:00:05. > :00:08.Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest Tonight with Ranvir Singh and Roger
:00:08. > :00:10.Johnson. Our top story: Leaked Cabinet papers show a senior
:00:10. > :00:15.Merseyside police officer blamed drunken fans for the Hillsborough
:00:15. > :00:19.disaster. We'll be live at Anfield for reaction to those documents.
:00:19. > :00:27.Also tonight: Hit by a car and hurled 70 feet - the teenager who
:00:28. > :00:31.survived an accident in which two drivers were racing with each other.
:00:31. > :00:39.�35 million of cuts over the next year - how the Isle of Man is
:00:39. > :00:49.hoping to balance the books. the knickers aimed at putting
:00:49. > :00:51.
:00:51. > :00:54.British manufacturing back in The BBC has seen government papers
:00:54. > :00:58.in which a senior Merseyside Police officer blames what he describes as
:00:58. > :01:01.drunken Liverpool fans for the Hillsborough disaster. The Cabinet
:01:01. > :01:07.documents date from April 20th, 1989, five days after the tragedy
:01:07. > :01:10.which claimed the lives of 96 people. The claim was part of a
:01:10. > :01:12.briefing sent to the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. The
:01:12. > :01:22.official Hillsborough inquiry blamed the police for losing
:01:22. > :01:27.
:01:27. > :01:31.control. Our Merseyside reporter These comments are from a police
:01:31. > :01:41.force 23 years ago, in one case from a former chief constable, who
:01:41. > :01:48.is now dead. Nevertheless, the fact that the families's home police
:01:48. > :01:53.force made these comments has angered the Hillsborough families,
:01:53. > :01:57.especially in light of what the report found. And the information
:01:57. > :02:05.has been leaked out bit by bit, which is something that the
:02:05. > :02:08.families did not want at this stage in the proceedings either.
:02:08. > :02:11.Mrs Thatcher visited Hillsborough the day after it happened. Debate
:02:11. > :02:14.about what her government was told and how it responded has
:02:14. > :02:16.intensified in recent years. Now cabinet papers seen by the BBC show
:02:16. > :02:19.what senior Merseyside Police officers thought. One blamed the
:02:19. > :02:27.tragedy on drunken Liverpool fans. Anne Williams lost her 15 year old
:02:27. > :02:33.son Kevin in the tragedy. He worked hard. He was not a drunken
:02:33. > :02:43.Liverpool fan. A lot of these young kids that died, it just makes your
:02:43. > :02:46.blood boil, because they went to a football match and never came home.
:02:46. > :02:48.The papers come from a meeting a member of the Prime Ministers's
:02:49. > :02:51.policy unit had with the then Merseyside Chief Constable Sir
:02:51. > :02:54.Kenneth Oxford and other officers. The letter to Mrs Thatcher about
:02:54. > :02:57.that meeting quotes Sir Kenneth as saying: "A key factor in causing
:02:57. > :03:00.the disaster was the fact that large numbers of Liverpool fans had
:03:00. > :03:04.turned up without tickets. This was getting lost sight of in attempts
:03:04. > :03:07.to blame the police, the football authorities etc." The letter says
:03:07. > :03:10.another officer, born and bred in Liverpool, said that he was deeply
:03:10. > :03:16.ashamed to say that it was drunken Liverpool fans who had caused this
:03:16. > :03:20.disaster, just as they had caused the deaths at Heysel. The official
:03:20. > :03:30.report into Hillsborough did not blame ticketless fans. It did not
:03:30. > :03:30.
:03:30. > :03:35.blame drunken fans. It blamed a failure of police control. That was
:03:35. > :03:40.a very upsetting thing to here what was said by our Merseyside police
:03:40. > :03:43.within days of the disaster, and before any inquiry was set up or
:03:43. > :03:46.anything. It was a disgrace. disaster happened in Sheffield not
:03:46. > :03:54.Liverpool but these papers show for the first time what some police
:03:54. > :03:58.officers from the home force of those who died thought. It causes
:03:58. > :04:01.the same pain again because it is the same old lies that have been
:04:01. > :04:05.propagated for 23 years about what Liverpool fans were up to that date.
