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has been hit by a missile in northern Gaza. That's all from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Success for Oldbury's Jodie Stimpson, as she takes the first | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
We'll be live at the Black Country club where it all started for | :00:10. | :00:25. | |
The family of a Worcestershire helicopter pilot who was killed | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
in the North Sea call for an independent review of the crash. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
I want to see proper road `` proper, regular checks, with | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
penalties, finds. A bus company says sorry | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
after a teenage dwarf is repeatedly told he's not allowed onboard with | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
his special bike. A hundred years on, the new BBC | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
radio drama from Birmingham charting And the mercury's been bubbling ` | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
temperatures were destined to hit the heights today, | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
but did we get there? She was overlooked for the Olympics | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
in London two years ago, but tonight Jodie Stimpson is the toast | :00:59. | :01:12. | |
of the Black Country after becoming England's first gold medallist | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
at the Commonwealth Games. The serious action had only been | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
under way for four hours in Glasgow when the 25`year`old triathlete | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
from Oldbury struck gold. And to complete a Midlands double, | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
Vicky Holland from Newent in A moment she'd spent | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
her life striving for. The anthem confirmed that | :01:30. | :01:44. | |
Jodie Stimpson is the Commonwealth This is like all year, and I have | :01:45. | :02:03. | |
got to thank so many people who got me through. | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
Jodie's 25, and this a gold medal a long time in the making. | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
She took up triathlon aged eight, and began competing aged nine. | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
She became a full`time athlete but funding was hard, and a building | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
Her main aim was to compete at London 2012. | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
But she was controversially omitted from the team, with the selectors | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
So today, she was determined to make it count. | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
Jodie was up with the pace through the swim, she | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
And after setting the tempo for the run, she kicked for home. | :02:43. | :02:57. | |
She dashed for glory, beating Canada's Kirsten Sweetland | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
into second with Vicky Holland from Newent in Gloucestershire | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
There are so many of my family here, which is awesome. | :03:02. | :03:18. | |
It's been an emotional day ` but one that Jodie Stimpson will | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
Well, Dan is in the Black Country for us where the next generation | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
of Jodies are in training ` I should imagine there's great | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
Wellcome to Oldbury, this is the club night for the swimming and | :03:29. | :03:41. | |
triathlon club junior section. Everyone I have spoken to, because | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
one of the owner has won gold. Jodie's family house is just through | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
the trees. Mark, you are the triathlon coach, how proud you of | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
her? It is great. Inspirational to the children and everyone in the | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
club. Encourages everyone when someone does so well. How quickly | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
did you realise she was a talent? The first time I saw her. But raw | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
talent takes you so far, it is determination and hard work that has | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
got her where she is. What does it into your club? It is | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
nice to say to the young children, some `` something to look up to. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
Especially because of the younger club children being into swimming, | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
and that was Jodie's weaker side when she was young. And she is | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
coming back and taking part in a race. A week on Sunday, there is a | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
celebration of the Commonwealth Games, and she is going to come and | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
take part. There is no cycling, and the distances are not too big. Half | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
the distance of what she did today, and a short distance, a 400 swim and | :05:06. | :05:15. | |
2.5 kilometre run. How many people get the chance to compete against | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
their heroes? That is in two weeks' time. | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
And we'll return to Dan later in the programme to find out how other | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
competitors from the region have been faring on Day One in Glasgow. | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
Good to have you with us here on Midlands Today. | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
Plenty more to come tonight, including: | :05:32. | :05:32. | |
Our beautiful countryside ` how our meadows are being | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
Major stories stay open late in Birmingham in preparation for Eid. | :05:35. | :05:47. | |
The family of a pilot from Worcestershire, | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
whose helicopter crashed into the North Sea five years ago, | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
have called for an independent review into the accident. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
24`year`old Richard Menzies from Droitwich was one of 16 men who | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
died when the Super Puma helicopter they were flying in crashed | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
In November 2011, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch found that the | :06:02. | :06:14. | |
aircraft suffered a "catastrophic failure" of its main rotor gearbox. | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
16 months later the Crown Office said the helicopter | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
operators wouldn't be prosecuted, because failings couldn't be proved | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
Last March, a fatal accident inquiry found the tragedy might | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
have been avoided if proper maintenance had been carried out. | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
Today the Worcestershire Coroner agreed with those findings. | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
It should have been a routine journey, but instead the Super Puma | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
helicopter plunged into the sea, leaving 16 families devastated. | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
