:00:05. > :00:08.Welcome to North West Tonight with Ranvir Singh and Tony Livesey. Our
:00:08. > :00:16.top story: The elaborate police sting which trapped an underworld
:00:16. > :00:23.dealer trading in guns in Manchester.
:00:23. > :00:25.Find out how a fake shop led to a gun dealer being jailed. Also
:00:25. > :00:31.tonight, hundreds of mourners pay their respects to a Royal Marine
:00:31. > :00:36.from Lancashire who was killed in Afghanistan. It is devastating for
:00:36. > :00:39.the family but they should know what an enormous impact he had.
:00:39. > :00:42.The hit and run death of a Blackburn schoolgirl leads the Home
:00:42. > :00:45.Secretary to call for changes in the law over foreign criminals.
:00:45. > :00:53.Less of your sauce. Why chefs from France are seeing Red over one of
:00:53. > :01:03.our most famous exports. If you start putting the ketchup with
:01:03. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:13.everything, everything tastes like Also tonight. Are you being served?
:01:13. > :01:16.Andy Gill's in Liverpool with the undercover shoppers.
:01:17. > :01:22.That is right. Why the typical Liverpool experience for shoppers
:01:22. > :01:26.is these days by and large a rather good thing, whereas in the past it
:01:26. > :01:30.was maybe something else. A gun dealer is behind bars tonight
:01:30. > :01:34.after being snared by an elaborate police sting. Marc Billingham
:01:34. > :01:39.believed he was selling weapons to criminals. In fact, they were
:01:39. > :01:43.undercover cops. And the ruse they used to catching could have come
:01:43. > :01:47.straight from the plot of a TV drama. It involves setting up a
:01:47. > :01:53.fake shop and waiting months to finally spring the trap. Our chief
:01:53. > :01:57.reporter has the story. He was described in court as a daft
:01:57. > :02:05.lad. But Marc Billingham was a daft lad who had serious firepower for
:02:05. > :02:11.sale. He was caught in an elaborate police operation codenamed Hook.
:02:11. > :02:16.The idea was to try to recover as many firearms as possible from the
:02:16. > :02:26.south Manchester area. The police opened a burkas shop here on
:02:26. > :02:26.
:02:26. > :02:32.Princess Road in Moss Side. -- A bogus shop. The staff were actually
:02:32. > :02:35.entirely made up of local police officers and they let it be known
:02:35. > :02:41.on the great find that they were only interested in doing legitimate
:02:41. > :02:48.business. -- they were not only interested. 12 months later, Marc
:02:48. > :02:52.Billingham walked in and offered to sell them guns. This is one go and
:02:52. > :02:55.he sold them, converted to fire live ammunition. In total, he sold
:02:55. > :03:03.them four weapons and told them he could supply a sub-machinegun and
:03:03. > :03:07.an assault rifle. He was described as a daft lad in the crown court.
:03:07. > :03:15.It is quite worrying in the first instance, if a daft lad can provide
:03:15. > :03:18.us with firearms. This was a complex operation. It involved
:03:18. > :03:23.police officers working in the shop for a year before they got a First
:03:23. > :03:28.bite. Was it worth it? Absolutely. These firearms would definitely
:03:28. > :03:33.have been used in shootings in the area. I am sure that in the
:03:33. > :03:35.recovery of them, we saved people's lives. At Manchester Crown Court,
:03:35. > :03:38.Billingham was jailed for ten years. His associate, Elliott Harrison,
:03:38. > :03:41.got five. Utterly loyal, selfless, courageous.
:03:41. > :03:45.The words used in memory of Royal Marine David Fairbrother from
:03:45. > :03:49.Blackburn. Hundreds of people attended his funeral today at the
:03:49. > :03:53.town's cathedral. The 24 year-old was shot dead in Afghanistan when
:03:53. > :04:03.his patrol was ambushed. He had been protecting colleagues from a
:04:03. > :04:03.
