:00:04. > :00:07.Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest Tonight.
:00:07. > :00:17.Daytime denial - Rebecca Leighton the nurse at the centre of the
:00:17. > :00:23.Stepping Hill deaths inquiry, takes to the TV sofa to tell her story.
:00:24. > :00:27.just could it makes sense, I just couldn't understand what, why it
:00:27. > :00:30.was me that was arrested. Victims of a jilted lover - did an
:00:31. > :00:35.ex boyfriend start a fire that killed him and left four members of
:00:35. > :00:37.a family critically injured? Who should pay for the riots? The
:00:37. > :00:44.Victorian law that means insurance companies can claim back their
:00:44. > :00:52.losses from hard-up police forces. A new juggling act for the
:00:53. > :00:57.Knutsford man who ran away to the circus and who then bought it!
:00:57. > :01:07.mother thought it was a passing phase. Most mothers would, I
:01:07. > :01:10.suppose. It developed into something much bigger.
:01:10. > :01:20.Also tonight from Libya to Liverpool - HMS Albion is docked on
:01:20. > :01:21.
:01:21. > :01:25.the Mersey and Andy Gill is aboard to welcome them in.
:01:25. > :01:30.This is one of the biggest ships in the Navy. She has been on duty in
:01:30. > :01:36.Libya. Let's -- find out later watches been doing and why 500
:01:36. > :01:39.members of the ship's company will march through Chester tomorrow.
:01:39. > :01:42.One day, Rebecca Leighton was a hard working staff nurse at a
:01:42. > :01:45.Stockport Hospital. The next, she was in a police cell and being
:01:45. > :01:48.called "the Angel of Death" by the tabloids. Today the woman at centre
:01:48. > :01:52.of the inquiry into patient deaths at Stepping Hill Hospital hit back
:01:52. > :01:55.at the media - in what was a very carefully arranged media moment on
:01:55. > :01:58.a daytime talk show. Rebecca leighton was freed without
:01:58. > :02:01.charge and in the interview she talked how the accusations had put
:02:01. > :02:05.her through a "living hell." She wants to return to a normal life
:02:05. > :02:10.and a career in nursing, but at the moment she's says she still too
:02:10. > :02:13.afraid to leave the house. With a new hairstyle and celebrity
:02:13. > :02:23.PR guru Max Clifford to guide her, the 27-year-old chose daytime TV to
:02:23. > :02:24.
:02:24. > :02:28.give her own account of what happened. I just couldn't string a
:02:28. > :02:36.sentence together, I couldn't understand what was going on, why
:02:36. > :02:39.it was me that was arrested. I have never felt hat I felt then. When
:02:39. > :02:44.they arrested me, I thought I would be home for tea time, because
:02:44. > :02:50.surely if they know I have not done anything wrong, I obviously had no
:02:50. > :02:55.idea what was to come. At first she even refused to have a solicitor
:02:55. > :02:58.with her. Because I had nothing to hide, I didn't see why I would need
:02:58. > :03:02.a solicitor. Miss Leighton had charges against her dropped earlier
:03:02. > :03:09.this month. She described the despair she felt while being held
:03:09. > :03:15.in custody at Styal women's prison. I pleaded with the police every day,
:03:15. > :03:19.all the time, please don't stop looking, don't stop. If you do,
:03:19. > :03:25.then surely the person that has done these horrific things is still
:03:25. > :03:30.going to be out there. It worried me so much, the patients, everybody
:03:30. > :03:33.was still going to be affected. It can't just stop with me. She told
:03:33. > :03:37.of her horror at the betrayal in the media and the effect on her
:03:37. > :03:42.life. I'm not working. I can't go outside my house without people
:03:42. > :03:48.taking pictures. I can't walk down the street on my own because I'm a
:03:48. > :03:53.bit scared. Someone has always got to be with me all the time. She has
:03:53. > :03:56.been told she can return to nursing but she is still suspended on full
:03:56. > :04:02.pay while the hospital carries out an internal inquiry into
:04:02. > :04:08.allegations she stole drugs. Nursing is all I have ever done. I
:04:08. > :04:12.am so passionate about my job. Looking after patients, that's what
:04:12. > :04:16.I do. Anything that bad happens to you, you have got to tear into a
:04:16. > :04:20.positive. If anything, I'd like to think what I'm a stronger person
:04:20. > :04:22.and will learn to appreciate life more than what I did before.
