:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to NorthWest Tonight with Annabel Tiffin and Stuart Flinders.
:00:07. > :00:26.tributes to the Lancashire lan killed in the Ukrainian air crash.
:00:27. > :00:29.Police condemn the "atrocious cruelty"
:00:30. > :00:36.of a couple jailed after allost starving their daughter to death.
:00:37. > :00:41.I think that all of society will be absolutely disgusted by what has
:00:42. > :00:47.happened. I am in the Dublin Valley whth the
:00:48. > :00:50.National Grid has announced its plans for installing power cables.
:00:51. > :00:52.Some people are concerned it will ruin this beautiful landscape.
:00:53. > :01:04.We are live at the start of Lancashire?s Beatherder Festival.
:01:05. > :01:10.Those are the words a friend used to describe Glenn Thomas today.
:01:11. > :01:12.The Blackpool`born journalist was among those who lost their lives
:01:13. > :01:17.on the Malaysian Airlines flight brought down over Ukraine.
:01:18. > :01:20.Mr Thomas had been en route to Australia in his role
:01:21. > :01:23.as media relations co`ordin`tor with the World Health Organisation.
:01:24. > :01:28.Our chief reporter, Dave Gudst, has the story.
:01:29. > :01:30.He was Blackpool born and bred but his work as a journalist took
:01:31. > :01:38.I have known Glenn for over 30 years.
:01:39. > :01:40.He was very professional about his work for the
:01:41. > :01:44.World Health Organisation btt also personally he was a man full of
:01:45. > :01:50.Glenn Thomas was among thosd who died as a Malaysia Airlines flight
:01:51. > :01:55.He had been travelling to Atstralia to take part in an HIV confdrence
:01:56. > :01:59.in his role of media relations co`ordin`tor
:02:00. > :02:05.How did you find out what had happened?
:02:06. > :02:07.I first got a text from his sister and from his partner
:02:08. > :02:12.We all knew, because Glenn shared it with us on
:02:13. > :02:16.social media, that he was on his way to an HIV conference in Australia.
:02:17. > :02:19.His sister and his partner are very upset.
:02:20. > :02:21.His sister has been caught on a holiday in Spain and his partner
:02:22. > :02:26.Mr Thomas started his career on local newspapers but joined
:02:27. > :02:35.His death has left colleaguds and friends shocked and distressed.
:02:36. > :02:38.He was one of these people who sort of live their life and he
:02:39. > :02:42.He was planning his 50th birthday for next lonth.
:02:43. > :02:47.He was thinking about the friends he wanted to bring along.
:02:48. > :02:48.We were talking about that at the weekend.
:02:49. > :02:50.His colleagues at the World Health Organisation wdre
:02:51. > :02:58.There was a minute's silencd in his memory before this tribute.
:02:59. > :02:59.Glenn will be remembered for his ready laugh
:03:00. > :03:06.He will be greatly missed by those who had the opporttnity to
:03:07. > :03:13.And so Glenn's career took him far away from Blackpool.
:03:14. > :03:18.But he always maintained his links with this place, not least
:03:19. > :03:22.because his sister and some of his friends still lived here
:03:23. > :03:30.And so it is here that his loss is being keenly felt.
:03:31. > :03:34.Greater Manchester Police s`y parents who starved
:03:35. > :03:37.a 10`year`old girl from Rochdale could easily have killed her.
:03:38. > :03:38.The girl's stepfather and mother were sentenced ydsterday
:03:39. > :03:44.We cannot name the girl for legal reasons.
:03:45. > :03:47.Manchester Crown Court heard that the girl's stepfather would feed
:03:48. > :03:52.Police say the girl has now been placed in a caring environmdnt.
:03:53. > :03:56.Our reporter, Andy Gill, is here with the details on this story.
:03:57. > :03:58.The girl's father was jailed for three years for causing her
:03:59. > :04:19.Her mother was given a suspdnded sentence for allowing it to happen.
:04:20. > :04:21.The court heard that when she reached hospital
:04:22. > :04:24.the girl was suffering "gross nutritional deficiencies."
:04:25. > :04:26.She had a distended abdomen, swollen legs and weeping sores.
:04:27. > :04:26.She was occasionally fed raw potato peelings.
:04:27. > :04:29.There were no clothes or possession in her room.
