:00:09. > :00:13.Good evening and welcome to North West Tonight. Our top story: 99
:00:13. > :00:20.years after it was founded in Liverpool, TJ Hughes prepares to
:00:20. > :00:27.enter administration, pudding 4,000 jobs at risk. It is a shame. I used
:00:27. > :00:32.to come here with my mother. So will it make it to 100 years?
:00:32. > :00:37.Tonight we look at the state of the region's High Street so.
:00:37. > :00:41.Also, we are in Ireland to meet the man who reported the Moors
:00:41. > :00:46.murderers to the police and after four decades has decided to tell
:00:46. > :00:50.his story in depth. How do you tackle child obesity?
:00:50. > :00:58.Here in St Helen's they are targeting the takeaway. New ones
:00:58. > :01:02.can no longer be built within 400m of any school.
:01:02. > :01:12.And from urban grime two beats and rhymes. The council worker who quit
:01:12. > :01:19.
:01:19. > :01:23.pen pushing for poetry at Another blow for the region's high
:01:23. > :01:28.streets tonight. TJ Hughes, the iconic store with jobs across the
:01:28. > :01:32.North West, is about to go into administration just two years after
:01:32. > :01:36.another Liverpool-born company, Woolworths went to the wall. TJ
:01:36. > :01:43.Hughes is likely to sell all or some of its 57 stores. Thousands of
:01:43. > :01:47.jobs could be at risk. In a moment we will report on why the North
:01:47. > :01:52.West is suffering more than most. But first, our reporter joins us
:01:52. > :01:56.from TJ Hughes' headquarters. In this part of Liverpool you
:01:56. > :02:02.cannot escape the named TJ Hughes and so it has been for many years.
:02:02. > :02:06.It was back in 1912 that Thomas J used from West Kirby set up his
:02:06. > :02:13.first store. The company has had its ups and downs and sadly over
:02:13. > :02:16.the past year or so there have been more downs. The 4,000 workers are
:02:16. > :02:19.wondering whether going into administration will bring down the
:02:19. > :02:22.shutters for good. It has been a dominant name on
:02:22. > :02:26.Liverpool's retail landscape for just short of a century. The first
:02:26. > :02:33.TJ Hughes opened here in 1912. News that the chain planned to call in
:02:33. > :02:40.administrators dismayed many of its customers today. I think it is
:02:40. > :02:44.terrible. A lot of elderly people come here. I am going in to look at
:02:44. > :02:50.bedlinen and curtains because I am used to always buying them from
:02:50. > :02:56.here. That is a shame. I used to come here with my mother, years ago.
:02:56. > :03:00.It has been part of your life. sentiment alone does not make a
:03:00. > :03:04.business profitable. The company lost millions last year. A
:03:04. > :03:07.management team bought it out earlier this year but so far has
:03:07. > :03:13.failed to learn things around. The past few months have seen
:03:13. > :03:19.particularly difficult trading conditions for TJ Hughes, hence the
:03:19. > :03:25.decision to now seek administration. It is a very sad day. A huge men,
:03:25. > :03:29.well established. It has become a victim of the retail world in the
:03:29. > :03:35.21st century. REPORTER: Is every place for these
:03:35. > :03:40.companies in the 21st century? Absolutely. It is about the ability
:03:40. > :03:45.to involve. The brand has a 57 stores across the country. Most are
:03:45. > :03:49.here in the North West. It employs 40,000 people. The company says it
:03:49. > :03:58.will do its best to protect jobs but these are obviously worrying
:03:58. > :04:03.times for everyone here at TJ TJ Hughes is not alone. Let's hear
:04:03. > :04:06.from our reporter about how this fits into a wider picture of gloom,
:04:07. > :04:11.unfortunately. This was the moment the Woolworths
:04:11. > :04:16.shutters came down on 100 years of high street is true. This
:04:16. > :04:20.Liverpool-born High Street hero was the first casualty of the recession.
:04:20. > :04:27.Today Liverpool-based TJ Hughes became the latest in a brush of
:04:27. > :04:33.that store closes and administration. More words was not
:04:33. > :04:36.a surprise because it was the walking wounded. -- Woolworths was
:04:36. > :04:42.not a surprise. The difference between success and failure in
:04:42. > :04:46.Beadell can be quite small. They have not been loss of profit or
:04:46. > :04:50.sales for the last three years. Even the most successful of
:04:50. > :04:54.retailers have had difficulties. Let's take a look at the numbers.
