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three times faster than wages. That is all from BBC News at Six. It | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening and happy new year. Welcome to North West Tonight with | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Annabel Tiffin and Roger Johnson. In our first full programme of 014, | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
the region's coastline is on flood alert tonight. From Cheshire to | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Cumbria, the emergency services are warning people to stay clear of the | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
sea, with storm`force winds and waves bringing a risk of flooding in | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
many areas. We'll be getting the latest on that | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
story from the Environment Agency in a minute. Also in the programme: | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Looking for Rania ` the family of a missing Manchester woman visit the | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
place they think she may be buried. Claims that Ian Brady may be | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
suffering from dementia. The family of one of his victims makes another | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
plea for closure. This little girl sent out a message | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
in a bottle more than 20 years ago. What happened then? Find out later | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
in the show. People living along the North West | :00:52. | :01:06. | |
coastline are tonight being warned that a period of "exceptional | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
weather" is about to hit. The Environment Agency has issued 24 | :01:10. | :01:10. | |
Environment Agency has issued 2 flood warnings along the coast in | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside and Cheshire, and the number is | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
continually rising. Storm`force winds of | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
since over 70 miles an hour are expected to hit, combined with | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
exceptionally high tides and large waves. That's causing concern in | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
many coastal communities. One area bracing itself is Blackpool. Our | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
environment correspondent Judy Hobson is there. We can see the wind | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
is picking up. Are they worried? Yes, the winds already picking up | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
here in Blackpool. The emergency services are asking people to stay | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
away from the coast, not just here, but all along the north`west coast. | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
The storms could be that strong. They could literally sweep you at | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
your feet. As I say, it is the whole of the coast, because storm`force | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
gales are expected tonight into tomorrow, coupled with heavy rain. | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
That will make big waves, and tomorrow, we have the high tide | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
around midday. Currently there are 24 flood warnings and 22 flood | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
alerts. That is a high number. One of the areas of major concern is | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Liverpool, the Wirral and Chester, because there could be high winds | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
there tomorrow with a high tide around 12:15pm, so that could cause | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
some problems. I am joined there by Andy Brown from the Environment | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
Agency. As I say, it is all over the north`west coast, but any areas in | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
particular that you are concerned about? As you say, there are a | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
number of places that made potentially be at greater risk. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
Chester, the DS jury, the Wirral, and parts of Cumbria and here in | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Lancashire. I think my message would be for people across the region, | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
Lancashire. I think my message would be for people across the region if | :02:56. | :02:55. | |
be for people across the region, if you live and work near the coast or | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
on the estuary is tomorrow, be aware of the conditions and think about | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
what is happening, make sure all you make the right decisions. Then come | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
and look at the big waves. Resist your curiosity and sit back and | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
think twice before you do anything like that, or drive through | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
floodwaters, for example. Recently, we have seen a number of examples of | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
people losing their lives in bad weather, and we don't want that to | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
happen tomorrow. I urge people to keep a watch on local media for what | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
is happening, perhaps check our website for evolving stories as | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
things progress. There has been a criticism that the emergency | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
services haven't been that prepared, especially just before Christmas. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
You think you are more prepared this time? I think we're actually | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
prepared. We're predicting this for quite a few days, and across the | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
region, we are taught with the police, Fire Services and local | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
authorities for a number of days, predicting what will happen, so | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
everybody can plan and prepare to ensure we are ready for tomorrow. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
Like you very much. The bad weather will continue for it you days, and | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
we will have more on that at the end of the programme. Thank you very | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
much. They're treating it as a murder | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
inquiry even though, as yet, they have no body. And today, detectives | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
investigating the disappearance of a mother of three from Manchester said | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
that may be because the remains were moved from their original resting | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
