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He was caught because of a drink drive DNA test. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
This offence did cast a shadow over that community for some time when | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
the offence was committed so it is wonderful news for them. | :00:22. | :00:22. | |
72-year-old Arnold Baxter has been jailed for nine years. | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
Also tonight: How trying to break up an argument | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
The Good Samaritan who was stabbed 12 times. | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
In one quick instant lives can be torn apart and changed. For the rest | :00:36. | :00:48. | |
of my life I am going to have to live with these scars. | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
If you're eating your tea, look away now. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
Tackling the clogged-up grease and discarded wipes | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
The kindness of a complete stranger towards a couple who got married in | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
a hospice. And take away the cloud and rain and | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
add a couple of degrees to the temperature and that is tomorrow, | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
but what about the weekend? It is all in the forecast later? | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
He thought he'd got away with it, but tonight 72-year-old | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Arnold Baxter's dark past has caught up with him. | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
16 years ago he kidnapped and indecently assaulted | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
a six-year-old girl from a village in Staffordshire. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
Today his victim saw him sentenced to nine years in prison. | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
At the time a nationwide appeal to find him drew a blank. | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
In the end drink-driving and a DNA test led police to Baxter's door. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Our Staffordshire reporter Sian Grzeszczyk was in court. | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
The two faces of Arnold Baxter. On the left as he looked when he | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
abducted and sexually assaulted a six-year-old girl, on the right, | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
72-year-old on his way to prison tonight. In March 2001 police were | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
hunting for him and his crime featured on the BBC Crimewatch | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
programme. He snatched young victim and drove her away to Bolton on | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Trent and assaulted her and abandoned her. She was found alone | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
half an hour later. Until last year her attacker remained at large, | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
until DNA breakthrough. The DNA breakthrough came as a result of | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
Arnold Baxter getting arrested for a drink-drive offence, no doubt to | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
celebrate his 72nd birthday he consumed alcohol and got behind the | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
wheel of a vehicle which he subsequently crashed. When his DNA | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
was taken for the Road traffic offence it led to the DNA match for | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
this serious sexual offence of kidnap that occurred in 2001. When | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
sentencing Baxter the judge described what happened as every | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
parent 's nightmare. He said that Arnold Baxter would remain on the | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
sex offenders register for life. The parents of the victim both released | :02:58. | :02:58. | |
statements. Her mother said... I really would like to pay testament | :02:59. | :03:27. | |
really to the bravery and courage of our victim but also the victim 's | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
family and the local residents and the whole community. This offence | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
did cast a shadow over that community for some time when the | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
offence was committed so it is wonderful news for them, who can now | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
finally put it behind them and move on with the rest of their lives. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
Tonight Arnold Baxter starts his nine-year sentence knowing the dark | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
secret he thought he could keep it and has finally caught up with him. | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
This wasn't an opportunist crime was it? | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
Absolutely not. It was very well planned. Baxter lived in rugby and | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
he travelled all the way over to Staffordshire to do this. He used | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
his company car but he had put plates from a stolen car that had | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
been stolen in Peterborough on it. At the time a member of the public | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
had thought that that car and him had been acting suspiciously and she | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
had actually taken down the registration plate orbit, but of | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
course when the police tried to cross reference they couldn't find | :04:23. | :04:34. | |
it because the plates were stolen. When Baxter was originally arrested | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
last year he denied that he had ever even heard of this village or been | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
there and it was only under long questioning from the police that he | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
finally admitted what he had done. What have police now found out about | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Baxter? A number of things. They described him as a dark character | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
and alone and he had an interest in photography and he was ex-RAF and | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
was an engineer for many years. We learned in court today that he had a | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
previous conviction for indecent exposure back in 1990. | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
Thank you. On New Year's Eve Will Flint was | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
taking out ?20 from a cash point. Moments later he had | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
been stabbed 12 times. The 27-year-old fitness enthusiast, | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
has been scarred for life, after intervening when he saw | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
a woman being attacked. Today Mr Flint returned to the scene | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
of the attack for the first time. He told our Special Correspondent | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
Peter Wilson more needs to be done to stop the growing threat | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
of knife crime. William Flint had been celebrating | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
New Years Eve when he stopped in Selly Oak in Birmingham | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
at a cash machine. Will stepped in to help, | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
but the man turned on him, It's bringing back some | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
