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Hello, welcome to Midlands Today with Suzanne Virdee and Nick Owen. | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
The headlines tonight: Facing a lengthy jail sentence - the Roman | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
Catholic priest found guilty of abusing young boys. | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
And I am bitter but I also feel sorry because it is help as much as | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
punishment that he needs. Anger over supermarket plans which | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
residents and traders say will turn their high street into a ghost town. | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
We Australia gained this, we want to maintain a market town. Born a | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
boy but living as a girl - the 10- year-old convinced she was born in | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
the wrong body now campaigning against transgender inequality. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
And how American giant Coca Cola turned to a gaming firm here for | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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Good evening, welcome to Tuesday's Midlands Today from the BBC. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
Tonight - a Roman Catholic priest has been told he'll face a lengthy | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
jail sentence after being found guilty of abusing eight vulnerable | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
young boys over an 18-year period. Alexander Bede Walsh, who is 58, | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
has been convicted of 21 charges of abusing young boys, between 1975 | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
and 1993. The police officer who led the inquiry said Walsh was | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
supposed to be a man of the cloth but he'd shown no compassion, no | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
integrity and no humanity. And tonight the Catholic Church has | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
said proceedings are under way to de-frock Walsh so he can never work | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
as priest again. Alexander Bede Walsh, here on the | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
right, was known to thousands of families in the Midlands as Father | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
Bede. He used his revered status to abuse boys aged between eight and | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
16 in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Michael Clifford was one of those | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
victims. The law protects those who have suffered sexual abuse from | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
being identified. But he's waived his right to anonymity because he | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
says he feels it's important to speak out. He described how he | :02:08. | :02:18. | |
feels now towards Walsh, more than 30 years on. I am bitter but I also | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
feel sorry for the man because it is help us much as punishment that | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
he needs. From what I can see, to this day, they are my feelings | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
towards the man. I do want him to be punished but I think he needs | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
help as well. How do you feel to what the Catholic Church? Very let | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
down because I was put in an institute through no fault of my | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
own and they were responsible for my welfare and care my upbringing. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Walsh spent much of his career, here in the Staffordshire town of | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Cheadle. But his abuse began in Warwickshire - and later it | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
continued when he was a parish priest in Coventry. I don't think | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
you'd get more serious than this. And man to have entered the | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
priesthood, revered organisation, and has abused his position | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
massively. This may be only the tip of the iceberg. We may have mothers | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
out there, and we have, come forward. The investigation began in | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
2009 when it independently to victims contacted the police. | :03:27. | :03:36. | |
Following publicity, events T6 more victims came forward. -- eventually | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
six more victims. Walsh already had a previous conviction for | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
possessing child pornography. He later resigned from his post at a | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
parish in Banbury. In North Staffordshire, he'd been a | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
respected figure - at this church in Stoke on Trent at mass on the | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
first day of his trial, parishoners were asked to remember him in their | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
prayers. But tonight the Catholic Church described his crimes as | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
"horrendous". This is a horrific case which has shocked and appalled | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
me and it has cast a shadow over the lives of many people. Victims | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
and their families, fellow priests and the people of the parishes | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
where he served as a priest. Walsh will be sentenced next month. The | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
judge has already warned him a long jail term is inevitable. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
And you can read more about the background to this case and the | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
impact it's had on the victims on our BBC Stoke and Staffordshire | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
website. That's bbc.co.uk/stoke. Thanks for joining us this freezing | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Tuesday evening, coming up:. Fighting for understanding and | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
acceptance, the 10-year-old who was born a boy but lives as a girl says | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
the media treat her condition as a joke. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
The Midlands is one of the worst areas in the country for the number | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
of empty shops, according to a new report by the Local Data Company. | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Wolverhampton is one of the most affected and the city council is | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
concerned that people are also being put off shopping there | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
because of "chuggers". Chuggers are paid to collect money for charity | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
and now the council is introducing a partial ban to allow people to | :05:07. | :05:16. | |
shop in peace. We have spoken to people in the City and clearly | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
there is a concern about the level of intervention is that people were | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
facing a going down Dudley Street, in particular. As a result of that | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
we have taken this action to try to regulate the number of chuggers | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
