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Welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: up to 1000 new | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
jobs in a comeback for car-making in Coventry. | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
It is hugely symbolic to bring car manufacturing back to Browns Lane | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
plant which was the spiritual home of Jaguar. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Controversy over a new drama into the police investigation at about | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Fred West. We should engage with these things and these things | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
should be discussed. The school was destroyed by fire | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
and now children will be starting school in a stately homes. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
And why are regaining their league status could be on the cards for | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
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Good evening. Welcome to the start of the weekend. A comeback for car- | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
making in Coventry. Jaguar's former Browns Lane plant | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
is partially reopening. Automotive specialist CPP Global Holdings is | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
moving in with a potential investment of at �75 million. That | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
could create up to 1000 jobs. The same number lost when Jaguar | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
stopped production in 2005. A year later, 2000 jobs went as Peugeot | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
left Ryton. Different to the days when up to 80,000 people and their | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
living from car-making and Coventry was known as Britain's Motor City. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
The Browns Lane plant in Coventry, once the envy of the world, it | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
produced iconic sought-after cars but since 2005, this is what most | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
of the site has been reduced to. Today was a turning-point. CPP | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Global Holdings plans to start production of high quality | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
components and specialist cars including the Spyker on the site. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
We should not underestimate the history of the site. Around the | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
world, people know the names. I think it adds to our story of which | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
adds to our project. -- product. I think Coventry will be the centre | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
for low-volume vehicle design many factoring. Come to re-already has | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
five sites across Coventry employing 250 people. By bringing | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
all production to Browns Lane plant, it plans to create hundreds more | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
jobs. What do those who worked in the city's car industry make of | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
this new chapter in its motoring heritage? Of course it is good news, | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
provided you can get the skilled people. More work for people. I | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
wish it well but it is perhaps the car for the Times, but it is not as | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
I remember it. A it is 50 years ago since this classic a chap Europe | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
was first produced at Browns Lane plant. -- classic Jaguar. The city | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
council says it is prove that Coventry's future as well as its | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
past is synonymous with cars. That is in a city currently with an | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
unemployment rate 2% higher than the national average. I am hoping | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
that when CPP Global Holdings take over the 23 acres on this side and | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
start manufacturing, that will encourage other manufacturers to | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
move on to other parts of the side. If all goes to plan, the multi- | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
million-pound redevelopment project will start next spring. | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
With us now is of Professor David Bailey from Coventry University | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Business School. I suppose we should not get too excited but it | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
sounds like good news? Let us remember that when Jaguar left, | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
there were over 1000 job losses. CPP Global Holdings will not create | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
anything like that but they have taken a big chunk of the site and | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
it could lead to more engineering jobs. Why are CPP Global Holdings | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
doing this at this time? They have built up a portfolio of businesses | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
and they are expanding. In making the Spyker sports car, there is big | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
overseas opportunities there for growth potential. The what does it | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
mean for Coventry and the motor industry? Symbolically it is hugely | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
important. It also shows that there is a great skilled engineering | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
based in Coventry and a lot of Nis producers in things like low carbon | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
vehicles. A small scale renaissance. The thing we will be able to call | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
it the Motor City again? A niche producer in the future. It is it is | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
all good news. Meanwhile, the annual motoring fast | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
one is moving to Stoneleigh Park. A celebration of British car-making | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
was cancelled this year for the first time but next year's's | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
festival will be at the former Royal Showground. The we will be | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
linking up with universities and colleges in Coventry and | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Warwickshire are so they can show off their developments. That does | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
the same for automotive companies in Coventry and Warwickshire, of | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
which there are many, they can show off their latest of elements. | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
ahead, we may be into September, but there's still a chance to catch | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
a summer music festival this weekend. Details later. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
A controversial drama about the Gloucester serial killer Fred West | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
is to be screened this weekend. It is called "Appropriate Adult" | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
