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:00:00. > :00:13.Hello and welcome to Inside Out North west. Tonight we investigate

:00:14. > :00:17.thousand fracking industry plans to dispose of radiation. The

:00:18. > :00:21.implications are so severe, according to some experts, that it

:00:22. > :00:29.could put the whole of the industry in this country into a state of

:00:30. > :00:37.limbo. 60s fashion icon and David Hockney muse, Celia Birtwell talks

:00:38. > :00:42.us to. There a photograph of Mrs Jagger wearing this. And the

:00:43. > :01:01.football photographer turning his camera on the fans.

:01:02. > :01:06.Tonight a leading expert in radioactive waste warns that the

:01:07. > :01:15.fracking industry could be forced into a state of limbo, they won t be

:01:16. > :01:18.able to dispose of contaminated water. The broadcaster and explorer

:01:19. > :01:35.Paul Rose has this exclusive report. This bridge in Salford marks the

:01:36. > :01:38.start of the Manchester Ship Canal ` a waterway which helped

:01:39. > :01:46.revolutionise the two cities turning them into industrial giants of the

:01:47. > :01:49.early 20th century. Now, the Canal will be leaving an indelible mark in

:01:50. > :01:54.a new revolution ` fracking and the dash for gas. This programme will be

:01:55. > :01:57.investigating why almost two million gallons of radioactive water `

:01:58. > :02:00.produced by the fracking company Cuadrilla ` was processed at a

:02:01. > :02:06.nearby water treatment works and then discharged ` quite legally `

:02:07. > :02:18.into the Canal. And we'll be asking could it happen again?

:02:19. > :02:24.Presse Hall in Lancashire, a site operated by Cuadrilla Resources is

:02:25. > :02:27.so far the only well in the UK to have advanced from exploration for

:02:28. > :02:39.shale gas to the next phase ` hydraulic fracturing. For some home

:02:40. > :02:50.grown shale gas is a bonus and energy independence. We have got to

:02:51. > :02:53.have affordable energy. For others it's a misfortune leading to worries

:02:54. > :02:56.` from earthquakes and poisoning of the water table, to fears about

:02:57. > :03:03.increased lorry traffic and harm to wildlife. One wants fracking in the

:03:04. > :03:11.UK. But there is a proven danger that has yet to fully surface `

:03:12. > :03:14.radiation. And the implications of that radioactivity are so severe,

:03:15. > :03:23.according to some experts, that they could put the whole industry in this

:03:24. > :03:28.country into a state of limbo. Water is the lifeblood of fracking.

:03:29. > :03:32.Without huge amounts of it, engineers couldn't get the gas they

:03:33. > :03:35.seek. But that same process unlocks natural radioactive material and

:03:36. > :03:37.it's the cleaning of that contaminated water which could

:03:38. > :03:44.become the industry's Achilles' heel. Hydraulic Fracturing, or

:03:45. > :03:50.fracking as it's known, is a process which happens 8,000 feet ` some two

:03:51. > :03:56.and a half kilometres ` down there. The bedrock is shattered to release

:03:57. > :04:01.methane gas. They drill straight, then horizontally. Water and

:04:02. > :04:05.chemicals are injected at high pressure to fracture the rock. Tiny

:04:06. > :04:10.grains ` like sand ` hold the fissures open. Molecules of gas are

:04:11. > :04:15.released and flushed back to the surface. And it's water which could

:04:16. > :04:19.be a problem for fracking companies. Flushed out fluid also contains

:04:20. > :04:24.radiation. At Presse Hall, the Environment Agency found traces of

:04:25. > :04:30.uranium and thorium. The levels of radium were 90 times higher than

:04:31. > :04:34.you'd find in drinking water. Now, we don't want to be alarmist ` this

:04:35. > :04:38.is not a Chernobyl in waiting, the radiation is low level. It's called

:04:39. > :04:43.NORM ` Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material, and it's all

:04:44. > :04:48.around us in nature. But the fact remains, there is a danger. And

:04:49. > :04:56.because of that, when it comes to clearing up, fracking moves into a

:04:57. > :04:59.new realm. The Dounreay nuclear research facility in Scotland was

:05:00. > :05:07.opened in the mid`50's but in recent years has been in the process of

:05:08. > :05:14.shutting down. Some wear protective clothing, because they're in contact

:05:15. > :05:21.with radioactive material. It can be lethal if the proper precautions are

:05:22. > :05:24.not taken. Dr Trevor Jones from Bramhall in Stockport has been

:05:25. > :05:27.involved in the Dounreay clean up project, with a similar role at

:05:28. > :05:31.Sellafield. As one of the UK's first accredited radioactive waste

:05:32. > :05:40.advisers. He's legally recognised by regulators as an expert. I've come

:05:41. > :05:44.to the banks of a swollen River Lune, deep in the picturesque Forest

:05:45. > :05:49.of Bowland, so he can help me understand this stuff called NORM.

