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Hello and welcome. The headlines: wind out of the region's four bids | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
for Finn is selected by the government. Our first goal is by | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
2015 per grit needed 2000 jobs. Unemployment is down, but youth | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
unemployment is still high. What hope for young people? It is scary, | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
really. Because it is just so hard to get a job. After a scathing | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
report into care there, a residential hospital treating | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
disabled and mentally ill patient is to be shut down. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
And after the riots, shops and restaurants report a big dip in | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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trade. One business saver lost 80% Good evening. Tonight, mixed | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
fortunes for our region has the government names as series of new | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
enterprise zones, with the aim of creating thousands of jobs. | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
Hereford has been chosen as one of 11 new locations across England, | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
but applications from Stoke-on- Trent, Coventry and could Mr have | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
been rejected. -- Kidderminster. Local government secretary Acol | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
Pickles defended the decision, saying and neighbouring zone in the | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
Black Country would have benefits for Stoke. | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
One winner, three losers, on a day of mixed economic fortunes across | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
the West Midlands. This will be the site of the region's only new | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Enterprise Zone, on the outskirts of the Rotherwas industrial estate | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
in Hereford. A huge pile of rubble will be used for the Pat -- | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
foundation of the new Business Park. Those behind the bid are predicting | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
about 2000 new jobs by printed 15. We said this would be the biggest | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
opportunity for her picture since the Second World War, will mean | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
that. At the end of the completion, we could have 6000 jobs. This is | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
wonderful news, it is what we have been looking for, because we have | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
an ambition in this county to raise the average salary and wage from | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
19,000 to 25,000, and this is the first step in that aim. So what are | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
the actual benefits of being in a Finn? For a start, there are lower | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
taxes, less regulation for planning regulations, and super-fast | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
broadband. No such benefits for today despite losing bidders, among | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
them, Kidderminster and Coventry, where the Enterprise Zone would | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
have been based around the airport. We're disappointed, we put forward | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
an excellent proposal, creation of up to 14,000 jobs, solutions to a | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
serious high weight problem. Stoke-on-Trent, hopes had been | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
raised when David Cameron gave his answer to one of the City's MPs | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
earlier this month. I will certainly ask the Chancellor to | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
look if it will be in the next lot, because we want to help the | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
communities she represents. today, and at the news that this | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
site in the valley will stay empty. I was astonished when I heard the | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
news, not long ago we had the Prime Minister here, promised in that we | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
would get an Enterprise Zone, and this announcement has sneaked out | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
that we haven't got it, it is just incredible. It is really | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
disappointing. Particularly disappointing given previous | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
comment from the current government about how they might support the | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
North Staffordshire area. Overall, from today's announcements, mixed | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
emotions. Hereford alone with cause to celebrate. The losing bidders | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
can only contemplate what might have been. | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
Our political editor joins us now. Let's start with what really is a | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
disappointment in Coventry, Stoke- on-Trent and Kidderminster. All | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
places that have had to jobs problems and could have done with a | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
lift. That is the thing with beauty contests, you get more losers than | :04:26. | :04:34. | |
winners. The government says these stones are particularly targeted. - | :04:34. | :04:44. | |
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- these zones. That of course, doesn't convince many Labour MPs. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
Joan Whalley says that the government had braved this along | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
party-political considerations, which has brought a typically | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
forthright response from the minister in charge of this. That is | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
utterly ridiculous. We are putting these into Labour areas, Lib-Dem | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
areas, Conservative areas, areas I have not got the remotest idea who | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
controls. This is about regeneration. I think that, it says | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
more about the people who says it then government policy. Success by | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
Herod did come as we have been talking about, but they have their | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
critics, haven't they? -- successor for Hereford. The government have | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
been accused of recycling old idea which date back to the 1980s. The | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
shopping centre in the Black Country started off as an | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
