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Welcome to NorthWest Tonight with Stuart Flinders | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Misery for commuters as rail workers vote to strike | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Unfortunately, whenever there is a dispute in transport, | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
The train companies say the new system is safe. | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
The Blackpool couple murdered by a terrorist gunman in Tunisia - | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
now their family aims to sue the holiday company. | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
It's not a day goes by when you do not think about them. They are | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
always in your thoughts and your heart. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Our Brexit road trip reaches Liverpool, which was among | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
The teenager with learning difficulties who's overcome big | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
Tens of thousands of passengers are facing disruption as rail | :00:51. | :01:09. | |
workers at two North West rail companies vote for strike action. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Workers at Merseyrail and Northern will walk out in a dispute | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Strike action is planned for the 13th March. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
In a moment we'll here from the RMT Union, but first Steve Saul explains | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
This row is about driver only trains - an issue that's brought misery | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
to passengers in London and the South East for | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Now, in a major escalation of the dispute, members of the RMT | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
rail union have voted overwhelmingly to strike on Northern trains run | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
by Arriva Rail North, and on Merseyrail. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
The first 24-hour strike is due to take place on March the 13th. | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
We are incredibly disappointed that the RMT have taken this premature | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
action. We are 12 months away from considering any changes. | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
Although they plan to remove safety-trained guards | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
from the trains, both companies say they will still have a ticket | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
collector on many trains to help the public. | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
They say the only difference will be that in future the driver will be | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
responsible for opening and closing the doors. | :02:16. | :02:16. | |
Merseyrail is spending ?460 million on new driver-only trains. | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
They'll have CCTV in the driver's cab showing the full | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
length of the train, a sliding safety step | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
They say they won't make anyone redundant and | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
The trains adopt all of the latest technology when it comes to suburban | :02:30. | :02:43. | |
Metro trains and they operate safely. The safety regulator has | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
said they are safe as well. That's what we are looking to do on the | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
Merseyrail network. It's no different to what happens on the | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
London Underground every day and they have been operating without | :02:56. | :02:56. | |
guards for 17 years. The fear now for rail passengers | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
is that the dispute could become as long as bitter as the series | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
of strikes which has often paralysed Regular commuters will be hoping | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
that the two sides can somehow reach Most people are sympathetic but the | :03:05. | :03:14. | |
rail strikes have gone on a long time and the only people suffering | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
are ordinary workers. Everybody is in trouble because they need to get | :03:19. | :03:19. | |
to work. Earlier I spoke to John Tilley, | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
the regional organiser I asked him about his members' | :03:27. | :03:42. | |
concerns. The proposals are that we remove the card from the train and | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
the passengers are going to be left on their own with only a driver | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
locked in his cab or her cab at the front of the train. The passengers | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
don't want that. A lot of these services will have other people on | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
board, these customer services role on board. That is an extra person, | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
isn't it? It depends which company you are talking about. On | :04:07. | :04:16. | |
Merseyrail, they are proposing that there will be a second customer | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
service person on 25 per cent of the trains. That means 75% of the trains | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
won't have a second person. And even the 25% who do, they would be a | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
safety trained, safety qualified person who is able to deal with an | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
incident should the driver be incapacitated. Are your members | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
prepare for a long and protracted strike? If you take the example of | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Southern rail, are you prepared for that appear? I think the ballot | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
result gives you the answer to that. We have had massive yes votes from | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
our members in an independent postal ballot. But your members might be | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
prepared for that but what about the passengers? Will they be prepared | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
for a summer of strikes? Unfortunately, whenever there is a | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
dispute in transport, the passengers are affected by that. I understand | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
that. Here is the real issue. As we stand at the moment, our members' | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
industrial action is the only thing standing between driver only | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
operated trains and the passengers themselves. We are their last line | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
of protection. We have campaigned, we have spoken to MPs but they | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
haven't listened and we are now the last line of defence on behalf of | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
