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the oppression of one by another. The sun shall never set on so | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Hello and welcome to the programme. Tonight the Midlands pays tribute | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Nelson Mandela. From Soweto to Sparkbrook, the former South African | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
presidents legacy spans the miles and generations. I said "about | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Nelson Mandela and this is what the quote was. A winner is a dreamer | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
that never gives up. Probably the greatest person I have ever met. | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
Basically, almost like a saint. We'll hear from those who met | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
Mandela and had their lives changed by him. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
Also tonight: 2,500 new jobs ` digger maker JCB to invest ?150 | :00:45. | :00:56. | |
million over five years. And after a stormy day yesterday, things have | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
settled down this weekend but it is not going to be completely dry. | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
Good evening. As the world unites in mourning the death of Nelson | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Mandela, here in the Midlands people have been paying their own tributes | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
to South Africa's first black president. Although his last visit | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
here was 20 years ago, its impact has left a lasting legacy. In a | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
moment I'll be speaking to someone who met and was influenced by him. | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
But first, here's Bob Hockenhull. The name of Nelson Mandela will be | :01:28. | :01:45. | |
forever etched on the heart of these children. Their school in Sparkbrook | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
in Birmingham is named after him. 20 years ago, Mr Mandela was guest of | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
honour here. He actually came into my classroom, shook my hand, and | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
made the effort to speak to the children, which they really | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
appreciated, and so did I. At a special assembly today, the latest | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
generation celebrated the values of respect and responsibility inspired | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
by a world leader. I know he died yesterday, but I think he is still | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
here with us in assembly. I feel really proud. When I learn about | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
him, it is so inspiring and I feel like he is unique and the school is | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
unique to be named after such an amazing man. When Norse and Mandela | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
came, he left a picture, a photograph of himself, `` when | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
Nelson Mandela came. He wrote, to my school in Birmingham. He recognised | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
this school is special to him as much as he is special to us. Really | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
fantastic. You are my brothers and sisters, my children, my | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
grandchildren. And Birmingham is my home, as Soweto. Thank you. Nelson | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
Mandela invited the people of Birmingham to become part of his | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
extended family. Tony Kennedy, a dedicated anti`apartheid campaigner, | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
needed little persuading. He was instrumental in getting the school | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
named and also called one of his twin daughters after the leader. He | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
walked through the doors and came straight to us, we were with our mum | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
and dad behind us. He knelt down and spoke to us and gave us a cuddle, | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
and asked us what our names were. I told him he was `` I was named after | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
him. He gave us a kiss on the cheek each. Nelson Mandela also visited | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Handsworth. Phillip Murphy, a city councillor, arranged the visit. He | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
came to Handsworth just because we said, local people would like to see | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
him. A man who was so busy, that sense of gratitude is something | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
which I feel most leaders have forgot. Former Midlanders who worked | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
in South Africa and met Nelson Mandela also fondly remembered the | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
leader today. Alan Bradley from Malvern cooked for Mr Mandela on a | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
number of occasions. They phone call one day, asking me if I could do a | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
VIP party. They wouldn't tell us who the VIP was. But when they said | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
there couldn't be broccoli on the menu, I knew it was Mr Mandela. And | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
while on an internal flight in South Africa, David Baker from Stourbridge | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
unexpectedly found himself sitting next to Mr Mandela and spent three | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
hours chatting with him. The man was compassionate, full of | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
grace, probably the greatest person that I have ever met. He was | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
basically... Almost like a saint. Flags were at half mast across the | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Midlands Today. But as well as sadness, there was also pride that | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
the great leader made such a memorable visit to this region. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Huge crowds turned out to see Nelson Mandela when he visited Birmingham | :04:55. | :05:03. | |
in 1993. Just months before he became the first black president of | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
South Africa, he met with civic leaders, communities and | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
schoolchildren. One of those he met was Shane Ward, who saw him speak in | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
Handsworth. Brilliant. The best thing that could ever happen to | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
black people in this country, Mandela coming here and thanking us | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
for the support. And Shane is now the CEO of the West Bromwich African | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Caribbean Resource Centre. He's with me now. Good evening. I have to say, | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
it is a fabulous shirt. It is a tribute to Mandela, you liked his | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
colourful shirts. What memories do you have of meeting him? I said, I | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
