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Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest Tonight with Ranvir Singh and Roger | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
Johnson. Our top story. An investigation into hospital | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
security in Tameside after medical fluids for patients were left | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
unattended in the grounds. We'll be examining what safeguards | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
should be in place. Also tonight. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Police release a lorry driver without charge after a badly | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
injured woman's body is found in the middle of a Manchester road. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
A new neighbourhood watch. The Cheshire plan to help protect our | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
historic buildings. People power. Renewable energy | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
based on Ancient Greek engineering, paid for by the locals. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
And dilemmas at the deep end. The problems of juggling Olympic dreams | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
with a busy family life. You end up being quite selfish and I found it | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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hard to dedicate my time to other An investigation is underway at | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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Tameside Hospital, after it emerged Part of a major thoroughfare in | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Manchester was brought to a standstill today after the body of | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
a woman with very serious injuries was found lying in the road. Soon | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
afterwards, a lorry driver was arrested on suspicion of murder. | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
But within the past hour, he's been released without charge. Our Chief | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
Reporter Dave Guest is at the scene of where the woman was found. This | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
sexual of opera at Brook Street remains sealed off. This has been a | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
story of twists and turns regret the day. But the police are no | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
nearer to knowing who the dead woman was. | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
It was around 10 this morning that police received reports of a body | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
lying in the middle of Upper Brook Street. They arrived to find the | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
badly damaged body of a woman. It made a distressing scene for | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
passersby. It is scary. Especially when you do not know the | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
circumstances. It is mad the way the world is. That is just the way | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
things are now days. This road is normally a busy thoroughfare, but | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
it has remained closed off arrive the day. Even as officers began the | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
task of trying to identify this woman, and establish how she came | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
to be in the road, there was another twist in the story when a | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
47-year-old lorry driver was arrested some of miles from here. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
His lorry became another potential crime scene that he was arrested on | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
suspicion of murder. Then at least this after them, the police | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
announced that the man had been released without charge. They were | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
keen to stress that the investigation is still in its | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
infancy. We have a team of detectives investigating this | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
matter. We have placed additional patrols in the area. This is a | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
distressing incident, we are getting information constantly. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
priority for the investigation is to establish who the woman was the | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
circumstances leading up to her death. Tonight, the police have | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
issued a description of the dead woman. She was Asian, had black | :03:21. | :03:31. | |
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hair, was wearing gold bangles, had a nose piercing and a toll ring. | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
She was wearing saffron coloured clothing. If someone is missing a | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
relative, if they may know who this person is, please get in touch with | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
the police. An investigation is underway at | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Tameside Hospital, after it emerged that boxes of a medical solution | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
due to be used on patients were left unattended in a loading bay | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
that was accessible to the public. The news comes as police continue | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
to investigate the deaths of six patients at Stepping Hill in | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Stockport, who were allegedly poisoned. Tameside General has now | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
apologised to patients and says security has now been stepped up. | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
Here's our health correspondent Nina Warhurst. If filtration | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
solutions from these boxes were due to be put inside your body, how | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
comfortable would you feel? A manager at Tameside General was | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
so concerned that the fluids were being left here, unattended, before | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
being used on patients that she contacted her local newspaper and | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
this reporter says he was able to go right up to the boxes. Nobody | :04:33. | :04:41. | |
challenged me at all. There were no patrols, no CCTV in their area. It | :04:41. | :04:51. | |
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is just shocking that the sort of The Royal Liverpool University | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Hospitals have a dedicated medicinal safety nurse whose job it | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
is to make sure storage and handling produceres are always | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
followed. The lorry drivers drop them off and the porters and lock | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
them away. When the wards order the medicine, the porter takes them up. | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
Should they ever be left unattended? Absolutely not. | :05:26. | :05:36. | |
Medicines and fluids should not be treated like that. Practices have | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
now been improved. Liquids are received into a safe and secure | :05:43. | :05:53. | |
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area. The risk to any patient is extremely small. The trust has | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
initiated a full investigation into this. I the results of the | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
