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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today, with Nick Owen and Suzanne Virdee. | :00:05. | :00:07. | |
While the national economy almost stagnates, signs of a genuine | :00:07. | :00:15. | |
recovery in the motor industry. want to create more jobs in the | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
area and bring in more money, and we want to export more, and we are | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
doing all those things. Reliving her dramatic rescue, the | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
pensioner who thought she was going to die after falling down a well. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
can remember seeing the wall of the well and then just going down into | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
the water, and I didn't think, that's it. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
A lorry driver is killed and a motorway's closed for more than 12 | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
hours, causing rush-hour chaos. And the schoolgirl who's tee-ed up | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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her place against the world's best Good evening and welcome to | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Tuesday's Midlands Today, from the BBC. Tonight, the economy's still | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
in the doldrums but there are signs of a recovery in the car industry. | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Two of our biggest carmakers recently announced plans to expand, | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
and a major components firm has re- hired workers it was forced to lay | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
off during the slump. And today the Society of Motor Manufacturers said | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
it expects that recovery to continue into next year and beyond. | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Some positive news on a day that new figures show productivity in | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
the UK is barely growing at all. Giles Latcham reports now on the | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
drive for jobs. It's getting busier at the biggest | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
wheel-maker in the Black Country. Two years ago, in the jaws of | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
recession, a third of the workforce was laid off and the company came | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
close to collapse. A lot of the lads were coming in and they would | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
not know if they were going to be in a job next week. It is an | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
amazing turnaround. It isn't until you sort of stand here and look | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
back that you realise how much we have achieved over such a short | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
period, to be honest. Before the recession, Rimstock was turning out | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
about 9,000 wheels a week, many of them for motorbikes. In the slump | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
that fell to about 3,000, but now it's back up to 5,000, and the | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
kinds of wheels they're making has changed too. These wheels are for a | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
company that specialises in upgrading Range Rovers of | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
Premiership footballers and other celebrities. They are not cheap, | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
they are aspirational, and an example of how this company is | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
diversifying into a niche market to survive. We have increased our | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
level of employees. We are at 250 people now. We have some real | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
opportunities going for it but every day is a challenge. It is far | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
from easy. But higher very confident about our future. -- but | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
I am very confident. Elsewhere, Jaguar Land Rover seem set to | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
expand beyond Castle Bromwich and Solihull, to build a new plant near | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
Wolverhampton. BMW is planning major investment at Hams Hall in | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Warwickshire, to build on the success of the Mini. But only last | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
week, a components firm in Burton- on-Trent, Kongsberg, said it was | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
moving to Poland, with the loss of 150 jobs. It helps that Rimstock's | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
marketing director is also a leading touring car driver. They've | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
ventured into motorsport with Honda and developed new products along | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
the way. We sell and we test wheels on the track in race situations, | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
and then the innovation we have done with those comes onto the road | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
market. There's no reinventing the wheel, but innovation's given this | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
firm a future once very much in doubt. | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
Our business correspondent, Peter Plisner, is outside the Jaguar | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
factory at Castle Bromwich now. Peter, today disappointing news | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
nationally on the economy, so how are big car manufacturers like | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
Jaguar Land Rover managing to do so well? It's a mixed picture. Across | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
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the UK, manufacturing is up but sales are down. Jaguar sales in | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
June are down almost 18% when compared with June 2010. Of course, | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
sales elsewhere in the world aren't as bad. Emerging markets like China | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
and India are doing really well. Components firms who were very | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
optimistic earlier in the year are now much more pessimistic about the | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
future. As you saw in the film, many have had to diversify or move | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
into niche markets to survive the recession. Some are still | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
struggling. What about all those jobs that JLR said they would be | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
creating? Are they still going ahead? Well, generally, according | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
to a recent survey, many companies have called a halt of new | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
recruitment, preferring instead to get more productivity out of their | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
existing workforce. The good new is there's no increase in redundancies | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
at the moment. At JLR, it's different. They are still | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
recruiting as they need to develop new product and fulfil demand from | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
abroad. Today the company told me they were looking for 1,300 people | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
and they've now recruited around 900 of them. | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
Still ahead in tonight's programme, anti-social behaviour or just high | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
