:00:00. > :00:00.but it'll be turning quite breezy. Thank you very much. That's it.
:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson and Annabel Thffin.
:00:07. > :00:11.60 dogs die in an arson att`ck ` volunteers at Manchester Dogs Home
:00:12. > :00:31.?1 million has been pledged to help the charity here recover. A teenager
:00:32. > :00:33.has also been arrested. Hit by the hackers ` the North
:00:34. > :00:34.West's economy is losing 100 million Liverpool scientists make a major
:00:35. > :00:37.breakthrough in the treatment Lancashire's modern pentathlete
:00:38. > :00:42.Samantha Murray on her world championship whn
:00:43. > :00:48.and how she'll celebrate. Once you have what you dreal of it
:00:49. > :01:02.is so humbling, and Volunteers at Manchester Dogs' Home
:01:03. > :01:04.say they're overwhelmed by the donations and support
:01:05. > :01:08.they've received following an arson attack that killed
:01:09. > :01:11.around sixty dogs last night. Police and firefighters havd praised
:01:12. > :01:13.the public for helping to rdscue 150 Today a 15 year old boy has been
:01:14. > :01:21.questioned on suspicion of `rson. Meanwhile, donations to the charity
:01:22. > :01:23.have reached more than a million Naomi Cornwell joins us now
:01:24. > :01:45.from outside the dog's home. The volunteers here have bedn
:01:46. > :01:53.through a lot in the last 24 hours. First the shock of the fire, losing
:01:54. > :01:57.so many dogs. Then donations from around the world. The charity that
:01:58. > :02:09.founded the dogs home was from 800. It has honed over 1 million dogs.
:02:10. > :02:15.Today, this is a crime scend. People living near dogs
:02:16. > :02:21.as the scale of the fire became apparent.
:02:22. > :02:29.building. There was a measure of security,
:02:30. > :02:44.that. You also have a number of dogs which are agitated, and
:02:45. > :02:57.very charitable things to hdlp the dogs, but also, there is a
:02:58. > :03:13.was destroyed. There were 60 dogs lost. We have dogs to
:03:14. > :03:35.extra dogs. We need to start moving forward. We need to start ddaling
:03:36. > :03:52.can explore all lines of enpuiry. And
:03:53. > :04:11.locals have donated blankets and other things for the dogs. There
:04:12. > :04:24.there who might have vital information about the
:04:25. > :04:35.other dog `` volunteers havd been...
:04:36. > :04:46.our local community would stpport us.
:04:47. > :05:01.has been overwhelming. We are struggling
:05:02. > :05:17.proportion, if it'd been a human tragedy
:05:18. > :05:28.some people, ?1 million is ` phenomenal amount of money to
:05:29. > :05:39.That includes staff, wages, but the vet bills, the whole shebang.
:05:40. > :05:51.costs, we function today taking strays in.
:05:52. > :06:12.We insurance claim or anything
:06:13. > :06:16.sister shelter where many dogs were re`homed.
:06:17. > :06:17.from duty, is due to appear before magistrates later this month.
:06:18. > :06:30.Liverpool City Council's party leader is to be credit `` qtestioned
:06:31. > :06:35.about the Rotherham sex abuse scandal. He worked there in 200
:06:36. > :06:38.2003. There will be an independent chairman.
:06:39. > :06:40.The fish were discovered by Environment Agency officdr
:06:41. > :06:42.Andrew Croft as he was testhng water quality of the River Calder
:06:43. > :06:47.It will be the end of an er` for the Douglas horse tram service
:06:48. > :06:50.For the last time ever horsds will pass each other using
:06:51. > :06:55.Major redevelopment work has led to the changes, which will see a single
:06:56. > :07:06.It's claimed almost two and a half two thousand livds
:07:07. > :07:09.in West Africa, but there's still no cure for the deadly ebol` virus.
:07:10. > :07:11.But today researchers at Liverpool University said they had
:07:12. > :07:13.made an important step towards developing a vaccine.
:07:14. > :07:16.It comes as the World Health Organisation claimed the nulber of
:07:17. > :07:17.cases was rising faster than health authorities could contain it.
:07:18. > :07:35.There are no licenced treatlents or vaccines for Ebola,
:07:36. > :07:38.more than half of those who have caught it have died.
:07:39. > :07:40.But could researchers here hn Liverpool have made a break through?
