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1,000 apprenticeships in 100 days has beaten its target by 50%. Park | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
is a fantastic setting in Today's announcement comes at a time when | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
youth unemployment across the West Midlands remains one of the biggest | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
issues confronting politicians, with 40,000 18 to 24-year-olds claiming | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
jobseeker's allowance. Which to have your morning prayer. It is | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
outdoors. Everyone is enjoying themselves. The leader of Birmingham | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
City Council welcomed the news of employment for 1,500 young people | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
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but admitted more needs to be done. Good afternoon. I have hay fever. | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
What do you recommend? Nathan Fidoe is 23 and in his first week as an | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
apprentice pharmacy technician in Birmingham. I was not getting | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
replies from anyone. This was the first thing I applied for and it was | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
the first job I got as well. His job is part of an ambitious scheme to | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
create 1,000 apprenticeships in Birmingham in just 100 days. It's | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
surpassed expectations. In the past 100 days, 1,459 apprenticeships have | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
been pledged by businesses in Birmingham. The city council say | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
it's a positive way to tackle the continuing problem of youth | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
unemployment. As the project's success was revealed, the city we | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
were told is ambitious. The truth is it needs to be. With 15,000 young | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
people out of work - there are fears of a lost generation. Birmingham | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
cannot move forward if it doesn't put our young people into work. They | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
are the future of Birmingham. This scheme was tailor-made to that | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
ambition. We An added incentive is a grant of up to �4,500 for businesses | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
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taking part. Will bring Birmingham forward and grow Birmingham by | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
putting young people into employment. We have retail jobs, | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
engineering jobs. We've had people in the media. Across all sectors and | :02:16. | :02:26. | |
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success. At 16 she's got an apprenticeship with a debt advise | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
specialist. We are not going to train someone to do the work we want | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
them to do and then get rid of them after 12 months. We would be wasting | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
our time and our money. Birmingham city council's investing �2 million | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
in the scheme which is also getting Government cash. The plan is it'll | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
continuing indefinitely. Joining us now is Kate Canty, Chair | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
of Birmingham Employment & Skills Board. Good evening. Taken in | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
isolation, this is great news - but there are still a lot of unemployed | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
youngsters out there? There are but there is a lot of work still going | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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on. For instance, we had the East Birmingham jobs fair two weeks ago. | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
We had 2000 young people through the doors that day and in fact, before | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
the doors even opened, there were 150 waiting outside. It wasn't a | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
careers fair, it was a true jobs fair where we had real employers | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
with real jobs, who were absolutely overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
young people who came in. Talking about these 1500 apprentice hedges | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
we mentioned earlier, how confident are you these will become proper | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
jobs? There are 700 on the system is real jobs. The figure changes on a | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
daily basis is more come in and more go off. As you heard on there, | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
Courtney, who has just started her new job, she is a keen and | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
enthusiastic young lady. Very good news but there is more to be done. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
What can be done? There is more to be done. We have all the colleges | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
and training providers working hard to make sure that people will be | :04:05. | :04:15. | |
ready. This campaign in particular was fantastic because a lot of | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
smaller employers have got involved. They are really thinking about the | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
future and I think that is quite optimistic with the economy because | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
smaller employers are looking to develop and build their businesses. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
We've also heard that employers are looking at training, keeping them | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
and hopefully coming back for another. I'm hoping this time next | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
year, those employers will be knocking at the door of the | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
apprenticeship service saying we want more. We're talking about feet | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
-- 1500 but you hope there are more than that? Yes, I do.They're all | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
sorts of criteria funding and rules and regulations. I am aware of jobs | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
being referred to jobs being referred to job centre plus. This is | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
one of the big changes in Birmingham now. Things are not getting lost in | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
the system. They are being captured and we are finding people those | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
jobs. An encouraging story. Coming up later in the programme: | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
The Shropshire farmer who lost 132 cattle to TB tells the Environment | :05:13. | :05:22. | |
