:00:00. > :00:00.Ukrainians in crime era, as the high-level talks to resume the
:00:00. > :00:11.crisis continue. Welcome to North West Tonight with
:00:12. > :00:14.Annabel Tiffin and Roger Johnson. Our top story. No more cuts. Stand
:00:15. > :00:51.your ground. Mind over matter. How posithve
:00:52. > :00:55.thinking could help ease thd pain of arthritis.
:00:56. > :00:58.And the vaccination against bovine TB. How dead badgers could help the
:00:59. > :01:05.living. And live in the studio, the boy who
:01:06. > :01:10.made a star in a jar. 13`ye`r`old Jamie and his astonishing world
:01:11. > :01:15.record. You can make somethhng you might see in the sky at night. A
:01:16. > :01:25.little chain like that. It's just magic.
:01:26. > :01:32.Campaigners have gathered ottside Liverpool Town Hall to protdst
:01:33. > :01:38.against council budget cuts. They are aqueueing the Mayor of
:01:39. > :01:44.butchering jobs and services. Councillors are discussing spending
:01:45. > :01:50.cuts of which will put many services and jobs at risk. Mark Edwardson
:01:51. > :01:57.joins us now. That meeting hs underway right now? It is, xes. Here
:01:58. > :02:04.inside the town hall in the centre of Liverpool, the mayor, Jod
:02:05. > :02:09.Anderson's presenting his plan to save ?156 million. It is a day he's
:02:10. > :02:13.been dreading. Earlier, there was a demonstration outside the town hall
:02:14. > :02:18.organised by Liverpool against the cuts and the TUC in the citx. They
:02:19. > :02:22.see the spending reductions as totally unnecessary. Even accusing
:02:23. > :02:30.Liverpool's Mayor of butchering services and jobs.
:02:31. > :02:38.Mark, just explain to us wh`t is under threat here? Well, thd big one
:02:39. > :02:44.is adult social care which could lose ?42 million with many of its
:02:45. > :02:50.day centres closed. Children services could lose ?16 million
:02:51. > :02:57.Libraries and leisure centrds will get hit too. The Park Road leisure
:02:58. > :03:03.centre is under threat. The protesters today here called on
:03:04. > :03:08.Joanner son to ignore the ctts and refuse to implement them. What we
:03:09. > :03:16.are looking for Labour councillors and to Joe Anderson, they are the
:03:17. > :03:19.first barrier, the protection of Liverpool people. They are our
:03:20. > :03:24.protecters from the Tory Government. We are looking for them to provide
:03:25. > :03:29.leadership, develop a fight back against these vicious cuts.
:03:30. > :03:34.Criticism there of Joe Anderson mayor, what has he had to s`y?
:03:35. > :03:39.During the meeting, he's accused Number Ten of arrogance and
:03:40. > :03:43.ignorance saying Liverpool's been short changed. I asked him `bout
:03:44. > :03:51.that idea of making an illegal budget. There's two choices for
:03:52. > :03:56.Liverpool to set legal or illegal budgets. In the eighties we tried
:03:57. > :04:02.the illegal Protector says. It didn't go down with the people of
:04:03. > :04:07.the city and businesses. I `m not tempted to do that. They were not
:04:08. > :04:10.historic victories and events. People in Liverpool will relember
:04:11. > :04:17.that only too well. The isste reached the House of Commons today
:04:18. > :04:19.as well? It did. Louise Elm`n use used Prime Minister's Questhons to
:04:20. > :04:24.challenge David Cameron on the issue. First the Government told
:04:25. > :04:29.northern councillors to stop do having their caps in the hopes of a
:04:30. > :04:33.handout. Then the High Court ruled Government cuts in European funding
:04:34. > :04:39.for Liverpool and Sheffield were illegal. What does this say about
:04:40. > :04:43.the Government? Liverpool h`s huge needs in terms of funding. H believe
:04:44. > :04:49.the funding that it gets reflects those needs. If you look at the
:04:50. > :05:01.spending per dwelling in Liverpool for 2014, it is ?2,594 per dwelling.
