:00:07. > :00:11.Good evening. Hundreds of businesses across the region say
:00:11. > :00:14.they're confident of a better 2012. What's more, almost a third of
:00:14. > :00:24.those questioned in a survey by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
:00:24. > :00:25.
:00:25. > :00:28.expect to take on staff in the New Year. Cath Mackie reports. This
:00:28. > :00:31.machine it is one of our machines... Steve Britton shows off a machine
:00:31. > :00:34.bound for oil exploration in China. Just one of several export orders
:00:34. > :00:41.secured by BSA Machine Tools in Birmingham and it's looking good
:00:41. > :00:45.for 2012. As a company, I am feeling confident. We have got a
:00:45. > :00:49.good overseas market now and the promise of more orders to come and
:00:49. > :00:57.I think that whilst the first quarter might be quite, from their
:00:57. > :00:59.men, things will pick up. - mac from thereon in. He's not the only
:00:59. > :01:02.one's who's confident. Of 1,000 businesses questioned across the
:01:02. > :01:04.region, just over half believe their fortunes are going to improve
:01:04. > :01:09.in the New Year. The manufacturing sector is quite optimistic. They
:01:09. > :01:13.have had a tough time and we are talking about figures starting
:01:13. > :01:19.fairly low but there is a slight uptown and we hope they may be able
:01:19. > :01:22.to take on some more jobs. -- a slight up term. A lot of the
:01:22. > :01:24.optimism's been generated by the success of Jaguar Land Rover, and
:01:25. > :01:27.the knock on effect for car component firms. But not everyone's
:01:27. > :01:29.optimistic. Businesses overall are saying they are expecting a tough
:01:29. > :01:32.2012 with inflation the biggest concern among the region's
:01:32. > :01:35.manufacturers. So there's caution attached to the hope. Not least
:01:35. > :01:40.because 2011 saw unemployment rise to its highest level in 16 years as
:01:40. > :01:43.jobs were shed by virtually every sector. BSA, though, have just
:01:43. > :01:51.secured an order for the American oil sector worth three quarters of
:01:51. > :01:54.a million and are hoping to take on an apprentice in the New Year.
:01:54. > :01:58.Seven men have now been arrested following the death of a 23-year-
:01:58. > :02:00.old in Shropshire. The victim, Jason Cook, also known by his
:02:00. > :02:05.nickname Scottie, was stabbed on Tuesday after a dispute involving
:02:05. > :02:09.up to twenty young men in the Monkmoor area of Shrewsbury. He was
:02:09. > :02:12.taken to hospital, but died a short time later.
:02:12. > :02:16.And a murder investigation is underway after a woman's body was
:02:16. > :02:19.found at a house in Wolverhampton this morning. She'd been stabbed. A
:02:19. > :02:22.man was discovered at the same address with stab injuries and he's
:02:22. > :02:26.being treated in hospital. Police say they're not looking for anyone
:02:26. > :02:28.else. The West Midlands has more
:02:28. > :02:32.companies specialising in Tele- health, that's remote medical care
:02:32. > :02:35.or monitoring in your own home, than anywhere else in the country.
:02:35. > :02:38.And with an ageing population and shrinking health budgets, those
:02:38. > :02:42.firms could see business growing. Here's our health correspondent,
:02:42. > :02:46.Michele Paduano. Four-year-old Thomas Moore has
:02:46. > :02:49.autism and developmental delay. One of his obsessions is turning on
:02:49. > :02:57.taps, but new technology stops him flooding the bathroom or escaping
:02:57. > :03:04.from home in Wolverhampton. haven't got the stress of wondering
:03:04. > :03:11.where he is, what he is doing by having the gadgets we have got
:03:11. > :03:16.meaning we can monitor Thomas and, at the same time, it is also giving
:03:16. > :03:19.him the independence that he needs in order to grow and flourish as he
:03:19. > :03:26.gets older. At this house in West Bromwich, Alvolution shows off an
:03:26. > :03:32.array of gadgets. Like this fingerprint access to the home.
