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Welcome to Midlands Today. 5th murdered in his own home after | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
years of burglaries, now his killer must serve at least 22 years. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
�1.50 a litre, the most expensive diesel in the country. | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
If they do not do something, we will be looking at �1.55, possibly | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
even �1.70 a litre for diesel. If a documentary inspired by a | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Birmingham charity wins an Oscar. We do not normally associate | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Balsall Heath with Los Angeles, but now there is that connection, so it | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
is pretty exciting. And how Emily's prayers held West | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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Brom end their home hoodoo with a Welcome to Monday's Midlands Today. | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
Tonight, jail for a burglar who preyed on a disabled pensioner. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Cory Youlden had been released from prison just three months before he | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
throttled 83-year-old Paul Cox in his home in Worcestershire. He will | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
serve at least 22 years. His victim, a retired engineer, had | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
been put it -- persistently targeted by burglars. The judge | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
described his murder as a savage attack on an elderly victim. | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
A few days short of his 84th birthday, Paul Cox was frail, | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
partially sighted and entirely vulnerable. For 30 years and | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
Engineer at Caprice in Bournville, he lived alone at Rednal, south of | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
Birmingham, amid some of clutter, but proudly self-sufficient. -- | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
Cadbury's. A burglar 60 years his junior showed him to death. | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
He was fiercely independent, wanted to stay in his own home and | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
continue driving. But Cory Youlden is a vicious, brutal, violent | :02:13. | :02:21. | |
criminal who very much deserves to spend a long time behind bars. | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
Youlden, aged 23 and from Frankley, has a string of convictions. When | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
the elderly homeowner challenged him after breaking in, he grabbed | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
him by the neck. After strangling Paul Cox, Cory Youlden stole his | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
car keys, some loose change and some groceries. It is the third or | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
4th time Mr Cox has been burgled. To see him like that is not nice. | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
His next door neighbour raised the alarm, and is still staggered by | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
the violence of his friend's death. What can you say about that? I | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
don't know the bloke, but something must be wrong with him to do a | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
thing like that. 3 Youlden try to take cover his | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
tracks, but left to Prince around the window and footprints on the | :03:12. | :03:22. | |
carpet. -- fingerprints. His daughter spoke of their loss. | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
The perpetrator again to nothing, but his son and daughter lost a | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
loving father, his grand daughter and grandson have lost their | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
devoted grandad. Youlden, pictured buying flowers | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
the next morning, admitted murder. He will serve a minimum of 22 years. | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Today's case follows high-profile attacks on people in their own | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
homes in recent times. Giuseppe and Catalina Massaro were murdered | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
during a burglary in Wolverhampton last year. And Avtar and Carol | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
Kolar were killed in their house in Birmingham in January. | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Brian Senior is the divisional manager of Victim Support and | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
joined us now. Our elderly people concerned that the sort of attacks | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
on the rise? The fear of crime is an individual | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
thing. Whereas the actual reality can be very different. | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
Statistically, the research has shown that older people are less | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
likely to become a victim of crime than younger people. The young man | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
between 16 and 34 is the most likely victim. | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
What effect does hearing of these crimes have on older people? | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
Is obviously created via, and the impact is varying from person-to- | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
person. -- it obviously creates fear. As I have said, we must | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
stress that all the people are less likely to be victims. | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
If so they should not be as fearful as they might be? | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
What impact does actually having a burglary have on all the people? | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
The impact is very different. A particularly if someone is living | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
alone, or if they have physical or mental health issues. Burglar's | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
particularly affect people when something of sentimental value is | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
taken. Invading someone's personal space is a terrible thing, and at | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Victim Support, we are always working with people who have been | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
the victim of these attacks. Still ahead, thousands of people | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
left without water, an investigation is under way into how | :05:47. | :05:56. | |
a main supply pipe came to be Fuel prices are soaring again. Next | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
month's budget could see another rise. One filling station near | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Coventry was charging �1.50 a litre Ford diesel today, a monster the | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
dearest in the country. The cost has almost doubled from | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
the price that led to fuel protests 12 years ago. Joining us is our | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
