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Welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines: danger is an on the run, | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
and armed gangs spring a man charged with murder from a prison | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
van. How did they know he was in that | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
fan? Warnings about travelling to | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Pakistan as investigations continue into the murder of a Birmingham | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
father. They are saying not to travel by rail, calf. We would not | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
recommend travel to Pakistan at part of -- at all at the moment. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Come planes that one in five people in Coventry are now living in | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
Coventry. -- complaints. Pressure increases on Wolves boss | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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Good evening. Our top story tonight: a prison van is ambushed | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
and a prisoner described as dangerous is on the loose. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
Three masked men forced the band to stop and used as much home -- | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
sledgehammers. They released John Anslow who was on his way to the | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
court to face a charge of murder. One prison escort was hurt in the | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
attack which happened Where's the van left Hewell Prison. | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
The prison van at the centre of the drama, ambushed within seconds of | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
leaving the prison. On board, John Anslow from Tipton in the Black | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Country, a man the police warn tonight the public should not | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
approach. Anslow is an extremely dangerous man and we urge anybody | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
who sees them not to approach him but to contact the police | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
immediately. There were three men in the gang, two of them with | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
sledgehammers, smashed the driver's window punched him in the face and | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
forced him to open up. The gang climbed back into their Volkswagen | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
Scirocco with John Anslow and we believe that a mile and a half- | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
awake they switched vehicles completing their escape in a silver | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
Mercedes. This was an operation meticulously planned. Some are now | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
questioning how the gang knew what van to target and when. How did | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
they know it was that particular present van? That is a question I | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
would ask. There are a lot of prison vans coming out on a Monday | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
morning? They are going to courts all over the country. John Anslow | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
was charged last week with a murder in 20th July 10 of Richard Deakin, | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
boss of a skip hire firm, at his home in Chasetown. Four other men | :02:49. | :02:58. | |
face the same ever charged. Hewell Prison, the last escape here was | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
three years ago. That such a dangerous inmate should be sprung | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
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up so brazenly is as embarrassing as it is worrying me. | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
As you said in the report, it seems to have been a very well-planned | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
escape? And quickly planned as well when you consider he was only | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
charged with murder last week. The police say that John Anslow has | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
connections around the country which makes it more difficult for | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
them, especially in London. He also has connections abroad. It is | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
likely that he has fled abroad or is seeking to do so. Ken Clarke has | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
said that the pack showing Anslow is a top priority. There are | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
questions the of authorities will want to a packed, not least how did | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
began as such did information about the van? Also what about security | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
arrangements for transporting people to court. There has been an | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
incident room set up and anyone with information is asked to phone | :04:01. | :04:11. | |
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The Prison van driver is said to have been treated in hospital. He | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
was not seriously hurt. The family of Richard Deakin, the man John | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
Anslow has been accused of murdering, have been informed and | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
are said to be shocked. The woman whose husband was shot | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
dead in front of her in Pakistan is calling on the UK Embassy to call | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
on them to do more. Travel agents are warning of the dangers of | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
visiting Pakistan. The Foreign Office is avoiding people -- is | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
advising people to avoid travel to some areas. There are many people | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
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of Pakistani origin living in this A family photo in happier times. | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Rubana Mukhtar and her husband Azhar Iqbal were shopping on | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
holiday in Rawalpindi, a trip which ended with their nine-year-old | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
daughter watching her father being shot dead. 12 days on, Rubana | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Mukhtar contacted BBC WM to say the Pakistani authorities are not | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
giving them information. I have had a brief conversation with someone | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
from the British Embassy. He said they would contact the police | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
station and get back to me but I have not had any thing else. The | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
only way to get a move on is to put pressure on them. Her wait for news | :05:37. | :05:47. | |
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may be a long one. In December 2010, Zafran Jamil was kidnapped. He was | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
