:00:17. > :00:22.-- our top story tonight. Calls the controls on excessive use
:00:22. > :00:26.of sunbeds. We see a year on year increase in
:00:26. > :00:33.malignant melanoma. Campaigners say that tanning salons
:00:33. > :00:39.should be forced to have a license. Human rights groups criticise the
:00:39. > :00:45.Arab country linked with Manchester city.
:00:45. > :00:50.And the defiant motorist caught speeding at 165 miles an hour.
:00:50. > :00:55.How a Liverpool soldier helped train dogs to parachute into enemy
:00:55. > :01:01.territory. I will be hearing about last-minute
:01:01. > :01:11.preparations as Salford prepares for the return of Ashes cricket.
:01:11. > :01:13.
:01:13. > :01:16.Hopefully it will be a bit more drive. -- dry.
:01:16. > :01:18.Liverpool City Council is seeking tougher controls over the sunbed
:01:18. > :01:21.industry following an increase in skin cancer cases. The authority
:01:21. > :01:23.wants the power to license sun tanning salons following evidence
:01:23. > :01:27.that using sunbeds can double your risk of cancer.
:01:27. > :01:31.It says if a pub serves alcohol to a underaged youngster it can take
:01:31. > :01:38.action, but if a salon lets someone under 18 use its sunbeds there's
:01:38. > :01:42.little it can do. Here's our Merseyside reporter, Andy Gill.
:01:42. > :01:49.Megan Worral from Netherton has a first class law degree. She wants to
:01:49. > :01:52.be a barrister. She first used sunbeds at 13. Two years ago she had
:01:52. > :02:00.a malignant melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, removed
:02:00. > :02:04.from her leg. I started crying. I felt it was my
:02:04. > :02:07.fault but when I spoke to other people by have highlighted that the
:02:07. > :02:10.risks were not publicised. Megan's still having treatment. Like
:02:10. > :02:13.thousands of young women, she thought a tan was a vital part of
:02:13. > :02:22.the Liverpool look. One charity says half of 15-to-17-year-olds here had
:02:22. > :02:26.used sun beds, compared to a national average of 11%.
:02:26. > :02:35.It seems that nearly every parade of shops in Liverpool has at least one
:02:35. > :02:42.towering salon -- tanning salon. A few years ago the law restricted the
:02:42. > :02:44.use of salons to over 18s but many say the law is not being enforced.
:02:45. > :02:48.Linda Mullen removes hundreds of skin cancers every month. This
:02:48. > :02:54.patient's mole is normal. But Linda says skin cancer is a growing
:02:54. > :02:58.problem. We are seeing a year-on-year
:02:58. > :03:06.increase of new cases of malignant melanoma diagnosed, particularly in
:03:06. > :03:11.young people, and 35 to 40-year-olds are also coming in,
:03:11. > :03:14.which has not been seen before. Now comes the The Look To Die For
:03:14. > :03:19.campaign. Authorities want to force salons to give health warnings and
:03:19. > :03:27.provide protective goggles. If they refused they'd lose their licence.
:03:27. > :03:30.We are talking about not just tanning salons, but also
:03:30. > :03:33.hairdressers. People think it is healthy for you.
:03:33. > :03:37.The campaign will be in schools this autumn.
:03:37. > :03:43.Joining me now is Ben Smith, who's the owner of a number of North West
:03:43. > :03:49.tanning salons, and a board member of the Sunbed Association. Thanks
:03:49. > :03:58.for coming in. Cancers UK say that using a sunbed once a month doubles
:03:58. > :04:03.your chances of developing malignant melanoma. -- Cancer research UK.
:04:04. > :04:10.at all. Cancer in search have carried out studies recently with
:04:10. > :04:18.Leeds University to see if there was any correlation between responsible
:04:18. > :04:25.sunbed use and incidence of skin cancer. -- Cancer research. There
:04:25. > :04:30.was no correlation whatsoever. cancer is the fastest-growing cancer
:04:30. > :04:39.amongst 18 to 25-year-olds. Surely the best way of avoiding set -- skin
:04:39. > :04:47.cancer is avoiding sunbeds. I do not think it is attribute --
:04:47. > :04:55.attributable to UVA exposure. accent that some salon owners are
:04:55. > :05:05.being irresponsible? There may be a few, none but I am aware of.
