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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: A terrorist | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
carrying a bomb on a Birmingham bus ` the racist fanatic who's admitted | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
he had a hatred of anyone who wasn't white. | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
It is such a pity that he has wasted his whole life for some personal | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
hatred that he had. We'll be asking what chance our security forces have | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
against terrorist fanatics working in isolation. | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
Also tonight, growing concern over two children still missing after | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
being taken by their father on Friday. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Flying high ` a record number of businesses invest in Birmingham with | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
the promise of thousands of new jobs. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
The moment an assistant referee was hit by a flare at Villa Park ` two | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
men are under arrest. And we're whipping up a storm this | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
week with the whole works ` strong winds, heavy rain and showers. But | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
there's good news too ` I'll tell you all about it later. | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
Good evening. Tonight, the background to a campaign of racist | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
terror. This is Pavlo Lapshyn, a fanatic with a hatred of anyone not | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
white. He's from Ukraine, a country with a strong right wing nationalist | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
movement. But Lapshyn acted alone when he travelled to Birmingham on | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
April the 24th. Within five days, he'd murdered this defenceless man | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
and went on to plant three homemade bombs at mosques. His aim was to | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
kill and maim worshippers, but the terror attacks ended when Lapshyn | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
was arrested on the 18th of July. Ben Godfrey has the story of an | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
extremist described by police as calm, calculated and committed. | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
Pavlo Lapshyn was a man so filled with hate, he was prepared to kill | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
those who didn't have white skin. His first victim was a gentle | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
pensioner, going about his daily tasks. Our father was a lovely kind | :01:58. | :02:08. | |
man who left prayers for the last time on the 29th of April. He did | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
not do anything to deserve this, other than being a Moslem. `` | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
Moslem. 82`year`old Mohammed Saleem lived for his religion and his | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
family. On April the 29th, Lapshin stabbed him in the back as he left | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Green Lane mosque. From the first moment, his relatives were convinced | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
it was a racist attack ` and they were right. Their frustration with | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
West Midlands Police was clear. As time has gone on, the more | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
information we have given them, it has been received... I just feel, it | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
is a hassle. It was driven by right`wing motivation. At the time I | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
do not have a criticism of the investigation. I don't think they | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
could have done more. So why was he here? Lapshyn won a | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
student placement at this software company in Small Heath. He tried to | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
fit in and lived in a flat on site. On June 21st, a small homemade | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
device exploded near Aisha mosque in Walsall. Lapshyn intended to cause | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
mass casualties, but failed. On 28th June, the Ukrainian's terror theme | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
continued ` another Friday, Muslims attending prayers. This time, it's | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
Wolverhampton Central mosque. A device goes off. Fortunately, no | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
one's hurt. Initial police searches failed to spot a bomb had gone off. | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
The local community did pull together. Because we were not | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
certain who the perpetrator was, there was a big sense of relief once | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
it came out and became apparent that this gentleman is not from the | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
United Kingdom. A fortnight later, it's now abundantly clear that | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
police are hunting a terrorist. A large nail bomb explodes outside | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
Tipton Central mosque. This was Lapshyn's largest bomb. It weighed | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
600 grams and it was aimed at the female entrants to the mosque. Had | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
it been detonated by his mobile phone and an hour later, this car | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
park would have been full and there could have been up to 200 | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
casualties. The nails travelling `` travel up to 70 metres. Windows were | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
smashed. Lapshyn caught a bus, clutching a bag or a child's lunch | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
box, carrying unstable devices which could have gone off at any time. He | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
was eventually caught by ordinary bobbies doing routine checks in | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
Small Heath. We tracked him painstakingly on CCTV in his flat. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
We found further chemicals and things to make bombs. Community | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
tensions were heightened. Lapshyn was charged with the mosque bombings | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
and the murder of Mohammed Saleem, on the same day as an English | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
Defence League rally in Birmingham. You've got a far more right wing | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
organisation now coming forward and therefore there are going to be more | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
consequences of that. The community is apprehensive. We're told that | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
Lapshyn, the son of a college professor, was a lone wolf with no | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
links to extremist factions and no links to the Midlands. A man so off | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
the radar, early witness appeals proved fruitless. Lapshyn was the | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
unknown entity ` the nightmare of the security services. | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
He will be sentenced later this week. With us now is Imran Arwan, | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
