:00:03. > :00:06.Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Gordon Burns.
:00:06. > :00:09.And Ranvir Singh. Our top story, a judge frees a woman jailed for
:00:09. > :00:17.accepting goods looted in the riots after she complained the sentence
:00:17. > :00:20.was too harsh. It's thought to be the first appeal
:00:20. > :00:22.after a week when the courts cracked down on the rioters. Also
:00:22. > :00:25.tonight, as police release new pictures of an attack on a
:00:25. > :00:34.Manchester jewellers, how the courts are helping to restore
:00:34. > :00:37.confidence in our city centres. When they saw the sentences from
:00:37. > :00:43.the court, they realised the judiciary will on the side of
:00:43. > :00:47.people in Manchester. Passenger numbers bloom on the
:00:47. > :00:50.branch lines as more of us had to the countryside.
:00:50. > :00:55.The sign says go but a government committee says stop. We are in
:00:55. > :00:58.Liverpool to hear more on the report which is calling for the
:00:58. > :01:03.government to put this hospital's rebuild on ice.
:01:03. > :01:13.And why it is called for coups in Cheshire, as for rare cheetah cubs
:01:13. > :01:17.
:01:17. > :01:20.make their first appearance. -- After the riots, the reckoning. The
:01:20. > :01:27.courts have been in the news all week for the tough sentences given
:01:27. > :01:30.to those involved in arson and looting.
:01:30. > :01:33.But in what's thought to be the first appeal, a judge has
:01:33. > :01:36.overturned a jail term given to a 24-year-old mother who accepted a
:01:36. > :01:41.pair of shorts that had been looted. He admitted it was too harsh for
:01:41. > :01:43.what she actually did. But does that mean more appeals are
:01:43. > :01:50.likely to be successful? Our reporter Yunus Mulla has been
:01:50. > :01:56.following the case at Manchester Crown Court. Tell us more about
:01:56. > :02:00.this particular case and what happened.
:02:00. > :02:02.Ursula Nevin was in bed at the time of the widespread disorder in
:02:02. > :02:05.Manchester city centre where her lodger, Gemma Corbett, helped
:02:05. > :02:15.herself to clothing and footwear from the Vans store and then took
:02:15. > :02:17.
:02:17. > :02:20.them back to the house they shared in Stretford, Greater Manchester.
:02:20. > :02:23.Ursula Nevin tried on a pair of stolen shorts and then kept them
:02:23. > :02:29.and for that she was sentenced to five months in prison, a sentence
:02:29. > :02:32.that her family and lawyers said was too harsh. Today Judge Andrew
:02:32. > :02:35.Gilbert QC agreed and said a distinction had to be made between
:02:35. > :02:40.someone who had actually taken part in the rioting and others who had
:02:40. > :02:43.received looted items and crucialy had not joined in the disturbances.
:02:43. > :02:47.The court heared she should be punished for keeping quiet but
:02:47. > :02:51.sending her to jail was too severe and instead she was told do 75
:02:51. > :02:58.hours of unpaid work. She left without making any comment but this
:02:58. > :03:02.is what her solicitor had to say. This is a statement from Ursula
:03:02. > :03:05.Nevin. I'm very sorry about the events of the last 10 days. The
:03:05. > :03:12.last week has been a traumatic experience for me, one I wanted to
:03:12. > :03:17.get -- forget. I want to go home and see my children.
:03:17. > :03:23.I'll we now likely to see a spate of jail sentences being overturned
:03:23. > :03:27.by the Court of Appeal? What the judge said here today was
:03:27. > :03:31.the original sentence was wrong in principle because it Ursula Nevin
:03:31. > :03:35.was not involved in those disturbances. But her lodger was
:03:36. > :03:40.and she was in fact given an 18 month sentence today for her part
:03:40. > :03:43.in that rioting. In fact before she -- he sentenced her, he said he
:03:43. > :03:53.would not be departing from what some have called high sentences
:03:53. > :03:58.
:03:58. > :04:01.because they are very -- were very severe disturbances. Meanwhile, the
:04:01. > :04:03.tough sentences handed down to some rioters have helped restore
:04:03. > :04:06.confidence in Manchester, according to a senior councillor. Pat Karney
:04:06. > :04:09.says shop workers and customers believe the threat of prison will
:04:09. > :04:12.keep troublemakers off the streets. Free parking and tram travel is
:04:12. > :04:15.being offered to persuade people to return to the city after a slump in
:04:15. > :04:21.the number of shoppers last weekend. Stuart Flinders is in the city
:04:21. > :04:28.centre. It doesn't look too bad right now.
