:00:04. > :00:07.Hello, and welcome to Midlands Today with Nick Owen and Mary Rhodes. The
:00:07. > :00:16.headlines tonight: The Public, an arts and media centre in West
:00:16. > :00:22.Bromwich that was controversial, costly and now closing. We will be
:00:22. > :00:31.really upset. Where do we go? comes as the importance of tourism
:00:31. > :00:34.to the economy is increasing and numbers of tourists Sara. -- are up.
:00:34. > :00:38.Tourists brought in �6 billion to Birmingham and the Black Country
:00:38. > :00:41.last year and this year could be better. It's essential, not just to
:00:41. > :00:44.Dudley and the Black Country but to the West Midlands as a whole.
:00:44. > :00:47.staff spread too thinly- why one accident and emergency department in
:00:48. > :00:55.Shropshire may shut. Wizards of the web - the youngsters cracking the
:00:55. > :00:59.code for business success in the future. The weather is eerily quiet.
:00:59. > :01:09.We have ditched the heat and thunderstorms. What is in the
:01:09. > :01:12.
:01:12. > :01:16.crystal balls for the weekend? Join of the line for a project that's
:01:16. > :01:20.cost tens of millions of pounds of public money, The Public arts centre
:01:20. > :01:25.in West Bromwich. Last night on Midlands Today we brought you news
:01:25. > :01:28.of an uncertain future, we now know it's to close. From day one it's
:01:28. > :01:32.been dogged by controversy, opening two years late in 2008 just as the
:01:32. > :01:37.recession hit. The Public was supposed to put West Bromwich on the
:01:37. > :01:41.cultural map but critics branded it a �70 million white elephant.
:01:41. > :01:45.Recently, though, visitor numbers have risen - 380,000 last year.
:01:45. > :01:51.Today, Sandwell Council revealed it can no longer afford �1.6 million a
:01:51. > :01:55.year in running costs. Here's Giles Latcham with reaction to today's
:01:55. > :02:02.announcement. Overly expensive and underused - the
:02:02. > :02:05.story of The Public is all too familiar. And now the council wants
:02:05. > :02:12.it shut by the end of November. Ironic, says the woman in charge,
:02:12. > :02:15.given visitor numbers are up. think it is a shame for all of the
:02:15. > :02:19.people that care and love this building, and all of those people
:02:19. > :02:22.that spoke out, signed petitions and did other things to save it, that
:02:22. > :02:26.there voice has not been heard. Opened five years ago, The Public
:02:26. > :02:30.came to be known as the pink elephant. A report branded it not
:02:30. > :02:33.fit for purpose. Ambitious interactive displays were plagued by
:02:33. > :02:43.technical problems and the council had to rescue it from administration
:02:43. > :02:46.as costs soared. No one from the council was available for interview.
:02:46. > :02:50.In a statement, they said that the decision to close the building has
:02:50. > :02:55.not been easy, but they cannot continue subsidising it to the tune
:02:55. > :03:02.of nearly �1.5 million each year. That money is council taxpayer's
:03:03. > :03:06.money. They say that in the face of cuts from central government, that
:03:06. > :03:09.cannot carry on. But supporters say it is more than an art gallery and
:03:09. > :03:15.the completion of a new shopping centre next door gave it a new lease
:03:15. > :03:20.of life. Ever since the square has opened, there have been bands out
:03:20. > :03:24.here. I've seen quite a lot of people. I don't think it should be
:03:24. > :03:27.shut down, it's a nice building and it gives a creative touch. On the
:03:27. > :03:31.top floor, small businesses rent space. This IT firm say the landmark
:03:31. > :03:36.building is a hit with their clients in the Middle East. They now plan to
:03:36. > :03:40.leave the borough. We purely came here because of the building. I
:03:40. > :03:44.think it suited our business. We decided to come here. But, apart
:03:44. > :03:50.from that, I don't think there is very much going on in Sandwell.
:03:50. > :03:55.on the ground floor the weekly knitting circle are at a loss.
:03:55. > :03:59.come here every Friday and meet up. We have become really close friends.
:03:59. > :04:07.We will be really upset, Sandwell College could yet open a sixth form
:04:07. > :04:17.on the site, but that's far from Sandwell Council, but no one was
:04:17. > :04:24.
