:00:07. > :00:09.Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Suzanne Virdee and Nick Owen.
:00:09. > :00:13.The headlines tonight: An exclusive interview with the
:00:13. > :00:20.Prince Charles he talks about his hopes for the future of Stoke on
:00:20. > :00:26.Trent's pottery industry and regeneration. This part of the
:00:26. > :00:29.world, Stoke-on-Trent, and the Potteries, has such a remarkable
:00:29. > :00:31.place in this country's history. Travellers a step closer to being
:00:32. > :00:34.told to leave the greenbelt site where they've been living illegally.
:00:35. > :00:38.Calls for an English Defence League protest to be moved away from
:00:38. > :00:41.Birmingham City Centre amid fears over violence.
:00:41. > :00:49.And Wolves manager Mick McCarthy slams the fans who called for him
:00:49. > :00:55.to be sacked after a string of defeats. It is cut -- destructive
:00:55. > :01:05.and no good to me or anybody else. What I know is I will keep picking
:01:05. > :01:08.
:01:08. > :01:11.Good evening. Welcome to Tuesday's Midlands Today from the BBC.
:01:11. > :01:21.Tonight, a message of hope from the Prince of Wales as he visits the
:01:21. > :01:28.
:01:28. > :01:31.Stoke-on-Trent pottery firm his charity salvaged from closure. --
:01:31. > :01:35.the travellers appealed but after a public inquiry earlier this year,
:01:35. > :01:45.an inspector backed the cancer's original decision of the government
:01:45. > :01:53.
:01:53. > :01:55.says the inspector was right to say no to the plans.
:01:56. > :01:58.Celebrating the news they'd been longing to hear. This morning,
:01:58. > :02:00.campaigners in Meriden were told that the Secretary of State for
:02:01. > :02:03.Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, had backed Solihull
:02:03. > :02:06.Council's decision to refuse planning permission on this patch
:02:06. > :02:09.of greenbelt land for eight pitches to site eight mobile homes and
:02:09. > :02:12.eight touring caravans. It was on April 30th last year that the
:02:12. > :02:14.travellers, who own the greenbelt land, moved onto the site and began
:02:14. > :02:16.developing it. We are relieved the Secretary of State agrees with
:02:16. > :02:18.local residents and the council this is an unlawful unsustainable
:02:18. > :02:21.development causing day leak harm to the green belt. Although they've
:02:21. > :02:29.spoken to Midlands Today a number of times before, today they refused
:02:29. > :02:32.to comment on the ruling. Next week will mark a year-and-a-half since
:02:32. > :02:36.residents set up a 24 hour vigil against the development. They say
:02:36. > :02:41.they will stay here until all the travellers have gone. The big
:02:41. > :02:44.question now is just how many days that will take. The ruling doesn't
:02:44. > :02:48.mean the Council can now evict the travellers. That will be a decision
:02:48. > :02:51.for the High Court. And with the scenes at Dale Farm in Essex fresh
:02:51. > :02:57.in many people's memories, Solihull Council are determined to make sure
:02:57. > :03:01.everything is done to keep this situation peaceful. The situation
:03:01. > :03:05.is very different from Dale Farm and we have continued dialogue with
:03:05. > :03:09.the travelling community here and there is nothing like the scale of
:03:09. > :03:13.Dale Farm. The circumstances are different. We don't anticipate
:03:13. > :03:17.those sorts of problems and will be taking every step we can to make
:03:17. > :03:21.sure it doesn't happen. The corks are in the champagne bottles and
:03:21. > :03:31.will not be out until this site has been restored to green belt.
:03:31. > :03:34.
:03:34. > :03:37.that could still be weeks if not months before it happens.