released four months later after a ransom was paid. He suffers from | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
post-traumatic stress disorder. He told me that the Pakistani | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
authorities are unhelpful. England, we have the police | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
everywhere, the government, pushing to find us, to look for us. In | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
Pakistan, it is a totally different story. As far as they're concerned, | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
if you are gone, you are gone. Foreign Office says it is in | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
contact with the a verities in Rawalpindi. The family's MP is | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
investigating a response of emergency services. The hospital, | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
to start out with, refused to do anything until a male relative | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
signed the forms a major act. If you are taken to hospital, one | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
assumes that people will will try to save your life. Tonight, travel | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
agents are one the against unnecessary travel to Pakistan. | :06:43. | :06:52. | |
Their offence of terror Vision -- terrorism. We would not recommend | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
travel to Pakistan at all at the moment. Rubana Mukhtar says she | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
will not return home to step to bed until she returns more -- learns | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
more about the gunman who tuck her husband's life. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
We are joined now by Midlands journalist Amardeep Bassey he was | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
thrown in a cell in Pakistan 10 years ago on suspicion of being an | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
Indian spy. That part of the world has been described as the most | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
dangerous in the world. Is it? is what Barack Obama described it | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
as last year. The problem with that region of Pakistan is that it | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
borders Afghanistan. You have a lot of people moving in and out of | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
Afghanistan in particular. How much trust cannot Rubana Mukhtar have in | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
the authorities to trace the killers of her husband? How much | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
trust can Rubana Mukhtar? system is very different to hear. | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
They're open to corruption. Some people are literally lost in the | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
system for years. She is going to find it difficult to get answers | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
and to get any kind of breakthroughs or developments at | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
any time soon. Inevitably, people of Pakistani origin from here are | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
going to want to go back to see family. It must be very difficult | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
knowing how dangerous cities. very difficult. They have to be | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
very careful, particularly those with dual citizenship. They can be | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
detained there at some length. They do have to be very careful. Do you | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
think it will get safer any time soon? It does not appear so. There | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
seems to be a lot of bomb attacks and a lot of violence. Because of | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
the strained relationship with America, the security situation is | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
deteriorating if anything. In other news, a court has heard | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
claims that a Roman Catholic priests sexually abused young boys | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
over a period of almost 20 years. Alexander Bede Walsh work in | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
schools and parishes across the Midlands. | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
The allegations date back as far as 1970. Our Staffordshire reporter | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
was in court. Alexander Bede Walsh, here on the right, faces 27 charges | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
in connection with the sexual abuse of eight boys between eight and 16 | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
years old. It is claimed the abuse was committed in the 1970s, 80s and | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
90s. Mr Walsh was a priest at this Roman Catholic Church in Cheadle in | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
North Staffordshire. The court was told that one young boy was given | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
alcohol before he was abused and told that if he drank it quickly, | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
he would go to heaven. Opening the case for the prosecution, Robert | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
Price said the priest was able to carry out to be his because he was | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
respected and his position allowed him access to young boys. The boys' | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
families had absolute trust in him. Jurors were also told Mr Worsnop | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
has a previous conviction for making and -- Mr Walsh has a | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
previous conviction for making indecent images of children. | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
Alexander Bede Walsh denies all of the charges he faces. His trial is | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
expected to last between two and the three weeks. Jurors are begin | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
to begin hearing evidence from witnesses tomorrow. | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
A �10,000 reward is being offered to find the killer of a retired | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
teacher from Worcestershire. Betty Yates, 77, was found dead at her | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
home near Bewdley on 4th January. She had been stabbed and beaten to | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
death with her walking stick. Crimestoppers have put up the | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
reward. Villagers have been helping to | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
search for a 63-year-old woman who has been missing for four days. | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
Police are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of Alethea | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
Taylor. She was last seen on Thursday. A search team including | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
hundreds of residents have set up a base in the village hall. What is | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
