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Welcome to North West Tonight with Annabel Tiffin.

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Tributes to the cousins killed in an apparent hit-and-run,

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as family members struggle to come to terms with their loss.

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As the government backs new homes and three Garden villages, we visit

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one of the sites where they will be built.

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Commuter fears over Mersey engineering works

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fails to materialise - but is the biggest

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But the Liverpool singer sets strict conditions to perform

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Police have been given more time to question four men,

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who were arrested after the deaths of two young girls

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Cousins Helena Kotlarova and Zeneta Krokova were hit by a car,

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as they crossed the road hand-in-hand on New Year's Eve.

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Detectives are keen to trace the driver of a van who may have

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witnessed the tragedy, as our Chief Reporter

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The parents of Zeneta Krokova are joined by the father

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of Helena Kotlarova at a makeshift roadside shrine dedicated

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It is just hard to believe that she is

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She liked dancing, listening to songs,

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She likes spending time with the family.

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crossing a road hand-in-hand when they were hit by a car.

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It happened here, on Ashton Road in Oldham

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around 7:15pm on Saturday, New Year's Eve.

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The tragedy has left many in this community deeply

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The two girls used to come into the shop?

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The girls came in every day, two times, three times.

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Today the flowers and messages of sympathy kept coming.

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Only 11 and 12 years old, that could be my kids, you know.

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Two young ladies lost their lives for no reason at all.

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So now the family must plan two funerals.

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But this afternoon came news they would get some help

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A family member works at this car parts firm in Oldham.

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Today the boss said he would foot the cost of

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We just want to offer them support, which ever way is

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possible, without us imposing on their personal grieving.

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Police say this Peugeot vehicle was involved in the

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They are urging anyone who saw it immediately

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prior to or after the collision to get in touch.

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They are also keen to trace the driver of this white

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The police are keen to stress the van was not

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involved in the collision, but it was in this area at the time,

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and they believe the driver may have

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important information that could help with their enquiries.

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Meantime detectives have been given extra

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time to continue questioning four men on suspicion of causing death by

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A soldier who died in Iraq has been named as

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Lance Corporal Scott Hetherington, from

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The 22-year-old from the 2nd Battalion The Duke of

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Lancaster's Regiment had recently become a father.

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He's been described by his Commanding Officer as utterly

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He died from gunshot wounds, after the accidental

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Detectives are investigating the rape of a 12-year-old girl

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She told police she'd been attacked by a man in a balaclava

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It's the third rape in the area in recent months, but police say

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they are not linking them at this stage.

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The death of suspected drugs smuggler Steven Corkill

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in the Isle of Man has prompted a series of recommendations

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The 27-year-old died under police guard at Nobles hospital in 2015.

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An inquest heard he'd ingested a lethal amount of cocaine

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Coroner John Needham said officers on guard duty must monitor

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A dividend from its part-ownership of Manchester Airport means

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Manchester City Council's cuts won't be as severe as feared.

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It had said ?40 million would need to be saved over

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But council tax will go up by 5% to help pay for social care.

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Non-tonally does it put council tax up, it does not raise that much

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money either. -- not only. That raises about ?3.9 million. Next year

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we will spend more than twice that alone just for the cost of adult

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social care with the national minimum wage and inflation.

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The Government has announced that thousands of affordable homes

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for first-time buyers across the North West

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It follows news that sites in Merseyside,

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Cheshire and Lancashire are among 14 new garden villages

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It's all aimed at easing the housing shortage.

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Six areas across the North West including Blackpool,

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Greater Manchester and Liverpool will receive money from

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a Starter Homes Land Fund - of more than ?1 billion.

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This cash has been allocated specifically for new developments

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The homes will be available to first time buyers aged between 23 and 40 -

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and they'll get a discount of at least 20% below market value.

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In a separate announcement, the Government has allocated money

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for three so-called garden villages in the region - in Lancaster -

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at Handforth in Cheshire - and in Knowsley.

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These newly-built communities are eligible for a share of a more

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than ?7 million of Government funding.