Enterprise Zone, under Michael Heseltine. Apart from creating new | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
jobs come but they are accused of destroying jobs, because if you | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
look at the other high streets around the Black Country but have | :05:52. | :06:01. | |
struggled since the shopping centre was built, to compete. Thank you. | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
Unemployment may be up nationally, but here it is falling faster than | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
anywhere else in the country. Figures out today show the jobless | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
total for the region fell by 30,000 over the last quarter, down by 1%, | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
despite this drop, unemployment of regionally is still running at 8.5%, | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
higher than the national average. There are a total of 224,000 people | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
out of work. The level of unemployment among | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
young people in particular remains stubbornly high. | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
Learning skills to help them in the future. These young people have | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
taken advantage of opportunities at a charity in Redditch. There are | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
200 of these in Redditch alone, meaning not in education, | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
employment or training. We have yet people up against graduates to have | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
left university, all the people who have been made redundant, they are | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
going for vacancies, it is virtually making it him possible | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
for our 16 and 17-year-olds. These teenagers are due to start college | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
courses in September, but worry about the future. I have tried | :07:14. | :07:23. | |
handing out about 30 C V s back, and it is scary, really. Tim Lowe | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
is one of the lucky ones, he is due to start a motorsport course at | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Silverstone, with the ambition of becoming a mechanic at a Formula | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
One. He also spent his summer at this centre, learning to cook, as | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
well as confidence and team building skills. More engineers are | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
needed than before, so that is sort of wire went into that line. It he | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
is right about engineering. This charity has been training | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
apprentice engineers since 1969, and has seen the number of | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
vacancies trouble since last year. Its centre in Coventry wasn't big | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
enough to cope with demand, so it is building another in a Quidditch. | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
A 5th of yen people in the West Midlands are unemployed here, let | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
his 83,000 of them. This training charity which supplies ingenious to | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
charities is struggling to fill 24 vacancies locally. We are | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
representing a part of industry which is working pretty well. | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Undoubtedly there are wide range of industries and sectors that are not | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
performing as well as engineering. Sertec in coal still makes | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
components for the automotive industry. Becky has joined the firm | :08:38. | :08:46. | |
as an apprentice. Obviously, not been in as much debt as going to | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
university. Becky has worked with us on the job and has gained | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
experience. Had graduate that came straight out of university, | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
although they have the qualification, they wouldn't have | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
the practical experience to back that up. So a bright future in | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
engineering, but a challenging time in many other areas the young | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
people in the West Midlands. Now, hospital which cares for | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
adults with learning abilities and mental-health problems is to close | :09:20. | :09:30. | |
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next Wednesday. For hospital is run Arden Vale, a purpose-built 25 bed | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
hospital, opened in Meriden near Coventry five years ago. The | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
hospital looks after adults with challenging behaviour, but last | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
month it was revealed it was under police investigation, and staff had | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
been suspended. A review carried out by the Care Quality Commission | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
found that people at the Arden Vale were not protected from physical or | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
emotional harm to stop the management of medicines was unsafe, | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
and does raising concerns were not respected. We have to make sure | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
that residents are looked after and the standards of patient care or | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
off Alternate important. It is a sad day, but it shows us this | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
should not happen again in the future. For hospital is run by a | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
castle back, the company has agreed voluntarily to close it after | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
concerns were raised. Castlebeck also run at this hospital, which | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
was filmed by Panorama. Alternative arrangements are being made for the | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
19 people still being cared for at Arden Vale. | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
In a statement, Castlebeck chief executive said, we will be working | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
with the people in our care, as well as families and care managers, | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
to ensure there is minimum disruption. Joining us now is | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Andrea Gordon from the Care Quality Commission. What was it that was | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
going on at Arden Vale which meant you wanted to see it shut? | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
carried out a number of visits in June, and identified issues with | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
inappropriate restraint used, inadequate staffing, staff working | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