and it tells the story of the relationship between Fred West and | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
a housewife who was asked to sit with him during police interviews. | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
I love Rose and I love... But Anna was the one. "Appropriate Adult", | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
Fred West is played on the screen with unnerving realism by Dominic | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
West. The drama explores how the mass murderer manipulated this | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
woman, Janet Leach, who sat in on police interviews but crucially | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
West told her things he would not tell detectives. She called me to | :06:01. | :06:10. | |
warn me. When I got home, we have five minutes together and we agreed | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
we would tell them it was all me. With the case nearly 20 years old, | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
Fred West's daughter has reportedly criticised the producers for making | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
the drama but it is a decision they defend. That is something that we | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
have registered very strongly but the thing is that if you say that | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
you can never discuss any difficult subject because somebody directly | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
affected does not want you to, that could mean, for example, we do not | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
discuss the Holocaust or the Vietnam war the Second World War | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
where as we know atrocious things happened. The worst case is of | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
course the story that will never go away. Hilary Allison was the press | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
officer for the police at the time and says there is a place for | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
dramas like this. Lots of aspects of the investigation have been | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
looked at and used elsewhere. It is really important that other aspects | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
of the inquiry, including the role of Janet Leach should be looked | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
back. As long as it is treated sensitively, it is a positive thing | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
to happen. This is the focal point of the West murders. The house was | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
demolished soon after the investigation. It was a dark | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
chapter in Gloucester's history but the hope is that as time has gone | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
on the perception of the city has changed. We have achieved a lot | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
since then. We have got plans for the future. It is a lot different | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
than it was then. It is going to be even greater in the future. Janet | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Leach admits that she made mistakes in her dealings with Fred West and | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
work with producers on "Appropriate Adult" to ensure the real story of | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
the crucial relationship could finally be told. | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
Fred West could never be tried for his crimes because he killed | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
himself while on remand in prison in Birmingham. "Appropriate Adult" | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
is being shown on ITV won on Sunday evening. | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
A thousand people have signed a petition calling for better safety | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
outside a school after the death of a 12-year-old who was knocked down | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
by a bus. Since Courtney Holdcroft died in | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
June, there has been a concerted campaign for a road crossing patrol. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
The bus-stop outside the Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy is | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
quiet today. Once term starts, it will be thronging. This is where | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
12-year-old Courtney Holdcroft died. She was crossing the road after a | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
school concert practice. 1000 people have called on the local | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
council to make this road safer for children. This petition sadly was | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
raised by the death of Courtney but it is not just about that, it is | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
about the future of the children who come to the school and to make | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
sure that we never used another child on this road. Following her | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
death in June, there were many tributes laid outside the school | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
and her family spoke of their loss. She was so confident. Everything | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
that I could ever dream of. She wanted something, she would do it. | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
If I could swap places with her, I would give anything to, anything at | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
all. A new academy has been built here and as the school at -- school | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
prepares for the beginning of term, there is much wilful improve road | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
safety. A you cannot put a price on the life of a child. Anything that | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
we can do around schools, that would be a great way of making sure | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
that we can protect other children in the future. Moving the bus-stops | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
is one option under consideration. Campaigners would also like to see | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
a crossing installed. This road safety petition will be presented | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
to Stoke City councillors when they meet next week. The hope is that | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
the weight of public support will lead to changes. | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
Other news, you pay online retailer Amazon is expecting a flood of job | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
seekers after inviting applications for 900 posts at its new | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
Staffordshire distribution centre. The company is moving in to raise | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
700,000 square foot warehouse in Rugeley. The building has been | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
empty for two years. There is a rethink on a decision to | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
cut services for deaf children in Stoke-on-Trent. It comes after a | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
National Deaf Children's charity took court action accusing the city | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
council of being back less. Only three teachers would have been left | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
