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been told that Rolf Harris indecently assaulted one of his | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
daughter's It is business as usual. We get on | :00:00. | :00:24. | |
with the running of the football club. | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
We'll be asking if there are any potential bidders out there. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Also tonight, another major development in football. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
West Bromwich Albion have announced head coach Pepe Mel has left | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
the club after just four months at the Hawthorns. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Disappointing sales overseas for the Staffordshire digger maker JCB. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
But it's still recorded strong financial results. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
As long as our market show continues to grow, that is the key `` our | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
market share. A Radio Ham tribute | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
in his home city of Birmingham to the comedian Tony Hancock who would | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
have been 90 today. He was a very quiet man. I think he | :00:55. | :01:03. | |
was very concerned with getting it right. | :01:04. | :01:04. | |
And it looks as though we're perched on the brink | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
How good could it get? Find out in the forecast later. | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
Major developments today at two of our Premier League football | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
clubs, with Aston Villa put up for sale by their American owner and | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
West Bromwich Albion parting company with their Spanish head coach. | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
We're live at Villa Park and the Hawthorns this evening | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
And we start with Aston Villa. Nick Clitheroe's there for us. | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
Randy Lerner wanting out after almost eight years is not | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Several weeks ago he said he would make clear his future plans at the | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
end of the season. The only thing we are waiting to learn is whether he | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
had already agreed a deal to sell the club or he was putting it up for | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
sale. Today we found out which of those it was going to be. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
When Aston Villa's season finished with defeat at Tottenham yesterday, | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
it not only brought down the curtain on a miserable | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
campaign, but also it seems on Randy Lerner's ownership of Aston Villa. | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
The American owner put out a statement this morning full | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
of emotion, saying, I owe it to Villa to move on and look | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Now he's appointed the Bank of America Merrill Lynch to look | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
for a buyer, although there's no suggestion of an immediate deal. | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
The chairman has clarified his role. It is very much business as usual. | :02:32. | :02:41. | |
The chairman remains in place, as does the manager, obviously. We have | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
the season to prepare for. Lerner felt like a breath | :02:46. | :02:46. | |
of fresh air when he arrived He spent ?62.6 million | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
on buying the club from Doug Ellis. In total, | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
he's believed to have spent But after a series of top`six places | :02:55. | :02:55. | |
under Martin O'Neill, Villa have finished each of the last | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
three seasons in the bottom six. That's led many fans to welcome | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
his decision to sell up. It is what the club needs. Something | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
needs to change. I was at Tottenham yesterday. Discontent all of the way | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
through. It is the best thing. Great news. Take the club forward. Hope | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
for better things. If someone invests loads of money, it would be | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
great. But it could take a long time to sell it. | :03:31. | :03:31. | |
But Lerner has definitely left his mark on the club. | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
He may have reined back on his early transfer spending, but there were | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
also big improvements to parts of the ground and a groundbreaking move | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
to use Villa's shirts to promote the Acorns children's charity. | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
It is clear that Randy Lerner loves the club. He had the crest tattooed | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
on his ankle. Eight years of being in charge have taken their toll | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
though. He said that the last seasons have been week in week out | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
battles and he has clearly had enough of them. | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
Just over three miles away from Villa Park is the home of | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
West Bromwich Albion who this afternoon announced that head coach | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
Pepe Mel had left the club after only four months in charge. | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
Albion just avoided relegation from the Premier League | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
and chairman Jeremy Peace is under fire from some fans. | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
It was very short. Pepe Mel's rain began in January and now he is | :04:17. | :04:34. | |
heading home, despite having kept them in the Premier League. It was | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
obvious his poor command of English might be a problem. Likewise, his | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
desire to rapidly change their style of play. Rumours about his future | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
have been gathering momentum in recent weeks so it was no surprise | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
when the decision came earlier this afternoon. The head coach was | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
calling for clarity and just before 3pm the chairman delivered. They had | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
parted company by mutual consent and no one was the least surprised. At | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
Friday's press conference, Pepe Mel sounded like a man who knew his | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
future was elsewhere. If it is my last game, I have enjoyed it. If it | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
proves to be your final game, how will you look back on your time | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
here? TRANSLATION: I will look back on it very positively. I have learnt | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
