:00:24. > :00:25.In the North West - is it the great train robbery.
:00:26. > :00:28.Why can a journey to London cost three times more
:00:29. > :00:32.And the two sides of this dog - police says he's dangerous -
:00:33. > :00:40.but today he was saved from being put down
:00:41. > :00:51.It is signalling interest from around the world. One man's model
:00:52. > :00:56.train collection on track to raise thousands of pounds for charity. And
:00:57. > :01:00.do you want to know the secret of a long marriage? This couple have been
:01:01. > :01:08.together for more than 70 years. If he had a night out, she couldn't
:01:09. > :01:12.have won, she looked after the children. What is your secret?
:01:13. > :01:19.LAUGHTER. An MP has accused Virgin Trains
:01:20. > :01:21.of milking the system - by charging passengers more
:01:22. > :01:23.to travel a shorter A ticket to London from Preston can
:01:24. > :01:28.cost three times more than it does from Lancaster -
:01:29. > :01:30.which is 20 miles further north. The firm says that's because more
:01:31. > :01:32.commuters use that line. But the Fylde MP Mark
:01:33. > :01:34.Menzies says the system Here's our Transport
:01:35. > :01:37.Correspondent Judy Hobson. Many passengers here
:01:38. > :01:43.in Preston say they're angry Overcrowded trains and price
:01:44. > :01:48.are a common problem For example, Last thursday
:01:49. > :02:11.a ticket on the 07.58 from Preston to London Euston cost
:02:12. > :02:17.?145 if they'd boarded at Lancaster - 20 miles further away -
:02:18. > :02:20.it would have cost just ?46.60. It's
:02:21. > :02:27.the same train so what's going on? It seems you're being charged
:02:28. > :02:30.depending on what sort of passenger you are: In a statement the rail
:02:31. > :02:33.company said: " Virgin Trains has for many years relaxed peak
:02:34. > :02:36.restrictions on some of its longer distance routes where we have
:02:37. > :02:38.more leisure travellers. That's not the case at Preston
:02:39. > :02:41.where there are a lot of business travellers who need to travel
:02:42. > :02:44.to and from London at peak times." One passenger told his MP he had
:02:45. > :02:47.bought his tickets from Lancaster but boarded one stop LATER
:02:48. > :02:49.at Preston - and was told to pay an extra ?100
:02:50. > :02:54.or face being posecuted. The whole thing is just mad, and
:02:55. > :02:58.they need to look at the pricing structure and stop ripping people
:02:59. > :03:02.off because this is what this is about. It is not about managing
:03:03. > :03:07.leisure travel or business travel, these are the same people getting on
:03:08. > :03:19.the same train at the same time. There are times I can travel cheaper
:03:20. > :03:23.from Glasgow to Euston than from Preston to Euston. You can be next
:03:24. > :03:29.to someone who has paid ?20 lest for the same journey. It is very unfair.
:03:30. > :03:33.It is totally wrong. I live in Macclesfield and the fares are
:03:34. > :03:36.higher than just down the line in Stoke-on-Trent. The journey should
:03:37. > :03:41.be by the distance -- judged by the distance travelled.
:03:42. > :03:46.Virgin Trains says passengers can get cheaper tickets from Preston
:03:47. > :03:52.Earlier I spoke to the railway expert Tony Miles -
:03:53. > :03:58.I asked him how common this type of charging is?
