12/05/2014 North West Tonight

Welcome to North West Tonight, live from Albert Square

in Manchester, where thousands of fans are saluting Manchester

We've just seen the men of the moment lifting the Premier League

We'll re`live yesterday's euphoria, as the team were crowed champions

for the second time in three years ` pipping Liverpool to the title.

Building for the future. We look at the club's investment

I'm with fans lining the bus parade route through the city, looking back

And I'll be looking back over the rollercoaster of the past 50

years ` with the highs and lows of City's past.

For the fourth year in a row, the Premier League champions are

United's victory last season has now been sandwiched by a second City

The bus route will take their mode of Albert squeal shortly. It is a

roundabout one might yield. The city players are going off the stage,

they have been on the stage for about one minutes. When they lost at

Liverpool, it seemed like the desire to win the trophy had slipped away.

But be put together a winning run. It is a day that all of these

thousands of Manchester city fans will never forget.

Manchester City have their crown back!

I've been on the herbal tea all day and I am ecstatic!

Three weeks ago it was dead and buried...

My wedding anniversary is today and today has topped it!

He was taken some stick, from other managers as well, but he's

Amazing scenes for Manchester city yesterday. The team is over to my

left hand side. Waiting to pick them up as my correspondent. These are

fantastic scenes. People are really excited wait for the boss to arrive.

Let's talk to leave few fans. How exciting is this? It is fantastic.

You have been following Manchester city for all of your life, what does

this mean? It is super. I cannot believe that. Everybody is over the

moon about this. Manchester City are

Premier League Champions! Winning the Premier League once is

a great achievement, to do it twice We hoped

the other team would lose points. Dzeko pulls it down and Kompany

scores! The whole season we've played

attractive, offensive football. Now, Manchester City have still not

announced whether they plan to accept or

appeal against UEFA sanctions for The deadline to agree

a settlement passed on Friday. They face a ?50 million fine

and restrictions to their Champions League squad of 21 players

instead of 25, plus a wage cap. There's no doubt City is a team rich

in talent ` but buying players They are

the most highly paid team not just But the investment here isn't just

for today ` it's for the long term. Behind the big success,

big investment from the Blues To those who say it's easy to beat

the rest when you've got pockets deep enough

to buy the best, I would say this. This is Manchester City's bridge to

the future ` directly linking the Etihad to

City's new training academy. Inside here there are

going to be 17... Each one slightly different,

to replicate the slight differences When it opens, it will be

a production line of players. The important thing is to grow

the future. The best way to do that is

by having youth coming through. This policy is going to ensure

that City are sitting on the top It's modelled on the training

academy which created this. And the men who helped make it

so now run City. Ferran Soriano and

Tixki Bergiristain are giving Ask the foreign journalists who

descended If you asked the average Arab person

in the Middle East who they would want to win the league,

they'll tell you Manchester City. We're well aware of the history

of clubs like Liverpool But the new generation is going to

support Manchester City An estimated ?100 million in TV

rights and sponsorship will follow ` money which will be invested back

into the future of the Etihad. The bass is just coming down the

street. They are the champions and it says that on the front. All of

the play is our acknowledging the fans. But are hundreds of fans on

the street. They won the Premier league title and also the cop, they

got into the knockout stages of the champions league. Next season they

will be ready to go in Europe. They are all joining in. The bass is

making its way through the streets of Manchester. The supporters have

seen this team grow from a team which very really won trophies to

one that is expected to. Manuel Pellegrini has guided them to this

position. They will be expected to do it again next season. Above us we

have the likes of Aidan Jekyll. The supporters are treating the heroes.

Back there, we are joined by Dennis Tueart. Amazing scenes but something

that Manchester city supporters are getting used to? They have waited

long on off. All the things that are going on, like the development of

the squad, it is fantastic. On the other side of the city, Manchester

United is one of the biggest bands in global sport, but can Manchester

city now challenge that? They have franchises all over the world. Who

knows? I think the plant will be global. In every business you have

two invest. They have a long`term strategy. They have got a belief in

the strategy. The investment is coming to a part of Manchester that

needs it? The Academy and the jobs that are being built, when we've

fast build the stadium I did not even know what he's Manchester was

about. We will head back to the studio now. We will have more later.

