:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson and Annabel Thffin.
:00:00. > :00:09.The Hillsborough inquests are told the tragedy would never havd
:00:10. > :00:13.happened if the previous match commander had still been in charge.
:00:14. > :00:16.Chief Superintendent Brian Lole was replaced just three weeks
:00:17. > :00:21.More turmoil at troubled Morecambe Bay trust ` as two senior
:00:22. > :00:29.figures resign ahead of what's expected to be a critical rdport.
:00:30. > :00:35.Sniffer dogs find heroin woven into rugs at Manchester Airport
:00:36. > :00:39.The boy soldiers who fought and died in the Great War.
:00:40. > :00:46.A Lancashire school re`discovers letters from the trenches.
:00:47. > :00:56.And we'll have another report from the hometown of the Giants to see
:00:57. > :01:08.what we can learn about the event in Liverpool at the end of Julx.
:01:09. > :01:10.The Hillsborough tragedy wotld never have happened if the police
:01:11. > :01:13.commander who'd overseen prdvious matches had still been in charge.
:01:14. > :01:16.That was the view expressed today at the new Hillsborough inqtests
:01:17. > :01:18.by Richard Chester, a former secretary of
:01:19. > :01:23.A little earlier I spoke to our reporter Ben Schofield,
:01:24. > :01:26.who's been following today's evidence at the special coroner s
:01:27. > :01:29.I asked him exactly what Mr. Chester had said
:01:30. > :01:46.He was Chief superintendent, described as simply the best police
:01:47. > :01:52.officer he had ever worked with He would liaise on match days puite
:01:53. > :01:56.closely, seeing each other, at half time and at the final whistle. They
:01:57. > :02:04.would talk about crowd control matters and how things were going on
:02:05. > :02:08.match days. Mr Chester menthoned him during his interview and told
:02:09. > :02:12.officers that if he were thdre, it would not have happened. He was
:02:13. > :02:17.asked what he meant and he confirmed he meant that if Brian mole was
:02:18. > :02:24.there on the date he believds the disaster won't have happened. Did he
:02:25. > :02:29.say what he bought the Chief superintendent would have done? The
:02:30. > :02:32.jury heard on two occasions when achieves used to be intend `nd took
:02:33. > :02:39.the decision to close the g`tes that would lead down the tunnel behind
:02:40. > :02:44.the goal. Mr Chester said this happened on two occasions when the
:02:45. > :02:51.pair cleared of at ten bladds and cause overcrowding if they were
:02:52. > :02:56.allowed down into that central pen. He said my association with the
:02:57. > :03:03.Chief superintendent would, I think, have resulted in action being taken
:03:04. > :03:08.before we got into a situathon of severe overcrowding. He went on to
:03:09. > :03:12.say if you're going to let people through the turnstiles without
:03:13. > :03:18.control in the pen, it is inevitable you'll have problems. Why w`sn't he
:03:19. > :03:22.imposed on the day of the dhsaster? The jury has heard he was moved onto
:03:23. > :03:23.a different position within South Yorkshire police in the weeks
:03:24. > :03:30.leading up the disaster. There's mounting concern tonight
:03:31. > :03:33.over the controversial NHS Trust which runs hospitals in Cumbria
:03:34. > :03:37.and North Lancashire. Within four days, two senior board
:03:38. > :03:39.members have resigned from the University Hospitals of
:03:40. > :03:43.Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust. It's thought
:03:44. > :03:47.the Trust is going to be strongly criticised in a report due out later
:03:48. > :03:50.this month from the health watchdog, Peter Marshall is here
:03:51. > :03:55.with more details. Ever since the death of
:03:56. > :03:57.Joshua Titcome in 2008 highlighted failings in the
:03:58. > :04:01.maternity unit of Furness Gdneral Hospital ` the Morecambe Bax Trust
:04:02. > :04:05.has been under intense scrutiny There's a criminal investig`tion
:04:06. > :04:08.into Joshua's death. Health watchdogs have criticised
:04:09. > :04:11.maternity and emergency card. There's to be an inquiry
:04:12. > :04:16.in public into failings. It?s had a new board `
:04:17. > :04:18.and there've been improvements. But two key members
:04:19. > :04:21.of the new board have now rdsigned George Nasmyth resigned as
:04:22. > :04:26.Medical Director on Friday. And today John Cowdall,
:04:27. > :04:41.the chairman, The turmoil is a matter of deep
:04:42. > :04:45.concern. It is clear the new management has been doing the best
:04:46. > :04:56.job at Cannes in trying to stabilise the trust. The real issue `` it
:04:57. > :05:01.can. It doesn't say terriblx available things.
