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Hello, welcome to Midlands Today with Suzanne Virdee and Nick Owen. | :00:03. | :00:06. | |
The headlines tonight: Police dismiss claims they're to blame for | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
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violence at English Defence League demonstrations. Because they | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
refused to facilitate us, it ended in complete or people. A grieving | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
mother's plea after her daughter is killed by a bus outside the school | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
gates. I do not nowhere they can put them, but if they can just | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
change them. I would not wish this on anybody. Campaigners protest | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
against a leading bank as they're sued over a property deal. And | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
we'll have the very latest on the Alex McLeish saga - will he finally | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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Good evening, welcome to Thursday's Midlands Today from the BBC. | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Tonight, police describe accusations they're to blame for | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
trouble at demonstrations by the English Defence League as | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
"ludicrous". A spokesman for the group - which says it campaigns | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
against what it calls "militant Islam" - made the claims in an | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
interview with BBC WM's Hard Talk programme. It follows a series of | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
street protests in the region, some of them ending in violent clashes. | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
Peter Wilson has this report. Guramit Singh, a property developer | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
from Nottingham, also an organiser for the English Defence League. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Seen here at a protest in Nuneaton. Born a Sikh, he says the strong | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
line by the EDL on Muslim extremism attracted him to the movement. Last | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
year he organised protests in Dudley which ended in violence. He | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
blames only the police. It was the fault of West Midlands police. The | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
English Defence League will not take any responsibility. It ended a | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
complete upheaval. That is what they expected and that is what they | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
wanted. At Hanley in Stoke-on-Trent, in Nuneaton in Warwickshire and | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
Birmingham in the West Midlands, EDL protests have degenerated into | :02:11. | :02:20. | |
violence. Police say Mr Singh's allegations are nonsense. It is | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
patently a ludicrous claim. We did not throw bricks the or barriers. | :02:25. | :02:34. | |
We were there to facilitate a peaceful protest. When somebody | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
steps that -- broke the law, we were robust. Guramit Singh made a | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
number of claims in his interview with BBC WM's Hard Talk programme. | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
Although giving no specific figures, he says the West Midlands is now a | :02:45. | :02:54. | |
stronghold for EDL support in the UK. It is probably our biggest area. | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
They have flourished so much it is amazing. In Nottingham we take | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
several coaches. I have been two areas in the West Midlands which a | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
minute by comparison. In Dudley I met the local Muslim leader, | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Khurshid Ahmed, at an exhibition of the town's multi-faith culture. He | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
says Mr Singh appears to be ignorant of his own Sikh religion | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
as well as Islam, and he says the choice of an Asian leader by the | :03:20. | :03:30. | |
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EDL is merely tactical. I think it is a ploy. I think the media have | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
made him the leader of a cranky group. I do not regard the English | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
Defence League as being anything other than the English offence late. | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
Because they do all found. -- lead. There have been calls to | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
excommunicate Mr Singh from the Sikh religion. In Birmingham I | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
spoke to a religious leader who gave me this statement. He said all | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
religions are there to unite and assist believers and individuals. | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
Not to cause conflict or division. He said many people miss Court, | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
misinterpret and misuse religion. - - misquote. Peter Wilson joins us | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
now. Why would a man from an Indian Sikh background want to join the | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
English Defence League, which many people regard as a racist | :04:18. | :04:28. | |
organisation? Some people certainly have said that. Mr Singh himself | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
says he has done a lot of research on the internet. He has very strong | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
views about Islam. He felt, he says, at home in this organisation. He | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
has become one of their leading spokesman. But his own community, | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
the Sikh community, have virtually disowned him. A pressure group had | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
calling for his excommunication. That would have to take place in | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
India itself. ID and I think he is significant enough for that to take | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
place. Is Mr Singh right in describing the West Midlands as an | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
EDL stronghold? He had no actual figures. It was all anecdotal. He | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
was talking about a coach loads of people. Certainly a lot of people | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
on the streets of the West Midlands have pro tested on the the EDL | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
banner. It is important to say that a lot of people who feel that | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
perhaps they have not being listened to by mainstream politics, | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
have actually got out onto the streets because they feel | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
themselves that their voice has not been heard. For those of us don't | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
know too much about the English Defence League, where did they | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
spring from? It actually comes from Luton. A lot of football supporters, | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
football hooligan groups, are said to be linked to the EDL. It started | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
three years ago. It has become almost an internet phenomenon. | :06:00. | :06:10. | |
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About 60,000 far worse on Facebook. -- followers. Thanks for joining us. | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
Later, meeting some of our athletes who are flying out for the Special | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
The mother of a 12-year-old girl, who was killed in a road accident | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
outside her school, says she wants buses to be re-routed following her | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
daughter's death. Courtney Holdcroft died after getting | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
trapped under a bus earlier this week. Her mother, Lindsay, today | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
