22/03/2017 North West Tonight

Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson

Ormskirk students are caught up in the London terror attack.

This house is suspended but please wake here. The Deputy Speaker halt

proceedings. Former Anfield captain and coach

Ronnie Moran dies at the age of 83. We are in Liverpool where they have

announced a major arts Festival two celebrate 50 years of Sergeant

Pepper. A group of politics students

from Edge Hill University in Ormskirk were among those caught

up in today's terror One of their party,

in Westminister for a field trip, Nina is here. You spoke to a number

of MPs. Yes, a number of our MPs are still in that Palace of Westminster.

They were there when the Deputy Speaker had to deliver that dramatic

news and suspend proceedings. Order, I am going to suspend the

sitting of this house. This house is suspended but please wait here. I

have just heard from the MP FET Callum Smith port saying for hours

on, they are still sat there. There is 15 of our MPs in their offices.

You have Big Ben and the two Houses of Parliament and the other side you

have built -- building where many of them work. Tim Farron was there and

that is when he heard the gunshot go off. It was the emergency vehicles

heading to the chamber. We were told to get out and we did. The immediate

thing is you think about the other people, my children and my wife. You

think how important it is that we all stay safe. It seems at this

stage that all our MPs are safe. As far as I know. I haven't heard

anything different. What has been striking about their accounts and

how things have unfolded was how calm and collected everybody was and

how well they said the security services dealt with the events.

Sadly because they have been expecting like this for some time.

We will be at edge Hill University to find out the latest situation

there. -- Edge Hill. A man has died after

a fire in Salford. after they were called to a blaze

on Berry Street in Clifton The cause of the fire

is being investigated. The former Crewe Alexandra youth

football coach Barry Bennell has pleaded not guilty to 20 counts

of historical child sex He appeared via video link at

Chester Crown Court this morning. New prison is to be built

at Hindley near Wigan. It's part of the government's plans

to create ten thousand new modern prison places

in the next three years. The existing jail will close whilst

the site is redeveloped, and staff and inmates will be moved

to other prisons. Let us return to the terror attack.

One student from Edge Hill was taken to hospital. He was once a

candidate. -- what are they saying tonight? Travis was a group of 13

students and a lecture on their first day of a two-day visit to the

Houses of Parliament when they got caught up in what has been described

by police as a terrorist incident. With me I have the Vice Chancellor

of Edge Hill University. What can you tell us about what happened to

your students? We had a group of public relations students down for

Prime Minister Question Time and meeting with MPs. They have finished

their session and were leaving the parliament building and in the

Westminster Bridge area where there a -- where they were involved in the

incident you have described. We understand there are two students

who have been taken into hospital but one is with a whist injury and

the other, a head injury. The other students are back in a hostel

receiving support and will return to the north-west tomorrow. This took

place on Westminster Bridge. What do you know about what happened to the

students injured? The details are hazy. Our assumption is they were

either knocked down by other people awestruck by the vehicle. All of

them would have been traumatised by what they have seen. Travis Frain

suffered a minor student but two other students were injured more

severely. One student has a head injury and the other has a broken

wrist. They are being treated in accident and emergency but not

serious cases. You are trying to support the family. There is a

helpline as well. We restricting that a family. We have contacted all

14 of the students including the member of staff and we are providing

them with any support and there will be counselling available when they

return. BAT member of staff is still in there. The Chuter stayed with the

MPI little longer. -- -- the Chuter stayed with the MP a little longer.

Thank you very much for your time today and we will keep you updated

with developments as we get there. Goods news that the students are

safe and well. Liverpool's Mayor has appealed

for rail workers to abandon plans Joe Anderson says many people

support their campaign to keep But the Mayor is urging the RMT

union not to disrupt Hoteliers say it'll harm the city's

image with visitors. Here's our Chief

Reporter, Dave Guest. It's the day when Liverpool

is on show to the world. Tens of thousands head to Aintree

for the Grand National. They think one in three people will

travel by Merseyrail train and 30,000 will pass through the station

because the world-famous racecourses right across the road.

But this year they may not be able to travel here by train.

The RMT union is in dispute with Merseyrail over plans

It's called its latest strike for Grand National Day.

The Mayor of Liverpool says he understands their concerns

but is urging them to call off the strike.

I think they don't need to do this type of thing to emphasise their

point. We all get the message that they believe gods should be on

trains. The boss of Merseyrail

says he's disappointed I have spoke to many staff that

think the union has gone too far to affect the jewel in the Crown of the

month's event. We have negotiations on Monday. Were you present at those

talks? I was standing outside the talks. Should you not have been

there as a boss of the company? I am better as the next escalation level.

This dispute isn't about pay or jobs.

Merseyrail believes new trains could be operated by the driver alone.

