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Sunday it will turn called. Back to you. That | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson and Annabel Tiffin. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Why Harriet can't get treatment for a terminal illness, | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
I'm going to get kidneys failure. My system will start to pack down. It | :00:12. | :00:25. | |
is very worrying if I don't get the drug that I need. I won't be here in | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
ten years. Harriet's local MP tells us | :00:28. | :00:28. | |
why he wants the Health A train guard goes on trial - | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
after an elderly passenger slipped A court hears two of the police | :00:31. | :00:47. | |
officers involved in Anthony Grainger's fatal shooting had just | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
failed a firearms course. 80 years after the famous book, | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
celebrations in the town Harriet has TRAPS, | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
a rare genetic illness, which could kill her | :00:55. | :01:16. | |
within a decade. The drug she needs, which is almost | :01:17. | :01:17. | |
completely effective, is only available to those diagnosed | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
before last April. Harriet's symptoms weren't | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
recognised until the summer. Now, her MP is taking | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
Harriet's fight to the top, As a sound engineer | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
and multi-instrumentalist, music means everything | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
to Harriet North. But due to her condition, | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
playing guitar now means I know that is going to flare-up | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
over the next few days. During which time she received | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
a letter confirming she wouldn't be | :01:57. | :02:10. | |
prescribed the drug, Anakinra which The following CCU criteria | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
has not been met. Just tell us how worrying | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
a time this is for you. Especially with specialists saying | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
that in ten years' time, I'm going to get kidney failure, liver failure | :02:19. | :02:38. | |
and my system wil start to A change in NHS rule means | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
that he she can't have Anakinra, even though | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
as ?10,000 a year, it is cost-effective | :02:49. | :02:49. | |
and doctors say it is 95% effective | :02:50. | :02:50. | |
in treating symptoms. In March last year, NHS rules | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
changed, meaning any drug that is not approved by Nice | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
can no longer be prescribed to new To get Nice approval, | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
a drug needs to be tested Because there is only | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
one in a million of us and there is so little research | :03:02. | :03:15. | |
on it, when they do find in the research and find a drug that | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
works, it is frustrating that the NHS | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
don't back that drug. The worrying thing is | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
a parent is going forward. She mentions ten years, | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
I think that is The family say they have been | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
overwhelmed by the support that Harriet has received with friends | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
offering to stage fundraising We would struggle | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
to fund it ourselves. It would cost them a lot more | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
to keep them alive on dialysis, They are now hoping that NHS England | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
will overturned the decision to Harriet's local MP is | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
the Conservative David Morris. He's backing her campaign | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
to get Anakinra. My office has been dealing with | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
Harriet's consultants and they have said that she is the worst case out | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
of 70 in the country. NHS England deem her | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
not fit to have this drug and it is quite frankly not | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
good enough and I am fighting this Is your understanding that | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
if the case merits it, then the Surely if she is the worst | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
in the country, she I have done an early-day motion | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
in Parliament today, parliamentary motion | :04:21. | :04:29. | |
to Harriet in this case to raise awareness, | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
so that I can bring up further | :04:32. | :04:32. | |
questions with the health 48 hours of having this | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
drug, she feels better. And it would prolong her life | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
and more to the point, if she doesn't get it, she could | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
die within ten years. Do you see the point | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
that the NHS, Nice, has to Has to make rulings because there | :04:45. | :04:53. | |
are always people who will want to get drugs for various | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
different conditions and the lines According to their own | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
criteria, it is only going to be given to | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
In other words, the worst conditions. | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
If Harriet is the worst condition or the worst sufferer of this | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
condition in the country, surely she should | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
When you meet with Jeremy Hunt next week, what are going to say? | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
Don't forget it is up to Nice and NHS England to actually dispense | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
this drug, it is not up to the Secretary of State. | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
I am going to enlist Secretary of State's help to | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
If she falls outside the time frame, as in | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
she was diagnosed after March last year, he is going to have two stick | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
his neck out and make an exception in one individual case, isn't it? | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
That could for him open the floodgates. | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
At the end of the day, the criteria is there. | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
This drug is available to those who really need it. | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Are you optimistic you will get this turned around? | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