:04:22. > :04:26.Detectives are trying to establish whether a jilted boyfriend set fire
:04:26. > :04:31.to his former girlfriend's home in Altrincham. David Potts died in the
:04:31. > :04:34.fire. Tracy Jones and her three children suffered serious injuries.
:04:34. > :04:37.It's emerged that the police had been involved with the couple in
:04:37. > :04:42.the past. They've now called in the Independent Police Complaints
:04:42. > :04:46.Commission to investigate the way officers handled matters. Our Chief
:04:46. > :04:49.Reporter, Dave Guest, has the story. The blackened remains of a family
:04:49. > :04:59.home bear testimony to the horror that unfolded here early yesterday
:04:59. > :05:03.morning. I have never seen anything like before and I do not want to
:05:03. > :05:07.see it again. It was awful. Hearing the screaming, it was awful. And
:05:07. > :05:10.seeing all the flames and everything. You just think it
:05:10. > :05:12.happens to somebody else. That sense of shock intensified today
:05:12. > :05:20.when police confirmed they believe the fire was started deliberately.
:05:20. > :05:24.And it's possible David Potts started it. He perished in the fire.
:05:25. > :05:28.The origins of the fire are clearly suspicious. There will be a full
:05:28. > :05:32.forensic examination and we will piece together what has happened.
:05:32. > :05:35.You are not looking for anyone else? At this time, all the
:05:35. > :05:38.evidence and intelligence available to us, there is nothing to suggest
:05:38. > :05:41.that we need to be looking for anyone else. His former girlfriend,
:05:41. > :05:48.Tracy Jones, and her three children, Cailin, aged 18, 15-year-old Shaun
:05:48. > :05:52.and four year old Zak, lived at the house were all seriously injured.
:05:52. > :05:56.Throughout the day, crime scene investigators have been examining
:05:56. > :06:00.the house in fine detail. It seems that what started out as a tragedy,
:06:00. > :06:08.a fire that claimed one life and injured four others, has taken a
:06:08. > :06:13.sinister turn. Police also confirmed they had had contact with
:06:13. > :06:21.David Potts and Tracy Jones in the past. I will not go into detail but
:06:21. > :06:28.it is in -- appropriate to brief people about this. Tracy Jones and
:06:28. > :06:31.her children remain in hospital tonight.
:06:31. > :06:34.Other news now and a toddler from Manchester has died from meningitis,
:06:34. > :06:37.despite being vaccinated. Two-year- old Lewis Taylor had received the
:06:37. > :06:43.standard three doses of the vaccine but died of meningococcal C after
:06:43. > :06:47.being rushed to Wythenshawe Hospital last week. His parents
:06:47. > :06:50.described him as "perfect" and say they're devastated. The Meningitis
:06:50. > :06:55.Trust says it's a very rare case and has urged parents not to stop
:06:55. > :06:58.vaccinating. A man has appeared in court,
:06:58. > :07:00.charged with aggravated burglary at a house where an intruder was
:07:00. > :07:03.killed. 33-year-old Michael Thorpe from Heald Green is accused of
:07:03. > :07:07.entering the home of Vincent Cooke in Bramhall on Saturday, whilst
:07:07. > :07:14.armed with a knife. Mr Cooke was also arrested on suspicion of
:07:14. > :07:16.stabbing another intruder, Raymond Jacobs, to death that night.
