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chilly old week, George. Rais thank you. That's all from the BBC | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
Police say suicide note found for this teenager and her boyfrhend I'm | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
devastated. For the parents, it s horrendous. We hear from a family | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
friend and her former headtdacher. Also, two care workers admit | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
physically and verbally abusing a young man with serious brain damage. | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
A memorial to the Blitz. Thousands sign a petition to save the church | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
the bombers couldn't destrox. And this is Belle Vue in Manchester It | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
used to be one of the biggest entertainment complexes in the | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
country. Now a new exhibition celebrates its history. It's thought | :00:54. | :01:10. | |
adoption teenager and her Alerican boyfriend may have killed themselves | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
after shooting dead a policd officer in Florida. Alex Hollinghurst moved | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
with her family to the Unitdd States six years ago. It's being claimed | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
the pair had written suicidd notes and gone missing before the | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
incident. Friends who knew the family you have spoken of their | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
shock. Robert German was shot dead Saturday morning. It's a tr`gedy | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
that has dominated news bulletins in Florida. Exactly how and whx a | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
police officer and the two teenagers died remains a mystery. The bodies | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
of 18`year`old Brandon Goodd and 17`year`old Alexandria Hollhnghurst | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
were found on Saturday near the officer. Each davenport teen dead in | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
a suspected suicide. 17`year`old Alex Hollinghurst moved to Florida | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
from the Northwest six years ago. A former junior school teacher in | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Hadfield has spoken of his shop This is unbelievable. The lhttle | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
girl we knew when she was hdre at St Andrews, this is something xou | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
wouldn't imagine in any amotnt of time that could possibly happen to | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
her. She had a smiling personality. The way she got on with people, all | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
the friends she had. It's unbelievable that this has come to | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
pass. Tonight, the Orange County Sheriff 's office in Florid` says | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
Alex and her American boyfrhend Brendan Goode, who had a crhminal | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
record, had earlier written suicide note and gone missing. On S`turday, | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
the pair were challenged by officer Robert German in a suburb of | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Orlando. He called for back`up boat was dead when other officers | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
arrived. More shots were he`rd on the bodies of Alex and Brendan were | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
found nearby. I'm devastated, I really am. I can feel for the | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
parents, it's horrendous. Tony is a family friend and lived next door | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
when the family lived in Hadfield. He believes Alex was murderdd by her | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
boyfriend. He shot her and then shot himself. That's what I belidve. The | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
people we've spoken to here who knew the family say they found it hard to | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
believe how Alex could have become involved in such a violent, tragic | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
incident. The overwhelming feeling amongst people who knew the family | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
in this community is that she was a pleasant, sociable girl who was a | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
credit to her parents. The shooting has left two communities in shock | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
and so far raised more questions than answers. Paul Cowdrey hs a | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
pensioner from Rochdale and he's about to be evicted. He will lose | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
his home, part of his late father's inheritance, in a row with the | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
solicitor who handled his f`ther's will. The Solicitors Regulatory | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Authority has described the actions of that solicitor as, ''mor`lly | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
reprehensible''. Even so, the law says he's done nothing wrong. Today | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
a North West MP told us that law needs to be changed. Jayne LcCubbin | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
has the story. Paul Cowdrey shows me his home, up for sale. He's about to | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
be evicted. Every penny frol the sale will go to pay a legal debt. He | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
wants us out as soon as possible. He is Michael Sandler. An expert in | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
wills and probate with one of the UKs oldest law firms. Keogh's, in | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
Athrincham. It's been going on since... When Paul Cowdrey's father | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
died, Mr Sandler was hired `s the executor of the will. But Mr Cowdrey | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
had concerns over the amount of hours he was being billed for. He | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
complained to the Law Society. There is a principle in law which says | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
that solicitors can't chargd their clients for investigating complaints | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
made against them. It's a rdally important principle which gtarantees | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
that solicitors can't profit from potential wrong`doing. It's a | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
principle Paul Cowdrey thought he could rely on. We've seen documents | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
which show Michael Sandler was advised not to charge to investigate | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
those complaints. That advice came from the Law Society. Mr Cowdrey | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
says they also advised he wouldn't be charged. But he was. A ?07,0 0 | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
bill has now spiralled to a ?13 ,000 debt. Two High Court judges have | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
ruled that Michael Sandler was entirely right to charge. The law | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
says he's done nothing wrong. But the assessment from the chidf | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
executive of his own regulatory body has been scathing. His behaviour is | :05:18. | :05:27. | |
morally reprehensible. And xet here you are, you are losing your house. | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
How does that make you feel? Live Aid, angry, upset, all of those | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
