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Good evening and welcome to Wednesday's Midlands Today from the | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
BBC. Tonight: Claims that crime will rise as our region's largest | :00:12. | :00:22. | |
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police force deals with cuts. Already this year, crime is down. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
An experienced detective has spoken out, as a staff survey leaked to | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
the BBC revealed low morale at West Midlands Police. A majority of | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
police staff feel that sense of personal responsibility to provide | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
the best service possible and now they're feeling frustrated, because | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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they can. A charity is found over �100,000 after a man died after | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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being scalded in the bath. Good evening and welcome to Wednesday's | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
Midlands Today from the BBC. Tonight: Claims that crime will | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
rise as our region's largest police force deals with cuts. An | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
experienced detective has spoken out, as a staff survey leaked to | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
the BBC revealed low morale at West The survey, which was completed by | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
just over a third of the workforce in July, suggests 69% of employees | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
think that staff morale is not high and that only 31% would recommend | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
West Midlands Police as a good place to work. It also suggests | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
that 60% of employees don't feel fairly rewarded in their job. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Tonight the force said crime was falling with last month seeing some | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
of the best crime fighting figures for a decade. Our special | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
correspondent, Peter Wilson, has this report. | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
The West Midlands detective with more than 20 years experience | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
usually investigates murders and gangland shootings. His comments | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
come as the force tries to make �126 million savings. We are | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
calling the detective Andrew. He has asked us to protect his | :02:07. | :02:16. | |
identity this is not his real voice. With the experience that I have | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
within the police force, I know that with the smaller amount of | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
police officers there will be the opportunist people who will take | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
advantage of it. By reducing the police family so significantly, I | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
can only foresee that crime will Andrew says the criticism from | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
politicians during the riots felt like a kick in the teeth to | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
frontline officers. Morale is very low. Officers were working 20 hours | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
a day for a week during the riots, coming in, not seeing their family. | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
The professionalism cuts in. You want to catch the bad guys, but to | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
have the politicians turn round and say that the police are inflexible | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
had a massive impact on officers. In June and July this year, a staff | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
survey of both police and non- uniformed staff revealed poor | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
morale in the force. More than half say they don't have enough | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
equipment to do their job properly. 73% said that burracracy was not | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
being cut, while 72% said that communities were not being better | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
served or protected. The Deputy Chief Constable and the man who has | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
been tasked to balance the budget was today giving the force's robust | :03:25. | :03:35. | |
response. I think that we're working really hard. In September | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
we dealt with the party conference, dealing with the arrests from the | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
disorder, a major counter-terrorism operation and robbery this month is | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
the laws that has been in a decade. Police rank and file staff are not | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
normally allowed to answer questions about the force. Why have | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
you chosen to hide your identity, what do you frightened of? I want | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
to give you honest answers and I feel that if I give you honest | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
answers and my identity is no one at that there will be repercussions | :04:08. | :04:18. | |
for me. So will, will crime rise of numbers fall? - - if that police | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
numbers fall? It is too simple to say that there is an inevitability | :04:24. | :04:34. | |
about a rising crime. So, he is being honest about its an impact? | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
This officer is saying thats by hiding his identity he can be | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
honest. Are you being honest with us? Yes, we are. It is a 20 % drop | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
on her Budget and that is a big challenge. We need to challenge the | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
way we work and do things differently. The way the services | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
delivered will have to change. We were very clear about what those | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
changes will be. We will continue to protect the public. The majority | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
of the job losses will be felt by March next year. Tough times ahead | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
for those working at West Midlands police. Peter Wilson joins us now | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
from Lloyd House in Central Birmingham, the headquarters of | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
West Midlands Police. Peter is staff morale at an all time low | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
because of the changes and cuts that we've highlighted over the | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
past few weeks? By have been covering the West Midlands police | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
for more than 20 years and I had no one on many occasions that morale | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
has been low. They deal with lots of problems and the West Midlands, | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
but I would like to say that the officer that the spoken to his | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
knocks somebody who would like to complain. He doesn't to be | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
reflecting what a lot of frontline officers are thinking and feeling | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
tonight. What are the politicians saying about this? David Cameron | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
has said that these cuts have to happen because of the deficits and | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
the police have to share part of the problems of so many public | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
organisations. Police officers are having their pay, their pensions | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
scrutinised and its at the West Midlands police they are facing a | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
complete reorganisation, so there are a lot of frustrated people, and | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
in some cases - - in some places angry people. That is the mood here | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
tonight. Later in tonight's programme: | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Taking a gun to the pub - we will be having a closer look at the | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
forgotten sport of bell target A Birmingham-based housing | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
