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And we will ask why so many more people over the age of 65 are | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
Good evening. getting married these | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
The future of Wolverhampton has gone on show on the French Riviera. | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
It's hoped businesses attending an international property convention | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
in Cannes will help to regenerate the city and create 2,500 jobs. | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
It's part of a multi-million-pound redevelopment of Wolverhampton. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
As our Black Country reporter Ben Godfrey has been discovering, | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
the investment has been a long time coming. | :00:26. | :00:34. | |
Wolverhampton, busy, sharing in the prosperity of the Midlands, this old | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
market town is now a flourishing centre. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
You have to go back a long way to hear people | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
talking up Wolverhampton as a place of prosperity. | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
But after years of failed regeneration, of missed opportunity, | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
A staggering ?3.7 billion is currently being invested | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
It's the largest investment in over 50 years. | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
Proving Wolverhampton is coming out of the economic doldrums. | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
Grim old market buildings are making way for a massive retail | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
corridor on the Westside, and the decaying railway station | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
will be rebuilt as part of a ?130 million transport interchange. | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
And this is i9 - a prestige office development, occupying 50,000 square | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
feet of land near the historic Chubb buildings. | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
Today, the plans went on show in Cannes, where international | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
recession, Wolverhampton was hit the same as other people. | :01:36. | :01:45. | |
We had a big retail development ground to a halt. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
The last few years, we've been moving into | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
Now we're into the really confident phase where | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
Around 2,500 jobs will be created in the city centre | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
when the Wolverhampton interchange is complete. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
There's some brilliant work being done about how | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
Those that can retain the 20, 35-year-olds, if you keep the | :02:04. | :02:20. | |
publicity the city will naturally regenerate and businesses will move | :02:21. | :02:21. | |
here. But for many Wulfrunians, | :02:22. | :02:21. | |
large scale regeneration like this is decades overdue, | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
so you can forgive some cynicism. You've got places like | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
Bentley Bridge, St John's retail centre, you can actually | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
do your shopping without You have people who live | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
on the street and that is not good You have to take | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
care of your people. With a growing student population, | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
the city is becoming one Investment brings new challenges | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
then, and here the demand for affordable homes has | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
never been higher. Ben Godfrey, BBC Midlands | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
Today, Wolverhampton. Staffordshire Police have become | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
the 12th force to have sent files to the Crown Prosecution Service | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
as part of investigations into allegations of overspending | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
during the general election in 2015. They're looking into whether strict | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
spending limits in target seats were breached | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
during the Conservatives' The CPS will now decide | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
if charges should be brought. Unemployment in the region | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
has bucked the national trend and is on the rise, | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
according to new figures. The jobless total in | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
the West Midlands rose by 9,000 in the last quarter - | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
meaning 160,000 people That's the equivalent of 5.6% | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
of the working population - BMW workers at the Hams Hall engine | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
plant in Warwickshire could be going out on strike | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
in protest at the car maker's plans BMW wants the current scheme | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
to close at the end of May. Workers say they stand to lose | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
thousands of pounds. Hands off our pensions! | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
Hands off our pensions! They've never protested like this | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
before, but then there's never That's what they reckon they'll lose | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
if BMW push through with a plan to end the current final salary | :04:08. | :04:22. | |
pension scheme by May of this year. Last year, BMW recorded record | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
profits of ?6 billion. In fact, industrial relations | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
are said to be at their most fraught They say they are proud | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
of what they call excellent pension provision in the past, | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
but, crucially, they want to ensure and protect pension | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
provision in the future. With an ageing population, though, | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
some argue that big companies like BMW can't afford final salary | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
pensions any more. Profitable companies, | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
it's part of the package they offer. Our members have actually given up | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
some of their pay in the past to make sure this pension | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
scheme operates properly. Many of the 600 staff | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
here transferred from BMW's Steven McWilliams was one of them. | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
The agreement was that when we came over here | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
they would keep our And we feel let down | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
that they haven't done that and honoured that agreement | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
for when we did come over here. Because they needed skills to come | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
into this factory from day one. A ballot for industrial action | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
will close at the end of March. Unions say a strike is imminent | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
