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heading our way and wet and windy again. That is all from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson and Jayne | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
McCubbin. Our top story. Motorways closed, trees down, and | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
railways shut. Chaos as the region takes the brunt of the winter storm. | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
We'll have the latest from our reporters around the region, and a | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
full forecast with Dianne. Also tonight: Told he had just weeks to | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
live ` the grandfather saved by stem cells from babies born abroad. I'm | :00:26. | :00:37. | |
at Goodison Park with all four of our team is hoping for a fair wind | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
in the Premier League. And we are in Blackpool as it gears | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
up for its annual festival of magic, circus and amazement. | :00:45. | :00:59. | |
Parts of the north`west RIT standstill tonight as the worst | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
storm of the winter brought winds of up to 100mph across the region. The | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Met Office issued a rare red warning. It means lives are at risk. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
It's led to chaos on the motorway network, with key bridges closed, a | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
shutdown on parts of the West Coast Mainline, and in the last hour, | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
there's been a major incident at Crewe station. Jayne's got more | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
details. Yes, on the motorways, the M6 is | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
closed in both directions at the Thelwall Viaduct near Warrington | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
because of concerns that vehicles would be blown over. | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
There's a warning that the M60 could also be shut in both directions | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
because the Barton High Level Bridge may have to close. And on the M 6, | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
high winds are making driving very hazardous between Junction 12 near | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Runcorn, and Junction 14 near Helsby. Avoid the area. In the last | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
hour, Network Rail have told us that Crewe Railway station has been | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
evacuated because parts of the roof has been blown off. Also reports | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
that a railway power line has come down. Further north, the West Coast | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Main Line will be closed for two hours this evening between Preston | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
and Lancaster, starting at 7:00pm. A very fast moving situation. | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
The weather has caused problems all day. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
Our chief reporter, Dave Guest, is in Blackpool. Dave, it looks pretty | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
rough out there. We can see how bad it is. Dave, I don't know if you can | :02:23. | :02:36. | |
hear me? They have been bracing themselves in Blackpool for the | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
worst here, and they have got the worst. Winds of 60 mph. The rain | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
lashing on the promenade. Hurricane force winds knocked back to the | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
coast, but further inland. There has been motorway chaos. The decision to | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
close the bridge was because of the winds. Motorists were tweeting us | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
saying it was terrifying. Another bridge closed because the winds have | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
gotten too strong. On the M55, a lane closed because the roof had | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
blown off a building, causing the carriageway to be closed. Here is | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
the advice for drivers to night The winds are coming as a crosswind on | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
the motorway, so drivers of high sided vehicles need to take great | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
care when driving. My advice would be if you do not need to make that | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
journey, then don't. As we said earlier, trains also disrupted. | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
Don't bother to travel. Crewe station has that problem with the | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
roof. They have never known anything like this. Harry came force winds. | :03:50. | :04:01. | |
`` Harry came force winds. I have never seen winds like this before. | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
Winds of strength 12. It is highly unusual to have these wins this far | :04:09. | :04:22. | |
north. The Isle of Man ferry also cancelled crossings today, as Wolf | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
varies going from Liverpool to Ireland. Liverpool and Manchester | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
also experiencing delays, and in greater Manchester, the Fire Service | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
asking of duty officers to come in and help. Is that the story here? We | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
have opened our secondary control room to cope with the additional | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
calls. We expect conditions at the moment, means we need to have | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
emergency meetings to deal with the conditions. There are structural | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
problems on the coast and across Lancashire. We had about the roof on | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
the M55. Anything as serious? You could see the conditions are | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
deteriorating rapidly. Hole a busy night for the Fire Service, | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
emergency services here, so I will hand you back to the studio. Thank | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
you very much. Battling against the elements. You can see how dreadful | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
the conditions are out there tonight. We just had some news. 200 | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
homes in South Lancashire without power. Others in the Macclesfield | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
area. Manchester police saying do not go into the city centre. | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
Dianne Oxberry is here. She's been tracking the storm all afternoon. | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
And this Red Warning is something you've not seen before? These | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
warnings are new, and they impact waste. There is nothing worse than a | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
red warning. Potential risk to life. We knew was coming, and in our part | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
of the world, we are badly affected will stop all the way up the coast, | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