:05:50. > :05:54.Radioactivity is everywhere around us, in the food we eat, in the rocks

:05:55. > :05:57.and the soil and the water. This is shale, an example of the Bowland

:05:58. > :06:02.Shale from which they're proposing to extract shale gas from underneath

:06:03. > :06:04.Lancashire. And it also contains concentrations of metals dissolved

:06:05. > :06:11.from the rock, including some radioactive metals. The main one of

:06:12. > :06:17.interest in terms of shale gas and NORM is radium. If I put the

:06:18. > :06:21.detector up to it you can probably hear the radioactivity count ` it's

:06:22. > :06:24.going up to about 300 counts per second ` so it's about three times

:06:25. > :06:33.the background radioactivity, just from this natural exposure of shale.

:06:34. > :06:39.So while we're standing here, close to this shale, are we in any danger

:06:40. > :06:42.of absorbing too much radiation No, the radiation that's coming off this

:06:43. > :06:48.is part of the background radiation that we're exposed to all the time.

:06:49. > :06:51.The NORM radiation only becomes a health issue, if it gets into the

:06:52. > :06:56.body ` and the most obvious route would be through water. So how much

:06:57. > :07:11.of this radioactive water was there? Well, this place might help us

:07:12. > :07:15.understand it a little bit better. This is the Manchester Aquatics

:07:16. > :07:29.Centre and one of the largest pools in the country. How much water? I'll

:07:30. > :07:35.show you. The diving pool holds 2,500 cubic metres of water. We know

:07:36. > :07:47.from the Environment Agency that 8,400 cubic metres of contaminated

:07:48. > :07:51.water was produced in Lancashire. So they could have filled this pool

:07:52. > :07:54.three times over and still had a bit left. All of it would have to be

:07:55. > :08:02.treated to neutralise the radioactivity. And that's just one

:08:03. > :08:05.well. Caudrilla don't know how many wells they might frack, but have

:08:06. > :08:09.estimated it might be as many as 800. And that would produce enough

:08:10. > :08:16.flowback water to fill nearly 2 700 of these pools. And that's just one

:08:17. > :08:19.company. A recent Government report reckoned in the North West the total

:08:20. > :08:29.amount of contaminated water could be the equivalent of 5,000 pools

:08:30. > :08:33.like this. The same report estimated that fracking could account for

:08:34. > :08:36.about 3% of all of the UK's annual wastewater and that could place a

:08:37. > :08:50.substantial burden on the sewage infrastructure. Another report

:08:51. > :08:59.indicate that the treatment capacity should not represent a problem in

:09:00. > :09:02.the UK. A view shared by Cuadrilla. Offshore oil and gas operators pump

:09:03. > :09:05.their contaminated flowback waters back into the North Sea where the

:09:06. > :09:15.huge dilution renders it less dangerous. That option isn't open to

:09:16. > :09:19.onshore developers. Caudrilla stored some of the water in these tanks at

:09:20. > :09:25.Preese Hall. At the time, regulations classed it as industrial

:09:26. > :09:27.effluent. It was processed at the Daveyhulme Waste Water Treatment

:09:28. > :09:36.works in Trafford before being flushed into the Ship Canal. But

:09:37. > :09:40.there were warnings about health risks just a few months before that

:09:41. > :09:46.discharge ` and they came from America. In Pennsylvania there are

:09:47. > :09:52.more than 4,000 wells, producing millions of gallons of contaminated

:09:53. > :09:57.water. Some has been treated at public sewage works. In March 2 11,

:09:58. > :10:00.the US Environmental Protection Agency wrote to the State of

:10:01. > :10:08.Pennsylvania warning of dangers that radiation was posing to the public.

