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died aged 88. That's all from the BBC News at Six so | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to Midlands Today, the headlines tonight: Exercise | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
classes in junior school to fight the flab with child obesity on the | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
increase. The children love it, it makes them | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
more awake, brings them into the classroom ready to learn. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
I'll be talking to one expert who says child obesity is becomhng an | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
epidemic. Beating the bookies, a victory | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
against the odds for Lord Windermere, this year's Cheltenham | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Gold Cup winner. Would bringing the Black Cotntry | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
under the umbrella of Greatdr Birmingham mean more jobs and | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
investment? Why some fans will be flying the | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Spanish flag to stand by embattled West Brom manager Pepe Mel, still in | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
search of his first win. Given him the time, I think he could turn out | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
to be a good manager for us. I think he can help keep us up. | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
And we might not be basking in Spanish sunshine, but for a weekend | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
in the West Midlands not looking too bad, with scenes like this to come | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
over the next few days and temperatures into the mid`tdens | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
Your fall forecast is on thd way. Good evening. Schoolchildren across | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
the region are starting thehr day with a burst of exercise to combat | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
child obesity. Parts of the West Midlands have some of the hhghest | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
rates in the country. In Wolverhampton, 27% of children | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
starting infant school are overweight or obese. By the time | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
they get to ten, that's gond up to 40.6%, 7% higher than the average | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
for England. Recently in Coventry, one junior school pupil weighed in | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
at an astonishing 20 stone. Bob Hockenhull reports. | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
Wake up and shake up is the rallying call to these children at Btrton | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
upon Trent's Victoria community school. Pupils here do this exercise | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
every day. The aim is to sed if being this active on a regular basis | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
helps to keep them at a healthy weight. How does it make yot feel? | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
Happy! Sometimes tired in the morning and I wake up when H come | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
here. The children love it, it makes them more awake, brings thel into | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
the classroom ready to learn and focus on the task. The school is | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
taking part in a three`year trial called Waves. It's funded bx the | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
National Institute for Health Research. The University of | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Birmingham is monitoring yotngsters in 54 schools. They want to curb | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
obesity levels as one in fotr youngsters start their educ`tion | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
overweight. We know that chhldhood obesity is related to adult obesity, | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
and so that puts those children in the future at risk of dying | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
prematurely, of having diabdtes and heart disease and some cancdrs. | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
During the experiment, 1,400 children will be monitored. Here, | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
pupils at Lillington Nurserx and Primary in Leamington Spa are being | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
measured and assessed. We do height and weight, we do blood pressure. We | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
do skin fold thickness at fhve different sites, so a different way | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
of measuring body fat. It is not just about exercise. These children | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
have been given lessons in healthy food and their parents were invited | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
in for nutrition classes. I learned a lot, there were certain things | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
promoting health, but when xou find out they contain an amount of sugar | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
in them, you have to stop, because that it is why is sending them a bit | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
hyperactive. The conclusions of the research will be published next | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
year. And if the trial provds successful in maintaining hdalthy | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
weights, these exercise classes could become part of the National | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
Curriculum. Bob Hockenhull, BBC Midlands Today. | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
Tam Fry is from the National Obesity Forum. We're hearing today `bout a | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
20 stone ten`year`old from Coventry, people will be horrified to hear | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
that, but how common is it? It is not common. But it is certahnly | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
getting more frequent. This is one of the terrible things about the | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
obesity epidemic, that although some of the levels may be equalising | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
across the country, the obese children are getting fatter. What do | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
the figures tell us exactly? It tells us that the healthy schools | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
policy is not working. That policy was initiated eight years ago, and | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
hopefully the preschool obesity levels were going to be sevdrely | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
curtailed, and we would havd children going into secondary school | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
at a much more healthy weight, and that clearly has not happendd. That | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
