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News at 6.00pm. For this evening, it's goodbye are from me, on | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to a special edition | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
of Midlands Today, on BBC one and the BBC News Channel ` coming | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
A vigil for Stephen Sutton, the teenager from Staffordshire who | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
raised millions for charity as he fought cancer. | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
He was an extraordinary young man who has had a great impact on | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
And hometown pride ` a sea of yellow as Stephen's friends in | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
Yellow is one of the brightest colours you will get. He liked it so | :00:39. | :00:51. | |
why not? Everywhere you go you will see some were yellow and it will | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
remind you of Stephen. Good evening from Lichfield | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
Cathedral as friends and family gather to say a final goodbye to | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
Stephen Sutton, the inspirational teenager from Staffordshire who | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
raised millions of pounds for Within the next 20 minutes, | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Stephen's body is due to arrive The coffin will be moved inside | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
at seven o'clock for a short service Stephen's mother, Jane, | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
wants the next 24 hours to be a colourful celebration | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
of her son's remarkable young life. And that's a message that's clearly | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
been embraced in Stephen's home town of Burntwood, | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
just four miles from here. Giles Latcham is there for us this | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
evening at Stephen's old school. Giles, a lot | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
of fond memories there tonight. It is half term here at Chase | :01:48. | :02:06. | |
Terrace Technology College. You will have been dropping off donations. We | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
are hearing amazing news that the total sum raised for Teenage Charity | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
Trust is ?4 million. Other people have come to put down flowers and | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
visit the memorial garden. It is a always have the best way to help | :02:24. | :04:43. | |
myself is to help others. One of Burntwood's keenest cyclist is going | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
the extra mile. Cyclists are to take to the road this weekend with yellow | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
ribbons on their handlebars. He came out of the local health service and | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
smiled at me and that inspired me. Britons won't last forever but | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
people here are determined to remember with pride, Stephen Sutton, | :05:06. | :05:25. | |
one of the on. He said it wasn't about how you lived but what you | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
achieved. People here are inspired by those remarks. In their streets | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
here, his life will be long remembered and celebrated. Because | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
of his illness... I'm joined now by Emma Scholes, | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
who was Stephen's head of year during his time at | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
Chase Terrace Technology College. What are your memories of Stephen? I | :05:55. | :06:15. | |
have many memories of him. The only time I ever saw him at first was to | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
say well done. He was involved in a lot of the celebrations for | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
achievements that we did. Towards the end of year ten when he started | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
to become poorly then we started to work more closely with them to | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
support the best way we could as a school. He was 15 when he was first | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
diagnosed. How did you cope? He just said to stop he got on with it. He | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
was having chemotherapy every fortnight and the only time he had | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
off school was the days when he was hooked up to the drip. In fairness, | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
if we had allowed him to bring it into school he probably would have. | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Is it accurate to say he was inspirational? The first three words | :07:07. | :07:16. | |
in his record of achievement were awesome, amazing and inspiring. Not | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
many people could get away with that but he could. Those words are | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
reflected by the number of people turning up already. This vigil will | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
continue until tomorrow afternoon. Hazard taking you by surprise, the | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
scale? I don't think by surprise but it seems surreal. One of his friends | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
said to me a few weeks ago, in one breath they talk about the Royal | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
family and in the next they are talking about Stephen. He was just | :07:52. | :08:01. | |
one of our class of 2011. What kind of support have you been able to | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
offer, or the skill, for former pupils and current pupils? There is | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
the memory wall that students have been putting messages on. From the | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
time when he was first taken into hospital, we have had fantastic | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
support from the local hospice, and crews have been in schools, and | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
Teenage Charity Trust have offered their services. And he raised a | :08:32. | :08:49. | |
phenomenal amount of money. We will get back to that as quickly | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
as we can. Stephen created headlines around | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
the world with his fundraising His original aim was ?10,000, then | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
