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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Nick Owen and Suzanne Virdee. | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
The headlines tonight: Our school is beyond repair - desperate | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
parents take their plea to Downing Street. We were promised it in 2009. | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
It is now nearly the end of 2011. The care home where plants, | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
children and animals are helping Alzheimer's patients to ditch the | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
drugs. Parents appeal after a teenage couple run away together. | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
It does not matter what has happened. It does not matter what | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
the circumstances. Just come home. And the best fun you can have on | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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three wheels, as Morgan cars Good evening and welcome to | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Thursday's Midlands Today. This morning, schoolchildren travelled | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
to Downing Street to try to get a school fit for them to learn in. | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
They handed in a 3,000-signature petition asking for their leaking | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
and damp school buildings to be rebuilt. The pupils and parents | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
from Richard Lee primary in Coventry say it's no longer fit for | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
purpose. Teachers from the school also met Education Minister Lord | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
Hill, but they left London Sunshine at seven, and optimism was | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
in the air as two coach loads of pupils, parents and teachers from | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Richard Lee Primary School in the Wyken area of Coventry head for | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
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We're on the front page of the papers again. The ceiling collapsed | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
a couple of weeks ago. We had a class told in the corridor for | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
several weeks. The school probably has a shelf-life of three to five | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
years. We do not have the money to build a new school. We need the | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Government to release their funding to the Council Sobhi Council can | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
rebuild. Eight year olds Georgie and Harvey have been chosen to hand | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
in a 3,000-signature petition to Prime Minister David Cameron, | :02:16. | :02:25. | |
demanding a new school. I hope they say they might do it. It would be | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
really nice. In London, and part of the delegation were joined by their | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
local MP Bob Ainsworth, who'd arranged for them to meet Education | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
Minister Lord Hill so they could argue their case. But afterwards, | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
they were left a little deflated. We were not exactly expecting a big | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
bag of cash. We have not been given any certainty. We still do not know | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
when the rebuild will happen. it was time to head for Downing | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
Street, the weather almost mirroring the mood. After what | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
seemed like an age waiting for security checks in the pouring rain, | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
the children finally made it through the world's most famous | :03:00. | :03:10. | |
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door, where they handed over their petition. We want to get a new | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
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school. It is cold. When I was little by dad said I was going to a | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
fantastic school. It was so popular. Now I have grown up a little bit, I | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
have discovered that it is not so fantastic. The boiler is break -- | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
is broken. Little kids have to get a taut and the corridors. It is not | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
fair. The mood has changed since that meeting. They travel back to | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Coventry a little less optimistic. This afternoon, the Government | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
issued a statement. There was no promise of a new school, but they | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
did say they were looking at the findings of a review into the | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
country's worst schools - a very small silver lining on a dark cloud | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
We're joined now by Bob Ainsworth, the Labour MP for Coventry North | :04:10. | :04:19. | |
East. The school clearly in a terrible state, and it can't have | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
happened overnight. Why didn't your Government sort this before it got | :04:21. | :04:31. | |
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to this stage? We have rebuilt a lot of schools in Coventry. Richard | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
Lee was forced to wait while other schools which needed additional | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
places were built. Some schools had roofs collapse. Richard Lee was | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
right at the top of the programme. It was the very next to be built. | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
Clearly recognised as being in the worst condition. The cap as a | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
programme has been slashed. -- the capital programme. It has been | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
slashed because there was no money left after your Government? It has | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
been massively slashed. Coventry has only got �11 million for the | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
entire city. It will take 10 million to rebuild Richard Lee, | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
leaving absolutely nothing for the secondary sector in Coventry, or | :05:23. | :05:33. | |
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for the rest of the primary sector. There is no money, is there? | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
cannot argue that we spend too much money and that we spend too little | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
money at the same time. We do spend too little and did not repair | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
schools like Richard Lee, or we spend too much and there was not | :05:48. | :05:58. | |
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enough left. Which is it? Make up your mind. Still to come in | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
tonight's programme, the ups and downs of the band of UB40 as a row | :06:01. | :06:11. | |
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A medical trial involving Alzheimer's patients has brought | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
into question the need for mind altering drugs. Almost half the | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
patients at one home were taking the drugs. But when they were given | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
close contact with animals, plants and children, the need for those | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
drugs was virtually eliminated. It's being seen as the way forward | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
for the treatment of Alzheimer's, as Michele Paduano has been finding | :06:30. | :06:40. | |
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Brownies regularly keep their promise to help people. Not what | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
you're used to in a care home, but according out pictures of things | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
they have done helps to stimulate the elderly. I can join in. The | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
children are lovely. 10 Hepburn was on a range of drugs for Alzheimer's. | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
Not any more. Rico macro here every day. We can still have some quality | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
