:00:02. > :00:06.Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest Tonight with Roger Johnson and
:00:06. > :00:09.Ranvir Singh. Our top story. Blamed for causing two earth
:00:09. > :00:13.tremors, the controversial gas drilling plant in Lancashire. We'll
:00:13. > :00:16.speak to the man in charge of the drilling operation on the Fylde
:00:16. > :00:19.coast. Also tonight. Sending in the big ships, now a
:00:19. > :00:24.dredger may be used to harvest Lytham's cockles to stop fishermen
:00:24. > :00:34.risking their lives. Sailing home for the last time, the
:00:34. > :00:36.crew of HMS Liverpool heading back for long overdue reunion. You join
:00:36. > :00:39.me right outside the Bastille, France's most infamous prison.
:00:39. > :00:49.And a modern spin on old stories. How a hit children's TV show is
:00:49. > :00:56.
:00:56. > :00:59.A controversial method of drilling for gas has been blamed for causing
:00:59. > :01:02.two earth tremors on the Fylde Coast earlier this year. Opponents
:01:02. > :01:06.of the process, known as fracking, say it's dangerous, while the
:01:06. > :01:09.company behind it claims it offers a new supply of energy. So with gas
:01:09. > :01:14.prices at an all time high, should environmental concerns outweigh the
:01:14. > :01:17.benefits to the local economy in Lancashire? Our reporter Peter
:01:17. > :01:26.Marshall has been assessing today's developments and joins us from one
:01:26. > :01:30.of the test drilling sites at Hesketh Bank, near Southport.
:01:30. > :01:35.There are two very clear sides to this story, on one side, fracking
:01:35. > :01:40.is seen as the future, saying it could create 2500 jobs in
:01:40. > :01:45.Lancashire alone, and meet our gas needs for half a century. And the
:01:45. > :01:49.other side, the opponents say it is dangerous, it can cause air and
:01:49. > :01:55.water pollution. And in certain circumstances we are told it can
:01:55. > :01:58.even lead to were -- as tremors so protesters are far from happy.
:01:58. > :02:03.Today, anti-fracking protesters shook things up, taking this
:02:03. > :02:08.footage as they occupied Cuadrilla's site near Hesketh Bank.
:02:08. > :02:12.It is such a damaging, destructive project to the local ecosystems
:02:12. > :02:15.here, we have got to stop it. the protesters first arrive this
:02:15. > :02:20.morning, security assumed it was a shift change, but they were rushed
:02:20. > :02:25.and by protesters managed to get up on to the rake. Three have come
:02:25. > :02:31.down voluntarily and two allay -- remain, now it is a waiting game.
:02:31. > :02:35.To date's report, said it is highly probable that fracking, or blasted
:02:35. > :02:41.water into shale to released -- release Natural Gas, caused the
:02:41. > :02:44.tremors in May. Specialists commissioned by Cuadrilla say the
:02:44. > :02:49.tremors are near the drill site were the result of an unusual
:02:49. > :02:55.combination of geology, they had hit a pre-existing and brittle
:02:55. > :02:59.stressed fault. Fracking operations like these have been cut --
:02:59. > :03:05.conducted more than 1 million times without tremors, so we knew it was
:03:05. > :03:11.unusual from the beginning of the study. What's the people living
:03:11. > :03:15.near the site think? People are messing with nature, if they start
:03:15. > :03:19.doing this, it might affect here, it might flood here. Up to here, I
:03:19. > :03:25.thought the whole thing had been blown out of proportion, it sounded
:03:25. > :03:30.like it could be a good thing to have. Cuadrilla will say it's will
:03:30. > :03:35.introduce an early warning system. When it detects magnitude tremors
:03:35. > :03:40.of 1.7, fracking. And pressure will be released. It is not in our
:03:40. > :03:42.interests to have these kind of events, it is time consuming so we
:03:42. > :03:47.are trying to put everything in place to make sure nothing like
:03:47. > :03:50.this can happen again. Protesters say the report does not inspire
:03:50. > :03:55.confidence and adds to the environmental fears about high drop
:03:55. > :04:00.-- hydraulic fracturing. The two remaining protesters have
:04:00. > :04:03.now come down and they are being questioned on suspicion of
:04:03. > :04:08.aggravated trespass. The big question is when will fracking
:04:08. > :04:14.resume because of the earth tremors earlier this year, it was suspended.
