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Fears for Salford aid worker Alan Henning, | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
the latest hostage threatendd with execution by Islamic State. | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
A very ordinary guy, a taxi driver, a father, a keen fisherman, | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
and someone who just wanted to help Syrians. | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
We speak to a BBC reporter who filmed hhm | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
Doing her dream job, a coroner hears how a zookeeper in Culbria | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
All the signs suggest the Scottish independence referendum will be | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
a very close call, so why is the small Cheshird village | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
And a real Cliff hanger, whx war veteran Cliff Dadson decided to | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
Those who know him say he's an ordinary man who was compelled | :00:45. | :01:05. | |
Described by his friends tonight as the best of the best, | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Alan Henning, a taxi driver from Salford and father of two, is the | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
latest British hostage to appear in a video released by Islamic state. | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
Alan was captured around Christmas but over the weekend | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
According to the Foreign Secretary, his family is going through hell. | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
This is how Alan Henning's family wants the world and in parthcular | :01:24. | :01:36. | |
his captors to see him. As ` man who simply wanted to help those in need. | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
At the end of last year, thd BBC filmed the taxi driver as hd | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
prepared for an aid mission to Syria. He'd been there before, and | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
was going back to take more humanitarian supplies. But 30 | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
minutes after crossing the Syrian border, he was kidnapped. Now his | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
captors say he will be killdd unless the demands of the so`called Islamic | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
State are met. Alan Henning's family are going through hell at the | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
moment. It is a terrible tile for them. We are doing everything that | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
we can to protect him. But they understand, because we have | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
explained to them in detail, they understand the limitations of our | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
abilities. We are not showing the video of Allen released at the | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
weekend. In it, he is wearing an orange jumpsuit while a masked man | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
stands over him and makes this threat. If you, Cameron, persist in | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
fighting the Islamic State, venue like Obama will have the blood of | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
your people on the hands. Wd will have a form of dialogue, we will not | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
negotiate with terrorists. While there is dialogue ongoing, there is | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
hope that we could have a dhfferent outcome. For those who know Alan | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Henning, who used to chat to him breakfast, this is not about global | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
security or world politics, it is about a good man who was trxing to | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
help. Before Christmas, I h`d a last chat with him, that he was going to | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
take an ambulance for whatever he was capturing, good and things, for | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
refugees. While Alan Henning's family has asked for privacx, his | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
friends have described him `s the best of the best. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
I am joined now by Catrin Nxe who works for the Asian network and | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
filmed with Alan Henning as he prepared to go out with the convoy | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
to Syria, thank you for spe`king to us about this. We heard that friends | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
said he was the best of the best. You met him, what impression did you | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
get of him? Well, he was a very funny man. While we were packing, he | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
was constantly telling jokes and keeping everyone entertained and | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
that is what people who know him and went on the convoy with him have | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
said about him as well. That he was very kind, incredibly generous, | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
incredibly selfless man who only thought about others and not about | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
himself. I actually met him as Gadget, which is his nicknale, | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
because of his fondness and talent for gadgetry which is very tseful in | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
convoys like this. Was therd any element of fear going out on these | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
convoys? You wanted to go and help people, but was he aware of the | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
dangers? When I met him, he had been on one convoy already and w`s | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
preparing to go on another `nd another. First off, he had been | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
inspired by friends who had been on these convoys and had been hn and | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
out of Syria safely. He had seen them go, he had been impressed by | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
what they had done, the charity work he had done, and he had been himself | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
and had what he described as a life altering experience. The picture | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
that we see of him is in a refugee camp in Syria, he described the | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
children and orphans that hd met, and these convoys allow people to | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
take aid for the UK `` from the UK and take it to people who are | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
desperate for it. He had an experience he could not forget. When | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
I met him he was talking about a, you can understand why he w`nted to | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
go back. People talk about not being able to come back, they know the | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
dangers. I asked a friend of Allen's the convoy leader on his | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
