:00:07. > :00:11.Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Jayne McCubbin and
:00:11. > :00:20.Roger Johnson. Our top story: Sick of not being able to see your GP?
:00:20. > :00:22.Inside the Salford experiment hoping to save the NHS millions. 40% of
:00:22. > :00:27.people that actually phone do not want an appointment that day, they
:00:27. > :00:32.just want some advice. Tonight we have a special report on
:00:32. > :00:34.the GPs their patients can call any time. Also tonight: Racing to clear
:00:34. > :00:43.his name. The terminally-ill man claiming a
:00:43. > :00:49.double miscarriage of justice. there is a life after death, I will
:00:49. > :00:51.be going there as an innocent man and I will fight. If there is a way
:00:51. > :00:55.back I will be knocking on the coffin.
:00:55. > :01:01.Miracle baby. Lucas was born at just 23 weeks. Now after months in
:01:01. > :01:10.hospital, he's finally home. The schoolboy's cap lost at the
:01:10. > :01:20.pictures and found - 70 years later. And a cut above. The champion lawn
:01:20. > :01:21.
:01:21. > :01:31.mower racers from Lancashire. a fantastic thing to do and
:01:31. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:44.completely meaningless! And it's a big night for Chester
:01:44. > :01:45.
:01:45. > :01:48.City. Ian Haslam is there for us. We are live here on a big night for
:01:48. > :01:52.Chester FC who three years after folding our back into the division
:01:52. > :01:55.of the Football League. We are at the first begin of the Conference
:01:55. > :01:58.Premier season. Join us later on. North West Tonight has exclusively
:01:58. > :02:08.learned that last year in Greater Manchester alone, �30 million was
:02:08. > :02:08.
:02:08. > :02:12.spent on people who'd turned up to A&E and didn't need to be there. Now
:02:12. > :02:16.those in charge of health care in the region say radical changes are
:02:16. > :02:18.needed to stop the waste. A group of GPs in Salford say they've slashed
:02:18. > :02:28.emergency visits by making themselves available over the phone
:02:28. > :02:29.
:02:29. > :02:33.day and night. But as our health correspondent Nina
:02:33. > :02:36.Warhurst reports, attitudes to A&E need to change before there's a real
:02:36. > :02:40.emergency in emergency care. There's not a doctor in the country
:02:40. > :02:43.who would tell you not to visit A&E in the case of an emergency. But
:02:43. > :02:47.increasingly we are using it as our first port of call. NHS Greater
:02:47. > :02:50.Manchester estimates the average cost of an A&E visit is �170 and
:02:50. > :02:56.that 44,000 more people turned up for emergency care last year than
:02:56. > :03:02.the year before. The estimate is that 30% didn't need to be there and
:03:02. > :03:06.that meant �30 million was spent that didn't need to be. Patients'
:03:06. > :03:13.reasons are varied from "I couldn't see my GP," or "I tried NHS 111 but
:03:13. > :03:16.they couldn't help." Now Healthier Together, who are reorganising care
:03:16. > :03:20.across Greater Manchester, say A&E admissions have to be made a
:03:20. > :03:30.priority and a group of GPs in Salford think they may have found at
:03:30. > :03:32.
:03:32. > :03:36.least part of the solution? and it's remarkably simple.
:03:36. > :03:39.Dr Totty calls it a telephone triage - patients phone in, discuss what's
:03:39. > :03:49.wrong and he decides whether it's A&E, GP, walk-in clinic, or pharmacy
:03:49. > :03:58.
:03:58. > :04:02.care that's needed. I can do that safely on the phone and the
:04:02. > :04:05.appointment is for those that really need it.
