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The headlines tonight: - so it's goodbye from me -

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Hunting for hidden weapons, West Midlands Police search parks

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and open land in an attempt to tackle knife crime.

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The work we are doing today and this week, it is imperative to rdmove

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dangerous weapons from the streets. I am in Dudley, where there have

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been three stabbings in the space of one week and one man has lost his

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life. Also tonight: The new borns

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being given a baby box - a simple way to reduce infant

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mortality. I thought a baby in a box is made

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but when you look at it, thdre is nothing for him to suffocatd on it

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is comfortable and he is enjoying it.

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an increase in the number of wild animals being kept as pets ,

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The pioneers of early cinem` - how the silver screen was shaped

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And even cloudy days can create impressive results.

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We lacked sun today but there's hope for better tomorrow

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Knife crime is a growing problem across the Midlands.

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On average, there are 180 offences a month involving a knife in

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In September, that figure reached 187.

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In the last year, there havd been 11 murders using a knife.

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Now, the police are searching parks and open-land

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It's thought criminals are using the areas to keep

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Beside a children's park in Aston, police officers

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There will be searchers in parks in the Birmingham area in the last

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couple of days and we found a large kitchen knife under a bush `nd a

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smaller nice as well. Not discarded but hidden

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for safe-keeping - West Midlands Police believd areas

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of open land are the playground So they can have access to them in

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the future if they need to get them for any illicit purposes. Btt also

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to disassociate themselves from any previous offending they havd done

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before. Look what else they turned tp

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during Operation Sceptre, a national police campaign

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to tackle knife crime. And judging by incidents in recent

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weeks, some say West Midlands Police Police have named a man who died

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after being stabbed in the stomach at the weekend. A 19-year-old man

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has been charged with murder after a fatal stabbing outside a Birmingham

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off-licence... Here, in broad daylight, on Saturday

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afternoon, a 24-year-old man was stabbed and later died from his

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injuries. It was the third stabbing in Dudley Borough in the sp`ce of

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just eight days. Whilst polhce say these incidents are rare, it does

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not stop people living here being any less concerned. It is ftll.

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People are frightened to cole out. It is just really bad. Not feeling

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safer. It is bad, you just wonder what has caused it.

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DCI Ian Parnell is the West Midlands top cop for bringing knife

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There were three stabbings hn Birmingham over the last eight days,

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three stabbings in Dudley over a week, one of which was fatal, have

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you got a handle on this? Those individual offences are dev`stating

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to the families involved and our sympathy goes out to them. Ht

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highlights that the work we are doing today and this week is

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imperative to remove dangerous weapons from the streets. Wdapons

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like the so-called zombie knife no band. Altogether, over the four

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police forces in this region, violent crime, not just including

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knife offences, has risen bx 28 on the previous year. Police, however,

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are keen to reassure, saying that in most places it is not randol. The

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attacker is known to the victim And Ben Godfrey is in

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Brierley Hill this evening. Ben, what else are the police doing

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during Operation Spectre? Firstly, police tonight sayhng

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people should not be unduly alarmed by the increase in violent crime,

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partly because they've changed Operation Sceptre

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is certainly timely. It's also about monitoring

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the sale of knives. -- the illegal sale of knivds to

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young people. Earlier this week, working

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with Trading Standards, police did test purchases of knives

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with a volunteer 16-year-old boy - four shops sold him blades

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and received warnings. Those shopkeepers have sincd been

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warned and they are going to continue that operation, evdn though

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there are these investigations going on as well.

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We heard in your report that people in Dudley are concerned abott this

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sudden rise in stabbings. What more do we know about these incidents?

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To clarify, there were thred stabbings in Sedgley, or go more and

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here, a fatal one, there ard flowers behind me. Police say they `re not

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connected. The investigation into the murder is ongoing. One line of

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inquiry is that it may have been as a result of a dispute over drugs.

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Dudley Council is working closely with detectives and officers, with

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West Midlands Police, going into schools, educating young people

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about the consequences of c`rrying a knife. I am told that particular

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scheme will be stepped up. Those expect stabbings in Birmingham, a

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local councillor has said that he thinks police should get support

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from the wider community and it is about parents and carers having

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difficult conversations with their young children.

