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In Midlands Today... Out of the violence and destruction - how the | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
riots have brought communities closer together. They felt that he | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
was feeling their pain, and that helped the community a lot. Record | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
GCSE results, but more youngsters are not in education or work. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
want to make sure youngsters leave here with the best possible | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
opportunities. Farmers are urged to be extra vigilant after a spate of | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
bonfires. And the end of the road for a museum which tells the story | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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of life on the buses. Good evening and welcome to Thursday's Midlands | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Today from the BBC. Tonight, a tribute to the three men who died | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
in the Birmingham riots. The brother of two of those who died | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
said he felt honoured that an historic football match between the | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
national teams of India and Pakistan is being dedicated to | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
their memory. It is expected that thousands of supporters will turn | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
out for the game - their first meeting on British soil. All | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
profits will go to a foundation to honour the murdered men. As Sarah | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Falkand reports, it is hoped the match can be held in the city where | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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the men lived and died. Three murdered men, soon to be honoured | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
by thousands of football fans. has touched my heart already. I am | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
going to be very emotional, because they are my brothers. I lost two | :01:45. | :01:54. | |
brothers, but I have to keep strong for my mother and father. The Blue | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
Tigers, India's national football team. Never before have they played | :01:58. | :02:07. | |
the Greenshirts on British soil. a company, we have dedicated this | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
match to their memory, pledging all profits from the match to a | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
foundation, if and when this is set up by the families, or a charity of | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
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their choice. Today, we are witnessing an historical event in | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
the making. A symbol of good well. The match was scheduled for one | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
week on Saturday, but it has been postponed to allow the families to | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
mourn. Both of the families and the television company involved say it | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
would be more appropriate to have the memorial match here in | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
Birmingham, the home of the three dead men. But at the moment the | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
company said it is not in negotiation with either of the two | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
football clubs in the city. Well, since the riots in Birmingham and | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
elsewhere in the region, police have carried out a total of 534 | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
riot-related arrests. Of those, 164 people have so far been charged | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
with crimes relating to the violence and looting - a figure | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
that is certain to rise. But as our correspondent Peter Wilson reports, | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
out of the violence and destruction, some communities are being brought | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
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Standing together, praying together, one man a Muslim the other a Sikh - | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
they're also best friends. Tariq Jahan, a Muslim, has become a | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
symbol of peace since the killing of his son Haroon and the two | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
brothers Shahzad Ali and Abdul Musavir. Their deaths could have | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
sparked yet more violence, but Tariq's words of peace quenched the | :03:38. | :03:48. | |
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thirst for revenge. But he only wants to thank others. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
To my brothers in the Sikh community, thank you, for the | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
amount of support I have had. I probably will not get around to | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
saying thank you to everyone. But anybody who is listening, you have | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
given me a lot of courage and strength, and a thank you from the | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
bottom of my heart. The Sikh and Muslim communities | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
have often mistrusted each other, yet Sikhs now feel closer than ever | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
before to the Muslim community. He speaks from his heart, please, | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
don't do it. If somebody else does it, they will be wrong. It will not | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
be the Government. He has got a good heart, I tell you that. Good | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
heart, man. I have not seen a man like you in my life. | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
During the riots, a Sikh religious channel leapt to prominence. Sangat | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
TV was on everyone's lips. Their lightweight broadcasting equipment | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
based on mobile phone signals meant they were live in the thick of the | :04:45. | :04:55. | |
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action. Sangat TV's car one night gave a police officer a lift so | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
that he could help catch alleged looters. But they are not hard- | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
nosed journalists, and they are working for a channel whose message | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
is one of peace and togetherness. The brothers, they saw that he was | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
crying, and they felt that he was part of them, that he was feeling | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
their pain. I think that helped the community a lot. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
One night, they gave a police officer a lift to help him catch | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
alleged looters. They have got two, three, four guys... | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
The stars of the channel are now mobbed on the streets of Handsworth. | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
The service of mankind is of the true worship of God. If you're not | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
