:00:00. > :00:11.first look at the papers over on the BBC News Channel. But now on
:00:12. > :00:16.Good evening. If you live on Merseyside, xou are
:00:17. > :00:20.almost five times more likely to end up in hospital after being `ttacked
:00:21. > :00:23.by a dog ` than in some parts of the south of England. That's according
:00:24. > :00:26.to new figures. Despite Polhce on Merseyside launching a camp`ign last
:00:27. > :00:29.year to tackle dangerous dogs ` the number of injuries has incrdased.
:00:30. > :00:39.Now experts are calling on the Government to do more to help. Nina
:00:40. > :00:49.Warhurst reports. A person, Elio Lawrence, John Paul Massey, life was
:00:50. > :00:53.because they were attacked by dogs. The number of attacks in thhs region
:00:54. > :00:58.are going up. At this hospital they see at least one every day `nd what
:00:59. > :01:02.is more frightening is the reason. Some of these dogs, especially the
:01:03. > :01:11.dangers police, are almost being used as status symbols and `s
:01:12. > :01:16.protective weapons as opposdd to knives and guns. Merseyside has the
:01:17. > :01:21.highest rate of hospital adlissions due to dog attacks in the country.
:01:22. > :01:27.24 for every 100,000 people. In greater Manchester the figure is
:01:28. > :01:32.high, two, 17 per 100,000. Compare that to Surrey and Sussex, ht is
:01:33. > :01:38.seven for every 100,000 and in Kent is justified. You are the thmes more
:01:39. > :01:42.likely to be attacked by a dog if you live in a socially deprhved
:01:43. > :01:48.area. Experts say this comes as no surprise. What is surprising is how
:01:49. > :01:52.little is being done. What we need is evidence that allows us to
:01:53. > :01:56.introduce legislation or edtcational plans that will combat this problem.
:01:57. > :02:02.We do not have that at the loment. We have a lot of ideas, but really
:02:03. > :02:05.no good evidence. Last year Merseyside police once the lajor
:02:06. > :02:11.campaign to cut down on dog attacks but the numbers have gone up. Today
:02:12. > :02:16.he called us officers from our specialist dog unit regularly meet
:02:17. > :02:20.with the RSPCA, dog wardens and charities to tackle the isstes of
:02:21. > :02:23.dangerous dogs. Relatives of all of these victims have said thex called
:02:24. > :02:30.positive change would come out of the tragedy. Clearly that change is
:02:31. > :02:34.not coming quick enough. The mother of a teenager who died in
:02:35. > :02:37.the Hillsborough disaster h`s described how a darkness fell on
:02:38. > :02:40.their family with his death. Margaret Aspinall was paying tribute
:02:41. > :02:42.to her 18`year`old son James at the new Hillsborough inquests in
:02:43. > :02:46.Warrington. Another relativd described how she wished shd'd been
:02:47. > :02:54.able to hold her father's h`nd as he lay on the pitch. Andy Gill reports.
:02:55. > :03:00.Margaret, very well`known a campaigner, but today she spoke
:03:01. > :03:06.simply as a mother. She said her husband was at the match and had to
:03:07. > :03:09.what as the wife of her elddst son disappeared in harrowing
:03:10. > :03:17.circumstances. Margaret's tribute was read to the court by her son,
:03:18. > :03:21.David. A darkness fell over our family and it is only being here now
:03:22. > :03:26.and being able to describe what a decent human being James was that
:03:27. > :03:31.has finally given our familx chartered flight. We have a powerful
:03:32. > :03:38.tribute Stephen Kelly whose brother was 38 when he died at Hillsborough.
:03:39. > :03:46.Here is what Stephen Kelly said A healthy victim, one of the 86, in
:03:47. > :03:50.death he became body number 72. And also the last Hillsborough victim to
:03:51. > :03:54.be claimed by his family. I want to remove a sequence of numbers from
:03:55. > :04:01.and I have here today waiting to reclaim my brother. We also heard
:04:02. > :04:06.from the family of Henry Burke from Kirby is 47. His daughter rdcalled
:04:07. > :04:12.how he was always there for the family when they were littld. A one
:04:13. > :04:16.time we wanted so much to bd there for him, when he was lying on that
:04:17. > :04:21.pitch on his own, to help the hash`mac To hold his hands the wiki
:04:22. > :04:27.help our hands. We were not there. None of us wear. That haunts us We
:04:28. > :04:35.also have tribute to Gary Church, Paul Hewitson, Peter Hansen, Philip
:04:36. > :04:41.Steele and Peter Birkett. The coroner said it had been a very
:04:42. > :04:44.upsetting but a very uplifthng day. The President of the Liberal
:04:45. > :04:47.Democrats and MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron, says lembers
:04:48. > :04:50.of his party need to answer "serious questions" about who knew that the
:04:51. > :04:53.former Liberal MP, Sir Cyril Smith, faced allegations of sexual assault.
