:00:09. > :00:14.with Mary Rhodes and Nick Owen. The headlines tonight: free food to help
:00:14. > :00:22.families in areas where half the children are said to be growing up
:00:22. > :00:29.in poverty. We will deliver 2500 males over a number of sites.
:00:29. > :00:33.will ask if a free holiday kitchen is necessary? New cattle control
:00:33. > :00:38.measures to tackle the spread of bovine TB.
:00:38. > :00:44.How serial ex-offenders are helping young criminals steer a part away
:00:44. > :00:50.from crime. �24 million to be spent on cycle
:00:50. > :00:55.routes in Birmingham. We are the worst of the big cities outside of
:00:55. > :00:59.London for cycling. And we have had the sun the rainbow look up to the
:00:59. > :01:09.skies and you may get more than you bargained for. All be detailed in a
:01:09. > :01:16.
:01:16. > :01:20.short while. Every other child is being brought up in poverty
:01:20. > :01:25.according to figures. A new scheme was launched today to help families
:01:25. > :01:31.struggling to feed their children. Those providing it so providing
:01:31. > :01:36.meals can push hard budgets to breaking point.
:01:36. > :01:40.It is being called B food back by some, a soup kitchen by others but
:01:40. > :01:43.organisers of this food service are calling it a holiday kitchen. The
:01:43. > :01:49.aim is to ensure children get a decent meals during the school
:01:50. > :01:56.holidays. As you can see, it is nothing like a soup kitchen. Over
:01:56. > :02:04.the course of this week, 250 meals will be given out. As well as the
:02:04. > :02:09.meals, children get the chance to learn about nutrition and nature.
:02:09. > :02:12.Food poverty means children are not getting the nutrition they need, it
:02:12. > :02:21.affects their concentration, their ability to learn and it has wider
:02:21. > :02:27.economic problems along the line. This working mum is one of those to
:02:27. > :02:33.benefit. The kids are quite happy here and eating. Everything costs
:02:33. > :02:40.dearly nowadays. I have four children. It is hard to pay the
:02:40. > :02:46.bills. At nearby shops, most people backed the scheme although there
:02:46. > :02:54.were concerns. If you genuinely need help, fine, but more children, more
:02:54. > :03:01.burden to people. If it needs looking after, it needs looking
:03:01. > :03:08.after. A six-week holiday is quite a bit collar day so extra money, costs
:03:08. > :03:16.for people who cannot afford it. big families seem to be raking in
:03:16. > :03:21.everything and those with a couple of children get nothing. It is about
:03:21. > :03:27.the distribution of wealth not the size of the family. The pilot runs
:03:27. > :03:36.for the next three weeks. I am joined by Amanda Nicholls from
:03:36. > :03:44.the Accord Group. How widespread is this problem? Extremely widespread,
:03:44. > :03:49.particularly across Birmingham for the main part. Some of those set in
:03:49. > :03:55.the most deprived wards not just in Birmingham but across the country.
:03:55. > :04:04.Certainly in the top 10% of those most deprived. Is it possible to say
:04:04. > :04:11.what the source of this problem is? I think it is a combination of
:04:11. > :04:17.factors. There is no doubt that they will be impacts arising from benefit
:04:17. > :04:25.changes, as well as issues of high levels of unemployment in the area.
:04:25. > :04:31.Who is funding the programme? successfully made a bid to
:04:31. > :04:39.children's charity children in need and manage to get 27 thousand �500
:04:39. > :04:46.which has funded the programme and will enable us to get 2500 meals out
:04:46. > :04:50.there into the community. We are doing that in partnership with a
:04:50. > :05:00.number of community agencies so it has presented an opportunity to
:05:00. > :05:02.
:05:02. > :05:11.bring communities together. 27 -- 27 �500 not an insurmountable amount of
:05:11. > :05:16.cash. How will you ensure those that need it will get help? They are
:05:16. > :05:22.people that ordinarily would have had access to free school meals so
:05:22. > :05:27.clearly there is a gap there in terms of provision. We know only too
:05:27. > :05:33.well how expensive it can be for families to entertain children but
:05:33. > :05:37.what this has done is its has allowed us to provide creative play
:05:37. > :05:43.activities combined with the provision of nutritious meals.