willing to serve mankind, if you're not talking about peace and love | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
and humility, well then, you need to sort yourself out. | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
This month has been not only a month of violence but the month of | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
Ramadan, a time when Muslims fast and pray. Tariq Jahan says just | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
because the time of peace is ending, it is no reason for people to start | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
fearing for the future. It is the month of Ramadan, once | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
this is over, it will be Eid. Everybody will be celebrating. I | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
cannot see my people going and causing any grief or trouble. I | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
would say to my people, if they are listening, brothers, no more. | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
Definitely no more. Tariq's daughter has been comforted | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
by the fact that her brother died during Ramadan, seen as a blessing | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
to the faithful. The Muslim who dies in this month | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
will walk straight into paradise. This book was given to my father by | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
someone in the crowd who came to pay respects. My brother, my mum, | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
my dad, we need to have time to ourselves. Me and my dad are trying | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
to be the rocks of the family. Out of so much pain, a lot of good | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
appears to have emerged, and the silent majority have made | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
themselves heard.But their much- anticipated match will now be in be | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
in memory of three Birmingham men. And Peter is in the studio with us | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
now. Peter, Tariq Jahan speaks very powerfully for peace. As a Muslim, | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
he seems to have such an affinity with the Sikh religion - why is | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
that? He is a Ferdy learned man. He was | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
brought up in Slough and his family home was actually opposite a Sikh | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
temple. He used to go in there and eat food, but he would also sit and | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
listen to the prayers and the teachings, and he picked up a lot | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
about the Sikh religion. Do you think there are still tensions on | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
the streets? The police are still investigating, and it could go on | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
for months or years. Their message tonight to the looters is that | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
they're coming after them, however long it takes. But at the same time, | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
Tariq Jahan said to me that he was very grateful to both the black and | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
white communities. But I am getting calls from the black community, | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
saying, we are often treated as troublemakers, but we were keeping | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
our kids at home. We are fearful about our children's safety, and we | :08:07. | :08:16. | |
do not want them to be depicted as troublemakers. | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Still to come tonight... The return of the humble sheep - how they're | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
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helping the Malvern Hills look While 16-year-olds were celebrating | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
improved GCSE results today, they may be masking the scale of the | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
problem of young people finding work. 650,000 pupils have been | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
getting their GCSE results. Pass rates are up for 23rd year running. | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
But new figures show that so-called NEETs - that's young people not in | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
education, employment or training - are up by 12,000 in a year in the | :08:50. | :08:59. | |
region, to 117,000. Ben Sidwell has been looking at today's GCSE | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
results and at the prospects for 16-year-olds entering a tough jobs | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
Collecting their GCSE results at Nicholas Chamberlaine Technology | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
College in Bedworth. For many of these pupils, it seems they have no | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
option but to stay on in education. With high levels of youth | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
unemployment, finding a job at 16 is very tough. Currently here in | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
the Midlands there are over 125,000 young people not in education, | :09:22. | :09:31. | |
employment or training. The we try to make sure that the | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
children leave here with the doors open, with the most pathways open | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
to them. But the economic situation is not good, it is difficult and it | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
is more challenging than it has been in the past. I got nine A*s | :09:46. | :09:56. | |
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overall. I got what I needed, so I'm happy. I'm just over the moon. | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
For many, this is the biggest day in their school lives. Most have | :10:02. | :10:12. | |
got the results they need. But what about those that haven't? Many of | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
the pupils in Bedworth are relying on their grades to get into | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
colleges. For those who haven't done as well as hoped, they face a | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
worrying few weeks. I feel like I have done all right | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
but I did not do as well as I wanted to do. For now I will have | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
to do some of them again at the college. There will be that small | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
minority that have not got the grades they want, or do not want to | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
go into education, they just want to find a job. There are | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
opportunities out there, there are apprenticeships and jobs, and we | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
are here to help them. At Lyng Hall Specialist Sports | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
College and Community School in Coventry, it's a similar story. All | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
but a handful are staying on in education - a decision that could | :10:57. | :11:06. | |
benefit them greatly in later life, according the the head teacher. | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
My experience is that pupils who leave school now at 16, with just | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
GCSEs, suffer a significant disadvantage in terms of getting | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
