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Hello, this week I am at the home of the famous witches.

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We also find out the spooky goings on in the region don't end here.

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Tonight, we investigate the impact the new rush of cockle pickers has

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on a Lancashire coastline. should we have big boat taking our

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living? We are not happy. 100 years after Liverpool's Bloody Sunday,

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the family of one victim calls for his name to be cleared.

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somebody to be shot twice in a -- in the head, by a soldier, that

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sold in knew what he was doing. why young Jack killer is pumping

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new blood into the North West Cockling is back in the headlines.

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It is a story of the thought had gone away after the disaster in

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Morecambe Bay in 2004 when 23 Chinese cockle pickers died.

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Who would have thought that a simple sand bank could have caused

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so much trouble. I am standing here off the coast of live them. It is

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cockles that I have been discovering and this is the scene

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of much drama. Lytham is a quiet town on the

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Lancashire coast with a small fishing industry. There were full-

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time fishermen here and tell September, when they experienced a

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modern gold rush. A cockle bed which had been closed

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for 20 years were certainly reopened by the Inshore Fisheries

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and conservation authority. As word got out that the bed had more than

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�8 million worth of cockles, hundreds of fishermen descended on

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live them. They have come in a bath tubs. They sailed down there on a

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plank of wood. Paul has been fishing the coast since he was 16.

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He passed the checks necessary to obtain a permit for fishing for

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cockles. There was an -- phase normally four or five of us that

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has worked here. It is an eye- opener for the residents to find

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hundreds of men on the beach. looks fairly safe and tranquil but

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this estuary is treacherous. It is tidal and the EC can come in very

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quickly. There are Sandbanks to navigate and four in experienced

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cockers, the rescue services have been called out 26 times. Either

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bodes broken down or overloaded boats that have taken on water.

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People must be taking risks then? Some have. Birds are overloaded

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with people and cockles. -- boat's. Does that mean that they can run

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into danger quickly because they are ill equipped? It can go wrong

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quite quickly for them, particularly if the weather changes.

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The boat's are low in the water and if the weather picks up, if they

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take on water, things go down quickly. As the number of rescues

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increase, the authorities feared a repeat of the 2004 tragedy which

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happened in Morecambe Bay when 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned.

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Last Tuesday, they ran exclusive checks on the fishes and their

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equipment. If you have no life jackets, you will not be going out.

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Half of the boats were stopped because they were not safe and the

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skippers were not qualified. have discouraged a number of

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illegal cockle us from going out. In doing so, we have improved the

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safety issue. We are not knowing -- naming them that they come without

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licences. They go out in little boats and shouldn't be on the river.

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If the bailiffs were here doing their job, they wouldn't be going

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out. There was more anger on Wednesday when it was announced

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that the bed would be closed to fishermen and dredgers would be

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brought in to Hoover up the cockles. The main complaint is with the

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ecosystem, it will be decimated. don't believe in dredging because

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it destroys them. We will have to find something else to do for a bit.

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Other people will be out of work, not just me. That bed will be going

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dead. There will be nothing of living of it. Why should we have

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big boat taking our living. --? We are not happy, that is all we have

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to say. Rob is a cockle trade here, buying them in love them to export

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to Spain. He said they would be disastrous for the environment and

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local jobs. If we were to use that bode for dredging, it would end

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somewhere towards �1 million in that period of time. I am prepared

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not to use that boat because it would do that much damage to the

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cockle bed, not just for now but for the future. It is not the way

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to do it. On Friday the Minister for Fisheries said he would

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reconsider this plan. However, the bank would still close. To close it

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like this, I am sorry. We are not bothered, as long as it opens again.

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Their last fishing day will be on Sunday. The locals were not happy.

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Very surprised, I was not at the meeting. He indicated three to four

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days that it would take for the emergency by Lars -- by-laws to be

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put in place. It is something that I don't know about. The decision

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has been taken. The leader of the council says it will keep piracy at

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its utmost. If I see anyone cockling on that bed, I will report

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them. Very disappointed, I thought they would come up with a better

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solution and close it. It will put me out of work. Work is hard to get

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and I will have to go back to the struggling with the shrimps. Many

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voiced their fear that while licensed fishing -- fishermen will

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obey the order, many, like these Polish workers, will continue

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fishing without permits. Have you been here the whole season? Yes.

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Yesterday, Rob, the cockle trader, took me out on his boat for the

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final time. With cockles reaching prices of �600 a tonne, it is a

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lucrative business and even today, they are still taking risks. I

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heard that's used one out here. Is that true? Yes, with a wet suit.

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Isn't that dangerous? No, if you can swim. We have to see the water

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before we go. It seems the actions of a few have put hundreds out of

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work. There is a lot of idiots. Nobody checks in the car park.

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Nobody is checking the permits. From today, the bank is closed. A

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decision will be reviewed on 6th December but many believe it will

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remain closed for months. Do you feel disappointed? Yes and No.

