:00:00. > :00:00.Do we ourselves to be more important than we really are in international
:00:00. > :00:13.affairs? Join me on The Food Standards Agency
:00:14. > :00:16.is investigating a slaughterhouse in Lancashire - after being given
:00:17. > :00:19.what's claimed to be secretly recorded video alleging animals
:00:20. > :00:23.being cruelly treated. The campaigners say the images
:00:24. > :00:26.show animals in severe You may find some of the images
:00:27. > :00:30.coming up distressing. The slaughterhouse says the welfare
:00:31. > :00:34.of animals is paramount. This is the room where sheep
:00:35. > :00:40.are prepared for slaughter. One animal is picked up
:00:41. > :00:45.by its fleece and thrown down. What happens in the next room is too
:00:46. > :00:49.graphic for us to show you. But campaigners say it shows
:00:50. > :00:51.acts of great cruelty. The slaughtermen, they say,
:00:52. > :00:55.failing to kill the animals The campaigners claim the video
:00:56. > :01:00.was recorded secretly at Malik Foods Here, animals are killed according
:01:01. > :01:07.to Islamic halal methods. The company's website says:
:01:08. > :01:11.All our animals are bred and cared for in the most humane
:01:12. > :01:14.and compassionate way possible, and claims standards
:01:15. > :01:19.exceed legal requirements. If the company are as they claim
:01:20. > :01:23.great cheerleaders of animal welfare, why is it that we found
:01:24. > :01:27.sheep being picked up and thrown Why is it that animals had
:01:28. > :01:32.their throats cut with blunt knives, up to seven times in one case,
:01:33. > :01:36.with one animal? This is something the management
:01:37. > :01:39.of the company should have known about and they should have known
:01:40. > :01:42.what is happening on their This part of the video records
:01:43. > :01:48.an exchange between staff after one man shouts,
:01:49. > :02:02."The vet's coming." The company told us Malik Group
:02:03. > :02:05.will work closely with the FSA to ensure that any findings
:02:06. > :02:08.or recommendations made by the FSA are addressed, and where required,
:02:09. > :02:13.implemented immediately. Nobody from Malik Foods was prepared
:02:14. > :02:17.to talk to us today. The Food Standards Agency has begun
:02:18. > :02:21.an investigation, which could lead In the meantime, some of the staff
:02:22. > :02:26.here have had their slaughterman's licence removed and an enforcement
:02:27. > :02:29.order has been issued, requiring the company
:02:30. > :02:33.to meet basic standards. Stuart Flinders, BBC
:02:34. > :02:39.North West Tonight, Lancashire. A senior Greater Manchester Police
:02:40. > :02:42.firearms officer has told an inquiry that a man who was shot
:02:43. > :02:46.was complying and had X7 - as he's being referred -
:02:47. > :02:51.was the most senior officer present when Anthony Grainger
:02:52. > :02:54.was shot in 2012. He told the inquiry that
:02:55. > :02:58.from what he saw, there was no Clare Fallon has been at the hearing
:02:59. > :03:04.at Liverpool Crown Court. We've heard several different
:03:05. > :03:07.versions of what happened that night in 2012, when Anthony Grainger,
:03:08. > :03:11.an unarmed man, was shot dead by police who were part
:03:12. > :03:14.of an operation designed to stop Today, we heard the version
:03:15. > :03:19.of a police officer He was the most senior police
:03:20. > :03:23.officer who was there I think it's fair to say that some
:03:24. > :03:29.of his evidence contradicted what we heard from the police
:03:30. > :03:32.officer who pulled the trigger, Today, officer X7 told
:03:33. > :03:38.the enquiry that he shouted at Anthony Grainger,
:03:39. > :03:41."Armed police, show me your hands," and that Anthony Grainger
:03:42. > :03:45.did what he was told. The question was asked
:03:46. > :03:51.of Officer X7, by the lawyer representing the Grainger family,
:03:52. > :03:54."If Anthony Grainger was complying with your instructions,
:03:55. > :03:56.you couldn't see any reason while you were there
:03:57. > :04:01.to justify shooting Anthony?" The answer to that question
