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Welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: The Chief | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
Constable of West Midlands Police attacks the Government for | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
criticising tactics in last week's riots. | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
The solutions to the events earlier in the week actually sit with in | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
our local area. Thousands of letters of condolence | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
are sent to the grieving families of three men killed during the | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
riots. Overwhelmed by the support nationally and internationally. I | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
cannot thank people enough. NHS U-turn, after saying they would | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
not pay for this man's obesity operation, bosses agreed to surgery. | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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And how a brother and sister saved Good evening. Tonight, the Chief | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Constable of the West Midlands steps into the political row over | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
the policing of the riots. Chris Sims said he had been overwhelmed | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
by public support for his officers, which he contrasted with the | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
criticism coming from Westminster. He also attacked what he called the | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
empty slogans of some politicians. His comments come as the Government | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
reiterated its commitment to cutting police numbers despite the | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
rioting. The first night of looting in | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Birmingham and riot police appear ready to tackle the troublemakers | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
at this electrical shop. The only they do not. It was scenes like | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
that on this very street with looting under way and riot police | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
seemingly holding back that it sparked political debate. Was the | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
robust action on the second night police as a politician led? | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
Politicians flew back and reflected the public's mood and anger. That | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
has incensed the Chief Constable. Very quickly into this event we | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
needed to adjust from what I characterised as a public order | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
response into something that was appropriate for offending that was | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
far more fragmented and the disperse. In a statement he went | :02:24. | :02:34. | |
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One Midlands MP has come to Chris Sims' defence and says the Prime | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
Minister is on dangerous territory. I think it is a misjudgment because | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
he is picking a fight with the police before we have got to the | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
bottom of the issue. Also, I think it is deeply unfair, you cannot | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
behave as an armchair constable. He needs to show some leadership as a | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
prime minister. At the electrical shop where �25,000 worth of stock | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
was looted, more sympathy for the police. The general feeling on | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
Monday was there was going to be trouble in the city centre. Again, | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
it was the scale of it, I do not think anyone could have foreseen | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
how much trouble there was going to Still the issue, a week on, is how | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
the tax payers in the police handled the riots. A good job, | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
considering what was going on. Personally, not brilliantly. | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
think they did really well. Judging by what was happening in the rest | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
of the country I would have thought they would have been up on the ball. | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
The West Midlands force still stands to lose over 1000 to | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
officers through cuts. Nationally the Police Federation has urged | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
politicians to rethink the cuts saying that they could be a | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
potential catastrophe if riots erupt again. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Our political editor joins us now from outside West Midlands Police | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
headquarters. The Government say that the police were slow off the | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
mark, the police say they were as robust as they possibly could have | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
been. The argument is escalating all the time. | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
It does seem to be getting sharper with every passing day. One of the | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
things that the Chief Constable has also said is that he answers above | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
all to the people of the West Midlands. He has said that so far | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
as the robustness of the police response is concerned, the 500 plus | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
arrests that his force has made speak volumes more than anything | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
else. On the other side of this argument, from the Prime Minister, | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
David Cameron today has said that we do need to see a bigger response | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
on the streets, more officers on the beat, the ability to regroup | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
and as he put it, to crack down on the first sign of trouble. But when | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
I remind you that of all the police officers in the West Midlands, 20% | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
of riot trained, a new factory in things like leave, rotas, in- | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
service training, you can see why it would take three days or so to | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
scale up their presence and their response on the streets. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
We have got the cuts, we know that Labour won the Government to | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
reverse the proposed cuts in police numbers. We are talking 1,200 | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
officers in the West Midlands force. Is there any sign that Westminster | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
are going to think again about this? On the contrary. When you | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
talk to ministers they are absolutely adamant that they are | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
not going to reopen this debate. David Cameron himself has said that | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
even if there were a repeat of the events of last week after the | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
economies have been brought through, they would still be able to surge | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
it onto the streets in the sorts of numbers we saw in the West Midlands | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
last Wednesday evening. One former Midlands Chief Constable, now an | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
academic at Cardiff University, says local forces in regions like | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
ours are bound to bear the brunt of these police cuts. An awful lot is | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
going to come out of local policing. It does not mean that police cannot | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
respond to be incidents like we have seen over the last fortnight, | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
it means that local day-in day-out policing will be less than it is | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
now. We will see some withdrawal from the current neighbourhood | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
policing that we now have. Birmingham City Council have been | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
meeting in an emergency session this evening, have you picked up | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
anything that has come out of the meeting so far? We know that Chris | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
