:00:10. > :00:13.Good evening. Our top story: 72 arrests and add-
:00:13. > :00:18.on crackdown on suspected drug dealers. And the locals are invited
:00:18. > :00:23.to towards. We will be on the frontline of
:00:23. > :00:27.Operation Audacious. And how multi-million pound
:00:28. > :00:31.investment will help create private sector jobs in the north-west.
:00:31. > :00:38.Living with Alzheimer's. The continuous series on dementia with
:00:38. > :00:45.a moving story, of a couple whose lives have been changed forever.
:00:45. > :00:48.We laugh because we don't want to cry.
:00:48. > :00:54.Dressing the stars. A Rochdale boutique has become one of the best
:00:54. > :01:04.in Britain. And she did not have the X Factor,
:01:04. > :01:15.
:01:15. > :01:19.but she has still become a star. 1,000 officers raiding 100
:01:19. > :01:22.addresses simultaneously. Hardly surprising that greater Manchester
:01:22. > :01:25.police say that today's drug raids across Manchester and Salford were
:01:25. > :01:29.there be August operation in a single day.
:01:29. > :01:32.They arrested more than 70 suspected of dealers.
:01:32. > :01:36.And they did it all under the watchful eye of local people they
:01:36. > :01:42.had taken. The media were also invited to watch the watchers
:01:43. > :01:48.watching the police. Was it useful, or was it just a PR stunt? It is a
:01:48. > :01:52.question that her chief reporter had been asking.
:01:52. > :01:59.This is one of 100 addresses that received a visit from the police
:01:59. > :02:01.this morning. The operation, codenamed Audacious
:02:01. > :02:05.involved drowned in a suspected drug dealers and parts of
:02:05. > :02:09.Manchester and Salford. 1,000 officers were involved,
:02:09. > :02:13.joined by 130 local people who had been invited to witness what had
:02:13. > :02:18.happened. It was interesting to be given the
:02:18. > :02:23.opportunity to come on board and see what the police do.
:02:23. > :02:27.Today was about the police addressing public concerns, and
:02:27. > :02:33.more importantly being seen to address the concerns. There were
:02:33. > :02:36.reports that drug dealing had taken place here, so addresses in the
:02:36. > :02:40.neighbourhood were among those visited today.
:02:40. > :02:44.Did this have more to do with PR than policing?
:02:44. > :02:48.PR is a cynical term. It was about reassurance, and there is nothing
:02:48. > :02:56.more reassuring than knowing that when you ask the police to do
:02:56. > :03:01.something that they do it. But you cannot carry out this level of
:03:01. > :03:08.operation normally, so will it make a difference in the long-term?
:03:08. > :03:11.will be seen as an industrialised version of what we do. But we deal
:03:11. > :03:16.with drug dealing every day. Some of those who went along for
:03:16. > :03:21.the right seemed convinced it was worthwhile. We were made to feel
:03:21. > :03:26.really involved. We were actually part of the operation, but not
:03:27. > :03:31.actively part of its. Will this make a long-term difference to the
:03:31. > :03:35.neighbourhood? What they have demonstrated is working with the
:03:35. > :03:39.police, we can affect change as much as the police can. The police
:03:39. > :03:48.have made more than 70 arrests, and seized more is -- considerable
:03:48. > :03:52.quantities of drugs. We have had a huge response from
:03:53. > :03:57.you on this story, on Facebook. Here are some of the views. One
:03:57. > :04:01.viewer says law-enforcement is not a spectator sport or entertainment.
:04:01. > :04:05.It is voyeurism and intrusion into other people's private lives and
:04:05. > :04:10.moments of anguish. I hope this practice is abolish.
:04:10. > :04:13.Another reviewer says, it should be shown on TV. Then we would not only
:04:13. > :04:19.know where the drug dealers are, but it might put off others from
:04:19. > :04:22.getting involved. Of course, they are only suspect the drug dealers.
:04:23. > :04:29.Another viewer says it sounds like a witch hunt. There will be
:04:29. > :04:32.innocent children involved, and the authorities should be a shame.
