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Hello, welcome to Midlands Today with Mary Rhodes and Nick Owen. The | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
headlines tonight: As Severn Trent consider selling water elsewhere, | :00:08. | :00:16. | |
can rural communities survive the drought this summer? Our neighbours | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
have been struggling and most of them are not farmers. They are | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
lugging it around in jerry cans. Fighting for survival, RAF Cosford | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
looking to the business community to save its training base. As the | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
size of the services reduce under contract out, the industry is | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
finding it harder to find trained people. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
A 12-year-old girl who was attacked by a dog says the police were wrong | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
to shoot it dead. And what a comeback, the hatrick | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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hero who gave Kidderminster victory, Good evening. Welcome to Tuesday's | :01:02. | :01:11. | |
Midlands Today from the BBC. Tonight: Severn Trent is in talks | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
with Anglian Water to help to supply around 100,000 homes in some | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
of the worst affected areas in England. It would be the first time | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
such a trade has happened. But in Shropshire, some farms and | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
households which aren't connected to the mains have been struggling | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
to get enough water out of the ground for months. They are already | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
using emergency supplies. So is now really the time for Severn Trent to | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
be selling off the region's supplies? | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
In a few moments, we'll be speaking to a climate change expert, but | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
first Giles Latcham reports on the problems facing part of Shropshire. | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
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In these hills, New Life Is born. Like all life though its dependent | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
on water and for the Griffiths's among others, after a couple of dry | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
winters and an unusually dry summer that's a big problem. It is not | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
just the water that they drink, it is the water that falls out of the | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
sky and makes the grass grow that the sheep eat. A spring in the | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
forest which serves the farm keeps drying up and can no longer be | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
relied on, instead they fill up bowsers wherever they can. We take | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
for bowsers to my father, who is going to see as more than he wants | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
to the summer! We also have friends in the village to have offered. | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
Pipes leading from the guttering up their feed directly into this 1400 | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
lead to a barrister, ready to go out to the fields to supply the | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
sheep. When your water supply is under threat, it is time to get M | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
genius. The first borehole they attempted was inside the gate here. | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
This retired policeman spent �7,000 sinking boreholes searching for | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
water. When the barns next door were converted to homes his supply | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
from a nearby spring dried up. So he had to find a fresh one and | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
install a storage tank to guarantee the flow, but in providence he | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
trusts. Probably within a couple of years' time, we will get more water | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
than we'd probably do at the moment, which will then filter water tables. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
That is the thing we really need. Between then and now though, there | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
could be tough times ahead. We are looking at providing central | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
locations where we can provide it had, so that one of their supplies | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
run out, they can fill up. It will be community operated. The of | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
working with the parish council, the fire service, to find the best | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
locations in the areas at risk. Here, few if any take what comes | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
out of their taps for granted. Well, joining us now is Dr Ken | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Addison, a climate change expert, who lives in Shropshire. Thanks for | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
joining us, Dr Addison. We've had a load of rain over the weekend, and | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
indeed today, but it doesn't alter the fact we have a serious | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
situation on our hands, does it? you're quite right. The fact we've | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
had a lot of intense Rayner... You can see the River Severn is flowing | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
fast behind me. A lot of this water is just heading off down to the | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
ocean. The other ironic thing right now, and this -- and this is when | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
the crops and gardens are coming into their Rome, the plants will | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
take a great deal at. So is this the shape of things to come? | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
Currently, this winter, in the Midlands, we are somewhere between | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
60 % to 80 % of normal rainfall. We are down a bit. In East Anglia, | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
where the problems lie, they are down up to 60 % of the normal | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
winter rainfall. This is due to get worse. Everyone is aware about a | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
great risk of climate change. It's a common topic these days. If we | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
look at just the last three or four weeks, we've had wonderful weather, | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
lots of warm sunshine. That is because an anticyclone had been | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
blocking out the Atlantic rainfall coming into Britain. That is likely | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
to be an increasingly recurring feature in the future. By about | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
2030, this summer rainfall in Shropshire could be between 5% and | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
15 % less than now. If the International Committee does little | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