:04:14. > :04:19.Drilling is continuing at the wells, but the fracking process could be
:04:20. > :04:24.continuing within 30 to 60 days. I put it to the chief executive of
:04:24. > :04:30.Cuadrilla, but Mark Miller, but if this early detective system is so
:04:30. > :04:34.effective, why have they not been using it in the first place? We are
:04:34. > :04:39.the second case in 60 years that have had any kind of seismic
:04:39. > :04:44.activity of that level associated with the operations we are doing,
:04:44. > :04:48.we only pumps for two hours, and there was one other case other than
:04:48. > :04:52.ours back in the 1970s that resembled this. It was not
:04:52. > :04:56.something out there that was on anyone's radar. Do you think the
:04:56. > :04:59.local community will think, that since you are coming into the
:04:59. > :05:03.landscape and changed it, you should have taken every measure
:05:03. > :05:07.possible to protect them and the community around you? Again, I
:05:07. > :05:12.think we have done that and demonstrated that. To back up,
:05:12. > :05:17.these were very small events, there has been no property damage or any
:05:17. > :05:21.damage of any sort. We immediately suspended operations and carried
:05:21. > :05:26.out this study, so we are adding something to our process of which
:05:26. > :05:30.was not available to us before. have these activists climbing on to
:05:30. > :05:39.your site today, somebody from the Wild Wild if -- World Wildlife Fund
:05:39. > :05:44.say that these finding a worrying and add to people's concerns. Are
:05:44. > :05:48.you worried Europe target for green groups? We have been very open for
:05:48. > :05:51.the general public and the media to come to the site, and look at our
:05:51. > :05:55.operations. Attaching themselves to the rig does not achieve anything,
:05:55. > :05:59.it puts everyone at risk. There is a better way to put your point
:05:59. > :06:03.across. If you are planning on hundreds more of these wells across
:06:03. > :06:08.Clive Bishop, the potential for hitting more problems in the future,
:06:08. > :06:16.is high, is it not? -- are planning on hundreds more of these wells
:06:16. > :06:20.across Lancashire. The ability that we have now with the traffic light
:06:20. > :06:25.system, we can go in and see things 10 times or 100 times smaller in
:06:25. > :06:30.terms of seismic events than what we saw on these two small events
:06:30. > :06:34.back in spring. So we have added something saying, no matter what we
:06:34. > :06:41.come in contact with, we have the ability to stop immediately when we
:06:41. > :06:43.are pumping and move on and let the pumping stage be aborted.
:06:43. > :06:47.The Government today waded into the controversy over Lancashire's
:06:47. > :06:49.cockle beds. They said they will close them if necessary. The
:06:49. > :06:52.Fisheries minister Richard Benyon told Northwest Tonight that illegal
:06:52. > :06:57.and reckless fishing off the Lancashire coast had to be stopped
:06:57. > :07:00.before there was a major loss of life. And we can reveal there's now
:07:00. > :07:03.a plan to bring in dredgers to harvest the remaining cockles over
:07:03. > :07:06.the next few days. Fisheries officers think this drastic
:07:06. > :07:14.solution is the only way to end what's become a chaotic and
:07:14. > :07:20.dangerous daily enterprise. Sarah Mulkerrins reports.
