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Welcome to the programme. The headlines - warning from the mother | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
of a murder victim. She says the fight Against guns and gangs will | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
be badly hit by police cuts. Because of funding cuts, a lot of | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
the resources which were in place on no longer in place. Jailed for | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
four years for recklessly infecting his partner with HIV. The sentence | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
that's been given today clearly reflects how serious we take this | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
matter. It will hit the poorest and we fear a rise in homelessness, say | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
two charities concerned of a benefit Cats. There's a risk that | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
significant numbers of people will become homeless. At the Royal | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
double. Prince Charles is that soldiers raising money for injured | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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comrades and Prince Philip opens Good evening. Tonight, a warning | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
from the mother of a murder victim who has become a high-profile | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
campaign in the fight against crime. After years of steady progress, she | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
believes that cuts in police could lead to a setback, with an increase | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
in antisocial behaviour and gang culture. Marcia Shakespeare, whose | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
daughter was shot dead eight years ago, they as the focus on fighting | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
street crime may be lost, as youth projects are cut along with some | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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frontline police teams. We have this exclusive report. You're 80 | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
schoolchildren getting to grips with the harsh facts of life. -- | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
you're eight. The lesson on violent crime. Which one of these is real, | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
which is a ball-bearing done? guesses? Holds school in Lozells is | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
in brand new premises. Set in the heart of Birmingham skunk and gang | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
area, the school has turned around and seen a big improvement in | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
discipline and exam results. A lesson before the summer break was | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
that everyone has choices. There's always an inclusive instances | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
involving young people for round antisocial behaviour in the summer | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
holidays. But the kids are fully aware of the implications of taking | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
toy guns and BB guns out to the parks. She had a fatal gunshot | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
wound which went straight through her heart. Leading from the front | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
is Marcia Shakespeare. In 2003, her daughter, Letitia, and her best | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
friend, Charlene Ellis, were killed in a spree of machine gun fire. | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
Innocent murder victims caught in the crossfire of gang warfare. | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
kids go from one year to another and new children come in, they | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
should be equipped and educated in the curriculum around a violent | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
crime, because this is what we live in. Holt's school has changed, so | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
has this area. Crime has fallen but 10 years ago street robberies were | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
on the rise. �1 million was spent on summer activities for youngsters. | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
Crime fell by 50 %. At the same time it was decided to place | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
dedicated police officers in schools, working directly with | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
teachers and young people. This school had its own police officer | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
along with many others. For the last 12 months, all of those police | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
officers have been returned to normal duties. Senior teachers are | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
warning that could impact on the impact -- fight against antisocial | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
behaviour. Taking that away has been unfortunate. Certainly the | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
reduction in street crime, robbery and youth crime was a really | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
positive effect. It remains to be seen how that change will be. We | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
felt the difference in terms of contact and regular communication | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
with the police since the police officers were taken from the | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
schools. I think that's common across any schools that have had a | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
police officer. Yet the police say they haven't given up their | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
commitment to schools. Officers spending time in schools are still | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
an important part of what we do. Only this morning I received an e- | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
mail from a local headteacher thanking me for some work my | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
officers did at a primary school. Engaging with young people, | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
diverting them from crime and antisocial behaviour remains really | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
important to us. Marcia Shakespeare fears that all the games of the | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
last decade could be lost in the race to cut budgets. When Letitia | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
and Charlene were killed, it was bad then and it was a turning point | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
for Birmingham. That turning point needs to stop at the point where it | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
is and not be lost through lack of funding and resources. | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
youngsters left for the holidays, many adults were asking - what will | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
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be done to keep them occupied and The Home Secretary, Theresa May, | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
has been in Birmingham today to hear about a new crime unit. Our | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
reporter put it to her that the government was failing communities | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
over Cats which will lead to the removal of designated police | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
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officers from schools. They are not failing local communities. Of | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
