The 1980s he also appeared in films such as Operation Amsterdam Sunday Bloody Sunday and the day of the Jackal You're listening to b.b.c. Radio Action News at 5 minutes past c.b.c. Radio Lancashire the weather. I receive is here with the weather a few more showers as we go through the rest of the softening it could be the opera spell mixed in with that temperatures up to 7 or 8 degrees Celsius overnight there's still going to be a few more showers around through to tomorrow morning temperatures down to 4 or 5 and then through the dates Murray but will probably see a few more showers in space with a few sunny spells through to the afternoon period with highs of 9 degrees Celsius p.s.k. To be feeling fairly blustery turning fairly settled as we go through Christmas Eve and on to Christmas states here with sunny spells expected across space. Steven life b.b.c. Radio like Isha. . It's Madonna like a prayer at b.b.c. Radio show well if your prayer is for a car relaxing Christmas you could do a lot worse than have your prayers answered where I am today I would like you should outdoors I'm saving a lot of bacon fell Country Park today I was stood up for mail near the visitor's center in the cafe looking out now across the flatlands of lanky shift towards the city in the distance I can spot Inskip the towers Inskip Blackpool towers a curl around to the left to say I can see them are safe wind farms then the Welsh mountains just through the gloom there's a there's a kind of law hanging cloud just between the horizon and the Welsh mountains is kind of some behave through talking assume this there's gaps in this cloud of all this today and the Sunni's is shining through one illuminating certain fields in villages of Lancashire in the wire in the filed and it's kind of kind as if it's almost called shining a spotlight for just a point on this patch work quilt of rolling contrary side from breaking fall down to the coast and to the say a mixture of my safe trucks of green with all the farmland and then culture around and through the old trees and and the hedge rows my gosh what a view this is what a proud privilege it is 1st even though mates a liberal custom if you are thinking of calling to say is put bacon fellow country park ain't you son of Commons is the coffee me I mean I can vouch for the cup but say I'm a bacon butty that we've got this one who says No I mean Oh absolutely yeah we're ready to rock this is my Christmas present to you know this for you and it's well received it's beautiful and I can say is amazing because I don't live that far away from it and we seem to driven for hours it's beautiful absolutely beautiful more about what's going on here they can fell after all the. Someone. Homebrewed Nandu new song most see there's no order. To be in song. Blood. And see. If you. Can you. Always get it. Ours get a. Good song. Of the sea read you like you should stop the traffic and drive 60 minutes past 12 b.b.c. Radio Lancashire travel with the latest update on Jacob strong if you heading through cone is very busy for the likes of Vive reweigh coming in from the m $65.00 and skips and right as well is a bit of a struggle heading south and down through towards Windsor St Now there's trouble brewing in black but at the moment it looks like part of a 647 which is a red line that's currently closed and causing delays as you approach Rutland Street is all following an accident is near the Bull's Head and as a result there's some pretty heavy congestion building up and they surrounding routes in and out of Burnley busy in a few spots active way as you head through towards a brown street roundabout heavy the normal West Gates heavy at the moment as you head towards Queen's Lancashire way as well as the coast generally on the move still so very slow traffic for Clifton drive north and south is busy in and out of Preston as well for the likes of Ringway at the at the corporation street lights and come forth. As well as been busy with some slow traffic at times of the market street lights on Lancaster Road for the a 6 the motorway stop to be open for business the trains seem to be running to time to reduce one thing else you can call a civil safe and legal the numbers 033-012-3018 extension 1 b.b.c. Radio like your show on Christmas Eve at midday we asked Christians from across line to sum up Christmas in one word the main one I think is the essence of Christmas is humility we ask what it means to them and why they wanted to celebrate the birth of Jesus the joy of the news that the angels brought in the 1st Christmas night she God has come to find us and meters and what one song would they play to underline the festive message tells that Christmas Story Christmas in a word this Christmas Eve at midday b.b.c. Radio Lancashire. Moesha sandwich and just like the scenes Christmas Joe Wilson believe will this year from the cafe date all the county singing carols got me all Christmas I was hard driving to break in Falcon Tree Park today it is beautiful location and it's one of those locations where people say it's a very low how do you get the what do we do