:04:54. > :04:59.The number of shops closing in the first half of this year is almost
:04:59. > :05:05.the same as the Hall of plastic, 820 stores, 10,500 staff so far
:05:05. > :05:10.this year. 944 stores, almost 11,000 staff last year. The North
:05:10. > :05:15.West is the worst hit region. In Bolton and Wigan there are one in
:05:15. > :05:19.five shops vacant. That is just under 20%. The national average is
:05:19. > :05:26.around 11%. One in five shopping centres have been in financial
:05:26. > :05:31.trouble here in North West, more than in any other region. Today
:05:31. > :05:35.President won its fight to build a new city centre. But Preston admit
:05:35. > :05:45.they do not have the cash to pay for it and in this climate there is
:05:45. > :05:45.
:05:46. > :05:48.The public will be consulted about plans to close inquiry desks at 29
:05:49. > :05:53.police stations in Greater Manchester. At a meeting today, the
:05:54. > :05:58.force said it wanted to close many of its front desks to help save
:05:58. > :06:02.�134 million over the next four years. It believes giving victims
:06:02. > :06:06.of crime specific appointments will be more efficient. Rather than
:06:06. > :06:11.going in, hanging around one of the public inquiry Counters, which is
:06:11. > :06:13.not always the best of places to be, and I think if we make appointments,
:06:14. > :06:19.we keep those appointments, which is vitally important, people will
:06:19. > :06:22.see that as a better service than just wandering in on the off-chance.
:06:22. > :06:27.Figures out today show the number of people dying in accidents at
:06:27. > :06:32.work in the North West has gone up more than a third. Two of the 23
:06:32. > :06:39.people who lost their lives in the past year died in an industry or
:06:39. > :06:42.accident at the Sonae plant. Trade unions say cuts in funding for the
:06:42. > :06:46.Health and Safety Executive will now mean fewer inspections.
:06:46. > :06:49.Cumbria has been holding a tourism summit to discuss a recent fall in
:06:49. > :06:53.visitors to be counted. There are fears the decline could deepen
:06:53. > :07:03.because Cumbria Tourism lost more than �1 million from its budget
:07:03. > :07:04.
:07:04. > :07:07.when the North West Development It is almost a year since Jane
:07:07. > :07:10.Clough was stabbed to death by her former partner outside Blackpool's
:07:10. > :07:13.Victoria Hospital. He was on bail at the time. Jane's parents, John
:07:13. > :07:17.and Penny, have been campaigning for changes to the law and today
:07:17. > :07:27.they travelled to London to hear their MP lead a debate in the House
:07:27. > :07:27.
:07:27. > :07:33.of Commons. It was about changing the bail laws.
:07:33. > :07:38.The latest figures from 2009 show at least 27 murders were committed
:07:38. > :07:42.by people on bail and another one was added to that grim total when
:07:42. > :07:46.Jayne Clough was stopped last year. Today her family and friends left
:07:46. > :07:56.blandish in the early hours to travel here and hear what they have
:07:56. > :08:00.
:08:01. > :08:03.is the first steps in a change in Campaigning for a change in the law
:08:03. > :08:06.they are convinced would have saved their daughter's life. Jane Clough
:08:07. > :08:13.was murdered by her former partner, Jonathan Vass, while he was on bail
:08:13. > :08:18.accused of nine counts of raping her. Our daughter it should still
:08:18. > :08:28.be alive. A woman who is brave enough to report abuse and rape
:08:28. > :08:29.
:08:29. > :08:31.should not be dead. The legal says the judge was not told of any
:08:31. > :08:39.concerns expressed by Jane about her safety or any evidence
:08:39. > :08:42.presented that Vass was likely to John and Penny want the law changed
:08:42. > :08:48.to allow prosecutors to appeal bail decisions. They were in the public
:08:48. > :08:51.gallery to hear the issue debated in Parliament. I feel that the
:08:51. > :08:56.murder of Jayne Clough has highlighted issues in our legal
:08:56. > :09:02.system. It raises questions over the accountability of judges. The
:09:02. > :09:07.granting of bail. The treatment of victims of rape. Sentencing policy.
