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Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest Tonight with Gordon Burns and | :00:03. | :00:08. | |
Ranvir Singh. Our top story. Get off the gravy train, a row breaks | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
at Merseytravel over expenses claimed by councillors. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
So what does Merseytravel's chairman do to justify the �50,000 | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
he gets in allowances? Also tonight. Meter misery, the soaring cost of | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
on-street parking in Liverpool and Manchester. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
Unearthed in Lancashire, the bit of scrap that turned out to be buried | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
treasure. And a mother's sacrifice - the | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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hardship that allowed eight year- old Callum's talent to flourish. | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
wants to pay -- played these pieces like a classical musician. I have | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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no money, I know I have got to put They are paid to run the trains on | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Merseyside. But now, Labour councillors on the transport | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
authority Merseytravel are being accused of running a "gravy train" | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
instead. Liberal Democrats say the total bill for the allowances being | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
claimed comes to a quarter of a million pounds. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
With money getting tighter, critics say it's a cynical manipulation of | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
the system. Here's our political editor, Arif Ansari. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Public transport across Merseyside is co-ordinated by the transport | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
authority Merseytravel. It's run by Labour, but the Lib Dems are | :01:40. | :01:49. | |
accusing them of turning it into a gravy train. The problem is that we | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
have Labour councillors who are claiming multiple allowances for | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
serving on different committees. In many cases, claiming several | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
different allowances at the same time for meetings there are | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
effectively lasting five minutes a few times the year. Each councillor | :02:05. | :02:15. | |
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gets a basic allowance of �5,600. But there are another 35 paid posts. | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
In every other authority, you have an independent scrutiny power to | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
vet the level of allowances. In Merseyside, the councillors decide | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
what level of allowances or salaries they should be paid. You | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
or I may like that in our jobs, but it is not a reality in any other | :02:36. | :02:46. | |
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walk of life. Take the chairman of the authority, Cllr Mark Dowd. He | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
receives the basic allowance of �5,600. An extra �24,300 for being | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
chairman. �8,500 for chairing the Policy and Resources Committee. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
�4,400 for chairing the Rail Committee. And �5,700 for being on | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
the Sefton Advisory Panel. It's a total of nearly �50,000 in | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
allowances. Mr Dowd refused an interview, but his deputy spoke | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
instead. We accept that and we said we would remedy it 12 months ago. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
Are you embarrassed knowing you are setting your own allowances? It is | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
not something we are comfortable with but it is a system we have had | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
many years. 12 years ago, we decided it was not appropriate and | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
we needed to do something about that. Mercy travel is meeting now | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
at a time local authorities are supposed to be going down. At a | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
time when local authority costs are supposed to be going down, | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Merseytravel is nudging up. And today, they're creating a new post | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
- deputy chair of the Women's Forum, which pays a further �3,688. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
Greater Manchester Police could close public enquiry desks at more | :03:45. | :03:55. | |
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than 30 police stations to save money. | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
The force must cut its budget by more than �130 million over the | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
next four years. Earlier today, hundreds of staff were invited to | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
meetings to hear how the latest phase of economies will be achieved. | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
It will mean around 900 fewer so- called middle-office jobs. Our | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
chief reporter, Dave Guest, has been finding out what that means. | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
They are a familiar sight at any crime scene. But forensic staff are | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
among those in the firing line, as Greater Manchester Police continue | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
their quest to save money. We have to find �134 million in four years | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
ago and you have to look at everything. People are going to say | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
the police service will be worse. have to do the best I can, we have | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
been through 10 years of growth and have had additional resources and | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
now we need to concentrate on those things that do make a difference. | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Staff were called to meetings at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton today | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
to hear how the force proposed to lose around 900 so-called middle- | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
office jobs. Those jobs include control room staff, people who | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
provide support to the Serious Cime division and front counter staff at | :04:55. | :05:04. | |
police stations. It is believed more than 30 counters could close. | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
I do not think some people realise what we do. You feel undervalued? | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
