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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Nick Owen and Suzanne Virdee. | :00:05. | :00:07. | |
The headlines tonight: A warning that the country's | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
largest colliery may have to close with the loss of 800 jobs. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
It will close in 2014 unless we can cut costs, increase our production | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
and maintain that increased production. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Arrested and led to a temporary police station in a supermarket car | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
park. Cracking down on offenders who'd failed to pay fines or obey | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
court orders. The message is that we are working | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
together as criminal justice partners. We will come knocking at | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
your door. You will be arrested and you will be put back before the | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
courts. Obesity's blamed for a significant | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
rise in the number of women suffering from cancer of the womb. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Womb cancer is one of the most common cancers linked to obesity. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
And residents in tears after ancient oak trees are chopped down | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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to make way for a new shopping Good evening and welcome to | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Midlands Today. Our top story this Wednesday evening: | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
Plans have been announced to shut the country's biggest coal mine. | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
Daw Mill in Warwickshire is the last deep coal mine in the Midlands, | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
employing 800 people. Owners UK Coal are in talks to shut | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
it by 2014 after profits fell. Daw Mill is now the UK's largest | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
remaining colliery, but it has been hit by productivity problems. A | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
four month gap in production resulted in losses of �75 million. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
A two year pay freeze for staff was agreed, but the pit has failed to | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
meet its targets. So, is this the end of an era for | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
coal mining in the Midlands? Joan Cummins has this report. This has | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
been talked about for some time. You think it review will happen? | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
Who knows? I think it is fair to say that UK Coal have lost patience | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
with Daw Mill. I was told today that although there are 800 people | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
working here, the rest of the company across the country, and | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
that is around two and half 1000 jobs, have basically been a | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
supporting Daw Mill. It is fair to say that a few years ago, Daw Mill | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
was producing around 70 thousand tonnes of coal a week. At the | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
moment, that figure is down to 22,000. What UK Coal have said is | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
that they needed very quickly to get back up to 50 thousand tonnes a | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
week. What they have also said as they are not planning any future | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
development works. That means looking for new faces to crack into, | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
if I can use that sort of a man's term. If they do not actually crack | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
in, nothing will happen. But I have been told is that basically, Daw | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
Mill has been in what I would call a special message -- special | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
measures since before Christmas. Every day, the tonnage that has | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
been said that has been examined and they are trying to find ways of | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
increasing it further. More than 800 people worked at Daw | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
Mill. It is the last deep mine in the region. For them protection | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
Lego -- levels has bought the future of the pit in doubt. This is | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
no bluffer taught make people work harder. We need people to work hard | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
and be focused on getting protection going. If we are not | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
producing coal in a sufficient quantities and a smile is not | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
profitable by 2014, it will close. UK Coal say that for Daw Mill to | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
have any hope of a future, they must increase production from | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
22,000 tonnes a week to around 50,000 tonnes a week. A spokesman | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
for one of the mining unions said that closure was not an absolute | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
death it. He acknowledged as he put it, that production was in a bad | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
way. But he said that although the situation was serious, this was not | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
the end of Daw Mill. Minus drop more than half a mile underground | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
and then travelled to the coalface. Above ground, today's announcement | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
shocked villagers. Daw Mill has been a life-saver for quite a few | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
people. By Neil -- I know quite a few people that work out. | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
Everything it takes away jobs is sad. Of course it is sad. It is | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
taking away fallible jobs. 60 years ago, there were more than 1000 | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
working pits in Britain. By 1981, this number had dropped to just 21. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
But the thousands of miners that it once worked in the pits have | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
dwindled. This nearby area lost its pit in 1967. Local some form of | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
minor say the area have suffered. We did not have that camaraderie | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
again. We did not have a lot of money. We are all in the same vote. | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
Really bad news. I cannot see them chatting it. It is privately owned. | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
I think the Government will jump in. The progress of Daw Mill and | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
