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with Joanne Malin and Nick Owen. The headlines tonight: More money for | :00:05. | :00:07. | |
the region's infrastructure as the Government loosens the purse | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
strings, but business leaders say it's not enough. The government | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
isn't showing power to give commitment to the regions. We'll be | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
asking exactly what today's announcement could mean for the | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Midlands. Also tonight, Muslim leaders' shock as a mosque is daubed | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
with offensive graffiti. How lemon juice is helping to preserve and | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
restore an historic German bomber. Endangered in the wild, how the | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
birth of this snow leopard cub at Dudley Zoo gives hope the animals | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
may survive. And depending upon which way you look at it, there's | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
some good news and bad news in the forecast over the coming days. Hear | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
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all about it the later. Good evening. The projected cost of the | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
High Speed Two Rail line through the region shot up by an astonishing �10 | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
billion today. The announcement came as the Government set out its | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Spending Review including news of a �2 billion investment fund that's | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
expected to benefit this region. business leaders in Birmingham today | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
said that fell far short of the �50 billion they'd been hoping for. | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
There are also to be more deep cuts in council spending. Our Political | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Editor Patrick burns is at the Houses of Parliament now... More | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
pain, which we've come to expect, Patrick, but some gain too today for | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
this region? Little doubt now that our part of the country is in line | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
for a significant chunk of that infrastucture investment the | :01:48. | :01:58. | |
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Chancellor kept talking about. Don't be surprised if our motorway network | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
is high on the list when the details are mentioned tomorrow. Bob | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Hockenhull has been assessing reaction to the Chancellor's | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
statement. The Chancellor loosening the purse strings to kick start | :02:10. | :02:18. | |
economic growth. That's at least �10 billion over the next Parliament, | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
that is a sum that local enterprise partnerships can bid for" | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
Aspirations for an infrastructure boost have rarely been higher in the | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
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heart of England. The West Midlands will want as much of that cash as | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
possible but for some in Birmingham, the amount made available fell way | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
short. We are disappointed because we were expecting a lot more money | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
and we wanted enough more. One major project already underway is New | :02:48. | :02:58. | |
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Street Station - being rebuilt as part of an �800 million investment. | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
You will see all of the old station structures demolished. A thousand | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
workers, many recruited locally, are involved. It wouldn't be happening | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
without Government cash and it's not just not about improving rail | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
services. This is where they are building the John Lewis complex. It | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
is a construction site now but in 18 months it will be full of shoppers | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
and more importantly, job opportunities. So has the Chancellor | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
done enough to kick-start similar giant projects? The Greater | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership will be | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
responsible for delivering any economic revival. We've been given a | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
reason to believe that we will be invited early in the process. The | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
important thing is it is the beginning of a different process. | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
The budget for one huge infrastructure project for | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Birmingham - the High Speed Two rail line - shot up today by �10 billion | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
to 42 billion. The Government says it still may not cost that much and | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
opponents are still determined to scupper the whole project. New | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
pictures show what HS2 trains could look like and one of the companies | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
involved believes it's a price worth paying. There are statistics across | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
the world that demonstrates that putting money into infrastructure is | :04:19. | :04:28. | |
more beneficial than making cuts elsewhere and cutting taxes. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
sentiment that people in the region will hope George Osborne will agree | :04:32. | :04:41. | |
with. Infrastructure projects don't come any bigger than High Speed Two. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
MPs are preparing to vote in the second reading of the bill. They are | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
still absorbing the news that the cost has shot up to �42 billion. I | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
am joined by two MPs who are strong supporters of high-speed rail. | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
Surely this news is bound to embolden your party colleagues who | :05:05. | :05:13. | |
feel strongly that we should not throw any good money after bad? | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
underlying problem is capacity. There has been a doubling in | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
long-distance rail travel in recent years because of the cost of | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
motoring. The imperative here is one of capacity and although I have | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
