:00:00. > :00:00.at Six. Actions in Ukraine and Nat C
:00:00. > :00:12.Germany. Good evening. Welcome to North West
:00:13. > :00:16.Tonight. Type of love child Jai Joshi died in a fire at his
:00:17. > :00:25.mother's vat flat. Now his father said this could have prevented the
:00:26. > :00:30.charity. I have two explain it. The only word is lost. I feel empty
:00:31. > :00:36.inside. Merseyside Police say they could not
:00:37. > :00:39.forcibly removed J from his mum. How the fatal crush developed at
:00:40. > :00:42.Hillsborough. The jury shown footage of the day of the tragedy.
:00:43. > :00:46.Following in his father's tyre tracks. We meet the British champion
:00:47. > :00:50.keeping it in the family for his home Superbikes debut.
:00:51. > :00:53.And one of the happiest places to grow up. Which two places in the
:00:54. > :01:10.North West have been named in Britain's top ten?
:01:11. > :01:13.A grieving father who believes his little boy was murdered by his
:01:14. > :01:16.former partner says the 4`year`old child would still be alive today if
:01:17. > :01:19.the authorities had taken tougher action. Jai Joshi's father, who'd
:01:20. > :01:22.won a custody battle for the child, claims Merseyside Police failed to
:01:23. > :01:26.get his son back when the boy's mother refused to let him return
:01:27. > :01:30.home. Just over a week later Jai was dead, killed in a fire deliberately
:01:31. > :01:43.started in her flat. Nazia Mogra has this exclusive report. He was
:01:44. > :01:51.probably the sweetest boy he could be. He was so innocent. If you asked
:01:52. > :01:54.him to do something he would do it. This is the last photograph of
:01:55. > :01:59.four`year`old Jai Joshi. Taken at his cousins birthday party. Just
:02:00. > :02:03.weeks later he died. Two years ago he was at the centre of a custody
:02:04. > :02:06.battle between his parents. His dad won custody, but agreed his former
:02:07. > :02:11.partner could have the child during school holidays. Last month Jai went
:02:12. > :02:22.to stay with his mother during half`term. But never returned.
:02:23. > :02:31.I feel lost without him. I battled for four and a half years. To try
:02:32. > :02:34.and keep him safe and then I feel it has all been taken away from me. Two
:02:35. > :02:37.and half weeks passed ` Jai hadn't been to school. Paresh contacted
:02:38. > :02:45.Merseyside, Lancashire Police and Social Services. From the social
:02:46. > :02:51.worker to the inspector, they should have done their jobs but they
:02:52. > :02:53.clearly have not done their jobs. Jai Joshi should have been at
:02:54. > :02:57.school. His father believes Jai's mum started the fire, killing his
:02:58. > :03:00.son and believes the police and other agencies may have been able to
:03:01. > :03:03.act sooner. Merseyside Police believe the fire was started
:03:04. > :03:06.deliberately. And there was no one else involved. In a statement
:03:07. > :03:11.responding to Mr Patel's claims they say: "They did not have the power to
:03:12. > :03:14.forcibly remove the child. The full circumstances of what happened are
:03:15. > :03:18.currently being reviewed, and they can't go into detail. All will be
:03:19. > :03:21.considered both at an inquest and by the Lancashire Safeguarding Children
:03:22. > :03:30.Board". An inquest into Jai's death is due to start in July. I feel
:03:31. > :03:35.there is a piece missing now. I don't feel complete without him. To
:03:36. > :03:42.lose any child, for him to go before me as a dad, it is unimaginable. An
:03:43. > :03:46.inquest is due to start in July. A decision will be made next week if
:03:47. > :03:50.there should be a serious case review.
:03:51. > :03:53.Merseyside Police are investigating offensive tweets sent to the mother
:03:54. > :03:56.of the murdered toddler James Bulger. 2`year`old James was killed
:03:57. > :04:00.by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson in 1993. The offensive messages were
:04:01. > :04:07.sent by a twitter user using the name "the ghost of James Bulger".
