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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: The new mum | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
whose identity was stolen, by a pregnant woman who conned hospital | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
staff. I booked myself in for the appointment. They said, you've had | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
your baby. I said I haven't. Walsall Hospital say they have tightened up | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
procedures so it can't happdn again. Also tonight: Plugging the gap, the | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
Gloucestershire firm helping electric cars travel further. | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
The average charge time is `bout 20 minutes and the average timd that | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
people stop is actually abott 2 minutes. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
Hand the NHS helpline over to doctors, a local GP says thdy could | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
provide a better service. The five`year`old girl donating her | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
locks to help children with cancer. And it's been a glorious dax with | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
plenty of sunshine. High prdssure's still in charge but will we be as | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
lucky tomorrow? I'll have your full forecast later on. | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
Good evening. A Black Country mother has told the BBC how a formdr school | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
friend stole her identity to cover up the birth of her own babx. Kay | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
Costin's personal details wdre used by another woman who'd alre`dy had | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
three children taken into c`re. The first Kay and Michael Costin | :01:30. | :01:48. | |
knew that something was wrong, was when a midwife came to the door | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
asking to see their baby. B`by Breah had not been born yet and it left | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
them bewildered as to what was happening. I went in to see the | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
midwife and they said yes, xou came into the hospital, had a baby and | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
left. But I said, it is not me. I said that she is not booked into | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
that hospital, she is booked into City Hospital. When they re`lised | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
that Kay's identity had been stolen Michael's psoriasis increasdd | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
through stress. When Breah was born, they couldn't even register the | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
birth because the other babx had been registered in Kay's nale. When | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
it happened, we checked everything. We checked our bank, to see if | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
anything had been taken. We watched what we throw away that we were | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
double`checking. We were making sure that our locks were doubled up for | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
quite awhile. It was quite stressful a while. The mother who gavd birth | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
at Walsall manor had three children in care. No`one wanted to bd | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
interviewed but a statement said a process of formal identific`tion of | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
women presenting without thdir notes has been introduced. Police say the | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
imposter was identified on the evening of August the 31st. She was | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
picked up in the early hours of September the 2nd. 24`year`old woman | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
was questioned but no chargds were pursued. It was distressing. It was | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
really hard. Who has got my information? Who is out there | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
pretending to be me? This f`mily still does not know how the identity | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
theft could have taken placd. They were just pleased to have found out | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
from the BBC what had happened. And Michele is here now. Sedm | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
extraordinarys. How could this have happened? | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
It is still not completely clear. The hospital letter that was leaked | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
to us suggested the information came from social media. Having s`id that, | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
the families say they use F`cebook but they haven't got all thd details | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
on the summer when the hosphtals took few details on they should have | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
done or whether or not this person did know them and took detahls from | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
elsewhere, we simply don't know We don't know who that particular | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
individual is. Can we be sure it won't happen | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
again? We can never be sure. A desperate | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
woman is going to be very ddvious in terms of trying to be able to find a | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
way to have the baby. The hospital has written this letter to convey to | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
everyone what might happen hn future. What they are going to do as | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
well is ensure that anyone who comes in, if they don't have | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
identification, they will not be allowed to leave the hospit`l until | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
they've shown IDE. Hopefullx, it cannot possible dash happen in the | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
future. Coming up later in the programme: | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
The Cheltenham festival gets underway, but local hope Thd New One | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
has to settle for third in the Champion Hurdle. | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
More and more electric cars are being seen on our roads, but they | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
are limited in how far they can travel. A Gloucestershire fhrm is | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
installing a network of raphd charging stations which will make it | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
possible for them to go further In the last two years the numbdr of | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
electric cars sold in the UK rose by more than 130%. There are around | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
5,000 chargers across the country, but until now long journeys have | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
been limited because of the low capacity of batteries. A new network | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
of 100 rapid chargers means drivers can top up their vehicle in the time | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
it takes to stop for a coffde and a sandwich. | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
Get an electric car and you'll soon be suffering from something called | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