convoy, if he had said he w`s scared before he went in and he sahd, no, | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
he had been before and he w`nted to go again and it was only other | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
convoy members who dissent `` concerned for his safety. Wd have | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
been speaking to Kathleen, his friends, `` to people like his | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
friends, what do they feel `bout his kidnap? They are obviously very | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
concerned and everyone is jtst hoping that things work out for | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
him, basically. That there hs a positive outcome. Thank you very | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
much for coming in. Police are investigating | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
after the body of a man was found in a burning skip on a main road | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
into Manchester city centre. Detectives have been examinhng | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
the scene in the car park adjacent to thd Apollo | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
Theatre on Hyde Road in Ardwick The dead man was discovered | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
by fire fighters at Police say the man's family | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
have been informed. Two men from Wirral have bedn sent | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
to prison for their part Michael Lee falsely said his BMW was | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
damaged in an accident in 2010. Liverpool Crown Court heard | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
the damage couldn't have bedn caused Three other men, | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
including David Thompson and Jon Paul Realey were given | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
suspended sentences after claiming The primary blame for the | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
Hillsborough disaster lies with the police, according to a formdr South | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
Yorkshire Police sergeant who was Giving evidence | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
at the new inquests into the disaster, Stephen Payne said | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
the police were in charge of the crowd control on that day, `nd for | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
whatever reasons, that plan failed. A woman had to be rescued | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
from the zip wire She came to a halt, | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
dangling above shoppers in A wire operator was winched | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
down to the woman before thdy were Greater Manchester Police today | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
revealed that more than 20 people have now come forward to sax they | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
were sexually and physicallx Detectives are investigating claims | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
of abuse at Knowl View School from the time it opened | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
in the late '60s to the timd it Our Chief Reporter, Dave Gudst first | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
highlighted the scandal of He's here now with the latest | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
developments in the story. After years | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
of inertia we now have two hnquiries One codenamed Jaguar is dealing | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
with allegations of abuse. The other, Clifton, | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
aims to establish whether To date 24 people claim to be | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
victims of abuse at Knowl Vhew. Half say | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
their abusers were fellow ptpils. 21 suspects have been interviewed | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
under caution so far. In a separate investigation, GMP is | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
examining allegations surrotnding 20 people now claim | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
he molested them. Five of them say it happened | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
at Knowl View where Smith w`s once I've been speaking to one of Smith's | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
accusers at the site where the Two lads brought me | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
into these woods here. They pulled my pants down | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
and then they left me there all night till a member | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
of staff found me in the morning. This man was 11 when he arrhved | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
at Knowl View in the early 0970s. He says he endured years of torment, | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
abused by pupils and staff. He says this teacher, David Higgins, | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
molested him and other pupils I knew he was touching other boys | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
beside me because when some new ones came, thdy were | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
younger than me, he targeted them. David Higgins was jailed in 200 | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
for historical abuse at Knowl View. So far, though, | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
he's the only person convicted of Yet two decades after Higgins abused | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
boys here, sexual It's probably one | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
of the most horrific instances of institutional child sex `buse, | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
absolutely awful what went on These documents compiled | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
for the Council in 1991 and 1992 revealed that boys at | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
Knowl View had been sexuallx abused within the school and beyond, | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
both by other pupils and by adults. The police were aware | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
of the allegations Greater Manchester police | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
say they're determined thosd who escaped justice back thdn | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
are finally brought to book. What effect has what happendd | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
to you here had on your lifd? Being | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
at Knowl View destroyed my life You see new houses, | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
I don't see new houses, I sde This school left me scarred | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
for life. There's more from Michael | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
and other victims of Knowl View in tomorrow's edition of File | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
on Four on BBC Radio Four. Before that, tonight here on BBC1 | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
at 7.30 I'll be reporting for Inside Out and catching up with | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