about climate change, we are likely to be down between 40 % and 60 % by | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
the middle part of this century. It will get worse. Should people, | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
particularly in remote parts, be taking further steps to conserve | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
water in the future? From what we've had already this evening, I | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
think on the demand side, they are doing very well. They are very much | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
aware of the need to conserve. It is the supply side that is the | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
problem. As you'll earlier view was pointed out, as the water table | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
drops, in the mid- to long-term future, that is likely to be | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
increasingly a problem. About a third of the water that Severn | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
Trent take out of the catchment is from underground water supplies. | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
will have to leave it there. Thank you very much. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
We're certainly getting some April showers, but will it be enough to | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
help with our water worries? Shefali has the answer. | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Well, the problem with showers is that not everyone gets them, | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
certainly not the heavier ones. But at least we're not talking of rain | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
that's mainly nuisance value over the next couple of weeks. There'll | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
be something more substantial than that and after the fifth driest | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
March this year in just over a century, we could do with it. I | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
will have more later. The BBC's learned that RAF Cosford could sell | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
its training expertise to the business community if the | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
Government moves its defence operations. There are more than | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
1,000 trainees at the Shropshire base and a similar number of | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
civilian staff. RAF Cosford was built during the | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
Second World War in response to an urgent need to train people for the | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
front line. Today, it has an uncertain future. Redundancies are | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
likely under MoD plans to train the military in Wiltshire and no one | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
has been able to give a firm commitment that it'll continue to | :07:19. | :07:29. | |
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Once a first-class fighter jet, the Jaguar is now a unique training | :07:32. | :07:40. | |
plane for 1,000 engineers at RAF Cosford. But amid waves of MoD cuts | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
and re-oganisations, this historic base could lose most, if not all of | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
it's aircraft training operations. It must change to survive. We're | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
already training people overseas, we already have trained some | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
elements of British industry, and as the size of the services reduce | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
and we contract out more of our services to other people, industry | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
are finding it harder to find trained people, and its very | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
expensive to train people, it makes sense to look at options as to how | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
we can do that in a smarter way, we're in negotiations and its too | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
early to say what will come from that work. A focus on business | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
comes as it's emerged that �150 million of taxpayers money was | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
spent on MoD plans to transfer operations to St Athan in South | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
Wales. The project was scrapped two years ago because of cost. It is a | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
large sum of money. Defence has an obligation to make sure it is | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
providing best value for money to the taxpayers. In the latest plan, | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
RAF Cosford could lose its role as a Defence Training Centre because | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
the MoD wants to create a new service at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire. | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
1,100 trainees are continuing to be prepared for service here but for | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
how long? Luke Dougan's 21. He's hoping for an RAF career after | :08:54. | :09:04. | |
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twice being made redundant on civvy street. I feel quite positive my | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
job will be kept, purely because in training, they're not going to put | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
a lot of money into me and then just cut me off. I feel that I'll | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
do well. Defence is shrinking and therefore the number of trainees | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
coming through here shrinks and it is inevitable that the size of the | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
staff will also shrink and we're continuing to look at ways of being | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
more efficient. To say the base supports the village of Albrighton | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
is an understatement. It pumps �70 million a year into the local | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
economy. The uncertainty is causing some problems. If Cosford were too | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
close that's effectively going to cut the population by half. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Shropshire Council supports efforts to bring new investment into the | :09:41. | :09:51. | |
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base. Given the technical expertise there is at Cosford, without a | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
shadow of a doubt, I think there's a great opportunity for Cosford to | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
have a large income generation scheme by selling its expertise to | :09:57. | :10:05. | |
private companies. The Government's delayed a decision on whether | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
Cosford could house soldiers returning from Germany until at | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
least 2020. If it were to happen, the RAF would move out. Senior | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
officers say they can't give a complete assurance that there'll be | :10:15. | :10:24. | |
defence training here in five years time. | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
And BBC Radio Shropshire has a week of special reports from RAF Cosford. | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
Tomorrow morning, they'll be focusing on what difference the | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
