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News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
BBC's Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight with Annabel Tiffin and Roger Johnson. Our top story. A | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
court hears how killer Dale Cregan was helped to avoid capture by a | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
civilian police worker. He went on to kill two police officers. Also | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
tonight: Education's new postcode lottery ` why its no longer the case | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
that the best schools are in the richest parts of the region. | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
Past masters. The '30s jazz and blues tunes heard again ` after | :00:34. | :00:45. | |
years undiscovered in a basement. And lunch with the real stars. Our | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Christmas award for the Wirral couple who make sure no`one is left | :00:50. | :01:02. | |
home alone. They are very lonely. This is a godsend. | :01:03. | :01:12. | |
Dale Cregan was wanted for double murder and evaded capture for weeks. | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
While he was on the run he went on to kill two police officers. Today a | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
court heard that ` while that hunt was going on ` a police call handler | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Kathryn Smith passed on confidential information to Cregan's family. | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Smith, her boyfriend and Dale Cregan's mother went on trial at | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Manchester Crown Court. Dave Guest is there. | :01:36. | :01:48. | |
The prosecution say that an abuse of trust is at the heart of this case. | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
Catherine Smith was a police call handler passed on sensitive | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
information to the family at the very time Cregan was one of the most | :01:58. | :02:10. | |
wanted in the country. When officers searched high and low it emerged | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
that a civilian colleague passed information to his family and | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
friends. Catherine Smith is accused of accessing sensitive information | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
about the search and passing it to her boyfriend, a close friend of | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
Cregan. The information then reached Cregan's mother. All three are in | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
the dock at the Crown Court. Catherine Smith worked as a call | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
handler at GMP headquarters. It was her job to answer calls from the | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
public. But she accessed information she had no business to be saying. | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
She then passed it on to Sean Booth, who then related to the mother of | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
Cregan. The prosecution say that Catherine Smith is guilty of a | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
serious breach of trust. She was arrested in September the 8th. Ten | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
days later, Cregan went on to kill two police officers. | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
What information was she alleged to be passing on? | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
Various snippets. Among them, at the very time Cregan was on the run, | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
accused of the murders, she said to have passed on information from a | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
man who cold in reporting suspicious activity outside the home of | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
Cregan's mother. When that information reached her, she is said | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
to have confronted the person who provided the information. The trial | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
continues. It was school report day for the | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
region's education system today And region's education system today. And | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
` while primary schools and colleges got, for the most part, top marks ` | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
it was very much a case of could do better for secondary schools. Our | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
reporter Andy Gill has been taking a look at the findings and joins us | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
now from Liverpool. Andy ` Ofsted talked today about pupils suffering | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
from a postcode lottery ` but not quite in the way we usually | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
understand the term. That's right. A normal reading of | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
that phrase would imply that if your postcode is in a relatively less | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
well`off area, then you might expect the secondary schools to be doing | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
less well than the posh parts of town, and vice versa. But what | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
Ofsted have said today is that the situation is not that simple. So you | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
might have two neighbouring local education authorities with big | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
challenges on deprivation. Yet one will have more than four`fifths of | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
its pupils in a good or better secondary school. While a | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
neighbouring authority has fewer than half it pupils in such schools. | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
We've been to a school in Liverpool which is one of the success stories. | :04:47. | :05:04. | |
This art college is in Croxton, parts of the ward are among the most | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
deprived areas of the country. But this school is officially | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
outstanding. When they come here as eleven year olds many of them aren't | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
doing well. But they leave with good grades and high ambitions. An | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
example of how living in a poorer area doesn't necessarily mean a poor | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
education. This is an outstanding school. The clarity for our young | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
people and staff about what is expected. People understand from the | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
first day what the code of behaviour is within the school. Today's report | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
