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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Nick Owen and Suzanne Virdee. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
The headlines tonight. Too many hopefuls for too few | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
places - a warning that would-be university students could face a | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
summer of discontent. If you cannot get into university, you will not | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
have a good life. Birmingham City Council cuts its | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
funding to charities by more than �15 million. At the moment we are | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
in a position, as a lot of other voluntary organisations are, where | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
we are going for the same pot of money. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
The Somali community here says aid is not getting through to the | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
thousands suffering in their homeland. It is very hard for them | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
to resume normal life, feed their young children, clothe their kids. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
And the soldier who lost three limbs in Afghanistan now preparing | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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to take on the world's toughest Hello and welcome to Tuesday's | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Midlands Today from the BBC. The scramble for university places - | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
why this summer could be the toughest yet. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
The head of the country's fast as Kon -- fastest-growing university | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
is predicting a summer of discontent. While funding for | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
hundreds of universities is going, applications are increasing. | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
A school leavers await their A- levels odds, many face the protect | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
-- the prospect of missing out on a place. | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
For many it is at crowning moment of university life. There will be | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
far fewer happy faces this summer, with a cut of 10,000 funded places | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
compared to last year. The head of the country's fastest-growing | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
university, Worcester, has predicted a summer of discontent. | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
I am concerned because 25% of young people at the moment are neither in | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
work nor studying, and it seems such a tragedy to have talented | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
young people being denied the opportunity to go to university | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
when it would be something we could easily fix. Students who fail to | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
get a place face a difficult dilemma. Next year, much higher | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
fees are being introduced. They have to decide whether it is worth | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
reapplying on the to take on substantially more debt than they | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
would have done for the same courses this year. On one street | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
corner in Worcester, we found a group of young people mainly | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
despondent. It is just daunting, because if you cannot get into | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
university will not have a good life. I would like to go to | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
university, but with fees been higher and the lack of places, it | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
will be much harder. I am going to try to get a writ -- going to try | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
and get an apprenticeship. The fees have gone up and the places have | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
gone down. There is not really much reason to go to college. For the | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
President of was to students' union, artificially limiting the number of | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
university places is an affront to young people's writes. Young people | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
should not be put off going to university. They have the ability | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
to learn, and they should not be put off by tuition fees or anything. | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
Back on campus, a summer course in aikido. And the world of education | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
it seems, the Government may have taken on a new opponent in a | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
climate of hostility to its cutbacks. | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
The Organisation that will be on the front line when it comes to be | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
juggling the hundreds of applications is UCAS, the | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
University and College Admissions Service. Jackie Kabler joins us now | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
from their headquarters in Cheltenham. It was hectic last year. | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
Considering what we have just heard, will this year be more hectic? | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
think so, this is definitely the calm before the storm in the call | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
centre. Come the 18th August, these phones will be going crazy. Last | :04:13. | :04:23. | |
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year just over 688 people applied, but all the 479 were affected. -- | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
479,000 were accepted. Around 9,000 more applications this year have | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
been for a round the same number of places. I am joined by Matthew | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
Cunningham from UCAS. A very busy time ahead for you. It is going to | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
be chaos, but you have lots of measures in place to deal with it. | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
We have got over 150 people here taking phone calls, we have a new | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
website where people can get to us. Do not panic - when the big day | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
comes, whatever your results, there is someone there to help. Do your | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
research so you are ready. people wait to reapply next year, | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
they have higher fees. Again, the message is do your research. Yes, | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
the headline figure is high, but there are, when you look into the | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
detail, perhaps some of the weekly repayments that we could be looking | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
at it might surprise some people. They could be lower than you expect. | :05:25. | :05:34. | |
Thank you very much, Matthew. On 18th August, the A-level results. | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
Quite a stressful time ahead for everyone involved. | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
Do still ahead this evening, the forgotten war. It is a body found | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
in Korea a Gloucestershire a soldier who has been missing since | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
the Glorious Glosters's most hard- fought battle. | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
Researchers have found that hundreds of charities across the | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
region are facing big reductions in Council funding, or losing it all | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
together. A group which campaigns against | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Government spending cuts says organisations helping children and | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
young people are among the worst affected. | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
Stuck for child care during the school holidays? For parents in | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
Birmingham, this scheme is just the ticket. But not for much longer. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
.(TRM) from September, this project will cease to exist. We have not | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