a lot of things about how things are done differently and I have learned | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
more English. Smiling through adversity, his English may have got | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
better, but his team did not. A home defeat confirmed the inevitable | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
conclusion that Pepe Mel was not the right man to motivate a side that | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
had missed out on relegation by just three points. Pepe Mel's time at the | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
hawthorns will finish with defeat. The statement said it had been a | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
disappointing campaign and lessons have been learned. The search for a | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
new head coach has now begun. They aim to find a suitable candidate to | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
enable the club to be more competitive next season. This life | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
song supporter is disheartened. `` lifelong. He wants the chairman to | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
engage with the fans and has launched a campaign to come up with | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
a shared vision. This is not about getting rid of the chairman or the | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
board. It is a question of getting them to listen. I think some form of | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
forum for the fans or representation within the club would be extremely | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
helpful. It may be a longer term plan, but it would be lovely at some | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
stage in the future to have a representative of the fans on the | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
board. Four months ago, the club gambled on Pepe Mel. He delivered, | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
keeping them in the Premier League, but the confidence was not matched | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
by those who run the club. We have had plenty of comment. We | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
have. Plenty of comments on our Facebook page will stop a broadly | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
similar theme. The Albion fans seem to like Pepe Mel but they are | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
calling on the chairman to invest substantial amounts of financial | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
backing. On Facebook, someone said that the previous head coach should | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
not have been sacked. He says that Pepe Mel had met his target. Another | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
man said, you cannot blame him. His hands were tied. A shambles of a | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
season. Luke has sympathy for Pepe Mel. He is obviously a lovely guide | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
which just makes this mistreatment by the board seem even more... | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
Especially when you consider it along with the other issues the club | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
is suffering from. Another man says he will do well someone `` somewhere | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
else. Next season could be even harder than the one we have just | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
had. With me now is Dr Steve McCabe from Birmingham City University's | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
business school. What are your thoughts on Randy Lerner? Here is | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
sick of the losses. He has deep pockets, but it is not never`ending. | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
You get the impression he was out of love with the English game. I wonder | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
what he will do about the tattooed. The losses, there is an old adage in | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
football, you can make a small fortune as long as you start off | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
with a large fortune. There is talk of 200 million. It seems about | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
right. Whoever comes in will have to add in 100 million to bring in new | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
players over the summer. Coping with the ongoing losses, it is not a good | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
business to make money on. It is the money you need going forward. Every | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
football fan wants the club to succeed. In Champions' League, you | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
are up against the likes of Man City. They have billionaire owners. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
Are there any potential bidders? There is a question about a Texan | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
oil millionaire. Who knows. Birmingham City sort of up for sale, | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
West Bromwich Albion, they'll getting rid of their coach, and | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Coventry City in a mess. A turmoil in this region, horrendous. Pretty | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
poor show. Most other British cities have the glamour clubs. We do not | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
seem to have that. Can people ever make money out of football clubs? It | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
is hard to see given the amount of money you have to pay for the top | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
players. Randy Lerner selling Aston Villa, what will the timescale be? | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
You would want to have it done as soon as possible to be ready for the | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
next season. Thank you very much indeed. | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
Camera, lights, action ` the new feature film made in | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
Could it bring more production this way? | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
The Staffordshire digger`maker JCB says it's disappointed that business | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
opportunities linked to infrastructure projects at the | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
World Cup in Brazil have failed to materialise. | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
It comes as the company announces a 14% fall in annual profits. | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
It sold fewer machines overseas than expected last year. | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
But UK sales were up by 50% meaning it's still been one | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
of the most profitable years in its 68`year history. | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Dad Andy, mum Claire, mother`in`law Gwen, son Mike, | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
A family`run plant hire firm in Brereton in Staffordshire. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
They've just bought six new JCBs because local house builders are | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
A vast increase in enquiries, people saying they are fully booked for | :10:57. | :11:09. | |
months ahead. This demand has helped the | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
Staffordshire digger`maker achieve JCB moved fast in an effort | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
to conquer overseas markets. Factories were built in emerging | :11:14. | :11:26. | |
