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Hello, welcome to the programme with Suzanne Virdee and Nick Owen. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Trees and power lines brought down as gale-force winds hit the region. | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
It is bad enough to score keep me awake and I have slept through | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
earthquakes. Pretty bad winds and lots of rain. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Police investigate events leading to the death of a couple in | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
Staffordshire. The local community suffers when something like this | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
happens.'s claims in a report that half of all young people today are | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
stressed all or most of the time. And proof yet again that Stoke is | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
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the best in the business at Good evening, welcome to Tuesday's | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
programme from the BBC. Tonight, gale-force winds leave a trail of | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
destruction amid warnings they could be more stormy weather on the | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
way this evening. Dozens of fallen trees had to be | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
cleared from roads and power lines were brought down as winds gusted | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
up to 64 miles an hour in places. A popular tourist attraction in | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Worcestershire was also badly damaged. Tonight, there are three | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
flood warnings in place and the Environment Agency is standing by | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
to erect flood depend -- look flood defences on the River Severn in | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
Shrewsbury. A major clear-up operation near | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
trailing 10 in Warwickshire. It is a scene repeated all over the | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
region -- and it Tredington. It was not just fallen trees | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
causing problems for drivers, heavy rain during the rush hour made the | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
new year return to work much more difficult. For some, there was | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
disruption of a different kind. At Sherborne near Warwick, engineers | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
were called out to repair telephone lines. Very strong winds overnight, | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
one dead tree came down in the lane outside and a couple of hundred | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
yards away from the House, another tree has split and broken a | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
telephone wire. That is why BT are here putting the new telephone wire | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
in. Across the region, there were scores of incident, the worst in | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
places like lemon tint where a fallen tree blocked the A445 for | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
several hours. In Shropshire, power cables were brought down. In new | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
start -- Newcastle under Lyme, another fallen tree caused delays | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
on the A519. He would have thought of Windmill could cope with a few | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
heavy gusts. Apparently not, this was the scene at the Avon craft | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
museum. It will be a major -- Major stepped back on the planned | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
maintenance that we had this year. This was the scene in Sri spree | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
this afternoon where rising water levels on the River Severn have | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
meant that the environment agency is having to erect flood barriers | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
in the next 24 hours. With the possibility of more stormy weather | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
on the way, today the RAC was issuing valuable advice to drivers. | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
In these windy conditions, it is better not to have a roof rack or | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
roof box on the vehicle. Also, look out for where you think there might | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
be cast of wind. If you are coming out from a patch protected by trees, | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
going over Highbridge, those places are risky. After the storm today, | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
there was also a rare appearance of the sun, and even some blue-sky. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
Hopefully not the lull before yet another storm. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
Peter joined us from the headquarters of the travel | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
information service in Birmingham. How are the good looking. Things | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
are looking -- how are things looking? Pretty snooze. This is the | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
M6 near Stoke. -- things are looking pretty good. They take | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
information from a variety of sources including things like | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
Twitter. They had been buried at busy today. What is the situation | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
tonight? It is not too bad. We have a one or two trees out around | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
stature, but everything else is OK. Were you surprised by it the | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
disruption? Not really, we were forewarned so we were on top of it. | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
What about other methods, the railways have been hit? They were, | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
the Charlton railway services were affected but everything else seems | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
back to normal. How important is things like this when it is | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
broadcast on the radio to drivers? Very important and it is a two-way | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
street. Three used wetter but the public information is just as | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
important. -- week used Twitter. The best piece of advice I have is | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
that do not take any unnecessary risks. | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
Our Trevor presenter has been monitoring the situation. -- hour | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
weather presenter. Still some damage caused? Yes, exceptionally | :05:15. | :05:25. | |
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windy for us. This is the rainfall With this big batch of rain, we had | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
fairly strong and gusty winds. It was during the rush-hour that | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
things got really interesting. You can be -- pick out this vivid band | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
of colour, this was a violent weather front. We had some very | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
heavy rain and the wind arrows were converging on that line, us very | :05:43. | :05:51. | |
strong and dusty winds. During tonight, a further strong winds, | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
