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Campaigners fighting a Government decision to allow fracking at a site

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in Lancashire have lost a High Court action.

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The company Cuadrilla is now free to extract shale

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The Preston New Road Action Group says it's bitterly disappointed.

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Cuadrilla says it's a good decision for local businesses and for jobs.

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Near to the fracking site at Preston New Road,

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This is happening almost every day, but the confrontations

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Campaigners say they are not surprised by today's decision,

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which ruled in favour of Cuadrilla, but they say they are angry.

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The only course of action now left open to us is more direct action.

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We have followed all the other routes, all the legal processes that

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Some residents who live near the site have spent years

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fighting the application to frack here.

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This was perhaps their last chance of stopping it going ahead.

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We thought our legal team had put our case over well.

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Three years ago, Cuadrilla applied to test frack at Preston New Road,

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but Lancashire County Council refused planning permission.

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That led to a six-week public inquiry.

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On the back of that, a report was sent to the Secretary of State.

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Then the resident asked for a judicial review.

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It is one of the most looked at applications that Lancashire has

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ever seen and we are very pleased, and I think it is very good

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for Lancashire because it means we can now go ahead and hopefully

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develop shale gas there and bring jobs and gas

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One local business group said they were delighted with the outcome.

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# For he's a jolly good fellow... #

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But these campaigners say that won't happen.

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This man climbed on top of a lorry yesterday afternoon.

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This protester has now been on this lorry for 24-hours,

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and it looks like the police are now going to bring him down.

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But the lorry left with him on board.

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Tensions appear to be rising here as Cuadrilla

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continues its operations at the site.

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The company plans to bring in a drilling rig next month,

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and then to start fracking by the autumn.

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A Catholic priest has been convicted of abusing a teenage boy

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while he was a teacher at a boarding school in Lancashire

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Father Michael Higginbottom, who's now 74, subjected a teenage

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boy to repeated sexual abuse when he worked as a teacher

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at St Joseph's College in Upholland in the late 1970s.

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The Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell has requested a meeting

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with the Home Secretary about the problems caused

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She said she was worried about the spread of the former legal

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high and warned it was only a matter of time before somebody

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Just 22 days now until the citizens of Greater Manchester

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and the Liverpool City region, that's Merseyside and Halton,

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They'll have powers over transport, training and housing.

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Our political editor Nina Warhurst has been to meet a family

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in Liverpool to find out what's on their Mayoral wishlist.

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Gerard and Patrick, their mum Claire and nanny Anne.

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Among the 1.5 million people of Liverpool city region who,

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in just over three weeks, will have their first mayor.

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I'm hoping that they will be able make decisions that will lead

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So instead of somebody in London saying, "Is this a good idea?

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we will actually see things happening.

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something the mayor will have a major say on.

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Aged 40, she is moving home to save for a deposit,

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I mean, we had to save a deposit which was what you would spend

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I'm at a point in my life where it's going to be difficult to get

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a mortgage for how long they are going to want

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you to pay it off by, so I think we need to sort of look

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at housing and maybe give people a few more options.

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A new mayor means a new deal for transport.

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Would you like to take the bus more often?

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And why do you think you don't take the bus more often?

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And the bus has to stop at all bus stops and pick people up.

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Something I'm guilty of is driving into town,

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but if you can park for the same price as it is on the bus,

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Especially if I've got to carry 14 bags home with me.

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By the time Gerard hits 16, the new mayor will have had ten

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When I was 16, most of the boys were going, "I've got

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an apprenticeship" but that seems to have died a death.

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What does this family make of the Liverpool super ports,

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HS3 or the Northern Powerhouse that the government

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Everybody knows the phrases and you hear them bandied about so much.

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For the normal Jo Elvin, that doesn't matter that much at all.

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You go, "Oh, that's nice" and you keep ironing.

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It goes in one side and out the other.

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So you're optimistic he or she can make a big difference?

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If they live here, they are for the people here,

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and they are making the decisions here, then it's going to be better

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And you can find a full list of candidates for the Mayoral

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elections in the Liverpool city region and in Greater Manchester

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A North West University is leading the international fight

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Lancaster has been named as a centre of excellent

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Researchers there are developing ways of identifying future threats,

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and more importantly, ways of defeating them.

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Our Chief Reporter, Dave Guest has been finding out more.

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Barely a day passes without news of another case of cyber crime.

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There's been a data breach at the payday loan firm

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Wonga involving a quarter of a million customers...

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A serious hacking attack targeted up to 4,000,000 customers

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The Defence Secretary's warning Russia is using sustained cyber

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Already there is huge scale of the problem and as we connect

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more and more systems to each other, the scale is only going

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This is the security unit at Lancaster University and it's

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just been named as one of a small number of specialist centres that

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will lead Britain's fight against cyber attacks.

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Here they aim to stay one step ahead of the cyber criminals,

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identifying potential future threats and targets.

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And those targets are manifold as so many areas of our lives depend

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on computer technology, anything from banking and finance,

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What we're seeing here is the set-up that would exist

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We actually test these devices for potential vulnerabilities

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so we test how attackers might attack them and when we find any

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vulnerabilities we disclose them to the manufacturers.

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We also develop new types of defences.

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Jonathan is working on a project to identify and repel attempts

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Attacks which reduce speed can be very potent like time sensitive

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stock exchange transactions which don't go through in

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time, so costs companies billions of dollars.

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Presumably, as you come up with defences against attacks,

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the attackers come up with new forms of attack.

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The challenge is, as a defender, you start at a disadvantage

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because an attacker only has to find one vulnerability,

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while you have to potentially find and guard against all possible

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vulnerabilities in a system, and that makes it a challenging

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but also very exciting area to work in.

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Dave Guest, BBC Northwest Tonight, Lancaster.

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The National Trust is celebrating 50 years of looking

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The conservation charity has cared for 210 hectares of this stretch

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Today staff, volunteers and the local community gathered

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to celebrate its famous sand dunes and some of the special wildlife

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Good evening. You are probably tired of telling you that this week will

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has descended across as and stays has descended across as and stays

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with us through the Easter weekend. Maybe by Monday things might be

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getting a bit better, but if you have been out and about today it

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felt really quite cold with that north-westerly breeze. We have got

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several weather fronts coming towards us, there is not much in

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them but they do mean cloudy, chilly weather and at times fairly and

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weather. Some places are still fairly clear. One or two light

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showers, and we have still got the north-westerly breeze which will

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prevent the temperatures from falling too far. For the most part

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we will stay around 7 degrees. Tomorrow, not as bad as today, but

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not too much better. A lot of cloud to start the day, some outbreaks of

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rain first thing. As the morning goes on, they will take hold a

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little bit more. If you are lucky, every now and then you may just see

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the cloud thinning and breaking and writer skies trying to break

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through, but a cloudy day for most cases. The breeze still from the

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north-west, not quite as cold as today, so temperatures around ten or

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11 degrees. And more of the same. Brighter on Saturday but cloud again

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on Sunday. Here is Tomasz. Good evening.

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The weather in the run-up to

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