emotions. The law is not on my side. The law has to be changed so that | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
someone could complain about a solicitor and not end up losing | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
their house. Keogh's issued a statement saying High Court judges | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
have agreed with us, we werd right to charge. Two siblings werd | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
entirely happy with the service They say if Mr Cowdrey had spent a | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
modest amount in order to t`ke independent legal advice, hd would | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
almost certainly not find hhmself in this present predicament. You | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
thought the advice could get no better than the Law Society? | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
Exactly. His house is about to go to auction. He doubts there will be | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
enough money in the sale to cover the costs. Jane is here. Let's pick | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
up on that statement towards the end of the report, saying that he should | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
have paid full legal advice. But he did go to the Law Society. He | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
thought he was getting from the horses mouth. That's import`nt | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
principle, where clients can't be charged for handling of complaints. | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
In this case, Mr Sandler was the executor of the will. He hired his | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
own law firm to deal with this. That made him also the client. | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
Beneficiaries of wills should also be viewed as clients, that hf the | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
guidance, but it's not set hn law. If there is a moral of the story in | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
this it is this. The executor of a will, if it is also be solicitor, | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
you should tread very careftlly if you are going to lodge cont`ined. `` | :07:04. | :07:15. | |
lodge a complaint. Preston Crown Court has heard from the | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
Conservative MP who encouraged two men to complain about the Rhbble | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Valley MP, Nigel Evans. Dr Sarah Wollaston spoke to the men who say | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
they were assaulted in Mr Evans home. She took one of them to see | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
the Commons Speaker John Bercow But Dr Wolaston told the court she was | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
frustrated the Speaker refused to meet the alleged rape victil | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
following legal advice. The Manchester based Co`op Bank says it | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
needs to raise ?400 million after discovering another hole in its | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
finances. The firm says thex'll issue new shares to raise the cash, | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
which is needed as a result of unexpected costs and charges. The | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
shortfall relates to PPI mis`selling and poor management of mortgages. | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
Lancashire police have begun a performance hearing into how a blind | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
man from Chorley was mistakdnly tasered by an officer. Colin Farmer | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
was walking through Chorley to meet friends when he was tasered in | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
October 2012. Police mistook his white stick for a samurai sword | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
after responding to a report of a man with a weapon. Two care workers | :08:09. | :08:20. | |
have admitted ill treating ` young patient with serious brain damage. | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
The pair verbally and physically abused him at a privately rtn centre | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
near Bari. They were only brought to justice when the patient's worried | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
family installed a secret c`mera in his room at the Priory High Bank | :08:32. | :08:42. | |
Centre. We can't tell you the name of the young man at the centre of | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
this case, but he's in his 20s and he has severe brain injuries. That's | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
why he was supposedly being cared for here at this centre just outside | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Bury. He needs others to look after just about every aspect of his | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
life. But two of those who were supposedly looking after hil, | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Lynette Krug and Rita Page, or doing anything but that, they werd | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
humiliating him. His family were concerned, they say the centre | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
didn't listen to those concdrns so they installed a secret camdra to | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
gather the evidence that landed this pairing court. Lynette Krug, and | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
Rita Page arrived at Bolton Crown Court this morning for what should | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
have been the start of a trhal. But this afternoon the pair admhtted | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
charges of ill treating a pdrson who lacks capacity. The court hdard that | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
both had verbally abused thd patient, both had slapped hhs legs. | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
Crook had jabbed at his head and torso with a pen. The pair were only | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
caught when the patient's f`mily installed a secret camera in his | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
room at this centre near Bury. Outside court, the patient's uncle | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
said they'd become increasingly frustrated because their constant | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
complaints about his care appear to be falling on deaf ears. Nobody | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
listened, and that's why thd cameras went in there. They went in | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
covertly. Here we have a situation where it required a family to pull | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
together to put a camera in an institution to protect their own | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
family. The results it has given us now have allowed us... It's a big | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
weight off the family's shotlders. To know that what we were s`ying was | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
true. Dude you have anything to say? The pair left court this afternoon | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
without comment. They will be back here in May for sentencing. The | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
judge has warned them they could face prison. This afternoon, the | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
Priory issued a statement s`ying everyone deeply regrets what | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
happened to this young man. They say these two people have now bden | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
dismissed for gross miscondtct and described this as an ants d`shed | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
back isolated incident. The young man is now being cared for | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
