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military activity in the area tonight. That is all from us, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
contemporary cinema comes to the Marches. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: join the | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
organ donor register, a plea to ethnic minorities from transplant | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
patient and Birmingham MP, Khalid Mahmood. It is just a huge | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
commitment when somebody is prepared to donate an organ. We'll be asking | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
the British Kidney Patient Association, what being a living | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
donor involves. Also tonight: A life changing | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
operation for a nine`year`old boy cancelled because of a change in NHS | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
funding guidelines The starlings creating a spectacle at dusk in | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Hereford but leaving behind a spectacular mess. It is really | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
painful. Starlings creating a spectacle at | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
dusk but leaving behind a spectacular mass. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
The moving story of Beauty, the Shropshire grocer's horse | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
commandeered by the Army in the First World War. There wasn't a dry | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
eye when she went on the train to war. | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
From Northern Lights, to chilly nights, as we head towards the | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
meteorological spring things are ironically getting colder. But will | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
we escape the rain this weekend? Your full forecast is coming up | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
later. Good evening. There's a call tonight | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
for more people from ethnic minorities to join the organ donor | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
register. It comes from the Birmingham MP Khalid Mahmood who's | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
just had a life`saving kidney transplant. Last year over 6,000 | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
people were on the waiting list for a new kidney. 30% of those were from | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
black, Asian or other minority ethnic communities. On average, | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
patients from these groups will have to wait a year longer for a | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
transplant, than white patients. As he prepares for a return to | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
politics, Khalid Mahmood has been talking to Ben Godfrey. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Khalid Mahmood is used to pounding the streets of Birmingham. But he's | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
making a steady return to politics on the advice of doctors. | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
Quality`of`life and the changes already have been absolutely | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
tremendous. Five weeks ago, the 52`year`old Labour MP had a | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
life`saving kidney transplant after a live donor came forward. This is | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
his first interview since the operation. The real sacrifice that | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
has been made as by the donor. It is a huge commitment, you see, when | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
someone is prepared to donate an organ whilst they are living. At a | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
loss to find the words to say thank you. Khalid discovered he had | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
chronic kidney failure in 2008. He spent four hours a day on dialysis. | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
What impact has it had on your professional life and on your family | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
life in Birmingham? It has been very difficult for them to see me go | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
through that trauma. But I took it in my stride. It was all the more | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
poignant for the family because his twin brother Arshad died from Kidney | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
disease. It was a huge loss personally to me and family and | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
still is a great loss to the whole family. Yesterday, we joined the | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
father`of`two at the QE Hospital where his consultant was ready with | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
his latest test results. Hello. How are you doing? Here, you can see | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
when the kidney was transplanted and you can see the chaotic spikes that | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
were there before have been replaced by this smooth curve and that is a | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
demonstration that the new kidney is functioning beautifully. I think | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
there is quite a lot of misunderstanding about who can be a | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
living donor and who cannot. Tissue typing isn't as important, blood | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
grouping isn't as important. What is most important is a willingness to | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
do this for someone you care for. Khalid Mahmood says he won't reveal | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
who donated the kidney but he owes them his life. He hopes to return to | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
the House of Commons next month. Joining me now is Fiona Loud from | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
the British Kidney Patient Association. Why do you think there | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
is a shortage of donors from ethnic minorities? Actually, I would say | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
there is a shortage of donors anywhere really. You've heard the | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
numbers, 6000 people will be on the organ donor waiting list and hoping | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
to get a kidney. Of those, at least one will die every day while they | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
are waiting. That doesn't include the many others on dialysis. | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
Particularly, in the black and ethnic minority communities, that is | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
a series of different communities with different cultures and faiths. | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
I think from the work that we have done in mosques and talking to | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
people from those different areas, some of it is simply not knowing, | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
not knowing who to ask or understanding perhaps that you can't | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
go forth and give this fantastic gift of donating a kidney while | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
alive as well as giving the gift of life after you have passed away. You | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
receive one of your husband's kidneys, didn't you? Our children | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
were very young at the time. I'd been on dialysis for five years and | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
I have never been called from the waiting list. We had to take a | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