senior lecturer in criminology at Birmingham City University. Good | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
evening to you. It's not the first lone wolf case ` how common are | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
they? There are a number of cases similar to this. Timothy McVeigh, | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
for example. David Copeland, in Britain, in 1999 add a string of | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
bomb plots. And the Boston bomber. Indeed, the two brothers from Russia | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
but were very much Long Wolf extremists. It is so random. It must | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
be well nigh impossible on the police to keep an eye on these | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
people? Of course. It is an extremely enormous task the police | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
have to deal with. It is much more difficult for them in terms of | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
trying to review and try to ascertain who is doing what, because | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
many of these people will use, for example, the internet, to try to | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
gather material. It is a difficult job for law enforcement agencies. | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
The murder of Mohammed Saleem was never really associated with terror, | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
was it? No. That is an important point. When it initially happened it | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
was discussed as a hate crime. I think for many people, including | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
myself as a criminologist, it was clear that it had the traits of an | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
act of terrorism. Perhaps it should have been much more clear that the | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
police were dealing with an act of terrorism as opposed to a hate | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
crime. How does anybody become so radicalised? Looking at the evidence | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
from this person, this individual, he said he targeted Mohammed Saleem | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
because he was not white, in effect. I think there is a more deeply | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
embedded hate and racial tension within individuals like this. They | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
get a limited, isolated, and they self radicalised. They use the | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
internet. They find bomb`making materials and it is an extremely | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
complex web of the suite. `` deceit. Coming up later in the programme, | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
fewer firefighters, fewer fire engines ` a warning that lives could | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
be lost if five million pounds is cut from a fire service's budget. | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
Police have released CCTV pictures of the man they believe is holding | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
two young children. Two and a half year old Na'llah Khan and her | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
ten`month`old brother Sulailman Khan were taken from a hotel in Stoke on | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
Trent by their father, Saleem Tahir. Liz Copper's outside the hotel for | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
us this evening. Liz, what's the latest on the police investigation? | :08:12. | :08:22. | |
Well, it was here that the police investigation began on Friday night. | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
It began when the children's father escaped with them down a fire | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
escape. We heard today how it was very likely it was planned. Police | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
have released pictures as the search intensifies. CCTV pictures showing | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
the father and grandmother who, just hours earlier, had snatched two | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
young children from their mother. Na'llah Khan, who's two and her ten | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
month`old brother, Sulailman, were taken by their father, Saleem Tahir, | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
on Friday afternoon. The children were taken from a room at this hotel | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
in Hanley. The manager has described how, on the previous day, Saleem | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Tahir's mother, Denise Smith`Sellers had checked into the hotel. During | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
the time that she was here that even, her son visited on numerous | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
occasions. He went up to her room, where it would appear he used that | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
opportunity to check out the Hotel, the various entrances and exits. The | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
children were seen here in the Selly Oak area of Birmingham at around | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
eight o'clock on Friday evening. Meanwhile, back in Hanley, the alarm | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
had been raised by their distraught mother. Clearly distressed. Somewhat | :09:30. | :09:42. | |
hysterical. They were trying with some difficulty to explain what had | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
happened because of their state of mind at that point. Police are | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
hoping these pictures will prompt witnesses to come forward and that | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
these two young children will be found safe and well. | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
This is an investigation that now involves several police force areas. | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
In addition to the pictures that have been released tonight, there | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
are also CCTV pictures taken from the security system at the hotel. I | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
understand they are of good quality. Police are interviewing witnesses | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
and they are appealing for witnesses to come forward. Thank you. | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
The hospital regulator, Monitor, has asked for an extra 40 days to sort | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
out the plan for the future of Stafford Hospital. The final report | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
into the hospital was due to be given to the Government tomorrow. | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
But Monitor's requested more time to work on finances. It believes this | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
won't slow down the final decision on the hospital which is due to be | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
agreed by the end of the year. The company which owns Alton Towers | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
and Warwick Castle, is to float on the London stock market. Merlin | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
Entertainments is believed to be worth around ?3 billion and is | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
Europe's leading visitor attraction operator. The company says the | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
public offer of shares will enable it to pay down debt and plan for | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
developments. More than 40 companies have chosen | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
to invest in Birmingham in just the last year. That's the highest figure | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
