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Hello, welcome to Midlands Today with Jackie Kabler and Nick Owen. | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
The headlines tonight: New revelations about the murder of a | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Shropshire peace campaigner 30 years ago. | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
Facing relegation - Aston Villa on the edge after another defeat. | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
totally and utterly a shambles. The manager needs to go. There's a good | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
chance we could go now. I can't see us getting many points in the last | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
three games. Save this traditional high street - | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
the protesters trying to stop a new superstore. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
And a permanent memorial for generations of miners who worked in | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
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Good evening, welcome to Midlands Today from the BBC this Wednesday | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
evening. Tonight: Calls for a 30- year-old murder case to be re- | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
opened. There are fresh demands for a new investigation into the murder | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
of an anti-nuclear campaigner in the mid-1980s. Hilda Murrell's | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
death led to extraordinary conspiracy theories, among them | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
that M15 agents had kidnapped her from her home in Shrewsbury. But | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
seven years ago, a local man, Andrew George, was jailed for | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
murdering Miss Murrell during a burglary. In an exclusive BBC | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
interview, though, a former prisoner claims four other men were | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
also involved and remain at large. Mr A, who can't be identified for | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
legal reasons, says the full story has yet to come out. Here's Giles | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
Latcham. For seven years he kept quiet but, | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
now, Mr A has decided to break his silence. In prison, he befriended | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Andrew George, the only man convicted of killing Hilda Murrell. | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
But he's convinced George was part of a gang. He did burgle the house, | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
it was a burglary that went wrong. He did stab Hilda, he did drive her | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
to the copse, he did put the body there, but there was more people | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
involved, he didn't do it alone. Hilda, a renowned rose-grower from | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Shrewsbury, was murdered in 1984 - abducted, stabbed, driven into the | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
countryside and left to die. Police were convinced they were looking | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
for a local burglar but theories emerged claiming she was killed in | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
a botched MI5 operation. Then in 2005, labourer Andrew George was | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
jailed for life. His DNA was found on Hilda's clothing. In prison, he | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
confessed to Mr A but named others too. I wrote those names down on a | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
piece of paper and I put them underneath my shoe, in the sole of | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
my shoe, so the next time I saw the police, I could give them those | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
names because I believed those names to be quite important. I give | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
them the police but from that moment on, they told me to stop | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
talking to George and that was when the trigger happened to move him | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
out of that prison. According to the MI5 theories, Hilda was under | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
surveillance either because of her anti-nuclear views or because she | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
might have got information from her nephew in naval intelligence, Rob | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
Green, about the controversial sinking of the Argentine warship | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
the Belgrano in the Falklands war. In reality, Mr A says it was Andrew | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
George and his pals after money for drugs. He always went back to the | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
fact that he used to inhale gas and aerosols. It was glue and other | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
things like that. It was his circle of friends, they wanted money for | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
drugs, they wanted money for other bits and bobs. It was just the | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
local delinquents in the area. It wasn't the Government. In a case | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
full of unanswered questions, one of the most curious is why would | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
Andrew George drive Hilda Murrell six miles out into the countryside | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
before leaving her to die in those woods over there. The conspiracy | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
theorists would have it that this was an abduction so that she could | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
be questioned by intelligence agents. Less colourfully, speaking | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
to Mr A in prison, Andrew George said the feisty Hilda put up a | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
struggle in the house and they wanted her out of the way. They | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
wanted to clean the house of all the valuables and they wanted her | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
gone so they sent George away and the journey didn't go as planned. | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Um, crashed the vehicle and he stabbed her. When he got back to | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
the house XXX had arranged a van, in his words, to clean the house, | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
to get everything they possibly could. Hilda's nephew Rob Green | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
continues to campaign for the case to be re-opened. In a new book, he | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
reveals that more DNA belonging to someone other than Andrew George | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
was found beneath his aunt's fingernails. The people Mr A names | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
still live just a few miles from the spot where Hilda died. But the | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
names never formed part of the evidence put to the jury at Andrew | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
