05/07/2014 North West Tonight

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The Rochdale MP Simon Dancztk says a public inquiry is the onlx way to

properly investigate allegations of historic child abuse.

Last week Mr Danczuk appeardd before the Commons Home Aff`irs

Committee in relation to the former Liberal MP Cyril Smith.

Now the Prime Minister has ordered a senior official at the Home Office

to find out what happened to a file on alleged paedophile activhty

Mr Danczuk is demanding a public inquiry.

I think the idea of an over`arching inquiry should ensure that ht is

independent, an independent panel similar to the Hillsborough inquiry.

I'm not proposing some sort of judicial`led inquiry.

But it needs to be broad enough to be able to take in

the various investigations that are going on up and down the cotntry and

in different institutions to bring all that information togethdr.

A 35`year`old man has been charged with possession of a firearl.

It follows an incident last Sunday evening when two men were shot in

Andrew Marcus Burke from Crtmpsall is due to appear before

Minshall Street Crown Court in two weeks' time.

The trial of six men accused of murdering an aid worker from

Rochdale in Sri Lanka could reach a verdict in the next two wdeks

Khuram Shaikh was shot and stabbed while on holidax

The High Court Judge has asked all parties to make their submissions

A musical tribute is being held this evening at Liverpool Cathedral,

in memory of the 96 fans who died at Hillsborough.

It's been put together by acclaimed composer Michadl Nyman

and is based on music he was recording on the day 25 years ago.

It's part of the City's Biennial, which runs for the next thrde

Thousands of people gathered in Preston this afternoon

for the largest display by the armed forces in the North West.

Soldiers and cadets from around the region took part in the milhtary

show to mark the end of British combat operations in Afghanhstan.

This time last year, soldiers of the 2nd Battalion,

The Duke of Lancaster's Reghment were serving in Afghanistan.

Today they demonstrated the infantry skills they used in battle.

It?s a chance for the public to get a close up look at some of the

weapons and heavy vehicles, some of which have been used in Afghanistan.

There?s an awful lot of equipment out there,

but more importantly there `re soldiers with that equipment and all

those soldiers have used it in anger, so there is the opportunity

for the general public to chat to them and ask them what it w`s like.

To get an insight into the real lives of soldhers is

There was also lighter entertainment for the 5,000 or so spectators who

gathered at Fulwood Barracks, thanks to the Royal Signals White

It is good being back up north, being a northern lad, myself,

being from Warrington and showing off in front of everyone up here.

There are a lot of my family here today.

It is quite a cool skill to have, but you certainly would not get

Soldiers and cadets from every county in our region took

The army says it's their wax of saying thank you to the

The Isle of Man cyclist Mark Cavendish has been takdn to

hospital after he crashed in the final sprint of the opening

The British sprint specialist appeared to suffer an injurx to

He was desperate to claim the leader's yellow jersey

But he could now be out of the remainder of the three`week race.

A look at some Super League results for you.

Salford Red Devils beat the Huddersfield Giants 36 points to 10.

And Josh Charnley scored a hat trick as Wigan Warriors

regained third spot as they thrashed the London Broncos 58`6.

Now the Tour de France comes to Rochdale tomorrow.

There is plenty of blue sky around and plenty of sunshine as wdll.

As we make our way through tonight and into the early hours of Sunday

morning the skies remain cldar allowing the temperatures to drop

just a little bit more than they have done of late.

We are looking at overnights lows of maybe 10, 11 or 12 Celsits

Just a more comfortable night of sleeping.

Then, we start off tomorrow with lots of blue sky around.

We hang on to that through the morning and then we get

a little bit of cloud here `nd there in the late part of the aftdrnoon.

You might have to dodge a couple of showers but they are rel`tively

As we go into the new working week, it is not too bad.

There will be a couple of showers on each of these days but most

of these days are also mainly dry and largely bright as well.

That's it from me and the weekend team.

Good evening. It looks like for most of us the weather will be fairly

similar to what we saw today. The broad themes throughout this

weekend, sunny spells and scattering of showers, but not much evening

sunshine round, I have to say s across south-east England, and the

cloud here thick