:05:02. > :05:05.It?s been reported that in ` letter to the trust, Mr Cowdall saxs, we
:05:06. > :05:09.have had sight of the draft in order to check it for factual acctracy.
:05:10. > :05:12.I am deeply disappointed at some of the content of the report
:05:13. > :05:15.and also disappointed as much for what it does not say.
:05:16. > :05:20.All through those patients have wanted to make sure their hospital
:05:21. > :05:25.stays where it is and services are as good as this can be. I h`ven t
:05:26. > :05:26.seen the report. I know manx people will be concerned about what it
:05:27. > :05:32.says. The new CQC report is
:05:33. > :05:43.expected later this month. We have launched a big camp`ign and
:05:44. > :05:49.are concerned that if the rdport comes out and says some services are
:05:50. > :05:54.not as good as they could bd, those services may be cut.
:05:55. > :05:57.If it?s not good, they could lose local services.
:05:58. > :06:00.The Trust has thanked both len for delivering improvements and helping
:06:01. > :06:05.The Health Secretary, Jeremx Hunt, has said he will act quicklx to
:06:06. > :06:07.tackle any problems highlighted in the new report.
:06:08. > :06:10.In the last hour, the A department at Arrowd Park
:06:11. > :06:13.hospital in Merseyside has been closed because of flash flooding.
:06:14. > :06:16.Patients are not currently being accepted ` instead they're being
:06:17. > :06:21.The adjoining All Day Health Centre is also affected.
:06:22. > :06:24.Anyone with a serious injurx or illness are advised to use
:06:25. > :06:32.It's emerged Merseyside polhce were the target of a 40`year`old man `
:06:33. > :06:34.who today admitted a string of terrorist`related offencds
:06:35. > :06:37.Images of the force headquarters were collected by Kevin Concannon
:06:38. > :06:41.He admitted to collecting or making records of information
:06:42. > :06:46.He's due to be sentenced in September.
:06:47. > :06:48.A former soldier ` wanted on fraud charges
:06:49. > :06:52.in the United States ` has lost his final appeal against extradhtion.
:06:53. > :06:54.David McIntyre, from Hyde, is accused of overcharging for
:06:55. > :07:00.He served in the Queen's Lancashire Regiment ` and claimed he stffered
:07:01. > :07:04.from post traumatic stress disorder ` and was a high suicide risk.
:07:05. > :07:07.But today judges said there was no legal reason to delay
:07:08. > :07:13.Manchester's ten`year plan to reduce carbon emissions is falling short
:07:14. > :07:16.of its target, according to a new report.
:07:17. > :07:19.The city aims to reduce emissions by forty one by 2020.
:07:20. > :07:22.A group which is monitoring its progress
:07:23. > :07:26.says the metrolink expansion and more cycle routes have helped.
:07:27. > :07:31.But it says unless more changes are made, the targets won't be let.
:07:32. > :07:34.It's being described as one of the biggest drugs hauls dver
:07:35. > :07:38.discovered in the North West ` and all of it was hidden
:07:39. > :07:42.Sniffer dogs found the multi`million pound concealment
:07:43. > :07:45.of heroin in a parcel which arrived at Manchester Airport.
:07:46. > :07:49.Stuart Pollitt is at the airport for us.
:07:50. > :07:59.Stuart this was a well organised attempt to smuggle a lot of drugs?
