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Hello, welcome to Midlands Today with Jackie Kabler and Nick Owen. | :00:04. | :00:09. | |
The headlines tonight. Compensation for Cerys - a multi- | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
million pound payout for the six- year-old permanently disabled by a | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
dangerous driver. She has got the money she needs to | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
pay for the round-the-clock care, nurses and carers for the rest of | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
her life. Arrested on suspicion of conspiracy | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
to defraud - West Midlands MEP Nikki Sinclaire is questioned by | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
police. I do not know about a mistake, but | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
I do not think she would do anything deliberately because she | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
is an honest person who tries to get on with her life. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
The specialist police team seizing millions of pounds worth of | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
cannabis from illegal drugs farms. And still no manager for Wolves as | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
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Good evening and welcome to Thursday's Midlands Today from the | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
BBC. Our top story tonight. �5 million compensation for a six- | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
year-old girl left paralysed by a speeding teenage driver. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Cerys Edwards suffered a broken neck and severe brain damage, and | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
now needs 24-hour care. It was November 2006 when a Range Rover | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
collided with the Edwards' family car in Sutton Coldfield as they | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
returned from a trip to feed the ducks. Cerys was thrown from her | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
car seat. The 19-year-old driver was | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
sentenced to 21 months in April 2008. He served just six in jail, | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
leading to a campaign for longer sentences. Although Cerys has made | :01:39. | :01:48. | |
some progress, her life expectancy is limited. Here's Ben Godfrey. | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
Cerys Edwards is only six years old. But for most of her life, she has | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
been unable to breathe without a ventilator. She suffered extensive | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
brain injuries after this head-on crash. Her parents were told she | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
would not survive. Teenager Antonio Boporan was doing | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
more than 70 miles an hour in a 30 zone. At the High Court today, a | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
settlement of �5 million was approved, paid for by his insurers | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
as compensation for Cerys's catastrophic injuries. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
No amount of money is going to turn the clock back. They are pleased | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
the case is finished and that Cerys' financial needs are assured. | :02:28. | :02:38. | |
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She has got the money she needs for the round-the-clock care. It is | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
appalling. Currently there's a maximum | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
sentence of two years for anyone causing injury through dangerous | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
driving. Now the Government wants a new offence of causing serious | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
injury by dangerous driving, with a maximum term of five years. | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Midlands Today has followed the Edwards family as they have | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
campaigned for tougher penalties. Today, for legal reasons, their | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
solicitor spoke on their behalf. They got a petition of something | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
like 30,000 people to sign it, they took that to Parliament and the | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
Home Secretary agreed to change the law. That Bell is now going through | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
Parliament. So what about the speeding driver? | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Antonio Boporan now heads up a charitable trust. The website says | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
it offers financial support to disadvantaged children. The High | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
Court heard he had offered an unreserved apology. The judge said | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
this is one of the saddest cases I have ever come across. As well as a | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
lump sum of �5 million, Cerys Edwards has also been awarded | :03:51. | :04:00. | |
�500,000 for every year of her life to fund her ongoing medical care. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
Cerys Edwards is paralysed and unable to speak to her parents. | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
Despite it all, she is a girl who is full of smiles. Ben Godfrey, BBC | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
Midlands Today, at the High Court. We're joined now from our London | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
studio by Amy Aeron-Thomas from Roadpeace - the national charity | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
for road crash victims. What is your reaction to the compensation | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
package Cerys Edwards received? am glad it was finally completed. | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
It takes of the worry away from the family. It has taken over five | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
years for it to be settled. It took them almost two years before they | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
even got an interim payment. These may seem it like a large a mines, | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
but the family has been given a life sentence and no amount can | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
compensate for what they have suffered. | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
There are new government proposals on compensation which mean that | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
future victims similar to Cerys are unlikely to get such big payouts. | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
That is right and it is worrying us. Under the proposals being discussed | :04:58. | :05:08. | |
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in Parliament now, victims would have to pay for solicitor's fees. | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
