:00:00. > :00:09.Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Annabel Tiffin and
:00:10. > :00:33.Roger Johnson. Our top story: A milestone for
:00:34. > :00:36.Merseyside. The one millionth Jaguar Land Rover
:00:37. > :00:43.rolls off the production line at Halewood.
:00:44. > :00:47.Join this little fella and me as we celebrate the anniversary of the
:00:48. > :00:51.first seaplane. Tributes to a Manchester United
:00:52. > :00:57.legend. Busby Babe Bill Foulkes has died at the age of 81.
:00:58. > :00:59.And the Formby red squirrels showing resistance to a deadly disease that
:01:00. > :01:16.nearly wiped them out. Colin Whalley died in hospital. By
:01:17. > :01:21.mistake he'd been given a 24 hour course of drugs in just 20 minutes.
:01:22. > :01:24.His wife was there when it happened. His death was shocking enough, the
:01:25. > :01:29.wait for an apology almost unbearable. Two years on, Whiston
:01:30. > :01:33.Hospital has finally said sorry His family say they're appalled it's
:01:34. > :01:38.taken so long. Our Chief Reporter, Dave Guest, has the story.
:01:39. > :01:44.Colin Whalley was 68 when he went into Whiston Hospital with breathing
:01:45. > :01:49.problems. He never came out again. He died after staff gave him a fatal
:01:50. > :01:53.overdose of the drug aminophylline. A dose which was supposed by be
:01:54. > :01:59.administered over a 24 hour period was pumped into his body in just 20
:02:00. > :02:03.minutes. I was speaking to Colin and all of a
:02:04. > :02:12.sudden he started to sweat and he was shaking and he asked if I had
:02:13. > :02:21.any wipes. By this time, 20 minutes had passed and the machine started
:02:22. > :02:25.flashing again and I said, she has overdosed on.
:02:26. > :02:29.So the family knew there'd been a terrible mistake. They say the
:02:30. > :02:32.hospital knew there'd been a terrible mistake. But it's taken two
:02:33. > :02:40.years for Whiston to say sorry officially. This letter arrived
:02:41. > :02:44.almost exactly two years to the day that Colin was admitted to Whiston.
:02:45. > :02:46.In it the Chief Executive conveys her sincere and unreserved
:02:47. > :02:49.apologies. And she acknowledges that the error in administration of the
:02:50. > :02:51.drug played a significant part in Colin's death.
:02:52. > :02:57.They don't realise what they put me through. Even the grandchildren
:02:58. > :02:59.What happened keeps flooding back and I cannot forget it.
:03:00. > :03:05.Tomorrow a coroner will set a date for an inquest.
:03:06. > :03:09.The family will get to hear all the evidence of what happened minute by
:03:10. > :03:23.minute and what led to her husband's debt.
:03:24. > :03:27.The trust said due to a lengthy legal process it was only now that
:03:28. > :03:35.they were able to apologise. They said lessons had been learned.
:03:36. > :03:38.A scheme to protect potential victims of domestic abuse has been
:03:39. > :03:42.rolled out nationally. Clare's Law is named after Clare Wood from
:03:43. > :03:45.Salford, who was murdered by her ex`partner. Today her father said he
:03:46. > :03:57.hoped it will save others. Here s Annabel with more.