I never promised anybody anything, but one thing I do promise | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
and one thing I will always deliver is a good fight and I normally get | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
We did contact NHS England to comment on this story but so far | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
A Merseyrail train guard has gone on trial after an elderly | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
woman was injured falling from the platform on to the track. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
Martin Zee denies a charge of endangering passenger safety | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
by failing to check all passengers had boarded the train before closing | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
His defence say he in fact acted with compassion | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Our Merseyside Reporter, Andy Gill is at Liverpool Crown | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Martin Zee was a guard on a Merseyrail train | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
at Hamilton Square station in Birkenhead in July 2015. | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
The jury have heard that Edna Atherton, who was 88 | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
at the time tried to climb aboard the train by holding | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
on to the rubber seal of the door as an alarm was sounding to warn | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
CCTV shows that when the doors started to re-open she lost | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
her balance and fell between the platform | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
She suffered four broken ribs and a cut head. | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
Now the prosecution say Mr Zee did not follow all the 17 steps | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
required to close the doors safely and get the train away safely. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
His defence say he didn't see Mrs Atherton because of blind spots | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
on the platform and the TV monitors and what happened was an accident. | :07:18. | :07:28. | |
And they have also been hearing Mrs Atherton's version of events? | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
In a statement read to the jury Mrs Atherton said she had to hold | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
because of her arthritis. into to the train | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
She was shocked when the doors moved and thought they were faulty. | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
When she fell she thought she'd landed on the platform until she saw | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
the train wheels and then realised she was on the track. | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
The jury have also heard from Stephen Dodd who's | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
head of customer service training for Merseyrail. | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
He agreed with the prosecution that there would be risks to public | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
safety if the steps for closing the doors weren't | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
But the defence say Mr Zee didn't see Mrs Atherton as he had to turn | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
away from a monitor to close the doors behind another passenger | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
His defence say when Mrs Atherton fell Mr Zee ran to help | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
Liverpool Lime Street reopened today - a week after 200-tonnes of debris | :08:21. | :08:42. | |
But rail users are being warned they face further disruption. | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
Northern Rail say they'll only be able to run 40% | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
of their services next Monday, when members of the RMT union | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
The union called the strike over plans to bring | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
An investigation's continuing after two women were killed | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
when they were hit by a car outside a hospital in Manchester. | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
It happened outside the entrance to Withington Community Hospital | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
An 89-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing death | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
The women who died were aged 44 and 49. | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
A convicted murderer, on trial for staging | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
a one-man protest at Manchester's Strangeways Prison, | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
has told a jury that he staged the protest because his complaints | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
about poor conditions and inmates being locked up for 23 | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
Stuart Horner climbed onto the prison roof and stayed | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
there for more than two days in 2015. | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
He caused around ?1 million of damage. | :09:26. | :09:38. | |
The words "the north" were never very far away | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
The Northern Powerhouse was, of course,George Osborne's big idea. | :09:41. | :09:59. | |
What about his successor Philip Hammond? | :10:00. | :10:00. | |
He delivered his first budget today - lots of announcements | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
on business rates, national insurance social care. | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
But was their much in it for the north west. | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
Lets join our political editor Nina Warhurst, | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
who's at Westminster.. Nina, this will go down in history | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
Will it go down in history for the north west? | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
We shouldn't expect anything too radical. His catchphrase is good. We | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
spent all afternoon going through this spring budget and in that I | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
found ?90 million spread across northern England for pinch points in | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
motorways. That will be shared out in the north-west and north-east. | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
One bus Lane in Manchester is costing roughly that amount as well, | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
you know that that money won't stretch very far. Additionally, if | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
you are one of the 453,000 people in the north who is self-employed, you | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
will be disappointed because you are going to pay from next year around | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
60p a day in national insurance contributions. That is an increase. | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
The Chancellor says that makes for a more level playing field, opponents | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
say that will stifle the spirit of entrepreneurial spirit. If you are | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
self-employed, you don't get maternity play, six pay that back | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
sick pay. You're not levelling the playing field as well. It is a blow | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
