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A reminder of the day's main story... The | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Failed by a number of agencies: baby Keegan Downer should never have been | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
placed in the care of the woman who went on to murder her. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
The death of any child that we are responsible for this | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
tragedy but we will learn from that tragedy, we | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
are here today, we are very clear about what is already very different | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
A serious case review blames flawed and incomplete assessments. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
A serious case review blames flawed and incomplete assessments. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
The growing scourge of fly-tipping: experts say they're dealing | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
We need to tackle it together, we need | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
need witnesses and importantly we need people to stop putting their | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Find out why I'm back in the Midlands on Midlands Today, | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Recreating history: a classic old Austin set to drive to seven | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
European capitals in seven days just as it did 70 years ago. | :00:56. | :01:04. | |
And although it's been wet and miserable today has been the calm | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
before the storm, storm Doris, with strong gusts of wind expected | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
tomorrow and heavy rain. All the details later. | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
Toddler Keegan Downer should "never have been placed "with the woman | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
That's according to a Serious Case Review carried out | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Keegan was born in March 2014 and placed into foster care | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
soon after her birth, but, in January 2015, | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Birmingham City Council placed her with Kandyce Downer, | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
a distant relative who became her legal guardian. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Nine months later, in September 2015, Keegan died after suffering | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
Kandyce Downer was found guilty last year and sentenced | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
Today the review was published into the role the local authority | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
Little Keegan - born Shianne - seen here happy and flourishing | :02:03. | :02:12. | |
But that all changed when she went to live with Kandyce Downer, | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
a distant relative who had been awarded a Special Guardianship Order | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
Just nine months later, she was dead. | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
A serious case review into the toddler's death has | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
found she was failed by a number of agencies. | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
For example, a health visitor only ever made one | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
visit, not long after Kandyce became her guardian. | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
Keegan did not have a flag or red code on her medical notes to say | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
she was effectively adopted, and was not seen by a GP | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
And there was no further contact made by Children's Social Care. | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
Well that was one of our failings and we had no | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
expectations set out in policy either that we should do those | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
visits and that is part of what we've changed. | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
There does need to be ongoing support and indeed part of | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
our expectation needs to be that there is | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
a working relationship with | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
placements. Not if you like some privacy | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
that some very distant relationship means | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
you've got an automatic right to dependency | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
of the child without supervision. | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
The initial assessment of whether Kandyce Downer should | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
become a special guardian was carried out by an external | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
And the report says Downer was given too much power to control | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
With the benefit of hindsight, that was just | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
not good enough and that wouldn't happen now. | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
I think one of the other things that has changed and that | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
needs to be ensured by this case is that those universal services | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
that would be involving the GP, the | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
health visitor, will absolutely know and that this child is on a special | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
Greater awareness within the wider society is also something | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
that the children's charity, the NSPCC is calling for. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
I think it is really important that changes have | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
happened, but of course just tragic in this case that it was too late | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
for this individual child, but changes | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
will need to happen for the | :04:12. | :04:12. | |
What is also really important is that any member of the | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
public also helps social services and the police and comes forward | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
Birmingham City Council says it's taken further steps | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
Has anyone been sacked over Keegan's death? | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Employment action has been taken to the regulator, | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
and those people are no longer working with us. | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
So people have been sacked? Yes. | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
Birmingham Children's Services is to be taken over | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
Amy Cole, BBC Midlands Today, Birmingham. | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
In a moment, we'll be talking to Danielle McKinney. | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
Danielle was taken into care as a child in Birmingham | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
after suffering domestic abuse at home. | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
Altogether, she lived in 39 different care homes, | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
ran away repeatedly and was raped three times as a teenager. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
She told her story in the BBC documentary A Dangerous | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
I don't think any of us ever felt safe. | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
And Danielle joins me now, good evening, Danielle. | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