and the significant thing is the change in wind direction. We started | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
south to north. Now it is west to east. Straight across our motorways, | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
straight across our transport and rail lines. This is why we're seeing | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
so many problems. Just to recap that news. 200,000 homes, in fact, | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
without power. Greater Manchester Police saying do not go into the | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
centre of Manchester. Just stay indoors is the best thing, I think. | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
The mother of the baby mauled to death by a dog in Blackburn has been | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
released on bail along with her boyfriend. They'd been questioned on | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
suspicion of manslaughter. Ava Jayne Corless was killed by a banned pit | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
bull type dog as she slept at Lee Wright's house on Emily Street on | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Monday. Today, the RSPCA said it had twice been called out to the address | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
in the past two years` once to deal with a cat killed by a dog. | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
Tributes have been paid to a pedestrian who was killed on the M6 | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
near Leyland. Faizel Vohra, who was 28 and from Preston, died last night | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
after being hit by several vehicles on the northbound carriageway. | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
Friends say he was a wonderful man, well`liked, and had just recently | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
married. Police are still investigating. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Liverpool MP Steve Rotheram has questioned the Home Secretary over | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
the current investigations into the Hillsborough disaster. Theresa May | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
was updating the Commons on the progress of the latest inquiries. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
The Walton MP raised concerns over claims families of victims may have | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
been put under police surveillance. Will she confirm, unequivocally | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
that at no stage since the disaster were the families subjected to | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
surveillance by the police or security services of this country? | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
As I have said in response to the Shadow Home Secretary, the IPCC is | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
aware of these concerns and is considering how best to address | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
them, and of course if they do find any evidence during their | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
investigation that suggests that surveillance has taken place, they | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
will pursue it. Thousands of people across the North | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
West could be in line for a rebate after an error was highlighted in | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
housing benefit payments. An investigation by BBC Radio | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
Merseyside has found in Liverpool alone over 2000 people are expected | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
to receive repayments on the so`called "bedroom tax". The | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
Government wants to close the loophole which means residents | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
who've lived at the same house since 1996 don't have to pay it. | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
And a village pub in Lancashire has been named the best in Britain. The | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
Swan with Two Necks in Pendleton beat off competition from nearly | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
60,000 pubs across the UK. The Campaign for Real Ale, which has | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
awarded the title of National Pub of the Year, says it's "a welcoming | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
pub" in "a quintessentially British setting". | :08:45. | :08:54. | |
Just quickly... Were you going to do it? The Manchester and Sunderland | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
game is off because of the weather. We will have more with Richard | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
later. Doctors in Manchester have saved the | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
life of a 60`year`old grandfather by carrying out a transplant using stem | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
cells from the umbilical cords of newborn babies. David Pyne had | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
leukaemia. After chemotherapy failed, he was told he had just | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
months to live. But thanks to two mothers in France and America, who | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
agreed to donate cells from their babies' umbilical cords, he's now on | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
the mend. Naomi Cornwell's been to meet him. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
David is slowly regaining his strength. Five months after his | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
transplant, he's still reliant on a lot of medication, but his prospects | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
for the future are much better than when he was diagnosed with leukaemia | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
two years ago. Not being able to find an adult donor, you just think | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
time is not on your side. It is against you. You're waiting for the | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
inevitable. It was here at the Christie that David underwent a | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
relatively new procedure ` a transfusion in which blood stem | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
cells from the frozen umbilical cords of newborn babies were used to | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
replace his own damaged cells. For patients like David, who are white | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
and Caucasian, usually we will find a suitable donor either from their | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
family, brother or sister, or from an unrelated donor panel, in about | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
90% of cases. It is usual we would find somebody, and what was unusual | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
here is the fact that despite David apparently being a regular bloke | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
from Wythenshawe, we were unable to find anybody suitable as a match for | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
him. Doctors here at the Christie began a worldwide search for | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
suitable donors, and found two mothers in France and America who | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
were good matches, and who'd each agreed to donate their newborn | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
