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Liverpool's Mayor is offering people money off their council tax | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
if they help catch dog owners who don't clean up after their pets. | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
And Joe Anderson says those who shop fly-tippers | :00:21. | :00:21. | |
It's an idea that some people think is a winner. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
But others say they'd think twice before shopping an offender. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Here's our chief reporter Dave Guest. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
It's a dilemma any one of us could face - | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
what to do if we saw someone failing to clean up after their dog. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
I'd be nervous about tackling people myself. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
Some people can be very abusive, other people are understanding. | :00:43. | :00:51. | |
If you had evidence, would you shop a dog walker? | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
Certainly if I had a camera, certainly. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
That's music to the ears of Liverpool's Mayor, | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
who's offering an unusual incentive for people to become | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
If we get evidence that helps support a prosecution | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
against somebody, then what I am saying is simply that the cost | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
of that fine will, for us, be used towards your council tax. | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
You could get money off your council tax? | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
Absolutely, a discount or free council tax. | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
But supposing someone had a spot when ?100 and you gave | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
someone council tax free, the two don't equate. | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
We will make sure we use the maximum fine available to us. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
In other words, the reward will only equal the penalty | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
But it isn't only irresponsible dog owners who Mayor Anderson | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
He wants to offer a similar reward scheme to citizens who offer | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
Councils collectively spend hundreds of millions of pounds cleaning up | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
the aftermath of fly-tipping, so the Mayor's idea has been | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
welcomed by a charity dedicated to keeping Britain tidy. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
We know it is very difficult to catch people who let their dogs | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Potentially more eyes and ears on the ground providing evidence | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
the local authorities need to take people to court is a good thing. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
We watch with interest to see how it develops. | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
But in Liverpool, among those disposing of their waste | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
responsibly, there were still some qualms about the idea. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
It's an idea, I'm not sure I would be comfortable | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
with snitching on someone, so to speak. | :02:28. | :02:28. | |
Even if you got money off your council tax? | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
But Liverpool's Mayor remains undeterred, arguing this sort | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
of thing affects us all, and we all have a duty | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
Police who've been looking for a missing Cheshire man in Greece | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
Stephen Cook, who was 20 years old and from Sandbach was on holiday | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
when he disappeared on the island of Crete in 2005. | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
Cheshire Police say their Greek counterparts are now examining | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
the remains found recently in the resort of Malia. | :02:59. | :03:08. | |
The Business Secretary Gregg Clarke says he's held constructive | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
executives about the future of two thousand Vauxhall jobs | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
The French firm is in talks to buy the business from General Motors. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
The Bury singer Peter Skellern has died aged 69. | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
He announced in October last year that he had an inoperable brain | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
tumour and later that month fulfilled a lifelong dream to be | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
Peter Skellern was best known for You're A Lady, | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
which was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1972. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
50 years ago today The Beatles released Strawberry Fields Forever. | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
John Lennon's inspiration for the song was the Salvation Army | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
orphanage of the same name close to his childhood home in Liverpool. | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Strawberry Field closed as a children's home | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
more than a decade ago, but today the Salvation Army | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
revealed a plan to turn it into a training hub for young | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
disabled people, and a magnet for Beatles fans. | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
# Let me take you down cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields...# | :04:03. | :04:13. | |
The red, wrought-iron gate wreathed in reams of graffiti is as far | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
as Beatles fans can get at Strawberry Field these days. | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
John Lennon, though, used to play in the grounds. | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
He used to live with his Aunt Mimi, just over in Mendips. | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
The rear perimeter wall, he used to climb over it | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
Of course, he wasn't allowed to do that, | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
Strawberry Field was a family home to begin with, then | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
the Salvation Army took it over as an orphanage. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
The modern building has been closed since 2005. | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
Now, the Salvation Army wants to raise ?8 million to turn it | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
into a new facility for people with learning disabilities, and | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
It's a pretty good idea to open it up and let people come | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
in and see and learn about what was here before. | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
I think it's fantastic about what the Salvation Army is going to do. | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
The idea is the centre won't just benefit Beatles fans, | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
but will help the people with learning difficulties. | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
They will work in the Heritage Centre, in the cafe | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
It's not always easy for young disabled people to get work | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
The Salvation Army says on Merseyside only 7% of people over | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
16 with a disability are in paid employment. | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
These students at Sanfield Park School in Liverpool hope | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
that the new training hub at Strawberry Field will help. | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
Young disabled people when they leave school do not | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
have many places to go, to work, so they would be able | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
to develop their skills they have learned. | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
The Salvation Army will pick up half of the ?8 million cost and hope | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
charities and the public will help with the rest. | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
And in the Super League tonight, Leigh took on Leeds and made | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
the perfect start with Matty Dawson got Leigh off the mark. | :06:08. | :06:20. | |
A fantastic start at the Wirral this morning. | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
Our weather watcher's picture shows a beautiful start to the day, | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
However, it didn't last and that is the story | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
Lots of cloud cover, outbreaks of rain from time to time | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
This line of rain is pushing across us. | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
It won't last for too much longer and towards the early | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
hours of the morning, most places will have a dry start. | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Very mild tonight, though - temperatures at seven, | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
A gloomy start for most places tomorrow, the best place for any | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
sunshine will be across Merseyside and Cheshire, maybe up | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
the coast for a short while, but you can clearly see a line | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
of rain coming towards us in the afternoon, and the Isle | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
of Man first then into parts of Cumbria then spreading everywhere | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
It might not make it everywhere, but it will try its best | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
and it sticks with us till the sun goes down. | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
But it is a very mild day, so that's something to enjoy, | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
temperatures of ten, 11 and 12 Celsius and the outlook | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
for the next couple of days shows you it's more of the same. | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
part of next week, we could see 16 Celsius in a few spots. Here is knit | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
with the National output. We have turned things around in the | :07:35. | :07:50. | |
space of a week, with a more springlike feel out there. Some | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
places may get as high as 17 Celsius on Monday. That is the exception, | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
and most of us won't see that. Plenty of cloud throughout this | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
weekend. It is already producing some outbreaks of rain in western | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
and northern parts overnight will stop not amounting to too much, | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
affecting western Scotland later in the night. Early rain in Northern | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
Ireland looks to pull away quite quickly in the morning, spreading | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
south through Scotland. Not very much to the east of high ground. | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
Much of England and Wales starts dry, but with plenty of cloud. Maybe | :08:39. | :08:39. |