs in the T20 blast competition this afternoon.

In reply Worcestershire only reached 179 for 7.

On to Rugby League and in Super League,

the league leaders Saint Helens have been beaten 40 points to 10 by Hull

Thousands of people headed to the hills today

to catch a glimpse of the world s best cyclists as the Tour de France

Today's stage included routds through Rochdale and the

Peak District, where the roads were packed with spectators.

It's hoped the event has brought a big boost to the local economy.

Yorkshire might have claimed the majority of this stage of the tour,

but Greater Manchester was proud to host the most interesting section.

Police estimated that over 00,0 0 people climbed the hill to line

the one kilometre of the rotte through Rochdale as it passed

With a steep bend, this marked the end of the longest

The Isle of Man's Mark Cavendish had to withdraw from the rest

of the tour after crashing in yesterday's final sprint.

I had a bit of optimism hoping it was just swelling and maybe it would

go down this morning but it is actually worse this morning so I am

Later, as the tour reached the Peak District, the leaders were

touching 60 mph as they flew towards Woodhead reservoir.

It's attracted a worldwide `udience of over three billion TV viewers

and provided a chance to show them our spectacular landscapes.

Here's the weather with Charlie Slater.

A somewhat bright end to the day and a bright end to the weekend

Just a couple of showers dotted around the north`west as we make

As we go into the early part of Monday morning,

some of those showers will start to fizzle out and those temperatures

are allowed to fall down to around 12 or 13 Celsius.

A couple of heavy showers around, first thing,

but then behind it some dry and bright weather through the liddle

part of the day followed by a few drizzly showers into the afternoon.

It is just the occasional shower that xou are

And that is a theme that is going to continue

Couple of showers mixed up hn there with a good deal of dry, bright and

Hello again. Today's big event was certainly blessed by fine weather,

but there has been some rain around here and there. Those showers will

continue to drift further east over the next few hours, but by and

large, they should become more confined