:00:00. > :00:00.President Putin calls for the West to condemn it. Now it is
:00:07. > :00:13.Welcome to a special addition of the programme. I live in Liverpool on
:00:14. > :00:24.the day that the city came to a standstill to honour those who died
:00:25. > :00:28.at Hillsborough, 25 years ago today. We are live outside Anfield where
:00:29. > :00:35.tens of thousands gather this afternoon to remember. We will
:00:36. > :00:44.always strive to honour you, the families and the memory of the 96
:00:45. > :00:53.people we lost. We will talk to those at the centre of today's
:00:54. > :00:56.commemorations. Nigel Evans returns to his
:00:57. > :01:04.constituency office saying he will fight is to keep his seat. And now
:01:05. > :01:18.the life and times of Mitchell and Kenyon are played out on a
:01:19. > :01:24.Manchester stage. The tributes at the Hillsborough more Morrill
:01:25. > :01:27.outside Anfield are pretty much ever present but today of all days they
:01:28. > :01:39.are more plentiful than the green for quite some time. `` than they
:01:40. > :01:44.have been. At six minutes past three this afternoon, exactly 25 years to
:01:45. > :01:51.the minute since the game and Hillsborough was stopped, the city
:01:52. > :01:57.of Liverpool came to a standstill. In the city centre people stood in
:01:58. > :02:00.sombre reflection, their heads bowed reflecting on people from their city
:02:01. > :02:29.who lost their lives a quarter of a century ago. The bells from both
:02:30. > :02:34.liver pool 's Cathedral appealed in unison. `` Liverpool's cathedrals
:02:35. > :02:37.both peeled in unison. Today was all about commemorating the lives that
:02:38. > :04:32.were lost. We will be talking to It is hard, it really has. We were
:04:33. > :04:37.lucky. I was there in a makeshift mortuary with about 35 deceased
:04:38. > :05:03.people. This is one of the first times I have ever spoken about it.
:05:04. > :05:11.Tony Bland, Paul David Brady the list of names was read out and was a
:05:12. > :05:19.sense of satisfaction at what has been done. We refused to lie down
:05:20. > :05:26.and we refused to go away. We made it happen. 25 years on, a day to
:05:27. > :05:36.remember what happened at six minutes past three.
:05:37. > :05:52.One of the key people involved this afternoon was this minister. Did it
:05:53. > :05:58.feel different 25 years on? You have been involved in ten of these. Was
:05:59. > :06:01.it different from years before? It is difficult to say. It is a very
:06:02. > :06:05.emotional day every year but that I came away from the servers I wonder
:06:06. > :06:11.if there was a sense of something is being more positive. I think there
:06:12. > :06:17.was more of an energy to the event and because of some of the guests
:06:18. > :06:20.that were there, the theme that is coming out is the city coming
:06:21. > :06:33.together and I think that is what family needs to keep them going from
:06:34. > :06:36.this day through to the next year. The inquests are underway and that
:06:37. > :06:45.limits what we are able to say that all the scarves behind this come
:06:46. > :06:52.from clubs the length and breadth of the country. It was powerful to see
:06:53. > :06:57.the 96 in the middle of this video made up of all the different scarves
:06:58. > :07:03.from all the different clubs around. It is bound to reverberate across
:07:04. > :07:09.the nation and even farther afield because it has been such an emotive
:07:10. > :07:14.issue for so many years and 425 years later for its still to be
:07:15. > :07:22.around is amazing. Thank you, we are very grateful to you. It has been a
:07:23. > :07:26.long journey to 25 years and families, as we know, have been
:07:27. > :07:30.through some dark times. I must not number paying that their
:07:31. > :07:34.determination to find out what happened that afternoon at
:07:35. > :07:38.Hillsborough has been undiminished. The fight has been going on for a
:07:39. > :07:43.quarter of a century but a lot has changed in the last few years. Let
:07:44. > :08:06.us look at the long and emotional journey to this emotional day.
