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"scrounger". How embarassed are you? Very | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
embarassed. No comment anymore. The Manchester based Co`Operative Group | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
announces the worst financial results in its 150 year history. | :01:11. | :01:19. | |
Fortifying the Fylde. Work starts on multi`million pound sea defences to | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
protect the Lancashire coast. And revealed. We will tell you the | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
most common animals in the north`west. | :01:35. | :01:51. | |
It's a custom dating back more than 800 years. Specially`minted Maundy | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Money handed out to a deserving group of pensioners as a symbolic | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
gesture of appreciation. And today it was Blackburn's turn to host the | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
historic ceremonial event. 88 men and 88 women ` one for each of the | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
Queen's 88 years ` each received two purses of money, as the Queen | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
commemorated Maundy Thursday, watched by hundreds of well`wishers. | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
Our own royal`watcher, Gill Dummigan, was there too and joins us | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
from Blackburn Cathedral. Yes, it's eight years since the | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
queen has been in Blackburn ` the first time she's ever been in | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
Lancashire to celebrate the Maundy Thursday ceremony. So as you can | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
imagine there was great excitement here, both inside and out. | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
From early morning, a sea of red, white and blue. We have been doing | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
good business. And then, the waiting was over. The Queen and Prince | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
Philip ushered into the Cathedral to carry out this most ancient of Royal | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
duties. This is the first time the Queen has carried out the Maundy | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
ceremony in Lancashire, a tradition which goes back to the fourth | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
century. Its origins go back to Christ's washing of his disciples' | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
feet. That went out in about 1730. These days the Queen gives out | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
specially minted coins. This year it was 88p worth ` mirroring her age. | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
Handed out to 88 men and 88 women ` selected for their services to the | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
local community and church. Less than an hour later, it was all over. | :03:21. | :03:31. | |
Was it a good service? Fantastic. You will look back on this? | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
Definitely. I don't know how she did it. Not at her age. I am younger | :03:40. | :03:52. | |
than her. I felt happy and excited. We walked around the church and we | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
shook the Queen's hand. Everyone feeling it was a job well done. I | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
think the feeling in the town is wonderful. This is the Queen coming | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
here pain is a wonderful honour to come to Blackburn. `` paying those. | :04:10. | :04:19. | |
The phrase which kept coming up ` a once in a life time experience. One | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
which these people will never forget. | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
But of course it didn't end there for Blackburn did it? No it didn't. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
The Queen went on to Ewood Park, Blackburn Rovers' ground, of course. | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
And she began the day with a drive through the town. Naomi Cornwell has | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
been following her through the rest of the day. | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
They'd been out early in Blackburn for a glimpse of Her Majesty's | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
arrival. Everybody wants to see the Queen. I came out in the cold. The | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Queen and Duke of Edinburgh arrived by train, meeting members of the | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
armed forces inside the station. It was fantastic. It was great to see | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
here. She looked great. At the Cathedral, more crowds were | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
gathering in excitement. She is worth waiting for. It is wonderful. | :05:08. | :05:17. | |
It is a great opportunity. Then it was on to Ewood Park, and a | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
Lancashire luncheon for the Royal Party at Blackburn Rovers. We had a | :05:21. | :05:36. | |
wave from her. All I could see was a pink hat. At King George's Hall, the | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
88 men and 88 women who'd been chosen to receive Maundy money from | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
the Queen were themselves treated to a civic reception. It has been a | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
wonderful day. We are honoured to be part of it. I find her. It was so | :05:52. | :06:05. | |
overwhelming. She was so approachable. | :06:06. | :06:18. | |
We have the book that the Queen signed. Well, joining me now is | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
Canon Andrew Hindley. Use anchor the Queen? A little bit `` U sang for | :06:25. | :06:47. | |
the Queen? I did. It is such an honour to do it for her. I was | :06:48. | :06:58. | |
speaking to people as they came out. Everyone said it was an honour. This | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
is a religious ceremony and the Queen is the head of the church. | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
What does it mean for you? She takes it so seriously. To give 88 men and | :07:09. | :07:20. | |
88 women this wonderful gift, they were tearful. It was emotional. It | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
was surprisingly emotional. It reflects our Lord's whole thing | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
about service to the community. These people who are given service? | :07:35. | :07:47. | |
Yes. Most are over 70. Those have given far more. What is it about the | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
Queen that inspires this devotion? She is a person who is the whole | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
image of cell service. She offers her whole body in the way she is. `` | :07:59. | :08:10. | |
self service. Everyone here seems impressed at how she had acted. She | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
really does connect well with people, ordinary people. People were | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