the passengers for the less safe railway. In a word, are you prepared | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
to strike until you get the deal you want, no matter how long that is? We | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
will defend the safety operational role of the Garda. The dispute is | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
now two weeks away. There is a window of opportunity for the | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
employers to speak to us about how we retain guards. Not surrender | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
talks about how we get rid of them, talks about how we keep them. That | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
should be utilised by the bosses. The family of a Blackpool couple | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
shot dead by a terrorist in Tunisia two years ago say their pain | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
will never go away. Denis and Elaine Thwaites were among | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
38 people killed when an Islamist Today a coroner said the response | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
by Tunisian police had been Relatives say they're furious | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
at the security failures, and are also planning to sue | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
the holiday company. Our reporter Ian Haslam | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
was at the High court in London. The inquest here at the Royal Courts | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
of Justice began just over six weeks ago with a coroner today ruling | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
that the 38 victims were "unlawfully killed" by a gunman at a hotel | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
in Sousse in June 2015. Among those who lost their lives | :06:53. | :07:05. | |
were Denis and Elaine Thwaites. They were genuinely lovely people. | :07:06. | :07:30. | |
They would light up any room they walked in. They had hearts of gold | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
and they would dearly love by friends and family. The last 18 | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
months have been pretty much horrendous. To say the least. Every | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
day, it is just a struggle. They had lived in Blackpool for many years. | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
In retirement, they loved to go on holiday but in June 20 15, two days | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
after arriving in Sousse, they were shot dead along with 36 other | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
people. An Islamist gunmen opened fire as people relaxed on some | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
lounges. When people go on holiday, they should feel safe. At this | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
moment in time, yes, we are quite angry as a family and a group of | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
people, we don't think throughout the inquest process that enough has | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
really come to the surface. We've had to put quite a lot to bring | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
evidence in front of the coroner. Today the coroner described the | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
police response as at best shambolic and at worst cowardly. I think it | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
was cowardly. I don't know what went through their heads at the time. | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
Obviously it is a horrifying situation but that is what they are | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
trained for. The families of those killed wanted the coroner to | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
consider whether neglect by the holiday firm was a factor in their | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
relatives' deaths but he rejected a finding of neglect. We will now be | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
preparing to commence civil proceedings. The inquest was about | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
those who tragically lost their lives. They must never be forgotten. | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
The company denies it was neglectful. I think the travel | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
companies could have done more. When you look at travel advice and give | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
that to your customer, when you are booking online, they should have | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
been more information out there. At the time there wasn't. What do you | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
feel now towards Tunisian police? Very angry that they could not get | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
there quickly enough. However, you can't just look at that person, you | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
look at the training they've had all stop the amount of love and support | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
messages we have had keeps us going. They later told me that today is | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
their third wedding anniversary, pointing out that they want -- | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
wedding day was the happiest day of their lives while this is one of | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
their very worst. As we heard in the report, | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
the couple, along with other families, will now sue the tour | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
operator who, as mentioned, And Danny and Lindsey say they'll | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
now, with the other families, do all they can to prevent a similar | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
tragedy ever happening again. Police investigating a fire | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
in Manchester's Chinatown in which two homeless men died | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
are now offering a ?50,000 A murder investigation was started | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
after the blaze in a disused The men's bodies were later | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
found in the rubble. A leading surgeon from Altrincham | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
has gone on trial accused of causing grievous bodily harm to ten patients | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
by carrying out unnecessary The jury was told that Ian Paterson | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
lied to his patients, exaggerating or inventing the risk | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
of cancer, partly The 59-year-old denies | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
all the charges against him. The trial is expected | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
to last ten weeks. Liverpool's bid to host | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
the Commonwealth Games could be The city intended to bid | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
for the 2026 games but after it emerged that Durban may be unable | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
to remain as host in 2022 because of financial constraints, | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