Secretary he's been forced to give determine whether gypsies who were | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
forced to leave an illegal camp can return to the area. The travellers | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
have appealed against Solihull Council's decision to refuse | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
permission for two temporary pitches next to a site they occupied for | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
three years. Sarah Falkland has spent the day at the inquiry in | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Meriden. Sarahm this is the latest in a | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
series of planning wrangles involving the gypsies and the | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
planning authority isn't it? Yes. Would you believe, this is the | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
third planning enquiry relating to this group of gypsies in Meriden. | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
This latest one opened here at the social club this morning. It is part | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
of a four-day hearing and at the end of it, it is all about a piece of | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
land, in fact a makeshift car park, near to the gypsies alongside. The | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
grass has barely grown over this field. The gypsies used to live here | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
until April. But now, all attention is on this patch of land, still in | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
the green belt. This area of hard-core is where the gypsies would | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
like to put two residential caravans for temporary period of 12 months. | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
One of the proposed pitches would be for this woman, who has cerebral | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
palsy. The other four this man's mother. He said the request for 12 | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
months planning permission is just until the council get a permanent | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
gypsy site at Damson Lane in Solly hell up and running. But residents | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
are not convinced. They owned the land so they are entitled like the | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
rest of us to put a planning application in. But I think it is an | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
attempt to get a foothold on the land. We've enjoyed the last few | :07:00. | :07:09. | |
months of peace and quiet and we don't want it all to start again. | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
like peace. Their argument will rest firmly on planning technicalities. | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
We are disappointed because it is going to spend a lot of time, tax | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
payers money, examining the same issues which frankly have been done | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
to death. This site floods, particularly in the winter. There | :07:25. | :07:35. | |
are accidents on the narrow, single lane. The inspector has already said | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
that human rights and equality issues will be integral to this | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
case. That could be a sign that she is going to be sympathetic to the | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
gypsies long-standing desire to live here. That is something residents of | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
Meriden are finding difficult to contemplate. | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
Well, it is worth pointing out that the inspector here, Diane Lewis, | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
when she has heard all this evidence can only make recommendations as to | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
what should happen. This case has already been called in by the | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Minister Eric pickles. It is he who will have the final decision whether | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
to fall in favour of the gypsies or Solly hell Borough Council. | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
-- Solihull. A Romanian national has been jailed for ten years for | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
playing a pivotal role in five robberies at jewellery shops in | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
Birmingham and London. Vasile Bogdan disguised himself as a female | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
customer to gain entrance to the jewellers for the rest of his gang, | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
then stayed outside as a look out while the others used sledgehammers | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
to smash display cabinets. More than �300,000 worth of gold jewellery was | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
seized in the raids. Campaigners fighting plans for | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
12,000 new homes across Warwickshire are threatening legal action if | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
they're given the go-ahead. Half of the homes will be built on farmland | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
that already has planning consent in Warwick, Leamington, Whitnash and | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
Bishops Tachbrook. Land for the remaining 6,000 homes hasn't yet | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
been identified. Protestors say the Warwick District Council plans would | :08:56. | :09:06. | |
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result in a suburban sprawl on rural land. | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has been in Shropshire today, | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
talking to a farmer who's quitting the industry because Bovine TB has | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
killed more than 130 of his cattle. Mr Paterson held discussions with | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
farmers about the forthcoming cull of badgers which is designed to | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
control the disease. These cattle have regular TB tests. | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
And just like the rest of the country any that test positive are | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
slaughtered. That's over 130 in just six years. And that's lead this | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
farmer to a conclusion. We are going to wind down the heard and give up | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
completely. I'm giving up because of age to a certain extent and also to | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
bridge... Has been such a problem on this farm, it doesn't give you any | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
encouragement to carry on. Middle Knuck farm in south Shropshire is to | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
all intents and purposes a closed herd. So TB isn't being brought here | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
by infected cattle. Instead it's likely TB spreading from infected | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
badgers in one of the many setts around the farm. In Gloucestshire a | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
