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Welcome to North West Tonight, with Annabel Tiffin and Roger Johnson.

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Our top story: Crisis in the NHS - as new figures reveal ambulances

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My major concern is what it means for patients, waiting on stretchers,

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in corridors, not being seen quickly enough.

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We'll talk to a top A doctor, who's warning patients'

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Preston's controversial bus lanes - more than a million pounds in fines

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are issued to drivers in just two months.

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Giving patients like Aimee the chance to have children -

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a campaign to help cancer patients have their eggs frozen.

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The train taking us back to the 1940s -

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we meet the model maker who spent 30 years recreating Liverpool's

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It's a subject we've covered before, but the problem appears

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Ambulances waiting for hours outside North West A before

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A leaked report obtained by this programme shows

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that since the New Year, ambulance staff have waited up

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to ten hours to hand over patients in A

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The worst delay happened in Southport, but there have

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been serious problems throughout the region.

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Yunus Mulla reports on those latest figures.

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The length of time an ambulance waits can vary from hospital to

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hospital. Today, leaked figures suggested that some hospitals are

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way above recommended target levels. On the 4th of January and ambulance

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waited for more than ten hours at Southport hospital; the day before,

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at North Manchester, the length of time was almost nine hours.

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On the 12th of November -- January -- December, the length of time was

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nine hours. My major concern is what it means

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for patients waiting on stretchers, in corridors, not being seen quickly

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enough. The NHS death -- NHS staff are working wonders with appalling

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resources. This image was sent to MP Stephen

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Twigg. A constituent said the waiting room at Aintree hospital's

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A was like an airport lounge. Leading doctors today wrote to the

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Prime Minister warning patients' lives are being put at risk.

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What I've been advocating is an increase in national insurance

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contributions, that it should be earmarked only for the NHS and

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social care, because if you designed and NHS now you'd have both of those

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key services as a single service. The Prime Minister today responded

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during a debate led by the opposition parties.

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Over the Christmas period in the Tuesday after Christmas, we saw the

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busiest day ever in the National Health Service. And over the few

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weeks around Christmas, we saw the day when more people were treated in

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accident and emergency within four hours than had ever happened before.

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The North West Ambulance Service has seen an increase in red incidents,

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and said today these are patients in a serious concern but need to go to

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hospital. Patients will want to see

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improvements. The Government maintains a huge amount of action is

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being taken to address problems. Mark Holland is a doctor

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in Greater Manchester who's the President of the Society

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for Acute Medicine, and one of those who wrote to the Prime Minister

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today warning lives are being put If the ambulance situation something

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that you recognise? Yes, because we were in a situation where there are

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people in the emergency department who cannot go to the wards, and

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therefore we cannot off-load the ambulances. If you can't off-load

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them, the ambulances cannot go to their next job, so the whole system

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is blocked up. Is it just a matter of time, do you think, before

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somebody dies on a horse -- hospital trolley in the Northwest?

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Naturally every day in the year we will see 1800 deaths in the UK, the

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fact that people are now on trolleys mean -- means the same thing could

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coincide. That would be tragic. I read one

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report where a hospital had put a senior doctor in a corridor just to

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assess the people in the corridor. I'm familiar with those types of

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stories. In my role with the Society I've had e-mails from a number of

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colleagues around the country, and those types of stories of people

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feeling hopeless in the jobs they are trying to do are actually very

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common now. The Prime Minister said the Red

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Cross description of the NHS being a humanitarian crisis was

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irresponsible and overblown. What do you think? We are not in a

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situation where -- like it is in Syria, but we are in a humane crisis

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because it is a crisis which is affecting human beings, and there is

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a person at the top of the food chain who is in denial that the

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crisis is occurring. And therefore I feel a lot of sympathy with the Red

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Cross, they have no axe to grind, they have come out and made a

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powerful statement and I think we have an obligation to take them

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seriously. The Government says ?10 million

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going in, 1600 more doctors, they are investing in the NHS.

