:00:09. > :00:14.Many children born in the North grow up believing they'll
:00:15. > :00:17.That's the claim from the Children's Commissioner
:00:18. > :00:19.for England, Anne Longfield. A young person leaving a school
:00:20. > :00:22.or college in London or the South-East is 57% more likely
:00:23. > :00:25.to go on to a top university than a child in the north of England.
:00:26. > :00:35.This afternoon, Anne Longfield was at Reclaim.
:00:36. > :00:37.A Manchester charity which teaches young working class people
:00:38. > :00:42.Overcoming what it calls stagnating social mobility
:00:43. > :00:50.And the teenagers who come here are aware of the north
:00:51. > :01:01.I do believe that there is a lot less opportunities for young people.
:01:02. > :01:03.Earlier, the children's commissioner was in Trafford meeting
:01:04. > :01:06.local experts who have ideas on how to tackle the lack of opportunity
:01:07. > :01:15.There's too many families who don't get those opportunities at the
:01:16. > :01:20.moment and there is a critical mass of those which means that children
:01:21. > :01:22.just don't have that expectation of being able to have choice and
:01:23. > :01:23.succeed. And she thinks forthcoming
:01:24. > :01:24.political devolution in Greater Manchester is a chance
:01:25. > :01:35.to tackle the problem. That could include new abilities and
:01:36. > :01:42.a new focus on collaboration for vulnerable children when they move
:01:43. > :01:46.around the city, to help them work through those transitions, and to
:01:47. > :01:50.put in place better links with business and with higher education.
:01:51. > :01:55.Later this month, the commissioner will be in Liverpool to hear the
:01:56. > :01:56.Merseyside perspective. She hopes to have some interim conclusions by the
:01:57. > :01:57.summer. Research carried out
:01:58. > :02:00.by North West Tonight suggests most of the region's police forces
:02:01. > :02:02.are making little or no effort to enforce new twenty mile
:02:03. > :02:04.an hour speed limits. The new zones have been set up
:02:05. > :02:20.in residential areas at a cost 20 mph speed limits have been
:02:21. > :02:26.implemented across the country to make our roads safer. However using
:02:27. > :02:30.freedom of information requests, we have learnt police forces in the
:02:31. > :02:34.region are barely enforcing the limits. Lancashire spent nearly ?6
:02:35. > :02:37.million setting up the sounds of it last year Lancashire Police did not
:02:38. > :02:48.find or prosecute anyone for breaking the limit. In Merseyside,
:02:49. > :02:54.police find 78 drivers. Lancashire Police said that budget cuts forced
:02:55. > :02:59.them to concentrate on motorways and main roads. In Manchester, these
:03:00. > :03:05.zones have been implemented on one streets or so and around 140 schools
:03:06. > :03:10.like this one. But this week, Manchester City Council decided to
:03:11. > :03:11.halt the roll-out of the zones and instead spend the available budget
:03:12. > :03:16.on more traditional traffic calming on more traditional traffic calming
:03:17. > :03:22.measures like pedestrian crossings. This is the council 's analysis
:03:23. > :03:34.which prompted the change of heart. In Manchester as a whole, accidents
:03:35. > :03:38.have gone down around 33%. The figures that they have quoted in
:03:39. > :03:42.there and have initial evaluation are very low sort of base over a
:03:43. > :03:50.short period so we would say, give it longer. Parents at the school
:03:51. > :03:55.gates agreed. There are lives saved. That is what I think, go for it.
:03:56. > :03:57.Road safety remains an important issue for our communities.
:03:58. > :04:00.One of Britain's most senior female judges has warned women who get
:04:01. > :04:02.drunk that they are putting themselves in danger
:04:03. > :04:04.of being targeted by rapists. Jailing a man for rape
:04:05. > :04:07.in Manchester, Lindsey Kushner QC said women were entitled to "drink
:04:08. > :04:08.themselves into the ground", but their behaviour
:04:09. > :04:18.Cheshire Police are tonight still at the scene of an armed stand-off,
:04:19. > :04:23.A man with a crossbow is refusing to leave a house
:04:24. > :04:30.in Weston near Crewe, which has been cordoned off.