looked at primary, schools has good news about North West Primary | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
Schools. The proportion going to good or better primaries is 83%. | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
That's compared to a national figure of 78%. But while some secondaries | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
are doing well, Ofsted say the overall picture for secondary | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
schools is patchy and access to good or outstanding secondary education | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
is a postcode lottery. And there are striking differences among | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
neighbouring areas. Take Merseyside. In Liverpool 82 per cent of pupils | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
are at good or better secondaries. In Wirral it's 71 per cent. But in | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
Knowsely it's 50 and in St Helens just 47 per cent. Liverpool council | :06:15. | :06:28. | |
says it has the best figures for any big city outside London. We all feel | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
included. Nobody is left out. It is like a family. In Greater Manchester | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
Bury had 95 % of pupils at a good or better secondary school. Trafford | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
90%. But Salford and Tameside have just 47 and 46 %. Ofsted say there | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
are excellent schools in poorer areas. So the popstcode lottery | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
isn't just about where you live. isn't just about where you live. | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
It's about the schools you have access to. The question now is what | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
should be done about the schools and the areas which are not doing as | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
well they should. One point Ofsted make in this report is that the | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
north west has a lot of what it calls National Leaders of Education | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
` teachers who are experts in running schools or getting the best | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
of pupils. Often they go into other schools to help out But some weak | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
schools here haven't used these leaders at all. In fact Osted says | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
there's little tangible evidence that these leaders are being used | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
systematically and successfully in the areas that need them most. And | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
it wants that to change. Thanks Andy. Earlier I spoke to | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
Ofsted's Regional Director for the North West, Michael Cladinbowl. I | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
asked him what was going wrong at secondary school level. | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
For too many pupils, when they reach the age of 11. They cannot get into | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
a good school. We need to do something about that. Many skills in | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
Liverpool city centre doing very well compared with ten years ago. | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
But out areas are not. How do you tackle that? It is to do with will | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
and determination. Ten years ago people said we would never make all | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
the schools in Liverpool good, it was just too difficult. Never make | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
all the schools in Manchester good, too difficult. But where there is a | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
determination, politicians and school leaders, parents, | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
communities, all getting behind it, you can really make a difference. If | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
my child was going to a secondary school in Knowsley I would come away | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
feeling depressed I what you are seeing. We all want all our schools | :08:43. | :08:51. | |
to be good. We must be honest. Some of them are not yet. If you are a | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
parent in Nelson the and you are not sending you people to a school that | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
is good, let your view be held. `` sending a pupil. `` let you view the | :09:04. | :09:13. | |
heart. We will do everything that we can do. All right. | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
Police on Merseyside are appealing for information over the | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
disappearance of a twenty`year`old man from Wavertree. James Bennion | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
has been missing since Sunday. He was last seen in the early hours of | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
the morning after leaving a bar in the Concert Square area of | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
Liverpool. Family and friends say his disappearance is "totally out of | :09:36. | :09:49. | |
character". The jury in the trial of the Isle of Man's Attorney General ` | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
who's accused of perjury ` has retired to consider its verdicts. | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
Stephen Harding ` the main legal adviser to the Manx Government ` | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
denies charges of committing acts against public justice and perjury | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
when he was the Government Advocate in 2010. The 52`year`old was | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
suspended last year. Serious flaws in the way Midwives | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
are regulated have ` and continue ` to put babies' and mothers' lives at | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
risk. That's the finding of a report published today ` which looked at | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
the deaths of three babies and one mother at Furness General Hospital | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
in Barrow. It found that mistakes were not properly reported ` and | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
grieving families were left with unanswered questions. Our Health | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
Correspondent Nina Warhurst reports. Joshua was nine days old when he | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
died from an infection that staff failed to properly monitor. An | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
independent report looking at the deaths of three babies and one | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
