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Paralympic potential. Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
Gordon Burns and Jayne Barrett. Our top story. Appalling, gratuitous | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
violence - a public inquiry severely criticises the treatment | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
of Iraqi detainees by the Queen's Lancashire regiment Relatives of | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
Baha Mousa, who died in custody, call for prosecutions of the | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
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soldiers involved. I remember him all the time. I loved him. He was a | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
good son. We'll be talking in-depth to the soldier who tried to | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
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resuscitate Baha Mousa about his shame at what happened. We all have | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
-- all have responsibilities that day. Also tonight. Lining up to | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
support Liverpool. Cunard cruises into the debate about the new | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
terminal. Summertime! Carnegie Hall, a TV talent show and a record deal. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Carly tells us how she copes with all that and autism. And Paralympic | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
pride in the North West. I'll be live at Manchester's Aquatic Centre, | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
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looking at the science of success for our 2012 hopefuls. The father | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
of an Iraqi civilian beaten to death by soldiers from a Lancashire | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
regiment is demanding those responsible be brought to justice. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
So far, only one of them have been punished. Baha Mousa died while in | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
the custody of soldiers from the Queen's Lancashire Regiment in | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Basra eight years ago. Today, the chairman of a public inquiry into | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
what happened described their behaviour as appalling. In a moment, | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
we'll get an account of what happened from someone who was there, | :01:51. | :02:00. | |
a soldier from Bolton. First, here's Stuart Flinders. Iraq 2003. | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Saddam Hussein has gone, but British soldiers are up against an | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
insurgency, never sure who's their enemy, who's their friend. Baha | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
Mousa, a hotel receptionist, was taken in for questioning and beaten | :02:11. | :02:20. | |
to death. He turned out to be innocent. Baha Mousa was in the | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
custody of soldiers from the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, now | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
the Duke of Lancaster has, based at these barracks in Preston. Five | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
years ago, seven of them faced allegations relating to the | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
mistreatment of detainees and a court martial. All, except one, | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
were cleared. The one man punished was Corporal Donald Payne, filmed | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
shouting at some of those detained with Baha Mousa. He admitted | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
inhumanely treating civilians but was acquitted of manslaughter. The | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
court order prevents us showing his face. Today, the chairman of the | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
public inquiry described him as a violent bully. He devised a | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
particularly unpleasant about that of sorting detainees. It consisted | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
of punching and kicking each detainee in sequence, causing each | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
to admit other signs of distress. Baha Mousa's father now lives in | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
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Egypt. I remember him all the time. I look at his picture. Baha Mousa's | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
lawyer is demanding new legal action against 19 soldiers of the | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
Queen's Lancashire Regiment, who, he says, went beyond the law. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
techniques for explicitly banned by Edward Heath in 1972 and were found | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
to be unlawful. But they were being used on a systemic basis by the | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
First Battalion, the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, in Iraq in | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
2003, to force suspects to provide information. The Ministry of | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
Defence admits the episode casts a dark shadow on the army's | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
reputation. The Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, says more may yet be | :04:06. | :04:15. | |
brought to account for what they did to Baha Mousa. After Baha Mousa | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
was beaten to death, the soldier who found him and tried to | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
resuscitate him was Private Garry Reader. Now retired from the army, | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
he witnessed the events of that night at close-hand. I spoke to | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
Garry earlier and asked what he remembered of Baha Mousa's | :04:31. | :04:41. | |
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treatment. Baha Mousa was quite a big man. He was singled out. He | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
kept removing his soundbite from his head and making a beeline for | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
the door. And he was roughly handled into to position and was | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
punched and kicked. It was heavy kicking? In cases, yes. Did you | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
have any feeling at the time that this was wrong? I did question what | :05:06. | :05:15. | |
happened to him, not just 10 but the other detainees. At the same | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
respect, I was cowardly enough to never stand up. What did you think | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
would happen if you said something? I was scared of people who were | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
