:00:00. > :00:23.Good evening, as the boss of two hospitals on Merseyside -
:00:24. > :00:26.he was in charge of providing health care for more than a quarter
:00:27. > :00:29.But today Jonathan Parry was sacked as the Chief Executive
:00:30. > :00:31.of the Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust.
:00:32. > :00:34.Mr Parry had been suspended - along with other senior
:00:35. > :00:36.members of staff - more than a year ago and had
:00:37. > :00:40.But we still don't know exactly what he did wrong.
:00:41. > :00:42.Earlier, I spoke to our Social Affairs Correspondent Clare Fallon
:00:43. > :00:45.and asked her what more we know about what's happened there.
:00:46. > :00:47.Earlier, I spoke to our Social Affairs Correspondent Clare Fallon
:00:48. > :00:49.Not a lot, we simply have
:00:50. > :00:52.a statement that has been released by the trust today telling us that
:00:53. > :00:55.the chief executive Jonathan Parry has been sacked for gross misconduct
:00:56. > :01:00.I was at this hospital in August last
:01:01. > :01:04.year, on the day when four senior members
:01:05. > :01:05.of staff, including the
:01:06. > :01:11.I was told they had arrived at work is normal that morning, they had
:01:12. > :01:13.been taken into meetings and were told they
:01:14. > :01:14.were being suspended, and
:01:15. > :01:16.that was as a result of complaints made by
:01:17. > :01:19.whistle-blowers, and we can now look back at what the hospital trust
:01:20. > :01:25.I want to stress that the whistle-blowing
:01:26. > :01:28.concerns that have been raised do not concern patient safety or
:01:29. > :01:37.And I would want the message very clearly to be
:01:38. > :01:39.understood, there is no risk to patients,
:01:40. > :01:42.public should feel confident about attending at the trust.
:01:43. > :01:45.So that is what they were saying last year.
:01:46. > :01:49.No interviews are being done, no real
:01:50. > :01:51.explanation about what has gone on here.
:01:52. > :01:56.In fairness to the trust, what
:01:57. > :01:59.they have said to me is at the moment the outgoing chief executive
:02:00. > :02:02.has the right to appeal against sacking so it would be
:02:03. > :02:07.unfair to go into details at the moment.
:02:08. > :02:12.What about the other senior members of staff were suspended?
:02:13. > :02:13.It has been decided that one of those
:02:14. > :02:23.senior members of staff has now case to answer,
:02:24. > :02:27.The other two making up the four are no longer working for
:02:28. > :02:30.The chief operating boss, she has retired, and
:02:31. > :02:32.the human resources boss has resigned.
:02:33. > :02:33.I understand proceedings are still ongoing.
:02:34. > :02:35.All of this attracted criticism from some people
:02:36. > :02:40.including the local MP, who said all of this has taken too
:02:41. > :02:51.long and they say that it has cost too much,
:02:52. > :02:54.because these members of staff were still being paid while
:02:55. > :02:58.As of the summer that had added up to ?400,000.
:02:59. > :03:00.As of this evening we still do not know
:03:01. > :03:02.what has gone on here, although clearly this
:03:03. > :03:13.So serious the chief executive has now been sacked.
:03:14. > :03:15.Firefighters searching for a couple - missing
:03:16. > :03:17.after a house fire in Liverpool - have found two bodies.
:03:18. > :03:20.The blaze destroyed the house in Allerton at the weekend.
:03:21. > :03:23.It wasn't known whether the owners - believed to be a man and a woman
:03:24. > :03:26.in their 60s or 70s - were at home at the time.
:03:27. > :03:28.Police forensic officers will now investigate.
:03:29. > :03:30.Police are stepping up patrols in the Aigburth
:03:31. > :03:33.and Croxteth areas of Liverpool, after a man was shot
:03:34. > :03:52.Police and paramedics found a 30 year old man,
:03:53. > :04:03.Police believe it to have been a targeted shooting.
