:00:00. > :00:07.dual fuel customers will go up by more than 9%. That is all from the
:00:08. > :00:19.Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson and
:00:20. > :00:22.Annabel Tiffin. Our top story. Bullied online. Calls for stricter
:00:23. > :00:25.lows after a teenager took her own life following abuse on Facebook.
:00:26. > :00:26.Caitlin Alker received nearly 3 0 abusive comments online in just two
:00:27. > :00:30.days. Also tonight: Callum's benefits were
:00:31. > :00:34.stopped as he lay dying. Now his parents are taking the Government to
:00:35. > :00:39.court. You suddenly think, how are we going to make ends meet? One of
:00:40. > :00:42.us has to stay at the hospital, one of us have to stay at home and look
:00:43. > :00:46.after the other children. Back for good. Soldiers from the
:00:47. > :00:50.Duke of Lancashire's Regiment return home from their final deployment to
:00:51. > :00:55.Afghanistan. Simon Kirkham to find out if residents need to worry about
:00:56. > :00:58.rights to the land. And the fiddle recovered from the
:00:59. > :01:10.depths of the ocean ` but was it really played on Titanic?
:01:11. > :01:13.Family and friends of an Isle of Man teenager who killed herself after
:01:14. > :01:16.being bullied online are campaigning for stricter lows. It follows an
:01:17. > :01:18.inquest into Caitlin Alkers death which heard that comments and
:01:19. > :01:22.messages on the Facebook website were a contributing factor in her
:01:23. > :01:25.death. The 19`year`old was found hanging in her flat last year. The
:01:26. > :01:32.coroner said online bullying was partly to blame. Kelly Foran
:01:33. > :01:39.reports. Caitlin Alker, just 19 years old, a bubbly girl who loved
:01:40. > :01:43.people. She's not going to get to do the
:01:44. > :01:47.things that other girls are going to do and all of their other friends
:01:48. > :01:51.she had will get out there. I am friends with all of her friends and
:01:52. > :01:55.I am going to watch them get to do nice things in life and she is not
:01:56. > :01:58.going to get to do that. The inquest heard that that there were a number
:01:59. > :02:02.of contributing factors to her suicide, one of them ` Facebook She
:02:03. > :02:12.was subjected to 300 abusive comments in just two days before she
:02:13. > :02:16.died. There were 24 pages in one session of just cruel comments.
:02:17. > :02:18.Under UK legislation there is not a specific low which makes
:02:19. > :02:22.cyberbullying illegal. Caitlin's family and friends have set up a
:02:23. > :02:35.Facebook Page to try and change that and get more support for victims.
:02:36. > :02:44.There is nothing. Just aimed towards the billion. The coroner said that
:02:45. > :02:54.the messages were an example of anti`social networking. She seems
:02:55. > :02:58.strong but deep down she was not. She tried so hard to go against a
:02:59. > :03:13.tall but obviously this time she could not. The island's police force
:03:14. > :03:17.say they are in the process of designing a new strategy to provide
:03:18. > :03:20.more clarity for people subject to online abuse and harassment, and
:03:21. > :03:23.what can be done to protect them. Meanwhile, Caitlin's mum says she
:03:24. > :03:26.will be doing all she can to make sure it doesn't happen to anybody
:03:27. > :03:29.else. Facebook told us this afternoon they have extensive
:03:30. > :03:33.reporting tools to stop bullying. Their advice is to block someone who
:03:34. > :03:36.is being offensive as soon as they start ` just click the 'Report or
:03:37. > :03:40.Block' button under their profile picture, and then they won't be able
:03:41. > :03:42.to contact you or find you on Facebook. And there is existing
:03:43. > :03:45.legislation covering malicious communications which already exists
:03:46. > :03:52.and covers the Internet. Earlier I spoke to Caimin Collins from the
:03:53. > :03:56.support group Beatbullying. One in three young people have
:03:57. > :03:59.experienced cyber bullying at some point and around one and 13
:04:00. > :04:06.experience it on a persistent and recurrent basis. So it is an
:04:07. > :04:11.escalating problem in the UK and we are dealing with the consequences of