unless BMW do a U-turn. Sarah Bishop, BBC Midlands | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Today, near Coleshill. 261 motorists have been | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
given new, heavier fines for using mobile phones | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
while driving in the West Midlands. In a week-long clampdown, | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
offenders included 30 lorry drivers, a driving instructor, | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
and a driver accessing mobile All those caught have | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
been fined ?200 Fundraisers trying to keep a rare | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
piece of Wedgwood pottery in Stoke-on-Trent have been given | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
until July to find the money. Yesterday's deadline | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
was extended after a ?90,000 But a total of ?482,500 is needed | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
to stop the First Day's vase from going abroad, | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
rather than being returned An eco-dome has been built up | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
in the grounds of a stately home in Warwickshire as part | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
of a thought-provoking Hundreds of so-called caretakers | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
have volunteered to live without modern comforts | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
and technology in the structure It's set across the lake | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
from the mansion of Compton Verney. In a forest clearing | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
in the Warwickshire countryside stands the Clearing - a creation | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
of environmental art facing the I know they seem quite different, | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
if you look over the river, yes, they are very, very different, | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
but actually they really balance of the landscape and the mansion | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
house with something that actually is very 21st century - | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
for me is really, really important. Built with temporary | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
planning permission, scrap metal and recycled industrial | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
plywood, the ?60,000 Heritage Lottery-funded dome will be | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
in place for three years. But can the experiment | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
with other people's What we're trying | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
to do is we're trying to do a project | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
about climate change. It's the idea that if this world | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
without traffic jams and central heating and Kim Kardashian | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
and big supermarkets - is that actually a nightmare or is it | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
actually an opportunity to live in a Capability Brown | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
carefully designed this Now it is hoped the people | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
of the 21st century will get a You don't have to like it - | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
art's always like that, isn't it? If you make art that pleases | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
everyone, it's really rubbish art. So, yeah, we're not even | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
trying to please everyone. We're confident that we've | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
made a good thing here. From next week, a series | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
of volunteer caretakers will live in the dome for a week at a time, | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
turning their back on the comforts of home for a once-in-a-lifetime | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
experience. I think there's plenty | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
of people that put their names down to be caretakers, | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
so we're one of the lucky ones, There's everything | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
here you need, so... To survive, anyway, | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
let's put it that way. When you live in a space | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
like this you make with what you have and you appreciate | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
everything you have, so it's an exercise of...it's | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
almost a social experiment If you fancy a peek | :08:43. | :08:43. | |
at an artistic life off the grid, the dome opens | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
to the public this weekend. Finally, on Midlands Today tomorrow | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
at 6:30, we'll meet Herefordshire's | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
champion jockey Richard Johnson as he prepares for | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
Friday's Gold Cup. Johnson will be on the joint | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
favourite Native River He last won the Gold | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
Cup 17 years ago. That horse, Looks Like Trouble, | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
lives at Johnson's home For me the Gold Cup | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
is the race of the year. The Grand National is a fantastic | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
race, but for me, the Gold Cup, if I could win any race in the UK, | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
any season, that would be the best Obviously, the Championship | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
is what I set out every year to try and do, but the Gold Cup | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
is the blue riband. It is called the Gold Cup and it is | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
the biggest race of the year. It has been a glorious start to the | :09:33. | :09:49. | |
festival. We should see lows of around five | :09:50. | :10:25. | |
Celsius and that cloud continues to picking up continually from the | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
West. Cold front draped across the north and west of the country | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
driving in that cloud and it will give us a little bit of drizzle as | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
we enter the day tomorrow. It will be a cloudy start to the day. A | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
touch better for a time but very limited sunshine and by the end of | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
the day, we start to get that drizzle pushing its way down across | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
the North and west of the region. Temperatures are starting to | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
struggle a little bit for that. Sunshine certainly not getting back | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
up to 17 Celsius. We will still be into double figures. Rain is | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
arriving on Friday, wet and windy. More information on | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
been. The outlook, rain around, if it stays dry I will be surprised. | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
Here is Nick with the national headlines. | :11:07. | :11:20. | |
For large parts of Wales and England there was blue sky and warmth. | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
Warmest day of the year, a clumsy way of saying the UK had the highest | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
temperature | :11:30. | :11:30. |