29/03/2017 North West Tonight


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The mother of a man - believed to have fled the country

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after a hit-and-run - has made an emotional appeal

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Police suspect that 23-year-old Aidan McAteer was driving the car

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which hit Violet Grace Youens and her grandmother on Saturday.

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Here's our Merseyside Reporter Andy Gill.

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This afternoon, people were still bringing tributes

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to Violet Grace Youens at the scene where she was fatally injured.

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She died in her mother's arms in hospital the day after she was hit.

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The man police suspect of driving the car is Aidan McAteer.

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the mum of the little girl - haven't you?

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And if I didn't have a heart, I wouldn't have done it.

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Violet Grace's grandmother, Angela French, was seriously hurt

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Violet Grace's pancreas and kidneys were donated to help other children.

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Aidan McAteer's mother says he's put her and himself

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But her appeal today is about the four-year-old

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But I don't condone what's happened, in any way, shape or form.

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This is about... It's not about me.

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I feel dreadful. I feel awful.

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If I could run away, and never come back, I'd be gone.

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This is about this family and this little girl.

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A 27-year-old man, who was allegedly a passenger in the car

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which hit Violet Grace, appeared before Liverpool

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Dean Ian Brennan, formerly of Prescott, is accused of assisting

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an offender by collecting a passport, theft of a motor

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vehicle and of being carried in a stolen car.

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Another man, who is 23 who was also allegedly in the car, has been

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Andy Gill, BBC North West Tonight, St Helens.

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A so-called Hillsborough Law moved a step closer to reality today.

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Families who lost loved ones in the disaster are hoping to get

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victims equal funding at official inquiries and inquests.

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At the moment, victims don't get the same financial

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A new bill brought to Parliament also places

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a duty on public servants to co-operate with inquiries.

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A minute's silence was held in Salford today

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to remember those who lost their lives in the terror attack

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Organisers say the gathering showed different faith groups

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And Merseyrail has drawn up a contingency plans

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to combat strike action on Grand National day next Saturday.

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The company says services will operate every 7.5

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minutes at key times on April the 8th.

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Members of the RMT Union are walking out for 24 hours

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in their dispute over driver-only operated trains.

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Britain began its divorce proceedings with the European Union

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today by triggering Article 50 of The Lisbon Treaty.

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But what will leaving mean here in the North West?

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We've gathered a group of people to ask them what they want

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from our Brexit deal and we'll be revisiting them

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Here's our Social Affairs Correspondent Clare Fallon.

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Meet our Brexit club - six people from across the region

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with different views on leaving the EU

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I'm British, cos I was born in England, in Manchester.

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But the fact is that I did enjoy being part of the European family.

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I didn't like the direction of travel.

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Like a lot of people, I was concerned about the sort

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I think that a lot of people feel quite jaded and that perhaps it

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might not happen or they're in denial that it might actually

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From the signing of Article 50, through the process of deal-making

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and leaving, we'll check in with these people,

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as Britain checks out of the European Union.

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For some, the impact is likely to be bigger than others.

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I will take my British husband and my German/British child

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Do you think it will affect your life in any way?

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No, I don't, really. Not so much.

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Out, that's it. We voted to come out.

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I don't think we should be doing any deals.

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I think we should be concentrating on England

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becoming a sort of, well, independent,

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On a day in history, as Brexit begins, for these people,

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it means different things, just as it does for the rest of us.

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We won't know what Brexit really means for two years,

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And the negotiations - never done before - will be complex.

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Earlier, I asked Dr Kathryn Simpson from Manchester Metropolitan

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University how quickly things needed to happen.

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Michel Barnier, who is leading the negotiations for the EU

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and the European Commission, he is confident that we can get

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a deal and negotiation process done for October 2018.

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So we can then allow the voting to take place in member states

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You know, we need the approval of the 27 member states

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of the European Union, the European Council,

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the European Parliament, as well as the House of Commons

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So there are lots of hurdles that could trip this up?