:04:08. > :04:11.Detectives are advising people not to approach two inmates on the run
:04:12. > :04:14.from an open prison in Warrington. 43`year`old Anthony Peloe was
:04:15. > :04:24.convicted of firearms offences and Jon Arnold, who's 30, was convicted
:04:25. > :04:28.of robbery. The government says absconding is at a record low.
:04:29. > :04:36.Immediate changes to tighten up the system will be made to protect a big
:04:37. > :04:39.safety. The culling of thousands of seagulls
:04:40. > :04:42.off the Lancashire coast will go ahead after a High Court ruling
:04:43. > :04:46.today. It follows a legal challenge by the RSPB who wanted to prevent
:04:47. > :04:50.the cull in the Ribble Estuary. BAE Systems asked for it over fears the
:04:51. > :04:52.birds could be sucked into plane engines leaving Warton. The charity
:04:53. > :04:55.says they plan to appeal. The jury at the new Hillsborough
:04:56. > :04:59.inquests has watched video footage of the fatal crush which killed 96
:05:00. > :05:02.people. They also saw CCTV images which showed how the overcrowding
:05:03. > :05:06.became more intense when a senior police officer ordered the opening
:05:07. > :05:14.of an entry gate. Our reporter Andy Gill is at the inquests in
:05:15. > :05:18.Warrington. Can you tell us more about the video of the crowd that
:05:19. > :05:23.the jury was shown today? Well, the jury is being taken
:05:24. > :05:29.through uncontentious evidence. They saw a number of clips to take them
:05:30. > :05:32.step`by`step as events unfolded. The families were told they could leave
:05:33. > :05:38.if they thought it might be distressing. No families would
:05:39. > :05:43.leave. We saw some BBC footage taken at about 2:50pm of the central pens,
:05:44. > :05:46.three and four, where the crush developed. The lawyer guiding the
:05:47. > :05:50.jury through this evidence said you will see the state in general and
:05:51. > :05:57.the number of people in the pens. Among the images, with some which
:05:58. > :06:01.they were told contained images of people at the last time base were
:06:02. > :06:07.seen alive, of some of the 96 people who died in 1989.
:06:08. > :06:11.The court also saw how police dealt with the crowd building up outside
:06:12. > :06:19.the Liverpool end of the stadium. That is right. A crowd of people
:06:20. > :06:24.developed outside the Liverpool end. At 2:42pm, the match commander
:06:25. > :06:30.ordered the exit gate, data see, be opened. The video showed about 2000
:06:31. > :06:36.Liverpool fans streaming into the ground to this exit gate. The jury
:06:37. > :06:39.have also been told that there was no police order guiding the fans
:06:40. > :06:44.away from the central tunnel leading to the central pens where the crush
:06:45. > :06:50.was. They were not led away to different areas of the ground by
:06:51. > :06:53.order. What was the jury told about the
:06:54. > :06:57.emergency response to the disaster? Well, some of the most distressing
:06:58. > :07:03.images were of people being taken away on makeshift, advertise
:07:04. > :07:06.holdings, . We saw one image of a fan and a policeman running with a
:07:07. > :07:13.wire structure from one side of the ground towards the Leppings Lane
:07:14. > :07:18.end, where the injured and the panic of `` on the face of that fan was
:07:19. > :07:29.very obvious to everyone watching. Thank you. Lloyds bank is closing
:07:30. > :07:33.its call centre in Warrington with the loss of 300 jobs. It is partly
:07:34. > :07:39.major restricting the bank owned by the taxpayer. The own that `` the
:07:40. > :07:43.union representing some of the staff affected the closure will damage the
:07:44. > :07:48.local economy and risks harming customer service. Why have loads
:07:49. > :07:55.done a great Lloyds targeted this particular site? They are not
:07:56. > :08:02.getting anyone forward to speak on camera. They see fewer of us are
:08:03. > :08:09.using telephone banking and more of us are banking online. They do not
:08:10. > :08:12.need call centres like this. In 2011, Lloyds announced a
:08:13. > :08:18.signification programme, they were looking to lose 15,000 jobs and
:08:19. > :08:24.today's announcement brings them to within 2000 of that target. The
:08:25. > :08:29.union said, unsurprisingly, it is bad news for the local economy.
