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Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest Tonight with Ranvir Singh and Roger | :00:03. | :00:06. | |
Johnson. Our top story: A promise that | :00:06. | :00:11. | |
Liverpool's new waterfront will create 17,000 local jobs. | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
On the face of it, an exciting deal but how will it work? We're live on | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
the waterfront to find out. Also tonight: The road to nowhere. Why | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
traders think a new bypass has left them stranded. We're struggling so | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
bad we can't even afford to pay the rent or the business rates. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
A first time for everything - Wigan celebrates its historic win against | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
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And striking a chord - meet the musician who's helping others out | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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of blues and onto the long road to Also tonight: The three-day Grand | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
National meeting has begun to herald a massive Merseyside | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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sporting weekend. Richard Askam is live at Aintree. Yes, we have the | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
big FA Cup semi-final between Everton and Liverpool on Saturday, | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
the same day as the Grand National hero at Aintree. We have had record | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
crowds today. A famous horse set a new record and we have had a moving | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
tribute. Thank you. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Liverpool Council has struck a deal with developers to make sure | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
thousands of jobs created by the Liverpool Waters scheme go to local | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
people. Peel Holdings, the company behind the plans to regenerate | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
dockland in the north of the city, is promising to provide training | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
and apprenticeships. It claims 17,000 jobs will be | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
created over a 30-year period. The deal, announced today, means local | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
people should be at the front of the queue. Stuart Flinders is in | :01:58. | :02:07. | |
Liverpool for us now. It is good news it, on the face of | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
it? This scheme promises to transform a derelict area to the | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
north of where I am. Liverpool council's priority is to maximise | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
the benefit of living quarters for the benefit of the people of | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
Liverpool and the deal seems to tie Peel Holdings into that. | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
Once they have for transatlantic trade, the docks now lie empty. | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
They have been derelict for years. Much of the area is redundant. It | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
is a remnant of Liverpool's half. Peel Holdings, who own this whole | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
area, and Liverpool City Council see in it the key to Liverpool's | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
future. �5 billion is what Peel say they will invest. In the process, | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
they say they will be thousands of jobs and now the council has | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
reached a deal to make sure of the 17,000 jobs are available to local | :03:04. | :03:12. | |
people. What is wrong with local people taking advantage of the | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
opportunities? We will not be banning anybody. We will make sure | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
that people within local postal districts and the long-term | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
unemployed and young people get the opportunity to apprenticeships | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
three jobs here. The council gave their backing last month and no | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
details of how the scheme will move forward are beginning to emerge. | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
But will the jobs guarantee work? St you will only hire people from | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
the street will probably get them into trouble at the EU. But if you | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
say it is a voluntary agreement, then you can make it work. | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
Essentially you can get around regulation like this if there is | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
the good will and the political appetite. Other countries do it. | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
The council says the deal with benefit the city's most deprived | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
area. One note of caution. Liverpool council may have approved | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
this game but it is so big that the government may yet decide to put it | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
to an inquiry. If that happens, Peel Holdings says it will walk | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
away and the council is now urging the government to make a decision | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
on that as soon as possible. Thank you. Business owners in | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
Tameside say a multi-million can bypass has cost them up to 85% of | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
their takings. Penny Meadow was once described as the heart of the | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
town but now shops there are struggling. | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
A quiet street with empty shops and a decline in business, according to | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
traders here in Penny Meadow. Things have gone down by 85 per | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
state. We are struggling so badly we cannot even report to pay the | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
rent. -- afford. I spent years building the business up but it is | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
now going downhill, which is upsetting. We have lost our passing | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
trade, the trade that used to flow. We would always have a situation | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
where people would drive past, Paul up and asked if we could fit them | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
in but we are not getting any of that. These are some of the | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
business owners who say they are losing out because of the bypass | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
which opened last month. Pedestrian wise, there was at least five times | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
as many people as this on an ordinary day. It is a school | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
