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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Nick Owen and Suzanne Virdee. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
The headlines tonight: With a Government decision due next week, | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
the final big push to get the go- ahead for a High Speed Rail link. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
But for some, a new railway line could spell disaster for their | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
lifestyle and livelihood. In other news: the elderly woman | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
stabbed to death in her remote cottage near the River Severn - | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
police describe the circumstances as tragic. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
"No one would listen" says the surgeon who highlighted the breast | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
implant scandal 18 months ago. And a fanfare for Tamworth as they | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
prepare for an FA Cup day to remember. | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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ALL CHANT: Two, four, six, eight, Good evening and welcome to | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Friday's Midlands Today from the BBC. Tonight: one last push from | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
the campaigners fighting to bring High Speed Two trains to the region. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Business leaders, union bosses and economists today urged the | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Government to press ahead with plans for the controversial line | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
between London and Birmingham. A decision could come as soon as | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Tuesday, but opponents of the �32 billion scheme maintain there's no | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
economic or environmental case for HS2. In a moment we'll be talking | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
to both sides, but first here's Ben Godfrey. Just days before the | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Government could decide the future of High Speed Rail, this | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
controversial, charged debate was taken to the letter pages of three | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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national newspapers. The message from business leaders was clear - | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
the UK's transport infrastructure is a major obstacle to growth. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
Peter Mathews was one of them. His metal recycling business in the | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
Black Country survives on exports. He says without High Speed Rail, | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
his business won't grow, and he can't create jobs. It wouldn't be | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
as effective as it should be, bandages and at the moment. The | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
more people that can come and see us, the better for us. We need to | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
establish ourselves more by having that kind of facility. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
If the Transport Secretary gives HS2 the green light, possibly next | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
week, passengers could see journey times between London and Birmingham | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
cut to around 45 minutes. Supporters argue it could create up | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
to 8,000 and pump �2.5 billion into the economy. -- up to 8,000 jobs. | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
You can see the wires going across the field here to that hedge. | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
Farmer Derek Hiatt questions these figures. The proposed route skirts | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
his family's farm in Ufton in Warwickshire. He says the business | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
argument fails to acknowledge that many longstanding farming | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
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businesses will be blighted. I have worked very hard all my life. We | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
finally had the chance to buy this farm 14 years ago and handing it | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
over to my daughters were the train track going through it, it will be | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
worth a lot less. For two years, debates have been | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
taking place in village halls and business forums around the region. | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Transport secretaries have come and gone. At a time of national | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
austerity, this is a line that will cost �17 billion pounds to build, | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
and extensions further north could see that figure double. This is | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
Offchurch near Leamington Spa, one of many villages that have raised | :03:29. | :03:37. | |
thousands of pounds to fight against HS two. For both sides, the | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
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wait for the Government's decision is almost over. | :03:49. | :03:58. | |
Joe is an anti- high-speed rail campaigner. It's all over, isn't | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
it? The Government have always insited they want it. Now business | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
is supporting with these big ads. The know, it is not all over. Those | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
who are lobbying for it have an interest, they stand to profit from | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
it. Don't we need it at a time when the economy is struggling? There | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
won't be any jobs for 10 or 20 years, and you can deliver more | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
benefits to more people more quickly with the same money by | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
investing in the existing transport infrastructure. But it is good to | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
invest long term for a more prosperous future. Investing in the | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
current infrastructure would be long-term, and it would deliver | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
benefits all across the country. HS two will serve a very narrow | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
corridor. You don't to leave on at the actual road, you're against it | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
for the reasons you have said. But a lot of the people who are against | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
it to have homes on the line. It's not a time for nimbyism. It is not | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
just that. People have read the documents, and what you find with | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
any project but this is there is local opposition, but the reason | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
the opposition to this is so strong is it because the case for it is so | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
rubbish. So why does the government wanted? Are all these business | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
leaders wrong? It has been touted as a solution looking for a problem. | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
Lord Adonis said to the Department of Transport said that we want to | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
are the fastest and most expensive railway line in the world, and | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