to those who are entrepreneurs. Those who end up employing other | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
people. It stops people getting into business in the first place and | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
makes people who are already on low incomes significantly poorer. Tim | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
Farren from the Lib Dems there, what do Labour say? Labour have been | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
critical of the announcement of ?2 billion for social care. In parts of | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
Lancashire, Merseyside, they feel they are close to failing the public | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
in terms of social care. I spoke to the Labour MP for Salford, she said | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
that ?2 billion across the country is insulting. The Chancellor doesn't | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
care. He told the House of Commons that we are ?1.7 trillion in debt | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
and the age of austerity must go on for a lot longer. Thank you. | :11:49. | :11:57. | |
The inquiry into the death of Anthony Grainger, | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
who was shot by police, has been told two of the armed | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
officers had failed a course the month before the shooting. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
Emails, only now given to the inquiry by Greater | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
Manchester Police, reveal concerns about the two | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
officers who were part of the armed response team sent | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
to a car park in the Cheshire village of Culcheth in March 2012. | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
Those emails say there were questions about how | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
This from our social affairs correspondet clare fallon | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
Five years ago last week, in this car park, and an armed man was shot | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
dead by police. The firearms officers who came here that night | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
should have been highly trained, used to dealing with the most | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
dangerous situation. Now we have learned that two of them had failed | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
a training course in the weeks before. One of them, only known as Z | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
15 had made such serious safety breaches on that training exercise, | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
it could have ended his career as a firearms officer. The other who | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
failed, X seven, was the most senior firearms officer here when Anthony | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Grainger was shot dead, effectively running the operation on the ground. | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
Having heard the details during today's hearing, Anthony Grainger's | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
Palmer told me that she finds these revelations deeply upsetting. | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
Concerning. Concerning evidence, all of it. It is quite shocking. How | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
difficult is that for you to sit through and hear all of those | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
details? Hard. Hard and emotional draining. We just want some answers. | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
We want to find out what really happened that night and why Anthony | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
is not here. Giving evidence today, Michael Lawlor. He is now retired, | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
but at the time, he was head of firearms and heavily involved in | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
planning the Greater Manchester Police operation which ended in | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
Anthony Grainger's death. He told the enquiry that he didn't think the | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
police force knew that they had felt that course until after the event | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
and that he had destroyed a book containing some of his notes about | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
the operation when he left the police force. He said... The enquiry | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
is still to hear from the police officer who shot Anthony Grainger. | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
The public hearing is scheduled to last a few more weeks. | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
For the past three days we've been looking at the issue of air | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
pollution, which affects the health of thousands of people | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
Vehciles are thought to be the biggest problem. | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
In a moment, we'll be speaking to James Noakes, | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
from Liverpool City Council, about plans to create | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
But first our Environment Correspondent Judy Hobson has been | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
to Switzerland and Germany to see how two cities have managed | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
Zurich, Switzerland's largest city, and a similar size to manchester | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
it welcomes shoppers, bankers and tourists, but not cars. | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
Parking places are scarce and expensive. | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
It's a deliberate policy to cut air pollution. | :14:45. | :14:55. | |
We don't believe in bullying people and don't say you must | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
leave your car at home, otherwise you are a bad person. | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
But we say we have another option that is really good. | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
By that, he means cheap and efficient public transport. | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
By law, every city centre resident has to live within 500 metres | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
Half the urban population don't own a car. | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
When I for example go eating and drinking, | :15:21. | :15:31. | |
This square used top be full of parking places. | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
Now cars are banned and its measures like this that have | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
helped dissuade people from bringing their vehicles | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
As a result, pollution levels have dropped | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
dramatically over the past ten years. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
A two hour train ride away is Freigburg in Germany, | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
The most popular way to commute is by bicycle. | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
One area has been built and designed for people not to need cars. | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
This is the district of Vauban, a sustainable area. | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