:05:02. > :05:04.That is a full ?700 more per dwelling than is spent in mx
:05:05. > :05:11.constituency. We'll have a full report from this
:05:12. > :05:20.meeting in our bulletin at 05.2 pm. Do you know what this is in the
:05:21. > :05:24.screen behind? It is a body camera. The cameras are being used to film
:05:25. > :05:29.footage by police officers which can be used as evidence in court. Police
:05:30. > :05:36.hope it will be useful in t`ckling anti`social behaviour.
:05:37. > :05:43.PC Graham Davis out on patrol in Warrington centre. He's one of
:05:44. > :05:47.several officers using the new body cameras. He says they are
:05:48. > :05:52.particularly useful in publhc order offences. In one incident a woman
:05:53. > :05:59.hit him. The woman was drunk, abusive. She struck me and ht was
:06:00. > :06:04.all captured on there. It w`s impossible for her to deny. The
:06:05. > :06:09.cameras are not on all the time Officers decide when to use them and
:06:10. > :06:14.they have to warn people thdy are being filmed. 24 officers h`ve these
:06:15. > :06:19.cameras. The idea is it shotld speed up the judicial process bec`use
:06:20. > :06:24.people are more likely to admit what they've done if they know they've
:06:25. > :06:28.been caught on camera. At a cost of ?300 each are they worth thd money?
:06:29. > :06:33.We are getting the evidence there to be found that the use of thdse
:06:34. > :06:37.cameras saves police and cotrt time. People faced with that eviddnce do
:06:38. > :06:43.plead guilty. These cameras are always ready to record. All you have
:06:44. > :06:47.to do is press this button twice and the officer can start gather egg
:06:48. > :06:51.evidence. Footage can be usdd when people accuse of police of
:06:52. > :06:57.mistreatment. But what happdns to the film? If we record foot`ge of an
:06:58. > :07:02.incident taking place and wd deem it is non`evidential, after 31 days, it
:07:03. > :07:08.will be delighted. Head camdras are being used at big events like
:07:09. > :07:17.football matches and demonstrations. But true teen `` routine body
:07:18. > :07:23.cameras are not in place. If the pilot scheme is successful they will
:07:24. > :07:26.be rolled out to Warrington police. Greater Manchester Police are also
:07:27. > :07:30.trialling the cameras. The Chief Constable says he's still ydt to be
:07:31. > :07:36.convinced they are a good idea. Sir Peter says he fears if they are
:07:37. > :07:40.used perhaps an officer would not be believed if the incident was not
:07:41. > :07:45.captured on camera and the hnvasion of privacy if the police ard filming
:07:46. > :07:49.when they enter someone's house in a distressing situation.
:07:50. > :07:54.Let us know what you think. A 23`year`old man from Barrow in
:07:55. > :08:01.Furness has been jailed for 80 daysed and banned from keephng
:08:02. > :08:08.animals for seven years aftdr being caught on CCTV. The puppy h`s been
:08:09. > :08:12.rehomed. Three north`west MPs have stbmitted
:08:13. > :08:18.a petition to Downing Street raising concerns about overcrowding on the
:08:19. > :08:24.region's trains. Bolton's MPs are calling for better transport
:08:25. > :08:31.services. Meanwhile, the Bl`ckburn MP Jack Straw raced the `` raised
:08:32. > :08:35.the issue of TransPennine Express trains being moved to the south of
:08:36. > :08:40.England. Trans`Pennine exprdss is to lose one in eight of its tr`ins to
:08:41. > :08:45.be transferred to chit earn rail for the greater comfort and convenience
:08:46. > :08:52.for commuters in the south of England. I will look at the point
:08:53. > :08:56.the gentleman raises. We have plans to elect if I the Trans`Pennine
:08:57. > :09:01.railways and we're going ahdad with the northern hub.
:09:02. > :09:05.It is said the power of poshtive thinking can overcome many things.
:09:06. > :09:12.Now researchers in Manchestdr say it can reduce pain. They have `n been
:09:13. > :09:16.working with arthritis patidnts to establish whether changing their
:09:17. > :09:22.frame of mind can lessen thdir physical suffering.
:09:23. > :09:30.Anne`Marie Lewis knows about pain. She's lived with osteoarthrhtis
:09:31. > :09:36.You've main all day every d`y. Some days are worse than others but it is
:09:37. > :09:41.always there. Inflamed arthritic joins send messages to the brain. It
:09:42. > :09:47.processes those messages to let the body no it is ex`spearensing pain.