:07:41. > :07:44.This is the university's Health Protection Research Tnit
:07:45. > :07:49.A team here has identified ` protein which attacks the immune system
:07:50. > :07:55.And it found some existing drugs can block that protein.
:07:56. > :08:07.We can use off the shelf drtgs like one used for heart disdase
:08:08. > :08:10.It's early days, but if the cure involves a drug we
:08:11. > :08:23.already know about, it would bring forward a cure by several ydars
:08:24. > :08:50.it is exciting news. This is a. . These scientists are trying to come
:08:51. > :08:56.up with all kinds of viruses. If this breakthrough does work, it
:08:57. > :08:58.could be years before a vaccine is developed.
:08:59. > :09:00.In just six days time the pdople of Scotland will be heading to
:09:01. > :09:06.Whatever the outcome of the vote, it's likely to mean big changes not
:09:07. > :09:09.just north of the border, btt also for politics in this region.
:09:10. > :09:11.The deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, today said that more
:09:12. > :09:13.power needs to be devolved to regions across England in the wake
:09:14. > :09:29.Here's our Political Editor Arif Ansarh.
:09:30. > :09:42.If Scotland votes yes indepdndence, they can go their own way. But they
:09:43. > :09:47.will get greater power anyw`y. There are people in north`west
:09:48. > :09:55.they feel distant from Westlinster as well. Nick Clegg is saying today
:09:56. > :10:00.that he has support for that idea. The previous
:10:01. > :10:08.on the idea of regional quangos It does not mean
:10:09. > :10:15.That is what we should do now is work with the kind of
:10:16. > :10:38.counties, city regions, but also make sure that those errors
:10:39. > :10:48.last few years is that we h`ve attack creation
:10:49. > :10:56.the government has done and proposes to do is strengthen
:10:57. > :11:04.course, it has not been reflected in getting politicians
:11:05. > :11:17.they don't need any more politicians. But
:11:18. > :11:32.here. I am worried that you are going to have two more `` to
:11:33. > :11:53.big thought about ten years ago It needs thinking out.
:11:54. > :12:00.politics which returns at 10am. It is after
:12:01. > :12:02.its economy is dominated by small and medium sized business who don't
:12:03. > :12:19.Friday afternoon at a EV Liverpool `` AE three. ?100,000 poured out of
:12:20. > :12:24.their account and went strahght into cybercriminals in Ukraine. @t the
:12:25. > :12:33.information regarding banks. They find the information quite ledic ``
:12:34. > :12:38.readily through keystrokes. They can see a password and they accdss our
:12:39. > :12:45.account. He got the money b`ck. aren't so lucky. Millions are stolen
:12:46. > :12:51.from more `` north`west bushnesses. It seems it is not that difficult to
:12:52. > :13:08.achieve. This man calls himself an ethical hacker. You would sdt up a
:13:09. > :13:12.fake account. Now you can sde all sorts of information about
:13:13. > :13:20.system they are using, oper`ting system. That was an exercisd, but it
:13:21. > :13:26.mirrors reality for thousands of businesses. Some big, mostlx small.
:13:27. > :13:31.These Lancaster University students will be on the front line in the war
:13:32. > :13:37.against cyber crime. They c`n steal intellectual property, they can lead
:13:38. > :13:43.to other issues like dealing with authorities. There is reput`tional
:13:44. > :13:50.damage. Is there still a culture that suggest it might happen to
:13:51. > :13:57.them? Gayle yes, you might be fine, but you probably are not. L`ncaster
:13:58. > :14:06.University say that the answer to region's cybercrime problems is for
:14:07. > :14:08.This weekend the BBC's World War One at Home roadshow rolls
:14:09. > :14:12.You'll be able to find out lore about how the war affected the city,
:14:13. > :14:14.trace some of your family's connections,
:14:15. > :14:16.and hear historians talking about life in the city between 1904`1 .
:14:17. > :14:18.Radio Manchester presenters will be down there `
:14:19. > :14:23.To get himself in the mood, he joined a walking tour of
:14:24. > :14:25.the city centre to find out how the war affected the lives of women
:14:26. > :14:37.Walking into history in Manchester. I am going to be... Talking about
:14:38. > :14:48.the changes that the war brought about. The two things that women had
:14:49. > :14:55.to do, get your boys off and get on with the
:14:56. > :15:02.outweighed. Men do all the work Women don't do anything.
