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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight. Our stop story: Time | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
running out on the sands? The lucrative cockle beds of Lancashire | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
could be closed in days. What are they going to do - are they going | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
to pay us our wages? We're live in Lytham, where fishermen are angry | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
they will suffer because of the illegal activities of others. A 35- | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
year-old mystery reopened - police search farmland in New Mills after | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
they receive new information about a missing man. John Lewis pull out | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
of Preston's dream �700 million shopping development. And an old | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
lady gets ready for retirement - we pay our last visit to HMS Liverpool | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
as she finally heads home. When I see it, I get a bit emotional. I | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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Over the last three nights we have brought you news from the cockle | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
beds of Lancashire. Tonight the picture there looks as confusing as | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
ever - despite a meeting of the regulators and the Fisheries | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Minister in London this afternoon. One of the options discussed at the | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
meeting was the early closure of the beds. That would mean the loss | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
of thousands of pounds for some of the men who go out and dig for | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
cockles. Dave Guest went out with some of them this morning - and | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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he's still in Lytham for us tonight. Tonight they are talking about | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
closing the beds. Last night at the raised the spectre of bringing in a | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
dredgers. -- they raised. That suggestion brought protest from | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
fishermen. They say they are sick and tired of being criticised for | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
the actions of the legal cocklers. I spent the day with them. I went | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
out with them to see what they do and to hear some of their concerns. | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
Another morning and the start of another day for these fishermen. | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
Proposals to use dredgers to harvest the remaining cockles met | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
with anger. It is terrible, basically. It has been brought | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
about by the incompetence of the fish Rhys. They introduced a | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Parrett scheme and have not tried to enforce it. The fisheries | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
authority has been under pressure to do something to stop the | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
stampede for cockles. Among the old hands, there is a feeling there | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
should have been tighter regulation from the start. You pay �1,000 for | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
a permit in other parts of the country. That helps to stop the | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
illegal people. It has worked in South Wales and Scotland. Also | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
Miller has spent years fish in these waters. He is annoyed the | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
majority are being punished. It is a complete over-reaction. Using a | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
hammer to crack and not. I followed him and some of his colleagues | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
about to witness them at work today, and to hear more about their | :03:17. | :03:25. | |
concerns. We are on the edge of the date today. Most of the bed is | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
still in the water. We have not got long today. And maybe a couple of | :03:29. | :03:37. | |
hours. The catches will be fairly low. It is very physical work. It | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
is like a full workout in the gymnasium. Dredging would | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
effectively put an end to this. The dredgers would scoop of the top | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
layer of sand. Vacuums would sulk up the shellfish. But as well as | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
wiping out the remaining reserves of cockles, they could also have a | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
wider effect on the environment, say fishermen. I am concerned it | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
will affect the shrimping. It will damage all of the animals that live | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
in the sand. Food for the birds. It is not a very environmentally | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
friendly way of taking shellfish at all. The fisheries authority say | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
they have no choice. My advice that it then would be to think again. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
Everybody agrees the industry should be made safer. Nobody can | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
agree on what should be done. Back to Dave in Lytham later. But | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
earlier this afternoon, representatives of the agencies | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
involved in regulating and policing the cockle beds - including the | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority - discussed the situation | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
with Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon. I asked him what they had | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
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decided to do. I think the key issues the | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
authority and are looking at is firstly at closure of the fishery, | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
which would be a great shame. A lot of people have invested time and | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
money in equipment and training, and our fishing safely. We should | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
be supporting them. It is the reckless behaviour of some, and the | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
illegal behaviour of others, that has put the closure of this fishery | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
as a real prospect. That is likely to happen and now, is it? What | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
about the Dredge and? It is a possibility. The other things they | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
are looking at is the change to the arrangement which may make it | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
easier to police. The decision on that will be announced within days. | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
The issue around dredging is not a simple one. It is not attractive. | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
It removes a lucrative fishery from a large number of people and put it | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
in the hands of just a few. It would be safer. There are | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
complications, both legal and environmental. It is not something | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
they can bring forward overnight. It may be at medium-term solution. | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
One of the issues that fishermen had been telling us is that | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
although the Parrett system is in place, it has not been policed. -- | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
Parrett system. A big operation has taken place in recent days. It has | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
seen a lot of people turned away, or in some cases, more draconian | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
measures. It would not matter if you had all the resources in the | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
world. You cannot please these sort of fish Rhys through the night and | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