place. Rania Alayed hasn't been seen since last June. The police believe | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
that's because she's dead. Today, detectives were over in North | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
Yorkshire with Rania's relatives looking for further clues. Our Chief | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Reporter Dave Guest is here with more on that story. | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
This is Rania Alayed. She was last seen near her home in Cheetham Hill, | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Manchester on June 7th last year. But she wasn't reported missing | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
until almost a month later on July 2nd. Within days, the police | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
announced they were treating this as a murder case. In August they made a | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
renewed appeal for information ` in particular, for any sightings of | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
this white camper van. It had been spotted in North Yorkshire the day | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
after Rania was last seen. Detectives say it may have been used | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
to take her to a lay`by on the A19 near Thirsk. They searched | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
surrounding fields but found nothing. Today they said that might | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
be because her body had been moved. Flowers for a lost soul. Rania | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
Alayed's uncle today visited the place where police had searched in | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
vain to find the body of his niece. Ali Aydi had been invited here as | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
part of a police briefing to update the family on developments in the | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
search for the 25`year`old mother of three. Extensive searching of this | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
area last year failed to find any trace of her. Today, detectives said | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
that could be because the body had been moved before they even started | :05:38. | :05:47. | |
searching. We believe a body was brought here, and the question we | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
must ask is, has she been moved to someone may have returned afterwards | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
and move there, and that is one of the appeal point I would like to | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
push out. If anybody might have seen her in one of these fields, one | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
anything suspicious that was out of the ordinary, we would like to hear | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
from them from this point onwards. The message from detectives today | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
was, we will not rest until we find there. We have a history of looking | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
for dead people from long time. It when rest. It will always be there. | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
Rania's parents live in Lebanon. Today Mr Aydi said in a statement: | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
Meanwhile, Rania's husband and brother`in`law were charged with her | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
murder last year. A third man has been charged with perverting the | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
course of justice. They'll all make further court appearances later this | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
year. Thank you very much. | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
A postmortem examination carried out on the body of a teenager who | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
disappeared after a night out in Manchester has found that he died | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
from injuries consistent with a fall. 17`year`old Adam pick`up had | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
been to the Fab Cafe on Portland Street with friends. He left on his | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
own in the early hours of Saturday morning. His body was found in a | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
secluded area near Deansgate Station on Monday. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
A date for the re`trial of the Manx Government's most senior lawyer for | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
charges of perjury has been set for next month. 52`year`old Attorney | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
General Stephen Harding is also accused of acts against public | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
justice and was suspended in 2012. The jury in his first trial, which | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
ended last month, was discharged after failing to reach unanimous | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
verdicts. The baker Warburtons says it could | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
create 60 new jobs in Burnley by expanding its operations. The | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
company employs 250 people at its site on Billington Road. It wants to | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
invest ?20 million building a second plant to make wraps and sandwich | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
thins. If plans are approved, construction work could start next | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
month. Commuters in Greater Manchester are | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
facing fare increases of 4.2% on Metrolink. Transport for Greater | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
Manchester, which oversees the services, says it will help fund the | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
?1.5 billion expansion of the network and cover operating costs. | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
But these passengers weren't impressed. If it was a really good | :08:07. | :08:17. | |
fair, it would probably encourage people to use the trams. Now, it is | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
still a good rate, but that bit more expensive. I don't know why has to | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
go up. I don't understand that. It is not good news, because my salary | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
has certainly not one of 4.2%. The family of murdered 12`year`old | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
Keith Bennett have appealed again to Moors Murderer Ian Brady to reveal | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
where his victim's body is buried after claims Brady has early | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
dementia. A national newspaper is reporting that the 76`year`old may | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
be suffering from the disease. Keith's mother, Winnie Johnson, died | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
a year and a half ago without knowing her son's resting place | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
