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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Mary Rhodes and Nick Owen. The | :00:04. | :00:09. | |
headlines tonight: Tributes to a young couple deeply in love who | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
drowned while on holiday in Italy. We found out yesterday morning, | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
people broke down crying, they are devastated. Also tonight — more | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
heavy criticism for the high speed rail project. An influential | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
committee of MPs says the benefits of the line are dwindling and costs | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
are spiralling. Transforming an old nuclear bunker | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
into a museum — but only if new houses are built to pay for it. It | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
will be lost forever, we needed to be saved session we can show older | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
generations what we lived through. Making scoring child''s play — the | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Coventry striker with eight goals in six games lifting the Sky Blues off | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
the bottom of the table. And we're certainly not lacking | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
variety this week — but is it of the kind we'd like? Join me later and | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
you'll find out. Good evening, tributes have been | :01:03. | :01:15. | |
paid to a couple from Staffordshire who drowned while on holiday in | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Italy. Andrew Burgess and his girlfriend Carmen Spiridon were | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
staying in Sicily when the accident happened. It took place on a beach | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
at a resort town, where there were reported to be strong currents. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Local police have suggested the couple were weak swimmers. The | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
Foreign Office says it's supporting the families. Andrew's father has | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
told Midlands Today that they're devastated, describing them as a | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
"lovely, lovely couple, who were deeply in love." Ben Godfrey | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
reports. Andrew Sturgess and Carmen Spiridon | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
were inseparable to the end.Police in Sicily say the couple drowned on | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
saturday afternoon, while swimming in difficult currents near the | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
resort of Compobello di Mazara. They believe the 34—year—old, from | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Biddulph, died while trying to save his girlfriend's life. This | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
afternoon, his father Glynn told me his son: | :02:03. | :02:15. | |
The couple were in Sicily to meet Miss Spiridon's family. They first | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
met in this church in Stoke—on—Trent two years ago and planned to marry. | :02:22. | :02:31. | |
Andrew was quite a quiet person, they were so in love, just to watch | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
him grow, to which fall in love and growing confidence and belief in | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
himself, it was just remarkable —— to watch him fall in love. Carmen | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Spiridon appeared in a church video, filmed and edited by her boyfriend. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
The 25—year—old was said to be thrilled at the prospect of moving | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
into a new home together. All I can say about Carmen is that she just | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
smiled all the time. They were both very creative, Andrew especially, | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
with the BDO editing and production he used to do. Andrew Sturgess | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
worked for a hydraulics company as an office manager. He was due back | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
at work this week. In a statement, a director has described Andrew | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
Sturgess as an honest, dedicated worker with a bright future ahead of | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
him. They have closed the office today as a mark of respect. Tonight, | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
the Foreign Office says it's providing consular assistance to his | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
family. Coming up later in the programme — | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
the new concept car from Jaguar Land Rover, with the chance to create | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
thousands more jobs. There's been yet more heavy | :03:36. | :03:44. | |
criticism today for the High—Speed Rail project — this time from an | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
influential committee of MPs. The Public Accounts Committee say the | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
benefits of the line linking the Midlands with London, Northern | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
England and, eventually, Scotland are dwindling, while the costs are | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
spiralling. Our Political Editor Patrick Burns is here with me. HS2 | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
is getting a real pounding these days, isn't it? It is, especially | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
since three months ago, the government revised the overall | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
estimated cost of the project up to £43 billion and more recently, it | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
went up even further to over £50 billion. In the meantime, the | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
economic benefits of the so—called multiplier effect, that being | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
revised downwards. The other big worry for the committee is what they | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
call the opportunity cost, the fear that with all this investment going | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
into HS2, there will be less money to spare for conventional freight | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
and passenger services around Britain. The economic case is not | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
been made. Add to that spiralling costs and diminishing benefit and | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
huge worries about the timetable, and we think there are real | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
questions that need to be answered as to whether HS2 should go ahead. | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
There has been speaking nation all this pressure could make the | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
government consider a U—turn? Here at least is one issue on which the | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
leaderships of all the three main parties are agreed. But they do have | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
today: A very powerful political argument in places like | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
Staffordshire and Warwickshire, they are getting all the pain and none of | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
the game. Ministers say passengers from places like Birmingham using | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
