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Four children, all under three, were found like zombies

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when they were rescued from a filthy house in Leyland.

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They were found by police surrounded by dirty nappies and with no food

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They were immediately taken from their parents,

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but a family court later allowed them to return.

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Our Social Affairs Correspondent Clare Fallon told me earlier that

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Some of the details of all of this are fairly hard to stomach and some

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These children were only discovered by chance when police went

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round to this house looking for one of their relatives.

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When officers went in a discovered these children in conditions

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that have been described as feral and dangerous.

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The stench was so bad the police officers were gagging

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There were dirty nappies all over the place, there were faeces

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Police found instead of food there were cannabis and cigarette

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papers in a slow cooker in the kitchen.

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As for the children themselves, all under the age of

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three, they were dirty, they weren't closed.

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One of the children was trapped underneath the bed and screaming.

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The other children didn't appear to be able to communicate.

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They've been described as functioning like zombies.

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It's really shocking and it's only come to light now this story

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The father was jailed for 14 months, the mother spared a jail term.

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She does have significant mental health problems.

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But during this hearing where they were sentenced it

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emerged that the children, having initially been taken

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away by social services, were then sent back to the custody

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That's something that this judge has criticised.

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But here's the thing, social services in Lancashire

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are saying that this actually wasn't their decision.

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They're saying that they didn't want children to go back to their parents

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but they were overruled effectively stopped a family court judge

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decided that the parents should have custody.

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Now, the family courts are meant to have opened up,

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they are meant to have become more transparent so people like us can

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hold them to account better, but I've spent the day trying to get

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the detail, the reasons as to why this decision was made,

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but at the moment I can't even get the name of the family court

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It is worth me saying the children right now are with extended family

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Social services saying they are working to ensure their well-being.

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Tributes have been paid to the two women who died after they were hit

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by a car outside Withington Hospital in Manchester on Tuesday.

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Claire Haslam, who was 44, and 49-year-old Deborah Clifton

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Their families said they were soul mates who did everything together,

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The 89-year-old car driver was arrested and has

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The former Crewe Alexandra football coach Barry Bennell has been charged

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with a further four counts of indecent assault.

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The offences are alleged to have taken place in the 1980s.

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He pleaded not guilty to eight other charges on Tuesday.

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Train operator Merseyrail has failed in a legal attempt to stop a strike

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on Monday in a dispute over plans to introduce driver-only trains.

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The company had argued the RMT union should be

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in dispute with Merseytravel, which ordered the trains.

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But the High Court rejected that argument.

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Hundreds of motorists - who were fined for using

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a new bus lane in Preston - are hoping to get their money back

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It made ?1.3 million in the first two months -

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after 23-thousand drivers were fined.

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Now a tribunal says the signs were inadequate.

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Thursday evening on Preston's Fishergate.

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If this were between 11am and 6pm, these cars would incur a ?60 fine

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for using this route to head towards the railway station.

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The road became a bus lane in October in a scheme to reduce

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But within the first two months, 23,000 fines had been iussed,

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Many motorists say they simply didn't realise

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Steven Hudson is one of six who appealed

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I was going to pick my wife up from the train station.

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As I say, it's a journey I'd made many times before and I was aware

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of the shared space scheme but not the bus lane.

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There are signs that though, aren't there?

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There are signs but when you come from Winkley Square

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and Chapel Street you have 25 metres to actually registered

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the signs or register that you have to turn left.

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The council is to review the bus lane next month.

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Six appeals upheld and 300 more still to be considered

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Lancashire County Council says it's not had time yet to digest

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But one thing is clear, it doesn't necessarily mean

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that the others who were fined for passing through here can now ask

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Stuart Flinders, BBC North West Tonight, Preston.

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Labour and Liberal Democrat Councillors in Pendle have denied

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striking a deal with a BNP Councillor in order to get

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Brian Parker is the BNP's only councillor in the country and holds

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the deciding vote in Pendle because the Conservatives

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are equally split with a coalition of Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

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Today he claimed he'd been offered help with local traffic issues

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Labour and the Lib Dems say his claims are untrue.

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A prisoner who staged a 60-hour rooftop protest

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at Manchester's Strangeways Prison has received an extra nine

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Stuart Horner, who's already serving life for murder,

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was convicted of affray and criminal damage.