:09:48. > :09:51.But is it possible to affect the way the brain interprets those lessages.
:09:52. > :09:59.Researchers at Manchester University have been monitoring brainw`ves of
:10:00. > :10:04.patients. They think alter someone's mind can lessen the pain. Your
:10:05. > :10:10.research seems to suggest you can combat pain by the power of thought?
:10:11. > :10:16.Yes. We know that this bit of cortex, the frontal cortex hs very
:10:17. > :10:20.good at controlling the pain matrix. If you're really worrying and
:10:21. > :10:26.thinking this is going to htrt, then it will? Absolutely. How do you
:10:27. > :10:30.convince somebody who has a chronic condition to think more poshtively
:10:31. > :10:37.and control their pain more effectively? We've used a therapy
:10:38. > :10:43.called minefulness, talking therapies, based on meditathon.
:10:44. > :10:49.Based on ancient Buddhist ctlture. If you just give patients whth
:10:50. > :10:53.chronic pain and eight`week course of mindfulness based talking
:10:54. > :10:57.therapies, you can modify the way the brain expects pain. Annd`Marie's
:10:58. > :11:01.been working with the Manchdster team for the fast past four years.
:11:02. > :11:09.She's convinced positive thhnking works. Osteoor threat Is afdck the
:11:10. > :11:15.so many people. It is of paramount importance the research continues.
:11:16. > :11:22.Such a difficult thing to lhve it. Still to come:
:11:23. > :11:27.Jumping for joy, the heptathlete who's looking forward to thd world
:11:28. > :11:31.indoor athletics championshhp this weekend. And we're in the l`b with
:11:32. > :11:36.the school boy determined to become the youngest person in the world to
:11:37. > :11:41.build a nuclear fueings reactor To some people they are cutd and
:11:42. > :11:47.adorable and to be protected. To others, disease`ridden creatures to
:11:48. > :11:52.be avoided. Badgers have provoke strong emotions. They've bedn culled
:11:53. > :12:01.in some areas to try to redtce the spread of bovine TB. Now thdre's a
:12:02. > :12:07.study on badgers killed on the roads to see if they are carrying TB. In
:12:08. > :12:13.During the day, badgers sledp underground. When they come out at
:12:14. > :12:16.night, they can spread bovine TB. But there's fierce argument about
:12:17. > :12:21.the extent to which they ard responsible and whether it hs better
:12:22. > :12:27.to vaccinate or kill badgers to stop the disease spreading. We are on a
:12:28. > :12:31.large sett here. Now Chesird Wildlife Trust and others h`ve come
:12:32. > :12:36.up with a scheme to study b`dgers killed on the roads to see hf they
:12:37. > :12:41.are carrying TB or not. Vaccination over a large county like Chdsire
:12:42. > :12:46.won't be easy. If the Government puts as much weight into vaccination
:12:47. > :12:49.as culling we think we can drive the number of vaccinators out there
:12:50. > :12:53.working with farmers, reallx get that uptake and have the affect we
:12:54. > :12:59.want which is to break the cycle of the disease.
:13:00. > :13:07.Bovine TB is increasing in Chesire There were 143 new casing l`st year.
:13:08. > :13:11.Bovine TB can be devastating for animals. If a farmer gets the
:13:12. > :13:15.disease it has to be slaughtered. There are different strains of the
:13:16. > :13:19.disease. The aims of this ndw project is to see whether the
:13:20. > :13:28.strains in badgers are the same as those in cattle. Liverpool
:13:29. > :13:32.University scientists will study the badgers killed on roads. It is a
:13:33. > :13:36.risky business and we had to film the postmortem through a window
:13:37. > :13:40.This epidemic is spreading North'swards. We are in the
:13:41. > :13:45.frontline of it now. Whatevdr your views on how you control TB, whether
:13:46. > :13:49.in cattle or badgers, you c`n't really argue your case unless you
:13:50. > :13:56.know whether or not it is in the badgers. The project will rtn for an
:13:57. > :14:03.initial six monthsment Let's move on to sport. England in
:14:04. > :14:08.action in a friendly tonight. The pre`match talk is mainly about
:14:09. > :14:12.petitions, psychiatrists and Liverpool and manunited. Let's start
:14:13. > :14:17.with psychiatrists but the name of Steve Peters is the man who's
:14:18. > :14:24.credited with giving us hopd for the upcoming World Cup. He's receipt
:14:25. > :14:31.credit with helping the mental state of British cyclists. Steve Peters
:14:32. > :14:34.has also been working with Liverpool and Steven Gerrard's praised his
:14:35. > :14:39.impact. He can help you to learn what's going on inside your head.
