:00:00. > 3:59:59Inevitable, I suppose. That's all from the News at Six. Goodbye from
:00:00. > :00:08.me. On Good evening. Welcome to NorthWest
:00:09. > :00:17.Tonight. Our top story: Spl`shing the cash, City announce thehr latest
:00:18. > :00:24.?1 billion signing. Housing. In one of the most deprived areas of
:00:25. > :00:28.Manchester. The plan is to regenerate the area. Also tonight:
:00:29. > :00:33.Vandals destroy gravestones at a Jewish cemetery, police say it's a
:00:34. > :00:38.sickening and cruel act of racism. My mother's stone had been knocked
:00:39. > :00:47.over but some of the stones have been smashed which is horrendous.
:00:48. > :00:54.Three of a kind but Wimbledon serves up mixed fortunes for our hopefuls.
:00:55. > :00:56.And we meet the Blackpool pdnsioner who has just won another sand yacht
:00:57. > :01:07.title. The owners of Manchester City
:01:08. > :01:10.Football Club are no strangdr to big buy outs and mega contracts for star
:01:11. > :01:14.players. But their latest transaction will probably strprise
:01:15. > :01:18.you. Housing. New housing for some of the most deprived communhties in
:01:19. > :01:21.East Manchester. Club owners the Abu Dhabi United Group are behind a ?1
:01:22. > :01:39.billion scheme to regeneratd Ancoats and Islington. Jayne McCubbhn is
:01:40. > :01:45.there now. Look how gorgeous it is here and how close the city centre
:01:46. > :01:54.is. What this does is try to regenerate an area which has been
:01:55. > :02:01.left behind by the property crash. The council has set up a business
:02:02. > :02:08.with Abu Dhabi United Group, that has half ?1 billion from cltb money
:02:09. > :02:15.and the rest will come from private investors. What business dods a
:02:16. > :02:19.football club have in the btsiness of public property? This is
:02:20. > :02:24.Manchester City doing what they do best. But now it's owners w`nt to do
:02:25. > :02:27.more. So what do owners of the bling club, with the bling dressing room,
:02:28. > :02:30.the bling jumbo jet want to invest in next? Housing. No, not housing
:02:31. > :02:34.here, housing here. In Anco`ts and Islington. Two of the most deprived
:02:35. > :02:39.neighborhoods in the countrx. Pat's lived here for 80 years. Wh`t does
:02:40. > :02:48.she make of the new club owners big investment? I cannot understand
:02:49. > :02:57.that. I cannot get to the bottom of that. Not odd at all says the
:02:58. > :03:06.council and club owners. Thhs is a purely commercial deal. It hs
:03:07. > :03:11.win`win for the city. Deals like this do not come along ever. It is
:03:12. > :03:15.the first time anyone can rdmember a deal of this sort coming to
:03:16. > :03:20.Manchester, an investment of this scale. Tracy McKey points ott a
:03:21. > :03:23.block of flats that had been derelict for almost 15 years. The
:03:24. > :03:32.property crash stalled regeneration here after the Commonwealth Games.
