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Welcome to Midlands Today. Our main headlines... As JCB offers jobs | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
hope to young apprentices, the boss calls on the Chancellor to deliver | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
a radical budget. No gimmicks, just let's have a policy that we all | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
understand. Patients are dying needlessly because a quarter of | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
junior doctors do not know how to diagnose a specific type of stroke. | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
Is it time for Synchronised to give us an upset in the Gold Cup? And | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
meet our new Press Pack, asking the questions that matter. Do you have | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
a message for Usain Bolt? But his faith in the Lord that he is going | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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Welcome to Thursday's programme. Tonight, it is time for radical | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
action, that's the message from one of the region's leading | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
industrialists to the Chancellor, ahead of the Budget next week. The | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
intervention from Sir Anthony Bamford comes as his company, JCB, | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
announces plans to recruit more than 100 new young people this year. | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
Three apprentices embarking on New Careers, just as �3.5 million is | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
invested in jobs for young people at JCB. In fact, these apprentices | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
are actually 16-year-old triplets, all training to be welders. It is | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
very hard to get a job now, it is challenging. In the long term, it | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
is going to benefit me, it is going to be a really good career choice | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
for me. Hopefully stay here and progress through the ranks. As part | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
of its initiative, called Young Talent, the number of | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
apprenticeships at JCB is being doubled this year. It comes as the | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
chairman, Sir Anthony Bamford, has issued a report direct to the Prime | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Minister, in which he calls for a manufacturing champion in Whitehall, | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
and says it is time for radical thinking. That radical approach to | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
revitalising British manufacturing could involve looking to Germany. | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Sir Anthony Bamford says, in economic terms, Germany puts the UK | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
in the shade. Every month we are importing more than we're exporting. | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
It is terrible. And yet Germany, just across the way, can do it. | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
There is no magic to it, they have just applied themselves, as a | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
policy, written or not, that is understood, about education, about | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
vocational training, very well understood in Germany. The Budget | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
is imminent - what would you like to see from the Chancellor? From a | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
business point of view, reducing corporation tax would be a good | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
thing, and they should continue to do that. But more than anything, I | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
would say, no gimmicks, just let's have a policy that we all | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
understand. According to JCB, a coherent long-term strategy for | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
manufacturing is required, and they want politicians from all parties | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
to act as a matter of urgency to protect British jobs. There's a | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
special programme on the state of the economy in our region next week. | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
Our Economy: The Midlands Today Debate is on Monday night here on | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
BBC One at 11:05pm. Good to have your company. Later in the | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
programme... We will be in Wolverhampton, where workers at the | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
Goodyear Dunlop tyre factory are hoping for a secure future. But | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
first, patients are dying needlessly or being left with brain | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
damage because a quarter of junior doctors do not know how to carry | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
out the two vital tests needed to diagnose their condition. People | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
going into A&E complaining of severe and violent headaches are | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
being missed diagnosed as having my greens, when in fact they have a | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
life-threatening brain condition. This report from Michele Paduano. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
In May 2010, Caryl Hinton went momentarily blind and deaf, she | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
vomited. Her family is taking legal action now after the junior doctor | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
failed to organise a head scan. 16 days later, she dropped dead. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
would not wish it on anyone, my family completely fell apart after | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
it happened. Me and my brother were homeless for six months, our family | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
was completely destroyed. 17 months earlier, June Harriman was told she | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
had a my grain and was sent home from hospital in Staffordshire. | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
Within days, she had died. There is a little blister on his blood | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
vessel, and that was the cause of the haemorrhage. This eminent | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
surgeon helped the family of June Harriman get compensation. Back in | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
1997 he wrote a paper about the need to scan patients with a sudden, | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
agonising headache, also known as a thunderclap headache. If you have a | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
sudden, agonising headache, you should be screened for the | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
possibility of a brain aneurysm. If you walk into hospital with a | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
sudden, agonising headache, the chances are, you're going to walk | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
