:00:05. > :00:09.Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Ranvir Singh and Roger
:00:09. > :00:18.Johnson. Our top story. BAE workers celebrate losing a
:00:18. > :00:24.day's pay every month, so colleagues can keep their jobs.
:00:24. > :00:27.Why is everyone euphoric about the pay cut? We have just saved 150
:00:27. > :00:36.jobs. A court hears a four-month-old twin
:00:36. > :00:38.boy is murdered, but his mother and her boyfriend deny killing him.
:00:38. > :00:44.Giving Elbow a hard time - our School Report youngsters grill the
:00:44. > :00:46.Bury group about their Olympic theme song.
:00:46. > :00:56.And Manchester's Michaelangelo going begging - an empty ceiling is
:00:56. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:05.needed to save the mural based on the mastery of the Sistine Chapel.
:01:05. > :01:08.Who'd have thought that a pay cut would ever be reason to celebrate?
:01:08. > :01:18.But today, staff at BAE Systems in Lancashire voted overwhelmingly to
:01:18. > :01:23.
:01:23. > :01:31.take a pay cut to save the jobs of colleagues. It was the boat that
:01:31. > :01:34.was greeted with a round of applause. Here's our Economics
:01:34. > :01:38.Correspondent, Jayne Barrett. They arrived at Blackpool's Winter
:01:38. > :01:41.Gardens to make what you'd imagine would be a tough decision. Take a
:01:41. > :01:46.pay cut, or face compulsory redundancies. In fact, not such a
:01:46. > :01:53.tough decision at all. Out of 2,000 staff, only six voted against. A
:01:53. > :01:59.sacrifice made by all for people like Alex Watson.
:01:59. > :02:02.I was the first to get redundancy, it was hard times. It means an lot
:02:02. > :02:08.to me. It was a sacrifice later celebrated
:02:08. > :02:18.in Blackpool's pubs. Why is everyone euphoric about taking a
:02:18. > :02:20.
:02:20. > :02:24.pay cut? Because we have just saved a minimum of 150 jobs.
:02:24. > :02:30.This was a defining moment. The site of a Nimrod being broken up at
:02:30. > :02:32.Woodford two years ago. Defence reviews in the UK and elsewhere hit
:02:32. > :02:34.the company hard. Staff here have faced four rounds of redundancies
:02:35. > :02:39.since 2009. The feeling was that all those happy to go voluntarily
:02:39. > :02:41.had already gone. Today was about saving jobs. Saving jobs and skills.
:02:41. > :02:44.Components for this, the joint strike fighter, are already being
:02:44. > :02:49.built at Salmsbury. It's a 30 year programme that today, key
:02:50. > :02:53.contractor Lockheed Martin said would be ramped up in the future.
:02:53. > :03:00.BAE want to make sure they have the right people with the right skills
:03:00. > :03:05.in the right place, to deliver that order when it arrives.
:03:05. > :03:09.It is the sacrifice in the near term but it will stand us in good
:03:10. > :03:13.stead for the future of. Other companies should take a lead from
:03:13. > :03:17.BAe's systems and we could a Reddick -- eradicate redundancies
:03:17. > :03:20.in other areas. Around 300 jobs in other areas at
:03:20. > :03:30.BAE in Lancashire are still under threat. Other unions may well
:03:30. > :03:32.
:03:32. > :03:35.decide to vote on a similar model to save those.
:03:35. > :03:41.A doctor at a private clinic in Manchester has been told that she
:03:41. > :03:46.must not carry out a portion work. It followed allegations in a Daily
:03:46. > :03:56.Telegraph that she carried out illegal abortions based on the sex
:03:56. > :04:01.
:04:01. > :04:03.of the unborn child. A government source has denied
:04:03. > :04:06.press reports that the family of Oldham engineer, Chris McManus, had
:04:06. > :04:08.paid towards a ransom to secure his release, before he was killed in
:04:08. > :04:18.Nigeria. Mr McManus and an Italian hostage died during attempts to
:04:18. > :04:26.