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OK, Ben, thank you. Apologids for the behaviour in the background of

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that report. It seems like a simple idea,

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but it could save lives. Sandwell General and Birmingham City

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Hospital are to become the first in the region to trial a new scheme

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to help prevent cot death. They're going to give

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all new mums a baby box. The boxes are made from verx thick

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cardboard, contain a foam m`ttress and the design helps

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to prevent babies from rollhng They've been used in Finland

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for nearly 80 years, and have helped reduce infant

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mortality rates dramaticallx. Three week old Logan is 17-xear old

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Alisha's precious first born... I thought a baby in a box is made

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but when you look at it, thdre is nothing for him to suffocatd on it

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is comfortable for him and obviously he is enjoying it.

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The boxes are free and have been given out by Sandwell and Wdst

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There, boxes have been handdd out to excpectant mums

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there since the 1930s and h`ve helped reduce infact mortalhty rates

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From over 60 per 1002 two pdr 1 00 today. The name stuck out, such a

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cute girly name. This baby left for just 17 days, and her mother says

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she did not even know that babies go to die suddenly and inexplicably.

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Losing Lola has probably made me one of Britain's most angriest

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teenagers. I am so angry at people. Not because I think it is their

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fault but... Because why did they not stop it from happening? She is

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expecting again, this time ht is a boy and he will be taking a baby

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box. As though all new mothdrs giving birth at a city hosphtal from

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November. But only after thdy have signed up with this card to watch 12

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short videos. They are going to have to watch video clips about

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breast-feeding, safer sleep, alcohol, drugs and maternal mental

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health and then they will bd able to get the box. So these are issues you

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feel are relevant? Yes, thex're public health messages that we need

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to get across to women. It seems amazing. Something so littld and

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simple could potentially save hundreds of children's lives. No

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targets have been set. Organisers say is the baby box is the just one

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life it will have been worth it -- saves just one life.

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The University of Nottinghal has asked for a full report

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from its Students Union, after a pub crawl team appe`red

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to dress up as victims of the Alton Tower's Smiler

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The students made their fancy dress outfits for the annual

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fundraising event, and posed for photos

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They've apologised unreservddly to the teenagers who had

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legs amputated following last year's crash.

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I think what a lot of other people think, that they were trying to

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persuade... They came out s`ying it was a traditional costume. Ht is not

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traditional to have mutated legs attached to it. It was asked if

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people thought it was offensive or not, a simple yes or no, and over

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70% thought was. West Midlands Fire Service believe

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a fire at a Wolverhampton industrial More than 70 firefighters wdre sent

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to Clearwater Industrial Estate on Eccleshall Road on Tuesd`y

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evening. One unit was completely destroyed,

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along with two vans. DEFRA has confirmed the badger cull

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across parts of Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Dorset

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has ended for this year. Seven new licences were granted

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by the government for the 2016 cull, with almost 10,000

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animals due to be killed. It's part of a 25-year strategy

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aimed at eradicating Bovine TB. The Environment Agency is urging

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home owners and businesses in Worcester to stop disposhng

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of oil and fuel in an unsafd way. They say its officers have dealt

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with a number of incidents in the last few weeks,

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where oil has polluted the Worcester A two-mile stretch of the w`terway

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has been affected and seven swans needed treatment

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from animal rescue groups. Taxi drivers have been staghng

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a go-slow in Wolverhampton city The private hire drivers

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are angry at the council, Kevin Reide is there this evening,

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so Kevin how many cars took part? Well, there were about 100 cars

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proceeding along one of the main routes into the city centre and then

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they drove around the ring road in a procession that lasted from about

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4pm until 6pm. The Council say that it caused minimum disruption to the

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rush-hour traffic and the Council say the drivers were merely doing

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this because they want to h`rness trade for themselves and do not want

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new drivers to come on-board. They also say that the tests havd

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deliberately modernised. We have refocused on the tr`ining

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that we do require drivers to do. That is already very robust but it

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now has aspects of child sexual exploitation awareness and other

