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Welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines: a �10,000 reward on | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
offer and more questions after the escape of a murder suspect. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Putting profits before care, the claims from dialysis patients on | :00:18. | :00:27. | |
cuts to services. I am very worried about the quality of our care. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
A �20 million investment in Staffordshire's roads. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
And we will meet a baby only three days old and probably the youngest | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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Good evening. Tonight, an international manhunt | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
intensify his. The questions continued to mount after a gang | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
armed with sledgehammers three-day suspected murderer from a prison | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
van. It is 34 hours since John Anslow | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
who is described as extremely dangerous by police was sprung from | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
the van close to Hewell Grange Prison. Last night, police raided | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
five homes in Anslow's home town of Tipton and made one arrest. | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
A �10,000 reward was offered this afternoon. | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
He is a wanted man. For two days, 31-year-old John Anslow hat has | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
been on the run. The police are hoping the offer of money will get | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
someone to talk. A �10,000 reward is being offered for information | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
that leads to a Anslow's arrest and return to prison. We are hoping | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
this sizable award will encourage those who know where he might be to | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
come forward. The prison van from which he escaped yesterday morning | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
was taking him from you will present to Stafford Crown Court | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
when it was ambushed by three masked men armed with sledgehammers. | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
They got away in his car, a silver Volkswagen Scirocco. It was | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
abandoned near the prison. They switched to a silver Mercedes. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Police continued the hunt and questions are being asked as to how | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
he managed to escape in the first place. The Justice Secretary | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
Kenneth Clarke has called for a full inquiry into what happened. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
Anslow is charged with murdering this man, a businessman called | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
Richard Deakin who was shot in 2010. The private contractor or GEOAmey | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
who were talking -- taking John Anslow to court says that the | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
welfare of their employees and safety of the public is of the | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
utmost importance. They say they will continue to support their | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
employees and assist the police with their investigations. For now, | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
the priority is catching John Anslow and the public is being | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
asked to help. Our peel to chase Anslow -- to trace Senedd is | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
spreading across social media. We have reached half a million people | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
on Facebook and we have asked all of the UK forces to run the appeal | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
on their own social media sites. John Anslow spends his second night | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
on the run, police are questioning Nam -- a man they arrested in | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
Tipton in connection with his escape. | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
We are joined now by Professor David Wilson, a criminologist at | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
Birmingham City University. Thank you for joining us. John Anslow was | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
a category A risk prisoner. How on earth can this have happened? | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
is the key question. Good evening. It is helpful to remind ourselves | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
that there is going to be an inquiry into the circumstances that | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
led to this estate. It is also helpful to remind us what a | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
category A risk prisoner means. It is the highest security category in | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
the prison service. Somebody who is a category A risk prisoner, escape | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
is supposed to be impossible because they pose such a danger to | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
the police, public and to the state. Therefore, we are either talking | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
about a massive mistake or we are talking about some kind of | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
collusion which has allowed the Anslow to escape. House of Europe | :04:22. | :04:31. | |
would prison escorts the normally be? -- how what Secure? There would | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
be a heightened level at in terms of the staff's security level. The | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
Prison Service knows through a long period of time that they must and | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
vulnerable points in relation to the transfer of prisoners is when | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
they are outside of the prison. Therefore, there would be | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
heightened numbers of staff and depending on the risk assessment a | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
police liaison with the prison staff. Back police liaison may in | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
some circumstances have been armed. There would have been alternative | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
routes are taken so as to confuse anybody who might believe that but | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
they would be helpful to follow -- that they would be able to follow | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
the particular van. We have some real issues in terms of the risk | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
assessment that was done at Hewell Prison. There would be a permanent | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
police liaison officer who would work with the security department | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
at Hewell Prison. What sort of risk is this doesn't -- risk assessment | :05:32. | :05:42. | |
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was made of John Anslow? There are some real questions that need to be | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
answered. A it was an extremely daring operation. You wonder how | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
the gang thought they could attack a present van and free a prison and | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
get away with it? Yet, they did. have some clues in relation to the | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
other things we know about security and intelligence within our prisons. | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
Mobile phones are common currency these days within prisons. No doubt | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
there was communication between the people within the present and the | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
gang that was eventually able to spring the Anslow. However, | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
remember there were a number of vans leaving Hewell Prison that | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
particular morning. How would the gang know which van was actually | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
holding Anslow? That does imply we are dealing with more intelligence | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
coming out of the prison that was given to the gang in whatever way. | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
I have been in prison or they conducting research and I know how | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