:10:09. > :10:11.This is a copy of that letter ` and it makes for worrying reading. The

:10:12. > :10:28.Agency tells Pennsylvania: The letter says wastewater treatment

:10:29. > :10:31.facilities can't remove many of the substances, and high concentrations

:10:32. > :10:36.can impair the ability of treatment facilities to properly treat

:10:37. > :10:39.domestic sewage. It says it's critical to inform the public as to

:10:40. > :10:45.whether, and at what levels, radionuclides occur in their water

:10:46. > :10:50.supply. Pennsylvania has launched an inquiry, with a report due in April.

:10:51. > :10:53.Soon after the discharge into the Canal, the regulations here did

:10:54. > :10:59.change. Flowback water is now classed as radioactive waste. The

:11:00. > :11:13.operator needs a permit, and so does the water treatment works.

:11:14. > :11:17.A The Environment Agency would not grant a permit ` a radioactive

:11:18. > :11:20.substances permit ` to the fracking company until they were satisfied

:11:21. > :11:22.that a disposal route was available for the waste.

:11:23. > :11:26.They would not be simply allowed to accumulate the waste in the hope or

:11:27. > :11:29.expectation that a disposal route would become available in the

:11:30. > :11:32.future. And where does that leave the

:11:33. > :11:35.industry? It means that significant investment will be required because

:11:36. > :11:38.suitable treatment technologies are not available off the shelf and that

:11:39. > :11:49.will inevitably delay fracking operations.

:11:50. > :11:54.We've learned that a month ago, Cuadrilla withdrew the last of its

:11:55. > :11:59.applications for a radioactive substances permit from the

:12:00. > :12:03.Environment Agency. And It may submit more in the future. Cuadrilla

:12:04. > :12:12.told us without one, it can drill, but not frack.

:12:13. > :12:38.Following recent changes in the Environment Agency's

:12:39. > :12:45.Remsol, based in Preston, is a waste management company hired by

:12:46. > :12:48.Cuadrilla. They may have a solution to the radiation. In trials, they

:12:49. > :12:52.say they've developed a technique which reduces the radioactivity by

:12:53. > :12:58.90%, and they believe it can be scaled up for full production.

:12:59. > :13:02.In general terms, are you saying that your aim is extract as much of

:13:03. > :13:07.the NORM as possible from the water and convert that into a solid? Yeah,

:13:08. > :13:10.in essence we're trying to extract those tiny suspended solids where we

:13:11. > :13:13.find the Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material and heavy

:13:14. > :13:16.metals and to lock them into a solid format that can then be safely

:13:17. > :13:17.deposited at landfill sites that are authorised and permitted to receive

:13:18. > :13:23.and deal with non`hazardous waste. format that can then be safely

:13:24. > :13:26.deposited at landfill sites And in fact, once it's in that solid form

:13:27. > :13:28.the presence of that Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material

:13:29. > :13:33.doesn't then render that material a radioactive waste for disposal

:13:34. > :13:37.purposes. The trials would still need to be

:13:38. > :13:40.proved for full scale production, but if Remsol and Cuadrilla can

:13:41. > :13:46.develop a safe treatment for the water, they'd still need to move it

:13:47. > :13:48.out of the North West. They plan to use a fleet of tankers, carrying

:13:49. > :13:53.bigger volumes than conventional vehicles, and with more safety

:13:54. > :13:57.features. The likelihood of any material

:13:58. > :14:00.escaping in the event of an accident is very, very limited. They estimate

:14:01. > :14:03.each well will need a total of about 114 tanker journeys.

:14:04. > :14:09.Government figures suggest many more than that. We've based our numbers

:14:10. > :14:12.on the fracture plans that we've seen from an operator. I think

:14:13. > :14:14.everyone else, at this stage, is basing their assumptions on

:14:15. > :14:16.anecdotal evidence and analogues from around the world and not

:14:17. > :14:27.necessarily from the UK. Fracking may or may not become a

:14:28. > :14:31.boom industry. The operators will only know what's down by drilling

:14:32. > :14:35.many more exploratory wells. And if the gas is viable to extract,

:14:36. > :14:39.they'll be producing lots and lots of flowback water contaminated with

:14:40. > :14:44.radiation. And the only certainty we have now is that no one ` yet ` can

:14:45. > :14:57.guarantee how those sorts of volumes are going to be cleaned.

:14:58. > :15:04.We are a football history captured forever. I always thought the ground

:15:05. > :15:09.was the most constant thing, but it is not even that. It is the fans.