:03:59. > :04:06.This is what they call yield management is, the fares are to do
:04:07. > :04:10.with how many people want to travel at what times of day. When British
:04:11. > :04:12.rail first discovered it could use computers to price individual
:04:13. > :04:14.journeys, I remembered this happening, so it is been something
:04:15. > :04:22.that has been done for some time. Given that travellers feel like they
:04:23. > :04:25.are being ripped off, why is nothing being done to address it? Because
:04:26. > :04:30.some people are getting good value out of it, it just depends when you
:04:31. > :04:36.are travelling and from where. If you look even further ahead, the
:04:37. > :04:41.situation reverses. It is dependent on booking and picking the right
:04:42. > :04:50.moment to get the best value. People travelling further get very good
:04:51. > :04:53.value for money. If you leave London tomorrow at almost five o'clock
:04:54. > :04:57.heading for Lancaster, it will cost you almost ?100 less than in
:04:58. > :05:05.Preston, but you're not allowed to get off in Preston because the train
:05:06. > :05:09.company says that is fraud. That is correct if they are advance purchase
:05:10. > :05:12.tickets, there are specific regulations on them. Again, those
:05:13. > :05:18.have been around for more than 30 years. It is just the way the train
:05:19. > :05:22.companies work, selling capacity and appreciating that some people with
:05:23. > :05:28.longer journeys perhaps are more reluctant to choose the train
:05:29. > :05:35.sometimes, Scotland may look at airlines as an option. That is just
:05:36. > :05:39.the way selling tickets has gone, it is the same with the airlines. I'm
:05:40. > :05:44.going to Ireland for ?10 next week, but a I booked the ticket a day
:05:45. > :05:48.before I would be over 100. Some people have split a journey into
:05:49. > :05:54.separate segments and by different tickets to build up the journey to
:05:55. > :05:58.make it cheaper. Is that legal? Yes, it is legal, there are some rules
:05:59. > :06:05.like the train has to stop at the station where the check tickets go
:06:06. > :06:11.from one to another. There are various websites will help you find
:06:12. > :06:16.that. You can tap into a journey that is not selling well, and this
:06:17. > :06:21.is completely legal, and if you can find a way to do it, that is how to
:06:22. > :06:26.get value for money. Thank you very much. A few of you talking about
:06:27. > :07:09.this on the Facebook page. He was a highwayman. I get the
:07:10. > :07:13.point. Peter Elliott has said cheers, my next ticket will be from
:07:14. > :07:16.Lancaster! So he has cottoned on. A dog dubbed dangerous and sentenced
:07:17. > :07:19.to death has been given a reprieve. Campaigners fighting
:07:20. > :07:21.to save Butch, a ten-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier,
:07:22. > :07:22.have won a judicial Butch had been trapped with his dead
:07:23. > :07:26.owner inside their home By the time police found them
:07:27. > :07:30.there were bite marks on the body. A court ordered his destruction -
:07:31. > :07:33.but now a judge says Here's our Chief
:07:34. > :07:35.Reporter, Dave Guest. different sides to the nature
:07:36. > :07:40.of of the same dog. different sides to the
:07:41. > :07:43.nature of the same dog. This one was filmed
:07:44. > :07:44.by Merseyside Police. And this persuaded them that Butch,
:07:45. > :07:47.the Staffordshire Bull Terrier was This one was made by the charity
:07:48. > :08:01.Senior Staffy Club - the expert featured in it concluded
:08:02. > :08:17.Butch posed no threat He is a friendly dog, we knew we
:08:18. > :08:19.could find him a home, and that is what we were in the process of
:08:20. > :08:20.doing. Last year a judge sitting
:08:21. > :08:22.at Liverpool Magistrates' Court decided the police were right
:08:23. > :08:25.and Butch should be put down. He'd been seized after being
:08:26. > :08:27.recovered from a property His owner had died -
:08:28. > :08:30.the precise cause of his death remains unknown -
:08:31. > :08:32.and Butch remained trapped When he was found, there
:08:33. > :08:42.were bite marks on his body. His owner, who'd been ill for some
:08:43. > :08:45.time, had been in the process of signing him over to the charity
:08:46. > :08:54.when he died. On the day we went affection to get
:08:55. > :08:58.his vaccination so he could come here was the day we could not get a
:08:59. > :09:09.reply from his owner, and then it was four days later unfortunately
:09:10. > :09:15.that the sad facts were unknown. -- then and now.
:09:16. > :09:16.Butch has remained in police
:09:17. > :09:21.Today, at a court in Manchester, the charity asked a judge to allow
:09:22. > :09:47.The judge said there were merits in both arguments. Merseyside Police
:09:48. > :09:50.said the Chief Constable has noted the court's decision.
:09:51. > :09:52.A bagpipe-playing busker has been jailed for four months -
:09:53. > :09:55.after duping people in Liverpool into thinking he was collecting
:09:56. > :09:58.The court heard Angus Carpenter played with a Hillsborough Justice
:09:59. > :10:01.Campaign banner on his bagpipes the day before the 26th
:10:02. > :10:05.The 62-year-old claimed it had been a tribute,
:10:06. > :10:11.but the judge said he'd committed a mean-spirited crime.
:10:12. > :10:13.A man's been arrested after a drone was seen
:10:14. > :10:15.dropping a banned item into Walton Prison in Liverpool.
:10:16. > :10:17.Police say it was spotted above the jail on Friday.
:10:18. > :10:21.It's alleged the drone had an object attached -
:10:22. > :10:26.A 44-year-old man has been released on bail.