:05:44. > :05:47.Thank you. Coming up later in the programme:
:05:47. > :05:52.Bon voyage! Sports clubs sharing �2 million as part of the Olympic
:05:52. > :05:56.legacy. Any day now Gloucestershire farmers
:05:56. > :06:00.will be given the final go-ahead for a badger cull to control the spread
:06:00. > :06:04.of bovine TB, the first large scale cull for decades. But the disease
:06:04. > :06:06.isn't just spread by badgers. It also spreads from cow to cow and to
:06:06. > :06:09.tackle that, the government has unveiled new cattle control measures
:06:09. > :06:17.today. I'm joined in the studio by our Rural Affairs Correspondent
:06:17. > :06:21.David Gregory-Kumar. David, what has the government announced? This is a
:06:21. > :06:27.move to control the disease spreading in cattle and the Midlands
:06:27. > :06:33.is a bit of a lost cause. It is in our homes, badgers, in other
:06:33. > :06:39.animals. This is about what is going on at the edge of the infected
:06:39. > :06:46.zone. The government wants farmers to do more to stop the disease
:06:46. > :06:51.spreading to TB free parts of the country. Because of allowing TB to
:06:51. > :06:56.spread are much more and if we are going to stop this disease, we have
:06:56. > :07:00.to do everything that is available to us and that includes taking a
:07:00. > :07:07.rather more rigorous view of how we stop the disease expanding at the
:07:07. > :07:14.rate it has been doing. But the farmers who are having to pay extra
:07:14. > :07:20.for this in Warwickshire, they will not be able to Carl badgers. Concern
:07:20. > :07:30.have come from groups opposing the Carl but there will be enough people
:07:30. > :07:38.to check how humane it will be in Gloucestershire. Also there will
:07:38. > :07:41.only be 100 or so badgers autopsied after the Carl and there will be
:07:42. > :07:49.thousands of badgers killed. Pupils who oppose the course so it will not
:07:49. > :07:57.be enough to see if it will be humane. At the moment, farmers are
:07:57. > :08:03.still very busy. Once we get beyond hard this, then there is a narrowing
:08:03. > :08:10.window of opportunity. It is likely the cull will happen once harvest is
:08:10. > :08:13.over. Two men have been arrested and
:08:13. > :08:16.bailed following a shooting in Birmingham which has left another
:08:16. > :08:19.man in a critical condition in hospital. The 35-year-old was shot
:08:19. > :08:21.outside the Rainbow Warehouse on Digbeth High Street just before
:08:22. > :08:25.midnight on Saturday. Officers believe it was a targeted attack and
:08:25. > :08:30.they're appealing for witnesses. A 72-year-old pensioner - hit with a
:08:30. > :08:33.metal bar at a pub near Walsall - has had to have surgery for a broken
:08:33. > :08:37.jaw. Emergency services were called to the Three Tuns in Willenhall on
:08:37. > :08:42.Saturday. A woman in her early 20s received a cut to her head. Police
:08:42. > :08:45.believe the attacks were unprovoked. Police in Gloucestershire have begun
:08:45. > :08:48.a crackdown on pubs where glasses are used as a weapon by drinkers.
:08:48. > :08:52.Landlords are being told to take immediate action following glass
:08:52. > :08:55.attacks. If it happens again within a year, officers can request the
:08:55. > :09:05.pub's licence be revoked. They'll also ask premises to consider using
:09:05. > :09:06.
