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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Nick Owen and Suzanne Virdee.

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The headlines tonight: A world first as a hospital here

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performs an operation that'll save thousands of patients.

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I am not saying it is going to be common, but I think it is something

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we will see. Genuine signs of recovery as

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companies take on more workers than expected and report increased

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activity. The positive news is that people

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have come back and they are placing orders again. It is positive for

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the West Midlands. From the Caribbean to the Black

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Country, the first competitors arrive to prepare for the London

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Olympics. And hidden in an attic for 50 years,

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now published for the first time - poignant front line memories from

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Good evening and welcome to Friday's Midlands Today from the

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BBC. Tonight, a world first in heart surgery, performed right here

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in this region. 81-year-old Henry Beirne was too ill to undergo

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normal surgery, so doctors implanted an aortic valve in his

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heart and repaired an aneurysm using a pioneering new technique.

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Surgeons performed the two lifesaving operations together. If

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they'd been done separately, he could've died. Our health

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correspondent Michele Paduano reports on the new technique that

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could now save hundreds of other lives too.

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Meet a medical first. 81-one-year- old Henry Beirne was a ticking time

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bomb. He had a large bulge in a main artery - the aorta - and a

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leaking heart valve. Doctors knew he'd already had a heart bypass,

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had suffered a stroke and had kidney problems, so further surgery

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wasn't possible. But they gave Henry an option.

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It was either that or I would go to the play's upstairs!

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Specialists had worked out that if they repaired his aortic valve, his

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aneurysm could burst from the increased pressure. If they

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repaired the aneurysm, the pressure on the valve could cause sudden

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heart failure, so they decided to do both without open surgery.

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There's double jeopardy. He has got an aneurysm, which is a timebomb,

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as well as the valve. Both things are fortunate, but it is something

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we may see increasingly. I am not saying it is going to be common,

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but it is something we will see because we are treating a much more

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elderly population. Following careful planning, a team

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of doctors used a keyhole technique and went in through the two main

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arteries in Mr Bierne's thighs to reach his heart. While one placed a

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man made valve inside his aortic valve, a process called Tavi, the

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other placed a tube inside his aorta to cure the bulge in the wall.

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I knew that was the only hospital which could do it.

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This image of Mr Bierne's insides shows the two repairs.

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Over 170 patients have been treated with this procedure in

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Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Stoke on Trent. They are people who would

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previously have died. Mr Beirne is still able to drive

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and enjoys visiting friends and the odd trip to the pub.

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Just to live as long as I can. Quality of life, really. As long as

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you have got good quality of life, it is the most important, do you

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know what I mean? For his doctors, it means they

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don't have to say so often, "I'm sorry, there is nothing more we can

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do for you." I'm joined now by Dr Peter Ludman,

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who's a consultant cardiologist for University Hospital Birmingham.

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We saw the double there. It is rare, but you are excited, aren't you,

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about the one part of the procedure. Why is that?

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It is a real breakthrough. There are a lot of patience in the

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population getting older, and this lethal disease of a narrowing of

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the main valve through which all the blood from your heart is pumped

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out into your body, this disease can kill you. But it affects

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elderly patients, and they often have other things wrong with them

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as well. So the normal surgery cannot be

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done? It can, but at higher risk. It is difficult for patients in

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their eighties to undergo surgery. It is a big burden for him to

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overcome. How many people could be saved?

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Many hundreds. In the UK, we are performing somewhere between 709

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hundred Procedure per year. It all started in the UK in 2007. --

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between 709 hundred procedures. We always hear that the NHS cannot

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afford these procedures. What will happen in this case?

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We are going to find that this is a cost-effective technology. Patients

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have terrible quality of life with this disease. They are breathless

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and cannot walk around. They repeatedly are admitted to hospital

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in heart failure. If you can fix the Val, they have an independent

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life. They don't go in and out of hospital, and they live longer. If

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you put that into an equation to work out whether it is worth it,

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almost certainly it is going to come out as cost-effective.

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Thank you very much. You're watching Midlands Today at

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the start of the weekend. Later in the programme:

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It's been our driest spell for decades, but why? Hear from the

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experts later! Encouraging news on the economy

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this evening - recruitment in manufacturing and the demand for

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products appears to be on the increase. A survey of companies in

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the West Midlands has seen an unexpected boom. Businesses

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reported they were seeing a rise in orders both in the UK and from

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abroad. But many firms also said they were having to tighten their

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profit margins so they can compete. Bob Hockenhull has the details.

