0:00:19 > 0:00:20Good evening.
0:00:20 > 0:00:22Power has finally been restored this evening after homes
0:00:22 > 0:00:24were flooded in Lancashire and Cumbria last night.
0:00:24 > 0:00:2770 people had to be rescued as record levels of rain fell
0:00:27 > 0:00:28in some places in just two hours.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Today, residents have been counting the cost,
0:00:30 > 0:00:34as Yunus Mulla reports.
0:00:34 > 0:00:43On the Fylde Coast tonight, the are still pumping away water.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Thornton Clevelys, an area that didn't cope well
0:00:45 > 0:00:47with heavy rainfall.
0:00:47 > 0:00:47Are you
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Electricity North West was providing a food van to help
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Are you Electricity North West was providing a food van to help
0:00:52 > 0:00:58some of its customers who had become victims of flooding.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02at one stage 500 properties were without power.Engineers are working
0:01:02 > 0:01:08to restore electricity to properties are still affected. They still are
0:01:08 > 0:01:15not the extent of the flooding.It has never done it before and I have
0:01:15 > 0:01:23lived here on the north since 1964. Why do you think they aren't getting
0:01:23 > 0:01:28to the bottom of this?You hear so many conflicting stories.It seems
0:01:28 > 0:01:32strange is just a couple these areas and everywhere else isn't as bad as
0:01:32 > 0:01:33what we've experienced.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35The Lancashire village of Galgate was one of the worst.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Here, they do have an answer to what happenned.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41The weather station at Lancaster University
0:01:41 > 0:01:44recorded its greatest ever rainfall in a 24-hour period.
0:01:44 > 0:01:54The deluge caused the River Condor to overtop its banks.
0:01:55 > 0:02:00It was relatively quickly but then it came to the back door as well.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Through the back door, improperly flew into the house and was very
0:02:02 > 0:02:05quickly.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08It's only two years since Storm Desmond in North Lancashire
0:02:08 > 0:02:11and South Cumbria caused devastation to homes.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Go Burrito in Lancaster shut for weeks after the 2015 floods.
0:02:14 > 0:02:19July of this year brought flash floods, too.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21Businesses have invested in flood defences, but they
0:02:21 > 0:02:30could be tested again.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34Year in, year out, we're seeing more and more events and I think it is
0:02:34 > 0:02:36because of a changing climate so we're seeing routine sharp
0:02:36 > 0:02:40rainstorms coming in and this is what we have seen over the last
0:02:40 > 0:02:41couple of days.
0:02:41 > 0:02:42It's only November.
0:02:42 > 0:02:47For people here it looks like a long, hard winter ahead.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Police have appealed for information after a community support officer
0:02:59 > 0:03:01was stabbed in Runcorn this evening.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03The officer was attacked after being lured into woods
0:03:03 > 0:03:05in the Palacefields area by a man reporting that three
0:03:05 > 0:03:06others were fighting.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10The PCSO fought off his assailant who tried to stab him in the face,
0:03:10 > 0:03:11but suffered lacerations to his hands.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13The men all ran off.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17The Bury South MP Ivan Lewis has been suspended by the Labour Party
0:03:17 > 0:03:19while it investigates an allegation of sexually inappropriate
0:03:19 > 0:03:20behaviour made against him.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22It relates to an alleged incident in 2010.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26Mr Lewis strongly disputes the claim.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28South Yorkshire Police has refused to pay the legal costs
0:03:28 > 0:03:30of the Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33He'll be charged with manslaughter if a court overturns a ruling
0:03:33 > 0:03:34he shouldn't be prosecuted again.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36The Police and Crime Commissioner says it's not
0:03:36 > 0:03:43appropriate for them to pay.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46One of James Bulger's killers has been recalled to prison,
0:03:46 > 0:03:48suspected of having child abuse images on his computer.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52It is the second time Jon Venables has been sent back to jail under
0:03:52 > 0:03:53similar circumstances.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56The first was in 2010.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58He killed two-year-old James - with his friend Robert
0:03:59 > 0:04:00Thompson - in 1993.
0:04:00 > 0:04:01They were both released on licence in 2001.
0:04:01 > 0:04:08Our Merseyside reporter Andy Gill has followed today's developments.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Jon Venables, who's now 35, was recalled to prison last week.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13It was because he was suspected of having images of child abuse
0:04:13 > 0:04:17on a computer linked to him.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20He hasn't been charged, but an unnammed police force is now
0:04:20 > 0:04:22carrying out an inquiry.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Venables and Robert Thompson were just 10 when they abducted
0:04:24 > 0:04:29two-year-old James Bulger from the Strand shopping centre
0:04:29 > 0:04:33in Bootle and murdered him on a railway line in Liverpool.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Both killers were released on licence after serving eight
0:04:35 > 0:04:37years of life sentences.
0:04:37 > 0:04:41A legal ruling gave them lifelong anonimity.
0:04:41 > 0:04:46But in 2010 Venables admitted downloading indecent images
0:04:46 > 0:04:49of children and was given a further sentence.
0:04:49 > 0:04:54He was released again in 2013 with a second new identity.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58Whether he's released for a third time will depend
0:04:58 > 0:05:00on the parole board, who'll no doubt take into account
0:05:00 > 0:05:06that he seems to be re-offending in simlar way to 2010.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10I saw a tweet from his mother last night, saying, "Here we go again."
0:05:10 > 0:05:14Has there been any further statement from the family?
0:05:16 > 0:05:18We've had a statement from James Bulger's
0:05:18 > 0:05:19mother, Denise Fergus.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21In it, she says...
