:00:00. > :00:00.That's all from the BBC News at Six. It's goodbye from me. On
:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to North West Tonight with Annabel Tiffin and Roger Johnson.
:00:00. > :00:10.Claims the abuse of boys at a Rochdale residential school was
:00:11. > :00:21.covered up after the authorities were told what was happening.
:00:22. > :00:26.It could have been hidden and locked away.
:00:27. > :00:30.Among the allegations are claims boys as young as eight were sold
:00:31. > :00:41.The two women whose starving dog mauled a pensioner to death.
:00:42. > :00:48.These birds may not know it yet, but their lifestyle could improve where
:00:49. > :00:54.Find out why this Lytham golfer defied odds of 40 million to one
:00:55. > :01:12.A dog that savaged a pensioner to death hadn't been fed
:01:13. > :01:17.Cliff Clarke never stood a chance when he was attacked in his own back
:01:18. > :01:21.Tonight, the neighbours who owned and cruelly neglected that dog
:01:22. > :01:27.The judge said they might have got longer had the tragedy happened
:01:28. > :01:35.This was the moment when police cornered the dog that had viciously
:01:36. > :01:40.But it was all too late for the 79`year`old `
:01:41. > :01:54.When I went out in the garden, I heard him shouting. I looked over
:01:55. > :01:56.the fence and I saw the dog attacking him.
:01:57. > :01:59.Della Woods and Hayley Sulley lived in the house adjoining Cliff's.
:02:00. > :02:04.In fact they had three dogs which they neglected.
:02:05. > :02:06.On the day of the tragedy, they left two of them
:02:07. > :02:10.in the back garden in scorching weather without food or water.
:02:11. > :02:13.The dogs found their way into Cliff Clarke's garden and one,
:02:14. > :02:14.a Presa Canario called Charlie, attacked him.
:02:15. > :02:17.Shoe repairer Michael Rankin was Cliff's other next door neighbour.
:02:18. > :02:22.He did his best to help, but was powerless.
:02:23. > :02:29.I was on the top of the fence, trying to scare the dog off, but it
:02:30. > :02:34.In court, the owners admitted breaking the dangerous dog laws
:02:35. > :02:44.The dog was completely out of control. Eventually, the dog was
:02:45. > :02:50.shot dead. A postmortem showed that it had not been fed for 45 hours
:02:51. > :02:51.before the attack. In court, the owners admitted breaking the
:02:52. > :02:59.and causing unnecessary suffering to their animals.
:03:00. > :03:06.laws there are no words. I will never see my brother again.
:03:07. > :03:14.What you feel towards those two women? I think that the women should
:03:15. > :03:23.be punished. Those children will miss their mother, who won?
:03:24. > :03:31.If he had been charged under different laws, they would have
:03:32. > :03:38.spent longer in prison. A second racer has died during the
:03:39. > :03:45.motorbike races on the Isle of Man. He was a three`time British sport
:03:46. > :03:48.champion. He made his debut in 2012. The rest of the day's racing was
:03:49. > :03:49.suspended. Five people have now been arrested
:03:50. > :03:52.in connection with the shooting of a man at the Ashley Brook pub
:03:53. > :03:56.in Salford last week. The victim is still in hospital
:03:57. > :03:59.after being shot seven times. The five detained by the police
:04:00. > :04:01.on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder are a 16`year`old`boy,
:04:02. > :04:05.a girl of 17, two women and a man. Tests are being carried out to find
:04:06. > :04:14.out how two men whose bodies were The men, aged 47 and 54,
:04:15. > :04:18.were discovered at a bungalow in Bebington in the early hours
:04:19. > :04:21.of Monday. Detectives are investigating
:04:22. > :04:23.the deaths, which they describe The Government is being urged to
:04:24. > :04:31.spend more on transport in the A report by a committee
:04:32. > :04:35.of MPs has warned that, otherwise, It says spending on transport
:04:36. > :04:39.infrastructure is weighted The man who first investigated
:04:40. > :04:48.allegations of sexual abuse at Knowl View School
:04:49. > :04:50.in Rochdale has told the BBC he believes his report was deliberately
:04:51. > :04:53.covered up by the council. Phil Shepherd,
:04:54. > :04:55.a health professional, looked into He sent a detailed account to
:04:56. > :05:00.Rochdale Council, but Mr Shepherd The police are looking at a
:05:01. > :05:08.cover`up. Knowl View School closed two