The Union says it takes two people to ensure

We have had a number of safety incidents where the guard has had to

evacuate trains. This is the day when Liverpool is on show and you

will betray an image that this is the bad days of Liverpool. What will

it be like in three years' time? If some people get the day and the

Merseyrail trains will have a one-man train, it would be a

paradise. Hoteliers are more concerned

about the immediate effects of a strike on one

of their busiest We encourage people to use the

trains and it is a fundamental problem.

Race goers can only hope the two sides

resolve their differences before the big day on April 8th.

Greater Manchester Police has apologised for long delays

in providing evidence to an inquiry into the shooting dead

The Anthony Grainger Inquiry is looking at the actions

of the police in 2012 - when the father of two

was shot while sitting in a car in Warrington.

The force has now drafted in twelve officers working

twelve hours a day to sift through potentially

Works to re-open a bridge in South Cumbria which provides

the main route through a village are taking longer than expected.

The Old Gowan bridge in Staveley near Kendal

is being rebuilt after being damaged by Storm Desmond in 2015.

It was hoped the bridge would re-open by Easter

Tributes have been flooding in for one of Liverpool Football Club's

Former player and coach Ronnie Moran has died, at the age of 83.

He was at the heart of his hometown club for almost half

a century, part of the famous Boot Room.

Former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard said today...

The reason our club has a fantastic history is because of

Richard Askam reports on the passing of an Anfield icon.

He joined the club as a teenager in the late 1940's and five decades

later left as the club's longest serving member of staff.

When I look back, it has flown by. I remember coming to the club as a

15-year-old and started training. I was fortunate that I was with a

great club. Ronnie made 379

appearances as a player. He went on to become captain,

winning seven major trophies. Including the league

title in 1964 and 66. Before becoming part of the famous

boot room of coaches alongside the likes of Bob Paisley,

Joe Fagan and Roy Evans. Sorry to lose what I would call a

great man. His career at Liverpool was phenomenal.

Ronnie Moran was a no-nonsense football man who was trusted

Standing in as caretaker boss on a couple of occasions.

And even having the honour of leading the team out at Wembley

was a player, captain, coach, assistant manager, caretaker

manager. What does that say about him? Every player knows his voice.

It is like the schoolteacher, Sergeant Major that he was. He did

great things for our football club and we should pay our greatest

respects to him. to win 11 league titles

and four European Cups. Long after his retirement

Ronnie remained a strong presence and influence

at the training ground. His Liverpool career spanned five

decades and that made him very respected by the supporters. Seeing

the tributes come in shows a lot. Sun-macro the greatest we have ever

had. One of the club's most respected

figures thanks to a lifetime Inside the free school aiming

for the Premier League. How Everton Football Club is trying

to give pupils the best start. How Sergeant Pepper will be

revisited 50 years on. Millions of voters will soon get

poll cards for forthcoming mayoral elections in Merseyside and Greater

Manchester. Today, in the second of our reports,

we're looking at some of the issues Our reporter Mark Edwardson asked

a Manchester mechanic to examine We are doing a prim mayoral election

and Moti looking at the three issues identified as the most important by

the think tank, Centre Facilities. At least we will get to see where

some of our business and council tax increases are being spent. One of

those areas is social care. As financial pressures increase,

the Centre for Cities says the new mayor should develop

a sustainable social care What people are wanting isn't

necessarily fortune spent upon them but it is about good quality

outcomes. I guess the challenge for the mayor will be within the

financial envelope you've got. How can you make sure that money reaches

the people and provides the best possible outcome for those

individuals? It is quick win and it will create certainty of a

development across greater Manchester.

The ten boroughs of Greater Manchester already have plan

for industrial development and housing, some of it very

The think-tank says the new mayor should simply get

The big challenge is to work around the constellation of towns around

Greater Manchester and to find a completely renewed purpose for those

places. One of the big issues that sparked debate is the congestion

charge. The new mayor will be encouraged to fly the flag for it.

Controversial and rejected in a 2008 referendum.

Some say it's the key to public transport's future development

I think it is the number one issue for the Greater Manchester mayor. To

find a way of solving the transport crisis because I think there is a

transport crisis the Manchester. It is affecting business, trade, it is

affecting everybody's live -- life. Boaters get their say on May four.

-- voters get their say on May the 4th.

And the Greater Manchester Mayoral Candidate for the English Democrats

Stephen Morris says he'd make public transport a priority,

and is advocating universal early cancer screening.

He's also calling for legally-binding green

Companies will have to build underneath the units. We need to

make use of our brown field sites, no building on green field. They

will have to have solar panels on the roofs of those units, industrial

estates will have to have a localised wind turbine.

Everton Free School, the first in the country linked

to a Premier League Football Club, says it's achieving encouraging

results with some of Merseyside's most challenging pupils.

Many have been excluded from mainstream education.

Some have family members involved in drugs

Others, like 15-year-old Liam whom you're about to meet,

The Victoria Derbyshire Show was given exclusive access

to the school, set up in 2012 at a cost of ?4.2 million.

