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perhaps 48 hours of drier weather for many of us. But between now and | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
And Annabel Tiffin. Our top story: The giants are back. Liverpool | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
prepares to stage the country's biggest theatrical commemoration of | :00:11. | :00:18. | |
the First World War. Absolutely unbelievable. To be honest with you, | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
to get them up north again, it's lot about Liverpool. | :00:28. | :00:28. | |
We'll assess the possible economic impact on Merseyside. Also tonight: | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
300 jobs go and a children's home is closed. Salford Council announces | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
the latest casualties of its budget cuts. The mayor responds angrily to | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
criticism. Do not stand there and tell me it is not good enough. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Shouted to Mr Cameron at Number Ten Downing St. | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
Showing the way forward ` the Bolton man guiding preparations for Rio's | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Paralympics. And who's tickled his fancy? We | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
speak to man hoping to bring Liverpool to a standstill. | :00:56. | :01:10. | |
Also tonight, we're gazing to the skies as Stargazing Live returns to | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
our screens. Mark Edwardson is live at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire. Yes, it | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
is the home of the telescope. 2 0 is the home of the telescope. 2 0 | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
feet across, the biggest of its kind in the world when it was built. Does | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
that not look splendid? It is also going to be drawn for the next three | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
days of the start of the television show Brian Cox and Dara O'Briain. | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
They are going to be telling me how this place has become their second | :01:41. | :01:41. | |
home. Thank you very much. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Two years, ago they made a giant impact in Liverpool. Today came news | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
the Giants themselves will be back to do it all again this summer. Yes, | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
the little girl Giant and her dog, who captivated the city in 2012, | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
will return in July. It'll be one of the flagship | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
cultural events to mark 100 years since the start of World War One. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
Jayne McCubbin is down on the waterfront for us. Jayne, they hope | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
this all adds up to a giant economic boost for Merseyside? | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
That's right. Lets crunch the numbers. When the giants arrived in | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
2012, almost one million people came to see them. That generated around | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
?32 million for the city. In July, city leaders expect up to two | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
million will visit, generating who knows how many more millions of | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
pounds. It is a much longer five`day event. There is so much going on | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
this year in Liverpool. A huge year for the city. The International | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
Festival of Business, the Golf Open, the Biennial. What a success because | :02:46. | :03:02. | |
was last time. This is a huge year for Liverpool. But surely the | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
massive crowd pleaser will be this. She's coming back. Back to the city | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
she captivated two years ago. And she wont be alone. Her little giant | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
dog Xolo will be return too. The city is thrilled. Unbelievable. | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
Absolutely unbelievable. To be honest with you, to get them up | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
north again must be a good thing to say about Liverpool. I can't wait. | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
Good morning from Liverpool, the city of `` Giants. It will showcase | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
Liverpool is one of the best cities in the world and one of the best to | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
do events of this kind. Liverpool is once again being overtaken by | :03:47. | :03:47. | |
Giants. In 2012, they told a story of love | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
and loss to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic. This time, a new | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
story to mark 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Fitting then, that today's announcement began with this. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
And was held in the Town Halls, Hall of Remembrance. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Ten battalions from the Kings Regiment marched to war. The | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
majority never came back. Some may question the ability of marionettes | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
to pay proper tribute to the sacrifice made by them and others. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Not Liverpool, certainly not the Government. Unsurprisingly, all of | :04:19. | :04:42. | |
this all costs. More surprisingly, the cash strapped council says it | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
will cost less than it did last time. We are in partnership with | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
Europe. We have got various organisations involved. You have | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
more people chipping in? We even have sponsorship. It will be great | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
for the city to showcase itself and you can't put a value on that. The | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
adventure begins on July 23rd. Expect more surprises between now | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
and then. More surprises on the way. Can you deliver anything about | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
them? Think the thing with the spectacular is the element of | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
surprise. Like last time, people know the little girl and the dog and | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
we can assure you there will be lots of enjoyment and surprises. For | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
people who have seen those characters and think they cannot | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
wait to come back at his grave. What about people who think they do not | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
need to come back. We'll be being your characters? `` this is great. | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
Will be more. I think part of the good story a surprise. Let's talk | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
about the serious butt. Council cash is very tight. Here, more so than a | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
lot of places. The council say that there is ?300,000 missing to be for | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
this. You don't think the council is going to have to put its hand in its | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
