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Good evening, welcome to Friday's Midlands Today from the BBC. | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
Tonight: a suspended nine month jail sentence for the MP's wife | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
found guilty of stealing a love rival's kitten. I had no | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
recollection of taking the cat. In fact, I didn't realise I had a | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Gunther life returned to their house and there it was, in the back | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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of the car. As long as we don't come under | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
attack, there is nothing to worry about. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
They called it the Chancellor to cut the tax on flying. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
And is a statue of the captain of the ill-fated Titanic on its way to | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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his home town, which once did not Good evening, welcome to Friday's | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
Midlands Today from the BBC. Tonight: a suspended nine month | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
jail sentence for the MP's wife found guilty of stealing a love | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
rival's kitten. Christine Hemming, who's married to | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
the Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming, was captured on CCTV | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
stealing the pet from the home of her husband's mistress Emily Cox. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
She was found guilty of burglary by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
last month. Before being sentenced, Mrs Hemming | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
said she still had no recollection of stealing the animal. Mr Hemming | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
said his wife should have pleaded guilty to the offence. Liz Copper | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
reports. Christine Hemming emerged from | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
court without commenting after avoiding a jail term for burgling | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
her rival's home. The love triangle involving her husband, the MP for | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Birmingham Yardley, and his former personal assistant, Emily Cox was | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
described by the judge as an unconventional relationship. The | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
jury had been played this CCTV footage. It showed Mrs Hemming | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
crawling around the garden of the home her husband shared with Emily | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
Cox and their daughter. Mrs Hemming is then seen breaking into the | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
house. And three minutes later, leaving, clutching a kitten. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
Speaking before she was sentenced, Mrs Hemming described the episode | :02:11. | :02:20. | |
as a blur. I did not deliberately take the catch. I went to the | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
property purely to give my husband his post and to then return to my | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
house. The events that transpired, I have no recollection of taking | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
account. In fact, I did not realise I had it until I returned to the | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
house and there it was, at the back of the car. Mrs Hemming later said | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
she'd tried to return the kitten, which was called Beauty, by putting | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
it under a fence. But the animal has never been recovered. Speaking | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
after his wife had been sentenced, Mr Hemming, together with Emily Cox, | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
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gave their reaction. The judge said she was dedicated to her family and | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
had been under considerable emotional pressure. The sentence is | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
not surprising in the circumstances. She should have pleaded guilty. Had | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
she, she would have had a discharge. I think it has been worse for my | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
daughter, she has lost her cat. She has seen her parents dragged | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
through the courts and by the media in not a very nice way. But the end | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
of the day, nobody knows where the cat is full Stock -- where the cat | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
is. Mrs Hemming will be required to carry out 150 hours' upaid work as | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
part of her sentence. She's said the case has had a lasting impact | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
on her life. And you can see more of that | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
interview with Christine Hemming and read more about the case on our | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
website. Later in tonight's programme: An | :03:55. | :04:05. | |
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Autumnwatch report on why hedgehog Leave us alone and there won't be | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
any trouble - that's the message from the leader of the English | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Defence League ahead of a demonstration tomorrow in | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
Birmingham. It's one of three protests taking place in the city. | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
Hundreds of EDL supporters will gather in Centenary Square where | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
they're campaigning against Islamic extremism. Across in Chamberlain | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Square at about the same time, there'll be a gathering of anti- | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
racists including trade unionists and local faith groups, while in | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
Victoria Square an anti-capitalist protest is continuing in front of | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
the Council House. Our reporter Holly Lewis joins us | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
now from Victoria Square. Holly, is this going to disrupt Birmingham | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
City Centre tomorrow? Depending on who you believe, there | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
could be several hundred protesters here tomorrow or several thousand. | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
The police say there will be a vastly increased police presence. | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
There have also moved the EDM event. It will now be in Centenary Square. | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
They are not very happy about it. The question is, when it put people | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
off visiting the town centre? Three squares, three separate | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
protests and one major challenge for West Midlands Police. Firstly | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
in Centenary Square where members of the English Defence League are | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
due to gather. Police are keen to avoid a repeat of 2009 when there | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