holiday and there is hardly anyone here. The council says they have | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
not officially been contacted by any one on Penny Meadow but traders | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
deny that. Councillors have in the past had discussion with some | :06:01. | :06:11. | |
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Several traders have contacted me personally, so does that not class | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
as contact? Business owners here say they want the end of the Street | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
reopened, signposting to the shops and openings along the walls to the | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
One of the 11 men accused of grooming under-age girls for sex in | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Rochdale and Oldham collapsed as he gave evidence in court today. Abdul | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
Rauf appeared to faint as he was cross-examined at Liverpool Crown | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Court. The jury was sent out while paramedics were called to attend to | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
him. Mr Rauf denies all charges against him. | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
A small school in West Cumbria that was threatened with closure has | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
been given a reprieve. Captain Shaw's school in Bootle has just 17 | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
pupils - officials said it was educationally below standard, and | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
building up debts. Parents and children celebrated after | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
councillors meeting in Kendal accepted a plea by local | :07:04. | :07:14. | |
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I am ecstatic we have been given a reprieve we deserve the but the | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
community needs to get behind all this now and to misquote the words | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
of scripture, go forth and multiply and Phil this school. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
There have also been celebrations, of a sporting nature, in Wigan, | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
after last night's historic Premier League win over Manchester United. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
As well as it being the Latics first ever victory over their north | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
west rivals, it gave their survival chances a huge boost and cut | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
United's lead at the top of the table. Ian Haslam's been looking | :07:48. | :07:56. | |
back on a famous night at the DW Stadium. | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Wigan for the first time since September are out of the... | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
It's taken them 14 games down the years, but as wins go this was | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
right up there with Wigan Athletic's finest. They have had to | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
wait a long time to beat Manchester United and There are a lot of happy | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
fans around today. People will be talking about it for a while. | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
them to be still in the Premier League, you have to pinch yourself. | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
My brother has been this season ticket holder has been -- is on | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
holiday. After a first half that saw Victor Moses' header ruled out | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
for a foul on United keeper David de Gea, Wigan took the lead early | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
in the second through Shaun Maloney. United could have had a penalty | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
later on, but Maynor Figueroa wasn't penalised for handling Phil | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Jones's cross. A night to forget for Sir Alex Ferguson, but a | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
memorable one for his counterpart. It is an historic moment. I would | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
like the Wigan fans to be extremely happy. As they're doing at the | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
local newspaper, thanks to the recent increase in happy headlines | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
generated from the DW stadium. is a lot better to write about this | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
Ben a defeat. It is probably the biggest one-off gain in the club's | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
history. Meanwhile, Manchester United's defeat allowed Manchester | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
City to take took advantage with a 4-0 win at home to West Brom. Among | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
the goalscorers, Carlos Tevez on his first start since patching up | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
his differences with the club. So, the title race is back on. Isn't | :09:30. | :09:40. | |
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it? United is a fantastic team and they had a fantastic spirit. | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
Whether he means that or not, one thing's sure. Things are still far | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
from decided at both ends of the Premier League. | :09:52. | :10:02. | |
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Feeling sorry for his brother, but Next, to a blues tour with a big | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
twist. Tom Doughty from Northwich lost the use of his legs and most | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
of the use of his arms in a motorbike accident when he was 17. | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
But his love of music drove him to take up the slide guitar. 34 years | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
on, he's a professional musician who's been invited to play all over | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
the world. But now his biggest challenge has | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
begun - taking slide guitar to every specialist spinal centre in | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
Britain to inspire others to play. Our health correspondent, Nina | :10:39. | :10:49. | |
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Warhurst, was there as his tour He may have travelled the world | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
singing the blues but this is Tom's most important audience today at | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
the Pine at -- spinal centre where he was first treated. I am a great | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
advocate for where would be -- we be without it? Playing music is | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
another way of expressing human creativity and artistic flair and | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
we should all have the opportunity to do it. | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
It got the better of you didn't it? Yeah. I thought it might. Is it | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
because of the cameras? His tall well taken to every specialist | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
spinal centre in the country. He will have instrument for patients | :11:46. | :11:55. | |
to practise on. It is a chance and inspiration. Just because you are | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