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wider issues concerning safeguarding. Well, Abraham is the

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chairman of the Wolverhampton weather drivers Association. Why are

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you hosting these? The reason we have this protest is becausd there

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is no more topographical knowledge test. There is no driving assessment

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test, no practical test, no nothing. But is that any of your bushness as

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the council are satisfied that their procedures are correct for the right

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type of drivers? It is part of business, because the drivers coming

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out now that the assessment, the driving assessment and topographical

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knowledge test, they do not know what they are doing. It givds a bad

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name to the professional drhvers who already exist. But why does that

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affect you? It does because we all get a bad name them. As customers

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get a poor service, lack of public safety... And the council h`s

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invited you to meetings. Yot have not attended them all, have you We

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have been to quite a few medtings. We have given them the petition We

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ask them to take the test -, make the test astringent. OK, I `m going

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to have to stop either. Thex are planning further disruption as this

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dispute with the council gods on. Back to you.

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OK, thank you. A wildlife sanctuary

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in Staffordshire is being inundated In the last year, the Gentldshaw

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Centre in Eccleshall, has seen a dramatic rise

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in the number of abandoned It's created a waiting list

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after referrals quadrupled. His neighborus include chimps,

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monkeys, wild cats and the slowest Our love for unusual

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pets is on the rise, with 40% more exotic animal

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licences issued last year in the West Midlands

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than a decade ago. But for the Gentleshaw Wildlife

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Centre in Eccleshall, an increase in the number

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of creatures being neglected or abandonned means they're busier

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than ever. We have had to set up new bhrd

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enclosures, we have got anilals on a waiting westward into common. We

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cannot keep up with the dem`nd. With things like social media, it is

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relatively easy to get hold of breeders and the present have

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dropped and there are no regulations so you can buy whatever anilal you

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fancy. Records show that in the last

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decade local authorities in the West Midlands have issued

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more than 160 exotic Some of the species listed

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as pets include wild boar, With a population of residents

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outgrowing their number of cages the wildlife centre needs to find

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long term solutions. Homes like the one belonging

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to the expanding Hargrave Mum, Dad, seven-year-old Jaxden

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and one-year-old Ava. Plus one dog, four cats,

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a bearded dragon and three snakes, including the latest addition

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adopted from Gentleshaw. We have got the space and wd know

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what we are doing. So we will take him on. You would not have ` child

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and then just leave them with nothing, so why do it to an animal?

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If you take on the responsibility of an animal, you are taking on the

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responsibility of another lhving being so you make sure they are fed

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and watered. I am definitelx one of those that you have an anim`l for

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life and if you cannot offer it a home for life then you need to think

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about whether you are going to take on or not.

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With food, water, warmth and affection all this repthle needs

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Emma Thomas, BBC Midlands Today, Staffordshire.

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Thanks for joining us on Midlands Today, this is our top

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story tonight: Hunting for hidden weapons, West Midlands Police search

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parks and open land in an attempt to tackle knife crime.

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Your details weather forecast to come shortly. Also coming up:

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Bringing boxing back to Birlingham. A city are gaining its reputation in

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the ring. And forget Hollywood, how the

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Midland helped shape the early years of cinema.

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Tackling childhood obesity is becoming

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Nearly 40% of children across the city aged ten

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and 11 are overweight, compared with around

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That means the number of chhldren in year six who are classed

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as overweight or obese, has increased from 908 to ndarly

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Health experts are going back to basics, and have introduced

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a new scheme to get children interested in growing

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Laura May McMullan has been finding out more.

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Ten-year-old Shannon and her classmates love

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Today, after picking these `pples, they'll be making an apple crumble.

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I like it when we take it ott of the soil and cook it

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because we know it's more fresh than the supermarkets.

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We enjoy planning and growing

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And that's the school's main aim by working with the Soil

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Forest Park Primary in Stoke-on-Trent is one of 49

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schools across the city who've introduced the 'Food

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If they start early, when they get to secondary school,

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they can make an informed choice, make a better choice and th`t's

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going to be better for their lives and what they're going

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Quite a lot of the children didn't know what vegetables

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were when we first started this project and with them growing them

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in their own garden, they learnt what vegetables are

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what they're for and they'vd learnt how to cook them.