:10:27. > :10:28.Police investigating the death of 15-year-old Megan Lee -
:10:29. > :10:31.who had an allergic reaction after eating a takeway meal -
:10:32. > :10:32.have released two men they were questioning
:10:33. > :10:40.Megan - from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire - died on New Year's Day.
:10:41. > :10:44.The two men, who were arrested on suspicion of involuntary
:10:45. > :10:48.manslaughter by gross negligence, were bailed.
:10:49. > :10:52.A father and son forced a couple to work for ?4 a day and made them
:10:53. > :10:54.live in dirty and squalid conditions in outbuildings -
:10:55. > :10:59.Mohammed Riaz and Khuram Riaz from Nelson are charged
:11:00. > :11:02.with an offence under the modern slavery act.
:11:03. > :11:04.Burnley Crown Court was told the complainants were threatened
:11:05. > :11:09.with abuse and violence if they didn't work long hours.
:11:10. > :11:14.Our reporter Yunus Mulla was in court.
:11:15. > :11:34.Concerns were raised in April 2015 when police arrived in a house in
:11:35. > :11:39.Nelson, finding a couple sweeping the floor, chopping wood. They were
:11:40. > :11:44.living in an outbuilding described as a shack in court, it was filthy,
:11:45. > :11:51.damp and mouldy. There was a makeshift bathroom in a nearby shed,
:11:52. > :11:56.whether toilet bowl in it, which was also foul smelling. As a result,
:11:57. > :12:04.Mohammed Riaz, 63, and from Nelson, faces two counts of requiring the
:12:05. > :12:12.couple to perform compulsory labour. His son, 27, faces the same two
:12:13. > :12:20.counts. The dates vary but it is over a period between December 2014
:12:21. > :12:25.and April 2015. The prosecution opened its case today. What did they
:12:26. > :12:31.say? The prosecution say that the couple who are unemployed had
:12:32. > :12:34.nowhere to live, and their personal circumstances effectively put them
:12:35. > :12:45.into the clutches of the defendants. They had to carry out paid work,
:12:46. > :12:47.which earned them around ?4 a day, at the property and the family
:12:48. > :12:55.business. They were paid very little, they were given little food,
:12:56. > :12:57.and in return were given this promise inhumane conditions. Today,
:12:58. > :13:02.the prosecution said, you may wonder why they didn't escape from the
:13:03. > :13:06.clutches of the two defendants. Bearing in mind the psychological
:13:07. > :13:17.trap, the invisible handcuffs, if you like. Have the defendants
:13:18. > :13:21.offered an explanation? The defendants say they did not know
:13:22. > :13:25.each other. The defendants say these were acts of goodwill they were
:13:26. > :13:29.giving the couple, somewhere to live, some food at times, but they
:13:30. > :13:32.denied forcing them to do everything, they deny the charges.
:13:33. > :13:40.Thank you very much indeed. The northbound carriageway -
:13:41. > :13:44.between junctions 20 and 21 near Lymm -
:13:45. > :13:47.had to be closed during this Work to repair the damaged
:13:48. > :13:50.carriageway took place this afternoon - and it reopened fully
:13:51. > :13:53.at around four o'clock. The Liverpool musician
:13:54. > :13:54.Rebecca Ferguson has said She will not perform at the
:13:55. > :14:03.inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump -
:14:04. > :14:05.because she wasn't comfortable with the song choice
:14:06. > :14:07.made on her behalf. She had previously said she'd only
:14:08. > :14:09.accept the invitation if she could sing a protest song
:14:10. > :14:12.about racism in America. A film about The Beatles has been
:14:13. > :14:14.nominated for a BAFTA. Eight Days A Week -
:14:15. > :14:17.The Touring Years uses previously unseen footage to chart the band's
:14:18. > :14:19.rise from playing at the Cavern Club, to sell
:14:20. > :14:21.out tours of America. It's received a BAFTA nomination
:14:22. > :14:27.for Best Documentary. Anti-fracking campaigners
:14:28. > :14:31.say they plan to delay for as long as possible deliveries
:14:32. > :14:33.from construction lorries arriving at a site in Lancashire
:14:34. > :14:36.which is being prepared for drilling Protestors say they're planning
:14:37. > :14:39.daily protests in Little Plumpton. The energy company Cuadrilla says
:14:40. > :14:42.it's working with the police - to keep the area safe and ensure
:14:43. > :14:45.the main road isn't blocked. Day five at the construction site
:14:46. > :14:51.at Preston New Road in Fylde... Just another day for protestors
:14:52. > :15:03.who say they want to delay fracking We have a human right to object to
:15:04. > :15:07.this but we do not want to disrupt traffic or the areas, and this is a
:15:08. > :15:12.borough fear for ambulances between major hospitals. There is a work
:15:13. > :15:15.whenever they are, and we have ascertained that we may slow walk
:15:16. > :15:22.the trucks for the distance here, which is 15 minutes per truck, which
:15:23. > :15:26.does not sound a lot, but to an investor that sounds like people are
:15:27. > :15:33.not going away and they will not allow this to happen and challenged.
