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Today. The headlines tonight... Placed by her family in a care home | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
because she tended to wander off ` within weeks, she had gone outside | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
and frozen to death. With one of the members of staff sleeping, how on | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
earth can they run proper checks on people? Also tonight... The | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
burnt`out home of a convicted paedophile ` an arsonist is jailed | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
for killing him. A power station engineer feared missing as 200mph | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
winds batter the Philippines. I just want to hear from him, see his face | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
again. The life`size creation by an amateur baker from Walsall that has | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
wowed judges in an international cake competition. This weekend, | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
sunshine and showers, and it is feeling cooler. I will have the full | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
forecast later. Good evening. The owners of a care | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
home have been fined ?133,000 after an elderly woman froze to death when | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
she was left outside all night. 91`year`old Hilda Fairweather got | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
out by a fire exit although the home was supposed to have extra security. | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
She had been back at Abele View for just two weeks ` her worried family | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
transferred Hilda there because of her tendency to wander off. Dealing | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
with dementia is a growing issue ` around 800,000 people in this | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
country are affected in some way. Liz Copper has this report. | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
Vulnerable with dementia, Hilda Fairweather was completely | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
overlooked on the night she died. Nobody noticed as she wandered out | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
into the cold of a January night and froze to death. Following the | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
sentence, her family expressed their distress that she had gone unnoticed | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
for almost 12 hours. It is just shameful that somebody is there, | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
with a specific case plan which requires her to be checked every two | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
hours or so, and they just did not check at all. They did not know she | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
had gone until the morning. As you said, it is inconceivable, really. | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
This was the care home, Abele View, near Stourbridge, where she had been | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
placed. The court was shown this aerial photograph, highlighting its | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
isolated location. The company which runs the home raided guilty to | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
health and safety breaches. The judge has sent out a clear message | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
that what took place was completely unacceptable. This was a prolonged | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
series of failings, putting many residents at real risk. It was | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
totally acceptable. The director of the care home's parent company left | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
without comment. With you be paying the fine? I have got a statement | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
here... That statement says, a new team now runs the home. An inquest | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
is still to be held into the case of Hilda Fairweather, but today's | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
hearing has given her family some comfort. It has been five long years | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
now, and it is still there, we just have to stop talking about it, but | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
this brings it all back again. It is still very difficult. But now, I | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
think we can try and properly get over it. In handing down the | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
sentence, the judge said this was a serious case, where responsibility | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
must extend across the management structure of the company. He said | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
the residents had been particularly vulnerable. | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
Coming up later in the programme... Worcester remembers World War I, as | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
the city gets the biggest Lottery grant outside London for its | :03:45. | :03:45. | |
commemorations. An arsonist has been jailed for ten | :03:46. | :03:56. | |
years for the manslaughter of a convicted paedophile in Worcester. | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Daniel Martin set fire to a wheelie bin outside the home of Andrew Heath | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
in December 2011. Birmingham Crown Court was told Martin had not meant | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
to kill him, just to frighten him into moving away. Ben Sidwell | :04:09. | :04:18. | |
reports. The damage inside the house shows just how severe the fire was. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
In the early hours of December 14, 2011, Daniel Martin pushed a wheelie | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
bin under this door and set it alight. Trapped inside, Messi actor | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
died of smoke inhalation minutes later. Attention to detail, all | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
fresh and police detective work, going out and speaking to member is | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
of the community and witnesses, we managed to build up such a strong | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
circumstantial case, that Alan it was left with no option other than | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
to plead guilty. Sentencing him to ten years in prison, the judge said, | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
although you did not intend to kill, what you did was shockingly stupid. | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
She said, for Andrew Heath, it must have been a terrifying experience, | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
leading, as he must've been aware, to his certain death. 25`year`old | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
Daniel Martin already had more than 40 separate convictions, having been | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
first arrested at the age of ten. The court was told he knew Mr Heath | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
and started the fire to force into moving away from Worcester. | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Victim's elderly parents both died without hearing the verdict. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Andrew's untimely death had a devastating effect on their health, | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
