:00:09. > :00:14.Good evening and welcome to the programme. Our top story: Tornado
:00:14. > :00:18.trouble - high winds hit the north- west, damaging houses, cars and
:00:18. > :00:26.bringing down trees. We will be reporting live from for
:00:26. > :00:30.one of the worst hit areas. The north-west prepares for a day
:00:30. > :00:33.in which thousands of public sector workers are to strike.
:00:33. > :00:36.School drop off as normal this morning but it will not be tomorrow.
:00:36. > :00:40.We will have the very latest on the strike, what it means to those
:00:40. > :00:45.taking part and what it will mean to you.
:00:45. > :00:51.We go behind the scenes with the forensic scientists solving crimes
:00:51. > :00:55.from the smallest clues. Coming to a community near you? How
:00:55. > :00:59.fracking for natural gas might just change the face of where you live.
:00:59. > :01:09.And real life for really desperate TV? What the Liverpudlian Women
:01:09. > :01:16.
:01:16. > :01:20.think of the new TV show putting Cars smashed, roofs ripped off,
:01:20. > :01:24.trees pulled out of the ground - parts of the region took a real
:01:24. > :01:27.battering from freak tornadoes today. A woman was injured in
:01:27. > :01:31.Stockport when a chimney collapsed in a high winds and crashed into a
:01:31. > :01:35.busy road. The main road between Darwen and Blackburn was closed
:01:35. > :01:42.after part of a roof blew off a house. The Isle of Man was hammered
:01:42. > :01:48.by 70 mph winds. One car there was blown into a river. Our reporter is
:01:48. > :01:52.in Heaton Moor. It seems quiet now but what is the latest?
:01:52. > :01:57.Yes, this road has only just reopened after firefighters had to
:01:57. > :02:04.close it for several hours while they dealt with a series of
:02:04. > :02:08.incidents along the street. Chimney pots came crashing down from the
:02:08. > :02:14.roof of the houses behind me. A woman was hit and was taking to
:02:14. > :02:17.step -- taken to Stepping Hill hospital. The 30 feet section of
:02:17. > :02:21.tree was left hanging precariously over the main road. Round the
:02:21. > :02:25.corner another huge tree came crashing down on a terrace of
:02:25. > :02:29.houses. Luckily no-one was home at the time. They will get a shock
:02:29. > :02:33.when they get home tonight! This is what people in the area have had to
:02:33. > :02:41.save. Some people have said it is like Armageddon at the moment.
:02:41. > :02:44.There is so much debris at the moment. I saw the furniture from
:02:44. > :02:49.the coffee shop flying past the window. Pieces of carpet from a
:02:49. > :02:56.carpet shop were flying past. People have compared it to the
:02:56. > :03:03.Wizard of Oz. Not just Heaton Moor that has been
:03:03. > :03:08.affected, many other parts of the region, too. Yes, it first hit the
:03:08. > :03:12.Isle of Man at around 11am today. 75 mph gusts of wind were
:03:12. > :03:16.registered across the island. That has cost a number of problems. Many
:03:16. > :03:21.trees have fallen down and blocked roads, a car was even born into a
:03:21. > :03:24.river at one point. And another motorist had a lucky escape after a
:03:24. > :03:29.tree came down on their vehicle. In Lancashire there have been problems,
:03:29. > :03:33.too. Strong winds have ripped part of the roof off of a pub this
:03:33. > :03:37.afternoon. Other houses nearby were damaged and we hear that one person
:03:37. > :03:45.was injured and taken to hospital. Tonight the clear-up begins across
:03:45. > :03:49.the region. Thank you very much. Diane will be
:03:49. > :03:52.here later in the programme with a full weather forecast.
:03:52. > :03:57.From midnight tonight across the north-west hundreds of thousands of
:03:58. > :04:05.public sector staff are expected to strike at -- in protest at changes
:04:05. > :04:08.to public sector spend -- pensions. Many public services will remain
:04:08. > :04:13.close to and others will offer a reduced service tomorrow. Annabel
:04:13. > :04:20.has all the details. Health care is one of their areas
:04:20. > :04:23.most affected. The union Unison says it expects over 24,000 of its
:04:23. > :04:26.members in the north-west to go on strike. Our hospitals say emergency
:04:26. > :04:28.surgery will go ahead and A&E departments will be open as usual.