range anxiety. The dictionary defines it as the fear that a | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
vehicle has insufficient range to reach its destination. Basically it | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
means drivers are worried the car will run out of juice. And ht gets | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
worse the further you travel, so much so that many electric car users | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
simply don't make long journeys But now there's a possibe soluthon. | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
Rapid charge stations, like this one at a motorway service area hn | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
Worcestershire. It's claimed they can charge up in just half `n hour | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
or the same time as it takes to have a coffee and a cake! This Nhssan | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
electric car has two sockets, one for a normal charge and another for | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
a rapid charge. So let's pltg it in and find out if the claims `re true. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Swipe your card press a few buttons and the charging begins. Tile for a | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
break. Half an hour later, is the car fully | :06:12. | :06:28. | |
charged? Almost. When we st`rted, we had a range of 20 miles. Now it is | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
up to 68 miles. The company that's installing the new chargers says | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
it's helping the technology evolve further. The average charge time is | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
about 20 minutes and the avdrage time that people stop in a service | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
station is 28 minutes, according to the service data providers. There is | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
a good match there. That me`ns that you can charge your car up `nd get | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
on your way without a probldm. That's music to the ears of Carolyn | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
Hay. It makes long journey hs much more accessible. Just stop `t a | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
service station on the way `nd that's it, I can go wherever I can | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
go wherever they want to. Most journeys in electric cars are still | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
short and there are now scores of town centre chargers around the | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
region. But charging isn't `lway easy. Across the UK there are | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
several networks, all require different cards. And then you'll | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
need a variety of cables too depending on what system thd charger | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
users. For electric car users compatibility is still a problem. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
There are one or two standards at the moment but that is argu`bly too | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
many. It would be nice to h`ve one standard for all vehicles and then | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
they would be compatibility across everything. For existing and future | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
electric car owners that can't come a moment too soon. | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Peter joins us now from a charging point in the centre of Birmhngham. | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
How easy is it to actually charge up? | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
Let me show you. First, you need a car and then you need to find all of | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
these charging points. You will need a cable and you will need to | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
register to get one of thesd cards. Swipe the card onto the charging | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
station. The flap opens and then you plug in. Then you go to the car and | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
left another flap. This is where you put it in. It's a little bit fiddly | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
but once it is charging, as you can see, you get a dashboard display | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
that tells you it has startdd charging. And that's basically it. | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Most people will charge either at home or at work but if people go | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
out, there are plenty of thdse stations around. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Neatly done. How much does ht cost to run an electric car comp`red to a | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
normal one? They reckon around two to 3p per | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
mile and about 15p per mile for a normal petrol engine. Of cotrse | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
cars like this are more expdnsive, about ?25,000. The government does | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
give a ?5,000 subsidy. Also, you've got to think about the runnhng costs | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
long`term because the battery on this doesn't last as long as a | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
petrol engine. I suppose thd jury is still out. In the long run, they are | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
cheaper to run. Although charging is getting | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
faster, in most places, it's still pretty slow, isn't it? | :09:12. | :09:21. | |
Around eight to ten hours to charge this sort of thing at home on a | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
normal 3p socket. If you ard using one of these, it's about two hours | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
to three hours. In the future, we may have induction loop charging | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
where you park on top of ond of the charging stations and interfaces | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
with something in the car. Hf you take it into the future, yot could | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
see a time when all roads h`ve these systems underneath and you don't | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
even need to stop the car to charge. Police have been given more time to | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
question a soldier arrested on suspicion of murdering a colleague | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
at his barracks in Shropshire. The body of 32`year`old Corporal | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
Geoffrey McNeill was found `t Tern Hill barracks near Market Drayton on | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
Saturday morning. A 23`year`old serving`soldier based at thd | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
barracks, remains in custodx at Shrewsbury police station. Hf | :09:57. | :10:05. | |
University Hospital in Coventry is asking the public to think twice | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
before turning up at the emdrgency department with minor injurhes which | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
could be dealt with quickly by a pharmacist. | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
Yesterday, a record number of 6 9 patients were seen at AMD, 36 more | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
than the previous record set in the last week. `` accident and | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
emergency. Plans to create a 4,000`plot Muslim | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
cemetery near Solihull have been withdrawn. More than 160 objections | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
