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Welcome to North West Tonight with Annabel Tiffin and Roger Johnson. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
A milestone moment as construction work starts at a shale gas | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
It is a significant day but obviously it's a sad day for us | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
because it means they have started work, which is something we did not | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Protesters say they're angry, as the legal battle | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Why the North West has more paramedic posts to fill | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
Thanks for saving Shaun's life - his wife shows her gratitude | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
And find out why this daredevil action is actually the safe thing | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
Today marked an important milestone for Lancashire, | :00:44. | :00:59. | |
The first day of work at a site which has been fiercely | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
The field in Little Plumpton, near Blackpool, is where permission | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
has been granted for fracking - a method of extracting shale gas. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
All along, there've been furious protests from opponents, | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
who insist fracking shouldn't be allowed. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
And today, some of those protesters were back, | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
as the process of preparing the site began. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Our social affairs correspondent Clare Fallon was there. | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
They call this "an important milestone" - | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
the company with permission to frack at this site | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
moving in and starting work, under the watchful eye of | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
those who have fought this all along. | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
Despite the protests, by the end of the year, | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
the energy firm Cuadrilla hopes to be pumping up a shale gas | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
For now, though, its first things first - | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
chainsaws and portaloos for the workers. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
The first job is to construct the site. | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
That will take several months, about three months to complete, | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
and after that we will start drilling the Wells. | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
Clearly there are people who are still against this, | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
and we understand that, and equally we understand they have | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
At every step on a very long journey to this point, | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
those opposed to fracking have made their feelings clear. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Two and a half years ago, this field became the so-called | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
"Nana Camp" as protesters made it home. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
But after much legal toing and froing, in October | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
the Government said yes to fracking here, overruling | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Cuadrilla, the company with permission to frack here, | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
say this is a significant day for them. | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
It is a significant day, but obviously it's a sad day for us, | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
because it means they have started work, which is something we didn't | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
Because this is the end of the battle for you, isn't it? | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
No, I think actually it's just the start of a new phase. | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
It's the start of a new phase in the battle. | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
This is just the start and this whole area will be completely | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
Now the beautiful Fylde as we know it, birds and animals | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
and trees and fields, that will be a thing of the past. | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
With a timetable for drilling by spring and fracking by autumn, | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
Cuadrilla promises what happens here will be safe, | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
heavily monitored, and will mean jobs. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
But even now, with work under way, those fighting fracking say | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
they have not given up and are still looking | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Clare Fallon, BBC North West Tonight, Little Plumpton. | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
The North West Ambulance Service has a greater shortage | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
of paramedics than anywhere else, according to figures obtained under | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
There are more than 200 unfilled posts in the region. | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
Unions claim that's putting even more strain on staff | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
and that the service is now reaching crisis levels, but the trust says | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
it's actually created extra jobs and is recruiting from abroad. | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
It's a difficult job with long hours and often volatile situations, | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
and in the North West there aren't enough paramedics doing it. | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Unions say that's putting a huge strain on staff and the service. | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
These stresses and the pressures of the job have been increasing but he | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
has not increased with it, so many paramedics have been leaving the | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
service. At the same time, because it is a less appealing service to | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
work for now, the number of applicant is decreasing, so it has | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
reached crisis level. Under figures obtained | :04:35. | :04:35. | |
by the Labour Party, there's a shortage of 204 paramedics | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
in the North West, The Ambulance Service says | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
the number of vacancies should It says it's used Government money | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
to create extra posts which it's had to fill, | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
and that new rules that paramedics must have higher levels of training | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
have made it harder to recruit. But it's adamant it's | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
tackling the shortfall. News of paramedic shortages come | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
on top of recent figures from NHS England showing ambulances | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
in the North West aren't responding to some of | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
the most critical patients But the Ambulance Service is deeply | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
reliant on what the rest Ambulances have waited up to ten | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
