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Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest Tonight with Ranvir Singh and Roger | :00:01. | :00:11. | |
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Johnson. Our top story... Back in court - the gunman accused | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
of shooting a student in a Boxing Day attack. We will hear from a | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
community left shocked and ashamed. Also tonight... | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Battered by gale force winds. Plane passengers were among those forced | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
to endure a bumpy ride today. The rising cost of rail - commuters | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
face an unhappy new year with a 6% price hike. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Why are our train fares a lot higher than anywhere else in | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
Europe? And who's a clever boy then? We | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
will tell you how a pet parrot helped save a litter of newborn | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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Most of us have been blown off our feet today getting abouT, and it | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
isn't over yet. Dianne is here with the latest details. I am afraid the | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
weather is not settling down for the next 24 hours. Through the day, | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
the wind has been gusting up to 67 mph in Crosby on Merseyside. The | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
conditions don't change much over the next day or so. The Met Office | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
have issued a yellow warning, it will continue to be strong all | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
through tonight, and for some parts it will be strong through the day | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
tomorrow, as well. Tomorrow it will be windy, there will be gales at | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
times, but we will also have more rain. More details later in the | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
programme. At Happy New Year to you, too. | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
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Thank you very much. The family of an Indian student | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
shot dead in Salford last week are on their way to Manchester. They | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
hope to visit the scene of the crime tomorrow. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Anuj Bidve died in Ordsall on Boxing Day. A man accused of his | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
murder has made a second court appearance this afternoon. The | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
police and council leaders have agreed to meet concerned residents | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
in Ordsall later this week. Stuart Flinders reports. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
This is the man accused of Anuj Bidve's murder. In court yesterday | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
he identified himself as Psycho Stapleton. He is, in fact, Kiaran | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
Stapleton, a 20-year-old from Ordsall. A police car has been | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
parked throughout the day at the place where Mr Bidve was shot dead. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
In the early hours of Boxing Day he was walking through Ordsall with | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
friends when he was attacked. He was in the North West to study at | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
Lancaster University. His family is expected to arrive in Manchester | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
tomorrow after meeting officers from Greater Manchester Police at | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
their home in India. We met with Anuj Bidve's family | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
last night for several others and were able to fill in some of the | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
gaps in the understanding of the events that leads to this tragic | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
loss. A provisional trial date for Kiaran | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
Stapleton, who was remanded in custody at a second hearing today, | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
has been set for June. Only when that to judicial process | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
is completed will be Noel who killed Anuj Bidve and wide, but | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
does the crime tell us something about Salford? This is the centre | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
of Ordsall. The crime scene is about a quarter of a mile in that | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
direction, and the same direction - - distance in this direction is | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
Media City, where the BBC is making TV programmes. Which is the real | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Salford? A service was held last night to | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
show that most local people are decent. They are so concerned about | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
what is happened they have organised a meeting with the police | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
and local councillors for Thursday. And they insist their area is | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
improving. We have been living here since 2005 | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
in April or May, and I do like living here, honestly. When we look | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
-- lived here it looked more rough than now. | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
It has got better? Much better. | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
But the leader of the city coundil knows the killing is a blow to | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Salford's reputation. This crime, unfortunately, has | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
highlighted Salford. We need to do what we can do, which is to show | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
that community at its best, and that is what I think has happened | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
over the last few days. Mr Bidve's family is hoping to see | :04:11. | :04:20. | |
where he died on Thursday before Smashed roofs, fallen trees and | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
closed roads - heavy winds gusting to over 70 mph have caused problems | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
across the region today. Country estates have also closed their | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
grounds to visitors, and one family in Lancashire had a lucky escape | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
after part of a neighbouring house fell on their home. Our reporter | :04:33. | :04:43. | |
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Abbie Jones has been taking a look Boarding up in Blackburn. Windows | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
were smashed and the roof of this house damaged after it was hit by | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