Yes, I do, actually. The Chief says economies can be made which will | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
make the force more efficient. Union leaders aren't so sure. | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
not believe that will not have an effect on the service in that | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
Greater Manchester. And potentially, I hope not, but an effect... | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Tomorrow, these people will discover who is going to have a job | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
and who is not. And then at Greater Manchester Police will go through | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
this process all over again when they start looking at frontline | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
staff. An application for parole by one of | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
James Bulger's killers, Jon Venables, has been turned down. | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
Venables had applied for release, half-way through a two-year jail | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
sentence for downloading and distributing child pornography. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
Officials informed James's family today that his bid for early | :06:01. | :06:11. | |
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release on licence had been refused. James Bulger's father, Ralph, | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
welcomed the decision, but said the system Kenmore for offenders than | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
families of the victims. An armed siege and Liverpool took | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
place, leading to a number of arrests. They surrounded a house in | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
Walton this afternoon. Armed officers were surrounding the scene | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
and traffic was closed off. It followed an armed robbery in Kirkby | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
where a security guard was stabbed in the arms. | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
The longest railway viaduct in Lancashire is being checked by | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
safety officers, after one of its arches started to sink. The | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
Victorian viaduct is known locally as Whalley Arches and links | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
Clitheroe and Manchester. Network Rail says it will fix the distorted | :06:51. | :07:00. | |
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arch by next Spring. It does not have to be tackled now to stop the | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
railway service. The speed limit is perfectly acceptable for the type | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
of distortion and there is an the viaduct. Long term, it would become | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
a much more serious problem if we did not do anything about it. | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
It is not easy being a motorist these days. If the price of fuel | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
wasn't bad enough, the cost of parking went up today too. On- | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
street parking charges in both Liverpool and Manchester have been | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
raised. And it looks like it's going to get | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
even more expensive for motorists from September. Stuart Flinders | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
reports. Empty parking bays on King Street, | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Manchester. A rebellion against increased charges? Maybe not, but | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
motorists here and in Liverpool have taken a hit. From today, two | :07:39. | :07:47. | |
hours parking in Manchester will no longer cost you �2.20, but 2.70. -- | :07:47. | :07:57. | |
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In Liverpool, charges are up from �2.80 an hour to �4.40. -- for two | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
hours. The carrot? Some of the money may help tackle Liverpool's | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
pot hole problem. We will make sure this money goes into the general | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
highways budget. In Manchester, they're blaming central Government | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
cuts and fear the city centre economy may be harmed. We have to | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
be very, very careful that we do not damage the Manchester economy. | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
For will this? We do not know yet. We have to check and a monthly | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
basis. It is a gift for the Trafford Centre if the parking is | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
free. They have had problems also because of the cost of petrol and | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
they have traded down also. Many motorists had little sympathy for | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
the council today. It is crazy expensive. And the parking times | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
are too short, an hour is not enough. I get taxed enough and it | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
is just another way to tax people. Do you have an alternative to | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
parking here? Take my business out of Manchester. You could always get | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
the boss! If the system was good enough. But here's a rarity. I do | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
not mind, to be honest. With austerity plans and everything else. | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
Do you work for the council? I work for myself. If you live in | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Manchester, there is more bad news because on Wednesday, councillors | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
are expected to announce they are expanding -- extending the charging | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
period from 6pm to 8 o'clock, and they will start charging you on a | :09:31. | :09:41. | |
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And the councillor in that report was Pat Carney, apologies to him | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
and you. Tesco is an anomaly. A huge | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
business success story with masses of satisfied customers, yet a name | :09:53. | :10:03. | |
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feared, often loathed on the high street. But are those fears well | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
placed? Tonight we go back to Ainsdale, where we've adopted a | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
planning application, to follow it through from rumour to store | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
opening and beyond. What does it tell us about how Tesco works? | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
Here's our economics correspondent, Jayne Barrett. | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
Ainsdale is a little village with a big campaign. The last time we were | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
here, the new arrival was just a rumour, but with this planning | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