:04:26. > :04:30.free them. Baby Lucas Irvine was only four-
:04:30. > :04:32.months-old when he died a violent death. A jury has been told he had
:04:32. > :04:37.been shaken so hard that he suffered severe brain damage and a
:04:37. > :04:43.spinal injury. Preston Crown Court was also told his mother and her
:04:43. > :04:46.boyfriend were responsible. They both deny harming the infant.
:04:46. > :04:53.Our Chief Reporter Dave Guest join us now from Preston. Tell us more
:04:53. > :04:59.about the circumstances of Lucas's death.
:04:59. > :05:04.While locals was one of twin boys born to current events in 20th July
:05:04. > :05:08.10. She was just 17 at the time. Soon after she turned 18 Lookers
:05:08. > :05:12.was dead at eight months. It is the case for the prosecution that she
:05:12. > :05:16.and her boyfriend Christopher Roberts were responsible for his
:05:16. > :05:20.death. Mr Roberts was not the natural father but the couple were
:05:20. > :05:25.living together at the time in Lancaster. And it was to that home
:05:25. > :05:30.that paramedics were called in 20th November 10. They found lookers
:05:30. > :05:33.unconscious. He died four days later in hospital. A post mortem
:05:33. > :05:41.revealed he have suffered brain damage consistent with having been
:05:41. > :05:47.shaken. The couple both denied the charge of murder. You heard some of
:05:47. > :05:50.the prosecution case today, what did they have to say? They say that
:05:50. > :05:55.their inconsistencies in the accounts which the couple gave to
:05:56. > :06:01.medical staff and to detectives. They say the couple were on their
:06:01. > :06:04.own with the boys in the house at the time he died. They also say
:06:04. > :06:13.there were previous records of injuries to Lucas. In 20th August
:06:13. > :06:18.10 he had a shoulder injury. The following month he seemed to have a
:06:18. > :06:27.graze on his head. That was explained by saying that he had
:06:27. > :06:33.fallen from pull up pushchair. Who have the jury been hearing from
:06:33. > :06:37.today? They heard from a neural pathologist who said that the
:06:37. > :06:41.injuries which Lucas had suffered were consistent with him having
:06:41. > :06:46.been shaken. He could not find an accidental explanation for the
:06:46. > :06:56.injuries. But a woman who met Karen Irving said that she had appeared
:06:56. > :07:02.
:07:02. > :07:08.to be a confident and a caring mother.
:07:08. > :07:12.Five homes in Reading were evacuated when a fire threatened to
:07:12. > :07:20.affect neighbouring properties. It started in the bedroom and then
:07:20. > :07:23.spread through the loft. Campaigners against the cult of
:07:23. > :07:28.committed piece in winded we're saving would pay for a new study
:07:28. > :07:33.into how to control the number of the keys without killing them. The
:07:33. > :07:36.protest was held at the weekend. �30 million of savings for the
:07:36. > :07:38.Mersey crossing scheme are to be discussed by councillors in Halton
:07:38. > :07:40.tonight. The cross-river link, which already has planning
:07:40. > :07:45.permission, would connect Runcorn with Widnes and provide an
:07:45. > :07:55.alternative to the existing Silver Jubilee Bridge. The scheme was
:07:55. > :07:59.
:07:59. > :08:04.initially expected to cost �600 million. The culture secretary
:08:04. > :08:09.ahead revealed that new legislation will go before parliament to
:08:10. > :08:16.secured television licences for a number of regional broadcasters in
:08:16. > :08:21.the area. There's no doubt about the demand on the part of consumers.
:08:21. > :08:25.But what we have not been able to do previously is to get the cost
:08:25. > :08:33.low enough to make local television viable. We had a huge response from
:08:33. > :08:37.the industry. It shows that they feel it can work this time for a
:08:37. > :08:40.stock next the mother of a teenager wrongly accused of rape after a
:08:40. > :08:45.delay blood test criticised the police investigation was dropped
:08:45. > :08:51.charges against Michelle Scott's son Adam were dropped after it was
:08:51. > :08:54.revealed that in -- there had been a mistake in a Laboratory.