pocket at all. Why? This is obviously a national memory should. | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
It is a joint commemoration. We do have backing from the arts Council | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
and some European funding. Using that because of national more vivid | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
sponsors will come forward? We think so. We had a lot of sponsorship last | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
time and people didn't really know what to expect. When they saw the | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
crowds and how important this is typical, not just Liverpool Road | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
across the UK, this is a really big thing. You know what is going to be | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
done so beautifully, with dignity and respect, we are guaranteed to be | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
the financing. Vivid firms now, which they didn't last time, now | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
they are happy to pay in cash because they see the benefit of | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
these cultural events? `` private firms. I think people see it as an | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
inward investment in the city. These sort of events really showcase what | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Liverpool last to offer and the firms that are based here. They want | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
to see people nationally and internationally that it is a good | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
city to be in and that people should come and invest and live here and | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
work you. I think it is a good thing all around and creates jobs. Thank | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
you very much for your time. I just wanted to say that no wonder the | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
rough guide, the travellers Bible, or over Christmas said that | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
Liverpool was one of the top three places in the world to visit this | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
year. They said that Liverpool has got it small drawback. That is | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
fabulous news. `` Liverpool has got its five back. We have another | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
interview at the back of the programme. | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
Thank you much. Stay with us for that. He is a big character. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
A woman who claims she was raped by a man released from prison two days | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
earlier has told a court she thought she was going to die. Peter Watton, | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
from Chester, is accused of carrying out a nine`hour attack on the woman | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
last June. The jury was told she was tied up and threatened, after being | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
targeted whilst out jogging. Peter Watton claims the woman consented to | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
sex. Figures from the DVLA show a | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
motorist from Liverpool has collected 45 points on his driving | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
licence, over nine months, and is still on the road. The Institute of | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Advanced Motorists says more needs to be done to enforce driving bans | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
for persistent offenders. For men from Gloucestershire have appeared | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
in front of magistrates following the death of a man who lapsed after | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
a night out in Greater Manchester. The defendants, accused of drug | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
offences, did not enter pleas and will appear at the Crown Court in | :08:41. | :08:50. | |
three weeks' time. A children's home will close, | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
services for children and adults cut and 300 posts will be lost ` all as | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Salford City Council attempts to save ?25 million from next year s | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
save ?25 million from next year's budget. | :09:00. | :09:00. | |
Today, the city's mayor said many local services, especially those for | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
vulnerable people, will be permanently damaged. Our political | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
editor Arif Ansari is here and this sounds very difficult for Salford. | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Yes. As they were saying yesterday for local government in general, | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
for local government in general which has lost about a quarter of | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
its funding since the coalition government took over, if we look at | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
the impact for Salford as they prepare their next financial year, | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
you can see that they are looking to lose 300 jobs out of their workforce | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
of about 10,000 and ?5.6 million from children's' services. ?4.7 | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
million from adult services. Those are the two departments which are by | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
far the largest spenders. I have been asking people in Salford if | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
they have noticed the difference. It is difficult to handle. There is no | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
budget. To think that makes it worse? I cannot see it getting | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
better any time soon. I have filled in at about six or seven | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
discretionary payments. And now I have loved that threat for the last | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
12 months that I could lose my. They are coming round trying to cut care | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
for the elderly. And half an hour call has been cut to 15 minutes. | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
for the elderly. And half an hour call has been cut to 15 minutes You | :10:14. | :10:13. | |
call has been cut to 15 minutes. You cannot look after people in 15 | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
minutes. Given the scale, what effect will this have on basic | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
services? It is clearly going to be damaging. The question is how much. | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
The mayor himself has described this as cutting into the bone. When I | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
spoke to him earlier today, I asked him whether or not that means they | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
can still offer adequate services. We are going below for some groups | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
of people anything at all. That is worse. That is not good enough. Of | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
course it is not. Don't stand me and tell `` don't stand there and tell | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
me it is not good enough. Showed it is not good enough. Shouted to Mr | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
Cameron stopped we will continue to do the best we can. Is it adequate? | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
