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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Nick Owen and Suzanne Virdee. | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
The headlines tonight: Two arrests as protesters try to | :00:07. | :00:15. | |
disrupt plans for a giant open-cast coal mine. This is a small crime to | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
stop the bigger crime of carrying on destroying and devastating the | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
planet. A turning point in education as | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
more and more schools bid to become independent academies. The freedoms | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
and autonomy you endure as an academy will allow you to do things | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
that you may be haven't thought of before. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
A leukemia patient demands a rethink on plans to stop | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
prescribing the drugs that saved his life. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
And one of the world's oldest jet aircraft comes home to a place of | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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honour in the city where it was Good evening and welcome to | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
Tuesday's Midlands Today. Tonight, angry scenes at the site of a huge | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
open-cast coal mine as protesters chain themselves to excavating | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
machines. They're trying to halt the mine on the outskirts of | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Telford. It could eventually produce up to 900,000 tonnes of | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
coal, but the protesters say it would scar the landscape and the | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
fuel it produces would pollute the atmosphere. Here's our Shropshire | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
This footage shot by protesters at an open-cast mine site shows one of | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
them on machinery, fastened to it by the neck. Other campaigners are | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
seen here on the site run by UK Coal at New Works in Telford. At | :01:35. | :01:43. | |
their protest camp later, a witness described what happened. So we | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
access the site, run down and had the bicycle locks, will not our | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
next arms to the diggers and disposed of the keys so they could | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
not be accessed. And we were there for several hours which stopped the | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
diggers working complete bid. people might say why put yourself | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
in danger by chaining yourself to the machinery? As far as we are | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
concerned, this is a small crime to stop the bigger crime of | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
devastating the planet. Two men were arrested. Clearly whilst we | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
would seek to facilitate lawful, peaceful protest at what has | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
happened here today is not lawful for. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
Environmental protesters set up camp here in March last year. Today | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
UK Coal said it would now seek a court order to evict them. But | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
protesters have dug tunnels and built tree houses. They can | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
peacefully cut myself out of the tunnel and out of the tree houses | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
but we are not going to fight but I am going to be locked in when I am | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
in my tunnel so they will have to cut me out. | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
Work on the site continued around three hours after the arrests. This | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
the reaction of the company. don't know whether they realise how | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
unsafe and act they carried out. Not only for themselves, they have | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
no proper footwear or anything like that, but also for our operatives. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
If one of those had to swerve and it caused an accident, that would | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
be a problem we would have to suffer. UK Coal says the 900,000 | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
tonnes of coal extracted from this site over 32 months will meet the | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
energy needs of one million homes for one year. | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
Tonight two men remain in custody, arrested on suspicion of aggravated | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
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UK Coal said that those involved in illegal activity had had their | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
moment and it was now time for the company to do their job. A | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
spokesman said that once a court order was in place, a specialist | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
eviction team would be employed with the protesters insisting they | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
have no intention of leaving. Later, the sky-high price of gold | :03:59. | :04:09. | |
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and how it's being blamed for a The quiet revolution that's taking | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
place in our classrooms now - what it could mean for the future of our | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
children's and grandchildren's education? It was under Labour back | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
in 2002 that the first academy school opened. It was free of local | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
authority control and directly funded by the Government. There are | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
now 801 across the country But since June last year, and the | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
new coalition government, applications have soared. A third | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
of secondary schools are now bidding to become academies, | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
including 122 here in this region. But opinions remain bitterly | :04:38. | :04:47. | |
divided, as Giles Latcham has been A public meeting in Walsall for | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
parents of children at two schools planning to break away from local | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
authority control and take charge of their own finances. But there | :04:54. | :05:03. | |
are plenty of sceptics. You have got no local authority help. Prices | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
of everything will go up. Uniforms, meals, school trips, everything. In | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
my eyes, it is not a very good idea at all. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
The idea is for Hatherton Primary to merge with a nearby College to | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
create a single high-performing academy and the governors say the | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
uniforms will be supplied free. But teachers aren't convinced either. | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
There's of this a lot of scare stories around the country of of | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
