:00:07. > :00:13.Good evening and welcome to north- west tonight. Our top story: Top
:00:13. > :00:19.the press - could workers at the News of the World's Merseyside
:00:19. > :00:26.prince works be next to lose their jobs. We're live at the print site
:00:26. > :00:32.with the latest. Also tonight: Set ablaze by a Beko fridge A family
:00:32. > :00:38.ask why it has taken four years for the company to warn of a fault.
:00:38. > :00:43.were lucky. He always played with his cars in the kitchen. But that
:00:43. > :00:48.day we decided to take him for a walk. And what the biggest
:00:48. > :00:58.commercial deal of its kind could mean for Manchester City. Now let
:00:58. > :01:08.us take a sneak preview. 25 years ago we previewed this theatre. But
:01:08. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:12.why does this tale have an unhappy ending? Print workers on Merseyside
:01:12. > :01:15.are still waiting to hear whether their jobs are under threat after
:01:15. > :01:19.it was announced the News of the World will print its final edition
:01:19. > :01:21.on Sunday. 400 people work at the Newsprinters site in Knowsley which
:01:21. > :01:31.produces and distributes the paper across the north. Nina Warhurst is
:01:31. > :01:32.
:01:32. > :01:36.there for us now. How much reason do they have to be anxious there
:01:36. > :01:42.tonight? Well the answer is in all honesty is that we don't know. What
:01:42. > :01:48.we know is some workers only found out the news about the paper last
:01:48. > :01:56.night. And they were set to work on headlines like this - world's end
:01:56. > :02:01.and hacked to death. The and other publications are printed here.
:02:01. > :02:06.Perhaps the headline will be that Jack Straw was approached by police
:02:06. > :02:11.over allegations that his phone was hacked. Workers have begun arriving
:02:11. > :02:17.or the fopbt and we can guess what -- tonight and we can guess what
:02:17. > :02:22.they will be talking about. Workers on this site produce and distribute
:02:22. > :02:26.all of News International big names, as well as other publications. They
:02:26. > :02:30.have not yet been told thousand closure of the News of the World
:02:30. > :02:33.will affect -- how the closure of News of the World will affect them,
:02:33. > :02:37.they feel job losses will be inevitable. It has been well
:02:37. > :02:41.reported that the staff who were involved at the time and present
:02:41. > :02:48.when these incidents took place are no longer there. The view of the
:02:48. > :02:55.union is if Rebekah Brooks had resigned, and if the employers had
:02:55. > :03:00.co-operated with the police ngss, these jobs could have been saved.
:03:00. > :03:04.Rebekah Brooks' career saw her rise to editor of News of the World and
:03:04. > :03:11.then of the Sun before become Chief Executive at News International.
:03:11. > :03:14.Her role at a school governor in presston has prompted unions and
:03:14. > :03:19.parents to call for her removal. But the chair of the board is
:03:19. > :03:23.standing by her. She has done a great job. I don't know anything
:03:23. > :03:30.about what is going on at News International, but she has done a
:03:30. > :03:35.good job for us. Rebekah Brooks is expected to visit the school next
:03:35. > :03:40.week. By then the workers here hope to have a clearer idea of what the
:03:40. > :03:45.future holds. It is important to stress that the other publications
:03:45. > :03:50.printed here won't be affected. What we know is on Monday
:03:50. > :03:54.negotiations will re-open in London between unions and with
:03:54. > :03:59.representatives from the News of the World. But an anxious weekend
:03:59. > :04:02.ahead. Thank you. A Cheshire family wants to know why it's taken years
:04:02. > :04:05.for a fridge maker to go public about a fault that could cause a
:04:05. > :04:08.fire in hundreds of thousands of its appliances. Eileen Segrott's
:04:08. > :04:11.home near Crewe was wrecked after a Beko fridge freezer exploded four
:04:11. > :04:13.years ago. Her great-grandson had been playing in front of it just
:04:14. > :04:16.minutes previously. It's taken until this week for Beko to
:04:17. > :04:26.publicly admit up to half a million of its fridge-freezers are a
:04:27. > :04:32.