were 90 arrests following clashes between EDL members and anti- | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
fascists, but organisers say they aren't looking for trouble. | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
last 15 demonstrations have been peaceful. As long as we are left | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
alone to peacefully protest, and don't come under attack, there is | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
nothing to worry about. A short walk through the Forum will lead to | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
the next protest event, set up as a counterbalance to the EDL. In the | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
Chamberlain Square, a loose coalition including faith groups | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
will be gathering at the same time. They say they want to celebrate the | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
diversity and multiculturalism in the city. This is a very diverse | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
city and we are really proud of that. That is a good thing. Our | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
differences a dressing, a strength. It is something to celebrate. -- | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
Allah differences are a blessing, a strength. Lastly in Victoria Square | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
anti capitalists have been given an eviction order for next Thursday, | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
but they'll still be there tomorrow. Business leaders say no one should | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
be put off coming into the city centre. The location of the protest | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
and the way we understand he was doing it, the policing around it | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
means that the rest of Birmingham probably will not notice and the | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
shopping and retail side of been there will be business as usual. | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
But many shoppers said they'd be playing safe. People have the right | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
to protest but it could be chaotic with three groups. The recent | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
history of protesting makes you wary. I would come in by myself but | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
could be wary of keeping -- bringing children in. A key part of | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
the way. It cannot kick-off. -- I will be keeping out of the way, it | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
can kick-off. All three protests have to be static, police hope | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
they've done enough to make sure they all go of peacefully. | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Birmingham City and West Bromwich Albion are also playing at home. | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
The police say they do not welcome the English Defence League protest, | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
saying they recognise it makes people feel insecure, coming so | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
soon after the August riots. They have also told them they can only | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
protest for two hours and the peaceful event here has also been | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
given four hours. A post mortem examination has revealed that a 49- | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
year-old woman found dead in Stafford died from a shotgun wound. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
The body of Susan Gray was found in Oxford Gardens in the town. A 22- | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
year-old man has been arrested and is currently in custody. Police | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
have been unable to question him as he's being assessed under the | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Mental Health Act. The number of seats available on | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
Virgin trains between Birmingham, London and Manchester is to be | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
increased by 25% to ease overcrowding. Three new trains will | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
be added to the fleet and some existing trains will have extra | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
carriages. It's expected to create 28,000 additional seats. Passengers | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
should see the benefits from next April. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Severn Trent has stepped in to help people in south Shropshire who've | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
been without water for months. Wells and springs around Clunton | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
have run dry after a severe lack of rainfall. Now the company's made a | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
goodwill gesture by sending water bowsers to the village. | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
Birmingham Airport has joined a campaign to urge the government to | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
cut the amount of tax paid by passengers. Air Passenger Duty | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
currently raises�2 billion a year in revenue. | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Birmingham is one of eight airports lobbying the Chancellor to use his | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Autumn Statement to reduce the tax. It's hoped this will encourage | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
airlines to use regional airports with spare capacity instead of | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
London. Here's Our Political Editor, Patrick Burns. | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
Dark days at the departure door. Like every other major airport | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
outside London, Birmingham's passenger numbers have been falling | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
for two years now and airport passenger duty doesn't exactly help | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
to win them back. It is scandalous. It is what you pay taxes for. | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
a great deal of money to put on top of the ticket price. To get an idea, | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
let's look at three of the flights on the destination screens this | :09:04. | :09:14. | |
morning. Belfast City, at 8:35am. Then New York. At 9:15am, Cancun in | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Mexico. My 225 mile flight to Belfast is taxed at the basic rate | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
of �12. But for that flight to New York it's �60 and the for nearly | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
5,000 miles away, it's Cancun it's �75 per person, quite a | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
consideration for a long-haul family holiday. But | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
environmentalists think it's only fair for aviation to offset what is, | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
in effect, a generous tax break from the Chancellor. The aviation | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
industry pays no VAT on fuel that it uses. That is unlike anyone who | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
drives a motor car. Did pays no VAT on of the sale of planes, nor on | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
the sale of tickets. The aviation pays its fair way in tax. We pay | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
all the things that we do. The one area that is different is on fuel | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
VAT. The Chancellor more than covers the environmental impact | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
