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Mikaeel Kular's community. That's all | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Good evening. Welcome to Northwest Tonight. With Roger Johnson. And | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
Annabel Tiffin. Jail for the two conmen who swindled | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
over 100 pensioners out of their life savings. They befriended many | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
victims before stealing their money. Also tonight: This apprentices who | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
haven't been paid and the trainer who says it's not her fault. The | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Government agency in charge announces its own investigation. | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Government agency in charge announces its own investigation. | :00:34. | :00:34. | |
Liverpool City Council is cracking down on parents who take their | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
children out of school to go on holt day. We'll be asking parents if they | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
think they are right. And join me for the biggest pigeon | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
pageant on the planet. I'll be in Blackpool where fanciers have got | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
their eyes on the prize. For ten year, Molly Prince's | :00:51. | :01:07. | |
companies have helped the unemployed find work. She's no strange tore the | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
press in. 2012, she hit the headlines for the wrong reasons | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
after jobseekers sent out to help at the Queen's Jubilee ended up | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
sleeping rough under Tower Bridge. Tonight, we investigate why around | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
60 of her current apprentices haven't been paid for three months, | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
why lucrative training contracts have been halted and why there are | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
calls for a police investigation. Tower Bridge, 2012. Jobseekers | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
sleeping rough hours before a work placement on the Queen's Jubilee. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Exploitation screamed the press. Molly Prince said it was a cockup. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
In the last week, we've spoken to more of Molly's apprentice Is who | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
say they feel exploited. 18th October was the last time I was | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
paid. E`mails flying back`and`forth saying we'd be paid, then we | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
wouldn't be paid on that date, then it would be another date. Then we | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
just never had no money. I've had to claim Housing Benefit in order to | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
afford to live where I live. The company, LDC, was paid to train | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
students at the Oasis Academy in Salford and here in Lindley. Not | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
what you would call a modern education establishment. Training | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
money was paid by the Government skill s Skills Funding Agency to | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
stock stone who subcontracted LDC to provide training in the north`west. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
In October, funding was stopped when the college started to investigate | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
complaints. And that led to a cash flow crisis | :02:34. | :02:43. | |
for Molly Prince who couldn't pay apprentices. She says she's the | :02:44. | :02:44. | |
victim of a malicious complaint. victim of a malicious complaint. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Do you think you do a good job here? Absolutely. But the complaints | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
haven't just come from students. haven't just come from students | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
I've spoken to staff anonymously. When the company started, it was | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
very good but it's about chasing money now. I was asked to do | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
reviewers for learners, I can't remember seeing them attended for | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
some time. I raised concerns with Molly. She said if I take them off | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
now, we could lose numbers. This letter ends the contract with LDC. | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
We have learnt the college is investigating a discrepancy between | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
the number of students they thought were on the books and the number on | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
the register. Is this just a case then of bad business nous or is it a | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
case of potentially criminal activity? I think I've mismanaged | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
the situation with Stockton. There's no criminal activity. Absolutely | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
not. I've also spoken to this company, Charnwood Training who | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
terminated a contract with LDC saying it had concerns. Hundreds of | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
thousands were paid back to the skills funding atcy, money the | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
solicitors are trying to get back from LDC. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
Hopefully the qualification is the main thing that I want from it now, | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
it seems I've been told I've not got a cat in hell's chance of getting | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
the money. Molly agrees and told me she's probably days away from | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
insolvency. Within the last hour, the Skills | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Funding Agency has confirmed it's Funding Agency has confirmed it's | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
investigating. The MP for West Lancashire, Rosie Cooper, has now | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
called for a police investigation and she's raised the issue in | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
Parliament. Earlier, I spoke to her and asked | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
her how these apprenticeships schemes could be best delivered. | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
I don't care who delivers it as long as it's delivered properly, the | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
children, young people are trained properly, they are paid and it is | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
supervised properly. This is public money and it's not supervised | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
properly, so I want proper training, young children to be paid for their | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
work. The way this is going, it's outrageous, it seems easy money How | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
do we protect the rights of these apprentices and young people then in | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
your view? You run proper schemes, properly accredited schemes. They | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
are trying to do that? In this case, how can that be? Trying is not good | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
enough. Trying won't do it. These young people are owed probably, the | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
young people I know about, are owed ?1,000 each. They are probably never | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
going to get paid. The schemes are operated under the auspices with | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
