23/08/2014 North West Tonight

Police in Manchester have started to impose a cap on the number

of people who can who can protest about the conflict in Gaza.

Officers announced the restriction ahead of a planned

protest by pro`Palestinian campaigners earlier today.

Businesses selling Israeli`sourced goods say they've been targeted

From now on, only 10 people will be allowed to

protest in a designated area of the city centre at any one time.

We support the right of people to protest without any

restrictions on them and I know that the legal team is looking into ways

of challenging that restriction and I support that fully.

A single egg supplier may have been responsible for an outbreak

of salmonella which has struck down almost 40 in Cheshire and Merseyside

Public Health England believes the source may have been a farm

In the past week, the number of reported cases of salmonella has

Tens of thousands of people filled the streets

of Manchester this afternoon for the annual Pride parade.

The festival, which is in its 23rd year,

celebrates the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

All ages, all manner of costumes and faces from all walks of life.

Participators were on a high, as were the crowds.

Absolutely brilliant. It is just a knockout.

Manchester pride is considered the UK's leading Pride event, attracting

tens of thousands of people every year. The sun is out, so are the

crowds and of course, the flamboyant costumes.

Colourful, musical and extravagant, but with a serious message as well.

This is for all of the people all over the world that still

don't have that liberty and freedom that we do. There is no greater city

Today, crowds watched the parade for free,

but yesterday, one campaign group claimed they weren't able to access

But organisers say that's not the case.

It is a great shame that this small group who are

calling themselves protesters are trying to disrupt the celebrations

for tens of thousands of people who are coming together to support the

The four`day festival continues until bank holiday Monday.

A memorial service has been held on the 70th anniversary

of the Freckleton air disaster which killed 62 people.

38 children were among those killed when an

American Liberator heavy bomber crashed in the Lancashire village.

It destroyed Holy Trinity Church School, houses and a cafe.

The service, at Holy Trinity Church, was held at 10:30

` the exact time the plane hit the village.

Cricket, and Lancashire's rain`affected T20 Blast semi`final

But Lightning fought back, Steven Croft with this six.

In the Premiership, Everton's game against Arsenal is

There'll be full coverage on BBC Radio Merseyside.

Manager Roberto Martinez has told us today's game and the one

against Chelsea will tell him if he needs to act

It will give us a real opportunity to see if we have to do anything or

help the players that we have at the club, which direction we have to go,

but at the moment, I'm very pleased with the players that we have.

All the football results so far are available on the BBC

Let's take a look at the Bank holiday weather forecast `

It certainly started off very showery today, and

gradually as we headed through the afternoon and now into the evening.

The majority of those showers will start to die away, they might be

the odd one towards Cheshire, but in the night`time, temperatures with

the cloud still remaining in places not falling any lower than seven

Celsius, and through tomorrow morning

as well, a good start to the day, that cloud thinning and breaking, so

a few sunny spells developing, but showers also starting to form as

Quite a breezy day and maximum temperatures of 17 Celsius.

It is all downhill sadly before bank holiday Monday.

We've got two weather fronts with us, quite a deep area

of low pressure which will increase the winds and some heavy and

persistent rain arriving and also low`pressure staying with us through

We might see some drier spells at times, a little bit of sunshine, it

will still be quite a cool feel to the week and quite breezy at times.

It has been a familiar story again today, pleasant in the sunshine but

certainly a chill in the air and tonight will be unusually cold for

this time of year. There will be some sunshine on Sunday before cloud

increases in the West to bring some rain around on Monday. Still showers

at the moment, some heavy ones, maybe thundery across eastern

England, Windows will fade away, maybe thundery across eastern

England, Windows will fade tonight will be dry, clear, cold, not a

breath of wind. Temperatures in towns and cities in many areas will

be in single figures but if you are in the country, look at this:

Temperatures in the in the country, look at this:

Chilly start first thing, sunshine to compensate. For many eastern

areas it will stay fine and dry, with some sunshine all day. Heading

further west, the crowd will come in. -- clout. It will bring in rain.

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