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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Nick Owen and Suzanne Virdee. | :00:05. | :00:15. | |
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The headlines tonight: They didn't lift a finger to help - the couple | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
jailed after a two-year-old was scalded in the shower and later | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
died. Any such perpetrators will be defined. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Hate mail and phone calls targeted at the group which highlighted the | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
scandal at Stafford Hospital. was one comment that said my window | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
should be put through, inciting violence against me. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
With the Olympics just eight months away, warnings the market could be | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
flooded with counterfeit merchandise. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
And filmed in remotest Herefordshire, how life might have | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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looked if we hadn't won the Second Good evening and welcome to | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Tuesday's Midlands Today from the BBC. Tonight: guilty - a magistrate | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
and his former girlfriend who let a two year old girl die were jailed | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
for manslaughter today. They did nothing to help the little | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
girl after she was badly scalded in a shower at her home in Birmingham. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
She died later as a result of her injuries. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
The girl's mother, who was also found guilty of child cruelty, was | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
jailed for six years. Rashpal Chana, pillar of the | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
community, tonight starting a jail sentence for manslaughter. The | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
manslaughter was that of a two- year-old child, Kristiana, not | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
Chana's child, but that of his girlfriend. A child said the | :01:36. | :01:45. | |
prosecution neither lifted a finger to save. This is where rave very | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
young child, who was only two years of age, was in considerable pain | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
for some 12 days. The instant first occurred and Fen... It is an | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
horrendous crime and actually, that failure to treat has been | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
investigated and the right sentence has been brought forward by the | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
court. Eva Logina, a 26-year-old Latvian. National arrived in the UK | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
in May 2007 already pregnant with Kristiana. In December 2009 they | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
moved in with rashpal Chana, recently separated from his wife, | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
at his home in Harborne in Birmingham. On Feb 4th last year | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
she showered K because, she said, she'd soiled herself but the shower | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
was scalding hot and the child suffered 10% burns. It wasn't until | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
11 days later when she collapsed ghat she was taken to hospital but | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
by then it was too late to save her. The judge said Logina chose not to | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
seek medical help because she was frightened social services would | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
take her children. That selfish motive killed her daughter she said. | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Jailing Chana for four and a half years the judge called his failure | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
to seek medical Attention a gross aberration. Rashpal Chana was a | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
lecturer who won a Queen's Award for Services to the Science | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
community. He was well known in Sikh communities in the Black | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
Country for his charity work. And for 18 years he served as a | :03:10. | :03:19. | |
magistrate on the Birmingham bench. I find it so hard to believe. He | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
was always such a positive guy, very caring. His students loved him. | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
He simply nodded as he was sentenced. The woman wept as she | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
was led from the dock. And we can go to Nottingham now where the case | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
was heard and talk to Giles. It seems astonishing this couple did | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
nothing to help Kristiana. Did they appear to show any regret, any | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
remorse in court? I spoke to the man in court before | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
the verdicts were returned. He was convinced there was no case to | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
answer, that he would be acquitted. He said bandages and cream were | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
applied to the child at home but he never knew it was a scalding injury. | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
He thought it was nappy rash. For mother cut a more cold and a motion | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
on less figure. The defence counsel said the irony was she had not gone | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
to the hospital because she feared social services would get involved. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
By And it seems a remarkable fall from grace for Chana, whom you | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
described as a pillar of the community. | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
That's right. As his defence but it, this is a man who has lost her tour. | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
That's all because of his relationship. The judge said in | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
some respects you've been unlucky for some big City due to have | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
someone to clean, keeper a home and be available sexually, but you knew | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
about bad injury to the child as an early stage and you did nothing. | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Thanks for joining us this evening, an evening that's somewhat historic | :04:56. | :05:06. | |
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for football fans in the Black Lights, camera, action. Stourbridge | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
are up for the cup and a place against Plymouth is the prize if | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
The Labour Party's apologised after one of its members posted material | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
online attacking the health campaigner Julie Bailey. Julie | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
Bailey's been at the forefront of the group Cure the NHS which | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
highlighted problems at Stafford Hospital. | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
The Labour Party's apology comes as Ms Bailey revealed details of a | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
hate campaign which has included anonymous phone calls and threats | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
to her business. Julie Bailey's cafe in the centre | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