:07:16. > :07:20.Spending cuts at Manchester Prison are affecting some of the most
:07:20. > :07:23.vulnerable inmates according to a report out today. The Independent
:07:23. > :07:25.Monitoring Board found some prisoners with severe mental health
:07:25. > :07:31.problems were waiting months to be transferred to secure hospitals,
:07:31. > :07:36.when they should be moved within a fortnight. The Ministry of Justice
:07:36. > :07:39.said cutbacks haven't affected core staffing levels.
:07:39. > :07:42.Plans to build an international trade centre in Wirral, will be
:07:42. > :07:47.decided by councillors tonight. Those behind the idea say it could
:07:47. > :07:52.create 3,000 jobs and attract companies from as far away as Asia.
:07:52. > :07:57.It would be built on the West Float Dock at Birkenhead.
:07:57. > :08:00.To anyone affected by the riots, today is an important day. It's
:08:01. > :08:04.deadline day for claims to cover the cost of losses. But who foots
:08:04. > :08:09.the bill for those losses? Both the uninsured and the insurance
:08:09. > :08:14.industry can claim against their local police authority. It's all
:08:14. > :08:17.down to an arcane law called the Riot Damages Act. Manchester Police
:08:17. > :08:23.Authority, which is facing millions of pounds of cuts, says the law
:08:23. > :08:26.should be scrapped. Here's Jayne Barrett.
:08:26. > :08:33.While chaos reigned in this Manchester store, one statement was
:08:33. > :08:37.shouted again and again to the stunned owner. Pretty much most of
:08:37. > :08:42.the people coming past were saying, don't worry, you're insured, which
:08:42. > :08:47.was laughable. People who wanted to help themselves? They wanted to
:08:47. > :08:50.come in. But who really picks up the tab? In this case in excess of
:08:50. > :08:54.150,000. The Riot Damages Act dates back to 1886. It means that the
:08:54. > :09:00.taxpayer. Not the insurance industry, will ultimately foot the
:09:00. > :09:07.bill. The theory goes that if an institution is set up to protect us
:09:07. > :09:10.and our property, when that protection fails, they should pay.
:09:10. > :09:12.Under the Riot Damages Act people who are uninsured have until today
:09:12. > :09:19.in Manchester, tomorrow in Merseyside, to get their claims in
:09:19. > :09:23.direct to the Police Authority. In 2002, the Yarls Wood detention
:09:23. > :09:26.centre went up in flames. The cause - a riot. Bedford police was handed
:09:26. > :09:28.a bill by the insurance industry. Police challenged it but lost in
:09:28. > :09:32.the High Court. In Manchester, looting was rampant. The Police
:09:32. > :09:40.Authority say even today, they're still receiving claims. In excess
:09:40. > :09:44.of �5 million so far, that's before the cost of policing. We believe it
:09:44. > :09:46.shouldn't come for money earmarked for policing. It should initially
:09:46. > :09:51.come from our reserves, but we believe the Government should be
:09:51. > :09:56.able to top that up and enable us to carry on improving policing in
:09:56. > :10:01.Greater Manchester. Although it is is a financial arrangement between
:10:02. > :10:05.insurers and local authorities. these are local in -- of parties
:10:05. > :10:09.that do not have a lot of cash to spend and have not been paid
:10:09. > :10:12.premiums for insurance polities. That is true, but the law is the
:10:12. > :10:15.law. Merseyside Police have only received a handful of claims.
:10:15. > :10:18.Manchester, more than 250. The authority is hopeful, but not
:10:18. > :10:25.certain the government will pick up the tab. Either way - the taxpayer,
:10:25. > :10:28.will pay. The Deputy Prime Minister Nick
:10:28. > :10:32.Clegg has told North West Tonight that there should be clarity on
:10:32. > :10:34.government payments to police authorities "as soon as possible".
:10:34. > :10:37.Earlier I spoke to our political editor, who's covering the Liberal
:10:37. > :10:45.Democrat conference in Birmingham, and asked him what Mr Clegg had to
:10:45. > :10:51.say. Let's remember that there are two
:10:51. > :10:59.costs facing the police. The first, the operational cost of the riots.