Sims is attending it. He has said there will be a debate about its -- | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
about this. We have heard a lot about tragic victims of this, he | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
says they're attracted -- tragic offenders as well. �40,000 for the | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
clean-up so far. We want to know what you think | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
about the police and politicians. What is your view of the | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
Government's decision to press ahead with planned cuts to the | :07:05. | :07:13. | |
police service? E-mail us at all call last. We will pick up your | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
comments and read them out later in the programme. | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Thousands of letters of support and messages of condolence, including a | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
call from Prince Charles, have been received by the families of the | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
three men killed in last week's riots. Three men have been charged | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
with murdering the men. We are here to pay our respects and | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
pray. A grieving father finding comfort | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
in the kind Mr of strangers. Tariq Jahan invited me into his family | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
home to show me some of the piles of letters he has received from | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
around the world offering sympathy for the death of his son Haroon. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
have had thousands, I have read three or four but we have not got | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
through to the letters yet. We are still in mourning and preparing for | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
the funeral. But I am overwhelmed by the support nationally and | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
internationally. I cannot thank the people enough for the kind words | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
they have written. 21-year-old Haroon Jahan and | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
brothers Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir were all hit by a park last | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Wednesday as they guarded a row of shops. The memorial of flowers at | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
the scene continues to grow and the shock of what happened is still | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
palpable. Zahur Majid met his friend Shazad hours before he died. | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
When I met him he gave me a hug. I do not know if he had a feeling... | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
It is really upsetting. This book of condolences packed | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
with messages of sympathy from family, friends and passers-by. The | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
latest one says, we will pray that she will never be forgotten. | :09:02. | :09:10. | |
Hundreds more joined a police rally in the City yesterday. To see the | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
community together gives me strength in my heart. | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
Two men and a teenager have been charged with murdering the three | :09:18. | :09:28. | |
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friends. Adam King appeared at Birmingham Crown Court. All three | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
were remanded in custody. I am grateful to the community for same | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
calm and not escalating the situation any further. Thank you | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
for your support to and let us hope that nothing like this happens | :09:45. | :09:53. | |
again. Tariq Jahan has been praised for his calls for peace in the wake | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
of his son's death. He hopes that will continue. | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
Earlier today a 7th man was arrested in connection with the | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
death. A further three men have been bailed pending further | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
inquiries. The number of people arrested by | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
West Midlands Police after last week's riots continues to rise. So | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
far a total of 522 people have been upheld as information continues to | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
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form -- poor run. 109 people have been charged so far. | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
How has the police investigation gone there? They told me a few | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
hours ago that it is going very well. They are arresting people at | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
the rate of around 10 a day. They expect that to continue. Today a | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
man handed himself in because police published a CCTV image of | :10:47. | :10:56. | |
him. Pictures like those on that day she found behind me. -- on that | :10:56. | :11:04. | |
found behind me. These people are suspected of all sorts of crimes. | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
Earlier I spoke to the Chief Superintendent from Westminster | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
police and he said they need the public's help. We're talking about | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
very serious offences. People whose behaviour was totally unacceptable. | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
I would say to people, have a look at those images, if you recognise | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
somebody, these people are people's are sons, daughters, neighbours, | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
they have been to school with people, they have worked with | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
people, if you can identify them up please contact us and provide us | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
with that information. Lots of people have done just that. In | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
other news, Birmingham seems to be returning to normal. What about in | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Wolverhampton? It certainly feels like it's going back to normal here | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
as well. Let us talk to somebody who knows. Louise Johnson has | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
become a hero in Wolverhampton after she stopped looters breaking | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
into her shop. How does it feel for you? It is back to normal. | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
Wolverhampton people will not let the writers win. These pictures | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
behind you, if somebody at home recognises somebody of in those | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
pictures, what would you say to them? It is going to be very | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
difficult to do if it is family, but I would shock them, they need | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
to be taught a lesson. It was not rioting because of the Government, | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
it was just stealing trainers, mobile phones, it was destruction. | :12:32. | :12:41. | |
How are you feeling yourself? I am glad to hear that. Police will | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
continue their work and expect to arrest many more people in the | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
coming days. An incredible lady. There is much | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
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more on this with regular update on A man he was planning to take his | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
case Bobby's at the surgery to the European Court of Human Rights has | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
been told he can have a bypass. Tom Condliff had made a third request | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
of surgery and this time the NHS in North Staffordshire has decided | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
that his case is exceptional. This has been Tom Condliff's live, | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
staring out of the window. The 62- year-old ex-policeman is a diabetic | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
but highly resistant to insulin. Time was running out but the | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
gastric bypass operation could change his future. Quality of life | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
is far or more important than quantity of life. I was looking at | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
a very short life expectancy and hopefully this will give me a few | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
more years with my wife -- with my wife and I am really looking | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
