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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Nick Owen and Mary Rhodes. The | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
headlines tonight: A community in shock after a 92-year-old great | :00:09. | :00:18. | |
grandfather is found murdered in his home in the Black Country. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
scared to let the kids or old, scared to go out myself. It's is a | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
close community with a school just down the road. A simple act of | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
remembrance to mark the start of the Falklands conflict, 30 years | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
ago today. Did the white elephant turn into a | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
cash cow? The ICC celebrates 21 years at the heart of Birmingham. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
It is probably the most important building built in Birmingham in the | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
20th century. And a nice problem to have, the | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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wildlife charity that suddenly Good evening and welcome to | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
Monday's Midlands Today from the BBC. Tonight, a murder | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
investigation has been launched after a 92 year old man was found | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
dead in his Black Country home. Police officers have spent the day | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
at the home of William Davis, carrying out forensic | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
investigations after his body was discovered yesterday evening. Liz | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
Copper reports. William Davis was 92 and a great grandfather. His | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
death is being treated as a murder investigation. Officers were called | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
to his home on Hobley Street at Willenhall in the Black Country | :01:32. | :01:40. | |
yesterday evening. As police teams arrived to begin their | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
investigations, families living nearby expressed their horror. | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
is disgraceful. I have got two young babies here, it is ridiculous. | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
I am scared to let the kids out. is a close community with a school | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
just down the road, it is horrifying. Police have said it is | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
understandable this death has caused shock and upset. They say | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
they are doing all they can to reassure the public. And to quell | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
anxieties, police are putting extra officers on the beat. We drafted | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
out a letter specifically for the local residents, just to give them | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
an outline as to what happened, and what we are doing about it. We have | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
got the local beat bobbies who know a lot of the local community and | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
they are knocking on doors, reassuring people where they can. | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
Detectives say their investigation will be painstaking. Forensics | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
teams have worked throughout the day and are likely to remain here | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
for some considerable time. Officers have also been carrying | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
out house to house inquires and have been scouring gardens and | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
nearby properties for evidence. Police are urging anyone with | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
information about this investigation to come forward and | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
help the inquiry team. And with us now is our special | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
correspondent, Peter Wilson. The death of a very vulnerable | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
pensioner is always distressing. We've seen a number of similar | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
incidents over the past 12 months - is this something we should be | :03:11. | :03:21. | |
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concerned about? A lot of people in the West Midlands will be | :03:25. | :03:34. | |
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scratching their head saying haven't we heard this before? This | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
time last year an elderly couple from Wolverhampton the Massaros | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
were murdered in their own home. Earlier this year in Handsworth | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Wood, the Kolars, another married couple again were killed by a man | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
attempting to steal from their home. Now, none of these murders are | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
linked. Today's incident involving Mr Davis is still ongoing and an | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
exact cause of death is still to be announced. But it's extremely rare | :03:54. | :04:04. | |
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to be attacked in your home. What else are the police saying? They | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
want to remind people that figures released last week showed that | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
crime was falling across the West Midlands with 20,000 fewer victims | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
than the previous year. And that included 3,000 fewer victims of | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
burglary and more than 200 fewer victims of the most serious types | :04:31. | :04:40. | |
of violence. Thanks for joining us this evening. Later in the | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
programme: From Solihull to Sudan, find out how a Midlands invention | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
could help thousands get switched A candle's been lit at the National | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire to mark the thirtieth anniversary | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
of the start of the Falklands conflict. Veterans and relatives | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
gathered at Alrewas today for a brief service of remembrance and to | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
see how work's progressing on a new memorial to those killed, which is | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
due to be completed in May. Our Defence Correspondent Caroline | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Wyatt is at Alrewas now. It must have been a poignant occasion this | :05:07. | :05:17. | |
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morning, Caroline. It was indeed. We saw veterans but also of the | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
families of those who died gathered here in the chapel at the memorial | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
to light a candle in the memory of the dead that will burnt until June | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
14th, the day the Argentinians surrendered. I have here the events | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