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This comes after thousands of people protested yesterday

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against plans to build two hundred thousand homes in Greater Manchester

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Naomi Cornwell has been to one of the proposed

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These fields to the south of Lancaster will one day be replaced

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by a garden villages. Is essentially this area is alongside Manchester

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University -- Lancaster University, and the Lancaster Canal. It is going

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to be up to 5000 houses over a long time period. They hope to start

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building the first cases here in 2019, after a consultation period.

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The most thing that people object to is doing extensions without getting

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the infrastructure right in the first instance, including schools

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and highways, flooding, making sure water courses are dealt with and

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captured in the first place. Doing a village in this way enables you to

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do it all from the start. It will mean big changes for the few people

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already living here. It seems to be heading towards turning the place

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into a community, so I am not too impressed. Houses have to be built

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and it will always be in somebody's back garden, and unfortunately in

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this case it is in mine. Having read the plans and how it will be

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developed, and the community, it sounds really good. Nobody ever

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wants thousands of homes near them, but it is better for Lancaster to

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global at the edge rather than way out in the countryside. This local

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estate agent says new homes are needed, but only if they are

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affordable. If they are providing homes for first-time buyers and some

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affordable housing, especially on that south side of Lancaster, then I

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think it is an excellent thing. Many of the villages like the one plant

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have been on the drawing board for a while, but the government's backing

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means new funds to speed up the design stage and create new homes

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faster. Joining me now from London

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is planning lawyer Daniel Farrand. Thank you very much for joining us.

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The government has made two announcements, this is for the

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starter homes and the garden villages. Given the housing crisis

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we have, how much do we think these will go towards helping that? They

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will. Both of these initiatives are good news. It is not new money, it

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is money already put into funds by the government, and today and

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yesterday we heard allocations of that money to specific areas. And

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that has got to be good news for the bringing forward of housing more

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quickly, and in the areas the government thinks is important to

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bring it forward. Whether it is the complete solution to the housing

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crisis is a different question. It is only a drop in the ocean. Yes,

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this government, the Labour government and the coalition have

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tried different initiatives, and they have not worked. What you think

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is the difference this time? Well, the starter homes initiative is

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somewhat controversial. There is a question as to whether it will

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actually help with affordability. It is a one-time discount, and it may

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be that it gets distracted into arguments about the suitability of

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starter homes rather than the delivery of houses. As regards the

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garden villages, they are good idea, but governments of various different

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flavours have tried to deliver over the years, usually with some sort of

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garden village or equal time branding, and you're not always

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successful and do not always survive with a change of government. One

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thing the government could do is put forward some sort of development

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Corporation or other vehicle that is properly funded that drives this

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forward, those can be controversial as well, but if they have the right

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kind of consultation, as we were hearing earlier, where people hear

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about the proposals and have an opportunity to properly feed into

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them, they can be useful a useful delivery vehicle that takes it

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outside the day to day delivery of the local authority. As a planning

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lawyer, is there an appetite for builders to want to build on

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Brownfield sites? They are very difficult. They have been this

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starting point for a few years now, but they can be difficult to

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deliver, particularly where they have an industrial heritage, where

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there might be contamination. That is where the starter homes money is

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about, the money is for site assembly, bringing sides together,

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maybe from different ownerships, and then making sure they are clean and

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they have proper planning to be delivered, and that will help a lot,

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that is a really important barrier that needs to be overcome. The other

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one is infrastructure, and we were hearing that their eco-towns and

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garden villages proposals throughout history have all been about

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delivering the infrastructure to allow developments to take place,

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and if they have access to that money, these garden villages could

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work. Very interesting, thank you very much.

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A drugs fugitive from Merseyside - who was convicted of being involved

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in a multi-million pounds conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine -

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Stephen Bennett was also wanted by police for breaching

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the conditions of his licence, after serving a prison sentence

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Footage has been posted on social media, apparently showing inmates

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at Hindley Prison near Wigan fighting and taking part

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The videos and pictures have since been removed.

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The prison was recently heavily criticised by inspectors

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Plans for a major expansion of the Bentley Motors

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site in Crewe went out for public consultation today.

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The company - which employs 4,000 people in the town -

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wants to create a campus-style facility for manufacturing, design,

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It would involve the permanent closure of two public roads.

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A final decision will be made in the spring.