:04:12. > :04:15.that on a daily basis. Give us some instances of what people are going
:04:16. > :04:20.through online. The key issue we are finding is that with cyber bullying
:04:21. > :04:25.it constantly follows young people around, there is no escape from it,
:04:26. > :04:29.it does not end at the school gates. But it is very often accompanied by
:04:30. > :04:32.Bill being face`to`face and young people do not realise the effect
:04:33. > :04:42.that it has when they are bullying people online or face`to`face. Why
:04:43. > :04:46.would people think that it is all key to add a comment to rest and
:04:47. > :04:53.that maybe bloodying somebody? The resist certain amount of anonymity
:04:54. > :04:56.which allows people to feel that they could see things that they
:04:57. > :05:01.would not trained to say to somebody's face. I think that that
:05:02. > :05:04.is a real issue. One of our calls first of all to young people who are
:05:05. > :05:15.being bullied is to know Freddy can get help, through the likes of over
:05:16. > :05:19.charity, but also for service providers to take responsibility for
:05:20. > :05:25.making the site safer. Something like online bullying is very hard to
:05:26. > :05:29.police. Do you think legislation would make much of a difference It
:05:30. > :05:34.is really up to these organisations that are making hundreds of millions
:05:35. > :05:37.of pounds every year in profit based on the traffic and interactions
:05:38. > :05:41.happening on their networks to actually lead on this. Government
:05:42. > :05:46.and these large companies sure they can come together to come up with a
:05:47. > :05:48.solution that actually meet the demands of the online world and we
:05:49. > :05:57.would ask them to engage with charities like ours in order to find
:05:58. > :06:01.that solution. They say they were forced in to debt
:06:02. > :06:04.because their child was dying. Now a Warrington family will become the
:06:05. > :06:06.first to take the Government to court for stopping their severely
:06:07. > :06:10.disabled son's benefits. Cameron Mathieson died last year at
:06:11. > :06:13.the age of five. His family stopped receiving benefits because he'd
:06:14. > :06:21.spent so much time in hospital and his father says the low must change.
:06:22. > :06:30.He's spoken exclusively to our Health Correspondent Nina Warhurst.
:06:31. > :06:36.For the five years that Cameron left she was in constant pain, though he
:06:37. > :06:42.would never let it show. That was the best thing about him. He had a
:06:43. > :06:51.life limiting disease but he did not let it limit his life. In the
:06:52. > :06:55.community cafe set up in his name, his family remember a boy who was in
:06:56. > :07:02.hospital more than he was at home. You do not dwell on how it feels,
:07:03. > :07:06.you just have to get on with it Nothing can change the fact that
:07:07. > :07:13.your child is a London hospital and needs you there. But on order to be
:07:14. > :07:16.there for a camera in the relied heavily on ?500 per month of
:07:17. > :07:21.Disability Living Allowance, and loans that stopped when he had been
:07:22. > :07:24.in hospital for more than 12 years. The 84 rule states that if a child
:07:25. > :07:29.is in hospital for more than that the payments then stop because their
:07:30. > :07:43.needs are already being met by the NHS. But Creeks parents `` but
:07:44. > :07:55.Craig's parents argue that parents need to be at the bedside. What this
:07:56. > :07:58.84 day rule says is that the bed beside the child no longer counts
:07:59. > :08:05.after that time. You have to walk away. Cameron's family says that
:08:06. > :08:15.they do not expect any retrospective payments even if they win the case
:08:16. > :08:22.in court. They want to do this further families.
:08:23. > :08:25.Police are appealing for a woman to come forward after an attack in
:08:26. > :08:27.Manchester which has left a medical student in a critical condition The
:08:28. > :08:31.20`year`old victim suffered a serious head injury when he was
:08:32. > :08:34.assaulted inside Khan's Takeaway on Wilmslow Road on Tuesday. Detectives
:08:35. > :08:39.believe a woman saw the attack and may have vital information.