distressed many of the staff are about this escape of a category A | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
risk prisoner. The first category A risk prisoner to escape for 17 | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
years. All of this comes back to the risk assessments that were made | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
by the police and by the security department in Hewell Prison. Thank | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
you for joining us. Still ahead, we meet in the man who | :07:01. | :07:10. | |
owes his fightback from alcoholism do a song written by Johnny Nash. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
A private company which provides kidney dialysis for chronically ill | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
patients is planning to cut staffing levels across its Midlands | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
units by up to a third. Play somes who have belied -- Milan | :07:21. | :07:29. | |
the surface believe it would be -- patients believe it would be unsafe. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
On dialysis for three years, Ian Mead's one pleasure is his music. | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
He now finds himself drumming up a campaign to protect the service he | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
relies on to live. Fresenius is planning to cut staffing levels at | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
his centre by 34%. The levels of staff we have got at the moment are | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
adequate for that and the proposed levels would not be able to do it | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
in the same amount of time and with the same amount of cover for any | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
crisis situations that are Perth. Steve Organ has been having | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
dialysis for nearly a decade. We were not allowed at site on Aston | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
Cross so I have brought him outside. Many have infections. In order to | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
prevent cross-infection, cleaning is absolutely essential. Of course, | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
that takes a certain amount of time. At present, they are working on one | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
or two nurses and a nursing assistant. At the best of times, | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
they struggle with that. Fresenius says it is reacting to financial | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
pressures on the NHS and conforms to British Renal Society guidance | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
and his contract -- confident that it will not impact on careful stock | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
universities are Hospital Birmingham says it has not asked | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
the company to reduce its costs. They say they have not been | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
consulted about planned changes and are in urgent talks with the | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
company. Staffing cuts are proposed in Aston, Tipton, Hereford, Walsall | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
and Kings Norton but not in Worcester, Stratford or Sparkhill. | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
Fresenius claims it already has units operating at the lowest | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
staffing levels. Everything that Mr Cameron and his millionaire's have | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
kept telling us will not happen... It is exactly what has happened in | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
one of the first areas to be almost completely privatised. The company | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
denies healthcare assistants will be axed on 3rd February. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
A round-up of other news. Four people have been arrested after a | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
man's body was found in a part our side. The body which has not been | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
identified was found in Willenhall near Wolverhampton. Police have | :09:45. | :09:53. | |
closed a part of a road while officers conduct end -- conduct a | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
forensic search. If a health worker accused of passing himself off as a | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
qualified doctor is to face trial in April. | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
Abdul Pirzada pleaded not guilty to fraud during a brief hearing at | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
Birmingham Crown Court. The 49- year-old from Tyseley, Birmingham | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
was arrested by officers from the West Midlands Economic Crime Unit | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
in October following a joint inquiry with the NHS fraud | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
investigators. Research has continued to date by | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
63-year-old woman from Hereford chef who has been missing for five | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
days. Police say they are becoming increasingly concerned for the | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
safety of Alethea Taylor who was last seen by her husband at their | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
home on Thursday morning. A large- scale search operation has been | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
launched with hundreds of local residents taking part. | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
A charity which provides education and training for thousands of young | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
people has gone into administration. BXL Services which is based at the | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
Centennial Centre in Birmingham offers help to around 20,000 young | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
people each year. It employs 26 staff. Its chief executive | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
described it as a sad day for the West Midlands but said they were | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
still hoping for a positive outcome. Some good news for a motorists | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
across a picture. Roads in the county are to benefit from �20 | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
million of investment. It comes as Staffordshire County | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
Council is making �30 million in cuts. The authority says the road | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
repairs will be paid for from savings including those made by | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
closing several council office buildings. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
�30 million is being spent on road repairs over the past three years | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
in Staffordshire including on work here in Burntwood. Next week, | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
county councillors will be asked to approve a further �20 million | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
investment. This is the artery of our economy. Without the roads, we | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
cannot go shopping, deliver goods and companies will not come to | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Staffordshire without our road network. We are the geographical | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
link to all areas. We need good roads. The council says the work is | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
being paid for through savings like those being made through the | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
closure of 17 office buildings. Despite currently making a �30 | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
million in cuts, counsellors say the public told them they wanted | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
road maintenance to be a priority. They have got to balance the books | :12:13. | :12:22. | |
somehow, I suppose. It is wrecking your car at the end of the day. | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
think they are spending all of the money on humps. Over the last 18 | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
months, they have got worse than they have ever been. They get into | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
such a bad state, they cause damage. You come across some amazing pot | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
holes. They really are deep. It is a job that needs doing. There are | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
about 700 pot holes across 4000 miles of roads in Staffordshire. | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
The work will go some way to alleviating that problem. Along | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
