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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson and | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Annabel Tiffin. Our top story: The state of our health. Why people | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
here are more likely to die early than anywhere else in the country. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
The Health Secretary says the findings are shocking. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Also tonight: A teenager goes on trial accused of | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
killing four siblings in a house fire at Freckleton last year. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
The gambler jailed for a vicious attack at a bookmakers after he | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
lost 200 pounds on a gaming machine. Lending a hand, the local high | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
school taking over a Manchester library to save it from closure. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
think it is the way forward for a lot of buildings now, that they are | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
shared by different groups, different partnerships and they | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
think it is great. And it may be half-past six in most of the | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
country but I will be reporting from the town where it is always | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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five to 10. A teenager has gone on trial | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
accused of murdering five brothers and sisters. Dyson Allen is accused | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
of setting fire to a wardrobe where children were sleeping. Their elder | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
brother died trying to get to them through the smoke. Our chief | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
reporter has been following proceedings at Preston Crown Court. | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
The fire broke out during the early hours of the morning on 7th January | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
last year at a three bedroomed bungalow in Freckleton. The | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
bungalow was home to the Smith family. There were four-year-old | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
twins and a two-year-old brother that were fast asleep in an attic | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
room when the fire started. Their teenage brother fought desperately | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
to try to get to the children to save them but sadly all four | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
perished. The prosecution here says that the four children died because | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
someone deliberately set fire to or wardrobe in the bedroom. The | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
prosecution say that that person was Dyson Allen, a family friend. | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
He denies killing the for sale billings. These children died in | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
the place that they should have felt the safest, their bedroom. | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
They stood little chance as the smoke filled the room during a fire. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Their 19-year-old brother died as he tried to save them. The fire | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
started in a wardrobe in the bedroom. That fire was lit, say the | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
prosecution, by Dyson Allen. The children's mother had thrown a | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
party to celebrate her birthday on the night the fire started. Most of | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
the guests had left before they broke out and of those that | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
remained, everyone was downstairs apart from Dyson Allen. He was a | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
family friend and he had been planning to spend the night and he | :02:59. | :03:09. | |
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was upstairs when the fire began. The prosecutor went on to say there | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
were inconsistencies in the accounts that Dyson Allen had given | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
about the events leading up to the fire starting. He said that months | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
later during a conversation over the internet Dyson Allen had said, | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
I did something bad in my past and now the police on my back. Dyson | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
Allen denies four counts of murder and for alternative counts of | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
manslaughter. He will have his say at the trial progresses and the | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
trial is expected to last eight weeks. | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
Thank you very much. You are more likely to die | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
prematurely in the North West than anywhere else in the country. And | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
your local NHS and council are least likely to help you make life- | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
saving choices. That's the message in a new league table out today. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
The Health Secretary has described it as shocking that life expectancy | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
is so much lower in parts of the North West and, he says social | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
deprivation can no longer be used as an excuse. | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
Our Health Correspondent Nina Warhurst is here with more. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Thank you very much This map might not come as a big | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
surprise. Out of 150 councils in England, nine of the areas where | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
you're most likely to die before you're 75 are here in the North | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
west. We thought we knew why. High levels of poverty, unemployment, | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
low levels of education and exercise. But this new table | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
directly compares areas with the same levels of social deprivation | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
and the results are striking. For example, Manchester has the | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
same concentrated populations with high levels of social deprivation | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
as Birningham, and Hackney in London and yet they have much lower | :04:51. | :05:01. | |
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rates of premature deaths. So an area being poor is no longer an | :05:01. | :05:10. | |
excuse for people dying young. So what are they doing differently? | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
Why do we seem to care less about our health than in other parts of | :05:15. | :05:24. | |
England? This is the big help us which tours Manchester, one of the | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
most deprived parts of England. lot of people do not access the | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
health services so we come to them and provide them with the | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
information they need to make health changes. Despite the healthy | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
messages not many people are listening, why is that? | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Government will help those who want to be helped. Scotland and the | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
North of England are much more and healthy eaters and the self-. -- | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
much more unhealthy eaters than the South. | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
