26/02/2017 North West Tonight


26/02/2017

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We are back with the late news at 10 o'clock.

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Merseyside Police are appealing for information

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after a man was left outside a hospital with stab wounds.

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The 21-year-old was taken to Aintree Hospital in the early hours,

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in a light coloured van with blacked-out windows.

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He suffered a number of stab wounds and is in a stable condition.

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Police are trying to trace those who were in the van.

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A 25-year-old man arrested in connection

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with the escape of a convicted murderer in Liverpool

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has been released while investigations continue.

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from outside Aintree University Hospital on Tuesday.

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Detectives are working with police forces across the UK

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and they're reminding the public not to approach him.

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The Blackpool skyline has changed forever today,

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with the demolition of the eight-storey tower

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which welcomed visitors in to the resort, was reduced to rubble.

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Katie Walderman was there to see it happen.

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For almost 40 years, Blackpool's other tower has stood proud.

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It housed Ernie, the machine that selected people at random

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to become millionaires on the Premium Bonds.

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and his replacement has moved across the way,

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But this iconic eight-storey tower will be no more -

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dynamite will be used to flatten it, making way for new houses.

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Some call it iconic, I'd say it's an eyesore myself.

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The Premium Bonds tower has been one of those things

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that's always seemed to have been here, doesn't it?

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So it will be quite sad to see it go.

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So how do you bring down 120 foot of concrete?

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The explosives, if you look, are positioned on the first

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and second floor, and then the fourth floor

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The idea being it all blows in sequence -

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The building should, in effect, tip this way at that point,

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and it will smash itself to bits on the floor.

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And these two are charged with making it happen -

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It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I'm so excited.

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It feels weird that you're going to be responsible

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And what took years to build up took just seconds to bring down.

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It felt like we were on a Fast Furious set!

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When you think there's 6,000 tonnes of concrete chasing it down

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when you knock the legs from under it.

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That was the fun part - now starts the clear-up.

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And it's estimated it'll take until the summer

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to shift what the explosion's left behind.

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Manchester's newest tram line welcomed its first passengers today.

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The Second City Crossing, which runs from St Peter's Square

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near the Town Hall to Victoria Station,

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has taken three years to build at a cost of ?165 million.

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It's the final part of a ?1.5 billon transport expansion plan,

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If you improve connectivity, then people's demand

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and the desire to travel will be more easily satisfied.

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So that's why it will be so good for the local economy,

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but also in the other centres which it connects across the city.

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demonstrators took to the streets yesterday evening in a protest

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over government cuts to social care and education.

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Organisers say over 1,000 people braved the bad weather

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which ended with a rally in Albert Square.

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A Lancashire MP has called for unity

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after two councils - Fylde and Wyre -

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withdrew their support for devolution.

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Speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics North West,

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Chorley MP Lindsay Hoyle said the county

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would lose out to cities like Manchester and Liverpool

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if its local authorities didn't work together.

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What we've got to do, it's like the election result,

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At the moment, we haven't got a united front.

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that will make sure that Lancashire doesn't lose out.

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We talk about the Northern Powerhouse,

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We've got to make sure we're not the Northern Poorhouse in all this,

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because not we're stepping up the mark, we're not united.

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and we've got to put the case for Lancashire.

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Onto football, and in the League Cup final at Wembley,

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Manchester United are 2-2 against Southampton,

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The Bolton boxer Amir Khan is to face WBO world welterweight

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champion Manny Pacquiao later this year.

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The former sparring partners announced the fight

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It will take place on April the 23rd,

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although the location is still to be decided.

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Let's have a look at the weather forecast with Rebecca Wood.

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Well, this has been a similar picture across the North West today.

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Grey skies, but we did have some strong winds

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That's going to continue as we head into tonight.

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So still a Met Office yellow warning in place.

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Gusts of up to 60 miles an hour possible -

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we had that across the Isle of Man today -

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and we've still got some heavy showers

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As they meet much colder air across the tops of the Pennines,

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we could see them falling as something wintry.

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Elsewhere, they are largely going to fall as rain.

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with temperatures dipping down close to freezing.

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For tomorrow, we continue to see the winds easing off

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ever so slightly, but it is going to be cold,

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and we've got some heavy, thundery downpours to come.

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They start working their way through as we head through the morning.

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There will be some hail, some thunder in there as well.

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Around that, we will see perhaps a touch more sunshine

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So some brighter spells, at least, but it's still feeling cold.

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Temperatures just six or seven Celsius.

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There is more of that to come through Tuesday,

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We're back with the late news at around 10:20pm.

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Good evening. The fifth named storm of the season has been affecting the

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west of the UK, and it was named Ewan by the Irish meteorological

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service because that is where the impact was expected, but it has been

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quite wet for some and the wettest weather is moving northwards across

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the North of Scotland and the stronger winds go with that. Strong

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winds pushing away towards the east with showers and then further

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showers behind overnight, and some of the showers will contain some

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wintry weather. It

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