you cannot police are stupid actions of some people. How do you | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
stop them? You can close the fishery in the Sirte term. That | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
causes risks. -- short term. We cannot avoid the fact that the | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
actions of a few people are putting in jeopardy be lucrative fishery | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
for the north-west. I totally support the commission. If they | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
make the decision to close at or reduce the number of people who go | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
there. Richard Benyon, the Fisheries | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Minister, speaking to me earlier this afternoon. Let's go back to | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
Dave Guest in Lytham again. What's the latest there this evening? | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
should imagine the cocklers will be equally disappointed if the beds | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
closed early. This afternoon we are told an emergency bylaw has been | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
drawn up. The detail will be passed to members of the Fisheries | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
Committee. It looks like Fisher men here will be disappointed. Police | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
are tonight searching a Derbyshire farm after receiving new | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
information about a man who went missing 35 years ago. Fred Handford | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1976 and was never | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
seen again. For the latest we can join Laura Yates at Ballbeard Farm | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
in New Mills. Tell us more about Fred hand Ford | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
and how he disappeared? -- Fred Handford. It is more than three | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
decades since he disappeared. His friends and family have no idea | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
what happened to him. He was a very hard-working man. This farm had | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
been in this family for generations. He was last seen in 1976, 18th | :08:41. | :08:49. | |
March. Police launched a huge search. Mountain rescue and the | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
fire brigade were involved. A number of people mine shaft were | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
searched. Fred had not left a suicide note. There was no obvious | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
disappearance gapped -- Rhys and for his disappearance. It has | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
remained a mystery. What is the new police investigation -- | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
Information? We know Derbyshire Police are looking into a number of | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
lines of inquiry, including a search of some of the land behind | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
me. We have seen a number of police vans and police men going in. We do | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
not know what they're doing. The case has never been closed. Police | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
say as soon as new information comes to light, they will look at | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
it. This is what has happened here. They are taking the information | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
seriously. Perhaps 35 years on, we may find out what happened to Fred | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
Handford. The jury at the inquest into death | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
of a woman in the Grayrigg train crash has been sent out to consider | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
their verdict. 84-year-old Margaret Masson died in the crash four years | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
ago. 88 other people were injured when a Virgin Pendolino train | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
derailed in February 2007. An inquest has opened into the | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
death of a 16-year-old girl from Warrington who was killed in a hang | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
glider crash. Lois Preston was taking part in a training flight at | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Ashbourne in Derbyshire when her aircraft crashed on Friday. | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
New information about the discovery of the body of a baby which was | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
found in a stream in Lancashire, will be revealed on the BBC's | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
Crimewatch programme later. The child was found near Spen Brook at | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
Kirkham last month. Police trying to trace the baby's mother will | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
appear on the BBC One programme at 9pm tonight. | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
A new food bank for people in extreme financial need, opened on | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
Merseyside today. It will provide boxes of groceries for needy | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
families in North Liverpool. It's the sixth food bank to open in the | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
North West in the last two years. Eleven years after it was announced, | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
the �700 million revamp of Preston city centre should have been | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
completed by now. But the work to transform 40 acres of land hasn't | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
even started. Today the city council finally announced that the | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
Tithebarn scheme will not be going ahead after all, after the | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
project's flagship store, John Lewis, pulled out. Naomi Cornwell's | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
been to find out why. It was supposed to rejuvenate | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
Preston, a �700 million project to reshape 40 acres of the city centre, | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
with 500 homes, a cinema, a new bus station and shopping centre. For 11 | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
years Preston waited, as the plans were hit by delays and legal | :11:27. | :11:37. | |
challenges. Now finally they've pulled the plug. We are still | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
looking for opportunities to develop at Preston city-centre, but | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
not a massive shopping scheme. That will not happen in the prevailing | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
economic conditions. John Lewis, they hoped, would attract other | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
businesses to Preston. But today the company issued a statement, one | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
line, confirming it had withdrawn from the scheme, with no further | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
explanation. There are so many people unemployed, that would have | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
been a fantastic development. not think it will affect Preston. | :12:08. | :12:16. | |
There are a lot of shops empty. It needed a boost. It's a further blow | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
to a city already reeling from job losses. With local authorities and | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
businesses in the area making cuts, people here don't have as much | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
money to spend in the shops. There have been redundancies in the | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
public sector. There have been redundancies at BAE Systems. I | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
think those have been considered by John Lewis as a reason not to come | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
to Preston. The scheme had been controversial from the start, and | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
neighbouring Blackburn even took a legal challenge as far as the High | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
Court, fearing the project would draw shoppers away from its town | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
centre. You cannot go in for a development which has so grandiose, | :12:56. | :13:05. | |
it will gratuitously harm your neighbours. It seems the city will | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