described the road where she died as "far too dangerous". Laura May | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
McMullan has this report. Seeking comfort from the dozens of tributes | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
left at the school gates. Lindsay Roger-Coates has been coming here | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
every day with her partner, Mark, since the accident on Monday. | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
wish I could sleep here. It's where I feel closest to her. Her 12-year- | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
old daughter, Courtney, was a talented pupil at the Ormiston Sir | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
Stanley Matthews Academy in Blurton. She thrived in music. She'd been | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
crossing the road after concert practice when she was in collision | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
with a bus. The concert she had a starring role in, was supposed to | :07:20. | :07:30. | |
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take place tonight. It's since been cancelled as a mark of respect. | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
was so confident. She wanted something, she would do it. If I | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
could swap places with her, I would give anything. You cannot believe | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
what has happened. It is really busy along this road. It is a | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
tragic accident. If they had moved the bus stops sooner, it might | :07:57. | :08:06. | |
never have happened. Residents here on the Blurton Farm estate say it's | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
an extremely busy bus route. Teachers do help the children cross | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
after school closes. But campaigners have now started a | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
petition for a proper lollipop crossing patrol. People feel there | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
was an accident waiting to happen. It has taken a tragedy for people | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
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to speak up. It's something that Lindsay is backing. She also wants | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
the two bus stops right outside the school gates to be moved. If they | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
can just change them, because I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
honestly don't know how I'm going to live without her. I really don't. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Stoke-on-Trent City Council say they're waiting to see if the | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
school appeals for changes to the bus route. Police investigations | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
are also ongoing. But in the next couple of days officers will be in | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
the area putting up posters, re- appealing for witnesses to come | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
forward. They want to be able to provide the answers this | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
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An inquest into the deaths of a 28- year-old woman and a five-year-old | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
girl has been opened and adjourned. The bodies of Clare White, who | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
worked as a cleaner, and her six- year-old daughter, Ayesha, were | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
found at their home in Stratford- upon-Avon last week. A post mortem | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
examination showed Miss White died as a result of hanging. Plans to | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
set up an Enterprise Zone in Shropshire have been abandoned. | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
12,000 new jobs would have been created for the county. But the | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
Marches Local Enterprise Partnership, a collection of | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
agencies which brings Government money into Shropshire and | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
Herefordshire, has decided it's better to bid for money for | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Hereford instead. Health campaigners have called for the | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
resignation of a hospital board after concerns were raised over the | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
conduct of a consultant. Dr Changez Khan Jadun has been stopped from | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
performing some procedures at the University Hospital of North | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
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Staffordshire. An MP is concerned about how the case has been handled. | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
Tonight the hospital chairman spoke exclusively to our Staffordshire | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
reporter, Liz Copper. Dr Changez J- doon - the radiologist whose work | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
sparked complaints from his colleagues. He's not been suspended, | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
but has been banned from carrying out some treatments at the | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
University Hospital of North Staffordshire. One campaign group | :10:22. | :10:31. | |
has called for resignations at board level. I shall write an open | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
letter to all of the non-executive board members, asking them to step | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
down. There was no answer when we tried to contact Dr Jadun at his | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
home. The handling of his case has prompted MPs to call for an urgent | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
meeting with hospital managers. am very concerned that speedy and | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
immediate action by the hospital trust was not taken in the interest | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
of patients. That there was greater concern with looking after the | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
reputations of Doctors rather than immediate concern with patient | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
safety. The hospital is reviewing every patient Dr Jadun treated in | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
the last three years. It's also looking again at 640 scans the | :11:14. | :11:22. | |
doctor examined. Normally one does attend to 15% check. We have | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
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decided to do a 100% check. No concerns have been raised. | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
hospital review is being carried out by external experts. It insists | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
concerns have not been ignored. A protest has been held by a group of | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
home buyers who are being sued by Lloyds TSB. The bank is taking | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
legal action after they failed to honour contracts to buy property at | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
the Cube development in Birmingham city centre. The campaigners say | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
delays to the project and the collapse of the housing market mean | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
they can no longer afford to pay the originally agreed price. Here's | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
Peter Plisner. It's a building that boasts stunning views of Birmingham. | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
But for some, those views could come at a high price. This was the | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
scene last night outside a branch of Lloyds Bank in the city. | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
Protestors, some of whom are buy- to-let landlords, claim they could | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
lose everything if the bank continues pursuing them. I have | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
been to mortgage brokers. They will give me a mortgages but they want | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
and �85,000 deposit. I invested with a view to an investment which | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
is going to prosper. The currently -- the climate dictates otherwise. | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
Protestors claim that the Cube development, which went in into | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