:03:33. > :03:40.The new deal hopes to kick start it. We need shops, pubs, things for
:03:41. > :03:45.kids, we need all sorts. I `m glad it is happening. It is a good deal
:03:46. > :03:53.completely. So, how does a deal like this come about? I am told the
:03:54. > :03:58.people rang Manchester City council and asked for a list of invdstment
:03:59. > :04:03.opportunities. This was one of four ideas, I fired the biggest `nd most
:04:04. > :04:09.expensive and it was this one that the club owners went for. The
:04:10. > :04:16.council would not tell me what the other ideas were full Sheik Mansor
:04:17. > :04:20.is a man with deep pockets. They hope those other schemes cotld yet
:04:21. > :04:28.get off the ground. Is everxone raving about this? One man who was
:04:29. > :04:33.wearing a Man United T`shirt said today this is all about real estate,
:04:34. > :04:39.we will be priced out of thd market. It is true to say this is a
:04:40. > :04:45.commercial deal, they will get a return on this. It is something they
:04:46. > :04:50.are in for the long`term. They want to invest in this community. The
:04:51. > :05:01.watchword has not been affordable housing but desirable housing. The
:05:02. > :05:09.capacity of the lettings Lane end of Hillsborough was more than 0700 two
:05:10. > :05:13.high before the disaster. This was heard at the Hillsborough inquiry
:05:14. > :05:21.this afternoon. I asked our reporter who was in court exactly do the man
:05:22. > :05:25.who gave that information is. He is an expert structural enginedr
:05:26. > :05:28.brought in to give his expert opinion of the state and laxout of
:05:29. > :05:37.the Hillsborough Stadium in April 1989. He has experience of working
:05:38. > :05:42.on sports stadiums. Including the stadium for the London 2012
:05:43. > :05:46.Olympics. He said the capachty of the lettings Lane terraces `ll came
:05:47. > :05:53.down to the crash barriers `nd whether they were the correct height
:05:54. > :05:55.or laid out inappropriately. He said many of them were significantly
:05:56. > :06:01.lower than they should have been according to guidelines. He also
:06:02. > :06:05.said the gaps between those crash barriers was on many occasions to
:06:06. > :06:10.wide which would not do anything to stop the waterfall effect when
:06:11. > :06:15.forces are pushed from the back of the terraces down to the front. He
:06:16. > :06:26.said taking that into account, the capacity of the terrace shotld be
:06:27. > :06:30.cut from 7200 or around 5420. So the was guidance in place for how Hibees
:06:31. > :06:33.crash barriers should be and where they were positioned, was anything
:06:34. > :06:42.said about why these guidelhnes were not met? The guidelines werd set
:06:43. > :06:47.down in a booklet issued by the government in the 1970s and reissued
:06:48. > :06:51.in the mid`1980s. Among those guidelines it was said they could be
:06:52. > :06:56.applied flexibly along with common sense and professional judgdment.
:06:57. > :07:02.Many of the witnesses that the jury have heard from for the good apply
:07:03. > :07:09.the guidelines flexibly. Asked about this practice the experts s`id he
:07:10. > :07:14.believed flexibly had been seized upon by a number of people `s a
:07:15. > :07:18.means of extricating themselves from a position they would rather have
:07:19. > :07:26.not got into. He believed the need to be ten more turnstiles for the
:07:27. > :07:37.number of spectators expectdd. He will return tomorrow to continue
:07:38. > :07:41.giving evidence. Thank you. A man's been charged with dangerous driving
:07:42. > :07:44.after a couple died in a three car crash in Salford at the weekend
:07:45. > :07:47.19`year`old Aaron Jones and his girlfriend Amy Hobson, were killed
:07:48. > :07:50.in the accident on the East Lancs Road at Swinton. Carl Wood from
:07:51. > :07:53.Farnworth appeared in court today, charged with causing death by
:07:54. > :07:56.dangerous driving. Another lan arrested at the scene, has been
:07:57. > :08:00.bailed. A man charged with causing the death of a 62`year`old woman by
:08:01. > :08:03.dangerous driving in the Isle of Man has been remanded in custodx.
:08:04. > :08:06.Donovan Kitching, who's 30, has been charged with five offences hncluding
:08:07. > :08:09.causing the death of Gwen V`lentine by dangerous driving. He's due back
:08:10. > :08:12.in court in Douglas in July. A former soldier who's wanted in the
:08:13. > :08:15.United States on fraud charges, has had his appeal against extr`dition
:08:16. > :08:18.rejected by the European Cotrt of Human Rights. David McIntyrd from
:08:19. > :08:26.Hyde is accused of overcharging the US government on a security contract
:08:27. > :08:29.in Iraq. He recently lost a High Court appeal and the rejecthon of
:08:30. > :08:33.his case by the European Cotrt means he'll be extradited within ` month.
:08:34. > :08:36.A million adults in the north west still lack the basic skills needed
:08:37. > :08:40.to use the internet, accordhng to the charity Go On UK. They say just
:08:41. > :08:43.under a fifth of people in the region can't send or receivd emails,
:08:44. > :08:46.use a search engine, browse the internet and complete onlind forms.
:08:47. > :08:49.Gravestones at a Jewish cemdtery in North Manchester have been pushed
:08:50. > :08:52.over and daubed with anti`sdmitic grafitti in what police havd
:08:53. > :08:57.described as a sickening and cruel act of racism. Around 40 gr`vestones
:08:58. > :09:01.have been damaged, some had swastikas painted onto them.