investigation are expected in the coming months. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
More of the day's news now. The body of a soldier from East | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
Lancashire, who was killed in Afghanistan, has arrived back in | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
the UK. Lance Corporal Michael Foley from | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Nelson was shot dead with two other servicemen by a rogue Afghan | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
soldier. Their bodies arrived at RAF Brize Norton this afternoon. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
There's been a mixed picture at petrol stations across the region | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
with continuing fears of a strike by tanker drivers. Some service | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
stations have seen long queues, others appear to be operating | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
normally. The AA is urging motorists to buy fuel as usual, | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
avoiding stockpiling. 60 firefighters tackled a blaze in | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Preston city centre today. It started in the kitchen of the | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
McDonalds restaurant on Market Street. A number of other shops and | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
businesses had to be evacuated. And a large fire led to part of Chorley | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
town centre being closed for part of the day. It badly damaged a | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
number of shops and restaurants. Candidates are starting to | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
officially launch campaigns in the race to become the first directly | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
elected Mayor of Liverpool. For the first time, voters will choose who | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
they want to lead the city council. Labour's candidate is the current | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
leader of the council, Joe Anderson, who originally decided to create | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
the new post. People will look at my record over the last 18 months | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
to see what I have done. The cruise liner terminal, the apprenticeships | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
we have created, the jobs we have created they will see a man of | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
action, a man who gets things done. And the former BBC journalist Liam | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
Fogarty who has campaigned for years for an elected mayor in | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Liverpool is standing as an independent. I have been | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
professionally a reporting on Liverpool politics for 30 years and | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
I know how the City works. I can see under the bonnet, if you like, | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
of Liverpool and the way it is governed. I think we can do a whole | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
lot better with some new thinking, new faces and a new person at the | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
top. For a list of prospective | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
candidates standing for mayor, go to the website at | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
bbc.co.uk/liverpool. The route has been announced for | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
Liverpool's Sea Odyssey - a three day street theatre event to mark | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
the centenary of the Titanic sinking. A giant puppet of a little | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
girl who lost her father on the ship will walk a 23 mile route | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
around the city next month. Up to a quarter of a million visitors are | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
expected on the streets to watch. For more details on the route visit | :08:29. | :08:39. | |
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www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool. It is going to be spectacular. I | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
thought at first that they look quite weird, but now they look | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
really good. The country's first heritage watch | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
scheme has been launched in Cheshire today. It's modelled on | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
Neighbourhood Watch, but the idea is that local people can help | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
protect our historic buildings and sites from vandalism. | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
Cheshire has more than 5,000 sites of historic interest. Our reporter | :09:01. | :09:11. | |
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Andy Gill is at one them - St John's Church in Chester. Andy. | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
This is a magnificent churches dating back to the 7th century, | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
next to the Roman amphitheatre in Chester. Some people think it is | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
among the finest parish churches in England. But it is a building that | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
has CCTV because of vandalism and anti-social behaviour. Today it was | :09:30. | :09:40. | |
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-- launch of heritage watch. A Grade 2 listed building converted | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
without planning permission, a building covered in graffiti. This | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
is heritage crime. At this parish church, lead has been taken from | :09:58. | :10:08. | |
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the roof, windows broken. Depressed, annoyed, very upset. Half at the | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
time they do not realise that they are damaging their own heritage. | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
This is a medieval quarter of arms carved into a huge slab of stone. | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
It used to do have a partner. But two years ago somebody came and | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
took another one away. It was a planned crime. Now comes Heritage | :10:34. | :10:43. | |
to watch. Volunteers are being encouraged to give an eye on | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
Cheshire's historic buildings. hits people where it hurts. In the | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
sort of buildings about commemorate these important to people's lives. | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
That is a mean thing to do. first volunteer group has already | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
been set up. We have to play our part by taking care of it, by being | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
nosey and boarding up when you have that suspicions. One of the worst | :11:10. | :11:20. | |
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Heritage crimes that Cheshire faces is people urinating on historic | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
buildings. Disgusting, and something which lots of the wood. | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
Farmland is sometimes dug up by a illegal metal detectors. If you | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
want to set up your own heritage watch scheme, get in touch with the | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
police or your local council. Being nosey seems to be one of the | :11:48. | :11:58. | |
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key skills, I might a sign up! 2,000-year-old technology is being | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
