02/11/2016 North West Tonight

A man is being questioned tonight on suspicion of attempted murder

after a police officer was stabbed in the face

The officer had stopped a van for a routine check in Clevdleys.

Naomi Cornwell sent this from the scene.

It was here close to the corner of Westmorland Avenue and Rosol Road

at ten o'clock this morning, that a police constable

stopped a Peugeot van in what Lancashire Police h`ve

but as the driver emerged from the van, the officer was attacked

suffering a knife injury to his torso and facial injuries.

We understand the windscreen of the police car was also smashed

There was a huge police response witnessed by many

Walked into my bedroom round about ten o'clock this morning

and looked out my window and I just saw an officer

on the road there and wondered what was going on.

Feel very sad that a police officer doing his duty got stabbed.

You know, you don't expect that on a street like this.

The air ambulance landed nearby and took the officer

to the Royal Preston Hospital but I'm pleased to say that

Lancashire Police to say he has been released from hospital

The attacker made off in thd van but was stopped nearby in the car

Police say tonight they're questioning a 39-year-old m`n

from Blackpool on suspicion of attempted murder.

A new report has revealed that more than 40,000 people

in the North West have had `dult social care withdrawn since 2009.

The Leonard Cheshire organisation, which carried out the study,

says pressure on council budgets has left many people helpless

Our Health Correspondent Gill Dummigan reports.

In 1979, Jo Fenlon was disgnosed with multiple sclerosis.

What do you need people to help you to do?

I am here until I need to go to the bathroom or to the

A few weeks ago, Jo got a ldtter from Trafford council saying

that the money to pay for her her care was

In fact, books, television, DVDs are the only thing.

This new research suggests that many others aren't getting

The council didn't want to comment on this piece or about the payment

system, but this research indicates the number of adults receivhng

social care has gone down in four years from ?8,650 to just under

6,900, that's a drop of arotnd 0% and it's a pattern being repeated

The figures show a drop of 9% in Liverpool

24% in Lancashire and 35% in Cumbria.

In the North West as a whole, it was 18%.

That's 42,000 fewer adults receiving social care.

This is a great country, we are a prosperous

It's about how we treat people in some of the most

vulnerable situations in our country and I think this is about how we

We are saying that we are prepared to let

somebody soiled themselves automobile stuck in a hoist of the

The Government says it's putting more money into social care

from next year - potentiallx ?3.5 billion by 2020.

Social care provide the support before people go into hospital and

may be preventing people from going into hospital.

If that is not there, the NHS will struggle.

Jo, meanwhile, says councils need to look at other

I don't think you should focus on the most

The MP for St Helens South and Whiston has been cleared

of kicking a Scottish indepdndence supporter during the 2014

A sheriff in Glasgow said the case against Marie Rimmer wasn't proven

which, in Scottish law, means she is cleared.

But he also added that he doubted anyone had told him what re`lly

happened outside a polling station on that day.

Marie Rimmer, who always denied the charges,

It cost the taxpayer ?63 million in legal fees

for the families of the 96 victims of the Hillsborough Disaster

to fight the new inquests which finished earlier this year.

It found the supporters were unlawfully killed.

Representation for nine former South Yorkshire Police officers

cost the Home Office nearly ?20 million.

Cancer experts met in Liverpool today to discuss why cancer rates

are increasing faster there than anywhere else in the UK.

They say 3,000 people in the city will be diagnosed

with cancer every year by 2020 but those levels could

be reduced if people adopted healthier lifestyles.

Turton School near Bolton and Winstanley College in Wigan

are among a number of schools here to have called

in bomb disposal experts because of concerns about a chemical

The substance, DNP, is often used in chemistry lessons

and could become explosive if not stored correctly.

Britain's flood risk management has been criticised

by Parliament's Environment Committee.

It's urging radical changes to prevent a repeat of last winter's

chaos in Cumbria and Lancashire where over 1,000

families are still living in temporary accommodation.

Over Christmas and New Year, storms Desmond, Eva and Frank

Homes, town centres, countryside all submerged.

Time - according the to influential Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Committee - for radical change to tackle the threat of climatd change.

It wants the Environment Agdncy stripped of its flood

A new national floods commissioner to coordinate

all flood-related policy and it wants wider use of natural

flood prevention measures, like storing flood water on farmland

because flooded fields cost less to tackle than flooded towns.

Kevin Frea has a home within feet of the Lune River

There are over 40 homes herd, all powered by this hydroplant.

Storm Desmond put it out of action for two months.

So would Kevin welcome proposed changes in flood planning?

All of those things will help to hold the

water, release its slower and stop the devastation further downstream.

The Government says it sees no need for organisational changes

and that it is implemented lany suggestions in the report.

They also said they are spending ?2.5 billion

improving flood defences to protect an additional 300,000 homes by 2021.

Later this week, a massive new cargo terminal opens at Liverpool Docks.

It's called Liverpool Two and it will allow the port

to handle the biggest container ships in the world.

Our Merseyside Reporter Andy Gill has been to see the new fachlity

and assesses the Port of Liverpool's long history.

The container ship Atlantic Sea edges into Gladstone Lock.

Up close, it's like someone sliding a block of flats past your nose

But this is the biggest ship Liverpool can get into its docks.

And to compete globally, it needs to attract ships capable of carrying

three times the number of containers this one can.

That's why the port's invested ?400 million in a new in river

It takes us from a very good, localised port to an intern`tional

port with a huge standing and we are starting

to compete in a global markdt with the big players.

The new terminal, Liverpool Two, means ships don't

And can be loaded and unloaded in the Mersey quickly.

It comes 300 years after the first dock was built.

You can still see part of it below the Liverpool One shopping centre.

Back in 1715, this allowed ships to be unloaded

in one day rather than a

Liverpool had been growing for decades before

I think roundabout 1648 when trade with the Americans first st`rted,

that's when the first ship left for North America.

It was still a colony of Brhtain at the time Liverpool was

perfectly placed for trading with North America.

Manchester United Manager Jose Mourinho has been fined

?50,000 and given a one-match touchline ban after accepting

He criticised the FA's choice of referee for the recent ddrby

match and then verbally abused officials at half-time

Good evening. Today was picture perfect. Lots of sunshine across the

north-west of England. The temperature was in good but the

sunshine has made up for it. It won't stay clear for too much

longer. We have cloud pushing towards this movie into the North.

-- moving into the North. The temperatures will be at thehr lowest

temperatures will be at their lowest in the next couple of hours. Some

spots will go down to zero. We have the arrival of this cloud. Starting

the day with three to 7 degrees widely. This drizzly stuff lakes

widely. This drizzly stuff makes tomorrow at a different proposition

all the way through the day. There will be cloud virtually everywhere.

We will see them and drizzlx breaking out as we go through the

morning. It is a gloomy picture and it is a cold picture. Top

temperature, 10 Celsius. The outlook temperature, 10 Celsius. Thd outlook

for the weekend is changeable. not stop the temperature is coming

up to around 12. Mick Miller has the national picture.

The weather may have turned colder but for many of us today there was

abundant sunshine. This is from the end of the day from Oxfordshire.

end of the day from Oxfordshire Cold and clear by day and clear and

even colder overnight. That is the recipe at this time of year.

Widespread ground frost setting in. Parts of East Anglia already below

freezing. In western Scotland, temperatures may stabilise. It