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Welcome to North West Tonight with Beccy Meehan. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Claims of bizarre punishments at a boys school in Cumbria ` | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
a police inquiry's launched into historical allegations of abuse | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
One thing that was very frightening was the removal of clothes. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
Police are looking into allegations about a nulber | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
A lucky escape from these b`lconies in Blackpool, a company is fined | :00:28. | :00:57. | |
Cumbria Police say they're investigating historical | :00:58. | :00:58. | |
allegations of abuse at a ntmber of residential schools in the county. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
They include one that closed two years ago. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Some former pupils of Underley School just outsidd | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
Kikrby Lonsdale claim to have been subjected to bizarre punishlents | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
An MP has asked the Home Secretary to look into the allegations. | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
Our Chief Reporter, Dave Gudst, has more. | :01:25. | :03:07. | |
this matter and I am waiting for her reply. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Cumbria police today confirled that Underley Hall is one of a ntmber | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
of schools in the county they are investigating | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
in relation to historical allegations of child abuse. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
They also confirmed that thdy did investigate this place in 1896` 7 | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
and said they would be revidwing the conclusions of that investigation | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
But they did not elaborate as to what those conclusions had | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
Police investigating the de`th of Robert Hart, who died after being | :03:37. | :03:49. | |
attacked at the Parklife festival in Manchester's Heaton Park, have | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
released a new image of a potential witness they're keen to spe`k to. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
The woman is one of four witnesses police believe may | :03:57. | :03:57. | |
26`year`old Robert died fivd days after being punched | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
Fundraising for a dedicated breast cancer unit on the Isle of Lan has | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
The Manx Breast Cancer Support Group wants to build the clinic at | :04:10. | :04:19. | |
Noble's Hospital, including an ultrasound rool | :04:20. | :04:20. | |
They need another half a million pounds. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Passengers flying from Manchester Airport this weekend are behng | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
warned to allow extra time to get there because the M56 will be closed | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
The Highways Agency will shtt the road between junctions six `t Hale, | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
and junction seven from ten o'clock tonight until early on Mond`y. | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
A collection of the world's smallest car have | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
gathered in the Isle of Man, where they were produced 50 years ago | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
The Peel P50 has three wheels, one headlight, | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
There are only about 30 original cars left in the world. | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
Almost half of them will be taking part in the | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
A company set up by Blackpool Council to look after its housing | :04:57. | :05:12. | |
The company failed to take `ction despite concerns expressed by | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
experts who said the design were structurally | :05:17. | :05:30. | |
Preston Crown Court was told it was remarkable no`one was injured. | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
Lucky to escape with his life. Damien Milner had been standing | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
outside his second for a fl`t just moments before it collapsed in 012. | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
`` second`floor flat. I had only just got back and only just stepped | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
over the balcony and they got injured when it fell off. Ndighbours | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
had to be rescued by the Fire Service and re`homed. The court | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
heard how it could have been so much worse. The judge said it was | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
remarkable and fortunate th`t no was killed or seriously injtred and | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
said it was an accident happen, one which could havd | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
foreseen and prevented. People living here raised concerns about | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
the balconied as far back as 20 5 but it | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
that were ignored. So were those of structural | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
of the balcony and others in the area. | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
of seven years, the company where I devised by | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
and could visually say the balcony was falling away from the btilding | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
that they chose to take no `ction. The company now has a new chief | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
executive. We are not a bad company. We have done | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
of the Council house stock hn Blackpool. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
right to be modified, it should not happen. They have been handdd | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
The parents and carers of severely disabled adults | :07:24. | :07:24. | |
Salford City Council is planning to cut transport to day centres | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
and respite care for dozens of vulnerable adults to savd | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Our Health Correspondent El`ine Dunkley reports. | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
Two days a week he gets on ` bus provided by Salford City Cotncil and | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
On board are his friends and an escort. | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
In a matter of weeks it will come to an end | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
People are very badly handicapped on the bus and I am worried | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Over 200 adults with disabilities use the servicd. | :08:01. | :08:10. | |
He is worried that if I can't cope, he keeps saying, will I havd to go | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
into residential care, which is the last thing I w`nt. | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
Mary says getting a taxi isn't an option for families who will be | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
left with no choice but to keep their children `t home. | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
It would have to be a black cab because of the wheelchair | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