administration last year, was completed two years late. Having | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
sign contracts to buy, the recession meant the value of their | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
apartments fell dramatically. But Lloyds Bank, which has funded the | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
Cube construction, still wants them to those honour contracts and pay | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
the full pre-recession price. Rosie Dyer is one of those who intended | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
to live in the Cube and now finds herself being sued. We understand | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
that prices rise and fall. And we are completely happy to lose the | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
deposit we paid. However, on the grounds that we cannot get a | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
mortgage, I do not see any point in continuing with this. It will send | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
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But not everyone is protesting - some have paid their money and | :13:44. | :13:52. | |
moved into the Cube. Whatever you invest in, it crashed. It is great | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
if you bought it at the bottom, but I did not. I am happy to be here. | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
It is incredibly convenient. Cube administrators from | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
PriceWaterhouseCoopers are under a legal obligation to ensure that | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
they get the best possible deal for creditors, including Lloyds Bank, | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
and that's part of the reason that those who agreed to the apartments | :14:08. | :14:17. | |
off plan are now facing legal Joining us now is Matthew Hammond | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
from the administrators. What's going to happen to these people if | :14:24. | :14:33. | |
they don't pay up? I think firstly we need to recognise that of the | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
130 units that were bought off-plan before the building was completed, | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
80 completions have already taken place. There are 100 people already | :14:43. | :14:51. | |
living at the cube. There are is small number which are genuine | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
cases of financial circumstances changing. We want to wander stand | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
what their issues are in terms of their changes. We will consider | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
those as would have to develop the completion of the project. They say | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
that delays in building the Cube made things worse - are any | :15:08. | :15:17. | |
allowances being made for that? They will not. The main issue for | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
us is to complete the building behind me. We had a great deal of | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
support from Lloyds Banking Group. Secondly, to actually populate the | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
building with homeowners and the commercial and leisure spaces. It | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
is great news that the Marco Pierre White restaurant and the | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
Intercontinental indigo hotel and other areas of the units will open | :15:41. | :15:50. | |
in December. I think it will be a great place to live. We are two | :15:50. | :15:58. | |
weeks from completion. If you've just joined us, welcome to Midlands | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
Today from the BBC. Still to come in tonight's programme, it inspired | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
a world famous children's book - now Moseley Bog's been given a | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
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facelift to encourage young fans to visit. Another day of waiting for | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
Aston Villa fans. Last night protesters gathered at Villa Park | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
saying they did not want Alex McLeish to take over. Tonight there | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
is still no news as to whether he has got the job. Chris Hughton has | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
emerged as the favoured to take over Birmingham City. -- favourite. | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
He's the man the board want and it seems confirmation of his | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
appointment is imminent, but Alex McLeish will have one of the | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
hardest jobs in football when he takes charge next season. Not only | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
does he have to win games, but he has to win over the fans as well. | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
And if last night's angry demonstration at Villa Park was | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
anything to go by, that will be as big a test as he's ever faced. | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
do not want McLeish! I still do not rate him as a manager. We do not | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
want him coming from Birmingham City. A Alex McLeish is not best | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
for my club. Coincidentally, former England manager Steve McClaren | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
confirmed today that Villa had turned away from appointing him, | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
apparently in reaction to fan protests. There was an approach. | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
There was an appointment set up that was not fulfilled. I could not | :17:26. | :17:35. | |
control that. I quickly moved on. The big question on the minds of | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
Birmingham City fans is who is the best manager to get them straight | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
back into the Premier League? Curbishley or Chris Hughton. Chris | :17:45. | :17:54. | |
Hughton. Or Gianfranco Zola. Alan Curbishley. There's plenty of | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
mileage left in this story. Birmingham City have already | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
promised to report Villa to the football authorities for an illegal | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
approach, while McLeish make take action against Birmingham for | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
constructive dismissal. He'll certainly have his hands full the | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
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So many rumours. He was going to sign before teatime. We have heard | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
all sorts of things. The -- Dan Pallett is live at Villa Park. | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
There are rumours that he has signed? That is because we thought | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
it would be some time this afternoon. There was very strong | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
talk that Alex McLeish would sign on the dot of line. We have not had | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
official confirmation. That is why we are here. We believe that if and | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
when he does, it will be a three- year contract. It must be close. | :18:51. | :19:01. | |
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This is day five. How well will it cope with the fans? -- how will | :19:01. | :19:09. | |
they cope? That is an interesting point. We do not know when a press | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
conference might be. Some people say it will be next week. Others | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
say it might be pushed back a few weeks. Maybe signed a few players. | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
Then present into the media. It will be difficult, not least the | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
fact that Birmingham City will say they want the compensation of �5.4 | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
million. It all comes down to results. Should Alex McLeish when | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
the first five games as Aston Villa manager, the protests may not be so | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
loud. And you can hear all the latest information on this on BBC | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
