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A blind man from Birmingham says taxis operated by the online firm | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
Uber have repeatedly refused to pick him up because he | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Saleh Ahmed, from Balsall Heath, claims it's happened 14 times | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
It's illegal for taxi drivers to discriminate | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
against guide dog owners, unless they have | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
Tonight, Uber says it's barred two drivers while they investigate. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Blind since birth, Saleh Ahmed relies on his guide dog Johnny. | :00:32. | :00:41. | |
Without him, his 30-mile journey to work would be so much harder. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Sal uses the taxi hailing app Uber to travel to and from his home | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
in Balsall Heath and New Street Station. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
On Monday, though, four rides were cancelled because drivers | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
I asked him if he had a medical certificate. | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
He instantly cancelled the ride, and I was charged the ?3.50 | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
Taxis and minicabs are obliged to take guide dogs, | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
unless the driver has a medical reason not to. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Sal says it's happened 14 times with Uber rides | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Like, it stresses me out just to know that, | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
because I have a disability, I have been treated differently. | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
And I cannot book a taxi like everyone else does. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Uber said it was totally unacceptable and told us this. | :01:40. | :01:49. | |
Like Saleh, the drivers who refused him were Muslim, | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
and he believes it betrays a cultural dislike of dogs. | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Mohammed is an ambassador for Guide Dogs for the Blind, | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
and takes his dog, Solo, to schools to introduce | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
In Islam, if a dog's saliva gets on your clothes, | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
But his local mosque has built Solo a kennel. | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
Mohammed has taken cab companies to court for refusing him a ride. | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
One driver was fined ?350 and sent on a disability awareness course. | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
I do not think the drivers are being punished enough. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
I think there need to be more severe consequences. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
And one of the reasons for this is it is under-reported. | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
Saleh says he and John may have to consider alternative | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
Giles Latcham, BBC Midlands Today, Birmingham. | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
A man who dropped his wallet and lost ?1,600 is appealing | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
for information about the woman who picked it up. | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
The woman spotted the wallet in the road and kept it. | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
The victim says the loss nearly cost him his small music business. | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
He's putting the can in the back of the car now. | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
I reach up to close the door and bump, my wallet | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
CCTV of the moment he dropped his wallet outside a hire | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
It's what happens next that makes Clive angry. | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
Within a few moments, a woman in a Toyota Corolla | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
has stopped, got out, and picked it up. | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
I don't think she even gets a chance to put her seat belt on. | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
She drives off still with her hazards on. | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
I think she needs to come clean and confess and hand it in. | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
CCTV from inside the shop shows the theft from a different angle. | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
Owner Matt Dormer saw the woman pick something up but didn't | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
realise it was Clive's wallet until afterwards. | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
She has fair hair, about five feet tall. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
Frustratingly for Clive, you can't make out the woman's | :03:54. | :04:09. | |
So far, the police investigation has come to nothing | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
Clive set up his music business with his retirement money. | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
He says says the loss of the ?1,600 could put him under. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
He is now offering a ?200 reward for anyone who helps him | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
Sarah Bishop, BBC Midlands Today, in Tardebigbe. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
Five newborn puppies have been found abandoned in a car | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
They were discovered in a box in Baker Street with their eyes shut | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
A vet who examined the pups said they'd been exposed | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Sport now, and Stratford's Andrew Pozzi has won a gold medal | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
at the European Indoor athletics championships in Belgrade. | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
Pozzi, whose career has been blighted by injury, | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
claimed his first major medal by edging out Pascal | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
I thought I might have got it but I wasn't sure, | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
so I didn't want to celebrate until I was sure. | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
It was a scrappy race but I really had to work hard to get | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
I don't want to harp on about it, but it has been a long road | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
and I wasn't always sure I would get to the level I wanted to be at. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
So, you know, to really win with grit and determination, | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Birmingham City have slipped to a home defeat | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
against Leeds United in the Championship this evening. | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
Leeds took an early lead when former Blues loanee Chris Wood scored | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
Birmingham piled on the pressure after half-time and deservedly | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
But the home side quickly conceded two more goals, | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
the second of which was scored by Alfonso Pedraza. | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
The Midlands' latest professional boxer makes her debut tomorrow. | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
32-year-old Lauren Johnson - who's studying criminalogy | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
at the University of Wolverhampton - took up boxing four years ago | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
At first, I thought, I will just see how it goes for a year. | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
And then I never looked back, really. | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
You get in the ring and the buzz, getting your hand raised... | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
And it's just something I am probably addicted to, really. | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Well, I'm afraid it has been a rather miserable day today. | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
We had quite a lot of mist around, we have had quite a lot | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
As we head through this weekend, that is going to be | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
We are in a messy weather system at the moment, with low pressure | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Through tonight, we will continue to see some showers working | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
Behind that, we will start to see things drying out | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
But temperatures are holding up at between 5-7 Celsius tonight, | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
so it's not a particularly chilly night and it will be a dry start | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
to the day tomorrow but the low pressure still continuing | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
There will be some brighter breaks but we have got weather systems | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
trying to work their way in the whole weekend. | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
So we start the day tomorrow on a dry note with some sunny spells | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
There will be some brighter spells at times but showers will pop | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
Lots of usable weather through the day, though, | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
and temperatures managing to make it up to nine Celsius. | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
The winds will continue to strengthen as we head | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
And for Sunday, we have some heavy rain on the way. | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
There is more information on that in the national forecast next. | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
I will leave you with the outlook for the next few days. | :07:32. | :07:32. | |
Good evening, mixed fortunes this weekend. Today we saw a fair share | :07:33. | :07:46. | |
of rain. This is the view one of our weather watchers in Doncaster. Not | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
particularly inspiring. This weekend there will be some rain, but some of | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
us will get away with a dry start. This is the satellite and a lovely | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
day in northern | :08:02. | :08:02. |