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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Gordon Burns and | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
Dianne Oxberry. Our top story: Get guns off the streets. The family | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
and friends of murdered schoolboy Rhys Jones take their campaign to | :00:11. | :00:18. | |
Belfast. He would have had a smile as wide as the Mersey. He would | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
have been made up to have taken part in anything like this. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
four years on, Rhys' dad tells us he's angry some of the people | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
involved in his son's murder are now free. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Planet Bling - astronomers at Jodrell Bank believe they've | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
discovered the biggest rock of all. All hands to the pump as a Cumbrian | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
village pours its heart and soul into its local pub. And we are in | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Wigan as a whole town get behind the Warriors. They even have the | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
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Also in the programme: Dave Guest is in Liverpool as festival fever | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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grips the region. You are bound to think of the Beatles and the Mersey | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
beat Festival, but this city has produced 50 number one hits, | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
including this one. # I saw her today. I saw her face. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Can you think of any others? We will talk about the festival later | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
in the programme and look at other events happening in the North West | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
this bank holiday weekend. But first, it's four years this | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
week since 11-year-old Rhys Jones was shot dead as he walked home, | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
still in his kit, from football practice in Croxteth, Liverpool. It | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
was a crime that caused shock and outrage not just in the city, but | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
across the whole country. Since then, Rhys's friends and family | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
have been fighting to get guns off the streets and make it safe for | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
kids to play. Today they took their campaign to Belfast. Nina Warhurst | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
went with them. Every football team needs his squad | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
photo, especially when it is your first trip together away from home. | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
Four years after his death, this Football Club has come to Northern | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Ireland, not to mourn the loss of Rhys Jones, but took share what | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
they have learned since losing him. We are the football team and we are | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
playing a tournament in memory of him. Our message is to join a team, | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
not a gang. Since the death of his son four years ago, Steve Jones has | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
watched Rhys's friends grow up and become young man. He is still | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
involved in the Football Club and says that while he is delighted to | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
be on the trip, it comes at a difficult time. It is always | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
difficult. Anniversaries, birthdays, Christmas, things like that. Going | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
back to the trial, and people got sentenced. Then they were going to | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
be out in 2011, and now we are there. People are getting released | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
and you still feel cheated and hard-done-by. The coach always | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
reminds the boys that they are not just representing their team but | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
the Jones family. Today they impressed not just burnt Mayor but | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
the local MP that had come from Westminster to meet them. People | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
here have experienced some tragic events. There have been local | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
killings here as well and I think they will have something in common. | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
What would Rhys make of it all? would have had a smile as wide as | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
the Mersey. He would have been absolutely made up to have taken | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
part in anything like this. He just loved his football. It is not every | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
day that a football team from Liverpool is invited into Stormont, | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
but this is not just any football team. Four years after the death of | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
Rhys Jones they are determined to make sure that this Football Club | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
is known for the right reasons and even more determined to make sure | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
that they win tomorrow. A 20-year-old man from Cheshire | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
jailed for inciting a riot on Facebook is challenging his | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
sentence. Jordan Blackshaw from Northwich was | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
sentenced to four years in prison by a judge at Chester Crown Court. | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
He's the first defendant to appeal his sentence. | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
A man who set fire to his girlfriend in Blackburn after she | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
refused to give him a cigarette has been sentenced to three years in | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
prison. Christopher Smalley squirted lighter fluid on Belinda | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
Fay's jumper then lit it. The judge at Preston Crown Court said it was | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
the worst case of its kind he's ever come across. | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
And three Liverpool nurseries are to close. The SureStart nurseries | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
in Belle Vale, Walton and Croxteth will close in November. The Knotty | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
Ash centre has been given a reprieve until June. Yesterday a | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
John and Yoko inspired bed-in protest was held at Dovedale | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
Primary school. The nursery there is also under threat. | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