decision and say, what are we going to do in the future? Am I going to | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
live a long and full life as a transplanted person? Keith told me | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
he was going to give me his kidney. We are both very well. This happened | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
seven years ago. He completely recovered from the operation. He was | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
out of hospital within three days. He has a checkup once a year and | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
carries on his life doing absolutely that he used to do. Now, I'm there | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
to be with him and look after our family and do all the other things | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
that I do. Coming up: A five match ban for | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
Anelka for this gesture. Now the club parts company with its | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
technical director. A nine`year`old boy with cerebral | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
palsy has been told he can't have an operation that would help him walk | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
more easily, because of new NHS funding guidelines. Ben Baddeley | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
from Newcastle, is just one of a number of children around the | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
Midlands who have had potentially life`changing surgery cancelled. | :06:28. | :06:43. | |
Sorry. I will do it as quickly as I can. Every day, Ben is strapped into | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
this contraption for half an hour to stretch his legs. It helps the | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
spasticity but it hurts and he hates it. It means I could do a lot. What | :06:51. | :07:02. | |
sort of things do you want to do? Write a skateboard. Selective dorzal | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
rhizotomy cuts certain nerves causing the spasticity in the spine. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
Ben was due to undergo the first stage last week, but it was | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
cancelled. NHS England stopped routinely funding the operations | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
last April. The hospital in Nottingham didn't know and carried | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
on so it is treating patients who started the process, but not Ben. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
For every parent that is out there, they know that seeing your childhood | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
constantly hurts you. It hurts your heart and it messes with your head. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
How can I take that away from him? I just don't understand. I don't | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
understand why they've done it. At nine, Ben is in a race against time. | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
After nine there's less benefit from SDR. He's not alone. A Coventry | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
child has also been cancelled. This operation has been done in places | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
like Oswestry since the mid`90s. Mice looked at this in 2010 and said | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
there was moderate evidence that it significantly improved movement with | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
physiotherapy after 12 months. `` NICE. But NHS England says it is not | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
cost`effective. In a statement, NHS England said the current evidence | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
base does not sufficiently demonstrate relative cost or | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
clinical effectiveness. As further trials take place, NHS England's | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
clinical experts will keep the policy under review. We recognise | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
that both patients and clinicians feel this is a promising area of | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
research. But a year on, NHS England hasn't sponsored any research. Ben's | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
mother is fighting on and looking to raise the ?20,000 needed. | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
The two men attacked in Hereford by the serial killer Joanne Dennehy | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
have spoken of their massive relief after she was given a whole life | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
sentence today. Robin Bereza and John Rogers were both stabbed at | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
random by Dennehy, as they were out walking their dogs in separate | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
incidents in Hereford City Centre last April. She'd earlier pleaded | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
guilty to their attempted murders as well as killing three other men in | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
Peterborough. She's only the third woman in England to be sentenced to | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
die in prison. There's a significant political | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
development tonight in the wake of the Government's decision to wind`up | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. Conservative and Labour MPs in | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
Wolverhampton and Stoke`on`Trent will be raising concerns about the | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
knock`on effects on hospitals in their areas, following the transfer | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
of some services from Stafford and Cannock. Our Political Editor | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
Patrick Burns has more on this. What exactly are they worried about? | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
What we are seeing now, Mary, is the other side of the coin. We have | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
become accustomed to hearing some campaigning hang onto many | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
services. Now come the concerns for those other hospitals at the | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
receiving end of this. Think of Wolverhampton New Cross Hospital. | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Already, they are fudgy `` fully stretched. There has been a lot of | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
discussion about mid`Staffs. We are going to have to look at how this | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
comes out in the war. There are issues in terms of how this might | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
have a knock`on effect. I'm not the expert on that. I'm going to meet | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
those at the coal face and speak to the Prime Minister about the | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
knock`on effect. I see you have Tristram Hunt there. How does he see | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
the position of the University Hospital `` Hospital of North | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
Staffordshire? The general perception is that the | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
bulk of those services which are being switched will go up the road | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
to Stoke. Tristram Hunt shares many of the concerns. We face the same | :10:36. | :10:48. | |
challenges. We are making the same representations to the Secretary of | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
State. We can take the flag. We've got the skills and the capacity. We | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
can grow the hospital. We need to make sure that local people's health | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
provision in Stoke`on`Trent is not adversely affected. It looks as | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
