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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: they want | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
me, I will be saying don't screw this up. We'll be talking to | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
constituents and finding out what this is likely to mean for MP Mark | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
Pritchard. Also tonight: The father of a teenager who hanged herself | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
says more could have been done to help her. Somebody in the system | :00:30. | :00:38. | |
made us feel as though Chelsea was getting better when in fact she was | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
actually getting worse. The dangers of everyday household | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
cleaning products, a campaign to keep children like Zachary say. It | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
was nasty. In my RA. The speed skaters from Solihull who | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
are medal favourites for the Winter Olympics. | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
And it hasn't stopped raining all day. At this rate, flood alerts | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
could quite easily turn into flood warnings ` but will they? The latest | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
on the weather coming up shortly. Good evening. A Conservative MP from | :01:07. | :01:20. | |
Shropshire is threatening libel action tonight against a newspaper | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
that's accused him of trying to profit by using his parliamentary | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
contacts. Mark Pritchard, who's been MP for the Wrekin for eight years, | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
wouldn't be interviewed, but he insists he's done nothing wrong. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
He's referred himself to Parliament's Commissioner for | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
Standards, saying he wants to clear his name. FrontPage and are under | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
fire. Mark Pritchard is accused of | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
offering to use his political contacts in Albania to broker a | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
business deal from which he stood to benefit. He was secretly filmed by | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
an undercover reporter posing as a businessman talking about the | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
influence he could bring to bear. I may just be a little council house | :01:58. | :02:22. | |
lad from a very poor background. Mr Pritchard's a member of the | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
Parliamentary All`Party Committee on Albania and has longstanding links | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
to the country. Elsewhere in the recording, the MP asks for a fee of | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
?3,000 a month for his help building a chain of hotels, plus a percentage | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
of any deal that's struck. He's said he'll now refer himself to | :02:35. | :02:49. | |
the MPs' watchdog, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, in an | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
effort to clear his name. Mr Pritchard didn't want to be | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
interviewed today but in a statement, he described the | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
allegations as hurtful and malicious. He denied any wrongdoing | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
and said the Telegraph had quoted him out of context. | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
He's obviously confident that he hasn't breached any parliamentary | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
rules but obviously we're waiting to see what the Parliamentary | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
Commissioner for Standards report is going to say and obviously for the | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
association we'll take any necessary action that report will indicate. | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
Mr Pritchard increased his majority in the Wrekin at the last election. | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
On a wet Wednesday in Wellington there was no rush to judge. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
Your faith in him isn't shaken by these allegations? Not shaken at | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
all, no. Wait to hear what further news there is in the future. I think | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
it's yet to be proven because it's gone to the Parliamentary Standards | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
Committee and therefore I'll wait for them to judge. He says he's done | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
nothing wrong so I don't know. Yes, I hope he clears his name. If not, | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
justice will do. Mr Pritchard has sued the Telegraph | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
for libel in the past and says he's consulting his lawyers with a view | :04:03. | :04:13. | |
to taking action again. Our political editor Patrick Burns | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
joins us now. Just how serious a matter is this, Patrick? It's a very | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
serious accusation. Sufficiently serious for Mr Pritchard to have | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
wasted no time in referring himself to the Pmtary Standards | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
Commissioner, in order he says, to clear his name. If he had been using | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
his parliamentary position to further his business interests that | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
would be a very grave matter. But that he says is exactly what he | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
hasn't been doing. The deal he was taped negotiating was for his | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
advisory company which is on he Register of Members' Interests. | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
Completely transparent. The commissioner will have to decide | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
whether or not this arrangement allows a sufficient separation | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
between his parliamentary and interests. What view will the | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
Conservative Party be taking about this. Not the sort of headlines | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
they'd want? They'll say it's a matter for the Parliamentary | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
Standards Commission but you're right about the headlines. They | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
revive memories from not too distant past about 'cash for questions' and | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
'cash for access'. Mr Pritchard points out that he has neither | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
received any money nor done any political lobbying on behalf of | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
anyone involved in these negotiations. And what about Mr | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
Pritchard? You know him, how will he be taking this? He's a very | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
combative character. He was one of the architects of the biggest Tory | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
backbench revolt in living memory, the EU Referendum issue. I'm not | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
surprised he's taking legal advice about suing the Telegraph. Equally | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
in my experience his actions and words are chosen with great care. So | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