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One thing that was said in the immediate aftermath

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of the vote here, last June, was that because we'd never

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negotiated trade deals, for example, for 44 years as an independent

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country, because we'd been part of this bloc,

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Yeah. Have we got them now?

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Absolutely, and it's a very interesting question, you know,

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there is a wide range of expertise here in the UK, but also,

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we have never done this before, this is uncharted territory,

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A, leaving the European Union, but also putting together

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this trade agreement, whatever kind of shape or form

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The expertise will be there, but we need to draw upon them

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substantially in order to get the best deal that we possibly can

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for the UK, as I said, because we are leaving the single

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market and the customs union and the European Union.

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Can people flood into the UK for the next two years if they wish?

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We are still a member state of the European Union.

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We are still adhering to the full freedoms, in particular,

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the free movement of people under the single market, so, yes,

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EU citizens could very much come to the UK here and work and also EU

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citizens that are here are protected under EU law and legislation.

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Dr Kathryn Simpson, thank you. Thank you.

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Now, the high-speed rail project HS2 was thrown into chaos today

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when the main contractor for the northern section

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American-based CH2M had been due to lead the work

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But there have been concerns over alleged conflicts of interest.

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HS2 is one of the most expensive transport projects

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The American-based firm CH2M, which is already developing phase

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one, was awarded a ?170 million deal last month to develop

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That would extend the line from Crewe to Manchester.

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But the company has now pulled out of the deal.

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Lots of our members in the North West at the

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Institution of Civil Engineers are involved in this.

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They're doing pre-work and designing and getting on with it.

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It's a large project and it will now be delayed.

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Mark Thurston, HS2 Limited's chief executive,

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Rival bidder Mace raised concerns over an alleged

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CH2M said today it had tried to ensure the integrity

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of the procurement process, adding...

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Opponents of this project claim it will create havoc

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during construction and have disastrous environmental

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The Government believes it will bring economic growth

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But tonight, uncertainty surrounds the wider project.

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The Government's being urged to give assurances about a planned nuclear

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power station next to Sellafield in Cumbria after Westinghouse,

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the company which would build the reactors,

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The GMB Union says it could put the Moorside project at risk.

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But those behind the scheme say it only affects Westinghouse

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And that is it from the newsroom tonight.

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Good evening. Last weekend we had an interrupted sunshine but it has

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changed, lots of cloud cover, perhaps blanket cover, but still

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mild air, and this sticks for the next couple of days. They claim

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temperatures may follow way over the weekend. Tomorrow, 22 degrees for

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us, we will need some sunshine to us, we will need some sunshine to

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get to 16. Tonight has been cloud and dull and damp rain. This is one

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of the latest pictures, it is gradually petering out, and over the

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next couple of hours it should be a thing of the past. Some clear where

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the for the early hours of tomorrow morning. -- some clear weather. We

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are benefiting overnight from my other error. 11-12 as a minimum. But

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some sunshine to start tomorrow, then cloud cover rolling in quickly,

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and it will become blanket cloud after too long. Rain in the Isle of

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Man, parts of Cumbria, spreading everywhere past lunchtime, but it is

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temporary. Like today it will not pour all day, and towards the end of

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the day, brighter skies will come back, and in the sunshine I would

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not be surprised if you got to 16-17 . The national weather is

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next, but I leave you with the outlook, gradually settling down to

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watch the weekend. Good night. far. The outlook for the next few

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days, temperatures coming down a bit but staying decent for this time of

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year. Here is Darren Bett with the national weather.

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The warm air coming up on a southerly breeze all the way from

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Iberia and across France into England and Wales. To achieve the

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high temperatures we need to get into some of this dryer air and

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sunshine. Even with the cloud today, 17 degrees. Not just about the

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temperatures, let's not forget there is some rain around as well. Quite

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wet in Pembrokeshire for much of the day. More rain overnight tonight,

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some rain and drizzle in northern and western areas. Wetter weather

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moving northwards across Scotland. Some rain in the south-west,

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shuffling towards the Midlands. Overnight, a lot of cloud around. It

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is going to be

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