What's your reaction to this serious case review about Keegan? | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
Really sad, to be honest. Am I surprised, no. Yet again, it's just | :05:24. | :05:33. | |
another innocent life and to be honest it's just so sad because it | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
could have been avoided. Again we hear, failed by a number of | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
agencies. Well, I have always said it is not just one department or, | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
you know, a specific area in that department it is the whole... The | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
Birmingham City Council need a whole total revamp. This list in six | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
months seen not by one the health worker. What do they expect? Did | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
they even check the relationship between the child and it wasn't her | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
auntie, was it, they won't even blood related. A distant related. | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
Social workers are all caring and committed from what I see, I know | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
some personally, I just don't understand where it all goes wrong. | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
They overwhelmed? Personally, I don't know which social workers you | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
been meeting but... You know, as far as I'm concerned every child isn't | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
like that as individuals, they are looked at as paperwork, and | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
caseload. And the one but I know, you know, they haven't got the best | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
interest of the child at heart. You would probably find one in ten maybe | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
that's... What is the answer? To be honest, the whole of the departments | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
need a total revamp. And it's all right them sacking a view of the | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
little runaround people at the bottom but they were ordered, and | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
then those people were ordered, the whole line of professionals that was | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
involved with Keegan should have been sacked, as far as I'm | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
concerned. And also, personally, I think that the law should be | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
changed, and people, the social workers and the professionals | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
involved that have failed this child and many others, they should be | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
actually... They should be trialled themselves because they have | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
actually somehow facilitated this death as well. It's all right just | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
sacking if you saying "We've done this and bad, you know? It's | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
happened too many times, now. It's too much it too often. They really | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
need a total revamp and we've heard about this trust coming in, you | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
know, because Birmingham City Council know that they've totally | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
failed, so we will have to try and see what happens with this trust. We | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
will leave it there. 20 so much for talking to us about this very, very | :08:02. | :08:02. | |
tragic story. Shropshire Staffordshire and | :08:03. | :08:13. | |
Birmingham have been affected by fly-tipping in the past few years. | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
On Monday evening council waste enforcement officers were called | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
waste enforcement officers were called | :08:20. | :08:20. | |
to a lane in Kings Norton after more than a hundred fridges were dumped . | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
Today, officers started the work to remove them and investigations | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
are now underway to identify who those responsible. | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
The clear up begins 110 fridges were dumped in this lane | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
The council says people should avoid unwittingly fuelling their business. | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
While we would say to people is don't put your fridges and freezers | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
out into the street for the metal collectors because this is what | :08:47. | :08:47. | |
happens to them. We would say either get the retailer | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
to put them away put them in your car and take them | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
to the recycling or if you can't do Birmingham City Council's | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
being called out to fly-tipping in North Staffordshire....despite | :08:58. | :09:06. | |
a padlocked gate - around 500 tonnes of waste | :09:07. | :09:16. | |
was dumped almost a month ago This is an ocean of devastation, I | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
am appalled and I hate it. I'm actually hating the fact that these | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
people, whoever has done this, right the way round down to our first | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
commission. People use this on a daily basis. | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
with information to help solve this crime | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
The fridges now will be forensically tested to try to find the culprits, | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
who could face an unlimited fine or a prison sentence | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
You've been sending us emails and commenting | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
on facebook and Twitter about this | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
Brum @bordesleygreen tweeted "every day something is fly-tipped, | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
it's removed then something else gets dumped" | :10:05. | :10:05. | |
Peter Styles emailed "There are two problems - | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
"it now costs over ?80 a tonne to tip waste | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
"the lack of co-ordination between the agencies concerned. | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Jane Moore posted on facebook: "This is commercial waste dumped | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
"by companies that have been paid to process but don't want to pay | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
"Make no mistake we are all paying for these scumbag's dirty deeds, | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
"money that could well be spent on social care. | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
Thank you to all for getting in touch. | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
Two men have been sentenced to a total of 22 years in prison | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
for sexually exploiting a teenager in Coventry. | :10:43. | :10:43. | |
24-year-old Martin Cantle and 26-year-old Thomas Entwistle | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
were sentenced to 11 years each after being found guilty | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
of controlling child prostitution and supplying controlled drugs. | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
The charges relate to a 17-year-old girl who was groomed | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
Police searching for missing man Dean Jones from Birmingham have | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
Brenda Proctor, who rose to prominence during the Miners | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
