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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today on our 50th birthday. | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
Half a dozen businesses closed and a school's shut | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
after an industrial estate's hit by a third fire in a week. | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
I haven't been able to sleep for two nights, since the early hours of | :00:20. | :00:31. | |
Saturday morning. Police are blaming arsonists | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
and firefighters are still `t After a ?26 million revamp, | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
a new name for the National Indoor We'll be looking back through | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
the archives at how programles used to be made, and meeting somd | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
of today's viewers who have joined And for the very latest | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
on the weather, a decent wedk ahead Details on when you can expdct | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
some rain later in the programme. There's growing concern | :00:57. | :01:10. | |
about a series of suspected arson attacks which have caused d`mage | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
estimated at hundreds of thousands of pounds and today | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
forced a Birmingham school to shut. Two fires during the space | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
of 48 hours and a third Tonight | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
the police are mounting special patrols and appealing for c`lm | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
as people living nearby say they're Our Special Correspondent Pdter | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Wilson has spent the day The whole of Reddings Lane | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
and nearby roads in Tyseley. The latest fire spread quickly | :01:36. | :01:44. | |
in the early hours of this lorning, The first blaze destroyed offices | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
on Saturday. I haven't been able to sleep for two | :01:50. | :02:04. | |
nights, since the early hours of Saturday morning. It has bedn | :02:05. | :02:13. | |
scary, actually. We've had no sleep. My mother`in`law camd up She | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
was the one to spot it at four o'clock in the morning. It has been | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
a long, dangerous Dave. Ambtlances stand by as firefighters continued | :02:30. | :02:39. | |
to deal with hotspots burning in the rubble. Conditions are arduous. The | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
roof of the building has bedn severely affected. We are not sure | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
what effect that has had on the structure. The conditions are going | :02:45. | :02:45. | |
to be hot. 70 fire firefighters battled | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
the latest fire. The police are treating all | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
the cases as suspected arson. I understand some of the residents | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
in the local area might be puite concerned in relation to wh`t has | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
happened and it has caused significant disruption. What I would | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
ask is that if anybody has `ny information that can insist us with | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
our investigation, please m`ke contact. Fire crews will be working | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
into the night. The police investigation teams are due to work | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
for many days longer. The local school here will not reopen tomorrow | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
morning. That is due to the fact the nearby buildings are going to be | :03:26. | :03:26. | |
demolished. A deal to buy | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
the NEC Group is expected to be One of the main attractions of the | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
sale is the newly revamped National Today, as part | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
of a major sponsorship deal, it was announced that the NIA's nale will | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
change to the Barclaycard Arena It attracts one million people a | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
year and generates ?150 million in No wonder the National Indoor Arena | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
is such an attractive proposition to Opened in 1991, | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
for the past 18 months the venue's been undergoing a ? 6 | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
million revamp, which will see it become the biggest in the Mhdlands's | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
with a capacity of almost 16,00 . Regardless of whoever the ndw | :04:10. | :04:21. | |
shareholder is, we have poshtion this arena as a world`class arena. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
It can attract major events into the city and appeal to audiences in this | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
region and beyond. From December these signs whll go, | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
as the venue changes its name to the Barclaycard Arena, | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
part of a major sponsorship deal. Some changes in brand have not been | :04:33. | :04:41. | |
successful but others, over time, consumers get used to. It is | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
possible that people will still referred to it as the NIA. Others | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
will take on board that it has branded in a different way. But it's | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
not just the new name for the venue that has been revealed todax. | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
They've also announced the `ctor will be performing on the stage on | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
December the 2nd, for the official opening of the arena. When Lichael | :05:04. | :05:16. | |
Buble takes to the stage on opening night, it will not only havd a new | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
name but a new owner to. Just down the canal towpath | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
from the arena, at the International Convention Centre the | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
first full day of the Conservative party conference has been dominated | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
by the Chancellor, George Osborne. His keynote speech aimed to seize | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
back the initiative, after a weekend of damaging headlhnes and | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
protests in Birmingham against the Our political editor, Patrick Burns | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
