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Hello, welcome to Midlands Today with Suzanne Virdee and Nick Owen. | :00:03. | :00:09. | |
The headlines tonight: forced to watch as the other was killed, a | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
jury's told that's what happened to a frail couple murdered in their | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
home. More serious failures in care at | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Stafford Hospital and fears it's in dire financial difficulties. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Dangerous and on the loose: warnings over a second escaped | :00:22. | :00:30. | |
prisoner, jailed after a vicious attack in Coventry. It smacks of | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
something which has been planned well in advance and with associates | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
on the outside. And they thought they had no future | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
and no chance of a career, the new course helping to turn young lives | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
around. I got a chance to perform in front a bunch of great people | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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and since then, they've helped me a Good evening, welcome to Thursday's | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
Midlands Today from the BBC. Tonight: forced to watch as the | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
other was savagely beaten and killed, a jury's told that's what | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
happened to an elderly couple murdered in their home. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Guiseppe and Caterina Massaro were found dead lying side by side on | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
their bed. The jury was told to put aside all emotion in the case and | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
to concentrate on the facts. A 22-year-old Polish man denies the | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
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two charges of murder. Lindsey Booth arrived at court | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
today with her family. Last April on Good Friday she discovered her | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
grandparents lying dead in their home in Wolverhampton. The house | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
they'd lived in for more than 50 years had been ransacked. Guiseppe | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
Massaro who was 80 and his wife Caterina who was 77, had been | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
killed in a savage attack with a hammer and a knife. In the dock | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
today 22-year-old Bartnofski listened to the evidence through an | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
interpreter. Last year he arrived next door to the pensioners to stay | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
with his sister. The prosecution claim he entered the frail | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
pensioners home, attacked them and stole their property. The | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
prosecution claimed that forensic scientists found a wealth of | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
material inside the house. His blood was found on the murder | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
weapons, a knife and a hammer. His fingerprints were found on property | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
and documents. It is also claimed that his DNA was discovered inside | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
the clothing of the pensioner. The prosecution say that he must have | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
placed his hand inside a pocket, either while he was dying of war | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
shortly afterwards. Guiseppe and Caterina Massaro left Naples in | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
Italy and arrived in Wolverhampton in 1960 to make a new life for | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
themselves. After they were murdered, two TV sets were taken | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
from their home and sold for �200. Their Peugeot car was also stolen. | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
A 32-year-old man from Wolverhampton Wojciech Ostolski is | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
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accused of selling the televisions. The defendant denies the two counts | :03:16. | :03:26. | |
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of murder. The trial is expected to last three weeks. | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
Still to come: lessons from the Americans on how to bring up our | :03:34. | :03:43. | |
There've been more serious failures in patient care at Stafford | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Hospital and tonight there're fears it's in dire financial difficulties | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
too. The details come just weeks after a | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
public inquiry was held into high death rates and appalling standards | :03:51. | :04:01. | |
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of care at the hospital. Jeffs life now revolves around | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
trains. In the bad old days, his wife suffered terribly in Stafford | :04:12. | :04:21. | |
hospital. Jeff was horrified that this happened �10 this year. These | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
things... That hospital is not learning from mistakes. They are | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
not doing it. Is it the staff? Is that the management? I don't know. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
Stafford hospital is also being investigated for its hip fracture | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
or repairs. It is not operating quickly enough and too many | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
patients are having to go back in. The trust board heard there were 19 | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
see that if a seal cases when the ship home the have been two. There | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
were still -- for serious incidents last month. One patient later died. | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
We are seeing 3% fewer falls this year than previously. The fact that | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
we have had one which was very serious and has resulted in a | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
person dying during the latter part of last year is a serious concern. | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
The board was told of their efforts to reopen accident and emergency | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
overnight. Staff are being recruited but the earliest it will | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
happen is made. Compared to where it should be, it's got an awful | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
long way to travel. Compared with where it was, it has made some | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
improvements. Some people have put a lot of working. It is clear that | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
management are doing their best to turn things around and they have | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
been improvements. But it was also made clear today that some senior | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
members of staff are not doing enough to help that. And there is | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
