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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight. Our top story: �50,000 on | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
offer from Greater Manchester Police if you can help them catch | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
the two fugitives they say launched a fatal gun and grenade attack. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
anonymous phonecall is all it takes. We'll pay �50,000 for that | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
information if it leads to the arrest of Cregan and Wilkinson. | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
follow the huge police operation looking for the pair. Also in the | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
programme: The family from Lancashire gunned down in Pakistan: | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
two years on, relatives call on David Cameron for justice. With the | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Paralympic Opening Ceremony just hours away, we take a look at the | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
North West's medal hopefuls. And all shook up over the good book, as | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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Elvis's bible goes up for auction �50,000 could be yours for making | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
just one phone call. The catch is: you need to know the whereabouts of | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
two of Britain's most wanted fugitives. Greater Manchester | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Police put the cash on the table, literally, today as they continued | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
their search for Dale Cregan and Anthony Wilkinson. The pair are | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
wanted in connection with gun and grenade attacks which left one man | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
dead. Our Chief Reporter, Dave Guest has more. Dale Cregan and | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Anthony Wilkinson are fugitives with a bounty on their heads. And | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
this is the bounty - �50,000 for information which leads to their | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
atest. The police put the cash on show today in the hope of tempting | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
someone to speak out. You don't have to come to the police station | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
or court. Just information leading to their arrest. One anonymous | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
phone call to Crimestoppers, that's all it takes and we'll pi �50,000 | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
for that information if it leads to the arrest of Cregan and Wilkinson. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
The police believe this is Cregan and Wilkinson, launching a gun and | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
grenade attack in a house on Droylsden on August 10th. Earlier a | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
similar attack left David Short dead outside his home. Mr Short's | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
son Mark was shot dead in May. Detectives want to talk to Cregan | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
about that as well. The search for them now involves hundreds of | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
police officers, including some from other forces. There's been a | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
series of raids and other high- profile police activity in the | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Clayton and Droylsden areas, but as yet no sign of the pair. We believe | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
they are hiding somewhere, either in Greater Manchester or somewhere | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
close by. Therefore, we were asking people, in Greater Manchester, do | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
you know who is holding them? Do you know who is hiding them? Do you | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
know who is helping them stay out of sight? Of course it is far from | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
usual for police to literally put reward money on the table in this | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
way but this is a far from usual case. They are stressing that if | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
anyone has information but they are afraid, well they can give that | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
information anonymously to Crimestoppers. One anonymous phone | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
call which leads to the arrests of Cregan and Wilkinson, and the money | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
is yours. A A suspected armed robber who went | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
on the run from a Manchester Airport has been arrested in | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
hospital. Anthony Morrison had into the airport on 6th July but fled | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
from police who were there to arrest him in connection with a | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
robbery. He was Griffin to North Mnch General Hospital after being | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
shot in the chest. A bike that fim Hinds, a gold medal winning cyclist, | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
had his bike stolen from his house in south Manchester. | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
He won gold alongside Jason Kenny and Sir Chris Hoy. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Multi-million pound refurbishment plans for a pier on the Isle of Man | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
won't go ahead for five years. Development plans for the Queen's | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
Pier in Ramsey intrpbt considered in the Government's Capital | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
Programme. They say it isn't a high enough priority. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
Police in Crewe are appealing for information after they found some | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
cannabis plants. We'll tell but that in a minute, before that we'll | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
talk about the relatives of a Lancashire family who were killed | :04:20. | :04:29. | |
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in Pakistan more than two years ago. Tania Yousaf and her parents | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Mohammed and Parvlaz, from Nelson in Lancashire, were shot dead by an | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
armed gang in Gujarat two years ago. It's emerged today that Prime | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
Minister David Cameron has taken a personal interest in the case. He | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
has written to Pendle MP, Andrew Stephenson, who raised concerns | :04:42. | :04:52. | |
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about the delay in tracking down the killers. Mohammed Yousaf, his | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
wife Parvlaz and his daughter were shot dead as they visited the grave | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
of a relative in Pakistan. More than two years on, their family and | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
friends welcome David Cameron's intervention but they are not | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
convinced it'll help bring the killers, who are still on the run, | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
to justice When we really needed him, there was nobody there. | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
Now they are paying that they're hoping that they can do something, | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
but after so long, is it possible for them to do something? It was | :05:23. | :05:32. | |
the death of another woman, Furkaz Begum last year, that called for | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
