:00:00. > :00:00.the windscreen first thing in the morning. That is all from us. Now,
:00:00. > :00:09.on BBC Good evening. Welcome to North West
:00:10. > :00:14.Tonight with Annabel Tiffin and Roger Johnson. Our top story: A
:00:15. > :00:16.victim of deliberate and sustained domestic abuse. Today, Linzi
:00:17. > :00:21.Ashton's ex`partner admits her murder. Prosecutors say they were
:00:22. > :00:28.determined to bring Michael Cope to justice.
:00:29. > :00:33.Also tonight: The Bank of Salford, an idea to help people who are
:00:34. > :00:38.skint. Can it really be delivered by a council which is skint? I have
:00:39. > :00:41.said my goodbyes and made my peace, I won't pretend I am not afraid but
:00:42. > :00:45.I am ready. As the Street says goodbye to Hayley
:00:46. > :00:50.we talk to the Merseyside widow who welcomes the controversial
:00:51. > :00:55.storyline. I suppose they think, you know, what
:00:56. > :01:01.would I do if I was as ill as that? Would I want the choice of being
:01:02. > :01:06.able to say enough is enough now? Would you mind telling me how long
:01:07. > :01:09.you have believed yourself to be a God?
:01:10. > :01:12.And, the Hollywood film stars who could be helping the North West
:01:13. > :01:25.writers head for glory at the Oscars.
:01:26. > :01:30.The police had always considered him their prime suspect and today
:01:31. > :01:34.Michael Cope finally admitted he had killed his former girlfriend, Linzi
:01:35. > :01:38.Ashton. Linzi was strangled at her home in Salford last summer. Cope
:01:39. > :01:41.went on the run after the killing and evaded capture for several
:01:42. > :01:46.weeks. He initially denied doing her any harm but then changed his mind
:01:47. > :01:51.on the very day he was due to stand trial. Our chief reporter Dave Guest
:01:52. > :01:55.was in court as Cope made his about`turn.
:01:56. > :02:01.This is Linzi Ashton, in the words of her family, a loving and doting
:02:02. > :02:07.mum. And this is Michael Coal, the man who now `` Cope, the man who
:02:08. > :02:13.admits he killed her. They had been a couple but the relationship was
:02:14. > :02:15.marred by Cope's violence towards Linzi. The Independent Police
:02:16. > :02:18.Complaints Commission has been investigating how the force dealt
:02:19. > :02:22.with her. This is where Linzi lived and died, her home in the Winton
:02:23. > :02:27.area of Salford. Her battered body was found here last June. She had
:02:28. > :02:31.been strangled. Cope was soon cited as the prime suspect. He went on the
:02:32. > :02:35.run and the police appealed for the public's help in finding him. They
:02:36. > :02:39.issued this footage of Cope buying provisions. When he was caught he
:02:40. > :02:43.denied harming Linzi, pleading not guilty to assaulting her, raping her
:02:44. > :02:46.and murdering her. He was due to stand trial at Manchester Crown
:02:47. > :02:51.Court today. Then changed his mind at the 11th hour. Today, the charges
:02:52. > :02:55.were put to Michael Cope again. Three charges that he assaulted
:02:56. > :02:59.Linzi Ashton causing her actual bodily harm. On two occasions he was
:03:00. > :03:03.said to have attempted to strangle her. To all three charges Cope
:03:04. > :03:08.pleaded guilty. Then the fourth charge, that he murdered Linzi in
:03:09. > :03:12.June of last year. Again, a guilty plea. Members of Linzi's family and
:03:13. > :03:17.friends were in the public gallery to hear Cope finally admit his
:03:18. > :03:21.guilt. The rape charge will lie on the file. The CPS said Linzi had
:03:22. > :03:25.suffered terribly at the hands of Cope. We have been determined to
:03:26. > :03:30.bring Michael Cope to justice for the horrific way in which he treated
:03:31. > :03:34.Linzi Ashton and we have worked tirelessly to build a strong case
:03:35. > :03:38.against him. Linzi's mum told me this afternoon the family would be
:03:39. > :03:48.making a statement once Cope is sentenced tomorrow morning.
