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  1. A very warm evening/night min 13c leading into a perfect weekend. Wall to wall sunshine and cooling easterly breezes. UV levels high max 27c
  2. RT @daveguestbbc: What better day for sitting in the car park of the Fleetwood nature reserve editing a piece for our lunchtime news.
  3. Just recorded a jubilee chat with Gary Barlow for tonight's show: what a nice chap. See it on #NWT, BBC1 at 1830. #TakeThat #Sing
  4. And its rugby league's Magic Weekend at Manchester City's Etihad Stadium. All on b'fast with Carol Lowe
  5. Opponents of a plan to store natural gas underground in Preesall in Lancashire have a week to register their objections
  6. A woman killed in a road accident in Bolton while pushing her child in a buggy has been named as 25 year old Dawn Graves.
  7. Weather: Warm and sunny 26c/79f . The weekend will be warm and dry 27c/81f.
  8. Isolated thundery showers but most notably a very warm night min 13c. Friday very warm for all strong sun strenghtening east wind max 27c
  9. For fans of the #stoneroses here's @colingpaterson 's report on their gig at Warrington Parr hall last night on.fb.me/KO0nYJ
  10. And Manchester band The Stone Roses did their first live gig in 16 years last night with an impromptu concert at Parr Hall in Warrington
  11. The new Universal Credit to be rolled out in Tameside, Oldham, Wigan and Warrington next April - six months earlier than planned.
  12. The family of Cpl Jack Stanley from Bolton who died after a bomb attack in Afghanistan receive the Elizabeth Cross today
  13. Details of a massive redevelopment of Alder Hey children's hospital released today.
  14. The Manchester based Co-op group says it's creating 3,000 jobs in legal services across the UK - approx 450 in the North west.
  15. Weather: Patchy mist and low cloud to start, becoming brighter with sunshine later. Risk of a thundery shower over the hills. 26c/79f
  16. Tonight mist/ low cloud for parts, showers for Pennine areas min 7c. Tom mist/low cloud lingering along coasts, elsehwere dry, fine max 25c
  17. Figures obtained by BBC reveal rise in number of racist incidents reported in schools.