:09:07. > :09:11.If he had been refused bail, he had the opportunity to appeal against
:09:11. > :09:15.it. We find it ludicrous that the victim does not have a similar
:09:15. > :09:18.right of appeal when bail is granted. After a devastating year,
:09:18. > :09:20.John and Penny hope today can be the first step towards a change
:09:21. > :09:30.they believe will spare other families the heartache they have
:09:31. > :09:31.
:09:31. > :09:35.David Smith calls it his car crash - a year of his life that began
:09:35. > :09:39.when he met Ian Brady. It ended when he witnessed the full horror
:09:39. > :09:43.of one of the Moors murders. David reported Brady and Myra Hindley to
:09:43. > :09:48.the police but for more than four decades he has refused to tell his
:09:48. > :09:51.story in depth. Now, in an exclusive interview, he has called
:09:51. > :10:01.for detectives to do more to find the one remaining victim, Keith
:10:01. > :10:02.
:10:02. > :10:10.Bennett. At 16, I was married, I was a
:10:10. > :10:13.father and I had a job. The boy was doing could. At 17, I was a witness.
:10:13. > :10:16.In 1965, David Smith was married Myra Hindley's sister, Maureen. The
:10:16. > :10:19.two couples would spend evenings together, drinking and listening to
:10:19. > :10:28.music. Brady would drunkenly talk of plotting robberies and murders,
:10:28. > :10:37.but the teenager thought he was joking. Was there ever a point when
:10:37. > :10:40.you thought, something is not right here? Mare, never. -- no, never. He
:10:41. > :10:43.was a slightly eccentric friend. One night, David walked Myra home
:10:44. > :10:46.to the terraced house she shared with Brady in Hattersley. There he
:10:47. > :10:53.witnessed the murder of 17 year-old Edward Evans, walking in as Brady
:10:53. > :10:58.bludgeoned the teenager to death with an axe. The feeling of relief
:10:58. > :11:02.was when I first got in the police car, instantly. Because you thought
:11:02. > :11:06.he would kill you? Yes. A wooden fence now marks where 16 Wardle
:11:06. > :11:08.Brook Avenue once stood on the end of the terrace. Such was the
:11:08. > :11:11.public's revulsion at what happened here that the council demolished
:11:11. > :11:14.the house. And no one has ever rebuilt on the site. David Smith
:11:14. > :11:18.became the prosecution's chief witness at the trial of Brady and
:11:18. > :11:27.Hindley in 1966. Both defendants tried to convince the jury that he,
:11:27. > :11:30.too, had been involved in the murders - a lie that many believed.
:11:30. > :11:34.In his book, he describes being beaten by strangers and watching
:11:34. > :11:37.women spit at his baby son. David Smith has lived here in the west of
:11:37. > :11:39.Ireland for the last 17 years and has always closely guarded his
:11:39. > :11:43.privacy. Now, more than four decades after the Moors murders, he
:11:43. > :11:46.has finally decided to tell his story in depth for the first time.
:11:46. > :11:55.He says he wants his grandchildren to understand his past, and to help
:11:55. > :12:00.find the one remaining victim whose body was never located. Police say
:12:00. > :12:05.they have exhausted all avenues of inquiry. When I close my eyes, I
:12:05. > :12:10.see the picture of Keith Bennett, and he has to come home. There are
:12:10. > :12:15.areas that need looking at again. Do you have any regrets? None
:12:15. > :12:20.whatsoever. I just think I had a little bit of a car crash, but I
:12:20. > :12:30.survived it. Walked away from it. And others didn't? We are still
:12:30. > :12:37.
:12:37. > :12:43.Still to come, paying tribute to a city legend. Former captain Mike
:12:43. > :12:48.Doyle passes away at the age of 64. It was quite obvious that he was a
:12:48. > :12:52.good player and he went on to prove that.
:12:52. > :12:57.And eight miles of shelving, 900 years of history, and all at the
:12:57. > :13:07.mercy of an antiquated air- conditioning unit. What is being
:13:07. > :13:12.
