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Hello. Welcome to Midlands Today with Sarah Falkland and Nick Owen. | :00:03. | :00:13. | |
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How we remembered them. Thousands pay silent tribute across the | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
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region to the war dead on Armistice Day. And very emotional. Because it | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
is hard, but proud at the same time. Jobs joy in the Potteries as a | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
ceramics firm announces 200 new posts. I am pleased to say that | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
this year the business is doing even better. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Six schools to be bulldozed under plans to transform education in | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Telford. And Port Vale help a former player | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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who lost his leg after becoming a Good evening. Welcome to Friday's | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
Midlands Today from the BBC. Tonight: thousands pay tribute to | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
our fallen servicemen on Armistice Day. At eleven o'clock this morning, | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
the West Midlands fell silent for two minutes to remember those | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
servicemen and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
country. The biggest Armistice Day parade in England was at Bedworth, | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
in Warwickshire, with more than 5,000 people attending. From there, | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
Giles Latcham reports. Bedworth was busy from early | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
morning. The young, and the not-so- young, civilians and ex-servicemen | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
and women gathering to remember. This is the one town in the country | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
that abides it by the original day, the 11th hour of the 11th day of | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
the 11th month. I think it is great. Proud to be Bedworth. We grow up | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
here, and it is a proud day for us. Pipe and drums led the way on the | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
parade through the town centre. Falling in behind, veterans from | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
across the Midlands and units of 30 Signal Regiment and the Royal | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
Fusiliers both based locally. is no doubt about it, there is a | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
feeling of strength, of camaraderie, of community. Among those at the | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
war memorial, the mother of a Bedworth soldier, Sergeant Simon | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
Valentine, killed in Helmand two years ago. For her, a difficult day. | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
Very emotional, because it is hard. Proud at the same time. A beautiful | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
town. He shared the support it year in, year out, not just because of | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
my boy, but the town is well known for its Remembrance and pride. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
At eleven all over the Midlands people stopped to pay their | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
respects - judges and barristers doffing their wigs outside Stafford | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
In Hanley in Stoke-on-Trent they gathered to remember the campaign | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
in Burma, two veterans now in their nineties honouring the comrades who | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
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They are not as bad as they think we are when people turn up to pay | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
their respects to the fallen comrades. In Worcester they | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
gathered in the shadow of the At Rubery on the outskirts of | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
Birmingham, commemoration mixed Poppies showered at the opening of | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
a new market in an area blighted by the collapse of the Rover car works | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
In Bedworth, schoolchildren prepared for the service at the war | :03:52. | :04:00. | |
memorial by writing poems with the theme of remembrance. In Flanders | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
fields of poppies grow, and now we remember the Saunders that have | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
died and the spirits that lie in the sky. It is marvellous. We had | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
350 children. I had to turn 70 away because it was just too big. | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
Not only is it the 11th day of the 11th month, but for once in many | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
generations, the year ends in 11, too. This was the biggest parade | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
since they began in 1921 - in a town proud to remember. | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
Another major focus of today's commemorations was the National | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, where the names of 16,000 | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
servicemen who've died since 1945 are engraved on the Armed Forces | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
Memorial. It's designed so that on the 11th hour of the 11th day of | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
the 11th month, a shaft of sunlight shines through its walls, | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
poignantly hitting the bronze wreath sculpture in the centre. | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Prince William is patron of an appeal to raise �12 million to | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
build further facilities at Alrewas, and last night a fundraising dinner | :05:02. | :05:12. | |
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The National arboretum has become in just a few years the iconic | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
focal point for the nation's remembrance of British heroes. It | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
is a place of sanctuary for those who come to remember, a place at a | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
quiet pride in the selflessness and sacrifice of those who have gone | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
before. We can cross live now to The | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
National Memorial Arboretum where we can join chief executive Charlie | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Bagot Jewitt. Thanks for joining us, Mr Bagot Jewitt. Another very | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
special day for you at the Arboretum. What are your thoughts | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