emotions, I guess. Lots of people are | :05:34. | :05:49. | |
calling you a have-a-go I'm no hero at all, I'm | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
just a regular guy who wanted to use a cashpoint and | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
saw something bad going on and wanted to help, I would do anything | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
I could to help and I wouldn't call I think most decent people | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
would do the same thing. Will suffered a collapsed | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
lung, ruptered spleen The knifeman, 18-year-old | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
Aidan Morrissey, was jailed But what's the police advice | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
about intervening to stop a crime? If people are carrying knives | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
they are extremely dangerous and I could not encourage people | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
to intervene in those circumstances. They need to call 909 and get | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
emergency services to the scene Before the attack Will Flint had | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
been learning martial arts His instructor believes Will's | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
fitness kept him alive. Part of Will's training has | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
taught him to make himself small but also to start to angle himself | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
away from the knife, so what you can see is as he has | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
gone out of the line, and controlled the arm that has | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
minimised the amount of shots he has taken, | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
the small amount of damages he has taken has been to the side, | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
which is significant, but less life-threatening | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
than going clean into the middle. The 60 stitches and | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
collapsed lung spell the end of Will's career in physique | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
fitness competitions. He now wants to put his energy | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
into beating knife crime. Knives are very present on our | :07:18. | :07:30. | |
streets and in one quick instant Will Flint plans to take his | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
anti-knife campaign into city A jogger in Kings Heath has been | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
shot with a stun gun, as a gang The victim suffered burns, | :07:41. | :07:51. | |
whilst fighting off Police say six people | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
have reported similar incidents in South Birmingham | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
in just five days. Moseley and Acocks Green | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
were the other two areas where people claim to have been shot | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
with stun guns. Four teenage boys have been | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
arrested and bailed. A driver caught on camera weaving | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
between the barriers of a level crossing in the Black Country has | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
been condemned by Network Rail. The footage shows the silver Citroen | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
crossing the line near Oldbury, just moments before a train | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
was due to pass. British Transport Police hasn't been | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
able to identify the motorist. Controversial spit guards | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
are to be issued to all The force already uses | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
the hoods, similar to these, Its police vehicles are also | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
equipped with them, to stop suspects The move comes after significant | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
national debate, but public opinion The force says it can't | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
expect its officers to protect the public without being protected | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
themselves. Footballers who repeatedly | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
head the ball can end up suffering from dementia, | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
according to a new study. Researchers examined the brains | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
of six players known for their skill at heading the ball, | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
all of whom developed The former West Brom and England | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
striker Jeff Astle died We have followed the family 's long | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
campaign into research into this. His widow Laraine joins | :09:14. | :09:27. | |
us now from her home. What do you make of | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
the results of this study? Well, sadly, Mary, a came as no | :09:30. | :09:41. | |
surprise to us. The inquest on Jeff 15 years ago said that heading the | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
ball was an industrial disease that killed him. Although it is good to | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
get, obviously, research, it is another piece to the puzzle. It | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
didn't come as a surprise to us. We're just looking at some pictures | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
of Jeff now, family photos and photos of him heading the ball, when | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
did you first become aware that his behaviour was changing? It was when | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
we were doing fantasy football. We were doing the songs in the dressing | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
room, and the dressing room was about 20 strides away from the | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
studio and Jeff would be fine in the dressing room and he would know the | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
songs and yet going 20 strides into the studio, he would struggle to | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
remember what we had been learning all that afternoon and I did start | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
to worry. I thought, is he concerned because it is live? When we finished | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
doing the series I made an appointment at the doctors, but I | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
never, in my wildest imagination, expected to get the news that I got. | :10:51. | :11:00. | |
Laraine, the FA has said that they will fund research into this area, | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
you have had a long, long campaign, a battle really, with the FA, the | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
Football Association, to get something done. Given what they have | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
said today, does it give you any renewed hope? We were told this 15 | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
years ago, Mary. They promised us a 10-year research and after about two | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
or three years the people that they did it on, the youngsters went out | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
of the game and so, and are known to us, they just stopped all the | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
research. We had no idea they had stopped it and we were waiting for | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
the results and it was only 12 years after the Jeff 's death that a | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
