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The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has been in the Midlands today, | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
as more details were announced about the so-called | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
The aim is to invest in areas such as skills and transport, to help | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
One area which will benefit is in Coventry. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
Our reporter Kevin Reide is there now. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Kevin, I understand a new apprentice centre is to be built there? | :00:30. | :00:44. | |
Yes, Mary this is the Warwick maunufacturing Group | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
at Warwick University and before too long this will be home | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
to a new purpose built centre entirely for apprentices. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
Costing ?11 million it will draw together the best | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
in manufacturing expertise and facilities and is just one | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
of a number of measures being made to create the so called | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
We've heard of the Northern Powerhouse and now for us | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
here is the so called Midlands Engine. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
The Chancellor Phillip Hammond who was in Dudley | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
local authorities from the Welsh border to Lincolnshire and promising | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
investment: At present ?392 million has been allocated, those to benefit | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
include The Black Country with 25 million to ease | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
this is not a one-off. This is part of a programme to galvanise this | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
economy. In Coventry and Warwickshire, | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
11 million for the apprentice centre at Warwick University, | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
and in Hereford, 8 million for a new hi-tech university to train | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
the next generation of engineers. But one opposition politician says | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
it should not just be about helping businesses, | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
spending on infrastructure and apprenticeships, | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
but about improving education The initiative is welcome but it | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
does not recognise the scale of the issue presented to it. I am meeting | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
head teachers across the borough to discuss the problem is that they are | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
having with funding in schools and the barriers that that puts up to | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
giving children the best possible start in life. | :02:12. | :02:12. | |
10 million people now live under the area covered | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
by the Midlands Engine, that's currently 13 per cent | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
of the UK's annual output, which the government believes | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
And there has been criticism from accountants | :02:23. | :02:34. | |
Ernst Young who say by their calculations the Government | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
is spending more on the so called Northern Powerhouse, | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
but the chancellor has denied this saying there are further | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
And while I'm here I must tell you Warwick University's Art Centre | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
just a few hundred yards from where I am is also to benefit | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
from a ?2 million cultural grant all as part of this | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
There's a spring in the step here with all the daffodils behind me. | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
More babies die before their first birthday here in the West Midlands, | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
Health professionals are trying to reduce the numbers of deaths | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
Maternity services are being overhauled | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
and in Birmingham, Finnish-style baby boxes are being handed out | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
to expectant parents for their babies to sleep in. | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
But for some, help has come too late. | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
It contains images some viewers might find distressing. | :03:18. | :03:27. | |
Everything about her was perfect, just perfect. | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
Callie lived for barely half an hour. | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
But for three whole days, while she was in a special | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
cold cot in hospital, her parents Matt and Krystal | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
I'd, for the longest time, waited to hold a baby. | :03:39. | :03:48. | |
Delivered by emergency C-section last June, | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
Callie died from an intra-uterine infection, the doctors said. | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
Matt and Krystal think that may not be the full story. | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
They're still in shock, their world upside down, | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
The West Midlands has the worst infant mortality | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
rate in the country, 6.1 per thousand live births. | :04:08. | :04:16. | |
That's 6 out of 1,000 babies not making it to their first birthday. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
When you compare it to the rest of the country you see | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
The next worst region is East Midlands with 4.6, | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
and in the South East the rate is three. | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
But if you look in more detail, you can see some shocking anomalies. | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
that's almost 1 in 100 babies in the city not surviving. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Birmingham is 7.9, even Warwickshire and Worcestershire | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
are way above the national average scoring around 5. | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
No wonder that expectant mums were queueing up in Hall Green this | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
In Finland, where they've been handed out | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
by the state since the 30s, they're credited with reducing | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
infant mortality from over 60 per thousand live births | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
18,500 boxes will be distributed as part of a wider strategy to cut | :05:08. | :05:20. | |
infant deaths in the Birmingham area by 20%. An audit is to be carried | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
out into the deaths of all babies over the past few years. You use the | :05:24. | :05:33. | |
information, what was the Mumbles McQuade, that she smoked, as she had | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
a book an appointment, all of that information will gather. | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Callie will be among those babies whose stories are reviewed. | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
Her parents say infant mortality rates for Birmingham are shameful, | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
and that there needs to be more openness about the subject. | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
It has to change, to change the rates as well. | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
They're now thinking of setting up a charity in Callie's name, | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
West Midlands Police have confirmed the identities of the two people | :06:02. | :06:13. | |
who died in a stabbing incident in Wolverhampton. | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
Melvin James fatally stabbed his sister Ann-Marie, | :06:16. | :06:16. | |
Their mother suffered serious stab wounds and remains in | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an enquiry | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
