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Welcome to North West Tonight with Beccy Barr and Roger Johnson. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Two women are killed after a car, driven by an 89-year-old man, | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
hits pedestrians in a Manchester hospital car park. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
The driver's been arrested on suspicion of causing death | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
A Liverpool backpacker is rescued by Australian police | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
after being kidnapped and assaulted over a two month period. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
The opinion investigators and myself is that we have potentially saved | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
this young girl's life. Anything may have tran spired. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
In the latest of our reports on pollution, could it be one | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
We meet the oldest working cooper in the country, | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
who's retiring after more than 50 years. | :00:51. | :01:04. | |
Two women have died after a car ploughed into a group | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
of pedestrians near the entrance to a Manchester hospital. | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
The 89-year-old driver of the car has been arrested. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Our reporter, Mark Edwardson, is at Withington Hospital now. | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Yes, it's quiet now. This is the main entrance to Withington Hospital | :01:18. | :01:32. | |
in South Manchester. You can imagine, in the early afternoon | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
today, this was probably quite a busy area. Behind me, over my | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
shoulder, you can see where there are temporary barriers. Two heavy | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
bollards have been knocked over, lying on their side against the | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
wall, there is a dent in there as well. That is where the incident | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
happened. It looks like a car has somehow gone out of control and it's | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
hit this group of pedestrians that you mention. Unfortunately, amongst | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
those pedestrians were two women who were taken to hospital with what at | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
the time were described as life-threatening injuries. Mark, | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
unfortunately we now know that those two women have sadly died of those | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
injuries. What more can you tell us Well, as you say, they were taken to | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
hospital for treatment. We were told a couple of hours ago that one of | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
the women had sadly died because of her injuries and in the last, sort | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
of, 20 minutes or so, another update has come from the police to confirm | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
that the second woman has also died. A dreadfully sad afternoon and a | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
devastating course of events for the families and friends of those women. | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
What do we know about the car driver? Well, what we know has come | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
from Greater Manchester Police. He is an 89-year-old man. He has been | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
arrested of suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and also | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
causing serious injury by dangerous driving and that he's currently in | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
custody. Now, police sea say they are in the early stages of this | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
investigation, but they want to talk to anybody who saw the collision or | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
anybody who saw that green Ford Focus around the hospital before the | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
collision happened. Mark, thank you very much indeed. The Mark live for | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
us at Withington Hospital. Beccy will have the latest on that on the | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
late news at 10.30pm. Absolutely. Next tonight. | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
The North West Ambulance Service say they've seen a surge in call-outs | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
to deal with people taking the former legal high, Spice. | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
In fact, one charity claims 95% of Manchester's homeless community | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
are now taking the synthetic drug, which is now being dealt | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
on the streets instead of being sold in shops. | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
These disturbing images were captured by one | :03:45. | :03:45. | |
of our reporters in the city centre just a few hours ago. | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
It's feared a new strain appears to freeze those who smoke it, | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
leaving them standing or squatting like statues and, in some cases | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
Joining us now is Julie Boyle from the homeless charity, Lifeshare. | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Thank you very much for coming along. Why is this happening now? | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
The homeless community? This particular strain that makes people | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
in this Catonic state seems to have overtaken all the supply in | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
Manchester. It's the worst one I've seen, this particular strain. We | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
have seen disturbing pictures of what people look like when they take | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
it. In your experience of dealing with people, what does it do to them | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
in the longer term? This one at the minute makes people Catonic. In the | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
future there will be hard withdrawal can symptoms. It's harder to come | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
off Spice than it is to come off heroin. Why are people taking Spice, | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
what is going on in this homeless community that cause this is | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
epidemic? It's to get off to sleep so they are not on edge in case | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
someone attacks them. Soon enough they are then addicted to it. What | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
is the solution from the work you've done? They need to get the chemistry | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
recognised and being able to do an anecdote and get young people into | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
accommodation than the system out at the minute. 95% of people in the | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
homeless people are taking this drug, that will be very shocking to | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
people, why is this happening? As I say, it's very addictive, it's very | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
difficult to get off. The withdrawal symptoms are awful. Young people are | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