reservations about the impact on my constituency, and I am trying to get | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
at the compensation for my constituents, I do think for the | :05:34. | :05:44. | |
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West Midlands we need that capacity. Surely the voices will be stronger | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
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against it? Road capacity between London and Birmingham and the rest | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
of the country will give it the economic growth we need. We need to | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
get the calculations right which is why am worried about the | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
announcement because if we can't get the figures right and do the | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
calculations then those people who don't believe in infrastructure | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
investment will have ammunition. The infrastructure decision itself is | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
right. Moving onto the Spending Review, you are among the | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
signatories of the letter. It is a remarkable display of cross-party | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
unity. 18 MPs wrote to the Chancellor in support of the funding | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
growth. Lord Howe Tyne has said it is more than that. It is 15 billion | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
at the time you bring European monies in the play. It is important | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
that we have written to the Chancellor on a cross-party basis | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
because West Midlands needs to speak with one voice when we compete for | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
the money. One voice is important. The announcement today was 2 billion | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
which is not enough so I hope there will be more money. My thanks to you | :07:04. | :07:13. | |
both. Coming up later in the programme: the challenge for police | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
with more cost-cutting on the way. Could new technology be part of the | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
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answer to keeping an eye on criminals? Racist graffiti daubed on | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
a Mosque in Worcestershire is being investigated by police. It included | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
swastikas and the initials of the far right English Defence League. | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
Officials at the Mosque say relations between Muslims and other | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
communities are good. Tonight the EDL said they had nothing to do with | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
the incident. Giles Latcham reports. At Redditch, on a mosque still under | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
construction, the Nazi swastika, the initials of the Ku Klux Klan and the | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
far right English Defence League and National Front. Their place of | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
worship defaced, Mosque officials were shocked and saddened - but | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
believe it was an act influenced by events elsewhere. My first reaction | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
is sadness but as you can see, up and down the country, after the | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
incident in Woolwich, there have been incidents highlighted in the | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
press. Council staff were soon on site to help with the clean up. | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
Police believe it began as a break-in by burglars targeting | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
builder's equipment - but turned into a hate crime. I think all of us | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
are really shocked by this activity and we are keen to see the offenders | :08:37. | :08:46. | |
brought to justice and provides support to our residents. Two men | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
have been charged following an alleged arson attack on a mosque in | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Gloucester last week. A mosque in Walsall was sealed off at the | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
weekend when a device left outside partially exploded. In Redditch, | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
both police and the Mosque committee say community relations are good. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
But last summer about 100 EDL supporters marched through the town | :09:04. | :09:14. | |
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and some younger Muslims believe there are tensions. Especially with | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
these younger lots as well, they are making it into more of a racist | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
motivation. Before, it was not like this. It has gone pear shaped. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
spokesman for the EDL denies they're stirring hatred or that their | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
supporters were involved last night. I do not accept or believe that this | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
was anyone from the English Defence League. We banned the swastika. All | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
you have to do is go on our website. We are proud supporters of Israel. | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
Whoever did though has caused upset and worry. The police's message is | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
one of reassurance, the accent is on harmony. The father of a | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
four-year-old boy alleged to have been starved and murdered by his | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
mother and stepfather has told a court his son was a "normal and | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
healthy" child. Erik Pelka who'd travelled from Poland to give | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
evidence said Daniel Pelka, who died from a head injury at his home in | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
Coventry in March last year, had eaten his food without difficulty | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
during the first year of his life. The senior investigating officer | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
Detective Inspector Chris Hanson said he was shocked at the severity | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
of the boy's emaciation. One of six men on trial for causing explosions | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
in North Staffordshire last year has died. Edvinas Sermuksnis from | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
Belfast was charged with conspiracy to cause explosions last August and | :10:35. | :10:44. | |
making threats to kill. The court heard there were no suspicious | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