:04:28. > :04:31.Last weekend, the real problem was a dip in people coming into the
:04:31. > :04:36.city centre and a drop in confidence. Many other people who
:04:36. > :04:40.work in the shops that at the end of their night shift, they will
:04:40. > :04:46.have to head back to the. And the writers might return. Right now, it
:04:46. > :04:49.is all about restoring confidence. 10 days on and Manchester looked as
:04:49. > :04:54.busy as ever today but everywhere there were signs of what happened
:04:54. > :04:59.last week. His music shop is open but some of its windows remain
:04:59. > :05:02.boarded up, decorated by a street artist. Last week, one writer can
:05:02. > :05:07.be seen carrying away a guitar from the shop, shortly before the police
:05:07. > :05:12.arrived. The window itself landed on a 25,000 pound piano. We had a
:05:12. > :05:16.fire extinguisher but was found underneath the piano which had
:05:16. > :05:20.parts of piano keys wedged into the bottom of it. It didn't make any
:05:20. > :05:23.sense. I understand the need to steal something, but I don't
:05:23. > :05:28.understand why you would just destroy something. This TV and hi-
:05:28. > :05:32.fi shop cannot even reopen yet. Last night, the pictures of rioters
:05:32. > :05:37.looting the shop were shown on BBC's Crimewatch. What are you
:05:37. > :05:42.hoping the appeal is going to do? Put some more vermin away. Is that
:05:42. > :05:46.how for strongly you feel about it? Absolutely, yeah. They had no right
:05:46. > :05:49.ought to do what they did a pilot to my shop or the City. Put them
:05:49. > :05:54.away. Crimewatch also show the pictures of looting in Manchester
:05:54. > :05:58.and Salford. We've had won a rest overnight and that was in relation
:05:58. > :06:02.to one of the stills we featured, showing Tesco Express in Manchester.
:06:02. > :06:07.We've had a number of names are being researched and hopefully we
:06:07. > :06:11.will have more arrests. Throughout Manchester, you will see signs of
:06:11. > :06:15.the City trying to reassert itself. But it is not just about restoring
:06:15. > :06:18.civic pride, it is about protecting this business of Manchester's
:06:18. > :06:24.traders. Last weekend, the number of shoppers in the City was down by
:06:24. > :06:28.20 %. Some free parking and Metro Link Travel is being offered to
:06:29. > :06:33.tempt shoppers back but according to one senior councillor, tough
:06:33. > :06:36.sentences have increased a sense of security here. It has seriously
:06:36. > :06:40.reduced the fear factor. People definitely thought these thugs and
:06:40. > :06:43.criminals were coming back. When they saw the sentences from the
:06:43. > :06:46.courts, they realised that the judiciary were on the side of
:06:46. > :06:53.people in Manchester. The police are planning to release more
:06:53. > :06:56.footage like this next week in the hope of identifying the rioters.
:06:56. > :07:00.Here is one where they are trying to restore confidence, a constant
:07:00. > :07:06.police presence at the top of Market Street in Piccadilly Gardens.
:07:06. > :07:13.200 officers working full-time on this investigation now, already 218
:07:13. > :07:17.people have been arrested in connection with those... Here is an
:07:17. > :07:21.interesting point, no fewer than 100 officers detailed to look at
:07:21. > :07:31.CCTV footage which has come in a great folly in this, which will
:07:31. > :07:36.
:07:36. > :07:43.help the police to identify those responsible for last week's crimes.
:07:43. > :07:47.To be the first person... The Monahan died in June after taking
:07:47. > :07:50.the her listener DEC drug which is similar to ecstasy. --
:07:50. > :07:53.hallucinogenic drug. The widow of a man in Manchester
:07:54. > :07:57.killed by a shark in the Seychelles this flying back to the UK. Ian
:07:57. > :08:00.Rudman was attacked twice snorkelling on his honeymoon,
:08:00. > :08:03.whilst his wife sold -- sunbathed on the beach. He is the second
:08:03. > :08:07.person to be killed by a shot in the area this month.
:08:07. > :08:10.A investigators looking into the death of a man from a barrow in
:08:10. > :08:15.Cumbria who was shot with a police Taser want to speak to a group of
:08:15. > :08:20.people who saw him being put into a police van. Dale Burns was Taser
:08:20. > :08:24.several times on Tuesday night as officers tried to arrest him on
:08:24. > :08:30.suspicion of causing criminal damage.