carrying Class A drugs being paid in Spice to do that. They are arrested | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
and go to prison for it. What do you think the authorities need to do? To | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
crackdown on this now? They need to go further up the chain. Not the | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
low-level street dealers. They need to get the big boys who are | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
providing all the Spice on to the streets of Manchester, go further up | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
the train, get them arrested and put into prison. In your experience | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
working with homeless people, how does it compare to similar issues | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
we've had in the past? I call it an epidemic amongst the homeless | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
community in Manchester. I've never seen anything like it in any other | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
strain of Thank you for drug. Coming in and talking to us, Julie. | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
You can hear more on this on BBC Radio Manchester tomorrow morning. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
A man has been arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs after four | :06:13. | :06:29. | |
13-year-old girls were hospitalised after taking ecstasy in Wythenshawe, | :06:30. | :06:29. | |
Police believe the girls took the drugs, described | :06:30. | :06:30. | |
as Pink Teddy Bear pills, near to the Civic Centre. | :06:31. | :06:30. | |
They have since been discharged from hospital | :06:31. | :06:31. | |
The former Crewe Alexandra football coach, Barry Bennell, | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
has been charged with eight counts of historical child sexual abuse | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
following an investigation by Cheshire Police. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
The alleged offences took place between 1980 and 1987 and relate | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
to alleged assaults against two boys, both aged under 16. | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
Mr Bennell will appear via video link at South Cheshire | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
The Vice Chair of the local labour party in Wallasey, Paul Davies, | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
has been told he could face lifelong suspension after being referred | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
to the party's disciplinary body for bullying and intimidation. | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Last year the entire local party was suspended after MP Angela Eagle | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
At a hearing today, the local party was told the suspension will be | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
lifted in May subject to training and supervision conditions. | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
Liverpool's Lime Street station will fully re-open tomorrow, | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
Engineers have been working round the clock to clear 200 tonnes | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
of debris which was blocking lines into the station after a retaining | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
A limited number of services to London will begin tonight. | :07:33. | :07:44. | |
This is a story I'm sure you'll remember. | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
It's more than 18-months since a water contamination scare | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
affected hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
Yet we're still no nearer to knowing why it happened | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
and what could prevent it happening again. | :08:02. | :08:02. | |
The organisation charged with the task of investigating says | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
it's still not ready to announce what it's discovered. | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
An MP is now calling on the Government to make | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
Here's our chief reporter, Dave Guest. | :08:16. | :08:25. | |
This is what caused the problem, Cryptosporidium, a nasty bug that | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
causes serious stomach and breathing problems. | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
On August 6th 2015, traces of it were found | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
in Lancashire's water supply, so United Utilities ordered | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
people to boil tap water before drinking it. | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
Around 300,000 homes and businesses were affected. | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
Restrictions were in place for roughly a month. | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
The Drinking Water Inspectorate began an immediate investigation | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
to find out what went wrong, but as yet they're not | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
It became a daily ritual for thousands in Lancashire | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
For a month, they were told to boil water or drink bottled water | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
after the main supply was contaminated by a bug | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
The source of the problem was traced to the Franklaw Treatment Works, | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
but despite 18 months of investigation by the Drinking | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
Water Inspectorate, we still don't know how it happened. | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
I'll be writing today to the Secretary of State to demand | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
this she puts pressure on the Drinking Water Inspectorate | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
to start to inform my constituents what happened and what they're | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
For the Drinking Water Inspectorate, over 18 months on, still to be | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
refusing to shed any light on it, it's not acceptable. | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
The staff at the Brookside Care Home Saa the water restrictions | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
The care home sector in itself is a very demanding | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
So it was an added demand that went on for far longer | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
What do you think of the fact, 18 months on, we still don't | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
know what caused it, we still have no official report? | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
We still haven't had effect a risk in assessment to say | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
this is what happened, this is how it happened | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
and what measures they are putting in place to stop it happening again. | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
The Consumer Council for water has similar concerns. | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
We are disappointed that it's taken so long. | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
Consumers need to have confidence in their water supplies and they're | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
frustrated that we don't have clarity at this | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
moment on what the causes were and the ability | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
So we've written to the Drinking Water Inspectorate to express our | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
The Drinking Water Inspectorate told us the process is continuing | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
