:00:04. > :00:09.Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Ranvir Singh and Roger
:00:09. > :00:12.Johnson. Our top story. Stealing as the region remembered.
:00:12. > :00:21.Police hunt the thief who stole eight poppy tins, one of them on
:00:21. > :00:24.Armistice Day. I thought it was absolutely despicable and I
:00:24. > :00:28.couldn't believe that somebody would go out there and steel poppy
:00:28. > :00:31.tins. Police tell him to hand himself in for his own safety. Also
:00:31. > :00:39.in the programme: A cocaine dealer but not a killer.
:00:39. > :00:43.Former Brookside actor Brian Regan gives evidence at his murder trial.
:00:43. > :00:50.It may look as easy as colouring in but this mobile-phone application
:00:50. > :00:52.could improve treatment for burns treatment -- burns victims.
:00:52. > :01:02.Saying goodbye to Mr Aintree. The people of Liverpool pay their
:01:02. > :01:03.
:01:03. > :01:06.respects to racing legend Ginger McCain. Pipe-trained or by coach,
:01:06. > :01:16.the holidays begin. And chronicling half a century of
:01:16. > :01:18.
:01:18. > :01:23.Lancashire life. The film club Also tonight, we'll be speaking to
:01:23. > :01:27.an award-winning slimmer. Carole Wright lost an astonishing 20 stone.
:01:27. > :01:30.She's less than half the woman she used to be. And she'll be leaving
:01:30. > :01:33.our Spartan hospitality room a little later to tell us how she did
:01:33. > :01:36.Last week on Armistice Day, thousands of people stood united in
:01:36. > :01:41.remembrance and respect for those who gave their lives for our
:01:41. > :01:47.freedom. All apart from one a thief who saw an opportunity to steal
:01:47. > :01:51.from the charity set up to help servicemen and their families. He's
:01:51. > :01:55.stolen poppy collection boxes from across Cheshire over the past week.
:01:55. > :01:58.Now, police are on his trail and warn that such is the anger in the
:01:58. > :02:08.communities he's targeted, that he himself may now be in danger. Naomi
:02:08. > :02:08.
:02:08. > :02:12.Thousands paid their respects to the fallen. But one man stole from
:02:12. > :02:16.the charity set up to help the injured and bereaved. The thief was
:02:16. > :02:19.captured on CCTV stealing poppy collections across Cheshire. And is
:02:19. > :02:27.suspected of making off with at least eight charity boxes in the
:02:27. > :02:31.last week. I thought it was absolutely despicable. I couldn't
:02:31. > :02:34.actually believe that someone would go out there and still poppy tins.
:02:34. > :02:36.Police are investigating a string of incidents, including thefts of
:02:36. > :02:43.collection boxes from this accountants in Warrington, and this
:02:43. > :02:48.sports club nearby. I was laying a wreath at Warrington together with
:02:48. > :02:52.servicemen were -- from Afghanistan, said to me it is abhorrent the
:02:52. > :02:56.nature of this offence and the fact that somebody would stoop so low as
:02:56. > :02:59.to steal this money in this way. Friday, as the rest of the North
:02:59. > :03:05.West remembered all those who'd lost their lives in conflicts, the
:03:05. > :03:11.thief helped himself to a collection box here in Frodsham.
:03:11. > :03:18.came in, he asked for some details. She turned to get the details and
:03:18. > :03:25.he went out, came akin to ask for some more details for his sister.
:03:25. > :03:28.He took the box while we got the details. The thefts have so
:03:28. > :03:33.sickened the community, that police are now warning the thief to hand
:03:33. > :03:36.himself in for his own safety. would say he is at risk from
:03:36. > :03:41.alliteration from the members of the public so I would like to
:03:41. > :03:48.invite him to hand him something so that we can deal with the matter
:03:48. > :03:51.effectively. -- to hand himself in. Anyone with information should
:03:51. > :03:54.contact Cheshire Police. A former soap star has told a jury
:03:54. > :03:57.he's a drug user and dealer but he isn't a murderer. Brian Regan, who
:03:57. > :04:00.appeared as Terry Sullivan in Brookside for 15 years, is accused
:04:00. > :04:03.of being part of a group that organised and carried out the
:04:03. > :04:06.killing of a nightclub doorman. Mr Regan and his co-accused all deny
:04:06. > :04:09.the accusations. Today was his chance to tell the court his
:04:09. > :04:12.version of events. Our Chief Reporter, Dave Guest, is outside
:04:12. > :04:22.Liverpool Crown Court now. Tell us more about Brian Regan and what
:04:22. > :04:23.