:08:00. > :08:04.Yes, so large that it's takhng officers weeks to work out just how
:08:05. > :08:11.This bundle of bags is what arrived in the
:08:12. > :08:16.airport terminal on a flight from Peshawar in Pakistan via Abt Dhabi,
:08:17. > :08:21.But it didn't take sniffer dogs long to discover that there was lore than
:08:22. > :08:26.Once they were rolled out and picked apart, officers found
:08:27. > :08:36.heroin had been carefully woven into the fabric of the carpdt.
:08:37. > :08:42.It was, the UK Border Force said, a highly sophisticated concdalment.
:08:43. > :08:53.Two men have been bailed on suspicion. Difficult to find as
:08:54. > :08:56.Difficult to find as well.
:08:57. > :09:00.Well the drugs pulled out of these carpets
:09:01. > :09:04.so far weigh 50kg but the rtgs are still being unravelled so the final
:09:05. > :09:14.The street value is estimatdd at ?5 million.
:09:15. > :09:16.To put the scale of the seizure in context,
:09:17. > :09:21.last year 800kg of heroin w`s seized across the UK so this haul when it
:09:22. > :09:40.is finally weighed could amount to close to 10% of that total.
:09:41. > :09:48.It is likely the drugs will be the biggest haul the airport have ever
:09:49. > :09:51.found. I think you're found the newspaper headlines. The drtgs in
:09:52. > :10:10.the rucks. `` rugs. A report
:10:11. > :10:12.into a Lancashire care home has found management didn't do dnough to
:10:13. > :10:15.protect residents from abusd. The review,
:10:16. > :10:17.by the Lancashire Safeguardhng Adults Board, looked at the events
:10:18. > :10:20.at Hillcroft Slyne with Hest Care Home, where four former card workers
:10:21. > :10:22.were convicted of abuse. Hillcroft said it welcomed
:10:23. > :10:25.the review and was considerhng Work has started on the building
:10:26. > :10:29.of new roads and homes around Preston and South Ribble `
:10:30. > :10:33.at a cost of ?430 million. The government and county council
:10:34. > :10:36.believe the "City Deal" plan will Four main new routes will bd built
:10:37. > :10:39.into Preston, to relieve traffic congestion and
:10:40. > :10:44.help local businesses to develop. We are the first dealers because
:10:45. > :10:47.government sees the potenti`l that Preston has and this is going to
:10:48. > :10:48.unlock the potential we havd. It will provide growth that we needed.
:10:49. > :10:51.Liverpool football legend Ian St John is battling cancer.
:10:52. > :10:54.The former player ` who madd over 400 appearances for the Anfheld club
:10:55. > :10:57.` has recently had both his bladder and prostate reloved.
:10:58. > :11:03.The 76`year`old spent two wdeks in hospital in April.
:11:04. > :11:05.It's been called a national food scandal.
:11:06. > :11:09.Every year 15 million tonnes of food is wasted in the UK.
:11:10. > :11:12.Yet ` as we heard yesterday on North West tonight `
:11:13. > :11:15.the demand for foodbanks across our region has never been hhgher.
:11:16. > :11:18.The Birkenhead MP Frank Field has today attacked the government
:11:19. > :11:23.for refusing to use EU cash to help supermarkets deliver desper`tely
:11:24. > :11:28.Instead he claims the Coalition is making it easier for food to
:11:29. > :11:40.At FareShare, every bit of food is preciots.
:11:41. > :11:43.The charity rescues surplus produce like this from wholesalers
:11:44. > :11:50.Last year its Greater Manchdster depot provided 750,000 meals.
:11:51. > :11:53.If more food was donated, it could offer double that.
:11:54. > :11:56.Its manager comes from France where there are tax incentives
:11:57. > :12:03.for retailers to donate waste food ` here he says there's nothhng.
:12:04. > :12:16.I visited this in Paris. Thdy did in a week what we do in a year or more.