part of a neighbour's extension which blew off in high winds. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
There was a crash into the side of the House, Bow House felt as if it | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
actually moved. I went to check, didn't realise the roof had come | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
off. The roof of St Helens new Rugby | :05:05. | :05:15. | |
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League stadium was also ripped off. The side are due to play their | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
first match in less than three weeks. The strong winds caused | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
heachaches for pilots at Manchester Airport. Planes buffeted by the | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
wind struggled to land and one had to abort. The weather also forced | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
the closure of the Wood Head pass, which links Manchester to Sheffield. | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
And Dunham Massey's grounds, in Altrincham, along with Quarry Bank | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Mill in Styal and Lyme Park in Stockport. And this is what those | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
winds sounded like. They caused the Beetham Tower in Manchester to hum | :05:37. | :05:47. | |
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loudly this morning. Dust speed trap over 73 mph | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
according to data collected here at the Meteorological Agency here in | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Manchester. The winds continued right into the afternoon and got | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
even stronger. They have been around 45 mph, which | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
is significant, not record-breaking, but it continues this pattern of | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
windy weather we have had for around six weeks now. There doesn't | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
seem to be any end in sight. There were also flood warnings on | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
the M6 today. Rivers in Tebay, Levens and Millonthorpe in Cumbria | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
were swollen. And were high water levels the reason this little chap | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
was stranded on the Mersey in Latchford? He eventually made it | :06:25. | :06:35. | |
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back into the water after five We saw there, strong winds | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
battering the north-west coast line, but there is a question about | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
whether our sea defences are strong enough to protect coastal areas. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Councillors on the Fylde coast say no. They are campaigning for a �100 | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
million upgrade of the sea defences there. | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
It is on days like this you can appreciate the awesome ferocity of | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
the sea. It is on days such as this you can also appreciate the need | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
for sea defences. Some say the defences on this | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
stretch of the course are not robust enough. | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
The fear is this coastline will erode, these people's houses and | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
businesses will be drastically affected. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Blackpool and wire borough councils are asking for improvements to the | :07:26. | :07:35. | |
sea defences along a 1.9, to stretch of the coast. The sea wall | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
at cross salt may seem stout enough, but experts say this wall is only | :07:39. | :07:47. | |
good for another five years or so. After that, the homes it currently | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
protects could be in danger. Living straight across from the sea | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
defence is very concerning. How often do you see the tide | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
coming over? It is particularly bad at this time | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
of the year with high winds, and the road has been blocked quite a | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
lot of this week. The Environment Agency's Regional | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
Flood and coastal committee is due to meet in March to consider this | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
and a number of other pending schemes. It will then decide | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
whether to allocate funding to this scheme this year or whether it will | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
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A man has been charged with setting fire to BBC Radio Manchester's | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
radio car during the riots last summer. The car was burned out as | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
rioters attacked Salford Precinct and looted shops on August 9th. Zac | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Challoner, 23, also faces charges of violent disorder and burglary. | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
He has been remanded in custody. The family of a 20-year-old man | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
murdered in Liverpool have launched a fresh appeal for information on | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
the first anniversary of his death. Eddie Pybis was shot while in the | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
passenger seat of a silver Volvo that was travelling along Utting | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
Avenue in Anfield. In a statement his family say their lives have | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
been turned upside down. Seven men arrested on suspicion of murder | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
have been bailed pending further enquiries. | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
We had a good response, initially, at the commencement of the | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
investigation, and I am sure there are people out there who will no | :09:20. | :09:30. | |
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what has gone on in this investigation. | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
A Manchester woman who died from gallstones six years ago was | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
discriminated against, according to a report by the Health Service | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
Ombudsman. Doctors assumed that Carole Foster, who was 52, needed | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
psychiatric treatment because of her medical history. The report | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
said the Pennine Acute Hospital Trust and the Pennine Care NHS | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
Foundation Trust failed to meet her needs and her death could have been | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
avoided. A five foot crocodile is among | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
dozens of reptiles that have been stolen from a pet shop in Stockport. | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