:04:23. > :04:28.he's accused of doing. That's right. Of course, Brian
:04:28. > :04:34.Regan was best remembered as Terry Sullivan, the character he played
:04:34. > :04:38.in Brookside. That role gave him a national celebrity. When he left
:04:38. > :04:43.the show in the late 90s, the acting work dried up as did his
:04:43. > :04:48.savings. But his drug use, which she had started in her early 90s
:04:48. > :04:52.had expanded. He became a supplier as well. One of his co-accused is
:04:52. > :04:58.one of his friends and he said he used Mr Reagan as a cocaine courier.
:04:58. > :05:03.Another of the accused said that this pair supplied him with drugs.
:05:03. > :05:07.The accusation is that Brian Regan drove one of these men to and from
:05:07. > :05:16.the scene of a fatal shooting earlier this year. Who was the
:05:16. > :05:23.victim? The victim was a barman. He was up 44-year-old nightclub
:05:23. > :05:29.bouncer. He was also a father of one. He was shot dead outside a pub
:05:29. > :05:32.in Liverpool in February. The Crown's case is that Brian Regan
:05:32. > :05:38.acted as the getaway driver and that one of his co-accused fired
:05:38. > :05:44.the fatal shot but both of them deny any involvement. What did
:05:44. > :05:50.Brian Regan say happened? He said that at the time the bouncer was
:05:50. > :05:53.killed, he was sitting in a car snorting cocaine. He accepts he
:05:54. > :05:58.drove them to Liverpool but as far as he was concerned, the co-accused
:05:58. > :06:03.was going to collect some money. He said the man was out of the couple
:06:03. > :06:11.of few minutes. There was nothing untoward, no blood and no sign of a
:06:11. > :06:14.gun. All of the accused deny any involvement in the murder.
:06:14. > :06:19.Jobs at BAE Systems in Warton could be protected if the Indian
:06:19. > :06:21.government places an order for the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft. The
:06:21. > :06:25.company is cutting 1,400 jobs in Lancashire because of falling
:06:25. > :06:28.orders. The Defence Secretary Philip Hammond told the Commons a
:06:28. > :06:30.decision on the order is likely within the next few weeks.
:06:30. > :06:40.More than 11,000 children run away in the North west every year,
:06:40. > :06:45.
:06:45. > :06:50.UK ministers have been assiduous in the last few weeks for promoting
:06:50. > :06:55.fast jets. We understand that there is likely to be an announcement in
:06:55. > :07:01.the next few weeks on a decision made by the Indian government.
:07:01. > :07:05.than 11,000 children run away every year in the North West. The charity
:07:05. > :07:07.says a quarter of them have been the victim of a harmful or
:07:07. > :07:09.dangerous experience. It's asking the Government to do more to help
:07:09. > :07:12.them. The Royal Navy's newest submarine,
:07:12. > :07:16.HMS Astute, built in Barrow in Furness, has completed its first
:07:16. > :07:22.missile firing test. The Astute, which is nuclear powered, is
:07:22. > :07:26.can carry a combination of up to 38 Tomahawk missiles and Spearfish
:07:26. > :07:30.torpedoes. Manchester United have announced
:07:30. > :07:36.another set of healthy financial figures. Turnover for the first
:07:36. > :07:39.quarter of the year was up by 16.5% to almost �74 million. Match-day
:07:39. > :07:49.income has also grown to almost �22 million thanks to the first
:07:49. > :07:54.
:07:54. > :07:57.complete sell-out of seasonal hospitality boxes.
:07:57. > :08:00.A former army medic from the Wirral has designed a mobile application
:08:00. > :08:02.which could improve the accuracy of treatment for burns. Chris Seaton
:08:03. > :08:06.worked with two doctors from Whiston Hospital to create the app.