out. If you come in with a coma, the chances are you're going to die. | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
Extraordinarily, while doctors were failing June Harriman, researchers | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
at the same hospital were researching the failure to diagnose | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
this condition. We put in a Freedom of Information request to try to | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
get the findings of the study. It was a survey of more than 100 | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
doctors in A&E. 20% of junior doctors had never heard of a | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
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thunderclap headache. Only 20% were discharging patients after ACT scan. | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
84% did not know how accurate a CT scan can be in the early stages. | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
have got no experiences in anything but I will, but when I heard of | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
those symptoms, I would have thought there was something wrong. | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
I do not understand how somebody who has done seven years of | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
training cannot feel the same way. Over the years, several patients | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
have been missed, with this condition. One law company is | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
currently dealing with five cases. He includes Dudley, Shropshire, | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Stafford, it is something that we feel frustrated about, because we | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
cannot see that there is any action being taken to prevent future | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
deaths. It is felt that with education and national guidelines, | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
the situation can be improved, but that they are needed, and quickly. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
Following that report, lawyers representing the families are | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
waiting to the Secretary of State for Health, urging action to make | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
sure that there are fewer unnecessary deaths. Three months | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
into a murder investigation, police have doubled the reward for | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
information about the death of a man in the firing was to. 52-year- | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
old Andrew Heath was found dead at his home in Warndon in December. A | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
reward of �20,000 is now being offered. West Mercia Police are | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
treating the fire as a suspected arson attack. This has proved to be | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
a difficult investigation. It is still very active, even though it | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
is in the fourth month following the incident. There are more than | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
40 officers on the investigation, and we are still following a number | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
of lines of inquiry regarding the murder of Andrew Heath. A candlelit | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
vigil to commemorate the first anniversary of the uprising in | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
Syria is taking place in Birmingham this evening. Scores of Syrian | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
exiles live in the West Midlands, and they have been having to go | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
through harrowing television pictures from their homeland. This | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
report from Bob Hockenhull. About 60 people have gathered here, | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
including Syrian nationals. It comes on the day that 200 groups, | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
from 27 different countries, have called for a UN resolution to | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
demand that the Syrian Government should allow humanitarian aid into | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
the country, and stop bombing civilians. With me now is Abdul | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
Omar, who has organised the vigil tonight. The people who were of | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
Syrian extraction here, are they able to contact their relatives in | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
Syria? It depends on which part of the country their families are from. | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
People in the centre of Damascus are likely to be able to | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
communicate. Those people in places like Homs and Deraa are on the | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
opposite end of the scale, communication blackouts are | :09:06. | :09:14. | |
extremely common, in fact, they are now the norm. Do you think | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
humanitarian aid will be allowed into the country soon? From what we | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
have seen on the news, it is quite are -- quite bizarre to expect | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
those responsible for committing the crime to deliver the aid as | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
well. I am expecting some kind of a different ploy from the Syrian | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
regime, to use it as a propaganda coup, but those who are suffering | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
will continue to suffer. Just quickly, I can speak to Ellis | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Brooks from Amnesty International - could you have imagined that the | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
situation would get so bad one year ago? No, the determination of | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
people to do this for a whole year has been amazing, in spite of the | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
crackdown. There are now 3 million people, through Amnesty | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
International, who stand with them. We have just issued a new report | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
about the torture which has been done. Amnesty International is | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
bearing witness to those issues. 8,000 people have died so far. The | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
question on everybody's lips here - how many more have to suffer? Three | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
former pupils have been threatened with legal action over comments | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
they made about their school on the social media side Twitter. They | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
have each been landed with a bill of nearly �700 to cover the legal | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
costs of the schools after lawyers were brought in. One current pupil | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