the whistleblower who first helped us bring the scandal to public | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
attention nearly 20 years ago. An inquest has been told | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
a defective bolt was found on a door inside a tiger enclosure | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
when it was inspected shortly Sarah McClay died after being | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
attacked at the South Lakes Wild The inquest also heard no concerns | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
had ever been raised about the condition or design | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
of the enclosure. Peter Marshall joins us | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
from the inquest in Kendal. Just tell us what more we hdard | :11:10. | :11:26. | |
about the Echo incident tod`y. We heard that Sarah McClay was 24 years | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
old, she had worked at the South Lakes Wild Animal Park for over two | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
years as an animal carer went on May 24 last year, she was attacked by | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
Issa March Tiger, `` by a Stmatran tiger. She died from multiple | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
injuries to her neck, back, arm and legs and those injuries werd not | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
able to be survived, accordhng to the home office pathologist carried | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
out the exam in addition. She also said the injuries were conshstent | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
with an attack by a tiger and Sarah being dragged across the enclosure | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
floor. We also heard from a senior officer in Barrow Borough Council | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
who took part in a health and safety investigation afterwards, what did | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
they have to say? Firstly, to help the jury understand the layout of | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
the tiger enclosure, they rhsk go `` shown a scale model which showed how | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
animal areas and staff errors were kept separated by a series of doors | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
and sliding panels. Then we heard evidence from Borough Counchl by an | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
inspector who took part in `n inspection, he said he found a bolt | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
on one door which separated the tiger area from the start area was | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
defective so the door would not rest snugly in its frame, there was a | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
small gap. When questioned, he accepted it was impossible to know | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
when the bolt became defecthve, whether it was before, during or | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
after the incident. He said there was never any concern about the | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
design of the tiger enclosure, and there was a 4 `` an inspecthon for | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
days before the incident whdre no concerns were raised. There wasn't a | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
statement `` there was a st`tement from Sarah's mother? Yes, she said | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
that her daughter was doing her dream job when she died, thd job she | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
had dream of doing since shd visited the park as the young girl. She also | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
referenced controversy afterwards when the tiger was not destroyed, | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
that is absolutely not what Sarah would have wanted, she said, she | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
would not have blamed the thger for what had happened. Tomorrow, the | :13:30. | :13:30. | |
jury visits the site. With their eye on the prize, | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
the Merseyside Nighthawks swoop in to win a British version | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
of the Super Bowl. And also, flying high, | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
we meet Cliff who's taken up As we were climbing up I thought to | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
myself, whatever am I doing here? The independence debate is | :13:46. | :13:55. | |
the hot topic north of the border with polls predicting it'll be neck | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
and neck come Thursday. Here in the North West one village | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
is flying the flag Mollington | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
in Cheshire is adorned with Union A message from Mollington ndar | :14:14. | :14:29. | |
Chester. They say they want Scots to be brave, not full party. `` | :14:30. | :14:38. | |
foolhardy. As the referendul date comes, the village is festooned with | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
flags. We have a very strong opinion and I know that we represent | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
thousands and thousands of thousands of villagers right across the | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
region, if not the country. They have had no say whatsoever. | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
Mollington is 500 miles frol John O'Groats. Despite the distance, | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
summer in the world. It is very Scottish. We want them with us, our | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
island nature is better in which to buy all sorts of different cultural | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
identities around us. And Fhona s campaign has taken. More th`n 6 | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
homes in Mollington are currently flying either the union flag of the | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
St Andrews fly, and in some cases those, including Angus. His name | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
gives it away, a long`time Scottish exile. 50 years ago, I would have | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
voted yes. But at my age now, no way would I even consider voting for | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
them to go to Scotland. My husband mounted a ladder and nailed it to | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
the Scots pine, we thought ht was appropriate. Back on the grden and | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
by sheer coincidence, Scotthsh visitors. We thought, they have got | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
the flag out for us! Then wd realised what it was about, we | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
thought it was lovely. And hf the vote goes the way of the unhon? We | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
will be celebrating with a large glass of scotch, facing north and | :16:08. | :16:08. | |
raising our glasses. Let's go on to sport, flags also | :16:09. | :16:21. | |
flying at Old Trafford yestdrday. Even the keyword is being spoken | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
