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Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest Tonight with Tony Livesey and Kate | :00:05. | :00:07. | |
Simms. Our top story. Fighting fit. 100-year-old Dorothy thanks her | :00:08. | :00:17. | |
doctors as she becomes the world's oldest breast surgery patient. | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
think this story is inspiring. delighted doctors say they were | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
right to operate and say she could become an inspiration to woman of | :00:26. | :00:36. | |
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every age. Also tonight. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Tributes to the drowned teenage girl and her boyfriend missing off | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
the Wirral coast. The police search for him continues. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Back home for Eid. 7-year-old Qasim who lost his parents and siblings | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
in a car crash in Pakistan. I was his brother, now I am his father. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
And a whole new ball game. The self-promo video that may help Owen | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
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Also tonight. Happier times at the now derelict Lido in Grange-over | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Sands. It's received listed building status, but some want it | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
redeveloped. Well, if you've ever been there or | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
have fond memories of another outdoor pool in the region, we'd | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
like to hear from you. Get in touch via email, twitter or Facebook and | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
we'll read out some of your stories at the end of the programme. | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
$WHITE When great-great-grandmother Dorothy Affleck, from Hyde, was | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
told she had breast cancer, she thought she would be too old to be | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
offered surgery. Dorothy was 99 when she was diagnosed last summer. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
But doctors at Tameside Hospital said her age was not a factor in | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
having an operation. They believe Dorothy, who is now 100, is the | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
oldest person to have breast cancer surgery. Today, she went back to | :01:53. | :02:03. | |
find out if it was successful and Abbie Jones went with her. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
It is now a year since Dorothy Affleck had her operation at | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Tameside Hospital. But the memory of being told she had cancer is | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
still raw. I thought it would just be months of suffering. I was | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
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frightened. Then I met the surgeon, he was so confident he could do the | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
operation. People said not to have But Dorothy's consultant didn't | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
agree. Her cancer was aggressive. Surgery, the only option. Last | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
August, she had a lump removed from her breast. Because she was 99, she | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
had a local rather than a general anaesthetic. But apart from that, | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
her doctor says her age wasn't a factor. It was never on my mind. In | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
fact, when I presented the case in are up team meeting, I just said | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
that physiological issues were as good as anyone in their late | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
Seventies. So now, time for the moment of | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
truth. You do not have any sign of disease. Thank you very, very much. | :03:12. | :03:21. | |
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You are welcome. Dorothy is in remission. She cannot | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
technically get the all clear for another four years. But her | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
consultant says she's a success story. I think the case is | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
inspiring. It will encourage other people to come to the hospital. | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
Dorothy has now become a bit of a celebrity. She says the fuss is | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
worth it if it encourages other patients, and doctors. Just love | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
life and enjoy it. Abbie Jones, BBC North West Tonight, Tameside | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
Hospital. Police are still searching for a | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
young man from Merseyside whose teenage girlfriend drowned off the | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Wirral coast. Hayley Holmes's body was found at New Brighton on Monday. | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
Shoes belonging to the couple were found near the beach. A friend of | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
Hayley's says she should have been away at the weekend but someone | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
stole a ticket she had for a festival. Our Merseyside Reporter, | :04:07. | :04:17. | |
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Andy Gill, is at New Brighton now. You can see behind me the floral | :04:17. | :04:27. | |
tributes to Hayley. It is a lovely evening here. The tides and the | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
current here at New Brighton can be very dangerous. That is why the | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
police are very concerned for the safety of Hayley's boyfriend. Ahmed | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
of the holidaymakers and laughing children, forensic keep a grim a | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
vigil for one my right honourable friend is dead and another is | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
missing. Hayley's body was found on the beach on Monday, she had | :04:52. | :05:00. | |
drowned. Shoes belonging to her and her boyfriend were found near by. | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
John is a close my right honourable friend and spent it hours on the | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
beach waiting for news. I have never felt so bad. I have never | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
felt so low. The couple had not been going out very long postop | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
they had been at a music festival on Sunday before going to the beach | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
of that night. A my right honourable friend of the Hayley's | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
had said she should have been a way at home at a music festival, but | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
somebody had stolen her ticket. It is horrible. She should not even | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