economies like India and Brazil, but it now appears that demand for | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
these machines is levelling off. The World Cup in Rio de | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
Janeiro is one case in point. The hosts have been scrambling to | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
get stadiums ready, Everyone expected a boost from the | :11:40. | :11:53. | |
World Cup. The stadiums have been built and they are ready, but the | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
surrounding infrastructure in terms of roads and hotels has not really | :11:58. | :12:09. | |
happened. JCB has 22 factories worldwide. 11 are in the UK. Later | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
this year, production will begin at this plant in India at a time when | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
demand in India is falling. India is going through the general election. | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
The build up to that over the last 12 months, there has been a | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
wait`and`see attitude from our customers. We are very optimistic | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
that when the new government comes to power, the market will grow | :12:37. | :12:51. | |
again. The expansion will cost the company ?150 million. | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
It's a sign of confidence, but overseas markets are volatile. | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
JCB are closely monitoring the ongoing political tensions with | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Ukraine and how it might impact upon sales. | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
It's a good job Britain's builders are back and busy. | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
A new campaign's been launched in Birmingham to encourage more | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
The city currently has nearly 300 children waiting to be fostered. | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Denise Slator used to be a lorry driver, | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
but for the last seven years, she's been fostering babies and toddlers. | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
She's one of 600 foster carers in Birmingham, but the city council | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
When they are offered steady, secure, loving homes, they often | :13:31. | :13:48. | |
blossom in that cares. It is that we support our foster carers to | :13:49. | :13:49. | |
provide. In ten days' time, voters will go to | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
the polls in European and local Five years ago, | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
the British National Party came close to winning a European seat | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
in this region with 9% of the vote. But since then, | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
the party's struggled, as BBC Radio Stoke's political | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
reporter Phil McCann explains. 2009 and 122,000 people | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
in the Midlands vote for the BNP The party was riding high with 16 | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
councillors in the Midlands, They won support partly by being | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
visible in communities, helping run bingo clubs like this one in | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
Abbey Hulton, which got them votes. What about immigration? Yes, good | :14:26. | :14:38. | |
point. I do not agree with all of these people coming in. | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
But over the last few years, things have been going wrong for the BNP. | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
It's had a cash crisis after losing a legal challenge to its all`white | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
membership policy and it's been beset by internal disagreements. | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
So, back at the bingo, does the BNP still have support today? | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
If they want to send them back, I am with them. British people should be | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
put first. Don't you think we have got enough in this country? | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
Now the British National Party has no councillors in Stoke`on`Trent | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
The BNP rose to power on the back of Labour Party supporting working | :15:09. | :15:24. | |
class vote. That has gone with the Conservative government in power. | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
UKIP have the benefit of those votes. | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
for racially`aggravated harassment after comments he made about black | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
But they're still out pounding the streets looking for votes. | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
Our view of mass immigration to Britain is that it is an illegal | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
process, it is illegal. It has never been sanctioned by the British | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
people and it is a project of social engineering, social change on a | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
national level, involving vast numbers of foreigners. It should | :15:57. | :15:57. | |
have been taken to the people. But people who sympathise with | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
the BNP's messages may now find lots of other anti`immigration | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
and anti`European parties to choose And Phil is in our Stoke studio | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
for us now. Do the issues that prompted people | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
to vote for the BNP five years ago still concern | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
voters in Stoke`on`Trent, Phil? Well, we saw there that there are | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
still a lot of people in Stoke`on`Trent and across the West | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
Midlands who are concerned about immigration. There are also a lot of | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
people who want the UK to leave the EU. The BNP's one of their main | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
policies is that they Europe and immigration. There have | :16:37. | :17:14. | |
been split in the BNP. Also, the Labour Party is thought to benefit | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
when the BNP is not doing so well because it picks up protest votes | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
against the current government instead. | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
Film making in the West Midlands is worth ?20 million to the region. | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
But can anything be done to bring yet more production here | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
Most film making still happens in London, | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
but six directors here have come together to make a feature`length | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
You get to a point when you realise business to the West Midlands. | :17:40. | :18:54. | |
You get to a point when you realise you are just as alive as anybody | :18:55. | :18:55. | |
It is interesting to see how these else. | :18:56. | :19:21. | |
It is interesting to see how these things work. I am a big film buff | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
myself. Checking In will premiere tonight | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