babies' umbilical cords. The UK is lagging behind countries such as | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
France and the US, where expectant mothers are routinely asked whether | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
they'll donate their child's umbilical cord. As matches for | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
patients from ethnic minorities are the hardest to find, our only cord | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
banks are concentrated in areas of high demand such as London and | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
Birmingham. It's hoped Manchester will be next. David's looking | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
forward to enjoying more time with his seven grandchildren. He hopes to | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
return to work in the next few months, and says he'll always think | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
of the two children he'll never meet who began their lives by saving his. | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
They are part of my family as well now. They have come to my aid, so | :11:12. | :11:20. | |
they will always be dear to me. Amazing story. | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
Remember a time before the internet and mobile phones? Well, today is a | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
very different world, especially for children who are used to having | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
smartphones, tablets and the latest devices to go online. But according | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
to research commissioned by the BBC, many parents are struggling keeping | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
up with technology and what youngsters get up to online. Elaine | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
Dunkley, in the second of her three`part series, is taking a look | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
at how the virtual world is keeping generations apart. UPBEAT MUSIC | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
They are the online generation with virtual lives. Taking selfies, | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
having followers, and likes, all part of a teenager's online world. | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
You need the internet. If you want to get a job, social media is the be | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
all and end all. We speak to people on the internet and all that. Not | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
many parents have Twitter or Snap Chat. They don't feel they | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
understand what is going on. From Facebook to Twitter to Snap Chat, | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
the next big thing is always just a click away. You can set the laptop | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
up, but you can't set up an iPad, or you don't know how to, really? For | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
some parents, keeping up with their children's virtual lives feels | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
virtually impossible. Our kids seem to be a lot more | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
technologically`minded than we are, basically. You have eight or | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
nine`year`olds who are whizzes at computers, and we don't have a clue | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
what we're doing. It is knowing what they are accessing if you'd don t | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
sit by them all the time. Teenage girls putting pictures of themselves | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
on bikinis and underwear, I think, well...? There are filters and | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
controls that can block unsuitable material ` but experts say talking | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
is the best way. In the real world, there are risks that parents are | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
faced with having to tell their children about in the offline world, | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
so the things that parents need to do are pretty much the same. They | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
need to make sure they are comfortable with talking to their | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
children about those risks. There is a technological generation gap, and | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
for these parents, their upbringing is worlds apart from the children of | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
cyberspace. Elaine Dunkley, BBC North West Tonight. If you are | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
worried, there is information. Go to the BBC website. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
Still to come on North West Tonight: Dianne will have a full weather | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
forecast, and we'll recap the situation across the region with the | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
winter storm which is battering us tonight. Also ahead: The magic of | :13:51. | :14:01. | |
the circus descends on Blackpool. It is not being batted. We've had a | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
sneaky peak at what's on offer. It's the final full day of | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
campaigning in the Wythenshawe and Sale East by`election caused by the | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
death of the former Labour MP Paul Goggins. Today, the UKIP Leader | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
Nigel Farage, has said the campaign's been "as dirty as they | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
come." He believes UKIP supporters have been intimidated by Labour ` | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
but Labour remain the bookies' clear favourite to hold the seat. Police | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
have confirmed they are investigating claims of damage. Our | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
political editor Arif Ansari reports. | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
On Thursday, vote UKIP. It has proved to be a blustery campaign, | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
but even UKIP is struggling to blow away the political apathy. You only | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
see me one day of the year. A candidate says that is not their | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
only problem. Supporters have had Labour activists come up to them and | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
call them scum. Are you sure that has been Labour doing that Witham | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
they had Labour memorabilia on. Labour still seems to be dominating | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
this political pitch despite the work from UKIP. You are hoping to be | :15:20. | :15:31. | |
the third Labour MP? Yes. He dismisses allegations of dirty | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
tricks. We have a professional team. If that has been happening, you say | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
that is wrong? Yes. It has been fantastic. Even in weather like | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
this? . They say they are enjoying lots of support. Lots of people Do | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
you think you will hold your deposit? Absolutely. Do have time? | :15:59. | :16:07. | |