:04:03. > :04:08.suspected bomb at the time. A guard of honour for a fallen comrade. The
:04:08. > :04:16.Royal Marines came to say farewell to one of their own. They came, too,
:04:16. > :04:20.with a message for David Fairbrother's family. When you lose
:04:20. > :04:25.someone at the age of 24, it is devastating for the family, but
:04:25. > :04:28.they should know what an enormous impact he had. He upheld the finest
:04:28. > :04:31.traditions of the Royal Marines. Marine Fairbrother was shot on
:04:31. > :04:34.September 19th in Helmand province. He had been at the front of his
:04:34. > :04:44.patrol, searching for improvised explosive devices. His mother and
:04:44. > :04:48.sisters, comforted in knowing he died doing the job he loved. They
:04:48. > :04:58.played one of his favourite songs, words from which he had used in a
:04:58. > :05:03.
:05:03. > :05:09.letter home to his girlfriend. And she had her own words for him.
:05:09. > :05:19.thank you for his life, lived doing the job he loved. For his bravery
:05:19. > :05:24.
:05:24. > :05:28.and for giving his life in the service of his country. As we try
:05:29. > :05:34.to come to terms with his untimely death, we pray that we will not be
:05:34. > :05:37.overwhelmed by grief and loss. Instead, with pride in his courage,
:05:37. > :05:46.we help and support each other through our tears and paying, as he
:05:46. > :05:49.would have wished. -- tears and pain. As the cortege left for a
:05:49. > :05:55.private burial, a spontaneous round of applause from the many who had
:05:55. > :05:58.turned out. Other news. A man has pleaded not
:05:58. > :06:01.guilty to murdering a prostitute in Liverpool six years ago. Anne Marie
:06:01. > :06:04.Foy was found strangled and beaten in undergrowth near the city centre.
:06:04. > :06:07.64 year-old David Butler from Wavertree was charged with her
:06:07. > :06:12.murder in June. Butler was remanded back into custody and will stand
:06:12. > :06:16.trial at the beginning of next year. Police investigating the death of a
:06:16. > :06:18.baby found in a stream near Kirkham on Sunday have issued a fresh
:06:18. > :06:21.appeal. They believe a teenage girl was spotted pushing an empty
:06:21. > :06:25.pushchair close to Carr Lane on Monday the 26th September or the
:06:25. > :06:31.day after. The police say it's vital this person comes forward so
:06:31. > :06:35.she can be ruled out of the inquiry. 400 jobs are to go at a credit card
:06:35. > :06:38.company in Chester. MBNA is being sold by parent company the Bank of
:06:38. > :06:43.America, who say the current economic climate means it needs to
:06:43. > :06:49.streamline its operations as they look for a buyer. It hopes the cuts
:06:49. > :06:52.can be achieved through voluntary redundancy.
:06:52. > :06:55.It is the first day of official business for the 24 newly-elected
:06:55. > :06:58.MHKs on the Isle of Man. They were sworn in this morning for their
:06:58. > :07:02.five-year term and unanimously re- elected Steve Rodan as the Speaker
:07:02. > :07:09.of the House of Keys this afternoon. It is a time of huge challenges for
:07:09. > :07:13.the new Government. Over half the house now has been
:07:13. > :07:17.elected with less than five years' experience and these difficult
:07:17. > :07:21.times, we are dealing with the economic situation and Government
:07:21. > :07:25.finances. That is going to be quite a challenge. People will have to
:07:25. > :07:30.hit the ground running on day one. This is not a time for
:07:30. > :07:33.apprenticeships, unfortunately. To the Conservative Party
:07:33. > :07:36.conference in Manchester now and the Home Secretary, Theresa May,
:07:36. > :07:39.wants to make it easier to deport criminals who are from abroad. She
:07:39. > :07:43.wants the change partly because of what happened after the death of 12
:07:43. > :07:51.year-old Amy Houston, who was hit by a car in Blackburn in 2003. Our
:07:51. > :07:55.political editor is following events at the conference centre.