Transport Correspondent. Why exactly our prices going up again? | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
The problem is a threat from Iran to blockade a vital trade route. It | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
is said about 40% of the world's oil uses that route, and there is a | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
worry about a lack of supply a now. What has the impact been on the | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
forecourt? Prices seem to be rising daily in | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
some places. These are pictures we found earlier. One service station | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
on the M6 was selling diesel at a staggering �1.50 per litre. But as | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
you can see, there is no lack of people filling up. Nearby, we found | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
another filling station, also that -- also branded Shell, and it was | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
selling it 9p cheaper. We asked drivers what they thought of the | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
price rises. It is a bit ridiculous, because | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
when you go on holiday, to Spain or Europe, you see the difference in | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
the prices. You know we are paying the majority in tax. | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
Filling up your car just seems to go up and up. | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
It is very difficult. IMA chef, and I have to travel 26 miles to work | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
every day. It had to stop, I had to quit my job before Christmas just | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
because of petrol. Could we see more rises in the | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
Budget next month? The Chancellor postponed a six | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
pence rise last year, and the Budget could clear the rise for | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
that to happen. Tax and VAT amounts to 60% of the price we pay at the | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
pub, and motoring journalists we have been speaking to say enough is | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
enough. In the next few months we will see | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
it going up and up, and it has gone up 15% in the last month. The | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Treasury are saying we cannot cut to duty, but we have to adjust for | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
us to stand still. If they do not do something, will be looking at | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
�1.55, possibly even �1.70 a litre for diesel, which will cripple the | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
economy. With predictions of �1.70 a litre, | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
perhaps it is time to dust of the bicycle! | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
Among the Oscars at last night's a glittering ceremony, is one | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
inspired by the work of a Birmingham charity. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
It tells the story of women in Pakistan are left scarred by acid | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
attacks. There are some disturbing images in this report. | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Glitz, glamour, celebrity. The Oscars celebrate the best of the | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
movie industry. But his is not all about the Blockbuster. -- it is not | :09:05. | :09:15. | |
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Saving Face, the story of survivors of acid violence, one that best | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
documentary. -- won Best Short Documentary. | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
This is the place that inspired the film makers. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
We had some great tweets from people. | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
Messages have been coming in to it Islamic Help. | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
We do not always associate Balsall Heath with Los Angeles, but now | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
there is that connection. It is exciting. | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
For since 1995, Islamic Help has held over 1000 people who have been | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
victims of acid attacks. We had five people being held by | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
their mothers, in their arms, and there can be any reason from a | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
husband not been happy with cooking to malicious allegations of having | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
an affair. It was in a split second that | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
everything changed. Victim Support's ambassador is | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
Katie Price, -- Katie Piper, who was guard when an ex-boyfriend | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
arranged for acid to be thrown in her face. | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
It is not Victim Support or any of the -- it is not Islamic Help that | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
wins, it is the people who need help. | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
They aim to expand to Africa and Asia. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
A consultant at Birmingham City Council today added to the | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
government's problems over their controversial reforms of the NHS. | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
He persuaded his professional body, the Royal College of Physicians, | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
with 15,000 members, to hold an extraordinary general meeting. | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
Today, 89% of members backed him in opposing the bill. Dr David Nicholl | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
trickled think -- triggered the meeting following concerns over the | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
stance the body was taking. Yesterday, he clashed with a | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
Conservative MP on our Sunday Politics showed. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
Everyone has got to their view, but a lot of the doctors who are | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
already applying these reforms as far as they are able to under the | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
current rules, in my area of Dudley, are finding them extremely | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
beneficial. If it is right that we start to make decisions about | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
people's care closer to the patient and their family, and that is what | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
the reforms are designed to do. Let's talk to Dr David Nicholl now. | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Do you really think at this stage the government will budge despite | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
the vote against the bill by your colleagues? | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
Yes, I do, and I do not think this Bill will go through, not because | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