Richard Menzies, who was co`piloting the aircraft, died instantly. | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
After today?s inquest, his father Andrew says the family?s | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
The coroner's powers are fairly limited what he can do given that | :06:58. | :07:11. | |
Richard's death was in Scotland. But Richard's father says he is | :07:12. | :07:30. | |
worried about the safety of the I am concerned on three levels, the | :07:31. | :07:43. | |
complacency of the operators, the lack of transparency, and inadequate | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
regulation. What would you like to see happen? I would like to see an | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
independent judge look at the evidence and satisfy the families | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
that the right decision was made. As a father, I miss him terribly. He | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
would probably be now a captain flying helicopters, probably wanting | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
to do their sea rescue which is what he wanted to specialise in. | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
The helicopter's operators, Bond Offshore, | :08:20. | :08:20. | |
have accepted they made mistakes and say lessons have been learned. | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
Richard's father hopes tighter regulations could help stop it | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
I say it out of a genuine concern, that Super Puma helicopters still | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
keep dropping out of the sky. For the first time, retailers | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
in Birmingham city centre are The Muslim holiday marks the end | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
of Ramadan, Tonight many stores will stay open | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
until ten o'clock, so people can break their fast | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
and shop ahead of Eid on Monday. Live now to Amy Cole who's | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
in Birmingham city centre ` It is just starting to pick up, | :08:58. | :09:14. | |
at 9pm. The big consumer drive got at 9pm. The big consumer drive got | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
under way and hour and a half ago, and some local businesses are | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
concerned that the city centre is now cashing in. | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
The city centre was already pretty packed this afternoon, but the | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
number of shoppers is expected to swell over the next few hours. | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
For the first time major stores are extending their opening hours so | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
that people can buy their goods in time for Eid celebrations on Monday. | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
Some retailers say they're already seeing an upsurge in trade. | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
We have seen our menswear business grow by almost 50% in the days and | :09:50. | :09:58. | |
weeks coming up to Eid. So we know there is a huge appetite for our | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
products and services at this special time. | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
Also noticing the demand is Selfridges, | :10:05. | :10:05. | |
It is tonight they are expecting the most amount of shoppers here. There | :10:06. | :10:18. | |
will be lots of interest in the store, such as Arabic calligraphers. | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
And for this evening only, the store has created a shisha | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
The children can stay out `` up late. I come from Dubai, so there | :10:27. | :10:41. | |
shops opening late for Eid is not so unusual. I'm not sure why it has not | :10:42. | :10:42. | |
done before. Atia Hussain owns a clothes shop | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
in Ladypool Road. For years she's stayed open late | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
in the run up to Eid, but is now worried about competition | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
from the city centre. People used to come to Asian shops | :10:55. | :11:05. | |
and think because it is Eid we can go to Asian areas, but nowadays they | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
are saying because machete `` the city centres are open they are going | :11:12. | :11:12. | |
there. For retailers, tonight is | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
a gamble they hope will pay off. I am joined now by a spokeswoman | :11:16. | :11:28. | |
from retail Birmingham. Why has this not been done before? | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
Many of the retailers have always had activity for Eid, we can bring | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
all the stores together and collectively put on an event such as | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
tonight. We hope it is one we can continue in the future. | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
Events such as these in terms of planning, it has taken almost 20 map | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
`` 12 months to put together. One independent store owner told us | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
she is quite worried that shoppers will be attracted away, when | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
traditionally they have always gone to more of the Asian areas. Our | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
remote is trying to push the hair and beauty offer for women, so a lot | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
of customers will stoke low for the traditional areas. `` still do. It | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
is not to detract sales from any area, but to add to the offer that | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
is already available. Eid is an important festival, is it | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
on a par with Christmas? It is on par with Christmas in terms of | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
trade. How will you be celebrating Eid on | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
Monday? I will probably be out shopping and spending time with the | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
family. There will be plenty to do over the | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
next few days, and the shops really will be staying open much later as | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
well. A teenage dwarf was asked to " | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
prove he was disabled" when he tried 17`year`old Kain Francis has now | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
been refused travel five times in the last two weeks because | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
of the disability bike he uses to It's a disability aid that helps him | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
get around. But over the last weeks, it has led | :13:10. | :13:27. | |
to him being refused to travel. They said, we do not want you on the bus. | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
He wouldn't let me speak, he went let me say it is my disabled aid. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
And he asked if it had stabilisers on it. | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
The teenager from Kingstanding in Birmingham has dwarfism. | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
Last night he was refused travel twice in 20 minutes. In one case, | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
the driver astonishingly asked him to prove he was actually disabled. | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