:08:07. > :08:20.Everyone is devastated, they all have somebody. The Director of
:08:21. > :08:27.Public Prosecutions had decided not to bring any criminal charges
:08:28. > :08:33.against the police or or officials in connection to the Hillsborough
:08:34. > :08:38.football disaster. We are just broken and we do not know what to
:08:39. > :09:41.do. Without Paul, our lives are nothing. 20 years ago, . Our job has
:09:42. > :09:46.simply been to oversee the maximum possible disclosure of all the
:09:47. > :10:30.documents and to write a report that adds to public understanding. The
:10:31. > :10:35.long road to the 25th anniversary in those words you can see in the shot
:10:36. > :10:42.no have given great solace to the Hillsborough families on the journey
:10:43. > :10:45.to this point. You also saw Andy Burnham who spoke here are the 20th
:10:46. > :10:52.anniversary commemorations five years ago. The reception he got that
:10:53. > :10:55.day was a key point in the way that things have developed in the
:10:56. > :11:00.Hillsborough story in the last few years and he got a very different
:11:01. > :11:04.reception today. I put this point to him on a spokesman earlier along
:11:05. > :11:26.with the chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, Margaret
:11:27. > :11:35.Aspinall. I agreed and said that Andy could do it. Something had to
:11:36. > :11:42.give an Iona said that if I was not the minister I would have been one
:11:43. > :11:48.of those shouting at the minister. `` I always said. How did it feel to
:11:49. > :11:55.have tens of thousands of people screaming at you? I am never torn in
:11:56. > :11:59.so I'm well used to those feelings but I understood what they were
:12:00. > :12:02.feeling and I knew they were not necessarily shouting at me
:12:03. > :12:07.personally but more that the government, the system, the way they
:12:08. > :12:12.had been let down. That night I went to speak to the families at the town
:12:13. > :12:20.Hall and in private I resolved that was it, we were going to change
:12:21. > :12:24.things. They, in the end, made me find the political courage to do
:12:25. > :12:31.something that the spy wanted to be here to say thank you everybody
:12:32. > :12:37.today. Margaret, how different was today to the 24 anniversaries that
:12:38. > :12:43.have preceded it? Because we are two weeks into the new inquests, it has
:12:44. > :12:47.been very emotional to the families listening to the portraits of their
:12:48. > :12:58.individual love ones. I'm only finding out about that a lot on snow
:12:59. > :13:03.`` about their loved ones now and I did not know about that individual
:13:04. > :13:10.loss. It is absolutely heartbreaking and I was crying in court every day.
:13:11. > :13:14.I thought I had no more tears left but when you listen to that you do
:13:15. > :13:19.and they think the fans and the survivors, who we have to remember,
:13:20. > :13:22.they knew what the families were going through and they know what
:13:23. > :13:30.we're going through and I think that made it more emotional today. It was
:13:31. > :13:35.a wise decision to have those portraits at the start of the new
:13:36. > :13:40.inquests cos we are all guilty of having used the phrase the 96 as if
:13:41. > :13:42.they were all the same but now we see they are different people with
:13:43. > :13:48.different hopes and dreams and that never came out at the brutal inquest
:13:49. > :13:52.at the beginning and has just pushed away and no one can see who the 96
:13:53. > :13:58.where and what they meant to their mums and dads and to the families
:13:59. > :14:08.and that is an incredible thing but long, long overdue. Margaret has
:14:09. > :14:11.only just left. She has been signing autographs and talking to many of
:14:12. > :14:18.the people here to support her and the other families. The Hillsborough
:14:19. > :14:24.Family Support Group have given 96 red roses by the Hillsborough
:14:25. > :14:28.memorial. Our people, not in the city, who feel the Hillsborough
:14:29. > :14:34.story has gone on and there is a bit of reading with that. You cannot
:14:35. > :14:37.forget the 96 people went to support their team on a sunny day in
:14:38. > :14:44.Sheffield and lost their lives 25 years ago today and when you hear
:14:45. > :14:49.the talk and the reflections on it it brings shivers to your spine and
:14:50. > :14:54.makes the hair on the back of your neck than the name. Anyone with a
:14:55. > :15:01.family cannot imagine the last 25 years have been like the families.
:15:02. > :15:06.The journey is ongoing and we are starting to move through what will
:15:07. > :15:15.be a 12 month process for the jury to find out what will happen `` what
:15:16. > :15:31.happened that day. Andy Gill as this report. Through the steel and glass
:15:32. > :15:34.canyons of a 21st`century business Park come people affected by a
:15:35. > :15:38.20th`century tragedy. Those who were young in 1989 are now middle`aged.
