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Welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight. The ten-year-old | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
who started back at school as a girl, after finishing the summer | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
term as a boy. This is a child, and you live with it, and you accept | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
your child. No matter what. Shining new cars of the future. Jaguar Land | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
Rover storm the Frankfurt Motor Show. This will attract new younger | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
buyers, this is making Jaguar desirable again. Jail for causing | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
untold grief to bereaved families by posting sickening abuse on the | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
internet about dead teenagers. And hailing a hero. Mark Cavendish | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
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pulls in the crowds and the Tour of Good evening. Welcome to Midlands | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
Today from the BBC. Tonight, a ten- year-old child who was born a boy | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
has started the new school term as a girl. The child whose identity be | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
have agree frodtect has gender dysphoria, where a person feels | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
trapped within the body of the wrong sex. Her mother says becoming | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
a girl is not a phase or a choice but who her daughter really is. | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
More now from our reporter. would always choose the stereo | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
typical girls toys. So if you put a truck in front of her, she wouldn't | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
want to play with that. She would want to play with the Bar by. | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
Saffron, not her real name describes how from two-and-a-half | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
her child acted like a girl. Throughout the interview she | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
referred to ten-year-old Libby, not her real name, as her daughter | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
which is how the family have regarded her for years. It was Nat. | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
She grew up, through the years, and just we just new knew that this was | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
the way she was. Mum was buying my boys clothes, so, but whenever I | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
wept over my friends' house I used to dress up in her clothes and get | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
her make up on and stuff. It was, it was nice. Libby has gender | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
dysphoria. Physically she is a boy, but in every other way feels female. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Now she is batting with what the family call a media circus. After | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
news leaked she returned to school at the start of term, dressed for | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
the first time as a girl. I was scared what was going to happen, | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
but I was really excited. For me going back as me. Is it too young | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
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to have made this decision? No. has been our daughter from age two- | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
and-a-half, really. Saffron says staff and other parns have been | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
supportive but a minority aren't. She was being called a freak long | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
before she went back to school as a girl. They will never understand, I | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
don't expect them to. I don't want them do I don't want them calling | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
her a freak. The family hope this will help others. This is is a | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
child and you live with it and you accept your child. No matter what. | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
Libby will take hormone blockers when she is 12. Beyond that the | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
family is take one day at a time. Jaguar Land Rover has been the | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
undisputed star of this year's Frankfurt Motor Show, unveiling not | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
one but three new concept cars, all designed here in the Midlands. | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
Yesterday, it was a modern version of the classic E-type Jag. Today | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
the DC 100 car, successor to the Land Rover Defender, the favourite | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
of farmers the world over. Our correspondent has been in Frankfurt | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
and sent this report. The undoubted star of this year's show, the CX16, | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
two seater forts car, described as the successor to the E-type. It is | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
the car many Jaguar fans have been waiting for. The E-type is such an | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
iconic car. To reproduce that could be a mistake. It has worked well | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
for brands like mini. But I think the pressure is on Jaguar to | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
reinvent itself and to be more modern. But Land Rover was doing | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
its best to steal the show with another iconic model. This time the | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
DC 100 concept. The defender has a successful 63 year ris -- history. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
It is the model that gave Land Rover its name. Jaguar Land Rover | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
has announced that production of the Defender at its factory will | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
end in 2015, this DC 100 or something similar to this will | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
replace it. For the company's design director refreshing the | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
Defender hasn't been easy. It is about recognising that heritage, | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
the uniqueness of that vehicle, but it needs to be looking forward. | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
There are things that we couldn't do today, that were done back then, | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
particularly in terms of legislation. Although it was well | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
received it is clear ha the DC 100 and its sportier sister unveiled | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
today, are taking Land Rover in a new direction. There is a lot of | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
new Land Rover owners, and if you remember the press conference they | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
were talking about staggering Newmarket, they are looking at | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
China, rush, South America. The market is moving on. We are not | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
