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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: Chocolate | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
giants Cadbury announce a new ?75 million investment in Bournville. | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
We are trying to create the next generation of manufacturing, and we | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
think it can only be good news for Bournville. But fears are emerging | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
tonight jobs could be lost ` we'll be live in Bournville. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Also tonight: Violence at a jail near Wolverhampton was a full`scale | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
riot, claims a prison officer. There were tables that has been | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
broken, iron bars lying around. Wires had become trip wires at a | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
lead level. A Staffordshire hospital begins | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
using a private company to look after patients at home, so it can | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
clear beds. Fears for the local economy over a | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
university's plans to close a campus and move 2,000 students. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
And after a couple of pleasant days, don't be fooled, this rather wet | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
January is continuing with plenty more rain on the way as we head | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
towards the weekend. Your full forecast coming up. | :01:03. | :01:16. | |
Good evening. Cadbury, based here in Birmingham, | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
has announced a major investment in its Bournville headquarters. The | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
company said the ?75 million upgrade was the first significant investment | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
at the plant for 30 years. It would include replacing out`of`date | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
production lines and opening new ones. | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
Cadbury currently employs about 2,000 workers at Bournville and | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
union leaders have welcomed the investment. But tonight concerns are | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
emerging that jobs could go, despite this investment. In a moment we'll | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
be live in Bournville, but first this report. | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Four new production lines within three years for the Cadbury factory, | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
where costs are high compared with competitors. Both unions and | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
managers have welcomed the planned investment ` it is one of the | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
biggest ever at the 135`year`old site. But there are hints the revamp | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
may lead to cuts in the 2000 strong workforce. | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
We have been open and honest with the workforce and say that there may | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
be a reduction in the number of jobs, but that is all up for | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
consultation. We have got to sit down with them. It is about how we | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
work and how we change the way that we work at Bournville. We are trying | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
to do the next generation of manufacturing. We think that the | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
investment can only be good news. The unions have already been | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
negotiating the redevelopment for two years. One leader sees today's | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
annoucement as a potential triumph for the region, comparable with the | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
resurgence of Jaguar Landrover. This is an acceptance that a lot of | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
the equipment here is outdated, and we cannot take any extra volume with | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
the equipment that we have. So we see it as positive, because we can | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
bring more product back into the site. | :03:01. | :03:01. | |
Whatever happens, it's clear another chapter is opening in the history of | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
the world famous chocolate maker. Cadbury's association with | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
Birmingham dates back to 1824, when John Cadbury opened a grocer's shop | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
in Bull Street. Among other things, he sold cocoa and drinking | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
chocolate. In 1879, John Cadbury's son George | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
drew up plans for the factory in Bournville. Production began in | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
September of that year More than 130 years later, the business was taken | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
over by American food giant Kraft in 2010. | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
At the time, there were concerns the company's new owners would run down | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
the Bournville site. But business leaders in Birmingham say today's | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
announcement shows serious commitment. | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
This is a long`term, sustainable strategy, not a short`term play. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
This is a serious investment in their manufacturing capability, so | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
that they can reduce a state`of`the`art business based here | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
in Bournville. And Cadbury says this redevelopment will allow it to | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
compete with the best in the world. And our business correspondent is in | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
Bournville now. Peter, news tonight that this means jobs could go at | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
Bournville despite the investment? New technology often does mean fewer | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
jobs. Of course, machines are more efficient than people. What we are | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
hearing is that the investment involves the replacement of six old | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
production lines with four modern production lines, and irrespective | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
laid and that this could mean 60% of the walk force would go. That is a | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
worst`case scenario. Even the unions are saying that this is good news, a | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
potentially ?75 million investment in the Bournville plant. A | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
much`needed investment in an old plant that is very inefficient. | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
A senior government minister has been in the region today. What's his | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
reaction? Danny Alexander, the secretary of | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
the Treasury, was in the Midlands. He was visiting the Land Rover | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
plant. I asked him whether he felt it was right that Cadbury 's work | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
pegging the investment with changes in working practices. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Most workers in Britain want to work with companies to print `` improve | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
