19/02/2017 Midlands Today


19/02/2017

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It's emerged that the Chief Executive of Birmingham City Council

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is leaving his job just days before a crucial meeting to set

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Mark Rogers took over the role in 2014, after seven years

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He's dealt with the fall out from the so-called Trojan Horse

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affair and faced pressure from Government to improve services

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Meanwhile there are fears that public parks in the West Midlands

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are set to slip into years of decline as a result

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Birmingham's got 591 parks, and it's proud of them.

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In some, volunteers do the things you might expect the council or even

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the Environment Agency to do, but times are tough and look

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We rely on park staff - park keepers and rangers -

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to support us and if those jobs are going it's going to get harder

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for us as an established group to do work, but more importantly,

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it's going to be much harder for new friends groups

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The council won't say whether jobs will go but they're planning cuts

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of 1.2 million from the parks budget, cuts forced on them,

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None of us like the decisions we're making but the fact that we've not

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had a fair settlement in this city since 2010 is the problem.

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Across the West Midlands a recent survey shows that 70% of local

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authorities are looking at transferring or disposing

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Less than half our park managers feel their parks

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The percentage of parks in decline looks set to more-than double over

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Fran started a Friends group six months ago

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to reclaim her local park, and it's a work still in progress,

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The rangers do provide valuable help, advice,

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and can do a lot more, so without the rangers it would be

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Visitors are surprised how green this city is.

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The challenge is keeping it pleasant for those who live here.

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A man from Wednesbury has defied death not once,

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Father of three Ray Woodhall had a heart attack whilst playing

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He was rushed to the Worcestershire Royal Hospital where doctors

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revived him, but his heart stopped working a further 26 times

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Given what's happened to Ray Woodhall, his recovery

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I think I should be gettting a little breathless at times,

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Ray's heart stopped beating not once, but on 27 separate occasions

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after having a heart attack playing walking football.

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One moment Ray felt a pain in his chest, the next thing

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he knew he was in A at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.

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The amazing thing was I always thought I was just falling to sleep,

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so when I woke up and there was people round me I was going,

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"I've just been asleep here, I'm OK, what's the fuss?"

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Dr Goyal saves lives most days, but rarely does he save one man's

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I think when people have multiple cardiac arrests there is a very

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strong chance that one of them may be the last one and we might not be

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So we have to use different regimes to try and help people and try

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Every time Ray stopped breathing the team of doctors and nurses

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Now, thanks to a couple of stents in his heart,

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he's strong enough to do a little light exercise.

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That is all I've got to show for all the trauma that I went

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through and everybody else went through.

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Ray feels indebted to the medics who saved his life,

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but they have more good news for him, he should be

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back playing walking football within a couple of months.

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Let's have a look at the weather forecast now.

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Well, after a fairly mild weekend temperatures are going to creep up

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that little bit higher as we move into the working week.

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It will be a mild night tonight as well, low cloud around.

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Some mist and murk and a bit of hill fog developing.

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A few outbreaks of patchy light rain too.

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Our overnight low is 9 or 10 degrees Celsius,

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And a mild start to the day tomorrow.

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One or two brighter intervals and it will feel pleasant in any sunshine,

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but that cloud thickening into the afternoon with one

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Temperatures reaching a maximum of 15 degrees Celsius.

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It will also feel breezier than today.

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It's an unsettled week and it will start to feel

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Good evening. It has felt more like spring and winter this weekend. We

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had 14 Celsius in North Yorkshire today, purely down to the wind

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direction. The south-westerly will continue to bring in mild there on

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Monday. If anything, temperatures will be a little higher. It does

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come with a lot of cloud, and already, it is misty out

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