25/10/2016 North West Tonight

Good evening, as the boss of two hospitals on Merseyside -

he was in charge of providing health care for more than a quarter

But today Jonathan Parry was sacked as the Chief Executive

of the Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust.

Mr Parry had been suspended - along with other senior

members of staff - more than a year ago and had

But we still don't know exactly what he did wrong.

Earlier, I spoke to our Social Affairs Correspondent Clare Fallon

and asked her what more we know about what's happened there.

Earlier, I spoke to our Social Affairs Correspondent Clare Fallon

Not a lot, we simply have

a statement that has been released by the trust today telling us that

the chief executive Jonathan Parry has been sacked for gross misconduct

I was at this hospital in August last

year, on the day when four senior members

of staff, including the

I was told they had arrived at work is normal that morning, they had

been taken into meetings and were told they

were being suspended, and

that was as a result of complaints made by

whistle-blowers, and we can now look back at what the hospital trust

I want to stress that the whistle-blowing

concerns that have been raised do not concern patient safety or

And I would want the message very clearly to be

understood, there is no risk to patients,

public should feel confident about attending at the trust.

So that is what they were saying last year.

No interviews are being done, no real

explanation about what has gone on here.

In fairness to the trust, what

they have said to me is at the moment the outgoing chief executive

has the right to appeal against sacking so it would be

unfair to go into details at the moment.

What about the other senior members of staff were suspended?

It has been decided that one of those

senior members of staff has now case to answer,

The other two making up the four are no longer working for

The chief operating boss, she has retired, and

the human resources boss has resigned.

I understand proceedings are still ongoing.

All of this attracted criticism from some people

including the local MP, who said all of this has taken too

long and they say that it has cost too much,

because these members of staff were still being paid while

As of the summer that had added up to ?400,000.

As of this evening we still do not know

what has gone on here, although clearly this

So serious the chief executive has now been sacked.

Firefighters searching for a couple - missing

after a house fire in Liverpool - have found two bodies.

The blaze destroyed the house in Allerton at the weekend.

It wasn't known whether the owners - believed to be a man and a woman

in their 60s or 70s - were at home at the time.

Police forensic officers will now investigate.

Police are stepping up patrols in the Aigburth

and Croxteth areas of Liverpool, after a man was shot

Police and paramedics found a 30 year old man,

Police believe it to have been a targeted shooting.

UK home care Association said that local authorities throughout the

region are not taking care resulting in some councils handing back

contracts. I think we are at a tipping point. West Riding are

realising they cannot operate in the rates local authorities are prepared

to pay so we have to take some action right now to address the

decline in the home care setter. Dash-mac sector.

As many as 1000 public pay phones could disappear from streets

across the North West - amid claims they are no longer used

But many people believe they're still vital in emergencies.

In the age of the mobile phone, the use of phone boxes has dropped

by 90% over the past decade, but in

rural Lancashire, the rolling hills can prove a barrier to connection.

The signal outside the pub or the bar, you cannot use the

Now, with BT considering the removal of many

payphones, the council working for people to speak up

The strength of the mobile phone is not good around here, and

even today it has not been there at all.

It just switches off and nobody has a signal.

So, one could argue this should be maintained.

According to BT's figures, the 50 phone boxes

in the Ribble Valley have been used on average 14 times each in the past

year, some have been used more than 150 times,

Everyone has mobile phones, even your great granny has them now.

It is 60p a minute to use one of these

BT says it is still committed to providing public

payphones, and will only remove them with the permission of local

We will listen to what people are saying.

We are testing for mobile signal that every one of these

sites, so we're not taking anything out where there is no mobile signal

But the sad fact is many of these payphones are simply not being

At three-month consultation on the Ribble Valley's payphones is now

He made his name with a controversial painting

of Eric Cantona and his Manchester United team mates.

And he re-created a version of Michaelangelo's Last Judgement

But then the artist Michael Browne seemed to disappear.

You might have thought he'd have made a fortune

But - as Stuart Flinders reports - nothing could be

You build up the mood you want from lots of images.

Manchester United's new manager Jose Mourhno.

United have always inspired Michael, first as a fan from Moss Side,

His portrait of Eric Cantona as the Resurrected Christ offended

But Eric liked it so much he bought the painting.

Religion is one of the recurring themes in Michael's work.

This is his tribute to Michelangelo in a pizza restaurant.

Religious art and football took him to Italy, where he spent two

and a half years trying to repeat his Cantona success

It is supposed to be about 11 feet high, that painting.

I could never get hold of Mario Balotelli, so I

Then I went to Rome, and try to get to the Vatican,

because I heard they were going to show more art-orientated religious

Having failed to attract the interest of Balotelli

But the money has run out, and the man once courted

by United stars now lives in a homeless hostel in Salford.

You are a good artist, but a bad businessman, perhaps?

I'm sure I will be OK eventually because now I

am back in the UK, working at building

clientele and have had some help from people.

This is surely not the end for Michael.

He still has his talent and he is already in talks

Football and Wigan Athletic have sacked manager Gary Caldwell

He led the Latics to the League One title last season.

But they've struggled in the Championship,

winning only two out of their 14 league games, and are currently

In tonight's games, Liverpool booked their place in the

fifth round of the EFL Cup, with Daniel Sturridge scoring two

goals to secure a 2-1 home victory over Tottenham.

Preston had a less successful evening.

They were thrashed 6-0 away to Newcastle.

How do you decide which high school to send your child to?

You probably look at Ofsted reports and league tables, or choose

But some are taking it a bit further,

Like this video by Fallibroome academy in Macclesfield.

It's been viewed thousands of times online.

2000 pupils took part in the impressive production.

So if you want to see the full production

We are back in the mail they are. Last night it visually quite cold

that this will not be the case. It will bring legible rain in the next

few days but will just cloud this up a bit. Dash-mac negligible. First

thing this morning was really very cool but tomorrow a much milder

picture. You will be starting the day with tempters around eight or 10

degrees and we are already perhaps six or seven but much better than

last night. You can spot where two patches of Brazilian there and that

side pays will be low but afraid that weather stays with us tomorrow

so from time to time you will see spots of drizzly rain that nothing

to write home about our trouble us but it does mean a cloudy picture

and at times all look fairly gloomy. Every now and then the sun will try

to promote the client will be the predominant feature. The breeze

picks up nearly as the monastery strong throughout the day that

temperatures are good. Dash-mac the breeze picks up yearly in the

morning. settled and on the mild side. Nick

now has all the national weather. Hello. Autumn is the season of

change, most noticeably with those autumn colours on display today in

Buckinghamshire, as photographed by one of our weather watchers. Always

helps when there is blue sky above. Our weather is always changing

regardless of the season. One of those changes is taking place, we

are losing last week's Easterly winds and now a westerly wind. That

means it's turning milder by day and night but it does mean the return of

Atlantic weather fronts, especially to north-western parts of the UK.

The reason, high pressure in Germany and low pressure Iceland. Here is

the first of those weather fronts for Scotland and Northern Ireland

through the night, the first part of tomorrow. There isn't a huge amount

of rain associated with this. Could see rain over the hills of northern

England and Wales as the night goes on. The odd shower clipping Sussex

and Kent. A lot of dry weather for England and Wales. It's mild here,

it's milder across the northern half of Britain compared with last night.

But the further south you are the closer to that area of high