and a report will be published when that process is complete. | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
But as yet it's noncommittal about when that will be. | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
Police in Australia have rescued a Liverpool backpacker | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
after she was abducted by an ex-boyfriend and | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
It's alleged that the 22-year-old was raped and assaulted by her | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
attacker as they travelled around Queensland. | :10:56. | :10:56. | |
I've been speaking to Rachel Clun from The Brisbane Times about a case | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
which has made headlines today across Australia. | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
Injured, bewildered, desperate - the 22-year-old backpacker wanders | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
into a roadhouse in Mitchell, bloodied and bruised. | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
The woman met an Australian man at the end of January | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
at a dance music party in a paddock, essentially. | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
They started a relationship, but the relationship turned | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
And the abuse started a few days after that. | :11:24. | :11:34. | |
They stayed in Cairns, which is where they met for | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
a while, before travelling around Queensland. | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
A lot of the areas where she would have been would have been unknown | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
to her and she wouldn't have known anyone there. | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
It would have been difficult for her to have made a mistake. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
-- An escape. She was held against her will, allegedly raped and | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
assaulted. An ordeal that spanned two months. How did police found | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
her? She went to a service station. Got petrol for the car. Couldn't pay | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
for the petrol. The woman who owned the service station called police. | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
She was distressed, crying, she was really shaking and that. She had two | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
black eyes and marks on the side of her neck. Police pulled the car | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
over, found the woman in this distressed state and then, after | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
some questions, found the man hiding in a storage compartment of the | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
vehicle. Should back canpackers and tourists and travellers in Australia | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
be concerned? This isn't the first time an incident of this nature has | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
occurred? Australia receives large numbers of tourists from the UK and | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
all over the world daily, so for the vast majority Australia is a really | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
safe place to You just have be. To be careful. Especially going in the | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
outback where you won't have a signal on your phone. You don't know | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
where the next petrol station will be if you get in trouble or anything | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
like that. What is the process from now? He was charged with a string of | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
offences, including rape, assault. We have potentially saved saved this | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
young girl's life, given what's happened to her, the extent of what | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
has happened and over the period of time anything may have tran spired. | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
She is being cared for by the police and medical professionalsals at this | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
stage shechl was taken to hospital initially and she will go to | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
hospital tomorrow for follow-up treatment. Thank you very much for | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
your time. Thank you very much. We meet the Southport golfer who's | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
made a memorable start to the year. Go on, go on, go on. In. I think | :13:31. | :13:42. | |
it's going. YES! Britain's longest serving | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
barrel maker bows out. For three nights this week, | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
we're taking a closer It's associated with lung | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
conditions and heart disease, A team at Lancaster University has | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
published some ground-breaking research which suggests pollution | :14:03. | :14:12. | |
particles could be one of the causes of | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
Alzheimer's disease. Here's our environment | :14:21. | :14:21. | |
correspondent, Judy Hobson. Here in the north-west, | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
we have some of the most congested roads in the country and it's | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
affecting our health. Vehicles, especially diesels, | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
emit tiny particles, known as PM2.5s, they're so small | :14:35. | :14:35. | |
they can become lodged These particles can be | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
exerting damage to health. But scientists, here | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
at Lancaster University, have made another discovery | :14:42. | :14:42. | |
after analysing brain cells. The brains we looked | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
at came from two locations. They came from Manchester, | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
in the UK, and they came And those particles, | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
those pollution particles, we found in abundance | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
in the human brain. The exact source of the particles | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
isn't yet known, but Professor Marr says it shows there could be a link | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
between pollution and The strong suggestion is that those | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
particles from the air, as we're walking along in the city, | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
some of those particles are getting probably directly into our brains | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
through the old factory bulb. In the 1950s, Manchester's smog | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
was so thick it sometimes Today the air looks | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
cleaner, but we now know Manchester is currently | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
in breach of its legal limits for nitrogen dioxide, | :15:33. | :15:46. | |
an invisible gas which It affects people like Dave Lawson, | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
who has bronchiectasis. It's making it very, | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
very difficult to breathe and, again, that restrictive feeling | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
around the chest is very, As soon as that bus comes | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
near you, you can feel it? You can feel, not just the heat | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