have to make do with smaller changes to its appearance, rather | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
than the radical facelift it had been waiting for. Still to come: | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
How do you stop the pirates in the Gulf of Aden? We are in Fleetwood. | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
This is not the Irish Sea. And Mancini works his magic in Europe | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
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Pirates are back on the high seas - and they're nowhere near as | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
friendly or charming as Johnny Depp or Errol Flynn. As we speak, it's | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
estimated that nine ships and nearly 250 people are being held | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
hostage by pirates. The Gulf of Aden has become particularly | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
dangerous. But could a college on the Lancashire coast be making the | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
shipping world a safer place? Stuart Flinders reports. | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
A rocket-propelled grenade has been fired at a cargo ship in the Gulf | :14:03. | :14:13. | |
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of Aden. Time to call for the Royal Navy. This is an exercise at the | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
Blackpool and Fyled College. But it's not a game. Lea Balmforth has | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
actually been on board a cargo vessel when the vessels launched an | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
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attack. The cargo was explosives. On that particular occasion we had | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
a helicopter above the vessel within 18 minutes. It frightened | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
them. The simulator shows the pirates closing in. The timing of | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
the course could not be better. The Prime Minister has announced that | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
vessels flying the British flag are to be allowed to have armed | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
security on board for the first time. This is how the Dutch navy | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
rescued one ship hijacked by pirates. Nearly 500 ships were | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
targeted last year, with Somali pirates off the Gulf of Aden a | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
particular concern. This course will help protect crews from all | :15:05. | :15:14. | |
over the world. The intention is to make sure that the people and | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
they're doing the job of C Marshall, her fundic -- are aware of their | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
own safety. A helicopter from a nearby warship has come to the | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
rescue and the pirates are in retreat. This Lancashire college | :15:32. | :15:41. | |
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hopes to provide happy endings in Sport, and after a mixed run of | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
results lately, Blackpool last night pulled off the result of the | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
week in the Championship. Meanwhile, after making slow starts to their | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
Champions League campaigns, Manchester City and Manchester | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
United look well on course to qualify for the knockout stages. | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
However, City boss Roberto Mancini left Villareal with a headache, as | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
Ian Haslam explains. There was pain in Spain, and | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
possibly a sore head on the plane for City manager Roberto Mancini, | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
after he hit his head on the dugout. An ice pack and an easy win over | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
Villareal was just what he needed. It might be City's first Champions | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
League campaign, but Yaya Toure's been there before in his Barcelona | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
days and the stage suits him. As is the case with Mario Balotelli, | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
who's simply getting better by the week. He got his seventh of the | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
season, before Toure stylishly rounded off the win with his second | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
and City's third. It leaves City second in Group A. Meanwhile, a | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
back injury to David Silva isn't thought to be serious. It's | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
expected he'll be fit to face QPR at the weekend. At Old Trafford | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
Manchester United were in action for the first time since the Derby | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
defeat against Manchester City. They have gone some way to put in | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
that behind them. It is played three, won 3. United took an early | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
lead through Antonio Valencia, the downside being that Michael Owen | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
picked up a thigh injury in the build up to the goal. Wayne Rooney, | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
playing in an unfamiliar midfield role, sealed the win late on, | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
helped by a big deflection. There has been a lot of criticism | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
of the team's defending this season. That is three games without a goal. | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
That is a step forward. In the Championship Blackpool pulled off a | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
stunning win at former manager Simon Grayson's Leeds. Loan signing | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
from Liverpool Jonjo Shelvey played a huge part in the 5-0 rout, | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
scoring a hat-trick. Blackpool are now up to eighth, two points off | :17:34. | :17:44. | |
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the play off places. Cracking result by Blackpool. Did | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
you not like my Spanish accent? Very Continental. I am a from | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
Preston! Sean Long, one of the greatest rugby league players of | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
his generation, has been speaking for the first time about his move | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
to rugby union. The scrum half won everything in the game with St | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
Helen's, but has now decided to put his boots on for Preston | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
Grasshoppers, who play in one of union's lower leagues. It's a real | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
coup for Hoppers, who now have a world star on their books. Richard | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
Askam has been speaking to Sean and a few minutes ago sent us this | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
report. Welcome to the home of Preston | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
Grasshoppers. It is my local club. When somebody told me the rugby | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
league legend, Sean Long, was going to play here, I was not too sure. | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
But he is. He is going to take part in his first training session | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
tonight. Sean, how are you? I am good, thank you. Glad to get down | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
here. Why have you decided to come here? I came down pre-season to do | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
some coaching. Car Fitzpatrick is a good friend. He is assistant coach. | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
I came to help him out. I was talking to him about going back | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
playing. I want to get my boots back on. He asked me if I fancied | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
again. Next minute, Bill, the chairman, brought me here. It's | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
nobbled pretty quickly. You played at a very elite level in Rugby | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
