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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Nick Owen and Suzanne Virdee. | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
The headlines tonight: A world first as a hospital here | :00:05. | :00:13. | |
performs an operation that'll save thousands of patients. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
I am not saying it is going to be common, but I think it is something | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
we will see. Genuine signs of recovery as | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
companies take on more workers than expected and report increased | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
activity. The positive news is that people | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
have come back and they are placing orders again. It is positive for | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
the West Midlands. From the Caribbean to the Black | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Country, the first competitors arrive to prepare for the London | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Olympics. And hidden in an attic for 50 years, | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
now published for the first time - poignant front line memories from | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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Good evening and welcome to Friday's Midlands Today from the | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
BBC. Tonight, a world first in heart surgery, performed right here | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
in this region. 81-year-old Henry Beirne was too ill to undergo | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
normal surgery, so doctors implanted an aortic valve in his | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
heart and repaired an aneurysm using a pioneering new technique. | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
Surgeons performed the two lifesaving operations together. If | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
they'd been done separately, he could've died. Our health | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
correspondent Michele Paduano reports on the new technique that | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
could now save hundreds of other lives too. | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
Meet a medical first. 81-one-year- old Henry Beirne was a ticking time | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
bomb. He had a large bulge in a main artery - the aorta - and a | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
leaking heart valve. Doctors knew he'd already had a heart bypass, | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
had suffered a stroke and had kidney problems, so further surgery | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
wasn't possible. But they gave Henry an option. | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
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It was either that or I would go to the play's upstairs! | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
Specialists had worked out that if they repaired his aortic valve, his | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
aneurysm could burst from the increased pressure. If they | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
repaired the aneurysm, the pressure on the valve could cause sudden | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
heart failure, so they decided to do both without open surgery. | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
There's double jeopardy. He has got an aneurysm, which is a timebomb, | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
as well as the valve. Both things are fortunate, but it is something | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
we may see increasingly. I am not saying it is going to be common, | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
but it is something we will see because we are treating a much more | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
elderly population. Following careful planning, a team | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
of doctors used a keyhole technique and went in through the two main | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
arteries in Mr Bierne's thighs to reach his heart. While one placed a | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
man made valve inside his aortic valve, a process called Tavi, the | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
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other placed a tube inside his aorta to cure the bulge in the wall. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
I knew that was the only hospital which could do it. | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
This image of Mr Bierne's insides shows the two repairs. | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
Over 170 patients have been treated with this procedure in | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Stoke on Trent. They are people who would | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
previously have died. Mr Beirne is still able to drive | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
and enjoys visiting friends and the odd trip to the pub. | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
Just to live as long as I can. Quality of life, really. As long as | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
you have got good quality of life, it is the most important, do you | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
know what I mean? For his doctors, it means they | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
don't have to say so often, "I'm sorry, there is nothing more we can | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
do for you." I'm joined now by Dr Peter Ludman, | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
who's a consultant cardiologist for University Hospital Birmingham. | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
We saw the double there. It is rare, but you are excited, aren't you, | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
about the one part of the procedure. Why is that? | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
It is a real breakthrough. There are a lot of patience in the | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
population getting older, and this lethal disease of a narrowing of | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
the main valve through which all the blood from your heart is pumped | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
out into your body, this disease can kill you. But it affects | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
elderly patients, and they often have other things wrong with them | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
as well. So the normal surgery cannot be | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
done? It can, but at higher risk. It is difficult for patients in | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
their eighties to undergo surgery. It is a big burden for him to | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
overcome. How many people could be saved? | :04:40. | :04:49. | |
Many hundreds. In the UK, we are performing somewhere between 709 | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
hundred Procedure per year. It all started in the UK in 2007. -- | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
between 709 hundred procedures. We always hear that the NHS cannot | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
afford these procedures. What will happen in this case? | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