officer - what was the thinking behind the ceremony today? This was | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
an opportunity for people from all walks of life, the veterans, their | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
families, general visitors, to pay their respects and show they | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
remember. You are also building a new memorial that will be open some | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
time in May? This has been instigated by the Atlantic Medal | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
Association and it will be dedicated on Sunday 20th May with | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
500-600 veterans in attendance. will include things like stones | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
from the Falklands itself. It is built along the same lines as one | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
built in Falklands Bay, yes. important you think it is for | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
veterans to come to remember on this day? I think they will be | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
warmed by the feeling and the turnout of people supporting them | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
in their events, and that goes a long way to helping them, | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
encouraging them, and helping them get over what they have been | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
through. A poignant ceremony indeed, and many more of those services | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
over the next few days and weeks. A jury's heard claims that a father | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
credited with helping end last summer's riots punched a man to the | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
ground after accusing him of staring at his wife. Tariq Jahan | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
allegedly assaulted Sajjad Ali last July after an argument on a street | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
in Handsworth in Birmingham. He denies causing grievous bodily harm | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
with intent and the trial is continuing. Mr Jahan appealed for | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
calm following the death of his son and two other men outside a petrol | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
station in Winson Green last August. Workers at a steel manufacturing | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
company in north Warwickshire say they're uncertain of their future | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
after they were turned away from work this morning. The staff at | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
Condek near Coleshill were asked to come in at 7am, but were then sent | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
home amid rumours the firm had gone into administration. Some workers | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
claim they haven't been paid and they've not been offered redundancy. | :07:42. | :07:52. | |
Nobody at the firm was available for comment. We have all got | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
families and kids. With the credit crunch now, we have to take it from | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
there. There has been no communication, they have kept us in | :08:02. | :08:12. | |
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the dark and we need to know. children's department at Walsall | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Manor Hospital was a "basket case two years ago, in danger of | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
permanently damaging the organisation and in danger of being | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
taken over," an industrial tribunal has heard today. A senior doctor | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
who whistleblew over safety is claiming unfair dismissal and | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
discrimination. Our health correspondent, Michele Paduano | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
reports. Dr David Drew seen here with his wife was head of the | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
children's department at Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust for seven years. | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
He tried to resign from the role and was refused. Four months later, | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
he was removed after he raised concerns about safety. It followed | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
a report into the death of Kyle Keen. Dr Drew questioned the | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
competence of a colleague who sent him home a week before he has | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
murdered by his step father. Dr Drew also complained about cutting | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
27 nurses to save money. One safeguarding nurse said there had | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
been three overdoses on the ward. I first met Dr Drew when he | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
whistleblew after babies and small children became hypothermic two | :08:56. | :09:05. | |
winters running after the heating systems failed in the old hospital. | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
I can't stand by and see patients subjected - and parents - to this | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
kind of risk, and to this kind of discomfort. An independent review | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
of the paediatric service in Walsall found largely in Dr Drew's | :09:20. | :09:30. | |
favour. His suspension was wrong, the department was poorly led and | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
the environment was toxic. Although his former boss Sue James praised | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Dr Drew as a doctor and a leader, she personally characterised him as | :09:36. | :09:45. | |
the biggest risk to the department going forward. His releasing of the | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
findings of the independent review was said to have undermined her. | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
The trust offered Dr Drew money to go, he refused and was then | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
disciplined. Ms James said that David was "part of the problem and | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
not a victim of the problem." He had not apologised as the review | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
intended, and his language was verbose. His sacking on her last | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
day in the job meant the new chief executive, "would not be weighed | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
down in the same way that my time in the last two years had been | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
weighed down by this issue." Dr Drew claims he could not accept the | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
review findings because it said that he should refrain from using | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
religious references. The case continues. | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
21 years ago today, the International Convention Centre in | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
Birmingham opened its doors. Two decades on and it's generated �1.5 | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
billion for the city's economy. Along with the Symphony Hall, which | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
was opened at the same time, it's credited with helping to rejuvenate | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
