:00:00. > :00:00.three of her children are found dead at their
:00:00. > :00:08.Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight. Our top story: Polhce
:00:09. > :00:14.investigating the murder of teenager Paige Chivers seven years ago search
:00:15. > :00:17.a derelict flat in Blackpool. It comes after a new appeal to find the
:00:18. > :00:20.15`year`old's killer. Also tonight: The mother of the
:00:21. > :00:23.youngest victim tells the Hillsborough Inquest of the
:00:24. > :00:29.emptiness her son's death still leaves today.
:00:30. > :00:38.Pressure on our housing hotspots ` as commuters and locals compete for
:00:39. > :00:42.a place in the country. ??NDLINE And feet don't fail me now! A
:00:43. > :00:56.celebration of Northern Soul comes to Manchester.
:00:57. > :01:01.The seven year search for a missing Blackpool teenager who is bdlieved
:01:02. > :01:05.to have been murdered took ` new turn today. Forensic teams started a
:01:06. > :01:25.detailed search of a derelict flat close to where Paige Chivers was
:01:26. > :01:28.last seen alive in 2007. It follows an offer of a ?30,000 reward for
:01:29. > :01:34.information. Our Chief Reporter Dave Guest is there now. This block of
:01:35. > :01:38.flats is due to be demolishdd in the new future but before that the could
:01:39. > :01:45.be some vital clue is in thd model of Paige Chivers. `` the murder The
:01:46. > :01:50.police have never given up the search but they do feel the worst.
:01:51. > :02:04.Today, the search happened hn need genome for flat in this building. ``
:02:05. > :02:07.in a ground floor flat. The police have long believed that Paige
:02:08. > :02:10.Chivers is dead. Paige went missing seven years ago. Every enquhry we've
:02:11. > :02:18.made has led us to conclude that she's been murdered. So far though,
:02:19. > :02:20.they have no body. Today thdy're investigations have been
:02:21. > :02:24.concentrating on this derelhct block of flats. And all this just a week
:02:25. > :02:27.after they offered a ?30,000 reward for information leading to her
:02:28. > :02:31.killer or killers. Last week we made an appeal to the public. We've had a
:02:32. > :02:35.number of people come forward, who we've spoken to. Some have featured
:02:36. > :02:38.before and some are new to ts. As part of our overall strategx in
:02:39. > :02:41.investigating this murder wd have looked at the forensic enquhries and
:02:42. > :02:44.that's resulted in us looking at this premises today. The police are
:02:45. > :02:48.being coy about exactly what they're expecting or hoping to find inside
:02:49. > :02:52.the flat. But Paige did attdnd the school next door. This is the
:02:53. > :02:55.general area where she was last seen alive. And although these flats are
:02:56. > :03:02.now derelict, back when Paige disappeared people did live here. I
:03:03. > :03:06.understand she did visit thd address they're now searching. Paigd's
:03:07. > :03:09.disappearance has now been ` source of intrigue in this area. Local
:03:10. > :03:13.people are hoping this latest development may now lead to the
:03:14. > :03:20.solving of the mystery. I think it's very good that it is still going on.
:03:21. > :03:23.I think it should continue. It's about time we found out what
:03:24. > :03:27.happened so the rest of the family can lay it to rest. But it's all too
:03:28. > :03:38.late for Paige's parents. Hdr mum died the year she disappeardd. Her
:03:39. > :03:42.father Frank was murdered l`st year. Tonight they claim scene
:03:43. > :03:46.investigators have gone. Thd police are not saying they found anything.
:03:47. > :03:53.Investigators are hoping th`t the author of the award will encourage
:03:54. > :03:57.people to come forward. The hope that something one table help solve
:03:58. > :04:02.this mystery as to what happened to Paige Chivers.
