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to more than �1 million. The Quantum Leap in Shrewsbury was | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
unveiled two years ago to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth | :00:05. | :00:07. | |
there of Charles Darwin. Today Shropshire Council revealed it's | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
lost a legal battle with the contractors which has more than | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
doubled the cost, making it more expensive than the Angel of the | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
North and landing council tax payers with a huge bill. Here's our | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
It's been likened to human vertebrae and a dinosaur's skeleton. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
But the cost of the so-called Quantum Leap in Shrewsbury has | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
quite simply jumped higher than anyone expected. Least of all | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Shropshire Council, which inherited the delays and spiralling costs | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
from the former Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council when | :00:38. | :00:47. | |
Shropshire became a unitary authority. Unfortunately it make | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
impact on some of the capital projects around the county and that | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
will impact on our residents. The good thing however is it will not | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
affect frontline services. If we had �1 million at the start, we | :00:58. | :01:07. | |
could have had a very famous British sculptor and nothing the | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
people would then accept it. The famous sculptor Anthony Gormley | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
was responsible for the Angel of the North statue. That cost | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
�800,000, much of it Lottery-funded. And �200,000 less than Quantum Leap. | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
I would rather it be given to charity. I think it is nice. Waste | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
of resources. Better spent on the NHS, I think. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
The original budget was �483,000, the council paying �200,000, the | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
rest coming from grants. But the council bill has risen by another | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
�410,000, plus legal costs of �115,000, bringing the grand total | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
to more than �1 million. All at a time when Shropshire Council is | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
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The sculpture was to mark the bicentenary of Charles Darwin. He | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
was born here. A man at the helm of a charity dedicated to the | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
naturalist and geologist likes the sculpture. I am pleased the town | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
did it. But the amount it cost, are you still pleased? I don't think I | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
can comment, it has cost what his has cost. You can name a figure and | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
he would still have the same debate. Each of these concrete ribs weighs | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
3 tonnes and one of the problems during construction was that they | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
had to be realigned to complete the arch. The contractors Alun | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
Griffiths from Abergavenny declined our request for an interview. A | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
statue of Darwin already exists here. Who knows what he would have | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
made of the row surrounding Quantum Leap. Love it or hate it, the | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
debate about how much it cost will be discussed by councillors next | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
week. So Quantum Leap has divided opinion. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
But what about public works of art elsewhere around the region? | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
Whether they're donated, paid for by business or from the public | :03:07. | :03:17. | |
purse, Joan Cummins has been Every town and city in our region | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
has got public works of art but are they worth the money? Waste of | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
money. He should go to the NHS. A focal point for tourists, the | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
River Goddess otherwise known as the "Floozy In The Jacuzzi" | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
presides over a range of opinions in Birmingham city centre. We need | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
to express ourselves and have fun with it. I don't know what it means | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
and why it is there but it looks good. By Frederick one is at the | :03:42. | :03:51. | |
Bullring, the barn. That is like a statue -- my favourite one. | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
Art can be devisisve though. In 2003, Birmingham Forward was | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
destroyed by arsonists and a scuplture of Lady Diana in Walsall | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
caused so much controversy that its black veneer was removed and it was | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
totally revamped. In Stoke on Trent they've taken a different approach | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
to the art and built a ramp to get up close and personal with a city | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
father, Josiah Wedgwood. Lady Godiva knows her place in a | :04:10. | :04:20. | |
revamped city centre is guaranteed and has a place in everyones hearts. | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
I love Lady Godiva, but I think there is an awful lot of public | :04:24. | :04:34. | |
money going down the drains. Some of it is a bit of a pointless thing. | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
Sometimes there really is just one way to say exactly how much you | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
We're joined now by artist Tim Tolkien who's famous for creating | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
the Sentinel Spitfire sculpture in Castle Bromwich and also a statue | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
in honour of Cardinal Newman. He joins us from his studio in the | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
Black Country. Good evening. When everyone's cutting back so much, is | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
it understandable that there's anger that �1 million of taxpayers' | :05:03. | :05:13. | |
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money has been spent on the Quantum Leap? The funding matter is a | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
difficult subject. A lot of problems appear to be to do with | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
contractors which is out of the hands of the artist or even could | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