Compare it to Rotherham in South Yorkshire, also an area of high | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
desperation, but when Jamie Oliver came to town authorities were so | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
embarrassed by pictures of parents sneaking fast food through railings | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
that they invested millions in a health awareness campaign. And it | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
paid off. Between them 2,000 people, young and old, shed six tonnes of | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
fat in the space of a year. So why is Rotherham winning while | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
we continue to die younger? Perhaps it's the North West's turn to be | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
embarrassed. It is pretty obvious that despite all of the variables | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
something is going wrong in this region. What needs to happen? | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
that is the challenge for local authorities. We can only achieve | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
these by working with local people. We must initiate new programmes in | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
the schools without the population and voluntary section - receptor | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
and the local authority of the best place to do that. | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
Councils in England now between them have �6 billion to spend on | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Public health. And of course we make choices too, every time we | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
drink alcohol and smoke or decide to eat well and take exercise. But | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
is it fair that some authorities are so much better at getting the | :06:54. | :07:03. | |
message across when the cost to us is dying younger. | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Thank you very much. To discuss this report in greater | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
detail, we're joined by Professor Paul Johnstone, the Director of | :07:09. | :07:18. | |
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Public Health for the North of England. | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
Whatever you're doing to make us healthier, it does not seem to be | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
working. Well, it is working and we have a long track record of success | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
for public health interventions. There is still a lot to do. This | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
publication today shows that there are areas, and councils have only | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
just taken the responsibility for public health and some areas have a | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
better legacy of intervention than others. This is about putting that | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
on record and allowing a conversation to understand why some | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
areas are doing better than others. It is not just down to deprivation, | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
there are other factors here as well. The deprivation point is | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
interesting. In its -- give another one to -- in another part of the | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
country with similar areas of deprivation are faring better, then | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
people here are being let down. I said the local authorities have | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
only just taken on the responsibilities and they are very | :08:20. | :08:29. | |
excited about taking on the new role for improving the public's | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
health. It comes down to three things at the end of the day. It is | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
about personal choice, it is about the environment that people grow | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
and living and have access to health care, and it is about | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
government policy. Those three things interact. It is a very | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
complex area but there are a lot of reasons why there is deprivation in | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
some areas than others. It might be due to inability to get a job or | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
poor schools or not being able to buy fruit and vegetables in the | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
local area... Sorry to interrupt but surely you can buy fruit and | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
vegetables. Surely you can get them everywhere. This is a huge | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
variation. As you said, there are places that are doing better than | :09:14. | :09:24. | |
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others and this is an opportunity for local areas to learn. It is my | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
role as regional director with my colleagues in public health to | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
support my colleagues and local authorities you are taking on these | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
new roles and we must understand why there is this variation are | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
really to know what to do about it. Thank you very much. | :09:47. | :09:56. | |
Other news from around the North West now: | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
The Trust that runs Aintree Hospital, which has been criticised | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
for failing to meet a number of targets, says improvements have | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
already been made. The health watchdog Monitor said it was | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
concerned standards had not been met for Accident & Emergency | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
waiting times, treatment waiting times and the control of C | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Difficile and MRSA. Focusing on things like hand hygiene and making | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
sure we keep up the cleaning regimes because we have a really | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
good and clean hospital and we need to make sure it stays like that and | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
in particular we are looking at the way that we use antibiotics. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
A new scheme to protect young and vulnerable victims from the trauma | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
of appearing in court will be tested in Liverpool. It's aimed at | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
preventing cases like that of Frances Andrade, who took her own | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
life after giving evidence against her former music teacher at | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
Manchester Crown Court. The scheme will enable some witnesses to be | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
questioned on video before trials begin. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
Nick Griffin, the BNP leader has thrown out to meet representatives | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
of the Assad regime in Syria. He said he was invited as part of a | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
fact-finding mission and he wants to warn against Britain being | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
dragged into another war in the Middle East. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
Spectators who were injured in a crash at the TT races are lucky to | :11:02. | :11:12. | |
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be alive according to the surgeon who operated on them. Isle of Man | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
police say this was the first year since 2006 that no-one died on the | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
open roads. But ten spectators were injured when a rider crashed into | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