:05:05. > :05:11.Campaigners say that some salons are welcoming underratings in Liverpool.
:05:11. > :05:20.I don't accept that. I think if they conducted more research today they
:05:20. > :05:23.would find that far fewer under 18s are using sunbeds. Thank you for
:05:23. > :05:27.joining us. Two people have been arrested after
:05:27. > :05:29.failing to turn up at court following a fatal dog attack in
:05:29. > :05:33.Warrington. The attack happened earlier this month when a Pomeranian
:05:33. > :05:36.was killed by a Staffordshire bull terrier. The owners were due before
:05:36. > :05:39.magistrates in Halton this morning - they've now been remanded into
:05:39. > :05:42.custody and are due before Runcorn Magistrates tomorrow.
:05:42. > :05:46.Traders in Morecambe say they're still waiting for most of the Mary
:05:46. > :05:51.Portas Pilot cash promised to them a year ago. They say only �6000 from
:05:51. > :06:01.the promised �100,000 to revamp Victoria Street has been received.
:06:01. > :06:08.
:06:09. > :06:12.Business owners claim trade has got worse over the past year.
:06:12. > :06:15.A human rights group is tonight calling for closer scrutiny of who
:06:15. > :06:18.runs Premier League football clubs. It comes after allegations of human
:06:18. > :06:21.rights abuses in Abu Dhabi and the recent jailing of 69 people there.
:06:21. > :06:24.A member of the country's ruling family, Sheikh Mansour, has invested
:06:24. > :06:26.around a billion pounds in Manchester City Football Club. Human
:06:26. > :06:29.Rights Watch alleges that Abu Dhabi's security forces have
:06:29. > :06:32.tortured prisoners, and ruthlessly cracks down on political dissent.
:06:32. > :06:36.Here, Sheikh Mansour al-Nahyan might be known as the owner of Manchester
:06:36. > :06:39.City Football Club, but at home in the United Arab Emirates he's the
:06:40. > :06:43.Deputy Prime Minister of Abu Dhabi, in charge of the courts and a member
:06:43. > :06:46.of the ruling family. As Abu Dhabi is the richest emirate in the UAE
:06:46. > :06:49.that makes them very powerful. But Amnesty International and Human
:06:49. > :06:52.Rights Watch say they believe Manchester City Football Club is
:06:52. > :06:55.being exploited by the regime as a "branding vehicle" to deflect
:06:55. > :07:02.attention from what the two groups say is a "repressive state" guilty
:07:02. > :07:09.of "human rights abuses". At the club's store in Manchester this
:07:09. > :07:13.afternoon, some fans weren't so sure.
:07:13. > :07:22.I don't think it concerns fans. He is bringing money into the local
:07:22. > :07:28.area. It is more about the money and the success of the club, isn't it?
:07:28. > :07:31.It is not worry me. He has come to City to do his best. Amnesty
:07:31. > :07:34.International and Human Rights Watch have given the example of 94 people
:07:34. > :07:37.who were arrested and accused of plotting to seize power in the
:07:38. > :07:41.country. They say the detainees were targeted after criticising the
:07:41. > :07:44.regime. It's a crime there to deride or damage the state. That they were
:07:44. > :07:47.tortured while in Abu Dhabi jails and given a "fundamentally unfair"
:07:47. > :07:50.trial with little access to legal representation. The UAE's Attorney
:07:50. > :07:52.General has insisted that the prisoners were "dealt with according
:07:53. > :07:55.to the law". But the authorities banned foreign media and
:07:56. > :07:59.international observers from the trial. One Manchester City fan - and
:07:59. > :08:05.a member of the Commons Select Committee on Culture Media and Sport
:08:05. > :08:09.- thinks the regime's links to the club could have a positive effect.
