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Good evening, welcome to the start of the weekend with Midlands Today | :00:04. | :00:12. | |
from the BBC. Deadline midnight - the final hours of consultation on | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
the controversial high-speed rail link. It is not only not going to | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
solve the deep divide, it is going to be worse, it will not help the | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
environment. A viper in our midst - at the words | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
of a judge who jailed this man for the terrorist offences. He was a | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
posting violent, extremist views on land, encouraging people to murder | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
MPs. Birmingham City admit they have | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
financial problems, but are adamant it is not a crisis. It could be | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Armageddon, but it could be a new start, who knows what is in the | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
future? 's and a Motown revival, not in | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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Detroit, but Warwickshire, thanks Good evening. Tonight: vital for | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Britain, its economy and its transport network or a blight on | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
our countryside that will haunt the government? Those are the fiercely | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
contrasting views of Network Rail and the Countryside Alliance, | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
who've just added their submissions to the consultation on High Speed 2. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
The rest of us have less than six hours to do the same, as the | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
deadline to have a say on the proposal to build a high-speed rail | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
link between London and Birmingham ends at midnight. But it'll be the | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
Transport Secretary who'll have the final word, and he won't be rushed | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
into making any decisions before the end of the year. Giles Latcham | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
reports on possibly THE most controversial engineering plan to | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
affect our region. "Never the twain shall meet" goes | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
the saying, but today they did. On the last day of the public | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
consultation we brought together two voices from opposing sides of | :01:59. | :02:09. | |
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the HS2 debate. I can understand what you are coming from. Could one | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
convinced the other? Night out of 10 train project over inflate day | :02:14. | :02:24. | |
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I accept that usage numbers were higher and then they turned out to | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
be the case, but the economic benefits from that far exceeded | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
those that were convicted. This would be developed, there would be | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
some business parks. This is part of the regeneration. But every | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
building built here, that is one less in Coventry, Wolverhampton... | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
It would be enormously beneficial for us to be able to operate, would | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
work in London that has become a major global city, and do it in the | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
regions. It is not just the ability to do things over the internet, it | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
is having face-to-face beatings, being able to get there quickly, it | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
is really important. If you have a big office in London and a 49 | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
minute trip to Birmingham, why do you need an office in Birmingham? | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Many places will say, we don't need that office, we will shut it down, | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
Precious little common ground, but arguments commonly heard at | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
roadshows and public meetings across the Midlands since | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
consultation began in February. The government won't say how many | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
responses and comments they have had through this consultation | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
period, but they are due to make a statement based on them by the end | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
of the year. Ahead of that, their message today was simple - yes, we | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
can talk about it, but a new line we must have. Anyone who has ever | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
been stuck in the queue at Euston on Friday night trying to get on a | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
train to Birmingham or Manchester will know we are rapidly running | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
out of capacity on the west coast main line, and urgently need a new | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
line to give additional capacity but those are journeys. This whole | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
project is a vanity project... of our MEPs was travelling by road, | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
rallying support for the anti-s. Why was the green bait -- Green | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Belt created? It is about to be conurbations, one of the things, | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
when it has been built, it will make the West Midlands and | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
Birmingham a satellite of London. The Countryside Alliance say lives | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
will be destroyed. In London, they want changes to the route. | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
Consultation will soon be over, but with stakes as high as these, the | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
arguments continue. Thanks for joining us. Staying off | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
the street and out of trouble, the teenagers taking to the stage | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
instead. And we're at one of the country's | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
biggest dance festivals, which has grown from its beginnings in a | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
Warwickshire farmhouse to become a An internet blogger from | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
Wolverhampton has been jailed for 12 years after admitting soliciting | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
the murder of MPs who'd voted for the Iraq war. | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Bilal Zaheer Ahmad, who's 23, was also sentenced for other terror ism | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
offences at Bristol Crown Court. Our reporter has been following the | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