for a 200 deaf children in the city. Back to lessons next week and for | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
pupils at a school devastated by fire earlier this year, the new | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
term brings something quite different. | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
They are moving into part of a stately home which has brought a | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
touch of class into the classrooms. Welcome, and interesting 18th | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
century mansion just a couple of miles from Birmingham city centre. | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
One-time home to injured soldiers in the First World War, it has also | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
been home to a group of nuns. Now it is home to 360 schoolchildren. A | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
devastating fire last April which caused �1.8 million worth of damage | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
was the catalyst to them ending up here. The city council has paid | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
�50,000 for alterations over the summer. We have got storage rooms | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
which is something that we did not have before and we have got | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
adequate classroom space as well. We have had an improved playground | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
area, a tarmac area which is now a sports court so we have got netball | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
courts and football courts. We are very happy with the improvements. | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
Even with a portable toilet block to one side, it is an inspirational | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
place for the children to learn. They love the environment. They | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
have actually rebranded the school to call it a Hogwarts. There is a | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
beautiful wooden staircase here. They have even named the teachers | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
characters from Harry Potter as well. Staff volunteered to come in | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
today to help get everything ready for the new terms. It is -- it will | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
be nice to see it full of happy children. It is interesting to see | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
how well the school has adapted and fits into the building. This term | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
at Hogwarts then, they hope to be back at their old school by next | :12:21. | :12:31. | |
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It is a lovely quiet corner. This is perhaps a pertinent | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
question after last month's riots. Can music turn around the lives of | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
young people? Children had been taking part in a programme in | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
Birmingham which uses music to make them think about choices in their | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
lives. They will work with teenagers who had been excluded | :12:51. | :13:00. | |
from mainstream education. These boys have both been expelled | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
from their mainstream schools. They are now pupils of Creating Higher | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
Heights in Birmingham. It is a non- profit community organisation that | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
provides an alternative education service using music. Meeting the | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
wrong people on the street. I was kicked out of school. Them I got | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
invited to come to Creating Higher Heights. I had been behaving much | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
better and doing more staff with music. That is what I like to do. | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
It gives me something to do. I like music, and if I did not have music | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
I would be out stealing other stuff. But now the service is under threat. | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
Unfortunately, on the two young people that we do have, it is not | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
enough to sustain. These young people from mainstream schools have | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
had their confidence boosted this summer. But during term-time, this | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
service is one of 70 projects across Birmingham where pupils can | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
be referred to if they are excluded from school. The city council says | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
budgets in alternative education are not being squeezed, but it is a | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
competitive industry. It is important to use music and sports | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
as a place where young people can develop, if they do not have that | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
they will be suppressed. And suppressed young people means | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
writing young people. If you give them a place where they can grow, | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
her career, they will become the founders of tomorrow's companies in | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
arts and music. Although many of the students have talked about the | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
benefits of the service, the reality is that is more pupils are | :14:37. | :14:47. | |
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not referred in the new academic year, this facility could close. | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
We will have more on music a bit later. | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
At the festival season draws to a close, I will be finding out how | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
events like this manage to survive in such an overcrowded market. | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
But what will the weather be like for people going to Festival? Ben | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
Rich can tell us. It has been unbeatable start to | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
September. There will be changes over the weekend, with some rain | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
and it will be a bit cooler. You can join me for the details and a | :15:17. | :15:27. | |
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Sport now a. The big day is nearly here for fans of the Worcester | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
Warriors, he returned to rugby's Premiership tomorrow. Nothing is | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
being left to chance. The ground will be sparkling, and the players | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
had been giving their all in preparation for life back in the | :15:43. | :15:53. | |
Premiership. It is a World Cup here, so some of these big teams have | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
their stars missing, so it is a great opportunity. To come up in | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
the World Cup here is the best -- the best pop bridge -- | :16:01. | :16:11. | |
opportunities. Good luck to the Warriors. There will be full | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
commentary on BBC Hereford and Worcester tomorrow from 3pm. | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
