:00:11. > :00:16.An investigation has been launched after Greater Manchester Police
:00:17. > :00:18.tasered a blind man last night at a railway station
:00:19. > :00:21.The 43-year-old was carrying his white stick,
:00:22. > :00:24.which a member of the public thought was a gun.
:00:25. > :00:35.Officers were called to the scene and the man was tasered.
:00:36. > :00:38.This shopkeeper today described a dog barking and armed officers
:00:39. > :00:42.shouting to a man to lie down outside Levenshulme station.
:00:43. > :00:44.The man, who was blind, had been Tasered after police
:00:45. > :00:47.mistakenly took his folding cane for a gun.
:00:48. > :00:52.The shopkeeper said the man was distressed.
:00:53. > :01:00.He was obviously in a confused sort of state.
:01:01. > :01:04.It was a bit dark, he probably quite worried,
:01:05. > :01:08.in a state of panic, sort of thing.
:01:09. > :01:11.And the officers around him, what were they trying to do?
:01:12. > :01:13.Probably, they were just trying to calm him down,
:01:14. > :01:21.From what I could make out it was a mistaken identity case.
:01:22. > :01:24.In what followed, one armed officer went into the shop to buy a drink
:01:25. > :01:31.which was later given to the 43-year-old man.
:01:32. > :01:32.Police were originally called following
:01:33. > :01:46.Greater Manchester Police said today...
:01:47. > :01:48.In 2012, a blind man was Tasered in Lancashire
:01:49. > :01:54.after his white stick was mistaken for a samurai sword.
:01:55. > :01:59.The man was walking in Chorley town centre on the way to meet friends.
:02:00. > :02:05.Police say this latest incident will be referred
:02:06. > :02:07.to Greater Manchester Police's professional standards branch
:02:08. > :02:13.Police have confirmed that human remains found on a Greek island
:02:14. > :02:15.are those of a Cheshire man who went missing
:02:16. > :02:18.Steven Cook, who was 20 and from Sandbach,
:02:19. > :02:21.was on holiday when he disappeared on Crete in 2005.
:02:22. > :02:28.after being found at the bottom of a well in Malia.
:02:29. > :02:29.The former Conservative Home Secretary and long-serving
:02:30. > :02:35.Lancashire MP David Waddington has died at the age of 87.
:02:36. > :02:37.Lord Waddington, who was born in Burnley,
:02:38. > :02:38.represented three Lancashire constituencies
:02:39. > :02:46.The Prime Minister Theresa May said he would be sadly missed.
:02:47. > :02:48.Meanwhile, the Prime Minister visited Cumbria today
:02:49. > :02:50.after the Conservatives won a surprise victory
:02:51. > :02:57.Theresa May joined the new MP Trudy Harrison in Millom,
:02:58. > :02:59.in the southernmost tip of the constituency.
:03:00. > :03:04.It's the first by-election gain by a sitting government in 35 years.
:03:05. > :03:09.after Liverpool Council began a clampdown on flytipping.
:03:10. > :03:13.They were caught repeatedly dumping rubbish,
:03:14. > :03:17.including bags of asbestos, in a back street in Norris
:03:18. > :03:21.Flytipping costs the city more than a million pounds a year
:03:22. > :03:33.George Parry and David Smith ran a man and van service collecting
:03:34. > :03:34.sofas, building materials, household rubbish,
:03:35. > :03:36.asbestos, and dumped it here
:03:37. > :03:40.They didn't know they were being filmed.
:03:41. > :03:41.We identified the vehicle used and stopped it
:03:42. > :03:48.From that, we identified the driver and front seat passenger
:03:49. > :03:50.which subsequently turned out to be the two
:03:51. > :03:52.that were prosecuted for the offence.
:03:53. > :03:59.The shopkeepers whose buildings back onto the street have watched
:04:00. > :04:06.helplessly as it has been used as a tip for a long time.
:04:07. > :04:08.We've had beds, 3-piece suites, fridge freezers,
:04:09. > :04:13.just general bags of rubbish and waste.