:04:28. > :04:31.But many non-emergency operations and out-patient appointments have
:04:31. > :04:33.been cancelled. For example, at Blackpool Victoria, of the 99 non-
:04:33. > :04:35.urgent surgeries scheduled for tomorrow, nearly half won't be
:04:36. > :04:38.going ahead. Central Manchester Universities NHS Foundation Trust,
:04:38. > :04:40.which runs hospitals including the Manchester Royal Infirmary, say
:04:40. > :04:49.that two thirds of all non- emergency surgery has been
:04:49. > :04:52.cancelled. GPs surgeries are due to open as normal but many paramedics
:04:52. > :04:56.are on strike, so there will be fewer ambulances on the road, and
:04:56. > :05:02.they will be sent to those who need them most. NHS Northwest says if
:05:02. > :05:05.your appointment has been cancelled you should have already been told.
:05:05. > :05:10.We do not know the number of staff who will come in tomorrow. It might
:05:10. > :05:14.mean fewer ambulances, it might mean delays in getting to 999 cases.
:05:14. > :05:20.We will always be here and we will try to get a patients as quickly as
:05:20. > :05:23.we can, but think before you ring 999.
:05:23. > :05:27.And if you're using hospital services tomorrow there may be some
:05:27. > :05:31.longer waiting times. The overwhelming majority of north-west
:05:31. > :05:34.schools are shut tomorrow. Jayne Barrett has been looking at the
:05:34. > :05:40.impact on a school in Northwich in Cheshire and the fall-out on
:05:40. > :05:48.parents. The normal school run in Moulton
:05:48. > :05:51.this morning. Not so tomorrow. an IT manager and we have to
:05:51. > :05:57.arrange for home care for our children tomorrow. I work for the
:05:57. > :06:03.bank. It is going to be difficult because I have to get childcare.
:06:03. > :06:07.But I fully support the strike. For the vast majority of parentss
:06:07. > :06:11.it is an imposed inconvenience, but one that they understand. For Jayne
:06:11. > :06:16.it is a choice, but, she says, not an easy one. What do you think of
:06:16. > :06:19.the Government's argument that we are all in this together and you
:06:19. > :06:24.are expecting more than other people have? As far as I am
:06:24. > :06:28.concerned, we already took a hit when our payee was frozen. This is
:06:28. > :06:34.about our futures and this is about, in 20 years' time for me, the fact
:06:34. > :06:38.that my pension will not be the pension that I signed up for.
:06:38. > :06:42.at this late stage there are hopes that the Government and unions
:06:42. > :06:48.could reach a compromise and call off the strike, not least from
:06:48. > :06:52.fairly's mother. Tomorrow, Heather Wilde will have to pay �45 for
:06:52. > :06:56.childcare so that she and her husband can still get to work.
:06:56. > :07:00.not have a guaranteed pension at the end of my career. And I just
:07:00. > :07:05.find, you know, I feel quite angry that I have to pay out tomorrow on
:07:05. > :07:10.the back of this. For there must -- the vast majority of parents,
:07:10. > :07:14.tomorrow will be a bit of a juggle. An opinion poll has shown that the
:07:14. > :07:18.majority Arabs abroad. What you think of the strike? I think it is
:07:18. > :07:23.quite justified, actually. Pensions are a difficult issue that needs
:07:23. > :07:33.resolving. With few schools remaining open,
:07:33. > :07:34.
:07:34. > :07:37.very few people will be unaffected by the strike.
:07:37. > :07:39.Many people planning to travel tomorrow will also feel the effects
:07:39. > :07:42.of the strike. Immigration staff at the region's airports are taking
:07:42. > :07:45.part in the industrial action. The union representing many of them,
:07:45. > :07:48.PCS, expect about 3,200 staff to strike. That is about 80% of those
:07:48. > :07:51.who should be at work. It means arriving passengers could face a
:07:51. > :07:54.long wait at passport control. One of the places where travellers will
:07:54. > :07:57.be most affected his Merseyside, as Andy Gill explains.