:08:09. > :08:15.Owning City is a positive in that respect because it means that their
:08:15. > :08:18.human rights record will always be in the spotlight and that will be
:08:18. > :08:22.maintained while they have an involvement with City.
:08:22. > :08:24.Last year David Cameron visited the UEA to try to increase trade and
:08:24. > :08:26.investment between the countries. And under Sheikh Mansour's
:08:26. > :08:29.ownership, a huge multi-million-pound expansion to the
:08:29. > :08:32.Etihad Stadium is planned along with a new training complex on the
:08:32. > :08:35.Eastlands site. Manchester City insists it's not controlled by the
:08:35. > :08:45.state of Abu Dhabi. Tonight the club told us it's a privately owned
:08:45. > :08:47.
:08:47. > :08:52.business that conducts its operations on a commercial basis.
:08:52. > :08:57.Earlier Manchester City Council told us that their relationship with the
:08:57. > :09:02.club's owners is a very positive one and they have helped to regenerate
:09:02. > :09:09.the east of the city. Earlier I ask a representative from human rights
:09:09. > :09:14.watch why they are concerned. Dhabi has the worst human rights
:09:14. > :09:22.record of the UAE. They have a record of torture, repressing
:09:22. > :09:27.freedom of expression and workers rights. There is a link between the
:09:27. > :09:30.executive branch of the government and the owners of Manchester city.
:09:30. > :09:38.We see that as problematic, particularly when the club seems to
:09:38. > :09:42.be being used to remote a sanitised image of the country. There will be
:09:42. > :09:49.people watching who will say, we concede that human rights abuses
:09:49. > :09:53.happen in the UAE but in Manchester we have seen a football club and
:09:53. > :09:58.community completely revolutionised by that investment and one over here
:09:58. > :10:06.in a very ethical way. Why do they operate ethically in Manchester when
:10:06. > :10:09.they operate incredibly unethically in the UAE? It would seem to be a PR
:10:09. > :10:13.exercise. Nobody is criticising them for doing good things on the ground
:10:13. > :10:21.in Manchester but I would hope that people would ask what else is going
:10:21. > :10:30.on elsewhere and what cost is being paid by others. Last year the Prime
:10:30. > :10:35.Minister flew to the UAE and encouraged them to build commercial
:10:35. > :10:41.links. Arguably Manchester city will say, what can we do when the
:10:41. > :10:46.government indulges in these kinds of deals? It is certainly true that
:10:46. > :10:52.the government is close to the UAE for strategic and economic in --
:10:52. > :10:58.reasons. It is important that people take a look at who owns and governs
:10:58. > :11:06.football clubs. In terms of the practicalities it is for the
:11:06. > :11:16.football authorities to decide but I think the involvement of Sheikh
:11:16. > :11:19.
:11:19. > :11:22.Mansour with football should be of concern to people in the game.
:11:22. > :11:26.The ten councils in Greater Manchester are to receive a share of
:11:26. > :11:36.�48 million after a 12% rise in profits at Manchester Airport in the
:11:36. > :11:42.
:11:42. > :11:47.past year. A high-performance Audi speeds along
:11:47. > :11:51.a road near Merseyside. It peaked at 165 miles an hour.
:11:51. > :11:58.To my knowledge it is the highest speed recorded by a driver within
:11:58. > :12:01.Merseyside. It is shocking. It has a huge affect on members of the
:12:01. > :12:11.public. You are not just putting the public at risk, you are at risk
:12:11. > :12:16.yourself. Shiad Mahmoon from old was tracked by police on to the M 62. It
:12:16. > :12:20.was very early on June morning and the roads were deserted. He was
:12:20. > :12:24.finally intercepted near the Birchwood services. He admitted
:12:24. > :12:33.speeding when he faced Liverpool magistrates. The magistrates said
:12:33. > :12:36.they recognised the dangers that he had exposed himself and others to.