the centre of Birmingham. Ben Sidwell's been looking back over 21 | :10:37. | :10:46. | |
successful years. In the late 1980s, Birmingham | :10:46. | :10:56. | |
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didn't have a lot going for it. was a city you avoided. There were | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
very few cultural highlights in Birmingham. Bingley Hall, the | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
city's exhibition centre, had been destroyed by fire, but from the | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
ashes came a building that helped change the look and fortunes of | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
Birmingham. However, at the time not everyone seemed in favour. | :11:12. | :11:20. | |
not against development, but I must confess I felt terribly de -- | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
demoralised when I saw the plans. I said I thought it was an | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
unmitigated disaster. 21 years later and the International | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Convention Centre has hosted more than 6000 events and brought in | :11:30. | :11:40. | |
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over �1.4 billion to Birmingham's economy. When we opened in 1991, it | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
was not here but now it is a vibrant atmosphere. We only have | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
two restaurants within walking distance, we now have over 100. We | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
also have over 6000 hotel bedrooms. It has been the key to the | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
regeneration of the city. Symphony Hall also opened in April | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
1991. In its 21 years, more than ten million people have come | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
through the doors. I always say it is probably the most important | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
building built in Birmingham in the 20th century. It galvanised the | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
people of the city, the pride they have in creating something which is | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
truly one of the best of its kind in the world. Many of the greatest | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
musicians have performed here on this stage. But probably the | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
highlight of the whole 21 years was in May 1998. Right here in the | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
centre of the ICC, the eight most powerful men in the world gathered | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
for the G8 summit. Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin and Tony Blair | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
bringing the eyes of the world to the heart of Birmingham. Today | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
staff gathered to mark the birthday, with planning already underway to | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
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make sure future years are as successful as the the first 21. And | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
our business correspondent Peter Plisner is at the ICC tonight. | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
Peter, it really has been a terrific success despite early | :13:04. | :13:14. | |
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When it was first build many dubbed it a White Elephant, but 21 years | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
on most would say it has been successful and its put Birmingham | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
on the international map. The ICC stages more than 400 events per | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
year and that brings in around 300,000 delegates and according the | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
estimates that means an �85 million boost to the region's economy every | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
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year. With me to chat more about both the ICC and Syphony Hall is | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
Sir Bernard Zissman, the former Lord Mayor of Birmingham and the | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
man who led the team which developed this venue. So, has the | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
ICC been as successful as you imagined, or has it been a White | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
Elephant? It has been an outstanding success, not just for | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
the city, but for the people of Birmingham. How has it been a good | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
use of ratepayers money? A absolutely. For the business | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
community of Birmingham, the people of Birmingham, it has been | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
unbelievable. For it has created jobs. In it has also been a | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
catalyst for a lot of development around the city centre, hasn't it? | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
Yes, and their initial foundation of the new development of | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
Birmingham, that is what today's. And what has been your favourite | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
event? The most famous event was the G8 conference, it brought 3000 | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
press from around the world. It was that particular event which was | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
everybody's favourite. And to celebrate the 21st birthday of the | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
ICC and Symphony Hall there will be a special free family event this | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
Saturday called Curious Sounds in Curious Spaces. | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
Still to come in tonight's programme: The Staffordshire | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
charity that dropped lucky thanks to comedian Alan Carr. | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
With temperatures slipping and snow on the way, we have gone from | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
summer to winter in a week. What's A firm in Solihull's been given an | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
award after creating a solar generator which could transform | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
life for people in developing countries. Aceon Solar is now | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
planning to take on three more staff with the intension of a very | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
rapid expansion to more than 40, as worldwide sales increase. Sarah | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
Falkland reports. 16 million people use mobile phones | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
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in Ghana, but only six million have access to electricity. It is a fact | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
this Solihull entrepreneur likes to quote, and a reason he finally got | :15:55. | :16:04. | |
his prototype solar generator off his desk. Law and behold, in | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
Nairobi have played through a meeting there was a power cut. No | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
problems, I can run your computer and lighting, which I did. I was | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
known as Solar man! Solar Man came home, persuaded his dad to come out | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