so moved by her. I know you have another service today so I will let | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
you prepare phase. Back to you in the studio. | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
A Runcorn man's been arrested by detectives investigating a serious | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
sexual assault in the town. The alleged attack happened near Irwell | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
Lane two weeks ago ` and the victim was a 26`year`old woman. Cheshire | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
police are advising women on nights out to stay with their friends and | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
be conscious of who is walking near to them. | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
The father of a two`year`old girl who died after suffering injuries | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
has been paying tribute to his daughter. He said the whole family | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
had been left devastated. A 23`year`old man has been remanded in | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
custody. The company bringing marionettes to the country will mark | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
100 years since the First World War and those taking part for four`man | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
army recreating the recruitment of the Liverpool battalions. And 6500 | :09:24. | :09:36. | |
knitted Easter chicks have been donated to a children's hospice in | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
Greater Manchester. Knitters from as far as Italy, France and Spain | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
joined local crafters after an appeal by Francis House Children's | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
Hospice in Didsbury. The chicks were filled with chocolates and | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
distributed to 25 schools who sold them to help raise funds. | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
The judge said he "perpetuated a scrounger" and he should be "deeply | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
ashamed". Andrew Mitchell from Lancaster told the Department for | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Work and Pensions he could only walk with his crutches, couldn't go out | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
alone and needed care at home. But it was all a lie. Instead Andrew | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
Mitchell was working as a courier delivering parcels across Lancaster. | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
He cheated the tax payer out of more than ?35,000. Today he was sentenced | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
to four months. Nazia Mogra's been at Lancaster Crown Court. | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
He picks up a large parcel. Puts it on his shoulder, then wrestles with | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
it while climbing the stairs. All this from a man who said he could | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
barely walk a few yards before he felt dizzy. A man who said he | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
couldn't bend, lift or carry. A man who said he couldn't walk without | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
his crutches. This is just some of the hours of footage secretly filmed | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
by the Department for Work and Pensions. Mr Mitchell worked as a | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
self employed courier for Hermes for three years, getting paid up to | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
?1200 a month. He was secretly filmed and was going from house to | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
house with no trouble at all. All while claiming incapacity, housing | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
and disability allowances. Mr Mitchell at an earlier date pleaded | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
guilty to all five counts of fraud ` he said he committed the fraud | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
following the death of his son. I do feel sorry. It is something that | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
happened. When he started to claim benefit years ago he told us he | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
couldn't walk more than 80 yards in four minutes. He had discomfort | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
because of arthritis. Obviously, his condition improved over time and he | :11:37. | :11:46. | |
failed to tell us about that. The judge told them he should be | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
thoroughly ashamed. You cheated your community and the tax payer." Mr | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Mitchell, who still works as a courier, says he will be paying the | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
money back. How embarrassed are you? Very embarrassed. No comment. | :12:05. | :12:19. | |
Thousands of jobs are at risk at the Co`operative Group after the | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
organisation revealed its worst financial results in its 150 year | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
history. Today, a century and a half after the Co`operative movement | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
began in Rochdale, the organisation announced losses of ?2.5 billion for | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
2013. It's the latest in a string of problems for the Co`op, which has | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
lurched from crisis to crisis. So what does this mean for its | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
customers and staff? But first Abbie Jones is here to tell us more. | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
The Co`op owns lots of businesses ` a bank, supermarkets, undertakers, | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
pharmacies. But its own interim chief executive said today its | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
problems lie in trying to be all things to all men. Richard | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
Pennybrook said there would be job losses. Some from not replacing | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
staff who retire or leave, some from selling off businesses. But the | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
Co`op will be thousands of people smaller than it is now. | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
We have to make cuts in our cost base. What I can say to colleagues | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
is that we will go to job cuts last. We will explore every other avenue | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
first. Where it becomes necessary to reduce jobs then we will treat | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
colleagues with the appropriate respect. The bulk of the Co`op's | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
problems stem from its bank. Last year it discovered a ?1.5 million | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
financial hole ` after it bought the Britannia Building Society and tried | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