reporter rang and told us the news that the research had finished years | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
and years earlier. We were a mixture of angry and shocked. And there is | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
still more to do as far as you run the family are concerned, I know. I | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
really appreciate your time this evening. Thank you very much for | :12:04. | :12:04. | |
joining us. Thank you. If you're eating right now, | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
you might want to put take a pause. It's not a pleasant subject, | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
but our sewers are getting That's clogged up grease and, | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
increasingly, discarded wipes. As Sarah Bishop reports, | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
Severn Trent are hoping a new A fatberg is like a ball | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
of slime and grease and fat. a hugely expensive | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
and needless problem. Every year, congealed and compacted | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
oil and grease accounts for three quarters of the 50,000 | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
or so blockages in But pupils at Water Mill Primary | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
School in Selly Oak are being taught Their school sits | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
in a fatberg hotspot. One fifth of Severn Trent's | :13:00. | :13:10. | |
problems are in Birmingham. Once you get it on new | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
hits like a sickly smell, like baby sick, | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
I'd say personally. So it's just rank, you can't | :13:18. | :13:18. | |
get it off for ages. Every single day Severn Trent | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
are dealing with 140 or so blockages like this, most of them caused | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
by people flushing away things they shouldn't have, or pouring things | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
down the sink they shouldn't have. So we're talking | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
fatbergs and wipebergs. There's a wipe for | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
everything these days. For cleaning the floors, | :13:41. | :13:41. | |
cleaning the bathroom, We remove about 1,500 tonnes | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
of wipes from the inlet of our sewage treatment works | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
per month and that obviously doesn't include all the ones that have | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
accumulated and our building-up within our sewers and could lead | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
to blockages and potential flooding. It's in educating the younger | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
generation, though, that the company hopes to embarrass adults | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
into changing their ways. My brother put cotton | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
buds down the toilet. My mother was putting | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
on some make-up and then she used cotton buds | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
and then I told her... Don't do it, don't | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
do it, don't do it. So the golden rules, | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
the three Ps for flashing then? Thanks for joining us | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
on Midlands Today, this is our top story tonight: Jailed for abducting | :14:24. | :14:39. | |
a six-year-old girl 16 He was caught because of | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
a drink drive DNA test. Also in tonight's programme: | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
Filling in the blanks, we find out how a collection | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
of fossils in Staffordshire is being Today we sorted out the temperatures | :14:47. | :15:00. | |
and by tomorrow we should have got rid of the fog and delivered you | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
some sunshine so there is plenty to look forward to in the forecast | :15:04. | :15:04. | |
later. If you're a regular traveller | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
on the M6, you'll probably feel a bit tense at the mention | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
of junction 10. In rush hour alone there | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
are more than 8,000 vehicles Today designs were revealed | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
for a new interchange. The ?64 million scheme | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
will provide more lanes, but some are concerned the plans | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
don't include a flyover. Here's our transport | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
correspondent, Peter Plisner. I have been commuting from my home | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
in Wolverhampton to Sutton Coldfield Doing battle with Junction 10, | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
Frazer Dukes suffers delays most mornings and, | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
like many, he's got used Junction 10 has always been | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
the place I hate the most. The number of vehicles | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
using the junction is already well over what is was designed to carry | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
and that's the cause of much fristration for the discount store | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
Poundland, which has two To be honest we have | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
now started planning Soon they might not | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
have to because this A new roundabout with four lanes | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
instead of the current two. We're going to build a new bridge | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
entirely and then come and demolish But the Highways England plans | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
have criticised by some drivers because they think a flyover | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
would be better. Some people think that | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
would be the solution here. Yes, we did look at building | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
a flyover early in the project and it was dismissed | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
on engineering grounds. You have to get it over | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
the existing junction and it But there's more than the revamp | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
of Junction 10 than just The improvement should also help | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
with the development of land It is reckoned they could create | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
around 10,000 jobs over But that does rely on Junction | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
10 being free-flowing, something that's now pretty vital | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
to the regeneration of Walsall. Everybody you talk to | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
who exists in Walsall at the moment, especially | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
big businesses or ones who want to come here, | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
the flow of traffic Whatever they want to | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
manufacture or build, they have to get it somewhere | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
and the junction has always The consultation into the junction | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