base has made to the nearby village of Albrighton and what it could | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
mean if it closed. That's from 7 am on the breakfast show. | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
A man's been arrested on suspicion of murder following the discovery | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
of a woman's body at a house in the Black Country. Police visited an | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
address in Tipton last night, where a young woman was found dead inside | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
the flat. She's yet to be identified. The 27-year-old man was | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
detained by police at a railway station in Bristol this morning and | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
is being brought back to the West Midlands. | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
A woman accused of murdering a 92- year-old war veteran has been | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
remanded in custody. William Davis was found with severe head injuries | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
at his house in Willenhall. 35- year-old Charlotte Frazier-Doody, | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
who's a neighbour, didn't appear in person at the preliminary hearing | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
at Wolverhampton Crown Court this morning. She has yet to enter a | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
plea and was remanded in custody until June 29th. | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
A girl who was attacked by a dog in Gloucestershire has said it shouldn | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
't have been shot dead by the police. | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
The 12-year-old was bitten yesterday afternoon, along with a | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
man. Police arrested a man after the dog had been killed. | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Despenser Road in Tewkesbury, the scene at the start of a series of | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
events. Police had been called after reports that the dog, a | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
staffordshire bull terrier, had bitten two people. One of the them | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
was Sydney Ryan. She knows the dog owners and had gone to see if | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
everything was OK after seeing the dog running around outside. She | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
says she wasn't too badly injured and is angry the dog was eventually | :11:58. | :12:07. | |
shot dead by the police. If they should have either grabbed the dock | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
and can't do it for trotted with something that put it to sleep for | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
an hour, and then calmed it down. They said they would have to shoot | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
it but the dog wasn't exactly going to come down if you have tasted it | :12:21. | :12:29. | |
twice. -- tasered. Police say their efforts to calm the dog with the | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
taser gun didn't work and that it had tried to attack the officers as | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
well. Eventually they tracked it several streets away and felt they | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
had no option but to shoot it. They say, as a last resort. The report | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
be had were that it was being aggressive. It had been -- it had | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
injured two people, one of them quite badly. Police officers were | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
not able to calm it down because it ran off into one area with children | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
playing. They thought it was appropriate and necessary to make | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
sure there was no further harm. Unfortunately, they took the action | :12:57. | :13:06. | |
they did do which was to shoot the dog. Police are still questioning a | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
38-year-old man from Gloucester on suspicion of having a dog | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
dangerously out of control in a public place and for criminal | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
damage after windows were smashed at the Black Bear pub in the centre | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
of town. Lambing is a stressful time for any | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
farmer but this year they have the added complication of a new disease, | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
the Schmallenberg virus. The disease can affect both cattle and | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
sheep. It only causes mild symptoms in | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
adult animals but can have a disastrous effect on unborn young. | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
It's an effect that only becomes apparent months later in the | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
lambing season. Our Environment Correspondent joins us now from a | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
farm in Gloucestershire. David, what is the situation with the | :13:42. | :13:50. | |
virus in our region? At the moment, there are two | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
confirmed cases in Warwickshire. Otherwise, we seem to have escaped | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
unscathed. This is a disease that only becomes apparent as the she'd | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
start to give birth to the Lambs. With meat is Jake, the farmer here. | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
No sign of the disease on your farm but you know farmers of -- to have | :14:12. | :14:20. | |
had it. Yes, I do. There have been nine or 10 cases and it is | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
distressing, not just for the chic but for the farmers as well. It | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
should be a time of joy and turning lambs out. To have these deformed | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
lambs that you have to try and help get out is distressing all round. | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
There is also a financial loss of having lambs you cannot sell. | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
is a disease that comes with infected insect from Europe. It is | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
taking hold in Europe. potential is there, certainly with | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
climate change, you see it's now in Germany, Belgium and France. It has | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
been spreading from the south-east of the country, towards our | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
direction. As we going to this coming year, the period of | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
infection will not be for us until November or December. But I think | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
with the climate change, more midges around and more infection | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
from the livestock this year, the risk is quite significant. It is | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
not a disease people have to worry about. Absolutely not. And no harm | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
in being around sheep and cattle. Certainly no problem in eating lamb. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
Like many farms at this time, there is an open day here and if you want | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