productive day, because that is the way that we will see living | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
standards increase. So the two things go together. I don't think | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
there is anything to fear from increased productivity and | :05:33. | :05:33. | |
investments. There were fears when Kraft took | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
over in 2010 that factories could close. Does this finally secure the | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
plant? I think it does mean much more | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
security for Bournville. Certainly, it is the second began best and that | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
we have seen here. The first saw Kraft bring in a Centre of | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
excellence from Switzerland. But many remember the Kraft of York, | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
where they kept factories open, then four years `` 12 years after the | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
takeover, they moved the production abroad. The investment here does | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
make that less likely at Bournville. You're watching Midlands Today. | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Still to come: A warning that the horse meat scandal could happen | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
again. A prison officer has told the BBC | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
that a disturbance at the Oakwood prison near Wolverhampton earlier | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
this month was in fact a full scale riot. The officer said inmates set | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
up tripwires around the building and shouted threats from behind a | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
barricade. The company G4S, which runs Oakwood, says it was an | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
incident which was significant, but low`level. | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
Grey skies over HMP Oakwood, as a fresh testament cuts through the | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
murkiness surrounding events of January fifth. | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
Our briefing was that the prisoners were armed and dangerous and that | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
they had completely taken over an entire wing of the prison. | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
The words of one of the so`called Tornado Team, the crack squad of | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
prison officers drafted in to regain control. | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
There were tables that had been broken, iron bars lying around, | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
wires had been strung up as trip wires at chest and neck level. These | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
were people who actively wanted to harm prison officers. As we were | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
waiting to go in, I heard the prisoners shouting, we are ready for | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
you, we are going to get you. The prison operators G4S had | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
previously denied it was a riot. Today, they said it Wwas a | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
significant event ` no surprise to people living in nearby | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
Featherstone. It is like a holiday camp. It is not | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
a prison, because they have all the facilities that they could have at | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
home. It scares me. I am scared that I live down the road and that | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
someone might get out. It's needs to be put right. The government needs | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
to spend more money on security. G4S say any problems at Oakwood are | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
teething troubles. In a separate development today, the firm said | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
less experienced staff will now go on exchange programmes to other | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
prisons and get a ?500 allowance in return. They say things are no worse | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
at Oakwood than anywhere else. It really can be very frustrating to | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
operate `` operators such as myself, to see incidents at Oakwood that are | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
magnified by observers in the media, far more than any incident that | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
would happen in a long established jail. | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
But why would inmates here riot? This woman's son is serving time | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
there on Cedar Wing where the violence broke out. | :08:40. | :08:48. | |
He is being locked up early. He was getting locked up too early, that is | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
why they decided to kick off. Apart from a highly critical report | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
last year from Her Majesty's Inspector of Prisons, there's very | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
little data on Oakwood. So it's difficult to know what's really | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
going on behind its walls. Just this week, the Ambulance | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
Service revealed that there had been hundreds of call`outs here to | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Oakwood, twice as much as any other prison in the country. | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
And since the start of this month, there've been 36 requests for an | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
ambulance ` either there are lots of accidents here or there's lots of | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
illness. Or perhaps the truth is that Oakwood is a dangerous place? | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
And you can hear the full report on Oakwood Prison on BBC Radio four | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
tonight at 8pm. The Crown Prosecution Service has | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
said there is insufficient evidence to charge five serving or former | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
police officers over their roles in a murder investigation. Kevin Nunes | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
was shot dead in Staffordshire in September 2002. Five men jailed for | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
murder were freed on appeal after it emerged concerns over the | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
credibility of witnesses were not disclosed to the defence. | :09:55. | :10:06. | |
Stan Collymore has reactivated his Twitter account, after complaining | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
about receiving abusive tweets. His account had been deactivated | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
overnight after he was sent death threats. Staffordshire Police said | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
officers had spoken to a 14`year`old in the Liverpool area and a | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
15`year`old in Bedfordshire, but neither had been arrested. | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
A wildlife charity has criticised the government's badger cull for the | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
use of trapping and shooting methods, which it says were not part | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
of its objectives. Care for the Wild said that in West Gloucestershire | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
543 badgers were killed through controlled shooting in six weeks, | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
while 165 were cage`trapped and shot. | :10:37. | :10:47. | |
