:00:08. > :00:14.Hello, this week I am at the home of the famous witches.
:00:14. > :00:20.We also find out the spooky goings on in the region don't end here.
:00:20. > :00:25.Tonight, we investigate the impact the new rush of cockle pickers has
:00:25. > :00:31.on a Lancashire coastline. should we have big boat taking our
:00:31. > :00:36.living? We are not happy. 100 years after Liverpool's Bloody Sunday,
:00:36. > :00:42.the family of one victim calls for his name to be cleared.
:00:42. > :00:47.somebody to be shot twice in a -- in the head, by a soldier, that
:00:47. > :00:57.sold in knew what he was doing. why young Jack killer is pumping
:00:57. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:12.new blood into the North West Cockling is back in the headlines.
:01:12. > :01:19.It is a story of the thought had gone away after the disaster in
:01:19. > :01:23.Morecambe Bay in 2004 when 23 Chinese cockle pickers died.
:01:23. > :01:30.Who would have thought that a simple sand bank could have caused
:01:30. > :01:34.so much trouble. I am standing here off the coast of live them. It is
:01:34. > :01:38.cockles that I have been discovering and this is the scene
:01:38. > :01:43.of much drama. Lytham is a quiet town on the
:01:43. > :01:48.Lancashire coast with a small fishing industry. There were full-
:01:48. > :01:53.time fishermen here and tell September, when they experienced a
:01:53. > :01:58.modern gold rush. A cockle bed which had been closed
:01:58. > :02:04.for 20 years were certainly reopened by the Inshore Fisheries
:02:04. > :02:09.and conservation authority. As word got out that the bed had more than
:02:09. > :02:15.�8 million worth of cockles, hundreds of fishermen descended on
:02:15. > :02:21.live them. They have come in a bath tubs. They sailed down there on a
:02:21. > :02:26.plank of wood. Paul has been fishing the coast since he was 16.
:02:26. > :02:32.He passed the checks necessary to obtain a permit for fishing for
:02:32. > :02:35.cockles. There was an -- phase normally four or five of us that
:02:35. > :02:41.has worked here. It is an eye- opener for the residents to find
:02:41. > :02:46.hundreds of men on the beach. looks fairly safe and tranquil but
:02:46. > :02:52.this estuary is treacherous. It is tidal and the EC can come in very
:02:52. > :02:57.quickly. There are Sandbanks to navigate and four in experienced
:02:58. > :03:02.cockers, the rescue services have been called out 26 times. Either
:03:02. > :03:08.bodes broken down or overloaded boats that have taken on water.
:03:08. > :03:14.People must be taking risks then? Some have. Birds are overloaded
:03:14. > :03:19.with people and cockles. -- boat's. Does that mean that they can run
:03:19. > :03:24.into danger quickly because they are ill equipped? It can go wrong
:03:24. > :03:28.quite quickly for them, particularly if the weather changes.
:03:28. > :03:33.The boat's are low in the water and if the weather picks up, if they
:03:33. > :03:38.take on water, things go down quickly. As the number of rescues
:03:38. > :03:43.increase, the authorities feared a repeat of the 2004 tragedy which
:03:43. > :03:50.happened in Morecambe Bay when 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned.
:03:50. > :03:55.Last Tuesday, they ran exclusive checks on the fishes and their
:03:55. > :04:00.equipment. If you have no life jackets, you will not be going out.
:04:00. > :04:07.Half of the boats were stopped because they were not safe and the
:04:07. > :04:13.skippers were not qualified. have discouraged a number of
:04:13. > :04:19.illegal cockle us from going out. In doing so, we have improved the
:04:19. > :04:25.safety issue. We are not knowing -- naming them that they come without
:04:25. > :04:28.licences. They go out in little boats and shouldn't be on the river.
:04:29. > :04:36.If the bailiffs were here doing their job, they wouldn't be going
:04:36. > :04:41.out. There was more anger on Wednesday when it was announced
:04:41. > :04:46.that the bed would be closed to fishermen and dredgers would be
:04:46. > :04:52.brought in to Hoover up the cockles. The main complaint is with the
:04:52. > :05:02.ecosystem, it will be decimated. don't believe in dredging because
:05:02. > :05:02.
:05:02. > :05:08.it destroys them. We will have to find something else to do for a bit.
