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He was caught because of a drink drive DNA test.

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This offence did cast a shadow over that community for some time when

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the offence was committed so it is wonderful news for them.

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72-year-old Arnold Baxter has been jailed for nine years.

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Also tonight: How trying to break up an argument

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The Good Samaritan who was stabbed 12 times.

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In one quick instant lives can be torn apart and changed. For the rest

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of my life I am going to have to live with these scars.

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If you're eating your tea, look away now.

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Tackling the clogged-up grease and discarded wipes

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The kindness of a complete stranger towards a couple who got married in

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a hospice. And take away the cloud and rain and

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add a couple of degrees to the temperature and that is tomorrow,

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but what about the weekend? It is all in the forecast later?

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He thought he'd got away with it, but tonight 72-year-old

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Arnold Baxter's dark past has caught up with him.

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16 years ago he kidnapped and indecently assaulted

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a six-year-old girl from a village in Staffordshire.

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Today his victim saw him sentenced to nine years in prison.

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At the time a nationwide appeal to find him drew a blank.

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In the end drink-driving and a DNA test led police to Baxter's door.

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Our Staffordshire reporter Sian Grzeszczyk was in court.

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The two faces of Arnold Baxter. On the left as he looked when he

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abducted and sexually assaulted a six-year-old girl, on the right,

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72-year-old on his way to prison tonight. In March 2001 police were

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hunting for him and his crime featured on the BBC Crimewatch

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programme. He snatched young victim and drove her away to Bolton on

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Trent and assaulted her and abandoned her. She was found alone

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half an hour later. Until last year her attacker remained at large,

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until DNA breakthrough. The DNA breakthrough came as a result of

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Arnold Baxter getting arrested for a drink-drive offence, no doubt to

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celebrate his 72nd birthday he consumed alcohol and got behind the

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wheel of a vehicle which he subsequently crashed. When his DNA

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was taken for the Road traffic offence it led to the DNA match for

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this serious sexual offence of kidnap that occurred in 2001. When

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sentencing Baxter the judge described what happened as every

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parent 's nightmare. He said that Arnold Baxter would remain on the

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sex offenders register for life. The parents of the victim both released

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statements. Her mother said... I really would like to pay testament

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really to the bravery and courage of our victim but also the victim 's

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family and the local residents and the whole community. This offence

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did cast a shadow over that community for some time when the

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offence was committed so it is wonderful news for them, who can now

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finally put it behind them and move on with the rest of their lives.

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Tonight Arnold Baxter starts his nine-year sentence knowing the dark

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secret he thought he could keep it and has finally caught up with him.

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This wasn't an opportunist crime was it?

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Absolutely not. It was very well planned. Baxter lived in rugby and

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he travelled all the way over to Staffordshire to do this. He used

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his company car but he had put plates from a stolen car that had

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been stolen in Peterborough on it. At the time a member of the public

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had thought that that car and him had been acting suspiciously and she

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had actually taken down the registration plate orbit, but of

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course when the police tried to cross reference they couldn't find

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it because the plates were stolen. When Baxter was originally arrested

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last year he denied that he had ever even heard of this village or been

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there and it was only under long questioning from the police that he

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finally admitted what he had done. What have police now found out about

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Baxter? A number of things. They described him as a dark character

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and alone and he had an interest in photography and he was ex-RAF and

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was an engineer for many years. We learned in court today that he had a

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previous conviction for indecent exposure back in 1990.