is a major problem. What can be done to tackle the problem, then? We | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
believe we have got to start tackling against obesity much | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
earlier. There are even one`year`old is being treated for obesitx. By the | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
time they get to school, it is 5%, and so there is four years where we | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
have to do a lot of work to try and instil healthy eating and exercise | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
into our children before thdy get to school. So on that, what advice | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
would you give to parents, what can they do to change eating habits | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
Well, essentially, they havd got to learn about food, and I was very | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
impressed about the film th`t you have just shown where parents are | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
starting to learn. You have to remember that there is a whole | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
subpopulation of parents who never got education in domestic science at | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
school, because it was wiped out. So if you were learning at the same | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
time as the children, there will have to be much more one`to`one | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
teaching of parents in children s centres to give them the kind of | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
knowledge that will help thdm lead their children into a healthy | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
lifestyle. OK, thank you for joining us tonight. | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
Coming up later in the programme, fears for the future of a f`rm | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
school where city children get open air lessons and their first taste of | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
country life. Race`goers were treated to ` | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
thrilling finish in the big event at Cheltenham today. The Gold Cup is | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
the highlight of the four`d`y meeting. And there have been few | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
closer finishes in its history. Ian Winter reports on a fitting climax | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
to a classic Cheltenham Festival. It was a foggy start to Gold Cup | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
day, but as the mist cleared the punters turned out in force. Next | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
year they are in for a surprise because this temporary building | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
formerly the Queen Mother stand will have disappeared, and by 2 16 a | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
new ?45 million grandstand will be up and running, built by a local | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
construction firm. I think ht makes us all the more determined to make | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
it a six as full job, because we know the importance of the | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
racecourse. `` successful. Striding out in search of Gold Cup glory it | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
is high noon and Tom Scudamore from Herefordshire is just three hours | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
away from potentially the most famous victory of his racing career. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
He has written three winners so far this week and has high hopes for The | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Giant Bolster, trained at Stow on the Wold. The conditions will suit | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
him, we know he likes Cheltdnham. I am very hopeful of being first. This | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
is the last fence on the Gold Cup course, and if The Giant Bolster is | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
still in with a chance at this point you will hear the roar 20 mhles away | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
at Stow on the Wold. And so it proved to be, The Giant Bolster ran | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
another big hearted race on the course he loves best, so close to | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
pulling off the National Hunt victory, but not enough to catch | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
Lord Windermere, the 20`1 whnner. I was watching alongside your family, | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
they were very excited in the closing stages. I imagine it was | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
quiet earlier, but I am ple`sed they are here, it has been a gre`t day. | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
Second, third, now four. Wh`t is next? There is only one place to be | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
next, I will keep on trying as long as he keeps on running. Tod`y was a | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
nostalgic day for Jim Lewis, the tenth anniversary since Best Mate | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
completed a remarkable hat`trick of Gold Cup triumphs. One day soon Tom | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
Scudamore will surely experhenced the same thrill as a Gold Ctp | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
winning jockey. Well, I caught up with our reporter | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Ian Winter a short while ago and asked him what the atmosphere was | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
like track`side with such an incredible finish in the Gold Cup. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Shefali, the atmosphere has been very special indeed. As you can see | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
behind me, the crowds are flocking home after a fabulous four days of | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
racing at Cheltenham. And for the first time I've had the privilege of | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
watching the Gold Cup from hnside the parade ring surrounded by | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
members of Tom Scudamore's family. They were cheering his everx move as | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
The Giant Bolster came into that storming third` place finish, a | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
remarkable triumph for trainer David Bridgwater based at Stow on the | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
Wold. He's only got 30 horsds in training, many believe he should | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
have more after guiding The Giant Bolster in consecutive years to a | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
fourth place, a second placd and today a third`place finish. Overall, | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
how would you say the festival has gone? What have people been saying? | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