association has been fined �135,000 after an elderly man died from | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
severe burns while taking a bath. Months later another man was | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
scalded in a bath at a different home run by the same organisation. | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
A court heard today that the water temperature was not properly | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
controlled. As Joanne Writtle reports, Anthony Ironmonger's | :07:04. | :07:14. | |
family read a statement at the end of the case. | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
Today we should have been celebrating her dad 79th birthday. | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
Today we're at courts because of the feelings of Midland Heart. We | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
can only hope that after today the way that the noble people are | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
looked after will change. family of Anthony Ironmonger spoke | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
out after hearing at Birmingham Crown Court how he died after | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
suffering burns in a scalding bath at a support home for vulnerable | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
people. Summerhill Home, run by a charitable housing association | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
Called Midland Heart, was here in Birmingham, but has since closed. | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
The court heard how staff prised open a communal bathroom door after | :07:48. | :07:58. | |
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shouts for help were heard. She was found lying on his side in the | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
battle of the water still running. He was in distress, saying I am | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
burning. And member of staff said he was unable to put his | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
temperature in the water. Anthony Ironmonger suffered 40% burns on | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
6th December 2007. He died 12 days later. In August 2008, a second man | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Kevin Clarke suffered scalds in a bath at another hone run by Midland | :08:27. | :08:36. | |
Heart. He was discharged from hospital on 17th September. The | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
company admitted to breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act and | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
the prosecution brought by the council. It was fined �100,000 | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
Anne's ordered to pay �35,000 in costs. A spokesman for Midland | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Heart said: We offer our sincere apologies to Mr Clarke and to the | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
family and friends of Mr Ironmonger. We have taken steps to address | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
potential risks associated with hot water in our independent living | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
homes." Anthony Ironmonger would have been 79 today. | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Two men have been arrested after police were shot at during rioting | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
in Birmingham in August. Shots were also aimed at a police helicopter | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
during disorder in the Newtown area of the city. The two men, both aged | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
20, were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Police today also | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
released CCTV footage in an attempt to trace a third man wanted in | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
connection with the incident. A 21-year-old man has been arrested | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
on suspicion of murder in connection with the deaths of three | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
men during the riots. Haroon Jahan and brothers Shazad Ali and Abdul | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Musavir were hit by a car in the early hours of 10th August in | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
Winson Green. It brings the total number of people arrested in | :09:42. | :09:52. | |
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connection with their deaths to 13. Nine people have been charged. | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
Lawyers who concealed a report that suggested a young man's death may | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
have been avoidable said they did it because they were acting in the | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
best interests of Stafford Hospital. Hospital Trust Secretary and Head | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
of Legal Services Kate Levy and Trust solicitor, Stuart Knowles, | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
were at the public inqury to answer questions about their conduct | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
following the death of a 20-year- old man. Here's our Health | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
Correspondent, Michele Paduano. The family arrived at the hospital | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
having had their complaints against the witnesses thrown out. The | :10:28. | :10:38. | |
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solicitors had done nothing wrong. We are angry, upsets. Real mixed | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
emotions today. For the family it will be a really difficult day to | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
trying get through. Their son had an accident on his mountain bike. | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
He was sent home from the hospital and bled to death. But a report by | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
a senior doctor would said that the debt may have been avoidable was | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
never sent to the coroner. Kiki Dee as the doctor to take up his report | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
so because it could cost the family distress or looking bad for the | :11:11. | :11:21. | |
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hospital. She said: Although Kate Beagley father with hindsight the | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
edited report should have been sent to the coroner, the trust solicitor | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
disagreed. Neither of them could remember whose decision it was not | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
descend in the reports. Mr Knowles said he would point out major | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
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feelings, but this case did not There are a lot of questions about | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
lots of vital evidence that was missed. We are shocked by the | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
tameness of the inquiry. We have been representations to them, but | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
they don't think it will alter anything. Quite shocked. Mr Knowles | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
and mislead the left by a back door to avoid answering any more | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
questions. Michele joins us now from Stafford. Michele, so how is | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
it that hospital solicitors can withhold this sort of in | :12:18. | :12:26. | |
information? It does seem strange, but if you think about a solicitor | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
working for a big multinational company and perhaps there was some | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
pollution of a river, you would not expect the solicitors to admit | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
immediately that there was a problem, and it is the same for | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
trust solicitors. They say they walk a tightrope and there is a | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
move towards more openness, but this will have to pick about the | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
hospital. What rights do coroners have to demand this sort of | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
information? There is no legal reason why they have to hand over | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
this information. It is done on the basis of goodwill. I was shocked to | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
find that out because I always thought that they would have all | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
the information. Charities are warning they will | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
have to cut staff after a big drop in donations. They say the current | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