I'd be very surprised if he didn't feel he was negotiating within the | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
rules. But that revives the debate over whether or not those rules | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
should be changed. And he does need to retain the confidence of his | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
support of his constituency party in Shropshire. Thank you. | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
Coming up later in the programme: On the voyage to a brave new digital | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
world. Has Birmingham missed the cultural boat? | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
The father of a teenager who took her own life says more could have | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
been done to help her. He was speaking after a serious case review | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
found failings in the care received by Chelsea Clark. The 13`year`old | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
girl was found hanged at her home in Wolverhampton two years ago. A | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
review by the city's safeguarding board says that those involved could | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
have worked together better to protect her. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
Up until four months before her death, Chelsea Clark showed no signs | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
of the mental health problems which would lead her to take her own life. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
But when she was 13, she started self harming which brought her and | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
her family into contact with health and social services. A serious case | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
review published yesterday highlighted a number of failings in | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
communication, record keeping and listening to Chelsea. It is a bit of | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
a shock when the report does come out and you see how big it is. But I | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
am in full agreement with everything and feel that Chelsea was let down | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
by a number of services. The report points to a particular occasion when | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
she was in hospital. In the spring of 2011, Chelsea was a tattoo to the | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
children's ward here after taking an overdose. `` was admitted to the | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
children's ward. She was then discharged despite the report saying | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
that she would try to take her own life. Someone in the system read | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
Chelsea wrong, we feel. And made us feel as if Chelsea was getting | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
better when in fact, she was getting worse. | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
Less than three months later, Phil and his wife found their daughter | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
hanged in her bedroom at home. Trust managers say lessons have been | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
learned. Chelsea was herself articulating their capacity to keep | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
herself say. We have looked at that and we think we need to concentrate | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
more on this thing to the views of young people in our care and would | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
seek to do that much more consistently as again perhaps was | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
done on this occasion. Two years on and all 30 of the | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
report's recommendations have been implemented. I know pretty well what | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
was going to be the report but when the report came out it took it right | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
back to the day I buried Chelsea. Full Chelsea would be 16 now. For | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
her family, the report just adds to the painful list of "what ifs". | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Joining us now is Lucy Russell, Director of campaigns at the charity | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
Youngminds. Good evening to you. This was tragic for everyone | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
concerned. She was clearly crying out for help, but what help is there | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
for girls like Chelsea? There is help. But sometimes that help is | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
quite hard to access. That help does not happen early enough and what is | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
really important is that we look across the spectrum of who can | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
help. So that actually starts with parents, with teachers, with social | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
workers with youth workers, and then moves on from there to child and | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
adolescent mental health services and then onto inpatient units so I | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
think actually it is not just about crisis services, it is about | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
everything that leads up to those services as well. And the people | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
listen enough? I don't think people listen enough and what they don't do | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
is listen enough to the voices of children and young people as the | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
report demonstrated. And I think it is very important to listen to young | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
people and make sure that services take account of what they say. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
Something like this, tragedies do happen and it is incredibly sad and | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
this kind of thing is a very inexact science. We cannot always predict | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
who is going to tragically take their own life but I think there is | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
a real point being made here about listening to young people. We | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
listened to adults but not to children. Early intervention is | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
crucial. Absolutely. One of the import of this to point out is that | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
the cuts that are being made to child and adolescent medal health | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
services are really putting pressure on the services so there is a | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
shortage of beds, there is not enough care in the community and an | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
issue with what happened to Chelsea with when she came out of hospital, | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
why is the cannot bear? So it is making sure the services of the | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
investment they need right across the board from early intervention | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
right through inpatient services. Thank you. | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
A soldier from the third Battalion of the Mercian Regiment, the | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
Staffords, has been killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan. The | :11:13. | :11:14. | |
soldier, who's been described as "hugely experienced", was on patrol | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