:04:02. > :04:04.from X7 was, "No, sir." He agreed he couldn't
:04:05. > :04:08.see a justification. Worth pointing out there is some
:04:09. > :04:11.disagreement, some debate, about the exact chronology of events
:04:12. > :04:14.and some questioning about whether or not
:04:15. > :04:18.Anthony Grainger had been shot before Officer X7 had his
:04:19. > :04:23.eyes on the situation. The public hearings that form part
:04:24. > :04:27.of this public enquiry are due to continue until the end
:04:28. > :04:29.of this month. But it will likely be many more
:04:30. > :04:32.months before we get A police officer will face a gross
:04:33. > :04:40.misconduct hearing after a man died in a crash following a police chase
:04:41. > :04:43.in Greater Manchester. 24-year-old Luke Campbell was killed
:04:44. > :04:46.in Stretford last February. An investigation by the Independent
:04:47. > :04:50.Police Complaints Commission found PC Simon Folwell,
:04:51. > :04:54.who drove the police car, Drone footage has been released
:04:55. > :04:58.showing how construction of the Mersey Gateway Bridge
:04:59. > :05:00.is progressing. The images show how workers
:05:01. > :05:03.are hoping to ensure the bridge The whole project will cost around
:05:04. > :05:14.?600 million to complete. A teenager with cerebral palsy
:05:15. > :05:17.is doing all he can to improve life for disabled people in his home
:05:18. > :05:19.city of Lancaster. Cameron Redpath says the authorities
:05:20. > :05:22.are failing those with disabilities and now he's urging them to remove
:05:23. > :05:24.the barriers that prevent him and others from living
:05:25. > :05:27.as independent a life as possible. 15-year-old Cameron Redpath
:05:28. > :05:33.is on something of a mission. He has cerebral palsy
:05:34. > :05:36.and uses a wheelchair, but some of the pavements
:05:37. > :05:39.around his home, he says, are inaccessible, which means
:05:40. > :05:44.he has to use the road. Could you not use the pavement
:05:45. > :05:46.to get to this position? No, because at the end
:05:47. > :05:49.of it is a massive curve that is on a slant, so you can see
:05:50. > :05:53.up here that if I came off that, The problem, he says,
:05:54. > :06:04.is not enough dropped kerbs I feel like we're in the forgotten
:06:05. > :06:11.category, we are not high priority. But in actual fact, we are,
:06:12. > :06:19.because we do struggle. So, the teenager has cultivated
:06:20. > :06:23.friends in high places. He seems like a young man
:06:24. > :06:26.who could change the world. I think the world had better watch
:06:27. > :06:29.out because Cameron is on his way! Local MP Cat Smith has
:06:30. > :06:32.joined his campaign and says I have since been approached by many
:06:33. > :06:37.other wheelchair users who have told me about other problems
:06:38. > :06:40.they have and also saying that the problems Cameron has
:06:41. > :06:42.highlighted are the problems The campaign isn't confined
:06:43. > :06:47.to pavement issues. Take the city's bus station,
:06:48. > :06:51.designed to meet disability legislation, but even
:06:52. > :06:52.here he struggles to It is mainly embarrassing,
:06:53. > :07:02.because you do not want always help, but you want to be as independent
:07:03. > :07:04.as much as you can, Lancaster City Council
:07:05. > :07:10.says the bus station was built to comply
:07:11. > :07:12.with the Disability There appear to be some isolated
:07:13. > :07:17.issues with the smaller buses It says it is working
:07:18. > :07:21.with Stagecoach to identify As for the pavements,
:07:22. > :07:27.Lancashire County Council says dropped kerbs in key places
:07:28. > :07:35.are a priority. A multi-million pound
:07:36. > :07:37.trial could soon put People travelling between Stockport
:07:38. > :07:41.and Manchester Airport will be able to hail autonomous vehicles -
:07:42. > :07:44.by using an app on their phone. Driverless pods like these could one
:07:45. > :07:52.day be taking you from your car to the terminals at Manchester
:07:53. > :07:54.Airport. This was how the Government's
:07:55. > :07:58.?100 million investment in low-carbon, autonomous vehicles
