:00:00. > :00:15.North West Tonight can reve`l that 100 children from the so-called
:00:16. > :00:18.Jungle camp in Calais could be resettled in the North West.
:00:19. > :00:22.We understand that 23 local councils have agreed to take the youngsters.
:00:23. > :00:26.Here's our chief reporter, Dave Guest.
:00:27. > :00:31.It provided a temporary, if far from sweet home to thousands
:00:32. > :00:33.desperate to get away from the countries of their birth.
:00:34. > :00:36.The Jungle was marred in controversy from its first day until its last.
:00:37. > :00:40.The French say more than 5,400 people have been transferred
:00:41. > :00:43.to reception centres in the past week.
:00:44. > :00:48.Of those, around 1,500 are unaccompanied children.
:00:49. > :00:51.Britain's agreed to take some, but questions have been raised
:00:52. > :00:54.as to whether some of those who ve arrived already are actually
:00:55. > :00:59.I've been catching up with one young man who faced scepticism
:01:00. > :01:03.when he arrived here from Iraq several years ago.
:01:04. > :01:09.He'd arrived in the UK at the age of 14.
:01:10. > :01:13.He says his parents had been killed in Iraq and he hid in on a truck
:01:14. > :01:17.But as he turned 16, the authorities in Wigan decided
:01:18. > :01:23.They put it age at 20 and said he'd have to be deported.
:01:24. > :01:28.I don't know why they don't believe me.
:01:29. > :01:34.I can't go to sleep at night time, I can't eat nothing.
:01:35. > :01:37.He spent time a deportation centre until a court ruled that
:01:38. > :01:39.if the authorities couldn't prove he was older, they had
:01:40. > :01:44.to accept he was indeed 16 and should be allowed to st`y.
:01:45. > :01:49.He's just turned 23 and has built a new life for himself
:01:50. > :01:54.You'll have seen the publichty about young people leaving
:01:55. > :02:00.The questions have been raised about some of them, about their age.
:02:01. > :02:03.What do you think about the way those children
:02:04. > :02:08.I think they should be treating them better.
:02:09. > :02:15.It's not uncommon for peopld like Rabar to face such questions.
:02:16. > :02:18.According to the Refugee Cotncil, there are almost 800 age disputed
:02:19. > :02:23.Basically, that's where the authorities didn't
:02:24. > :02:26.believe the person applying really was and 18.
:02:27. > :02:29.That represents a 148% increase on the year before.
:02:30. > :02:33.But the numbers of unaccompanied asylum seeking children
:02:34. > :02:38.The Home Office says there were nearly 3,500 asylum
:02:39. > :02:41.applications from them in the year ending in June 2016.
:02:42. > :02:46.That represents something like a 54% increase on 2015.
:02:47. > :02:50.So far, the UK has accepted more than 200 children
:02:51. > :02:56.The government says it will be taking more,
:02:57. > :03:01.and I understand 23 councils in this region have agreed well accept up
:03:02. > :03:07.That works out to around four for each area.
:03:08. > :03:10.A man's been jailed for life after being convicted of strangling
:03:11. > :03:13.a Bolton grandfather and dumping his body in a reservoir.
:03:14. > :03:16.Candido Pereira, of Chorley New Road, in Bolton,
:03:17. > :03:19.had denied murdering Darren McMinn and was standing trial
:03:20. > :03:25.A jury unanimously found the 37-year-old Portuguese
:03:26. > :03:29.He will serve a minimum of 24 years before being eligible
:03:30. > :03:34.A man accused of stabbing to death a backpacker from Cheshire
:03:35. > :03:36.at an Australian hostel has had his case transferred
:03:37. > :03:40.30-year-old Tom Jackson, from Congleton, died along
:03:41. > :03:44.with Mia Ayliffe Chung after they were both
:03:45. > :03:49.Smail Ayad has been remanded in custody charged with their lurders.
:03:50. > :03:53.He'll appear in court on the 15th of February.
:03:54. > :03:56.A man from Salford has been charged with murder after an alleged assault
:03:57. > :03:58.on a volunteer working at a charity shop in Liverpool.
:03:59. > :04:02.The victim, 36-year-old Victor Alexandrov Maroukian,
:04:03. > :04:07.died at the Remar Furniture Store on Aigburth Road on Wednesd`y.