possible survival will be assessed on a weekly basis. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
That news from Warwickshire comes on the day unemployment figures | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
went up again nationally, although there was a slight fall in the West | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
Midlands. 241,000 people are now out of work | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
across the region. That's a rate of 9.1%. That's a drop of 1,000, but | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
down 22,000 in the last year. Well, a little earlier, I spoke to | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
Professor David Bailey from Coventry Business School. I began | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
by asking him what effect the closure of Daw Mill colliery and | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
the loss of 800 jobs there would have? I hope it does not close. | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
This is an important plant. The biggest left in the UK. It would | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
have a big impact on the local community. It would have an impact | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
in terms of energy. We need as many different energy sources as | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
possible. It is an important place for the country. Why can't they | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
make it work? That is a very good question. The management of saying | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
there are geological factors which means it is more challenging to get | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
the Coalite than they thought. But also, I think the company has got | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
problems in terms of a big pile of debt. It is not clear that they can | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
afford to invest in a plan to make it viable. There is a two you been | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
do. Management and workers will have the opportunity to come up | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
with a better model, but the company will have to restructure. | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
Let us have a little look at the bigger jobs picture. A slight fall | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
in the number of unemployment in our region. Youth unemployment is a | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
big problem. We really do risk having a scarred a generation of | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
people who do not find we commend to not acquired skills and continue. | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
I certainly think the Government should do much more to try and | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
tackle youth unemployment. Next week is the budget. There is an | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
opportunity to give tax breaks to companies to take on young workers. | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
So unemployment is still worryingly high among young people and often | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
getting any kind of structured experience of work is their first | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
and biggest hurdle. But in Coventry, some out-of-work youngsters are | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
getting that all-important taste of the world of work through an | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
unusual route, ice hockey, as Ben Sidwell's been finding out. | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
Training of a very different kind. These aren't the latest stars of | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
the Coventry Blaze's ice hockey team, they're young unemployed | :07:37. | :07:46. | |
people looking to gain new skills in their search for a job. We have | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
seen how powerful the ice hockey is as a vehicle to get people engaged. | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
We thought we would use that vehicle to try and get them back | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
into employment. The club's Community Foundation has | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
set up a new �50,000 project, funded by Comic Relief. It's hoping | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
the chance to get on to the ice will attract those currently not in | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
education, employment or training. Contracts, temporary work, it isn't | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
very good if you have got a house and a child to pay for. You need a | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
permanent job. A career. But it is not all about ice hockey. There is | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
a more serious side to this as well. Training, learning more skills and | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
for these guys, the ultimate goal, employment. | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
The 23-week scheme includes workshops, placements and volunteer | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
opportunities. By the end, they'll have gained a Sport Leadership | :08:37. | :08:45. | |
Award and hopefully the tools they need to find work. People find it | :08:45. | :08:55. | |
hard. It is hard to find work. I would try and drive a forklift. By | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
have been in and out of it. I work for two days on an iron off for | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
rain and. There are around 20 young people on | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
this project and there's enough funding for two further courses. It | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
may only scratch the surface of the youth employment problem in the | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
city, but for these three, the sport of ice hockey could help to | :09:12. | :09:22. | |
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And there's a special programme on the state of the region's economy | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
next week. Our Economy: The Midlands Today Debate is on Monday | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
night, here on BBC One at 11:05pm. Still ahead here on Midlands Today | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
this evening: How your weight could be putting | :09:34. | :09:44. | |
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More than 60 arrests have been made during a police operation targeting | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
offenders who abuse the justice system by failing to pay fines and | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
obey court orders. They were brought to a temporary police | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
station in a supermarket car park where a new style fast-track | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
justice system was used to get them to court within minutes of their | :09:58. | :10:07. | |
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arrest. Andy Newman reports. Justice 2012 staff. The place, this | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
car park in Wolverhampton. The issue, non-payment of fines. A | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
suspect is led to a mobile police station where, after the briefest | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
of legal formalities, they are walked across the tarmac and shown | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