when his condition deteriorated, he The donations continued to grow | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
at an incredible pace. Money was sent | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
from nearly 100 different countries and the fundraising target is now | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
over ?4 million. Bob Hockenhull reflects | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
on a short but remarkable life. Stephen Sutton didn't view | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
his cancer as a death sentence. It was instead an opportunity | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
to live life to the full. It was a huge kick up | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
the backside that gave me a lot But his positivity extended way | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
beyond enjoying himself in Ibiza. Stephen's fundraising campaign | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
means the Teenage Cancer Trust Today the charity spoke | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
for the first time since his death. To have raised ?4 million is | :09:32. | :09:41. | |
an extraordinary amount of money and nobody has ever done | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
that in our 24 year history. However, | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
as important as the money is the awareness that Stephen has raised | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
the fact that people get cancer. `` young people. He has shone a | :09:51. | :10:07. | |
light on that and was able to so and simply articulate what the use | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
are for a young person with cancer, doing it with great humility, | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
courage and above all humour. Stephen told Midlands Today he had | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
no hesitation in inviting the world I'm proud of the feeling I get just | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
by raising all this money and in a way actually it's a thank you | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
to Teenage Charity Trust because in a way actually it's a thank you | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
to Teenage Cancer Trust because they supported me when I needed it | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
and without them I wouldn't be here Always modest | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
about his own achievements. But his friends said he would have | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
been smiling inside as donations On the outside, | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
he doesn't tend to let it show On the inside, I think he'll be very | :10:44. | :10:55. | |
excited and just really happy that his positivity and the message he | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
wants to send to people of making the most of the time you | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
have is getting as far as possible. Stephen's fundraising activities | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
had him reaching for the skies. His bucket list also included | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
playing the drums in front Stephen's fundraising activities | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
had him reaching for the skies. His bucket list also included | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
playing the drums in front But as his mum recalled he never | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
turned his back He used to make sure that he missed | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
as little school as possible. For example, when he was first | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
in Birmingham Children's Hospital, he was taking his GCSEs. He'd | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
be in hospital, and not coming home sometimes quite late. On a Wednesday | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
evening and he had had chemotherapy for three days | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
but he would get up for school. No longer here, but his | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
life`affirming message lives on. I don't really want to die but if | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
my story teaches others not to take Amy Cole is with some of the people | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
touched by Stephen's story who are Within the last hour, the crowd has | :11:51. | :12:18. | |
really started to build and they're stretching right around the corner. | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
People touched by his story and inspired by his relentless optimism. | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
Let's speak to able now. You are here wearing yellow. How did he | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
inspire you? I thought he was an amazing young man and he showed what | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
young people can actually do when they put their minds to it. He has | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
done a lot of good. Did you meet him personally? On a professional level, | :12:45. | :12:54. | |
last July. He was amazed that somebody as far out as Walsall | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
recognised him and he knew who he was back then. You gave money and | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
you physically came here with your family. Why is it so special? | :13:04. | :13:12. | |
Nathaniel goes to the same school. I thought he was inspirational and I | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
want to show my respect. You are here as well. Why is it so important | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
for you? I just followed his story. I didn't meet him but he is an | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
amazing young man that has brought the country and the local community | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
together for such a good cause. Stephen talked about people | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
measuring their life not in terms of time but achievement stop what has | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
he achieved? Huge amounts. He has made people think about how they | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
should enjoy every minute of their lives. You have also come here. He | :13:54. | :14:03. | |
is an remarkably brave young man. He has done everything he could to help | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
children in hospitals with the same. His optimism was so | :14:09. | :14:18. | |
incredible. Yes, amazing. I don't know how he was so brave. His family | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
must be getting some comfort now. You are quite cheerful. Yes. `` | :14:27. | :14:46. | |
upset. People will pay their respects and sign the book of | :14:47. | :14:47. | |
