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Good evening. Tonight: death rates following hip operations down by | :00:06. | :00:16. | |
nearly 100 patients a year at one of our biggest hospital trusts. The | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
work ethic has completely changed. We will hear why operating within | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
two days is a key reason for success. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
More than 600 jobs to go at Warwickshire County Council as part | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
of £92 million of savings. Most of those have come from natural wastage | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
but I cannot rule out that there will be some compulsory | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
redundancies. The Prime Minister tells us why he is determined the | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
high—speed rail project will go ahead, despite doubts from Labour. | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
How a Warwickshire holiday home beat of the competition to win Britain's | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
biggest architecture prize. And will it be an award—winning | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
weekend for the weather? It is not looking too bad but will it be | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
broadly is at the ready? The full forecast later. | :01:03. | :01:12. | |
A remarkable turnaround at one of the region's biggest hospital | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
trusts, after a sharp rise in survival rates for hip surgery. Just | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
eight years ago, around one in five patients who went to the Heart of | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
England NHS Trust for hip surgery died. But major investment in | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
specialist care means that by last year that figure had been reduced to | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
less than one in 15. That means around 90 patients a year are now | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
walking out of hospital who previously would have died. Our | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
health correspondent, Michele Paduano, has this report. | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
She's made a textbook recovery and 77—year—old Pauline Poole is going | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
home today after just ten days. Women are more likely to break their | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
hips because they live longer and more and more are in their 80s and | :01:54. | :02:02. | |
90s. Once I had the accident, the next thing I release new, I was | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
waking up on the ward, operation over and done with and being looked | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
after by the lovely girls —— the next thing I really knew. Elderly | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
patients are often very sick. At Heart of England they had a terrible | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
survival rate so they've invested £2 million. That means five junior | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
doctors employed to monitor patients more closely and more specialists in | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
elderly care. The statistics are showing we are third from the bottom | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
out of 200 hospitals, so we had to change and people realised that. The | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
work ethic has completely changed. That has improved quite | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
considerably. So how have they changed the culture? They operate on | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
patients seven days a week and 85% of patients now have their operation | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
within two days. The monitoring ensures there are fewer | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
complications like infection. One of the major changes is operating at | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
the weekend. If a patient came in on a Thursday, they might not be | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
operated on until the following Monday. Weekend operating at | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
Heartlands has reduced deaths of patients admitted at the weekend by | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
two thirds. According to national statistics, the best hospital in our | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
region is New Cross in Wolverhampton with 4.3% overall mortality. The | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton still has 10.4% of patients dying | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
and the Gloucester Royal's 11.1% is the highest. The Heart of England | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
NHS Trust isn't complacent. Good Hope's figures could improve and the | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
level of pressure sores in Heartlands is nearly twice the | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
national average. We have some work to do on pressure sores, that is | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
improving, it has improved successively. It is a consequence of | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
dealing with very frail people. But having one of the poorest | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
communities in the country on their doorstep, this turnaround is | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
impressive. I am joined now by our health | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
correspondent, Michele Paduano. A broken hip is so much more serious | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
for all the people than just a broken bone. —— for older people. | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
That is right and when they go to hospital, they are very frail. In | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
some of these operations they have to have a new ball joint and it can | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
be dangerous. In 2002, a quarter of all people who went to Good Hope | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
Hospital died from this operation. The change has been to render it —— | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
been tremendous. It is a shame there has to be a target but they target | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
has worked. The improvement at the weekend is staggering. Two thirds | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
less people died if they were operated on at the weekend. I'd Good | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
Hope it was a third less. More people die at weekends and over | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
holidays. We need to get into a culture where hospitals are working | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
seven days a week. Is there more that can be done to improve survival | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
rates? Some of these hospitals squeeze things down to the bones, | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
excuse the pun. Certain people are going with heart attacks and strokes | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
and almost incidentally breaking a hip as part of that process. Each | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
year the figures are getting better. Last year the people admitted to an | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
orthopaedic ward within four hours fell for the first time and that is | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
because of the winter pressures. If you have another bad winter, there | :05:18. | :05:27. | |
is always that possibility. Coming up later in the programme: | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
Transformed from a ruin into a luxury holiday home — a prestigious | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
award for an old Warwickshire castle. | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
More than 600 jobs are to go at Warwickshire County Council as the | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