:09:06. > :09:12.plastic glasses instead. They do not break and do not cause injury and
:09:12. > :09:18.for the licensee, they do not have glass to keep up -- clear up and
:09:18. > :09:23.they lost a long time. Serial ex-offenders are helping
:09:23. > :09:28.steer young offenders away from crime, a new scheme is already
:09:28. > :09:34.showing success. Involves getting ex-offenders to act as role models
:09:34. > :09:36.for people released from prison. The year-long project is on the way in
:09:36. > :09:42.Solihull. A robbery in progress. It is a
:09:42. > :09:46.sobering fact that 25,000 crimes are committed across the West Midlands
:09:46. > :09:52.every month and the majority of culprits will have offended before.
:09:52. > :09:55.Meet Nikki and John, two men who have committed around 200 offences
:09:55. > :10:01.around them. Now one is helping the other stay on the straight and
:10:01. > :10:11.narrow. The support, the encouragement from people that have
:10:11. > :10:17.been in my position helps bridge a gap to help me reintegrate into
:10:17. > :10:22.society. Prison has spent a home for John on and off since he left
:10:22. > :10:32.school. Institutionalised he did not know he could lead a normal life on
:10:32. > :10:34.
:10:34. > :10:41.the outside until he spoke to someone who had. It is all thanks to
:10:41. > :10:47.a partnership between the social enterprise changes UK and Solihull
:10:47. > :10:51.services. We have a high success rate and people are no longer
:10:51. > :10:56.sending or taking drugs or alcohol and living in the communities they
:10:56. > :11:06.came from. It is exactly what the government wants. Recent proposals
:11:06. > :11:09.to overhaul the probation service... In 2010, almost half of
:11:09. > :11:16.all offenders released reoffended within 12 months. This scheme may
:11:16. > :11:26.help reduced those numbers but is also helping change lives for the
:11:26. > :11:28.
:11:28. > :11:34.better. For once I felt safe and sane. I don't do it and that is what
:11:34. > :11:37.they wanted to figure out how to do. Tackling reoffending is key to
:11:37. > :11:47.reducing crime with continued success, this scheme could be
:11:47. > :11:54.
:11:54. > :11:56.extended across the region. Our top story tonight: Your detailed
:11:56. > :11:59.weather forecast to come shortly from Shefali.
:11:59. > :12:02.Also in tonight's programme: Four priceless goals as a rampant Wolves
:12:02. > :12:06.put down a marker for their promotion challenge this season.
:12:06. > :12:13.And a new film remembering Ralph who died in the First World War after
:12:13. > :12:16.signing up in Gloucestershire when he was only 15.
:12:17. > :12:20.�24 million pounds is to be spent in Birmingham to improve cycle routes
:12:20. > :12:24.over the next few years. �17 million has come from the government. It's
:12:24. > :12:30.hoped that in 20 years time, one in ten of all journeys into the city
:12:30. > :12:34.will be made by bike. Sarah Falkland reports.
:12:34. > :12:40.Outside of London, Birmingham is rated the worst city in the country
:12:40. > :12:47.for cyclistss. I can see why. Congested, commuter roads clogged
:12:47. > :12:53.with cars, there is not much room for hikes. What a nightmare. But �24
:12:53. > :12:56.million could change all that. of that money will go on
:12:56. > :13:03.infrastructure, getting all the routes right and getting the city
:13:03. > :13:08.centre right to enhance flow. 1% of people in Birmingham cycle to
:13:08. > :13:13.work. This group are glad they have chosen form of transport is getting
:13:13. > :13:20.backing. In the past, some of these services have not really been great
:13:20. > :13:28.for rests so with this money being announced today, it is great.
:13:28. > :13:34.great to see cycling being taken seriously. But should we not all be
:13:34. > :13:38.pleased? BT have �2.3 billion lost due to congestion in Birmingham so
:13:38. > :13:44.to be able to utilise cycle routes it means it is better for the
:13:44. > :13:48.economy and people 's health and well-being. With Birmingham being
:13:48. > :13:53.the second worst city in the country for air pollution, anything that
:13:53. > :13:57.takes cars off the roads will please the environmentalists but in
:13:57. > :14:04.Stafford, new cycling routes are being abused. The council warns that
:14:04. > :14:08.if people persist in parking over them, the police will be called.