tried to justify it. But you have to look at what is best for the | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
company as a whole -- the country as a whole. We think there might be | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
a decision on Tuesday. If it goes against you, what can you do? | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
are lots of avenues open. There is the chance of judicial review. The | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
environmental impact analysis still has to happen, and besides finding | :06:08. | :06:18. | |
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out what the true damage will be, that will raise the cost. There | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
will be a single coming out on Sunday, re-releasing it from | :06:26. | :06:36. | |
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Christmas, as a campaign against it. Thank you for joining us. One place | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
that could benefit greatly from High Speed Rail is the NEC, with | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
journey times from London being cut to just over half an hour. Since | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
1976 it's generated billions of pounds for the local economy and | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
tens of thousands of jobs. So what impact would HS2 have if it does go | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
ahead? Ben Sidwell's been investigating. And a warning - his | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
report contains flashing images. The nation has at last acquired an | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
exhibition centre that can bear comparison with the best of what | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
the rest of the world has to offer. I have great pleasure in declaring | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
the National Exhibition Centre open. When the Queen officially opened | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
the NEC in 1976, no one really knew whether the idea would actually | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
work. Today there's no doubt about it. 2.1 million people visit the | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
NEC every year, generating �1.8 billion for the West Midlands | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
economy and creating 25,000 jobs. It is not bad for something that | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
was seen as a white elephant when it opened 35 years ago. When you | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
look back in the Sixties, when Birmingham politicians came up with | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
the idea of building an exhibition centre in Solihull, I think a lot | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
of people looked at them as if they were mad. But actually, out of what | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
can appear sometimes very brave, original ideas comes a phenomenal | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
success. Part of the NEC's appeal is it | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
location and travel links. 75% of the UK's entire population are | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
within a three-hour drive. We have come from Liverpool, and it has | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
taken about two-and-a-half hours. Peterborough, it took me two hours. | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
The prospect of High Speed Rail would see the centre's catchment | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
area increased and the journey time for many reduced, with travel from | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
London to the National Exhibition Centre being cut to just over half | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
an hour. For the NEC's Managing Director, that's a very exciting | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
prospect. When you look at the NEC site, it is a unique site in Europe | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
in terms of the amount of land, the connectivity and detachment. So if | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
you build high-speed rail into that, I believe we have a real cocktail | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
of success on our doorstep here. December, 125,000 people from all | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
over the country visited the Clothes Show, which is in its 23rd | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
consecutive year at the NEC. The man behind that show, and many | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
others such as Gardeners' World and the Good Food Show, believes the | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
location and travel links help set it apart from many other exhibition | :09:02. | :09:12. | |
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We get people travelling from as far as Cornwall and Scotland to | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
come to our shows. You don't get that if you have an exhibition in | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
London. The facilities within the NEC, at the heart of the country | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
with excellent rail and air links, it means you can really create a | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
true international event. It may have been a risk back in | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
1976, but with the sort of money it now brings in, the NEC has become | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
something the West Midlands economy simply couldn't do without. Whether | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
High Speed Rail would have a similar effect on the region is | :09:39. | :09:48. | |
And you can read both sides of the High Speed 2 argument on the BBC | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
News website. Thanks for joining us this evening | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
here on Midlands Today. Later, police are warning youngsters to be | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
on the lookout for gangs targeting their new high-tech Christmas | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
Police have revealed an elderly woman murdered at her remote | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
country cottage was stabbed to death. Betty Yates, who was 77, was | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
found at her home near Bewdley after friends raised the alarm when | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
she failed to turn up for a walk at her rambling club. Cath Mackie is | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
in Bewdley for us now. Cath, more details are now emerging. Yes, | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
there are. You can probably see the police car behind me, guarding the | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
entrance to a track to her house which is about a mile down there. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
This whole area is under police cordon as they continued the hunt | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
for the killer or killers of the 77-year-old retired school teacher. | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
They had said she was subjected to a violent attack, stabbed with a | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
knife in her home which she shared with her husband until his death | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
seven years ago. The house stands in an isolated | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
spot on the Bank of the River Severn near Bewdley. It is in this | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
apparently idyllic place at that she was murdered. Dozens of police | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
officers are searching for clues as to who murdered her and why. | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