grants from the Government. Why should they walk away? Whose moral | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
responsibility is it to say to young people, go to work, five days a | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
week, for ?330 a month and at the end of it what lessons will you | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
learn? Thank you. Next, two men from Merseyside and | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Lancashire have been jailed today for swindling more than 100 | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
pensioners out of ?5 many. Malcolm Barber and Terry Warrington carried | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
on taking investors' money even when they knew their companies were in | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
trouble. In some cases those they ripped off regarded the pair as | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
close friends. The judge at Preston Crown Court said the effect it had | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
on the victims was heart breaking. Eileen and Sue live within a few | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
minutes of each other in Wallasey and both lost over ?30,000 to the | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
Malcolm Barber Terry Warrington fraud. They are dreadful. Two awful | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
men. Thieves. Liars. It's affected my nerves a lot. I think the problem | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
was, it wasn't money that was put aside for holidays or anything like | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
that, it was an income we lived on and they literally took ?2,000 a | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
year away from us. Malcolm Barber was convicted of | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
fraud after a trial. He was jailed for four years. Terry Warrington on | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
the right admitted fraud and was jailed for four`and`a`half years. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
The court heard that their companies promised high returns in safe | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
investments, but things began to unravel when they faced a big tax | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
bill in the 90s. Instead of admitting they were in trouble, they | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
carried on taking in investors' money. 128 pensioners lost ?5 | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
million. They started off with a business | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
plan that obviously went horribly wrong when they received a | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
substantial bill from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, that impacted | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
on their ability to pay creditors back. They compounded it by robbing | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
Peter to pay Paul and eventually got problems and got worse and worse and | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
investors lost their money. The judge said many of the victims now | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
felt guilty that they couldn't financially help their children and | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
grandchildren. But he said they should not feel that because they'd | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
done no more than place their trust in men whom they should have been | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
able to trust but who in reality betrayed them. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
The victims say the jail sentences are some kind of justice. | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
This is justice at last. We haven't got our money back. But it's a | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
start. A farmer from Cheshire has been | :07:47. | :07:56. | |
jailed for 12 months after abandoning his cattle in a rented | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
farm to fly off an skiing holiday. James Stratton left the animals with | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
little food or water and they were found in an emaciated condition, | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
some already dead. The judge at World Health | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
Organisation tonne Crown Court said his farm was a concentration camp | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
for animals. This report contains distressing | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
ummages. Animal welfare officers recorded | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
shocking scenes as they examined cold harbour farm in Bruera last | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
February. Sheep remains... Most images are too | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
drills tressing to show. The remains of 33 dead cattle were found | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
decomposing. 37 more were in such poor health that they had to be | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
destroyed. James Stratton pleaded guilty to 20 | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
counts relating to animal cruelty. He left his cattle on the farm which | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
he rented with just one days' worth of food while he went on a skiing | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
trip. It was then that a former farm hand raised the alarm. Certainly one | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
of the worst cases of animal cruelty I've come across. The officers said | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
to me in the case that as far as they are concerned, it's one of the | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
worst cases they have seen. The 49`year`old ran an award`winning B | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
and yet just a mile away, his animals lived in squalor. The judge | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
summed the case up brilliantly when he said the scene that was met by | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
the officers when they arrived at the farm was for akin to a scene | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
from a World War II concentration camp and he described it as a | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
concentration camp for animals. The judge said James Stratton had been a | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
disgrace to the farming community and that cold harbour farm was an | :09:41. | :09:41. | |
apt name because, he said, that s apt name because, he said, that s | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
exactly how it had been for the animals. James Stratton's lawyer | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
claimed he had been struggle in his personal life and was unable to | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
cope, but the judge said that didn't excuse his behaviour. He was jailed | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
for a year and banned from keeping animals for ten years. The current | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
owners of the farm have nothing to do with the case. | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
Controversial plans for a huge underground gas storage facility in | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
Lancashire have moved forward after a High Court ruling made earlier | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
today. The energy group wants to excavate 19 rock salt caverns for | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
the storage of up to 600 million cubic metres of gas near fleetwood. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
Proposals had been blocked by the Government but a judge said today | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
that decision was irrational. Detectives in Greater Manchester are | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