case and joins us now. What more can you tell us? This is all to do | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
with postings he made online last year, specifically after a trial | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
that had taken place in London. She had stabbed the Labour MP Stephen | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
Timms, he went on line, posted messages in her support, and said, | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
revolution Muslim, he said other people should go out and do the | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
same thing. The judge -- judge described him as a viper in our | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
midst. Really strong words from Mr Justice Royce and, he said, you | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
were intent on striking at the heart of our democracy. You report | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
to be a British citizen, but would you stand for is totally alien to | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
what we stand for in this country. Strong words, a 12 year sentence, | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
he was also told that when he is released, he will have to spend at | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
least five more years on licence. Whatever the police said? They are | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
pleased, because the offices were the ones in apiarist not long after | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
those comments. They are particularly worried about online | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
extremism. People have a right to freedom of speech, but with that | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
comes a responsibility, they should do that within the law. Ahmad went | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
beyond the law, he solicited the murder of many people, and it is an | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
important sentenced today. By sheer coincidence, I happened to be at | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
the counter-terrorism officers when he was arrested last November, so I | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
know how important this is, they're taking online extremism very | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
seriously indeed, not just Islamic extremism, but also from the far | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
right. Birmingham City's acting chairman | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
Peter Pannu is flying back from Hong Kong as speculation continues | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
over the club's financial position. Tonight, another of the club's top | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
players is all set to leave St Andrew's to reduce the wage bill. | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
But the Blues insist their bankers are being very supportive. Ian | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
Winter reports. Something's missing at St Andrew's. | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
The proud name of Birmingham City is disappearing. But some fans fear | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
losing a few letters is the least of their club's problems. Even the | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
signs are coming down at Birmingham City! It is an absolute crisis. | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
Crisis, what crisis? That's the gist of the latest statement on the | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
Blues website. Designed to calm fears about the club's financial | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
position. But this was the fateful moment in May, when the Blues' | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
owner Carson Yeung realised the Premier League gravy train had been | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
derailed by relegation. And four weeks later, he was arrested in | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
Hong Kong on suspicion of money laundering. Frozen assets in the | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
Far East are causing anxious times at St Andrew's. Acting chairman | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Peter Pannu admits the benefactor's legal wrangles does pose some | :07:56. | :08:06. | |
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If the case is proven against him, the Hong Kong government could | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
seize his assets, and effectively owned Birmingham City Football Club. | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
It could be Armageddon, but it could be a brand new start, who | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
knows what is going to be in the future? This pantomime soap opera | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
that is Birmingham City. Football fan Peter Knowles is keeping a | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
close eye on developments at St Andrew's, because he's also | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
stockbroker. I think the chances of them going into administration are | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
quite slim at the moment. They are still receiving the parachute from | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
a Sky, which means from a trading perspective, there is money coming | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
in. It is only if there is no money coming in that I would be worried | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
if I was at them. So Blues fans will give thanks for those | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
parachute payments. And offer a little prayer that their absence | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
from the Premier League will last no more than one season. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Ian joins us live at St Andrew's. What sort of reaction will Peter | :09:03. | :09:11. | |
Pannu get from the Blues fans? is very difficult to answer. I | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
understand that Peter Pannu is hoping to be back in time for | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
tomorrow's kick-off, their friendly against Everton, that hinges on | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
flight connections. The club say they are where there may be a small | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
protest, they're not sure the size of it, they haven't secured a shirt | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
sponsor. That is being offered on a match-by-match basis, although they | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
point out they have sold over 11,000 season tickets, only 900 | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
less than this time a year ago. is the latest player most likely to | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
be leaving St Andrew's? They're very latest tonight is that | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
goalkeeper Ben Foster has been having a medical at the Hawthorns, | :09:53. | :10:02. | |
and is on the verge of completing a season-long loan to West Brom, with | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
West Brom's goalkeeper moving in the other direction. Blues fans | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
always knew that relegation would mean the sale of some of their more | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
highly paid players, but the fact that Ben Foster is now the 4th big- | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