:04:08. > :04:10.Boyan Antonov, who's 28, will appear before Liverpool
:04:11. > :04:16.A controversial plan to use green belt land for major housing
:04:17. > :04:19.developments in Greater Manchester has been approved this afternoon.
:04:20. > :04:22.The Greater Manchester Spathal Framework includes plans
:04:23. > :04:25.for the building of 225 thotsand homes over the next 20 years.
:04:26. > :04:33.The proposal will now go to public consultation.
:04:34. > :04:36.Cast your mind back to 2010, the year Blackburn Rovers became
:04:37. > :04:39.the first Indian-owned Premier League club.
:04:40. > :04:43.Since being taken over by the owners of Venky's,
:04:44. > :04:46.a processed chicken company, Rovers have dropped out
:04:47. > :04:48.of the Premier League, sacked six managers and run up debts
:04:49. > :04:52.Many supporters have had enough, and a mass protest has been
:04:53. > :04:55.organised for tomorrow's game against Wolves.
:04:56. > :05:00.Birdie, that's Alan Birkbeck to you and me, might just be
:05:01. > :05:05.His house overlooks Ewood P`rk and he has watched Rovers home
:05:06. > :05:14.We don't know what direction they're going to take this club.
:05:15. > :05:18.The only direction at the moment is we're going down the pan.
:05:19. > :05:21.Some supporters lost faith in the new owners
:05:22. > :05:26.But with the club now struggling at the bottom of the Championship,
:05:27. > :05:28.disenchantment has grown - culminating in a mass
:05:29. > :05:34.The organisers of tomorrow's protest are asking supporters to turn up
:05:35. > :05:40.after the match has started, 18 minutes into the game.
:05:41. > :05:42.And they want them to walk out on the 75th minute.
:05:43. > :05:45.The significance of those ntmbers is that the club
:05:46. > :05:51.COMMENTATOR: They're known `s one of the toughest fighting
:05:52. > :05:56.By emphasising the year Rovers were born, fans are reminding
:05:57. > :05:59.the owners that this is a club with a long tradition.
:06:00. > :06:02.Founder members of the football league.
:06:03. > :06:10.We've win trophies across three centuries.
:06:11. > :06:16.There's businesses going bust because of the low
:06:17. > :06:22.This is the legacy that they'll leave behind.
:06:23. > :06:25.In a statement tonight, the owners told us they respect
:06:26. > :06:28.the fans' right to protest, but hope they'll get
:06:29. > :06:35.I wouldn't expect anything wonderful weather-wise.
:06:36. > :06:38.With the next couple of days, we're going to see an awful
:06:39. > :06:40.The high pressure is still dominating our weather,
:06:41. > :06:46.It's made many places dull, damp and drizzly all the way through.
:06:47. > :06:48.And we've got more dull, damp and drizzly stuff, too,
:06:49. > :06:50.as we head through the next couple of hours.
:06:51. > :06:53.Cloud space is going to be puite low, so visibility will be quite
:06:54. > :06:56.poor heading to the early hours of the morning.
:06:57. > :06:58.But the numbers, once again very good, between 8-12 Celsius.
:06:59. > :07:01.We go into Saturday, and an awful lot of this weather
:07:02. > :07:04.Particularly for parts of the Isle of Man and parts of
:07:05. > :07:08.It pulls away as the morning goes on, but it's a gloomy
:07:09. > :07:12.Fingers crossed that as we head into the afternoon there
:07:13. > :07:15.will be more in the way of brightness and we saw today.
:07:16. > :07:17.So not going to be a fantastic picture.
:07:18. > :07:21.Through the afternoon we sed a temperature of 40-15 Celsius.
:07:22. > :07:23.Sunday, I'm sure there'll bd a little more in the way
:07:24. > :07:25.of brightness and less in the way of drizzle.
:07:26. > :07:31.As we start the working week next week, more in the way of cloud.
:07:32. > :07:36.to come into the beginning of next week as well. Now the national
:07:37. > :07:46.picture. Hello, it's been a pretty good week
:07:47. > :07:49.for getting out and enjoying the autumn colours, especially if you
:07:50. > :07:55.have seen autumn sunshine. What sunshine, if you have been in
:07:56. > :08:01.Manchester or the Wirral, damp in places. Ty Gifford had it better,
:08:02. > :08:05.and Deal in Kent, with sunshine. It's high pressure and settled
:08:06. > :08:07.weather but the flow of air may be mild but winning in moisture, not
:08:08. > :08:08.necessarily in