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Hello. Good evening and welcome to Midlands Today from the BBC. | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
Tonight: desperate for a council house in Stoke-On-Trent but could | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
families have been pushed further down the waiting list by Londoners? | :00:17. | :00:26. | |
The area has hardly any work at all. The extra influx would be too many. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
The inventor who says Britain has got talent, only the government | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
doesn't know what sells doesn't back it. For somebody like me, it | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
is never going to happen. I do not see what doors they have to lock,. | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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And how the games are being ruled Good evening. Tonight, desperate | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
for a desk -- council house in Stoke-on-Trent but could from these | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
be pushed further down the waiting list by Londoners? That's the | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
question after officials in Staffordshire were asked by one of | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
the capital's poorest boroughs to home 500 families. It's led to | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
accusations of social cleansing and claims that Government's | :01:20. | :01:29. | |
controversial cap to housing benefit is to blame. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
The Brighter Futures Housing Association received a letter from | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
Newham Council asking it to take on 500 families. There are currently | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
around 32,000 people on the council housing waiting list in the London | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
borough in Stoke. Around 3,000 people are waiting for a house. And | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
you get between �250 and �400 a week in housing benefits. But the | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
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proposal has not been well received in the Potteries. | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
With thousands on the social housing waiting list and high | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
unemployment, Stoke-on-Trent has it's own problems and the prospect | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
of 500 families from east London being moved to the area has not | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
gone down particularly well. We do not have jobs for ourselves, let | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
alone people cuddle from a different part of the country. | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
are locking houses down but they are not building any. Look at the | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
facilities, there are not many. Newham Council asked for the | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
rehoming help in this letter sent to many housing assoctions | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
including Stoke's Brighter Futures. There will be need for social | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
services, welfare, support, jobs, the council has already had to cut | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
its services to the bone. They will be an increasing demand. Stoke-on- | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Trent City Council say they are concerned and that they are keen to | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
speak to Newham before the situation goes any further. They | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
say they have 3,000 people on their social housing waiting list and | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
that their main duty is very much to local people. But Newham Council | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
say the Government's cap on housing benefit is forcing people from | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
expensive parts of London to their less costly borough, and opposition | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
leaders claim this situation is the tip of an iceberg. The idea that | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
you take a family and you put them in Stoke-on-Trent, away from their | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
school, their family, their friends, their jobs, in this day and age, | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
that cannot be right. Government insists the Housing | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Benefits Bill is still rising and that that has to stop. It is also | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
questioning the timing of a new worms... | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
Earlier I spoke to the housing minister Grant Shapps and asked him | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
if he agreed that the government's policy on housing benefit could | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
potentially lead to a very unfair situation where people could be | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
parachuted into city's like Stoke. No, I think it is outrageous that | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
the borough are proposing anything of the sort. By have spoken to a | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
number of people today, have discovered fed they have never | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
spoken to stir up about it at all. Actually, it took the local BBC | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
radio station to phone the council before they were involved in it at | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
all. There is no scheme, it is outrageous that the London borough | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
is proposing it. Actually, I think it could well be illegal, it is | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
certainly against the regulations that I am situated. Il calling on | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
them to make clear that this is not going to happen. You say it is | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
outrageous but here we are in Britain, at the that of a terrible | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
housing crisis. What are you going to do about it? Housing crisis | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
don't turn up out of the blue. This has been created because at the end | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
of 2000 of lying, there were fewer homes being built in this country | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
at any time since the 1920s. -- 2009. What we're doing is building | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
a lot more homes. I've come from a speech today where I have been able | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
to announce that house building is up by a third. Things are starting | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
to move. It will be building 170,000 affordable homes for rent | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
in the next few years alone. It is inexcusable that the London borough | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
have issued this press release to the BBC, stirred up a fuss, worried | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
their tenants had actually worried tenants in Stoke-on-Trent as well. | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
It and yet, it is not the first time we've seen something like that. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Families in Croydon were offered the choice to move to Walsall. Is | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
