10/03/2017 North West Tonight


10/03/2017

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Many children born in the North grow up believing they'll

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That's the claim from the Children's Commissioner

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for England, Anne Longfield. A young person leaving a school

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or college in London or the South-East is 57% more likely

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to go on to a top university than a child in the north of England.

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This afternoon, Anne Longfield was at Reclaim.

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A Manchester charity which teaches young working class people

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Overcoming what it calls stagnating social mobility

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And the teenagers who come here are aware of the north

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I do believe that there is a lot less opportunities for young people.

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Earlier, the children's commissioner was in Trafford meeting

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local experts who have ideas on how to tackle the lack of opportunity

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There's too many families who don't get those opportunities at the

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moment and there is a critical mass of those which means that children

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just don't have that expectation of being able to have choice and

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succeed. And she thinks forthcoming

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political devolution in Greater Manchester is a chance

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to tackle the problem. That could include new abilities and

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a new focus on collaboration for vulnerable children when they move

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around the city, to help them work through those transitions, and to

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put in place better links with business and with higher education.

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Later this month, the commissioner will be in Liverpool to hear the

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Merseyside perspective. She hopes to have some interim conclusions by the

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summer. Research carried out

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by North West Tonight suggests most of the region's police forces

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are making little or no effort to enforce new twenty mile

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an hour speed limits. The new zones have been set up

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in residential areas at a cost 20 mph speed limits have been

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implemented across the country to make our roads safer. However using

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freedom of information requests, we have learnt police forces in the

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region are barely enforcing the limits. Lancashire spent nearly ?6

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million setting up the sounds of it last year Lancashire Police did not

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find or prosecute anyone for breaking the limit. In Merseyside,

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police find 78 drivers. Lancashire Police said that budget cuts forced

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them to concentrate on motorways and main roads. In Manchester, these

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zones have been implemented on one streets or so and around 140 schools

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like this one. But this week, Manchester City Council decided to

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halt the roll-out of the zones and instead spend the available budget

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on more traditional traffic calming on more traditional traffic calming

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measures like pedestrian crossings. This is the council 's analysis

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which prompted the change of heart. In Manchester as a whole, accidents

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have gone down around 33%. The figures that they have quoted in

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there and have initial evaluation are very low sort of base over a

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short period so we would say, give it longer. Parents at the school

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gates agreed. There are lives saved. That is what I think, go for it.

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Road safety remains an important issue for our communities.

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One of Britain's most senior female judges has warned women who get

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drunk that they are putting themselves in danger

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of being targeted by rapists. Jailing a man for rape

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in Manchester, Lindsey Kushner QC said women were entitled to "drink

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themselves into the ground", but their behaviour

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Cheshire Police are tonight still at the scene of an armed stand-off,

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A man with a crossbow is refusing to leave a house

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in Weston near Crewe, which has been cordoned off.

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More than 100 years ago, Derwentwater was the scene of one

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of the worst losses of life the Lake District has ever known.

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Now a retired policeman is telling the story of the 1898

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The Lake District, one of the nation 's favourite tourist destinations of

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the 21st-century. But it was equally popular in the late 19th century. A

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visit to Lakeland provided respite for those who lived and working in

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the grimy industrial towns and cities of the North. Among them,

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Mary Jane Smith, Mary Alice Reid, Nancy pickles, Francis Crossley and

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Helena Clegg. They were in a party of mill workers from Nelson who

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headed for the lakes in the August of 1898. The end of holiday treat

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was to be a sale on Derwentwater, so the five women came down to the lake

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and boarded a rowing boat. Sadly, they never return. When they were

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out on the lake, one of her lost her bag overboard and in the commotion

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that followed trying to retrieve it, the boat became unstable and

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capsize. All five women lost their lives. An inquest was to hear the

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boat had been overloaded. A verdict of accidental death was recorded.

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This new book documents the tragedy. From my research, I could find no

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about this as a subject. And that about this as a subject. And that

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disturbed me. It was such a significant incident that it should

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be remembered. The tragedy did lead to new rules regarding pleasure

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craft. The legacy of these five lives lost is safer leisure time on

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the lakes for us all. Have a very good

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rest of the evening. I'll leave you with Dianne,

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who has the weather. We have seen our share of sunshine

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over the last couple of days but over the weekend, it is a thing of

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the past. We have weather front after weather front and there is an

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awful lot of cloud cover. That has been the story today and over the

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next couple of hours, that will not change. You will see drizzle working

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its way through. It is very light, nuisance value, but it does spoil

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things. Temperatures are good. Tomorrow, we are just waiting for

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rain. It will move into the Isle of Man and the coast as we go through

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the day. Blanket cloud covering from time to time. You will see a few

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tiny spots of drizzly rain. It is very mild indeed. Temperatures

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between 11 and 13 degrees. More of this to come and on Sunday, another

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weather front means a fairly cloudy picture.

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Where the sunshine broke through to the North of Cornwall temperatures

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rose to 17 degrees under the blue skies. For many of us the cloud

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didn't break up through the day, keeping temperatures pegged at

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around about 13 degrees. That was the high today in the London region.

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Mild over night with the blanket of cloud around. Most places dry. Rain

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will work into parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland through the

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early hours of Saturday. It will be mild. Temperatures six to ten

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degrees. Frost-free to start off your weekend. Saturday will be a

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decent day to many parts of the country. There will be sunshine to

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the western isles of Scotland in the morning. Elsewhere in Scotland it

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will be cloudy and damp first thing. Northern Ireland should see brighter

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skies, perhaps drizzle first thing for Belfast. For Dumfries and

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Galloway, for

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