academies where people have lost their jobs and have been facing | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
difficulties. What they want his assurances and they are not getting | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
them at the moment. At this school in Sutton Coldfield, | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
teachers opposed to academy status walked out in protest. But | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
elsewhere it has worked. It is a well-known place now and the | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
opportunities and exam results and everything has been so improved. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
The people look forward to coming to school here because the place, | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
the building we have got, to look at it is amazing. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
This academy in Tipton replaced a struggling secondary and three | :06:08. | :06:17. | |
years on, results are vastly improved. So supporters of | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
academies so they are all about freedom. To change the curriculum, | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
freedom to restructure the school year, they have five terms here | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
instead of three. Freedom to pay teachers more and here they do. | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
Freedoms and autonomy that he enjoyed as an academy will allow | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
you to do things that you have not thought of before. And as long as | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
that makes a difference to young people and their learning and the | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
outcomes and ultimately how they are with in the community, it can | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
only be a good thing. Bournville in Birmingham and | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
another school planning to convert to an academy. But here, parents | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
are still doubtful. Some of them ask where the accountability is. | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
I had a problem that the school could not resolve, I could go to my | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
local councillor who has been elected to represent me and I could | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
take it up with them. But I will not be able to do them when the | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
school becomes an academy. A decade on from the first academy, | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
they're still controversial for many people. But for many others, | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
it's a simple equation. Academy Joining us now is Professor Stephen | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Gorard, an education expert from Birmingham University. Do you think | :07:25. | :07:35. | |
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academy schools are good for our It is not a question of what I | :07:38. | :07:47. | |
think, the evidence shows -- there is no evidence that they do better | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
with equivalent children. They were intended to circumvent the ban on | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
schools in failing circumstances becoming specialist schools. But | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
has disappeared. Looking at the new academies, do you think they are a | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
good thing? Will they provide better education long term? Many | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
schools want to become them. Yes, and some reasons are financial why | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
they become academies. This is not a choice for an individual school, | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
but many of the schools have become academies will have seen through an | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
entire cohort of students... What I think they have done is change the | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
intake to schools. Were they have been in disadvantaged areas. They | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
have prevented schools from getting into a spiral of decline. Do you | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
think generally too much has been made of talk of academies against | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
Lea schools. All any parent wants is for their child to go to school | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
to do well and be happy. Of course. If they clearly worked or clearly | :08:53. | :09:03. | |
did not, we would be arguing about whether it is a control. Council | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
control is not an issue here. We have got good data on 50 of the | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
schools now. And all the improvements have been about 50-50. | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
Thank you. A cancer patient is fighting to | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
keep available on the NHS a drug he says saved his life. Kris Griffin | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
has had leukemia for more than three years and he wants other | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
patients to have access to the drug. But it's thought NHS funding will | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
soon be withdrawn after a recent review decided it was too expensive | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
and not always effective. Cath Two pills which Kris Griffin says | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
are keeping him alive. He takes them every morning at his home in | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
Kidderminster to fight his chronic myeloid leukemia or CML. They have | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
eradicated the majority of the leukaemia in my system. The feeling | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
I have when I take them is utterly thankful of the system, it makes me | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
very humble and it is very very surreal. | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
Kris is taking dasatinib, one of three drugs that CML patients are | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
offered as a second line of attack against the disease. The other two | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
are high-dose imatinib and nilotinib. The cost is over �30,000 | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
per patient per year. And it's these three drugs which could lose | :10:20. | :10:28. | |
NHS funding under a proposal from NICE, the drug advisory body. They | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
are questioning not only because if -- cost effectiveness but the | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
clinical effectiveness of this. What would you say to this? I would | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
love to sit and debate with them and get them to put a price on my | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
life. In 10 years, we have progressed on to the second and | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
third generation drugs. What is the point in developing them if we | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
cannot use them? Needless to say, it's emotive. | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Leukemia patients protested at a meeting of NICE in Manchester last | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
month. MPs too are being petitioned. Kris Griffin's MP says if funding | :10:58. | :11:06. | |
is withdrawn, there are other ways. There is money available and if | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
consultants and patience think that NICE may have got it wrong, there | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