As well as the crocodile - pictured here - snakes and lizards were | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
taken from the Stockport Pet Warehouse in Heaviley last night. | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
Experts are warning they can be extremely dangerous in the wrong | :10:06. | :10:16. | |
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Rail passengers have reacted angrily to the latest fares | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
increase which has seen some ticket prices in the North West go up by | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
more than 10%. The train companies say the higher prices will help pay | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
for much-needed improvements, like electrification and more carriages. | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
Our Transport Correspondent, Colin Sykes, reports. | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
Trains have never been more popular. But with the current squeeze on | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
family finances, an average increase of 5.9% has gone down | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
badly. I think if the Government should | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
subsidise them better than they do. The train companies are romping up | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
fears for higher profits, it is as simple as that. | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
It seems like an awful lot to me. If they had adjusted for inflation | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
of wages, except a, it would have been more reasonable. I can | :11:08. | :11:18. | |
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understand why people are angry. All will the average increase is | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
around 6%, there are regional variations. A ticket from Crewe is | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
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going up by 10 %. That is an Passenger numbers are going up, | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
more people are using the railways, there is more money coming in. The | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
railways must do their part and become more efficient. | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
Improvements are on the way with more electrification and more | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
carriages. But can passengers be expected to pay more of the bill? | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Ultimately the cost of the railways will reduce, and that will reduce | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
not only the burden to the taxpayer, but hopefully the burden to the | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
rail user. In the past, higher fares might | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
have pushed some passengers back into their cars. But, with rising | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
fuel costs, that is no longer an option for many. | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
Earlier in the day we asked if you were feeling the effects of the | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
fare rises - and James de Wolf got onto facebook straightaway to say | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
"On the train to work now from Barrow-in-Furness and being charged | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
20% more per day, equating to 20% more per day, equating to | :12:30. | :12:40. | |
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around �40 per month extra." Nicholas Bacon writes... | :12:47. | :12:57. | |
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Claire Miller has another stark example and says... | :13:03. | :13:13. | |
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Stu Taylor's trying to take it on This is a common complaint, people | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
can't see the investment. Exactly, these things take a long | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
time. A point made frequently is that people object to rail | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
companies making money, but this is part of the privatisation deal, | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
they have to make money to be successful. The odd image is about | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
how much of that money they put how much of that money they put | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
back into the rail service. There are plenty more, people have | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
also said, at least we knew about the training crease that, we did | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
not know about the bus ticket increases. | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
One piece of good news is that a lot of people on the trains were at | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
able to buy -- were able to book an advance on the internet. | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
Yes, they were cushioned a little. Thank you very much for all your | :14:15. | :14:24. | |
responses. Still to come on North West | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
Tonight... The brains behind the brawn - the | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
sports scientist helping our Olympic stars go for gold in London. | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
And sitting pretty - how a pet parrot helped save a litter of | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
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The football world started the year mourning one of its own. Former | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
Liverpool and Everton defender Gary Ablett died on New years day. He | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
had been suffering from the cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
But while he will be remembered by most as a brilliant footballer, he | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
was also a man who, like so many, fought cancer bravely and with | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
dignity. As a player and a manager, Gary | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
Ablett was respected and admired. One he was brilliant, a brilliant | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
player, Liverpool should never have sold him. It is just tragic, a | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
tragic loss and he will be sadly missed, he really will. | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
But Kenny Mayall didn't know who Gary Ablett was when they met at | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
the Christie two months ago. To him he was simply a patient battling | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
cancer like him. Just to have someone to tattoo on a | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
day-to-day basis, he was not able to walk very well, and I was quite | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
able to book on the days I was not booked up. To sit there and have a | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
nice conversation with someone really brings a pure spirits. | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
Gary and Kenny became friends. They shared a curry, Gary even got him | :15:52. | :16:01. | |
signed football shirts to help with One of the two last e-mails I got | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
from him he said he had control of his diabetes. I thought he was | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
