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Welcome to Midlands Today. The top stories this Tuesday evening: | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
Saving lives with technology. Ensuring patients get the right | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
drugs in care when they needed. 28,000 young people are in part- | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
time work. Where other full-time jobs? I am trying. But I'm getting | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
nothing back. They say they want more experience, but I cannot get | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
it if they will not give me any. Swamped with 999 calls. The service | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
pleading with people to think before they dial. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
And the spelling of "City Sentral" that is causing shock in Stoke. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
live in Stoke-on-Trent. And we want shopping centre with a C, not an S. | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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Good evening. Tonight, could a new hospital computer system be the key | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
to saving thousands of lives idea? The system, which operates at | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Birmingham's newest hospital, has been recommended to be Team | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
recommend -- investigating above average debt rates at Stafford | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
hospital. Adam Brimelow reports. Staff alert in Europe's biggest | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
critical care unit, here at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The message has | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
been triggered automatically by computer. On a ward downstairs, a | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
patient's blood pressure has fallen. Moments later, critical care staff | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
on the scene. The system responds automatically to a range of | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
readings, including an LEC nest, and heart rate. This is part of | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
much wider computer-based surveillance, tracking problems | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
such as the mixed -- missed medication. Errors are spotted | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
quickly, and staff are made to explain what has gone wrong. All of | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
the nurses worked in a high- technology environment. They are | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
used to monitoring and the impact of IT and technology. If you asked | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
us why we had not done something, or if you can give us evidence to | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
prove that I challenging us, things have improved for the patients, we | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
would not mind. It is estimated about 20 % of hospital prescribed | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
drug doses are not given to patients. Here, with the computer | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
surveillance and by calling staff to account, they have almost have | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
that figure. They estimate that if this was adopted across the NHS, it | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
would save 16,000 lives. This is one of several systems commercially | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
available to the NHS. Senior managers say it has enabled them to | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
change the culture of care. It has become culturally acceptable for | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
drugs not to be given to patients. And really that is what we have | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
been trying to do, turnaround that culture, and say that every single | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
dose is important. If the Department of Health says the | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
system shows how the NHS can harness in formation to improve | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
care. Adam has written a full report | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
about the new system on the BBC Health website. | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
Still ahead on tonight's programme... Jessie J drops in with | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
some sound advice for students at Birmingham's answer to Fame Academy. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
The reality for young people is very different. New figures show | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
the number of young people in the region working part-time has risen | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
by more than 10 % since 2008. With youth unemployment at its highest | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
level for 20 years, more than 28,000 people between the ages of | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
16 and 24 are working part time. What is it like for those people | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
trying to enter the job market? Tayla Scott is looking for a career | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
in the travel industry. Instead, she is working part-time in a pub | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
in West Bromwich. That first full- time job is hard to come by. Thomas | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
Cook, Thompsons, travel agents, hospitality. But I get nothing back. | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
I am trying, but I am getting nothing back. They say they want | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
more experience. I can't get experience if I am not given any. | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
She is far from alone. The number of 16 to 24-year-old working part | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
time has increased dramatically in the past three years. This place | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
was set up to provide opportunities for young people. They are also | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
finding it hard. Hundreds of youngsters look to this social | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
enterprise for help in finding work. It specialises in kids who have had | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
difficulties and need a second chance. Kayleigh has got one | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
working in a kitchen, but it is part time and her contract ends at | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
the end of the month. It is hard. You do not know if you will lose | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
your job and have to start again. Being kicked down, it is hard to | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
get back up. Look at it from her employer's perspective - struggling | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
through that downturn, taking on full-time staff is a gamble. They | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
have to be part time, because we want to spread the opportunities. | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
But also, we have the challenges of what we can afford to pay. That is | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
a big challenge for many social enterprises as well. So, how to | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
persuade employers to take on younger workers? The CBI says, give | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
them an incentive. There are more experienced people out there, so in | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
that competitive environment it is about lowering the cost and the | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
risk. Therefore, something like National Insurance reduction is one | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
way of achieving the aim for stocked for many, it is a case of | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
making the most of what ever experience you can get. | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
We are joined by a Joy Warmington, an equality campaigner who works | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
with young people. We have seen how difficult it is. Some people are | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
saying they are getting part-time jobs. What had you encountered? | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
of the things we do is work with young people, and it is a range of | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
young people. We have a number of different projects which try to | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
support young people. One project we work with young people on is one | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