:08:30. > :08:34.Yes and they say it's bad for Lloyd's own business as well. The
:08:35. > :08:40.National Officer for Unite said this: many of the body is currently
:08:41. > :08:44.based in Warrington have been subject to a number of business we
:08:45. > :08:48.structures over the years. They have gone through, in the past, the
:08:49. > :08:54.trauma and the threat of losing their job. Many have had to relocate
:08:55. > :08:58.to work from Warrington. They have moved their family and their
:08:59. > :09:05.children to work from Warrington. They are feeling very let down by
:09:06. > :09:10.the Lloyd was micro`banking group. Many people will find this a black
:09:11. > :09:20.night. What will happen to those people employed at the call centre?
:09:21. > :09:23.There are 370 people involved in the banking department, 70 away from
:09:24. > :09:29.there are affected. 180 will lose their jobs. 120 will be offered
:09:30. > :09:35.redeployment to the Speaker centre in Liverpool. In a statement, Lloyds
:09:36. > :09:39.and say it's about efficiency and improving their service to
:09:40. > :09:43.customers. This is, perhaps, a little brave on the day they
:09:44. > :09:57.announced job cuts, they say it's about providing job opportunities.
:09:58. > :10:02.Stilted to still to come: It touches 2000 miles an hour. We have a rising
:10:03. > :10:23.star in superbikes in the studio. Why is he keeping it in the family?
:10:24. > :10:26.This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Abbeystead Disaster, an
:10:27. > :10:29.explosion at a water pumping station in Lancashire which killed sixteen
:10:30. > :10:33.people. This weekend there'll be an act of remembrance in the village of
:10:34. > :10:37.St Michael's on Wyre On Wyre ` where most of those who died were from. In
:10:38. > :10:40.the first of two reports, Peter Marshall has been speaking with
:10:41. > :10:43.emergency workers who were among the first to arrive at the scene of the
:10:44. > :10:46.tragedy. The years roll by, but memories of
:10:47. > :10:54.the loss of so many lives at Abbeystead, remain fresh. May 23rd
:10:55. > :10:57.1984. There has been a serious explosion tonight at a water
:10:58. > :11:02.treatment plant in Lancashire. I couldn't see the smoke. I couldn't
:11:03. > :11:06.see anything to suggest there had been a fire or explosion. As we came
:11:07. > :11:12.over the crest, we saw this big hole in the ground. Big enough to put two
:11:13. > :11:15.or three double`decker buses in. Unknown to anyone, methane gas had
:11:16. > :11:19.seeped into it the valve house from coal beds deep underground. The gas
:11:20. > :11:28.ignited ` as 44 people were on a tour. The blast must have been so
:11:29. > :11:32.enormous. The roof but been dumb macro gone straight up like that
:11:33. > :11:38.with the square concrete beams and gone straight down. Unfortunately,
:11:39. > :11:41.there was a lot of people inside at the time. Most were from St Michaels
:11:42. > :11:44.on Wyre. Their village had flooded badly in recent years, the water
:11:45. > :11:51.authority arranged the tour to reassure them that the new pumping
:11:52. > :11:55.system wouldn't make flooding worse. They had gone to be reassured that a
:11:56. > :12:01.tragedy would not happen and ended up in a tragedy themselves. I walked
:12:02. > :12:06.in and I thought what on earth could have taken these massive concrete
:12:07. > :12:13.pillars of the building. What could have melted clothing? And that it on
:12:14. > :12:19.the wall? Some of them had dropped back into the building. There were
:12:20. > :12:22.some people who were now deceased. Metal mesh floors were destroyed,
:12:23. > :12:31.casualties fell into water tanks below. Ambulance man and a
:12:32. > :12:35.firefighter tried to help. He balanced himself on the ladder and I
:12:36. > :12:41.dived in. I went down under the water, under the grill. I found two
:12:42. > :12:44.men and managed to get them out. I would like to say they survived, but
:12:45. > :12:53.they did not. Eight people were killed instantly in the blast. Eight
:12:54. > :12:57.died later from their injuries. We searched down the pipes and the
:12:58. > :13:01.tanks. It was not until morning before we had to agree with the
:13:02. > :13:06.police that there was nobody else likely to survive. It became obvious
:13:07. > :13:12.that this is not just an ordinary tragedy, it was a major one. You
:13:13. > :13:22.don't forget everything. It is still there after, what, 30 years?