:07:55. > :08:01.This case is something we have covered on the programme many times.
:08:01. > :08:05.Remind us of his feet. -- remind us of it.
:08:05. > :08:09.I should point out that Theresa May did not specifically mention this
:08:09. > :08:12.case in her speech but I bumped into her afterwards and I asked her
:08:12. > :08:16.if this was the one she was thinking of and she said it was an
:08:16. > :08:19.example at the forefront of her mind. This has been a complex
:08:19. > :08:22.criminal case in which a failed asylum seeker ran over and killed
:08:22. > :08:25.Amy Houston. He drove off and was later convicted of driving while
:08:25. > :08:27.disqualified and failing to stop after the accident. There were
:08:27. > :08:30.attempts to deport the man in question, Aso Mohammed Ibrahim But
:08:30. > :08:33.the Court of Appeal ultimately ruled that because he had two
:08:33. > :08:36.children after being released from prison, he had a right to family
:08:36. > :08:46.life under the Human Rights Act Well, today, the Home Secretary
:08:46. > :08:49.
:08:49. > :08:53.said she wanted to change that. -- and under the Human Rights Act he
:08:53. > :08:57.could not be deported. Today the Home Secretary said she wanted to
:08:57. > :09:02.change that. I will write it into our laws that when criminals are
:09:02. > :09:08.convicted of an offence, when they should be removed, they will be
:09:09. > :09:11.removed. And that will have gone very down -- gone down very well in
:09:11. > :09:16.the conference centre but the question is, how will this be
:09:16. > :09:22.implemented, and how is it? That is absolutely the question. It is
:09:22. > :09:26.worth asking, what actually is the problem here? Because in a sense,
:09:26. > :09:30.absolutely you can disagree with the decision, but it is not
:09:30. > :09:34.necessarily a problem with the system. It may well just be that
:09:34. > :09:38.the duty to it -- the judge has decided this was the correct ruling,
:09:38. > :09:43.and the Home Secretary herself in the speech made it clear that had
:09:43. > :09:46.the judges wanted to rule otherwise they could have done. It was not
:09:46. > :09:50.specifically the Human Rights Act. So as far as I can work out, or the
:09:50. > :09:54.Government is going to do is write to judges, explained the situation
:09:54. > :09:59.and their position, but I am not sure that ultimately they will be
:09:59. > :10:03.able to change the way it works. Having said that, could they face
:10:03. > :10:09.opposition from the Liberal Democrats? Undoubtedly, because the
:10:09. > :10:13.Liberal Democrats two weeks ago were very supportive of this whole
:10:13. > :10:17.human Rights Act and also Europe in general. The very much a contrast
:10:17. > :10:22.to conference here where it went down very well, but they could be a
:10:22. > :10:26.struggle over issues like this in Government. Like all party
:10:26. > :10:31.conferences, this one has a large number of fringe events but none
:10:31. > :10:36.more unusual than the small camp of protesters who have set up their
:10:36. > :10:42.base in the city's Albert Square. Many are camping just yards away
:10:42. > :10:46.from where the conference is taking place.
:10:46. > :10:49.I am here representing Occupy Manchester because 12 months ago I
:10:49. > :10:54.tended to agree with the Conservative Party. It is easy to
:10:54. > :11:01.be swayed by newspapers. In that time, my opinions have changed so I
:11:01. > :11:06.am here showing solidarity and making sure people can have saved
:11:06. > :11:11.spaces to discuss new ideas and solutions. I have been here since
:11:11. > :11:15.Sunday and I intend to stay indefinitely. I am here to take
:11:15. > :11:18.part in the occupying movement. The beautiful thing about this is I
:11:18. > :11:23.have been on marches and protests before but there is always a set
:11:23. > :11:26.agenda and said idea. What we are saying here is we do not have a
:11:26. > :11:33.solution, maybe there is not one solution, but let's open a dialogue
:11:33. > :11:37.with everybody. We started listening to the Conservative Party
:11:37. > :11:41.conference and a lot of people are feeling disconnected from politics.