condolence. In a moment I'll be joined by the | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
Bishop of Lichfield, who has helped And this is what they have put in | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
place and how you can be involved. And this is what they have put in | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
place and how you can be involved. The vigil for Stephen starts tonight | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
at seven o'clock and the cathedral People who want to pay their | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
respects tomorrow at the cathedral And the Teenage Cancer Trust are | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
planning a moment of celebration They are hoping people touched by | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
Stephen's story will give a thumbs up for Stephen at this time and then | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
post their photos on Twitter using I'm joined now by Rt Rev Jonathan | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
Gledhill, Bishop of Lichfield. This is an extraordinary event. It | :15:25. | :15:44. | |
is. And welcome to the cathedral. It seems it is just the right kind of | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
place for an event like this. How did this vigil, bought? ``, bought? | :15:50. | :16:05. | |
The idea came to the Dean and colleagues of mine who organise and | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
run the cathedral and I think they came up with the idea that we might | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
do something here that would be what the family wants and express some of | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
their feelings felt around the world and especially in this corner of | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
Staffordshire. This scale of memorial event is usually something | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
preserved for someone who has been in public office for many years. I | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
couldn't help but think of Princess Diana and the kind of emotion which | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
surrounded her death. This is different of course but there is a | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
touch of that. Mixed emotions here this evening. Yes, people who are | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
crying and people who are giving the thumbs up. There is an area of | :16:53. | :17:01. | |
celebration about this vigil. The family said they wanted that. | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
Stephen said he wanted to put the fun back into funeral. How difficult | :17:07. | :17:15. | |
is it to get the town right and reflect the emotions of everybody? | :17:16. | :17:24. | |
You will need to tell us afterwards. All funerals have a mix of sorrow | :17:25. | :17:35. | |
and Thanksgiving. Of course all of us know it is going to be our turn | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
one day and will we be proud of our lives in the way that he could be? | :17:41. | :17:52. | |
Grief is a personal thing. To some people, this public show of emotion | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
might seem strange. I hope they would go along with the wishes of | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
everybody here. We are not here for ourselves but to mourn and celebrate | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
and show solidarity with the family. So many words have been used to | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
describe him over the last few weeks. How would you sum up his | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
contribution? Inspiration. Often we feel lost in an fuelling world and | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
you will at what the inspired us to do. It shows that many others can `` | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
any of us can achieve more than we thought. | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
During the programme we have heard a lot about Stephen's positive | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
attitude, which inspired so many to join in the fundraising. | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
Through his blog, Stephen shared his experience of living with | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
cancer but, as he wrote, everyone's cancer journey is different. | :18:47. | :18:55. | |
Joanne Writtle has been to meet 15`year`old Mohini Samani, | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
a Black Country teenager who has beaten leukaemia. | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
It's really hard to get your head around but I chose to grow up | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
because I wanted to take control of my life. | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
Mohini Samani was just nine when she was diagnosed with acute | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
Two and a half years in theatre pretty much every week. | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
Drips, lines, tablets, it wasn't nice but it just becomes your life. | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
Shockingly it just becomes so normal. | :19:25. | :19:33. | |
Despite missing chunks of schooling, Mohini is now in the middle of | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
taking ten GCSEs, spending half`term studying at home in Smethwick. | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
I didn't want it to restrict me so I put the work in | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
like anybody else would. I spend my life working. | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
Mohini helps the cancer charity which helped her, | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
cutting her hair off after it had grown back to raise ?1,000. | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
At CLIC Sargent events she met celebrities like Eddie Jordan | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
The charity provided her with a worker to confide in. | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
All of a sudden it's like you're on this little island | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
and nobody else understands what's happening. Your friends don't know | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
what to say and often your family members don't know what to say. To | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
have somebody they're willing to sit and listen makes the world of | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
Stephen Sutton's story has touched Mohini. | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
I think I can empathise with him and and I admire him for | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
According to CLIC Sargent, ten children and young people in the UK | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