there. It could have affected my career. I could have been picked | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
upon myself for being weak. At what point did you realise something was | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
seriously wrong? When I went to check on him, after 10 minutes, | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
after I had last seen him. I saw him slumped. I realised that | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
something was not right. His head was bowed down. I removed the sand | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
bank and I noticed he was not breathing. What did you do when you | :06:00. | :06:10. | |
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saw him in that condition? shouted. Help me. He had his hands | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
tied behind his back. I could not lie pin down properly. I shouted | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
for a knife to cut his plastic handcuffs. Bit by bit... My | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
colleagues came in to help. And phonetic helped me. And he was | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
taken away. Did you know he was dead? I knew he was dead, yes. | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
the other men know he was dead? sorts of things were going around. | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
People were thinking, he could be brought back. People started to | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
worry, they were questioning people and blaming each other. Was there | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
any agreement that you would not speak if it was investigated? | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
was put down to several people. Specific people. People who would | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
deny things. The team try to stick together. But we all had our own | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
part in that that day. Was a general remorse? How did they | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
react? When they knew he had been kicked to death? People were | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
frightened, frightened of the outcome. They knew the trouble with | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
because. Someone was going to get blamed for it. People were looking | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
at ways to get out of it. They knew they had done wrong. When you look | :07:32. | :07:40. | |
back, how do you can? Angry at myself, because I let myself down. | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
Angry at others who were responsible. Angry for those who | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
knew they had done something but cannot speak out. How often do you | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
think about it? Not a day goes by, when you don't think of something. | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
If I could take it all back, and what. It will never happen, one | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
question mark do you feel ashamed? I cannot move on with my left, yes. | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Thank you very much. This afternoon, the country's most senior military | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
officer said Baha Mousa's death had cast a dark shadow over the | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
reputation of the British Army. Joining me now to discuss that is | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
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Michael Dewar, a former army colonel who's now a defence analyst. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
Surely a Sir not only on the Queen's Lancashire Regiment but the | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
entire army? It was utterly disgraceful. There is no doubt | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
about the severity and no one is denying that. Indeed, I have on my | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
lap, a statement from the Chief of the General Staff and I have seldom | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
seen anything so frank and apologetic and netting complete | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
culpability. All that, there is no doubt. But I would say this is an | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
exceptional occurrence. These were practices and in 1972. Still going | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
on today. Gary refer to those as be normal. How did this happen? That | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
isn't completely clear, it is true that Edward Heath said in the | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
context of Northern Ireland, that the practices of foods and stress | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
positions was not to go on in Northern Ireland. And was not to | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
happen in the context of the United Kingdom. Surely anybody... This is | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
important, it isn't entirely clear that whether it apply in warfare | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
and whether or not Iraq was a war. Even lawyers admit that this has | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
some doubt and there is uncertainty about this. Nobody looking at that | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
shocking footage would think that was the behaviour expected of the | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
British Army. You are getting confused, using hoods, that was | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
banned, and stress positions. I said that no one in any way excuses | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
the beating up and the kicking and punching and the 93 injuries that | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
were on this poor man's body. should happen to those people who | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
have been severely criticised in this report? What should happen to | :10:14. | :10:22. | |
them? I am not in a position, I am not to judge. Clearly, the army is | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
going to look at this further. The chief of the General Staff | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
statement makes it clear. Further charges might be brought if there | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
is sufficient evidence. On the first occasion, one individuals | :10:34. | :10:44. | |
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found guilty of Inchinnan conduct. -- of inhumane conduct. Thank you. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
More of the day's news from around the North West. Two men from | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
Greater Manchester have been found guilty of preparing acts of | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
terrorism. Manchester Crown Court heard that Munir Farooqi from | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