not have been conceived at the start. We hear time and again, arc | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
plaudits come over budget. You are obviously very passionate about art | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
but tell us about why it is not such a luxury, why do we need it? | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
think good quality public at which has been devised properly, it gives | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
people a sense of pride and place and certainly the way I try to work | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
is to work with the community so it will be with the people who want it. | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
It should have a sense of belonging. We know that people were saying | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
that these are tough economic times. How his business for you bearing | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
up? At the moment, the product I am working on which is keeping me busy, | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
the money committed to that was committed over the past couple of | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
years so now people are not committing money so the next couple | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
of years it will be a bit tight but we will have to see. Were the | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
products are publicly funded or privately, I hope that which will | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
still be able for people to enjoy it in the future. We mentioned a | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
few minutes ago that you created the Cardinal John Newman statue, | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
there was a funding problem with that. How is that going? To fit in | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
with what you're talking about, but has been picked up by the | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
Birmingham City Council Heritage Department to a technically belongs | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
to the Museum and Art Gallery. The initial hopes to make it publicly | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
subscribed as a piece of work, it did not raise enough money, the | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
sculpture was already made by that point. Gratitude labelled for | :07:18. | :07:26. | |
joining us. The -- thank you for joining us. | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
So what do you think about public art, such as Quantum Leap? Is it | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
worth the money or is it too expensive at a time when public | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
finances are being cut? We'd love to hear your thoughts. You can e- | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
mail us or give us a call. Later in the programme, are things | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
looking up for dairy farmers after years when things looked decidedly | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
sour? A former Labour health minister | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
apologised today for what happened at Stafford Hospital. Giving | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
evidence to the Francis Inquiry into the failings there, Ben | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Bradshaw said he had no idea how bad the problems had become. He | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
also said ministers felt powerless to act because they'd given a lot | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
of their power away to independent watchdogs. Our health correspondent, | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Michele Paduano, joins us now from Stafford. To what extent did | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
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ministers feel they weren't able to control what was going on? | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
Bradshaw was Minister of Health between 2007 and 2009 when the | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
catastrophe at Stafford Hospital was taking place and he was in | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
control of key areas but he said he was kept in the dark about those | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
areas. What was more interesting was what happened afterwards. After | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
the problems occurred, they tried to do things but the independent | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
watchdogs had the powers. For example, they wanted to take the | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
hospital back into full NHS ownership but they were not able to. | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
I asked about this but he refused twice but only made this statement. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
I am desperately sorry for what happened here in the local hospital | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
for the families that suffered in there, relatives. I still feel | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
strongly from the time I spent in the department from the evidence I | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
have heard at this inquiry that this was fundamentally a case of | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
chronic local management failure. That does not mean that lessons are | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
not to be learned by the rest of the system. So why were ministers | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
prevented from sacking the chief executive? The former chief | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
executive Martin Yates clearly lied about what was going on what was | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
going on,... Ben Bradshaw said that the Minister of State -- Secretary | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
of State Alan Johnson was furious and said I rarely saw Alan Johnson | :09:42. | :09:52. | |
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There was more discussion about the number of people who died, what can | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
you tell us about that? Even the health care commission originally | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
thought original there was 100 per when they got the figure of between | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
400-1,200, Ben Bradshaw wanted that figure published but they have had | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
a round table discussions and decided the figure was not robust | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
enough and took the decision that we would never know how many people | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
died at Stafford Hospital. Thank you. | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
A cul-de-sac in a desirable area might sound like a nice place to | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
live. But residents in one such street say their lives are being | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
made a misery by 200 lorries a day heading past their homes to a | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
quarry. They want a new access road to be built to take away what they | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