is a route through that through the cancer drugs fund. | :11:14. | :11:22. | |
Kris is in remission and about to become a father. It is madness. | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
Lovely, though? Yes. Lovely. NICE say the guidance doesn't mean | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
that people currently taking the drugs will stop receiving them. A | :11:30. | :11:40. | |
final ruling on funding will be Detectives have offered a fresh | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
appeal for information. Richard Deakin, who was 27, died | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
after he was shot while in bed at his home in Chasetown. It's | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
believed a black Corsa, found abandoned less than a mile away, | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
had been used as a getaway car. A �20,000 reward has been offered for | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Duran Duran have -- postponed their tour because of the lead singer's | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
for his problems. Simon Le Bon has been told to get physiotherapy | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
treatment. The ban so they hope to my schedule as many of the | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
performances as possible. The Shropshire Hills have been put | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
on a map of Countryside Under Threat. It's been produced by the | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Campaign For The Protection Of Rural England which says plans to | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
run power lines through the county could spoil an Area of Outstanding | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
Natural Beauty. They're worried the Government is making it easier for | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
developers to carry out projects which harm the countryside by | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
reducing the powers of local authorities. | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
The NHS in Gloucestershire has started using reminiscence pods to | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
help dementia patients. The pioneering therapy allows patients | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
to talk about a specific era with the help of a portable living room. | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
Talking about the radio or TV programmes they remember, for | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
example, can help jog patient's memories and reconnect them with | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
their past. A heart specialist who was | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
dismissed after a nine-year dispute with a hospital trust has been in | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
court today to try to get a ruling that his sacking was illegal. Dr | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Raj Mattu blew the whistle about patients dying in overcrowded bays | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
in Coventry in 2001. Our health correspondent, Michele Paduano, | :13:16. | :13:26. | |
reports from the High Court in London. He was then suspended in | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
bullying allegations, it has cost the system �6 million. He was | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
eventually sacked last year. Our reporter reports from the High | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
Court in London. October last year. Dr Raj Mattu | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
lying seriously ill in hospital bed. His GP, Dr David Buckley and a | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
medical specialist, wrote to university hospitals in | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
Warwickshire asking to delay a disciplinary hearing in November | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
because of his illness and distress making his illness worse. The | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
chief-executive of the hospital disregarded the letters and sacked | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
Dr Raj Mattu without him giving evidence in his defence. The | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
barrister told the court that this was unfair and so but the trust | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
knew that Dr Raj Mattu was unfit to attend and should not have gone | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
ahead. He argued that the human rights had been breached because Dr | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Raj Mattu was not afforded an independent inquiry and because | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
effectively his career as a doctor had ended. | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
Dr Raj Mattu seemed here with his wife will undergo cross-examination | :14:24. | :14:34. | |
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tomorrow. -- seemed here with his Thanks for joining us this evening. | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
Still to come, whisper it quietly, but the football season's just | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
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around the corner with some of our David Cameron will tomorrow outline | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
plans to reduce Britain's military presence in Afghanistan by the end | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
of next year. The Prime Minister, who's on a visit to Kabul, is | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
expected to bring the number of British troops in the country below | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
9,000. That could affect the Mercian Regiment which recruits | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
largely from the Midlands and is serving in Afghanistan. With them | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
is BBC WM reporter, Louise Brierley. I spoke to her earlier in Camp | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
Bastion and asked her about the conditions she'd found there. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
has been another hot day here in Afghanistan, up to 42 degrees | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
Celsius, that is not too bad here in Camp Bastion with air- | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
conditioning but on the front line, they are living in very basic | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
conditions. They are living on rations with no air conditioning | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
and carrying 80 kilograms on their backs, that is more than I way. And | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
they do not have tea breaks here. They work seven days a week, out | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
for six months at a time and only go home for two weeks during that | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
period. David Cameron has been there talking about the security | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
handover, I believe the three Mercians have been helping with | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
that? Yes, the Afghan national police and Afghan army taking over | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
their own security. That is something that three Mercian are | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
involved with. They have been training the army to use everything | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
from metal detectors to reading maps. That is something you would | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
not have seen here a few months ago. They are also getting Leeds on | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
operations. But people I spoke to say there is still a lot to do here. | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
Can you give us an idea what we will be seeing on your report on | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