the crowd during Friday's senior race. If parts of a motorcycle | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
flying at 150 mph catches you in the head of Chick -- the head or | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
the chest then it will do a lot of damage. Because the impact was | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
below waist height, there were no fatalities but there were a lot of | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
injuries. The Culture Select Committee is to | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
investigate plans which could result in the closure of | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry. It's one of three | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
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northern museums facing being shut down because of budget cuts. | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
A Liverpool man has been jailed for viciously assaulting two staff at a | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
betting shop after losing heavily on a gaming machine. 40-year-old | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
Mark Rutter stabbed one man with a pair of scissors and punched | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
another at the shop in Edinburgh. Morag Kinniburgh reports. | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Mark Rutter is seen here at the top cent of the screen. He has just | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
lost �200 playing roulette at William Hill in Edinburgh. He | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
becomes so angry that he pushes the machine over and he is shouting and | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
demanding his money back. He makes his way up to staff and tries to | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
get at the tills and then climbs over, behind the counter. He grabs | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
money and scissors and then punches one man and stabs another member of | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
staff. 40-year-old Mark Rutter has a string of previous convictions, | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
including theft, assault and rape. He is branded a highly risky | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
offender. He showed a complete and utter disregard for the witnesses | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
in this case or the victims of. That is reflected on the sentence | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
imposed on him today which is welcomed. It is happening every 10 | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
or 15 seconds and you have the adrenalin rush... The High Court | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
heard that these super-fast gaming machines can rake in �10 a minute | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
but the lawyer blamed it to a spate of violence across Britain which | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
bookies do not report because they are concerned it will affect | :13:14. | :13:24. | |
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business. Bookmakers reject these Mark Rutter fled from here and was | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
caught by police using tracker dogs. They found bloodstains is as near | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
by. He has been given an order of lifelong restriction and he will | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
spend at least two years and eight months in jail before the Parole | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Board will have to decide if he continues to provide a danger to | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
the public. The region's largest property | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
company is defending itself against criticism that it's avoiding tax. | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
Yesterday MPs on the spending watchdog, the Public Accounts | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
Committee, visited our building here at Media City and attacked | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
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Peel. They questioned its corporate structure which means some of its | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
many companies are based on the Isle of Man where corporation tax | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
is much lower. But Peel says all its operating businesses are based | :14:14. | :14:22. | |
in the UK. Our political editor Arif Ansari reports. The Peel Group | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
It owns the Manchester Ship Canal and MediaCity, where yesterday the | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
powerful Public Accounts Committee proved to be awkward guests. | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
company pays a maximum 10% corporation tax. That is totting it | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
up. They do not pay their fair share of corporation tax. This is | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
what she's got her eye on. The little known Tokenhouse Limited is | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
the ultimate parent company of the group. A clutch of other companies | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
form its core, largely based on the Isle of Man. And clustered around | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
dozens of interlocking companies. It is a way of maximising tax | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
efficiency is, as they like to call it. It is a way of ensuring there | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
is as little corporation tax as possible paid. This is what Peel | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
does best, regenerating and driving forward the regional economy. Its | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
expanding Liverpool Docks, and with the government's ringing support | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
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dredging the Mersey for new ships. But critics say its affairs are | :15:45. | :15:55. | |
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simply too opaque. So, this companies say they are | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
doing nothing wrong even though they have come in for criticism. | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
Yes, certainly nothing illegal here but the question is one of morality | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
and how much tax you pay and how much tax you should pay. They must | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
have seemed Margaret Hodge out of the building and felt they would | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
not have her back because she has taken research that already exists, | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
done by a research group in Liverpool, she has shone a light on | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
it and the amazing complex web of companies and said that in her view | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
they need to pay more corporation tax. | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
Thank you very much. Still to come on North West | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
Tonight: I am really sorry, you cannot film this. | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
Design a secret. The Preston firm kitting out Team GB for the | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
Commonwealth Games. And the town where it's always five | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
to ten. We find out why time stands still in Stalybridge. | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
In just over a fortnight, the local library in Levenshulme in | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
Manchester was due to close, the victim of council budget cuts. | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
Protests and press campaigns all fell on deaf ears. | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
But now Levenshulme High School is to lend a hand and keep the library | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
open in return for using the space for lessons out of hours. Our | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
reporter Abbie Jones is at the library now. Abbie, is this what | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