the West Midlands becoming a good dumping ground because of their | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
policies? That should never be the case. If people want to move, that | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
is up to them. It is very important we do control the housing benefit | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
bill. I cannot think why any of your viewers should be working hard | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
and playing their taxes for other people, who might be on housing | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
benefit, to be able to afford to live will streets and | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
neighbourhoods that the working people, who are paying all their | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
taxes to support as a benefits system, cannot possibly afford | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
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themselves. Thanks for watching this evening. | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Still ahead: We're live at Aston Villa, ahead of their crucial | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
relegation battle against fellow- strugglers Bolton Wanderers. | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
Tariq Jahan, the father of one of the victims killed during the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
August riots, has described hearing the fatal impact of the crash. He | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
was giving evidence in the trial of eight men accused of murdering his | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
son and two other men. Haroon Jahan, along with brothers | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir died when they were struck by a car. Mr | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
Jahan was widely praised when he appealed for calm after his son's | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
death. Our reporter was in court. Why was Mr Jahan called to give | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
evidence, Phil? He was the first witness in a trial | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
which began last week when the jury was shown some dramatic CCTV | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
footage, which showed the three men being hit by a car in the early | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
hours of August 10th. He began by being questioned about the day | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
before that, when widespread disorder spread to the West | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Midlands. He described how he had been at a petrol station and | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
witnessed a group of men in balaclavas attacking the petrol | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
station has to be said by the next morning, the atmosphere was very | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
tense and a group of people got together to decide that they would | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
go out that night and got local properties, protecting them from | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
looters. What did he say about the night his son died? | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
He said that group of 40 people had gathered outside on the road. A | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
bunch of cars had driven past slowly, provoking the crowd. He | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
said there was abuse shouted from both sides. As he was talking to | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
his wife, he heard a car engine revving up and driving at high | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
speed. Then a loud thud. Be heard shouting, he went across and saw | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
his son's body lying in the road. He was pronounced dead. The eight | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
men were you mentioned have denied murder at the trial is expected to | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
last nine weeks. Birmingham City Council's to carry | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
out a review into the death of a stroke patient it was caring for. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Colin Bird who was 46 and from Yardley Wood, had suffered two | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
strokes, losing mobility in an arm and a leg. He died yesterday. He | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
received 30 minutes of care every morning and evening but claimed | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
he'd only been washed four times in four months. | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
The Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire, Michael Brinton, | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
has died. He passed away at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
Birmingham yesterday after being diagnosed with cancer a year ago. | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
The former businessman guided the family-run firm, Brinton's carpets, | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
for many years. He was appointed the Queen's representative in the | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
county in 2001. A man accused of killing his | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
pregnant wife collapsed in sobs in the dock this afternoon. The jury | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
was sent home after Mohammed Mumtaz fell to the floor in a trial in | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
which there are claims his wife may have been possessed by an evil | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
spirit. He's accused of killing his wife | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
with his mother, father and brother in law. | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
This is the family home at Handsworth Wood in Birmingham where | :09:11. | :09:21. | |
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pregnant 21-year-old Naila Mumtaz was allegedly killed. Her husband, | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Mohammed Mumtaz, his mother, Salma Aslam, and father, Zia Ul Haq, and | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
brother-in-law, Hammad Hassan, all deny murder and manslaughter. The | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
court heard how Naila was from Pakistan and came to live in | :09:32. | :09:42. | |
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Birmingham after an arranged marriage. Was it due to an unknown | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
illness? Or was it as the prosecution say, she was assaulted, | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
or smothered by the four accused, all of whom had that they were | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
present when she died? Details of phone calls between family and -- | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
in Birmingham and Pakistan were given. The jury had to be sent home | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
for the night after Mohammed will tonnes collapsed in sobs in the | :10:16. | :10:25. | |
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dock. The trial is expected to resume tomorrow. | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
A Worcestershire inventor, who says he was forced to go abroad to get | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
funding for his product, believes Britain is in danger of losing its | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
entrepreneurs. Philip Jarrett's company mi-zone | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
has won a Government award for innovation, but it was the Irish | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