work which leads to a meaningful career. | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
Two people who are defiantly staying in education are Alexandra | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
and Rebecca Morton, from Harborne in Birmingham. The twin sisters, | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
who go to school at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Edgbaston, | :11:26. | :11:36. | |
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both got 11 A*s in their GCSEs. Just shock and excitement. Yes, | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
we're just really happy. Both in Bedworth and Coventry, it's | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
the best GCSE results the schools have ever had, giving these pupils | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
a good start on their career path. What the future holds is now down | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
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The specialist retailer Floors 2 Go has gone into administration for | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
the second time in three years. 200 jobs are at risk with the closure | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
of 53 stores, but another 35 have been sold, saving a further 162 | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
jobs. The company, which has its head office in Birmingham, is the | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
UK's biggest wood flooring specialist. Managers at Birmingham | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
airport say plans to restore passenger flights to Coventry could | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
damage the region's air industry, rather than supporting its | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
expansion. Proposals are now in place for a runway extension at | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
Birmingham so the airport can offer longhaul flights to places like | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
India and China. But chief executive Paul Kehoe says if the | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
business has to deal with more competition in the shorthaul market, | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
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its already-tight profit margins Five people have been injured after | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
scaffolding collapsed this afternoon at a Shropshire school. | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
It happened at the Abraham Darby Academy in Madeley near Telford at | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
around 4.30pm. Some of the injured were taken to hospital by air | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
ambulance. There's steal some noises coming | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
from the building at the moment, employing that it might be moving | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
still. A lot of people heard a loud crash and came out to find that the | :13:12. | :13:20. | |
roof part was peeling away from the building and is hanging on on a | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
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Emergency teams have been dealing with a spate of barn fires. In | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Staffordshire alone, crews have spent more than 80 hours in the | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
last month putting out fires on farms. Investigators believe | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
arsonists are responsible in many cases. They are warning farmers to | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
be extra vigilant. Here's our Staffordshire reporter, Liz Copper. | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
On this farm at Betley in North Staffordshire, barns were burned to | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
the ground last month. Arsonists were responsible for setting alight | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
800 large bails of hay. It is heartbreaking, in four hours, | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
you see the season's work reduced to a total mess. It is a lifetime's | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
work, putting these sheds up with my brother and my family, building | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
the farm up. It is just absolutely... It knocks your feet | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
from under you. It's not just in Staffordshire | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
where there has been a problem. This is the scene of a fire which | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
broke out yesterday near Dunley in north Worcestershire. Ten fire | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
engines were needed to bring the flames under control. Crews are | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
still there tonight. It can take hours, even days, to put these | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
fires out. They burn so rapidly. And that's because hay being stored | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
can ignite quickly - and smoulder slowly. | :14:43. | :14:52. | |
It is difficult to put it out, because sometimes, the bails of hay | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
are tightly stacked. The building's are liable to collapse as well. And | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
obviously you have got the surrounding buildings to protect as | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
well, and also machinery and equipment. | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
Dealing with these attacks is costly - not just for farmers, but | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
also for the fire service. They warn that arsonists are putting | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
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Still to come... A big European night for Birmingham City. They've | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
been waiting 50 years for this moment. Can Blues make dreams come | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
true for 28,000 fans? It's calmer now but will it remain this way for | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
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the bank holiday weekend? Join me A museum is to close after failing | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
to buy its premises from Birmingham City Council. Aston Manor Road | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
Transport Museum couldn't agree on a price for the Victorian tram shed | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
which houses the museum. Our reporter Jackie Kabler is there now | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
- Jackie, a sad day for all concerned there? | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
It is sad. This is one of the beauty restored vehicles they have | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
got here. This is a 1963 Coventry Daimler boss, one of the lovely old | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
fashioned ones, with a platform at the back where the conductor used | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
to stand. The museum gets 10,000 visitors a year, and it used to be | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
subsidised by the council, until two years ago, when it had to start | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
paying �43,000 a year rent. Negotiations began with the council | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
to buy the building. Neither side could agree on exactly how much the | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
building was what, and we have now got to the point where it looks | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