:13:12. > :13:17.New takeaways have been banned from opening up within 400m of any
:13:17. > :13:22.school in St Helen's. It is the latest idea from a council
:13:22. > :13:29.battening childhood obesity. 38 % of 10 and 11 year-olds there are
:13:29. > :13:34.overweight or obese. St Helens and Halton Primary Care Trust say
:13:34. > :13:42.obesity cost it �28 million in two days and and 10 and it estimates it
:13:42. > :13:47.will rise to �36 million by 2015. The council is pointing its finger
:13:48. > :13:53.to fast food. Home time in a Thatto Heath.
:13:53. > :13:59.Takeaways nearby. From now on, any new ones will be banned. It is a
:13:59. > :14:05.good idea but it is a bit late. We have so many. So the council is
:14:05. > :14:11.setting out exclusion zones. 400m wide, they will surround all
:14:11. > :14:15.schools and sixth-form colleges. No new takeaways allowed. We have 161
:14:15. > :14:19.takeaways in the borough and that is enough to serve our community.
:14:19. > :14:22.We are saying enough is enough and we are using a robust planning
:14:22. > :14:26.policy for to attempt to prevent further takeaways opening,
:14:26. > :14:30.especially near our schools. There have been trying to tackle obesity
:14:30. > :14:35.for some time here. They are making progress but that does because they
:14:35. > :14:39.would like and the consequences, they say, are grave. Children who
:14:39. > :14:48.are obese when they are younger get fatter as they get older and by the
:14:48. > :14:53.time they get into adulthood, they are becoming very overweight.
:14:53. > :14:59.this take away in Cowley, Darie is serving up fish and chips. At the
:14:59. > :15:04.secondary school down the road, older children often come in.
:15:04. > :15:10.Having to walk further, he says, will not put them off. People will
:15:10. > :15:14.eat whatever they want to eat. Simple as that. And most people in
:15:14. > :15:19.St Helens Town Centre agreed. they are going to eat chips, they
:15:19. > :15:23.are going to eat chips. The council can and will do nothing about
:15:23. > :15:27.takeaways that already exist close to schools and with so many already
:15:27. > :15:34.doing business, it remains to be seen how much difference this new
:15:34. > :15:39.policy can make. Earlier ice-pick to Tam Fry from
:15:39. > :15:43.the National Obesity Forum, which campaigns for better awareness. --
:15:43. > :15:51.earlier I spoke to Tam Fry. He said similar exclusion zones in other
:15:51. > :15:54.places were a success. It is really incumbent on the schools to make it
:15:54. > :15:59.a success, because they have got to offer something to the children
:15:59. > :16:02.which is better than going outside. If they are really going to make it
:16:02. > :16:08.work, they have to look at their own canteen system and make quite
:16:08. > :16:11.sure the food on offer is going to be attracted to the children.
:16:11. > :16:15.organisation advocates getting to children before they even enter
:16:15. > :16:21.primary school, so weighing and measuring them every year from
:16:21. > :16:26.about one years old. Why isn't that happening? If you want me to give
:16:26. > :16:30.the political reply, it is perhaps because we have no money to do it
:16:30. > :16:34.but actually, what should be the happen is that we should bite the
:16:34. > :16:39.bullet, find the money and do this kind of measuring from the age of
:16:39. > :16:43.one, because at that point, you can pick up as early as possible and
:16:43. > :16:47.healthy weight gain. Once you have established that, you can intervene
:16:47. > :16:54.to make the quality changes which are necessary. One about those
:16:54. > :16:57.parents who say, we do not want a nanny state? I would say to the
:16:57. > :17:02.parents, do you want your children to be fat or not? If you follow
:17:02. > :17:06.that regime, the parents will be happy in knowing that their
:17:06. > :17:10.children, who are putting on a healthy weight, can actually be
:17:10. > :17:14.held to a healthy lifestyle, healthy weight. The prospect of
:17:14. > :17:19.having fat children because they have gone unnoticed throughout
:17:19. > :17:24.their early years, would not be what most parents wanted. What
:17:24. > :17:30.resistance are you finding here, governmental or parental? It is
:17:30. > :17:34.many governmental? The Government is holding back. -- it is mainly
:17:34. > :17:38.governmental. Last week a report came out for the Obama
:17:38. > :17:43.administration which said that clearly we have to do this whether
:17:43. > :17:46.the parents like it or not, because the quality of the children is
:17:46. > :17:50.deteriorating so much that the expense to the state, and that is
:17:50. > :17:55.to say here in the NHS, is at such a high level that we have to take
:17:55. > :18:01.this kind of action. Tam Fry is speaking to me a little earlier.