brought back to life to generate renewable energy on a river in | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
Stockport. The River Goyt already has one Archimedes Screw producing | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
electricity from water power. Now it is to get two more costing half | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
a million pounds. They are being paid for by local people, but with | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
future Government support for green energy schemes uncertain, are they | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
investing wisely? Our Environment Correspondent Colin | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
Sykes reports. Ancient Greek engineering bought by lorry to | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
Stockport. The huge Archimedes screws are | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
being fixed into the existing Otterspool Weir on the River Goyt. | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
The screws turn at variable rates allowing us to go with the ebb and | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
flow of the river. The survey says there is plenty of water in here to | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
allow them to turn for most of the time. We can control them and | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
manage them if we need to. screws will generate enough power | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
for 60 homes. This is not the first time the River Goyt has been used | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
for Hydro-Electric power. Just a few miles upriver another scheme is | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
already successfully generating power. The smaller community scheme | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
at New Mills is already up and running. Grants and attractive | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
tariffs for the power have given the scheme widespread appeal but | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
there is a warning that reduced Government support could leave | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
investors high and dry. If the Government is serious about the big | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
society, helping to address climate change, I think it will have to | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
radically rethink how it supports communities to do this kind of | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
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thing. But for its supporters, it is not all about the money. Most of | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
my adult life, I have been sounding off about this kind of thing and | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
the need for alternative sources of power. It is a chance to put my | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
money where my mouth is. It is small but enough small things will | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
add up to something that has a significant effect in the long run. | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
With the screws in place, the scheme should be generating | :13:51. | :14:01. | |
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electricity by next month. Starting your own business is | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
always a big decision but especially so when you consider the | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
latest figures. For every two businesses started in the North | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
West, another three go bust. But Phil Littler from Crewe has done it | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
- he has just taken over a furniture business. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
And he's one of the people who will be helping us track our economy in | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
the Cheshire town over this next Taking the plunge and taking a | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
chance in the toughest of times. Are you mad? Probably. Mad or brave. | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
But you're confident. I know what I am doing. Confidence is good. Sales | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
even better. Latest figures show that for every two businesses being | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
started here in the north-west, another three are going bust. What | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
makes you think you can buck the trend? It is attention to detail, | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
looking at costs, overheads, do not be flash with anything. Prices have | :15:02. | :15:10. | |
got to be in line with people shopping on the internet. We want | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
them to come into town and shop here. So far, so good. He has only | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
been in business for two weeks, but his is a cautious optimism. I have | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
a minimum that I have to have, and another where I would also like to | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
be ideally as well. Target wise, two weeks in, I have doubled it. | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
But you cannot judge it on two weeks. With a website about to be | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
launched, plenty of ideas in the pipeline and a long-term plan, it | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
looks good. In one year, I would like to still be here, having | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
survived the first year. The second year should be easier. That is when | :15:50. | :15:58. | |
you start to make some profit. Can he do it? We will check in with him | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
again soon. Most of us cannot even remember | :16:07. | :16:15. | |
learning how to read. It's just a natural part of growing up. But not | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
having that skill can make everyday things like reading a letter or | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
filling out a form feel daunting. And the statistics are quite | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
surprising. One in every six adults has the | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
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reading age of an 11 year old or Let me introduce Jeff Pearce. A one | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
time market trader from Liverpool, now a multi-millionaire who | :17:08. | :17:16. | |
couldn't write his own name until he was 53 years old. As go, you | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
were bill of pride -- you were vilified by the teacher. They | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
thought I did not want to learn, but I did not. -- but I did. I had | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
dyslexia. How did that make you feel? I wanted to learn, but they | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
felt I was not learning quickly enough. With dyslexic people, you | :17:42. | :17:50. | |
have to be taught one it took one. Dyslexia is quite well handled in | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
schools, I imagine, generally speaking now. But you ended up with | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
no qualifications and he became a market trader with your mother. | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
left school at 14 and I could not read and write. But you became a | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
multi-millionaire, how did you manage? It was very difficult. I | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
lived at two lives. The life of entrepreneur businessman, but also | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