:07:59. > :08:03.was launched in London. And this was how they announced
:08:04. > :08:08.the Manchester project. They are doing something called
:08:09. > :08:11.platooning, so they are driving So, automatically, that is using
:08:12. > :08:15.a lot less road space. As well as the pods at the airport,
:08:16. > :08:18.it's hoped cars like this will take These petrol sports cars
:08:19. > :08:24.still require drivers as they tested out the new A6 relief
:08:25. > :08:26.road near Poynton. But the company behind them hopes
:08:27. > :08:29.one day they'll be hybrids or electric cars and capable
:08:30. > :08:31.of moving without anyone Members of the public will be able
:08:32. > :08:37.to book a journey in them from Stockport Railway Station
:08:38. > :08:39.to the airport using People may look at it and think
:08:40. > :08:44.this isn't very safe, but if you go to race tracks
:08:45. > :08:47.all over the world, you see that this is actually
:08:48. > :08:49.happening on a regular basis. Are you talking about turning
:08:50. > :08:52.the A6 into a race track? So, the technology that we are
:08:53. > :08:56.looking at here is to reduce congestion, and to try
:08:57. > :09:01.and improve the air. Driverless cars are already
:09:02. > :09:03.on the roads in the US. But their involvement in several
:09:04. > :09:07.accidents has hit the headlines, leaving some motorists with concerns
:09:08. > :09:11.about their safety. Well, the vehicles themselves
:09:12. > :09:13.have a lot of very sophisticated equipment on them, including
:09:14. > :09:18.sensors, radar, that kind of thing, so they are able to react much
:09:19. > :09:21.quicker than a person would. Transport for Greater Manchester
:09:22. > :09:23.says we can expect to see the sports cars being trialled on public roads
:09:24. > :09:26.from early next year. Naomi Cornwell, BBC
:09:27. > :09:36.North West Tonight. That's all the news. Let's get a
:09:37. > :09:49.look at the weather. temperatures. It's been glorious,
:09:50. > :09:53.but it's about cooler air for the next couple of days. We are stuck
:09:54. > :09:56.with it through the Easter weekend. Things will not change too much. We
:09:57. > :10:02.have a weather front coming towards us. It arrives in the early hours of
:10:03. > :10:08.tomorrow morning. The next few that come through over the next few days
:10:09. > :10:11.are very weak, not too much rain. As we speak, still some clear skies out
:10:12. > :10:16.there. Over the next couple of hours the cloud will start to build. A few
:10:17. > :10:20.tiny spots of drizzle working into Cumbria and Lancashire in the early
:10:21. > :10:26.hours of the morning. Because you have a stiff breeze and the cloud
:10:27. > :10:30.cover, temperatures are good. 8-9. Tomorrow yes, a band of rain will
:10:31. > :10:34.work its in relatively quickly, through breakfast time and the rush
:10:35. > :10:37.hour with most of us. It moves away relatively quickly. As it rises over
:10:38. > :10:42.the high ground there could be heavy bursts. Once it gets past lunchtime
:10:43. > :10:47.and it's gone, the sun comes out. There could be showers in the mix.
:10:48. > :10:50.There will be one more two showers, there shouldn't be more than that.
:10:51. > :10:55.Many places will have a dry afternoon. You've got the sunshine
:10:56. > :11:00.and this if, cool breeze, so while the numbers on the same as today, in
:11:01. > :11:02.reality, it's going to feel cooler. That's the way it stays in the
:11:03. > :11:07.Outlook. rain but it will be brighter later.
:11:08. > :11:15.On Sunday, on the cool side for East itself.
:11:16. > :11:28.Good evening. Grace of all it -- it is greatest of all in Scotland. A
:11:29. > :11:31.weather front is on the move. The rain edging down into south-western
:11:32. > :11:38.parts of Scotland and northern Ireland. Much of England and Wales
:11:39. > :11:42.will have a dry note but not quite as Chile to start tomorrow. Let's
:11:43. > :11:45.deal with the wet weather first thing tomorrow. It will be a damp
:11:46. > :11:49.start for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Heaviest rain on the hills
:11:50. > :11:52.towards the