with more widespread repairs like the resurfacing currently under way | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
here in Burton-upon-Trent. If the �20 million plan is approved, work | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
will be carried out over the next two years. | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
Stella had: the love story that links the Midlands and the sinking | :13:16. | :13:24. | |
of the Titanic. And it is milder now but fog how long before the | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
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cold bites back? -- for how long This Sunday, the Radio 4 programme | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
Desert Island Discs celebrate his 70th anniversary. BBC local radio | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
stations will broadcast their special editions of the Your Desert | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
Island Discs, where the Lizard -- listeners are the castaways. | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
Among them is a former alcoholic from Shropshire, who overcame his | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
addiction francs to a song from Johnny Nash. | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
Bill McNichol enjoying lunch with his favourite tipple, a non | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
alcoholic beer. He gave up drinking 20 years ago after battling alcohol | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
addiction all his adult life. I used to be a binge drinker, and | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
when I did have a drink, I could not stop. It added the | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
circumstances were right, I could drink through the party and through | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
the next day. And obviously, that affects your behaviour and our | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
health. For his drinking problem put | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
pressure on his relationship with his wife and threatened his job as | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
a training manager. But in his darkest hours, it was his car radio | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
that saved him. Today, decades on, he still vividly remembers hearing | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
an interview with the late comedian and actor Leslie Crowther that | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
turned his life around. He had just come out as an | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
alcoholic, and they were asking some very good questions, and I | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
found that I ate there would have provided exactly the same answers. | :15:05. | :15:13. | |
-- that I would have. The answer I thought to myself, I am not going | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
there. I am going to stop drinking. There is a song that I have always | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
liked to called I can see clearly now by Johnny Nash. When I listen | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
to it after I had stopped drinking, I realised the words could apply to | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
me or to anybody recovering from addiction, depression, coming from | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
a dark place. And that song has become my anthem. | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
Today, he is heading to BBC Radio Shropshire to talk about that track | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
and the story about it. His interview is part of a | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
programme celebrating 70 years of Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4. | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
Everybody has a favourite song. And it means something, because of a | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
person, a memory, a place. And it is great to hear that song, but | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
also to find the story behind it. Bill hopes are sharing his story | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
will help anyone listening who has an alcohol problem in the same way | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
that a decade ago, Leslie Crowther changed his life that through the | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
air waves. Our BBC local radio colleagues will | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
have a special programmes on Sunday way you can find out more details | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
on our Facebook page. You can also let us know what your desert island | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
disc would be, and why. Laura Robinson has gone for One | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
Love by Bob Marley. She says they went to Jamaica and it was magical. | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
And Sue Floyd's favourite is Landscape by Amazing Blondel. She | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
says it reminds her of her husband and cycling the Lincolnshire Hunt - | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
- countryside. They are still going strong after 40 years. | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
Your favourite? I think my best piece of music | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
would be Elgar. Could there be an end to ecologies | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
city's financial problems? -- Coventry City. The Sky Blues say | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
they have had contract -- contact from former director Gary Hoffman. | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
Previous approaches have been turned down, but a statement | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
released today they his say they have agreed to meet him and talk | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
about future plans. It is not known whether this will involve fresh | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
investment or a takeover. When Claire Anderson went into | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
labour on Saturday afternoon, she knew her partner had promised to be | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
there for the birth of her first child. Unfortunately, Chris Morris | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
was playing football for Stafford Rangers. Did he get back in time? | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Little Savannah Anderson Morris is absolutely beautiful, only three | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
days old, she is probably Stafford Rangers' youngest band. Her proud | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
mum went into labour while her dad was playing football. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
They said my waters were going to be break and he needed to be there | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
now. I tried ringing him as there was no answer. I was panicking a | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
bit. Nothing so exciting happened the | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
last time I went to watch Stafford Rangers. The club was about to be | :18:35. | :18:44. | |
relegated. There was not a newborn baby inside! Nowadays, Stafford | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
play in the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League. And on Saturday | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
with half-an-hour gone, the club received a message to tell Chris | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
Morris the baby is on its way. He promised to be there for the birth, | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
so desperate times call for desperate measures. But with Claire | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
only minutes away from delivering her beautiful goal after a | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
beautiful girl, Chris delivered a beautiful goal. Then he left at | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
half-time to make it to the maternity ward. | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
I left at half-time had managed to make it. It is so amazing. She is | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
so beautiful and tiny. I hope she stays like this forever! | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
It was an amazing weekend that we will not forget. | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
One hour after the final whistle, they be Savannah weighed in at �6. | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
Chris had become a dad and scored with his left foot on one | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
remarkable afternoon. Many congratulations to all three | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
of them! What was the final store? | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