Surrounding fields and footpaths are being scoured for the evidence | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
that will lead to her killers. The alarm was raised on Wednesday | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
morning by a neighbour after Mrs Yeates failed to turn up for a | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
morning walk. Shortly after that, her body was discovered. She ran a | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
local reading group for the University of the Third Age, an | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
activity and educational organisation for older people. | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
was a very active member of the Third Age, and had been since 2006. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
She was a much respected and loved by many. As news of the murder | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
spread, the mayor said it was a sad day for the town. It is a tragic | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
and horrific event. It is obviously going to affect the town quite | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
considerably. We are a close-knit community, and pretty friendly down | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
here, and something like this must upset everybody that comes to hear | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
about it. Police say a knife has been recovered from the scene and | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
is undergoing forensic examination. They said they are determined to | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
catch the people responsible. This evening, a small memorial of | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
flowers is beginning to grow in her memory. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
And I imagine more flowers will arrive, because Mrs Yeates was very | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
active in this community. She volunteer helping children to read | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
at St Bartholomew's Primary school in Stockport, and teachers there | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
held a minute's silence today in her memory. She was someone who | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
dedicated her life to education. She had two children of her own, a | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
son and daughter who don't live locally. Police have repeated their | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
appeal to the public tonight to help solve this awful crime. | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
Kath, thank you. A Midlands surgeon says he highlighted the dangers | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
surrounding breast implants made by a French firm more than 18 months | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
ago. His revelation comes after the Government said tonight there was | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
no evidence to recommend the routine removal of 40,000 PIP | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
implants from women in the UK. Meanwhile, a Staffordshire woman | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
has been telling Sarah Falkland about the trauma caused by her | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
faulty implants. Looking good is Zoe Talbot's | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
business. The 36-year-old mother of two is a beautician from Tamworth. | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
She paid �4,000 to have PIP implants at a London clinic in 2009, | :13:20. | :13:29. | |
but by early last year she discovered a lump in one breast. | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
though the worst. I thought I had cancer, which is what I'm sure | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
anybody would think. It didn't even enter my head that it could | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
possibly be the implant, because they were relatively new. In fact, | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
silicone had leaked into her breast tissue, and she had to undergo a | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
second operation to have them removed. This is the kind of | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
transplant that Zoe should have had. Instead, they had an industrial | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
silicon, the sort that you find in a bed matches. Vik Vijh is a | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
consultant plastic surgeon. He sees women like Zoe, and has to repair | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
the damage. But he says he and other professional bodies raised | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
the alarm about PIP 18 months ago. I am not going to comment on why it | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
has been ignored. I am not going to even Croad the Health Minister, who | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
has not made an error, but mentioned that a large company | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
involving cosmetic surgery had released new data that did not | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
agree with their old data, but couldn't explain why. That is | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
exceedingly diplomatic, and I'm very impressed that he managed to | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
keep his cool. I wouldn't have been able to. Zoe now has fresh implants, | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
but she worries that the silicon from the French one is still inside | :14:48. | :14:56. | |
her. I do get aches and pains under my armpits, and they don't even | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
know yet what the silicon is exactly, or what long-term problems | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
that can cause. Tonight, the Government said it would replace | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
for free any implants are putting on the NHS, and it expects private | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
clinics to offer the same deal. And there's more information about | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
the breast implant scandal on the It's believed a house fire which | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
killed a man was an accident. Firefighters were called to a home | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
in Cramp Hill in Darlaston in the Black Country early this morning. | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
An 80-year-old woman escaped, but an 82-year-old man couldn't be | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
saved. A 35-year-old man's been arrested | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
on suspicion of murder after a homeless man was attacked at a bus | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
stop. Richard Williams was sitting at the bus stop in Dudley Road in | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
Birmingham last month when he was attacked. He died of head injuries. | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Families have been allowed back into their homes after an armed | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
siege which lasted two days. Firearms officers and negotiators | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
had been surrounding a house in Stoke-on-Trent since Wednesday. The | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
stand-off ended peacefully this lunchtime, and a 66-year-old man | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
has been arrested. Our Staffordshire reporter Liz Copper | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
Families heading for home after three days of drama and disruption. | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
This was the scene as armed officers cordoned off Guildford | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
Street in the Shelton area of Stoke-on-Trent. They'd been called | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
here on Wednesday lunchtime after concerns were raised over a 66- | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