We are going to find that this is a cost-effective technology. Patients | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
have terrible quality of life with this disease. They are breathless | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
and cannot walk around. They repeatedly are admitted to hospital | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
in heart failure. If you can fix the Val, they have an independent | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
life. They don't go in and out of hospital, and they live longer. If | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
you put that into an equation to work out whether it is worth it, | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
almost certainly it is going to come out as cost-effective. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Thank you very much. You're watching Midlands Today at | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
the start of the weekend. Later in the programme: | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
It's been our driest spell for decades, but why? Hear from the | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
experts later! Encouraging news on the economy | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
this evening - recruitment in manufacturing and the demand for | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
products appears to be on the increase. A survey of companies in | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
the West Midlands has seen an unexpected boom. Businesses | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
reported they were seeing a rise in orders both in the UK and from | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
abroad. But many firms also said they were having to tighten their | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
profit margins so they can compete. Bob Hockenhull has the details. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
This company in Birmingham makes products for cars and is one of the | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
success stories helping to boost manufacturing output in the West | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Midlands. Lander Automotive has increased its workforce by 100 to | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
400 since September as orders grow. It's a far cry from the gloomy | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
economic picture that's often been painted in recent years. | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
We are really seeing a buoyant market place. In the last six | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
months of last year, we introduced �12 million of business into this | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
factory. We have another �5 million in next six months. | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
The latest research by the Engineering Employers Federation | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
reveals many businesses are optimistic - that's compared with | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
the last survey, which revealed a drop in confidence caused partly by | :06:57. | :07:05. | |
the euro crisis. In the West Midlands, the number of | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
firms expecting an increase in orders has gone up from 30% in | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
November to 38% now. The number of companies expecting to take on more | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
staff has risen from 25% to 29%. Good news, too, for young workers | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
like Sam, the first apprentice to be taken on here in 10 years. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
There's a lot of fun of all people out there, and for somebody like me | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
to have a good opportunity, it is amazing. | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
It's a step in the right direction, but engineering leaders are | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
cautious as well as optimistic. We still have significant problems. | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
We have got problems in terms of unemployment, so the news that jobs | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
will be created is good, but it will be a small dent in the | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
unemployment, I am afraid. Even so, the Engineering Employers | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
Federation is predicting manufacturing will continue to grow | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
throughout this year and into 2013. A mother and her partner have been | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
charged with the murder of her four-year-old son in Coventry. The | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
boy was found unconscious at a house in the Holbrooks area of the | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
city last Saturday. He died two days later in hospital from a head | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
injury. The 26-year-old woman and a man, who's 32, will appear before | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
magistrates in Coventry tomorrow. A former Roman Catholic priest from | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Staffordshire has been sentenced to 22 years in jail for sexually | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
abusing young boys over a period of 18 years. The judge described him | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
as "shameless," saying he'd manipulated God's teaching for his | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
own devices. 58-year-old Alexander Bede Walsh from Abbots Bromley was | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
convicted last month of 21 charges of abuse. The abuse was described | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
in court as serial and predatory. Walsh committed the offences while | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
working as a priest across the West Midlands. The Archdiocese of | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
Birmingham says it's begun the process of removing him from any | :08:50. | :09:00. | |
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standing within the Catholic Church. We have already said that we would | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
start the process, which has begun. The archbishop has already said | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
again today that his door is open to meet any of the victims of this | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
terrible abuse. One of them spoke to me after the case, and I think | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
we'll take up the offer. The organisation that represents | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
rank-and-file police officers in the West Midlands is warning | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
against former politicians filling the role of elected police | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
commissioners. The public will vote for who they want to take on the | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
new job in each of the region's police forces in November. The | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
government says commissioners will set police budgets, decide policing | :09:33. | :09:43. | |
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priorities, and have the power to hire and fire the Chief Constable. | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