:07:20. > :07:24.Have you got the Patching gear? Tying up loose ends, another hard
:07:24. > :07:28.day's work done. For these fishermen, it could be one of their
:07:28. > :07:33.last on this estuary -- Estuary. The by-laws may need to be reviewed,
:07:33. > :07:38.we might need to close this fishery early, which would be a real shame
:07:38. > :07:45.for those who fish there illegitimately. But we have to take
:07:45. > :07:48.decisions that put him at -- human life at the priority. The room or
:07:48. > :07:53.the here this morning was that there will be a suction dredging
:07:53. > :07:57.here on Monday morning, that dredger would come in and Hoover
:07:57. > :08:01.the seafloor, wiping out the Cockle stock and in effect, putting the
:08:02. > :08:09.fishermen out of business here. The fisheries website appeared to back
:08:09. > :08:14.up the rumour later on in the day. They are Sea King tender for
:08:14. > :08:18.dredging in the area, which has angered local fishermen. Why should
:08:18. > :08:23.a few dredgers be allowed to take all of the catch when the men have
:08:23. > :08:26.got to mortgages to pay for? I do not understand it. Stephen has been
:08:26. > :08:30.fishing for 12 years and is struggling to see the rationale
:08:31. > :08:34.behind closing this area. We are all wondering out what we are going
:08:34. > :08:41.to do, how will we are going to support our families, how are we
:08:41. > :08:45.going to make a living? If there is no answer. For the fishermen now,
:08:45. > :08:48.it remains a waiting game. In other news from around the north
:08:48. > :08:52.west this evening, two Manchester colleges have been accused by the
:08:52. > :08:54.Home Office of abusing the immigration system. The Lords
:08:54. > :08:57.Higher Education College, based in Ashton-under-Lyne, and the Lords
:08:57. > :09:02.College UK, based in Salford, were identified as helping foreign
:09:02. > :09:08.students evade immigration rules. They've have had their licences to
:09:08. > :09:11.teach non-EU students revoked. The inquest into the death of a
:09:12. > :09:14.woman in the Grayrigg train crash has heard that a third of all the
:09:14. > :09:18.points inspected following the derailment were found to have loose
:09:18. > :09:21.bolts. The jury was told that engineers were surprised by how
:09:21. > :09:25.many problems they found and that changes have since been made to
:09:25. > :09:29.many components. 84-year-old Margaret Masson died in the crash
:09:29. > :09:31.four years ago. BBC Radio Merseyside presenter
:09:31. > :09:35.Roger Phillips has been honoured with an industry Lifetime
:09:35. > :09:38.Achievement Award at the Radio Festival in Salford. It was
:09:38. > :09:44.presented at a ceremony last night. Roger joined the station in the
:09:44. > :09:48.1970s. Sophie Jackson has been a pupil at
:09:48. > :09:51.her local Cheshire primary school for two years. Her parents say
:09:51. > :09:55.going to class helps the six-year- old, who was born unable to swallow,
:09:55. > :09:59.to feel like a normal little girl. But seven weeks ago, they claim she
:09:59. > :10:03.was told at the school gate she could no longer attend for health
:10:03. > :10:10.and safety reasons. They are begging the head teacher and
:10:10. > :10:13.council to let her back. Abbie Jones reports.
:10:13. > :10:20.The pictures on the wall make it seem like a classroom, but Sophie
:10:20. > :10:23.Jackson is the only people. Eight, and then we need to take away...
:10:23. > :10:27.Excluded from school, she now has just three hours of council
:10:27. > :10:31.provided tuition at home per week. She is missing her friends terribly.
:10:31. > :10:37.She has been through a lot, the only part of soapy that works
:10:37. > :10:45.perfectly is her brain. And school and education are taking that away
:10:45. > :10:50.from her. Do you miss school, Sophie? What do you miss?
:10:50. > :10:54.friends. Until seven weeks ago, this is the school Sophie had been
:10:55. > :10:58.attending. She had been coming here for the last two years, but one day
:10:58. > :11:03.out of the boot her parents say the head teacher told her she could not
:11:03. > :11:08.going. Peover Superior EC Primary School refused to discuss with us
:11:08. > :11:12.that -- reasons why, but Sophie's parents say they were suddenly told
:11:12. > :11:18.the school did not have a risk assessment in place for her or a
:11:18. > :11:23.medicine policy even though she has a been a people there for so long.