and neither was able to come to terms with what happened. In court | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
today, Andrew Heath was called a predatory paedophile, convicted five | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
times between 1984 and 1999 for offences against young teenage boys | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
in Leicester and Birmingham. Despite his previous convictions, he did not | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
deserve to die in the way he did. Martin said he was shocked by the | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
outcome of his actions and desperately sorry about the death of | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
Andrew Heath. Manslaughter charges have been | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
dropped against five NHS staff who were investigated after a man | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
collapsed outside Walsall Manor Hospital. Carl Cope died in June | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
last year. Paramedics, ambulance workers and a nurse were all | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
questioned about why they had failed to help him. The police say there | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
wasn't the evidence to bring charges of gross negligence against them. | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
One of the Midlands' Conservative MEPs has attacked what he called | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Labour's "grandstanding" on high`speed rail. Earlier this week, | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls renewed his warning that the should be no | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
blank cheque for the project. But Malcolm Harbour MEP said we should | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
stop talking about whether or not to build it, but how to deliver it. He | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
was talking to our political editor, Patrick Burns. And there are signs, | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
aren't there, that the debate is moving on to a new stage? I think it | :06:50. | :06:59. | |
is. After that vote in the House of Commons last week which was | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
overwhelmingly in support of HS2, and now, this business conference | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
being told by HS2 Ltd in Birmingham how to bid for something like ?10 | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
billion worth of contracts in the construction phase. But now, as you | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
say, one of our senior MEPs has rounded on that oft repeated warning | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
by Ed Balls about no blank cheque. I think we have clearly shown in this | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
country that we have the ability to manage big projects on`time and on | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
budget. Look at the Olympics, which was started the last Labour | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
government and continued through to the Conservatives. I would rather | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
see that kind of co`operative approach taking place between Labour | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
and the Conservatives than the kind of man standing speech that we just | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
saw from Ed Balls. Valerie Vaz, the Labour MP for Walsall South, who we | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
also saw there, she says Labour have indeed shown their support for HS2 | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
by voting as they did last week, although she said it was absolutely | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
right to remain vigilant about the threat of escalating costs. . It is | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
worth pointing out that David Cameron himself, a great enthusiast | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
for High Speed Rail, has said, there never has been any kind of a blank | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
cheque. I suppose really, in politics, as in so much else, it all | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
comes down to the emphasis that you give to these things. | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
And Patrick will be back with more on this in The Sunday Politics at | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
the later time of 12.25 on Sunday, following our? Of Remembrance | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
Sunday. An electrical engineer from Walsall | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
is feared missing after one of the most powerful storms ever recorded | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
swept across the Philippines. 23`year`old Jonathan Fitzpatrick was | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
working in a power station when gusts of more than 200mph triggered | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
flash floods and mudslides. His family is anxiously waiting for | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
news, as Ben Godfrey reports. Jonathan Fitzpatrick is due home in | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
Bloxwich next week ` but the 23`year`old can't be contacted. His | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
family lost touch just as Typhoon Haiyan struck the Phillipines. He | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
was pushing against the door, he and four of his friends, and we could | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
visibly see the door being pushed open from the typhoon outside. He | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
was putting on a strong face for us, there was only one moment when he | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
did show weakness, and that was just before he went to the room with his | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
friends, and he just told us that he loved us. Typhoon Haiyan has left a | :09:23. | :09:35. | |
trail of destruction. At least four people have died, and hundreds of | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
thousands have been forced to flee their homes. Jonathan is an | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
electrical engineer, based in a small building on the side of a | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
volcano on the island of Leyte, one of the worst hit areas rumble he | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
knows what he is doing. We know that he is going to get in touch with us, | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
as soon as. And everybody else, as well, hopefully. The islands are hit | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
by about 20 storms a year, but the Filipino community in the West | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
Midlands realise preparations their families made at home may not be | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
enough. April and Reggie Gadayan are in Birmingham trying desperately to | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
contact loved ones in Central Philippines. I was not worried | :10:10. | :10:19. | |
earlier on because I was not able to contact them, but now, the worry is | :10:20. | :10:28. | |
getting into me. Our house is made of concrete, with a metal roof, so | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
it is quite strong, but having no contact makes you worried. Tonight, | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
as families face an agonising wait for news, prayers are being said at | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