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on the day? It is always a very moving day. The 11th of the 11th of | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
the 11th, 11 o'clock, certainly a very special time farce. Sadly the | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
sunshine did not come through the aperture in the memorial today, it | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
was just too dark. But I don't think that mattered. Everyone was | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
remembering their own loved one. Visitors numbers are climbing | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
dramatically - hitting 300,000 a year. What do you put that down to? | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
I think there is an national mood for remembrance. We have been in | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
conflict. But I think there is also a national mood to learn and | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
understand what our armed forces do and what they do for us and our | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
freedoms. What we have here is not just better facilities for the | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
visitors, but also interpretation and education facilities so that we | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
can really explain what Remembrance is about and why it is so important. | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
We heard earlier from Prince William - how vital is his support? | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Absolutely vital. To have the Duke of Cambridge on board supporting | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
our appeal in such an active way and taking such an interest in the | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
site really gives an element of leadership, leadership to the | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
country and to asked to make sure that we really do our best to | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
honour of fallen. And what plans do you have for | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
Remembrance Sunday? We will have a standard service here. I would | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
advise anyone who does want to come here to arrive shortly after 10 | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
o'clock. The service will be a normal one with a silence at 11 | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
o'clock. And then just after lunch there will be a further thought, | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
prayer and a band concert at sunset. Thank you very much indeed. And on | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Remembrance Sunday, the Politics Show will be talking to the | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
Coventry Labour MP and former Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth, | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
who claims British troops are now benefiting from decisions about | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
equipment that he made while in charge at the Ministry of Defence. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
In recent years, Snatch Land Rovers, body armour and night-vision | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
goggles have all needed improving. Mr Ainsworth admitted delays in | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
replacing kit were very frustrating. There can never be enough. There | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
were improvements before I was Defence Secretary, improvements | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
during my time, it pushed the expense up quite a lot, but it was | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
what was needed. But the time lag is enormous. | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
Also on Sunday's programme, the mid-Worcestershire MP and Defence | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
Minister Peter Luff will be quizzed by an Army mother on what more he | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
can do to help her soldier sons. That's on The Politics Show on | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
Sunday at ten past three on BBC One. A gang of eleven men have been | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
convicted of setting up what police believe was set to be one of the | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
country's largest cannabis factories. The group, mostly from | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
the West Midlands, were arrested following a five-month | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
investigation by Staffordshire Police. At the conclusion of the | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
trial, the judge commended detectives for an operation he said | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
had brought to justice some serious criminals. Here's our Staffordshire | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
reporter, Liz Copper. This was what police discovered | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
when they raided the farm at the centre of this investigation. There | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
were more than 800 plants. They'd have produced cannabis worth an | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
estimated �2.75 million. Detectives also uncovered generators, fans and | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
lighting equipment. This is the gang behind the plan to build what | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
police believe was one of the larges and most sophisticated | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
cannabis factories in the UK. Amongst them, Neil Bridges from | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
Hammerwich and Peter Bassett from Rugeley in Stafford. Also convicted, | :09:21. | :09:30. | |
Paul Hicks from Solihull. Professional plumbers, electricians | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
have been used to set this up. So we feel that it is a long-term | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
operation which potentially was going to benefit a number of | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
individuals for some considerable years. | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
This is the farm in rural Lincolnshire where the drugs were | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
cultivated. The barns here had undergone extensive adaptations, | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
costing around �1.4 million. Cannabis use and its supply have | :09:51. | :10:00. | |
been targeted by both the police and agencies combating drug abuse. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Even the ones who use it as a recreational drug, which is a | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
phrase sometimes used, and they use it on an occasional basis, it is a | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
very dangerous path to go down, because some people may not go | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
further down the rocky road of harder drugs, but I'm afraid an | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
awful lot of people do. Police say the gang behind this | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