when we get there where is it and I just for my kind of Christmas present so all our regular listeners. Feel like he should outdoors and kind of comment and just talk about what he thought of a Christmas give you an opportunity to commentary connect with nature this is a mob my time we're planning for presents and what food we've in a news Mistah And what we're going to say when she comes around and all I we're going to fits all these visits and just give yourselves a couple of hours to just change the steam and relax and enjoy being outdoors in Christmas and I really recommend coming along to be confirmed to just do just that if you can if you can day or night actually got some great stargazing as well and I've got some a new friend I don't know friend we'll start with the old friend less of the old James Shelley kid joins us now I said I'm good thanks David and we're kind of at this hour they are coming up in you may think the same of this place don't we like absolutely love it yeah I've been working if I don't know 89 years maybe no on and off crits in a few sculptures and I just love it and that is just it's a part that's why I said Miss along with all of coming back. You know I want to finish and he's gone I just thought what if ever finish I want to just keep comin here it's magic Well I think as we get these people said to me Oh we know roughly where it is but why what. Do you do it's just. I don't know it's my little bit of. What's the word. Wilderness or suppose I've been coming here since I was a kid around me I'm a mom when I was 67 years old and used to bring me and then as I got older and I could drive I used to being me granny when she was getting 80 odd in ninety's brought me eldest son Lee who's 13 now and mil The 2 lads we've always come to be can fail. When I was 1st asked to to do a school it was like Flippin eck for die now. Everything I could ever achieve it was just wonderful just such a wonderful place and you can see my house for me and somehow there you go so you can see if they put fire on for you have one that's right that's what I was going to look for small you mention. Would you like to introduce you to the show to the to the nation this is part of the next beacon fell work. You know you you know I've heard so many nice things these last 2 weeks about you. That's the best to you you're the center the hope the cognate makes it work well I'm not sure about that but I'm a volunteer ranger and I have. The last 910 years now and I do 2 days a week and it is absolute pleasure coming pair lovely cafe. Great and wonderful place to for families to enjoy. Just because we are dropping off because I'm reaching over the counter from being on this right so people generally During the way can say I'm going. To go describe what I would get to be can for. Oscar enormous if you're a woman and she in this him and his lovely wife Julia tried to call me 2 years ago they set off and they leave because they were they live in. Blackpool Tower and then the Clitheroe So they got the game of the Washington even they got a bit lost it was going to so so for for Reno and Juliet could you give us. Well I think you just have to look for the nearest high point and close. To an environment. Quite visible. And it is actually quite well signed. From long. You know from chipping and you just have to keep following the brown signs until you see the next. People get a little bit anxious and maybe turn off a little too quick. So some of the Rams could do even more brown than them because they're a bit old now and some of the other signs could be realized right now because they need to watch. But apart from not allied if you keep your eyes peeled. Yeah. And. For about today and I have. Sometimes. You know behind. The sign and it might just slightly point the wrong way part from that quite well we've got lots to say to talk about we've got some great gas lined up but this place sells itself so we're hoping to just give you have fled for the next hour and a half I was lost we have a wonder around to see what birds have been spotted for music now it may be see red yellow and she's Greg like and I believe in Father Christmas. Dinner. see over the Christmas period in China they were trying to get people out. Of the shops and up into the countryside Yeah a lot of people do come up here just to look at the birds because we've got a lovely viewing area from inside the center quite a few feet behind us and. A big variety of bats and then out on the fowl you just take you by surprise sometimes but we will see the roads where you know they might just emerge from the world to land into a different area or you just might see. Into the distance but they're always such magical sights when we do see them you know I just gave you that a warm feeling. Definitely you know when the children just love looking at through observation window and looking at the. Polls As well enough and I'm sure. Yes. Parents and grandparents just loves coming up. To see that and the chance encounters on the fellow right now there's a fading away on the pain. There's one in my garden you