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It's emerged that the Chief Executive of Birmingham City Council | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
is leaving his job just days before a crucial meeting to set | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Mark Rogers took over the role in 2014, after seven years | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
He's dealt with the fall out from the so-called Trojan Horse | :00:20. | :00:28. | |
affair and faced pressure from Government to improve services | :00:29. | :00:29. | |
Meanwhile there are fears that public parks in the West Midlands | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
are set to slip into years of decline as a result | :00:35. | :00:35. | |
Birmingham's got 591 parks, and it's proud of them. | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
In some, volunteers do the things you might expect the council or even | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
the Environment Agency to do, but times are tough and look | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
We rely on park staff - park keepers and rangers - | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
to support us and if those jobs are going it's going to get harder | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
for us as an established group to do work, but more importantly, | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
it's going to be much harder for new friends groups | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
The council won't say whether jobs will go but they're planning cuts | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
of 1.2 million from the parks budget, cuts forced on them, | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
None of us like the decisions we're making but the fact that we've not | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
had a fair settlement in this city since 2010 is the problem. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Across the West Midlands a recent survey shows that 70% of local | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
authorities are looking at transferring or disposing | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
Less than half our park managers feel their parks | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
The percentage of parks in decline looks set to more-than double over | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
Fran started a Friends group six months ago | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
to reclaim her local park, and it's a work still in progress, | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
The rangers do provide valuable help, advice, | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
and can do a lot more, so without the rangers it would be | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Visitors are surprised how green this city is. | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
The challenge is keeping it pleasant for those who live here. | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
A man from Wednesbury has defied death not once, | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Father of three Ray Woodhall had a heart attack whilst playing | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
He was rushed to the Worcestershire Royal Hospital where doctors | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
revived him, but his heart stopped working a further 26 times | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
Given what's happened to Ray Woodhall, his recovery | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
I think I should be gettting a little breathless at times, | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Ray's heart stopped beating not once, but on 27 separate occasions | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
after having a heart attack playing walking football. | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
One moment Ray felt a pain in his chest, the next thing | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
he knew he was in A at Worcestershire Royal Hospital. | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
The amazing thing was I always thought I was just falling to sleep, | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
so when I woke up and there was people round me I was going, | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
"I've just been asleep here, I'm OK, what's the fuss?" | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
Dr Goyal saves lives most days, but rarely does he save one man's | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
I think when people have multiple cardiac arrests there is a very | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
strong chance that one of them may be the last one and we might not be | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
So we have to use different regimes to try and help people and try | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
Every time Ray stopped breathing the team of doctors and nurses | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Now, thanks to a couple of stents in his heart, | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
he's strong enough to do a little light exercise. | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
That is all I've got to show for all the trauma that I went | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
through and everybody else went through. | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
Ray feels indebted to the medics who saved his life, | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
but they have more good news for him, he should be | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
back playing walking football within a couple of months. | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
Let's have a look at the weather forecast now. | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
Well, after a fairly mild weekend temperatures are going to creep up | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
that little bit higher as we move into the working week. | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
It will be a mild night tonight as well, low cloud around. | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
Some mist and murk and a bit of hill fog developing. | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
A few outbreaks of patchy light rain too. | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
Our overnight low is 9 or 10 degrees Celsius, | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
And a mild start to the day tomorrow. | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
One or two brighter intervals and it will feel pleasant in any sunshine, | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
but that cloud thickening into the afternoon with one | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
Temperatures reaching a maximum of 15 degrees Celsius. | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
It will also feel breezier than today. | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
It's an unsettled week and it will start to feel | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Good evening. It has felt more like spring and winter this weekend. We | :04:52. | :05:15. | |
had 14 Celsius in North Yorkshire today, purely down to the wind | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
direction. The south-westerly will continue to bring in mild there on | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
Monday. If anything, temperatures will be a little higher. It does | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
come with a lot of cloud, and already, it is misty out | :05:29. | :05:29. |