:04:04. > :04:14.UK home care Association said that local authorities throughout the
:04:15. > :04:19.region are not taking care resulting in some councils handing back
:04:20. > :04:25.contracts. I think we are at a tipping point. West Riding are
:04:26. > :04:28.realising they cannot operate in the rates local authorities are prepared
:04:29. > :04:36.to pay so we have to take some action right now to address the
:04:37. > :04:40.decline in the home care setter. Dash-mac sector.
:04:41. > :04:43.As many as 1000 public pay phones could disappear from streets
:04:44. > :04:46.across the North West - amid claims they are no longer used
:04:47. > :04:49.But many people believe they're still vital in emergencies.
:04:50. > :04:53.In the age of the mobile phone, the use of phone boxes has dropped
:04:54. > :04:56.by 90% over the past decade, but in
:04:57. > :04:59.rural Lancashire, the rolling hills can prove a barrier to connection.
:05:00. > :05:04.The signal outside the pub or the bar, you cannot use the
:05:05. > :05:13.Now, with BT considering the removal of many
:05:14. > :05:15.payphones, the council working for people to speak up
:05:16. > :05:19.The strength of the mobile phone is not good around here, and
:05:20. > :05:21.even today it has not been there at all.
:05:22. > :05:26.It just switches off and nobody has a signal.
:05:27. > :05:29.So, one could argue this should be maintained.
:05:30. > :05:39.According to BT's figures, the 50 phone boxes
:05:40. > :05:47.in the Ribble Valley have been used on average 14 times each in the past
:05:48. > :05:49.year, some have been used more than 150 times,
:05:50. > :05:55.Everyone has mobile phones, even your great granny has them now.
:05:56. > :05:58.It is 60p a minute to use one of these
:05:59. > :06:01.BT says it is still committed to providing public
:06:02. > :06:03.payphones, and will only remove them with the permission of local
:06:04. > :06:07.We will listen to what people are saying.
:06:08. > :06:09.We are testing for mobile signal that every one of these
:06:10. > :06:12.sites, so we're not taking anything out where there is no mobile signal
:06:13. > :06:16.But the sad fact is many of these payphones are simply not being
:06:17. > :06:20.At three-month consultation on the Ribble Valley's payphones is now
:06:21. > :06:28.He made his name with a controversial painting
:06:29. > :06:30.of Eric Cantona and his Manchester United team mates.
:06:31. > :06:33.And he re-created a version of Michaelangelo's Last Judgement
:06:34. > :06:37.But then the artist Michael Browne seemed to disappear.
:06:38. > :06:39.You might have thought he'd have made a fortune
:06:40. > :06:42.But - as Stuart Flinders reports - nothing could be
:06:43. > :06:56.You build up the mood you want from lots of images.
:06:57. > :07:11.Manchester United's new manager Jose Mourhno.
:07:12. > :07:23.United have always inspired Michael, first as a fan from Moss Side,
:07:24. > :07:26.His portrait of Eric Cantona as the Resurrected Christ offended
:07:27. > :07:30.But Eric liked it so much he bought the painting.
:07:31. > :07:33.Religion is one of the recurring themes in Michael's work.
:07:34. > :07:35.This is his tribute to Michelangelo in a pizza restaurant.
:07:36. > :07:38.Religious art and football took him to Italy, where he spent two
:07:39. > :07:40.and a half years trying to repeat his Cantona success
:07:41. > :07:45.It is supposed to be about 11 feet high, that painting.
:07:46. > :07:47.I could never get hold of Mario Balotelli, so I
:07:48. > :07:59.Then I went to Rome, and try to get to the Vatican,
:08:00. > :08:02.because I heard they were going to show more art-orientated religious
:08:03. > :08:06.Having failed to attract the interest of Balotelli
:08:07. > :08:10.But the money has run out, and the man once courted
:08:11. > :08:18.by United stars now lives in a homeless hostel in Salford.
:08:19. > :08:20.You are a good artist, but a bad businessman, perhaps?