:15:10. > :15:14.She's David Hockney's muse, her fans range from the Rolling Stones to

:15:15. > :15:17.Kate Moss. Celia Birtwell and her husband Ossie Clarke were northern

:15:18. > :15:21.fashion icons in the swinging ' 0s ` and she's still designing today

:15:22. > :15:43.Jacey Normand went to meet her. Her designs dressed the rich and

:15:44. > :15:49.famous. She became David Hockney's muse... And was photographed by pop

:15:50. > :15:58.artist Andy Warhol... And even top society photographer Cecil Beaton.

:15:59. > :16:04.It's a far cry from her early life in Manchester. She's come back to

:16:05. > :16:08.the north to be reunited with some of the dresses she hasn't seen for

:16:09. > :16:14.over 40 years. It's a chance for a trip down memory lane.

:16:15. > :16:22.I was brought up in press which My father was very bookish and rather a

:16:23. > :16:27.learned man. In fact, in different times, he would have gone to

:16:28. > :16:33.university. He had to work from the age of 14. And then my mother sewed.

:16:34. > :16:36.She made all of our clothes. I used to sit and watch. It was like

:16:37. > :16:49.therapy for me, because I never learned how to sew. And then I went

:16:50. > :16:53.to Salford At School. Where we are right now must be very familiar

:16:54. > :16:59.Yes, I can feel quite this Celtic about this building. This is Salford

:17:00. > :17:04.At School. The top floor only, and the very top with the dome was the

:17:05. > :17:12.life class. We used to have parties, we used to draw naked

:17:13. > :17:15.people. As soon as I got here, I thought, wow, this is where I want

:17:16. > :17:18.to be. At the time Salford was an

:17:19. > :17:24.industrial city, black with chimney smoke from the factories and made

:17:25. > :17:28.famous by local artist LS Lowry He had also been to Salford Art School

:17:29. > :17:35.years before Celia, but was still a regular visitor. Periodically, I

:17:36. > :17:43.would see a minute long raincoat going up those steps into their and

:17:44. > :17:49.also into that place, which was a library. The present around here

:17:50. > :17:53.always reminds me of him. And it wasn't only Lowry who was attracted

:17:54. > :17:56.to the charm of the cobbled streets and back alleys of Salford. A young

:17:57. > :18:05.writer who posed for Celia at the art college was to put it well and

:18:06. > :18:09.truly on the map. Tony Warren would go and see my friend Roy's parents,

:18:10. > :18:17.and he would go and chat to them in the evenings because he was

:18:18. > :18:21.preparing to make this extraordinary programme, Coronation Street. So a

:18:22. > :18:24.lot of the elite Coronation Streets were based on Salford and his

:18:25. > :18:31.understanding of the life here. And he was a life model for us, so he

:18:32. > :18:35.would pose for us in that life class up there, and that probably made him

:18:36. > :18:39.more money before he set out to be quite a brilliant writer.

:18:40. > :18:42.It was during this time that Celia met the man who would go on to be

:18:43. > :18:51.her husband and fashion partner Ossie Clarke. He lived in Warrington

:18:52. > :18:53.and went to Manchester Art College. It is extraordinary, all these

:18:54. > :18:58.people that you came across a new well creatively. What is it about

:18:59. > :19:03.Salford that has created such a generation of artists? I don't know.

:19:04. > :19:09.I think everything has a period of excellence, and none of us knew what

:19:10. > :19:13.was going to happen in the future. But I think it happens every so

:19:14. > :19:18.often, doesn't it, really? And I am here to live the tail!

:19:19. > :19:24.Celia met up with Ossie again in London. They married, had two sons

:19:25. > :19:32.and found fame, becoming a leading influence in British fashion. There

:19:33. > :19:40.was an innocence about it, because it was not really connected to money

:19:41. > :19:45.and commercial uses in the way it was now. It was Boutiques, Mary

:19:46. > :19:50.Quant had just been here before we came along, so that was really very

:19:51. > :19:54.exciting. And the music of the time was very exciting. White

:19:55. > :20:03.She designed the textiles while he cut and created the styles. She

:20:04. > :20:08.embellished his work. I was confident in that, because my work

:20:09. > :20:17.was soft, and I think his hard edged vision, quite strict and tailored,

:20:18. > :20:21.and my sort of soft, feminine work. Quite reasonable at nine guineas.