:03:58. > :04:01.Christmas can see tensions run high and domestic violence breaks out
:04:02. > :04:04.more at this time of year than at any other. Over Christmas week last
:04:05. > :04:07.year, there were 1526 reports of domestic violence in Greater
:04:08. > :04:10.Manchester alone. That is an increase in incidents of 27% on an
:04:11. > :04:13.average week. Over the same period in Merseyside there were 847
:04:14. > :04:18.reported incidents, up by more than a third. And in Cheshire, where
:04:19. > :04:22.there were fewer reported incidents than in other parts of the region,
:04:23. > :04:25.the number went up by 54% in Christmas week. Well, this morning,
:04:26. > :04:28.Greater Manchester Police launched a major campaign to raise awareness
:04:29. > :04:43.and cut domestic violence incidents ahead of the festive period. Nina
:04:44. > :04:46.Warhurst spent the day with them. 7am and hundreds of officers across
:04:47. > :04:54.Greater Manchester are preparing for Don arrests as part of operation
:04:55. > :04:59.Shepherd. They have already made attempts to arrest everybody on the
:05:00. > :05:02.list but as we arrive at each address, there are no guarantees the
:05:03. > :05:09.alleged perpetrators will actually be there. Domestic violence cases
:05:10. > :05:14.are often sensitive. Here the abuser is in but so are to sleeping
:05:15. > :05:20.children. Police say that domestic abuse is happening all around us but
:05:21. > :05:25.is often covered up. You can come from a block of flats
:05:26. > :05:32.like these or a five bedroom mansion. It doesn't matter, it is
:05:33. > :05:37.the same crime and the same issues. Today may be remembered as a turning
:05:38. > :05:43.point for victims. Clare's Law is being rolled out nationally. Named
:05:44. > :05:48.after Clare Wood who was strangled to death by her ex`partner not
:05:49. > :05:53.knowing that he had attacked people in the past.
:05:54. > :05:57.There is no reason that these people should have anonymity when they
:05:58. > 3:57:52could move on to other partners Police are preparing themselves for
3:57:53 > 3:57:52the annual spike over Christmas and the hope is that Clare's Law will
3:57:53 > 3:57:52empower more victims to ask the right questions and get the
3:57:53 > 3:57:52protection they need. A special assembly has taken place at a school
3:57:53 > 3:57:52in Cumbria to remember a 15`year`old boy who died after being shot.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Edward Gabbert was with two other men on farmland in the Ulpha area
3:57:53 > 3:57:52when he was injured. He died later in hospital. A man, arrested on
3:57:53 > 3:57:52suspicion of manslaughter, has been bailed. The head teachers of Millom
3:57:53 > 3:57:52School said Edward was, "a popular student, a true individual and lover
3:57:53 > 3:57:52of the great outdoors." Fulwood Academy in Preston, which
3:57:53 > 3:57:52opened four years ago, has been heavily criticised by the schools
3:57:53 > 3:57:52inspector Ofsted. It's described the quality of teaching and achievement
3:57:53 > 3:57:52of pupils as "inadequate" and has called for the academy to be placed
3:57:53 > 3:57:52in special measures. A Lancashire firefighter, who
3:57:53 > 3:57:52arranged for his car to be set alight while colleagues responded to
3:57:53 > 3:57:52a hoax call, has been jailed for five years. The court heard Anthony
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Murray wanted to claim the insurance money on his BMW which was parked
3:57:53 > 3:57:52outside Skelmersdale station. The Chief Executive of a Wirral
3:57:53 > 3:57:52hospital today denied that patients' care or safety was being put at risk
3:57:53 > 3:57:52by its financial problems. The NHS watchdog Monitor has launched an
3:57:53 > 3:57:52inquiry into the Arrowe Park Hospital's finances, concerned about
3:57:53 > 3:57:52its deficit and its rising costs. Monitor said that lessons learned
3:57:53 > 3:57:52after the Mid Staffs scandal meant that hospital finances were now
3:57:53 > 3:57:52being closely examined. I asked the hospital's Chief Executive David
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Allison how concerned he was about the inspection.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52We are a little frustrated that Monitor have taken this approach
3:57:53 > 3:57:52before giving us the opportunity to explain the actions we have taken
3:57:53 > 3:57:52for the future. We believe we have made major strides forward in
3:57:53 > 3:57:52patient care in the last few months but we are not immune to the
3:57:53 > 3:57:52financial challenges facing the NHS as a whole. We have to work really
3:57:53 > 3:57:52hard to deliver financial balance. The government says health care and
3:57:53 > 3:57:52the NHS will be immune to its austerity cuts but we keep their
3:57:53 > 3:57:52hospitals saying that they are having to make savings. How is that?
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Our income is being reduced for the same level of activity so we have to
3:57:53 > 3:57:52to be making savings. But we are also seeing increasing costs, such
3:57:53 > 3:57:52as insurance. We have to be much more radical in our approach as to
3:57:53 > 3:57:52how we address those challenges moving forward.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52In the mid`Staffs scandal one of the early problems was financial
3:57:53 > 3:57:52mismanagement. Can you guarantee that will not happen here?