Midlands Today next week was Mike we would -- we will be talking | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
about the Mercians involvement with the Afghan national army. I have | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
been talking to young soldiers who served with Private Gareth | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
Bellingham who sadly died three weeks ago and may have been paying | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
their tributes but on a lighter note, we will also be looking at | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
life back at base here et Camp Bastion, what people do to chill | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
out, everything from going to the gym to Pizza Hut, things you might | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
not expect to see here in Afghanistan. Louise Brierley art in | :17:07. | :17:15. | |
Afghanistan with the Mercians. The sky-high price of gold is being | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
blamed for a spate of muggings targeting Asian women. Thieves are | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
snatching valuable gold necklaces and even earrings from victims. | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
Andy Newman reports. Indian gold. High quality, high | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
value, and in high demand in the criminal underworld. Some of these | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
necklaces are worth �5,000 each. In recent weeks on the streets of | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
Handsworth and Sandwell there have been a series of jewellery snatches | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
mainly targeting middle-aged Asian women. Four took place in the last | :17:37. | :17:47. | |
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In one typical incident, a 16-year- old woman was walking on a street | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
in Handsworth when she was tapped on the shoulder. As she looked | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
round, the robber grabbed her necklace and ran off. | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
The police say because the robberies are opportunist they | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
could be avoided if women wore their jewellery less prominently. | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
It is a case of covering up, not wearing a jury overtly. Don't | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
advertise the jury if you are wearing. -- jewellery. | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
Jewellers confirm that the record price of gold is probably | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
contributing to the trend. They say they're trying to do their bit to | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
thwart the thieves. We tell customers to be careful with what | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
they show. We are also working with the police to operate a radio | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
scheme whereby we can liaise with the police and local traders about | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
what is going on on the street. With immediate effect. | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
As the message for increased vigilance goes out, the advice to | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
people who own expensive jewellery seems to be that you can still wear | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
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it with pride, but wear it with They are beautiful. | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
And you can hear more about those street robberies in Phil Upton at | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
Breakfast on BBC WM tomorrow morning. | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
It may only be 5th July, many of us have yet to enjoy our main summer | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
holiday, but the new football season is already upon us. | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
Birmingham City and Walsall were back in training this morning. And, | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
as Dan Pallett found out, for many the season never really went away. | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
Oh, no. That's the last thing a player wants to see at pre-season | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
training. Footballs in the bag and a mini-assault laid out on the | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
pitch instead. The hard work starts here for League One Walsall. In | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
fact, it hardly ever ends. Especially if you're a new signing. | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
This is the first time out of contract so for me personally, I | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
was looking at my phone all the time and waiting for it to ring so | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
I perspired by holiday for as late as I could. And then as soon as I | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
went on holiday, it still happened. So I was on the facts were seen | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
sorting it out from the hotel. -- on the fax machine. | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
Fitness is the early priority. The new season gets under way on 6th | :19:57. | :20:06. | |
August. This exercise are getting the players fit without injuries. | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
At Birmingham City, the manager is among the new boys. His big | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
decisions involve which players will be sold to balance the books | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
now Blues are in the Championship. Will striker Nikola Zigic be | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
binned? Well, he trained on his own this morning. And then there's the | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
recent arrest of part-owner, Carson Yeung, on charges of money | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
laundering. It hasn't affected us in the slightest. We are obviously | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
conscious of it but business goes on as normal. The important side | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
for me is that it is dead like today when the players are back and | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
dealing with the players -- days like today. | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
Yes, football's back - that's if it ever went away! Wives and | :20:48. | :20:58. | |
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girlfriends everywhere are saying They don't get much football in | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
between but I think it is great. And we also have the cricket, that | :21:10. | :21:20. | |
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is perfect for you. Yes, I love it! Cricket season and we have got | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
showers. For most it was moderate burst of rain but the best is yet | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
to come. It has yet to come. You can see the Kell of rain news in | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
from the West and that is the pattern for all the rest of the | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
week. We have got the rain followed by showers. At least the winds are | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
OK, they pick up and then they come down and the temperatures around | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
average for the time of year. For tonight, we can see that rain will | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
clear away to the east. We have got some late sunshine the seeping and | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