:05:09. > :05:12.decades ago, but the scandal It opened in May 1969 to cater
:05:13. > :05:16.for what were then called But soon after it opened, vulnerable
:05:17. > :05:20.boys were being sexually abused by It was 30 years before he was
:05:21. > :05:26.brought to justice and jailed. In 1991, a confidential report spoke
:05:27. > :05:31.of a potential "public scandal", with allegations young pupils were
:05:32. > :05:35.subjected to sexual abuse, The school was closed
:05:36. > :05:42.three years later. Until, in 2012, the
:05:43. > :05:47.Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk accused his predecessor Sir Cyril Smith
:05:48. > :05:52.of being a serial child abuser. Smith was on the management board
:05:53. > :05:55.at Knowl View. Former pupils came forward
:05:56. > :05:59.and claimed he'd abused them there. Earlier this year,
:06:00. > :06:01.Rochdale Council appointed an That inquiry has since been widened
:06:02. > :06:07.and a new lawyer appointed. Greater Manchester Police have
:06:08. > :06:11.also started a new investigation. They've spoken to ten possible
:06:12. > :06:14.victims and are examining more Our political editor Arif
:06:15. > :06:21.Ansari is in Rochdale now. Arif,
:06:22. > :06:39.how significant are today's claims? It is one of a number of
:06:40. > :06:45.allegations, one that has already blown away the sign on the wall here
:06:46. > :06:53.at Rochdale Council, that was here in memory of Cyril Smith. For
:06:54. > :06:58.several years, Rochdale Council has been strangling `` struggling to
:06:59. > :07:10.handle these allegations that some believe were ignored at the time.
:07:11. > :07:17.Allegations such as this man who was sent there when he was 11.
:07:18. > :07:27.I was abused on the first night. I was taken to a flat and raped.
:07:28. > :07:32.While he has spoken for the first time, not all of this is new.
:07:33. > :07:37.Rochdale council received three reports into the abuse, none were
:07:38. > :07:45.published and the council has been criticised for how it responded to
:07:46. > :07:50.them. Now the man who wrote the first report says that he believes
:07:51. > :07:52.that it could have been cut `` covered up.
:07:53. > :07:58.I cannot see any other reason that it has not come out and was not
:07:59. > :08:05.dealt with effectively at the time. I still find it difficult to
:08:06. > :08:09.believe. I am looking for an alternative to cover up, it could
:08:10. > :08:16.have been hidden or locked away. I don't understand.
:08:17. > :08:21.He says that he will be saying that to the current council inquiry which
:08:22. > :08:26.is going on here and see what happens, asking questions like who
:08:27. > :08:31.knew what and when, and, if there was a cover`up, who initiated it and
:08:32. > :08:35.why. One of the significant political story from Rochdale to
:08:36. > :08:47.tell you, and that is that the Labour leader here has been
:08:48. > :08:51.replaced. He was defeated last night, `` Colin Lambert, by Richard
:08:52. > :08:56.Farnell, who will almost certainly become the new council leader when
:08:57. > :09:03.the vote is taken tomorrow. That is significant, because Richard Farnell
:09:04. > :09:10.was council leader here between 1986 and 1992, when those reports would
:09:11. > :09:12.have been delivered. have been delivered.
:09:13. > :09:15.Before we went on air, I spoke to the MP for Rochdale and asked him if
:09:16. > :09:19.he'd thought that there had been a cover`up.
:09:20. > :09:24.There is no doubt that senior council officers were aware of what
:09:25. > :09:36.went on at Knowl View School. A real tragedy in terms of the victims who
:09:37. > :09:37.were abused there. Some of the reports that I have read from the
:09:38. > :09:39.1990s clearly show that there was terrible abuse.
:09:40. > :09:43.The man in charge at the time of these allegations and the reports
:09:44. > :09:51.was Richard Farr now, who tomorrow is likely to be Rochdale Council's
:09:52. > :09:55.leader again? Yes, and I think they have made a
:09:56. > :10:02.wise choice in choosing him to be the leader of the council. He was
:10:03. > :10:11.the leader in the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. I have
:10:12. > :10:16.about the situation at Knowl View about the situation at Knowl View
:10:17. > :10:20.School and he has assured me that he was never made aware of the abuse
:10:21. > :10:20.that was going on then. I believe him.