:11:41. > :11:46.They feel like they are not being represented. I do not want to sound
:11:46. > :11:56.like a radical leftist because that is not what we are. All we want is
:11:56. > :12:02.
:12:02. > :12:05.Lancashire Police believe the body of a man discovered in a remote
:12:05. > :12:08.part of East Lancashire could have been there for three weeks. The
:12:08. > :12:11.body was spotted by a rambler in the Trough of Bowland on Saturday
:12:11. > :12:13.afternoon. Walkers are once again being advised to make sure they
:12:13. > :12:16.tell someone exactly where they are going before setting off.
:12:16. > :12:19.The dramatic and bleak landscape of Lancashire's Trough of Bowland
:12:19. > :12:22.where on Saturday afternoon there was a grim discovery. A man's body
:12:22. > :12:25.on Saddle Fell, about two miles north of the village of Chipping.
:12:25. > :12:28.Police say ID suggests he is a 75 year-old from the Liverpool area. A
:12:28. > :12:36.train ticket from 10th September means he had probably been there
:12:36. > :12:42.for three weeks. Despite the warm weather last week it has been a wet
:12:42. > :12:48.summer and there are lots of deep Pons and peat bogs up there. Once
:12:48. > :12:51.you get stuck, it take us a bit of a struggle to get yourself out.
:12:51. > :12:55.Unfortunately, this gentleman appears to have been walking on his
:12:55. > :12:58.own and there would have been nobody to assist him. It took 15
:12:58. > :13:04.members of mountain rescue more than five hours to pull the body
:13:04. > :13:08.out. They had to dig a trench around it to drain the water.
:13:08. > :13:12.Walkers come to this part of Lancashire because it is so remote
:13:12. > :13:15.and remarkably untouched. You can go the whole day without seeing
:13:15. > :13:19.another person but that does mean that if you do get into trouble,
:13:19. > :13:22.with potentially note mobile phone reception out there, it is very
:13:22. > :13:26.difficult to raise the alarm. Walkers are once again being
:13:26. > :13:29.advised to always take a map and compass out with them and make sure
:13:29. > :13:34.somebody knows where they are and when they are due back. The man's
:13:34. > :13:40.body is expected to be formally identified in the coming days.
:13:40. > :13:42.Still to come in North West Tonight:
:13:42. > :13:50.Saddling up for the Olympics. We meet another young athlete hoping
:13:50. > :13:54.to go for gold. And the appliance of science in the
:13:54. > :14:02.birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Could graphene hail a
:14:02. > :14:05.new revolution and really change the world in which we live?
:14:05. > :14:09.Liverpool is rightly known as one of the friendliest cities in the
:14:09. > :14:11.country. Visitors often talk about the warm Scouse welcome they get.
:14:12. > :14:15.But friendliness has not always meant great customer service in
:14:15. > :14:18.shops, hotels and restaurants. Now though, researchers have discovered
:14:18. > :14:23.that customers think Scousers are getting a lot better at looking
:14:23. > :14:33.after them. Our Merseyside reporter is in Liverpool city centre now.
:14:33. > :14:33.
:14:33. > :14:37.Andy, what exactly has been the problem with service in Liverpool?
:14:37. > :14:42.Some people get rather touchy about this and say it was an urban myth
:14:42. > :14:46.that a lot of people, Liverpudlians included, if they got poor service
:14:46. > :14:51.in a restaurant or shop, would roll their eyes and say typical
:14:51. > :14:55.Liverpool. Anecdotal evidence the baby. The problem with anecdotes is
:14:55. > :15:00.that one person tells another person and a place gets a
:15:00. > :15:04.reputation. So the people who run the city centre here decided to do
:15:04. > :15:10.something about it. A report just out suggested what they have been
:15:10. > :15:13.doing may be working. Rapid Hardware is one of
:15:13. > :15:19.Liverpool's best known independent retailers. Last year it scored a
:15:19. > :15:25.rather lowly 35% on customer satisfaction. This year it is up to
:15:25. > :15:29.100%. People can come into the store and get that friendly
:15:29. > :15:32.atmosphere but at the end of the day it is not just about been
:15:32. > :15:38.friendly. It is about making sure we have what the customer is
:15:38. > :15:42.looking for. Chain-stores also improved their ratings. If you can
:15:42. > :15:47.get some sort of understanding of the person they are, you can help
:15:47. > :15:51.them get what they want. Last year, one in 10 shops scored 50% or below.