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Thank you. On New Year's Eve Will Flint was

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taking out ?20 from a cash point. Moments later he had

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been stabbed 12 times. The 27-year-old fitness enthusiast,

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has been scarred for life, after intervening when he saw

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a woman being attacked. Today Mr Flint returned to the scene

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of the attack for the first time. He told our Special Correspondent

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Peter Wilson more needs to be done to stop the growing threat

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of knife crime. William Flint had been celebrating

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New Years Eve when he stopped in Selly Oak in Birmingham

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at a cash machine. Will stepped in to help,

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but the man turned on him, It's bringing back some

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emotions, I guess. Lots of people are

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calling you a have-a-go I'm no hero at all, I'm

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just a regular guy who wanted to use a cashpoint and

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saw something bad going on and wanted to help, I would do anything

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I could to help and I wouldn't call I think most decent people

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would do the same thing. Will suffered a collapsed

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lung, ruptered spleen The knifeman, 18-year-old

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Aidan Morrissey, was jailed But what's the police advice

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about intervening to stop a crime? If people are carrying knives

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they are extremely dangerous and I could not encourage people

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to intervene in those circumstances. They need to call 909 and get

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emergency services to the scene Before the attack Will Flint had

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been learning martial arts His instructor believes Will's

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fitness kept him alive. Part of Will's training has

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taught him to make himself small but also to start to angle himself

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away from the knife, so what you can see is as he has

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gone out of the line, and controlled the arm that has

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minimised the amount of shots he has taken,

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the small amount of damages he has taken has been to the side,

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which is significant, but less life-threatening

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than going clean into the middle. The 60 stitches and

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collapsed lung spell the end of Will's career in physique

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fitness competitions. He now wants to put his energy

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into beating knife crime. Knives are very present on our

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streets and in one quick instant Will Flint plans to take his

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anti-knife campaign into city A jogger in Kings Heath has been

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shot with a stun gun, as a gang The victim suffered burns,

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whilst fighting off Police say six people

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have reported similar incidents in South Birmingham

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in just five days. Moseley and Acocks Green

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were the other two areas where people claim to have been shot

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with stun guns. Four teenage boys have been

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arrested and bailed. A driver caught on camera weaving

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between the barriers of a level crossing in the Black Country has

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been condemned by Network Rail. The footage shows the silver Citroen

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crossing the line near Oldbury, just moments before a train

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was due to pass. British Transport Police hasn't been

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able to identify the motorist. Controversial spit guards

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are to be issued to all The force already uses

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the hoods, similar to these, Its police vehicles are also

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equipped with them, to stop suspects The move comes after significant

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national debate, but public opinion The force says it can't

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expect its officers to protect the public without being protected

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themselves. Footballers who repeatedly

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head the ball can end up suffering from dementia,

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according to a new study. Researchers examined the brains

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of six players known for their skill at heading the ball,

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all of whom developed The former West Brom and England

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striker Jeff Astle died We have followed the family 's long

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campaign into research into this. His widow Laraine joins

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us now from her home. What do you make of

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the results of this study? Well, sadly, Mary, a came as no

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surprise to us. The inquest on Jeff 15 years ago said that heading the

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ball was an industrial disease that killed him. Although it is good to

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get, obviously, research, it is another piece to the puzzle. It

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didn't come as a surprise to us. We're just looking at some pictures

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of Jeff now, family photos and photos of him heading the ball, when

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did you first become aware that his behaviour was changing? It was when

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we were doing fantasy football. We were doing the songs in the dressing

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room, and the dressing room was about 20 strides away from the

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studio and Jeff would be fine in the dressing room and he would know the

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songs and yet going 20 strides into the studio, he would struggle to

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remember what we had been learning all that afternoon and I did start

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to worry. I thought, is he concerned because it is live? When we finished

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doing the series I made an appointment at the doctors, but I

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never, in my wildest imagination, expected to get the news that I got.

