06/01/2017 Midlands Today


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A group that's been battling to keep services at the Alexandra Hospital

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in Redditch has decided to end its campaign

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because it says health bosses have already made up their minds.

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It comes as a public consultation is launched over the future

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Here's our Health Correspondent, Michele Paduano.

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This family in Redditch has had two children die

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The other children are about to be tested.

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They have always used the Alexandra hospital in Redditch

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and they've always supported the Save The Alex campaign.

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We have another child that has been diagnosed

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We need closeness and emergency treatment ASAP

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I'm absolutely gutted that the campaign has given up.

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Outside the hospital today, campaigners say it

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Here we are in 2017 with key services stripped out.

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Controversially, staff resigning because they didn't

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feel that the model was safe.

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We are a fast-growing town with young people.

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It's not going to come back and we have to say that

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this campaign has failed to save maternity and paediatrics

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and everything is going to go to Worcester

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A candlelit vigil in 2005 marked the beginning of

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the first successful attempt to keep maternity and

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children's services in Redditch.

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In 2012, a new organisation began and stalled.

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But in 2015, maternity services were closed on safety grounds.

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It has been said that there is a shortage of key medical staff.

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They believe that this model will lead to

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a safe and affordable care in the future.

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They say that they are keen to listen.

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In future, the Alexandra and Kiddiminster hospitals

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will do more planned work, freeing up Worcestershire's

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The town's MP said more beds desparately needed in

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Worcestershire after emergency patients filled three

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I've been concerned that the hospital is not big enough

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Therefore, I have been pushing for an expansion.

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I would like to see that brought forward as soon as possible.

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The campaigners have always maintained that Worcester was too

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But they say it is somebody else's fight.

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Two men have been arrested following the death of a man

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found with knife wounds in Birmingham last month.

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A murder inquiry was launched after 23-year-old Ibrahim Ismail

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was found on Moseley Street, in Highgate, in the early hours

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Two Birmingham men, aged 23 and 24, have now been arrested on suspicion

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of violent disorder and released on bail while enquiries continue.

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A 30-year-old man has appeared in court charged

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in connection with a riot at Birmingham Prison last month.

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Dozens of police and specially trained prison officers were called

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to the jail when inmates seized control of four wings in December.

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Ross Queen from Northfield faces two charges of prison mutiny and one

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of taking a photograph inside the prison during the riot.

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Now, it's a far cry from the humble potting shed.

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Stoke-on-Trent bus driver Anderson Jones has taken his love

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of movies to new lengths by building a replica

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Most people are happy with just a shed or a greenhouse

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But not Anderson Jones from Stoke-on-Trent.

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It all started from when I was about six years old.

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My mum and dad took me to the old cinemas.

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I just fell in love with the cinema and I thought I'd love to

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It's taken Anderson almost five years to build,

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but he's been collecting bits from cinemas that are

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And it's become something of a family affair.

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With wife, Jayne, supplying the popcorn and son, Ethan,

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Even the carpets, which at a cost of thousands, were made especially

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to replicate those that would have been in an ABC cinema.

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He's fulfilled his dreams and my opinion of it is that it's amazing.

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It's not a passion, it's an obsession.

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I'm so pride of myself that I've managed

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to save history from the ABC Cinemas because they are all gone now.

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I'm just so happy that I've got stuff in

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my garden that everybody can share with me.

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But don't start queueing because it is just for his family

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Football, and players and fans of non-league Stourbridge FC

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are preparing for the biggest game in the club's history this weekend.

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The Glassboys have reached the Third Round of the FA Cup

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for the very first time and are the lowest ranked team

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They face League 2 Wycombe Wanderers tomorrow.

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It is the biggest game in the history of the football club and the

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support, we are going to take well over 2000 fans don't awaken. We

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could have doubled that and it will hopefully be a day that sticks in

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people's memories And good luck to Stourbridge and

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all our teams playing this weekend. I'll leave you now with

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the weather from Rebecca Wood. It has been a slightly less cold

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day today although you We have had plenty

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of grey cloud and rain and, as we head through

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this weekend, I'm afraid it is going to stay

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rather dull and cloudy. Temperatures are steadily

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starting to increase. We've introduced something a little

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milder but as a result of that we have plenty of moisture in the air,

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so some mist patches overnight The rain clearing the way

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to the south-east. Behind that we're left

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with clear spells. When we get those

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we are likely to see fog patches developing

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but it is a rather murky and grey. Temperatures holding up,

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between three and five Celsius. There will still be the odd spot

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of drizzle but it is going There will still be some mist

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through the morning. Temperatures during the day

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between seven and nine Celsius. More information on that

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in the national forecast. I will leave you with an outlook

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for the next few days.

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