:15:51. > :15:57.This year it is only one in 20. So what to do today's shoppers make of
:15:57. > :16:02.the Liverpool experience? In some shops rather than others it could
:16:02. > :16:06.be a bit better, maybe due to the numbers of staff but all in all,
:16:06. > :16:10.good service. When I first came here, I thought people were quite
:16:10. > :16:13.reach in the shops. People are very helpful. The people who organised
:16:13. > :16:21.the survey agreed that some shops, restaurants and hotels here did
:16:21. > :16:25.have a poor reputation. But not necessarily a deserved one. It was
:16:26. > :16:30.something which Liverpool was branded with and unfairly, I could
:16:30. > :16:33.argue, in the past. Some of it fair, some of it not fair. A research
:16:33. > :16:36.company got mystery shoppers to check out how well shops treated
:16:36. > :16:43.them. It says Liverpool shops need to squeeze a bit more out of their
:16:43. > :16:47.customers. If somebody goes into a store to buy a shirt, the easiest
:16:47. > :16:52.thing to do is to offer them a time with that and there is quite often
:16:52. > :16:58.a fear amongst retail staff to do that. The shops who have improved
:16:58. > :17:02.most will pick up awards at a ceremony tonight. Of course, there
:17:02. > :17:06.are very good reasons for improving your customer service. Things are
:17:06. > :17:09.very tough on the high street. Retailers are finding it hard and
:17:09. > :17:14.the customers are thinking carefully about where they put
:17:14. > :17:19.their money. So if you look after them and make them feel welcome,
:17:19. > :17:23.they will spend their money in your shop. That at least is the theory
:17:23. > :17:26.in Liverpool. Now, if I said the word "graphene",
:17:26. > :17:29.would it mean anything to you? If the answer is no, fear not, because
:17:29. > :17:33.it is a discovery at Manchester University which you will be
:17:33. > :17:35.hearing a lot more of. What is new is it is incredibly thin, and
:17:35. > :17:39.unbelievably strong. One academic reckons it would take the weight of
:17:39. > :17:48.an elephant balanced on a pencil to break through a sheet of graphene
:17:48. > :17:52.the thickness of clingfilm. Esterday, the Government announced
:17:52. > :17:57.a �50 million investment which could help take it out of the labs
:17:57. > :17:59.and into production. It is hailed as a miracle material,
:17:59. > :18:05.the strongest ever measured. Graphene was pioneered here, at
:18:05. > :18:08.Manchester University. Science awarded the Nobel Prize. The Nobel
:18:08. > :18:11.Prize committee said a hammock of perfect graphene could carry a cat.
:18:12. > :18:14.But the hammock would weigh less than one of the cat's whiskers and
:18:14. > :18:22.would be virtually invisible. Incredible stuff, but knowing what
:18:22. > :18:31.it is, is a world away from knowing exactly what you can do with it.
:18:31. > :18:35.That is where George Osborne stepped in yesterday. We will turn
:18:35. > :18:39.it into something that can be used in a factories across the world. It
:18:39. > :18:48.is about taking the discoveries in our best universities and turning
:18:48. > :18:50.them into something that graze jobs and wealth. So �50 million given to
:18:50. > :18:56.create a hub of graphene knowledge and ultimately, production,
:18:56. > :19:03.announced here in Manchester. Manchester hope they will win it.