the latest this evening? Basically, the official search for | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
Alethea Taylor have been called off tonight. It is dark. Some villagers | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
will be going back out later just in case. She disappeared last week. | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
The police helicopter has been up, mountain rescue have been out. | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
Teeth inspector, Tel-Me, are you starting to give up hope? -- Chief | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
Inspector. A definitely not. Our concern is growing but we will | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
continue searching until we have covered all of the ground we can | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
cover. We will also look at whether she has travelled further outside | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
of the area. We will certainly not give up hope. You have found some | :11:39. | :11:48. | |
items of clothing. Both items are not hers. The one thing that has | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
made this amazing is the response from the villagers. You are one of | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
the people co-ordinating the search. Tell me why you have gone to so | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
much effort. This is a very close community. I would like to think | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
that if anything happened to me or anyone else in the village, we | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
would get the same support. The village support is tremendous at | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
the moment and we hope it carries on. You are not going to stop? | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
will keep going and keep going. Until there is a result on this. | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
have to say, as soon as we finish this interview, he will be going | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
back out and the official search will start again tomorrow. | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
More than 600 rescue animals may have to be destroyed according to a | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
charity which is facing eviction. Many are too old or frail to be | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
moved. The owner of the land insists that the sanctuary was only | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
supposed to stay on a temporary basis. | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
Janet Taylor shows me around the Farm Animal Sanctuary which she | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
runs at each jump. Behind many of the 635 animals here is a | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
heartbreaking story. He was by the side of are the road with the body | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
of his mother. There are also ponies, a donkey, pigs and rescued | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
battery hens. The charity relies on public donations to meet its weekly | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
running costs of around �2,000. After 14 years, they have been told | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
to leave. We have no way to go. A lot of these animals we would not | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
be able to move from welfare at reasons. A lot of the older sheep | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
have arthritis. It would be cruel to attempt to move them. Supporters | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
including the actress Joanna Lumley are supporting their legal fight | :13:34. | :13:42. | |
against eviction. After 14 years and occupation, we do not know why | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
it they have been served with an eviction notice. Janet says she has | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
never paid rent here and believed the 60 five-acre farm was given to | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
them for the life of the charity. Lawyers acting for the other side | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
have sent as a statement on behalf of their client. It says she has | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
owned Manor Orchard Farm since 1997 and is an animal lover and has | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
generously allowed the farm animal sanctuary to occupy it payment free | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
on a temporary basis for 14 years. With no where else to go, the | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
charity says the animals may have to be destroyed. What are you going | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
to do? I have no idea. It is an absolute nightmare. The matter will | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
be heard at the High Court in Bristol. In the meantime, the | :14:26. | :14:36. | |
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sanctuary is still taking in Still ahead: An update on the | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
Coventry explorer who is halfway to a remarkable first. | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
Compared to that, we can hardly complain about our lot this week | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
but there is some snow, it could cause destruction and that is not | :14:52. | :15:01. | |
all. It is a week of plenty. Poverty in one of our major cities | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
is so bad that one in five people rely on food handouts. That is | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
according to charity workers in Coventry who warn if the Government | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
go ahead with the current planned cap on benefits, the situation will | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
get even worse. One of those trying to help the hungry is charity | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
worker Kervin Julien. Every week on a Sunday you'll find | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
me here feeding the homeless and hungry. Get in the queue, please. | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
Recently, the queues have been getting longer. I want to find out | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
why. Food banks like this one in Coventry are inundated. Volunteers | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
are feeding 150 for -- 150 mouths every week. These people are | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
desperate. In this city, win a 20 % of the population are living on the | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
breadline, that is after paying for food and fuel and everything else, | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
they have nothing left. At another centre I meet 18-year-old Alesha. | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
Most of the time it is a Packer sip meal a day. They are 17p from ASDA. | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
Today, Alesha will eat. She has enough food to keep her going for | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
three days. Oxfam says one in seven poor people in the West Midlands | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
regularly go without food to ensure that family can eat. I think, | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
without charity, a lot of people would start. After the intervention | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