:03:49. > :03:52.The Mayor of Salford says he wants to tackle the scourge of payday
:03:53. > :03:56.lenders and loan sharks. He wants to set up the Bank of Salford. A high
:03:57. > :04:00.street bank with a difference. But is it a noble idea by a council to
:04:01. > :04:03.help hard`up people or an idea unlikely to get off the ground, from
:04:04. > :04:10.a hard`up council. Here's our business correspondent Jayne
:04:11. > :04:15.McCubbin. Salford precinct, a mix of pound,
:04:16. > :04:19.gaming arcades, pay day loan companies, charity shops, all you
:04:20. > :04:26.need to see to know Salford is skint. In the Heart Foundation Shop
:04:27. > :04:29.they know how tight money is. Sometimes you feel as though there
:04:30. > :04:33.is only one way, I have been that close. I know how it feels and it's
:04:34. > :04:37.not right. All these shops that are open opening are ripping people off.
:04:38. > :04:41.You are like a hamster in a wheel, you can't get out of it. For the
:04:42. > :04:45.mayor of Salford these lenders are a scourge, one he would like to stop
:04:46. > :04:50.along with loan sharks. He wants to create an alternative, the Bank of
:04:51. > :04:53.Salford. Exactly the same as a high street bank, but without the
:04:54. > :04:57.shareholders. We will try to make the best use of the interest that we
:04:58. > :05:02.get on that money for the benefit of the people of Salford so they don't
:05:03. > :05:06.have to look for loan sharks or pay day loans. It's admirable for the
:05:07. > :05:10.council to want to help people who are skint. But the council is skint
:05:11. > :05:14.itself, in the last four years they've lost almost ?100 million, in
:05:15. > :05:20.the next four years they're going to lose another ?90 million. Is this
:05:21. > :05:23.wise? If they're there to help and are going to help people I am for
:05:24. > :05:29.all it. I would like to think it would work, just to help people out
:05:30. > :05:34.who have nowhere else to turn. I want to open a tiny bank... It won't
:05:35. > :05:39.be easy, as others have already found out. That might be straight to
:05:40. > :05:43.jail... The Bank of Dave was set up in Burnley. David will be advising
:05:44. > :05:47.as the council attempts to set up the Bank of Salford. One other
:05:48. > :05:57.organisation they're taking advice from, the Co`Op Bank. Jane is here.
:05:58. > :06:00.It's not easy to set up a bank. Councils like Salford are feeling
:06:01. > :06:04.the squeeze of public spending cuts, is it likely to happen? They've felt
:06:05. > :06:09.the squeeze but they're not broke. They've still a net budget of ?234
:06:10. > :06:13.million a year. They say if this is going through their own bank they
:06:14. > :06:17.get to decide what they do with the interest. A big gamble with public
:06:18. > :06:21.money at the end of the day, it's public money and belongs to the
:06:22. > :06:25.people. I said there was no shareholders but I suppose the
:06:26. > :06:28.people would be the shareholders. The British Bankers' Association
:06:29. > :06:33.said they like this idea, the public I spoke to liked the idea. I spoke
:06:34. > :06:36.to a Professor at university, he had two concerns. Councils should stick
:06:37. > :06:40.to council business and the other is there are already models doing
:06:41. > :06:43.different things out there and people don't do anything with them
:06:44. > :06:46.because of inertia. They don't like to try anything new. I asked the
:06:47. > :06:50.mayor if he was playing with public money, if he could be seen as a soft
:06:51. > :06:53.touch by people with a poor credit rating, he said absolutely not. They
:06:54. > :06:57.still have all the checks and balances of a normal bank. We still
:06:58. > :07:00.have to charge interest that reflected the risk of clients but
:07:01. > :07:03.they wouldn't have to charge interest that recouped massive
:07:04. > :07:07.profits and that's the difference. Who knows if it will get off the
:07:08. > :07:10.ground. If it does it's going to be a long way off. I am sure you will
:07:11. > :07:17.follow with it interest. Of course. Thank you very much.
:07:18. > :07:21.An alleged victim of sexual assault in the trial of the Coronation
:07:22. > :07:24.Street actor William Roache has told the court she has no reason in the
:07:25. > :07:26.world to lie. Under cross`examination, the witness
:07:27. > :07:29.agreed that she sometimes got details about times and dates wrong,
:07:30. > :07:32.but maintained she was telling the truth. The 81`year`old from Wilmslow
:07:33. > :07:40.denies sexual offences against five girls in the 1960s.