HS2 will lead to improvements in the services the towns and cities | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
elsewhere. It is releasing capacity on the conventional line for | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
passengers who may want to join the train at Stafford, or wherever, and | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
travel to another part of the rail network. The government 's fightback | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
will begin in earnest on Wednesday when ministers will say that many | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
billions of pounds in investment will be coming into regions like | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
ours, not just Birmingham but throughout the wider West Midlands. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Police stations should stop being used as places to detain the | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
mentally ill. That's according to one of the most senior police | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
officers in the UK. The President of the Superintendents Association | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
spoke out at the beginning of their annual conference in Warwickshire. | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
Meanwhile, a specialist unit in our region could be the answer to what's | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
described as a national scandal. Peter Wilson has been investigating. | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
A man arrested by the police. He's been drinking but he's also | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
suffering from depression and he starts to self harm in the police | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
cell. Tonight's BBC Panorama programme looks at the national | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
scandal of people with mental health problems ending up in police cells. | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
One of the most senior police officers in the country was in | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Kenilworth today for the Superintendents' annual conference. | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
Quite often an argument for taking people to police cells is that | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
police officers are trained to restrain them can but the reality is | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
they are not, they are trained to restrain criminals. The best place | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
to somebody with mental health problems is a mental health | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
assessment unit. So what can be done? This unit could be the answer | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
to some of these national problems. It was opened three years ago | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
today, and is a place of safety where people suffering from mental | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
health problems and identified by the police brought here from | :07:22. | :07:31. | |
Birmingham and Solihull. Richard Clarke is one of the senior nurses | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
at the Oli Aster Unit. We will bring them in and bring them into our | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
suites and we will explain the process to them, why they have been | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
brought here, how they can be held for up to two hours, and of our | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
people are held for that long. 20 per cent of police time is taken up | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
dealing with people suffering from mental illness. If we take them into | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
a cell block, it is a small, confined space and probably when you | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
are in crisis, it isn't the right place for you. This is the best | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
place for people suffering. Ten years ago Michael Powell died. He'd | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
been restrained by police officers after suffering from a mental | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
crisis. Tomorrow the city council is holding a special meeting to discuss | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
the problems of the mentally ill. They are still some serious concerns | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
out there, particularly within the African Caribbean community around | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
mental health and the criminal justice systems. This is a crucial | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
time to pull agencies together, all the key players together, these | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
report. So far 1,500 people have been kept out of police cells thanks | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
to this specialist unit. Thousands more jobs look set to be | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
created at Jaguar Land Rover following the unveiling, earlier | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
today, of a new concept car at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The company's | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
also planning to announce a multi—million pounds investment | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
designed to help expand the Jaguar range of models. Joining us from | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
outside the Jaguar plant at Castle Bromwich is our business | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
correspondent, Peter Plisner. Yet more new models — what do you think | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
will be the impact on jobs in the region? Any new models are good news | :09:07. | :09:16. | |
for jobs, not just the Jaguar Land Rover but also in the wider supply | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
chain. For every job on the Jaguar Land Rover production lines, there | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
are three or four jobs in the supply chain. Jaguar has been sourcing | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
plants locally, previously the policy was to source abroad, a lot | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
of those parts that are coming back to be produced here. More good news | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
on the way, strong spec nation about the big investment programme, one | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
press race I saw said that a multi—million pound investment is | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
due —— press release. It is the first day of the Frankfurt motor | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
show tomorrow, any manufacturers will make announcements. Tell us | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
more about the new concept car that has been unveiled in Frankfurt. It | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
was revealed earlier this afternoon. There is some flash photography on | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
these pictures. Jaguar 's first foray into the 4x4 market, new | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
territory for them. It is pretty environmentally friendly, one of the | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
most environmentally friendly in its sector. It has been rumoured that | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
some time that they have been looking to produce a 4x4. No telling | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
yet when it is going to go into production but we are being told | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
forms the basis of the new range of Jaguar models for the future. The | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