:05:08. > :05:13.Other people will be out of work, not just me. That bed will be going
:05:13. > :05:19.dead. There will be nothing of living of it. Why should we have
:05:19. > :05:28.big boat taking our living. --? We are not happy, that is all we have
:05:28. > :05:33.to say. Rob is a cockle trade here, buying them in love them to export
:05:33. > :05:38.to Spain. He said they would be disastrous for the environment and
:05:38. > :05:43.local jobs. If we were to use that bode for dredging, it would end
:05:44. > :05:47.somewhere towards �1 million in that period of time. I am prepared
:05:47. > :05:52.not to use that boat because it would do that much damage to the
:05:52. > :05:57.cockle bed, not just for now but for the future. It is not the way
:05:57. > :06:03.to do it. On Friday the Minister for Fisheries said he would
:06:03. > :06:10.reconsider this plan. However, the bank would still close. To close it
:06:10. > :06:16.like this, I am sorry. We are not bothered, as long as it opens again.
:06:16. > :06:24.Their last fishing day will be on Sunday. The locals were not happy.
:06:24. > :06:28.Very surprised, I was not at the meeting. He indicated three to four
:06:28. > :06:36.days that it would take for the emergency by Lars -- by-laws to be
:06:37. > :06:46.put in place. It is something that I don't know about. The decision
:06:47. > :06:48.
:06:48. > :06:52.has been taken. The leader of the council says it will keep piracy at
:06:52. > :07:00.its utmost. If I see anyone cockling on that bed, I will report
:07:00. > :07:06.them. Very disappointed, I thought they would come up with a better
:07:06. > :07:10.solution and close it. It will put me out of work. Work is hard to get
:07:11. > :07:15.and I will have to go back to the struggling with the shrimps. Many
:07:15. > :07:19.voiced their fear that while licensed fishing -- fishermen will
:07:19. > :07:27.obey the order, many, like these Polish workers, will continue
:07:27. > :07:31.fishing without permits. Have you been here the whole season? Yes.
:07:31. > :07:40.Yesterday, Rob, the cockle trader, took me out on his boat for the
:07:40. > :07:46.final time. With cockles reaching prices of �600 a tonne, it is a
:07:46. > :07:53.lucrative business and even today, they are still taking risks. I
:07:53. > :07:58.heard that's used one out here. Is that true? Yes, with a wet suit.
:07:58. > :08:03.Isn't that dangerous? No, if you can swim. We have to see the water
:08:03. > :08:12.before we go. It seems the actions of a few have put hundreds out of
:08:12. > :08:17.work. There is a lot of idiots. Nobody checks in the car park.
:08:17. > :08:21.Nobody is checking the permits. From today, the bank is closed. A
:08:21. > :08:27.decision will be reviewed on 6th December but many believe it will
:08:27. > :08:30.remain closed for months. Do you feel disappointed? Yes and No.
:08:30. > :08:35.Disappointed because it is closing but not disappointed in the fact
:08:35. > :08:44.that if there was going to be left open, it would be dredged.
:08:44. > :08:49.Truthfully, it is the better of the two evils. All the fishermen I met
:08:49. > :08:55.covering this story believe they need a permanent workable solution.
:08:55. > :09:01.Every time a bed has been opened. There has been of 500 down here.
:09:01. > :09:07.The fishing is on an industrial scale. All these people have come
:09:07. > :09:12.and massacred the cockles. Then it all goes quiet for a year or two.
:09:12. > :09:17.This has been going on for 12 years and nothing has been sorted out.
:09:17. > :09:22.The Senate set signals the end of another day and Chapter. -- the
:09:22. > :09:26.sunset. Anyone caught here cockling will be issued with a halt --
:09:26. > :09:33.healthy fine. It remains to be seen if there will act as a strong
:09:33. > :09:36.enough deterrent. Coming Up, a doctor who did it for
:09:36. > :09:45.Cardiff, can Dracula bring in a new generation of tourists to
:09:45. > :09:50.Mention Bloody Sunday and most people think about the killings of
:09:50. > :09:52.13 civilians by the British army in Londonderry in 1972. But in
:09:52. > :09:58.Liverpool, Bloody Sunday is connected with another event 100
:09:59. > :10:04.years ago. In August 1911 the army opened fire on a civilian protest,
:10:04. > :10:07.killing two men and injuring three others. Simon O'Brien's been
:10:07. > :10:17.finding out more about the incident and new calls for the victims to be
:10:17. > :10:28.
:10:28. > :10:38.This and wasn't -- this wasn't just a crisis. They were actually
:10:38. > :10:43.