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Laraine, the FA has said that they will fund research into this area,

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you have had a long, long campaign, a battle really, with the FA, the

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Football Association, to get something done. Given what they have

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said today, does it give you any renewed hope? We were told this 15

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years ago, Mary. They promised us a 10-year research and after about two

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or three years the people that they did it on, the youngsters went out

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of the game and so, and are known to us, they just stopped all the

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research. We had no idea they had stopped it and we were waiting for

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the results and it was only 12 years after the Jeff 's death that a

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reporter rang and told us the news that the research had finished years

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and years earlier. We were a mixture of angry and shocked. And there is

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still more to do as far as you run the family are concerned, I know. I

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really appreciate your time this evening. Thank you very much for

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joining us. Thank you. If you're eating right now,

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you might want to put take a pause. It's not a pleasant subject,

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but our sewers are getting That's clogged up grease and,

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increasingly, discarded wipes. As Sarah Bishop reports,

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Severn Trent are hoping a new A fatberg is like a ball

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of slime and grease and fat. a hugely expensive

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and needless problem. Every year, congealed and compacted

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oil and grease accounts for three quarters of the 50,000

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or so blockages in But pupils at Water Mill Primary

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School in Selly Oak are being taught Their school sits

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in a fatberg hotspot. One fifth of Severn Trent's

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problems are in Birmingham. Once you get it on new

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hits like a sickly smell, like baby sick,

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I'd say personally. So it's just rank, you can't

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get it off for ages. Every single day Severn Trent

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are dealing with 140 or so blockages like this, most of them caused

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by people flushing away things they shouldn't have, or pouring things

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down the sink they shouldn't have. So we're talking

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fatbergs and wipebergs. There's a wipe for

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everything these days. For cleaning the floors,

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cleaning the bathroom, We remove about 1,500 tonnes

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of wipes from the inlet of our sewage treatment works

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per month and that obviously doesn't include all the ones that have

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accumulated and our building-up within our sewers and could lead

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to blockages and potential flooding. It's in educating the younger

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generation, though, that the company hopes to embarrass adults

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into changing their ways. My brother put cotton

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buds down the toilet. My mother was putting

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on some make-up and then she used cotton buds

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and then I told her... Don't do it, don't

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do it, don't do it. So the golden rules,

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the three Ps for flashing then? Thanks for joining us

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on Midlands Today, this is our top story tonight: Jailed for abducting

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a six-year-old girl 16 He was caught because of

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a drink drive DNA test. Also in tonight's programme:

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Filling in the blanks, we find out how a collection

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of fossils in Staffordshire is being Today we sorted out the temperatures

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and by tomorrow we should have got rid of the fog and delivered you

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some sunshine so there is plenty to look forward to in the forecast

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later. If you're a regular traveller

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on the M6, you'll probably feel a bit tense at the mention

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of junction 10. In rush hour alone there

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are more than 8,000 vehicles Today designs were revealed

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for a new interchange. The ?64 million scheme

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will provide more lanes, but some are concerned the plans

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don't include a flyover. Here's our transport

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correspondent, Peter Plisner. I have been commuting from my home

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in Wolverhampton to Sutton Coldfield Doing battle with Junction 10,

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Frazer Dukes suffers delays most mornings and,

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like many, he's got used Junction 10 has always been

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the place I hate the most. The number of vehicles

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using the junction is already well over what is was designed to carry

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and that's the cause of much fristration for the discount store

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Poundland, which has two To be honest we have

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now started planning Soon they might not

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have to because this A new roundabout with four lanes

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instead of the current two. We're going to build a new bridge

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entirely and then come and demolish But the Highways England plans

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have criticised by some drivers because they think a flyover

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would be better. Some people think that

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would be the solution here. Yes, we did look at building

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a flyover early in the project and it was dismissed

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on engineering grounds. You have to get it over

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the existing junction and it But there's more than the revamp

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of Junction 10 than just The improvement should also help

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with the development of land It is reckoned they could create

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around 10,000 jobs over But that does rely on Junction

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10 being free-flowing, something that's now pretty vital

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to the regeneration of Walsall. Everybody you talk to

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who exists in Walsall at the moment, especially

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big businesses or ones who want to come here,

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the flow of traffic Whatever they want to

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manufacture or build, they have to get it somewhere

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and the junction has always The consultation into the junction

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designs begin today and if all goes well the improvements should be

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complete sometime in the year 2020. And you can find out more