:04:05. > :04:08.It is nonsense. It's not clear where the officers got their
:04:08. > :04:10.information from. And the papers do not reveal any comments made by
:04:10. > :04:20.South Yorkshire Police to the government. Those comments may come
:04:20. > :04:20.
:04:20. > :04:24.out when the Hillsborough Panel reports in the autumn.
:04:24. > :04:28.The Hillsborough panel says they do not comment on leaked reports and
:04:28. > :04:31.the police say it would not be appropriate to comment. I am joined
:04:31. > :04:36.by a Liverpool MP. You have campaigned on this. What do you
:04:36. > :04:41.make of the latest leaks? I don't think it will come as a surprise
:04:41. > :04:44.that Mr Oxford sided with the Government of the day. He did not
:04:44. > :04:49.support the people that paid his salary. He always seemed to be at
:04:49. > :04:54.odds with the people of Merseyside and this is just one example of him
:04:54. > :04:58.corresponding with Mrs Thatcher and taking an arbitrary decision
:04:58. > :05:02.without any of the facts and the evidence, certainly without an
:05:02. > :05:08.inquiry having taken place. Why do you think is particular information
:05:08. > :05:13.has come out now? That is the big question, really. Why now? Who
:05:13. > :05:17.leaked the information? You have to be a very senior civil servant or
:05:17. > :05:21.politician to have access to information and documentation that
:05:21. > :05:26.is retained under the 30 year rule. There are lots of questions that
:05:26. > :05:29.need to be answered and myself and Andy Burnham will be asking
:05:29. > :05:32.questions on Monday when we returned to the House of Commons.
:05:32. > :05:37.Given that the official inquiry blamed the police for what happened
:05:37. > :05:41.at Hillsborough, and that Merseyside was not the police force
:05:41. > :05:48.responsible, how important is this information that Merseyside police
:05:48. > :05:50.thought, wrongly, that it was ticketless fans and drunken fans?
:05:51. > :05:55.think the 23 years only now the families have been saying that they
:05:55. > :05:58.believe there was a cover-up and it went to the very highest levels.
:05:58. > :06:03.This one seems to have gone to the very highest levels of Merseyside
:06:03. > :06:06.Police and to the Prime Minister of the day. That will be no surprise
:06:06. > :06:13.to Liverpudlians. We have known about this and we have campaigned
:06:13. > :06:15.for 23 and a half years for the truth and that will come out soon.
:06:15. > :06:19.Thank you very much. Back to the studio.
:06:19. > :06:24.Thank you. Next tonight, a teenager was hurled
:06:24. > :06:27.70 feet by a hit and run driver and left injured on the road. Megain
:06:27. > :06:31.Heaps, who's 19 and from Stockport, was on a crossing when the accident
:06:31. > :06:34.took place. Police say the car involved was racing at excessive
:06:34. > :06:37.speeds with another vehicle and could have killed someone. Today
:06:37. > :06:41.the student appealed for the public's help to trace the driver.
:06:41. > :06:44.Yunus Mulla reports. Megan Heaps remembers very little
:06:44. > :06:48.about the accident that's left her with a dislocated shoulder and cuts
:06:48. > :06:52.and brusises, but she's in no doubt that she could have lost her life.
:06:52. > :07:00.This is the moment when she was hit by a car and hurled more than 20
:07:00. > :07:08.metres down the road. I have got to be lucky. Most people would not
:07:09. > :07:16.have survived. The cars were going so fast. I was hit, flipped on to
:07:16. > :07:19.the windscreen, and then I was thrown and the car drove round may.
:07:19. > :07:26.Another car, a blue Polo, was on the wrong side of the Reddish Road
:07:26. > :07:30.near the junction with Broadstone Hall Road south in Stockport.
:07:30. > :07:35.Witnesses have described how the two cars were wasting each other.
:07:35. > :07:40.The silver Astra that hit the teenager will have damage to its
:07:40. > :07:43.front end and windscreen. -- racing each other. It is so stupid to be
:07:43. > :07:46.racing through the daytime right next to a primary school. That
:07:46. > :07:51.could have been a little kid that would not have lived. It's
:07:51. > :07:57.astonishing, say police, that an injured girl was left on the road.
