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let-up. Thank you. That is all from the BBC News at Six. Goodbye. Now | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: A partial | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
victory for Stafford Hospital campaigners, as some services are | :00:08. | :00:15. | |
retained but others downgraded. We came here today and they said the | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
administrators said they had listened to the community, but there | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
is nothing there in what they are offering. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
We'll be asking how it will all work, and the impact it'll have on | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
neighbouring hospitals. We've spent the day inside the busy | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
University Hospital of North Staffordshire. Will it be able to | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
take up the slack from Stafford? A sharp fall in jobless figures with | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
26,000 fewer out of work, but Birmingham is still the worst city | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
for unemployment in the country. It is wet and windy, and Stoke City is | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
hoping to make it a miserable night for Manchester United. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
And we may have seen plenty of rain today, but could this be the scene | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
across us by tomorrow? Full details coming up in the forecast later. | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
Good evening. Stafford Hospital is being taken over, but some key | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
services will stay. It's a partial victory for thousands who marched to | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
save it, although not everyone's happy. Administrators needed more | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
time to come up with their proposals, such was the strength of | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
public opinion. They're now recommending a downgraded maternity | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
unit instead of complete closure. A stays, although it won't be 24 | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
hours. Other services will be scaled back ` with complicated procedures | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
taking place elsewhere and Stafford used for recuperation and recovery. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
The hospital's been trying to rebuild confidence since the scandal | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
over dreadful neglect and poor care was uncovered five years ago. It's | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
not quite the end of the story, though ` the Health Secretary still | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
has to give his approval, and that won't happen until next February at | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
the earliest. Here's our health correspondent Michele Paduano. | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
This is what all the fuss is about, babies and children, where they are | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
born and how they are treated. In the future half of all Stafford | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
babies will still be born in Stafford. For these mums, today's | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
improvements are not good enough. There is still some hope there, we | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
do still have some services, but you cannot guarantee that you will not | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
have complications if you are giving birth, and to have to go elsewhere | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
would disrupt so many lives. It is good not `` not good enough for | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
people with critically ill children. What are they supposed to do? The | :02:42. | :02:53. | |
Trust Special Administrators said they had listened to the concerns, | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
and 95% of all patient care will be in Stafford. What we have done I | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
believe successfully is to provide Stafford and Cannock with a period | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
of stability, at least four years, when they can work with local health | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
care commissioners and can address the issues that exist here and also | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
elsewhere. Stafford Hospital will get ?90 million in subsidy over four | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
years, and ?40 million refurbishment. A further ?130 | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
million will be spent on improving maternity and accident and emergency | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
services in Walsall, Stockton Wolverhampton. This will fund a | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
proportion of our new A department which we have recently started the | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
preliminary construction. We will also have to build an extension to | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
our existing maternity units to be able to cope with the consultant | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
deliveries. Back in Stafford politicians across the spectrum are | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
not happy. We are going to lobby very hard now, the Secretary of | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
State for health, because that is where we have to take the fight to. | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
And my colleagues in all parties have been fighting very hard for | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
this in the last year or so, and we will carry on. We came in here and | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
the administrators said they had listened to the community, then we | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
listen to the detail of what they are offering and there is nothing | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
there. Most babies are not going to be born in Stafford. Our money's had | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
to be served elsewhere for new hospitals that could be built here. | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
`` going to be set. `` great to be sent. At the end of for years, the | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
hospital will study ?15 million in the red. | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
The people of the town have been living with this for years, will | :04:58. | :05:06. | |
they be happy with this delight? There are people out there who | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
clearly think that services should move elsewhere because they will be | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
safer there, but they were absent today, one reason being that there | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
has been such a groundswell of opinion against the hospital. Let us | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
talk to one of the campaigners. How do you feel about what happened | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
today? I am very disappointed. It has been made and we have had | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