government project to track and film badgers. To understand why they seem | :10:14. | :10:24. | |
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to be more of a problem on some farms than others. We've lost 133 | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
through reactors to TB. The two pilots will go ahead and we look | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
forward to extending them next year. When you come to a farm like this, | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
it is perfectly obvious that we cannot let this disease go on in | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
this uncontrolled manner. We are heading to a contract -- | :10:43. | :10:51. | |
catastrophe. Our cattle industry will be decimated. The poor old | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
British taxpayer will be paying out �1 billion for a disease which every | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
other sensible country has under control. The focus continues to be | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
on the trial badger cull in Gloucestershire but right across the | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
Midlands, it's a problem that is having a huge impact on our farmers. | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
And David joins us from South Shropshire now. David, pro-badger | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
groups have been saying the Gloucestershire badger cull may not | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
go ahead, are they right? That's right, Mary. That is what | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
they have been saying on sites like Facebook and Twitter. They say so | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
many farmers have been pulling out of the coal that there are not | :11:29. | :11:38. | |
enough for it to go ahead. Talking to the minister today, he says they | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
are mistaken and he made it clear that the coal in Gloucestershire is | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
very much still on. When is it due to start? | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
That is the big question. We are in a shrinking window of | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
opportunity now. It has to take place for at least six weeks | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
continuously and it has to happen between now and November or | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
December. At the moment, I think we are not likely to see the coal in | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
next few weeks because harvest underway. -- cull. If you are a | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
marksman, you need props to be cleared out of your way. Nothing in | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
the next few weeks, I would have thought but after that, the chances | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
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are looking increasingly likely. 5,000 people have signed a petition | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
to save The Public arts centre in West Bromwich - which has had a | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
chequered history and now faces an uncertain future. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
In 2006, administrators were called in before the gallery even opened, | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
and the government had to provide a �1.6 million bailout. The Public | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
finally opened in 2008, two years behind schedule and �15 million over | :12:42. | :12:50. | |
However, visitor numbers are up. Last year The Public attracted | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
380,000 people. But in May this year Sandwell Council said it was | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
considering a plan to turn most of the The Public into a sixth form | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
college. All this week on his mid-morning | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
programme, BBC WM presenter Adrian Goldberg has been looking at The | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
Public and asking - does it have a sustainable future? | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
The Public in West Brom. One of the Black Country's most controversial | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
buildings, one of it's most expensive. But now, just five years | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
after it opened, there are question marks about its future. Sandwell | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
Council says that because of government cuts it simply cannot | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
afford the �1.4 million annual subsidy it gives to the public. I | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
have choices to make about what other services potentially we will | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
have to cut if we don't look at every aspect of spend that we | :13:42. | :13:51. | |
currently have in the council. One proposal involves the Public being | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
converted to a sixth form college. So if it stops being an Arts Centre, | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
what would be lost? This building is much more than an arts place. We | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
have 120 apprentices. We offer between all of the company is a huge | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
number of work experience opportunities. We are very much | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
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about the economic redevelopment of West Bromwich. This area has got a | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
lot of very talented people. This building is the platform for them. | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
Over the past five years, it's redressing that and we should give | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
it a bit longer. And the opening of the nearby new shopping centre has | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
increased footfall in the area. what does the public think? The | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
council have invested an awful lot of money in it. It has brought West | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
Bromwich up-to-date. I think it is a brilliant place. It should | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
definitely stay open. The idea of turning it into a college is stupid. | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
They just built a brand-new college. So signs of popularity for this | :15:15. | :15:25. | |
landmark. With council budgets getting ever tighter, has this come | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
too late? On his programme tomorrow, he will | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
be talking exclusively to the architect of the Public, Will | :15:34. | :15:44. | |
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Allsop. This is our top story tonight: 1,500 | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
apprenticeships created throughout Birmingham in a hundred days, | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
exceeding expectations. Your detailed weather forecast to | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