:04:32. > :04:38.potential risk. Mark Edwardson reports. There was flames every
:04:38. > :04:45.where and smoke, fire coming out of the chimney and loads of smoke
:04:45. > :04:49.coming out. That was July 2007, when this boy was only three.
:04:49. > :04:54.was lucky. He always played with his cars out there in the kitchen.
:04:54. > :05:03.Up and down, up and down. But that day we decided to take him for a
:05:03. > :05:10.walk. Last month a fire in London was traced to a faulty Beko defrost
:05:10. > :05:14.timer. The Fire Brigade said 20 fires had been caused by the fault.
:05:14. > :05:18.The LFB warned Beko of the link last year. Frplgt that life could
:05:18. > :05:24.have been stair spared -- That life could have been spared if they had
:05:24. > :05:28.admitted there was a problem with the fridge freezers and you know
:05:28. > :05:32.have warned people straightaway and then more could have been done.
:05:32. > :05:41.Cheshire fire service says it didn't alert the authority after
:05:41. > :05:46.the fire at Eileen's home. No trends have been identified in
:05:46. > :05:51.Cheshire. It is not a trend. If we had 20 all from the same make, of
:05:51. > :05:56.course we would have taken some action. London Fire Brigade is a
:05:56. > :06:01.large Fire Brigade and can more easily respond this data. So you
:06:01. > :06:06.know at the least alerting other fire services, but there is no
:06:06. > :06:10.doubt that a central system for collecting this type of data would
:06:10. > :06:14.be useful. A statement Beko said they have developed and tested a
:06:14. > :06:19.modification and contacted retailers in February to obtain
:06:19. > :06:22.seams records. The firm's sending letters to customers about the risk.
:06:23. > :06:28.As a responsible manufacturer we have decided to contact the owners
:06:28. > :06:36.of these fridge freezers. Eileen's arrived last week, four years after
:06:37. > :06:40.her fridge freezer went up in flames. The actor who played Terry
:06:40. > :06:43.Sullivan in Brookside has denied murdering a nightclub doorman.
:06:43. > :06:46.Brian Regan pleaded not guilty after he was charged in connection
:06:46. > :06:53.with the death of Bahman Faraji. The dad of one was shot in the head
:06:53. > :06:56.as he left the Belgrave pub in Aigburth in February. Santander
:06:56. > :06:59.Bank has transferred all of its Indian call centres to the UK,
:06:59. > :07:02.including one to Liverpool. The move will create 250 jobs in Bootle.
:07:02. > :07:10.The bank says the decision was made because of complaints from
:07:10. > :07:13.customers. A nurse who went on a shopping spree with a dying
:07:13. > :07:16.patient's bank card has been freed five weeks into her six month jail
:07:16. > :07:19.term. Maxine Marshall who worked at Wythenshaw Hospital in Manchester
:07:19. > :07:22.came across the patient's bank card and pin number while looking after
:07:22. > :07:31.her. She was freed after an appeal court decided the sentence handed
:07:31. > :07:34.down by a previous judge was too harsh. The University of Cumbria's
:07:34. > :07:37.campus in Ambleside looks like it could reopen. Last year 500
:07:37. > :07:39.students from the campus left when it was mothballed to save �8
:07:39. > :07:42.million. But the University says finances have improved and degree
:07:42. > :07:52.courses such as forestry and outdoor studies could move there
:07:52. > :07:53.
:07:53. > :08:01.within three years. We've been receiving reports of a tornado
:08:01. > :08:05.hitting Westhoughton in Bolton this afternoon. It happened just after 3.
:08:05. > :08:15.Police and residents say several houses have been damaged. Lee
:08:15. > :08:17.
:08:17. > :08:27.Johnson from Leigh filmed this footage as the tornado approached.
:08:27. > :08:31.Just that is not a tornado, but it is a funnel cloud apartly. An
:08:31. > :08:33.explanation later. The wind of change continues at Manchester
:08:33. > :08:36.City! In one of football's biggest ever commercial deals, Manchester
:08:36. > :08:40.City's ground will now be called The Etihad Stadium. It's thought to
:08:40. > :08:42.be worth in excess of �100 million to the club. As well as the
:08:42. > :08:44.ground's naming rights, City have also extended their shirt
:08:44. > :08:47.sponsorship deal with the Abu Dhabi airline. Manchester City Council,
:08:47. > :08:53.which still owns the stadium, insists it's also a good deal for
:08:53. > :09:01.them. Richard Askam reports. Signing on the line in a deal that
:09:01. > :09:06.is a sign of the times, at Manchester City. What could be one
:09:06. > :09:15.of most important arrangements in the history of world football.