:12:36. > :12:42.He was fined, banned from driving for three years and told he would
:12:42. > :12:46.have to retake the test before being allowed behind the wheel again. But
:12:46. > :12:52.he appeared unrepentant, telling the court, I am still going to drive,
:12:52. > :12:58.catch me if you can. The road safety charity brake says tougher penalties
:12:58. > :13:02.are needed. In cases where people are driving at such high speeds, it
:13:02. > :13:08.might have been appropriate to prosecute this guy for dangerous
:13:08. > :13:11.driving, which carries the possibility of a custodial sentence.
:13:11. > :13:21.Police say they will use all of the technology at their disposal to
:13:21. > :13:31.catch speeding drivers. Still to come, could change is in the back
:13:31. > :13:32.
:13:32. > :13:41.room push the North West's two clubs -- League two clubs into the big
:13:41. > :13:51.league. It was incredibly hard training,
:13:51. > :13:58.physically and emotionally. Two weeks ago we found a couple of
:13:58. > :14:06.young people from Merseyside joining pilgrims in Rio de Janeiro.
:14:06. > :14:14.They celebrated Mass with the Pope and coca but the Barna beach --
:14:14. > :14:18.Copacabana beach. They recorded a video diary.
:14:18. > :14:25.They were here to see the real Rio but also celebrate Mass with the
:14:25. > :14:32.Pope. We have been since -- here since about 4am so we are bit
:14:32. > :14:41.tired. The group queued for hours to see Pope Francis and joined pilgrims
:14:41. > :14:48.and coca but gut -- Copacabana beach. We are here with young
:14:48. > :14:56.pilgrims from Merseyside. I loved what he said, that we need to be
:14:57. > :15:04.athletes the Christ, and an athlete celebrates full-time. -- athletes
:15:04. > :15:09.for Christ. The trip was an opportunity to discover life in
:15:09. > :15:15.Brazil, which meant seeing the poorer side of Rio. It made me
:15:15. > :15:21.realise how grateful I am for those in my life. People in the favelas
:15:21. > :15:28.really appreciated the fact -- the smallest things they had. And for a
:15:28. > :15:37.group in the North West there had to be football. They just had proper
:15:37. > :15:43.honest spirit when they were playing. The pilgrims say their
:15:43. > :15:49.faith is stronger and they have a broader view of life.
:15:49. > :15:53.Looks like they had a good time. This time tomorrow the North West
:15:53. > :16:00.will be the focus of the cricketing world. The Ashes return to Old
:16:00. > :16:04.Trafford at long last and Richard Ashcombe is there.
:16:04. > :16:09.It might be stating the obvious but the stands are empty at the moment.
:16:09. > :16:13.It is a bit soggy and we hoped for but there is a real sense of
:16:13. > :16:20.anticipation, talking to people on the way and looking around the
:16:20. > :16:26.ground. You can see how much effort has gone into making old Trafford
:16:26. > :16:32.see Ashes cricket again. Both skippers were talking to us earlier
:16:32. > :16:41.today. Here is Alastair Cook. a good wicket here since they have
:16:41. > :16:45.changed the square around. It is a great place to play cricket and the
:16:45. > :16:51.new development is looking really nice. We normally get great support
:16:51. > :16:57.here and hopefully we can back that up. Let's hope so. I am joined by
:16:57. > :17:04.the operations director, Anthony Mundy. It is such a big operation to
:17:04. > :17:12.get things ready, what about the last-minute preparations? Clearly we
:17:12. > :17:16.will have over 100,000 people here for four day, and we have sold
:17:16. > :17:24.16,000 the day five. We expect a huge amount of alcohol to be drunk,
:17:24. > :17:28.200,000 pints, 5000 bottles of wine. People never think about the
:17:28. > :17:32.toilets but we will probably get through a million litres of water in
:17:32. > :17:35.the toilets. A huge amount of planning, probably a decade of
:17:35. > :17:42.planning when you look at the infrastructure, so we think we are
:17:42. > :17:47.in a good place. I will try not to dwell on the toilet water! Are there