:11:23. > :11:30.we were told all the procedures were in place and we have believed
:11:30. > :11:34.what they told us. This is just a lack of communication. Cheshire
:11:34. > :11:38.East Council said today it is talking to Sophie's parents and the
:11:38. > :11:43.school, and working hard to resolve the situation as quickly as
:11:43. > :11:53.possible. Four Sophie, that cannot come soon enough. What is your
:11:53. > :11:56.
:11:56. > :12:01.biggest wish? To go to school. hope you've all had an event as
:12:01. > :12:05.Hallowe'en, nice and peaceful, additive fun, but we have a story
:12:05. > :12:09.of a prank which went too far and resulted in a pensioner getting a
:12:09. > :12:15.broken leg after a group of youths threw a cranky -- concrete paving
:12:15. > :12:18.stones at him. 79-year-old Bernard O'Donnell, from Baguley in
:12:18. > :12:22.Manchester, had gone out to confront the teenage boys who were
:12:22. > :12:26.throwing eggs at his house. It started with the youth's
:12:26. > :12:30.throwing eggs, and it ended with this concrete flagstones being held
:12:30. > :12:35.at 79 year-old Bernard O'Donnell, resulting in a serious leg injury
:12:35. > :12:39.and a hospital visit. As I approached them, I noticed one boy
:12:39. > :12:43.had a broken flagstone looking like he was going to throw it at Gurkha.
:12:43. > :12:47.He saw me, I did not speak to anybody, and he threw it at me and
:12:47. > :12:52.it hit me in the leg and I was in intense pain, I it collapsed
:12:52. > :12:57.immediately. Bernard O'Donnell is a retired deputy head teacher, and he
:12:57. > :13:01.served his National Service in Malaya. He says he is defiant and
:13:02. > :13:05.will stand up thuggery. Parents who fell in their responsibilities are
:13:05. > :13:09.doing terrible harm, because not only will their own children be
:13:09. > :13:11.brought up incorrectly and not have good value, so will their
:13:11. > :13:15.grandchildren and great- grandchildren, and where will it
:13:15. > :13:23.stop? Police echoed his thoughts and had this message for parents
:13:23. > :13:27.who did not know what their children were up two. If they start
:13:27. > :13:31.engaging in setting up fireworks, - - setting off fireworks, throwing
:13:31. > :13:35.eggs or whatever in public areas, windows getting smashed, people
:13:35. > :13:43.getting injured, it can escalate into something serious.
:13:43. > :13:53.This evening, five useds were being questioned about the incident.
:13:53. > :13:54.
:13:55. > :13:58.We had he recovers soon.. One year ago tonight, dozens of
:13:58. > :14:00.families in Salford were without a roof over their heads. A huge gas
:14:00. > :14:04.blast had devastated their housing estate in Irlam. Amazingly the
:14:04. > :14:07.woman whose home was at the centre of it all survived. In fact, she
:14:07. > :14:15.now lives just round the corner. But just why it happened still
:14:15. > :14:20.remains a mystery as our Chief Reporter Dave Guest, explains.
:14:20. > :14:26.2nd November, 2010, homes lie in ruins, lives are put on hold.
:14:26. > :14:29.remember waking up to a loud bang, rubble everywhere. I saw Marie, she
:14:29. > :14:34.was sat on a chair outside what used to be her house, covered in
:14:34. > :14:39.blood, all of her hair was burnt, it sat on a chair she did not know
:14:39. > :14:47.where she was. Three Burns's home was at the centre of the blast. She
:14:47. > :14:51.put a pan on the hob to make porridge and then this. This was
:14:51. > :14:55.absolutely wiped out. All the window frames had come in. All the
:14:55. > :15:00.ceiling was right the way round, because the roof went up in the air.
:15:00. > :15:07.It came down with a big bang. homes were flattened out right, up
:15:07. > :15:13.to 200 others affected. Rob Burt and his family were out of their
:15:13. > :15:19.home for five months while it was repaired and said it was different
:15:19. > :15:23.-- difficult coming home. The whole house felt different, strange.
:15:23. > :15:26.showed us round what was left of his home man -- after the blast.