Brenda who was from Sneyd Green ran the North Staffordshire | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
Miners Wives' Action Group and was an active member | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
of Women Against Pit closures for more than 30 years. | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
In a little over twelve hours' time, the polls will open after what's | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
been the Midlands' hardest-fought by-election for nearly | :11:17. | :11:17. | |
Stoke Central has been a Labour seat for 67 years. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
This time, though, the outcome is anything | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
Our political editor Patrick Burns is here. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
Why exactly is there so much riding on this? | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
The weather's turning stormy, and Stoke Central has | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
had its own "perfect storm", ever since Tristram Hunt | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
He's triggered the first big test of opinion in one | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
of Labour's 'core' areas, where almost seventy percent defied | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
Their candidate Gareth Snell condemned Brexit in the strongest | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
If he can't hang on here, it begs the question whether there's | :11:54. | :12:05. | |
any such thing as a safe Labour seat outside the big cities. | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
Ukip's Paul Nuttall will hope to capitalise on Brexit. | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
But again, if he can't win, it'll reinforce suspicions that | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
They're no longer the only Brexit party in town: the Conservative, | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
Jack Brereton, is convinced he can make a real three-horse | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
Yes, and Theresa May came to support him in Stoke on Monday. How | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
significant is that? And she wouldn't have come anywhere | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
near Stoke if the Tories didn't think they had enough support, | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
at the very least, to blunt Ukip's challenge sufficiently | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
for Labour to hang on. Cynical as it may sound, | :12:43. | :12:43. | |
anything that helps secure Jeremy Corbyn's position may well | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
suit the Tories' game plan for now. And remember Paul Nuttall | :12:46. | :12:57. | |
and Gareth Snell have both sustained self-inflicted damage | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
during this campaign. Mr Nuttall has said sorry | :13:01. | :13:01. | |
for a false claim that he lost close And Mr Snell has apologised | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
for Tweeting derogatory comments Leaving Jack Brereton enjoying | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
the relative moral high ground. In a fiercely contested campaign | :13:08. | :13:19. | |
such as this one, I would have thought it would be quite difficult | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
for the other party to get their voices heard. | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
But at least the Liberal Democract Dr Zulfiqar Ali | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
is uniquely qualified, as a hospital consultant, | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
to talk about the NHS, in a city whose local hospital | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
recorded some of England's longest trolley waits. | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
And he's hoping some of the thirty percent who did not Vote Leave | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
So too is the Green candidate Adam Colclough. | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
It's been no easy matter for them to get a word in edgeways | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
You can confirm this list on the BBC News website. | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
And there's an election special on BBC Radio Stoke from two o'clock | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
on Friday morning with Tim Wedgwood, as the counting finishes | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
They often say animals can have a calming, positive influence | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
on us and it certainly seems to be working in Staffordshire. | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
Recovering drug and alcohol addicts are receiving | :14:13. | :14:13. | |
help from a farm there, to try to get them back into society | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
Each week they get to work at Whitegate Farm - | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Our Staffordshire reporter Sian Grzeszczyk's been to meet them. | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
It's an unlikely friendship, but it's clear that the | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
bond between Simon and two-year-old pig Wilber is a special one. | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
Simon spends every Tuesday here at Whitegate farm as part of his | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
He's off the drugs and things are finally looking up. | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
When I was using drugs I was living a day at a time, I would | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
wake up in the morning and watndrugs, I'd want in | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
the afternoon, I'd want in the evening, suffering | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
But today I wake up and I tell myself I'm | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
not going to use today, I can get up, | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
I can have a shower, I can have a wash, I can put clean | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
clothes on and I'm not a scruff, whereas before I was stuck in a | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
So what sort of a difference | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
I can come here on a Tuesday and I know that I'm not | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
getting judged and that he's here to be friendly, | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
he's always at the gate waiting for you. | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
It's all been made possible thanks to the owners of the | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
farm who wanted to help addicts and people struggling with their mental | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
They wanted to stay out of the limelight themselves | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
today, but the teams are helping were eager to share just | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
how big a difference their generous offer is making. | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
You've got the fresh air, you've got the sense of unity and | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
the fact that they're helping other people as well. | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
You know, that's giving them their self-worth, | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
self-esteem, they're getting their physical exercise. | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
You know, there's a lot more to it than just | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
Emma and Chrissy are recovering alcoholics. | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
Now they've experienced this, they say | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
If you didn't have something else to come and perk you up, to think | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
about, to get involved in, you'd just go back to where you were. | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