:19:03. > :19:06.If we do get it will be the next level. We will be looking for
:19:07. > :19:11.investment from big companies that we would hope would have an even
:19:11. > :19:13.greater interest in graphene and come to Manchester. Look at what
:19:13. > :19:16.happened in California with the innovation of silicon chip.
:19:16. > :19:25.SiliconValley, to this day, leads hi-tech innovation in America.
:19:25. > :19:29.Could graphene be as significant? Scientists are so excited about
:19:29. > :19:38.graphene that they really do not know where it could be in the next
:19:38. > :19:41.five or ten years. The possibilities are almost limitless.
:19:41. > :19:45.Today, 200 companies are researching graphene. More than 400
:19:45. > :19:49.patent applications have been made, 3000 research papers published.
:19:49. > :19:59.They really think it could be the next big thing. Manchester thinks
:19:59. > :20:02.
:20:02. > :20:08.it could be at the heart of that. So you and down are the size of an
:20:08. > :20:13.elephant. All we need is a pencil - - you and Dianne.
:20:13. > :20:17.Sport and Everton's Jack Rodwell has had his red card received on
:20:17. > :20:22.Saturday and rescinded. He was dismissed from this challenge on
:20:23. > :20:29.Luis Suarez midway through the 2-0 defeat to Liverpool. The decision
:20:29. > :20:33.was welcomed by the manager said it provided little comfort to the fans.
:20:33. > :20:35.It was never a sending off. Boxing - and Bolton's Amir Khan has
:20:35. > :20:37.announced he'll defend defend his WBA and IBF light-welterweight
:20:37. > :20:41.titles against the American Lamont Peterson in Washington DC on
:20:41. > :20:44.December the 10th. It will be the last time he fights at the weight
:20:44. > :20:51.and is likely to step up to welterweight to fight the unbeaten
:20:51. > :20:55.Floyd Mayweather next summer. Training to Olympic standard in one
:20:55. > :20:59.sport is hard enough. So imagine trying to reach perfection in five
:20:59. > :21:02.different disciplines. That's the challenge of the modern pentathlete,
:21:02. > :21:05.Steven Mason from Blackpool - if he's to make it to London 2012.
:21:05. > :21:15.Steve is one of five athletes we're following in our Olympic Dreams
:21:15. > :21:16.
:21:16. > :21:21.series. Stuart Pollitt has been watching him train.
:21:21. > :21:25.Five sports, five separate carriages, one game. I have chosen
:21:25. > :21:33.to train and train and trained to get to the top. It is just hard
:21:33. > :21:40.work. Hours and banners and arrears. Modern tent athletes -- modern
:21:40. > :21:43.pentathlon its have to shoot, ride a horse and run. In competition,
:21:43. > :21:50.the horse is selected at random says Steve and his coach practice
:21:50. > :21:54.on lots of different ones. It is a beast that has its own mind. It is
:21:54. > :22:02.not like holding a gun. The horse can have a day where it does what
:22:02. > :22:05.it wants. You aim to get around the fences. Because Stephen is very
:22:05. > :22:11.calm in his own manner, that helps, but horses can sense from the
:22:11. > :22:18.minute they look at new the type of move that you're feeling, and so we
:22:18. > :22:23.have done a bit of psychology. did you feel she went. Really well.
:22:23. > :22:30.An injury-plagued season has put Stephen on the back foot for London
:22:30. > :22:35.qualification but he's not giving up. Fingers crossed I can still get
:22:35. > :22:39.there. I would say it is not crucial this year to qualify
:22:39. > :22:42.because there are more opportunities next year. Next it is
:22:42. > :22:47.the junior championships in Argentina next month. He will find
:22:47. > :22:53.out a week today if he has made this far.