I would like to think in the West Midlands that the people who are in | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
touch with us are doing so for the right reasons, but I'm sure that | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
across the country there are people standing who have not had the | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
political career that they wanted and are now seeking out another | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
high-profile job in order to fulfil themselves. | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
And you can see the full report about police commissioners and what | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
their role will be on the Sunday Politics Show, which is on at the | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
earlier time of 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
Campaigners wanting an elected mayor in Birmingham are warning | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
that too few people know the city's holding a referendum on the issue. | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
It comes after a Populus poll for BBC WM revealed that more than half | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
of the people living in the city were unaware that it was taking | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
place in May. BBC WM will be holding a debate on the subject | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
this evening, and our political reporter Susana Mendonca is there | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
now. So tell us more about this poll. | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
There are some interesting findings. As you can see, this place is | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
filling up with people wanting to discuss whether Birmingham needs a | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
male. That poll shows that 59% of the people asked did not know that | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
the referendum is taking place in May. 54% of people said that they | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
supported the idea of an elected mayor, and 74% of people said that | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
they would be voting in the referendum. I am joined by a couple | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
of the panellists. Sir Peter Soulsby, Elected Mayor of Leicester, | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
elected last year without a referendum, and David Williams from | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
Birmingham Green Party, also a member of Vote No to a Power Freak. | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
This poll suggests not a lot of people are interested. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
If you had had a similar poll in less that of months ago, you would | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
have had a similar result. If you ask them now if it is the | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
democratic way of deciding Ladyship, you get an overwhelming yes. | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
David Williams, the poll does suggest people support the idea. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
Does that mean that your campaign in Birmingham is losing ground? | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
There's no demand at all for this. This has come from the top. There's | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
no demand for many community for a directly affected neer. -- a | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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He what would you say he's the reason for banning him to have won? | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
-- what we do say is the reason for having an elected mayor? | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
It works in less than it would work here. | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
David Williams. Leadership. You don't agree with this. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
Birmingham is made up of many communities. To have one man, and I | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
use the word adviser be because I believe they are all men elected to | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
the division, is actually a bad way of going about the democratic | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
process. There we must leave it. | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
You can hear the debate in full from 7pm on BBC WM. | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
As the dry spell continues, you might be wondering if this is a | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
sign of a changing climate and if we can expect similar or worse | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
conditions in years to come, and what, if anything, we can all do to | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
cope with the effects. Ahead of National Climate Week we sent our | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
environment correspondent David Gregory to Coventry, and a | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
conference of experts from across the Midlands to find out more just | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
what is going on. It is tempting to think that | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
conferences on climate change produce so much hot air that they | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
make the problem worse. But the people here today are at the sharp | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
end, some of them thinking up to 40 years in the future. | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
The what we see now is how the weather affects the water. We are | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
now going through a dry spell. What it shows us is that it paints a | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
picture of the type of events we are likely to see more often in the | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
future. This is how Severn Trent, for example, are coping today. Just | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
a few miles away, they are topping up the reservoir using water from a | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
river. Water companies are already talking | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
to the regulator about what they plan to do for the next five years | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
in terms of infrastructure. But of course, with climate change, they | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
are starting to think as much as 40 years ahead. That means spending | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
cash on something that has not happened yet. How do the company is | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
make sure they don't spend our money on precautions which may not | :14:07. | :14:17. | |
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What we are looking to do is, our approach to adaptation is that we | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
are planning to build things that are flexible and adaptable. We can | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
build them incrementally over time and if the situation gets worse we | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
can accelerate. There are no regrets on those decisions. Right | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