:10:59. > :11:02.The second, the businesses that were badly affected. The problem is
:11:02. > :11:07.that David Cameron gave the impression that said pro-government
:11:07. > :11:12.was going to pick up most, if not all of the bill. That is clearly
:11:12. > :11:17.not going to be the case. I asked Nick Clegg how much money the
:11:17. > :11:21.government was planning to pay. is right that the Government should
:11:21. > :11:25.give support to those police forces who met these exceptional
:11:25. > :11:30.circumstances and incurred exceptional costs. There is a
:11:30. > :11:34.mechanism by which police forces can apply, and I think they have
:11:34. > :11:40.applied in the North West and elsewhere, to the Home Office, to
:11:40. > :11:43.assess what kind of support and at what level of support that is from
:11:44. > :11:48.central government. We are looking at that right now. Let's assume
:11:48. > :11:54.that a police force is asking for �5 million because that is how much
:11:54. > :11:59.was spent in terms of dealing with riots and compensation? I am afraid
:11:59. > :12:05.I can't short-circuit a detailed process. I can't tell you now
:12:05. > :12:07.without knowing the details of what it claims are. Without knowing
:12:08. > :12:12.exactly if they are fairly represent the costs incurred and if
:12:12. > :12:18.they can be covered by Centre government. I do not think you can
:12:18. > :12:21.reasonably accept -- expect me to second guess this. Mr Cameron said
:12:21. > :12:25.the government will ensure the police have the funds they need to
:12:25. > :12:30.meet the costs, which gave the impression... What you're asking me
:12:30. > :12:37.to do, which I cannot do, is predetermine whether I'd �5 million
:12:37. > :12:40.claim is legitimate. I understand. What I do not understand is why Mr
:12:40. > :12:45.Cameron seems to have given it the impression that government would be
:12:45. > :12:50.funding forces who have had these extraordinary situations. He said
:12:50. > :12:57.legitimate costs. The process is about to terminate, as the prime
:12:57. > :13:00.minister says what does legitimate costs are. I can't tell you. This
:13:00. > :13:06.is a dialogue between the police forces and the Home Office, and I
:13:06. > :13:10.can't tell you what cost the police forces would have bought anyway.
:13:10. > :13:13.You would hope the Home Office would know. According to a great --
:13:13. > :13:17.greater Manchester Police Laboratory, the quotes are changing
:13:17. > :13:21.all the time. According to Merseyside police are authority,
:13:21. > :13:25.they do not know what the Home Office rules are at all. What is
:13:26. > :13:30.going on? Clearly, but police forces are entirely entitled to
:13:30. > :13:36.expect clarity as quickly as possible. The Home Office will
:13:36. > :13:41.hopefully provide. As quickly as possible. You can't say, you cannot
:13:41. > :13:45.be expected to sign a blank cheque, let's look at declaims and decide
:13:45. > :13:49.what are legitimate and what are not, just as the Prime Minister
:13:49. > :13:54.implied. In terms of giving the police authorities the rules so
:13:54. > :13:59.they know where they stand, the you agree that the Home Office should
:13:59. > :14:03.make accurate to them? Obviously, they do not know at the moment.
:14:03. > :14:08.Acceptable from all sides. The quicker you can resolve these
:14:08. > :14:13.things, the better. I'm afraid it is not a question of me snapping my
:14:13. > :14:16.fingers and resolving an issue which is quite complex. Let the
:14:16. > :14:18.police and Home Office thrash this art and determine what are
:14:18. > :14:25.legitimate additional costs which should be covered by government and
:14:25. > :14:32.are not. It's pretty clear that there's lots of confusion here
:14:32. > :14:37.amongst all sorts of groups. Even the politicians do not know exactly
:14:37. > :14:41.what the rules are. Clearly, Greater Manchester and Merseyside
:14:41. > :14:44.police will want to get clarification on that pretty soon.