say is traffic nightmare, as Bob Hockenhull reports. | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
7:25am and the lorries start coming down Branton Hill Lane in Aldridge | :10:40. | :10:48. | |
near Walsall. And they keep on coming... And coming and coming. We | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
counted nearly 40 in an hour. Residents here say there's often | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
200 a day. The noise and the dust are the worse things, and it is not | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
safe. We have not got a pavement on one side of the road. | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
The cul-de-sac is the only access to this quarry. The quarry was | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
established in 1944 to extract sand to rebuild houses destroyed in the | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
Blitz. But since 2000 the number of lorries has risen seven-fold as the | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
site, which has been the subject of two public inquiries, is now also | :11:14. | :11:24. | |
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involved in recycling rubble. Even the inspectors said that it is no | :11:25. | :11:33. | |
exaggeration to say the residents have suffered, it has been reduced | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
to a state of despair. The situation is still the same. | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
The inspector granted outline planning permission for a new | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
access road across greenbelt land and away from the houses. The | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
site's owner says he's ready to build it, but has spent the last | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
three years negotiating with planners. We have got everything we | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
need, we are ready to roll. would you feel if you lived on the | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
road? It certainly wouldn't be something I would be very happy | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
with. I can fully understand their frustration and I sympathise with | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
them. Councillors are due to discuss the | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
alternative route next month. will go to the planning committee | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
for a decision, and we are hopeful that will go through and we will do | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
everything we can do to make sure it happens. | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
If the plans are approved, residents say they'll throw a | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
street party, but in the meantime they'll have to carry on sharing | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
their road with lorry after lorry. Parents, teachers and pupils at a | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
school in Shropshire have lost their battle to keep it open. | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
Shropshire Council today voted to close the Wakeman School in | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
Shrewsbury, saying it was no longer viable because of falling pupil | :12:42. | :12:50. | |
numbers. Pupils created a mock crime scene at the Shire Hall, | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
where the plan was rubber stamped, claiming the decision was | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
"criminal". We said to the Wakeman School it was in your hands. Come | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
forward with a viable situation, we do not want to be closing schools | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
but unfortunately school or the community or the governors did not | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
come forward with a sustainable alternative to the proposals. | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
A Black Country MP is demanding urgent action to reverse the | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
mounting number of empty shops. New figures show that nearly a third of | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
shops in Dudley are vacant, compared with a national average of | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
one in seven. Ian Austin, the MP for Dudley North, is calling for | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
the town centre to be smartened up to help attract new stores and | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
fresh ideas. It's one of the biggest | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
regeneration projects in the UK. Rising from the ashes of the | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
collapsed car maker MG Rover is a new Longbridge town centre. The | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
latest milestone is the completion of the new Bournville College, | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
which has cost almost �70 million to build. Students are now | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
enrolling for courses, while there's plenty of activity | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
elsewhere on the site, as our business correspondent Peter | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
Plisner has been finding out. It may look a bit weird, but this | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
modern building promises to shape the future of higher education in | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
South Birmingham. Inside it's spacious, bright and students | :14:05. | :14:15. | |
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enrolling today seem to love it. is brilliant compared to the old | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
college. I am very impressed. College is rubbish compared to this. | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
For the man in charge of the new college, it's the end of six long | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
years of planning. We think this will demonstrate what it is about | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
in Birmingham. But Bournville collage is only part | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
of the Longbridge regeneration story. Developer St Modwen, despite | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
the recession, is gearing up for even more construction. You have | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
got to get the heart back into Longbridge. The reason for people | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
to come here and to invest here. And encouraging that means more | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
regeneration. Soon they'll start work on a new �70 million retail | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
development which will also house a new hotel. Elsewhere there's more | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
space for living with the construction of scores of new homes. | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
This is another part of the site yet to be developed, the engines | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
used for at MG Rovers used to be made here, now 700 houses are | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
planned to be made here. It's all great news according to | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
the local vicar who also used to be the chaplin at the MG Rover factory. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