to buy over 600 branches of Lloyds Bank. And it's had to pay out | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
millions for misselling personal protection insurance. Buying the | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
Somerfield supermarket chain also lost the Co`op Group money. And the | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
organisation's lost a string of bosses. Its disgraced former | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
chairman Paul Flowers was yesterday charged with drug offences. Its | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
previous chief executive left last month saying the Group was | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
ungovernable. Customers today weren't impressed. I want to keep | :14:11. | :14:20. | |
some money in case I lose some. I have given up on them to be honest. | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
They have time, possibly. It is who owns it now. Who owns the bank is a | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
big question. A rescue deal last year meant the Co`op Group only owns | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
30%. It might now have to give up more to free up money to stem | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
today's eye watering losses. The BBC business reporter has been | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
following this. He is here now. Let's talk about jobs. You have | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
talked of the interim chief executive. What is the danger? | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
Richard Pennybrook has been talking about what he feels has a cost base. | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
He needs to cut costs. It is losing money. They need to find money from | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
somewhere to stem the tide of losses, otherwise there's a danger | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
it exist. There is ways of doing that. He has to cut costs. In the | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
future he can hope profits will go up. I asked him is it thousands of | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
jobs that will have to go. He refused to put the number to me. We | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
pressed him on it. He didn't challenge me when I said thousands | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
of jobs. I think we can assume that'll happen. This is a business | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
which is not that big and is making a enormous losses and somebody needs | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
to steady the ship. People who have savings in the banks, should they be | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
worried? I don't think so. There is a good mentor guaranteed behind all | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
our savings. `` government guarantee. There has been a lot of | :16:07. | :16:18. | |
attempts to change things. Does the Co`op have a future, and if so | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
doesn't have a future in its form? It was said it would be a great | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
shame if there wasn't an organisation run by its members, | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
that delivers profits back into a community. I think almost everybody | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
would agree with that. The point is how you make decisions, this is an | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
organisation that needs to make changes in months, not years. There | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
seems to be resistance? Some members feel you do this within a democratic | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
structure, that is what makes the Co`op special. The right decision | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
but only come out through democratic debate. There are other people in | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
the group that feel you need a more plc company in order to make | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
decisions fast, for example can you cut 1000 jobs in a matter of weeks. | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
I think Richard Pennybrook is from a public company background. That is | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
his experience and maybe the fact he is at the helm will mean that is | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
more the choices they make. It is good to get your insight. Still to | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
come. The England star who has turned professional as Manchester | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
City bid to dominate women's football. It is amazing. My focus is | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
now on football. In the past I was at home. And the wildlife in your | :17:59. | :18:12. | |
garden. The first rocks have arrived on the | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
beach at Fleetwood as part of an ?86m investment in the Fylde coast's | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
sea defences. The money will be spent protecting 12,000 homes on | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
Rossall and Ancholsholme. The work will take three years to complete | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
and create jobs for local people. Yunus Mulla has been looking into | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
flooding in the area. The great storm of 1927, widespread | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
flooding and destruction along the coast. Sea defences were breached | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
then and again on a number of occasions since. Almost a century | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
later these boulders weigh up to ten tonnes each and they will form the | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
front line for the next 100 years in a battle to stop nearby properties | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
flooding. They are below sea level and it is important they have the | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
knowledge they have a strong sea defence which is going to last and | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
cope with all the conditions we do get up here. 7500 properties will | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
get protection along a 2km stretch in Rossall and a further 4500 along | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
in Ancholsholme. Here you see a scheme which is bringing in ?86 | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
million, 325,000 tonnes of rock. It will protect a very large number of | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
properties. In Ancholsholme there will be a new concrete sea wall and | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
the promenade here raised. Marjorie and Tony's bungalow was flooded in | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
the major flooding is the 1970s. I wanted everything out which was wet. | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
That was taken out. It was taken straightaway. We got it dried and | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