:12:17. > :12:19.We need funding to help us. It saves society and the charities money from
:12:20. > :12:20.buying it on their budget. The government could use EU funds
:12:21. > :12:23.to help supermarkets deliver waste It does use public money to support
:12:24. > :12:29.energy plants like this which use It means retailers can get rid of
:12:30. > :12:34.their surplus produce here cheaply. MP Frank Field,
:12:35. > :12:45.who's leading an inquiry into food The richest part of the world does
:12:46. > :12:50.need to have, to draw breath and think seriously how wasteful of food
:12:51. > :12:54.we are. How important it is to our lives and existence. We need to
:12:55. > :12:56.behave as though we believe it. Last year British supermarkdts
:12:57. > :12:59.donated just 5,900 tonnes In comparison, Spain
:13:00. > :13:14.gave 118,000 tonnes. The Department for work and pensions
:13:15. > :13:17.says the government does usd money to help disadvantaged communities.
:13:18. > :13:23.It says Everett was to use DU cash to subsidised food aid, there would
:13:24. > :13:27.be less money `` if it. But for FareShare that
:13:28. > :13:29.doesn?t stack up. It says much more needs to be done
:13:30. > :13:33.to win over supermarkets If you are the type
:13:34. > :13:36.of person who dreads the postman coming for fear of the
:13:37. > :13:40.debt reminders about to comd over The BBC commissioned
:13:41. > :13:44.a special survey for a day The survey found that
:13:45. > :13:49.the vast majority of people have So Jayne McCubbin decided to take
:13:50. > :13:54.the advice to the people of Preston, the city with the highest average
:13:55. > :14:03.debt in the region. This is where people from press and
:14:04. > :14:10.come to find a deal and we `re here to offer a free deal. Can I offer
:14:11. > :14:14.you free tea and coffee? And also debt advice? That is a problem in
:14:15. > :14:23.Preston where they have the highest level of average debts you hn debt?
:14:24. > :14:32.Just a little bit. Have you tallied it up? No. The BBC commissioned a
:14:33. > :14:37.survey. 25% described that `s a problem. 69% said they had never
:14:38. > :14:46.asked for advice. 20% said they don't know who to ask for advice but
:14:47. > :14:55.we do. This is a man from the council debt team. Are you
:14:56. > :15:03.struggling to pay your monthly money? There are things that can be
:15:04. > :15:09.done. Carol is a market trader with around ?13,000 of debt. Is this
:15:10. > :15:18.because of overspending or the cost of living? It is the cost of living.
:15:19. > :15:26.I work six days a week. I know someone who can help. Carol is like
:15:27. > :15:32.people we meet today, in de`th. She is surprised at what is out there.
:15:33. > :15:37.This could be the answer to my prayers. For Carol, a debt relief
:15:38. > :15:40.could be the start of her journey out of debt. The important thing to
:15:41. > :15:52.remember is that debt doesn't have to be the end of the road. Death
:15:53. > :15:55.won't kill you. We can help. `` debt.
:15:56. > :16:03.Walking and talking, the French grandmother expected to
:16:04. > :16:10.wow the crowds when the Giants return to Liverpool next month.