in the Kamparack area of Helmand when a car bomb was set off. He's | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
the eighth British serviceman to be killed in Afghanistan this year. His | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
family have been informed. The cheap" Warwickshire says he has | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
been misrepresented by MPs, `` the `` the Commissioner. Andrew Mitchell | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
has always denied calling PC officers plebs. | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
A welder who murdered his wife by pushing her downstairs has been | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
jailed for life. Alun Evans from Kidderminster had been having an | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
affair. Louise Evans was found with a skipping rope and vacuum cleaner | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
next to her body to try to make the death look accidental. | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Too many children are being accidentally poisoned by cleaning | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
products according to the Birmingham `based Royal Society for the | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
Prevention of Accidents. Last year, 600 children alone were accident the | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
poisoned in Solihull. Many are omitted to hospital due to hospital | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
`` poisoning. Today, a campaign was launched to highlight the dangers. | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
Like most two`year`olds, Zachary is inquisitive. But it was his natural | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
curiosity at home in Great Barr that caused him agony. I had done a load | :12:47. | :12:55. | |
of washing and put a tablet into the washing machine and we were in here, | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
me and my husband watching television when I heard Zachary cry | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
and you know when it you hear it, you know it is bad. So we raced | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
outside and he had got the liquid tab and squeezed it and it was all | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
over his eyes. At hospital, the necessary treatment was tortuous. | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
They used salt solution which is but through into a small tube whereby we | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
had to hold him down and wrapping up in towels and there was a nurse | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
there to open his eye and another nurse to feed all the saline | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
solution in. It was one litre per eye and the whole thing took about | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
25 minutes, it was horrendous. It was nasty, in my eyes. A campaign by | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents on the dangers of | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
household cleaning products was launched in front of families at | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Birmingham Children's Hospital. If they are swallowed, they are not | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
normally a big rob them. They will cause some sickness and diarrhoea, | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
sometimes they get drowsy but they just did to wear that. The greater | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
concern is when they get into the eyes and a chemical irritation that | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
it can cause. We know young people in the home, they are attracted to | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
their products the `` these brothers because they are in reachable | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
places. Not even safety caps guarantee safety, people say they | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
simply reduce the risk by delaying access to what is inside. We try to | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
keep every cleaning product locked in a cupboard. My three`year`old had | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
eaten a washing tablet it was a Likud won and he was sick twice. | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Back in Great Barr Zachary didn't suffer any lasting damage. But his | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
mum says she learnt a hard lesson. The guilt was just horrendous. I am | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
a sensible mother, I put catches on the door and it was just a silly | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
mistake. Sounds as if Zachary is OK now. | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
Our top story tonight: A Shropshire MP says he'll sue over newspaper | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
allegations that he tried to profit from his political influence. Your | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
detailed weather forecast to come shortly from Shefali. Also in | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
tonight's programme, a draw takes Wolves to second in the table but it | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
could have been so much better. And a co`production with US and | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
English actors heading from Warwickshire to America. | :15:24. | :15:36. | |
This region is falling behind in grabbing a fair share of cash for | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
cutting edge innovation and technology. London and cities such | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
as Bristol and Cardiff are pushing Birmingham out of the digital | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
limelight. Our science correspondent David Gregory Kumar has been | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
investigating. Is this a big problem, David, and if so what's the | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
solution? It could be. "Digital culture" is a phrase that | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
covers all sorts of arts and creative endeavours from film | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
making, opera and theatre to coding, the internet and even video games. | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
And here in Birmingham what the digital cultural life of the city | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
lacks is a space to come together and meet and swap ideas. And some | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
sort of big event to kick off new collaborations. And maybe a digital | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
festival. But maybe this afternoon at the BBC here in Birmingham a | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
small step to tackling this problem. It's certainly been a spectacular | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
few years for the cultural life of Birmingham. Massive events like | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
Olympics`linked The Voyage. And the first ever performance of | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
Stockhausen's Mittwoch aus Licht. An extraordinary opera featuring | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
violinists in helicopters. And all reached a much wider audience thanks | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
to the internet. If we make it at the centre of the work we do and | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
choose the correct repertoire, we can give people an experience at | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
home, on demand without them having to come to the venue and reach | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
beyond geographical boundaries, beyond earning and across the world. | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