Longsight and Matthew Newton from Stalybridge tried to recruit | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
undercover police officers to fight British soldiers in Afghanistan. A | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
third man, Harris Farooqi from Levenshulme, was cleared of any | :11:00. | :11:10. | |
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involvement in the plot. The government is being urged to create | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
a new form of marine protection for animals and habitats around the | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Irish Sea. Recommendations for the North West include areas close to | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
the Ribble Valley, Cumbria, Sefton, Fylde, Morcambe Bay and The Isle of | :11:20. | :11:30. | |
Man. These conservation zones designed to protect seabed habitats. | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
You might be aware from the 6pm news that today is International | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Paralympic Day, the official launch ahead of next year's Games in | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
London. Tony's at the Manchester Aquatic Centre, Team GB's high- | :11:39. | :11:49. | |
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performance centre for disability swimming, to tell us more. It is | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
flattering, the kids are having fun and this is the business end, | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
whether Paralympic swimmers will be based completely before 2012. This | :12:01. | :12:10. | |
place has a place in history, there were stands for parallel.. Meaning | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
the able-bodied and disabled games run parallel to each other. You can | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
see Ian Thorpe at the same meeting as Paralympic athletes. Sarah | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
Storey hopes to take that link even further. She wants to compete in | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
both the Olympics and the Paralympics. But how do so and | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
other athletes like her improve their performance? Stuart has been | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
reporting on the secret behind their success... Another gold medal | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
performance from Sarah Storey. The European para-cycling Championships. | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
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She puts part of her success down to science. We can look at. It is | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
very intricate. The science helping Sarah and others succeed is based | :13:06. | :13:15. | |
in Manchester, here at the English Institute of Sport. We put together | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
a support package based around science and medicine to optimise | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
their performance and that could be any number of things, working with | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
the track centre or on the roadside, right through to providing soft | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
tissue and physiotherapy on a day- to-day basis. Look at this! When | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
Chris Hoy claimed gold and Manchester, it inspired Billy | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
Norglen to take up the sport and Shania trains alongside him. Yes, | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
the Paralympics and they Olympic team, they train together and it is | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
amazing to watch them. It inspires you. Science is also helping | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
disabled athletes at the start of their careers. Sports scientists | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
from the University of Central Lancashire are working with a ouija | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
sports club. We do biomechanics to see how they move. We asked them to | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
some movements and that will help then it more efficiently and there | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
can be more effective in the wheelchair. Whether at the pinnacle | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
of your career or just the beginning, science can help you | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
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steal a march on the opposition. Joining me is a swimming coach, | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
Louise Robinson. What is the secret of success when it comes to the | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
north-west? In the 2002, not games we were blessed with great | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
facilities and the legacy is we have this world-class swimming pool. | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
And a world class Cycling facility. This is the focal point. What | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
support and grants to get? All that teenage? Yes, as a support be a | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
sponsored by British Gas and they pay for the camps and the athletes | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
get money from the lottery. UK Sport. They get to be professionals, | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
they don't have to work, they can come here and train and get money. | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
Success breeds success and this place must be a magnet for the rest | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
of the country? Once you have world class athletes in a world-class | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
facility, bringing the coaching and the science, it just gets huge. The | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
swimmers here are all really excited about two Olympics and the | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
Paralympics. It is just a vibrant area for stop we will hear from | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
Heather later on. Who else should be look out for? I have to talk | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
about this centre, the athletes, Matthew Walker, world champion, | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
Natalie Jones, Thomas Young, Sean Fraser, M Proctor, I cannot mess | :15:50. | :15:59. | |
anyone out, Tom Pepper. Who else? It is just a brilliant bunch. | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Congratulations on your success so far. More to come from the Aquatics | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
Centre later. Time for a trick -- quick trip down the children's | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
slide. Thank you very much. Cunard's newest liner, the Queen | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
Elizabeth, sailed into the Mersey today on her maiden voyage, kicking | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