everything. Tony, what do you think of the new sea defences? Excellent. | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
Further down the coast in Blackpool sea defences, which | :19:56. | :20:20. | |
2019. Football and it was a bad night for | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
both Manchester City and Everton in the Premier League. City's title | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
hopes took a huge blow as they drew 2`2 at home to bottom of the table | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
Sunderland. The Blues are now six points behind leaders Liverpool but | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
have a game in hand. Everton's 3`2 defeat by Crystal Palace leaves them | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
a point behind Arsenal, who are in the fourth place Champions League | :20:38. | :20:38. | |
qualifying spot. If she's given an opportunity she | :20:39. | :22:04. | |
has to take it. Toni will be playing her home games here. Their ground is | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
in the shadow of Manchester City's Etihad Stadium and, like for the | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
men's team, if the women's team are to have any success this season they | :22:13. | :22:22. | |
must get past Liverpool. A move to full`time training and the backing | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
of the club's American owners helped the Reds raise standards and race to | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
the title last season. They have adopted a winning philosophy and | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
have integrated us into that so it is great for us. With City, | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
Liverpool and others developing their women's team, there's likely | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
to be more opportunities for players in the future to follow Toni's lead | :22:42. | :22:56. | |
and become full`time footballers. I wonder how long the women get paid | :22:57. | :23:06. | |
the same as the men. Gymnast Luke Strong has become the first man in | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
32 years to win a senior medal at European Championships. The | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
20`year`old, who missed the Olympics, won the bronze medal in | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
Portugal. Lancashire County Cricket Club has made a record operating | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
profit after four successive years of losses thanks to international | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
cricket. It made ?3.5 million after renovating Old Trafford to Test | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
match standards and selling the naming rights to Emirates Airlines. | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
A record 150,000 spectators came to see the Ashes Test Match and One Day | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
Internationals against Australia in just six days last August. | :23:36. | :23:49. | |
What are the most common animals found in the region's gardens? | :23:50. | :24:04. | |
For the first time, the RSPB has asked people to tell them about any | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
wildlife, not just birds, that they spot. Thousands of people in the | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
north west took part in the survey, and the results give an important | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
picture of which species are declining. Here's our environment | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
correspondent Judy Hobson. It is incredible to think what could | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
be moving around your garden June night. This footage was taken by | :24:25. | :24:43. | |
wildlife enthusiast in Birkenhead `` during the night. Thousands of | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
people have responded to a survey which is getting information about | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
the wildlife. The results give a picture of which animals are | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
threatened. The 50 most frequent visitor to gardens were badgers. The | :24:59. | :25:13. | |
most common creature is a grey squirrel. We asked the public to | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
give us information so we can understand where people are seeing | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
wildlife in the garden, and how often they see it. It is the | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
beginning of a process. The results confirm fears that hedgehog numbers | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
are declining and in greater Manchester, now December sent people | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
never spot a red squirrel. The information will help people | :25:41. | :25:50. | |
understand all the factors `` 97% of people. I bet he thinks he is | :25:51. | :26:02. | |
sophisticated. Can you give us a sophisticated weather forecast? | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
sophisticated. Can you give us a sophisticated weather Good evening. | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
We have a weekend of two parts. Saturday is better than Sunday and | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
Monday. Towards the tail end of Sunday it is not that good. I think | :26:19. | :26:32. | |
it will turn rainy on Sunday night. It means that on Sunday it'll be a | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
much more cloudy affair, because the next two days will be very good | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
indeed. Make the most them if you can. I'm showing you this picture. | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
There is not a great deal of rain on it. It'll be light and patchy, but | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
over the last couple of hours, some places are seeing rain making its | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
way in. After that, look at the clearance in the weather. The cloud | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
clears out through the night, so we are heading into a cold one. That'll | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
be an issue tonight and tomorrow night. Some of the coldest nights we | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
have had for a while. This picture you will see tomorrow holds for | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
Saturday as well. It is a bit nippy in the morning, but the sun is up as | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
well so it will get rid of that quickly. It is dry and fine through | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
Friday and Saturday. Good spells of sunshine. The winds will be light, | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
but slightly cooler and dryer, to the temperatures won't be as good, | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
possibly 12 or 13 Celsius. Things change on Sunday. It is not a bad | :27:50. | :27:58. | |
weekend. Half a good bank holiday weekend. What you need is a bit of | :27:59. | :28:10. | |
inside knowledge. Book your days off. Have a lovely Easter. | :28:11. | :28:15. |