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Disappointed because it is closing but not disappointed in the fact

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that if there was going to be left open, it would be dredged.

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Truthfully, it is the better of the two evils. All the fishermen I met

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covering this story believe they need a permanent workable solution.

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Every time a bed has been opened. There has been of 500 down here.

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The fishing is on an industrial scale. All these people have come

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and massacred the cockles. Then it all goes quiet for a year or two.

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This has been going on for 12 years and nothing has been sorted out.

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The Senate set signals the end of another day and Chapter. -- the

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sunset. Anyone caught here cockling will be issued with a halt --

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healthy fine. It remains to be seen if there will act as a strong

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enough deterrent. Coming Up, a doctor who did it for

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Cardiff, can Dracula bring in a new generation of tourists to

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Mention Bloody Sunday and most people think about the killings of

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13 civilians by the British army in Londonderry in 1972. But in

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Liverpool, Bloody Sunday is connected with another event 100

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years ago. In August 1911 the army opened fire on a civilian protest,

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killing two men and injuring three others. Simon O'Brien's been

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finding out more about the incident and new calls for the victims to be

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This and wasn't -- this wasn't just a crisis. They were actually

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shooting and killing people. It was supposed to be peaceful.

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In the summer of 1911, the nation was in the grip of industrial

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strife. A strike by transport workers had paralysed the railways

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and in Liverpool striking dockers and seamen were also blocking the

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port. In a desperate attempt to keep goods moving, the Home

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Secretary, Winston Churchill, ordered the army onto the streets

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to protect freight convoys. In Liverpool, where there was strong

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support for the strike, there was resentment about the deployment of

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troops and police from outside the city. It was against this backdrop

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that a huge crowd gathered in St George's Square on August 13 to

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listen to trade union leaders. 100,000 people have come to the

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centre of Liverpool this afternoon. That fella is Thomas Mann, leader

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of the Transport Workers' Union. Hundreds of thousands of people

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gathered to hear them talk. We are gathered here today to win

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this terrible battle against the employee ing curses and the state.

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But shortly after he's finished talking, this area would resemble a

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battlefield with hundreds lying bleeding and wounded, Liverpool

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historian, Ron Noon, says it was no exaggeration when one commentator

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wrote that the country was near to Two men were shot dead. This is

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their story, largely untold for 100 years.

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Ron Noon says it was no exaggeration.

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Wages had declined, they cut wages even further. There was discontent

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about the extent to which the gap between the rich and poor was

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widening. One of the things we need to be

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aware about is the extent to which they were not only troops stationed

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in Liverpool, there were also police that were brought in,

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including the Birmingham police. Once you start bringing out side

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Bobbi's, there is a difference in terms of attitudes. The authorities,

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be police over-reacted. By nightfall, 95 people had been

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arrested and hundreds hospitalised. Bloody Sunday, triggered outbreaks

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of violence which resulted in the army opening fire two days later,

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killing two and wounding three others.

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The shooting happened in North never pull when an angry mob

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attacked soldiers as courting prisoners arrested on Bloody Sunday

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to jail. A large crowd gathered here on the

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corner of a Prince Street and Foxhall Road.

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Word spread that they prison convoy was passing through. The mob pelted

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it with bricks and missiles. Two men lay dead, three others were

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shot and 10 were hospitalised. The only thing that marks this scene is

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what was once the local pub. The shootings provoked an outcry.

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There were calls for an investigation into the deaths of

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John Sutcliffe and Michael Prendergast.

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There was a dispute. Any sector workers were re instated and the

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threat of revolution disappeared with the heatwave. What about those

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deaths? A public inquiry? An emergency debate? Nothing, except

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an inquest where it took a jury three minutes to return their

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verdict of death by a homicide. One man, Professor Sam Davies, has

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investigated the case and is convinced both men were innocent

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victims of an unofficial shoot-to- kill policy.

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John Sutcliffe lived around the corner here. He had come out to

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close the shutters on his house. He was shot on this corner. Two shots

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to the head. He died in hospital. The other fatality occurred further

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up the road. He lived over the other side of the canal. I imagine

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he must have come out on the bridge, came out like other people. He

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shouted at the troops. He said, "soldiers, women and children, stop

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to it --. Shooting.". There was another shooting in Plan A Aspley

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days later. They cast fresh doubts about the official version of

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events in Liverpool. -- plan They said he deserted because he

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refused the shoot to kill. They were going to court martial him for

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this offence. I went to the National Archives and looked at the

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Home Office record. Mr Churchill, the deputy... We should make as

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little as possible of this case. We do not want it to be. He was only

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court-martialled and tried on a military offence and given two

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weeks in prison. He was also surprised to discover that many of

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the original documents about their shootings have since been destroyed.

