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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Nick Owen and Suzanne Virdee. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
The headlines tonight: Caught on camera - two Midlands | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
members of a gang jailed over a �250 million international VAT | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
fraud. As MPs debate Stafford Hospital, | :00:17. | :00:26. | |
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the Trust says it's on target to fully re-open its A&E department. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
am confident, 80% confident it will be open to the timetable we have | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
set. An investigation begins after a | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
hospital failed to spot a pensioner had terminal cancer. My mother was | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
sent home and the remaining 78 days of her life, she spent with no | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
palliative care and in pain. And hope for the Potteries' finest | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
- billionaire, John Caudwell, says he may buy the historic Wedgwood | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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Collection and save it from being Good evening, welcome to Tuesday's | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
Midlands Today from the BBC. Tonight: Jailed for a total of | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
almost 100 years - the fraudsters who tricked taxpayers out of a | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
staggering �250 million. The gang of 15, which included six people | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
from the Midlands, was captured after a ten-year operation by | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
Revenue and Customs officials involving 350 officers. The | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
investigation revealed a complex web of companies, set up with the | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
sole intention of fraudulently claiming millions in VAT from | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
mobile phone sales. The money was then spent to fund a lavish | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
lifestyle. These are the faces of six Midlands | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
fraudsters - two from Staffordshire, four from Coventry and Warwickshire | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
- all part of a 15-strong gang. They imported and exported mobile | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
phones for tax evasion and today saw the last of a series of court | :01:58. | :02:07. | |
cases where they and nine others were jailed. This was an | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
investigation into fraud on unprecedented scale, which led to | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
the theft of �250 million from the UK Exchequer. | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
Their crime is known as Carousel fraud. First mobile phones are | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
imported VAT free but then sold on including VAT, which is not passed | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
on to the tax office. Then the phones are exported by another part | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
of the gang, but this time they claim what appear to be legitimate | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
tax credits from the government. Father and son, Hashib and Eisa | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Apabhai, from Bedworth operated one bogus company involved from this | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
address in the Holbrooks area of Coventry. They were filmed on CCTV | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
at Luton Airport as part of the investigation and were jailed for | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
seven and a half, and four years. In Staffordshire, Marcus Hughes, | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
ran another fraudulent company at Blythe Business Park. It was used | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
to move consignments of phones. This long-running investigation has | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
highlighted connections between fraud and other types of crimes, | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
for example when customs officers were searching the offices of | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
Marcus Hughes in Staffordshire, a lorry turned up and on the back - | :03:08. | :03:17. | |
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two tonnes of cannabis resin with a street value of �5 million. | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
Hughes was jailed for six years for fraud and 12 for drug smuggling. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
This was a very complex investigation, not least given the | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
international nature of the fraud and the number of people who | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
participated and the huge number of exhibits that were lifted during | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
searches. There were half-a-million documents, 130 computer hard disks | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
to be scrutinised. The last of the 15 gang members was jailed for nine | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
years today and his assets including a yacht and luxury homes | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
in London and Spain have been frozen. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
And you can find more on that story on the BBC Coventry and | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
Warwickshire website. Later in the programme: Celebrating | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
the legend known as the father of football - the Scotsman who was the | :04:07. | :04:15. | |
chairman of Aston Villa and founder of the Football League. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
A man's been arrested on suspicion of a terrorism offence after | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
arriving at Birmingham Airport. Police say he was suspected of | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
having a document which could be of use to someone planning a terrorist | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
act. Ben Sidwell joins us now from the newsroom. Ben what more do we | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
know? A 22-year-old man was arrested | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
yesterday evening after arriving from Dubai. Police say he is a | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
Pakistani national with a student visa. There won't say which | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
university he is studying at. He was arrested after a random baggage | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
check after them finding a document. West Midlands police say the man | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
posed no immediate threat either to the airport or the public. Although | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
he has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a Terrorism attack, | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
he was arrested under the terms of the Police and Criminal evidence | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
Act, so he has to be held for four days before he is either charge, | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
baled or released. Managers at Stafford Hospital say | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
they're making good progress in recruiting the medical staff they | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
