17/08/2014 Midlands Today


17/08/2014

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The super show that the accused have be

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The super show that the accused have a look at a small producers has

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invited them to set up another store car park. It's the 1st time in the

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Midlands this has happened. Some farmers dismissed it as a publicity

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stunt. Small and large doing business together in Hereford. Local

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producers often complain about being squeezed by giant supermarkets.

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Today they were invited to sell their food and flowers on the car

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We are perfectly happy to take advantage. If it helps our business

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But the stallholders here today said they'd like the

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"market at a supermarket" to become a regular event.

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The local producers will be happy but some farmers are

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sceptical about this unusual partnership.

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about this unusual partnership.

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Dairy farmer David Handley says there are more effective ways

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for Tesco to help their suppliers and smaller competitors.

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I think it would be far better for Tesco to address the issues and pay

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a sustainable price to farmers and do away with all these fancy clever

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ideas, PR stunts. Is it a PR stunt on behalf of Tesco? No. We just want

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to work closely with our communities and support local farmers. There was

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a strategy stream of customers at today's event. I've always found

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that Tesco don't do enough of local produce. I think is a very good

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idea. I want now in the Midlands. Tesco itself began as a group of

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market stores. Everybody here wants to see if everything was 2 to its

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simple origins. Protesters in Coventry are upset that he was too

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close. The Foleshill leisure centre opened

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its doors to the The decision to close it has come

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despite a series of protests like this one on Friday

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by those who say its provides So to the community over 77 years

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and a lot of people are going to be struggling to come to terms with

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it. The council just wouldn't listen.

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On offer instead is the multi`million`pound complex a mile

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and a half away, which according to campaigners isn't a viable option.

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It would be the same family atmosphere and it is so awkward to

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the Council say the new facility will be cost`effective and popular

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in terms of visitor numbers, something the centre in Foleshill

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What this really is a total rebuild and to do that, the cost would be

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much more than we have currently budgeted for and it would cost us

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less to run the centre as it is. The new pool opens on Tuesday

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and is expected to have to up to 600,000 visitors a year but it

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remains to be seen just how many Athletics, and there were

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celebrations today for Birchfield Harriers' Matthew Hudson`Smith

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and Michael Bingham at the Great Britain's 4x400`metres relay

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team won gold as the favourites fulfilled their potential in

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breaking the three`minute barrier. When that 1st came on, we all came

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around him and it was a good experience because not only did we

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try and make sure he was okay, he really chose the whole environment

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out. There was a lot of camaraderie. And

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the celebrations didn't end there. There was also victory for

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Stoke's Ashleigh Nelson, as Britain's Women's 4x100`metre

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relay team cruised to victory In football, if the conference

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league, conference lost to order shot 2 `0. Let's look at the

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weather. It's been a blustery day with winds easing over the next 24

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hours but there's no sign of things warming up. It is cool and quiet

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showery for most of this week. The rules will stay quite brisk and they

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were blowing a few showers so it becomes quite cloudy and quite damp

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through the early hours. That will hold the temperatures up so we're

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not going to fall much lower than 10 `11?C. Tomorrow morning, quite

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cloudy and damp with showers and northern areas could dry up later in

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the day and showers most prone across the southern part of the

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region, despite those lighter winds it will stay on the cool side.

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That's it from us on the till 10:15. Goodbye.

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Good evening. It was a slow start for England and Wales. We got there

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in the end today. A cloudy morning, with some outbreaks of rain. As that

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weather front sank south, breaks in the cloud developed. Different

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further north - it stayed windy and wet, with showers and longer spells

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of rain at times. That low area of pressure drifts off to the east. A

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few showers drifting further south, inWales and northern England.

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The strongest of the winds first thing tomorrow morning across the

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far north-east of Scotland. Rough seas. Hopefully fewer showers than

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we have seen

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