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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today, with Nick Owen and Suzanne Virdee. | :00:04. | :00:09. | |
The headlines tonight: Higher death rates than expected at | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
seven hospitals in the region, says a new report. We believe that this | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
is not an unsafe hospital that does not have a worse-than-average | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
mortality ratio. Hundreds line the streets of | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Lichfield to welcome the Mercians home from Afghanistan. It really | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
does mean a lot to the soldiers to know their efforts are really | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
appreciated. And tributes from former team mates | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
to the Wales football manager Gary Speed, who died at the weekend. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
It's horrible to think of the lives he's been a big part of and he's | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
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not going to be there for them any Good evening and welcome to the | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
start of the week here on Midlands Today, from the BBC. Tonight, seven | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
hospitals across the region have higher death rates than expected, | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
according to a new report. The figures from the health research | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
group Dr Foster compare health care nationwide. No hospitals in the | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
region feature amongst the top performers. Near the bottom is | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, where there were 112 deaths | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
for every 100 expected. After surgery, that rose to 146 patient | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
deaths. University Hospital North Staffordshire was even worse. There, | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
116 patients died for every 100 expected. And after surgery it, too, | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
had 146 deaths for every 100 expected. Our health correspondent, | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Michele Paduano, reports. The family of Wellesley Lewis can | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
never forgive New Cross Hospital. The 76-year-old was admitted on | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
Christmas Eve nearly three years ago with a suspected aortic | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
aneurysm but it was dismissed as back pain. When the aneurysm burst, | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
a lack of staff meant he never made it to the operating theatre. His | :01:55. | :02:04. | |
wife never got to share with him her MBE for charity work. | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
received a very poor treatment. No treatment at all. As for myself, I | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
wasn't even taken into consideration as a family, a wife, | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
that something serious like this was happening and I couldn't even | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
say goodbye. New Cross Hospital's ability to operate on abdominal | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
aortic aneurysms is questioned in the latest Dr Foster report. The | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
hospital's high death rate is greatest among the elderly and at | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
weekends, when fewer staff are available. The plans we have got to | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
increase clinical staff across the organisation, to make sure services | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
are delivering a cross seven days as much as the five of the working | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
week, we will be looking to make sure all patients are managed in | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
the way we expect them to be. hospital's chief executive, David | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
Loughton, has described his Accident & Emergency buildings as | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
not fit for purpose. A new one is in the pipeline. But from Thursday, | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
any patients that present in Stafford overnight will either come | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
here or go to Stoke-on-Trent. University Hospital North | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
Staffordshire was highlighted as a poor performer in three categories, | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
with more deaths than expected among low-risk patients and | :03:10. | :03:20. | |
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following surgery. We believe this is not an unsafe hospital, that | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
does not have a worse than average mortality ratio. I would stress | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
already, this year the ratio was better than average and we expect | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
it to continue to do so. Stafford Hospital performed well this time. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
It has already transferred some of its high-risk patients, and is | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
about to close Accident & Emergency overnight for safety reasons. | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
Hospital pressure group Cure the NHS believe in co-operation with | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
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other centres but is now concerned. We want reassurances from them, | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
from the NHS and Wolverhampton, that they will be able to take | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
those cases from Stafford and look after them safely and appropriately. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
There is a question over that at the moment. Although West Midlands | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
hospitals perform badly nationally, the hospital death rate has fallen | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
20% over the past ten years. Let's talk now to Roger Taylor, | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
who's the Director of Research for the organisation which wrote this | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
report. A good evening to you. Thank you for talking to us. Some | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
shocking statistics coming out, such as one hospital having higher | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
death at the weekends because there are not enough staff. Were you | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
shocked? In a way, they didn't, because people have suspected for a | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
long time this is the case and it has been discussed in previous | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
reports and policy documents, which suggested that lack of doctors' | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
out-of-hours may be a problem and a cause of higher than necessary | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
death-rate. What is surprising is that it has taken us so long to | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
establish this. We collected the data from hospitals about the | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