:08:06. > :08:09.It allows doctors to work out how much fluid a patient needs either
:08:09. > :08:12.out in the field or in hospital using an iPad or iPhone. Tests show
:08:12. > :08:16.it reduces errors by a third. Our health correspondent Laura Yates
:08:16. > :08:19.reports. All the physician has to do is touch the screen and draw
:08:20. > :08:22.where it has been burnt. Think of it as a sort of medical
:08:22. > :08:29.calculator designed to help a patient who's been badly burned.
:08:29. > :08:33.Next you need to know age and weight. If you don't know how much
:08:33. > :08:39.he weighs, you can do an estimate. I can say perhaps he was burnt four
:08:39. > :08:42.hours ago. With that, quickly and efficiently and accurately, it
:08:42. > :08:48.works out a treatment plan for the patient, how would we would they
:08:48. > :08:51.need and where. -- how much fluid they need. Its designer Chris
:08:51. > :08:54.Seaton spent four years in the army. A captain in the medical corps he
:08:54. > :09:00.knows only too well the pressures doctors can be under. These
:09:00. > :09:05.calculations he says normally made on a piece of paper. We have learnt
:09:05. > :09:09.a lot of protocols and complicated information. We could simplified is
:09:09. > :09:12.using an application. We have made this procedure faster and easier
:09:12. > :09:14.but more precise as well. Chris worked with doctors at Whiston
:09:14. > :09:17.Hospital's Burns Unit to create the app. Today, there are three
:09:17. > :09:21.patients here in intensive care. Another nine beds in the specialist
:09:21. > :09:28.unit. But it's calculating just how much fluid a patient needs when
:09:28. > :09:32.they're first brought into A&E that they say is so difficult. One of
:09:32. > :09:35.the difficulties is not so much weighing the patient or the age of
:09:35. > :09:40.the patient, which is quite straightforward, it is the
:09:40. > :09:46.assessment of the amount of their skin that has been burnt. Tests
:09:46. > :09:56.show errors were reduced by a third when using the application. They
:09:56. > :09:57.
:09:57. > :10:00.hope it will be regulated for use across the NHS.
:10:00. > :10:03.Hundreds of people turned out at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral this
:10:03. > :10:05.afternoon to pay tribute to one of horse racing's most colourful and
:10:05. > :10:08.best loved characters. Ginger McCain, who trained Red Rum to
:10:08. > :10:11.three Grand National wins, died in September. Today, the stars of
:10:11. > :10:19.horse racing and the wider sporting world came to Liverpool for his
:10:19. > :10:23.memorial service. Our Merseyside Music to remember the man they
:10:23. > :10:28.called Mr. Aintree. Family, friends and fans packed the Anglican
:10:28. > :10:38.Cathedral. Ginger McCain was born and bred in Southport where, the
:10:38. > :10:40.
:10:40. > :10:46.congregation heard, his passion for horses began. They were filled with
:10:46. > :10:49.working horses. He used to sit and catch a ride on the butcher's tray
:10:49. > :10:53.or the milkman's float and from that his great love of horses
:10:53. > :10:56.developed. McCain trained Red Rum on the sands of Southport beach.
:10:56. > :11:02.They won the Aintree Grand National three times in the 70s. McCain's
:11:02. > :11:05.fourth triumph coming on Amblerleigh House in 2004. The
:11:05. > :11:12.congregation heard how proud he was when his son won the National this
:11:12. > :11:18.year. That is what he said. A lot of fuss about nothing. But if -- if
:11:18. > :11:28.it was somebody else's do, he thoroughly enjoyed it. But he
:11:28. > :11:39.
:11:39. > :11:47.Stars from racing and other sports paid tribute. In 80 years, you burn
:11:47. > :11:53.the candle at both ends. But looked down now. Assembled here are at
:11:53. > :12:00.1,000 of your front. You can tell what sort of person he was. He was
:12:00. > :12:02.a scamp, really. But he loved the game. He kept race -- horse racing
:12:02. > :12:12.alive. Discussions are underway about a permanent memorial at
:12:12. > :12:16.