the Prime Minister to intervene. In a letter he said the minister | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
responsible for Pakistan, met the Pakistani High Commissioner on 5th | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
July and raised this issue. The High Commissioner reported that the | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
authorities in Pakistan were working on a simple letter process | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
of dealing with these kinds of cases. To the disappointment to the | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
family he adds, "This is a matter for the Pakistani authorities and | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
we cannot interfere in the legal processes of another country." The | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
letter was sent to Pendle MP, Andrew Stephenson. | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
It is very important we have political pressure from the top and | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
a British Prime Minister is saying to the Pakistani officials - this | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
is a very concerning case, there are four murders of British | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
citizens here and both these cases need looking into seriously. | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
family is devastated. They appreciate the fact they are trying | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
to help, but is it false hope? The Pendle MP will raise the case with | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
the Prime Minister again next week, in a meeting that's hoped will keep | :06:32. | :06:42. | |
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up the pressure on the British Government to do more. Thieves have | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
sunk low, Des kaithing graves in a East Lancashire cemetery to steal | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
slabs. Police describe the crime as | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
"despicable. It seems nowhere is sacred in the | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
search for stone. 12 family vaults at Haggate Burial Stkpwround had | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
layers of York stone paving slabs stripped from them. -- burial | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
ground. As you can see, this is what a normal grave should look | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
like, covered in pebbles. This is what has happened. This grave has | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
been desecrated where the flag stones have been removed and this | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
is the can't people have left it. In it's an be a shrout disgrace. | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
This has been no spur of the moment crime. The thieves have walked | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
through the graveyard, ignoring any of those with modern concrete slabs | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
on top of them and zeroing in only on the stone they can sell. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
Reputable stone dealers like this reclammation yard in Preston, say | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
stone theft is a growing problem. In the last 20 years the price of | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
York stone has quadrupleed. At �150 a metre a backstreet dealer will | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
probably pay �25 a metre. A couple of metres you have �50. Four metres | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
you have �100. People are going to steal it. They abide by the | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
industry's salvo code, not buying stone from anyone if there is the | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
slightest suspicion of it being stolen and taking registration | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
numbers of vehicles used but thieves will search out | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
disreputable dealers, little thought for the thurt they cause. | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
To be honest, I'm quite appalled that anybody would do a thing like | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
this to a grave. To me it's a very sacred place and also, you have to | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
imagine what the families are feeling, when they come and see | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
that a grave like this has been desecrated in this way. | :08:41. | :08:49. | |
Police have appealed for anyone with information to contact them. | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Police in Crewe are appealing for information after they found 10 | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
large cannabis plants growing in woodland in Oakhanger. Officers had | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
to fight their way through six foot high bracken to get to the plants. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
They say someone must have been visiting the site regularly to tend | :09:03. | :09:13. | |
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to them. More than 30 families in Cumbria have been warned it could | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
be months before they can return to their homes after freak flooding. | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
Residents at Dalton-in-Furness had to be moved out after sewage flowed | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
into their homes following an inch and half of rain in less than an | :09:22. | :09:30. | |
hour. It's three weeks since Steven Conway had to watch a torrent of | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
rain water and sewage flow into his home. That was where the fridge was. | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
This is where we had a tail and chairs. Most of Steven's | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
possessions down stairs were ruined after the freak flooding. An inch | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
of rain in 15 minutes. He and his mother are now living in temporary | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
accommodation. We tried to stop the flow of the water but tpwaufs | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
rising that quickly and coming in that hard, we couldn't stop it. We | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
gave up in the end. Things were floating around. Steven believes it | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
could be Christmas before he and his mother could return to their | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
home. He is not the only one affected. About 40 people have come | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
to a meeting here at the Drill Hall this afternoon, to get answers as | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
to how the flooding happened. just not on. | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Residents heard how a storm pumping station had to be switched off for | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
safety, but leaving it on, wouldn't have stopped the flooding. The | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
water highways and electricity agencies all sent people along to | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
the meeting, but no-one could say it wouldn't happen again. Everybody | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
just wants to bounce off facts and figures but not actually say - we | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
are going to solve it now. living with my son and family | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
fortunately, because otherwise I would have to go into rented | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
accommodation which I don't want to do. He didn't say anything that | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
would reassure you, for a kick off. He just said things we already knew. | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
I think today's meeting was a chance to help people going through | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