:09:15. > :09:22.City's ground will be called the Etihad Stadium. With the company's
:09:22. > :09:30.shirt sponsorship expected. A deal worth above the �100 million the
:09:30. > :09:34.Emirates airline will pay to Arsenal over 15 years. Behind are
:09:34. > :09:39.the rule that say clubs can't spend more than they earn. So deal like
:09:39. > :09:45.this will help City fit into that. It means we comply with the UEFA
:09:45. > :09:51.rules and I think it is probably a good thing. Should always been
:09:51. > :09:57.called Main Road. Is there sadness that it is now got a commercial
:09:57. > :10:03.name? No, not really. This is what comes with having the money from
:10:03. > :10:08.that part of the world. The city of Manchester City h Stadium was
:10:08. > :10:13.handed over to City when they left their old ground. The club still
:10:13. > :10:18.pays rent to the council. Payments that after the sale of naming
:10:18. > :10:22.rights will rise to �20 million over five years. An increase income
:10:22. > :10:27.stream over the length of the rental agreement, all goes back
:10:27. > :10:32.into sport and other community facilities within this area.
:10:32. > :10:38.area that will hope to see concrete improvements after another
:10:38. > :10:41.illustration of Manchester City's financial scope. Staying with
:10:41. > :10:44.stadia and Liverpool owner John Henry has hinted that the club's
:10:44. > :10:47.future may lie away from Anfield. After reports suggested the club
:10:47. > :10:50.would definitely seek to build a new stadium in Stanley Park, the
:10:50. > :10:53.American said on Twitter that while redeveloping Anfield into a 60,000
:10:53. > :11:03.seat ground is the priority, it may not be possible because of what he
:11:03. > :11:04.
:11:04. > :11:07.describes as many obstacles. Still to come in North West Tonight: From
:11:07. > :11:16.promising kids to Olympic hopefuls, but will the families who watched
:11:17. > :11:25.them grow up, get in to see them? And remembering some of United's
:11:25. > :11:30.Greats - the school campaign for blue plaques for the Reds. Without
:11:30. > :11:38.question the best player I ever saw or played against was Duncan
:11:38. > :11:41.Edwards. If someone told you they were from Moss Side in Manchester,
:11:41. > :11:44.what snap judgements might you make about them? 30 years ago many
:11:44. > :11:47.living in the area felt they were stigmatised or even discriminated
:11:47. > :11:50.against because of where they came from. The area's been through a lot
:11:50. > :11:53.of changes since the riots of 1981, experiencing both regeneration and
:11:53. > :11:56.an unwelcome reputation for guns and gangs. The actor Chris Bisson
:11:56. > :12:06.grew up in Moss Side. In the second of his reports, he's been looking
:12:06. > :12:13.
:12:13. > :12:19.at how his birthplace has changed over the decades. This is Britain,
:12:19. > :12:23.this is Manchester. In 1981. After three days of clashes, I remember
:12:23. > :12:29.parts of Moss Side looking like a war zone. Once the rubble was
:12:29. > :12:33.cleared and the roads opened, the real transformation began. The
:12:33. > :12:38.disturbances of 1981 hadn't been race riots, but they had
:12:38. > :12:44.highlighted a need for police to better reflect the people they were
:12:44. > :12:48.serving. You war black officer at the time. There were six when I
:12:48. > :12:52.joined. There weren't huge recruiting campaigns that. Came
:12:52. > :12:57.later on. I was instrumental in introducing the independent
:12:57. > :13:03.advisory group. That is where the member of community can have a say.