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Are you saying that? We are not seeing any benefits, and therefore

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one wonders where these things are happening. A lot of people feel the

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accounting figures are, you know, slightly colourful accounting. 1600

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extra doctors. We are the third worst doctored country in Europe, we

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have 2.8 doctors per 1000 per head in the population. Adding in 1600

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takes us to 2.8 three. There's been talk today of a

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political consensus to bring the parties together to plot a way

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forward. Is that a good idea? Yes, I think we

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probably do need an immediate injection of cash to get social care

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in place. I think it is right that party politics are done away with

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people work together, but I also think it is right that the NHS needs

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a very -- strong leader. Guys like you are interviewing different

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people every day of the week and I don't think anybody out there can

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tell us who runs the NHS because there are too many people who appear

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to put their hands up but nobody ever takes ultimate responsibility.

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Is it as bad as you have ever known? Gimmickry yes. I've lived through

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another bad winter, 1989, 1990, and this is worse.

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The Prime Minister has paid tribute to a soldier from Middleton

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22-year-old Scott Hetherington was serving with the 2nd Battalion

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His death is thought to have been the result of a shooting accident.

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At Prime Minister s Questions today, Theresa May described him

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Police say a one-year-old baby was inside a house in Liverpool

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Three men burst into the property on Dacy Road in Everton and shot

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He's now in hospital in a stable condition.

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Lancashire Police were forced to close part of Preston New Road

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for four hours earlier today because of an anti-fracking protest.

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Demonstrators were walking in front of lorries heading

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Police say it caused long tailbacks and diversions in the area.

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Ferries between the Isle of Man and Lancashire have been cancelled

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Strong winds and rough seas mean sailings are suspended

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Elsewhere, power was lost to around a thousand homes in parts of Cumbria

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Wintry showers are forecast across the region tomorrow.

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Fines worth more than a million pounds have been issued to thousands

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of drivers in Preston after the introduction

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Motorists caught out by the new restriction are furious

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Lancashire County Council has made so much money in less

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But the authority says the changes at Fishergate,

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designed to ease congestion, will continue on a trial basis.

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Preston's main shopping street, transformed in recent years, it is

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now a shared space scheme. Vehicles and pedestrians have equal right of

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way. Over Christmas 2015, and at peak times, to congestion got quite

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bad, so in October last year drivers were stopped from turning right near

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the railway station, and a temporary bus lane was introduced during the

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day. Here is where the bus lane begins.

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It is active between 11am and 6pm. We've seen countless numbers of

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drivers ignore the science and carry on Dan Fisher gate; they will get a

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?60 fine. The first day they put the camera

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in, they were here, a few people, to advise the people that it's a bus

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lane only. But next day onwards there was no body here.

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My daughter came up Chapel street, and she didn't realise. She's got a

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fine. Since October, Lancashire County

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Council housing -- issued 23,000 fines.

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We have signs making clear that if people go any further, there is a

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camera. Let's take a ride on the Preston

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bus. The bus lane has been fantastic. It

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is like proceeding down the road with no traffic on it at all, and it

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has allowed us to provide our passengers with the service that

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they deserve. Michael is a solicitor who works and

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lives in Preston. It has moved whatever congestion

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there was, and the next area is not designed for through traffic.

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Last night we told you about the father and son from Burnley

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on trial for allegedly exploiting a Polish couple

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Well, today the two men hit back at their accusers,

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claiming the pair were alcoholics who would have been on the street

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But the woman who says she was used as a slave told the jury at one

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stage she was only paid one pound a day.

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Our chief reporter Dave Guest has been following the case,

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Remind us about who is in the dock. Mohamed rears a 62, his son is 27.

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The crown's case is that these two men used the Polish couple as

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slaves, it has been alleged that two men had to work long hours living in

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squalor in outbuilding at the back of the family home in Nelson. These

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two men deny charges of forcing these people to work in the trial

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here. The lawyers for the father and son,

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though. They have come out and said some quite harsh words about the

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alleged victims today? Yes, they said that these two complainers were

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the authors of their own misfortune, and they were described as

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alcoholics with a tendency towards violence, and they were said not to

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have been forced to work, and although the accommodation was not

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5-star it was better than being on the streets which is worth,

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according to the defence, this couple would not -- would have been

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had it not been for the generosity of this father and son. But the race

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to question wasn't feasible that this man in his 60s could dominate

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these two people in their 20s? One of the alleged victims, the

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woman, says she was only paid ?1 per day at one point.