authority aims to save £92 million in the next four years. The council | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
says the cuts are due to a drop in government grants, inflation and an | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
ageing population. Our reporter Sarah Falkland is in Warwick for us | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
tonight. Sarah, do we know which departments will be hit by this? | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
They haven't given any great detail but they have said that no | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
department will be untouched. I would say it is looking extremely | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
likely tonight that Warwickshire fire service, which cost something | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
like £20 million a year to run, will merge with Hereford and Worcester | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Fire and Rescue Service come it has been talked for five or six years. | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
Apart from that, jobs are the other big saving. They have already lost | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
1500 jobs in Warwickshire County Council. That is just in the last | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
couple of years. A lot of that with natural wastage. Now we are looking | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
at compulsory redundancies. We are looking at up to a maximum of 627 | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
losses over the four—year period. Most of those, I hope, will come | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
from natural wastage but I cannot rule out that there will be some | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
compulsory redundancies over the four—year period. At this point I | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
can't quantify those. What has been the reaction to this announcement? | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
The unions have not said a lot, they are meeting with the council on | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Monday. The leader of the Labour Party on the County Council is | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
concerned about social care. It eats up a whopping quarter of the £350 | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
million budget that the County Council has. There is a ready talk | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
about looking after people in their homes for longer than putting them | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
into care homes. She's worried this is taking David Cameron's big | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
society idea one step too far. He seems to think this country can rely | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
on volunteers and when we start talking about volunteers to look | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
after elderly relatives and neighbours, I think things have got | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
to come to a halt. Does this level of cuts mean council tax in | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
Warwickshire will remain frozen? High as these cuts are, 92 million | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
is based on having a council tax rise of 2%. The council is keen to | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
hear what the bill say about these cuts and council tax levels. We | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
asked people, would they be prepared to pay more council tax if it meant | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
preserving council services? I would rather take the 2% rise and have | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
less cuts. Services are important. Council tax is better. I pay more as | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
it is. You have to be prepared to pay for the services that you want. | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
A 2% rise is probably a fairly small price to pay. The economy doesn't | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
work on frozen because you are forcing things and there will be a | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
big bubble afterwards. Give us an idea of when final decisions will be | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
made. Public consultation running over the next couple of months in | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
the autumn, a final decision in early Fabri next year. —— February | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
next to. A prolific burglar from Birmingham | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
has been jailed for 12 years for running over a West Midlands police | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
officer. 50—year—old Carl Anderson knocked down PC Peter McGinn as he | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
tried to escape following a burglary in Erdington in June. The | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
44—year—old police officer has undergone multiple operations for | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
serious leg injuries but he's hopeful of returning to duties | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
within two years. A statement was read on his behalf outside | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
Birmingham Crown Court. I am glad that Anderson pleaded guilty and | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
acknowledged his actions on the day, I am pleased that justice has been | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
concluded today and I can now concentrate on my recovery, which is | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
going to be a lengthy process. I would like to take this opportunity | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
to thank my wife, my family, friends and colleagues for all their help | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
and support. A coroner has criticised organisers | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
of a fell—running event after they failed to realise a competitor from | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Staffordshire had fallen from a cliff and died. 63—year—old Brian | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
Belfield, from Leek, slipped down a mountain near Buttermere in the Lake | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
District in April last year and died of hypothermia. Cumbria's deputy | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
coroner Robert Chapman heard race officials had wrongly counted the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
number of finishers and that their walkie—talkies had failed. | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
Union leaders have written a letter of no confidence in the governing | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
body of a Birmingham school where a boy threatened other children with a | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
knife. Concerned parents gathered at Saltley School this afternoon to | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
find out what action's going to be taken. The pupil had been | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
permanently excluded until governors reversed the decision. The school | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
says the incident was dealt with through due process, but the GMB | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
union says school support staff are concerned. Primarily we are | :10:24. | :10:35. | |
concerned about health and safety of our members but also the pupils | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
within the school. We want to seek assurances from the school, what | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
they are doing to protect our staff, our members and the pupils | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
within the environment that they look after on a day—to—day basis. | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
Promises of a review of High Speed Rail by an incoming Labour | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
government have been dismissed by the Conservative leader David | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
Cameron. The Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls told his party conference the | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