:16:11. > :16:14.The poignant World War One letters sent home by boy soldiers
:16:15. > :16:27.How many of us realised that we should take part in this terrible
:16:28. > :16:30.business? The political row `
:16:31. > :16:32.between David Cameron and Angela Merkel ` over the new
:16:33. > :16:35.President of the European Commission But it's only one
:16:36. > :16:39.of the presidential jobs up The European Parliament also needs
:16:40. > :16:43.a President. That's similar to the Speakdr
:16:44. > :17:08.in the House of Commons. Why do you want this post? H wanted
:17:09. > :17:13.to come back yet but the arguments as to why it is important wd have a
:17:14. > :17:18.president who wants to carrx out a programme of reform. It is puite
:17:19. > :17:21.clear after the latest election results that people across the
:17:22. > :17:26.European Union want to see change and they want to see reform. That
:17:27. > :17:28.isn't going to happen if we have the same faces tried and tested, the
:17:29. > :18:54.same is quite another matter and indeed
:18:55. > :18:58.the role of the speaker is to try and address those issues as well,
:18:59. > :19:01.but it will only become reldvant if we are dealing with the isstes that
:19:02. > :19:06.matter the people in a way they matter the people will stop at
:19:07. > :19:10.present we are not doing enough I'm sure David Cameron would love to
:19:11. > :19:16.have one of us men in that position. Will you get that support
:19:17. > :19:21.you need given the fact you are a British MEP? There is a need for us
:19:22. > :19:25.to understand what the people of Europe want. They don't want the
:19:26. > :19:32.same tried and tested polithcians coming forward and don't want any
:19:33. > :19:43.piece sticking at the Haven. I am only 43 years old. I have 20 years
:19:44. > :19:47.of service, ten of which... I am a solicitor by profession and I've
:19:48. > :19:50.been in business throughout. I have done ten years in Parliament, is
:19:51. > :19:56.there is a tried and tested track but people want the politichans to
:19:57. > :20:00.reach beyond party politics and put forward people who can deliver the
:20:01. > :20:13.reform, that is so needed in the European union. We wish you luck in
:20:14. > :20:18.the future. Chester have bedn readmitted into the conference.
:20:19. > :20:20.Hereford have been expelled after they failed to meet a deadlhne to
:20:21. > :20:30.pay their creditors. Officials at Liverpool Council say
:20:31. > :20:33.they hope next month's Giants event will be bigger
:20:34. > :20:36.and better than the one in 2012 Three giants
:20:37. > :20:38.from a French street theatrd company will be in Liverpool in Julx `
:20:39. > :20:41.to commemorate the centenarx And one of the giants will be rather
:20:42. > :20:47.different from those which came two This weekend the new giant,
:20:48. > :20:54.the Grandmother, made her ptblic debut in Nantes, the town
:20:55. > :20:57.in north west France where the Royal One obvious difference with
:20:58. > :21:02.their previous giants is her face. Here, telling stories about
:21:03. > :21:22.herself and the history of Nantes. In Liverpool she'll tell
:21:23. > :21:40.of the optimism of young men who The subject matter is at thd heart
:21:41. > :21:42.of what we are trying to do which is to reach the communities in some
:21:43. > :21:47.meaningful way. When the Giants are at the Cathedral
:21:48. > :21:51.in Nantes, the crowds are so deep a planned meeting between the
:21:52. > :21:55.Grandma and the boy can't h`ppen. Crowd control an important dlement
:21:56. > :22:11.of what the Liverpool deleg`tion There are different giants which are
:22:12. > :22:15.coming. We are keen to come across with the council and have look at
:22:16. > :22:17.how it is working to make stre our plans are as good as can be.
:22:18. > :22:20.The Giants are in Liverpool from July 23rd.
:22:21. > :22:23.But the French technicians who bring them to life will be there
:22:24. > :22:34.The two places are similar, traditional port which saw xears of
:22:35. > :22:41.decline and are trying to rdvive themselves. It we do this on a
:22:42. > :22:47.regular basis the sheer voltme of people that are out and abott in
:22:48. > :22:54.France on a summer's afternoon is phenomenal. The Giants are here on
:22:55. > :23:01.January 23, but those who bring them to live will be here in less than a
:23:02. > :23:07.month. I hope the sunshine hs here when they come to Liverpool.
:23:08. > :23:11.They were little more than boys when they left Lancashire to fight
:23:12. > :23:15.And they wrote to tell pupils at their old school about lhfe
:23:16. > :23:19.Their letters lay forgotten at Rossall School for almost a century.
:23:20. > :23:22.But now they've been rediscovered and given pride of place
:23:23. > :23:26.in the school archive as Dave Guest reports.
:23:27. > :23:30.Rossall near Fleetwood is a place steeped in history,
:23:31. > :23:39.So when the storm clouds of war gathered over Britnex
:23:40. > :23:43.in August 1914, the boys were keen to do thdir bit.
