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with Nick Owen and Suzanne Virdee. The headlines tonight: | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
More destinations and more flights - the Transport Secretary is told | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
work could begin in the summer to extend the runway at Birmingham | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
Airport. Birmingham has capacity. Longer term, it wil be connected | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
with High Speed Rail which will be another real advantage for | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
Birmingham and the airport. Plenty of warning about the white- | :00:22. | :00:31. | |
out weekend, but was the road- Returning to normal. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Signs of a brighter future as the number of new apprentices rockets | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
by 70% in a year. 480,000 more people next September will enter | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
the world of apprenticeships than the world of university. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
And a former world champion boxer investigates who hacked into his | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
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Good evening, welcome to Monday's Midlands Today from the BBC. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Tonight, more flights, more choice - controversial work to extend the | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
runway at Birmingham Airport could begin as early as this summer. The | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Transport Secretary Justine Greening was told today that a | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
longer runway will help to open the region up to long-range | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
destinations around the globe. A link-up with the High Speed Rail | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
project could also turn Birmingham into a major international | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
transport hub, helping to drive economic recovery. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Environmentalists condemned the proposals saying taxpayers would be | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
left to foot the bill at a time of cuts to public services. Here's our | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
Rising out of the winter gloom, the first tangible commitment to the | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
runway extension. A new �33 million control tower, replacing the old | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
tower. One from which you can't even see where the extended runway | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
would end. So with no new runways promised for London's congested | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
airports, could this one help to take the strain? Justine Greening | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
was told the state-of-the-art International Pier, opened two | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
years ago, could cope with an extra nine million passengers a year, as | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
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of now. This place is genuinely world-class up last but frustrated | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
managers here can't get enough of the world's Airlines coming here to | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
stop the business is going to London. | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
With a new Transport Secretary in the driving seat, the Government | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
want to know if facilities here are up to the job of delivering more | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
flights for Midlanders, and a new option for Londoners too. People in | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
Birmingham have they great airport which is well connected to London | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
and hopefully have more flights to more just -- more destinations so | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
it is good news for them and good news for Londoners and in the time | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
it could take them to go to the Piccadilly line to Heathrow, they | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
might be able to get on high-speed rail and go to Birmingham as well. | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
Airport managers hope to persuade environmental campaigners that it's | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
a more eco-friendly option to extend this existing runway than to | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
build a brand new one in the south- east. But opponents condemn the | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
proposed increase in runway capacity as an unwarranted drain on | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
the public purse. Taxpayers will have to foot the bill for that | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
extension by paying more towards the course to divert the offer to | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
45 at the time that the economy is cash-strapped, the taxpayer will | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
have to foot the bill which does not seem fair when it should be | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
spent on public services. It has been an epic battle for | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
airport managers, initially to gain planning permission and then to | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
secure the business case. Shareholders have been studying the | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
tenders for the project, and are expected to reach a final decision | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
at the end of this month. If all goes to plan, work could begin as | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
early as this summer, with the first non-stop flights to the | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
Pacific Rim two years after that. Patrick joins us from the airport | :03:49. | :03:59. | |
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now. How confident is the airport but their work will begin in summer. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
There is cautious optimism here. The optimism explained by the far | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
they have been talking seriously about extending it for nearly 40 | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
years so nobly wants to tempt fate but we know as a result of today, | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
there is real, serious political will at the top. I am joined by the | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
chief executive of Birmingham Airport. If everything goes to plan, | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
those flights using the new runway will begin in summer 2014. How | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
realistic is it? It is very realistic. The board has to sign | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
this off the shelf. The tenders have been received, and hopefully | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
in the next few weeks will have the decision to move forward. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
Secretary of State was here thinking about her aviation | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
strategy which is being published next month. It seems that | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
Birmingham actually has a role in UK aviation as a whole. Absolutely | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
and that is what we have been saying to her. She came to see for | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
myself, the facilities we have got. That will allow us to plug the | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
enterprise zone and build a very good story. What you say to | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