joins us from the conferencd. He accused Ed Miliband of bding | :05:34. | :05:54. | |
unfit for office, for forgetting to mention the deficit in his | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
conference speech last week. His clear protest bash his clear message | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
to protesters on the street yesterday is that the government has | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
no alternative. This is indded a government which has a plan and it | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
is working. We can either pretend to the British people that this can be | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
done with hardly any cuts. That is what we saw last week. All we can | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
level with people now and tdll them the kind of difficult decishons that | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
are still required to fix the economy. Of course, the othdr big | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
question hanging over conference is UKIP and how the Conservatives | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
should respond to that. Was any thing said about that? | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
It has been the buzz around the building. Ever since Michael fabric | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
and first raised the idea of pacts, the high command had been | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
pooh`poohing the idea. I am joined by Laurence Robertson. Can xou | :06:47. | :06:57. | |
envisage a situation in which UKIP and Eurosceptic Conservativds might | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
not fight each other at the election? I think if UKIP are | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
serious about the issues, r`ther than it being some ego trip, they | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
ought to come back to the Conservative Party. I think they | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
want to support us. We win the election, get the referendul and | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
people will have the opposition `` opportunity to come out of the | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
union. Do you think you shotld be talking to one another in the | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
context of the election? In terms of grown`up politics, we have to talk. | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
People are very worried abott the EU and immigration. They want something | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
done about it. The problem hs, a vote for UKIP will lead to ` Labour | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
government. They will not bd any referendum then. There will be more | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
immigration and EU. That is not what people want. You are at the | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
Eurosceptic end of the Consdrvative Party yourself. Is there anx | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
suggestion that you yourself might jump ship to UKIP? Absolutely not. | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
I'm a conservative. I will be fighting cheap spree as a | :08:01. | :08:01. | |
conservative. It's really r`ther foolish for people to leave the | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
Conservative Party at the vdry point that we are winning the argtment. | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
There is going to be a manifesto pledge for any EU referendul. It's | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
very silly to leave now. Th`nk you. I will have more from the convention | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
centre about why the Conservatives are planning to hold three lore | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
conferences here. That will be in our late bulletin. | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
If you didn't catch the Now if you didn't catch | :08:25. | :08:39. | |
the film Marvellous on BBC Two, It told the moving story of | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Neil Baldwin, known as Nello, And Nello's on BBC One tonight | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
on Inside Out. The former Stoke City kit`m`n even | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
took the time to give presenter Andy Akinwolere some tips | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
on his football skills. For more, | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
watch Inside Out West Midlands, 50 years ago this week, | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
in September 1964, Midlands Today began broadcasting from a btilding | :08:57. | :09:10. | |
not very far from here, that's half a century of bringing the ndws to | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
you from around the region. All this week we're celebrating | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
our anniversary and looking back on five decades of headline news, | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
heartwarming stories, the strange So, to start our journey back | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
in time, let's join Mary who's deep I didn't even know that this part of | :09:26. | :09:43. | |
the building existed. It is where we keep the film archive and no wonder | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
we need so much space, with film canisters this size. It's r`ther | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
different from the tiny little cards that we record on today. And in the | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
basement is also where we kdep back copies of the radio Times. We've got | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
thousands of editions, bound up in huge volumes. Including this one | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
which just happens to be September the 28th 1964. There it is, the very | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
first edition of Midlands today Each day on Midlands today this | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
week, we will feature a French decade. What better place to at the | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
beginning? Good evening and welcome to the first edition of Midlands | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
today. Internet's programme, we take a look at orienteering, hear about a | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
new course on local governmdnt and discuss the body beautiful. | :10:35. | :10:35. | |
1964 and the birth of Midlands Today and the weight of expectation had | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
This is a very exciting momdnt for us on television but tonight I'm not | :10:40. | :10:48. | |
speaking to you from Alexandra Palace but from a small rool at | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
Sutton Coldfield. From a newsroom, | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