of retirement and the bank to give him a hefty loan. And here we have | :16:21. | :16:31. | |
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it. There is a Solar Panel over here, but it is portable, suitcase | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
style. It creates 12 volt electricity. There is an inverter | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
in here, which turns it into 240 volts, which means it can power | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
anything you like. These docking stations are off to Ghana on Friday | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
with the promise of an order for 500 more every month. Mark's just | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
won the West Midlands Export for Growth prize. I have always said I | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
want to be the James Dyson of the solar docking industry. Winning the | :17:05. | :17:14. | |
award helps to get to that ambition. The potential is huge. In South | :17:15. | :17:24. | |
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Sudan we have an application for Solar mobile stations. Hard docking | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
station can charge up to 30 phones at a time. He is now concentrating | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
on solar full time and is off- loading his other entrepreneurial | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
ventures. The pressure's rising in the | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
Premier League and it's starting to show. | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
Dan's here with the sport. Wolves are expecting Manchester United to | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
do them a favour tonight, by beating one of their relegation | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
rivals, Blackburn Rovers. But even the most optimistic Wolves fans | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
believe their Premier League days are numbered. And the pressure | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
seems to getting to the players, as Ian Winter reports. | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
As mad as March Hares at Molineux. Goalkeeper Wayne Hennessy and | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
captain Roger Johnson, going toe to toe, staring relegation in the face. | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
Wolves are sinking fast, but the sap is rising. So is the tension | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
between team-mates. And not just at Wolves, but at West Brom too where | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
Ben Foster and Peter Odemwingie were also at it like a pair of | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
rutting stags. And both managers were unimpressed. I don't like | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
seeing this type of incidents. Sometimes you are not in the frame | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
of mind to accept any form of criticism, even if it is justified. | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
I don't like a public altercation between anybody, but it shows the | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
passion. They both want to win. Once the public spat had been | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
calmed down at half-time, Michael Kightly delivered fresh hope that | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
this was a must-win game that Wolves might indeed go on to win. | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
But Bolton had other ideas. First a penalty. 1-1. Then Alonso, 2-1. And, | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
finally, a Kevin Davies dribble, 3- 1. Many left for home fearing the | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
worst for their chances of Premier League survival, and not even a | :19:09. | :19:17. | |
late strike from Matt Jarvis could soften the blow of a 3-2 defeat. | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
can't even explain to you, to be honest. I feel physically sick. To | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
concede three goals like that just sums opera season, to be honest. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
Wolves are now six points adrift of safety after their relegation | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
rivals Wigan beat Stoke City 2-0. QPR beat Arsenal, which leaves | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
Aston Villa still looking anxiously over their shoulder. 2-0 down at | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
home to Chelsea, before James Collins pulled one back. Then, 10 | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
minutes from time, Eric Li-hi made it 2-2. But Villa couldn't hold out | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
for a point, as two late goals gave Chelsea a 4-2 victory. | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
And there were some emotional scenes at Villa Park surrounding | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
Stilian Petrov's appearance at the game. Petrov was diagnosed with | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
acute leukaemia on Friday but he was at the Chelsea game and had | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
support from fans, players and officials of both sides. Petrov was | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
at Villa Park with his wife and children. There were a host of | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
banners around the ground. Players from both sides wore T-shirts | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
beforehand to show their support. But the most emotional moment came | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
after 19 minutes. Petrov's squad number is 19 and the entire crowd | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
stood to applaud him. He was clearly touched by the affection | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
shown for him by both sets of fans. He was due to be in London today to | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
start his treatment. Things are finally looking up for | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
Coventry City. For the past six months, they've been marooned in | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
the bottom three of the Championship, but tonight they're | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
out of the relegation zone. Coventry took a first-half lead at | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Hull thanks to an own goal. And they never looked back. Three | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
minutes from time, Cody McDonald sealed a 2-0 victory. They have now | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
gone six games without defeat, raising hopes that survival is | :20:56. | :21:06. | |
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possible after all. I am delighted for the boys. There | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
is a great buzz in the dressing room. I am pleased for the fans as | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
well because they have been right behind us through the whole season. | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
Walsall's gradual climb out of the League One relegation zone has | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
continued with a 3-3 draw at Rochdale on Saturday. And the | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
Saddlers resurgence coincides with the arrival of a Belgian star who | :21:25. | :21:34. | |
has arrived via the Potteries. Welcome to the home of a Walsall | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
cult hero. Florent Cuvelier's two most treasured possession's are | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
