23/02/2017 North West Tonight

There's still disruption on the region's rail network tonight -

and hundreds of homes are without power -

after Storm Doris hit the North West today.

Cars and properties were also badly damaged

Ian Haslam has been at Manchester's Piccadilly Station tonight.

Yes, there's been major disruption to train services across the region

for much of the day as a result of Storm Doris and those problems

The departures board here at Manchester Piccadilly

hasn't made happy reading for many people hoping to travel.

Virgin Trains between Manchester and London were cancelled

throughout most of the afternoon, but finally, just after six o'clock,

there was a service that departed to London Euston from here.

A sign that things were slowly starting to get back to normal.

Either way, though, it's been a bad day for many commuters.

Started off in Edinburgh, staff were pretty good,

but then we got kicked off at Preston and there are no...

There's no information anywhere. The staff genuinely don't know.

So it's a nightmare. It's been awful today.

What has it been like for you? Terrible, hungry, tired.

Trying to see if I can get to my destination.

Of course, it's not just train travel that's been affected.

Electricity North West says it's restored power to well over

6,500 properties and its engineers will be working through the night

There have also been flights diverted and widespread damage

across the region, as Abbie Jones reports.

She was forecast to bring wild weather,

and Storm Doris lived up to her name.

Hundreds of trees brought down across the region.

Travel chaos on the roads and trains.

This a Royal Mail van in Aigburth in Liverpool -

As did three-year-old Jacob and his dad Andy in Lytham St Annes.

a large branch falls exactly where the boy was standing,

filmed on the dashcam of one of his grandad's skip hire lorries.

It's bizarre that Chris saw him and stopped at the right time

If Chris hadn't have seen them and recognised them,

he might have drove on, because they hadn't quite got

Well, it doesn't bear thinking about,

A man suffered back and pelvis injuries in Sefton

More than 150 have come down in Liverpool alone.

At least 10 people have been injured across the region.

There have been so many fallen trees across Liverpool

that the City Council has asked the public to avoid if you park

that the City Council has asked the public to avoid every park

in the city, because of the danger of trees coming down.

We've closed parts of Sefton Park and Otterspool Park,

Loads of trees have come down and a lot more

We stopped street cleaning and grounds maintenance,

because there wasn't a lot of point in the wind, but also,

it was getting dangerous and we wanted people to be available

Transport too has been severely affected.

This Icelandair flight had to abort its landing

at Manchester Airport and declare an emergency, because of low fuel.

They landed it three times and then tried going to different places,

Yeah, and everyone around us was being sick and fainting and that!

Trains in and out of Manchester and Liverpool have been

cancelled or delayed, many North West travellers now stuck

in London after all trains from Euston were suspended.

Roads and bridges have been shut due to trees,

Property has been badly damaged, including these cars crushed

The coast has seen the worst of the weather.

But the havoc she's caused could last for days.

Abbie Jones, BBC North West Tonight, Liverpool.

And we will have the forecast shortly.

Blackpool Football Club's owners - the Oyston family -

have lost a multi-million pound court battle against

Valeri Belokon paid more than ?4 million for the development

of the club's South Stand, but there was a dispute

The Oystons could have to pay him up to ?2 million.

Merseyside Police have released CCTV of convicted killer Shaun Walmsley,

who escaped from prison while on his way

to an appointment to Aintree Hospital.

The 28-year-old was guarded by prison officers in a taxi

on Tuesday, when they were ambushed by armed men,

who helped him escape in a gold Volvo.

If you've been watching over the past couple of nights,

you'll know we've been reporting on the pressures

in the social care system in the North West.

Tonight, we're looking at some of the possible solutions.

Here's our Health Correspondent Gill Dummigan.

We're in Ormskirk today, at Brookside Extra Care Scheme,

a complex of 111 flats for the over-55s.

This is the main lounge. This is the main lounge, which I...

Mm-hm, it's nice and big, isn't it? It is.

Brian Cobban moved in here after his wife died and he had a stroke.

I did have friends around, but it's not the same as having

somebody in the house with you, is it?