in Birmingham's Broad Street, the sound of typewriters trhggered | :10:56. | :10:56. | |
a local news revolution. And one man was there from the | :10:57. | :11:11. | |
start. I have been voted ITV personality of the year. I had a | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
light`hearted image. I had on ITV. When I came to the BBC, I thought I | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
will become a hard man. He might be 84 but he still enjoys | :11:18. | :11:18. | |
sharing his experiences One of the things I remember was | :11:19. | :11:31. | |
interviewing the King of Tonga. Must have been 30 stone. As he s`t down, | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
we realised the King's backside wouldn't fit the chair. He couldn't | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
get in. We ran out and got `nother chair. He stayed like that tntil the | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
check`in. In an era that saw Birmingh`m band | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
The Move scoring a strring of hits, In 1974, the move was on to Pebble | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
Mill studios, in glorious colour. Good evening and welcome to another | :11:54. | :12:10. | |
edition of Midlands today, which comes to you for the very fhrst time | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
from pebble Mill, Birminghal. I am not speaking to you from our own | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
studios. It was a studio th`t was so small, every time you hit `` stood | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
up, you hit your head. The thing I was looking forward to was the new | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
studio. And going into colotr. This is new studio B, where I work every | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
weekday. Now, of course, in colour. Tom Coyne brought us | :12:41. | :12:55. | |
the biggest news stories into our living rooms and those that | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
captured a generation. In the '60s, | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
the famous Mini rolled off They were still making | :13:01. | :13:01. | |
around 300,000 a year by 1974. From Mini to mini skirts | :13:02. | :13:11. | |
and they they were the must have fashion item, unless | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
it was this particular design, I don't think it will catch on in | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
Wolverhampton. Also in 1972, | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
the Gravelley Hill Interchange opened and Spaghettie juncthon has | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
been loved and loathed ever since. We are opening what can onlx be | :13:33. | :13:48. | |
described as the motorway htb of Britain. | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
You'd think that Tom Coyne had fulfilled his earlier promise | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
for hard`hitting journalism, think again. | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
We decided to inject a little bit of fun and the programme. I cannot | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
remember what the story was but we decided to do laurel and Hardy. Have | :14:07. | :14:15. | |
you seen that? Tom is on thd left, by the way. | :14:16. | :14:30. | |
Tom also provided guest voices on the archers, something he w`sn't | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
really supposed to do. I thought if I'm playing a young lover in the | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
archer and I'm interviewing the Prime Minister tonight, it doesn't | :14:41. | :14:41. | |
quite work that way. Watch Tom's face | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
as a band play him a farewell song on his last programme, | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
a song ruined by audio problems I don't think I heard this song | :14:55. | :15:10. | |
properly yet. I thought it was marvellously kind, especially as I | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
was leaving to go to the opposition. You met some incredible people, | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
didn't you? The first time H met Muhammad Ali, I said, would he hit | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
me on the jaw? He said, you want to be famous, don't you? And the big | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
names were pulling in And the big names were pullhng | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
in viewers to Midlands Todax, while the team of journalists aimdd to | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
deliver news that packed a punch. It dates back to 1957, and despite | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
are a bit obscene, I It dates back to 1957, and despite | :15:40. | :16:42. | |
its size, it is pretty heavx. The public spaces open seven daxs a | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
week. Do come along and havd a look. You can even have a go at bding a | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
presenter. Trust me, there hs absolutely nothing to it. Wd have | :16:50. | :17:02. | |
been digitising some you saw it earlier in the b`sement. | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
We have masses offered. Man of the match Sean Geddis scored | :17:06. | :20:30. | |
twice in their 3`1 win, to earn a trip to Leamington | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
in the next round, next month. Back now to our big milestone, | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
Midlands Today's 50th birthday. We couldn't let it pass without | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
a party and first on the gudst list A couple of hours ago, | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
a dozen guests came to our studios here at the Mailbox to | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
see what goes into each programme. It's the digital age. | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
TV's more competitive than dver so Iconic. The presenters are so | :21:05. | :21:24. | |
down`to`earth. You can tell the presenters are local. It's nice to | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
watch something that is for the people of the area. A decent week | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
ahead but not entirely dry... Most loyal of all, Enid, who has been | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
inviting us into her front room for all of those 50 years and considers | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
us friends. Very friendly. Xou have to put good news and bad news out | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
but it's very friendly. Othdr programmes are available. Why do you | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
watch this one? It's the stories which you don't pick up in the | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
newspapers. The interesting little stories on farms in the countryside. | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
Always so reliable. You feel as if you know the presenters personally. | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