:03:37. > :03:40.There are calls tonight for a protest by the English Defence
:03:40. > :03:43.League in Birmingham's Victoria Square on Saturday to be moved to a
:03:43. > :03:45.less high profile venue. Anti- fascist groups are planning a
:03:45. > :03:48.counter-demonstration, raising fears of a repeat of the violence
:03:48. > :03:51.during a similar protest two years ago. Our reporter Jackie Kabler is
:03:51. > :03:53.in Victoria Square now. Jackie, is this protest still likely to go
:03:53. > :03:56.ahead? Yes. The police told me the Sutton
:03:56. > :04:02.and they have no plans to Madrid from Victoria Square and, of course,
:04:02. > :04:06.it is going to be a static demonstration. They have no sort of
:04:06. > :04:10.powers to ban that sort of demonstration. You can see Victoria
:04:10. > :04:13.Square is occupied by these anti- corporate greed protesters and
:04:13. > :04:17.there is going to be an anti- fascist group demonstrating as well
:04:17. > :04:22.so there are concerns we might see some sort of trouble like we saw in
:04:22. > :04:27.August in Telford went EDL groups and anti-fascist groups clashed
:04:28. > :04:35.during a similar demonstration. You're still very concerned they
:04:35. > :04:37.should move it, aren't you? I wrote to the Chief Constable and the
:04:37. > :04:41.chairman of the city council. To have the fascist groups protesting
:04:41. > :04:47.here in Victoria Square, the prominent Victoria Square it would
:04:47. > :04:52.be difficult for the police to handle in light of the lack of
:04:52. > :05:00.resources. And few resources they have. I am concerned the USAF group,
:05:00. > :05:04.counter demonstrating, and the light of what happened last time
:05:04. > :05:07.and the police found it difficult to keep on top of it, I will be
:05:07. > :05:12.break-ins and they can keep it together. There will be a lot of
:05:12. > :05:15.pressure on the police with two football matches. West Midlands
:05:15. > :05:19.Police do is say that they will have officers deployed throughout
:05:19. > :05:22.Birmingham to provide visible reassurance and any criminal
:05:22. > :05:25.offences will be dealt with robustly. That is a reassuring
:05:25. > :05:32.message from the police but it seems that protest will be going
:05:32. > :05:35.ahead. A march to highlight the plight of
:05:35. > :05:38.the young and unemployed arrived in Rugby today. It's tracing the same
:05:38. > :05:41.route as the historic Jarrow March from the North East of England to
:05:42. > :05:45.London, which took place 75 years ago It comes at a time when 234,000
:05:45. > :05:48.people in the region are out of work. That's 8.9% of the working
:05:48. > :05:55.population. 54,000 young people are currently claiming Job Seekers'
:05:55. > :06:00.Allowance in the West Midlands. Andy Newman reports.
:06:00. > :06:04.Times may have changed. Their cause has not. The latter-day Jared
:06:04. > :06:07.jobseeker's arrived on the outskirts of rugby this afternoon,
:06:07. > :06:11.three-quarters of a century after their four fathers followed the
:06:12. > :06:16.same route. The original march has become an icon of the fight for
:06:16. > :06:20.jobs in the 1930s. Today's activists may have been fewer in
:06:20. > :06:23.number but nonetheless determined to have their voices heard. What's
:06:23. > :06:27.your impression as you come through the Midlands of the unemployment
:06:27. > :06:32.situation? It is as bad as it is everywhere and it is a national
:06:32. > :06:35.question which is why we are getting the support we are. In the
:06:35. > :06:40.Midlands it is similar as across the country with a traditional
:06:40. > :06:44.industry being decimated. As the modern-day marchers pass through
:06:44. > :06:49.Warwickshire, we thought we would take the economic temperature of
:06:49. > :06:52.rugby. The unemployment rate is just over 7%, lower than the
:06:53. > :06:57.regional and national average. The town still has more vacant shops
:06:57. > :07:03.than it would like that stop general consensus is that the town
:07:03. > :07:07.is doing very well. The town centre, we feel, is the area we need to
:07:07. > :07:12.concentrate on most, and the general theme of the town has
:07:12. > :07:15.scenes -- lacks some confident. shortage of confidence at autumn
:07:15. > :07:21.but of installations at rugby. They make noise dampening parts for cars
:07:21. > :07:24.and they have doubled their turnover in the last few years,
:07:24. > :07:28.winning a �1.3 million contract with Jaguar Land Rover and
:07:28. > :07:34.expanding their work force. From our point of view, we are busy.
:07:34. > :07:39.Some of our neighbours are working 24 hours and we are on two shifts.