in a wheelchair doesn't mean your life has ended. So keen that and | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
seeing that you can do it, I think I might give it a go -- seeing that. | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
A lot of people find their feet and get on with it in the best way they | :12:11. | :12:21. | |
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can and don't make a fuss. It is It sounds beautiful. | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
It does. One of the candidates running for | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
the mayor of Salford has told as he is not involved in any criminality. | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
Paul Massey was jailed in 1999 for almost killing a man. Yesterday it | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
emerged he is on police bail being investigated for money laundering | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
but he says he is innocent. I can understand and I can show you | :12:56. | :13:06. | |
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the paperwork that they had no evidence. They had nothing there. | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
It was a fabricated case. Say you are not into money laundering? | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
at all. I you into any sort of criminality? Not at all. It would | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
be stupid to be running for mayor if I was. There is a full list of | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
candidates standing for the mayor of Salford and you can see it on | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
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For visitors to Alton and bowling alley had a narrow escape after a | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
woman drove her boyfriend's car into the building after having a | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
row. These astonishing images were captured on CCTV and shown in court | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
as Claire Holley was given a suspended prison sentence and | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
banned from driving for 18 months. The 31-year-old mother of two had | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
been drinking heavily. Her partner ended the relationship via Facebook. | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
Nobody was injured in the incident. Claire Holley attacked two off-duty | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
police officers who tried to apprehend her. �14,000 worth of | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
damage was done to the bowling alley. | :14:16. | :14:26. | |
Still to come - a proud moment for the family of Ginger McCain as a | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
tribute to the trainer of a Red Rum is unveiled at Aintree. It is | :14:31. | :14:40. | |
wonderful. The band that played on as the Titanic went down. What | :14:40. | :14:48. | |
happened to a violin belonging to this man? | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
That is a question that we're going to try to answer now. All this week | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
we had been marking the centenary of the sinking of Titanic by taking | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
a look at some of the stories which connect the ship with this part of | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
the world. We have been living at stories in | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Liverpool, which was of course the whole of the White Star Line, and | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
in Bolton, which was the home of the two captain supper at the | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
centre of the rescue attempt. Tonight our Titanic Trail takes us | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
to East Lancashire for a poignant story that has been given a | :15:19. | :15:29. | |
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controversial twist. Right here they are very proud of a | :15:36. | :15:44. | |
home-grown hero of the high seas. Wallace Hartley, band leader on the | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
Titanic, the man who played on as the ship went down. | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
A writer once defined courage as grace under pressure. | :15:56. | :16:06. | |
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The image of William Heart Lake -- the image of William hardly playing | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
his. This story is the centrepiece of | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
this recently opened a museum. It tells of his early life in the town. | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
A musical education in are the Methodist Church. It tells of his | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
work for the White Star Line and his fateful posting on the Titanic. | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
He sums up a vanished era of what it was like to be British. The | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
actions that he and the rest of the orchestra performed that night sum | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
up what is used to be like. To be brave, selfless. It was a fantastic | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
action. I do a thing I could stand on the deck of heart sinking ship | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
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After languishing at sea for two weeks the body of Wallace Hartley | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
was finally recovered and got back to his home town to be laid to rest | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
here. 30,000 people flocked to his funeral and a display never seen | :17:12. | :17:21. | |
before or since. That is where the story ends. Or does it? | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
Earlier this year an auction house in Wiltshire claimed it had | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
acquired a violent that could be the instruments played by Wallace | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
Hartley on the ship. A newspaper report at the time claimed the | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
violin case was strapped to the body of Wallace Hartley when he was | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
recovered. Wallace Hartley had a gold | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
cigarette case, a silver Matchbox, some letters, but there was no | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
mention of a violin. Nevertheless the author of a book | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
on Wallace Hartley is intrigued. When they check the bodies there | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
was no mention of a violin, but there is a report saying that the | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
music case was found on his body. That would have been afforded to | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
the White Star Line. There is every chance of his violin has remained | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
hidden for many years. Back at the Museum at this man is dismissive. | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
This dates from 1805. The idea that a violent of this construction | :18:24. | :18:34. | |
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would survive two weeks in the sea is preposterous. The violin may | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
well have been owned by Wallace Hartley, but is it the one he | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