:18:01. > :18:05.You have been telling us what do you think. One viewer was horrified
:18:05. > :18:09.at the proposed ban on takeaways. He contacted us on Facebook to say
:18:09. > :18:15.he hopes it is not his council doing it because he loves his fish
:18:15. > :18:20.and chip suppers. We should point out, it is new takeaways near
:18:20. > :18:27.schools. A viewer originally from Macclesfield's says it is parents
:18:27. > :18:31.who needs -- need to take responsibility. A taxi driver from
:18:31. > :18:39.sale treated us to say surely the answer is to teach -- keep the
:18:40. > :18:43.score -- keep children in school at lunch time. Chris Mason greeted us
:18:43. > :18:47.to say banning takeaways from near schools does not go far enough.
:18:47. > :18:51.Canteens should not be allowed to serve food with batting and under
:18:51. > :19:01.16 year-olds should not be allowed in sweet shops on their own. --
:19:01. > :19:02.
:19:02. > :19:06.Next tonight, the death of a former Manchester City captain. Mike Doyle,
:19:06. > :19:09.a member of the great side of the 1960s and 1970s, has passed away
:19:09. > :19:12.aged 64. He ended his career at Bolton and Rochdale but will be
:19:12. > :19:14.best remembered as part of the glittering City team that included
:19:14. > :19:24.Colin Bell, Mike Summerbee and Francis Lee. Stuart Flinders
:19:24. > :19:30.
:19:30. > :19:34.recalls a City legend. Across to Mike Doyle... He won his
:19:34. > :19:42.place in the hearts of City fans by once declaring before a match, I
:19:42. > :19:45.hate United. He won a league title, the FA Cup, two League Cups and the
:19:45. > :19:50.European Cup Winners' Cup. He played 448 times for Manchester
:19:50. > :19:55.City. To play that many matches for a team so successful, you have to
:19:55. > :19:59.be good. Fred was an apprentice at City when Doyle joined the club
:19:59. > :20:03.from Stockport boys. I remember him walking through the door for the
:20:03. > :20:08.very first time. He was a very confident young man because that
:20:08. > :20:12.was in his nature. He always knew he was a good player. He went on to
:20:12. > :20:19.prove it. Mike Doyle despair as he watched City struggle in later
:20:19. > :20:22.years. I am gutted. I am embarrassed. City may have entered
:20:22. > :20:28.a period of promise now but for many years, Mike Doyle was a
:20:28. > :20:38.reminder of how long it had been since the club enjoyed success. A
:20:38. > :20:42.
:20:42. > :20:51.time when commentators... Still used phrases like by Germany. --
:20:51. > :20:56.bijinniny. He moved on to state before spending his final seasons
:20:56. > :21:01.at Stockport and Rochdale. He died after being treated for liver
:21:01. > :21:11.failure. He was 64. A former team- mate said tonight he was the heart
:21:11. > :21:14.and soul of Manchester City. I saw him play many times. It holds
:21:14. > :21:17.millions of documents and centuries of history on its eight miles of
:21:17. > :21:20.shelving. But priceless treasures in the Lancashire Record Office are
:21:20. > :21:23.at the mercy of an air-conditioning system that is well past its sell-
:21:23. > :21:27.by date. The good news is that the system is being replaced. The bad
:21:27. > :21:34.news is the archives will be closed to the public while the work is
:21:34. > :21:38.carried out. Dig deep in the Lancashire archive and you will be
:21:38. > :21:47.amazed how far back you go. A letter signed by Elizabeth I to
:21:47. > :21:52.the Emperor of China in 1602. really a great privilege to be the
:21:52. > :21:56.custodian of this material and to be able to handle it and know that
:21:56. > :21:59.our work is preserving it for future generations. The oldest
:21:59. > :22:08.document, this scrap of parchment - a charter from Henry I from the
:22:09. > :22:13.12th century. The longest individual document is this one,
:22:13. > :22:18.18ft long, listing all of the world the possessions of a woman who died
:22:18. > :22:24.in the 16th thirties. Everything here depends on a defective air
:22:24. > :22:30.conditioning. If they absorb too much moisture it will encourage
:22:30. > :22:35.mould growth. If they are to drive they can crack it. Not good for
:22:35. > :22:39.things like this, the original charter from 1301 granting a weekly
:22:40. > :22:43.market. What has happened in the last ten years is we have seen an
:22:43. > :22:52.increase in warm, as you Midsummer's and the air-
:22:52. > :22:57.conditioning has not been able to cope. -- warm, humid summers.