just talking about Warwickshire farmers here. For the Indian owners | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
Tata it was a big day and the chairman on hand to witness the | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
unveiling's talked to Midlands Today. It is a lot of promise. A | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
lot of excitement in what we have in new products. Coming from the | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
company. I think this is just a teaser, if I might say so. Having | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
survived one of the toughest recessions in their collective | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
history, Jaguar and Land Rover are powering ahead. Today's unveiling | :06:09. | :06:18. | |
showed how quickly that is happening. Exciting day there. We | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
hope to be talking to Peter live in Frankfurt in a few moments from now. | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
Well, still to come tonight. Changing the boundaries. While the | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
West Midlands could lose five MPs under changes to constituencies. | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
You have caused untold grief and suffering to already grieving | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
families. The words of a magistrate passing sentence on a man who | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
created abusive internet material about dead girls. Sean Duffy was | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
convicted of what is known as traling. Writing offensive message, | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
taking over a dead person's cyber identity, and posting macabre | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
videos. Three families have this region who have lost teenage girls | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
were among Duffy's victims. Lauren Drew was just 14 when she died from | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
a suspected epileptic fit at home in Gloucester. Her parents' brief | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
was made worse by what appeared on her Facebook tribute page. There | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
was a video made, horrific, horror music and open graves, and bodies | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
with maggots, saying this is what I look like now. It was the work of | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
Sean Duffy, from Reading. The unemployed 25-year-old Asperger | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Syndrome sufferer was described as loner, and a victim of bullying. He | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
was sentenced today to 18 weeks in jail and banned from social | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
networking sites for five years. Duffy posted offensive material | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
about Staffordshire schoolgirl Hayley baits who died in a car | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
crash in autumn of last year. And 15-year-old Natasha McBryde, who | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
threw herself in front of a train in Bromsgrove. Natasha's father | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
said it made him feel physically sick. My feelings towards him, is | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
one of anger, really. Initially. That he and other people in society | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
have to, or are able to or feel they need to stoop to such depths. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
There are website communities dedicated to creating taunting | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
images and videos. The content is typically racist, and sexually | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
explicit and some so call trolls admit to thriving on other people's | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
pain. You can't imagine anyone's motivation for doing something to a | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
child who has just died. But it was frustrating because we didn't know | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
who did it, and we thought is it someone we know, and I am glad it | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
isn't. This is the UK's first trolling conviction. Union members | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
have voted in favour of strike action at Shropshire council. It is | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
over plans to cut their pay by 5%. As well as changes to their | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
conditions. The council insists pay cuts are necessary to avoid making | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
up to 500 redundancies. It is urging Unison to continue | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
negotiations. A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
causing death by dangerous driving in Wolverhampton, after a stolen | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
motorbike crashed, killing another teenager. He died tat scene in Penn | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
Fields. Police say the motorbike was ridden with a pill I don't know | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
passenger when it left the road. At the age of 91, Teresa Jones hoped | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
to live out her days in the dimension -- diMensa centre. Her | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
needs have been reassessed an her family have been told she can't | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
stay there any longer. Her family have accused the NHS of putting | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
cost before care. It wasn't possible to visit Teresa Jones. The | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
care home didn't think it was in her best interest. She has dementia. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
She sometimes recognises us but reare not sure she d does. | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
Sometimes we go and we get nothing at all. Three years ago her family | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
who live in Shropshire says they were made to put her into a | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
specialist care home. Now, she is being reassessed. She is not really | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
asked for much from from the country, and it just seems to me | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
that it is wrong to, to turn round at what is approaching the end of | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
her life, and say "We can move you like a, like a piece of furniture, | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
to somewhere that is cheaper." I hope they will say it is not to do | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
with funding, but it is. They are doing it because they want to save | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
money. At this care home the family say that Teresa gets constant | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
supervision. They say the NHS is passing responsibility for her care | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
to Social Services. This year NHS Telford is spending �2.75 million | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
less on continuing care. Nobody was available for interview so they | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
couldn't comment on individual cases. All decisions are based on | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
assessment, and cost isn't taken into consideration. Decisions are | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