forward to that. Although guidelines suggest that Mr Condliff | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
should have qualified for surgery NHS North Staffordshire set a | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
higher Bath. He had to prove his case was exceptional. They said | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
they had received a request of funding from Mr Condliff on 10th | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
August. They decided that his case differed significantly from the | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
rest of the population and he would receive more benefit from having | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
the operation and other people would. They are representing Tom | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
Condliff said today that the PCT are now classed him as exceptional | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
because he has been so resistant and extreme needle phobia however | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
he has suffered with these four years and the PCT has known about | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
these since March 2010. It was turned down then so I have no idea | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
why it has been granted this time. He takes 28 drugs for 13 illnesses. | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
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It is incredible news for us. Tears of happiness and of hopes for the | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
future. The earlier refusal to allow him Cedric had gone to the | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
High Court and the Court of Appeal where his lawyers are argued that | :15:08. | :15:16. | |
his right to a family life had been breached. He lost. His lawyer still | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
intends to take it to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
to try to change the law. We wish him all the best with the | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
operation. A number of roads were closed in | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
Walsall this afternoon after a fire in a derelict tannery building. | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
Fire crews were called to look Lower Forster Road. A number of | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
buildings were evacuated as well as the arboretum. Local residents were | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
advised to close their windows and doors. | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
A former doctor from Worcestershire at whose daughter was killed in the | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
Lockerbie bombing says he is stepping down from from mine | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
campaigning for UK Families Flight 103. Dr Jim Swire says the | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
emergence of the group Justice For Megrahi for a campaign on behalf of | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
the man convicted of the attack meant he felt it was the right time | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
to hand over the work to younger people. | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
Businesses in a Shropshire town so they suffered a big drop in trade | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
after rival demonstrations were held there at the weekend. Around | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
350 members of the English Defence League gathered in Wellington. A | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
counter demonstration attracted a further 250 people. 42 arrests were | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
made and 10 people have been charged. | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
The success story, down on the farm. Saved from developers and now it is | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
driving. And critic be warming up? All the | :16:40. | :16:50. | |
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details coming at -- and could it Football now. Midlands sides can be | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
pleased with the start to the Premier League season. | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
Just the one defeat. Not too many complaints. Before a ball is kicked, | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
there is always a sense of optimism. For fans of our Premier League | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
sides, the opening day did not sweep that sense of hope away. | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
The new season is a time for fresh starts. New titles on Match of the | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
Day and new faces on the team-sheet. After last season's close shave | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
with relegation, a feeling that Wolves can do much better this time | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
around. Goals from Steven Fletcher and Steven Ward gave them a flying | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
start. Not only the first time they have ever beaten Blackburn but the | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
first time they have ever come up from behind to win away from home | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
in the Premier League. The centre- back, what a signing that is going | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
to be. West Bromwich Albion did not do so well. They were unlucky in | :17:49. | :17:58. | |
the process. New signing Shane Long Mike -- marked his debut. Overall, | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
there is plenty of cause optimism. There were lots of familiar sights | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
at Stoke City. The noisy home crowd continued to be their 12th man. The | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
players made life very uncomfortable for one of the big | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
four. Chelsea had their chances but Stoke were well worth a bet draw. | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
Welcome to the Premier League. They said before the game that it would | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
be one of his side's toughest away games and it turned out to be back. | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
Encouraging for Stoke, to hold a team that is tipped to win the | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
Premier League this time. I think all of the supporters and at Stoke | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
players and management team will be well satisfied with the result. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
biggest change came at Aston Villa. Alex McLeish's appointment brought | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
beat fans onto the streets but the spectators at Fulham gave him their | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
full backing. A goalless draw may not be spectacular but Villa could | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
not stop the home team scoring on any of their away trips last season. | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
Birmingham City pay out on top as our two championship sides met at | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
St Andrews. Lukas Jutkiewicz had the best chance in the first half. | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
But it was Birmingham who managed to find a winner. Keith Fahey | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
scored after good work from Adam Rooney. Coventry have lost all | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
three games so far this season. All of the goals from the Football | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
League from the weekend are on the BBC sport website. | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
Warwickshire County Cricket Club hope that the success of England at | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
Edgbaston will lead to more famous days at the newly revamped ground. | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
On Saturday, England's and victory over England means they won the | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
series and became the number one team in the world. Next time -- | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
next month the they will learn whether the ground has gained other | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
glamourous fixtures. This is the moment many came to see. | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
That is it, end of the game! England's innings and 242 run | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
victory after India means that they are now the world's best Test team. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
It also proved a triumph for Edgbaston result. This was the | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
first since its million-pound upgrade. 96,000 people came over | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
the four days. For the staff, it was the culmination of months of | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
hard work. It is showing that it is not going to be once every four | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
years if Australia come to visit Edgbaston. We want to see crowds | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
like that year in year out supporting England and not make it | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