:14:40. > :14:45.Can help with preparation. H didn't really know what was going on in my
:14:46. > :14:50.head. Now it works, why I think certain things. If you do bty into
:14:51. > :14:56.it, he is the best. Could bd the key man. England need all the hdlp they
:14:57. > :15:00.can get with penalty shoototts? Whether Tom Cleverly will bd there
:15:01. > :15:04.remains to be seen. A petithon from fans trying to stop him going to the
:15:05. > :15:13.World Cup? Fans don't want him there. 10,000 who signed thd
:15:14. > :15:17.petition don't. It is about an online petition accusing tolorrow
:15:18. > :15:21.cleverly of inept Di plays. The 24`year`old is in the squad for
:15:22. > :15:28.tonight's game with Denmark. Hodgson is not impressed by the pethtion.
:15:29. > :15:32.It has been confirmed the c`ptain of Manchester United will join Milan in
:15:33. > :15:38.the summer anti`ing eight`and`a`half years at Old Trafford. He joined in
:15:39. > :15:42.2006 and has made over 200 appearances winning five Prdmier
:15:43. > :15:46.League tightles an the Champions League.
:15:47. > :15:49.Vauxhall motors will quit the conference north league at the end
:15:50. > :15:53.of the season due to financhal problems. The club was founded in
:15:54. > :16:00.1963 shortly after the car plant opened. Their greatest triulph came
:16:01. > :16:09.in 2002 with victory over QPR in the Cup. She's been tipped as the next
:16:10. > :16:14.big star of athletics. Katrhna Thompson Johnson needs to ddliver
:16:15. > :16:17.medals according to her coach. She competes in the world World Indoor
:16:18. > :16:21.Championships this weekend but is already focus on the summer's
:16:22. > :16:27.Commonwealth Games. She emerged in 2012.
:16:28. > :16:37.COMMENTATOR: O', yes. Improved in 2013. And now 2014 brings
:16:38. > :16:42.expectation for Katrina Tholpson Johnson. Expectation comes on when
:16:43. > :16:47.you do big performances. I put pressure on myself. The onlx Pernik
:16:48. > :16:51.disappoint is myself. When others put pressure on me, I don't see that
:16:52. > :16:56.as an issue. I have to keep doing what I'm doing. What she's doing is
:16:57. > :17:03.breaking more rids. The British high jump one went last month. This
:17:04. > :17:07.weekend's championships in Poland, Katrina competes in the long jump
:17:08. > :17:12.after illness stopped her qtalifying for the pentathlon. Getting into the
:17:13. > :17:18.final is the tough part. Thd main target this year is the Comlonwealth
:17:19. > :17:23.Games heptathlon in Glasgow and a first major championship medal. It
:17:24. > :17:26.will be nice to start collecting some hardware. The Commonwe`lth
:17:27. > :17:30.Games could be a perfect stdpping stone for that. You can't bd a
:17:31. > :17:38.promising youngster forever. You have to step up and try to follow in
:17:39. > :17:45.Jessica Ennis's footsteps if we can. If Kat keeps progressing at this
:17:46. > :17:50.stage when Jess Ennis returns from having her baby, she may not be
:17:51. > :17:56.number one. She couldn't make it to Moscow. I handled that well. I can
:17:57. > :18:01.go out to be the only heptathlete there and enjoy it. She'll start to
:18:02. > :18:06.enjoy it even more if she c`n bring some major medals back to Lhverpool.
:18:07. > :18:13.From one developing talent to another. Joss butter, the
:18:14. > :18:17.wicketkeeper was dismissed for 9 playing for England against the West
:18:18. > :18:21.Indies missing out on his international made an century.
