:00:14. > :00:16.Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest Tonight with Gordon Burns and
:00:16. > :00:20.Ranvir Singh our top story. Liverpool's coastguard station will
:00:20. > :00:22.shut, but are lives being put at risk? We'll be reporting live from
:00:22. > :00:25.Crosby. Also tonight, crime falls across
:00:25. > :00:26.the North West - we'll be asking Manchester's Chief Constable
:00:26. > :00:30.whether cuts will threaten the figures.
:00:30. > :00:32.Join me in the Wirral where a whole school has gone on the run for
:00:32. > :00:42.charity. And Gorilla Video Diary - the
:00:42. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:05.Derbyshire company helping this ape The emergency staff who patrol the
:01:05. > :01:09.North West Coast line saved today's decision to close the Liverpool
:01:09. > :01:16.coastguard station will put lives at risk. The announcement was made
:01:16. > :01:21.by the government after a national review of cover. The Liverpool
:01:21. > :01:31.coastguard at Crosby currently protects our waters from the Point
:01:31. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:38.of Ayr from the point of their -- to the Mull of Galloway. It is it a
:01:38. > :01:43.thought that this area will now be split between the coastguard at
:01:43. > :01:52.Holyhead and those that Belfast. We join Our reporter Stuart Flinders
:01:52. > :01:57.who is at Crosby now. Ironman -- I am one, the beach, you may see the
:01:57. > :02:04.famous Anthony Gormley statue behind me. You can see the North
:02:04. > :02:14.Wales coast. That is the Mersey estuary. It is all been protected
:02:14. > :02:14.
:02:14. > :02:18.by a dealer Paul coastguard -- the Liverpool coastguard.
:02:18. > :02:28.Tonight at the Liverpool coastguard it is looking after 2000 miles of
:02:28. > :02:31.
:02:31. > :02:36.water. They work closely with the RNLI. Future operations will not be
:02:36. > :02:39.co-operated at Liverpool. Today the gap -- the government announced a
:02:39. > :02:44.streamlining of the coastguard service. They insisted safety would
:02:44. > :02:50.not be compromised. We will be able to give people better career
:02:50. > :02:56.prospects, better career progression and better pay. The
:02:56. > :03:02.service will be more resilient, more effective, better and safer.
:03:02. > :03:12.Not everybody is so sure, this man guided ships into the Mersey for 40
:03:12. > :03:15.
:03:15. > :03:19.years. It is to do with access to local knowledge. This coastguard
:03:19. > :03:26.looks up -- looks up the coastline up to Scotland, that is not local?
:03:26. > :03:32.They have ways to interpret local things. It is not efficient, not
:03:32. > :03:38.effective, it is not quick. This centre has been a threatened before.
:03:38. > :03:44.A planned closure in 1999 was fought off. Today's announcement
:03:44. > :03:51.sees a scaling back the proposals that were condemned as unsafe. They
:03:51. > :04:00.insist safety is not being jeopardised.
:04:00. > :04:04.Does today's decision put lives at risk? Is will do. Why? We are
:04:04. > :04:09.closing one coastguard station. It is a huge area, it will be covered
:04:09. > :04:16.by Holyhead, they have their own area. You can ask him to cover both
:04:16. > :04:21.areas. It is a larger risk. You're not just using our eyes and ears,
:04:21. > :04:28.you're using technical equipment which can be used from Holyhead?
:04:28. > :04:30.That is correct, new technology comes on line all the time. Co-
:04:30. > :04:35.ordination in search and rescue is not just about technology, it
:04:36. > :04:40.involves people making decisions. You can have as much technology as
:04:40. > :04:47.you like, but you need people when you're in trouble. He looks like he
:04:47. > :04:55.lost out to Holyhead, one of the reasons is the Welsh language. That
:04:55. > :04:59.is a strange statement by Philip Hammond. He said that the language
:04:59. > :05:03.was a problem. Someone found Holyhead that this afternoon and
:05:03. > :05:12.spoke in Welsh, there were didn't seem to be anyone there who
:05:12. > :05:16.understood what they were saying. There are typical place-names, the
:05:16. > :05:22.same thing applies around our stretch of coast. Cumbria,
:05:22. > :05:31.Lancashire, it is the same thing. Thank you very much for joining us.
:05:31. > :05:36.The deaths of two patients at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport
:05:36. > :05:40.is being investigated after contaminated saline was discovered.
:05:40. > :05:44.Our correspondent a Laura Yates is that Stepping Hill Hospital now.