and we have been told that will be ?15 per trip to take him down to | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
Salford, so that is ?30 per day he goes two days a week, so th`t is ?60 | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
I mean, that is more than my carer's allowance. | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
The transport scheme providds families with piece of mind. | :08:44. | :08:51. | |
Salford City Council will save ?600,000 a year. | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
Families say they will fight to the final hour. | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
A lot of our children have really serious problems like seizures, | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
some choke, some have got bdhaviour problems, they get out | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
of their seats, the escorts know every little thing about thdm. | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
It just gives us that bit extra knowing they are safe | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
No one from Salford City Cotncil would speak to us on camera today | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
For families like Michael's the problem has not gone away. | :09:21. | :09:44. | |
Gold bars ` Commonwealth Games success for | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
And you are invited to a spdcial opening | :09:50. | :10:04. | |
remember those who fought in the First World War. | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
Sport now, and Stuart Pollitt's here whth | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
the latest from the Commonwdalth Games and Stuart there's bedn a | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
third medal for one of our gymnasts but not for England, though. | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
Yes, we're talking about Crosby s Daniel Purvis who has won gold. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Despite being brought up in Merseyside, Dan has chosdn to | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
compete for Scotland becausd of his Scottish mother but that won't stop | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
Yes, after winning a silver and bronze already in Glasgow, | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
today Dan completed his med`l set and finally made the top stdp | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
This is a very, very strong bid for a medal. | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
With a silver and bronze in the bag, a gold is all that was misshng from | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
One perfect performance on the parallel bars changed that. | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
I just had to go out and do my best and fortunatdly it | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
landed me the gold medal so I am really pleased with that. | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
Stockport's Hannah Whelan w`s also going for a third medal | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
of these Games but a small slip on her floor routine left hdr | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
Liverpool's Sam Maxwell and Scotland's Josh Taylor `re good | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
But they faced each other in the light`welterweight semifinals. | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
Maxwell is going to give thhs everything, as you'd expect. | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
But everything wasn't quite enough as Taylor triumphed. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Maxwell brings a bronze back to Merseyside. | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
I had a feeling I was down, he was boxing well. | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
I thought, I want to leave everything | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
Tonight fellow Scouser Anthony Fowler and Preston's | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
Scott Fitzgerald have their chance to make the boxing finals. | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Laura Massaro has made the final of the women's doubles squash. | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
Winning through in straight sets to guarantde at | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
We are really happy with the way we are feeling on court | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
the way we are playing, everything is going well and hopefully we can | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
This evening Jenny Meadows takes centre stage. | :11:47. | :11:55. | |
After missing the big stage of London 2012 with injury, | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
the Wigan athlete lines up in the final of the 800 metres. | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
Blackpool Football Club will soon have as many players | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
That's the pledge from under`fire chairman Karl Oyston | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
who says several new additions are on their way to Bloomfield Road | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
With just a week until the start of the new season, | :12:18. | :12:26. | |
the Seasiders have a squad of just 13 but Mr Oyston has promisdd fans | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
Wigan Warriors are up to second in Super League after hammering | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
Salford Red Devils in last night's match at the DW Stadium. | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
This Matty Smith try rounded off a 45`4 success which seds | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
Shaun Wane's side leapfrog Leeds, who are in action tonight. | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
Other Warriors highlights wdre an Anthony Gelling hat trick | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
and a substitute appearance by Joel Tomkins, who recently returned | :12:44. | :12:44. | |
30 minutes, Lancashire's much anticipated 2020 quarterfin`l at | :12:45. | :13:15. | |
expected with the winners m`king it through | :13:16. | :13:27. | |
postponed until two o'clock tomorrow. After the postpondment, | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
jester and Merseyside. Scott Fitzgerald is going tonight | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Yes. Potentially two golds hn the boxing for boxers from our region. | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
Let's move on. A group of volunteers in Lancashire are putting the final | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
touches to a special tributd to mark the Centenary to the outbre`k of | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
World War I. A bus driver from Morecambe, | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
Steve Traynor, came up with the idea of asking | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
people to bring poppy seeds for a But | :13:59. | :14:00. | |
the scheme was nearly ruined when Today, though, | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
they're back on track. Thousands | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
of poppies bring a blaze of colour And the rain didn't put off the | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
volunteers from some final weeding. They want it looking its best for a | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
world war one centenary service to All this result of some verx hard | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
work, and coming just weeks after The man behind the idea | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
didn't think they'd make it. I thought we had no chance. I | :14:26. | :14:44. | |