:04:32. > :04:37.Another viewer says the public should be allowed to see where the
:04:37. > :04:40.tax goes, and the importance of policing.
:04:40. > :04:44.We would love to hear from you. Keeping a touch.
:04:44. > :04:48.Almost a year ago the Government set out plans to cut spending on
:04:49. > :04:52.local government. Ministers say spending is a -- cuts are necessary
:04:52. > :04:56.to balance the books. But people lost their jobs and
:04:56. > :05:03.services disappear. Now councils are preparing to go through the
:05:03. > :05:07.process again. Local government is actually going
:05:07. > :05:11.through a four year period of cuts, and councils are setting their
:05:11. > :05:16.budgets for the second year. Those figures are beginning to
:05:16. > :05:19.emerge. Last night the leadership of Oldham council voted through
:05:19. > :05:24.of Oldham council voted through cuts of �25 million, and claimed
:05:24. > :05:28.that 400 jobs could go. This evening, Trafford Council said it
:05:28. > :05:33.needs to cut �16 million, putting 100 jobs at risk. The reality is
:05:33. > :05:36.that some councils are coping better than others. I have been
:05:36. > :05:43.comparing two of them, Lancashire County Council and Blackpool
:05:43. > :05:46.He is one of the council leaders who does not complain about the
:05:46. > :05:51.cuts, partly because he is conservative and partly because
:05:51. > :05:54.Lancashire County Council is coping. It's going very well, and we are
:05:54. > :05:59.run a better position than we thought possible, because as you
:05:59. > :06:02.know, we started off doing a three- year budgets so we could introduce
:06:02. > :06:06.any reductions and expenditure in a considered way, rather than having
:06:06. > :06:12.to panic through the different years. Having done that, it meant
:06:12. > :06:16.we know what savings we have to make and when.
:06:16. > :06:20.In February, people campaigned against proposed cuts to social
:06:20. > :06:25.care. The council says it is closing some facilities and
:06:25. > :06:29.refurbishing others. John Pearson got his son James into residential
:06:29. > :06:35.care, but says the council made it very difficult.
:06:35. > :06:43.The priority is the money, not the individual and the individual's
:06:43. > :06:48.needs. Everything is always driven by money. Do you think of it had
:06:48. > :06:52.been left up to the county council, James would not be where he has?
:06:52. > :06:56.would say yes, had we not fought and challenged the decisions that
:06:56. > :07:03.had been made. It is more of a struggle a
:07:03. > :07:08.Blackpool, Labour took control here in May, and need to cut the budget
:07:08. > :07:12.by �10 million. An awful lot off fat has been cut
:07:12. > :07:16.away from the a property already, and we're in the territory where it
:07:16. > :07:21.is having an impact on frontline services. To the extent that they
:07:21. > :07:25.are being damage? A absolute if. But in the oasis of
:07:25. > :07:30.the shopping centre, are people noticing the difference? Car-parks
:07:30. > :07:35.are still the same. I would not say they are better. If anything it is
:07:35. > :07:39.worse. Everything seems to be the same. I don't notice anything
:07:39. > :07:44.different. But the effect will become more obvious as councils are
:07:44. > :07:48.forced to keep cutting. Councils do not need to cut as much
:07:48. > :07:53.next year as they have done this year, but because those fabled
:07:53. > :07:58.efficiencies should now be in place, councils will be asking, what do we
:07:58. > :08:02.cut next? Thank you very much.
:08:02. > :08:06.This next story is not entirely unconnected. There are more job
:08:06. > :08:10.losses announced for the public sector today, but there was also a
:08:10. > :08:14.boost for the private sector. Nick Clegg was in the region to confirm
:08:14. > :08:17.the Government will invest money in the Stobart Group was marred
:08:17. > :08:21.distribution have been witness the or stop it will help them expand
:08:21. > :08:27.their operations, creating hundreds of jobs.