:13:23. > :13:31.There will be another of support tomorrow.
:13:32. > :13:34.We've been talking about it for weeks and tomorrow polls will open
:13:35. > :13:37.for the European and local elections. It's the biggest test of
:13:38. > :13:40.political opinion before next year's general election.
:13:41. > :13:43.Yes, 26 councils and eight European seats here in the North West. Our
:13:44. > :13:46.political editor, Arif Ansari, has been to Trafford, one of the biggest
:13:47. > :13:53.council battles, to discuss what's at stake with Professor Jon Tonge.
:13:54. > :14:01.Let's start here in Trafford, one of the big council contact that ``
:14:02. > :14:05.contests especially for the Tories. The Conservatives are desperate to
:14:06. > :14:08.hold onto Trafford, they have held it for a decade. What a
:14:09. > :14:13.psychological to David Cameron if they lost it and this authority in
:14:14. > :14:17.the North. They only need to lose two to lose overall control here.
:14:18. > :14:22.The position is the same for the Conservatives in West Lancashire.
:14:23. > :14:27.If we look at the electoral map, it is dominated by Labour. We have a
:14:28. > :14:33.couple under no overall control. Labour has its eyes on those prices.
:14:34. > :14:38.Especially Stockport. They believe they can press away at the Liberal
:14:39. > :14:42.Democrat vote there. Half the councillors have been lost since
:14:43. > :14:48.2010 and they risk being wiped out totally in Manchester, which could
:14:49. > :14:52.become a 1`party Labour state. Apart from the local elections, we have
:14:53. > :14:57.the European elections, once every five years. What is the
:14:58. > :15:01.significance? A big contest. 80 seats up for grabs. We can divide
:15:02. > :15:06.them between Labour, the Conservatives and UKIP. The battle
:15:07. > :15:12.is there a seat currently held by the BNP, will you go to UKIP or to
:15:13. > :15:18.the Liberal Democrats if the BNP lose it? Well, Willie go to the
:15:19. > :15:23.Greens? They spring a surprise. For those voters who we have managed to
:15:24. > :15:31.infuse this evening, how do they vote? What is the advice? Polls are
:15:32. > :15:38.open from 7am to 10pm. If you have lost your card, don't panic, turn up
:15:39. > :15:49.with your ID, don't tell macro the weather is beautiful. There are a
:15:50. > :15:52.total of 11 parties standing in the European elections and they are on
:15:53. > :15:55.your screen now. For more information you can take a look on
:15:56. > :16:02.the website at bbc.co.uk/vote2014. And we will have full coverage of
:16:03. > :16:07.the results on Friday. Local elections on Friday. European on
:16:08. > :16:10.Sunday. Those are the actual results.
:16:11. > :16:12.For 92 years a girls' school in Liverpool has taken photographs of
:16:13. > :16:16.everything from sports days to school plays. Even a trip to Nazi
:16:17. > :16:20.Germany in the 1930's, when the pupils of Holly Lodge Girls College
:16:21. > :16:22.encountered a group of Hitler Youth. The collection is a fascinating
:16:23. > :16:25.insight into Liverpool's social history, and today the entire
:16:26. > :16:36.archive was handed over to the city's library. Lindsey Prosser
:16:37. > :16:39.reports. The best years of their lives
:16:40. > :16:43.captured in time, every event at Holly Lodge was photographed.