project could be scrapped if the estimated costs continued to rise. | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
But, as he prepared for his party conference in Manchester, the Prime | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
Minister reaffirmed his strong support for it. He was talking to | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
our political editor, Patrick Burns, who joins us now. He's still | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
confident about it despite Labour's doubts? I think after the events of | :11:11. | :11:20. | |
the past few days, David Cameron is, if anything, even more determined | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
than ever. He was cataloguing the considerable economic advantages to | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
parts of the country like ours. I think he feels that intriguingly, if | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
push comes to shove, even Labour themselves would not turn their | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
backs on this project. We need to build a new railway line. The West | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
Coast mainline is full. The only question for us is do we build | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
another Victorian style railway, or do we build one of these new | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
high—speed ones. Of course it costs a lot of money but we will be | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
spending three times as much in the next Parliament on other transport | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
schemes, including rail schemes, as we will on HS2. It is not taking up | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
all the budget and it is vital for our economic future. Ed Balls's | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
speech was attacked, what have local MPs had to say? A Black Country | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
Labour MP who chairs the all—party business select committee, I put it | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
to him that Labour's intervention would deter important investment in | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
potential high—speed rail projects. He said if anything was likely to | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
deter investors, it is the coalition's handling of this. The | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
current government has totally failed in its bid to convince the | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
country that it is the best way to spend this amount of money. | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
Secondly, the costs have escalated. What the Labour Party is saying is | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
yes, we are still committed to this. Certainly in the West Midlands, | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
leaders and members of Parliament are. We can't give the operators and | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
open cheque. What else did you talk to David Cameron about? It was a | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
wide—ranging interview, we touched on acute services at Stafford | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
Hospital. And all those marginal seat and the issues which David | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
Cameron thinks will cut through at the next general election, welfare | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
reform, education reform and the improving condition, he says, of the | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
economy generally. And you can see Patrick's interview | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
with the Prime Minister in full in this weekend's Sunday Politics from | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
11:00am here on BBC One. This is our top story tonight: death | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
rates following hip operations drop by nearly 100 patients a year by | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
operating within two days. Your detailed weather forecast to | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
come shortly. Also in tonight's programme, | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
drumming up support for Stoke — season tickets back on sale after a | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
dip in crowd numbers. And recreating the trial of the | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
Prince of Poisoners — one of the country's most notorious villains. | :13:55. | :14:04. | |
It may be getting on for 1,000 years old, but a manor house in | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
Warwickshire has landed the country's top prize for contemporary | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
architecture. The transformation of Astley Castle, near Nuneaton, into a | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
modern holiday home has won its designers the coveted Stirling | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
Prize. The award was presented to architects firm Witherford Watson | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
Mann at a ceremony in London last night. Being recognised early is one | :14:24. | :14:36. | |
of the most important things about these awards. It allows you to | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
communicate your ideas. It may not translate into huge business | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
improvement but it is certainly really important to get ideas out | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
there. Supporters of the restoration project have gathered at Astley | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Castle tonight to celebrate the award. Our reporter Joanne Writtle | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
has joined them. Joanne, how important is this prize to people | :14:54. | :15:03. | |
there in North Warwickshire? It is a cause of huge celebration. This | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
award is a bit like the Oscars of British architecture. How beautiful | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
it is. They are all having a huge party. Let's chat to one or two of | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
the locals who have gathered here. Sharon is housekeeper here, she | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
lives in the village. Tell me what you do. We maintain and get it ready | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
for the guests. Meet and greet them sometimes. We meet lovely people. A | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
wonderful place to work. What about Leonard. You have lived in Astley | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
all your life, you have had lots of celebrations, what has happened in | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
the past? The wedding receptions for a brother and four sisters. And it | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
was wonderful. Always had great times in Astley, lived here all my | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
life. That is when it was a hotel in the 50s. The Landmark trust lets | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
this out as a holiday home and a short time ago, a group of eight | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
friends staying here from Herefordshire and Bristol, let me | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
disturb their dinner progressions to give me a quick tour of what is now | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
their award—winning holiday house we have this wonderful staircase and | :16:10. | :16:25. | |
on that floor, and open space. This wonderful large room which would | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
have been the grand Hall in medieval times, it has been transformed into | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
a modern living area. Very exciting to be in such a grand and | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
award—winning plays. A medieval castle with a difference. It's only. | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
How about that? We are joined by Caroline Standford, historian from | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