He was telling me how I could prove I was disabled, and I said, can you | :14:00. | :14:11. | |
not see I am disabled? It has escalated into something much | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
bigger, where my young nephew Kain has been I think verbally assaulted | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
on a bus or a driver. Kain's family have already had a | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
written apology for the first incident, but as we found out this | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
afternoon, the problems are still continuing. This is a disabled bike. | :14:32. | :14:40. | |
You are refusing me to get on? It is now happening almost every | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
time I go on the bus. It is terrible. It is embarrassing as | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
well. We took the footage to show the bus | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
company. We are sorry for the inconvenience and the upset it has | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
caused. We didn't realise the anomaly quick enough and didn't | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
quite understand what was causing this issue, but now we have realised | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
it we have acted very quickly, we have given a letter to him today | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
which he can show to every driver. Kain and his family are hoping he | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
will not be left waiting for a lift home again. | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
Drug`resistant superbugs have been found in a Warwickshire river. | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
Scientists at the University of Warwick made the discovery | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
a mile downstream of a sewage treatment plant on the River Sowe. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
The study claims processing human, farm | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
and industrial waste all together in one place makes it easier | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
for bacteria to become resistant to a wide range of antibiotics. | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
This river might look ordinary, but scientists have discovered it is | :15:38. | :15:51. | |
harbouring and invisible enemy, superbugs. | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
You could be colonised by very resistant bacteria, and those | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
resistant bacteria and then sitting in Europe died, and then you have a | :16:05. | :16:17. | |
risk they might cause infection. Scientists also found human gut | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
bacteria which had developed a resistance to an antibiotic used to | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
treat severe infections. Back at the laboratory one of the | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
scientists analysing the results says it is an important discovery. | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
It is a four`time super resistant strains have been found in UK | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
rivers. `` it is the first time. Severn Trent insists drinking water | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
is safe, but would like to see more research. We are aware that | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
antibiotics are in our sewage treatment processes, and we are keen | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
to work with other organisations to really understand where they come | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
from and how we can remove them to make sure they do not have an impact | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
in the `` on the environment. But don't you know enough at this stage | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
to take immediate action? I don't think so. If other authorities were | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
to advise us to do something differently, we would take our | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
environmental responsibilities very seriously and we would make any | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
necessary changes. Doctor Wellington says work due to | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
be published later this year is expected to see `` show a similar | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
story on samples found in the River Thames. | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
Success for Jodie Stimpson from Oldbury in the Black Country, | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
as she takes the first gold of the Commonwealth Games. | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
An even hotter day today ` Shefali's ready with your detailed | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
A hundred years on, the new radio drama, stretching over | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
all four years, charting events here at home during the First World War. | :17:59. | :18:10. | |
From today, millions of wildflowers are being | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
planted in urban areas across Birmingham and the Black Country. | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
Our reporter Nicola Beckford has been at one of the sites in Sedgley | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
Conservationists spent the morning here cutting and packing Harry, to | :18:20. | :18:36. | |
recreate new wildlife meadows. `` hay. They are building on similar | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
work carried out last year. This is one of very few such meadows left in | :18:41. | :18:52. | |
England. We want to expand their populations and bring them into the | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
city where people can have contact with that wildlife. | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
The operation is to be done in one day to make sure the seeds reached | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
the destination will still fresh. This is one of the areas where the | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
new Meadow will be grown. The land has been preprepared to receive the | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
freshly cut hay. Almost 30 days `` Wales have been | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
harvested and delivered to ten sites across the region, but these | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
volunteers wanted to work quickly, as if the hay gets too hot, the | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
seeds will die. The organisers feel confident | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
however that the new Meadow will grow. | :19:30. | :19:39. | |
We should eventually get some orchids coming up, which should look | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
really pretty and make the area much better than the brown grass you can | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
see here. This year's work will establish an | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
even bigger network of meadows. Rural idyll is within an urban | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
environment. `` idols. Back to the Commonwealth Games | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
action now, and Gold medallist Jodie Stimpson's not the region's | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
only competitor in action today. Let's rejoin Dan in Oldbury | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
for news of the others. So, Dan, who have we got to | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
look out for this evening? The kids behind take part in | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
cycling, which is where lots of other medals have been one today. | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