The great Bank Holiday getaway has begun. Tens of thousands have hit | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
the region's roads and railways and Liverpool's John Lennon Airport is | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
predicting a record number of travellers heading for the sun. But | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
for those who've chosen to stay here, there's no shortage of things | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
to do. Liverpool will once again become a Mecca for Merseybeat | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
aficionados as the Mathew Street Festival gets underway. Our Chief | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
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Reporter, Dave Guest, is there now. When you think of lowball, you | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
think of Mathew Street and the Beatles. -- Liverpool. They were | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
not the only Scousers to storm the charts. There have been 50 number | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
one singles recorded by Merseyside artists. How many can you recall? | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
Let me tell you about other things going on up and down the North West | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
this weekend. Celebrations in Manchester began today. | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
Brollies are, of course, the essential accessory for a British | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Bank Holiday weekend and they were much in evidence in Manchester | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
today, not so much to fend off the rain, but to create a work of art. | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
The heart is the newly adopted symbol of the We Love Manchester | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
campaign and this was designated We Love Manchester Day. It is about | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
celebrating Mancunian pride and the community spirit that everybody | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
showed following the troubles are a few weeks ago. Will it make a | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
difference? We think so. People have won their hearts on their | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
sleeves since it happened. We want to celebrate and support that. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
music, food and drink were on offer in the city centre this afternoon. | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
And over the weekend, thousands are expected to turn up for Manchester | :06:25. | :06:34. | |
Pride. Pride parade starts tomorrow. We have some great acts on all | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
weekend and it is a great excuse for people to get out into | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Manchester and enjoyed the city. Cheshire, music fans have started | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
arriving for the CreamFields Festival. 50,000 are expected. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
After all of these years, I think we have a good understanding of | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
what our audience are all about and what they like and what music they | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
like. The Chemical Brothers are the headline act. I come from Australia | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
just for Creamfields. Three days of pure bliss. You cannot have the | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
summer without And for lovers of the bizarre, up in Lancashire | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
they're staging a caravan demolition derby at the Warton | :07:11. | :07:20. | |
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Stock Car Club. Carvan Club members, look away now! How many number one | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
songs have you remembered? Give us an example. | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
# How Much Is That Doggy In the Window? | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
That was a number one from Merseyside? Yes, 1953. It was the | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
very first Liverpool No. 1. # I saw her today, I saw her face. | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
# It was a face I loved. I know that, the Searchers. There have | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
been some novelty acts as well. Go # Tears for souvenirs. I can't | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
forget you. The famous Ken Dodd. You will be performing all of these | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
hits on a special stage during the festival. Why? Every year the | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
Mathew Street Festival has different beans on the outside | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
stages and we are always looking for new things. It is something we | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
have never done, which is ridiculous. We like to boast a | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
liveable. It was one of the themes and we thought we should do 53 | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
number ones on one stage in five hours. We are looking forward to it. | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
I am going to turn my attention to councillor Wendy Simon. Liverpool | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
city Council funds based in tough economic times. Why? We do because | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
it is a massive economic boost for the city. 325,000 people came to | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
the Mathew Street Festival over two days and there would be �20 million | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
economic benefit to the city as a whole. And to try new things every | :08:55. | :09:04. | |
year? Yes, we do. We have a may deliver Paul stage as well, at -- | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
made in Liverpool. There is lots for all of the family. Thank you. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
That is what is happening in Liverpool. We have told you what is | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
happening elsewhere. Have a lovely bank holiday. | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
This story is my favourite. Scientists, including a team using | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, believe they've discovered a planet | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
made of diamond. Incredible. It's bigger than the Earth but before | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
bling lovers get too excited there is a slight problem. It's a small | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
matter of 4000 light years away. From Jodrell Bank, Peter Marshall | :09:36. | :09:46. | |
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reports. Diamonds have always been a girl's | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
best friend. Another thought of them is dazzling astronomers. This | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
is an artist's impression of the newly discovered planet, orbiting a | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
small but incredibly dense core of a collapsed star. A professor from | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
and -- Manchester University is part of the team that confirms the | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
existence of the diamond planet. When we started making measurements | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
