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On tonight?s show, I?m on the red carpet to meet the stars

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It's about Birmingham, so it's great to be here.

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I dig deep to see why where we live is so appealing to filmmakers

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I?m Andy Akinwolere and this is Inside Out.

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First tonight, did you know we make over 327 million journeys a year

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on public transport around Birmingham and the Black Cotntry?

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Most people see it as a convenient way to get `round.

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Others see it as an opportunity to harass or,

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in the worst cases, sexuallx assault their fellow passengers

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Laura Bates went to find out what?s being done to tackle the problem.

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Be warned, some viewers might find parts of this film upsetting.

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For many passengers in the West Midlands, the routine daily

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commute is the last place they would expect to be the victim of ` crime,

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Anywhere that?s very busy lends itself to an environmdnt where

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you could be the victim

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The effects of sexual crimes can be devastating.

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I?m constantly on edge. I don't like getting the bus at all.

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I'm suspicious of any guy that gets on the bus now.

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But, alarmingly, most victils never go to the police.

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We know these offences are occurring on a regular basis

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on the public transport network and less than 5%, we believd,

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So the police are focusing their efforts on encouraging victims

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One young woman who underst`nds the reluctance to go to

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We?ve changed her name to protect her identity.

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I?d gone to see a friend, so it was just a normal to `nd

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Katy had been approached on the bus by a drunken man earlier in the day.

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When she boarded a bus to go home hours later

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So, I just stayed there and tried to be invisible.

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Recognising Katy from earlidr in the day, he sat next to her.

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There was just a centimetre in between us, so I had nowherd to

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Trapped by the window and with no way to escape,

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I kept trying to move my legs away, but he was a lot bigger than I am.

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He kept trying to put his arm around me.

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I was kind of moving away, then it was, ?Ah, give me a kiss?.

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Despite repeatedly saying no and moving away from him, the man

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At this point I just shut down ` if I pretend it?s not happening

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The man kissed her, before getting off the bus.

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I didn?t think it was the sort of thing you call the policd for.

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So many people don?t know if they should report what?s

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Most commonly reported are people masturbating.

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More personal incidents are predominantly

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Unfortunately, victims think that this can be quite

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normal and that?s a behaviotr, well, should I report it?

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But, last year, 129 people did report

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a sexual offence on public transport to West Midlands Police, with some

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There are methods of offendhng that come up regularly.

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Suspects choose to sit next to lone female passengers.

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They describe almost being pinned against the window, then having

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their legs stroked, not being able to move and just feeling generally

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really uncomfortable. Often when they get up to

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move they?re assaulted again. This man at Coventry Bus St`tion

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grabs and touches several women The police are concerned th`t this

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sort of behaviour is becoming all too common, so I?m keen to hear

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the views of some young womdn who Do you think that most people of

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your age with feel able to go to the police about something like that

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happening? If somebody grabbed their home or group them, would they

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reported to the police? I don't think they would. Why not? H think

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they would rather keep it to themselves and do something about it

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because it would make it bigger than it is, although it is big anyway, it

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would almost come back to them, almost classified as their fault.

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Especially our age of peopld would not trouble to go to the police

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about it. Because it happendd so often. I think people think because

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of this happened so many tiles, they just rush it.

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But there is another reason they won?t go to the police.

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I also think if you report to the police nothing would be dond, just

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I think he would be scared that the person would remember it was you

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that reported to the police. So, that was very typical

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of a session talking to teenage There?s an instant recognithon

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of the problem. But there?s a real sense

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of confusion about whether ht?s serious enough to report,

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about what constitutes a crhme and none of them have ever reported

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something like this to the police. The police recognise they h`ve

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a lot to do to get victims to come The reality is,

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we don?t have the full picttre. We can only get that if we have

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the intelligence from peopld who So, Project Empower has been

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launched ` a permanent team of officers dedicated to tackling

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sexual crimes on the transport It was felt we needed to make

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a stand now to target suspects, but also to empower

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the victims to come report. The police tell me they are so

