12/04/2014 North West Tonight

Mike Wooldridge, BBC News, Lahore. There's more throughout the evening

on the BBC Good evening. Police have identified

at least 11 people as suspects in an investigation into sexual and

physical abuse at a residential school linked to the late Cxril

Smith. This comes as a new book by Rochdale's MP claims attempts to

prosecute the politician were blocked at the highest level. Yunus

Mulla reports. Cyril Smith was one the reghon's

best known MPs ` but in 2012 Greater Manchester police said he w`s

responsible for abusing young boys ` the publicity that followed has led

to a number of people coming forward relating to allegations of `buse at

Knowle View where he was ch`irman of governors. The school has shnce

closed down, but seven people seeking work sickly and sextally

abused during their time here. He is not thought to be one of thd

suspects, but in a book by current Rochdale MP, Simon Danzuck, which is

being serialised today, he says the 29`stone politician was left free to

abuse children as young as dight despite 144 complaints by vhctims.

"The more I found out, the lore I came to realise that this w`sn't

just about abuse, it was about power ` and a cover`up that reachdd from

Rochdale all the way to the very top of the Establishment." A Liberal

Democrat spokesman said: His actions were not known to or condondd by the

Liberal Party or the Liberal Democrats." Cyril Smith's f`mily has

previously denied the alleg`tions against him. Yunus Mulla BBC North

West Tonight. The vicar of a church in Stockport

has been arrested on suspichon of raping a teenage girl. 54`ydar`old

Reverend Simon Marsh of St Lichael and All Angels Church in Br`mhall

has been released on police bail while further enquiries are carried

out. The Diocese of Chester said he has been suspended. It's cl`imed the

offences happened between 2011 and 2013, when the alleged victhm was

aged between sixteen and nineteen. The Queen is visiting Lancashire

this coming week after the Blackburn Cathedral was selected to host the

traditional Maundy Thursday celebrations. And today a tdam of

volunteers in the town held a clean`up ahead of the big d`y. Our

green is coming and because we are one community in black and, we want

to show a Wellcome full top. We are cleaning rubbish up so that the

Queen comes and everything hs clean, not dirty, with rubbish everywhere.

Football matches across the country will kick off seven minutes late

this weekend to mark the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough

disaster. It was at an FA Ctp semi final 25 years ago this Tuesday that

96 Liverpool fans died. And at the FA Cup semi final between Whgan and

Arsenal at Wembley today, 96 seats were left unsold in their honour. In

the Premier League, earlier this afternoon Everton beat Sunddrland

one ` nil. And in the Champhonship, Bolton beat Barnsley 1`nil.

Burnley's hopes of securing automatic promotion suffered a

setback as they lost to Middlesbrough. The Clarets need five

points from their last four games to seal promotion. Blackpool stayed out

of the relegation zone desphte losing to away to Leeds. And

Blackburn drew three all aw`y to Sheffield Wednesday. Super league

and Widnes Vikings lost awax to Catalan Dragons this afternoon

leaving them fifth in the t`ble Last night St Helens captain, Paul

Wellens became Super League's longest`serving player appe`ring in

a record 414th game for Saints against Castleford. And his presence

brought his side some luck. After trailing for most of the match St

Helens grabbed victory with a narrow 30 points to 28 win. Elsewhdre last

night Salford beat Bradford by 8 points to 24, Warrington went down

at home to Hull KR by 25 pohnts to 12 and Wigan comfortably be`t the

London Broncos by 36 points to 4. Here's the weather with Kayd

Forster. Temperatures will fall swiftly and

they will get down to three or four degrees in some spots by morning. We

are staying dry all day long. Temperatures could get up to 13

Celsius. Less than a minute left in the FA

Cup semifinal and it is still one goal each. Thank you for watching,

we will be back at the same time tomorrow evening. Goodbye.

We start with a look at the latest satellite sequence, because it shows

what has been going on over the last few hours. This band of cloud has

been slipping south across England and Wales. A bit of patchy rain to

come from that, but nothing of significance. Quite the story across

the north of Scotland . And some fairly frequent showers to the north

and west of Scotland. That is it by dawn. Most places will see clear

spells and it wouldn't turn -- it will turn cold, particularly in raw

areas. In the morning, one or two showers along the northern coast of