:20:22. > :20:24.Ossie's fashion shows became the stuff of legend. He was the first to

:20:25. > :20:30.introduce music and dance, making them theatrical events, attracting

:20:31. > :20:35.the glitterati. And looking on with approval, George Harrison, and Patti

:20:36. > :20:39.Boyd, who is modelling at the show, and John Lennon. At the time there

:20:40. > :20:43.was a boom in northern talent taking London by storm, with The Beatles

:20:44. > :20:46.leading the way. And it wasn't just music royalty that came to the

:20:47. > :20:50.shows. Rising star David Hockney attended. Celia went on to become

:20:51. > :21:01.his muse. That was another unexpected string to my bow. I was

:21:02. > :21:04.very honoured, actually. He did some beautiful drawings of me in the

:21:05. > :21:09.1970s. He has been a big player in my life will stop he introduced me

:21:10. > :21:12.to all sorts of wonderful things. I think he has given me confidence,

:21:13. > :21:16.actually. That is what I really thank him for. And it was during

:21:17. > :21:19.this time that Hockney painted one of the UK's most popular double

:21:20. > :21:27.portraits, which still hangs at the Tate. He couldn't get the carpet

:21:28. > :21:35.right, he couldn't get Ossie's feet right. The carpet kind of covered

:21:36. > :21:43.his feet up. We thought it was rather amusing. And the cat is

:21:44. > :21:48.rather Blanche and not Percy. When I said it is not Percy, he said, are,

:21:49. > :21:54.yes, but it has a better ring to it. Percy is infinitely better than Mr

:21:55. > :21:58.and Mrs Clark and Blanche. But this famous couple in the painting went

:21:59. > :22:01.on to divorce. Fashion changed and they went their separate ways. While

:22:02. > :22:03.Ossie was to die almost penniless years later, ironically their

:22:04. > :22:10.clothes became collector's items across the world, selling for

:22:11. > :22:14.thousands as vintage. I think the word vintage has put a sort of label

:22:15. > :22:18.on clothes now that is just becoming big business, really. Some of these

:22:19. > :22:21.rare dresses have now been collected before being exhibited at Manchester

:22:22. > :22:23.Costume Museum later this week. Today, Celia is going to see them

:22:24. > :22:38.for the first time in decades. Well, they have a collection of some

:22:39. > :22:41.of your dresses with Ossie Clarke, and I just wanted you to have a look

:22:42. > :22:47.at them to see if you remembered any of them. I do, I do. It is quite

:22:48. > :22:49.alarming. I know there is a photograph of Bianca Jagger wearing

:22:50. > :22:55.this in cream in a shoot with Mick Jagger. This is a bonkers print if

:22:56. > :23:04.ever I saw one! I think it was called Lamborghini jacket. Very rock

:23:05. > :23:07.'n' roll. How does it feel for you knowing that people obviously still

:23:08. > :23:13.collect these items of clothing And for large amounts of money, as well,

:23:14. > :23:17.donate? It is extremely flattering, I suppose. To think that they are

:23:18. > :23:22.sought after. I did think he was pretty good. I thought he was very,

:23:23. > :23:28.very clever, and I was very lucky to work with someone who had this

:23:29. > :23:32.amazing talent. I could embellish it, really. When you see them like

:23:33. > :23:38.that, is it strange? Do you almost wish you had kept a big wardrobe?

:23:39. > :23:46.No, no. It is very nice to see them, and I am so much part of them,

:23:47. > :23:49.because they are my prints, so I am very lucky for people to collect

:23:50. > :23:52.them. Celia's blend of vintage and modern, strongly influenced by

:23:53. > :23:55.nature and artists like Picasso are now sought after by stores like Top

:23:56. > :24:02.Shop and Uniqlo. Today she appeals to a new generation of fans like

:24:03. > :24:06.Kate Moss. Some of them look like they could almost be worn now,

:24:07. > :24:10.donate? This, for example, looks really contemporary, like something

:24:11. > :24:14.you could get today. It's really nice, isn't it? Really nice,

:24:15. > :24:17.actually. Very sweet. A lovely shape. It's been an emotional

:24:18. > :24:22.journey back to the north for Celia, to see her designs on display at the

:24:23. > :24:26.museum she used to visit as a child. It's been an extraordinary life in

:24:27. > :24:36.fashion and design for a girl who never learnt to sew. I have very,

:24:37. > :24:44.very fond memories of my art school days in Salford. I am amazed how

:24:45. > :24:49.famous Salford has become. It is very emotional, really, and I am

:24:50. > :25:03.very proud of coming from the North, so I can get quite weepy about it.