:08:54. > :09:00.The 19 year-old was never at the scene and is now taking legal
:09:00. > :09:05.action. A number of cases are all - - also being reviewed. Michelle
:09:05. > :09:08.Scott is glad that the truth is out but angry that her son Adam has had
:09:09. > :09:13.the stigma of a rape charge for months. The 19 year-old was
:09:13. > :09:18.arrested and spent eight weeks in custody after a woman was raped
:09:18. > :09:23.last October. His DNA was introduced by mistake into the
:09:23. > :09:29.victim's sample in a Laboratory. She says that other evidence was
:09:29. > :09:33.overlooked. They did not check telephone records. There's no way
:09:33. > :09:38.to prove that Adam was there but there was no way for Adam to prove
:09:38. > :09:44.that he was not there. The police could have done a lot more to help
:09:44. > :09:47.Adam. Although Britain's biggest friend six signs provider has since
:09:47. > :09:56.taken steps to avoid a similar mistake, there are calls for an
:09:56. > :09:59.inquiry. DNA is compelling evidence. It persuades juries. And it is
:09:59. > :10:04.reasonable to assume that at a trial he could have been convicted
:10:04. > :10:07.on it ever since. A forensics investigator from the Home Office
:10:07. > :10:11.is working with Greater Manchester police but until the review is
:10:11. > :10:15.completed a force cannot be certain that other cases have not also been
:10:15. > :10:21.affected. One former detective superintendent admits that there
:10:21. > :10:27.are pressures on police forces. of the problems with own inquiry is
:10:27. > :10:32.that if you have DNA evidence, that powerful scientific evidence, you
:10:32. > :10:37.can turn your back on other evidence. The company once
:10:37. > :10:46.described DNA profiling as well as but this case shows it is certainly
:10:46. > :10:51.not infallible. Still to come on North West Tonight.
:10:51. > :10:57.Manchester City have a wobble at the top. Tony is here with the pull
:10:57. > :11:07.bound up shortly. And the girl with the golden touch. Fran Halsall
:11:07. > :11:11.
:11:12. > :11:14.feeling on top of the world. Bury Grammar School is one of over
:11:14. > :11:24.1000 schools reporting the news as part of this year's BBC News School
:11:24. > :11:34.
:11:34. > :11:42.Report. The students create reports. Elbow have been chosen to record
:11:42. > :11:47.the official soundtrack for the official Olympic coverage for the
:11:48. > :11:57.BBC. Here is the report from Bury Grammar School.
:11:58. > :11:59.
:11:59. > :12:05.A research began with the bands, Elbow. They have recorded the
:12:05. > :12:10.official song for the BBC coverage of the Olympics.
:12:10. > :12:15.The music we have made over the years has always lend itself to a
:12:15. > :12:21.sound track. The songs grow and evolved and develop. That is
:12:21. > :12:26.perhaps one of the reasons why we were considered for the Olympics.
:12:26. > :12:31.It was an honour and a Challenge. Do you feel you're giving a voice
:12:31. > :12:35.to what many critics have claimed is predominantly a sudden event?
:12:35. > :12:42.People can make up their own minds once they have heard it. We stuck
:12:42. > :12:49.to the brief and to what we know as musicians. And how we craft are
:12:49. > :12:55.songs. We tried to make its as Olympic as possible. Everyone is
:12:55. > :12:59.excited about it. In particular in the north, we're proud to be
:12:59. > :13:05.representing the North of England. I think the whole country is
:13:05. > :13:12.buzzing about it. We're just pleased to be in full. The Olympics
:13:12. > :13:22.will be an important cultural legacy. It is encouraging writers
:13:22. > :13:32.
:13:32. > :13:42.and musicians. The benefits are To see more of the students' work,
:13:42. > :14:03.