the Filipino Christian Fellowship in Birmingham. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
The Fire Service has been in the news in recent weeks with an ongoing | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
series of strikes by firefighters over pensions ` just one of many | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
changes taking place. The West Midlands brigade is one of the | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
biggest in the UK, with 1,600 full`time firefighters. But since | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
2011, it has had to make savings of ?16.2 million ` at around 20%, | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
that's more than any other Fire Service. Vij Randeniya has been | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
Chief Fire Officer since 2009, but he's retiring next week. He has been | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
a critic of those cuts. And he joins me now. Good evening to you. Talking | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
about those cuts, you have managed to achieve them, so does that mean | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
those savings were there all along, and in fact, we have been paying too | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
much the Fire Service? We have been making efficiencies year on year, | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
but now, we have 300 firefighters less than when we started making the | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
cuts. We have had to put in a lot of different proposals. The Fire | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
Service will look and feel very different to what it did in 20 way | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
when I took charge. What are the challenges? The challenges are to | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
deliver an outstanding service, with less budget, and less people. It | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
means being extremely creative and looking at expertise wherever it | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
exists in the world. I have every faith that my successes and people | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
in the West Midlands Fire Service will do a cracking job, because they | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
are really resilient. These are the people that went to Haiti and | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
Japan, and places around the world, they are really skilled. What they | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
need is a fair chance to do a great job. Our homes are getting safer, | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
with fewer fires and fewer fatalities, is that right? We have | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
been concentrating on prevention, stopping fires happening, for the | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
last 15 years. But if that does not work, we have still got to provide a | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
terrific service at the front end. What about those Chinese lanterns, | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
how dangerous are they? Are they becoming more of an issue? | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
Hopefully, after the fire we had at Smethwick, taking them off sale, | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
it'll have now thought, it is not such a good thing to let them off. | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
The Times recognised the West Midlands Fire Service as the epitome | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
of a good service. That fire gave us the prominence and the ability to | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
raise a debate and get something done about Chinese lanterns, and we | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
are pleased to say that progress is being made. Pensions are in the news | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
with the firefighters, of course, and changes being proposed, and I | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
wonder how much sympathy there is amongst the public, because so many | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
people have had to accept that their pensions will not be what they had | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
hoped? And that is the case in the Fire Service as well. It'll will | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
have to work longer. This dispute is between the Government and the Fire | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
Brigades Union. This is something between the two sides, which should | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
be sorted out at that level. You have just got one week left. Yes, | :13:40. | :13:54. | |
and then I am going to get a dog. Our top story tonight... Placed by | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
her family in a care home because she tended to wander off ` within | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
weeks, shed had gone outside and frozen to death. Your detailed | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
weather forecast to come shortly from Rebecca ` also in tonight's | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
programme... Both former winners who have known better days. Coventry and | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
Wimbledon face each other in the FA Cup tonight. And I'm in a room with | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
100s of cakes, but they're all too good to eat. Join me later to find | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
out what's gone into making Jack Sparrow here. | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
They're unpopular with trade unions, but zero`hour contracts are becoming | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
increasingly common in this region. The contracts mean employers can | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
have workers on call but they don't have to guarantee regular paid work. | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
And while that doesn't suit everyone, some employees seem to | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
like it, as Bob Hockenhull has been finding out. | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
Jules Evans from Bromsgrove works with young offenders. At her local | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
church, she's looking for suitable projects for her clients. But Jules' | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
job isn't full`time. Her contract with Worcestershire County Council | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
means she only works when needed and is only paid for hours worked. My | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
zero`hour contract suits me down to the ground, with my lifestyle and | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
with everything else that I do. I am quite a busy lady, so it frees me up | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
to do what I want to do. If I need more money, Isthmus is coming up, | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
then I go out and I work more. Jules' love of the working | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
arrangements isn't universal. Union leaders say use of the contracts is | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
on the rise in this region, and it is eroding workers' rights and | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
conditions. I myself have had members calling upon the phone, | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
appalled at the conditions they are being asked to work, 15 hour days, | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
being paid for a fraction of it. It is abuse, it is a black mark on the | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