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committed to Project Empower that We?re encouraging the reporting

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of any kind of unwanted beh`viour If you are on a bus, train or tram

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and somebody does something that makes you feel uncomfortabld,

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then you need to report it to us. Out on the buses, and the police

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are keen to spread the word about The message they?re sharing is

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simple ` if you are the victim of And if someone does experience

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groping or verbal harassment and rings 999, the police whll be

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taking that seriously? It will be prioritised

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and we would never say that we would get an officer there in 30 seconds,

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but, yeah, absolutely it?s no As we leave the bus to take

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a break from filming, She tells me that she was

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assaulted the previous week. Like so many victims,

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she hadn?t reported the inchdent, but thanks to Project Empowdr these

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officers know exactly how to help. With thousands of cameras

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across the bus and rail network CCTV can be retrieved days

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and even weeks after the incident, The woman who approached us when

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we were filming made a statdment. The CCTV of the incident has

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been located and retrieved. In Katy?s case,

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her report led to the suspect being It didn't seem that the polhce would

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do anything, that they have. It is better that you tell someond, don't

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stay quiet at all because it doesn't do you any good.

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If you?ve been a victim of ` crime like the ones featured in L`ura s

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film and want details of whdre to go for help, then please go to

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Next on Inside Out West Midlands, with Scotland voting ?No?

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for independence and David Cameron saying he wants

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the English regions to hold more power locally, it got us thhnking.

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Could we, here in the West Lidlands, go it alone and look

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It has been the news story of the year. The Scottish referendtm.

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Although the vote is cast. Ht doesn't mean that the story has

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ended. It has ignited a deb`te about local and regional government and

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the devolution of power frol Westminster. Could the West Midlands

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hack it alone and did it evdr really happen? I have enlisted the help of

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historian Robert Shaw. He s`ys that the Midlands has the potenthal to be

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a major player if powers ard devolved, but we need more

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confidence. Broadly when we talk about talk about the North `nd the

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South. Really, for a lot of people who do not live here, this bit in

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the middle is here be monstdrs! Or here be a lot of service st`tions

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would you stop off. Here be Midlanders! We need to try to define

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what that means. What is thd Midlands? It is very import`nt to

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try to give a firm picked jtror of who we are, what we have bedn in the

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past and what we are becoming in the future. We need to rediscovdr

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ourselves, find that inner Lidlander and Robert believes we should look

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to the past because when it comes to politics and power we have pedigree.

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This was a local economist. Most people would say that this hs the

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mild who delivered the great reform Bill of 1832, one of the most

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significant political events in the history of the country that give us

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a modern electoral system. The 9th century is still known as the age of

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the provinces, when a chillx Birmingham, the West Midlands and

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particular was agenda setting in terms of showing us where the idea

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of progress is, and if was defined here. We used to set the political

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agenda, but that is the past, what about now question might do we want

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more power? We may not give an 4% turnout, but the kids get clues

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about weather people give a dam about revolution? Do you thhnk the

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West Midlands should have greater independence? Nil. Why not? Because

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I believe we are stronger together. I think in our global world that we

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live in, raking off into sm`ller units, maybe for some things, but I

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think for some things, not others. It would be nice to have thd greater

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independence to challenge otr own destiny. Regionalisation is quite

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good, I think. Every region is different. You need to keep that

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identity. The account will come later, but what about our identity?

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What defines the modern Midlands? For Robert it is a tasty at spicy

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aromatic dish. I would suggdst this is an ideal symbol of the Wdst

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Midlands and its ability to come up with things that the rest of the

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world want. It begins here hn the West Midlands and gets adopted by

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the rest of the globe. Absolutely, West Midlands is very

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distinctive for the way that actually different populations have

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come together and created vdry exciting things and you see that

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in music, and this is reallx the So we do have an identity that sets

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us apart and we have the heritage but does that mean we should stand

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up for ourselves and go it `lone? Realistically,

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this part of the country is always driven and until recent timds, it

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has driven the identity of the UK. So I think in that sense, it can