application, the winner becomes fact. A position more vocal. They | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
are doing this all over the country, that is what annoys me. It will be | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
bad for the village, they are poorly boys and aggressive and just | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
want to take over. Jason's shop will close, one of four. Another | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
new Tesco will also have closed his other shop. But perhaps something | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
in this process has led to mistrust. Tesco did not by the shops, a third | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
party did, and Tesco is not even mentioned in the planning | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
application, so people believe it is not transparent, so how can they | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
trust it? We have not taken leases under another name, the landlord | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
submitted an application to change his unit and that was before we | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
signed our contract with the landlord. As soon as we signed the | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
contract, we were talking to people and were open because we are very | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
proud of what we want to bring to Ainsdale. And they want to bring | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
that elsewhere. Much of Tesco's growth is in the smaller stores. | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
When Ainsdale rumours began in March, Tesco had 200 -- 2,500 | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
stores, now it is more than 2,700. This man says there is some public | :11:41. | :11:49. | |
support. We have friends who come up I will not say they are being | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
intimidated, but their friends are not involved with them any more. | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
Because it is not a popular opinion? EDS. Are you in the pay of | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
Tesco? You are not. A name that creates suspicion as well as wealth | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
and convenience. The application will be discussed at Southport Town | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
Hall on Wednesday. Still to come in North West Tonight. | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Only the lonely, a unique experiment into what it's like to | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
be cut off from the rest of the world. | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
And racing away from the past. The Belle Vue aces bring us up to speed | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
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on their new plans for national For seven days, Pam Stopford, from | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Liverpool, didn't leave her house. She saw nobody, spoke to nobody, | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
except a video camera. And she wore a series of props which affected | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
her mobility and sight. Pam's week was all part of a social experiment | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
trying to reproduce the experience of hundreds of thousands of older | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
people who are living increasingly isolated lives. It was organised by | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
the charity Friends of the Elderly. Our health correspondent, Laura | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
Yates, reports. For one week, Pam Stopford lived a | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
lonely life. No visitors, no phone calls, seven days within these four | :13:21. | :13:29. | |
walls. A video camera her only friend. I do not know if anxious is | :13:29. | :13:39. | |
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the right word... What was it like? At one point, I felt this sense of | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
abandonment, that everybody had just gone and left me. Just so | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
alone and just not even able to come in and say to somebody, do you | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
want a drink or what are you doing today? It is there continuation of | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
nothing less. The experiment tried to reproduce the physical effects | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
of ageing. For her too, a series of props to add 40 years to her age. | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Glasses which mimic cataracts or glaucoma. Diving gloves, as if you | :14:11. | :14:19. | |
have arthritis. Ankle weights to limit mobility. My back was sought | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
by day five and I had to come down the stairs on my bottom -- at my | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
back was painful. I had to get painkillers.? It is important to | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
highlight the issue of isolation for older people. There are over 1 | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
million people in the country who say they are always or sometimes | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
lonely, and another 1 million who say they are trapped in their homes. | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
At midnight last night, Pam was reunited with her son, David. And | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
today, work. She was surprisingly nervous stock Mac I did not that | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
want to be around to many people, which I thought I would love. | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
quite relieved to get home today. Isolation, she says, is something | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
you soon get used to. It makes you feel a bit sad, | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
doesn't it? A bit of company makes all the difference, doesn't it? | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
A metal detector enthusiast from Lancashire thought he had found | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
just a twisted piece of metal in a field in Preston, but what he | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
actually found was a medieval relic of national significance. Paul King | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
has found a badge depicting a princess, made of silver, and it is | :15:25. | :15:35. | |
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over 500 years old. Elaine Dunkley reports. | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
Paul King is a metal detector enthusiast whose enthusiasm has | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
paid off. Little did he realise how special his latest find would be. | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
certainly was not expecting to find what I found. I was gobsmacked, | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
really, amazing. Especially when I got the loose soil off and her face | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
appeared. This is it the only one of its kind to be found in Britain, | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
and it has left experts battled. It is thought a woman is St Ursula, a | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