We always knew it would be done cautiously but to see things | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
physically changing shape and people need to use these things and | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
it is inspiring. Despite the recession, millions of | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
pound is still being spent here, ultimately that should help to | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
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create thousands of new jobs. The very striking indeed. | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Still to come this evening, Shefali looks a few days ahead, could we | :15:55. | :16:03. | |
see a repeat of Monday night's wild weather over the weekend? Keep | :16:03. | :16:11. | |
watching to find out. After a tough few years, are things | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
looking up for the dairy industry? Farmers attending the Dairy Event | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
at the NEC today say milk prices have edged up towards a sustainable | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
level. But the news comes as it emerges an earlier attempt to pay | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
farmers a fair price led to a court case and multi-million pound fines | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
for supermarkets and dairies. Here's our environment | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
correspondent, David Gregory. Thousands of farmers, and plenty of | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
cattle of course, are expected to visit the NEC in Birmingham for the | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
135th Dairy Event. And it seems things may be looking up. The | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
crushingly low milk prices of recent years appear to be gone. | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
general P people are on a bit of a high. They are starting to see the | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
costs now and it works with farmers' lobbying people and | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
getting in touch with people who are sat behind those desks, drawing | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
up contracts and deciding what they will pay us. | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
But trying to increase the amount of the milk price farmers get has | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
landed some household names in court. An attempt to pay farmers | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
more at ended with an Office of Fair Trading investigation and | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
multi-million-pound fines for companies. | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
Dairy Crest was fined �7 million and Wiseman's, �3 million. Tesco is | :17:26. | :17:35. | |
contesting their �10 million fine at the moment. Everything is seen | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
as interests of the consumer but the difficulty is if you lose the | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
primary producer, that is not in the interest of the consumer so it | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
is a balance that is important. But now the picture appears rosier | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
with prices rising naturally. Farmers at a big event like this | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
tend to be commercially savvy and sensitive, but it is a sign that | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
there are better signs ahead for the industry. | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
The everyday story of country folk, that phrase has a ring to it. But | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
we're not talking about the Archers. No, two Herefordshire communities | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
have now become the inspiration for a couple of dramas on the radio. | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
For the past 12 months, the Rural Media Company has been working with | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
people in Ewyas Harold and Kington. Our arts reporter, Satnam Rana, has | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
been meeting some of the characters involved. | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
The market town of Kington is home to 2,500 people. 70 of whom have | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
helped bring local stories to life on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
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slot which is accompanied by a film. Later that evening, everybody | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
danced under those stars. "Man In Wheelbarrow" has been | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
inspired by Dick, the local street cleaner and school caretaker who | :18:47. | :18:56. | |
gathered stories and appears in the play himself. We always enjoyed | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
stories in the small town and there are so many of them and they are so | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
joyful mainly, and they go on for years. | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
It's all the brainchild of the Rural Media Company in Hereford | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
which has been working on the project for the last year along | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
with the BBC Radio Drama and Arts Council England. We like to work | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
alongside rural communities to give people chances to explore their | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
history is and open it to a wider world. | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
27 miles south in the village of Ewyas Harold, Graeme Sprackling, a | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
mobile librariran for 30 years, is the main inspiration for tomorrow's | :19:29. | :19:39. | |
play, "The Fearless Librarian Saves The Day". He retied 20 years ago. - | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
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- retired. I am along comes Rural Media Company and almost at and I | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
am having to relive everything back on a mobile library. It is all the | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
talk of the village. It has put us on the map a little bit and it is | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
lovely to hear stories from the local community. Lots of lovely | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
places to see. The legacy of this product means the younger people in | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
these communities are now engaged in film-making and for the older | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
generation who have taken part in this project, they have been | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
introduced to modern media techniques. It just goes to show | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
that art is thriving in rural communities. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
And you can tune into the second radio play on BBC Radio Hereford | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
and Worcester tomorrow at 2:15pm and you can find out more about The | :20:41. | :20:50. | |