:07:39. > :07:44.So, very good. There may be some hope for the young unemployed for
:07:44. > :07:53.rugby. As for the marchers, then next stop is Daventry and they are
:07:53. > :07:56.due to arrive in London on Guy Fawkes night.
:07:56. > :07:59.Was Shakespeare a fraud? That's the controversial claim of a new
:07:59. > :08:02.Hollywood film which portrays the Bard as an illiterate oaf who was
:08:02. > :08:05.the front man for the Earl of Oxford. The accusation has angered
:08:05. > :08:08.Shakespeare enthusiasts so much that they covered up a statue of
:08:08. > :08:11.him today to let the world try and imagine what life would be like
:08:11. > :08:13.without the world's most famous playwright. Here's our Coventry and
:08:13. > :08:16.Warwickshire reporter Joan Cummins. It's taken four years to come to
:08:16. > :08:19.screen and presents Warwickshire born William Shakespeare not as the
:08:19. > :08:29.worlds greatest playwright, but a front man for the Earl of Oxford's
:08:29. > :08:35.
:08:35. > :08:42.writing ambitions. Congratulations, you have at an epic poem published
:08:42. > :08:48.today. In a book? I am drawn to these kinds of things went there is
:08:48. > :08:53.something there when people could argue about. I think it is the
:08:53. > :08:54.function that movies should have, much more than they have now.
:08:54. > :08:57.street signs with Shakespeare's name on were covered and at first
:08:57. > :09:00.light the iconic statue of the Bard in Stratford found itself shrouded
:09:00. > :09:09.from the gaze of the public in protest at the impudence of
:09:09. > :09:15.Hollywood suggesting intellectual theft. The whole thing is total
:09:15. > :09:20.bunkum. It is just rubbish. Of course, film-makers have the right
:09:20. > :09:23.just as novelist to twist history, just as Shakespeare did, but
:09:23. > :09:26.anybody who is taken in by this must be bonkers. Almost five
:09:26. > :09:28.million tourists visit Stratford every year generating �300 million
:09:28. > :09:35.for the local economy, so is there a fear that questioning
:09:35. > :09:40.Shakespeare's skills could reduce the town's income? Shakespeare is
:09:40. > :09:44.Stratford and Shakespeare is such a wonderful person, and I cannot...
:09:44. > :09:50.Cannot understand or cannot believe that anyone could doubt that he
:09:50. > :09:53.wrote the plays. Look how many people are here. He is not a fraud.
:09:53. > :09:56.They will be questioning Father Christmas next, won't they? It is
:09:56. > :09:59.nonsense. Perhaps the test of Shakespeare's legacy though is that
:09:59. > :10:09.even hidden under a sheet he was still attracting interest from
:10:09. > :10:14.
:10:15. > :10:17.visitors. Bizarre, isn't it? Still to come in tonight's
:10:17. > :10:20.programme. Shefali with all the weather details.
:10:20. > :10:23.You could say we got off lightly with the rain last night after the
:10:23. > :10:33.hammering Wales got. But next time we may not be so lucky. There's
:10:33. > :10:37.
:10:37. > :10:39.more to come this week. Tonight, a message of hope from the Prince of
:10:40. > :10:42.Wales as he visits the Stoke-on- Trent pottery firm his charity
:10:42. > :10:45.salvaged from closure. The Prince's Trust rescued the Burleigh Ware
:10:45. > :10:48.factory in the summer saving 50 jobs as part of a major restoration
:10:48. > :10:50.and regeneration project. It's now hoped that the factory in
:10:51. > :10:53.Middleport will become a catalyst for much needed economic growth and
:10:53. > :10:56.job creation in the Potteries. During the visit, he spoke
:10:56. > :10:58.exclusively to our Staffordshire reporter Liz Copper and said he
:10:58. > :11:02.hoped it would help rebuild hope and self-confidence in an area
:11:02. > :11:06.blighted by job losses. Arriving for this, his first visit
:11:06. > :11:10.to medal port. As the gates opened by Prince Charles was greeted by
:11:10. > :11:14.the Potters whose jobs he has helped to secure. He has taken a
:11:14. > :11:20.very personal and direct interest in this factory's future. Speaking
:11:20. > :11:26.to the BBC, he explained why he had chosen to support this private.