of Stafford has been the focus for her campaign to improve care at | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
Stafford Hospital. It's now at the centre of threats and online abuse. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
This is material posted in the name of the Labour Party. It includes | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
interviews conducted by a Labour activist who's now apologised for | :05:51. | :06:01. | |
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I hope she goes into A&E and dies on the way. It's not the only | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
material that's caused upset. e-mails on a daily basis. Then I | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
found out there was a Facebook campaign, including a comment that | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
said my windows should be put through, inciting violence against | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
me. Also saying we should be driven out of town because we have brought | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
shame on the hospital. In fact all we've done has told the truth. | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
There've also been insults posted on social networking sites. This is | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
not the first time the cafe and the campaigners who made here have been | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
targeted at the levels of abuse and the threat of increased in the last | :06:43. | :06:52. | |
couple of weeks. It follows the decision at a hospital board | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
meeting earlier this month to close A&E overnight for three months. | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
It's a move the town's MP would like to see reversed. I've got a | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
meeting with the minister on Thursday, to talk through both the | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
arrangements being made for people while the A&E is closed and also | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
the work that has been done to make sure it can come back for time as | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
soon as possible. And although Labour party members won't condone | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
online abuse, councillors in Cannock are campaigning against the | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
temporary closure. I would not condone any offensive material. I | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
understand that Julie Bigley has received a number of telephone | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
calls and I understand the depth of feeling but I would not condone | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
offensive behaviour Rattle. -- at all. Back in the cafe, Julie | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Bailey's reporting the abuse to the police. She says it won't deter her | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
from either campaigning, or continuing to run her business. | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Well, our health correspondent Michele Paduano joins us now. | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
You've followed this from the very start. Is this criticism fair? | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
is not fair because what Julie Bailey has done is heroic. She has | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
broken down political recalls to the point where he got to a public | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
inquiry where we can have benefits for patients everywhere. During | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
that time, there has been relentless bad publicity and that | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
bad publicity has meant that doctors have worked there, he think | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
I don't want to be here, there is a terrible place to have the | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
spotlight on may have left. They need to find other doctors to take | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
the place and it is difficult to recruit. To that extent they've | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
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created a downward spiral. So A&E has been closed overnight. Do you | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
think for services will be reinstated soon? They are supposed | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
to be reinstated in three months' time but there is a national drive | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
towards having fewer accident and emergency departments, partly | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
because of a European directive. It is costly and difficult to get | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
enough doctors to fill the rota. There is also a desire to | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
concentrate services in fewer hospitals. A hospital like Stafford | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
is vulnerable. As the countdown to London 2012 | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
begins, we can expect to be bombarded with opportunities to buy | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Olympic souvenirs and merchandise. But how much of it will be genuine? | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
Trading standards officers fear the market's about to be flooded with | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
counterfeit goods and they're warning us all to beware of Olympic | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
fraud. The honest face of Olympic merchandising. In Ironbridge, they | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
have won a contract to produce the official London 2012 teddy bear. | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
But they had to pay for the privilege and they don't want any | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
pirate bears muscling in on their market. We are in fact one of only | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
two companies to what official licensees for the Olympic Games | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
producing soft toys. Any cuddly toy being produced which is not a mass | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
court or a teddy bear will most likely be counterfeit. On a train | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
of the counterfeiters, trading standards officers today bringing | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
their roadshow to a Birmingham supermarket. Their message, don't | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
be fooled by the fakes. Take a look at these two T-shirts. Apart from | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
the colour, they look virtually the same but in fact this one is | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
genuine and this one is fake. Holding it, you can tell that it is | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
inferior quality. When the Olympics arrive, or the counterfeiters will | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
see it as a good opportunity to repay the country off. We want the | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
public to be aware and take care. Very few tips. The way to make sure | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
that what you are buying is the real thing is to look out for this, | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
it is the Olympic holograms. It has a 3 D effects and is flashers in | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
the light. If you see this on what you are buying, you know you've got | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
the real McCoy. All for Mary thought Blair's character hologram | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
on at the back of the box. For a small company employing 25 people, | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
the Games have become a golden opportunity. There is also an | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