the Landmark trust. Congratulations. In 1978 this was a scene of ruins | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
after a fire what would have happened if you did not take it on? | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
Had the Landmark trust not stepped in, it would have fallen away and | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
become unrecognisable, despite being grade to listed. —— two listed. | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
Inside it is ultramodern, did you preserve any of the original | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
features? Sadly it was so far gone that there was nothing left of the | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
internal features to restore in a conventional sense. We have kept as | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
much as we can but nothing to restore. Who is one of the most | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
famous residents? Elizabeth would feel was the White Queen and lived | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
here in the middle of the 15th century were just before she married | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
Edward IV and became the White Queen of England. People here tonight can | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
feel like their own king and queen of their own castle just for the | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
day. Thank you. Dan's here with the sport. And | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
concern at Stoke City about falling attendances? | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
They are trying to do something about it. For many fans, Stoke | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
City's impressive start to the season has raised eyebrows. If they | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
beat Norwich on Sunday it will be their best ever start in the Premier | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
League but their home crowd is down by 7% and the club is determined to | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
win back the hearts and minds of their fans. | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
Something was missing from the last home game at the Brit. Not just | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
goals but a full compliment of Stoke City supporters, because the gate | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
was 2,000 down on the same game last season. The Britannia Stadium has or | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
has been a fortress, loud and proud of its reputation as the Potters' | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
12th man. When 2000 Stoke City fans fail to renew their season tickets | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
in the summer, the alarm bells started ringing. Chief executive | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
Tony Scholes hates to see hundreds of empty seats. It's costing the | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
club thousands of pounds. So when Stoke fans told him they wouldn't | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
pay good money to watch uninspiring football, he cut the price of season | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
tickets to tempt them back. These have been pretty austere times in | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
the potteries, is football feeling the pinch? We are very aware of that | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
and our pricing reflects the fact that we are in difficult environment | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
at the moment, and we live in an area that is not the wealthiest. We | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
haven't put the prices up since we got promoted to the Premier League. | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
The Britannia is not thought any more, why is that? I suppose it is | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
down to price. Change the style of football which you would have | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
thought would be more attractive to watch. I don't know why they are not | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
coming. Are you getting value for money? I think so. They are one of | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
the cheapest in the Premier League will stop a friend of mine went to | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
the Emirates and it was over £40 for a ticket. Mark Hughes' job is to | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
make Stoke City more watchable. But he knows money's too tight to | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
mention for many fans, So he'll never take their loyalty for | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
granted. I think people are encouraged by what they are seeing | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
and the way we are playing. We think that will add a few to the crowd. | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
Are you a big fan of Sunday lunchtime football? Not | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
particularly, only when you win. Watching football doesn't get much | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
cheaper than this. But if Stoke beat Norwich on Sunday, it'll be their | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
best ever start in the Premier League. And 2,000 Potters fans may | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
well tempted to reconsider their decision. | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
England's netball team take on South Africa in front of a sell—out crowd | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
at the University of Worcester tonight. It's a vital part of their | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
preparations for next summer's Commonwealth Games where they're | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
aiming to win gold. But these players have to combine sporting | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
excellence with holding down a full—time job. Nick Clitheroe | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
reports. Six in the morning and England's | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
captain Pamela Cookey is meeting up with her team—mates for the first | :20:37. | :20:47. | |
training session of a long day. It is very early in the morning. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
Sometimes it is good, you get out of bed and have to get on with it. You | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
don't how hard you are working sometimes. If I don't put my all | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
into it, the girls will wonder why. Sometimes you are tired and you are | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
struggling but you have to help each other get through. Although she's | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
from Birmingham, Pamela has moved to Bath, where the national team are | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
based, to pursue her sporting dream. There's not enough money in the | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
sport to be a full—time professional, so once training | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
finishes it's off to her day job at an aerospace company. England have | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
won Commonwealth bronze in the last two games but recent performances | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
have seen them set their sights even higher for Glasgow next year. We | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
actually want more, we want to come away with a different medal, and | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
that is driving force. The Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, we | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
are aiming for the final, that is where we want to be. I definitely | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
think we are in a position to challenge for the gold medal. | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
For Pamela that means when her fellow workers head home at the end | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
of the day she's back in they gym for more training. But it will all | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