:07:41. > :07:43.The trial began today of a maths teacher on the Isle of Man who's
:07:44. > :07:46.charged with rape. Davoud Tajinijad from Douglas is also charged with
:07:47. > :07:49.ten counts of indecent assault. The alleged offences took place between
:07:50. > :07:58.October 2011 and February 2013. The 58`year`old denies all charges.
:07:59. > :08:01.A date has been set for the Wythenshawe and Sale East
:08:02. > :08:04.by`election. It follows the death of 60`year`old Paul Goggins ` the
:08:05. > :08:07.Labour MP who died earlier this month after collapsing while out
:08:08. > :08:12.running with his son. The vote will be held on 13th February.
:08:13. > :08:15.The two teenagers who made international headlines when they
:08:16. > :08:18.disappeared from a Lancashire boarding school and jetted off for a
:08:19. > :08:21.Caribbean holiday have been found safe and well. 16`year`olds Edward
:08:22. > :08:23.Bunyan and Indira Gainiyeva left Stonyhurst College near Clitheroe
:08:24. > :08:27.last week, leading to a police search on both sides of the
:08:28. > :08:32.Atlantic. The college head said today's news was a tremendous relief
:08:33. > :08:41.to their parents and teachers. Naomi Cornwell is at the school now. Where
:08:42. > :08:50.exactly have the teenagers been during this time? Well, certainly a
:08:51. > :08:54.long way from here. When they left here in the early hours of last
:08:55. > :08:58.Monday it was to get a taxi to Manchester Airport and then a series
:08:59. > :09:01.of flights that took them to the Dominican Republic. It was there
:09:02. > :09:08.they were found in a hotel last night. The hotel they were staying
:09:09. > :09:12.at was a five`star all`inclusive resort that would have set them back
:09:13. > :09:20.around ?350 a night. Hardly pocket money but these are Stonyhursh
:09:21. > :09:26.pupils we are talking about. Many pupils are from wealthy families and
:09:27. > :09:33.many would have the means to do this if he wanted to. It's tremendous
:09:34. > :09:37.they're safe and well. That they're in the care of police and one of the
:09:38. > :09:41.parents and our reaction is we are delighted. All we wanted is for them
:09:42. > :09:44.to be found and safe and that's the case, so brilliant. When are they
:09:45. > :09:49.coming back and what's going to happen to them when they do? Well,
:09:50. > :09:54.they're still out there at the moment with their families. It's not
:09:55. > :09:57.clear yet when they will be leaving the Dominican Republic. Lancashire
:09:58. > :10:01.Police say when they arrive back in this country they will be giving the
:10:02. > :10:05.pair a welfare debrief. You can be sure their parents will be giving
:10:06. > :10:08.them more than a debrief. One mother has already travelled to the
:10:09. > :10:12.Dominican Republic from the family home. Edward's mother lives in
:10:13. > :10:16.Spain, it gives you an idea of how much of an international affair this
:10:17. > :10:20.has been. As for the school, it says it's leaving it up to the parents,
:10:21. > :10:23.for now, before it finally will decide on exactly how to deal with
:10:24. > :10:32.them. Thank you very much.
:10:33. > :10:35.One of the most talked about storylines on TV reaches its climax
:10:36. > :10:37.tonight when Hayley Cropper takes her own life in ITV's Coronation
:10:38. > :10:40.Street. The character's suicide, in Street. The character's suicide, in
:10:41. > :10:43.the face of inoperable cancer, has sparked a huge amount of debate
:10:44. > :10:46.about terminal illness and the right to die. Today, the widow of a
:10:47. > :10:49.Merseyside man, who committed assisted`suicide, has welcomed the
:10:50. > :10:53.debate the programme has inspired. Reg Crew had motor neurone disease
:10:54. > :11:01.and flew to Switzerland to take his own life. Andy Gill reports.
:11:02. > :11:09.I know I asked to stay with me. But if you feel you can't, I understand.