had been you. Somebody stole her ticket. I police say that the | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
search for Robbie is carrying on. We have a number of searches going | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
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on. We are linking him with other agencies to assist us. Relations of | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Robbie work at the scene at this afternoon but were too upset to | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
talk. Police say they were keeping an open mind as to whether he went | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
into the water as well. One line of enquiry that the police are | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
pursuing concerns at this hotel behind me. This was full on Monday | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
night, the night that the couple came down to the beach. Police are | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
they there might have been witnesses who saw them on the beach. | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
If anyone was staying in this hotel, Merseyside police are urging them | :06:28. | :06:37. | |
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to get in touch. For the moment, the search goes on. | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Merseyside Police have launched a murder investigation after a man | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
was shot in Liverpool last night. The 25-year-old was found dying in | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
the street with a single gunshot wound to the head on Brayfield Road | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
in Norris Green. Police believe it was a targeted attack. They are | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
also investigating whether his death is connected to an earlier | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
incident in the area. We are keeping an open mind, but the | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
incidents were very close by in a short space time, so I think they | :07:03. | :07:13. | |
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are certainly related. A motorcyclist has died at the Manx | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Grand Prix festival on the Isle of Man. Adam Easton, who was 71 and | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
from Scotland, was killed in a crash while racing today. He is the | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
third motorcyclist to die during the festival, which started just | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
over a week ago. People in Ellesmere Port have been | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
given the chance to look around the town's new multi-million pound | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
college today. The Sutton Way campus is part of West Cheshire | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
College and cost �65 million. It opens to students on Monday and | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
offers vocational courses in creative and service industries. | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
have a building a matches our ambition, which is that students | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
get a job. Students must get a job, not just any old job but the job | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
they want. This building will help them get those jobs. We used to | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
teach in classrooms but you cannot teach vocational subjects as | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
successfully in a classroom as in buildings like this. | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
A collection of Viking coins and other artefacts unearthed in | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Cumbria last month has been formally declared as treasure. A | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
metal detectorist found the items, known as the Furness Hoard, at a | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
secret location on the Peninsular. Since then, the hoard has been | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
under the scrutiny of experts at the British Museum. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
When Sabina Akhtar's husband beat her and threatened to kill her, she | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
reported him to the police. But he was never charged. A few months | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
later, he returned to her Manchester home and killed her. | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Today, a coroner has decided to reopen an inquest into Sabina's | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
death following a legal challenge by her family. We'll hear more from | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
their solicitor in a few moments. But first, Rachel Foley has this | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
report. Sabina Akhtar lived in fear of her | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
husband. Two months before her death, she told police he had | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
assaulted her and threatened to kill her. Malik Mannan was arrested | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
twice but never charged, even when he breached bail conditions that | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
said he couldn't contact her. Then in September 2008, he forced his | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
way into her home in Levenshulme and stabbed her through the heart. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
He's now serving a life sentence for her murder. Ms Akhtar's family | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
received a formal apology from the Crown Prosecution Service who say | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
they were wrong not to charge Malik Mannan earlier. Today, the | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
Manchester coroner announced an inquest into Ms Akhtar's death will | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
reopen. It will examine whether decisions made by the police and | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
the CPS in the months before her death could have breached her human | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
right to life. Rachel Foley, BBC North West Tonight. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Well, earlier I spoke to the Akhtar family solicitor Matthew Gold and | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
asked how they had reacted to the news her inquest was to be reopened. | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
They are really pleased because for the first time, there will be a | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
full investigation by the coroner into the circumstances around | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
Sabina's death. The Crown Prosecution Service has already | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
apologised to the family and, in light of that, the Independent | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
Police Complaints Commission has said it will not pursue an | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
investigation. What do you hope reopening the inquest will do? | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
family want to establish what happened after Sabina, in July 2008, | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
