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Welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines: Our hearts have been | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
broken forever. The family of the couple murdered | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
in their home bake for help in catching the killers. I beg of | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
you... Catch this person. Who has taken two of my special people away. | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
Fears for the future of jobs for almost 100 disabled people. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
A big rise in petrol theft. Cases are up 50% in the last year. They | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
don't care. They even look straight into the camera. | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
And Aston Villa complete the loan signing of Wales favourite Robbie | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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Good evening. Welcome to Thursday's Midlands Today. Tonight, our hearts | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
are broken forever. The despairing words of two of the children of a | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
couple found murdered at their home. Just a day after out -- Avtar and | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
Carole Kolar were found by their son, a serving police officer, at | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
two of the children spoke at a press conference this afternoon. | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
Our lives and our hearts have been broken forever. They were the | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
sweetest and kindest people. hardest thing anyone can ever do is | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
tell the children that they are never going to see their | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
grandparents again. I have a baby, one week old, and I really do not | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
know where to start. We are all hurting so much inside because they | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
were so special. Catch this person who has taken two of my special | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
people away from us. Avtar and Carole Kolar had been married for | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
40 years. Their friends and neighbours in Handsworth Wood in | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Birmingham are finding it almost impossible to comes to terms with | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
what has happened. There is flash photography in the report. | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
As the forensic Search widens around the family home, a community | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
began to mourn. Neighbours were struggling to find the words. | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
bad. Very bad. There appeared to be more police in Handsworth Wood | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
today, walking the streets to reassure people that this most | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
brutal of crimes is almost a rare one -- is a rare one. Avtar and | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Carole Kolar have been described as quiet, sweet people. Daljeet Bilkhu | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
went to score with Carole and has known the family for 40 years. | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
very good people, both of them. Very soft-hearted. Very friendly | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
people. It is very sad to see them go. He also lives on Friary Road, | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
an area he says has seen recent burglaries and thefts of Asian gold. | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
We have been burgled twice on that road. It was a delight beggary and | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
luckily no one was at home. West Midlands Police -- it was a | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
daylight burglary. West Midlands Police are keeping an open mind. | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
The couple's son Jason is a police officer but the police say they do | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
not see a link between that and the deaths. It is something we would | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
consider. No cause of death has been identified yet. Key to the | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
investigation could be the support of the local, largely Sikh, | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
community. I would urge anybody who knows anything, any little | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
information, no matter how small, to come forward. It could be | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
important in solving this crime. arrests have been made but as the | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
Kolar family are spread so powerfully of their loss this | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
afternoon., police say they are following a number of new lines of | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
inquiry. The sense of grief in this community is seen in these floral | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
tributes laid throughout the day today, including this bunch of red | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
roses from the couple's eight grandchildren. The True Brit reads, | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
grandmother, We Love You To the Moon and back. -- this tribute | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
reads. For police say postmortem | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
examinations on Avtar and Carole Kolar will be completed by tomorrow. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
Other news. People with learning difficulties fear for their | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
livelihoods after Birmingham City Council announced a review of the | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
factory they work in. Around 90 people work for Shelforce, a | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
council owned door and window manufacturer in Erdington. The city | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
council says it does not envisage compulsory redundancies but the | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
factory might not be able to carry on running as it has been. A public | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
meeting is being held tonight at the Jaguar Sports and Social Club | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
nearby. Our reporter is there. Workers and families must be very | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
worried. They are deeply concerned. There | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
has been a cloud of uncertainty hanging over Shelforce for 18 | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
months now. Just behind me, through those double doors, is around 70 or | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
80 people, mainly Shelforce workers, and I watched them sit stony-faced | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
as they were told by Unison that there is a distinct possibility | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
that they could be significant redundancies. You have to remember, | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
if they lose their jobs at Shelforce, because of their | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
learning difficult -- disabilities, they could never get a job again. | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
Amongst the family's here tonight, Shashank Khanduri's family. He is | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
30 and has watched -- worked for Shelforce for eight ears. His | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
mother told me this afternoon that the slowdown in work at the factory | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
has caused him anxiety. When he is sitting, he will worry. You do not | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
have to worry, everybody is in the same boat. That sort of thing he | :06:11. | :06:21. | |
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does not understand, and he worries. I can see panic building up on him. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Birmingham City Council tell me that Shelforce has been running at | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
a loss for several years now and it has been having to subsidise the | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
business. One possibility, it says, is that it may amalgamated into | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
another part of the council, or perhaps go into partnership with an | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
outside firm, what it calls an organisation close to us, in its | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
statement. With me now is the Labour MP for Erdington, Jack | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