:07:57. > :07:59.Both Mersey road tunnels will be closed tomorrow, except for a lane
:07:59. > :08:05.of the Wallasey Tunnel open for emergency vehicles only. Normally
:08:05. > :08:08.drivers make 88,000 journeys a day through the tunnels. Those who
:08:08. > :08:12.would normally use it will have to find alternative means to get
:08:12. > :08:22.across the river. That will a perfect bus services across the
:08:22. > :08:23.
:08:23. > :08:26.river as well, of course. There are no ferries across the Mersey
:08:26. > :08:29.tomorrow either. That means Mersey Rail's services between Wirral and
:08:29. > :08:31.Liverpool will be extremely busy. Mersey Rail says it will put on
:08:31. > :08:34.extra coaches. But it is also advising passengers to book tickets
:08:34. > :08:37.in advance and avoid the rush hour to prevent severe overcrowding.
:08:37. > :08:40.Buses and other rail services on Merseyside and elsewhere should run
:08:40. > :08:49.as normal. The traffic will be affected by marches in Liverpool,
:08:49. > :08:55.Manchester, Crewe, Blackpool, Preston and Lancaster. Local
:08:55. > :08:58.government workers will also be on strike.
:08:58. > :09:01.Normally those who go out on strike would lose out on an attendance
:09:01. > :09:08.bonus, but the Labour leader of the council has said that workers
:09:08. > :09:13.should not be punished for going on strike. This is a legitimate strike
:09:13. > :09:16.being taken by the workforce in a legitimate fashion. I do not think
:09:16. > :09:19.that people should be punished for that.
:09:19. > :09:25.The government says that union leaders want to wreck economic
:09:25. > :09:28.recovery as well as causing misery for millions of ordinary people.
:09:28. > :09:33.Joining me now is Alan Manning, regional secretary for the Trades
:09:33. > :09:36.Union Congress. Thank you for coming in. We heard
:09:36. > :09:40.him one of the report's there that there is public support for what is
:09:40. > :09:45.happening tomorrow. Not withstanding that, there are still
:09:45. > :09:48.many people who will say that what the unions are striking over
:09:48. > :09:52.tomorrow is pensions and actually the deal on the table is better
:09:52. > :09:59.than many private sector workers get. I think that what you have to
:09:59. > :10:04.understand is that what public service -- sector workers are
:10:04. > :10:07.facing is injustice. We have seen pay freezes, cuts in services, and
:10:07. > :10:12.then, on top of that, public service workers are being asked to
:10:12. > :10:15.pay an additional 3% in contributions. None of that will go
:10:15. > :10:19.into their pension schemes. It is all about money to the Treasury. If
:10:19. > :10:22.it were about pensions, we should have had a negotiated settlement by
:10:22. > :10:26.now. Notwithstanding that the Government
:10:26. > :10:31.has to make savings and still the employer's contributions into
:10:31. > :10:35.public sector pensions, some people do not get any in a private pension.
:10:35. > :10:40.Let us put it in context. The money that the government might want to
:10:40. > :10:43.raise from nurses and teachers is almost equivalent to the amount of
:10:43. > :10:47.money the Treasury decided it didn't need when it cancelled the
:10:47. > :10:53.bankers bonus tax. These are political choices, it is not about
:10:53. > :10:56.the sustainability of the pension scheme. It is the Government saying
:10:56. > :11:00.to public sector workers that they have to make sacrifices when other
:11:00. > :11:03.sectors of society are not. What would you say to private sector
:11:03. > :11:06.people to more who have nowhere to take their children because their
:11:07. > :11:12.school is close than they have to pay out money out of their pocket
:11:12. > :11:16.in order to go to their own work. What I would say to them and the
:11:17. > :11:20.parents who are public sector workers who will find inconvenience
:11:20. > :11:24.that we very much regret all of that. This is not something that
:11:24. > :11:27.unions want to see. Strikes and industrial action are absolutely
:11:27. > :11:31.the last resort. We have been trying for months and months to
:11:31. > :11:36.negotiate a settlement. It has proved impossible and this is the
:11:36. > :11:41.only route that workers have to go down. It takes two sites to make a
:11:41. > :11:44.bargain, so the responsibility by the disruption tomorrow is on the
:11:44. > :11:48.Government's failure to negotiate. The Government has made a
:11:48. > :11:52.concession. Clearly the strike will go ahead tomorrow but are the
:11:52. > :11:55.unions prepared to come back in Nicosia? Be Government only started
:11:55. > :11:59.to make new offers when we balloted for industrial action. We want them
:11:59. > :12:04.to sit down with us to reach a proper settlement. That can
:12:04. > :12:14.happen.... More strikes? If the government might does not come to
:12:14. > :12:15.