:04:24. > :04:28.The TaxPayers' Alliance. What is your reaction to the news of this
:04:28. > :04:32.closure? It has been a sorry tale from beginning to end. People said
:04:32. > :04:37.it was iconic. As far as I can tell, it is an icon to bad budgeting and
:04:37. > :04:40.bad planning. A building that was supposed to cost �38 million and
:04:40. > :04:50.ended up costing �72 million. It is sitting there now as a white
:04:50. > :04:51.
:04:52. > :04:57.elephant, seeping away �1.5 million per year of taxpayer money. Is
:04:57. > :05:00.�35,000 a week. Absolutely unsustainable. What would represent
:05:01. > :05:05.value for money for taxpayers? council has to put into the public
:05:05. > :05:10.domain what the options are, and ensure value for money is delivered.
:05:10. > :05:13.Whether that is handing over to Sandwell College or looking at an
:05:13. > :05:17.alternative solution to recoup as much money as possible. It is a huge
:05:17. > :05:21.amount of taxpayer money that has gone on this project. At a time when
:05:21. > :05:25.the council is having to make savings, the last thing it can
:05:25. > :05:30.afford is to lose money at this kind of rate. But they need to get a move
:05:30. > :05:35.on, because a mothballed building costs money? Of course, and they
:05:35. > :05:39.must get on and make a decision, and make sure it is made in the open and
:05:39. > :05:42.transparently, so people can see the options they are weighing up. They
:05:42. > :05:45.also need to make sure they make the right decision. When the decision
:05:45. > :05:51.was made to build this thing in the first place, it was very much the
:05:51. > :05:55.wrong decision. Don't the people of West Bromwich deserves some kind of
:05:55. > :06:00.arts facility? It had a slow start, but we had 380,000 visitors last
:06:00. > :06:04.year. Where do they go now? I think it was far too ambitious in the
:06:04. > :06:09.beginning. That is clear now. Even if visiting numbers have slightly
:06:09. > :06:14.risen, you cannot justify that �30,000 per week subsidy for that
:06:14. > :06:17.building. People will come up with their own solutions. I am sure that
:06:17. > :06:21.the community will come together and look at ways, alternative venues,
:06:21. > :06:25.where they can host events and meat. Perhaps in the longer term, they
:06:25. > :06:32.could look to a slightly less ambitious way of ringing people
:06:32. > :06:36.together for artistic reasons. The news of that closure comes just
:06:36. > :06:40.as tourism in the region is on the up. Our hottest summer in years has
:06:40. > :06:49.brought an increase in visitors, but could more be done to bring in those
:06:49. > :06:52.ringed tailed lemurs are up nice and early for the expected summer
:06:52. > :06:55.holiday visitors. While over at the meerkat enclosure, the tourist train
:06:55. > :06:59.has just arrived. The zoo's been here for over 70 years, but new
:06:59. > :07:05.generations keep arriving in their droves. In fact, visitor numbers in
:07:05. > :07:13.the Black Country are up by 2%. wanted to see their favourite
:07:13. > :07:16.animals. The animals and the train, he loves the train. Overall
:07:16. > :07:24.attendance has been up, we have been doing well. This year, we are up
:07:24. > :07:27.17%. In fact, 25 million visitors came last year. Tourism might be big
:07:27. > :07:30.business, but it could be bigger. Tourism has become more and more
:07:30. > :07:33.important to the Black Country, not least since the decline in
:07:33. > :07:37.manufacturing in the 1980s and '90s. And it's reached the point now where
:07:37. > :07:39.the visitor economy is seen as essential to the future of this
:07:39. > :07:45.area. Birmingham and the Black Country's working on cross
:07:45. > :07:48.promotion, but there are fears the region will be left behind. It is
:07:48. > :07:52.absolutely essential that the government gives more money to this
:07:52. > :07:55.part of the world to develop tourism. It's not just a question of
:07:55. > :07:58.developing tourism. The future of the West Midlands is at stake. We
:07:58. > :08:02.had to pull our finger out, get together and make sure we punch
:08:02. > :08:06.above our weight. The last ten years, we have been falling behind.