am not going to work today, hold my appointments, I am going to see | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Mandela. I didn't have a ticket to get in but I had to make sure I got | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
in. Shared with us his vision for a nonracial South Africa. And he came | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
and he shook everybody's hand. I made sure he shook my hand and it | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
was brilliant. That clip of you 20 is a go, you were so euphoric. What | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
influence at that meeting have in your life? `` 20 years ago. It made | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
us realise that sometimes we think we have serious issues but that man | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
spent 20 years in prison. He came out and he was not then shall, she | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
just said we need to get on with peace. What have people been saying | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
to you today? My mum was crying but she said she was or so joyful `` | :06:35. | :06:45. | |
also joyful. She said he is next to Jesus in my eyes. That is how | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
important he was. It is joy but also sadness. Joy about the legacy he | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
left. As black people in this country, we always look to Africa | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
and America for ideals and Mandela, he was the top. What about that | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
legacy, how do we make sure that Mandela's legacy is continued? We | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
saw the pupils from the Nelson Mandela School. It is important that | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
we pass on the message and what it was about. The ANC were made up of | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
people from Africa, Asians, whites, they were across the board and we | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
need to remember that. They were all fighting for a just cause. You've | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
seen Pele play live and met Muhammad Ali ` where does meeting Mandela | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
rank? Dairy impressive, he is right there at the top. I would not want | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
to put people on different levels. `` very impressive. At the time I | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
met him, he was definitely the top. In a culture of overblown celebrity, | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
what sets Mandela apart? He is several worlds apart. The fact that | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
all the celebrities wanted to meet him shows the extremely was held in. | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
`` the esteem he was held in. To me personally, he was just brilliant, | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
such an influence on my life and I hope to pass it on to my children | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
and my grandchild now. Lovely to meet you. Thank you for sharing your | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
memories of meeting Nelson Mandela. Books of condolence have been opened | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
across the region ` including Coventry Cathedral, where special | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
prayers have been said throughout the day. Bob Hockenhull is there for | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
us this evening. Of course, Coventry has a particularly poignant | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
significance, being the City of Truth and reconciliation. It does. | :08:34. | :08:43. | |
That has been felt very keenly by the people here, judging by the | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
comments they have left in the book of condolence. Many people | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
contributing to that book. Joining me is the very Reverend John | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
Witcombe. You have actually spread that message from Coventry to South | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
Africa. Absolutely, we have an international community of the cross | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
of nails with over 160 partners across the world and some dozen | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
going back in South Africa to the late 50s, people who want to work | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
with our sport peace and reconciliation. `` work with us for | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
peace and reconciliation. We have had the book of remembrance and the | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
candle and photographed both here in the new cathedral. And also in the | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
ruins. That is a particularly poignant place for people to come | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
and commit themselves to peace and reconciliation in the world. Lots of | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
people have come in. We have had praise for our Friday litany we have | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
remembered not some Mandela and given thanks for his life `` had | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
prayers. Where we have remembered Nelson Mandela. We want to celebrate | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
his incredible life, and we are going to have a great service here | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
with the Bishop of Coventry, we hope lots of different people from | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
churches and beyond, to celebrate and make our own commitment to | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
celebrity his work for peace and reconciliation. His death has been | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
felt keenly by many people in Coventry. | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
Coming up later in the programme: Spreading the investment ` Britain's | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
biggest butter factory opens in Shropshire, creating 100 jobs. | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
2,500 jobs are to be created at the Staffordshire based digger maker | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
JCB. The company is putting ?150 million into the business over the | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
next five years ` the biggest investment in the company's history. | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
It plans to expand its current headquarters in Rocester, and build | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
two new factories at its sites in Uttoxeter and Cheadle. Sarah | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
Falkland has more. The production line stopped ` the | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
workforce waited. In came a cheery looking pair ` the chairman no | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
longer a sir but Lord Bamford. The Chancellor, fresh from his Autumn | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
Statement. You are a big part of that plan. Britain is moving again | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
and that is thanks to you. With 11 UK factories and 11 overseas, JCB is | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
now creating 2,500 new jobs here over the next five years ` all of | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