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It is interesting that a lot of the evidence, there was in those files,

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has been destroyed. I wonder whether there was a certain things

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that were too incriminating and not released. We asked civil liberties

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lawyer, Pete Weatherby, to re- examine some of the evidence, to

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find out whether he thought the verdicts were surprising. They hint

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that the authorities were concerned about losing control and the

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possibility of there being a general strike, which was talked

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about in a public rally of the day. One thing they should have been

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investigated is whether that influence the actions of the

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authorities and effectively led to them taking the gloves are off.

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centenary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated in August and wreaths

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laid at the scene of the shootings in Liverpool. Sam Davies traced the

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descendants of one of the victims, John Sutcliffe. We knew that

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somebody in the family had been shot dead that was innocent. We

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knew he was only 20. We were told from a young age that he was shot

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closing their shutters. We have known that from being very young. I

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personally think, for somebody to be shot twice in the head, by a

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soldier, that soldier knew what he was doing. Now all this time has

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passed, one question that comes to my mind, this is a personal family

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tragedy but 100 years ago. Do you feel that the past is better left

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alone for now it is coming out into the public domain, do you feel you

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would like to see more done about this? I think we would like to see

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his name cleared. It is important that people know what has gone on

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with our history because we have to stop it happening in the future. It

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is only thanks to things being brought a light, that the

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Government have to think twice before they put the heavy hand in.

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Like many of the poor at the time, John Sutcliffe, who was to have

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been married three weeks later, was buried in an unmarked grave. They

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are now plans for a memorial plaque to be put up where he was killed.

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Normally when I researched history, you don't get emotionally false but

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this is terrible what happened here, this is not right and it has been

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hidden from history. -- emotionally involved. Something has to be done

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to compensate these people who I absolutely believe were innocent

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bystanders who were shot. The north-west has a reputation for

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all things supernatural. Sums say it began here in Pendle with the

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famous witches. As a gem has been discovering in

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Liverpool, there is a new arrival on the horror scene. -- as Gemma.

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Liverpool's famous The Liver Birds may have a rival attraction.

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Reports are coming in at that a vampire is looking in in this case,

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You should behave in accordance off the noble tradition of the

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Dracula's. You happy to come further forward? This is the former

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hall which used to help children with learning difficulties. Now it

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is home to the BBC children's flagship series which has moved its

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entire production to the city. It is a major coup for Liverpool and

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shows the pulling power. We relocated to the north-west.

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They have a highly skilled production based as well as an

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interesting range of locations. 2006. Young Dracula became a hit.

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Being a vampire is your destiny. The show has now been revamped.

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The filming of the series began in Liverpool in May and has been

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created -- a new jobs have been created. Our previous regular cast

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were already established in the show. They are from all over the UK.

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Our crew on North West based and split between Liverpool and

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Manchester. The former school has a great role

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to play. Can you tell us your character names? I played five --

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Vladimir. I play Erin. What is it about? You do it because I will

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give too much away. It follows Vladimir who is the son of Count

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Dracula. In the first series, it was about fitting into society and

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trying to get my dad are to have trouble. In this series, we have

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settled down and he is a fully fledged a vampire. He has taken on

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responsibilities of being be chosen one. There is a lot of weight on

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his shoulders. I am quite enjoying it because a lot of my family live

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up here. For me, it has been great because I can get a good Sunday

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lunch when I am a peer. I get to see my family a lot. The studio is

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so large and we have all the quarters here. The only thing we go

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out for is the exterior shots. We got very lucky coming here.

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You can't tell me what to do any more. You can't define my eight --

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define me, I am your father, don't The team are hoping their arrival

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in the Liverpool will have a similar impact on the local economy.

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It happened in Cardiff when the BBC moved torch would and Dr Who to the

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city. It is a creative investment and get

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jobs in the media sector. When a big film comes to town, they can

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spend half a million pounds in a couple of days. That wealth goes

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across the city. Days catering facilities, right the way across

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the board. It brings money into the economy. This is the exterior of

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the school. By the magic of television, we come out here.

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outside was too small, was on a main road and it didn't have that

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impact. We were lucky to find this close by. What other Liverpool

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locations have you used during filming? During the filming we have

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used the Stanley Docks, that is a huge docks, one of the biggest

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tobacco warehouses. We have used that as the slayer's lair. You call

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yourself a slayer? Have you actually killed a vampire? Yes.

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COMPUTER: True. In this series, most of the narrative lent itself

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to being at the school, with the exception of Stanley Docks in

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Liverpool and also the centre of Liverpool. In future series, we

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would like to get the narrative to have our vampires out and mixing

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amongst the community, so we can see more of the famous Liverpool

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sights. In terms of working on the show, you're drawn to the

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mysterious and slightly darker architecture that Liverpool has to

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offer. Walking around as a tourist or a newcomer to the city, I am

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very much struck by the massive range of architecture the city has

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to offer. That is what we would like to capitalise on next time

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around. It is not quite Transylvania yet, but it is

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seriously getting there. Put them away. I am back next Monday. Have a

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