:12:15. > :12:17.the table with real proposals them for the action is possible.
:12:17. > :12:20.Now more of the day's news. Wythenshawe Hospital have
:12:20. > :12:23.apologised to the family of an 82- year-old woman who went into
:12:23. > :12:26.hospital for a routine operation and came out with serious burns. A
:12:26. > :12:29.year later, Joyce Hardingham's family say she is still struggling
:12:29. > :12:31.to recover from the trauma of being accidentally set alight. The
:12:31. > :12:35.hospital has admitted liability and says it was an isolated incident.
:12:35. > :12:40.Joyce's burns are Severe and you may find some of the images in it
:12:40. > :12:45.Nina Warhurst's report upsetting. Joyce Hardingham was an active and
:12:45. > :12:48.healthy 81-year-old. She enjoyed taking her car to the garden centre
:12:48. > :12:52.and visiting friends. Two months after this family gathering choice
:12:52. > :12:55.became a different woman. Most photographs of Joyce after being
:12:55. > :12:59.burned at Wythenshawe Hospital are too distressing to show, but these
:12:59. > :13:02.pictures tell a small part of the story. Last November she had gone
:13:02. > :13:04.in for a routine operation to change the battery on her pacemaker,
:13:04. > :13:13.but suddenly the alcohol-based gel which had been used as an
:13:13. > :13:17.antiseptic caught fire from a spark on the hospital equipment.
:13:17. > :13:23.It could so easily have been no fatalities. And 81-year-old lady
:13:23. > :13:26.does not recover well from a significant fire trauma whilst in
:13:26. > :13:30.the hair of a hospital. It has taken her a year. We are pleased to
:13:30. > :13:36.say she will be joining us for Christmas dinner this year. But she
:13:36. > :13:46.is not the lady who was around prior to the incident.
:13:46. > :13:50.
:13:50. > :13:54.We're very sorry that this has happened. We do around 5,500
:13:54. > :14:00.procedures each year. But we use this solution routinely and this
:14:00. > :14:07.has never happened before. We're sorry we about what has happened in
:14:07. > :14:17.Joyce's family joys's family say that she will live with the scars
:14:17. > :14:31.
:14:31. > :14:34.from her injuries. They are seeking compensation. An
:14:34. > :14:37.inquest has heard that the former Bolton and Everton midfielder Gary
:14:37. > :14:40.Speed died from hanging. His body was discovered by his wife at his
:14:40. > :14:43.home in Huntington near Chester early on Sunday morning. The
:14:43. > :14:45.inquest has been adjourned until the end of January. Meanwhile, fans
:14:45. > :14:48.have continued to pay tribute to the 42-year-old father of two.
:14:48. > :14:51.Books of condolence have been opened by the Everton Football Club.
:14:51. > :14:54.George Osborne has confirmed he is setting up a new enterprise on in
:14:54. > :14:57.Lancashire. It will cover the area around the two BAE Systems plants
:14:57. > :15:00.at Warton and Samlesbury. The Chancellor has also approved a �54
:15:00. > :15:03.million investment in Manchester's bus network. It will be spent on
:15:03. > :15:06.changing the road layout on the East Lancs, on Rochdale Road and in
:15:06. > :15:08.Manchester city centre. It will also see Oxford Road closed to cars
:15:08. > :15:11.between the Aquatics Centre and Manchester Royal Infirmary.