know honestly I have tried 17 years of now. They will mount command from mealworms out as well but. Never to. You know for. Looking at the list there that people have seen in December we've got Woodcock crossbills revenue. Robin Colt it bleeds a long tail to press trade keep creeping but they're not touch chaffinch French sparrow and tree creepers again there as well as Bucholz a lot of really great opportunity to get the kids to come and get into birdwatching to connect we need Oh yeah definitely I mean there's always something families to see here on Beacon fowl and yeah whether that come to see the wildlife on the hair or just to walk around the different paths and I'm James was talking before about the sculptures that is enjoyed doing and we have got a lovely variety of sculptures around the file and in terms of all put in days over Christmas then I'm guessing Christmas clause Christmas Day is the only day that we are closed during the yeah so the caffeine so when I preach at the airport on Christmas Day I think of it here as well the toilets are closed on Christmas Day as well the toilets hair a place on Christmas day. We've got some toilet size so the barbecue scientists and toilets were open that Ok so if you think of a cover now on Christmas Day I knew could blame it it'd be a lovely way to. Go in for that festive faced. Thing open ear the man was a dissenter but not co-write sleigh than you might have a barbecue or a great Christmas Day Another big get down to the barbecue area I get on there we're going to talk much more with you but I'm here all day that we're going to sort of parts and we're going to have a bit more of an insight into some of the youngsters and some of the activities it's a place to put it in a moment to say but right now with all this is a chain this is talking heads and rolled to nowhere. With. Me. Well. It's. Rude. Because if you. Can fell. That you could just keep going around the room just as a sack of pasta is the pasta 20 minutes ago. Before the go but to bolt and. I would like you should out those. They can fell today and it's just it's just a beautiful beautiful location if you have never been put a date in your diary for over this festive period to come or pay and just sample some along to she's finest views of wonderful wildlife really really will be giving yourself a Christmas present to remember now throughout this last month of December we've been bringing you a weekly Sunday stroll on this program where b.b.c. Vedanta is really a feller's for us has been going on some of the many walks around lungfish is why it is street with a dog paddle this week she's on sick leave leaf for his own once again discovered another hidden gem of the county she never knew was on a doorstep. So outside the community center. Ready to start this is called the like stretches so I'm presuming it's a little bit longer but it's chucking it down so sometimes the Rangers have to make the decision to shorts in the war or cancel it so it's not being cancelled as 4 people have turned up for it which is great and joining me is the walk leader Nic hello there and. Welcome to the craven is the structure it's not going to stretch it. To tar Woods is a bit of straight walk but we're going through the grounds of an old house that's being demolished now but it's. In the middle of an area that's about 20 minutes walk from here in the part of the place if it was that nice weather conditions the leg structure would take us on the beach it would take us on the problem I was planted to. Point a long way from here and you can do it in just about an hour so how long before we set off will this walk it would take just one hour and how many miles will it cover roughly just over 2 miles Oh you're ready for that. Really is let's go. Right here about it said Make we've walked from Cleveland to community center west drive and then we've turned off down a little bit of a hidden secret housing estate if you want to call it in the States it's a very posh houses here we turn down the strive and we're now we've come to a gated area and a pathway which is the woods anyone from this area wouldn't know the cigs isted unless they came out and came on a war like this to actually see it amazing Well still it's called again our words it's the former grounds to house use. Topay Hampton now it started off as a home then be carried back to wildlife and eventually I think it became a school or a problem but it's. Derelict it's a bad shoot the ball ish so we've got the chance now to walk through the grounds of that's part of the ice area which is looked up to by the Rangers Duncan you know with us again it's another string. As you said you look after this and it's one of those places as we keep mentioning on the old days people don't know about day that a lot of people don't know it is quite hidden the 3 entrances into the terrace but it's public open space and it's lovely it's a mixture between a little and and a very mature gotten if you like it's got a great drive that we're walking down. A used to be the drive to the hole but it's great for walking isn't it is yes we number of stone so if he's passed around the site they are slightly flooded this time of year unfortunately but yes that pretty good to be fair while I've got you and you publish your new waltz the books at Christmas time people be able to see them online one day the new walks coming up and they're going to be again 120 odd walks throughout the 2020 isn't there a lot more that's just the health we have wildlife. Health rides which offer a bicycle rides to go on and you can hire a bike for free so we've all sorts different activities going on that should come out for Christmas and it's called The Great Outdoors 20 twentieth's we. Have a. 6. And now. You have. Me. Don't. I don't need 2. 