environmentalists who worry about the drain on the public purse and | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
the impact on the environment? environment is an important part of | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
this going forward and we must make sure we develop sustainably and in | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
a controlled fashion but we do need the economic growth and we need to | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
revitalise this region. A quick word about the weather you had. | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
Complaints about the delays with the snow? We didn't we have to move | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
20,000 tonnes of snow on the runway. Hopefully things are back to normal | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
now and no delays today. More on the weather in a moment so back to | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
you today. If thank you. The region has been returning to | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
something like normal today after the heaviest snowfall of the winter | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
so far. Leek in Staffordshire got the deepest covering with 11 | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
centimetres falling on Saturday night. Pershore in Worcestershire | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
recorded the lowest temperature at And gritters in Staffordshire had | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
the busiest time. A total of 2,500 tonnes of salt was spread on roads | :06:06. | :06:14. | |
there. Giles Latcham has the We knew it was coming but heavy | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
snow in Birmingham and across much of the Midlands caused chaos in | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
places. For Jan Minihane a quick trip to to Tesco on Saturday | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
afternoon turned into a nightmare. She was one of hundreds trapped for | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
up to three hours on a retail park near her home in Telford. Gritted, | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
yes, but gridlocked nonetheless. There were people with families | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
there, all the people, vulnerable people. Nothing was done until four | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
members of staff came out and that is very disappointed. An accident | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
outside and slow going on the A54 did not help. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
Tesco have apologise and they said they had staff out offering tea and | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
coffee and warmth to those affected and they said they will be talking | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
to their landlord, the owners of this retail park. | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
In places driving conditions were hazardous, verging on impossible. A | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
jack-knifed lorry on the A50 near Uttoxeter forced motorists to | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
abandon more than 100 vehicles. Some had to camp in the lounge of a | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
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nearby hotel, already full. We had about six inches in leak and eight | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
inches near Alton Towers. People gave out at about 5 o'clock in the | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
morning on Sunday. Birmingham Airport was forced to | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
cancel a number of flights. Many passengers took it on the chin, | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
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others didn't. I blame Birmingham Airport again. Here we are again. | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
The Transport Secretary was sympathetic but said safety must | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
come first. Each time we go through this process, people learn how to | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
do it better and hopefully in the picture, Birmingham Airport will be | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
closed less time and there will be less disruption. The key has to be | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
on safety at the end of the day. Snow is only clinging on to the | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
high ground. But beware the next trick, thick fog and freezing in | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
places. And later in the programme Shefali | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
will be here with the forecast. The key question - is the big freeze | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
over? Sadly not, I'm afraid. The snow may have stopped for the time | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
being but the cold continues. Join me later for the forecast and a | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
look at some of your snow A Roman Catholic priest has been | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
found guilty of sexually abusing seven boys. Alexander Bede Walsh, | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
who's 58, has been convicted of 19 charges of abusing young boys | :08:40. | :08:50. | |
between 1975 and 1993. He is seen here in the Greycoat. He's been | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
found not guilty of four charges. The jury will return to Stoke-on- | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
Trent Crown Court tomorrow morning to continue its deliberations on a | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
further four counts. Police in Birmingham have begun a | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
murder investigation after a man died at a hostel in Handsworth last | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
week. A postmortem examination found that 40-year-old Bakhitar | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
Mirawdali died from a neck wound. It's believed his body had been in | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
the room at hostel on Soho Road for two days when it was discovered | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
last Thursday. The number of people starting | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
apprenticeships in the West Midlands has risen sharply. It's | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
welcome news at the beginning of National Apprenticeship Week which | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
will see a series of events held In the last 12 months, the number | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
of people joining on the job training schemes has risen by more | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
than 70%. It follows the announcement last week that Jaguar | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
Land Rover is taking on 133 new apprentices. As Lindsay Doyle | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
reports, it's not just factories which are benefiting from the | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
The latest Junior Manager at the Midcounties Co-operative in Sedgley | :09:51. | :09:59. | |
in the Black Country. Sam Dunn is 18 months into his apprenticeship. | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
You have to start at the bottom, stacking shelves, on the tails. I | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
made it clear that I wanted to work my way up. -- on the cash registers. | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
I did what was asked of me and then I found myself as a junior manager. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Sam is one of an increasing number of young people taking up | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
apprenticeships. In 2009/10, nearly 32,000 young people were given the | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
chance to learn as they work. This rose to just over 54,000 over | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