:10:21. > :10:23.I understand what you are saying, but we cannot pre`empt this inquiry
:10:24. > :10:28.that is ongoing. That is looking at who knew what and when. Do you think
:10:29. > :10:34.that it is right that he is back in that it is right that he is back in
:10:35. > :10:36.charge before the inquiry has had a chance to report its findings?
:10:37. > :10:40.Yes, I have had concerns about the inquiry anyway. It is a council led
:10:41. > :10:46.inquiry looking at if the council got things wrong.
:10:47. > :10:49.But it is `` is it right that Mr Farnell is in charge? It is
:10:50. > :10:54.completely right. He will be an excellent leader.
:10:55. > :10:58.We have spoken to Richard Farnell and he denies ever seeing any
:10:59. > :11:03.reports related to the allegations and that is what he has told you as
:11:04. > :11:10.well? Yes, I believe that what we need in
:11:11. > :11:13.this is less innuendo against some local politicians for political
:11:14. > :11:21.gain. Take the politics out of it, we should do about the victims who
:11:22. > :11:25.were abused. Think about what they had to go through. Some of them have
:11:26. > :11:27.committed suicide because the abuse was so terrible. I think we need to
:11:28. > :11:34.concentrate on the victims and less on the politics.
:11:35. > :11:37.The jury at the Hillsborough inquests has heard the disaster
:11:38. > :11:40.could have been avoided, had a decision to close 12 turnstiles not
:11:41. > :11:43.been taken. Dr Wilfred Eastwood, whose engineering firm worked with
:11:44. > :11:47.Sheffield Wednesday on designing and building parts of the stadium, made
:11:48. > :11:52.that comment in a letter written six weeks after the fatal crush. For
:11:53. > :11:56.more on this, we can talk to Ben Schofield, who's live for us at the
:11:57. > :12:10.Explain which turnstiles are being talked about here?
:12:11. > :12:24.That is one of the larger roads through Sheffield that goes past the
:12:25. > :12:26.Dr Eastwood ` who's not appearing at the inquests
:12:27. > :12:29.in person, so we're hearing old statements, letters and transcripts
:12:30. > :12:33.read out ` said that meant 6,000 fans for the North Stand would have
:12:34. > :12:44.Dr Eastwood said he believed they were closed
:12:45. > :12:53.He said that those fans would have added to the crowd that built up. He
:12:54. > :12:54.said the decision was taken because the police wanted to avoid
:12:55. > :13:12.confrontation. He said that the disaster would have
:13:13. > :13:19.been avoided if the police had not decided to restrict the access. He
:13:20. > :13:25.catered for, which was a factor of catered for, which was a factor of
:13:26. > :13:28.the build`up of the crowd. Neither Sheffield Wednesday or the
:13:29. > :13:34.police have told the jury why those turnstiles were closed.
:13:35. > :13:39.The jewellery has been hearing from one of Doctor Eastwood's employees
:13:40. > :13:46.at the time. Yes, that was John strange who was a
:13:47. > :13:50.chartered engineer. He was asked to describe the character of his boss.
:13:51. > :13:56.He said he was like a god in the office. He said that he could
:13:57. > :14:02.deliver quite a thunderbolt. He has been asked to comment on the design
:14:03. > :14:06.features, one of which I will tell you about. He said that he was
:14:07. > :14:13.surprised to hear that the crash areas on the Leppings Lane side
:14:14. > :14:21.were, as he said, much lower than the ones in the guidelines.
