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Good evening, welcome to North West Tonight, with Roger Johnson. And | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Annabel Tiffin. Our top story: The Rochdale sex abuse scandal which | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
helped highlight the widespread weakness and failings in caring for | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
the town's vulnerable young girls. We'll hear from the local MP as a | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
report says 17 agencies failed girls in the town. Also tonight: it is a | :00:20. | :00:28. | |
controversial subject that simply won't go away, but could fracking | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
now be coming to South Cumbria? This is appreciation for all you | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
have done for the lifeboat. The Southport mum who launched a | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
lifeboat after her son's death gets a Christmas star. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Why the season's not so festive if you happen to be a footballer. | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
Normally on Christmas Day, our dad has two types of work. One to fix | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
the presents and then two to go to work. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
And as work gets under way on Bethlehem's Christmas tree, the | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
decorators from Liverpool show they've got a head for heights. | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
Vulnerable girls in Rochdale were allowed to be sexually abused by a | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
gang of Pakistani and Afghan men after a widespread pattern of | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
weaknesses and failings, it's been revealed. The police, social | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
services and 15 other agencies were all to blame. That's the conclusion | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
of an independent review into the scandal. It found the seven girls | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
were failed by all agencies they had contact with. The gang was jailed | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
last year, as Mark Edwardson reports. | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
The nine men found their victims by trawling takeaways in the Heywood | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
area of Rochdale. Found guilty of rape, sexual assault and | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
trafficking, they were given sentences totalling 77 years. It was | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
that case that sparked the review. Today's report from the Rochdale | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
Safeguarding Children Board points the finger at, amongst others, | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
police, Rochdale Council, the NHS and the Crown Prosecution Service. | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
It says... Policies and procedures were poorly | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
understood on front line. Resource pressures and high workloads in key | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
agencies contributed to sense of helplessness. Culture, policies and | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
attitudes were at times actively unhelpful when working with | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
adolescents. Greater Manchester Police is heavily | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
criticised for the way it viewed victims and how it investigated | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
their accusations. It is pretty shameful, isn't it? Because it is | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
just not that easy. If it were that easy we would do it tonight. Or we | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
are dealing with his young people who constantly go missing from care | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
homes and homes and we find them and take them back. Obviously some | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
people say the common`sense approaches lock them up, but we know | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
that will do more long`term damage. Rochdale Council's social services | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
failed in its role to protect vulnerable girls from child sexual | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
exploitation. Disciplinary 's have taken place and there have been | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
dismissals and other actions. I think it is really important we | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
don't just focus on individuals because what we have heard is this | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
whole system West failures. `` system's failures. Victims were | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
seeking emergency contraception in the middle of the night, sometimes | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
presenting with injuries. Yet no`one in the NHS thought to raise the | :03:15. | :03:23. | |
alarm. This is some of the most extreme abuse I have seen. You are | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
talking about young girls, 13, 4, being raped by men on a daily basis, | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
so it is very extreme because it is over a series of years and it will | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
take years to recover, but they do want to rebuild their lives and make | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
the changes to when sure this doesn't happen in the future. `` to | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
ensure. Teamwork and communication were almost absent between 2003 and | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
2011, but that's changed, according to the board's independent Chair. | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
I'm not here to apologise but well we have staff sitting in the same | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
room in the same environment with the same priority, that gives me | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
hope, and that single priority being to protect children. Police and | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Rochdale Social Services believe there are more prosecutions to come. | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
Today's findings will probably come as no surprise to Rochdale's MP | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
Simon Danczuk, who joins me now For several years now, you've | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
accused Greater Manchester Police and Rochdale Social Services of | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
failing these children, and today you've been proved correct, but was | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
there anything in this report that even you weren't expecting? I think | :04:23. | :04:31. | |
the information about Greater Manchester Police has been quite | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
surprising, really. We raised a lot of the arguments with Rochdale | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
councils and social services in how they failed young girls but this | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
review has shone a light more clearly on the performance of | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Greater Manchester Police, and that gives me concern because it was | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
significant, the failures, with regard to the police. They took a | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
view that these girls were poor white, working`class vulnerable | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
girls and they should be ignored, and that is what exactly happened. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