reverberating off it, but also the chemicals | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
and everything else that are coming out of it, | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
you can really notice it. Children are especially | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
vulnerable to air pollution. Last year 14,000, under the age | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
of four, were admitted to hospital with respiratory problems in Greater | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
Manchester. Ffion and Ben have asthma, | :16:22. | :16:22. | |
their school is by a busy It makes my breathing a bit faster | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
and I just feel like a little It's a bit wheezy, which makes me | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
start coughing because my throat's When I'm running about, it kind of, | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
like, it's like when you're laughing and then you can't breathe and, | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
like, you get cramps and your stomach kind | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
of knots up and you can't In Greater Manchester local | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
councils are making changes, all designed to persuade us | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
to leave our cars at home, but so far pollution levels remain | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
stubbornly high while the evidence about its impact on our health | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
conditions to grow. How strong is the link | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
with Alzheimer's then? It indicates a link, it's not | :17:11. | :17:25. | |
conclusive. Particles, made of iron, in the front of the brain, identical | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
to those in patients with Alzheimer's. They think the | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
particles must have come from a pollution source. They are not sure | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
what the source is. It could be exhaust fumes, it could be road dust | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
or brake pads. All these sources produce matter. It could be home | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
heating systems or wood burning. They need to do more research. | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
Worrying. What can be done about it? Things can be done about it. | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
Councils in Liverpool and Manchester want to create clean air zones where | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
the most polluting vehicles would be banned from the city centre. So, it | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
could be all diesels. That is what Liverpool want. It could be the | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
older diesels, old buses and old taxis. They want to extent the | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
public transport systems. The experts tell us doing all this will | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
make a difference. In some cities in Europe they have been doing it for | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
years. Tomorrow, I'll be looking at how Germany and Switzerland | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
brought their pollution levels down. brought their pollution levels down. | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
The scientists tells us that in the UK pollution isn't getting worse. We | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
health. That is a good thing. It health. That is a good thing. It | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
means we can ask the Government then to do something about it. OK. Thank | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
you very much for that. We will look out for that other piece tomorrow. | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
Sport now, and Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
has accepted a three game ban for an elbow | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
The Swedish striker, who has scored 26 goals this season, | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
won't play in the Premier League until United's game with Everton | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
After a miserable 2016, when he almost dropped out | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
of the world's Top 200, Southport golfer Tommy Fleetwood has | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
This year he's leading the European Tour money list and | :19:05. | :19:17. | |
on Sunday finished second in the World Golf | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
That earned him prize money of ?850,000. | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
Stuart Pollitt's been to see him today. | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
I wonder what the winner got? How about this for a millionar dollar | :19:25. | :19:35. | |
putt -- million dollar putt? If anybody is due a putt this week it | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
has to be you. All right. I thought I had it about halfway. One of them | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
things. Once you have hit it. At the end it tried to miss. Very cool. It | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
was a big putt. It not only got him into second place it got him a spot | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
in next month's Masters for the first time. It has always avoided me | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
that tournament. It's great. Every golfers dream. To play in the | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
Masters, it's my caddy's dream to go there. Last year was OK, there were | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
struggles, this year you have won one tournament. Second here. Million | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
dollars ahead of anyone else on the race to Dubai. Yeah. It was coming | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
last year. I had a tough time for a about a year from mid 2015 to 2016. | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
I went back to my old coach that I've had, my caddy, one of my best | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
mates has been on the bag since that time as well. Those twos switches | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
made a massive difference. He can look forward to the Open at Royal | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
Birkdale, a Major in his hometown. The Open being at Birkdale it can't | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
be closer to where I grew up. I should be playing in it, which will | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
be, it will be fantastic. The crowds be, it will be fantastic. The crowds | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
will be great. 2017 is an amazing year. It could be a really good one? | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
My best year ever, it's only March! You have to keep going. Golf has | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
changed and the ball gets higher all the time. There is golf to be | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
played. I put myself into a position to do things I've never done before. | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
Like I said, I've not had chance to sit and think about it yet. I'm sure | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
we will set more goals. If putts like this keep finding the hole, | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
then those goals will be achieved. Fantastic story. Let's hope 2017 is | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
Tommy's year. Good luck to him. Thank you to him for talking to us. | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