opportunity for less scrupulous manufacturers to do some serious | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
stitching up. We have been warned! Police | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
investigating an attack with a stiletto heel which left a | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
partygoer with a fractured skull have released CCTV images of a | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
woman they want to speak to. The assault happened in Bishop | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
Street in Coventry last month. Detectives have released these | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
picures from a nightclub security camera. | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
It's the biggest night in the history of Stourbridge Town. And | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
one that could make or break the season for the non-league club. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
Tonight's FA Cup replay against league side Plymouth could bring in | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
at least �50,000. Our reporter Ian Winter is in Stourbridge for us, | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
Ian this is big for the club and big for the town too, isn't it? | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
An historic night. Two years ago, Stourbridge lost to Walsall in the | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
first round of the FA Cup but tonight against Plymouth, they are | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
aiming to reach the second round for the first time ever. The fans | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
have caught FA Cup fever. It is a win-win situation does because then | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
non-League club has already earned itself thousands of pounds. | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
The War Memorial Ground has never seen anything like this before. | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
Live TV cameras, 12 of them all set to being -- bring Stalbridge across | :12:08. | :12:16. | |
the nation. Inside the home dressing room, hardly room to swing | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
a cat. Uncomfortably small for Plymouth Argyle. Half a mile away, | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
it's lunchtime at the Britannia sports bar, where the mood is | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
confident. A pint of the usual, please. Certainly. Looking forward | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
to the game tonight? I certainly am. No problem. Do people drink more | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
when there is a good match on? Without a doubt. Every time they | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
come in, instead of having two or three, they are having four or five. | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
Good for Business. OK, so it is a replica of the FA Cup but there is | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
nothing false about these two characters. Super Bob Taylor will | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
always be a legend at West Bromwich Albion and this is the coach at | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
Stourbridge town. Both believe we are been for a shock tonight. Who | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
are the favourites tonight? bookies are going to probably say | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
Plymouth Argyle but for a personal point of view, I will back | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
Stourbridge at this moment in time, even though I sense... They got | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
their own support, the majority of their support. Everybody is backing | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
a them. They will come and be professional, and so we will we. We | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
will have a good at -- good go at them. I hope we will. On Saturday, | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
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some rock scored a cracking goal. - - Sam Rock. | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
Let's have a chat with the chairman of Stourbridge, Ian Pilkington. | :13:48. | :13:57. | |
He's got a huge smile on his face. This is a bonus for us. We never | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
budget for a cup run because we get into trouble. Now it is fantastic | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
but we've got the additional revenue. We will put it away to one | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
side and leave it for a short while and decide what to do with it later. | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
Put into words what it has been look like reading it again? It has | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
been fantastic. Most of the people here of volunteers. We all have | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
full-time jobs. To try and tie it in River Dart has been great. The | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
truck -- press interest has been something else. When you get a | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
light -- nice like tonight, you go with the flow and enjoy it as best | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
you can. Plymouth are rock bottom of League Two. They've been to look | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
at the ground this morning. What did they make of it? They are happy | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
with the playing surface. They were happy with the pitch. At the end of | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
the day, we want to play good football and if we have a good | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
pitch, it will help us play good football. Let's see who the best | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
team is on the night. Hopefully it will be Stourbridge. The whole of | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
the Midlands is backing Stourbridge to win tonight. The kick-off time a | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
7:15pm. The atmosphere is building very nicely here at the War | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
Memorial Ground. Good luck to them! We are all | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
backing them. Still to come this evening: he's | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Stoke City's not so secret weapon. But at 35, how much longer can Rory | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
Delap hurl his deadly missiles into the opposition box? | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
I feel good at the moment but I have no qualms about dropping down | :15:32. | :15:41. | |
the beat. And brace yourselves for one of the coldest nights so far | :15:41. | :15:51. | |
A cafe called the Hungry Hobbit is facing legal action unless the name | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
is changed. The business is near the Birmingham beauty spot where | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
JRR Tolkien drew inspiration for the Lord of the Rings, his fantasy | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
world of middle earth peopled by hobbits, elves and wizards. | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Unless there's a name change, lawyers for the Tolkien estate say | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
the owners could end up in court. Begin at Middle Earth and walk for | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
a few hundred yards. Eventually you'll come to the Hungry Hobbit. | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
It's been the name of the cafe in Moseley for six years and its new | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
owners were proud to continue the Tolkien association. People ask | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
about the story and we tell them about the board and we say he grew | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