:04:31. > :04:32.More than 100 years ago, Derwentwater was the scene of one
:04:33. > :04:35.of the worst losses of life the Lake District has ever known.
:04:36. > :04:38.Now a retired policeman is telling the story of the 1898
:04:39. > :04:54.The Lake District, one of the nation 's favourite tourist destinations of
:04:55. > :05:02.the 21st-century. But it was equally popular in the late 19th century. A
:05:03. > :05:05.visit to Lakeland provided respite for those who lived and working in
:05:06. > :05:11.the grimy industrial towns and cities of the North. Among them,
:05:12. > :05:16.Mary Jane Smith, Mary Alice Reid, Nancy pickles, Francis Crossley and
:05:17. > :05:21.Helena Clegg. They were in a party of mill workers from Nelson who
:05:22. > :05:26.headed for the lakes in the August of 1898. The end of holiday treat
:05:27. > :05:29.was to be a sale on Derwentwater, so the five women came down to the lake
:05:30. > :05:36.and boarded a rowing boat. Sadly, they never return. When they were
:05:37. > :05:40.out on the lake, one of her lost her bag overboard and in the commotion
:05:41. > :05:44.that followed trying to retrieve it, the boat became unstable and
:05:45. > :05:49.capsize. All five women lost their lives. An inquest was to hear the
:05:50. > :05:53.boat had been overloaded. A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
:05:54. > :05:59.This new book documents the tragedy. From my research, I could find no
:06:00. > :06:04.about this as a subject. And that about this as a subject. And that
:06:05. > :06:07.disturbed me. It was such a significant incident that it should
:06:08. > :06:14.be remembered. The tragedy did lead to new rules regarding pleasure
:06:15. > :06:15.craft. The legacy of these five lives lost is safer leisure time on
:06:16. > :06:18.the lakes for us all. Have a very good
:06:19. > :06:21.rest of the evening. I'll leave you with Dianne,
:06:22. > :06:32.who has the weather. We have seen our share of sunshine
:06:33. > :06:36.over the last couple of days but over the weekend, it is a thing of
:06:37. > :06:41.the past. We have weather front after weather front and there is an
:06:42. > :06:45.awful lot of cloud cover. That has been the story today and over the
:06:46. > :06:50.next couple of hours, that will not change. You will see drizzle working
:06:51. > :06:56.its way through. It is very light, nuisance value, but it does spoil
:06:57. > :07:01.things. Temperatures are good. Tomorrow, we are just waiting for
:07:02. > :07:07.rain. It will move into the Isle of Man and the coast as we go through
:07:08. > :07:11.the day. Blanket cloud covering from time to time. You will see a few
:07:12. > :07:18.tiny spots of drizzly rain. It is very mild indeed. Temperatures
:07:19. > :07:22.between 11 and 13 degrees. More of this to come and on Sunday, another
:07:23. > :07:41.weather front means a fairly cloudy picture.
:07:42. > :07:47.Where the sunshine broke through to the North of Cornwall temperatures
:07:48. > :07:50.rose to 17 degrees under the blue skies. For many of us the cloud
:07:51. > :07:55.didn't break up through the day, keeping temperatures pegged at
:07:56. > :07:59.around about 13 degrees. That was the high today in the London region.
:08:00. > :08:04.Mild over night with the blanket of cloud around. Most places dry. Rain
:08:05. > :08:07.will work into parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland through the
:08:08. > :08:11.early hours of Saturday. It will be mild. Temperatures six to ten
:08:12. > :08:16.degrees. Frost-free to start off your weekend. Saturday will be a
:08:17. > :08:21.decent day to many parts of the country. There will be sunshine to
:08:22. > :08:24.the western isles of Scotland in the morning. Elsewhere in Scotland it
:08:25. > :08:28.will be cloudy and damp first thing. Northern Ireland should see brighter
:08:29. > :08:33.skies, perhaps drizzle first thing for Belfast. For Dumfries and
:08:34. > :08:34.Galloway, for