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rain from the east. That's all from the BBC News At Six. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson and | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Annabel Tiffin. Our top story: Food banks, one year | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
on ` now twice as many people are seeking help, including nurses and | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
other low`paid workers. Yeah, we had a nurse that worked in a local | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
hospital, a young lad that was demobbed from the Army, people that | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
rely on businesses... We'll hear from a Conservative MP on the | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
increasing use of food banks. Also tonight: "Our lives are dark and | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
empty" ` Linzi Ashton's family weep in court as her killer gets a | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
minimum of 27 years. Paul Ince is sacked as Blackpool | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
manager after a supporters' group accuses him of damaging the club's | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
reputation. I'm happy that he's been sacked. It should have happened | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
weeks ago. # Cry Me A River. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Bob's not crying any more ` the Stockport singer rejected by judges | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
on The Voice could be about to hit the big time. | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
North West Tonight has obtained figures which show that a growing | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
number of low`paid workers, including NHS nurses, are having to | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
resort to food banks. But the coalition government today denied it | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
was evidence of increasing poverty, suggesting that more people are | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
using food banks simply because more food banks are being opened. Annabel | :01:33. | :01:42. | |
has been looking at the figures in more detail. | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
Yes, The Trussell Trust, which supplies 41 food banks in the North | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
West, says that the number of people seeking help in the region has | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
almost doubled, going up from 2 thousand in the six months to March | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
last year to more than 58 thousand by September. And figures from | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Foodbank Wirral show that the number of people in work needing help has | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
more than doubled, going up from 615 in 2012 to 1,578 last year. The TUC | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
says that's not surprising because more than a fifth of the region s | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
workforce, 21%, earn less than what it calls the living wage of ?7. 5 an | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
hour. Lindsey Prosser has been looking at how more people in | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
low`paid work are now turning to food banks. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Just over 12 months ago at North West Tonight, we looked at the issue | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
of food poverty and the number of food banks opening across the | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
region. The Prime Minister also entered the debate. One of the | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
reasons why food banks are more extensive today than they were two | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
or three years ago is that we've actually allowed them to advertise | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
themselves in job centres so they are available to people. We've now | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
gone back to see how things have changed. Courtney Hall is caught up | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
in benefit delays. The 16`year`old has a newborn baby and no food at | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
home. You have to put everything for the baby first and then wait for | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
yourselves. You have to look after the baby first, don't you? Cases | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
like Courtney's are normally associated with food banks, but now | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
the number of working people in low`paid jobs seeking help is | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
growing. They're telling the food bank that making ends meet is | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
sometimes impossible. Claire ` not her real name ` is a single parent | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
working full`time. When my bills are paid I have ?230 to ?250 to buy my | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
food, petrol to work and for my son's clothing, my clothing and to | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
get my son to school and it goes nowhere. I end up slipping back into | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
using the credit card to buy food, otherwise we'd starve. And Claire's | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
story is not unusual. Yeah, we've had a nurse that works in a local | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
hospital, we've had a young lad that was demobbed from the Army, people | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
that run their own businesses, builders and contractors. At | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
Liverpool Central Foodbank, an increasing number of claimants have | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
debt problems. We've had research that up to one third of our clients | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
have considered or even attempted suicide. So for lots of people, it's | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
really, really overwhelming. Today food bank managers met to look at | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
ways of helping people on benefits and low incomes make a tight budget | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
go further so they can afford to feed themselves. | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
Earlier I spoke to the Conservative MP for Chester, Stephen Mosley. I | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
asked him if the Government accepts that increasing numbers of people in | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
work are using food banks because they can't afford to live on the | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
wages they're being paid. There have always been people who have | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
struggled with the money they receive. What we've seen over the | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
past few years is a big growth in the number of food banks. The trust | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
will trust is a very effective organisation and is very good at | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
spreading food banks. `` the Trussell Trust. We are seeing people | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
who want to help, want to donate food, want to distribute food at | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