appealing for information after a gunman threatened a shop asssistant | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
in Trafford. The asssistant refused to give him a ?1 discount on a | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
bottle of beer but when he was told police her called, he put the gun | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
away, paid for the goods and put some change in the charity box. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
Police described the attempted robbery as bizarre. | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
A short film produced by a Lancashire`based infrastructurion | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
company has been nominated for an Oscar. The Voorman Problem, starring | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
Martin Freeman, has been produced by Honlodge Productions. It's filmed by | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
Phil Wood, a Northern Film School graduate. The team will head to | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
Hollywood for the awards in March. Good luck. | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
The woman who has accused Coronation Street star Bill Roache of raping | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
her today told the court it was riddic will yous to suggest she | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
wasn't telling the truth. This afternoon, another of the accusers | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
told the jury how he indecently assaulted her at the Granada | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
studios. He denies Al accusations. Dave Guest has more. This report | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
contains flash photography. Bill Roache arrived for O'Dea four of his | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
trail at Preston to hear the woman who accused her of raping her being | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
cross`examined by his barrister. The cross`examined by his barrister The | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
woman claims he raped her at a bungalow he owned in Haslingden in | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Lancashire. The property is owned by someone else now. She also says that | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
the actor raped her at another property he had in the area on a | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
separate occasion. Louise Blackwell for the actor questioned variations | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
in the accounts that the woman had given to the police, in particular | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
her age at the time of the alleged offences. Edinburgh Airport Miss | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
Blackwell said the woman claimed to be 14 or possibly 13 or 15. She | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
accused the woman of getting things badly wrong because she wasn't | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
telling the truth. The woman said that was ridiculous. | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
This afternoon, a fourth complainant gave her evidence to the court. She | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
said that she and her sister used to hang around outside the Granada | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
building in the 1960s hoping to get autographs. She said Bill Roache | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
asked them inside and whilst there he'd taken her off to a room where | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
he indecently assaulted her. In all, there are five complainants in the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
case. Mr Roache denies two charges of rape and five of indecent | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
assault. If you have children, you may be | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
tempted to take them out of school to take advantage of cheaper holiday | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
prices during term time, but if you do, that cheap holiday could end up | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
costing you an awful lot more. There's been a huge increase in the | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
number of parents being fined for their child's unauthorised absence | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
with a quadrupling in some areas, it's all down to a change in the | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
rules that kicked in in September. A travel agents' window with | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
bargains galore, unless you want to take your family away during school | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
holidays. Small wonder parents try to avoid big bills then. Councils | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
are coming down on them. A culture has developed within some | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
communities of taking holidays in term time. That has had a very | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
significant impact on performance over the years. Some families can | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
take not just one but up to three holidays in term time. | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
Liverpool City Council's crackdown's seen parent penalties rise from 97 | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
to 250 in a year. It's up in Cheshire West and Chester. | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
Lancashire penalised 972 parents in 2013, compared to 240 the previous | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
year. Tracey and her family from Salford enjoying a break in Florida | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
last September. When they got back flair trip, an | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
education authority penalty. I have done this many a time in school when | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
they've been in school. And now they are fining us ?60. My view is that | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
the council just want to get money out of everybody. | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
The praise of a holiday can increase by as much as a third during school | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
holiday time, costing families perhaps thousands of pounds extra. | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
Some people here in Liverpool can understand why parents are tempted | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
to take their children out of school during term time, others don't. | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
Not everybody has the same rules. It's not fair to say they can't take | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
them out. They shouldn't have any time out of school playing catch`up. | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
I don't want it to her. Repeated unauthorised absences could land | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
parents in court and councils say they'll use all of their power to | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
protect children's education. A dilemma for many. | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
It's going to cost a lot more now so perhaps the dilemma's gone away. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
Up to 20,000 pigeon fanciers are flocking to Blackpool this weekend | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
for the world's most prestigious pigeon pageant. | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
A bit of a coup! As my esteemed colleague observed on | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
Twitter earlier. Very witty. I stole it from the radio! Competitors will | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
fly from in from as far away as China. Let's talk to Elaine who is | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
surrounded by the feathered ones in the winter gardens. | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
Yes, normally it's about the foxtrot in here, but tonight it's all about | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