where they are interested in starting their own business. | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Budding entrepreneurs, they have ideas, they want to talk to people | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
who can champion those ideas. They need support in formulating those | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
ideas. And then we work with more vulnerable young people. People who | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
may be at risk of criminality, or have acquired a criminal record of | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
some kind. They are keen to get their lives back in order. And how | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
were they doing? For everybody, for all of the young people, especially | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
the ones we saw in the report, it is very difficult. The issue is to | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
do with aspiration and hope. A lot of the young people we work with | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
are moving from job to job, or have a number of different jobs at the | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
same time. But they are still trying to make that work for them. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Is easy to keep hopeful and stay aspirational when you get knocked | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
back? It is really hard. I met someone the other day he had sent | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
out their CD 50 times and heard nothing, had not heard back from | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
any one in terms of feedback. How do you stay positive? How do you | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
keep going? Do you have a brief answer for that? It is something | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
you need to look at what the whole of Birmingham. It is a useful city, | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
we need to attend to our young people. Though those that have | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
achieved and those who have less going for them, and are likely to | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
fall out of what is happening at the moment. For they should be a | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
place for everybody. A man with a cold, and a women who | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
wanted her washing brought in. Believe it or not, those are two of | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
the emergency calls made to West Midlands Ambulance Service. They | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
say the number of people dialling is on the increase. Only 10 % of | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
the 999 calls are genuine life- threatening emergencies. They are | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
backing a campaign to encourage people to think more carefully | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
before they pick up its own. This report contains flashing images | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
from the start. It is lunchtime, and paramedic | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
James Dineen is on his way to end 999 call in Birmingham. At two | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
year-old boy is choking and has turned blue. | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
Thankfully, by the time he arrives the child is recovering. He is sent | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
to the Children's Hospital to be checked. This was a genuine | :09:04. | :09:12. | |
emergency, but many 999 calls are not the real thing. The paramedics | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
and crews are deployed by Ambulance Service call centre staff in | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
Brierley Hill and Stafford. They are under increasing pressure. The | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
number of calls is growing. Between them, the two call centres answer | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
2,500 emergency calls per day. just 10 % of those calls are a | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
genuine life-threatening emergencies. We do have people who | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
are having strokes, we also get patients that call who Maze benefit | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
from another service. Such as the women wanting them to resuscitate a | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
dead pigeon. Another rang to get a light bulb changed. Others have run | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
with colds and minor injuries. Does it get frustrating for you, if | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
someone rings and clearly they do not need an ambulance? There is a | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
little sense of frustration there. However, we understand that it is | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
easy to call 999 sometimes, and get some help. Another real emergency. | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
James has been called to help an ambulance crew with a man suffering | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
from an angina attack. The paramedic companies into hospital. | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
The Ambulance Service now want to educate the public at large about | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
when to dial 999. At visit to be cheap he or pharmacy might be more | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
appropriate. Of course, you could always change your own light bulb! | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
Joining us now it is West may mint -- Matt Ward. You call handler was | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
diplomatic. How big a problem is that? It is a big problem for us. | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
As you have said, we have around 10 % of our cases that are life- | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
threatening emergencies that need an immediate response. The | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
statistics show that eight of those other cases -- 85 % of patients | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
need some sort of health care, but it does not necessarily need to be | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
provided by us all stop what is going on? Is it confusion about | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
whether we should go, there are too many places to go? Yes, obviously | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
we will provide advice on which services to access. However, it is | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
more or appropriate to go on the Internet or access NHS Direct and | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
get advice about which health care you need. What we are asking people | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
to do is think about which service they need, and not just call 999. | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
Maybe in a situation now where people are worried about doing the | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
right thing, and they say, get an ambulance - it will cover | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
everything? Yes. I think, where first date is needed, obviously | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
there are a lot of cases where an ambulance crew will need to come. | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
But the public can get advice from other services. And the ambulance | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
services for medical emergencies. We would not deter people from | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
calling 999 for emergencies. But what we are asking them to do is | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
when they have minor injuries or illness, that they consider other | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
services, such as their GP walk-in centre or a minor injuries unit. | :12:26. | :12:34. | |
Thank you very much. There is a bit of arrive brewing. | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Developers behind a �350 billion shopping centre are being asked to | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
rethink its name. Realis Estates wants to call their new development | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
"City Sentral", spelt with an S. But shoppers had branded it | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
ridiculous, traders say it is uninspiring and marketing experts | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
have described it as dated and meaningless. Here is Liz Copper a. | :12:58. | :13:06. | |
Is is Hanley bus station. There are plans to transform it. The vision | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
is for a �350 million shopping centre, creating hundreds of jobs. | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
The developers have announced they are naming it "City Sentral". | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
Shoppers are not convinced. I think it is stupid. It almost makes us | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