concessions made to us, but I think it is a bit of a fudge. We are told | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
we will get midwife led eternity. 50% of the people could still be | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
seen at Stafford Hospital, in reality `` but they have spent a | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
huge amount in subsidy on this, you must realise change has to take | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
place? We fully agree with that, we know | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
there has to be a partnership. Specialised services have to be | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
elsewhere at a larger hospital. We will support integration, we are not | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
against that. Tomorrow you are seeing one of the Prime Minister's | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
special advisers. What are you going to say? I think we will have a frank | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
discussion. We have to look at how the board is going to be formed | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
between us and UHNS. Clearly people here are not happy, but Jeremy Hunt | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
has not got out of this political messages yet. | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
With the trust running Stafford and Cannock hospitals dissolved, Cannock | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
will be taken over by Wolverhampton. Stafford Hospital, which is far | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
bigger, will be run by the University Hospital of North | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
Staffordshire which covers Stoke on Trent. So will it be able to take up | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
the slack? Our Staffordshire reporter Liz Copper has been finding | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
out. Brandon is three and will be in | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
hospital for Christmas. He's one of more than 11,000 patients treated in | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
the Children's Centre here every year. The changes announced today | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
could see many more children coming here. Parents have concerns over the | :07:03. | :07:12. | |
effect for families. It is not brilliant for the parents if they | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
have to travel and travel, but if it is best for the child that is what | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
has to be done. There was plenty of festive fun | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
today on the children's ward, but nevertheless lingering worries about | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
what the New Year will bring once children will no longer be admitted | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
for overnight stays in Stafford. I have six children, and I have had to | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
travel from that which today to hear. But I can't imagine having to | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
do that with an ill child. The planned changes were among the | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
most controversial book forward. The question now is, how big an overall | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
impact will the new arrangements have? | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
This is the unit where children are assessed. It's busy, but doctors | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
believe they'll be able to cope with more patients. I think we are | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
ideally placed to absorb more work because we have become consultant | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
led down here. We probably have more consultant time on the shop floor | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
than anywhere else in region actually. | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
And patients across the region are being reassured the new plans will | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
lead to better overall care across Staffordshire ` and increased travel | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
times won't be a serious problem. There is a trade`off between coming | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
to really high quality services where you have 40 or 50 paediatric | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
specialists for exam will on the ward we are on now, compared to | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
three in Stafford. There is this trade`off between accessing a full | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
range of services when you have a sick child, and that is very | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
traumatic for patients `` parents. Whilst these changes won't satisfy | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
everyone, there is now at least a measure of certainty as plans for | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
shaping the future of health care across Staffordshire become clearer. | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Joining us now from our studio in London is the Conservative MP for | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
Stafford Jeremy Lefroy. Good evening, Mr Lefroy. So Stafford | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
Hospital is being downgraded, but some services retained ` good news? | :09:04. | :09:15. | |
I think it is mixed. I was this boot saying some services, `` would | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
dispute some services, we are talking about a large number of | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
services being maintained. At the beginning of the year we were told | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
there would be no A or maternity or paediatrics and many other | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
services. We have come a long way. It will have on A, there will | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
according to the TSA's report be midwife led maternity, and we will | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
be part of a university hospital with a secure future. But | :09:43. | :09:53. | |
particularly there is a big but over services with children and mothers | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
and families. The community have done a tremendous job in getting us | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
to where we are now, but we have further to go because we have to | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
make the case that our children deserve to have a 20 four sevenths | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
service where they can stay in unless they have to be transferred. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
But as the case I have been making to Jeremy Hunt this afternoon. What | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
sort of vibes did you get from him? He has to make the final decision, | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
he cannot tell me at this stage, but I shall firstly be making the case | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
to monitor because they have too make the case to the Secretary of | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
State. `` they have to make the case. And also we need to look at | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
the proposals for maternity. I still believe we need a consultant led | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