elsewhere. The inquest into the death of a soldier from Gre`ter | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
Manchester has ruled he died as a result of poor safety practhces | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
21`year`old James Wilkinson, from Whitefield, was killed when a | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
machine gun, which had jammdd, went off while being examined by a | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
colleague. The jury concluddd the decision to fix the weapon was ill | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
judged" and "inappropriate". Two soldiers were later jailed `nd | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
demoted as a result. It's bden devastating to find out how utterly | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
preventable this incident w`s. Although I'm glad to hear that there | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
has been amendments to safety rules in light of what has happendd, I'm | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
still absolutely disgusted that there has been no justice throughout | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
this process. I just wish the men responsible were no longer `ble to | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
serve in the forces, so an dxample could be made of them. And hn a | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
statement issued by the Minhstry of Defence today, they say thex've | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
accepted and implemented thd recommendations to prevent something | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
like this from ever happening again. The future of one of Liverpool's | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
best loved landmarks is provoking fierce argument tonight. St Luke's | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
is better known as the bombdd`out church. It was badly damaged in | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
World War II and has been a memorial to civilians killed in the Blitz | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
ever since. But Liverpool Chty Council doesn't want to pay for its | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
upkeep anymore, so it's looking at new ways in which the buildhng can | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
be used. Campaigners say it's too important to be given over the | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
commercial use. Andy Gill rdports. It's a war memorial and a place for | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
reflection. And many want to keep it that way. But the winter storms have | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
damaged it and, with money tight, the council has to think about | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
running costs. It's had a ntmber of expressions of interest in the | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
church, including one from the private sector. The mayor s`ys it's | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
not for sale. But he won't rule out any options, like leasing, so long | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
as they respect what St Lukd's stands for. If you look at the | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
Anglican Cathedral and the Catholic cathedral in Liverpool, thex both | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
have commercial activity to help pay for them. We are no different. We've | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
got to maintain the building, we've got to make sure it stays up and is | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
therefore another 100 years. St Luke's was opened in 1832. But it | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
was hit by a German bomb in 194 . You can still see charred thmber. | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
Any change in use here would almost certainly be restricted bec`use | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
there is a legal covenants saying St Luke's has to be a churchyard. One | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
proposal apparently is that it should be used for weddings. But | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
even that idea has provoked a furious response from some people. | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
Twitter is buzzing, social ledia generally is buzzing. Peopld want | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
this building saved for futtre generations. We've got to change the | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
way we do that, but the savhng is what is in peoples now. An `rts | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
group which has used the chtrch for the past seven years wants to | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
establish a community group to run it. I'd like to continue thd use we | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
have for writ, which is a space for everybody, whether you are ` | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
millionaire or a homeless gty. It's the same value for those people An | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
online petition set up thred days ago to keep the church has ht is has | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
attracted more than 19,000 signatures. A spectacular church. | :14:02. | :14:19. | |
You may remember last week we told you about Tameside Hospital. A | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
hospital in special measures which was further criticised by the Care | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
Quality Commission for failhng to meet eight out of 11 nation`l | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
standards. The interim chief executive said she wanted to get to | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
the bottom of the problems there. So today she swapped board meetings for | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
bed pans, putting on her nurse's uniform to see what life is like on | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
the wards for patients and staff. Elaine Dunkley reports. Those are | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
the reports we've brought through for this week. Tameside Hospital is | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
in special measures. After xears of poor standards, things need to | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
change. And today, chief exdcutive Karen James changed into her | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
nurse's uniform for a day on the busy wards. This hospital h`s | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
received a lot of bad publicity Is today just a publicity stunt? | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
Absolutely not. This is what we do. I'm out and about, along with my | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
colleagues, all of the time. I'm on the wards to make sure we are | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
delivering the necessary st`ndards and we do provide excellent care | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
here. In an unannounced inspection, the Care Quality Commission | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
identified serious breaches in patient care at Tyneside. It found | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
staff didn't know how to care properly for mentally ill p`tients | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
and those with dementia. Thdre was criticism for failing to protect | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
people's dignity and the shortage of staff. Add to this the fact Tameside | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
Hospital the ?4 million in debt It is the weekend performance that is | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
the worrying aspect. It doesn't seem to be many staff about. I'm very | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
satisfied. I've no complaints. Not the way they are treating md. It has | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
been let go for over a decade, a decade of demise. That was down to | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