:04:30. > :04:32.At hospital her mother promhsed her pudding and custard if she did not
:04:33. > :04:35.The detective leading the enquiry says there's a real possibility
:04:36. > :04:40.I think it is absolutely atrocious what happened, I cannot unddrstand
:04:41. > :04:42.how a mother could allow th`t to happen to her child.
:04:43. > :04:44.I think all of society will be absolutely disgusted
:04:45. > :04:53.The court heard the girl sh`red a house with other children which her
:04:54. > :04:57.The mum was often at work whth the stepfather at home.
:04:58. > :05:00.In a police interview, the girl said,
:05:01. > :05:04."Mum knows Dad isn?t feeding me and the judge said to the step father it
:05:05. > :05:09.was "no coincidence that thd girl is the one child under your care that
:05:10. > :05:13.In 2011, her school alerted social services about the ghrl.
:05:14. > :05:15.Her family moved her to a different school.
:05:16. > :05:19.In 2012 they took her out of school altogether.
:05:20. > :05:27.In January last year social workers visited the home
:05:28. > :05:30.Last April, her mother brought her to hospital unconscious.
:05:31. > :05:36.The Rochdale Safeguarding Children Board is now carrying out
:05:37. > :05:47.a serious case review which is expected to report later thhs year.
:05:48. > :05:49.14 men have now been questioned over allegations of historical sdxual
:05:50. > :05:52.and physical abuse at a residential school in Rochdale.
:05:53. > :05:59.Police say since they reopened their inquiries
:06:00. > :06:04.18 men have come forward to report abuse, some of which is alldged to
:06:05. > :06:07.have been carried out by the late Rochdale MP, Cyril Smith.
:06:08. > :06:09.Paramedics and other ambulance staff across the North West have voted
:06:10. > :06:16.The GMB union says the row hs over a number of issues including cuts
:06:17. > :06:20.A date is yet to be set for the walkout.
:06:21. > :06:21.Manchester United and England footballer Gary Neville has received
:06:22. > :06:24.an honorary doctorate by the University of Salford.
:06:25. > :06:28.Comic John Bishop was also given an honorary fellowship from
:06:29. > :06:31.Liverpool John Moores University, as was the sister of murderdd
:06:32. > :06:35.His sister Dominique was recognised for her work celebrating
:06:36. > :06:44.Comedian Peter Kay will switch on this year?s Blackpool
:06:45. > :06:49.It will mark the start of a three`day festival
:06:50. > :06:55.Artists include Texas, Little Mix and Rebecca Fergtson
:06:56. > :06:58.The brother of a man killed in Sri Lanka spoke today of finally
:06:59. > :07:02.receiving justice after four men were convicted of his murder.
:07:03. > :07:07.Khuram Shaikh, from Rochdald, was shot and stabbed on
:07:08. > :07:15.But it was feared his killers? political connections would result
:07:16. > :07:18.Today the men were jailed for 20 years each.
:07:19. > :07:26.Those that killed my brother have been punished and are now
:07:27. > :07:30.Clear anguish in Nasser Shahkh's voice outside court in the
:07:31. > :07:34.After watching his brother's killers convicted of
:07:35. > :07:37.Six men were charged last Ddcember following allegations they were
:07:38. > :07:41.being shielded because of their political connections.
:07:42. > :07:47.A day I delivered a promise to my brother.
:07:48. > :07:50.Khuram Shaikh was a 32`year`old Red Cross worker on holiday frol his job
:07:51. > :07:53.On Christmas Day, 2011, he stepped in to stop
:07:54. > :07:59.He was repeatedly stabbed and then shot.
:08:00. > :08:09.Many people in Sri Lanka sahd that we would never get justice because
:08:10. > :08:11.this murderer, one of the mtrderers, was a local politician, verx well
:08:12. > :08:13.connected to President Rajapaksa, the President of Sri Lanka,
:08:14. > :08:19.Sampath Vidana`Pathirana, a member of the ruling partx in
:08:20. > :08:21.Sri Lanka, was given a 20`ydar sentence with hard labour.
:08:22. > :08:23.Three other men received the same sentence.
:08:24. > :08:31.I would also like to thank the British government, who havd been
:08:32. > :08:33.instrumental in seeking answers for our family, the Sri Lankan officials
:08:34. > :08:37.for progressing the trial to a swift resolution, but more import`ntly to
:08:38. > :08:40.acknowledge the bravery and defiance shown by those that
:08:41. > :08:48.The defendants' lawyer says the men will appeal.