:04:03. > :04:06.The mother of the youngest victim of the Hillsborough disaster h`s spoken
:04:07. > :04:11.about how she knew her son wouldn't come home from the match. Jon`Paul
:04:12. > :04:15.Gilhooley ` the cousin of the current Liverpool captain Steven
:04:16. > :04:17.Gerrard ` was just ten when he died. Jon`Paul's mother, Jackie, was
:04:18. > :04:20.speaking after her tribute to him was read to the jury at the new
:04:21. > :04:24.Hillsborough inquests in Warrington. Our Merseyside Reporter, Andy Gill,
:04:25. > :04:28.was in court. Jon`Paul's falily told the court to the world he w`s a
:04:29. > :04:36.football fan but to the us he was our world. After today's he`ring,
:04:37. > :04:39.his mother told us about he`ring what was happening at Hillsborough,
:04:40. > :04:52.and knowing that her son wotldn t come home. All of a sudden H just
:04:53. > :05:02.got this sensation here. It was an emptiness. A horrible emptiness I
:05:03. > :05:05.knew something had gone frol inside me. It's still gone. It's ndver been
:05:06. > :05:09.filled. The court also heard tributes to the only father and son
:05:10. > :05:12.to die together at Hillsborough They were Thomas Howard, a chemical
:05:13. > :05:16.worker, and his son Tommy, who was 14. Tommy's mother, Linda, said he
:05:17. > :05:20.was her first born. She didn't want him to go to the match but knew he'd
:05:21. > :05:29.be heartbroken if she put hdr foot down. She re`read her statelent for
:05:30. > :05:33.us after today's hearing. In it she wondered if he'd give her one last
:05:34. > :05:38.wave as he left for the match. I felt my heart would break if he
:05:39. > :05:42.didn't. I don't know why I felt that way. But my Tommy, true to form
:05:43. > :05:46.turned and gave me his final wave. I didn't know that would be the last
:05:47. > :05:49.time I would see him. The tribute to Tommy's father, Thomas senior, was
:05:50. > :05:55.read by his surviving children, Alan and Gail. When we were told that my
:05:56. > :05:58.brother and my father had gone to heaven as a result of the
:05:59. > :06:03.Hillsborough disaster, we found it difficult to come to terms with We
:06:04. > :06:06.still do to this day. Vincent Fitzsimmons was 34 when he died In
:06:07. > :06:14.her tribute, his sister Dr Dorothy Griffiths remembered teasing him for
:06:15. > :06:18.going grey. If I were to be granted one more wish, it would be to have a
:06:19. > :06:23.few more minutes with him. To tell him how much I love him. He will
:06:24. > :06:34.never be grey, just distingtished. There will be more tributes
:06:35. > :06:38.tomorrow. Plans to create the UK's biggest
:06:39. > :06:41.wind farm off Barrow took a step closer today after government
:06:42. > :06:44.backing. The Danish firm ` Dong ` revealed plans last year to more
:06:45. > :06:48.than double the Walney site. The company is also behind a wind farm
:06:49. > :06:50.project at Burbo Flats in Lhverpool Bay. The contracts are the first
:06:51. > :06:52.awarded under the government's energy market reforms which
:06:53. > :06:59.guarantee prices for renewable energy supplies.
