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The families of the 96 Liverpool football fans who died

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in the Hillsborough disaster have welcomed today's decision to refer

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23 individuals and organisations for possible prosecution.

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The cases - which have been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service -

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follow two investigations into the 1989 FA Cup semifinal.

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15 of the alleged offences relate to the disaster itself,

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eight to the cover-up which followed.

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Together, they are the biggest probe into allegations of police

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They follow the conclusions from last year's new inquest,

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which found the fans were unlawfully killed and were not to blame.

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I asked Elkan Abrahamson - a solicitor for some

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of their families - for his clients' reaction

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To an extent, there's some relief that at least

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something's now happening, that the files are going to the CPS,

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but also a great deal of disappointment at the low number

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of files that the IPCC in particular are sending, eight,

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in connection with what we've come to term the cover-up.

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It seems an astonishingly low number, especially given the IPCC

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concede there are over 250 altered statements.

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As the Hillsborough families know better than anyone,

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this story has taken an awful long time to unfold.

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It took them a long time to get the truth at the inquest last year.

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How concerned are they that the process still could be

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protracted by lawyers acting on behalf of those

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Concerned, but also acknowledging that the reality of the situation,

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that we know this is going to be a long process, and a slow process.

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But what the families want to see is justice,

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and that includes due justice for any people who may

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I appreciate you haven't probably seen these files,

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but from your understanding, what level of evidence

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is there in these cases that have been passed on?

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There's clearly a wealth of paperwork.

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We're hearing of hundreds of thousands of papers,

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from millions of pages that we looked at originally.

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There must be a lot of evidence available.

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I've no idea how much of that is being considered pertinent.

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We have, ourselves, put in submissions to the IPCC

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and Operation Resolve to try and draw their attention

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to what we consider to be the evidence that we know

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But, again, we have no idea how much attention's being paid to that,

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or how much of that is being fed through to the CPS.

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And having heard the supporters, their loved ones, exonerated last

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April at the end of the inquests, is the appetite of the families

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as strong as ever to see this through now to the next stage?

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We're moving from justice to accountability.

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The families have always said that, and always pushed for that.

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And also for changes in the law, to ensure at this sort of thing

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And there is still an appetite for that, even though it's

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Five people have been charged in connection with allegations

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of physical abuse at a boarding school in Cumbria.

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It follows a lengthy investigation into Underley Hall

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in Kirkby Lonsdale, which closed some years ago.

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Stuart Flinders has been following developments and joins me now.

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What are police saying about the men who have been charged?

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The five men are from Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire. They have all

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been charged with causing actual bodily harm. One of them, Errol

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Mayer is also facing ten charges of child cruelty. He is 72 years old,

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in fact, three of these men are in their 70s, the youngest is 57. This

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investigation has been focusing on alleged events dating back to the

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Investigation has been going on for Investigation has been going on for

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some time? It has. It is called Operation

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Tweed, and started in 2014. The focus of the investigation is a

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school called Underley Hall. The police explained last year that the

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recently investigation was taking so long to bring to conclusion is that

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it was complex and involved people across the country and abroad. The

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school itself closed in 2012, the men had been bailed to appear at

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South Cumbria Magistrates' Court in February.

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The body of a soldier from Greater Manchester -

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who died on duty in Iraq - has been returned to the UK.

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Lance Corporal Scott Hetherington from Middleton served

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with 2nd Battalion - the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.

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He died as a result of a shooting accident.

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Four of the five candidates to become Metro Mayor

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of Greater Manchester have rejected controversial plans

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to build thousands of new houses on green belt land.

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Both the Liberal Democrats and Ukip says they would scrap

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the proposals completely, but councils insist the homes

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More protest marches against the plans will take

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I think it needs a complete fresh start, frankly.

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More important issues need to be taken into account,

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I mean, the consultation process seems to be with developers rather

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than what is actually needed within the communities.

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New year and a new start - that was the intention

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of Jeremy Corbyn and his team as they planned a people-friendly

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But new starts don't always go to plan.

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On Tuesday, he was criticised for delivering a mixed message

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on immigration and for suggesting a salary cap.

