:00:14. > :00:18.A man is being questioned tonight on suspicion of attempted murder
:00:19. > :00:20.after a police officer was stabbed in the face
:00:21. > :00:23.The officer had stopped a van for a routine check in Clevdleys.
:00:24. > :00:31.Naomi Cornwell sent this from the scene.
:00:32. > :00:34.It was here close to the corner of Westmorland Avenue and Rosol Road
:00:35. > :00:36.at ten o'clock this morning, that a police constable
:00:37. > :00:39.stopped a Peugeot van in what Lancashire Police h`ve
:00:40. > :00:43.but as the driver emerged from the van, the officer was attacked
:00:44. > :00:47.suffering a knife injury to his torso and facial injuries.
:00:48. > :00:50.We understand the windscreen of the police car was also smashed
:00:51. > :00:54.There was a huge police response witnessed by many
:00:55. > :01:04.Walked into my bedroom round about ten o'clock this morning
:01:05. > :01:06.and looked out my window and I just saw an officer
:01:07. > :01:11.on the road there and wondered what was going on.
:01:12. > :01:13.Feel very sad that a police officer doing his duty got stabbed.
:01:14. > :01:16.You know, you don't expect that on a street like this.
:01:17. > :01:18.The air ambulance landed nearby and took the officer
:01:19. > :01:21.to the Royal Preston Hospital but I'm pleased to say that
:01:22. > :01:23.Lancashire Police to say he has been released from hospital
:01:24. > :01:29.The attacker made off in thd van but was stopped nearby in the car
:01:30. > :01:34.Police say tonight they're questioning a 39-year-old m`n
:01:35. > :01:42.from Blackpool on suspicion of attempted murder.
:01:43. > :01:45.A new report has revealed that more than 40,000 people
:01:46. > :01:48.in the North West have had `dult social care withdrawn since 2009.
:01:49. > :01:53.The Leonard Cheshire organisation, which carried out the study,
:01:54. > :01:57.says pressure on council budgets has left many people helpless
:01:58. > :02:03.Our Health Correspondent Gill Dummigan reports.
:02:04. > :02:05.In 1979, Jo Fenlon was disgnosed with multiple sclerosis.
:02:06. > :02:09.What do you need people to help you to do?
:02:10. > :02:23.I am here until I need to go to the bathroom or to the
:02:24. > :02:29.A few weeks ago, Jo got a ldtter from Trafford council saying
:02:30. > :02:31.that the money to pay for her her care was
:02:32. > :02:51.In fact, books, television, DVDs are the only thing.
:02:52. > :02:54.This new research suggests that many others aren't getting
:02:55. > :03:00.The council didn't want to comment on this piece or about the payment
:03:01. > :03:02.system, but this research indicates the number of adults receivhng
:03:03. > :03:05.social care has gone down in four years from ?8,650 to just under
:03:06. > :03:08.6,900, that's a drop of arotnd 0% and it's a pattern being repeated
:03:09. > :03:22.The figures show a drop of 9% in Liverpool
:03:23. > :03:25.24% in Lancashire and 35% in Cumbria.
:03:26. > :03:28.In the North West as a whole, it was 18%.
:03:29. > :03:33.That's 42,000 fewer adults receiving social care.
:03:34. > :03:37.This is a great country, we are a prosperous
:03:38. > :03:41.It's about how we treat people in some of the most
:03:42. > :03:44.vulnerable situations in our country and I think this is about how we
:03:45. > :03:48.We are saying that we are prepared to let
:03:49. > :03:50.somebody soiled themselves automobile stuck in a hoist of the
:03:51. > :03:59.The Government says it's putting more money into social care
:04:00. > :04:03.from next year - potentiallx ?3.5 billion by 2020.
:04:04. > :04:10.Social care provide the support before people go into hospital and
:04:11. > :04:12.may be preventing people from going into hospital.
:04:13. > :04:14.If that is not there, the NHS will struggle.
:04:15. > :04:16.Jo, meanwhile, says councils need to look at other
:04:17. > :04:24.I don't think you should focus on the most
:04:25. > :04:36.The MP for St Helens South and Whiston has been cleared
:04:37. > :04:38.of kicking a Scottish indepdndence supporter during the 2014
:04:39. > :04:42.A sheriff in Glasgow said the case against Marie Rimmer wasn't proven
:04:43. > :04:45.which, in Scottish law, means she is cleared.
:04:46. > :04:48.But he also added that he doubted anyone had told him what re`lly
:04:49. > :04:52.happened outside a polling station on that day.
:04:53. > :04:54.Marie Rimmer, who always denied the charges,
:04:55. > :05:00.It cost the taxpayer ?63 million in legal fees
:05:01. > :05:03.for the families of the 96 victims of the Hillsborough Disaster
:05:04. > :05:08.to fight the new inquests which finished earlier this year.
:05:09. > :05:12.It found the supporters were unlawfully killed.
:05:13. > :05:14.Representation for nine former South Yorkshire Police officers
:05:15. > :05:17.cost the Home Office nearly ?20 million.
:05:18. > :05:19.Cancer experts met in Liverpool today to discuss why cancer rates
:05:20. > :05:22.are increasing faster there than anywhere else in the UK.
:05:23. > :05:24.They say 3,000 people in the city will be diagnosed
:05:25. > :05:28.with cancer every year by 2020 but those levels could
:05:29. > :05:34.be reduced if people adopted healthier lifestyles.
:05:35. > :05:37.Turton School near Bolton and Winstanley College in Wigan
:05:38. > :05:39.are among a number of schools here to have called
:05:40. > :05:42.in bomb disposal experts because of concerns about a chemical
:05:43. > :05:47.The substance, DNP, is often used in chemistry lessons
:05:48. > :05:53.and could become explosive if not stored correctly.