Only last week, Jaguar Land Rover announced a 133 new apprenticeships, | :10:32. | :10:42. | |
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a record intake for the company. This coming year, 480,000 people | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
more will enter the world of apprenticeships than into the world | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
of university. That is a fabulous achievement. The scheme here is 60- | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
25-year-olds the chance to get their first step on the career | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
ladder. Whilst studying for must be recognised qualifications. They can | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
reach junior management level within 18 months. I think there are | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
important to provide things for the local community and give | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
opportunity to come and get a career for life. | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
With just six months left on his apprenticeship, Sam is already | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
supervising other members of staff and is looking forward to a long | :11:21. | :11:30. | |
Our business correspondent Peter Plisner joins us now. Why are we | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
seeing this big rise in apprenticeships? $$YELLOW, Well, | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
the main reason seems to be the need to reduce youth unemployment | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
which is still a big problem. this region, there are 243,000 | :11:39. | :11:49. | |
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people currently unemployed and of those around 51,000 are aged 16-24. | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
Interestingly the latest count of vacancies at job centres across the | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
region stands at 32,500. But it's not just the need to reduce youth | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
unemployment that's driving the growth in apprentices, there's now | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
a lack of skills in many industries, and apprenticeships are one way of | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
solving that problem. Lord Digby Jones talked about university | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
entrants versus apprenticeship places. Why is that significant? | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
It's significant because it shows that many are now opting not to go | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
to university and instead applying for apprenticeships. There are now | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
a growing number of things called vocational degrees where you work | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
while studying. With higher university fees coming in this year | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
and the fear of accruing large debts, many young people are | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
deciding that it's a better way forward. It also means they're | :12:37. | :12:46. | |
earning money while they study rather than running up debts. There | :12:46. | :12:56. | |
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is a call for you Cass style A Warwickshire company has won a | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
prestigious order to build special boxes for the Queen's Diamond | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
Jubilee which will sell at a cool �100,000 each. They will each | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
contain a 60-year-old bottle of whisky and all the proceeds will go | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
to charity. It's hoped the project will encourage the craftsmen and | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
women of tomorrow. �3 billion is contributed to the UK economy every | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
year by the country's creative industries. Joan Cummins reports | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
from Warwickshire. Hidden buttons and secret | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
compartments demonstrate the quality of workmanship in this | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
Diamond Jubilee chest. It's one of 60 boxes crafted from wood sourced | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
from the Queen's estate in Sandringham, made by the Queen's | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
cabinet-maker in Warwickshire. It will eventually house a 60-year-old | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
bottle of rare whisky. Each of these commemorative cabinets will | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
then be sold for �100,000 with the proceeds going to a charity devoted | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
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to encouraging British Peanut we do the very finest, | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
traditional cabinet-making but also very modern constructions -- here | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
we do the very finest. We then go onto the next stage of furniture- | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
making. 25 people are employed at | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
Stevenson's in Church Lawford making bespoke furniture. On this | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
project, the boxes can take two weeks each to make but the care | :14:16. | :14:25. | |
taken on each piece of work is impressive. It is a dying trade, | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
regarding skill levels but it is enjoyable. It is making something | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
different every day. Creating something special. If you don't | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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create something, what are you here for? �3 billion is generated by | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
creative industries in the UK. Liz Monk is a Queen's Scholar. She | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
was awarded �8,000 by the trust to help develop her ceramist skills, | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
which she says was invaluable. gave me funding to work alongside | :15:05. | :15:14. | |
porters and the way that kills at work. The Queen will receive one of | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
the chest but hopefully the project will enable future generations to | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
continue with the legacy of quality Those are beautiful, are you | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
putting your name down for one? You're watching BBC Midlands Today, | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
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still ahead: Cooking up a tasty -- Shakespearean style. | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
The former Telford boxer Richie Woodhall has become one of the | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
latest victims of Internet crime. The sportsman has had his e-mails | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
hacked by cyber criminals. So, to coincide with tomorrow's Safer | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
Internet Day, he's been investigating how it happened and | :15:57. | :16:07. | |
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what he and other victims can do to Fraud, viruses, predators. The | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
internet has lots of advantages but it can be a hostile place. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
's I've never had any problems using the internet but a couple of | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
days ago, somebody hacked into my e-mails. I would like to find out | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
who it was and how it happened. If there are cracks in my online | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