be worth it if there's a gold medal hanging round her neck next summer. | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
Decent crowds expected at the netball — let's hope the numbers | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
pick up at Stoke. Elsewhere this weekend it's Manchester versus the | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
Midlands. In the Premier League tomorrow Aston Villa are at home to | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
Manchester City while West Bromwich Albion are at Manchester United. | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
There is nothing to lose, the pressure is off both teams. The odds | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
against them both winning, 66—to one, it perhaps says it all. | :22:20. | :22:29. | |
Before I go, don't forget we're looking for nominations for our BBC | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
Midlands Unsung Sporting Hero Award. We're looking for an individual or | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
pair aged 16 or over who give their time on a voluntary basis to help | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
others to participate in sport. You can download a nomination form on | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
the BBC Sport website or you can ring 0845 308 8000 and we'll send | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
one to you. pair aged 16 or over who give their | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
time on a Calls cost up to 5p a minute from a landline, but may be | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
more from mobiles. can download a nomination form on | :22:49. | :22:49. | |
The closing date is October 14th. A Stafford Threatre Company has | :22:49. | :22:57. | |
taken over the town's former Crown Court to recreate the trial of one | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
of the county's most notorious villains. Rugeley doctor William | :23:00. | :23:09. | |
Palmer is thought to have killed at least 15 people in the mid—19th | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
century. He was finally convicted for the murder of a close friend in | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
1856. Laura May McMullen has been to see Victorian justice in action. | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
June 1856 and the trial of Dr William Palmer gripped the nation. | :23:19. | :23:31. | |
Are you guilty or not guilty? Not guilty. He was tried for the murder | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
of his friend John Parsons Cook, but it's alleged the doctor — also known | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
as the Rugeley Poisoner — killed at least 15 people, including his wife | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
and children. Now, his trial has been recreated by a Staffordshire | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
theatre company with members of the audience making up the jury. We have | :23:47. | :23:55. | |
done this four times. It seems a very popular one. Whether Stafford | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
people are more morbid than others, who knows? I suppose he was one of | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
the first mass murderers in British history and until that time, he | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
probably killed more people than anybody. His trial was due to take | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
place in this courtroom in Stafford, but such was his notoriety it was | :24:15. | :24:23. | |
moved to the Old Bailey in London. It is fascinating. I was on the jury | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
last time I was here, some years ago. It is interesting to see the | :24:26. | :24:35. | |
history of what happened. I live in Rugeley, it is more interesting than | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
it would be for other people. In 1856, it was the custom to make a | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
death mask after someone had been executed. After studying his cast | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
the phrenologist said "the head was altogether the worst kind". William | :24:47. | :24:55. | |
Palmer, you have been found guilty of the heinous crime of murder. More | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
than 30,000 people gathered outside Stafford Prison to witness the | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
hanging of one of history's most notorious villains. | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
How very grizzly. Can we squeeze more sunshine out of | :25:12. | :25:19. | |
the last days of September? Rebecca has the forecast. | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
Yes, we can, but it is a bit of a North—South divide. It will be | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
pleasant for pretty much all of us. We will have strong winds to content | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
with. It will be generally dry, with the sun coming out at times but also | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
with temperatures above average for the time of year so feeling very | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
pleasant. It is because of this area of hide pressure to the east of us | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
are managing to keep weather fronts at bay but also keeping things | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
settled. We have had a good day with good spells of sunshine. Still a | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
little to come through late afternoon. Overnight we will see | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
largely clear skies. The cloud will start to fill in but it will be a | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
dry night for most of us. Under that cloud the temperatures will manage | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
to stay just into double figures but it will still be colder in rural | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
spots and a chilly night to come. It means Saturday will start off dry | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
and bright for most. Strong easterly winds so we will get breaks and | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
sunshine. Further South we will see the cloud thicken and we can't rule | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
out the odd shower across Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
They will blow through. Temperatures getting up to 18 or 19. Where the | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
sun is out they could get into the low 20s. More sunshine to come | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
through the afternoon, a few more showers but they will blow through | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
quickly and it will be a similar picture to tonight. A few clear | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
spells but temperatures managing to just stay into double figures. | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
Sunday is a very similar picture to Saturday. Dry and bright with good | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
spells of sunshine. The winds are picking up so that will take the | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
edge off temperatures. Still 18 or 19 so not too bad. The high pressure | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
is sitting with us as we move through Sunday into Monday. Perhaps | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
more cloud by Tuesday. For late September it is not looking too bad. | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
More sunshine left in last few days of September? | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
Let's recap tonight's top stories: The BBC has learnt that uncertainty | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
about who was in charge of responding to the attack on a Kenyan | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
shopping centre may have helped gunmen to prolong the siege. | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
And death rates following hip operations down by nearly 100 | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
patients a year by operating within two days. | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
We'll be back at 10:00pm. Have a great weekend. Goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:46. |