about? It is, Louis van Gaal mentioned the | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
word title. A change from a couple of weeks ago! It is after w`tching | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
his side thrashed QPR 4`0. This is what he said after the match. If it | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
is not this year, then the second and third year I want to give the | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
championship to the fans. It was only one win but there was ` | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
different feeling around Old Trafford yesterday. In no slall part | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
down to the performance of @ngel Di Maria who was in sparkling form He | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
got them up and running with the opening hole and was instrulental | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
throughout. Herrera also got his first goal for the club. Waxne | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
Rooney and one matter `` and Juan Mata said the threat got `` they got | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
goals. We are very happy about the results, the goals that we lade but | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
also in the second half, we made a lot of, we created a lot of chances | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
and I am pleased about that. It must have been a stranger turn, `nd not | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
very good for Rio Ferdinand to Old Trafford. `` strange return. But he | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
has been speaking about Davhd Moyes? Yes, he is now playing for PPR, he | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
was presented with a gift bx Sir Bobby Charlton. To celebratd 12 | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
years at United. He is not very come to mention the about David Loyes, | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
saying his innovations led to negativity and confusion. | :17:50. | :17:50. | |
In the Championship, Blackpool fans chanted their support for m`nager | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
Jose Riga as the Tangerines earned their first point of the se`son | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
Pool climbed off the bottom of the Championship thanks to | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
Riga almost lost his job last week, but many supporters made it clear | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
Blackburn moved up to eighth, beating Wigan 3`1. | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
Two of Rovers' goals came from Man of the Match, Ben Marshall. | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
And Crewe claimed their first win of the season, | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
beating Port Vale 2`1, but @lex remain bottom of Division One. | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
Superleague, and it looked `s though it had slipped away, | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
but after the final set of regular fixtures St Helens sit | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
Congratulations to Saints for winning the League Leaders Shield. | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
One place behind them are last season's Grand | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
Final winners Wigan who'll kick off the play`off matches this wdek at | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
Saints face Castleford Tigers at Langtree Park on Friday. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
Then there's a mouth`watering local derby between Warrington and | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
And as the skipper of the Champions explains, the play`offs is when the | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
It'll be different to the rdgular season, I think everyone knows how | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
More than likely they're gohng to be quite low scoring games compared | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
Everyone's focus now is really down to the grand final opportunity, | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
From rugby league to another sport with an oval shaped ball, | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
The game's gradually becoming more popular here in the North Wdst, | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
and this weekend the Merseyside Nighthawks took | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
on Edinburgh Wolves in a national final, the most hmportant | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
Called Brit Bowl, it may not have had the glitz | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
and glamour of the Super Bowl, but it was a real cliffhangdr with | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
An amateur squad that included students, engineers, | :19:33. | :19:43. | |
Shouldn't have had that pasta this morning. | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
The club's been around sincd 19 6 but never has it had such stccess. | :19:50. | :19:57. | |
I think to compare us with the Super Bowl is a bit much. | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
I think where we are we just need to keep going. | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
Hopefully, it will improve the fan base and all sport's | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
improved by having more people watching and supporting thel. | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Watched every match so far during the season so we look forward | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
The Merseyside players are doing their warm`ups as are the Edinburgh | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
players at the other side of the pitch. | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
The Edinburgh players will be coming across some pretty big men, | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
If these men say it's Sundax, it's Sunday, isn't it, boys? | :20:25. | :20:35. | |
Edinburgh started well, a touchdown gave them | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
an early 6`point lead adding another point with the resulting kick. | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
But American football matchds last hours so there's always timd | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
Merseyside did that, and from then, it was anybody's match. | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
The Nighthawks need to pull it out, they need to punch it | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
Hell of a game, Edinburgh gave us a great g`me. | :20:52. | :21:05. | |
We had to step up, we done what we needed to do, | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
Overjoyed, all the work of these guys have put in. | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
All the effort tomake it go so close, I always knew thex were | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
The biggest day in the Nighthawks' history and a big day for | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
And Bury's Scott Quigg remahns on course for a huge unific`tion | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
fight against Carl Frampton after successfully defending | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
Scott stopped Belgium's Stephane Jamoye in the | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
third round in Manchester to retain his WBA super`bantamweight title. | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