still a big mountain to climb. But with for finances slipping, will | :05:41. | :05:51. | |
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they be given time to get to the top? | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
We're joined now from Westminster by the Conservative MP for Stafford, | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Jeremy Lefroy. Thanks for talking to us, Mr Lefroy. This sounds | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
simply outrageous, why isn't it being sorted out? There are many | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
events happening which should not be happening. Many people are | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
suffering stress because of that. We also need to stress that we are | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
in advance of where we were a couple of years ago at the hospital. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
There are improvements being made but I don't want to downplay the | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
seriousness of each case which affects somebody and the family. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
your election ticket was based around solving the problems that | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
stuff a hospital. Things seem to be getting worse on the face of it. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
was about restoring confidence and we have got a huge way to go. I | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
believe we have come a fair distance but clearly, there are | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
many things to do. Firstly, we need to see A&E open 24 / 7. That has | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
been put back for reasons of safety. The trust is not going to take a | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
chance on this. Then there is the serious financial problems you have | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
referred to with a deficit of something like �20 million this | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
year. Are you banging on the Health Secretary's door about this? | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Absolutely. The trust board has been working hard. I understand | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
there is a meeting next week with the Department of Health over this | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
very issue. I hope we will see a resolution soon have a this. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
don't see how things are so bad after all. If to understand that, | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
we have to see what we've come from. The outgoing chairman said this was | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
the worst situation he had seen in his long experience. He said things | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
have come on a way but there is a long way to go. That is what we are | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
looking at the moment. I am confident that we will get there. | :07:26. | :07:34. | |
Thank you very much. Police in Warwickshire say a post mortem | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
examination on a body found in a burning car has proved inconclusive. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
They were called to a field in Aston Cantlow near Alcester | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
yesterday morning. Officers believe they now know who the person was | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
but say formal identification is likely to take some time. | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
The chief constable of Gloucestershire has said policing | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
in the county could be taken to a cliff edge if more funding cuts are | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
imposed. The police authority wants the force to find extra savings, | :07:54. | :08:02. | |
above the �24 million it's already been told to make. In an | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
unprecedented move, Tony Melville has said this would threaten | :08:04. | :08:12. | |
services at the heart of frontline policing. | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
There are calls tonight since those seconds dangerous prisoner escaped | :08:17. | :08:26. | |
from custody. Andrew Farndon from Coventry was freed by a gunman | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
whilst being transferred to hospital. His escape comes just | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
days after John Anslow's prison van was ambushed by an armed gang on | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
Monday. The Ministry of Justice insist the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
escapes aren't connected but Labour's front bench say the | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
incidents reveal flaws in the prison system and those responsible | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
should be held to account. This man first Prom today manhunt | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
when he leapt from the Doglost on trial at Coventry Crown Court in | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
2007. He received an indeterminate sentence for a hammer attack on a | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
motorist in the city. After receiving a knife injury at High | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Point Prison in Suffolk, he was transferred to hospital by taxi | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
with two prison officers but awaiting gunman threatened the | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
prison staff and he escaped. He had been convicted of causing grievous | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
bodily harm in 2007. It was an incident in the West Midlands | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
Police area. He has been in custody ever since. He clearly presents a | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
potential risk to members of the public should they tried to | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
intervene. Our advice would be that if you see this man, or you have | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
any information about where he might be, contact us immediately | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
and allow us to deal with the incident. A police in Coventry have | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
been alerted that he could return to this area. It was an issue which | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
didn't concern people from his neighbourhood. He is probably | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
trying to hide. He doesn't want to go back to jail. He will keep his | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
head down. As long as they catch him, it will be all right. Respect | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
someone who grew up with him in Coventry. He felt that he was | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
actually a good lad although he did have temper issues. But he was very | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
clear that he blames the authorities for not keeping him in | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
prison. The categorisation of prisoners is now under scrutiny. | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
The man was considered unlikely to attempt an escape, a decision | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
considering his history, that is now going to be raised in the House | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
of Commons. We need to know what has happened, we've got to get to | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
the bottom of this quickly. Two in one week suggest there is a | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