:07:00. > :07:02.A ?100 million investment h`s been announced for the Liverpool Two
:07:03. > :07:05.container port. A Shanghai`based company will deliver 17 "mega
:07:06. > :07:09.cranes". Peel Ports say the contract is a major step forward in the
:07:10. > :07:17.construction of what will bd one of Europe's most advanced cont`iner
:07:18. > :07:20.facilities. Two property developers frol Greater
:07:21. > :07:22.Manchester who were behind ` ?3 5 million mortgage fraud have been
:07:23. > :07:25.jailed. Prosecutors say Marshall Joseph from Hale and Alick Kapikanya
:07:26. > :07:30.from Stretford obtained mortgages and loans against ten houses without
:07:31. > :07:38.the real owners' knowledge. Five other people involved in thd gang
:07:39. > :07:42.were also sentenced. A teaching union says jobs will be
:07:43. > :07:44.lost at the University of S`lford ` after a decision to close all modern
:07:45. > :07:48.foreign language courses. The University says they will not be
:07:49. > :07:51.offered after 2017 ` blaming falling demand. The University and College
:07:52. > :07:56.Union says its shocked at the decision and has called for a
:07:57. > :07:59.re`think. Relatives and well`wishers have been
:08:00. > :08:02.laying flowers at the spot where an 11`year`old boy died after falling
:08:03. > :08:05.into a canal in Burnley. Robbie Williamson is thought to have been
:08:06. > :08:13.walking across a pipe when he lost his balance. Nina Warhurst has this
:08:14. > :08:17.report. It's what 11`year`old boys do ` go on adventures and t`ke
:08:18. > :08:22.chances. But Robbie Williamson's led to his death. He'd been plaxing on
:08:23. > :08:26.his own yesterday evening when police said he tried to cross the
:08:27. > :08:30.river by walking across a phpe on a canal bridge, but then lost his
:08:31. > :08:33.footing. Today, relatives g`thered at the scene, struggling to
:08:34. > :08:55.comprehend what police described as a tragic accident. He was ftnny ..
:08:56. > :08:58.Always a smile on his face. Peter Graham was overlooking the canal at
:08:59. > :09:02.the time when he heard someone shouting that a child had f`llen in.
:09:03. > :09:06.I came flying downstairs in my bare feet, jumped in and got him out as
:09:07. > :09:09.fast as I could. He pulled Robbie out and gave him CPR until the
:09:10. > :09:12.ambulance arrived. Robbie l`ter died at the Royal Blackburn Hosphtal
:09:13. > :09:16.Police say they're not lookhng for anybody else in connection with his
:09:17. > :09:19.death. The tranquillity of Derbyshhre's
:09:20. > :09:23.High Peak has been shattered by a row over a plan to allow thousands
:09:24. > :09:27.of homes to be built there. The council says they're necess`ry ` but
:09:28. > :09:30.opponents say it'll ruin thd area. However, the Authority might have an
:09:31. > :09:32.ally in the National Housing Federation. They've told us the
:09:33. > :09:44.North West faces a "housing crisis" and needs to "get building" ` as
:09:45. > :09:47.Mark Edwardson reports. Peaceful and pleasant, popular with people who
:09:48. > :09:52.work in Greater Manchester... Making it pricey... Others want to protect
:09:53. > :09:57.it. Fields in Whaley Bridge earmarked for hundreds of homes
:09:58. > :10:02.Even though the more than 700 letters opposing the development it
:10:03. > :10:06.still seems to be going ahe`d. High Peak Borough Council says 7,200 new
:10:07. > :10:09.homes are needed by 2031. Prices and rents are high but opponents
:10:10. > :10:18.question the need to build on green land. There are alternative sites.
:10:19. > :10:23.Former industrial sites could easily be developed for housing. Btt it
:10:24. > :10:27.does not seem to be the casd that the local authority have taken it on
:10:28. > :10:29.board. The High Peak afford`ble housing shortage is reflectdd
:10:30. > :10:32.elsewhere. The National Housing Federation says between 2002 and
:10:33. > :10:36.2012 prices rose in South L`keland by 75% and rents by 14%. In Ribble
:10:37. > :10:46.Valley, the figures were 73$ and 22%. In Trafford it was 59% and 31%.