the Government means by the big society? | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
Yes, we have been hearing a lot over the last few years about the | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
need for communities to get involved in local projects, | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
services and so on, especially in tough economic times. The city | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
council believe this partnership between the high school and the | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
library, due to close on 29th June, is a prime example of that and the | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
way forward. Is it really the duty of local businesses, schools and | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
local people to step up when councils won't? | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
One's a high school with over 1,000 pupils, in desperate need of | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
somewhere to teach children who need extra help away from school. | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
The other's a small local library threatened with closure. But | :17:57. | :18:06. | |
they're on the same page about the way forward. It is a win/win | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
situation for everybody. We get the facilities that we need a we do not | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
have room for beer and the local community gets to keep the library | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
open a week and have an extension of classes as well and we can | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
provide more than is currently there. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
The school will pay 32,000 to maintain the library and cover the | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
staff's wages. But it gets the building rent free, saving around | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
�50,000. Classes will take place there out of hours. Library users | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
today thought the partnership was a good news story. If that is the | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
only way to keep it open then definitely. I think it is the way | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
forward for a lot of places now. long as it is still go to use for | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
people who do not have all the access at home then I think it is | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
great. But should it be up to the | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
community to step in to save public services? These are tough economic | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
times and we want to make sure that the services remain open so we are | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
working with everybody who wants to work with us. The city council says | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
it is looking at running five other libraries in this way, perhaps with | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
GPs' surgeries or housing groups. This is not the first time | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
communities have stepped in to take over local services. | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
In Heysham in Lancashire local people took over the public toilets | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
after the council wanted to close them. And in Storth in Cumbria | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
villagers bought shares in their local post office to keep it open. | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
The deal in Levenshulme should be signed soon. Both the school and | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
the local community now hoping it will provide a happy ending. | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Levenshulme is due to get a brand new swimming pool and library and | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
2015 and if this partnership does not go ahead then this library | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
would shut in June until then. If it does then it will close in just | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
a few weeks for redecoration and reopen in September. Will this be a | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
start of new partnerships between libraries and doctors' surgeries | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
and leisure centres. Like the plot of a good book, we will have to | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
wait and see how it develops. customer there was trying to get | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
Now, there's just over a year to go until the Commonwealth Games in | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
Glasgow. Athletes like Mo Farah, Bradley Wiggins and Jessica Ennis | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
are getting ready for the big event and a company from Preston is | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
making its own preparations because it's just won a contract to design | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
and produce the kit for Team GB. But, as Elaine Dunkley found out, | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
every detail of the design is being kept strictly underwraps! | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
There's plenty to shout about in this office but everyone is keeping | :20:25. | :20:35. | |
tight lipped. I am really sorry, you cannot film | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
this. Under lock and key, the kit for | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
Team GB for the Commonwealth Games. It's a big contact and an even | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
bigger secret. What can you tell us about it? It is England colours but | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
hopefully we will add a bit of a twist and it will be different from | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
previous kids they have had. These are some sketches that we had done | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
by the athletes down in London when we met them. Athletes have helped | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
with of the design. Over 30,000 items of kit will leave this | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
warehouse in Preston, destined for the locker rooms of our sporting | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
stars. I think for us is is it -- it is about making athletes feel a | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
part of the process and they belong to the team. There are a team | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
sports and won them to look and feel very much part of the same | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
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team and I would like them to feel really proud. Kukri is a Preston | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
Company on a fast track to success. All the designers are graduates | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
from the University of Central Lancashire. Really excited. It is | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
worth going to university and having a job and having something | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
to be proud to tell your family and friends. We have done a lot of | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
designs for Australian netball and Lancashire County Cricket Club but | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
to do England is just amazing. can't wait to see Mo Farah in our | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
kit, that would be amazing to see. So here's hoping for some gold | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
accessories to go with the kit which will be officially unveiled | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
in 2014. Elaine Dunkley BBC North West Tonight. | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
As long as they win, it doesn't really matter. | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
We almost got a sneak preview, didn't we? Not quite! | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
Sport now and Liverpool City Council have bought Everton's Finch | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
