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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson and | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
Annabel Tiffin. Our top story: Judgement day. Jail for the vicar | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
who pocketed thousands by marrying illegal immigrants who'd never met. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
It is like a doctor, you do not expect them to have their hand in | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
the till at the same time. The authorities say John Magumba's | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
sentence shows British immigration is no longer a soft touch. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Also tonight: Liverpool could become the largest | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
city outside London to get a directly elected mayor, but why | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
aren't voters getting to decide? Troops for teachers - the parents | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
keen to send children to a school run by ex-soldiers. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
And walking with giants - the biggest little girl about to bring | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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The Reverend Patrick John Magumba was a respected pillar of his | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
community, with three congregations in Rochdale who trusted him. But | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
for almost three years he deceived his parishioners, pocketing | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
thousands of pounds for marrying illegal immigrants in 28 sham | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
weddings. At one stage, the Church of England was so impressed with | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
the number of foreign nationals he was marrying, it put him on a | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
special committee to spot sham weddings. Today, Magumba was jailed | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
for two-and-a-half years. Our reporter Abbie Jones is outside St | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
Peter's church in Newbold. It was a spectacular fall from | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
grace. The Reverend Magumba came to Rochdale from Uganda in 2004. He | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
was very well respected. But now his reputation is in tatters and | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
he's become the first vicar in the north-west to be prosecuted for | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
conducting sham marriages. Jailing him today, the judge said he'd | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
brought scandal to his church and let down his parishioners. He was a | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
trusted vicar, but Reverend Magumba arrived at court today in a | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
convicted criminal. What do you have to say to your permit -- | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
parishioners? Are you sorry for what you did? Have you got an | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
apology for them? For Magumba, the institution of marriage should have | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
been sacred, but at St Peter's Church, he pronounced couples who | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
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had never met husband-and-wife, for money. Slovaks, Polish people, they | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
married people from Uganda to give them benefits in the UK. He stole | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
the fees, over �1,000. You take it on trust. It is like a doctor. You | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
do not expect them to have their hand in the till at the same time | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
as going through the ceremonies. It will have a lasting effect on some | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
people. If you cannot trust the vicar, who can you trust? | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Parishioners had even lend him money to clothe his six children. | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
What was it like when you found out he was doing that? Devastated, | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
couldn't believe it. The church registers record some of the phoney | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
weddings, many with fake addresses, and some may never happy -- even | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
taken place. He married one woman twice within a week. When | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
confronted, he said they were twins and it was common for twins in | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
their country to have the same name. The only variation was their age. | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
Brazen. He told more lies when he was interviewed. Where has the | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
money gone? Has it gone through proper channels? Yes. It looks like | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
you have tried to cover it up. knowingly, honestly. In the 11 | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
years before he became a vicar in Rochdale there were no weddings at | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
St Peter's. Between 2007-2010 there were suddenly 21. Only one was | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
genuine. Even that did not set alarm bells ringing. Incredibly, he | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
was put on a special church working party looking at how to spot sham | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
marriages, because he had been marrying so many foreign nationals. | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
And while the police acknowledge that he set out to deliberately | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
deceive the diocese, they say it took officers just a few minutes | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
looking through church accounts and registers to know that something | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
was wrong. The Manchester diocese says Magumba was an experienced | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
clergymen given responsibilities on trust. It says the trust was broken | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
and the criminal activity was hidden. It gave full corporation | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
when suspicions grew. Police say that the Church must tighten | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
procedures. They are now going after the phoney brides and grooms. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
Officers say they have no idea how many people are now living in the | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
UK because of Magumba's actions here. That's because some of the | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
stubs on marriage certificates he issued weren't filled in. His | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
barrister said today he carried out the first sham marriage to help | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
someone who had HIV stay in the UK and was deeply ashamed of his | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
actions, and that Magumba will now be remembered for his bad deeds, | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
not his good. Two men are being questioned on | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