So as everywhere else the Internet is revolutionising our cultural | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
life. But some uncomfortable truths. Birmingham is falling behind cities | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
like cardiff and bristol. One problem? No clear place to meet. I | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
guess I was trying to explain that there is something about the ecology | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
of the still that is fundamentally different to Birmingham but we have | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
got a physical space where you can bring film`makers, games designers, | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
artists, creatives together, technologists, geeks for what of a | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
better word. To be able to talk about their ideas and discuss ideas | :17:41. | :17:49. | |
in person. But today's meting may be a small step to helping the city | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
catch up. You may say, why matter? These | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
industries generate jobs and income though and if Birmingham has not got | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
the facilities to hold onto creative talent, it will have long`term | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
impacts for Birmingham and the wider Midlands. The biggest creative | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
industry in the UK is the BBC itself and here in BBC Birmingham in the | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
past 18 months, something described as a whole out of burger making from | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
the city here. BBC bosses were here today and would not talk to us today | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
but they do say we should expect an announcement about the future of | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
programme making here at BBC Birmingham in the next two weeks. | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
Football now and Wolves missed their chance to go joint top of League One | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
last night. Twice they took the lead, away to Carlisle, but twice | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
they were pegged back. So they had to settle for one point instead of | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
three as the game finished 2`2, leaving fans and the manager | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
frustrated. Jackets on for a cold night out. | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
Exactly two years ago, Kevin Doyle was helping Wolves beat Wigan in the | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
Premier League. How times change. Last night, he was signing in at | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
Carlisle, where Wolves were looking for their fourth straight victory in | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
League One. It all started so well. Just eight minutes played when | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
Bakary Sako put the visitors in front. And thirteen hundred | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
travelling fans must have thought three points were there for the | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
taking. But on the half hour, Carlisle were level through Prince | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
Buaben. It was a wake up call for Wolves, who responded by regaining | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
the lead just before the break. Leigh Griffith's 10th goal of the | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
season. In the second half, Wolves failed to raise their game. The | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
referee spotted a tug on the shirt by Lee Evans. And there were few | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
complaints. Penalty. Duly scored to give Carlisle a point at 2`2. And it | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
could easily have been worse, Wolves' poor performance left Kenny | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
Jackett fuming. The second half performance or that poor, I don't | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
think we deserved anything out of it, we did well to get a point, we | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
did well to get it. In the second half, Carlisle wanted it more than | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
we did. We were in a good position, and we fell away and did not | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
capitalise. Wolves are couple of points behind Leyton Orient while | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
they are off to hold on the Saturday for the FA Cup. `` off to Oldham. | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
Britain's short`track speed skaters are in Italy this week for a vital | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
Olympic qualifying tournament. The team, including Solihull pair Jon | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
Ealy and Paul Stanley, are hotly tipped to bring back medals from the | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. But they have to get there first. | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
There are only three months to go to the Winter Olympics so this week in | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
Turin the British team are skating for their Olympic future. Solihull's | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
Jon Eley has been here before. The 29`year`old is one of the most | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
experienced members of the team. COMMENTATOR: Terrific stuff of Great | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Britain, leaving here. He's a former European champion and has finished | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
in the top eight at the past two Games and is back with one last bid | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
for a medal. I am pretty excited. I have got myself into a good bit of | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
form, the training has been going well and it is exciting times. It is | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
another Olympic qualifiers but it will be different. The British team | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
are leaving nothing to chance. They've already been to Sochi in | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
Russia where the Games will be held next February to prepare. Rising | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
star Elise Christie is expected to bring a medal home so does Jon | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
believe he can win one too? I am good enough and if I perform to my | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
best on the day, I come home with what I want. You go through rounds | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
of racing so you can have a fantastic first round and then not | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
focus on the second round and you can go out, you need to focus on the | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
rounds, every race is important. More than 200 skaters are competing | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
this week in Italy and next week in Russia but only 32 will qualify for | :21:39. | :21:39. | |
the Games. We wish them well. | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
Two countries divided by a common language ` the old joke about | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
Britain and America. But for 100 years the Royal Shakespeare Company | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
has been trying to bring the two countries together through a shared | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
love of the Bard. Now a new transatlantic adaptation of | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra ` or Tony and Cleo, perhaps ` is to | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