But survival rates are good ` eight out of ten will expect to beat | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
The charity estimates there are 10,000 survivors of childhood cancer | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
Cancer is something he will never understand until you experience it | :20:49. | :21:04. | |
and I don't want anybody to have to do that. But people do and if I can | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
make their journey just a little easier because I understand then I | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
will make it easier for them as much as I can. She still has regular | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
checkups. I am in remission but there is never a second day. It | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
could come back tomorrow. I have accepted it. My life will never be | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
normal or easy but it is my life and I wouldn't really have it any other | :21:32. | :21:32. | |
way. A big part | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
of Stephen's motivation was a bucket list of what he called 46 weird | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
and wonderful things I want to do. He completed many of them including | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
skydiving, writing a book and drumming in front of a huge crowd, | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
which he did very impressively. He also wanted to set a world | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
record, which he also achieved. He became a celebrity around the | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
world, but for many of those who gathered in the grounds of his old | :21:53. | :22:02. | |
school in Burntwood a few weeks ago, Hello, everyone. I'll keep it short | :22:03. | :22:21. | |
and sweet. Thanks for coming. It's good to be here. | :22:22. | :22:22. | |
Hundreds turned up to help Stephen become a world record holder. | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
It was to be the 34th and final item he managed to tick | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
People want to come together and support him because he is one in a | :22:30. | :22:41. | |
That afternoon was a moment nobody dreamt would ever happen. | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Less than a fortnight before Stephen had posted a final goodbye message | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
So to have him there meant the world to his mates. | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
It is such a great feeling to think that two weeks ago he had been taken | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
to hospital and we thought we would have to be here ourselves. The now | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
he has been part of his own record is amazing. Incredibly positive. | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
More than anyone I've ever met. Look what he has achieved. Who else has | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
In his 19 years Stephen Sutton achieved more than many | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
He was an inspiration to millions, a role model to look up to | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
and with the help of his friends, a world record holder. | :23:29. | :23:37. | |
In a few minutes Stephen's coffin will be moved inside | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
the cathedral where a short service will mark the start of the vigil. | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
It is just coming in now. Let's take a moment to reflect on the reaction | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
as his body arrives. In a few moments, his coffin will be | :23:56. | :24:26. | |
taken inside the cathedral. A short sermon he will take place. Coverage | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
will continue on the BBC News Channel. I'll be back after the | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
weather forecast. We have had reports of fairly | :24:39. | :24:51. | |
prolific showers in the region. The south`west has seen some of the | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
worst. This warning is in place until nine tonight of heavy | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
downpours. For a couple of days at least afterwards we have a respite | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
as high`pressure builds up from the West. The arrival of the next system | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
on Sunday appears to be coming sooner than expected. It could turn | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
out to be a more wet day than drive. Across this period, the temperatures | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
are looking more respectable for the time of year. These are the showers | :25:24. | :25:35. | |
affecting the region tonight. Affecting southern counties at the | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
moment. They will fade of the next few hours leaving us with a dry end | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
to the night. A combination of moisture and warmth means | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
temperatures dropping to a minimum of 10 Celsius and there could be | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
mist and fog patches in low`lying areas. Tomorrow is a daytime version | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
of the night. A lot of cloud. It all looks much more drive. Temperatures | :26:02. | :26:14. | |
will be fairly mild 15`17dC. For Saturday, marginally better with a | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
bit more brightness and slightly higher temperatures. In spite of the | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
cloud, temperatures in the high teens on Sunday. Hopefully it will | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
be a dry day but the system from the West could arrive sooner in which | :26:36. | :26:36. | |
case it could be right. `` more wet. We appear to have lost the seat. `` | :26:37. | :27:08. | |
live feed. We can go back now. It shows the mixture of styles | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
happening here. We have the bell toll in the background. The service | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
will begin. It is a fantastic atmosphere and I am so glad to be | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
here. A celebration of a remarkable young life. Thanks for your time | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
this evening. If you want to come to Lichfield Cathedral to join in the | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
celebration of Stephen's life it will be open until midnight tonight | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
and reopens from 7am to 7pm tomorrow. Stephen's mother said she | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
wanted | :27:48. | :27:49. |