29/12/2016 North West Tonight

we are back with the late news at 11pm, now on BBC One it's time

The lead author of the influential Hillsborough Independent Panel

report says he's refused to accept a New Year's Honour.

Professor Phil Scraton says he has rejected an OBE

because of the failure of successive Governments to help Hillsborough

In a statement, the author and academic says he realises it may

Detectives investigating the fatal shooting of a father of two

in Liverpool have arrested a man on suspicion of murder.

Mark Hillman was found with gunshot wounds on Lloyd Close

A 22-year-old man from Kirkby is being questioned

by officers from the force's Serious Organised Crime unit.

It's hoped new research by the University of Liverpool

could help diagnose the early stages of rain diseases, such

could help diagnose the early stages of brain diseases, such

Academics have been looking at the brush-strokes of artists

Living with dementia, Joyce Cope still enjoys painting.

But today, her work is very different from the highly detailed

pieces she used to produce before the disease took hold.

They are just really good copies of the Old Masters and very detailed.

from years ago, but generally, if you ask her what she had

for breakfast this morning, she can't remember.

But can art, more specifically, the way artists work, tell us

something about the development of dementia and other

There is some fractal content in this, which is what we call

Fractal analysis is a complex, mathematical method of looking

The recurring patterns of our brainwaves and

The same applies to the individual brush strokes of artists.

Now, an analysis of more than 2,000 works by seven famous artists has

revealed tiny changes in those patterns.

In artists who went on to develop dementia or Parkinson's Disease,

the fractal patterns started to change in an unusual way.

So what we find is up to 20 years before they actually had a diagnosis

of a neurological disorder, the fractal content

within their paintings had started to decrease.

The artist Willem de Kooning was diagnosed with Alzheimer's

The brush stroke patterns seen in his earlier work were different

But in the work of Picasso, who died free of any known

neurological disease, the patterns remain constant

throughout his life, regardless of what he was painting.

So is it easier to use oils than watercolours?

This won't help diagnose dementia or similar diseases,

but it does give a valuable insight into changes that are taking place

in the brain years before the illness appears,

and so could help answer questions about these devastating conditions.

BAE Systems say they plan to take on over 550

300 will work on the two submarine programmes at Barrow-in-Furness.

The defence giant's building new Dreadnought class

and maintaining four Astute class submarines.

Greater Manchester Police have held an event to improve

the safety of horse riders on the region's roads.

Riders and motorists were given advice and a tour of the force's

mounted unit to encourage them to share the roads responsibly.

It was organised following a rise in the number of road accidents

Horses, riders are being put in dangerous situations.

Sometimes through their own fault, so that's why we

are here, to educate riders and make sure they are looking after

themselves and putting themselves in the right position

and doing the right things, but also for motorists.

Football now and Morecambe's manager Jim Bentley's confirmed

that the club is under a transfer embargo.

It follows a a huge period of uncertainty behind

the scenes at the Globe Arena since the takeover by Brazilian

Last week, directors at the club criticised Mr Lemos for failing

In the Christmas holidays it's more important than ever to help young

Wigan Youth Zone takes over when schools close

providing somewhere to go, something to do and someone to talk

to and is making a huge impact on the young members

To me, the Youth Zone means a family and somewhere to go.

A place where people can be free and make friends

Since he became one of the 6000 members of Wigan Youth Zone,

he's throwing himself into the centre's enterprise group,

set up two small businesses and found the confidence

For Sean, inspiration came in the centre's

The 19-year-old was struggling with a variety of problems

Since coming here, I've come out of my shell a bit.

I started writing new songs, on two songs which I filmed music

videos for and have been put up on the Wigan Youth

Sport plays a central role in Wigan Youth Zone, too.

There's a gym equipped with kit from the London

2012 athlete's village, a sports hall which hosts

all sorts of activities, a climbing wall, a boxing gym,

Once local athlete Jenny Meadows retired from competing,

It's ready important that we do keep active.

Obviously we are an under active nation at the moment so it's

great that sport and physical activity still has a presence here.

The centre was founded with ?6 million from local

businessmen Dave Whelan and Martin and Bill Ainscott,

but it costs ?2 million a year to run.

The benefits, though, run deep with school attendance up

We have prevented them from entering the criminal justice system.

That is down to the engagement of the staff here, there's

For these young people, it's truly an opportunity

Becky Barr, BBC North West Tonight, Wigan.

We have had a really happy frost, haven't we? A lovely day. We

promised you yesterday that it would be foggy and cloudy but most people

didn't see either of those things. la pictures have captured that heavy

frost this morning. I don't think we need to worry about that first in

this morning because we will see more cloud cover and milder

temperatures. That is temporarily because by that I would get to New

Year's Day the temperatures for away and it will be very cold to start

the New Year. At the moment it is 50-50, we have cloud and the cloud

will build la by Allah, fairly low so it will be a bit misty over the

tops of the hills. Some drizzle on the -- the cloud will build

overtime. Tomorrow it is a great picture all the way through but the

breeze is light and the air is mild so under the cloud cover while it

won't look bright and temperatures would be too bad. Seven or eight

Celsius. We will be back at the later than usual time at ten past

11pm. Have a lovely evening. Goodbye.

Temperatures have dropped away shortly and we have seen some fog,

particularly through the Midlands. We do have some clout drifting in

from the west. By the end of the night, towards the East Midlands as

well. Further north, more of a breeze from the south-west, bringing

in a weather front. Keeping the temperatures at seven or 8 degrees.

Freezing or just below to the south-east corner. Fog will live to

low cloud and generally speaking a lot more cloud than we saw