designs begin today and if all goes well the improvements should be | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
complete sometime in the year 2020. And you can find out more | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
about the junction 10 scheme, and where you can have your say | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
on the designs, on the Highways England website, highways.gov.uk | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
then search for M6 junction 10. The UK has been given a final | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
warning for breaching European air pollution limits, | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
and Birmingham has been named among The European Commission was warned | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
the Government it must take urgent action over air quality with two | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
months or it could take the matter It says more than 400,000 people | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
died prematurely in the EU every year as a result of poor air | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
quality. The West Midlands has seen | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
the largest rise in unemployment In the three months to December | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
the total number out It means the current unemployment | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
rate in the West Midlands is 5.9%. How do you restore something | :18:24. | :18:34. | |
which is thousands of years old? A project to restore | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
a collection of fossils The Geological Gallery | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
at Biddulph Grange Garden is run After years of neglect, | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
they're trying to fill in holes in the walls at the gallery, | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
by making replicas of I had to find fossils | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
of the right sort of age, from the right sort of time period, | :18:51. | :19:02. | |
and also the right Nigel Larkin is a man | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
on a mission, a prehistoric We have these holes in the wall | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
that we can't change, they are the size that they are | :19:09. | :19:20. | |
so we have to find the right sort of animal that James Bateman | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
would have put on the wall. This is the Biddulph | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Grange Geological Gallery. In 1862 it was designed | :19:29. | :19:29. | |
by James Bateman to explain evolution and creation, and | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
once had huge collection of fossils but it's been damaged over the years | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
and has a palaeontologist it's Nigel's job to get it | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
back in prime condition, but that means he's | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
hunting for fossils. The originals of these | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
fossils were collected know that they are from the right | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
sort of site and found at the right sort of time for Bateman using | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
similar fossils, and there's then We know that this is | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
bothriole pis canadensis, that it's from a very | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
particular rock deposit. For days one and two | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
in the gallery Nigel has just four fossils left to find, including | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
something to fill this giant hole, so today we are off | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
to Manchester Museum to find out So it's a quick trip up | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
the M6 to Manchester where the university's museum archive | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
might hold the key piece. I have got a few things to show you. | :20:15. | :20:30. | |
Excellent, thank you. Not everyone can get access like this but | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
restoring important archive is something the museum are pleased to | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
be a part of. There was something I thought would be particularly good | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
just here which is limestone with all sorts of bits in it. It has a | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
shelf onto trilobites and it is quite old, about 430 million years | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
old. Another fossil successfully tracked down which Niger will now | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
borrow and copy to go on the wall at Biddulph Grange. Just 30 more to | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
find! That is a great actor statement, | :21:03. | :21:03. | |
quite old! The Aston Villa manager, | :21:04. | :21:04. | |
Steve Bruce, says his players must learn to handle the pressure | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
of playing for a big club. They lost at home for the second | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
time in three days last night. And Bruce wasn't | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
the only unhappy boss. None of the other seven Midlands | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
clubs in action could manage a win.. Nick Clitheroe rounds up a poor | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
night for our clubs. Since the start of 2017 Aston Villa | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
have the worst record of any team They've managed just one | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
point from seven matches. Last night's 3-1 home defeat | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
by Barnsley was played in front of their lowest crowd of the season | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
and they failed to make any impression even | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
after Jonathan Kodjia briefly gave Birmingham City aren't | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
much better off. They've still only won once in 13 | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
games since Gianfranco Zola Che Adams equalised for them | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
at Preston before they lost Wolves have been outstanding | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
in the FA Cup but they're still too close to the Championship relegation | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
zone for comfort. Like Villa last night's home defeat | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
by Wigan was their second this week. Coventry City were seconds away | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
from a vital win at Wimbledon There was a lot of huffing and | :21:53. | :22:04. | |
puffing but without the intensity or quality that we have been playing | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
with recently is so that was disappointing. | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
Coventry City were seconds away from a vital win at Wimbledon | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
But a last minute equaliser means they're now 11 points from safety. | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Joe Edwards was close to giving Walsall victory but they were fairly | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
happy with a point at second place Scunthorpe. | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
Stephen Humphrys penalty looked like giving Shrewsbury | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
another important win, until he was later sent off | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
and Peterborough fought back to take the points. | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