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She said at one point she was paid nothing, then it became ?1. Then it

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became ?4 per day which brought her into line with her partner. For that

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they had to work from 7am some to 10pm at night, the trial continues

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tomorrow. You can see extremely windy conditions there. We will have

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a forecast later. The Portuguese man of war once more

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sound and fury from the Old Trafford faithful.

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The train taking us back to the 1940s. The model maker who has spent

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30 years recreating Liverpool's lime street station.

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Fertility experts in Manchester have called on the NHS to help more women

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diagnosed with cancer to freeze their eggs.

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Treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy can

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Researchers carried out a national study which found that fewer than 4%

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of young women who could be helped are given the option of freezing

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Aimee is only in her twenties, but she's spent much of her life

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Now, after being told she has a bone marrow disorder,

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she's having to consider her future plans for a family,

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I'm now looking at another bone marrow transplant.

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So it's going to completely, like, kill off my eggs, so I'm looking now

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to getting my eggs frozen, to protect them before

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I start having my chemo and radiotherapy again, really.

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Being a mum means the absolute world to me.

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But doctors here found not enough cancer patients

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With over 8,000 young women in the UK being diagnosed

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with cancer every year, they say around half

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receive treatment that could leave them infertile -

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yet only 154 across the country had their eggs frozen through the NHS.

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I think we've been very lucky in Manchester when we set this

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service up about eight or nine years ago.

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We did it in collaboration with the Christie, we got the local

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commissioners on board, and so we've actually been able

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I think across the country, apart from funding issues

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which is only one small part of it, I think really a lot

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I think a lot of patients don't realise what we can do,

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so I think patients often don't ask to be referred and I think cancer

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specialists often don't think about referring patients.

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But the study found that more women in the North West

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are being the option to freeze their eggs than in other

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Out of 154 cycles of egg freezing for cancer that took place in 2014,

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38 of those were done in the North West, that's almost 25%

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It is something to recognise, it is something to build on,

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and it is something that we hope will see even further improvement.

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Aimee and Kyle hope this will allow them to start

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a family in the future, and that raising awareness

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will ensure other cancer survivors are given that chance too.

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It gives me a bit of hope, looking to the future.

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It keeps me positive, thinking one day hopefully I'll be a mum.

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It all went to plan in the EFL Cup last night for Manchester United.

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2-0 winners in their first leg against Hull.

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We could be on for a Liverpool- United final. Yes, Jose Mourinho is

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happy with the result, but he wants a little more noise from the Old

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Trafford faithful. He said, It won't be

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like coming to the theatre." It's fair to point out

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I think that even though there's a trophy on offer,

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the League Cup isn't a priority You could say the same

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for Liverpool, who play the first leg of their semifinal tonight,

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away at Southampton. But after losing in the final last

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season, Jurgen Klopp's side will be desperate to go one

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better this time. First up though, a tricky

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double-header against the Saints. Opportunity, not pressure,

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has been the watchword Criticised in some quarters

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for fielding Liverpool's youngest ever line-up,

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in the FA Cup at the weekend, a 0-0 draw at home to

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League Two's Plymouth, he'll turn back to many

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of his senior men tonight. It's always a new day,

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always a new chance, Jurgen Klopp will certainly be

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boosted by the return to fitness The Brazilian is back, after almost

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seven weeks on the sidelines. As for their Premier League

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opponents on Sunday, they aren't shouting it

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from the rooftops just yet but a quiet confidence is growing

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at Manchester United. United had to work hard

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for their 2-0 win last night, Juan Mata and Marouane Fellaini

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with the goals, but with Liverpool's arrival in mind, Jose Mourinho urged

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supporters to work harder The players have to improve,

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I have to improve. And I'm sorry to say, the fans

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I think you also have to improve. He isn't the first manager to ask

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for more from their crowd, of course - Jurgen Klopp did it

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in no uncertain terms in November, and Manchester City's Pep Guardiola,

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the same ten days ago. So a sign of the times,

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or a particular issue for the Old Trafford

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faithful to solve? No more than anywhere

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else, I don't think. Couple more goals going.