not quite as bad as it was but I will have a full first forecast | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
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Police are investigating after a couple were found dead in their | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
home at the Staffordshire -- at the Staffordshire Moorlands. Detectives | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
are trying to piece together the events surrounding the deaths of | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Mark Chandler and Karen Climpson. Forensic experts have been at the | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
scene all day. Scenes of crime officers have begun | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
and detailed examination inside and outside the House where the couple | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
were found. Police were called to the semi-detached home at Ness | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
Grove in Cheadle yesterday lunchtime. The alarm was raised by | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
relatives. Although the couple have yet to be identified formally, | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
police say they are believed to be Mark Chandler, 42, and Karen | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
Climpson, 46. Officers have done some house-to-house inquiries and | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
that is ongoing. There will be local neighbourhood offices in the | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
area to answer questions. This is a quiet residential street, not far | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
from the centre of the market town of Cheadle. Neighbours have been | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
horrified to find the area the focus of a police investigation. | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
is an awful thing to have happened. We feel very much for the family at | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
this time. To think that something happened -- terrible has happened | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
comes as a great shock. And also, the local community itself I think | :07:22. | :07:32. | |
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suffers when something like this happens. The result of post mortem | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
examinations are not expected until tomorrow at the earliest. Police | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
have described this as an isolated incident. Forensic teams are | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
expected to be here for several days, carrying out a detailed and | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
thorough examination inside for evidence to help explain how this | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
couple died. CCTV pictures have been released of | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
a man police want to trace in connection with a murder of a | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
homeless man found at a. In Birmingham. It is thought 50 -- 58 | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
year-old Richard Williams had been sleeping in the bus shelter when he | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
was subjected to a motiveless attack. Detectives are appealing | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
for this man or anyone who knew him to move forward. He was at at -- he | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
was at the scene moments before the attack. He may have seen something | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
but might not have seen it as as important as it was. We urge him to | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
come forward, it could be a crucial piece of witness evidence. | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Two members of the same canoeing club have died in separate | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
accidents over the new year. 49 year-old Dave Smith but out of his | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
canoe in a family holiday in Cornwall, and Steve Wall died | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
during a private trip on the River Teme at Downton on the Rock near | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
Ludlow. A new report from a youth charity | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
has painted a bleak picture of the lives of young people living in the | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
West Midlands. The figures contained in the Prince's Trust | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
youth Index survey suggests that almost one in 316 to 25 year-old | :09:11. | :09:18. | |
always or orphaned field down or depressed, with more than half -- | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
and always or often feel down or depressed, with more than half | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
feeling depressed all of the time. Donna Preece says a chaotic | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
childhood meant she did not do as well as expected at school and | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
struggled to find work but she has become a photographer. From a very | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
early age where my parents split, there was no routine. Being split | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
between two people entirely, it was very difficult for them to install | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
any regularity. There is no real structure. The Prince's Trust | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
helped her to set up her own business. Research published today | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
by the charity show the young people like her struggle with exams | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
and faced lower self confidence. This report highlights that beer -- | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
and lack of structure and writing in the young person's life have a | :10:06. | :10:14. | |
devastating effect. And a direction as teenager can become a lost adult. | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
In a poll among young people, 27% of people told the charity they did | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
not support -- get the support they needed at school. 11% said they | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
thought their days lacked structure and direction when growing up. More | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
startling, 57% said they felt stressed all or most of the time. | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
This fitness class is run by former boxer Wayne Elcock. It aims to give | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
young people a sense of purpose and discipline. Many admitted they | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
would be lost if it was not for coming from here. I would use to | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
just stay at home or go out with friends but now I have something to | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
go out for, a purpose. It toughens you up, it teaches you to defend | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
yourself. Adults had been through what you are being -- going through | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
so they can give you good advice. The Prince's Trust helped 5000 | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
young people in the West Midlands last year it with training or to | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
set up a business. With one in five young people unemployed in the | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
region, of this to the charity cannot reach everyone. Despite the | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
tough economic times, the charity says it aims to lend a helping hand | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
to even more disillusioned young people in the coming year. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