to come down and see something happening, check out our Facebook | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
page. Good to have you with us this | :15:41. | :15:49. | |
evening. Still to come here on Midlands Today: they're murderously | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
difficult to ride but here's a unicycle that does the balancing | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
for you. All part of the Gadget Villagers in Herefordshire are | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
celebrating after saving their village pub from closure. Dozens of | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
people have joined in the clean up of The Crown Inn in Dilwyn after | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
the parish council was handed the keys. | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
They borrowed the money to buy the site fearing it would be taken over | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
by developers. Armed with brushes, Hoovers, | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
Saul's... -- saws and lots of elbow grease. The people of Dilwyn in | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Herefordshire set about reclaiming the Crown Inn, their village pub. | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
It has been a brilliant pub in the past and will be again. It will be | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
nice to be able to walk back here. When the last tenant left recently | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
there were concerns the site would be sold to developers so the parish | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
council stepped in. They borrowed �250,000 from the public works loan | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
board to buy the pub. We know people use this power band so, we | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
know it will make a good profit. If we get the right tenant, they will | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
do well and the community will do well hopefully. The villagers have | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
big ambitions for this place. Once the pub is up and running they want | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
to use this building as a shop and have a restaurant at the back. It's | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
not the first time people here have pulled together. Last year they | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
saved the village school from closure. How has this place | :17:18. | :17:26. | |
succeeded? Sheer determination, bloody-mindedness. We are not | :17:26. | :17:35. | |
prepared to accept and we feel so strongly that the rural community | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
around the country are under threat. We are not prepared to take it. | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
is wonderful that people are pulling together and we will make | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
this a wonderful pub. We all pull together, that is not a community | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
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is for. -- what a community is for. They're inviting applicants for the | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
tenancy and are planning to open the pub for the village show in May. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
Dan's here with the sport, with the story of one of the best football | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
comebacks in recent memory. Picture the scene. Your team is | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
trailing 2-0 in a game they must win to keep alive their play-off | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
dream. There's only four minutes left, so you get away early to beat | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
the traffic. Then you turn on the car radio to find you've actually | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
won 3-2. And your super-sub scored a hat-trick. That's what happened | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
at Kidderminster Harriers yesterday. Lunchtime at the Malt Shovel in | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
Great Barr. Time for a quick drink with Nick Wright, his brother Billy | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
and a very special matchball. The same ball that produced a late late | :18:38. | :18:48. | |
hatrick for the Harriers supersub. The unreal, quality. You are the | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
best. With 20 minutes left, Kidderminster were trailing 2-2. | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
And that's when Nick got the nod from the boss to stop warming the | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
bench, and start worrying the Newport defence. He said to me, go | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
and do something, anything. He said, do what you can do. With four | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
minutes remaining, Nick rifled in a penalty to give a glimmer of hope | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
at 2-1. In the first minute of stoppage time, he scored again to | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
level the score at 2-2 and then seconds before the final whistle, | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
Nick triggered pandemonium on the airwaves of BBC Hereford and | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
Worcester. The key premise is it! It is there. Kidderminster | :19:27. | :19:37. | |
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Harriers! They've won it! The hat trick! It is the stuff of dreams, | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
isn't it? Dreams are made of those sort of things. It was a great day. | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
Surely the Harriers boss Steve Burr will never make a more dramatic | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
subsititution if he's still managing football teams. At the age | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
of 92. They told me a hat-trick had made the national press but | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
something is missing! Harriers now have three games left to cement | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
their place in the play-offs, starting on Saturday when children | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
under 16 get in free to witness another day of high drama against | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
Kettering. And as for the missing piece in the jigsaw, look no | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
further than Billy Wright's scrapbook, on the day his big | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
brother Nick made hatrick history for Kidderminster Harriers. | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
After the busy Easter programme, Aston Villa are still looking for | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
their first home win since Bonfire Night, following yesterday's 1-1 | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
draw with Stoke City. Villa were leading at the break thanks to a | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
super goal from their Austrian under-21 striker Andreas Weimann. | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
But Stoke equalised in the second half through Robert Huth, leaving | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
Villa on 35 points, and still not quite safe from relegation. Home | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
game, three points, and that would be a huge plus for us and the last | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
few games. We knew Stoke Wake that type of team to put them away. They | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
are very difficult to stop. There were contrasting fortunes for our | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