the birds. There are 2,000 pigeons in here under the watchful eye of | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
security and the judges. This is a major event in any pigeon fanciers | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
diary. To get this far, the pigeons need brains, as well as beauty. | :16:15. | :16:24. | |
Prim and pampered. Inside the cages, the top pedigree of the pigeon | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
world. I like this one. Had her since I was | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
eight. I like this one, got a good chance and I've got loads more down | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
here. They have got a good chance to win. I've had the pigeons since I | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
was two and I really like them. I love waking up on race day or when I | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
go to a show and not knowing if you're going to win or not and you | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
just like to see if it's my favourite pigeon coming. Some of the | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
birds cost up to ?10,000. To their owners, they are priceless. | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
I've loved them all my life since I was a boy. My dad had pigeons and I | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
wouldn't be without them. I live for them. We have nine medals here, | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
awarded to pigeons in the second word war for the great acts of | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
bravery. At this year's event, they are paying homage to the homing | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
pigeon. The fearless flyer paid a pave tall role in World War I and | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
II. Pigeons in the war were extremely important. They carried | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
messages from the frontline troops and also from Al lied aircrews that | :17:28. | :17:40. | |
had been shot down. It took days to fly home, but one pigeon came home | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
with a bullet through its breast and a broken leg. In in the judging | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
hall, all eyes are on the lookout for the most coveted bird. | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
He's got to be clean. All the flights have to be in excellent | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
condition. Just like their feathered friends, | :18:00. | :18:11. | |
these fanciers always return to one of Blackpool's most prestigious | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
events. Well, this really is a major event | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
for the Blackpool economy in January. As for the judges, they | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
have got a very long night ahead deciding on which pigeon should get | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
the Rosette and which owner picks up the ?35 prize money. This weekend, | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
forget about the hens, forget about the stags, it's all about the pigeon | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
party. Makes a change from Strictly being | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
in the ballroom. Now Richard, a busy day for | :18:41. | :18:50. | |
Manchester United's manager David Moyes today? | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
Yes, he's been fined for comments he emade after United's defeat against | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
Swansea recently. He did say that United started laughing at referees, | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
he did though admit the FA's misconduct charge and was fined | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
?8,000. As for the squad, one of his midfield players is on the way out. | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
Anderson, who started just a few matches under David Moyes, is close | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
to completing a transfer. Fiorentina bought him for ?20 million from | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Porto in 2007. Now to an issue that's been debated | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
in football since the invention of the Premier League over two decades | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
ago. How much money should trickle down from the top division to the | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
sports grass roots? More than 20,000 people have signed a petition | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
launched by a north`west MP urging the Premier League to share more. | :19:40. | :19:48. | |
The latest TV deal was worth ?5 billion. | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
Manchester United, champions... Clubs are wealthier than ever, but | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
should the Premier League be doing more to help the rest of football? | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
Here at Horwich, they are reliant on the likes of volunteers Tom and | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
Lesley, money is in short supply. At the moment, we are on council | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
pitches, we don't have any clubhouse or changing rooms. We have got | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
nothing. Whilst international footballers arerning millions and | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
millions a year, our children don't have good enough facilities and it's | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
really about time that they did. really about time that they did | :20:23. | :20:31. | |
`` footballers are earning. David's petition calls for 7. 5 of | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
David's petition calls for 7. 5% of the ?5 billion to go to grass roots | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
football. The Premier League is promising ?168 | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
million, half of that amount. But while one club, this one, | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
continues to spend more on wages in a single year than the Premier | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
League as a whole gives to grass roots football in three years, | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
demands for the game to spread its wealth will surely only grow. Dave | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
Whelan spread his wealth contributing millions towards biggen | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Wigan Youth Zone. The Premier League chipped in ?350,000 for the pitches | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
and the Wigan Athletic owner says they do more than enough. The | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
Premier League get criticised for not helping other nations or the | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
football communities, but they actually do an awful lot of more. | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
If they contribute more, we should be thankful, but we should be | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
thankful already. There has been ?170 million spent already. | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
While the Chancellor might be pleased by the Premier League's | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
success, here they'd just like some of that money to trickle down to | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
them. On this week's Sunday Politics, | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
we'll be asking local MPs Derek Twigg and Ben Wallace whether | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
politicians have the power to influence sport? | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
Some important Rugby League news. After meetings today, Super League | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
will be cut from 14 to 12 teams from 2015. Clubs voted for the return of | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
promotion and relegation. The other code now, Rugby Union, | :22:08. | :22:09. | |