played on board? Tests are being carried out at the board. We will | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
find out more soon. Tomorrow the Titanic Trail takes us to inner- | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
city Manchester to find out why I am Jewish delicatessen is forever | :18:51. | :19:00. | |
linked with the disaster. -- y a Jewish delicatessen. | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
There are lots of commemorations over this weekend. The actor who | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
played the bandmaster in in the movie is going to be playing this | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
weekend. That will be fascinating. I know | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
you have done a lot of research on this. | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
I have learned an awful lot. It will be great. | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
A massive sporting weekend for Merseyside. 90,000 football fans | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
will head to Wembley on Saturday for the FA Cup semi-final between | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
Everton and Liverpool, while 150,000 a expected to visit Aintree | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
for the Grand National. The three-day festival started the | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
day. The people of Liverpool were inducted into the Aintree Hall of | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
fame to the in recognition of their support of the years, none more so | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
than in 1987 when they helped out after the course was evacuated | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
because of a terrorist alert. Our reporters live at Aintree. -- a | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
reporter is at Aintree. A bronze bust of Ginger McCain was | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
unveiled. Yes. I am standing next to the bust. | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
It is a very good likeness. It was unveiled by his widow and his son. | :20:16. | :20:25. | |
His son said he was extremely moved by this tribute to his father. | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
Ginger McCain trained Red Rum who won the the race in 1973, 8074, and | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
1977. It has been a big day for Liverpool. 30,000 racegoers turned | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
up today. Perhaps that number was swelled by their unexpectedly good | :20:44. | :20:54. | |
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We have seen a record-breaking 17th when it in a role from Big Bucks. | :21:04. | :21:14. | |
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-- in a row. Bob Champion has tipped the balance | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
bricks to win again. Many people have. I managed to grab | :21:24. | :21:33. | |
a quick word with the order of last year's winner. -- with the owner. | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
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Let us hear from her now. I was here last year. I enjoyed not only | :21:44. | :21:53. | |
the fact we won, but that if -- but that his son had won as a trainer. | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
Ginger McCain was an entertainer. A man who loved racing. He loved | :21:57. | :22:07. | |
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controversy. A lot of our sport is missing his banter, this fund, the | :22:07. | :22:17. | |
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characters. Such a lovely sport. You had a winner today. I did. They | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
all thought it would win. I was hoping it would win. In fairness it | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
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was done and bred horse. -- it was not a bred horse. It was lovely to | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
see a horse. It is not a big horse. You have got to give credit to the | :22:48. | :22:58. | |
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jockey. Wonderful. Can last year's winner win again on Saturday? | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
horse has said that he will! I am hoping he will. He is a very | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
sporting horse. He is very unbalanced. He is physically strong. | :23:16. | :23:25. | |
He will give every effort towards trying to be successful. Quite a | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
story you could be if last year's winner achieved victory again on | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
Saturday. It will be a great event here. | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
Tomorrow is Ladies' Day. For now could buy. | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
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-- Goodbye. Great stories. I take personal | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
responsibility for insisting that people wear correct footwear to | :24:01. | :24:10. | |
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Aintree. I take it on myself. | :24:15. | :24:23. | |
Clare was the bad weather that was promised? Who wants that? | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
It was more settled than we anticipated. Many places have not | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
had a bad day. Over the next couple of days as we | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
head towards the weekend there will be if you are showers, but there | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
will be called a night. The colder night starts tonight. This is the | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
line that the showers took throughout the day. They are still | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
lingering around the Pennines. Our computer picks up the forecast from | :24:49. | :24:58. | |
7pm. Anywhere away from Pennine areas could see a lot of clear | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
weather. Where you get clear whether you temperatures will go | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
down to zero. In rural areas there will be frost. In towns and cities | :25:08. | :25:16. | |
temperatures will be at three or four. If you were going to Aintree | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
tomorrow it will not be a bad day. Showers are with than the forecast | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
that they will be much fewer and much less frequent. Away from the | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
showers there is patchy cloud. There is a good deal of sunny | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
weather. The wind direction is going back towards the north. The | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
Pennines take out a lot of the cloud cover and a lot of the chill | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
in air. You could end up with good spells of sunshine for a couple of | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
hours. The numbers are quite good. 10 degrees or 11 degrees. Over the | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
next couple of days the days are not so bad, but there might times | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
go back to being called. His Max Clifford to endure public | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
relations? What about the rain that was out of | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
Liverpool? It is just a forecast. It is not a | :26:11. | :26:16. |