:08:30. > :08:34.On August 2nd, we reported on the cost of making telephone calls to
:08:35. > :08:38.GPs' surgeries that used 084 numbers. Our report featured local
:08:38. > :08:42.businessman Matthew Riley and the surgery lenders has operated by one
:08:42. > :08:46.of the companies he runs. In the report we suggested that surgery
:08:46. > :08:51.Lions pricing policy was unlawful. We gave the impression that the
:08:51. > :08:57.business was under investigation. It was incorrect of us to do so. We
:08:57. > :09:01.apologise to Mr Riley and the company for any damage caused.
:09:01. > :09:05.So you've got a big public projects you want to build and no money to
:09:05. > :09:09.pay for it. What do you do? The answer is private finance
:09:09. > :09:12.initiatives. That is exactly how Liverpool's brand new Royal
:09:12. > :09:15.Hospital is due to be funded, with a PFI.
:09:15. > :09:20.But today, an influential government committee called for a
:09:20. > :09:28.halt on the proposals. The Treasury report said it had serious doubt
:09:28. > :09:35.the plan would offer value for money.
:09:35. > :09:40.Dr Williams shows me the crumbling walls, the leaking pipes.
:09:40. > :09:44.estates department has 1300 calls for maintenance failures last month.
:09:44. > :09:50.A new hospital is planned, paid for with private cash in a PFI deal,
:09:50. > :09:53.paid back over 30 years. But today, this report criticised PFI. It said
:09:53. > :09:58.it was extremely inefficient. The Treasury committee had serious
:09:58. > :10:04.doubts about its use. But urged the government to hold off on the new
:10:04. > :10:07.hospital. -- it urged. We have to make sure these projects really do
:10:07. > :10:13.bring value for money to the taxpayer and at the moment, that is
:10:13. > :10:17.by no means clear. Right now, around 750 PFI projects are in the
:10:17. > :10:21.pipeline, including this one. And yet only the Royal Hospital was
:10:21. > :10:25.singled out in a report. If this is value for money, why do you think
:10:25. > :10:30.amongst all of those hundreds of schemes you have been singled out?
:10:30. > :10:34.Oh, I think it is because of the profile. This is a major acute
:10:34. > :10:37.teaching hospital. I think all parties need to be involved. They
:10:37. > :10:43.need to address this and we need to get rid of this delay. We need a
:10:43. > :10:51.new hospital. The files as all cisterns go and that hasn't changed
:10:51. > :10:54.today. Meetings are continuing. I spoke to one source who said that
:10:54. > :10:59.this isn't the first report critical of PFI and will not be the
:10:59. > :11:06.last. This man gave evidence to the committee. He has spent years
:11:06. > :11:09.saying the sums don't add up. Was this his I told you so moment?
:11:09. > :11:13.don't get any satisfaction out of it because the main aim is to stop
:11:13. > :11:20.the scheme for going ahead. Will this make any difference? A one
:11:20. > :11:26.would hope. The report is only advisory and yet -- we are yet to
:11:26. > :11:30.see what the government does with the advice. If many were ripped up,
:11:30. > :11:33.many became cycle paths but the old railway branch line is making a
:11:33. > :11:38.comeback. Latest figures show that the makes
:11:38. > :11:42.line to London via is one of the fastest growing in a country.
:11:42. > :11:47.It has seen a surge in passengers in the last few years with more
:11:47. > :11:53.people holidaying in the UK, rather than going abroad.
:11:53. > :11:56.In that the black-and-white day needs of the... The plan sounds
:11:56. > :12:05.were an endangered species. 4000 miles of rural railway lines were
:12:05. > :12:10.scrapped. How times have changed. This is the Lakes line. It is
:12:10. > :12:15.getting busier and busier. Welcome to this express service to
:12:15. > :12:21.Windermere. We've had anything up to 100 people standing because it
:12:21. > :12:25.has been so popular. When there are big events on like the airshow for
:12:25. > :12:31.the Great North swim, it was absolutely packed. The rail
:12:31. > :12:36.industry figures show that in 2007, 409,000 rail journeys ended on this
:12:36. > :12:40.branch line. Last year, that figure had risen to 491,000. That's an
:12:40. > :12:44.increase of about 20 %. The reasons for the rise are several.
:12:44. > :12:49.Congestion has made roads less attractive, as has the price of
:12:49. > :12:52.fuel. Trains have tempted passengers back. I live in Kendal
:12:52. > :13:02.and am going to Windermere for a day's shopping. It is much easier
:13:02. > :13:03.