suspicion of murder tonight, after the decapitated body of a man was | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
found on fire in Stockport. Firefighters made the grim | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
discovery after being called out to a fire close to the town centre in | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
the early hours of this morning. Police are still trying to identify | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
the victim. Naomi Cornwell reports. Just 100 metres from a police | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
station, the man's body was found following a series of events in the | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
early hours of this morning. First, at 4am, close to the town centre | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
police arrested two men on suspicion of possessing shotgun | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
cartridges. Then, less than an hour later, firefighters called them to | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
say they'd found a body. Firefighters made the grim | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
discovery after being called here just after 5am following reports of | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
a fire in the wooded area. On arriving, they found the body of a | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
man on fire. He'd been decapitated. We do not know the cause of death. | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
We remain open-minded as to the circumstances of how he was left in | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
that area. A second area of woodland, just | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
half a mile away, has also been cordoned off as part of the | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
investigation. The two arrested men, aged 29 and 31, are now being | :06:30. | :06:39. | |
questioned on suspicion of murder. You do not expect it. It is | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
gruesome. It is still sinking in, to be honest. | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
Police have sought to reassure local residents, saying they don't | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
believe this is linked to gangs or organised crime and promising to | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
maintain a large police presence in the area over the coming days. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Voting is well underway in Salford as the city decides whether it | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
wants a directly elected mayor. If the "yes" campaigners win, it will | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
mean powers that were given to the local authority will be held by one | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
person. Polls are due to close at 10pm with the result expected after | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
midnight. Liverpool may have to pay up to �9 | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
million if it wants cruise liners to start and finish at the Pier | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
Head. The Transport Minister, Mike Penning, says the city's previous | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
offer of repaying �5.3 million of Government grants for the cruise | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
liner terminal would not be enough to cover the losses felt by other | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
ports like Southampton. Royal Mail says it can't explain | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
why a village post office in Cumbria has closed without warning. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Residents in Hawkshead were surprised to find the door of their | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
local post office locked and the windows covered with newspapers. | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
Royal Mail says it's now working on a temporary solution. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
It's emerged that the artist LS Lowry turned down a knighthood. A | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
list of those who declined honours between 1951 and 1999 has been | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
published for the first time. It reveals that Lowry was offered the | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
honour in 1968 but he refused because he didn't want to stand out | :08:09. | :08:18. | |
from the crowd. He really was a private person. He did not want to | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
change his situation in the street, if you like. He had nothing against | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
it, really, as a system. But he did not want somebody to stop him and | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
say, Sir Lawrence. He would really prefer people to call him by his | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
name. There has been speculation for a | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
while that Liverpool City Council could press ahead with plans for a | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
directly elected mayor. Today the Labour leader, Joe Anderson, | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
confirmed that's exactly what he wants. He says he's done a deal | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
with the Government - switch to a mayor and get more powers in | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
exchange. But opponents say that's not true and they are angry that | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
voters will not get a say in a referendum. Our political editor | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
Arif Ansari reports from Liverpool. Mayor of Liverpool, a big title for | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
a big city. The Government wants more mayors. The council wants more | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
powers. So they've done a deal. Now Uncle Joe wants to become city | :09:13. | :09:21. | |
father. It hopes to get people back into work, and it hopes to unlock | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
growth in the city. Those are powerful tools for us to have, and | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
powers for us to have. I do not think it is right for me, as leader | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
of the Council, to turn this deal down. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
But what is a mayor? It's a council leader directly | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
elected by voters not councillors. They're more powerful. And they | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
remain in power for four-year terms. So for now Joe Anderson has seized | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
the political initiative. He says the deal's so good that it doesn't | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
need a referendum. But opponents say it would still have been polite | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
to have asked. The Government has said we should have these | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
referendums. That is the right of people, to decide how they are | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
governed. Having said we're going to have one, it is not on to them | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
say, we are not because the Labour Party in Liverpool think they know | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
better. The deal still needs to be voted | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