British Princess who were apparently sailed with 11,000 | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
virgins to Cologne on a pilgrimage. This is unusual because it is made | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
of silver and most of these period are made of lead. And another | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
strange thing is the way it has been bent over. That is possibly | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
deliberate. During the Reformation, religious objects what often | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
destroyed and if it was -- if it was a religious programme's badge, | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
that explains why it was bent. this ended up in a field in Preston | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
is still a mystery, but its significance is certain. I cannot | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
believe how important and significant it is. I found objects | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
there are older, Roman brooches, but this is fantastic. It is not | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
quite a case of find a's keepers, a coroner must first conclude the | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
badge does not have an owner. In the meantime, it will be on display | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
at the British Museum's. Talking of treasures! | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
It is sport now. One of Sir Alex Ferguson's toughest jobs this | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
summer has been to replace goalkeeper Edwin Van Der Sar. He | :17:25. | :17:34. | |
made 250 appearances and won four titles. Looks like he's done it. | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
250 appearances, so he has done well for Manchester United. He's | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
bought a World Cup winner. Athletico Madrid's David De Gea, | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
who was in Spain's squad last summer, is having a medical at Old | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
Trafford. He is 20 years old, has cost around �19 million. Is he a | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
good 'un? Well, Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina has gone further today | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
and says he is a great keeper. Talking of Old Trafford, Lancashire | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
have the chance to go top of the county championship. But things | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
have gone a bit haywire, haven't they? They're playing leaders | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
Durham, but in Liverpool. At the start of the day, Lancs were seven | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
points, behind with a game in hand. However, the pitch was a bit green, | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
had a bit of movement and they lost a crucial toss. A first innings | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
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horror show ended on 84 all out. Lancashire ended a day one on four | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
without loss, they are behind 98. Regardless of today, Lancs have won | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
six out of eight in the County Championship and coach Peter Moores | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
credits a conveyor belt of home- grown young talent. The exciting | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
thing is we have had a lot of change around of staff. People | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
naturally getting older and moving on, and it lot of new players that | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
have come through the academy system. 16 out of 19 players are | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
home-grown, we are playing a lot of home players from Lancashire, so | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
that is exciting, and they are playing well! Players like Stephen | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Croft, Kyle Hogg and Carl Brown are exciting fans, and those we spoke | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
to before start of play reckon Lanky could still break their 77- | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
year title drought. I think it could be the year. | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
Especially if they win this. Durham are pushing as well, aren't | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
they? Fingers crossed! Won his help -- one is hopeful. I think Durham | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
are playing very well and this will go some way to deciding it. So many | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
wickets in a day, the pitch is normally eat suspect. But it has | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
been suspected -- inspected by the authorities and they say it is all | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
right. 20 wickets is incredible, so you | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
suspect it is the atmosphere and the ball moving a lot? | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
I think cloud cover, you think what A bit of both. | :19:54. | :20:04. | |
Thinking -- moving on! Now, things are looking up for Belle Vue Aces. | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
Or should that be looking next door? One of the world's most | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
famous speedway clubs is on the move in Manchester. Not far. Not | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
far at all. But in terms of their future, it's a million miles away | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
from where they are now. And they are off! Seriously! About | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
100 metres that way, have a look. The world's most famous Speedway | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
club are moving next door to a �6 million home and it will be | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
elevated to the status of the country's first ever national | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
Speedway stadium. We are running 4th in the week at the moment so as | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
far as the team goes, we are still up there. We just want to move on | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
to the next era. The opportunity for the home to be the National | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Speedway stadium or so is fantastic. International events on a custom- | :20:48. | :20:58. | |
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built track and crowds of 16,000 will breathe new life here. | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
They moved from Hyde wrote to the greyhound track in the Eighties, on | :21:05. | :21:15. | |
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the hunt for a permanent home -- moved to. One idea is it will be a | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
centre of excellent as well, so that will help British Speedway to | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
bring young talent through and give them a chance to have a go at | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
Speedway. Belle Vue is synonymous with Manchester like United and | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