:04:05. > :04:09.The poorliest patients are guaranteed access to their GP on the
:04:09. > :04:18.day and over three months there's been a 15% drop in patients under
:04:18. > :04:21.this system presenting at A&E. really value and appreciate the fact
:04:21. > :04:25.that we can pick up the phone, have that conversation before you even
:04:25. > :04:28.get here. It might mean that you can then get to work if you are well
:04:28. > :04:33.enough. Last week the Prime Minister was in
:04:33. > :04:41.Salford, announcing an injection of half a billion into emergency care.
:04:41. > :04:44.But this is about much more than money. Patients must be more
:04:44. > :04:50.responsible about how they use and access the health service, and in
:04:50. > :05:00.return, it is reasonable for primary care and GPs to be more flexible but
:05:00. > :05:01.
:05:01. > :05:11.the hours that they can offer to patients.
:05:11. > :05:11.
:05:12. > :05:15.This Salford clinic is encouraging other surgeries to follow. We are
:05:15. > :05:19.living longer, getting sicker, and as ever, expecting more of the NHS.
:05:19. > :05:24.The message is that the situation we are in now is not sustainable. Yes,
:05:24. > :05:27.we are all entitled to feel the NHS is there for us when we need it, but
:05:27. > :05:30.we are also responsible for thinking about where we go for our care.
:05:30. > :05:34.We asked for your comments about problems getting a GP appointment
:05:34. > :05:37.and whether you've had to go to A&E instead. Lots of you have been in
:05:37. > :05:40.touch via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter. Jemma Marshall e-mailed to
:05:40. > :05:44.say she'd called her doctor and explained she's off work for three
:05:44. > :05:48.weeks so could come anytime. "They say they can't fit me in and to call
:05:48. > :05:51.early every Monday for an emergency appointment. If I don't see a doctor
:05:51. > :05:55.in the next three weeks," Jemma concludes, "I may have no choice but
:05:55. > :05:58.to go to A&E." Dale Ellershaw says when his back went into spasm
:05:58. > :06:03.someone went to the local surgery across the road but they were told
:06:03. > :06:09.to call an ambulance and go 15 miles to the nearest hospital. "When I got
:06:09. > :06:12.to A&E they couldn't believe I'd been sent there. All I needed was
:06:12. > :06:15.painkillers." But Gary Phillips is one of several people with a
:06:15. > :06:21.positive story. His doctor's is in Blackpool. He says it's a great
:06:21. > :06:25.service. "If you phone before nine, you can usually get an appointment
:06:25. > :06:28.the same day. If not the following. I've never had to wait more than the
:06:28. > :06:35.next day." Martin Foran has spent almost 40 years trying to clear his
:06:35. > :06:38.name. The Manchester father of five claims
:06:38. > :06:44.he's the only person to have been convicted of two separate crimes
:06:44. > :06:48.which he did not commit. One of those convictions for robbery has
:06:48. > :06:51.already been quashed, but now he is awaiting a ruling on an earlier
:06:51. > :06:55.conviction. But in an exclusive interview Mr Foran has told us he is
:06:55. > :07:02.terminally ill and could die before he finally clears his name. Here's
:07:02. > :07:09.our online reporter, Helen Carter. It is a fight which has dominated
:07:09. > :07:13.more than half of his life. Martin Foran wants to clear his name before
:07:13. > :07:19.he dies a convicted criminal. No-one has said sorry to my wife or
:07:19. > :07:26.to my children. In 1977 Mr Foran was convicted and
:07:26. > :07:30.imprisoned for robbery. A crime he denied. In 1984 he was released but
:07:30. > :07:34.arrested again - this time for another robbery at a Birmingham pub.
:07:34. > :07:38.Again he was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison. That
:07:38. > :07:48.sentence was extended when he held a prison officer hostage - he admits
:07:48. > :07:49.