:08:27. > :08:30.The Mersey Multimodal Gate way in action today. This is a
:08:30. > :08:34.distribution and freight park. It is about to become a be
:08:34. > :08:37.corroboration. When it is finished, this gateway
:08:37. > :08:43.will become a major distribution hub for the road and rail network
:08:43. > :08:48.in the north. �139 million is being spent here, creating nearly 5,000
:08:48. > :08:53.jobs. And it is those jobs that have persuaded the Government to
:08:53. > :08:58.give the Stobart Group money from its regional growth fund.
:08:58. > :09:05.We have one clear overriding criteria or for providing money,
:09:05. > :09:08.and that is jobs, jobs, jobs. All being well, these jobs are ones
:09:08. > :09:18.that will last for years into the few just.
:09:18. > :09:24.The expansion plans are already well-established, along -- �100
:09:24. > :09:30.million has already been raised to fund the project. The Stobart Group
:09:30. > :09:34.insists it is vital money for. The final �9 million as a small
:09:34. > :09:38.part, but it is vital. We would start the project a lot sooner with
:09:38. > :09:41.having a fit -- the kick-start. It allows us to get on with the
:09:41. > :09:51.process. Phase two is expected to be
:09:51. > :09:54.finished by spring 2013. In other news: The family of the
:09:54. > :09:58.mother and daughter murdered in Southport say they are bewildered
:09:58. > :10:03.and devastated by what has happened. Jim Huyton is said to be -- said to
:10:03. > :10:08.be distraught at the loss of his wife Alice. They had been married
:10:08. > :10:15.for 55 years. The family says they were cogs in a close-knit family.
:10:15. > :10:18.Police are still trying to find Angela Holgate's lodger, who was
:10:18. > :10:21.last seen in France. The Lancashire schoolboys have been
:10:21. > :10:25.taken to hospital after their school bus hit a building in the
:10:25. > :10:29.centre of Whalley this afternoon. They were sitting at the front of
:10:29. > :10:33.the double-decker bus, returning home from St a gusting's Roman
:10:33. > :10:38.Catholic High School. The man in charge of a Cumbrian
:10:38. > :10:41.maternity unit at the centre of a police inquiry will face questions
:10:41. > :10:46.from county councillors next week. Police have been investigating
:10:46. > :10:49.several deaths at Furness General Hospital. The head of the trust
:10:49. > :10:53.will appear at a special meeting of the Kinsey count -- the county
:10:53. > :10:57.council on Monday. The funeral of the former Bolton
:10:57. > :11:00.and Everton footballer Gary Speed will be held later this week. He
:11:00. > :11:04.was found hanged at his Cheshire home last month. A private funeral
:11:04. > :11:09.will take place in Wales on Friday, and a public memorial service is
:11:09. > :11:13.being planned for the new year. The number of people with TB in the
:11:13. > :11:17.north-west has reached its highest in more than 10 years, according to
:11:17. > :11:21.the Health Protection Agency. There were more than 800 cases last year.
:11:21. > :11:24.Blackburn had the most new cases per head of population, with 80
:11:24. > :11:30.recorded. This week we are looking at
:11:30. > :11:35.dementia. Into the disease and the issues surrounding it. Today we
:11:35. > :11:40.meet a couple from Liverpool. Doug has Alzheimer's, one form of
:11:40. > :11:44.dementia. His wife Rose is his carer.
:11:44. > :11:54.For one week, we asked her to keep a video diary for us, detailing
:11:54. > :12:02.
:12:02. > :12:08.what it is like to live with It has been a very exhausting day
:12:09. > :12:13.to day. Mainly because but was upset this morning.
:12:13. > :12:19.You're not in a very good mood today, are you? Know. Can you tell
:12:19. > :12:24.me what is going on? You never know why he is upset. He
:12:24. > :12:29.just gets up that way. It is very upsetting to watch him like that.
:12:29. > :12:39.Nine times out of 10, you can bring him out of it. This afternoon we
:12:39. > :12:41.
:12:41. > :12:46.went to the Alzheimer's Fair, which she did enjoy. He is now in bed. I
:12:46. > :12:56.just feel totally drained emotionally. Watching him is not
:12:56. > :12:58.