circumstances around his death. trust that runs Walsall Manor | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
Hospital has put in a bid to take over the running of Cannock | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
Hospital. It's the latest twist in the health care scandal in | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
Mid-Staffordshire - as Cannock's part of the same trust which runs | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
Stafford Hospital and is now in administration. But, in the new | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
world of NHS competition, Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals are also | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
understood to be keen on on staking a claim to Cannock. To explain all - | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
here's our health correspondent, Michele Paduano. This ward is one of | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
two opened in Walsall to absorb extra patients coming in from | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
Staffordshire. Lisa Ayre has a pulmonary embolism. She lives a mile | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
from Cannock and convalescing nearer home would be an advantage. Panic | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
would be ideal for myself and for my family and friends to come and visit | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
me. Walsall hospital believes that it can provide a range of scanning | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
and diagnostic treatment in Cannock. It says a multi million pound | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
development has been costed and is viable. Our main focus is to use | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
Cannock Chase Hospital as a base for people to get a really good local | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
server so they do not have to travel further afield. Royal Wolverhampton | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
Hospitals is also interested but has not officially made its bid known It | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
plans two new operating theatres and a free bus service from | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Wolverhampton to Cannock, but would need a �30 million investment. | :12:10. | :12:19. | |
Cannock Hospital is underused and was threatened with closure. With | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
two suitors fighting over it, Cannock's future here looks | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
brighter. I understand that both hospitals were going to do a joint | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
bid, and this shows a new NHS where hospitals are competing against each | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
other. So what do the people of Cannock think? It is easier to | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
commute to Walsall than Wolverhampton. I have no preference. | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
I think, Wolverhampton. They said they would put buses on between the | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
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two. The Trust special administrator will utimately decide its future. | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
There could be private sector bid as well. Michele Paduano, BBC Midlands | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
Today. This is our top story tonight: Hopes that the region will | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
receive a hefty share of the Chancellor's �2 billion pledge to | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
help businesses, but disappointment it wasn't more. Shefali will have | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
the weather shortly. Also, in tonight's programme: As England take | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
on the world champions in Staffordshire, is women's football | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
breaking through into the big time? And one of the world's rarest and | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
most beautiful creatures, we're live with Dudley Zoo's new snow leopard | :13:32. | :13:42. | |
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cub. Back to the Chancellor's spending plans now - one man with a | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
keen eye on his finances is Staffordshire's Police and Crime | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Commissioner. Matthew Ellis is expecting to oversee savings of | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
seven million pounds for each of the next two years. Our Staffordshire | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
reporter Liz Copper followed him throughout a typical day to find out | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
about the difficulties of cutting budgets at the same time as cutting | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
crime. The day begins with an eight o'clock management briefing with an | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
agenda reflecting the impact of government decisions on police | :14:10. | :14:20. | |
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funding. There are some real chances of making savings on front-line | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
policing. We are working closer together. Next a meeting in Codsall | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
focusing on mental health issues. you could change one thing, what | :14:35. | :14:45. | |
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would it be? This meeting's followed by a surgery. Parish councillors are | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
here to discuss specific policing problems. It comes amid reports the | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
Police and Crime Commissioner's role could be widened. There is talk of | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
expanding the role to encompass all emergency services. That seems like | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
a unrealistic expectation. The Fire Service is a good candidate, I | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
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think. I talked to the Prime Minister about it. Inspite of those | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
high level talks, the Fire Brigades Union's attacked those plans, saying | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
"it's not suitable for PCCs' roles to be extended". And not everyone at | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
the surgery's a political ally either. I am sceptical about the | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
Police Commissioner's role and the way they were elected, and the | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
principle of it as well. I think we need to give him time. After the | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
surgery, there is another meeting. Then a chance to speak to officers | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
on the front line. Next the PCC's in Penkridge, hearing from those who've | :15:53. | :16:03. | |
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been helped by Victim Support. Cost-cutting in the criminal justice | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