:25:04. > :25:10.In the north`west, football is often described as a religion. It has

:25:11. > :25:16.definitely taken over the life of Cumbrian photographer Stuart Roy

:25:17. > :25:20.Clarke. He is `` has devoted 25 years of his life to chronicling the

:25:21. > :25:28.changing face of the game. But not on the pitch, watching the highs and

:25:29. > :25:32.lows of the fans. Get your T`shirts! All the scores on the back of your

:25:33. > :25:37.T`shirts! It is the most romantic thing I can think of. I have been

:25:38. > :25:42.going to football matches since any sort of date one could go on. I get

:25:43. > :25:45.there very early, I go all the way around the stadium, and even around

:25:46. > :25:49.the neighbourhood several times I like to be the first there. I like

:25:50. > :25:53.to say, welcome. There will be 50,000 people there sometimes. I

:25:54. > :25:59.almost feel like it is my stage You have to stand smack down the middle.

:26:00. > :26:02.That is great. Thank you. I like to get the tops of the head of the

:26:03. > :26:16.sunset. Hopefully, when they score this goal.

:26:17. > :26:32.Everyone's jumping. Ideal material for Stewart. There is a guy here

:26:33. > :26:38.going through all sorts of emotions and tortures. His wife is sitting

:26:39. > :26:41.next to him. Almost 410 minutes to have time, I did a series of all the

:26:42. > :26:43.expressions he went through. I have about ten that show the range of

:26:44. > :26:56.emotions. All the other photographers at the

:26:57. > :27:01.game are shooting the other way Do you want the goal from the other end

:27:02. > :27:05.as well? I'd like to put Stuart in these shoes. Come and sit here with

:27:06. > :27:06.this big lens. There must be some interesting characters up there Go

:27:07. > :27:15.on, Wigan! I hope Stuart's is as nice as that.

:27:16. > :27:20.You have to be able to see the pictures and shoot. CV people, see

:27:21. > :27:25.the personalities, and usually, he gets the whole package in one frame.

:27:26. > :27:30.My dad gave me a succession of cameras, a Polaroid one, and came

:27:31. > :27:36.out of the front. There was the picture, and you could show it off

:27:37. > :27:39.to people. That sense of magic has stuck with me ever since. The last

:27:40. > :27:43.20 years have been the most fascinating. I have been in a

:27:44. > :27:47.privileged position. I have a duty to hand over what I have seen. And

:27:48. > :27:53.what he has recorded is a social history through the eyes of fans.

:27:54. > :27:57.The constant, I always thought the ground was the most constant, but it

:27:58. > :28:00.is not even that. It is the fans. It might not be the same fans, but it

:28:01. > :28:05.is the spirit of the fans, the battle and handed from one set of

:28:06. > :28:11.fans to the next. I think despite all the money in the game, and not

:28:12. > :28:16.necessarily it filtering down, I just find it and unbelievable

:28:17. > :28:25.spectacle. And I don't think I can tear myself away from that. I will

:28:26. > :28:32.see more of you next season as well! And you can see more of those

:28:33. > :28:34.amazing photographs in Stuart's and exhibition at the Northern football

:28:35. > :28:39.Museum. We will be back at the same time

:28:40. > :28:45.next Monday. Until then, goodbye. Next week... Ten years after the

:28:46. > :28:49.Morecambe Bay cockling tragedy, we talk to the people who were there.

:28:50. > :28:50.Rescale that was not really apparent until the following morning, when

:28:51. > :29:15.the bodies started appearing. Jude Law has given evidence at the

:29:16. > :29:20.phone hacking trial. The court heard a family member had sold stories

:29:21. > :29:25.about him. A former reporter said he discussed intercepting phone calls

:29:26. > :29:29.between two newspapers. Anger over flooding, a government minister has

:29:30. > :29:33.been heckled by residents in Somerset.

:29:34. > :29:37.He promised an action plan. Dave Lee Travis has told the court

:29:38. > :29:43.he is not a sexual predator. He said he has a cuddly nature towards women

:29:44. > :29:50.and denies indecent assault charges. Bill Roach has been cleared of one

:29:51. > :29:56.offence. His defence should start tomorrow.

:29:57. > :29:59.At the Grammy towards last night, Daft punk 13 prizes in giving

:30:00. > :30:04.Hello I'm Annabel Tiffin, the latest from the North West. TV weatherman

:30:05. > :30:06.Fred Talbot has been charged with a string of offences following

:30:07. > :30:07.inquiries into historical sex