:15:27. > :15:31.Today, he says it is not just his home that has been improved since
:15:31. > :15:36.the blast. There is a lot more community, we are friendly help
:15:36. > :15:41.with the neighbours, we can knock on people's doors. Barry Burns, the
:15:41. > :15:46.woman whose home at once stood here, now lives close by although she did
:15:46. > :15:48.not want to be interviewed today. As to what caused all this, told
:15:48. > :15:55.months on the house and safety addictive say their investigation
:15:55. > :15:58.is still continuing, and they are not been forthcoming -- the Health
:15:58. > :16:01.and Safety Executive say their investigation is continuing.
:16:02. > :16:04.Richard's here with the sport and you've just got back from chatting
:16:04. > :16:07.to the Wigan Athletic manager Roberto Martinez. Seven defeats in
:16:07. > :16:10.a row in the Premier League. How was he?
:16:10. > :16:15.Upbeat as always. Quietly determined and trying to find
:16:15. > :16:18.answers to this run of defeats. But he still found time to have an
:16:18. > :16:21.exclusive chat with me outside his normal press duties later in the
:16:21. > :16:26.week. He says he's extremely confident that the Latics won't be
:16:26. > :16:29.relegated. They're bottom at the moment with just five points. And
:16:29. > :16:32.with four out of the last five matches against other teams towards
:16:32. > :16:42.the bottom of the table I began by asking him how important the next
:16:42. > :16:49.few weeks could be. It is a massive period, because we
:16:49. > :16:54.are in and run of results which are bad, and that is the truth, we
:16:54. > :16:59.don't want to get away from that. Goes for goal himself, and scores!
:16:59. > :17:03.That have lapped it up. You are always up beat, what are you like
:17:03. > :17:09.and you go home after its defeat? am very bad company, that is the
:17:09. > :17:15.truth. It is difficult until I get the answers. We all have to support
:17:15. > :17:21.each other, and we faced adversity together. That allows us to work to
:17:21. > :17:25.the next day a lot easier. difficult is it to steel yourself
:17:25. > :17:30.for another what looks like it is going to be a relegation battle?
:17:30. > :17:34.are not thinking that far away. We are not thinking in that way at all.
:17:34. > :17:42.It has been a very demanding one for us, October. Difficult in terms
:17:42. > :17:46.of injuries and suspensions, all we want now is to get the next
:17:46. > :17:54.positive result. I feel the talent in the squad is the strongest squad
:17:54. > :17:59.we have had in the last three years. Your chairman, Dave Whelan, has
:17:59. > :18:03.said that even if Wigan went down, he would not sack you because of
:18:03. > :18:09.the respect he has for you. Do you ever think about if the worst
:18:09. > :18:16.happened, what he would do? No, no. I would never consider that that
:18:16. > :18:20.will happen. You want your team to pass the ball, but when you are in
:18:20. > :18:27.a difficult period like this, is there a temptation to change that?
:18:27. > :18:28.Never, never. We have to get better Never, never. We have to get better
:18:28. > :18:33.Never, never. We have to get better in what we do. I don't think styles
:18:33. > :18:37.in what we do. I don't think styles guarantee results. Do you remain
:18:37. > :18:40.confident the team will stay up? Without a doubt.
:18:40. > :18:43.Both Manchester clubs are in Champions League action tonight.
:18:43. > :18:46.United can go a long way to securing qualification for the
:18:46. > :18:49.knockout stages with victory over Romanian side Otelul Galati at Old
:18:49. > :18:52.Trafford but they'll be without Tom Cleverley who has an ankle injury.
:18:52. > :18:55.City face a tougher task to qualify from their group, they could do
:18:55. > :19:05.with a win at Villarreal. Roberto Mancini's men are third in Group A
:19:05. > :19:09.behind Bayern Munich and Napoli. Burnley lost at home to Leicester
:19:09. > :19:14.City last night. Ross Wallace got the only goal in a disappointing
:19:14. > :19:23.night. They are now down to 17th in the championship. Tonight,
:19:23. > :19:26.Blackpool at Leeds. Superleague, and Wigan Warriors
:19:26. > :19:28.have signed the former Hull FC Prop, Epalahame Lauaki, on an initial
:19:28. > :19:31.three year contract. The Tongan International scored five tries in
:19:31. > :19:37.54 appearances for Hull. His signing takes Wigan's complement of
:19:37. > :19:41.overseas players back to four. He looks like the sort of man that
:19:41. > :19:44.if he says it is Tuesday, it stays Tuesday!