:10:47. > :11:01.The North West faces a houshng places. `` housing crisis. People
:11:02. > :11:06.are attracted to these earlx as because of the countryside `nd
:11:07. > :11:11.access to walking. There is real community life there. It is only a
:11:12. > :11:25.30 minute Johnny to central Manchester. `` journey. Nobody was
:11:26. > :11:36.available for comment but wd were told that it is in a six`wedk
:11:37. > :11:40.consultation period. Still to come on North West Tonight:
:11:41. > :11:43.Behind the scenes at the Opdn as staff smooth the way for thd return
:11:44. > :11:47.of the world's best golfers. And it's transformed from swimming
:11:48. > :11:50.pool to dance hall ` join md later at Victoria Baths to see how
:11:51. > :12:09.Northern Soul is making a splash at the Unrest Festival. Throwing some
:12:10. > :12:12.shapes! In those heels! Sport now, and David Moyes has given
:12:13. > :12:15.his first reaction to his s`cking as Manchester United manager. Richard
:12:16. > :12:21.Askam has been following developments for us and is `t Old
:12:22. > :12:25.Trafford. What's he had to say? Yes, he played a pretty str`ight bat
:12:26. > :12:27.in his statement. He said: "To have been appointed as manager of
:12:28. > :12:31.Manchester United was and rdmains something of which I will always be
:12:32. > :12:35.incredibly proud... I remain grateful to Sir Alex for believing
:12:36. > :12:40.in my ability and giving me the chance to manage Manchester United."
:12:41. > :12:43.He went on to thank his coaching staff and the fans, but didn't
:12:44. > :12:46.mention the players. Read into that what you will. We do understand
:12:47. > :12:52.however, that privately Davhd Moyes is furious with the way his
:12:53. > :13:02.dismissal was handled. News leaked out on Monday, you'll remember,
:13:03. > :13:05.ahead of his sacking on Tuesday The League Manage''s Association have
:13:06. > :13:13.accused United of acting in an "unprofessional manner." `` League
:13:14. > :13:16.Managers' Association. Unitdd have refuted the claims, insisting that
:13:17. > :13:20.no final decision was taken until late on Monday evening.
:13:21. > :13:23.Ryan Giggs is in control of the team until a permanent appointment is
:13:24. > :13:31.found and he's drafted in another of his old mates to help?
:13:32. > :13:35.Yes, Phil Neville and Nicky Butt were already part of the co`ching
:13:36. > :13:39.set up and now another of Ghggs former team mates Paul Scholes has
:13:40. > :13:44.pitched in. These are shots of Scholes leaving United's tr`ining
:13:45. > :13:49.ground earlier today. Scholds had turned down the chance to work under
:13:50. > :13:52.David Moyes. Incidentally, the Dutch national team coach, Louis Van Gaal,
:13:53. > :13:57.remains the favourite to get the job at Old Trafford. And Sir Aldx
:13:58. > :14:01.Ferguson, who hand`picked D`vid Moyes, will once again we understand
:14:02. > :14:09.play a key role in choosing his successor.
:14:10. > :14:15.Lancashire have just lost their match against Warwickshire. `` have
:14:16. > :14:35.just drawn their match. In three months, the world's best
:14:36. > :14:40.golfers will be teeing off `t Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Wirr`l. It's
:14:41. > :14:43.less than 100 days until thd Open returns to Hoylake and Stuart
:14:44. > :14:58.Pollitt's been to meet some of the staff whose job it is to prdpare a
:14:59. > :15:01.stage for the world's best. In a few months this patch of land whll host
:15:02. > :15:04.one of the world's biggest sporting events. For the people who work
:15:05. > :15:08.here, the Open isn't just another day at the office. We'll get 16 17
:15:09. > :15:18.and 18 finished then get seven, eight, nine. Craig lives and works
:15:19. > :15:26.at Royal Liverpool. It does take up a chunk of your life. Ask mx wife!
:15:27. > :15:30.Do you enjoy the fact your course will be seen by hundreds of millions
:15:31. > :15:35.of people? If it's in good condition! If not, maybe not so
:15:36. > :15:49.much! It's an honour but it comes with pressure. Jim has been involved
:15:50. > :15:56.with this club since the 1940s. Do you wonder what age I am!? What age
:15:57. > :16:01.are you? 81! All visitors gdt the red carpet treatment before they
:16:02. > :16:12.begin their round. No matter who they are! We've had lots of people.
:16:13. > :16:15.It's been a great honour. Jhm shares his starting duties with Se`n, who
:16:16. > :16:23.shares a workplace with his wife Angela. It's a very important part
:16:24. > :16:32.of our lives. For me this is a real bonus. Do you like golf, Angela No!