number of doctors present in a hospital at night and at weekends, | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
and what we found his exactly what people have suspected for a long | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
time but not known. It makes a difference. If you have more senior | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
doctors in the hospital at weekends, it makes a difference. Why are | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
there not enough, then? No hospital is going to be able to provide | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
every possible service 24 hours a day, seven days a week with the | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
most experienced consultants. that down to money? Yes. But what | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
we have to do is be honest about what hospitals can do really well | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
and where they might need help or to work with other hospitals to | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
make sure they are covering patients all day, every day. So | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
there his work to do in terms of how we organise care services. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
There is a lot that parts of the country, particularly the Midlands, | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
might be able to learn from other parts of the country. We have seen | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
in London a very successful reorganisation of stroke services, | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
where, instead of having 24 hospitals all trying to treat | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
strokes and some doing it well and others poorly, now we have just | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
eight hospitals which are the specialist stroke hospitals, and | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
the other hospitals make sure the patients get to the places where | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
the kit is available and doctors can diagnose them. Thank you for | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
making those points. Coming up later tonight, promising | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
a better start in life for the poorest children. A new scheme on | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
trial in Birmingham. Hundreds of well-wishers lined the | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
streets of Lichfield to welcome back soldiers from the Mercian | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
Regiment from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. The 3rd Battalion, The | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Staffords returned to their base last month. Their homecoming has | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
been tinged with sadness following the loss of Private Gareth | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
Bellingham, from Stoke-on-Trent, the only member of the battalion | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
killed on this tour of duty. Here's our Staffordshire reporter, Liz | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
Copper. A salute for The Staffords. These | :07:07. | :07:16. | |
parades are proud occasions. I've got a little daughter here to see | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
me today. I have been away for much of her life so it will be good to | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
see her and my family who have supported me through the tour. | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
are happy but you want to shed a tear because you see the crowds and | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
they have turned out, not because they know who you are but because | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
they are proud of what you have done. It is great to be home in one | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
plays. This is one of seven home- coming marches across Staffordshire | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
and the Black Country this week. These soldiers are now based in | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
Germany, so these parades are a chance to maintain the strong links | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
with the towns and cities where the regiments still recruits. Following | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
the parade, there was reflection on the battalion's achievements during | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
its tour of duty in Afghanistan. Inside Lichfield Cathedral, a | :08:01. | :08:10. | |
service of thanksgiving and remembrance. Let us remember before | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
God those who have died for their country in conflict. Private Gareth | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
Bellingham, Mercian Regiment, and Private Matthew Hazel Gowland. | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
is the highest accolade I could ever give him. To be proud of what | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
he did. And have pride for all the rest of the regiment that went out | :08:33. | :08:43. | |
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there as well. They are doing a And with the laying of a wreath, | :08:43. | :08:52. | |
tributes to the Mercians' valour. As you all go, first to Tamworth, | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
Burton and Walsall, and then back to a cold north German winter, you | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
go with our thanks and you take back with you our enormous pride in | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
what you have done. This was a service of very public recognition | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
for the servicemen and women who've risked their lives for their | :09:14. | :09:24. | |
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Businesses in Birmingham and the Black Country which were targeted | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
during the summer riots have welcomed calls to overhaul the | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
compensation process. An independent panel is recommending | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
that century-old laws are reformed to speed up payouts from a Home | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
Office fund. The Wolverhampton Jeweller EV Beckett was trashed in | :09:42. | :09:51. | |
August and the owners are still waiting for �8,000 in damages. | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
need to get on with our business. So far, it is not too bad. But | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
after Christmas we do not know what will happen. We have had three a | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
month before we started working again so we could do with some | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
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compensation to help us along. Unions are accusing Birmingham City | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
Council of trying to sabotage a march through the city during | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
Wednesday's Day of Action. They claim they're suddenly being told | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
they'll be billed for thousands of pounds if the march goes ahead. We | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
can go live to our political reporter, Susana Mendonca. What's | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
this all about? Birmingham City Council has told the TUC that if it | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
wants to march through the city centre, it will have to pay �8,000. | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
They did say they could have taken a cheaper option and reed at �5,000, | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