though the political fallout from mid`Staffs still has a way to go. | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
Campaigners are still threatening legal action and with a general | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
election around the corner, we can be sure that defending MPs and | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
aspiring candidates will all be fighting hard for the best deal for | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
their own local communities. There's a long way to go yet. | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
And Patrick will be back with more on this in Sunday Politics at 11 | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
o'clock on BBC One, plus the towns and cities bidding for a new ?20 | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
million college to train engineers for high`speed rail. | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
This is our top story tonight: Join the organ donor register, a plea to | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
ethnic minorities from transplant patient and Birmingham MP, Khalid | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
Mahmood. Your detailed weather forecast to | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
come shortly from Rebecca. Also in tonight's programme: from delivering | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
groceries in Shropshire to facing enemy fire, the story of one of | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
thousands of war horses and the largest rural film festival in the | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
country, contemporary cinema comes to the Marches Thousands of | :12:06. | :12:06. | |
starlings have been enthralling Thousands of starlings have been | :12:07. | :12:19. | |
enthralling people in Hereford with their daily displays of aerial | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
acrobatics. But not everyone's impressed, as they're leaving behind | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
a bit of a mess. Ben Sidwell is there for us tonight. How many are | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
there? We have a rest `` rough estimation, | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
possibly up to 20,000. They are now all in the hedges and trees. They've | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
done their flight fortnight. But it is what they are leaving behind | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
which is the real problem for residents around here, the mess on | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
the floor, as I've been finding out. It's one of nature's most | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
spectacular displays. As the sun sets, the skies above Hereford are | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
teeming with birds. A truly magical sight, unless that is, you happen to | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
live right below their flight path. You can put your washing out. I've | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
got wash my car every morning. It's a nuisance. It may seem a bit | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
extreme to have this up but when the starlings, the head, it's like a | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
light rain shower and that is the problem that these residents have | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
been facing for the last five or six weeks. Every day, having to come out | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
and clean their cars, because of the bird mark. And that is becoming a | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
real pain. Estimates put the number of birds at around 20,000, all | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
congregating in trees behind the house. But being a protected | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
species, the options for dealing with the starlings are limited. | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
There is not much we can do. We are not allowed to harm them. People can | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
choose to chop down the hedge. That is allowed. Or you can sit it out. A | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
lovely display to watch but it is not very nice for people living | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
here. HP Bulmers, whose land the trees are on, told us they | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
sympathise greatly with the residents, but they must also do all | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
they can to respect and protect the wildlife of the area. If you come | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
out and said in my back garden, it is shocking. We would like to see | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
them go because it's a nuisance. Last night, for the first time, a | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
starling distress caller was used to try and move the birds on. They have | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
spent the last half hour trying to scare the birds off. It hasn't had a | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
lot of effect, apart from what you can see on this car. This is what | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
the residents are facing all the time. It is not just the mess. The | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
smell as well as getting pretty bad around here. You can hear them now. | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
The birds are being chased along the hedge and they are going to a | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
different part of the hedge. We might relieve the pressure on these | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
people here. That might not be a bad thing. We would be putting it on | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
someone else. As weeks turn into months, sadly for the residents, it | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
seems like they'll just have to wait until the starlings take flight | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
themselves. They have been plenty of people | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
coming down to the street today to see these birds. One of them was | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
Gerard from the ornithological club. A lot of people want to know, why | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
are they doing it? The starlings are gregarious. They flocked to feed and | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
to roost. This roost is used by the starlings because they need warmth | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
in the conifers. They use it as a means of safety from predators and | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
they also probably communicate overnight to decide where they are | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
going to feed the next day. People are suffering. How long are they | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
going to have to put up with the birds? It rather depends what this | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
flock is composed of, whether it is a lot of winter visitors, which it | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
probably is, or whether it is a resident copulation. `` population. | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
It almost certainly will be a large number of migratory birds in this | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
flock. And so they will, depending on their country of origin, be | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
returning fairly shortly, in the next few weeks. We've had a lot of | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
comments and many have been interested. Sally said, what a shame | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
they think this is spectacular display is a nuisance. It doesn't | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
last for long. Esther says, we need natural beauty. Humans, please share | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
