13/02/2017 Midlands Today


13/02/2017

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A BBC Midlands investigation has discovered widespread over charging

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An undercover reporter was charged more at the tills

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than the shelf price shown, in two thirds of stores visited.

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Tesco says it will now double check pricing in all its stores.

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Jonathan Gibson has this exclusive report.

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If we see a special offer in the supermarket, we expect to pay

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But it's not always the case at Tesco in Dudley.

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The BBC's Inside Out programme visited 50

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Tesco scores across England and found out of date special offers

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Workers at this store in Coventry, blamed being short-staffed.

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At other stores, it's a recurring problem.

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Obviously, there are major problems with their control of

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the special offers and it's the special offers that bring

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customers in and make people reach for more

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and, perhaps, spend a little more than they meant to when they came

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Tesco wouldn't provide a spokesperson for interview

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but, after reviewing the BBC's evidence said,...

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Following our investigation, Britain's biggest

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supermarket has said it will be double checking the accuracy of

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That's more than 3500 stores across Britain.

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You can see more on that story on Inside Out West Midlands -

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which is available to watch on the BBC iPlayer.

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The amount of shoplifting from convenience stores

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across the country has reached record levels.

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A survey of more than 7,000 local UK shopkeepers estimates

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they're losing around 131 million pounds a year.

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Our reporter Amy Cole has more on this, so it's clearly

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Yes, it's a problem that's affecting shopkeepers up and down the country.

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The Association of Convenience Stores says its members are losing

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an average of more than ?2,500 a year.

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Now the problem of shoplifting has got so bad for Paul Cheema

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in Coventry, that's he's put a bicycle chain on his meat fridge.

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When a customer now comes in, the alarm goes, first on our

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chillers which alerts our team so one of the team then have

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to come down to, you know, inconveniently open the padlock,

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now, for our customers to get into the chillers.

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And we've had to do this for the amount of theft that

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Yes, he has, but he says it's time-consuming to monitor.

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He's also taken to shaming thieves by putting their picture up

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in store and on social media, because shoplifting is costing

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Some days, they take away ?250 worth of stock.

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The police are very thin on the ground.

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What I'm saying is the government need to give the police more support

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and they need more resources so we are all working together in a good

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Paul said there he doesn't blame the police, but what are they doing?

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West Midlands Police says it takes shop lifting seriously and says it

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solves more than half of reported incidents in Coventry.

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The force says shopkeepers should consider installing CCTV,

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put in adequate lighting and not place expensive stock by the door.

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Paul says he'll continue to do what it takes to protect his store.

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West Midlands police have confirmed that four men have been arrested

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in connection with the theft of three million pounds

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worth of engines, from Jaguar Land Rover in Solihull.

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The machines, which were taken on January 31st,

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were recovered from two locations in Warwickshire earlier today.

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The men aged between 29 and 56 were arrested on suspicion

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of conspiracy to steal - and have been bailed

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MOre than 2000 people have signed a petition to try and ban US

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President Donald Trump from visiting Birmingham.

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It follows reports that he may come to the city

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The Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill, Liam Byrne,

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This is a chap who has shown tremendous disdain for veterans,

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for within, for truth, for the rule of law and, indeed,

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And, so, if I thought we could bring him to Birmingham,

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take him out for a curry, and change his mind on a few things,

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I'd be, you know, helping roll-out the red carpet but,

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actually, I think it be quite a one-way conversation.

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"We can't live like this" - the frustration from families

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in Coventry, who say they're suffering from poor health

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They believe the blame lies at the door of the city's largest

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social housing landlord, Whitefriars - which manages more

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The tenants got in touch with BBC Coventry and Warwickshire,

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It's all behind my children's high chair.

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Laura Burch has been living here for four years.

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The mould, she says, has been around just as long,

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no matter how often she cleans it, it keeps returning.

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My daughter is coughing through the night.

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It's affecting his school work because he's awake

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After Laura sent these images to the BBC, Whitefriars did

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come round last week to make some repairs.

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They've told us they've spent ?1,000 in her flat dealing with damp

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and Laura's recent complaints are linked to a minor water leak,

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My curtains have gone black and mouldy.

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We've uncovered a wider problem on this street in Willenhall.

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At almost every home we called at there were signs of mould.

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I paint it every three months and it comes back.

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And with it anger from tenants who believe Whitefriars

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I've redecorated the property about five times in four years.

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When something is wrong, they're chasing you,

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but when you're chasing them, they're not interested

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Whitefriars manages social housing, and last year boasted an 87%

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customer satisfaction rate, so when we introduced one leading

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councillor to Laura Burch, we were expecting real surprise,

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but the surprising truth is he'd seen it all before.

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We'll be looking to take this up with the housing ombudsman

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because it shouldn't take this kind of pressure and time to get action.

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We've seen funding for social housing associations decrease year

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on year and we're beginning to see the impact on people's living

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No-one from Whitefriars could meet us to discuss.

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In a statement, they said their homes are "structurally sound"

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They claim the vast majority of cases are about condensation,

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so they're asking tenants to clean, crank the heating up and ventilate.

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A Birmingham man's campaigning to get sign language to be made part

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A video of Wayne Barrow signing along to a pop song has had more

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than two million views on social media.

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The 25-year-old learnt to sign because both his parents are deaf -

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and says if everyone learnt just a little, it would make

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Someone being able to sign numbers, or prices, in sign language, or

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directions, or going to a restaurant and asking what's on the menu,

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Because, again, it's not until you are

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involved in that community that you're going to be able to pick it

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up fluently but knowing those basic science

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can make a huge impact on someone's life.

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That's all from me, have a good night -

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I'll leave you with Shefali who has a look at the weather

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Very good evening to you. Temperatures were slightly up on

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yesterday today. You wouldn't have noticed because of the biting wind.

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We did have some sunshine to compensate and a clear end to the

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day but it means that temperatures are on a downward spiral. Perhaps

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down to one Celsius. Later this week, turning warmer, cold nights,

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cloudy with drizzly rain for much of the week but some brighter spells

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for the weekend. The cloud is now starting to gather in some parts.

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Temperatures for towns and cities generally above freezing. In rural

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areas, they could flow to just below freezing. That's how we start the

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day. Gradually, the cloud thickening up. Cloudy in cop Harrison to today.

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Some spirits of rain. Temperatures rising to opt to nine Celsius

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tomorrow with less of a south-easterly breeze. Tomorrow

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night, some rain. Temperatures will generally be above freezing. 5-6 C.

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Some mist into Wednesday morning and a largely cloudy day with a frontal

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system pushing in from the South West bringing light and patchy rain

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across most parts. Temperature showing signs of increasing to

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double figures. Further ahead, a change in wind direction will

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continue to see temperatures rise. The same for Thursday and Friday

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with lots of cloud around. at the weekend it will be mild.

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Largely dry, perhaps a wind -- windy at

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Winter is not over, but it almost felt like spring today. A beautiful

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day in some places,

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