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There are concerns tonight over the future of the Vauxhall car | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
The French firm which owns Peugeot is in advanced talks to buy Vauxhall | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
from General Motors and experts believe that | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
could put the factory's 2,000 jobs at risk. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Here's our Merseyside reporter Andy Gill. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
They make Astras at Ellesmere Port, it's part of General Motors. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
And it's in talk with the group that owns Peugeot and Citroen, a group | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
One possibility is Peugeot buying Vauxhall, but union officials here | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
told me today that the British government mustn't sit on the fence, | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
and must get involved to protect British jobs. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
A call backed by the union nationally. | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
Anybody that's buying us needs to commit | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
themselves, and give guarantees for our member's | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
Most of the Astras made here are four exporter. | :01:00. | :01:15. | |
Made with components imported from Europe. | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
Raising questions about what a takeover could mean after Brexit. | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
One industry expert we spoke to today believes Ellesmere Port | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
could be vulnerable because of its | :01:23. | :01:23. | |
geographical isolation, compared to the rest | :01:24. | :01:24. | |
of mainland Europe, and | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
because if the takeover did go ahead Peugeot would have enough capacity | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
on mainland Europe to produce the number of low-cost cars it would | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
I want to make it very clear to Peugeot, if they do | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
become the owners of the Vauxhall and GM brands in Europe, that we | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
have a great operation here, we've got a very big car market, | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
and they would be foolish to forget about | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
that when the looking at their future plans. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
In Ellesmere Port tonight some concern about the | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
I think it will just move abroad, maybe. | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Peugeot and General Motors say a sale is not assured. | :02:03. | :02:15. | |
Andy Gill, BBC North West Tonight, Ellesmere Port. | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
Earlier I spoke to the motor industry expert | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
I asked him how serious the threat is to Ellesmere Port. | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
If it does happen then I have real fears | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
about the future of the plants in the UK. | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
Peugeot, Citroen, will look to cut costs. | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
It will be inevitable, I think, that they will be planned | :02:40. | :02:50. | |
the fact that plants in | :02:51. | :02:51. | |
the UK, including Ellesmere Port an efficient, it's easy | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
There is huge uncertainty over our trading relationship with Brexit. | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
I have real fears about the future in | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
Let's explore those two points you just made. | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
Why is it easier to fire workers in the UK | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
If a car company is looking to close plants, it's | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
easier to fire workers in the UK than elsewhere because we have very | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
flexible labour markets, which is good in creating jobs, | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
but also very efficient in destroying them as | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
That's something we are learning to live with at the moment. | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
I think one of the effects of Brexit is that | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
there is huge uncertainty over our future trading relationship with | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
Europe, whether we be in the single market or even in the customs union. | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
In those circumstances, if Peugeot was takeover General Motors, | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
that uncertainty would count against | :03:38. | :03:38. | |
plants in the UK, as to whether to keep production here. | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
One of the reasons that people said they wanted | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Brexit in the first place was to take back control. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
Could Ellesmere Port, as a site, as a skilled | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
workforce, not help to drive a renaissance in the British car | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
We've already seen a renaissance in the British car | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
industry in terms of assembly in recent years. | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Since 2010, output has been up by something like 70%, | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
there's been a wave of investment in the industry. | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
In terms of actual production, and we've seen more | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
Going forward, what do we want to see to | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
And in addition I think we need a big effort | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
terms of industrial strategy to encourage more sourcing of | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
components from the UK to rebuild supply chains here. | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
Professor David Bailey, thank you very much indeed. | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
A Lancashire woman who's become the first | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
from Britain to go and fight against the so-called Islamic State | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
says she's not worried about the possibility | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
of being arrested when she returns home. | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
Kimberley Taylor, who's story we brought you on last week, | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
says her parents cried when she told them she was going to Syria. | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
Kimberly Taylor says she doesn't want to die, | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
What we see here is the greatest fascism of our time. | :04:46. | :05:15. | |
I feel like it's my responsibility to stand up to this. | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
On the front line in the fight against the so-called Islamic State, | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
she joined the Kurdish women's protection units, known | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
Having grown up in Darwin, and studied maths in Liverpool, | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
here she has learned how to use weapons. | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
She says her parents are scared for her, but also proud. | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
When I joined, and I told them that I'd joined, they cried. | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
And then I explained what is the YPJ. | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
What is our ideology and why we need to fight. | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
Why do I need to join and they understood. | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
And they said that if this is something I believe in, | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
Thought to be the first woman from the UK to reach Syria to join | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