:05:44. > :05:51.How do they find out that this Saline had been interfered with?
:05:52. > :05:56.was on Monday that a nurse working on one of these wards notice that a
:05:56. > :06:00.higher number of patients were suffering from low blood sugar. She
:06:00. > :06:06.wondered why, and when the hospital that internet they found that a
:06:06. > :06:11.number of small bottles of saline solution had been interfered with.
:06:11. > :06:15.The police were called, an investigation began. They found a
:06:15. > :06:22.number of bottles of saline. They are stressing that their
:06:22. > :06:26.investigation is at an early stage. They had specifically said they are
:06:26. > :06:32.looking into the deaths of two patients there, what do we know
:06:32. > :06:37.about that? Very little at the moment. The police are
:06:37. > :06:43.investigating the deaths of a 44- year-old woman, and a 71-year-old
:06:43. > :06:50.man. We do not know when they died. We do not know much more about that.
:06:50. > :06:56.It is a worrying time many patients there. What have the police, or the
:06:56. > :07:00.hospital said about that? Very much so. The police and the hospital had
:07:00. > :07:03.said that relatives and patients should not be unduly concerned.
:07:04. > :07:07.They said they have a number of other measures in place to
:07:07. > :07:12.safeguard patients. They are currently getting in touch with
:07:12. > :07:19.patients and their relatives, the police also echoed that message
:07:19. > :07:27.saying. Bass said the deal have to be unduly concerned, and they said
:07:27. > :07:31.please get in touch with the police. Thank you very much.
:07:31. > :07:35.Police investigating the murder of a boxer from Merseyside say they
:07:35. > :07:38.have made is another good discovery on farmland. It is thought that
:07:38. > :07:44.Brett Flournoy and his friend were heading to Newquay last Thursday
:07:44. > :07:50.but they have not been seen since. 820 -- a 28-year-old man is being
:07:50. > :07:58.held on suspicion of murder. An electrician habit -- electrician
:07:58. > :08:02.has been found guilty of manslaughter in Fiji. Luke Molnar
:08:02. > :08:07.died after touching metal washing- line five years ago.
:08:07. > :08:15.A next the latest crime figures for the north-west. They show that
:08:15. > :08:20.crime is on down -- is going down by 6%. The greater sport is in
:08:20. > :08:30.Greater Manchester and Merseyside. Lancashire and Cheshire has seen
:08:30. > :08:31.
:08:31. > :08:37.drops of five %. All crime fell by four %. It is not all good news. On
:08:37. > :08:43.Merseyside the number of sexual offences has risen by 22 %, and in
:08:43. > :08:48.Cumbria robbery has shot up by 40 %. Whilst that sounds like Deloitte,
:08:48. > :08:53.it is only an increase of 19 robberies, that is a reflection of
:08:53. > :08:57.how low the figures were in the first place. In Greater Manchester,
:08:57. > :09:06.burglaries down by 7%. The police say that is down to targeting known
:09:06. > :09:11.hotspots. We have been out of losses on one such operation.
:09:11. > :09:17.We have had for burglaries on this estate.
:09:17. > :09:23.This is Longsight, an area of Manchester, this woman has been
:09:23. > :09:31.broken to three times in four years. They were holding bricks, they
:09:31. > :09:34.asked where my money was? Where are your valuables? The police have
:09:34. > :09:40.been proactive. You can see the alleyway that people used to
:09:41. > :09:44.getting houses. We are making sure no one is hanging around.
:09:44. > :09:48.neighbourhood is regularly patrolled, local people are stopped
:09:48. > :09:53.and spoken to, houses of known offenders are visited. Have you
:09:53. > :09:57.been here all day? The police say they have brought burglary down by
:09:57. > :10:05.31 % in the last year. There are still problems, this house was
:10:05. > :10:12.broken in two earlier this week. call the police, it must have been
:10:12. > :10:16.a skinny person to break-in this window. It lets them know we are
:10:16. > :10:21.aware of what they're up to. They get used to seeing us, who we are,
:10:21. > :10:26.and we know who they are. We are trying to recondition them to stop
:10:26. > :10:30.them offending. This initiative has been running for 10 months now.