Right now, it is the wrong doer, the one who caused the haar who has | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
to pay. The we heard about the new charges that will be brought them, | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
serious injury by dangerous driving. Also, tougher sentences for those | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
drivers. Is that a good thing? is. They have been talking about | :05:40. | :05:50. | |
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that since 2003. It is long overdue. What worries us however is that the | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Government is talking about restricting it to life the encases | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
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when it should be extended to all serious injuries -- a life- | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
threatening case. Thanks for joining us here on | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
Midlands Today. Later in the programme. | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
Moved to tears. How 10,000 children have been warned about the horrors | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
of knife and gun crime. An MEP has been arrested on | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
suspicion of conspiring to defraud the European Parliament. Nikki | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
Sinclaire is accused of submitting false expenses. She has totally | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
denied the allegations. Three other people were also | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
arrested as part of the police investigation, as Bob Hockenhull | :06:33. | :06:43. | |
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reports. You are nothing better than dictators. Nikki Sinclaire's | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
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officers, looking for law today, there is a low point. -- For lawyer. | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
One of her fellow MEPs was quick to defend Nikki Sinclaire. I do not | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
think she would do anything it deliberately because she is an | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
honest person. I cannot believe she has taken anything. She is no | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
stranger to controversy air. She was expelled by UKip. Her campaign | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
to get the UK out of Europe force a referendum debate in the Commons. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
She had been bailed by police along with three other people who were | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
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also arrested. Her office has She goes on to say that the | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
allegations are old and come from a disgruntled ex-employee he. She | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
feels it would be inappropriate to comment further because of the | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
ongoing police investigation, but that is frustrating to her because | :08:12. | :08:21. | |
she has nothing to hide. With us now is our political | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
reporter Susana Mendonca. Will it make any difference to her work as | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
an MEP representing the West Midlands in Strasbourg? Essentially | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
not, because she has not been charged with anything. She wants to | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
clear her name. If she had been charged, there are disciplinary | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
procedures in place that the European Parliament can use. | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
She stands as an independent and does not have the backing of a | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
party machine any more. Does that make things more difficult for her? | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
It makes it quite difficult for her in terms of having influence. In | :08:54. | :09:03. | |
the European Parliament, parties form in groups. Nikki Sinclaire was | :09:03. | :09:13. | |
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expelled from UKip and focuses on single issues, campaign issues. Her | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
major campaign issue is the idea of removing Britain from the European | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
Union. She took a petition to Downing Street last year. It is | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
quite difficult for somebody who is not going to a partly -- who is not | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
linked to a party to have any influence. | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
A man charged with the murder of retired Worcestershire school- | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
teacher Betty Yates has appeared in court. Stephen Farrow who is 47 is | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
also accused of killing a vicar at his home in Gloucestershire. Cath | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
Mackie reports. The prison van manoeuvred its way | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
swiftly passed the newspaper photographers waiting outside | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
Northavon Magistrates Court. Hidden from view behind the blacked-out | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
windows was Stephen Farrow who is facing two counts of murder. | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
The 47-year-old, who is 6 foot 4, wore a grey fleece and trousers in | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
court and spoke only to confirm his name, birth date and that he has no | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
fixed address. Stephen Farrow is accused of | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
murdering Betty Yates at her home on the banks of the River Severn in | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Bewdley. The 77-year-old retired schoolteacher had been stabbed and | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
beaten with her own walking stick. Her body was found on January 4th. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Six weeks later in the town of Thornbury in Gloucestershire, the | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
Reverend John Stubbards was found stabbed to death in his vicarage. | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
Police launched a nationwide manhunt and arrested Stephen Farrow | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
on Sunday in Kent following a tip off from the public. In Bewdley, | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
where Betty Yates was regarded as a pillar of the community, a memorial | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
service will be held later this year. | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
Police involved in this inquiry have thanked the public for their | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
