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Hello, welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: A �10,000 | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
reward to catch the killers of a couple murdered in their own home. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
The only offer these kind of rewards in the most heinous of | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
crimes. More than �35 million million worth | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
of metal stolen in the past four years in the region. We have seen | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
this as a massive problem. Braving the chill wind of the | :00:29. | :00:38. | |
economy, how Arts businesses are And aiming high, how we can all | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
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enjoy some serious star-gazing this Good evening. Welcome to Friday's | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
programme. A �10,000 reward is up to track down the killers of a | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
murdered couple. Avtar and Carole Kolar were found by one of their | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
sons, a policeman, at their home in Birmingham. Officers say they are | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
following a number of significant lines of inquiry. Our correspondent | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
has the latest. The savagery of the two murders has | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
stunned the community in this prosperous part of Birmingham. The | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
investigation is painstaking. The postmortem into the deaths of Avtar | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
and Carole Kolar will now be announced tomorrow. The fact that a | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
husband and wife have been murdered in their own home has prompted the | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
crime stopper offer a �10,000 reward. It is really important that | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
people come forward and give us information about who might have | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
done this. Anybody who does give us any information either by phone or | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
through our website, it will be completely anonymous. What motive | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
for the killings? Little credence is being placed on the gangland | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
reprisal motive due to the San's police work. No threats have been | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
made to him all the family. The increasing number of street thefts | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
and burglaries. We are aware of a number of gold theft within the | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
area and nationally as well. We have seen an increase in doubt. It | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
is a line of inquiry that we are following up a. Gold has been a | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
safe investment but it is also fuelling crime with its high price. | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
Many Asian families often keep gold in their homes. Street robberies as | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
well and in one month last summer, 52 women fell victim to such | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
robberies. Be vigilant and consider safety at all time. Make sure your | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
doors and windows are locked, adequate lighting a. Things like | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
that. The most important thing to remember is your possessions can be | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
replaced but you cannot. The Kolars were deeply loved by their own | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
family and also at a nearby school. It was also attended by the | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
couple's and grandchildren. The sense of loss here today is | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
enormous. Everybody is devastated. We can't believe it to. Couldn't | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
believe it. In this day and age, what happens, I just don't know. | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
will cope though. Yesterday morning in the playground, most of the | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
children were crying. I am welling up just speaking about it, she was | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
a lovely lady. Every technique available is being deployed on this | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
double murder case. But it could be just local information, somebody | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
with a name, a suspicion, simply picking up a telephone and calling. | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
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And Peter is that the West Midlands Police headquarters deceiving. | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
Still no news of the postmortem? -- headquarters this evening. | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
post-mortems have been carried out and I can tell you that senior | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
officers to have those results but this is a very highly sensitive | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
case and the police want to sit down with the whole of the Kolar | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
family to discuss exactly what happened to their beloved mother | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
and father. They want to make clear to the family all that information | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
before the release anything. there any more emphasis on this | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
investigation because it involves a police officer's family? No, far | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
from it. This was always going to be a high-profile case. The murder | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
of a couple murdered in their own home and some 60 detectives, that | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
is really standard practice in this type of murder investigation. | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
Finally, how common is it for Crimestoppers to put up a reward of | :04:58. | :05:08. | |
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this magnitude? It is unusual. Rewards are usually between �500- | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
�1,000. But Crimestoppers kept repeating to me today that they are | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
independent of the police. This money has been raised by their own | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
volunteers and like so many people around the country, they have been | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
affected by this murder as well and they want to put up �10,000 in | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
order to encourage somebody out there to pick up the phone and make | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
that call. Thank you. Police investigating the murder of | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
retired teacher Betty Yates in Bewdley say people have spoken of | :05:47. | :05:55. | |
seeing her walking along the riverside. Until the earliest -- | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
