:00:09. > :00:15.The so-called wonder material, graphene,
:00:16. > :00:18.A priest has gone on trial today, accused of abusing a boy
:00:19. > :00:20.at a Catholic seminary in Lancashire almost forty years ago.
:00:21. > :00:22.Liverpool Crown Court heard Father Michael Higginbottom,
:00:23. > :00:25.who's now 74 - breached his position of trust in an horrific way.
:00:26. > :00:33.He denies eight charges relating to the boy, Ian Haslam reports.
:00:34. > :00:35.Father Michael Higginbotham arriving for the start
:00:36. > :00:38.of his trial this morning, a man who the prosecution alleges
:00:39. > :00:41.had been in a position of trust and had breached that trust
:00:42. > :00:47.He had been a priest and teacher at St Joseph's Roman Catholic
:00:48. > :00:53.From the late 1800s until the early 1990s, this now disused building
:00:54. > :00:58.had educated boys aged between 11 and 18.
:00:59. > :01:02.Many including the alleged victim had aspirations of becoming priests.
:01:03. > :01:05.But, the court was told, it quickly became a cold and dark,
:01:06. > :01:07.forbidding place for him where he suffered mental,
:01:08. > :01:12.The abuse he said began shortly after he arrived at St Joseph's
:01:13. > :01:16.and in the private quarters of Father Higginbotham.
:01:17. > :01:20.Asked how many times he had been abused, he replied, a lot.
:01:21. > :01:22.After six months, and desperate to leave the seminary,
:01:23. > :01:25.He told police he was deliberately caught with it.
:01:26. > :01:29.He was subsequently expelled and says he ran to meet his parents
:01:30. > :01:35.He first revealed the allegations to a friend in 2013 who encouraged
:01:36. > :01:41.Asked today why he had never spoken of the experiences before this,
:01:42. > :01:43.he replied, "I'd spent a lifetime trying to cover this up,
:01:44. > :01:49.I'd never even talked about it to my wife,
:01:50. > :01:56.Father Higginbotham was arrestedat his home in Newcastle in 2015.
:01:57. > :01:59.The courts heard he'd told police he did not remember the alleged
:02:00. > :02:02.victim and that the allegations were total lies.
:02:03. > :02:05.He denies eight counts of sexual abuse as the trial
:02:06. > :02:15.The so-called wonder material, graphene,
:02:16. > :02:17.discovered here in the North West, has made another breakthrough.
:02:18. > :02:20.One with the potential to save millions of lives around the world.
:02:21. > :02:23.As you may have just heard on the 10 o'clock news,
:02:24. > :02:26.researchers at Manchester University have come up with a new way
:02:27. > :02:30.of turning sea water into clean drinking water.
:02:31. > :02:34.So having discovered graphene here, how can our region ensure we benefit
:02:35. > :02:39.We'll be hearing from an expert in just a moment, but first,
:02:40. > :02:53.our Chief Reporter Dave Guest has more on this latest discovery.
:02:54. > :02:58.Water is an increasingly rare commodity yet fast areas of our
:02:59. > :03:02.planet are covered by. Scientists believe they have found a cheap and
:03:03. > :03:07.simple way of turning sea water into drinking water. It involves using a
:03:08. > :03:13.filter made from graphing. Depict the graphing on top of this polymer
:03:14. > :03:23.support. So this black is grapheme? Yes. Then we put this somewhere
:03:24. > :03:26.here, and we apply the, fill the container with Asus -- with sea
:03:27. > :03:29.water and apply pressure. The sea water is being squeezed through the
:03:30. > :03:35.membrane and you have clean water here. This method of desalination is
:03:36. > :03:40.quicker and easier and less energy required for this process, we should
:03:41. > :03:47.work closely with industry to make sure this product is a viable for
:03:48. > :03:50.commercial applications. And they want to keep Manchester ahead of the
:03:51. > :03:51.game when it comes to finding uses for the material first extracted
:03:52. > :03:54.here. Dr Aravind Vijayaraghavan
:03:55. > :03:56.is an expert and researcher in Graphene at the university
:03:57. > :03:59.of Manchester and earlier he told me how projects like this
:04:00. > :04:23.might ultimately benefit It is very important to turn what
:04:24. > :04:25.we're doing in the lab to something that people can benefit from. We
:04:26. > :04:28.have the innovation Centre that we are building and all these are about