jinks? As one local authority calls for greater tolerance, claims we're | :05:07. | :05:17. | |
being too hard on the youth of A grandmother who can't swim has | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
been re-living the moment she was rescued from more than 30 feet down | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
a well in her garden. Denise Brooks spent an hour and a half clinging | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
to a rope. She'd fallen off a ladder as she tried to retrieve a | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
water pump. She says she thought she was going to die. Andy Newman | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
reports. Staring into the abyss. Denise | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
Brooks poses with her husband next to the well where clinging to life | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
meant clinging to a rope for an hour and a half. She fell from the | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
bottom rung of a ladder which had been lowered into cavity to | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
retrieve a pump. As she dropped, she went under the water, and she | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
can't swim. It all happened in a split second, but how can remember | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
seeing the wall of the well and then just going down under the | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
water. And I did think, that's it. In that split second, I thought, | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
that is it. I am not going to come back up. But come back, she did, | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
somehow managing to wedge herself above the water, holding on to a | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
rope attached to them as income. Had I tried to go down, I could | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
have slipped and toppled on proper for. I could have knocked bricks on | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
top of her. When the emergency services arrived at their home, | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
Denise was appalled to the surface, where medical teams were waiting to | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
attend to have. The Midlands Air Ambulance and an emergency response | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
team were called to her home. In the event, she was slightly | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
hyperthermic but basically OK. was incredibly calm for somebody | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
who had fallen and had been stuck down a well. But she was | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
communicating with us the whole time so we knew she did not have | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
life-threatening injuries. I have got out to tell the tale. Would you | :07:06. | :07:14. | |
be going down again? No! I will not. And the ambulance people said she | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
seemed amazingly calm. It is that that helped her out. Incredible! | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
"A massive fireball" - that's how witnesses have described a crash on | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
the M5 which killed a driver. Some said the impact shook nearby homes. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
The lorry ploughed into a bridge near Junction 3 at Halesowen in the | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
early hours of morning. The motorway was shut for more than 12 | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
hours because of fears the bridge was unsafe. As Ben Godfrey reports, | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
thousands of drivers were caught in the chaos. | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
This was all that was left of the HGV, such was the force of the | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
impact with the Carters Lane bridge near Quinton. The driver, a 59- | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
year-old man from Cheshire, had been heading northbound on the M5 | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
shortly before 2am this morning. He was killed instantly. People living | :07:56. | :08:05. | |
nearby reported hearing loud explosions. As we rushed out of our | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
house, the lorry was engulfed in flames and there was a series of | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
three or four explosions. It was quite terrifying. Police closed the | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
motorway completely between Junctions 3 and 4. You can see the | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
fire has completely engulfed the cabin of a lorry. Investigators | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
have been here for more than 12 hours. The accident happened at a | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
time when overhead lights on this stretch of the M5 were turned off, | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
under a scheme to reduce pollution. At this stage, we cannot confirm | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
what happened. But we know a lorry came in contact to -- with the | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
bridge. Police are hoping other motorists will come forward. Late | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
this afternoon, the lorry was taken away for further analysis. | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
Engineers were satisfied that the bridge, despite some external | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
cracks, is structurally safe. The motorway has re-opened for the rush | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
hour but may close for a time overnight, for road resurfacing. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
And police are warning drivers to avoid the M42 tonight close to its | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
junction with the M5, after an accident has shut the northbound | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
carriageway. Trading Standards officers have | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
carried out raids across Birmingham to remove potentially harmful clay | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
tablets from sale. The so-called Sikor tablets are traditionally | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
used by pregnant Asian women as a remedy for cravings. But samples | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
recently bought in Birmingham were found to contain dangerously high | :09:24. | :09:34. | |
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levels of lead. Are we growing less tolerant of the | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
behaviour of youngsters? As the summer holidays start, street | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
wardens in Coventry are handing out leaflets urging adults not to be | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
too quick to judge. They're pointing out that most young people | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
hanging out on street corners aren't looking for trouble and are | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
only doing what their own parents and grandparents did. Here's Kevin | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
Reide. Is this anti-social behaviour or | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
kids just doing what they do? And is it intimidating to others? With | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
six weeks of school holidays ahead, Coventry Council aims to quell any | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
tensions before they begin, and its wardens are spreading the message | :10:04. | :10:13. | |
with these leaflets. It is about tolerance of youths and then need | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
to hang out and be together. leaflet states that 96.5% of young | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
people never get into serious trouble with the police, and it | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