the life of a man in fear of being found out. Your wife help you? | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
wife it was my writing hand. We were in business as a team. I could | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
not even spell my first name which is James. I found it impossible. | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
You have learned to read it four years ago. How has it changed to | :18:43. | :18:53. | |
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your life? Amazing. The first thing is to admit that you cannot read. | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
What I spent 54 years of blatant of anybody knowing that I could not | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
read. As soon as I told somebody that I could not read and write, it | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
changed and I was able to start learning. It is a fascinating story. | :19:16. | :19:25. | |
Inspirational. I am sure that people watching will take | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
inspiration from it. Well, all this week, the BBC has | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
commissioned a series of special daytime dramas on the subject and | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
help is available. If you want to improve your skills, call 0800 0150 | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
950 to talk to someone about what to do next. Or text WORDS to 81010. | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
Further information can also be found at bbc.co.uk/secretsandwords. | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
Calls are free from most landlines but some mobile operators may | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
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charge for the call. Texts cost 12- 15 pence. | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
Now to our Olympic hopefuls and a man preparing for his third Olympic | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
Games in the pool. Stockport's James Goddard, who specialises in | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
the backstroke, has won Commonwealth gold medals but has | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
just missed out when it's come to the big one. | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
But he hasn't given up hope of winning a medal at his home Games | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
in London and has been training harder than ever. Our own Olympian | :20:20. | :20:29. | |
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Steve Parry went to find out how That is a brilliant swim up from | :20:36. | :20:45. | |
James Goddard. Not many people can cope with being a father and a | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
sports person? It is toff. As a sports person, you lived your life | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
of focusing on yourself. You end up quite selfish and I found it hard | :20:56. | :21:06. | |
to dedicate my time to other people. Would you prefer that James had a | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
more ordinary job? It has always been like this, so that would be | :21:11. | :21:21. | |
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weird. I am looking forward to going out and hearing 70,000 people | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
going crazy. I bet your not taking her to school? Yes, I trained early | :21:27. | :21:36. | |
in the morning so I do not usually get to take her. James has won | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
Commonwealth and European golds. This time it is going to be tough | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
as he is up against the two greatest ever swimmers. I am very | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
privileged to be going to my home Olympic Games. And I am going to be | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
competing against of the greater swimmers of all time. What would be | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
a good result for you? I think this will be my last chance, added is my | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
best chance to try pick up a medal. I want to swim a race that I can | :22:10. | :22:20. | |
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look back on in 40 years and think that was a race of my life. We wish | :22:21. | :22:30. | |
We promised you want final nice day and we have had it. Temperatures | :22:30. | :22:39. | |
have struggled a little bit. That north-westerly wind is bringing the | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
air him from the Irish Sea. These are the temperatures that we can | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
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expect now. But it is getting a little bit hazy. It will be a quiet | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
night, but the cloud is returning. This cloud cover does make a | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
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difference. I do not they may was see any frost, temperatures will be | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
around to five degrees tomorrow morning. Just a little bit better. | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
But that cloud will still be around first thing tomorrow morning. A | :23:22. | :23:31. | |
very different start to the day. The cloud cover tries to thin a bit. | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
We could see bright weather coming through after lunch time. But the | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
cloud is still there. It is not going to be the same as it has been | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
for the last couple of days. Still, the temperature so I will arise to | :23:48. | :23:58. | |
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about 15 along the coast, and that is it for tomorrow. | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
That's about it for tonight. Just time for the penultimate part in | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
our series looking at life in one northern town through the eyes of | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
the people who live there. Songs from Hattersley has generated a | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
fair bit of feedback from you this week. | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
Tonight it's Jane and Bill's story and it's a lovely story - one which | :24:16. | :24:25. | |
sums up the power of friendship. We met at the church and Hattersley. | :24:25. | :24:33. | |
Bill was partially sighted and play the piano. I was a gospel singer | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
and he used to accompany me while I sang. He subsequently went | :24:40. | :24:50. | |
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completely blind. In 2005, Jean's husband died. Five weeks later, my | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
wife Brenda died. I began to look after him. He is almost out | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
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completely deaf as well as blind. # Me gran bought me my first piano. | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
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# I played by ear just for fun. # But it's been my life # I'll play | :25:44. | :25:54. | |
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for as long as I can. # We keep shuffling on. # Inching forward, | :26:05. | :26:15. | |
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smiling. # He never lets us go. # I suppose You could say I relied | :26:25. | :26:35. | |
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on him. # It's only fair that I do my bit. | :26:41. | :26:51. | |
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# Offer him a helping hand. # To thank him for the music and | :26:53. | :27:03. | |
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the friendship. # Let him know that I think the | :27:05. | :27:15. | |
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