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Four children, all under three, were found like zombies | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
when they were rescued from a filthy house in Leyland. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
They were found by police surrounded by dirty nappies and with no food | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
They were immediately taken from their parents, | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
but a family court later allowed them to return. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Our Social Affairs Correspondent Clare Fallon told me earlier that | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Some of the details of all of this are fairly hard to stomach and some | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
These children were only discovered by chance when police went | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
round to this house looking for one of their relatives. | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
When officers went in a discovered these children in conditions | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
that have been described as feral and dangerous. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
The stench was so bad the police officers were gagging | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
There were dirty nappies all over the place, there were faeces | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Police found instead of food there were cannabis and cigarette | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
papers in a slow cooker in the kitchen. | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
As for the children themselves, all under the age of | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
three, they were dirty, they weren't closed. | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
One of the children was trapped underneath the bed and screaming. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
The other children didn't appear to be able to communicate. | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
They've been described as functioning like zombies. | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
It's really shocking and it's only come to light now this story | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
The father was jailed for 14 months, the mother spared a jail term. | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
She does have significant mental health problems. | :01:39. | :01:39. | |
But during this hearing where they were sentenced it | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
emerged that the children, having initially been taken | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
away by social services, were then sent back to the custody | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
That's something that this judge has criticised. | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
But here's the thing, social services in Lancashire | :01:53. | :02:09. | |
are saying that this actually wasn't their decision. | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
They're saying that they didn't want children to go back to their parents | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
but they were overruled effectively stopped a family court judge | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
decided that the parents should have custody. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Now, the family courts are meant to have opened up, | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
they are meant to have become more transparent so people like us can | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
hold them to account better, but I've spent the day trying to get | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
the detail, the reasons as to why this decision was made, | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
but at the moment I can't even get the name of the family court | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
It is worth me saying the children right now are with extended family | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
Social services saying they are working to ensure their well-being. | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Tributes have been paid to the two women who died after they were hit | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
by a car outside Withington Hospital in Manchester on Tuesday. | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
Claire Haslam, who was 44, and 49-year-old Deborah Clifton | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
Their families said they were soul mates who did everything together, | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
The 89-year-old car driver was arrested and has | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
The former Crewe Alexandra football coach Barry Bennell has been charged | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
with a further four counts of indecent assault. | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
The offences are alleged to have taken place in the 1980s. | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
He pleaded not guilty to eight other charges on Tuesday. | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
Train operator Merseyrail has failed in a legal attempt to stop a strike | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
on Monday in a dispute over plans to introduce driver-only trains. | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
The company had argued the RMT union should be | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
in dispute with Merseytravel, which ordered the trains. | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
But the High Court rejected that argument. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Hundreds of motorists - who were fined for using | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
a new bus lane in Preston - are hoping to get their money back | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
It made ?1.3 million in the first two months - | :03:52. | :04:00. | |
after 23-thousand drivers were fined. | :04:01. | :04:01. | |
Now a tribunal says the signs were inadequate. | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
Thursday evening on Preston's Fishergate. | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
If this were between 11am and 6pm, these cars would incur a ?60 fine | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
for using this route to head towards the railway station. | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
The road became a bus lane in October in a scheme to reduce | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
But within the first two months, 23,000 fines had been iussed, | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
Many motorists say they simply didn't realise | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
Steven Hudson is one of six who appealed | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
I was going to pick my wife up from the train station. | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
As I say, it's a journey I'd made many times before and I was aware | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
of the shared space scheme but not the bus lane. | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
There are signs that though, aren't there? | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
There are signs but when you come from Winkley Square | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
and Chapel Street you have 25 metres to actually registered | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
the signs or register that you have to turn left. | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
The council is to review the bus lane next month. | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
Six appeals upheld and 300 more still to be considered | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
Lancashire County Council says it's not had time yet to digest | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
But one thing is clear, it doesn't necessarily mean | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
that the others who were fined for passing through here can now ask | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Stuart Flinders, BBC North West Tonight, Preston. | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
Labour and Liberal Democrat Councillors in Pendle have denied | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
striking a deal with a BNP Councillor in order to get | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
Brian Parker is the BNP's only councillor in the country and holds | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
the deciding vote in Pendle because the Conservatives | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
are equally split with a coalition of Labour and the Liberal Democrats. | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
Today he claimed he'd been offered help with local traffic issues | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
Labour and the Lib Dems say his claims are untrue. | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