That is unforgivable, I think. What is your predominant feeling about | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
what went wrong? We heard about young ghost turning up with injuries | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
looking for contraception at night. These sorts of things should have | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
been picked up. Yes. I've pushed for the case review 18 months ago and it | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
probably wouldn't have taken place if hadn't raised it with the Prime | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
Minister and the Children's Minister. But Greater Manchester | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
Police should have intervened. I'm concerned about the Chief | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
Constable's comments today, where he was very defensive, talking about | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
children's homes. He will know very well that only one of the victims | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
was staying in a children's home and none of the others were, so why he | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
keeps raising that, that puzzles me. They need to come out and tell us | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
that the culture is going to change. Have you any confidence anything | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
will change? There are recommendations that say the police | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
have to train their front`line workers better and that is | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
important. They have to have the skills to deal with victims of this | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
kind. That is what has been missing. Many of the victims would not come | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
forward and speak to the police because they don't have confidence | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
in them and that is something you have raised with the Chief | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
Constable. During the investigation, other | :06:31. | :06:49. | |
victims have come to light. It's taken nearly five years, but | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
tonight, these five men will finally be behind bars, each one guilty of | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
sexual exploiting a profoundly vulnerable under aged girl in | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Rochdale. This is Freddie Kandakamara, a refugee from the | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Congo. In 2008, he'd raped a girl when she was 15. Today he received | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
the longest sentence of ight and half years. It is shameless. They | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
have taken an opportunity to accuse a very vulnerable young girl. Not | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
only have they done that, but then they have not been prepared to admit | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
their guilt when faced with the wealth of evidence on offer. `` to | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
abuse. And I have to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
strength of character this young lady, as she is now, has shown. This | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
case, like so many others, has highlighted failings within | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
organisations there to protect. Greater Manchester Police had | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
recorded 23 hours of video interviews with the girl but did not | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
proceed with the case. In 2009, she made further allegations against a | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Abdul Huq Chola Chancer, Mohammed Abu baker and Roheez Khan ` again, | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
no action was taken. Today, a statement made by the girl was read | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
out in court. "I found the two court cases the hardest thing I've ever | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
had to do. I felt my life and my personality were under the spotlight | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
and that I was being branded a liar. In sentencing, the judge said in | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
this case there was knowledge in the locality that young and therefore | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
vulnerable young girls were susceptible to sexual activity in | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
return for affection, drugs and alcohol. He went on to say, it is | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
just such situations that the law seeks to protect. The men have been | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
sentenced to a total of 26 and a half years in prison. | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
The head of the Christie Hospital in Manchester has been temporarily | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
suspended as part of a disciplinary investigation. Caroline Shaw has | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
been Chief Executive of the Christie Trust since 2005. The Trust says the | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
situation won't affect patient care. Direct flights between the Isle of | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
Man and Glasgow are to resume next year. Isle of Man Chief Minister | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
Allan Bell met Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond in July and | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
pledged to restore the link ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
next year. There will be nine flights a week from the end of | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
March. Sir Tom Jones has confirmed he will | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
perform at next year's Lytham Proms Weekend. The singing legend, who's | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
also a judge on BBC One's The Voice, will appear at the music festival in | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
August. A Cumbrian MP is tonight expressing | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
concern that fracking could spoil the area's landscape and damage | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
tourism. It follows a report suggesting that land not far from | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
the Lake District National Park could be opened up to shale gas | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
exploration. The Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron says instead of fracking, | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
money should be invested in renewable energy. Here's our | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
environment correspondent, Judy Hobson. | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
The countryside just a few miles from the late district and an area | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
of stunning natural beauty. The British geological Society things | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
deep underground, there could also be shale oil. The local MP hopes it | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
won't allow the energy companies to extract it by drilling fracking The | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
reality is, if you think of a place be desecrated by fracking or burying | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
nuclear waste, dare I say it, then that damages the ground and makes it | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
far less likely people will come and visit, especially from overseas The | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
main concern is climate change, the biggest threat that we face as a | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
species. If we are signing up to another fossil fuel, that just seems | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