The closure of Stafford Hospital's accident and emergency department | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
overnight has run smoothly over the Christmas holiday period say health | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
bosses, but they helped -- said that the mild weather had help. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
There had been fears that neighbouring A&E -- A&E units could | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
An ambulance turns up at Stafford's Accident and Emergency department | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
during normal working hours, but the closure of A&E overnight | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
appears so far to have gone without a hitch. Managers are working to | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
reopen it, but hint that in the long term things may have to change. | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
The future sustainability and the long-term picture is something we | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
will work with the Primary Care Trust to determine whether or not | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
there is a demand in the future for a full A&E department or whether we | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
should look at an urgent care centre. Well-wishers leave messages | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
showing public opinion is very much in favour of an A&E. Interviews for | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
more staff take place in just over a week. It may seem unlikely today | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
but the unusually mild weather means the system hasn't been tested. | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
It may take a really cold spell to find that once and for all whether | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
the NHS can survive without a 24 hour A&E department in Stafford. In | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
perhaps the first signs of more stress in the system, new Cross | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Hospital in Wolverhampton accepted 11 ambulances from Stafford last | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
night. We could continue at these levels but I think we have to make | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
the point Mike that the department we are standing in really doesn't | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
need -- it really does need to be up graded just to deal with the | :12:59. | :13:08. | |
normal casualty population. It is not that the purpose. -- it is not | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
that the purpose. Those campaigning for 24 hour opening at Stafford are | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
worried about a national agenda to downgrade hospitals, saying people | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
elsewhere were also told it was working well. They are sceptical | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
that three hospitals should make the same decision. Pontefract A&E | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
temporarily closed on November 1st, Central Middlesex Hospital did so | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
on November 14th and Stafford was on December 1st. We don't want to | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
become a statistic like other places have done. It is threatening | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
the services at the hospital. are urging the people of Stafford | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
not to take anything for granted. Michele is here now. So, the big | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
question now is will the accident and emergency unit open on time at | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
the beginning of March? It is impossible to say. I have | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
spoken to senior people in the NHS who do not think it will ever | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
reopen but at the same time the hospital remains adamant, although | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
they suggest that timescale may slip but what is clear that A&E | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
departments are changing for safety reasons and because they need to | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
save money and in the longer term we make get an urgent concern to | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
that is 24 hours a day but doesn't deal with life-and-death cases. | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
have been speaking to some patients, what have their experiences been? | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
have spoken to an elderly couple where the husband had a stroke on | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
Christmas Day and the ambulance of us turned up and wanted to take him | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
to Stoke-on-Trent but the wife was does but because she had never been | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
to Stoke-on-Trent. She knew New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton and | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
she picked them to take him there, and she followed on in a car. There | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
was a case of a teenage girl who had to wait is six -- you had to | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
wait six hours, and a five-month- old baby where there were issues | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
and it had to be taken to Wolverhampton which was | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
inconvenient. In all of these cases, there were no real issues. It could | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
have been worse, couldn't it? could have been and with a cold | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
snap like last year, we may have had large numbers going into the | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
accident emergency departments and we don't know whether they would | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
have been able to continue with those larger numbers. | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
Still to come in tonight's programme. After a frustrating ten | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
year wait, why Steven Spielberg's new film means so much to a horse | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
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Plans for a directly elected Mayor for Coventry have been officially | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
opposed today. Councillors say they don't want a Boris Johnson-style | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
city boss. The rejection comes just five months before referendums in | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
both Coventry and Birmingham on the issue. Ben Godfrey reports. | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
This painting shows the Queen with the traditional Lord Mayor in his | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
refinery but could future works portray Coventry's answer to Boris | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
Johnson? The city's Council Chamber is used to its power struggles. | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
Mayors have taken their seats since the 1300s. But the Government's | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
desire for a Mayor elected by the people, has prompted something of a | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
revolt. The Labour-led authority says it can't and won't work here. | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
There is no appetite for it. As councillors, people don't engage us. | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
They engage us about a variety of issues about the quality of | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