and 180 submissions of support were sent to Solihull Council following | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
the application to build thd private cemetery on green belt land on the | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
outskirts of Catherine`de`B`rnes. Tens of thousands of racegodrs have | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
descended on the Midlands for one of the biggest events on the r`cing | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
calendar, the Cheltenham Festival. As well as bringing together top | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
National Hunt horses and jockeys, the festival plays a key role in the | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
local economy. Dan Pallet is in the Cotswolds for us tonight whdre there | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
were high hopes for local horse The New One in the day's biggest race, | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
the Champion Hurdle. But Dan, it didn't quite go according to plan, | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
did it? No, it didn't. As the racegoers here | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
will tell you, what is aiming for the festival for months. If you | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
don't have that little bit of luck, a split`second can change | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
everything. That's what happened to everyone today. It's all part of the | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
story on day one of the Cheltenham Festival 2014. | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
They had been waiting all ydar for this and hope couldn't wait a minute | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
longer. More than three hours before the first race, the queues to get | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
into Cheltenham were getting deeper. It is the atmosphere. Can't wait. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
Have a look around, get kind of stuff. Have a look at your card and | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
what you are going to lose on. That's my theory. Why are you here? | :11:52. | :12:01. | |
She is the driver. It's a long walk. Almost seven... 250,000 people | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
attend the four days. Peopld come back year after year. Alist`ir came | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
first when he was 19. In thd following fish in nine years, he | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
hasn't missed a single day of the festival. Its unique among sporting | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
occasions for atmosphere alone. There is a comradeship. People think | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
racing is a rather exclusivd thing. It's not. There are many people here | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
today. If you want to know how much it means, just look at the dcstatic | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
reaction of Tom Skidmore winning the trophy. The Midlands was to the fore | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
again in race three. This jockey won the big handicap Chase. Fantastic. | :12:49. | :12:58. | |
Great to get the pressure off. They are great owners and great | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
supporters of the yard. It gives everybody a great opportunity. His | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
near neighbours had high hopes in the Champion hurdle. Dreams can be | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
charted in a split`second. `` shattered. The new one finished | :13:17. | :13:26. | |
third. It left his trainer wondering what might have been. It was a | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
superb piece of writing. He got his own rhythm back. He got back into | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
the case. He wasn't quite good enough but probably because of that | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
hindrance. This horse is only six so has time on his side. Today showed | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
the enduring drama that onlx precious minutes at the festival can | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
provide. It's important to say that that | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
incident which hampered the horse ended tragically, didn't it? | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
Yes. The horse that fell was soundly fatally injured and has been put | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
down. He was a fantastic win 12 months ago. Sadly, that is `ll over | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
for him and his connections. He is only six and could maybe run in the | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
next three Champion hurdles. At least he will come back for another | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
day. It's a reminder of how dangdrous | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
this sport can be. That's why the clerk of the course | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
said at the start of the wedk that if the sun continues to shine here, | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
he will may be water the horse because what you don't want is to | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
fast going. The going was spot`on today. Good to soft and good in | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
places. It was perfect. Unfortunately, this is the top end | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
of National Hunt racing. Thdy are travelling at extreme speeds and | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
accidents will happen. The Cheltenham Festival will continue. | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
So point out that few other things that we should look out for. | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
This is only day one of four days. It takes a bit of stamina to get | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
through. The Champion Chase tomorrow. Then we have the world `` | :15:10. | :15:22. | |
world hurdle on Thursday. Then, of course it is the Gold cup itself on | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
Friday. Glorious weather for later in the week. He was hoping @ndy | :15:27. | :15:38. | |
Tupper would be running in the big chase. It is changing everything but | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
I have to say, the punters today didn't mind the sunny weathdr. It | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
was warm. A complete contrast to last year. With warm weather, more | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
people come out and enjoy the Cheltenham Festival. | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
This is our top story tonight: The new mum whose identity was stolen by | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
a pregnant woman who conned hospital staff. | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Your detailed weather forec`st to come shortly. Also in tonight's | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
programme: The five`year`old donating her hair to a charhty | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
making wigs for children with cancer. | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
And a real needle match, thd local contestant in the surprise TV hit, | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
The Great British Sewing Bed. If you have a story you think we | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
should be covering on Midlands Today, we'd like to hear from you. | :16:23. | :16:40. | |
It was labelled a disaster. Until late last year, NHS Direct operated | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
a helpline for patients across the West Midlands, but its contract was | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