:12:16. > :12:22.Aintree. Still to come. I find out why an
:12:22. > :12:27.important milestone is being marked here in Moss Side for the Olympic
:12:27. > :12:32.double drop the keyboard to the next 50 years, the amateur film-
:12:32. > :12:36.makers that documented life in Lancashire for five decades.
:12:36. > :12:39.Tonight, and the second of our reports on how Children In Need
:12:40. > :12:44.money is spent, we meet a mum who had to go without a meal for three
:12:44. > :12:48.days because she had no money. Her life has been dramatically improved
:12:48. > :12:54.by key to the door. It is a charity in Oldham which helps young single
:12:54. > :13:04.mums. She always made sure that her ten-month-old baby was properly fed
:13:04. > :13:04.
:13:04. > :13:12.but now financial hardship forced It is very difficult being a single
:13:12. > :13:19.mum. I always made sure he was fed. He eats and art, he has got a good
:13:19. > :13:25.appetite. He is always dead happy. Early this year, I found myself
:13:25. > :13:29.short of money because my benefits for not paying me as much as they
:13:29. > :13:35.were supposed active. How didn't have enough to buy myself for food.
:13:35. > :13:44.I had to starve myself and went without food for three days. I
:13:44. > :13:51.would buy at chocolate bar, a packet of crisps. Few of that
:13:51. > :14:01.hungry and you get cramps in your belly and it is not nice. -- you
:14:01. > :14:06.are really hungry. I would go to the corner shop and beg them for a
:14:06. > :14:11.10 out of electric. I had to give them a spare house keys are they
:14:11. > :14:21.knew I would come back and pay. It was so embarrassing begging but you
:14:21. > :14:26.
:14:26. > :14:33.have to do stuff when you have a This place is for single mums and
:14:33. > :14:37.the age of 22. We do different activities like bike riding in the
:14:37. > :14:43.park, canoeing, we went to Blackpool for the day. It is nice
:14:43. > :14:52.to meet people in the same position. My situation is a lot better than
:14:52. > :15:00.it was a few months ago. Key to the Door are going to help me pay my
:15:01. > :15:07.money back. Without it, I wouldn't have a roof over my head. I would
:15:07. > :15:15.be lost without them and wouldn't get over the problems I have had. I
:15:15. > :15:23.would like to say a big thank-you to children and need and Key to the
:15:23. > :15:27.Door. I wouldn't be here now without my little son. -- I
:15:27. > :15:32.wouldn't be here now with my little son.
:15:32. > :15:42.Friday is the big day for children in Need. You can find out how you
:15:42. > :15:44.
:15:44. > :15:49.can help children like Tyler as Some sport now and St Helens have
:15:49. > :15:54.opened their new stadium to the cameras for the first time. The
:15:54. > :15:59.development will be called Langtry Park. The state -- Abbey Stadium
:15:59. > :16:04.may be new but some things will stay the same. The club has
:16:04. > :16:10.installed the old goalposts from Knowsley Road.
:16:10. > :16:17.Knowsley Road didn't be fit the actual team that was on the pitch.
:16:17. > :16:20.It was time for a new stadium. What we sought to achieve was a stadium
:16:20. > :16:25.that was the same calibre as the team that was playing on the pitch.
:16:25. > :16:29.That is hopefully what we have achieved. That is a very different
:16:29. > :16:32.home for them. When London was chosen to host the
:16:32. > :16:37.2012 Olympic Games, a promise was made that the legacy would spread
:16:37. > :16:40.throughout Great Britain. Today a boxing gym in Moss Side
:16:40. > :16:47.became the first sports club in the country to be awarded money from
:16:47. > :16:49.the Olympic legacy fund. If the �41,000 they have been given makes
:16:49. > :16:55.-- is set to make a lasting difference.
:16:55. > :16:59.30 years ago after the Moss Side riots, a group of friends to crave
:16:59. > :17:04.a room above some shops on Princess Road with the dream of creating a
:17:04. > :17:08.club that the whole community could be proud of. They didn't disappoint.