Government which backed him financially. | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
It's called a proximity alarm and its inventor Philip Jarrett is | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
trying it out in his office at Ombersley in Worcestershire. It has | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
been designed specifically to prevent -- protect items of value, | :10:55. | :11:03. | |
cameras, keys, toolbox is. It sits on a new mobile device. We have | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
come outside because in the best traditions, we will do a test. That | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
is my bag, you can see a pink device. If I start walking away, | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
the alarm goes off. The prototype was built with �30,000 from Warwick | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
University. Mr Jarrett couldn't get any further funding the British | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
Government but the Irish Government lent him a 250,000 euros. The | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
alarm's now being manufactured in Cork in the Irish Republic. I was | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
passionate to have made in England on the back of this box. There is a | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
lot to be said and a lot to be done with young minds that have got | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
really good ideas, who could perhaps reinvent this country but | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
unfortunately, they are strangled by having nowhere to go, no | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
guidance, no assistance. Ironic then that across the region in | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Walsall today, the hunt was on for the inventors and designers of | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
tomorrow at an event for Midlands manufacturers. There is funding in | :12:03. | :12:12. | |
Staffordshire forces and aspects of product development. -- for certain | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
aspects. We are always looking to break the best new product. | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Government insist they are investing in business through a | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
regional growth fund that's allocated �1.4 billion to projects. | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
A further �1 billion is now available for new bids. They've set | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
up A Business In You campaign encouraging entrepreneurs to start | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
or grow their business. Philip Jarrett meanwhile has signed deals | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
with major high street names like Apple and Carphone Warehouse. | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
With us now is the Chief Executive of the Birmingham Chamber Group, | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
Jerry Blackett. It's a real pity that Philip Jarrett had to go | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
elsewhere, isn't it? These are difficult projects to get away. The | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
hardest time to get money is what you have a good idea. Sometimes | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
putting all taxpayers' money alongside private money can work. | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
But there is never enough to go around. I've been looking into how | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
much we've put into this of the last decade and there has been at | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
�90 million over that time available. Other parts of the | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
country have had less than the others a bit more. Platini is now | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
drying up so it is now going to be harder to find that sort of money | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
to get good ideas going. So there is a gap in the system. There | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
always is. You cannot blame the banks for the Somme. You coming | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
with a good idea, you want somebody to back it. The taxpayer can | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
sometimes help unleash some money. This one got away. There is still | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
money out there, not as much. Birmingham City Council have put | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
�10 million into a fund for this sort of scheme. The money may come | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
back. A local enterprise partnerships may be able to | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
convince government to give us more to stimulate new inventions. Should | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
an inventor do? Search for a corporal finance advice. Their rock | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
people who are out there -- there are people who want to help you | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
look for money. Good ideas will find cash. It is a shame this one | :14:26. | :14:36. | |
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went to the Republic of Ireland. A jury's been told that a sprinkler | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
system at a warehouse hadn't been connected before a fire which | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
killed four firemen. Three fire service managers are on | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
trial and deny charges of causing manslaughter by gross negligence in | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
connection with the fire at Atherstone-on-Stour in Warwickshire | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
five years ago. Stafford Crown Court heard how | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
building worker at this Warehouse had not received building | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
regulations from Stratford District Council. This man, a fire warden at | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
the vegetable packing plant, had said he had complained to his | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
management about an incomplete sprinkler system and a gap in the | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
firewall. Under cross-examination, he did say although he had tried to | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
help firefighters find the fire on last night, they had been a | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
terrible mistake and he had missed directed them to the wrong place. | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
The judge described the evidence in this case as enigmatic and | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
difficult. For the first time today, we heard that information about the | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
potentially dangerous sandwich construction of the building was | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
not available to fire crews on much night. The three defendants all | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
deny the charges. Minute by minute, the jury are being led through the | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
night's events. From red ones being sent into the emergency being | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
declared that several 3:00pm. Poignantly, a request for an | :16:00. | :16:10. | |
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ambulance. Four men died on that night in 2007. The bodies of three | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
of the men were recovered days later. The trial is expected to | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