:04:29. > :04:33.working with industry, the manufacturers and end users as early
:04:34. > :04:40.in the development process as possible. So that the ideas, the
:04:41. > :04:44.research we do in the lab has, in order for it to be successful must
:04:45. > :04:47.be scaled up and optimised and integrated to system and all that
:04:48. > :04:52.needs to be done in partnership with industry which is exactly what we're
:04:53. > :04:56.doing now. And I suppose that will take some time. It's depends on the
:04:57. > :05:00.application, yes, it could take a few years, 20 years, depending on
:05:01. > :05:06.the field. We have heard lots of stories about how grapheme could
:05:07. > :05:10.revolutionise every day object but how much is it being used at the
:05:11. > :05:14.moment? There isn't really anything you can go out now and by, maybe a
:05:15. > :05:18.tennis racket but other than that there is not anything you can buy
:05:19. > :05:25.that has grapheme in it that benefits from it. But there are a
:05:26. > :05:29.lot of prototypes, we work with over 50 companies just in Manchester and
:05:30. > :05:31.hundreds around the world pussy or her prototypes that are either
:05:32. > :05:35.designed to compete with something that is already in the market or
:05:36. > :05:42.something which we probably don't have yet, but it is more than just
:05:43. > :05:45.can we make something, it is can we make something that works really
:05:46. > :05:50.well, a step change and can also be made cost-effective and cheaply so
:05:51. > :05:53.people will buy it. Those are the challenges. The engineering and
:05:54. > :05:56.commercial challenges which are difficult to predict how long that
:05:57. > :06:08.will take. Exciting times for science in Manchester. A grey place
:06:09. > :06:11.to be. Taking over Cambridge a bit? We are definitely in the top three
:06:12. > :06:15.or four universities in the UK and are doing very well in terms of
:06:16. > :06:19.science, we have been revolutionary things in terms of how we
:06:20. > :06:23.commercialise science, for grapheme it is not just the UK will in the
:06:24. > :06:26.world this is the place to be. Thank you.
:06:27. > :06:28.A man's been remanded in custody after several pit-bull type animals
:06:29. > :06:34.Armed officers shot dead two dogs, seized two others and a 5th is still
:06:35. > :06:36.missing following the incident on Sunday in Queens Park.
:06:37. > :06:38.39 year old Daniel Hennessy is charged with two counts
:06:39. > :06:41.of allowing dogs to be dangerously out of control, affray
:06:42. > :06:48.Police in Lancashire say they'll have to spend an extra
:06:49. > :06:50.?450,000 a month due to an increase in activity
:06:51. > :06:55.The force says it's having to place more officers at the site
:06:56. > :07:00.on Preston New Road as protests are increasing.
:07:01. > :07:02.She's one of Manchester's most famous women.
:07:03. > :07:04.Emmeline Pankhurst was one of the founders
:07:05. > :07:06.of the Suffragette movement - and played a crucial part
:07:07. > :07:11.She will soon be remembered with a statue in St Peter's Square -
:07:12. > :07:14.the first of a woman in the city in more than a century.
:07:15. > :07:15.Today the winning design was unveiled.
:07:16. > :07:27.When it comes to statues and Manchester, there's a common theme.
:07:28. > :07:30.Of the 17 staring down at us in the city's
:07:31. > :07:33.streets and squares, 16 are of men.
:07:34. > :07:45.The exception is this lady put up in 1901, 116 years ago.
:07:46. > :07:49.There should be more female statues in Manchester.
:07:50. > :07:53.I come from a culture where men are more than women.
:07:54. > :07:58.That is your culture, I am shocked for you.
:07:59. > :08:02.But this lady will go a small way to change that.
:08:03. > :08:04.The winning design unveiled today for a statue of celebrated
:08:05. > :08:06.suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.
:08:07. > :08:11.Having a coffee with a friend of mine, in the sculpture hall, she
:08:12. > :08:13.said, these oral men, were other women.
:08:14. > :08:19.So if I had something to do about this, I said I will.
:08:20. > :08:24.Women of Britain, you have nothing to lose but your chains.
:08:25. > :08:27.Emmeline's famous slogan, was words, not deeds.