:10:30. > :10:40.Police will continue to patrol these neighbourhoods every evening
:10:40. > :10:42.in the future. Earlier Greater Manchester Chief
:10:42. > :10:47.Constable Peter far they came into the studio. I asked him what are
:10:47. > :10:52.the reasons for this improvement? We have made a big investment into
:10:52. > :10:58.local policing. We are trying to get to know the local areas, the
:10:58. > :11:02.local criminals, and get better intelligence. There is a real day-
:11:02. > :11:07.to-day focus on the latest intelligence, who has been arrested,
:11:07. > :11:16.the latest crime trends. There is a focus on tarting our effort will
:11:16. > :11:21.make the biggest impact. -- targeting our effort. The trend is
:11:21. > :11:29.in the right direction, that the theories that funding will be cut.
:11:29. > :11:35.You have to say �134 million? more complex than the number of
:11:35. > :11:41.police officers. There is a concern, what is happening in the wider
:11:41. > :11:49.economy will affect us. Other agencies will also withdraw their
:11:49. > :11:55.services that will affect us. That is not our mindset. I have been
:11:55. > :11:58.really pleased that we have had difficult news about cuts, our
:11:59. > :12:03.pensions, but all the staff have been focused on making outstanding
:12:03. > :12:10.arrests, some great convictions in the courts, and I know all the
:12:10. > :12:19.staff are determined to make sure that the criminals do not get time
:12:19. > :12:24.after this. You cannot run a more effective police force of less
:12:24. > :12:31.people surely? We are trying to get rid of a lot of bureaucracy and red
:12:31. > :12:35.tape. We are trying to make big decisions. We are closing some
:12:35. > :12:40.stations to release cast. We are putting pressure on the
:12:40. > :12:45.Government's to stop getting us to collect statistics. Closing police
:12:45. > :12:48.stations and front offices, there are the things -- they are the
:12:48. > :12:54.things that people are concerned about. That will mean crime going
:12:54. > :13:00.up? No not at all. The officers working they are spending more time
:13:00. > :13:05.on the streets. It is not affecting the level of crime. It is a huge
:13:05. > :13:09.industry, that has been generated around bureaucracy, collecting
:13:09. > :13:13.statistics. It is looking at innovative ways of using new
:13:13. > :13:18.technology, working closely at other agencies. It is very
:13:18. > :13:28.difficult, we are fearful. It is hugely disruptive row staff. We are
:13:28. > :13:29.
:13:29. > :13:33.the mind set that will not lead to increasing crime. Still to come.
:13:33. > :13:38.Thanking the Prince's Trust. The top youngsters turning successful
:13:38. > :13:48.businessmen. And a year for now the eyes of the sporting world will be
:13:48. > :13:51.
:13:51. > :13:56.here at Royal Lytham. The When it teenager Matthew Cullen was
:13:56. > :13:59.diagnosed with leukaemia, his classmates at Calday Grange Grammar
:13:59. > :14:04.School decided they wanted to show their support in a practical way.
:14:04. > :14:12.They set about raising money for cancer research. They have notched
:14:12. > :14:19.up a staggering one London �25,000, but they are not content with that.
:14:19. > :14:23.-- �125,000. Today, they reached home territory, and our chief
:14:23. > :14:28.reporter caught up with them. The pupils of Calday Grange Grammar
:14:28. > :14:32.School on the run. Their goal is clear: To make it from Land's End
:14:32. > :14:38.to John o'Groats, and their inspiration is this young man.
:14:38. > :14:42.Matthew was diagnosed with leukaemia two-and-half years ago.
:14:42. > :14:47.Matthew was facing an enormous challenge with enormous courage, so
:14:48. > :14:57.we asked Matthew what we should do. Matthew came up with the idea of
:14:58. > :14:59.
:14:59. > :15:05.children's Cancer Research. The race is a relay. Every time I
:15:05. > :15:08.go up a Poughill, it is for someone and for a good cause.
:15:08. > :15:12.Matthew was in Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital. The drugs
:15:12. > :15:19.and his positive outlook appear to be defeating the illness, and he is
:15:19. > :15:24.amazed how classmates have taken up the challenge for raising money.
:15:25. > :15:33.�125,000 so far, and climbing. whole score has got behind it, and
:15:33. > :15:36.it has been a team effort. Everyone is raising money.