Pressure on hospital beds is top of the government agenda this winter | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
and hospitals are being forced to look for radical solutions. In | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
Stoke`on` Trent an ?8 million deal has been struck which will see a | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
private company looking after patients at home, freeing up beds on | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
wards. Andy Fallows had to have his hip | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
removed due to a drug resistant infection. He was in hospital for | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
four weeks, but thanks to this new system he's one of the first | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
patients to go home. I want my tea at 8pm, like I | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
normally do. I am not timed to certain times. I am not bored. If I | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
want to do something, I can do it. He's visited by nurses from health | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
care at Home, who give him antibiotics four times a day. It's | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
been trialled in Southampton and means beds which cost the hospital | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
?580 a day can be freed up. It has done amazingly well in | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
Southampton. We have currently 36 staff on the team in which we often | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
will have 42 patients out of the hospital on a daily basis. That | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
means you have 42 beds in a trust that can be used in different | :11:52. | :11:52. | |
people. University Hospital Stoke`on`Trent | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
says that it will be monitoring it very closely. | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
Patients who are at home are at less risk at home `` four, and of getting | :12:02. | :12:11. | |
hospital infection. Patients do not want to be sat in hospital if they | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
can have the same treatment at home. Winter bed pressures meant temporary | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
wards had to be rerfurbished before Christmas. | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
This building houses 34 patients, but eschewed to be demolished and a | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
jewel carriageway going through this. Healthcare at Home will | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
hopefully free up for two beds Although it has run in Southampton | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
for three years, this campaigner has concerns about safety and the way | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
the contract was awarded. And solve the crisis. | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
To me, it is an initiative that in fact is a loophole that means that | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
University Hospital North Staffordshire does not have to | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
tender this work out. Health care at Home will be judged | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
on whether there are beds available next Christmas. | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
MPs have voted to release secret papers relating to the conviction of | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
the Shrewsbury 24. The group included comedy actor Ricky | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
Tomlinson, who was jailed for his part in picket line disturbances | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
following a builders' strike more than 40 years ago. The government | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
said today the documents could be made available next year. MPs from | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
our region spoke on both sides of the debate. | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
The Stasi published their files after the burning wall came down in | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
1989. I think we can. Many constituents say that these people | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
have been tried and convicted by a jury and many constituents are the | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
world at that this debate has even been called. | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
An MP is tonight urging the board of governors at Staffordshire | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
University not to close its campus in Stafford. The town's Jeremy | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
LeFroy believes the potential relocation of more than 2,000 | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
students to Stoke`on`Trent would have a "substantial impact" on the | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
local economy. A final decision will be announced a week today. | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
The campus at Beaconside in Stafford's seen an increasing number | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
of students enrolling on courses over the last few years. But | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
Staffordshire University's carrying out a review of its buildings and | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
that could mean it moves out of this campus. | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
Currently, I don't want to move. I am settles and it is a lovely town. | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
I like the shops and the people, I don't want to move out. | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
It is further away than where I live. You have to sort out | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
accommodation again. It is just an annoyance. | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
It will probably cripple Stafford, because it will take all the | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
students away. I think it is a really bad idea. | :14:43. | :14:43. | |
The university's considering moving more students here, to its base in | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
Stoke`on`Trent. But leaving Stafford would be a mistake, according to the | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
town's MP. What I am saying to the university | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
is thinking long term. Don't take a short`term decision. Stafford is an | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
incredibly strategic position for a university to be in. We are near the | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
airport and the M6. It is at the heart of the UK. | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
The university says any changes won't have an impact on second or | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
third year undergraduates, although first years could potentially be | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
affected. The university declined our request | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
for an interview, but said that it is aware of students concerns and | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
has held meetings to discuss the future. It said it did not want to | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
pre`empt a decision of its Board of Governors. | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
Ahead of that decision, what's the feeling in Stafford town centre on | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
the plans? I benefit, because I am a taxi | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
driver. I take a lot of students around. Plus, they come into town | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
and do their shopping. As far as we can see, the students are happy | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
there and Stafford needs the University. | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
The university will announce its plans next week, when students will | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