:08:06. > :08:09.Blists Hill in Telford is one of the biggest attractions in the region -
:08:09. > :08:14.tourism here is a big employer. They say it's important the region as a
:08:14. > :08:19.whole works together. Tourism has always been one of these sleeping
:08:19. > :08:23.giants. Recent years, with things like foot and mouth, it has helped
:08:23. > :08:27.people focus on the value of tourism in the local and national economy.
:08:27. > :08:29.It is slowly getting up there. In Shropshire, tourism is the third
:08:29. > :08:34.most important employer. sunshine's brought people out, but
:08:34. > :08:39.it's continued investment will bring the midlands out of the shadows.
:08:39. > :08:43.Coming up later in the programme: Coventry City's first home match of
:08:43. > :08:50.the season this weekend, 35 miles away in Northampton. How many fans
:08:50. > :08:53.will go? Another accident and emergency unit
:08:53. > :08:57.is under threat tonight. Health chiefs across Shropshire say it's
:08:57. > :09:01.unrealistic to have two in the county. They want to open up a
:09:01. > :09:04.debate about the future of health care. It could lead to the closure
:09:04. > :09:13.of an A&E department, but building a new hospital hasn't been ruled out.
:09:13. > :09:19.Here's our health correspondent, off a plan to downgrade its accident
:09:19. > :09:21.and emergency department. Save children's services! In 2011,
:09:21. > :09:25.Shrewsbury fought and lost children's and maternity services in
:09:26. > :09:29.favour of Telford 2013. And health chiefs have begun yet another debate
:09:29. > :09:36.about the future of health care in Shropshire and haven't ruled out a
:09:36. > :09:41.single hospital. We need to design a model that is fit for the future,
:09:41. > :09:46.really. We haven't come up with any decisions as regards what that model
:09:46. > :09:49.looks like, whether it is two or one hospital. We have been clear on the
:09:49. > :09:53.consultation process. It needs to be clinically led. If an accident and
:09:53. > :09:59.emergency were to be lost, Telford is the most likely because it is
:09:59. > :10:02.less remote. They have been trying to find a solution for over a
:10:02. > :10:09.decade, and it is not going to be easy because Shropshire is such a
:10:09. > :10:11.large county. Both A&E departments are rammed to the gunwales. There
:10:11. > :10:15.are 110,000 patients passing through each year and both are struggling
:10:15. > :10:20.with capacity. But a �70 million new children's and maternity unit is
:10:20. > :10:24.being built in Telford. Can that be safe without emergency cover?
:10:24. > :10:28.we want to do is actually look at the way we provide services for
:10:28. > :10:33.urgent care in a different fashion. Perhaps we need to stop thinking
:10:33. > :10:37.about traditional A&Es. There are a whole group of people that could
:10:37. > :10:40.come into the inpatient assessment areas and not go anywhere near A&E,
:10:40. > :10:49.and that is the best care for them. The people of Shropshire just seem
:10:49. > :10:54.frustrated by the need to fight. can just get on to politicians to
:10:54. > :10:58.see if it helps, but will it help? We are near to Telford, so I would
:10:58. > :11:01.be pretty upset. The reality is there isn't enough money or doctors
:11:01. > :11:05.- but making services safe here will prove one of the hardest challenges
:11:05. > :11:08.in our region. The body of Daniel Pelka, the
:11:08. > :11:12.four-year-old who was abused and then murdered by his mother and her
:11:12. > :11:18.partner in Coventry, has been released to his family. It follows
:11:18. > :11:22.the end of the court case last week. Daniel's father Eryck has now been
:11:22. > :11:24.given custody of his body and is said to be planning a funeral in
:11:24. > :11:27.Poland. Six men have been convicted of a
:11:27. > :11:31.range of violent offences committed during a birthday party that ended
:11:31. > :11:36.with the death of a 16-year-old boy. Ben Morutare died in July last year
:11:36. > :11:38.after he was stabbed in the leg. He'd been at a party at the Old
:11:38. > :11:41.Comrades Club in Smethwick. An 18-year-old admitted his
:11:41. > :11:48.manslaughter, a 19-year-old pleaded guilty to violent disorder, while
:11:48. > :11:51.four other men were convicted on the same charge earlier this week.