:12:58. > :13:08.nice. And I feel so tired, I just Can you tell me when we were
:13:08. > :13:12.
:13:12. > :13:20.married? Um... Right... How long do you think we have been married?
:13:20. > :13:26.long! I have left him having a bath. He
:13:26. > :13:31.has had see real. Now I've got to make sure that his lunch is ready.
:13:31. > :13:37.I've got to leave him a mid-morning snack, and then I have my breakfast
:13:37. > :13:44.and try to get out. I have checked everywhere. You know where your
:13:44. > :13:49.lunches. And you mid-morning snacks. I will bring you when I go to work
:13:49. > :13:55.-- I will phone you when I get to work, and then I will phone and
:13:55. > :13:59.tell you when to have lunch. We came home and I asked him to
:13:59. > :14:03.take his coat off, and because I asked him to do it, he did not want
:14:03. > :14:07.to do it. So he sat with his coat on. He wants to be in control of
:14:07. > :14:14.himself, but if you do not tell him, he will not do it.
:14:14. > :14:24.We're off to bed. He has been upstairs and decided to get himself
:14:24. > :14:27.ready for bed. As you can see, everything he is wearing his inside
:14:27. > :14:37.out. I will settle him down and see that
:14:37. > :14:45.
:14:45. > :14:50.he has his medication, and then see On a day like this, things seem
:14:51. > :14:55.better. We can have good days and we can have bad days. When they are
:14:55. > :15:01.bad, the a really bad. Sometimes when they are good, they can be
:15:01. > :15:11.quite fun at times. We laugh because we don't want to cry,
:15:11. > :15:12.
:15:12. > :15:16.though, really. That looks exhausting. It must be
:15:16. > :15:26.devastating to see the man you have been married to for 30 years slide
:15:26. > :15:29.
:15:29. > :15:32.away. We would always like to hear away. We would always like to hear
:15:32. > :15:36.from you about this issue. Lots of you have already contacted us and
:15:36. > :15:39.we will be looking at some of your stories later in the week. Quite a
:15:39. > :15:43.few of you though have written saying that you are worried about a
:15:43. > :15:46.member of your family. The best thing to do if you are is to get in
:15:46. > :15:49.touch with their GP and make an appointment with them. There is
:15:49. > :15:52.also plenty of advice on the NHS also plenty of advice on the NHS
:15:52. > :15:59.Direct website. Football, and Preston North End
:15:59. > :16:02.have appointed Peter Ridsdale as their new Chairman. Mr Ridsdale,
:16:02. > :16:04.who was previously Chairman of Leeds and Cardiff, has spent a year
:16:04. > :16:11.working as the Administrator of Plymouth. He replaces Maurice
:16:11. > :16:18.Lindsay at Deepdale. Manchester City's Carlos Tevez
:16:18. > :16:21.could finally be about to leave the club. The striker hasn't played
:16:21. > :16:25.since September and is currently absent without leave, having not
:16:25. > :16:28.reported for training. It is understood AC Milan are among the
:16:28. > :16:38.clubs interested in signing him in January.
:16:38. > :16:38.
:16:38. > :16:48.I think it is important to sell him. It is the best thing for him and
:16:48. > :16:49.
:16:49. > :16:54.the club. Those images were from our library
:16:54. > :16:56.as no one has seen him for so long! The Football Association is
:16:56. > :17:04.reviewing a hand gesture made by Liverpool striker Luis Suarez at
:17:04. > :17:07.Fulham last night. It came as his side missed the chance to move up
:17:07. > :17:09.to to fifth in the Premier League after a 1-0 defeat. Meanwhile
:17:09. > :17:12.Liverpool are considering appealing against Jay Spearing's sending off
:17:12. > :17:16.for a tackle on Moussa Dembele. You may know someone who's built
:17:16. > :17:19.their own car or maybe even their own home. But one man has gone a
:17:19. > :17:22.step further with his grand design. Graham Bayliss from the Isle of Man
:17:22. > :17:27.has spent the last two years making his own submarine! He hopes to
:17:27. > :17:31.pilot it to the bottom of the Irish Sea. But there's still a little
:17:31. > :17:41.more work to do before it makes its maiden voyage, as Kelly Foran has
:17:41. > :17:43.