3:57:53 > 3:57:52I can provide absolute assurance that we will not compromise the
3:57:53 > 3:57:52level of care. What we're trying to do is make sure that we, along with
3:57:53 > 3:57:52our health care partners, are looking at different ways of saving
3:57:53 > 3:57:52money that in no way compromises the quality of the service that we give
3:57:53 > 3:57:52to the public. "All Pain, No Gain" ` that's what
3:57:53 > 3:57:52campaigners said today as the government published its plans for
3:57:53 > 3:57:52High Speed Rail. It's the longest bill ever introduced to the Commons
3:57:53 > 3:57:52and confirms the route in great detail.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Well, let's speak now to our political editor Arif Ansari who
3:57:53 > 3:57:52joins us from Westminster. This is 50,000 pages long. I take it you
3:57:53 > 3:57:52have read it all? Not quite but I am working my way
3:57:53 > 3:57:52through it. This is for the stage between London and Birmingham but
3:57:53 > 3:57:52people want to cut it off before it even begins. Campaigners here at
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Westminster were pushing the message that this is bad for the environment
3:57:53 > 3:57:52and not good value for money and will not boost the economy and the
3:57:53 > 3:57:52way that the government believes. We spoke to one campaigner who was
3:57:53 > 3:57:52angry with one particular MP from their own county. The great ticket
3:57:53 > 3:57:52collector himself. George Osborne is central to our
3:57:53 > 3:57:52area and we have to take account that he is a government minister but
3:57:53 > 3:57:52he is no longer holding surgeries while we understand the Prime
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Minister does. Well High Speed two get built then?
3:57:53 > 3:57:52I think they will have to read a hundred pages every day and then a
3:57:53 > 3:57:52special committee of MPs will go through the Bill in wine detail ``
3:57:53 > 3:57:52fine detail. The government are really pushing for this to go ahead
3:57:53 > 3:57:52but it will call through the House of Commons as quickly as an express
3:57:53 > 3:57:52train struggling with leaves on the line.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Some good business news now and the one millionth Jaguar Land Rover car
3:57:53 > 3:57:52rolled off the production line at the Halewood car plant on Merseyside
3:57:53 > 3:57:52today. That's the total of cars made since
3:57:53 > 3:57:522001 when they stopped making Fords there, much of the success down to
3:57:53 > 3:57:52overseas sales of the Range Rover Evoque model. Our Merseyside
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Reporter, Andy Gill, is at Halewood now.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52As you can see, the Range Rover Evoque behind me is on the rocks.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52The workforce has tripled in the past three years. Some wondered if
3:57:53 > 3:57:52it was clever to have a factory which only runs sports utility
3:57:53 > 3:57:52vehicles but today they have been celebrating.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52A bit of razzmatazz for Halewood's car number one million. A Range
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Rover Evoque in white and red. They've made nearly a quarter of a
3:57:53 > 3:57:52million of these in just two years. And reached the million mark ahead
3:57:53 > 3:57:52of schedule. We are running the plant lots more
3:57:53 > 3:57:52efficiently than we did a few years ago. We are now running the plant
3:57:53 > 3:57:52around clock to meet demand. The workers enjoyed the moment too.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52It is very good news and everyone's spirits are really high because that
3:57:53 > 3:57:52is a big number and it is a high`end product.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52When you look around the UK it is amazing that we have sold so many
3:57:53 > 3:57:52cars in the last years. The one million figures includes all
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Jaguar X types, Freelanders and Evoques built here since 2001.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52They're giving this one to a cancer charity to auction next year. The
3:57:53 > 3:57:52money will be spent on research in Liverpool or Manchester.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52What they are all interested in is that they have a big workforce here
3:57:53 > 3:57:52with big networks and the big families and it's important we spend
3:57:53 > 3:57:52that money and have an impact locally.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Foreign markets are vital to Halewood's success. Overall global
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Land Rover sales were nearly 35 000 vehicles in September. Sales in
3:57:53 > 3:57:52China were up 30%. In the Asia Pacific region, up by nearly as
3:57:53 > 3:57:52much. And they rose 12% in the UK. They're not saying when they'll