what the inquiry highlighted, which was bad leadership. What is required | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
is for the Government to cole forward with 5.2 million, which is | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
required to implement the fhndings. The trust says it's trying to make | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
improvements but insists transforming Tyneside take time `` | :16:20. | :16:33. | |
tame side. Let's move on to sport, but we are not starting with | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
football. Laura Massaro is top of the tree in squash? Yes, Latra, | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
who's from Preston, won a dramatic final in Malaysia yesterday. It | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
looked at one point as though her dream was slipping away, whhch would | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
have been awful because she's been close many times in the past. She | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
came back from several points behind in the final set to beat Egxpt's | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
Nour El Sherbini. Laura, who's the first English woman to win the title | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
since 1999, is flying home `t the moment. I decided to send hdr on her | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
way with a phone call from ts. It feels pretty amazing at the moment. | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
Every time I see myself on Twitter or in the media with the cup and it | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
world champion, I get butterflies. I guess it's still sinking in a bit. | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
Do you feel different? Not really, apart from being quite tired today! | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
I think it is just more of ` really proud moment, particularly for | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
myself and the people who are really close to me and helped me achieve | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
this. Absolutely. What has been the reaction of your friends and family? | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
It's been unbelievable. Really happy and proud. They cracked the | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
champagne open at 8am when H won, which was amazing. In some ways this | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
was big your chance, becausd Nicole David has dominated the sport over | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
the last ten years and she was out. Did you think that big chance was | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
slipping away because it went to a final set and it looked dodgy? I | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
absolutely did. It added a bit of extra pressure knowing she wasn t | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
there and I'd never lost to Nour El Sherbini before, to come through and | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
take the title afterwards, ht looked like it wasn't going to happen. But | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
then it did. You get back tomorrow afternoon, what are you going to do? | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
When I get home, my friends and family have a meal planned for me on | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
Saturday. I think that will grow and grow and turn into more of ` party! | :18:31. | :18:46. | |
It was a good weekend for all our Premier League sides. All four won | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
and there were a couple contenders for goal of the season as wdll. | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
Wayne Rooney's long range lob in Manchester United's 2`0 win against | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
West Ham was reminiscent of David Beckham iconic goal against | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
Wimbledon. Manchester City thrashed Fulham 5`0. The pick of the bunch | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
was this from Yaya Toure. Liverpool's Luis Suarez scored a | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
hatrick in their 6`3 win at Cardiff to remain in second place. @nd | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
Everton boosted their hopes of qualifying for Europe after a 3`2 | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
win over Swansea lifted thel into fifth. In the Championship, Wigan | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
kept up their push for a pl`y`off spot with another win, this time 2`1 | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
against Watord. Martyn Waghorn's second`half goal secured a ninth win | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
in ten matches. And Burnley's push for automatic promotion shows little | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
sign of slowing down. The Clarets won 3`0 at Charlton. Ashley Barnes | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
scoring his first goal for the club who remain ten points clear of the | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
chasing pack. The Burnley boss, Sean Dyche, is one of the guests on Late | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Kick Off tonight with Tony Livesey. Sean tells Tony about the v`lue he | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
places on giving his players sufficient time off. People | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
question, Arsene Wenger was questioned recently about ghving the | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
players a day off. I couldn't believe it. Do you tell thel to stay | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
in the house on a day off? Absolutely not. There is a trust | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
between what you build as a professional unit. Tony's also | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
joined by ex`Everton, Wigan and Preston player Kevin Kilband. | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
11.20pm on BBC One. They've won the English Premier League and they re | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
from Manchester. Not United or City but Phoenix. The ice hockey team | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
were recently crowned champhons and celebrated last night by showing off | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
the trophy in front of a capacity home crowd at Altrincham's Hce Dome. | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
Paresh Patel was there for `n end of season party to remember. | :20:24. | :20:34. | |
Brilliant, a fantastic achidvement! Unbelievable! Last week's vhctory | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
over Basingstoke earned Manchester Phoenix British ice's hockex | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
ultimate prize ` the English Premier League. It's second time thdy won it | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
since joining the EPL just five years ago. We've been going for this | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
for about seven months now, this league title. It's great for | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
everyone involved in the cltb, the owner, the fans and also for the | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
city of Manchester. That success has ensured capacity crowds at their | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
home in Altrincham. Last night's final match against Telford was a | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
formality, but some fans just couldn't wait. It's physical, it's | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
entertaining and it's good value for money. It was amazing, really good! | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
So what's the secret to Phodnix s success? Well, stamina is crucial. | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Each team plays its opponents twice, home and away over one weekdnd for | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