course there are operational decisions which will be taken at | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
local level as to how budget cuts are going to operate and be put | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
through. But we recognise the impact that the issues around gangs | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
and the use of knives by young people has in the West Midlands. | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
That's one of the reasons why West Midlands is one of the three areas | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
we identified from the centre that we should put some extra funding | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
into, to deal with this particular issue. So we are supporting | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
activity taking place locally in relation to that. With respect, | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
these officers have been doing a good job in schools and have shown | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
to make a real difference with crime and how young people are | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
recruited into gangs. They are now going to be removed. Explain that | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
to repair and of how that's going to make a positive impact. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
decision... The decision of how officers are used locally must be | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
taken at the local level. It's not right for me in Westminster to say | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
to West Midlands, this is how you should deploy your forces. That is | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
what they must do. Yes, there are challenging budget cuts. We accept | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
that, we have to do that because we are facing the biggest peacetime | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
deficit in history. There is a lot of concern in your report about | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
young people, what's available for them this summer and how crime | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
might rise. How important is that? By the risk of sounding corny, | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
teenagers are our future. They are important. For years, the | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
authorities have been trumpeting to me just how special Birmingham is | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
and just how much they've achieved. Yet on our programme tonight, the | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
woman who is the figurehead of all that success, with gang related | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
murders coming down from 27 in one year down to one, she is actually | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
saying you are putting this legacy at risk. It's very important. | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
our councils have to save money, so what's the alternative? They do. | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
The Home Secretary there is painting the stark reality of why | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
we need to make these savings. At the same time, I've been talking to | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
educators who have said a few years ago that they are putting on | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
special projects for 1000 youths, and they have �300,000 to do that. | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
This year they've just got 30,000. Isn't it a bit simplistic to say | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
that having something to do for the teenagers will cut crime? It is, | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
but often if the right funds are channelled to the right people, | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
then that is what works. It diverts people away. To use that old phrase, | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
the Devil finds work for idle hands, people are saying that unless you | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
really engage with teenagers, what then happens is you create a vacuum | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
and the drug dealers and gang members move in to fill it. Have | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
you been affected by a antisocial behaviour, are you concerned about | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
the impact of cuts on services for young people? If so, we'd like to | :08:23. | :08:33. | |
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hear from you. The contact details Later, as the famine crisis in | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Africa deepens, we meet the Somali and community in Birmingham trying | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
to help. And there's great news for English apple lovers. The season | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
has arrived weeks early. I'll be at an orchard where the harvest is | :08:53. | :09:03. | |
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A man has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
recklessly infecting his partner with HIV. 44-year-old Nkosinati | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
Mabanda knew he was HIV-positive but didn't tell his girlfriend. She | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
only found out he had the virus after finding a text message from | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
his secret fiancee. Speaking after the case, police said what was most | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
disturbing was his blase attitude towards his victim and various | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
other partners. We have been speaking to his former partner. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
He's just an animal. He has deserved everything he's got today. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
When this woman started a relationship with Nkosinati Mabanda, | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
she had no idea he was HIV-positive. She only discovered by finding a | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
text message from his secret fiancee on his mobile phone. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
couldn't see no reason why he had and said nothing because we have | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
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spoken about it anyway. He said, no, going be tested, he's HIV-positive. | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
Nkosinati Mabanda was arrested in 2009 after his victim went to the | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
police. Investigations discovered that after he arrived from | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Zimbabwean 2004, he had had unprotected sex with nine women | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
minus seven of them also have no idea he had the virus. In court, | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
the judge told Nkosinati Mabanda this was as bad as it gets, as far | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
as this type of cases concerned. You took the decision, he said, not | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
to tell her, and it was her right to know. She's been devastated and | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
her life has been changed permanently. He went on to say that | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
Nkosinati Mabanda was a very real danger to women in the future. | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
the sentence the judge has given out today, it shows the seriousness | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