name player to be leaving St Andrews is a cause for concern, and | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
he may well not be the last to leave the club before the end of | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
August. Thank you. Warwickshire Social Services has | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
launched an independent inquiry following the murder of a 27-year- | :10:31. | :10:41. | |
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old woman from Gemma Hayter was found naked and beaten on a disused | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
railway line a year ago. Yesterday five people were found guilty of | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
killing her. A serious case review began in January to establish | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
whether any lessons need to be learned. | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
A murder inquiry's underway after a man died following an explosion in | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
a garage last weekend. 41-year-old Job Wilding died from severe burns | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
after a gas cylinder exploded on Gristhorpe Road in Selly Oak in | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
Birmingham. Another man, who's 35, is in a critical condition. Three | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
people have been arrested and released on bail. | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
Teenagers are the most likely to be the victims of street disorder, yet | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
they're often the first to be labelled the troublemakers. | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
Now one group is trying to turn around that image by working on a | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
play called Rough Diamonds. Our reporter Kevin Reide went to | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
Wolverhampton to see them rehearse. These youngsters at the EYES | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
project are in a race against time. Next week they'll be performing | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
their play Rough Diamonds to the public at Wolverhampton's grand | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
theatre, tackling issues such as racism, teenage pregnancy, and | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
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street crime. Look, mate, I don't know you, so back down, okay? | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
Backed down! Look! More than 70 young people from all backgrounds | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
are involved - the aim being to keep them off the streets and out | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
of trouble, and at the same time uncover natural talent. A lot of | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
times they haven't identified their talents, learned how to translate | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
this into marketable skills. This is one avenue where we can all | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
identify their talents, and they can work on one project together | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
and see what they can produce. project serves as a beacon of hope | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
for many young people in Wolverhampton, steering them away | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
from not only anti-social behaviour but in some cases much more serious | :12:18. | :12:27. | |
Former gang member Isia Maylor knows only too well the perils of | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
the streets. The 25-year old has served a prison sentence for gun | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
crime, but EYES and Rough Diamonds has helped him discover talents he | :12:34. | :12:42. | |
never knew he had. It's also taught him a thing or two about life. | :12:42. | :12:52. | |
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was in jail, I come out of jail, and... I straightened my ways. I | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
thought I was bigger than everyone. That isn't the case. We're all | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
equals. More rehearsals as the countdown begins, but what do those | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
here feel there needs to be to stop anti social behaviour?? I think | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
there should be more organisations like this, to help people get off | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
the street. Things where they can play, knowing there is not going to | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
be trouble coming to them. More youth centres and organisations, | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
more clubs that can be due to what you want to do when you grow older. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
Although there are two things available, they are not advertised | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
enough for Curtains are up next Wednesday - a chance for | :13:41. | :13:51. | |
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Wolverhampton to take great pride The positive things going on there. | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
Good to have you with us this evening - still to come: a soul | :13:55. | :14:05. | |
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legend gives Warwickshire the It's holiday time but if you're not | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
going away you may be going to a music festival - they're lots of | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
them going on all over the region and over next six weeks we're going | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
to be there too meeting the hundreds of thousands of people | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
that travel to them from all over the country. Today sees the start | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
of our first big festival of the summer - Global Gathering which has | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
gone from humble beginnings in Warwickshire eleven years ago to a | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
multimillion pound world- wide business. Ben Sidwell is at the | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
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festival now. There are some flashing lights. | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
Welcome to the main stage. The party is well under way. This | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
weekend 55,000 people will be here to enjoy the festival. It is thanks | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
mainly to one of music entrepreneur from Stratford upon Avon. I spent | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
much of the week behind the man behind Global Gathering. | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
Under way for its 11th year, it is one of the main fixtures of the | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
music festival calendar but the scenes near Stafford this afternoon | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
are long way from the tranquillity of the HQ in the Warwickshire | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
countryside. We have been lucky where we are situated and at the | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
end of the day if it is not broken, you don't fix it. Everything is | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
running well at the moment. The offices are great, we are here to | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