through the city council with a two-thirds majority. Our political | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
editor is here. Part of the issue is whether the Government is | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
putting pressure on Liverpool to move to a directly elected mayor, | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
what they want. You have word from the Deputy Prime Minister. There is | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
an argument in Liverpool about this, because there is no doubt the | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
Government wants more directly elected mayors across the country, | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
and they are keen on one in Liverpool. The argument is, is the | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
Government actually saying, you can have these powers anyway, or are | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
they saying, you can only have the powers if you go from there? That | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
seems to be the position Joe Anderson has taken, but this letter | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
from the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, to the party leaders in | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
Liverpool, has an interesting sentence in which it says, "It is | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
important to clarify that knows City Deal, including Liverpool's | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
proposal, is contingent on having an elected mayor". That plays into | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
the hands of the opponents of Joe Anderson who say you can have the | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
powers without a mayor. Still to come: | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Tackling the big one. The wounded Cheshire soldier training to climb | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
Everest. And a Red Letter Day. Liverpool get | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
through to play at the new Wembley for the first time. Brilliant, | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
superb. Craig Bellamy was man of the match. He was fantastic. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Plans for a military-style school run by former soldiers in Oldham | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
appear to be gathering momentum. The names of interested parents are | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
being collected and potential school premises have been | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
identified. The Phoenix, as it would be called, could open as one | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
of the Government's new free schools. Its backers claim former | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
soldiers will introduce classroom discipline where trained teachers | :12:04. | :12:14. | |
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Not since the days of national service has the army's way been | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
offered as a solution to peacetime problems. The school's backers say | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
there will be no square-bashing or screaming sergeant majors, but no | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
acceptance of bad behaviour in the classroom either. They point to an | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
American scheme and say that it shows that former soldiers know | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
best when it comes to discipline, not trained teachers. Recruitment | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
is under way. These two mothers have signed their children up. | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
way that they are taught self- discipline in the Army, I think is | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
a big factor what appeals to me. We do not have that self discipline | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
any more in school. Isn't the person most qualified to teach the | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
person with the best teaching qualification? If not necessarily. | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
It is the person and the way that they teach, not the letters behind | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
their name. The NUT is not so sure. Our problem is that the teachers | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
will not be trained. People in charge of the classroom will be ex- | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
military, and most of them, probably all of them, will not have | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
teaching qualifications. But don't they know about discipline? | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
course. But teachers are trained in teacher training colleges all over | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
the country. This could be the site of the new school. The this school | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
has now merged with another one in Oldham to become an academy. Staff | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
and pupils here will soon be moving out. So could the new free school | :13:40. | :13:49. | |
move in? The Phoenix school hopes We're joined now by Tom Burkhard - | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
the military school is his idea. Can you clarify, there will not be | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
any qualified teachers at the school? That is not true. Some | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
teachers will be qualified. The exception is the special needs co- | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
ordinator who must be qualified. But they will beat former military | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
ex servicemen? Yes. I am querying the bit about the not necessarily | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
needing a qualification because I imagine that seems like an insult | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
to qualified teachers. In the United States, they did three major | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
studies, the biggest ever taken to compare the performance of pupils | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
are taught by teachers who are qualified and those who had little | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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or no training. When steady was biased against teachers. All of the | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
studies than there was no significant difference in the | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
academic performance of pupils regardless of who they were taught | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
by. It has provoked quite a response. We had an e-mail from a | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
retired teacher who said I would not have the military had to fight, | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
I do it expect them without qualifications to tell me how to | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
teach. It is contentious. misunderstanding is most people in | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
the military have spent most of their careers teaching. If you | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
think about it. In a military context. There is not a great deal | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
of difference. In the military you have young men and women, many from | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