that is an indication that things are drying up. With clear its bells | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
will see temperatures going down to about 13 Celsius. And then we see | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
showers moving in from the West, fairly heavy batch of them in | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
places but it is by tomorrow morning that they really get going. | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
Heavy ones, possibly some thundery ones in places but in between some | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
sunshine. And the showers could join to form longer spells of rain. | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
Temperatures getting up to around 20 Celsius. But the winds will be | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
picking up especially towards the end of the day ahead of the band of | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
rain coming through tomorrow night. A wet night tomorrow night with | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
quite heavy rain, that will be a more active band of rain and then | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
we have got showers through the rest of the week. Temperatures | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
around average for the time of year. Night time temperatures are not too | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
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bad. It was a day aviation enthusiasts | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
will never forget, when one of the oldest flying jet aircraft in the | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
world came back home. The Gloster Meteor flew into Coventry Airport | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
close to where it was built, after a painstaking restoration programme. | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
Our reporter Kevin Reide is there. This Gloster Meteor has been | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
grounded since 1969, when it was last in service with the RAF. But | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
over the last 16 years it's been lovingly restored and today it was | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
arriving at its new home, Coventry Airport. | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
ARCHIVE FOOTAGE: the first squadron... | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
The Gloster was first introduced in 1944 making history as the first | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
jet-powered British fighter. It wasn't renowned for its | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
aerodynamics but did go on to prove itself as an effective fighter for | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
the RAF and other air forces. Today's Meteor was built five years | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
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later and piloted by Dan Griffiths. Excellent, it is flying really | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
nicely. Amazingly, it is flying The Meteor is also famous for its | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
engines. They're a direct derivative from the jet engine | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
pioneered by Coventry's most famous son, Sir Frank Whittle. Today | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
though there was a slight scare when immediately after landing, one | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
of the engines began billowing smoke. My opinion is that the | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
lining at the back of the jet pack has come lows and then you get the | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
very hot exhaust gases which have burned a bit of paint off the | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
outside but apart from that, it just needs a bit of lagging and she | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
will be back in the air. The Meteor cost half a million | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
pounds to restore and is one of only four left flying in the world. | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
By chance, another of those four was also at Coventry Airport and | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
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left with the same test pilot, en He was very cool about the smoke | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
coming out of the ancient or DUP artists can draw inspiration from | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
all sorts of areas but how many are inspired by a terrible personal | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
trauma? A new exhibition in commentary | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
features a reconstruction of a spine, damaged by the artist | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
herself in a serious car crash. 1997, the year that changed this | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
woman's life foreign a. The last thing I remember his I was driving | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
down the A46 in Coventry, a man cut me up and I somersaulted and the | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
next thing I remember, I woke up in hospital. The doctors were really | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
excited because I was still alive and they said it was a miracle that | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
I have lived. For somebody who once worked as a model, these are done | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
who is now 35 knows she will never walk again. And has devoted her | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
life to coming to terms with their disability. This is an 11 ft | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
sculpture of my spinal column. I cut it by hand. In the centre you | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
can see the damage to vertebrates and there is no disc because my | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
spine does not have a disc above that there to break. And this skin | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
or muscle actually ages over time. And it changes in appearance. It | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
looks a bit different here. inspiration through injury, | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
uplifting those who visit it. is a one-off macro basically to | :26:10. | :26:20. | |
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what we have seen before. to see what trauma she has been in. It is | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
great that you can touch it. think every day that I am very, | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
very lucky to be here and alive and this is a celebration of that. And | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
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that is why I am so happy to share The an art of a different sort now, | :26:39. | :26:47. | |
look at this. A Warwickshire gardener has picked up an award at | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
the Royal horticulture Society Flower Show. The naked garden used | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
glass containers full of water suspend plans and that showed their | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
roods and means knows so well is used for the plant. As the 28th are | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
just muddle at that. It looks like a laboratory. Let's take a look at | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
the main headlines. The parents of the murdered schoolgirl Holly Wells | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
and Jessica Chapman have been contacted by police investigating | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
the News of the World phone hacking scandal. And here, angry scenes as | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
Eco protesters tried to hold a giant open-cast coalmine | :27:25. | :27:31. |