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Good evening and welcome to the start of the weekend at Midlands | :00:03. | :00:11. | |
Today. Come to that -- consultants say they are appalled by proposed | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
cuts they say threaten patient care at the Birmingham hospital. | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
can't make cuts like that and still have effective, intact services. | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
Partially paralysed - the motor cyclist injured by a hit and run | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
driver bags for an apology. All I want is somebody to turn around and | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
say I'm sorry, it didn't see you, or I am sorry, I wasn't paying | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
attention. The education secretary different | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
plans to turn dozens more schools into academies. It is rescuing | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
those children from years of underperformance. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
And farewell to a legend as the cricketing world says goodbye to | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
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Basil don of error of Good evening. Our top story - big | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
cuts at three hospitals as consultants warn patient care will | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
be affected. The cuts being proposed by the trust which runs | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Birmingham City Hospital, Sandwell General Hospital and Rowley Regis | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
Hospital are among the largest in the region. �125 million has to be | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
saved spread over five years. That's an average of 6.5 per cent a | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
year. The health union Unison claims cuts on this scale will put | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
patients' lives at risk. But hospital managers said tonight | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
they're dealing with the challenge. Here's our health correspondent | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
Michele Paduano. There have been fears about the | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
trust's future for some time. Last night senior doctors held an | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
extraordinary meeting to find out. Dr Ken Taylor, a retired doctor, | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
was at that meeting. Doctors were told about �125 million in cuts | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
over five years. And no one was safe. They heard all the fact last | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
night, and I think it was probably shock last night at the enormity of | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
the situation but they face. You can't make cuts like that and still | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
have effective, intact services. the next financial year, over 9 | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
million must be saved from the This site in Smethwick is earmarked | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
for a new "single" hospital. It is only a small part of the cards. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Having won hospital here would greatly improve efficiency. But the | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
hospital was supposed to have been built by 2010. The latest delay is | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
caused by the government deciding whether the private financing of | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
hospitals that are still affordable. There are some doctors who don't | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
believe it will get built. The chief executive says there is no | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
Plan B and is confident he will get the new hospital. He wants to | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
reassure staff that all hospitals have a similar uphill struggle. | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
think it would be stupid and naive to suggest this is not a tough | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
agenda. The situation we are facing is the same across the whole of the | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
hospital sector in the NHS. It is all part of the 20 billion in | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
savings which everybody is familiar with the that the NHS is required | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
to make. Patient were worried it today. I'm lucky I am not ill, but | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
I do worry about people in hospital, it is a worry. At the end of the | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
day, they have to offer a service, and have the finances are minimised, | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
how are they going to be able to offer the same service? We are | :03:46. | :03:56. | |
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going to suffer, nobody else. Bebo are losing jobs already. | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
there's only one certainty. The NHS can't be the same. Is it going to | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
be the same throughout the region? It is the first time I have heard | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
of is happening, but we're talking about 4.5% cuts for all hospitals, | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
that will be taking place, but there is a feeling that district | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
general hospitals will be hit harder, and politically, people | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
think there is a desire to squeeze them out of existence in favour of | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
bigger hospitals. If that is the case, but politicians do have to | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
come forward with those proposals, because if you're cutting and | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
captain, they risk a danger to patients save D. What is the impact | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
likely to be of cutting back budgets on this scale? It is | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
difficult to say, but 7% of hospitals budget is staff. One | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
doctor talked about -- 70%. It could be up to a third of staff, | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
thousands and thousands of people. We are talking serious numbers, and | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
people do not know how they're going to make these cuts over five | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
years. Thanks for joining us this evening. | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Later in the programme, a big change on the way for the weather | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
this weekend. Yes, it's certainly looking cold, and you may well have | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
heard a rumour about some snow! Well, there's a chance, later on | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
Sunday - but it's a very uncertain forecast. The details, from me, | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
A motorcyclist left partially paralysed after a hit and run | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