:14:08. > :14:18.Work will start almost immediately and the city built for cars could
:14:18. > :14:20.
:14:20. > :14:25.have a future as a city for bikes. Sarah is in Cannon Hill Park for us.
:14:25. > :14:31.Quite an interesting route earlier. Presumably this is being welcomed by
:14:31. > :14:41.cyclist all over? Yes, people are pretty chuffed. I am cycling home
:14:41. > :14:50.with Dan. Dan works for bike rite which is an organisation which
:14:50. > :14:56.offers free training and advice for cyclistss. There is a lack of
:14:56. > :15:02.awareness of what the cycle lanes are there for. This money invested,
:15:02. > :15:09.too little too late? It is definitely the start of a process
:15:09. > :15:15.not the end of one. We want to make cycling as popular a mode of
:15:15. > :15:22.transport as it can be. Going through Birmingham was daunting.
:15:22. > :15:27.What advice would you give to cyclistss going into the city?
:15:27. > :15:35.Consider alternative routes. If you can look around for quiet routes
:15:35. > :15:40.such as this you can find them into city centres. Ride defensively, make
:15:40. > :15:47.sure you are seen and see motoristss around you. The council
:15:47. > :15:54.said we are not going to become Holland overnight. What is it like
:15:54. > :16:01.in Holland and? Around 30% in Holland. How does it compare with
:16:01. > :16:11.other UK cities? In Bristol it is 3%. But it is a long, steep road
:16:11. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:19.ahead. Onto football and Wolves and
:16:19. > :16:21.Coventry City both got their first wins of the league season at the
:16:22. > :16:24.weekend but in front of vastly different crowds. While 19,000
:16:24. > :16:27.watched Wolves, just over 2,000 supporters were at Coventry's game
:16:27. > :16:35.in the continuing row over their move to Northampton. Nick Clitheroe
:16:35. > :16:40.reports. And inspirational tribute to a club
:16:40. > :16:44.legend. Whats players paid their respects for former winger Dave
:16:44. > :16:48.Wagstaffe before kick-off and it seemed to inspire the young
:16:48. > :16:55.generation as Leigh Griffiths put them in front against Gillingham.
:16:55. > :17:00.This is a young fors side and Lee Evans gave evidence of his potential
:17:00. > :17:06.with the second. Griffiths scored again. Their first win of the
:17:06. > :17:12.season. The squad is young but it is a transition period, that is needed
:17:12. > :17:16.after the last couple of seasons and this tragedy should has to turn into
:17:16. > :17:21.a good performance. Coventry City also won but the atmosphere was
:17:21. > :17:25.different. Just over 2000 fans were at their temporary home in
:17:25. > :17:30.Northampton and half that number were backing visitors Bristol city.
:17:30. > :17:38.Some fans protested outside, 6000 others chose to watch at the Ricoh
:17:38. > :17:48.Arena instead. A vibrant Coventry raced into a 3-goal lead but had to
:17:48. > :17:49.
:17:49. > :17:55.withstand a fightback from Bristol. The next phase is trying to avoid
:17:55. > :18:00.relegation and if we do that this season, these players deserve huge
:18:00. > :18:06.credit. Walsall are still the team of the moment. James Baxendale's
:18:06. > :18:15.goal means both opening games have been won. Birmingham city are off
:18:15. > :18:19.the mark thanks to a common call own goal at Yeovil. And an own goal
:18:19. > :18:27.gifted Burton Albion's first league win of the season with a victory
:18:27. > :18:34.against Rochdale. Did you hear about the Coventry fans who watched the
:18:34. > :18:38.game from the mound outside the hill? Be interesting after that game
:18:38. > :18:45.whether it will encourage more fans to go to the way home games. I think
:18:46. > :18:49.it would. And later this week we'll be looking
:18:49. > :18:52.at the prospects for our three Premier League clubs as the season
:18:52. > :18:56.begins for them. Staying with sport and 35 sports
:18:56. > :18:59.clubs are to benefit from nearly �2 million. The money has been awarded
:18:59. > :19:04.by Sport England to coincide with the first anniversary of the London
:19:04. > :19:14.Olympics closing ceremony. The aim of the funding is to encourage more
:19:14. > :19:15.