defences, this man will find them. After they hacked my e-mails, I am | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
increasing my security. Brian, an ethical hacking lecturer, is the | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
man for the job. If I have to keep them out, I need to know how they | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
got in. They might be lucky enough to guess your password. They could | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
use software to allow them to send multiple requests to your e-mail | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
address for lots of possible passwords. All they might have | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
actually targeted your machine at home. Usually Brian's Coventry | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
University students pit their skills against cyber criminals. | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
Testing for weaknesses without breaking laws. But this week, using | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
information openly available, they are going to investigate me. It | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
seems my private life is on display. From a technical point of view, the | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
worrying thing is we were able to find your home IP address. That can | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
then lead your machine to become under significant attack. How can I | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
protect against that? There are techniques you can use to mitigate | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
people finding out your IP address. Things called proxies. It is like a | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
filter that keeps your machine anonymous. I definitely needed one | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
of those. What I've heard here today, it has | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
been quite surprising. When it comes to protecting myself on line | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
in the future, one thing's for certain - doing nothing is not an | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
option. And I certainly would be burying my head in the sand in | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
And you can find out more information about ways to protect | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
yourself and the results of a BBC survey on the internet in tonight's | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
Inside Out on BBC One at 7:30. Onto sport now and although the | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
weather wiped out a lot of the weekend's football programme, the | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
Premier League fixtures went ahead as planned. Here's Dan with the | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
details. The Wolves midfielder Emmanuel | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
Frimpong is out for the rest of the season after damaging his cruciate | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
ligament in Saturday's win at QPR. He has returned to Arsenal for an | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
operation on his injured knee. It casts a shadow over Wolves | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
excellent 2-1 win which lifted them out of the bottom three of the | :18:31. | :18:40. | |
same. QPR were on top. They took the lead through Bobby Zamora and | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
Wolves had that sinking feeling again. But it all turned, with a | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
glove to the neck. Djibril Cisse was sent off and Wolves came | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
roaring back. Goals from Matt Jarvis and Kevin Doyle gave them a | :18:52. | :19:02. | |
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2-1 win which lifted them out of It was a fabulous response. It was | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
a booking, not a nice tackle but that is what it was, a booking. I | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
do not like those things being sent off but we have had them. | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
Next up they play West Bromwich Albion. The good news for the | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
Baggies is they're away from home. Saturday brought a familiar tale. | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
Goals from Gylfi Sigurdsson and Danny Graham gave swansea a 2-1 win. | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
Albion have now lost five and drawn just one of their last six home | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
league games. Blue pitch markings at Stoke City - | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
a real blast from the past. Conditions were tough at the | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
Britannia Stadium. And Stoke felt there was rough justice. They're | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
appealing the decision to send off Robert Huth for this challenge. | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
Stoke lost their third straight league game thanks to James McClean | :19:45. | :19:54. | |
scoring the game's only goal. disappointing thing, and it is | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
happening to many times, is the reaction of the players. If you | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
look at Robert, he goes in to be committed and then pulls out. It is | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
a disease coming into the game when players are rolling around. They | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
are looking round. Aston Villa also lost. They fell behind to Demba | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
Ba's opener. Robbie Keane's impressive run continued as he | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
scored the equaliser. But they were undone by a stunning goal from | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
debutant Papiss Demba Cisse. It leaves Villa 13th, and all of the | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
Midlands teams are in the bottom half of the table. | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
In the Championship Birmingham City's winning run came to an end | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
with a goalless draw at home to Southampton. The match will | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
probably be best remembered for the atrocious conditions it was played | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
in. Marlon King's shot was among the few chances in the match. | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
Meanwhile Coventry City were back to their old habit of losing a game | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
late on. A Sammy Clingan penalty and this strike from Gary Deegan | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
gave them a 2-1 half-time lead over Ipswich. But Michael Chopra scored | :20:51. | :21:00. | |
twice, including an injury time It's 40 years since one of the most | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
famous shocks in FA Cup history. Hereford United, then playing in | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
the Southern League, beat first division Newcastle United with a | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
memorable goal from Ronnie Radford. Players and spectators will be | :21:11. | :21:21. | |
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sharing their memories of the game He had a lovely little shout, | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
somebody told me to get out the way and I am glad I did, it went | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
straight as a die in the top corner. Even if you had three goalkeepers | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
on the line, it would have still gone in. | :21:32. | :21:42. | |
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And you can see that interview in I never tire of seeing that. | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
you look at the pitch as well. The London 2012 Olympics are less | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
