28/12/2016 North West Tonight

A woman's been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 29-year-old man

was stabbed to death in St Helens.

Neighbours living in the Parr area of the town have been

speaking of their shock after last night's attack.

Forensic teams arrived to carry out their investigations

Neighbours say a polish couple had been living at the house

Police arrived at the house at 7:20pm after paramedics had attended

the house and find -- found a man with stab wounds to his chest. He

died in an ambulance on the way to hospital.

People living here have told us this is a quiet cul-de-sac,

and that what's happened has come as a real shock.

Jacqueline Kenning returned from work last night to find a crime

You don't expect to see something like that. I got a phone call from

my daughter and when I had come home, this had happened. I just

couldn't believe it. Police say they've been

carrying out house to house A 34-year-old woman is this

evening being questioned Ian Haslam, BBC North

West Tonight, St Helens. A man's appeared in court charged

with a series of sexual assaults The alleged attacks took

place in the Sefton Park 25-year-old Nuradine Jafar,

from Selbourne Street in Toxteth, He's due to appear in court

again tomorrow before Police are appealing for witnesses

after an elderly woman struck by a car died from her injuries

on Christmas Day. 79-year-old Patricia

Sharples was airlifted to the Royal Preston Hospital

after she was hit by a Ford Kuga The collision happened at 11 o'clock

in the morning on Tuesday, A North West MP has criticised

the region's hospitals for collecting nearly

?19 million in car parking Two of the region's NHS trusts,

Central Manchester and Aintree, Many hospitals say the money goes

back into patient care, NHS hospitals in England are making

increasing amounts of money from car-parking charges levied

on staff, visitors and patients. The press association contacted

all hospital trusts and received Between them, they'd charged

just under ?19 million Central Manchester University

Hospitals had the highest figure at just over three million,

followed by Aintree and the University Hospital

of South Manchester. In central Manchester, they have

mixed views. Why should we pay? We pay our national health. We get a

few hours fit to pound 50. We have been if a 24 hours and that prices

fine. I don't have a massive issue paying for parking as long it is

going to be used in the right way. It is unfair on NHS staff and

totally unfair on patients and it was about time they were dealt with.

They were phased out in 2010 and people didn't have to worry about

this. It is the last thing you want to worry about and it was time it is

gone. A spokeswoman for the Department

of Health said it expected hospitals to follow its guidelines and put

concessions in place for those who needed the most help, including

disabled people and carers. Detectives are hoping the public can

help them track down a man who slashed an innocent bystander

across the face with a knife. of a man they want to talk

to about the attack at Deansgate Locks in Manchester

city centre in the early hours The image is indistinct, but police

hope it will jog someone's memory. The 18-year-old victim

will have facial scars The leader of council says Pakistani

people are being forced to produce passports to identify themselves.

Yesterday a report named Blackburn, Burnley, Hyndburn, Oldham and Pendle

as areas particularly vulnerable to electoral fraud.

But the leader of Pendle council, Mohammed Iqbal, says it's unfair

to target Pakistani communities over isolated incidents.

Bus drivers in Wirral have called off a strike after voting

in favour of an improved pay offer from Stagecoach.

85% of those who took part in a ballot voted

120 staff based in Rock Ferry had been due

The Manchester based Co-op group plans to create 1500 jobs

by opening 100 new stores throughout the UK in the New Year.

The company's nearing the end of a three-year recovery programme

after a period of turmoil, mainly involving its banking group.

The Lancashire-based cycling legend Sir Bradley Wiggins has announced

In 2012, he became the first British rider

This summer in Rio, he won his fifth Olympic gold medal.

He says he's been lucky enough to fulfill his childhood dreams.

Earlier this year it was revealed he was granted medical exemptions

to have injections before three races between 2011 and 2013.

Sir Bradley says the treatment was to prevent asthma and there's no

Chester Zoo is celebrating the arrival of a rare baby Giraffe.

Born on Boxing Day, the calf was walking within minutes,

The new-born still doesn't have a name because staff don't yet

Rothschild giraffes are in danger of extinction, and the calf's

arrival is a big boost to the zoo's endangered species

Now for a quick check on the weather. This morning, it was very

frosty. Tomorrow morning, it is likely to be

broadly cinema -- similar. We have a lot more cloud cover well today was

a sunny day, it will not be like that tomorrow. As we head towards

the New Year, it would be much colder. That temperatures are

falling away already. It is going to be another very chilly night.

Temperatures down to zero for most towns and cities. That could be a

minus three Celsius for many people. There is a weather warning in place

until lunchtime tomorrow. If you have the sunshine in the morning,

you will be doing OK. The cloud cover will be there. Sunshine is in

short supply at times. It has been wall-to-wall sunshine so it makes

the feel of the day very different. The breeze is light and the

temperatures will be low and it will feel gloomy. For the most part, it

is for Celsius at the most. We will be back at 10:30pm. Goodbye.

Good evening, the weather is proving hazardous and the fog now becoming

more extensive and causing disruption overnight tonight. There

is a warning from the Met office and you can stay in touch on the website

with all the latest details. For the most part the Northern Isles of

Scotland escaping but not a pretty picture further south. This is eight

o'clock in the morning, not everyone when he up to that sunshine. The fog

will be extensive and freezing with some slippery surfaces around as

well. Further north we have frost around in the east of Scotland but

milder across Scotland and Northern