:14:45. > :14:48.Very interesting stuff. Still to come in North West
:14:48. > :14:56.Tonight... Berry tasty - autumn's on its way
:14:56. > :15:06.and so is Diane with the weather. And one man's service journey from
:15:06. > :15:10.
:15:10. > :15:14.Knutsford to Moscow and back again. You have probably seen the
:15:14. > :15:17.controversy over the deal foreign travellers' site in Essex recently.
:15:17. > :15:21.-- the a farm. What do you do when travellers set
:15:21. > :15:24.up home in a local field? How do you balance their rights to live in
:15:24. > :15:26.peace with the needs of long-term residents? In Cheshire, they've
:15:26. > :15:34.more experience than most of wrestling with such dilemmas. Now,
:15:34. > :15:37.one local authority is trying a new approach. Stuart Flinders reports.
:15:37. > :15:40.Making babies Thomas, you should be ashamed!
:15:40. > :15:43.Dale Farm in Essex. Travellers are refusing to leave their illegal
:15:43. > :15:45.camp. The local council wants them out. Other councils will be
:15:45. > :15:50.watching what happens closely. In Cheshire, they've come up with a
:15:50. > :15:57.plan to stop disputes such as this reaching a standoff. This is a
:15:57. > :16:00.traveller's site near Childer Thornton in south Wirral. The
:16:00. > :16:05.travellers bought this land some months ago before moving their
:16:05. > :16:09.caravans on to it and then seeking and getting retrospective planning
:16:09. > :16:10.permission. The local authority is not happy. It's green belt land and
:16:11. > :16:14.the council opposed planning permission. Temporary permission
:16:14. > :16:18.was granted. Now they want to create six new sites for travellers.
:16:18. > :16:25.They say it will mean travellers can't argue that they need to buy
:16:25. > :16:29.land like this. These sites would be properly managed, whereby they
:16:29. > :16:35.have to pay for their site provision, they pay council tax
:16:35. > :16:38.while they're there, and they paid other taxation has. It is different
:16:39. > :16:42.than the sites that may be in the countryside at the moment. Along
:16:42. > :16:44.the lane from the site, John Jones runs a market garden. He says
:16:44. > :16:50.they're good neighbours, but believes the planning process isn't
:16:50. > :16:55.working. If they get planning permission within it the green belt,
:16:56. > :17:05.then effectively the council have gifted them a valuable asset.
:17:06. > :17:07.
:17:07. > :17:11.travellers who live here didn't want to speak to us on camera.
:17:11. > :17:14.Manchester United has put plans to sell shares on hold because of
:17:14. > :17:18.uncertainty on the financial markets. It received approval to
:17:19. > :17:22.float the company on the Singapore Stock Exchange in September. The
:17:22. > :17:25.club needs to raise money to pay off some of its debts but is
:17:25. > :17:28.holding off because of concerns about the eurozone.
:17:28. > :17:31.Everton Football Club has mortgaged its TV rights for two seasons to an
:17:31. > :17:35.offshore investment company. The deal, signed with a company in the
:17:35. > :17:38.British Virgin Islands, is thought to be worth �14 million pounds.
:17:38. > :17:40.Fans recently marched in protest at the lack of investment in the club,
:17:40. > :17:50.which didn't bring in a single permanent player during the
:17:50. > :17:53.transfer window. It is incredibly worrying that the club don't seem
:17:53. > :17:57.to have a sustainable business plan that can actually move the club
:17:57. > :18:01.forward. That is why we are advocating setting up a
:18:01. > :18:06.professional group of hard-nosed businessmen who have got clear and
:18:06. > :18:09.concise mandate from the board to find the investment we need.
:18:09. > :18:13.Last week we had the Queen Mary on the Mersey. Today we've another
:18:13. > :18:16.giant of the seas in dock in Liverpool. The Navy's flagship, HMS
:18:16. > :18:19.Albion, is here for the next few days. She's just come back from
:18:19. > :18:29.operational duty off the coast of Libya. Our Merseyside Reporter,
:18:29. > :18:29.