Marches project on our Facebook The cricket season is boiling up to | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
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an exciting finish. I always feel sad in September. With only two | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
games left, Warwickshire are fighting hard to win the County | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
Championship. Ian Westwood hit a century as they piled up the runs | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
against Notts. And at the opposite end of the table, Worcestershire | :21:11. | :21:21. | |
are battling to avoid relegation. Worcestershire have two games left | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
to preserve their status. Everything had gone pear-shaped in | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
June, they lost the first six games, rock bottom of the table and looked | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
doomed to treat relegation. Water transformation and one man has done | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
more to give them a fighting chance of staying up. Alan Richardson. | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
Alan Richardson is Worcestershire's most experienced player. He played | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
for Derbyshire and Warwickshire before arriving here from Middlesex. | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
He is enjoying his cricket more than ever at 36. He is the loudest | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
out in the pack and in the dressing room and he has got an enthusiasm | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
which is something for playing cricket. He had taken 62 wickets | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
but he did not long to make that 63 wickets and that is why he is so | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
popular with the Worcestershire men's. He has come to a nice County | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
and I think he enjoys his cricket. He cheers the players up a. | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
shows that there is always a place for experience and he has done very | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
well. Seems to be a good team player as well. A good morning for | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
Worcestershire, Sussex were left on 25 for two. But the cricket | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
commentators came out for their lunch when the players went in. | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
This man has followed the every ball. It is a tough time for county | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
cricket and Worcestershire have done well with the squad they have | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
done well. Steve Rose told us that if he keeps Worcestershire up this | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
season, it will be his single biggest achievement in his career. | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
Worcestershire are fighting for their lives, and Worcestershire | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
will... The file falling to Alan We are delighted to see him doing | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
so well. Warwickshire closed on 235 for 3. In Westwood court 134 not | :23:20. | :23:29. | |
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It will be working its way up in the temperatures but feeling | :23:31. | :23:39. | |
autumnal. We are still seeing this rather intense area of low pressure | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
moving in from the West and at the rain is as bad as the winds, it | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
could be quite a nasty weekend. Outbreaks of rain rather than | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
persistent foe. Tonight is like that as well. We have got rain | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
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moving in from the West and it is run the western parts of the region | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
that we will see rain moving towards the east as well. We have | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
got a lot of cloud so once again, quite a warm night and it seems as | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
if the night are better than the days in terms of temperatures. | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
During the morning tomorrow, this band of showers and rain retreats | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
to the west and then it springs back again during the afternoon and | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
that will form a more organised band of rain through tomorrow | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
evening and also tomorrow night. We will see that in a moment but | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
temperatures rising to 19 Celsius and breaks in the cloud where we | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
could see highs of 20 cells is but a warmer day than today because | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
through tonight and tomorrow, the winds will be easing. The rain | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
starts to form a more organised band and news from the south west | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
to the north-east say could be a wet night tonight before Friday | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
itself, the rain is out of the way and mainly dry, grey but also warm | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
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and the winds are picking up as we A look at tight's headlines. | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
Economists say the 50p tax rate is doing long lasting damage to the | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
economy of. And the price tag for a | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
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controversial sculpture soars past �1 million. Lot of e-mails as well. | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
Paul Williams emailed in to say he's very much into the arts yet he | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
doesn't think that such a large amount of money should be spent on | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
maintaining a sculpture in a time when arts funding is being cut. | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
Meanwhile, Fiona Smith from Telford asks, in this day and age when | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
community groups, local charities and other worthwhile projects are | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
struggling to keep going how on earth can such a project be | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
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justified? Karen got in touch and says councils should come and raise | :25:57. | :26:07. | |
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Martin got in touch from Newport in Shropshire and called to say that | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
the expense of these public projects is absolutely ridiculous, | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
particularly when we are in a time of austerity. And Jackie from | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
Dudley says I think if it is probably that art needs to be paid | :26:22. | :26:26. |