:11:51. > :11:54.The veteran Birmingham heavy metal band Black Sabbath are to be named
:11:54. > :11:58.as living legends at a music ceremony hosted by a rock magazine
:11:58. > :12:01.later this year. Frontman Ozzy Osbourne is expected to attend the
:12:01. > :12:07.event in London with fellow band members Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi
:12:07. > :12:12.in November. The group has recently enjoyed being top of the charts with
:12:12. > :12:16.the album 13. They're also in the running to be named Band of the
:12:16. > :12:19.Year. Coventry City Football Club are
:12:19. > :12:24.facing millions of pounds in lost ticket sales while they play home
:12:24. > :12:27.matches in Northampton for the next three seasons. The first one is on
:12:27. > :12:33.Sunday. Attendances are likely to fall from close to 11,000 per game
:12:33. > :12:36.to as low as 2,000. The club claim leaving the Ricoh Arena and building
:12:37. > :12:41.their own stadium is vital to their long-term financial future. But
:12:41. > :12:45.large numbers of fans are refusing to go with them. Nick Clitheroe has
:12:45. > :12:48.spent the day with one of those supporters. Buying tickets to watch
:12:48. > :12:52.Coventry City this weekend, but Michael Orton won't be travelling to
:12:52. > :12:57.Northampton to see the first team. Instead he'll be at the Ricoh to
:12:57. > :13:01.watch a team of club legends play a charity match. Michael is one of
:13:01. > :13:06.thousands of fans of the Sky Blues planning to boycott their home games
:13:06. > :13:09.this season. So this morning I took Michael on the 70 mile round trip to
:13:09. > :13:13.Northampton to dig further into why feelings are so strong among the
:13:13. > :13:16.fans about a plan which would see Coventry City play in Northampton
:13:16. > :13:19.for at least three years, while the club build a new ground near
:13:19. > :13:23.Coventry. Football clubs should be kept in their community, with all of
:13:23. > :13:29.the traditions. This is what it feels like, going somewhere very
:13:29. > :13:32.different. This is not Coventry, this is not our home. Michael wasn't
:13:32. > :13:36.comfortable going into the ground, so we moved to the heights
:13:36. > :13:39.overlooking Sixfields dubbed Jimmy's Hill by the fans. There is no future
:13:39. > :13:43.for a Coventry City team in Northampton. It is as simple as
:13:43. > :13:47.that. The very future of our club is in danger. If we want to keep
:13:47. > :13:55.Coventry City, our club and our team, we need to get it back into
:13:55. > :14:01.commentary. At a fans Forum, Tim Fisher revealed his best and worst
:14:01. > :14:04.case scenarios for the move. team does really well, and people
:14:04. > :14:14.like to watch winning football. We look at comparable is, other teams
:14:14. > :14:15.
:14:15. > :14:25.have done it, you could get between 6000 and 7000 following. If the team
:14:25. > :14:26.
:14:26. > :14:32.doesn't do so well, we could get that number as low as three. From
:14:32. > :14:39.the numbers we have seen, 2000 could be optimistic. When they run out, it
:14:39. > :14:42.will start a new chapter in the club's history, but maybe not one
:14:42. > :14:46.that many will want to remember. You've been getting in touch about
:14:46. > :14:49.what Coventry City fans should do. Lee Clark wrote on Facebook that he
:14:49. > :14:52.wouldn't be renewing his season ticket as he feels cheated by the
:14:52. > :14:56.club. Rob Knowles said that, while he respected the decision of those
:14:56. > :14:59.fans who'd be travelling to see the match, he wouldn't be. And he's
:15:00. > :15:03.hating the divide the changes have caused. Mo Farooq got in touch via
:15:03. > :15:07.Twitter to say it was worthless to travel to another county for a home
:15:07. > :15:15.game. Kelly Brown emailed to say she too won 't be going to Northampton -
:15:15. > :15:18.she'll only take her family if they Our top story tonight: The Public -
:15:18. > :15:23.an arts centre in West Bromwich that was controversial, costly and now -
:15:23. > :15:26.closing. Your detailed weather forecast to come shortly. Also in
:15:26. > :15:31.tonight's programme, recycling Godiva. Coventry's celebration of
:15:31. > :15:37.the Olympic spirit heads home after a revamp. And from Premier League to
:15:37. > :15:47.non-league. Why this ex-Spurs star is turning out for nothing for a
:15:47. > :15:47.