:08:40. > :08:42.More than 600 jobs could go in Cumbria Council over the next three
:08:43. > :08:46.years. It's part of plans to ?8 million. Meanwhile up to 200 jobs
:08:47. > :08:49.could go at a gun production line in Barrow. BAE Systems says staffing
:08:50. > :08:54.levels to produce the M777 field guns can't continue without new
:08:55. > :08:57.orders. NHS staff working with mentally ill
:08:58. > :08:59.patients in Greater Manchester have been protesting about proposed
:09:00. > :09:02.hospital ward closures. Members of Unison are concerned about planned
:09:03. > :09:05.cuts in Bolton, Salford and Trafford. The health trust says
:09:06. > :09:13.their priority is to put patients first and to find sustainable ways
:09:14. > :09:16.to deliver mental health services. The MP for Sefton Central has
:09:17. > :09:19.condemned the closure of the Coastguard Centre in Crosby. It s
:09:20. > :09:32.part of Government plans to modernise the service. But
:09:33. > :09:40.reassurances have been made that safety won't be compromised.
:09:41. > :09:43.The crewman who saved a three`year`old girl who fell into
:09:44. > :09:46.the River Mersey says he acted on instinct when he jumped in to save
:09:47. > :09:49.her. 38`year`old Ricardo Ermocilla was following the instructions of
:09:50. > :09:52.his colleague Ste Murphy, who was directing him to the toddler from
:09:53. > :09:56.the quayside. He's spoken of the relief he felt when he finally heard
:09:57. > :10:04.the girl cry after rescuing her from the water.
:10:05. > :10:11.We have some breaking news this evening. Six men in shoreline to
:10:12. > :10:18.have been charged with the murder of a British tourist. Just tell us more
:10:19. > :10:23.about today's developments. This has been dragging on for a couple of
:10:24. > :10:27.years. It was back in 2011 when this man was murdered and his Russian
:10:28. > :10:31.partner who was on holiday with him was gang raped. There has been a
:10:32. > :10:40.great deal of interest in this case ever since. A good deal of evidence
:10:41. > :10:47.that the man was defending his girlfriend when this happened. He
:10:48. > :10:52.was stabbed and then shot. Senior sources within the government have
:10:53. > :10:58.said that the accused will appear in court sharply in the next few
:10:59. > :11:00.weeks. We have had the victim's brother on this programme several
:11:01. > :11:08.times talking about him. What sort of man was he? He was 32, a Red
:11:09. > :11:23.Cross worker. He was on Gazza, fitting prosthetic limbs. He was on
:11:24. > :11:27.holiday in shoreline cut. `` Gaza. His case has been raised in
:11:28. > :11:30.Parliament and the important thing here is that the Commonwealth summit
:11:31. > :11:37.is about to take place in David Cameron himself said that he would
:11:38. > :11:41.raise the issue there. Next tonight, soldiers from the Duke
:11:42. > :11:52.of Lancaster's regiment have returned home. More than 350 out of
:11:53. > :11:55.a total of 400 are now back at Weeton Barracks near Blackpool. The
:11:56. > :11:58.Regiment, which recruits across the North West, isn't expected to deploy
:11:59. > :12:02.to Afghanistan again with all British troops due to withdrawn by
:12:03. > :12:04.the end of next year. Peter Marshall reports. From the deserts of hell
:12:05. > :12:14.managed to the wet weather of Weeton Barracks. They say that it is good
:12:15. > :12:25.to be back. It is nice, nice to be home. It's simple things that
:12:26. > :12:32.Younis. `` that Younis. Seven soldiers have been lost, but none on
:12:33. > :12:36.this tour. It is all about handing back control to Afghan security
:12:37. > :12:40.forces. Earlier this month the Afghan president said that NATO
:12:41. > :12:43.involvement had brought loss of life but few games. If the president of
:12:44. > :12:48.the country says that the countries not and that there will be known
:12:49. > :12:58.benefits, does that hurt or what? That is not makes billions. `` that
:12:59. > :13:05.is not my experience. It is not perfect, but it is a lot more like
:13:06. > :13:09.normal life. The general opinion that I got from talking to Afghan
:13:10. > :13:14.soldiers and just being there myself is that they can handle this now.
