08/03/2017 North West Tonight

An Inquiry into the death of an unarmed man, shot by police,

has heard two of the officers failed a firearms course just weeks before.

E-mails also revealed concerns about how the officers

Anthony Grainger died as he sat in a car in Cheshire in 2012.

Our Social Affairs Correspondent Clare Fallon reports.

Five years ago last week, in this car park,

an unarmed man was shot dead by police.

The firearms officers who came here that night

should have been highly trained, used to dealing with the most

Now, we have learned that two of them had failed

a training course in the weeks before.

One of them, only known as Z15 had made such serious safety

breaches on that training exercise, it could have ended his career as a

The other who failed, X7, was the most senior

firearms officer here when Anthony Grainger was shot dead,

effectively running the operation on the ground.

Having heard the details during today's hearing,

Anthony Grainger's parter told me that she finds these

How difficult is that for you to sit through and hear

We want to find out what really happened that night and why Anthony

Giving evidence today, Michael Lawler.

He is now retired, but at the time, he was head of

firearms and heavily involved in planning the Greater Manchester

Police operation which ended in Anthony Grainger's death.

He told the enquiry that he didn't think the

police force knew that they had felt that course until after the event

and that he had destroyed a book containing some of his notes about

the operation when he left the police force.

The enquiry is still to hear from the police

The public hearing is scheduled to last several more weeks.

Liverpool Crown Court heard an elderly woman fell

on to a railway track after a Merseyrail guard failed

to check all passengers had boarded safely

Martin Zee denies endangering passenger safety.

Edna Atherton was 88 when she fell from the platform,

suffering broken ribs and a cut head at Birkenhead's

Northern Rail says it'll only be able to operate 40%

of services next Monday, when the RMT union stages a one day

strike in protest at plans to introduce driver-only trains.

Police have bailed the 89-year-old driver,

who was arrested after two women were killed by a car

outside Withington Hospital in Manchester yesterday.

The man was questioned on suspicion of causing death

The women, both in their 40s, have not yet been named.

A woman from Morecambe has been told she can't have a drug

Last summer, Harriet North was diagnosed with a rare terminal

The treatment is almost completely effective,

but the NHS only offers it to patients diagnosed

Music means everything to Harriet North.

But due to her condition, playing guitar now means

I know that is going to flare-up within the next few days.

confirming she wouldn't be prescribed the drug, Anakinra, which

The following CCU criteria has not been met.

Just tell us how worrying a time this is for you.

Especially with specialists saying that in ten years' time, I'm going

to get kidney failure, liver failure and my system

If I don't get the drug that I need, I won't be here in ten years.

A change in NHS rule means that he she can't have

Anakinra, even though as ?10,000 a year,

it is cost-effective and doctors say it is 95% effective

In March last year, NHS rules changed, meaning any

drug that is not approved by Nice can no longer be prescribed to new

To get Nice approval, a drug needs to be tested

Because there is only one in a million of us

and there is so little research on it, when they do find

in the research and find a drug that works, it is frustrating

that the NHS don't back that drug.

The worrying thing as a parent is going forward.

She mentions ten years, I think that is an outside hope.

The family say they have been overwhelmed by the support that

Harriet has received with friends offering to stage

We would struggle to fund it ourselves.

It would cost them a lot more to keep them alive on dialysis,

They are now hoping that NHS England will overturned the decision to

Harriet's MP David Morris is supporting her challenge

My office has been dealing with Harriet's consultants and they have

said that she is the worst case out of 70 in the country.

NHS England deem her not fit to have this

drug and it is quite frankly not good enough and I am fighting this

When you meet with Jeremy Hunt next week, what are going to say?

I am going to enlist Secretary of State's help to

his neck out and make an exception in one individual case, isn't it?

That could for him open the floodgates.

At the end of the day, the criteria is there.

This drug is available to those who really need it.

Are you optimistic you will get this turned around for her?

I never promise anybody anything, but one thing I do promise

and one thing I will always deliver is a good fight and I normally get

This week, we've been examining air pollution,

which affects many of us in the North West.

Our biggest cities, Manchester and Liverpool,

are both considering bans on the vehicles which

it's believed cause most of our air pollution.

In Europe, some places have been able to reduce vehicle emissions.

And our Environment Correspondent Judy Hobson has been to see

Zurich, Switzerland's largest city, and a similar size to Manchester.

It welcomes shoppers, bankers and tourists, but not cars.

Parking places are scarce and expensive.

It's a deliberate policy to cut air pollution.

leave your car at home, otherwise you are a bad citizen.

No, if you want to take your car, you can.

But we say we have another option that is really good.

By that, he means cheap and efficient public transport.

By law, every city centre resident has to live within 500 metres

Half the urban population don't own a car.

This square used to be full of parking places.

Now cars are banned and its measures like this that have

helped dissuade people from bringing their vehicles

A two hour train ride away is Freigburg in Germany,

The most popular way to commute is by bicycle.

One area has been built and designed for people not to need cars.

This is the district of Vauban, a sustainable area.

You can have a car, but you have to pay 18,000 euros just

All the shops are nearby, so day-to-day life is not very

In summer, you see all the streets are in the

street and they are playing together.

I would have loved to live here as a kid.

Like Zurich, it's an efficient public transport system which has

helped make a difference, but also careful town planning.

We don't have big shops at the border of the city,

where you can buy milk and a television.

We have shops in every residential area so you can

Even here, more needs to be done to further reduce emissions,

but Freigburg and Zurich show how urban air pollution can be reduced.

It shows policies in places like Manchester

much further, if we're to have any chance of cleaning up

Football and Manchester City missed the chance to gain ground

on Chelsea at the top of the Premier League tonight.

They were held to a goalless draw by Stoke City at the Etihad Stadium.

Kelechi Iheanacho went close in stoppage time.

The point leaves City third, ten points off the pace

Good evening. We have our first taste of spring today. Temperatures

going into double figures and it was a beautiful end to the day. Our

weather watcher photos, some lovely daffodils and flowers blooming.

Through denied, most of us will have a dry night. There will be rain and

showers moving across Cumbria, Lancashire into the early hours of

Thursday morning. Breeze picking up a little bit. Temperatures no more

than seven or 8 degrees. Cloud around, that cloud quickly shifting

away and we are looking at some decent sunny spells going into

lunchtime and certainly into the afternoon, as well. Temperatures in

two double figures. Nine or ten, perhaps 11 or 12 Celsius. It feels

much like spring. Going into Friday, we have got a weather front throwing

in a bit of cloud and outbreaks of rain as we go throughout the day.

Still quite mild, temperatures in double figures, certainly cloudier

on Friday. With that, outbreaks of rain on and off throughout the day

particularly around the coast and over the hills. Temperatures again

getting up to about ten or 12 degrees. The weekend, mixed.

outlook, staying mild and Nick has the bigger picture across the UK.

Hello. Spring is in the air with temperatures reaching 14 or 15 in a

few spots today as they will again over the next few days. Very

pleasant in the sun. The daffodils were loving that in York. More

places under blue sky tomorrow and dry. Tonight heavy showers moving

across Scotland on strong to gale force winds, some may clip Northern

Ireland. It's a mild night in southern England and South Wales but

damp and drizzly, misty with coastal and hill fog elsewhere. Temperatures

in between and dry: This damp weather hangs on from parts of the

Channel Islands, to Cornwall. Elsewhere, it's getting brighter in

South Wales and southern England. In England,