:14:03. > :14:05.log onto bbc.co.uk/schoolreport. Sport now. Tony, is the Premier
:14:05. > :14:12.League title slipping away from Manchester City now that United
:14:12. > :14:15.have taken over top spot? At one stage, City were seven points clear,
:14:15. > :14:17.but yesterday United went back to the top for the first time since
:14:17. > :14:21.October after beating West Brom two-nil. Wayne Rooney scored both
:14:21. > :14:24.the goals. First he sprinted into the path of a shot from Javier
:14:24. > :14:27.Hernandez and volleyed it home from close range. And when Ashley Young
:14:27. > :14:30.was pushed over in the area, Rooney put the penalty right in the corner.
:14:30. > :14:40.The bad news for City is that Rooney is really hitting form. He
:14:40. > :14:40.
:14:40. > :14:44.now has 15 goals in his last 14 games. It is a great win for us
:14:44. > :14:48.today and especially city dropping points. We need to make sure that
:14:48. > :14:58.we stay focus. So City are a point behind United
:14:58. > :15:00.now? That's right, and have a look what happened when Swansea scored
:15:00. > :15:03.the goal that beat City one-nil yesterday. A terrible error by
:15:03. > :15:13.Stefan Savic just seven minutes from the end led to Luke Moore
:15:13. > :15:19.
:15:19. > :15:21.heading Swansea's winner. It was all too much for this City fan.
:15:21. > :15:24.Well, City's manager Roberto Mancini now says the title will be
:15:24. > :15:31.decided when City play United at the Etihad stadium on the 30th of
:15:31. > :15:34.April. That could now be the derby match to end all derby matches!
:15:34. > :15:36.While United have taken over at the top, Bolton and Blackburn have
:15:36. > :15:38.moved away from the bottom. Wanderers climbed out of the
:15:38. > :15:40.relegation zone with an extremely controversial victory over QPR.
:15:40. > :15:43.Rovers escaped the drop zone with an easy win at Wolves. But Wigan
:15:43. > :15:48.are still propping up the table after their draw at Norwich. Peter
:15:48. > :15:52.Marshall reports. All hail Junior Hoilett, for giving
:15:52. > :15:56.the Rovers faithful reasons to be cheerful. The 21-year-old Canadian
:15:56. > :16:02.put his team ahead just before half time. His second was the best of
:16:02. > :16:07.the brace. Left foot, thunderbolt, three points.
:16:07. > :16:12.I am delighted for the travelling fans. We had a great display from
:16:12. > :16:22.our side. At Ewood today, a slight spring in
:16:22. > :16:31.
:16:31. > :16:34.the step of supporters. Are they going to survive? Just about.
:16:34. > :16:37.It was over the line by a country mile. But officials decided it
:16:38. > :16:40.wasn't a goal for QPR - and Bolton made the most of being let off the
:16:40. > :16:44.hook, Darren Pratley giving them the lead eight minutes before the
:16:44. > :16:53.break. And Ivan Klasnic coming off the bench to net the winner in the
:16:53. > :17:00.86th. 10 games to go and we feel we have
:17:00. > :17:03.our destiny in our own hands. A fighting draw for Wigan against
:17:03. > :17:10.Norwich at Carrow Road, secured by Victor Moses with a well-taken
:17:10. > :17:16.equaliser. So Blackburn climb to 16th, with Bolton just below them
:17:16. > :17:18.in 17th and Wigan propping the rest of the Premier League up.
:17:18. > :17:20.Meanwhile Everton got a timely boost before tomorrow's Merseyside
:17:21. > :17:29.derby with a one-nil victory over Spurs, Jelavic with the game's only
:17:30. > :17:34.goal. Liverpool's defeat at Sunderland
:17:34. > :17:42.mean the Reds have lost their last three league games. Kenny Dalglish
:17:42. > :17:45.has called on the team to end the slump against Everton tomorrow.
:17:45. > :17:47.Well, that was Liverpool's third defeat in a row, and there could be
:17:47. > :17:49.more bad news for Liverpool if reports from France about Luis
:17:50. > :17:52.Suarez are true. The Uruguyuan striker is reported to have told a
:17:52. > :17:54.French TV station that he would love to play with his international
:17:55. > :17:57.team-mate, Diego Lugano, at Paris St Germain. But better news with
:17:57. > :18:03.regard to Steven Gerrard. He's recovered from a hamstring injury
:18:03. > :18:05.and is expected to start in tomorrow's Merseyside derby.