:17:47. > :17:52.a few nerves? It is such a big deal for this club, this ground and the
:17:52. > :17:56.eyes of the world are watching you. There will always be nerves at a
:17:56. > :18:03.fantastic team have worked for months to get us to this place. We
:18:03. > :18:07.are really confident. Thank you. It will be a great occasion. We will
:18:07. > :18:11.look at the weather in a moment. Let's talk about football first. The
:18:11. > :18:15.Premier League is more than a fortnight away but if you are a fan
:18:15. > :18:20.of one of our football league teams I don't need to tell you that the
:18:20. > :18:25.action starts this weekend. We will look at all of the divisions,
:18:25. > :18:32.starting with league two tonight. They are starting with a team led by
:18:32. > :18:36.a former England striker. They just avoided regular --
:18:36. > :18:44.relegation last season and this time-macro can Stanley are aiming
:18:44. > :18:47.higher. Their manager has played at the highest level. With a couple
:18:47. > :18:53.more additions to the squad we will be in a position where we can
:18:53. > :18:56.compete at the right end of the table this season. You see some of
:18:56. > :19:03.the interviews players have done since arriving and they have all
:19:03. > :19:09.said, we have a guy who has played for England and Everton, and when he
:19:09. > :19:18.comes in for you it is very difficult to say no. Rochdale have
:19:18. > :19:25.lost Bobby Grant, their top scorer last season, to like pool. Keith
:19:25. > :19:31.Hill feels they could do well. Jim Bentley is preparing for his third
:19:31. > :19:40.season in charge at Morecambe. They have a reduced wage bill and last
:19:40. > :19:45.season's top scorer injured. Cash-strapped Morecambe will aim to
:19:45. > :19:51.avoid relegation scrap. Fleetwood come one of the league's big
:19:51. > :19:56.spenders, are among the favourites for promotion. It will be Graham
:19:56. > :20:03.Alexander's first full season at Ty -- in charge. I will be surprised if
:20:04. > :20:10.they are not in the top seven. were relegated last season. A recent
:20:10. > :20:16.takeover has led to much more than just a token make over, with no less
:20:16. > :20:20.than 15 new players having joined the Shakers. People said, what are
:20:20. > :20:27.you sticking around for? I said, this is a great club that needed
:20:27. > :20:35.some leadership. A new director has come in and they seem to understand
:20:35. > :20:43.what a football club requires. -- new directors have come in.
:20:43. > :20:52.Good luck to all of our clubs. It is an 11am start tomorrow morning. The
:20:52. > :20:55.weather in a few moments but from old Trafford and now, back to you.
:20:55. > :21:02.I thought the toiling arrangements were interesting, the amount of
:21:02. > :21:09.water used. Widnes is a town mostly associated with Rod the league but
:21:09. > :21:13.now it boasts a ballet star. Daniel Tolan recently became the second
:21:13. > :21:20.dancer to graduate from the Bolshoi Academy in Moscow.
:21:20. > :21:25.He is back in his hometown a well earned break. -- for a well earned
:21:25. > :21:31.break. Daniel Dolan performing at the
:21:32. > :21:35.Bolshoi Academy, attached to the world's best-known Ballet Theatre.
:21:36. > :21:40.Having left Russia at 15 he is back where it all began.
:21:40. > :21:47.My sister started answering in Liverpool and I had to copy what she
:21:48. > :21:52.was doing. That is why I started, I started doing classes and the
:21:52. > :21:59.teacher said I should carry on. Little did he know that LA would
:21:59. > :22:05.take him thousands of miles away and dancing ten hours a day. My time in
:22:05. > :22:10.Moscow has probably been the toughest challenge of my life. It is
:22:10. > :22:16.incredibly hard, physically and emotionally draining. There are
:22:16. > :22:25.pallor -- parallels with Billy Elliot that Daniel's dad is one of
:22:25. > :22:30.his biggest fans. I was very proud, all of the work he has put in, and
:22:30. > :22:35.it was such a proud moment to see him perform to such a high standard.