:07:57. > :08:00.Clearly they are not bothered about hurting somebody and they could do
:08:00. > :08:03.The Stockport student is in constant pain but this appeal she
:08:03. > :08:10.hopes will help trace the drivers who had little regard to the safety
:08:10. > :08:12.of themselves or others. A Cumbrian school has been to the
:08:13. > :08:15.High Court to challenge an unfavourable Ofsted report.
:08:15. > :08:20.Inspectors had given the Furness Academy an overall rating of
:08:20. > :08:23.inadequate because its maths results were not up to scratch.
:08:23. > :08:28.However the Academy argued that the rating was unfair given that it had
:08:28. > :08:36.only been open two years. The judge told Ofsted it should make it clear
:08:36. > :08:39.that but for maths the academies rating would have been satisfactory.
:08:39. > :08:43.He granted a judicial review of the way Ofsted arrives at its overall
:08:43. > :08:47.ratings. Our next story contains some flash
:08:47. > :08:50.photography. Eight people have been arrested after a man was murdered
:08:50. > :08:54.in a Rochdale nightclub. Police carried out raids on addresses
:08:54. > :08:58.across Manchester and Bolton this morning. John Lee Barrett was
:08:58. > :09:03.stabbed in the back in Sinclair's Bar on Christmas Day and died two
:09:03. > :09:07.days later. This was a lot of people all together in one night
:09:07. > :09:14.club who acted together as a pack. As a result, somebody has lost
:09:14. > :09:17.their life. The arrest reflect the nature of the offence committed.
:09:17. > :09:20.A former soldier has appeared in court accused of murdering the
:09:20. > :09:22.mother of his four-year-old son. Ian Lowe of the 1st Battalion the
:09:23. > :09:25.Duke of Lancaster's regiment has been charged with the murder of
:09:25. > :09:28.Leanne McDuff. She was found at her home in Droylsden, Greater
:09:28. > :09:30.Manchester, on Sunday. A third of the board that governs
:09:31. > :09:33.the troubled Morecambe Bay NHS Trust have resigned. The Trust is
:09:33. > :09:36.now looking for four new non- executives. No reason has been
:09:37. > :09:40.given but the Chair of the Board admits it's been a challenging time
:09:40. > :09:44.for the Trust after a series of damning reports into the quality of
:09:44. > :09:49.care at its hospitals. A 23-year-old from Chorley who's in
:09:49. > :09:53.a coma in Australia is finally being flown home. Holly Raper was
:09:53. > :09:56.working on a farm in Tasmania when she fell off a quad bike. It's
:09:56. > :09:59.taken three months to find the funds to bring her back. Her travel
:09:59. > :10:01.insurance policy didn't cover her accident.
:10:01. > :10:04.Police stations, fire headquarters, nurseries and mobile libraries,
:10:04. > :10:14.they are just some of the services being swiped away from people on
:10:14. > :10:15.
:10:15. > :10:20.the Isle of Man in a long list of cuts. They're trying to save tens
:10:20. > :10:24.of millions of pounds as one of the toughest budgets in a generation
:10:24. > :10:29.has been announced. We found out how they are planning to do it.
:10:29. > :10:32.Reading is everything to Nancy. She is bedridden in a care home in the
:10:32. > :10:37.Isle of Man and finds comfort in books. She never married, so some
:10:37. > :10:42.of her only visitors are from the mobile library, but not for much
:10:42. > :10:48.longer. The mobile library is a lifeline. I get on with my books.