two Championship sides over the Easter weekend. Coventry City are | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
now four points adrift of safety after losing 3-1 at relegation | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
rivals Bristol City yesterday. But Birmingham City are on course for | :21:10. | :21:20. | |
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the play-offs. They led 3-1 at half-time at West Ham yesterday. | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
They were denied victory when West Ham earned a late penalty for | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
handball against Chris Burke. And Ricardo Vaz Te scored to draw the | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
game 3-3. But the Blues they remain upbeat after consolidating their | :21:35. | :21:45. | |
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position in fourth place. Go to the BBC's Board website for more. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
-- BBC Sport website. A self balancing unicycle, new | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
innovative bus stop adverts and hundreds of new ways to use your | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
smart phone. It's all on display at this year's Gadget Show at the NEC. | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
Advances in technology are making it easier and cheaper for everyone | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
to own the latest gadgets and our Business Correspondent, the | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
ultimate gadget anorak, has been sampling some of the products on | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
show. As usual packed full of the latest | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
hi-tech gadgets and gizmos including a new way of advertising | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
at bus stops. It is giving you technology in the palm of your hand | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
and you can choose different buttons at the top of your screen. | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
If I go for through animation, there is a close-up of all of your | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
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dogs jumping into the back of the car. Press this button and all of a | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
sudden you get the smell of their product, in this case a baked | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
potato. It adds fund to a normal.. They can be quite dreary first | :22:55. | :23:04. | |
thing in the morning. Got a smart phone? Then you'll love the latest | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
in so called Augmented Reality. They led to bring together the | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
physical and virtual worlds. We are familiar with the internet. In 20 | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
years, it has changed the way we live and work. Now what we are | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
looking at is the outer net. Fat content will be woven into the | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
fabric of the real world. We will use our smart phones to see and | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
interact with it. It is evidence that the mobile phone is changing | :23:30. | :23:39. | |
our lives. They have accelerometers, gyroscopes, GPS, biosensors and | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
with all of these sensors in a inexpensive price, it makes the | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
software that goes on it... It makes it do so much more than just | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
handle phone calls. But my favourite gagdet at this year's | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
show has to be the self balancing unicycle. Costing nearly �2,000, | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
it's expensive but great fun. How does it work? It is simple. You | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
lean forward to go forward, lean back to go back. The gyroscope | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
takes care of the balance and off you go. Easier to ride than a | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
conventional unicyle but as you can see it too takes a bit of getting | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
used to. I'm still anxious about a tin- | :24:25. | :24:34. | |
opener! We've been storing up these showers | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
for months and now April's here, they all come tumbling down. That's | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
the overriding theme this week, sunshine and showers, and these | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
showers are likely to be quite heavy on occasion. It should be a | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
good week for looking out for those thunder clouds, they could be quite | :24:47. | :24:55. | |
impressive. Low pressure's going to be dominating, the centre of which | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
is over the North Sea, the showers are caught within those rings but | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
it's the unstable air that's going to be setting off the thunder | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
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lightening. But the template for the week is set by these first two | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
days. So during the nights, the showers die out, the skies clear | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
and in the coldest, sheltered spots we could see a touch of frost. But | :25:18. | :25:27. | |
in towns and cities, values are a little higher at four Celsius. So a | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
lovely sunny start to the day but it won't be long before we see the | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
showers piling in from the north west, the deeper blue centres | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
indicating where the heavy ones are going to be. They may last a while | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
with the winds being lighter tomorrow. Temperatures are similar | :25:41. | :25:49. | |
tomorrow but again, it'll feel colder in the winds. So that's the | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
drill this week, sunshine and showers by day, drier, clearer and | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
colder by night with a touch of frost. And very little change in | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
maximum temperatures through the week until we get to Friday and | :26:00. | :26:10. | |
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A look at tonight's main headlines: Britain can extradite the radical | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
muslim cleric Abu Hamza to the United States to face terrorism | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
charges. And as Severn Trent consider | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
selling water to other regions, rural communities are increasingly | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
concerned about the impact of the drought this summer. | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
And just time to tell you before we go tonight, that BBC Radio | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
Shropshire's talking tomorrow about how the county's getting ready for | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
the Olympic Games this summer. But are the councils doing enough to | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
cash in on the tourism opportunities? | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
BBC Hereford and Worcester will be speaking to the Route Managing | :26:46. | :26:48. |