Angry, kicked out and written off. Some of them missed years of

education. All of them in danger of vanishing from education system

altogether. These peoples and Liverpool have found a way back in.

And it's all thanks to their local football club. Lee has attention

deficit disorder and autism. It was hard to get the work done because

I'd always need them one-on-one. It would be hard to complete a task.

Liam wasn't happy going to school. It was very anxious for me as a

parent knowing I was having to go to work all day and do and -- and he

was somewhere where he hated being. He was getting bullied. I was always

worried if he was going to get hit or if they will be waiting for him

after school. That is when Everton Free School came up. It was like,

this is an option. Children are often sent by mainstream schools

that can't cope with them. It is an alternative to a pupil referral

unit. It is run independent from the national curriculum. Chloe is 15 and

has behavioural problems. I was naughty and used to do nothing at

school. I used to argue and fight. People used to go around carrying

knives. Here, it is not so bad. There was too many people in the

classes and I couldn't get my head down and learn properly. It is good

that we can go up and sit in the box and have a chill and do work in

there. No other school does that. Every term, there is a classroom

visit from an Everton Blair. Today, it is the captain helping in a

science lesson. Bees are going to be young men and women in a couple of

years and we can give them a decent four hole to get there. -- foot

hole. Hats off to the club. On a Monday afternoon, we come up here

and coach these. It is great the School trust me and they have the

trust in me. If they can trust you, you can trust them. You are wearing

Everton Badlands getting to play football. I am living the dream.

You can watch the full film on Everton Free School made

for the Victoria Derbyshire programme at bbc.co.uk/victoria.

The Beatles Sergeant Pepper 's lonely hearts band is marking 50

years. Many different events are being held

in spite by the tracks on the album. A wet photo call to launch

Liverpool's Sergeant If only they'd fixed the hole

where the rain gets in. The Sergeant Pepper at fifty

festival is an ambitious programme funded by three quarters

of a million pounds of Arts It is bringing Sergeant Pepper home

to Liverpool because that was always the intention, to make the Liverpool

Sergeant Pepper is seen by many as the first art rock album.

And one of the Beatles' most influential.

It will offer the album to a different generation of young people

and let them see what a talented generational people they were. Not

only writing the songs but the album itself as a piece of art.

Across two weeks in May and June there'll be 13 world premieres

reflecting the thirteen tracks on the album.

She's Leaving Home inspires a play about growing up to be

performed in people's livings rooms in Toxteth.

I'm 25 but when I was 18 and I left home, when I listened to the song,

it really hit me because my mum must have been so upset. As a kid, you

are like, "Get me out of here." A Turner Prize winning artist has

arranged two as yet secret works about With a Little Help

from my friends. I am doing two things. One thing I

can tell you about that the other is based around the life and character

of Brian Eckstein. And an Indian art group

will reflect George Harrison's Our involvement in the project will

have the idea of bringing Indian classical music to a new audience.

BBC Radio Merseyside is having 64 choirs doing a live radio singalong

of When I Am 64. The organisers hope all will be

an unforgettable day Great. After what I just heard while

you were watching that report. Singing. Maybe you should be signing

up. 8th of June they are doing that big singalong. Maybe they could sign

you up. If they have any sense, they won't. How is your voice today?

Like a cat on a bin. We promised you a wet day and it is how it turned

out. For most of us, the rain kept on coming. The best place was across

Merseyside and Cheshire were initially it was fairly wet. Radar

isn't always indicative of what has happened. This is our latest

picture. The area of low pressure drops south. Tomorrow will be an

entirely different kind of day. As we have through the weekend,

high-pressure sticks with us and as we go through the next week, we are

in a very settled spell. As we head towards the weekend, the picture

looks remarkably different. This is what is going to happen. It

continues to curl around but it is leaving southern parts and pulls

away. We will see some drier spells coming in towards dawn. You can see

that line of showers coming towards us from the other side of the

Pennines. The Pennines will kill most of them off. You will be really

unlucky if you catch one. Overnight period, temperatures not as low as

they have been. It has got quite cold. Tonight, three to five Celsius

is where most of us will be. Watch that line of showers. Killed off

relatively quickly. By the time you get to eight o'clock, it should be

gone and the sun is up around six o'clock and the sun will work its

magic tomorrow. Through most of daylight hours, it will be dry. You

will have 11 to 12 hours of sunshine. Through the afternoon,

even though the wind direction is coming from East, it is not

brilliant. You will get the benefit of those hours of sunshine. Through

the day, your temperatures will rise to 11 Celsius. A different data

today. After that, we have high-pressure and it is dry and fine

with good spells of sunshine. That is a much prettier picture.

Look at that lovely yellow hanging over the British Isles. You will see

the sunshine. We will be back a little bit later than usual to my

because of events in London. Just before 11 o'clock. Have a lovely

evening. Goodbye.