:00:11. > :00:13.Good evening. Government papers released today
:00:13. > :00:16.show that Margaret Thatcher was urged to abandon Liverpool to
:00:16. > :00:19."managed decline" in the wake of the Toxteth riots in 1981. The then
:00:19. > :00:27.Chancellor, Geoffrey Howe, advised her not to "waste" public money.
:00:27. > :00:30.Our Merseyside Reporter, Andy Gill, has the story.
:00:30. > :00:33.The riots left one man dead and hundreds of police injured. Now
:00:33. > :00:35.cabinet papers released under the 30 year rule show the then
:00:35. > :00:45.chancellor Geoffrey Howe warned prime minster Margaret against
:00:45. > :00:59.
:00:59. > :01:04.We asked people in Toxteth today what they think. He should not have
:01:04. > :01:09.said that about any part of the United Kingdom, whether it is
:01:09. > :01:13.Liverpool or any other English city. It is only one man in the whole
:01:13. > :01:17.government. They have been stigmatised because of the area
:01:17. > :01:21.they live in. A former MP says it reveals what the government thought
:01:21. > :01:24.about the North. When the Prime Minister came up after the riots
:01:24. > :01:34.she went around the area in a bullet-proof car. Anyone would have
:01:34. > :01:36.
:01:36. > :01:44.thought this was a war-zone. papers 5th show that Geoffrey Howe
:01:44. > :01:49.thought the term was deeply contentious. Today he did -- denied
:01:49. > :01:54.to the claims. I was advising that something should be done to manage
:01:54. > :01:58.the situation before we could turn it around. The papers also said
:01:58. > :02:02.that Michael Heseltine was horrified at the policing in
:02:02. > :02:05.Toxteth. Merseyside police have declined to comment.
:02:05. > :02:09.Police in Cheshire searching for a missing teenager have found a body
:02:09. > :02:11.in a lake at the hotel where he was last seen. Haydn Evans, from North
:02:11. > :02:15.Wales disappeared eight days before Christmas after attending a party
:02:15. > :02:19.at Carden Park Hotel near Chester. He was 18. The body is yet to be
:02:19. > :02:22.formally identified. Greater Manchester police say they
:02:22. > :02:25.regret the family of a Indian student shot in Salford on Boxing
:02:25. > :02:29.day found out about his death via Facebook. The force says exhaustive
:02:29. > :02:32.efforts were made to contact the family of Anuj Bidve but a post was
:02:32. > :02:35.made on the social networking site before they could do so. A 50
:02:35. > :02:38.thousand pound reward is now being offered to help find his killers.
:02:38. > :02:45.Two teenagers, arrested on Tuesday, have been released on bail. Two
:02:45. > :02:48.other people still remain in police custody.
:02:48. > :02:51.Police in Manchester are extremely concerned about a teenaged girl who
:02:51. > :02:54.went missing on Christmas Eve. Sarah Wallace is 16 but has the
:02:54. > :02:56.mental age of a four or five year old. She disappeared while out
:02:57. > :03:00.walking from her care home. Police say Sarah's particularly vulnerable
:03:00. > :03:06.as she's got in to the cars of strangers in the past. Nina
:03:06. > :03:08.Warhurst reports. With her dyed red hair, fashionable
:03:08. > :03:11.clothes and bubbly attitude, Sarah's like so many other teenage
:03:11. > :03:21.girls, but with the mental age of a young child, she's easily
:03:21. > :03:24.