year-old man. This lunchtime a man was arrested for a firearms offence. | :16:26. | :16:35. | |
He'll be assessed and treated by healthcare workers. I completely | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
understand that people would be distressed by this type of incident | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
happening in their neighbourhood. The police officers who have been | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
here have been there to keep people safe, and we have had a peaceful | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
and successful conclusion to the incident. | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
30 houses were evacuated during that operation. Most familes stayed | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
with relatives or friends. Many more found themselves trapped in | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
their homes within the police cordon. They could only watch from | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
windows as marksmen patrolled outside. For 48 hours the focus was | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
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on one mid-terraced home. Quite anxious when they first turned up | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
and you road is closed off, and you can't leave the house and the telly | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
to stand away from the windows. lot of people started to get a | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
little anxious, mostly because they wanted to get back into their homes, | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
and they were fed up with having to go through police are cordons all | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
the time. Trained negotiators had worked through two nights to help | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
bring the siege to an end. Police have thanked all those whose lives | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
were disrupted for their patience. The cordons have been lifted, and | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
life can return to normal. The main priority for the police is that | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
this situation was resolved police -- peacefully. | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
It's estimated that 150,000 people across the region will call the gas | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
emergency service line this winter because of badly-fitted appliances | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
or gas leaks. National Grid says following the severity of last | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
winter they've learnt a lot of lessons. They're now better | :17:57. | :18:06. | |
prepared to deal with a high volume of call-outs. This time last year, | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
we probably had 360 people, but only to London 20 were trained to | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
take emergency calls. Now almost -- 220 were told -- trained to take | :18:19. | :18:28. | |
emergency called. Now almost all our staff can take emergency calls. | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Thanks for your company this Friday evening. A rousing send-off for the | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
Tamworth squad as they head for their dream cup tie on Merseyside. | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
And it's been a stormy start to January, but now we can breathe a | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
sigh of relief as we head towards a much quieter weekend. I'll be here | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
with all the details in a few minutes. | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
But first: Pupils have been chaperoned from school by police in | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
some areas to protect them from muggers out to steal valuable | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
Christmas presents such as smartphones and iPods. Police say | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
thieves particularly target children at this time of year and | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
they're warning youngsters and parents to be on their guard. Bob | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
Hockenhull reports. Boxing Day, and on the Number 60 | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
bus in Birmingham, a gang of three muggers approach young passengers | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
and steal their mobile phones. West Midlands police believe they're | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
responsible for a raft of similar crimes. They've launched Operation | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
Hay to catch the robbers and warn school pupils of the dangers of | :19:16. | :19:26. | |
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flaunting expensive gadgets, particularly on public transport. | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
Wear with my friends, I feel secure, so I will bring my phone out, but | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
when I'm on my end, my phone stays in my pocket. I suppose I used it a | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
lot on the bus, because I don't think it will happen to me. But it | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
is dangers that will always be there. It is the new found, kids | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
perhaps not being aware that there are other guys out there, people | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
not aware of what is going on. Kids are excited by then you presence, | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
but they need to be aware that other people might be looking with | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
other motives. They are also targeting popular | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
transport hubs such as More Street station here. Yesterday they | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
investigated one man, who is now being investigated on suspicion of | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
committing about six robberies. A team of 40 officers have been | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
handing out leaflets giving advice on how to protect belongings. | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
British Transport Police have joined the operation as train | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
passengers are also deemed to be vulnerable. Some individual | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
deliberately target at a bus network or the train network, and | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
we have seen instances where people will bordered one stop, commit an | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
offence and disembark, and then poured another train for exactly | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
the same reason. Similar patrols in previous winters | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
have seen a reduction in muggings on schoolchildren, and the police | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
say they're determined to ensure youngsters can travel without fear | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
of being targeted. Bob Hockenhull, BBC Midlands Today, Birmingham. | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
Time for sport with Dan, and one of the biggest dates in the football | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
calendar, the FA Cup third round, is nearly upon us. | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
It is my favourite weekend of the season, have to say. It will be one | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
of the greatest shocks in FA Cup history if they win, but that's not | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
stopping the people of Tamworth believing a giant-killing is | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