daft. But some ministers believe producing more energy at home would | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
benefit the country and create thousands of jobs. It is proving | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
controversial, though, in places like nearby Lancashire, which has | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
several potential fracking sites. Now the Government is looking at | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
whether to open up other parts of the UK. The latest report showed new | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
areas under consideration, including, for the first time, areas | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
in Cumbria, like Mill thought. We all want fuel and we don't want to | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
pay too much for it, so it is a case of where they get it. There has been | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
a lot of investment and it seems to be working for the Americans, so I | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
don't know. South Lakeland is one area that should be considered for | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
shale gas or drilling, according to the report. But they still do not | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
know how much is under the ground. Ministers still have till the spring | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
to decide whether to go ahead with a new round of licensing. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
Defence analysts say a decision by the United Arab Emirates not to buy | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
60 Eurofighter Typhoon jets isn t a reflection on the quality of the | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
aircraft built by BAE Systems in Lancashire. It's thought the deal | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
could have been rejected due to an improvement in relations between the | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
Gulf state and Iran, its regional rival. In the circumstances, | :11:36. | :11:46. | |
military modernisation in the context of some economic difficulty | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
might be less of a priority and I think these are the factors we must | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
think about. It is not that they don't like the Typhoon jet, they | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
like it very much. But it is a question of, do they need it and can | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
they afford it? The issue of planning and where to | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
build new homes has been particularly contentious in parts of | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
Cheshire. Councils have described themselves as being under siege from | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
developers. Well, last night, Cheshire West and Chester passed its | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
pocal plan, which should give it much greater control over where new | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
properties are built. But campaigners say it's allowing too | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
many, as our political editor, Arif Ansari, reports. | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
It's a local plan which will redraw West Cheshire's map over the next | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
two decades. How many homes should be built, and where? It's also an | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
attempt to regain control of the planning system from developers | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
This development just outside Chester seems to be popular. Who | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
knows whether the council was in favour or not? But with the local | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
plan in place, they would have much greater power to say yes or no. This | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
is probably one of the most important decisions the council will | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
make. It has cost us millions this year because of appeals lost, so | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
having a plan in place means we have control over planning and keen keep | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
it in line with what our local communities want. . But there was | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
serious disagreement over the detail. Campaigners wanted no more | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
than 14,500 new homes. Labour wanted about 18,000. The ruling | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
Conservative group got 22,000. The green belt here is at risk. If we | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
were looking at 14,000, 15,000 houses, a realistic number, it | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
wouldn't be under threat but the moment you get to 22,000 we start to | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
lose green belt land. But the local plan still needs government | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
approval, and that means arguments over the future of Cheshire will | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
stretch well into next year. And Arif's here now. So an important | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
decision, but the process goes on. What should we expect and what about | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
the rest of Cheshire? The other major council is Cheshire East and | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
that is quite instructive as to what happens next. They got quite a way | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
to improving their local plan and that got up to the government | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
inspectors and it was challenged by property developers who said these | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
fantasy figures. The inspectors agreed and it was rejected, and that | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
has left Cheshire East in a far worse position than it was before | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
because they have no local plan in place, so Cheshire West and Chester | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
have passed theirs but it still needs to be cleared by the | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
Government. But they are very confident now this will give them | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
the authority to carry it out. Could be some to go and possibly a twist | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
in the tail macro. We will see. Still to come on North West Tonight: | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
And why the season's not so festive if your daddy's a famous footballer. | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
And finding their head for heights ` the Liverpool tree`decorators get a | :14:55. | :14:55. | |
bird's eye view of Bethlehem. When Kath Wilson lost her son Geoff | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
in a fishing accident, she raised money for a new lifeboat for | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
Southport. That was back in the 1980s. But Kath has never stopped | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
finding new ways of supporting its important work. Now the crew has | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
said thank you to Kath for all her hard work by nominating her for a | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
North West Tonight Christmas star. Here's Stuart Flinders. | :15:21. | :15:30. | |
This is only a drill but the Southport lifeboat could be called | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
out at any moment. We have had aeroplane crashes, shrimping rigs, | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
boats in distress. With the cockerel is a couple of years ago, for | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