getting better, so to hear he had died was a total shock. | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
But Gary's case is far from isolated. It is actually the fifth | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
most common cancer in the UK. It attacks the lymph tissues in the | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
body and research shows its incidence is slightly higher in men. | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
Some patients can be treated successfully, but others are very | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
resistant to treatment, conventional chemotherapy and | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
radiotherapy, even stem cell transplants, and it appears in this | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
case that Gary Ablett, sadly, had an aggressive form of the lead node | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
cancer. -- lymph node. As fans in Liverpool | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
today signed a condolence book to Gary Ablett the footballer, Kenny | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
Mayall simply been remembering a man that cancer made a friend. | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
Following that news both sets of players will be wearing black | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
armbands as a tribute to Gary tonight. Liverpool will also be | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
holding a minute's silence before their FA Cup tie against Oldham at | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
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Anfield on Friday. The festive period has been a topsy-turvy one | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
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in football's Premier League. Man City lost at Sunderland. Blackburn | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
won at Man United. Liverpool have had a better time of | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
it, four points out of six, and Steven Gerrard is back and fit. | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
Before we look ahead to tonight, let's catch up on how teams did | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
yesterday. There was more doom and gloom for | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
Rovers, a bracing win for Blackpool and Stanley have gone nine games | :17:57. | :18:06. | |
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birthday Steve Kean was reaching for the fizz himself after | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
Blackburn came back down to earth with a bump losing at home to Stoke. | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
After stunning Old Trafford and frustrating Liverpool at Anfield | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
over Christmas, a win could have taken Rovers out of the bottom | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
three, but despite David Goodwillie's scrambled strike they | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
went down 2-1 and stay second bottom. Better news in the | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
Championship. Blackpool under Ian Holloway are aiming to get back | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
into the Premier League at the first attempt. A comfortable 3-0 | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
win over Middlesborough moved the Seasiders to within a point of the | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
play-off places. In League One, 2012 continued where the old year | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
finished off for Bury. The Shakers followed up a victory on Boxing Day | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
with a 2-1 win over Walsall. This Peter Sweeney free-kick being a | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
great early shout for goal of the month. It helped his team move up | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
to ninth. A couple of local derbies to finish off in League Two. | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
Accrington Stanley pummelled Macclesfield with Andy Proctor | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
completing a 4-0 drubbing. And Morecambe got back to winning ways | :19:01. | :19:11. | |
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with this Kevin Ellison effort at It is fair to the fizz has gone a | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
bit flat on Roberto Mancini's New Year so far. He is not happy that | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
City are playing their second game in 48 hours after the New Year's | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
Day defeat at Sunderland. But a win tonight would restore a three point | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
lead over United who play at Newcastle tomorrow. If Liverpool | :19:27. | :19:35. | |
win, they are right back in the mix for a Champions' League spot. Wigan | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
need to beat Sunderland tonight to move out of the bottom three. | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
We have had it confirmed in the last few minutes that the FA have | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
told us that Liverpool will not be appealing against Luis Suarez's | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
eight-match ban for racially abusing Patrice Evra. | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
We will have the best of the action from City, Liverpool and Wigan's | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
game against Sunderland. Now for the first in a week of | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
special reports about the impact of sports science in the region. You | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
might think it is just for top Olympic athletes and Premier League | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
footballers, but the science has also helped celebrities, thanks to | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
a professor in Liverpool. All of us could do with it after | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
Christmas, as well. Greg Whyte, who is based at John | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
Moores University, has trained the likes of David Walliams and Eddie | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
Izzard for extraordinary charity If you're famous and want to swim a | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
sea, climb a mountain or run a marathon, then you come and see | :20:34. | :20:43. | |
Greg Whyte. Normally you will find I have never heard so many | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
abbreviations in a short time! There is no doubt, it is science, | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
it is what we do. A former Olympian in the modern pentathlon, he | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
embraced Sciences 20 years ago. Now every sport has done the same. | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
can tell the you have had been here, because you have a signed shirt. | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
Yes, you have to get souvenirs. Man City is a good example, we did what | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
with Real Madrid, and with Sweden, internationally. | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
But he thinks that the science is not just for the fittest. | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
The greatest gains are to be made with those who are not the fittest. | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