of the food bank, Alesha's cupboards are full. Head | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
Jobseeker's Allowance has been reinstated but she is still living | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
hand to mouth. I would love to be able to cook a massive dinner or a | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
fry-up but I have not got the right resources and I cannot afford to | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
buy the stuff anyway. The sad cases, there is not just one Alesha, there | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
are thousands of people living in that sort of existence. It is an | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
existence. There is no purpose or meaning to it. They're just going | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
from day today, hand to mouth, wondering where the next meal will | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
come from. We can talk to Kevin now. He is in | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
our Coventry studio. First of all, tell us about Alesha's story. We | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
saw a picture of a baby. Is that her baby and if she parted from the | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
baby? Yes, she has a 17 months son who lives with her mother because | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
she does not have the resources to look after the child. What you mean | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
by resources? She had no cooker or fridge. We provided her with one | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
just before Christmas that she had nothing. It is heartbreaking to see | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
people queuing for food like that. You are saying one in seven people | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
in Coventry go hungry, is that really true in this day and age? It | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
is an incredible, depressing statistic. It is. We are watching | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
an alarmingly increasing number of people accessing our services. We | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
have been doing this for four years. We started with three or four | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
people, increasing to 10 or 20 but in the last year there has been a | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
massive increase, probably close to 200 % in the amount of people | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
accessing our services. You have got big concerns about the | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
government's plans to cap benefits, tell us why. They are talking about | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
the cap being at �26,000 which will be a lot of money to some people. | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
It is not just about the cap, it has all the other things which the | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
government is doing to transaction people on benefits, to manipulate | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
statistics so it looks like Les people claiming benefits than There | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
are. When he continued put these people through all of these hoops, | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
they go into debt which means they eventually turn up homeless. Thank | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
you. You can see more on this tonight on | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
Inside Out at 7:30pm on BBC One. We can talk football now. It has | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
been a miserable weekend for Wolves fans but Dan is here with a glimmer | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
of good news. Yes, Emmanuel Frimpong could be | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
back in training again, despite being injured in Saturday's defeat | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
against Aston Villa. It is a much- needed boost for manager Mick | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
McCarthy who saw his side slip into the bottom three. | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
Something hot and steamy to keep out the winter's Gill. There has | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
only been one hot topic at Steve Franklin's city centre hot dog van | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
today, Wolves and their worrying slide down the Premier League. The | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
news stands say it has left manager Mick McCarthy under pressure but | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
what do the fans think? We have stagnated. Mick McCarthy has done a | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
great job keeping us here but it is no good just keeping us here. We | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
want better performance as. Getting feedback saying things aren't | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
working out. To be honest, I think he is the manager for the job. | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
wins out of 20 games, not good enough and it is not improving. The | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
problem is, who do you replace him with? Everyone is entitled to their | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
own opinion but the reason the papers are saying pressure is | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
growing on which -- Mick McCarthy it is because Wolves lost to Aston | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
Villa on Saturday. The game was breathless from the moment Darren | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
Bent's penalty put Wolves ahead. Michael Kyte Lee put them level and | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
Dave Edwards scored after the break. But Robbie Keane scored for Villa, | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
and Manuel Frimpong was stretchered off after an accidental kick to the | :20:38. | :20:47. | |
head and after her -- Robbie Keane supplied the winner. There is a lot | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
more can go wrong, a penalty, sending off, I don't know where | :20:55. | :21:04. | |
Lady Luck was but she was not in a waltz shirt. But their rivals won | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
against Stoke City. Graham Dorans gave West Bromwich Albion a 2-1 | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
victory which gives them a seven- point cushion over the bottom three. | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
Birmingham City have agreed to sell the winger Jean Beausejour to Wigan | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Athletic. There is no word yet on the fee and he is yet to agree | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
personal terms but he could -- his last game could have been the | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
victory over Watford on Saturday. The on-loan striker Alex Nimeley | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
made a fine debut for Coventry City scoring his first goal for the club | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
in a 3-1 win over Middlesbrough at the Ricoh. | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
You can see a special report on Port Vale on Late Kick Off tonight | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
