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Welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines: and prepared and slow to | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
respond. Criticism of the police after the Birmingham riots. There | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
was in position to -- insufficient rind trade police officers. | :00:24. | :00:33. | |
famous old family company is saved. The strength of demand and the | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
global reach of the business is an attractive deal. The toughest | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
trading conditions in 40 years, the battle for survival on our high | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
streets. And Staffordshire's because and bishops padding up as | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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they play to keep hold of one of Good evening and welcome to | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Monday's Midlands Today from the BBC. Tonight, could or should | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
police have reacted more quickly during the Birmingham riots. Claims | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
are being made by its residents in Handsworth, saying police were | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
unprepared for the riots and slow to respond. It is part of evidence | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
to a committee of MPs investigating. West Midlands Police have defended | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
their tactics and said they will be publishing their own findings into | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
the policing of the riots on a Thursday. | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
Back to its vibrant and bustling self, Handsworth's famous Soho Road | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
shows few of the scars. But rioting was a fierce here, looting | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
sustained, and the way the police handled it is still a bone of | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
contention. They were caught out. Half the police looked like they | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
were scared. You cannot suddenly go, there is a load of cobblers to deal | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
with it. You just do not know where it is going to break out. -- a load | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
of coppers. A fortnight ago, at a conference, traders and community | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
do workers discussed the trouble in Handsworth. Their evidence has been | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
put into a document. The riots caught the police on the hob, it | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
says. The police failed to engage with members of the local community, | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
leaving them by and large to defend their own premises. It says that | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
officers should have been at the incident in Winson Green where | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
three men were run over and died. They had insufficient resources to | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
deal with the incidence in the city centre and when the riot police | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
were asked to divert their attention to the Soho Road in | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Handsworth, much of the damage had already been done. There were | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
insufficient officers. Kernail Singh was at a council read a | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
biased sale -- session today. When the riot started, he called the | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
police to his shop but they did not come. I am not blaming but I know | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
it was a very hard time for everybody. And a jeweller who took | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
part in last month's conference is in no rush to criticise police. | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
They could have been so representation -- some | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
representation on Soho Road to allow some response, but hindsight | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
is a wonderful thing. For the Government, the Tyneside involves | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
the learning of lessons. Majesty's constabulary have been | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
asked to look at what happened so that lessons can be learned for the | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
future to deal with disorder. comment from the police today. They | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
will present their own report into the handling of the riots to MPs | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
later this week. Up to 900 people are expected | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
better public debate about the riots in Birmingham Town Hall | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
tonight. It is hosted by BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Our | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
correspondent is there now. With the Straits -- streets quiet for a | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
few weeks now, his is a chance to dig deeper into any lessons that | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
can be learnt? It is certainly not quite here at Birmingham's | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
magnificent town hall. The crowds are flocking here half an hour | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
before the show gets under way. Back in 19 No 1 this very hall was | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
the scene where David Lloyd George was taking part in a political | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
debate. He had to be is smuggled out as a low full -- local police | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
officer because there was a mob outside. We are not expecting | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
tonight's debate to be quite as rioters as that. The man who is | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
going to be in charge of the whole debate is here, from the Today | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
programme. Will you get to the heart of what caused the riot? | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
hope so. We are trying not to have an evening of political speeches. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
They have their place and people can make their points in them but | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
this is an effort to try to get some people from community | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
organisations, from the churches, von local government, from the | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
police, to give their view in a very practical way, first of all | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
from what happens and whether we need to get a handle on the detail | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
of what happened, and then to argue bats about where the beginnings of | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
solutions arise, and the interesting thing, I think we will | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
all struck by the events in early August that most sensible people, | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