:11:26. > :11:31.is a very special and unique survival here. And still incredibly
:11:31. > :11:36.popular around the world. But I also wanted to see if we could use
:11:36. > :11:45.this remarkable place as a means of helping to gradually regenerate
:11:45. > :11:48.other parts of England and perhaps to spread brings further out.
:11:48. > :11:53.unemployment is a big problem in the Potteries and in the West
:11:53. > :11:56.Midlands as a whole more generally. How can heritage projects and
:11:57. > :12:00.regeneration projects like this one help address that problem? At a
:12:00. > :12:05.time like this when it is so difficult anyway, you cannot do
:12:05. > :12:09.everything, but we can to try to make some difference here and there.
:12:09. > :12:14.Add half the battle is to try to bring an investment from elsewhere,
:12:14. > :12:19.and we have managed, for instance, here, to bring in private
:12:19. > :12:23.investment. Earlier, the Prince had been shown the traditional
:12:23. > :12:29.techniques used here, unchanged since the Victorian era. He also
:12:29. > :12:32.had a chance to see the factory's collection of pottery moulds.
:12:32. > :12:36.17,000 data facts, it is one of your's oldest and largest
:12:36. > :12:42.collections. This pottery has been described by English Heritage as a
:12:42. > :12:46.national treasure. Its workers have welcomed the Prince's support.
:12:46. > :12:51.think it is fabulous. It is putting the heart back into the company
:12:51. > :12:56.which is what we need. A lot of factories have closed in this area.
:12:56. > :13:02.And I think with the Prince's Trust coming in and saving the building,
:13:02. > :13:07.I really do think it will keep it going. We need to retrain the
:13:07. > :13:11.younger generation, to pick up the scale, because it is one of the
:13:11. > :13:14.last places doing this old skill. As well as preserving skills, this
:13:14. > :13:18.product will also see the renovation of these historic
:13:18. > :13:22.buildings. There are plans for an education centres so visitors can
:13:22. > :13:26.see and learn for themselves about the inner workings of this unique
:13:27. > :13:30.factory. It is hoped that will provide a spoke for new employment
:13:30. > :13:34.opportunities. This is the street right opposite the factory.
:13:34. > :13:39.Families living here hope the investment by the Prince's
:13:39. > :13:42.regeneration trust will have wider benefits. He has come out and said
:13:42. > :13:46.he will do this and that, and nobody else has, so good on him.
:13:47. > :13:50.During his visit, the Prince spoke to every member of staff at the
:13:50. > :14:00.factory and it is hoped this will mark the start of a long
:14:00. > :14:02.
:14:02. > :14:07.association between the Prince and Joining us from Stoke-on-Trent is
:14:07. > :14:11.the former mayor, Mark Meredith, now the councillor responsible for
:14:11. > :14:14.the city's economic regeneration. Thank you for joining us. You heard
:14:14. > :14:20.Prince Charles talking about what he will do to help regenerate towns
:14:20. > :14:24.and cities. What are you doing in Stoke-on-Trent? You are breaking up
:14:24. > :14:28.a little bit, but we are pleased to see the Prince here today. He has
:14:28. > :14:38.spoken to every worker in the factory, and everybody associated,
:14:38. > :14:42.including all the partners in the private sector. Do you see a
:14:42. > :14:46.brighter future in the potteries as a whole, because it is a bit dismal
:14:46. > :14:51.or around at the moment, isn't it? Yes, we are all quite optimistic.
:14:51. > :14:54.At the moment, there is the British ceramics biennial taking place in
:14:54. > :14:58.the potteries which is a six week- long festival of the ceramics
:14:58. > :15:02.industry, not just of British manufacturing, which is in a
:15:02. > :15:06.revival state at the moment, but also of new businesses that are
:15:06. > :15:09.coming in and new young artists that are basing themselves in
:15:09. > :15:15.Stoke-on-Trent, that are coming out of the universities and design
:15:15. > :15:19.studios. Indeed, we have also been talking to Chinese potential
:15:20. > :15:26.investors, and also to local pot banks that are bringing back some
:15:26. > :15:29.of their production from places like China to produce again in the
:15:29. > :15:36.world capital of ceramics, this great city of Stoke-on-Trent. We
:15:36. > :15:40.are all very optimistic. Bentley for joining us this evening.