cannabis factory had criminal links nationwide. The men who have been | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
convicted will all be sent to Inst later. Police say they were living | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
a lavish love * -- sentenced later. Police say they were living a | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
lavish lifestyle funded by their drug dealing. | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
Four men have been found guilty of stabbing to death a shopkeeper in | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Birmingham in an attack witnessed by his four young children. Suppiah | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
Tharmaseelan's children, who saw his murder via a security camera in | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
the family home, appealed for strong punishment for his killers. | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
The gang who attacked him at his shop in Kingstanding had been | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
drinking heavily nearby and were caught on CCTV leaving a pub. Twins | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
Ian and John Meenan and brothers Anthony Bayliss and Liam Ryan were | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
all found guilty of murder after a month-long trial. A fifth man | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
pleaded guilty to robbery. He is a family man with four young children | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
who has done very well to establish a business, we know how difficult | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
it is to run a business these days. And it was all taken away by five | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
thugs coup came in, stabbed him and number of times and stole | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
cigarettes and alcohol. There's been severe disruption to | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
train services across the Midlands today owing to signalling problems | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
at Wolverhampton. Virgin Trains, London Midland and Cross Country | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
trains have all been affected. Passengers have been able to use | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
their tickets on some National Express bus and tram services | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
instead, but there are still problems and delays across the rail | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
network. Some more positive news about jobs now - there's fresh | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
evidence this evening that Staffordshire's pottery industry | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
could be heading for better times. 200 new jobs have been announced in | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
Stoke-on-Trent in an industry that's seen massive decline in | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
recent years. Laura May McMullan reports now on a growing belief | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
that the good times could be There's little sign of economic | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
struggle at Steelite International in Stoke-on-Trent. In fact they | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
seem to have a handle on their business, and sales are currently | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
glowing. Last year we did have record sales behind a very | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
difficult economic backdrop. I am pleased to say that this year the | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
business is doing even better. put it down to their products still | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
being made in the Potteries. Last year production increased by 24%, | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
and last year's turnover was �60 million. Now they're looking to | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
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recruit more staff. We were successful in winning a regional | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
growth fund. The grant will be up to �2 million. What it will do for | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
us is able to enter new markets with new products, and the great | :13:04. | :13:14. | |
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thing for the City is that his plans to create around 200 jobs. | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
But can the industry its own two feet? Well, figures show it's good | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
news for the tableware sector. Sales last year were up by �31 | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
million compared to the previous year. And industry experts at this | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
ceramics fair believe companies are starting to turn a corner. Firms | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
that have got their strategy is right and go for the overseas | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
markets are seeing their sales increase. Shouldn't the Council | :13:45. | :13:54. | |
have protected and promoted its industry way before now? Yes, | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
definitely.That's why we're now starting to bang a drum and say | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
Stoke-on-Trent is open for business. The red carpet is open for any | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
business. Smaller companies like Valentine | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
Clays have seen a substantial growth since attending the ceramics | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
fair last year. They've seen their profits increase by 10%. I think | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
there is a positive attitude in the industry at the moment. We are all | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
working together, and they think it is beginning to pay dividends now. | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
There are currently around 350 ceramics companies in the city, | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
employing more than 20,000 people. This year the forecast is likely to | :14:37. | :14:47. | |
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show that the industry turnover The football club supporting one of | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
their former players who lost a leg in a workplace accident. | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
And if this gloomy, cloudy, murky week of weather's been getting you | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
down, I've got some good news for the weekend. There's rain tonight - | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
but then it brightens up. The full Six schools are to be demolished | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
and rebuilt under plans to transform education in Telford in | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
Shropshire. The plans will cost �200 million and mark the return of | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
the Building Schools for the Future programme. The aim is to replace | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