example. Keeping the lifeboat service afloat isn't easy. We are | :15:47. | :15:56. | |
looking at 40,000 to ?45,000. Kath, without her, the lifeboat wouldn't | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
have been here from the start. Kath has been raising money since 19 7. | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
In that year, her son Geoff died in a fishing accident out at sea. There | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
was no Southport lifeboat in those days and Kath was determined no of | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
the mother should suffer as she had. Southport's first lifeboat since the | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
1920s was named in Geoff's memory but a quarter of a century on, Kath | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
continues her vital work for the lifeboat in its charity shop. She | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
manages all the people running it and it goes from strength to | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
strength. I think you would be the best man, then, to give her this | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
north`west Christmas star. This week, the crew paid Kath a surprise | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
visit. For our appreciation for all you have done for the lifeboat! | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
Thank you very much! Kath is now concentrating on her next big | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
project, somewhere to keep the boat. It is to make sure it is up | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
and going, that is my ambition. It is an expensive business, isn't it? | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
But nice to be recognised? Yes. They obviously think a lot of you. So, | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
Kath, now a Christmas star. Another cracking story! | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
Well done, Kath. More of those next week. | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
Richard's here with the sport now. And some welcome news for Liverpool | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
fans first of all? Yes, ahead of their match against | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
Cardiff tomorrow, Luis Suarez has signed a new four`and`a`half`year | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
contract. No wonder he is smiling! Even by his standards, Suraez has | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
been in sensational form this season, with 17 goals in just 1 | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
starts in the Premier League. The club dug their heels in over the | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
summer when he tried to move away from Anfield and now they've tied | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
him to this new deal, which will see the Uruguayan earn around ?160, 00 a | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
week until the end of the season, and then ?200,000 a week for the | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
final four years of his contract. It's an astonishing amount of money! | :18:03. | :18:13. | |
But don't worry, he has been putting a bit away each week so his kids | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
will have some presents! You were about to ask us to suspend disbelief | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
with your next story because nobody has any sympathy with the all is! | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
Possibly a bit. Maybe not Luis Suarez. Great for Liverpool. But | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
footballers at this time of year have a different life from us. | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
Across the region, some face five games in a fortnight. And while | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
we're stuffing our faces and settling in to watch the telly, for | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
them, it's business as usual. Here's Stuart Pollitt. | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
You've heard of the 12 days of Christmas. Well, what about the 15 | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
days of festive football? For some, 15 days with five games. They will | :18:51. | :19:00. | |
be the options for the weekend, I think... Not ideal when you've got | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
fewer than 20 players to pick from. It seems at our level, we usually | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
have smaller squads and we put a lot of pressure on the lads so far. With | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
the number of matches they have played. You are at least giving them | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Christmas Day off? We are! It is a bit different this year. Burnley | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
have made it to the top of the Championship tree, despite their | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
small squad. Would it be helpful to have a deeper squad? Of course. Is | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
it a necessity? We will see. But we have made the best of the system so | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
far so we are looking forward to the games coming our way. With plenty of | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
games coming up, it's a busy time for players and managers. But what | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
about footballers' families at this time of year? | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
The crackers are nice, aren't they? What do you think they have in them? | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
The Davies family have got used to doing the decorations and plenty | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
else around Christmas without Dad. Normally on Christmas Day, our dad | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
has two types of work. One is to fix all the presents and then the other | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
is to go to work! It is dominated by football at Christmas. My kids know | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
they will open their presents and then daddy goes training. We are | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
just used to it, really. He has lots of time with the kids at other | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
times. And so while the football calendar takes precedence over the | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
Advent calendars, at least they have those long summer holidays to look | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
forward to. Enough compensation, I think! | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
Tranmere Rovers will be hoping to give themselves a bit of breathing | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
space from the League One relegation zone tonight. Rovers, just a couple | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
of points from the bottom four, take on Gillingham. There'll be full | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
match commentary on BBC Radio Merseyside, with kick`off at Prenton | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
Park at 7.45pm. And in Rugby Union, Sale Sharks take | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
on London Irish at the AJ Bell Stadium tonight, with commentary on | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
BBC Radio Manchester. Thank you very much indeed. | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
Excellent! They get the odd day off as well as that salary! | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
If you've been watching all week, you know we've been following five | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
Christmas tree`decorators from Liverpool who've landed the best job | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
in the business ` decorating the tree in the town where it all began. | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