:13:03. > :13:07.We did thing like got them to stop the stop and search procedures and
:13:07. > :13:13.they started to work with the community and it has made a
:13:13. > :13:17.difference. In the 90s �4 hundred poured into the area for
:13:17. > :13:21.regeneration. Moss Side needed to improve its public image. I know,
:13:21. > :13:27.because when I tell people from Moss Side they think of gangs and
:13:27. > :13:34.guns and say oh its rough there. The geography and the landscape has
:13:34. > :13:38.changed. But have the people changed? Giving people pretty front
:13:38. > :13:43.gardens, they're still the same people with the same mind set. The
:13:43. > :13:47.sameer, for us the gun crime was still there. The same non-dialogue
:13:47. > :13:53.between stake holders and local people. So things had to thing
:13:53. > :13:57.change. This woman set up the peace charity Charisma after seeing her
:13:57. > :14:03.friend gunned down. The community began to work more with the police
:14:03. > :14:09.and gun crime has fallen by 89% over the last eight years. But
:14:09. > :14:15.unemployment is on the rise again. Just as it was at the time of the
:14:15. > :14:21.riots. How has it benefit tted young people of the area? The
:14:21. > :14:24.employment system is still dire and generally there is still a sense of
:14:24. > :14:30.hopelessness. Some are more optimistic. You have never seen
:14:30. > :14:38.anything like that. Can you imagine how bad thing would get for this
:14:38. > :14:41.school to set fire to things. Pretty bad. Pretty bad? I think it
:14:41. > :14:48.is weird to think they would do that. I can't imagine it. It was
:14:48. > :14:52.only 30 years ago. Only 30? school in ploss side was duty.
:14:53. > :14:58.we took it over, it was described as being one of the worst schools
:14:58. > :15:04.in the country. Attitudes have changed? Yes, without a doubt. We
:15:04. > :15:09.have got a school, well it was judged by Ofsted outstanding. But
:15:09. > :15:14.it is the value, young people have ambition and aspiration. The area
:15:14. > :15:20.is not perfect, but the Moss Side I know doesn't deserve its reputation.
:15:20. > :15:26.It is a vibrant and energetic community and it is definitely on
:15:26. > :15:32.the up. It has been great having him do that. Now it's time for all
:15:32. > :15:35.the sport with Tony and more success across the Channel today.
:15:35. > :15:38.Yes, and it's that man Mark Cavendish who has done it again
:15:38. > :15:41.this afternoon! After his first on Wednesday, The Isle of Man cyclist
:15:42. > :15:44.has won his second stage of this year's Tour de France - his 17th
:15:45. > :15:48.overall. He sprinted to success right at the death of the seventh
:15:48. > :15:51.stage from Le Mons to Chatearoux. He's now up to eighth on the list
:15:51. > :15:54.of all-time stage wins. Well as a road cyclist, Mark's family won't
:15:54. > :15:58.need tickets to see him at the Olympics next year, they can just
:15:58. > :16:00.turn up, but that's not the case for a lot of other north west
:16:01. > :16:04.families. Imagine watching a young athlete grow and blossom into an
:16:04. > :16:07.Olympic hopeful but then not be able to see their magic moment in
:16:07. > :16:10.2012. Many of those who've helped support local stars for years say
:16:10. > :16:20.they are going to miss out on tickets. No medals for guessing how
:16:20. > :16:23.
:16:23. > :16:30.that's gone down. Are lot of people are complaining they have supported
:16:30. > :16:36.local stars and they will miss out on tickets. No medals for guessing
:16:36. > :16:42.how that has gone down. The Olympic dream. The determine determination
:16:42. > :16:48.to get your hands on prize. I don't mean a medal, I mean a ticket.
:16:48. > :16:53.is devastating. The key word is a farce. Millions of us applied to
:16:53. > :16:58.watch 2012, millions missed out. But some are hurting more than
:16:58. > :17:03.others. Sophie Cox is a Judo hope and according to her dad,
:17:03. > :17:08.supporters like her coach may not gate seat. It is a kick in the
:17:08. > :17:12.teeth. Because particularly for a coach, who has devoted their life,
:17:12. > :17:19.if you want to be good, you have got to fight abroad and that costs
:17:19. > :17:24.money and time. He booked the flights, got her on the jad squad.