Not often you get a prolific sportsman talking to you a couple of | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
days after his big win and the Bocking yesterday as well with Tony | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
Bellow. -- boxing. He's been rolling out the barrel | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
in Liverpool for more than 50 years. Les Skinner is the oldest working | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
cooper in the country. A cooper, if you didn't know, | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
is someone who makes But, sadly, it's a dying craft | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
and Les is calling it a day. Stuart Flinders has | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
been to meet him. What are you doing? A 40 gallon | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
barrel. You have to strip the hoops back. Striking wood and metal. Not a | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
piece of plastic in sight. It will be refilled. With rum. With rum? | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
Yes. For a company in Liverpool? Yes. I can smell it. A smell of rich | :22:26. | :22:35. | |
spirit fillslet air at Les workshop. These are the sights and sounds he | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
lived with since he went through the traditional ceremony back in 1960. | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
You get inside, they push it over and roll you round. It's one of | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
those things. Everyone expects it. It's no surprise. Back then there | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
were plenty of customers in Liverpool. There was the oil | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
industry using them, the food industry was using them. They used | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
to export meat products pickled in brine to the West Indies. In truth, | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
this was a dying craft even then. Now, orders to make a barrel from | :23:13. | :23:26. | |
scratch like this are few and far between. The National Trust, the | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
makers of period dramas, place occasional orders. Most of Les' work | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
now is repairs. What have you done to it? Jointed it, so it has a | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
smooth joint. Yes. So it can go back in? Yeah. What will you do now with | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
your spare time? I will have to find something to do. Maybe go fishing. | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
The workshop is up for sale. It's the end of an era for Les, but for | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
Liverpool, too. I hope Les has a fantastic | :24:02. | :24:13. | |
retirement. Absolutely. What a shame. Let's hope it isn't a dying | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
art. How is the weather? We are in the good books. Most days this week | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
we are in the good books. Yesterday was fabulous. Today was OK, a decent | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
day. Our weather watchers pictures show how it started, beautiful | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
spells of sunshine. We started to see more cloud cover rolling in. | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
towards us because we have rain. The towards us because we have rain. The | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
story through the next couple of days is mild air working in. | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
Tomorrow you will have mild air, temperatures into double figures. We | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
have mild air and the weather fronts will stay out of the way until we | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
get to Friday. After that, well I still think there will be dry | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
weather in the forecast. Not too bad at all. We clouded up during the | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
afternoon. Isle of Man and Cumbria saw showers. They are creeping jefr | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
where. They are turning into nothing as they move inland. Here come the | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
showers through the night. Behind the showers an active area of rain. | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
Last night we saw rain crossing us. Tonight it's much bigger. As it | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
rises over the high ground you can see intense colours there. There | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
will be bursts from time to time. As we head towards the early hours of | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
the morning it should be gone. The cloud cover will probably be fairly | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
constant. Temperatures not an issue at all, that is thanks to the rain, | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
not a great thing, six or seven degrees for most of us. For rural | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
areas three or four is where we will be. No frost first thing. The top of | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
the Pennines will have murky areas, visibility poor for the first hour | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
of daylight. The sun is up at 4.30am. We are getting the value of | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
those early mornings. A bit of cloud in the southern parts. Brighter | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
skies in the northern parts. That sunshine spreads everywhere through | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
the day. More in the way of sunshine than you saw today. Add to that the | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
mild air that is a nice recipe for a pretty good afternoon. Some places | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
will struggle, but by the afternoon it's a nice picture. Not | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
wall-to-wall sunshine, but patchy cloud floating around. 10-11 degrees | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
will look and feel nice. Nothing to worry about Wednesday through to | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
Thursday. Thursday should be a dry picture with good spells of | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
sunshine. Friday some outbreaks of rain. Back in the mixed stuff as we | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
head towards the weekend. Diane, thank you very much. Now, before we | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
go. Manchester Storm Ice hockey | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
team made it a night to remember for a young fan, | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
called Sebastian, at the weekend. The two-year-old has a severe | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
neurological disorder and is working So, the club flew Sebastian | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
and his parents to Belfast to watch He met the team before | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
going on a lap of honour on the ice and presenting the Man | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
of the Match award. It was emotional thing for us, | :26:59. | :27:10. | |
really. It was just amazing to see and him take it in. You know, the | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
smile on his face the whole way round, pretty much, a memory we will | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
never forget. Wonderful moment. Smile on everyone's face now. Sadly | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
Storm lost 5-2. No-one minded. No, another day. More on that tragedy | :27:31. | :27:38. | |
that happened today at Withington Hospital later tonight. Good night. | :27:39. | :27:42. |