the fight against IS the British government warns anyone who travels | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
to Iraq or Syria to fight for either side risks prosecution | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
I don't accept the government's opinion on this. | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
To be honest, I don't accept very much from the government at all. | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Nobody believes in the government anymore. | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
Nobody believes in the political system of Britain anymore. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
So, when the British government wants to tell me | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
that I'm a terrorist, or I shouldn't come | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
For now Kimberly Taylor says she has no plans to come home. | :06:16. | :06:31. | |
The Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson has called on Ukip | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
It follows his claim to have lost close friends | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
in the Hillsborough disaster, which he has now corrected. | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
His press officer offered to resign saying it had been her error, | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
An experienced TT-racer was killed after his front tyre burst | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
during practice for one of the races last June. | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
An Inquest heard Paul Shoesmith from Cheshire died | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
He lost control of his motorbike at more than 160mph. | :07:00. | :07:11. | |
The Coroner recorded a verdict of misadventure. | :07:12. | :07:12. | |
Figures out today show there's a record number of women | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
An extra 60,000 women joined the workforce | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
in the past year, taking the total to | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
Unemployment in the region went down by seven thousand in the last | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
quarter to 180,000, that's 5% of the region's workforce. | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
A million pounds from the National Lottery is being used | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
Chat Moss, which formed after the last Ice Age, | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
has lost much of its peat, damaging wildlife and plants. | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
It's one of Salford's biggest brown field sites, | :07:35. | :07:46. | |
and that's the way it's going to stay. | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
We actually have carnivorous plants that grow and live on this site. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
Peat was cut here at Little Woolden Moss, | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
part of Chat Moss for decades, millions of tonnes | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
What's left is being restored as a haven for wildlife including | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
a butterfly that took its name from the moss. | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
The Manchester Argos, it was first discovered here in this area. | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
We want to bring it back onto sites like this and get the habitat back. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
It's been in the ownership of the wildlife trust since 2012. | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
They say peat bogs trap billions of tonnes of carbon which helps | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
It's a different kind of nature reserve. | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
It's the first time they've seen the horizon and blue skies. | :08:30. | :08:42. | |
The million-pound cheque's from the Heritage Lottery Fund. | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
Today, the Government dispatched the Environment Minister to see | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
This is a sand and gravel from back in the ice age. | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
You can see it's in amongst the buttresses from the tree. | :08:51. | :09:07. | |
One of the things I'm interested to find out is | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Perhaps we can learn lessons and use that in other parts of the country. | :09:11. | :09:20. | |
Considering it took 10,000 years to evolve, restoring | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
Little Woolden Moss to its former glory will not be a quick job. | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
Mark Edwardson, BBC North West Tonight, Irlam. | :09:26. | :09:26. | |
Football, Manchester City Women have signed the World Player | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
The United States midfielder is joining the English Champions | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
A World Cup winner, Lloyd has scored 96 goals | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
From the facilities, coaching staff, players, | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
It is a unique opportunity and I'm just | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
kind of closed up and worked everything out. | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
And I'm just super excited to get going with this | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
Let's have a look at the weather with Dianne. | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
good evening. World temperatures. Nine, 10 degrees. Couple of spells | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
of sunshine every now and again. This kind of picture will be | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
replicated over the next couple of days. The mild areas are courtesy of | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
the wind direction. South-westerly and then Westley. And it was the Wii | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
game. It is not going to feel cold at all. That is true tonight. | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
Because we have got that milder air around, temperatures are generally | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
in the towns and cities at six or 7 degrees. Not feeling too bad. A | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
mixed bag tomorrow, up early you may see a glimpse of sunshine. Any cloud | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
Will Rowlands. The cloud will bring one or two like showers in. They | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
will die away. Looking at the map, you will see more. Not wall-to-wall | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
sunshine. Not an amazing picture. A glimpse of sunshine will be very | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
welcome. The next little area of rain will work its way in. Wherever | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
you are, the numbers are good. Between eight and 10 degrees. I will | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
leave you with the outcome over the next few days. The numbers are good. | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
Lots of cloud cover. the weekend. Wouldn't promise you | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
two dry days but you never know, here is Nick with the national | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
picture. Hello. We put that cold weekend well | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
behind us now. Temperatures edging upwards and our weather watchers are | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
seeing plenty of signs of spring. Spending more time looking down than | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
looking up at the skies, we see these early blooms. They are set to | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
continue as we are set to stay mild for several more days to come. | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
Average daytime temperature this time of year around eight, but | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
getting into double figures all the way through the weekend. The start | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
of next week into the mid-teens potentially, very mild indeed. It | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
was 14 in Lincolnshire today. A lot of heavy rain to end the day. That | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
clearing from Yorkshire to the North Sea. A few showers in the west and | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
the odd one may continue into the night. Many becoming dry, just | :11:48. | :11:48. |