got any more funding to provide the project. They cancel has cut | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
funding for -- by 20%. It is one of all the 200 groups forced to cut | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
back or pack up entirely. At the moment, we are in a position where | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
we are all going for the same pot of money. Actually we are not all | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
going to get it. Birmingham City Council told us that charities | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
remain crucial partners in caring for the citizens of Birmingham, and | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
even after the cuts they will continue to fund 1800 organisations | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
to the tune of �25 million. Central Government said it was up to | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
councils to resist the temptation to pass on disproportionate savings | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
to the voluntary sector. Research from a campaign group shows big | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
cuts ahead for Citizens Advice Bureau and arts organisations. But | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
also big differences in councils' attitudes. In Coventry they are | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
cutting �48,000 compared to �2.5 million in Sandwell. We would not | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
be prepared to pass on this sort of cuts in Government are passing on | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
to was. They are hit very deeply in these communities, but we are not | :07:48. | :07:58. | |
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prepared to take these pressures. The big society has been undermined | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
at the moment. Unless we can find new ways of working, we will not | :08:09. | :08:18. | |
see it thrive. I see every confidence that and we can... | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Apologies for some of the technical problems there. | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
Some of the rest of the day's news. The killer of Coventry teacher | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Lindsay Hawker is to appeal against his lifetime sentence handed down | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
in Japan last month. Tatsuya Ichihashi spent more than two years | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
on the run after the body of the 22-year-old English teacher was | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
found in a bathtub. A family had campaign to bring him to justice. | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
Ichihashi's lawyer has filed an appeal for the High Court in Tokyo. | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of his former | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
partner. Kerry Smith who was 29 was stabbed after leaving a shop in the | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
High Street in rowdy Regis on Sunday. 39-year-old David Palmer | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
was remanded in custody following a hearing at Warley Magistrates' | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Court. One of the UK's largest Somali | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
communities is helping to raise money for victims of the famine. | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
They are saying that Britain -- although Britain has spent �90 | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
million on aid, it is time other countries spent -- stepped up to | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
the plate. Some Somalian expatriates say the | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
aid is not getting through to the places it should. | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
There is enough food to throw away here in Birmingham, but friends and | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
relatives of the close Somali community are starving to death. | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
These men are on their way to send all the money they can. Mohammed | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
has family in Somalia, they have known famine before but never like | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
this. Crops and livestock are passing away. It is hard to resume | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
normal life, to feed their young children, to clothe their kids, and | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
they have to travel many miles to get fresh water. This is seven | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
year-old's first time fund-raising. They do not have TV, toothbrushes, | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
or anything. And that made you want to help? Yes. So every member of | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
this committee is doing what they can to try to help. The problem is | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
that renewed fighting has broken out, an aid agencies are finding it | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
difficult to get his money to the people really needed. Just around | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
the corner, are the officers of Africa aid. This is the worst I | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
have seen in my lifetime. The conflict and the instability in the | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
area, it is really horrible. Influential members of the Somali | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
community believe that much more should be done. The aid that is | :10:58. | :11:06. | |
coming from their countries, is not enough. Are the international | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
community waiting for 3 million Somalis to die? This man and his | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
family live near by. They have relatives in the famine zone. | :11:17. | :11:26. | |
a horrible feeling, guilty, helpless, despair. But we are still | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
hoping someone will do something to help us. The family settled down to | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
tea, but their thoughts are with their loved ones very far away. | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
Somalia is talking about the problems of getting it to their | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
famine hit homeland. The kind court has ruled that hospital was | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
entitled to sack a heart specialist in a long-running dispute. Dr Raj | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
Mattu's case has done ten years, but there High Court ruled that the | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
chief executive of University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
had acted fairly in dismissing him. Dr Mattu had refused to sign a | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
retraining campaign to return him to work. | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
A BBC investigation has investigated how a Staffordshire | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
paedophile deceived charities to get access to, well children in | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
India. Former headmaster and Derek Slade | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
are from Burton-on-Trent is serving a 21-year sentence for abusing boys | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
at a boarding school between 1978 and 1993. Roger Cook, bricks balls | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
to Slade's reign of terror in the 80s, spoke to two of his victims. | :12:36. | :12:45. | |
I tried to commit suicide. I am a loner. Several failed relationships, | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
although I have tried time and time again. | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
You can see Roger Cook's An Abuse of Trust on BBC One tonight at | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
Investigators are trying to determine if human remains found in | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
South Korea are those of a Gloucester so shoulder. The | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
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Gloucestershire Regiment fought in that battle during the Korean War. | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
In the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea, painstaking | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
work is going on to uncover the war dead. Investigators were brought to | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
one spot by this man, Lee Chang Mo. As a child, he saw his father | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
buried the body of a prisoner of war shortly after the Battle of | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
Imjin River. In April, he met veterans on the 60th anniversary. | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