went to the police, a very big step for her to take, and made a full | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
detailed statement of the threats to kill, the violence against her | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
and her son by her very dangerous husband. She went to the police for | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
protection, the police did not provide her with the level of | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
protection she was entitled to. this just about blaming someone? | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
is not about blaming anyone really. In place at the time, the police | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
had a domestic violence policy. That was designed for various steps | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
to be put in place, for risk assessments to take place in order | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
that the police and other agencies could have better protected her. | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
gather it is quite unusual for an inquest to be reopened. It is. I | :10:41. | :10:51. | |
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they get is unusual but a bigot has taken place before. I believe legal | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
action has already been taken against the police? Yes, a civil | :10:56. | :11:04. | |
case is being issued in London. It includes an allegation that her | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
right to life was breached because the police did not protect her when | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
they should have done from a known violent individual, her husband. | :11:10. | :11:20. | |
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Thank you. Eight months ago, Qasim was enough | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
horrific accident in Pakistan. Like thousands of Muslims across the | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
North West, 7-year-old Qasim Akbar is celebrating Eid today. But his | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
relatives in Blackburn didn't think he'd make it after a bitter custody | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
battle. Qasim's parents died in a car crash in Pakistan and he spent | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
eight months there before his elder brother could bring him home. Nazia | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Mogra has the story. The Eid feast marks the end of a | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
month of fasting. The meal is a time for families to come together. | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
This year, Qasim is spending it with the only close family he's got | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
left - his half-brother. Now I am his father. I will try my best to | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
be a father and a brother. We will make sure that we can give him lots | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
of lovely. He always talks about the good times with his family. | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
Qasim's parents and two sisters died on New Year's Day in a car | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
crash in Pakistan. Qasim was in the back of the car and the only person | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
to survive. He was bruised, but otherwise unhurt. His half-brother | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
flew out straight away to bring him home to Lancashire, but family | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
friends in Pakistan wanted to keep him. What followed was a bitter | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
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custody battle. It has taken me nearly nine months. But this is | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
they will be person I have left as a brother or sister so I was not | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
going to leave him. I am happy that he is here with me. He we are all | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
happy. All his friends and family. He has settled down well. He is | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
playing. Everything is new for him. But it is really good. | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
In a few weeks, he will be starting school again. With his family | :12:58. | :13:08. | |
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behind him, Qasim hopes one day he can become a cricketer. | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
Still to come in North West Tonight. A whole new ball game - the self- | :13:13. | :13:21. | |
promo video that may help Owen Hargreaves move across the City. | :13:21. | :13:29. | |
the end we all hope that he can get back to his best. Add open-water, | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
winning medals and a wedding. It is a big make your next you for Kerry | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
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Depending on your view, the now derelict Lido at Grange over Sands | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
in Cumbria is either a faded art deco gem, or a blot on the | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
landscape. Many will have happy childhood memories of swimming | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
there in the open air. Well, English Heritage has decided | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
it should be listed as historically important. Great news for some, but | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
not for developers who fear the move will scupper development plans. | :14:03. | :14:12. | |
Peter Marshall reports. The location is wonderful, but many | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
people now say that this place has fallen down. It has seen better | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
days. Nowadays, it's a lido that's not | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
much to look at. Derelict since 1992, what a difference a few | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
decades can make. This was it in the '30s when it attracted | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
thousands. Even in the '70s, it was the place to be. Memories of this | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
place is going swimming with our brother, serving in freezing cold | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
to see water but loving it. There was always busy. Should it be | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
listed? I do not think it needs listed, it is not a thing of beauty. | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
And that's the big issue according to Jonathan Denby, a prominent | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
hotelier who featured in the recent Channel 4 documentary The Hotel. | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
He's part of a development partnership which wants to fill the | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
lido in and turn it into a garden and cafe complex. He claims any | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
thought of re-opening it as an open air pool are pie in the sky. | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
The developers fear listing the lido and its buildings will make | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