Port Vale slipped deeper into trouble as they went down 2-0 | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
at Millwall and now lie just three points above the League | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
Cheltenham Town are even closer to danger in League Two. | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
Only goal difference leaves them above the bottom two | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
Let's move something a little more positive. | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
You may not know, but today is Random Acts of Kindness Day. | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
And this story fits the bill perfectly. | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
A couple who got married in a hospice have sent | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
their heartfelt thanks to a total stranger. | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
Paul Bruce, who has terminal cancer, tied the knot with Emma Davies | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
and when a customer at the florist heard their story, he insisted | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
Paul Bruce and Emma Davies got married at Mary Stevens Hospice | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
For much of the five years they ve been together, | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
Paul's had cancer and didn't feel up to being filmed today. | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
But they want to thank a complete stranger who made their Valentine's | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
Here's Emma with her bouquet shortly beforehand. | :23:19. | :23:34. | |
And here are the rest of the flowers, which | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
collected from the florist, and was taken aback by the reaction | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
The gentleman in the shop overheard me saying others from the local | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
hospice and he stepped in and said he would like to pay for the flowers | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
for the couple getting married. What was your reaction? Overwhelmed | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
really. Just surprised at his act of genuine human kindness. | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
The wedding was arranged with just 24 hours notice. | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
Paul realised that it was Valentine's Day the next day and he | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
had not got round to marrying him, which was something I had expressed | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
that he had wanted to do and he was quite upset about the fact and it is | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
said to the nurses, I haven't married Emma, and they said, don't | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
worry, we can help you and we can sort it out, so we managed to | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
arrange the wedding within 24 hours, which meant writing to the | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
Archbishop of Canterbury to get a special licence and getting flowers. | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
This is the florist in Southbridge that made the bouquets at a moments | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
notice on one of their busiest days of the year. | :24:39. | :24:39. | |
They were never going to charge full price in the circumstances, | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
but the mystery customer's generosity touched them. | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
Everybody was speechless really. Must be so emotional. It was, even | :24:46. | :24:55. | |
listening to the story, and then for somebody else just to say out of the | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
blue, I'll pay for them. Paul and Emma say the kind act | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
made their special day even more so. If you were watching | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
yesterday you may remember Molly the rescue dog who had | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
a pacemaker fitted after Well, you'll be pleased | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
to know she's doing well! Here she is with Chris Linney | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
at the Willows Veterinary They tell us she had a peaceful | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
and rested night and recovered Not the cheeriest of weather, | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
Shefali, can you offer Affirmative. I should be able to | :25:26. | :25:37. | |
manage it. It won't take much really to improve on today, will it? Just a | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
hint of brightness would be enough. We had fog this morning and quite | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
widespread across the region and it lifted into cloud and we had quite a | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
bit of rain to round off the day. Signs of spring all over the place, | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
encouraged by the temperatures. These were our finishing numbers. | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
Highs of 11 across the south of the region, compared with eight in the | :26:00. | :26:01. | |
north. Eight is the average for the time of | :26:02. | :26:23. | |
year. To end the day we had some bouncing rain here in Warwickshire | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
and across the East. It is all heading to the east so we will see | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
drier conditions this evening and overnight. A ridge of high pressure | :26:29. | :26:30. | |
building which will insert itself over the east by the weekend. Any of | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
these incoming fronts crossing the region should be greatly weakened. | :26:34. | :26:35. | |
The rain should not be too wet over the weekend or the coming days but | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
great weather over the weekend for getting out and about. It stays | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
largely dry and we should see some sunnier spells and stay mild | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
weather. This evening we see this rain just clearing the north-east. | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
We will start to see drier conditions taking over later tonight | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
and clearer skies as well as the cloud breaks up. Temperatures drop | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
to a minimum of three here in the south-west and generally speaking | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
the temperatures are above freezing so we're not looking for thrust into | :26:59. | :27:10. | |
the morning tomorrow but we may see pockets of mist to start the day. | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
Nothing as extensive as we have had this morning. Quite a bright start | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
to the day for many and we see sunny spells developing through the day. | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
Just the odd shower but it is mainly dry picture and temperatures will | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
respond to the sunshine and we will see highs of ten or 11. Into the | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
tight -- into tonight and tomorrow we see the clearer spells starting | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
to clear away to more cloud as it starts to thicken up from the west | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
so it will be a cloudy start to Friday and mainly dry with some | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
brightness over the weekend. Tomorrow looks great. Thank you! | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
when farmers leave their daily routines behind... | :27:43. | :27:59. | |
Right, here we come, Dorset! ..for a show day. | :28:00. | :28:03. |