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Our political editor Nina Warhurst spoke to him,

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and asked him why he thinks he's fairing so badly in the polls.

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We've got to get our message out there, we've got to campaign,

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The issues of inequality in Britain, the issues

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of the National Health Service, of opportunities for young people

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We're campaigning very hard to get our message

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across about the kind of country we could be.

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Our viewers who got in touch, I'll give you a couple of examples -

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Eilidh, from Tameside, said, I agree with Jeremy on lots of things,

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but he's out of touch with northern Labour voters

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What I want to do is end the undercutting

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of existing pay and conditions, the explotation of people in awful

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But the northwest of England told you in the Brexit vote,

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You're assuming that all those who voted Brexit voted on one issue.

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There are many issues people voted on.

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We need to have an economic relationship with Europe

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in the future, that's what Labour's committed to.

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That's why we're working with colleagues across Europe.

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Paul Nuttall, who is the new leader of Ukip, he's a plain-speaking

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northerner, and his message is clear on immigration -

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Why shouldn't those voters in the North West turn to Ukip?

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I think what we have to do is ensure that there is no more undercutting

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No more people being brought in by agencies...

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That will sound to our viewers like you're more worried

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about the rights of immigrants than you are about their concerns,

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about the impact of immigration on their communities.

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It would have a big effect, because it would mean people that

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have got agreed working conditions in this country wouldn't then be

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We know you're not a supporter of it, it's already begun

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If you were Prime Minister tomorrow, would you say, sorry,

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Cuadrilla, put the brakes on, we need you to leave.

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We have announced at party conference that we want to put

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We're very concerned about the effects on the environment of it

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and of the pollution of ground water supplies because of it.

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You don't like fracking, you don't like Trident,

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you don't like large pharmaceuticals - they're three

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areas that generate enormous wealth in the North West.

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What jobs would you give those families?

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Well, I'm not against pharmaceutical industries,

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what I'm against is some of the pricing systems operated

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by big pharma companies, which isn't the same thing at all.

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What we want to do is develop a diverse energy-generation

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system in this country, there are many jobs to be created

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through renewable energy products and energy development.

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And we want to see a diverse energy production.

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We want to see an NHS which is properly funded

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We want a pharmaceutical industry that works

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Football - Everton have completed the ?22 million signing

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of midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin from Manchester United.

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Elsewhere John Sheridan has become the Oldham Manager

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for a third time after they sacked Steve Robinson.

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There's been some snow across the region tonight.

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Earlier, it settled on higher ground, making travelling

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The routes over the Pennines from Cheshire to Derbyshire

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While we've been on air, Lindsey has been in touch on Twitter saying

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Blackburn has seen snow. And I been tweeted to say they have

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seen snow in Lancashire. The routes from Cheshire into Derbyshire could

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be badly affected. They certainly were this morning, and again

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tomorrow morning, this line of whether will work its way through as

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people are getting up. The rush hour could be badly affected. This is the

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track, the showers will keep coming throughout the night. The Weather

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Watchers have managed to catch the snow falling, this is straight from.

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A light covering, this will be the case for many people. The showers

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will not switch off at midnight, they come from many places. A

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significant problem will be ice on Arnesen treated circumstance --

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untreated surfaces in the morning. That could happen just about

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anywhere. We seek showers coming through, Cheshire into Derbyshire,

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that road could be badly affected tomorrow morning. An inky relation

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of a couple of centimetres there. Most places are around zero in

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temperature tomorrow, rural areas around minus three. Because the wind

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changes direction tomorrow, it has to get over at the Scottish hills to

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get a us. In it a success in doing that, they'll will take most of the

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snow showers out. It will be bitterly cold tomorrow, particularly

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in the morning, top temperature around four. I leave you with the

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outlook for the note. If that's not your sort of

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thing, Sunday will be cloudier and milder.

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Good evening. It was such a mild December, wasn't it, but winter has

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arrived. Tomorrow morning, again, could be prising the wipers off the

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frozen windscreen. Yes, it's going to be cold tonight, whether it is

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liquid,/

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