:10:48. > :10:53.If they take my books away, I don't quite know what I will do. Except
:10:53. > :10:56.sit and watch the birds. We have to change because our financial
:10:56. > :11:00.circumstances have changed. There will be more difficult decisions
:11:00. > :11:05.required until the quoted rebalanced. We try to be fair and
:11:05. > :11:09.equitable. These cuts will be made in pretty much every department in
:11:09. > :11:15.Government so they will be no just across the island. But why are they
:11:15. > :11:19.only happening now? The VAT sharing agreement with the UK has taken
:11:19. > :11:23.away �175 million. There has also been a reduction in direct tax
:11:23. > :11:27.receipts of a further �9 million. The island basically now has a
:11:27. > :11:32.smaller slice of the pie than it did before, leaving a gap in their
:11:32. > :11:36.budget. One-third of their total income has vanished, forcing major
:11:36. > :11:40.changes to the way the island operates. We are in the middle of a
:11:40. > :11:45.very substantial change programme. I can understand that people don't
:11:45. > :11:48.like change. They do not like change. I know the Government is in
:11:48. > :11:52.a difficult situation. It does need to save money but there are better
:11:52. > :11:56.ways to do it. Taking things away from our children is not right. It
:11:56. > :12:04.is not the Third World, it is the Isle of Man. Where has the money
:12:04. > :12:09.gone? The Government wants to spread the burden evenly. Some
:12:09. > :12:12.nurseries, fire stations and police headquarters will be cut. Nancy has
:12:12. > :12:19.to learn to go without as the Government tried to balance their
:12:19. > :12:22.books. We've all seen the results of fly-
:12:22. > :12:25.tipping. It's not pleasant wherever it happens. But in one part of
:12:25. > :12:27.Preston the illegal dumping of rubbish is taking place on an
:12:27. > :12:30.industrial scale. Today workmen removed more than ten tonnes of
:12:30. > :12:33.junk from a former railway line just months after a similar amount
:12:33. > :12:36.was cleared. Experts say it's evidence of more and more people
:12:36. > :12:41.trying to dodge the cost of getting rid of waste responsibly. Our
:12:41. > :12:44.Environment Correspondent Colin Sykes reports.
:12:44. > :12:47.Clearing up on the former Deepdale railway line in Preston. The
:12:47. > :12:51.cutting has been turned into a tip with rubbish thrown from bridges on
:12:51. > :12:56.a large scale. Daniel Gibson's a trainee accountant with Network
:12:56. > :13:03.Rail. Today he's volunteered to help clean up.
:13:03. > :13:07.Am quite surprised. We have found some needles as well. I wonder how
:13:07. > :13:10.people get down here, to be honest. Although much of the waste is
:13:10. > :13:17.domestic, some is commercial, dumped by traders trying to dodge
:13:17. > :13:20.landfill taxes. This is fly-tipping on a grand scale. Someone has
:13:20. > :13:24.thrown a sofa down here. Because of the bridges, people are throwing
:13:24. > :13:29.things down on to the disused railway line all the time. The
:13:29. > :13:34.depressing thing is that the team are here today and they were only
:13:34. > :13:38.here just before Christmas. Within two months it will be as bad again.
:13:38. > :13:42.Last month the Tipping was just as bad. If you have the energy to take
:13:42. > :13:48.it to a railway track and throw it over a wall, then why can you not
:13:48. > :13:54.take it to the tip? Last year there were 820,000 cases of fly-tipping
:13:54. > :13:58.but just 2400 prosecutions. 60% of that waste was domestic.
:13:58. > :14:02.Unfortunately there is a group of people either ignorant or
:14:02. > :14:07.deliberately flouting the law. They take advantage of the rest of us,
:14:07. > :14:12.which is a real concern. Back at Deepdale, the team know they will
:14:12. > :14:15.be coming back. We deal within the region of 5000 requests per year to
:14:15. > :14:20.clear up litter and fly-tipping. Quite why people do it, I am not
:14:20. > :14:30.sure. The good news is that fly- tipping is down by 13% but it is
:14:30. > :14:32.
:14:32. > :14:37.still costing as �41 million the year to clean it up.
:14:37. > :14:40.Astonishing. 10 tons of rubble in a day.
:14:40. > :14:42.We're constantly told that buying British is best. But when it comes
:14:42. > :14:45.to manufacturing, especially fashion, that can be difficult,
:14:45. > :14:48.with most clothes made much more cheaply abroad. But retail guru
:14:48. > :14:50.Mary Portas wants to change that, starting with knickers. She took
:14:50. > :14:53.her challenge to a factory in Middleton near Manchester, where
:14:53. > :15:01.she reopened the sewing room floor and recruited machinists. So did
:15:01. > :15:05.she succeed? Abbie Jones reports. Business is brisk, Kinky Knickers
:15:05. > :15:08.production line. They have to make 400 a day to meet their targets.