:11:10. > :11:13.I am not leaving you. Hayley Cropper and her on screen husband Roy
:11:14. > :11:18.preparing for tonight's farewells. ITV say Hayley's death is not an
:11:19. > :11:24.assisted suicide. Reg Crew from Liverpool flew to the Swiss clinic
:11:25. > :11:27.Dignitas to be helped to die. Motor neurone disease meant he was
:11:28. > :11:29.incapable of ending his own life. Today, on the 11th anniversary of
:11:30. > :11:34.his death, his widow told me it's his death, his widow told me it's
:11:35. > :11:38.right for programmes like Coronation Street to set out the issues for
:11:39. > :11:44.people who otherwise might not think about them. They watch that and
:11:45. > :11:49.then, I suppose, they think, well, you know, what would I do if I was
:11:50. > :11:55.as ill as that? Would I want the choice of being able to say enough
:11:56. > :12:01.is enough now? One campaign group has deep reservations about TV
:12:02. > :12:05.portrayals of suicide. Pain relief can control cancer pain in the vast
:12:06. > :12:11.majority of cases. And effective pain relief in good hands does not
:12:12. > :12:17.cause confusion. The danger is that you fuel concerns that people have
:12:18. > :12:20.about the dying process and end up inadvertently steering people
:12:21. > :12:24.towards suicide as a solution. The programme`makers say they don't
:12:25. > :12:29.glamourise things. It's very balanced. The weeks to come we see
:12:30. > :12:34.the defence stating effects on Roy `` devastating effects on Roy about
:12:35. > :12:40.Hayley's decision was. Win Crew says she hopes the programme will help
:12:41. > :12:44.get the law changed so assisted suicide becomes legal in this
:12:45. > :12:52.country. We are going to move to the issue of
:12:53. > :12:56.energy next. We might be using less energy in our homes these days but
:12:57. > :13:00.the price we pay for it is going up. Some people across our region are
:13:01. > :13:02.trying to reduce their bills by becoming more self`sufficient. John
:13:03. > :13:05.Leonard from Saddleworth has installed a wind turbine in his
:13:06. > :13:10.garden. Our reporter Jacey Normand's been to meet him.
:13:11. > :13:14.Obviously lowering your energy usage will really reduce your electricity
:13:15. > :13:20.bill but you can take it one stage further and start generating your
:13:21. > :13:25.own power. It's very windy here today. It's not too noisy. We can
:13:26. > :13:30.hear each other. The helicopter noise that you can hear is the sound
:13:31. > :13:34.of the air pressure of the Blades going past. John lives in
:13:35. > :13:38.Saddleworth, one of the with windiest parts of our region and he
:13:39. > :13:42.is putting the local elements to good use with his wind turbine. I
:13:43. > :13:53.wanted to know what motivated him to build it. It was mostly green
:13:54. > :13:56.reasons. I liked the idea and it was after various disasters and you
:13:57. > :14:03.think there's got to be a better way. The turbine cost ?50,000 to
:14:04. > :14:06.install. With a fair wind he can expect to recover that investment
:14:07. > :14:08.within seven years. More importantly, he will make a
:14:09. > :14:12.substantial reduction to energy bills. I see it as part of my
:14:13. > :14:16.pension so we can afford to live in the house that we like and afford to
:14:17. > :14:20.heat it because energy is going to keep costing more and it's nice to
:14:21. > :14:26.generate a little bit of your own and you feel you are putting
:14:27. > :14:31.something back, as well. And you can see other people who are
:14:32. > :14:37.trying to lower their energy costs on Inside Out North West this
:14:38. > :14:43.evening at 7. 30pm on BBC1. I shall be watching that with interest! Most
:14:44. > :14:50.people just not putting the heating on! The weather later. Richard is
:14:51. > :14:54.here with the sport. Mounting problems over the weekend
:14:55. > :15:00.for two of our championship sides. Yes.
:15:01. > :15:03.Blackpool and Bolton. Wanderers are just four points above the
:15:04. > :15:06.relegation zone after what their manager, as you'll hear in a moment,
:15:07. > :15:09.described as an embarrassing 7` defeat to Reading. But Blackpool's
:15:10. > :15:12.problems really came to a head. Supporters reacted angrily after
:15:13. > :15:15.their latest defeat and there were reports over the weekend that
:15:16. > :15:18.manager Paul Ince had been sacked. He hasn't, but with the tug`of`war
:15:19. > :15:22.over his son's future, star forward Tom, an unsettling backdrop, as well
:15:23. > :15:25.as a lack of signings in the window, some fans are wondering what next?