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now. Everyone is praying for rain. Our reporter is at a reservoir in | :14:45. | :14:54. | |
Birmingham. They are lots of other organisations that are worried | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
about climate change. These are the ones that have got hardest about | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
this. The two big things in the Midlands are going to be drought, | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
this reservoir is looking pretty well, and also flooding. These are | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
two things that really worry what a company's. This idea that they have | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
a long-term plan but it is small changes, so they can accelerate | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
things if the need to, but do not spend too much money on it if they | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
do not need to. You mention this long-term plan, I do any bed, a | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
radical idea has to cope with this? Severn Trent published his report | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
just a euro. They call for a water trading to be allowed to sell water | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
between regions. The sake regulation has to change and there | :15:45. | :15:55. | |
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is a PR battles to be had there too. There is a lot to be said, but | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
there will be benefits to customers from this idea. You said what a | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
levels were looking pretty well where you wear, what is the | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
situation in the Midlands with water and drought? Next week on | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
Tuesday it is the next report from the Environment Agency about the | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
drought conditions in the Midlands. I suspect we will see more eyrie | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
has to be at higher risk of drought. -- regions. | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
Memories from the front line nearly a hundred years ago. A glance into | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
the forgotten diaries of a nurse in World War a one. The weather does | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
not look like giving us the rain we so desperately need this weekend. | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
Is there any end in sight to this very dry spell? Join me for the | :16:43. | :16:53. | |
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forecast later. Port Vale are now officially in | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
administration after a hearing at the High Court this morning. We | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
pretty much expected this. It is a legal formality. On Tuesday, they | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
made their application to move to the High Court. Let us hope that | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
this will be the beginning of their end of the financial troubles. In | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
the Premier League, Wolves are facing up a very different set of | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
problems. Team captain Roger Johnson turned up a bit worse for | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
wear for training on Monday. Tomorrow they have a real six- | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
pointer against relegation rivals Blackburn. | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
Just opposite the chippy you will find Crazy Wicks, and inside Crazy | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
Wicks I found Stuart Russell. He is possibly the only man in the | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
Midlands who shares his passion for the will sweat his passion for her | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
scented candles, healing crystals and dreamcatchers. That is a very | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
popular one at the moment. Popular with will stands? Yes. We have a | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
lot of greens and one of the genes is to stay end their Premier League | :18:00. | :18:10. | |
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-- dreams. A dreamcatcher will trap all its -- or you're bad dreams in | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
its web and they will disappear in the sunlight. Will survive last | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
year by a single point in the final day of the season. -- Wolves. They | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
will not be cheering if the same opponents, Blackburn, achieve a | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
similar result tomorrow. We need to try and go out and the bold and | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
when the game of football. The lads are professional, this is their | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
home pitch and they want to win on their home pitch. Come Saturday | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
there will be ready to go. I will hope until the last game that | :18:51. | :19:01. | |
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Wolves will stay in this is a -- division. If you can smell blue | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
coconut and white mask in the Stan Cullis Stand tomorrow that will be | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Stuart Russell. If Wolves are transformed into a fire-breathing | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
dragon against Blackburn, that could be Stuart's dreamcatchers, | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
working hard to keep the club in the Premier League. | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
Anne's to find out if your footballing dreams come true this | :19:19. | :19:28. | |
weekend, you can find the action on your local radio stations. | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
Allsop's local swimming championship can look after lunch | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
and we do at -- put forward to London 2012. Ellie Simmonds became | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
the first person to break a world record at the newer Olympic | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
aquatics centre. She beat her previous best by have the second. | :19:47. | :19:56. | |
have had quite a bad week in my front crawl races. They were not | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
ones that I was happy with and I felt I could definitely swim faster. | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
I just cannot believe it. Even though it was only a world record, | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
I just cannot believe it. Elliott sentences not the only swum | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
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her -- Ellie Simmonds is not the only scunner, Sascha Kindred also | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
race end of the Men's MC 50m Buttefly Final. With just over four | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
wants to go, boxers from the Commonwealth of Dominica are in | :20:38. | :20:46. | |
Wolverhampton. A new credit -- I unique relationship has been formed | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
between the city and they went state. | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
