14/07/2014 North West Tonight

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The latest attempt to dissu`de young Muslims from going to Syria.

The plan to get the M60 moving through the rush hour.

Some say it could make it more dangerous.

Brand match ` Manchester United scoops

And the defending champion has arrived as the build`up continues to

the Open Championship. Police say they're no nearer

to tracing 16`year`old twin sisters from Manchester who

have travelled to Syria. It's believed they first tr`velled

to Turkey then to Syria. Today the Greater Manchester force,

along with the city council and the charity Syria Relief, l`unched

a new centre for aid donations And the Chief Constable agahn urged

young Muslims not to travel to The message today clear ` hdlp

from home, do not travel to Syria. There are practical things xou can

do here in Manchester and if young people are involved

in that, it is less likely they will be influenced by some

of the other radical messagds. But these young people know there

are charities like this alrdady They do

but up till now those charities have not provided practical ways that you

can help here in Manchester. In some ways,

it has often attracted people to think they can go to Syria to get

involved in the military effort In June, twin sisters Salma and

Zahra Halane were reported lissing. Their brother Ahmed is belidved

to be fighting in Syria. Today

the police said they are no closer You can't have any illusions

about this, it is incredibly difficult, and once

they are out there, there are all sorts of extreme messages going into

their heads to try to keep them Syria Relief has raised mord than

?6 million through donations. This is their appeal for thd Muslim

month of fasting for Ramadan, Since it was opened, they h`ve had

many donations of things like T`shirts, toys and also mord vital

things like medical equipment. The ticket to Turkey is the cost

of four artificial limbs for needy people, for the alputees,

the children in Syria. You go there and you find that

it has completely changed. As Syrians, we find ours

elves sometimes as strangers because there are so many foreigners

there, so many extremists. Police hope today's message will

be clear to any young Muslil thinking about going to Syrha to

fight or even to give aid. Thousands of commuters are facing

delays with work to cut down congestion on the M60.

It will use technology to control traffic flow and sometimes tse the

hard journey as a fourth lane. It is the most congested motorway in

Britain but now this part of the M60 is about to have a high`tech

make over. To get an idea of how the Smart motorway will work, I have

come to the regional control centre. A smart motorway is a way of

encouraging people to travel at certain speeds by using the latest

technology and overhead signals which actually display a variable

speed limit. Managers can slow traffic down by

using electronic signs. He will now have hundreds of signs to m`ke Ron

manage the flow. `` micromanage In busy areas the hard shoulder will be

used as a fourth lane. But some think it will compromise safety

We are worried that there aren't as many leg`byes or safe havens so if

someone breaks down in a running lane, the advice is dial 998. That

is pretty worrying if someone is stranded in their car with trucks

coming up behind. These officers patrol the ndtwork

and deal with accidents. We have a serious incident the

lay`offs with no easy access, however that is not unusual because

a serious accident can often cause the hard shoulder to become blocked

anyway. But the journey time is vit`l for

many. We have two allow time for delays to

make sure we get to the customer's premises on time but of course the

leaves cost money. Many of you have been in contact

with us and we will hopefully read out some comments at the end of the

programme. A 31`year`old man from

Greater Manchester has been jailed for three years after conning

around 70 young drivers Alexander Dooley,

from Ashton`under`Lyne, issted fake certificates as part of the scam,

in which he pocketed ?35,000. Some drivers only realised they d

been conned when they had their car seized

for driving without insurance. A bingo hall in Bolton has been

targeted by four men armed with The men stormed the busy Mecca

Bingo Hall just after 7 o'clock Forensic tests are now being carried

out on a getaway car Firefighters across the North West

are holding a series of strhkes as part of eight days

of industrial action. Members of the Fire Brigades Union

are walking out for two two`hour The first began

at six o'clock this morning. It's part of a dispute over

retirement age and pensions. Manchester United is one of several

Premier League clubs accused of not selling tickets to disabled fans.

Much of the accessible seathng isn't available to people in wheelchairs,

it has been claimed. They only have 42% of the accessible

seating that they should. In other clubs it is impossible to bty one

because of the lack of accessible seating. I wonder what steps could

be taken to ensure fair polhcy for all fans.

The club has just signed thd biggest kit sponsorship deal ever whth

Adidas. It is worth a whopphng 750 million over ten years, just ?4

million less than the Glazer family paid for the club when they bought

it. We can speak to a footb`ll finance expert. Thank you for

joining us. Is this a bit of a gamble for Adidas, bearing hn mind

it wasn't Manchester United's test season?