mother found that not only were their failings in midwifery care, | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
but midwives failed to demand an investigation. As a result, lives | :10:46. | :10:55. | |
and were and are put at risk. The father of Joshua demanded the report | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
because he knew that his son's death was not being properly looked at. To | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
lose a child is one of the worst things that can happen. For that to | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
be compounded by not getting answers, it is frustrating. | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
Impossible to move on properly. The report found that unlike anywhere | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
else in the NHS those who supervise and mental midwives are also those | :11:24. | :11:32. | |
who investigate mistakes. `` mentor. We think there are weaknesses in the | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
legal setup. That puts mothers and babies at risk across the country. | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
That must change. The findings will contribute to a full public enquiry. | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
The enquiry is expected to last a year. It will conclude a whole ten | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
years after the first death under investigation. It is only now that | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
we are starting to see a full picture of what went wrong at | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
Morecambe Bay. And more importantly, what it says about fundamental flaws | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
in the NHS. Nina ` once again what happened at | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
Furness General is having an impact well beyond the North West. | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
That is right. Back in June events exposed effectively a cover`up at | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
the Care Quality Commission. The watchdog that makes sure standards | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
of care are up to scratch. And now this, about care and supervision | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
under midwifery. It will have to be completely reassessed. Like | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
Mid`Staffs, it goes beyond individual trust. It is how the NHS | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
allowed these mistakes to happen. And separate to this story ` some | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
breaking news about the financial state of one of our hospitals. | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
You might remember, 15 years ago, with insurer hospital took about a | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
loan of ?15 million. Hugely controversial as critics said they | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
would have to pay back 16 times the amount. Today, concern about the | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
short and long`term situation at the hospital. A recovery plan is in | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
place but it is one of several NHS Trust that are effectively really | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
heavily mortgaged. Tomorrow we will look at the problems that can arise | :13:29. | :13:37. | |
around those loans. The rising cost of energy ` and the | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
power of the companies which provide it ` is a hot political topic. But | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
how do you get the better of them? Increasingly, individuals and | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
communities are doing it by taking them on at their own game ` | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
generating their own electricity. Sounds like a great idea ` but does | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
it work? Our Environment Correspondent Judy Hobson's been | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
taking a look at plans for a mini`hydroelectric plant in | :13:58. | :13:58. | |
Lancashire. This is Whalley Weir on the River | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
colder. A local beauty spot which could soon be providing power for a | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
hundred homes. The plans are to install a turnbine like this ` an | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
achimedean screw. The power would be fed into the national grid. It | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
provides renewable energy. After the initial cost, virtually without | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
cost. It runs itself. It'll cost ?750,000, almost half of that has | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
already been raised by local investors The minimum amount is | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
?250, the maximum ?20,000. Here s how it works. If for example you | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
invest ?10,000, you'd receive a tax break of ?3,000. Once the scheme is | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
established ` a dividend of ?30 to established ` a dividend of ?30 to | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
?500 is paid every year, money which you can put towards your own energy | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
bills ` extra profits go back to the community. So who's invested? We | :14:50. | :14:59. | |
have had five donations of ?20,000. have had five donations of ?20, 00. | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
80 pound below ?1000. A large variety of people. In the town of | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
Marple near Stockport, Community hydro electricity is already being | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
generated and has been for a year, supplying energy for 60 homes. It | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
has been a tremendous excess. If the weather had been good to us, a bit | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
more rain, we would not target. But we have been very successful, paying | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
back all loans on schedule. `` we would be on target. Back in Whalley, | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
not everyone is happy. Some think it'll the beauty spot will be | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
spoiled and question the amount the community will benefit. Others think | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
it's necessary to invest in green energy. | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
Great if you can do it. Hundreds of blues and jazz records | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
dating back to the 1920s will be played to music lovers tonight ` in | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
one of Manchester's more unusual club nights. The old vinyl records | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
remained undiscovered in a basement in the city's Northern Quarter for | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