in Wolverhampton. This may be a low`budget feature, | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
but it has big ambitions Burton Albion boss Gary Rowett is | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
hopeful that they can hang onto their one`goal lead in the second | :19:31. | :19:40. | |
leg of the League Two play off. Adam McGurk scored the only goal of | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
the game just before half`time after The home side were reduced to ten | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
men after an hour when Ian Sharps was sent off | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
for a second bookable offence. Really pleased and relieved proud of | :19:53. | :20:07. | |
them. Disappointed with the sending`off. But we saw it out | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
pretty well. Shrewsbury have appointed | :20:12. | :20:12. | |
Micky Mellon as their new manager The former Fleetwood boss will be | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
assisted by previous manager And the Worcester Wolves | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
basketball team have become British They beat Newcastle 90`78 in the BBL | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
play`off final at Wembley Arena It's their second piece of | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
silverware this season, having won Today would have been the 90th | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
birthday of the Birmingham`born He was one of the biggest stars | :20:32. | :20:43. | |
in the country with his own show It started first on radio | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
and then transferred to television, with such classic episodes as | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
The Blood Donor and The Radio Ham. And it's The Radio Ham | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
which inspired a special celebration today outside the house where he was | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
born, as Ben Sidwell reports. For most people, it would be an odd | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
way to celebrate someone's birthday. But for the Coventry Amateur Radio | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
Society, there was nowhere better to be than on the drive of the | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
home where Tony Hancock was born. They are going to let me loose on | :21:22. | :21:30. | |
the airwaves. Let us see if we can make contact. This is GX two. Why | :21:31. | :21:45. | |
are you doing this? Indeed. A very good question. We remember the | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
sketch. What better way than a group of radio amateurs on the drive at | :21:53. | :21:53. | |
the birthplace of Tony Hancock. Just for today, | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
the society have been given a special call sign, GB8TH, for Tony | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
Hancock, of course, to communicate Alan Florence was one | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
of the sound engineers during Tony Hancock's audio recordings of | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
The Blood Donor and The Radio Ham. Unfortunately, on the recording, the | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
only time it broke down was Tony Hancock choking to death with | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
laughter so they had to stop the recording. | :22:26. | :22:26. | |
For some, this street in Hall Green in Birmingham was so special they | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
It was an added value. It made it for me, the fact I could live in the | :22:31. | :22:40. | |
road where Tony Hancock was born. How are you? Do me a favour. Go to | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
my mother pot asked her to make me a bread pudding. Which? my mother's | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
and ask her to make me a bread pudding. | :22:56. | :22:56. | |
And fittingly, rather than birthday cake, these | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
radio hams marked Tony Hancock's 90th with a piece of bread pudding. | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
Tell me it is going to pick up later in the week for the weather? | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
We have a pressure chart showing all of the showers breaking out and then | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
the pressure builds from the south`west from midweek onwards. | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
This will kill them off and bring back balance to the region and the | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
weather. The MS chart shows us how the temperatures will alter `` the | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
air mass chart. Temperatures up by three or 4 degrees. In summary, I | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
can say that things are picking up from midweek and as we approach | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
mid`May. Looking warmer by Wednesday. Currently in Birmingham | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
at least, we are looking at the sunshine breaking through nicely. | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
That is not the case everywhere. We are still seeing some fairly heavy | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
showers breaking out across some parts of the region before they | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
start to fade away in the early hours. Still a lot of cloud and | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
temperatures will be held up to around seven or 8 degrees. Not | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
particularly cold overnight. It will be dry and fairly sunny tomorrow. A | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
brief period of sunshine. Things will turn wet through the latter | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
part of the day. The showers will rumble in from the North stopped | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
they could be heavy at times with thunder as well. `` the latter part | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
of the day. The showers will rumble in from the North. Light to moderate | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
north`westerly winds. The high pressure starts to building from | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
tomorrow night and we see evidence of that in the showers beaten off | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
and then much drier conditions taking over. The cloud will be | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
breaking as well sufficiently to send temperatures low enough for | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
perhaps a touch of grass fast. Calder tomorrow. `` grass frost. | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
Calder tomorrow. Much drier for the second half of the week. Huge | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
strides towards warmer conditions. Tonight's headlines from the BBC: | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
Nigeria's missing schoolgirls. A video which appears to show more | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
than 100 of them is released And a dramatic day in the Premier | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
League as Aston Villa are put up for sale and West Bromwich Albion | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
part company with their head coach. Dominated by two of our Premier | :25:17. | :25:26. | |
League clubs. We cannot go without saying well done to Stoke City for | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
the highest ever finish. Terrific season. | :25:31. | :25:32. |