accident today begged the driver to apologise. John Parsons was left | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
for dead on a road in Stoke-on- Trent. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
His spine was fractured in three places and he now faces months in a | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
specialist hospital in Shropshire. He's been talking exclusively to | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
our reporter Joanne Writtle. John Parsons' family have become | :05:41. | :05:51. | |
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his rock since this happened. remember being thrown in the air, I | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
remember skidding along the ground, banging my lead, -- leg, and it was | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
torn up for it. The 24-year-old motorcyclist was hit by a car on | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
the A500 in Stoke-on-Trent. Two weeks on, police are still | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
appealing for help to trace the driver who left him in the road. | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
John, from Stafford, has been left partially paralysed, and faces | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
months in the renowned spinal injuries centre in Oswestry. All I | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
want is somebody to turn around and say, I am sorry, I didn't see you, | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
all I'm sorry, I just wasn't paying attention. I am sorry, that is all | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
I want, somebody to say that. More than anything else. Apart from that, | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
I don't really care. Department of Transport figures reveal that | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
travelling over the same distance, motorcyclists are 63 times more | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
likely to be killed or seriously injured than car drivers. And | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
although it's not known whether the driver was insured in John's case, | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
it's estimated that there are over 1.5 million uninsured motorists on | :06:57. | :07:07. | |
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our roads. We understand that in a number of these accidents, it is | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
the car drivers's fault, and probably it is when the motor | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
cyclist is going through a blind spot on the mirror of the car | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
driver, that is when things happen. John's stepfather had this message | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
for the driver. It might be that the person has done it panicked, | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
drove off, we were initially very angry that had happened, but if | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
they actually come forward and speak to the police, we can get | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
John's case covered. X-rays show John's spine fractured in three | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
places. But he has recently regained some movement in one leg, | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
and doctors are optimistic. And before we left, there was another | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
small breakthrough. Just having the neck brace off and be able to | :08:00. | :08:10. | |
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actually move your neck free is absolutely amazing, to be honest. | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
We wish him a speedy recovery. The Education secretary Michael | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
Gove was met by protests today as he visited the first school in | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
Birmingham to convert to Academy status. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
He wants more schools to go the same way, insisting standards will | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
be raised. But opponents say it's playing politics with children's | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
education. Here's our political reporter Susana Mendonca. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
An English class with a difference. The man up front clearly isn't | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
there teacher. Did you like the TV show or find it too confusing? | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
education secretary is discussion and a book called Animal Farm. This | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
was a foundation school, but converted to become an academy. | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
great thing about them is that head teachers have more power to raise | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
standards, so they can vary the school's Bay, the curriculum could | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
bring in new qualifications, they can pay good teachers more. | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
there is a positive reaction in this classroom. It does make a | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
difference to schools, so far it has made the score better. | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
started GCSEs a year earlier, so you get more of a chance. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
government has invited all schools to convert, and so far, 17 have | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
done exactly that. But not everyone is convinced that academies are a | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
good idea. Teachers at his primary went on strike this week at the | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
plans to turn their school into an academy, and many parents there | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
have been protesting as well. force a school, giving it no-choice, | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
to say either you become an Academy or we will come inside, remove your | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
governors, and make it... It is not democratic. But Michael Gove makes | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
no apology. It is not a state -- is threat to the children, it is | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
rescuing them from years of underperformance. Whenever you | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
change things, the people who are associated with failure say they | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
are criticising us. Yes I am, because they have allowed children | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
to leave drama school after seven years of state education, incapable | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
of reading, writing or adding up properly. He had already left by | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
the time they turned up. Clearly, this is a fight that is not over. | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
And Susana's outside Ninestiles School in Acocks Green now. We've | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
heard Michael Gove's case for academies, why are people against | :10:35. | :10:44. | |
them, Susana? Many other teachers and teaching unions are worried | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
about a potential impact upon their pay and conditions. They had those | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
of local authorities, but academies would be outside of local authority | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