Dromey. Fighting talk from you this evening. What realistically can be | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
done? The Birmingham City Council should be ashamed. For 27 years | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Shelforce has been a lifeline for the most for Cannes in Birmingham. | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
The men and women in there, for them work is at the centre of their | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
lives. -- the most vulnerable in Birmingham. The council has been | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
running down Shelforce. We need to build up that fine facility and | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
that means spending some of the hundreds of millions of pounds that | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
Birmingham spends on capital works on the windows, the doors that have | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
made by Shelforce. If Labour were in power, you had unprecedented | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
cuts to make. Something has to go, doesn't it? The unkindest cut of | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
all is to close or run down a facility employee in the most | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
vulnerable in our community. They are not responsible for the budget | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
crisis hitting Britain. It is bankers that are responsible. Why | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
should the disabled pay the price? It looks like these proposals will | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
go before the next full council meeting, on February 7th. They are | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
ending here tonight with a very clear message from the workers and | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
families. If there is bad news to come, they want to know sooner | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
rather than later. We will keep you up-to-date. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
There has been a significant rise in fuel thefts across the West | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Midlands, mostly involving drivers filling up at petrol stations and | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
driving off without paying. The crime is known as building. In a | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
new twist, they often switched numberplates to avoid | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
identification. -- the crime is known as bilking. Last year there | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
was a 50% rise on the crime compared to the year before. | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
These women are about to commit a crime. They fill their BMW with | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
fuel, belt up and drive off. It is known as bilking and it is on the | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
rise. They do not care. They even look straight into the camera. | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
number of recorded bilkings across the West Midlands has risen from | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
3,600 offences to more than 5,000. Police say it is linked to rising | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
fuel prices. Seven years ago, petrol pump prices across the UK | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
averaged 87p per litre. Today it is one pan 32. Rising fuel prices make | :09:12. | :09:21. | |
web more tempting and thieves more sophisticated. This is how it works. | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
They changed number place so when they are caught on CCTV they cannot | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
be identified, and many are getting away Scot free. This centre in | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
Wolverhampton has come up with a solution, tamper-proof screws. | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
have been offering members of the public a free fitting service so | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
that our security screws on those numberplates prevent them from | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
being stolen. Back in Wolverhampton, this garage owner says it is too | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
little, too late. Last year he lost �6,000 to fuel theft. It is not | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
something I can claim from an insurance policy. Neither am I able | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
to claim the due to from the Government, so I have to bear it. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
This morning, police released this CCTV image. This man drove off | :10:11. | :10:21. | |
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without paying for �45 worth of This is the car registration. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Anyone with information should contact police. | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
An inquest has been told that take a retired schoolteacher from | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
Worcestershire was killed by being a Chris Tapp in the net. 77 you | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
will Betty Yates -- 77-year-old Betty Yates was found last week at | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
her home in Bewdley. I know I was recovered at the scene. | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
The Transport Secretary has dismissed suggestions that high- | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
speed trains will be exclusively for business customers. Justine | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
Greening was answering questions in the Commons following her decision | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
to approve a high-speed rail network between London and | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
Birmingham. A political editor has been taking it all in Forest. What | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
exactly have they had to say about these fares on H S two? Philip | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
Hammond, the former health secretary, got himself into bother | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
when he suggested that rail services were increasingly likely | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
to be seen as a rich man's toy. A Birmingham MP invited his successor | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
as Transport Secretary to distance herself from any suggestion that | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
High Speed Two would become the exclusive preserve of wealthy | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
businessmen and women. Can the Secretary of State reject the | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
previous Secretary's comments that high-speed rail would only be | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
affordable for business customers? The business case works on an | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
assumption of standard rail fares, as we have on the current network. | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
I am absolutely clear in my mind that the way to make high-speed | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
rail successful is to have as many people use it as possible. We have | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
been hearing High Speed Two will provide an important to Birmingham | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Airport. What we have to remember here is that High Speed Two is also | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
an integral part of the Government's strategy for UK | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
aviation. They see it as a way of replacing a lot of the domestic air | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
services that so many people up and down Britain used to connect into | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
international routes. So the Transport Secretary was challenged | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
over the fact that the high-speed link to Heathrow airport will not | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
be completed until 2030s. second phase will seek a route to | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
Heathrow. It is wise to point out that the first phase was the | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
Birmingham Airport also connected - - effectively connected as well. | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
There are many criticisms of High Speed Two. One of the biggest is | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
that it will not do much for the wider West Midlands as a Birmingham. | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
Did anybody raise that? Yes, the Labour MP for Dudley North asked if | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
she would consider modifying further the route so that it could | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
actually serve the Black Country. No, she said, flatly. Her decision | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