whether in politics or not, said, something has happened that is | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
bigger than normal and that is the point. As we have already said, we | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
are hoping that lessons will be learnt and we will be bringing you | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
the update on this debate throughout our bulletins tonight | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
and tomorrow. Thank you. You can follow that debate online with a | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
video coverage via the Today programme website or on Twitter. | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
There will be full reaction and coverage on BBC WM and your local | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
radio station tomorrow morning. Still ahead: Faster trains to | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
London but far fewer places to buy your tickets, with plans to shut | :06:28. | :06:38. | |
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dozens of booking offices at There has been relief, joy even, in | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
Kidderminster today, with news that the world famous carpet making | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
company Brintons has been saved from closure. The company, which | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
employs 700 people in the UK, had debts of �20 million. It has now | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
been brought by an American private equity firm. | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
Brintons Carpets have featured large in this man's life. 37 years | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
ago he followed his father into the Kidderminster Thatcher. A lot of | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
people have family who worked here. And suddenly it looked as if his | :07:11. | :07:19. | |
hopes have been realised, at least for the time being, with investment | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
from anti-American business. secures the future. It gives us a | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
route back to profitable growth. Brintons, which began and 1783, now | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
has factories in India, Portugal and is about to expand into China. | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
But it was hit hard in the recession, resulting in debts of | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
�20 million. The New Deal wipes the debts clean. Coppetts here are sent | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
all over the world. Its company has a proud 228 year history and it | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
hopes now it has secured its future. This woman joined the firm in the | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
footsteps of her parents and grandparents. It is a positive | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
thing that we have the company come in to help out. The key thing for | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
people who work here are jobs. How safe are people's jobs? In life you | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
cannot give guarantees. What we now have is a venture capitalist, a | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
private equity company, and that means all our units have to remain | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
competitive for the future. But there are no plans to change | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
anything today. So the pressure is on, as the American bank Rollers | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
will want to see a healthy return on their investment. But for now at | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
least, there is a sigh of relief. Other news and a pilot who died | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
when his light aircraft crashed on Friday afternoon has been named as | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
52-year-old Clive Greenaway from Stratford-on-Avon. His plane came | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
down in fields near the A1 close to Peterborough. It is thought to have | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
hit power lines coming into land. He had taken off from Long Marston | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
airfield in Warwickshire. A teenage girl has been sentenced | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
to life in prison for killing a father of two from Stoke-on-Trent. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
Sheree Smith, 19, was found guilty of murdering Andreas Fantousi last | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
November. He was stabbed outside his house in Tunstall. Michael | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
Gordon, 22, was sentenced to ten years after being convicted of | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
manslaughter. The public inquiry into the circumstances of the | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Stafford Hospital scandal has started again after a summer break. | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Today, the inquiry heard that the body organising the training of | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
doctors at the hospital was unaware of the extent of failings which | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
contributed to the deaths of patients. As our health | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
correspondent Michele Paduano reports, the investigation is in | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
its final phase, with several high- profile witnesses about to give | :09:42. | :09:51. | |
Day 114 of the public inquiry. This time it was Dr Elizabeth Hughes, | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
head of the West Midlands Deanery, responsible for the education of | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
junior doctors. But it has all been said before. Poor communication, | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
doctors scared to speak out. Lack of scrutiny. When I took up my post, | :10:05. | :10:14. | |
I did not find any evidence of So far, perhaps the most high- | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
ranking casualty has been Cynthia Bower. Now head of the organisation | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
responsible for quality, she missed the seriousness of what was | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
happening at Stafford. This inquiry should be over by the end of | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
November but we are still to hear from senior politicians and the big | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
hitters from the Department of Health. By crispers, some big | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
reputations could be in tatters. -- by Christmas. And tomorrow, former | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Secretary of State for Health Andy Burnham gives evidence. He was | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
hounded by Cure The NHS outside his constituency. We want every person | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
that died in that hospital examined. And over the phone. You had no | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
choice, Andy, you had no choice. You have ordered a secret inquiry. | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
He appears before the inquiry that he never wanted. What did he have | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
to prove to pass it forward for the Foundation Trust? Was he looking at | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