Hewlett Lucien and rowing Christopher R Dominica's fineness | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
middleweights. They are 4,000 miles from home having a light breakfast | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
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in Bilston. We have been adjusting to the whole environment, but we | :21:10. | :21:19. | |
are looking to keep up in the common -- coming weeks. I just want | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
to make it to the Olympics. Andrew Pettey is helping them adjust to | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
life in the Black Country. His house is now their training base. | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
They are no trouble. They are very well house-trained. They look after | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
themselves. Dominica is in the Caribbean with a | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
population of just 75,000. A few years ago, Wolverhampton-based | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
boxing coach returned to his homeland and took a humble boxing | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
ring from the city's amateur club. It has inspired a generation of | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
youngsters. Hewlett Lucien and Rowain Christopher are products of | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
this unique relationship. We are giving them every possible | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
opportunity to win. The club itself has been going since 1936 and we | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
are applied of -- proud of a club. Not one of us get a penny. | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
These boxers will be in Wolverhampton until the end of | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
April. Then they will head to Brazil, hoping to make it to London | :22:20. | :22:30. | |
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2012. I would like to thank her court is for giving us the | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
opportunity to be at the Olympics. We could not fail to miss out on | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
the Molineux, and time FA Premier League picture. And another treat - | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
and the city's brand new bus station. Sadly, that we as a we had | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
time for. These boxers are only really interested in one thing - | :22:52. | :23:01. | |
Olympic gold. It has been revealed that the | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
Olympic torch will pass outside Wolverhampton Boxing Club on June | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
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30th. Thank you very much. Almost 100 years after the First World War, | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
a starring first-hand account of life on the front line has been | :23:19. | :23:27. | |
published. It has happened almost by accident. Edith Appleton nest, | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
injured and dying soldiers. -- and her staff. Now in association with | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
their Imperial War Museum, her family are able to tell her story. | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
For more than half a century, these diaries lay in a drawer. Now the | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
voice of Edith Appleton has been brought back to life. We have had | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
over 600 through ever hospital today, badly wounded and fearfully | :23:54. | :24:03. | |
collapsed. Edie, as she was known, spend the | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
whole of the First World War as a nurse in France and Belgium. It is | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
a mixture of every day horrors that she was dealing with, and then she | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
would be off on a picnic and writing all this in her diary, | :24:15. | :24:24. | |
beautifully. There are heaps of dead. English, French and Belgian | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
are lying all across the town. This first hand account of the work | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
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may have remained untold until the Dick was spurred into action. | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
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At this phone call. It said, these diaries are incredible. | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
When you read the diaries in detail, you know the day after the agonies | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
of the people that she was dealing with. It is very powerful. | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
Sadly, sections of the diary are missing, but what remains is | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
touching and very human. Pc! Thank God for that. It feels very clear | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
to. Perhaps she might be pleased that people were reading her | :25:24. | :25:33. | |
perspective on the war. Edith Appleton's diaries will be handed | :25:33. | :25:41. | |
to their Imperial War Museum for safe keeping and posterity. | :25:41. | :25:51. | |
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It is bad news for all those farmers growers and perhaps the | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
water companies looking for some rain. This is the set up at the | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
moment, high pressure for the south. Although they will move around a | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
bit, this will be in charge of our weather for the foreseeable future. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
For the next few days and beyond it will stay dry and very mild. | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
Certainly dry through this evening and to eight. They will be. Spot of | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
drizzle a crossed the moorlands. For the rest of us, some decent | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
spells. A very mild night to come. A fine day tomorrow, that ridge of | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
high pressure still in charge, which means it will be dry. The | :26:32. | :26:42. | |
Clyde will break up quite nicely as well. -- declared. There will be | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
highs of 16 Celsius. It is try again through tomorrow night. | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
Sunday will be dry and bright. Quite a lot of cloud initially. We | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
should see some sunny spells coming through. If you are heading to | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
Birmingham for the St Patrick's Day parade on Sunday then it should be | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
dry and bright. Sunday sunny spells, 14 Celsius. This is the situation | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
as we enter Sunday, the big red of high pressure is still in place. It | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
is a protective bubble. As we head into next week, that will stay with | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
us. If you are looking for a rainy will have to look away beyond the | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
middle of next week. The headlines: the Italian | :27:30. | :27:35. |