latest sighting was earlier in the day. They want to hear from anyone | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
who may have seen her near the river last Monday afternoon. | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
Coming up later, as plans for a new hotel for the Worcestershire | :06:10. | :06:20. | |
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Country Cricket Club, does the City An investigation by the Sunday | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
Politics programme has found more than �35 million worth of metal has | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
been stolen across the Midlands over the last four years. A number | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
of MPs in the Black Country are now leading a Bill in Parliament to get | :06:32. | :06:42. | |
the wall surrounding the scrap Metal - crushed in the back country, | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
destined for places like China and there are huge amounts of money to | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
be made which is making metal theft a big problem for police. Just this | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
week, thieves stripped 200 metres of copper Telecom's cable from the | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
railway here in Walsall. British Transport Police to tougher | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
regulations for scrap merchant would help. It would help to | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
encourage scrap merchants to be more open with their dealings with | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
members of the public bringing in metal or cable. It would make them | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
more accountable and make our way of tracing metal certainly much | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
easier. The scale of the problem is significant. Figures released to | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
the BBC's Sunday Politics programme under the Freedom of Information | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
Act showed nearly 30,000 cattle theft in the region. West Mercia | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
saw little theft rise by 95% and the largest single theft was to the | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
tune of �100,000 in Staffordshire. One of the main examples have been | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
on the tram network and British Transport Police say more than | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
�300,000 worth of copper cable was stolen by thieves. It is those kind | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
of incidents that the Government wants to clamp down on. | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
The association that represents the scrapping organisation said asking | :08:11. | :08:20. | |
for photo ID would be better than banning cash. If we tried to ban | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
cash, it would drive it underground into illegal operations and | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
potentially to encourage the growth of organised crime. But MPs who | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
want to see an end to cash traders at scrapyard will be pushing for it | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
in a private members' bill in Parliament next week. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
You can find out more about the rising problem of metal theft and | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
the changes that MPs want to introduce to the trade in scrap- | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
metal on the Sunday Politics programme at 12 noon on Sunday. | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
A father who appealed for calm after his son was killed during the | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Birmingham riots has denied attacking a man in an alleged road | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
rage case. What is it-year-old Tariq Jahan appeared at the city's | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
Crown Court today to deny causing grievous bodily harm with intent. | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
The charge relates to an incident in Handsworth in July, one month | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
before the riots. A trial will take place in April. | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
An award-winning Indian pop singer who has been living in Birmingham | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
for 10 years has lost his fight against deportation. Rising star | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
Garry Sandhu was removed to India last night. The UK board in just | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
say say he had previously claimed asylum under a different identity | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
and had gone on the run -- the UK board Agency. | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
The Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi says he has been overwhelmed | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
by the support he has received since he has revealed he had cancer. | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
The founder member of the Birmingham heavy metal band has | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma. In a message on | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
his website, he thanked fans, friends and colleagues and said he | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
was eager to start his treatment. Plans are being unveiled today for | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
the multi-million-pound redevelopment of Worcestershire | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
County Cricket Club, and the proposal includes a brand-new hotel. | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
One of the four or five that the council says the City requires. But | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
with hotelier's struggling to fill rooms already, is there a need or | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
desire for them? Our reporter is at Worcestershire Country Cricket Club | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
now. When it is light, this is one of the best sporting views anywhere | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
in the country. To imagine looking out of your hotel room window at | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
the best and that could become a reality as part of a �10 million | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
redevelopment plan announced today here at New Road. But as I have | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
found that, it to be the first of many new hotels to open in the city. | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
This is the iconic view of Worcester. A site that helps to | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
bring tourists to the city, helping to fill the 400 hotel rooms already | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
here. But according to research carried out by the City Council, | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
Worcester needs twice as many rooms and a better standard of hotels. To | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
attract both tourists and business. We think we have got a market here | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
that will support more hotels, that would meet the needs of both | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