Everything's wheelchair friendly, and Brian has access to carers,

but the independence of his own place.

There's a council dementia service here, some medical facilities.

The idea is that, as people's needs increase, so does the level of care.

Um, that they know there is somebody there

In Greater Manchester, there's another.

Last year, the area took control of its health budget

At its centre is an idea that social care is an integral part of that.

There is a lot of waste at the present time by people

expecting individuals and their carers to run

round the system telling their story again and again and again.

Our view - it's much better, to put professionals in a voluntary

sector in one room with access to the same information and having

the same conversation with those individuals,

and having one approach to their care planning.

And a few of us have expressed our concerns about her...

In Salford, both health and social care are now run

by an integrated care organisation, which means experts from all sides

When we've dealt with her health problems, there's lots

of other issues going on as well, so I know I have

very easy access into social services, district nursing,

The Salford pilot - the first of three

Greater Manchester - is getting a lot of

Across the country now, there's a big push to get health

and social care working more closely together.

But what that can't do is solve the immediate problem individual

councils are facing to pay for that social care.

Across Greater Manchester, the councils estimate that,

by 2020, their funding gap will be ?214 million.

The Salford pilot is getting some national attention.

We think the only way for it to be closed is some form of deal

between national government and a local area like

In two weeks' time, the Government unveils its budget.

The hope here, as everywhere, is that social care

Gill Dummigan, BBC North West Tonight.

Now, Sarah Beattie and her husband Nelson went through five years

of fertility treatment, as they tried to start a family.

Sarah had seven cycles of IVF without success.

Then, at the end of last year, Nelson passed away.

But their dream of starting a family isn't over,

Sarah's need for a child became all-consuming.

I ended up having to give up working with children,

Emotionally, it was just too much to stay working with them,

because it was like a kick in the face every day that

that's is what you wanted and you might not ever get.

I didn't want to let myself believe it.

To get that positive test was just

But the news came too late for her husband Nelson,

who died not knowing their eighth round of treatment

The first thing I had to do was take the pregnancy test

Um, and I just said to him that, "Look, we've finally managed it."

I knew exactly what he would've said if he alive.

I knew exactly what he would've said if he was alive.

He'd have just been going absolutely mental with excitement.

Do you find that it's hard to get excited about the baby?

Because it's such a special baby, I'm very scared, very nervous,

Some days, I just want to shout and tell the world that I'm

finally pregnant and then, I'm like, "No, something

could still go wrong! It's still very early days!"

How you feel, knowing that you've got a little piece

That is just the most amazing feeling in the world,

because it means that, even though he's gone -

which I still, as you can imagine, find very, very difficult -

and, to that there's going to be a little bit of him running around

the place and a little bit of him to torment me is just amazing.

Katie Walderman, BBC North West Tonight, Crewe.

Tomorrow's Super League rugby match between Wigan and Widnes has

already been postponed after today's bad weather.

What a difference a Day makes, tomorrow will be entirely different.

What an awful day today was. Crosby on Merseyside, 74 mph, the

record-breaking win today, the storm record-breaking win today, the storm

has moved, leaving as and it is not anywhere as a hazard has been

outside. But you replace it with another problem through the night,

some pretty beefy showers, cold air descending, a bit of a recipe for

the show was over high levels, we not expecting any

snowfall, maybe just a light dusting snowfall, maybe just a light dusting

if you're unlucky. It is all about the temperatures, two or three for

most towns and cities, much cooler in rural spots, so we could have

some ice on untreated surfaces. But aside from that, it is a different

day, our helpful bridge of high pressure kills off the shoulders, so

most places dry all the way through. And some sunshine to enjoy. There

will be a cold start taking some time to warm up. But the wind will

be light. More rain by the end of the day. Temperatures only seven or

eight but better than today. And the outlook of

be much milder. I will leave you with Thomas

Good evening. It was quite a day for some of us. We get these sort of

storms every couple of years also. Difficult to give an exact number,

but it was certainly a nasty one. It's now moving into Holland,

Germany, south of Denmark, and it continues to blow itself out. The

winds around coasts