look illiterate. That -- like we cannot spell properly. I do not | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
like it. It does not say anything. Know. It is pathetic. We live in | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
Stoke-on-Trent, and we want shopping centre with a C, not an S | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
we are not illiterate. We were talking about it last night. And we | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
said we thought it was stupid. Those views have been echoed by | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
traders. This woman runs businesses in the city centre. She is not | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
impressed. It does not describe anything to do with the area, | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
nothing to do with the culture. I do not know where the name comes | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
from. And I do not think it will do us any favours. It is not the first | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
time the plans have courted controversy. Last year, promotional | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
pictures had to be withdrawn. Images of celebrities including | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Billie Piper and Gwyneth Paltrow apparently shopping in Hanley had | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
been used. The company behind the scheme has said the name has the | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
endorsement of its partners, Stoke- on-Trent City Council. No one from | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
the council was available to be interviewed. They said it was a | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
matter for the developers. When his boat to Realis Estates, they said | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
their spokesman was also unavailable. But although the | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
developers have been silent, some marketing experts have voiced | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
misgivings. To come up with a word that does not exist in the | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
dictionary, too be quite honest, it is a bit of a ploy, at tactics. It | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
is not very respectful not to listen to the public, if they feel | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
passionately about it, which they clearly do. In spite of the | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
opposition, the developers say this is an exciting regeneration scheme, | :15:04. | :15:14. | |
and they are convinced the logo is You would never thought we would | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
have so much reaction to that story. We have. No comment from the | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
developers but plenty from you. Linda says, how dare they tried to | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
foist such a stupid name. We do not want the world to think we are | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
illiterate. It makes my blood boil. From Stacy Foster, I think the new | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
shopping centre will be a hit, she says. James Butler wonders, why not | :15:49. | :15:58. | |
go the whole hog and call it City Sentral? Another says, it is | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
deliberately whimsical rather than farcical. One more says, stupid | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
idea. There must be lots of appropriate names to consider City | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
Sentral is a joke. A motorcyclist killed at the | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
weekend was serving West Midlands police officer. Ramin Toulouie he | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
was 40 and from Sutton Coldfield was on his way home from work when | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
his bike crashed with a car. 825 year-old man was arrested on | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
suspicion of causing death by careless driving. | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has begun a campaign to add Birmingham | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
to the name of one of the city's main sporting venues. It wants | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
Edgbaston cricket ground to include the city's name in its title. The | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
chamber says it is holding talks with Warwickshire County Cricket | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
Club about the proposal. It was a lunchtime that pupils will | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
never forget. Pop-star Jessie J opening venue recording studios and | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
talking to them about life in showbusiness. She surprised | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
students at the region's first Academy School for the Performing | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
Arts and offered the chance of a lifetime. Our report contains flash | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
photography. Chart-topping Jessie J making a | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
surprise visit to Birmingham's newly opened answer to London's | :17:22. | :17:32. | |
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The singer is a Brit School graduate herself. Do not expect | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
opportunity to find you. Do not make it easy. You have to go and | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
find it. She was at Birmingham Ormiston Academy to encourage | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
students he just started studying the performing arts. Would you be | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
here today if he had not gone to Brit School? No. The school taught | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
me to be independent and who I wanted to be. And where I shed a if | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
I wanted to wear eyeshadow. I had to get six trains back and forth. I | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
had to grow up. Am unsure job moment - two 16-year-old students | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
invited onstage by Jessie J herself to sing. And on the strength of | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
their performances, Jessie J also asked them to sing at her concert | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
at the O2 Academy tonight. I am a big fan of Jessie J. It is | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
incredible to get this opportunity. I have a lot of respect for what | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
she stands for. She was in our place when she was our age. | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
Academy has cost �25 million but it is not just budding musicians and | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
singers like Jessie J that are hoping to nurture here. The academy | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
which has created 100 jobs also houses two theatres, a drama studio | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
and a TV studio. All very glamourous but will there be a | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
career at the end? It is tough but it is not all about performing. | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
This industry is a very technical industry, so on one level we had | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
the dancers and musicians and actors, but the digital technology | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
is equally as important to us. Before she left, Jessie J opened a | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
music studio. Who knows, perhaps a hit of the future will be recorded | :19:22. | :19:32. | |
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here. Very impressive. The concert were | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
people were queuing. Still to come: illustrator Quentin | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
Blake on how his work is writing up life for hospital patients. | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
And if it is not the winds and rain they get to it is the frost. | :19:45. | :19:55. | |
Gardeners watch out. The temperatures are plummeting. | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
Despite those rather chilly temperatures, Birmingham City fans | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
slept outside the grounds to snap up the final tickets for their Euro | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
the game in Bruges. More than 5,000 fans now have tickets and many more | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
are expected to travel to Belgium. Police urged them to improve the | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
image of English fans in Belgium after the trouble that marred Euro | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
2000. Tired and weary - you bed. Cold | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
also. Some of these fans had stepped out last night to get the | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