last 10 weeks. Good to have you with us this | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
Tuesday evening. Still to come: Glitz of the Games, the Olympic | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
Rings welcome passengers to Birmingham Airport. | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
And if you think it's been wet so far, just wait till you see what's | :16:31. | :16:41. | |
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heading our way tonight. It's all The George Eliot Hospital in | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
Nuneaton still has the highest death rate in the country according | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
to new official Government figures. Overall, the West Midlands is | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
performing badly, with only two hospitals showing below-average | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
death rates. Our health correspondent has been to Nuneaton | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
to see what's being done to improve things. | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
Kenneth Barratt is the sort of patient this hospital has to look | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
after. The 77-year-old spent two days in intensive care. I came in | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
here after a heart attack 12 years ago. Have always been quite happy | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
with it. Next time the death rate comes out, this hospital is | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
confident. Why? Because it's invested �1.5 million in more | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
nurses. There used to be as few as two on this shift, now there are | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
five. We have the additional staff and doctors, and we have changed | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
have the stuff works are we have put more senior doctors and nurses | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
on a out-of-hours and at the weekend. If the average hospital | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
death rate is 1, Nuneaton's is highest at 1.23. But Dudley is high | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
at 1.12 and Burton-on-Trent at 1.11. Only Stafford Hospital performed | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
better than average. At Nuneaton, they have also developed a military | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
style hand over to help ensure continuity of care. We realised | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
that information was being missed, communication was not of a | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
consistent standard of what we filed in my area was that we had | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
had some complaints. This hospital is facing cuts this year. In the | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
future, it realises it cannot carry on on its own. There are three | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
private companies and three hospital trusts looking to take it | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
over. For all small hospitals, saving lives whilst finances are | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
squeezed remains a challenge. Dan's here with the sport. So a big | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
night for Villa. Aston Villa host Bolton tonight in a game which is | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
crucial to the Premier League survival of both clubs. Villa are | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
currently five points above the relegation zone. But with just one | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
win in their last 12 matches and defeat tonight will drag them right | :18:56. | :19:05. | |
into the relegation fight. Reasons to be cheerful, Villa beat | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Bolton in December at they are six points above them in the table. | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
Reasons to be miserable, for the lost to Bolton in September and if | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
that happens again, they would just be three points behind them and | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
with a game in hand. Look at the table. It is not underestimating | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
things to say that this is the biggest game of the season so far. | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
It is certainly a game at Aston Villa cannot afford to lose. It is | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
a high-pressure game. There are high stakes. Everybody knows what | :19:36. | :19:43. | |
is at stake. I would not imagine that the play is up for that. | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
Villa manager was an unpopular choice last summer, sparking | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
protests. Just for home wins all season have hardly helped. | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
cannot blame this manager. We have to give everything but a difference. | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
We need to give them to have something to be proud about. Fair | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
fate will not be decided either way tonight but it Bolton victory would | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
make the last three games very nerve-racking for everyone at them | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
apart. The home fans must be anxious | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
tonight. Anxious, yes. Livers, yes. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Petrified, yes. Take your pick because the loan note that this is | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
a game they cannot afford to lose. The owner's home form this season | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
is dismal. In fact Alex McLeish called it rotten yesterday. He said | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
it is not something we are proud of and we've got to go all-out to win | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
tonight. But as you mentioned in your report there, they have won | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
four times at home this season so that is why the Villa fans will | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
travel here more in hope than expectation of seeing a villa win. | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
They are not at full strength tonight either, are they? | :21:01. | :21:10. | |
No, they are not. We go about long- term absentees and the long term | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
injuries. James Collins is also missing tonight. Emil Heskey and | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
one other player will help play a bigger role to live. Villa have | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
conceded more goals from corner kicks than any other team in the | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
Premier League and yet incredibly, they've failed to score from a | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
single call themselves. The Villa fans don't care how the goals come | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
to light as long as they score goals the bottom of the weather | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
probably is a metaphor for how both sets of supporters are feeling | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
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tonight. And BBC WM will have full match commentary. Kick-off is | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
7.45pm. The draws taken place for this | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