:07:49. > :07:55.doing this as an act of desperation. It was like being in hell. It was
:07:55. > :08:01.bad enough fighting for your innocence, but having to fight to
:08:01. > :08:03.get a doctor to look at you... Earlier this year, the court of
:08:03. > :08:07.appeal quashed his second conviction and questioned the credibility of
:08:07. > :08:10.the main police witness, who was part of the West Midlands Crime
:08:10. > :08:11.Squad, responsible for the wrongful conviction of the Birmingham Six and
:08:12. > :08:21.others. In a statement, West Midlands Police
:08:22. > :08:33.
:08:33. > :08:35.anything is to clear his name and have some financial legacy for his
:08:35. > :08:39.family. His family were deprived of him for
:08:39. > :08:42.a good number of his adult years which ought to be rectified.
:08:42. > :08:51.Martin has cancer and diabetes. Last week, doctors told him there was
:08:51. > :08:56.nothing more they could do. If there is a life after death I will be
:08:56. > :08:59.going there as an innocent man and I will fight. If that is their -- if
:08:59. > :09:02.there is a way back I will be fighting on the coffin.
:09:02. > :09:05.The Criminal Case Review Commission will decide next week whether to
:09:05. > :09:15.refer his first conviction to the court of appeal. Helen Carter, North
:09:15. > :09:16.
:09:16. > :09:23.West Tonight. Other news from around the North
:09:23. > :09:27.West now: The family of a Lancashire couple found dead at the weekend say
:09:27. > :09:30.they'll be greatly missed. Judith Maude was found at a house in
:09:30. > :09:36.Hoghton on Sunday morning with fatal stab wounds. Her husband was found
:09:36. > :09:39.dead on a nearby railway track a short while later. Police are not
:09:39. > :09:43.looking for anyone else in connection with their deaths.
:09:43. > :09:46.Police have released this CCTV image of a man they want to talk to in
:09:46. > :09:50.connection with the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Hyde. The attack
:09:50. > :09:53.happened on the 26th of July. It's believed the girl was persuaded to
:09:53. > :09:57.go back to a man's bedsit where she was given alcohol and attacked.
:09:57. > :10:00.House prices in the North West increased by 0.1% over the 12 months
:10:00. > :10:03.to June. That's according to the Office for National Statistics. It
:10:03. > :10:06.says the average house in the region now costs just over �160,000. The
:10:06. > :10:10.national average is just over �240,000.
:10:10. > :10:13.And emergency services on the Isle of Man have launched a road safety
:10:13. > :10:16.campaign ahead of the Festival of Motorcycling, urging bikers to not
:10:16. > :10:19.ride dangerously. Thousands are expected to arrive over the next few
:10:20. > :10:26.days for the event which includes the Manx Grand Prix and the Classic
:10:26. > :10:29.Baby Lucas was given just 25% chance of survival. He was born at 23 weeks
:10:29. > :10:33.at the Liverpool Women's Hospital after his mother Tracy Georgiou
:10:33. > :10:36.suffered from a life-threatening condition early on in pregnancy.
:10:36. > :10:42.Tracy had placenta abruptio, a rare condition which causes major blood
:10:42. > :10:46.loss and shock. She was so ill she didn't even know she had a son until
:10:46. > :10:51.three days after he was born. After four months in hospital he's finally
:10:51. > :10:55.been allowed to go home. Elaine Dunkley reports. ?NEWLINE Finally,
:10:55. > :11:02.little baby Lucas can sleep in his cot after months of being in an
:11:02. > :11:05.incubator. He arrived at just 23 weeks. The placenta had become
:11:05. > :11:15.detached from the womb leading to severe haemorrhaging. For mother and
:11:15. > :11:15.
:11:15. > :11:25.baby it was a fight for survival. Both of our lives were in danger. I
:11:25. > :11:30.was really, really ill, as far as I can remember. I lost so much blood.
:11:30. > :11:32.I had to have emergency surgery. That was to give him the best chance
:11:32. > :11:35.of survival. Lucas weighed 1lb and 8oz and Tracy
:11:35. > :11:43.was in a critical condition. She didn't realise she had a son waiting
:11:43. > :11:49.for her until three days after he was born. It was really difficult,
:11:49. > :11:51.so when he was born, Tracy went one way down the corridor and Lucas went
:11:51. > :11:54.the other way, I did not know where to go.