through the air passenger duty, which is set to raise �2.5 billion | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
next year. So stemming the flow of a significant revenue stream would | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
be a tough call for our cash- strapped Chancellor. | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
There must be a long line of people queuing up to lobby George Osborne. | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
Would he pay any attention to this? He is listening to Northern Ireland. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
They had a situation where Continental Airlines threatened to | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
switch their services from New York to Belfast, to Dublin. That could | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
be so that passengers could escape UK airport duty. As you can imagine, | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
the political and business communities lobbed -- lobbied | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
George Osborne and the result of that is that from Tuesday of next | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
week, if you or I want to fly from Birmingham to New York, we paid out | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
�60 duty but for people flying to New York from Belfast, the duty is | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
�12. Of course, you can imagine that for the airlines here, there | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
is a chorus of, well, if it applies to Northern Ireland, it applies to | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
us as well. Oddity expecting to say? | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
The contents of the Autumn Statement are very closely guarded | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
but what we do know is that there will be a package of measures for | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
growth. Put that together with the fact the government is determined | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
not to build a third runway at Heathrow with George Osborne as | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
oft-stated commitment to rebalancing the economy and the | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
idea of a redistribution of routes from London to the regions fits | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
together with that logic. There is more about this on the website. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Significantly, David Cameron was recently asked in the Commons about | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
the effect of Airport passenger duty on regional airports and he | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
said that this was something which the government was, keeping its eye | :11:57. | :12:06. | |
And there'll be more on this plus a report on the high levels of fuel | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
poverty in the region on this Sunday's Politics Show which is | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
here on BBC One at 12 noon. A campaign's begun to try and move | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
a statue of the captain of the Titanic back to his hometown in the | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
Potteries. The monument to Captain Edward John Smith currently stands | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
in a park in Lichfield. It's believed it was originally put | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
there because the authorities in Hanley in Stoke-on-Trent didn't | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
want to be associated with the world's most famous maritime | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
disaster. Laura May McMullan reports. | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
A monument to honour Captain Edward John Smith stands in Beacon Park in | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
Lichfield. Yet it was 40 miles away in Hanley, where he was born and | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
bred. The only tribute to him though is here inside Hanley town | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
hall in the form of a plaque. One man hoping to change all that | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
though is campaigner Phil Ball. He's written to over 100 | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
councillors in Stoke-on-Trent and Lichfield to get the statue moved. | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Standing outside this house in Hanley where Captain Smith was born | :13:00. | :13:09. | |
in 1850, even the commemorative plaque has been stolen. He is one | :13:09. | :13:19. | |
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of our greats. We have of the statues in the City. He is missing. | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
Why is there statue -- So why IS the statue of Captain Smith in | :13:28. | :13:38. | |
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Lichfield? Will the statue ever be moved? No, we have no intention of | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
the statue moving from here. It is loved by local people. These | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
pictures dating back to 1911 show Captain Smith, the deck of the | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic, six months before the doomed maiden | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
voyage. It is amazing that the son of a potter, born into a town which | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
is as far away from the sea as you can get, becomes the top sea | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
captain of the Atlantic. We have great talent here. We can make a | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
new statue if we wanted a statue. And people in Hanley agree. They | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
should be something. It was a point in history which we should | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
commemorate because so many people's lives were lost. With no | :14:17. | :14:27. | |
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visual public memorial in Stoke-on- Still to come in tonight's | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
programme. Ben Rich is here with a look at what the weekend's weather | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
has in store. Rewind the clocks back an hour on | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Saturday night. It is the end of British Summer Time but with a mild | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
weekend ahead, we will not be plunging headlong into winter just | :14:55. | :15:05. | |
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Hedgehog numbers have plummeted over the last decade with the | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
population down by a quarter. In our final Autumnwatch report this | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
week, our Environment Correspondent David Gregory looks at the problems | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
they face. And while traditionally at this | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
time of year we're told to check our garden bonfires for hibernating | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
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hedgehogs, it turns out there's In their garden the quinces are | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
ripening in the warm autumn sun but inside animal rescue centre is | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
working hard to get their hedgehog guests fit and ready to tackle | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
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winter in the wild. Hedgehogs that have warned late in the year will | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
not survive hibernation through the winter so here, they have got some | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