George's trial. Mr A has a new life now, his own criminal history | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
behind him, but this chapter he cannot close. I've never been able | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
to talk to anybody about this. I've had nightmares about it. It just | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
never, ever goes away. And if it's going to stay in the public eye and | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
it's going to stay where it is, I think the truth needs to come out. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
A little earlier, I spoke by phone to barrister and legal campaigner | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
Michael Mansfield QC who's taken a close interest in the case. What | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
was his reaction to the day's developments? It is perfectly clear | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
others were involved in it. The jury at the trial were not made | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
aware of this, as far as I know. The other avenues are to ask the | :05:29. | :05:37. | |
judicial inquiry. It is in Andrew George's hands and he has showed no | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
inclination to reveal the truth. It is his own fault he will be in | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
prison. There are other ways the matter can be investigated without | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
his help. The major suspect in this are the security services. It seems | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
to me that it is time that there was an investigation into their | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
role in this matter. It is incredible that one should be asked | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
to believe that they had no knowledge or played no part or at | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
least deny it given Robert Green's position in the war and also won | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
campaigning against the nuclear industry. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
In a statement, West Mercia Police tell us the allegations were fully | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
investigated during the original inquiry. They say any decision to | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
re-investigate the case would be made by the Criminal Case Review | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
Commission. Aston Villa could lose an estimated | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
�40 million pounds if they're relegated from the Premier League. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
That's the stark reality for a club that's spent the last 24 years in | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
the top tier of English football. Last night, the Villa manager Alex | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
McLeish was on the receiving end of a torrent of abuse from fans after | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
they were beaten by Bolton at Villa Park. And the heated debate | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
continues. Ian Winter is live in the radio studios of BBC WM. Ian, | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
the fans are clearly very upset. The football phone-ins are always | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
feisty affairs on BBC WM. But tonight, sports editor Mark Regan | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
and his studio guest Richard Sneekes are very busy indeed. As | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
you can see, the switchboard is lit up like a Christmas tree. How busy | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
are you? We have had a record and out of course. And no wonder | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
because Aston Villa fans are worried. And that's because Aston | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Villa fans fear the worst after last night's 2-1 home defeat by | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
last night's 2-1 home defeat by Bolton. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
Feel the noise, taste the anger, touch the frustration. 30,000 Villa | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
fans let rip on the the final whistle. And their torrent of abuse | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
was aimed at one man. The man they'd never wanted as manager ten | :07:40. | :07:48. | |
months ago. The same man who's now three games away from relegation. | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
couldn't see it coming. I am ready shattered by the 7 1/2. A couple of | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
hours earlier. The April showers had captured the mood of the moment. | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Dark clouds hovered above the ground. And outside the ground, a | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
quiet moment to reflect on the fanzine humour that keeps the | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
diehards coming back for more, to watch their Heroes and Villains | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
stumbling towards the worst home record in the club's history. But | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
record in the club's history. But the League table isn't upside down | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
and it could get even worse before the middle of May. Villa are now | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
just three points above the third relegation place, occupied by | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
Bolton who've got a game in hand. Bolton who've got a game in hand. | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
Yet, it could all have been so different. Villa played so well in | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
the first half without taking the lead they deserved. And they paid a | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
heavy price. Stephen Warnock's well-taken goal was the only | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
highlight for the home fans. But no-one guessed that within two | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
minutes 45 seconds of the ball hitting the back of the net, Villa | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
would concede a penalty converted by Martin Petrov... And then fall | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
apart at the back, to allow David Ngog to settle the match at 2-1. | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
Sheer agony for Alex McLeish. Unbelievable. I just couldn't | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
believe what happened to us. It was the worst nightmare. After a couple | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
of minutes of looking so comfortable in the game. It leaves | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
a bitter taste in your mouth, watching the game. It is a total | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
and utter shambles. No words can describe it, sorry. Can you believe | :09:13. | :09:21. | |
it? No, no. There is a good chance we can go. I can't see us getting | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
many points in the last three games. And those last three games start at | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
West Brom on Saturday followed by Spurs at home and Norwich away. | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
have nine points to play for. It is in our own hands. We need to go to | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