the grieving process to what has gone on with their lives. Perhaps | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
we can plan for the future. Steven is able to get into his home now, | :11:05. | :11:14. | |
he just can't live there. Still to come: | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
The great American drive-in comes to Manchester, all in the name of | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
art. # Shuffle to the left | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
# Shuffle to the right... # And all shook up over the good book as | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
Elvis's Bible goes up for sale in Stockport. How much does your local | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
councillor get paid? Well, the answer is quite different amounts | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
depending where you live. New figures compiled by the Taxpayers' | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
Alliance show Manchester City Councillors are the second-best | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
paid in England, behind Birmingham. But we also have the lowest paid. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
Well our political editor Arif Ansari is outside Manchester Town | :11:47. | :11:57. | |
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Hall. A lot of people would think councillors don't get paid anything. | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
Explain how it works? Well they do. If they do their job properly, | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
there is a lot of work to be done representing local people and | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
setting policy here at the Town Hall. The way it works is that each | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
council has its own independent panel. They come up with a salary, | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
effectively, and then councillors vote on whether they want to accept | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
that salary or not, which is called the basic allowance. As you can see | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
from the figures that have been compiled by the tax payers' | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
alliance, there is a big disparity between some of them. Manchester | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
City Council by far the most generous, the second-biggest in | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
England after Birmingham. More than �16,000. Second in the region as a | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
comparison is Wigan and if you compare Manchester to Liverpool, | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
our second-largest City, you can see Liverpool is on just �10,000. | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
The Taxpayers' Alliance say they are not just worried about | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
Manchester but other councils, too. The tax payers' Amor lieance have | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
found in the north-west there are wild disparities in the allowances | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
that councillors claim. At transferred councillors there claim | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
just over �6,000 whereas at Thameside it is over �11,000. Tax | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
payers will be shocked about the wild disparity that members can | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
claim between two very similar boroughs of Greater Manchester. | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
Manchester City Council have declined to be interviewed but they | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
have given us a statement in which they say, "Allowances in Manchester | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
are set by an independent panel to reflect the responsibilities | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
councillors have, and are comparable with those of other | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
major cities. Unlike some authorities our allowances have | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
stayed the same for the past three years in line with a council-wide | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
pay freeze." What is interesting to to compare Manchester to South | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Ribble. Now that is not just the lowest in the rejornings it's the | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
lowest in the country at �1,500. -- lowest in the region. This, they | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
say partly it is to give council tax payers good value for money. | :13:58. | :14:06. | |
You can take a bit of satisfaction that you are doing it for the best | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
motives, the best will in the world, you are doing it because you want | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
to and the money is a secondary thing. I wouldn't like them to be | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
out of pocket. But the danger, of course, is that poorer people | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
perhaps can't become councillors. You are right. We have to be aware | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
of that and we have to be mindful that people who want to serve the | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
community don't be out of pocket. So problems for councils at the top | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
and bottom of the scale, partly because of course they set their | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
own salaries and allowances, although you have to admit that | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
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idea does have some appeal. Thank you very much. If you have | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
withdrawal frts Olympics, fear not, the Paralympics are here. -- from | :14:52. | :15:02. | |
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the Olympics. This evening the opening ceremony | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
of the Paralympics gets under way and with the British team targeting | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
a record medal haul, there's likely to be plenty to celebrate in the | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
region over the 11 days of competition. The President of the | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
International Paralympic Committee, who's from Bolton, says that for | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
many reasons these are the most highly anticipated Games ever. | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
by jing four years ago the Paralympic mo. Came of age. -- in | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
Beijing., the Paralympic movement came of age. Then people think - | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
the gims are coming home where, they started over 60 years ago. -- | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
Games. We have dozens of competitors from the North West but | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
perhaps the best-known is cyclist Sarah Storey. She's already won a | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
staggering 18 Paralympic medals. 16 in swimming before she moved on to | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
cycling and will be one to watch again in London. Sarah's husband | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
Barney will be looking for gold of his own, partnering Stockport's | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
Anthony Kappes in the tandem cycling. There could be plenty of | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
glory for the North West in the velodrome. One of the hopefuls is | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
Chester's Rick Waddon. We've had all the years of funding from UK | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Sport. We have been to Athens and Beijing and produced but the home | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
public have only seen it on the TV. Now it is a chance to put it on the | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