in which the criminal justice system has taken this case. We have | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
to take the bravery of the victim, to actually come forward and | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
notified the police of this. Otherwise we might never have known. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Today, Nkosinati Mabanda was jailed for four years. The judge said a | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
transcript of the sentencing would be sent to the Secretary of State | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
to consider deportation on his release from prison. We are joined | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
now by Lisa Power, from the Terrence Higgins Trust, the largest | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
HIV and sexual health charity in the UK. An horrific situation there. | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
How common are these kinds of cases? It's extremely important | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
that people should realise that although most people with HIV try | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
very hard not to pass the virus on, for some people it is very | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
difficult. They don't know how to tell people or they shy away from | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
it. For one in four people with HIV in the UK, they can't possibly tell | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
their partner because they don't know themselves, they haven't been | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
tested yet. It's up to all of us to look after our sexual health in | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
these situations. If someone lies to you about their HIV status, it's | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
very difficult to protect yourself, isn't it? Clearly, if someone | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
actually lies about their status then you are N8 difficult position. | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
What we often say to people is, if you are in a relationship and are | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
thinking of giving up condoms, go down to the clinic together and get | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
tested together. That way you both know where you are starting off | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
from. It's a difficult thing to do when you are in a relationship at | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
first, you are hardly going to save, let's go down to the sexual health | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
clinic for our first date. It is difficult. In early dates most | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
people do still use condoms. But what I would emphasise his we have | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
a society where it's actually easier to have sex and talk about | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
it. That's the wrong way round. Actually, for everyone's sake, your | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
own and your partner's, you are much better off having a chat at | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
some early. And getting these things clear and making sure that | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
both you and your partner are safe. There are a lot of people with HIV | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
who haven't tested yet. So we do encourage anyone has been at risk | :13:00. | :13:10. | |
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If you've got any questions about HIV or AIDS, you can call the | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
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Terrence Higgins Trust. The number Two charities have warned the | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
impact of cuts to the benefits system could take up to �70 million | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
a year out of Stoke-on-Trent's economy. A report by the Citizens | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Advice Bureau and Brighter Futures predicts changes will lead to | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
increased homelessness. The Government has said its Welfare | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
Reform Bill will be fairer than the current system and help more people | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
into work. Clare Milner is 18 and rents a one- | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
bedroom flat in Stoke-on-Trent. Changes in her housing benefit | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
means she is now rethinking plans to study A-levels. People like me, | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
and I have loads of friends in the same situation, they are having to | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
give up their dreams of going to college to get a full-time job to | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
be able to support themselves. There is nothing they can do about | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
it. Stoke-on-Trent is not unique, according to the Office of this | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
report, but they say there are social and economic factors which | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
mean it could be affected more harshly than other cities. Wages in | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
Stoke-on-Trent are almost 10% below the national average. The labour | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
market here has contracted by 3.6% in the last year, compared to 1.9b | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
national. We do have health problems, and those will get worse. | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
Homeless this will get worse. The housing market will not recover. In | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
saving money, I think it is a very false economy. We will save money | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
in Westminster and we will be paying for far more expensive | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
services to deal with the results of what will happen to people. | :15:01. | :15:11. | |
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statement, the Government said its The Government has introduced a new | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
test, for people. Be charities dealing with claimants are | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
sceptical. With the best will in the world, however affected the | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
private sector is at creating jobs, it will not create enough jobs | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
quick enough. Clare Milner is still taking stock of the impact of these | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
changes for her, and the authors of this report hope it will be the | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
basis for wide-ranging discussions. Police are investigating after | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
several coaches and cars were deliberately set on fire. It | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
happened in the early hours of this morning at a car park in the Small | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
Heath area of Permian. Four coaches, three cars and a caravan were | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
destroyed by the far, which spread to nearby storage sheds. | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
A woman has been rescued after falling down a 30 feet well in | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
Worcestershire. It happened just before four o'clock this afternoon | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