:15:47. > :15:51.Hundreds of young people from all over the country are spending the
:15:51. > :15:55.weekend in Birmingham for a massive "code camp" - a chance to come
:15:56. > :16:00.together and create websites and phone apps, fuelled by pizza. The
:16:00. > :16:03.idea is to inspire a generation of young computer programmers and our
:16:03. > :16:11.Science Correspondent David Gregory-Kumar is with them now. So,
:16:11. > :16:18.David, tell us more. This spring out of an idea in 2009, when volunteers
:16:18. > :16:22.thought they would hold a camp. They threw open the Google headquarters.
:16:22. > :16:26.They had space for 50 young people and only three were interested in
:16:26. > :16:32.turning up. Clearly, something had gone wrong. Given that programming
:16:32. > :16:35.is so important to the economy, it looked like the UK was in trouble.
:16:35. > :16:38.Fast forward to today and things look much healthier. All week,
:16:38. > :16:42.hundreds of kids have been working away at projects in centres across
:16:42. > :16:45.the country. This one is at BBC Birmingham. It is a great
:16:45. > :16:50.opportunity for teenagers to come out, work together, learn some code
:16:50. > :16:55.and, at the end of it, have a project they can be proud of having
:16:55. > :16:58.developed. It is not just teaching is about code, it's a lot about the
:16:58. > :17:01.actual environment we will be going into if we go into development as a
:17:01. > :17:05.career. The young developers are encouraged to work with data that's
:17:05. > :17:08.available for free on the internet and come up with interesting ideas
:17:08. > :17:11.for it. So, for example, one group has been playing around with online
:17:11. > :17:21.maps and police crime data to produce a very different kind of
:17:21. > :17:22.
:17:22. > :17:29.satnav. It is a snippet of Google maps, which shows on the website. It
:17:29. > :17:33.shows where the high crime rate places are. So you can choose the
:17:33. > :17:36.safest route and also get directions to it. And these programmers of the
:17:36. > :17:46.future have already acquired the trendy internet hatred of vowels in
:17:46. > :17:52.
:17:52. > :17:55.is a bit noisy with hundreds of children in there. With me is Emma
:17:55. > :17:59.Mulqueeny from Young Rewired State. There is a big history of people
:17:59. > :18:04.programming in their bedrooms and setting up big video game companies
:18:04. > :18:08.for example. When did we fall out of that? It just became too easy, the
:18:08. > :18:13.smart phones became too exciting and easy. It became much more simple for
:18:13. > :18:15.these kids to interact with a game as a consumer, rather than creating
:18:15. > :18:19.their own entertainment. It was forcing themselves to create their
:18:19. > :18:24.own entertainment all of those years ago that made them invent those
:18:24. > :18:29.wonderful games. Going back a bit, I remember programming with my mates,
:18:29. > :18:33.but we were spotty young boys. Is that starting to change as well?
:18:33. > :18:39.certainly is, there are a lot more girls interested. The whole thing is
:18:39. > :18:42.becoming more mainstream. The spotty nerds thing is really stopping. You
:18:42. > :18:45.can see from the children that we have a lot of different types of
:18:46. > :18:50.children. Girls, definitely, are starting younger. They are learning
:18:50. > :18:55.to code when they are seven or eight years old, with their parents, or
:18:55. > :19:00.they are getting the idea from their friends at school. Getting them in
:19:00. > :19:07.earlier is baking a big difference. Thank you very much. As well as free
:19:07. > :19:13.pizza, there is also a free ice cream van. It is geek heaven here.
:19:13. > :19:17.If I do and have to work, I would be here as well. The details will be on
:19:17. > :19:21.the Facebook page. -- if I didn't have to work.
:19:21. > :19:23.One of those coders, Lily, was just ten. Amazing.