:15:03. > :15:06.sit at home and pretty. Somd of the changes were that he had to make
:15:07. > :15:19.life simpler and safer. lies meant changing fashions. Short
:15:20. > :15:29.hair, shorter shirts. Was there any resistance? Not particularlx about
:15:30. > :15:36.dress, though there was quite a lot of resistance as the war went on,
:15:37. > :15:43.because other freedoms for women came into evidence. They did not
:15:44. > :15:52.mind too much about short skirts. Round the corner to the fred trade
:15:53. > :15:57.Hall. This is where the suffrage in movement started in 1905. ``
:15:58. > :16:04.suffragette. By 1914, Pankhtrst faced a dilemma. Would they support
:16:05. > :16:13.the war? Emily was just abott to go to jail for doing damage at Lloyd
:16:14. > :16:22.George's house. Lloyd Georgd says they would do a deal. Never get
:16:23. > :16:33.have to go to jail. We will think about votes for
:16:34. > :16:42.they are going to do. They were very nationalistic. It
:16:43. > :16:50.They knocked down the hospital. There was still a strict hidrarchy.
:16:51. > :16:58.Ladies went out to work. If you were a working`class lady, you are in the
:16:59. > :17:07.machinery. If you are upper`class, you did your thing as a nurse. After
:17:08. > :17:14.a few more stops, they ended at the war memorial. It was unveildd in
:17:15. > :17:19.1924. It was a woman who pl`yed eight Central and poignant role in
:17:20. > :17:26.the ceremony. The Senate afterwards `` cenotaph was on unveiled by Mrs
:17:27. > :17:31.Bingle. Our thanks to the excellent
:17:32. > :17:33.Anne Beswick from And Mike Sweeney will be down with
:17:34. > :17:38.the roadshow in Albert Square. Well worth going along to `
:17:39. > :17:43.got huge crowds in Liverpool Richard's here with
:17:44. > :17:58.the sport now and the return We have just discovered that
:17:59. > :18:09.Accrington Stanley is parting company with James Beattie. It did
:18:10. > :18:13.not work out well for him there He had been in charge for 16 months.
:18:14. > :18:20.The website said end this journey. Stanley are fourth
:18:21. > :18:23.from bottom of league two. City need a morale boosting
:18:24. > :18:25.win after that surprise homd They no longer have Alvaro Negredo
:18:26. > :18:30.in their squad after he was loaned out to Valencia and manager
:18:31. > :18:32.Manuel Pellegrini said todax that the controversial Financial Fair
:18:33. > :18:35.Play rules meant he had to go. Because City fell foul of the rules,
:18:36. > :18:37.they were forced to cut their Champions League squad
:18:38. > :18:40.from 25 to 21 players and ddspite his success last season, Negredo was
:18:41. > :18:44.one of the players who had to go. Bury's Scott Quigg weighed
:18:45. > :18:46.in today ahead of tomorrow night's world title defence in Manchester
:18:47. > :18:48.against Belgium's Stephane Jamoye. If he comes through unscathdd,
:18:49. > :18:50.the super`bantamweight could feature in a Battle of Britain with fellow
:18:51. > :18:52.World Champion. And as I've been finding out,
:18:53. > :19:18.Scott's steely focus on getting to Weighing in Fort tomorrow's big
:19:19. > :19:25.fight. A contest that could hold the key for all Scott Quigg's
:19:26. > :19:32.tomorrow's. Another fight against Carl Frampton. Petite ``
:19:33. > :19:38.potentially, it could lead to the mega` fight. With the prospdct of a
:19:39. > :19:45.fight against Carl Frampton, important it is one Fort Scott?
:19:46. > :19:52.Huge. It would be the next big thing. He needs to keep focts. Green
:19:53. > :19:58.I am sure he will do it. Boxing is not just a sport to me, it hs a
:19:59. > :20:04.lifestyle. I scrutinise everything. I invest in training equipmdnt that
:20:05. > :20:13.I have, and I leave no stond unturned. You got into the habit
:20:14. > :20:19.filming everything and lookhng at it when you get back. Yes. Whether it
:20:20. > :20:26.is backed work, sparring, fhghts... You cannot scrutinise yoursdlf
:20:27. > :20:32.enough. When you were a lot younger, when you were 14, you are on holiday
:20:33. > :20:42.in Florida. You were just boxing. In the morning, I w`s
:20:43. > :20:47.running at 6am, and I was rtnning where the villa was. It is something
:20:48. > :20:54.that I have always been dre`ming of as a kid. What I
:20:55. > :20:58.five years, I wanted to be `t the top, world
:20:59. > :21:00.After defeat to Warrington last week, St.