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have a lot of confidence about what it can do and also, it will make it

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difficult for anybody to tr`vel around the rest of the country if we

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do go for independence becatse they need to come through here

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so that puts us in We may not be putting up ro`d blocks

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any time soon but devolution in England is certainly high

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on the political agenda. We've had 100 years plus

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of centralising government hn which they have taken more

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and more control the purse strings If this happens,

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it would represent a signal departure in the way we do our

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politics in this country but I think Scotland has delivered such a trauma

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to the body politic that we could There's also the issue

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of what works with the city doesn't I think you have to look very

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carefully about regionalisation City in North Staffordshire,

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we are much closer to Greater Manchester and Derbx

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and Nottingham and Birmingh`m so you have to have the right level of

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local decision`making and I think going down a big regionalis`tion

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rate can be dangerous. You could end up being forgotten

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and that is a very dangerous thing. So it's big news

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in big`time politics but wh`t about That's it,

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the votes have been counted in our small and unscientifhc poll

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and it seems the majority of our voters would like grdater

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independence for the Midlands and we could do it, we've got the heritage

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and arguably our own identity. Whether it will ever happen

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and what it would look like, the So what do you think ` is Robert

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right, could we hack it alone? Let me know your thoughts or if

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you?ve got a story to tell, email I?m at the Birmingham premidre

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of the new series of BBC dr`ma, All the stars from the latest show

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have turned out to celebratd in the We've nothing to fear

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from the proposed expansion After the first few weeks,

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what we do in London will bd legal, the other tenth is in good hands,

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isn't that right, either? Here?s one of the stars of the show,

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actor Cillian Murphy who pl`ys Thomas Selby,

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the Brummie bad boy and leader What do you think it means

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for the people of Birminghal to have I think it's fantastic that show

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like this with a writer like ours demonstrates how

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important Birmingham is as ` city. How unique its culture and heritage

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is, so it's great to be makhng drama that is about the Midlands

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and Birmingham The story is close to your heart,

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tell us more? It is stories that have been

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told to me by my parents. My mum was a bookies runner and my

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dad's uncles were illegal bookmakers and it's just a whole world that has

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never been done and never bden told and the English are very reticent

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about apologising of our history and it's time we looked at some of these

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things and made the drama of it I'm not sure about the last season

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but when I heard they were going to have the Premier here, I just

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thought, I've got to be herd. When Peaky Blinders hit the small

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screen last year, few knew ht would have quite the success it dhd ` the

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viewing figures here in the West I wanted to know why do we `ll love

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seeing where we live My journey starts at one

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of the Peaky Blinder filming location, the Black Country Living

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Museum in Dudley. Stephen Badham works on fill

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projects right across the country. If filming is happening,

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chances are he?ll know about it Stephen, when I watch a fill,

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what is it about me that gets really sentimental when I sde

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a location that I recognise? I think it?s just the familharity of

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the places that you?re familiar with on screen, being shown in completely

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different and surprising waxs. For example, the place we?rd

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at today, the Black Country Living Museum was shown in Peaky Blinders,

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both first and second series and I think that when people recognise

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locations like that, they don?t just see the place they recognisd,

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they see the newly interpreted way How big a player are we herd

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in the Midlands in terms I think we punch our weight, we ve

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got lots of productions going on across the Midlands ` it?s closeness

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to London which helps, obviously people can be here within an hour

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and a half, and also its got such a great range of locations so

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from the city centre of Birlingham which can be Birmingham itsdlf or it

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could double as lots of othdr cities, but also the countrxside and

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all of the great historic locations So Peaky Blinders has put Bhrmingham

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firmly back on the TV map and I m off to see someone who has been

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championing film and TV production here in the

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West Midlands in a major wax. Nativity was filmed almost

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entirely in Coventry, something that local writer and director

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Debbie Isitt was very keen on. Well it?s my home town and ht?s got

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such talented children here and it?s just got such a lot to offer and it

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hadn?t really been on the chnematic map before and I thought whx not,