be told where future investment will be made. It is 6:45pm. | :15:55. | :16:03. | |
This is our top story tonight: Chocolate giants Cadbury announce a | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
new ?75 million investment in Bournville, but jobs could be lost. | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
Brace yourselves for a watery weather forecast from Rebecca. | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
And also in tonight's programme: Exodus to the capital. Coventry City | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
set to be roared on by 5,000 fans in tomorrow night's FA Cup tie at | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
Arsenal. And celebrating 30 years: the | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
theatre group set up to tell women's stories. | :16:29. | :16:44. | |
It's 12 months since the horse meat scandal erupted into the headlines. | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
Shocking revelations followed one after another as major retailers | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
discovered their beef, pork or lamb actually contained traces, or worse, | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
of horse. But for some in the Midlands the scandal was actually | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
good for business. Our Rural Affairs Correspondent David Gregory`Kumar | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
has been investigating. So David who's done well out of all | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
this? People like this butcher. Now this | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
shop near Wolverhampton is part of a farm shop. You can buy the sausages | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
and steaks and see the pigs and cattle from the windows of the shop. | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
The owners call it a one link food chain. You can't get more certain | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
about where your meat has come from when the horse meat scandal broke, | :17:20. | :17:32. | |
we had a surge in meat sales, because people lost faith in | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
supermarkets, and decided to go to farm shops where they knew the meat | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
came from. And sales are still up. They've held onto half their new | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
customers. So what about the rest of us? This is the change in what we're | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
eating. As you can see frozen pork, beef and ready meals are all down. | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
But look at frozen burgers. That's where the horse meat scandal started | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
and sales are down by just 1%. That's thanks to heavy promotion and | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
discounting. If it's cheap enough, we'll still eat it. | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
So who's testing this food? Well not Trading Standards. For example, in | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
Birmingham Trading Standards have stopped testing for horse meat. They | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
told us since they didn't detect any further incidences of contamination. | :18:15. | :18:24. | |
One other reason Trading Standards stopped testing, increasing testing | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
by food companies themselves. Though of course that does carry a cost. | :18:29. | :18:40. | |
It is a bit of a business, because it's ?126 per analysis, and if you | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
can imagine, we take delivery of meat once a week, that means it | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
would cost ?25,000 a year just to check meat coming in is what it | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
says. A year after the horse meat scandal | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
many of us have gone back to buying meat based purely on how affordable | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
it is. But for a good proportion of shoppers knowing exactly where our | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
meat has come from is much more important than it was 12 months ago. | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
This time tomorrow, 5,000 Coventry City fans will be making a bee`line | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
for North London. They're hoping to witness a big upset in the FA Cup | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
fourth round. The Sky Blues maybe 55 places below Arsenal, who are | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
currently on top of the Premier League, but the Coventry camp | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
remains quietly confident. Training hard for the toughest task | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
in the round draw. Coventry away to Arsenal sitting pretty on top of the | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Premier League. Realistically, Coventry know that they do not stand | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
a chance, but if Arsenal was to take their foot off the brake, then the | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
Sky Blues have players. Players like Franck Moussa, who has | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
30 goals and more to come. Last season, he took his debut when | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
Arsenal won`1. It is a great opportunity to play football. | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
Everybody knows about the FA Cup, anything can happen. We have to give | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
our best shot and go that expecting to get a result out of that. We will | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
see what our best will give us. I was hoping for Liverpool, but I will | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
not complain about going back to the Emirates. We have to believe that we | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
can get something out of the game. There will be cheered on by 5000 | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
fans, but the boss, Steven Pressley, is determined there will have a | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
night to remember. If you are going to draw this, there | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
is no better side than Arsenal. It is one of location. We have to go | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
there with the right mentality. We cannot just go there to make the | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
numbers up. My players do have an opportunity. Have boots, do travel. | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
Hoping that tomorrow night is not the end of the road for them. Good | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
luck to them. And tomorrow we'll be with | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
Kidderminster Harriers as they prepare to face Premier League | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
Sunderland in the fourth round on Saturday A memorial | :21:08. | :21:20. | |
A memorial service will be held in Wolverhampton next month to honour | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
the Wolves and England goalkeeping legend Bert Williams The | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
93`year`old, who died on Sunday, made more than 400 appearances for | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
Wolves in a 14`year career that spanned the club's most successful | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
era in the 1950s. The service will be held at St Peter's Church in the | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
city on Wednesday February the fifth. | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
Have you heard of the popular comedy character Barbara Nice? Well, not | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
only does she make us laugh, but, in real life, her less manic persona | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