into how the West Midlands Force handled the incident. | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
The Communist Party of Britain is to field a candidate | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
in May's election for the Mayor of the West Midlands. | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
Graham Stevenson, who's originally from Coventry, | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
His policies include nationalising the M6 toll road | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
and introducing a living wage of ?10 an hour. | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
An annual award for the world's best female cricketer is to be named | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
The former England captain, from Wolverhampton, died | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
She played 22 tests and 23 one day internationals for her country. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
The International Cricket Council made the announcement at the launch | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
of the Women's World Cup which takes place in England this summer. | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
It's a story worthy of the Famous Five. | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
A book lover, browsing through second hand | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
shops in Hay on Wye - who buys a book for a pound. | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
But she got more than she bargained for. | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
Leafing through it, she discovered a handwritten note | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
from the famous children's author, Enid Blyton. | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
As Lindsay Doyle reports, the note was stuck to the inside cover | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
of a copy of George Eliot's Silas Marner. | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
Once upon a time in a little town on the edge of Herefordshire, | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
a town known as the Book Town, there was a little book | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
which held a secret, which was discovered | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
I was literally browsing the shelves, and | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
I don't know what drew me to this one apart from the fact | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
but I picked it up and opened the front cover and there was | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
this little piece of paper inside and as I opened it | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
I instantly recognised the signature as Enid Blyton's signature. | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
Glued inside a copy of George Eliot's Silas Marner | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
is what appears to be a letter from one of the most famous | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
It is written to Mary congratulating her on winning one of "my prizes". | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
The name written inside Silas Marner is of a Mary | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
Gillian and Imogen don't have to wait for the next Enid Blyton | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
They can read it as it comes off the typewriter, | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
for their mother, Mrs Darren Waters, is Enid Blyton. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
This was only ?1 this book, it was in the bargain book shelf thing. | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
And so I hid it behind the shelf and we both ran back to our hotel | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
room and I grabbed my purse and ran back down to the stall and found it | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
again and kind of held onto it as if my life depended on it! | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
Lashings of luck, but rather rotten for the bookstall! | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
When I first heard I thought, oh, boy, that's a real mistake. | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
And then I thought, when I had time to think | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
about it, I thought, well, no, it's a great story and I'm | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
really pleased for her and I'm glad she's happy to keep her purchase. | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
During the 50s and 60s schoolchildren were invited | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
A winning composition would win a classic novel, | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
like Silas Marner, and also a letter from a children's author. | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Enid Blyton's signature is one of most famous literary history, and | :09:17. | :09:30. | |
it's not surprising. She would write 10,000 words a day, she published | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
753 books, 600 million of which were sold worldwide. Hundreds and | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
hundreds of letters. They tell me what looks they like and what they | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
will read next, and the books they like best of all. | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
That's all from me, I'll be back with Midlands Today | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
I'll leave you with the forecast from Rebecca. | :09:52. | :10:01. | |
Good evening. It certainly was a pleasant day today. Lots of lovely | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
sunshine. Temperatures managed to make it up to the mid teens. As we | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
head towards tomorrow things are going to change. It will be a cloudy | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
day, thick enough at times to get some drizzle. But it will largely | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
dry. Still dry out there tonight, with some clear spells. Temperatures | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
initially falling away but starting to recover with an area of cloud | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
working its way in from the west. Temperatures holding up between | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
5-9dC. Tomorrow, I pressure still in charge, but steadily it is being | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
pushed out of the way. We can see that warm front up against it so | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
that will give us the cloud. We're still in that air. Cloudy day with | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
some drizzle, but some brighter spells to the Lee of high ground and | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
where we get those, temperatures back up into the mid-teens once | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
again. The national forecast is coming up but I will leave you | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
day. On Sunday, cloudier, maybe spots of rain. | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
Good evening, in the spring sunshine we saw temperatures as high as 17.5 | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
Celsius. Not as warm or Sonning on Friday. Still a lot of dry, settled | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
weather in the forecast for the next few days. This was the sunset | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
captured by one of our Weather Watchers. Clear skies there. We have | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
had increasing amounts of cloud moving in from the West. Through the | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
remainder of tonight we will continue to see that cloud across | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
the south-west of England, the Channel Isles, weaving in across | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
Wales, Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Bringing with it some | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
outbreaks of drizzly rain, particularly around the coast and | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
the hills. Further east, clear skies and the coldest temperatures. We are | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
likely to see frost across eastern parts of Scotland by Friday morning. | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
The west of Scotland will see the cloud moving in, bringing spots of | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
light, drizzly rain. A similar picture for Northern Ireland. Fairly | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
cloudy and grey. A bit of hill fog here and there. Into the north of | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
England as well. The central and eastern parts | :12:07. | :12:08. |