economic climate, rising bills and living costs mean more and more of | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
us are holding onto our cash rather than give it to a good cause. | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Voluntary organisations are having to think of more inventive ways to | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
prevent them from folding, as Bob Hockenhull reports. | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
The Noah's Ark Trust has been supporting bereaved children in | :13:33. | :13:41. | |
Worcestershire and Herefordshire for 13 years. Being able to talk to | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
the charity means that we could get our emotions out. We didn't need to | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
be embarrassed. I got very depressed, so without their help I | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
don't know what I would have done. But the charity is facing a | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
shortfall of �18,000 a month. It relies almost totally on donations, | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
these have reduced considerably. Six out of 12 staff are facing | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
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redundancy. It is terribly tragic. I just don't know where those | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
children will go. So some people might argue that families should | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
pay for your services. There are some families who can afford to pay, | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
and to those families are plies if you can afford to, please do pay. A | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
lot of children cant afford it. recent survey found that 90 % of | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
charities were feeling less confident about securing adequate | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
funding than they were at the height of the recession in 2008. | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
There are 30,000 fewer paid staff working in charities than there was | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
12 months ago. Times are not great at the minute. To survive, | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
charities are looking at new ways of funding. This voluntary | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
organisation, which provides after- school clubs in Birmingham, sells | :14:53. | :15:02. | |
recycled products donated by big business to make extra money. | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
have been working with a small group of other voluntary providers | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
to think about how we can put together a consortium bids. So, the | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
signs are many charities will also need to be entrepreneurs if they're | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
to function effectively. Still to come in tonight's | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
programme: Shefali has all the details as autumn arrives. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
Yes, just in case you've forgotten what it feels like, and who's to | :15:28. | :15:38. | |
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blame you, then a timely reminder The Prime Minister gave his keynote | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
speech to the Conservative party conference in Manchester today. In | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
it he warned of the possibility of another global recession, but said | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
he remained firmly committed to the Government's deficit reduction plan. | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
Satnam Rana went to politically divided Dudley to find out what | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
people there made of it. Dudley, the second largest town in | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
the UK. It is also a town that's politically divided. In the north, | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
MP Ian Austin holds the labour seat with a majority of 649. In Dudley | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
South it is Chris Kelly who won the seat from Labour in the last | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
General Election with a majority of 3,856, a seat Labour had held since | :16:15. | :16:24. | |
1997. But will opinion be just as divided over David Cameron's | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
keynote speech? Take the leader of Dudley Council, a local business | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
leader, some students at Stourbridge College and their | :16:31. | :16:40. | |
Principal gave their views. froze council tax this year, and | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
his George said on Monday, we will freeze it again next year, too. | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
do have some concerns because weld the subsidy is there we can manage | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
at the funding. If it is removed, we will have to find the funding | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
someone else. I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for less | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
for a child for a poor background than one from a rich one. It is | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
important that children from deprived backgrounds to get a | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
chance for exit - - get a chance for information. He did not mention | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
the costs of universities. He'd did not mention their educational | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
allowance, which was a fund that helped students who could not miss | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
the early get to college. We must build a new economy, inventing, | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
creating, exporting. I would have liked to have seen more about help | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
for manufacturing businesses, encouraging exports. Also looking | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
at changes to the tax structure perhaps to encourage businesses to | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
innovate more. The Prime Minister warned against becoming paralysed | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
by gloom and fear. In this room at least, that doesn't appear to be | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
happening. Our Political Editor Patrick Burns | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
is with us. Let's talk about how this speech will go down in places | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
such as Dudley. There really isn't much to be optimistic about, is | :18:04. | :18:12. | |
there? There is not. He accepts that. His words will strike a chord | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
with the people in Dudley when he said that he knows what an anxious | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
time it is for people when they turn on the news into reports of | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
closures and job losses and rising household bills. But he was saying | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
today is that you don't do anything about that a sinking back into a | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
cant to culture. You don't degenerate into benefit dependency. | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
If you can work, due do. There was an implied criticism of businesses | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
not providing enough apprenticeships. We to understand | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
that the government will push on things like that in the Autumn | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
Statement next month. He had a message in his speech to people | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
planning to go on strike next month in the so called Day of Action? | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
understands their right to protest, he says, but public sector pensions | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
are unaffordable. He said that people have to accept that people | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
are living longer and it is not unreasonable for the taxpayer to | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
ask a little bit more - - but to pay a little bit more. How do you | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
feel the speech will have gone down in the Midland marginals? I think | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
certain things will go down well. Getting public and private schools | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
to work together, the revamped house building programme. The key | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
thing will be people feel optimistic in 2015. | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