with the telescope behind us at Jodrell Bank, we found that the | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
subject was very close to the companion star that it was orbiting. | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
That meant that it had to be very dense. If it was less dense, it | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
would be pulled apart by the gravitational field of the central | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
staff. It was once a star itself, but it was stripped of material, | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
leaving behind highly crystallised carbon, more commonly known as | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
diamond. The diamond planet has not been given a name yet. We hope it | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
is something more imaginative than the nearby star, which is 179138. | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
If stargazers want to get a look at it, don't bother. The team have not | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
managed to maintain a clear image of that, even with this equipment. | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
It is in our galaxy, the Milky Way, enlist constellation of stars | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
called the snake. It is big. It is on the sort of scale as the earth | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
but some times larger. And as diamond go that is pretty big? | :11:15. | :11:24. | |
Pretty big. Staggering when it is 4000 light | :11:24. | :11:32. | |
years away. Fantastic. Still to come in North West | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
Tonight: Fergie's fury. Sir Alex tells the Football Association what | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
he really thinks. They treat us like BLEEP. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
And raising the baa. Shaun the Sheep skips into Salford for the | :11:47. | :11:56. | |
Championsheeps. Now, would you pay �300 to save | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
your local pub? Over 300 residents of Crosby Ravensworth in Cumbria | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
did. When they found out the only village pub would close they | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
clubbed together to save it. And it's all hands to the pump tomorrow | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
for the grand opening. Laura Yates has the story. | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
These are just a few of the customers that club together to buy | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
and run their local, putting their hands in their pockets to stop the | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
pub that they love closing down. is the last one in the village and | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
if we did not invest, it would be gone forever. It is the hub of the | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
village and I never had any hesitation in putting some money | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
into it. A year ago, at this pub closed because the owner was too | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
ill to continue. The locals bought her out, setting up a community | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
fund and 300 people bought a share. Some for as little as �250 and | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
others as much as �20,000. When we got 22,000, I really thought that | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
was it. We could go for it. After that, everybody has just been | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
fabulous and the money has kept rolling in. In three months, they | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
have raised �300,000. Then came the renovations. So much of the work | :13:11. | :13:19. | |
was done for free. The exposed beams. John Stubbs grew up in this | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
pub and his mother owned it. Today he lives in Australia, back for the | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
first time in nearly 40 years. Now he also owns part of it. I don't | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
have any illusions that I will make any money out of it. Once I learned | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
that it was on the market and you could invest, I felt it was the | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
right thing to do. There are six co-operative pubs in the UK. Here | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
they are getting ready for the official opening. It is the time to | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
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drink to the biggest of group efforts. | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
EBay is one of the great successes of the internet age and people in | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
the North West are wise to it. There are 150 companies worth �1 | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
million on eBay and Manchester has emerged as a business hot spot. | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
Everybody loves a bargain and many of us seek them out on online | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
shopping and auction sites such as eBay. It is hard to believe, but he | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
they only came into existence in 1999. It has long since stopped | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
being a modern version of a rummage sale. EBay has 180,000 registered | :14:40. | :14:48. | |
business users. PF Jones in Manchester is one of them. We sell | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
injection fuel pumps and things. We were originally just selling to | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
people nearby, Birmingham and things, but eBay let us sell to a | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
wider audience like Australia, Malaysia and all over Europe. | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
Selling on eBay has transformed the business. Between the two depots we | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
employed roughly 40 people and now it is just about 103. And we are | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
still taking people on, another one starts on Monday. How much is down | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
to me they? It is a worldwide market now. | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
EBay's own figures show Manchester to be fourth in a league table of | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
cities with million-pound businesses on eBay. There are 159 | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
million their businesses nationally, which is a 25% increase on the | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
previous year. And some northern cities have done particularly well, | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
with Manchester in the top five. Another part heading out of | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
Manchester. EBay say they're helping companies serve customers | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
previously beyond their reach. Sport now, and Sir Alex Ferguson's | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
press conference today was truly headline making. And I don't mean | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
because the BBC were allowed in for the first time in seven years! He | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