has also been suspended as part of the row. This report from Steve | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Knibbs. Twitter works by people publishing their thoughts in 140 | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
characters or less. But three former students and one still at | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
The Crypt School went too far, posting what have been described as | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
highly offensive and libellous comments about members of staff. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
The school threatened the users with legal action and asked for | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
costs of �680 each. The pupil still at the school was suspended for a | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
day. The head teacher told me his actions were proportionate. We sent | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
them a warning letter, which said, remove the tweets, refrain from | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
posting things like that again, otherwise we will take legal action. | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
But unfortunately, when you involve lawyers, it brings costs. There has | :11:26. | :11:35. | |
been a lot of reaction to the story. One user said... But communications | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
experts say writing comments on the Internet is subject to the same | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
laws as those covering journalists. People like journalists have been | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
given legal training in things like this. Of course, not everybody has | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
that. Suddenly, you have got thousands of cities and journalists | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
who can write whatever they want, or think they can, and then there | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
are repercussions. -- cities and journalists. I have spoken to the | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
people, and they feel they have been hard done bye-bye the school. | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
-- citizen journalists. Having said all of that, they go on to say, now | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
that we have seen the consequences of our comments, we realise that | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
what we put was a mistake, in hindsight. We have apologised to | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
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the school. Still coming up, we're counting down to the Gold Cup. And | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
one more day to go before the rain comes tumbling down? Let's hope so, | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
we could do with some, but amounts will be variable. Catch-up with the | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
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details later. Before that, Goodyear Dunlop has | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
unveiled a �6 million revamp of production facilities at its | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
Wolverhampton factory. The firm has gone through some tough times over | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
the last decade, with hundreds of workers losing their jobs, but it | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
is reaping the benefits of an upturn in the UK motor industry. | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
The 300 strong workforce at Goodyear Dunlop in Wolverhampton | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
took an hour off the factory floor to join in the celebrations to mark | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
the end of a five-year, �6 million investment programme. It has been a | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
long journey, the tyre industry has a lot of challenges. This | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
investment shows exactly the kind of commitment that we have to the | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
future of our business. The factory retreads truck tyres and makes | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
rubber which is sent around Europe to be made into tyres. This plant | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
is a fraction of what it was 15 years ago, but for workers, the | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
redevelopment was morale-boosting Euros after challenging economic | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
times. That amount of money, it shows that people in Europe think | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
we have got a good future here. shows there's opportunities to | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
progress. At 54, I cannot see me working anywhere else. I love | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
working for this company, I have worked for them for such a long | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
time, and this guarantees my future, hopefully. The factory is just as | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
short distance from where Jaguar Land Rover are investing in a new | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
engine plant, on the i54 business park. This is a massive shot in the | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
arm for the City of Wolverhampton. We have got a significant | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
investment in Goodyear, but also we have heard last year, Jaguar Land | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Rover building a multi-million pound engine plant. 4,000 people | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
once worked here, but decreasing markets and moving production | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
abroad means there are now 300. But workers and the company as a whole | :14:55. | :15:04. | |
say the �6 million revamp is an investment in the future. It is | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
time for the sport now. We're counting down to one of the biggest | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
days in the racing calendar. Yes, tomorrow is the Gold Cup. It is | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
like Christmas Eve today for raising funds. And there has been | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
an emotional victory for Herefordshire jockey Tom Scudamore. | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
He won the Byrne Group Plate, a bored Salut Flo. It is just his | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
second ever we know at the Festival. Take a look at the passion. So, to | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
the Gold Cup tomorrow. It is a clash between current champion Long | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
Run and Kauto Star. But there is no shortage of rivals hoping they can | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
grab the headlines away from the big two. And those rivals include | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
Synchronised, trained in Gloucestershire by Jonjo O'Neill. | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
He is a quirky type but he keeps on improving. Let's be honest, he is | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
not the best-looking horse you will never set eyes on. With his | :15:58. | :16:06. | |
distinctive white face and K join - - and long ears, Synchronised does | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