serious untoward incidents, complaints, failure in patient | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
safety? It was so obvious about hospital. Later this month, we will | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
hear from the chief executive of the NHS, David Nicholson, who has | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
to explain his role in the failures that led to an unknown number of | :11:26. | :11:34. | |
Great to have you with us this evening. Still to come: | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
Something of a warning from Shefali. Yes, look away later if you do not | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
like rain. There is plenty of it this week and it is heading our way | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
soon. And free food - harvesting unwanted | :11:44. | :11:54. | |
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apples and other fruit to give to A fast new rail route to London | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
began operating today in competition with Virgin Trains. | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Chiltern Railways unveiled its Mainline service, which reaches the | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
capital from Birmingham in just 90 minutes. The launch follows a | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
multi-million-pound investment in the line. Our transport | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
correspondent Peter Plisner was on this morning's first train. | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
Arriving at London's Marylebone Station, a couple of minutes late | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
but still much faster than before. After years of planning, the new | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
service is finally on the move. Special Mainline trains feature | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
free Wi-Fi and instead of first class, there is a business zone, | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
and that is where we caught up with businessman Roy Ellis. I think wet | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
Chilton scores is the fact that they are more spacious. But space | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
was at a premium elsewhere on the train, with some preferring to sit | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
on the floor. Nevertheless, passengers seem to like the service. | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
I think it was needed because it was a very popular line. You can | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
get And there was even praise from a seasoned rail travellers. It is a | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
rather charming rich. You feel like you're on the M40 rather from the | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
M1. In the past, Chiltern trains have offered cheaper at first but | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
now it with the Mainline service, they can compete Faster trains come | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
as a result of a big investment programme. There is also a much | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
simplified fares structure but, as a result, some, like Gordon | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
MacDonald, can no longer travel on cheaper fares. The price has gone | :13:24. | :13:33. | |
up to lead a �50 or �75 return, which is a huge hike. Chilton admit | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
that some people are having to pay more. Whenever you change things on | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
a railway, there will inevitably be a small number of people who are | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
disadvantaged but the majority of people The new service means that | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
from today there is even more choice of both fares and trains to | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
London throughout the day. Well, Peter joins us now from | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
Birmingham's Moor Street. Sounds like a mixed blessing for rail | :13:55. | :14:03. | |
travellers, Peter? It is. We have improved rail services but some | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
people are having to pay higher fares and tonight there are even | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
more concerns on the railways. The debt now could be told in 40 did | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
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61 ticket offices are now under threat. It all emanates from a | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
report a few months ago into the savings for the railway and that | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
list has emerged today as a result of that report and research done by | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
a rail union. I emphasise that these are only proposals at the | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
moment but you can see when this might happen, with increased use of | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
ticket machines and the internet for train bookings. The Government | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
has not made any comment about the publication of this list but they | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
are due to respond some time within the next couple of months. Thank | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
you. "It is the pit of despair," the | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
words of one retailer today trying to navigate some of the worst | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
trading conditions on the high street in four decades. And figures | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
suggest the retail sector here is being hit harder than anywhere else | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
in England. Footfall - that is the number of people going shopping - | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
is down 6.6% and 10.5% of the shops in this region are vacant. Anxious | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
times for retailers with 109 shopping days until Christmas, | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
traditionally their busiest time of the year, as Ben Godfrey reports. | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
It is the big high street survival battle. From the might of the | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
glossy mall to the plight of the small trader. Simon Mauri lost jobs | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
at three high street chains before deciding to go it alone. Shiny | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
Gifts in Bromsgrove is surviving, just. Sales are down by a third so | :15:40. | :15:50. | |
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suppliers are not always paid on time. Some days I in a -- I am in a | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
pit of despair but I have to keep friendly. People are spending less. | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
It was as if there was a tap that switched off as soon as the | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Government announced August has been another traumatic month for | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
trading. The head of the Co-op has warned of some of the worst | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
conditions in 40 years. Shoppers are watching their wallets. It is | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
