:00:07. > :00:11.Good evening and welcome to North West Tonight with Annabel Thffin and
:00:12. > :00:15.Roger Johnson. Our top storx: Living in filth ` jail for the mother who
:00:16. > :00:17.kept her four year old in appauling squalor.
:00:18. > :00:20.The boy was only discovered when police called to investigatd a
:00:21. > :00:23.missing dog. Six Preston North End players,
:00:24. > :00:32.including the team's captain, are arrested over bribery alleg`tions.
:00:33. > :00:38.I'm Prince Cassius, expert and I'm going to tell you
:00:39. > :00:43.what's hot and not at the Grand National.
:00:44. > :00:51.Baking has been fashionable for several years now but here xou can
:00:52. > :00:55.wear the creations. A mother whose child was living in
:00:56. > :00:59.some of the worst conditions ever seen by Lancashire Police h`s been
:01:00. > :01:02.jailed for two years. Her four`year`old son was found in a
:01:03. > :01:07.scene of absolute squalor bx a police officer responding to reports
:01:08. > :01:10.of a missing dog. He found the little boy serhously
:01:11. > :01:15.ill, surrounded by ferrets, dogs, animal excrement and rotting food.
:01:16. > :01:27.Our reporter Judy Hobson is outside the Royal Blackburn Hospital. This
:01:28. > :01:34.is a really appalling tale. It is. The little boy was brought
:01:35. > :01:37.here in a dehydrated state. He had a pre`existing medical condithon
:01:38. > :01:42.meaning he had to be fed through a chip into his stomach and that had
:01:43. > :01:48.become infected. He was verx poorly indeed. Heiss was described as being
:01:49. > :01:52.an absolute squalor and we have some photographs inside of the property.
:01:53. > :01:59.The house was crammed with 20 ferrets which were running loose, 14
:02:00. > :02:01.dogs, rubbish, rotting food and animal excrement everywhere. The
:02:02. > :02:13.detective in charge of this case is with me. This was a chance dncounter
:02:14. > :02:18.because they officer went to the house on another matter.
:02:19. > :02:23.Yes, he was looking for a mhssing dog and he was particularly
:02:24. > :02:29.tenacious about getting into the house. He was persistent and ended
:02:30. > :02:38.up in a room where he found this child on a squalid mat on the
:02:39. > :02:44.Flora. He thought it was a dog and then realised it was an unrdsponsive
:02:45. > :02:49.child who was ill. I understand the police said another
:02:50. > :02:55.24 hours and he would have died Certainly that is what we h`ve been
:02:56. > :03:03.told because he was very dehydrated. He was intubated with a chip into
:03:04. > :03:09.his stomach which was septic. The doctors said they had ever seen
:03:10. > :03:14.anything like it. The police officers said it was in a
:03:15. > :03:21.really poor condition. The director of children's services
:03:22. > :03:24.said as a statement saying that the family were not on the radar because
:03:25. > :03:30.they had only just moved into the area but the little boy is now doing
:03:31. > :03:39.well and there are questions about how this little boy could h`ve slept
:03:40. > :03:43.through the net. Preston North
:03:44. > :03:45.as the club at the centre of the latest stage of a police
:03:46. > :03:48.investigation into alleged bribery. Six of the seven players arrested
:03:49. > :03:51.yesterday are Preston players, including the captain, John Welsh.
:03:52. > :03:54.13 players in total have bedn questioned by the National Crime
:03:55. > :04:03.Agency. Our reporter Stuart Flinders is at Preston's ground, Deepdale.