Simon's journey has been a difficult one but | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
he's confident that the path ahead will be far smoother with Wilbur at | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
Thanks for joining us here on Midlands Today this evening. | :16:13. | :16:23. | |
If ever there's a time to batten down the hatches, this is it. | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
Yes, Nick, it looks like we can expect some strong gusts of wind | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
and heavy rain tomorrow as Storm Doris moves in | :16:32. | :16:33. | |
We have a Met Office Amber, be prepared, warning in place | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
with gusts of up to 80mph possible over higher ground like | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
With winds picking up during the rush hour, | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
and peaking by lunchtime there's scope to cause travel disruption | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
I'll be back with the latest details later in the programme. | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
Now, I wonder what the bard would have made of this - | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
budding actors 1,600 miles apart have been performing | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
It's all thanks to virtual reality, which one university is using to run | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
courses in two countries at the same time. | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
Kevin Reide's been finding out more. | :17:10. | :17:19. | |
Lauren and Jack are in Coventry, Niklas and Heli are in Finland, | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
and they're rehearsing Shakespeare together. | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
This virtual learning is a joint project between Coventry University | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
and the university of Tampere in Finland, and it's | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
It's been wonderful and my teacher can also teach us and tell us the | :17:30. | :17:43. | |
information but with universities over there it helps a lot. | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
information but with universities over there it helps a | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
The university is using the latest video conferencing technology to | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
make this all happen, but instead of a laptop screen it is on a large | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
screen and that enables the students as lifelike as possible. It do you | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
keep 100 nights and Squires. And that means the students | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
build bonds and relate to each other far more, | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
as experienced in an experiment last year when nobody wanted | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
the lessons to end. People were crying on both sides | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
when I first turned it off. Nobody wanted it turned off. After a bit | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
just kind of feels natural. You completely forget that there is this | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
1000 mile gap. You are delivering uncomfortable truths. I don't know | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
what the truth is, is it the fact that we aren't in the same room, but | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
it is very interesting. I thought with being British, sarcasm was a | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
big thing for us, but they get it straightaway and I was surprised, | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
their English is really good, it puts us do same. We need to learn | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
some finish. The rehearsals will continue | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
for the next few weeks but in March the Coventry students will go | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
to Finland and perform on stage Kevin Reide, BBC | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
Midlands Today, Coventry. Onto football now and Burton Albion | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
improved their chances of Championship survival | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
with a point at Derby Burton's best chance fell | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
to Luke Varney but a goalless draw still represented a good evening's | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
work for Nigel Clough's side. They are now five points clear | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
of the relegation zone. The new Wasps netball team, | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
based in Coventry, got off to a winning start | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
in the Superleague last night. They beat the Sirens 57-43 in front | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
of a sell out crowd of more All ten teams in the league play | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
next at a special event Tonight comedian Sir Lenny Henry | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
is returning to his roots by hosting a stand-up night | :19:36. | :19:49. | |
at the Glee Club in Birmingham. It's raising money for Comic Relief | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
and it's already sold out. Lenny will be introducing a number | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
of aspiring comedians and we'll be talking to him live | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
in just a moment. First, a brief reminder | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
of his remarkable and varied career spanning some 40 years | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
in showbusiness. Ladies and gentlemen it's | :20:03. | :20:03. | |
got to be Lenny Henry! 12 or 12 million | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
people saw this black kid doing the sort | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
of half funny jokes. But the hook was wow, he's black | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
he's really young, and he's... Maybe he's got something, | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
maybe this kid's got something! There's nothing I can | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
do, I mean, yesterday 8 nothing, that's 80, | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
triple 19, seven, 88. I keep thinking of, you know, | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
myself as a 16-year-old kid, And Sir Lenny joins us | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
now from the Glee Club Hello, how are you? I'm very well. I | :20:45. | :21:16. | |
like the big gap as we think that's going to be great as I'm only in | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
Birmingham Dominick, surely we can get voices close together. No, it's | :21:21. | :21:30. | |
the satellite, sorry. Right. Pardon? This is the best television I've | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
ever seen in my life. Tell us about tonight! Is going to be brilliant, | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
we sold out, it sold out in minutes, my brother had some extra tickets so | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
they have gone to, we have some of the best new comedy, the new | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
comedians, funny people in the business. We've got a veritable | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
musical feast on legs, Rhys James who is very funny, we've got Jack | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
Cole who was on Britain's got talent, a very funny young man. Can | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
you give these guys advice? Bearing in mind your experience. Just be | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
funny and don't bump into the furniture, that's what you've got to | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