:13:03. > :13:06.than the bus. And it is cheaper. is the quicker way. Using it to get
:13:06. > :13:14.home. We've been camping up here. If it wasn't for the train, we
:13:14. > :13:17.would not have been here. It is the best way to travel. The trend for
:13:17. > :13:22.people holidaying at home instead of abroad has also helped. It has
:13:22. > :13:25.turned around because the country we live in his beautiful. There are
:13:25. > :13:28.lots of fantastic scenery and beaches. There is lots of walks
:13:28. > :13:33.people can go on. I think people are really appreciating that what
:13:33. > :13:37.is on their doorstep is just as good as what is abroad. The big
:13:37. > :13:47.test will be keeping passengers in future years and that could well
:13:47. > :13:50.
:13:50. > :13:56.come down to reliability and Still to come: I am on track with
:13:56. > :13:59.the fearless pre-teen trio who are already Britain's best BMX riders.
:13:59. > :14:09.Meet the fantastic four as these rare Cheetah cubs come out for
:14:09. > :14:16.
:14:16. > :14:21.Imagine a world where workers are literally tipped upside down by
:14:22. > :14:25.notes. This is what happens in a show in Manchester this weekend. It
:14:25. > :14:35.is an extraordinary aerial performance tackling climate change,
:14:35. > :14:43.
:14:43. > :14:47.part of Manchester's free festival A performance rolls into town,
:14:47. > :14:52.turning the art world on its head and setting the stage for a big
:14:52. > :14:59.night time finale. It is part of the platform four Festival, two
:14:59. > :15:03.days and two night of celebrations in Manchester.
:15:03. > :15:13.This company from Liverpool are the stars of the festival, with an
:15:13. > :15:14.
:15:14. > :15:17.aerial display titled "as the world tipped ." It is about office
:15:17. > :15:21.workers going about their daily business when their world is
:15:21. > :15:24.literally tipped upside down. based the show in the Copenhagen
:15:24. > :15:28.conference, the conference that happened that really was a very
:15:28. > :15:32.confusing conference all about climate change. It was meant to be
:15:32. > :15:38.a turning point where everybody got on board and helped the world get
:15:38. > :15:42.better, and Lowe are carbon emissions, and it didn't work.
:15:42. > :15:46.extraordinary aerial display it is a collaboration with Nigel Jameson,
:15:46. > :15:49.the creator of the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics and the
:15:49. > :15:53.Liverpool capital of culture. has always been very passionate
:15:53. > :15:57.about the issue of climate change. He thought it would be an amazing
:15:57. > :16:04.metaphor for a world really tipping to a critical point, where we
:16:04. > :16:14.cannot save ourselves any more. can see the performance tonight and
:16:14. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:24.tomorrow night at Castle Field It looks amazing!
:16:24. > :16:28.Here is somebody who is amazing also! Richard is here with news of
:16:28. > :16:34.Merseyside's big two. They operate under very different financial
:16:34. > :16:38.circumstances, don't they? Kenny Dalglish has splashed out about
:16:38. > :16:42.�100 million since he took charge at Anfield. Everton wouldn't mind a
:16:43. > :16:46.slice of that. First of all, Liverpool travel to Arsenal
:16:46. > :16:50.tomorrow, the first class between Champions League hopefuls this
:16:50. > :16:53.season. Arsenal have been in the spotlight with the departure of
:16:53. > :16:58.Cesc Fabregas and the probable departure of Samir Nasri to
:16:58. > :17:01.Manchester City. Roberto Mancini said today he hoped a deal would be
:17:01. > :17:07.concluded but the Liverpool manager doesn't think the absence of
:17:07. > :17:11.Fabregas or now three will make life easier. -- or Nasri. It will
:17:12. > :17:20.not make things any easier for us. It will still be a difficult game
:17:20. > :17:24.for us. We will get in there, and have the same feelings as we had
:17:24. > :17:30.last year, it will be a difficult game, but then hopefully we can
:17:30. > :17:36.make things as difficult for them as they make it for us. Everton
:17:36. > :17:42.finally kick-off against QPR this weekend after the Tottenham game
:17:42. > :17:45.was postponed. A different story there. We have talked about
:17:45. > :17:49.Everton's search for new investment, possibly a buyer. They just about
:17:49. > :17:54.break even but to try to move forward and keep up with the likes
:17:54. > :17:59.of Liverpool, City and United, they need cash. Bill Kenwright has said
:17:59. > :18:08.for some time that he is prepared to sell. He says he cannot find
:18:08. > :18:18.anyone, and recently spoke to a group of supporters to outline why.