Bethlehem. A holy town but also a town which has been at the heart of | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
struggle in the Middle East. Here's Jayne McCubbin. | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
Bethlehem is bustling. Thousands of pilgrims are arriving for the big | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
switch`on just days away. We're being taken to the tree by | :21:32. | :21:44. | |
Sari, a christian taxi driver. So are you looking forward to | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
Christmas? Of course! Of course Sari points out where he'll be | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
having Christmas dinner. This is the restaurant was telling you about. | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
The Israeli security wall surrounds the town. Israel says it has reduced | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
attacks on their people. Palestinians say it is squeezing the | :22:05. | :22:13. | |
life out of the town. I wish you and all the crew a Merry Christmas and a | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
happy New Year. Thank you. The same to your family. | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
I leave Sari to find our decorators hard at it. The security issues they | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
struggle to understand. Ged has some minor security issues of his own. | :22:28. | :22:39. | |
Whoa! With this get past health and safety at home? Not at all, no! You | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
are dangerous, I'd tell you! They are mad! BLEEP! Where is my cup of | :22:46. | :23:00. | |
tea? Have you seen him hanging out of that tree?! Word is starting to | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
spread of the men with strange accents who've come baring gifts. | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
But to some, the accent isn't so strange at all. Ahmed has dropped by | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
to see the Scousers, as he's married to one himself. Yeah, Karen. That is | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
amazing! I know! For now, they live apart. They think Merseyside is a | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
more stable place to bring up their son. But hopefully one day, you | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
know, there will be peace in this country. Because to us as | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
Palestinians, we really, really want peace. We promise to take his love | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
back to St Helens. Definitely she will divorce me now! It is a message | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
this man hopes is spreading. The man who brought the team to Bethlehem. | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
Do you believe they think it is safe to stay here? You have to ask | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
tourists after they visit here. They change their mind completely. If God | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
wishes, as they say. Despite the language barrier, the team and the | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
volunteers have become firm friends. On the Bethlehem sleigh! There's no | :24:12. | :24:12. | |
sense of risk or threat here. You see that the people have nothing | :24:13. | :24:27. | |
and they would give you anything. They would give you absolutely | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
anything. And it gets me quite emotional, to be honest. I'd do feel | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
honoured and privileged. We are only doing what we do. You are going to | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
be a wreck when those lights switch on. I will be a wreck if they don't! | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
What could possibly go wrong! Well, the night sky is shining but | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
we still haven't seen the tree! The suspense is killing me! When are we | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
going to see the tree in all of its quarry? On Monday we will see the | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
tree lit up in Bethlehem in all of its glory. Speaking of which... Here | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
is the weather! This is a proper compliment. Thank | :25:10. | :25:21. | |
you! Thank you very much! Hello good evening, you will see the tree | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
on Monday and you will see some rain on Monday and you will also see some | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
rain tonight, I'm afraid. Through this afternoon, we have had the | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
cloud building with the rain slowly making its way through Ireland and | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
it will cross the Irish Sea tonight. It is breaking up as it | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
crosses over what we do have a yellow weather warning for rain from | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
the Met Office because it will build up again as it crosses the Irish | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
Sea, so some heavy pulses for a time through this evening. They should be | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
gone the other side of the night and it will leave behind some showers. | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
Still very windy and maybe galeforce again across the Irish Sea, said the | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
Isle of Man, over parts of Cumbria as well. By dawn it looks to be | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
mostly dry with temperatures definitely much milder than we saw | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
yesterday. So, for tomorrow, we start with some sunshine and we will | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
see rain and some showers through the afternoon. We hang on to the | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
strong winds, possibly gales around tomorrow at definitely some very | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
strong winds. We start off mostly dry and with some sunshine and the | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
band of rain slowly eases over quite quickly. Through the afternoon it | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
comes over and leaves some sunshine and then another band of rain at the | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
end of the day. All the while, keeping the strong winds with | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
temperatures of ten or 11. Tomorrow night, the rain finally eases away. | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
Mostly dry tomorrow night with clear skies and then a chilly night. A | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
windy night with temperatures, as you can see, well above freezing. | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
Possibly some wintry showers, particularly on higher ground. As we | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
head into the weekend and Sunday, it will be cooler but still wintry | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
showers. And I'm afraid, more rain on Monday. In fact, a yellow weather | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
warning for the rain on Monday. So Christmas week won't start off too | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
dry. But for tonight, if you are worried about the rain and strong | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
winds, as usual, your local BBC radio stations will keep you | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
updated. So, when are you getting changed for | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
the Christmas party? Or are you going like that?! | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
Thank you. You up for me! She always dresses immaculately. When you two | :27:30. | :27:42. | |
getting changed? Annabel is doing karaoke, apparently! Get your inner | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
plugs in! Have a lovely weekend | :27:45. | :27:47. |