:17:24. > :17:28.This gymnast faces a similar let down. We see her, her brothers
:17:28. > :17:33.won't, her grandparents won't. People who have supported her
:17:33. > :17:36.through the years. And that surprises us. The British Olympic
:17:36. > :17:43.association say each family will get two tickets, but for two young
:17:43. > :17:46.girls with promise, many other spent money, gave time and acted as
:17:47. > :17:51.cheerleaders. Fast forward to 2012 and the only promise they have is a
:17:51. > :17:59.date in front of the television. You will do anything. You would
:17:59. > :18:02.remortgage your house to gate ticket. -- to get a ticket. Well a
:18:02. > :18:04.whole group of Olympic gymnastics hopefuls will be in Liverpool this
:18:04. > :18:07.weekend. The city's Echo Arena will host the British Artistic
:18:07. > :18:09.Championships and local lass and world champ Beth Tweddle says the
:18:09. > :18:11.competition will be top class. Everyone wants to be British
:18:11. > :18:16.champion. Tomorrow will be the all round title opportunity and
:18:16. > :18:22.everyone will be fight. My own team mate is the reining senior champion
:18:22. > :18:25.and will be up there ready to take it back. A full house is expected
:18:25. > :18:27.at the cricket Old Trafford tomorrow for the deciding match in
:18:27. > :18:30.England's one day series with Sri Lanka. Burnley Express Jimmy
:18:30. > :18:33.Anderson will lead the England attack on home territory with the
:18:33. > :18:36.five-match series all square at 2- 2! Jimmy's form over the last
:18:36. > :18:42.twelve months has got many pundits asking whether he's currently the
:18:42. > :18:47.best fast bowler in the world. James had a moment as England No 1
:18:47. > :18:54.bowler. He is the main bowler and he has progressed a lot. When the
:18:54. > :18:59.ball is with him, he is one of best swing bowlers. In the last one day
:18:59. > :19:04.international he came back well. At his best, he can bring confidence
:19:05. > :19:10.and give the England boys the maximum amount of confidence.
:19:10. > :19:15.not sure if he is the best fast bowler in Burnley. He has never
:19:15. > :19:18.seen me. I will be at that match. So I will be looking forward to the
:19:18. > :19:21.weather forecast. They were among Manchester United's greatest
:19:21. > :19:24.footballing legends. Duncan Edwards and Tommy Taylor - two of the eight
:19:24. > :19:27.Busby Babes who died following the 1958 Munich air disaster. Heroes of
:19:27. > :19:29.yesteryear, but still remembered by the children of today. Two blue
:19:29. > :19:33.plaques were erected this lunchtime on their former homes in Stretford
:19:33. > :19:43.and it's all down to a campaign by children from the nearby High
:19:43. > :19:47.
:19:47. > :19:53.School. And they managed to get one or two famous faces involved too.
:19:53. > :19:58.Taylor moves in but the keeper dives at his feet. Wonderful happy
:19:58. > :20:03.memories. Especially our school days together. He was a wonderful
:20:03. > :20:13.footballer, great header of the boy and two-footed. He had pace. He was
:20:13. > :20:14.
:20:14. > :20:20.so quick. COMMENTATOR: Edwards takes it. Without question the best
:20:20. > :20:23.player I ever saw or played again was Duncan Edwards. He was a great
:20:23. > :20:31.leader and he was a man you couldn't help but do the best you
:20:31. > :20:36.could. He used to frighten you to death otherwise. Me and my husband
:20:36. > :20:44.have been reading up on Duncan Edwards and how massive he was. So
:20:44. > :20:49.this is an honour. COMMENTATOR: Whelan makes sure. Most of the
:20:49. > :20:59.school have worked hard to get this achievement. So everyone could
:20:59. > :20:59.
:21:00. > :21:05.actually remember these great players. They would be really proud.
:21:05. > :21:09.Saw those players play and they were terrific. Duncan Edwards was
:21:09. > :21:14.out of this world. Now the weather. We need to explaip about that
:21:14. > :21:19.We need to explaip about that funnel cloud. You have plenty to do.