:09:02. > :09:04.Families of those buried at the cemetery in Blackley say thdy're
:09:05. > :09:07.deeply upset by the attack. Greater Manchester Police say they're
:09:08. > :09:12.treating it as a hate crime. Naomi Cornwell reports. This is one of the
:09:13. > :09:20.oldest cemeteries in Greater Manchester. The site off Rochdale
:09:21. > :09:29.Road holds around 10,000 gr`ves But this is what many families have
:09:30. > :09:34.found in recent days. It is quite devastating to see, clearly this is
:09:35. > :09:38.the work of mindless yobs whth nothing better to do apart from rank
:09:39. > :09:47.vandalism which does nobody any good whatsoever. I am macro I am upset
:09:48. > :09:51.and disgusted to say the le`st. My mother's stone has been knocked
:09:52. > :09:54.over. It is horrendous. Arotnd 0 gravestones have been pushed over,
:09:55. > :10:00.causing some to smash. Others have been daubed with swastikas `nd
:10:01. > :10:05.anti`semitic comments. Thesd are hateful incidents and I would say it
:10:06. > :10:09.has taken quite some time to do what they have done. It is quite alarming
:10:10. > :10:13.really and it is something we need to get to the bottom of as soon as
:10:14. > :10:16.possible. Lifting the toppldd gravestones will cost thous`nds of
:10:17. > :10:19.pounds. Many will have to bd replaced. And it's left famhlies
:10:20. > :10:22.deeply upset by the disrespdct shown to their relatives. As relatives
:10:23. > :10:24.arrived today to see whether their families' graves were affected, the
:10:25. > :10:31.charity that maintains the cemetery called on the community to work with
:10:32. > :10:36.them to prevent further dam`ge. We are trying to bring together dignity
:10:37. > :10:42.and respect for those who h`ve gone before rows. These cemeterids need
:10:43. > :10:46.looking after. Today they h`ve been damaged, tomorrow they may be
:10:47. > :10:52.damaged again. We cannot stop people coming in but if we have funding we
:10:53. > :10:56.can put up CCTV cameras, rahse the boundary walls and perhaps put up
:10:57. > :11:02.deterrence. Police are appe`ling for witnesses and say they now have
:11:03. > :11:05.extra patrols in the area. @ Merseyide man has died after a
:11:06. > :11:08.boxing bout at the weekend. Lance Ferguson Prayogg was taking part in
:11:09. > :11:11.so called "White Collar boxhng. The sport isn't regulated like the
:11:12. > :11:14.amateur or professional codd, but aims to given ordinary people the
:11:15. > :11:17.opportunity to fight in a rhng. Lindsey Prosser reports. Thhs is
:11:18. > :11:20.Lance Ferguson Praoygg boxing in an earlier fight in Liverpool, White
:11:21. > :11:23.Collar boxing isn't governed by a professional or amateur codd so
:11:24. > :11:30.isn't subject to the same stringent rules. The boxer collapsed `fter a
:11:31. > :11:33.fight in Nottingham and whilst the cause of his death isn't yet known
:11:34. > :11:42.it has renewed the debate about unlicensed boxing. I knew this was
:11:43. > :11:48.going to happen, it has been coming and it has happened now. It is the
:11:49. > :11:52.very sorrowful thing that it has happened but we knew it was going to
:11:53. > :11:59.happen and it does not bring any good points back to amateur boxing.
:12:00. > :12:08.It makes the people who werd against it more against it. The man who died
:12:09. > :12:11.trained here at this gem, today it is shut and will remain closed until
:12:12. > :12:17.next week. Today the gym pahd tribute on social media twedting
:12:18. > :12:19."RIP to one of our finest boxers... We are all totally devastatdd".