:22:35. > :22:44.He might already be a poster boy for ballet but the hard work continues,
:22:44. > :22:51.and he pumps more irons -- IM than rugby league players. He knows the
:22:51. > :22:56.harder he works the further he will go. I aim to continue pushing myself
:22:56. > :23:06.to become the greatest. I hope to be one of the best British dancers
:23:06. > :23:10.ever. He is considering an offer to join one of Russia's top ballet
:23:10. > :23:19.companies. You have to be really fit to do
:23:19. > :23:24.that. Next, a tribute to an unlikely group of Second World War heroes,
:23:24. > :23:26.flying dogs. The animals were trained to parachute into enemy
:23:26. > :23:36.territory by a soldier from Liverpool.
:23:36. > :23:45.
:23:45. > :23:51.Lands Corporal Ken Bailey had a collie cross called bing. He
:23:51. > :23:57.eventually won a medal. When troops were sent out on
:23:58. > :24:04.patrols, dogs could be used for sniffing explosive devices,
:24:04. > :24:11.booby-traps, they could sense the enemy, their hearing was useful
:24:11. > :24:17.because they could hear incoming shells. Handlers were trained to
:24:17. > :24:21.recognise the signals from the dogs. Talk us through how it worked. I
:24:21. > :24:27.think we have some pictures of the dogs leaving a plane and parachuting
:24:27. > :24:37.through the air. Talk us through what happened. The handler and the
:24:37. > :24:37.
:24:37. > :24:41.dog would be last and the handler, before the jump, would ensure the
:24:41. > :24:47.dogs had no physical exercise and had not been fed so that when it
:24:47. > :24:52.came to the jump the dog was eager for exercise and therefore leave the
:24:52. > :25:02.aircraft and knew that when -- that there was a lump of meat in the
:25:02. > :25:02.
:25:02. > :25:07.handler's pocket. So that is how you make it jump, just make it hungry!
:25:07. > :25:14.Some people would say, that looks mean. What we know about how they
:25:14. > :25:18.reacted when they landed on the ground? They always landed on four
:25:18. > :25:26.feat. Occasionally they might roll over but they would land fairly
:25:26. > :25:30.gently. An incredible story, thank you for joining us.
:25:30. > :25:33.Unfortunately we don't know what the dogs thought of it.
:25:33. > :25:38.There are apparently records of the wagging their tails when they
:25:38. > :25:42.landed, which is a good sign. Apparently the Germans were trying
:25:42. > :25:52.to teach dogs to talk. That would have been interested.
:25:52. > :25:56.
:25:56. > :26:01.disappointing end to July. We have had temperatures as high as 30
:26:01. > :26:05.Celsius but here at Old Trafford I am standing in a puddle of water. I
:26:05. > :26:15.am excited because I am dressed for it. In August we have better looking
:26:15. > :26:20.conditions. Looking at the chart, you can see why hip -- we have had
:26:20. > :26:25.heavy rain. The clouds will ease away and tomorrow it should be drier
:26:25. > :26:33.and is much brighter. Sunshine and showers for Friday. For the third
:26:33. > :26:37.Ashes test we could see temperatures as high as 26 by 6pm. This evening
:26:37. > :26:42.saw plenty of clouds around, heavy rain making its way in from the
:26:42. > :26:47.south. I think it will continue to fade nor so we should see drier
:26:47. > :26:55.spells in the south of the region overnight, temperatures between 14
:26:55. > :27:03.and 18. The headline for tomorrow is so much better, drier and brighter.
:27:03. > :27:08.After a damp start in the morning. By early afternoon hopefully breaks
:27:08. > :27:15.in the cloud allowing plenty of sunshine to break through, so a dry,
:27:15. > :27:19.bright, much warmer day for the first day of August. A bit cooler by
:27:19. > :27:29.Friday, highs of 23, and cooler still to the weekend. Back to you
:27:29. > :27:32.