:18:18. > :18:22.
:18:22. > :18:29.How is all of this affecting the mood at the club? I went along
:18:29. > :18:32.today to find out. I wish the season had started last week.
:18:32. > :18:35.season with familiar financial problems still there. The Blues
:18:35. > :18:39.haven't brought in a single permanent new player in the
:18:39. > :18:44.transfer window. Not everybody will be gifted with lots of money to
:18:44. > :18:51.spend. You have to work without it. We do our best with what we have.
:18:51. > :18:54.We have a good chairman who does everything he can for the club. I
:18:54. > :18:59.hope we have a manager who can make the club work. It is difficult
:19:00. > :19:03.times. Chairman Bill Kenwright declined an interview request, but
:19:03. > :19:07.the talk among supporters is about a meeting he agreed to with a small
:19:07. > :19:13.group of fans, who wanted answers about why the club couldn't find a
:19:13. > :19:17.buyer. I don't think Bill Kenwright is the best person to sell Everton
:19:17. > :19:21.Football Club. He may think he is, I don't think he is. The vast
:19:21. > :19:26.majority of the fan base don't think he is. The proof of the
:19:26. > :19:32.pudding is in the eating. He has tried to sell us 24/7 of the last
:19:32. > :19:36.11 years and has been unsuccessful. We need alternatives. Fans will
:19:36. > :19:41.take comfort in the players they do have, Fellaini, Jagielka and Baines,
:19:41. > :19:46.who will all wear Everton blue tomorrow. Their other stars says
:19:46. > :19:50.with little cash for new talent, keeping talent for performers --
:19:50. > :19:57.talented performers is key -- one of their other stars. It is
:19:57. > :20:03.important now and for the future of the club. Tamara's visit is --
:20:03. > :20:08.tomorrow's visitors to couldn't -- Goodison Park, QPR... It may add to
:20:08. > :20:18.a sense of frustration for a club which at the moment cannot seem to
:20:18. > :20:24.
:20:24. > :20:27.Tomorrow is Football Focus at 12:15pm. In cricket, Lancashire's
:20:27. > :20:32.latest County Championship match in Blackpool is in the balance.
:20:32. > :20:38.Lancashire made 248 in their second innings, Karl Brown hitting 85,
:20:38. > :20:42.leaving Worcestershire a tricky 329 to win. Two late wickets left them
:20:42. > :20:51.on 201-five, putting the red rose favourites to wrap up a win
:20:51. > :20:54.tomorrow. BMX rider has been the latest sport to take part in London
:20:54. > :20:58.today. In the north-west, the next
:20:58. > :21:01.generation of BMX Olympic hopefuls have been given a big boost with
:21:01. > :21:11.the opening of the Manchester indoor track, the first in the
:21:11. > :21:17.
:21:17. > :21:24.Paddy, Ross and Kim are definitely three to watch, but blink and you
:21:24. > :21:34.will miss them. How many trophies have you got?
:21:34. > :21:36.
:21:36. > :21:39.About a year ago when I checked, I had 98. I have about 108 now.
:21:39. > :21:46.want to become world champion and when I'm older, trained for the
:21:47. > :21:54.Olympics. Now I have a van with my name on it and everything. People
:21:54. > :22:00.come up to me asking me for stickers and things like that.
:22:00. > :22:04.did my first race when I was little and my brother wanted me to have a
:22:04. > :22:09.go, I didn't want to at first but I tried it and they liked it. Last
:22:09. > :22:13.year I won every race I did. This �24 million facility opened last
:22:13. > :22:16.year, enabling riders like Paddy to train here in the winter when
:22:16. > :22:20.outdoor tracks are frozen, and should give the north-west a big
:22:20. > :22:25.advantage over riders from other regions. They have already done
:22:25. > :22:29.very well, but they are still only young and have a lot to learn. This
:22:29. > :22:34.facility will help provide that. With the next world championships
:22:34. > :22:44.in Britain, this trio will be hoping practice makes perfect and
:22:44. > :22:50.
:22:50. > :22:59.They look pretty fearsome! 98 trophies, as well, astonishing.