this planet. We have been told this carer was distressing the birds too | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
much so they are not going to use it any more and these will leave in | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
their own accord. `` scarer. As part of our First World War | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
commemorations the BBC has teamed up with the Imperial War Museums to | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
tell the story of the War at Home. Tonight Cath Mackie has the story of | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
Shropshire's very own War Horse who was commandeered by the Army to | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
serve on the Western Front. Like memories, the black and white | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
photo of the grocer's horse is fading. Beauty was snapped in the | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
Shropshire village of Minsterley, a moment in time before the gunfire | :17:13. | :17:26. | |
began. QT used to deliver the groceries. He went all around, to | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
the bog and the grit and a big circle. But then the First World War | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
intervened. In the beginning of August, the army had 23,000 all | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
boxers and they need more. `` horses. If horses were not brought | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
forward, they could requisition horses, anything from hunters to | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
working horses. Historians believe the film War Horse captures the | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
emotional heartache in market squares across the country as horses | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
were either offered up or commandeered by the army. I solemnly | :17:58. | :18:07. | |
swear, we will be together again. Wherever you, our, I will find you. | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
There are recollections which are terribly emotional. There was a | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
farmer who was patting the horses and crying. For the most part, they | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
never did see them again. Beauty was taken to war. There wasn't a dry eye | :18:27. | :18:36. | |
when she went on the train. They were taken to depots to get them | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
trained up, because they were going to have to get used to things they | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
were not used to, gunfire, galloping altogether in charge and learning | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
life in the Army, the same way that human recruits would have to do. The | :18:50. | :19:01. | |
impact was felt at home. At the outbreak of the war 800,000 horses | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
were used on the land. The bigger breeds stayed behind to keep the | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
home front ticking over but as food shortages increased, more help was | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
needed. The women's land Army was formed, in 1915 to help on the land | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
but they still didn't think that was an officer mechanisation does seem | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
to speed up tractors. War brings about technological advances and | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
that went beyond the home front as well. We can only imagine what the | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
atmosphere must have been like that day will stop ``. Men, women and | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
children coming along to give the horse one final pat. And it was | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
goodbye because Beauty didn't survive the war. The grocer's horse | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
was one of 1.2 million horses commandeered by the army. Just | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
65,000 made it home. Anne Lewis's father served in the veterinary | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
corps. He didn't talk very much because I think he had a green time | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
in the war. To see his horses, you know, being damaged and killed as | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
well, I think it was not a nice time. I once said to him, why didn't | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
he go to the Armistice service? He said, I don't have to go to the war | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
memorial to remember the war. We can only guess at what Beauty endured. | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
But at least now, 100 years on, the story of Minsterley's warhorse has | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
come home. Time for sport. Ian's here and | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
Birmingham City fans were expecting to learn the outcome of the Carson | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
Yeung money`laundering trial today. But they're still waiting, why is | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
that? Quite simply, the court ran out of | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
time. Today's judgement against Carson Yeung runs to 112 pages, and | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
the judge was less than half`way through, when he adjourned | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
proceedings until Monday. Stand by for some flash photography. Because | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
there was a real media scrum as Carson Yeung left the court in Hong | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
Kong. Remember, he denies five charges of money`laundering, | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
totalling more than ?50 million pounds. He no longer holds an | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
official title at Birmingham City. But he is still a major shareholder | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
in the club's parent company, Birmingham International Holdings | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
Ltd. And their six monthly accounts show a pre`tax loss of just under ?5 | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
million. It's been a difficult week for West | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
Bromwich Albion. Speculation that Nicolas Anelka may have played his | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
last game for the club. And also the future of Pepe Mel as manager. | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
What's the latest? Well, Pepe Mel's position has | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
probably been weakened by the departure of David McDonough, as the | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
club's Technical Director. He played a significant role in bringing Pepe | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Mel to the Hawthorns. He could speak Spanish, and was helping the new | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
manager to get his message across in training. But McDonough has now left | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
West Brom. And Pepe Mel must be wondering what the future has in | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
store. Albion's next game is at home to Manchester United a week | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
tomorrow. By which time, Nicolas Anelka will have decided whether or | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
not to appeal against the FA's five`match ban over his | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
controversial quenelle gesture in December. Meanwhile, Anelka has been | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
suspended by the club and he may well have played his last game in a | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