fired off a really bitter attack on the FA. Yes, look what we've been | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
missing. Sir Alex has buried the hatched with the BBC, but he's | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
still got a big axe to grind with the Football Association. Here he | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
is, entering the first Manchester United press conference the BBC has | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
been allowed to attend since 2004. And within minutes, Sir Alex made | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
his feelings about the FA clear. This is what he said when he was | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
asked about the fact that up to eight United players could be in | :16:30. | :16:38. | |
the England squad next month. think they may realise one day who | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
has produced more players for the country than any other club in the | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
world. And maybe they will get some joy from it in some point in their | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
lives and realise how important we are to England. Understand? They | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
treat us like BLEEP. But we are pleased for the players because | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
they deserve to be there. They are outstanding. Why is Sir Alex so | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
angry at the FA? Well, he feels they've treated United unfairly. He | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
got a five-match ban and a �30,000 fine in March for criticising | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
referee Martin Atkinson. And Wayne Rooney was banned for two matches | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
after he swore at a live television camera. That meant he missed the FA | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
Cup semi-final which United of course lost to noisy neighbours | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
Manchester City. And talking of City, they presented their big new | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
signing, Samir Nasri, to the media today and Roberto Mancini may well | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
give the former Arsenal star his debut at Spurs on Sunday. With a | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
look at that game, and the weekend's other big matches, here's | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
Liam O'Donoghue. After moving to Manchester for �24 | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
million, Samir Nasri returns to North London on Sunday. City are | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
said to be paying him �185,000 a week, but he denies money is the | :17:46. | :17:56. | |
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attraction. We will see the game of the season and we will lift the | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
trophy. Either show everybody that is thinking about money that they | :18:04. | :18:13. | |
are wrong. -- I will show everybody. City have loaned Emmanuel Adebayor | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
to Spurs for the season, but he's not allowed to play on Sunday. Sir | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
Alex Ferguson's side beat Spurs in style on Monday, but he won't | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
underestimate Arsenal when they arrive at Old Trafford. The Gunners | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
lost to Liverpool last week, but United are not complacent about | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
Sunday's task. You cannot rule them out because Arsene Wenger gives a | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
lot of young players a chance. Some of the young players could step up. | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
Ahead of their trip to Anfield, Bolton have rejected Arsenal's | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
offer for defender Gary Cahill. Really there is nothing more to | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
chat about. It was Liverpool's Luis Suarez has hit three in three, but | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
his manager warns Bolton have also been on a scoring spree. They have | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
scored six goals in the two games. They are not going to go away. It | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
will be a difficult game. Both these sides enjoyed Carling Cup | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
victories, but neither has picked up a single Premier League point. | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
Everton's 17 year-old star Ross Barkley may start again, Rovers | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
captain Christopher Samba could play for the first time this season. | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
Roberto Martinez is without defenders Steve Gohouri and Antolin | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
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Alcaraz as his side face the Premiership new boys. | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
Now forget football. Surely the biggest sporting match this weekend | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
is in Rugby League. Wigan take on Leeds tomorrow in the Challenge Cup | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
final. The Warriors, who won the cup eight times in a row in the 80s | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
and 90s, are favourites to beat the Rhinos and as Stuart Pollitt | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
reports, they won't be short of support. | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
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This was one of the most thrilling The 17th Challenge Cup win. They | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
may be the most successful side in Challenge Cup history, but for the | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
class of 2011, today were their first steps on the Wembley turf. | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
When I was growing up I was watching Wigan all the way through | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
when they had their great runs. There are great memories and we are | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
using that with what is in front of us. It is about this group having | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
the opportunity to be part of a great history. It has been a long | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
wait for an occasion like this, by Wigan's standards, seven years | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
since their last Challenge Cup final. No wonder the whole team is | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
getting ready to wave the flag. Wembley! Everybody is talking about | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
it. People come in, people on the street, asking if you are going to | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
Wembley. I can't wait. I don't need a hat to keep warm! How happy will | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
you be if Wigan win? Very much happy. I will be shouting well done | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
Wigan. I am taking these to Wembley. We are leaving at 6:30am. Maureen | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
has turned her chip shop Cherry and White. We are getting very worked | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