:17:43. > :17:47.MUSIC. In the town over I was born in love a man who sailed to see.
:17:47. > :17:53.And he told us of his life in the land of submarines.
:17:53. > :17:57.This man is building his own at submarine from scratch. I have
:17:57. > :18:01.wanted to do this for many years. I have always been interested in a
:18:01. > :18:05.sea. The joiner started building small models as a hobby. His
:18:05. > :18:10.friends could not believe it when he said he was building one that
:18:10. > :18:16.was 16 ft long. They thought and is being silly at first. But now they
:18:16. > :18:23.have jumped on the bandwagon. They want to know when it will be
:18:23. > :18:33.launched. It stands out from all of the other vessels in the harbour in
:18:33. > :18:33.
:18:33. > :18:36.Douglas, raising some eyebrows. looks slightly dodgy. If they put
:18:36. > :18:44.graffiti on the side and made it look pretty, that would be all
:18:44. > :18:48.right. If it goes to plan, it will go 350 ft below the surface. It is
:18:48. > :18:56.hopeful it will only take a couple of months to get out the inside and
:18:56. > :19:01.then it will be ready to go into the Irish Sea. I don't want to rush
:19:01. > :19:08.it and make a mistake. It is my life on the line. I am positive
:19:08. > :19:14.that it will work. Well, I hope he is right and it
:19:14. > :19:17.does work! Good luck! When you think of fashion hotspots
:19:17. > :19:20.perhaps Rochdale doesn't spring to mind. But a boutique in the town
:19:20. > :19:27.has made it onto a prestigious list of the country's top 100 fashion
:19:28. > :19:30.influences. Bond Street it might not be, but hidden among the
:19:31. > :19:33.bakeries and charity shops is 25 Ten on Yorkshire Street. It's made
:19:34. > :19:41.its name by dressing celebrities - but is sticking to its Rochdale
:19:41. > :19:46.roots. Nothing has caught my eye yet! But
:19:46. > :19:53.I did spot this for you, Roger. I know you're looking for something
:19:53. > :19:58.for the Christmas party! Now, do you recognise this court? Michel
:19:58. > :20:05.Keegan from Coronation Street has warned it. She has helped put this
:20:05. > :20:12.shop on the list of the top 100 influences in fashion. Mary Queen
:20:12. > :20:15.of shops and Kate Middleton are also on that list. You're
:20:15. > :20:21.responsible for that. Congratulations. How does it feel?
:20:22. > :20:26.I was quite surprised when we got the news. It was a great
:20:26. > :20:30.achievement for me personally and for the shop and for the town. Also
:20:30. > :20:35.for independent retailers across the land for. The judges noted that
:20:35. > :20:43.you had been firm to your roots. How important has that been to you?
:20:43. > :20:48.Well, myself and the other owner are so passionate about Rochdale,
:20:48. > :20:53.fashion and this town centre, so it is natural that these days year and
:20:53. > :20:58.continue to deliver a first class service delivering wonderful brands.
:20:58. > :21:02.Michelle Keegan helped put you on the map when she wore that stress
:21:03. > :21:07.and was floated Briton's sexiest Female. She is lovely. It was
:21:07. > :21:10.fabulous to see her on the tabloid front pages in a dress that she got
:21:10. > :21:15.from year. Probably the biggest endorsement you can get and you
:21:15. > :21:20.know your brain something right. Congratulations. Good luck with
:21:20. > :21:23.your expansion. Roger, I will try to get you a discount on that
:21:23. > :21:32.dress! You keep your credit card in your
:21:32. > :21:36.pocket! She had one of the best voices on
:21:36. > :21:39.the show but she kept being knocked back in the public vote - and at
:21:39. > :21:42.the weekend X Factor contestant, Manchester's Misha B was voted off
:21:42. > :21:45.the programme. She'd been in the sing-off three times, and
:21:45. > :21:55.accusations of bullying early on may have put her on the back foot,
:21:55. > :22:05.but she says she's not too down heartened. MUSIC. Calling out
:22:05. > :22:09.