If you are a football fan you may be as a loose end this weekend, | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
with so many players are away on international duty there are no | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
games in the Premier League for the championship. But there is life | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
beyond the top two divisions. Tomorrow has been designated a non- | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
League day. Friday's fun day here. It is time | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
to unwind before it Saturday's big game. Everything has been decided | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
the day before by the boss, Steve Bauer. It is good to see him | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
smiling again. That Harriers might not have much money, but at least | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
the club is alive and kicking in the Blue Square Premier are. The | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
last time we met, in February, Kidderminster were on the brink of | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
administration. But the fans rallied round, disaster was averted, | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
and now with six games gone, they are third in the table. Was there a | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
point when you feared the worst? was pretty grim, I must admit, | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
round about Christmas time. But we got through that, and hopefully it | :17:19. | :17:29. | |
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is behind us now a. I was at Wrexham for 13 years. That is the | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
only team I have ever played for up apart from this one. So it is a big | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
game for me personally, but also for the team. Tomorrow has been | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
dubbed non-League day, when clubs like Kidderminster take centre- | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
stage and supporters of high profile teams can experience life | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
at the low end of the football pyramid. Some of the teams are | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
offering cut-price admission. Or you could win 100 pints in every | :17:58. | :18:08. | |
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raffle by supporting Romulus in their FA Cup tie. -- �100. For the | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
Harriers, every day is non-League day. For everyone else, tomorrow is | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
a great reminder that not every club on Planet Football is mega | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
rich. He is good to see Kidderminster | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
getting strong, after that tough time. | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
Birmingham's Hannah England has received the silver medal -- medal | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
she won yesterday. It was a proud moment for the former University of | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
Birmingham student he was an unexpected medallist in the 1,500 | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
metres. And there was a personal best for Emma Jackson, in the semi- | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
final of the 800 metres. But it was not enough to qualify for the final. | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
Everywhere you look, there seems to be a festival. Book, -- books, art, | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
film, dance, music. And it seems every taste is catered for, from | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
superstar Rihanna to smaller events attracting just a few hundred. Ben | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
Sidwell is live at the Moseley Folk Festival in Birmingham. Is there a | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
danger that the market is becoming saturated? | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
Your are right. If you look at the UK this year, more than 400 | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
festivals. That is a lot of festivals. And the West Midlands is | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
one of the most popular areas. We have had more than 15 here in the | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
last couple of months. But running your own festival is a huge | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
financial risks. Despite that, they have been popping up across the | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
Midlands in all shores of -- sorts of shapes and sizes. | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
Glastonbury. Reading and Leeds. V Festival. And now, Snodfest. It | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
seems everyone these days is putting on a music festival. | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
have a local barrister who is in charge of security. We have a local | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
solicitor who is in charge of stage management. The picturesque village | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
of Upton Snodsbury does not seem the sort of place where a music | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
festival would be held. But for the past four years, villagers have | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
come together to hold a one-day festival which attracted over 1000 | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
people last year. What is more amazing, it costs just �8,000 to | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
put on and any profit goes towards giving their local park and | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
playground open. The reason it does not cost that much compared to the | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
other festivals is that it is based on a huge amount of goodwill. Not | :20:32. | :20:40. | |
just from the people who help, but also from the bans. We have 19 bans | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
this year, and they are all playing for nothing. Moseley Folk Festival | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
in Birmingham is now in its 6th year, attracting 2000 people per | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
day to the three day event. But with so many festivals to choose | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
from, and many of them not pulling the crowds, why do festival-goers | :20:58. | :21:07. | |
choose this one? It has a nice atmosphere. With this one, you can | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
can down and so that the vibe. he wants to go for more than one, | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
especially for three days. It is worth it. Over in Tamworth, they | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
are making for -- final preparations for a new festival, | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Ultrasound. With Tiny Tempah and Madness investing, organisers have | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
had to invest big money to make it a success. We are conscious of the | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
situation in the market, and with some festivals that have not | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
managed to sustain themselves. But from what we have looked at, a lot | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
of them were small events that will make a jump on the bandwagon. And | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
they have overstretched themselves this year, and they have suffered | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