but the TUC is incensed at this. They say it is significantly more | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
than they have paid in the past. Previously, it was in the region of | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
�200. The council says that if it lets the TUC off, other groups | :10:56. | :11:06. | |
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would want to march off Reeve. There will be thousands of people | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
in these marches taking place was that the councils will be making | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
hundreds of thousands of pounds from the wages we do not claim on | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
the day, so it is a bit rich for them to make us pay twice for | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
democracy in Britain. What happens if they turn up anyway? | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
understand that thousands of people will turn up and it all the unions | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
are saying their members are going to Lionel st 4 11:30am. We could be | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
up -- we could end up with a situation where, without or with | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
permission, members do March. At the inquiry into the Stafford | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
Hospital scandal, there's been fierce criticism of the Care | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Quality Commission, the watchdog body set up to spot failing | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
hospitals. A board member-turned- whistleblower said the commission | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
lacked a coherent strategy and that robust debate and discussion was | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
discouraged. The people at the top, she claimed, were overly concerned | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
with their reputations and their jobs. Giles Latcham was at the | :12:08. | :12:18. | |
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hearing. Strong stuff today, Giles? It was. The inquiry was all but | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
over. They were into their closing statements when they were contacted | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
by two extra witnesses. So this session was organised today to hear | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
from two people at the Care Quality Commission, both under degrees of | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
pressure but both determined to share their concerns about the | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
commission and to become, in effect, whistleblowers. | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
Amanda Pollard on the left and Kay Sheldon on the right, ready to go | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
public with their concerns about the Care Quality Commission. Ready | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
to testify at the inquiry into the scandal of Stafford Hospital, where | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
hundreds died needless deaths over a four-year period because of | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
appalling standards of care. Kay Sheldon is a non-executive board | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
member of the commission but she said board members were never asked | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
to vote on issues before them. She said members were not really able | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
to challenge anything that's fundamental. She also criticised | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
the commission's chief executive, Cynthia Bower, and its chairman, | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
for devising a strategy led by reputation management and personal | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
survival. Kay Sheldon said to challenge decisions was to be seen | :13:16. | :13:25. | |
as disloyal. People were afraid to put their heads above the parapet, | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
she said. The evidence is important because it goes to the heart of the | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
culture of the organisation charged with preventing another scandal | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
like Stafford. A little chink is starting to knock it into the NHS, | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
so we can start to repair the culture, where we stopped to put | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
the front I'm back in control, and those at the very top who need to | :13:49. | :13:59. | |
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be down at the bottom are starting In her evidence, Amanda Pollard, an | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
Inspector for the Commission spoke of an organisation with "no clear | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
inspirational leadership" where decisions were taken "shooting from | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
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the hip" and staff "weren't listened to". A year after this | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
inquiry began, it is finally nearing its conclusion. | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
So a day of sudden drama, some emotion, at one point, K Sheldon | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
recalled how her own mental health have been called into question by a | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
senior figure at the care quality commission. I should say that that | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
statement put out tonight includes comments from three of her fellow | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
directors, who say they do not support her evidence, and they | :14:46. | :14:53. | |
think the commission's leadership has been positive. The report | :14:53. | :15:02. | |
should be part -- published next March. | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
Cuts to rural bus services are being directly blamed for job | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
losses. One woman who lives in a Warwickshire village says she's | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
been forced to quit her job. Tina Mitten used to catch the bus from | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
Baddesley Ensor near Nuneaton to take her to work at Birmingham | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
Airport. But that route's been scrapped and she says other public | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
transport is too expensive. Tina gave up her job in July and she's | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
still unemployed. I want to work. I loved the job I was doing at the | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
airport, and that has all gone. The practicality of it is, I have a | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
mortgage to pay. And how do I pay the mortgage? | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
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And there's more on that in Inside Lots more ahead, including the | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
teenage talent making big inroads into the highly traditional world | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
of folk music. And a timely reminder this week, | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
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with December around the corner, A revolutionary way of giving the | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
poorest children a better start in life is being tested out in | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