:15:11. > :15:14.The Merseyside author Helen Forrester has died at the age of 92.
:15:14. > :15:17.The Wirral-born writer was behind the best seller Twopence To Cross
:15:17. > :15:20.The Mersey, which told the tale of her poverty-stricken early life. It
:15:20. > :15:22.was later turned into a successful musical. We have heard much about
:15:22. > :15:25.the controversy surrounding drilling for shale gas deep beneath
:15:25. > :15:31.Lancashire. Fracking is linked to earth tremors and there are fears
:15:31. > :15:34.for the environment. But there are two sides to every story. In the
:15:34. > :15:36.second of his reports from Bradford County Pennsylvania, a place that
:15:36. > :15:40.has seen massive amount of drilling, Peter Marshall looks at the
:15:40. > :15:43.economic implications of living with fracking.
:15:44. > :15:47.The dash for gas is making its mark on Bradford County. In its endless
:15:47. > :15:57.mountains, seemingly endless pipelines. But the mark is far from
:15:57. > :15:59.
:15:59. > :16:02.just cosmetic. We built this simply because we saw the gas industry
:16:02. > :16:05.here, we saw what was going to continue, and we would not have
:16:05. > :16:09.built this hotel of it was not for the industry coming to this area.
:16:09. > :16:13.Let them come to your area because it will be a great experience. It
:16:13. > :16:17.is like Christmas every day, every day. So we have been extremely
:16:17. > :16:24.fortunate. It does help this community wonderfully, it has
:16:24. > :16:27.helped our business, surrounding businesses. We have not seen
:16:28. > :16:31.anything that resembles a recession whatsoever. Hit Main Street Towanda
:16:31. > :16:41.and you get a sense of how the gas industry workers have boosted the
:16:41. > :16:43.
:16:43. > :16:47.local economy. These are miniatures of the drill bits that they use. We
:16:47. > :16:52.started staying open and hour later on Friday so that we could
:16:52. > :16:55.accommodate them, which makes it nice for them and for us. So your
:16:55. > :16:59.business and the gas industry work well together? Are very well
:16:59. > :17:02.together. Absolutely, yes. Indeed, a survey of local businesses
:17:02. > :17:07.concluded early effects of the gas rush have been positive. 32% of
:17:07. > :17:10.respondents said sales were up, while 3% were down. Who is
:17:10. > :17:13.benefiting most? Well, 100% of hotels and camp grounds said sales
:17:13. > :17:15.had increased, as did almost half of retail outlets, 30% of bars and
:17:15. > :17:25.restaurants and 29% of tourist destinations. Bradford County also
:17:25. > :17:30.
:17:30. > :17:34.has the lowest unemployment rate in These jobs that are here now were
:17:34. > :17:44.high-paid jobs. You could see a high-school graduate leave school
:17:44. > :17:46.
:17:46. > :17:52.and they could see a salary of 60 sit -- 60,070 $1,000 per year. It
:17:52. > :17:55.is very substantial. There are is no doubting that the rush for gas
:17:55. > :17:57.brings economic benefits, but people who live with that in their
:17:57. > :18:03.community say that the most important thing is to make sure
:18:03. > :18:07.that proper does not ride roughshod over environmental concerns.
:18:07. > :18:16.-- profit. Tomorrow we will meet the people
:18:16. > :18:20.who believe the dollars don't make up for all the disruption.
:18:20. > :18:28.We often see them on the television at crime scenes - mysterious
:18:28. > :18:34.figures clad head-to-toe in white. At team in Lancashire have allowed
:18:34. > :18:41.our chief reporter Dave Guest rare and exclusive access to see what
:18:41. > :18:45.they do close-up. He joins them on to my very different investigations.