than six months away and they won't just involve sporting events. There | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
will be cultural celebrations as well. One of them is the World | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Shakespeare Festival which begins in April. When people will be able | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
to get their teeth into Elizabethan food, amongst other things. Today, | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
chefs from a top London restaurant came to Stratford-upon-Avon intent | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
on taking back a taste of the Bard's favourite dishes. Kevin | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
Mary Arden's house at Wilmcote near Stratford-upon-Avon, a place where | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
a young William Shakespeare would have enjoyed many a meal. And today | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
a team from a top London restaurant where here to find out the sort of | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
food on the Bard's dinner plate with a view to recreating | :22:22. | :22:31. | |
Shakespearean evenings in the capital. It is very much a fact- | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
finding mission. An opportunity to share some of the food and recipes | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
of Tudor England and Shakespeare's time. This is a piece of roast pork | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
which will be served with a sweet and sour sauce. Today's feast was | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
laid on by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and as well as the | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
pork, a typical banquet of that time for the wealthy would have | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
included baked chicken with sliced oranges and spices, a white bread | :22:53. | :23:03. | |
made with honey and eggs, and pottage. It is a vegetable soup, | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
very much like we have a starter nowadays. It helps to take the edge | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
of the up-turn it before the more expensive dishes come to the table. | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
This is spiced cider. The food was served as it would | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
have been more than 400 years ago with the pottage to start. Main | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
course, the pork and chicken followed by a selection of desserts | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
including peascod - a thin pastry filled with apple, honey, ginger | :23:25. | :23:34. | |
and butter before frying. So as the guests enjoy the Tudor feast, a | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
chance for the maids and servants to have a rest and a bit of food | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
themselves. It has almost come full circle now, we are going back to | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
locality and provenance. We are eating what is available. I am | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
eating dishes in season as opposed to what is out of season. By a | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
meeting what is in the garden and this cuisine was built on this, we | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
did not have ingredients flown across the world. What they have | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
listed is what they would eat. Afterwards, they headed for the | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
Shakespeare Centre in Stratford to look at the archives. And for those | :24:15. | :24:23. | |
involved in the cooking, a job well Pork with sweet and sour sauce | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
sounds quite contemporary, quite Oriental. It reminded me of a line | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
from Romeo and Juliet. Very snowy this weekend and very | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
pretty but I have to say I'm rather glad it's gone. The weekend's snow | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
certainly brought out the more playful side of people's | :24:43. | :24:51. | |
Glad to see you made the most of it. We were inundated with photographs | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
of your handiwork and here are just a few examples. This scary scene | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
was made by Marcus Skelton in Stoke-On-Trent. The James family | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
built a more traditional snowman in their garden in Harborne. As did | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
Gary Cheary who sent us this picture. There was enough snow for | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
Brandon and Lewis Spence to build an igloo in Rugby. Chloe Adams of | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
Bradwell created this snow caterpillar. And this is a Snow | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
Jedward, built by Freya Sweeney. Dave Atkinson captured Leamington | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
Spa with a carpet of snow and Paul Wilde's photo shows it wasn't just | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
children enjoying the white stuff in Redditch. Finally this snowman | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
was nicknamed Bob by Ella and Maisi Moore in Great Haywood but is he | :25:28. | :25:38. | |
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I am afraid not. The cold snap is not over but the snow will be for | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
the time being. It will be a many dry picture except by the end of it | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
by which time the temperatures will rise slightly. The outstanding | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
feature this week is freezing fog, frost and also the cold. That is | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
because of the overbearing presence of high pressure which is to the | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
north-east. The vans coming in are trying to stay but are being fended | :26:06. | :26:15. | |
off. We have got a lot of cold weather around, particularly so by | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
midweek when the high pressure really assert itself and we get | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
temperatures plummeting down to minus double figures by Wednesday | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
night. Tonight we are wading through the cloud and we have got | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
freezing fog and masses over any lying snow. Particularly towards | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
the east and the North. Also fairly widespread frost where we have the | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
lowest temperatures and temperatures could drop as low as | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
minus three Celsius. A many dry picture and if you get any snow | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
flurries, they are taught the eastern fringes way you could see a | :26:48. | :26:56. | |
spot of ice. It is a continued risk. Freezing fog persists tomorrow | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
morning and a lot of cloud during the morning, some brighter spells | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
possible by the afternoon. It is a very dull picture generally with | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
low-lying cloud and temperatures down to around four Celsius. | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
Tomorrow night, the skies will clear and once again snow flurries | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
disappearing to the east. Widespread frosts with temperatures | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
A look at tonight's main headlines: Syria's army mounts the heaviest | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
attack yet in the country's 11- month uprising. | :27:27. | :27:30. |