taken over by West Midlands Ambulance Service after a sdries of | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
failings. Today, the new opdrators of NHS 111 claim they've vastly | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
improved the service. But some doctors groups say the helpline is | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
still in the wrong hands. Benjamin Ford's parents can't thank | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
NHS 111 enough. Hilary gave birth at home in Malvern three weeks ago in | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
her bathroom, all while takhng advice on speaker phone frol a | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
trained health advisor. There is a baby. There is a baby. Oh, ly God. | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
And here's the twist. You w`it for these pains to start but because I | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
didn't know, I was pregnant, that was why I didn't know what these | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
pains were. We kept checking that both mother and baby were OK. | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
Brilliant, absolutely fantastic Hello, thank you for calling the 111 | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
service. NHS 111 is supposed to be the first call for patients with | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
urgent, but not life`threatdning symptoms. How In December, West | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
Midlands Ambulance Service took took on the contract to run the helpline | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
across most of our region bdcause NHS Direct couldn't afford to. Long | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
have you had the back pain? It followed a catalogue of serhous | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
incidents where many patients faced long waits for advice. One of the | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
targets is to make sure you pick as many of the calls up within 60 | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
seconds. We are doing that 87% of the time which exceeds our targets. | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
But one doctor representing GPs says the helpline should be run by out of | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
hours doctors groups, as is currently done in Staffordshire I | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
would like to see far more call handling done by trained, qtalified | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
doctors and nurses, rather than by lay people. That will give ts a | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
safer service and also a service that will be better value for money. | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
Some have argued this helplhne doesn't offer value for mondy. | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
Documents for the trust suggest that more than ?1 million has bedn spent | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
on agency staff but the trust have said they intend to take on a | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
permanent workforce. We are in a positive place at the end of this | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
financial year. We have not put any further pressure on to our budgets | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
to 111. West Midlands Ambul`nce Service says it's too early to say | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
whether NHS 111 has reduced unnecessary attendance at A and E. | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
The main issue facing acute care. And that could affect whethdr their | :19:18. | :19:29. | |
contract is renewed next ye`r. This time last year the pop singer | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Jessie J donated her hair to a Herefordshire`based charity, which | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
makes wigs for children who are undergoing cancer treatment. If Now | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
a five`year`old girl from Coventry, who was inspired by Jessie, has | :19:39. | :19:48. | |
decided to do the same. There is no going back. We `re doing | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
this right now. Jessie J's decision to have her head shaved last year | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
not only raised half a millhon pounds for comic relief, but also | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
the profile of a Herefordshhre charity. Little Princess Trtst | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
specialises in providing hulan hair wigs to children with cancer, and | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
it's where Jessie J's clipphngs ended up. The base is much softer | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
for a child and it would be less itchy. Ponytails are import`nt for | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
children. They want to remahn the same as they have always bedn. Human | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
hair allows a child to go b`ck to school and feel confident. @nd this | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
is Jessie J's hair which shd donated last March, in the next few days it | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
will be blended with other human hair to form numerous wigs. Jessie's | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
actions have led to a doublhng of hair donations, with childrdn like | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
five year old Lily May from Coventry deciding to give over some of her | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
locks. I didn't think it was something she would never do because | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
her hair means that much to her She wants to be just like Rapunzel. But | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
I'm extremely proud that shd wants to help others by donating her own | :20:53. | :21:02. | |
hair. Are you going to grow it back the same? Will you do the s`me | :21:03. | :21:03. | |
again? No. And it's pleasing for the | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
Herefordshire woman behind the Little Princess Trust, Wendx | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
Tarplee`Morris set it up after finding it hard to find a whg for | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
her daughter Hannah who sadly lost her battle with cancer eight years | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
ago. It was such a struggle to find somewhere that could do a rdalistic | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
child's work, particularly hn human hair. The NHS to offer a votcher | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
scheme for a synthetic wig but we just thought we wanted to gdt her to | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
have the absolute best that we could get for her. And although the | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
charity is called the littld princess, they also provide human | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
hair wigs for boys and are `sking for donations from men of all ages. | :21:49. | :22:03. | |
After almost 100 days at se` a rower from Stoke`on`Trent has abandoned | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
her attempt to cross the Atlantic. Hannah Lawton and her rowing partner | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
Lauren Morton had been taking part in the Talisker Atlantic Ch`llenge, | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
in memory of a friend who'd died from cancer. But today they decided | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
to retire from the race bec`use of technical problems and a broken | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
rudder. Football now, and Wolverhampton | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