3:57:53 > 3:57:52reach number two million. To keep those overseas and domestic
3:57:53 > 3:57:52sales up, car companies have two produce new models. They will get
3:57:53 > 3:57:52those here but nobody will tell us about them, at least not yet. I m
3:57:53 > 3:57:52sure you will find out when they do. Beatrix Potter hated it, said it was
3:57:53 > 3:57:52noisy and campaigned against it for years. Winston Churchill ignored her
3:57:53 > 3:57:52pleas and let its flight go ahead. What are we talking about? The
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Waterbird. It was one of the first seaplanes
3:57:53 > 3:57:52and more than a century ago it successfully flew over Windermere.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Enthusiasts have been building a replica to recreate that special
3:57:53 > 3:57:52moment. But now they need more funding. Nazia Mogra has been to
3:57:53 > 3:57:52find out more. This is Waterbird, the brainchild of
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Edward Wakefield. He owned much of Windermere's shoreline and in the
3:57:53 > 3:57:52early days of aviation set about developing a plane that could land
3:57:53 > 3:57:52on water. The first test flight was on this very date more than 100
3:57:53 > 3:57:52years ago. We will be using aluminium and
3:57:53 > 3:57:52modern Teflon and stuff. This man whose great great uncle
3:57:53 > 3:57:52designed the plane has been involved in an exhibition.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52I would like to think he would be thrilled that people shared his
3:57:53 > 3:57:52passion. I would have been terrified looking
3:57:53 > 3:57:52at how flimsy it was but he was a bit of an adventure seeker. This one
3:57:53 > 3:57:52is just a small model, just a fraction of this size.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52The real one is six times the size of this one.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52We need to raise ?160,000 to complete building the replica.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52It's hoped by next year the replica will be complete and the seaplane
3:57:53 > 3:57:52ready to fly over Windermere again. If it finally happens, I can go away
3:57:53 > 3:57:52and die in peace. It certainly would be a great achievement.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Let's move on to sport now and the sad news that one of Manchester
3:57:53 > 3:57:52United's all`time greats has passed away.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Yes, Bill Foulkes, who survived the Munich air crash in 1958, has died
3:57:53 > 3:57:52at the age of 81. Only Sir Bobby Charlton, Ryan Giggs and Paul
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Scholes have played more times for United than the Busby Babe. Sir
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Bobby described him today as a "marvellous man" . Here's Yunas
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Mulla to look at the life of one of United's true legends.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Bill fog 's began work as a coal miner before being spotted by
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Manchester United `` Bill Foulkes. He went on to play 688 times for the
3:57:53 > 3:57:52club. On the 6th of February 19 8 he was on the plane carrying the Busby
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Babes back from Belgrade which crashed in a blizzard after
3:57:53 > 3:57:52refuelling at the Munich airport. I saw the tail end of the plane
3:57:53 > 3:57:52stuck in a field and people still lying in their seats.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52He took over captaincy of the club and led the team to FA Cup success.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52He became a pillar of one of the club's most successful teams. He was
3:57:53 > 3:57:52a hard man. It was great to play behind him
3:57:53 > 3:57:52It's a great loss. He was the first name on the team
3:57:53 > 3:57:52sheet. He was the foundation stone. The goal he scored against Madrid
3:57:53 > 3:57:52secured United's place an the European cup final that they would
3:57:53 > 3:57:52win in 1968. Bill Foulkes is survived by his wife
3:57:53 > 3:57:52to raise and three children. `` to Everton and Liverpool played at 3`3
3:57:53 > 3:57:52cracker. For Manchester City, sex is
3:57:53 > 3:57:52definitely the number `` six. The biggest thing for me was that
3:57:53 > 3:57:52two of their best players weren t playing. If this sort their away
3:57:53 > 3:57:52form out, they will take some beating.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52It was a case of six divided by two in one of the great Merseyside
3:57:53 > 3:57:52derbies. Great atmosphere at Goodison Park.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52One of the strengths of Liverpool is that they keep going. But Everton
3:57:53 > 3:57:52showed plenty of character coming back. You were always on the edge of