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about the junction 10 scheme, and where you can have your say

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on the designs, on the Highways England website, highways.gov.uk

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then search for M6 junction 10. The UK has been given a final

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warning for breaching European air pollution limits,

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and Birmingham has been named among The European Commission was warned

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the Government it must take urgent action over air quality with two

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months or it could take the matter It says more than 400,000 people

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died prematurely in the EU every year as a result of poor air

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quality. The West Midlands has seen

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the largest rise in unemployment In the three months to December

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the total number out It means the current unemployment

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rate in the West Midlands is 5.9%. How do you restore something

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which is thousands of years old? A project to restore

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a collection of fossils The Geological Gallery

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at Biddulph Grange Garden is run After years of neglect,

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they're trying to fill in holes in the walls at the gallery,

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by making replicas of I had to find fossils

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of the right sort of age, from the right sort of time period,

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and also the right Nigel Larkin is a man

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on a mission, a prehistoric We have these holes in the wall

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that we can't change, they are the size that they are

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so we have to find the right sort of animal that James Bateman

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would have put on the wall. This is the Biddulph

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Grange Geological Gallery. In 1862 it was designed

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by James Bateman to explain evolution and creation, and

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once had huge collection of fossils but it's been damaged over the years

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and has a palaeontologist it's Nigel's job to get it

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back in prime condition, but that means he's

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hunting for fossils. The originals of these

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fossils were collected know that they are from the right

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sort of site and found at the right sort of time for Bateman using

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similar fossils, and there's then We know that this is

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bothriole pis canadensis, that it's from a very

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particular rock deposit. For days one and two

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in the gallery Nigel has just four fossils left to find, including

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something to fill this giant hole, so today we are off

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to Manchester Museum to find out So it's a quick trip up

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the M6 to Manchester where the university's museum archive

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might hold the key piece. I have got a few things to show you.

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Excellent, thank you. Not everyone can get access like this but

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restoring important archive is something the museum are pleased to

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be a part of. There was something I thought would be particularly good

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just here which is limestone with all sorts of bits in it. It has a

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shelf onto trilobites and it is quite old, about 430 million years

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old. Another fossil successfully tracked down which Niger will now

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borrow and copy to go on the wall at Biddulph Grange. Just 30 more to

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find! That is a great actor statement,

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quite old! The Aston Villa manager,

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Steve Bruce, says his players must learn to handle the pressure

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of playing for a big club. They lost at home for the second

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time in three days last night. And Bruce wasn't

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the only unhappy boss. None of the other seven Midlands

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clubs in action could manage a win.. Nick Clitheroe rounds up a poor

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night for our clubs. Since the start of 2017 Aston Villa

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have the worst record of any team They've managed just one

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point from seven matches. Last night's 3-1 home defeat

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by Barnsley was played in front of their lowest crowd of the season

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and they failed to make any impression even

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after Jonathan Kodjia briefly gave Birmingham City aren't

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much better off. They've still only won once in 13

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games since Gianfranco Zola Che Adams equalised for them

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at Preston before they lost Wolves have been outstanding

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in the FA Cup but they're still too close to the Championship relegation

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zone for comfort. Like Villa last night's home defeat

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by Wigan was their second this week. Coventry City were seconds away

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from a vital win at Wimbledon There was a lot of huffing and

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puffing but without the intensity or quality that we have been playing

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with recently is so that was disappointing.

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Coventry City were seconds away from a vital win at Wimbledon

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But a last minute equaliser means they're now 11 points from safety.

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Joe Edwards was close to giving Walsall victory but they were fairly

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happy with a point at second place Scunthorpe.

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Stephen Humphrys penalty looked like giving Shrewsbury

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another important win, until he was later sent off

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and Peterborough fought back to take the points.

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Port Vale slipped deeper into trouble as they went down 2-0

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at Millwall and now lie just three points above the League

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Cheltenham Town are even closer to danger in League Two.