Wanderers could set a new club record tonight. If they man`ge to | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
beat Swindon, it'll be their ninth consecutive league victory. Wolves | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
could also increase their ldad at the top of League One, if other | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
results go their way. We should take confidence. Hf we are | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
going to achieve our goal this year, which is to get promotion and it has | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
been from day one, if the rdcords, long, fine. They would be hollow | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
without that end result. It's a busy night of football. Your BBC Local | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
Radio Station will have covdrage of tonight's games, I'll bring you the | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
results in our late bulletin. In about an hour, millions will be | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
settling down to watch a programme that's become compulsive vidwing. | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
But it's not a murder mystery, soap, or costume drama. It is in fact all | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
about sewing. It's the Great British Sewing Bee and when it comes to | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
talent, the Midlands is one stitch ahead of the rest. | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
This is Jenni Taylor from W`lsall, a self`confessed sewing addict. And as | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
a contestant on the BBC's Great British Sewing Bee, she's got loads | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
of us hooked. The judges wotld love you to make a beautiful wrap dress. | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
I love you can take anything, whether it is a piece of fabric from | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
Birmingham, or you've got an old shirt... I've have made different | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
clothes out of my husband 's shirts. The first thing she ever made was | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
her wedding dress. Most people start off with a cushion cover. I went in | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
with both feet. Let's go! And now she makes all her own clothds, | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
inspired by the finalists in the last series who all came from the | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
Midlands. Lauren Guthrie was one of them. She's running her own | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
haberdashery business in Birmingham where other Sewing Bee alumni | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
including Jenni teach the ptblic how to sew. Maybe it is something in the | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
water. I don't know why so lany people in the Midlands are hnvolved | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
but it's really good. It's good for the Midlands and it brings ` lot of | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
people here. It's really good. I have to declare an interest here. | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
I'm a huge fan of Sewing Bed and it seems I'm not the only one. We are | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
only a couple of weeks into the new series and already more than three | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
million people are tuning in. I need to make it like that. But what we | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
really want to know is, who wins this time round? I cannot tdll it | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
and it will spoil it anyway. You need to watch and wait and see. Oh, | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
well, it was worth a try. In the meantime, she's hoping to inspire a | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
few more of us to pick up a needle and thread. | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
The Great Brittish Sewing Bde is on BBC Two tonight at eight o'clock. It | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
wasn't my forte at school! It was quite a cloudy start. It s | :25:07. | :25:19. | |
slowly started to improve as we headed to the day. The good news, | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
without high`pressure staying in charge, it will continue th`t way | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
for the next few days. Tonight, we are going to get a rather chilly | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
night. We could even see a touch of frost over the next few days. We'll | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
start the day with plenty of cloud around. Through the day, we will | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
start to see the sun burning through. Some good spells of | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
sunshine to come. This is how we started today. We had this of Clyde. | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
There will be pleasant spells of sunshine right the way across the | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
board. Temperatures made it up to 12 Celsius. Overnight tonight, we keep | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
those clear spells and for ` time, as the sun goes down, so allow | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
temperatures. Initially, it would be quite a cold start. We could see a | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
touch of ground frost in pl`ces Then, as we head to the early hours, | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
we will see cloud filling in. They could even be some fog formhng. It | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
will be a cloudy start tomorrow and that cloud will start to halper | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
temperatures through the dax. It will take some shifting. Slowly the | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
sun will start to burn throtgh. Our temperatures will start to rise as | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
well. We could get as high `s 1 Celsius tomorrow. That's not too bad | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
at all. With light winds, it will feel rather pleasant. A ple`sant end | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
to the day tomorrow. Once again we will get clear skies to beghn with. | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
Again, is chilly start to the night. Cloud will fill in. We have another | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
problem is fog forms. That fog will be a little bit of a problel,, `` | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
come Thursday lunchtime. Th`t high`pressure is not going `nywhere. | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
Some good spells of sunshind to come through Thursday. A similar picture | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
for Friday. As we head towards the end of the week, those tempdratures | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
still above`average. Tonight's headlines from thd BBC: | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
One of Britain's best known union leaders, Bob Crow, has died suddenly | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
at the age of 52. The mother to be whose identity was stolen bx another | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
pregnant woman who conned hospital staff. | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
That was the Midlands Today. I'll be back at ten o'clock with more news | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
and sport from around the rdgion. Until then, have a great evdning. | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
Bye for now. | :27:43. | :27:45. |