:15:39. > :15:46.Those who were middle`aged are now elderly. Some who would have been
:15:47. > :15:50.here are now dead. At the back of their minds at the inquest is
:15:51. > :15:57.today's anniversary. It is a memory and not a number. It is as fresh as
:15:58. > :16:01.it ever was. The fact that it is the 25th anniversary doesn't make much
:16:02. > :16:04.of a difference. Most of the inquest so far has been taken up by tributes
:16:05. > :16:13.to the dead from their relatives. Raw days for many. The court here in
:16:14. > :16:20.Warrington still has to hear tributes to people killed in the
:16:21. > :16:24.disaster. It is emotional and training but absolutely necessary, a
:16:25. > :16:29.chance to show that those who were remembered today at Anfield were
:16:30. > :16:39.real men, women and children and not just names on the memorial or faces
:16:40. > :16:47.in the media. It finally puts names and faces to the family. The coroner
:16:48. > :16:50.has outlined to the jury topics they might like to think about. Among
:16:51. > :16:58.them, stadium layout, crowd control, the emergency response and behaviour
:16:59. > :17:07.of fans, though not of the 96. The inquests are due to resume next
:17:08. > :17:11.week. We will report the ongoing developments at the inquest. Among
:17:12. > :17:21.the floral tributes outside the Hillsborough Memorial is one from
:17:22. > :17:40.Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. Hillsborough is their home ground.
:17:41. > :17:44.Now for the rest of the news. A ?30,000 reward is being offered by
:17:45. > :17:46.police trying to solve the mystery behind the disappearance of
:17:47. > :17:49.Blackpool teenager Paige Chivers. Paige went missing in 2007 and
:17:50. > :17:51.detectives are convinced she's been murdered. Cumbria police say that a
:17:52. > :17:59.body found in Windermere this morning is the body of 20`year`old
:18:00. > :18:11.student Matthew Jordan. His death is not being treated as suspicious.
:18:12. > :18:13.Only around 20% of beaches in the North West reached the recommended
:18:14. > :18:16.levels for water`quality according to a new report. Samples were taken
:18:17. > :18:19.by the Marine Conservation Society every week last summer checking for
:18:20. > :18:23.bacteria like E`coli. Scientists say the results are down to wet weather
:18:24. > :18:25.in our region affecting pollution compared to elsewhere in England.
:18:26. > :18:28.There was disruption to flights in and out of Manchester Airport this
:18:29. > :18:43.morning after an incoming Thomson air ways flight spotted smoke coming
:18:44. > :18:46.from it. Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans returned to work in his
:18:47. > :18:50.constituency today for the first time since being cleared of sex
:18:51. > :18:54.charges. He said he was keen to get back to serving the Ribble Valley
:18:55. > :18:56.and bore no ill will towards the fellow MP who initially reported
:18:57. > :19:10.allegations made against him. Our chief reporter Dave Guest has spent
:19:11. > :19:14.the morning with him. Back at work and tackling a backlog of mail and
:19:15. > :19:17.for all the trauma of the past few months, Nigel Evans says he bears no
:19:18. > :19:20.ill feeling towards Sarah Wollaston, the MP who first passed on
:19:21. > :19:26.complaints that had been made against him. She was right to take
:19:27. > :19:31.it to the Speaker. If you are given information, you have to take it
:19:32. > :19:38.somewhere. So there is no ill feeling between you and her? No and
:19:39. > :19:45.I hope when I get back to Westminster I hope we can have a cup
:19:46. > :19:51.of tea. In 22 years of Parliament have you ever done anything that
:19:52. > :19:55.could be considered to be abusing your position authority over any
:19:56. > :20:02.junior member of staff? Absolutely not and I have had many of them
:20:03. > :20:09.offering the messages of support. Nigel Evans spent the day being
:20:10. > :20:13.interviewed by the local press and passing the time of day with local
:20:14. > :20:41.people. There was time to reflect on some of the events. You have been
:20:42. > :20:44.cleared by the jury back do you accept that looking back with
:20:45. > :20:47.hindsight, some of the decisions you made and situations that you put
:20:48. > :20:51.yourself in, were ill advised giving your position as a MP and Deputy
:20:52. > :20:54.Speaker of the Commons? That is a judgement that other people make. If
:20:55. > :20:58.I could press the rewind button, yes, I would. Maybe it wasn't wise
:20:59. > :21:01.to have a relationship with a 21`year`old man. He wasn't working
:21:02. > :21:03.in Westminster when I had the relationship with him. These
:21:04. > :21:06.relationships, people meet people in all sorts of circumstances. Much was
:21:07. > :21:08.made at the trial of your drinking. You were described as our
:21:09. > :21:14.functioning alcoholic. I took great offence to that. My dad was an
:21:15. > :21:17.alcoholic. I am a social drinker. Are you concerned that the
:21:18. > :21:23.revelations may have harmed your credibility with this voters of the
:21:24. > :21:26.Ribble Valley? Not from what I am hearing on the streets. Some have
:21:27. > :21:34.congratulated me and said I shouldn't have gone through this.