business customers and those who come for leisure purposes. And so | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
we are very keen to encourage hotelier's to have another look at | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
the City. The findings of the report said the standard of | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
Worcester's hotels are generally of a low quality. Not one has an | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
official four or five-star rating. According to the Chamber of | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Commerce, changing that is vital for the city and its economy. | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
Businesses in the City will use hotels outside of the city centre | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
and obviously they will then spend their money outside of the city | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
centre. That might be good for the people outside the city centre but | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
not good for those in the city centre. Away from hotels, there's | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
plenty of investment going on in Worcester including a new library, | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
sporting arena and multi-million- pound retail development. | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
Good afternoon, how can I help you? But the people running one of the | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
city's hotels save money needs to be invested elsewhere to fill the | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
already empty rooms. You get what you deserve like many things and | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
the city has got the hotels it deserves. Without the | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
infrastructure, the industry finds it difficult to fill the rooms that | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
it has got over a 12 month period. By this time next year, there could | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
be a new 120 bedroom hotel here. The first of a number in the City | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
but with many of was to's current hotels running below capacity, were | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
that there's a demand for them remains to be seen. | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
With me is the chief executive of Worcestershire Country Cricket Club, | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
David Leatherdale. You are was that man, can it cope with more hotels? | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
I cannot speak for everybody but when we speak to our spectators, | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
there seems to be a distinct lack of quality hotels and conference | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
facilities. We hope to build something that will produce not | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
just a quality hotel but facilities to allow businesses to come into | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
the city and use our facilities which will be totally beneficial. | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
new road is famous for cricket but also flooding and it will be right | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
by the river, that must be a concern for a new hotel? It would | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
have been if things had not been put in place relative to planning. | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
It will be raised above the flood plain exactly like the pavilion we | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
built two years ago so it gives a security. I know that the | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
Environment Agency have been consulted and are happy with the | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
situation and we should not have issues. What does it mean for the | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
cricket club itself? It will not have Test cricket but it will bring | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
bigger things here? The biggest thing we are looking at is | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
generating income more than just during the cricket season. Cricket | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
is key, that is what we are here for. Money generated will go back | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
into the cricket side. If we have got new facilities, we can do that. | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
If the plans to get the go-ahead and they still have to from | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Worcester City Council, work will start in September and things | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
should be completed by 20th Thanks for joining us this Friday | :14:18. | :14:28. | |
evening. Still to come, we meet the men whose interest in space has led | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
to a pretty explosive hobby. And with the Stargazing events | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
taking place over the weekend, it looks like the weather is on their | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
side - cold and frosty but clear skies. I'll have a full weather | :14:37. | :14:46. | |
update later in the programme. Almost 1,000 social care staff | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
currently employed by Staffordshire County Council will shortly be | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
working for the NHS under plans which it's claimed will | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
revolutionise the way people are treated in their own homes. It's | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
the largest integration of health and social services in the country | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
and it'll cost the County Council �153 million, making it the biggest | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
financial decision they've ever made, as Cath Mackie reports. | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
At home near Uttoxeter, David Sargeant's regaining his | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
independence after a stroke last year. He's one of the first to | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
benefit from a new integrated care scheme, which he credits for | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
getting him this far. The care team worked very hard with the doctors, | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
the physios and the community. They made sure everybody was prepared | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
for me when I did come have. In fact, rethink there were five | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
carers here to me me when I first came hand. -- I think. And this is | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
what an integrated service looks like. The community nurses, the | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
physio, the social worker, the social care assessor, under one | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
roof. We can get patients out of hospital early and we can also get | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
them home and feeling happy. idea of services coming together | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
isn't new, but what they are saying here in Staffordshire is that this | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
will be the largest integration of health and social care in the | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