allowed on the streets at any one time. Shop vacancies are also on | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
the rise as High Street traders are struggling to compete with | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
superstores and internet shopping. In one Shropshire town, traders are | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
so worried about the impact of a proposed new superstore development | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
that they've joined forces to fight it. In the first of our special | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
High Street in Crisis reports, our business correspondent, Peter | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Plisner, has been investigating. The busy high street in Newport - a | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
market town where until now there's been no real competition from out- | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
of-town supermarkets. But that could all be about to change. | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
Sainsbury's is planning a huge new store on the outskirts of the town. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
Traders in the High Street are already worried. Anthea Gould runs | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
a clothes store. It is all bad foot fault. We need the people to come | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
into town to see what we have good and fast to give them the service. | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
Meanwhile, at the local bakery the message was clear. The message | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
would be safest market town, says the independent retailers. But in | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
the High Street itself, opinions seem divided. We're trying to | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
support our local traders and it is bad news. I think he will be good | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
for the town. Retail experts maintain that the biggest threat to | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
the High Street is from outside town shopping and there is evidence | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
to suggest that when out of town supermarkets do get the go-ahead, | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
places like this are far. This area forms part of the car-park and | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
superstore. This is the land that is to be developed, currently a | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
greenfield site and local councillors want it to stay that | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
way. In May to of traffic this is good to create. You can see the | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
work of the road. We are certain that the infrastructure will not | :07:18. | :07:28. | |
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cater for it. A final decision rests with Telford and Wrekin | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
Council - although they say they are still considering objections. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
We will be taking all of their comments into account, looking in | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
detail of what they have said. We will also be using our own retail | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
consultants to look at the, it's we have received and to evaluate | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
whether the supermarket proposals are justified or not. Councillors | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
are expected to meeting to discuss the plans, which also includes | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
houses and a business park, in the next two months. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Live now to Peter, who's in Shirley in Solihull, which has a pretty | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
busy high street despite having a number of big supermarkets nearby, | :08:07. | :08:17. | |
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so why are some high streets doing OK and others not? In the case of | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
Shirley there are two reasons. One is that there are already | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
supermarkets on the High Street, which bring people in and increase | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
the football. Another reason is that there is free parking. And | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
there are some niche product sellers and bay, again, mean that | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
people travel into the area and other shops benefit. What more can | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
we do to protect the high street? Whitney is Nigel Botterill he was a | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
small business troubleshooter. What advice would you give to | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
independent stores that are facing the threat of out-of-town | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
supermarkets? The shop owners have to adapt or die for. The reality is | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
that for 17 years you ran on three things, a big ad in yellow paces, | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
at the local paper and word of mouth. That has no change. | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
we're working towards social media. Social media is twentieth-century | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
word of mouth. How many businesses are engage with Facebook and | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
twitter, are they doing events? These are things they can tap into | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
to save themselves. How important is social media? I think it is | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
crucial, it is where the world is right now. Half the population of | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
the UK today is on Facebook and did you are a business you need to be | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
there because that is where your customers are. You need to | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
communicate with them, get offers through. Tomorrow we will be | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
looking at another issue in the High Street, hype rents and rates, | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
and the businesses who are going online and abandoning the High | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
Street. Four people, including two teenage | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
girls, have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
Worcester man who died in an arson attack. Andrew Heath was killed | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
just before Christmas when his flat in the Warndon area of the city was | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
set on fire. Police say two men aged 19 and 24, and two girls aged | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
16 and 17, are being questioned about Mr. Heath's murder. | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
Police say a 40-year-old man found murdered in Birmingham was soon to | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
get married. Bakhitar Mirawdali died from a wound to his neck. His | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
body lay undiscovered for two days at a hostel in Handsworth. He'd | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
been granted political asylum but was due to return to Iraq to marry | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
his fiancee. Detectives are appealing to members of the Kurdish | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
community and local people for help in identifying his killer. It is | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
important that we understand what happened in the days leading up to | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