:14:22. > :14:27.We'll find out why Burnley's World War One survivor is
:14:28. > :14:42.And find out what perhaps did to beat the odds and entered the
:14:43. > :14:51.golfing record books. It seems wherever you gaze out to
:14:52. > :14:55.sea these days, chances are you'll Well, scientists are carrying
:14:56. > :14:59.out some of the most detailed research ever into how those wind
:15:00. > :15:01.farms affect coastal birds. The British Trust
:15:02. > :15:04.for Ornithology is studying gulls on Walney Island near Barrow, so that
:15:05. > :15:25.the impact of offshore wind farms It has to be done quickly to
:15:26. > :15:32.minimise the interference to the colony. Trapped gulls put in sacks
:15:33. > :15:40.and then fitted with a GPS system. The tags will record the location of
:15:41. > :15:44.the gulls for two years, so that scientists can get an understanding
:15:45. > :15:51.of where they fly and feed and how wind farms affect that.
:15:52. > :15:55.We want to find out how likely it is that they could be hit by the
:15:56. > :15:59.turbines or whether they might just avoid the wind farm altogether and
:16:00. > :16:04.therefore have less good places to feed. Until we know that, we will
:16:05. > :16:09.not know whether the wind farms are causing a problem or not.
:16:10. > :16:14.There are already four wind farms of this post, including one of the
:16:15. > :16:19.biggest in the world. When work here is finished,
:16:20. > :16:28.scientists would have tagged 25 Lesser Black bat gulls and other
:16:29. > :16:29.gulls. The data will show where it will be safest to build the wind
:16:30. > :17:20.farms. Now, by their very nature,
:17:21. > :18:29.stories about the First World War Most pubs might get through one
:18:30. > :18:37.bottle of Benny a year, this club gets through 600. It runs at 2000
:18:38. > :18:43.litres a year. They love it. It settles your stomach. It is a
:18:44. > :18:48.fantastic drink. In winter and in summer.
:18:49. > :18:52.So how did this area become the capital of this drink in the world?
:18:53. > :18:58.It is a legacy of the First World War. But the reason why is the
:18:59. > :19:00.source of much discussion. Local historians think they have the
:19:01. > :19:07.answer. The walking wounded of the battalion
:19:08. > :19:10.were invited to the distillery for their Christmas party in December
:19:11. > :19:17.1917 when they were given a meal with drinks. Also in the base
:19:18. > :19:21.hospitals, it is recorded that it was actually administered to the
:19:22. > :19:28.wounded there as a medicinal compound, knowledge with hot water.
:19:29. > :19:34.Troops returning in 1918 demanded their Benny. The clubs and pubs put
:19:35. > :19:41.the orders in and the Benedictine has not stopped flowing since.
:19:42. > :19:50.son. That is how it has gone on. It son. That is how it has gone on. It
:19:51. > :19:56.is a very tasty drink. It settles your stomach. A lot of people will
:19:57. > :20:01.have a view points and then have a Benny for bigger home. They will go
:20:02. > :20:13.off on the way quite happy. This tradition has created its own
:20:14. > :20:18.legends. Norma D is often visited by people from the miners club. And the
:20:19. > :20:24.chairman of the organisation sometimes visits Burnley. He has a
:20:25. > :20:31.point. Harry's dad was known as the king of
:20:32. > :20:37.the Benny. The drink was even in a poem at his funeral.
:20:38. > :20:44.Here is the Benny King, don't be sorry, don't be sad, just have a
:20:45. > :20:49.Benny and remember my dad. I will try some of this. God bless
:20:50. > :20:58.you. It is really nice.
:20:59. > :21:05.I only had a little bit. It was very nice. You asked me if I have learnt
:21:06. > :21:11.anything about World War I. There is apparently a new version of the
:21:12. > :21:15.Benny hot and it is the Benny bomb. The younger generation are now
:21:16. > :21:21.carrying on the tradition of drinking Benny.
:21:22. > :21:26.But you did not bring me a bottle back? No, I did not, it was very
:21:27. > :21:32.expensive. There will be more stories from
:21:33. > :21:41.World War I and York BBC local radio station at 815 every morning this
:21:42. > :21:43.week. We will have another good story
:21:44. > :21:46.tomorrow. Cricket,
:21:47. > :21:47.and in the county championship, Lancashire are following on
:21:48. > :21:50.after being bowled out for 203 in their first innings against
:21:51. > :22:01.Somerset at Emirates Old Trafford. It is the third day of the
:22:02. > :22:07.championship. Lankan sure 95`3. `` Lancashire. They will be keeping
:22:08. > :22:13.their fingers crossed in the dressing room.