Birmingham and could be rolled out across 400 schools in the UK. | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
Families and Schools Together - or FAST for short - aims to forge | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
closer bonds between parents, teachers and children. Sarah | :16:25. | :16:33. | |
Falkland's been finding out. It sounds like the kind of fun you | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
get at summer camp in America. But this is Saltley, one of | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
Birmingham's most deprived areas. And families here at Adderly's | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
children's centre are taking part in a very British programme that's | :16:44. | :16:53. | |
enjoying remarkable success. One of the biggest factors in how well a | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
child does at school is how engaged their parents are. So we know that | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
relationships within families are important and it really helps when | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
parents are confident and comfortable coming into the school | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
and talking to teachers. It works by forging close bonds - every week | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
starts with one family bringing in a home-cooked meal for everyone, | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
then there's a series of planned activities. Every week, that | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
parents and children to do around and do a scrabble session, they get | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
an identical piece of white paper, and they have to create something, | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
it is all very psychological. At the end, the parents ask the | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
children what they have done, and why. Yours is looking beautiful. 84 | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
cent of teachers in America who took part in the FAST programme | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
with 10,000 children, reported improvements in their academic | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
performance. Save The Children are now funding programmes at 400 UK | :17:44. | :17:53. | |
schools. Parents start connecting with each other, they start | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
recognising, speaking to us in a more social occasion, and it starts | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
to deepen as the weeks go by. It becomes easier to talk about the | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
issues, if you need any support. this day and age, because everyone | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
is busy, not many people have the chance to take five minutes out and | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
talk. These programme that really helps gel parents together. It is | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
good, I spend more time to spend with my daughter, get to know the | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
teachers better. And also to meet other parents, it is really good. | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
The eight-week programme here is nearly at an end. Families are | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
encouraged to do follows ups for another two years. All in hope that | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
ultimately their children will get a better grades and a better start | :18:37. | :18:46. | |
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in life. Time for the sport now. | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
Footballers right across the region have been paying tribute to Gary | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
Speed, the manager of Wales who was found dead at home yesterday | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
morning. The Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish said his blood ran | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
cold when he heard the devastating news. And Dave Edwards of Wolves | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
told me he was deeply shocked to lose his role model. | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
Dave Edwards still can't quite take it in. On Saturday lunchtime, | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
before Wolves' game at Chelsea, he'd watched Gary Speed on Football | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
Focus. Then 24 hours later, his brother rang to ask if he'd heard | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
the tragic news. His role model, mentor, and manager of Wales had | :19:20. | :19:29. | |
been found dead at the age of 42. It is much more than football, this | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
issue, and I think as a person, a husband and father, it is horrible | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
to think of the lives he has been a big part of, and he is not going to | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
be there anymore. Dave Edwards loves playing for Wales. The | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
Shropshire lad has already won 23 caps. And was hoping to play a key | :19:44. | :19:52. | |
role in helping Gary Speed reach the next World Cup finals. He had | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
such a great passion for the World Cup in Brazil, it is all he talked | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
about in our team meetings, that was the place we were going to be | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
heading. Yesterday, Edwards was in shock as he watched the moving | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
tribute to Gary Speed at Swansea. Everyone in the ground was visibly | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
moved, and none more so than Shay Given, the Aston Villa goalkeeper, | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
who'd been one of Speed's best mates from their days at Newcastle | :20:12. | :20:22. | |
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United. He was extremely upset, he had some problem with the tears in | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
his eyes at the beginning of the game, with the minutes' silence | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
that turned into applause. James Collins and Germaine Jenas were | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
affected. These guys were very upset. It was devastating news for | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
the whole of football, and certainly for Gary Speed's family. | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
Everyone who has played him or, Cross Inn knows how good a guy he | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
is, and you have to play the match, but everyone thinks of his family | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
and children. This evening, Dave Edwards is one of many who'll need | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
time to reflect on their own personal memories of Gary Speed. He | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
seemed the perfect role model of a footballer, it is just sheer | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
disbelief in the game. Very subdued mood at the Wolds training ground, | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
sadness in the face of Dave Jones. We have done a full interview with | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
him on how Facebook page. It has also been a sad day for some of his | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
team-mates. Two key members of the Wales squad under Gary Speed, and | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