to their specially reserved seats in the custody van. Destination, | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
the magistrates court. If you were wondering why this is all happening | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
on a supermarket car-park, apart from being highly visible, it is | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
much quicker. Offenders come reporter, Serge, process and then | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
sent court within minutes. It is fast justice on an almost | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
industrial scale. That scared reflected in the resources used. | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
This, one of a fleet of 14 arrest teams, scouring the estates of | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
Wolverhampton for offenders who what Fletcher the system by failing | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
to comply with court or does. Here, a disabled suspect is arrested for | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
non-payment of a six-under-par motoring fine. Just more than one | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
of six defenders mop up by Operation crackdown. We are working | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
together as criminal-justice partners. We will come knocking at | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
your door. He will be arrested. He will be back before the courts. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
it is not just about bringing them to book. Also available to | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
offenders in the caravan, drugs counsellors offering immediate help. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
It is important to be proactive, target these individuals, have the | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
support there for them and work together with the police and | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
probation to actually help people move forward. A two pronged | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
approach. Fast-tracked justice and immediate help and support. A wake- | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
up call for Wolverhampton's wanted. Tomorrow, the team will move to a | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
new application. They're not saying where. | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
A man's been arrested in the Stoke area of Coventry after he locked | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
himself in a vehicle and threatened to set himself on fire. It happened | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
at around 11:00am this morning after a debt recovery firm tried to | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
seize a minibus. Armed officers were first sent to the scene, but | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
stood down when they discovered the man was unarmed. I saw him and then | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
over to his fans. He jumped in. The police and fire engines turned up. | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
The next thing you know, there are people coming out on the streets, | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
saying there is a man in the van, thrown petrol around. And then I | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
drew the -- I drove away, came back a few hours later, the police were | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
still there and the next thing I knew, the man ran out of the van, | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
back into his house. A 16-year-old girl and a woman have | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
been arrested after cocaine worth about �350,000 was found hidden | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
inside tubs of chocolate. The pair, both from the Walsall area, were | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
detained at Gatwick Airport after arriving on a flight from Antigua. | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
They've been bailed until a date in June. | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
Obesity's being blamed for a big rise in the number of women with | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
womb cancer in the region. Researchers say it's become more | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
prevalent than cervical cancer. Research being carried out at the | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
University of Birmingham could help victims by using low cost drugs. | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
But surgery is the only option for many women, as Katie Rowlett | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
Linda Beck is 66, she has womb cancer, and doctors tell her it's | :13:14. | :13:24. | |
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because she is overweight. I've always been big. I'd been a many | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
diets are my life. At had died Beatties and staff. -- I had a dire | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
BT's And today, in Birmingham Linda's womb is being removed in an | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
operation that will take around 2 hours. They carry out around 200 | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
womb cancer operations every year at the city hospital and if early | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
at stage one - the survival rate of 5 years is in excess of 80%. Womb | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
cancer has been on the increase. Here in the West Midlands the rise | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
has been the steepest with cases up a third in a generation. The reason, | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
there are more overweight women here, than anywhere else in the | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
country. Dr Sudha Sundhar carried out Linda's operation as she has | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
with so many other women. We know that this increase is going to keep | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
on happening. We know that this cancer is one of the most common | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
ones are driven by obesity. Certainly, one of the things that | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
Spurs us on is the knowledge that many women are going to be | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
diagnosed with cancer. This is the only support group for women's | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
cancer in the region. Helping those in treatment or recovery: It's been | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
a heck of a journey. It's been a horrible. You have to get on with | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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it. You have to move on. This group is my lifeline. It's helped me, my | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
confidence, to have a purpose to get up at the morning. The positive | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
thing is that I have met so many people, thousands of new friends. | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
With surgery, survival rates are getting better, but low cost drugs, | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
including some designed to treat diabetes, are showing promise into | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
treating womb cancer in it's early stages. | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