them in the chairman's home county. We started here. My family started | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
as blacksmiths here in 1820. We are still blacksmiths but we don't shoe | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
horses any more. I like the workforce here. We have a good | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
workforce. I started as an apprentice year. They are very good | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
people with a good work ethic. But it's not just good news for the | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
digger giant. For each job created here at JCB, it's estimated there | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
were a further three created in the supply chain. JCB say the | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
Government's commitment to improve the A50 has been a catalyst to | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
investment. More so, perhaps, the pull of emerging markets ` Africa, | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
indonesia and South America. But not all companies are recruiting. It was | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
only last week that npower announced it was outsourcing with the loss of | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
1,000 jobs in the region. For every jobbing loss, there are many more | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
being created at the moment. The British economy is moving forward. | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Anyone who has lost their job, the best thing we can do is to make sure | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
there are opportunities to get a new job. Apprentices here have hopes of | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
more than just a job ` they want a long career. Knowing that they are | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
doing so well gives me a positive attitude. Cost the company is | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
growing and I would be able to stay within the company. By his own | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
admission, the Chancellor has much more to do ` to dig the country out | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
of the doldrums. ??NELWINE The biggest butter factory | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
in the country has opened in Shropshire. It's a ?17 million | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
investment at the Muller site, which will create 100 new jobs. They'll be | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
turning out 45,000 tonnes of butter a year. But what does this mean for | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
the dairy industry here? In the past, farmers have carried out | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
direct action with protest marches and blockades angry at prices. Live | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
now to David Gregory`Kumar. How do farmers feel about this expansion? | :13:08. | :13:18. | |
They welcome it. Muller say they are looking to invest about ?20 million | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
in Shropshire, they have various plants in the county. All of that | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
investment starts with this brand`new butter factory. We went | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
for an exclusive look behind the scenes today. | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
This is what you know Muller four. They make 1.5 billion parts of | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
yoghurt here in their market Drayton factory every year. Now for the | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
first time, they are going to be making butter here in the UK as | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
well. The cream comes in one end and by the time it leaves, it is well on | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
its way to becoming butter. At this time of year you might not want to | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
turn all of your cream into butter. You could make more money selling it | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
in pots to put on mince pies. This machine gives Muller options. For | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
now it is these massive blocks for the catering trade but there is talk | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
eventually of Muller barter for the supermarket shelves. We are | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
accelerating our plans to also invest in retail packet butter, so | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
as of summer next year we will be seeing retail package butter on the | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
shelves. We're also at what we can do from a brand point of view. There | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
could be Muller butter on the shelves. Farmers have not always | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
seen eye to eye with Muller, blockading the plant several times. | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
At times it has been very difficult. Fortunately, the farmers who are | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
supplying us have in general, even over the past 12 months, been very | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
happy with our performance in the market. It is sometimes unfortunate | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
that we are also being selected by some of the people who do not supply | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
us. Farmers are now getting a record price and they will be hoping this | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
new butter plant is one way that customers like Muller can carry on | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
paying them at this level. This is a graphic that shows you how | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
milk prices have gone for the past years. These are average prices. | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
Since 2011, when they were very low, they have been climbing. In October, | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
the most recent numbers show that farmers are targeting about 33p per | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
litre. That is an historic high so it should be good news. Andrew, your | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
milk goes to Muller, how do you feel about the butter factory? I think it | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
is great news and we are long overdue some good news in the dairy | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
sector. I will look forward to supplying them in the future. Let's | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
talk about this extra money, you are getting an historic high for your | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
milk, where does that money go on a farm like this? As you can imagine, | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
costs are still high. We have overdrafts to pay off after the | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
terrible summer last year. We have had a better summer this year. | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Long`term, we will be looking to invest, if we can keep the milk | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
price high. Do you think it could stay at these levels? I hope so, the | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
rumours are we might get a bit more in January. Like you say, this | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