:22:53. > :22:57.You may have had a bit of this with your tea tonight. Do you like
:22:57. > :23:01.tomato ketchup? In this country did personal taste but in France, it is
:23:01. > :23:07.apparently a matter of national honour. Ketchup, which for many
:23:07. > :23:11.years was produced at the big Heinz factory in Wigan, is to be rationed
:23:11. > :23:18.in French schools because they think it will corrupt the taste
:23:18. > :23:25.buds of the young. It is hard to imagine a world
:23:25. > :23:29.without ketchup. Heinz have their biggest and finest food processing
:23:29. > :23:34.plant... Heinz have not made ketchup in Wigan or elsewhere in
:23:34. > :23:39.the UK for decades but they sell 650 million bottles of the stuff
:23:39. > :23:43.every year. Mostly to go with chips and burgers. Beyonce likes hers
:23:43. > :23:47.with bananas, but then she is pregnant. But cultural purists in
:23:47. > :23:51.France have persuaded the Government to ration it in schools.
:23:51. > :23:54.They fear it is a hindrance to the development of good taste. The
:23:54. > :23:58.French have always been a bit suspicious of the red stuff and
:23:58. > :24:08.there was one famous occasion when a French chef through someone out
:24:08. > :24:09.
:24:09. > :24:13.of his restaurant simply for asking forget it. -- asking for ketchup.
:24:13. > :24:18.La Boheme in Lymm is far too glacier restaurant to go that far.
:24:18. > :24:23.In fact, they keep a bottle feeding in the fridge just in case, but the
:24:23. > :24:29.restaurant chefs are French, all right. I only put it sometimes on
:24:29. > :24:33.my chips. To get the ketchup down in France or even in England or
:24:33. > :24:38.anywhere else is a good idea because you start putting kept them
:24:38. > :24:42.with everything, everything tastes like ketchup. The French are
:24:42. > :24:51.resisting get up but you cannot help feeling they are losing the
:24:51. > :25:01.bottle. I mean, battle. Now she's someone who needs no
:25:01. > :25:02.
:25:02. > :25:06.extra spice. It is down with the We will see the weather changing in
:25:07. > :25:16.the next couple of days. Whether France will still need to take a
:25:16. > :25:20.run at us. -- weather fronts will be taking a run at us. It will be
:25:20. > :25:26.windy and at times it will be rather wet. Through this evening
:25:26. > :25:31.and overnight, it turned cloudy through the afternoon and the cloud
:25:31. > :25:39.continues to thicken hour-by-hour. You can see the first signs of rain
:25:39. > :25:42.moving in by 9pm or 10pm. This will dampen the ground for a large part
:25:42. > :25:46.of the North West. The breeze is still coming from the South West,
:25:47. > :25:52.so that his own mild direction so do not expect the temperatures to
:25:53. > :25:57.fall too low. I can imagine them staying at 12 Celsius or 13 Celsius
:25:57. > :26:05.and even 14 Celsius on the coast. Tomorrow the best of the weather
:26:05. > :26:09.will be in the South of the region. For parts of Lancashire and the
:26:09. > :26:14.Isle of Man, the rain is there from the beginning. The weather front
:26:14. > :26:20.will work its way down through the day. Perhaps Dee Time by the time
:26:20. > :26:28.it gets to Merseyside and Greater Manchester. -- teatime. The wind
:26:28. > :26:33.will be a real feature. 40mph from time to time. In terms of
:26:33. > :26:38.temperatures, a high of 19 Celsius. You are about to meet a man who is
:26:38. > :26:43.a familiar face to make it will be brand new to you but he will become
:26:43. > :26:53.a massive part of our North West Tonight team. He is our brand-new
:26:53. > :26:53.
:26:53. > :26:59.And he would never call his female presenters and elephant! He told me
:26:59. > :27:04.to say it! Do not start on him. This is a chance to say up a proper
:27:04. > :27:11.hello. You can say hello to everyone at home. This is Roger
:27:11. > :27:19.Johnson. Thank you. I used to work with down in the mid- 1990s at
:27:19. > :27:23.Radio Manchester. I am not that old! I was starry-eyed at you,
:27:23. > :27:27.weather present on the telly. Really looking forward to it.
:27:27. > :27:32.Honoured to be joining the team. And greatly honoured to be