food banks. Its all these things coming together. We've seen a big | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
explosion in the number of food banks and we've seen a larger number | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
of people using them. And a big explosion in the number of food bug | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
because there is a demand ` people are struggling. That's an | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
indictment, surely, of your government's policies. I wouldn t | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
agree with that. The government wants people to get involved, to | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
volunteer to help other people. That's why we are allowing job | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
centres to refer people to food banks. That was banned in the past. | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
More people are coming to food banks. Would you agree with Edwina | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
Currie, who says there is an element of choice here? People are choosing, | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
she said, to spend their money on dog food and tatties, rather than | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
food. I wouldn't say people are necessarily spending their money on | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
that but they are spending it on heating and housing... Which is | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
costing a fortune. You pay heating bills, like the rest of us. If | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
you've not got much money in the bank or much disposable income, | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
energy costs are crucifying some people. There are choices to be | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
made. If you're not working, you get a whole range of benefits ` housing | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
benefit, council tax benefit, job`seeker's allowance. Or maybe | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Doron zero hours contract with an employer that doesn't give you the | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
work you need in any given month. `` maybe you're on. I would say the | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
most important thing is that more people are unworkable stop the | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
number of vacancies is increasing and unemployed but is down. Things | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
are moving in the right direction at a national level and is moving in | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
the right direction in the North West, and starting to move in the | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
right direction for individuals as well. Thank you. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Two women from Merseyside have been charged with an offence under the | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
Dangerous Dogs Act. It follows the death of 79`year`old Clifford | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
Clarke, who was fatally attacked by a dog in May last year. Hayley | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
Sulley and Della Woods, who are both 29, have also been charged with | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
three offences of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
The death of a teenager from Manchester, who was on a gap year | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
abroad, has been raised at Westminster today. MPs and his | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
parents are calling for tighter regulation of the adventure holiday | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
industry. Luke Molnar was 17. He died eight years ago after being | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
electrocuted by a metal washing line, whilst on a conservation camp | :07:30. | :07:39. | |
in Fiji. A lot of these deaths that are happening are avoidable and | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
preventable. This is the saddest thing of all. It's not that they | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
were just accidents. They weren t, they were preventable and they could | :07:48. | :08:08. | |
still be preventable. Her Royal Highness the Princess | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
Royal has been visiting the Isle of Man today. Princess Anne officially | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
opened the Ballavartyn Equestrian Centre, meeting young horse riders. | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
Despite the weather delaying her arrival by over two hours, she also | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
spent time at the island's prison and Department of Environment, Food | :08:21. | :08:21. | |
and Agriculture. BBC Radio six Music is to host its | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
first music festival in Manchester. Next month's two`day event, being | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
held at the Victoria Warehouse in Trafford, will feature acts | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
including Damon Albarn, The National and Franz Ferdinand. | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
The jealous ex`boyfriend who murdered Salford mother of two Linzi | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Ashton was today jailed for a minimum of 27 years. Michael Cope | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
was jailed for life after admitting inflicting more than 100 injuries | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
during a brutal and sustained attack. There were emotional scenes | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
as one of Linzi's friends shouted that his sentence was still not | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
enough. Our chief reporter Dave Guest joins us from Manchester Crown | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
Court. Yes, as you say there was a highly | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
charged atmosphere in court number three as Cope discovered his fate. | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
As he was being taken down, two men rushed at the dock beating their | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
fists on the bulletproof glass. They were shouting abuse at him. Linzi's | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
family had listened to harrowing details of the torment Linzi | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
suffered at Cope's hands. The judge, Mr Justice Parker, said it was | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
difficult to imagine the suffering she'd undergone as Cope beat and | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
then strangled her in her own home. After killing her, he went on the | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
run for almost a month. He appears to be just another | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
shopper picking up a few provisions. But this is a killer on the run | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
These images were released by the police as they searched for Michael | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
Cope after he'd killed his girlfriend. Michael Cope brutally | :09:35. | :09:44. | |
murdered Linzi Ashton and not only took her in the prime of her life | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
but also took her away from two young girls. Linzi Ashton had | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