:03:24. > :03:27.influenced and not fully capable of sensing danger. Sarah was last seen
:03:27. > :03:33.see up on the Sandy Lane in the Chorlton area of south Manchester
:03:33. > :03:39.at around 5:00pm on Christmas Eve. Tomorrow will mark a full week
:03:39. > :03:43.since her disappearance. Sarah is a very nice, warm individual, she is
:03:43. > :03:47.very gregarious. She will chat to people who she beats to she has
:03:47. > :03:50.never met before. That is why we are worried. It's thought Sarah was
:03:50. > :03:53.wearing this chequered shirt under a black coat. She has been known to
:03:53. > :03:56.visit the Chorlton and Rusholme area but may well have moved out of
:03:56. > :04:01.the area. Anyone with information's being asked to contact Police
:04:01. > :04:04.immediately. Football, and the region's Scottish
:04:04. > :04:07.managers have more than Hogmanay on their minds this weekend. Bolton
:04:07. > :04:09.Wanderers boss Owen Coyle has agreed a fee to sell England
:04:09. > :04:12.international Gary Cahill to Chelsea. Kenny Dalglish is
:04:12. > :04:15.defending Andy Carroll as he prepares to take on his old club,
:04:15. > :04:17.Newcastle. And ahead of Manchester United's clash with Blackburn, Sir
:04:18. > :04:27.Alex Ferguson has again criticised the treatment of Steve Kean. Liam
:04:27. > :04:29.O'Donoghue reports. Which of our five Glaswegian
:04:29. > :04:32.managers will have the happiest Hogmanay? Things can't get much
:04:32. > :04:35.worse for Blackburn's Steve Kean. His team are rock-bottom, fans want
:04:35. > :04:38.him sacked and tomorrow his injury- ravaged side face Manchester United.
:04:38. > :04:48.United's boss sympathised with Kean, blaming the media for much of the
:04:48. > :04:50.
:04:50. > :05:00.abuse heaped on his fellow Scot. doesn't come any more difficult
:05:00. > :05:03.
:05:03. > :05:08.than going to Old Trafford could -- in the form they are in. They
:05:08. > :05:14.humiliate managers, just humiliate them. In the case of Steve, the
:05:14. > :05:19.supporters react that way and you say to you say if Defra grey you
:05:19. > :05:21.say to yourself, there is something wrong with society. Sir Alex hopes
:05:21. > :05:24.to celebrate his 70th birthday tomorrow by taking top spot from
:05:24. > :05:27.Manchester City, where Roberto Mancini today raised a toast to his
:05:27. > :05:29.rival. At second-from-bottom Bolton, Owen Coyle plans to play Gary
:05:29. > :05:33.Cahill against Wolves tomorrow despite agreeing a price to sell
:05:34. > :05:42.him to Chelsea. At Anfield, Kenny Dalglish says Andy Carroll is
:05:42. > :05:45.looking forward to playing against his old club, Newcastle. He will
:05:45. > :05:49.always be a Newcastle fan whoever he is playing against. He will
:05:50. > :05:52.always do his best. But Liverpool fans want much more than the three
:05:53. > :05:56.goals Carroll has so far scored in 19 appearances since his �35
:05:56. > :06:01.million transfer. David Moyes can only dream of such money as his
:06:01. > :06:04.side travel to West Brom. Former Everton keeper Neville Southall has
:06:04. > :06:06.joked Man City buy at Harrods, we shop at Lidl.
:06:06. > :06:09.And you can hear full match commentary on Liverpool's game
:06:09. > :06:14.against Newcastle on BBC Radio Merseyside tonight. Kick off is at
:06:14. > :06:16.7.45. A family from South Cumbria are
:06:16. > :06:18.celebrating a rather large Christmas bonus after winning the
:06:18. > :06:21.Euromillions lottery. Karen and Anthony Shaw from Grange-over Sands
:06:21. > :06:24.were one of 25 ticket holders to win a million pounds on the
:06:24. > :06:34.Christmas draw. They're already planning how to spend their
:06:34. > :06:34.
:06:34. > :06:42.winnings, starting with a cruise around Alaska.
:06:42. > :06:52.You would think they might want to go somewhere warm! Of I was also a
:06:52. > :06:57.
:06:57. > :07:04.It will be wet and mild. It will stick around through the day
:07:04. > :07:08.tomorrow. For New Year's Day, it will cool back down. The rain has
:07:08. > :07:12.played does all the way through the day. One or two showers will
:07:12. > :07:16.continue if you are going out of this evening. The rain will
:07:16. > :07:23.gradually move away and many places will become drier. It will never be
:07:23. > :07:28.completely dry. The temperatures are the interesting thing, between
:07:28. > :07:32.7 and nine degrees. On New year's Eve, the rain will still be around,