possible. The non-leaguers are at Premier League Everton tomorrow, | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
and as Nick Clitheroe reports, they'll have the whole town behind | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
them. 2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate? | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
Go, Tamworth! Try telling these young fans that | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
the magic of the FA Cup is gone. Tamworth's third-round tie at | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
Everton has captured the imagination of the town and around | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
500 children from local schools turned out to send the team off in | :21:30. | :21:38. | |
style this morning. I have never seen so many kids before in my life, | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
cheering us on. Absolutely brilliant. Who is going to win on | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
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Saturday, kids? All caps all: It's been an amazing week for | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
players unused to being the centre of attention. On Wednesday they got | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
their hands on the FA Cup. And yesterday they were off to | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
Wolverhampton racecourse where the Conference's sponsors had named a | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
race in honour of the team. The Good Luck to Tamworth stakes was a | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
bit of fun for the players, a chance to judge the best turned-out | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
horse, to have a flutter on the outcome and to present the trophy | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
to the winning trainer. But what are the chances of them actually | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
winning? Well, the bookies make them 25-1 outsiders. I have had a | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
few dreams of scoring the winner, or a last ditch tackle. It would be | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
more for my family, plus you have a chance to show the whole world what | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
we have got and what Tamworth football club has got. We have | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
scored a few in the last minute, so if you would say to me that my | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
goalkeeper can make a number of saves, the back for can clear the | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
ball a few times, we will let them a hit the bar a few times, and we | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
will steal it from them in the 93rd minute. That would make me happy! | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
And you'd certainly be a fool to tell these fans or the travelling | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
supporters heading for Goodison tomorrow that Tamworth will fall | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
short on the big day. I have never seen anything like | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
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this. What a week of razzmatazz it Absolutely wonderful. It is | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
terrific, and there are also Cheltenham playing Spurs, and loads | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
of other stuff on. Bristol Rovers against Aston Villa really grabs my | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
:23:33. | :23:36. | ||
attention. 19th in League 2. 8 games without a win. Sacked manager | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
Paul Buckle on Tuesday. Assistant Shaun North now in charge. It would | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
be great for Bristol if they could win. Wolves fan will be really | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
pleased about their winger is back in the set-up. I can't wait for | :23:54. | :24:04. | |
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tomorrow afternoon. BBC local radio I just love the third-round weekend. | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
There will be a shock somewhere, and let's just hope it is one of | :24:14. | :24:24. | |
:24:24. | :24:26. | ||
After a stormy week, what's the weekend weather got in store? Ben | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
:24:36. | :24:38. | ||
Good evening. After a stormy start to January, it looks like a quiet | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
weekend to come. We have had some pretty strong wind, and several | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
flood warnings this week, but to this weekend will be breezy, but | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
not particularly windy, and mostly dry. It will be a much quieter | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
weekend ahead. The reason for that is this ridge of high pressure here | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
slowly trying to exert its influence up from the south. These | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
whether France provide a little fly in the ointment, some damp drizzly | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
weather at times. So it will stay quite cloudy through tonight. We | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
could see a little drizzle here and there. Temperatures dropped to | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
around five or six Celsius, and it will be breezy but nothing like as | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
windy as it has been. Tomorrow, quite a bright start to the day. | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
There may be just one or two like showers drifting across through the | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
afternoon. The north-westerly breeze will be noticeable, but | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
again nothing like it has been, temperatures around 89 Celsius. You | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
will notice the breeze if you are off to some of the FA Cup matches | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
tomorrow. It could be very breezy around Merseyside. Aston Villa's | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
match should be fine and dry. We are generally gain to see an | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
increase in cloud as we go through tomorrow evening and tomorrow night. | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
As we go into a Sunday, it looks like quite a cloudy day generally. | :26:13. | :26:22. | |
The further east you are, the wetter it will be. Temperatures on | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
Sunday up to ten Celsius. Into next week, nothing much changes. It | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
stays mostly dry, often quite cloudy, not much in the way of | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
sunshine, but temperatures mild and wins lighter. After a stormy start | :26:39. | :26:49. | |
:26:49. | :26:50. | ||
It has been keeping everybody awake, including me! A look at tonight's | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
main headlines: The Government's just announced it will not give in | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
to the mounting pressure over sub- standard breast implants. A review | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
has concluded there's no evidence to recommend their routine removal | :26:58. | :27:08. | |
:27:08. | :27:09. | ||
from about 40,000 women in the UK. And counting down to the verdict | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
for the controversial high-speed rail link for the UK. That's from | :27:14. | :27:23. | |
6.30 on BBC One. We will be visiting the library which is | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
overtaken by community volunteers. And you were going to tell us | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
tonight what you thought of the Horse Whisperer. It was amazing. I | :27:33. | :27:38. |