like it is going to have to close. I'm joined by the chairman. It is | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
really sad, but it just became not financially viable... | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
The demands from the city for a commercial level of rent are | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
unaffordable. They were in 1990, and they are today. This is why we | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
have had the agreement up until now. We estimate that each visitor would | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
need to pay �8 a head to meet the current is the city's aspirations. | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
�8 a head, when the rest of the city's museums are free. | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
council says it is very sad that he it has come to this. One councillor | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
said, despite giving the trustees every chance to come up with a | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
sustainable plan, they have not been able to do it. What will | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
happen now? What do you want to happen? We certainly do not want to | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
close. We would like to think that the city will reconsider their | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
position, take account of the heritage, the community value and | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
so on, all the things which are not perhaps accountable in pound notes. | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
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But please consider that and keep Now they're two clubs with very | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
little experience of European football, but that's all changing | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
this season. In a moment we will be at Stoke City, but first, Nick | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
Clitheroe is at Birmingham City, where they're expecting a full | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
house. I should think the Up nicely, Nick? | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
Absolutely, the Europa League may not have quite the glamour of the | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
Champions League, but for Birmingham City fans, this is a | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
very special occasion. You have got to go back to 1963 for the last | :18:14. | :18:24. | |
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time they were in European competition. They've been waiting | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
half a century, but these are the sights and sounds that mean big- | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
time European football is coming to Birmingham City. The Portuguese | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
side Nacional stand between Blues and a place in the group stages of | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
the Europa League. It is difficult, Birmingham is a | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
strong team. It is a typical English team. We work hard, we | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
prepare hard for a typical English game, a more direct game, and | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
physical. I thought we were quite strong over there, even with a | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
slightly makeshift team, we did really well. Hopefully we are | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
coming into the home game with the fans behind us. Hopefully we will | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
get into the group stage. Nacional trained at St Andrews | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
yesterday evening but an empty stadium will be little preparation | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
for what awaits them tonight. Only 77 away fans are making the trip, | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
but cheaper ticket prices have ensured the ground will be a noisy | :19:14. | :19:22. | |
28,000 sell-out. Football people know what an | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
intimidating place St Andrews can be when it is full, but we have got | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
to give them something to cheer about. I would expect a very | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
difficult game, it will be very tough. | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
A goalless draw in the away leg should give Birmingham the upper | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
hand tonight. Would you say Blues are favourites to go through, Nick? | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
I think you have got to say that, after that goalless draw in the | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
first leg. The booze hit the woodwork three times, but of course, | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
they would have liked that away goal. If the visitors were to get a | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
goal tonight, that would put the pressure on Birmingham, but yes, I | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
would make them favourites, as the home team. Assuming they do make it, | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
who could they be facing in the next stage? They could come up the | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
likes -- against the likes of Atletico Madrid, Roma, or Parisse | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
Air Asia man. So it could be a pretty good quality of opposition | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
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A big night in Europe too for Stoke City. They take a single-goal lead | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
into their second round Europa League game against Swiss opponents. | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
Our reporter there is Laura May McMullan. Laura - a full house | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
tonight? I don't think there will be many spare seats tonight. The | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
fans has been flocking here in their droves. 24,000 seats have | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
been sold so far. The manager has been urging the fans to get behind | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
the team tonight, because he knows that FC Thun will not be a pushover. | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
They're currently top of the Swiss League, and they have already | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
beaten Palermo on away goals in the qualifying round. So everyone here | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
tonight is hoping there will not be an upset. | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
Stoke have a be a sofa cushion, will they have their full-strength | :21:13. | :21:21. | |
side out tonight? Any fan will tell you, there are | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
frustrations surrounding the Stoke squad at the moment, the manager | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
saying he still needs some more signings. And there has been a | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
major blow, the manager is without Matthew Etherington and Robert Huth, | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
neither of whom will play tonight because they were booked last week. | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
And team news just coming in, Rory Delap will not play, but Jermaine | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
Pennant will. But another big boost to the team, Matthew Upson makes | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