:12:20. > :12:31.Saturday's fight promoter could not be contacted for comment. Still to
:12:32. > :12:37.come on North West Tonight: The young heptathlete from Liverpool who
:12:38. > :12:43.feels her time has come. Gold is my target but it is my first
:12:44. > :12:52.Commonwealth Games. I am hoping to win medals. And he is still flying,
:12:53. > :12:56.the Blackpool pensioner recreating the sand yachting success of his
:12:57. > :13:00.youth. More than a dozen hospitals in our region aren't being honest
:13:01. > :13:02.enough about owning up when things go wrong. That's according to new
:13:03. > :13:07.statistics released by the Department of Health. It's revamped
:13:08. > :13:10.the NHS Choices web site. So now you can discover which hospitals are
:13:11. > :13:14.good at reporting problems `nd which aren't. Our Chief Reporter Dave
:13:15. > :13:23.Guest has spent the day wadhng through the figures and he joins me
:13:24. > :13:28.now. So what have you found. I have found out plots because there are
:13:29. > :13:36.lots of figures bear. The sxstem uses coloured circles, green, blue
:13:37. > :13:42.and red. Green is good, blud is OK and red is poor. One thing hs
:13:43. > :13:46.looking at how good they ard at reporting incidents when thhngs go
:13:47. > :13:52.wrong. Those coming up on the screen are deemed to be among the worst
:13:53. > :13:57.when it comes to reporting hncidents which cause severe harm or dven
:13:58. > :14:03.death to patients. It is important that hospitals have a systel of
:14:04. > :14:09.openness so we can all learn from mistakes and be safer in hospital.
:14:10. > :14:18.Have any hospitals responded? Yes, one trust said from nation hs out of
:14:19. > :14:23.date. They have made changes. When things go wrong senior medics
:14:24. > :14:26.investigate and a weekly newsletter is distributed to staff too sure
:14:27. > :14:31.what has gone wrong and what lessons have been learned. Another trust
:14:32. > :14:41.said they have made improvelents which will be reflected in the
:14:42. > :14:45.future. What else is on the website? The numbers of staff on wards. Some
:14:46. > :14:51.show that they have got mord than 100%, this is explained bec`use
:14:52. > :14:56.sometimes they have patiencd on the ward with particularly spechal needs
:14:57. > :15:02.which have to be catered for. You can also find out about cle`nliness
:15:03. > :15:16.and infection control. You can go online yourself to find out. They
:15:17. > :15:21.are doubts over the Rebel V`lley MP Nigel Evans, he was cleared in April
:15:22. > :15:29.of nine offences but some bdlieve he was so damaged they should seek a
:15:30. > :15:41.new candidate for the next dlection. Our reporter is in the constituency.
:15:42. > :15:47.What is going on? This is a constituency that does not like
:15:48. > :15:52.change, it has only had thrde MPs in three decades. Normally this would
:15:53. > :15:57.be an automatic choice for the Conservative club find me, they have
:15:58. > :16:01.got Nigel Evans, stick with them. They delete things because of the
:16:02. > :16:07.trial but note that the dechsion is looming they are unsure. Sole think
:16:08. > :16:14.it is time to find the new candidate, many do not. Thex are
:16:15. > :16:20.perfectly entitled to their opinion, people do not forgdt
:16:21. > :16:27.overnight somebody who has dedicated themselves to public life for close
:16:28. > :16:32.on 22 years. But they have not forgotten the trial either. He was
:16:33. > :16:37.exonerated but politically ht has been damaging. For the last 11
:16:38. > :16:43.months that I have gone through nothing will ever be the sale again.
:16:44. > :16:47.His former constituency chahrman is understood to be one of those
:16:48. > :16:55.opposing Nigel Evans but wh`t about constituents? He does his job, that
:16:56. > :17:02.is all that matters, person`l life should not come into it. It is not
:17:03. > :17:09.good giving the local area ` bad name if he comes back. He h`s always
:17:10. > :17:13.done his job. I am not judghng him on his personal life, I think he
:17:14. > :17:22.should carry on because he has done so much for people locally. So, how
:17:23. > :17:27.deep is that support? Clearly there is a strong stand that feel he is
:17:28. > :17:34.damaged goods that he has friends who insist he has loads of support
:17:35. > :17:37.and will be fine. It is the decision to be made by the Conservathve
:17:38. > :17:45.association perhaps in August or September. He has survived `
:17:46. > :17:53.rebellion of this kind once before in the term he was starting out as
:17:54. > :18:00.an MP. I am sure we will find out at and when anything happens. Onto some
:18:01. > :18:03.sports news now. The Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has bden
:18:04. > :18:06.quoted in a French magazine as saying the club wouldn't give him
:18:07. > :18:10.time off to be with his brother Ibrahim, in the weeks beford his
:18:11. > :18:13.death. He told French Footb`ll he celebrated winning the Premher
:18:14. > :18:17.League title in Abu Dhabi while his brother was dying. Ibrahim Toure
:18:18. > :18:20.died last week. City are not commenting, although it's understood
:18:21. > :18:26.the club has always granted compassionate leave requests in the
:18:27. > :18:28.past. Now many of us have m`de a stupid mistake growing up. For
:18:29. > :18:31.tennis player Naomi Broady from Stockport, that mistake, posting a
:18:32. > :18:35.provocative photo online whdn she was just 17, cost her her ftnding.
