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Good evening. Trading standards officers have seized thousands of | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
bottles of illegal alcohol in a crackdown across the Midlands. More | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
than 1,800 bottles were removed from shops in Staffordshire, while | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
the value of the alcohol recovered from Sandwell topped �40,000. | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Officers are also warning drinkers that the bottles of spirits can | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
cause serious illness. Shirley Henry reports. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Trading standards officers make an unannounced visit to an independent | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
off-licence in Wolverhampton. They're looking for fake or bootleg | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
alcohol. It may well be that this is an entirely innocent purchase, | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
or it may be that there is something more. Over the last few | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
weeks there have been hundreds of these inspections across the | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
Midlands, and they have seized what they believe to be illegal, fake, | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
or even highly dangerous to alcohol. Kirsty Dunn became ill after | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
drinking what she thought was vodka. The smell of it was really bad, and | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
also burning sensation in the back of your throat, I just knew that | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
was not right. Obviously, it was quite a worry, for people who don't | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
understand, especially youngsters. Tests showed it contained methanol. | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
It's found in anti-freeze. It can cause dizziness, vomiting and even | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
blindness. But lab technicians have made an even more worrying | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
discovery. The last few bottles we have had had actually got | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
chloroform in as well. That can be carcinogenic and it can kill. | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
thought large, organised criminal gangs are behind the operation. It | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
took five months for customs to track down this illegal vodka | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
distillery in the East Midlands. Five gang members were jailed and a | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
sixth was given a suspended sentence. Back in Wolverhampton, | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
this shop owner was found selling several bottles of non-duty paid | :01:53. | :02:02. | |
alcohol. He was given a warning. Everything I know that was on there, | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
the duty paid was on there, that is all I know about it. A So what's | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
the advice to consumers? Check the labels. If they are misspelled, and | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
it looked as if they are going to peel off easy, it is cloudy, or if | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
they're a bit at the bottom of the bottom. This is just a fraction of | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
the illegal alcohol seized from a street, but it is thought thousands | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
more bottles could still be openly on stale. -- on sale. Trading | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
standards plan to continue their inspections. Those caught face up | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
to two years behind bars. Police in Shropshire have launched | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
a murder inquiry following the death of a 23-year-old man. He was | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
taken to hospital last night after a dispute involving up to 20 youths | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
near a recreation ground in the Monkmoor area of Shrewsbury. The | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
victim's been named locally as Jason Cook, also known as Scottien. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Three men in their twenties have been arrested. Detectives are | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
appealing for witnesses. A two-year-old boy is in a serious | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
condition in hospital after being injured in a road accident in | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Stourbridge. It happened in the Wollaston area yesterday afternoon | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
when the child was hit by a car. The 66-year-old driver was | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
uninjured. Police are appealing for witnesses. | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
An off-duty soldier is being hailed as a hero after rescuing a woman | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
from the River Severn in Bridgnorth. The woman, in her fifties, was | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
spotted in the river at around nine o'clock last night. A 56-year old | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
man and a 22-year old soldier, serving with the Mercian Regiment, | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
came to her aid. All three were eventually brought ashore by | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
firefighters. The woman was semi- conscious and is being treated for | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
hypothermia in hospital. Conservationists have attacked | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
plans by the University of Birmingham to close an | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
environmental course that offers the only formal qualification in | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
the UK for people who want to become Wildlife Recorders. The | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
training enables them to track and identify British wildlife and | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
identify the impact of everything from building development to | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
climate change. The University has declined to give its reasons. Our | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
Environment Correspondent David Gregory reports. | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
The banks of the river Severn - the Wildlife Recorder in his natural | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
habitat. But as a species, Wildlife Recorders are in danger of being | :04:09. | :04:18. | |
swept away. I was amazed, really, I was very shocked and bewildered, | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
because it is a very successful course, everyone who has done it | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
goes on to great things, we have got some very good alumni who have | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
done some good works, and it is the leading course to get recognised | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
fields Gills. Although run by the University of Birmingham, the | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
course is based here in Shrewsbury. Birthplace of Charles Darwin - this | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
is his memorial - a man with more than a passing interest in wildlife, | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
and it turns out he's not alone. When it became clear the University | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
of Birmingham wanted to close the course, objectors launched an | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
online edition which attracted hundreds of signatures within days. | :04:53. | :05:03. | |
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And that has had an effect. In a At the moment, more than 60 | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
students are on the course studying for their MScs. And despite these | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
late concessions from the University, people are still | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
concerned. It is a huge worry, really, because we don't know that | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
at the end of this extended consultation, which is a year till | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
autumn Quinn did well, we cannot be sure that another institution will | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
not be ready to take us on in that period, and we will have to worry | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
about the state of the course. Until at least spring 2012, the | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
future of the work here remains unclear. | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
Five wards at Warwick Hospital remain affected by the winter | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
sickness bug norovirus. They've all been partially closed to restrict | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
the spread of the bug. Staff say visitors are allowed but they need | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
to follow strict guidelines being handed out at the hospital's | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
reception, which are also available on the website. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
Phil "The Power" Taylor says he is thinking of retirement after | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
suffering a shock defeat at the PDC darts World Championship. The 15- | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
times world champion from Stoke-on- Trent was beaten 4-1 by Dave | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
Chisnall in the second round last night. Taylor, who'd never failed | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
to make the quarter-finals and has lost just five matches in the | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
tournament since 1994, said he'd been handicapped by faltering | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
eyesight and the heat. A look at the Midlands weather now, | :06:26. | :06:36. | |
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A very good evening to you, yes, a chilly and windy day for many of us | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
today, setting it up for this evening as well. It will be a cold | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
night ahead as you see the sky is starting to clear. Elsewhere, dry, | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
with clear skies, temperatures falling away. It will be frost-free, | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
as it is a windy night ahead. Tomorrow, a cloudy day, and another | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
windy day as well, with outbreaks of rain through the morning. Then | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
we will see showers for tomorrow afternoon, a few glimpses of some | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
trying to end the day, but temperatures on be chilly side -- a | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
few glimpses of sunshine. On Friday, this band of rain is waiting in the | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
winter. We will see this band of rain spilling in through the day, | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
turning very wet across the region of. We will see temperatures | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
slightly higher to end the week. As for New year's Eve, things are | :07:39. | :07:46. |