suffered months of abuse from Cope. He'd tried to strangle her twice, | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
and beat her senseless in a street. Then one day in late June last year, | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
he subject to the two what was described as an extremely violent | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
attack at her home in Salford. `` subjected her to. When she was | :10:08. | :10:17. | |
found, she had suffered 108 injuries to her head and body. Cope was a man | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
who a history of violence, and a jealous streak which bordered on | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
paranoia. Linzi had reported the abuse to the police ` though Cope | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
attempted to pressure her into retracting her complaints. The way | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
the police dealt with her is being investigated by the Independent | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
Police Complaints Commission. Yesterday at Manchester Crown Court, | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
Cope admitted murdering Linzi, together with three counts of | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
assault. As he began a life sentence, a police officer read a | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
statement on behalf of Linzi's mother. We all miss her terribly. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
Nothing will ever replace her. She left behind two gorgeous girls, who | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
will always be reminded what a beautiful, wonderful, caring person | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
she was. A big light went out in all our lives that day she died. She | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
wasn't just my daughter but my best friend. I miss her every moment of | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
every day. Dave, we heard that the IPCC is | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
investigating whether the police did enough to protect Linzi Ashton. When | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
will we hear the results? It could be some time yet. This afternoon the | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
IPCC said their investigation now begins in earnest because the | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
criminal proceedings have reached a conclusion. They will be looking at | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
the contact the police had with her prior to her death and whether the | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
police could have done anything else to protect her. The outcome of that | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
report is still some way in the distance but when we get it, we will | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
bring it to you. A court has heard how a car driver | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
high on a cocktail of drugs killed a Manchester scientist, ploughing into | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
his taxi at more than 100 miles an hour. The tragedy happened only | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
minutes after Sean Barrett arrived in Australia. His family today | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
received an apology from the man whose reckless driving killed Sean | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
and his taxi driver. From Perth Jonathan Morrell reports. | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
This was the state of the taxi after the accident. Sean Barrett was a | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
front seat passenger. The impact killed him and the taxi driver | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
instantly in October 2012. The Manchester scientist had only | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
arrived on a flight from the UK and our earlier and the car he was in | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
was hit by a stolen Toyota. He had been here to speak at a conference. | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
These stolen car was being driven by Anthea Foggo T, and the court heard | :12:33. | :12:43. | |
he was high on a cocktail of drugs `` Anthony Fogarty. He had | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
repeatedly refused to stop the police and the pursuit lasted for | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
two hours as he drove on the wrong side of the road with headlines off | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
`` headlights of. He had a number of serious conditions and a `` | :12:58. | :13:07. | |
convictions. The prosecution told the court that the impact between | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
the stolen car and the taxi Sean Barrett was in was so intense it | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
caused an explosion and fire, before pushing the taxi 45 metres up the | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
road. Witnesses said they had seen Anthony Fogarty drop out of the | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
driver's side of the car and claim the driver had run off. Leaving the | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
court, Anthony Fogarty's mother expressed her family and her son's | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
remorse. I would say I am very deeply sorry for the sudden death | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
and he's got to live with that for the rest of his life. I'm just his | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
mum and you try to put them on the straight and narrow but he chose the | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
path and it's up to him to correct that. As proceedings in the court | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
were about to end, Anthony Fogarty read the following statement. He | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
said, "if the families are here I want to apologise for my actions. It | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
won't bring them back but I want them to know I'm sorry". He will be | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
sentenced on February 14. Still to come on North West Tonight: | :14:11. | :14:22. | |
# I cried a river over you. Did the Voice judges make a big | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
mistake? Rejected Stockport singer Bob Blakeley hopes to sign a major | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
recording contract. And the puppies who'll be trained to | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
help the disabled ` could you provide them with a home for a year? | :14:32. | :14:43. | |
We'll give you the contact details. I expect a lot of interest! | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
The Blackpool manager Paul Ince has been sacked less than a year after | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
taking charge. Reports tonight suggest that the former England | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
player was told the news in a text message. They made a promising start | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
to the season but have suffered a poor run of form. Now it seems Paul | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
Ince has paid the price. Let's go to our reporter Stuart Flinders, who's | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
at Bloomfield Road. Well, Roger, it seems that that 2 `0 | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
defeat was the final straw and Paul Ince may have been sacked by text | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