0:05:43 > 0:05:46James's father Ralph Bulger also issued a statement expressing
0:05:46 > 0:05:49concern that some media have made reference to the current
0:05:49 > 0:05:52whereabouts of Jon Venables, something that's forbidden by law
0:05:52 > 0:05:54under the court order which accompanied his
0:05:54 > 0:05:55and Thompson's original release.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59Mr Bulger goes on to say that on legal advice he will not be
0:05:59 > 0:06:06making any comments on what has been reported by the media.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11A selection of artefacts, memoirs and photographs documenting
0:06:11 > 0:06:13the Reno nightclub in Manchester were unveiled at the city's
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Whitworth art gallery this evening.
0:06:16 > 0:06:21The Reno was open between 1968 and 1986.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Last month, an archaeological dig was held at its former
0:06:24 > 0:06:25site in Moss Side.
0:06:25 > 0:06:31Images of what they found were projected onto the gallery walls.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35A group of fire cadets from Cheshire who've helped to rebuild a school
0:06:35 > 0:06:37in Nepal say the experience has changed them.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40They raised tens of thousands of pounds to pay for the trip
0:06:40 > 0:06:43to an earthquake-damaged region.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46It's 50 years since one of the longest strikes in history.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48For nearly 18 months, machine-makers at a factory
0:06:48 > 0:06:50in Stockport took on the company's American owners.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52In 1967, 30,000 engineering workers in the North West
0:06:52 > 0:06:53walked out in support.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56And there were violent scenes as thousands joined the picket line,
0:06:56 > 0:07:00as Stuart Flinders reports.
0:07:06 > 0:07:081967.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Harold Wilson was Prime Minister.
0:07:10 > 0:07:15Jimi Hendrix burnt his guitar.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17And if there was a summer of love going on somewhere,
0:07:17 > 0:07:23it wasn't in Stockport.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Roberts Arundel, a textile machinery factory in Chestergate,
0:07:25 > 0:07:35was at the centre of a bit of dispute.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38was at the centre of a bit of dispute.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Betty Ridgeway's husband, Deborah's father was one of the strikers.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Malcolm Hopwood was on the strike committee.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43The site's changed hands.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45The memories are as strong as ever.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47I had just come out of my apprenticeship.
0:07:47 > 0:07:48You had just got married, too.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Suddenly I was in the middle of a big strike.
0:07:51 > 0:07:52It was horrendous.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54I had also signed up for my first house.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56The factory had been bought by an American firm,
0:07:56 > 0:07:57determined to modernise, but with little time
0:07:58 > 0:07:59for local union agreements.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01When 150 workers went on strike, they were sacked.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04They have set a plan to break trade unionism in that firm.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07The North West is a strong area of the country and if they break
0:08:07 > 0:08:09it here, they break it for the whole country.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11There were sympathy strikes across the country.
0:08:11 > 0:08:17And those defying the picket line were given a hard time.
0:08:17 > 0:08:24In the end, after 18 months of strike action,
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Robert Pomerantz simply shut the factory down.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28The dispute has cost his factory about £1 million and cost
0:08:28 > 0:08:32the workers their jobs.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Although the factory closed, it wasn't the case that people
0:08:34 > 0:08:38stayed out of work as a result.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40This was a time of full employment.
0:08:40 > 0:08:50It meant Stockport remained a union, and that, to me, is a victory.
0:08:57 > 0:09:03Everton took a downturn tonight. This was the only goal as they lost
0:09:03 > 0:09:075-1. It was the heaviest home defeat for an English team in the
0:09:07 > 0:09:13competition for 20 years. Ramirez got his first goal for the club.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15In rugby league, Widnes player Rangi Chase has been banned
0:09:15 > 0:09:17for two years after testing positive for cocaine.
0:09:17 > 0:09:22He was suspended in August after failing a drugs test.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26Now the weather with Dianne.
0:09:29 > 0:09:35Good evening. It's fair to say we have struggled with the weather.
0:09:35 > 0:09:39Through the next 72 hours it is all about the cold air. You will have
0:09:39 > 0:09:44filtered in the afternoon, it is quite chilly out and about and that
0:09:44 > 0:09:48is how we stay through the weekend. Temperatures will not warm up.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Getting better towards Monday, but Monday returned with fairly wet
0:09:51 > 0:09:55conditions. Showers continue to work there way in over the last couple of
0:09:55 > 0:09:58hours and will continue to do that through the night. The Met Office
0:09:58 > 0:10:02have it should a warning that untreated surfaces could see icy
0:10:02 > 0:10:10stretches. -- icy. It is clear weather in many places in Cumbria,
0:10:10 > 0:10:14temperatures I don't want else is in many areas. They can go lower than
0:10:14 > 0:10:25that. -- temperatures in many areas. Most towns will fall to around two
0:10:25 > 0:10:29Celsius. Sub zero in the countryside. Frost and places first
0:10:29 > 0:10:38thing tomorrow morning. The sun will come up and they will be a lot of
0:10:38 > 0:10:41sunshine tomorrow, a lot of winter sunshine with cool air and we will
0:10:41 > 0:10:46see showers continuing from time to time. They should be as plentiful as
0:10:46 > 0:10:51through the day but were they turn up the course drop in temperatures.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54In terms of temperatures, this is what you will notice to the next
0:10:54 > 0:10:58couple of days. We will struggle, six and seven Celsius. The cloud for
0:10:58 > 0:11:00tomorrow night because there could be snow in the forecast.