stay. James has won a group of four who came up with the idea for | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
Global Gathering in the year 2000. He is the boss of the company and | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
the only remaining member. It was what he did with the testable six | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
years ago that changed the business forever. We believe it it was a | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
great festival for five years in the UK and why shouldn't we do | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
these international events and the countries we targeted to do events | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
in had not really had them in the past. They all said yes and he we | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
are five years later doing an international show and they are | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
doing well. The week leading up to the festival means time in the car | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
travelling between the office and the festival site making sure | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
everything is ready. When the headline it goes on on the Friday | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
night, the sound and lights are great, the crowd goes mad and you | :16:34. | :16:42. | |
think that is the biggest... The hair on the back of the next stanza. | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
They arrived in their thousands and I met up with James again. For him, | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
the next 48 hours are the most important of the whole year. There | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
is a huge element of risk which mitigates as you get more | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
established. We have been going 11 years and we know what the fan base | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
is and we budget accordingly. We're a company that needs to make a | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
profit. We also make sure we plough money back into the best will. | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
festival ends on Sunday morning. By Monday, the team will be checking | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
it has been a financial success before planning begins the next | :17:18. | :17:26. | |
year. Let's speak to James. We said it is | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
a multi-million-pound business. You go to some strange places like | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
South Korea and Belarus. It all gets bored out of reputation, we | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
have been doing this for 11 years, I have invited people from all over | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
the world and they have witnessed what we do in the UK and one to | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
take it to their country. We have worked with some great people and | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
grown the festival from the Ukraine, five years ago, Russia four years | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
ago, Belarus and they had seen it in neighbouring countries. | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
Basically they wanted to do it. have shown music festivals can make | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
money and do not have to be multinational companies. It is that | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
having an idea and wanting to deliver something and Petula heart | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
and soul into it. There is risk, yes, it is financially risky to put | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
these things on. When you have that amount of people in a field, it | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
feels amazing. As I said, the festival goes on until the early | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
hours of tomorrow morning and then they look to do it all again next | :18:36. | :18:46. | |
year. From Warwickshire, goodbye. The thousands turning out. Just a | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
week before the start of the new football season, a shock at Port | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
Vale as their long standing chairman Bill Bratt resigns. He'll | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
stay on the board. Mr Bratt's been in charge for nearly 10 years, but | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
fans have vented their anger towards him over a lack of | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
investment. Laura May McMullan's been finding out where this leaves | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
the club. There's just eight days to go | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
before the start of the season and tonight Port Vale are without a | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
permanent chairman. Today Bill Bratt decided to sever his day to | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
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day ties with the club. For I love the club, I have done what I can. | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
It has been a difficult time, the past 18 months. I believe it is | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
right for somebody else to do it. It's been a turbulent time at Vale | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Park. Some fans have been protesting for months - accusing | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
the board of a lack of investment. And last month at an EGM here there | :19:38. | :19:47. | |
was a vote of no confidence in the board. | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
Fans have mixed views. It is not just Bill Bratt, it is all of them. | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
The club needs to move on. The money needs to be found from | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
somewhere. The higher you are, the harder you fall. I believe in | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
supporting the club through thick and thin. This was Bill Bratt | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
talking to me last month. Today he cleared his desk and walked away | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
after nine seasons at the helm. is not worth the aggravation but | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
because you love something you do it. We knew at the time the club | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
would have folded so we mortgaged our houses and put the money in. | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
has decided to stay on the board for the time being and another | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
director has now taken temporary control. More importantly the fans | :20:33. | :20:43. | |
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are hoping it won't be another Just to confirm earlier, Ben Foster | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
has signed on loan for the season for West Bromwich Albion. | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
The Aviva UK Trials and Championships have just got | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
underway in Birmingham. They're being held at the newly opened | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr. The competition is the final throw | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
of the dice for those athletes hoping to board the Team GB plane | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