the discovery of Mr Mariawdali. He was a very peaceful manner we know | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
little about him and his family and we were to urge anybody who knows | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
to come forward. It was tragedy that left a little | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
boy orphaned and a family distraught. Terri-Ann Barnett and | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
her partner Tom Matts were walking down the road when they were | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
crushed by falling timber after a lorry crashed and lost its load. | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
Now, a year on, their family are suing the haulage firm that left | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
the couple's son, Morgan, without a mum and dad and the bright future | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
they'd planned for him. Amy Harris reports. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
Morgan Matts playing happily, blissfully unaware of what happened | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
a year ago today. Both his parents were killed in an accident. | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
Morgan's too young to understand he'll never see them again. It'll | :11:33. | :11:42. | |
be up to his nan and auntie to explain: He has recently started | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
asking when his money coming back, just said suing because he quarters | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
of card. And then afterwards we discussed what to say to him when | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
he asks again and we were going to explain to him that they're in | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
heaven and that they love him very much. This is one of the last | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
photographs taken of Morgan with his mum, Terri-Ann, and dad, Tom. | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
Just weeks later they were dead. They were walking along this | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
stretch of road in Hereford, moments after dropping Morgan at | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
nursery, when a lorry carrying roof joists hit the bridge. The load | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
fell and crushed them. A year on, the bridge still bears the signs of | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
the accident - there's timber on the wall here. And the driver of | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
that lorry has been released from prison after serving half of a one- | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
year sentence. The couple's family believe that wasn't long enough, | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
but they are pursuing civil action against the haulage company where | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
he worked. The load hadn't been measured before leaving so they | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
didn't know the height of his load - so because of that we're going to | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
sue their insurance company for taking away the 18 years of love | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
and support that Morgan's going to lose from his parents. The haulage | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
company, Gammonds, wouldn't comment but if they're successful, the | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
family want to give Morgan the private education his parents once | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
talked about. At the scene, Diane and Claire take Morgan to lay | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
flowers. They're determined to give him the happy childhood his mum and | :13:14. | :13:24. | |
dad would have wanted and to make sure he never forgets them. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
Still to come this evening. A �500,000 windfall that spruced up a | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
museum in the town which inspired the modern Olympics. And as the | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Siberian chill tightens its grip on us - could we be heading for the | :13:36. | :13:46. | |
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A charity which carries out undercover visits to care homes | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
says it's seen evidence of "chronic neglect" in some of Stoke-on- | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
Trent's private elderly residential centres. The comments come after | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
the city council decided to close two of its specialist dementia | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
units last week. Compassion In Care says local authority run homes | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
offer a better service and privatisation does not improve care. | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
BBC Radio Stoke's political reporter, Elizabeth Glinka, joins | :14:12. | :14:21. | |
us from our Stoke studio. What exactly did the charity find that | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
warranted so much? What this charity does his pretence to be a | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
new customer so that it can get into their homes and see how people | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
are being treated. They have been into eight homes in Stoke-on-Trent | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
and say they have seen their arrears problems from people not | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
being given enough food or water to more serious signs of neglect. | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
have seen all sorts of problems in these homes. One thing there was a | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
real concern was a resident that was walking around a home totally | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
emaciated, her curves were dirty and she was distraught and looking | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
for someone to reassure her. And staff just walked past. That makes | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
me more concern than ever that they are closing dementia in units. | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
These undercover visits came just as the city council announced it | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
was closing two specialist dementia homes. They announced that last | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
week as part of plans to save �24 million. The charities say that in | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
their experience of doing these undercover visits across the | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
country, it is council homes that offer the best care so they say | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
this authority should think again. The council are saying how | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
residents are our top priority and of the move people we are going to | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
monitor them very closely. What is being done to improve the problems? | :15:47. | :15:55. | |
To put it into perspective, this charity went into eight homes and | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
there are nearly 300 across this city. The charities say they are | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
going to be informing the charity watchdog and the watchdog have told | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
us that they are happy to hear this information and they will be | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
prepared to look at any problems and investigate further if | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
necessary. A 10-year-old who was born a boy | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