asks older people living in the area to be more tolerant. Young | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
people in large groups can be intimidating. Part of the problem | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
could be that as people get older, they forget what it is like to be | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
young and hang around with your friends and talk. And for the | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
majority of young people, that is all they're doing. It's a tricky | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
message to get across. Willenhall has higher-than-average social | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
depravation and high levels of unemployment. There's not a lot for | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
young people to do, and with nearly �500,000 in cuts to Coventry | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
Council's youth service provision, there're fears there'll be even | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
less. We are going to use this Dickie Dodds and I want you to put | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
the dot where you live. But this Junior Rangers scheme has just been | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
launched, and aims to get children and teenagers interested in where | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
they live. It encourages people to explore and use the green space on | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
their doorstep and brings lots of people from across the community | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
together. It also means some pride of ownership for those green spaces, | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
which will be beneficial in the long run. It is great because it | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
get you out of the house and you get to do things like walking | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
through the forest. You get to see places you might not have seen | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
before. It gets the kids learning about their environment and getting | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
involved. And doing things and sharing experiences with other | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
people. It's one of a number of schemes in the area aimed at | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
tackling anti-social behaviour. The holidays are just beginning in | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
Coventry, and it's hoped there'll be just enough for youngsters to do | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
to keep them on the right side of the law. | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
And Kevin joins us now from Willenhall in Coventry. Over to you, | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
Kevin. I am now joined by a Sylvia Lanigan, who is chair of the | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Willenhall Community Forum and also lives in the area. You have seen | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
the cuts coming. Can you sustain the level of activities? It is | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
difficult because a lot of the activities we put on a short-term | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
funded and you have got activities for the children and then you run | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
out of money and they take them away. So there is no continuity. | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
The children behind me have just finished a bike project, but when | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
the money runs out, how will we keep it going? You have been | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
unemployed up until recently, haven't you? How difficult is it to | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
keep children occupied? It is difficult but it is not impossible. | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
It does not have to be the theme parks. They can ride their bikes | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
and there of projects like this now. It gets them out of the house and | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
off the computers. So there's a lot of things you can do. So the | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
message here is if the community pulls together and keeps to these | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
schemes and keeps them running, and anti-social behaviour is not | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
necessarily a problem. They look like models citizens to | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
me any way! Have you been affected by anti- | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
social behaviour? Are you concerned about the impact of cuts on youth | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
projects? If so, we'd like to hear from you. Get in touch and we could | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
be telling your story later this week. | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
Still to come, high excitement in the world of science as researchers | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
in Birmingham get closer to finding the missing link that's eluded | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
generations of physicists. And from physics to meteorology. | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
I'll be here with the weather forecast, and it's looking pretty | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
good for the next few days, with some cloud, some sunshine, and | :13:44. | :13:54. | |
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feeling warm as well. Join me for As a boy, Nathan Wood was severely | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
burned by a 25,000 volt overhead train cable. He says it still | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
affects him today. As the school holidays begin, Nathan has been | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
talking about his ordeal in the hope of stopping other youngsters | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
from risking their lives. Bob Hockenhull reports. | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
This railway bridge will haunt Nathan Wood from Tamworth forever. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
As a 12-year-old, Nathan suffered a severe electric shock. He was | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
playing a game throwing a discarded electric wire, when it hit an | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
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overhead cable. I tell you something, it was like hell. I was | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
screaming. The pain was unbearable. I thought I was going to dive. I | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
broke a lot of heart and upset a lot of people. For what I thought | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
was fun. It was not worth it. meant a year off school for Nathan. | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
Now 25 and a father of two, he's still suffering the consequences. | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
suffer in the cold. I have got to be careful in the sun because of | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
the skin grafts, which mean I could get cancer. This CCTV footage shows | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
many children still have a blatant disregard for safety, though. | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
Network Rail's saved it -- concern is that it is still a problem with | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
children. Nearly two-thirds of parents have not told their | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
children about the dangers of railway lines and four intended not | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
realise that overhead cables power of the trains. Deaths from | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
accidents on railway lines fell nationally last year to 27, | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
