Summary

  • Cammell Laird strike action 'suspended' for four weeks

  • Rail chaos report: 'Put passengers first', says regulator

  • North West MEP Paul Nuttall quits UKIP

  • £300m plan to regenerate Blackpool unveiled

  • Tributes pour in for Buzzcocks singer Pete Shelley

  1. Hilltop Historiespublished at 11:43 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2021

    Seren Griffiths uses a walk along a sandstone ridge in northern Cheshire to explore the way a landscape can hold multiple histories, and in doing so make it easier for us to contemplate distant futures.

    The landscape in question is bordered on the north by the M56 motorway. Commuters making their way into Manchester see it to their right for all of about a minute. But up on the ridge you can see that it stretches south towards Whitchurch in Shropshire. Seren starts her journey in a quarry used variously by the Romans, Iron Age settlers and latterly the Victorians. She makes her way up to one of the string of hill top forts that can be found along the sandstone escarpment, and then moves along to an old Cold War listening station, and not far away, the Frodsham Anti-Aircraft Operations Room. And all the while the vista shows the canal work of the industrial revolution, the chemical plants of the 20th century and the wind turbines of the last decade. The ancient landscape hums with history and archaeology that bring its past into focus in the present.

    For Seren, and many before her, this is a magical, mysterious place which draws out timelines like a strand, with artefacts from the past projecting forwards, enduring into the present.

    Producer: Tom Alban

  2. Nursing in pandemic 'like working in a war'published at 06:42 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2021

    Nurses in one of England's worst-hit areas relive the year-long ordeal of caring for Covid patients.

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  3. Government takes action over council's 'failures'published at 20:32 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2021

    Commissioners will oversee parts of Liverpool City Council, the local government secretary says.

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  4. Murder accused 'upset' by partner's disappearancepublished at 18:11 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2021

    Alan Edwards denies killing his partner and says he is still "waiting for her to come back".

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  5. Father 'tortured and killed in front of children'published at 17:57 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2021

    Jurors hear cannabis farmer Brian Waters was beaten, bound and held upside down in a four-hour attack.

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  6. What now for Liverpool City Council?published at 15:35 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2021

    Government-appointed commissioners are earmarked to oversee some Liverpool City Council activities.

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  7. Greater Manchester Police set to appoint new chiefpublished at 12:21 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2021

    South Yorkshire's Chief Constable Stephen Watson is set to take over at Greater Manchester Police.

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  8. Tomlinson would face jail again 'in a heartbeat'published at 10:07 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2021

    Royle Family actor Ricky Tomlinson, who was jailed for his union activism, says he has no regrets.

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  9. Second body confirmed as missing fishermanpublished at 19:14 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2021

    A body found on a beach on the Wirral on 12 March is identified as Ross Ballantine, 39.

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  10. Murder accused denies assaulting other womenpublished at 18:01 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2021

    A man accused of killing his partner Susan Waring denies other alleged attacks dating back to the 1990s.

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  11. Alleged killer 'fled to Malta for 16 years'published at 16:23 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2021

    Christopher Guest More Jr denies murdering Brian Waters, 44, over a £20,000 drugs debt in 2003.

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  12. Thousands of candles lit to honour Covid victimspublished at 12:39 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2021

    About 4,100 candles are being lit at Blackburn Cathedral to remember those who have died in the county.

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  13. Council dismisses city's regeneration bosspublished at 12:38 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2021

    The departure comes as the government prepares to unveil plans for the future of the authority.

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  14. Shrewsbury 24 win court battle to clear namespublished at 12:12 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2021

    The 14 men, including actor Ricky Tomlinson, were among 24 charged following pickets in Shrewsbury.

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  15. The North West’s last photos before lockdownpublished at 07:31 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2021

    People share photos of life before lockdown to mark one year since restrictions were imposed.

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  16. 'I never ever want to go back there again'published at 07:06 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2021

    On the first anniversary of the Covid lockdown, six people discuss how their lives have changed.

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  17. Parties, pubs and snowballs: A year of Covid finespublished at 06:38 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2021

    Dracula fans, takeaway lovers and thwarted drinkers are all counting the cost of flouting the rules.

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  18. University staff strike called off after talkspublished at 16:39 Greenwich Mean Time 22 March 2021

    Industrial action is halted after the University of Central Lancashire agrees to suspend job cuts.

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  19. Football's Darkest Secret - the survivors' storiespublished at 16:37 Greenwich Mean Time 22 March 2021

    In a new BBC three-part programme, Football's Darkest Secret, survivors of child sexual abuse in football talk about the impact on their lives and about speaking out.

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  20. Lancs sign India's Iyer for One-Day Cuppublished at 12:38 Greenwich Mean Time 22 March 2021

    Lancashire sign India top-order batsman Shreyas Iyer for the group stages of the One-Day Cup.

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