difficult for everybody with money. We are quite careful. Not very | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
confident at the moment. Very careful at the moment but | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
optimistic. Today, Solihull's showpiece, the Touchwood Centre, | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
celebrated a decade in business. Sales are up 8% year on year. The | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
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success is enticing more big-name traders. It is about developing | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
more of an experience in store to complement retell presents and | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
those retailers who can be as are the ones who will capitalise on the | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
current spend and we move forward. Solihull seems to have a conveyor | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
belt of people ready to spend money. It is one of the most affluent | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
boroughs in the UK, but not everywhere will say the same. Back | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
in Bromsgrove, Simon Mauri has got some elusive customers, but he is | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
going to need many more to succeed and cover business rates of around | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
�6,000 a year. How confident are you that this business will still | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
be here in a year? It will be tough. I do not wanted to let this be any, | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
this recession. A drop in tax and VAT is next on the shopping list of | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
this independent trader. Well, I am joined now by Kevin | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
Breese from Retail Birmingham. Thank you for coming in. Are you | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
worried, or should we all be worried, about the number of empty | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
shops? You are suddenly looking at one in ten shops in the UK and | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
certainly the region. That is not too different to what it has been | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
for a number of years and we have to remember that there will always | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
be a churn and good retailers and not so good retailers. But that is | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
not too different to the last couple of years and what we have to | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
get used to is that it will be a tougher time for others. But we saw | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
a shopkeeper in that report he was beside himself with worry, not | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
getting people through the door like he was before the cuts so | :18:13. | :18:22. | |
there is some correspondence between recent cuts. I think | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
councils and bodies have to work harder. I do not think it is about | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
a VAT decrees at all. What it is about his local Government making | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
more abilities before the local traders. That is the single biggest | :18:37. | :18:45. | |
problem. �6,000 in that small shop. The business rate is a massive | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
amount of money. We have to push the Government to let that money | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
estate in the regions. What we have to do is get it back and then use | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
it for developing local economies. People like Birmingham retail, are | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
you pushing for the Government to do that? We continually have a | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
voice, working with people like British Retail Consortium. We have | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
to help retailers across the whole of the region actually prosper, and | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
whether that is an independent retailer or a shopping centre, | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
everybody needs to work together. Briefly, we are hearing about the | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
big shopping centres doing OK, people still going there, | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
destination shopping, but do you think the humble high-street has a | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
future, or is it dying out? It is absolutely must have. I have | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
visited many shopping centres in the last 12 months. Birmingham is | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
absolutely fantastic. We have to develop that more because it | :19:45. | :19:53. | |
creates the excitement and not just cloned high streets. Thank you. On | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
to sport and three of our rowers have made themselves favourites for | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
Olympic gold after winning world titles over the weekend. Anna | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
Watkins from Leek in Staffordshire triumphed in the double sculls, | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
while there was also called for Gloucestershire's Alex Gregory in | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
the men's four. And Zac Purchase from Tewkesbury looks a good bet to | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
retain his Olympic crown after winning the lightweight sculls with | :20:09. | :20:19. | |
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Rugby and rugby and Worcester began life back in the Premiership with | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
an impressive win over Sale. They were rewarded with a 17-12 win, | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
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including this try from Mark Now, a big week for clergy in | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
Staffordshire, at least for those men of the cloth who wear | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
cricketing whites. Bishops and reverends, ministers and lay | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
preachers are bidding to retain the Church Times Cup, which they won | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
last year. It is the oldest one-day cricket knockout cup competition in | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
the world. So Ian Winter has been to meet the Lichfield Diocese team | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
as they prepare for Thursday's cup final. | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
In the very heart of Cannock, St Luke's Church has been a familiar | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
landmark since 1100 AD. The Reverend Peter Hart cannot remember | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
that far back, but he does have fond memories of his previous | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
career as a professional footballer. But when he is not preparing for | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
communion, the former captain of Walsall Football Club has another | :21:21. | :21:29. | |
sporting passion. I do not talk about it a lot, to be perfectly | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