1000 miles from home. On my own. On the boat. But a case of the saw this call me to come. Home. To Here I'm just waiting for the lead to finally get B.b.c. Radio like. Morcha. Of my you know we're going to talk to somebody who was transforming lives with lives here now in Lancashire Drea McLeod is that right. Tell us what you do I am all my friends and I wrote we and we support the company and we work alongside Lancaster County Council and running toddler grapes pots and child care adventure days during the summer holidays and parties are put they can file and it's all about getting kids will pay and get them outside and enjoying the file join nature now I've never kind of thought I could be a teacher but you're a very special practitioner teacher Don Yes I am a primary school teacher but about 7 years ago I did my far school training so the coma for a school practitioner and just over the year I've just just realised you know some children are just so much more engaged when they're outside and so. That's what I'm trying to do is get children outside as much as possible I'm convinced I would spend much more time. For of them working only if that had been such a thing as 40 schools absolutely yeah it's probably about 89 years ago now how to a class and there was a great pullouts who just went engaged in activities get them outside who were different transforms and engage and got them right in using clip. So absolutely there is there's a lot of children who need that natural law in space and to go outside and learn what kind of things the day that when you know when you know that when you have to and I'm kind of aggressive notes about what she was doing so well what do you do with this. As a riot see if they. We have a toddler grape and very much we start off with this just sensory beacon file and it will have some sort of say so it might be like we're going on a battle so we'll read a bit of the story and then we'll go and search for the bat on the on the foul and then we'll probably make some dens to hide from the bear if he was coming to get us . To all the things with all the children where we'll have like survival days where I will go make shelters on the file and then we'll walk down to car which is the barbecue area and make campfires and cook our own food and I will do the talking. What we have done to topple a grape every Monday morning from Federated and obviously that preschool children. From really from when they can walk to school going to screw. And then during the holidays we run adventure camps and those of primary school age children so from age 45 to 11 you don't need 46 day we do. We do lots of family events as well so we have like family bent them building day hold that thought because when James shellac is going to talk about that or why Holden what we. Can do an about face now it's time to find it all just have a look well the old rhyme became fairly fairly steady we did know it's quite a few sackless taking advantage of the dry weather this morning on the county's rolled so please take care of your driving let's find the roads are coping so according to one. B.b.c. Radio Lancashire. And with the latest update it's major strong bring good news following the accident in black burn the red Lim stretch of the 674 was closed due to an accident that's now been sorted moved out of the way in the roads reopened it looks like congestion is beginning to make its way back to reasonable normal I say reasonable because most town or city centers at the moment looking fairly busy see Christmas shopping type traffic in and around the area it's slow and a cone for skips and road and he is busy a long way as well but have a queue at the moment as you head from the m 65 in the boundary mill roundabout it heading through towards an answer it's very slow both ways on the way up through the coast and up towards a square that substructure the 584 for Clifton drive north and south for getting away with it on the seafront but surrounding routes to fairly busy in around Preston is very slow towards a corporation street lights for the likes of Ringway on the a $59.00 in and out of Lancaster not getting away with either the one way system working so I ran towards the Greyhound bridge checking the cameras and sensors most of the motorway seem to be flowing reasonably well if you course you do so any other problems and it's safer legal to coal the numbers 