of the Mersey River Festival. And she brought with her Cunard's | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
support for Liverpool's bid to bring full turnaround cruises to | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
Liverpool. But it seems there's not much support from anywhere else. As | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
the deadline for public consultation to beef-up Liverpool's | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
cruise terminal fast approaches, other UK ports are stepping up the | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
pressure. They want the Government to pull the plug on plans, which | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
they say are unfair. Her maiden voyage into Liverpool. For many on | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
board, too. It was incredible, it is a beautiful harbour and we love | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
the buildings. But for people from closer to home, this is a journey | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
that had to start in Southampton. It was a long drive, yes. It's an | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
industry that oozes wealth. But without turnaround facilities like | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
passport control and baggage handling, Liverpool's share of it | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
isn't. With turnaround facilities you could have 2,000 guests who all | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
need a hotel room the night before the cruise, a taxi down to the port | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
and local businesses could help replenish supplies at the start and | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
end of journeys. That's what Liverpool wants. But is it fair? | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
Public money helped pay for this terminal. Other UK ports are crying | :17:26. | :17:34. | |
foul. Most of the ports around the country and most cities have had | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
European Union funding. And I think it is hypocritical for people to | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
ask us to pay money back to Europe when Europe don't want this. | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
today, a rare voice of support from Southampton. Setanta and remains a | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
or BS but if in future Liverpool invests in their facilities, and | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
they have the opportunity to have a turnaround, it is possible that the | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
voyages could start in Liverpool. This is a bid they want to see work. | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
Despite their Southampton base, Liverpool will always be Cunard's | :18:05. | :18:13. | |
spiritual home. The final decision will be in September and we will we | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
will be across that. Images have been revealed showing how | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
Manchester's skyline could change as part of a project led by the Co- | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
op. The �800 million NOMA project could take up to 15 years to | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
complete. The first phase is due to be finished next year. If the rest | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
is approved, the scheme will cover a 20 acre site around Victoria | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
Station and will include retail, leisure and residential | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
developments. A seven meter high piece of twisted steel taken from | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
the World Trade Centre after the 9/11 terrorist attacks will go on | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
public display at the Imperial War Museum North in Salford. It marks | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
the 10th anniversary of the Twin Towers attack in New York in which | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
nearly 3000 people died. The girder is one of the first pieces of steel | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
from Ground Zero ever brought to the UK. In front of you is a piece | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
of the very structure that collapsed in a matter of seconds. | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
Following the huge impact. It is really moving. And it is a huge | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
symbol of the nature of those events. The North West has a habit | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
of creating Paralympic medalists in the pool. 20 can tell us about one | :19:24. | :19:34. | |
of our hope. I grow -- 20. Welcome back. As you have heard, the north- | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
west is gaining a huge reputation. One of those is Heather Frederiksen | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
from Leigh. Heather was an able- bodied swimmer competing alongside | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
the like of Rebecca Adlington before an accident led to her | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
losing mobility down her right side. She's been speaking to us about how | :19:48. | :19:58. | |
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she felt when doctors said she wouldn't swim again. It was a | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
massive blow for me. That part of my life. I was sat at home, | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
watching the Commonwealth Games. Yes, one of the competitors I used | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
to some against, she went and won her race and I got the hunger and I | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
decided I would finish when I wanted to. I went downstairs to | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
tell my mother I was not ready to finish. And then it just snowballed | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
from there, really. I want to sing again -- has won again completely. | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
The first time, I went around in a circle. I had to completely learned | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
my body balance and were to put my arms. I have limited the ability in | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
one of my arms and I only use one leg. It was really hard working in | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
that time, something I wanted to do and I want to do it again seriously. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
Nobody has said that anything in this life is easy. Heather | :20:58. | :21:07. | |
Frederikesen! To qualify his achievement in itself. I got two | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
golds and a bronze in Beijing. They would like to improve upon that. | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