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This company in Birmingham makes products for cars and is one of the

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success stories helping to boost manufacturing output in the West

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Midlands. Lander Automotive has increased its workforce by 100 to

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400 since September as orders grow. It's a far cry from the gloomy

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economic picture that's often been painted in recent years.

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We are really seeing a buoyant market place. In the last six

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months of last year, we introduced �12 million of business into this

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factory. We have another �5 million in next six months.

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The latest research by the Engineering Employers Federation

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reveals many businesses are optimistic - that's compared with

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the last survey, which revealed a drop in confidence caused partly by

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the euro crisis. In the West Midlands, the number of

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firms expecting an increase in orders has gone up from 30% in

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November to 38% now. The number of companies expecting to take on more

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staff has risen from 25% to 29%. Good news, too, for young workers

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like Sam, the first apprentice to be taken on here in 10 years.

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There's a lot of fun of all people out there, and for somebody like me

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to have a good opportunity, it is amazing.

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It's a step in the right direction, but engineering leaders are

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cautious as well as optimistic. We still have significant problems.

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We have got problems in terms of unemployment, so the news that jobs

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will be created is good, but it will be a small dent in the

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unemployment, I am afraid. Even so, the Engineering Employers

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Federation is predicting manufacturing will continue to grow

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throughout this year and into 2013. A mother and her partner have been

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charged with the murder of her four-year-old son in Coventry. The

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boy was found unconscious at a house in the Holbrooks area of the

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city last Saturday. He died two days later in hospital from a head

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injury. The 26-year-old woman and a man, who's 32, will appear before

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magistrates in Coventry tomorrow. A former Roman Catholic priest from

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Staffordshire has been sentenced to 22 years in jail for sexually

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abusing young boys over a period of 18 years. The judge described him

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as "shameless," saying he'd manipulated God's teaching for his

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own devices. 58-year-old Alexander Bede Walsh from Abbots Bromley was

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convicted last month of 21 charges of abuse. The abuse was described

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in court as serial and predatory. Walsh committed the offences while

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working as a priest across the West Midlands. The Archdiocese of

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Birmingham says it's begun the process of removing him from any

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standing within the Catholic Church. We have already said that we would

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start the process, which has begun. The archbishop has already said

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again today that his door is open to meet any of the victims of this

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terrible abuse. One of them spoke to me after the case, and I think

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we'll take up the offer. The organisation that represents

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rank-and-file police officers in the West Midlands is warning

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against former politicians filling the role of elected police

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commissioners. The public will vote for who they want to take on the

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new job in each of the region's police forces in November. The

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government says commissioners will set police budgets, decide policing

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priorities, and have the power to hire and fire the Chief Constable.

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I would like to think in the West Midlands that the people who are in

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touch with us are doing so for the right reasons, but I'm sure that

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across the country there are people standing who have not had the

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political career that they wanted and are now seeking out another

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high-profile job in order to fulfil themselves.

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And you can see the full report about police commissioners and what

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their role will be on the Sunday Politics Show, which is on at the

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earlier time of 11 o'clock on Sunday morning.

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Campaigners wanting an elected mayor in Birmingham are warning

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that too few people know the city's holding a referendum on the issue.

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It comes after a Populus poll for BBC WM revealed that more than half

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of the people living in the city were unaware that it was taking

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place in May. BBC WM will be holding a debate on the subject

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this evening, and our political reporter Susana Mendonca is there

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now. So tell us more about this poll.

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There are some interesting findings. As you can see, this place is

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filling up with people wanting to discuss whether Birmingham needs a

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male. That poll shows that 59% of the people asked did not know that

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the referendum is taking place in May. 54% of people said that they

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supported the idea of an elected mayor, and 74% of people said that

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they would be voting in the referendum. I am joined by a couple

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of the panellists. Sir Peter Soulsby, Elected Mayor of Leicester,

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elected last year without a referendum, and David Williams from

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Birmingham Green Party, also a member of Vote No to a Power Freak.

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This poll suggests not a lot of people are interested.

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If you had had a similar poll in less that of months ago, you would

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have had a similar result. If you ask them now if it is the

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democratic way of deciding Ladyship, you get an overwhelming yes.

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David Williams, the poll does suggest people support the idea.

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Does that mean that your campaign in Birmingham is losing ground?

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There's no demand at all for this. This has come from the top. There's

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no demand for many community for a directly affected neer. -- a

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He what would you say he's the reason for banning him to have won?

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-- what we do say is the reason for having an elected mayor?

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It works in less than it would work here.

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David Williams. Leadership. You don't agree with this.