:15:26. > :15:27.Blackpool's problems are far from small. Despite a terrible run of
:15:28. > :15:31.form Paul Ince remains unruffled and determined not to walk away. After
:15:32. > :15:34.this loss at Barnsley seft them eight points off the relegation ``
:15:35. > :15:38.left them eight points off the relegation zone. He is going to turn
:15:39. > :15:42.it around, he will have to get some players. I think they should have a
:15:43. > :15:46.change. Sorry to say that. After such a good start.
:15:47. > :15:51.The 9th defeat in the last ten matches under Paul Ince, led to
:15:52. > :15:56.crisis talks with his chairman over the weekend. But ended with him
:15:57. > :16:00.remaining as manager. There's no doubt his position as manager
:16:01. > :16:04.remains precarious, a situation mirrored here at Bolton Wanderers, a
:16:05. > :16:09.club with different but no less significant problems to solve.
:16:10. > :16:15.For them it's two wins in the last ten league matches. The latest, a
:16:16. > :16:19.far from magnificent seven. A 7`1 malling at Reading. Very
:16:20. > :16:22.disappointed, embarrassed for the club, embarrassed for the fans that
:16:23. > :16:27.travelled down. We have to make sure we double our efforts. Get in the
:16:28. > :16:32.morning and make sure we face it in the best possible way and move
:16:33. > :16:33.forward. It's the bank balance as much as the points balance that s
:16:34. > :16:39.much as the points balance that's been talked about of late. The club
:16:40. > :16:43.says because almost all its 163 million debt is owed to the owner it
:16:44. > :16:46.isn't a major problem but some supporters remain unconvinced about
:16:47. > :16:54.the club's health on the pitch and off it. Three years ago we were up
:16:55. > :16:58.in the Premier League beating teams like Liverpool. Now we are getting
:16:59. > :17:02.beat 7`1 off Reading, it's embarrassing. Two famous old clubs
:17:03. > :17:09.who hope this latest troubled chapter in their histories is about
:17:10. > :17:15.to change for the better. Let's hope things do improve.
:17:16. > :17:17.Manchester City put four past Cardiff on Saturday. Edin Dzeko's
:17:18. > :17:20.Cardiff on Saturday. Edin Dzeko s goal was the club's 100th in all
:17:21. > :17:24.competition this season. No other club in modern times has reached a
:17:25. > :17:27.century so quickly. And with the balance of power seemingly shifting
:17:28. > :17:31.between the two Manchester clubs, City could yet break a record set by
:17:32. > :17:34.United in 1957 for the most goals scored in a season. Stuart Flinders
:17:35. > :17:40.reports. Manchester City's 100th of the
:17:41. > :17:50.season! Four goals on Saturday. But incredibly that's City's average at
:17:51. > :17:54.home nowadays. 103 goals in 34 matches, it's a record. Another 40
:17:55. > :17:59.and City will have scored more goals than any other team in a single
:18:00. > :18:06.season since the 1950s. That record was set by Manchester United.
:18:07. > :18:10.They're in big trouble, the champions, they're 3`0 down. Night's
:18:11. > :18:18.defeat yesterday underlines the shift in the balance of power from
:18:19. > :18:22.Old Trafford to the Ethiad. I don't think Manchester United are on the
:18:23. > :18:26.way down, they're having a transitional period. City, can they
:18:27. > :18:29.get better? I think they can. I think the foundations are there.
:18:30. > :18:34.It's not going to be short`term and I am pleased. I always have a smile
:18:35. > :18:40.on my face lately watching this team play. Rarely has it been a better
:18:41. > :18:46.time to be a City fan. They're improving all the time and
:18:47. > :18:49.we are seeing it. We are getting artists now, when you look out
:18:50. > :18:55.there. The players are artists. It's quite true that, yeah. They're more
:18:56. > :19:01.ballet dancers than footballers in a sense when you look at them. Some of
:19:02. > :19:04.the best football we have seen. We have been coming a long time and
:19:05. > :19:19.this is the best football we have seen.
:19:20. > :19:28.The goals keep coming! Can't stop scoring, can they?