:19:23. > :19:27.Last minute preparations are underway for Coventry's Olympic Lady
:19:27. > :19:30.Godiva to make a triumphant return to her home city tomorrow. The 18
:19:30. > :19:34.foot puppet was pedalled to the capital by a team of cyclists last
:19:34. > :19:37.year to represent the region as part of the cultural celebrations for
:19:37. > :19:42.London 2012. Joanne Writtle caught up with them at a secret base
:19:42. > :19:45.outside Coventry. A spectacular Lady Godiva puppet
:19:45. > :19:51.wowed crowds from Coventry to London in 2012, in a dress designed by
:19:51. > :19:53.Zandra Rhodes, and a coat by local artists. Today, though, at an
:19:53. > :19:58.undisclosed location outside Coventry, efforts were being made to
:19:58. > :20:08.cover her. Lady Godiva was looking as she did when she famously rode on
:20:08. > :20:09.
:20:09. > :20:13.horseback through Coventry in protest against high taxes. Naked.
:20:13. > :20:16.We are just putting Godiva's dress on, to give her some modesty well we
:20:17. > :20:26.take her out. Last year the weather battered her. So in preparation for
:20:26. > :20:30.her return to Coventry, she's had a make over: She had a hair do, she
:20:31. > :20:33.had her feet painted, she has a new neck because she got whiplash. Roger
:20:33. > :20:40.Medwell led a mechanical team from 17 engineering companies in
:20:40. > :20:43.Coventry. It's always very busy, maintaining the bikes, Lady Godiva,
:20:43. > :20:46.it's a bigger job cleaning her and keeping her ready to go at all
:20:46. > :20:48.times. Some of the cyclists who pedalled her to London will take
:20:48. > :20:51.part in her theatrical homecoming celebrations tomorrow. Others are
:20:51. > :21:01.new. Jane McGaffney started cycling just three years ago, Market Drayton
:21:01. > :21:03.
:21:03. > :21:09.is famous for gingerbread, sausages I learned to ride a bike and then
:21:09. > :21:14.did 400 miles for charity. How much are you looking forward to tomorrow?
:21:14. > :21:16.I can't tell you how delighted I am. More than 1500 people are expected
:21:16. > :21:23.to follow Godiva around the country ring road tomorrow. There will be an
:21:23. > :21:32.bikes, unicycles, roller-skates or simply on foot. -- they will be on
:21:32. > :21:36.bikes. Market Drayton is famous for gingerbread, sausages and as the
:21:36. > :21:40.home of Robert Clive - Clive of India. But not famous - so far,
:21:40. > :21:43.anyway, for its football. Our reporter Ben Sidwell is in the
:21:43. > :21:53.Shropshire market town for us tonight. Ben is that all about to
:21:53. > :21:54.
:21:54. > :21:59.fields, the home of Market Drayton. It could be a bumper crowd for the
:21:59. > :22:03.visit of Stoke city. Many of them will be coming to see the former
:22:04. > :22:13.Tottenham, Wigan and Blackburn Rovers player Pascal Chimbonda, who
:22:13. > :22:16.is now playing for all here, for The Gingerbread Men. London, population
:22:16. > :22:25.8.4 million. Home of Premier League Tottenham Hotspur. Market Drayton,
:22:25. > :22:31.Shropshire. The relation 11,773. Home of division one South side
:22:31. > :22:36.Market Drayton Town. In footballing terms, miles apart. But there is a
:22:36. > :22:42.link. This man. Pascal Chimbonda. has been good, you know? To have 90
:22:42. > :22:47.minutes, every time I play a game, that is good. The fitness, it
:22:47. > :22:53.improves, you know? If I want to play again at a high level, I need
:22:53. > :22:56.to have a game like this and training. A French international
:22:57. > :23:00.with 143 Premier League games under his belt, nobody expected him to
:23:00. > :23:08.turn out for a club still four promotions away from league
:23:08. > :23:12.football. Does everybody won his shirt? I suppose you can't afford
:23:12. > :23:16.too many? If people want to pay for his shirt, we would be happy to give
:23:16. > :23:22.it. But I don't think the directors would be happy about me giving them
:23:22. > :23:27.away for fun. What is more, he is not being paid to play. I think I
:23:27. > :23:33.need to pay them back, because they let me train and have some fun.