in the village of Abbotsford. A specialist search and rescue team | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
were sent to the scene at the woman was taken to hospital. | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
The BBC has learned that around 30 drain covers a month are being | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
stolen across Burnley him. Castle Vale is the latest area to be | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
targeted overnight. -- across Birmingham. It is thought the | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
covers have been stolen to sell us scrap metal. | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
Coming up, a royal flush at Birmingham plays host to two | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
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princes and a duchess. The Somali community is calling for | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
more aid to help millions of starving people in the Horn of | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
Africa. A quarter of Somalia's population is being displaced as | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
the search for food and water. An estimated 40,000 Somali born people | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
love him Birmingham. They include a former Government minister who says | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
she was horrified when she released the returned to the country. -- | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
recently. Desperate scenes in Somalia. Today, | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
the French Agricultural Minister has reported to have said it will | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
be the scandal of the century is more eight is not forthcoming. | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
Maryan Qasim can relate to that. She has just spent seven months | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
working as a Government minister in Mogadishu, the first time she has | :17:37. | :17:47. | |
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been back to her home country for 25 years. My most beloved place | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
when I was a child. Everything was destroyed. There is nothing I can | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
do for all those people. Sometimes I used to see people dying out of | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
hunger. They could not get anything to eat. I would see children in the | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
streets, begging. Now back in Birmingham, Maryan Qasim is one of | :18:08. | :18:17. | |
an estimated 40,000 Somali born people living in this city. Several | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
African charities have their headquarters in Birmingham. They | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
are in daily contact with aid workers in Somalia, trying to set | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
up the station's there to prevent the starving having to cross the | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
border in search of food and water. -- feet stations. They also receive | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
many donations, many from people who were born in Somalia. The | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
British Government has donated �90 million in eight so far, but the | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
response from other countries has been criticised by Somalians living | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
in Birmingham. There is still a huge shortfall of funds. We are | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
thankful to the British public, and the UK Government, more needs to be | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
done because of the huge crisis. is a country torn apart by war, not | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
just famine. In the long term, what many West Midlands-based Somalis | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
want his stable Government, then maybe theirs will be a country they | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
will want to return to. Not one, not two, but three members | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
of the royal family were in Birmingham today. The Duchess of | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Cornwall, the Prince of Wales and his father all popped in on | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
official business. In a moment, the Duke of Edinburgh at Warwickshire's | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
new cricket ground. First, our personal thank-you from Prince | :19:36. | :19:44. | |
Charles to the servicemen and women who have endured at off 48 hours. - | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
- Huttoft 48 hours. Time to banter with the patients at | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital. And Tanton looked -- trying to beat | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
the military men and women who spent a very sweaty weekend. He was | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
asking me how the event went, it was tough. What I am going to do | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
now is going to have a mudbath. Rewind, and this was the Bastion to | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
Birmingham challenge would started on Saturday. Cycling and running an | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
awfully long way. The objective is to rack up 3580 miles, the distance | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
from Camp Bastion back year to the hospital. Some of the injured | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
soldier is being treated you have done their bit using this. Among | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
those taking part are up a former rugby international helping to | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
raise money to build a home where the injured servicemen from the | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
Queen Elizabeth Bosman military award can spend time with their | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
families. They will need support through this time. What we're doing | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
here is just saying, we are here, we are with you, we are supporting | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
youth and we will try and do our bit to make that process as much as | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
possible. The Prince this is the hospital about four times a year to | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
beat when good soldiers. The Prince -- the Prince visits. He said thank | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
you. He knew how difficult it was, he was really interested and he was | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
grateful for what we are doing. spent a long time talking to the | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
patients and their families. He really inspired them and motivated | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
them to continue on their long recovery path. There followed a | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
private visit to meet military casualties. For lunch, four hampers | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
cent ahead by the Prince. -- cent ahead. | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
Have a day for the Brazier twins, lilies, the and 13 wicketkeeper, | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
and her sister Rebecca were determined to put on our right Well | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
performance. Prince Philip took to the field, looking delighted to be | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
here. No wonder, he has always loved his cricket. The Duke of | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