of life. Whereas before I thought my life was over. I was down in the | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
dumps. All of a sudden I jumped out of it. 21 patients used to take | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
mind-altering drugs. But now there is just one. A another lady we have | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
here at the moment lungs to take the rap for a walk. -- likes to | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
take the rap. Dash macro Rabbit. You can see the enjoyment on her | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
face. It costs nothing. Implementing this alternative has | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
made such a difference to staff and residents. Academics say it is | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
obvious. The problem says overworked staff become jaded. | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
more like real life you can make things, the better it is. | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
Interaction with animals and children turns what could be an | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
artificial closed setting into something that is more like | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
everyday life. It is more than a little birdie that says this | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
approach is better. We're joined now by David Ash from the | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Alzheimer's Society This is an incredible turnaround - how did | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
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this treatment come about? Really simply, the treatment is about | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
trying to stimulate people in care homes. Often these environments can | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
be quite sterile. Lots of people on anti-psychotic drugs, which means | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
they are not as physically mobile as they can be. By stimulating | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
people, they can have a more fulfilling life. It is not really | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
expensive things. Could it be more expensive to implement this | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
treatment? There are 180,000 people in the UK being prescribed anti- | :09:05. | :09:14. | |
psychotic drugs. Most of those are in appropriate, according to | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
research. The cost of not prescribing those drugs could be | :09:18. | :09:28. | |
easily invested in good training for carers. This is not expensive. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
It is basic understanding of people with dementia. It is not just | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
understanding them as a manger. It is understanding the individual. -- | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
dementia. I would like to see this in all care homes. Anti-psychotic | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
drugs need to go. People need to be stimulated. They would be better | :09:48. | :09:57. | |
off. The parents of two missing teenagers from the Black Country | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
have pleaded with them to get in touch. 15-year-old Charlotte Ford | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
is thought to have run away with her boyfriend, Luke Jarvis, who's | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
16 today. Sarah Falkland reports. Where were they going and why? | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
Charlotte Ford and her boyfriend Luke Jarvis caught on CCTV at | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
Dudley bus station on the evening of Sunday 26 June. It's the last | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
anyone has seen of them. It does not matter what has happened. It | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
does not matter what the circumstances are, just come home. | :10:29. | :10:37. | |
I really miss you. Charlotte's mother says her daughter had split | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
from Look two months ago. Charlotte then moved from Wordsley near | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
Stourbridge to live her aunt in Wales. They were together and then | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
they were not. It is just their age. Luke should have been celebrating | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
his 16th birthday today. We are all worried about you. Not just us, the | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
entire family. Think about what you're doing. We will celebrate | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
your birthday together as a family. I am hopeful about the fact it is | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
his birthday will provide another opportunity for look to make | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
contact with some of his friends and that they will be responsible | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
enough to notify either of the Police or his family where he is, | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
and help us to get in touch with him. Police say it is unusual for | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
young teenagers to go missing for such a long time. There are asking | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
anybody in Tipton, Bilston or Dudley to check their garage as or | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
out houses. One report police are investigating is that the couple | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
were seen yesterday in Prestatyn in North Wales. They're asking anyone | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
with any information about Charlotte or Luke to call police at | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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Sandwell Hospital has failed standards for dignity and nutrition | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
in a Care Quality Commission investigation. On one Ward the | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
system for identifying patients who needed help was not working. It | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
also found Patients warned that adequately covered for decency and | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
some areas were not a single sex. am very confident this is not the | :12:30. | :12:40. | |
situation. The report shows that three out of the four words had | :12:40. | :12:50. | |
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adequate standard of care. -- awards. We're confident... It has | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
been the last day of the public inquiry into higher than | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
anticipated deaths at Stafford Hospital. The inquiry is going into | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
recess for eight weeks because the chairman needs an urgent medical | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
procedure. The hearings will resume in September. One of the biggest | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
band Birmingham has ever produced found itself embroiled in a court | :13:14. | :13:24. | |
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case today. Five original members of UB40 were facing a bankruptcy | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
hearing. It was expected that a judge would make a final decision | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
surrounding the finances of the record label behind the band, Dep | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
International. A petition for bankruptcy has been filed by | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
creditors. Lindsay Doyle reports. They have been portrayed as an icon | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
for the British working class. UB40 were named after a document issued | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
to people claiming unemployment benefit at the time they formed in | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
1978. There have been many highs over the last 30 years, but today | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
was one of the lows when representatives of five members of | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
the reggae band appeared before Birmingham County Court for the | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
bankruptcy hearing. For the sake of clarity, they are not bankrupt and | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
they are not intending to become bankrupt. The legal action is | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
focussing on their record label Dep International. Each of the band | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
members were directors of the company which went into | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