up and we cannot even what it on the TV. We are too nervous. | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
Ashton there is a three for at I Easter Mass got. What will happen | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
after this weekend? -- are three third iced mascot. He might get a | :21:28. | :21:38. | |
cup in his hands and we would like that! | :21:38. | :21:47. | |
There will be full coverage on BBC One. There is also coverage on BBC | :21:47. | :21:56. | |
Radio Manchester. It could be a busy day for | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
Lancashire tomorrow as they bid for their first silverware of what may | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
be an extraordinary season. Lancs, who are top of the County | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
Championship, are playing in Twenty20 finals day at Edgbaston. | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
They face Leicestershire in the semi-final first up. If they win | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
that they'll be up against either Hampshire or Somerset in the final | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
tomorrow evening. We try to put all eyes on Twenty20 and put the | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
championship on the back-burner. We do think it is important, massive | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
important, but we have to be totally focused on Twenty20 cricket | :22:23. | :22:31. | |
and live and breathe it all week and also on that day. What a | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
weekend for sport lovers. It could be a double for Lancashire and for | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
Wigan. When we got the weather forecast | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
yesterday, the temperatures were very low. Have they shot up | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
They have not improved by much, I am afraid. This weekend is a mixed | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
bag. This weekend we will see quite a lot of showers. And improvement | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
by Sunday it with fewer showers and it will be brighter. This low | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
pressure that has brought the heavy showers today will go away into the | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
North Sea. This frontal system will bring in some cloud and rain. That | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
will ease away and hide pressure will slowly tried to make its way | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
in for Sunday and Monday. -- high pressure. Drier for Monday but that | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
is a long way away. Today there are some more showers on the Irish Sea | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
coast which are heavy. They will ease the way as we head into dawn. | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
A cloudy night and temperatures will stick in double figures. To | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
start your bank holiday weekend, we start off a bit cloudy. The breeze | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
will be picking up. A key north- westerly breeze driving in lots of | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
showers by the afternoon. In between there will be bright spells | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
but heavy showers by the afternoon. High temperatures of 18 in Greater | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
Manchester. Not particularly warm elsewhere for the end of August, 15 | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
or 16. By Sunday and Monday, it does look drier. May be brighter. | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
Disappointing temperatures, 14 or 15. Sunday and Monday look to be | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
much better. If you have got plans to take your kids are out and about | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
I have got something for you in Salford. Shaun the Sheep will be | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
holding his Championsheeps at BBC headquarters in Salford Quays. | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
There is a very special Sportsday. You can roll Shirley around. There | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
are some space opera races as well and an obstacle course. And I have | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
been to meet Shaun the Sheep's creator, Nick Park, the man behind | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
Wallace and Gromit. He told me where his ideas came from. One very | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
eccentric inventor and his ever faithful dog, dreamed up by a | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
northern lad who love to draw cartoons. I wanted to make my own | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
puppets and I had this idea about a guy that build so rocket in the | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
basement of his house. A lot of the design and houses are very much | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
references to what I knew as a kid, really, in Preston. My dad used to | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
spend all of his time in the garden shed making things. In a way, he | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
had a similar nature to Wallace. He was not as stupid as him. We had a | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
caravan made completely from scratch, and seven of us went on | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
holiday in it. After making a grand day out with Wallace in the rocket, | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
I realised I had kind of made a film about my dad. And here is | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
another of Nick's creations making his first official appearance in A | :25:45. | :25:54. | |
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Close Shave. It looks OK to me. We will call him Shaun the Sheep. | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
was more popular than Wallace and Gromit, we realised quickly, | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
because he sold more than Wallace and Gromit. Now Shaun the Sheep is | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
very popular in countries as far away as India and China and believe | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
it or nor over 90 million people have played his game online. Let's | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
get kids out, playing the games in reality. And we have got our | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
terrible pun department working on an idea. We decided to have our own | :26:30. | :26:39. | |
Championsheeps and raised the bar a little. Sorry! The cabbage Key p a | :26:39. | :26:48. | |
p, welly throwing, the sack race. Right up your street, Gordon was | :26:48. | :26:57. | |
dog if you want to go to that it starts at 11 o'clock and you don't | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
need a ticket. I like Gromit best. How do you come up with it? Have | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
you noticed that Gromit does not have a mouse? But the expression is | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
there regardless. It is all in the eyebrows. If Shaun the Sheep took | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
part in a high jump, what would you call it? A woolly jumper! Can I go | :27:23. | :27:32. |