compared with 49 the year before. But Network Rail says trespassing | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
is still a major problem, particularly in school holidays. | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
With 25,000 volts going through the overhead wires, if you touch that, | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
the likelihood is, you are going to die. Nathan is extremely lucky he | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
didn't. It is not worth it. If I could turn back time, I would. | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
Nathan says the scars and the consequences of one moment of folly | :15:54. | :16:03. | |
will be with him forever. My goodness. What telegraphic | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
message. A message from a man who knows what he is talking about. | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
The world of physics is swirling with talk that the mysterious | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
"Higgs Boson" has been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
Geneva. So what is the curiously named Higgs Boson? Well, it's often | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
called the God particle. It's far smaller than an atom and has so far | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
remained undetected. Birmingham University scientists have been | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
playing a key role in the research. Here's our science correspondent, | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
David Gregory. We visited the Large Hadron | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
Collider back in 2007 to see some what Birmingham researchers were | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
doing. Since then, it's been smashing together protons and | :16:42. | :16:50. | |
looking at what's produced. Top of the watch list, the mysterious | :16:50. | :17:00. | |
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Higgs Boson. So have they found it? Actually, only just last week, I | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
was away, and there have been rumours going around, but everybody | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
has been rather tight lipped. rumours can be traced back to the | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
leak of this internal memo, which appeared to suggest the Higgs Boson | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
might have been found. If true, it would mean that our theoretical | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
models of how the universe works are actually correct, as Professor | :17:20. | :17:30. | |
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Brian Cox tweeted. Has it been found? We are not yet in a position | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
to say it has been discovered. But if there is a Higgs Boson and it | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
has a mass that we are expecting, it would look like what we are | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
seeing at the moment. What's needed now is more data. Ten times as much. | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
Taking us into 2012. And of course there's a chance this effect might | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
just be a blip, not a Boson. around the end of 2012, if it is | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
there, we will either say, there's the Higgs Boson and this is its | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
mass, or we will be able to say it doesn't exist and we need a new | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
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theory. It is going to be a tense few months for particle physics. | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
David, for a poor science imbecilic me, can you explain it? Well, | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
scientists have a model of the universe and the different parts | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
that are needed to make it work. You have the model and the | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
experiment, and if you put them together, you understand what makes | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
the universe tick. That is pretty good. What benefit will this mean | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
for us? Well, the concern is that it cost billions of pounds. But | :18:43. | :18:51. | |
when they were working out how to move the data around, they | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
developed the internet and how we use it. That is a pretty good spin- | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
off. The electron was discovered around 100 years ago. At the time, | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
it was really esoteric, but now it is vital to modern life. So it | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
could be that in 50 years, it develops something essential. | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
you, David. Now on to something we all understand - golf. | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
Lauren Taylor made golfing history last month. The 16-year-old became | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
the youngest to win the British Women's Amateur Golf Championship. | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
Now Lauren faces an even bigger challenge. She's up against many of | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
the world's finest golfers, professionals in other words, at | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
the British Women's Open in Scotland. Ian Winter reports. | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
What an opportunity. A rare chance to caddy for a British golf | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
champion. You've got a bit of water in the bottom here that you've got | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
to watch. What do you reckon? Normally, Lauren Taylor's dad | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
carries her bag at big tournaments. But he was at work, so I stepped in | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
on the first tee, at Stratford Oaks Golf Club. Perfect. All part of | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
Lauren's normal routine, of course. But a big relief for her rookie | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
assistant. And as we walked, we talked about her dedication to golf | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
and the sacrifices required to reach the very top. People are | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
saying, you should be going out with your friends all the time, but | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
I can go out with my friends when I am older and world number one. | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
month, Lauren made golf history, as the youngest player ever to become | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Women's British Amateur Champion aged only 16. As a kid, she was | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
talented at football and tennis. But once golf became her passion at | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
11, she's never looked back. And now you off to the Open? Yes, it is | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
going to be one of the best experiences of my life. If you do | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
well, you do well, I guess, but I am just going to have fun and see | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
what happens. Lauren's certainly not over-awed by facing the world's | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
finest players this week. And no wonder, if she delivers shots like | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
this. A couple of weeks ago, she watched Tom Lewis win the silver | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
medal as the best amateur player at the Open Championship. Lauren would | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
love to do the same at the Women's Open. But her coach believes she's | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