promotion and relegation. The other code now, Rugby Union win | :22:10. | :22:09. | |
The other code now, Rugby Union, win or draw for Sale Sharks at Biarritz | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
will see them through to the quarter`finals. Quay toe and Brady | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
have signed now deals. Quaytoe, the all`time lead leading try scorer | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
considered retiring but will play on until 2015. Tom Brady signed a new | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
two`year deal. A young skier from the north`west is | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
being tipped for Olympic glory in freestyle skiing. Rowan Archbishop, | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
from Alsager near Crewe recently won gold. She's the first British woman | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
to do it and says it gives her great confidence ahead of the Olympics in | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
Sochi. It's great practise and I'm on the road to doing that. I'm so | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
happy. How brave is she! She's been doing | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
it since she was about 12. Talked me through all the bumps and bruises. | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
You have to be brave. The only way we do that is when we | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
are out of control! If you go to the Horseshoe inn in Clitheroe, you will | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
find a Christmas card on the bar. This is a bit special because it | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
comes from... Roy. Roy is a sheep who should have been sent to the | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
slaughterhouse last autumn but pub regulars took a shine to him and | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
raised money to buy his freedom Stuart Flinders has been to meet | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
him. This is one crazy mixed up sheep. | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
He's ditched the field, moved into the farmhouse and started acting | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
like a dog. Oh, and he calls himself Roy. | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
He's very much his own character. He doesn't always do as he's told. Does | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
he answer to his name. Yes. Especially if he's hungry. Is he | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
just like a dog? He doesn't do all the things dogs do. Does he fetch a | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
paper in the morning? Unfortunately not. | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
Last autumn, Roy should have been sent to slaughter but a landlady of | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
this pub decided to have a whip round so that Roy wouldn't get the | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
chop. Or should that be chops... ? On the | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
bar, a Christmas card. Roy sent me the Christmas card. From Roy | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
himself? Yes. You must be getting some stick from your customers? Yes, | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
we've had lots of jokes about the mint sauce and the lamb chops and | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
when are we going to have him for Christmas dinner and so on, but | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
Roy's not for eating, he's for playing with, he's a friend. Now Roy | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
is part of the family at the farm near Bolton`by`Bowland, he is | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
starting to throw his weight around. We have had a win`win situation as | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
well really. What is that? He goes under`the`table. What is he doing? | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
Scratching his back. You don't great with a dog, do you? | :24:52. | :25:04. | |
No, you don't get that with a dog. The trouble with Roy is, he's | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
spoilt. He wants to be a dog when it suits him, but when it's time for | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
walkies, it's a case of, you go I'm staying here. | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
Poor old Roy. Too cold to walk! As the Queen of | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
puns just said. Go on? Good job the pub wasn't called the Rovers. | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
No more tonight. Now the weather. Good evening. If you plan to be | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
outdoors this weekend, Sunday will be the better day to be out because | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
we are expecting some rain on Saturday and hopefully should be | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
drier and a touch brighter on Sunday. | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
For tonight, should be mostly dry. One or two showers lingering across | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
parts of Lancashire and Cumbria They'll ease tonight and we will see | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
some clear skies, bits and pieces of clear skies across parts of Cheshire | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
and here we could see some frost patches, some fog patches as well | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
and temperatures down to maybe three or four. For tomorrow, it will be a | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
cloudy start. The rain begins to edge in from the south. Just patchy | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
light rain initially. Going to be heavy for a time. | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
Returns as heavy showers through the afternoon. It will be a breezy day | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
as well. Plenty of cloud around. Occasional bright spells, obviously, | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
as usual in`between the showers. Occasional bright spells, obviously, | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
as usual in`between the showers Temperatures tomorrow, a bit | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
disappointing underneath the rain, just seven or eight. The showers | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
continue to pile in tomorrow night, as you can see. | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
Temperatures won't drop by much tomorrow because of the rain. The | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
rain then eases away. We are going to see the temperatures fall away as | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
the rain eases away. Temperatures will fall very close to freezing in | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
Cheshire. The rain is falling as snow on high ground. | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
In the south, we are likely to see some fog patches again. As we head | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
into Sunday, things will improve. The rain eases away. It's not going | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
to be particularly warm. Hopefully some sunshine. For Monday, we are | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
likely to see some more showers and then the return of rain on Tuesday. | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
Enjoy Sunday! I could have swank you said the word | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
sunshine then. I know. Very changeable. | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
A patch of blue sky this afternoon! Twlafs? We are all going to stand | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
under it. Show us, quick? ! We are going to | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
the horseshoe to see Roy. He's lovely. | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
He or she? He I think. Bye. Good night. | :27:47. | :27:48. |