their plans impossible. Can you imagine that they would have the | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
funds to keep this enormous structure going? A you do not think | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
it would happen? There is no chance of that happening. This listing is | :15:27. | :15:37. | |
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wrong. It is hard to mention it ever returning to the height of the | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
past, but it still encourages strong passions. It is heritage. It | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
is part of the cultural heritage of this area. We have always had a | :15:50. | :15:59. | |
swimming pool here, it will always be used. Developers say they will | :15:59. | :16:07. | |
challenge the listing. I know I have lots of happy | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
memories of soaring pools. And lots of you have been sending us your | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
memories of lidos. We'll be reading some of them out at the end of the | :16:14. | :16:24. | |
programme. Sport now and Graham Liver's here. And a long night | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
ahead for you. It's transfer deadline day. No fan or manager can | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
relax till 11 o'clock tonight. A day of rumours and gossip but at | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
least it looks like Manchester City are going to get Owen Hargreaves. | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
Still waiting for confirmation from City about the signing. The 30- | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
year-old was released by Manchester United this summer. He came to Old | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
Trafford after being England's star performer in the World Cup in | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
Germany, signing from Bayern Munich for �18 million. He played in | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
United's 2008 Champions League victory. After that, the injuries | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
struck. He made just four appearences in the last three | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
seasons, playing just 11 minutes in the last two years. | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
What else has been happening? I gather Joe Cole's on his way to | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
France. And it looks like Everton are going to completely change | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
their strikeforce? Liverpool never really worked for | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
Joe Cole. He's off to Lille on a season-long loan. At Everton, they | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
might be bringing a striker in. They have accepted a �4 million bid | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
from Leicester for striker Jermaine Beckford. And it looks like Yacubu | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
is leaving Goodison to join Blackburn Rovers. | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
Rounding up today's transfer news, here's Liam O'Donoghue. | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
Arguably England's best player in the 2006 World Cup, Owen Hargreaves | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
is so desperate to play again, he's put up a film on YouTube to prove | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
his fitness. After surgery on both knees and two years out injured, | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
Hargreaves lasted only five minutes when he finally returned to the | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
Manchester United line-up last November. United let him go. City | :17:49. | :17:59. | |
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might resurrect his career. When he is fully fit, he is a great player. | :18:03. | :18:12. | |
We all hope he can get back to his best. There may be a little bit of | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
sour grapes, but all the best to them. If he does well, he deserves | :18:16. | :18:26. | |
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it. If he is on pay as you play, you cannot lose. | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
How has Joe Cole gone from scoring fantastic goals like this to | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
becoming an Anfield reject? A Roy Hodgson signing, he too has | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
suffered from injuries. Kenny Dalglish is loaning him to French | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
side Lille for the season. Cole out, Coates in. The huge young Uruguayan | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
defender joins compatriot Luis Suarez at Liverpool. Only 15 months | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
after signing Jermaine Beckford from Leeds, Everton have sold him | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
to Sven's Leicester for around �4 million. Yakubu could be on his way | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
to Blackburn. Replacing him could be 6 foot 7 tall Denis Stracqualani | :18:58. | :19:08. | |
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from Argentinian side Tigre. Arsenal are reported it to her bed | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
for Miguel Arteta. Back at Manchester City, a fee's been | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
agreed to seal Shaun Wright- Phillips to Queens Park Rangers | :19:15. | :19:24. | |
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player, and Craig Bellamy could be heading there too. | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
Wigan have played busy today as well they have Broughton a couple | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
of winners including Shaun Maloney from Celtic. | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
One player also on the move is Bury's Ryan Lowe who has joined | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Sheffield Wednesday for an undisclosed fee. Lowe scored 28 | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
goals for the Shakers last season, nine of which came in consecutive | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
games, setting a club record. Boss Richie Barker hopes to bring in a | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
replacement before the window closes tonight. | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
Cricket, and Lancashire are fighting back in their crucial | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
county championship game against Worcestershire at New Road. They | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
were bowled out for 161 in their first innings. In reply, the home | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
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Swimming now, and the first British athlete to qualify for the Olympics | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
was Keri Anne Payne from Heywood. She is the best open water swimmer | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
in the world and one of our strongest medal hopes at London | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
2012. But the Olympics are not the only big event in Keri Anne's life | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
next year, as Stuart Pollitt found out when he went to meet her. | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
Open-water swimming is not for the faint-hearted. You need to be very | :20:25. | :20:34. | |