It is certainly a gamble in the short`term at in the long`tdrm

Manchester United have conshstently got into the Champions Leagte and

that is where Adidas see thd money being made. They are confiddnt they

can double the money they spent Manchester United lost ?50 lillion

by failing to qualify so thhs must be an important deal to comd at this

time for them. Certainly. United have got to

replenish things on the pitch and have already spent money on a couple

of players. A neat revenue sources from as wide a variety as possible.

`` they need revenue sources. That is nearly ?130 million coming in

every year purely from shirts. It is a gamble from Adidas becausd their

profits are down a third thhs year. But they have got the World Cup

winners in Germany, the World Cup runners`up in Argentina and now the

Champions League winners in Real Madrid so Manchester United are the

next step for them. Well this mean even more expensive

shirts for the fans? It does look likely because

currently United are selling 1. million shirts every year. @s Adidas

reckons they will sell 1.5 billion, `` they will make 1.5 billion, that

works out at more than ?100 for every shirt. Normally the shirts

have been sold for around ?45 so fans will have to stump up for this

privilege. That is a lot of money. Thank you

for joining us. 50 years ago,

the Beatles burst out of Liverpool. The city's status as a creative

heartland was firmly set. The Mayor of Liverpool and Phil

Redmond the TV writer launched a scheme today.

One area that was derelict ` few years ago is being transforled into

a new creative hub. The Baltic Triangle, Liverpool's answer to

London's Shoreditch. Yes, it's super`creative,

it's a great place to work. It's turning out to be Liverpool's

meat packing district. It's also achingly cool

and economically important. A hub for new tech designers,

artists, musicians, I was very fortunate to be very

successful, historically, The point is,

he sold his super successful games Back then,

people thought Liverpool's Silicon Valley, or Silicon Scally

as he called it, was leaving town. The sector growing once agahn,

right here. It was nearly Amsterdam

but it's just the melting pot of all the scientists, technologists,

artists, hippies, rock stars, It's an attraction that isn't

just appealing to Scousers. I guess I'm most famously known

for the Culture Club catalogue. You've been based in London

but you've moved up. It's great to be part of a hub

of really vibrant activity. It's built to nurture new

start`ups and new ideas. They're small enough so that you

don't have to pay business rates. We've got about 600 young btsinesses

here and we are tipping the balance in favour of thhs being

a creative and digital heartland. That's why today Liverpool's Mayor

brought in this man to head up To take the creativity

in Liverpool's lifeblood and happening here and turn it

into a strong economic future. You sort the man behind Grange Hill

and Brookside, Phil Redmond. I asked him how his creation would work

What we're going to be doing over the next six or seven months is

trying to ask as many peopld across the city about what they understand

about the term creativity and where we think that will take us for the

growth of the city for the next generation or two.

The local enterprise partnership, I understand,

doesn't at the moment have creative industries on its hit list.

I imagine you want to swing that around.

One of the things I want to do is not take that traditional top`down

bureaucratic view of how to set up yet another scheme or get another

What I really want to do is get behind actually what it is that

creates the original idea for everything, the thing that hnspires

individual people to come up with a great idea and actually devdlop it.

Somebody in the report said it was the rebirth of Silicon Scally.

It doesn't matter what the branding is, what peopld call

And I suppose the mere fact you're doing it suggests it's

innovative because I don't think many cities will try to do this

It is one of those ephemeral things that people cannot get hold of and

yet through my life journey from being told in school I wouldn't

amount to much and listening to people introduce me on stagd and

But it's OK to have ideas as a writer and aspirations and if I

What people have to get hold of is that you can have great ide`s, you

can be creative, but you can also build and drive businesses from it.

Still to come, the stars of the golfing world descend on Hoxlake.

And Blackpool's RNLI heroes celebrate 50 years.

Anyone who lives near the sda, knows that the tide can wash up some

surprises but on the Isle of Man they have been presented with a dead

whale. And fortunately, it is too big to

move so they are hoping the sea will take it back again.

Washed up on a secluded beach on the West Coast. Weighing up to ten

tonnes, smallest of the gre`t wheels but big enough to cause haz`rds to

other boats. When these fishermen came across the 21st floating at

sea, they began to tour it back to land but were told to cut it free

and let nature take its course. But it has ended up here and stranded at

because vehicles cannot get access to the beach to move it.

There are issues with bacteria but as long as people don't touch it and

stay away from it it should be fine.

They have a life span of ne`rly 50 years and are found all over the

the more tropical areas so during the summer can often be spotted

around the Manx coast. I have been studying whales and

dolphins since 2007 we haven't had a washed`up wail like this ovdr here.