Edinburgh is no stranger to Edgbaston. He was your 11 years ago | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
for the official opening of the indoor cricket school. Today, he | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
has returned for the rebirth of this famous Test match arena. | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
During a break, he chatted with the girls about their shared passion | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
for the game. All around, junior teams were enjoying a festival of | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
cricket and the Prince popped inside for lunch. He congratulated | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
us on what we had achieved and look forward to seeing our success in | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
the future. Will he be back for that this month -- Test match next | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
month? We did him -- we invited him but I think he prefers to watch it | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
on TV. It has cost �32 million, no wonder the Prince was impressed. | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
But some things are priceless, like this clever Cat by LEAs to help | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
Walmley when the under 13 lady Tavener final. -- By Louise. | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
Probably the biggest day in their season so far. They thoroughly | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
enjoyed it. I do not know is that they won the Duke said to them, but | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
they were smiling. He was asking us how long we have been playing | :23:01. | :23:10. | |
cricket. And why we love it so much. I was really nervous. No worries. | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
The sun shone, the shield went to Walmley and the visit -- the teams | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
gave three cheers for the royal visitors. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
To complete the royal round-up, the Duchess of Cornwall was presenting | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
a Queen's Award for Voluntary Service medal at the City's | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
Botanical Gardens. For many of us who look for to | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
Turkey into a first English apple of the season, the harvest has | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
arrived weeks earlier than expected. Normally we would have to wait | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
until late August or early September. Thanks to the cold | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
winter and the warm spring it is promising to be a great season. | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
Cath Mackie is in an orchard for us right now. When will they start | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
picking? Actually, I have already started! | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
The harvest proper starts here tomorrow. Here is column Brimfield. | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
I cannot believe it is July, it is a magnificent sight. It is very | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
early. We have been farming here for 100 years and this is the early | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
season by a week. We are picking Discovery apples, we picked a few | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
of those today, and we will be picking in earnest tomorrow. That | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
is have a quick chat with Adrian. We were saying this is good news, | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
but is an early-season good news? Barry Davies, because we will seek | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
English apples available to consumers for longer than has been | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
the case for many years. And also, we are producing increasing volumes. | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
We have seen a real renaissance in the English apple industry. Were | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
orchards have been planted, greater production and consumers will have | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
access to English apples run now right through until next May. | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
there was concern, there was a frost in a will which has damaged | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
some of the crops. Some orchards in Herefordshire have been obliterated, | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
but fortunately, they are in a minority and the damage has been | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
far less than anticipated. And we will get a larger crop this year. | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
And the good news is, the English apples will be in the shops at the | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
end of the league. -- the end of the week. | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
See how she ripped that have all of the tree! I have been quite pleased | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
the tree! I have been quite pleased about the weather for the last | :25:33. | :25:41. | |
couple of days. It looks pretty decent. It has been | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
beautiful and sunny over the weekend, it was a beautiful weekend, | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
dry and warm. The rest of the week will stay settled. Tonight, it is | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
mainly dry. We could see a little shower in a few spots. But that | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
will be good for the garden. Nothing too significant. Mainly dry | :25:59. | :26:07. | |
with clear spells. Some cloud around also. Overnight, lows of | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
eight Celsius, fairly mild for most of us. Tomorrow, once again, we | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
will see some sunshine, not everywhere, there will be some | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
cloud lingering, but it will not spoil the day. It should still be | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
fairly bright. Highs of 23 Celsius. Going into tomorrow night, once | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
again it will be similar to tonight, clearer spells, some cloud drifting, | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
and it will not be too cold. Another mild night with lows of ten | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
to 14 Celsius. This week, when it is warm it will be highs of 24 | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
Celsius. Slightly cooler in the cloud, highs of just 19 Celsius. A | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
high pressure is holding off the low pressure so we have that | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
settled weather. There is the threat of a front moving through | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
but we expected to be mainly dry through the rest of the week. So | :27:03. | :27:04. | |
through the rest of the week. So calm and settled, temperatures in | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
the low twenties. A look at tonight's main headlines: | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
The Norwegian massacre, the self- confessed killer says he had links | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
with two other underground cells. And a murder victim was my mother | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
warns that cuts in policing could undo all the progress that has been | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
done in the fight against crime. That's all from us this evening, | :27:26. | :27:31. |