:22:59. > :23:03.Good luck to Matthew Patten, who takes on the IBF intercontinental
:23:03. > :23:08.welterweight challenge tonight in Blackpool. You mentioned Lancashire
:23:08. > :23:16.getting two late wickets, but they need a dry day tomorrow. Will they
:23:16. > :23:25.If they get out early, it could be dry. Tomorrow is very much like
:23:25. > :23:30.today. This is how the weekend shapes up. Saturday dry and Sunday
:23:30. > :23:33.next, not too many showers, fingers crossed. The best weather was first
:23:33. > :23:36.thing up until lunchtime, with the sun with many of us and it was
:23:37. > :23:40.quite pleasant. Over the last couple of hours the cloud has
:23:40. > :23:45.rolled in, as has a line of showers that moved through the region.
:23:45. > :23:48.There are still one or two around if you are going out. Cloud is
:23:48. > :23:51.beginning all the time and as we head through the first part of the
:23:51. > :23:56.night, the next area of rain is waiting. When the sun goes down,
:23:56. > :24:00.most of us will see the worst of it. Even then, it is light and patchy.
:24:00. > :24:04.Like last night, it moves through shortly after midnight and in the
:24:04. > :24:07.early morning, it starts to dry everywhere. I would like to say
:24:07. > :24:13.clear but not too many clear spells. That is positive really, because
:24:13. > :24:19.last night it was nippy. Tonight temperatures between 9-13 foremost,
:24:19. > :24:23.maybe 40 will 15, so relatively mild. -- For most of us. Saturday,
:24:23. > :24:27.best were the first thing, cloud at the start then it thins with spells
:24:27. > :24:31.of sunshine in the morning. From the south-west to the day it will
:24:31. > :24:35.cloud up, so Lancashire, Cumbria and the Isle of Man hang on to the
:24:35. > :24:39.dry weather longest. Perhaps until teatime particularly on the Isle of
:24:39. > :24:43.Man, but for many of us as the day goes on, this line of rain starts
:24:43. > :24:48.to work its way in and becomes more widespread as we head towards
:24:48. > :24:51.teatime. In terms of temperatures, 19 or 20 degrees. The rain takes
:24:51. > :24:55.hold tomorrow night. Not a great picture, but once it has gone on
:24:55. > :25:05.Sunday, it is the nature of sunny spells and scattered showers and
:25:05. > :25:08.
:25:08. > :25:11.fingers crossed not to many showers Thank you. Any new addition to the
:25:12. > :25:17.family is exciting but when four come along at once it is extra
:25:17. > :25:24.special, so imagine the joy at Chester Zoo as they celebrated the
:25:24. > :25:27.birth of these four Cheetah cubs. The feisty nature of the female
:25:27. > :25:30.Cheetah has made it one of their biggest challenges ever.
:25:30. > :25:35.Like most new arrivals, they have no idea how special they are and
:25:35. > :25:39.how worried mum is already. Sudanese tutors have only ever been
:25:39. > :25:44.bred in a European zoo once before, and Chester has been preparing for
:25:44. > :25:48.this for more than three years. -- Sudanese cheetahs. So the team is
:25:48. > :25:52.delighted. It is the big smile on your face, it is fantastic to put
:25:52. > :25:56.together this plan and for the team to have carried it out. The credit
:25:56. > :26:01.goes to these guys, and the cheetahs, for being able to do this.
:26:01. > :26:04.The challenge of bringing these cubs in to the world has been big,
:26:04. > :26:09.sadly Cheetah mums and dads don't spend much time together apart from
:26:09. > :26:13.the big moment. It is often tricky catching on in the right mood. Just
:26:13. > :26:16.like with new kittens, the cubs need to be vaccinated and wormed as
:26:16. > :26:21.well as being given a unique microchip which will prove
:26:21. > :26:26.essential when they go on to breed. With fewer than 10,000 left in the
:26:26. > :26:30.wild, reproduction in captivity is growing even more important.
:26:30. > :26:34.they are all identified, they will stay with them for the rest of
:26:34. > :26:38.their lives. I found myself admiring the female Cheetah. She
:26:38. > :26:42.lives independently and will only interact with the male in order to
:26:42. > :26:47.breed. When she wants to she will take him on in a fight, and often,
:26:47. > :26:51.she will win. Not very romantic, and partly why it has proven so
:26:51. > :26:59.difficult to breed them, but the team here in Chester say now they
:26:59. > :27:05.know how, they hope they will be -- there will be many more to come.
:27:05. > :27:15.He just story of the week! Lots of laughing about the differences
:27:15. > :27:25.