Back to the studio. The defence has opened its case in

the trial of former BBC broadcaster The 84`year`old denies 15 charges

of rape and five indecent assaults against two young girls

between 1976 and 1981. He's already serving

a 30 month jail sentence for Peter Marshall was

in court following today's hearing. Well, the defence opened its case

by saying that Stuart Hall would not take to the stand to give

evidence in his defence. These allegations date to something

like 35 years ago when Stuat Hall was in his 50s or 40s, and was

a well`known celebrity, presenting BBC Look North West, the regional

news programme, and also the BBC The defence barrister first of all

called a chartered psychologist. He referred to one alleged rape,

and one alleged victim of the age He suggested this could well be

a memory ` a productive That's when a complainant may not

have any intention about lying In effect,

it could have been made up. It's the defence case that all

of the other allegations of rape and indecent assault were actually

consensual sexual activity. The jury also heard a statement from

a woman who worked very closely with Stuart Hall at the studios where the

alleged rapes and sexual assaults She says that

despite working with him for all that time, she never saw anything

inappropriate in his dressing room. He was always very polite

and respectful. He would never drink

before a broadcast. Stuart Hall denies 15 allegations of

rape and five of indecent assault. The family of a four`year`old boy

who died when a Liverpool flat was deliberately set on fire say he

was killed by a "mindless act". Jai Joshi died at the flat

in Tuebrook on Thursday. Police say they're not looking

for anyone else. A promise to keep jobs

at Macclesfield based Astra Zeneca is "legally binding" according to

the firm who want to take it over. US drug giant Pfizer have pledged to

keep the Cheshire based factory if they secure

a ?63 million takeover deal. But they also say they could adjust

their commitments if circumstances The Prime Minister has rejected

calls for the Cheshire`born singer Gary Barlow to return

his OBE over his involvement He and fellow Take That stars

Howard Donald and Mark Owen ` both from Greater Manchester ` may

have to repay millions of pounds. A judge has ruled that

a scheme they invested in was mainly Tributes are being paid to

a Merseyside musician and record`producer who's died

after a cycling accident. Alan Wills died three days after

suffering serious head injuries He set up the "Deltasonic" label `

which signed The Zutons, Colleagues say he was generous,

honest and loyal. Manchester City Football Club was

officially founded in 1894, and it shares its birth year with

another North West institution. Blackpool Tower was opened

in the same year, and is celebrating In the run up to

the big celebrations on Wednesday, Naomi Cornwell's been looking

at its history. Did you know that the famous Tower

is nearly 600 feet high and is visited

by almost 500,000 every year? Blackpool has its tower

thanks to one man's dream. In 1889, the Mayor of Blackpool took

a shine to the Eiffel Tower We wanted to transform the landscape

in a way that would be seen Turn venture into adventure,

construction into legacy! Shares were sold to raise

the funds and on the 14th of May 1894, Blackpool Tower was

officially opened. But the Eiffel Tower is just

a viewing platform inland. Blackpool Tower is the only Grade

One listed building in the town. The Tower is the one that people

most associate with Blackpool. How can you be down

in the dumps when your heart's up in the clouds and you can throw

away cares to the four winds? Through the years

the Tower has suffered two serious It became a wedding venue

when a stuntman swung by in the 1980s and has been invaded

by protestors at times. The animals have left the circus

and the ballroom is now as well known for its TV appearances

as its tea dances. But as a Grade One listed building,

the huge structure towering over the Golden Mile will never be

allowed to change. You can probably see it in the

distance. These two people have been Manchester city fans for all of the

lights? I am five years old. They probably think that this happens

every year but that does not. 16 years ago they had dropped down to

the thought to Europe for the fast and only time. The boss is coming

towards us know. Can you say? There is lots of excitement here. Which

look back at some of the days when things weren't so good for

Manchester city. It looks like a stunning piece

of skill. A moment of tragi`comedy,

typical of City in the late 1990s. For a man who played for City

in the days when they winners, not just in England, but in Europe,

it was hard to take. I was coming to watch

the games all the time. It was very difficult,

particularly when Manchester United were in the First Division

and we were in the Third Division. But one thing never changed `

the support was there all the time. The 25, 30,000 people

came ever single week. They sneaked out

of the division through the play Is the transformation just

down to money? The finances do help but you've

got to make these guys a team. They've paid people

in charge right the way through... They've built this squad

into a team. And now, for the first time,

comparisons really can be made with When you win things,

and you're successful, You can't win things if you don't

play together, live together You need to read other

people's minds. In those days,

everyone knew what we were doing. This side

of today is exactly the same. The highs and lows of Manchester

city. Everybody is enjoying clear skies

tonight. The temperatures are at around 14 and 14. Despite more

channels, we could see temperatures getting very close to 20 Celsius.

Clear blue skies this evening. Everywhere else you can see shovels.

They should ease in the south of the region and the clear skies

elsewhere. In rural areas we could see temperatures of three or four

Celsius for the race. Some mess and fog patches in the morning. Close

date with if you show was continuing to peak. In between the Cheryl 's

Burrell be some good spells of sunshine. The temperatures tomorrow

are going to be out of touch. Our coverage. It is good news at last.

On the state that will settle things down. Possibly 17 or 18 since its

authority. Thank you. That is from us in studio. Back to Roger. All the

Manchester city fans are enjoying the sunshine here. About thing for

them now is to conquer Europe? They have done it all domestically. The

Champions League has to be the next target. Thank you. At Liverpool have

won the league this season then they would have put on an unbelievable

party as well. But Manchester city have won the league, the fourth year

in succession that 80 from Manchester has one. I feel sorry for

the cleaners because the police as film of the stuff. Thank you.

Goodbye.