system happens in the wrong place. Staffordshire's the only force in | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
the country to use this drone - much cheaper than a force helicopter - | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
and it can beam back pictures to help officers. The PCC wants to | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
invest more in technology to improve services. There are those who would | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
say it is unrealistic to expect improvements in services without | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
more money. It is not easy but I think the sense is that we have | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
sufficiently high ambitions that we have to buy into. This will give us | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
a better chance at succeeding over the years. The day ends with a | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
public meeting ahead of the launch of a four year vision for policing | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
in Staffordshire. Of course, ultimately, it'll be voters who | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
decide just how successful all our PCCs have been. Liz Copper, BBC | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
Midlands Today, Staffordshire. German bomber lifted from the | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
English Channel is now being drenched again inside a hangar in | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
Shropshire. The process should stop the unique aircraft deteriorating | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
further. Only when that's done can restoration of the World War Two | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
Dornier begin. Our reporter Joanne Writtle had exclusive access to the | :17:12. | :17:22. | |
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delicate operation. In a sorry state and being restored in two greenhouse | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
tunnels in Shropshire, a Dornier 17, the world's only surviving German | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
World War II bomber of its kind. Pictures of it being lifted from the | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
seabed in Kent were beamed around the world earlier this month. | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
Rescued from its watery grave after being shot down in 1940. | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
Conservations teams at RAF Museum Cosford are now revelling in | :17:42. | :17:51. | |
restoring it. There are bits that are amazing. There is painted | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
equipment and I have a piece here which came out of the wreckage. You | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
can still see part of the number and identification mark painted on it. | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
But mostly it's a mass of barnacles. Being drenched in ten minutes bursts | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
with water and citric acid - similar to lemon juice basically. | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
irrigation scheme is on a cycle. We sprayed and keep it wet. We cleaned | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
that off and start off with soft brushes. Hopefully, that will | :18:23. | :18:32. | |
preserve anything that is underneath like the original paint schemes. | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
Dornier gained the nickname "the flying pencil" because of it's | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
narrow fusilage. This Dornier's pencil like fusilage was separated | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
from the wings for its journey to Shropshire from Kent. The RAF Museum | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
conservation team is based here at cost for it. To illustrate how it | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
will be peace to gather in a couple of years' time, look no further than | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
this German fighter plane here. Engineers painstakingly married the | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
fusilage back to the wings on this Fockewulf fighter craft. Such work | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
is a long way off for the Dornier. Visitors meanwhile have had glimpses | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
through windows. A lot better than what I was expecting. I thought it | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
was going to be falling to pieces. Eventually the plane will go to RAF | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Museum Hendon in London to be displayed, that's if it's not too | :19:24. | :19:32. | |
fragile to move again. Isn't that fascinating? All of those barnacles! | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
Five thousand young football supporters turned out in | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
Staffordshire this afternoon to cheer England's women off to the | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
European Championships in Sweden. They drew 1-1 with the world | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
champions Japan at Burton Albion's Pirelli Stadium. And it's the | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
Japanese example the Football Association want to follow to grow | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
the women's game in England. Nick Clitheroe reports. This was more | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
than just another step on the road to the Euros. This was a chance to | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
inspire the next generation. Women's football is already the fastest | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
growing sport in the country but they're not stopping there. Four and | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
a half thousand tickets were given away to schools and colleges to | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
ensure the crowd was young and enthusiastic. I haven't seen England | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
play. I am going to Sweden as well so I am looking forward to it. I | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
have not seen ladies play before. The FA would like to make women's | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
football here as popular as it is in Japan. The match kicked off at | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
lunchtime so it could be shown live to millions back home. It is a good | :20:36. | :20:46. | |
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chance to play against England, they are very good. 3-1 to Japan!It is a | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
big day for Japan. They will head off to Sweden and go one better than | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
losing the final four years ago. England wanted this game to give | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
them the toughest possible preparation for the Euros but for | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
much of the game it looked as if former Birmingham City striker Eni | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
Aluko's goal would give them a morale boosting win. Japan equalised | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
nine minutes from the end but it looked as if England had won the | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