administration in 2006. The creditors have been trying to get | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
some money back. When frontman Ali Campbell left the band in 2008, he | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
claimed the main reason was concerns about the band's finances. | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
Even when I got independent accountants to ask for the | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
information, I still did not get it. When you're getting letters from | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
the Inland Revenue to say that you were being investigated, that is | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
frightening. UB 40 -- UB40 played their first concert here in 1979. | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
They went on to sell 70 million records, the most successful of | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
reggae act ever. No final decision was made in court this morning, a | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
decision welcomed by the band's legal team Full details of how the | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
band have ended up this position are expected to come to light after | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
the court proceedings are completed. Each of them will continue to | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
dispute the amounts claimed in these proceedings. If Bancroft | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
proceedings are issued following this hearing, we will vigorously | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
oppose them. -- bankruptcy proceedings. But whatever happens | :15:22. | :15:32. | |
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in the courts, UB40 will carry on Still ahead, and you look for a | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
Birmingham's Alexander Stadium. -- and you look for Birmingham's | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
Alexander Stadium. And how much longer can the rain and showers | :15:47. | :15:57. | |
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More than 20 vulnerable elderly people face being made homeless, | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
and the 36 staff who help care for them will become jobless, with the | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
closure of a residential home. It's been run by a charity for 20 years. | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
But a series of complex issues is forcing it to shut. The trustees | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
who give up their time to run the home say the decision has been | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
difficult and painful. Joanne Writtle takes up the story. They | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
face moving from a care home they love. These women - here with | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
family and friends - are among 24 residents of The Chestnuts in Ross- | :16:27. | :16:36. | |
on-Wye searching for somewhere else to live. Absolutely disgusted, I am. | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
It is my home. It is terrible. Great grandmother Hazel Childs is | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
regularly taken out by her daughters. She's been here for nine | :16:42. | :16:51. | |
years. The staff at are lovely. She loves the staff. She treats them | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
like her children and grandchildren. It is so upsetting. Volunteer | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
trustees have run the home for 20 years, ever since the local | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
authority announced it was to close. But the lease ends in September. | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
The charity pays a nominal �8,000 rent to Herefordshire Council. The | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
local authority wants to double that, though the market value would | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
be far more - an estimated �70,000. Complex changes in policy | :17:13. | :17:23. | |
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nationally on adult care are also among the reasons for closure. The | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
trustees say this home is a fine example of a community taking | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
responsibility for services. The situation they are now in makes | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
them wonder what the so-called big society is all about. With falling | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
funding and the need for the local authority to make the most of us at | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
this, the running of the home will have become more commercial. -- | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
make the most of its assets. It is awful. The residents are like | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
family. Herefordshire Council says it's been in talks with the | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
trustees for some time. trustees are in a position where | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
they feel that they cannot continue operating in the way they are | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
operating. This family and everybody we spoke to said this | :18:16. | :18:24. | |
home was excellent. But it could close very soon. You can see why | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
that care home could be seen as an example of the Big Society in | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
action. So what would its closure say now for the Government's Big | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
Idea? Patrick Burns is here with us. Patrick, the Big Society seems to | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
be shrinking before our eyes? there is a textbook answer to that. | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
It is called the big society by Jessie Norman, the Conservative MP | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
whose constituency includes Ross- on-Wye. No guarantee that homes | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
like that will not close. What Jessie Norman would say is that the | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
threat of closure may trigger local business interests to devise their | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
own home-grown strategies to find a solution, in a way that top-down | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
solutions, bureaucratic solutions, demand less on a ship from local | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
people. -- ownership. But when you see what's happening there in Ross- | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
on-Wye and elsewhere, people are bound to say the Big Society is no | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
more than an excuse invented by David Cameron to justify public | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
sector cuts? To which the Government would say that one of | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
the first places he came to as leader of the opposition six years | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
ago was Balsall Heath, where local community activists worked together | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
to get prostitution off the streets. The fastest man in the world this | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
year will lead a star-studded field at Birmingham's first ever Diamond | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
League athletics meeting this weekend. And it's hoped this could | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
be just the start for the city after a �12 million redevelopment | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
of the Alexander Stadium. A major summer championships could be next. | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
Nick Clitheroe reports. This is the crowning glory of the redevelopment | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
at the Alexander Stadium, a 5.000- seater stand on the back straight | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
of the Birmingham venue. Why is it so important? Well without it they | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
wouldn't be staging Sunday's Grand Prix, which is part of the Diamond | :20:13. | :20:21. | |
League series for the finest athletes in the world. It has to be | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
the best in the world. That is the whole thing about being in the | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
Diamond League series. It is the best athletes. In some of the | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
events it can be stronger than the Olympic final. There is a fantastic | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
view for the spectators. And that ground level, very impressive. And | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
