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Good evening, welcome to Midlands I was horrified that yet another | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
collection that is so important to the UK, was going to be broken. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
high-tech engineering part that could bring 2000 jobs over the next | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
five years. First it was the gypsies refusing | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
to move, now protesters say they will not go until these gypsies are | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
evicted. And determination of a mum-to-be | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
who lay head down for three months to ensure the safe delivery of her | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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baby. For me, now that I have got Good evening. Tonight, we talk | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
exclusively to the billionaire, prepared to spend big to preserve | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
the heritage of the the Potteries. John Caudwell says he's "horrified" | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
the historic exhibits at the Wedgwood pottery museum could be | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
sold and his offer would keep the collection together. | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
There are 10,000 ceramic pieces under threat of being sold to plug | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
a pensions black hole. Christie's auctioneers value the collection at | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
between �11-�18 million. Many of the exhibits have been | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
together since they were manufactured by Josiah Wedgwood in | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
the 18th century. Today, members of the Wedgwood | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
family said the collection must be saved, and described news of the | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
offer to buy it as very encouraging. Here's our Staffordshire reporter | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
Liz Copper. Born and bred in Stoke-on-Trent, | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
John Caudwell says it would be "disastrous" for the Potteries if | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
the Wedgwood Collection were to be sold off. Speaking from his | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
Staffordshire mansion, the businessman who made his fortune | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
from mobile phones, says Josiah Wedgwood's entrepreneurial | :01:54. | :02:03. | |
achievements must be saved, and his offer is a serious one. We have got | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
a very valuable collection. Somebody is going to buy it at what | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
they see as its fair value. That person might as well be me, which | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
then enables the museum to go on and be sustainable. If other people | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
buy it in bits and pieces, it is going to be broken up, and we have | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
lost their heritage. The Museum at Barlaston found itself at the | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
centre of a legal battle after Wedgwood went into administration | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
with a pension fund deficit. On Monday, a high court judge ruled | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
the museum is liable for that shortfall - so these treasures face | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
being sold. This is quite a shock, that we have got a museum that a | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
pension fund is able to claim all the items of that museum to swell | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
it. I understand the difficulties of the pension fund, but it doesn't | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
seem to meet, for what I understand of the situation, that there is | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
anything other than a technical right for the pension fund to | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
acquire these items. Whatever the view of the current law, it's this | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
man, who's now charged with finding a solution to the Museum's dilemma | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
- and hopefully saving the collection for the nation. | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
whole intention, the whole thrust of this, is to try and raise the | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
money the collection is worth, to save the collection in situ. If | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
that takes time, the gritters have indicated they are willing to let | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
me have that time to try and come up with a proposal -- of the | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
creditors have indicated. Generations of the Wedgwood family | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
donated items to the museum - they've welcomed offers of | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
financial help. It is very encouraging to know that there are | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
people out there willing to keep it together, that the contents of the | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
Wedgwood Museum of the contents of the last 250 years of industrial | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
history in the Midlands. The whole collection will have to be revalued | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
ahead of a sale. It's likely a multi-million pound sum will need | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
to be found to preserve Josiah Wedgwood's precious legacy. | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
And if you're in Staffordshire, you can hear more of Liz Copper's | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
interview with John Caudwell on BBC Stoke's breakfast show tomorrow | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
morning. Thanks for joining us this evening. | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
Later in the programme, a man of remarkable courage: four years | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
after losing his arm in Iraq, he's 2,000 new jobs over five years - | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
that's the prediction for a city struggling with unemployment. After | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
a decade of planning, a new high- tech engineering corridor is | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
finally emerging in Wolverhampton. Last night, Jaguar Land Rover got | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
the green light to build its new engine plant - while neighbouring | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
businesses have told the BBC they're winning international | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
contracts and recruiting fast. There are also plans to build an | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