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Birmingham is made up of many communities. To have one man, and I

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use the word adviser be because I believe they are all men elected to

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the division, is actually a bad way of going about the democratic

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process. There we must leave it.

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You can hear the debate in full from 7pm on BBC WM.

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As the dry spell continues, you might be wondering if this is a

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sign of a changing climate and if we can expect similar or worse

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conditions in years to come, and what, if anything, we can all do to

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cope with the effects. Ahead of National Climate Week we sent our

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environment correspondent David Gregory to Coventry, and a

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conference of experts from across the Midlands to find out more just

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what is going on. It is tempting to think that

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conferences on climate change produce so much hot air that they

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make the problem worse. But the people here today are at the sharp

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end, some of them thinking up to 40 years in the future.

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The what we see now is how the weather affects the water. We are

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now going through a dry spell. What it shows us is that it paints a

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picture of the type of events we are likely to see more often in the

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future. This is how Severn Trent, for example, are coping today. Just

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a few miles away, they are topping up the reservoir using water from a

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river. Water companies are already talking

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to the regulator about what they plan to do for the next five years

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in terms of infrastructure. But of course, with climate change, they

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are starting to think as much as 40 years ahead. That means spending

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cash on something that has not happened yet. How do the company is

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make sure they don't spend our money on precautions which may not

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What we are looking to do is, our approach to adaptation is that we

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are planning to build things that are flexible and adaptable. We can

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build them incrementally over time and if the situation gets worse we

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can accelerate. There are no regrets on those decisions. Right

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now. Everyone is praying for rain. Our reporter is at a reservoir in

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Birmingham. They are lots of other organisations that are worried

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about climate change. These are the ones that have got hardest about

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this. The two big things in the Midlands are going to be drought,

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this reservoir is looking pretty well, and also flooding. These are

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two things that really worry what a company's. This idea that they have

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a long-term plan but it is small changes, so they can accelerate

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things if the need to, but do not spend too much money on it if they

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do not need to. You mention this long-term plan, I do any bed, a

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radical idea has to cope with this? Severn Trent published his report

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just a euro. They call for a water trading to be allowed to sell water

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between regions. The sake regulation has to change and there

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is a PR battles to be had there too. There is a lot to be said, but

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there will be benefits to customers from this idea. You said what a

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levels were looking pretty well where you wear, what is the

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situation in the Midlands with water and drought? Next week on

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Tuesday it is the next report from the Environment Agency about the

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drought conditions in the Midlands. I suspect we will see more eyrie

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has to be at higher risk of drought. -- regions.

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Memories from the front line nearly a hundred years ago. A glance into

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the forgotten diaries of a nurse in World War a one. The weather does

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not look like giving us the rain we so desperately need this weekend.

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Is there any end in sight to this very dry spell? Join me for the

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forecast later. Port Vale are now officially in

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administration after a hearing at the High Court this morning. We

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pretty much expected this. It is a legal formality. On Tuesday, they

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made their application to move to the High Court. Let us hope that

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this will be the beginning of their end of the financial troubles. In

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the Premier League, Wolves are facing up a very different set of

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problems. Team captain Roger Johnson turned up a bit worse for

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wear for training on Monday. Tomorrow they have a real six-

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pointer against relegation rivals Blackburn.

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Just opposite the chippy you will find Crazy Wicks, and inside Crazy

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Wicks I found Stuart Russell. He is possibly the only man in the

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Midlands who shares his passion for the will sweat his passion for her

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scented candles, healing crystals and dreamcatchers. That is a very

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popular one at the moment. Popular with will stands? Yes. We have a

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lot of greens and one of the genes is to stay end their Premier League

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-- dreams. A dreamcatcher will trap all its -- or you're bad dreams in

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its web and they will disappear in the sunlight. Will survive last

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year by a single point in the final day of the season. -- Wolves. They

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will not be cheering if the same opponents, Blackburn, achieve a

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similar result tomorrow. We need to try and go out and the bold and

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when the game of football. The lads are professional, this is their

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home pitch and they want to win on their home pitch. Come Saturday

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there will be ready to go. I will hope until the last game that

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Wolves will stay in this is a -- division. If you can smell blue

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coconut and white mask in the Stan Cullis Stand tomorrow that will be

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Stuart Russell. If Wolves are transformed into a fire-breathing

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dragon against Blackburn, that could be Stuart's dreamcatchers,

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working hard to keep the club in the Premier League.

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Anne's to find out if your footballing dreams come true this

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weekend, you can find the action on your local radio stations.