He told me what he remembered of the fallen soldier. TRANSLATION: A | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
translator of with the Chinese told me he was from the UK and a | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
Gloucester shoulder. -- soldier. I cannot find the words to thank them | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
enough. With care and dignity, the remains have been taken away for | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
analysis. In these labs, DNA has been extracted and artefacts found | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
with the remains examined, all vital clues for identification. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
That evidence is sent here, 5000 miles away, to the joint Casualty | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
and compassionate centre in Gloucester. Staff now have to try | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
and work out if the soldier is from the Gloucestershire Regiment or not. | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
If we can identify them, we will trace the family. We still have a | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
lot of work to do. Whether we identify them or not,... If the | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
remains are proven to be of the Gloucester soldier, he will be | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
buried in the national cemetery in South Korea. The burial he deserves | :14:49. | :14:58. | |
after he gave his life. Still ahead, the hard road to | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
Olympic 2012 glory. And, how long can the heat wave | :15:05. | :15:15. | |
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The number of passengers using trains in the region could grow by | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
a third over the next decade, according to expert predictions, | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
mini new trains will be needed. Today saw the launch of the latest | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
modern carriages, costing �93 million. They are British-built, | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
replacing some of the oldest bone shakers in the region. | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
Not quite the same as a big car launch, but for rail users, the | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
introduction is just as important. For London Midland, it is a big | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
investment, delivering big benefits. The whole environment will feel | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
more pleasant and comfortable. Also, quite a lot of effort has gone into | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
the design, to make it quiet, so a quieter trained. The new trains, | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
costing �93 million, or are due to carry their first passengers next | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
month. These are the trains they are replacing it, the last of the | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
bone shakers. They are 25 years old, and passengers are not sad to see | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
the back of them. They are not in good nick, especially when you see | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
the trains all over the rest of the UK. I am glad to get rid of them | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
and get something decent. They have been falling apart. With better | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
access, air-conditioning and reduce noise, though struggling to date | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
were impressed. My first impression is it is NI strain, it is bright, | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
spacious, airy, plenty of room for luggage. -- it is a nice trained. | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
The arrival means that virtually every train running through the | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
Midlands has been changed in the last decade. First came the Virgin | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
Voyagers, then the Pendolinos. Then, the German-built dizzy Rose arrived. | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
-- busy roads. 27 of these trains have been ordered, and all are | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
expected to be in service by the end of the year. | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
Most of the new trains will run through Snow Hill. These trains | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
have been built by the Derby firm which announce redundancies. If | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
they are building trains, why are they sacking so many people? They | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
failed to win an order from Thameslink in London. The order | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
went to the German firm Siemens. That left staff working just on | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
existing orders. That is not just bad news for staff in Derby, who | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
could lose their jobs, it is also bad news for the wider supply chain, | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
some jobs are based here in the West Midlands. | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
�300 million has been wasted every year by patients who of prescribed | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
drugs and do not take them. Besides the waist, there is the health | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
implications. Now, researchers want to find out why some people do not | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
take their medicine. Graham Beaumont did not want to | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
take drugs to control his cholesterol. Instead, he wanted to | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
change his lifestyle, and his GP was having none of it. Despite not | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
wanting the pills, that is what happened. I had reached a point | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
where I realised why does not going to win the compensate -- | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
conversation. TGP was firm in her belief that the medication was the | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
right way to go. I took the prescription, and I had it failed, | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
and after that, I stopped. I have never Philbrick since. His story is | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
not unique. Plenty of patience to not take their medication. For | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
patients having medication for long-term conditions, half of them | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
are not taking their medication, or they are not taking it correctly. | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
The problem for doctors is spotting and understanding those passengers | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
-- those patients who are likely to stop taking their medication. | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
may be on a lot of therapy, they may not believe the medication is | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
going to do them any good, or they do not understand why they have | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
been asked to take it. Now, researchers want to study patients | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
in Birmingham to get to the bottom of the problem, and offer GPs some | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
help. Through identification of the patient, the patient is supported | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
with their medication, reducing non-appearance. That will save the | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
NHS money and patience' lives. Researchers are interested in | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
speaking to patients in Birmingham. If you would like to help, you can | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
find one of the details on David's website. -- all of the details. | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
West Bromwich Albion have unveiled their latest summer signings today. | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
Ben Foster and Zoltan Gera. Zoltan Gera returns after spending three | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
seasons at Fulham. Be released in December. Ben Foster is on loan | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
from Birmingham City. He says he is ready for the new season after a | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
relaxing football free summer break. Amazing, a full summer to recharge | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
the batteries and forget about football. I am pretty good at doing | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