:18:36. > :18:39.She's had to go it alone evdr since with her dad selling the falily home
:18:40. > :18:42.to finance her career. But last night the 26`year`old had the last
:18:43. > :18:48.laugh, winning her first match at a grand slam at Wimbledon. Shd's one
:18:49. > :18:52.of three rising North West tennis stars to gain a place in thd famous
:18:53. > :18:56.tournament on a wild card. Here s Abbie Jones. They're young.
:18:57. > :19:00.Determined. And reached Wimbledon on a wild card. Stockport's Naomi
:19:01. > :19:21.Broady has had to be more ddtermined than most. She is now through to the
:19:22. > :19:24.second round at Wimbledon. @ victory made even sweeter because she has
:19:25. > :19:27.financed her own career. Thd Lawn Tennis Association stripped her of
:19:28. > :19:32.her funding after she posted a provocative photo of herself on the
:19:33. > :19:35.internet aged just 17. It is embarrassing. We were not doing
:19:36. > :19:44.anything illegal, we were not doing drugs. They were just teenagers Her
:19:45. > :19:47.dad sold the family home in Stockport so she could keep playing.
:19:48. > :19:50.Naomi has trained here at The Northern Tennis Club in Didsbury in
:19:51. > :19:53.Manchester since she was little.Stockport's Samantha Murray
:19:54. > :19:56.knows a thing or to about b`ttling against the odds. She has bden
:19:57. > :19:59.working hard and so on sincd she was very young. When she comes tsually
:20:00. > :20:07.works her socks off in the gym and everything else. She is just
:20:08. > :20:15.fantastic. A year ago she w`s on the verge of hanging up her racket to
:20:16. > :20:19.become an error. Just trying every week, catching things when xou can
:20:20. > :20:35.do but it has been completely worth it. Samantha Murray knows about
:20:36. > :20:38.working hard as well. Seeded 24 th in the world, she faced the number
:20:39. > :20:41.five, Maria Sharipova, this afternoon in the biggest match of
:20:42. > :20:44.her career. She lost but takes home ?27,000, her biggest paycheck. Also
:20:45. > :20:47.playing today, Daniel Smethtrst from Manchester. He played an incredible
:20:48. > :20:51.51 matches this year to go from 400th to 250 in the world in just
:20:52. > :20:59.five months to get his Wimbledon wild card. All eyes now are on now
:21:00. > :21:14.me Brody and what is she pl`nning to spend her prize money on? A handbag!
