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Bobby Zamora. Promotion to the Premier League is estimated to

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A walk in memory of murdered Middleton Fusilier Lee Rigby has

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taken place in Manchester City Centre. Hundreds of people took part

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in the walk from Piccadilly Gardens to the Town Hall. It was organised

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to mark the first anniversary of his death, which happened this week.

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Roy Taylor loves the outdoors but since being diagnosed with motor

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neurone disease and increasingly confined to a wheelchair, he's found

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out how inaccessible parts of the countryside are to disabled people.

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Today he began the Trans Pennine trail in Southport to highlight the

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issue. Stuart Pollitt reports. With more than 200 miles ahead, the

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Trans Pennine trail is a tough challenge for any walker. But how

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hard is it for those in wheelchairs? Roy Taylor's about to find out over

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the next week. In September last year, I was diagnosed with motor

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neurone disease. Suddenly you go from an able`bodied person who loves

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the outdoors to someone sat in a wheelchair. And what you discover,

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straightaway, is all the routes and places that were accessible to you

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yesterday are not today. We do not know what we are going to find

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because we have probably recced a third of it. Just a few miles into

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the trail is this footpath. It might seem quite narrow but Roy says his

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four`wheel drive wheelchair can get through here. The problem is getting

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to it. No, not going through that. I just cannot physically get onto it.

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It is the access points, the entry points on the footpaths, which

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prevent access into the countryside. The Trans Pennine Trail central

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office says it wants to remove access barriers like this but has no

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power to force local authorities to do so. All we are campaigning for is

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for the man`made obstructions to be made user`friendly for the disabled

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people, whether it means self`closing gates or gates that

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need a radar key. In the meantime, Roy hopes that his efforts will

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improve this trail and others for those that follow in his tracks.

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Stuart Pollitt, BBC North West Tonight, Southport.

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Villagers in St Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire will mark the 30th

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anniversary of the Abbeystead disaster this weekend with a special

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church service. Tomorrow, people will gather in the parish church and

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light candles to recall the 16 victims who died following the

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explosion at the water pumping station in 1984.

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UKIP will be hoping to add to the one MEP they already have when the

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votes for the European Parliament are counted tomorrow. The Sunday

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Politics programme will look at their success in the local

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elections. Bolton elected the first two UKIP councillors in the North

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West, followed by Oldham and Hyndburn. I think it is a good time

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to stand for UKIP. I think the people of the UK would actually like

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some change. Join Arif Ansari for the Sunday

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Politics tomorrow from 11am here on BBC One.

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The first qualifying session of the Isle of Man TT races have just

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started. There's a week of practice sessions before the racing week

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begins for riders to get used to the mountain course and make the

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qualifying times. There are over 40 miles of road which will turn into a

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race track for the riders. There are warnings for other road users to

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enjoy themselves but ride slowly or the consequences could be fatal.

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Well, I would not want the bikers, or any person, to become a file on

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my desk over the next two weeks. As I said before, exercise restraint on

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the roads. And leave the racing to the professionals.

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The former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has sold some of

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vintage wine collection at auction for ?2.3 million. 1000 bottles of

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his personal collection sold at auction in Hong Kong this morning.

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The most expensive lot ` a bottle of 1997 Domaine de la Romanee`Conti `

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fetched more than ?93,000. Now, the weather with Mel coles.

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After a wet day today, we should see a slight improvement tomorrow. There

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will be some dry spells around but also quite a few showers. This is

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the journey the rain took earlier today. Working from the South up

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towards us in the north`west. There have been some heavy bursts.

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Although it has largely cleared away, there are some heavy and

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thundery showers behind it but they lose their intensity through the

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night. The cloud will mean the temperatures do not drop too far.

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Tomorrow morning, a cloudy start and there will be some showers with us

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from the word go. They will become more frequent throughout the day and

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some could be quite heavy and thundery also. A little bit breezy

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tomorrow but temperatures faring that little bit better. There is

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still some uncertainty about bank holiday Monday. It does look as

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though there will be some dry, bright spells to be had. There is

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also the risk of one or two showers. Temperatures doing quite well on

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bank holiday Monday. That's it from me. Good night.

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The heavens opened for some of us today. As far as tomorrow is

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concerned, more of the

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