:22:57. > :23:01.record office shirts at the end of this week until October for a �1
:23:01. > :23:08.million upgrade, too perfectly preserved prices but -- examples
:23:08. > :23:12.from the past. It is incredibly special and you feel it a real
:23:12. > :23:22.privilege to be careful to touch them, have spread of them, use them
:23:22. > :23:23.
:23:23. > :23:33.for research. The raw-material of It has not been too humid here
:23:33. > :23:35.
:23:35. > :23:43.It has been fresher. He is a comparison for you. Week reached 29
:23:43. > :23:47.Celsius in Manchester yesterday. Much more bearable for us today. We
:23:47. > :23:51.have gone from being well above the average to a little below the
:23:51. > :23:58.average in the space of 24 hours and we have lost the humidity as
:23:58. > :24:03.well. And we had the sunshine at least. We have been sandwiched
:24:03. > :24:07.between two lines of showers. A glorious afternoon across the Isle
:24:07. > :24:12.of Man. So we will keep these dry, clear conditions as we go through
:24:12. > :24:22.the night. We have that clear, north-westerly airflow now. It will
:24:22. > :24:23.
:24:23. > :24:29.Tomorrow morning, we will have plenty of sunshine once again from
:24:29. > :24:33.the beginning. You will have to be quick to enjoy it that because the
:24:33. > :24:37.cloud will be moving in with showers in the morning. Some of the
:24:37. > :24:42.showers will be quite lively but they will fade away as we go
:24:43. > :24:48.towards the evening. Temperatures similar to today. The pressure is
:24:48. > :24:56.building so we will say goodbye to the rain clouds for a while. Drive
:24:56. > :25:04.towards the end of the week and He went from the streets of Salford
:25:04. > :25:08.to a field somewhere in Somerset. Sounds quite poetic, doesn't it?
:25:08. > :25:10.But that is just what has happened to Tony Walsh. He took redundancy
:25:10. > :25:17.from the city council to become poet in residence at the
:25:18. > :25:21.Glastonbury festival. Eno has been to meet him. Why Glastonbury?
:25:21. > :25:28.two months after quitting his job in Salford, Tony Walsh is playing
:25:28. > :25:32.the biggest gig of his life ever - Glastonbury. It is for the
:25:32. > :25:35.atmosphere, always fun. The sun rise and the sunset. But changing
:25:35. > :25:38.careers has not been an easy decision for Tony. He spent many
:25:38. > :25:43.years helping to regenerate Salford, like the transformation of these
:25:43. > :25:52.back alleys, now turned into beautiful gardens. So how do you go
:25:52. > :25:59.from regeneration to poetry? I have been writing all my life. Since I
:25:59. > :26:05.was five or six. I kept Perrins in a draw. I am 45 now. A few years
:26:05. > :26:08.ago I went to an open mike poetry night. They seemed to like my poems.
:26:08. > :26:11.Approximately 200,000 people turned up at the festival this year to see
:26:12. > :26:20.some of the finest in the business performing. So how did it actually
:26:20. > :26:30.feel to play Glastonbury? It is every performer a's dream to walk
:26:30. > :26:30.
:26:30. > :26:36.on to stage and say, good afternoon, Glastonbury! It was fantastic. It
:26:36. > :26:41.is hard to convey it to people that have not been. If you think about
:26:41. > :26:47.Beyonce on the main stage, that is fantastic. I am on a real roller
:26:47. > :26:51.coaster at the moment. Now and again I look down and it is quite
:26:52. > :26:56.scary, the financial side, let's be honest. I have two children and a
:26:56. > :27:01.mortgage. I said, why don't we take strength here, as a mighty flock of
:27:01. > :27:08.doves with a single word to change the world... So how well did his
:27:08. > :27:14.set go down at the festival? Brilliant, really good. The bit
:27:14. > :27:23.about how you feel in the morning... I enjoyed the yoga. It was nice to
:27:24. > :27:31.hear it spoken out loud because Onwards and upwards for Tony, I