:15:36. > :15:42.Today's have been runners-up money were boosted when they reached home
:15:42. > :15:49.turf. Tomorrow, the runners embark on the Liverpool leg of their
:15:49. > :15:58.journey, and they will be calling here. Matthew will be joining them
:15:58. > :16:03.on the last half-mile of the trip. Then the, the team have moved on
:16:03. > :16:13.and up went to Scotland. Eventually they arrive at John o' Groats on
:16:13. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:23.July 23rd. For the ultimate rags-to-riches
:16:23. > :16:29.story. When brothers Graham and Mark Ray could not get jobs, they
:16:29. > :16:35.started buying old clothes from charity shops. They did it with the
:16:35. > :16:40.help of a grant from the Prince's Trust. They have turned up that
:16:40. > :16:47.grant into a multi-million pound company, and recently met Prince
:16:47. > :16:52.Charles to thank him. They are here with us now. Graham, what were your
:16:52. > :17:02.prospects in your early days? prospects in Toxteth at the time
:17:02. > :17:05.were quite poor. We had no opportunities at all. Where did
:17:05. > :17:12.this idea come from, of buying clothes from charity shops and
:17:12. > :17:19.selling them on? It is an old- fashioned industry. 100 years ago,
:17:19. > :17:24.ships used to have used rags, now they use disposables. It was the
:17:24. > :17:27.embers of a traditional industry. You got �3,000 from the Prince's
:17:27. > :17:37.Trust to help you set up his company. What did you do that
:17:37. > :17:44.
:17:44. > :17:50.money? We bought a fan for �500. -- a van. We also bought some
:17:50. > :17:58.stationery as well. Did you ever envisage he would become this huge
:17:58. > :18:03.success? Prince Charles came to your business, did he? He did.
:18:03. > :18:13.is due meeting him on Friday. Bedewed anticipate becoming
:18:13. > :18:18.
:18:18. > :18:28.millionaires through this? No. It was a job. It got bigger and bigger.
:18:28. > :18:28.
:18:28. > :18:33.A your turnover now is worth �5 million. Come up with the right
:18:33. > :18:38.idea, see it through, and anyone can do what you can do. We are
:18:38. > :18:43.nothing special. If you go out there, and grasp it and run with it,
:18:43. > :18:49.it can and does happen. Could you have done it without a grant from
:18:49. > :18:59.the Prince's Trust? It is not so much the money, it is the men to a
:18:59. > :19:00.
:19:00. > :19:09.ship. -- mentor. He gave us �3,000, and that is a lot of the trust at
:19:09. > :19:19.the time. And you also stayed in Toxteth? Yes. The be princes say
:19:19. > :19:20.
:19:20. > :19:25.well done? He said he was surprised and chuffed. The 25 years, we are
:19:25. > :19:29.helping other people now. Football, and Manchester City's
:19:29. > :19:31.Patrick Vieira says it is a sad day for him after announcing the end of
:19:32. > :19:35.his playing career. The former World Cup winner was Roberto
:19:35. > :19:39.Mancini's first signing at Eastlands. He scored six goals in
:19:39. > :19:42.47 appearances for City. Now 35, he is taking up a new role at the club,
:19:42. > :19:44.helping develop young players and working with the club's community
:19:44. > :19:47.scheme. Liverpool are close to signing
:19:47. > :19:51.Stewart Downing from Aston Villa for a fee reported to be �20
:19:51. > :19:54.million. Kenny Dalglish has been given permission to talk to the
:19:54. > :19:59.England winger, who needs to agree personal terms and undergo a
:19:59. > :20:09.medical. It will be Liverpool's third major signing this summer.
:20:09. > :20:11.
:20:11. > :20:18.They have already bought Jordan Henderson and Charlie Adam.
:20:18. > :20:22.The world's best golfers have been in Kent for the Open Championship.
:20:22. > :20:27.The Open, which attracts thousands of spectators and generate millions
:20:27. > :20:35.of pounds, will be played at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
:20:35. > :20:40.for the first time in 11 years. This time next year, it will be
:20:40. > :20:45.Rory, Lee and tie get teeing it up at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf
:20:45. > :20:49.Club. We have read so much about it. It is a cause I have always wanted
:20:49. > :20:55.to play. It is a privilege to be playing with these wonderful
:20:55. > :21:00.players. Comparing the course is Paul's
:21:00. > :21:10.responsibility. It is a privilege. It is not without its headaches. It
:21:10. > :21:13.is a special year, and I am keen to make sure everything is just great.
:21:13. > :21:20.The course presents two distinct challenges: They have to deal with
:21:20. > :21:25.the wind, and secondly, they have to stay out of 203 bunkers. Some,
:21:25. > :21:30.like this one are taller than the players.