:22:09. > :22:16.across the world. Are you ready for a brand new beat?
:22:16. > :22:22.You're smiling away. You're all right, aren't you? It is not sad.
:22:22. > :22:26.It is exciting. I am now back to normality and realising how big it
:22:26. > :22:36.was. How much my life has changed. For me, it has been dream to
:22:36. > :22:42.reality. You are back home now. You're a Manchester girl. How does
:22:42. > :22:49.it feel coming out of the X Factor bubble? I have had to come down
:22:49. > :22:53.from being up there in that world. It still feels strange. We touched
:22:53. > :23:03.briefly on the billion things. You were accused of being a bully. How
:23:03. > :23:03.
:23:03. > :23:13.damaging was that with a public? the brilliant thing. I think it has
:23:13. > :23:14.
:23:14. > :23:22.-- bullying. I had to dig deep and find the strength to carry on.
:23:22. > :23:25.it completely unfair? Yes. I have sat at strong -- I have sat at home
:23:25. > :23:32.with the children watching this. You have to have enormous
:23:32. > :23:37.confidence to know how many millions of people are watching.
:23:37. > :23:46.Yes, every week is hard. It is hard on Sunday because you don't know
:23:46. > :23:51.who will call. You take each week as it comes. Building up to
:23:51. > :23:59.Saturday and then you have to start again on Monday morning. You are
:23:59. > :24:06.only 19 years old. You have a wonderful voice. The rumours are
:24:06. > :24:15.that this is already paying of for you? Missy Elliott has been in
:24:15. > :24:19.touch? Who knows -- who knows what the future holds. My fans were
:24:19. > :24:25.treating her because they know that she is an inspiration to me. She
:24:25. > :24:32.treated back to me. She was very supportive. -- she contacted me
:24:32. > :24:39.through Twitter. I cannot say too much. I suggested a future
:24:40. > :24:49.collaboration. What about Tim Burton asking you to sing on a film
:24:50. > :24:53.
:24:53. > :25:01.track? I don't know what the future holds. Has he been in touch?
:25:01. > :25:09.Someone connected with the film? don't know... Before we came on air,
:25:09. > :25:17.we were talking about your hair. had hair like yours on one of the
:25:17. > :25:21.shows. shows.
:25:21. > :25:25.From one fashion icon to another. How people are talking to his
:25:25. > :25:30.people, don't you understand how a showbiz works!
:25:30. > :25:36.I am afraid the weather does not get any better over this coming
:25:36. > :25:44.week. Lines and lines of showers today. By 3pm, some of the showers
:25:44. > :25:47.had died away and it was not a bad end to the day. There is more rain
:25:47. > :25:55.waiting in the wings. That moves across the region as we move
:25:55. > :26:01.through the night tonight. Sleet over higher ground. For the rest of
:26:01. > :26:07.us, it could be as lively as last night. I am sure you heard the rain
:26:07. > :26:12.against your window. Temperatures are better tonight, however. We
:26:12. > :26:16.spoke of ice on untreated surfaces last night. A few temperatures
:26:16. > :26:25.higher tonight, so we should escape that. But the wind will be a real
:26:25. > :26:29.feature of the weather as you head into tomorrow. 15th -- 55 mph
:26:29. > :26:35.possible for the coast and the hills. The weather looks similar to
:26:35. > :26:44.today with the lines of showers. But not as frequent or heavy. The
:26:44. > :26:50.wind gets heavy as well. Temperatures similar to today.
:26:50. > :26:54.Thursday takes a turn for the worst and it will be wet and very windy.
:26:54. > :27:02.For Thursday night, I am afraid you will see snow at lower levels. Not
:27:02. > :27:08.looking good. You will have to change you are
:27:08. > :27:14.You will have to change you are shoes, Misha B! What was your best
:27:14. > :27:21.moment of the whole of X Factor? Everything combined. It has been on
:27:21. > :27:28.that stage. Kelly was so inspirational. You looked so at