butter plant gives us a bit more stability for the future. Very | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
briefly, what is the long`term plan for the farmer? Would you like to | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
employ more people? That would be our ultimate aim. To employ | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
somebody, have a few more cows, have a greater work life balance. The | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
1200 farmers who supply Muller across the UK will be thinking, if | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
Muller can make more money, there is more chance they can keep paying | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
farmers at the higher prices we have been seeing. | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
And there will be more on the prospects for economic growth and | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
job creation here in the Midlands in this weekend's Sunday Politics. Our | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
political editor, Patrick Burns, will be joined by the Labour MP for | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
Walsall North, David Winnick, and by the Midlands MEP, Mike Nattrass. | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
That's at the usual time of 11:00am here on BBC One on Sunday morning. | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
A 29`year`old man's admitted killing his ex`girlfriend and her baby son | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
at their home in Birmingham. 25`year`old Yvonne Walsh and | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
seven`month`old Harrison were found strangled in their beds in Billesley | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
in June. Today at Birmingham Crown Court, Wesley Williams admitted | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
their murders. He'll be sentenced next week. | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
A quarter of the worst hospitals in England and Wales are in the West | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
Midlands, according to an official report. Dr Foster's annual hospital | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
guide says Stafford Hospital is the only one in the region to perform | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
better than expected. Both the Heart of England Trust and the University | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
Hospitals Birmingham have higher than expected death rates. | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
BBC Hereford Worcester switched on their DAB service for the first time | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
this morning. MP Harriet Baldwin and former Worcester Warriors rugby | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
player Craig Gillis officially switched on the radio station's | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
three digital transmitters. BBC Hereford Worcester will still be | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
available on FM, AM and online. More than half the homes in Herefordshire | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
and Worcestershire have ADA B radio, one of the highest take`up in the | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
country, and yet we are not on it. From today they can listen to BBC | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
Hereford and Worcester alongside their national stadiums. It `` | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
stations was of it has been a long time coming but it is important. | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
This is our top story tonight: An inspiration for all, who will remain | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
for all time. One of the many tributes across the Midlands from | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
those influenced by Nelson Mandela. Your detailed weekend weather | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
forecast to come shortly from Rebecca. Also ahead: where is your | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
towel? Find out why Buster Belford hopes his obsession with towels | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
could help take a small club into the big time. | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
His first book, a memoir, was hailed as "a real one off" ` now his first | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
novel has been short listed for a prestigious award. Born to Punjabi | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
parents in Wolverhampton, Sathnam Sanghera gave up a lavish London | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
lifestyle to write about mental illness in his family. His new novel | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
tells of three generations of a Sikh family played out in a corner shop. | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
Lindsay Doyle has been to meet him. I can see there is something | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
intrinsically funny about the sound of the world Wolverhampton, | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
something undeniably grim about the view of the city as you arrive by | :19:45. | :19:56. | |
train. Short listed for the Costa first novel award, Marriage Material | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
tells of a young man who returns to Wolverhampton from London on the | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
death of his father to run the family corner shop. It could be said | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
that the corner shop is a bit of a cliche. I disagree. It has always | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
been a symbol of the nation. Napoleon famously said that England | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
was a nation of shopkeepers. I think it is a symbol of multiculturalism. | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
For a lot of Asians it is a really good thing and represents how well | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
we have done in business and integrated. Sanghera has already | :20:21. | :20:30. | |
published a memoir ` The Boy with the Top Knot` which tells how his | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
parents moved to Wolverhampton from the Punjab in 1968, neither could | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
speak English, his father suffered from schizophrenia, his mother | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
worked in a sewing factory, where he got his first job at 50pence an | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
hour. The clever schoolboy was to pass the entrance exam to | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
Wolverhampton Grammar School, his very first publication, the school | :20:48. | :20:57. | |
magazine aged 13. I think it was a homework piece that was so good, the | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
editor decided it had to be printed. Even then you get a sense of the | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
style that came through in the journalist and then the novelist. | :21:06. | :21:15. | |
Marriage Material follows three generations and looks at immigration | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
and integration in the 60s and 70', featuring Enoch Powell's famous | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
rivers of blood speech. It is like watching a nation, busily engaged in | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
heaping up its own funeral parlour. It is kind of scene as the | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
equivalent of Harlem in America, as a city on the edge of racial | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