:15:40. > :15:43.-- thank you. A pool on an industrial estate could hold the
:15:43. > :15:46.key to the long-term survival of the increasingly rare British
:15:47. > :15:51.crayfish. It has been almost completely wiped out in some areas
:15:51. > :15:57.by its larger American cousin. The British version is thriving so much
:15:57. > :15:59.in Warwickshire that it has become to's largest surviving population.
:15:59. > :16:09.Our Environment Correspondent has been finding out more in the latest
:16:09. > :16:14.
:16:14. > :16:18.You might imagine that when people move into an area the wildlife
:16:18. > :16:23.moves out, but that is not always the case. Here in the Midlands,
:16:23. > :16:33.some of Britain's rarest wildlife is to be found in some of our most
:16:33. > :16:45.
:16:45. > :16:49.Hello. Nice to see you. I'm looking for crayfish? Yes, indeed. Around
:16:49. > :16:54.about here? Yes, they are in the shallows of relief. We are looking
:16:54. > :16:58.for the extremely rare native British crayfish... Oh, wait.
:16:58. > :17:02.There's one! It turns out that in this very special Paul, they are
:17:02. > :17:08.not so rare. That was quicker than I expected. How many are in there?
:17:08. > :17:13.We think something like 100,000, so a massive population. But these are
:17:13. > :17:16.really rare. These are the native crayfish. Yes, for most of the UK
:17:16. > :17:21.they are not around, but we have got some sites which are really
:17:21. > :17:27.special for them, and this is one of them. This is one of four main
:17:27. > :17:31.populations in the UK. Strangely, it is surrounded by all this
:17:31. > :17:34.urbanisation and really in an area you would not expect to find them.
:17:34. > :17:39.But it is that urbanisation that has sealed off this pool in
:17:39. > :17:42.Nuneaton, which also meets these crayfish are sealed off from the
:17:42. > :17:46.invasive American signal crayfish. But how can you tell the native
:17:46. > :17:52.crayfish from the invaders? A key distinctive feature, as well as the
:17:52. > :18:00.coloration and size, is this ridge along here. If you just run your
:18:00. > :18:05.finger back on that one. Big claws! It catches, little tiny spikes.
:18:05. > :18:10.and it just catches. That is distinctive. So, as the native
:18:10. > :18:14.crayfish struggles, this population could well help save it. At least
:18:14. > :18:18.in a similar locations. What we are planning is to look at similar
:18:18. > :18:23.balls elsewhere that up isolated urbanised pools, where we can move
:18:23. > :18:28.a population from here. Again, it is a safety population, if you like.
:18:28. > :18:32.It is like creating an ark for these animals. Well, that was
:18:32. > :18:35.really incredible. I guess the most incredible thing is it is
:18:35. > :18:39.urbanisation that has saved that population, Britain's largest
:18:40. > :18:43.population of native crayfish. It is this housing estates, the
:18:43. > :18:46.industrial estate. Without these, the American signal crayfish would
:18:46. > :18:51.have invaded and probably killed them all off.
:18:51. > :18:55.David joins us in the studio. He said 100,000, how does he know
:18:55. > :19:00.that? Obviously they cannot count them all. They catch a batch, mark
:19:00. > :19:04.them, and release them again. There may go back a bit later and catch a
:19:04. > :19:09.second batch and see how many are caught the second time that have
:19:09. > :19:13.the mark. That over that, with some clever mathematics, there's your
:19:14. > :19:21.estimate. He did say between 50,100 1000. That is enough to know, for
:19:21. > :19:26.example, that you can take some out and restock another pond. I had a
:19:26. > :19:31.crayfish salad for lunch so I am feeling guilty. Are these the same
:19:31. > :19:34.variety that you would get in the supermarket? You can eat them, but
:19:34. > :19:41.there are rules. You can't do the native one because that is a rare
:19:41. > :19:46.and we want to protect that. But the invaders, if you have a licence,
:19:46. > :19:51.you can catch them and trap them. But you need a licence from the
:19:51. > :19:55.Environment Agency. You need to know what you are doing because you
:19:55. > :19:59.could inadvertently spread the disease by moving tracks between
:19:59. > :20:08.different rivers. If you go to my blog you can find out more about my
:20:08. > :20:12.-- about the licence that you need. Onto football, and Mick McCarthy
:20:12. > :20:15.came out fighting today. First, the Wolves boss slammed the fans who
:20:15. > :20:18.called for him to be sacked at Molineux on Saturday as "mindless
:20:18. > :20:21.idiots". Then he thanked everyone else for their unbelievable support
:20:21. > :20:29.over the past couple of days. As Wolves prepare to face Manchester
:20:29. > :20:32.City twice this week, McCarthy has been talking to Ian Winter.