:11:54. > :12:01.It's been traumatic for the whole family and today the welcome home
:12:01. > :12:06.banners were out for baby Lucas. How nice is it to have your baby brother
:12:06. > :12:10.back home? It is amazing, after the roller-coaster journey that we have
:12:10. > :12:14.been on. To get my mother and my B brother home is fantastic.
:12:14. > :12:19.This is where Tracy and Lucas's lives were saved - at the Liverpool
:12:19. > :12:27.Women's Hospital. Lucas was given just a 25% chance of surviving.
:12:27. > :12:33.normal pregnancy is 40 weeks and he was born just over 23 weeks. He took
:12:33. > :12:40.Everton that was thrown at him in his stride. His recovery is
:12:40. > :12:44.remarkable. -- he took everything. This is everything the family hoped
:12:44. > :12:54.for. Now they can finally say mother and baby are doing well. Elaine
:12:54. > :12:58.
:12:58. > :13:01.Dunkley, BBC North West Tonight. A very special little brother.
:13:01. > :13:07.The record-breaking rower from Formby - on killer container ships
:13:07. > :13:09.and psycho cyclonics in the India Ocean. We have just found a storm.
:13:09. > :13:13.It could be an interesting evening. And cutting the opposition down to
:13:13. > :13:21.size. We meet the Lancashire lawn mower racing champions.
:13:21. > :13:25.Football, on in 2010, Chester City's 125 years as a football club
:13:25. > :13:29.came to an end after years of declining fortunes both on and off
:13:29. > :13:33.the ditch when the club went bust. But the story was not over and the
:13:33. > :13:38.club preformed and went back to its original name of Chester FC --
:13:38. > :13:42.Chester FC and was given a place down the bottom of the league. Three
:13:42. > :13:49.years later they are back and played first match in the Conference
:13:49. > :13:53.Premier. Ian Haslam is at the Deva Stadium Forest tonight.
:13:53. > :14:02.Welcome to the Deva Stadium, the home of Chester FC. We have been
:14:02. > :14:05.trying to dodge the sprinkler in the last few minutes. Hereford United
:14:05. > :14:09.are the visitors and we are expecting two and a half thousand
:14:09. > :14:14.people. Conditions are perfect for football. The pitch is in fantastic
:14:14. > :14:18.condition. I always like going to football grounds to report on but
:14:18. > :14:22.there is such a buzz around this one and why would there not be? This is
:14:22. > :14:27.one of the North West's greatest good all success stories over the
:14:27. > :14:33.last few years. It has had plenty of ups and downs, but thankfully for
:14:33. > :14:37.Chester the Downs appeared to be a thing of the past.
:14:37. > :14:43.The place is buzzing and I cannot wait to get back into the proper
:14:43. > :14:48.Football League next year. It is great to get back into the
:14:48. > :14:53.conference after so many years in the doldrums. After all of the ups
:14:53. > :14:57.and downs we have had, it is fantastic to be back. These were the
:14:57. > :15:02.scenes after Chester won a third successive promotion. Three years
:15:02. > :15:07.earlier it had looked like the dream was over for good. Relegated from
:15:08. > :15:11.the Football League, Chester City was wound up at the High Court after
:15:11. > :15:19.the old �26,000 in unpaid taxes. Fans were devastated but not ready
:15:19. > :15:24.to give up. I walked through the town centre and the Guildhall and
:15:24. > :15:30.slowly, but by that, we got the money we needed to gather and we
:15:30. > :15:39.went from strength to strength. President Barry is a super fan and
:15:39. > :15:44.helps out around the place. It is a fantastic atmosphere and fans
:15:44. > :15:49.realise we are back amongst the big boys. Life in the Conference Premier
:15:49. > :15:55.got underway on Saturday but promotion favourites Barnett proved
:15:55. > :16:00.too strong on the day. Optimism remains high above. Once we get used
:16:00. > :16:04.to the surroundings and the type of teams we are playing, I think we
:16:04. > :16:13.will do well. There are some tough games but some very exciting times
:16:13. > :16:18.for the supporters. We heard from the club manager Neil Young and now
:16:18. > :16:23.Tony Durkin, the club's chairman joins me now. A huge game for due
:16:23. > :16:26.tonight but it is a mark of how far do have come will stop huge credit
:16:26. > :16:30.to yourself and everyone involved. It is down to a huge team of
:16:30. > :16:34.volunteers and everyone has worked extremely hard the last three years.