:15:08. > :15:13.The last eight years, these machines were silent as the firm
:15:13. > :15:16.had to send their night where production abroad. You just get a
:15:17. > :15:22.sense of life having been here and now it is gone. It was only eight
:15:22. > :15:25.years ago that this stopped. They just ceased production. I want to
:15:26. > :15:30.bring it back. Mary Portas decided to do that with knickers. She
:15:30. > :15:34.helped devise the ground, found trainees, sourced the lace and
:15:34. > :15:39.found retailers. Selfridges and Marks & Spencer are now on board.
:15:39. > :15:43.We can do this because the costs overseas of manufacturing have gone
:15:43. > :15:47.up, labour costs and shipping costs as well. We have proved the
:15:47. > :15:51.doubters wrong, thank the Lord, and it is fantastic to get a factory
:15:51. > :15:55.back. Mary Portas was convinced that demand from the public was
:15:55. > :15:59.there to buy British. I think that we should support them. We are
:15:59. > :16:05.British and we should. It is good for the town, but for people, stuff
:16:05. > :16:10.like that. It depends on the price. That is most important to me.
:16:10. > :16:17.project is not just about changing attitudes of the manufacturing
:16:17. > :16:22.industry. 40 new jobs have been created here, which 200 people
:16:22. > :16:29.applied for. -- 40 new jobs. That is pretty good turnout and I have
:16:29. > :16:35.only got eight jobs to offer now. have never had a job before. I have
:16:35. > :16:39.never really worked. This means a lot to me. I am from a family of
:16:39. > :16:48.machinists. There is just no manufacturing in the area that does
:16:48. > :16:51.sowing. Kinky Knickers has 30,000 orders and their goal is 100,000.
:16:51. > :16:57.You can see more on Mary's Bottom Line at 9 o'clock tonight.
:16:57. > :17:00.That looks good. The knickers look great as well as the programme!
:17:00. > :17:04.Football next and the two Manchester clubs are in Europa
:17:04. > :17:08.League action tonight, both looking to come back from third leg defeats
:17:08. > :17:15.to progress to the quarter-finals. Not going very well for Manchester
:17:15. > :17:22.United, 1-0 down against Athletic Bilbao. The game is approaching
:17:22. > :17:27.half-time. United are 3-2 down from the first leg as well. City kick
:17:27. > :17:33.off in just over an hour for their match against Sporting Lisbon. Our
:17:33. > :17:36.reporter is there now. Hello. We will talk about
:17:36. > :17:43.Manchester City in a moment, but let's reflect on Manchester United
:17:43. > :17:46.and that scoreline coming from Spain, 1-0 down. With me is the
:17:46. > :17:52.Daily Telegraph sports correspondent. Hello. It was always
:17:52. > :17:55.going to be very difficult for United but even more difficult now.
:17:55. > :17:59.Yes, 3-2 down from the first leg and a very good team. I thought
:17:59. > :18:03.Alex Ferguson would wrest some plays tonight because they are
:18:03. > :18:07.playing Wolverhampton on Sunday but he has got lots of players. With
:18:07. > :18:12.the game at the weekend, what matters is the league, so I am
:18:12. > :18:15.surprised and the gamble has backfired. Both managers, Roberto
:18:15. > :18:20.Mancini and Ferguson, have been talking up the Europa League. Do
:18:20. > :18:23.you think they mean it? Is it find games? I think they both mean it
:18:23. > :18:33.for public consumption but privately they would be happy to be
:18:33. > :18:34.
:18:34. > :18:39.out of it. City lost players during this Cup and it is costing them big.