:08:28. > :08:31.Born in 1858 in Moss Side, to many she symbolises the struggle
:08:32. > :08:36.women made at the start of the 20th century.
:08:37. > :08:39.As the suffragettes became more militant, she was arrested six times
:08:40. > :08:41.and staged the first prison hunger strike.
:08:42. > :08:43.The suffragettes won the streets ringing bells,
:08:44. > :08:45.summoning people from their home to come and listen to her
:08:46. > :08:51.A check is brought as a makeshift Bostrom.
:08:52. > :08:53.As an artist it is important to celebrate the lives and stories of
:08:54. > :08:55.Emmeline's statue will be unveiled in 2019.
:08:56. > :08:57.But first, ?300,000 must be raised to fund it.
:08:58. > :09:00.Securing her legacy in the city where she fought so hard for women -
:09:01. > :09:10.Abbie Jones, BBC North West Tonight, Manchester.
:09:11. > :09:16.Football and in the Premier League games Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored in
:09:17. > :09:21.injury time penalty that Manchester United drew at home again against
:09:22. > :09:26.Everton while Burnley beat Stoke by one goal is nil. In the championship
:09:27. > :09:31.Wigan lost 3-0 Ipswich well Preston scored five in Bristol city at
:09:32. > :09:38.In week one there were winds for In week one there were winds for
:09:39. > :09:41.both Rochdale and Bolton. Just don't have a look at incredible CCTV
:09:42. > :09:46.footage, this rare TV giraffe dropped more than six feet as it
:09:47. > :09:51.arrived yesterday morning at the zoo. It follows a 15 month
:09:52. > :09:54.pregnancy. We don't know the sex or name of it yet, at just over a
:09:55. > :09:58.-day-old calf already stands five feet tall. That's all the news and
:09:59. > :10:08.Good evening, some really good spells and sunshine across the
:10:09. > :10:12.region is rumoured to the day-to-day. Here is Blackpool
:10:13. > :10:16.looking absolutely glorious. Think over the next couple of days because
:10:17. > :10:20.of the wind direction if you follow that isobars the wind coming towards
:10:21. > :10:22.us from the Northwest, we will have quite a bit of cloud cover times but
:10:23. > :10:27.still room for brightness even there. As we speak we still have
:10:28. > :10:32.quite a bit of clear whether around, the story is equal to the writers
:10:33. > :10:35.for the cloud to push its way in. Over high-level routes there could
:10:36. > :10:39.be tedious parts of Brazil button could not that might not want be
:10:40. > :10:42.much more than that. Temperatures will stick around seven or eight as
:10:43. > :10:47.we head into the early hours so for tomorrow morning like this morning a
:10:48. > :10:54.grey start to the day, a teeny spot of drizzle and today it rained up
:10:55. > :10:58.quite quickly, tomorrow we will not have brilliant blue sky but not
:10:59. > :10:59.about pitcher. You have the north-westerly breeze and from time
:11:00. > :11:03.to time it is really bit from the south, so we could get
:11:04. > :11:10.to 18 or higher on Sunday. Now the national focus. Good evening,
:11:11. > :11:16.things are looking good in the next few days, some pressure drifting in
:11:17. > :11:19.from the Atlantic, bringing some finance settled with it. Just some
:11:20. > :11:23.questions about the amount of cloud we will see under that. The cloud we
:11:24. > :11:27.saw the sea links gave rise to a lovely sunsets are many areas. This
:11:28. > :11:31.is the view from one of our weather watchers in Cornwall. Look at the
:11:32. > :11:34.tones in the sky in Warwickshire this evening.
:11:35. > :11:42.Here is the satellite sequence which shows it was pretty gloomy on the
:11:43. > :11:45.eastern side of England. Not much rain, but a good swathe of sunshine
:11:46. > :11:48.for many early on. In the north-west, showers. Gusty wind as
:11:49. > :11:51.well, northern Scotland seeing 60-70 miles an hour overnight, rattling
:11:52. > :11:56.though showers through. Also some cloud toppling its way further sap.
:11:57. > :12:01.Keeping temperatures in the northern half at seven or eight. In the south
:12:02. > :12:02.with light winds and clear skies it will turn chilly, especially in
:12:03. > :12:03.rural