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come shortly from Shefali. Also in tonight's programme: and we get a | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
birds eye view of preparations for the Shrewsbury show. | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
How being born with half a heart is no barrier to sporting success for | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
12-year-old Sam. Muslims around the world are celebrating the end of the | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
holy month of Ramadan with special services, street processions and a | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
celebratory feast during Eid. In Birmingham, thousands of | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
worshippers attended a special event which a city mosque organised in a | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
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local park. 8.30am, Small Heath Park in | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
Birmingham, the start of what muslims anticipate will be a | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
glorious day. This is the most beautiful prayers I have ever been | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
to. It's the end of Ramadan, 30 days of fasting is over. Thousands have | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
come to the park to say Eid prayers. Mosque leaders asked the authorities | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
if they could stage the event in the open CLIP: the tradition of the | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
Prophet Muhammad, his tradition was that he would offer the prayer in an | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
open place, in the ground, not in a mosque. It's great to see everyone | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
coming here. They are praying altogether. The prayers are now | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
underway. They are expected to last half an hour and once they are | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
finished, everyone gathered here will enjoy a family day of | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
celebration. But those celebrations are tinged with sadness. Many here | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
attend Green Lane mosque. One of the elders there was murdered in April. | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
His loss was a great loss to the whole community. With everyone | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
coming together today, it was like the community saying, we've gone | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
through that, we suffered but now we are going to sow some unity. It's | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
fantastic that they are. This park was 135 years old and was once | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
visited by Queen Victoria but it has rarely seen an event on this scale | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
before. The Muslim community hope it will not be the back -- the last. | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
This is just beautiful. I would like to thank the council and the police | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
for their assistance. Once prayers were over, the rest of the day was a | :18:16. | :18:26. | |
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chance for worshippers old and young to enjoy themselves. | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
Onto football now and the draw has been made for the second round of | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
the Capital One League Cup. League Two sides Burton Albion and | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
Cheltenham Town have both been paired with Premier League teams. | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
Fulham will visit Burton while Cheltenham travel to West Ham. | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
Aston Villa face Rotherham in a repeat of the first ever final while | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
Walsall, who beat Port Vale in the last round, now take on Stoke City. | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
The Birmingham Brummies speedway team have gone top of the Elite | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
League after victory last night over local rivals Wolverhampton. | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
It was expected to be a tight meeting between the league's top two | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
sides. But Birmingham took full advantage of being at home to win | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
57, 33. They're in action again tonight at Swindon hoping to extend | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
their lead at the top of the division. | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
A 12-year-old swimmer from Staffordshire who was born with only | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
half a heart has won four gold medals at the World Transplant Games | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
in South Africa - breaking two world records in the process. | :19:18. | :19:28. | |
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Sam Griffiths needed seven heart next big win. But this young swimmer | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
is already at the top of his game (Clip of him showing and explaining | :19:44. | :19:54. | |
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this one for butterfly. And the medals kept coming. Sam was just | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
hours old when he was diagnosed with a rare heart defect which left in | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
too weak to walk. At aged seven, he got the hard that give the menus | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
lease of life. Five years later, and his family were there to cheer him | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
to victory. It is overwhelming and unexpected, the fact he is still | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
here and life. It's a miracle in itself to the fact he has just back | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
from South Africa, representing Great Britain in summing. It's | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
unbelievable. I'm immensely proud of him. Kick, kick to the surface. It | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
helps that Sam 's dad is a swimming coach. He says Sam 's hard work and | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
determination have brought him the results he deserves. Everything he's | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
gone through, he's had to fight for his life, all his life. When he gets | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
to that position on the block, he is focused and gives it his best shot | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
every single time. That is proof with the result is God. He is a | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
fighter. Sam has no intention of stopping. As he prepares for the | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
British transplant games next week, his family are hoping its success | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
will have been Maugham people will join the donor register. -- more | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
people. Congratulations, ceramics | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
Commissioner Mark Up to 50,000 people are expected to visit the | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