it's very popular too with the British athletes who've made this | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
stadium their home over the years. It is amazing. It is beginning to | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
look like a proper world-class stadium. It has always been a great | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
venue. The added bonus of the stand, now we can attract world-class | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
championships. It was the first place I came to, to watch the | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
Olympic trials. I became captivated by it. I have been to the Diamond | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
League in Doha and a New York. This place will have a much better | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
atmosphere. The redevelopment has also seen the stadium brought up to | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
international standards for track and field. That leaves the stadium | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
ready to bid for a European Championships in the future. But | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
the first treat for a sell-out crowd on Sunday will be to see the | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
true stars of world athletics in You can hear more about that on BBC | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
WM tomorrow morning when Phil Upton at Breakfast will be talking live | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
to the President of the Jamaican athletics team, who'll be based in | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
Britain's newest car took to the roads today, and with only three | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
wheels, the new Morgan is something of a throwback. Back in 1909, the | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
Worcestershire company's founder, Harry Morgan, designed his first | :21:56. | :22:04. | |
car, a three-wheeled runabout, and many more were to follow. Three | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
wheelers seem to be linked with this region. It was in Tamworth | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
that Reliant turned out their cars in big numbers. Fondly recalled by | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
many owners but the butt of jokes too. Remember Del Boy's Reliant in | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
Only Fools and Horses? But now Morgan has returned to its heritage | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
with a three wheeler that will put a smile on your face for all the | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
right reasons, as our business correspondent Peter Plisner has | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
been finding out. OK, driving with goggles on doesn't quite do it for | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
me - but the car certainly does. Despite having fewer wheels than | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
conventional vehicles the new Morgan 3 drives extremely well. It | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
represents something of warp back in time for the Malvern-based car | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
maker. This rare footage shows the original Morgan three wheeler being | :22:44. | :22:53. | |
put through its paces in a hill climbing competition. This is one | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
of the originals. It was designed and built in the 1930s. This is the | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
modern version. The company has stayed true to its tradition. At | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
the factory the first cars are already being built - they're | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
expecting to build around 400 each year. It has still got a lot of | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
charm. It does not take itself too seriously. It is a proper sports | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
car. You can have a real laugh in it. And that's exactly what members | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
of the motoring press were doing today at Malvern. By all accounts | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
they like what they saw. Modern cars are too sanitised. They are | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
covered in safety and luxury. This strips of --. We are ahead of | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
Lotus... For Morgan's Chief Executive, the new model has to | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
potential to deliver a new younger market to the 100-year-old brand, | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
with 500 pre-orders already on the books. I think where it is quite | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
interesting is it is like motorbike quarter a little bit. The sales in | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
motorbikes have actually increased enormously over the past 10 years. | :23:59. | :24:09. | |
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We hope that the three-wheeler is a bit like that. Like previous cars | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
from Morgan, it should be in great demand. And Peter joins us now. So | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
when are we going to see these Morgan Threes on the road, Peter? | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
At the moment they are in the pre- production stage. Full production | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
starts in September. Only then will you start to see these cars | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
appearing in the showrooms. Having driven the car today, I can say | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
that it probably will sell very well. It is pretty efficient. It | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
does 45-50 miles to the gallon. It will make it popular and good news | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
for the company. Good news for the West Midlands. The majority of | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
parts are made here in this region. Good news for the components of | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
firms who have suffered in the recession. How much will they cost? | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
And do you get the goggles? It is cheaper than the average Morgan. | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
Starting price around �25,000. The average Morgan around 30,000 to | :25:20. | :25:30. | |
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40,000. Most of them will be Now the weather. We were definitely | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
over credit by showers. Plenty of them around. Things are improving | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
over the weekend. Temperatures will pick up slightly. Currently we are | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
caught up in the workings of this low-pressure. Once it moves to the | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
North East by the weekend, the way will be clear for a brighter and | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
better weather. At the moment we are plodding the same path. Still | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
some showers out there at the moment. The next sign of activity | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
will be just after midnight as this next band of rain hit in from the | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
West. Heavy pulses of rain overnight. By the end of the night | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
it will reach eastern part of the patch. Temperatures dropping to 20 | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
Celsius. It will feel cooler. Tomorrow morning the rain heads | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
east words. It will increase in the east. It will be a wet start. | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
Almost a seamless transition from that rain Clearing to a rush of | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
showers. Some could be heavy and thundery. There will be sunshine in | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
between raising the temperature has to 20 Celsius. Once again it will | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
be a windy day. As for the weekend, we have got some dry weather on a | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
wave. Showers on Saturday. The sunshine will take the temperatures | :27:05. | :27:15. | |
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A look at tonight's main headlines: The News of the World - the | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
newspaper at the centre of the phone hacking allegations - is to | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
close. It will print its last edition this Sunday. And pupils go | :27:30. | :27:33. |