:18:39. > :18:43.If you lose players in the Europa League, it costs you in the Premier
:18:43. > :18:50.League so it is probably better to be out of it. Players have been
:18:50. > :18:55.trying ahead of the fixture. Carlos Tevez is ineligible tonight. Samir
:18:55. > :18:58.Nasri and the like, those players are available. Despite what you
:18:58. > :19:07.have said, do you think Roberto Mancini will play a strong side
:19:07. > :19:11.tonight? I think he has to put a Vincent Kompany is out, so does not
:19:11. > :19:17.have many options at the back. There are sensibly he does not have
:19:17. > :19:24.many options to rotate. Joe Harper as well. It is tough for him. He
:19:24. > :19:27.has got injuries and so we cannot afford any more. And there next
:19:27. > :19:31.thing is the game against Chelsea. Yes, that is the big thing. Just
:19:31. > :19:34.who will be up for it after last night, and they seem to be
:19:34. > :19:41.transformed as a team. Roberta Maggioni cannot afford any more
:19:41. > :19:49.injuries. Thank you. -- Roberto Mancini. There is full commentary
:19:49. > :19:54.on the game on BBC Radio Manchester. Kick off is at 8 o'clock, sorry,
:19:54. > :20:03.five past eight! Back to you. will buy you or what! Carlos
:20:03. > :20:06.Tevez's hat was almost as good as those knickers!
:20:06. > :20:09.A Jewish book described as priceless dating back to the 14th
:20:09. > :20:12.century is leaving the North West and heading to the US. The Hagadah
:20:12. > :20:15.has just been freshly restored at the John Ryelands Library in
:20:15. > :20:18.Manchester. In a few weeks it will be on exhibition at the
:20:18. > :20:26.Metropolitian Museum of Art in New York. Our reporter Nazia Mogra had
:20:26. > :20:32.the chance to handle the book and found out why it is so valuable.
:20:32. > :20:36.It was a long, detailed and intense process to restore this book.
:20:36. > :20:40.a period of eight months, it took approximately 300 hours. And a
:20:40. > :20:45.great deal of time spent under the microscope, preserving the pigments
:20:45. > :20:51.and gold leaf which had been cracking and flicking. It cannot be
:20:51. > :20:56.seen with the naked eye. It is very, very minute detail. You have to go
:20:56. > :21:03.underneath the pigment. Painstaking it may have been, but its value to
:21:03. > :21:08.Jewish people? It contained stories of their ancestors who left slavery
:21:08. > :21:13.for freedom. We can see the plague of frogs. There is the Pharaoh
:21:13. > :21:19.being attacked by frogs. The manuscript has been at the Library
:21:19. > :21:23.since 1901. Over 100 years. This is one of the most important Hagadah
:21:23. > :21:31.manuscripts to have survived worldwide. It tells the story of
:21:31. > :21:36.the pass over and the flight of the children of Israel to Egypt, the
:21:36. > :21:41.Exodus story. They are no strangers to working with masterpieces like
:21:41. > :21:44.this. Last year they digitised one of the largest copies of the Koran.
:21:44. > :21:50.Because I have got now Polish on, I have been asked to wear these
:21:50. > :21:53.gloves before handling the book. -- nail polish. The Hagadah is used by
:21:53. > :21:59.Jewish people all round the world on the first night of the Passover.
:22:00. > :22:03.Is one from Spain is considered priceless by experts. It will stay
:22:03. > :22:13.safe and sound right here until it is hand-delivered to New York in a
:22:13. > :22:15.
:22:15. > :22:19.Extraordinary, it gives you goose bumps. They were very trusting to
:22:19. > :22:22.let her touch it! The BBC Studios here at MediaCity
:22:22. > :22:25.were taken over by dozens of young people today for the BBC's annual
:22:25. > :22:27.School Report Day. Thousands of school children across the North
:22:28. > :22:33.West have been compiling news reports on TV, radio and online
:22:33. > :22:43.looking at some of the issues which affect them. And they had some
:22:43. > :22:43.
:22:43. > :22:48.expert help here in Salford. Welcome to BBC News School Report,
:22:48. > :22:53.live this morning from Salford. Over the next 75 minutes, that team
:22:53. > :23:03.of reporters, beavering away here at Media city UK, will be keeping
:23:03. > :23:03.
:23:03. > :23:13.Hello, I am Jack. We are taking part in BBC School Report in
:23:13. > :23:20.