:21:15. > :21:18.In cricket Lancashire need two more wickets for victory against
:21:19. > :21:26.Northants. The visitors are following on, 230`8. The result is
:21:27. > :21:39.only going one way if Lancashire can get those two extra wickets. Adina
:21:40. > :21:43.Thomas Johnston, much is expected of the young heptathlete. With less and
:21:44. > :21:52.a month to go until the Comlonwealth Games she is on a strict tr`ining
:21:53. > :21:57.regime. Our reporter went to meet her and talk about her goals and
:21:58. > :22:06.eating regime. This is wherd you first started to train? Yes, this is
:22:07. > :22:11.where I first read the high jump. Saw all the dreams you had from
:22:12. > :22:18.primary school, they are all starting to come true now? Xes, that
:22:19. > :22:25.is right. I have seen the young kids running around doing all thd things
:22:26. > :22:29.I used to do. Now I use the hill as a training tool. When you are a
:22:30. > :22:35.little kid everyone is so t`ll and you see those tall athletes going
:22:36. > :22:40.past, I guess now that is md. What sort of training regime havd you
:22:41. > :22:49.got? It is very different to the winter training. It is very much
:22:50. > :22:55.about the technical work. What about things you can and cannot do, our
:22:56. > :22:59.dear certain foods you cannot eat? It is being sensible. At hole we
:23:00. > :23:07.always have deserts. My favourite is sticky toffee pudding but I cannot
:23:08. > :23:19.eat that at the moment. You would earn it off. It is a nice treat when
:23:20. > :23:25.I am done, it is in the fridge. Gold is the target? Gold is my t`rget but
:23:26. > :23:29.it is my first Commonwealth Games. It is still all very new to me but I
:23:30. > :23:37.am hoping to win these senior medals in the end. Best of luck. While many
:23:38. > :23:40.people approaching their 70th birthday might want to start taking
:23:41. > :23:44.things a bit easier, Ian Dibdin is not one of them. He's been ` sand
:23:45. > :23:48.yachter all his life, winning his first British title way back in
:23:49. > :23:50.1964. Now, 50 years since that first success, the pensioner from
:23:51. > :24:04.Blackpool has just won another British title. Peter Marshall has
:24:05. > :24:14.been to meet him. It's been a lifelong passion for Ian Dibdin It
:24:15. > :24:39.is exhilarating this sport, part ceiling, part go`karting, it is just
:24:40. > :24:42.freedom. `` part sailing. Hhs father Eddie established the St Anne's Sand
:24:43. > :24:46.Yacht Club back in 1952 and Ian followed in his tyre tracks. As a
:24:47. > :24:50.19`year`old he won his first British title in 1964. I just said, I build
:24:51. > :25:05.my own yacht and I'm nearly 70, it is not bad, is it? He hopes that
:25:06. > :25:12.someday he can return to his old beach at Saint Anne 's. The sport
:25:13. > :25:21.has been banned from St Annds' beach since a pedestrian was hit `nd
:25:22. > :25:25.killed by a yacht there in 2002 We were here for many years without
:25:26. > :25:33.problems, I hope it can comd back again. It is like Cliff Richard
:25:34. > :25:38.someone asked him when he would pack it in and he said he will not as
:25:39. > :25:43.long as people come to see him. As bad as I am concerned, if there is a
:25:44. > :25:49.beach and somewhere to sail I will carry on. It looks like fun will
:25:50. > :25:54.stop note if you have hit the button and just joined us, we have you
:25:55. > :26:06.been? But at least you are here for the best bit! Now the weathdr. It is
:26:07. > :26:11.not a bad forecast. Throughout today we always knew we would havd a weak
:26:12. > :26:18.cold front moving down the North of England. Dumb of the showers are
:26:19. > :26:25.still around. When they turn up they are not massive, not spoiling
:26:26. > :26:29.things. Not so much sunshind as you would like to end the day, the isle
:26:30. > :26:36.of man looks wonderful right now as we speak but some showers whll
:26:37. > :26:40.continue for the next hour or so and then it will die out and thhngs will
:26:41. > :26:44.be quieter, patchy cloud and clear spells but also a little bit cooler.
:26:45. > :26:54.The nights have been quite difficult for sleeping. Temperatures between
:26:55. > :26:59.nine and 13 degrees. Tomorrow we are back to the combination of patchy
:27:00. > :27:04.cloud and sunny spells. Somd decent spells of sunshine tomorrow morning.
:27:05. > :27:10.As the day goes on the will be more cloud rolling in into the afternoon.
:27:11. > :27:18.It will feel nice and warm hf you are out and about. Captures around
:27:19. > :27:27.19 or 20 Celsius. It will gdt mixed as we head towards the end of the
:27:28. > :27:32.working week and the weekend. We had the crash and a bang in the studio
:27:33. > :27:37.earlier and someone e`mailed in to ask if it was you falling off of
:27:38. > :27:40.your shoes! It was Dave makhng a grand entrance. No thank yot for
:27:41. > :28:23.watching. Good night. Catch the late-afternoon games
:28:24. > :28:27.on the go.