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