first of which will be a saloon car, thought to be a replacement for the | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
X type, that could go into production as early as 2015. | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
Police say a child rapist from Coventry had 'undoubtedly more | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
victims'. 39—year— old Karl Clay attacked women and children before | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
pouring petrol on them and threatening to set them alight. He | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
was found guilty in July of 13 charges, including the rape of a | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
child under the age of 13. The offences became clear when two | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
victims came forward. West Midlands police say there may be many more | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
and are asking any one who might have been affected to make contact. | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
The accountancy firm Deloitte has been fined £14 million over the way | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
it advised the failed MG Rover Group. 6,000 jobs were lost when MG | :11:20. | :11:33. | |
Rover collapsed in 2005 with debts of £1.4 billion. Regulators say | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Deloitte didn't do enough to manage a conflict of interest. They were | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
advising the MG Rover Group as well as the "Phoenix Four" directors who | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
bought the firm before it collapsed. A former Deloitte partner has also | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
been fined £250,000 and banned from the profession for three years. | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Child protection agencies are awaiting the publication of yet | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
another inquiry into the death of a young child. Four—year old Daniel | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
Pelka died from a head injury in Coventry in March 2012. After months | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
of abuse, he only weighed around a stone and a half when he died. His | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
mother Magdelena Luczak, and her partner Mariusz Krezolek, were found | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
guilty of murder. They must serve at least 30 years in jail. This | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
evening, BBC Inside out West Midlands is asking whether the child | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
protection system is learning from its mistakes. Joining me now is | :12:16. | :12:31. | |
DrPeter Sidebotham — Warwickshire's designated Child Protection doctor. | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
Of the agent is learning from their mistakes? I think they are, we're | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
seeing a lot of his prudence in the way we work to support families, and | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
intervening when children are suffering abuse, but clearly it does | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
continue and we need to be vigilant and learn. It does seem we are | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
reporting all too regularly on tragic deaths such as Daniel 's, | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
have the numbers gone down? They have, it is encouraging if we look | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
at the numbers of children who die as a result of abuse or neglect, | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
they have fallen since the 1970s and 1980s, that has been encouraging and | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
does reflect the work that went into establishing national procedures. | :13:13. | :13:21. | |
But it is still meant that children are dying as a result —— it still | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
means. Everyone told a week dies in the UK. Each one of those deaths is | :13:28. | :13:38. | |
a tragedy. What can be done to drive that number down? I think we need a | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
continued support for families, the majority of cases I look at, and I | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
have looked at a number of cases through the research I have done, | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
the majority we are dealing with our families are didn't set out to harm | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
their children but are struggling, vulnerable families in difficult | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
circumstances. We need a lot more in terms of early intervention, hitting | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
alongside these families and parents and supporting them, helping them be | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
good parents but also being vigilant when that is not working and be | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
prepared to step in and intervene. Is this about resources? Have we | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
enough people? The reality is we are all stretched and have a look at my | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
colleagues in social services, health visiting, they are all | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
carrying incredibly huge caseloads, often with many vulnerable families, | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
they are trying to work with them on a regular basis. We all struggle | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
with the issue of not having enough time to devote the families we would | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
want to. The impact this must have when you is difficult to imagine. It | :14:46. | :14:53. | |
is huge, any case where you see a vulnerable child who has suffered, | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
we all feel bad. There is hardly a case where I am not in tears. Thank | :14:58. | :15:09. | |
you, appreciate your time. Can see more on that tonight at 7:30pm. | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
This is our top story tonight: Tributes to a young couple deeply in | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
love who drowned while on holiday in Italy. Your detailed weather | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
forecast to come shortly from Shefali. Also in tonight's programme | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
— the striker whose goals have already lifted Coventry off the | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
bottom of the table, despite starting the season on minus ten | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
points. And marking 30 years since it all began, Musical Youth revive | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
reggae memories as they take to the stage in Birmingham City centre. | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
A former nuclear bunker in Worcestershire could be transformed | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
into a museum and coffee shop, if a controversial planning application | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
gets the go ahead. Drakelow tunnels near Kidderminster were originally | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
built during the Second World War as an underground factory to produce | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
aircraft engines. Cath Mackie reports. | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
Sid Robinson opens a large rusty door and walks into a vast | :16:08. | :16:17. | |
underground tunnel network. As caretaker of the Drakelow tunnels | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
near Kidderminster, he makes his way by torchlight to the generator room | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