033-012-3018 watts. Radio almost every Christmas for nearly half a century b.b.c. Radio Lancaster has broadcast the service of 9 lessons and carols from black bone cathedral and this is no exception I'm John Robinson the new director of music at the Kid Rock and it's my 1st year in Blackpool and you can hear this is broadcast on Christmas Eve at 5 pm and on Christmas day at 6 am Cheryl service of 9 lessons in Carroll's by candlelight this Christmas with b.b.c. Radio Lancashire. B.b.c. Radio Lancashire. Let . Me. Ask. You a. Question . That's the brink. Of a break. You . You in. The. Us. That's a great. Question. Let's bring. Up the a not. That great. If you. Have a mask that will bring. It Right. Now and Alaric ask you have a back pack you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah and. If you wish I. Would ask. You. With. Skill and a gun and celebration you know. They even law this is b.b.c. Radio and fishes outdoor programme every were a little bit like country file on the radio in that we just go out to outdoor locations with will sing the praises of lanky sure far I mean and forestry and allotments even in the last week we're in a food and drink festival overstand story as colleagues this week we are completely noncommercial in a woodland bacon foul just saying you know what you could do to really give yourself a boost over Christmas get yourself a saw these views do what the Japanese do in the Far East behave and plug into nature all for for a pound to party car cheapest car park in Britain I just common park I'm warm they're around a number you do this with the youngsters and we talked about you know parties as well yes we do yeah what a place to come out of an outdoor biffed the park Oh it's brilliant we've had them we've had like an elephant ferry potties with little long teddy bears picnics and we've also had then with older ones like 1011 year olds about survival parties where we've gone on to the file and made dens and shelters and they've pretended to be bag rails a full glare in the woods but I started out with a little over a mile of that would go walking and I had to do the bare grills commentry he would cut it she of course just before the bears come out. Really an adventure in Oh absolutely yeah and it's amazing what you can do with a stick as well it can be a machine gun or it could be part of a den making you broke your youngster along with. What do you. About bacon family it's lot a lot of teenage is my thing but they're all. In dollars They've got no release and I think it's a good release felt to be able to come here and just spend a couple of hours walking in or playing or whatever and just great to be out and be free instead of being boring all the time it's never boring outdoors is never boring never boring is always something to see and kind of just your mind somewhere else and usually my generation the woodland and lot became fellow I find I come all the time and every time I come I always find something new to do or something new to see a lot the view is always slightly different depending on whether whatever so yeah yeah amazing so you must be really happy that. It's Can we roll it out yeah it's good it's really good and it's a bit of extra money where you go all the back to the corner shop I get paid to help oh you get paid you're a parent Yeah results all right and then all the. Well will not talk anything about but the laws and she said life the way you go you actually come and work and. Yes it's really fun it's good to help out and some of the older children that corn you can make friends also. It's good stuff for people who might be thinking oh I've got some so. Over to visit she will be coming over for Christmas from lawns of Yorkshire into the beautiful country. Well why would you say that this should come to be can file for the stroke because one it's gone of the best views I think in the whole of Lancashire and it's such a good field you know there's lovely food at the cafe there's a bit of stuff today for everyone so you can walk on the Faroe if you young you can use your my. Nation and played as a school to trial and there's different just different aspects of the file that make it really inspiring and. They are very well don't you a lot of the obvious we could click put it on the bacon vote as it isn't a website on the face but really when it really really and yet and it's something that we should mention as well is that rock Trump is to hire the foul so if you if you. Have difficulty walking you can ring go the Vista center and if there's no one here it's once the phone you can leave a message in the volunteers will get back to you as soon as they can and booking when you can come for an injunction and then hire out and just use the trumpets on the file and what's so good about they can feel as you can come in it can be a base to do a show at will or you can go further fails and do a long wall yeah successful for everyone excessive Oh for everyone else trumpeter as we're seeing them with the same world so we'll talk more about those the 2nd hour of the show The 2nd is up to the news now