thought it would be the end of August at the earliest when we would | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
get anywhere near any flowers. came down last week and the first | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
ones had grown and I almost cried, it was that good. The campahgners | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
want to use the flower bed `s a focus for a fundraising for the | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
Royal British Legion, they want to raise ?136,904 and 30p. 1p for every | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
soldier including the Germans who died in the First World War. All | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
kinds of people of all kinds of ages have helped plan the poppies, one is | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
a park ranger who is also a former servicemen. It is the mechanics of a | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
CD being implanted, children being involved, it has been overwhelming. | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
We have achieved what we set out to do. | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
This Monday marks 100 years since the start of the First World War. | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
As part of the commemorations marking the centenary, | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
your BBC local radio stations will be continuing with their series of | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
special World War One at Hole reports. | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
They're looking at how life here in the North West was affected | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
And you can hear those storhes on North West Tonight each dvening | :15:52. | :16:05. | |
The shop behind us, it was `ctually destroyed on the 11th of Max which | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
was three days after the sinking of the Lusitania. Three days after the | :16:17. | :16:30. | |
riots started. If the fishing boat crew hadn't been so brave, | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
the boys would have been lost. German front`line | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
and interest from the public at large was | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
numbers would gather to CDs for troops arrive and marched to the | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
camp. To think that such a xoung man, just past his 16th birthday, | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
leading a platoon of 13 men opt that field. There was a big call to arms | :16:54. | :17:14. | |
and the men that went where the men who worked in the fishing industry. | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
The outbreak of war is being remembered | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
in many ways, and an unusual one involves 350 singers, fireworks and | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
It's happening tomorrow night, just next door to this studho ` | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
in the main square of Media City in Salford. | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
The all`important dress rehdarsal is under way, | :17:32. | :17:32. | |
It is a little damp this evdning. The dress rehearsal consists of a | :17:33. | :17:47. | |
rather nice array of waterproof jackets. The choir is behind us A | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
sound beautiful. They are all volunteers. The screen behind them | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
is the length of a building, 10 metres, and it will be transformed | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
into a cinema screen. The projections will go on to that. They | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
talked to the creative prodtcer behind this. | :18:08. | :18:21. | |
story of the First World War? Originally | :18:22. | :18:41. | |
projection freight across the building, we have live | :18:42. | :19:06. | |
We owe a lot to our director, he is in touch with a lot of the choir 's. | :19:07. | :19:27. | |
parts of the performance, so there is dancing with the actors `nd | :19:28. | :19:46. | |
and join the choir. Thank you for joining us. | :19:47. | :20:06. | |
crossed, tomorrow night, ten o'clock, hopefully | :20:07. | :20:16. | |
from Lancaster. We used to play there. | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
I am going on Sunday. it all comes full circle. | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
The preparation began airilx. It is massively important to the local | :20:35. | :20:55. | |
area. Stage set, then check started and the stars arrive. This hs atomic | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
Kitten's dressing room. Not much going on. A few drinks and ` few | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
flowers. And if that enough for them, you can cole here | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
and And this is where Tom Jones' luxury | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
Winnebago will be parked. a marble kitchen, a large lounge. It | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
is the place to hang out. be trying to steal the fencd to get | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
into Tom Jones's dressing room. Everyone is here to go back to their | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
youth and sing along to part of their childhood. The soundtrack to | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
your lives. You will hear those songs tonight. We walk up in London | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
and it was sunny this morning. Then it was raining. We need to cast our | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
spell. You're welcome! With the stars comes the big requests. With | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
Tom Jones it was candles. I almost fainted when I saw the cost of | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
those. Apparently it makes the performer | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
happy. Everything has to be white and real gold. It is just w`ter and | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
have all that maybe some frtit. You must have something on your little | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
list. A packet of M What colour? Don't even go there. Tomorrow it is | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
Tom Jones. Let's hope the wdather is on his side. | :22:35. | :22:35. | |
What a lot of singing in programme. I feel like we should | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
join in. I like Brother Beyond. | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
What about Bewitched? Tom Jones is there on Saturday. On | :22:50. | :23:02. | |
Sunday, Michael Ball and Lesley Garrett. A bit of class. Evdryone is | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
going to see you! you would be there and 30,000 people | :23:08. | :23:17. | |
would be there also. liked when you said. | :23:18. | :23:26. | |
I am not going camping any lore Did you can select like I s`id? | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
It wasn't me, it was my husband who Sunday is looking better like Graham | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
keeps telling you. `` did you cancel. | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
What a difference one weeks makes. `` one week. Heavy showers loving | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
from of the showers have been. This time | :23:52. | :24:05. | |
last Friday, we have complained because tod`y how | :24:06. | :24:33. | |
disappointing all going to the Proms like Graham | :24:34. | :25:12. | |
is, Dundee is looking good still in double figures despite all | :25:13. | :25:51. | |
of that rain. Maybe 15 Celshus. | :25:52. | :26:30. |