odd patterns of hours, medicine management issues, and we made a | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
decision that we would take enforcement action against Arden | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
Vale. Over the last week, people have been working with the Primary | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
Care Trust, they went into Arden Vale and said there were still | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
serious issues around management of medicines. You were taking legal | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
action. Why did this... A why it is this understanding about what has | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
been happening at some of these Castlebeck homes only happening | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
after the Panorama programme? we register at all adult social | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
care providers, so we made an assessment on Arden Vale at that | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
time. There were no problems brought to our attention, it was | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
only in May this year where issues were brought to our attention. | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
does say something about checking procedure, you didn't know what was | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
going on. But we are not in and out of place is all the time, we are | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
reliant on other people sharing information with us. Is there any | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
chance of criminal proceedings? couldn't comment at this stage. We | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
worked closely with the provider, and how partners, the Primary Care | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
Trust, and the police, around this The National Deaf Children's | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
Society says it will take Stoke-on- Trent City Council to court over | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
cuts to educational support. The society says the council is in | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
breach of the law by failing to assess the impact the cuts will | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
have on deaf children. If the cuts are made, there will be just three | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
specialist teachers for the 200 deaf children in the city. | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
Network Rail and a signalman have been ordered to appear in court | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
after a woman was killed on a railway crossing. Jane Harding died | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
last year when her car was hit by a train at a level crossing at | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
Moreton-on-Lugg in Herefordshire. The company and signalman are due | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court in October. | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
You are with Midlands Today. Still ahead, Shefali is here with an in- | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
depth forecast. With rain to come, will it be | :13:36. | :13:46. | |
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drizzle or a downpour? Join me later and find out. | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
Birmingham's biggest shopping centre has reported a huge dip in | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
trade because of last week's riots. Bullring say retailers there have | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
lost up to 50% in takings with official footfall down by 35%. | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
Other businesses say they are struggling to cope with lower than | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
usual cash flow. It was a frenzy of looting caught | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
on the shop's own camera. Some of the teenagers stole just sweets and | :14:13. | :14:22. | |
chocolates. One was just ten-years- old. I really feel sorry for him. | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
This is the sort of training he is getting at that age. I do not know | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
what will happen when he grows up. But what is going to happen in the | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
short term to the family run business he attacked? The cash flow | :14:36. | :14:45. | |
has really gone down because we had low sales and also the stocks have | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
been stolen. It has all gone. big names in the Bullring suffered | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
too albeit indirectly. Our tenant had been telling us that sales are | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
anywhere between 30% and 50% down on last week. At Edmunds in | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
Brindley Place, the Good Food Guide's Midlands restaurant of the | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
year, things are finally picking up. Takings have dropped 80%. There is | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
that fear factor still within Birmingham. People are fawning up | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
to ask if it is safe. -- phoning up. We are just trying to reassure | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
people. The fear factor is still playing a part in Wolverhampton, | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
too. The owners of this antiques shop had their grade two listed | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
window frame put through. And have weeks to wait for a replacement. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
But almost as bad, they say, is the quiet. I was disappointed more | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
people didn't come to show their support. They did not have to buy | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
things, but shh -- just to show support for the town centre. Around | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
the corner, this mobile phone shop estimates �50,000 worth of damage | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
and lost stock. And the owners couldn't afford insurance. Just | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
over 500 people have now been arrested in connection with the | :15:53. | :16:01. | |
riots. Every day, the number being charge rises. Today, the total | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
stands at 139. Police say the response from the public in | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
identifying the perpetrators has been very positive. And still more | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
faces emerging that police hope you can help identify. | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
A week ago, a corner of Birmingham was propelled into the national | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
headlines, Winson Green. It was of course where three men were killed | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
after being run down by a car as they tried to protect their | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
businesses from looters during the riots. So, how has the community | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
reacted and what is the way forward for them now? Our reporter has been | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