this is Darlene Love You know b.b.c. Radio and. What a view what a view across Lancashire from Europe they can follow absolutely but we're coming to see James Kelly because I'm so beyond that it's beautiful to look at the families come in and anywhere near us come and say hello would love to see on this festive edition of like the shut doors they can follow right now though it's time for my. Marvelous my quest with the 1 o'clock news. In the last you need to mull can bank on a hill to the I received good friend good company and great. News b.b.c. Radio like usual. You want to talk my question home secretary pretty patellas met the family of Harry Dunn the teenager who died in a car crash outside an r.a.f. Base in Northampton sure in August she was joined by their m.p. Andrea led some to discuss the extradition from the United States advance a Kulis who has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving during the meeting misled some said the thoughts of the government were with her is relatively just and the government is all the editors are personal with and devastated by those that have you know hey we. Assure you of actually doing everything we can to help 3 men have been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder after 2 police officers were attacked outside a pub in Middleton in Greater Manchester one officer was punched and stamped on and her colleague was knocked unconscious as they responded to an incident in the early hours of yesterday morning. The speaker of the House of Commons a Lindsay Hoyle who's also of course the m.p. For Charlie has said his predecessor John Bercow should be given a peerage former speakers are offered a place in the House of Lords addition dating back almost 2 and a half centuries but it was suggested earlier this year that Mr Bercow may be denied a peerage because Mrs were angry at what they saw his is biased during Breck's it debates so Lindsay though said the convention should be respected more if you were . Always been offered doesn't have to be taken but I think personally if that's what's always sought that we should continue without. My view was personally I think it should be offered to. Serve the host Tony it did some great things. Lancashire Police have issued a appeal for witnesses art an elderly man died following a fall on the bus in Long Ridge the instant happened on the number one service between language and Preston shortly before 10 am on Tuesday the 10th of December it's thought the 70 year old man boarded the service at the old oak bus stop and then fell in the stairway of the vehicle suffering a head injury from which he died in hospital a week later the house builder has failed to overturn a decision to refuse planning permission for up to 100 new homes in the south rebel village Wayne Holmes wanted to build the properties on land off chain House Lane in white stake South rebel council planning committee refused the application in June the developer then appealed but the planning inspector has now backed the local authorities decision Agassi's Anglican bishops of issued their Christmas messages the Right Reverend Philip north the Bishop of Burnley talked about uniting society particularly after what he called a divisive general election following a divisive debate about Bret's it he was speaking as an evangelical event in the Winter Gardens at Blackpool but there has been division in many homes and in many communities at the same time we're all human we make mistakes we fall out with the people we love we've nor our neighbor we turn a blind eye to those who are different from us Christmas is a great time to connect up and meet with some of those people so who will you reconnect with this Christmas. Finally actor Tony Britain has died at the age of $95.00 at the height of his career in the 1970 s. He starred in films including There's a girl in my soup Sunday Bloody Sunday and the day of the Jackal show business correspondent Lisa looks back on his life Tony Britton began his career on the stage performing at the Old Vic Theatre and with the Royal Shakespeare Company he went on to appear in a series of successful British films with dramatic roles in Sunday Bloody Sunday and the day of the Jackal he was equally skilled at comedy he was in 2 highly popular sitcoms in the 1970 s. And 980 s. Robbins nest where he appeared alongside Richard O'Sullivan and don't wait up where he and Nigel haters played a father and son who were both doctors his death was announced by his daughter the t.v. Presenter 30 Britain who described him as a great actor director and charmer. And by looking back at a life of Tony Britain who's died at the age of 95 You're listening to b.b.c. Regular auctioneer's at 4 minutes past one b.b.c. Radio Lancashire well. Hello Rick Davis here with the weather a few more showers as we go through the rest of the softening it could be the upright spell mixed in with that temperatures up to 7 or 8 degrees Celsius overnight there's still going to be a few more showers around through to tomorrow morning temperatures down to 45 and then through the dates my.