So he can even help those without B-list physiques. | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
From an attitude perspective, they know how to work hard and drive | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
themselves. Those celebrities, like everyone | :21:37. | :21:47. | |
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else, are put through some basic Stop there, get a tissue. Really | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
nice. That is horrible. | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
The biggest value I have seen on there is a roundabout 1,300 litres. | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
One of the big or Olympic rowers got around 1,300 litres on that. | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
This chamber mimics any environment on the planet and is crucial for | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
the preparation of events such as the World Cup. | :22:20. | :22:30. | |
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Let's get it over with! That is called! | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
That shows you what sport science is, it is an incredibly broad | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
spectrum. All that is for the enhancement of performance. | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
Eddie Izzard, who managed 43 marathons in 51 days, said that the | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
ice bath was the worst bit. I can well believe him! | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
We won't pick on him in the odd -- in the office after that, will be? | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
Talking of showing off. Who's a clever boy then? A parrot | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
living in Darwin, Lancashire who risked his own life to save five | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
puppies. Sam the African Grey raised the alarm as soon as the | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
family dog went in to labour. The five Pomeranian Pups could well | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
have died had the Parrot not alerted the owner by mimicking her | :23:27. | :23:37. | |
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voice. Nina Warhurst has been to The sitting pretty on a brand new | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
perch, some may well be proud. His best pal, Sally, was one week | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
away from her due date when she unexpectedly went into labour and | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
the middle of the night. Sam may not be able to fly, but he was | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
determined two to go upstairs to raise the alarm. | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
In the dark he climbed the stairs, found my room, which he has never | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
been inside, climbed on my bed and woke me up in my own voice telling | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
me to come down. How did he say it? | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
Just like I do, come on. I brought him back down and put him on his | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
perch, but he kept making these funny squeaking noises, and he was | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
mimicking the squeaking of the puppies in the kitchen. | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
Sadly, one of the puppies died, but by more never have happy homes and | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
sued believes that Sam saved their lives. | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
He definitely has a brain. He cares, he does care. He got a new perch | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
out of it. But bad, especially considering | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
some only sport are do when she rescued him eight years ago. -- | :24:47. | :24:57. | |
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only spoke Urdu. No her other dog pixie has had a | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
litter of four and she sleeps easy knowing that they are saved. | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
Are we stunned? Are bilingual parrot! | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
At unbelievable! He speaks more languages than some | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
of the humans here. A bilingual paramedic parrot. We | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
will not top that story. Someone will have to do something | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
Someone will have to do something amazing to top that story at the | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
start of the year. Good evening. A shocking day to day, | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
the winds were incredibly strong and in the last few hours the winds | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
and in the last few hours the winds and in the last few hours the winds | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
touched 67 mph. The winds this morning have now ceased, that is | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
out of the way, but more problems tomorrow. It will continue to be | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
windy, there will be deals at times, but the biggest story is we will | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
see more rain. The ground is already saturated. A huge band of | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
rain last night whipped away today. We had showers in the afternoon. | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
This is the current state of play. There are more showers coming | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
through from the Isle of Man. This evening they will continue to pile | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
in on that westerly wind. By midnight tonight the showers | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
should be battering your window. Later in the night, there are not | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
that many, the winds he's down, still a touch of a blow tonight. | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
Towards dawn it gets cold as it tends to this year, and it may go | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
as low as two Celsius. We have a little of everything in this | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
forecast. Tomorrow a yellow warning for rain, for the Isle of Man, | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
parts of Cumbria, Lancashire and parts of the Peak District. | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
When you get up in the morning that will be the best of the weather, | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
blanket cloud cover with one or two showers and after that it only gets | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
worse. A band of rain comes from the Irish Sea and sticks with us. | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
It is very, very wet, also windy with winds touching gale-force at | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
times, top temperature only seven Celsius. | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
Shall I get my coat? It is frightening on the roads. On | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
the motorway, the lorries and the spree are scary. | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
It is also difficult to go out and walk about. To be in charge of your | :27:28. | :27:33. |