but lives as a girl has started a petition against transgender | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
discrimination. Livvy James has gender dysphoria, which means she | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
feels she is a girl trapped in a boy's body. She's now campaigning | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
against what she says are offensive words used in the media when | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
covering such issues. We first met Livvy and her mum last September | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
when she went back to school as a girl for the first time. Cath | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
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Mackie has been back to meet them. What unearth are the parents up to? | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
Livvy James and her mum, Saffy, are visibly upset and angry as they | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
read through readers' comments posted in response to today's | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
newspaper reports about them. The family from Worcester have heard | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
the insults before, but are fighting back with a petition to | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
stop what they regard as transgender discrimination in the | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
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media. Gender bender, trannie, sex change, gender confused, that is a | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
good one. They are not confused, the people writing the stories are | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
confused. I don't like reading stuff like that because we are not | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
try any or all of that stuff that is put into the newspaper, it is | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
complete rubbish. We don't want that being put down. I am really | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
frustrated at the moment. Livvy has gender dysphoria and until recently, | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
she lived a double life. At school she was a boy. To herself and her | :17:48. | :17:57. | |
family she was a girl. They have all been pretty calm except for | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
just a few parents and a few children. But you are much happier? | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
Yes, definitely. I would not say it was a mistake. She now attends her | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
primary school as a girl. Livvy says she sometimes feels suicidal | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
trapped in the wrong body - her mother says she's behaved like a | :18:14. | :18:23. | |
girl since she was a toddler. frustrates me that people are so | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
uneducated that they think I could mould a child to be something that | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
she does not want to be. Livvy will start taking hormone blockers when | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
she's 12 as part of a new trial, but can't have surgery until she's | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
18. More than 600 people have signed her petition, she hopes | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
it'll help other people like her. One of our top gaming firms has | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
been hired by Coca Cola to turn the stars of their adverts into digital | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
fans who react to a Superbowl game just like the real American fans. | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
It's a complicated process, but they've pulled it off, and our | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
science correspondent, David Gregory, has been to find out how | :18:56. | :19:06. | |
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they did it. The 46th Superbowl between New York | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
Giants and The New England Patriots. A sporting event, but also a | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
vitally important advertising event too. So while Coca Cola paid | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
millions for these painstakingly animated commercials to run on TV | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
during the game. They wanted to do more with these characters and have | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
them watch the game with the fans. Live, for four hours. And to do | :19:24. | :19:32. | |
that they turned to Blitz Games in Leamington Spa. It is something | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
that had never been done before and it was issued a challenge because | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
these of furry creatures. He need for hours of performance out of | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
them, they have to re-read constantly and they have to be | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
pleasant and engaging. These bears are basically very sophisticated | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
puppets. Controlled not by strings, but by video game controllers. The | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
aim is to capture the attention of the 60% of viewers who watched the | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
game on TV while also surfing the web. People watching these big | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
sporting events there are watching other information on smart phones, | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
laptops, and this was where the best lift. They were screened live, | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
reacting to the show as it went on. And the people watching the bears | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
during the Super Bowl? They know that a million different devices | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
were locked on and probably more than one person was watching each | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
of those computers. Frankly, that is much more than Midlands Today | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
gets on a very good day. You know these bears are pretty good at this | :20:35. | :20:44. | |
TV lark - watch the one on the right. After more than four hours | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
of live reaction to the game and the comments of viewers, the bears | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
were a hit. It might not be long before we see something similar | :20:52. | :21:02. | |
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here. Curious, to say the least! | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
In football, Stoke City have lost their appeal against Robert Huth's | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
sending off on Saturday. It's a big night for Birmingham City and | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
Cheltenham Town in their promotion campaigns. Birmingham will go third | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
in the Championship if they beat Portsmouth at St Andrews, while | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
Cheltenham will be five points clear at the top of League Two if | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
they win at rivals Crawley. The manager isn't setting any promotion | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
targets though. We are not in two starts and stops like that. Just | :21:28. | :21:37. | |
more of the same from the players. It is something like two league | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
defeats in 21 or 22. If we do that, will be promoted. And there's full | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
commentary on the Cheltenham game live on BBC Radio Gloucestershire | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
this evening, coverage starts at just after seven. | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