country. The idea is to get people out of hospital and provide care | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
for them at home. One in four ends up in hospital when they don't need | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
to. This is about increasing community capacity to treat people | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
in their own homes and therefore keep them out of hospital. But come | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
people be confident there would be this push to get them out of | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
hospital too soon? Yes. If they are there for clinical reasons, let's | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
get them there quickly. But let's get them out when they can. Unions | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
acting for the 970 social workers are also sounding pretty positive, | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
and are waiting to see how it works. As for David Sargeant, he's back | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
working part-time as a computer consultant. | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
And the Department of Health is expected to agree to the deal | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
formally next week. Setting up a new business in the | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
middle of an economic downturn may not appear to be the wisest idea | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
but it hasn't deterred the creative industries, which are reporting a | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
small increase across the UK. So why are people with a passion for | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
the arts willing to take a risk? Our arts reporter, Satnam Rana, has | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
been finding out. It's all hands on for Matt King and | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
Zaphira Cormack, who've ploughed �5,000 of their own savings into | :17:16. | :17:26. | |
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opening up Centre Arts in Cheltenham. Matt, if you can move | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
up Toby's a long... They set up this art space in September last | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
year, after Matt was made redundant from the Herefordshire Music | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
Service. With a growing here and we have been growing since day one and | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
operating in the blacks in stay one. That is something I am actually | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
very proud of. -- operating in the black since they one. We did not go | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
to the banks for money. We have not been paid yet but that is yet to | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
come. But why take on such a huge investment in the middle of an | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
economic downturn? I suppose we took a risk but we are just so | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
excited to start up a business in the arts because chart and does not | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
have an arts centre and we were confident this would be successful | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
because it is something the community needs. They're not the | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
only ones taking a risk. The Blue Organe Theatre in Birmingham also | :18:18. | :18:26. | |
opened last September. advantage we had was the premises | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
and the fitting out been cheaper and also the interest rate being | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
solo meant for payments on the loan were a fraction of what they would | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
have been 10 years ago. -- the interest rates being it so low. We | :18:43. | :18:52. | |
found it more achievable. Across the UK last year, there were over | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
1,000 hundred creative local organisations. Let's look had | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
visual and performing arts. We have had a downwards decline and in 2009, | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
there were 1260 organisations compared to 1170 last year. That's | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
a reduction of 90 organistions over two years. But despite the small | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
downward decline in new start ups, people like Matt and Zaphira are | :19:16. | :19:25. | |
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willing to take a risk. For For the first time this season, all | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
four of our Premier League teams will kick off at 3pm on a Saturday | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
afternoon. Wolves travel to Spurs and Stoke are away to Liverpool. | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
Robbie Keane is set to make his Aston Villa debut at home to | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
Everton. And West Bromwich Albion have also got a fresh face in their | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
squad to face Norwich, as Ian Winter reports. | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
Introducing Scott Allan - highly- rated midfield player. Just arrived | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
from Dundee United and just turned 20. One for the future, perhaps. | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
But that future starts tomorrow because Albion have nine players | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
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recovering from injury, so Scott goes straight into the squad. | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
football hero was Paul Gascoigne because I used to go and watch him | :20:11. | :20:21. | |
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every week. Those are my role models. Is there a touch of him in | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
your game? Not any pressure, but I would love to be as good as he was! | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
In spite of interest from an number of other clubs, Scott chose Albion | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
because they are in the league. Now it is up to the manager to make | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
sure they stay there. We have met briefly and we will meet again | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
today. Do you get the vibes from him that there is money out there | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
to spend? The chairman's goal was the same as ours. They have the | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
position that, if got something comes along that I should recommend | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
to the chairman, I will try to persuade him to do it. Hopefully, | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
he will back me. Is that the smile that says Roy's expecting the green | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
light to get busy in the transfer market, or the smile that suggests | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
it's highly unlikely? All will become clear in the next two weeks, | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
by which time his team might have completed a hat-trick of victories | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