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Mersey Travel set out on a charm offensive -

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at the start of a six week closure of the line from

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They were handing out free bacon and sausage

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sandwiches to commuters, as workers started relaying

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Major disruption was expected, but it appears it's so far

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so good for travel bosses and many passengers alike.

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But thankfully for these rush hour commuters this morning -

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the disruption failed to materialise.

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Not too bad today. And they sausage sandwich helped. I cannot fault them

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on this, plenty of buses. Engineering work to replace

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the old track bed means there's no rail service across the Mersey

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for six weeks and further disruption on the line right

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through until June. We are asking people to stagger

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their journeys, to help alleviate the congestion and have the buses

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running smoothly. 30 buses are on a continuous

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loop throughout the day to ferry the 40,000

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passengers every day who travel under the Mersey between

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Liverpool and Birkenhead, Hopefully we will be able to deliver

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as effective service next Monday as we could this morning. Passengers

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have been warned that the journey times might be increasing by 20 to

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25 minutes next week. We wish them well. As my colleague pointed out,

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bacon and sausage sandwiches are not to everyone's Test!

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The cows grazing Merseyside's dunes to keep the weeds under control.

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And Rebecca receives a proposal from The Donald.

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But she sets a condition to sing for America's new President.

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A secret weapon is being used to conserve the Ainsdale sand

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No ordinary cows but a herd of rare breed Red Pol cows.

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They're being used by Sefton Council to graze the rough ground

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They may be more used to Chesterfield, but these cattle have

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happily made their home on the Sefton sand dunes. They have been

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chosen as they will eat the tough shrub is threatening to ruin the

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sand dunes as a home for wildlife. We are hoping the eat the coarse

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grasses and the shrubs and scrub that grow here. One of the reasons

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is that the sand dunes are supposed to be open, they are supposed to

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have plenty of standard name, and the animals on the course need this

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environment. Hugh Rollins has come to see how his cattle herd are

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doing. He has been working with conservation charities to naturally

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preserved the landscape. Be like a varied diet of as many different

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plants as they can get their mouth 's round. Batch they like. The

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bovine land managers. The Rangers have now got to know the animals and

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their personalities. Definitely, some of them are boisterous and

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friendly, and others are keeping a distance. They will be moved to

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graze in another nature reserve in spring. Hugh Rollins believes they

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are thriving. They have got good feed, they are active, bright, and

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they very contented looking cattle, which is really good sign. They are

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lovely, aren't they? Onto sport now and

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Stuart Pollitt's here. We hope you're in a more talkative

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mood than Pep Guardiola. Yes, he's not particularly jolly

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at the moment is Pep. Even before yesterday's game he told

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an American TV channel and said he was arriving at the end

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of his coaching career. He did though reiterate

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his commitment to City But then after the win over Burnley,

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Pep was tetchy to say City haven't even had

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a bad Christmas, in fact all our Premier League teams picked

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up at least six points from the three games

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over the festive period. What was your view of the red card?

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His mood did not improve in the press conference. Any complaints

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about the red card? The referee, not me. There were more smiles across

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Manchester, where things are looking up for United. They are up to fifth,

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thanks to six straight wins. Marcus Rashford caught the eye, even though

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one matter give the finishing touch. We play with Manchester United DNA,

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and the United quality. Jurgen Klopp was not on the fixture list

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yesterday, and offered to rest all his players. If someone does not

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want to play, they can come to me and we will speak about it. I am not

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sure if we can play better football with a great. Three second-half

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goals for Everton, enough to beat his former club, Southampton. They

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are looking for signings in the transfer window. Maybe the board

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will be busy to bring some players and, yes. They may have lost

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yesterday, but two home wins have made Manchester City Mac people.

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These are still a top-class side, we have made a good fist of it so far.

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We have plenty more to do, but I am happy. It is not often the losing

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manager is happier than the winning manager.

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In the football league it was a welcome case of d j vu

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They beat leaders Newcastle 1-0 for the second time this season.

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Both winning goals scored by Charlie Mulgrew.