Across the constituency, a conservative stronghold. It has been | :16:08. | :16:19. | |
the candidates' first campaign. Hopefully I will win tomorrow. If | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
you don't, will you still had to stand again? Weigh I'm just looking | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
to tomorrow. That is a very politician answer? You have | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
obviously worked a lot on this campaign. Only one of these | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
candidates will make the political weather. | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
There's a full list of candidates standing in the Wythenshawe and Sale | :16:45. | :16:45. | |
East by`election on your screen now. And polls open in the constituency | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
from seven o'clock tomorrow morning. Sport now, and it's a busy night in | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
the Premier League, with all four of our teams in action. Manchester s | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
game against Sunderland has been postponed due to the weather. That | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
news just in the last few weather `` moments. Everton have a chance to | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
close the gap on the top four at Goodison Park, where Crystal Palace | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
are the visitors, and Richard is there for us. We have had problems | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
with you, but we will hope for the best. It is windy here. If I wasn't | :17:22. | :17:31. | |
such a strapping lad, it might blow me over. It is a big night here in | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
the Premier League. Manchester are hoping to bounce back. We have | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
Everton hero against Crystal Palace. Liverpool as well. Everton not far | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
away from those champions league spots. With me is Graham Sharpe I | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
might have played all them in some blustery conditions. This will be a | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
difficult night for the players Everton will looking to bounce | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
back. Could've gone the other way. We were unfortunate not to get | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
anything from the game. They have one shot at goal and it resulted in | :18:16. | :18:24. | |
a goal, bites a buddy who was at the game and watched said we were | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
unlucky. There are lots of options in those attacking midfield | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
positions. We will see him scoring against Villa in the last home game | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
is here. Do you think because of those options, Roberto perhaps | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
doesn't have his best... I'm sorry. As predicted, we have lost Richard. | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
He got blown over. Is he back? To want to risk it? Here we go. It went | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
close against Tottenham, so he has got options. Sorry. We will give up | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
on that. Just as city and Sunderland have given up on their game. | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
Everton's game is still on. Richard is there against Everton and Crystal | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
Palace. But city and Sunderland is off. | :19:23. | :19:32. | |
I don't even know where we are now. The red struts two points on Sunday | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
after Fulham equalised in the last minute. The champions are in seventh | :19:37. | :19:49. | |
place. We played well, and in any other game, we would've scored well. | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
We didn't get it today. We just need to continue to do the right things. | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
We need to keep going. Luck will change. The wind is causing chaos | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
tonight. In the Championship, second`placed | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
Burnley's 1`nil win at Bolton extended their unbeaten run to eight | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
matches. Wales international Sam Volkes sneaked in at the back post | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
to score his 16th goal of the season. | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
In rugby league, teenage sensation Joe Burgess scored four of Wigan's | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
nine tries in their 46`22 victory over New Zealand Warriors in | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
Hamilton. The 19`year`old helped Shaun Wane's side race to a 12` | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
lead inside eight minutes. The friendly was a warm`up for the Super | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
League champions ahead of their World Club Challenge match against | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
Sydney Roosters on Saturday week. There's full commentary and coverage | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
of all four matches on your local BBC Radio stations either on FM | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Medium Wave or DAB. For the games that have survived the weather, | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
there is full coverage. The local radio stations also have all the | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
news on the weather through the course of the evening. | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
Back to Blackpool now, and well out of the wind in the Winter Gardens, | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
preparations are under way for the resort's annual celebration of | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
magic, circus and variety. Don't set me off? They call it Showzam. | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
And thanks to a big grant from the arts council, Blackpool says this | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
year's event will be bigger and better than ever. Peter Marshall has | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
been to find out more. Welcome to Showzam! UPBEAT MUSIC. | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
They say it has something for everybody. And then even more. | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
Contemporary circus, street theatre, the weird, the wonderful ` not | :21:42. | :21:51. | |
forgetting the traditional. Three small balls and three small cups. | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
One of the time, the ball is passed through the cups. The marvellous, | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
magnificent! Local resident David Oxley was so inspired by previous | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
Showzams, he's now performing in it. There was a spirit. It is not added | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
something in me that had lain dormant for many years. I sort of | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
understood how this is about heritage, how this is all about | :22:21. | :22:31. | |
Blackpool. An arts council grounds has enabled new acts to be pulled | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
in. Among them, the circus. The artists here are from all over the | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