dependent on what team England are playing. The feedback from people | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
in terms of the excitement and the fun they had, that means they will | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
hopefully be back again next year. The benefits can be felt elsewhere. | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
At Astwood Bank Cricket Club, England's new status as world No. 1 | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
is an inspiration to their youngsters. They want to win every | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
match so they can be the best team in the world. It is like you are in | :20:51. | :21:00. | |
that country and they are number one... It is for you, kind of. | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
encourages the kids to come out and play cricket and hopefully we will | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
get some new starts a target. month, Warwickshire will learn | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
whether they have to impress the England and Wales Cricket Board | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
enough to host future high-profile games. They have bid to host two | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
Ashes games against Australia and with Ashley Giles's Warwickshire | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
side also in contention with the championship, the rebirth of | :21:25. | :21:35. | |
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Edgbaston is making the headlines. A job well done. It was so | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
successful. A massive turnout. 96,000 people. Not cheap to get in | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
either. People feel they are getting value for money. This time | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
last year, it was a building site. It looks like it was worth doing | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
and hopefully plenty more great days to come. | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
It is five years since a brother and sister from Shropshire saved | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
their family farm from being sold off to developers. Ben and | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Charlotte Hollins raced almost a million pounds in nine months by | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
selling shares in their business -- raised almost. | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
The farmer is now a thriving thanks to the backing of the local | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
community and their pilots hard work. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
It was a little help from a lot of people that helped save at Fordhall | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
Farm in Market Drayton from closure. Over 8000 people bought into their | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
idea of supporting a community farm. The farm being community and has | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
been vital. If nothing else, we would not have saved the farm... | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
The pig is knocking the over! 2006, after inheriting the organic | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
farm from their late father, they sold enough shares to achieve their | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
�800,000 gold. Five years on, the business is going from strength to | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
strength. They have gone from having just 20 animals to over 400 | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
and all the meat is sold in their new butchery and shops. It looks | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
busy? It is all part of a major renovation thanks to a number of | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
grants and fund-raising from shareholders. They have also built | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
a new cafe and employed people and it seems they have hit on the right | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
ingredient with customers. The post offices are going, pubs are closing | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
and where else is there for people to come and meet? It is rebuilding | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
an economy. They have taken an awful lot of business into the area, | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
they are known nationally and I dare say beyond. It is part of our | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
future that these buys managed to keep their businesses going and | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
build on it. Last year, they also received a �60,000 grant from the | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
Big Lottery Fund to start a community garden. The scheme is | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
invaluable to the rural community and these projects often create | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
jobs and skills and may make people happy about their local area. They | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
want to get involved and make it work for the future. Ben and | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
Charlotte Hollins are now giving advice to other Community farms. | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
They say that funding for rural projects is key to villages | :24:17. | :24:27. | |
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Great stuff. How lovely to see that working. I remember eating that -- | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
are meeting their father many years ago and he was an inspirational man. | :24:34. | :24:44. | |
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He would be so proud of them. This week is not bad on balance. | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
There are a number of fronts. A warm front is slithering in on | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
Wednesday and Thursday but it depends on how far north it comes | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
whether it will affect us. At the moment it looks like it will not. | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
There is a question mark over that. The headline poll this week is that | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
it is mostly dry after tonight and it is warming up at by the weekend. | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
Temperatures could be into the mid- twenties by then with increased | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
timidity. Tonight, there will be rain coming in from the West, | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
breaking up as it goes but there could be some heavy burst. It will | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
move to the north later tonight. Somehow breaks still affecting the | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
region in the early hours. A lot of cloud and with the south-westerly | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
breeze, but will hold the temperature up. It will be warmer | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
than last night. As the rain comes in, the winds will increase. | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
Tomorrow will be breezy at but it will be also cloudier, especially | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
in the morning. A brighter spells in the afternoon and some outbreaks | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
of rain again here and there. It is going to be a drier day ban tonight. | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
Temperatures up to 20 degrees. As warm as today in spite of the cloud. | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
Wednesday, it is looking dry and fairly sunny. Lighter winds. | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
Thursday looks a little bit cloudier. Friday next Sunday. | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
They look now at the headlines. David Cameron says there has been a | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
slow-motion moral collapse but there is a political row about how | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
to fix the so-called broken society. The Chief Constable of West | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
Midlands police attacks politicians for criticising tactics during last | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
week's riots. On that subject, some of your | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
comments on our Facebook age and emails. | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
"the government are wrong, they are being told so by a senior police | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
officers, trade unions and police authorities, yet the cuts go ahead". | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
"the police do not need more officers, they need to prioritise | :26:58. | :27:08. | |
their work close quite so." by all means get rid of backroom wastage | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
"." cuts in police numbers when they are struggling to control | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
riots is ridiculous "." video of the police tactics, I would say | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
that cardboard cut-outs might be more effect shaul! That would save | :27:24. | :27:32. |