fit, fearless and keep an eye out for the hazard. Jellyfish. Dead | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
animals. All that kind of stuff up. But if I did not do that, somebody | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
else would follow instead. You just have to grit your teeth and get on | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
with it. It is not glamourous are pretty, but I loved doing it. I | :20:50. | :20:58. | |
love it, but it was something I was steered into doing. At first I was | :20:58. | :21:07. | |
not so keen on it and it all like it. She has concurred that, winning | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
a silver in the Olympics. Your racing of the same people you have | :21:14. | :21:24. | |
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raised against for years and years. It is huge. The whole nation as | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
always lifted by the crowd. It will be brilliant everyone cheering for | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
us. As well as planning an assault on Olympic goal next year, she is | :21:35. | :21:43. | |
also planning her own wing -- her own wedding. I have to make sure we | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
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are organised. A lot of it has been organised. I have not found a do | :21:54. | :22:03. | |
the go so far. If you are able to some attempt, to as dodging | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
jellyfish, organising a table Prime it should not be so hard. | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
A multi-medal winning Paralympian was in the region today to meet | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
aspiring competitors for next year's games in London. Chris | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
Holmes, who is blind, represented Great Britain at the Paralympic | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Games between 1988 and 2000, winning nine gold medals. He is now | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
the director of Paralympic Integration for London 2012. This | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
morning he was at Guinea Gap swimming Pool in Wirral. It is | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
great to see programmes like this which demonstrate how to balance | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
high end Paralympians performing next summer and also the next | :22:33. | :22:43. | |
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generation coming in from 2020 and beyond. Yesterday we brought you a | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
preview of Steve Parry's charity relay swim across the Irish Sea. | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
Well, Boyzone singer Ronan Keating led the team out last night and the | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
latest is, they're nearly at the halfway mark despite confronting a | :22:52. | :23:01. | |
shoal of giant jellyfish along the way. | :23:01. | :23:11. | |
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He should have got a wet suit to fit him! | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
Stephen good swim the Irish Ceri -- Irish Sea. | :23:18. | :23:26. | |
Now here's Di with the weather. I am still puzzling over that | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
I am still puzzling over that It is not going to get warmer as we | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
head through the next couple of days. It might go up by a degree of | :23:38. | :23:48. | |
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soul -- a degree or so. Temperatures of 15 or 16 degrees. | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
We could expected to be a little warm rat than that. But is the | :23:53. | :24:03. | |
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driver most of us today. -- but it stayed dry. There has been a | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
glimpse of brightness sometimes. We might get a little bit more as we | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
head towards the end of the night. It is getting dark very early | :24:16. | :24:26. | |
nowadays. Tonight, it will be predominantly cloudy but dry. Just | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
the chance of a tiny shower it now and again. The cloud could break | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
from time to time in rural areas, which means that temperatures could | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
go as low as eight Celsius. But most of us will be in double | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
figures. 11 or 12 of. For tomorrow, it might not be too bad at all, | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
again. Cloudy. In the morning, there might be a light shower first | :24:54. | :25:03. | |
thing. But hopefully, this cloud cover will start to thin and break. | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
Sunshine could work its way through. The wind will be light which is | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
favourable for us. Temperatures should be better than today. 19 or | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
20 degrees. If you are stuck under the cloud cover, 17 or 18 degrees. | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
For the next couple of days, high pressure it moves away. Weather | :25:28. | :25:38. | |
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front after the front moving in. Friday. The weekend it looks very | :25:39. | :25:49. | |
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Well, earlier, we talked about the future for Grange Over Sands | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
historic open air pool and asked for your memories of lidos across | :25:56. | :26:06. | |
the North West. Lots of you have taken the plunge. | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
Tom Gray on Facebook says, "My family and I used to swim at Grange | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
Over Sands. The views across Morecambe Bay were amazing. It's a | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
shame to see it standing derelict and if I had the money I would | :26:15. | :26:24. | |
rebuild and re-open it!" Peter from Prestwich where do this for them to | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
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Bob the bomber who used to bomb into the pool. Lee Lloyd Green on | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
Facebook says, "I used to go to the open air lido at New Brighton. I | :26:38. | :26:47. | |
even remember the ladybird swarm that came and covered the pool." | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
Jean it says she used to have that some lessons every week. | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
Judith Simpson on Facebook, "I used to go regularly to the Grange pool. | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
Everybody used to rush to the top railings when the horn went to warn | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
of the tidal bore coming up the bay, and we would watch it roaring up | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
past the pool. Spectacular!" Paul says here is a picture of myself | :27:08. | :27:18. | |
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and other winners take him at a swimming gala. I think it is 1972. | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
Also, in case you were wondering, we've had a lot of debate in the | :27:31. | :27:34. |