do. It's a really good, joyous night. We are in Brum, it's a home | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
crowd, we'll have a fantastic time it's packed to the rafters, there's | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
sticky Dyfi pudding, what could go wrong? Bearing in mind will be other | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
things you've done, the various aspects of your career, and you feel | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
these days about doing stand-up yourself? Well, I love stand-up, I | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
never stops doing stand-up, I just started doing acting dumb and it's | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
taken quite a lot of my career space. I'm in broad church, starting | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
on the 27th of that and I'm really enjoyed making that. I did something | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
with K Miller last year. Acting will be a big part of what I do come in | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
the future, I hope, and I am in London ended April, so it feels good | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
acting, but I still love being funny, so don't worry about that. | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
Still like that. Sur Lenny Henry, thank you very much for talking to | :23:08. | :23:16. | |
us. Good luck tonight. Turner are! Bye-bye, Nick. | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
70 years ago, three little old Austin motor cars | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
made a pioneering trip across the continent | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
It took in seven capitals in seven days, a then breathtaking total | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
Well, now a similar old Austin is being lovingly restored | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
Our transport correspondent Peter Plisner reports. | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
Coming back to where it was born, an early version of the famous model | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
that crossed Europe 70 years ago. This car has been meticulously | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
restored by motoring historian by Loveridge who is searched for more | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
than a year for to find the right car for the trip. I saw I think in | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
total 14 16 is to be cross site that her slightly awkward about this. | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
Founded in Manchester, laid up since 1965. This was the cover for the | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
restoration started although mine is its engine today, hence the reason | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
it is on a trailer and it is now as good as new but Guy is still quite | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
worried about driving on some of Europe's fastest roads. For the bits | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
of Germany we do with the autobahn, theoretically no speed limit | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
whatever, we could be going 100 miles an hour slower than the guy | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
who wants to pass. The original trip was the subject of a book called | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
gullible travels and inside its pages there are pictures showing the | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
three cards that made the trip. -- cars. It finished in Geneva, where | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
the Austin 16 was being launched. Millions of cars were made here at | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
Longbridge over the years but this car has a special place in the | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
factory history. It was an Austin 16 that became the millionth vehicle | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
that rolled off the production line here in 1948. If we have a water | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
issue, or forget it. Guy won't be alone when he sets of commerce | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
setting off with former top gear presenter Steve Berry, who's a of | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
old cars. Any chance to drive them, I take. What surprising about this | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
car is how well is. And above all, how well it breaks. Those breaks it | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
will come in handy when the car hits the road. The trip begins on March | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
the 8th, 17th -- 70 years to the 81st was produced. Good luck to | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
them! This McDonald's restaurant | :25:37. | :25:36. | |
in Shrewsbury has been based Right, Move Over Darling, tonight's | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
weather is all about Doris Day. In all seriousness we have some | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
serious weather is condemn the tomorrow. This amber weather warning | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
is in place, the second most serious, be prepared warning, some | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
very strong gusts of wind comes tomorrow. 60-70 gusts, Gus is | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
locally up to 80. Some train routes are cancelled already, likely to | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
cause travel disruption and disruption to buildings and it is | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
intensifying as it crosses us so this is the warning area. Amber cos | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
as much as us -- covers much of us, even south there is a yellow weather | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
warning in place. A windy day tomorrow. This is a storm Doris | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
tracking invalid and developing with isobars squeezing together a runner | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
at lunchtime. That is when we will see the strongest winds across our | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
region, starting to pep up through the day tomorrow, but as for today | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
it was, quite out of there. Quite a miserable day, slate grace lies -- | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
skies everywhere, rain also. The precursor to storm Doris. As that | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
pulls away to the north, and clears, the wind strengthens, through the | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
latter part of today and into tomorrow. Overnight holding up, | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
still mild, but that changes a storm Doris works her way in. Winds | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
strengthened throughout the morning and by lunchtime really strong gusts | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
of wind expected. And showers behind that. Once it starts to pull away we | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
are left with something a touch cooler so our temperatures will | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
start to fall -- fall away as well, heading overnight with skies | :27:18. | :27:19. | |
clearing and temperatures falling away, showers start you become one | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
tree and on the ground, starting to form some icy stretches. A chilly | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
start to Friday but calmer. Lots of sunshine, but we are back into a | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
very changeable resume, so once Friday is out of the way it gets | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
mild about the rain is back on Saturday, so stay tuned to the | :27:40. | :27:40. | |
forecast for tomorrow. Good job, guys. | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
We totally nailed it. This year, fundraising kits are | :27:43. | :27:55. | |
going to be sent through the post. | :27:56. | :28:00. |