:21:19. > :21:24.Yes we saw some lively photographs from Bolton of what looked like a
:21:24. > :21:30.tornado. But actually, because we couldn't see how far down the
:21:30. > :21:34.column of air went, we can't say if it is a tornado or not. To be a
:21:34. > :21:39.tornado it should be a column of air from the thunder storm in the
:21:39. > :21:44.air to the ground. But it is a cloud. If the spiral doesn't touch
:21:44. > :21:48.the ground and we can't see, because of the roofs. But it was
:21:49. > :21:55.quite exciting to see. It is because of this low pressure we
:21:55. > :21:59.have had all day. It has not been nice. Burr for your weekend it is a
:21:59. > :22:07.better picture. Fewer showers tomorrow and sunny spells on
:22:07. > :22:11.Saturday and Sunday, hopefully dry and bright. Today we had a lively
:22:11. > :22:16.set of showers and a near tornado, because of this low pressure. That
:22:16. > :22:23.will slip away. You can see we have high pressure just making its way
:22:23. > :22:29.in from the west. Hence drier conditions. For the next few hours
:22:29. > :22:33.though we still have a yellow Met Office warning. We could see up to
:22:33. > :22:38.40 millimetres of rain fall. Because we have had a lot of lively
:22:38. > :22:43.showers this afternoon. Where we have the green flashes, that was
:22:43. > :22:51.the heaviest rain. And still continuing with the showers tonight.
:22:51. > :22:56.They could be heavy and persistent. By dawn they should ease away. A
:22:56. > :23:01.mild night on the way. Tomorrow we keep the showers going. But as we
:23:01. > :23:06.head into the afternoon a lot of the showers should ease away 5
:23:06. > :23:10.hopefully ending with sunny spells and highs of 20 Celsius. Looks like
:23:10. > :23:13.most of the day might be all right. Just the morning for the cricket
:23:13. > :23:15.might be a problem. They were pioneers of an al fresco approach
:23:15. > :23:19.to theatre. Back in 1987 Lancaster's Dukes Playhouse began
:23:19. > :23:21.staging promenade productions in a local park. But now, after 36
:23:21. > :23:24.different shows watched by hundreds of thousands of people, the Dukes
:23:24. > :23:27.are putting on their last one. It's all because of budget cuts.
:23:27. > :23:31.Northwest Tonight was in Lancaster for the very first production all
:23:31. > :23:39.those years ago. So it seemed only right to be there to see the last
:23:39. > :23:48.one. We sent Dave Guest along to one. We sent Dave Guest along to
:23:48. > :23:56.take a look. As stage sets go, this one takes some beating. Eesm summer
:23:56. > :24:01.Williamsons Park is transformed into a giant theatre. The team were
:24:01. > :24:08.pioneers of walk about theatre and we were there to see the first
:24:08. > :24:12.performance in 1987. Now let us take a sneak preview. I take this
:24:13. > :24:17.charm from off her sight. remember thinking, that is a barmy
:24:17. > :24:23.idea. I came to the first night that it was on and thought oh my
:24:23. > :24:29.God, it was an amazing experience. What are you doing here Just me job.
:24:29. > :24:38.It is bad luck to kill a woman. When it is sunny, speem spread out
:24:39. > :24:43.and enjoy the -- people spread out and enjoy the sunshine. But I have
:24:43. > :24:50.had strangers sharing umbrellas with me. The audience can use the
:24:50. > :24:54.whole of the park as a giant stage. When a theatre has so much space
:24:54. > :25:03.and an selection of backgrounds, there is plenty for creative mind
:25:03. > :25:08.to play with. I need the last spark of life. This year's produ, is a
:25:08. > :25:15.rework of the story of Merlin. who draws the sword will be king.
:25:15. > :25:19.It is a story of magic and it is of the earth. It has ancient history.
:25:19. > :25:23.We're trying to make a production that almost feels like it has grown
:25:23. > :25:30.out of ground. Followers of walk about theatre will have to make the
:25:30. > :25:35.best of this production. It is to be the last. With this ring I thee
:25:35. > :25:41.wed. We have had funding cuts. It is not decision we wanted to take,
:25:41. > :25:51.but one we felt we had to take. it seems lank isster's walk about
:25:51. > :25:52.
:25:52. > :25:57.theatre is about to reach its final destination. -- Lancaster. It is
:25:57. > :26:03.great outdoor theatre. I saw calve leers against the round heads there.
:26:03. > :26:09.I saw mid summer night's dream. is only now that people know people