hours to hand patients over in Southport because the hospital | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
was full, tying up the fewer Unison members report to us all of | :05:18. | :05:30. | |
the time that there has been increasingly spending hours on | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
occasions in A on ambulance stretchers waiting to be triage into | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
the services. This goes all the way back to Ambulance Services, where a | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
vehicles are on the road because there are more and more time being | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
spent in A being spent on patients. | :05:52. | :05:52. | |
The Department of Health says it's recruited over 2,000 more paramedics | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
nationally and announced a new pay deal to reduce pressure on services. | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
But unions say mounting strain on a cash-strapped NHS can only mean | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
more pressure for those on the front line. | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
Earlier I spoke to Ged Blezard, the Director of Operations | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
at the North West Ambulance Service, and asked him why it | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
seems there are so many vacancies in the service. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
The main reason for us having a large vacancy gap is because of | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
We have actually had some investment, so we have put that | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
They are not vacancies but actually new posts that have been created | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
It is much higher than everywhere else, though, and are you the only | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
region to have got this extra money for extra staff? | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
I think we have got a more significant increase | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
in staffing than other areas, yes, so that is why we are probably | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
However, we have done a lot of work to reduce this vacancy gap in terms | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
of recruiting from overseas, and we have recruited 50 paramedics | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
from international countries such as Poland and Finland. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
We are also looking at over recruiting our EMT1 staff, | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
which is the emergency medical technicians, to compensate | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
So, we are actually 1% off fully staffed. | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
Why do you need to recruit from abroad? | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
Can you not get enough paramedics from within the country? | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
There is a national shortage of paramedics within the UK, | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
and there has recently been a change in how paramedics are trained | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
and a lot of investment in upskilling them. | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
It now takes two years at university to become a paramedic, | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
and that lengthens the time it takes to recruit to posts. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
So we know that, looking overseas, the Polish and Finnish paramedics | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
have a similar qualification two ours, and it is easier | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
at the moment to recruit from there, because we can recruit them | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
But the long-term plan is that we will recruit | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
We have just got to catch up with the two-year gap that it | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
I suppose the problem is that you are saying you have got this | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
extra funding for new staff, but that is not going to show | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
for another two years, so in the meantime what effect | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
is that going to have on the service the public get | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
The actual vacancy gap is only 1% of staff now, | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
so that is only about 70 staff that were vacant, and we are | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
By the end of this financial year, which is in the end of March, | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
So actually the vacancy gap is minimal, it is just | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
that the staff grading is not correct, and there are less | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
than they should be, but we are actually recruiting | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
and recruiting very hard to try to bridge that gap. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
Thorn Cross Open Prison in Warrington has been praised | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
for providing inmates with good training and education, | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
and helping them resettle back into communities. | :08:29. | :08:29. | |
A report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons says staff should be | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
congratulated for making the jail safe, and keeping the number | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Everton Football Club says plans to build a new stadium - | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
most likely at Bramley Moore Dock - could be confirmed in | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
Liverpool's Mayor Joe Anderson says the council is helping | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
with the plans and ?20 million has been allocated for a new road and | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
A transgender woman from Merseyside, being held at a male prison, | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
Jenny Swift from Seaforth in Sefton was on remand at Doncaster Prison | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
She was found unresponsive in her cell on December the 30th | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
An independent investigation will be carried out by the Prisons | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
Supermarket chain Lidl is creating 500 jobs at a major | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
The company says millions of pounds will be invested into the site, | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
A planning application will be submitted later this year. | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
New plans are being considered to allow television cameras to film | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
inside the Isle of Man's Tynwald Parliament. | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
A group of politicians recommends the rules | :09:42. | :09:42. | |
A decision will be made later this month. | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
The Lake District is famous for its wonderful views, | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
but many of them could be ruined forever, according to some of those | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
Tomorrow is the final day of consultation on plans to build | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
a line of pylons the size of Nelson's Column on the edge | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Campaigners want the power cables hidden underground. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
The National Grid says any changes would make our | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