:15:34. > :15:37.-- unchallenged. Yesterday, protestors
:15:38. > :15:39.claimed they were put Cuadrilla say they were
:15:40. > :16:09.in the works area. They have got to build a roadway in,
:16:10. > :16:19.so there is a considerable time. Also a lot of protests are happening
:16:20. > :16:20.in Bolton, so rather haven't got so many here, other groups will try to
:16:21. > :16:25.stop them leaving their sites. Protestors say they'll be
:16:26. > :16:40.at the site for as long as it takes. Will Wayne Rooney surpass Bobby
:16:41. > :16:46.Charlton to become the highest goal-scorer? And this couple tell us
:16:47. > :17:07.their secret to manage. A collection auctioneers have
:17:08. > :17:09.described as one of the rarest - and most incredible -
:17:10. > :17:11.they've ever seen. It's being sold off over
:17:12. > :17:15.the next two days in Beeston For a model train enthusiast this is
:17:16. > :17:25.paradise. Rare pieces from around the world -
:17:26. > :17:27.America, Italy, Switzerland. It's a collection 35
:17:28. > :17:30.years in the making. The work of this man -
:17:31. > :17:32.Oldham solicitor and auctioneers couldn't
:17:33. > :17:52.believe their eyes. It was the quantity of games that
:17:53. > :17:55.there were. There were rooms with boxes and boxes of trains, and it
:17:56. > :17:59.was mind blowing. It is the most amazing collection I have seen by a
:18:00. > :18:02.long way. Virtually all of them were in original boxes and have never
:18:03. > :18:08.been used, so they are in pristine condition. Anthony Adler was
:18:09. > :18:14.inspired to start collecting while sheltering from the rain outside a
:18:15. > :18:16.model train shop. What began as a hobby became an obsession.
:18:17. > :18:21.So great was Mr Adler's collection, he had a separate house for it.
:18:22. > :18:32.Latrines were all at Fleetwood, and he was at Oldham. I have never seen
:18:33. > :18:38.anything like it. -- the trains. It is on track to raise around ?150,000
:18:39. > :18:42.for charity. I came to see this today, it is fantastic. I would have
:18:43. > :18:48.loved to have met him. This is just mind blowing. When I was younger and
:18:49. > :19:12.as a train spotter, this was the bees knees to see. When I saw
:19:13. > :19:25.this I was guided. As I could afford one, that would be what I would buy.
:19:26. > :19:31.I'm from London, and the wife won't be watching this, at least she won't
:19:32. > :19:35.know how much I will send! I was wondering if that was large train,
:19:36. > :19:45.but I'm not sure? I didn't want to say in case I wrong!
:19:46. > :19:48.There'll be a big crowd at Old Trafford this evening
:19:49. > :19:50.as Manchester United play Hull City in the first leg of their
:19:51. > :19:53.Jose Mourinho's acknowledged his team's got an important
:19:54. > :19:55.Premier League game against Liverpool at the weekend -
:19:56. > :19:58.but he says he's taking the EFL Cup seriously.
:19:59. > :19:59.Mark Edwardson's at Old Trafford for us.
:20:00. > :20:02.So, he's likely to play a strong side is he?
:20:03. > :20:06.Yes, he is. He's putting out a strong side because ahead he has
:20:07. > :20:10.another tantalising tie, the possibility of a tantalising game
:20:11. > :20:14.against Liverpool possibly in the football league final next month at
:20:15. > :20:18.Wembley because Liverpool are in the other semifinal against Southampton.