:10:44. > :10:47.shooting and killing people. It was supposed to be peaceful.
:10:47. > :10:49.In the summer of 1911, the nation was in the grip of industrial
:10:49. > :10:52.strife. A strike by transport workers had paralysed the railways
:10:52. > :10:55.and in Liverpool striking dockers and seamen were also blocking the
:10:55. > :10:57.port. In a desperate attempt to keep goods moving, the Home
:10:57. > :10:59.Secretary, Winston Churchill, ordered the army onto the streets
:11:00. > :11:02.to protect freight convoys. In Liverpool, where there was strong
:11:02. > :11:05.support for the strike, there was resentment about the deployment of
:11:05. > :11:09.troops and police from outside the city. It was against this backdrop
:11:09. > :11:16.that a huge crowd gathered in St George's Square on August 13 to
:11:17. > :11:21.listen to trade union leaders. 100,000 people have come to the
:11:22. > :11:31.centre of Liverpool this afternoon. That fella is Thomas Mann, leader
:11:32. > :11:34.
:11:34. > :11:43.of the Transport Workers' Union. Hundreds of thousands of people
:11:43. > :11:49.gathered to hear them talk. We are gathered here today to win
:11:49. > :11:52.this terrible battle against the employee ing curses and the state.
:11:52. > :11:54.But shortly after he's finished talking, this area would resemble a
:11:54. > :11:57.battlefield with hundreds lying bleeding and wounded, Liverpool
:11:57. > :12:07.historian, Ron Noon, says it was no exaggeration when one commentator
:12:07. > :12:13.
:12:13. > :12:19.wrote that the country was near to Two men were shot dead. This is
:12:19. > :12:29.their story, largely untold for 100 years.
:12:29. > :12:30.
:12:30. > :12:37.Ron Noon says it was no exaggeration.
:12:37. > :12:40.Wages had declined, they cut wages even further. There was discontent
:12:40. > :12:43.about the extent to which the gap between the rich and poor was
:12:43. > :12:48.widening. One of the things we need to be
:12:48. > :12:53.aware about is the extent to which they were not only troops stationed
:12:54. > :12:58.in Liverpool, there were also police that were brought in,
:12:58. > :13:04.including the Birmingham police. Once you start bringing out side
:13:04. > :13:14.Bobbi's, there is a difference in terms of attitudes. The authorities,
:13:14. > :13:16.
:13:16. > :13:20.be police over-reacted. By nightfall, 95 people had been
:13:20. > :13:25.arrested and hundreds hospitalised. Bloody Sunday, triggered outbreaks
:13:25. > :13:27.of violence which resulted in the army opening fire two days later,
:13:27. > :13:31.killing two and wounding three others.
:13:31. > :13:35.The shooting happened in North never pull when an angry mob
:13:35. > :13:42.attacked soldiers as courting prisoners arrested on Bloody Sunday
:13:42. > :13:44.to jail. A large crowd gathered here on the
:13:44. > :13:51.corner of a Prince Street and Foxhall Road.
:13:51. > :13:57.Word spread that they prison convoy was passing through. The mob pelted
:13:57. > :14:02.it with bricks and missiles. Two men lay dead, three others were
:14:02. > :14:08.shot and 10 were hospitalised. The only thing that marks this scene is
:14:08. > :14:11.what was once the local pub. The shootings provoked an outcry.
:14:11. > :14:16.There were calls for an investigation into the deaths of
:14:16. > :14:22.John Sutcliffe and Michael Prendergast.
:14:22. > :14:26.There was a dispute. Any sector workers were re instated and the
:14:26. > :14:34.threat of revolution disappeared with the heatwave. What about those
:14:34. > :14:39.deaths? A public inquiry? An emergency debate? Nothing, except
:14:39. > :14:47.an inquest where it took a jury three minutes to return their
:14:47. > :14:51.verdict of death by a homicide. One man, Professor Sam Davies, has
:14:51. > :14:56.investigated the case and is convinced both men were innocent
:14:56. > :15:02.victims of an unofficial shoot-to- kill policy.
:15:02. > :15:08.John Sutcliffe lived around the corner here. He had come out to
:15:08. > :15:12.close the shutters on his house. He was shot on this corner. Two shots
:15:12. > :15:21.to the head. He died in hospital. The other fatality occurred further
:15:21. > :15:29.up the road. He lived over the other side of the canal. I imagine
:15:29. > :15:37.he must have come out on the bridge, came out like other people. He
:15:37. > :15:45.shouted at the troops. He said, "soldiers, women and children, stop
:15:45. > :15:49.to it --. Shooting.". There was another shooting in Plan A Aspley
:15:49. > :15:59.days later. They cast fresh doubts about the official version of
:15:59. > :15:59.