:16:33. > :16:36.I'm not a golfer! But it's ` lovely place to work, a lovely envhronment,
:16:37. > :16:39.with very nice people. We'll be following those people over the next
:16:40. > :16:51.few months as they prepare to welcome the golfing world.
:16:52. > :17:02.It is always great when the open comes to the North West. I will let
:17:03. > :17:12.you get back to the warm sttdio Can he go home now? Make him st`y! He's
:17:13. > :17:15.gone! More than 100 graves from the 1 th
:17:16. > :17:19.Century have been found in Manchester ` as work contintes to
:17:20. > :17:23.build a second tram link across the city. The remains are thought to be
:17:24. > :17:26.those of 115 people who werd buried close to a chapel on Cross Street.
:17:27. > :17:29.Archaeologists will help to move them to another cemetery ` `nd the
:17:30. > :17:32.city's MetroLink company is trying to discover if they have anx living
:17:33. > :17:35.relatives. Naomi Cornwell rdports. They're preparing for the ptblic
:17:36. > :17:38.transport of the future in Manchester City centre ` thhs is one
:17:39. > :17:42.of the streets where work is underway to build a new tralline
:17:43. > :17:46.across the city. It's a hugd scheme, and involves unearthing Manchester's
:17:47. > :17:49.past. As part of the second city crossing works we're doing for
:17:50. > :17:53.MetroLink, we need to move `bout 115 bodies that were part of thd Cross
:17:54. > :17:57.Street Chapel cemetery. Thex're going to be moving to a cemdtery in
:17:58. > :18:01.Manchester. They were interred about 150 to 200 years ago. The original
:18:02. > :18:06.Presbyterian chapel on Cross Street was destroyed by German firdbombs in
:18:07. > :18:10.1940. There's been rebuilding twice in more recent years. Now it's a
:18:11. > :18:14.Unitarian chapel and current worshipers hope to find out more
:18:15. > :18:17.about their predecessors and life here in the 1800s. The trustees were
:18:18. > :18:20.quite prominent in Manchestdr, particularly in the reform `spects
:18:21. > :18:31.of Manchester ` cotton mill owners and their families. But I once
:18:32. > :18:34.looked at some of the baptismal registers and it included a wide
:18:35. > :18:37.range of quite ordinary people. A new tramline will eventuallx run
:18:38. > :18:41.down this street but first the remains will be moved to thd city's
:18:42. > :18:44.southern cemetery. Transport for Greater Manchester is trying to find
:18:45. > :18:49.any living relatives of those who were buried here. We have printed
:18:50. > :18:54.notices, to say that anybodx who's a known ancestor should come forward.
:18:55. > :18:58.They may have a choice on where they want that person to be reinterred.
:18:59. > :19:03.We have to be very sensitivd about how we deal with the move. We have
:19:04. > :19:05.to do it in a proper way whhch is why we're working with the
:19:06. > :19:08.archaeological society and the church itself. It's part of the
:19:09. > :19:12.planned programme of works that we've got, so as not to del`y
:19:13. > :19:15.anything. We're happy to do it on behalf of the people who ard there.
:19:16. > :19:18.Archaeologists will help to remove the remains this summer. Thd second
:19:19. > :19:32.city crossing is expected to be completed in 2017.
:19:33. > :19:38.We have a slightly shorter programme this evening because of the party
:19:39. > :19:42.political broadcast. For some it was quite simplx the
:19:43. > :19:45.best disco in the world. Wigan Casino ` the iconic 70s homd of
:19:46. > :19:59.northern soul. Thousands loved it. They shed tears when it fin`lly
:20:00. > :20:03.closed in December 1981. Just when Annabelle got her shoulder pads out!
:20:04. > :20:06.Now there's a chance to re`live the Wigan Casino experience thanks to a
:20:07. > :20:09.new festival, which opens in Manchester tomorrow. The Unrest
:20:10. > :20:12.Project is a mixture of fill, dance and a big Northern Soul all`nighter
:20:13. > :20:18.on May bank holiday weekend, so we sent Eno out with her dancing shoes
:20:19. > :20:21.to Victoria Baths in Manchester It was a slick combination of niche
:20:22. > :20:27.music, crazy dance moves and being seen in the latest fashions.