where volunteer Mike Arnold flips the switch. We will get all the bits | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
in here... The pair are discussing plans to turn the tunnels into a | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
museum. This was kept away from everybody for years, it is nice | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
people can come and see what actually went on. The past echoes | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
through the three and a half miles of tunnels. The ghosts of the 1940s | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
line up at the wartime canteen, whilst mould eats away at the radio | :16:43. | :16:53. | |
studio built during the cold war. If it had gone pear—shaped during the | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
cold war this is the room where a BBC reporter would have been | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
dispatched to, and this is the desk that the news would have been read | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
from. But this isn't just about an application to turn the tunnels into | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
a museum. If it were these councillors and other protestors | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
might feel differently. The owners, Quercus Ilex, a Swiss company want | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
to build six houses on the site and sell them to pay for the museum. On | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
the face of it you might think it is a good idea, but it isn't here | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
because this is a sensitive area of green belt, and people have been | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
stopped from building and doing anything on this area for a long | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
time. It was known as Little Switzerland before the factory | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
days, so it's not like we're ripping up a fresh piece of field to build | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
houses, it's on ground that has already been built on twice before. | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
Arguments aside, there's no denying this is a remarkable piece of local | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
history. Roy Godfrey worked here when it was owned by the ministry of | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
defence in the Cold War. We had to clean the place up, renew all the | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
tiles, we had to do the beds and everything, make sure everything was | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
OK. The museum and housing application's with Wyre Forest | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
District Council who'll decide the future of this unique reminder of | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
life in the 20th century. Dan's here with the sport, and | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
despite all their problems off the pitch, Coventry City are flying on | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
it. Coventry City's move away from the Ricoh Arena may have upset | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
thousands of their supporters. But their new home at Northampton is | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
suiting one of the club's talented young strikers. Callum Wilson has | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
now scored six goals at Sixfields. So this afternoon, Ian Winter went | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
to meet him. Little Oritse is 11 months old. And | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
his first birthday next month should be quite a party. His young dad | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
Callum Wilson couldn't be happier if he'd won the Lottery. Coventry born | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
and bred, Callum went to the President Kennedy School and joined | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
the Sky Blues at 15. Now, he's scoring goals for fun. And still | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
only 21 years old. What difference is this chap made? A lot of | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
difference, motivation along with my fiance, it is nice to them —— have | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
their support. Six months ago, Callum achieved one of his targets | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
by scoring at the Ricoh Arena. Against the same opponents, | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
Colchester, he pounced again. Not once, but twice — one in each half, | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
to become the top goal—scorer outside the Premier League. And with | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
it, the man of the match award for second time on his adopted home | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
ground. Coventry 's youngest fan has no idea that his dad 's eight goals | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
have not only helped the sky blues off the foot of the table, they have | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
wiped out that penalty deduction. But here's the rub. Just look at the | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
empty seats. Coventry's team may be on the up and up — their crowd is | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
down to rock bottom. A record low of just under 1,800 fans paid to get in | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
yesterday. Because Northampton will never be home for these Sky Blue | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
supporters. And that's why they staged their protest on the mound | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
behind the ground. They've called it Jimmy's Hill. And now it's the focal | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
point of their campaign to "Keep Cov in Cov". He is a brilliant young | :19:57. | :20:05. | |
player and he deserves to be at the Ricoh Arena playing in front of | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
thousands. Those performers to be marked the lowest ever home | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
attendance in our history is an absolute disgrace. Don't tell little | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
Oritse. But he's getting a real leather football on his first | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
birthday next month. And Callum will be delighted to see his son take | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
centre stage. Hopefully he will follow in his dad 's footsteps! | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
And our only other winners at the weekend were Port Vale. Tom Pope | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
scored a last minute winner as they beat Carlisle 1—0 in League One. So | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
it's been a fairly good weekend for our football clubs, but not much joy | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
at the start of the rugby season? Yes, unfortunately both Gloucester | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
and Worcester lost their opening Premiership games. The big surprise | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
was Gloucester's 22—16 home defeat by Sale. Kingsholm is traditionally | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
a fortress for Gloucester and Sale were expected to struggle. Food for | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
thought there for Gloucester and the manager. Less surprising was | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
Worcester's 32—15 defeat at the defending champions Leicester but | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
