30/10/2016 North West Tonight

An investigation's underway after an eight-year-old boy died

Crews were called to the bl`ze in Sandbach early this mornhng,

Neighbours paid tribute to the eight-year-old boy

Fire crews were called out just before three.

When they arrived at the hotse on Platt Avenue, they found a woman

Her son was rescued from the upstairs of the property

by fire officers, but, despite the efforts of paraledics,

Investigators have been here at the scene for much

of the day trying to work ott exactly what caused the fird

that's left this local community devastated.

We heard that the young boy didn't make it.

I've got two children myself, it's...

She's a young mum herself, so it just really brings hole..

Just no words to describe it, I can't actually believe th`t this

is happening to such a poor, young family.

Many neighbours were too upset to talk on camera, but described

I've seen the little boy, hd plays with other children in the `venue,

dancing about with his phond, a lovely little boy.

My young boy, Harry, played football on the front with all the khds.

Everyone looks out for each other and stuff,

Just can't imagine it, what she must be going through...

His mum, who's 35, remains in hospital tonight,

where her condition is described as stable.

Meanwhile a man's died after a fire in Southport.

Emergency services arrived `t a flat on Gordon Street yesterday `fternoon

to find the fire already out and the body of a

A joint investigation into the cause of the fire and the death

will be carried out by Merseyside Fire Service and police.

A woman's been seriously injured after being stabbed

It happened on Shadowmoss Road in Wythenshawe,

at the corner of Cornishway, just after 1am this morning.

The 30-year-old had been st`bbed a number of times and had injuries

A man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

The woman is in a critical condition in hospital.

A North West MP says the Government needs to work hard to reasstre

workers at Vauxhall in Ellesmere Port.

Earlier this week the company dismissed reports that jobs could be

under threat in the light of comments from the boss of

parent company General Motors over Brexit.

Rival firm Nissan has announced two new models at its UK pl`nt

Conservative MP for Fylde M`rk Menzies is on

What we have to do is understand what the concerns of the Vatxhall

workers are, and from a Govdrnment level, work every bit as hard

as we have done with Nissan to allay those fears and make sure

those jobs in the North West are secure.

St Helens MP Conor McGinn h`s revealed that he delivered his own

baby daughter on the living room floor after his wife gave bhrth

The MP's wife Kate went into labour on Friday evening and he saxs

Neasa Constance arrived after what he described as

a crash course in midwifery over the phone with a 999 call handldr.

He announced the birth in a Facebook post saying,

Sport, and Match Of The Day 2 is coming up here on BBC Ond

shortly, so I won't spoil it for you with the result.

In rugby union, Sale recorddd only their third win

of the Premiership season with a 31-13 victory away

Byron McGuigan was top scordr with a try and two conversions.

Let's check on the weather forecast with Alex Hamilton.

As we go through the course of this evening, we are expecting to see

This was the picture in Saddleworth earlier todax.

We still have high pressure in charge of our weather,

but things will be turning cooler over the course

As for tonight, we'll start to see a few showers in places,

That will stay with us through the early hours,

Tomorrow morning, we start on a misty note.

Perhaps build in a couple of minutes extra to get to work,

just in case you stumble across one of those fog patches.

An overcast day, hints of brightness, highs of

14 Celsius, cooler as we go through to the midweek.

That's all for now, we'll bd back with your first

Breakfast bulletin just before 6:30am tomorrow.

Good evening. It has been another cloudy and mild day, where the cloud

broke it felt warm with temperatures up in the high teen, now as we head

through this week there is a change inneth wither type, where things

will start to feel cooler, we will still see mist, fog and frost around

as well, and a lot of dry weather on the cards through much of the week