Janice Connolly is a founding member of the Women Theatre group, which | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
tackles difficult and often taboo topics. This year the group's | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
celebrating its 30th birthday. Are you ready now? A stinging start | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
to this week's comedy class in Wolverhampton. This is one of | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
thousands of projects that Women Theatre have devised for ordinary | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
people. It is all devised theatre, so we are making it up ourselves. We | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
wanted to find stories that were not already been told and, initially, it | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
was women telling their stories, but now we have men as well. But that is | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
how it started in the beginning. Three decades on, and Janice | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
Connolly is still going strong. You have caught me going through my | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
cupboards. You might be thinking, what are you looking for, Barbara? I | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
am looking for Anglo`Saxon gold. She is best known as her, the altar ego | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
Barbara Nice, who was in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights. | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
Everyone who does the course will not end up being a performer, but | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
some people will. People enjoy themselves, and it is good for | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
well`being. You cannot beat the arts for coming out of yourself and | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
feeling better when you go home. The odd comedy, Women Theatre have | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
created work to challenge our perceptions. | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
I was standing outside the club, trying to pluck up the courage to go | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
into the disco to find women like me. | :23:39. | :23:48. | |
Here, stories of a hidden gay past. Homosexuality was seen as a form of | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
madness. This data is now part of the | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
cultural identity. They have employed 300 artists and workers. | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
They have had workshops, reaching out to thousands of people, many | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
have been empowered and entertained. Rachel is one of the many people who | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
has attended workshops. It has really boosted my confidence. I have | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
never done comedy, I was wanted to do it. It came along at the right | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
time. I have made new friendships, and onwards and upwards for more | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
comedy nights. At a time when many arts organisations are trying to | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
make ends meet, Women Theatre are a success story and have 20 to laugh | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
about. Happy birthday to them. Here is the | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
weather. Yes, unfortunately, the weather is deteriorating as we go to | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
the weekend. I will talk about rainfall totals, because we have | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
significant rainfall in the next few days. We could see ten to 20 minute | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
metres, then `` millimetres, then the showers on Saturday could be | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
heavy, and we could have up to 25 millimetres of rain on Sunday. There | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
are flood alerts in the region, and they could go up. We have had some | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
showers today, but we will see those moving off, then it is a clear | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
night. Cabbages will fall away under those | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
clear skies to begin with, but then we start to see cloud head of the | :25:28. | :25:36. | |
next band of rain. `` temperatures will fall away. We could see some | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
icy stretches. In Staffordshire, there is a yellow weather warning | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
for ice. Tomorrow morning, we will see the | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
rain sticking with this, temperatures really struggling. | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
Around three Celsius under that. It will feel cold tomorrow, it will be | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
breezy. There will be a few clear periods in that rain, but it will | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
not go anywhere. Eventually, there will be mild air, but we could get | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
up to eight Celsius where we have been recently. And the rain stays | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
with us right the way through Friday night. It will get heavy at times, | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
eventually heading away as we head into Saturday. We will get some mist | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
and fog patches developing, because there is quite a lot of moisture in | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
the error was well. It will not be too cold on Saturday, and Saturday | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
will be the best day of the weekend, but it still will not be a | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
great day, because although it starts off dry, we get some sunny | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
spells. Then we have the showers moving through. They will clear away | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
again, it will be a very cold night as we head into Sunday. Then we have | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
this area of low pressure moving in. It will have strong guts of wind up | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
to 40 miles an hour, 25 millimetres of rain. The forecast could change, | :26:51. | :27:00. | |
but it is not looking good. Tonight's headlines from the BBC. | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
Some hospital waiting time figures in England can't be relied upon, | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
according to an official watchdog. And guilty of throwing acid in the | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
face of a friend ` the woman who disguised herself in a Muslim veil. | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
Chocolate giants Cadbury announce a new ?75 million investment in | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
Bournville. There are some fears tonight that 60% of jobs could be | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
lost. And recent disturbances at a jail | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
near Wolverhampton amounted to a full scale "prison riot", according | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
to an officer working there. That was the programme. I will be | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
back at 10pm with the latest of the Cadbury 's announcement. We will | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
have more analysis of what this could mean for jobs, and we expect | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
to hear whether the striker has admitted all denied a football | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
Association charge about an A star will be born | :27:46. | :27:54. | |
on The Voice 2014! | :27:55. | :28:17. |