:16:34. > :16:38.The success on the pitch has taken us by surprise. There are so much
:16:38. > :16:43.work going on behind the scenes. are supporter run club, how does
:16:43. > :16:48.that work? It is owned by the supporters so everyone has a share
:16:48. > :16:52.in the club. They have a say in how the club is run. We only have three
:16:52. > :17:02.of four time fully employed individuals. Every one else gives
:17:02. > :17:03.
:17:03. > :17:08.their time freely. Ian Rush has been connected to this club. Most of your
:17:08. > :17:14.players still do the jobs. That is correct, electricity, plasters, all
:17:14. > :17:24.walks life. The old work hard during the day and then give us a great
:17:24. > :17:25.
:17:25. > :18:21.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds
:18:21. > :18:31.performance on a Saturday. Hereford United are playing tonight. Let us
:18:31. > :18:35.
:18:35. > :18:43.hope Chester FC can keep on going life is about learning to dance in
:18:43. > :18:50.the rain. Here we are, we are dancing.
:18:50. > :18:54.Stuart joins me now. You beat the previous record set by a true by
:18:54. > :19:00.more than one day, how does that feel? It was the icing on the cake
:19:00. > :19:05.to get the world record, but just getting to the other side was
:19:05. > :19:14.fantastic. We were affected by the strong winds and the weather. 80%
:19:14. > :19:21.good fortune and 20% experience. us look at the journey that you will
:19:21. > :19:29.be making. 24 hours a day with your partner 's 3300 miles from
:19:29. > :19:35.Australia, 57 days, 14 hours and 49 minutes. Let us look at the little
:19:35. > :19:41.blip in the line. Was that meant to happen? No, it was not. Somebody on
:19:41. > :19:45.Facebook said did we realise we were heading south but unfortunately
:19:45. > :19:51.because of the bad weather and the lost power we had to steer by hand.
:19:51. > :19:56.Our automated was not working properly. Our GPS kit went down as
:19:56. > :20:03.well. We started taking a more southerly approach than they had
:20:03. > :20:08.attended -- intended to and the we navigated by hand. Must you be a
:20:08. > :20:14.competent roller to take on something like this? It is much more
:20:14. > :20:21.of a mental challenge to be honest. It is a case of getting into the
:20:21. > :20:25.water and pulling. I swam the Atlantic in 2008 but this journey
:20:25. > :20:30.was twice as long and was more psychologically demanding. Whether
:20:30. > :20:39.times when you were worried about your safety? We came within three
:20:39. > :20:44.minutes of crashing into a container ship. That was quite worrying! There
:20:44. > :20:54.was no one on the helm, it was a dodgy Chinese vessel that we thought
:20:54. > :20:54.
:20:54. > :21:56.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds
:21:56. > :22:02.might have been trafficking. What is back of a cinema seat.
:22:02. > :22:09.We found a lot of cigarette packets. We have only exposed about one third
:22:09. > :22:18.of this at the moment. Who knows what we might find later. The most
:22:18. > :22:26.important find was the original circle, dating back to 1932. It was
:22:26. > :22:34.built in 1932. It was that whole area of optimism and glamour. It is
:22:34. > :22:39.all about opulence and grandeur. It is absolutely beautiful. The most
:22:39. > :22:49.surprising find was a school cap lost here in the 1940s and we
:22:49. > :22:49.