loophole or something is going wrong somewhere. We cannot wait | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
longer with more prisoners escaping. It the prison overcrowding and the | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
situation we are finding ourselves in at the moment, will be a closed | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
operational capacity, the prisoners -- and prisons are becoming a | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
warehouse. Then prisoners are put into categories they may not be | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
suitable for. Regardless of the outcome, the public want to know | :10:38. | :10:48. | |
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that too dangerous prisoners of Almost 5000 children in the region | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
are in local authority care. The NSPCC says it will provide | :11:03. | :11:13. | |
support for vulnerable families and spot the crucial signs of abuse. | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
This role play shows how a neglected child might be identified. | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
We need to be hoping for mother born with a child. These NSPCC | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
charity workers are about to meet some of the most vulnerable | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
families in Birmingham. They would be called in where social workers, | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
for example, have preferred a parent for urgent support. | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Parenting classes, now widely used in America, would be offered in | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
their own home. Some parents have had neglecting parenting themselves | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
and struggled to understand how best to form relationships and | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
protect children in the home, how best to support children and in | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
people as they grow through their developmental stages. He here, in | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
2010, there are almost 5000 children of all ages on child | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
protection registers. Well over half Or in Birmingham and the Black | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
Country. Zoe was brought up in an abusive home in the West Midlands. | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
If my dad got bored, he would get the belt and had a house across the | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
hands with it because... He would literally put our hands in hot | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
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water until the veins became clear. The NSPCC opened a new centre today, | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
with staff working in partnership with the remote city council. Many | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
of the agency's present here today so there will also be cases which | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
go under the rates are. They may remain behind closed doors. The | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
death of this killing 2000 and it was just one of 26 cases where | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
children have died or seriously injured because of abuse or neglect. | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
What changes for the good are you making all is the sort of thing a | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
talking shop? It is much more than a talking shop. In the last year or | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
so, we've made significant changes in Birmingham City social services. | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
We've completely remodelled how we are organised. We've offered much | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
greater and better training to our staff. A victims of abuse like Zoe, | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
who now has her own family, are being told tonight, your voice will | :13:15. | :13:25. | |
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be heard. It has taught me how 0 to bring up my kids but the mental | :13:26. | :13:35. | |
Thanks for joining us this Thursday evening, picture perfect, but will | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
the children's efforts get the royal seal of approval? And back in | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
the grip of winter. Night frosts and fog return. We even had a hint | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
of snow today but what will it be tomorrow and over the weekend? All | :13:47. | :13:56. | |
in the forecast later. The family of a man murdered in his | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
home are appealing to the public to help find his killer. Andrew Heath | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
died in an arson attack. His murder is one of three high profile cases | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
from Worcestershire which will feature on the BBC's Crimewatch | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
programe this evening. It's December 14th, and Andrew | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Heath's home in Worcester is set alight. He calls 999 and | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
frantically tries to escape but his pathway is blocked by the flames. | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
The reconstruction will be shown on the BBC's Crimewatch, as police | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
continue to hunt his killer. Six weeks on and flowers still deck the | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
walkway into what was the 52-year- old's home. His family say he was a | :14:32. | :14:41. | |
kind and caring man. People like to be around 10. He was a big chap | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
with a big personality. He had been was there for quite a long time, he | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
liked it. It felt as if someone had eradicated them. There was very | :14:53. | :15:03. | |
little left. We adopted him, we brought him into our home, he was | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
caring and kind. Police are due to reveal later today how the fire was | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
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started. His case will be one of three to be featured on tonight's | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
programme. They'll be renewed appeals over the murder of retired | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
school teacher Betty Yates who was found beaten and stabbed at her | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
home in Bewdley earlier this month, and calls too for help to find | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
suspected killer John Anslow who escaped from a prison escort van in | :15:34. | :15:43. | |
Redditch. What in fact is that having? Obviously it has an issue | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
on resources. We are put the money to one side so have something | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
happens we can do your bit. �10,000 reward's on offer in all | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
three cases. Police hope the Crimewatch appeal will prompt more | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
people to come forward with information. | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
And you can see the full appeals on Crimewatch tonight on BBC One at 9 | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
o'clock. The families of wounded soldiers | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
being treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
will soon be offered free accommodation at a pioneering new | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
facility - from an idea that originated in America. It's called | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
a Fisher House and building work will begin in April. The BBC's | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
correspondent in Washington, Steve Kingstone, has been finding out how | :16:17. | :16:27. | |
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the scheme works on that side of the Atlantic. I was injured in Iraq | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
in 2006. I have had a 66 surgeries since 2006, I am still in recovery | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
mode. 27-year-old Brent tells a story | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
that's all too familiar among a new generation of veterans. He's | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
recovering in Washington, hundreds of miles from home. But in a place | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
where patient's families are encouraged to come and stay. Words | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
can't describe the feeling that soldiers have when they know that | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
their family members can be flown here and have a place to stay on a | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
military base. It's called a Fisher House, with space for up to 20 | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
families visiting wounded relatives. They have their own rooms. But the | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
lounge and kitchen are shared. And it's all free. Cherica has come | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
here from Ohio - so baby AJ can spend time with his Dad, Anthony. | :17:17. | :17:26. | |
It's a trip she simply couldn't have paid for herself. It would be | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
devastating financially. We are already having trouble, I'm just | :17:32. | :17:41. | |
thankful we have these types of facilities here. The first picture | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
house was built in 1991. For families here it is all about | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
convenience. And now, the winning formula is being exported to | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
Britain - where wounded soldiers are treated here, at the Queen | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. A Fisher House will be built where | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
this car park currently stands. Staff say it'll bring huge benefits | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
for patients as well as their families. I think it will be vital, | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
families come from all over the country to visit their loved ones, | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
and if the the soldier knows that his family is being looked after | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
that will speed up the process. It's all costing �4m, almost half | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
of which will come from America's Fisher House Foundation. And while | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
"recovery" is a relative term, the lesson here seems to be that | :18:30. | :18:38. | |
journey back is more bearable when it's shared. | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
Turning their talent into a career - young singers, dancers and | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
designers from disadvantaged backgrounds are being encouraged to | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
get creative. They're being given training, advice and the contacts | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
thanks to a Birmingham based company. Many of them are at a | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
showcase event in the city this evening and Ben Sidwell is there | :18:53. | :19:03. | |
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Welcome to Birmingham, this is Charlie, like so many people here | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
she is trying to carve out a career in music. Many of those people have | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
become disengaged from society, I have been finding out their stories. | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
They are turning their lives around. Before they won Talent 2011, | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Pressurize were just a group of young friends with a passion for | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
dancing. Since then, thanks to the help of Birmingham based company | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Aspire 4U, they've started to try and turn their skills into a full | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
time career and have already performed in front of thousands of | :19:44. | :19:53. | |
people at the Clothes Show. These type of projects are there to | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
support new talent coming up, and to give them the opportunity to | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
showcase their talent to people like myself who why in the industry. | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
Ashley Henson is a great example of how the scheme can work. After | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
winning in 2007, he was given training in event management. Now | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
Ashley is combining work, with a career as an up and coming comedian, | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
as well as putting on various events across Birmingham. A lot of | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
people who put on events only deal would end -- only deal entertainers | :20:27. | :20:36. | |
who are out there. He gives a chance to up and coming people. | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
Like many of those who entered the 2011 compettion, Luke Truth from | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
Redditch was unemployed. He's now getting support, direction and most | :20:42. | :20:52. | |
importantly exposure. I got a chance to perform in front of a | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
bunch of great people, and they have helped me a lot. I have done a | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
couple of other things through them, it's really good. And then there's | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
Benjamin Blake. Thanks to the contacts made, he's about to start | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
a course at university. Now that I can go to university and do | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
something I really like and enjoy, I want to say thank you to them, | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
because I probably wouldn't have gone to university without that. | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
The hope is this year they'll be able create more success stories, | :21:26. | :21:36. | |
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starting tonight. Let's speak to the chief executive. | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
You started this whilst US university, why did you do it? | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
think it's very important that everyone takes responsibility for | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
empowering young people in the community, instead of sitting back | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
and complaining. We wanted to provide a platform for young people | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
to be empowered, and to do something with their talent and | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