difficult backgrounds, you have to win the respect and Corporation. | :15:38. | :15:46. | |
This is what they are good at. The research shows the more experienced | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
teachers can keep control. parents have signed up so far. | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
is closer to 70 or 80. What reasons are they giving you for coming to | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
your school? Discipline. Most of my friends are teachers and they are | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
aware... The standards of discipline in our schools are worse | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
than most. People without a military background know the | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
situation is in crisis and something needs to be done. I am | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
sure at one applauds the strong discipline but the purpose of | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
school is to educate and teacher. Are you confident you can deliver | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
those standards? If we could not deliver them, we would not have the | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
discipline. One great misconception about our school is we would have | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
discipline harking back to national service. The modern military is | :16:48. | :16:57. | |
entirely volunteer. So, it is not a bootcam? Certainly not. We feel we | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
would want to concentrate on the academic skills. We follow the | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
national curriculum? No, something harder. The international G C S E, | :17:06. | :17:14. | |
a syllabus which we have looked at closely, teachers who teach have | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
looked closely and it offers a better standard than the | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
conventional GCSE we have now. As you know, the government has lost | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
faith in the GCSE and are making changes. I end on a positive e-mail. | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
Elaine says what a sensible idea, this can only be a good thing for | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
children who need to learn discipline and self-worth but also | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
respected family values. Thank you. Thank you. Well, we may not find | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
out if former soldiers can make good teachers for a while yet, but | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
there's no doubting their bravery and determination. And here's a | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
story that really highlights this. Fresh from their success in | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
reaching the North Pole a charity raising money for injured service | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
personnel has set its heights a little higher. This time they're | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
planning to take a team of five wounded soldiers to the top of | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Mount Everest in May. Today the group was out training on the | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
Cumbrian fells. Just to warn you, Eleanor Moritz's report does | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
contain graphic images of war. These men are always up for a | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
challenge. Last year they made it to the North Pole. Their next | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
mission is to climb Mount Everest. Captain Martin Hewitt from Cheshire | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
is leading the expedition. He lost the use of his right arm when he | :18:25. | :18:35. | |
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was shot. It is a different team to the North Pole expedition. Despite | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
the disabilities, we have been ahead of the vast majority. Keep me | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
on my toes. Captain Hewitt was one of those on first year's trek to | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
the North Pole, which raised over �2 million for wounded soldiers. | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
They were joined on that trip by their patron, Prince Harry. We | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
don't know if he'll be climbing to Everest this year. Prince Harry | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
added a great deal to the charity, he was so down to earth. He | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
integrated into the team immediately on arrival. Today the | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
team was out training in Grizedale Forest but conditions here won't | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
prepare them properly for the hostile environment of Everest. So | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
they've also climbed Manaslu - the 8th highest mountain in the world. | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
The team includes Andy Hawkins he grew up in Wirral. Reaching the | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
summit is more than conquering Everest. His tank was firebombed. | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
But for former soldier Carl Highnett, reaching the summit is | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
about more than conquering Everest, his tank was firebombed in Basra | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
and he suffered 37% burns. It is a change of scenery and seeing if you | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
can move on and do things what other normal able-bodied people | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
will struggle with as well. team set off for the Himalayas in | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
may. Their plan to put a group of servicemen who've overcome serious | :19:50. | :19:57. | |
injury, on top of the world. Terrific. | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
Astonishing. Liverpool fans are preparing to return to Wembley for | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
the first time in 16 years. A thrilling 2-2 draw at Anfield | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
against Manchester City last night meant the Reds went through to the | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
League Cup Final 3-2 on aggregate. Manager Kenny Dalglish dedicated | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
the win to the fans and - as Richard Askam reports - it was an | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
emotional night. The end of a match full of talking | :20:21. | :20:31. | |
:20:31. | :20:33. | ||
points. And one word on the lips of Wembley! It was a game that swung | :20:33. | :20:42. | |
one way. Then the next. Wasn't short on controversy. The penalty | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
given for a Micah Richards handball. An accidental ricochet he claimed. | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
The referee decided otherwise. There was an outstanding | :20:50. | :20:59. | |
performance from City's keeper Joe Hart. He will go on to be one of | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
the best keepers in the world. The seeds he made in the first and | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
second leg. And Liverpool's Craig Bellamy who after Edin Dzeko's easy | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
finish threatened to break Liverpudlian hearts. Came up with | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