at five past 11. A Staffordshire teenager said she | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
had to pinch herself after winning a silver medal at the 20th Olympics | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
in Austria. 17-year-old Jazmin Sawyers from Stoke-on- Trent is the | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
brakemen in Britain's to woman bobsleigh team. -- two woman | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
bobsleigh team. This is the most exciting thing we have ever done. | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
Just to be part of the games is an incredible experience. To win a | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
silver medal is incredible. It is the highlight of my life. | :22:21. | :22:30. | |
Well done to her. You made a documentary about Basil D'Oliveira, | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
didn't you, Nick? He was such a significant figure. You cannot | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
underestimate that. This guy, when he was the top non-white cricketer | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
in South Africa as a youngster, he was not even allowed to watch | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
first-class cricket, let alone play. It is the equivalent of being here | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
and having to watch cricket at Lord's from a tree outside. You can | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
see why he came here and why to such a great story that he came and | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
helped begin the ending of apartheid. On 7:30pm on Inside Out | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
there will be more on a story. If you think it is cold outside, | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
explorer Mark Wood is halfway through his attempt to become the | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
first person to ski solo to the north and south poles. Today, he | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
took time out from his expedition to talk live via a video link to | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
pupils at his former school in Coventry. He is in Canada to begin | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
preparations for the second part of his challenge. | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
I am really pleased to say that I am standing at the Geographic South | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
Pole. 15 days ago, there was no disguising the euphoria as Mark | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
Wood made it to the South Pole on skis. Thanks to the wonders of | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
modern communication, today, the intrepid explorer made it into a | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
classroom at his former school, Finham Park in Coventry. Hello. How | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
are you? Ma Arca, 45-year-old former soldier and fire fighter, | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
has arrived in Ottawa and Canada are preparing to ski to the North | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
Pole -- Mark. Today was a chance for pupils to catch up on his | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
adventures. When you went to the South Pole did you get any | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
hallucinations? I did not hallucinate as in my mind and my | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
eyes seeing staff but I learnt how to put my mind in different places, | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
rather than the situation I was in. DDC any penguins? There were no | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
penguins, no birds, nothing at all lives within that area. For Mark's | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
Challenge started in the Antarctic on November 20th. About 650 miles | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
later he reached the South Pole. Now in February, he will walk | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
across the Arctic to the North Pole, a journey of about 480 miles. Even | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
then it is shorter, his next trek is considered more dangerous | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
because of moving eyes and polar bears. Mark has lost three stone | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
and plans to regain the wait before his North Pole challenge, I | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
challenge these people say they would not want to share. I would | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
feel lonely and bored. I cannot be without people. But they are full | :25:20. | :25:30. | |
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of admiration for the adventurer. Best of luck, Mark. I do admire him. | :25:33. | :25:42. | |
Now the weather. I think it is a It is no easy task summarising this | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
week because there is so much chopping and changing going on. It | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
will be wintry. A warm front followed by a cold. When we are | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
caught in the middle we are in a warm sector so temperatures will | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
rise but temperatures are picking up. We are not quite there yet. We | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
have clear skies across as this evening. That will send | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
temperatures plunging down to-four Celsius in the countryside, minus | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
one in built up areas. That will give us a frost and mist and fog | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
patches developing. Later on tonight, we will see the clouds | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
thickening up from the West. There will be rain across most parts. It | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
is a wet start to the day across all parts tomorrow morning. Still a | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
raw feel to the day. As the rain comes into contact with the colder | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
air from the east, that could turn into snow over the hills. The rain | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
starts to clear-up by the afternoon. Quite cloudy across the region. On | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
the surface, the temperatures look good. You think, why was it so cold | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
and then mild? Tomorrow night is a lot milder. We are looking at it | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
being cloudy with some spit sun spots of rain. Temperatures only | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
falling down to eight Celsius compared to tonight's-four. On | :27:09. | :27:17. | |
Wednesday we are looking at highs I was on the Lancashire coast on | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
Saturday and it was very, very windy. Tonight's main headlines: | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
Plans to impose a benefits cap run into trouble in the House of Lords. | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
And an escaped prisoner is on the loose tonight after he was freed | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
following an ambush on a prison van in Worcestershire. He is described | :27:34. | :27:37. |