West Midlands and on our society. Some research suggests numbers of | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
people on zero`hour contracts nationally now exceeds a million. | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
Younger workers are most likely to be employed on the contracts. The | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
figures show the number of under`24s on zero`hour contracts | :16:09. | :16:08. | |
more than doubled in four years. Whether young or old, this lecturer | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
in human resources believes having a zero`hour contract needn't be a | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
negative experience. Contracts go both ways. In this | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
situation, a worker can actually say no to work. So, there is some | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
flexible at the both sides, not only on one side. The contracts may be | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
here to stay, but the Government has launched a consultation to try to | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
make sure those on them aren't abused. | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
Ahead of Remembrance Sunday this weekend, Worcestershire is | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
celebrating news that it is to get ?350,000 to help mark the centenary | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
of the First World War. The grant, from the Heritage Lottery Fund, is | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
one of the largest outside London. Veterans say it is a fitting | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
reflection of the part soldiers from the county played in the conflict. | :17:01. | :17:10. | |
Giles Latcham reports. Soldiering runs in Nick's family. When he | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
visits this park in Worcester, his thoughts turned to his grandad, an | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
infantryman in World War I. He used to have this knife with a piece of | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
bread and cheese, and he used to cut chunks of it and feed it to me when | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
he was working on the ground. He would not say anything about the | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
war, because that was the boom in our family. We were told not to ask | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
him because he went through such a lot. Nick's grandad fought against | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
the Germans in Belgium. Those who died in the blood and thunder of | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
that battle remembered here in the peace and quiet of this park. This | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
rare footage of the opening of the park in 1922 shows how that | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
generation sought to commemorate and honour the sacrifice of thousands. | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
Now, Worcestershire is preparing to mobilise again, to organise | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
exhibitions, concerts and modern`day parades to mark the centenary, and | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
it has been awarded ?350,000 to do it. It is it is four years' worth of | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
money to really commemorate, to educate and to note the importance | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
of the First World War in Worcestershire. This is a photograph | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
of the soldier himself on Albert Hall never came home to Redditch. | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
This photo and his last letters to his mother now belong to a museum. | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
What more family treasures may now come to light? I would certainly | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
hope that people would be able to either donate one end as stuff which | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
we could use in our displays over the next four years. Nearly 10,000 | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
soldiers of the Worcestershire Regiment died in World War I. There | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
is a proud history here, and they will remember. | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
It is time for the sport now, and a real weekend to savour for the | :19:04. | :19:12. | |
non`league teams. 16 years ago, non`league Hednesford Town reached | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
the fourth round. Tomorrow, they are facing Crawley town, from League | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
One. Ian Winter reports. When he is not selling mobile phones, Elliott | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
Durrell is scoring goals for Hednesford Town . it that they will | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
not make it to Wembley, but Elliott has already guaranteed his it is | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
probably something that I will never get to do again, so it Elliott | :19:49. | :19:59. | |
Durrell will player of the round hit the target on Tuesday night against | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
Colwyn Bay in but they were being closely watched. I have a little bit | :20:06. | :20:16. | |
of banter with I believe that I I Elliott is a great player, here's | :20:17. | :20:29. | |
our about Hednesford Town van Chris Brindley. He is now the assistant | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
manager of a club which has lost only three games all year. It is a | :20:33. | :20:43. | |
happy camper, we are delighted to be here, we will give it our best | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
shot. I have got no doubt in my mind it is going to be a very tough game, | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
but I am sure, if we play to our full potential, hopefully, we can | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
cause an upset. Keys Park can hold 6039 supporters. Tomorrow it will | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
not be full of fans, that it will be full of noise to unsettle Crawley, | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
who have not scored in the last four games. That is why the new pink ball | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
could bring joy to Hednesford Town. Well, the first round actually gets | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
under way tonight, with a battle between two former winners. Coventry | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
City lifted the trophy for the only time in their history back in 1987, | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
with that dramatic win over Spurs. And tonight, they visit AFC | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
Wimbledon, the club who took over the name of the 1988 winners after | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
the original team moved to Milton Keynes. It would be brilliant if | :21:34. | :21:43. | |
they could make themselves heroes themselves. It is a very difficult | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
game for us on Friday night against AFC Wimbledon, they are a very | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
well`organised team. But it is a game which, if we go about it in the | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
right manner, we should win. Whatever the Premier League say, | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
this is so glamorous 14 is lower down the pyramid, isn't it? It means | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