Abbie Jones reports. Ian Brady was convicted almost 50 | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
Ian Brady was convicted almost 0 years ago of the murder of Keith | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
Bennett. But he's steadfastly refused to reveal the whereabouts of | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
the 12`year`old's body. Now there are fears Brady soon could be unable | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
to give up his secret after reports he has early dementia. The claims | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
are said to have come from this woman, Jackie Powell, Brady's mental | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
health advocate. The solicitor for Keith Bennett's family says they're | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
cynical but concerned about any possible illness. If Ian Brady is | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
suffering from some form of dementia, Alzheimer's, then of | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
course, he may lose his memory altogether, and it may well be that | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
if he doesn't disclose that information immediately, Keith may | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
never be found. I would appeal even at this very late stage for Ian | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Brady to show some remorse, and put the family out of their agony so | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
that he cannot last be found. Ashworth High Security Psychiatric | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
Hospital in the rubble, where Brady is on hunger strike, has refused to | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
comment. Radio was seen again for the first time in decades last year | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
at the tribunal, to be moved to a normal prison. Keith Bennett's | :09:56. | :09:56. | |
mother Winnie Johnson died in 2 12 mother Winnie Johnson died in 2 12 | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
without knowing where her son is buried. With Brady in his 70s, new | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
suggestions of dementia mean time is running out. A group of football | :10:04. | :10:15. | |
fans from wholesale a feared for their lives when the coach they were | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
travelling on was attacked by a large gang in Liverpool. The | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
incident happened after the Liverpool`Hull City match at Anfield | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
yesterday. A passenger and driver were injured. Elaine Dunkley | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
reports. Nearly every window was smashed as | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
passengers were hit by bricks and broken glass. On board this coach, | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
Hull City fans who had been to see their team play Liverpool at | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
Anfield. Some were children. Pretty frightening, particularly when Harry | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Levin `year`old sat next to the window. We put them into the middle | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
of the gangway of the boss, and it was getting bricks thrown at it | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
right and centre. Not just small bricks, but concrete, boulders, | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
everything. The coach was the last in a convoy to leave Anfield and had | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
travelled nearly two miles away to the Norris Green area. The coach was | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
stuck in traffic along is busy main road when it was attacked by a gang | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
of up to 20. Police are now examining CCTV to find out who was | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
responsible. Most of the passengers escaped with minor injuries, but it | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
could have been far worse. Four guys got off the bus, trying to tell and | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
to stop. As they got off the were attacked, and they even had knives | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
pulled on them. One of the guys came out with his hands up saying, calm | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
down, stop it, and this guy through a rock bigger than a football, and | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
literally threw it straight at his head from two yards at way. He | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
ducked, and it had to shoulder. The ambulance staff saw this at the | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
scene. Merseyside Police said this attack had nothing to do with | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
Liverpool football fans, but it was working with both clubs and the | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
local authority to ensure safety to all. Anyone with information is | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
being urged to contact the police. Still to come on North West Tonight: | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
Return to sender. Debt, deficit, and draws. We will | :12:03. | :12:13. | |
round up the festive period for Bolton Wanderers and the rest of our | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
teams later on. And, returned to sender. Find out how this | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
10`year`old's message in a bottle finally got answered. It is good to | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
know something is never change! Lara Jones was passionate about | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
children's education. The young teacher from Goosnargh near Preston | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
was a keen traveller who particularly wanted to help those | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
from poorer countries to get on in life. But Lara's life was cruelly | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
cut short when she was murdered in a hostel in Cuba in 2012. Determined | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
to keep her spirit alive, her family set up a charitable foundation in | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
her name. Over the past few months, workers have been building a school | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
in Tanzania, and it's now about to open its doors. Well, Lara's mother | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Carolyn came in to see us this afternoon to tell us about why they | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
decided to do it. Everybody wanted to help, and of course, there is | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
nothing you can do to help, but I felt we needed to harness that | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
really positive energy, and in addition, really try to let Lara do | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
some of the things that she would have wanted to do, and she was very | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