because of it. All three festivals intends to be back next year. The | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
chances are by then, there will be even more competing for the same | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
audience. As you can see behind me, lots of people already enjoying | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
Moseley Folk Festival. We have said festivals are a massive financial | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
risk. How do people managed to put so many on across the country? | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
it has become quite trendy at the moment for everyone to put | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
festivals on. But the main thing for us, it is their 6th year now, | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
it is steady growth every year, taking it easy and not trying to | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
jump through a gap. I think a lot of people tried to make a massive | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
success straight away. The key thing for us is that we have a | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
diverse line-up. And I think compared the other festivals, | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
sometimes it is the same bands playing and it is quite as generic. | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Do you think of festival like this, it has its own audience, is that | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
what it is about? Is you will survive you have to be slightly | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
different? Yes, I think the line-up is the main things. That has | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
attracted the ball straight away. And the main thing is the venue | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
itself. We are up in Birmingham city centre but we could be in the | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
middle of a forest, that is one of our main attractions. We were at V | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
Festival St weeks ago, the one act of �1 million for 90 minutes. Most | :23:18. | :23:27. | |
people cannot compete with that. Obviously the garage bands that as | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
a bad Budget. We know our limits now it's. And we know if we sell | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
out, what we can afford. And we just have to budget around that. | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
Hopefully we will be here for the next 10 to 15 years or even longer | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
have all stopped any advice for someone who is thinking of setting | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
up a Festival? Taking the easy. I think that festivals have a | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
successful first year and break even, and then they tried to grow | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
too quickly. I would say take your time. They are sold out tomorrow. | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
And a lot of people are coming down here. So I am sure anyone else who | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
wants to start a festival in the Midlands will have success as well. | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
He has been all over the place this summer, hasn't he? He has had a | :24:15. | :24:25. | |
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End is beside the canal. Then, it looks a bit Mackie. Yes, it has | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
clouded over quite a lot in the last half-hour or so. But that has | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
not stopped people coming out and enjoying what feels like a summer | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
evening. It feels a lot more like summer than it did at the end of | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
August. Let me take you back to Bank Holiday Monday, temperatures | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
in some parts of our region only reached 11 degrees Celsius. | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
Elsewhere, only into the mid-teens. Today we have had it a good -- | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
added a good eight degrees to that. Can it last into the weekend? It | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
looks as though it will be a warm start to the weekend, but things | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
will cool down as we go through, and there will be some rain | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
particularly on Saturday night. You can see there is a lot of cloud out | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
to the West. It is circulating around an area of low pressure, and | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
some of it has already started to move in. It will continue to stream | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
its way in throughout the evening. Quite low and thick cloud, it could | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
thing -- 10 things misty. But it will be mild, temperatures no lower | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
than 12 to 14 degrees Celsius. Tomorrow morning, there will be a | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
lot of cloud around at the start of the day. But it should be in and | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
break through the day. Particularly, the further east you are. In the | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
afternoon, more a thick cloud working its way into the West. Some | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
rain for Shropshire and Staffordshire by the end of the | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
days. But still warm. Temperatures up to 23 degrees Celsius. Tomorrow | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
night, that weather fronts slits eastwards across the region, that | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
will bring wet-weather for all of us. It should Clear slowly through | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
Sunday, some doubts about how quickly that will happen. But much | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
cooler by then as well, highs of 19 or 20 degrees Celsius. Next week, | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
things look quite unsettled and changeable. Windy with showers on | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
Monday, heavy showers on Tuesday, as temperatures well down. A | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
changeable out look, but at least over the weekend the weather should | :26:34. | :26:42. | |
over the weekend the weather should I have been to a few festivals in | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
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my time! The Night We won the World The headlines: The new leaders of | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
Libya calls for the guns to come off the streets of Tripoli and tell | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
the rebels do go home, they will set out to framework. | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
And up to 1000 new jobs could be created with a multi-million-pound | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
investment in car production in Coventry. | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
Finally, after 37 years of broadcasting five days a week for | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
the West Midlands, Ed Doolan has presented his last show in its | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
current format. He is going to be taking things a little bit more | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
easy as he will still present a lunchtime show on Friday and a | :27:31. | :27:36. |