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A small step, perhaps, to tackling a huge problem.

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Experts say they're facing a childhood obesity epidemic.

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Up to two thirds of children are obese or overweight

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Obviously this is a really big concern for public health

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because if children are overweight at that age it's likely

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to carry on into adulthood, and that gives range to a whole

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Here in Stoke-on-Trent, the percentage of overweight

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and obese children is higher than the national

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That's why programmes like this are vital in helping to change

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pupils perceptions to eating healthy food.

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We're eating a lot more vegdtables, cutting down on sugar and e`ting

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It gives us brain knowledge and it makes our bones

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These children have just won a Food for Life Award -

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and will hopefully now pass on their passion for good food,

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Dan's here with the sport, and fans of boxing are lookhng

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forward to a big bout this weekend in the Midlands.

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For many years, boxing in Birmingham was struggling.

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Promoters stayed away after trouble at a world title

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But now the city is a force in the sport once again

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and on Saturday night, two of Birmingham's best fighters

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will go head to head in front of a packed crowd.

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When there is a fight like this with so much local pride on the line

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bragging rights, both guys have sold a lot of tickets, desperate to win,

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you can only see a great fight. Now, it's hardly a surprise to hear

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a promoter talk up a boxing bill but the massive interest in this

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press conference suggest More than 6,000 tickets havd

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already been sold for Saturday's battle for

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Birmingham bragging rights. It's going to be a great fight. I'm

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ready to put it all on the line everything I've got. If I h`ve to

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stand there and fight for 12 rounds, I will do it but the plan is to box

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and not come out. I am very confident. You can ask the team you

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know, I am very confident on this one.

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Of course it always helps when there's a little bit of tension

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between the two fighters and that was certainly evident today.

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I am going to beat him for 02 rounds from pillar to post. I thought you

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were going to stop me, how hs it going to go 12 rounds?

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Frankie Gavin still holds the distinction of being Brhtain's

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only male world amateur chalpion and winning on Saturday will be

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critical to his hopes of getting another shot

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In the meantime, Hearn dropped a strong hint today that another

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Brummie, Kal Yafai, will get his world title chance before

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It is crazy. We have had sole really talented fighters from Birmhngham

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coming through the years. Robert McCracken was a great fightdr. So I

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think it might be third timd lucky and I am going to do the job.

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That can wait, though, because Saturday is all abott

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So two Midlanders to battle it out in Birmingham.

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And in cricket, we've got two Midlanders doing well

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Yes, all rounders Moeen Ali and Chris Woakes have rescudd

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England from a precarious position of 21 for three on day

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Worcestershire's Moeen Ali top scored with 68.

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But he survived five LBW reviews from the TV official described it

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as the hardest 68 of his life, as the ball span so much.

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And then Warwickshire's Chrhs Woakes finished the day on 36 not out

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and England closed day one on 258 for seven.

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A lot better than it was in the morning.

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Interesting conditions out there. Thank you very much.

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There are just a few days left for you to go

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to get your nomination in for the 2016 -

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We're looking for those inspirational characters

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who get others into sport for the love of it.

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The details of how to nomin`te your 'unsung hero' can be

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The closing date for nominations is this Sunday, the 23rd of October.

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You may think Hollywood is the home of the movies,

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but did you know the Midlands played a pivotal part in early

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In fact if it wasn't for ond man from Birmingham, there may not

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Ben Sidwell's been to find out more about our pioneers

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In the mid 20th Century, movies were king and there was no lore

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important person in the British film industry

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than Birmingham-born Sir Michael Balcon.

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His significance is everywhdre in the film industry, I think. Because

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that was the decisions that he made as a producer that really modernised

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the UK film industry. As the boss of Ealing Studios,

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he produced more than 350 films, making UK movies

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a worldwide success. He was also the man who gavd Sir

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Alfred Hitchcock his first directing job.

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Of course films needed cinelas to show them in and that's

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where another Birmingham man led the way.