collapse. I wanted to use that history and revive it because I | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
think it has been slightly forgotten. The home of the family in | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
the novel, the Blakenhall area of Wolverhampton. You can be Asian in | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
this part of the world and you cannot actually need to talk | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
English. I wanted to explore about whether that is healthy or whether | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
we are making ghettos in Britain. Sathnam Sanghera will find out if | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
his novel is the Costa winner in mid January. Three Midlands non`league | :22:00. | :22:09. | |
clubs are hoping to stage FA Cup upsets this weekend. Stourbridge | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
take on Stevenage who are four divisions above them, while | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
Kidderminster Harriers face Newport County. But the biggest chance of an | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
upset could come at Tamworth, where it will be a family affair against | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
League One side Bristol City. At Tamworth Football Club only one | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
family that can fill this big hole. Introducing Cameron Belford, Age 25, | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
goalkeeper. Cameron's dad, Dale Belford, 46, manager. And Dale's | :22:41. | :22:49. | |
dad, Cameron's grandad Buster Belford, age 70, kit man. Your dad | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
seems a bit obsessed about towels. Yes, don't talk to him about towels. | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
I am very protective of my towels. The kit is done every day. I think | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
he always manages to clean my kit, which is nice. Goalkeeping is in the | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
Belfords DNA. Dale enjoyed a good career in non`league football. His | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
two sons Cameron and Tyrell have both turned professional. Watched | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
every step of the way by Buster (ptc + | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
how key is some advantage? I am really excited, I am sure the fans | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
will turn out in numbers and I am sure it will be a difficult place to | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
come and play. My top tip is town with two, Bristol City zero. Dale | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
will feed his lucky goldfish, like he always does. Hoping Cameron will | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
keep a clean sheet and knowing Tamworth will never throw in the | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
towel whilst Buster remains in charge of the laundry. And the best | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
place to follow any FA Cup shocks this weekend will be on your BBC | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
Local Radio station. There'll also be commentary from the Premier | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
League and the Championship. Let's find out how the weather is looking | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
for the weekend, Rebecca. Certainly Littlemore settles. There | :24:21. | :24:31. | |
is plenty of cloud, though. We had the stormy weather yesterday `` | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
certainly a little more settled. Some of you spotted this spectacular | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
cloud. It is caused when high cloud meets cold air and the sun bounces | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
off it. Unfortunately we are back to your bog`standard clouds for much of | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
this weekend, and plenty of it. The blanket of cloud will mean limited | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
brightness but the silver lining is that it will be mostly dry. We have | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
had a blanket of cloud and it has kept a lot of the brightness away. | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
The showers are continuing across the North Midlands. It is colder air | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
and we could see wintry showers. Further South, a clearer picture and | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
a dryer one. Through the early hours of tomorrow, we start to pull in | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
less cold air. It means that tomorrow morning we will wake up and | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
two bridges will not be as low as they were when we wake up tomorrow. | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
There will be sunshine around, plenty of cloud around `` we will | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
wake up and temperatures will not be as low. It will be a bit milder than | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
today. Tomorrow night, very similar to how we are looking tonight. We | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
will still keep some of those showers rattling through. 20 of | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
cloud cover, there will be a few holes `` plenty of cloud cover. | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
Elsewhere where we keep the blanket of cloud, temperatures up to above | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
freezing. As we head toward Sunday, plenty of cloud about. We will get a | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
bit of sunshine, temperatures making it into double figures. It is going | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
to feel much milder. High pressure dominates as we head into the | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
working week. That is helping to keep things settled but staying | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
cloudy, too. Let's return to Coventry Cathedral, | :26:28. | :26:37. | |
where people have been signing one of the many books of condolence, Bob | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
Hockenhull is there. What have people been saying? | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
of the many books of condolence, Bob Hockenhull is Lots of people signing | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
the book. One of the comments, you taught us so much and your wisdom | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
will be missed. Coventry had a special role to play as far as the | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
Nelson Mandela story was concerned. The song, free Mohsen Mandela was | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
written by Jerry Damas, `` free Mohsen Mandela. | :27:03. | :27:11. | |
A special service will be held here on Sunday and everyone is invited, | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
Christians and anyone who wants to pay tribute. | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
Finally, a comment from Mandy Gordon on our facebook page who says" I | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
grew up in South Africa under Apartheid, I remember the day Madiba | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
was released from jail ` he united a nation and was a truly inspirational | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
man, he will be greatly missed the world over." | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
From all of us on Midlands Today, goodbye. | :27:38. | :27:43. |