Well, what a difference the weather makes. 12 months ago we werd here | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
and it was freezing cold, the rain was tipping down. Today, warm spring | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
sunshine, record crowd of 235,0 0 spectators. A week on Mondax they | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
start building that ?45 million grandstand to replace the old Queen | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
Mother stand. Things are on the up and up, and of course the Irish | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
today have seen them win six out of the seven races, as if they needed | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
any incentive at all to be back next year. They will be to give ` further | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
massive boost to the local dconomy here in Cheltenham. I'm surd, Ian. | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
Two more people have been qtestioned by police in Birmingham on suspicion | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
of possessing extreme pornography. A 36`year`old teacher from Kings Heath | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Boys College and a 45`year`old youth worker in the city were arrdsted | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
this morning. This afternoon they were released on bail. It follows | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
the detention of three other teachers yesterday who were also | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
later bailed pending further police inquiries. | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
Moazzam Begg, the former Gu`ntanamo Bay detainee from Birminghal, | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
appeared at the Old Bailey today to face terror charges. The 45`year`old | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
from Hall Green in Birmingh`m will stand trial in October. He denies | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
providing terrorist training and funding terrorism overseas. | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
A 23`year`old soldier has appeared at Wolverhampton Crown Court charged | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
with murdering Corporal Geoffrey McNeil at an army barracks hn | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Shropshire. Corporal McNeill's body was found at Tern Hill on S`turday. | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
Lance Corporal Richard Farrdll will appear back in court in Stafford | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
later this month. Senior political and business | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
leaders are backing calls for the region's biggest city and some of | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
the towns around it to be rdbranded as Greater Birmingham. But ht's an | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
idea that divides opinions, especially in the Black Country | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
which has a long and fiercely independent history. Our political | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
editor, Patrick Burns, is whth me now. Where exactly is this hdea | :11:09. | :11:17. | |
coming from? For some time, Shefali, there has been an animated | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
conversation about whether some really big strategic decisions to do | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
with the economy, transport infrastructure are too big to be | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
confined to individual local authority boundaries, and more and | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
more organisations are using that Greater Birmingham tag. The chairman | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
of the Greater Birmingham and Solihull local enterprise | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
partnership, in an article hn last week's Sunday Telegraph, sahd that | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Greater Birmingham, as he ptt it, doesn't want this second city tag, | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
because it's doesn't want to be second in anything. He said it is | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
urging faster than anywhere else as a major economic, industrial, | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
commercial powerhouse, so that is what has galvanised it. We've had | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
lots of comments on Twitter and Facebook, the vast majority against | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
the idea. Just a flavour of the comments, ridiculous, pretentious, | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
leave the Black Country alone, not in a million years. Although Alison | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
Palmer wrote on Facebook in favour of the idea saying, why not? If | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Manchester can have it, why not Birmingham? Clearly, this isn't | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
going to be an easy idea to sell, is it, Patrick? I think that is | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
absolutely understandable, especially in the Black Country To | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
be fair to Andy Street, he's not talking about a land grab, not | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
talking about integration, lore collaboration between local | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
authorities. It is an idea that has been picked up by a leading local | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
blogger who described it as a softer rebranding exercise, and th`t idea | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
has won the backing of two senior MPs. I think it should be Greater | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
Birmingham and Solihull, Solihull is the engine room of the economy, and | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
you would expect me to say that We can still have the identitids for | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
Solihull and elsewhere, and interestingly, that is why | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
devolution inside Birminghal is important. I say that as a | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Birmingham MP. What are the prospects of anything coming of | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
this? We're not going to sed a transformation overnight, btt there | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
is growing pressure for a broad look again at the structures of local. In | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
Warwickshire, they are wonddring whether they should go for ` | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
unitary, single tier system, as in Shropshire or Herefordshire. So why | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
not go the other way in Birlingham with a big strategic authorhty at | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
the top and the smaller authorities clustered beneath it looking after | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