:22:14. > :22:16.When Pat Smart and Marie Anderton decided to brave the rain to play
:22:17. > :22:20.a round at their local golf course, they couldn't have imagined it
:22:21. > :22:25.would end with a place in the sport's record books.
:22:26. > :22:28.The pair's efforts at Lytham Green Drive Golf Club also
:22:29. > :22:30.defied bigger odds than winning the lottery, but how?
:22:31. > :22:38.Approaching the sixth tee and about to walk into the history books.
:22:39. > :22:45.Pat's golfing luck was about to change.
:22:46. > :22:55.I have been playing for 18 years. I hit the ball, I went on the green
:22:56. > :23:00.and I thought it had gone off the back.
:23:01. > :23:03.I said, here it is. It was unbelievable.
:23:04. > :23:07.But not as unbelievable as what happened an hour later at the 13th.
:23:08. > :23:16.It's landed on the green. I was certain that it was in the hold. She
:23:17. > :23:20.said that she thought it had gone in. I said that they would never
:23:21. > :23:25.believe us. We looked at each other and could not believe it.
:23:26. > :23:27.The hole in one is golf's holy grail.
:23:28. > :23:35.Tony Jacklin hit the first televised one in 1967.
:23:36. > :23:46.How rare is her achievement? This handbook lists just 15 names of
:23:47. > :23:50.people who have got to holes in one. Bookmakers say that the odds of 40
:23:51. > :23:56.million to one. The reaction from friends has been overwhelming.
:23:57. > :24:01.Well done. With two holes in one, what you have
:24:02. > :24:07.to do? I think I will have to buy everyone to drinks, but I do not
:24:08. > :24:13.mind. We did win ?25 on the lottery. There is no stopping you!
:24:14. > :24:18.She will need that lottery money to help by those drinks in the
:24:19. > :24:24.clubhouse. She will need to win the lottery if
:24:25. > :24:30.they are all drinking Benedictine. Well done to her. We should get the
:24:31. > :24:41.lottery numbers from her. And here is the weather.
:24:42. > :24:51.It was not a bad day for the Isle of Man. The closer inland you were, the
:24:52. > :24:57.more cloud there was, so it has been very hit and miss. It looks like it
:24:58. > :25:03.will be quite wet. Thursday does not look bad, but by the time you get to
:25:04. > :25:09.Saturday, it looks as if it will be a wet and lively affair. The office
:25:10. > :25:15.has already given a yellow alert to say that there could be significant
:25:16. > :25:21.rainfall. There could be thunder and showers. If you have plans for
:25:22. > :25:26.Saturday, look out for the forecast. It can change, sometimes it gets
:25:27. > :25:33.wetter, often it gets worse. Patchy clouds, sunny spells has been
:25:34. > :25:40.the order of the day. Temperatures in the mid teens. Some showers in
:25:41. > :25:47.the last couple of hours. It will probably move towards us over the
:25:48. > :25:50.next few hours. You might see a shower in Merseyside. We are
:25:51. > :25:55.expecting clear whether for a time in Cumbria. A relatively quiet
:25:56. > :26:00.night. However, things change as you head into the morning. The rain
:26:01. > :26:05.begins to move towards us. All of this whether through the night gives
:26:06. > :26:11.temperatures at 9 degrees in the countryside. Up to 30 Celsius in the
:26:12. > :26:17.town. `` 13. It will not be a complete
:26:18. > :26:22.wash`out tomorrow, but false on it will be close to it. There will be a
:26:23. > :26:27.heavy burst of rain now and then, but it will be patchy and on and
:26:28. > :26:34.off. The theme of this weather is all and down for most of the day.
:26:35. > :26:37.Over the Pennines, you can see intense weather, heavy bursts of
:26:38. > :26:44.rain. The wind from the Northwest is not a
:26:45. > :26:50.good direction and could be up to 20 miles an hour. No sunshine, a lot of
:26:51. > :26:57.cloud, I think the best that you can expect is 13 or 14 degrees.
:26:58. > :27:07.One more note about our Benny and hot. The Burnley FC players drank
:27:08. > :27:08.Benny and champagne. Some people say that they will try
:27:09. > :28:12.it. Good night. Find out what life's really like
:28:13. > :28:16.in the favelas.