so much and it is so exciting. `` for teams. Looking at the fixtures, | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
we have already speaking about, what are we going to do on Monday? That | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
would be a great story... I was drawn to Stourbridge, the lowest | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
ranked team we have got left in the petition. They are on a great run of | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
form, winning in 11 out of 12, they are playing Eagles weighed. | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
Everybody will be loving that. Maybe they could host Wolverhampton | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
Wanderers in the next round. But also, we have got yes, Walsall | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
against Shrewsbury, and Hereford, the money is invaluable to clubs at | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
this level. You get a team that for winning this round, 27,000 for the | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
next round, weighing up to ?67,000 if you win in the third round. That | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
is massive money, isn't it? It can keep these clubs going for quite a | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
while. And even more importantly, it could be talking about it in 25 | :23:07. | :23:19. | |
years' time Now, there's no doubt the nation has been inspired by the | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
TV programme The Great British Bake Off. In the last few years, the home | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
baking market has doubled, with a quarter of us now baking at least | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
once a week. And some of those creations are on display this | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
weekend at the Cake International Show near Birmingham. Laura May | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
McMullan is at the NEC for us this evening. Laura ` not just your | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
standard Victoria sponges, then? We have got more than 1000 cakes here, | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
competitors from all over the world, and you would not believe what is | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
standing right beside me now, a nearly life`sized replica of Jack | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
Sparrow, who has been made by the very talented Lara Clarke. How have | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
you done him? It has been an awful lot of time and effort. But he is in | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
one piece, so I am thrilled. He is basically made of rice crispies, | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
marshmallows and icing, and his head is made of a block of solid white | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
chocolate which I have carved. How long has it taken to make him? About | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
20 hours to plan and 70 hours to execute. Did you get him here OK? We | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
had to bring him here by minibus, which was a bit too small, so we had | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
to tip him horizontally. That is a relief that he has got here in one | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
piece. This is the largest event of its kind in the world. With me is | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
one of the organisers, Troy Bennett ` has there been a massive increase | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
in baking? Without a shadow of a doubt. This show has doubled in size | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
within two years. The competition pieces have gone from 600 up to 1000 | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
this year. The array of talent on display is unbelievable. We have | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
sold out of tickets for tomorrow. We have got some tickets left for | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
Sunday, so this is the time to come down and see it for yourself. It is | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
unbelievable. I have to say, it is very hard being in a room full of | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
cakes which are too good to eat. The judging takes place, the results | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
tomorrow, and if Lara wins, that could be the icing on the cake. | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
Let's find out how the weekend weather is looking, with Rebecca. | :25:30. | :25:38. | |
We are going to get everything thrown at us over the next few days. | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
Temperatures are tumbling. That means we could have some frost over | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
the next couple of mornings. Today, we saw plenty of ranger that area of | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
rain has now moved away, and behind it, we are getting clearing skies. | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
`` plenty of rain. We have still got a few showers around. Under those | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
clear skies, temperatures are going to be falling away quite rapidly. We | :26:03. | :26:15. | |
will wake up to a frost in some places tomorrow morning. Then we | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
will see the cloud building. By lunchtime, the heavy rain will start | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
to move away, and conditions will be improving. When the sun comes out, | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
temperatures might get up to 10 Celsius in Hereford. Saturday night, | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
another similar night to tonight. A ridge of high pressure is settling | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
things down a little bit, and once again, under the clear skies, the | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
bridges will be falling away once again, down to about three Celsius | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
but we will see a widespread frost. Remembrance Sunday will be a cold | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
and crisp day. The wins will have changed to a north`westerly, making | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
it colder. By Monday, it is starting to get milder. `` the winds. | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
Tonight's headlines from the BBC... A Royal Marine is found guilty of | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
executing an Afghan insurgent in cold blood. One of the strongest | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
storms ever recorded tears through the Philippines. Hundreds of | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
thousands of people are forced to flee their homes. In the Midlands, | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
placed by her family in a Stourbridge care home because she | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
tended to wander off ` within weeks, she had gone outside and frozen to | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
death. And an arsonist is jailed for ten years for setting fire to the | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
home of a convicted paedophile and killing him. That was the Midlands | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
Today. We'll be back at ten o'clock with the latest on today's main | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
stories. Have a great evening and a terrific weekend. Goodbye. | :27:47. | :27:48. |