assessing the mood. Three miles out of Birmingham City | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
Centre, in northwest Birmingham, this is Winson Green. Now known for | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
this expanding shrine for 21-year- old Haroon Jahan and brothers | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir. They were all hit by a car last | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
Wednesday as they guarded a row of shops during riots. Black and Asian | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
people make up 66% of the population here. Businesses are | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
owned by them and cater for them. It is an area that was already | :17:01. | :17:09. | |
being hit by the economic downturn and now this tragedy. Their | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
customers are frightened of coming into the area because there is so | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
much publicity. They are worried things will not be safe for them to | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
come here. All businesses are suffering here. Pinnu Khan has been | :17:24. | :17:34. | |
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running his shop for 35 years. Many have stayed away in the last week. | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
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It is a different story. We did not get any problems at all. Down the | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
road at the barbers, an air of disbelief still lingers. We are | :17:57. | :18:06. | |
peaceful community. This negative attention does not help us at all. | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
Sentiments echoed by traders up and down Dudley Road. At the moment, it | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
is quiet and subdued. There are rumours going about about various | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
things. But this is a good community and we are fighting back. | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
But some shoppers are remaining defiant. We have lived here for | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
five years. We mix with everybody, no matter what colour. It is a good | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
community. This is sad. It will be hard for new people coming into the | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
area are. People don't want to be in an area or Cobra they think it | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
is not says. There are independent shops here which rely upon shoppers. | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
Many of them have kept away this week. Businesses here have been | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
telling me the hope that the shoppers will return. For them, | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
testament to the way the whole of the community has come together, in | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
grief and in peace. Meanwhile, the funerals of Shazad | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
Ali, Abdul Musavir and Haroon Jahan are expected to be held tomorrow. | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
It follows a decision to allow their bodies to be released. We can | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
go over to our reporter who is in Winson Green. What can you tell us | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
about the arrangements? Well, I understand the bodies have | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
been held by the coroner up until now, so that the police could carry | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
out their forensic investigations. They are now satisfied with those | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
investigations and have released the bodies to the families, so the | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
funerals can go ahead late tomorrow afternoon. At 2pm, in Summerfield | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
Park, there will be a special ceremony for the three men and all | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
members of the community and all face had been invited by their | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
families. The funerals themselves will take place at Handsworth | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
cemetery. They will be private. What is the latest on the police | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
investigation? One man is being held by police at | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
the moment. They have up until 10pm this evening to release them are | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
charged him. Three other people have also been charged with the | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
murders of these three men. They are 117 year-old youth and two men | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
in their twenties. -- a 17-year-old youth. | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
Onto football and it was a miserable night for our teams with | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
not a single winner in the Championship, League One or League | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
Two. But that won't worry Birmingham City who are preparing | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
for a European adventure instead. Flying out for their first match in | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
a major European competition for 50 years. Birmingham City may have | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
ended last season on a relegation low but they are still enjoying the | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
benefits of the high point. Qualifying for the Europa League by | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
winning the Carling Cup. First destination, the Portuguese island | :21:00. | :21:09. | |
of Madeira to play Nacional. Geeky these teams have earned their way | :21:09. | :21:19. | |
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into the competition. They are of a good quality. -- these teams. We | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
must play our best. We do not want to be chasing the ball all night, | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
especially the way that the Portuguese play for at all. I think | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
we will win. It will be tight. 1-0, hopefully. And they were happy to | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
leave behind the rigours of the Championship where, ten days into | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
the season, teams are already the season, teams are already | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
playing their third league game. It has been a miserable start for | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
Coventry City, but their fans still made the trip to Crystal Palace and | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
had their hopes lifted by a goal from Lukas Jutkiewicz. But it was | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
to end in last minute heartbreak as Palace scored twice in stoppage | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
time to condemn the Sky Blues to their third straight defeat. In | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
fact, it was a miserable night all round. Walsall seemed to be on | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