:17:08. > :17:15.If you go back to the late nineties when they have the British
:17:15. > :17:21.champions in the gym, it is what makes it special. I became a
:17:21. > :17:25.champion. It is a fantastic place to be. Finding funding has been a
:17:25. > :17:31.non-stop struggle but today it was the first club in the country to
:17:31. > :17:35.secure a chunk of the legacy funding. That programme is about
:17:35. > :17:40.facilities at the heart of the community. What better example than
:17:40. > :17:44.this facility in Moss Side. It is an important part of the community.
:17:44. > :17:49.The idea of a legacy friend is that it pays for long term and lasting
:17:49. > :17:54.improvements. Here, once that route has been fixed and once the windows
:17:54. > :17:59.had been instigated, energy bills will drop down and more money can
:17:59. > :18:05.be invested in equipment. It is good news for Beverley. She is in
:18:05. > :18:10.her late fifties and she says it is the gym that has kept her body and
:18:10. > :18:17.mind positive. What I like about it is a doesn't matter about the age,
:18:18. > :18:21.as long as they can hit the bag and move about, you are welcome here.
:18:21. > :18:28.understand you come here with your daughter as well. Absolutely, oh
:18:28. > :18:31.yes. 82 groups from the region have applied for a share of the legacy
:18:31. > :18:38.funding and will find out if they have been successful before
:18:38. > :18:42.Christmas. Most of us at one time or another
:18:42. > :18:45.feel like we have to watch our weight. We have just had our photos
:18:45. > :18:52.taken recently and we were practising breathing in at the same
:18:52. > :18:58.time. It is the will power to lose the weight which is sometimes
:18:58. > :19:02.easier said than done. Our next guest is the queen of dieters.
:19:02. > :19:09.This was 54 year-old Carol Wright from Southport before she became
:19:09. > :19:14.2011's Slimmer of the Year. She lost 20 stone, dropped 12 dress
:19:14. > :19:20.sizes and is now 10 stone. Here she is now.
:19:20. > :19:26.If how did you do it? Slimming World. I got to the stage where I
:19:26. > :19:30.was 30 stone and life was unbearable. A friend suggested that
:19:30. > :19:36.I joined a slimming club. Slimming World popped up and I could eat
:19:36. > :19:42.what I wanted. I joined two days later and was shown the food plans
:19:42. > :19:49.and have the support of a group that is amazing. I lost a stone in
:19:49. > :19:53.the first week. That is quite dramatic. The food plans on
:19:53. > :19:57.Slimming World are so amazing. They don't make you feel guilty about
:19:57. > :20:03.eating and you are allowed to eat. If you are for, you stick to the
:20:03. > :20:09.plan. When we were reading out the dramatic change, used to look
:20:09. > :20:14.shocked and you reacted as if you can't believe it. What I can't
:20:14. > :20:18.believe it's all the attention because I have lost the weight. The
:20:18. > :20:22.last two years have been the easiest of my life. What was it
:20:22. > :20:30.that made you think that this cannot continue? You were stuck in
:20:30. > :20:37.a house and had only been out four times in a year. I had such pain in
:20:37. > :20:41.my knees and back. I was using inhalers all the time. It was all
:20:41. > :20:45.weight-bearing things. The doctors said if I don't do something in
:20:45. > :20:50.about it -- if I don't do something about it, I will die in two years.
:20:50. > :20:58.I still didn't do anything about it because I didn't know how to.
:20:58. > :21:03.how did you let yourself get into that position in the first place?
:21:03. > :21:09.was 29 stone at I got to on that picture. How did you get to that
:21:09. > :21:16.position? I was �11 when I was born and I was a big target and grew
:21:16. > :21:23.into a big adult. I have been morbidly obese since I was 20. It
:21:23. > :21:29.was only in the last two years that the few stone crapped on as I was
:21:29. > :21:34.getting older. You had a teenage son that was suffering as well.
:21:35. > :21:40.would put my shoes on and Hoover for me. Now you look fantastic and
:21:40. > :21:44.I'm sure everyone will agree. Were people crawl? People have always
:21:44. > :21:51.been cool and the thing that stairwells, you have that support.
:21:51. > :21:59.Even the morning I jumped on the scales, I burst into tears.
:21:59. > :22:07.Everyone got up and hoped they. It was the first time I had got a hope
:22:07. > :22:12.of a stranger. I stayed with the same friends because they knew what
:22:12. > :22:17.size I was. People used to wind their window down and Abbey's nave.