not exactly stand out. I don't know wattages, but he is not a good- | :16:12. | :16:20. | |
looking horse. He is like a ladies' hunting horse, really. But he is a | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
great character. And it is the same on the gallops, at Jackdaws Castle | :16:28. | :16:36. | |
in Temple Guiting. But what really matters is how they run. | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
Synchronised has already won a Welsh National and a Midlands | :16:40. | :16:50. | |
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National. Synchronised was always considered a Grand National | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
contender, but steady improvement over the last few years means that | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
he is now going for the biggest prize at the Cheltenham Festival. | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
He is in the form of his life, he is in great shape. So long as he | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
surprises me a little bit more this season, that would be grand. | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
the stable has already had two Festival winners this week, | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
including Alfie Sherrin, who won the big handicap chase on Tuesday. | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
Synchronised has great stamina, so he would have preferred softer | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
ground to blunt the finishing speed of some of his rivals. But the Gold | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
Cup is not a beauty contest, and he will be battling on right to the | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
line. You can keep up-to-date with awe of the action tomorrow on the | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
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For thousands of speedway fans, the sport's winter hibernation is | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
finally over. New signings are being paraded, and new owners are | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
outlining their ambitions. When the tapes go up on Easter weekend, | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
three Midlands teams will be vying to lift that trophy. This report | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
from Nick Clitheroe. No brakes, no fear, is the motto. You have got to | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
have strong nerves in this sport. That's why speedway attracts a very | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
loyal army of fans. You just look forward to getting back to seeing | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
them race, the smell, everything. Everybody is excited, the team | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
looks very strong on paper. If we make the play-offs, we have done | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
really well. The Birmingham Brummies only entered the Elite | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
League last season. But expectations are high. The level of | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
interest on this media day reflects the optimism at this club, that | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
they can genuinely be title challengers. We want to win the | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
Elite League. It is ambitious, but because of the way the points set- | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
up happens in the Elite League, anybody at any time has a chance of | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
winning. Tom Court also under new owners are the Coventry Bees, | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
champions from 2010. They had a horrible 2011, in which their | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
League status came under threat. A calmer seas and off the track will | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
give them a better chance. season. Wolverhampton are also | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
seeking a change of fortunes after a disappointing way last year. -- | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
after a disappointing year last year. Last year was a bit of a | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
comedown for us, but it is difficult to maintain a high | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
position year after year in this sport. But we are looking to get | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
back into the top four at least this season. All three clubs will | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
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meet in Midlands League races next week. It must be spring term, the | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
speedway season is getting under way. And three weeks today, the | :19:57. | :20:05. | |
cricket season starts as well. Now, does the social networks like | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
Facebook need a bit of a geography lesson? -- social network site. | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
When users update their Facebook status, the location can often be | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
spectacularly incorrect. Our correspondent has been | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
investigating, and he joins us now from, well, what could be said to | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
be Chaddesley Corbett... Indeed, I have spent the afternoon enjoying | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
the delights of the lovely village that Facebook calls it Chaddesley | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
Corbett. Chaddesley Corbett is a small village of 1,400 people in | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
Wyre Forest in Worcestershire. It has shops and the Post Office and a | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
sports club located in Fox Lane... OK, actually, this is Birmingham. | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
And this is Chaddesley Corbett. The two are 16 miles and a 30-minute | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
drive apart, so why does Facebook keep confusing them? This is | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
something I did a few days ago in central Birmingham, at a staff | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
leaving do. It is a photo I took, and it clearly says I am in | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
Chaddesley Corbett, and I can promise you, I wasn't. Frankly, the | :21:14. | :21:23. | |
16 miles is the least of it. These are the differences which are | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
cropping up on Facebook. For some viewers, the difference can be as | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
much as 150 miles. Just what is going on? Absolutely ridiculous, | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
what does Facebook say about this? Firstly, we know the difference | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
between Birmingham and Chaddesley Corbett. Facebook told us in a | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
statement that occasionally, inaccurate results will be returned. | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
What is happening is that Facebook are using the IP address of the | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
computer or phone, which is a great way for things in cyberspace to | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