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The win didn't get Rovers out of the bottom three though or stop

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fans protesting against owners Venky's before and after

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Elsewhere, Preston won 1-0 at Burton Albion thanks to this

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Tom Clarke goal but Wigan - like Blackburn - stay

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In League One, it's now five wins in a row for Rochdale.

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The latest, 2-0 at Walsall yesterday, puts Dale into fourth.

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Fleetwood Town joined Rochdale in the play off places

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after extending their unbeaten run to 11 games.

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Devante Cole, son of Andy, with the only goal at Shrewsbury.

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Quite a contrast at the other end of the table where Oldham are bottom.

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They could have done with this injury-time effort from Billy McKay

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In League Two, Accrington are four points clear of the drop zone

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with Morecambe and Crewe just above them.

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And if you thought your new year got off to a bad start it was probably

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better than Walsall's Amadou Bakayoko.

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Check out this miss against Rochdale.

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We are glad he missed! Thank you very much indeed.

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Rebecca Ferguson, the Liverpool singer who became an international

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star after appearing on TV's X-Factor, says she's

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been invited to sing at President Trump's inauguration.

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But she says she'll accept only if she can sing a protest song

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Back home in Liverpool, some people say she should have

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nothing to do with the country's controversial new President.

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Stuart Flinders' report contains some flash photography.

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Singing for a new President is one of the highest honours.

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Kennedy had Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.

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If Rebecca Ferguson follows suit, it will cap a remarkable

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Rebecca Ferguson was born and brought up here in Liverpool, but it

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was the X factor that changed her life. She did not wind it, in 2010,

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she was the runner-up. But it led to recording contract here and in the

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United States. But will she accept the invitation

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to sing for Donald Trump? When Mexico sends the people, they

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are not sending their best. They are bringing drugs, crime. Donald J

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Trump is calling for a shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

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Trump's campaign was so controversial that it's

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rumoured many performers, including Elton John,

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Rebecca Ferguson says she'll accept on one condition.

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This is Strange Fruit, made famous by Billie Holiday, a song

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about racism and lynchings in America's south.

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# Black bodies swinging in the breeze

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Back home in Liverpool, many believe Rebecca

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Ferguson should think twice about going to Washington.

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I think she should boycott. If she sings a protest song, she should

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attend. I think Donald Trump is a bad influence. You think she should

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not do it? Really, I don't care. She can do what she wants, she's a

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singer. Rebecca Ferguson joined last year's

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celebration in Manchester But will she help

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celebrate America's Watch this space. We will see. We're

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going to watch Diane now, with the weather forecast. Happy New Year. I

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said to her that I like her here, and she said she had it done before

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Christmas! I am never the quickest. But always very polite.

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The weather has no consistency this week, one day it is mild, then it is

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cold, and that is what will happen. It will be back into the colder air

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tomorrow. It is temporary, with yellow indicating the mild air

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today. Through Thursday you keep the cold weather, and on Friday it will

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be mild again. That is because we have a weather front bringing us

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some rain. So there is a little bit of everything as we go through this

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week. Today there is a lot of cloud cover keeping the temperatures up.

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From time to time you may have spotted some drizzle, which

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continues to be the story overnight. Yesterday was a fantastic night for

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stargazing, for the crescent moon and Venus. You might get the

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opportunity tomorrow, but you will not see it tonight because of the

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cloud cover. The numbers on the chart for towns and cities, you may

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get two in Cumbria towards the early hours of the morning, but for the

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rest of us we're talking about five and 6 degrees for the most part.

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Tomorrow morning it will be fairly cloudy to the south of the Ribble

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Valley, but the sun will be out for other places. It clears everywhere,

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with sunshine developing. Through the afternoon you will see a state,

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a real contrast to today. Your maximum temperature will come in at

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around lunchtime, so temperatures around seven. But the minute the sun

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starts to go down, the temperatures will start to fall away. Here is

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what you can have tomorrow night. Stargazing will be great, but look

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at that. It will be down to -5 in the countryside. In towns and cities

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it could be -2. But it is temporary. Line it was very mild and Christmas

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Day. 14 degrees. Did you have a good Christmas?

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Yes, I did. I have a six and two-year-old, so

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you cannot go wrong. Surely we will see the weather

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improving. Over the next six months we probably

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will! Have a good evening!

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