message. That's the rumour. Amongst the supporters I've been speaking to | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
today, there's not a lot of sympathy for him. I don't think his mind s | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
been fully active on the job, to be honest with you. I think he was | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
probably looking after his son's interests. I'm happy he's been | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
sacked, that's for sure. It should have happened weeks ago. I'm glad | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
he's gone, to be honest. He was tragically inept. But I don't think | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
he is the problem. The bigger problem is Mr Ashton. Why? He | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
doesn't seem to be giving anybody any backing. | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
Lets talk to Tim Fielding and John Aspinall, who represent the | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
supporters' organisations. I came here early in the season and saw a | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
cracking game against Leicester You were top of the table, five wins out | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
of six. What's gone wrong since then? A combination of things. We've | :16:16. | :16:24. | |
seen a lot of off field discipline issues and, tactically, the view has | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
been that they don't have a plan B. As the season has worn on, he's lost | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
the dressing room. Nobody was calling for his head when you were | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
doing so well before. That was papering over the cracks. The | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
football wasn't entertaining to watch and it was very boring. To | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
what extent has this issue with his son, the star player Tom Ince, been | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
a distraction? There was talk of him moving on elsewhere. It's unhealthy | :16:53. | :17:02. | |
and creates a potential conflict of interest. Who would you lie to see | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
as manager? Arie Ferguson is going to step in as the short`term | :17:09. | :17:17. | |
manager. `` Barry Ferguson. I think the most important thing is that | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
whoever it is is supported by the owners. Thank you very much. We will | :17:21. | :17:37. | |
have to wait and see. This year's BBC Sport Relief has | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
been officially launched today ` with all of us being encouraged to | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
get off our sofas to do some running and cycling for a good cause. The | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
last Sport Relief was in 2012 ` when viewers in the North West raised an | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
impressive ?2 million. BBC Radio Manchester's Allan Beswick has been | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
to one project which benefited from your generosity. | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
The ?2 million raised in the last Sport Relief helped nearly 400 | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
project in the region and this year, we're encouraging people to swim, | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
run, cycle, to raise even more money. This online radio station was | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
set up by a project in Salford and has around 40 presenters, each of | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
which has a learning difficulty I joined some of the presenters for a | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
chat. What I want to know is what you get out of this radio station. | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
Why are you doing it? I know that I'm bringing some kind of | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
inspiration or joy to someone else. We know what it's like to have | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
learning difficulties, so we can get the message across. That's what the | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
radio station does for them but it is about one thing, really ` making | :18:47. | :18:55. | |
radio. This woman who has autism is never happier than when she's | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
presenting for the radio station. It's really, really, really cool. | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
What kind of music do you play? Pop, swing, rock, musicals, rock 'n' | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
roll, the rat Pack, Motown, discos, movies, hits from the decades and | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
even Eurovision! I believe it's life changing, confidence building, it | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
gives them the opportunity to develop themselves as individuals | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
and also to become more widely regarded, maybe, for their | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
attributes and their skills. Carly goes to college twice a week. Twice | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
she comes here and that's a big big part of her life. So if Carly's | :19:40. | :19:49. | |
happy, Maugham is happy! Join in the sport relief games. Find out about a | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
Sport Relief event near you on our website. | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
Sport Relief is towards the end of March. | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
Now, if you watched BBC One's The Voice on Saturday night, you may | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
remember this contestant. # Now you say you love me. | :20:12. | :20:23. | |
# You cried the whole night through. # Well, you can cry me a river. | :20:24. | :20:33. | |
# Cry me a river. # I cried a river over you. | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
You saw his name on the screen. He is Bob Blakeley, a warehouse worker | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
from Stockport, and he blew the judges away with his rendition of | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
Cry Me A River. In fact, Sir Tom Jones thought he was already a | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
professional singer. Well, Bob, is with us now. Good evening. Lovely to | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
see you. They didn't choose you What on earth were they thinking? I | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
have no idea! I stood there but when I was performing that, I didn't look | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
at the chairs. I was looking at the audience reaction, cos it was a | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
crescendo of sound. Also behind me with the musicians and with the | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
audience reaction, it was only when I finished that I looked at the | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
chairs and they haven't turned round! Does the reaction from the | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
audience almost give you even more power and passion? It was absolutely | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
fantastic because as soon as I started singing, there was a section | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
that was to the left of where I was saying that started to stand up | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