:22:17. > :22:23.Fat people have feelings too. sure a brand new wardrobe would be
:22:23. > :22:28.exciting to. His is fabulous. Congratulations and long may you
:22:28. > :22:35.half continue. 50 years ago, a group of amateur
:22:35. > :22:39.film-makers set out to capture everyday life in a Lancashire town.
:22:39. > :22:43.Nelson's shops, its factories and the school classrooms. They were
:22:43. > :22:53.making a rare record of a disappearing world and they are
:22:53. > :22:55.
:22:55. > :22:59.still at it. 1962, the Americans squared up to
:22:59. > :23:05.the Russians over Cuba, Nelson Mandela was jailed, Nelson,
:23:06. > :23:10.Lancashire, welcomed Miss World. Donald Carter took his duties very
:23:10. > :23:20.seriously as escort to this lady whose charms was so outstanding.
:23:20. > :23:20.
:23:20. > :23:23.must have seen -- seemed that this life would never change. Against
:23:23. > :23:28.the background of momentous world events, some people must have
:23:28. > :23:31.wondered what is the point of filming people wandering along a
:23:32. > :23:36.street organ to the shops? The genius of the people who made this
:23:36. > :23:46.film didn't realise that over time, even the ordinary becomes
:23:46. > :23:47.
:23:47. > :23:53.extraordinary. They called their film, Nelson 62. They are
:23:53. > :23:58.determined we won't forget 2011 A there. Here they are at the opening
:23:58. > :24:03.of Nelson town centre earlier this year. It will go up to 13 ft and
:24:03. > :24:13.you have a viewfinder here which you look through. It looks like a
:24:13. > :24:19.periscope. Yes, it does. Once a month, they meet to plan new ways
:24:19. > :24:24.of reflecting have their corner of the world is changing. There's more
:24:24. > :24:31.filming to be done of an Asian market which is completely Asian.
:24:31. > :24:39.Nelson has changed in the last 30 or 40 years. Ken Holgate appeared
:24:39. > :24:46.in Nelson 62 and continues to make sure they will remember Nelson 11.
:24:46. > :24:56.The film is a story telling. If you like telling stories, film-making
:24:56. > :25:06.
:25:06. > :25:15.Gorgeous stuff. You could watch his all day. It is deeply fascinating.
:25:15. > :25:21.Good evening. We saw a little more sunshine than we thought we would
:25:21. > :25:29.see. The good news is it stays fairly mild. If you are looking for
:25:29. > :25:34.frosty nights, you might get a touch of it in Cumbria. Over the
:25:34. > :25:43.next couple of days, a temperatures stay into double figures, even
:25:43. > :25:50.through the night. But not for tonight, our cloud cover is
:25:50. > :26:00.bringing temperatures of three Celsius. After midnight, the cloud
:26:00. > :26:04.
:26:04. > :26:08.rolls back in. We are not too worried for temperatures first
:26:08. > :26:15.thing tomorrow morning. However that cloud cover is fairly stubborn
:26:15. > :26:21.tomorrow and it looks like we will have a fairly grey day. A breeze is
:26:21. > :26:26.coming from the South East. It will try and break this cloud cover
:26:26. > :26:34.along the coastal strip. For late morning, the closer you are to the
:26:34. > :26:38.coast, the better. There is not too much going on. Even if you get a
:26:38. > :26:46.glimpse of sunshine, the cloud rolls back in towards teatime.
:26:46. > :26:50.There is another band of rain waiting in the winds -- wings. It
:26:50. > :26:58.should be dry but predominantly cloudy, dull and dismal, a top
:26:58. > :27:02.cloudy, dull and dismal, a top Something for the ladies, you may
:27:02. > :27:09.catch the eye of my to fashionable colleagues as well. Look at
:27:09. > :27:13.distress. �50,000. It took 300 hours to make. What do you think it
:27:13. > :27:19.is made from? Crepe paper.
:27:19. > :27:26.It is made from hair. Human hair. It was created by a rise in Edwards
:27:26. > :27:33.in conjunction with Thelma, the dressmaker from a mighty big fat