Very impressive he was as wdll. Just like the American football | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
They nearly dropped it at the end, the trophy! | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
You mentioned the cliffhangdr in that report, here is another one. | :22:02. | :22:03. | |
Now, what would you do to celebrate your 95th year? | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
Maybe a party surrounded by family and friends? | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
Perhaps a pint at your local or a large gin and tonic? | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Or maybe you'll just be grateful to still be alive? | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
Cliff Dadson from Cumbria decided to leap out | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
Ahead of his birthday later this year the 94`year`old did his first | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
He raised ?1700 for the charity Action For Children and a lhttle | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
It wasn't jumping out that was worrying me, it was | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
as we were climbing up, I thought to myself, whatever am I doing here? | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
And when the door opened, I looked down and saw Grangd two and | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
a half miles below me, I thought, good heavens, I'm going to fall | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
Having once left the aeropl`ne, in the hands of, strapped to mx tutor, | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
And when we pulled the ripcord and the parachute opened | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
and we drifted gracefully down to earth, I looked around and H could | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
And Cliff, when you came out of the pl`ne, | :23:09. | :23:22. | |
for those of us who have never done a parachute jump and probably don't | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
have the guts to do one, just explain the sensation to us. | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
Once I'd fallen clear of thd plane, drifting down, floating | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
And the funny thing was that the cameraman came right close up to | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
me, he wasn't attached to us, marvellous control they've got | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
Although it was a bit breathtaking at first, in | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
And I've enjoyed reflecting on it too since. | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
It's a one`off thing, I don't suppose I shall do `nother | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
My friends who are in the parachute corps told me they | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
enjoyed every jump they did when they were in training. | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
So once you get used to it, it is a wonderful thing. | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
But I shall never have a chance to get used to it. | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
I'd be daft at my time of life to try that! | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
You graduated from the Open University last year with a degree. | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
You've done a parachute jump this year. | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
The obvious question now is, what comes next, Cliff? | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
I'm plodding on till I get to 1 0, so I've got another five ye`rs. | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
I think I'd like to do a glider flight. | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
I've never been in a glider and I'm looking around now to see what | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
opportunities there are to get a trip in a glider. | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
It would have to be something in the air, I think. | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
That's the nearest I shall get to heaven, anyway! | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
Cliff, it's an absolute delight to speak to you. | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
Many congratulations on your unbelievable achievement | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
at the weekend and thank yot for talking to us. | :24:55. | :25:04. | |
What a character. I am sure we will be doing a story on him next year | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
when he goes on his glider! Nice day on Billown farm in the Isle | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
of man. They've been busy making hax | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
making and found time to make Since they appeared over | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
the weekend these Minion hax bales have raised over ?1000 for | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
the islands special care baby unit. It's been great weather for hay | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
gathering but is it here to stay? It is pretty good weather for making | :25:24. | :25:38. | |
hay, long may that continue as we had two this week. Very settled | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
conditions, mild air towards us from the continent, nothing changes to | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
dramatically. We are well above where we should be in terms of | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
temperatures for the time of year. This week, mainly dry, mostly fine. | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
I would like to say it is sdttled that we have had some interdsting | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
activity through the afternoon. Most of us have been dry. One or two | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
showers have crept their wax across part of the region and they have | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
gone across Merseyside. Thex do not look dramatic but some of you are | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
reporting seeing mini tornadoes We had some heavy showers, somd winter | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
shearing, that gives us somd volatility and think of your | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
pictures. As the night Asch McRae thank you for your pictures. It will | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
die away overnight, a few pockets of mist and fog first thing tolorrow. | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
Temperature is remarkable for this time of year. Tomorrow mornhng, a | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
slow start for many of us, the first he `` few hours of daylight will be | :26:40. | :26:48. | |
fairly grey. But you get past lunch time, the better the weather. It | :26:49. | :26:58. | |
should be largely dry, maybd a shower on the Pennines. Top | :26:59. | :26:59. | |
temperature 1920. It is very nice, despite thd mini | :27:00. | :27:09. | |
tornadoes. You get them every now or then. Please keep sending in your | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
photographs. Apparently the union flag was upside down in Mollington! | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
Thank you for watching, havd a lovely evening. | :27:20. | :27:21. |