14/02/2017 North West Tonight

An inquest has been hearing how a former police officer

took his own life, after struggling to cope

with the loss of two colleagues who were murdered in

Andrew Summerscales had been a close friend of PCs

Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone, who were killed by

Today his son told an inquest his dad's life changed that day.

Mottram. September 18th 2012.

Two police officers have been murdered in cold

PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes didn't stand a chance.

Dale Cregan sprayed them with bulletins, then

PC Andrew Summerscales was among the first on the scene

They were friends as well as colleagues.

What he witnessed that day never left him.

It was an unprecedented event in GMP and in policing across the UK.

Four years later Andrew Summerscales went to this park in Stalybridge

On his wrist a GMP-issue tag used for identifying bodies.

Today his son Joshua told an inquest in Stockport that his dad's life

changed forever on that September day in 2012.

The inquest heard that Mr Summerscales was diagnosed

He sufffered regular bouts of depression.

We did as much as we could at the time, both the senior team at

We did that through colleague to colleagues report, we had

support from our force welfare department,

occupational health and help from

Andrew Summerscales was no stranger to trauma.

In 1989, as a teenager, he was in the crowd at Hillsborough

The coroner said it was clear that Andrew Summerscales

was a man who had endured a number of tragedies in his life.

She was satisfied that he had been suffering from a recurrence of

the depression which had affected him so badly since the events of

And she recorded a conclusion that he took his own life.

The future of a new nuclear power plant near Sellafield has been

thrown into doubt, after the Japanese company

Toshiba said it would be pulling out of its construction.

The ?10 million project at Moorside would create around 20,000 new jobs.

This is supposed to be the future of nuclear power.

Moorside is due to be built over the next few years.

At a press conference earlier, Japanese company Toshiba announced

massive financial losses, and said it would be selling its shares

in Nugen, the company which plans to build Moorside.

There are more than one Japanese company involved in this business,

so we will continue to discuss with industry players

We've got an open mind about how best to deliver this.

For 70 years, this part of Cumbria has been a hub

Down the road from Moorside, Sellafield is being decommissioned.

Nearby Neesham power plant is coming to the end of its life. -- Hesham.

Local MP Tim Farron said a new plant was vital for jobs,

but the government had made a fundamental mistake.

I guess what this shows is that if the Government puts all its eggs

in a non-European basket, and if we are ourselves heading

in an isolationist direction, we shouldn't be surprised

when others behave in an isolationist manner as well.

Moorside is part of a new generation of energy production -

plans to build large pylons in the Lake District to transport

The plant is due to be online in 2024.

It has been clear for some time that financing the nuclear industry

We saw this with Hinkley Point see, for example. -- Hinkley Point C.

So I don't think it's any surprise that even

very large international companies are finding difficulties with the

sort of capital investment we are talking about.

Toshiba said it had always planned to sell its shares in Nugen,

and would still work on its development of Moorside.

Ukip leader and North West MEP Paul Nuttall has apologised,

after he admitted his claims that he lost "close personal

The claims were made on his website in 2011 and have

Mr Nuttall is also facing pressure to prove he was present at the 1989

stadium disaster, after newspapers questioned his claims.

He has to scribed those allegations as disgusting. -- described.

The French car maker Peugeot wants to buy Vauxhall's

The PSA Group, maker of Peugeot and Citroen cars,

is in talks about taking over General Motors' loss-making

Any deal would included plants in the UK and that once again brings

Our reporter Yunus Mulla joins us now.

Peugeot is thinking bigger is better. What about the work force at

Ellesmere Port? In 2012 the plant came close to closing down but it

was saved after a deal with the unions over pay and conditions.

Would a French car maker want to stay in the UK after Brexit? The

local MP said 80% of the Astros are sold in Europe but he believes that

Europe is still a you -- Britain is still a lucrative market.

We have a great operation here, a very big car market, and they would

be rather foolish to forget about that when they are looking at their

future plans. The unions are calling for urgent

talks with GM. At this moment both sides

are choosing remarkably There can be no assurance that

an agreement will be reached. Hundreds of couples in Liverpool

have celebrated Valentine's Day They took advantage of the romantic

day by renewing their wedding vows. Between them all they've racked up

more than 7000 years of marriage, and Katie Walderman was there

to witness the mass love-in. What could be more romantic

than renewing your wedding Well, how about doing it

with almost 200 others - I am as nervous now

as I was on the 11th of March 1967. One of the best days

of my life, this! Radio Merseyside put out the call

for some old romantics to say "I do" again - and these

are the lovebirds that answered. Everyone's got their different

reasons for coming here, but all Marriage assumes many different

forms throughout the years... Even the registrar's

feeling the love. Pat's not only carrying

out the blessing - When we heard about this ceremony,

we thought, let's do it ourselves. We're just made up

to do it, aren't we? It's been 43 years,

three weeks and six days. And this lovely lot has racked up

more than 7,000 years Just agreeing with everything

she does and says. A bit of give and take - I give,

she takes! I hope you're listening,

Mr Walderman. Katie Walderman, BBC

North West Tonight, Liverpool. Congratulations to them all. On two

football, and in the Championship Preston have beaten Birmingham city

2-1. Blackburn lost the Sheffield Wednesday 2-1.

I will leave you with a look at the weather.

Good evening. Today we lost the chill we have had over the last

couple of days and as we head towards the weekend the temperature

is definitely get milder, double figures by Friday and even 11 or 12

degrees at the weekend. Damp and drizzly stuff across much of the

North West but it shouldn't last much longer. A huge amount of cloud

cover but the temperatures are between five and 7 degrees. It will

be misty and murky first thing over the tops of any hills and we won't

have to much cloud cover, not too much in the way of sunshine. As the

morning wears on 12 spots of rain, then they clear. There is an

organised area of rain after lunchtime. Quite a lot of dull, damp

and grisly stuff over the hills. Temperatures of nine or 10 degrees.

If I leave you with the outlook for the coming days you can see that

those temperatures stay with us. weather into the weekend. A bit of

fog around to watch out for. Jon Hammond with the national forecast

now. Good evening. There is some rain in

the forecast but not a lot. Plenty of dry weather to look forward to as

we head to the weekend. Cloud delivering some rain but plenty of

spaces in between, hence my optimism. One of these blobs of

cloud is producing dampness right now. We could see a glancing blow

across the far south-east through the early hours and later some rain

arriving across the far south-west. In between some hill fog overnight,

not