08/03/2014 Midlands Today


08/03/2014

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on BBC One will be at the earlier-than-usual time of

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Good Afternoon. A month aftdr the floods began in Worcester,

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businesses affected say thex need money from grants and hand`outs as

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soon as possible to help thdm survive. This week, Worcestdrshire

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County Council announced ?200,0 0 had been made available to help

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companies who lost trade. Bdn Sidwell reports. The water lay have

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long gone, but the damage it caused is still very much evident `t this

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hotel in Worcester. Here thdy had to shut for two and half weeks due to

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the floods. I cannot give you an exact figure, but it is thotsands

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and thousands, enough to catse real hardship for me and my business

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partner. As well as money promised from the Government, the hotel's

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owners could also now receive up to ?3,000 from Worcestershire County

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Council. When we get it it will be a great help, but it is a question of,

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can I survive until that pohnt? We understand that businesses need that

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help now, to help them deal with the immediate clean`up and recovery

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effort. But it is not just the businesses. Take this restatrant,

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because of road closures, they lost more than two thirds of thehr trade

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over two weeks, even though they were not flooded themselves. These

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photos taken during the height of the floods show just how bad things

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were around Detroit's restatrant compared to now. We were hugely

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affected, we had to lay off a lot of staff. On a busy night we do 18

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covers. That week, not more than 20. The county council says bushnesses

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like this, that were affectdd but not actually flooded, could still

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receive up to ?1,500. But unless some get the money soon, thd fear is

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they may not still be trading when it eventually arrives.

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Relatives of some of the 21 people killed in the 1974 Birmingh`m pub

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bombings have been demonstr`ting outside Downing Street this morning.

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It's over the so called "amnesty letters". The Government adlitted

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that as many as 200 former HRA suspects were told they thex

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wouldn't be prosecuted for past crimes as part of the Northdrn

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Ireland peace process. Brian Hambleton's sister Maxine dhed in

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the pub bombings and he says they want her killers to brought to

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justice. Our only weapon against the

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authorities is our voice. And we will continue, what ever barriers

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and doors are put up in front of us, as a campaign, we will have to try

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and walk through them or delolish them, because I will not give up

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until I die. A Birmingham dentist who was jailed

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for seven years for stealing ?1 4 million from the NHS has bedn told

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she's got to pay most of it back. Joyce Trail from Sutton Coldfield

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spent the cash on exotic holidays and designer shoes. She madd

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thousands of false claims for treating patients, many of whom were

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dead. She was found guilty two years ago.

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Time for the weather, with Sara Good afternoon. We started off very

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cloudy this morning, it's took its time to brighten up but we `re

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starting to see the sunshind now. And it will be a very pleas`nt

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afternoon, feeling quite mild. The wind will be blustery and southerly.

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Daytime temperatures of 14 Celsius. And the mild night on the c`rds as

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well. A minimum temperature of just five Celsius. That's it for now

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I'll be back at the earlier time of half past four this afternoon, with

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your tea`time news. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Our weekend forecast

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did include some sunshine and warmth but was never going to be

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wall-to-wall across the whole country. We started with a lot of

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mist and murk and cloud but you can see how, to the south, sunshine has

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been breaking through. More cloud further north and a weather front

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