:20:32. > :20:39.Mick McCarthy was fuming on Saturday, but now he has calmed
:20:40. > :20:43.down. All my toys are back in the pram and I am all right. But
:20:43. > :20:47.sometimes I have a bad day, and Saturday was one of those. I am
:20:47. > :20:51.fine. But if he is no longer at boiling point, he is still
:20:51. > :20:55.simmering on a low heat it is those Wolves supporters who sang, you're
:20:55. > :21:00.getting sacked in the morning and you don't know what you are doing,
:21:00. > :21:03.when he made his double substitution.
:21:03. > :21:12.Do you feel that it can create a siege mentality among Store
:21:12. > :21:16.Players? Yes, this chanting does not help. These mindless idiots who
:21:16. > :21:20.do it, do not give them any credit for getting us playing well or
:21:20. > :21:23.getting a result, because they don't deserve any of that. Exactly
:21:23. > :21:29.12 months ago this week, Wahlstedt Manchester United to the wire in
:21:29. > :21:32.the Carling Cup before losing 3-2, and four days later, they shocked
:21:32. > :21:35.everyone by beating Manchester City in the Premier League. But the
:21:35. > :21:41.bookies don't believe lightning will strike twice. They are quoting
:21:41. > :21:46.odds of 130-1 against was completing a Cup league double
:21:46. > :21:49.against City in back-to-back games this week. I hope it will be that
:21:49. > :21:54.way so they can have a whingeing get shot of their manager. They are
:21:54. > :21:57.not getting shot of the chairman of the players, so let's give it to
:21:57. > :22:02.the gaffer. We are having a tough time. Give the lads some support,
:22:02. > :22:06.don't give us aggravation. As the new stadium takes place at Molineux,
:22:06. > :22:08.Mick McCarthy says he has done a great job over the past five years.
:22:08. > :22:12.He talked of solidarity at the club and the unbelievable support he has
:22:12. > :22:16.had this week from players and fans alike. Few could doubt his passion
:22:16. > :22:20.for keeping balls in the Premier League.
:22:20. > :22:22.-- Wolves. You can hear the full interview with Mick McCarthy on BBC
:22:22. > :22:26.WM at 8pm tonight. Plus, full coverage of all
:22:26. > :22:29.tonight's Football League games on your BBC local radio station.
:22:29. > :22:32.And, while we're talking sport, there are only six days left now to
:22:32. > :22:36.send in your nominations for this year's BBC Midlands Sports Unsung
:22:36. > :22:46.Hero Award. For the details, go to our website or the Midlands Today
:22:46. > :22:59.
:22:59. > :23:02.They were part of the so called forgotten army - thousands of young
:23:02. > :23:06.men sent from the Black Country to fight the Japanese in the Burmese
:23:06. > :23:08.jungle during the Second World War. Now their ordeal has been made the
:23:08. > :23:12.subject of a feature-length documentary in which some of the
:23:12. > :23:16.veterans talk about their ordeal for the first time. The film,
:23:16. > :23:22.called For Your Tomorrow, has been six years in the making. Bob
:23:22. > :23:24.Hockenhull reports. The untold story of the Black
:23:24. > :23:33.Country's Burma war veterans, uncovered after 70 years by
:23:33. > :23:39.Wolverhampton film-maker Don Clark. They were nicknamed the forgotten
:23:39. > :23:42.army, rarely ignored by a public at home, both during and since the war.