West Brom and get the points. the Villa fans fear time is almost | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
up for a team that's won only one of their last 13 games. And the | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
prospect of relegation from the Premier League is far too close for | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
comfort. Mark, sorry to interrupt. You're | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
now live on Midlands Today. What's the overriding emotion of your | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
the overriding emotion of your Aston Villa callers this evening? | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
They are pulling together. Last night, Alex McLeish had all sorts | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
of stick, particularly after the full-time whistle and we have had | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
many calls saying Aston Villa fans were discussed with the behaviour | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
of other fans. The defeat crystallised everything. Anyone who | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
has been bigger we are too good to go down, they've realised they | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
could go down. That is the overriding message. With a taste | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
dead than from the football club. They openly acknowledged the | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
frustration, and this is from the chairman and the chief-executive. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
We continue to be in control of our own destiny, they said. Well that | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
as by the fans are you station tonight? I think it will. If you | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
asked me last night, I would have said it won't. I do think there is | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
any mileage in getting rid of the manager, they have to stick | :10:48. | :10:58. | |
together and get the point. Will they be in the Premier League next | :10:58. | :11:08. | |
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season? Yes they were. The debate continues until 7pm on BBC WM | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
95.6FM. Still to come this evening: The | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
footballing nations who'll be fighting for Olympic gold in | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Coventry in three months time check out what the stadium has to offer. | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
Well, let's hope it's stopped raining by then or else, we could | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
be breaking a few records of our own. The weekend's not looking too | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
promising either. For those of you with outdoor plans, I'll have the | :11:28. | :11:37. | |
Other news now. The company which runs Warwick Castle says it's | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
disappointed after being fined �350,000 and made to pay �145,000 | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
in costs following the death of a visitor. George Townley from | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Berkswell near Coventry died after falling 15 feet into a dry moat at | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
the castle in 2007. Merlin Attractions Limited was found | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
guilty of failing to protect the health and safety of visitors. It | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
says millions of visitors have used the bridge safely. | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
Protesters are tonight attempting to stop the building of a | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
superstore on the edge of a Shropshire market town. They | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
believe Newport town centre, boasting one of the widest high | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
streets in the country, would not survive. Supporters of the plan, | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
though, say it would be a shot in the arm for the local economy. Our | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
reporter Ben Godfrey is in Telford. Ben, there's a planning meeting | :12:22. | :12:31. | |
going on right now. Has there been a decision yet? The no decision yet | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
but as you can see, protesters are here and about 50 or 60 are already | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
inside. Standing room only really. This is why they're here. Newport | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
High Street, they say, it could be damaged by the building of an out- | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
of-town shopping centre by Sainsbury's, which could be built a | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
couple of miles south of Newport. Here are the details of the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
superstore's plans which the councillors have been recommended | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
to approve. 50,000 scare -- 50,000 square feet of retail space. | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
Sainsbury's would be required to pay around �2 billion to fund local | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
amenities as part of this deal. Let's talk to one of the objectors. | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
Why are you opposed? This is neither needed nor wanted. This is | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
Eric councils strapped for cash which has been recommended to sell | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
greenfield space on the outskirts of Bath bodies hypermarket. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
Sainsbury's says it is creating 400 jobs. A lot of people do go out of | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
town for their food. Three under and 50 of those jobs, low-paid, | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
minimum wage. -- 350 of those jobs. We don't need those kind of jobs | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
for the community and especially our young people. If you lose, you | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
have lost the battle of the High Street? No, we have lost one stage | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
of that. After that, we will be contacting Eric Pickles, Secretary | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
of State, and taking it to a national level. The meeting will | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
continue later. Telford officers and councillors have recommended | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
approval. They say a scheme like this wouldn't damage the vitality | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
of the High Street like Newport. The objectors think differently. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
A former water mill dating back to Saxon times could become a source | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
of power once again with plans by a community co-operative to harness | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
the force of water to generate electricity. The mill could provide | :14:26. | :14:36. | |
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the village of Neen Sollars in Shropshire with 20% of its needs. | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
The water from this river was first harnessed 1,000 years ago. This | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