:18:45. > :18:51.They are not police officers but they are on the front line of
:18:51. > :18:57.solving crime. And the other men and women of Lancashire's crime
:18:57. > :19:02.scene investigation team. Crime scenes come in all shapes, sizes
:19:03. > :19:07.and locations. This white van is one. It has been seized by police
:19:07. > :19:11.investigating the theft of cash dispensers. We never know until we
:19:11. > :19:15.open the doors. We would be expecting some tools that have been
:19:15. > :19:20.used in the burglaries. We will open it up, see what we get and
:19:20. > :19:24.take some observations first. Preston, Glen is on the scene of a
:19:24. > :19:29.burglary. This elderly woman was shocked to find a thief coming out
:19:29. > :19:33.of her bedroom. He escaped with a ring that belonged to her mother.
:19:33. > :19:42.The thief ran down the stairs so Glenn is dusting it for
:19:42. > :19:45.fingerprints. Back at the vehicle Recovery Centre, John and Jessica
:19:45. > :19:49.begin their search for evidence which could link the tools in his
:19:49. > :19:55.van to a series of robbery at -- robberies where cash machines have
:19:55. > :20:03.been cut from their concrete mountains. They wear these suits to
:20:03. > :20:06.prevent cross-contamination at the scene. I also have to get suited up.
:20:06. > :20:09.We have to recover anything that may be relevant to the
:20:10. > :20:14.investigation. Glenn does not wear a protective suit here because
:20:14. > :20:21.cross-contamination is not an issue. However, the issue of collecting
:20:21. > :20:25.useful fingerprints is proving difficult. There is a pattern of
:20:25. > :20:29.ridges and the pattern of ridges here takes up the pattern of ridges
:20:29. > :20:33.in the fingers. Not any good? Unfortunately not. There is not
:20:33. > :20:37.enough detail. For John and Jessica even the
:20:37. > :20:40.tiniest scrap of potential evidence must be collected. Fragments of
:20:40. > :20:46.concrete dust could link this vehicle to the scene of a robbery.
:20:46. > :20:49.DNA on a drinks container could incriminate a suspect. Ultimately
:20:49. > :20:53.it is for others to decide how relevant or otherwise the material
:20:53. > :20:57.they have picked up today is going to be in the case. But they know
:20:57. > :21:01.they cannot afford to look -- overlooked any potential clue, no
:21:01. > :21:04.matter how small. Tomorrow we will discover how the
:21:04. > :21:12.team search of clues from this scene of devastation in a burgled
:21:12. > :21:22.home. We knew he would not resist getting
:21:22. > :21:31.
:21:31. > :21:33.into one of those suits, didn't we?! They cost �85 million and have
:21:33. > :21:36.scored just six goals between them since January. Liverpool replaced
:21:36. > :21:38.Fernando Torres with Andy Carroll and seem to have swapped one
:21:38. > :21:41.underperforming striker for another. Tonight they are likely to come
:21:41. > :21:44.face-to-face as Liverpool takes on Torres' current club, Chelsea, in
:21:44. > :21:45.the Carling Cup. Blackburn and Manchester City are in the quarter-
:21:45. > :21:48.finals, too, as Stuart Flinders reports.
:21:48. > :21:52.He shoots, he misses. Liverpool offloaded him to Chelsea in January
:21:52. > :21:55.and spent much of the fee on finding someone more reliable. Only
:21:55. > :22:00.he wasn't. Andy Carroll cost Liverpool �35 million. Chelsea paid
:22:00. > :22:03.50 for Torres. Caroll's played 15 times in the Premier League since
:22:03. > :22:08.then, Torres 20. The goals tally? Three each, meaning Andy Carroll's
:22:08. > :22:11.goals cost nearly �12 million apiece, Torres' nearly �17 million.
:22:11. > :22:13.Suarez scored both of Liverpool's goals to get them to the quarter-
:22:14. > :22:23.finals. Kenny Dalglish is complaining about fixture
:22:24. > :22:28.
:22:28. > :22:32.congestion. Roberto Mancini agrees with Kenny Dalglish. He says it is
:22:32. > :22:35.a problem not just for the clubs but undermines England's chances of
:22:35. > :22:40.winning City are at Hartnell tonight after hammering Wolves in
:22:40. > :22:42.the previous round 5-2. Blackburn scored four against Andy Carroll's
:22:42. > :22:52.old club Newcastle to reach the quarter-finals. They travel to
:22:52. > :22:53.