:23:20. > :23:24.Now you have done this report and the school has been involved, do
:23:24. > :23:30.think you might pick up on the sport and start playing? Yes, we
:23:30. > :23:38.already have a teacher doing a course on handball. Good morning.
:23:38. > :23:45.It is a cold start this morning, Mr and Bobby, too. -- mist and fog,
:23:45. > :23:54.too. Who do you think will have the most chance of progressing in the
:23:54. > :24:02.Cup finals? I think United. From all of us in Salford, we hand you
:24:02. > :24:07.over to the radio programme. The buyer. Give them a wave. At Shea. -
:24:07. > :24:12.- and cheer. It was harder than I thought it was. I learned to
:24:12. > :24:16.interview a number of people. is Jack and Becky for the BBC
:24:16. > :24:23.School Report. They were grid. It was great to see you doing some
:24:23. > :24:28.work! -- they were great. Did you take notes on how to do it?! If you
:24:28. > :24:33.would like to see any of that programme, go to the School Report
:24:33. > :24:39.website. There are some fascinating topics. Bullying, body image, lots
:24:39. > :24:44.of things. The address is on the screen. Katie doing the weather was
:24:44. > :24:54.brilliant. Should anybody be worried? I would be very
:24:54. > :24:55.
:24:55. > :25:01.Actually, I liked the professionalism. Even in the office
:25:01. > :25:04.they had a shirt and tie on. If you are fed up with this quiet,
:25:04. > :25:08.depressing weather that we have been seeing, there is a change on
:25:08. > :25:11.its way and it comes in tomorrow with the North-South divide in our
:25:11. > :25:15.weather. Northern parts of the region will be fairly wet and
:25:15. > :25:19.further South that will be brighter. In the middle, you will get
:25:19. > :25:24.something in the middle but it will balance out in the end. Katie was
:25:24. > :25:27.right. It has been cold and cloudy. Temperatures have struggled.
:25:27. > :25:31.Manchester Airport did not get above five degrees and a 4 o'clock
:25:31. > :25:35.this afternoon because the overnight temperature was down to
:25:35. > :25:39.minus two. Visibility has been poor and that cloud cover has not wanted
:25:39. > :25:44.to move. On the other side of the Pennines, an entirely different
:25:44. > :25:50.story with lovely spell of sunshine. For us, the cloud has but wanted to
:25:50. > :25:55.go anywhere and that is our story through the night. -- not wanted to
:25:55. > :25:59.go anywhere. Overcast, light winds. In the early hours of the morning
:25:59. > :26:02.mist and fog will be a problem in many places. The other half of our
:26:02. > :26:06.story moves in over my shoulder through the early hours of the
:26:06. > :26:09.morning. This weather front will freshen things up as it moves
:26:09. > :26:14.across the region tomorrow and comes back in a different form on
:26:14. > :26:22.Saturday. The quiet spell will come to an end through the weekend. It
:26:22. > :26:26.will offer you something really quite different. Rain in the Isle
:26:26. > :26:30.of Man and Cumbria. There is a broad spectrum of temperatures,
:26:30. > :26:35.three in rural areas, seven on the Isle of Man and six or seven along
:26:35. > :26:40.the coast. Towns and cities around five or six degrees. The rain
:26:40. > :26:45.starts its journey in Cumbria and it is really slow. For most of us
:26:45. > :26:48.it is the cloudy start to the day. The cloud base is higher and so the
:26:48. > :26:53.skies will be brighter. In the south-western corner we will see
:26:53. > :26:59.the best of the brothers. Parts of Cheshire could see spells of
:26:59. > :27:04.sunshine. -- the best of the brightness. As the weather front
:27:04. > :27:08.moves towards us all, we all lose the brightness and many places will
:27:08. > :27:15.be seeing rain. The weekend is mixed with rain but also some
:27:15. > :27:19.sunshine. A bit of everything. was saying earlier that there are
:27:19. > :27:24.two bright stars in a diagonal line. I have been looking and apparently
:27:24. > :27:30.it is the owners and Jupiter. They look spectacular. -- Venus. Have