Two of the region's best-known buildings have been put on a list | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
of endangered architecture today. Birmingham's controversial Central | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
Library has been included as a prime example of the British | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
Brutalism school of design. The ruins of Coventry Cathedral have | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
also been added to the World Monument Fund Watch List. It comes | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
just days after it was revealed the cathedral is in danger of collapse. | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
Joan Cummins reports. Today the ruins of St Michael's stand in the | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
shadow of its post-war replacement a testament to the brutality of war, | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
gutted in 1940 by a hail of incendiary bombs Coventry has | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
rebuilt and remembered simultaneously, but time itself is | :20:06. | :20:16. | |
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now taking its toll on the medieval sandstone. The old cathedral was | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
never meant to be open to the elements on the insider. We have | :20:26. | :20:34. | |
invested huge resources over recent years, but we have run out. Putting | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
the ruins on an endangered watch list of the world monuments fund | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
doesn't mean any extra cash, but does highlight the need to support | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
our cultural heritage. Some things are of such importance that will be | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
irresponsible not to look after them. The inheritance of our | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
forefathers, especially on a site which talks about the collective | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
suffering of people, an ongoing issue, but also a city of 400,000 | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
people of which this building is the hearts, that is important. | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
Cathedral now resides in prestigous company, such as the Taj Mahal and | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
the Great wall of China, but visitors to the Cathedral today re- | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
iterated that this was richly deserved for such a iconic British | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
landmark. It is a magnificent sight. Whenever we go back to Australia | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
and showed photographs, many other friends went to come over you and | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
see it. Very special. Mosques in the City said they want to come | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
together to raise money for the renovation. They see it is | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
something important to all people of the city. Next year the new | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
cathedral will celebrate its golden anniversary, once more put in | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
Coventry on the map as the City of reconciliation. | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
If you're off to the pub for a pint this evening, you might well enjoy | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
a game of darts. But instead of firing arrows, how about air | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
rifles? We've all heard of beer and skittles, but 100 years ago | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
Birmingham pubs played host to a very different sport. It was even | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
more popular than football, and it's still alive today, as Ian | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Winter reports. Something's going on at Great Barr | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Conservative Club. And it's clearly got nothing to do with David | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
Cameron, who has been otherwise engaged in Manchester. No, this is | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
something unusual because bell target shooting is one of those | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
sports that's rarely seen these days in pubs and clubs across the | :22:28. | :22:38. | |
Midlands. How times have changed. Back in the early 19 hundreds | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
virtually every pub in Birmingham had its own bell of target shooting | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
team. Alan Tidman was only 11 when he first took aim with an air rifle. | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
60 years later, he's still got a keen eye on the target. When you | :22:55. | :23:04. | |
score a bull, you get a nice little ring. Bell target shooters have | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
been aiming for a nice little ding ever since the 1890s when working | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
men were encouraged to improve their shooting following the Boer | :23:10. | :23:20. | |
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War. Most pubs had their own team and competiton was fierce. | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
doosra set up by the winners and meal. They had to ship - - they had | :23:26. | :23:35. | |
pursued for their supper. This Lincoln Jeffrey's rifle was made by | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
the Birmingham Small Arms Company in 1905 and it's still in fine | :23:38. | :23:47. | |
working order. But today only 70 bell target shooters remain in Brum. | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
Amongst them Jenny Boden, arguably the hottest shot at the Walton | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
Lions Air Rifle club. You have to be very steady and have good | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
eyesight, definitely. Guns in pubs don't always make a good | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
combination. But these marksmen take safety very seriouslym and | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
bell target shooting is still alive in Great Barr. | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
The former Worcestershire and England pace bowler Graham Dilley | :24:11. | :24:21. | |
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has died at the age of 52 following a short illness. During the late | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
1980s, Dilley helped Worcestershire win four trophies in three years. | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
The chief executive at New Road, David Leatherdale, paid tribute to | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
Dilley saying he played a big part in the club's success and he said | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
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his sudden death had come as a Let's now looking at the weather | :24:44. | :24:52. | |
forecast. So far this week we've had a drop in temperature since | :24:52. | :25:02. | |
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Monday but the values have still been above average. The extent of | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
the drop will be far steeper tomorrow, just so that there's no | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
mistaking that Autumn has at last arrived. Now we're going to start | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
to see the changes from tonight as this band of rain that's currently | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
across us starts to work its way in from the north-west. Some of it | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
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will be heavy as the flickers of iridescent colour show. But once it | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
starts to clear the region we see a change in wind direction to north | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
westerly and the origins are from a much colder northerly source so | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
temperatures will drop to around eight celsius or slightly lower | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
than that. But it's the strength of the winds that prevent values from | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
falling any lower. There'll be a few showers to end the night, but | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
for most tomorrow starts dry. Although through the day showers | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
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begin to pile in from the north- west. Some of them quite heavy. | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
Hopefully we will have some dry weather over the weekend. | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
David Cameron gives his keynote speech to the Conservative Party | :26:15. | :26:20. |