need to fully re-open the A&E emergency unit in March. The news | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
comes as MPs held a debate this afternoon into the controversial | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
decision to close the doors of the unit at night for three months. | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
It was always going to be a contentious decision and so it | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
proved, a candle-lit vigil when A&E first closed overnight at Stafford | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
demonstrated the strength of feeling. The hospital says the | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
decision was taken because staff shortages were jeopardising safety. | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
Today, an update on its progress in finding new recruits. It's set a | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
target of having five permanent senior A&E doctors - including | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
consultants. It now has three in post and a fourth starting at the | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
end of January. As for other, middle grade, emergency doctors, | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
the target is seven. The trust has four in post, another's soon to | :06:18. | :06:27. | |
start and a further 14 applicants will be interviewed in January. | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
am 80% confident we will reopen to the timetable we have set. So in | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
March. I think the programme we followed so far is going reasonably | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
well. We are reasonably pleased, but as you can tell from me, I am | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
still cautious. The trust says arrangements with the Ambulance | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
service to transfer patients to neighbouring hospitals have run | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
smoothly. Only a handful of patients have arrived at A&E and | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
been turned away. The closure came under scrutiny during a debate at | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Westminster today. Whatever its rights or wrongs it's unlikely to | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
be reopened until a meeting of the trust board in February. | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
Our Political Editor, Patrick Burns, joins us now from Westminster where | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
MPs have been debating that temporary closure of the A&E unit | :07:10. | :07:20. | |
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at Stafford. Patrick what was said? Opening the debate, the | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
Conservative MP for Stafford said this temporary closure had been | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
necessary. But he was joined by a succession of neighbouring | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
Conservative MPs saying that once those problems have been dealt with, | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
then those 24 hours services should be restored. I'm joined by the MP. | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
The word confidence, you used it, the minister used it time and time | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
again. By you confident that level of confidence can be reached and | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
the March deadline can be hit? I am. Members of Parliament get it | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
reports on what is going on and I am confident that everything | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
necessary is being done. necessary note of caution was | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
struck by the minister in reply. She spelt out what it would take to | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
get 24 hours services up and running again. It would be unwise | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
to return to 24 hours opening until it is safe to do so. To minimise | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
the risk I understand the trust has set criteria which must be met | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
before overnight operating would resume. One of the challenges that | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
has been acknowledged by the NHS Trust is recruitment. Do you think | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
maybe some health professionals may be deterred from applying for those | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
jobs at Stafford because of its troubled history? It is | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
increasingly not the case. We are seeing a number of people applying | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
for those jobs. Clearly, the history has given us some problems, | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
but I am confident the hospital is turning the corner, staff are | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
working incredibly hard. I'm grateful to them for all they are | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
doing. The next stage in this is a progress report by hospital | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
managers on 26th January. The hospital trust with the worst | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
complaints record in the country is being investigated once again, | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
after staff at one of its hospitals failed to diagnose a case of | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
terminal cancer. The Health Ombudsman is now going to | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
investigate the case at the Heart of England NHS Trust, which had 171 | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
complaints last year. Here's our health correspondent, Michele | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
Paduano. Clara Stant had kidney failure and | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
a heart condition, but in her family's eyes that makes the 78- | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
year-old's treatment more shocking. They were assured after she had | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
been in Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield for nine days that | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
she wouldn't be sent home. But they say that they had just ten minutes | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
warning that she was already in an ambulance on the way home. I am | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
extremely angry because basically my mother was sent home and the | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
remaining 78 days of her life, she spent with no palliative care and | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
in pain. The discharge from Good Hope Hospital was carried out by a | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
second-year doctor, Hala Kanona. This discharge letter was dated the | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
week before. It hadn't been updated. The consultant, Alan Jewkes, said | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
he sent a letter to the GP requesting scans. There is | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
confirmation that letter is not on Mrs Stant's record. Within two days | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
of Mrs Stant leaving hospital, her infection had returned. | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
emergency doctor had to come out and my mother still had a rampant | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
urine infection. Her urine was like oatmeal and he was quite shocked | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