ageing classrooms and cater for a rising birth rate. This report from | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
Ben Godfrey. Year Seven pupils at Charlton | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
School were learning about heavy weights in their science classes | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
today. Within four years, their classrooms could be flattened and | :15:38. | :15:47. | |
replaced with a new school. Something really bright and airy to | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
encourage kids to learn. They have said they will be built bigger | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
classes, and we will be more spaced around. We have covered many | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
stories about building schools for the future on Midlands Today. But | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
this one is not about dilapidated buildings. We have almost 1,200 | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
students in a building built in the Sixties and was meant to take 750 | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
children. It is a large student population a relatively small | :16:18. | :16:27. | |
school. We have outgrown it. plan was devised by the last Labour | :16:27. | :16:37. | |
government to improve schools. But it was put in detention by the | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
coalition government. But Telford and Wrekin Council has a Labour | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
leadership and last night agreed a revised �200 million rebuilding | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
package. We did have a cut in the funding last year in November, but | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
I'm pleased that this has allowed us to continue. The building | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
schools for the future programme is essential. It'll be in the | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
classroom that school leaders hope to see a real difference. Take a | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
look at Telford's main Catholic college, erected in the '60s and on | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
the list to be demolished. A new Christian faith academy will | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
replace it in Priorslee, taking pupils from a Catholic and Anglican | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
background. It wouldn't really change what we do on a day-to-day | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
basis. We might have to look at aspects of worship, but we are a | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
pretty broad church already. plans are not a very advanced. We | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
were shown this farmer's field where one could be built. A public | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
consultation starts later this month. | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
It's time for sport now on FA Cup weekend. Dan Pallett's here, and we | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
start with something that'll touch everyone, whether they like | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
football or not, Dan. Yes, a very poignant tale. Andy | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
Shankland played just 26 games for Port Vale. He once played against | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
Manchester United at Old Trafford. But he never played in the FA Cup. | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
That's because Andy's career was suddenly cut short by injury. But | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
his bad luck was to turn even worse, as Ian Winter reports. | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
10.30 this morning, and the Port Vale players are off to training. | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Just like Andy Shankland used to do. But those days are long gone. | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
Because Andy's life has followed a very different path since he first | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
dreamed of hitting the big time in professional football. He was a | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
talented left-winger. 30 years ago, aged 17, he scored on his debut. | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
But five years later, an ankle injury killed off his football | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
career, and worse was to follow. He to come window-cleaning, fell off a | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
ladder, and surgeons had to amputate his left leg. | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
What is your attitude towards life now? Just get on with it! I have | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
always had that attitude. These things happen to you. Things | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
happened other people. You have to make the best of what you have got. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
Fans of Stoke and Birmingham will remember Jeff Scott, whose career | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
was also ended by injury. He is now helping Andy and thousands more ex- | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
professional to cope with the legacy of old injuries. I am glad | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
we caught Andy, because my fear is that he could have got lost in the | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
community and lost to football. Football needs big stories, and it | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
needs to be seen to be doing something good. I'd like to see | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
football stand up and take some responsibility here. He is part of | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
the Port Vale family, and it highlights that not everybody is a | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
John Terry Oras Steven Gerrard. There are lots of footballers out | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
their dealing with a lot of hardships. Andy grew up in Stoke, | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
and live with one leg isn't easy. With a loving family and supportive | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
friends, he still has plenty to be thankful for. Here today, gone | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
tomorrow. He take it for granted sometimes, you don't always | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
appreciate it. It can be gone just like that. Tomorrow, Andy is hoping | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
Port Vale avoid a banana skin against non-League Grimsby, but | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
experience tells him it won't be the end of the world if they lose. | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
And don't forget all the football action tomorrow will be covered by | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
our colleagues on BBC local radio. What a story about Andy there, and | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
I know that Jeff Scott does a wonderful thing. Tell us about the | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