decades. Elaine Dunkley went along for a listen. These are some of the | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
rarest of grooves, a secret stash of old shellac discs found in a | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
basement of an old record shop in Manchester, From the 1920's to | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
1950s, there are decades of discs from around the world. This is a | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
John Lee Hooker card from 1952. . from around the world. This is a | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
John Lee Hooker card from 1952... We John Lee Hooker card from 1952... We | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
did not know what to expect. As soon as I got the phone call I was down | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
there. Every single record we came across was historic. Everything from | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
Sonny boy Williamson to lead belly. John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters. All | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
the legends. For Music lovers this is a treasure trove of vintage | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
sounds that predates vinyl. It is the warmth of the sound. The style | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
of recording was very different. the warmth of the sound. The style | :17:11. | :17:21. | |
of recording was very different. It of recording was very different. It | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
is an opportunity for people to hear the blues on its original format, | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
the 78. They will not believe how good it will sound. With the dust | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
blown of, these disc will be once again music to the ears. | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
Neither of the Manchester clubs singing the blues today Richard. | :17:47. | :18:00. | |
Yes, both United and City are safely through to the knock`out stages of | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
the Champions League. The Blues though not without some confusion. | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
City beat Bayern Munich 3`2, but one more goal would have seen them top | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
the group and avoid the big guns in the next round. And in explaining | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
after the game why he didn't bring on striker Sergio Aguerro, to try | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
and get that all`important goal it and get that all`important goal, it | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
seemed clear that manager Manuel Pellegrini thought his team needed | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
two more. It was the sort of result that will have shaken up Europe s | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
elite. But with a back story that might have left one or two City fans | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
shaking their heads. I wondered myself why he was bringing a | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
midfielder on when the top all scorer was sitting there. `` | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
goal`scorer. But to come back from two goals down at Bayern should not | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
be downplayed. Goals from David Silva, Aleksander Kolarov and James | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
Milner enough for a stirring victory at the home of the European | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
champions. Absolutely fantastic. champions. Absolutely fantastic | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
Probably the best way performance in Europe we have ever had. `` away | :18:56. | :19:07. | |
performance. Absolutely brilliant. Yes, I do think we could win it. | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
Manchester United also went into their game having qualified. But | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
there was a nervy air around Old Trafford. David Moyes, desperate to | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
avoid a third home defeat in a row saw the Reds gradually wrestle | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
control of the game. Before they scored through Phil Jones, to the | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
obvious relief of his manager. As a team we must improve. But hopefully | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
we have given ourselves the best chance in the group. By topping | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
their group United, unlike City will avoid other Group winners, the | :19:36. | :19:45. | |
likes of Real Madrid and Barcelona. Well last week it was Daniel | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
Sturridge ruled out of Liverpool's crucial Christmas fixtures, today | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
it's skipper Steven Gerrard. Following a scan on the hamstring | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
which forced him out of Saturday's 4`1 win over West Ham, it's been | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
confirmed that he'll miss a minimum of four weeks. The Reds have six | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
Premier League games scheduled over the next month. | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
League Two Fleetwood are just one round from Wembley after reaching | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
the northern final of the Johnstones Paint Trophy. This goal from Jeff | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
Hughes ` assisted somewhat by the goalkeeper ` and an absolute | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
screamer from Connor Mclaughlin helped them to a 2`1 semi final win | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
over League One Rotherham at Highbury. They'll play Chesterfield | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
for a place at Wembley after they beat Oldham 6`5 on penalties in last | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
nights other semi. Now to a United hero of the past. A | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
hero both on the pitch and off it. That sentiment one of many expressed | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
at the funeral of former Manchester United captain Bill Foulkes. The | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
81`year`old, who survived the Munich air disaster, died last month. Sir | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
Bobby Charlton led tributes ` praising his friend for performances | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
on the pitch ` and for how he acted in the aftermath of the 1958 | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
disaster. Peter Marshall reports. It was a day to celebrate a life well | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
lived. Those paying tribute included many former team`mates. I glad he | :21:03. | :21:14. | |