for next month's World Championships in South Korea. And | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
BBC WM will have coverage of the Championships this evening on DAB | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
digital radio and it continues on 95.6FM on tomorrow and Sunday. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Stoke city manager Tony Pulis says fitness levels and a lack of new | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
signings could affect them in Europe. The Potters won the first | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
leg of their Europa League third qualifying round last night against | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
Hajduk Split, thanks to a third minute goal from Jon Walters. The | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
Stoke boss says the match highlighted the need to bring in | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
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new players. We are weak in respect of the depth of the squad but we | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
want to bring Pale's -- players in he will come straight into the team, | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
not just to fill this caught up. We want players in the group he will | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
get straight in the team. But last night's win will also be remembered | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
for the passion of the visiting supporters. Take a look at this, | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
the Croation fans didn't let the defeat spoil their visit to the | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
Potteries - in fact, they kept up their high energy support for their | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
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Most of them took their shirts off. Heavy Metal music and its links to | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
the Midlands are well known but now the region's gaining a reputation | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
for Soul. An unknown band's attracting Motown stars of the past | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
onto British soil, as our Arts and Culture reporter Satnam Rana's been | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
finding out. Atherstone located near the | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
northernmost tip of Warwickshire and home to 8 and a half thousand | :22:37. | :22:46. | |
people, It's most famously known for it's Shrove Tuesday Ball Game. | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
Every town has its ugly spots but look behind here and there is | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
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They say music unites and nowhere is it more apparent than in here. | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
Seven Warwicksire lads make up The Stone Foundation - a soul band. Add | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
in lead singer from Mowtown yester years Joe Harris from The | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
Undisputed Truth - a 1970s Motown So how did the collaboration | :23:33. | :23:43. | |
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happen? We have turned this place into... | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
How do you feel? It has been fun. A real thrill to be playing with a | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
Grammy Award winner. We a council estate kids. The band have already | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
managed to get airtime on 6 Music and will be performing at The Royal | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
Albert Hall tonight. But why did Joe Harris decide to come all the | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
way to rural Warwickshire to get his musical fix? They are doing | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
some things I used to do a long time ago, the same field, the | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
camaraderie. These guys have a lot of talent and musical knowledge and | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
they play the music like those guys in Memphis. | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
Motown originated in Detroit dubbed Hitsville USA by it's founder Berry | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
Gordy. It's a still a hit with tourists today. But It's not the | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
first time the Midlands has been connected Motown - Edwin Star made | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
Polesworth near Tanworth his home in the mid 1970s. He used to call | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
me a lot, we had the same producer in Motown and he would get me to | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
come over and I was like, OK, I will make a date. Strange things | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
happened, the guitar players here have worked for Edwin Starr. | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
for Stone Foundation it means their ten year musical journey so far is | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
at least being noticed - so much so that they'll be supporting The | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
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Now, the weekend weather. It has been quite a cloudy day, we | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
will spend much of the weekend chasing large amounts of cloud | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
around. Let's be positive, it will be warm and some sunny spells. We | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
will see some good breaks developing. Now, we have a weak | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
weatherfront straddled across southern parts of the region of | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
bringing the Vale of cloud and spits some spots of light rain and | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
drizzle. Through this evening, where we have that front we'll keep | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
things quite cloudy and damp with drizzle in Hereford and Gloucester. | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
The skies clear and the lowest temperatures of ten Celsius. | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
Tomorrow morning, for some it will be a cloudy start, especially in | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
the south with the remnants of the weather front, further north | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
sunshine from the word go, there will be sunny spells through the | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
day, quite a lot of cloud but warmer than today, highs of 22 | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
Celsius. Tomorrow evening looks fine if you are having a barbecue. | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
Some sunny spells to end the day. Sunny spells into Sunday as well. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
Thicker cloud works into the West by the end of the day but it will | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
be warm, highs 25. Next week, turning unsettled, the message is | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
make the most of the weekend. A look at tonight's main headlines: | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
The tabloids on trial - two newspapers are fined for contempt | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
of court - many more have to pay out for libel. | :26:56. | :26:59. |