on the Reid announced on Tuesday was final but she did say that | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
places like the Black Country and other areas would benefit because | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
congestion on existing railway lines would be eased. | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
Still ahead tonight, a Premier League makeover for Molineux. We | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
speak to the chairman about his vision for Wolves. | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
And it has been so mild wizardly, you could be forgiven for thinking | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
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it was spring, but winter bites We will talk about grit and the | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
grit set off I'll vote could save councils millions of Pounds because | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
it is aware of recycling. It will prevent more than 30,000 tonnes of | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
waste going to landfill sites every year. | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
Burnt wood near Lichfield, one of the areas where sweeping the roads | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
is no longer just about keeping the neighbour had tidy. It is about | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
saving money and the environment. 2000 tonnes of this road debris is | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
sent to landfill every year. If you consider the Midlands, that is an | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
awful lot of waste that could be recycled. Now the region has the | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
technology to make it happen. A process that described by its | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
operators as a giant washing machine has been built at the site | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
near Wolverhampton. It has cost three-quarters of a million pounds | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
and is able to separate different components of the waste. It comes | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
in on a daily basis, fed into the plant and from that we will be able | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
to derive aggregate score. It is the first time that road sweeping | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
recycling has been done on such a grand scale. Seven councils in the | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
West Midlands have teamed up to send their waste here for recycling. | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
It works out far cheaper than burying it as landfill taxes are | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
rising steeply. If we can make maximum use of that material, we | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
will save money to pay years. Four Warwickshire a loner we are looking | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
at recycling some �10,000 and that is about �800,000. It is estimated | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
�10 million in total will be saved over seven years, proving the old | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
adage that where there is a market, there is brass. | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
That is really good news. It has been another of bad wigs for the | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
high street with more stores going into administration but when an | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
independent bookstore announced it was to close after 23 years, | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
residents decided to do something. They formed a co-operative and are | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
about to open a bookshop of their own. | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
The hills and Edward Elgar - just two of the reasons tourists come to | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
visit Malvern and it is that at the trade that has helped many of the | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
shops survive during the economic downturn. Not all are so lucky. | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
This bookstore has had to call it a day after 23 years. Disheartened by | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
the news, book loving friends decided to start their own shop. | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
And formed a co-operative. We have all got very varied backgrounds, a | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
huge range of expertise and interest and we can bring all that | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
into the one bookshop. Not one of the seven members of the co- | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
operative has any retail experience, but they already have the premises | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
and work on their new shop is under way. It is a lot of hard work to be | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
done and decisions to be made, but we have very different skills to | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
bring to it and a lot of knowledge. We will all work together and it | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
will be a success. Malvern has more independently owned shops than most | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
towns and many like this one are doing well. Open six years ago, | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
they have had their best Christmas trading figures ever. So can the | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
co-operative be successful? The man behind the shop believes they have | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
a chance. The large retailers cannot offer at that level of | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
service the independent retailers can. If they get that right, they | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
can do quite well. The bookshop will include a cafe and whole | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
community events did boost income. Be a co-operative, the financial | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
risk is spread and all of those involved are being realistic about | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
the future. We are conscious of the risk but we think it can work. We | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
will never make a lot of money, but we think we can have an exciting | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
project that will benefit the town centre. If everything goes to plan, | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
they hope to open the doors in March. | :17:58. | :18:08. | |
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We can call that the Big Society. Sports time. Robbie Keane can -- 11 | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
years after he almost signed for them, he became an Aston Villa | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
player today for two months. The record goalscorer has agreed and | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
loan spell from LA Galaxy and could make his debut against Everton on | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
Saturday. A warning, this report does contain flash photography. | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
Robbie Keane posing with an Aston Villa shirt. Many of us expected to | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
see this in the summer of 1999. But the Villa would not meet the asking | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
price and he has travelled the world playing football since. Only | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
now will he put on a Villa kit. will try my best to put on a big | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
impact and help the team push for what up the table. With my past | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
experience and knowledge, I can pass it on to younger players. | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
wonder kid joined Coventry instead all those is ago to become the most | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
expensive teenager in the Premier League. He scored twice in his | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
debut for the Sky Blues and has been prolific ever since from Milan | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
to London and California. Robbie Keane has made a habit of scoring | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
against Villa, now the fans want to know can he do it for them? | :19:24. | :19:33. | |
scored over 50 goals for Ireland, he is a very good player. I think | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
the gold will go flying. He is a top player and proven that over the | :19:38. | :19:48. | |
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years. I look forward to playing with all of them. His arrival | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
caught the imagination of the media and if he finds the golden touch | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
again on the pitch, everyone will be happy. | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