mill was lasting news just before the First World War. Today, the | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
giant water wheel has gone and it has become a handsome family home. | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
Plans are afoot to bring it back to life. Basically, we are trying to | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
take the water power that is in this river, and you can see here | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
now it is flowing over the Weir, and converting it to electricity. | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
new automated sluice gate will be built and is that of a water wheel, | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
a modern turbine will be installed. It should generate a 12 1/2 | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
kilowatts of energy. That is one 5th of the needs of the surrounding | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
village of Neen Sollars. What about the man who lives it? Have you feel | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
about your home being turned into a power station? It will be | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
remarkably in intrusive. Nevertheless, it is good, you know. | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
After 100 years, a mill that have packed up from grinding corn is now | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
going to turn itself into a rather more useful generation of power for | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
the present century. If this project comes to fruition, the | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
story of this mill will have come full circle with the fast-flowing | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
waters of the river once again being harnessed as a valuable | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
source of local power. To achieve that goal, the co-operative group | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
behind the project needs to raise �150,000. So far, they have 90,000. | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
If enough investors can be found to bridge the gap, this mill could be | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
up and running again as soon as this autumn as the wheels of | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
history go into reverse. It's perhaps the greatest love | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
story of all and Romeo and Juliet will be a cornerstone of the World | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
Shakespeare Festival in Stratford upon Avon. But audiences have seen | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
nothing quite like the latest production. Actors are using | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
experiences from their own country's troubled recent history | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
to help bring to life the bard's timeless tale of love and hate. | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
Joan Cummins reports now on the Iraqi Romeo and Juliet that will be | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
playing at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
It's an image that went around the world when Saddam Hussain was | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
deposed by American forces in 2003. War and conflict have continued in | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
Iraq with thousands of lives affected by the turmoil. Now, the | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
background of strife between the Capulets and the Montagues has been | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
adapted to sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shia. The play | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
has been commissioned for the World Shakespeare Festival and it's hoped | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
it will build help build bridges between the two cultures. It is a | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
really unique insight into a different culture and an | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
illumination of how important Shakespeare's plays are, have they | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
speak to different cultures. famous balcony scene doesn't appear | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
as you would expect it and there are many more dramatic changes. The | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
Iraqi theatre's version of Romeo and Juliet is performed in Arabic | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
with English subtitles. Gunfire and suicide bombers are ever present in | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
this classic love story set in Bagdad. But despite this, the | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
director insists the message is one of peace. We need to learn, to | :18:00. | :18:08. | |
teach our children have to love life, how to live life. I asked | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
visitors to the theatre if they thought the language barrier would | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
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affect their enjoyment. I think other people should have the | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
pleasure of Shakespeare. Who owns Shakespeare is the question. | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
Everybody. The actors say they're honoured to be working in Stratford | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
and hope their interpretation will help Western audiences have a | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
clearer understanding of the reality of life in Bagdad. | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
Three months from today, the Olympics will kick off and Coventry | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
will be at the heart of the celebrations. Because two days | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
before the official Opening Ceremony, the women footballers of | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
Japan and Canada will get their games underway. And the organisers | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
are hoping the Olympic excitement that's starting to build will bring | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
a big crowd to watch them. Nick Clitheroe reports. This report | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
contains flash photography. It's finally starting to feel close | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
for Coventry. The official tournament ball is here and so too | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
are representatives of the teams who'll play in the city during the | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
Olympic Games. After yesterday's draw, we know that at least 16 | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
different countries will be involved in games at the rebranded | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
City of Coventry Stadium. facilities are brilliant. This | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
stadium is nice and we went to the hotel before and everything looks | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
very good. We are very satisfied. The Canadian women will be the | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
first to play here against the world champions Japan. They have a | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
second match as well against South Africa. It is a beautiful place. I | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