:19:15. > :19:19.people to take up a variety of sports, as Ben Sidwell reports.
:19:19. > :19:24.Barnt Green Sailing Club has been around even longer than the modern
:19:24. > :19:30.Olympics themselves and like many sporting clubs, has seen plenty of
:19:30. > :19:34.interest since London 2012. Olympics has encouraged people to do
:19:34. > :19:40.lots of different sports but the success in sailing has encourage
:19:40. > :19:46.people to take up courses like this. They hosted the UK trials here. By
:19:46. > :19:51.some of the club is really starting to show age. Now thanks to �50,000
:19:51. > :19:56.from a fund inspired by last year 's games, the changing rooms are set to
:19:56. > :20:01.get a make over. We have been waiting to do something but we have
:20:01. > :20:10.not had the capital available to do so. This will just improve
:20:10. > :20:15.everything for the future sailors and running triathlon, fishing club
:20:15. > :20:19.members as well. It is not just Olympic sports benefiting. Dorridge
:20:19. > :20:28.Cricket Club is one of six in the Midlands sharing around �200,000
:20:28. > :20:33.from the Legacy fund. It is the most tangible evidence they will see of a
:20:33. > :20:38.legacy from the Olympics. We have heard a lot about it, getting it
:20:38. > :20:44.down to grassroots and this is evidence of it. For the last two
:20:44. > :20:51.years it has been an ongoing battle to receive funding. There are such
:20:51. > :20:56.small figures nowadays. This is an �85,000 project and it does not come
:20:56. > :21:00.from a hole that we have got. The hope is with this money, sporting
:21:00. > :21:05.clubs across the Midlands will have a permanent legacy to remember the
:21:05. > :21:09.London games. The story of a Gloucestershire
:21:09. > :21:13.soldier who died in the First World War has been made into a short film
:21:13. > :21:17.by his great great nephew. Ralph Howells was just 15 when he signed
:21:17. > :21:21.up. It's hoped the film of his life will now be chosen to be shown at
:21:21. > :21:28.major film festivals. Steve Knibbs reports.
:21:28. > :21:35.Ralph Howells have worked as a minor but lied about his age to join the
:21:35. > :21:43.Army. He was a month away from his 60th birthday. Congratulations. I
:21:43. > :21:49.will see you in France. This is a personal film. It was written by
:21:49. > :21:55.Ralph Howells's great great-nephew. We met in what was the original
:21:55. > :22:00.family home. My grandmother passed away last May. I always used to
:22:00. > :22:07.speak to her about row. My sister has done lots of projects on him and
:22:07. > :22:12.it is a legacy about his life. film was shot with fellow students
:22:12. > :22:18.as part of Matthews final university project and what helped was finding
:22:18. > :22:23.the right locations including a replica World War I trench. I found
:22:24. > :22:28.someone who worked on warhorse and Time team and he dug a trench in his
:22:28. > :22:33.garden in Surrey and when we went there it was amazing. It was very
:22:33. > :22:43.muddy and we made our actors crawl through the mud, but it was a great
:22:43. > :22:51.experience. We had 50 people on set at the moment. He was my best
:22:51. > :22:56.friend. Although the film cost �2000 to make, it even uses CGI to
:22:56. > :23:04.transform sorry into the Somme. was not being shot out, I was not
:23:04. > :23:08.cold, just being there was kind of upsetting. You just cannot imagine
:23:08. > :23:14.what it was like for them on the front line. It was quite an
:23:14. > :23:22.experience. You lose concentration for one moment, it will be your
:23:22. > :23:27.last. Ralph Howells died a few months after arriving in France in
:23:27. > :23:32.1916. He was digging a trench when he came under attack. Despite a
:23:32. > :23:41.search, his body was never found after an explosion. His sacrifice is
:23:41. > :23:46.remembered here in a memorial at his local church. Ralph has already
:23:46. > :23:50.picked up the Stanley Kubrick award at Matthew's University and he is
:23:50. > :24:00.now pitching it to film festivals before it goes online for the
:24:00. > :24:03.