their community. Something like this, many would say it's very | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
worthy, but as a businesswoman, you're not making huge money, you | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
could do that as they then scored an 80? I think it's important that | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
I work with the young people, and other people see what we are doing | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
and higher rus -- other people will see what we're doing and high-rise | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
to work. Are you finding that people are turning their lives | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
around? We have had some fantastic people coming through our programme. | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
People have gone into university and full-time employment. We have | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
had some fantastic stories. It makes it all worthwhile. | :22:44. | :22:52. | |
showcase start at 7:30pm tonight -- the Showcase will start. Many | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
people are desperate to get into the arts, hopefully they'll be more | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
success stories here. We enjoyed that. We liked that a | :23:05. | :23:13. | |
lot. I will remember them before they become famous. | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
Thousands of schoolchildren across the Midlands are creating self- | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
portraits as part of a national art project which, it's hoped, will | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
break a world record. Each child's picture will be combined into one | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
giant image which will be shown at Buckingham Palace as part of the | :23:26. | :23:36. | |
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Queen's Jubilee celebrations. A self portrait of four year old | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
Scarlet. This is Isaac. Here's 6 year old Ewan. And this one is | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
Bella. Every pupil at Lapworth Church of England Primary School is | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
taking part in the Face Britain project, their artwork will become | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
part of the UK's celebrations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
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London Olympics. As a small primary school, with only got 140 children. | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
Taking part of this project is a good chance to become part of the | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
celebrations. It's the biggest art project the country has ever seen. | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
The Face Britain organisers are setting their sights on an | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
ambitious world record. The record for most artists working on the | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
same installation is over a thousand, we are aiming to break | :24:35. | :24:45. | |
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out. -- break that. So far around ninety of the region's schools are | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
signed up. Here in Lapworth Class 4's creations are starting to take | :24:49. | :24:58. | |
shape. The eyes and the skin. It's got blonde hair. It is different to | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
everyone else's. Every image will end up here at Buckingham Palace. | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
The children's self-portraits will be turned into a giant mosaic of | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
the Queen's face which will then be projected onto the wall, like this! | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
More than 100 works of art created in Lapworth, soon be seen by | :25:17. | :25:26. | |
millions in London. Let's find out what's happening in | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
the weather. Well there was no mistaking it's | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
winter today. The cold is now here to stay for the next few days but | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
it is looking largely dry, quite sunny but with night frosts and fog. | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
Just a degree uncertainty still surrounding Sunday's forecast as | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
this warm front heads in from the West with wetter milder conditions | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
competing with the colder, drier competing with the colder, drier | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
Easterly winds. It looks as though it'll stay to the West. If the line | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
between wet and dry is blurred it's most likely to be in Western parts | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
of the region. This evening and we still have quite peppering of | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
showers across us but they will gradually die out as the night goes | :26:09. | :26:19. | |
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on and then under clearer skies, temperatures dip to 2 C. We start | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
off sunny and dry tomorrow - but even though high pressure is going | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
to kill off most of the showers, there is line of then spilling in | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
through the Cheshire Gap and running a diagonal line from | :26:31. | :26:41. | |
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Northwest to Southeast. It'll feel the same as today though with a | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
noticeably breeze and highs of 5-6 C. And then it's tomorrow night | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
that winds finally drop and as the temperatures fall away to freezing | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
or just below a there'll be a fairly widespread frost and some | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
fog tomorrow night. Into Saturday morning, a chilly one this weekend | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
but plenty of dry weather and some sunshine. | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
A look at tonight's main headlines: Numerous warnings ignored, a school | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
in Somerset has been criticised for failing to protect children from a | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
paedophile teacher employed for more than a decade. And forced to | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
watch as the other was killed, a jury's told that's what happened to | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
a frail couple murdered in their home. | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
And, before we go, a reminder that the secrets of the Staffordshire | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
Hoard of anglo-saxon gold will be unravelled tonight. It was found in | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
a farmer's field in 2009 and sheds new light on life in the Midlands | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
1400 years ago. TV historian Dan Snow has pieced together some of | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
the clues to paint a colourful picture of the Dark Ages. | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
And the programme, called Saxon Hoard: A Golden Discovery, will be | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
Hoard: A Golden Discovery, will be on BBC Two, tonight at 8pm. | :27:39. | :27:41. |