24/05/2014

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:00:00. > :00:12.Bobby Zamora. Promotion to the Premier League is estimated to

:00:13. > :00:16.A walk in memory of murdered Middleton Fusilier Lee Rigby has

:00:17. > :00:20.taken place in Manchester City Centre. Hundreds of people took part

:00:21. > :00:24.in the walk from Piccadilly Gardens to the Town Hall. It was organised

:00:25. > :00:29.to mark the first anniversary of his death, which happened this week.

:00:30. > :00:32.Roy Taylor loves the outdoors but since being diagnosed with motor

:00:33. > :00:35.neurone disease and increasingly confined to a wheelchair, he's found

:00:36. > :00:41.out how inaccessible parts of the countryside are to disabled people.

:00:42. > :00:46.Today he began the Trans Pennine trail in Southport to highlight the

:00:47. > :00:49.issue. Stuart Pollitt reports. With more than 200 miles ahead, the

:00:50. > :00:54.Trans Pennine trail is a tough challenge for any walker. But how

:00:55. > :00:58.hard is it for those in wheelchairs? Roy Taylor's about to find out over

:00:59. > :01:01.the next week. In September last year, I was diagnosed with motor

:01:02. > :01:05.neurone disease. Suddenly you go from an able`bodied person who loves

:01:06. > :01:09.the outdoors to someone sat in a wheelchair. And what you discover,

:01:10. > :01:14.straightaway, is all the routes and places that were accessible to you

:01:15. > :01:17.yesterday are not today. We do not know what we are going to find

:01:18. > :01:21.because we have probably recced a third of it. Just a few miles into

:01:22. > :01:25.the trail is this footpath. It might seem quite narrow but Roy says his

:01:26. > :01:33.four`wheel drive wheelchair can get through here. The problem is getting

:01:34. > :01:37.to it. No, not going through that. I just cannot physically get onto it.

:01:38. > :01:43.It is the access points, the entry points on the footpaths, which

:01:44. > :01:46.prevent access into the countryside. The Trans Pennine Trail central

:01:47. > :01:49.office says it wants to remove access barriers like this but has no

:01:50. > :01:55.power to force local authorities to do so. All we are campaigning for is

:01:56. > :01:57.for the man`made obstructions to be made user`friendly for the disabled

:01:58. > :02:06.people, whether it means self`closing gates or gates that

:02:07. > :02:10.need a radar key. In the meantime, Roy hopes that his efforts will

:02:11. > :02:13.improve this trail and others for those that follow in his tracks.

:02:14. > :02:18.Stuart Pollitt, BBC North West Tonight, Southport.

:02:19. > :02:21.Villagers in St Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire will mark the 30th

:02:22. > :02:24.anniversary of the Abbeystead disaster this weekend with a special

:02:25. > :02:28.church service. Tomorrow, people will gather in the parish church and

:02:29. > :02:30.light candles to recall the 16 victims who died following the

:02:31. > :02:36.explosion at the water pumping station in 1984.

:02:37. > :02:39.UKIP will be hoping to add to the one MEP they already have when the

:02:40. > :02:43.votes for the European Parliament are counted tomorrow. The Sunday

:02:44. > :02:46.Politics programme will look at their success in the local

:02:47. > :02:49.elections. Bolton elected the first two UKIP councillors in the North

:02:50. > :02:55.West, followed by Oldham and Hyndburn. I think it is a good time

:02:56. > :03:00.to stand for UKIP. I think the people of the UK would actually like

:03:01. > :03:03.some change. Join Arif Ansari for the Sunday

:03:04. > :03:06.Politics tomorrow from 11am here on BBC One.

:03:07. > :03:10.The first qualifying session of the Isle of Man TT races have just

:03:11. > :03:14.started. There's a week of practice sessions before the racing week

:03:15. > :03:17.begins for riders to get used to the mountain course and make the

:03:18. > :03:21.qualifying times. There are over 40 miles of road which will turn into a

:03:22. > :03:25.race track for the riders. There are warnings for other road users to

:03:26. > :03:28.enjoy themselves but ride slowly or the consequences could be fatal.

:03:29. > :03:32.Well, I would not want the bikers, or any person, to become a file on

:03:33. > :03:36.my desk over the next two weeks. As I said before, exercise restraint on

:03:37. > :03:38.the roads. And leave the racing to the professionals.

:03:39. > :03:41.The former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has sold some of

:03:42. > :03:45.vintage wine collection at auction for ?2.3 million. 1000 bottles of

:03:46. > :03:50.his personal collection sold at auction in Hong Kong this morning.

:03:51. > :03:59.The most expensive lot ` a bottle of 1997 Domaine de la Romanee`Conti `

:04:00. > :04:04.fetched more than ?93,000. Now, the weather with Mel coles.

:04:05. > :04:09.After a wet day today, we should see a slight improvement tomorrow. There

:04:10. > :04:13.will be some dry spells around but also quite a few showers. This is

:04:14. > :04:16.the journey the rain took earlier today. Working from the South up

:04:17. > :04:19.towards us in the north`west. There have been some heavy bursts.

:04:20. > :04:22.Although it has largely cleared away, there are some heavy and

:04:23. > :04:27.thundery showers behind it but they lose their intensity through the

:04:28. > :04:31.night. The cloud will mean the temperatures do not drop too far.

:04:32. > :04:37.Tomorrow morning, a cloudy start and there will be some showers with us

:04:38. > :04:40.from the word go. They will become more frequent throughout the day and

:04:41. > :04:43.some could be quite heavy and thundery also. A little bit breezy

:04:44. > :04:46.tomorrow but temperatures faring that little bit better. There is

:04:47. > :04:49.still some uncertainty about bank holiday Monday. It does look as

:04:50. > :04:53.though there will be some dry, bright spells to be had. There is

:04:54. > :05:03.also the risk of one or two showers. Temperatures doing quite well on

:05:04. > :05:14.bank holiday Monday. That's it from me. Good night.

:05:15. > :05:19.The heavens opened for some of us today. As far as tomorrow is

:05:20. > :05:20.concerned, more of the