:21:30. > :21:39.Seve Ballesteros, who died earlier this year, won twice on the Royal
:21:39. > :21:44.Lytham & St Annes Golf Club. It is my favourite place. I like the
:21:44. > :21:48.place so much, I even name to my house after the golf course: Royal
:21:48. > :21:53.Lytham & St Annes Golf Club. think there will be some sort of
:21:53. > :21:57.tribute paid to him. I am sure that the club will do something next
:21:57. > :22:06.year. Next year, Eddie Birchenough and
:22:06. > :22:16.the club are hoping today's whether it repeats itself. -- today's
:22:16. > :22:26.
:22:26. > :22:34.Good evening. Work has started on that one up Lancashire's most
:22:34. > :22:38.famous lap were landmarks. The Lytham Windmill was damaged in a
:22:38. > :22:41.storm last winter when two of its sails snapped off. The timber has
:22:41. > :22:50.come all the way from Canada and the new sails have been handmade by
:22:50. > :22:56.Funeral director. It has been a glorious day everywhere. Across
:22:56. > :23:00.Manchester, the same: Are plenty of sunshine to be had. It for all
:23:00. > :23:06.changed over the next couple of days. Tomorrow, a cloudy affair.
:23:06. > :23:11.For your weekend, Saturday will be wet and windy. The change in
:23:11. > :23:19.conditions is because of this low pressure, the centre of it winding
:23:19. > :23:23.its way up the UK. It will drive a lot of rain from the Atlantic.
:23:23. > :23:27.Plenty of time this evening to rush out doors and enjoy what is left of
:23:27. > :23:34.the sunshine. Late sunshine through the evening, and overnight, we hang
:23:34. > :23:40.on to clear skies. Temperatures, because of the clear skies in rural
:23:40. > :23:46.areas, will drop down to 5-6 degrees Celsius. Tomorrow morning,
:23:46. > :23:50.we start of dry and bright. There maybe some fair weather cloud, but
:23:50. > :23:58.as we head into the afternoon, the cloud will continue to build from
:23:58. > :24:05.the West. We will hold the rain off until late afternoon. Across parts
:24:05. > :24:11.of Greater Manchester, we could see highs of 22 Celsius. For your
:24:11. > :24:16.weekend, compared to today, the weekend will be more cool, wet and
:24:16. > :24:20.windy up. This is the picture for Saturday. You can see that rain
:24:20. > :24:25.making its way in from the West. You can see the westerly winds
:24:25. > :24:31.picking up some heavy and persistent rain. The temperatures
:24:31. > :24:39.for Saturday and Sunday: Very disappointing. Today we saw highs
:24:39. > :24:49.of 22 Celsius. Saturday and Sunday: 14-15 Celsius. Very disappointing
:24:49. > :24:50.
:24:50. > :24:56.When a wildlife park wanted to get eight gorilla to the film itself,
:24:56. > :25:02.it came up with a problem: Big hands, fiddly controls. Then a
:25:02. > :25:07.Derbyshire company came up with a solution that enabled the saw Bob
:25:07. > :25:13.Back To Be Done sudden the picture. -- the Silva back.
:25:13. > :25:20.They are not the best pictures in the world, but Ya Kwanza is new to
:25:20. > :25:24.photography. But how did he manage to get the shots? Keepers at the
:25:24. > :25:30.Durrell Conservation Trust needed a tough case which would not break up
:25:30. > :25:35.into bite-sized pieces. This case is very strong and indestructible.
:25:35. > :25:43.It is used across the world by NATO forces. It is used on a wide range
:25:43. > :25:47.of things, including weapons. case was coated in it odes and
:25:47. > :25:57.honey and a camera put aside. Bennett it was passed down to Ya
:25:57. > :26:02.
:26:02. > :26:10.It is very strong. Almost five Simes as strong as us. -- five
:26:10. > :26:17.times. They have also got bigger canine teeth.
:26:17. > :26:24.These cases are used for wildlife photography. The one News in Jersey
:26:24. > :26:28.is guaranteed against everything. Ya Kwanza is not the first animal
:26:28. > :26:37.to sign up for a photography class. Elephants have also done their own
:26:37. > :26:46.up filming, and these Lions took a pride in their own at shots. Bucket
:26:46. > :26:56.Jersey, even the best photographers can get bored with their subject.
:26:56. > :26:59.
:26:59. > :27:09.Even when it is themselves. It was funny on Facebook, when we
:27:09. > :27:09.
:27:09. > :27:19.put there will be a gorilla on the programme! Can you give me the name
:27:19. > :27:27.