23/11/2017 North West Tonight

Good evening.

Power has finally been restored

this evening after homes

were flooded in Lancashire

and Cumbria last night.

70 people had to be rescued

as record levels of rain fell

in some places in just two hours.

Today, residents have

been counting the cost,

as Yunus Mulla reports.

On the Fylde Coast tonight,

the are still pumping away water.

Thornton Clevelys, an area

that didn't cope well

with heavy rainfall.

Are you

Electricity North West

was providing a food van to help

Are you Electricity North West

was providing a food van to help

some of its customers who had become

victims of flooding.

at one stage 500 properties were

without power.

Engineers are working

to restore electricity to properties

are still affected. They still are

not the extent of the flooding.

It

has never done it before and I have

lived here on the north since 1964.

Why do you think they aren't getting

to the bottom of this?

You hear so

many conflicting stories.

It seems

strange is just a couple these areas

and everywhere else isn't as bad as

what we've experienced.

The Lancashire village of Galgate

was one of the worst.

Here, they do have an answer

to what happenned.

The weather station

at Lancaster University

recorded its greatest ever rainfall

in a 24-hour period.

The deluge caused the River Condor

to overtop its banks.

It was relatively quickly but then

it came to the back door as well.

Through the back door, improperly

flew into the house and was very

quickly.

It's only two years since

Storm Desmond in North Lancashire

and South Cumbria caused

devastation to homes.

Go Burrito in Lancaster shut

for weeks after the 2015 floods.

July of this year brought

flash floods, too.

Businesses have invested

in flood defences, but they

could be tested again.

Year in, year out, we're seeing more

and more events and I think it is

because of a changing climate so

we're seeing routine sharp

rainstorms coming in and this is

what we have seen over the last

couple of days.

It's only November.

For people here it looks

like a long, hard winter ahead.

Police have appealed for information

after a community support officer

was stabbed in Runcorn this evening.

The officer was attacked

after being lured into woods

in the Palacefields area by a man

reporting that three

others were fighting.

The PCSO fought off his assailant

who tried to stab him in the face,

but suffered lacerations

to his hands.

The men all ran off.

The Bury South MP Ivan Lewis has

been suspended by the Labour Party

while it investigates an allegation

of sexually inappropriate

behaviour made against him.

It relates to an alleged

incident in 2010.

Mr Lewis strongly

disputes the claim.

South Yorkshire Police has refused

to pay the legal costs

of the Hillsborough match commander

David Duckenfield.

He'll be charged with manslaughter

if a court overturns a ruling

he shouldn't be prosecuted again.

The Police and Crime

Commissioner says it's not

appropriate for them to pay.

One of James Bulger's killers has

been recalled to prison,

suspected of having child abuse

images on his computer.

It is the second time Jon Venables

has been sent back to jail under

similar circumstances.

The first was in 2010.

He killed two-year-old James -

with his friend Robert

Thompson - in 1993.

They were both released

on licence in 2001.

Our Merseyside reporter Andy Gill

has followed today's developments.

Jon Venables, who's now 35,

was recalled to prison last week.

It was because he was suspected

of having images of child abuse

on a computer linked to him.

He hasn't been charged,

but an unnammed police force is now

carrying out an inquiry.

Venables and Robert Thompson

were just 10 when they abducted

two-year-old James Bulger

from the Strand shopping centre

in Bootle and murdered him

on a railway line in Liverpool.

Both killers were released

on licence after serving eight

years of life sentences.

A legal ruling gave them

lifelong anonimity.

But in 2010 Venables admitted

downloading indecent images

of children and was given

a further sentence.

He was released again in 2013

with a second new identity.

Whether he's released

for a third time will depend

on the parole board,

who'll no doubt take into account

that he seems to be re-offending

in simlar way to 2010.

I saw a tweet from his mother last

night, saying, "Here we go again."

Has there been any further

statement from the family?

We've had a statement

from James Bulger's

mother, Denise Fergus.