:08:49. > :08:51.When we have a new opportunhty given to us to address the accounts
:08:52. > :08:59.But Sri Lanka's top lawyer hs expected to apply to have
:09:00. > :09:07.50`metre high pylons could be built in the Lake District to transport
:09:08. > :09:10.new power cables from Cumbria to the National Grid.
:09:11. > :09:13.Three routes have been conshdered, and the preferred option includes
:09:14. > :09:32.Here's our environment correspondent, Judy Hobson.
:09:33. > :09:41.This is thought to be Wordsworth plus favoured area. Some max not
:09:42. > :09:45.want to see eye ones on the coastline, but they are abott to get
:09:46. > :09:49.taller. The National Grid proposes an offshore power station. Hts
:09:50. > :09:56.preferred option is to use dxisting power lines, but to increasd the
:09:57. > :10:03.height of the pylons. The alternatives would be to kedp a wave
:10:04. > :10:11.to see, or to put knew high once through the South
:10:12. > :10:15.made any hard and fast decisions at this is a
:10:16. > :10:21.helping the UK keeping the lights on. You have not ruled out going
:10:22. > :10:25.through the South Lakes? We have But environmental clean`up ``
:10:26. > :10:30.campaigners would fight that. We want to be treated fairly. We do not
:10:31. > :10:34.want the situation that just because we are not formally part of the
:10:35. > :10:37.national park that means th`t all of the less desirable parts of this are
:10:38. > :10:40.just dumped on us. But others think that is too expensive and there has
:10:41. > :10:42.to be a compromise. important that we protect the
:10:43. > :10:50.content across our area, but that cost too much, that will money ``
:10:51. > :10:54.that money will end up being paid for by people on their energy bills.
:10:55. > :11:00.Some people are concerned about the hate of any new pylons. It would
:11:01. > :11:07.wreck the countryside and I think it would affect to
:11:08. > :11:14.spoil the natural look of the area. It would seem
:11:15. > :11:24.down the tunnel underneath. Looking at the Ritz,
:11:25. > :11:26.than going out to sea. The National Grid will begin
:11:27. > :11:42.We are alive at the Independent festival that is flooding the rebel
:11:43. > :11:45.Valley with music. Happy days, remembering children's
:11:46. > :11:48.TV classics. Sport now,
:11:49. > :11:52.and Stuart Pollitt is here. The action hotting up at thd Open
:11:53. > :11:54.today, Stuart, but not for Yes, despite hosting the
:11:55. > :12:00.Open Championship in the region it doesn't look like we will have
:12:01. > :12:03.any North West players compdting for Only the top half
:12:04. > :12:06.on the leaderboard survive That looks like being
:12:07. > :12:13.at three over par. Southport's Tommy Fleetwood and Matt
:12:14. > :12:15.Baldwin share the same town and Fleetwood said it was
:12:16. > :12:31.a dream to play in a home open. It does not get much better,
:12:32. > :12:36.tournament wise, I did not play well enough to date. That is the only
:12:37. > :12:41.thing I can say. It was a great couple of beers and I can only thank
:12:42. > :12:46.people for coming out to support. It is just a shame I could not play any
:12:47. > :12:53.better. What about the man that we featured yesterday?
:12:54. > :13:01.She started on six over, G. Plate and he's still on the green. She
:13:02. > :13:04.needs a spectacular final fdw holes in years to have any chance of
:13:05. > :13:06.making the cut. In cricket, Freddie Flintoff has
:13:07. > :13:09.been left out of Lancashire?s T 0 match against Derbyshire tonight
:13:10. > :13:11.at Old Trafford due to injury. It would have been his first game
:13:12. > :13:13.at Emirates Old Trafford The all rounder tweeted,
:13:14. > :13:18.?Devastated I'm not playing tonight, Onwards
:13:19. > :13:25.and upwards I will be back though. In Super League tonight Warrington
:13:26. > :13:35.Wolves will aim to make it 01 wins in a row in their away match
:13:36. > :13:37.against local rivals Widnes Vikings Tony Smith's side made it 10 wins
:13:38. > :13:44.from 10 on Sunday with an elphatic In the other match Wigan Warriors
:13:45. > :14:01.host Hull FC. The largest squad
:14:02. > :14:04.of athletes the Island has dver sent to a Commonwealth Games left
:14:05. > :14:06.the island this morning. The largest team the Isle
:14:07. > :14:09.of Man has ever sent to the Commonwealth Games has departed
:14:10. > :14:11.for their trip to Glasgow. 45 athletes will compete in nine
:14:12. > :14:13.of the 17 sports. About half of the team left on
:14:14. > :14:20.this morning?s sailing to Hdysham. everybody is excited about going.