:22:53. > :22:59.Cardiff. They are not the wrong way things
:22:59. > :23:02.linking Liverpool and Chelsea. There has been Made In Chelsea and
:23:02. > :23:05.are The Only Way Is Essex. Now dramatised reality TV has turned
:23:05. > :23:07.its spotlight on Liverpool with Desperate Scousewives. Described by
:23:07. > :23:17.its producers as Brookside with glitter balls, it has prompted a
:23:17. > :23:19.
:23:19. > :23:25.Liverpool MP to call it regional racism. Mark Edwardson reports.
:23:25. > :23:30.It is reality TV with scripts and storylines. Glamourous Scouse women
:23:30. > :23:34.hitching up with Liverpool's eligible men. Jessica Shanelle and
:23:34. > :23:41.Amie settling down to watch it in West Derby. I hate the Scouse
:23:41. > :23:49.accent on the telly. I have got a really good feeling about this.
:23:49. > :23:55.They are proper common. She sounds like she is from Birkenhead.
:23:55. > :24:01.think since the on the way is Essex it is about that style of things.
:24:01. > :24:11.It is realistic, but is just what they're saying, it is too much like,
:24:11. > :24:14.you say you bet, I will say my bet. The producers say: Walton MP Steve
:24:14. > :24:18.Rotherham thinks otherwise. It will play right into the hands
:24:18. > :24:25.of those people who unfortunately still have negative stereotypes
:24:25. > :24:28.about our city and its citizens. You can see on a Saturday afternoon
:24:28. > :24:37.that there are girls walking around with their rollers in. So they have
:24:37. > :24:39.got it pretty much right. Liverpool is really not like that. With it
:24:39. > :24:43.being Desperate Scousewives I think it should have been more of an
:24:43. > :24:53.everyday thing rather than going out every night. Will you be
:24:53. > :24:53.
:24:53. > :25:01.watching next week? Yes. I debt that we will have to watch
:25:02. > :25:07.now. -- I definitely will have to watch now.
:25:07. > :25:13.The weather is the big story today. We will not talk to you about
:25:13. > :25:17.reality TV shows, it is serious It has been dramatic enough through
:25:17. > :25:21.the day. We have had all sorts of problems. Our lives shot from
:25:21. > :25:24.Salford shows the come after the storm. It has been an incredibly
:25:24. > :25:29.difficult today. There were tornadoes in the north-west. The
:25:29. > :25:39.rain hit the Isle of Man first, as Barbara's photograph shows. The
:25:39. > :25:44.
:25:44. > :25:49.wins were up to 50 vied mph at times. -- winds. We have had one or
:25:49. > :25:52.two tornadoes reported through the day to day. The we have to go back
:25:53. > :25:57.to November 1981 when there were 105 in one day as a cold front
:25:57. > :26:06.whipped its way across the UK. It is this cold front that has caused
:26:06. > :26:11.the problems today. This is our latest picture. The rain is a thing
:26:11. > :26:21.of the past. It is out in the North Sea, moving away now. Behind that
:26:21. > :26:22.
:26:22. > :26:32.there are some showers, some of some of them heavy. There could be
:26:32. > :26:33.
:26:33. > :26:36.some snow on the Pennines. In the early hours of the morning a lot of
:26:36. > :26:43.the showers will die away for an hour or two. The overnight
:26:43. > :26:47.temperatures could be as low as two Celsius in parts. The showers will
:26:47. > :26:53.start as the sun is coming up. Once again, I think they will be fairly
:26:53. > :26:56.lively through the morning. Sunshine will be in short supply.
:26:56. > :26:59.There is another feature coming towards us at the end of the day
:26:59. > :27:05.tomorrow. It looks like it will affect the course and then run up
:27:05. > :27:10.to parts of Cumbria and Lancashire. It could move anywhere, though. The
:27:10. > :27:14.wind could be up to 50 mph. A lively one again.
:27:14. > :27:18.I think I got caught up in that because I live quite near Stockport.
:27:18. > :27:24.As I was driving in today it was horrendous. Luckily very short
:27:24. > :27:30.lived. Yes. But very dynamic. It caused a lot of damage as well,