Joining us now from our studio in Oxford is Sean Kehoe, from the | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
charity Wellbeing of Women and himself a cancer consultant. Thanks | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
for joining us Mr. Kehoe, is this link between womb cancer and | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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obesity a surprise? It's not really. The increase is quite significant. | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
We are heading towards 8,000 women with this condition. If you have | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
that, you retain a more female hormones, that increases your risk | :15:56. | :16:04. | |
of womb cancer. It doesn't seem to have the profile of breast cancer? | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
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It doesn't at all. Some cancers only affect 80% of women, but they | :16:18. | :16:28. | |
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do get a greater profile. What are the warning signs? The main sign is | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
women after the menopause, having a bleed. They should go to their | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
doctor. The vast majority will not have cancer, but they need to be | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
investigated. Thank you very much. Still ahead in tonight's programme: | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
The aircraft that blazed a trail for the jet age. Is this the last | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
chance to save them? And if it's rain you want, the wait's almost | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
over. The weekend may not be as warm as the last but it will be | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
wetter and that's what we need right now. | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
What's the best way to run Stoke- on-Trent? That's the question being | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
posed in a debate in the Potteries tonight. Historically the city was | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
part of Staffordshire. With a total population of just over a million, | :17:20. | :17:29. | |
all important services such as education were run county-wide. | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
That changed in 1997 when Stoke on Trent went alone and was given the | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
right to run affairs for its 240,000 citizens. But in an | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
increasingly competitive world, does Stoke have enough clout on its | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
own? Live now to BBC Radio Stoke's political reporter Elizabeth Glinka. | :17:42. | :17:51. | |
What are people saying tonight? you said, that's the question we | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
are going to be posing at BBC Radio Stoke, tonight, in about one hour's | :17:58. | :18:06. | |
time. The city still faces many challenges. It has had control | :18:06. | :18:15. | |
itself, it has an elected mayor, it is hailed as the BNP's jewel in the | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
crown. That has led some people to say it could do better if it was | :18:22. | :18:31. | |
part of a bigger our authority. There is a certain case to be said | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
for Ray Bigger a priority. It would have a much bigger chance of | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
attracting funds that we need to regenerate the area. One of the | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
people who is going to be debating this issue is councillor Sarah Hill, | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
she's a member of the city council. What you think? Would be a benefit | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
from being part of a bigger organisation? I think the point is | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
well made. It is an interesting concept. None of us want to go back | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
to being part of a county council. Finally, what is the answer moving | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
forward? I think the debate is a good opportunity to start talking | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
about what the next 15 years old brass. Things are going to change, | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
given the austerity we have as a country, and how we can make the | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
best use of our resources. I'm Looking forward to it this evening. | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
That debate will start in one hour's time, just down the road. If | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
listeners want to hear the debate, it will be on the Steward Of George | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
programme, both tomorrow and Friday. -- Stuart George. | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
There's anger and disbelief after a much-loved ring of oak trees was | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
felled to make way for a new shopping complex. The local council | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
allowed developers to chop them down after experts said they | :20:02. | :20:11. | |
wouldn't survive being moved. Sarah Falkland reports. I could cry. It's | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
so sad. Ann Turner can hardly believe her | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
eyes - big business has wiped out the ancient ring of oak trees in | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
Shirley Park. She's spent the best part of 30 years trying to protect | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
them from developers Soon to rise from the soil. I walked down this | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
path in the 1940s with my parents. All of a sudden, it is just gone. | :20:36. | :20:46. | |
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How can you replace the 250-year- old trees? It incredible. Soon to | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
rise from the soil: 36 Parkgate, an �85m shopping and housing | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
development. The supermarket giant ASDA will be at the heart of it and | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
there'll be some 600 new jobs. But what happened to promises to keep | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
the trees? When developers won the right to build, on appeal, last | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
summer, Solihull council stipulated the trees be uprooted and replanted. | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
But in a statement today the But in a statement today the | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
authority said expert opinion showed the trees wouldn't have | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
survived the process...some had suffered fire damage and decay, so | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
had to be felled. But why so had to be felled. But why so | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
quickly residents ask? The reality is that the bird nesting season is | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
imminent, and we have to get on with the removal as quickly as | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
possible. Local MP Lorely Burt's described what's happened here as a | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
betrayal of the people of Shirley. She's angry the trees have been | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