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really most UK films are set in London and I just thought,

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come on Coventry, let?s do ht! Every film I make, I always try

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to set it at least partly hdre. With Nativity 3, the latest film,

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it starts in Coventry and ends up There?s another film that I?ve got

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in the planning that?s set hn Turkey but some of it will be shot here

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because I don?t want to resort to We?ve got too much talent,

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there?s too many great opportunities here ` everyone should make their

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films in Coventry and the rdgion. So filming locally is big

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on Debbie?s agenda and that got me thinking `

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what else has been filmed hdre? I?ve been doing a little bit

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of research to find out what kind of films have been made herd

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in the Midlands We all know this, The Itali`n Job,

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that world famous car scene as they?re being chased through

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the tunnel. It?s not Turin in Italy,

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this is actually Stoke Aldermoor which is in Coventry,

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would you believe it, starrhng this Next, the 1984 classic,

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A Christmas Carol ` now this was set in Shrewsbtry and

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if you head to St Chad?s Chtrch you?ll be able to find Scrooge?s

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headstone in the graveyard. Atonement, based on the novdl by Ian

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McEwan starred Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, and it was mostly shot

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here, at Stokesay Court, Shropshire. This place has now become world

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famous because of a certain film, Atonement `

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how did they get in contact? How did they know this was

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the place they wanted to usd? I think they were going through old

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copies of Country Life and they rang me up

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and said we?ve found this house is it by any chance available, could

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we come and have a look at ht? Do you know what I love abott this,

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by luck, you have a huge Hollywood film team here with some

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of the greatest actors in this country filming in your own home,

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this must just be a dream for you? I was incredibly lucky I thhnk `

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yes, absolutely a dream. I loved just having

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the opportunity to see Just a whistle`stop tour

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of a living film set. The thing

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about these films is that so much Kudos to the production

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teams behind`the`scenes. And they?re the reason

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for my next stop. The picturesque village of Snowshill

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in Worcestershire ` which wdlcomed a This Christmas scene in

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Bridget Jones Dairy was shot back How do you film an idyllic winter?s

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scene right in the middle of summer? Well, you?re going to need lots of

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snow ` fake snow and loads of it! It?s like a blizzard out here `

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absolutely freezing, so much snow. Lads, come on honestly, can we

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stop ` you?re messing up my hair! But this couldn?t be possible

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without an incredible firm Tucked away in a quiet corndr

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of Stroud, I appear to have stumbled upon the

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Midlands? very own snow factory You guys have worked

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on some pretty big movies, Hundreds of movies, things like

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Day After Tomorrow, Vertical Limit, Gladiator, Benjamin Button, you

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name it, it?s got our snow hn it. In fact the odds are that

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if you see a movie with snow, it?s Let?s talk about

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Bridget Jones? Diary and thd area of Snowshill, what were the

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challenges of an area like that The main challenge

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of Snowshill was the churchxard because it featured very he`vily

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in every background that yot saw. The first thing you do is rdcord

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where any flowers are and you remove the flowers then you

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cover everything with a membrane Can you show us anything to

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demonstrate the kind One basic staple of snow is this

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product, this is made of recycled paper and it?s a bulking snow so

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it?s quite grainy but it allows us And this is snow essence

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and it?s sent to us in small bags and then we add water and that

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really small bag of snow turns into a much larger bag and then we

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can spread it on a movie set. Oh my goodness, that is absolutely

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magical, that is brilliant ` this is one of those things that

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fairy tales are made of. And the magic doesn?t stop there,

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forget the fake stuff, here, they even have a machine

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which makes real snow. This is ridiculous, I mean ht is

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sunny right now and I?m abott to walk into what I can only ddscribe

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as a bit of a winter wonderland This is actually snow and it?s

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really cold, my fingers are frozen. So everybody?s settled in for the

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premier ` we?ve been told wd?ll have to wait till October when the series

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returns on BBC Two But that?s it from me ` I?ll be back next Monday,

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until then, thanks for watching

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