was on our team. I would not have survived playing against him. Was a | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
tough player. Great to have behind me actually. He was tough as teak. | :21:21. | :21:31. | |
Played their night at 688 times. `` playing for United. Surpassed only | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
by Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, and Bobby Charlton. He survived the | :21:38. | :21:49. | |
Munich shed disaster. `` air disaster. He took it on himself to | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
do as much as he could by going back into the aircraft. Probably saved a | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
lot of lives. He led the team to an FA Cup final against Bolton, and in | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
the 1960s, to European glory. His family said that the tragedy filed | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
his determination. He felt a duty to the legacy. That legacy has created | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
a bond with supporters that are still there today. Gratitude been | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
showing today to a man and a Manchester United legend who will be | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
sadly missed. Finally from me, something in short | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
supply at the moment, some good news in cricket! Lancashire have | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
announced free membership for Under 11s next season. It's to celebrate | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
the club's 150th anniversary. All Under 11's can get into Emirates Old | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
Trafford free with a paying adult. Now tonight's Christmas Star ` these | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
are the people you've nominated for their outstanding kindness and | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
generosity over the years. Today it's the turn of Lin and Les McGrath | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
from Wirral. They run a lunch club for pensioners, providing food and | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
company for seventy people every week ` making sure no`one is left | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
home alone. Naomi Cornwell went to meet them. | :23:10. | :23:19. | |
For Les and Lin, the lunch they provide once a week at this church | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
hall in Spital is about much more than food. We meet every Friday A | :23:24. | :23:34. | |
three course meal, ?2. It takes is another day to get all the shopping, | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
the preparation. But we look for bargains. That is all we can afford! | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
They've enlisted the help of a whole team of volunteers. And Les even | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
runs a free taxi service, picking up those who need help getting to the | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
club. Lots of them live alone. A very lonely. Widows, widowers. It is | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
a godsend. They don't have a clue why we're really here, while they're | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
getting lunch ready let's nip next door to meet Dorothy who nominated | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
them. Dorothy is a volunteer here too ` and runs a chair exercise | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
class next door. Many of her clients go for lunch with Les and Lin after | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
the class. They care about everybody. Birthday cards for | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
birthdays. They look after the body so wonderfully. I was not well one | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
day. There was a knock on the door, dinner was presented! When the | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
weather was bad, they would it is up so we did not have to walk. The main | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
course is served. It's time for a bit of a surprise. Dorothy wrote to | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
us about the wonderful work you do. She nominated you for a BBC award. | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
Absolutely shocked. Never won anything! | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
# For they're jolly good fellows... #. | :25:12. | :25:22. | |
Fantastic. They looked so thrilled. That is what it is all about. And | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
now the weather. More clout than we suspected today, | :25:25. | :25:36. | |
but in between, good spells of sunshine. But all change tomorrow. | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
Proper rain. This evening, clear skies, the temperatures will fall | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
towards freezing. The rain moving in by dawn. It will be a breezy night. | :25:54. | :26:06. | |
Coldest will beat Cheshire. Very close to freezing. Very mild across | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
the Isle of Man. Tomorrow morning, cloudy, rain on and off. Heavy | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
pulses actually. Plenty of cloud. The breeze will lift throughout the | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
afternoon. Not too bad in terms of temperatures, we could see 12 | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Celsius. So despite the rain, a mild day. Saturday, wet and windy. An | :26:34. | :26:44. | |
early weather warning, strong winds on Saturday afternoon. | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
Finally to a subject which has caused a bit of debate in the | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
office: the rarity ` or otherwise ` of double yolk eggs. There have been | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
stories in the papers claiming odds of a trillion`to`one ` when people | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
find half a dozen in a box. That's not strictly true. But the chances | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
of picking a box full off the shelf are still pretty slim. So our | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
cameraman Mark Hilton thought he'd hit a jackpot ` when these turned up | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
in his family kitchen. The eggs came from Staveley's Eggs in Coppel near | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
Chorley ` where Ken Staveley sorts them by hand and picks out the | :27:18. | :27:28. | |
likely doubles. He still thinks it is a weird coincidence and they | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
ended up in the same box. So not eggzactly one in a trillion ` but | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
pretty lucky to get that box all the same! Could not resist! Goodbye. | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
pretty lucky to get that box all the same! Could not resist! Goodbye | :27:42. | :27:43. |