:04:54. > :04:56.Police are investigating allegations that the former MP for Rochdale
:04:57. > :05:02.sexually abused boys at homds and hostels in the town.
:05:03. > :05:05.The low`level nuclear waste store at Drigg in Cumbria will continue to
:05:06. > :05:08.operate, despite fears the site will eventually be eroded by rishng sea
:05:09. > :05:11.levels. The site's operators say that, even in the worst`casd
:05:12. > :05:14.scenario. The impact on lifd and the environment will be insignificant.
:05:15. > :05:17.Concern was raised in a doctment released by the Environment Agency `
:05:18. > :05:25.in response to a freedom of information request from Thd
:05:26. > :05:28.Guardian newspaper. Sport and the Premier Leagud title
:05:29. > :05:31.race is the focus for Liverpool and Manchester City this weekend. Both
:05:32. > :05:34.play on Sunday. City at Crystal Palace and before that therd's a
:05:35. > :05:37.huge game at Anfield where Chelsea are the visitors. The possibility of
:05:38. > :05:41.Brendan Rodger's side bringhng home the first title for 24 years has
:05:42. > :05:51.turned some fans into nervots wrecks. As for the manager? He's
:05:52. > :05:53.sleeping like a baby. There is no pressure, peopld talk
:05:54. > :06:02.about, you must not sleep that night, and I haven't slept better.
:06:03. > :06:06.It is absolutely great. I sde the joy in the players in the training
:06:07. > :06:15.and there's no anxiety. That's all from me, here is the weather.
:06:16. > :06:21.It is a dreadfully cloudy d`y today, we saw this rain sitting on us all
:06:22. > :06:25.afternoon and as we head into the weekend a frontal system coles in at
:06:26. > :06:29.another band of rain for Saturday and at Peter 's backside on Sunday
:06:30. > :06:33.but if we are in a lot of clout and I suspect we are going to sde a
:06:34. > :06:36.future is on Sundays or gendrally for the weekend your headline is
:06:37. > :06:42.this, Wikipedia takes on Saturday and Sunday. We will see heavy
:06:43. > :06:46.showers on and off. Between the showers we should enjoy sunny spells
:06:47. > :06:49.but tonight plenty of close around, still a few showers around `nd it
:06:50. > :06:53.looks as though those showers are eating away but as he headed towards
:06:54. > :07:01.dawn more showers will keep them from recess. There will be ` lot of
:07:02. > :07:06.hillfort in plenty of cloud. It will be easy but mild. Temperatures are
:07:07. > :07:12.down to eight or nine degreds. `` it will be breezy. Heading into the
:07:13. > :07:19.afternoon there will be somd good spells of sunshine, the bredze will
:07:20. > :07:23.drive in some heavy showers to the afternoon just 13 or 14 degrees We
:07:24. > :07:31.will head into Sunday and there will be a lot of clout in. Reallx some
:07:32. > :07:32.dry spell and showers. `` m`yday some dry spells and showers.
:07:33. > :07:42.with an outlook. We will have the outlook for the rest of the country.
:07:43. > :07:46.Goodbye. Good evening. A bit of a
:07:47. > :07:51.disappointing day. A lot of cloud around and we saw showery outbreaks
:07:52. > :07:55.of rain. Courtesy of this continental plume which arrived
:07:56. > :08:00.during the early hours and continues to drift further north. Into the
:08:01. > :08:04.weekend, this area of low pressure will influence our weather. It is
:08:05. > :08:09.already arriving bringing gusts of wind is to the Isles of Scilly and
:08:10. > :08:14.the south-west. Further north, and easterly feed are dragging more
:08:15. > :08:19.cloud, misty conditions and poor visibility with light rain.
:08:20. > :08:22.Overnight lows of eight to 10 degrees. A band of persistent rain
:08:23. > :08:25.through Northern Ireland moving out of Wales and into the North of
:08:26. > :08:26.England and the south-east means a great,