:18:29. > :18:35.Andy Gill, is aboard now. Looks like a great did you?
:18:35. > :18:41.Albion is one of the Navy's biggest ships, the flagship as well. The
:18:41. > :18:45.Krug rises to about 1,000 when the Royal Marines are on board. If you
:18:45. > :18:49.look at half-time we are compared to the live a building, you can see
:18:49. > :18:55.how high we are. The job is to get Marine's onshore to fight. It also
:18:55. > :18:59.has a job as a command centre to coordinate operations from a ship.
:19:00. > :19:03.That is when it has been dealing off the coast of Libya, as a
:19:04. > :19:09.commanding officer told me earlier this evening. We were deployed to
:19:09. > :19:19.provide political choice in the immediate aftermath of the Arabs
:19:19. > :19:20.
:19:20. > :19:28.brink this year. -- Arabs bring. When we first were projecting a
:19:28. > :19:33.helicopters into Lippiett, we were -- that is clearly our primary
:19:33. > :19:40.focus. -- bringing up helicopters into Libya. HMS Albion is
:19:40. > :19:43.affiliated with Chester. Tomorrow, most of the ship's company will
:19:43. > :19:48.march is to Chester in the morning. The salute will be taken by
:19:48. > :19:56.Princess Anne. She is the ship's sponsor. I am joined by two crew
:19:56. > :20:01.members. You're from West Derby originally. This is a special visit
:20:01. > :20:06.to Liverpool for you, tell us why? This Sunday, my three-year-old son
:20:06. > :20:11.is getting christened on board on the bridge. The ceremony is
:20:11. > :20:16.happening on board? Yes. important is it for you to take
:20:16. > :20:21.part in this parade? It is very important. It is a city that shape
:20:21. > :20:25.is affiliated to, so it is a special occasion to be able to
:20:25. > :20:31.march through it and have the freedom of Chester. You have been
:20:31. > :20:38.in any be a while. His is your first visit to a home city? Why is
:20:38. > :20:43.that? I was on HMS London in 1996. When it came into never put a 1997,
:20:43. > :20:48.I left the ship to go on a course, and then eaten as Glasgow came in
:20:48. > :20:54.around 2000, and I left that shipped to go on another course,
:20:54. > :21:00.therefore I have never been to Liverpool on a ship. Lieutenant
:21:00. > :21:07.Turley, you are in the Royal Naval Reserve. What is it you like about
:21:07. > :21:13.Navy life? It is an amazing chance to work alongside a great team. You
:21:13. > :21:16.get to have a challenge and exciting time. It is a great
:21:16. > :21:21.opportunity to do something different and exciting and develop
:21:21. > :21:27.yourself, and also bring my own skills on board. What your kids
:21:27. > :21:34.make of it? They get excited. They can be a bit blase, but it is good
:21:34. > :21:40.to keep in touch with letters home. They think it is great. It moppet -
:21:40. > :21:46.- it must be nice to come home on a ship like this? Etc. But live a
:21:46. > :21:56.building behind me really gets you going. -- to see the live her
:21:56. > :22:02.
:22:02. > :22:09.building. The parade is tomorrow in Chester at 10:30am.