that anyway, but we had five or six weeks off, and I totally switched | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
off. I concentrated on having a good time with the family. | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
This time next year, London 2012 will be in full swing. This week, | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
we are meeting some of athletes who share the same Olympic dreams. We | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
have been to meet two wheelchair rugby players, who believe Britain | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
can win medals at the Paralympics. Driven by a desire to compete, | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
Mandip Sehmi arrives for work at the Birmingham High Performance | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
Centre. Also, his good friend and team-mate Alan Ash. 10 years apart, | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
both men suffered spinal injuries in car crashes. Far from ending | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
their sporting careers, the accidents proved to be the catalyst | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
for their Paralympics excess. have been very lucky, I feel | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
privileged to be in the position I am in. As one door closes, another | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
opens. You have got to take opportunities. It is almost like it | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
was meant to be. It is easy to say now, but if I had not done this, I | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
would have been an elite athlete in another will chessboard. In Beijing, | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
Allen was disappointed when Great Britain just missed out on the | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
bronze. His fourth appearance in the Paralympics was Mandip Sehmi's | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
first taste. Both men are determined to win a medal in 12 | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
months. The bizarre and in your country at the highest level, there | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
is no feeling like it -- representing your country. I just | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
need a medal to top it off. I am doing everything they can to do it! | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
Bronze would be fine, silver would be awesome, but the gold medal is | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
the one. The build-up will be huge. It makes the hairs on the back of | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
your neck stand up. First, 12 months of hard training lie ahead | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
if they are to earn their place in Team GB. Warming down before the | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
action hots up again, next month the British Cup in Cardiff, and | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
October, the European Championships. For them, the clock is ticking | :22:35. | :22:45. | |
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loudly before London 2012. A story of incredible courage from | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
a group of injured servicemen. They are taking on the toughest motor | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
racing challenge in the world, and one of the group lost three limbs | :23:00. | :23:08. | |
in action. Tom Neathway will be the first triple amputee to compete in | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
the Dakar Rally, a gruelling test of skill and endurance that pushes | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
competitors to the limit. By day he works for the Parachute | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
Regiment at RAF Brize Norton. In 18 months, Corporal Tom Neathway is | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
planning to compete in the world's most challenging motor race, the | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
Dakar Rally. It is not for the faint-hearted, but he and his team- | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
mates have the extra burden of having lost limbs whilst on duty in | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
Afghanistan. I was a sniper, I moved a sandbag and I detonated a | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
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booby-trap. I lost my left arm and I had my legs amputated. Three, two, | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
one, go. This is part of the training. The Dakar Rally in South | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
America will cover 9000 kilometres in just over a fortnight. The teams | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
will drive 20 hours a day, testing the vehicle and themselves to the | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
limit. It is going to be physically demanding, the temperatures will be | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
hot, so it will be hard on anyone, but with ourselves with amputations, | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
it will be even harder. As co- driver, he will have to overcome | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
tiredness, possible injury and carry out repairs in the middle of | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
nowhere. If the vehicle breaks down, I will for -- I will try to fix the | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
problem. A problem I will have is getting out of the vehicle. It is | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
not just the physical challenge, but a mental one as well. He is | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
using motor sport as a way of coming to terms with his injuries, | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
and helping others along the way. want to be part of something where | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
I am giving back. I have taken a lot from the British Legion, so I | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
want to give back in any way that I can. The team hopes to raise �2 | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
million for Help For Heroes, there will British Legion and combat | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
stress. -- Royal British Legion. An incredible challenge, | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
unbelievable. �2 million! Lots of luck. He will be appearing on BBC | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
Hereford and Worcester's breakfast programme tomorrow morning, talking | :25:27. | :25:37. | |
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more about the Dakar Rally just One more day to go before the | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
curtain comes down on this glorious weather. It was good while it | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
lasted! The transition could job with a few of you, because there is | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
potentially heavy rain coming from the South on Thursday, and Sunday. | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
The days in between, they are not bad at all. The temperatures will | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
drop. The rain on Thursday is because the high pressure is out of | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
range, so low pressure dominates, with a front coming through from | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
the south-west. After the front, the air will be colder. This | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
evening, we are seeing some late sunshine. Shortly, the cloud will | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
be thinning, and we will see clearer spells. With the clearest | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
belts and the temperatures only dropping to 14 or 15, it is quite | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
warm, very assume it. We could see some mist patches developing, but | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
it will be dry. The mist and fog patches will lift readily through | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
the morning tomorrow. It is a dry start, fairly sunny, but quite soon | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
through the morning at, we will see some showers developing, and some | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
of them could be heavy. It is due to the humidity and heat. But they | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
are mostly concentrated to the east of the region. The temperatures are | :26:58. | :27:08. | |
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rising. It is the hottest day of the week. For the outlook, tomorrow | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
night, we start to see the change. It is try to begin with, then the | :27:16. | :27:24. | |
show was come from the West. On Thursday, very wet indeed. | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
The headlines. America avoids a national default | :27:29. | :27:34. |