academy to groom the next generation of skilled workers. Ben | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
Godfrey reports. Goodrich Actuation Systems employs | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
more than 1,000 staff in Wolverhampton - making flight | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
controls for the likes of Boeing and Airbus. It's high-skilled | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
engineering which just been rewarded with international | :05:03. | :05:13. | |
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contracts that should preserve this business for 30 years. We are | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
recruiting, both in terms of engineering, technical skilled | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
staff, as well as machinists, Christy site macro. With the highly | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
skilled work force in the area, there is no end to the success we | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
could have a. Regeneration of the city's northern limits is underway | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
- these aerial pictures show a new hi-tech corridor alongside the M54. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
It's now an enterprise zone but for almost a decade, the i54 site | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
struggled to take off. That was then, and this is now. After a very | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
bumpy side, this site is seen three macro -- companies moving in. | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
There's Jaguar Land Rover's engine plant, but aerospace firm Moog and | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
lab testing company Eurofins got here first, and they'll open in the | :05:59. | :06:09. | |
spring. A new road network's also planned. We will be looking and | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
funding the new motorway interchange that will give the site | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
direct access to the and 54. In a city with one of the UK's worst | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
employment records, there could be a new training centre to prepare | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
the next generation of local engineers for new employment | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
opportunities. We anticipate several hundred more new jobs being | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
created in the supply chain, so they are likely to follow, leading | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
to around 2000 jobs possibly, over the next five was six years. | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
international eyes are watching. Goodrich Actuation Systems is in | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
the process of being bought by a US firm, which could create one of the | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
world's largest aerospace businesses. | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
With us now is Professor David Bailey from Coventry University. | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
This is all very encouraging, albeit a long way off? It is hugely | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
positive news, it anchors Jaguar Land Rover in the region. A huge | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
amount of research and development as well, and it will create jobs. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Maybe 750 jobs directly, more in the supply chain, although we don't | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
know how many yet. It is good that it is about manufacturing, because | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
that is the heartbeat of the region? It is what we are good at, | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
it is more important in this region than other regions, and we are | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
seeing a great success in the automotive sector, aerospace, also | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
JCB, which is exporting. Other manufacturing sectors are | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
struggling, like materials and nettles. We have got the Jaguar | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
Land Rover factory coming along, and this increased pay and bonuses | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
for workers at a JCB? They're doing well, because they have excellent | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
products, and they export to places like China, Brazil, Russia, India. | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
They are growing quickly. Countries that are focused more on the UK and | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
the euro zone are seeing a smaller growth and the prospect of not as | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
good. There are still a climate of fear about jobs, though. It depends | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
on the sector they work in. Those in the public sector are seeing a | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
lot of cutbacks. It depends what company they are working for, | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
whether they are orientated towards the growth markets. Sadly, we will | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
see unemployment rise over the next year, and we have seen the | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
manufacturing slowing down. It will be a pretty turbulent 2012, given | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
the head wind coming from overseas. I think the deputy governor of the | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
Bank of England said yesterday that he expects the next half of 2012 to | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
be tough, but there could be signs of real growth after that. I think | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
there is an issue about how tough it will be, but we dip into double- | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
dip recession, but it is difficult to tell. We don't know what is | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
going to happen in the euro-zone, whether it goes belly-up, the US | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
economy is growing slowly, there are fears about a slowdown in China. | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
That is a pretty tough external environment. Thank you. | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
Two men have been convicted of murdering a Gloucester shop worker | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
for his iPhone. Keith Soons, who was 36, was stabbed in the head | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
with a screwdriver after a night out in Cheltenham in February. 27- | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
year-old Michael Sexton and 26- year-old Richard Smith had blamed | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
each other for the fatal blow. The judge at Bristol Crown court said | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
he'll pass mandatory life sentences, including a minimum term they'll | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
serve. The inquest has opened in Norwich | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