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You know. I'd have thought it

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was a lot better then. Definitely going to be ramped

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up against Liverpool. A two-goal cushion for the second

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leg puts United in a great position to make their first final

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on the Jose Mourinho. And after nine wins in a row,

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the Reds are really starting to find their feet, and no doubt

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on Sunday, their voice. And there'll be full

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match commentary from St. Mary's tonight on BBC

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Radio Merseyside. Kick-off is 7:45, all

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the build-up begins at 7:00. Action on the field for the Reds,

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but off it for Everton who've made They've agreed a ?22 million

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deal to sign midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin

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from Manchester United. The French international,

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a ?25 million buy from Southampton in 2015, has featured in just eight

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games under United Manchester City have been charged

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by the Football Association for failing to ensure anti-doping

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officials knew where players Clubs are required to provide

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accurate details of training sessions and player whereabouts,

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so that they are available It's understood the information

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was not updated after City The rising star of Lancashire

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cricket says the support he's had from the North West has

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spurred him on. 19-year-old Haseeb Hameed

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from Bolton made his Test debut for England

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against India in November. He had to cut his tour short

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because of a broken finger, but had already impressed

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with his unflappable style. And the opener says the extra

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attention he gets these days from fans is something he's more

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than comfortable with. It makes you feel happy that,

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you know, you've made a lot of people here back home proud that

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you've gone on to you know, if anything it

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gives me a lot of confidence He's not exactly mobbed when he goes

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out shopping, but he is getting extra attention.

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We should say that Bryan Robson is 60 today.

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60! Tears, Rich. -- Cheers.

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Now let s take a journey back in time to 1940s

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Liverpool, because the city's Lime Street Station has had

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a makeover to look just as it did in the early post-war years.

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However, we're not talking about the actual station here,

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but a model version made at a house in Lytham St Annes.

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John Holden, who s originally from Southport, started his labour

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And as Ian Haslam reports, his project is yet to hit the buffers.

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This is how Liverpool Lime Street Station looked and might have

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The attention to detail is astonishing. The station platforms

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behind me, over there as the north-western hotel and all around

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me people are milling around. Now all I've got to do is track down the

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man responsible for all of this. And here he is. As a five-year-old

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little boy, the station left such a burning impression on me, and ever

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since I always wanted to make a model.

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And this is how the real-life Lime Street Station looked around

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You've got the London north-western hotel...

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Are you ready to accept parcels train? We are indeed. Tell the

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computer that you want to go to platform eight. Two buttons is all

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but you need to do, and then you can drive the train. And hey presto,

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there is the train. The railway fills the entire

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extension of John's house - Got one more major building to do,

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and we've recently put 160 figures on lime street. Next up, the station

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is on the move. It will go on display in Scotland for a few days

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next month. John Holden, we salute you.

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Wintry weather. We're sticking with the story that the cold air is

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descending, and we will see some wintry conditions over the next

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couple of days. We're going to get used to do some pretty low

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temperatures. This has been the picture as you've gone through the

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afternoon. One or two rain showers, but by the cold air is starting to

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bed in we will start to see those showers turning wintry. From

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midnight tonight we have a Met Office warning that there could be

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snow absolutely anywhere. They are snow showers, not a white out, but

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it doesn't take much to cause chaos. Don't make this the last forecast

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that you look at, because the forecast is a constantly evolving

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thing and it may change a few times as the night goes on. For most of us

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the showers will fall as rain, but over the highest levels you could

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have snow. Not expecting any problems first thing tomorrow

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morning, because the amounts should be too great. Because the breeze has

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been so strong, there could be a little bit of drifting in places.

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The temperatures around three degrees, a cold start. Your BBC

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Local Radio station will give you the absolute latest details on the

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forecast. There could be two centimetres anywhere, five

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centimetres over the highest levels. Sometimes it is rain, sometimes

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snow. It can cause lots of problems. Away from it, some spells of

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sunshine, but my goodness it is going to feel very, very cold

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indeed. And finally, you may remember us

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telling you about Cheshire Police's The force was asking

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the public to decide a name And Axel has been

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voted the favourite. They are wonderful to follow on

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Twitter, because you learn all about dogs. Have a lovely evening, thanks

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for watching. Goodbye. I think my political beliefs are

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really quite straightforward. I believe that our country needs to

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work for everyone. Not just for the rich,

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not just for the privileged, not just for those who know

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the right people or who've got the loudest voices, but a country

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that really works for everyone, has the opportunity to be

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who they want to be. In order to make sure that the

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country works for everyone,

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