also, James Collins. Perhaps this reaction from a Jenas, summing up | :21:36. | :21:44. | |
the mood. On Twitter, he said, hard to play football today. He was the | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
best professional I have ever played with. I'm devastated, my | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
thoughts are with his family. Scans have revealed that Zoltan | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
Gera suffered a serious knee injury during Saturday's home game with | :21:55. | :22:05. | |
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Tottenham. He'll have further tests this week. Stoke City warned -- | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
warmed up for the Europa League match against Dynamo Kiev by | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
beating Blackburn 3-1. Coventry City's miserable run in the | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
Championship continued on Saturday. Their 2-1 defeat was their eighth | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
without a win. But the one plus point was a goal for midfielder | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
Gary Gardner on his debut. He was signed on a month's loan from Aston | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Villa on Thursday and headed his first goal after just nine minutes. | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
Nikola Zigic scored a late equaliser for Birmingham City who | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
drew 2-2 at Blackpool to edge closer to the play-offs. And | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Cheltenham Town remain third in League Two. They beat Oxford 3-1, | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
their seventh straight away win. And you can see all the goals from | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
your team in the football league on the BBC Sport website. If you fancy | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
watching some of the Olympic football tournament next summer, | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
the tickets go on sale from 11am tomorrow. Thank you. | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
Now, folk music to me brings to mind Arran sweaters, beards and | :23:04. | :23:14. | |
sandals and perhaps a hand cupped around one ear. I am not | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
stereotyping at all! But a teenager from the Black Country is hoping to | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
change all that. 18-year-old Sunjay Brayne is one of | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
four artists nominated for the highly-regarded BBC Radio 2 Young | :23:24. | :23:34. | |
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Folk Award. Ben Sidwell's been to He may only be 18, but Sunjay | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
Brayne is already causing quite a stir in the book world. The | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
teenager is the only English artist at to make the final of BBC Radio | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
2's young folk award. It is fantastic, I cannot really describe | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
in words. But it is... It is great to get the recognition, you know. | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
Blues and folk roots may not be the sort of music most teenagers are | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
into. But Sunjay's in gritters have all come from listening to his dad. | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
When I was younger, I wanted to emulate him, he played guitar every | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
night, and I wanted to be like dad, I want a guitar. So he got me a | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
guitar for Christmas and I started playing. He toured the what he knew, | :24:30. | :24:38. | |
which was rock'n'roll, and I moved on to blues and folk. A Sunjay is | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
just a two monster in a AIT course at -- it into a course about the | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
music business. The course has been set up for people like Sunjay, who | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
are ready to go out into the industry. He has a good following | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
already. Among the prizes for the winner is a session on BBC Radio 2 | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
as well as a chance to perform at three of the major folk festivals | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
in the country next year. But possibly more important for Sunjay, | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
it is a chance to increase his profile and kick-start his career. | :25:13. | :25:22. | |
Sunjay will find that if he has won in February. -- will find out. | :25:22. | :25:32. | |
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No sandals, knows what! I was role. A pattern unfolding involving winds | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
and rain, and a drop in temperatures. It has all been | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
driven on by a series of low pressures, you will notice | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
initially, the winds are being sucked in from the south-west. It | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
will get cold as the week goes on. We will see the initial stages of | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
this change taking place tonight, where things turn a bit wet and | :25:55. | :26:05. | |
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windy up. -- windier. As the rain moves across to the east later on, | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
it will become patchier. A dry end to the night, mostly, but we have a | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
lot of cloud. If anything, the temperatures are not dropping at | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
all, they are the same as today's values. Through the night, they may | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
gradually start to lift. By the morning tomorrow, a fairly mild | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
start the day, but windy, and then we get the next band of rain coming | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
through from the West. This one will be a bit heavy and last much | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
of the day. Quite a windy day tomorrow, with gusts of around 45 | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
mph. The Met Office has issued a yellow alert for speeds around 55 | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
miles per hour for the north-west of the region. It will be much | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
clearer the evening, with some showers to follow, a bit colder, | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
but enough of a breeze to prevent a A look at tonight's main headlines: | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
A multi-billion pound plan to get Britain's economy moving - but | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
there are questions over where the money is going to come from. | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
And seven hospitals across the region are found to have higher | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
than expected death rates and poorer emergency care at weekends. | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
Finally, just time to tell you about a report coming up here in | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
half an hour on Inside Out. Our Environment Correspondent David | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
Gregory has spent the past year filming native red kites and | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
following the battle of a Shropshire man trying to encourage | :27:26. | :27:29. |