his home debut tonight. And he says he believes Stoke will be able to | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
challenge in Europe. And both those matches are being | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
covered in full on BBC local radio. BBC WM will have full commentary on | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
the Blues game - live coverage begins at 7 o'clock. And BBC Radio | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
Stoke will be at Stoke City's game against FC Thun. Some cricket news, | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Warwickshire still have a chance of winning the Championship. They have | :22:15. | :22:25. | |
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A decline in wild flowers on the Malvern Hills has been reversed, | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
after nine farmers agreed to start keeping sheep there again. The | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
livestock were removed in 1992 after cases of sheep worrying. But | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
that meant there were no animals left to eat the scrub. As Bob | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
Hockenhull reports, their return has been a success in restoring the | :22:41. | :22:49. | |
natural beauty of the landscape, For nearly 20 years, the hundreds | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
of thousands of visitors coming to the Malverns wouldn't have noticed | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
any sheep on the hills. The last farmer removed his flockin 1992 - | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
fed up with dog attacks and accidents. But now the sheep are | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
back. It is nice to have those farming | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
family is back in and to have some younger farmers for the future as | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
well. Nine farmers are being subsidised | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
to bring the animals back. In their absence many wild flowers on this | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
site of special scientific interest disappeared as invasive scrubland | :23:17. | :23:27. | |
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took a hold. Over time, we have cleared some of the scrub and we | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
have been able to increase the area of grassland, and the wild flowers | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
have benefited. Where we clear, the sheep keep those areas opened. | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
Here's perfect example of what this project is all about. The sheep | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
will eat the scrub, allowing pretty flowers like these to thrive as | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
they should do. For farmers like Matt Rouse, grazing sheep on the | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
hills is a return to a centuries- old farming tradition. | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
grandfather grazed up here, and for a time I worked for the | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
organisation which runs the hills. So I take quite a bit of pride in | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
seeing the difference the animals make. It's not all been plain | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
sailing though. Already Matt has had 13 sheep killed by dogs and 30 | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
maimed. The dog owners are responsible for their dogs, I just | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
have to pick the pieces up. It is not very pleasant, no. To deal with | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
the problem, trainer Sue Harper is running classes to teach dogs not | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
to chase sheep, and give owners the skills to control their pets. She's | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
already trained more than 200 locals since the sheep were | :24:34. | :24:44. | |
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returned to the hills. I think all dog owners should do it if they go | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
walking near livestock, because it gives you the confidence to look | :24:47. | :24:55. | |
after your dog. I never let people get over-confident, I never tell | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
people you can go through a field of sheep without your dog on the | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
lead. It is essential that people keep their dog on the lead. Because | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
after all, it's important the livestock stays here, helping to | :25:05. | :25:14. | |
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provide habitats where wildlife will thrive. | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
The rain did eventually make an The rain did eventually make an | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
impact today - but there's more on the way. | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
But as far as the bank holiday weekend goes, it should become | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
drier from Sunday onwards It's been quite a messy picture so far this | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
week for the eastern half of the country, but our attention will | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
soon turn to this area of high pressure that will be governing | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
things by the second half of the weekend and take up quite prominent | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
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position by next Tuesday - it all bodes well for then. But tonight, | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
we can see a cluster of showers to the west and an area of rain | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
swelling up from the south - we're caught in the middle and may see | :26:05. | :26:15. | |
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bits of both later in the night. Temperatures will be dropping to | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
their lowest point over the next few hours. Tomorrow morning, the | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
rain starts to come a bit further west. But the showers will be | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
pushing further east. During the afternoon they will become quite | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
widespread. You can see from the darker colours, there are some | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
fairly heavy downpours. In between, some sunshine, but it will be | :26:38. | :26:47. | |
cooler tomorrow. As for tomorrow night, the showers come and go, but | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
we still have a fairly heavy downpours in places. But the wind | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
will be picking up, bringing more showers for Saturday. So, Saturday | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
is looking fairly wet, but it does is looking fairly wet, but it does | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
dry up from Sunday into Monday. Tonight's main headlines - Colonel | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
Gaddafi issues another call to arms in a radio broadcast from a secret | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
location. He tells his supporters to come out of their homes and kill | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
rats. Here, in the wake of the riots, communities come together, | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
united against violence and destruction. We can just tell you | :27:25. | :27:29. |