West Brom shirt. As you mentioned, Albion don't play | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
this weekend. But two very big games for Stoke City and Aston Villa Yes, | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
Stoke have 27 points, just three points above the relegation places, | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
tomorrow they're at home to Arsenal. On Sunday, Aston Villa play Paul | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
Lambert's old club Norwich City. And they're both on 28 points. All the | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
action on your BBC local radio station. | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
Over the next 17 days people living in Herefordshire and Shropshire will | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
be given a taste of contemporary British and world cinema as part of | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
the 12th Borderlines Film Festival. The event has become the largest | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
rural film festival in the UK. But why is it important for communities? | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Our Arts Reporter Satnam Rana has been finding out. | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Everybody knew everybody else. Memories from Hereford's old | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
livestock market, now the subject of Chewing the Cud. You had every rank | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
and type of society coming through that market. It's a film put | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
together by a local production company using local people. And | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
it'll premiere at this year's Borderlines Film Festival. It's just | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
really nice to be able to show a film about the local area, the | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
cattle market that was situated here. It's lovely to have a local | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
audience for that kind of film. There is nothing better in a way. | :23:21. | :23:34. | |
But some rural audiences often live miles away from a cinema. Here in | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
puddleston near leomster the village hall is the cinema. Epic of Everest | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
will be shown here as part of the festival a rare chance to see a | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
restored film of the 1924 attempt to climb Everest. It brings world | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
cinema and new footage, new films, to a very remote rural area. People | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
would possibly have to go to London to see something like this. This | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
year, 32 venues will be taking part in the Borderlines Film Festival, | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
including the Regal Cinema in Tenbury Wells. This Art Deco 1930s | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
building was restored in 2012 and is now run by volunteers. The festival | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
offers them a vital business opportunity. We are hoping that with | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
the extra exposure, it will make those films more viable because | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
we've only just recently restarted. We didn't want to take too many | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
financial risks because we cannot afford to do that. The borderlines | :24:32. | :24:45. | |
film Festival `` Borderlines Film Festival is now in its 12th year. It | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
is a chance for these communities to celebrate film`making in the region. | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
Were you lucky enough to see the northern lights last night? Some of | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
you did. Rebecca has some of your pictures, along with the forecast. | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
Unfortunately I didn't see it. Thankfully, some of you did and | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
you've been sending in your pictures. The Northern lights are | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
normally seen much fall `` further north but they were spotted last | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
night in Gloucestershire. Aurora borealis to, to give its official | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
title, this caused when electrically charged particles are rejected from | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
the sun. By the time they reach our atmosphere, they cause the gas atoms | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
to glow. Unfortunately, I cannot promise you more of the same | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
tonight. We have some clear skies to come. It is going to be cold with | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
brightness to come through the day tomorrow. There is clear skies | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
already making an impact. Temperature is already public thing | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
a day. Dash away. A widespread frost tonight. Temperatures will plummet | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
to `1 or `2. We will get some fog patches developing as well. That fog | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
will be lingering around for much of tomorrow morning. The sun will | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
eventually burn through. It is increasing intensity because it is | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
the 1st of March tomorrow. We will get some good spells of brightness | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
through the day. Temperatures are going to range from between seven | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
and nine Celsius with lighter winds. It will feel pleasant. The cloud is | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
starting to build and we've got rain moving in tomorrow night. It will | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
fall across the North of the Midlands and then we will see | :26:29. | :26:30. | |
showers right the way across the region. That will help temperatures | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
little bit. Even though it is going to be cold into Sunday, it will not | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
drop as low as it was night. So, we start of our Sunday with plenty of | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
more rain moving in. The winds will start to pick up. We will get some | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
brightness through mundane sash `` Sunday morning but then there would | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
be drizzle forming. Temperatures were rain `` range between eight and | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
12 Celsius. As he starts the new week, it is staying unsettled. I | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
will leave you with a bit of good news. By the middle of the week, | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
things look like they are starting to become milder. | :27:08. | :27:09. | |
Spring plastics? Before we go, are you interested in | :27:10. | :27:18. | |
the BBC and its programmes and services? If so, the BBC Trust's | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
Audience Council England, is looking for people here in the West Midlands | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
to join its regional audience panel. The panel meets three times a year. | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
It isn't paid but you do get expenses. The easiest way to find | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
out more, and to get an application pack, is to go to the website. | :27:33. | :27:42. | |
That was the Midlands Today. I'll be back at ten o'clock, have a good | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
evening. | :27:47. | :27:47. |