:20:19. > :20:24.If they get to it could be a Manchester United and Liverpool
:20:25. > :20:27.final at Wembley. What a tantalising thought for anyone, including Jose
:20:28. > :20:33.Mourinho. Tonight he has promised to put out a very strong team. This is
:20:34. > :20:41.in the EFL semifinal cup against Hull. United have been on something
:20:42. > :20:49.of a winning streak. Their last defeat was against thin Apache in
:20:50. > :20:52.the Europa League, back in the beginning of November. I have asked
:20:53. > :21:09.Manchester United fans what they think of the Portuguese progress. I
:21:10. > :21:25.think he has been a great manager but I think they will do really well
:21:26. > :21:27.here. They have won six games in a row, so hopefully they will wind
:21:28. > :21:33.tonight. I think he is performing well after putting grounders. It
:21:34. > :21:37.could be a big night for Wayne Rooney. Yes, it could indeed because
:21:38. > :21:40.all eyes will be on him if he plays tonight because at the weekend when
:21:41. > :21:42.and that he equalled Sir Bobby Charlton's record of 249 goals for
:21:43. > :21:45.Manchester United, cheered on by the great man himself. It is simply a
:21:46. > :21:48.matter of when, not if he breaks his record. Could it be tonight? I am
:21:49. > :21:50.sure both of them are hoping it will. If you cannot get here for the
:21:51. > :21:54.match tonight, is commentary on BBC radio five live, with kick-off at
:21:55. > :21:57.eight o'clock. Do you think Sir Bobby is secretly thinking, do not
:21:58. > :22:11.do it. It is going to happen. And
:22:12. > :22:23.apparently it was, the Mallard trained.
:22:24. > :22:26.What's the secret of a long and successful marriage?
:22:27. > :22:28.If anybody should know, it's Trudy and Barclay Patoir from Manchester.
:22:29. > :22:30.They've been together for more than seventy years.
:22:31. > :22:33.They met when they worked together making Lancaster Bombers in
:22:34. > :22:34.Merseyside during the Second World War.
:22:35. > :22:37.But, as Stuart Flinders reports, it's not all been plain sailing.
:22:38. > :22:43.Barclay was an apprentice engineer in British Guyana.
:22:44. > :22:46.He's there on the bottom right joining a Carribean contingent
:22:47. > :22:48.heading to England at the height of World War Two.
:22:49. > :22:51.Here he is on the left, ready to join the war effort.
:22:52. > :22:53.In 1942, he found himself in Liverpool.
:22:54. > :23:03.What did you think of Liverpool when you first came here? It was freezing
:23:04. > :23:05.cold. And the snow was an eye-opener. Had you ever seen it
:23:06. > :23:09.before? Only in pictures. Barclay was put to work
:23:10. > :23:22.making Lancaster Bombers Many people worked night and day to
:23:23. > :23:26.produce these planes for Bomber Command.
:23:27. > :23:40.His assistant on the production line was Trudy.
:23:41. > :23:42.Barclay and Trudy took a shine to each other.
:23:43. > :23:45.And a visit to the Empire Theatre to see star singer
:23:46. > :26:14.Even now, Trudy is almost tearful when she remembers their song.
:26:15. > :26:19.Turning much colder over the next couple of days this could kick in
:26:20. > :26:22.from midnight tonight, we have a net office warning that the wind will be
:26:23. > :26:25.very strong. The weather itself, patchy cloud, rain here and there,
:26:26. > :26:28.not too much in the way of rain, some breaks in the cloud cover, but
:26:29. > :26:34.the wind will be picking up and it could be touching even 60 mph by the
:26:35. > :26:43.morning. Many down the Pennines, the top of the macro 62. This means that
:26:44. > :26:48.damages will not be too low. But remember through the morning, and
:26:49. > :26:51.again while the triangles are mainly around Pennine areas, not
:26:52. > :26:57.exclusively so, it will be windy absolutely everywhere. In between
:26:58. > :26:59.the showers there will be spelt of decent sunshine around, but the
:27:00. > :27:05.breeze is the main feature all the way through the day. As we go
:27:06. > :27:08.through the day, the number on the chart will say 7 degrees, but
:27:09. > :27:14.temperatures will fall through the afternoon. Wintry showers will
:27:15. > :27:19.continue through tomorrow night as the cold weather starts to bite. A
:27:20. > :27:24.Met Office warning for snow on Thursday. There is a line of whether
:27:25. > :27:27.just to the south of us which could cause all sorts of problems, so you
:27:28. > :27:34.do has to watch the forecast over the next 12 hours.
:27:35. > :27:40.We have a computer here which is going to kick, Tech. We were close.
:27:41. > :28:24.And you were in good happening. Have a lovely evening. Goodbye.
:28:25. > :28:27.It's back... Let's get ready to grumble. ..with more belligerence...
:28:28. > :28:30.Can you imagine anything more diabolical? ..moaning...
:28:31. > :28:37...and nonsensical items... Don't send me a curve-ball, Nigel.
:28:38. > :28:48.Every choice you've ever made, every path you've ever taken,
:28:49. > :28:52.the man you are today is your memory of Eurus.