:23:44. > :23:50.They would even practice thhngs like using machine guns.
:23:51. > :23:56.They were too young to think about anything other than shmply
:23:57. > :24:01.Most of them did so very effectively.
:24:02. > :24:04.Members of the teachers' colmon room began to finally have less
:24:05. > :24:08.and less time to teach them lessons and more and more time was being
:24:09. > :24:13.Whilst researching the schools's archive, the deputy head sttmbled
:24:14. > :24:17.across a collection of lettdrs unseen for almost 100 years.
:24:18. > :24:20.They are from those serving on the frontline to pupils who were
:24:21. > :24:26.How many realised that in our youthful days whilst serving
:24:27. > :24:31.in the cadets that we should take part in this terrible busindss?
:24:32. > :24:35.I sincerely hope that you m`y all be spared having to take a turn in it.
:24:36. > :24:37.The present`day pupils readhng these excerpts are only
:24:38. > :24:43.a year or two younger than the young soldiers who wrote the lettdrs.
:24:44. > :24:46.They came out of France in @ugust 1914.
:24:47. > :24:51.Ralph, who was wounded on the first day, John Henrx killed
:24:52. > :24:59.The spirit of my old days has carried me through
:25:00. > :25:04.many tight corners in serving our King and country in far off lands.
:25:05. > :25:08.Now they have found the letters they don't want them to stax hidden
:25:09. > :25:12.They intend to put them on display in the school archive
:25:13. > :25:15.and to share them with the wider community by contacting the civic
:25:16. > :25:30.community to see how best they can make them available to the public.
:25:31. > :25:34.A fantastic discovery. Such young boys. Onto the weather.
:25:35. > :25:43.A fantastic discovery. Such young boys. Onto the weather. We have had
:25:44. > :25:50.everything bar kitchen`sink today. We had a lot of sunshine. Wd have
:25:51. > :25:55.had some heavy downpours recorded in Merseyside this afternoon. Some
:25:56. > :26:04.flash flooding in places. Btnder and lightning in a Lancashire. Lots and
:26:05. > :26:09.lots of rain `` thunder. Thd high pressure should kill off thd showers
:26:10. > :26:13.on Wednesday and Thursday, so the next couple of days you are in for
:26:14. > :26:17.very settled conditions. It should be drier and brighter as we head
:26:18. > :26:23.into the weekend. But not this evening. Still plenty of showers
:26:24. > :26:28.lurking around. You can see them pushing in from the Irish Sda. We'll
:26:29. > :26:34.hang onto them for the first part of the overnight period. They will ease
:26:35. > :26:38.away by dawn. We to cloud and it should be less humid as it was last
:26:39. > :26:43.night, but temperatures still in double figures, lows of 12 Celsius.
:26:44. > :26:49.It'll be a cloudy start tomorrow morning. One to cloud still lurking.
:26:50. > :26:52.We hang onto them for a bit and hopefully in the afternoon the
:26:53. > :26:57.sunshine should sneak through. Very light winds so a pleasant d`y on
:26:58. > :27:04.offer. We could see highs of 18 or 19 Celsius, which is not bad at all.
:27:05. > :27:08.Thursday is even warmer. Maxbe 0 or 21 Celsius and as we head into
:27:09. > :27:12.weekend we should sue the temperatures still hanging `round
:27:13. > :27:19.the 20 Celsius mark, hopefully drier too. `` see.
:27:20. > :27:22.Two men from Manchester are attempting to break the world record
:27:23. > :27:26.for the longest hug to highlight the unsung worker of carers in the city.
:27:27. > :27:29.John Bland and Oliver Wiggldsworth are hugging each other at Phccadilly
:27:30. > :27:33.station and are hoping to break the record of 27 hours.
:27:34. > :27:46.Did you ever have to do the old hug at the disco? Speak for yourself.
:27:47. > :27:48.Only you would do that. Havd a good night.