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Only goal difference leaves them above the bottom two

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Let's move something a little more positive.

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You may not know, but today is Random Acts of Kindness Day.

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And this story fits the bill perfectly.

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A couple who got married in a hospice have sent

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their heartfelt thanks to a total stranger.

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Paul Bruce, who has terminal cancer, tied the knot with Emma Davies

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and when a customer at the florist heard their story, he insisted

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Paul Bruce and Emma Davies got married at Mary Stevens Hospice

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For much of the five years they ve been together,

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Paul's had cancer and didn't feel up to being filmed today.

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But they want to thank a complete stranger who made their Valentine's

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Here's Emma with her bouquet shortly beforehand.

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And here are the rest of the flowers, which

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collected from the florist, and was taken aback by the reaction

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The gentleman in the shop overheard me saying others from the local

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hospice and he stepped in and said he would like to pay for the flowers

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for the couple getting married. What was your reaction? Overwhelmed

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really. Just surprised at his act of genuine human kindness.

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The wedding was arranged with just 24 hours notice.

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Paul realised that it was Valentine's Day the next day and he

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had not got round to marrying him, which was something I had expressed

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that he had wanted to do and he was quite upset about the fact and it is

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said to the nurses, I haven't married Emma, and they said, don't

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worry, we can help you and we can sort it out, so we managed to

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arrange the wedding within 24 hours, which meant writing to the

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Archbishop of Canterbury to get a special licence and getting flowers.

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This is the florist in Southbridge that made the bouquets at a moments

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notice on one of their busiest days of the year.

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They were never going to charge full price in the circumstances,

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but the mystery customer's generosity touched them.

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Everybody was speechless really. Must be so emotional. It was, even

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listening to the story, and then for somebody else just to say out of the

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blue, I'll pay for them. Paul and Emma say the kind act

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made their special day even more so. If you were watching

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yesterday you may remember Molly the rescue dog who had

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a pacemaker fitted after Well, you'll be pleased

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to know she's doing well! Here she is with Chris Linney

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at the Willows Veterinary They tell us she had a peaceful

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and rested night and recovered Not the cheeriest of weather,

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Shefali, can you offer Affirmative. I should be able to

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manage it. It won't take much really to improve on today, will it? Just a

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hint of brightness would be enough. We had fog this morning and quite

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widespread across the region and it lifted into cloud and we had quite a

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bit of rain to round off the day. Signs of spring all over the place,

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encouraged by the temperatures. These were our finishing numbers.

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Highs of 11 across the south of the region, compared with eight in the

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north. Eight is the average for the time of

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year. To end the day we had some bouncing rain here in Warwickshire

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and across the East. It is all heading to the east so we will see

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drier conditions this evening and overnight. A ridge of high pressure

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building which will insert itself over the east by the weekend. Any of

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these incoming fronts crossing the region should be greatly weakened.

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The rain should not be too wet over the weekend or the coming days but

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great weather over the weekend for getting out and about. It stays

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largely dry and we should see some sunnier spells and stay mild

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weather. This evening we see this rain just clearing the north-east.

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We will start to see drier conditions taking over later tonight

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and clearer skies as well as the cloud breaks up. Temperatures drop

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to a minimum of three here in the south-west and generally speaking

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the temperatures are above freezing so we're not looking for thrust into

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the morning tomorrow but we may see pockets of mist to start the day.

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Nothing as extensive as we have had this morning. Quite a bright start

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to the day for many and we see sunny spells developing through the day.

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Just the odd shower but it is mainly dry picture and temperatures will

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respond to the sunshine and we will see highs of ten or 11. Into the

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tight -- into tonight and tomorrow we see the clearer spells starting

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to clear away to more cloud as it starts to thicken up from the west

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so it will be a cloudy start to Friday and mainly dry with some

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brightness over the weekend. Tomorrow looks great. Thank you!

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when farmers leave their daily routines behind...

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Right, here we come, Dorset! ..for a show day.

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