against Norwich City in the Premier League and the FA Cup. But, as any | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Albion fan will tell you, things don't always go according to plan. | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
And of course you can follow your team and hear full match commentary | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
and updates on your local BBC radio station over the weekend. | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
This weekend the BBC is staging a series of astronomy events across | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
the Midlands ahead of the return of Stargazing Live on Monday. Our | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
science correspondent, David Gregory, is in the centre of | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
Birmingham tonight, which will be the focus of one event. So what | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
will be happening, David? As you might expect, here in Birmingham, | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
the event will involve the BBC big screen. We will also be telling you | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
how you can find out about events taking place made you wherever you | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
live in the Midlands. But first, an interest in astronomy does not | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
always mean you end up taking out a telescope at night as part of your | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
hobby. Sometimes it can lead to interest in other things to do with | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
space, like rockets. In a freezing field near Coventry, | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
countdown has begun. I have got kids of 11 and 12 in my school and | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
they are taking up rocketry now. You could say this is an exploding | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
Thai hobby but I don't want to jinx our plans for lift-off! We set up | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
in 2000, 2001, as a group of like- minded individuals who had an | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
interest in space, astronomy, rocketry, engineering. And we | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
basically build and fly a model rockets, high-power rockets, for | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
fun. Now, you might be wondering just what sort of fuel these | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
rockets use. Well, they use what NASA uses. The fuel is commercially | :23:06. | :23:15. | |
produced, mainly in America. And it's basically exactly the same | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
constituency -- consistency as that that goes into the solid rocket | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
fuel boosters in a space shuttle. So the same as you get in real | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
rockets? Yes. These are real but they are just smaller. But like any | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
launch, there is always a worry it might not go to plan... Heads up, | :23:35. | :23:44. | |
we are launching in... 5, four, three, two, one, launched! Not a | :23:44. | :23:53. | |
hitch. And then, what goes up must come down, and the question is, how | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
do you track your rocket? Because it can land several miles away. | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
These guys have the answer. You just text the rocket and the | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
onboard GPS tells you where it is! And it's not only GPS on board. | :24:05. | :24:13. | |
They have cameras to give you a rocket's eye view too. With me are | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
some proper space scientists, astrophysicists, from the | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
University of Birmingham. What will be happening with the big screen, | :24:20. | :24:29. | |
Chiara Mingarelli? We will be starting off with some of short | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
films about looking for life on other planets. And then we will | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
have the night sky being shown. What else is going on, Katherine | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
Grover? The events of relief fund. You can build your own rocket and | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
see it launched from the sky. We have games and you can learn about | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
some of the research we do at the University. Will there be a | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
telescope surgery? Yes. You can bring your telescope and we will | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
have experts who can show you how to use it better or fix it, and we | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
will also have a telescope that has filters in it so you can look at | :25:08. | :25:18. | |
the sun without hurting your eyes. So, come down to Birmingham or go | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
to the website and you can find out all about everything taking place | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
all over the country. I would wrap up if you are going to | :25:30. | :25:39. | |
Yes. It has certainly been a frosty, cold Bay, but through the week, it | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
has been mild and we have had a transition. And this is a picture | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
of a rose in full bloomed. But none of that for the weekend. We have | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
high pressure at the helm so it will stay cold through the weekend | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
and next week. Plenty of sunshine today and a cold day, too. Any | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
cloud will disburse early this evening and we will see a | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
widespread frost under those clear skies. Pampered as well start to | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
plummet and dicta around -2 in most places, and even lower in some of | :26:17. | :26:26. | |
the more rural places. -- and dip down to around -2. It will be cold | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
and sunny through the day tomorrow and we are seeing some patchy mist | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
and for early on. But a lovely day ahead. Dry and bright with plenty | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
of sunshine once again, but cold again, with temperatures a touch | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
lower than today. Just four at best. For wind will be light. For the | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
rest of the weekend, temperatures will be staying very cold through | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
the rest of the weekend. We are not going to see the effect of these | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
until later in the week, so staying cold through the day on Sunday as | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
well with another frosty start. Temperatures at just four degrees | :27:07. | :27:17. | |
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at best and the wind will be A look at tonight's main headlines: | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
The Prime Minister hints at a rethink of the plan to cut child | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
benefit for better-off families. And a �10,000 reward's been offered | :27:24. | :27:27. |