:13:15. > :13:16.They are proud to take on their own fighting to protect their own
:13:17. > :13:21.families and their own protected community. It has been a relatively
:13:22. > :13:35.low`key homecoming but when all of the soldiers are back there will be
:13:36. > :13:41.a number of Freedom Of City parades. Still to come: Accrington's former
:13:42. > :13:50.boss told us why he bet on matches involving his team.
:13:51. > :14:02.This file on `` violin has gone on sale. Did it go down with the last
:14:03. > :14:04.man on the Titanic? Now if
:14:05. > :14:08.Let's go straight outside to our Economics Correspondent Jayne
:14:09. > :14:15.McCubbin, who's still got the Chancellor's alter ego in tow. How's
:14:16. > :14:19.he holding up? He's starting to resemble a darts
:14:20. > :14:23.board. We started in Burnley to see manufacturing boom. It was over to
:14:24. > :14:26.Manchester to hear retail`sector boom for some, stagnate for most.
:14:27. > :14:30.Then across to Liverpool ` unemployment rising there and
:14:31. > :14:33.elsewhere in the North West. And tonight, it's over to Chester to
:14:34. > :14:41.chat SMEs. Small and medium`sized businesses. They account for half of
:14:42. > :14:46.all private`sector turnover. They provide half of all jobs in cities.
:14:47. > :14:49.We have a great business start`up rate in the North West. But the
:14:50. > :14:54.highest failure rate outside of London and the South East. A massive
:14:55. > :15:01.problem for the Chancellor. We're back on the road with Mr
:15:02. > :15:07.Osborne. Today we're heading to Chester, one of the North West's
:15:08. > :15:13.finance hubs. I'm meeting Pam Barrett. Just over a year ago, she
:15:14. > :15:18.was a high`flying vice president at one of the city's big`bank HQs.
:15:19. > :15:38.Today, she's in the cleaning business. Barclays is to cut 73 0
:15:39. > :15:43.jobs. Lloyds cot 3000 jobs. I had seen a lot of my colleagues made
:15:44. > :15:51.redundant. You thought that you would be next? It was a big risk for
:15:52. > :16:01.me at the time. Sheet it `` she took redundancy, Botta business and is
:16:02. > :16:04.now boss to several staff. It can be quite overwhelming, but on a
:16:05. > :16:11.positive the business is growing and I am recruiting more people. You are
:16:12. > :16:23.hiring? I am hiring. It is causing a lot of stress but we are getting
:16:24. > :16:27.there. Pam is just what the economy needs. All of the experts know that
:16:28. > :16:32.small and medium`sized businesses are vital. We are very good at
:16:33. > :16:37.starting small businesses, were not great at sustaining them. So,
:16:38. > :16:41.onwards, and let's get George back out of the boot for the big question
:16:42. > :16:57.of the week. Recovery ` are you feeling it? Now. Not at all? You'll
:16:58. > :17:02.might know. How's the economy looking through your eyes? It's
:17:03. > :17:09.picking up a bit. The more people are getting married and they are
:17:10. > :17:16.going for the add`ons. I will say no. You think it is a short`term
:17:17. > :17:35.boom? It is a short`term boom, all engineered. Said the nose, nine yes
:17:36. > :17:39.is. `` seven noes, nine yeses. The bank of America, I remember
:17:40. > :17:43.reporting 18 months ago about how it might actually pull of Chester.