:04:04. > :04:08.Stuart, what more can you tdll us? It is just five weeks now shnce
:04:09. > :04:14.Preston North End marked thd death of its greatest ever player, Sir Tom
:04:15. > :04:18.Bene, and it finds itself at the centre of a major police
:04:19. > :04:22.investigation. Six of the sdven players play for this club `nd they
:04:23. > :04:30.include the club captain John Welsh. The others are David Buchan`n, Keith
:04:31. > :04:35.Keane, Billy Wright, Graham Cummins, who is currently on loan at
:04:36. > :04:41.Rochdale, and then Davies, on a season long loan at Rochdald. They
:04:42. > :04:49.all say they have done nothhng wrong and our own police bail. 13 people
:04:50. > :04:58.have now been arrested by P`ul Leese an investigation into spot fixing,
:04:59. > :05:03.where players are trying to affect events inside the game to affect
:05:04. > :05:10.betting on that game `` polhce investigation. Preston North End
:05:11. > :05:16.have a big match this weekend and are doing high in the leagud and
:05:17. > :05:19.looking for promotion. This is a bad time for something like this to
:05:20. > :05:22.distract them. Merseyside Police have confhrmed
:05:23. > :05:26.that a body found on a beach near Alicante is that of the Livdrpool
:05:27. > :05:30.man Francis Brennan. The 25`year`old from Anfield had skipped bahl to the
:05:31. > :05:33.Costa del Sol in Spain whild awaiting sentence over a wotnding
:05:34. > :05:37.charge. The inquest into the death of a
:05:38. > :05:41.teenage girl who died in a car crash in the Isle of Man last month has
:05:42. > :05:45.been opened and adjourned. 14`year`old Lucia Porter and seven
:05:46. > :05:48.others were in a car that crashed. She suffered multiple injurhes. Two
:05:49. > :05:54.men have been bailed. A polhce investigation is ongoing.
:05:55. > :05:58.Friends and family of a teenage girl found hanged at a house in Bolton
:05:59. > :06:01.have been paying tribute to her on Facebook today. Aleysha Rothwell
:06:02. > :06:12.from Breightmet was just sixteen years old. Her mother wrote, you
:06:13. > :06:22.have left a massive hole in so many peoples lives and hearts. Joining us
:06:23. > :06:29.now is Ged Flynn from Papyrts, The Prevention of Young Suicide based in
:06:30. > :06:32.Warrington. We can't talk about these three cases because wd don't
:06:33. > :06:37.know the circumstances but hn general terms I use seeing lore
:06:38. > :06:41.young people getting into the sort of place where they are considering
:06:42. > :06:48.such things? It is a difficult question. We offer
:06:49. > :06:54.services as a national charhty, one of which is our helpline. It is
:06:55. > :07:00.eight telephone advice line. We will give the number at the end.
:07:01. > :07:09.We speak to young people and parents, friends, family and
:07:10. > :07:12.teachers. They say that the amount of pressure on young people seems to
:07:13. > :07:17.be increasing. Is that the key thing? Is it the
:07:18. > :07:21.pressure? I think being a young person is a
:07:22. > :07:26.difficult time for us all that it seems to be I am hearing now... I
:07:27. > :07:31.know what it is like to be 08 but sadly don't know what it's like to
:07:32. > :07:37.be 18 now. I think we are pttting pressure on our children, for
:07:38. > :07:44.example academic pressure. Someone said to me life teaches us that we
:07:45. > :07:48.cannot be happy all the timd. The skill of suicide in this cotntry is
:07:49. > :07:56.astronomical. It is ten timds the number of murders. It is thd leading
:07:57. > :08:02.cause of death for young people more than traffic deaths, more than
:08:03. > :08:06.young people. I wish we had longer to talk about
:08:07. > :08:12.this because it is such an hmportant thing. Can you tell us in a
:08:13. > :08:17.nutshell, very quickly, to `ny parent or young person who hs
:08:18. > :08:23.concerned, what can they do? Don't suffer alone. Talk to someone.
:08:24. > :08:26.If it can be someone you know, bring our helpline. We can talk to you and
:08:27. > :08:33.get you help. Let us just give you the nulber that
:08:34. > :08:55.he mentioned. We will put the number on the screen before you know.
:08:56. > :09:00.A report out today says the North West has the highest proportion of
:09:01. > :09:03.shops left empty after a nulber of high profile retailers went bust.
:09:04. > :09:06.But the accountants Deloittd say high streets have weathered the
:09:07. > :09:09.storm better than shopping centres and retail parks.
:09:10. > :09:12.It wasn't so long ago that lany people were predicting the dnd of
:09:13. > :09:15.the traditional high street. So what's gone right? Andy Gill reports
:09:16. > :09:18.on one Liverpool street where they think they have some of the answers.
:09:19. > :09:21.Bold Street was once known `s Liverpool's Bond Street. 11 new
:09:22. > :09:25.business have opened here shnce last April. East Avenue Bakehousd is one
:09:26. > :09:31.of them. It's part of a ret`ilers' forum which works to promotd the
:09:32. > :09:41.street. I think it is becoming a hub for
:09:42. > :09:43.foodies. There is a network of like`minded businesses.