:18:22. > :18:25.Cruel. I'm sure his time will come. Thank
:18:26. > :18:29.you. You probably know the saying if a
:18:30. > :18:34.ship a singing it is women `nd children in the lifeboats fhrst It
:18:35. > :18:41.is known as the Birkenhead Drill. It was first used when HMS Birkenhead
:18:42. > :18:46.sank in 1852. More than 400 men died but every woman and child w`s saved.
:18:47. > :18:48.Lifeboat man has campaigned for a permanent memorial. Today, ` tribute
:18:49. > :19:01.was unveiled in Birkenhead. Today, tributes were paid to
:19:02. > :19:06.incredible bravery. 162 years ago, over 400 men perished when HMS
:19:07. > :19:10.Birkenhead sank off the coast of South Africa. The boat was carrying
:19:11. > :19:16.troops who followed their orders without question. Young soldiers
:19:17. > :19:21.from 14 upwards joined the `rmy for an adventure and find themsdlves on
:19:22. > :19:28.a singing ship. Their man in charge asked them to stand firm. G`ve them
:19:29. > :19:34.jobs to do and put women and children in the life boat. Hearing
:19:35. > :19:38.the lifeboat might be swampdd and the woman and chirp could bd drowned
:19:39. > :19:44.he asked them to stand fast. I went to a family wedding seven
:19:45. > :19:51.years ago. One of the first signs of read was the Birkenhead followed by
:19:52. > :19:57.Birkenhead hotel, guest house. I had to almost pinch myself to s`y, where
:19:58. > :20:03.was I? The people of western cape were so proud of the name Bhrkenhead
:20:04. > :20:08.because of the famous ship, HMS Birkenhead and what it stands for
:20:09. > :20:16.The ship was built in Birkenhead. They constructed the memori`l
:20:17. > :20:25.designed by a local stewed dn. In. In. `` student. Horrible for them to
:20:26. > :20:33.stand there as the boat goes down. It will ale form the bride that
:20:34. > :20:37.Birkenhead became part of the Birkenhead Drill.
:20:38. > :20:45.Spectacular memorial. Reallx nice. Roger, the most amazing thing you
:20:46. > :20:49.did when you were 13. Can you remember back that far?
:20:50. > :20:54.Certainly nothing remarkabld. I bet it was nothing like L`ncashire
:20:55. > :20:58.schoolboy Jamie Edwards. He is in a completely different league from
:20:59. > :21:03.most 13`year`olds. He did an experiment today in his school lab.
:21:04. > :21:09.He can lay claim to being the youngest person in the world to
:21:10. > :21:18.build from scratch a tiny ntclear fusion reactor. Here's Peter
:21:19. > :21:24.Marshall who was there to sde this. Many teenaged boys struggling to
:21:25. > :21:28.make a sandwich. But not Jalie. I hopes his dream will achievd nuclear
:21:29. > :21:33.fueings. You make something you might see in the sky at night in a
:21:34. > :21:39.little chamber. That's magic. The plan is to smash two matters of
:21:40. > :21:47.hydrogen together to make hdlium. He will be the youngest ever ftsioneer
:21:48. > :21:52.wrestling the title from a 14`year`old American. I'm confident.
:21:53. > :21:57.It is not without risk. The main danger as he helped point it out to
:21:58. > :22:03.teachers to let them do this is the high votage. Risk assessment means
:22:04. > :22:08.things can go wrong. We havd assessed them and managed them and
:22:09. > :22:16.are aware of the worst case scenario, why not. What was the
:22:17. > :22:24.worst case accept air yobs? Death. We retreated. We've got neutrons.
:22:25. > :22:31.You've done it. I was looking around the the neutron counter went crazy.
:22:32. > :22:34.It was brilliant. It still has to be officially verified but things are
:22:35. > :22:40.looking good. Relieved more than anything. Really proud. Not so much
:22:41. > :22:47.of the scientific side of things but the determination he's had to pull
:22:48. > :22:51.it off. Really proud. Final word, pal and helper George. Is hd not
:22:52. > :22:59.interested in football or anything? No, just nuclear. That's it.
:23:00. > :23:04.How cool is that? Jamie and George are with us now.
:23:05. > :23:08.An amazing achievement. I stppose the question that perhaps a lot of
:23:09. > :23:13.people are asking how can a 13`year`old know how to build that?
:23:14. > :23:18.I guess it is a lot of time and he port you doing research, wrhting
:23:19. > :23:24.letters to professors at universities. You did this xourself?
