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