28/10/2016 North West Tonight

North West Tonight can reve`l that 100 children from the so-called

Jungle camp in Calais could be resettled in the North West.

We understand that 23 local councils have agreed to take the youngsters.

Here's our chief reporter, Dave Guest.

It provided a temporary, if far from sweet home to thousands

desperate to get away from the countries of their birth.

The Jungle was marred in controversy from its first day until its last.

The French say more than 5,400 people have been transferred

to reception centres in the past week.

Of those, around 1,500 are unaccompanied children.

Britain's agreed to take some, but questions have been raised

as to whether some of those who ve arrived already are actually

I've been catching up with one young man who faced scepticism

when he arrived here from Iraq several years ago.

He'd arrived in the UK at the age of 14.

He says his parents had been killed in Iraq and he hid in on a truck

But as he turned 16, the authorities in Wigan decided

They put it age at 20 and said he'd have to be deported.

I don't know why they don't believe me.

I can't go to sleep at night time, I can't eat nothing.

He spent time a deportation centre until a court ruled that

if the authorities couldn't prove he was older, they had

to accept he was indeed 16 and should be allowed to st`y.

He's just turned 23 and has built a new life for himself

You'll have seen the publichty about young people leaving

The questions have been raised about some of them, about their age.

What do you think about the way those children

I think they should be treating them better.

It's not uncommon for peopld like Rabar to face such questions.

According to the Refugee Cotncil, there are almost 800 age disputed

Basically, that's where the authorities didn't

believe the person applying really was and 18.

That represents a 148% increase on the year before.

But the numbers of unaccompanied asylum seeking children

The Home Office says there were nearly 3,500 asylum

applications from them in the year ending in June 2016.

That represents something like a 54% increase on 2015.

So far, the UK has accepted more than 200 children

The government says it will be taking more,

and I understand 23 councils in this region have agreed well accept up

That works out to around four for each area.

A man's been jailed for life after being convicted of strangling

a Bolton grandfather and dumping his body in a reservoir.

Candido Pereira, of Chorley New Road, in Bolton,

had denied murdering Darren McMinn and was standing trial

A jury unanimously found the 37-year-old Portuguese

He will serve a minimum of 24 years before being eligible

A man accused of stabbing to death a backpacker from Cheshire

at an Australian hostel has had his case transferred

30-year-old Tom Jackson, from Congleton, died along

with Mia Ayliffe Chung after they were both

Smail Ayad has been remanded in custody charged with their lurders.

He'll appear in court on the 15th of February.

A man from Salford has been charged with murder after an alleged assault

on a volunteer working at a charity shop in Liverpool.

The victim, 36-year-old Victor Alexandrov Maroukian,

died at the Remar Furniture Store on Aigburth Road on Wednesd`y.

Boyan Antonov, who's 28, will appear before Liverpool

A controversial plan to use green belt land for major housing

developments in Greater Manchester has been approved this afternoon.

The Greater Manchester Spathal Framework includes plans

for the building of 225 thotsand homes over the next 20 years.

The proposal will now go to public consultation.

Cast your mind back to 2010, the year Blackburn Rovers became

the first Indian-owned Premier League club.

Since being taken over by the owners of Venky's,

a processed chicken company, Rovers have dropped out

of the Premier League, sacked six managers and run up debts

Many supporters have had enough, and a mass protest has been

organised for tomorrow's game against Wolves.

Birdie, that's Alan Birkbeck to you and me, might just be

His house overlooks Ewood P`rk and he has watched Rovers home

We don't know what direction they're going to take this club.

The only direction at the moment is we're going down the pan.

Some supporters lost faith in the new owners

But with the club now struggling at the bottom of the Championship,

disenchantment has grown - culminating in a mass

The organisers of tomorrow's protest are asking supporters to turn up

after the match has started, 18 minutes into the game.

And they want them to walk out on the 75th minute.

The significance of those ntmbers is that the club

COMMENTATOR: They're known `s one of the toughest fighting

By emphasising the year Rovers were born, fans are reminding

the owners that this is a club with a long tradition.

Founder members of the football league.

We've win trophies across three centuries.

There's businesses going bust because of the low

This is the legacy that they'll leave behind.

In a statement tonight, the owners told us they respect

the fans' right to protest, but hope they'll get

I wouldn't expect anything wonderful weather-wise.

With the next couple of days, we're going to see an awful

The high pressure is still dominating our weather,

It's made many places dull, damp and drizzly all the way through.

And we've got more dull, damp and drizzly stuff, too,

as we head through the next couple of hours.

Cloud space is going to be puite low, so visibility will be quite

poor heading to the early hours of the morning.

But the numbers, once again very good, between 8-12 Celsius.

We go into Saturday, and an awful lot of this weather

Particularly for parts of the Isle of Man and parts of

It pulls away as the morning goes on, but it's a gloomy

Fingers crossed that as we head into the afternoon there

will be more in the way of brightness and we saw today.

So not going to be a fantastic picture.

Through the afternoon we sed a temperature of 40-15 Celsius.

Sunday, I'm sure there'll bd a little more in the way

of brightness and less in the way of drizzle.

As we start the working week next week, more in the way of cloud.

to come into the beginning of next week as well. Now the national

picture. Hello, it's been a pretty good week

for getting out and enjoying the autumn colours, especially if you

have seen autumn sunshine. What sunshine, if you have been in

Manchester or the Wirral, damp in places. Ty Gifford had it better,

and Deal in Kent, with sunshine. It's high pressure and settled

weather but the flow of air may be mild but winning in moisture, not

necessarily in