course for an impressive away win at Sheffield United when they led | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
2-0 early in the second half, through Kevan Hurst and Will Grigg. | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
But the home team fought back and won it with a late penalty. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Hereford United have suffered a shocking start to the season. Three | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
league games, three defeats, no goals scored, eight conceded, four | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
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of them in a second half collapse at home to Morecambe last night. -- | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
Macclesfield. It was certainly a night to forget for assistant | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
manager Russell Hoult, called up in goal because of injuries. In fact, | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
the only teams who even managed a point were Burton Albion and Port | :22:34. | :22:43. | |
Vale who cancelled each other out And if you want to follow | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
Birmingham City or Stoke City in the Europa League, you can hear | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
full commentary on BBC WM and BBC Radio Stoke. | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
How far would you go to achieve a burning ambition? One teenager from | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
Stone in Staffordshire moved away from home at 16 to concentrate full | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
time on his goal. Now, at 19, he is deferring university and he is on | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
the move again to London. He has set his sights on winning the only | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
place left on the GB Canoe team for 2012. If you ever wondered how much | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
sheer determination it needs to chase an Olympic Dream, our | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
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I liked the feeling of being strong when I am fighting against the | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
water. I started the sport when I was 10 years old. My school had a | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
link with the local canoeing club. I was one of the lucky ones that | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
managed to start here. My biggest achievements have been winning a | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
gold medal in the Junior World Championships three times. This | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
year, I won silver at the European Championships. Now I want to win | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
some individual medals. My family have been very supportive. They | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
have had to drive me around the country. They come abroad to what | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
to me as well. We are very proud of them and we follow all of his | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
competitions. We really hope he does well and makes it to the | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
Olympics. Canoeing takes up most of my life, really. I am always | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
thinking about it. I am kind of obsessed. When I first started, I | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
was coached by local coaches who are volunteers. Now I am on the | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
Olympic development programme. I study sports science and management | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
at Nottingham Trent University. I have chosen to do my second year of | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
a two years and then I am moving to London and will be training full- | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
time up until the Games. There is on the one place available in each | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
category for the Olympics. There will be six people at the top | :25:02. | :25:11. | |
fighting it out. The Olympics, for every athlete, is the biggest | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
competition in the world. Everybody wants an Olympic gold. I would give | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
anything to compete in the Olympics. Call for it! We are all rooting for | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
Call for it! We are all rooting for him, not just his grandfather. | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
Over the next few days, perhaps the most notable event will be | :25:34. | :25:42. | |
tomorrow's rain. There is the potential for some fairly heavy | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
rain, but, then again, some of you may escape with a mere spattering. | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
You can see where the heavier rain in concentrated tomorrow from the | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
darker shades of blue on the map. It is the southeast that is bearing | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
the brunt but it tends to become watered down further North. There | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
is a ridge of high pressure building in on Friday and then the | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
next reference point will be this front that heads in over the | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
weekend but the timing of that may leave the days dry. So, tonight, | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
even though we have rain arriving tomorrow, the cloud will start to | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
melt away leaving much clearer conditions. Some mist on the | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
hilltops and a cooler night with temperatures dropping to ten | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
Celsius in rural parts. But by tomorrow morning the cloud is | :26:25. | :26:35. | |
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beginning to thicken up from the South and rain arrives soon after. | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
The heaviest of the rain will sit in the southeast, while the | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
lightest of the rain falls elsewhere and in the north it may | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
about to hardly anything at all. A cool day ahead as well with | :26:51. | :27:01. | |
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temperatures rising no higher than 16 Celsius. The rain then clears | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
away tomorrow. The cloud breaks up and we all wake up to quite a bit | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
of sunshine on Friday morning. There may be some high to medium | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
level cloud bubbling up through the day but it stays dry and warms up | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
too with highs of 22. Quite warm too with highs of 22. Quite warm | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
over the weekend. A look at tonight's main headlines: | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
After the worst violence in England for decades, the Prime Minister | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
praises the courts for handing out stiff sentences to rioters. | :27:33. | :27:36. |