stage and say - this is where the money is going and what we have | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
done with it. On the athletics track, Blackpool's Shelley Woods | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
has her sights set on gold in four events, including the marathon. In | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
the pool Stockport's Matt Walker, who's already won 11 Paralympic | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
medals, is favourite to win the 50m Freestyle. Another Beijing success | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
story Heather Frederiksen has a good chance in five events. Sailor | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Nikki Birrell was the first competitor selected for the GB team | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
and has a great chance. There are plenty of North West | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
representatives in team sports as well. Dave Clarke, who's scored | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
just the 106 goals in his international career, is in five-a- | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
side football. And Jon Pollock is one of the stars of wheelchair | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
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And then there's Lora Turnham, one of the other stars of Paralympics | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
GB cycling. We've been following her progress on North West Tonight | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
for the last couple of years. Lora will be joined in London by her | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
brother, Roy, who's competing in the blind football and, as Stuart | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
Pollitt's been finding out, they're part of one very sporty family. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
There won't be a prouder parent at the Paralympics than Sue Turnham. | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
These are some of the posters that we had made. She's preparing to | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
cheer two of her children, as they fulfil an ambition she was unable | :17:25. | :17:33. | |
to, 28 years ago. I was offered to train with the GB Athletics Squad, | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
but at the time, family commitments wouldn't really allow me, so I had | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
to let it go. But they're kind of living my - my dream, if you like. | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
Sue and her three children are blind due to a condition called | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
receipt op thi. Her husband, Anthony is partially-sighted but | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
that hasn't stopped any of them excelling at sport. -- Retinopait, | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
kwhr,. A career that could see Laura win as many as four medals | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
and her brother Roy will be attempting to dribble his way to | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
gold as part of the blind football team. Their older brother has | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
represented his country at cricket and football. Practically river | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
room in their home is full of trophies and medals they have | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
gathered. This cabinet has bowls, cricket, football. I bet they'll be | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
able it find room for a couple of more medals in the next few weeks. | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
I hope people will, well the disabled, especially young people, | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
will look at what we have achieved as a family and think - I can do | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
that. And if you are after evidence of the joy that sport can bring, | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
look no further than this family. All the very best of luck to Lora | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
and our Paralympic athletes. Football now, and Everton's new �6 | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
million striker, Kevin Mirallas, is expected to make his debut in | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
tonight's League Cup tie against spectacular curling shot from | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
MynerFigger-Rower helped Wigan to a 4-1 victory at Nottingham Forest. | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
Burnley went through on penalties when their game against Plymouth | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
finished 1-1 after extra time. Preston pulled off a bit of a | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
giant-killing, beating Championship side Crystal Palace 4-1. Some bad | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
news for Liverpool today with the news that Lucas Leiva will be out | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
for up to three months. The midfielder suffered a thigh injury | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
during the first few minutes of Sunday's 2-2 draw with Manchester | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
City. He'd only recently recovered from a knee problem which kept him | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
out of the side for most of last season. Now while Manchester City | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
are understood to be interested in buying Arsenal's flying winger Theo | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
Walcott, Manchester United are being offered someone who's | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
considerably quicker. Olympic legend Usain Bolt was at Old | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
Trafford on Sunday watching United's 3-2 win against Fulham. An | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
avid United fan, the Jamaican superstar told the crowd he wanted | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
Sir Alex Ferguson to sign him up. And today he revealed he'd asked | :19:58. | :20:07. | |
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the manager to try him out. I told him that I really need a trial. He | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
said, "If you are serious you should come around and see training | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
sometimes, spend a couple of days in training with the boys, and | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
we'll see how it would work." He was congratulating me, telling me | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
what I had done and that he was proud of me. Finally, | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
congratulations to Paul Ince's son, Tom. The Blackpool winger has been | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
named in the England under-21 squad for the first time. Tom's scored | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
four goals in the last three games, helping his side to top spot in the | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Championship. He is pretty quick as well. It is in the genes. | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
I would like to see him run down the field, I really would. You | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
would love to know what Fergie said it Usain. Can he do it on a windy | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
winter's night in Rochdale? That's the question. | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
Now, they were once as much of an American icon as baseball, hotdogs | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
and the Statue of Liberty and now people in Manchester will get their | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
chance it experience a drive-in, with a difference. It is part of | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
what is called the bane done normal diviss Festival, which isn't about | :21:18. | :21:26. | |
settles and toasters. It is opening tonight in Hume -- Abandon normal | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
devices. Big flashy cars, rolling in to big | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