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Allsop's local swimming championship can look after lunch

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and we do at -- put forward to London 2012. Ellie Simmonds became

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the first person to break a world record at the newer Olympic

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aquatics centre. She beat her previous best by have the second.

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have had quite a bad week in my front crawl races. They were not

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ones that I was happy with and I felt I could definitely swim faster.

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I just cannot believe it. Even though it was only a world record,

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I just cannot believe it. Elliott sentences not the only swum

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her -- Ellie Simmonds is not the only scunner, Sascha Kindred also

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race end of the Men's MC 50m Buttefly Final. With just over four

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wants to go, boxers from the Commonwealth of Dominica are in

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Wolverhampton. A new credit -- I unique relationship has been formed

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between the city and they went state.

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Hewlett Lucien and rowing Christopher R Dominica's fineness

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middleweights. They are 4,000 miles from home having a light breakfast

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in Bilston. We have been adjusting to the whole environment, but we

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are looking to keep up in the common -- coming weeks. I just want

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to make it to the Olympics. Andrew Pettey is helping them adjust to

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life in the Black Country. His house is now their training base.

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They are no trouble. They are very well house-trained. They look after

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themselves. Dominica is in the Caribbean with a

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population of just 75,000. A few years ago, Wolverhampton-based

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boxing coach returned to his homeland and took a humble boxing

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ring from the city's amateur club. It has inspired a generation of

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youngsters. Hewlett Lucien and Rowain Christopher are products of

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this unique relationship. We are giving them every possible

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opportunity to win. The club itself has been going since 1936 and we

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are applied of -- proud of a club. Not one of us get a penny.

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These boxers will be in Wolverhampton until the end of

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April. Then they will head to Brazil, hoping to make it to London

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2012. I would like to thank her court is for giving us the

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opportunity to be at the Olympics. We could not fail to miss out on

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the Molineux, and time FA Premier League picture. And another treat -

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and the city's brand new bus station. Sadly, that we as a we had

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time for. These boxers are only really interested in one thing -

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Olympic gold. It has been revealed that the

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Olympic torch will pass outside Wolverhampton Boxing Club on June

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30th. Thank you very much. Almost 100 years after the First World War,

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a starring first-hand account of life on the front line has been

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published. It has happened almost by accident. Edith Appleton nest,

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injured and dying soldiers. -- and her staff. Now in association with

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their Imperial War Museum, her family are able to tell her story.

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For more than half a century, these diaries lay in a drawer. Now the

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voice of Edith Appleton has been brought back to life. We have had

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over 600 through ever hospital today, badly wounded and fearfully

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collapsed. Edie, as she was known, spend the

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whole of the First World War as a nurse in France and Belgium. It is

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a mixture of every day horrors that she was dealing with, and then she

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would be off on a picnic and writing all this in her diary,

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beautifully. There are heaps of dead. English, French and Belgian

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are lying all across the town. This first hand account of the work

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may have remained untold until the Dick was spurred into action.

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At this phone call. It said, these diaries are incredible.

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When you read the diaries in detail, you know the day after the agonies

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of the people that she was dealing with. It is very powerful.

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Sadly, sections of the diary are missing, but what remains is

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touching and very human. Pc! Thank God for that. It feels very clear

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to. Perhaps she might be pleased that people were reading her

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perspective on the war. Edith Appleton's diaries will be handed

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to their Imperial War Museum for safe keeping and posterity.

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It is bad news for all those farmers growers and perhaps the

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water companies looking for some rain. This is the set up at the

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moment, high pressure for the south. Although they will move around a

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bit, this will be in charge of our weather for the foreseeable future.

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For the next few days and beyond it will stay dry and very mild.

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Certainly dry through this evening and to eight. They will be. Spot of

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drizzle a crossed the moorlands. For the rest of us, some decent

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spells. A very mild night to come. A fine day tomorrow, that ridge of

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high pressure still in charge, which means it will be dry. The

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Clyde will break up quite nicely as well. -- declared. There will be

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highs of 16 Celsius. It is try again through tomorrow night.

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Sunday will be dry and bright. Quite a lot of cloud initially. We

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should see some sunny spells coming through. If you are heading to

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Birmingham for the St Patrick's Day parade on Sunday then it should be

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dry and bright. Sunday sunny spells, 14 Celsius. This is the situation

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as we enter Sunday, the big red of high pressure is still in place. It

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is a protective bubble. As we head into next week, that will stay with

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us. If you are looking for a rainy will have to look away beyond the

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middle of next week. The headlines: the Italian

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