of any action by David Cameron and Andrew Lansley, it is up to us. One | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
of the suggestions was that all the consultants should call in their | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
local MPs on a Friday to pass on their views about the NHS bill. | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
What are the main concerns? There are so many. What is a major | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
one? We will start with commissioning. | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
Real worries about that process. There is the potential for major | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
conflicts of interest, and you are introducing extra levels of | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
bureaucracy. You think this would be bad for | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
patients? Appalling for patients, and risking | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
more expensive health care with worse outcomes. | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
The NHS does need reform, most people agree that. What changes do | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
you think should be made? There are three things that need to | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
change. People are living longer, we have an obesity epidemic -- | :12:55. | :13:04. | |
epidemic, and more expensive drugs. Severn Trent Water has apologised | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
after 12,000 customers were left without water following a major | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
leak. A burst main last night meant families had no running water for | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
more than 12 hours. The company says it is trying to establish how | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
it happened. Ted Barnwell's surrounded by dirty | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
clothes and crockery. The dishwasher and washing machine | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
deprived of water. Ted's supply was cut at 9pm last night, his morning | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
cuppa came from a bottle, and he was forced to stock up. We did not | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
get a bath or shower. Normally you will get a warning about this. My | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
friend has a freezer which is controlled by water. He has had to | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
throw all his food away. A quarter of a mile away in a farmer's field | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
Severn Trent Engineers are excavating. Below a 12 inch wide | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
water main has burst. While there was no flooding, there has been | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
wide disruption. 12,000 homes in Frankley, Rubery and Rednall lost | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
their supplies. We recognised this is a big disruption to our | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
customers. We wish to apologise. Rest assured, our engineers are | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
working round the clock to get this fixed. Five schools were also | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
affected. They were taking -- they were forced to take the difficult | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
decision to close today. Ted Barnwell's supply was restored late | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
this afternoon along with the remainder of households. The cause | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
of this leak is unclear. Profits at Severn Trent fell slightly last | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
year on the back of successive cold spells causing broken pipes. During | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
the same period, customer complaints rose by 16%. | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Still to come tonight: How children are being taught the value of | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
saving instead of getting into debt. And last week was a tough act to | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
follow but new week, new outlook and a fresh set of temperatures | :14:58. | :15:08. | |
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that aren't all bad. Find out how mild it gets later. | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
A new disease affecting sheep and cattle is spreading across the | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
country and farmers are worried it may already be here, with reports | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
of a case of Schmallenberg virus in Gloucestershire. The disease has | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
spread from the continent and causes particular problems for | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
pregnant ewes, making lambing time, which is coming very soon, | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
particularly worrying for farmers. Our Environment Correspondent joins | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
us now from a farm near Worcester. What causes this disease? | :15:33. | :15:43. | |
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Well, this is spread from the Continent and the virus comes were | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
infected midges biting form animals here. It looks like this happened | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
last year. I am joined by a local former who can explain why this is | :15:57. | :16:07. | |
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now up problem. The female sheep are having stillborn animals and | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
abortions. We are one month away from lambing and there are no | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
reports of problems in the West Midlands at this moment. Is there a | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
vaccine or a test for this? There is no vaccine, but they are testing | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
just now. Do you think this will become a problem like foot and | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
mouth? It is very hard to say at the moment. It is an emerging | :16:41. | :16:50. | |
situation. We hope that we can have another 12 months to get on top of | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
the problem. There is no sign that this disease can affect humans. 44 | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
armourers, however, this is a nasty new disease. -- as far as farmers | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
are concerned, this is a nasty new disease. | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
The office of fair trading is to look again at capping interest | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
rates on so called payday loans which can sometimes reach an annual | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
rate of 4,000%. Meanwhile, one organisation is tackling debt in | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
another way. It is teaching the next generation the value of saving. | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
With average household debt in the UK, excluding mortgages, now | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
standing at �8,000, the Six Towns credit union in west Bromwich is | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