League for the Saints and Great Britain. People did not -- people | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
will expect you to run through everybody? That was not really my | :19:29. | :19:38. | |
game when I played. I am more of a ball player. The Grasshoppers have | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
been a springboard for many players to have gone on to play for England. | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
I am coming towards the end of my career. I have just finished with | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
rugby league. I am not that ambitious to play for England. I | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
want to do my best here and enjoy myself. I would not mind betting | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
that when he makes his first appearance on 19th November we will | :20:09. | :20:19. | |
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see a record crowd. We might be in the front seat for that. Richard | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
missed himself off the list of great players who played for the | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
club. Great for Grasshoppers. A bit like Freddie Flintoff going to | :20:30. | :20:39. | |
Pemberton. Now for our final report from HMS Liverpool. We've been | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
filming as the Merseyside-built warship returns from her final | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
operational mission in Libya, before she's decommissioned next | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
year. Tonight Nina Warhurst takes a look back on almost 30 years of | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
history of the ship, and her links with the city she was named after. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
It is almost time to say goodbye to HMS Liverpool. In the coming months, | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
her flight will be lowered for the last time and she will cease to be | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
a Royal Navy ship. Those who sailed on her, are likely to forget her. | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
She is a beautiful ship. She is built in Liverpool. She has a real | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
heart which generations of sailors coming through and are developing a | :21:19. | :21:27. | |
special bond with the city, with each other, and with the nation. | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
When HMS Liverpool was ordered... Commissioned in 1982, HMS Liverpool | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
was built in Birkenhead and finished a year ahead of schedule. | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
In 2000, she escorted the Invincible, supporting the campaign | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
in Kosovo, and in 2003, supported Ark Royal. There have been | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
diplomatic and humanitarian missions. In 1996, the BBC covered | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
her journey to Bordeaux as a naval agreement was signed with the | :21:59. | :22:08. | |
French. A year later, she was called to the Caribbean to help | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
evacuees. This year, she played a major role in the summer's conflict | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
of the cost of Libya. This is the smallest landing deck and the | :22:18. | :22:26. | |
entire Royal Navy. I am about to go up in that helicopter. Patrolling | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
from air and sea, she helped to enforce the no-fly zone. She used | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
flares to help NATO aircraft. She was fired on by pro-Gaddafi forces. | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
These sailors have witnessed the fall of Tripoli. At they are ready | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
for home. I love the city of Liverpool. It has always been my | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
home. When I see the Liverbird, I get added emotional. Especially | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
when I see my mother. It get emotional. She may have been sent | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
across the world and back, but a HMS Liverpool has never forgotten | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
the City that shares a name, or the river she first sailed from. | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
It will be very emotional when they return. Nunez and there on Monday. | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
It is great for the crew. They were at the siege a very -- Misrata and | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
the full of Tripoli. They are incredible people who choose to be | :23:28. | :23:38. | |
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away from their families for all Good evening. We are heading | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
towards the weekend. It will be just a few degrees cooler. Cooler | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
air passing and on Saturday. It is pushed back out on Sunday. You will | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
know it as a dropper the temperatures. -- he dropping the | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
temperatures. Tonight it stays very mild. We had a showers today. They | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
were piling in this afternoon. Some of them have been really quite | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
heavy. In the last couple of hours they have died away. This is how it | :24:18. | :24:28. | |
looks. You will be unlucky to see more showers. For many places, and | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
largely dry picture. The cloud cover will stay fairly constant. As | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
we head towards the early hours of the morning, showers of the central | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
part of the country. It looks as if it will hangover to the south and | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
eastern parts of the region. The Pennines will see more than | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
anywhere else. The closer you were to the coast, you will avoid them. | :24:56. | :25:06. | |
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Overnight temperatures, milder. 12- 13 degrees. Watch these showers. | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
Some of them may drift a little further inland. You can see they | :25:10. | :25:19. | |
really want to stay concentrated. Away from them, at cloudy start. | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
Some of them will be really very heavy for a time. They are | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
trundling north. Just about everywhere will see an improvement | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
through the day. Many places will become drier. At limbs of sunshine. | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
You will still see some showers and the afternoon. And mixed up, lively | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
picture. The breeze comes from the south-west. Temperatures really | :25:50. | :25:58. | |
quite good. 14 and 15 degrees. The outlook for the next couple of days, | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
look at that. Most of Saturday is dry. We are Paris the close to a | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
line of whether that comes in late run that day. -- perilously close. | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
Fingers crossed that will be largely drive. That weather front | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
is creeping a little bit too close for comfort. That is how the | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
computer wants to see it during daylight hours. Saturday night | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
could see some rain from time to time. Temperatures cooling off a | :26:29. | :26:38. | |
Now you two look very cosy on that sofa over there - but not sure how | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
comfy we'd find this one. It's an ice lounge, it will weigh 2.5 | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
tonnes and will be created from nine giant blocks of ice. It will | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
be installed at Manchester Piccadilly Station next Wednesday | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
as part of a public information campaign. Does your bottom get wet? | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
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Your bottom goes Phnom! -- norm. I do not know if I would sit on it. | :27:06. | :27:14. | |
You know how you get stuck to ice lollies? There is an ice hotel. Who | :27:14. | :27:21. |