A prisoner who staged a 60-hour rooftop protest | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
at Manchester's Strangeways Prison has received an extra nine | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
Stuart Horner, who's already serving life for murder, | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
was convicted of affray and criminal damage. | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
The judge said it was a gratuitous campaign of destruction. | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
The population of the Isle of Man has fallen for the first | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
The latest census figures show around 83,000 people now | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
live on the island - that's a fall of over | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
A lower birth rate and people moving away are among the causes. | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
The line-up for this year's Manchester International Festival | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
One of the city's most famous bands and a musical about Lancashire's | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
But as Abbie Jones reports, it's also about getting people involved. | :06:36. | :06:49. | |
From the great and the good in theatre and music to an artist | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
lying in a bed of cotton in the dead of night, Manchester International | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
Festival has always seen an eclectic mix of world premieres. | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
# How does it feel # When you treat me ...# . | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
seminal Manchester band New Order will take centre stage. | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
But big name acts won't be the only stars of the show. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
Also starring in this year's Festival is you, the public. | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
The aim this year is to get the people of Greater Manchester | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
more involved than ever so the festival will kick | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
off with a huge catwalk here in Piccadilly Gardens | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
where local residents will we ask to strut their stuff. | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
People can also apply to host a mini festival in their homes. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
At this Manchester flat, a string quartet and singer | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
played to Leo Mercer's friends and neighbours. | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
You can see on people's faces that this is not a normal concert. | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
There's different things happening in people's heads | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
There's different things to listen to. | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
Manchester Festival is something that everybody can and should be | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
proud of but also the's something that everybody should feel | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
It's important that this festival feels like it belongs | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
to everybody in the city as well as being a beacon to people | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
Back in the big venues, Lancashire actress Jane Horrocks | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
will star in a musical drama about the county's cotton famine, | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
a story she discovered while filming the programme | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
I was absolutely amazed that there was such a thing | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
and that it had never been made into a theatrical drama, you know, | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
it's such great material to make into a drama. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
Whatever your tastes, organisers hope there'll be | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
something for everyone and in every setting. | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
Abbie Jones, BBC North West Tonight, Manchester. | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
Football and Manchester United drew the first leg of their Europa League | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
The Reds took the lead with an important away | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Henrikh Mkhitaryan with the finish on a less-than-perfect pitch. | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
But FC Rostov equalised after half-time to level things | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
at 1-1 ahead of the second leg at Old Trafford next week. | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
In Super League, Warrington's rotten start to the season continued | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
as Wigan hammered them 38-16 at the Halliwell Jones | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Four of the Warriors' tries came from winger Liam Marshall | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
in only his second appearance for the club. | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
Wigan are top with four winds out of four. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Not as good tomorrow, nowhere near as good. It was a beautiful day, a | :09:21. | :09:36. | |
lot of sunshine. Beautiful shot there. And this from Manchester | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
Airport, some really nice cloud formations across the Northwest this | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
afternoon. We have weather fronts coming towards us. I have just | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
looked at the latest radar pictures, nothing is showing up. Anything that | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
moves in is very light, hardly even going to dampen the ground. Now, | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
many places will still be dry when we get up first thing in the | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
morning. Still in the mild air. We didn't quite make 17 Celsius this | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
afternoon but we are in the low teens and that's not too bad when | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
the sunshine is around. Overnight the night 507 Celsius. Tomorrow, | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
this is the picture. Patchy cloud and outbreaks of very light rain to | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
start the day. Mainly over the highest levels but you could see | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
some from time to time floating by. The last couple of days we have seen | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
slow mornings and really nice afternoons. There is room for some | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
improvement in the forecast as we had through tomorrow afternoon but | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
it's really unlikely to be anything fantastic. A slow and steady | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
improvement. More northern parts will have out breaks of drizzly rain | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
from time to time. A rather cloudy picture, nothing like today. The | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
numbers are good, still in mild air. Temperatures between 11 and 13 | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
Celsius. The outlook for the next couple of days is more of the same, | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
little more rain during daylight. Good night. | :11:00. | :11:00. | |
day. On Sunday, cloudier, maybe spots of rain. | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
Good evening, in the spring sunshine we saw temperatures as high as 17.5 | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
Celsius. Not as warm or Sonning on Friday. Still a lot of dry, settled | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
weather in the forecast for the next few days. This was the sunset | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
captured by one of our Weather Watchers. Clear skies there. We have | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
had increasing amounts of cloud moving in from the West. Through the | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
remainder of tonight we will continue to see that cloud across | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
the south-west of England, the Channel Isles, weaving in across | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
Wales, Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Bringing with it some | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
outbreaks of drizzly rain, particularly around the coast and | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
the hills. Further east, clear skies and the coldest | :11:45. | :11:45. |