3:57:53 > 3:57:52your seat and didn't know which were was going to go. In the end,
3:57:53 > 3:57:52possibly the result was fair. I say that through clenched teeth.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52The game wasn't without controversy, including this
3:57:53 > 3:57:52challenge which was lucky not to result in a red card.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Any other day I think he would get a red card.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Comparable to when Rene's yellow card. I thought that was a red.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Rooney went on to score United's opener.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Tranmere and Fleetwood provided the weekend's stand`out results in the
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Football League, both scoring five on their way to winning all three
3:57:53 > 3:57:52points. Ryan Lowe was Rovers' hero with a classy hat`trick as they won
3:57:53 > 3:57:52impressively 5`1 at previously in`form Coventry in League One. And
3:57:53 > 3:57:52in a roller`coaster game better suited to the nearby Pleasure Beach,
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Fleetwood converted an injury time penalty to win 5`4 against Mansfield
3:57:53 > 3:57:52and keep pace with the League Two leaders. Great results for those
3:57:53 > 3:57:52two, but what about the heartbreak that was England's Rugby League
3:57:53 > 3:57:52World Cup defeat to New Zealand at Wembley? The fact that the semifinal
3:57:53 > 3:57:52was a classic and the Kiwis scored the decisive try with just seconds
3:57:53 > 3:57:52left on the clock was little consolation for England, who were
3:57:53 > 3:57:52cruelly denied a place in Saturday's Old Trafford final. I still struggle
3:57:53 > 3:57:52to watch that, what an ending, what a game. They were so close. And it
3:57:53 > 3:57:52would have been great to have them in the final.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Red squirrels in a National Trust reserve in Merseyside are showing
3:57:53 > 3:57:52the first signs of resistance to the grey squirrel pox. Scientists from
3:57:53 > 3:57:52the University of Liverpool, who've been studying the animals at the
3:57:53 > 3:57:52site in Formby, found that some of them had been exposed to the virus
3:57:53 > 3:57:52and recovered. Squirrelpox, which is carried by the
3:57:53 > 3:57:52greys, has been blamed for the deaths of vast numbers of red
3:57:53 > 3:57:52squirrels throughout the UK. Victoria Gill went out with the
3:57:53 > 3:57:52researchers to find out more. It's an idyllic autumn scene but the
3:57:53 > 3:57:52sight of the red squirrel has become a rare treat and much of Britain.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Just five years ago, the red squirrel population at this National
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Trust reserve in Formby was decimated by an outbreak of the
3:57:53 > 3:57:52infamous squirrelpox. The red squirrel population has started to
3:57:53 > 3:57:52recover and for the past four years researchers from the University of
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Liverpool have been studying the animals up close. So close that they
3:57:53 > 3:57:52have to catch them in traps like this one.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Once they catch a squirrel, the team examines it as swiftly as possible,
3:57:53 > 3:57:52taking the all`important blood samples.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Before this study it was quite debatable whether any red squirrels
3:57:53 > 3:57:52survived the virus at all but the work we have carried out show that
3:57:53 > 3:57:52the very small percentage do have antibodies to the virus and are
3:57:53 > 3:57:52still running about helping. Times is still do not understand how
3:57:53 > 3:57:52do the disease is transmitted. `` scientists do not understand. They
3:57:53 > 3:57:52are working out how to reverse a century of decline.
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Shall we have a look at the weather? It is looking very quiet. There
3:57:53 > 3:57:52isn't much rain in this forecast. There will be sunshine but a cold
3:57:53 > 3:57:52week. We saw six or seven Celsius today but we had some sunshine. We
3:57:53 > 3:57:52will see temperatures in double figures for the time and rain may
3:57:53 > 3:57:52arrive on Friday with cold air. We are going to see the frost crossing
3:57:53 > 3:57:52over and temperatures will dip just below freezing tonight. Some cloud
3:57:53 > 3:57:52and frost to start off with and some lingering fog for the morning
3:57:53 > 3:57:52commute. There might be the occasional spot of rain but it won't
3:57:53 > 3:57:52amount to much. The warm air begins to flow when on Wednesday and
3:57:53 > 3:57:52Thursday so we might see temperatures just about in double
3:57:53 > 3:57:52figures. A very quick congratulations to Jane
3:57:53 > 3:57:53for winning Best On`screen Talent. Good night.