inspirational as a teacher. She had wanted to open a school. We had | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
talked about it. This just seemed to be a perfect way to use all those | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
energies. Teaching English as a foreign language to foreign | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
nationals, that is one prong of what you do. The other is opening this | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
new school in Tanzania, which has happened remarkably quickly. You | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
only started building it in September. That's right. The three | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
of us got together, and it was Save The Children, who were giving us the | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
local knowledge and assessing the need, Raleigh International who were | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
providing the labour force, and Lara's foundation, who provided the | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
funding. And you have been out there. It must have been an | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
emotional experience to see this getting off the ground. It was a | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
lovely thing to see. To see something tangible, and to see the | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
people. I actually met the children who would be the first ones to use | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
the school. I spoke to the community. It was nice to see | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
something that tangible. What would Lara think of what has been done in | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
her name? I think she would be very pleased. She was a very pragmatic | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
and empathetic person, and she was very much about the people. She | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
could talk to young children and old people. She had a way with | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
everybody, and she liked to do things, so I think she would be very | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
happy to see this happening. We have tried to do it in the most | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
professional way, using the best people. We have not cut any corners. | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
I think that is fitting for her. people. We have not cut any corners. | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
I think that is fitting for her. I am sure she would be very proud | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
Thank you very much. By the sound of it, I think Lara | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
would have been really proud of the work that her mum and friends have | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
done. They raised ?80,000 in four months. Amazing. So, the first | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
programme of 2014. Did you have a good break? Lovely. Very nice. It is | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
quite difficult to get back in! 2014, it definitely is. | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
Amid all the celebrations and family get`togethers, for some people, | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
Christmas and the New Year can be a lonely time. Almost half of adults | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
in the North West say they sometimes feel alone, and the figure according | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
to a BBC survey is much higher for elderly people. In Rochdale, the | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
council is developing a befriending system that matches young people | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
with those who need their support. Nina Warhurst went to meet two | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
ladies with very different lives who've developed a very special | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
friendship. Audrey is 88 and says she spends | :15:59. | :16:00. | |
most days looking out of the window. In fact, she has not left | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
her house since 2010. But this is her new friend Robina. She is 1 and | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
her new friend Robina. She is 17 and studying social care. She comes to | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
sit see Audrey for a few hours every week. They were paired by the | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
befriending scheme of Rochdale Council. It brightens my day when I | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
see her, because it is company. It is someone to talk to. I am talking | :16:26. | :16:34. | |
to myself after time! We look at newspapers and magazines. I will | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
make a cup of tea. I will do a little bit of tidying up. She will | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
always tell me how grateful she is to have me. She says I am like a | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
breath of fresh air! The friendship has given Audrey the confidence to | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
leave the house for the first time in three years to go and get a | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
chippy lunch. IM over the moon! It a treat for me. Society is changing. | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
People are becoming more isolated, and the need for volunteers like | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
Rubina has never been greater. We have heard Jeremy Hunt is talking | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
recently about the national shame that is loneliness in elderly | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
people. Most elderly people don t talk to their neighbours much, and | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
10% of them never speak to their neighbours at all. This is why | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
friendships like this are so important. Do you want some of my | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
chips? Rubina's taken Audrey to a place she used to come as a child, | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
this lake. I couldn't do it without her. Will you be doing it again? | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
this lake. I couldn't do it without her. Will you be doing it again I | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
hope so! We will definitely go out again. | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
A great idea, isn't it? To people who would otherwise never have come | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
into contact. 70 years between them, but still they are friends. | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
It has been a very busy time for our football teams over the festive | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
period. Now, with no fewer than four games | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
over the festive period, it's been a busy time for our football clubs, | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