:04:14. > :04:17.The rats out there sometimes have been terrible.
:04:18. > :04:19.Parry and Smith from West Derby in Liverpool, both unemployed,
:04:20. > :04:29.More evidence of fly-tipping in the very street
:04:30. > :04:36.Across the city, fly-tipping costs cancel taxpayers
:04:37. > :04:44.Liverpool Council is determined to stamp it out.
:04:45. > :04:48.Two teams in the north and two teams in the south to remove rubbish
:04:49. > :04:53.Enforcement teams will be going through the rubbish to find
:04:54. > :04:59.out where it comes from so we can go after the people dumping it.
:05:00. > :05:02.And incentives for people informing on fly-tippers.
:05:03. > :05:05.If you provide information that leads to successful prosecution
:05:06. > :05:09.we will be looking at council tax rebates and other incentives.
:05:10. > :05:19.The council deal with 55 fly-tipping incidents per day.
:05:20. > :05:22.Shopkeepers were surprised to learn that somebody had actually been sent
:05:23. > :05:26.to prison for fly-tipping in their back street.
:05:27. > :05:32.The council hopes it will serve as a warning to others.
:05:33. > :05:34.Football, and Tony Mowbray took charge of Blackburn Rovers
:05:35. > :05:44.They drew 1-1 at fellow strugglers Burton Albion.
:05:45. > :05:46.Rovers took the lead when Danny Graham diverted
:05:47. > :05:48.Charlie Mulgew's corner goalwards but it went in
:05:49. > :05:56.In Super league tonight Warrington lost at home to Castelford.
:05:57. > :05:58.Andre Savaleo opened the scoring but they went on to loose
:05:59. > :06:14.Salford lost Abily, 20-14. -- lost at Leeds.
:06:15. > :06:28.Plenty of rain on the way. The plan for the weekend looks to be fairly
:06:29. > :06:32.unsettled. If it is going to be mild but windy and we're going to see
:06:33. > :06:36.outbreaks of rain as well. The first batch of rain pushes in for
:06:37. > :06:41.Saturday. We will then see another batch of rain pushing later, for
:06:42. > :06:46.Sunday. In fact, tonight, we are seeing the changes. Cloudy
:06:47. > :06:52.overnight. Then that first batch of rain pushing in. Likely to be quite
:06:53. > :06:57.heavy at times. And the wind picking up, so windy night with temperatures
:06:58. > :07:01.dropping to around five Celsius. Tomorrow starts off cloudy with rain
:07:02. > :07:05.continuing to push in from across the Irish Sea and the wind continued
:07:06. > :07:09.to up. We are likely to see prolonged spells of heavy rain
:07:10. > :07:12.across parts of Cumbria. Heavy enough to bring some localised
:07:13. > :07:20.flooding. Temperatures looking fairly mild. Highs of around 11
:07:21. > :07:27.Celsius. Tomorrow night, more rain, windy without rain pushing away for
:07:28. > :07:30.Sunday morning. Sunday, mostly dry, and then rain pushing back in. We
:07:31. > :07:32.will see double figures temperatures few days it is that the stay miles.
:07:33. > :07:41.Outbreaks of rain at times particularly as we head into Monday.
:07:42. > :07:47.A much calmer day today after the nasty storm yesterday. Let's look at
:07:48. > :07:50.your pictures, tranquil from Hampshire, on the edge of the new
:07:51. > :07:59.Forest. Nice cumulus clouds from Hartlepool. Still a bit stormy, that
:08:00. > :08:07.sea. We are starting to get more pictures of bass coming through. The
:08:08. > :08:12.1st of March, the first day of meteorological spring. We like it in
:08:13. > :08:16.three months blocks. This weekend, things are going downhill again.
:08:17. > :08:20.After this day, where we had the sunshine, it looks like weather
:08:21. > :08:24.systems are marching through again. It means this weekend there will be
:08:25. > :08:29.some rain around. Most of it will be light. Some of it will be heavy. It
:08:30. > :08:30.will be blustery once again. Nothing like we have had,