:15:59. > :16:03.events in Liverpool. -- plan They said he deserted because he
:16:03. > :16:09.refused the shoot to kill. They were going to court martial him for
:16:09. > :16:16.this offence. I went to the National Archives and looked at the
:16:16. > :16:25.Home Office record. Mr Churchill, the deputy... We should make as
:16:25. > :16:28.little as possible of this case. We do not want it to be. He was only
:16:28. > :16:32.court-martialled and tried on a military offence and given two
:16:32. > :16:38.weeks in prison. He was also surprised to discover that many of
:16:38. > :16:46.the original documents about their shootings have since been destroyed.
:16:46. > :16:52.It is interesting that a lot of the evidence, there was in those files,
:16:53. > :16:58.has been destroyed. I wonder whether there was a certain things
:16:58. > :17:01.that were too incriminating and not released. We asked civil liberties
:17:01. > :17:09.lawyer, Pete Weatherby, to re- examine some of the evidence, to
:17:09. > :17:13.find out whether he thought the verdicts were surprising. They hint
:17:13. > :17:17.that the authorities were concerned about losing control and the
:17:17. > :17:25.possibility of there being a general strike, which was talked
:17:25. > :17:29.about in a public rally of the day. One thing they should have been
:17:29. > :17:34.investigated is whether that influence the actions of the
:17:35. > :17:38.authorities and effectively led to them taking the gloves are off.
:17:38. > :17:43.centenary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated in August and wreaths
:17:43. > :17:48.laid at the scene of the shootings in Liverpool. Sam Davies traced the
:17:48. > :17:52.descendants of one of the victims, John Sutcliffe. We knew that
:17:52. > :17:59.somebody in the family had been shot dead that was innocent. We
:17:59. > :18:03.knew he was only 20. We were told from a young age that he was shot
:18:03. > :18:08.closing their shutters. We have known that from being very young. I
:18:08. > :18:14.personally think, for somebody to be shot twice in the head, by a
:18:14. > :18:19.soldier, that soldier knew what he was doing. Now all this time has
:18:19. > :18:26.passed, one question that comes to my mind, this is a personal family
:18:26. > :18:34.tragedy but 100 years ago. Do you feel that the past is better left
:18:34. > :18:38.alone for now it is coming out into the public domain, do you feel you
:18:38. > :18:43.would like to see more done about this? I think we would like to see
:18:43. > :18:47.his name cleared. It is important that people know what has gone on
:18:47. > :18:51.with our history because we have to stop it happening in the future. It
:18:51. > :18:56.is only thanks to things being brought a light, that the
:18:56. > :19:00.Government have to think twice before they put the heavy hand in.
:19:00. > :19:05.Like many of the poor at the time, John Sutcliffe, who was to have
:19:05. > :19:10.been married three weeks later, was buried in an unmarked grave. They
:19:10. > :19:15.are now plans for a memorial plaque to be put up where he was killed.
:19:15. > :19:18.Normally when I researched history, you don't get emotionally false but
:19:18. > :19:26.this is terrible what happened here, this is not right and it has been
:19:26. > :19:30.hidden from history. -- emotionally involved. Something has to be done
:19:30. > :19:40.to compensate these people who I absolutely believe were innocent
:19:40. > :19:46.
:19:46. > :19:53.bystanders who were shot. The north-west has a reputation for
:19:53. > :19:57.all things supernatural. Sums say it began here in Pendle with the
:19:58. > :20:07.famous witches. As a gem has been discovering in
:20:08. > :20:08.
:20:08. > :20:12.Liverpool, there is a new arrival on the horror scene. -- as Gemma.
:20:12. > :20:22.Liverpool's famous The Liver Birds may have a rival attraction.
:20:22. > :20:29.
:20:29. > :20:39.Reports are coming in at that a vampire is looking in in this case,
:20:39. > :20:39.
:20:39. > :20:49.You should behave in accordance off the noble tradition of the
:20:49. > :20:52.