world. We have people from the USA, Canada, Switzerland, France, very | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
highly skilled and looking forward to performing in that group. And the | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
council ` well, you wouldn't expect them to undersell the attraction of | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Showzam. We are encouraging people to stay with this, because we have | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
so much. It is fantastic. You have to come here to sense the | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
atmosphere. It all begins on Friday, and runs | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
for ten days. So skilful. Will they stay safe? Let's have a look at the | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
weather now. Let's take a look at some of the images of the day that | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
you have been sending in. Here is Crewe station earlier, when power | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
lanes came down and the station was evacuated. Part of the roof blew off | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
there as well. It is causing real trouble on the | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
West Coast Main Line. We knew there would be a shutdown between 7pm and | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
9pm anyway, but trains being delayed. Hundreds of trees came down | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
across the region. A man had a lucky escape when a tree crashed down on | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
his car. The pictures are frozen, but no one was injured. | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
More shots from Liverpool were another tree came down in West | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
Derby, and another which hit a car over in Rogers Paul. Here is a car | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
in Whitefield. Another tree has come down as you can see. The tree also | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
hit a car in Preston. In the north`west, they say there are about | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
5500 properties without power in the region. That is mainly in the South | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
Lancashire area, but as you said, also Macclesfield and the Peak | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
District. But get all of the important info. | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
We talked about the red warning being in force, but winter is one of | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
the elements you can do nothing about. When it moves across the | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
region, you can barely protect yourself will stop the messages that | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
if this wind continues, stay safe. It doesn't matter if you are at a | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
train station or stuck in traffic as long as USA. That is the important | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
message. It is a red warning. We have not seen one in the north`west | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
of England before. The strength of winds between that bands all the way | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
up the coast. Outwards Preston and all the way around at the Cumbrian | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
coast, the winds could potentially be touching 100 mph. All of the rest | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
of us have an amber warning, where the winds can be up to 80 mph. The | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
reason things have changed over the last couple of hours, instead of the | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
winds running from the south to the north, it runs from the East to the | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
West. Right across our motorways. The bridge and viaduct closed | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
because the wind is going into the side of the vehicles. The West Coast | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
Main Line train running from the south to north, you will be so badly | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
affected if you are driving in these conditions as you go through the | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
night. This is the wind gusts we have reported so far. Across | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
Merseyside, no protection at all. The wind coming from the Irish Sea | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
at 75 mph. I will point you to our BBC local radio stations. Many have | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
changed their schedules tonight to give you the latest information You | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
can stick with them all through the night and first thing tomorrow | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
morning, because of this weather continues, there are bound to be | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
more problems. What is falling from the sky is the least of our | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
problems. But if you have snow falling, and it will over the tops | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
of the Pennines, when you add it to the winds, we're talking about | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
blizzard conditions of the drivers over the top of the Pennines. You | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
add to the wind really chronic visibility. Many places will start | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
to see showers dying away as we head to the early hours of the morning, | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
and becomes a little quieter. These winds will not is off. It will take | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
some time as we head towards dawn but all things start to gradually | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
settle down. Even then, some localised gusts. Tomorrow is a | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
better day, but we were still sits in showers from time to time. They | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
are not showing that widely across the region, but north, there will | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
merge together and there will be significant rain totals, and | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
anywhere where she showers turn you will see howl. You could see thunder | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
and sleet. The temperatures are not story, but they are not that good. | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
We're talking about five or six at the very best. We will have more | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
details in the late bulletin. We have extra time tonight at | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
10:30pm. We will bring you up to date. We have very strict rules | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
about safety guidelines, so please don't worry about David in | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
Blackpool. He will be fine even though it is wet. | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
The married Mac 60 close in both directions. `` M60. Extra Fire | :27:31. | :27:39. | |
Services cold in because of the calls. Diane and I will be back at | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
10:30pm. | :27:42. | :27:46. |