:23:42. > :23:45.It's estimated 17,000 Allied soldiers died. Less than 1% of
:23:46. > :23:50.survivors from the Black Country are still alive. Don recorded 80
:23:50. > :23:54.hours of interviews for his documentary, For Your Tomorrow. It
:23:54. > :24:01.received its world premiere last night. George Hill and Charlie
:24:01. > :24:11.Maber, both in their eighties, are featured. To be quite honest, I
:24:11. > :24:13.
:24:13. > :24:19.feel ashamed of myself. I get emotional. God knows why. Charlie
:24:19. > :24:25.was just 17 when he joined up. He flew sorties over the jungle -
:24:25. > :24:29.back-up for the advancing troops, among them his friend, George.
:24:29. > :24:34.I wake up some might and it is as clear as a bell. I can see their
:24:34. > :24:39.faces, I can hear them. Other than that, I'm not doing so bad, really.
:24:39. > :24:42.I was one of the lucky ones to come back. Arms, ammunition, food...
:24:42. > :24:45.Wolves president Sir Jack Haywood is one of the veterans featured.
:24:45. > :24:52.The film shows young descendants of the forgotten fighters finding out
:24:52. > :24:57.about their brave past. These anonymous black countrymen
:24:57. > :25:01.that we walk by in the street every day of the week had some incredible
:25:01. > :25:06.memories that they can share with us, and I am very glad that I have
:25:06. > :25:11.recorded these stories. Lottery did these men have to contend with
:25:11. > :25:14.fighting the Japanese, they had to make do dense jungle, put up with
:25:14. > :25:17.tropical diseases, and encountered deadly species like snakes and
:25:17. > :25:20.scorpions. The documentary will be taken to film festivals around the
:25:20. > :25:29.world, and it will be released on DVD this Remembrance Day. A fitting
:25:29. > :25:37.tribute to the bravery of these veterans.
:25:37. > :25:43.The brave men we will never forget. We will be alternating between two
:25:43. > :25:46.lots of whether this week. Sunny and dry, and also cloudy and wet.
:25:46. > :25:50.Those wins are toned down for the time being, but could whip up again
:25:50. > :25:55.by the weekend. Today has been pretty decent. A few showers, not
:25:55. > :25:59.many, but for those of those -- you who need them, we have more
:25:59. > :26:02.migrating up from the south, moving north through the first part of the
:26:02. > :26:06.night. Then you can see they move off to the north leaving all parts
:26:06. > :26:09.dry and quite clear. Because we have got colder air coming into the
:26:09. > :26:13.region, temperatures will fall to a minimum of six Celsius in towns and
:26:14. > :26:18.cities. A chilly start to the Data error, but when you have clear
:26:18. > :26:21.skies during the night, it lends itself to a sun-kissed morning.
:26:21. > :26:27.Plenty of sunshine around first thing. Then slowly we start to see
:26:27. > :26:32.more cloud and some showers developing through the afternoon.
:26:33. > :26:35.More widespread than today. Most of them will be light. Temperatures at
:26:35. > :26:40.Murrough in the north of the region any reaching highs of 12 Celsius.
:26:40. > :26:49.Elsewhere, 13 and 14, so a touch colder than today. The winds are
:26:49. > :26:53.slightly lighter. Through tomorrow evening, no sooner have those
:26:53. > :26:56.showers cleared off to the north, we see the next system arriving.
:26:56. > :27:06.More cloud from that, and we will start to see some light, patchy
:27:06. > :27:08.
:27:08. > :27:11.rain developing as well. Heavier on Thursday. Then it starts to drive
:27:11. > :27:15.up for Friday, but the legacy of that rain will be more cloud on
:27:15. > :27:18.Friday, although it will become sunnier but breezier on Saturday.
:27:18. > :27:21.A look at tonight's main headlines: David Cameron insists there is no
:27:21. > :27:24.bad blood after the EU rebellion by his MPs.
:27:24. > :27:32.And, here Prince Charles has visited the potteries and said he'd
:27:32. > :27:35.do all he could to help regenerate deprived towns and cities.
:27:35. > :27:38.Earlier in the programme we talked about the English Defence League