immediately. It was like a Mexican wave. It went round the audience. I | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
think the judges will be beginning to regret their decision. Let's hear | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
what Will.i.am said. The voice was pristine. It was like a glove | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
between what the band was doing and what you were doing. You sound like | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
a pro. The show is about people like Bob. He shouldn't have went home. | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
Sorry. They made a mistake but it's possible that you may get picked up | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
anyway now. Yeah, I've been speaking to a couple of big, influential | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
names in the music industry that are interested in having a look at what | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
I can do. Don't be modest ` Mike Batt and Mike stock! It's sort of | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
above me because I never thought it would go this big, you know? It s | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
just taken off. What does everyone in the warehouse then? I went in to | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
see them today and they've all given me their congratulations, even the | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
bosses. The company has been really good. What is the company? Kerry | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
foods. They will be calling you Bob FM even more now! Thank you very | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
much for coming in. My pleasure Thank you. | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
From Bob and his unbelievable voice to this lot ` a whole bundle of | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
cuteness and energy! Eventually they'll go on to help people with | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
disabilities but before then they need your help. A charity is looking | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
for 30 volunteers in the North West, to offer them a home for the first | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
year of their lives to teach them basic skills. Elaine Dunkley | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
reports. Adorable bundles of fun, destined | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
for a life of greatness. When these puppies grow up, they'll be | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
companions for people with disabilities. Before then, expect | :23:42. | :23:55. | |
mischief and mayhem. Volunteers please step forward. Anyone who has | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
a secure garden and loves dogs and is willing to take our puppies to | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
all the places we need them to go to make them well rounded and well | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
socialised puppies ` we're hopefully going to find those 30 people today. | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
Volunteers will take pups that are eight weeks old and will look after | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
them for 12 months. Saying goodbye isn't easy but it is worthwhile | :24:18. | :24:26. | |
When Mickey went to his training, I felt as if he'd gone to university! | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
We were so pleased. It's a different sort of feeling than your own dog. | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
From children with autism to older people with dementia, these dogs are | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
a lifeline. Pauline Martin is a retired nurse and is up for the | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
challenge. What difference will it make to you | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
to have a little puppy at home? It would be company in the house. A | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
structure to the day, actually, because we would have to get up and | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
take it out, walk it, love it. Mary Lamb doesn't go anywhere without Yan | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
by her side. A faithful friend she couldn't do without. If it wasn t | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
for the puppy socialisers, we would still be stuck in the house and have | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
no confidence, do nothing. But the work that they do, the end result | :25:14. | :25:25. | |
gives a disabled person a life. They are incredibly cute. We'll give | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
you the contact details at the end of the programme if you want to | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
help, after the weather forecast. You are prepared for sport! | :25:31. | :25:41. | |
I'm doing my bit for sport relief. I'm wearing a T`shirt ` that is my | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
bit for sport relief! A decent start today. The cloud | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
lingered for ages but we have rain on the way this evening. That will | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
linger into Wednesday. A bit more rain on Thursday and then proper | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
rain as the heavy rain comes in on Friday. Hopefully, things may be a | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
bit better on Saturday so heavy rain begins to move in this evening from | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
the Irish Sea. It's falling particularly on higher ground. We | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
keep the heavy pulses into the early hours but you conceive the rain | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
continues to move to the other side of the Pennines. Plenty of cloud | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
around and a bit of a breezy night but temperatures not looking too | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
bad. Lows of four or five Celsius. Things look so much better tomorrow. | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
A mixture of bright spells and some showers because the rain completely | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
moves away. Some showers drifting in but plenty of sunshine in between. | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
We are going to keep a lot of cloud through the day, and light winds, as | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
well. Showers continued to pile in by late afternoon. Disappointing | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
temperatures ` just seven or for tomorrow. For Thursday, a bit more | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
rain and then this frontal system moves in. It's bringing with it a | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
huge band of rain, which is likely to linger from Friday night into | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
Saturday. On Saturday, we could see some heavy showers in places. Over | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
the next few days, it will stay very, very unsettled. | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
Jog over! As promised, here are the details of you would like to | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
volunteer to get in touch for the dogs. | :27:21. | :27:30. | |
We will put the details on Facebook, as well, to give you a second | :27:31. | :27:43. | |
chance. Have a good night. Goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:53. |