more personal services. Patrick will be back with more on | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
this in the Sunday Politics from 11 o'clock on Sunday morning your fonts | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
on BBC One. Medical staff in Shropshire have | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
come up with new plans of how they'd like to see health care reorganised | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
in the county affecting hospitals in Telford and Shrewsbury. One idea is | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
to have just one accident and emergency unit based at a ndw | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
hospital. Other urgent, but non`life`threatening cases would be | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
dealt with at a number of slaller care centres across the county. | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
People living in a Worcestershire village which was badly hit by the | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
recent flooding have met officials from the Environment Agency. Dozens | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
of people packed into the vhllage hall at Severn Stoke with m`ny | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
joining calls for flood defdnces. The hall was among several | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
properties flooded last month. The local MP is to meet landowndrs to | :14:24. | :14:32. | |
discuss flood defences. It is 6:43. Our top story tonight: | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
Beating the bulge, schools tackle the growing problem of obeshty by | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
teaching youngsters the valte of exercise. Your detailed weather | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
forecast to come shortly from Rebecca. Also in tonight's | :14:42. | :14:43. | |
programme, how scientists in Coventry will be leading thd search | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
to find planets that could sustain life. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
It seems like a dream, it sdems like Star Trek, but this is real now And | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
everything is turning Irish as Birmingham prepares for the Saint | :14:58. | :14:58. | |
Patrick Stade parade. A farm school set up by the Cadbury | :14:59. | :15:12. | |
family 40 years ago is facing an uncertain future as Birmingham City | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
Council tries to find hundrdds of millions of pounds in savings. Over | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
the years, outdoor classes have been enjoyed by four hundred thotsand | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
inner city children, some of whom wouldn't otherwise get the | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
opportunity to experience rtral life. Joanne Writtle reports. | :15:24. | :15:34. | |
Mount Pleasant School Farm hn Forhill is ten miles from Bhrmingham | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
but a world away from normal lessons for young visitors from Perry | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
Beeches Junior School. We'vd got chicks at school, but we've never | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
seen a chicken, like a hen. Chicken have no teeth, and they lay eggs | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
and... They just walk around and peck. But this outdoor class run by | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
a charitable trust is under threat. The teacher's paid for by the | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
council, and that could end. Birmingham City Council is reviewing | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
its entire outdoor`learning service as it saves more than ?800 lillion | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
over four years. It says outdoor learning is running at a loss of ?1 | :16:14. | :16:26. | |
million a year. The service also includes residential centres further | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
afield, which the council s`ys are used only 55% of the time. The | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
school's on a farm owned by the Bournville Village Trust. It was set | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
up by a member of the Cadbury family. The council's suggestion of | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
perhaps looking to the priv`te sector in future hasn't gond down | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
well. The private sector wotld not be providing the quality of teaching | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
that we have here. This is ` fully qualified teacher. It's not a | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
fun`fun day out, this is a hands`on to learn about food and farling | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
That's not the only thing they learn. Weighing and counting eggs is | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
maths, and science and geography are built in too. The farm schoolteacher | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
whose job is in question wasn't allowed to talk to us, but the | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
children were. I don't want it to close down, because it's a fun | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
place. It's a good farm, and it s just sad. | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
The City Council says its priority is essential services, like | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
protecting vulnerable children, but the youngsters here today w`nt | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
councillors to think carefully. Joane Writtle, BBC Midlands Today, | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
Forhill. The University of Warwick is leading | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
?1 billion search for planets outside our solar system. Scientists | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
there are designing a space telescope called Plato that will be | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
sent into orbit and which whll scan the sky looking for earth`lhke | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
planets that could even be home to alien life. Here's our science | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
correspondent, David Gregorx`Kumar. The search for exoplanets, planets | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
orbiting other stars in our galaxy, is one of the most exciting areas of | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
modern astronomy, and the ndxt leap forward in that search will be led | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
by the Midlands. So we're looking for planets that orbit stars | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy. The main thing that this mission is | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
designed to do specifically is to look for planets in the habhtable | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
zone of the star. So that's the region where water could exhst as a | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
liquid on the surface of thd planet. There are already some spacd`based | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
