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There's more throughout the evening on the | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Good evening. There are calls for the government to intervene to | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
stimulate development on derelict brownfield land in city centres It | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
comes as more house builders try to put in plans for housing on rural | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
greenfield land instead. Thousands of terraced homes were meant to be | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
knocked down across Stoke`on`Trent under the National Pathfinddr | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Programme. In some parts of the city neighbourhoods have been rebuilt, | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
but in many others developers are yet to move in. People come down and | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
see it... They don't want to buy. They're an eyesore. It would make a | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
world of a difference. It would make the area nicer. More people would | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
want to live here. In 2003, leaders in North Staffordshire hoped their | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
renewal scheme would lead to the demolition of around 14,500 houses. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
But by the time the governmdnt scrapped the scheme three ydars ago, | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
less than 2,000 had actuallx been knocked down. They also hopdd 1 ,500 | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
would be rebuilt. By 2011, only a few hundred had been completed. | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
There is finally progress though. On this urban site, 140 homes `re being | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
built, but the council here admits developing brownfield land hs | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
difficult, so there are calls for the government to intervene. The | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
government needs to have a programme, above its afford`ble | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
programme, to get brownfield land cracking again. They need to get the | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
balance between brownfield `nd greenfield. A large part of the | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
problem is land like this in nearby Newcastle`under`Lyme. Locals are | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
against it, but developers want to build around 100 houses herd ` and | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
they find it easier thanks to a change in the law two years ago But | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
on this week's Sunday Polithcs in the Midlands, a former Environment | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
Secretary insisted the countryside can be protected and brownfheld land | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
can flourish. The advantage of a brownfield site is that the | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
infrastructure is already there and it's usually close to work. It's a | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
more sustainable solution. Despite the priorities of developers, the | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
government insists it current planning policies do prioritise | :02:14. | :02:25. | |
derelict urban areas. There has been a drowning at a | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
popular beauty spot in Reddhtch West Mercia Police say it h`ppened | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
around lunchtime, at Five Ttnnels, on a stretch of river to thd north | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
of the town. Onlookers described seeing two boys wrapped in towels | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
near the scene. A police spokeswoman said a youth was declared ddad | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
shortly afterwards. Detectives have launched a lurder | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
investigation after a woman was stabbed at a house in Redditch. The | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
21`year`old, who hasn't been named, died in hospital earlier thhs | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
morning. A 29`year`old man, who was arrested at the scene on Evdsham | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
Road yesterday, remains in police custody. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
The search is continuing for a baby who was taken by her mother during a | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
supervised visit to foster parents on Friday. Lola Page, who's 13 | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
months old, was being cared for by a foster family in Walsall whdn her | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
18`year`old mother Stacey B`ll visited her on Friday afternoon | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
Stacey was wearing a long black wig, as seen in this photograph, which | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
was taken just before they went missing. | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
St Patrick's Day revellers descended on Birmingham to enjoy celebrations | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
in the sun as the city stagdd its annual parade. The event is the | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
third largest in the world, topped only by Dublin and New York. Joanne | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
Writtle reports. A confetti canon heralded the start of the St | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
Patrick's Day celebrations, with the Birmingham Irish Pipes and Drums | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
leading the parade. Organisdrs immediately declared the dax a | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
success. It's a day when thd city turns green. All the other lajor | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
cities in England also go green with envy, because when we invitd | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
everyone ` regardless of colour creed and religion ` they come down | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
and enjoy this special day with us. Colour and fun were the orddr of the | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
day, with those who moved to Birmingham many years ago ott in | :04:09. | :04:20. | |
force. I came over in 1966. I like to support the Irish, espechally on | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
this day. It's a fantastic atmosphere here. There are tens of | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
thousands of people on the street. I love the parade. I've never missed | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
one. I'm excited because it's the first one I've ever been to. | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Everybody comes from differdnt places to celebrate! St Patrick s | :04:44. | :04:52. | |
Day is of course tomorrow. But by then, organisers say they'll already | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
be preparing for next year's parade. And the BBC's website has a feature | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
looking at Irish immigrant numbers in Birmingham. It asks whether they | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
are the force in the city that they once were? | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
One football result today. Hn League One, a 2`2 draw for Coventrx City | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
and Port Vale. Let's have a look at the we`ther | :05:13. | :05:24. | |
forecast for the week now. Here s Sara Blizzard. Good evening. It was | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
a real bonus today, holding on to those lovely clear skies for quite a | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
time. The cloud is going to increase further. Over Stoke`on`Trent it will | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
be thick enough to produce patchy rain or drizzle. Six Celsius the | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
temperature. Tomorrow starts off grey. Possibly more brightndss in | :05:42. | :05:51. | |
the afternoon. Daytime tempdrature of 14 Celsius. We'll see it become | :05:52. | :06:02. | |
windy through the week. Goodbye for now. | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
Good evening. Apologies for sounding Southeast centric, but it is | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
difficult when London had a high of 20 this afternoon, 68 Fahrenheit. | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Lovely sunshine across England, Wales and eastern Scotland. Some | :06:21. | :06:30. | |
cloud on west facing coasts, and they struggle to get into double | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
figures. More cloud in the week ahead. Brain from time to time and | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
not quite as warm as we have had in recent days. -- rain. There will be | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
cloud dragging across the country through the night. Showery rain | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
continuing in the north-west of Scotland. | :06:49. | :06:49. |