that she had been sent home. Health Service Ombudsman has now | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
agreed to investigate whether the discharge from hospital was | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
inappropriate with inadequate paper work. The trust failed to diagnose | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
cancer. The complaint handling was inadequate. Clara Stant was | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
suffering with a large tumour in her stomach. The cancer had spread | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
to her lungs. Her daughter was in Australia when she died two months | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
later. She was sent home with absolutely no support whatsoever | :11:14. | :11:22. | |
and I will always worry that I should have done more. In a written | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
statement, Heart of England NHS Trust which runs Good Hope accepts | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
that the discharge could have been managed better. In a statement it | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
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Julia Hawkins hopes that means others will not endure her mother's | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
suffering. A police investigation is under way | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
into a suspicious death in Stoke- on-Trent. The body of a 58-year-old | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
man was found at a house on Westbourne Drive, in Tunstall, last | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
night. A 41-year-old man from Tunstall has been arrested as part | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
of the inquiry. Detectives are investigating an | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
armed robbery near Solihull in which a postmaster was attacked | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
with a handgun and an axe. Two men walked into the Hampton in Arden | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
Post Office and threatened the owner. The 58-year-old was attacked | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
after he refused to open the safe. He was later taken to hospital with | :12:14. | :12:24. | |
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facial injuries. The robbers escaped empty handed. | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
The Staffordshire mobile phone tycoon, John Caudwell, has said | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
he'll buy the historic Wedgwood Collection to save it from being | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
broken up. It comes after a court ruled it could be sold to help pay | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
off a pension fund deficit. The pension black hole dates from when | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
Waterford Wedgwood collapsed into administration. Our Staffordshire | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
reporter, Liz Copper's, been following the story and is at the | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
Museum in Barlaston now. Liz, tell us more about this offer from Mr | :12:45. | :12:55. | |
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Caudwell. He made this gesture following | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
yesterday's Court ruling. He is the entrepreneur who made his fortune | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
from a mobile phone business. In a statement today he said he felt it | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
was grossly unfair that a law designed to protect people in | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
totally different circumstances is causing such Warwick. When I spoke | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
to him, he said he felt this museum was a huge part of Stoke-on-Trent's | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
history and it would be a tragedy if the collection was spoke -- | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
broken up. That is why he wants to speak to the trustees. What do you | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
make of this offer today? We are delighted to hear of this wonderful | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
support. We are looking to talk to him as soon as possible. There has | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
to be a consensus today that something needs to be done to make | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
sure this collection stays together? It does need to be saved, | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
it is a unique record of a manufacturing heritage. The | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
uniqueness of this collection is that many of the pieces have | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
remained together since they were made in the 18th century. It | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
reflects the history right through to today. Thanks for joining us. In | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
a separate development, an MP for Stoke-on-Trent has had a meeting | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
with the cultural minister. What seemed to emerge from that it was a | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
cross-party sense of support for the museum and also a sense of | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
determination that some sort of arrangement and agreement must be | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
made to make sure this collection stays together. | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
Flood victims fear home insurance premiums will rise dramatically in | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
the New Year. An agreement is due to end soon between the Government | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
and the insurance industry which up until now has made flood insurance | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
widely available. But as yet, no new deal has been reached. | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
Helicopter rescues and streets submerged. The images of the 2007 | :14:45. | :14:55. | |
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floods are still shocking. If the water comes in, take these out and | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
put them back in again. Judy Gibson's home in Uckinghall, | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
Worcestershire was under four foot of water. She's made it flood | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
resilient and has affordable insurance, but not all of her | :15:03. | :15:12. | |
neighbours are so lucky. There is a house only 400 yards away from here. | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
It has never been flooded and he was refused insurance. Another man | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
was flooded with a very small amounts, he did not have to leave | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
his home and he has a �6,500 flood excess. The high bills are in spite | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
of the village having a new flood defence. Judy Gibson's hoping | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
insurers come up with a better and fairer insurance system. But time | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
is running out. At the moment an agreement's in place between the | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
Government and the Insurance industry called the statement of | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
principles. It's a quid pro quo: insurers make flood insurance | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
widely available, the Government builds flood barriers. But the | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
deal's due to end. The Government says both it and the insurance | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