:14:21. > :14:38.Really excited about being here with all the team. Really excited to get
:14:39. > :14:46.out there. I am very ready. The whole gymnastics team seems
:14:47. > :14:48.very hard, especially in thd last few weeks.
:14:49. > :14:53.Meet Niamh, swimming since ` toddler.
:14:54. > :14:56.I started when I was two and a half, three.
:14:57. > :15:04.Now getting ready for the Commonwealth Games.
:15:05. > :15:07.In 1990, her mum was doing the same thing at the Auckland Games.
:15:08. > :15:16.That makes her the youngest member of Team Isle of Man.
:15:17. > :15:25.Well, my mum and dad found out a week before
:15:26. > :15:32.but they decided not to tell me because they thought I would blab.
:15:33. > :15:33.Her mum might have kept that to herself, but she has passed
:15:34. > :15:39.We took her to the learn to swim sessions, she just got stronger
:15:40. > :15:43.The Commonwealth Games will be by far her biggest,
:15:44. > :15:55.I will probably be sat up in the spectators gallery crying
:15:56. > :16:07.I will be really pleased, really proud of her.
:16:08. > :16:10.I am still working hard at school and I have picked my GCSE
:16:11. > :16:12.options this year, so I have been trying to juggle all
:16:13. > :16:20.It's pretty hard but I'm getting there.
:16:21. > :16:24.Just a few weeks to go until history will be repeated and Neve whll stand
:16:25. > :16:39.shoulder to shoulder with some of the best swimmers in the world.
:16:40. > :16:44.That all feature on that on Monday. I am looking forward to the
:16:45. > :16:48.Commonwealth Games. It is a really big deal for the Isle
:16:49. > :16:56.of Man. It is a school where only one
:16:57. > :16:59.in five of the pupils speaks English 10 years ago,
:17:00. > :17:03.St Mary C of E Primary in Manchester?s Moss Side was put into
:17:04. > :17:06.special measures, but today everyone was talking with one voice `s they
:17:07. > :17:40.celebrated an amazing success. So when you started at the school,
:17:41. > :17:42.what was your English like? I only knew one word that mx mum and
:17:43. > :17:52.dad told me, and it was "tohlet . Luckily,
:17:53. > :19:20.the teachers have no problels coping Festival near Gisbun to hear bands
:19:21. > :19:22.like the Happy Mondays and Boney M. But do not expect it to become
:19:23. > :19:26.the next Glastonbury. It's one of the few independent
:19:27. > :19:49.festivals, which means no Yes, the music has begun. A band has
:19:50. > :19:56.just begun on the main stagd. People come here from all over the country
:19:57. > :20:00.to enjoy this festival. You may not have heard of it before, but it s
:20:01. > :20:02.popularity has been growing thanks to world of May. `` due to world of
:20:03. > :20:15.mouth. `` word`of`mouth. It all began with a group of friends
:20:16. > :20:20.playing music around the calpfire. The persuaded a farmer to whn ten
:20:21. > :20:25.Deerfield `` a field and thd festival was born. It is such a
:20:26. > :20:29.beautiful easier. We get colments all the time that the campshte is
:20:30. > :20:40.worth the ticket price alond, just for the views across the valley It
:20:41. > :20:47.is a stunning area. We are very lucky to have it. 12,000 people have
:20:48. > :20:53.event. Still pretty small for their store standards,
:20:54. > :21:00.itself for being one of the independent festival. It relies
:21:01. > :21:07.everybody is to corporate branding, so we try to cater for
:21:08. > :21:12.seems to work. We have sold out year`on`year, so we must be doing
:21:13. > :21:17.from the music world will bd appearing on 15 stages here. You
:21:18. > :21:22.cannot beat it. The location. It is really small and everyone knows each
:21:23. > :21:25.other and everybody is really nice. It is my first time here and
:21:26. > :21:34.everybody seems lovely. It seems I can any nice place to be. `` it
:21:35. > :21:41.seems like a very nice placd to be. Over the last nine years, it has:
:21:42. > :21:48.From strength to strength. `` gone from strength to strength the
:21:49. > :21:53.organisers hope the local economy will benefit from this.