both football related. His scrapbook logs his every progress, | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
from the age of five to 19. And his Stoke City squad shirt inspires his | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
future. It appears to be doing the trick. He's rapidly become a fans | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
favourite at Walsall after signing on loan in January. The fans like | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
me and I'm glad about that. I just do my best on the pitch. I work | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
hard because they give me the opportunity in Walsall to start my | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
career in England. Just one defeat in 11 has seen Walsall inch out of | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
the relegation zone and Cuvalier has played an important part. | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
are really thankful to Stoke City that they have allowed him to come | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
and further develop his career. He has settled in fantastic you well. | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
He is enthusiastic, has energy, desire. He loves playing football. | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
According to Dominque, he is completely dedicated to his | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
football, but his cooking needs some improvement. But Walsall's | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
fans won't mind that if he helps keep League One football on the | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
menu next season. And you can see more on Florent | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
Cuvelier on tonight's Late Kick Off. It will have all the goals from the | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
football league, including Coventry's excellent win at Hull. | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
That's on BBC One at 11.05pm. A Staffordshire charity is | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
celebrating, if a little stunned, after being given nearly �90,000 by | :23:05. | :23:13. | |
comedian Alan Carr. He was taking part in a celebrity episode of a TV | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
gameshow and when he won the money he chose to donate it to the | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
British Wildlife rescue centre. Lindsay Doyle reports. | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
Content and blissfully unaware of just what a struggle it can be to | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
fund the running of an animal rescue centre. For 20 years it has | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
been a battle for survival for The British Wildlife Rescue Centre near | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
Stafford. Then, suddenly, on Friday a call from a television producer, | :23:39. | :23:48. | |
and it is comedian Alan Carr to the rescue! He was absolutely brilliant. | :23:48. | :23:57. | |
He even surprised me. In the end we got �87,500. That is a heck of a | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
lot of money. �87,5000 means a respite from struggle for at least | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
three years for the centre which rescues and hand rears abandoned | :24:04. | :24:14. | |
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pets and injured wild animals. Much of the wildlife here is brought in | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
by members of the public. This little one was brought in by some | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
who thought she was a puppy, the cheers actually a fox! I really | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
like the animals. They've run really fast. I like that chicken's | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
the best. Some of them can run fast and some of them are really | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
beautiful. Alan Carr told Midlands Today that he decided to pick | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
British Wildlife as it is a small charity that solely relies on | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
volunteers and donations and it'll be nice to help them out. I would | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
love to say thank you, if nothing else. Perhaps we will get the | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
chance. I hope we will get the chance. The money will go towards | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
much needed repairs of pathways, the building of a new aviary and | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
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What an incredible windfall for that charity. When you think you | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
about the places that are closing down at the minute because things | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
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are so tough. �87,500! It is time for the weather. | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
The temperatures have been all over the shop recently. We've gone | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
through three seasons in a week, but that's because last week high | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
pressure dominated with the air flowing up from North Africa, | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
whereas this week it's mainly high pressure where the air's flowing in | :25:39. | :25:49. | |
from Norway and Sweden. Because of that, it could mean some snow. Very | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
much on a knife's edge as to whether it settles, but Tuesday | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
night is one to make note of for that So right now we're still | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
looking at mostly cloudy skies across Northern parts. There will | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
be some clear spells developing in places and those areas will be | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
colder. All the showers are going to leave the end of the night | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
mostly dry. So, not too bad compared to the rest of the nights | :26:18. | :26:26. | |
this week. For tomorrow, it will be a dull start to the day. You may be | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
seeing a few sunny spells during the day, but generally speaking it | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
is much cloudier than today. There will be showers rolling in at the | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
end of the morning and the after noon. You can see the range in | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
temperatures. Call To Air is digging in from the north. Through | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
tomorrow night we start to see the rain turning to sleet or snow in | :26:50. | :26:58. | |
places. Temperatures could potentially get down to one degree | :26:58. | :27:06. | |
below freezing. It could therefore lie. On Wednesday we are looking at | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
wintery showers in the morning. A bit of rain on Thursday, but | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
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temperatures back to normal for the I am meant to be going to a cricket | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
match on Friday! A look at tonight's main headlines: | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
30 years since the start of the Falklands war - Britain remembers | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
those who died to defend the islands. | :27:35. | :27:38. |