control, so would have to start from scratch. Some of the parents I | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
had been speaking to think there will be a lack of accountability, | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
they will not be on parent-governor boards, but had teacher he says | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
there are the ways parents can get involved. A third area is whether | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
or not there would be a two-tier system, where the Academy's get | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
more funding, and the local authority schools do not. Michael | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
Gove was keen to say today that is not the case. Assuming they are | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
going to improve standards, how will we know? It is a difficult | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
question to answer, the critics say there is no evidence that they will | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
improve standards, the government says there is. But you only know | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
when you see the results that students get at the end of their | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
academic career, and at schools, a child start at a young age, bins at | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
beer GCSEs, so you could be looking at more than a decade of -- ends at | :11:51. | :12:01. | |
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did GCSEs. Thank you. This region, which of course has | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
always been known as the heart of British manufacturing, has suffered | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
a bigger industrial slump than anywhere else in the UK. That's | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
according to latest figures spanning more than a decade. | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
Now one senior Labour MP has admitted that his government didn't | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
do enough to help prevent the decline. Our Business Correspondent | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
Peter Plisner has been to Coventry, a city that was once the centre of | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
the UK's automotive industry. dawn has broken. | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
A new dawn for the UK as the 1997 general election sweeps Labour into | :12:30. | :12:40. | |
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power, but it wasn't a new dawn for Things didn't get better for many | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
of the region's small manufacturing businesses. At this Coventry firm, | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
the last decade has been a struggle. A real roller-coaster ride, we have | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
seen good years at the outset, around 2000, 2001, we have seen a | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
gradual decline, and some of the major companies we used to supply, | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
household names, have gone. Coventry has had its fair share of | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
big factory closures. This is the site of the old Peugeot factory on | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
the outskirts of the city. It's part of the reason that the West | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Midlands has seen a 23% decline in manufacturing output over the last | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
13 years - the biggest decline anywhere in the country. But it | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
used to be so different - this newsreel footage shows a royal | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
visit to the Jaguar car plant Brown's lane. But this is what it | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
looks like today. At Coventry's Transport Museum, there's an | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
exhibit charting the rise and fall of the city's automotive industry. | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
It's a good place to find out from experts why the decline in | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
manufacturing here been so bad here. What he saw sterling may be 20% | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
overvalued, that affected our export base. Customers really | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
struggled for much of the period because of that. In and we saw a | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
run-down and closure of energy Rover. It all begs the question, | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
did the Labour government do enough to protect manufacturing jobs? | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
didn't. We have got to be more, we have got to have a different | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
approach for the future. This is a key point, manufacturing companies | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
need access to finance and we have got to persuade young people that | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
it has a bright future. Despite deep recession, employment levels | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
are rising again. It is good news for a government keen to rebalance | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
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The let's talk to Steve from the chambers of commerce. What is the | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
problem, what needs to be done to turn things around, some | :14:46. | :14:53. | |
manufacturers are doing well. think if you go back to the late | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
1990s and look at my factory which is becoming unfashionable, there | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
was an obsession with the financial sector and going forward. | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
Furthermore, the skills were a big issue. What we saw was a further | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
obsession with wanting to upscale everybody in terms of sending them | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
to university. Would you make of Labour admitting they did not do | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
enough to prevent a decline? -- what do you make? Apologies, we | :15:25. | :15:35. | |
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have lost him. We will go back later if we can. Basil D'Oliveira | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
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did not seek... Still ahead for you this evening - tributes to a | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
sporting great Basil D'Oliviera, who was so much more than just a | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
fine cricketer. And how one Premier League club's helping disabled | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
footballers get to the top in their chosen sport. | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Details were revealed today of plans to build a home in the | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
grounds of a Birmingham hospital for families of injured soldiers | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
and airmen. The 18 bed property at the Queen Elizabeth will cost four | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
million pounds, to be paid for partly by charities including Help | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
for Heroes. The idea's to give military personnel injured in | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