WM throughout the day. And you can take part in a phone-in from 7pm | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
tonight. It's not even a month since the last football season | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
ended, but the new league fixtures will be out tomorrow, and today the | :19:54. | :20:04. | |
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draw was made for the first round London 2012 is now exactly 407 days | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
away, but the Special Olympics are just around the corner. This week, | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
8.000 athletes with learning difficulties are flying off to | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
compete in Greece. So we asked Philip Woodyatt, himself a Special | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
Olympics coach in Worcestershire, to present his own personal report | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
on two members of the Great Britain team. Warming up in Worcestershire, | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
before the heat of the World Summer Games in Greece. Richard Murphy and | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
Jamie Dancyger are off to Athens for the biggest sporting challenge | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
of their lives. For the past 10 years, they've been training hard | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
with one goal in mind - the chance to compete for Britain at the | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
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Special Olympics. Six years ago I was fortunate enough to run in the | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
European Championships. And this summer in Greece, almost 8,000 | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
athletes from 185 countries will be taking part. Six years ago, I was | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
fortunate to run alongside Richard and Jamie at the European | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
Championships. Ecstatic, shocked and surprised. I am used to doing | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
Europeans. I have never been to a World Games. It is massive. One day | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
an envelope came through the post and at Special Olympics written on | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
it. It said that relations, you have been picked for the Games. I | :21:47. | :21:57. | |
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could not believe it. In 2007 against a placing shanghaied. This | :22:01. | :22:10. | |
summer, in Greece, almost 8,000 athletes will be taking part. | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
their Olympics. They are representing Britain. It is special. | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
Po cid mack so proud. They cannot wait. -- they are so proud. They | :22:22. | :22:32. | |
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have, long way to achieve what they have to achieve. A love competing | :22:36. | :22:46. | |
against other people. -- I love competing. The capacity in the | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
stadium, over 60,000, going to Greece is the exciting bit. I am | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
nervous as well. This will Olympics have a motto. Let me win, but if I | :22:59. | :23:09. | |
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cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt. I covered the Special | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
Olympics in the mid- 90s and it was fantastic. Wonderful warm memories. | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
The childhood playground of the Lord of the Rings author, JR | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
Tolkien, has been given a �250,000 facelift. The nature reserve known | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
as Moseley Bog has been enhanced with new walkways and paths. It | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
comes as new figures show the number of visitors to Birmingham is | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
on the rise. Bob Hockenhull has been taking a look around Hobbit | :23:37. | :23:47. | |
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An ordinary on assuming cul-de-sac in Birmingham. Look just beyond and | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
behind the houses there is a completely different world. Moseley | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
Bog is a wetland tucked away from everyday life. So near the city | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
centre. It is so easy to use because the habitats include | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
woodland, boggy bits, loads of adventure places. The Birmingham | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
and Black Country wildlife trust now leases the bog and has just | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
spent a quarter of a million pounds to make the site more accessible to | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
visitors. Is there a danger that by bringing people here, it might lose | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
some of its charm? It is a possibility. But we have tried to | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
get a nice balance. We have got all access pats. We have more variable | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
pass. And we have passed that we have Bagpuss them all. Also, by | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
putting in the boardwalk, we are protecting wildlife. If you're | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
wondering why this area is called Moseley Bog, look down here. It was | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
the childhood haunt of author JRR Tolkien. He lived near by. The | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
landscape here is said to have inspired scenes in Lord Of the | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
Rings. There are some really nice oak trees which could have inspired | :25:04. | :25:13. | |
a young boy. Do those who come here ready mind sharing it with more or? | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
It will make a difference. It is here for everybody. Obviously I | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
have seen kids coming down with pushchairs. It is a little oasis in | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
the middle of an urban sprawl. years ago there was a chance houses | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
would be built here. Instead it has become a haven in a busy world. | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
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There will be a party to launch the Let's hope the weather is good. If | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
you want rain, I do not think today's was an offer, but they | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
raise more on the way. We have some over the weekend as well. Sunday is | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
looking drier. There will be more rain in the early hours of Monday. | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
Tennis and rain inseparable. If we look at tonight, heavy showers in | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
the northern half of the region. They are dying away. After that | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
they will be clear spells. Temperatures to a minimum of eight | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
Celsius in rural parts. More cloud starting to pile in from the West. | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
It will be over Wales for tonight. A few showers ahead of it. They | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
will be there for the morning. Tomorrow morning some sunshine to | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
start with. Then the rain starts to get going. Turning cloudier. The | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
rain moving eastwards through the middle part of the day into the | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
afternoon. It is quite wet. For many places there could be some | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
heavier outbreaks. Between 15 to 20 mm is not impossible. Top | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
temperature 16 Celsius. This rain continues through tomorrow night. | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
We will get some good quantities. It moves away to the North-East | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
during Saturday followed by a blustery showers. Looking drier on | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
blustery showers. Looking drier on Sunday. Tonight's main headlines: | :27:22. | :27:27. |