services we provide. It is 2012, we don't need an elected mayor to | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
achieve that. In making its point, the Council's evoked memories of | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
the Blitz. It was, they say, local councillors and not an elected | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
Mayor who helped to rebuild the city after the Second World War. So, | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
a Labour council opposes the idea. A Labour MP, Bob Ainsworth, wants | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
the job if the people want him. current system of running our | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
cities does not work. They cannot provide the leadership cities need | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
in the modern age. If you walk the streets of Coventry, this is not | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
their fault, but ask the people of Coventry, ask them who the leader | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
is, who the deputy leader is, they don't know. Politicians have had | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
their say, but it is the people of Coventry and Birmingham that will | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
have their say and they will get the chance in May. If I was running | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
a city, I would like to be a businessman. I would like to see a | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
mare. If it is going to be good for Coventry and for people getting | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
work. It doesn't involve me, I'm not fussed about any of it. I don't | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
vote. They just all do the same thing, don't they? Stoke-on-Trent | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
had a directly elected Mayor but in 2008, it scrapped the idea of a big | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
city boss. One thing both sides of this debate can agree on - | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
challenging voter apathy. You can't bring power to the people if the | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
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Talking about the power makes me think of darts. And that is the top | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
subject for Dan today. Darts world champion Adrian Lewis, | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
from Stoke on-Trent, says he's still in shock at retaining his PDC | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
world title. Lewis beat another Stoke player Andy Hamilton at | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
London's Alexandra Palace to retain his title. And as he's still only | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
26, Lewis hopes his second world championship will be far from his | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
last. A warning though, my report contains some flash photography. | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
It was the night that Stoke-on- Trent was the centre of the | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
sporting world. Two stars of darts went head to head for a world title | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
and both from the same city. The masses had gone to London's | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
Alexandra Palace to see Andy Hamilton, the contender... And | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
Adrian Lewis, the holder. Understandably, both showed nerves | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
at the start. But by set three, Lewis started to find his range. | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
Back-to-back 180s almost gave him a perfect nine dart finish. The | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
double escaped him on this occasion but it showed he was in it to win | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
it and gradually he asserted himself. By the tenth set, he was | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
ready to retain his trophy. Hamilton continued to show spirited | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
resistance but Lewis secured victory by seven sets to three. And | :19:03. | :19:12. | |
he was still reeling this morning. I am still in shock. I am delighted. | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
So proud of myself. It shows all the work and practice and | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
dedication has finally paid off again. But it was also a triumph | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
for the city of Stoke. With Phil Taylor still world number one, what | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
makes them so good? We have grit and character, a lot of | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
determination. That is key. The quality in Stoke-on-Trent is | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
fantastic. Adrian Lewis now aims to become the world number one and has | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
a long term goal of ten world titles. It'll be hard but Adrian | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
Lewis is from the right place to fulfil those dreams. What is it | :19:54. | :20:02. | |
about Stoke-on-Trent and dogs? Several factors, the legacy, Bill | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
Taylor was brought through 16 World titles, which will inspire people. | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
We know that the City is passionate to football and all sporting things | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
which has led to a vibrant scene. I spoke to some members of a club | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
today and a trim was play is there in the league, it is like Wayne | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Rooney playing pub football, really, but they are very proud of the | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
City's achievements. Great stuff. I think it is all down to the | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
oatcakes. Aston Villa are hoping to sign | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
Robbie Keane on loan from the LA Galaxy. The former Wolves and | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
Coventry striker is currently training with Tottenham before | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
returning to America in March. Villa and Wolves both kicked off | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
the New Year with home defeats, as Ian Winter reports. | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
First footing at Molineux, for the first footy of 2012. New Year | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
resolutions include a nice new stand. And some blue sky thinking. | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Reach for the moon. And failing that, Premier League survival. Not | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
to mention a fair crack of the whip from the men in the middle. | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
wonder what kind of view he has got. Last Friday, Mick McCarthy invited | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
the media to a film show, and asked how many journalists thought this | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
tackle deserved a straight red card for Nenad Milijas. Next Friday, | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
Mick would be entirely justified to ask the same question about Frank | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
Lampard's tackle on Adam Hamill. But referee Peter Walton didn't see | :21:25. | :21:34. | |
red, he saw yellow. Players have been sent off for that this season. | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
And that's why Lampard was still on the pitch to deliver the killer | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
punch two minutes from time. Frank Lampard should have not have put it | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