On to cricket, and the Warwickshire batsman Ian Bell has been dropped | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
from England's one-day squad after disappointing in the Test series | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
against Pakistan. Bell scored just 51 runs at an average of 8 as | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
England lost the series 3-0. The England coach Andy Flower says Bell | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
took the news well and that improved form could see him return | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
to the one-day squad. This summer, all eyes will be on | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
London for the Olympics, but tens of thousands of people are also | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
expected to make the trip to the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock. | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
Its Olympian Games are credited as inspiring the modern Olympics and | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
today, one of the town's main attractions, its museum, opened its | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
doors after a major facelift. Ben Sidwell reports. | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
Followed the 100 years, the Olympic Games have brought the sporting | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
world together. There is a real possibility that it would not have | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
happened without Much Wenlock. Today, after a major makeover, the | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
museum reopened its doors, to tell the story of how it helped shape a | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
Olympic history. We are thrilled that it has been completed with | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
this makeover that makes our artefacts, the metals, the cups | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
that a part of the heritage of the society, now on display for | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
everybody to see, locally, nationally and internationally. | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
museum tells the story of William Brookes and how he started the Much | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
Wenlock Olympian Games. enthusiasm for the collections here | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
has grown over the last few years. With some of the money that we had | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
from Heritage Lottery Fund we have been able to get a lot of those | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
objects conserved so we have been able to make sure that they will | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
still be here for games to come in the future. �500,000 has been spent | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
getting the music time for the share's Olympics. But now how row | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
has broken out over just how often the doors will be open. Despite the | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
major investment it will only be open for 2.5 days up until Easter | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
including just a few hours at the weekend. How many days it will open | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
up to that is still being finalised. Hope he won the new season comes | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
round at Easter time that the news in will be open full-time. | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
Otherwise, why have Heritage Lottery Fund given us money for | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
such a problem thing in a prominent time and it is closed from due for | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
people. It is a one-off opportunity and we cannot afford to miss it | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
because of the economy. It is an economy earner for this part of the | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
world so we have to sort it out. is not all old. The 2012 when lock | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
my Scott is the latest chapter in the history. With tens of thousands | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
of people expected to visit this year, it is hoped that the doors | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
will be able to remain open seven days a week. | :24:44. | :24:53. | |
This get an update on the weather Let us take a quick look at what is | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
going on later in the week. On Thursday night into Friday there | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
has been mention of another clash of cold air with milder which could | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
potentially gives some snow. At this stage it has done it like it | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
for us here in the West Midlands. The mild air will win on this | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
occasion. It is the use Midlands where they could potentially be | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
some snow. Nothing on the scale that we had at the weekend. Just a | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
word of warning if you're heading in that direction. Our main concern | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
tonight is the cold. Temperatures are plummeting and it could turn | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
out to be the coldest night of the winter so far. That is if we get | :25:33. | :25:43. | |
what we are expecting, which is a red minus 12 in more remote spots. | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
We have cloud rolling in from the East later tonight but it will not | :25:47. | :25:55. | |
have much impact because the air is so cold. Temperatures could move to | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
minus four 4 minus five intense or cities. Outside the city limits, | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
temperatures could fall as low as minus eight. It will lead to a | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
widespread and severe frost but it is a dry night. Eight bitterly cold | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
start to the day tomorrow. They could be some brightness but this | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
cloud is moving a little bit quicker. It will stay dry but the | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
cloud will be in the temperatures down. It will be colder than today. | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
Once again tomorrow night is looking very cold and frosty, not | :26:31. | :26:39. | |
quite as cold as tonight. On Thursday, it is looking dry but it | :26:39. | :26:49. | |
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It is could be perishing for football fans tonight. | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
A look at the main headlines. The Metropolitan Police admit acting | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
unlawfully over the phone hacking scandal. And a Roman Catholic | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
priest from Staffordshire is facing a lengthy jail sentence after being | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
found guilty of abusing young boys. Tomorrow morning, you can have your | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
chance to ask questions and hear from the movers and shakers in your | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
area as they put in the hot seat on the local radio station. On BBC WN | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
from 11 am, they will be joined by their chief constable of West | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
Midlands Police and BBC Hereford and Worcester will be speaking to | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
the Vice-Chancellor's of were State University. On Radio Stoke, bosses | :27:32. | :27:35. |