Afghanistan a place where they can spend time with their nearest and | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
dearest while they recover. Giles Latcham reports. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
In the Houses of Parliament a special occasion to herald a | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
special project - the building of Fisher House - an idea imported | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
from an American charity who are helping to meet the �4.2 million | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
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cost. Are my trees have stood shoulder to shoulder and our people | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
have a special relationship. We disagree from time to time but at | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
the end of the day if there is trouble the other one is always | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
there. As I said, I do not view it from the American point of view, a | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
foreign soil, I view this as an extension of family. This car park | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
at Birmingham's QE Hospital is where Fisher House will be built. | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
It will be designed like you are in my home, living room, kitchen, a | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
big family room for people to spend time together but 18 large family | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
bedrooms. There's already something like it on a smaller scale. This | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
home three miles away near the old Selly Oak hospital accommodates the | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
families of soldiers or airmen injured abroad and flown back to | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
Birmingham's military hospital. When Paul's son Craig lost both his | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
legs in Helmand just before Christmas, he moved in to be close | :17:41. | :17:50. | |
to him, along with Craig's girlfriend. From a family 0.22, it | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
is a good accommodation. It allows us to be here. Close to him and not | :17:57. | :18:05. | |
travelling a long way to be here. - family point of view. With the | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
Royal Centre for Defence Medicine's now based at the new Queen | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
Elizabeth hospital site, there's an opportunity to build a bigger and | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
better home. And those who care for the injured say bringing family | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
closer can only aid recovery. Help for Heroes is another charity | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
contributing to the cost of the building, but more funds are needed | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
to run it. Work on the QE's home away from home is due to begin in | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
April. The cricketing world said goodbye | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
today to Basil D'Olivera - a player who influenced so much more than | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
the game he graced with bat and ball. More than a thousand people | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
gathered at Worcester cathedral today for a memorial service to a | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
cricketer who also played a significant part in the fall of | :18:37. | :18:46. | |
apartheid in his native South Africa. Ian Winter was there. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
It was a few degrees colder than Cape Town but not a sunny as South | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
Africa. Under blue skies in Worcester it felt like the | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
cricketing gods were smiling with fond memories of Basil D'Oliveira. | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
Famous faces mingled with less familiar cricket lovers each with | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
their own favourite story about a friend they called Basil. We have | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
been amazed at the response and the cards and everything. You do not | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
realise, it has been such a long time and so many people remember | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
him so well. A wonderful gentleman at the time when he had the | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
political problem of not being selected but a real gentleman as | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
far as I was concerned in cricket. Basil D'Oliveira learnt cricket in | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Cape Town, everyone noticed his remarkable talent except the South | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
African government he only saw the colour of his skin. You are born in | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
a certain area and told to live there, you are told where to go to | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
school and walk buses to use. It becomes part of you. You live in | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
the system. You cannot measure it against anything. In 1964 at a 32, | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
he arrived at New Road, fell in love with Worcestershire and stayed | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
for the rest of his life. I was forced to smile when I read the | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
Daily Telegraph which said, Basil D'Oliveira, the cricketer who died | :20:15. | :20:23. | |
n least 80. -- at least 80. Every seat was taken, similarly heartfelt | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
tributes, so much genuine affection. Some recall the prolific all | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
rounder with 44 Test caps, others his outstanding success with | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
Worcestershire. Everyone a knowledge to his unique role in | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
helping to end apartheid. I wonder how good he would have been if he | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
came here when he was 20. I think he would have been possibly up with | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
the greats rather than just a legend. For almost 30 years as a | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
player and coach, Basil D'Oliveira was synonymous with Worcestershire | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
county cricket clubs. Today, they gave thanks for the life of a | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
legend. Ian's still in Worcester tonight. A poignant occasion, Ian, | :21:03. | :21:12. | |
but one for celebration too? Yes, very celebratory as well. I | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
was here for a another memorial service and this was different in | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
style, context and tone. Basil D'Oliveira was 80 after a long | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
battle with Parkinson's disease. This was a celebration of his life. | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
And a magnificent turn out at the cathedral. An indication of what a | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
significant figure he was. I have never seen Worcester | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
Cathedral so full. There must have been at least to 1000, close to | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