and a good time for the likes of Manchester City, who won every game | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
over the holidays. But for others, it has been a concerning spell, and | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
that applies to Bolton Wanderers fans. Stuart Pollitt is at the | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
Reebok Stadium, and Stuart, it's not just on the pitch where Wanderers | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
fans are worried? That's right, and Adele. Boldon | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
showed plenty of fight on the pitch yesterday, turning around a 2`1 | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
deficit to draw 2`2 with Middlesbrough. But it is a deficit | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
of a different kind that is around the club, after accounts reveal | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
their net debt is ?163 million. We will have more on that in a minute, | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
but first, let's round of the rest of the festive action will stop | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
let's start with a club for whom ?163 million is not that much money. | :18:46. | :18:46. | |
Manchester City. That drops nicely! A piledriver | :18:47. | :18:59. | |
A perfect Christmas for Manchester City. Four games, four wins and just | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
a point off the top. And maybe, after a 3`2 win at Swansea, an end | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
to the poor away form which has cost them so far? The last four games we | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
have played away, we won three Andrew one. That is very important. | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
We have a lot more to play, five or six, and we will be fighting for the | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
title. But will one of those five or six | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
include Manchester United? Two Tottenham headers left David Moyes | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
heading for a fourth home defeat of the season, and venting his | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
frustration at the officials. I find it unbelievable that the referee | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
does not give a penalty kick and a sending off for the goalkeeper. For | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
that's not to be given in the penalty box for that challenge, I | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
don't know what is a penalty kick and that is not. | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
Liverpool had been in danger of slipping out of title contention | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
too, but three points at home to Hull has kept them in the hunt. That | :19:54. | :20:02. | |
included Luis Suarez's 20th goal of the season. It was arguably our best | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
win for the season, on the back of a really tough schedule for us. | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Everton were pleased with their point after leaving it late to | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
salvage something from Stoke. Kevin Mirallas hit the bar twice before | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
Leighton Baines' late penalty. They grabbed a draw. They are now six, | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
one point behind Liverpool. We feel disappointed in terms of dropping | :20:26. | :20:26. | |
two points. Outside the Premier League, the | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
finest festive performances came from undefeated Wigan and from | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
Preston ` three wins for North End meaning they'll have high hopes of | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
leaving League One behind and ending 2014 in the Championship. | :20:36. | :20:45. | |
So, Preston are on the art, but Bolton are sliding towards | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
relegation and possible financial trouble with the latest accounts | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
showing the club is using ?1 million a week in the last 12 months. To | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
discuss this, I am joined by a Bolton fan and an accountant, | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
Stephen Battersby. Most of the debt here is owed to the owner, so should | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
fans be worried? No, I do think there is any immediate cause for | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
concern. Eddie Davis is owed about 150 million of the debt, but he | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
converted that into long`term loans about a year ago, so we still have | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
about nine years to grow the business again, and obviously to | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
diversify into other income streams, and I don't think there is any | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
immediate worry. The longer term issue is that at some point, Eddie | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
Davis may want to recoup his money, and therefore there is uncertainty | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
there. Yes, it is a loan, and obviously, all loans have to be | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
repaid at some point. That might be in the form of Mr Davies deciding to | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
sell the club, but I cannot see that in the immediate future. I think he | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
is completely committed to it at this moment. The looming problem | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
this financial Bear play. They must balance the books by this time next | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
year. That is correct. What we must do and come, and what is inhibiting | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
developers of the squad, is, we have to break even. Financial fair play | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
has been introduced to make sure clubs can live within their means, | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
so it is in essence a very good move for a industry that has overspent | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
for many years. But it is making a transition from Premier league club | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
to Championship club that much more difficult. Thank you very much for | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
joining us. So, we could be in for a New Year of belt tightening here at | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
Bolton Wanderers, and perhaps for some other football clubs as well. | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
But for now, back to the studio. Thank you very much. Just to | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
reiterate, the top ten in the Premier league has a real north`west | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
Labour. Manchester City, Liverpool, Everton, and Manchester United are | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