Not for the people who have lost the service. If you are unable to | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
provide adequate services, should you not sit down and let someone | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
else take over? What a load of nonsense. You going to go and knock | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
on Cameron's door and tell him to stand down because he is making a | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
mess of it? The difference is that Mr Cameron says he is still | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
providing adequate services, whether he is not. You were saying you're | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
not. I am honest about this. He is not. Actually, you know and I know | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
that it is the Government's actions that have caused these cuts. We have | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
to mitigate against the worst of them. Feisty. Over the next couple | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
of years at least, more cuts to come. Thank you very much. | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
A city regulator has decided his decision to appoint Paul Flowers as | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
the manager of the cooperate bank. He told the `` the Co`op bank. He | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
told the commission that he seemed to be the right man for the job stop | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
last year, the bank needed a ?1 5 billion bailout. | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
And the Blackpool striker Michael Chopra's been fined ?10,000 for | :12:15. | :12:15. | |
criticising the club on Twitter. criticising the club on Twitter | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
Chopra was one of six players asked to come in for extra work with the | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
fitness coach today. In a tweet, fitness coach today. In a tweet, | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
which was later deleted, he twice referred to the session as a joke. | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
Blackpool say the Manager Paul Ince is disappointed by the comments, | :12:28. | :12:28. | |
Blackpool say the Manager Paul Ince is disappointed by the comments and | :12:29. | :12:29. | |
is disappointed by the comments, and the player's been warned about his | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
future conduct. Sports news. There's a big night | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
ahead for Manchester United. League Cup semifinal first legs don't | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
usually have much significance for them. But after disappointing form | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
so far it could be David Moyes's only hope of a domestic trophy. BBC | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Radio Manchester has coverage from 7pm. | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
We're off to Rio next, with the head of the International Paralympic | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
Committee. One of the most important men in world sport, Sir Philip | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
Craven, grew up in Bolton and now lives near Crewe. Stuart Pollitt | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
joined him as he checked the progress of the 2016 Brazil | :13:03. | :13:15. | |
Paralympics. Feed the British public smack sensational appetite. | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
We are all people of one world. This is what the president's best | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
known for. Big speeches at the big events. But on visits like this to | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
Rio, the job's about more than speeches. I they are really as a | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
figurehead to take the temperature, take the pulse of the organising | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
committee in the city. Hughes from the north`west of the UK. `` he is | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
from. The first task is to tackle the press and press home some North | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
West history. It is a Alton accent. When the Industrial Revolution hit, | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
it hit different times and different towns developed... Then it's off to | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
see some of those who could develop into the stars of the Rio games. As | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
into the stars of the Rio games As the figurehead of the International | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
panel on big movement, Sir Philip is in demand to attend events like | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
this, the annual resilient Paralympic sports awards. He should | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
stay for life because everything he had done for the movement is | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
something that is going to be written for ever. | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
The next day, there's a visit to this rehab centre for disabled | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
people on the outskirts of Rio. In fact, I am going to learn from you. | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
The centre's holding an event to celebrate 1,000 days until the | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
Paralympics begin. Be very well`prepared to be amazed. You will | :14:39. | :14:48. | |
be amazed. Thank you very much. The next stop is the Rio 2016 HQ and a | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
speech to those organising the games. The aim is to inspire and | :14:52. | :15:01. | |
educate. I hate the DWORD, in fact. I hate the phrase the disabled. Over | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
here, pure undiluted negativity. I hate the phrase the disabled. Over | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
here, pure undiluted negativity What Paralympic stars exchange | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
that. We move forward with positivity. And that's the message | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
of this visit, Sir Philip's belief that the paralympics can, and will, | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
change lives in this country. Stuart Pollitt, BBC North West Tonight, | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
Rio. There is more from them tomorrow | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
night. The BBC's Stargazing Live returns to | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
Jodrell Bank in Cheshire this evening. For the next three nights, | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
Professor Brian Cox and comedian Dara O'Briain will be in the heart | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
of Cheshire to give you a guided tour of the heavens. | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
This is Stargazing Live's fourth year and it's getting more and more | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
people to turn their eyes to the skies and enjoy the spectacle. Our | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
Cheshire reporter, Mark Edwardson, is at Jodrell Bank this evening. | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
Cheshire reporter, Mark Edwardson, is at Jodrell Bank this evening. | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
It's stunning! Have you seen any stars yet, Mark? Apart from the | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
celebrities! None yet, unfortunately. I do not | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
know if you can tell but the sky is relatively cloudy. Does that tell | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