:16:44. > :16:46.International school trips were considered an important part of
:16:47. > :16:57.school life and those photographs have a rich social history. One in
:16:58. > :17:03.particular document a trip to Germany, an international visit in
:17:04. > :17:08.1937. In it, there is a particular photo of the school pupils and staff
:17:09. > :17:11.watching Hitler youth do a tug`of`war, which is pretty
:17:12. > :17:15.significant given what is happening at the time. And, two years later.
:17:16. > :17:19.Country dancing was on the timetable and the school prided itself in
:17:20. > :17:27.excelling at sport, ex pupil and now staff member, Carol Gribbin, has
:17:28. > :17:31.found herself in the archive. Very memorable year, 1968. I was the
:17:32. > :17:40.captain of the under 13 table tennis team and we won the championship. In
:17:41. > :17:45.Stoke. It was very memorable for me. I was very excited, we were taking
:17:46. > :17:48.down to Merseyside and a camera team came to the school and took
:17:49. > :17:52.photographs at the school. This is what we have here today. For the
:17:53. > :17:57.pupils looking through the history of their school has been an
:17:58. > :17:58.education in itself. Mainly looking at the
:17:59. > :18:14.had to treat them with respect and stand up and present yourself. The
:18:15. > :18:34.material will now be catalogued and will then be available for the
:18:35. > :18:37.public to look at. We are going to a very modern machine which will talk
:18:38. > :20:07.to the person who writes this. It's an Italian bike. 200 miles an
:20:08. > :20:16.hour Going to see you in action the identity you in action now. Your
:20:17. > :20:24.dad raced for the same manufacturing team if you like. It's in the blood
:20:25. > :20:29.I take it? Yes! It's strange for a parent to race in the same thing.
:20:30. > :20:36.Following in his footsteps. I have spent my early life in the paddock.
:20:37. > :20:42.I grew up with it and conceded on. Racing is the age of six, I think? I
:20:43. > :20:45.mean this in the nicest possible sense of the word. Do you have to be
:20:46. > :20:50.a bit bonkers to raise something like that? I think you have to be a
:20:51. > :20:57.bit more bonkers to ride on the road exhibition mark we have a safety
:20:58. > :21:05.fences. The speeds are high and the dangers are there but it's not too
:21:06. > :21:13.bad. I have it abetted indistinct to. Nobody goes there to finish
:21:14. > :21:18.second `` competitive instinct. It is different to cart racing because
:21:19. > :21:27.you have more dangerous aspects. `` kart racing. You were nine times
:21:28. > :21:34.British champion in super Moto. What is your ultimate ambition? What you
:21:35. > :21:40.want to achieve in the end? To become world champion. That is my
:21:41. > :21:44.main goal. It's my first year in superbikes. Hopefully in the years
:21:45. > :21:51.to come I will be fighting right at the front. How do you think
:21:52. > :21:58.Donington will go? To race in front of a home crowd is amazing. I love
:21:59. > :22:03.the track and the atmosphere. We saw you in a clip before showing off.
:22:04. > :22:10.When you are born with it, and it's in the family, that bug is with you
:22:11. > :22:13.forever, isn't it? Yes, from an absolute child, I was like a gypsy
:22:14. > :22:21.child going round the racing paddock, with my mum and dad in a
:22:22. > :22:25.caravan. It is a racing way of life. It all looks glamorous, but on the
:22:26. > :22:31.inside, it is not a glamorous. Don't you get scared? When things go
:22:32. > :22:48.wrong, sometimes you have a moment of well... Thank you and good luck
:22:49. > :22:54.at Donington Park. Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal does not
:22:55. > :22:58.officially start yet. Possibly, some new signings this afternoon. At
:22:59. > :23:07.least one player caught the eyes for all the wrong reasons. It was a
:23:08. > :23:10.fundraising day. Fundraiser players were allowed to play on the Old
:23:11. > :23:21.Trafford pitch, some with more style. There were a couple of good
:23:22. > :23:30.moves in there! Can we get the picture please? To be fair, you kept
:23:31. > :23:43.going. For a man of your brand age I think you did very well. Now, you'll
:23:44. > :23:47.have heard the age old phrase 'it's grim up north', a description that
:23:48. > :23:50.as we know is in no way factually correct, and there's now further
:23:51. > :23:57.evidence ` as if we needed it ` to confirm that. Stockport and Preston
:23:58. > :24:07.are amongst the top five places to live.