find out where other things in cyberspace are, but it is not so | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
good when you try to translate it into the real world, it is not | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
completely accurate. So, how long have they got it? As you say, on | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
our Facebook page, Daniel lives in Leek, but Facebook often puts him | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
in Guildford, about 187 miles away. We think that is the biggest error, | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
but if you know better, why not tell us on our Facebook page?! You | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
will find a link to a blog which I have written about the subject as | :22:29. | :22:39. | |
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Across the region, thousands of children have spent the day | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
covering the news for BBC News School Report Day. Amelia Benjamin, | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
from Arthur Terry School up in Sutton Coldfield, interviewed Lord | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
Coe in London. It was a big day for Amelia, who hopes to compete in the | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
2016 Games. And in Coventry, there was a royal visit earlier in the | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
week, Princess Anne visiting the Whitley Academy. The children were | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
on hand to report the visit. In Birmingham, pupils from Holyhead | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
School have been investigation -- investigating preparations in the | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
city for the arrival of the Jamaican athletics team this summer. | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
Jamaica is a nation of fewer than 3 million people, but the country | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
produces some of the world's greatest athletes. This is the | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
University of Birmingham, and this is where the Jamaican team will be | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
staying. We are at the University's running track to check the | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
facilities and make sure they are suitable for the Jamaican team. Is | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
it true they have been asked to provide extra long beds because | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
some of the team members are so tall? Yes, there are five or six of | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
the team who are particularly tall, so we will be bringing in some | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
extra long beds for them. I will be part of a team of volunteers | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
helping the Jamaican team. We can take them around the Bull Ring, we | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
can take them to the sporting stadiums around Birmingham, we can | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
show them around the city and hope that they enjoy their stay. In the | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
last Olympics, the United States athletics team won seven gold | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
medals, and the Jamaican team won 6. Together they're the best athletics | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
teams in the world. In Handsworth, excitement about their arrival is | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
building. Preparations for lunchtime are under way at this | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
community centre. Today, the talk is about one thing only. I feel | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
very proud. I live in Birmingham and I loved Birmingham very much, | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
and I am really glad that they are coming. Do you have a personal | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
message for Usain Bolt? Trust in the Lord, put his face in the Lord, | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
that he is going to be the winner. -- put his faith in the Lord. | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
Jamaican, I am British, and proud. Don't let us down. Having the teams | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
here will be very prestigious for Birmingham, and it seems that | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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wherever they go in the city, they We are joined now by two of the | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
stars of that. Did you enjoy it at stake yes, it was fun and exciting, | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
and it built up our confidence. met some characters. Yes, it was a | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
really good opportunity to develop our skills as young reporters. | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
have got another challenge for you, we thought you could try your hand | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
at presenting. That would be great. Of you go, then. Now, it is time | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
for the weather. Shefali is here with the forecast. Thank you very | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
with the forecast. Thank you very much. Today has been another | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
disappointing day in terms of sunshine. Back in the team more of | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
the country, where it was quite sunny, temperatures shot up. But in | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
terms of cloud, tomorrow is going to be very similar. For the | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Cheltenham Gold Cup, we are looking at highs of around 12 Celsius. It | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
will be a breezy day, but it will be mainly dry. As for the weekend, | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
that's when it is going to turn cooler, and at last, we will get | :26:25. | :26:33. | |
some rain. That's from tomorrow night onwards, in fact. Tomorrow, | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
we will see the Sturley and thickening up once again. Some mist | :26:37. | :26:45. | |
and fog as well, but not quite as extensive. -- we will see the cloud | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
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thickening up. Tomorrow, again, a dull start to the day. Temperatures | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
getting up to 11, 12 or 13 Celsius. I said it is going to be more | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
breezy tomorrow. And you can see the rain as well, coming into parts | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
of Wales by the end of the day. This is going to start to spread | :27:11. | :27:19. | |
eastwards through tomorrow night. It becomes heavier as we head | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
It becomes heavier as we head towards Saturday morning. A lot of | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
people will be pleased about that. The main headlines tonight - new | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
evidence that Merseyside Police blamed Liverpool fans for the | :27:30. | :27:38. |