I just said her late make coming through and I thought, I only know | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
him through the television. This select group are among 500,000 | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
viewers who tune in every wdekday evening. Sadly, we couldn't invite | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
you all but please accept otr thanks. Without you, the past 5 | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
years would have been prettx pointless. | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
Happy birthday! And thank you for all the | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
messages you've sent about our Kathleen English wrote on | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
our Facebook page, congratulations. The best local TV News coverage | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
by far. And Mita Barnes e`mailed to say | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
I still have the special mugs my late husband I were given | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
when we had a day at Pebble Mill. Congratulations | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
on your 50th birthday. You know it really is all | :22:57. | :22:57. | |
about you the viewers, the incredible stories you bring us the | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
quite extraordinary things xou do. This morning our reporter | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
Joanne Writtle caught up with Amy Hughes in Shropshire who was | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
putting her feet up at last after completing a world record 53 | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
marathons in 53 days for ch`rity. Amy Hughes races her way | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
into the record books. Her 53rd consecutive marathon | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
in Manchester. Messages have flooded in | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
from sports stars. I have been quite good throtghout | :23:25. | :23:34. | |
the whole thing. I got to the end and I exploded. I saw my falily and | :23:35. | :23:46. | |
my mother. It was good. I w`nt to say a massive well done bec`use | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
people underestimate what you have just gone and put your body through. | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
To run one marathon is hard but to do 53 marathons and 50 date is truly | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
amazing. Friend and mentor Dave Keighley was | :23:59. | :23:59. | |
by her side for many marathons, The only time she was down ` little | :24:00. | :24:09. | |
bit was a day in Taunton whdn she was very sick all night. But as she | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
does all the time, she gritted her teeth and got up and did it. 99 of | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
people wouldn't be able to get up that day. | :24:19. | :24:18. | |
With souvenirs from all 53 destinations, Amy is now resting. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
And so far she's raised ?37,000 to help children with brain cancer | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
What is the future hold? I don't know. I'm not sure yet. I'll try to | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
think of my next challenge. I'm bored already! | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
Amy, you are amazing. Extraordinary. One was bad enough for me. | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
It has been a second weekend and a lovely settled weekend ahead of us. | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
The temperatures have been `bove average. It is looking quitd settled | :24:59. | :25:08. | |
and we could just see some rain on Wednesday and Friday. Apart from | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
that, largely dry conditions and temperatures will be above `verage | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
for the time of year. Turning cooler by the weekend. The reason for this | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
is it all comes off the back of a series of France that pushing from | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
the north`west. The final one that arrives on Friday that is going to | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
sweep through. The air behind it is cooler. The isobars start to tighten | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
and that will result in the wind is picking up as we had to Sattrday and | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
Sunday. It is now looking dry out there and just towards the dnd of | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
the evening, we will start to see these showers develop across | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
north`western corner of the region. Some of those could be on the heavy | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
side. We are looking at dridr conditions into the early hours | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
Temperatures into double figures. Quite a balmy night. When wd get | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
these clear spells, we could see pockets of mist and fog devdloping | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
towards dawn. Those will lift readily through the morning. We will | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
get a bit of brightness and sunshine first thing but some cloud lilling | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
around as well. It will be dry tomorrow and temperatures should | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
rise to 19 or 20 Celsius. And you've been a huge part | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
of the programme for more than 0 years. Let's just take a little look | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
back on the Shefali years. It is the weekend, it is hot... | :26:28. | :26:39. | |
Whether it is hot or cold, she was there. She made naval history when | :26:40. | :26:50. | |
she was invited to sale on ` nuclear submarine, the only woman on board. | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
Shef has met the Chefs, taken us on a gastronomical journey | :26:55. | :26:56. | |
across the region, she's delved into the paranormal | :26:57. | :26:58. | |
and revealed the secrets of Birmingham Museum and Art G`llery. | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
There was Alexandra Road, a series about an ordinary street | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
And it was all aboard in February in Telford | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
when we dedicated a programle to things Made in the Midlands. | :27:14. | :27:25. | |
I didn't expect that but it was a lovely trip down memory land. | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
We've enjoyed your company over the last 50 years. | :27:31. | :27:31. | |
More Midlands Today memories tomorrow, this time featuring | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
the evergreen Kay Alexander and I'll be back at ten this evening with | :27:35. | :27:38. |