taken in partnership where the Local Authority, and the family. | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
Three years down the line the dementia has got worse. They said | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
she can go into a residential unit which is unbelievable. Just don't | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
understand it at all. Tina Dene says they are appealing. It is | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
giving her sleepless nights but he will do all she can. Her mother is | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
still her mother after all. Much more ahead in the programme. | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Including the priceless collection of Wedgwood from the Potteries and | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
why it could be lost forever. Could the gales return or is that it for | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
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this week? All the details coming A computer trader, fears this, his | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
could be the first business to fail because of last month's riots. Sham | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
Sharma lost �50,000 of stock and wants to put up security shutters | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
as protect snun the future. But he needs to wait for planning | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
permission. The delay could prove fate toll the business. Like bees | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
round a honey pot A YouTube video captures the moment looters move in | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
on this computer shop in Broad Street. Inside the owner was held | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
by the neck, as round �50,000 worth of stock was stolen. Today the shop | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
is closed and stand empty. The proprietor says he is afraid to | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
restock until he can make his premises secure with metal | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
shuttering. But for that he needs planning permission, by the time he | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
gets it he fears it could be too late. The result of me not being | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
able to open the business again, it is put a pressure on the three jobs. | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
So, if I carry on much longer, like this. I might not be able to open | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
again. Other shops in Wolverhampton and many more across the rest of | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
the was wids were damaged by the rioters, if their insurance doesn't | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
provide enough cover they can apply for compensation from the police an | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
is there is a separate pot of Government money specifically set | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
aside to help businesses get back on their feet. None of that would | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
appear to help Sham Sharma and his planning problem. The City Council | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
suggested he goes for internal shuttering which could be fitted | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
immediately but they say for what he wants there are rules. It is | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
clear while the riots may be fading in many people's memories for | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
businesses like this the impact is still very real and still very | :13:57. | :14:05. | |
damaging. A Wolverhampton council told us that financial help with | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
business rates and to improve security would be available to Sham | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
Sharma. The riots of last month brought into focus the relationship | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
between police and young people. Police see improving relations as | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
one o their top priorities. Let us go live to Joan Cummings. There is | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
lots of smiles here tonight. This is the young celebration, which is | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
basically a consultation process, with West Midlands authority. There | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
has been cheers here-with the young people celebrating themselves and | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
why not? But of course last month we did see some very distressing | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
scenes out on the streets, and tonight the youngsters themselves | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
are going to be asked what did they think caused it. Tom, what is your | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
answer? What do you think caused the riots? I believe it was a | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
minority of people who wanted an excuse to rebel, and they kind of | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
did that, in a way that was violent and not very nice. It is a minority | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
of people. It doesn't display young people portraying them how we | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
should be. Kirby, you involved with getting a space for people in | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
Coventry. Why bother? Does it work. I think it does. If young people | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
start working with the police and like the council at a younger age, | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
it gives a longer time to work together and make things bet for | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
people who are here and just better opportunities for everyone all | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
round, and a better understanding of each other. This isn't really | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
working, these are the good kids what about the rest? One has to | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
accept that in any community there are those children who are greatly | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
challenged, but we still cannot afford give up on those children, | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
they are human being, they have a life. As a community and society, | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
we have got to find a way of working to enhance all our | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
communities to be good citizens of the West Midlands. I have to say we | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
have already heard tonight, that the views of the youngsters here | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
tonight, will be taken into account, we have the Chief Constable coming | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
later, we have the chairman of the police authority, they going to | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
listen and they say they will make a difference. Now back to you in | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
the studio. West Midlands will lose five MPs as part of a plan to cut | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
the cost of Parliament by reducing the number of Parliamentary seats | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
by 50. At the moment, the West Midlands has 63 MEPs of Parliament. | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