Scott not look absolutely fantastic? It was named after the man who made | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
sure it was completed in 1957. At the time, it was the biggest fish of | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
its type in the world. I want to show you these pitches that we took | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
a little earlier of day becoming made behind that famous telescope. | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
Does it not look absolutely resplendent? You can now see how it | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
dominates the landscape of Cheshire. Absolutely fabulous. I | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
have spent a day with the Macclesfield astronomical Society. | :16:43. | :16:43. | |
We wanted to prove three things, We wanted to prove three things, | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
firstly that astronomy Nimes be expensive no complicated and that | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
you don't even need darkness. The group of funds what's right over | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
there. More than a dozen astronomers gather | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
for a bit of stargazing. And you might have noticed it's bright and | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
sunny. Surprisingly perhaps, there's plenty to see during the day, | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
starting with our nearest star ` the sun. You don't need particularly | :17:06. | :17:14. | |
expensive equipment. You can convert any standard telescope into a solar | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
scope. It will allow you to see some fantastic features of the servers. | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
It really is a great opportunity. `` of the surface. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Where others use high technology to photograph the sun, Paul Cannon's | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
gone right back to basics with pencils and pastels. This is how | :17:35. | :17:43. | |
Galileo would have done it? Yes it is. Everybody is looking into deep | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
space and this one is on our doorstep. It is not just the sun but | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
the Moon and Venus. It is amazing to see that that is visible during the | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
day. As our stars. They did not suddenly disappear. We are seeing | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
others with quite modest equipment. As we have seen, it does not have to | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
go dark for you to go stargazing and you certainly do not need expensive | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
and complicated equipment. In fact, many of us have got the entire | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
universe here in our pockets. Look at that, the sun is there, the Moon | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
and Venus. Smartphones all come with apps which are star charts, enabling | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
you to have the entire map of the heavens at your fingertips, to look | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
up into the skies and see what is out there. It is absolutely | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
wonderful. It is probably worth mentioning that | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
you should never observe the sun through a telescope or binoculars or | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
your naked eye because you could risk severe eye damage. And that's | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
caught out a lot of astronomers in the past, including Galileo and Sir | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
Isaac Newton. And for lots of tips on how to stargaze safely, go to | :18:58. | :19:06. | |
bbc.co.uk/stargazing. As far as that programme is concerned, the sets are | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
being dressed, the final preparations are underway, as our | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
rehearsals. I got a few moments with Professor DynCorp `` Brian Cox and | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
Dara O'Briain. The two we are focusing on the weather on the | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
different planets and the Northern Lights. We have a broadcast unit in | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
Norway who will be showing a live television pitches of the Northern | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
Lights, which has not been done before. It is technically difficult | :19:33. | :20:02. | |
to do. Tomorrow it is to astronauts every conversation may have involved | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
billions of this and billions of that. The idea stargazing is you get | :20:07. | :20:16. | |
to go out, they sat in. You will know that one of the moons out the | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
might have life on it. That is the idea of stargazing. You're right | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
that there is something romantic about stargazing. It is fascinating | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
in that way. There is also something romantic about this place. Is there | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
anywhere else in the world where you can do stargazing live? Speak out on | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
think there is. Certainly with this history. This is the first telescope | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
to tracks but migrated the start of the space programme. In those days, | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
in living memory, we did not know about these things. `` to track | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
space progress. You go back to when this telescope for the first | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
satellite go over and you could even debate whether there was vegetation | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
on Mars in those days. We have come a long way in 50 years. This place | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
is inextricably linked to the history. | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
This is the fourth year for the show but are there any nerves? Always. | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
Things could go wrong. Hopefully some things do because the audience | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
likes nothing more than two see is tripping over things. The adrenaline | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
levels will be up. The two we bought stand there because I think if | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
something goes wrong been he will tell a joke and he think I will say | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
something about galaxies so we both think we have it covered. It could | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
go hideously wrong. We've lost Norway, we've lost Norfolk, it's | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
just the two of us. We will just be left alone in the middle of this, | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
just pointing at the Dome. Just look at that for a while while we work | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
out what to do. Looking forward to an entertaining | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
and fun night. And Stargazing returns tonight with | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
Brian Cox and Dara O'Briain on BBC Two at 8pm. | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
Thank you very much to stop I know Mark is a big fan. Oh, no, what are | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
you doing? ! I am trying to find a star. | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