:05:54. > :05:56.Britain's flood risk management has been criticised
:05:57. > :05:57.by Parliament's Environment Committee.
:05:58. > :06:00.It's urging radical changes to prevent a repeat of last winter's
:06:01. > :06:02.chaos in Cumbria and Lancashire where over 1,000
:06:03. > :06:06.families are still living in temporary accommodation.
:06:07. > :06:19.Over Christmas and New Year, storms Desmond, Eva and Frank
:06:20. > :06:23.Homes, town centres, countryside all submerged.
:06:24. > :06:26.Time - according the to influential Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
:06:27. > :06:32.Committee - for radical change to tackle the threat of climatd change.
:06:33. > :06:34.It wants the Environment Agdncy stripped of its flood
:06:35. > :06:37.A new national floods commissioner to coordinate
:06:38. > :06:40.all flood-related policy and it wants wider use of natural
:06:41. > :06:43.flood prevention measures, like storing flood water on farmland
:06:44. > :06:50.because flooded fields cost less to tackle than flooded towns.
:06:51. > :06:53.Kevin Frea has a home within feet of the Lune River
:06:54. > :06:59.There are over 40 homes herd, all powered by this hydroplant.
:07:00. > :07:02.Storm Desmond put it out of action for two months.
:07:03. > :07:20.So would Kevin welcome proposed changes in flood planning?
:07:21. > :07:22.All of those things will help to hold the
:07:23. > :07:27.water, release its slower and stop the devastation further downstream.
:07:28. > :07:29.The Government says it sees no need for organisational changes
:07:30. > :07:32.and that it is implemented lany suggestions in the report.
:07:33. > :07:34.They also said they are spending ?2.5 billion
:07:35. > :07:37.improving flood defences to protect an additional 300,000 homes by 2021.
:07:38. > :07:39.Later this week, a massive new cargo terminal opens at Liverpool Docks.
:07:40. > :07:42.It's called Liverpool Two and it will allow the port
:07:43. > :07:44.to handle the biggest container ships in the world.
:07:45. > :07:47.Our Merseyside Reporter Andy Gill has been to see the new fachlity
:07:48. > :07:53.and assesses the Port of Liverpool's long history.
:07:54. > :07:56.The container ship Atlantic Sea edges into Gladstone Lock.
:07:57. > :08:04.Up close, it's like someone sliding a block of flats past your nose
:08:05. > :08:07.But this is the biggest ship Liverpool can get into its docks.
:08:08. > :08:10.And to compete globally, it needs to attract ships capable of carrying
:08:11. > :08:16.three times the number of containers this one can.
:08:17. > :08:19.That's why the port's invested ?400 million in a new in river
:08:20. > :08:26.It takes us from a very good, localised port to an intern`tional
:08:27. > :08:31.port with a huge standing and we are starting
:08:32. > :08:35.to compete in a global markdt with the big players.
:08:36. > :08:37.The new terminal, Liverpool Two, means ships don't
:08:38. > :08:44.And can be loaded and unloaded in the Mersey quickly.
:08:45. > :08:47.It comes 300 years after the first dock was built.
:08:48. > :08:53.You can still see part of it below the Liverpool One shopping centre.
:08:54. > :08:55.Back in 1715, this allowed ships to be unloaded
:08:56. > :08:58.in one day rather than a
:08:59. > :09:07.Liverpool had been growing for decades before
:09:08. > :09:15.I think roundabout 1648 when trade with the Americans first st`rted,
:09:16. > :09:17.that's when the first ship left for North America.
:09:18. > :09:20.It was still a colony of Brhtain at the time Liverpool was
:09:21. > :09:29.perfectly placed for trading with North America.
:09:30. > :09:35.Manchester United Manager Jose Mourinho has been fined
:09:36. > :09:37.?50,000 and given a one-match touchline ban after accepting
:09:38. > :09:41.He criticised the FA's choice of referee for the recent ddrby
:09:42. > :09:43.match and then verbally abused officials at half-time
:09:44. > :10:04.Good evening. Today was picture perfect. Lots of sunshine across the
:10:05. > :10:07.north-west of England. The temperature was in good but the
:10:08. > :10:11.sunshine has made up for it. It won't stay clear for too much
:10:12. > :10:20.longer. We have cloud pushing towards this movie into the North.
:10:21. > :10:22.-- moving into the North. The temperatures will be at thehr lowest
:10:23. > :10:27.temperatures will be at their lowest in the next couple of hours. Some
:10:28. > :10:35.spots will go down to zero. We have the arrival of this cloud. Starting
:10:36. > :10:37.the day with three to 7 degrees widely. This drizzly stuff lakes
:10:38. > :10:42.widely. This drizzly stuff makes tomorrow at a different proposition
:10:43. > :10:45.all the way through the day. There will be cloud virtually everywhere.
:10:46. > :10:52.We will see them and drizzlx breaking out as we go through the
:10:53. > :10:55.morning. It is a gloomy picture and it is a cold picture. Top
:10:56. > :10:57.temperature, 10 Celsius. The outlook temperature, 10 Celsius. Thd outlook
:10:58. > :11:05.for the weekend is changeable. not stop the temperature is coming
:11:06. > :11:12.up to around 12. Mick Miller has the national picture.
:11:13. > :11:17.The weather may have turned colder but for many of us today there was
:11:18. > :11:19.abundant sunshine. This is from the end of the day from Oxfordshire.
:11:20. > :11:25.end of the day from Oxfordshire Cold and clear by day and clear and
:11:26. > :11:30.even colder overnight. That is the recipe at this time of year.
:11:31. > :11:36.Widespread ground frost setting in. Parts of East Anglia already below
:11:37. > :11:38.freezing. In western Scotland, temperatures may stabilise. It