tour the States. Our Arts Reporter Satnam Rana has been talking to the | :22:07. | :22:07. | |
Anglo` American cast and crew. Their hateful memory... | :22:08. | :22:21. | |
A unique union of cast and crew from America and the UK for this adaption | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
of Anthony and Cleopatra. This version is set in the | :22:24. | :22:36. | |
Caribbean. It's the late 1700s and the eve of the Haiti revolution | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
against the French. The show is produced The Royal Shakepearre | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
Company, Miami's Gablestage and The Public Theartre in New York. This | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
production comes at a fitting time. Exactly 100 years ago, a company of | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
actors from Stratford`upon`Avon went across to the United States to tour | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
for the first time. Shakespeare is the greatest writer in the Western | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
canon so his work lives on and his work can be interpreted in so many | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
different ways and productions, reflecting what is happening in our | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
times. The Royal Shakespare brand is now a shared asset between UK and | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
the America ` in 2011 the copmany took a flatpack thaetre to New York | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
for a summer run and Matilda of course has been a Broadway hit. We | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
have a loyal audience in America. We love going out and flying the flag | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
for Stafford upon a them and for the West Midlands, and as a consequence, | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
a lot of our audiences come from North America and back into | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
Stratford so it is a two`way thing and it is really important to us. | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
The play has been radically edited by former International Playwright | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
in Residence Tarell Alvin McCraney. But with a cast of five actors from | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
here and five from the US how challening has it been? The goal is | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
to give them their unique flavours and spices to tell one story so that | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
was my main focus, regardless of whether they had been in the US or | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
the UK. The play opens tomorrow at the Swan Theatre and will travel to | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
and Miami and New York from January onwards. | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
I hope the weather is a bit better for them, how is the forecast | :24:19. | :24:19. | |
looking? Quite bad, I'm afraid but today we | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
had plenty of rain as you know and there is still more to come. It is | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
not over yet. The rain has had an impact slightly and river levels | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
already, two flood alerts at the moment south of Leominster and for | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
the River Severn between Tewkesbury and also Gloucester. These areas | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
will be fundable to flooding if we get any substantial rain. And that | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
is likely. Over the weekend, showers on Saturday but Remembrance Day | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
parades, we have got wet and windy weather heading our way from the | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
West but one piece of good news is that it could turn milder by then as | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
well. The reason for that is because the system bringing in the rain on | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
Sunday is a warm sector so we will be nestled in between these are the | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
editor in them will be quite mild. Back to this evening, in the thick | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
of it this evening. Lots of rain running through the area but this is | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
heading east later on in the night, after midnight and by that stage it | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
should be a lot drier. A good enough cloud across all parts but it will | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
break in the morning and then we will reach the lowest temperatures | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
of around five Celsius, towns and cities but colder in the | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
countryside. I do not think we will see a frost tonight though. The | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
winds will be light. Tomorrow morning, we are set up nicely for a | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
good do you love sunshine which will develop through the day to | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
widespread sunshine for most areas. We cannot rule out showers because | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
the winds will be stronger from the south`west and the showers could | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
crop up in the south across Shropshire but temperatures slightly | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
lower tomorrow because the rain today was what in by a cold front so | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
the edit behind it is colder. `` rain today was brought in by a cold | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
front. A cluster of showers developing towards the north`west on | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
Thursday evening overnight into Friday. Friday, we have got showers | :26:23. | :26:33. | |
in the West, the same case on Saturday as well, fairly wet there, | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
the dry it will be in the East but the wet and windy weather heading in | :26:38. | :26:39. | |
for Sunday. Tonight's headlines from the BBC: | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
The end of five hundred years of shipbuilding in Portsmouth as the | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
defence giant BAE cuts jobs across the UK. | :26:50. | :26:50. | |
A mother's desperate attempts to save her 4`year`old daughter from | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
being mauled to death by the family's bulldog. | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
A Shropshire MP says he'll sue over newspaper allegations that he tried | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
to profit from his political influence. | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
And the father of a teenager who hanged herself says more could have | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
been done to save her. If you have a story you think we | :27:08. | :27:16. | |
should be covering on Midlands Today, we would like to hear from | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
you. You can call us or send an e`mail. We are also on Facebook or | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
you can tweet us. And that was the programme macro. I | :27:24. | :27:32. | |
will be back with the latest news at ten o'clock. We hope to have more on | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
the death of a long serving soldier on the Mercian Regiment killed in | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
Afghanistan. He was with the 3rd Battalion the Mercian Regiment, the | :27:42. | :27:43. | |
former Staffordshire Regiment. For now, goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:46. |