love the intimate setting. It is a home away from home so we are | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
looking forward to the opportunity to play here and hopefully, we will | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
have a lot of eggs hatred Canadians and fans coming from London and we | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
will... Expats. Monday's test event at the stadium when Senegal beat | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Oman to claim the final qualifying place was generally judged a | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
success although a few problems with security checks still need | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
attention. Coventry has been one of the better-selling football venues | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
but there are still tickets left so cue a Sky Blue star to bang the | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
drum. So, Dion, there are three big questions the public want answered. | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
1.5 million tickets go on sale in early May. We want all of those to | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
go, we want the stadium to be full. If you have a charge to his �10, -- | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
who is 10, you pay �10, if it charges five, you pay �5. I think | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
it is a great idea. There are five double-headers. A game in the | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
afternoon, a game in the evening. You get to pay one fee and you get | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
to stay to watch two games. Everyone will be hoping for a big | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
improvement in the British weather. He won't be playing in the Olympics, | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
I don't think! Coal mining was once a way of life | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
in parts of the Midlands. Not any more. It's nearly 20 years since | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
three centuries of mining history came to an end in the Cannock | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
coalfields. But thanks to a campaign, many of the miners who | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
worked in the pits will now be remembered by future generations. A | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
memorial made up of more than 2,600 bricks, each bearing a miner's name, | :21:26. | :21:36. | |
:21:36. | :21:38. | ||
will be dedicated this coming Miners preparing to descend the pit. | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
Once a common sight with 48 collieries scattered across Cannock | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
Chase employing tens of thousands. But scenes like this have long been | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
obliterated from the landscape. Mick Drury became a miner aged just | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
15. Now, his is one of hundreds of names inscribed on this brick | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
memorial at Hednesford in Staffordshire. Relatives have paid | :21:57. | :22:07. | |
up to �20 for each brick to remember a miner - living or dead. | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
I'm very privileged to have worked with these blokes. They were the | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
best set of blokes. This, to me, is great. I can look at blokes that I | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
have forgotten about. The bricks are the brainwave of Mike Mellor. | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
He promised his uncle he'd make sure the miners weren't forgotten. | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
On Saturday, generations of pitmen will be remembered when the | :22:27. | :22:35. | |
memorial is dedicated by the Bishop of Manchester. This memorial be | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
carried on because there are families involved. It is not just | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
the people whose names are on the bricks. They have families who have | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
children, grandchildren, and I am sure this will be a lasting memory | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
and will fulfil my promise to my uncle Horace to say that we will | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
remember the miners. More than 500 miners lose their job so much | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
growth --... Littleton Colliery was the last mine to close on the Chase | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
in 1993. This is what the site looks like today. A new housing | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
estate will be built here. Once, hundreds of miners worked here. At | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
least this epic -- brick memorial paid tribute to that legacy. | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
Well, it's a familiar story. You've been hearing it for the last week | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
and a half. A lot of wet weather and more of it to come. Rain and | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
showers - windy with it at times for the remainder of the week. | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
We've got a couple of yellow warnings for both tonight and | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
tomorrow of more heavy rain that could cause disruption due to some | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
localised flooding. A build-up of that surface water. Now, we've had | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
squally showers through the afternoon - they'll continue for a | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
time this evening. As the winds begin to ease, they'll turn into | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
slow-moving downpours, although the tendency for those begins to shift | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
to the North later in the night. And we're looking at temperatures | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
no lower than seven Celsius. But no sooner is the sun up, the showers | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
start germinating from the South. So, we'll see another rash of them | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
developing through the afternoon. They will be joining up to spell | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
longer spells of rain. They'll be slower moving because it won't be | :24:26. | :24:34. | |
as windy tomorrow. But any sunshine could trigger some hail or thunder. | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
:24:45. | :24:47. | ||
Top temperatures tomorrow - 13 Celsius. More wet weather to come. | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
It really is like a conveyor belt of rain with the showers continuing | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
into tomorrow night, merging to form longer spells of rain in the | :24:53. | :25:02. | |
South. More heavy rain on Friday and Saturday. Thanks for that | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
drought update! A look at tonight's main headlines: Britain slips into | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
recession again - we're back where we were four years ago. The economy | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
shrunk over the last six months. It's officially a double dip | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
recession. And calls for the investigation | :25:17. | :25:19. |