:19:29. > :19:32.Tonight, Everton could move into the top four ` at the expense of
:19:33. > :19:36.Liverpool ` with a win at West Brom. Everton have only lost twice in the
:19:37. > :19:38.league this season, but they've had eight draws and that concerns the
:19:39. > :19:40.manager. Some of those should have been three
:19:41. > :19:43.points, should have been victories and that's where the work is based
:19:44. > :19:45.now, to get those draws and victories. When you get to that
:19:46. > :19:50.position in the league, nine games to go, you are looking at where you
:19:51. > :19:53.are and you can settle for the aims in the final game of the season.
:19:54. > :20:04.in the final game of the season There's full match commentary on
:20:05. > :20:06.Radio Merseyside from 7.00pm. British bobsleigh reserve pilot `
:20:07. > :20:10.Lamin Deen from Manchester ` produced the drive of his career to
:20:11. > :20:13.secure Team GB a second four`man berth at the Winter Olympics in
:20:14. > :20:17.Sochi. The main crew had already qualified, so at the World Cup event
:20:18. > :20:20.in Austria they switched sleds to help the reserve team's chances
:20:21. > :20:23.Lamin Deen ` who's only been driving the bobsleigh for four years ` said
:20:24. > :20:27.he was overwhelmed. Every year I have found it easier to
:20:28. > :20:33.take to the sled from the summer to the winter and the coaches go more
:20:34. > :20:37.indepth and they say it takes ten years to be a great driver, but with
:20:38. > :20:42.the team we have got, you know, we are taking shortcuts.
:20:43. > :20:47.Fascinating. He came from Moss Side, a tough upbringing and left that
:20:48. > :20:52.behind, went to the Army because he is such a good athlete, became a
:20:53. > :20:58.Bobsleigh pilot and has been doing it a few years. Should mention that
:20:59. > :21:04.Nathan Hinds has signed for Sale Sharks, the experienced Scottish
:21:05. > :21:09.international. Thank you very much. The eyes of the film world will be
:21:10. > :21:13.on Los Angeles in a few weeks' time for the 86th Academy Awards ` better
:21:14. > :21:16.known as The Oscars. And a film made here in the North West will be among
:21:17. > :21:21.the contenders. The Voorman Problem is nominated for the Best Short
:21:22. > :21:24.Film. It was written by Mark Gill and Baldwin Lee ` they also directed
:21:25. > :21:28.and produced the film. We'll be chatting to them in a moment. First,
:21:29. > :21:31.let's have a look at a short clip. The film's about a psychiatrist
:21:32. > :21:36.brought into a prison to assess the sanity of one of the inmates who
:21:37. > :21:41.believes he's a god. Tom Hollander is the prisoner ` Martin Freeman the
:21:42. > :21:47.doctor. Would you mind telling me how long
:21:48. > :21:50.you have believed yourself to be a God? I may ask you the same
:21:51. > :22:02.question. You have some big names in there,
:22:03. > :22:08.how did you for your first short film secure Martin Freeman? What we
:22:09. > :22:15.did is we just believed in our script 100%. We sat down and came up
:22:16. > :22:19.with a list of people and Kevin Spacey was on the list, wrote a
:22:20. > :22:23.letter. We were surprised when he got in touch and suggested Tom
:22:24. > :22:30.Hollander and Tom helped us get Martin. I guess that for a story
:22:31. > :22:33.about this of this kind where it's an interaction with two people
:22:34. > :22:40.everything hangs on the script. Absolutely. It's a testament to the
:22:41. > :22:46.writing, thankfully. It's not only us who wrote it. We based it on a
:22:47. > :22:51.short exert from a novel by David Mitchell who some people will know
:22:52. > :22:58.for Cloud Atlas. We had a great basis and did our best to refine the
:22:59. > :23:03.script for a period of eight, ten months before we let anyone see it.