into the death of Donald Neilson, who kidnapped and murdered the | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Shropshire teenager Lesley Whittle. In 1975 Neilson, known as the Black | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
Panther, abducted the 17-year-old heiress from her home and hid her | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
in a drain in Staffordshire. He also shot Black Country postmaster | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
Sidney Grayland. Neilson was 75. He'd been suffering from motor | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
neurone disease and died on Sunday. A fourth ward's been closed at | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
Warwick Hospital because of the winter sickness bug Norovirus. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
Visiting on the affected wards is now restricted. Over the past | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
fortnight, there've been 14 outbreaks of the virus in hospitals, | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
care homes and schools in the region The Health Protection Agency | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
says that's a "reasonable" level for this time of year. | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Now, "Put your feet up, love" is pretty routine advice for mums-to- | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
be. But to protect her unborn child, Donna Kelly had to put her feet up | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
quite literally for three months, 24 hours a day. | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
She'd already endured two miscarriages and when she fell | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
pregnant earlier this year it looked like it might end in yet | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
more heartache. Until a doctor stepped in and turned the problem | :10:46. | :10:55. | |
on its head - so to speak. Here's Welcome to the world, Amelia Kelly | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
- a baby born into an upside-down world. A baby her parents feared | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
they'd never have. Looking at this game, I just thought, how on earth | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
are we going to get to 28 weeks when things are looking so bleak? | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
But then, do think we got to 34 weeks, it was absolutely amazing. | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
When the neck of Donna's womb started to open far to soon, | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
doctors realised she was about to suffer her third miscarriage. | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
Surgery and medication failed, so their solution was simple - raise | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
her feet up above her head. We were hoping to only have to do this for | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
about a month, but it ended up going on for three months. After | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
three months, she was quite weak, she hadn't walked for the whole | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
period, but she did not have exercises, and can walk very well | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
now! As a result of this aggressive treatment, she has had this lovely | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
baby, so we are all delighted. Amelia was born prematurely by | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
emergency C-section. That she's here at all is due to not just to | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
that simple idea, but to her mother's determination to stick it | :12:00. | :12:08. | |
out for so long upside down. makes it all worthwhile now we have | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
got her. Not forgetting the two who are not with us, but without them, | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
we wouldn't have got to where we are now. Definitely worth | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
celebrating. I don't think I could have laid down for three months! It | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
took a lot of resilience that she is here. Phenomenal. Everyone here | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
is delighted by Donna's success and enchanted by Amelia. There is a | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
recognition that the upside-down method is not ideal, and they have | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
begun research to find an alternative. Blissfully unaware of | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
her topsy-turvy start to life, Amelia's now back home at Shilton | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
near Coventry - in the season of giving, the greatest gift a family | :12:47. | :12:57. | |
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Joy out of heartache. A classics starry. -- story. | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
Villagers who have been protesting outside a gypsy camp for more than | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
18 months are emerging from a meeting that was expected to force | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
them to leave. Solihull council was considering ordering the cam's | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
removal before taking action against the illegal gypsy site. | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
What has happened? We have had a decision in the last few minutes | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
and the council has decided to delay making a decision on this | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
enforcement order. They have given the protesters until January 16th | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
to let them know what their intentions are and they will | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
discuss that enforcement order in February. What they had been | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
intending to ask the protesters to do was to take down the awning and | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
the things they have put up so they can watch over the gypsy camp which | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
they want moved from Meriden. With me is the leader of the campaign, | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
David McGrath. You will not have enforcement officers, but it is not | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
over. We do have a breathing space to plan and we will write to the | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
council to talk about a voluntary withdrawal but our concern is hour | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
withdrawal should be linked to enforcement action against | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
travellers. Enforcement has to happen and we will not move until | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
we see that. Nevertheless, you are protesting about the gypsies | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
breaking the law but you are as well. We are not. The Council have | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
given us time to consider our voluntary period of withdrawal. At | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
the same time, we do not want to be fair. We want to move but we want | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