continued support and for their courage in coming forward. And | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
they're still urging anyone with information to contact them. | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Stephen Farrow was remanded in custody. A trial is due to take | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
place at Bristol Crown Court in June. Cath Mackie, BBC Midlands | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
Today. A specialist team has recovered | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
more than �22 million worth of cannabis from illegal farms in the | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
West Midlands in the last year alone. | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
Almost 600 raids have taken place across the region, seizing and | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
destroying hundreds of thousands of plants. We sent our reporter Joan | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
Cummins to join the team today, as they cleared another illegal | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
cannabis farm. Noisy and necessary, a daily | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
occurance in the destruction of illegal cannabis farms across the | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
region. Today's target - a rented house in Oldbury. A specialist team | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
working in the West Midlands are now dismantling cannabis farms on a | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
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regular basis. This is job number 585. Everything that has been put | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
him out for safety has been bypassed to steal electricity. | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
Neighbours say they did not know that anybody was living here. | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
Inside his house, 300,000 cannabis plants. The house has been turned | :12:04. | :12:13. | |
into a virtual death trap. You can see how it is set up. There is | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
water running round the house as well. Not only are they exposed | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
electricity cables, there are hosepipes and running water. | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
The regional cannabis disposal team was set up initially as a trial, | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
but the inhouse team has saved the police budget �1 million. The team | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
is also being used by other forces in the region, but are they winning | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
the drugs war? I think we will always be one step behind, but it | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
is a very short step at the moment. There is a lot more of them than | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
there is of us. But we are doing our best to keep up with them. We | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
are doing a lot of these cannabis farms and taking a lot of drugs of | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
the street. Cannabis is now classified as a | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
class B drug. Operating a factory like this could result in the man | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
arrested here last night facing 14 years in prison. But the team has | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
no doubt that cannabis is part of organised crime. It is not the same | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
as it was in the 1970s. It is not a mellow draw be any more. It is very | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
potent, there are different strains and varieties. There are links with | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
illegal immigrants, money laundering and all the other things | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
have got money from crime goes into. Much of the paraphernalia is | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
recycled whilst the plants end up in landfill. The continuing message | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
to communities though is report anything suspicious before you find | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
yourself living next door to a cannabis factory. | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
The head of the Care Quality Commission who failed to spot poor | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
care at Stafford Hospital has resigned. Cynthia Bower was chief | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
executive of the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority when the | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
appalling failures at Stafford occurred. Ms Bower was criticised | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
at the Stafford public inquiry for disbanding the investigations team | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
and presiding over a bullying culture. | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
Police are to carry out fresh searches around the Herefordshire | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
village of Orlton for a pensioner who has been missing for more than | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
four weeks. 63-year-old Alethea Taylor was last seen in January. | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
Around 80 local people have been helping to look for her, but | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
there's been no trace so far. Air support will help ground teams with | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
the new search which will take place later this week. | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
A climber from Kidderminster has died after falling more than 1,000 | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
feet from Ben Nevis. 32-year-old Paul Guest was climbing the UK's | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
highest mountain on Sunday when he fell. A fellow climber was injured | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
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but survived. Still ahead this evening. We're | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
live with Stoke City fans hoping their team can reign in Spain. | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
was always going to be tough, but a goal down it makes it all that much | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
harder. And there's no need for the fans | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
back home to feel left out - it's been exceptional today. Sun and | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
sangria weather with record highs. I'll be telling what they were in a | :15:15. | :15:25. | |
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More than 10,000 schoolchildren in the West Midlands have taken part | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
in a programme aimed at taking any idea of glamour out of guns and | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
crime. They have come face to face with the impact guns and gangs can | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
