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