summer's Olympic football tournament. It took place at | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
Wembley this morning after Senegal booked the final place by beating | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
Oman 2-0 in a qualifier in Coventry last night. It means we now know | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
which teams will play in Coventry this summer. And the organisers | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
also know that Coventry will do a good job when the Olympics start | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
for real. A it is so wonderful to be able to showcase our great | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
cities of venues around the UK, from Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Cardiff, Coventry. Last night was a good example. And of course back | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
here for the final at Wembley. here's just some of those fixtures | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
in Coventry. The first game will be on Wednesday July 25th, between | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Sweden and South Africa. The last group game is between New Zealand | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
and Cameroon but they'll also host a quarter-final and a bronze medal | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
match. In the men's competition the first game will be between New | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
Zealand and Belarus. The last is a double header involving Senegal | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
versus United Arab Emirates, and Japan against Honduras. | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
It's all happening! In case the forthcoming Olympic Games had | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
managed to escape your attention, another reminder for you. The five | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
famous interlinking rings have appeared at Birmingham Airport. In | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
a special event last night, the region's major transport hub began | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
its countdown to London 2012. Staff and business leaders were | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
joined in celebrations by legends of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
As dusk descended on Birmingham Airport, its new air traffic | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
control tower was about to be dazzled. Each of the five Olympic | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
rings is two metres wide. They represent the union of five | :23:31. | :23:41. | |
Few get the chance to use this iconic brand. The brand is so | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
closely controlled and we have agreed with the Olympic Committee | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
that we can use this iconic structure, these iconic rings at | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
our airport to let people there our airport to let people there | :23:52. | :24:00. | |
that we are part of the London Edwin Moses won gold in the 400 | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
metre hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 games - and set the world record in | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
his event four times. He'll be following the progess of the US | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
team as they train in Birmingham. The fact that they are here says a | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
lot about the atmosphere in the city. They have peace and quiet, | :24:18. | :24:27. | |
they have great expectations for accommodation. Birmingham is trying | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
to inspire, to show the world what it can offer in this Olympic year | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
but could a star from Staffordshire steal the sporting limelight? Lee | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
Pearson's aiming for gold number ten, having represented British | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
para-equestrianism in Sydney, Athens and Beijing. I have done one | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
selection trial and I have two more to do. By will no in July if I have | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
been selected. This spectacle is not just about dazzling a Olympic | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
competitors. Business leaders also hope it will tempt thousands of | :24:57. | :25:06. | |
spectators to spend some of their homes in the West Midlands. | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
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-- their pounds. They look really, really impressive, | :25:16. | :25:26. | |
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especially at night. And great to Yes, well, put simply a plainly, | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
tonight you will get soaked! We have an early warning from the met | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
Office after midnight for heavy downpours for the south of the | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
region particularly, which could lead to a build-up of surface water | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
which could also lead to potentially dangerous driving | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
conditions. This is the cause. We have an intense area of low | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
pressure coming from the south-west. As you can see from his tightly- | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
packed isobars, it will be accompanied by strong winds, not | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
just the rain. At least we get a bit of a breeze this evening and | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
overnight. The showers the ceiling will start to clear northwards so | :26:03. | :26:13. | |
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after that we have it period of dry weather before it turns wetter and | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
windier the darker... The darker colours aware the heavier bursts of | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
rain will be. There will be... A wet and windy start to tomorrow as | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
the wind starts to spill further northwards. You can see that it | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
will pep up in areas from those dark green areas. And it clears | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
during the afternoon, followed by squally showers. It is a very wet | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
day indeed. Highs of around 11-12 sausages tomorrow but coupled with | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
whims, the cloud of the rain, head and think it will feel too warm. | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
The showers will continue into the night tomorrow, so there for the | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
duration. At least it will not be too cold to moralise. Temperatures | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
will fall down to a minimum of around eight Celsius. A lot of | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
cloud and rain, more showers later in the week. It is turning out to | :27:01. | :27:11. | |
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be a very wet one. Strong winds on It was very silly and beautiful | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
this morning, when I went on my walk along the canals of Birmingham. | :27:19. | :27:29. | |
He is almost poetic! A look at tonight's main headlines: | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
James Murdoch, the former boss of News International is questioned at | :27:32. | :27:33. | |
the Leveson inquiry about his family's influence. | :27:33. | :27:36. |