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Good evening. West Midlands One it's time for | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Good evening. West Midlands candidates contesting Thursday's | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
European elections have clashed over the prospect of a referendum on | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
membership of the EU. The Prime Minister is promising to give the | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
public a say in 2017 if the Conservatives win the next General | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
Election. But voters in the Midlands are seeing a major split between | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
parties over whether Britain should be in or out of Europe. Ben Godfrey | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
reports. Every five years, voters in the West Midlands get a say in what | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
happens here ` Brussels, the home of the European Parliament. The | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
campaign leaflets have been sent out and in seven days, seven MEPs will | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
be elected to represent our diverse region. On the BBC Sunday Politics | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
programme, candidates from the four main parties joined a special live | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
debate and focused on one thorny issue: a referendum on EU | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
membership. The Lib Dems and Labour peers are locked a referendum just | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
recently. So it is clear that we cannot have a Conservative | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Government. Let us negotiate, that is get the best deal possible and | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
UKIP wants the UK to leave the EU as soon as possible. Then have a | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
referendum. We have clout with the people. They know we are the party | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
and we have tapped a fair amount of people in the European Parliament to | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
make them listen. But the Liberal Democrats say EU membership is good | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
for business. Our view is that outside the EU we will not have full | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
access to the single market and it will cost us jobs. Labour has said | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
an EU referendum is unlikely if the party wins the next general | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
election. It is not a clear, clarion call that the other parties can | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
offer. If we see more transfer of powers, that is when we will have a | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
referendum. It is not in the interest of others, here in the West | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
Midlands, to have a referendum right now. Eleven parties are vying for | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
your vote on Thursday. The results will be declared in Birmingham on | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Sunday after polls across the EU have closed. Ben Godfrey, BBC | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
Midlands Today. Prayers have been said at churches in Staffordshire | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
for the teenager Stephen Sutton who died on Wednesday.The 19`year`old | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
became famous around the world for the positive attitude he displayed | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
after finding out he had terminal cancer. Tonight, the fundraising | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
page he set up in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust is on the brink of | :02:31. | :02:39. | |
reaching the ?4 million mark. It currently stands at 3.9 million. | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Meanwhile, hundreds have turned out for a charity football match | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
organised in memory of Birmingham youngster Harry Moseley. | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
Eleven`year`old Harry made bracelets after falling ill and raised almost | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
?1 million for Cancer Research before his death from a brain tumour | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
in 2011. His legacy, the charity Help Harry Help Others, has | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
continued fundraising and organised this afternoon's celebrity match at | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
St Andrews. Families who've lost children because they were born with | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
only half a heart have gathered for the unveiling of a memorial at the | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. The dedication was | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
organised by the Birmingham`based charity Little Hearts Matter, which | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
is marking its 20th anniversary. Liz Copper has this report. A brass band | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
accompanied the ceremony as bereaved families gathered to remember their | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
children. Among the musicians, Peter Groves, who lost his daughter | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
Stephanie 20 years ago. They are always with us, but having a | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
permanent place that has a national recognition. We had children that | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
were here and deserve to be remembered. There were prayers and | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
poems, and this contribution from Sophie Williamson from Nuneaton. We | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
never met them, but we know them. We cannot see them, but we feel them. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
When we are sad we talk to them and have a heart full of love for them. | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Her reading was in memory of her brother, Jacob, and sister, Megan, | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
who she never met. It was a poignant ceremony ` a chance to share | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
memories and gain comfort from other families whose children suffered | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
from this rare heart condition. So what did today's ceremony mean? | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
Everything. We are able to say their names out loud, because people do | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
not say their names when they are gone. We are able to remember them. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
We are able to come together as a unit and we are all bereaved | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
families and we are all together in this. It is really important. It | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
gives them that voice, that we were here. And we were helped in going | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
forward. There were special children. This is the only national | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
charity dedicated to providing support for those affected when a | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
child is diagnosed as having half a heart. But the hope is this will | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
become a place of quiet reflection and solace. Liz Copper, BBC Midlands | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
Today at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. I'm sure | :04:52. | :05:01. | |
you'll agree we've had some superb weather ` but for how much longer? | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
Kaye Forster has the forecast. Good evening. | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
We have had some glorious weather through the weekend and it's not | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
over yet. If you have the day off tomorrow, there is more of the same | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
to come. Lots of lovely warm sunshine, and, again, the | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
temperatures will be soaring. And for the rest of the day we stay dry. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
The clouds will increase later in the night and we will see cloudier | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
skies towards morning time, but we are staying really quite mild, with | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
lows of around 11 or 12 Celsius. Tomorrow morning, a little bit more | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
in the way of cloud, but equally, some decent sunshine breaking | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
through as we head on into the afternoon. That will allow the | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
temperatures to soar once again up to around 23 Celsius. A bit more | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
unsettled from Tuesday onwards and cooling down slowly towards the end | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
of the week. That's all from us. I'll be back with our late news at | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
10.20pm tonight. And tomorrow on Midlands Today, we'll have a special | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
report on the Midlands' entrants in this year's Chelsea Flower Show. | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
Have a good evening. Bye bye. St James Park and Sheffield both hit | :05:56. | :06:12. | |
25 Celsius this afternoon. That gives us our warmest day in nearly | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
nine months, since 5th September 2013. It goes without saying that it | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
is going to be a warm night. Look out for some showers clipping into | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
eastern Scotland. Some of those could be heavy. Still some patchy | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
rain for western Scotland. More persistent | :06:31. | :06:31. |