:09:44. > :09:51.The accountants looked at what happened when shops belonging to 27
:09:52. > :09:57.firms went bust over the past five years. The North West has ndarly a
:09:58. > :10:00.third of those shops still dmpty. The highest figure for Engl`nd. Buy
:10:01. > :10:13.overall high streets did better than shopping centres. One way rdtailers
:10:14. > :10:16.are surviving is with an online presence. This shop puts photos of
:10:17. > :10:23.clothes online which brings in customers.
:10:24. > :10:29.The quiet stays in the shop, if we didn't have that social medha, it
:10:30. > :10:33.wouldn't work for us. We nedd to reach out to customers and lake that
:10:34. > :10:36.effort rather than rely on the footfall.
:10:37. > :10:41.It's not all good news on Bold Street. Waterstone's shut its branch
:10:42. > :10:44.in February. Water stones closing as a
:10:45. > :10:48.disappointment but it gives us an opportunity and we are lookhng at
:10:49. > :10:51.plans to use the building. Today's report says high streets are
:10:52. > :11:02.showing great capacity for reinvention.
:11:03. > :11:06.It's the biggest gambling wdekend of the year, with the British public
:11:07. > :11:08.expected to wager more than ?20 million on the Grand Nation`l.
:11:09. > :11:12.Advertising gambling on TV comes under the spotlight in this week's
:11:13. > :11:14.Sunday Politics at 11am on BBC One. Should it only be allowed after the
:11:15. > :11:24.watershed? Well, one thing's for sure, a lot of
:11:25. > :11:28.money will be changing hands at Aintree over the next few d`ys. But
:11:29. > :11:31.today the focus was on the fashion because of course it was Ladies Day.
:11:32. > :11:39.And you were there. It was a first for me.
:11:40. > :11:42.A vision in tangerine. Now, tomorrow may be the Gr`nd
:11:43. > :11:46.National but it's not the only big prize of the festival. The lain
:11:47. > :11:51.event today ` who would win Best Dressed Lady?
:11:52. > :11:55.Did you? I may have done! I met up whth one
:11:56. > :11:59.of the judges, top fashion blogger Prince Cassius and went out with him
:12:00. > :12:08.to see who he thought was the frontrunner.
:12:09. > :12:17.This is Aintree. What do yot think? I love it. Beautiful. I'm so
:12:18. > :12:26.excited. I'm looking for soleone who has put it out there and looks
:12:27. > :12:36.effortless but I'm looking for that va`va voom. I'm looking for people
:12:37. > :12:42.who take it to the next levdl. The golden rules are having a nhce
:12:43. > :12:46.beautiful dress. Don't forgdt accessories, I can't emphashse
:12:47. > :13:01.enough the need accessories. You need a hat, jewellery, nice shoes,
:13:02. > :13:05.just feel comfortable. Look at you all the gland up. Can I stop you for
:13:06. > :13:30.a second? This is so vintagd. I love it. Look at you.
:13:31. > :13:34.You look really ravishing. Thank you so much for today and all
:13:35. > :13:45.your insight into the fashion. You stand out the most but if I may say,
:13:46. > :13:49.one little thing missing. M`y I You may indeed. I've got my hat was
:13:50. > :13:55.bigger than that. His hair was bigger than th`t.
:13:56. > :14:01.He was a great character. Thank you very much, Prince.
:14:02. > :14:09.While you were doing that, H was putting my best foot forward for a
:14:10. > :14:11.great cause. I was running for one of the police officers, Nicola
:14:12. > :14:28.Hughes, who was killed recently weight in that race.
:14:29. > :14:37.Not going to win any prizes for that RU?
:14:38. > :14:42.We saw him yesterday at Aintree He looks rather fetching. I don't know
:14:43. > :14:49.what he will be doing today. No headgear tonight?
:14:50. > :14:58.I didn't want to outshine your fascinator. People have been giving
:14:59. > :15:01.me all sorts of sex. Tomorrow's Grand National will be watched by
:15:02. > :15:10.millions across the world. There are 40 horses each with a uniqud story
:15:11. > :15:16.but none more so than Mr Moonshine. Jim Beaumont has been coming to the
:15:17. > :15:30.National since he was a small boy but never before as an owner.
:15:31. > :15:38.It was a fairy story really. I watched it for years. I can remember
:15:39. > :15:46.my grandfather talking about different horses.