They won by 5-1. It was his debut as well. He was at Shrewsbury Town | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
and hopes to get back into the professional game. | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
It will be a big family if they have won every week! | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
Said he will never forget that week. Was there is famous for | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
professional cricket and rugby, but now another club is on the rise. | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
The Worcester Wolves basketball team is sitting second in the | :20:29. | :20:39. | |
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British Basketball League, just a Halfway through the season, and no | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
one had Boswell's can quite believe how well they are doing. | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
-- was the walls. The we are delighted. | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
We did not expect to be doing this well and we need to keep power feet | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
on the ground. Since they joined the top division | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
in 2006, the Wolves have never finished higher than eight. But | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
with just three defeats in 15 games, they are currently second ad almost | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
certain to qualify for the play- offs. | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
There is no reason why we cannot win as many games as possible and | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
win the league. Worst-case scenario is a top-four finish based on our | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
performances so far. The Taoiseach currently play at the | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
University of Worcester, where on Saturday they notched up their | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
latest victory, 97-87 against the Cheshire Jets. But like the team's | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
fortunes, that is about to change. They have big plans of the court. | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
Work has begun on a new arena. From 2013, it will become at the home of | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
the Wolves. During the summer, head coach Paul | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
James almost completely rebuilt the side with professionals from the | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
United States and Europe and students from the University. | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
I think we have a great group of guys and good chemistry. We really | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
like each other had enjoyed doing well. That is the key for what we | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
are doing this season. Rugby and cricket may be the | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
sport's Worcesters is best known for, but if this success continues, | :22:30. | :22:39. | |
they will soon be able to add basketball to this list. | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
This a poor marks the 100 anniversary of the sinking of the | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
Titanic, and one century on, it seems we are still fascinated by it. | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
So much so, a Birmingham film-maker has just completed Titanic Love, a | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
short film to coincide with the anniversary. It also celebrates the | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
Midlands connections with the famous liner. | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
It was her maiden voyage, and famously her last. 100 years ago in | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
April, the largest ship at the time it sank after hitting an iceberg. | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
Now I Birmingham film-maker has taken the tragedy as inspiration | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
for a new film, Titanic Love. The problem is, Lucy has a fixation. | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
She is totally obsessed with Titanic. | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
Titanic Love is a romantic comedy. The comedy element is about the | :23:33. | :23:42. | |
football, and her obsession. We actually do deal with the tragic | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
elements very respectfully. It has been filmed in and around | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Birmingham city centre, and is in post-production at Birmingham | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
University. It stars young actors and is made locally. It is also a | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
celebration with the Midlands' links with the most advanced ship | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
of its day. It is so interesting when you hear | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
about the stories of where the people are from. The it really | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
enlightened me to those connections. The fact this was made in | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
Birmingham with Birmingham-based cast and crew, had also that you | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
see a lot of Birmingham in the film, and I think it is very important to | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
show that. Titanic's Captain Edward Smith was | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
from Hanley. Although she was built in Belfast, the chain's Ann Packer | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
were made in the Black Country. The anchor was the biggest in the world, | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
weighing 16 tons. Other parts came from Stourbridge. The crew's | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
uniform buttons and whistles were made in Birmingham. Acme Whistles | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
still operates from the same premises today, and provided | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
bristles before the Hollywood movie and Titanic Love. | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
They are all made in exactly the same way with the same the | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
manufacturing process. It is not just the manufacturing | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
connections. In this century, a poignant reminder of the tragedy. A | :25:16. | :25:23. | |
monument to ADT and Edwardian industrialist. -- a leading | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
Edwardian industrialist. He had secured a contract they America and | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
was travelling there on the Titanic. The film will run alongside eight | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
Titanic exhibition, remembering one of the great tragedies of the 20th | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
century. We had some pretty torrential rain | :25:43. | :25:53. | |
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first thing this morning, so what These were our finishing numbers | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
today. These temperatures are almost double the normal for this | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
time of year. This is where we are right now. By the end of tomorrow, | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
it will be a wilderness of blue. It will turn colder from Thursday | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
onwards. Wind will also be a feature. Let's take a look at this | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
evening handover night. We were trapped under his blanket of cloud, | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
and that will continue to be the case throughout the night. They may | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
be some patchy rain throughout the evening which will then die away. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
But compared to last night, temperatures tonight art much | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
better in the right direction. Wind will become a feature over the next | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
couple of days, and they will increase by the end of the night. | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
Tomorrow will be a blustery day with an overcast start to the day. | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
Any breaks in the CAC 40 will be in the afternoon, -- the cloud, | :26:59. | :27:07. | |
because in the afternoon it will really get a thick. It will not | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
feel quite as mild with the wind. It is through tomorrow night that | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
we will get a big dose of rain. Once it has clear, the temperatures | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
plummet and we could see ice by A threat to petrol supplies after a | :27:26. | :27:31. |