have on families and they have sat through a film which left some in | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
tears. Latest figures show that nearly 90 | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
children in this region were charged with possessing a firearm | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
between April 2008 and March 2010. Louise Brierley reports. | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
Captured on CCTV, two teenagers are walking down a street. But look | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
closely and one is holding something in his right hand. It | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
appears to be a gun. Moments later, armed police are on | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
the scene. Pointing their weapons at the youngster in Erdington High | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
Street. It turned out it was a toy gun and he threw it down just in | :16:10. | :16:20. | |
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time to save his life. We close the film with what the alternative | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
could have been, and knock on the door to your mother saying your son | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
has been shot. It's one of many real life incidents being shown to | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
pupils like these as part of a project by West Midlands Police to | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
tackle gun and knife crime. So what do they think? It is about | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
the consequences. It is not just the victim. It is the family as | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
well. The way that everything is brought to life and how realistic | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
it is. People might see this and think twice. The tragic case of | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
teenagers Charlene Ellis and Letisha Shakespeare, who were the | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
innocent victims of a gangland shooting in Aston in 2003, is also | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
featured in the video presentation. Letisha's mother Marcia is a guest | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
speaker. It is so important to speak to people, do not make their | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
parents be in the same position as I was. It is important because the | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
situation is so negative that something positive has to come out | :17:11. | :17:21. | |
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of it. The project has reached 85 schools across the West Midlands. | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
It is hoped this sort of early intervention will make Young people | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
think twice before carrying a knife or gun. And after their close shave, | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
it is doubtful these boys will pick up an imitation firearm again. | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
Louise Brierley, BBC Midlands Today, Wolverhampton. | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
The former Rangers and Scotland manager Walter Smith is the latest | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
to rule himself out of becoming the new boss of Wolverhampton Wanderers. | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
The club sacked Mick McCarthy ten days ago vowing to have a new man | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
in charge for Saturday's game at Newcastle. But that's now being | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
left to caretaker Terry Connor. Dan Pallett reports. | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
He looked like the one, but now he's gone. Walter Smith is just the | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
latest manager to say thanks, but no thanks, to Wolves. He was | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
offered the post of manager, but turned it down. And he's far from | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
the first. Alan Curbushley was thought to be the club's first | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
choice, but he ruled himself out at the weekend. Brian McDermott is now | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
off the radar after signing a new deal at Reading. And Gus Poyet is | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
happy at Championship Brighton. So today caretaker Terry Connor had to | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
face the media and will run the team on Saturday. But he knows his | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
13 years at the club could end any day. If that is the case, that is | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
the case. I know what happens. When I signed the contract, I knew their | :18:40. | :18:49. | |
ups and downs. Ryan Leister is on the fans' parliament and constantly | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
takes the fans' pulse. He says the club should do the same over the | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
new manager. It is hard to ignore all the comments on Twitter and | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
Facebook. They need to make the right decision and putting someone | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
in that the fans are not keen Ellen could be detrimental. Work | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
continued on the ground today, but fans are less impressed by the work | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
finding a new manager. I was disappointed when Alan Curbishley | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
said it was not right for him. thought that their new manager | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
would be in place by the game against Newcastle. Mick McCarthy | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
was a big character at Wolves. It seems it's not easy trying to fill | :19:37. | :19:47. | |
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his shoes. A big night for Stoke City fans. 5,000 of them have | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
headed for Spain. But many more had to stay at home. Nick Clitheroe is | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
with some of them in Stoke on Trent. Plenty of people have made the trip | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
out of Valencia for the game. But on the pitch, nothing to cheer | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
about so far. Stalker did get off to a good start in the game. Plenty | :20:12. | :20:22. | |
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of early pressure. -- Stoke. But Valencia have scored and it is a | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
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mountain to climb for it -- Stoke. They got off to a good start. It | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
should have been a free kick on the edge of their area but Valencia | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
went up to the other end and scored. It will be difficult from here. Can | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