In it, she says...

James's father Ralph Bulger also

issued a statement expressing

concern that some media have made

reference to the current

whereabouts of Jon Venables,

something that's forbidden by law

under the court order

which accompanied his

and Thompson's original release.

Mr Bulger goes on to say that

on legal advice he will not be

making any comments on what has been

reported by the media.

A selection of artefacts,

memoirs and photographs documenting

the Reno nightclub in Manchester

were unveiled at the city's

Whitworth art gallery this evening.

The Reno was open

between 1968 and 1986.

Last month, an archaeological dig

was held at its former

site in Moss Side.

Images of what they found were

projected onto the gallery walls.

A group of fire cadets from Cheshire

who've helped to rebuild a school

in Nepal say the experience

has changed them.

They raised tens of thousands

of pounds to pay for the trip

to an earthquake-damaged region.

It's 50 years since one

of the longest strikes in history.

For nearly 18 months,

machine-makers at a factory

in Stockport took on the company's

American owners.

In 1967, 30,000 engineering

workers in the North West

walked out in support.

And there were violent scenes

as thousands joined the picket line,

as Stuart Flinders reports.

1967.

Harold Wilson was Prime Minister.

Jimi Hendrix burnt his guitar.

And if there was a summer

of love going on somewhere,

it wasn't in Stockport.

Roberts Arundel, a textile machinery

factory in Chestergate,

was at the centre of

a bit of dispute.

was at the centre

of a bit of dispute.

Betty Ridgeway's husband, Deborah's

father was one of the strikers.

Malcolm Hopwood was

on the strike committee.

The site's changed hands.

The memories are as strong as ever.

I had just come out

of my apprenticeship.

You had just got married, too.

Suddenly I was in the

middle of a big strike.

It was horrendous.

I had also signed up

for my first house.

The factory had been bought

by an American firm,

determined to modernise,

but with little time

for local union agreements.

When 150 workers went

on strike, they were sacked.

They have set a plan to break trade

unionism in that firm.

The North West is a strong area

of the country and if they break

it here, they break it

for the whole country.

There were sympathy strikes

across the country.

And those defying the picket line

were given a hard time.

In the end, after 18

months of strike action,

Robert Pomerantz simply

shut the factory down.

The dispute has cost his factory

about £1 million and cost

the workers their jobs.

Although the factory closed,

it wasn't the case that people

stayed out of work as a result.

This was a time of full employment.

It meant Stockport remained a union,

and that, to me, is a victory.

Everton took a downturn tonight.

This was the only goal as they lost

5-1. It was the heaviest home defeat

for an English team in the

competition for 20 years. Ramirez

got his first goal for the club.

In rugby league, Widnes player

Rangi Chase has been banned

for two years after testing

positive for cocaine.

He was suspended in August

after failing a drugs test.

Now the weather with Dianne.

Good evening. It's fair to say we

have struggled with the weather.

Through the next 72 hours it is all

about the cold air. You will have

filtered in the afternoon, it is

quite chilly out and about and that

is how we stay through the weekend.

Temperatures will not warm up.

Getting better towards Monday, but

Monday returned with fairly wet

conditions. Showers continue to work

there way in over the last couple of

hours and will continue to do that

through the night. The Met Office

have it should a warning that

untreated surfaces could see icy

stretches. -- icy. It is clear

weather in many places in Cumbria,

temperatures I don't want else is in

many areas. They can go lower than

that. -- temperatures in many areas.

Most towns will fall to around two

Celsius. Sub zero in the

countryside. Frost and places first

thing tomorrow morning. The sun will

come up and they will be a lot of

sunshine tomorrow, a lot of winter

sunshine with cool air and we will

see showers continuing from time to

time. They should be as plentiful as

through the day but were they turn

up the course drop in temperatures.

In terms of temperatures, this is

what you will notice to the next

couple of days. We will struggle,

six and seven Celsius. The cloud for

tomorrow night because there could

be snow in the forecast.