up in the area. It is our heritage. But it's come to the attention of | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
the all seeing eye of the Tolkien estate. A letter's arrived from | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
lawyers saying the word hobbit is unauthorised. The last paragraph of | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
the letter makes for pretty uncomfortable reading. It says, if | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
you are not willing to discontinue use of the name voluntarily we will | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
have no alternative but to pursue all of the remedies afforded by law. | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
The cafe is up against a formidable foe. The Lord of the Rings trilogy | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
made millions, so to the Tolkein estate the Hobbit character is now | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
more valuable, not least because a new film is being released shortly. | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
Lawyer Des Burley says big brands want to protect their name. They | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
might think of licensing a chain. You've got the Hard Rock Cafe or | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
you may see the church -- Star Wars chain of restaurants and there's a | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
lot of value and that, two shirts, the whole experience. To not use | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
the name any more would cost us thousands because we've got all of | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
the uniforms, the signs, the menu is. And regulars are supportive. | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
were disappointed to hear they've had this trouble over the name of | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
the cover of. Is a disgrace to be asked to change the name. | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
owners say they're not cashing in. It's just a caff but to win this | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
battle, they might need a bit of wizarding help. | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
Well, we've already heard from Stourbridge and their FA Cup | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
exploits. Dan let's hope they can do better than Aston Villa last | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
night. Immensely frustrating, is how the | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Aston Villa manager described last night's 2-0 defeat at Tottenham | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
last night. Here's why. McLeish was disappointed with how they conceded | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
the goals. Poor marking allowed Emmanuel Adebayor to score the | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
first after 14 minutes. He'll never score an easier second. Gareth Bale | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
provided the cross but a mix-up between James Collins and | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
goalkeeper Shay Given left Adebayor with a tap-in. Next up for Villa is | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
a trip to Swansea on Saturday. Rory Delap is renowned for having | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
one of the longest and most feared throw-ins in football. The former | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
schoolboy javelin champion has caused havoc in Premier League | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
defences over the last few seasons. The Stoke City midfielder turned 35 | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
this year making him one of the oldest outfield players in the | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
Premier League. But as Laura May McMullan has been finding out, he | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
plans to go on for a few seasons yet. | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
Rory Delap has been described as the ultimate long throw specialist. | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
Being able to launch the ball into the box from 40 yards out has been | :18:58. | :19:06. | |
a constant thorn in the side of the opposition. 5th rd does get me in | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
that the team when a manager is thinking about two or three of us. | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
-- the throw-in does get me into the team. I'm sure if I am playing | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
we will carry on using the. Supporters will tell you there's a | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
lot more to his game, covering about eight miles a match, tracking | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
back, running box-to-box, the midfielder is an important part of | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
the squad. Even at 35, he is at the peak of fitness. He went to be the | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
best you can be and get into the Premier League. -- U 12. | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
today's top players carry on longer a? Money has been spent licking it | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
sport science and looking at what it means getting older to be fit. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
It has helped a lot of players maintain their careers and lot | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
longer than they would have done if you're so good. Reaching 30 was | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
considered to be a football as twilight years a few years ago. | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
That has all changed. There was a big culture change when the | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
foreigners Cayman. The game got a lot faster, you had to be a lot | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
fitter. We had to eat the right food. It is having a knock-on | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
effect now. In a couple of years, there will be older the me. By no | :20:23. | :20:33. | |
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means is he the oldest outfield player in the Premiership. | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
Manchester United's Ryan Giggs is 38 at the end of this month. Wolves | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
defender Jodie Craddock is 36 and Blackburn's Michel Salgado is also | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
36. Rory says he wants to play professionally into into his 40. | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
feel good at the moment but I have no qualms about dropping down the | :20:50. | :20:58. | |
leagues. But what about life after football? My two boys half started | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
playing football and my little girl plays ballet. I want to spend time | :21:04. | :21:14. | |
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with the end. -- with them. For now though there's no sign of him | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
hanging up his boots. He says he'll continue to put in the extra hours | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
training. Testament to his desire to play at top level. | :21:24. | :21:33. | |
He is only 35. Ryan Giggs has gone on well into his thirties. | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
Plenty of players are almost 40. If you look after yourself, why not | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
keep going? AC Milan have an incredible Academy, | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
the man a lab, to keep men fled. Physically they have spent a lot of | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
money on players, on their wages and buying them. If they were | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
injured, they were losing them. They have had players dawn for year | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
after year. I think it is something about the | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
Potteries because Stanley Matthews, who Wysall play when he was 50. -- | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