White often juvenile marine mammals do die because they have bedn

malnourished. That may be the reason.

It is hoped the water is th`t washed the wheel onto the beach will do the

same thing and take it back out As you can see, it is already being

moved, it is on the other shde of the beach from when we first saw it,

so the tide is having an effect on it. Hopefully it will go on the next

high tide. If that doesn't work, the c`rcass

will be moved and buried. It's time for sport and the most

famous names in golf have bden arriving in the North West `head of

the Open Championship, which begins It's fantastic for the region. Golf

fans all around the world h`ve been seeing England's golf coursd to as

this have been marketed, broadcast into their homes.

The Women's Open has been hdld at Royal Birkdale.

It was won yesterday by the American Mo Martin.

The world number 99 made an eagle on the 18th hole to finish one under

After eight years, the open is back at Hoylake.

The Birkenhead factory workdr qualified to weeks ago and hs now

attracting attention of the world's media.

How does it compare only pr`ctice day to during the season?

There are more crowded than on any other practice day I have played.

It is the oldest trophy in sports, I believe, and this championship is

the oldest championship we have and the most prestigious.

The chance to see the likes of Phil Mickelson should ensure another huge

crowd. My little one was only five months

old last time so I brought her back to get into the game.

I'm the golfer, he's just hdre for a ride.

It is a Christmas present. We have been waiting all this time.

There has been great anticipation amongst the members. Everyone is

really looking forward to it and now here we are on championship week and

it here.

No matter to perfect your parting, all these

golfers have two days to get everything right before Thursday's

day off. Onto cricket, and Lancashird's

left`arm spinner, Simon Kerrigan, says he's determined to makd

the most of his second chance after being called into the England squad

for the Second Test against India, Kerrigan was heavily critichsed last

year after conceding 53 runs from 8 overs against Australia

on his Test debut. Meanwhile,

in the County Championship latch In Super League,

Warrington earned their tenth successive victory and conddmned

London Broncos to relegation. The 72`12 thrashing included four

tries for Wolves' Joel Monaghan There were also wins for Salford,

Wigan and league leaders St Helens. And congratulations to the Hsle

of Man cyclist Peter Kennaugh, It's a sign of

his good form ahead of Commonwealth He'll represent the island

in both the road and track dvents. Do we have any idea why he won a

sausage? No idea.

I shall be broadcasting livd from the golf on Thursday in bringing all

my golfing knowledge. You know who Tiger Woods as though.

Of course I do. Blackpool's RLNI lifeboat crews are

celebrating 150 years of saving lives in the treacherous

waters off the resort's coast. The first lifeboat started

operating there back in in 0864 Since then hundreds

of volunteers have manned a variety of lifeboats, risking

their lives to help save others This is what they do, rescud people

when they need it most. Blackpool's volunteers have been manning RNLI

boats for a century and a h`lf. If you can

In the first hundred years, the average was two call`outs

Was that a gasp of admiration or Now they want

shark? I'm sure it will get better looking

as it gets old. I'm sure yot have heard about the weather getting

warmer this week but the pr`ise to see is it is getting unsettled. This

weather front is moving through this evening and gets out of the way for

Tuesday to be a quiet day. H witnessed it, you can see a bit more

of the wet weather coming through. Towards the end of the week, it is

all about the wind direction. You can follow the line of the hsobars

bringing warm air from the continent. We will see some thundery

showers. There could be lightning, hail stones, all sorts. We've seen

some spots of drizzly rain which haven't amounted to much at all But

there could be more to come. There is not much going on there. Our

computer wants to overdo it through the next couple of hours. Btt I

wouldn't be surprised if anxbody saw a sprinkling of rain. The breeze has

always been an issue. It ustally is through the night but continues to

be frilly gusty. `` fairly gusty. Tomorrow, it is a fairly

straightforward day. One of the quieter days of the week with not

too much going on. Sunny spdlls and patchy cloud. That cloud gr`dually

will thin and break. You cotld be looking at temperatures of 09 or 20.

Just before we go, many of xou have been in touch about the introduction

of the first smart motor wax. It will use technology to control speed

and in places the hard shoulder will be used as a fourth Lane.

On Twitter, Fergal said the only way a mortar can be `` motorway can be

smart as if drivers are. Too many idiots.

Thanks for those comments. We all left and with...

Not one of us helped. He's not the prettiest parrot, is

he? But he will be cause they h`ve

bright plumage. We will see you at 10:30pm. Did

evening. MUSIC: "Edward Scissorhands

Introduction" by Danny Elfman