maternity service, I think the numbers justify that. And we need to | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
look at one or two other areas like the proposals for critical care. I | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
think we have moved a step forward today, but not a large enough step | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
at all. Plenty more to come before 7:00. | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
The problems for ex`servicemen facing the prospect of being | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
homeless for Christmas. There's been a sharp fall in | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
unemployment in the region although Birmingham remains the city with the | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
highest rate in the country. Across the West Midlands, the number of | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
jobless fell by 26,000 over the last quarter. It means there are now | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
240,000 people out of work here ` or 8.8% of the working population. Ben | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
Godfrey has been to Wolverhampton, to look at a scheme helping people | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
find jobs when English isn't their first language. | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
Bhupinder Mary wants to return to work now her daughter's older. If | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
only it were that easy. After four years without a job, she says she's | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
facing too many hurdles. The main problem is the language, and | :11:55. | :12:10. | |
experience. It is hard. It is very difficult for us. | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
She's not alone. For these Asian and Eastern European job`seekers, | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
Wolverhampton doesn't feel like a land of opportunity. | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
So they've joined the Park Village Employability Scheme. They get jobs | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
advice ` nothing new there. But what makes it different is that they'll | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
design the sort of training opportunities their community needs. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Here in Park Village, changing perceptions is the first challenge. | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
9% of the working age population is currently claiming job`seeker's | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
allowance, but it is also about well`being, in an area where women | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
live to an average age of 79, four men it is just 73. My husband has | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
not worked since he left school. All the Government plans, and what they | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
plan to do, the job centres are full of people anyway so I don't see how | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
that can help. I have had a couple of temporary contracts, but nothing | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
big. Nothing I can hold on to. There is nothing in Wolverhampton. 30 | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
years after I left school, people are leaving school in this day and | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
age when they cannot live `` read or write. What is going on? | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
Asia Jodin has a masters degree from Poland's top university. She moved | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
to Wolverhampton to be near family, but says she's failed to find a job | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
to match her skills. I don't want to go to the factory every day. I have | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
a Masters degree, I had a good job over there in Poland, and I want to | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
carry on having a better life, and also for my future children I want | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
to set the example. Dozens of residents have signed up | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
to the scheme, which hopes to coach them into employment within three | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
months. Our business correspondent Peter | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
Plisner is here now. Encouraging figures, Peter ` why do you think | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
they've gone down? The fact is more jobs are being created. If you look | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
at the West Midlands, construction jobs are up, and manufacturing is | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
slightly down, and nationally the art up so that could be a blip. | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
Managing directors I have spoken to so their order books are full and | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
they are optimistic about the year ahead. `` they say that their order | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
books are full. But Birmingham is still the work `` the worst in the | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
country. Yes, 16.5% of the population are unemployed, the | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
highest in the UK, but we have some of the worst blackspots for | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
unemployment, places like Hodge Hill, and Ladywood. More than 20% of | :15:00. | :15:09. | |
the population there is unemployed. There has been lots about this | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
so`called skills gap, and a lot is being done to address it. | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
Detectives are searching for a beggar who attacked a 25`year`old | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
man in Birmingham, blinding him in one eye. | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
It happened at Spices restaurant on the Soho Road in Handsworth. The | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
offender, who was captured on CCTV, asked for a cigarette and money. | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
When he was refused, he stabbed the victim in the eye with an unknown | :15:33. | :15:44. | |
weapon. Our top story tonight. A partial victory for Stafford | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
Hospital campaigners, as some services are retained but others | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
downgraded. A full weather forecast to come soon | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
from Shefali ` not too cheerful, I'm afraid, and also in tonight's | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
programme, what these Stoke City legends make of the Potters' chances | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
in tonight's cup tie against Manchester United. I can't wait for | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
these fans to get some pleasure, to get some success. | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
And our top Christmas tip ` from a team who don't believe in throwing | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
away anything that could bring some festive fun! | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
Servicemen and women can sometimes find it hard adjusting to civilian | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