working with local schools to try to encourage children to become | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
savers rather than borrowers in the future. At Hall Green School, the | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
scheme has been enthusiastically welcomed by staff and pupils. | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
have been saving because most of my family are in Pakistan and I want | :17:46. | :17:54. | |
to go and see them. I am saving up for my passport. I am saving up to | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
build a new rabbit hutch. credit union is owned by its savers | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
and borrowers who become shareholders and it is hoped the | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
school initiative will encourage parents to follow the example of | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
their children and save up for the things they want rather than take | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
out loans which many then struggle to repay. My son comes to the | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
school and I've never saved. And I've started saving for Christmas | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
and that takes a big chunk off credit cards and overdrafts so as a | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
parent as well it's done me a favour. As well as working in | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
schools Six towns credit union has also stepped into the payday loan | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
market offering short-term loans to its members at greatly reduced | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
interest rates to those found online and on the high street. | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
Their initiative comes at a time when the office of fair trading has | :18:33. | :18:42. | |
promised to look again at demands for interest rates to be capped. | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
And you can see more on that and other ways to borrow money on | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
Inside Out tonight at 7:30pm on BBC One. Also on tonight's programme, | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
they investigate the growing problem of dog-fighting. | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
Now the sport. Sing before you are winning, it | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
would seem there is the secret! None of our teams delivered a | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
better result than West Bromwich Albion. And no-one was more | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
delighted than Emily Badger. Ten minutes before kick-off, Emily's | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
singing brought the crowd to its feet. And the players responded by | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
scoring four against Sunderland. 9:30am this morning. And I've | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
joined the year seven art class at St Michael's High in Rowley Regis. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Teacher Miss Quadir has put me next to Emily Badger who soon revealed | :19:24. | :19:34. | |
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what an exciting weekend she'd had. The Lord is My Shepherd. I will not | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
want. Emily's job was to get the crowd in fine voice before kick-off. | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
And singing the Baggies favourite hymn in front of 25,000 fans proved | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
no problem for this talented 12 year old from Tividale. How were | :19:48. | :19:58. | |
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you feeling? I was tingling in my belly. The fans were quiet and they | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
were waving their scarves. I was proud and I enjoyed it. The fans | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
weren't the only ones impressed by Emily's singing. Listening in the | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
tunnel, the Albion players felt the hairs rising on the back of their | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
necks. And suitably inspired went necks. And suitably inspired went | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
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on to score four past Sunderland -- Back at St Michael's, today's | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
art class was almost over. But not before Miss Quadir had dished out | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
four gold merits for arguably the finest work of original art she has | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
ever seen. And Emily Badger would love the chance to repeat her | :20:54. | :21:03. | |
match-winning performance against Chelsea on Saturday. | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
Well done to Emily. For 45 minutes on Saturday, it | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
seemed Wolves' change of manager would make no difference to their | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
Premier League fortunes. But Terry Premier League fortunes. But Terry | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
Connor's first half-time team talk must have been impressive because | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
it inspired his players to a dramatic comeback. | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
After 13 years at Wolves, Terry Connor has seen most things. But | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
this was a day for fresh experiences. Centre of attention | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
for the fans and media before kick- off, a first manager's handshake | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
too. But some things still haven't changed and Wolves were behind | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
inside five minutes at Newcastle. When that quickly became two, the | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
managerial gum was getting chewed twice as fast in the technical area. | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
But while owner Steve Morgan spent half-time wondering whether he had | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
made the right decision, down in the dressing-room Connor was making | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
his mark. A reinvigorated team got back into the game early in the | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
second half through Matt Jarvis. And when Kevin Doyle poked home the | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
equaliser, the fans could barely believe what they were seeing. But | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
when the final whistle went, it was when the final whistle went, it was | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
all smiles on a day which gave him an excellent start to life in the | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
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hot-seat. Revealing the team was new territory for me. It was | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
strange not to give advice to someone else but to make the | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
someone else but to make the decisions myself. But it went | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
really well. Stoke City ended a recent poor run in the Premier | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