:22:49. > :22:59.claimed by its owner today. Has it got your name on it? Yes, it does. I
:22:59. > :23:03.doubt if it will still fit me! Trying it on. Not quite. The plaza
:23:03. > :23:09.used to be a bingo hall before enthusiast is it over more than one
:23:09. > :23:13.decade ago. The prices have risen but once again it is a cinema and
:23:13. > :23:18.theatre. The art deco hearings are popular attraction. The reward for
:23:18. > :23:23.Eve and the other volunteers who run it is the pleasure on the faces of
:23:23. > :23:33.their visitors. They come into the tea rooms and have tea with their
:23:33. > :23:33.
:23:33. > :23:39.families. They love it. The word that goes with the theatre as
:23:39. > :23:47.amazing. It is a lovely escape from the troubles of everyday life. It
:23:47. > :23:54.always was and it always will be. It looks fabulous. And if the cap
:23:54. > :24:04.fits? Stay with us after the weather because we have something different
:24:04. > :24:07.
:24:07. > :24:11.to end the programme that involves Do you still fancy to have a look at
:24:12. > :24:17.the media shower tonight? Well, all you have to do is look up into the
:24:17. > :24:24.sky this evening. You will not have a better chance than tonight. You
:24:24. > :24:30.may have to simply wait it out. You can see two of the meteors racing
:24:30. > :24:34.across the sky together at the top right of my picture. Over the next
:24:34. > :24:39.couple of days and were weather becomes increasingly next. We will
:24:39. > :24:45.see a fair bit of rain at times. A very deep depression for this time
:24:45. > :24:49.of year. It is a changeable picture. For many of us there are a lot of
:24:49. > :24:55.showers but they will die away into the afternoon and it will be a
:24:55. > :24:59.pleasant evening. I cannot tell you where the best of the clear skies
:24:59. > :25:06.will be, it is hit and miss, but if you are out and about you will need
:25:06. > :25:15.to wrap up properly. Temperatures are about eight or nine Celsius
:25:15. > :25:20.rural life. Tomorrow morning has the best of the
:25:20. > :25:24.weather. It will be bright and sunny up until lunchtime. We have a
:25:24. > :25:30.weather system towards the tail end of the day. We will cloud up after
:25:30. > :25:37.lunchtime. You can see this band of rain moving across at the time. The
:25:37. > :25:43.best of the sunshine first thing in the morning. Top temperature is not
:25:43. > :25:49.the morning. Top temperature is not too bad possibly a 21 Celsius.
:25:49. > :25:59.Finally, tonight, a high octane motorsport in which you are more
:25:59. > :26:01.
:26:01. > :26:11.likely to find a fly more passion a final or a hover rather than a red
:26:11. > :26:12.
:26:12. > :26:17.Bull big. Katie Collins has more information.
:26:17. > :26:23.Motorsport does not get much stranger than this. Lawn mower
:26:23. > :26:27.racing is more than just a hobby. This is a 12 hour injured in threes.
:26:28. > :26:32.The challenge to complete as many laps of the course between 8pm and
:26:32. > :26:39.8am with each theme made up of three drivers who swapped around to give
:26:39. > :26:43.them a rest. It hearts. The track gets very bumpy and it does hurt.
:26:43. > :26:50.huge strain on the body but if you make it to the end it is so
:26:50. > :26:55.rewarding. It is a fantastic thing to do and completely meaningless!
:26:55. > :27:01.After a hard night's mauling, it was this Lancashire team that won the
:27:01. > :27:07.event with 406 laps. You never think it will be easy, it is a long race
:27:07. > :27:16.and takes its toll on you. As far as cutting grass actually goes, the