honest, but people are interested and Maisie even surprised a little | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
bit. -- maybe even surprised. Because the Reverend Hart is a very | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
keen cricketer, and he is off to meet other members of the Lichfield | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Diocese Clergy team for their last practice match before Thursday's | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
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final. We will be doing our utmost to bring the cup back to Lichfield | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
Diocese but again, as long as we play well as a team, we will enjoy | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
it and we have got a chance. This restaurant has arrived just in time | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
for the toss. He is also a Methodist superintendent and he has | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
a good excuse for being late. doing a funeral. You would never | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
get Andrew Strauss saying that. you would not. But you would never | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
get in to captain this model I've! They are a very accomplished | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
cricket team. Last year they got their name on the Church Times Cup | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
and they are in no mood to loosen their grip on the silverware. Derek | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
two bishops from Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury, but neither of them | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
will be on the bench on Thursday. I understand it has not been retained | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
for the last 20 years or so by any team, so that will be an | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
achievement in itself. It gave a real feel-good buzz around the | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
diocese. Do you pray before a match like this? We do not, note. But | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
with thank God for the enjoyable game we are going to have. Do not | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
be surprised if the game gets a mention in Sunday's sermon at St | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Luke's Church. Quite right, too! Let's hope it | :23:30. | :23:39. | |
will be good weather for this. I Yes, a bit of a mish-mash of | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
whether this week. Hopefully by the end of the week it should be | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
warming up a little bit. It is definitely dominated by low | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
pressure and you can see the swathes of Blue passing through and | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
that is the rain. The wind is not - - is quite strong. One of the | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
wetter periods this week will be tonight. This rain will be moving | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
in by about midnight, through the early annas and you can see from | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
the darker colour that there are quite a few in Test bus. -- the | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
early hours. -- A few intense bursts. The wind will be | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
strengthening as the rain heads in, so quite a wet and windy end to the | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
night, setting us off for the day tomorrow. With in the rain moving | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
quite quickly, by the time most of you are in -- heading into work, it | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
will be better. Quite sunny by the afternoon. The odd shower. | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
Temperatures rising to 17 Celsius or 18 Celsius tomorrow. It will | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
feel cooler in the wind. Gusts of up to 35mph. For Wednesday, showers | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
and sunshine. We have rain for Thursday, showers on Friday that | :25:04. | :25:14. | |
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temperatures will start to look up Well, of course, September is the | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
peak time of year to pick apples, and it is a really good crop this | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
year. Many, though, go to waste, left unpicked in suburban gardens. | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
But a group calling itself the Urban Fruit Collective aims to end | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
all that and it will be giving the fruit away free, as Kevin Reide has | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
been finding out. A typical back garden in Coventry | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
and a treat with more than enough apples to go around. -- an apple | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
tree. Now these volunteers are harvesting them for others. | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
next door neighbours were having their Pears picked and we saw some | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
body in the true. They called around and saw our apples and said | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
could they pick them if we did not use them, to give away to people | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
who would like them. This is where they end up, added food bank in | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
Coventry City centre. This is great. We are always looking for new | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
sources of food and this time of year, with the harvest and fruit | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
coming in, it is good to connect with a group willing to go out | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
there and collect. It is developing community togetherness, saving | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
wasted fruit and healthy vegetables as well. And helping people and | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
sharing things out. Stopping the food going to waste. This weekend's | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
harvest was particularly successful. From one tree alone, they were able | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
to collect enough apples to fill seven of these boxes. For this | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
mother and daughter, they are some of the first to benefit. She and | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
her partner are both unemployed and reliant on food handouts. This week | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
it relies on some of the -- it includes some of the fruit harvest. | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
It is a good idea. It is early days yet, but with such a good harvest, | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
help us of all ages are being drafted in. Some more willing than | :27:05. | :27:12. | |
others. Mother has been shoving me up trees. | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
I think she is all right! Let's take a look at the headlines. As | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
the first free schools start the lessons, the Government insists | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
they will not be just for the privileged few. | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
And police were am prepared and too slow to respond to the Birmingham | :27:29. | :27:36. |