23/03/2017 North West Tonight

A vigil has been held in Manchester this evening to show solidarity

with those caught up in yesterday's terror attack in London.

And it was led by the city's Lord Mayor, and many of those taking part

said they wanted to show solidarity with those who had suffered in the

attacks. It was just really nice

for different people from different parties

to put their differences It's important that Manchester

shows unity with London, especially because it's

a very diverse city. There'll be a lot of communities now

affected by the consequences The police officer that

died was a member of the Royal Artillery,

like I am. Once a gunner, always a gunner,

we stand together solid, Yesterday in Westminster, three

people were killed by the attacker Among them, students from

Edge Hill University in Ormskirk. Today, they thanked the emergency

services for their help, He went to Westminster to learn

about Parliament and its history, 19-year-old Travis Frain

from Darwen, a student on a University trip and among those

hurt on one of the darkest They were on the bridge,

and he showed me on a newspaper Clearly, he's not well,

but he's dealing with it. Also injured,

18-year-old Owen Lambert. He was also on the Edge

Hill University trip. At the campus today,

students were offered They just went to London to go

to the Houses of Parliament, these But Travis and all the other

students are very upbeat. Obviously, they will be

in various states of shock, and they will be traumatised

by the things they've seen. Remembering those

who didn't survive. At police stations,

they stopped for silence. While flags were lowered for

a colleague, killed doing his job. And at Manchester Town Hall,

all through the day people signed their names

in a show of solidarity. One message saying,

we have the North/South divide, It really, really hate us hard,

what happened yesterday, how quickly something

like that can happen, It's so nice that everyone has come

together to pay their respects, from different cities,

even like Paris, all over the world. It is just really is such

a tragic, tragic event Back home in Liverpool,

these men were among the hundreds in Parliament

during the security lockdown. Despite watching events unfold

before them yesterday, the enormity is only

now hitting them. We saw a police officer fall,

blood on the the floor, we saw people climbing

on top of them. Many people do own

their lives to him. He was directing people

away from the situation, but he was going head-on into that

situation to try and slow the man with the knife down

at the cost of his life. If he had got over that barrier,

he was 50 feet away from MPs and the public,

with a weapon. A former Anglican vicar

from Liverpool who stole more than ?100,000 from the church

has been spared jail. Michael Fry spent the money

on alcohol, books and travel. But today a judge said Fry's

good deeds outweighed Our Merseyside reporter

Andy Gill was in court. Over an eight-year period

until 2013, Michael Fry kept the fees from more than 1000

funerals that he should have passed

to the Liverpool diocese. He also misled his bosses

about the number of funerals Fry worked out of a number

of city centre churches, The court heard that initially

the church was relaxed about his financial returns,

given the expectation of honesty But today the Archdeacon

described the scale How much damage do you think

this case has done to Difficult to assess,

but when this happens, with a clergy person failing

to maintain that level of trust, there can be a knock-on

effect with other clergy. I guess it will make other

clergy feel vulnerable, Michael Fry was also the chaplain

of Liverpool Women's Hospital. The court heard he spent the money

on drink, books and travel. What did you think personally,

as a senior figure in the church, when you heard about

what Michael Fry had been doing? I felt immensely sad

and let down, to be honest. But I know Michael, I know

the demons that he's fought against. When the thefts were

discovered, Fry resigned Today, a judge said his offences

were an enormous breach of trust, but he was also a very caring

and compassionate individual who continued to volunteer

with the homeless. The judge said there comes

a time in a man's life where he's entitled to say,

measure the good I have done In this case, the good

outweighs the harm. She sentenced Michael Fry

to 20 months in jail, A woman's been arrested on suspicion

of murder after a man was found dead The body of 47-year-old Thomas Jones

was discovered by firefighters inside the property on Berry Street

in Clifton early yesterday morning. Police say a 37-year-old woman

is currently receiving hospital treatment,

but will be questioned The North West has been revealed

as the worst area in England for patients trapped in hospital

beds because of problems A BBC investigation found

four North West councils Cumbria was the worst

in the country, closely followed by Trafford,

Tameside and Stockport. The Labour Party has

announced Afzal Khan will be its candidate for

the Manchester Gorton by-election. The by-election comes

after the death of Lancashire County Council

is reducing the speed limit on Preston New Road,

next to a shale gas exploration site where protestors have been

gathering for a number of weeks. The limit will be cut from 50

to 20mph, in the hope that the police won't need to close

the road during demonstrations. The prospect of a new stadium

for Everton Football Club has moved The club has secured a plot of land

on Liverpool's waterfront and, with the City Council,

come up with a plan to find With a young and ambitious

team, Everton is a club And they hope this is where the next

generation of stars will have the Blues

faithfull off their seats. A site on the north side

of Liverpool's waterfront, where they plan to build one

the best stadiums in the world. We have control of the land,

we have a basis by which we can go The next phase is about being much

more precise about defining what we want to build and defining

how much that's going to cost. Everton have been working

in close collaboration The plan is to create

a company together called It will lever in funding

and lease the stadium. When it's is built, it will be

leased back to the football club. It's wonderful, couldn't be a better

place, really couldn't. They could redevelop it in the same

way that Liverpool have done theirs. It'll be iconic, and

think it's a good move and it's good for the city,

it's good for everyone. Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson has

been at the heart of discussions. All the other things that

will develop as a result of the catalytic effect of Everton's

stadium, being there - there'll be new housing, new developments,

which all help the intake of new money coming into the city

through business rates. The council won't fund

the new ground, but will reportedly earn about ?4.5 million a year

from the deal, and hope the stadium will be part of plans to bring

the Commonwealth Games to Liverpool I think it's a huge opportunity

for us not to miss, and we'll have all those components in place

for us to bid. There are still substantial hurdles

to be overcome before we start But it's also clear that real

progress has been made, and the prospect of not only

a ground for Everton, but also potentially

the regeneration of this part of the city, has moved

a significant step closer. And that is it from me, so I'll say

goodbye to you and thank you to Diane, who has the weather forecast.

All good news for the next few days. For the next couple of days, while

the days I try and find, the Knights will be chilly. This starts tonight,

an area of high pressure building, keeping things quiet. Allowing the

sun to shine through the day. But the Knights will be cool. It is

chilly out there now. A cold, easterly wind. We will lose that in

the early hours. You can see blue descending in one or two parts.

Temperatures around 5 degrees. In rural areas it might be lower. The

sun is up just after 6am tomorrow, and look at that sunshine throughout

the day. The breeze comes towards us the East, much lighter. Sunshine

tomorrow, feeling pleasant. Lots of sunshine, some patchy cloud floating

around, allowing temperatures to 13 degrees. With the out like for the

next couple of days, the weekend looks good. Good night.

part of the weekend. 1415 degrees. Still quite breezy. Here's Thomas

with the national picture. Good evening. Some good news on the

weather front of this evening. The weekend is looking sunny for most of

the UK. We have got clear skies across the country and it promises

to be a sunny day tomorrow. We had some rain today. It rained quite

heavy across parts of the South West. These are remnants of weather

fronts that have been hanging around for a