babies that they will be keeping here and releasing next year. Let's | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
try and films on with our special camera. -- Film some more with our | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
But these youngsters face an uncertain future. Because the | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
British hedgehog population has decreased sharply in the last | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
decade. 25 % in 10 years is a pretty steep decline and it is | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
concerning. They have recently been added to for biodiversity action | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
plan which is a Schedule that highlights species which may be in | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
trouble and need extra protection. So hedgehogs are in trouble and one | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
of the problems they face is these red rubber bands that are often | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
used by postal workers to hold together bundles of letters. Once | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
dropped on the ground they can become potential death traps for | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
hedgehogs. This rubber band was surgically removed from this | :16:48. | :16:57. | |
hedgehog. He went on to make a full recover. This is a hedgehog that is | :16:57. | :17:06. | |
going back tonight. If you look at their spines, they are if... It | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
will be impossible for them to get it out themselves. They getting | :17:10. | :17:19. | |
quite a tangle. In paintings and pictures, they are organised, but | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
in actual fact, they are quite criss-crossed. It is free difficult | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
to get off. Important as it is not to drop litter, there are plenty of | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
other problems for our shrinking hedgehog population. One of the | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
biggest ones as loss of habitat and fragmentation of Habitat, where | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
gardens that used to be linked up on our high fences and walls, | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
securing the gardens. Unfortunately, they stop hedgehogs trundling | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
through. They will war and mile or two in a night so they need a lot | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
of fathers. Fees babies might enjoy better prospects when they recover | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
next year. -- these babies. David joins us now, on a street | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
where they are determined to help hedgehogs. | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
In this community, they are trying to help her shots. Martin Harrison | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
knows more about it. What are you trying to do? We are trying to ways | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
a rareness for these prickly man was to get local people involved in | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
looking after them and improve their habitat. What can people do | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
in their gardens? There are a few things in their gardens. A lot of | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
you cartons of very fenced off and there are no holes anywhere. -- | :18:34. | :18:44. | |
gardens. Hedgehog needs -- Hague togs need holes in the fence. If | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
you've got a pond, they need someone -- somewhere to get out, a | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
round perhaps also Pichon also feed than some dog or cat food, | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
preferably not cow's milk. Also put some freshwater out for them. | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
and if people do all that, it is a lot of extra work? Not really. | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
Another thing I didn't mention is to leave a messy area, so they can | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
use the decaying leaves to foraged for food -- forage for food. Thank | :19:15. | :19:25. | |
you very much. If you want to learn how to make a garden more friendly, | :19:25. | :19:35. | |
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I have rarely enjoyed and watching the wildlife this season. | :19:44. | :19:54. | |
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Let's crack on with the sport now. There's nothing like a wining team | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
to drum up the punters. So after two derby wins the Albion club shop | :20:02. | :20:11. | |
was doing brisk trade today. traditional blue-and-white striped | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
shirt. Now there is a new shirt for sale. Like when you score a goal. | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
Paul Scharner was booked for displaying the new t-shirt designed | :20:20. | :20:28. | |
by his children at Villa Park last week. The rule is you cannot pull | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
your shot over the head. You are a naughty boy. Absolutely, yes. | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
the fans we spoke to love it. What you make of the shot? I would like | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
one myself. I think we will be getting a few of those for the kids. | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
Yeah, I think it's great, shows a bit of passion for the club and | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
that is what you want from your players. We've adopted him. It is | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
great for her man for us. He is one of those people that takes the club | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
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to their heart. Fair play to him. Next week, the famous shirt is | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
going on sale in aid of DEBRA a charity to help children with a | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
rare skin disease. Likewise players shirts embossed with poppies will | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
be auctioned for the poppy appeal. But to keep sales bouyant they just | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
need to beat Liverpool and that means stopping in-form striker Luis | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
Suarez. He has had a magnificent start and at the moment, we must be | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
aware that he will be a key figure in their attacking play. We will | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
have to do our very best to keep him quiet. It will not be easy | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
because he is a quality player. Albion did indeed beat Liverpool in | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
April. Chris Brunt's penalties gave Albion a 2-1 win that day, and he's | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
likely to keep the duty despite missing one at Villa Park last week. | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
Albion have their tails up and they hope that's how it'll stay when | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
their charity shirts hi the shops. Birmingham City fans are meeting | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
tomorrow to form a supporters' trust. They're unhappy with how the | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
club's being run by the current board. And they hope the trust will | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
give the fans a greater say. They're meeting at the Phoenix | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
Community Hall, Towpath Walk at 11.30am tomorrow morning and | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
they've urged fans to get involved. And you can keep in touch with how | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