There are no stars here. Earlier, we told you about the | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
Giants returning to Liverpool. But one key person was missing from | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
today's launch party ` their creator, Jean Luc Courcoo. This | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
summer, it'll be his job to captivate not just the city but the | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
nation, as his Giants tell the real First World War stories of people | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
from Liverpool. A couple of you have been in touch | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
to see it is a good idea to get young people interested in history | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
until the story the war. Now, he is obviously a very busy man | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
but as Dave Guest reports, we tracked him down to his workshop in | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
France, where he spoke exclusively to BBC NorthWest Tonight about his | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
love of Liverpool and its people. `` and tell them the story of the war. | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
To say Jean Luc is a larger than life character is, perhaps, an | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
understatement. The mechanical characters he creates are larger | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
than life, too. His giants captured the hearts of Liverpudlians when | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
they last strode through the city in 2012. It really is spectacular. Did | :23:03. | :23:12. | |
see something like that in the streets of Liverpool! `` to see. | :23:13. | :23:23. | |
see something like that in the streets of Liverpool! `` to see The | :23:24. | :23:23. | |
streets of Liverpool! `` to see. The quality of the animation was really | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
fantastic. They were all great, all of them. What do you think about the | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
fact that they're coming back? Made up. What sticks in your mind? The | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
little dog having a wee! Back then, the story was inspired by | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
a little girl and a letter to her father who was lost on the Titanic. | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
This time another emotive subject ` the First World War. It is not a | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
beautiful story. It is a dramatic story. It is a story of history. | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
Jean Luc has taken the people of Liverpool to his heart, describing | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
their resilience and strength of character as only he could. Like a | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
rhinoceros! So Jean Luc has a soft spot for the | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
people of Liverpool. And there's one citizen who he holds in especially | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
high regard ` the Mayor, Joe Anderson. And Jean Luc being Jean | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
Luc has his own unique way of describing the Mayor. I, love, I Joe | :24:30. | :24:44. | |
Anderson. When he speak to me! Presumably, the feeling is mutual. | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
Dave Guest, BBC NorthWest Tonight, Liverpool. | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
I bet Joe Anderson love them! I shall look at a Joe Anderson in a | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
totally different way. Brilliant though, isn't it question Court | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
smack it is going to be spectacle next summer. Is it going to be | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
spectacle tonight? next summer. Is it going to be | :25:07. | :25:07. | |
Here's Eno. It's always going to be mixed | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
depending on the weather but if there's one place to watch stars | :25:11. | :25:19. | |
it's the Isle of Man. Over the next few days, Thursday night could be | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
the best night to look at stars. Across the North West, the Isle of | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
Man is probably the best place to see the stars. Look at this photo of | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
Langness Lighthouse, taken by Ron Strathdee. Today, the Isle of Man | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
became the best place in Britain to see stars, with a total of 26 | :25:34. | :25:42. | |
designated Dark Sky Discovery Sites. I think Thursday night could be the | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
best night. Let's go back to the weather. As | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
Mark said, there are lots of clouds around. It is a bit breezy also. As | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
around. It is a bit breezy also As we head into the overnight period, I | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
think they're going to begin to see showers beginning to work in. Some | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
of them will be quite heavy in places and it is a windy night as | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
well. Because of the wind and the clouds and the showers, it is a mild | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
night. Temperatures overnight hovering between six and eight. The | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
headline for tomorrow looks better, drier and brighter later on. We | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
start off damp and cloudy and with a fair few showers on and off through | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
the morning but the other side of lunchtime, things begin to improve. | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
Showers will die away. We are going to see lots of clouds tomorrow | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
afternoon but I suspect most were some bright skies in between the | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
cloud cover. The clouds are not going to come to much despite drier | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
skies. Possibly highs of nine Celsius for tomorrow. Tomorrow | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
night, we are expecting more rain and more cloud so on Thursday, we | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
start of cloudy with a little bit more showers. Again, into the | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
afternoon, it could be drier and brighter. Highs of seven Celsius | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
tomorrow. As we head into Thursday, if you have a look at the outlook, | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
seven Celsius during the day but Thursday night could be the night | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
for stargazing. Hopefully some clearer skies in between the clouds | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
on Thursday night to watch the stars from. Tonight, yes, it is cloudy and | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
showery but we could see some clear skies around Cheshire. | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
Good news. Thank you very much. The great thing about the telescope | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
is that it is a radio telescope so it doesn't matter if it's cloudy or | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
not because it appears to have the clouds. | :27:35. | :27:35. | |
Very, very good. Thank you very much. Enjoy stargazing if you're | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
going to have a go. Good night. | :27:40. | :27:43. |