You can have a car, but you have to pay 18,000 euros | :16:16. | :16:24. | |
You can have a car, but you have to pay 18,000 euros just | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
All the shops are nearby, so day-to-day life is not very | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
Especially for kids, it is fantastic. | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
In summer, you see all the streets are in the | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
street and they are playing together. | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
I would have loved to live here as a kid. | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
Like Zurich, it's an efficient public transport system which has | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
helped make a difference, but also careful own planning. | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
We don't have big shops at the border of the city, | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
where you can buy milk and a television. | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
We have shops in every residential area so you can | :16:56. | :17:10. | |
This is one example of urban planning, | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
Even here, more l needs to be done to further reduce emissions, | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
but Freigburg and Zurich show how urban air pollution can be reduced. | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
It shows policies in places like Manchester | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
much further, if we're to have any chance of cleaning up | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
Last week, Liverpool City Council published its proposals to cut | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
pollution, including restricting diesel vehicles by 2022. | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
But last year when the government announced five cities would be given | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
the powers to create "clean air zones", Liverpool was missed out. | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
Earlier I spoke to James Noakes, from the council, and asked him | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
without the legal powers how could they implement any changes? | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
Well, I think that it's clear the direction of travel that the | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
Government and cities are going on here in the UK. | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
Last year, the Government was taken to court and | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
had to admit that its own policies and its own | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
approach was illegal, so it is having to respond | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
to that and as part of that, it is having | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
to that and as part of that, it is having to give | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
Liverpool is quite confident that some of the ideas that we will bring | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
forward and approaches we want to take will help | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
tackle inequalities where the Government has failed. | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
You can't for instance ban diesel cars | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
or introduce congestion charge, can you? | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
At the moment, what we want to do is explore what the options are | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
To do that, we want to have a genuine conversation | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
with the people of the city, with people such as taxi drivers, bus | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
operators, others who contribute towards the issues that we see with | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
Then we will put forward proposals for the mayor | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
to take on board, working in conjunction with not just the rest | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
of the city, that the city region as well. | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
Part of that will inevitably be how we put pressure on Government | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
Do you think there comes a time when people in Liverpool should | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
think again before buying a diesel car? | :19:16. | :19:16. | |
As a diesel car owner myself, I know the situation that many people | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
Of considering that they thought they had done the right | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
thing, maybe they did in terms of carbon emissions, but it has added | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
to a different problem in terms of our air quality. | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
What we want to do in the city is to bring those people | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
We don't want to be particularly punitive with people, | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
we want to have a conversation with those people to come up with ideas | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
One of the things that the mayor has already said is that we want to join | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
with London and other cities to call for the Government to introduce a | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
Those people who have invested in good faith in | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
diesel vehicles can find a different way of getting an alternative | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
Talking about me then. People who invested in a diesel car thinking | :19:57. | :20:15. | |
that you did the right thing. You did, didn't you? Lower emissions and | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
so on. Didn't do much wrong with the air pollution in Liverpool today, it | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
was glorious. Football now and ahead | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
of their Europa League match against FC Rostov , | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
the Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
criticised the pitch. And Mourinho says the pitch | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
is so bad he doesn't know It is hard for me to believe | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
that we are going to play tomorrow on that field, | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
if you can call it a field. He must've done that interview in | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
the bathroom, honestly. In the Championship Wigan Athletic | :20:52. | :21:02. | |
boosted their chances of avoiding relegation, | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
with a hard-earned victory Dan Burn scored the only | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
goal of the game. It was the Latics' first win in five | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
league matches and lifts them And in League two, Blackpool came | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
away with an excellent victory Jordan Flores with the third goal | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
for Gary Bowyer's men. And in boxing Hughie Fury, | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
the cousin of former world heavyweight champion Tyson, | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
is going to fight for a world title. He's challenging New Zealand's | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