That could down to 58 in any election after 2013. Big city | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
losers could include Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent. Loud low and | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
Leominster which return two MPs could merge, leave Philip Dunn and | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
Bill Wiggin to fight it out for a single seat. Why is this happening? | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
Is it about saving money? That is part of it. The other big point ant | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
this, is that at the moment, some constituencies have as few as | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
55,000 voters, others have as many as t 0 thousand so the big idea is | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
to standardise them round about 76,000. Some MP also lose their | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
seats. They won't be thrilled about that. There are predictions of | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
internal warfare. A challenge nor the whips. Imagine the potential | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
fall out between three Black Country civet MP, mar Joe James, | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
James Morris and Chris Kelly who could find themselves competing for | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
two seats. A similar situation in grum. The other way round for two | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
Labour shadow minister, who may find their constituencies merge | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
into one. Then you have this extraordinary situation with two | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
Conservative MPs on collision courses, if their constituencies | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
are merged into one seat, would you believe it straddling the | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
Shropshire Herefordshire border. will be helpful for each party to | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
work out selection rules so it is clear the basis on which colleagues | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
can stand for their existing seats or neighbours seats. It is | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
difficult and when you lose your constituents which some people will | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
have, that is a painful process, because these are people you work | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
for, you become deeply found of, proud of. I love my constituency | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
and I don't want to lose any of it. There will be winners and loser, so | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
which parties will win and which will lose out? Well funny thing it | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
seems the boundary reviews are to the advantage of whoever is in | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
Government at the time. In this case in our region Labour might | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
expect to lose the most seat, the Conservatives the fewest, which | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
would improve the Tories's position against the others by two or three | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
seats. Thank you P The Wedgwood museum has been recognised by the | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
run yun has been of international significance. Yet the future of | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
what is arguably the finest vam Micks collection in the world hangs | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
in the balance. It hangs on the result of a high court case. This | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
museum is dedicated to the people who have made objects of great | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
beauty from the soils of Staffordshire: But this world | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
renowned collection could be put up for sale. To the dismay of the | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
Wedgwood family. People come from all over the world, from America, | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
and all over Europe, and Japan, they dom Stoke-on-Trent and they | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
look at this collection and they say, wow, this is amazing. So, it | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
would be absolutely ridiculous for this to be scattered across the | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
globe. This is our history. This case reinvolves round pensions. | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
There was a pot paid into my members of the company pension | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
scheme. A separate pot was established for the museum, into | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
which significant donations were made. The problem came, when the | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
company collapsed into administration, with debts. Five | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
workers who I had into this scheme worked for the museum. The question | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
is, whether money from this pot can be used to pay the pension funds | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
deficit. If a Jung decides the answer is yes, the museum's | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
treasure s could go under the hammer. Stoke-on-Trent is the | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
Potteries. Testify founded on the ceramics industry. We are proud of | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
that connection and that connection to Wedgwood, so to have this | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
collection ripped away from us on an obscure legal technicality would | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
be a cultural crime. The future of this collection is expected to be | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
decided by the end of the year. The master potter yosh ya Wedgwood's | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
legacy lies in the hands of a high court judge. Staying in the | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Potteries, stage three of the tour o Britain has taken place in and | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
round Stoke-on-Trent. It is the fourth time the event has gone to | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
the Potteries. It covered 87 miles. Riders wound their way to Uttoxeter | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
and the Staffordshire moorlands before finishing in the city | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
centre: It hasn't seen the like. It is popular but today's crowd was | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
different. They were here to see a true global superstar. Cyclist Mark | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
Cavendish, winner of the green Jersey at the Tour de France. They | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
waited for 45 minutes for him to emerge from his team bus, etch | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
Cavendish's bike was worth a photo. There will be more support here, | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
more general British support here than there is in the tour detrans. | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
Everyone here is British. They will be cheering on the Brits so that is | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
nice. Love Cavendish. I like watching him in the Tour de France. | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