27 weekends, making 54 matches a season. Each club is allowed four | :21:28. | :21:37. | |
foreign players. Phoenix have chosen their's from one of ice hockey's | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
most successful nations, thd Czech Republic But home grown taldnt is | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
also key. I've spent sometiles in the United States, Finland `nd | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
Sweden. Manchester, it's good people, the people around the rink | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
and the hockey team is great. But home`grown talent is also ilportant. | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
I'm from Bolton originally, the nearest ice rink to me was | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
Blackburn. Players like Richard are now inspiring a new generathon of | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
fans and potential stars of the future. | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
The former Manchester City `nd England manager and Everton player | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
Joe Mercer features on a new Royal Mail stamp published to honour his | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
remarkable achievements. Here he is, pictured in his playing days. Joe | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
managed City between 1961 and 7 , winning the League, the FA Cup, the | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
League Cup and the European Cup Winners Cup. Born in Ellesmdre Port, | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
he lifted the League title `s a player with Everton. Joe, who died | :22:43. | :22:51. | |
in 1990, also starred for Arsenal. I think I'm right in saying hd was | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
also the first football person to be featured on this is your life. | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
Is our boss watching tonight? I like that clip from the football boss | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
saying he gives his staff plenty of time off! It was once one of the | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
biggest entertainment centrds in the country, bigger even than today s | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
Disneyland in Paris. Belle Vue in Manchester had everything from a | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
circus to a zoo. It closed hn 1 71, but now an exhibition has hope and | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
which pays tribute to Belle Vue s headache. It's part of this year's | :23:30. | :23:39. | |
Manchester Histories Festiv`l. It used to be called Pleasure Land a | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
vast entertainment complex which attracted two million visitors a | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
year from all over the country. It is circus time at Belle Vue. This | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
week, an exhibition pays holage to Belle Vue's heyday, with strange and | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
wonderful artefacts donated by other museums and also members of the | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
public. I spent about three months asking community organisations, | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
schools, local history groups, what is it about Manchester's history | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
that isn't celebrated that we should cover in the Festival? Everxbody | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
kept saying you've got to do Belle Vue. One of the biggest attractions | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
was the Speedway, which started at Belle Vue in 1929. These ard a | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
collection of bikes loaned to us that were written by origin`l | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
speedway riders. This one w`s Peter Collins' bike, he was world champion | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
in 1976. Speedway were so popular then. The speedway riders wdre kind | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
of like the Premiership footballers of their day. Belle Vue had | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
something for everyone. It had a zoo, a circus, a funfair, Speedway, | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
boxing, wrestling, even ballroom dancing. It entertained people for | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
140 years and often with bizarre and memorable acts. Belle Vue today | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
still has a Speedway, it also has a dog track and cinema. But the | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
massive entertainment compldx that used to be here closed in 1880s | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
Nothing remains of the orighnal complex, although this commdmorative | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
plaque was unveiled yesterd`y. For many, the exhibition is bringing | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
back happy memories. We werd all very poor in those days. If you | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
ignored the queue at the front you could always get in the back for | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
nothing. It was a shame when it was down. It was ours. The exhibition is | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
on until Sunday. I went to the dogs recently. One of | :25:33. | :25:42. | |
my earliest memories was gohng to the circus there. I had no concept | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
it was that huge. Quickly moving on, she's been a bit under the weather | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
for a couple of weeks but it's great to have you back. I think I've | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
chosen the wrong outfit, I can hardly see myself below the waist! | :26:00. | :26:09. | |
The cold, beautifully bright and crisp day we've had today whll be | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
replaced by typical Northwest weather as we go through thd night. | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
Rain is coming towards us. Ht's been not making any progress. It's a | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
lacklustre, slow`moving weather front, but eventually it gets to all | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
of us. Any clear spells will be replaced by the cloud. Watch it | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
slowly work its way in, light and patchy initially. Then it whll start | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
to take hold a little bit, so they could be a few millimetres of rain | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
falling in places. It means your temperatures, much better than last | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
night, nothing subzero. Most of us, five and six degrees. Tomorrow | :26:48. | :26:59. | |
morning, it's all still arotnd. A dull and damp start to the day. | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
Watch the weather front movd out of the way, clearing the Isle of Man | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
first. But then it gets hung up and the Pennines and contrary go | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
anywhere. Then it moves back through the next 12 hours. You are stuck | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
with the cloud, dull, damp `nd drizzly stuff. Here's hoping you | :27:11. | :27:12. | |
don't see too much heavier stuff. The most of us, there's no chance of | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
it even brightening up. The wind lighter than today, temperatures | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
probably about the same. Relember, nothing in the way of sunshhne. | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
A good time to come back to work! I do have a theory why so manx people | :27:26. | :27:38. | |
are getting so many nasty btgs, it's not cold enough. Exactly! Thanks for | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
watching, have a good night. | :27:45. | :27:45. |