industry remain committed to making sure flood insurance is widely | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
available. But not everyone is convinced. Campaigners fear that | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
come the new year the cost of home insurance for thousands of flood | :15:55. | :16:05. | |
victims will soar. The ordinary man on the street at risk of flooding, | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
will we be able to afford it? We have to remember, if people cannot | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
afford it palmate their mortgage and all and void and it will affect | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
the saleability of their property. It could blight whole communities. | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
Insurers say they're frustrated at what they see as Government | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
inaction. If we let the statement of principles expire and we don't | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
replace it, people will struggle to access affordable flood cover. Not | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
everyone, it will be a small number of people but it might be a | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
significant number of people. are continuing with an announcement | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
due in the Spring. Still to come in tonight's | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
programme: He's traditionally said to have robbed the rich to give to | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
the poor. This Robin Hood robbed the rich too, but kept it himself! | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
And if you're dreaming of a white Christmas, what are the chances of | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
actually getting one? Find out all you need to know in the forecast | :16:59. | :17:08. | |
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later. Now here's Dan with the sport. | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
Another week, another crunch game for Wolves in the Premier League. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
Tonight they host newly-promoted Norwich City at Molineux. And with | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
festive fixtures to come against Arsenal and Chelsea, defeat tonight | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
could mean a miserable Christmas for Wolves fans. So they've got | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
baubles - Wolves crackers and plenty of tinsel. But there's still | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
something missing. There are plenty of signs of Christmas here, but not | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
too much Christmas cheer. That would improve with three points | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
against Norwich because after that the festive period is tough. And | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
one thing's for sure, manager Mick McCarthy will be up for the fight. | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
I have been doing that for about 30 years on and off as a player and | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
manager. It doesn't take much for me to get up for the game. Have you | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
seen me on the sidelines recently? Do I look relaxed and calm and not | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
up for it? They have been here before. In November at the visit of | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
Wigan was billed as a must win, and they did. Likewise, Sunderland's | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
visit earlier this month. They fell behind but one. The manager hopes | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
the big games bring out the best in his side. I hope so, because it is | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
a big game. I look back over last season and we have had defeats and | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
come back and beaten some of the best teams. Perhaps the biggest | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
threat comes from a former Shrewsbury Town striker. Grant | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
Holt's seven goals this season have helped newly promoted Norwich to | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
9th in the table. Wolverhampton Wanderers will hope they will keep | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
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their club and a Premier League through 20 trials. | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
The Aston Villa midfielder Barry Banham has admitted today he is | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
lucky to be alive after a drink- driving in a crash last month. | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
Today, he spoke about the incident as part of an anti- drink-driving | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
initiative. He admits he is lucky in more ways than one. As much as I | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
regret it, I am so lucky to be still here. I could have hit | :19:32. | :19:42. | |
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another car and killed someone else. I am lucky to be where I am today. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Him back in 1870, a Scottish Draper left his home town of Perth and | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
moved south to Birmingham. It was a life-saving -- life-changing | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
decision for the game of football. William McGregor became the founder | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
of the Football League and he has been honoured in a special service. | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
From Accrington Stanley to Wolverhampton Wanderers - they | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
gathered together in Birmingham to celebrate the life of William | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
McGregor, the former chairman of Aston Villa, the Scotsman who | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
founded the English Football League in 1888. And all 12 of those | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
original member clubs were represented today. Aston Villa will | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
never forget him, nor will the Football League. Never forget him. | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
It is a special day. You can see by all of the people who have come, | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
there must be hundreds. By the time the TV cameras captured the FA Cup | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
final in 1923, the Football League was 35 years old and William | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
McGregor's vision had caught the imagination of the nations. | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
Football League is 100 ascends indebted to William McGregor. He | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
was the brains behind it and he set the moral and persuasive framework | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
that attracted a lot of competing clubs to be willing to work | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
together for the common good. the service he was described as the | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
father of all football leagues, a figure of courage and integrity, | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
the driving force behind the first organised sports league in the | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
world. 100 years ago today, he died aged 65 in a Birmingham nursing | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
home. He was buried here alongside his wife in the grounds of St | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
Mary's Church in Handsworth. this continue to be a place where | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