felled before she had the chance to chain herself to one of them. A | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
small piece of oak salvaged from the site is little consolation for | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
Ann and her husband. On Friday there'll be a vigil here for | :21:44. | :21:53. | |
residents to formally say goodbye to the landscape they've held dear. | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
Football and the Birmingham City manager Chris Hughton admits his | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
team is going through a difficult period, after their latest defeat | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
to play-off rivals Leicester. Wade Elliot's penalty put the Blues in | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Elliot's penalty put the Blues in front. But the lead didn't last | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
long. Jermaine Beckford made it 1-1 before half-time. And then two | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
goals in the last ten minutes sealed a 3-1 victory for Leicester. | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Birmingham drop one place to eighth in the Championship. But they still | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
have a game in hand on most of the have a game in hand on most of the | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
teams above them. It's a sad day for many West | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
Bromwich Albion fans. Ray Barlow, one of the club's truly great | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
players, has died at the age of 85. Ray was the last surviving member | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
of the Albion team to win the FA Cup at Wembley in 1954. He played | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
almost five hundred games for the club, but only once for England. He | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
was voted in the top 16 players of all-time by West Brom fans. The | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
club said Ray Barlow was a true legend, and a world-class | :22:43. | :22:53. | |
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footballer. You're a big fan of him once you? - | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
:23:10. | :23:11. | ||
- won't you? Bobby Moore said he styled his play on him. I saw him | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
at a charity match. They've been all but abandoned for | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
more than a decade but now some of the country's most historic | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
aircraft are getting a permanent home in Gloucestershire. The Jet | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
Age Museum was split up twelve years ago and the collection has | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
been stored, out of sight, in barns ever since. Sabet Choudhury reports | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
from the planned new home for the museum at Gloucestershire Airport. | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
They were pride of the RAF. Cutting technology built by the Gloster | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
Aircraft Company. But now many of them lie weathered and broken, | :23:44. | :23:53. | |
waiting to be rebuilt for the new Jetage Museum. Some of them have | :23:53. | :24:03. | |
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deteriorated. The aircraft fuselages made a balsa wood. -- | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
made of a balsa wood. It's taken John and other trustees the over | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
ten years to raise the �250,000 pounds they need for the museum. | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
sounds as if it's not much money, in this then aged isn't. To try and | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
raise that money to house old aeroplanes, which people refer to | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
as pieces of rusty metal, is very difficult. In asking people whether | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
they want a museum, everybody wants to have an aviation museum, but | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
then you say, please give us some money, and they say, no. Of course | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
not all of planes are in pieces, some like this Gamecock hidden away | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
in a barn in the countryside is already being re-constructed. Once | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
flown by world war 2 fighter pilot Douglas Bader. Today this is the | :24:55. | :25:05. | |
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only one of it's kind in existence. Once the museum is open this will | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
be the centrepiece of the museum. A replica of the E28 - the first | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
british jet plane. Built in 1941 in Gloucestershire to test Sir Frank | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
Whittle jet propulsion system. Sidney Dix, now 93, was just a | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
teenager when he worked on the project at the Gloster Aircraft | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
Company. It was the best colour my life. It was like making a model | :25:32. | :25:41. | |
airplane. We have to mark all the ribs on the Template. Sidney is | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
hopeful the new museum, will inspire future generations. Giving | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
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them a chance to see the wonders that once ruled the skies. | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
I wonder how these guys are looking I wonder how these guys are looking | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
tonight and tomorrow? I will tell you. | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
We had a delay on the sunshine, that put a cap on the temperatures. | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
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Tomorrow will be the warmest day of the week. We will see some rain | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
coming in from the West, from Friday into the weekend. That | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
produced quite a deluge of rain. It will give us some light relief. | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
Back to the presence, and because of that late sunshine, we are | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
looking at clear skies to start tonight. That's going to lead to a | :26:41. | :26:51. | |
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cooler night, temperatures dropping to a minimum of two-or three | :26:52. | :27:02. | |
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degrees -- two-to-three degrees. It will be a cooler night. A cloudy | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
start tomorrow, we will see some sunshine, hopefully it will be the | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
warmest day of the week. Temperatures should reach at 12-13 | :27:11. | :27:21. | |
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degrees. Tomorrow night, the cloud will thicken up. The first signs | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
are rain will appear over Wales. That will hold off for us, | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
appearing on Saturday. Some showers appearing on Saturday. Some showers | :27:32. | :27:34. |