:23:33. > :23:38.the dressing room, still shock at their team-mate. What he has done,
:23:38. > :23:42.the World Cup, it's fantastic, it gives the lads a big boost. It gives
:23:43. > :23:47.us a massive lift and gets the fans wanting to watch, just to see him in
:23:47. > :23:51.a Market Drayton shirt. It's huge. With an average attendance of 75
:23:51. > :23:57.last season, they will be hoping to hang onto their star player for as
:23:58. > :24:02.long as possible. Well, Pascal Chimbonda is with us now. You are
:24:03. > :24:06.still only 34, just a couple of years ago you were playing in the
:24:06. > :24:10.Premier League. Great fun, but I bet there is something more, you want to
:24:10. > :24:17.play at a high level? I want to be at a high level, because that is
:24:18. > :24:23.where I belong. I hope to go up, and I will enjoy every time I spend
:24:23. > :24:27.here, I will enjoy it. Hopefully in the future I will be in a good team
:24:27. > :24:32.and enjoying my football again. have to let you go, the manager has
:24:32. > :24:36.told me you have to get changed. Thank you for joining us. Let's
:24:36. > :24:41.speak to the vice-chairman. This is publicity money cannot buy?
:24:41. > :24:46.Absolutely, fantastic for the club and the town. It's great watching so
:24:46. > :24:50.may people here, hopefully watching a great game of football. There must
:24:50. > :24:55.be a real buzz around, to have somebody like this? I've been in the
:24:55. > :24:59.pubs and the town, people have been talking about it, enjoying a great
:24:59. > :25:04.day of football. Do you think you can keep hold of him for a while?
:25:04. > :25:09.hope so, for a few more games. have got the programme here. I have
:25:09. > :25:14.had a sneaky word with the manager. Between you and me, exclusive team
:25:14. > :25:21.news, he will start the game today. A lot of bands here are very happy
:25:21. > :25:25.to see that. -- fans. They are opening their clubhouse. There are
:25:25. > :25:35.huge celebrations at Market Drayton town. What a surprise, he is going
:25:35. > :25:36.
:25:36. > :25:42.to start! eyes on the weather forecast. This
:25:42. > :25:46.one is not working to shabby. There will be some usable weather. I saw
:25:46. > :25:49.yesterday's rain clearing this morning, giving a good sprinkling
:25:49. > :25:53.for the gardens. Behind that, a ridge of high pressure settling down
:25:53. > :25:58.nicely. We will be keeping that quiet weather into tomorrow. Mostly
:25:58. > :26:01.dry through tomorrow. Quite a lot of cloud around at times, but some
:26:01. > :26:06.brighter bits in that cloud and spells of sunshine. It will feel
:26:06. > :26:10.warmer, with the wind a lot lighter. The wind has been gusty with a bit
:26:10. > :26:14.of sunshine here and there. But it is looking like a fine evening. The
:26:14. > :26:18.cloud will melt away for a time this evening. The cloud will be
:26:18. > :26:23.thickening up later in the night. Quite a lot of cloud. But despite
:26:23. > :26:26.that it will be fairly nippy. Temperatures down to 11 or 12
:26:26. > :26:32.degrees in the towns. They could nip down into single figures for rural
:26:32. > :26:36.spots. We could start the day at about eight or nine degrees. A
:26:36. > :26:40.bright start, with some sunshine around early on. The small chance of
:26:40. > :26:45.a shower clipping northern parts of Shropshire and Staffordshire. Even
:26:45. > :26:51.those will be fading away later on. A dry and brighter picture, the
:26:51. > :26:55.cloud will come and go. Temperatures are disappointing, but feeling a
:26:55. > :26:59.little bit warmer with lighter wind. Sunday, we have weather fronts
:26:59. > :27:03.creeping up on Sunday. We might be lucky and get them nipping us into
:27:03. > :27:08.the morning on Sunday. In general, I think we are looking at the greater
:27:08. > :27:12.chance of a shower on Sunday. Even those could fade away. Try and
:27:12. > :27:16.brighter bits. Feeling cooler and fresher, with highs of 90 degrees.
:27:17. > :27:22.The chance of a shower on Monday and Tuesday, but warmer and brighter
:27:22. > :27:24.Let's recap tonight's top stories: An investigation begins into the
:27:24. > :27:29.Government's controversial posters telling illegal immigrants to 'go
:27:29. > :27:32.home'. And The Public - an arts centre in West Bromwich that was