:24:03. > :24:07.centenary of the First World War next year.
:24:07. > :24:10.Just before the weather, have a look at this. It's a video sent in by
:24:10. > :24:14.Mike Allison taken in a garden centre in Stratford upon Avon a
:24:14. > :24:17.couple of days ago. It's not a hummingbird - although it looks very
:24:17. > :24:20.like one. It is in fact an African Hummingbird Hawk Moth, with a wing
:24:20. > :24:23.span of between five and six centimetres. And while it is
:24:23. > :24:28.spectacular, Butterfly Conservation say it's not actually that unusual
:24:28. > :24:34.to see them in the Midlands. Once spotted, never forgotten. Let's take
:24:34. > :24:39.a look at the weather. It is looking a look at the weather. It is looking
:24:39. > :24:44.nice out there at the moment. Some people escaped with a dry day with
:24:44. > :24:53.plenty of sunshine, others not so lucky. After this it does turn more
:24:53. > :24:58.I'm settled. A mixture of sunshine and showers. And then it is warming
:24:58. > :25:04.up from Wednesday until the weekend. Any showers from today will die out
:25:04. > :25:11.but they will be replaced by showers of a different kind tonight. Those
:25:11. > :25:15.of you holding stargazing parties probably know about this, the meteor
:25:15. > :25:21.showers tonight. Some would say you would have to look to the north-west
:25:21. > :25:25.but that is not true. You can just feel your gaze with as much sky as
:25:25. > :25:30.possible because these will appear randomly. You do need clear skies
:25:30. > :25:36.and the best time to view them will be from midnight until sunrise. The
:25:36. > :25:41.showers from today will die away quickly. The cloud miles away so
:25:41. > :25:48.near perfect conditions for this meteor showers are viewing.
:25:48. > :25:53.Temperatures on the chilly side. In towns and cities, down to ten or 11
:25:53. > :25:57.Celsius. A fairly decent start to tomorrow but only briefly.
:25:57. > :26:03.Sunshine, dry weather but then the cloud thickens from the West and
:26:03. > :26:12.this will introduce rain through the day. It could be persisted in places
:26:12. > :26:17.and then it becomes patchy through the afternoon. Temperatures to 17 or
:26:17. > :26:24.18 Celsius but the Southwest could scrape by with 20 Celsius. Tomorrow
:26:24. > :26:30.night, a great night for doing these meteor showers. Clear skies, fairly
:26:30. > :26:35.chilly, temperatures of 11 or 12 Celsius. On Wednesday we are into a
:26:35. > :26:39.warm sector. Temperatures rise on Wednesday and Thursday by bringing
:26:39. > :26:40.instability. Let's recap tonight's top stories:
:26:40. > :26:44.Let's recap tonight's top stories: Labour finds itself in hot water
:26:44. > :26:49.after it takes on two of Britain's biggest retailers over jobs for
:26:49. > :26:56.Labour finds itself in hot water And free food for family in areas
:26:56. > :26:59.where half the children are said to be growing up in poverty.
:26:59. > :27:03.Now here's a tale of hope for anybody who's ever lost something
:27:03. > :27:07.valuable. Yes ,the moral of this story is never give up. Richard Ford
:27:07. > :27:10.managed to lose his wedding ring in the River Tame at Tamworth when he
:27:10. > :27:13.was out paddle boarding last month. Undaunted he began the search for it
:27:13. > :27:20.using a plastic bucket with the bottom cut out and replaced with
:27:20. > :27:26.Perspex. After 24 hours scouring the riverbed, more in hope than
:27:26. > :27:30.expectation, it was found by one of his pals, much to Richard's delight.
:27:31. > :27:33.His ecstatic reaction has become a YouTube sensation. No doubt his wife