your team gets on this weekend with the build-up, full match commentary | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
and reaction on your BBC local radio station. | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
Now a reminder that you've only got until Sunday to nominate your BBC | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
Midlands' Sports Unsung Hero. You can send in your nomination to | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
recognise those individuals who dedicate their life to helping | :22:27. | :22:37. | |
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He brought us blockbuster movies such as Alien and Blade Runner but | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
now the film director Ridley Scott is teaming up with the BBC to make | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
a brand new film about life in Britain. | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
Britain In A Day will feature and be filmed by members of the public. | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
James McDonald's been to Coventry meet some of the film's potential | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
stars. In Coventry, a class for budding | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
film makers. On November 12th all these people will be grabbing a | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
camera and recording a snapshot of whatever's going on. They, along | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
with many others across Britain are hoping their clips will eventually | :23:11. | :23:19. | |
be used in the finished feature. I'm toying with the idea of me | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
taking some bread. I'll have to a rope some volunteers in to hold the | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
camera. We had loads of great suggestions here today and it is | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
about what is important to individual people in this country. | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
By Mike that a lot. Many of these people have never picked up a | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
camera before. For them, it is a first experience of film-making. | :23:39. | :23:48. | |
Fortunately, they will get a little Last year the Production Company of | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
film Director Ridley Scott made this film, pieced together from | :23:51. | :23:59. | |
dozens of clips capturing everyday life around the world. The film has | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
provided the inspiration for Britain In A Day, which will be | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
broadcast on BBC Two next May in the build up to the Olympic Games. | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
People with no experience can bring something really special away from. | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
One of those things the spontaneity, capturing emotional moments on | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
camera. Life isn't perfect and if your material is rough around the | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
edges, those edges might be really interesting. Presenters including | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
Dan Snow will be joining in but the message from the film's makers is | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
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that absolutely anybody can take And if you'd like to join in with | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
the film, take a look at the website: there are more details on | :24:44. | :24:54. | |
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A mixed bag is a fairly over-used expression in weather forecasts but | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
this weekend, it really does apply. The elements are throwing | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
everything possible at us over the next couple of days. If we had to | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
some things up, we can say it will be milder, quite breezy, there will | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
be a little rain around but at the same time, there will also be a | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
little bit of brightness. A mixed bag, as I say. The can see this | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
weather front out to the West. That is eventually going to reach us. It | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
will bring us a little rain that later on Saturday. Behind it, rain | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
will come in or from the south-west. Ahead of that were the front, it in | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
the clear tonight. And it is clear skies, we will see mist and fog | :25:31. | :25:39. | |
patches forming. It will be a fairly cold night with the lows of | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
5-7 Celsius. Any early mist and Merck should clear away quickly | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
tomorrow morning. Things will brighten up, particularly for | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
further east you are. Parts of Staffordshire, down into | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, we should see some sunshine. Out | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
west, as that weather front approaches, it will thicken up and | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
bring outbreaks of rain. Highs of 12 to 14 Celsius and you will | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
notice that brisk south-westerly breeze. If you are often end of the | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
football matches tomorrow, if you're heading to Manchester for | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
the game, we could see that light, patchy rain getting in here by the | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
end of the afternoon. In Sunderland, it should be fine. The card would | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
increase for all of us through tomorrow evening and eventually, we | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
will bring this rain across. It will fizzle out so becoming light | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
and patchy. Some of that will hang around as we go into Sunday morning | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
as well, particularly across southern and western parts of the | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
region. Further north and east, things will brighten up a little. | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
By this point, things feeling mild, at 216-17 Celsius. Sunday could be | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
a very pleasantly feeling day. Over the weekend, it will be quite mild, | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
often rather cloudy but with some brightness. Also a little bit of | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
rain at times. He starts next week on a dry and settled note but | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
things will go down hill as we head into mixed -- midweek. One more | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
thing to mention, the clocks go back an hour on Saturday night. | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
Don't forget to wind them back. It means an extra hour in bed but it | :27:08. | :27:18. | |
A look at tonight's main headlines: Vincent Tabak is sentenced to life | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
for the killing of Joanna Yeates. And a suspended jail sentence for | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
an MP's wife, found guilty of stealing a kitten from her | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
husband's mistress. That's all from us this evening but | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
on Monday's Midlands Today we'll be investigating the impact of the dry | :27:33. | :27:36. |