Then again, that is what everybody it's every four years. To be able | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
to do that with the national anthem playing, that would be fantastic. | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
For all the people out there who said I would never make it, it has | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
proved them wrong. It just shows that you can do it if you want it | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
enough. And you work hard enough. You can. It is great stuff. The | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
countdown has just begun but you can sense the excitement in this | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
very pool and this is what the whole Paralympics to maintain will | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
be based for three weeks of the build up. For now, back to the | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
studio... I and many as two have not decided to jump in! Thank you | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
very much. The opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Youth Games takes | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
place on the Isle of Man this evening. Athletes from more than 60 | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
nations are competing and you can watch the ceremony live on the | :22:19. | :22:28. | |
BBC's Isle of Man website from 7:15pm. And we will have a full | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
report tomorrow night. If you in the Isle of Man, get out and | :22:33. | :22:43. | |
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support that. How's the weather It will be warm and rather wet. The | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
weather is sometimes incredibly literal, people don't like these | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
charts but they're great because you can see these isobars widely | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
spaced. And you can see that we have warm fronts, and they bring us | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
warm air. That is a feature of the weather to the next 24 others. You | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
can see this Orange colour moving in but it doesn't make it into | :23:04. | :23:13. | |
Cumbria and Lancashire. There is a real North - south divide. Through | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
today, it has not been brilliant. But it could have been worse, some | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
places have managed to stay dry all the way through. The showers have | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
been piling into parts of Lancashire and Cumbria and through | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
the afternoon they have died away but this is the latest picture, or | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
coming through tonight. This is what the divide stars to come into | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
play. The worst in the showers for parts of Cumbria and Lancashire and | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
further south and many places will be largely dry, but completely so | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
but tomorrow morning the showers will band together. Temperatures | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
significant, 13 - 15 degrees. You can see a lot of cloud and some | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
rain, mostly concentrated in the north. Further south and through | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
the day tomorrow that will break, and when that happens, sunshine | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
comes out, temperatures getting up to 22 Celsius. Back to you... | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
Actor Dan Ackroyd, singer Gary Numan even scientist Albert | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
Einstein. All people on the autistic spectrum. It's a serious | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
and lifelong condition, but with the right support, those living | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
with it can fulfill their potential and go on to achieve amazing things. | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
People like Carly Ryan from Manchester. At just 25, Carly's | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
amazing singing voice has featured in a TV talent show, taken her to | :24:29. | :24:38. | |
New York's Carnegie Hall, and she's just been given a record deal. In | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
the last of her special reports on autism, Kate Simms went to meet | :24:41. | :24:50. | |
Carly. I did a tutorial. The first one... Catching up after a day at | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
college. Carly's various accents help her to communicate. I then did | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
English. She has got a loss of words but she finds trouble with | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
understanding. She takes time to process language and then she | :25:09. | :25:18. | |
delivers a speech. And yet Carly can do this. Summertime! And the | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
living is easy! Carly's voice has taken her places she and her family | :25:25. | :25:35. | |
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never dreamt of. First on the BBC programme Autistic Superstars. Then | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
to Carnegie Hall in New York to sing with stars at a celebration of | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
the genius of autism. I sang and I sang in front of the audience. | :25:48. | :25:56. | |
many people? Thousands! Did they like it? Yes! You've got me on my | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
knees, and begging please... Carly is very confident on stage, but | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
when I ask has a question she's not expecting, this happens. I don't | :26:07. | :26:15. | |
think I want to! That's OK. I don't think I want to! A few minutes | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
later, Carly is back, showing me her singing certificates. I was | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
singing since I was four years old. It is, says her mum, normal Carly | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
behaviour. Kylie is scared of getting things wrong. She thinks to | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
herself, am I going to say the wrong thing? Will people understand | :26:34. | :26:43. | |
me? Anxiety is way out. But Carly's not letting that stop her. She now | :26:43. | :26:52. | |
has a record deal with the charity, The Heroes Project. She says, yes, | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
I would love to be a pop star in a big, posh house and have servants! | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
Watch this space! Amazing! And if you'd like to watch all of the | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
stories in Kate's series about autism, they're available on our | :27:07. | :27:17. | |
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