to see enforcement action against the gypsies. It will be 600 days | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
since you started this vigil and it will continue through Christmas. | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
Yes, we will have a carol service, mince pies, you are welcome to come. | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
The gypsies have said the protest camp is in the wrong place and it | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
should be out here calling on Solihull council to provide more | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
spaces for gypsies to move to. They say there is nowhere for them to go | :15:24. | :15:32. | |
Still ahead: 12 months ago they were locked in by the big freeze. | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
This year the sprout harvest is better than ever. | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
And the 12 months have brought a change in our weather. Last year we | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
had snow and ice, but this Christmas things look much milder. | :15:45. | :15:55. | |
All the details coming up. It is a staggering statistic and | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
one we do not want to think about, but a quarter of us will have | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
mental health problems at some time in our lives. Drugs and therapy can | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
help, but one man has found a different way of keeping his | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
illness at bay. His home is his studio, his studio, | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
his sanctuary. A safe place where Jean Pierre Kunzler can express his | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
emotions through art. If the it rather than intellectualising it. | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
Jean Pierre believes he was born with bipolar illness. It means he | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
plunges into periods of manic depression. As well as medication, | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
his love of painting, he believes has rescued him from the depths of | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
despair. When I get to those dark places, rather than let it can see | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
me, eye pain. My paintings may not be cheerful, but when I am more | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
balance, I will make them more peaceable. For like most patients, | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
Jean Pierre has a psychiatric nurse. I went to ask him if art can really | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
help. There have been famous individuals over the years who | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
suffer with manic depressive illness, who were very creative and | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
this art therapy is a great medium for them to express what they are | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
feeling. Jean Pierre does not do it for money. He donates his work for | :17:21. | :17:30. | |
all to see but that is not all. Jean Pierre Kunzler's work has been | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
sent to Prince child and photograph of the Angel of greed -- Gabriel | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
has resulted in a letter from the Queen. Learn to love the world, | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
because if you can commit it will be a bit easier but if you are in | :17:49. | :17:59. | |
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Forkball and offs manager Mick McCarthy has praised the spirit of | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
his players with their draw with Norwich. Sylvan Ebanks-Blake to | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
return to the team with the first equaliser and Ronald Zubar got a | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
second to insure the biggest crowd of the season did not go home | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
downhearted. Steven Fletcher thought he had the winner but it | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
was ruled offside. They do keep going and I am lucky I got every | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
last drop out of them. We just did not have that finish and I know it | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
was an open game but in the last five minutes we had enough chances | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
to win and we should have put it to them. We erupted when that third | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
goal went in. Aston Villa, Stoke City and West | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
Bromwich Albion fought in action this evening and you can follow | :18:56. | :19:06. | |
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their games on your BBC local radio All these games going on, I will | :19:09. | :19:18. | |
have to revisit my diary. In 2007, Jon-Allan Butterworth lost | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
his arm while serving with the RAF in Iraq. As part of his | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
rehabilitation he got on a bike. Four years on he is a world | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
champion and a gold medal they have read for the Paralympics next year. | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
The velodrome in Manchester - home to the most successful sporting | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
team in Britain and there is another star emerging. 25-year-old | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
Jon-Allan Butterworth is already Para cycling world champion. In | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
London next August, he will add Paralympic gold. To get on a squad | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
with only nine places, it does not take a genius to work out that | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
there are more than nine made -- nine men on a squad and we are not | :20:08. | :20:17. | |
all going. It will be tough to get to London. I met up with Jon-Allan | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
to hear his remarkable story. He was an RAF weapons technician in | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
Iraq in 2007 when he was caught up in an explosion and lost his left | :20:27. | :20:36. | |
arm. I was trying to stem the bleeding, give myself a chance to | :20:36. | :20:45. | |
get over the injury and survive. I would have slowly bled out. If I | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
had to wait five or 10 minutes, I would not have made it. He was sent | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
to a Paralympic talent day. With no other expectation than to get fit | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
again. Next summer's Paralympics seems a long way off, but with | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
defence of his world title, Jon- Allan is about to embark on the | :21:05. | :21:13. | |
year of his life. We wish him the best of luck. The | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
weather has taken a mild tan for now. War in a moment but last year | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
we were in the grip of a freezing winter. Crops up like Brussels | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