:19:44. > :19:48.How many times did you have to practise his name?
:19:48. > :19:52.Maybe seven or eight! Identikit was right. I hope he's
:19:52. > :19:54.not watching. This week we're bringing you a
:19:54. > :19:57.special series on HMS Liverpool, the Merseyside-made warship
:19:57. > :20:01.returning from her final mission in Libya before being decommissioned
:20:01. > :20:03.next year. Many of the crew have been away from home for seven
:20:03. > :20:06.months, not knowing when they'd next see their loved ones. Nina
:20:06. > :20:15.Warhurst spent five days with them in the Mediterranean and got a
:20:15. > :20:19.small taste of how unpredictable life at sea can be.
:20:19. > :20:23.These teams have spent much of the last seven months investigating
:20:23. > :20:29.suspicious boats and ships off the coast of Libya. But when I met them,
:20:29. > :20:33.the war was over and the 270 crew were expected to return home. But
:20:33. > :20:37.then, not for the first time, came disappointing news. Today HMS
:20:37. > :20:41.Liverpool was supposed to be on her way to Malta's ready to begin the
:20:41. > :20:46.journey home. But since the death of Colonel Gaddafi, Maitre's plans
:20:47. > :20:51.have changed and she finds herself back here, around 10 miles off the
:20:51. > :20:56.coast of Libya. So, as Allied ships sail home, HMS Liverpool sailed
:20:56. > :21:02.back. The extension came as no surprise to the crew who had first
:21:02. > :21:06.expected to return home in August. Siobhan has not he seen her fiance
:21:06. > :21:11.since he proposed by audience -- five months ago. Can't plan
:21:11. > :21:17.anything until we know all we are doing. We can't do anything! You
:21:17. > :21:25.live day-by-day. Do you drive -- does a drive you mad? I am used to
:21:25. > :21:30.it, but yes. John also uppermost in Malta 3 months ago. -- John also
:21:30. > :21:34.proposed. In a Jacuzzi, me, naked, she could not say no! The only
:21:34. > :21:39.problem was I could not give her a date when I was back. It is hard
:21:39. > :21:42.trying to settle down, when you have not got that, it is hard.
:21:42. > :21:51.in the less, for some on board HMS Liverpool, there are some reminders
:21:51. > :21:55.of home. Mathew Street, Penny Lane, strawberry fields. Michael shares a
:21:55. > :22:00.room with more than 40 other sailors, and has a routine to
:22:00. > :22:05.combat homesickness. Sit down, relax, have a talk with one of the
:22:05. > :22:08.lads, they are always there for you. You can have a word with one of
:22:08. > :22:13.your fellow Liverpudlians, they will give you stick but it is just
:22:13. > :22:16.the thing to deal with -- it is just the thing to deal with. Next
:22:16. > :22:23.week, Michael will be back with his mum and Siobhan and John will be
:22:23. > :22:27.able to start making wedding plans as HMS Liverpool returns to British
:22:27. > :22:37.waters for the final time. Tomorrow, we will look back on the
:22:37. > :22:38.
:22:38. > :22:42.history which stretches over three decades of the HMS Liverpool.
:22:42. > :22:45.I love John's confidence, that is the way to propose!
:22:45. > :22:48.If you have got young children, you will recognise this.
:22:48. > :22:50.Think back to your school days and maybe you thought history was
:22:50. > :22:54.boring. Now, thanks to Terry Deary's best-selling books, it's
:22:54. > :23:02.horrible. The books became a hit TV series. And all this week you can
:23:02. > :23:10.see Horrible Histories on stage in Manchester. Stuart Flinders reports.