:17:44. > :17:49.Today big news that they are going to town Chester into the global IT
:17:50. > :17:53.HQ. 60 new jobs on the way. Great news for George. We'll be good news
:17:54. > :17:58.continuing Knutsford when we take him home? He is going to travel in
:17:59. > :18:10.the boot. Poor old George. We look forward to
:18:11. > :18:14.seeing you in Knutsford. If you own your own home you may
:18:15. > :18:17.think that you own everything in it and in the garden. The postman has
:18:18. > :18:30.recently brought some people in Lancashire to North Kirkham `` town
:18:31. > :18:35.of Kirkham saying that their homes do not long to them.
:18:36. > :18:42.Earlier this week this resident received a letter from the tent or
:18:43. > :18:53.mac `` from the Land Registry telling him that the land was owned
:18:54. > :18:58.by someone else. People are worried about fracking. We are now worried
:18:59. > :19:04.about whether this is really freehold. Thousands of residents
:19:05. > :19:08.have been sent several letters. People are worried and upset. They
:19:09. > :19:18.do not understand what the letters mean and what the implications for
:19:19. > :19:24.their properties. Kirkham is an area of interest for shale gas.
:19:25. > :19:30.Homeowners do not win the minerals under their properties. Is that any
:19:31. > :19:43.different human Kirkham? The Lord of the manor owns some minerals, but
:19:44. > :19:49.not shale gas. I do not want anybody's home, secondly I did not
:19:50. > :19:52.send out any of the letters, the Land Registry dead. This is part of
:19:53. > :20:04.the procedure because the government said that all manners had to be
:20:05. > :20:08.registered. People are concerned about exactly what your rights are.
:20:09. > :20:14.The point is they do not have any interest in anybody else's houses,
:20:15. > :20:18.that is the start. Thousands of residents have had similar letters,
:20:19. > :20:33.it's Judy changes in registration laws and mean very little.
:20:34. > :20:37.He has admitted being naive, but Rob Heys insists he has been unfairly
:20:38. > :20:47.treated. It follows the failure of his appeal against a 21 month ban.
:20:48. > :20:52.He has admitted all of this, but has made it clear that he feels that the
:20:53. > :20:56.FA's ban is excessive. Rob Heys is here. It is good of him to come in
:20:57. > :21:04.and front up. What on earth made you think that it was okayed to bet on
:21:05. > :21:12.football? First of all, I have admitted the breaches. I am not here
:21:13. > :21:18.to plead innocence, and I haven t. For the ten years that you were
:21:19. > :21:28.breaching the rules, your underwear? `` you were not aware. But you must
:21:29. > :21:36.have known? I got caught out on Twitter. You bet on your own team to
:21:37. > :21:43.lose in some instances, that's the cardinal sin. I admit, that the big
:21:44. > :21:48.question to ante. I'm a massive Accrington Stanley supporter. I ll
:21:49. > :21:52.was have been. I have only ever wanted Accrington to win. When the
:21:53. > :21:59.day not when I do not read the Sunday papers. I do not look at the
:22:00. > :22:04.league tables. I would say I am probably one of the biggest sulk is
:22:05. > :22:07.when Accrington lose. The money that I was putting on Accrington not to
:22:08. > :22:15.win was very small, it was perhaps to mitigate against us losing. We
:22:16. > :22:25.are talking a few pounds, a few drinks, that is all. What you know
:22:26. > :22:35.hope happens and what is the future for you? I am sure I will be all
:22:36. > :22:38.right. I am an optimistic person. I hope that Accrington will pick up
:22:39. > :22:47.since. I will always be watching from the terraces. And a way back
:22:48. > :23:02.into feet `` football and 21 months' time? We will have to see what
:23:03. > :23:05.happens. Finally, the moving story of Wallace Hartley, the Lancastrian
:23:06. > :23:08.musician who played on as the Titanic sank. Hartley, born in
:23:09. > :23:11.Colne, was the band leader whose music calmed passengers as they
:23:12. > :23:15.headed for the lifeboats. Now, what's said to be the very violin he
:23:16. > :23:18.was playing that night, is being sold at auction. Stuart Flinders is
:23:19. > :23:21.at the Lancashire Titanic museum at Samlesbury Hall near Preston.