life after a military career. A small proportion end up on the | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
streets. Joanne Writtle has been talking to a former Royal Marine | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
who's trying to help, and to an ex`soldier who's been sleeping on | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
friends' sofas since leaving the Army six years ago. | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
Life in the Armed Forces. Disciplined, often tough, and for a | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
few, I've can remain harsh after they have said goodbye to military | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
life. Chris Pursehouse served with the | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
Royal Artillery for six years. But he's been homeless, sofa surfing, | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
since he came out in 2007 ` unable to settle. In pubs I have to sit in | :17:07. | :17:18. | |
a place where I can see the front door and the exit and see who is | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
coming in and going out. For the last few weeks Chris has | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
been living in a hostel for homeless men in Wolverhampton. | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
It's run by the P3 charity. Jim Corry is a case worker for those on | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
the streets. He's helped hundreds this year. A few have been | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
ex`servicemen. Probably about six or seven this year. A number of | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
reasons. Some have just come out of the Army, obviously looking for | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
accommodation support. Maybe they have been out of the Army for a | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
number of years but going through relationship work done. Some are | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
suffering from post`dramatic stress. `` post`traumatic stress. | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
22 miles away in Telford, ex`Royal Marine Steve Wood has a room for a | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
homeless ex`soldier. He's also offering to help sort out red tape | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
for benefit payments. Don't you think we owe them a hand out now and | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
again? I think they deserve it. People have stepped up to bat to | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
protect our liberty. It's a two`bedroom house. The other | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
room is taken by a man medically discharged from the army. He's not | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
prepared to discuss the details, and wants to remain anonymous. When I | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
try and get a job, and say I have been discharged from the Army, I | :18:33. | :18:42. | |
struggle getting a job. The national charity veterans' aide says | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
homelessness amongst ex`soldiers is a small but constant problem, but | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
stresses that most veterans make a successful transition to civilian | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
life. Back in Wolverhampton, ex`gunner | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
Chris is being helped by workers at the hostel. He's just completed a | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
course with the security industry. And despite everything, he doesn't | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
regret joining the Army. I would recommend it to anyone. It is one of | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
those things I am glad I did. When you are old and grey, you can sit | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
down and say, yes, we did this and all that sort of thing. | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
Football, and Stoke City are hoping to make it through to the semifinals | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
of the League Cup tonight but they'll have to do it the hard way. | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Their visitors Manchester United are a team rebuilding after the | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
departure of Sir Alex Ferguson, but they still represent the toughest of | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
opposition. Nick Clitheroe is at the Britannia | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
Stadium. Realistically, what are Stoke's chances, Nick? | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
Well, Manchester United are finding life difficult now Sir Alex has | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
gone, and Stoke have already pushed them hard in the Premier League once | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
this season. But they might need some of the spirit of 1972 if | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
they're to make through ` as Ian Winter has been finding out. | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
March 1972, Stoke City winning at Wembley for the first time. Today, | :20:04. | :20:12. | |
Terry Conroy is 67 and lucky to be alive. Two years ago he survived a | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
massive heart attack, and now on Doctor's orders, he joins his | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
team`mate for their weekly walk around the lakes. They are never | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
short of good company, in coding England goalkeeper Gordon Banks. `` | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
including. When the boys of medicine to two | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
went to Wembley, their opponents were Manchester United. We perhaps, | :20:38. | :20:46. | |
Manchester United having a bit of a dip. `` we perhaps caught. If we can | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
overcome United, we can maybe go old `` all the way. | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
When they met in the Premier league in October, Stoke were not overawed, | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
and twice they took the lead. OK, so United one, but the old Potters | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
legends believe it will be a different story with home advantage | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
tonight. Two for stock. Two goals to 14 | :21:16. | :21:24. | |
Stoke. What would it mean if/when to get to Wembley again? `` Stoke. I | :21:25. | :21:35. | |
cannot wait for the fans to get some pleasure and some success. So the | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
League Cup has good memories for Stoke City, and beating United this | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
evening would be just the tonic for Terry and Dennis and thousands like | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
them. The big clubs often field weakened | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
teams in this competition. Does that give Stoke a fighting chance | :21:53. | :22:02. | |
tonight? The way this season has started for David Moyes, I don't | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
think he can take any risks. He needs some silverware in the | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
sideboard this season, and I think he is going to play a fairly strong | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
team tonight. Mark Hughes hasn't found it too easy | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
