:00:10. > :00:17.The children of a couple from Wirral who both died of terminal cancer
:00:18. > :00:20.within days of each other have shared a photo of the heartbreaking
:00:21. > :00:22.moment their parents said goodbye to each other.
:00:23. > :00:25.The picture of Julie and Mike Bennet was taken at St John's Hospice.
:00:26. > :00:28.Their children are being comforted by relatives and friends who have
:00:29. > :00:30.launched a fundraising campaign to help them face the
:00:31. > :00:41.Donations have now exceeded ?100,000.
:00:42. > :00:46.A devoted couple, hand in hand as they had been many times before,
:00:47. > :00:50.It's a photo of Julie and Mike Bennet from Irby.
:00:51. > :00:55.Both terminally ill with cancer, both passed away within a week.
:00:56. > :01:00.They were so down to earth, nothing was ever too much trouble.
:01:01. > :01:03.Very open-minded, always very encouraging of their children.
:01:04. > :01:07.Mike died last Monday, Julie just last night.
:01:08. > :01:11.They leave three children - Luke, who's 21, 18-year-old Hannah
:01:12. > :01:17.Bravely, they decided it was appropriate to pay tribute
:01:18. > :01:21.to their beloved parents by posting the picture on social media.
:01:22. > :01:24.To release that photograph of their mum and dad in hospital
:01:25. > :01:28.shows an incredible strength of character, doesn t it?
:01:29. > :01:33.Yeah, it captured who their parents are, and holding hands to the end.
:01:34. > :01:35.It wasn t attention-seeking, it was purely to share
:01:36. > :01:37.the news of their parents, and actually it was a really
:01:38. > :01:40.beautiful moment, that they were there for each other.
:01:41. > :01:45.57-year-old Mike Bennet had been fighting cancer for three years.
:01:46. > :01:49.Julie was 50 and diagnosed last April.
:01:50. > :01:51.They're both known locally for their generosity,
:01:52. > :01:54.and now that kindness is being repaid.
:01:55. > :01:56.A Just Giving website, set up just last week
:01:57. > :01:59.to help their children has already raised far more than
:02:00. > :02:06.It's something that struck a chord with an awful lot of people
:02:07. > :02:09.and people feel it and have been touched by it and so
:02:10. > :02:13.I think they understand what life actually holds in the future
:02:14. > :02:16.for the kids and will support them through that.
:02:17. > :02:19.Julie and Mike's children, naturally too upset to be interviewed today,
:02:20. > :02:22.say they're overwhelmed by the response.
:02:23. > :02:27.Mark Edwardson, BBC North West Tonight.
:02:28. > :02:30.Police in Lancashire are appealing for witnesses to what they've
:02:31. > :02:33.described as the shocking robbery of a 92-year-old man
:02:34. > :02:38.It happened on Lytham Road yesterday afternoon.
:02:39. > :02:41.The victim was left with serious leg injuries after being attacked
:02:42. > :02:44.by an intruder who claimed he was owed money for work
:02:45. > :02:50.Now take a look at this dramatic footage.
:02:51. > :02:53.A passenger ferry called the Ben MaChree has crashed
:02:54. > :02:56.into the King Edward Pier at Douglas in the Isle of Man as it tried
:02:57. > :03:01.It led to the cancellation of crossings this evening.
:03:02. > :03:03.Luckily there were no injuries reported but engineers
:03:04. > :03:08.will work through the night to assess any damage.
:03:09. > :03:11.Now light pollution means that many of us have never seen the night
:03:12. > :03:16.Well, tomorrow's Inside Out will feature the Isle of Man
:03:17. > :03:19.which has the largest concentration of dark sky sites in the British
:03:20. > :03:23.Isles, making it the perfect destination for stargazing.
:03:24. > :03:28.It's a place from where you can even see the Milky Way.
:03:29. > :03:30.The best thing we can see in the winter months,
:03:31. > :03:33.there is a feature just to our side here, called the winter hexagon,
:03:34. > :03:36.which gives you about nine or ten of what we call first magnitude,
:03:37. > :03:39.the very bright stars, which are only seen in the winter
:03:40. > :03:42.months from the Isle of Man and from places in northern Europe.
:03:43. > :03:45.We don't see that from cities or towns or anytwhere else like that.
:03:46. > :03:48.That's one of the criteria for being a dark sky site,
:03:49. > :03:58.And you can see the programme tomorrow evening at 7.30 on BBC1.
:03:59. > :04:01.Here's Rebecca Wood with the latest weather forecast.
:04:02. > :04:06.Well, it has certainly been a cold and grey day today.
:04:07. > :04:10.We've had some wintry showers over the tops the Pennines.
:04:11. > :04:13.As we head through tonight we continue to see the showers
:04:14. > :04:16.working their way north and westwards.
:04:17. > :04:20.We will be left with plenty of cloud and could get mist and fog
:04:21. > :04:23.Temperatures holding up underneath that cloud and with that
:04:24. > :04:26.breeze so we are looking of lows of between 2-4 Celsius.
:04:27. > :04:29.To start the day tomorrow we have that easterly breeze starting
:04:30. > :04:32.to work its way northwards, clearing away the cloud and finally we're
:04:33. > :04:35.starting to get some breaks but strong gusts of wind
:04:36. > :04:38.particularly along the coast where we could see some gale force
:04:39. > :04:42.gusts, but temperatures getting up to 6 or seven Celsius nevertheless.
:04:43. > :04:45.With that biting easterly wind it is not going to feel that way,
:04:46. > :04:49.it will fuel much colder but at least the sun is coming out.
:04:50. > :05:08.That's all from me for now, goodnight.
:05:09. > :05:14.I'm sure most of us are glad to see the back of this weekend. It's been
:05:15. > :05:18.cold, bleak and at times wintry. It provided some beautiful weather
:05:19. > :05:22.Watchers photos, like Sheffield earlier today. I suspect some of the
:05:23. > :05:28.lying snow will be blown around by strong winds starting to develop.
:05:29. > :05:35.The odd spot of drizzle into the far north-east. The wind strengthening
:05:36. > :05:38.here. Already signs of something a little bit miles, temperatures
:05:39. > :05:43.climbing up. However it's not going to feel that warm straightaway.
:05:44. > :05:47.Because of the strength of the wind. The wind however will break up the
:05:48. > :05:49.cloud, so some sunshine into