the decisive goal, the Welshman combining superbly with Glen | :21:11. | :21:21. | |
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Bellamy for Liverpool! Absolutely superb. Craig Bellamy was man of | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
the match. Fantastic. Craig, I love you. Thanks for coming back. The | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
long wait is over and these fans can look forward to a Wembley final | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
after waiting a decade. City will concentrate on the small matter of | :21:42. | :21:51. | |
the Premier League title. Get on! Liverpool against Cardiff should be | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
good. City fans dismayed. You may have differing opinions on this | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
story - depending on if you're male or female. The United States | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
international footballer Tim Ream has been describing how he | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
cancelled his honeymoon in Tahiti to complete his two and half | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
million pound move to Bolton Wanderers. The New York Red Bulls | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
defender was about to fly to the South Pacific just hours after | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
marrying his girlfriend Kristen. But he then received a call from | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
the Bolton manager offering him a contract and he ended up spending a | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
week in a hotel at the Reebok stadium. I waited until the | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
nuptials were concluded and opened some prisons. The manager asked if | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
I would be willing to cancel my honeymoon and go to Bolton and | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
honeymoon here. After much talk with my new wife, we were | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
disappointed to pass up the trip but we knew this was the right | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
thing to do. Why would you want to go to Tahiti? Tongue firmly in his | :22:49. | :22:57. | |
cheek. How would you feel? If my husband was marrying her, he | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
would not have cancelled his honeymoon! That's another matter. | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
Three years ago this mechanical spider brought Liverpool to a | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
standstill. This year it's the turn of a little girl giant who'll be | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
wowing the crowds. As well as bringing in visitors - it's also | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
hoped her visit will be felt in the North of the City long after she's | :23:17. | :23:27. | |
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Imagine a little lady, 30 ft tall roaming the streets of Liverpool | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
representing a local girl whose dad never came back from the Titanic's | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
maiden journey. The creators made a mysterious spider in 2008, now she | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
could crush him. Her presence will be felt way beyond the three-day | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
visit. The scale of the journey will be three times that of the | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
Spider. The other star of the show it will beat the northern part of | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
the City, she starts around here and look at the view she will have. | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
We want to show off the beautiful places that Liverpool has. | :24:08. | :24:18. | |
Especially in the north of the city, and people who live in the region. | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
She will pass through Stanley Park, Everton and Anfield and it's hoped | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
they will be a lasting legacy for this part of the city which has | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
sometimes felt left out of the art parties. I think it will be | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
wonderful. The roads will be lined with everyone, flags and banners. | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
All of the cafes were to amazing. It's great and Liverpool. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
arrives on 20th April and she may look innocent but expect a few | :24:46. | :24:56. | |
surprises. She is eye-catching, to say the least. | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
The spider had such a great impact. Good stuff. The weather now with | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
Dianne. What did you say about the honeymoon? I would have gone on my | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
own. Why should two people suffer? Good evening. The mild winter, it | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
has gone. If I show you what happens, you will understand. We | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
have cold air descending across the UK. It does not want to move away | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
as we head through the weekend and to the start of the working week. | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
There is no sign of warm air battling this. Daytime temperatures | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
around five or six degrees was to night-time temperatures in minus | :25:39. | :25:48. | |
It looks very quiet in Salford. The more northern parts of the region, | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
Cumbria, the Isle of Man and Lancashire, the showers have been | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
fairly widespread. Many places have seen one or two but if you look at | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
the map parts of Lancashire and Cumbria they have been lively. | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
Nothing much changes tonight. It is a showery picture all the way | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
through. The air temperature is low, on high ground there will be | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
snowfall which could stick on the Pennines. Some sleet and hail at | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
low levels but no problems. It is a showery regime. Temperatures are | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
interesting, towns and cities to and three, four on the coast. Minus | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
one or two in rural areas. The mornings will be fairly cold. We do | :26:38. | :26:46. | |
have showers from time to time but also cloud. Today, sunshine remedy | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
the day. That is true of tomorrow. As the showers coming, merging with | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
longer spells of rain and on the tops of the Pennines snow will be | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
falling. It could settle for a short times. Snow and low levels as | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
well, not causing any problems. Temperatures are not great, five or | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
six Celsius. I wonder if looking at weather map | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
footballer is regretting his decision. | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
I suspect a to flee five-year contract at Bolton will make up for | :27:22. | :27:29. |