two-day Shrewsbury Flower Show, which opens tomorrow. | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
And this year's event will be particularly poignant as it marks | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
the centenary of the birth of Shropshire's most famous gardener, | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
Percy Thrower. Percy was perhaps best known as the | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
BBC Blue Peter gardener, but he was such a well known figure he appeared | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
on the Morecambe and Wise Show, the Benny Hill Show and he was the | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
subject of This is Your Life. He was long-associated with the Shropshire | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
Horticultural Society. Shrewsbury is known as a can of | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
flowers. And down in the Quarry Park preparations are well underway to | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
make sure it lives up to its name. The town's Flower Show is in its | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
126th year and opens tomorrow. highlights depend on what you want. | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
My highlights are the music and the grand finale with a fantastic | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
firework display. I know many people come for the floral exhibits and the | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
critic -- cookery. This garden, in a former stone | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
quarry, was once a massive wartime vegetable plot. It was transformed | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
by this man, the former Blue Peter gardener, broadcaster and author | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
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Percy Thrower. We are doing the digging and Percy has got me to dig | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
a big trench. Why? This is the beginning of the gardening year and | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
this is the most important time because we are getting things ready | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
for next year 's crops. He came to Shrewsbury as park superintendent in | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
1946 and was also the show's horticultural advisor. He was then | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
as a trainee at the Royal Gardens. This is his youngest daughter. She's | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
created a show garden in his memory. This year he would have celebrated | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
his 100th birthday. It is part of your life but you forget and you | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
bring it back to the present. It is lovely to go through all the | :23:09. | :23:18. | |
memories. My father was a down to earth person. He loved to help you. | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
He encouraged amateurs. Exhibitors come from all over the country. But | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
this man is from a garden centre closer to home - In Stourport. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
has been a year of contrasts. It started with unseasonably cold | :23:30. | :23:39. | |
weather. It turned on its head from the second half of April and we've | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
had the busiest end of May and June we've ever had. More than 50,000 | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
people are expected tomorrow and Saturday bringing huge revenue to | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
the local economy, particularly since the show is right in the heart | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
of the town centre. Over the years the show organisers have donated | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
millions of pounds to charites and amateur gardening groups. It's | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
something Percy Thrower would have been proud of. | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
I saw him once or twice as a youngster and it was very exciting. | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
BBC Radio Shropshire will be reporting from Shrewsbury Flower | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
Show throughout tomorrow. With all you need to know about travel to the | :24:16. | :24:25. | |
We've got a mixture of conditions which is good for gardening. We've | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
got some rain on the way but not as heavy as it was at the beginning of | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
the week. Also, there is an improvement for the weekend and even | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
into the middle part of next week. For the weekend, we are looking at | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
largely dry days with any rain passing through during the nights. | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
That is provided that the timing on this rain sticks you and doesn't | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
contract --... Some papers have mentioned a mini heatwave by the end | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
of next week but we are airing on the side of caution. In terms of | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
forecasting, that is quite a way off. It is something to look forward | :25:00. | :25:09. | |
to. We have a weakening band of rain coming in from the west. Even though | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
this is going to be a weakening affair, it doesn't mean to say we | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
cannot rule out some heavy bursts. We are enjoying some late sunshine. | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
Any showers from today are going to quickly clear from the north-east. | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
As you can see it is a fairly damp night with some light to moderate | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
bursts on the whole and patchy rain as well. It will dry up from the | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
southwestern corner towards the end of the night. Very warm air with | :25:37. | :25:45. | |
temperatures down to 14 to 16 Celsius. Through the morning, it | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
will start to Brighton and dry with decent spells of sunshine. Because | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
the air is going to be fresher, temperatures would be pegged back to | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
20 to 21 Celsius. We saw 23 today. Tomorrow night, it's a much drier, | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
clearer and cooler night. Temperatures will drop down to 11 to | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
12 Celsius for towns and cities but again, into single figures in rural | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
spots. It is a little bit chilly by them. For Saturday, on the whole, is | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
looking dry with decent spells sunshine. Then we got another front | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
heading in on Saturday night, into the early hours of Sunday morning. | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
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