:08:21. > :08:22.I'm sure I will be OK eventually because now I
:08:23. > :08:33.am back in the UK, working at building
:08:34. > :08:35.clientele and have had some help from people.
:08:36. > :08:37.This is surely not the end for Michael.
:08:38. > :08:40.He still has his talent and he is already in talks
:08:41. > :08:47.Football and Wigan Athletic have sacked manager Gary Caldwell
:08:48. > :08:50.He led the Latics to the League One title last season.
:08:51. > :08:52.But they've struggled in the Championship,
:08:53. > :08:55.winning only two out of their 14 league games, and are currently
:08:56. > :08:58.In tonight's games, Liverpool booked their place in the
:08:59. > :09:00.fifth round of the EFL Cup, with Daniel Sturridge scoring two
:09:01. > :09:09.goals to secure a 2-1 home victory over Tottenham.
:09:10. > :09:14.Preston had a less successful evening.
:09:15. > :09:17.They were thrashed 6-0 away to Newcastle.
:09:18. > :09:20.How do you decide which high school to send your child to?
:09:21. > :09:23.You probably look at Ofsted reports and league tables, or choose
:09:24. > :09:27.But some are taking it a bit further,
:09:28. > :09:29.Like this video by Fallibroome academy in Macclesfield.
:09:30. > :09:32.It's been viewed thousands of times online.
:09:33. > :09:34.2000 pupils took part in the impressive production.
:09:35. > :09:38.So if you want to see the full production
:09:39. > :10:06.We are back in the mail they are. Last night it visually quite cold
:10:07. > :10:12.that this will not be the case. It will bring legible rain in the next
:10:13. > :10:16.few days but will just cloud this up a bit. Dash-mac negligible. First
:10:17. > :10:21.thing this morning was really very cool but tomorrow a much milder
:10:22. > :10:25.picture. You will be starting the day with tempters around eight or 10
:10:26. > :10:28.degrees and we are already perhaps six or seven but much better than
:10:29. > :10:33.last night. You can spot where two patches of Brazilian there and that
:10:34. > :10:37.side pays will be low but afraid that weather stays with us tomorrow
:10:38. > :10:40.so from time to time you will see spots of drizzly rain that nothing
:10:41. > :10:45.to write home about our trouble us but it does mean a cloudy picture
:10:46. > :10:49.and at times all look fairly gloomy. Every now and then the sun will try
:10:50. > :10:52.to promote the client will be the predominant feature. The breeze
:10:53. > :10:58.picks up nearly as the monastery strong throughout the day that
:10:59. > :10:59.temperatures are good. Dash-mac the breeze picks up yearly in the
:11:00. > :11:02.morning. settled and on the mild side. Nick
:11:03. > :11:11.now has all the national weather. Hello. Autumn is the season of
:11:12. > :11:15.change, most noticeably with those autumn colours on display today in
:11:16. > :11:18.Buckinghamshire, as photographed by one of our weather watchers. Always
:11:19. > :11:21.helps when there is blue sky above. Our weather is always changing
:11:22. > :11:24.regardless of the season. One of those changes is taking place, we
:11:25. > :11:29.are losing last week's Easterly winds and now a westerly wind. That
:11:30. > :11:33.means it's turning milder by day and night but it does mean the return of
:11:34. > :11:38.Atlantic weather fronts, especially to north-western parts of the UK.
:11:39. > :11:42.The reason, high pressure in Germany and low pressure Iceland. Here is
:11:43. > :11:44.the first of those weather fronts for Scotland and Northern Ireland
:11:45. > :11:49.through the night, the first part of tomorrow. There isn't a huge amount
:11:50. > :11:52.of rain associated with this. Could see rain over the hills of northern
:11:53. > :11:56.England and Wales as the night goes on. The odd shower clipping Sussex
:11:57. > :12:00.and Kent. A lot of dry weather for England and Wales. It's mild here,
:12:01. > :12:04.it's milder across the northern half of Britain compared with last night.
:12:05. > :12:06.But the further south you are the closer to that area of high