at Stoke since replacing Tony Pulis in the summer. How important is this | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
competition for him? Obviously he has had to come in and try and keep | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
that place in the Premier league for Stoke City, while changing the style | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
as well and trying to play a bit more passing football. That has | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
proved that. It is taking time to adjust. But I think there have been | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
signs in the last few weeks but he is starting to find a system that is | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
going to help. But of course they have a big game against Aston Villa | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
at the weekend, so if they can get through tonight that will give them | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
a boost for that. One thing is for certain, nobody is much greater in | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
job it tonight with the weather. `` enjoy it. | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
It's that time of year when many of our streets are shining with | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
Christmas decorations and lights. Some are truly spectacular, while | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
others bring us festive cheer in the most unexpected places. We sent Bob | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
Hockenhull to meet workers in Birmingham who've put a lot of time | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
and effort into their display ` but really they wouldn't mind at all if | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
you called it rubbish. A recycling tip on a bleak December | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
day. Not everyone's idea of a winter wonderland. But the Lifford Lane | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
centre at Kings Norton in Birmingham has been transformed ` thanks to | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
everyone's Christmas cast`offs. Every single one has been recovered | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
from what would otherwise have been thrown away. The condition of some | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
of the material that gets thrown away is suitable for reuse. | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
The waste controller has entered into the spirit of things too, | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
there's seasonal tunes blasting out all day ` and even a nod to other | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
religions. It's turned a traditional tip into a Christmas hit for the | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
regular users. They love it. They actually bring the children down to | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
see it. They turn up without any waste, just to see the display. | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
The staff are amazed at what people throw away. Some of these figures | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
are in pretty good condition. But what some have dismissed as rubbish | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
have now approved an opportunity to create up perfect Christmas scene in | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
the most unlikely of places. `` a perfect Christmas scene. | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
Around 150 figures destined for destruction have been saved so far ` | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
causing delight and a little despair. All this stuff is usable, | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
and you see people throwing stories away, it is quite ashamed. I wish I | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
could queue for longer, but they are so efficient you get through | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
quickly. You feel you are going to somewhere happy. Because the music | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
is happy. You just want to dance! Who'd have thought a load of old | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
rubbish could lift Christmas spirits so high? | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
Let's find out how the weather's looking ` here's Shefali who has | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
some very scary`looking arrows on her weather map today. | :25:14. | :25:14. | |
Tonight's headlines from I could tell you was shocked by | :25:15. | :25:27. | |
yesterday's chart, but it is indicative of what is going out | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
there at the moment. A trampoline was blown onto the tracks at | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
Smethwick, causing delays. Tomorrow it is quite a different story. Some | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
snow is on the way, on higher and lower levels. We are unclear how | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
much we are going to get. But it would lead to a covering on most | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
areas. Before then, some rain to content with. When you see these | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
bright green and yellow patches, you have to be wary where rain is | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
concerned. Also that squeeze on the isobars indicates strong wind. We | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
can see that in close up right now on the chart. There is a ferocity to | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
everything going on tonight, but it is moving along very quickly, | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
because it is being pushed along a 50 mph gusts. Where we do get the | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
torrential garden `` downpours, we could see an inch of rain. But a | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
quieter end to the night, and with clearer skies temperatures will drop | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
to one or three Celsius. At this area is going to be very cold, | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
digging into the region by tomorrow morning. `` but this area. I think | :26:38. | :26:47. | |
it is good to be the worst that will get the accumulations most of all to | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
begin with, because that is where the snow will linger. `` I think it | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
is going to be the West. Then it starts to move eastwards through | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
tomorrow evening, temperatures rising to five to 527 Celsius. `` | :27:01. | :27:15. | |
five two seven Celsius. As for the rest of the week, we have dry | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
conditions on Friday, rain setting in for Saturday but milder by them | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
as well. as | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
Tonight's headlines from the BBC. Sentenced to 35 years, the rock star | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
Ian Watkins is jailed for a string of horrific sex attacks on children. | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
A partial victory for Stafford Hospital campaigners, as some | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
services are retained but others downgraded. | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
See you later at 10pm. Goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:47. |