they get back into this? I can see Valencia coming out of the second | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
half and having two or three more goals. But it has been a great | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
adventure? Yes, it has been brilliant. A good experience. | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
Better luck next time. Do you think they could get out of this one? | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
Maybe. They would have to be market. They could do, but it is going to | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
be tough. -- the would have to be lucky. We will bring you the full | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
story in the late bulletin. Thank you very much. | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
It's nearly 40 years since the Birmingham soul singer with the | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
huge voice, Ruby Turner, first took to the stage. She was born in | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Jamaica, but came to this country as a child. | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
Her early days in the showbiz world were a tough slog, but it was not | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
long before she was performing with the likes of Mick Jagger, Boy | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
George, Brian Ferry and UB40. A far cry from the day she arrived here | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
after travelling from Montego Bay, all alone, with a name tag on her | :21:57. | :22:07. | |
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coat. Her talent was yet to emerge! That talent has taken her around | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
the world as an actress and a singer. As a new British tour gets | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
under way, I went with her to the theatre where it all began. It is | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
very special to me because this is where it all started. I came you | :22:27. | :22:36. | |
when I was 16 years old and it changed my life. Her family it was | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
part of a wave of new arrivals from the Caribbean who came to | :22:40. | :22:50. | |
Birmingham in the 1960s. I was just nine. I was looking for the trees | :22:50. | :22:58. | |
and wondering what all these walls were. There was a nice gentle | :22:58. | :23:08. | |
breeze, but no smell of the sea, no mangles. No coconut palms waving. - | :23:08. | :23:18. | |
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What is it about people with a Caribbean background, those big | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
voices that? My grandfather was a lead singer in a gospel group. | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
your mother has sung with you recently? She has. I put out a | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
gospel album about two years ago. I thought my mum would be great on it. | :23:39. | :23:48. | |
It was so moving for me. What strikes me is you keep your feet | :23:48. | :23:56. | |
for a -- keep your feet firmly on the ground. I can tell that. I | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
think it is growing up and that Midlands. And you are still happy | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
to live here? I am still happy to be here. I love coming home. I of | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
the quiet, I can relax here. A love being with my family and friends. | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
She has always struggled with her weight, but tries to keep in trim | :24:18. | :24:28. | |
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playing badminton. I do play badminton. Thank you. Pleasure. I | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
loved every minute of that. And, besides appearing throughout | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
the year with Jools Holland, Ruby is performing this Sunday at the | :24:45. | :24:55. | |
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Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry. It's been an exceptional day in | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
every way. The winds were lighter. The sunshine made an early | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
breakthrough in spite of yesterday's indications to the | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
contrary and so the temperatures just kept rising and rising. These | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
were the final numbers - not only was Coleshill in Warwickshire the | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
warmest spot in the region, it broke its own February record of | :25:20. | :25:30. | |
16.8, although records were only started there in 1997. -- 18.7. | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
Even elsewhere, we exceeded expectations. A really lovely day. | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
Now we're still in a warm sector, so it'll still remain quite warm | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
overnight. Although compared to today's temperatures, the drop is | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
quite steep - nine or ten Celsius overnight and turning cloudier from | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
the North. And then the rain comes through tomorrow. It's a weak front | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
that'll be crossing the region. Once it's gone through, the | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
temperatures will start to fall. So feeling cooler tomorrow with a | :25:53. | :26:03. | |
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maximum of between 10 to 13 Celsius. There's a brisk breeze too. And for | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
the weekend - cooler but mostly dry with some sunshine. Could be some | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
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rain later in the day on Sunday, but a frost on Saturday night. | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
A look at tonight's main headlines. RBS - the taxpayer-funded bank - | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
records its fourth straight year of losses, and it's double the | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
previous year. And �5 million compensation is | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
awarded to a six-year-old girl left paralysed by a teenage speeding | :26:51. | :27:01. | |
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driver. A Muntjac deer got more than he | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
bargained for when he was scavenging for food in Sutton | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
Coldfield. He tried to take a short cut through some railings but got | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
stuck. Eventually Warwickshire Fire and Rescue service were able to | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
free him. The deer had only suffered minor grazes and was | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
immediately released back into the wild. | :27:20. | :27:28. | |
Poor little thing. Tomorrow, we will be at the launch | :27:28. | :27:34. |