Josh Matavesi did score this excellent try for Worcester. Much | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
better news in the world of speedway. I understand we could be | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
about to get a world champion from the Midlands. Yes, this is Tai | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
Woffinden who rides for Wolverhampton. Tai's on the way to | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
becoming Britain's first world champion in 13 years. He's in the | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
white helmet here and came second in the final at the Slovenian grand | :21:24. | :21:33. | |
prix at the weekend. And finally, Aston Villa's Gabriel Agbonlahor | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
isn't very popular with fans of One Direction. Can you explain? Yes, | :21:36. | :21:44. | |
it's because of a charity match in Glasgow for Stiliyan Petrov's | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
Leukaemia Foundation. And One Direction's Louis Tomlison played. | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
Look out for the flash photograpy as this is how you might recognise him. | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
This is him on the left—hand side. Here he's with the boy band at the | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
launch of their film last month. And this is what happened when he was | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
involved in a challenge with Villa's Agbonlahor. It's fair to say that | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Tomlinson came off second best. He was dazed and confused and asked to | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
be substituted. He was even sick as he left the field. Agbonlahor | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
apologised but One Direction fans weren't happy and hurled a lot of | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
on—line abuse towards him via a social network site. He was given | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
all sorts of grey. But Tomlinson was said to be fine afterwards and a | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
crowd of 60,000 meant it was a good fundraising day. But yes, they are | :22:26. | :22:37. | |
not too often in the sports News! Tomlinson is no slouch. You take | :22:37. | :22:49. | |
your the, blimey! Lovely note to finish on! | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
95,000 people visited Birmingham City centre this weekend to | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
celebrate the opening of the new library. They came to see more than | :22:54. | :23:02. | |
70 free events which made up the Four Squares Weekender festival. | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
And, for many, the highlight was in Chamberlain Square on Saturday | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
night, when '80s band Musical Youth took to the stage. Our Arts reporter | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
Satnam Rana was there too. Reggae vibes in Birmingham's | :23:10. | :23:28. | |
Chamberlain Sqaure..proof that Musical Youth have still got the | :23:28. | :23:39. | |
rhythm. It's great, loved it. I remember when they were doing chart | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
stuff and being successful, it's great to hear them doing it just as | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
good as it was then. It is good still! Musical man! Two of the | :23:48. | :23:58. | |
original band members, Dennis and Michael, took to the stage as part | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
of Birmiingham's four quares Weekender — a free festival to | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
celebrate the opening of the Library of Birmingham.But it was in 1982 | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
when the boys from Newtown and Nechells entered a whirlwind of | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
music stardom here in the UK and in America. It is a new building, is | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
like, oh my God! It's nice that it has developed and it is regressing. | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
I pinch myself that I'm still playing music 30 odd years later, we | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
never had a plan like that, we just wanted to play. We didn't think we | :24:23. | :24:38. | |
would play music 30 years later. But it was in 1982 when the boys from | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
Newtown and Nechells entered a whirlwind of music stardom here in | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
the UK and in America. Forward 30 years and they're back | :24:43. | :24:55. | |
making music to celebeate reggae through the decades. And as well as | :24:55. | :25:04. | |
playing to a home crowd this weekend they were supporting Elton John on | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
the Isle of Wight. It is always great to support any major artist. | :25:08. | :25:21. | |
The homecoming gig was certainly a success, proving that they still | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
have got it. Even though you've may not be on their side. —— youth. | :25:25. | :25:36. | |
They may still have it! Some bad dancing in the studio! What weather | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
is there going to be? A bit of a sluggish start today, a | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
lot of cloud and some rain as well, but we have seen signs of hope with | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
some sunshine breaking through. In terms of temperatures, we have | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
flashes of blue indicating where the cooler air is, thankfully we're not | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
succumbing totally to this cooler air this week stop we will see | :26:03. | :26:11. | |
things getting more humid by Friday. Rain and showers, more unsettled | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
conditions during the day but turning more humid by Friday. As we | :26:15. | :26:25. | |
head into the weekend, it will be fairly unpleasant but right now, | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
some lively showers, into the South—East of the region, these will | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
fade away and Peter later on, leaving all parts try with some | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
fairly decent spells. Just touching double figures in some places. In | :26:42. | :26:49. | |
oral parts, definitely down to eight or nine Celsius. A fairly chilly | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
night to night, but would be clearer spells, some sunshine, particularly | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
around the south—west. Generally, a much improved day. We will see some | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
glimmers of brightness and the sunnier spells. To break through. | :27:04. | :27:12. | |
Temperatures, between 15 Celsius under the cloud, rising to 18 in the | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
sunshine. It will be coupled with a fairly stiff northerly breeze which | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
will add a slight wind chill. Tomorrow night, try again. —— drive | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
again. Let's recap tonight's top stories: | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
Russia makes a surprise offer to break the deadlock over Syria's | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
chemical weapons. And tributes have been paid to a | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
young couple deeply in love who drowned while on holiday in Italy. | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
Mary will be back at ten o'clock when we'll be in Shrewsbury with the | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
team of volunteers being trained to keep people safe | :27:47. | :27:47. |