game in the final minute until an offside flag cut short their | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
celebrations. We have a really tough group. We are taking each game as it | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
comes. I know that is a cliche but they have named it the group of | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
death. We will see. We have some tough games coming up. England play | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
Spain in their first group game on the 12th of July and after today | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
they'll have plenty of new young fans to cheer them on. Nick | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
Clitheroe, BBC Midlands Today, Burton upon Trent. Despite the | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
rather clinical name, Cub X, is without doubt the cutest attraction | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
at Dudley Zoo in decades. That's because Cub X is a rare snow | :21:45. | :21:53. | |
leopard. Staff still don't know its sex because the cub's had no human | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
contact to guard against any chance of infection. Sarah Falkland is at | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
the big cat enclosure now. Snow Leopards are very rare these days, | :21:59. | :22:08. | |
aren't they? Estimates are that there are only around 4000 snow | :22:08. | :22:17. | |
leopard left in round the world. He is a handsome man, isn't he? He is | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
the father of the cup. If you think he is handsome, you have not seen | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
his offspring. He is adorable. A tiny big cat. Curious and | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
captivating. He is very confident for an eight-week-old cup. The dad | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
is placid and the mum is feisty so it will be interesting to see which | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
character he takes on. She is still giving milk to her cub but already | :22:51. | :23:00. | |
the little one it is developing a taste. Horse meat, occasionally. It | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
depends what we get. Not easy grabbing lunch when your claws are | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
so small. We put the meat pies so we encourage him to climb up and | :23:13. | :23:23. | |
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around. The cub is destined to a life in captivity. They are an | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
endangered species under all kinds of threats. Their bones are used in | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
Oriental medicine. As if being squeezed out of their habitat is not | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
enough, some have been blown up by landmines. Even when it is fully | :23:41. | :23:50. | |
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grown, the cub will never roar. Snow leopards hiss and growl instead. We | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
will find out if the cub is male or female in a few weeks when it is | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
handled for its vaccinations. The consensus is that it is a female | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
because she is so pretty. I think it is cute. I would like to cuddle it. | :24:09. | :24:19. | |
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It is very pretty. Nice to see him. She is lovely, yes. Well, the cub is | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
part of an international breeding programme. What does that mean? It | :24:29. | :24:37. | |
means that this is part of an international programme and the cub | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
will go to Europe to join another male or female to continue the | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
breeding programme. How long will you keep the cub? Up to about 18 | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
months. We are being carefully watched by the father here. A proud | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
daddy. They had a bit of a fight earlier. Ie keeping them segregated? | :25:06. | :25:14. | |
Some of them are segregated. The mum will look after the baby and the | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
baby will make its own way so it is very similar to what we do here. We | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
are being cautious. They can get protective, especially newborn, | :25:25. | :25:34. | |
first-time mothers. Is it a boy or girl? Properly a girl.We will bring | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
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you the news first. I think it is a boy! Temperatures would seem to | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
suggest things are improving. Beautiful day today. We basically | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
got a watered down version of what was going on across the Iberian | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
Peninsula and beyond with the air originating from the Azores. Our top | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
temperatures almost matched Gibralter's and Barcelona's.They got | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
twenty two We got just over twenty celsius at both Hereford and | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
Pershore. The North of the region didn't fare as well with Keele | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
reaching only 16 but as you can see from that table, a lot of places | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
were into the high teens but it's likely to get even warmer than that | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
later this week. We have a series of warm sectors to come through. The | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
first tomorrow. The second on Friday and the third on Sunday but while | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
we're at the centre of these, not only will temperatures rise but so | :26:33. | :26:43. | |
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will the humidity. However, there will be some rain to come from them. | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
It's reasonably clear across us right now though there is this bank | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
of cloud sitting out to the East which is just squeezing out the odd | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
light shower. But they'll die out and the night's looking dry and some | :26:56. | :27:06. | |
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some clear spells - some isolated mist patches and lows of 11 celsius. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
So it'll be dry with a bit of sunshine tomorrow morning but, after | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
that, as the first warm sector pushes through, and it's coming | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
through quicker now, we'll see it turning cloudier and wetter through | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
the afternoon with a top temperature of 17 celsius. Let's recap tonight | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
top stories. George Osborne has announced �11.5 billion worth of | :27:24. | :27:31. |