:03:32. > :03:40.Welcome home. I will put the kettle on. There is a change needed in the
:03:40. > :03:50.culture that actually care should be and can beat delivered at home.
:03:50. > :03:52.
:03:52. > :04:00.Or even outside of the GP's surgery. Are you OK? I am OK. Clinical
:04:00. > :04:03.trials show this system can stop death by 45%. It can save money as
:04:03. > :04:07.well as lives. Safe Patient Systems has won a �1.4 million contract in
:04:07. > :04:17.Bristol that allows 3,000 patients up to the age of 104 to monitor
:04:17. > :04:17.
:04:17. > :04:24.themselves. It uses mobile phones. They follow the instructions, this
:04:24. > :04:28.device then follows -- takes some readings, then it uploads
:04:28. > :04:34.automatically via Bluetooth that reading to the device. The results
:04:34. > :04:37.are then sent to a computer. It cuts down on cost and the patients
:04:37. > :04:39.tend to manage their health better. That's why the Government is
:04:39. > :04:42.encouraging such innovation. 12 months ago, the discovery of the
:04:42. > :04:46.remains of more monuments buried in the landscape around Stonehenge
:04:46. > :04:48.created international interest. Since then, researchers at the
:04:48. > :04:52.University of Birmingham have continued to examine the data
:04:52. > :04:54.producing extraordinary results. Our Science Correspondent David
:04:54. > :05:04.Gregory has been catching up with progress at the University's high-
:05:04. > :05:05.
:05:05. > :05:09.tech archaeology lab. Amazing as the stones are for
:05:09. > :05:12.archaeologists, what is going on underneath them is just as
:05:12. > :05:15.important and last year an international team including the
:05:15. > :05:20.University of Birmingham used the later scanning equipment to examine
:05:20. > :05:25.what is going on under the surface without having to lift a spade. So
:05:25. > :05:30.this is an Ordnance Survey map and these are the Stonehenge stones
:05:30. > :05:34.themselves, this is the car park, and all of this grey area, that is
:05:34. > :05:39.all the data the scientists have taken. That is an enormous amount
:05:39. > :05:43.of information. When you put it together, it is not just a couple
:05:43. > :05:48.of kilometres but seven square kilometres of data. In three
:05:49. > :05:53.dimensions as well. To analyse that, it is beyond the capacity of
:05:53. > :06:00.individuals and we have to automate the process now to get the most out
:06:00. > :06:06.of it. We were the first revealed one of the project's discovers, a
:06:06. > :06:12.second wooden Stonehenge. Other features of the landscape have been
:06:12. > :06:15.discovered as well. Two pits have been discovered. It is at least a
:06:15. > :06:21.month -- a metre deep. We don't think we have got to the bottom. It
:06:21. > :06:27.is quite a significant structure. One theory is these pits could have
:06:27. > :06:30.contained giant bonfires. That links to a much earlier monument of
:06:30. > :06:34.Stonehenge itself which suggests Stonehenge is becoming important
:06:35. > :06:40.before the monument that people know so well actually came into
:06:40. > :06:44.existence. And that is important. There is much more data to look at
:06:44. > :06:53.and this laboratory will be revealing much more of Stonehenge's
:06:53. > :06:59.It has been a grey day, let us see what we have been so store.
:06:59. > :07:03.It has been a blustery day to day. Those winds will feed in showers
:07:03. > :07:09.for the first part of tonight and it will be cloudy. Those showers
:07:09. > :07:15.died out with a dry end to the night but it was there a cloudy
:07:15. > :07:23.with temperatures dipping to around five. Tomorrow we start off with
:07:23. > :07:28.dry weather than a band of rain moves in from the West. Then this
:07:28. > :07:32.band of rain spills in across the region for tomorrow afternoon
:07:32. > :07:37.bringing a spell of very wet weather. Temperatures, eight, so a
:07:37. > :07:41.touch higher. The winds will be lighter as well. New Year's Eve,