Birmingham boxer Khalid Yafai. A big day for him. | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
Bizarrely, Britain has to fly wades who could potentially go to the | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
Olympics, and there is only one place. He's fighting for his place | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
at the London Olympics today. Yafai, who's a flyweight, will fight | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
Andrew Selby from Wales for a place in the British team. The winner | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
will be decided over the best of three fights starting this | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
afternoon at York Hall in Bethnall Green. Unfortunately he lost today. | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
So he has to win the next one. If he doesn't win tomorrow, the dream | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
is over seven months before the Olympics. | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
What pressure! Good luck to him. Now it is time to have a look at | :21:06. | :21:16. | |
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what the weather is going to do. There are some brighter skies to | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
come through the weekend. It should be mostly dry, and it is going to | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
feel mild, I unseasonably mild for the time of year. But before we get | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
to that, we have some reign to get out of the way -- some rain to get | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
out of the way. That band of rain will push east through the course | :21:45. | :21:53. | |
of the evening. Once it clears away, things will dry up. This is how | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
things look as we start the day tomorrow. This is the weather that | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
brought the rain tonight. This area of high pressure starts to exert | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
its influence, and that will give us some brighter weather through | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
the day tomorrow. One or two isolated showers, but otherwise it | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
is a mainly dry day. In the sunshine, feeling pleasant with a | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
high of 14 or 15 Celsius. A lovely day to head off to the races at | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
Cheltenham. It should be fine and dry, with some sunny spells. | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
Temperatures up to 15 Celsius in a light southerly breeze. Plenty of | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
coverage of that on BBC Radio Gloucestershire. Through the night, | :22:43. | :22:53. | |
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some are missed and a Merc creeping There should be some sunny spells | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
developing for Sunday, so it should be fine and dry for any remembrance | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
events you're heading to. The temperatures will lift again to 14 | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
or 15 Celsius on Sunday. The start of next week, the days follow a | :23:14. | :23:24. | |
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similar passion -- fashion, cloudy The cast and crew from E 20, the | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
new internet spin-off from EastEnders, it is written by a team | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
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It is Albert Square all right, but younger, edgier and with more punch. | :23:48. | :23:58. | |
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You won't catch this on your telly, but online. And this is face. -- | :24:01. | :24:11. | |
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Faith. She is hilarious, she wants her own way. The gruelling schedule | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
is no surprise, but there was a surprise from some of the students | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
when they were asked to have a go at scripting. They managed to put | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
together a very gritty script, Peter hears from Melbourne and has | :24:29. | :24:38. | |
worked on it neighbours. Somebody suggested that she was a gay | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
character, I think they said it to get a laugh, but actually it was a | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
good idea. You have to just have your imagination and be creative. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
Where is our crew? Time to film what they have written, and | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
starring alongside the 20 and their characters is one of our own local | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
students. It has made me think differently about TV and what goes | :25:05. | :25:14. | |
on behind the scenes. Will Walford ever be the same with Faith and her | :25:14. | :25:24. | |
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It is going down very well with the kids, very popular apparently. | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
More than 4,000 people have visited the Staffordshire Hoard on display | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
in America. Among the hundreds of items on show in Washington DC are | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
some of the most valuable pieces in the collection. They have been | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
carefully restored and put together by experts in Birmingham. The | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
exhibition is due to last until March next year. | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
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Now, if you haven't heard of Movember? It is spelt with an M. | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
Ates a month when men are grow a moustache to raise awareness for | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
prostate and testicular cancer. This year there will be around | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
37,000 new cases. I have been affected through family, and they | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
feel this is a chance for me to try and help in raising awareness for | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
men's prostate and testicular cancer. Let's have a look at | :26:33. | :26:42. | |
tonight's main headlines again. Across the UK, millions of people | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
have been marking Armistice Day, with communities falling silent in | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
memory of those who've lost their lives for their country. That's all | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
from us this evening, on Armistice Day. So much of today's focus has | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
been on the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire - which | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
is where you'll find a special series of photographs taken by | :26:56. | :27:04. | |
visitors to Alrewas. We leave you with some of those images. A day | :27:04. | :27:07. |