League with a comfortable 2-0 home victory over Swansea. Matthew Upson | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
and Peter Crouch scoring in the first half for a first win in five | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
league games. But the natives are getting restless at Aston Villa. | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
The travelling supporters jeered manager Alex McLeish during the | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
goalless draw at bottom of the table Wigan. And to make matters | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
worse, striker Darren Bent was stretchered off with an ankle | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
injury which threatens another injury which threatens another | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
major blow to their season. Aston Villa have confirmed in the | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
last few minutes that Darren Bent has ruptured ankle ligaments and is | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
has ruptured ankle ligaments and is unlikely to play again this season. | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
Coventry City's hopes of surviving relegation from the Championship | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
were raised with a dramatic late winner at the weekend. Clive Platt | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
struck deep into injury time to give the Sky Blues a 1-0 win over | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
Barnsley. Coventry remain in the bottom three but manager Andy Thorn | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
bottom three but manager Andy Thorn believes it could prove to be a | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
season-changing game for them. And you can see all the Football | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
League goals on Late Kick Off on BBC One at 11pm this evening. That | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
includes the action from the crucial promotion game between | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
Shrewsbury Town and Crawley tonight. The game is live on BBC Radio | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
Shropshire from 7pm. By the way, Emily Badger is | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
appearing in The King and I next month. And don't be surprised if | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
one or two Albion fans go along to support her at Wolverhampton Grand | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
Theatre. Good luck to her. What ago. -- what | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
a girl. Urban nature reserves dotted across | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
the region are to benefit from millions of pounds of grants. | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
Campaign groups are delighted. They say pockets of green surrounded by | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
motorways, factories and housing, host a rich variety of wildlife | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
including red deer and even otters. Industrialisation has taken its | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
toll on the landscape in Birmingham and the Black Country. There was a | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
quarry here on the Rowley Hills near Oldbury until 30 years ago. | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
But from today the site is part of one of the Government's Nature | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
Improvement Areas. A grant of nearly three quarters of a million | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
pounds should pave the way for millions to be spent enticing | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
wildlife to the West Midlands. one of the things that will be | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
happening will be that we will control Hawthorn Scrubs. In 20 | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
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years' time, you can come and see a fantastic array of butterflies. | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
Moorcroft Wood near Wednesbury. Blast furnaces once stood here. Now | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
it is populated with trees, filled with birdsong and treasured by the | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
community. The type of conservation project the Environment Secretary | :24:50. | :24:59. | |
wants to see more of. One of the things about launching the nature | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
improvement areas today is that recognition that we can restore it | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
and make it better. We want to be the first generation that leaves | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
the countryside in a better state than we inherited it. The money | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
will be used to clean up waterways and restorer wasteland which has | :25:17. | :25:27. | |
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been ruined by industrialisation. What an amazing weekend it was for | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
weather. Will it continue? It is still February, soon to be | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
It is still February, soon to be March and nature is still pushing | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
for Spring. It is another reasonably mild one this week with | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
an early peak in temperatures, but it will be rather cloudy and at | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
times damp although with high pressure in place once again, the | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
picture is mostly dry and any rain that we do get will be kept to a | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
minimum which isn't going to be best news for some people. We can | :25:56. | :26:06. | |
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see that today and tonight the rain moves away to the South East. A | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
mixture of mist and cloud there, but very mild indeed. Temperatures | :26:09. | :26:18. | |
will be dropping to a minimum of eight degrees. Fairly mild start | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
tomorrow. Again, we're caught under cloud and mist which will gradually | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
left through the morning. If we get any brightness, it will be in the | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
east of the region. We're hoping tomorrow will be the mildest day of | :26:31. | :26:41. | |
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the week. The days ammonite largely resemble each other. -- the days | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
:26:55. | :27:00. | ||
and the nights. We're looking at highs of 12 degrees. The brightness | :27:00. | :27:10. | |
:27:10. | :27:12. | ||
will largely be in the east. On will largely be in the east. On | :27:12. | :27:21. | |
Friday, the wins will turn white. - Lot of people were eating outside | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
this weekend. A look at tonight's main headlines: | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
Charlotte Church wins �600,000 from Rupert Mudoch's News Group over the | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
phone hacking scandal. And targeted by burglars. The | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
killer of a vulnerable pensioner is jailed for at least 22 years. | :27:32. | :27:35. |