:24:08. > :24:11.Another lovely Northwest happy day. Birds are singing and the sun is
:24:12. > :24:26.shining. There is every reason to smile. Especially in Stockport happy
:24:27. > :24:32.day nursery. What you love about Stockport?
:24:33. > :24:40.My house. My friends. Is that what makes you happy? Does pulling faces
:24:41. > :24:46.make you happy? There are lots of lovely people and children. That
:24:47. > :24:51.makes me happy. Stockport is not the only very happy town in our region.
:24:52. > :24:54.Preston is ranked eighth in the country and they have been found to
:24:55. > :24:59.take the greatest pride in our homes. Thankfully, the Northwest has
:25:00. > :25:07.no weapons and stays in the least happy place to live. ``
:25:08. > :25:12.representatives. London appears to be one of the least happiest place
:25:13. > :25:16.to live. What is so good about living here in Stockport? Your
:25:17. > :25:25.friends don't move away from you. All my friends are here. Do you love
:25:26. > :25:29.Stockport? No. Only joking. They say money and other things it cannot
:25:30. > :25:40.bring you happiness. It appears that living in Stockport can.
:25:41. > :25:55.Well, we are happy and we live in Stockport and Preston, but not ever.
:25:56. > :26:02.You will not see the sun tomorrow. The picture will change entirely.
:26:03. > :26:08.Tomorrow, is entirely different. It's going to be very wet. If not
:26:09. > :26:13.for most of us, for all of us. The picture changes dramatically.
:26:14. > :26:18.Temperatures mid to high teens, looking and feeling pleasant. The
:26:19. > :26:23.first part of tonight is very quiet. There is a bit of a breeze but you
:26:24. > :26:26.have a gorgeous and to the day. A couple of hours of sunshine to
:26:27. > :26:32.enjoy. Before midnight, it is dry and clear. That is the calm before
:26:33. > :26:36.the storm. Then, cloud begins to build from the south`east. The rain
:26:37. > :26:42.comes from there and creeps up and over the Pennines to Cheshire. It
:26:43. > :26:46.will be a wet start to the day. Two bridges overnight, 12 and 13
:26:47. > :26:52.degrees. The Met office have issued a yellow warning. This runs the
:26:53. > :26:57.Cheshire. From Liverpool across and south. That might change in the
:26:58. > :27:01.overnight period as more details come in. That does not mean
:27:02. > :27:04.everywhere will not see the rain, that just means the warning is the
:27:05. > :27:09.Cheshire and south. You start the day with a rain spreading south. Do
:27:10. > :27:15.breakfast time and the rush`hour and right up until lunchtime it moved
:27:16. > :27:18.north. At times it will be heavy. There could be some heavy downpours
:27:19. > :27:21.and localised flooding. There could be standing water.
:27:22. > :27:24.There could be some heavy downpours and localised flooding. Through the
:27:25. > :27:32.afternoon, it turned into a more showery picture. Temperatures only
:27:33. > :27:38.15 Celsius. It's a good job we are only a happy bunch here when you see
:27:39. > :27:40.whether like that extra mention Mark I wouldn't fancy riding his bike out
:27:41. > :27:56.there. Have a good night by buy. that is to find that one item
:27:57. > :28:01.that's going to change their life. Flames are beautiful. Made
:28:02. > :28:05.nice money, that did. Nice money.