:15:47. > :15:50.Jim was born and brought up in Liverpool and did lots of dhfferent
:15:51. > :15:56.jobs to make ends meet, including bellboy and chef at the famous
:15:57. > :16:06.Adelphi Hotel. What were yot saying to people when you were working in
:16:07. > :16:11.the hotel `` what would you say if people said you would be a Grand
:16:12. > :16:18.National winning owner? I wouldn't have believed it.
:16:19. > :16:26.This year's hopes rest largdly on the broad shoulders of Mr Moonshine.
:16:27. > :16:34.Another horse trained by thd renowned Harvey and Sue Smith.
:16:35. > :16:40.He seems to really enjoy thhs track and jumps the fences well.
:16:41. > :16:45.Why mess with a winning teal? Man on board was last year's victorious
:16:46. > :16:53.jockey. I still get a bit of stick for it. I
:16:54. > :16:58.never have the answer, it is just a lot of luck.
:16:59. > :17:03.Good fortune or not, if he does it again, they will be Colin the owner
:17:04. > :17:13.Lucky Jim. We will get you the inside track on
:17:14. > :17:15.the race in a moment. In the Premier League, Everton
:17:16. > :17:18.manager Roberto Martinez has played down their crucial match ag`inst
:17:19. > :17:21.Arsenal on Sunday which could eventually determine if thex qualify
:17:22. > :17:24.for the Champions League for only the second time in their history.
:17:25. > :17:28.The Blues are enjoying their best season to date having taken a record
:17:29. > :17:31.60 points from 31 matches to put them within touching distance of the
:17:32. > :17:35.top four. Victory over fourth`placed Arsenal would take them to within a
:17:36. > :17:39.point of the Gunners with a match in hand. Martinez says win or lose they
:17:40. > :17:47.will not give up until the very last match of the season.
:17:48. > :17:53.I'm delighted because we ard inside the top four place which is
:17:54. > :17:55.remarkable. 21 points to fight for is a huge amount.
:17:56. > :17:58.In cricket, Lancashire coach Peter Moores has admitted he made mistakes
:17:59. > :18:11.when he was England's coach but would do things differently if he
:18:12. > :18:19.got the job again. He was s`cked in 2009. That was due to differences
:18:20. > :18:24.with several senior players. I have been there before and enjoyed
:18:25. > :18:29.it and learned quite a bit. Things that worked on things you could have
:18:30. > :18:35.done better. To try and put some of that experience back in Whidbey and
:18:36. > :18:39.exciting challenge for me. Hf that chance comes along, I don't know, we
:18:40. > :18:51.will just have to wait and see. Let us speak to Richard Pitlan.
:18:52. > :18:55.I love talking about the National, it gets me alive.
:18:56. > :19:02.What do you make of Mr Moonshine's chances?
:19:03. > :19:11.They are good but only good. There are lots of horses with excdllent
:19:12. > :19:18.chances. A year ago Mr Moonshine ran in the race and build`up. Hhs wins
:19:19. > :19:26.have been over 2.5 miles so 4.5 miles is a different thing.
:19:27. > :19:37.What is your main tech? I am a big fan of Long Run. I am
:19:38. > :19:52.really strong on him. I havd been backing him for two months.
:19:53. > :19:57.What about T4 three? I tried to buy a share in it and I
:19:58. > :20:05.nearly got there before thex decided to keep it amongst themselvds. Big
:20:06. > :20:15.chance for him but another outsider is All Add Up.
:20:16. > :20:25.Do enjoy the big race tomorrow. We've had a great the cure for
:20:26. > :20:28.Ladies Day. People who watched last night, and
:20:29. > :20:41.we loved your hair.
:20:42. > :20:49.Separated at birth. I've seen that picture and ht is too
:20:50. > :21:00.true. It is too good. This isn't Richard's here that his
:21:01. > :21:04.popped up. Now, we've been joined in the studio by some wildlife. The
:21:05. > :21:08.peacock and the rabbit might look like works of art but they're also
:21:09. > :21:11.cakes. They're part of a huge display that's the centrepidce for
:21:12. > :21:15.the Cake and Bake Show in M`nchester this weekend. In a moment, we'll be
:21:16. > :21:18.speaking to some of the taldnted ladies from the North West who've
:21:19. > :21:20.created that display but first Naomi Cornwell's been getting a t`ste of
:21:21. > :21:23.the show. Never has baking been so wild. From
:21:24. > :21:26.fountains of sugar syrup to smoking shisha pipes. Welcome to thd Jungle.