:20:28. > :20:31.Northern Soul was born here in the north in the late 60s and it's now
:20:32. > :20:35.the inspiration for the Unrdst Festival. It's a contemporary art
:20:36. > :20:38.exhibition and a series of dvents. It's about the way that mushc
:20:39. > :20:49.inspires people out of diffhcult people. `` difficult situathons The
:20:50. > :20:53.ten day festival at the reftrbished Victoria Baths is a celebration of
:20:54. > :20:57.how dance defines us. The b`ggy pants may be long gone but Northern
:20:58. > :21:03.Soul was a youth culture th`t changed a generation half a century
:21:04. > :21:09.ago. And it remains an obsession for some today! I've been brought up
:21:10. > :21:13.with it. My dad played it in the car on the way to school and I took it
:21:14. > :21:20.from there. It's my life. Everything. With a new film out this
:21:21. > :21:23.summer, it looks like there's a little bit of a resurgence of the
:21:24. > :21:28.Northern Soul movement. And many Soul aficionados are determhned to
:21:29. > :21:32.drag it into the digital agd. This project is called Recorded Soul
:21:33. > :21:38.It's basically a digital archive of all things to do with Northdrn Soul.
:21:39. > :21:42.It's nice when people invitd you round for a cup of tea and let you
:21:43. > :21:47.take a look through their collection and take pictures of it. I think
:21:48. > :21:52.most people want to be part of that legacy. They want to share what
:21:53. > :21:55.they've got. And so with pldnty to see, and the pool still standing
:21:56. > :22:19.empty, there should be plenty of space for the Northern Soul shuffle!
:22:20. > :22:25.She let us down! She's tried a lot of dancing... Lots of peopld have
:22:26. > :22:44.been getting fixated on Twitter about Northern Soul. Time for
:22:45. > :22:55.another expert. It is like line dancing and break dancing. Good
:22:56. > :23:03.evening. The weather today was all about geography. The closer you will
:23:04. > :23:11.do that Isle of Man it was bit. `` it was better. Tomorrow it hs not so
:23:12. > :23:26.bad. You can see as we head towards the weekend that is an earlher of
:23:27. > :23:32.low pressure. `` an area. Today this has been the line that the rain
:23:33. > :23:38.has taken. For many of us jtst if you spot but this is what the
:23:39. > :23:48.forecast computer wants to do. That is going to go everywhere. Rain will
:23:49. > :23:56.move on. You can see one of two darker colours and that means that
:23:57. > :24:05.the boss will from time to time `` the bursts. If you can see the later
:24:06. > :24:12.years, that is where it gradually starts to break up. There could be a
:24:13. > :24:21.pocket of mist in some placds tomorrow. Temperatures of shx to
:24:22. > :24:27.nine Celsius. Tomorrow, it hs not bad at all. Good spells of sunshine.
:24:28. > :24:37.The morning is definitely the best part of the day. Very late winds and
:24:38. > :24:45.mail era. `` light winds. `` mild air. But after lunchtime, bdcause
:24:46. > :24:54.the temperatures are rising that could be some showers. The closer
:24:55. > :25:01.you are to the Pennines, thd closer you are to some showers. It is not a
:25:02. > :25:15.bad picture. Temperatures could get to around 15 or 16. More on the way
:25:16. > :25:23.of sunshine. Good news. Thank you. Just an earlier of low pressure
:25:24. > :25:54.Stella April showers. `` Sthll. Have a nice evening. Goodbye.
:25:55. > :25:56.'The last two generations have been robbed
:25:57. > :25:58.'of an opportunity to vote on the EU.
:25:59. > :26:01.'And yet it has a greater impact on our everyday lives
:26:02. > :26:07.'and not leave it for another generation.'
:26:08. > :26:11.I want a Britain that is free to control its own destiny.