Is Robbie Keane the answer for Villa? Called BBC WM football | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
phone-in at 7pm. The Wolves chairman Steve Morgan says the team | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
must do better but he says he will not succumb to the hire and fire | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
culture with managers. He admits it has been hard redeveloping Molineux | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
alongside developing his team but he is determined the new ground | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
will be hosting Premier League football next season. Welcome to | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
the future. This is how Wolves new �16 million stand well that from | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
the inside. This impressive computer-generated video was | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
launched today by the club chairman Steve Morgan. The show's fans the | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
news facilities. There will be a bar, pub and restaurant and with | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
building work on course it will be ready for next season. There is no | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
doubt this news-stand is impressive but some fans feel it is costing | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
them on the pitch and ultimately the price to pay could be | :20:58. | :21:07. | |
relegation. It is a juggling act and it is not easy, but it is one | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
we have to live with. The board is determined to take this club into | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
the 21st century to offer the facilities it should have a go with | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
that. That balancing act sea walls one. Out of the Premier League | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
relegation zone. But Morgan is standing by manager Mick McCarthy | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
and money is available in the January transfer window. It has | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
been disappointing. We expected to be better off than we carry our and | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
we have to do better in the second half. This isn't a hire and fire | :21:39. | :21:48. | |
club, it is not the way I won any of my businesses. But we do say | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
what we have to say behind closed doors. One the new will look | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
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It is good to hear a German fronting up. All that has happened | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
at Birmingham City, we had never heard anything from the board, it | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
is a shame because they do not talk to us. But it is nice to hear that | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
from Steve Morgan. Before you go, tell us about | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
Coventry City. Striker Lukas Jutkewicz is on the | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
way to Middlesbrough for �1.5 million. Nikola Zigic scored two | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
goals for Birmingham City last night beating Ipswich 2-1, but he | :22:40. | :22:50. | |
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Scientists, inventor, artist, Leonardo da Vinci's dinners | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
resonates through history. An exhibition of his work in London | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
has been a sell-out and there is expected to be a similar buzz when | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
it comes to Birmingham. It is the first time any of his work has been | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
shown in the city. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
is the first venue for a national tour of 10 drawings by Leonardo da | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
Vinci to celebrate the Queen's diamond jubilee. It is expected to | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
attract huge attention. It is the first time we have had works by | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
Leonardo in Birmingham, so it will create a lot of interest. We think | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
probably 25,000 potentially, maybe more. The drawings are from the | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
World Collection at Windsor Castle and the senior curator says it is | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
amazing to imagine the master holding them 500 years ago. | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
drawings illustrate all aspects of Leonardo's activity. He was a | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
painter, sculptor, architect, scientist. I have tried to select | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
in these drawings examples of every aspect of that. A major exhibition | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
of Leonardo's work has attracted crowds to the National Gallery in | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
London with tickets selling out. This display in Birmingham is | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
smaller and more intimate and free. Visitors will be able to get up | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
close to some of the work of this world famous artist, architect, | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
engineer and scientist, engaging at first hand with perhaps one of the | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
greatest minds of all time. For the last 15 years of his life, Leonardo | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
regarded himself as a scientist incorporating research in art. This | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
is how Leonardo looked with a reputation for arrogance. But one | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
drawing thought to be one of his last is a self portrait of how he | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
felt as he aged. Kind of grotesque but also a rather pathetic. It is a | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
study of decay and Leonardo was conscious of his own body failing. | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
It captures something of Leonardo's sense of imminent death. All the | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
finishing touches are being made ready for when the doors open to | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
the public for three months. It will be busy. He was pretty | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
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amazing. That exhibition of those drawings opens at Birmingham Museum | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
and Art Gallery tomorrow and it is free. Now take a look at the | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
free. Now take a look at the weather. | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
For a few days we had experienced way above average temperatures but | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
because of that the drop will appear more drastic as things | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
appear more colder. It applies during the days and nights. | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
Temperatures starting to dip to below average. The reason for that, | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
we saw a cold front coming through today. Because this high-pressure | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
positions itself over us, the winds will be lighter, perfect conditions | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
for frost and fog. All of those elements tonight. Skies clearing | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
right across the board and temperatures dipping down to minus | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
one Celsius in raw parts. A frost developing across most parts and | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
also some fog developing mostly in the south-west of the region. That | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
could linger because of the light winds tomorrow and if it does so, | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
temperatures will struggle to lift. Generally a nice day with a lot of | :26:44. | :26:52. | |
sunshine and it will be dry. It is the temperatures that are the main | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
concern. Temperatures of six Celsius. Tomorrow night will be | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
even colder. Skies clearing once again and light winds and | :27:05. | :27:14. | |
temperatures dropping down to minus one Celsius. For the weekend, at we | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
pave the way for much colder conditions. Highs of only four | :27:19. | :27:27. | |
Celsius. But it is looking sunny at least. Thank you. | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
least. Thank you. Just one main had line tonight: our | :27:30. | :27:33. |