into an empty net. I don't want anybody else's players sent off, | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
but you know my beef with the authorities. Playing too many men. | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
If you are playing alert very as well, that's too many. Why didn't | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
the red card, out? Because the referee loves him. It is a big team, | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
that's why. No wonder they were upset. They'd just seen Chelsea | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
take the lead soon after the break, only for battling Wolves to | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
equalise through Stephen Ward six minutes from time, before Lampard's | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
late winner. Villa fans were also upset for a | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
different reason. Not once, but twice, poor defending gifted a goal | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
to Swansea. And another home defeat quickly killed off any seasonal | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
goodwill following their shock win at Chelsea. But hats off to Peter | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
Crouch. The Stoke City striker scored twice to beat Blackburn. And | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
reached a personal landmark of 100 league goals. | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
Tonight, BBC WM has full commentary on West Brom's trip to Spurs. The | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
Albion captain Chris Brunt will miss the game. He's having a second | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
scan on his injured ankle. And you can see all the goals from the | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
Football League on the BBC Sport website. | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
Steven Spielberg's new film War Horse is soon to reach our screens | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
and one horse lover from Herefordshire is looking forward to | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
it more than most. Revel Guest agreed to make a film with | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
children's author Michael Morpurgo over ten years ago. But a lack of | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
finances meant it never happened. Now, though, her labour of love has | :23:08. | :23:18. | |
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paid off, as arts reporter Satnam War Horse, a tale of friendship | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, set | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
against the back drop of World War One and Rural England and Europe. | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
But without Revel Guest from Whitney-on-Wye in Herefordshire, | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
Oscar winning director Steven Spielberg wouldn't have made his | :23:37. | :23:47. | |
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latest film. He is a master at what he does. He has the same, if you | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
possibly can, and this time did, grew around him. Knowing what he | :23:55. | :24:04. | |
wanted as well as he did. So he could concentrate on the | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
intricacies of the shooting. It was lovely to watch. It was a chance | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
meeting as chair of the annual Hay Festival with Lee Hall of Billy | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
Elliot fame that made Revel's dream come true. In 2006, she'd made an | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
informal agreement with children's' author Michael Morpurgo to turn his | :24:17. | :24:27. | |
book into a film. We all met up at his house and we liked and trusted | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
each other. And agreed we would be the Three Musketeers, one for all | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
and all for one, and have go. was it like Signor work being | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
translated from pen and paper, you as a producer, on to screen and | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
said? I had very misgivings about Hollywood. I knew very little about | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
it except that it was jazzy. We have been treated unbelievably well, | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
I have, I am talking about myself, and was always welcomed on the set | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
and went to every different location, and it has been a delight | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
for and extraordinary and memorable experience. | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
And every man make himself and his country proud! | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
The film goes on general release on 13th January. There'll be a special | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
pre-screening in Hereford on 11th January in tribute to Revel's | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
grandson darling son, Tom, who lost his fight against a brain tumour | :25:19. | :25:29. | |
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Ghosh, it looks good, doesn't it? I am looking forward to it. | :25:33. | :25:41. | |
Now here's Ben Rich with the latest For most of us, the worst pass past | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
but there are some further spells of wind and rain in the forecast. | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
Tonight, for some of us, it is going to turn windy once again and | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
there will be some showers. This big error of pressure in the North | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
East, that is what brought the stormy weather but last night. Now, | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
here, a little disturbance in the weather pattern, and it could turn | :26:04. | :26:12. | |
things windy again. This cluster of showers will go into the North of | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
the region. We could see wind gusts of about 60 mph just for a brief | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
time and then things calm down tomorrow morning with temperatures | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
dropping to about three. Tomorrow is a windy day but not as windy as | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
it has been. A bright start but we will see cloud increasing and some | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
outbreaks of rain working their way in. With the wind, it will feel | :26:36. | :26:44. | |
chilly with high ice 7 or 8. Through tomorrow evening, we have | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
winds picking up to the East of the Welsh hills, across parts of | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
Shropshire and Hereford drill with 60 mph gusts, and some heavy rain. | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
And with three flood warnings, that will not help the situation. If you | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
are concerned about flooding, call the Floodline. Through the day on | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
Thursday, things gradually calmed down. This ridge of high pressure | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
noses its weight in, so the end of the week is looking settled, but | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
the next few days, wind and rain. A look at tonight's main headlines: | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
Two men are found guilty at the Old Bailey of murdering Stephen | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
Lawrence. The teenager was stabbed to death at a bus stop in 1993. | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
And gale force winds have caused havoc in the region with trees and | :27:31. | :27:38. |