You don't get better days than this in the Lake District, | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
but this view out to Duddon Estuary here could be about to change. | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
The National Grid wants to build a line of pylons here, | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
These are some of the people trying to stop it. | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
Annette Carmichael joined friends and neighbours | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
in Broughton-in-Furness this morning to protest at the plans. | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
She runs a small B with a view of the estuary. | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
We are going to have pylons at least twice the height, | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
with really thick cables, cutting across the view. | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
Do you think that would put people off visiting the area? | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
I have been speaking to guests of my own who have come from the UK, | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
from Europe and further afield, like the States and Australia, | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
and they are absolutely horrified by the idea of this sort of thing | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
The pylons will carry electricity from a new nuclear power | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
The National Grid has already made concessions, | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
but a 14 and a half mile stretch along the coast is to be buried | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
And there is to be a 13 mile tunnel under Morecambe Bay, | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
But that doesn't go far enough for the organisation dedicated | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
So, you are going to have two very large pylons sat | :11:32. | :11:42. | |
But is here and Broughton is going to see these pylons. | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
You are Friends Of The Lake District and as you have shown me on the map, | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
this route actually goes outside the national Park, doesn't it? | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
The route is outside the Lake District National Park | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
but in places it is six metres outside the National Park. | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
So it is visible and will affect the views. | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
The consultation period for these plans ends tomorrow | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
and there is little sign of the National Grid | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
They say, to make these plans more environmentally friendly would be | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
This project isn't paid for by the National Grid, | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
it is paid for by all of us through our electricity bills, | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
so we have got to strike a balance between protecting those | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
environments and keeping energy bills affordable | :12:25. | :12:25. | |
If the plans are approved by the Government, work | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
Stuart Flinders, BBC North West tonight, Cumbria. | :12:30. | :12:42. | |
Glorious views today. It would be great to walk in the Lake District | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
today. Flying high with a head for heights, | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
but what links these motorbikers with some of Britain's | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
biggest entertainers? This person took this up because | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
motocross was too dangerous. And how life up North has influenced | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
the nation's fashion and culture. When Shaun O'Brien was diagnosed | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
with cancer he needed all the help he could get, | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
and he got that from the NHS His wife Cat was grateful, | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
and it got her thinking about how She could have held a coffee | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
morning, or raised money running a marathon, but went a bit further | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
than that, and next month she's giving one of her kidneys | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
to a complete stranger. Thank you for coming in. Cat, the | :13:30. | :13:48. | |
question to start with, why not a marathon? Why donate a kidney? | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
It was a story on the radio that made me realise that you could do | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
it. I did not realise you could donate via altruism, Anderson as I | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
heard the story, even if he had not had the cancer it would have been | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
something I wanted to do. -- as soon as I heard this. It will help | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
someone live free from machines. And it was down to the BBC. This has all | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
come about from the Jeremy Vine show. | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
You heard something Jeremy Vine said? | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
It was a lady. The story resonated with you? | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
She had done the same thing and it was hearing her speak about how | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
rewarded she felt from doing it and the story of how it all went about. | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
He was in the car and said, I can do that. | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
A lot of us would hear a story like that on the radio as we often do and | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
it brings a tear to your eye and you move on and carry on with your life | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
and never followed through on those kind thoughts. What does this say to | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
you, Shaun about your wife? I probably just rolled my eyes and | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
it was, OK, if that is what you want to do. That is what she is like. | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
What an amazing thing to do. Some people are not so nice about | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
it, but a lot of people are nice. I am not doing it so that people think | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
I'm nice. It is a case of, I can help someone and I am physically | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
able to help someone, and after tests discovered I am physically | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
able, so I will do. Are some people being critical? Why | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
would they be critical? They seem to think that maybe I want | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
some sort of thing out of it or to make money out of it, whereas there | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
is no money to be made. There is no monetary value. | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
You are not allowed to do that. Maybe media attention, for example. | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
I only spoke to the local paper and it snowballed since yesterday from | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
the local paper. The whole point of speaking to the paper was because if | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
I had not heard that Lady's story on BBC radio, I would not have known | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