:22:09. > :22:15.Let's see what the weather has in The berries are on the bushes but
:22:15. > :22:20.not for very long when my dog is around. Here he is, helping himself
:22:20. > :22:25.to black berries, straight from the bush. He is making sure he gets one
:22:25. > :22:31.of his daily five a day. Just helps himself. He can pick out the rap --
:22:31. > :22:36.the right ones. Does anybody else's dog do that? I have had an e-mail
:22:36. > :22:41.this afternoon from Dennis. He says his wife is not impressed with the
:22:41. > :22:48.forecast. I said it would be a largely dry day. Well, it hasn't
:22:48. > :22:53.turned out at all like that. He says, can you bring the washing
:22:53. > :22:58.round and hang it on my radiators because it is so soaked? You can,
:22:58. > :23:05.but I can't promise you that some one-82. The rain has finally
:23:05. > :23:09.managed to leave us. It has been sporadic and patchy as we head
:23:09. > :23:13.through the day. Over the next couple of ours it will be dry in
:23:13. > :23:17.virtually everywhere but it will be very clear in parts with overnight
:23:17. > :23:21.temperatures down to around six Celsius. It will feel autumnal
:23:22. > :23:26.tomorrow morning. Not only do we have a lot of clear skies, we have
:23:26. > :23:35.incredibly light winds. Maybe even some fog forming as we head towards
:23:35. > :23:40.Down. There is an Hon Tom of start to the day. -- and autumn and will
:23:40. > :23:47.start today. It will be warmer along the coast, particularly in
:23:47. > :23:52.parts of Cumbria. You will see some nice spells of sunshine in the
:23:52. > :23:57.morning. You can clearly see a south-westerly breeze, not a bad
:23:57. > :24:03.direction for a southern parts of the region. Cloud feeding into
:24:03. > :24:08.parts of Cumbria and Lancashire. Add to that light and drizzly
:24:08. > :24:12.showers, they will start to take cold and by the end of the day, and
:24:12. > :24:17.we will all have seen a shower. The best of the weather around first
:24:17. > :24:25.thing. The south-westerly breeze will become a feature. It will pick
:24:25. > :24:32.up through the afternoon. It will go up to 25 mph. The south-westerly
:24:32. > :24:37.is relatively mild. After that, high pressure will start to squeeze
:24:37. > :24:42.in. Thursday and Friday don't to lead to bad. It falls apart again
:24:43. > :24:46.at the weekend. At 16, a schoolboy from Cheshire
:24:46. > :24:52.left Knutsford to join the circus. 33 years later, after a career as a
:24:52. > :24:55.juggler, Paul Archer is back in the town. But he's not performing in
:24:55. > :25:01.the circus - he's the boss. Paul's now a director of the world-famous
:25:01. > :25:04.Moscow State Circus and he owns the UK performance rights. Tonight the
:25:04. > :25:11.show opens in Tatton Park, a short hop from where he was born. Kate
:25:11. > :25:14.Simms went to meet him. A small step in the name of
:25:14. > :25:24.publicity for his new show, but it's been a long journey for Paul
:25:24. > :25:25.
:25:25. > :25:28.Archer- from Knutsford to Moscow and back again. Paul spent hours
:25:28. > :25:37.doing this as a child in Knutsford, inspired by the circuses that came
:25:37. > :25:40.and went from the heath. I had ever experienced something like that
:25:40. > :25:45.experienced something like that before. Sheer excitement for a
:25:45. > :25:55.child is going along and seeing this happening in his own town.
:25:55. > :26:00.
:26:00. > :26:04.From then on, the bug caught me. Paul Juggled everywhere. I is a
:26:04. > :26:07.strange feeling being back here. Today he went back to what used to
:26:07. > :26:10.be Edgerton Primary School But at 16, Paul left Knutsford to ply his
:26:11. > :26:14.trade as a juggler, but he soon became involved in the running of
:26:14. > :26:18.the circus... My mother thought it was a passing phase. It developed
:26:18. > :26:28.into something much bigger. And 33 years later, he's brought the world
:26:28. > :26:33.
:26:33. > :26:37.famous Moscow State Circus he now runs back to his hometown. How does
:26:38. > :26:41.it feel to see the sign in Knutsford? It is like I have come
:26:41. > :26:46.full circle. I am proud to be back in Cheshire with the Moscow State
:26:46. > :26:49.Circus. I have come back Kong, I suppose. The show includes unique
:26:49. > :26:59.tricks like this one - don't try this at home! The circus is in town
:26:59. > :27:09.till Sunday. I am excited and proud to bring it back to Cheshire., long,
:27:09. > :27:15.
:27:15. > :27:20.I can actually juggle. Many years ago! What do you juggle with?