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The judge said it was a gratuitous campaign of destruction.

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The population of the Isle of Man has fallen for the first

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The latest census figures show around 83,000 people now

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live on the island - that's a fall of over

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A lower birth rate and people moving away are among the causes.

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The line-up for this year's Manchester International Festival

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One of the city's most famous bands and a musical about Lancashire's

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But as Abbie Jones reports, it's also about getting people involved.

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From the great and the good in theatre and music to an artist

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lying in a bed of cotton in the dead of night, Manchester International

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Festival has always seen an eclectic mix of world premieres.

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# How does it feel # When you treat me ...# .

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seminal Manchester band New Order will take centre stage.

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But big name acts won't be the only stars of the show.

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Also starring in this year's Festival is you, the public.

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The aim this year is to get the people of Greater Manchester

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more involved than ever so the festival will kick

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off with a huge catwalk here in Piccadilly Gardens

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where local residents will we ask to strut their stuff.

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People can also apply to host a mini festival in their homes.

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At this Manchester flat, a string quartet and singer

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played to Leo Mercer's friends and neighbours.

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You can see on people's faces that this is not a normal concert.

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There's different things happening in people's heads

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There's different things to listen to.

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Manchester Festival is something that everybody can and should be

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proud of but also the's something that everybody should feel

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It's important that this festival feels like it belongs

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to everybody in the city as well as being a beacon to people

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Back in the big venues, Lancashire actress Jane Horrocks

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will star in a musical drama about the county's cotton famine,

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a story she discovered while filming the programme

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I was absolutely amazed that there was such a thing

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and that it had never been made into a theatrical drama, you know,

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it's such great material to make into a drama.

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Whatever your tastes, organisers hope there'll be

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something for everyone and in every setting.

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Abbie Jones, BBC North West Tonight, Manchester.

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Football and Manchester United drew the first leg of their Europa League

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The Reds took the lead with an important away

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Henrikh Mkhitaryan with the finish on a less-than-perfect pitch.

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But FC Rostov equalised after half-time to level things

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at 1-1 ahead of the second leg at Old Trafford next week.

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In Super League, Warrington's rotten start to the season continued

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as Wigan hammered them 38-16 at the Halliwell Jones

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Four of the Warriors' tries came from winger Liam Marshall

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in only his second appearance for the club.

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Wigan are top with four winds out of four.

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Not as good tomorrow, nowhere near as good. It was a beautiful day, a

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lot of sunshine. Beautiful shot there. And this from Manchester

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Airport, some really nice cloud formations across the Northwest this

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afternoon. We have weather fronts coming towards us. I have just

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looked at the latest radar pictures, nothing is showing up. Anything that

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moves in is very light, hardly even going to dampen the ground. Now,

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many places will still be dry when we get up first thing in the

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morning. Still in the mild air. We didn't quite make 17 Celsius this

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afternoon but we are in the low teens and that's not too bad when

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the sunshine is around. Overnight the night 507 Celsius. Tomorrow,

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this is the picture. Patchy cloud and outbreaks of very light rain to

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start the day. Mainly over the highest levels but you could see

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some from time to time floating by. The last couple of days we have seen

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slow mornings and really nice afternoons. There is room for some

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improvement in the forecast as we had through tomorrow afternoon but

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it's really unlikely to be anything fantastic. A slow and steady

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improvement. More northern parts will have out breaks of drizzly rain

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from time to time. A rather cloudy picture, nothing like today. The

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numbers are good, still in mild air. Temperatures between 11 and 13

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Celsius. The outlook for the next couple of days is more of the same,

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little more rain during daylight. Good night.

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day. On Sunday, cloudier, maybe spots of rain.

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Good evening, in the spring sunshine we saw temperatures as high as 17.5

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Celsius. Not as warm or Sonning on Friday. Still a lot of dry, settled

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weather in the forecast for the next few days. This was the sunset

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captured by one of our Weather Watchers. Clear skies there. We have

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had increasing amounts of cloud moving in from the West. Through the

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remainder of tonight we will continue to see that cloud across

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the south-west of England, the Channel Isles, weaving in across

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Wales, Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Bringing with it some

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outbreaks of drizzly rain, particularly around the coast and

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the hills. Further east, clear skies and the coldest

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