planet`hunting telescopes ott there. This is Kepler, a NASA misshon which | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
works by looking at distant stars and watching for the drop in | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
brightness as a planet, herd it comes, moves in front of thd star. | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
But there are some problems with Kepler. It's currently brokdn, it | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
can only look at small porthons of the sky, and it can only re`lly look | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
at dim stars. Plato, on the other hand, although it uses the same | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
technique, can look at much larger areas of the sky, and it can also | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
look at much brighter stars. And what all that means for resdarchers | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
is they can learn much more about the planets, they should be able to | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
find more of them. They shotld be able to learn things like the | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
planet's mass and even studx things like its atmosphere. | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
If you've found an atmosphere that's oxygen rich, well, that could be a | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
sign of life. If there wasn't life on the earth, | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
the amount of O2 in the atmosphere would rapidly decay. It's only the | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
life here that keeps it there, so in that sense it's a marker for life. | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
We can't guarantee things would work the same on other planets, so it's | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
risky to say that if you've found O2, you've certainly found life But | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
beyond that it's certainly `n indication. | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
So it seems like a dream, it seems like Star Trek, but this is real | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
now. And by the end of the next decade we'll start to do th`t search | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
in a very directed way. We won't just be blindly looking arotnd the | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
universe, we will be looking at specific objects that we know have | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
earthlike planets. Now starts ten years of hard work | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
before launch in 2024, and then if all goes well, we can start to | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
search for planets like ours and even look for signs of alien life. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
David Gregory`Kumar, BBC Midlands today, at the University of Warwick. | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
So still a long wait! In football, the West Bromwich Albion striker | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
Nicolas Anelka says he's terminated his contract with the club. Anelka | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
tweeted that he couldn't accept the conditions Albion had imposdd for | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
his reintegration into the team Meanwhile, the head coach, Pepe Mel, | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
has thanked the fans for backing him despite his difficult start at the | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
Hawthorns. The club has yet to win since he took over. Nick Clhtheroe | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
reports. As the Hawthorns basked in the sun | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
today, there was a real Spanish feel about the place, but for how much | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
longer? Because just two months after the man from Madrid w`s | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
appointed, he's under massive pressure. | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
TRANSLATION: This pressure hs totally normal when a head coach is | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
not achieving results. But the most important thing is the playdrs, and | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
I can see that their confiddnce is really high. | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
Some thought last week's defeat by Manchester United might be his final | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
game, but Mel survived. Now they're saying the same about tomorrow's | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
trip to Swansea. There's little appetite among the | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
fans for a change, though. H don't think he's done anything wrong, he | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
deserves until the end of the season, and I really hope hd manages | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
it. Given him the time, I think he could turn out to be a good manager | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
for us. It's not going to m`ke no difference to this season, hs it? So | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
may as well keep him to the end of the season. Many will demonstrate | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
that support by flying the Spanish flag in the away end at the Liberty | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
Stadium. What I'd really like to strdss is | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
the fact that I'm extremely indebted to the supporters of West Bromwich | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
Albion. Perhaps this isn't the best game because Swansea have ehght | :21:33. | :21:33. | |
Spanish players! There's no guarantee sacking Mel | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
would work. In the last fivd seasons, 11 clubs in relegation | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
trouble have dismissed their managers. At least one of them has | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
gone down each season. And only four of the 11 improved their le`gue | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
position. The club are advertising a curry`and`pint night with Pdpe Mel | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
in 12 days' time, but the bhg question is, will he still be here | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
then? Nick Clitheroe, BBC Midlands Today, | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
at the Hawthorns. This Sund`y 100,000 people are expected to | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
descend on Birmingham for the annual St Patrick's Day parade. Thd event | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
has been running continuously since 1966 and is the third biggest St | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Patrick's Day parade in the world. Only Dublin and New York ard bigger. | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
Ben Sidwell's in Birmingham's Irish Quarter. I'm guessing preparations | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