Farm training ground for �13 million. They say they expect the | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
deal to provide them with an income stream worth tens of millions of | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
pounds over the 40 year term of the agreement, which will see the | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
ground being leased back to the club. The land's previous owners | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
went into liquidation. The 20-times TT winner John | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
McGuinness says crowds at this year's event were bigger than he's | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
ever seen. McGuinness, who's known as the Morecambe Missile, gained | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
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his 41st podium finish, an all time record. The Senior TT, the amount | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
of Tayyab Subhani and Mohammed Safdar cause was just incredible. I | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
have never seen so many people out on that track. The Isle of Man was | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
bouncing out of the Irish Sea on Friday and we have had no | :22:55. | :23:05. | |
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fatalities and that is a fantastic thing for the Isle of Man. | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
But maybe not if you live in Stalybridge, where time has stood | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
still for months. The clock on the town's Civic Hall is broken and | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
there are no plans to repair it. Many people there say it's an | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
embarrassment. Stuart Flinders reports from the town in a | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
different time-zone. At the top of the hour it will be | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
seven o'clock in London. Two o'clock in New York. Three o'clock | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
in Tokyo. Five to ten in Stalybridge. | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
It is always five to 10 in Stalybridge because the clock on | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
top of the famous Civic Hall has not worked for ages and the council | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
says it cannot justify �6,000 on repairs at a time of cuts. I say 5- | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
10, but on this time it is actually 10-2. | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
You can get married in this grand old building, hold a meeting here | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
or a conference. As long as it's at five to ten. Or ten to two, | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
whichever's more convenient. It's not as if you can rely on the | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
church next door. They gave up on their clock years ago. There's a | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
giant sundial nearby, but on a day like today, well... | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
What use is a clock that doesn't tell the time? When you are | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
standing at the bus-stop, I stand over there, or I am going to work | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
in the morning, it is the first thing I look at to see what time it | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
has. It doesn't matter to me. because you haven't got a watch on! | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
Ask anybody on the streets it is, what time is it? I just check my | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
phone. Not everyone agrees, but some say | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
it reflects badly on the town. market has closed, the clock has | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
gone, toilers have gone, the market has closed on Friday, it is just | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
another thing that makes the town kind of look, like per se, like | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
people don't care, when they actually do. | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
Time waits for no man except, it seems, in Stalybridge. They'd | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
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rather it didn't. You know what they need? They need | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
to do Lorian and some lightning and Michael J Fox and it will be fixed! | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
And as one of our regular correspondence has pointed out, at | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
least it is right twice a day. Always on time, here she is! | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
Always on time, here she is! Saved the �6,000 on by everyone in | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
the town a cheap watch! That is my suggestion. Everything has changed | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
weatherwise in the last 12 hours and the cloud cover has become very | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
stubborn. This is how we currently look. Quite a bit of cloud cover. | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
It tried to break in the last couple of hours and where it did | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
break the temperature shot up to 20 degrees. That was generally in | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
areas of Merseyside. Tomorrow is mostly the same. There will be | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
cloud and outbreaks of drizzly rain from time to time. This was the | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
last few hours with a stubborn cloud cover. But that halls have | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
developed in it. If you have sunshine at the moment you will not | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
hold on to it for very long because this is the next weather system. | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
Like the rain throughout today, this is very fragmented. As it | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
starts to move their it falls apart across many of us so it is | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
dampening the ground and not much more of a matter overnight. The | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
breeze is still coming towards you from the south so the air is warm | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
and humid and I would not be surprised if temperatures were | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
around 13 or 14 degrees. You will get up tomorrow and the story will | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
be the same again. A huge amount of cloud cover and quite a bit of rain | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
in the Isle of Man. For the rest of us away from Cumbria it is very | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
hit-and-miss all over again. Even though it looks as though it clears | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
up there is still more to come through in the tail-end of the day. | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
Waiting in the wings once the sun has gone down there is another line | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
of rain coming towards us. A bit of everything in the forecast. You | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
might just catch a glimpse of sunshine in the afternoon. With the | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
breeze continuing to come towards you from the south and bringing the | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
continental end the temperatures are not too bad. If you get it done | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
so sunshine it will be a little bit higher but the rain makes its | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
presence felt tomorrow night. Never mind. Thank you very much. | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
Whenever you say weather system changing it makes your heart sink! | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
Yes, it is rarely anything good. On the subject of town clocks which | :27:30. | :27:34. |