:21:54. > :21:58.They tried to use local suppliers and visit the local petrol station
:21:59. > :22:02.brings an advanced to find out they gates it can stock up on supplies
:22:03. > :22:07.for the festival. It contintes until Sunday and so far the weathdr is
:22:08. > :22:17.behaving. Not sure all the people behhnd you
:22:18. > :22:19.were behaving! We will find out whether the weather will behave In
:22:20. > :22:37.a moment. Now, who was your favourite TV
:22:38. > :22:40.character as a child? If you grew up in the 40s,
:22:41. > :22:43.it might be Muffin the Mule. The 60s and 70s,
:22:44. > :22:46.perhaps it was the Clangers. Or if you were an 80s child,
:22:47. > :22:48.Gordon the Gopher, perhaps? Well, a new exhibition charting the
:22:49. > :22:51.history of BBC children's programmes Favourite characters, old and new,
:22:52. > :22:54.are being put on display, capturing the television melories
:22:55. > :23:08.of childhood. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I
:23:09. > :23:15.will begin. Remember this? Children's hour and a lesson with
:23:16. > :23:28.mother. It is how it all began. How about this? August? `` or this? And
:23:29. > :23:37.as this school uniform familiar `` and as this school uniform familiar
:23:38. > :23:44.two and what about these? Mdmories of nostalgia are stored in this
:23:45. > :23:48.exhibition, which Prince to get the BBC children's characters throughout
:23:49. > :23:56.the decades. It defines who we are in many ways. It is the first find
:23:57. > :24:01.you have, the first dialogud, the first conversation. It is ilportant.
:24:02. > :24:10.Lost on one generation but from you to another. From Bill and Bdn and
:24:11. > :24:14.recliners to Gordon and orddrs. The debates and admits we were having
:24:15. > :24:19.very early on about languagd, about the appropriate set of contdnt, of
:24:20. > :24:23.register, they are all still there, they have just moved on. Here's one
:24:24. > :24:42.day made area. `` the made darlier. Usually, we are showing paintings
:24:43. > :24:47.and drawings and sculptures. This has all that, but also things made
:24:48. > :24:54.of sticky back plastic and cardboard and so on. They are so prechous end
:24:55. > :24:59.of own way. So who has clailed the title of best loved BBC character?
:25:00. > :25:06.It was a close shave but thhs man took the top spot. Goodbye children,
:25:07. > :25:27.goodbye. You do not remember about. , you do.
:25:28. > :25:29.`` you do not remember that, do you?
:25:30. > :25:45.If anything, the forecast whll is worse than we first thought. This is
:25:46. > :25:48.what we are saying about thd weekend. It is definitely spot.
:25:49. > :25:55.Saturday will be very wet, Sunday will be more settled. The stn will
:25:56. > :26:00.come out every now and again. The reason I said the picture is
:26:01. > :26:08.is because The Met office h`ve upgraded the year when we h`ve been
:26:09. > :26:14.talking about all week to an warning. `` upgraded the yellow
:26:15. > :26:19.warning to an amber warning. could be localised warning ``
:26:20. > :26:27.flooding. This is wants to do over the next couple of
:26:28. > :26:38.hours. It wants to bring in at the moment. If you're he`ding out
:26:39. > :26:49.this evening, just look spread quickly into the mord
:26:50. > :26:57.southern part and it people. But to watch this rdmove as
:26:58. > :27:05.we go through the morning. some localised flooding and traffic
:27:06. > :27:17.disruption and potentially some goes on, it starts to fragmdnt. In
:27:18. > :27:28.many places will be tried for a few hours. I cannot tell
:27:29. > :27:33.can see that that is not a pretty picture. We do not often get
:27:34. > :27:37.Sunday will be better. A lot of people
:27:38. > :27:42.boots at that festival. That may be a good idea. If you can takd their
:27:43. > :27:47.canoe that may be better! Have a good weekend anyway, despite
:27:48. > :27:49.the weather. Goodbye.