This was no one man race. Geraint Thomas was among the field, along | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
with the current World Champion. It has at thracted a host of world | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
class stars but which one will win? Today's 87 mile stage was hilly and | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
windswept. There was an early break away of three riders but they were | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
caught after gun hill. It all came down to a dramatic bunch finish. | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
is looking like... The Dutchman spoiled the British party. Thomas | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
was third. Cavendish fifth. Boom took the leader's gold Jersey | :22:25. | :22:32. | |
of people, a lot of people come out to cheer us, and that, that is | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
really nice of course. They are cheering you even you were beaten. | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
Yes they do. Stoke's reputation as a cycling city continues to grow | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
and today the likes of Mark Cavendish gave the city that extra | :22:47. | :22:56. | |
What a great atmosphere. Quick word about cricket. The County | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
Championships coming to the boil. Two days to go. Warwickshire have a | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
first innings lead against Hampshire who will resume on 57 | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
without loss but wust sire are almost safe from relegation despite | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
losing Fife wickets for five runs against Durham. To a long running | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
mystery that has been solved in the Cotswold. It involves a writing | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
desk, a telegram from Noel Coward and Agatha Christie's knickers. | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
This bureau had lain in a store room for five years. His client | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
bought it from one of Agatha Christie's former homes. Clive took | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
it apart and something fell out when he was working on it. This is | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
what he found. A folded piece of paper. When he opened it he | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
couldn't believe what he was reading. It was a telegram sent in | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
1957 from Noel coward. Dear Agatha Christie I must congratulate you on | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
the Mousetrap breaking the long run record. All my good wishes Noel | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
Coward. So this is an amazing piece of history. The Mousetrap opened in | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
1952 and clocked up nearly 2,000 performance, Noel Coward would have | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
felt pain because the play had taken the record from his play | :24:29. | :24:38. | |
Blyth Spirit You think a. If I have found anything of this ilk again, I | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
should be very lucky. Seen here at the 21st an versery of the | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
Mousetrap Agatha Christie never made any money from her play. She | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
signed the rights over to her grandson before it opened. She was | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
an mieder -- admirer of Noel Coward's, to have an | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
acknowledgement of, you know, her - - achievement would have pleased | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
her very much. It wasn't though just the telegram that Clive found. | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
Crammed into the inside of the bureau was a receipt from a | :25:10. | :25:20. | |
lingerie and night wear company for �24 in the name of ago that city's | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
married name. It is the telegram that stand out. Written with an | :25:24. | :25:32. | |
honesty that people who knew Noel Coward would have come to expect. I | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
don't claim to be an expect, that was a lot of money. �24. Should | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
have gone Marx and Spencers or anywhere es of that ilk. There are | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
anywhere es of that ilk. There are many stores like that. We will get | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
into trouble. Well, the wind were tamer today but you can breathe a | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
sigh of relief because I think it will stay that way for the rest of | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
the week. Just a few slight variations however. But, we can | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
take a look at the isobars at the moment. We are on in the back end | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
of the vicious isobars from yesterday, but our attention turns | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
to that front that moves down the the north and the high pressure | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
that sweeps in from the south-west. As it pulls away, that opens the | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
door to a couple of more fronts, so, let us take a look at tonight, and | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
we can see that there is a bit of cloud round the region, but it is | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
clearer towards the south and because of that temperatures | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
tonight will drop a bit lower, to about 10C. Elsewhere lows round 11 | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
or 12. Row can see the effects of that front that is heading down | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
from the north later on. Silt a decaying feature so it will only | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
produce a fou showers for that part of the region and there is more | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
cloud as wellment so for tomorrow it is a fairly pleasant day, I | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
think for the start of the north of the region, I think it could be | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
cloudier there, with some dribs and drabs of rain. That dies away and | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
we start to see the sunshine breaking through during the | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
afternoon. So that will take the temperatures up to 17 or 18 | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
tomorrow. Slightly warmer than today, and more so because the | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
winds will be lighter than that westerly direction, just a brisk | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
breeze of round 10-13mph. For Thursday, has the high pressure | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
positions itself over us, the winds are slack, so it is much calmer day, | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
temperatures may be a little lower at 17C, that is because we have a | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
at 17C, that is because we have a lot of cloud that may produce rain. | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
Let us look at the main headlines. The cost of living rises again as | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
inflation gets close to a three year high. And here, a mother tells | :27:29. | :27:34. |