Liverpool's thrown its hat Talks between the council, | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
the government and the Commonwealth Games organisers | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
are in the very early stages. Details have been released about how | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
you can pay the tolls The Mersey Gateway Bridge is due | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
to open in the autumn. Motorbikes and local | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
buses won't have to pay. But it'll cost ?2 for cars and ?8 | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
for the heaviest HGVs. There are discounts for local people | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
and local businesses. Even in rotten weather, | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
work on the new bridge carries on. Today saw the launch of the company | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
that will run the tolls. It's called Merseyflow and it | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
will use toll booths. It's called Merseyflow and it | :11:46. | :11:57. | |
will not use toll booths. There will be no barriers, | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
you will just drive straight across and the technology | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
on the gantries will read your license plate or the sticker | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
of your registry user. The website went live today | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
with advice on payment options. There was talk of people | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
from Warrington and Cheshire West being exempt from charges but only | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
people living in Holton, the borough that straddles | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
the river here, will be. What we've tried to do is put | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
together a scheme that pays the bills but is fair and that | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
enables people to take advantage of what is a fabulous | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
piece of infrastructure. The tolls range from ?2 | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
for cars to ?8 for HGVs, travel free if they pay an annual | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
?10 registration fee. Blue badge holders are also exempt | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
if they pay a one-off ?5 fee. And there are various | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
pre-pay and travel pass If you don't register | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
for any of the schemes, automatic number plate cameras | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
will know when your vehicle You'll then have until midnight | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
the next day to pay the ?2 and if you don't, penalties | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
will start to kick in and that When the new bridge opens, | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
the old Silver Jubilee Bridge When it reopens it | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
too will be tolled. The local business forum says some | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
smaller companies are worried. I think they are worried | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
about the impact on their bottom line but we are here to help | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
support our members through any difficult times that they may | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
be feeling right now. Others say the long-term | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
advantage is worth it. Hours in traffic jams, | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
it adds stress to the employers, stresses to the people you're | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
meeting with, so people would rather know with certainty they can get | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
to their appointment times Registration for the discount | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
schemes opens this summer. A bit bleak out there tonight. | :13:49. | :14:10. | |
Diane will be here later to tell us if it's going to get any better. | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
Still to come, our Brexit Road trip arrives in Liverpool as the | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
government prepares to trigger Brexit. | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
And could Katie be skating for gold? The teenager with learning | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
difficulties who has overcome big challenge is to represent her | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
country. For somebody who suffered a stroke | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
as a tiny baby to come this far is amazing. I wouldn't think I would be | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
here today. As Brexit Britain gets | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
ready to leave the EU, this week we're on a road trip | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
of the region to get a sense of how Last night we heard | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
from the Eurosceptics in Blackpool, who told us they're experiencing | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
a Brexit bounce when Tonight though we're | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
with the Europhiles of Liverpool, who aren't so optimistic | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
about the process. Here's our social affairs | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
correspondent Clare Fallon. With the first stop on our big | :15:01. | :15:21. | |
Brexit tour ticked off, we have left Blackpool and are heading south. | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
Next up is a city where, based on the referendum result, they would | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
like to be doing a U-turn right now because 58% of those who voted in | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
Liverpool voted to remain. At this design company in the city | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
centre, they are pretty good at looking into the future when it | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
comes to technology. Their office feels like a mad science lab. With | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
global clients and international workforce, Brexit is not the future | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
the boss wanted. Our team is 20% International, we've probably got | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
eight or nine people from Europe and our ability to attract and then | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
employ those European members of staff is definitely a concern for | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
me. I suppose there will be some people, when you talk about | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
employing people from EU countries, who will think, why don't you just | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
hire British people? I think it is a fair point but in our business there | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