the body of your servant, William McGregor rests in peace. And now | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
thanks to the Aston Villa supporters trust, his headstone has | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
been cleaned up and engraved with a permanent reminder of his unique | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
place in English football. It was in a pretty poor state and now it | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
is a magnificent rest are Reighton -- restoration. Two years ago | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
statue was unveiled of him outside Villa Park, a Pennon reminder of | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
the inspirational Scot who made the English Football League a role | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
model. -- permanent reminder. You don't get as many men as | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
influential as we MacGregor. I wonder what he would have made of | :22:18. | :22:26. | |
it all today? He started it! | :22:26. | :22:34. | |
The director of a new C Shakespeare production has defended his modern | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
twist on the character of Robin Hood. The character stole from the | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
rich and gave to the poor but in this version he keeps it for | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
himself. The Icelandic director said he is inspired by a The | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
Banking crisis and the riots of last summer. There is no women here, | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
send her home. I won't go. Then you will die at my hand, woman or No 4 | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
star traditionally he stole from the rich but in a 21st century | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
twist, this Robin Hood is not giving to the poor, he is keeping | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
it. Prepare yourself for a leather- clad outlaw. I am Robin Hood. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
Icelandic director of the Royal Shakespeare productions says the | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
world banking crisis has influenced this modern approach to a | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
traditional legend. Probably most of us would be the same as Robin | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
Hood. We were probably intend to go into the forest and rob the rich | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
and give to the poor, and there were probably be a moment where we | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
would go "hang on I'll keep the little bit for myself. I will keep | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
the little bit more for myself. I will keep it all for myself". | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
Keeping with the change of scene, it is Marion and not Robin who | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
convinces the outlaw to change his ways, offering another lesson in | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
life to the audience. It is interesting, it is good for little | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
girls as well. The typical fairytale is a guy comes and saves | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
you and rest Yushu. In this, Marion has to sort herself out, and I | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
don't think it is a bad lesson for women to have. It Robin Hood was to | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
symbolise a generation, he is angry and aggressive and annoyed at what | :24:27. | :24:37. | |
:24:37. | :24:39. | ||
has been happening. I think Robin Hood personifies that. Putting to | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
one side the messages about the economy and greed, the Royal | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Shakespeare Company are hoping the public will be entertained by the | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
traditional tale of Robin Hood and Maid Marian romping through the | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
forest. Sounds a bit risque to me. Was that | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
an early form of Morris dancing? I have no idea. The heart of Robin | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
Hood will be on at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until the 7th | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
January. How is the weather looking in | :25:15. | :25:24. | |
Now the countdown for Christmas is under way, will it be a white one? | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
At this stage it doesn't look like we will get a flake of snow. The | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
temperatures will be rising as we head towards the weekend. The | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
reason being, at the beginning of the week we were swamped by blue | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
colours with cold air. Tomorrow we will be enveloped by this ocean at | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
Yellow feeding off from the south- west. By the weekend it starts to | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
spill south again before those yellow colours returned. I am | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
afraid it does not look like it will be crisp and crunchy on | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
Christmas morning, let alone a flurry of the white stuff. Nowadays | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
it only takes one flake of snow for it to be constituted as a white | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
Christmas as far as the bookies are concerned. The reason for the cold | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
air and the dip in temperatures is because we have this cold front | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
coming through. The further east you go, the higher the temperatures. | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
As far as tonight goes, this is what is heading our way. We have a | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
band of rain moving in which is heavy, but it will be patchy. We | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
have heavier bursts through southern parts and perhaps to the | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
north-east as it starts to clear late in the night. It is looking | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
drier across most parts but tucked in behind his band of rain, milder | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
air. To start with temperatures will be five or six ulcers which is | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
lower than today's values and then begin to rise by dawn tomorrow. -- | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
Celsius. It is looking much drier by the afternoon with flickers of | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
brightness. Over all it will be over cast tomorrow with highs of | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
around 13 Celsius in the south. A huge jump and much milder | :27:05. | :27:12. | |
conditions for the time of year. Tomorrow it is much milder as well. | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
Occasional rain on Thursday with rain on Friday as well. But, it is | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
rain on Friday as well. But, it is going to be mild once more. | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
Before we leave, let's take a look at the main headlines: Police could | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
use live fire arms when dealing with riots in the future although | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
only in very limited circumstances. And, caught on camera - two | :27:37. | :27:41. |