recorded in the last two decades. Deutsche Bank alone is bringing up | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
to a thousand jobs, choosing the second city over London. And, as | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
Peter Plisner has been finding out, other companies are doing the same. | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
His report contains some flashing images Flying high above Birmingham | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
` it's a modern city that appears to be taking off and pulling more | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
investment and companies away from London. | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
Flying high above Birmingham, the modern city that appears to be | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
taking off. It is pulling more companies away from London. Deutsche | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
Bank is the latest ` it's now setting up what will be one of | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
Europe's largest trading floors to deal in stocks and shares. The | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
bank's investing millions of pounds in a new HQ at Birmingham's Brindley | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Place. Once this building's complete next year, the bank will recruit up | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
to a thousand new staff. We have looked at a number of cities in the | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
UK. Growth in Birmingham was organic in the beginning. We felt it worked | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
very well. It is proven it works. We are going on the same trajectory. | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
Developments like Brindley Place have helped to put Birmingham on the | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
global map. This development have hoped it to range `` raise its game, | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
making it a more attractive location for companies wanting to relocate | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
and potential investors. And that's meant rising levels of interest in | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
the city. In 2010, there were just 19 foreign investment projects in | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
the city. A year later, it was up to 27. But last year, it rose even | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
further with 41 separate projects. And one of them heralded the arrival | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
of the online clothing retailer, ASOS. It's related it's IT | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
department to the city and it's already expanding. The technical and | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
creative side of Birmingham is fantastic. We have recruited some | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
strong individuals. We are really strong `` pleased with the quality | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
of people in Birmingham. Success has partly come through better marketing | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
of the city, with promotional videos portraying a young, modern and | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
fashionable live and work. I think it is a huge vote of confidence in | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
the city generally. But it is a reminder that these are fragile | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
economic times and people are making choices not just for today, but for | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
tomorrow. With investment in the city at a record high, that | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
ultimately means more new jobs and more job security for those already | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
working here. It is approaching 70 minutes to | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
seven. `` 17. This is our top story tonight: A terrorist carrying a bomb | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
on a bus ` the racist fanatic who's admitted he had a hatred of anyone | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
who wasn't white. Shefali will be along shortly with your detailed | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
weather forecast. Also in tonight's programme, | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
combating cancer ` why a pilot project in Staffordshire could point | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
the way forward. And after a match official found | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
himself in the firing line at Villa Park, what can be done to kick out | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
the hooligans? The Fire Brigades Union in Hereford | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
and Worcester says cuts of ?4.7 million over the next three years | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
could cost lives. The proposals have also angered five local MPs ` | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
they've written a joint letter to the fire authority chairman. Joanne | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
Writtle has been looking at the cuts in more detail, and she joins us now | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
from Droitwich Fire Station. Just how much concern is this causing, | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
Joanne? Well, the unions, for example, say these cuts would have a | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
devastating effect. MPs say these cuts are unacceptable. They want the | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
fire authority to reconsider. The chief fire officer says the | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
proposals are in their early stages, and there is a big public | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
consultation on the way. Tackling fires and emergencies in | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Hereford and Worcester day in, day out, but now fighting against nearly | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
?5 million of proposed cuts. And a consideration of losing 120 full and | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
part`time firefighters, closing four stations and losing up to ten fire | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
engines. Unions are worried. After these cuts have gone through, people | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
will die in the future would not have died before. Another concern is | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
that the chief senior managers are happy with these cuts. In public | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
they are saying that, but in private they know we will struggle. They | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
will be less resilience in the service. In 2007, 35 fire engines | :15:30. | :15:41. | |
were sent out during the floods. If the cuts go through, it would leave | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
less than 35 to cope in a similar situation. No fire station acts as | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
an island. With West Midlands just up the road, we are in and out of | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
West Midlands every single day. The amount of fire engines we have here | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
are not just the ones we would use. MPs across Hereford and Worcester | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
have urged the fire authority to rethink the plans. The two counties | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
get a lot less than some other parts of the country. We hope the fire | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
authority will look once again as rupture and Warwickshire and CF | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
there are not some areas of efficiency that they could find by | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
working together. The MP 's suggestion about back`office staff, | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