you could do this. I did not know you could donate to a stranger. | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
You hope somebody else might see this? | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
They might but the nation is not for everybody. People can sign the | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
register. Shaun, this is also a thank you | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
really because of the treatment you have received, because you underwent | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
treatment for cancer. How are you now? | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
I am fine. I have felt fine for the past six months at least, 12 months. | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
You had cancer in a consul? My right tonsil, which spread. It | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
was on my neck, which is when you told me to go to my GP. -- it was | :16:45. | :16:54. | |
cancer of the tonsil. Straight to the hospital. | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
And then they get all of the tests that they do. They said they had | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
found some cancer cells. It was from me seeing a GP to me having a | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
surgery was about three months. What I was going to say was I had | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
first-hand experience with the NHS with a family member over the past | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
month, and it was fantastic. On this programme we hold people to account | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
and criticise, but you have had fantastic care through three | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
different hospitals? Yes. Manchester Royal and two | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
others, all fantastic. And my local GP. | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
You are now putting your trust in the doctors to do a procedure on you | :17:38. | :17:46. | |
and hopefully so someone... Yes, it is major surgery, but I | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
trust them completely with that. If you have any questions, there is | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
always an actual team that works with people, so if you have | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
questions you can ask the team if you're concerned. That team is there | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
for you if you are concerned. If you're worrying... | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
Unique recovery time, obviously. You have a physical job, and you? What | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
do you do? I drive wagons, skip wagons for a | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
local waste management company. And they have been great about it? | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
They have. How much recovery time do you have | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
to have? The surgeon says I will be able to | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
fend for myself after a few weeks. It can take up to three months | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
before you are fully recovered after two weeks I will be able to make my | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
own cups of tea. He will not have to look after me any more. | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
Maybe tonight. It is your ninth wedding anniversary today? | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
It is. What a way to celebrate. | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
We have a lovely picture, look at this. Beautiful. We wish you every | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
success with the surgery. Thank you for coming in. | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
People do not have to do live donation but if people want to | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
register on organ donation we have the website coming up any a moment | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
so people can register for that as well. It is a great thing you're | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
doing and thank you for coming in and telling us. | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
Thank you. A change of tack now. | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
Motocross rider Nez Parker was one of the best in Britain | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
at his favourite sport - until he was forced to give it up. | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
Nez from Leyland needed to do something less likely to hurt him. | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
Motocross was what Nez Parker did best, but injuries took their toll. | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
On this knee I have had six operations and ACR | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
The Leyland rider was forced to retire aged just 25. | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
With his dream job over, Nez realised he had to do something | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
safer, something less likely to break his bones... | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
This is freestyle motocross, Nez's new career. | :19:49. | :20:03. | |
Here, riders perform tricks and stunts for points instead | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
Most people would think it bizarre that you chose | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
Well, it is really dangerous and if you crash it's going to hurt, | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
but it's up to me and it is no one else who is going to | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
When you watch the racing on Saturday night, you will realise | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
There are very few professional level motocross riders who end up | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
So he is very unique and Nez has become a freestyler in no time | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
at all, so I think he has left quite a few people scratching their heads | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
Nez is practising at the Manchester Arena | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
where the Arenacross National Tour starts at the weekend. | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
There are plenty of family watching but his mum will be | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
She did at the whole time I did motocross, | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
She would stand looking the opposite way as I was coming past. | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
But my brother does MMA, he is a cage fighter as well, | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
so that is not very good for her nerves, either, is it? | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
So it seems that in the Parker family at least, Nez | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
Stuart Pollitt, North West Tonight, Manchester. | :21:09. | :21:19. | |
No fear of danger in that family. If you are interested... | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
And the Arenacross Tour comes to the Manchester Arena | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
A bit of football news. Pep Guardiola this afternoon clarified | :21:26. | :21:38. | |
his, that city are ten years behind neighbours Manchester United, he | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
said that in an interview with NBC the American broadcaster, about the | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
visit to West Ham. Pep Guardiola said he was talking about title | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
winning history and not the level of the current teams. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
The titles, in 20 years about Manchester United beating... Nothing | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
that last three or four years, because in the last five years, | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