:21:27. > :21:31.The centrepiece of Manchestdr's Cake and Bake Show has surprised even the
:21:32. > :21:41.experts. Everything is edible. Does ht taste
:21:42. > :21:45.nice? Yes, it does!
:21:46. > :21:49.Hungry? You're in the right place. There's a cake for those th`t could
:21:50. > :21:55.eat an elephant. And everyone's talking about the latest trdnds
:21:56. > :21:58.Handbags and shoes and things like that made of cake.
:21:59. > :22:11.The funky flavours. I like funky flavours.
:22:12. > :22:20.The ranks, apparently. `` meringues.
:22:21. > :22:22.I'm bored of cupcakes. You can find more old`fashioned cakes. Some with
:22:23. > :22:25.vegetables in them. Baking's been fashionable for
:22:26. > :22:28.several years now, but here you can even wear the creations. And if
:22:29. > :22:31.you'd rather watch others do the hard work, there are plenty of
:22:32. > :22:39.celebrities on hand to demonstrate how it's done.
:22:40. > :22:52.Things do go wrong sometimes. Sometimes she dropped the door on
:22:53. > :22:55.the floor `` dough. It was once dismissed as thd latest
:22:56. > :22:58.foodie fad but the region's businesses are still tasting the
:22:59. > :23:06.sweet success that the boom in baking has brought them.
:23:07. > :23:14.As we said, the creators of these fantastic cakes are with us, Rose
:23:15. > :23:19.and Francesca. How long does it take to create something like thhs?
:23:20. > :23:28.The whole installation took six months. Some of the key pieces took
:23:29. > :23:35.two weeks on their own. Who needs them?
:23:36. > :23:39.We will. We brought some
:23:40. > :23:47.edible. You were at the British Armx's first
:23:48. > :23:51.combat Army helicopter pilot. The sugar Rush was better than the
:23:52. > :24:01.adrenaline rush, was it? Different. I left the army to have a
:24:02. > :24:04.family so I have done that `nd doing flying helicopters in an attack role
:24:05. > :24:14.was not really conducive to raising a family so I turned to this.
:24:15. > :24:20.How long would that take to make? That took a couple of days.
:24:21. > :24:25.I'm not surprised. The detahl is astonishing. Everyone thinks they
:24:26. > :24:32.can break these days. You are professional. It is usually popular
:24:33. > :24:37.now that smacked hugely poptlar now. Why is that?
:24:38. > :24:47.People are getting more and more creative because it has to look good
:24:48. > :24:50.as well as taste good. I went into the auction business for a number of
:24:51. > :25:02.years and then had a family and wanted to do something creative
:25:03. > :25:04.This is edible, we should s`y, all of it. Can I have a
:25:05. > :25:15.It is like that television programme on the other side.
:25:16. > :25:28.As the great British break of been a huge uplift?
:25:29. > :25:35.It started people off but they have gone aspirational now.
:25:36. > :25:40.Thank you both very much indeed And you can eat the peacock's fdathers.
:25:41. > :25:53.Onto the weather now. It is a big sporting weekend.
:25:54. > :26:00.Lancashire have got their fhrst match on Sunday and the weather will
:26:01. > :26:03.not play along. We have weather front after weather front. Ht is
:26:04. > :26:10.going to be fairly wet from time to time. Today, brighter skies tried to
:26:11. > :26:20.work their way through but weren't that successful. It has been a
:26:21. > :26:24.reasonable afternoon though. The cloud cover builds as the nhght goes
:26:25. > :26:32.on tonight. And in the earlx hours of the morning we have got the first
:26:33. > :26:34.weather system. The air is lild You wake up with this weather still
:26:35. > :26:43.around and there is everywhere but don't be fooled
:26:44. > :26:53.because it is not too long before the next wave comes. Heavy bursts,
:26:54. > :27:00.especially for parts of Cumbria The Isle of Man doesn't fare much better
:27:01. > :27:07.either. If you do get a bre`k in the clouds, it will be relatively mild.
:27:08. > :27:13.On Sunday, there is a cold front with a narrower band of weather It
:27:14. > :27:19.moves through quicker but hhs more rain. You may get brighter skies
:27:20. > :27:27.behind it on Sunday afternoon. That is not a promise.
:27:28. > :27:38.Would you like a bit of licorice betel? `` beetle.
:27:39. > :27:41.We are going to leave you whth a shot of Aintree on the eve of the
:27:42. > :27:44.Grand National. Have a great weekend. Goodbye.