27/12/2016 Midlands Today


27/12/2016

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Good evening. for the news where you are.

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Voters in Birmingham could be asked to provide proof of ID before

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being allowed to cast their ballots, as part of efforts to

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curb electoral fraud.

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The idea is to be piloted in a number of local authorities

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during the local elections in 2018.

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Peter Plisner reports.

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Once dubbed worse than a banana republic, election fraud and

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vote rigging in Birmingham rocked the political world a decade ago.

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Now, the Government is taking action and

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wants to pilot the idea of ID cards in polling stations.

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I think that would be best, actually, ID cards, yeah.

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Everyone's supposed to have an ID card that you can

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present it somewhere.

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If I don't have an ID and just go vote, yeah, who knows who I am?

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Past issues mean that Birmingham's on a list of areas

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the Electoral Commission has identified in a report

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as being most at risk of allegations of electoral fraud and,

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along with several other authorities,

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it's to be invited to take part in pilot schemes announced today.

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The report doesn't just talk about ID cards

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in polling stations, it also suggests greater powers to deal with

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intimidation and unwanted behaviour.

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And it talks about banning the handling of completed postal ballots

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by political campaigners, one of the issues here

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in Aston back in 2004.

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But this Birmingham MP and former member of the Commons Home Affairs

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Select Committee is concerned that if ID cards are needed, some voters

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could find themselves excluded.

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There are elderly people in this country who've never had a passport,

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they may end up losing their right to vote.

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There will be young people

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who haven't got a passport or haven't yet got a driving licence.

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Birmingham City Council said today that it hadn't seen

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any details of the proposed pilot and,

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if it was to be involved,

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it would only happen after full discussions

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between all relevant parties.

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Peter Pilsner, BBC Midlands Today, in Birmingham.

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A man has been killed in a drive-by shooting in West Bromwich.

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It happened on Dartmouth Street around 2.30 this afternoon.

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The victim was sitting in a car when he was shot in the head.

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The road remains closed while the police investigate the murder.

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Scientists in Birmingham are researching a new way

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to treat type one diabetes.

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They're being funded by an American charity to investigate a way

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of reducing the number of injections people have to have every day.

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Here's our science correspondent, David Gregory-Kumar.

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Could a gel like this one day drastically reduce the number

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of insulin injections needed by people with Type 1 diabetes?

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Well, it's the starting point for a new research project

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at the University of Birmingham.

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Smart insulin that responds to glucose levels in the blood.

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This would mean that you could inject yourself

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with our smart delivery system once a day or once a

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week, and not have to check your own blood glucose level because our

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system would deliver insulin when it's needed.

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This gel breaks down in the presence of glucose.

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In theory, then releasing the insulin stored inside it.

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What's clever is, the gel's not affected by other

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sugars, only glucose.

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Let's put this new gel to the test.

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We have two samples of the gel.

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One is inside ordinary water, and one is sitting in a glucose

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solution.

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Let's leave them for a few minutes and see what happens.

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It's tricky to see but on the left, in the water,

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the gel is still there.

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But in the glucose solution the gel has totally dissolved.

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This is radical research in its early stages.

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After a few years' research in this chemistry lab,

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things move to a biology lab, then finally in around ten

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years' time clinical trials if all goes well.

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David Gregory Kumar, BBC Midlands Today, Birmingham.

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Two football results to bring you.

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And in the Premier League, a tough night for Stoke,

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beaten 4-1 by Liverpool.

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In the Championship, Birmingham lost 1-0 at Derby.

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And one rugby result today.

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In the Premiership, Gloucester were narrowly beaten

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28-24 at Harlequins.

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And that's all from me.

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I'll leave you with the weather from Shefali.

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Goodnight.

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Hello and good evening.

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A beautiful winter's day today - crisp, cold and

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sunny, but with high pressure, we will see fog

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developing overnight,

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as well as frost.

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There is a warning from midnight tonight till midday

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tomorrow for more fog to arrive later on,

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and it could be dense in

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places, causing travel disruption in the morning.

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We have a widespread frost tonight, with temperatures

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dropping as low as minus four Celsius.

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That will greet us for the start of the day tomorrow, as well

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as the fog, then sunny spells.

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The national forecast is next.

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I'll leave you with the outlook for the

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next week.

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