we have already taken ?2 million out of back`office staff. We are looking | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
at all sorts of issues to make sure we can do the best we can with | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
funding. I have two spent every pound wisely. Members of the public | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
have set up an online petition against the budget cuts. It public | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
consultation will go on until January. | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
The chief fire officer, Mark Yates, told me earlier that he is quite | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
pleased there is some political pressure going on. He feels they get | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
a raw deal. That is because, per head of population here, they get | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
?14 per head of central government grants. That compares nationally to | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
an average of ?20 per head. With that in mind, MPs have written to | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
Eric Pickles basically asking for a better ground. The unions say this | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
is too little, too late and this should have been done a long time | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
ago. This public consultation will carry on until January. In February, | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
the fire authority will decide what to do. | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
Health now, and how about this for an advertisement? "Wanted: Someone | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
to run a billion pounds worth of contracts over ten years. The job: | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
To provide seamless cancer and end`of`life care to over a million | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
people in Staffordshire. The aim: Changing the way the NHS works and | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
preventing patients getting lost in the system. Here's Michele Paduano. | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
Marie Clubb is trying to sell her home and her piano. Without her | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
husband, Angus, it's empty. Angus had an aggressive form of throat | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
cancer. And although Marie, from Newcastle Under Lyme, can't fault | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
his treatment, his death was far from peaceful. It is frightening, | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
absolutely frightening. And that is the memory of God. I've got nothing | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
else. I can't remember the good times we have had along the way. We | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
have laughed, we have cried during his treatment. I cannot recall any | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
of it. The only thing I see are the last few hours of him struggling for | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
life. And that is what I need to see changed. Today at Stoke City's | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
Britannia Stadium, the local NHS outlined to Marie and others an | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
ambitious plan for a contract to coordinate all cancer care across | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
Staffordshire for ten years. This is significant. This has national | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
applicability. If we can make it work here, that is an opportunity | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
for others to follow nationally. And it allows us to transform services | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
at a time when money is tight. The audience was shown this ` how many | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
people a breast cancer patient comes into contact with. Macmillan Cancer | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
Support will fund a coordinated approach and has chosen | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
Staffordshire If it works, more people will live better with cancer | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
` and the families of those who don't will witness a more dignified | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
and peaceful death. It is partly chemistry and partly circumstance. | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
And our desire to find a new way of working with partner organisations, | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
because we don't believe we can continue, the country can't | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
continue, to manage the health service the way it is. A bit like | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Stoke City, there is a feeling that cancer services could be doing | :19:36. | :19:43. | |
better. We don't know if a cancer survivor can be brought into... If | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
it works, more people will live better with cancer. The families of | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
those who do not, will witness a more dignified and peaceful death. | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
And, tonight, Inside Out West Midlands features the story of | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
13`year`old Tom Williams, who's been helping his mum Susan deal with | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
cancer. Onto sport now, and first, a | :20:03. | :20:14. | |
seriously troubling incident at Villa Park. Former Premier League | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
referee Vic Callow has recommended a two`year ban from football for the | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
fans involved in a flare throwing incident at Villa Park yesterday. | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
The smoke flare was thrown from the Tottenham Hotspur supporters and | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
struck assistant referee David Bryan. Two men arrested at | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
yesterday's game were released on police bail this morning. | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
No smoke without fire? Not always. The smoke billowing around Villa | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
Park yesterday came from a flare. It had been thrown from the Tottenham | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
Hotspur supporters and struck assistant referee David Bryan on the | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
back of the net. He was clearly shocked but continued to run the | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
line. Former Premier League referee Vic Callow said the incident would | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
have been alarming, as assistant referees have their back to the | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
crowd and have no warning of problems. | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
Not acceptable. For the safety of the officials primarily. But also, | :21:00. | :21:09. | |
it causes trouble. You think a ban is likely? I think so. Perhaps two | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
years or something. Ban them from football. That will make people | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
realise they will suffer if they do this. And it wasn't the only | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
incident this weekend. Hull City supporters celebrated their | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
equaliser at Everton with a flare on Saturday. The Football Association | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
have released a statement which says they're investigating the matter, | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
which they described as unacceptable. They're awaiting the | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