all there. So, did you get an good Christmas present is? I did. | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
Anything you could tell is about? An electric blanket. Cheaper than | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
putting your heating on! You can't walk around with it on! I got some | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
lovely presents, but I don't think any of the ones I got were quite as | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
surprising as this one that was received by Zoe Averianov from | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
Salford. Amongst her gifts on Christmas morning was a letter in | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
strange handwriting. More than two decades ago Zoe dropped a message in | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
a bottle into the sea. The letter was to tell her it had finally | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
turned up hundreds of miles away. Stuart Flinders takes up the story. | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
Zoe Averianov was ten years old when she went on a family holiday to | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
Germany in 1990 on board a North Sea ferry. As the ship left Hull, when | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
nobody was looking, she popped a letter into a bottle and threw it | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
overboard. It probably would have been quite late when we threw it, | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
knowing we went probably supposed to throw some thing overborne! Zoe had | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
forgotten all about it until, on Christmas Day, her father handed her | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
a letter with a foreign postmark that had arrived at her old home. | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
Initially, I was a little bit quiet, just looking at it, and they all | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
sort of expectantly looked at me, thinking, what is it? The envelope | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
contained the very letter she'd written 23 years ago. Dear Finder, | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
my name is away. Please would you write to me? I would like it a lot. | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
I am ten years old and I like ballet, playing a flute and piano. I | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
have a hamster and a fish. The message in a bottle had travelled | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
about 350 miles to the Netherlands. Dear Zoe, yesterday, on one of my | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
many walks with my wife along the Dykes, looking among the debris | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
thrown by the sea on the embankment, I found a little plastic | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
bottle containing a message. It was your message, dated September 12, | :24:49. | :24:49. | |
your message, dated September 1 , 1990. The real surprise ` how it | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
took so long to get there. It does not seem to have gone that far. | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
Know, perhaps it has been there and back if you dines! `` a few times. | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
Extraordinary. It should come back all those years later from so far | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
away. I dare say any messages in bottles in the seat tonight along | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
the north`west coast are going to get tossed around a bit! Happy New | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
Year. It is all about the weather tonight, particularly for coastal | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
communities. Absolutely. Or the bottle might get | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
to you sooner. Good evening. 2014 has not started on a decent note at | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
all. Very high winds tomorrow, as you heard. A lot of them are severe | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
gales, and maybe storm`force winds. They are expected around the coast | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
of the north`west. I have compiled a table tomorrow at the high tide We | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
are expecting the strongest winds around lunchtime, and these are the | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
high tides. Ten metres is normally considered very, very high. You can | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
see in Liverpool, we are expecting ten metres and 20 high tide | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
tomorrow. Ten and 20 the same, in Morecambe. Combined with the high | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
winds at lunchtime, this means we could see the waves rushing onto the | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
shore up and possibly inland tomorrow. For this evening, we will | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
see some rain slowly crossing over overnight. The rain continues to | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
ease through to the other side of the Pennines. The wind also picks up | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
to near gale force. Temperatures are down to maybe three or four Celsius. | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
Then a yellow warning from The Met Office is valid from midnight all | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
day tomorrow. The wind starts first thing, maybe 40 or 50 miles an | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
hour. Inland, up to even 80 miles an hour around the coast. Round | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
Liverpool in Southport, and also across the Isle of Man. Over the top | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
of the Pennines, we could see up to 80 mph tomorrow, and plenty of | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
blustery showers as well. Technically, we could see highs of | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
maybe eight or nine Celsius. You will not notice that however, | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
because of the winds gusting through. On Saturday, a bit of a | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
respite. On Sunday, we will do it all over again, turning wet and | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
windy on Sunday. At the moment, a yellow weather warning is out for | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
that. 24 flood warnings still. Your BBC local radio station will keep | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
you updated on your local area's forecast. And you will be back with | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
me at 10:25pm for the latest. That is right. The message is, if you | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
live on the coast, take care. Yes, especially over the next 24 hours. | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
Thank you for watching. Happy New Year again. | :27:44. | :27:48. |