:23:25. > :23:31.You found it out yourself? Xeah there's a good website. Loads of
:23:32. > :23:35.amateur physicists on there who ve helped me on along my journdy of
:23:36. > :23:43.fusion. George, what do the other guys at school make of what you two
:23:44. > :23:49.have been involved at doing? They think it is amazing. It's ptt the
:23:50. > :23:57.school on the map? Definitely. What have the teachers said? Wonderful.
:23:58. > :24:03.Your physics teacher... Maybe one or two things. Might come in a few
:24:04. > :24:12.years. You can't sit back on your laurels? Can you? 13, what `re you
:24:13. > :24:19.going to do next? Thinking laybe new particle accelerator. Something like
:24:20. > :24:26.that. Call CERN. Maybe. Is that what you'd like to do? Is physics the way
:24:27. > :24:33.forward for you? Verges defhnitely. Nuclear engineering, physics. In
:24:34. > :24:38.even theoretical physics. You couldn't have done this without
:24:39. > :24:44.George? What was your role hn this? My role was to tidy up. And make
:24:45. > :24:49.brews for him. Everyone needs someone to make the brews. Xou've
:24:50. > :24:54.brought your buyinger countdr on? This played an important part? You
:24:55. > :25:01.needed to check there were no leaks? Yes. Does this test radioactivity?
:25:02. > :25:07.It does. There's a dial on the front. Not making a sound! Honestly!
:25:08. > :25:13.Well done. Brilliant. Stay with us. Just to clarify, I
:25:14. > :25:16.make more teas than you! You do. Thank you very much. I can't
:25:17. > :25:18.deny that. Shall we find out what's happening
:25:19. > :25:27.with the science of the weather Good evening. March started off on a
:25:28. > :25:31.decent note so far. Plenty of sunshine around. As the month
:25:32. > :25:36.progresses, the weather will continue to improve. As we head into
:25:37. > :25:39.the end of this week, temperatures beginning to real rise into double
:25:40. > :25:44.figures. But, there's a little hiccup before then. A lot of cloud
:25:45. > :25:50.around before the weekend. This evening, we have extensive cloud
:25:51. > :25:55.cover. Overnight, we'll see rain slowly pushing in. It is persistent
:25:56. > :26:00.light rain overnight. A murky night. We'll see winds picking up over the
:26:01. > :26:06.Isle of Man. Some mist patches forming over Cumbria. Temperatures
:26:07. > :26:10.much milder than last night. 7 or 8 Celsius overnight. For the first
:26:11. > :26:14.time this week tomorrow morning hopefully, should be frost free
:26:15. > :26:20.But, for tomorrow, yet again, we'll hold on to lots of cloud from the
:26:21. > :26:24.word go. A damp and misty start Clouds just continuing to btild and
:26:25. > :26:28.that rain continuing to pild in Through the afternoon, we'll see
:26:29. > :26:32.some heavy pulses of rain over the Isle of Man and Cumbria. Thd breeze
:26:33. > :26:36.continuing to pick up. Tempdratures tomorrow not so bad. We'll see them
:26:37. > :26:44.in double figures. Particul`rly in the south of the region. 10 or 1
:26:45. > :26:49.Celsius. We head into Fridax. A cold front pulls a band of rain through
:26:50. > :26:52.on Friday. A touch cooler. But Saturday, high pressure beghnning to
:26:53. > :26:56.build in the east. This is good news for the weekend. That band of rain
:26:57. > :27:03.will miss us. On Saturday, right across the board, we'll see
:27:04. > :27:08.temperatures in double figures. 13 in Warrington and Manchester. Next
:27:09. > :27:14.week, high pressure means wd'll see very settled conditions.
:27:15. > :27:20.Come over. Come and sit down. You're wearing radioactive shoes?
:27:21. > :27:24.Jamie, George, asides from physics and breaking records what do you do
:27:25. > :27:33.normally? Play in a um co of brass bands. Cornet. I do a fair bit of
:27:34. > :27:36.cycling as well. I'm more into motorbiking and engines. We think
:27:37. > :27:45.you two are going to rule the world. We want to treasure this molent
:27:46. > :27:49.Multi`talented. Thank you for coming in. Good night.