so talented, the sky's the limit. You either go to make the numbers | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
up or to win, and if she wants to be the best in the world she has to | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
compete against those girls. But she just has that little bit extra. | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
I've never known a girl with such drive and determination to achieve. | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
She can go to number one in the world, without question. Any time | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
soon, without any help from me, I reckon Lauren Taylor will face a | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
long putt like this to win a major title. And when it drops, this 16- | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
year-old from Rugby will achieve her goal to join the best women | :21:35. | :21:45. | |
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golfers in the world. I get the feeling she will not need | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
much luck. And looking further ahead in the | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
sporting calendar, tomorrow marks a year to the start off London 2012 | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
and the prospects for next year's Olympics is therein memories for | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
our only surviving medallist from the London Games. Tommy Godwin, who | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
is 90, won two cycling gold medals. They were known as the austerity | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
Games, coming so soon after the Second World War. Our reporter has | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
been to meet Tommy, to reflect on the Olympic Games coming back to | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
Britain. I have been to the site on a number | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
of occasions and the development. It is out of this world. It must be | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
the finest bowler Drome in the world, the one built. The first one | :22:34. | :22:43. | |
was built in the 1,800s. Now, perfection. Where ours was so | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
amateur and antiquated. Coming into the last lap, and Tommy Godwin, | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
number seven, has raised print left in the bag. Here it comes and it | :22:54. | :23:02. | |
wins him the race. -- has a sprint. You have run recently, haven't you? | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
Yes, and I quite enjoyed it. It was nice to be invited along to take my | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
bike down. They told me off because they thought I was only going to do | :23:13. | :23:21. | |
one lap. But then I was told, you have got a bit of the old fireback! | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
The whole thing now is wonderful to me, because I have been living on | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
my own having lost my wife in January, and it is filling up a big | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
gap in my life. My wife was so much part of my career, and the | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
sacrifices and the dedication she gave to me. Going back to 1948, | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
that was a real celebration after the horrors of war? Indeed so. When | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
you think that in 1948, we were still on rations. The track was | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
resurfaced and the running track was only laid down at White City a | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
couple of weeks before. The hurdles and that sort of thing were brought | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
in later and then we were supposed to be getting food parcels. I won | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
in May and that was supposed to have put me through July and August. | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
What are your memories of the moment she won your medals? | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
Tremendous, because I thought we had not had enough training but | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
they picked four of us about two weeks before and told us we were in | :24:29. | :24:37. | |
the Games. Five of us had only ridden once before. If we had had a | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
few months more training together, we would obviously have been in a | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
higher position. But it was so basic and amateurish. You have won | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
lots and lots of prizes in your time, but I should think those two | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
Olympic medals a very special? so much so that I had said and | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
stated categorically that they mean more to me every year of my life. | :25:02. | :25:10. | |
To win an Olympic medal at the age of 27, go to my father, a hard man, | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
a hard man who had worked all his life, and he broke down in tears. | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
Something special. It is lovely to talk to you. Thank you. | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
Full of emotion. So poignant. A lovely chap as well. There will be | :25:30. | :25:38. | |
more from Tommy on the series inside out in the autumn. And we | :25:38. | :25:47. | |
will be looking at preparations for It hasn't always been spectacularly | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
sunny, but it has been dry and warm, and that is how which continues | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
through this week. Some sunshine around at times. The reason for the | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
set of conditions is this high- pressure sitting down here to the | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
south-west, trying to exert its influence. It is doing a pretty | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
good job, keeping this rain at bay. We will keep some big lumps of | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
cloud floating around through tonight. Some clear spells, | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
particularly in the rest of the region. Temperatures will be down | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
to 11 or 13 degrees. Tomorrow, we will start off quite cloudy through | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
the eastern half of the region. Further west, a fair bit of | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
sunshine, but through the day, things will even out. So where it | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
started sunny, we will see more cloud, and where it stars sunny, we | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
will see cloud increasing. It will remain sunny, with temperatures up | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
to 24 degrees down in Hereford. Some bits of sunshine here and | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
there to end the day tomorrow, and that takes us into Thursday, which | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
will bring us a fair amount of sunshine again. Perhaps more than | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
we have seen in the last couple of days. The eagle eyed amongst you | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
might have noticed a few dribbles of rain out to the West, and that | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
is going to move across us for Thursday night. Once that clears | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
through, by Friday and Saturday, it turns dry again. Not looking too | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
bad. Before we leave you, and a cut the | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
main headlines. The UK economy slows down and officials blame the | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
warm weather, the Royal Wedding and the Japanese tsunami. | :27:29. | :27:33. |