hands of the last 400 tickets at Birmingham City's European game. | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
Those days match against FC Brugge. Got the old sleeping bag. Not too | :20:39. | :20:48. | |
bad. Just a bit cold. But worth it. Very cold. 20 cups of coffee later, | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
still here. Is it worth it? Yes, of course. Brilliant atmosphere. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
fans are not the only one struggling in numbers. The club is | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
sending 50 stewards and there will be a delegation from West Midlands | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
Police. There was no suggestion that fans are going to cause | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
trouble such as that seen in Euro 2000 but West Midlands Police have | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
reminded the Blues fans that the Belgian police have not dealt with | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
her large visit of English and sense and will act quickly if there | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
is any sign of a repeat. They have urged fans to continue the good | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
behaviour cent in Europe so far. They have also reminded fans to | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
carry their passports at all times. You can be arrested without one. | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
The reasons for fans travelling in such numbers - Bruges is beautiful, | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
it is not far away and it is famous for it is big. Do not panic if you | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
cannot make it. You could do worse than go to the anchor here. You can | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
order a pint of BarBar Bok and it will help you catch that European | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
bar. There has been a real buzz around Birmingham, especially in | :21:59. | :22:07. | |
the pub. They have been here drinking the beer. This is what the | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
fans hope to see more of. Birmingham City have enjoyed their | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
European adventure so far. Thursday night looks like the biggest one | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
yet. If you are not of to Bruges, there | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
will be full coverage on BBC WM. If you drink that beer, you will be | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
asleep and miss it! The Olympic torch has been in Birmingham. It is | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
on a nationwide tour to find people with inspirational stories to come | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
forward to carry the Olympic flame in 2012. It was hosted by students | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
from Birmingham City University who will be taking part in a Student | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
Olympics next year. I would be happy to carry the torch. It would | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
mean every body, even though I will not win a medal in the Games, we | :22:58. | :23:08. | |
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will be taking part in the sport. It would be a great moment. The | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
famous children's illustrator of the Roald Dahl books is holding an | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
exhibition of his work for hospitals. It is testing the theory | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
that art can have a therapeutic effect on patients. | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
His distinctive style beeps from the balls of Compton Verney in | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
Warwickshire. Quentin Blake has chosen the location to exhibit work | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
commissioned by hospitals in the UK and abroad. A far cry from his | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
children's book illustrations. of the pictures are not mere two | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
children's book illustrations. Others are enlarged versions. They | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
are to be seen from a greater distance, works in pub expenses. | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
The therapeutic effect of Arts on patients is a theory put to many a | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
GHS trusts. Local artists are often commission to display their works. | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
It has been very valuable for patience. We get a lot of positive | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
feedback that the pictures and sculpture actually allow patients | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
to feel not only that they are cared for but there is something in | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
them that the patient can empathise with. Does this concept ring true | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
with Quentin Blake? It is something you can do in your mind that you | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
cannot do all are prevented from doing. It gives you a kind of | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
mental outing, as it were. Public art is also at the heart of this | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
exhibition. Despite cuts to arts budgets, it is something Quentin | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
believes in. None of the pictures here are all regionals. They look | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
as though they are but they are actually printed. Digitally printed. | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
The cost of one original, you get 10 of these. In a sense, in a time | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
of financial constriction, this is a good way of doing it. Although | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
this exhibition concentrates on hospital commissions, there is an | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
added treat. Quentin Blake's children's illustrations have not | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
been ignored. This family room provides an interactive space and | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
also a display of some of his most famous role dull sketches. As large | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
as life runs until December giving the Midlands and beyond a taste of | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
some of the nation's best-loved illustrators. | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
I love Quentin Blake's pictures. If you love them, we have put more of | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
you love them, we have put more of his work on our Facebook page. And | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
now the weather. It certainly is a chilly. Lots of | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
sunshine today but there is a cold snap to contend with. Gardeners | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
watch out. It is all courtesy of high pressure which will clear | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
skies and lead to plummeting temperatures. For the Blues fans, | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
heading down to Belgium for the match against Bruges on Thursday, | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
wrap up warm because what ever we are getting they will get also. It | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
will be cold but dry and sunny. This is what we had earlier. A | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
spiral of cloud around but we are neatly tucked in between with clear | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
skies. It will be dry tonight and fairly cold. A few showers to the | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
north. With temperatures falling to five or six Celsius, quite chilly. | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
A bit of a chilly start tomorrow. Some sunshine to start with but | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
these showers come down to the south. Well scuttled so there is a | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
good proportion of dry weather in between. Temperatures of 9 and ten | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
Celsius. It will not be quite add breezy tomorrow and those winds | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
will become lighter through tomorrow night. That is what will | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
give us the frost. Temperatures give us the frost. Temperatures | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
plummeting to near freezing. A look at tonight's main headlines. | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
The cost of living soars as inflation jumps to 5.2 % helped by | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
a sharp rise in gas and electricity prices. | :27:31. | :27:34. |