are well under way, Ben. Yeah, well me welcome to thd Spotted | :22:28. | :22:36. | |
Dog, this is HQ, preparations are going well, we have got the band, a | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
pint of the black stuff, and even the flowers have been paintdd the | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
right colour. But it's not just here they are preparing, at a Catholic | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
school in Sutton Coldfield `ll week they have been making costules and | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
working on music and movies and even getting ready, 50 pupils in the end | :22:54. | :23:02. | |
will lead the parade on Sunday. We are playing the Irish paradd on the | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
float, and they will be dancing It is hard work but lots of fun with | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
your friends. I will be a bht nervous, but I'm sure I'll get | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
through it! With me is the festival organiser, how are those | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
preparations going? What can we expect? They are going very well, | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
thank you, it is Irish myths and legends, Howard theme for this year, | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
schools, businesses and the community are all involved. Why is | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
the festival so big here? The third biggest in the world? Why | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
Birmingham? We have a very vibrant Irish community, all sections of our | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
heritage and culture are covered, and we invite everyone else to come | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
and join us to celebrate. Is it s difficult to organise? It h`s its | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
challenges, but lots of people are doing lots of different things, and | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
we start straight after the parade to plan for next year. And ht is a | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
community event. Always has been, and the community will turn up on | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
the day and enjoy it. It will be great. And I will tell you what if | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
you have never been before, the parade starts at 12 o'clock on | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
Sunday, and to be honest, this area of Birmingham becomes a little part | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
of Ireland for the whole on Sunday afternoon with plenty of music like | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
this. I bet it does! Well, they'll be | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
hoping for good weather, and I reckon there'll be smiles all round | :24:36. | :24:36. | |
if we see a repeat of last The weekend as a whole doesn't look | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
too bad at all. Now, Saturd`y is looking like the better of the two | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
days, which I'm sure organisers of the parade don't want to he`r, but | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
Sunday doesn't look too bad at all. It is going to be cloudier, but | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
temperatures are still abovd average for the time of year, and wd will | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
get breaks in the cloud, thd sun coming out at times. For thd rest of | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
the weekend, continuing with that pattern, sunny spells to end the | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
day, we made it up to 17 in Hereford today, temperatures well above | :25:13. | :25:14. | |
average for the time of year, and that continues as we head through | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
the next few days. Tonight we have ended with quite a bit of cloud over | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
the top of us, a breeze as well Over the North Midlands tonhght a | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
few spots of rain here and there, but with the cloud, to Bridges will | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
not fall away too far and wd should manage to keep any fog and list that | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
they are. We have a cloudy start on Saturday, not long before wd start | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
to see the wind blowing through and we will get some breaks in that as | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
the sunburns flew as well. Saturday is looking like a nice day, | :25:47. | :25:55. | |
temperatures up to 15 Celsits. You will notice the breeze as wd move | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
through the day tomorrow. Whth that wind it will help to keep a frost at | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
bay and keep those temperattres up a little bit, so a ballot mild nights | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
to come as we head into Sunday, temperatures between six and seven | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
Celsius. `` so a relatively mild night to come. We will get some | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
spells of brightness, the whnd is quite breezy, temperatures getting | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
up to 15 Celsius. By the tile we get to Monday, this area of high | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
pressure is slowly starting to slip away. We will keep good conditions | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
through Monday, but by the dnd of Tuesday we are back to wet `nd windy | :26:41. | :26:42. | |
conditions, Shefali. What a shame! Tonight's headlines | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
from the BBCL Hailed as a political giant and the voice of the radical | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
left, tributes to the the former Labour Cabinet minister Tonx Benn, | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
who's died aged 88. It's emdrged the Tory peer whose helicopter crashed | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
last night killing him and three others had complained of safety | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
defects. Exercise classes in junior school to | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
fight the flab with child obesity on the increase. | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
And a thrilling finish sees outsider Lord Windermere take this ydar's | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
Cheltenham Gold Cup. That was the Midlands Today. I'll be | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
back at ten o'clock with an update on the day's news. Have a great | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
evening. We'll leave you with a look back at this week's Cheltenham | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
Festival, one of the great sporting events of the year. | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
Lord Windermere battling it out Lord Windermere has lifted the Gold | :27:26. | :27:38. | |
Cup! | :27:39. | :27:41. |