officials report and will speak to both clubs. The flare incident | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
overshadowed another fine performance from Spurs and England | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
winger Andros Townsend. His opening goal was the cue for the flare being | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
thrown. Christian Benteke returned for Villa as a substitute, but | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
headed over. And Tottenham completed a 2`0 victory when Roberto Soldado | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
struck in the second half. In fact, none of the Midlands three Premier | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
League sides managed to score at the weekend. Stoke City and West | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
Bromwich Albion drew 0`0, although referee Howard Webb missed giving a | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
penalty ` Charlie Adam stepping on Josef's Mulumbu's foot. And Stephane | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
Sessegnon showed later that maybe a penalty was the only way our sides | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
would score this weekend. Last week, we brought you news of | :22:11. | :22:25. | |
the BBC's plans for the upcoming centenary of World War One. We | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
featured the diary of Private Benjamin Gordon Williams from | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
Birmingham, whose ultimate fate was a mystery to historians. Well, I'm | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
delighted to say it's a mystery no longer, thanks to one of our | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
viewers. Here's Bob Hockenhull. At his home near Sutton Coldfield, | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
88`year`old Caleb Williams fondly remembers a father who saw action in | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
World War One. He recognised extracts from his dad's wartime | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
diaries featured in a Midlands Today report last week. It was a sort of | :22:49. | :23:02. | |
deep down shock that there was Father's name being mentioned, and | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
he died in 1965. Private Benjamin Gordon Williams' diaries are kept at | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
the University of Birmingham's Cadbury research library. To have a | :23:13. | :23:23. | |
relative get in touch with you to give you more material, different | :23:24. | :23:33. | |
details, is really exciting. Caleb says his father was attached to the | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
YMCA during the War. He served as a Field Liaison Officer in the | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
Dardanelles, supplying food and shelter to the allies. The onslaught | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
` an attempt to open up a new front to Germany through Turkey saw heavy | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
casualties. It was a complete disaster. That is why we don't hear | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
much about the Dardanelles campaign in history. Caleb's mother, Dora, | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
was also sent to the Dardanelles to nurse casualties. The pair had met | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
at a picnic on the Lickey Hills near Birmingham in 1910. But it would be | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
1923 before they would marry as both took years to recover from malaria | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
contracted in Turkey. They've finished the war physically in a | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
dreadful state. They went on to live long and fulfilling lives, now | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
fondly remembered by their only son. Isn't that remarkable? What an | :24:24. | :24:35. | |
utterly dismal day it has been. The rain has already taken its toll on | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
some parts of the region. Namely the south`west, where the environment | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
agency has issued a flood alert for some heavy rain and also some | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
possibility of flooding, which is something you have to be prepared | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
for. But I think the Met office is probably going to issue a weather | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
warning for more heavy rain this week. There is plenty of it around. | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
It is basically going to be a wet and windy this week. Also mile for | :25:01. | :25:10. | |
this time the year. `` mild. If we look at the pressure chart for the | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
next couple of days, we can see where this rain is coming from. It | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
is pushing up from the south`west. Some torrential downpours and even | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
some thunder. There will also be some lightning. The isobars packed | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
together indicating where the struggle winds hour. We have got the | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
rain easing for a time before we get heavy downpours appearing in the | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
West. The west of the region will bear the brunt of this. As it moves | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
eastwards, it will ease slightly. All in all it would be a wet night. | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
Temperatures down to 14 or 15. A minimum of 13. Slightly lower than | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
today's values. A wet and windy night ahead. And a wet spell of | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
weather through the morning tomorrow. Heavy rain will be cutting | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
across central parts. On either side of that it should be fairly OK. It | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
will be a fairly wet morning and a dryer afternoon. A lot of sunshine | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
developing through the latter part of the day. This will send | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
temperatures up to 16 or 17 Celsius. Windy from a southerly direction. | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
More heavy rain from the south tomorrow night. The heaviest of the | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
bursts will be around the South West. Those will develop later and | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
spread north. To end the night tomorrow night, it is going to be | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
much drier. Temperatures dropping to 13 Celsius. Heavy showers on | :26:47. | :26:47. | |
Wednesday and Thursday. Tonight's headlines from the BBC: | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
French and Chinese companies win the contract to build Britain's newest | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
nuclear power station ` the first in a generation. | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
The young blonde girl discovered in a Roma community in Greece ` a | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
couple appear in court accused of abducting her. | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
The moment a right wing terrorist carried a bomb onto a bus in | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
Birmingham ` he's admitted a hatred of people who aren't white. | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
That was the Midlands Today. I'll be back at ten o'clock with more on the | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
background to those bombing attacks on mosques in the Midlands. Have a | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
great evening. Goodbye. | :27:22. | :27:26. |