First of all Helen Scott, from down the road, she is the pilot in her | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
event and she writes with Sophie Thornhill. They won the two hates | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
and won the final. They are expressly proud to win gold. `` the | :20:32. | :20:42. | |
two seats. `` the two heats. It is info `` it is fantastic that even | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
one of our events is in. Maybe next time another of our events might be | :20:48. | :20:57. | |
put in as well. The team sprint once over this | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
afternoon, but they were beaten by New Zealand. | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
`` won silver. Andy Tennant from Wolverhampton has been in the team | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
pursuit, riding alongside Bradley Wiggins. | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
They also won a silver. Jess varnish from Bromsgrove, | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
discoloured at the London 2012 Olympics, was in the 500 metres time | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
trial today. She won bronze. Who have we got to look out for this | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
evening? The number one event to look out for | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
is the men's 200 metres breaststroke. Adam Piti from | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
Uttoxeter is through, also Michael Jamieson. | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
We have already had these medallists, it is day one of the | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
Commonwealth Games, plenty to look forward to this evening and for the | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
rest of the Games. The story of life on the Home Front | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
during World War I is being It's being recorded in Birmingham, | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
and it's an ambitious drama serial which will be broadcast over four | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
years with 600 episodes. More now | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
from our arts reporter Satnam Rana. The Great War ` usually remembered | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
as a soldier's conflict. Over 8.5 million men served | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
between 1914 and 18. But now Radio 4's new ambitious | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
drama Home Front is telling Actors play out their words, and | :22:26. | :22:50. | |
sound effects are added in the production suite. | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
Recorded at BBC Birmingham's radio astronomers studio, it is set in | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
Folkestone, and will also take us to Newcastle and Devon. | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
There were 40 million people who did not go to war, but who were | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
dedicated to the information from the front. If we could represent a | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
tiny proportion of those stories, that would be brilliant. I know you | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
mean well, but it is not realistic. One of these stories is told through | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
Isabel, a self`taught driver from a well`off family and ends up buying | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
an ambulance. Women with funds what `` went out and bought their own | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
ambulances and supplies. They literally got behind the wheel of a | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
car and learned to drive. And then I get very excited about buying | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
surgical bandages and then going across to France. | :24:02. | :24:13. | |
The stories are fictional, but each one has a historical fact hidden | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
within it. To find out what that is, tune in at mid`day on fourth August. | :24:18. | :24:26. | |
Exactly 100 years to the day Great Britain declared war on Germany. | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
You can find out more about the new show Home Front on the BBC website. | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Now let's find out more about this scorching weather. | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
There were a few people today flustered by the heat, because it | :24:42. | :24:55. | |
was hotter than yesterday by 1 degrees for most parts, finishing | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
numbers were 28 Celsius for Birmingham. | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
29 Celsius in neighbouring Wales, and hottest race was worth it, | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
making it the hottest day of the year so far. `` the hottest place | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
was Dorset. There will be a drop of around nine | :25:18. | :25:29. | |
to 10 degrees by Sunday, but this cooler air is coming in as a result | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
of this home from `` this front. The cooler conditions will probably | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
persist into the middle of next week. Not to say they will not rise | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
before that, they could well do, but we also have some fairly prolific | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
showers breaking out. They could become widespread by the | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
end of the weekend. If you haven't been out there to enjoy the | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
sunshine, you could `` you should do the litmus test now because it is | :26:03. | :26:04. | |
cooling down to something more comfortable. Then we are into clear | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
skies for tonight. It is dry across all parts as well, we may see the | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
odd shower breaking out, but then those will fade away very quickly. | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
Temperatures falling to a minimum of 15 to 16 Celsius, possibly even 17, | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
so a very sticky night. For tomorrow, slightly cooler | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
conditions. We have more cloud drifting in from the east, due to a | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
slight change in the wind direction, temperatures perhaps will not reach | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
the giddy heights of today's values. That breeze is slightly lighter at | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
around nine miles per hour. As for tomorrow night we could see the odd | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
shower breaking out, very light ones however. Predominantly dry, with | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
clear spells. Saturday dry until those showers are. | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
`` arrive. A UN shelter in Gaza is hit | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
by an Israeli missile ? 15 people And Jodie Stimpson from Oldbury | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
in the Black Country wins the triathlon and takes the first | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
gold of the Commonwealth Games. Well, when did we start funding | :27:21. | :27:22. | |
projects in Gaza? How do you know people | :27:23. | :28:00. | |
are telling the truth? Well, when did we start funding | :28:01. | :28:02. | |
projects in Gaza? I should never have done this. | :28:03. | :28:11. | |
I should never have agreed to this. | :28:12. | :28:15. |