:23:22. > :23:26.A lot of conjecture surrounding this? This whole exhibition is
:23:27. > :23:32.devoted to the story of the disaster of 1912. In particular to the story
:23:33. > :23:37.of this man, Wallace Hartley, born as you say not very far from here.
:23:38. > :23:41.He was the band leader on board the Titanic and he went down with the
:23:42. > :23:48.ship. There's violin is apparently the same age as his violin. His
:23:49. > :23:56.violin is going on sale this weekend for ?300,000, maybe more. What have
:23:57. > :23:59.they got the right instrument? As the Titanic began to sink, the
:24:00. > :24:06.ships band leader did something extraordinary. Wallace Hartley
:24:07. > :24:09.decided it was his duty to go on playing to calm the nerves of
:24:10. > :24:19.panicking passengers. He went down with the ship. They played a
:24:20. > :24:31.selection of music but the most famous of course is the heaven
:24:32. > :24:35.Nearen, my God, to Thee. Know what is said to be Wallace Hartley's
:24:36. > :24:41.violin is up for sale and is expected to fetch much more than its
:24:42. > :24:49.reserve price of ?300,000. It is the most iconic thing. Wallace Hartley
:24:50. > :24:56.was the hero of the ship and to have something of his is very, very
:24:57. > :25:01.special. But is this what it seems? The curator of the Titanic Museum
:25:02. > :25:05.thinks not. In the official infantry, we know that for example
:25:06. > :25:10.the clothing that Wallace Hartley was wearing, green socks, his
:25:11. > :25:15.uniform, we know that he had coins and letters and a few foreign
:25:16. > :25:19.currency items in his pockets. The ricin or mention at all of our
:25:20. > :25:27.violin, music case, anything of that description `` there is no mention.
:25:28. > :25:33.The auctioneers are satisfied that it is authentic. They say they have
:25:34. > :25:37.consulted all of the leading experts to make sure that that violin is the
:25:38. > :25:44.real McCoy. It is a bit out of my league, but if you have a few extra
:25:45. > :25:53.hundred thousand pounds then the sailors on Saturday.
:25:54. > :26:07.`` the seal is on on Saturday. What you reckon? A few frocks?
:26:08. > :26:17.Good evening. I promised you are a blast of summer today. Temperatures
:26:18. > :26:20.close to 17 Celsius. I hope you have made the most of it because we also
:26:21. > :26:25.said hang onto your umbrellas as you will need them tomorrow. I think
:26:26. > :26:30.that the rain will arrive tomorrow in the late afternoon. It will
:26:31. > :26:35.continue into Saturday, on Saturday there will be showers and more of
:26:36. > :26:39.the same on Sunday. Tonight it is not looking so bad. The clouds
:26:40. > :26:44.continue to melt away. The main issue tonight will be fog. Some
:26:45. > :26:49.dense fog patches expected on the tops of the Pennines. In Cumbria,
:26:50. > :26:55.where we do hang on the clear skies, temperatures will fall as low as six
:26:56. > :27:00.or seven Celsius. But then the rain will finally arrive. We start off
:27:01. > :27:05.with the fog lingering in the morning. That is away, the cloud
:27:06. > :27:08.continues to build. As we had through the afternoon we will see
:27:09. > :27:18.that Greens will be alive in `` slowly arriving. It will be another
:27:19. > :27:24.breezy day, temperatures not looking particularly good, 13 or 14 Celsius.
:27:25. > :27:33.Into the weekend, Saturday will have plenty more showers. Sorry!
:27:34. > :27:40.You do not need to apologise! We do not personally hold you responsible.
:27:41. > :27:43.I wanted to bring good news. Bring some good news at 10:30pm
:27:44. > :27:48.Thanks for watching. Good night