1,500 people here. Lenny BG's and tributes. Sir Michael Parkinson | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
said he was an outstanding talent, hard work and will power to succeed. | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
He was a hero in the battle against apartheid. His former captain said | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
he was a true legend of Worcestershire cricket and the | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
former secretary at new road said in many ways Basil D'Oliveira had | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
reached all lives on his remarkable journey. Full coverage of the | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
service on BBC Hereford and Worcester tomorrow morning and a | :22:19. | :22:28. | |
gallery of pictures to look at by looking on to the website. Lovely | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
to see this archive pictures. In football, West Bromwich Albion are | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
aiming for revenge when they host Norwich City in the FA Cup tomorrow | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
after losing to them just two weeks ago in the Premier League. But away | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
from the cup and Premier League the club does much good work. This week | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
it was announced The Hawthorns will be the home to a new academy which | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
aims to produce football stars for the Paralympics. It's already home | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
to some of the best blind footballers in the land. Now future | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
internationals will be groomed at West Bromwich Albion to follow in | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
the footsteps of Paralympics hopeful Darren Harris from | :23:01. | :23:10. | |
Wolverhampton. There has always been a lot of talent in this area. | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
I think we have brought some schoolkids along today, 15, 16 and | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
had split with this investment we will produce some good players for | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
the future. The club's disability section, Sporting Club Albion, will | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
become a centre of excellence thanks to a grant of 8 thousand | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
pounds a year from the football association. And to celebrate first | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
team players Ben Foster and Nicky Shorey joined in with a session | :23:34. | :23:42. | |
this week. Blind football is about the sounds, hitting the ball and | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
every noise of the walls. And with guidance of where the posts are - | :23:47. | :23:57. | |
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Shorey was able to beat Foster with a spot kick. The players are quite | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
good. I am quite shocked. It is nice to see, you realise how good | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
they are. The Midlands already boasts excellent facilities for | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
blind football in Hereford. It's hosted the world cup in 2010 and is | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
the base for England. Now young players from across the region can | :24:15. | :24:25. | |
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aspire to play for England and dream of Paralympics gold. | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
That is astonishing. How do they do it? And to keep up with all the | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
action involving your club this weekend in the cup or the league, | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
there'll be full coverage on your BBC local radio station. I reckon | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
you might have to wrap up warm. Yes, temperatures are taking a | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
tumble as we head into the weekend. A forecasting headache for the end, | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
snow ought not to snow? For the time being, ice is concerning us. A | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
yellow warning tonight and tomorrow. Showers are falling, some contain | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
some wintry stuff, on high ground. They were cleared away, the skies | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
will clear. Temperatures will plummet. No wonder there is the | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
risk of slippery surfaces. There might be cloud around tomorrow, in | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
the south-east with mist and fog. That will clear away and tomorrow | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
will be a cracking day, fine and dry with blue skies. You need to | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
wrap up well, highs of five or six. Through tomorrow night, | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
temperatures plunging again. A haze of blue. A widespread frost and | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
freezing fog patches. Sunday, quite a quiet day. Cloud, cold with | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
temperatures at two or three. Sunday evening, things will get | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
interesting. A battleground in the weather, cold air from the east and | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
mild air rushing in from the West. This band of rain, did finding -- | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
defining line and where it meets the cold air a spell of sleet or | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
snow. Some big uncertainty about where it will come. The worst of | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
the snow will be in the west across Wales but it could first western | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
parts of our region. On Monday morning, my advice is to stay in | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
tune with the forecast. Sorry if you heard me coughing is | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
your report! -- over your report. A look at tonight's main headlines: | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
The backlash over bonuses - politicians line up to criticise | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
the Royal Bank of Scotland payout. And as hospital bosses in | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
Birmingham insist they can safely manage millions in cutbacks, | :26:46. | :26:56. | |
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consultants say standards of care will be affected. And more about | :26:56. | :27:06. | |
but reduction in manufacturer on the Sunday politics show. You can | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
read all about it on his blog. It is of course the start of the | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
weekend. I don't know what you're up to but do you fancy spending it | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
in Birmingham? That's what the readers of the New York Times' | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
travel section are being advised to do. Not Birmingham Alabama but | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
Birmingham, West Midlands. The paper calls city, big-shouldered, | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
friendly and fun. Among its suggestions are a trip to the | :27:32. | :27:35. |