:23:10. > :23:14.And report the brain out through the nostrils. History, but not
:23:14. > :23:18.probably as you knew it at school. The ruthless Romans and awful
:23:19. > :23:23.Egyptians, the stage version of Horrible Histories at Manchester's
:23:23. > :23:30.opera house. Every city we have been to has been sold out. School
:23:30. > :23:35.shows during the days, evenings, it is deafening. If you were a pirate,
:23:35. > :23:38.what would you pinch? At sea there are no motors or mobile phones.
:23:38. > :23:48.books are factually correct but add a little spice for these children
:23:48. > :23:53.
:23:53. > :23:57.in Heywood near Rochdale. And some new words! Misspr... Our teachers
:23:57. > :24:00.do not tell us all the funnier jokes and rhymes. The kids were
:24:00. > :24:04.saying some of the lessons were boring and you should take a leaf
:24:04. > :24:08.out of Horrible Histories. They would not be boring, but they tell
:24:08. > :24:11.them a few extra things that bring it to life. It is nearly 20 years
:24:11. > :24:16.since these first appeared, so a whole generation has been brought
:24:16. > :24:21.up on the Horrible Histories. Some of them inspired even to continue
:24:21. > :24:26.their her study of history to university. How history is
:24:26. > :24:29.visualised on the screen. These are the graduate of what you might call
:24:29. > :24:34.the school of Horrible Histories, now studying at Lancaster
:24:34. > :24:37.University. The lessons we did in school, they were not too
:24:37. > :24:42.interesting but this is a way of keeping interest sustained when the
:24:42. > :24:48.lessons themselves were lacking in content. I guess you could say they
:24:48. > :24:53.inspired an interest. The stage version runs until Saturday.
:24:53. > :25:03.The brain is useless padding for the Scott! Whatever you say, fairer,
:25:03. > :25:07.you know best. I love Horrible Histories. Children get really, at
:25:08. > :25:12.my kids love it, they come out with things, I think, where you know
:25:12. > :25:22.that from? I learned that the Inca people
:25:22. > :25:28.
:25:28. > :25:32.dipped their washing in a you're in. It has not been a bad day to day,
:25:32. > :25:37.we anticipated a little bit more rain than we got, so most places
:25:37. > :25:43.has been dry. Tomorrow, it will be a bit of a mixed up night, --
:25:43. > :25:46.tonight it will be a mixed up at night. We had some breaks in the
:25:46. > :25:51.cloud cover through the morning this morning, then the cloud came
:25:51. > :25:55.back through the afternoon. In terms of temperatures, most places
:25:55. > :26:00.got to 14 degrees. Tomorrow, temperatures will still be fairly
:26:00. > :26:05.good, but it is a mixed a picture. We are starting to see outbreaks of
:26:05. > :26:11.light rain, that is the story until midnight tonight. That is light and
:26:11. > :26:15.patchy, we cannot really tell where it will turn up. After midnight, it
:26:15. > :26:23.gets its act together and as you head towards the heavy early hours,
:26:23. > :26:27.some of the bursts of rain will be pretty happy. -- pretty heavy. An
:26:27. > :26:32.exceptionally mild night. Tomorrow, if you are up very early the rain
:26:32. > :26:37.will be a round, but it clears quite quickly through the morning.
:26:37. > :26:41.Behind it, fingers crossed, and reasonable improvement. By the time
:26:41. > :26:45.you get to 10am, the rain has gone and the cloud cover will try to
:26:45. > :26:49.break up so every now and then you will get half an hour of sunshine.
:26:49. > :26:55.Them the cloud comes back, one or two showers through the afternoon.
:26:55. > :27:01.A huge portion of the day is dry and usable. Still fairly blustery,
:27:01. > :27:11.temperatures are good. The outlook, Friday once again could be fairly
:27:11. > :27:16.
:27:16. > :27:19.And no mention of anything about toilet!
:27:20. > :27:26.Do you watch it with all the other 12 year-olds?
:27:26. > :27:29.From the back, we cannot tell the difference between you and your