is a huge skills gap. Liverpool sees itself as a global player and sells | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
itself as a gateway to the rest of the world. Another Brexit sceptic | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
business leader told me there is still nervousness about what comes | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
next. Gary Pugh -- very few of the people campaigning said we would | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
come out of the single market. It now transpires that part of this | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
deal is out of the single market and out of the customs union. What | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
impact that has on people who import and export is still unclear. Next | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
few ordinary people who live here. With our caravan park at the Pier | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
head, we invited them to talk about Brexit. The younger generation | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
probably were fearful of what would come because that is all they've | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
known. They are scared about immigration and the NHS and things | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
like that. It would be nice to have the freedom to go and work in the | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
European Union. But I guess the country has spoken. Spoken, yes, but | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
the deal itself is not yet done and that means there is time for | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
pitching and lobbying. A professor from Liverpool University is calling | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
for measures to make sure poorer students don't miss out. You can at | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
the moment make it very easy for students who come from less affluent | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
backgrounds to get an overseas experience but if we are stretching | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
our institutional resource very thin in order to support students | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
travelling abroad for part of their period of steady, then necessarily | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
opportunities will be limited. As stadiums tonight, we have one final | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
Place to stop in Liverpool. Since the referendum, there has been a | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
stampede of Irish Brits applying for Irish passports, though even here at | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
the city's Irish centre, not everyone is on the same song sheet. | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
My husband is Irish and he voted to leave and I had a terrible argument | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
about it. On the day it happened, I wouldn't even speak to him and my | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
daughter wouldn't speak to him. Our relationship with Ireland is | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
extremely important and the problems it will cause with Northern Ireland | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
are really worrying. The nation made the wrong decision but that will be | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
borne out in what happens in the next few years, of course. Right or | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
wrong, like it or not, the destination has been set. The next | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
step will be figuring out the route to Brexit. | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
A fascinating series. We will find out tomorrow with the caravan is | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
going to be. It has really divided whole | :19:18. | :19:18. | |
families. The body that oversees | :19:19. | :19:19. | |
boxing is investigating David Haye's threat to put | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
Merseyside's Tony The two heavyweights meet | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
in the ring this weekend. Haye launched into an astonishing | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
foul-mouthed rant at a news conference in Liverpool, | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
describing the city's Tony Bellew described | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
the comments as distasteful. There is flash photography from the | :19:35. | :19:48. | |
start. The fight, scheduled | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
for the O2 Arena in London this Saturday, almost started early | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
as Haye and Bellew Tony Bellew, an Everton | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
fan, was on home ground and the audience let Haye know | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
where its sympathies lay. Haye continued in the | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
same vein afterwards. When I throw a body | :20:03. | :20:23. | |
shot, I am trying to break your ribs, when I throw a shot | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
round the side, I'm trying to perforate your eardrum, if I'm | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
punching down the middle, I'll rupture your eye socket, I'll | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
punch your teeth down your throat. The British Boxing Board | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
of Control has the job Its general secretary | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
told us today, "We're not happy. | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
The comments are inappropriate. "It will be discussed | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
at our board meeting next week." Tony Bellew took | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
it all in his stride. Very distasteful and wrong | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
to say these things. I'm going to be totally honest | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
and say, I'm not in a ring to hurt I am in a ring so the referee can | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
just count to ten Is there genuine | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
animosity between them? Do they do it just for PR and why | :21:01. | :21:10. | |
does it have to be so extreme? Jurgen Klopp said his Liverpool team | :21:11. | :21:28. | |
were poor in the beginning, the middle and the end of their 3-1 | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
defeat at Leicester City last night. Danny Drinkwater, with this cracker, | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
and Jamie Vardy did the damage before Phillipe Coutinho grabbed | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
a late consolation goal. Rugby union, and Sale Sharks have | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
announced the signing of Scottish The back row forward, | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
currently with Glasgow Warriors, has signed a three year deal | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
with the Sharks. Next month, 19-year-old | :21:53. | :22:06. | |
Stephanie Gott from Runcorn will be competing in | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