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I saw him play when he was 50. A reminder that Stourbridge is on | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
local radio. Port Vale and Tamworth are also in FA Cup replays tonight | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
while Birmingham City and Coventry City are in action in the | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
Championship. Now imagine for a moment that World | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
War Two had turned out very differently. That the D Day | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
landings had failed and the Germans invade Britain. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
That's the startling premise of a new film, set in the remote hills | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
of Herefordshire. The movie Resistance is released on Friday. | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
It was shot in and around the starkly beautiful Black Mountains. | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
And as Bob Hockenhull reports, there are hopes it'll boost tourism | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
in the area. We have established an observation | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
post and as far. We will be here for the week. The film Resistance | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
is based on the best selling book by Owen Sheers and set in the | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
dramatic Olchon Valley in Herefordshire, close to where the | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
writer was brought up. Today it's one of the most peaceful parts of | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
the Midlands but in the film, set in 1944, it's been invaded by | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
Germans. I was going looking for a story in the Black Mountains and it | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
was while I was researching the history of that area that I came | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
across the story of it Siri units which would have been Britain's | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
secret civilian insurgency in the event of a German occupation. | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
must leave. I cannot be. If you stay, you will die. Resistance was | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
filmed in the countryside where it's set. Not only has it put some | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
of the more remote parts of the Midlands, it's also caused a lot of | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
excitement for local people. People like farmer Mark Williams from | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
Rowlestone. The production team stayed on his farm and shot scenes | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
in the road leading to the nearby village hall. Were you happy to | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
have them here for a stop we were happy and there was a degree of | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
excitement. -- were you happy to have them here? There was a degree | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
of excitement. We were glad to have the case back to ourselves any end. | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
For many involved in making the film it was the first time they'd | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
encountered Herefordshire's dramatic frontier with Wales. | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
Having an outside I was really useful, coming into a valley and | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
seeing it pretty much like it is the first time, having that kind of | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
experience. It was something that was really useful. And it's not | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
only Herefordshire's countryside that stars in the movie. The | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
medieval Mappa Mundi housed in Hereford Cathedral also features, | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
the priceless artefact is found hidden in a cave and is set on fire. | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
It is an horrific doomsday scenario. The realistic side of using the | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
Black Mountains to protect something precious I think is | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
something very feasible. Resistance opens on Friday bringing this | :25:18. | :25:28. | |
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glorious Herefordshire scenery to a national audience. | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
Magnificent countryside but it It was never going to be a | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
straightforward week but if you're going to get rain it might as well | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
be during the nights, and so from that perspective this week looks OK. | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
But the winds are increasing from Thursday and that's going to make | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
things slightly colder. You'll feel the cold a lot more tonight though | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
as temperatures tumble. It'll probably end up being one of the | :25:54. | :26:04. | |
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coldest nights so far this autumn. There is fog as well but not as bad. | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
It's this ridge of high pressure. That's building in tonight that's | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
clearing the skies and leading to much calmer conditions which should | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
be just about perfect for a frost. The low pressure then sweeps in | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
later this week to create a bit of frisson, introducing the rain and | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
stronger winds. So we can see the cloud is just starting to the clear | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
the East now so in rural parts temperatures could near freezing or | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
just below leading to a fairly widespread ground frost and a touch | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
of air frost. We could see some shallow mist and fog but not as | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
dense as it has been. So the morning's going to be cold, a bit | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
frosty and misty to start but a much sunnier, drier day. There'll | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
be some patchy cloud affecting Western parts with the odd spit of | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
rain. But the temperatures should pick up again to 11 Celsius. As for | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
tomorrow night, much milder with lows of eight or nine Celsius. But | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
the winds start to pick up from Thursday onwards and it's through | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
Thursday and Saturday night that we see the rain with the days staying | :27:01. | :27:11. | |
:27:11. | :27:12. | ||
see the rain with the days staying A look at tonight's main headlines: | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
An uprising reborn, calls for a million people to take to the | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
streets of Cairo. Protesters converge on Tahrir Square again. | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
And a couple are jailed after a two-year-old girl was scalded in | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
the shower and later died. That's all from us this evening. On | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
tomorrow's Midlands Today we'll be hearing more about some exciting | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
news about what the long-term legacy of the Olympics will be in | :27:35. | :27:38. |