Manchester city have achieved more target of getting better. I never | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
said this club is below the other one right now, no. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Not having a happy time with the media, Pep. | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
has always influenced culture and fashion. | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
Now the Open Eye photography gallery in Liverpool is marking its 40th | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
anniversary with a special exhibition celebrating the north's | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
impact on what we wear and what we think. | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
Our Merseyside Reporter, Andy Gill, has been for a preview | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
The photographer Glen Luchford shot the Stone Roses | :22:28. | :22:40. | |
Morrissey is another north-west artist featured at | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
A parka featuring New Order album covers - one was recently | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
auctioned for ?15,000 - is another example of how the north | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
I think there has been quite a big thing about how important northern | :22:59. | :23:08. | |
You know, so we can trace it way back to, sort of, the industrial | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
revolution, major cities and how they grew. | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
But then how the knowledge and wealth and experiences | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
But the gallery's 40th anniversary show isn't just about music - | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
as these photos from Skelmersdale in the 1980s show, | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
it's also about the northern life and the region's | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
MUSIC: How Soon Is Now? by The Smiths | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
We've always worked with both local and national and international | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
talent, but interestingly a lot of the artists that we worked with, | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
particularly in the 1970s and 80s, have become the international | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
talent, and we are working with a huge pool of northern talents | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
now that I'm sure will become the international | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
The main part of this show are the images, | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
the videos, the stills, the clothes themselves, | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
all of which tell you the story of the influence of the North. | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
But there is also a section where you can sit and listen | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
to the influences and memories of major fashion designers who grew | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
So what is it about the north that fascinates the fashionistas? | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
The North is a bit like Rio or Paris, so if you have never been, | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
you can have an idea about what it is like. | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
You know, the smell, the architecture, | :24:35. | :24:35. | |
And yeah, there is an element to it that I think people | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
do find quite exotic, and I think that is | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
Open Eye started in a former pub in 1977. | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
It's now at Mann Island near the Pier Head. | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
The 40th anniversary show opens tomorrow. | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
Andy Gill, BBC North West Tonight, Liverpool. | :24:53. | :25:02. | |
We were saying earlier, when did it become the 1980s and 1970s was the | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
olden days? That makes me feel old. | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
What a great day today, a lovely winter day. | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
Very, very cold, but one or two people like producer Helen have not | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
listened to me. She forgot to take an extra layer, a fleece this | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
morning, because it was that cold. How cool what it? This photograph | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
captures it beautifully. This was the Leeds Liverpool canal this | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
morning, frozen over. The good news is that tomorrow things are | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
completely different. Much more mild tomorrow, but always a lot of rain. | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
Here comes the rain tomorrow. High pressure above as for the weekend. | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
It is not going to stay settled but it is going to say much milder | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
because of the cloud cover over the weekend. For this evening, at the | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
moment, still a bit chilly with frost out there. That will change as | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
you can see, this band of cloud is pushing in from across the Irish | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
Sea. It will bring spots of rain by Dawn and also the wind is picking up | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
and temperatures, look at them. So much better than last night. | :26:20. | :26:21. | |
Although I still think we may see subzero temperatures in one or two | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
spots. Tomorrow morning is a different picture with starting off | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
cloudy with rain pushing in and persistent on and off through the | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
morning into the afternoon. The wind picks up as well through the | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
afternoon. Maybe not a lot in the way of sunshine tomorrow, but look | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
at the temperatures tomorrow - perhaps double-figure temperatures | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
across the Isle of Man. Elsewhere seven or eight Celsius but with | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
plenty of rain. Tomorrow night is going to be so much milder than last | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
night. Look at the temperatures, five or six or seven Celsius | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
overnight tomorrow. Again very cloudy with spots of rain and | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
possibly some fog patches forming for tomorrow night. We head into the | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
weekend and high pressure is in charge of your weather. This is | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
Saturday. It is going to be quite cloudy, maybe with some like an | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
drizzly rain, temperatures around eight or nine Celsius, and we are | :27:13. | :27:14. | |
going to continue with the good-looking temperatures into | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
Sunday. Monday has double-figure averages maybe with a chance of | :27:20. | :27:20. | |
rain. It does not know what to do. | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
It is up and down, like a yo-yo. It was called today. | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
Called this morning but lovely with beautiful blue skies, so I do not | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
mind. It felt cold. I don't like the rain but not | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
everyone thinks the same. Have a lovely evening. | :27:38. | :27:40. |