sprouts were often locked in the frozen ground. Very different this | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
year with no chance of a Seabrook shortage. One grower has seen sales | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
soar by 15 %. This was the scene facing farmers | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
last year as they struggled to harvest vegetables in snow-covered | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
fields. But what a difference a year makes. Harvesting a healthy | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
crop of sprouts today at Essington was simple by comparison. It is a | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
downside easier cutting them. Last year we were under six inches of | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
snow, it was minus 10 and it was a pain getting them out. This year, | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
sales are buoyant and it is much easier cutting them. These proud | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
season usually last for the end of October until the beginning of | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
March, but last year which it says it lasted only until January due to | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
frost. Sales in the run-up to Christmas are always.. Which it | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
expects to sell 5,000 stands along with another 100 kilos of loose | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
spells this week alone. At his farm shop, a quarter of the entire | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
season's sprouts are sold in the week leading up to Christmas. It is | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
a vegetable that people love or hate. It just for Christmas because | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
nobody really likes them. They make a nice little meal now and then, | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
quite refreshing. I think it is absolutely fabulous and it is one | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
of your five a day. You need to start cooking them now for | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
Christmas they to make them tender. As for the price, �1.49 East End | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
the same as last year. But as growing conditions are better, the | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
sprouts are heavier. This farm grows modern varieties of sprouts. | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
The other secret to a bumper crop according to the Pharma, a rotating | :23:25. | :23:34. | |
them with his herd of pigs. Mighty fine pigs. Bursting with | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
vitamins and good for you. Brussels sprouts because they were first | :23:39. | :23:49. | |
grown in Belgium. Divided in the office about sprouts. | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
Love them or loathe them. Now the weather. | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
They are very good with bacon or They are very good with bacon or | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
chestnuts. Now the weather. We had the cold frosty weather last | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
Christmas. This Christmas looking very different, much milder and | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
that milder air arrived last night. It gave us very impressive | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
temperatures. In Perthshire we got up to highs of 14 Celsius, way | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
above what we should be this time of year. The average of more like | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
six Celsius. As we go through tonight, it will remain mild but | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
mostly cloudy. That cloud moving down and settling over the hills to | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
give some mist and murk and some spots of drizzle. Some clear spells | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
but it will be mild with temperatures no lower than seven or | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
eight Celsius. Four some it could be a great and murky start tomorrow. | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
Some breaks appearing in their cloud as you go through the day. | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
The most favoured places for this will be anywhere to the east of | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
high ground. Parts of Shropshire and Herefordshire. It will be mild, | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
whether you are stuck under a cloud or sunshine with highs of 11 or 12 | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
Celsius. Tomorrow night a cloudy story and a very mild story as well. | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
Into Friday, a bit of a change in our weather. This band of rain will | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
work its way south and east. Quite a breezy day, temperatures of 10 or | :25:31. | :25:40. | |
11 or 12 Celsius. Behind that band of rain, cool air. If you follow | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
the isobars, you can see the air comes in from the north-west. It | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
will bring cooler air towards Christmas Eve but only a temporary | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
feature as on Christmas Day, the mild air works its way back up | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
again from the south-west. With temperatures around 11 Celsius, if | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
you put a bet on the white Christmas, go back for a refund. | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
Tonight's main headlines: the England and Chelsea captain John | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
England and Chelsea captain John Terry has been charged with a | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
racially abusing another player during a match in October. | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
And billionaire John Caudwell is prepared to buy the Wedgwood | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
collection to keep it in the potteries. | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
Finally take a look at this, this is possibly the biggest and best | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
Christmas tree in the region. We have both given by it and it is | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
lovingly decorated each year by Bournville Village Trust. | :26:37. | :26:45. | |
Magnificent! It was planted in 1948 to commemorate the 90th birthday of | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
Dame Elizabeth Cadbury. A fitting tribute. It is just next door to | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
the Cadbury factory and as we think it is the most breathtaking tree, | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
but we do not want to be biased. If you know of a better one, get in | :27:01. | :27:11. | |
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touch. It is that all-year-round, that tree. Very special indeed. | :27:12. | :27:21. | |
Absolutely magnificent. But get in touch if you have a better tree. | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
That is it. Tomorrow we are meeting some of the people setting up a | :27:27. | :27:31. |