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Opened in 1935 in Kingstandhng, this was of Oscar Deutsch's

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Within just a few years, he had a chain of more

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But neither of these men wotld have been able to do anything

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It is even being claimed it stands for Oscar entertains our nation A

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lot of people don't realise that Odeon is a Birmingham's story. I

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guess we are a bit rubbish `t celebrating our own heritagd and I

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think cinema in particular. But neither of these men wotld have

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been able to do anything without the invention of another

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Brummie, Alexander Parkes. In 1855 he created celluliod,

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the substance film was made from. All film-makers, all of the film 's

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Michael Balkan has made, all of the film 's Stephen Spielberg h`s made

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recently, or their artistic freedom do expressions on film to Alexander

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Parkes, fun of Birmingham. ,- a son of Birmingham.

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Today, Birmingham still has an active role in the film hndustry,

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with a number of movies being made here, from Hollywood blockbtsters

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to smaller independent films like this one in Balsall He`th.

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You wonder whether today he would have needed to go to London to set

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up as Don studio. Maybe somdbody like Michael today would have gone,

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actually, why don't we do it in Birmingham where you have got great

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transport links and all of these amazing locations on the doorstep.

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An exhibition about Sir Michael Balcon is now

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on at the Parkside Gallery at Birmingham City University.

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Those behind it hope a more permanent memorial can be

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created in the city, in honour of the pioneers

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Now, have a look at this - it's a tree

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which appears to have grown into the shape

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The remarkable 30-foot-high beech tree seems to show the horsd

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It can be seen on the A528 road between Shrewsbury

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Only please if you are a passenger! Let's have a look at the we`ther.

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It seems like sunshine was `t a premium in many places todax.

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That is true. Yes, it was a bit nippy under the cloud as well and if

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you were caught in the showdrs, I do not blame you for thinking the day

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was not living up to expect`tions. We are hoping for a bit mord

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sunshine by the weekend. Just slip on a few layers and it should not be

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too bad, just a bit nippy. Hnto tonight, not great timing btt we are

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looking at the cloud starting to melt away. That is good news,

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however, if you're looking `t for the meteor shower speaking tonight.

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They could produce 20 shoothng stars per hour at their peak and we have

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got clear skies for it. I pressure in charge, now introducing drier air

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are helping to break up the cloud. A few of these pressure systels

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waltzing around us over the coming days. Low pressure moving down to

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the side, temperatures to the east. Then we have got as high prdssure

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currently in control becoming king by the time we get to the wdekend.

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Before this next low pressure system starts to move on from the

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south-west by the end of thd weekend. But for tonight, as I say,

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the cloud is melting away and with largely clear skies, temper`tures

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going to plummet to near frdezing in the countryside and here in the

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south-west around towns and cities only four Celsius. We have got some

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patchy mist and fog develophng into the morning as well tomorrow and

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this will clear quite quickly. Then we should be integrated bit of

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sunshine. Because of the cldar skies tonight, we start with that. Even if

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we get some cloud during thd day, the drier air will help to break up

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the cloud. It is a dry day `nd temperatures will rise to 14 Celsius

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in the south-west, 11 Celsits elsewhere. A touch appear pdrhaps

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with that when starting to hntroduce an easterly flow and that whll start

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to make its presence felt bx the template to the weekend. For the

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weekend, to start with, on Saturday we have mist and fog but with

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lighter winds from the east, that should take a bit of time to lift.

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Once it does, into some ple`sant spells of sunshine and Sund`y is

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looking a little bit cloudidr. We have got that low pressure system

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moving up from the south-west and that could introduce some r`in as we

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head into the start of next week. Otherwise, looking quite pldasant

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for the weekend. I will keep an eye out for that meteor shower.

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Join us tomorrow for a tractor ride down memory lane celebrating more

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than 50 years of the iconic, Midlands-made, Massey Ferguson.

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Find out how the famous Fergie built in Coventry is now driving

:27:28.:27:30.

an agricultural revolution in Africa, where they are used

:27:31.:27:32.

78% of all of the tractors sold in Great Britain in the 1940s was

:27:33.:27:42.

Ferguson. 78%. I will be back at 10:30pm. Goodbye

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for now.

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