:18:05. > :18:08.Superleague, and the Widnes coach Denis Betts has been praising his
:18:09. > :18:11.players after their dramatic and unexpected win over Wigan. Bottom-
:18:11. > :18:16.club Vikings won 37 points to 36, thanks to Lloyd White's calmly-
:18:16. > :18:20.taken drop goal ten minutes from time. Former Wigan player Shaun
:18:21. > :18:24.Briscoe scored two tries against his old club. Warriors rested four
:18:24. > :18:26.key players, including Sam Tomkins, and threw away a 12-nil lead.
:18:27. > :18:33.Warrington also slipped up at Leeds, St Helens lost to Hull, and Salford
:18:33. > :18:43.were beaten at Catalan Dragons. And you can see all the action from
:18:43. > :19:00.
:19:00. > :19:03.those matches in the Super League Show on BBC One at 11:35 tonight.
:19:03. > :19:07.Now with just a matter of months to go it's crunch time for the
:19:07. > :19:11.region's Olympians. This weekend was a big one in a number of sports
:19:11. > :19:21.as the race to reach London gathers pace. Stuart Pollitt rounds up the
:19:21. > :19:23.
:19:23. > :19:27.action starting with swimming success.
:19:27. > :19:33.She looks happy and no wonder. Fran Halsall's reaction to qualifying
:19:33. > :19:39.for a third Olympic event. The Southport swimmer set the fastest
:19:39. > :19:43.time in the world this year to win the 50 metres freestyle. It has
:19:43. > :19:45.just proved I am swimming fast and I am in good shape.
:19:45. > :19:51.Liverpool's Michael Rock also qualified joining the likes of
:19:51. > :19:53.James Goddard, Keri Anne Payne and Dan Sliwinski.
:19:53. > :19:57.A leap of 4 metres 70 earned Holly Bleasdale a bronze at the World
:19:57. > :20:07.Indoor Championships in Istanbul. Further proof that the Lancashire
:20:07. > :20:09.pole vaulter is a genuine medal prospect come August.
:20:09. > :20:15.Meanwhile the medal hopes for Cheshire rowers Ric Egington, Matt
:20:15. > :20:18.Langridge and Tom James are in the balance. The trio are World
:20:18. > :20:21.Champions in the men's four, rowing's premier event. But at
:20:21. > :20:31.least two of them could lose their spots when coach Jurgen Grobler
:20:31. > :20:31.
:20:31. > :20:36.decides the squads next month. It is difficult, he has a wealth of
:20:36. > :20:41.talent to marshal in those three boats. We have the strongest rowing
:20:41. > :20:43.team in the world and that has been proved.
:20:43. > :20:47.It's still touch and go for Bolton's badminton ace Jenny
:20:47. > :20:51.Wallwork and her on- and off-court partner, Nathan Robertson. They're
:20:51. > :20:54.competing with another British pair for just one mixed doubles spot.
:20:54. > :21:03.It's honours even after both made the quarter finals of the All
:21:03. > :21:10.England Championships. It is a tense environment as everyone is
:21:10. > :21:13.competing against each other. If we're not competing in London we
:21:13. > :21:16.will probably be in the Caribbean some work!
:21:16. > :21:26.Like many others, they'll know within a few months whether they'll
:21:26. > :21:35.
:21:35. > :21:45.be spending the summer here or not. Don't forget to join me tonight for
:21:45. > :21:48.
:21:48. > :21:54.late kick off. If the square root of nine is three
:21:55. > :22:01.and an octagonal object has eight sides, what is seven times six?
:22:01. > :22:06.There are still working on that now!
:22:06. > :22:08.That is advised past 11 on BBC One. Just going back to that Man City
:22:08. > :22:18.fan seen crying after Swansea scored, the stick he's been getting
:22:18. > :22:34.