Joseph Parker who holds Hughie Fury says he's | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
confident he will win. The pair will meet in the ring | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
in Auckland on May the 6th. Wigan will be celebrating | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
one of its most famous George Orwell's book | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
The Road to Wigan Pier It exposed the grimness of life | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
there and in other Northern Towns And, as Dave Guest reports, | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
it earned Wigan a place It is 1936 and a young writer | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
is aboard a train reflecting on his "The train bore me away | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
through the monstrous "scenery of slack heaps, chimneys, | :22:09. | :22:20. | |
piled scrap iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud crisscrossed | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
by the prints of clogs. That young writer was Eric Blair | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
and the journey was to inspire this, The Road To Wigan | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
Pier, a book published the following year under his pen | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
name of George Orwell. He wasn't there to write a travel | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
brochure, he was there to tell people this is not right | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
and something should be done. I think it was a massive | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
friend to Wigan and He actually took well | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
to the people here. And experienced the life | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
as best he could as they He did that by taking a room | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
above a tripe shop on Darlington street is still | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
here, sadly number 22 What he experienced here | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
was to form the basis of a Orwell's book detailed the squalor | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
and poverty in the industrial wastelands of the Midlands and | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
the north which he taught during the This is the pier that | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
all the fuss was about. In fact, it is a replica | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
of the original coal tip. After years of trying | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
to live down the Orwellian image, Wigan decided | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
to embrace its industrial past as It is 1986 and the Queen | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
is opening a new When it opened this place was truly | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
ground-breaking. It is one of the first | :23:35. | :23:47. | |
interactive museums where visitors could truly immerse | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
themselves in past times. Of course, times change, | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
fashions change, the museum is no more and they are | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
looking for a new use for this The council is convinced it | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
will find someone willing to take it It is an iconic address, I imagine | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
if you were a business with Wigan Pier as your address, | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
everyone would know where it is. For that, we can can thank | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
an author whose book was Interesting. Very interesting. It | :24:08. | :24:23. | |
looks as we said earlier, Liverpool looked very nice to date, Wiggin | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
didn't look very nice in those pictures, but to date, Simon? We | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
could taste it, can we? A little bit of spring in the air today. | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
nice for all of us. We started off with a fair amount of cloud, but you | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
can see as that cloud melts away, glorious sunshine. The Manchester | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
area, Merseyside and Cheshire as well. This lovely picture that comes | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
from Cumbria today. Clear blue skies. Not too bad either in | :24:53. | :25:01. | |
Cheshire. Nice to walk the dog. This evening, clear spells. Chance of a | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
shower or two in the Isle of Man, up towards Cumbria, perhaps north | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
Lancashire. A dry night. Wind picking up into the early hours of | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
Thursday morning, temperatures overnight down to about seven or 8 | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
degrees. For Thursday, another glorious days is expected. A strong | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
breeze. That breeze will blow those clouds away and look at this, barely | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
a cloud in the sky as we go into lunchtime and early afternoon. Once | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
again getting into double figures. Again, lots of sunshine. It is going | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
to feel like spring. Going through Thursday into Friday, look at this | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
area of low pressure in the Atlantic that is throwing this weather fronts | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
towards the UK. But it is also bringing with it some mild air and | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
quite a bit of cloud. On Friday, it will be a cloudy day. Outbreaks of | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
rain on and off. Particularly over higher ground. Despite the cloud, | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
and the rain, temperatures are still getting into double figures. They | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
go. Ten or 11 Celsius on Friday. Into the weekend, a bit mixed. On | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
Saturday, sunny spells and showers. Sunday, heavier rain around. | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
Ambridge is again just about in double figures. Not bad at all. You | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
can come again. We like that. Very much. I love that beginning bit of | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
spring, you know when it is just still coming and the daffodils | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
coming up. It gives you hope for a good summer. We are not going to pin | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
you down on that one yet. Definitely not. Bags were watching, Simon and I | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
will be back for the late news at 1030. See them. In -- thanks for | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
watching. Let's Sing And Dance exploded onto | :26:45. | :27:23. | |
our screens, setting the stage | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
alight...literally. Stars were a-swinging... | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
Could somebody help me? Join the party, | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
as new stars perform on... | :27:35. | :27:40. |