:20:52. > :20:57.Dracula's. You happy to come further forward? This is the former
:20:57. > :21:02.hall which used to help children with learning difficulties. Now it
:21:02. > :21:06.is home to the BBC children's flagship series which has moved its
:21:06. > :21:15.entire production to the city. It is a major coup for Liverpool and
:21:15. > :21:20.shows the pulling power. We relocated to the north-west.
:21:20. > :21:30.They have a highly skilled production based as well as an
:21:30. > :21:49.
:21:49. > :21:59.interesting range of locations. 2006. Young Dracula became a hit.
:21:59. > :22:16.
:22:16. > :22:21.Being a vampire is your destiny. The show has now been revamped.
:22:21. > :22:26.The filming of the series began in Liverpool in May and has been
:22:26. > :22:31.created -- a new jobs have been created. Our previous regular cast
:22:31. > :22:35.were already established in the show. They are from all over the UK.
:22:35. > :22:45.Our crew on North West based and split between Liverpool and
:22:45. > :22:54.
:22:54. > :23:04.Manchester. The former school has a great role
:23:04. > :23:13.
:23:13. > :23:23.to play. Can you tell us your character names? I played five --
:23:23. > :23:30.Vladimir. I play Erin. What is it about? You do it because I will
:23:30. > :23:36.give too much away. It follows Vladimir who is the son of Count
:23:36. > :23:40.Dracula. In the first series, it was about fitting into society and
:23:40. > :23:46.trying to get my dad are to have trouble. In this series, we have
:23:46. > :23:53.settled down and he is a fully fledged a vampire. He has taken on
:23:54. > :24:03.responsibilities of being be chosen one. There is a lot of weight on
:24:04. > :24:35.
:24:36. > :24:42.his shoulders. I am quite enjoying it because a lot of my family live
:24:42. > :24:52.up here. For me, it has been great because I can get a good Sunday
:24:52. > :25:00.
:25:00. > :25:09.lunch when I am a peer. I get to see my family a lot. The studio is
:25:09. > :25:19.so large and we have all the quarters here. The only thing we go
:25:19. > :25:20.
:25:20. > :25:25.out for is the exterior shots. We got very lucky coming here.
:25:25. > :25:35.You can't tell me what to do any more. You can't define my eight --
:25:35. > :25:41.
:25:41. > :25:44.define me, I am your father, don't The team are hoping their arrival
:25:44. > :25:50.in the Liverpool will have a similar impact on the local economy.
:25:50. > :25:56.It happened in Cardiff when the BBC moved torch would and Dr Who to the
:25:56. > :26:02.city. It is a creative investment and get
:26:02. > :26:06.jobs in the media sector. When a big film comes to town, they can
:26:06. > :26:14.spend half a million pounds in a couple of days. That wealth goes
:26:14. > :26:24.across the city. Days catering facilities, right the way across
:26:24. > :26:27.
:26:27. > :26:37.the board. It brings money into the economy. This is the exterior of
:26:37. > :26:42.
:26:42. > :26:45.the school. By the magic of television, we come out here.
:26:46. > :26:55.outside was too small, was on a main road and it didn't have that
:26:56. > :27:12.
:27:12. > :27:16.impact. We were lucky to find this close by. What other Liverpool
:27:16. > :27:19.locations have you used during filming? During the filming we have
:27:20. > :27:23.used the Stanley Docks, that is a huge docks, one of the biggest
:27:23. > :27:30.tobacco warehouses. We have used that as the slayer's lair. You call
:27:30. > :27:36.yourself a slayer? Have you actually killed a vampire? Yes.
:27:36. > :27:39.COMPUTER: True. In this series, most of the narrative lent itself
:27:39. > :27:43.to being at the school, with the exception of Stanley Docks in
:27:43. > :27:47.Liverpool and also the centre of Liverpool. In future series, we
:27:47. > :27:50.would like to get the narrative to have our vampires out and mixing
:27:50. > :27:54.amongst the community, so we can see more of the famous Liverpool
:27:54. > :27:56.sights. In terms of working on the show, you're drawn to the
:27:57. > :28:06.mysterious and slightly darker architecture that Liverpool has to
:28:07. > :28:15.
:28:15. > :28:18.offer. Walking around as a tourist or a newcomer to the city, I am
:28:18. > :28:26.very much struck by the massive range of architecture the city has
:28:26. > :28:30.to offer. That is what we would like to capitalise on next time
:28:30. > :28:40.around. It is not quite Transylvania yet, but it is
:28:40. > :28:41.
:28:41. > :28:45.seriously getting there. Put them away. I am back next Monday. Have a