:23:04. > :23:07.Thankfully people agreed with us. You have been nominated for an
:23:08. > :23:14.Oscar, what did that feel like to get that news? I have heard it
:23:15. > :23:19.described as fan`tabulous, a good word. We were emotional to be
:23:20. > :23:25.honest. It's nerve`racking, the whole process. It's cruel to let
:23:26. > :23:27.people know they're shortlisted It's possibly one of the most
:23:28. > :23:31.nervous periods of my life ever. It's possibly one of the most
:23:32. > :23:36.nervous periods of my life ever. The pressure was immense. Strangely I
:23:37. > :23:41.couldn't stop shaking once we heard. Everyone in your house was watching
:23:42. > :23:46.to see the nominations but you knew they didn't come out on your TV. I
:23:47. > :23:50.did research, I sat at the back and kept refreshing and refreshing. You
:23:51. > :23:55.were looking on a computer. They were watching the telecast and he
:23:56. > :24:01.was pacing around like a lunatic! I just saw it, I had to move the page
:24:02. > :24:04.slightly and saw it, and turned the computer round and they went mad, I
:24:05. > :24:09.was calm! I bet. The night itself will be a huge occasion. Can you
:24:10. > :24:13.even imagine what it's going to be like? Even to be nominated must be
:24:14. > :24:20.the most exciting thing let alone to win. We were lucky to go to the
:24:21. > :24:26.BAFTAs last year, nominated there. Black tie or tux? I am going to wear
:24:27. > :24:30.everything all at once. If you win, would you bring the statue in and
:24:31. > :24:35.talk to us? Of course. Danny Boyle spoke to us after he won. You are In
:24:36. > :24:38.Good Company. You have to do that. Thank you for coming in. You must be
:24:39. > :24:43.very busy. Thank you. I know someone who will be extremely
:24:44. > :24:53.jealous in a minute, but before we get to the weather: Liverpool has
:24:54. > :24:56.come third in the Rough Guide's Top Ten cities to visit this year. The
:24:57. > :24:59.tourist guide highlights the Albert Dock as an area that's enjoying a
:25:00. > :25:01.full`blown cultural renaissance The write`up also encourages tourists to
:25:02. > :25:04.experience the Liverpool Biennial Contemporary Arts Festival and the
:25:05. > :25:08.Baltic Triangle. Rio de Janeiro and Sarajevo took the two top spots.
:25:09. > :25:12.Sarajevo took the two top spots You have enough trouble choosing a
:25:13. > :25:18.dress for the weather, she has that many! You would be stuck if you went
:25:19. > :25:22.to the Oscars. I wonder if they want someone to come with them and carry
:25:23. > :25:26.the Oscar, I could bring it back! Hello, good evening. The week ahead
:25:27. > :25:31.looks to be very unsettled yet again. We had very decent conditions
:25:32. > :25:35.today, it was dry and bright. Plenty of sunshine around. Don't be
:25:36. > :25:37.expecting more of the same, you can see there is rain in the forecast
:25:38. > :25:45.for Tuesday. Showers on Wednesday and Thursday.
:25:46. > :25:50.And then we head to Friday and you can see behind me another band of
:25:51. > :25:53.rain works in later on Friday. Unsettled is a best description.
:25:54. > :25:53.rain works in later on Friday. Unsettled is a best description. The
:25:54. > :25:56.Unsettled is a best description The rest of the week we keep
:25:57. > :26:01.temperatures in single figures. I don't think we are going to see as
:26:02. > :26:08.much sunshine as we saw today. Tonight, a yellow weather warn
:26:09. > :26:13.warning, for fog. We are going to see dense patches of fog overnight.
:26:14. > :26:16.It's going to be mostly dry. The densest patches of fog I expect will
:26:17. > :26:21.be over the tops of the Pen nines overnight. A cloudy night, as well.
:26:22. > :26:26.It's going to be breezy in places. Temperatures will fall close to
:26:27. > :26:32.freezing. We may just see a patch of frost on one or two spots. Tomorrow,
:26:33. > :26:38.plenty of cloud around and that rain moves in slowly, probably not making
:26:39. > :26:43.land fall until late afternoon. The winds picking up arched the coasts.
:26:44. > :26:48.That `` around the coasts. That rain will fall practically all day on the
:26:49. > :26:54.Isle of Man. Elsewhere, cloudy and breezy and rain later. Disappointing
:26:55. > :26:58.temperatures, just five or six. The rain continues on Tuesday night into
:26:59. > :27:02.Wednesday. Showers on Thursday and more rain on Friday. Be careful,
:27:03. > :27:07.keep an eye on the fog tonight and tomorrow.
:27:08. > :27:13.Thank you very much. An interesting fact, Martin Freeman and Tom
:27:14. > :27:21.Hollander did it for nothing because they loved the script so much, the
:27:22. > :27:28.film we were talking about. Thank you for watching, good night.