:21:01. > :21:02.Helens get a second chance to secure Super League's League Leaders Shield
:21:03. > :21:03.They'll guarantee a first place finish if thex win
:21:04. > :21:06.Warriors are revving up for the play`offs after thex
:21:07. > :21:08.recovered from 18`4 down to beat Warrington 24`20 last night, Blake
:21:09. > :21:12.We've heard from one world champion this evening.
:21:13. > :21:15.Lancashire's Samantha Murrax is basking in the glory
:21:16. > :21:18.of winning the modern pentathlon world championships.
:21:19. > :21:20.She added the gold medal to her Olympic silver in Poland last week.
:21:21. > :21:30.Stuart Pollitt's been catching up with her.
:21:31. > :21:33.All these outfits in a day's work for Samantha Mtrray.
:21:34. > :21:36.The modern pentathlete must fence, swim, ride, run and shoot.
:21:37. > :21:37.Now Samantha can say she dods all that better than anyone
:21:38. > :21:57.Being a world champion, the feeling is so humbling, and it feelhng to
:21:58. > :21:59.hold She had contemplated retirelent
:22:00. > :21:59.after a hard two years following At the world championships Samantha
:22:00. > :22:15.had to win a medal to retain her I felt stressed, and on the day in
:22:16. > :22:19.the fencing, I was under prdssure, and I think everyone could see that.
:22:20. > :22:25.I was crying a But sometimes, having that on your
:22:26. > :22:31.shoulders brings I got in the front door, my dog
:22:32. > :22:44.greeted me, as dogs always do. It really proud. It was 11 o'clock at
:22:45. > :22:57.night, but we And she's also planning to celebrate
:22:58. > :23:08.her gold by treating herself. that. Are we going to see you the
:23:09. > :23:19.scooter when it of avoiding relegation from the
:23:20. > :23:21.first division of cricket's County Championship took another blow today
:23:22. > :23:24.as they lost to Sussex at Hove. Lancashire made 364
:23:25. > :23:27.in their second innings but the home side had no trouble
:23:28. > :23:30.in reaching their victory t`rget Back to our top story now ` the fire
:23:31. > :23:43.at Manchester Dogs Home which killed As we've heard many
:23:44. > :23:47.of the 150 dogs rescue have gone to the Cheshire Dogs Home
:23:48. > :23:50.at Grappenhall in Warrington. The staff there clearly havd
:23:51. > :23:53.a big job on their hands now. Our reporter, Andy Gill,
:23:54. > :24:14.is live from the home tonight. We are with some of the survivors.
:24:15. > :24:23.This is one of them. Anna Stansfield is one of the managers here. You
:24:24. > :24:28.have got about 60 dogs. What condition are they in? They
:24:29. > :24:34.this morning, and they were very shocked. During the day, thdy have
:24:35. > :24:40.been extremely quiet. They have started waking up in the last two or
:24:41. > :24:50.three hours. A blankets. What have you madd of the
:24:51. > :24:58.response? ordeal, and we have been intndated
:24:59. > :25:08.with people donating things. to mean for you here? It is just
:25:09. > :25:20.under doubled whether they can come down `nd have
:25:21. > :25:31.a chat with us. Unbelievable! We have been since
:25:32. > :25:43.1893, and for this to happen is Thank you very much. Back to you.
:25:44. > :25:52.Let's go straight to the we`ther. We are still dry, we are still fine.
:25:53. > :25:59.Tonight, not quite as cool `s it has influencing us as we go through the
:26:00. > :26:07.weekend. But I do think clear night. Temperatures are
:26:08. > :26:21.slightly better. hours is how long the clear skirt ``
:26:22. > :26:33.clear spells have some errors and mist and fog.
:26:34. > :26:42.It is lot of cloud, but it will then and
:26:43. > :26:51.break. weather. What it means is that the
:26:52. > :27:00.coast as cool as anywhere else. The break as it moves across thd region.
:27:01. > :27:12.You get clearer that this time of year. Just quickly
:27:13. > :27:21.to tell you, the appeal