City for football. And after years of sharing this place with dogs and | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
stock cars, they are finally going to get an Old Trafford of their own. | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
Get down, you, you are staying! It has been a great day for the north- | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
west at Wimbledon with both competitors in the singles for the | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
boys making it through. George Morgan, from Bolton, is through | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
after this win. He says he altered his tactics after falling behind in | :21:58. | :22:06. | |
the first set. I was nervous, but I started to work out a few tactics | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
and got Plainmoor to his forehand and got into it a bit more. -- got | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
Plainmoor to. Well done to him. The Island Games got underway | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
yesterday and team Isle of Man has got off to a great start. The first | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
medal came from Kevin Loundes, with a silver in the half marathon. The | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
medals kept coming across athletics, cycling and shooting, and the team | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
currently lie third in the medal table, with four golds, five | :22:28. | :22:38. | |
silvers and three bronze. Great! | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
I call you a treasure, he caused you hot air! | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
I know! I will still be here at the end! | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
What about the weather? Gorgeous yesterday, a bit muddy, are we | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
heading for rain? Yes, and it is turning cooler, | :22:56. | :23:06. | |
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What a scorcher we have today, and it is not often we can say that. | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
These are the temperatures today. 28 degrees in that sunshine today. | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
But not everywhere. Around the coast, this is what the sea breeze | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
did. 10 degrees cooler in some coastal areas. 14 degrees the top | :23:25. | :23:34. | |
temperature across parts of the Isle of Man. It is a cold weather | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
front and it will be bring think much cooler air. So it will be a | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
good deal cooler for the rest of the week, but we will have sunshine. | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
Through the evening and overnight, showers will move away. We will | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
notice the difference because it will not be as oppressive as last | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
night. Temperatures down to 10 or 11 degrees. A dry night with clear | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
spells. A much cooler feel for tomorrow morning. We will have | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
beautiful sunshine for the morning and clear and sunny skies. The | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
cloud will increase again into the afternoon. Showers for the evening | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
tomorrow as well. A much cooler and fresher feel, temperatures 18 on 19 | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
degrees. Part of the Isle of Man will get the best of the sunshine | :24:25. | :24:33. | |
tomorrow. Beautiful sunshine, and it will be a bit warmer, 15 degrees. | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
Pressure building to the end of the week. Temperature is a bit more | :24:36. | :24:45. | |
Thank you very much. Now, most parents make financial | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
sacrifices for their children. But little Callum Hilton's mum endured | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
genuine hardship to nurture her son's musical talent. A single | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
parent from a council estate in Tameside, she had very little money | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
left after paying for Callum's piano and cello lessons. Well, now | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
she's been rewarded. Eight-year-old Callum has won a ten-year | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
scholarship to a world-famous School of Music. Liam O'Donoghue | :25:00. | :25:09. | |
Despite being born with hearing problems, Callum Hilton is a | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
natural musician. At the age of four, he began teaching himself on | :25:16. | :25:26. | |
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an electric keyboard. It feels, and peaceful. The really moving. Tear- | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
jerking at some stages when you hear it,. By chance, his mum read | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
that classical music helps children to learn, so she bought him some | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
CDs. He began playing classical tunes, and for his sixth birthday | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
asked for a piano. His mum had to borrow �2,000/ Money for music | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
lessons meant Callum and his mum couldn't afford the bus to school, | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
couldn't buy new clothes, and had little money left for food. He want | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
to play these pieces like classical music, I have no money and will | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
have to put myself into debt to do it. She was overcome with emotion | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
as she recalled the hardship they'd been through. | :26:07. | :26:17. | |
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I even started... Now Callum's hard work, practising two hours a day, | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
and his mum's sacrifices, have paid off. They were nervous when he | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
auditioned at Manchester's prestigious Chetham's School of | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
Music. But overjoyed when they heard he'd won a scholarship to | :26:26. | :26:36. | |
study piano, and his other love, cello. Absolutely happy. Hugging, | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
squeezing! I could not speak! Callum is going to live at | :26:40. | :26:50. | |
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Chetham's, where his scholarship provides free tuition until he's 18. | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
Lovely story. His life has changed just like that | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
eggs knack How wonderful just to be born with a little talent! | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
They say the ones who really achieve have practised and | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
practised, it does not happen overnight stay Mac like us! | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
Years of practice! Did you have a talent? | :27:12. | :27:20. | |
I had a spark, but it went out X knack in 1972? | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
It was for Frisby, there is not much call for it, my dog keeps | :27:24. | :27:27. |