the Special Olympics As a baby, a stroke left her | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
with learning difficulties and restricted movement | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
in her arms and legs. But she's overcome those | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
challenges and now has real Final preparations for what Steph | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
hopes will be a gold-medal routine. When you see this, it's hard | :22:23. | :22:36. | |
to believe she only began I started and I took to it | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
like a duck to water. For somebody who's got a very weak | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
leg and a poorly arm who suffered a stroke as a tiny baby | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
to come this far is amazing. I wouldn't think I | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
would be here today. She is amazing and what she's | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
achieved is incredible. She was so poorly when she was | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
a baby and now she's amazing. Her coach Pam has been helping | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
prepare Steph to take on the world. She's worked really, really hard, | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
she is very determined and because of that I am just really | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
pleased for her and I hope that I can help her release her potential | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
when she's in Austria. In Austria, Steph will be one | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
of 20 British athletes, competing against 3,000 from around | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
the world in the Special Olympics Winter Games for athletes | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
with intellectual disabilities. Steph has been training four times | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
a week here on the ice to prepare for Austria and she's been given | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
even greater inspiration by Britain's if not the world's | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
most famous ice skaters. Steph has already met Torvill | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
and Dean and they will be travelling out to Austria to support | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
the British team. Steph is firmly on track | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
to achieve her goal of gold. We woke up to a bit of a covering | :24:06. | :24:43. | |
this morning. Our weather watchers really did | :24:44. | :24:56. | |
manage to catch at around the region. If it lingered where you | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
work, mainly it was over the highest levels. Over the next couple of days | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
we could see a little bit more of this. We are firmly in the cold air. | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
If you look at the arrows, that is the way the wind is blowing. It is | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
sticking with us until the weekend. There will be subtle changes in the | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
forecast but these weather fronts allowed the rain to fall and as we | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
have the cold air there will be some snow falling again. Perhaps we will | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
see some tomorrow night. By the time you get through to Sunday it will be | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
less cold and temperatures could be creeping back in to double figures. | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
Plenty of wet weather. You will have seen plenty of rain this afternoon. | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
Quite unpleasant day for all of us. Nothing in the way of brightness. | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
Tomorrow is a better day in terms of brightness. This is our latest radar | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
picture. They could be one or two hailstorms. It could be quite lively | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
for a short while but it is dying away and over the next couple of | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
hours it should all start to drop south. But the story is, the showers | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
will die away. You will see is unclear whether but there is a | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
strong enough breeze to make sure it is not quite as cold as it was last | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
night. It could be two or three in the towns and cities. Any showers | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
that fall shouldn't be too wintry in nature. Along the coast you will be | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
up at around 4 degrees. Tomorrow, from the word go there should be | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
some reasonable spells of sunshine and that's how it stays. We have | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
showers and they could be wintry but for most of us there will be showers | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
but through the afternoon they will die off and the sunshine will be the | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
main feature of the weather. The breeze is not too strong but you can | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
see what's happening behind me, the next line of rain is coming through | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
behind me and that will appear tomorrow night. They could be a | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
little bit more snow in the forecast tomorrow night. | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
It always gets better in March, doesn't it? But we are going into | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
March. Have you ever seen a parrot | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
eat using a fork and He lives with his owner in Urmston | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
and has learned to eat bird food, as well as ham | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
and chicken, using cutlery. He also enjoys with taking the tops | :27:21. | :27:22. | |
off beer bottles with his beak, watching football and taking trips | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
to the pub. A very useful parrot! | :27:26. | :27:35. | |
But can he toss a pancake? No. Goodbye. | :27:36. | :27:50. | |
MUSIC: Another Day Of Sun by the La La Land Cast | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
Another chance to see Peter Kay's BAFTA award-winning Car Share. | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
Or watch the full series now on BBC iPlayer. | :27:59. | :28:05. | |
..you know, take it on and come up with some ideas. | :28:06. | :28:30. | |
So, apparently Red Nose Day is back... | :28:31. | :28:31. | |
Cool. So, we... We love Red Nose Day. | :28:32. | :28:33. | |
Yes. So, Comic Relief have asked if we can help | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
with a bit a reboot of the show. OK, cool. | :28:38. | :28:39. | |
So, we... Like Brown Nose Day. Well, no, hang on. | :28:40. | :28:41. | |
Apparently, the big thing this year is that it will actually be funny. | :28:42. | :28:46. |