movie theatres. This is how they did it in America. And this is how | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
we're doing it in Manchester. It's not your typical drive-. In I'm sat | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
in a wrecked car. Right in front of me, those huge containers make the | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
cinema screen. In fact this is a Film Festival and art installation | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
all in one. It's by two American artists who are deeply concerned by | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
car culture and well into recycling. These aren't vintage cars from the | :21:57. | :22:06. | |
1950s, like the clagsic era of the drive-in. These cars are five, 10, | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
15 years on and they are in the junk yard. | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
There could be other discoveries here, too. Each of these cars tells | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
a particular story. There are actual objects that belonged to the | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
folks who drove these cars before them. We've left all of them so | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
people can come in and discover them as they move from car-to-car. | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
And with many unusual, independent short films like these on show, | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
organisers of the Abandon Normal Devices Festival, are trying to | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
create something a bit different for the community. So the focus is | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
about making a really unusual environment to show film and music | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
in and it's general rating a bit of work for people around the area. We | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
have a local scrap yard who have supplied this. So 25 scrapped cars | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
a 40 foot outdoor screen, lots of films and live music. The Empire | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
Drive-in is on at Kew Park until fri. | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
The only drive-in I have been to has two golden arches, or is that a | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
drive manufacture through. Elvis Presley was worship bid | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
millions, but away from the stage and TV cameras, the king of rock | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
'n' roll was deply religious. Now his personal copy of the Bible is | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
being auctioned in Stockport. The BBC has been given the opportunity | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
to leaf through what is a unique piece of memorabilia. | :23:41. | :23:50. | |
# There sings my soul... # Elvis Presley's Bible is on sale in | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
Stockport Yes, while Elvis was a rocking and | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
rolling and shaking, he was also reading, writing and underlining in | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
this bible which goes under the hammer next week. They came to us | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
via a big Elvis collector based in the UK. What makes this | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
particularly special is the annotations throughout the bible. | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
There have been bibles previously which have come up for auction | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
which Elvis owned or had given to people. But this one he owned for | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
20 years. While Elvis's name is embossed on the cover, it is what | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
is inside that is revealing. Given to him by his aupblt and uncle just | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
after he moved into Graceland, he's made notes throughout and marked | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
particular passages. He has picked out passages from Job. A machine | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
who knows his troubles. Know now that God hath over-thrown me and | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
hath compassed me with his net, I behold I cry out of wrong but I | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
heard not... Maybe he was having a bad day. Now while he appears to | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
have his majority of reading to the New Testament, at the back he has | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
added a saying n of his own. judge a man by one we can... | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
this is his thoughts? I think perhaps it is his thoughts, when he | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
has been reading threw the Bible. He has pulled a few passages from | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
the Bible and thought of this himself. Not all the items in this | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
auction are quite as holy. There is also a chance to bid for a pair of | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
his underpants. Somewhat disturbingly, they've not even been | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
watched. Oh, dear. Before the days of washing machines. | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
From the Queen of rock 'n' roll to the -- king of rock 'n' roll to the | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
the -- king of rock 'n' roll to the Queen of weather forecasting. | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
It is probably looking OK outside your window. I don't know how it | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
dares after what it has thrown to us today. We lines of showers | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
through the region in the afternoon and they have been incredibly heavy, | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
lots of localised flding. We had hail on the ground to make part of | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
the region look like they had snow. It really has been difficult. | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Thunderstorms rumbled for hours. I have not seen a day like this for | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
sometime. The latest picture doesn't look too bad but one or two | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
showers will continue to work in the wings as they move towards us. | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
Even though that picture didn't look too bad we are under a Met | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
Office yellow warning.S in place until around 9.00pm. This is what | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
our computer wants to do with the forecast through the night. There | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
will be a couple of showers every now and then. They may merge for a | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
longer spell. Through towards the early hours of the morning it, | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
feels cooler than fresher than recently. I think temperatures will | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
be around 10 to 12 rather than 13, 14 and 15 and tomorrow night into | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
single figures for parts, so it'll be fairly chilly. Into tomorrow not | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
a bad day. There will be showers around. They'll move away quickly | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
as the morning goes on. Then it is a combination of patchy cloud and | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
sunny spells. A pretty afternoon. But with a northerly breeze your | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
temperatures will be noting to write home Brecently we have been | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
spoiled. Tomorrow back to normal with 17 at the very best. You'll | :27:25. | :27:31. |