:22:34. > :22:37.on Twitter today is incredible! you help find a new home for the
:22:37. > :22:40.famous ceiling painting from the Sistine Chapel? Not the original
:22:40. > :22:44.work by Michaelangelo, but the next best thing - a copy at an Italian
:22:44. > :22:48.restaurant in Manchester. When it was painted in 1994, it
:22:48. > :22:57.caused an international sensation. Now the restaurant's closed and the
:22:57. > :23:00.artwork may be lost forever. Stuart Flinders reports.
:23:00. > :23:03.God and man. The mystery of creation.
:23:03. > :23:07.Images that have inspired cardinals choosing a new pope and diners
:23:07. > :23:09.choosing a pizza. Michael Brown painted this copy of
:23:09. > :23:19.Michaelangelo's work on the ceiling of an Italian restaurant in
:23:19. > :23:26.Whitworth Street nearly 20 years ago. What do you remember about
:23:26. > :23:34.painting it? Being stood on the scaffolding for 10 hours a day!
:23:34. > :23:41.took longer than used bought? took me two years. You do not often
:23:41. > :23:44.see a copy done in oil paintings anywhere. I am proud of it. Good
:23:44. > :23:46.paintings remain good paintings over to time.
:23:46. > :23:56.Michael's work was an international sensation. American tourists come
:23:56. > :23:58.
:23:58. > :24:07.especially to see it. Paverotti called in and gave it his blessing.
:24:07. > :24:10.The restaurant's owner was blessed. Michael took a photograph of me and
:24:10. > :24:13.I felt very proud. Now the restaurant has closed and the
:24:13. > :24:19.painting, on panels, will be taken down and stored in boxes. Unless a
:24:19. > :24:25.new home can be found. What would be suitable as a venue
:24:25. > :24:31.for their is? I would love to see it in a public place, perhaps a
:24:31. > :24:36.shopping-centre or even perhaps the church. It is quite sad to have a
:24:36. > :24:39.Manchester feature, which it was, just to be forgotten about. While
:24:39. > :24:43.we were filming, a passing art student spotted the ceiling for the
:24:43. > :24:53.first time. She says it's a masterpiece in its own right. If
:24:53. > :24:55.
:24:55. > :25:05.things don't work out, that could turn out to be the Last Judgement.
:25:05. > :25:06.
:25:06. > :25:10.It is stunning, I have seen it in real-life. Let's take a look at the
:25:10. > :25:19.real-life. Let's take a look at the weather.
:25:19. > :25:25.Good evening. This is the only a sparkling think you'll see for a
:25:25. > :25:29.while - a view from our studios here at media city. We're still
:25:29. > :25:39.under the influence of this high- pressure sell everything continues
:25:39. > :25:46.to be quiet until the Tain -- the tail end of Thursday. The price to
:25:46. > :25:50.pay for that is a huge amount of cloud cover. This has made
:25:50. > :25:57.temperatures struggle. On the other side of the Pennines where the
:25:57. > :26:01.sunshine was out, it was an entirely different story. Through a
:26:01. > :26:08.busy evening and tonight we hang around to that cloud cover once
:26:08. > :26:14.again. The wind is light, they could be a little bit of mist
:26:14. > :26:20.towards the very early hours of the morning. Temperatures not much
:26:20. > :26:30.different in the overnight period. For many places, as seven or eight
:26:30. > :26:31.
:26:31. > :26:36.degrees. Tomorrow morning it is the same picture all over again.
:26:36. > :26:44.Against that wind is very light. Close to the Pennines is where the
:26:44. > :26:50.best of the sunshine will be tomorrow. At this time of year that
:26:50. > :26:57.temperatures will really respond if the sun does come out. So it is hit
:26:57. > :27:02.and miss, there will be the odd break every now and again. And
:27:02. > :27:07.those temperatures come up we go for a high of 12 degrees but if the
:27:07. > :27:13.sunshine comes out things will feel better than that. We hang on to the
:27:13. > :27:17.cloud tomorrow night and eventually it starts to move away in the next
:27:17. > :27:24.it starts to move away in the next few days.
:27:24. > :27:32.I think the answer is 42! Do not spoil it, you will have to watch