:21:35. > :21:40.The Lancashire film`making Pioneers Mitchell and Kenyon change cinematic
:21:41. > :21:43.history by filming everyday life in the North West. Now they and their
:21:44. > :21:53.famous films which are rediscovered in the 1990s are being turned in to
:21:54. > :22:00.a stage play in Lancaster. The audience are stars of the show.
:22:01. > :22:02.Their black`and`white films of everyday turn`of`the`century folk
:22:03. > :22:07.captivated the world and now the life and times of Blackburn
:22:08. > :22:13.film`makers Mitchell and Kenyon are being brought to the stage. Here is
:22:14. > :22:19.the church and here is this people, local films for local people. The
:22:20. > :22:28.play takes on the discovery of the film is sealed in metal churns in
:22:29. > :22:35.the black pool `` Blackpool shop in 1994. The cast are great but the
:22:36. > :22:42.films, projected onto the set are the true stars. We hope they have
:22:43. > :22:47.the excitement and while actor that they might have hired a firm
:22:48. > :22:52.Mitchell and Kenyon's audience 100 years ago. How on earth is that
:22:53. > :22:56.happening? We do not know that much about them so the play has a
:22:57. > :23:03.theatrical version of these characters. Mitchell and Kenyon were
:23:04. > :23:04.not sure men, they were entrepreneurs, technicians who left
:23:05. > :23:28.the vivid legacy. `` would not showed ordinary life then that know
:23:29. > :23:33.they are extraordinary. It is tricky because you can put on a film of
:23:34. > :23:38.bears and get completely mesmerised and the whole room stops and
:23:39. > :23:44.everybody is agog. The production starts this weekend and then runs
:23:45. > :23:53.till the 10th of May before moving to the Oldham Coliseum.
:23:54. > :25:24.As we forecast, a beautiful day today with wall`to`wall
:25:25. > :25:28.will see more cloud than anywhere else. Just over my head you can see
:25:29. > :25:33.rain move into Northern Ireland and that tries to get towards us as the
:25:34. > :25:37.day goes on but for most of us it will be dry in fine for nearly all
:25:38. > :25:45.the day. The further south you are the more you will hang on the
:25:46. > :25:48.sunshine. For most of us it will not be a bad day and a dry day with
:25:49. > :25:57.temperatures 15 degrees of 16 degrees all over again. Tomorrow
:25:58. > :26:01.there will be rain for your time on Thursday but the change in wind
:26:02. > :26:07.direction makes a difference and you'll start to see this picture
:26:08. > :26:14.through Thursday and Friday. For the long`range forecast, there will be
:26:15. > :26:16.spells of sunshine on Saturday but I would not like to tell you exactly
:26:17. > :26:22.what will happen through the bank holiday weekend will stop your love
:26:23. > :26:29.to listen to us and watchers as that forecast gradually gets firmed up.
:26:30. > :26:36.It has been an emotional day in Liverpool today as the city stopped
:26:37. > :26:47.to remember the 96 members of the Hillsborough disaster 25 years on.
:26:48. > :26:52.For many people, football fans are members of the public, Hillsborough
:26:53. > :26:55.was one of those days like your parents grandparents said where they
:26:56. > :26:59.were when John F. Kennedy was killed, lots of people remember
:27:00. > :27:03.where they wear and what they were doing when Hillsborough happened. In
:27:04. > :27:08.the city many people knew people who were there and you were related to
:27:09. > :27:12.those who died. It has been a long road to them and that road is still
:27:13. > :27:17.far from a conclusion. The inquest are now underway but for this 25th
:27:18. > :27:21.anniversary commemoration today, there was a sense of positivity as
:27:22. > :27:28.we heard earlier from the Reverend who was in charge of the service.
:27:29. > :27:35.There is a life of a lovable anthem you'll never walk alone which says
:27:36. > :27:43.at the end of the storm there is a golden sky there is a golden sky
:27:44. > :27:48.above Anfield tonight. From all this watching, goodbye.