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Good evening. Tonight: death rates following hip operations down by

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nearly 100 patients a year at one of our biggest hospital trusts. The

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work ethic has completely changed. We will hear why operating within

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two days is a key reason for success.

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More than 600 jobs to go at Warwickshire County Council as part

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of £92 million of savings. Most of those have come from natural wastage

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but I cannot rule out that there will be some compulsory

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redundancies. The Prime Minister tells us why he is determined the

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high—speed rail project will go ahead, despite doubts from Labour.

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How a Warwickshire holiday home beat of the competition to win Britain's

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biggest architecture prize. And will it be an award—winning

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weekend for the weather? It is not looking too bad but will it be

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broadly is at the ready? The full forecast later.

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A remarkable turnaround at one of the region's biggest hospital

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trusts, after a sharp rise in survival rates for hip surgery. Just

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eight years ago, around one in five patients who went to the Heart of

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England NHS Trust for hip surgery died. But major investment in

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specialist care means that by last year that figure had been reduced to

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less than one in 15. That means around 90 patients a year are now

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walking out of hospital who previously would have died. Our

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health correspondent, Michele Paduano, has this report.

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She's made a textbook recovery and 77—year—old Pauline Poole is going

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home today after just ten days. Women are more likely to break their

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hips because they live longer and more and more are in their 80s and

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90s. Once I had the accident, the next thing I release new, I was

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waking up on the ward, operation over and done with and being looked

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after by the lovely girls —— the next thing I really knew. Elderly

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patients are often very sick. At Heart of England they had a terrible

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survival rate so they've invested £2 million. That means five junior

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doctors employed to monitor patients more closely and more specialists in

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elderly care. The statistics are showing we are third from the bottom

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out of 200 hospitals, so we had to change and people realised that. The

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work ethic has completely changed. That has improved quite

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considerably. So how have they changed the culture? They operate on

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patients seven days a week and 85% of patients now have their operation

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within two days. The monitoring ensures there are fewer

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complications like infection. One of the major changes is operating at

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the weekend. If a patient came in on a Thursday, they might not be

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operated on until the following Monday. Weekend operating at

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Heartlands has reduced deaths of patients admitted at the weekend by

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two thirds. According to national statistics, the best hospital in our

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region is New Cross in Wolverhampton with 4.3% overall mortality. The

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George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton still has 10.4% of patients dying

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and the Gloucester Royal's 11.1% is the highest. The Heart of England

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NHS Trust isn't complacent. Good Hope's figures could improve and the

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level of pressure sores in Heartlands is nearly twice the

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national average. We have some work to do on pressure sores, that is

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improving, it has improved successively. It is a consequence of

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dealing with very frail people. But having one of the poorest

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communities in the country on their doorstep, this turnaround is

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impressive. I am joined now by our health

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correspondent, Michele Paduano. A broken hip is so much more serious

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for all the people than just a broken bone. —— for older people.

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That is right and when they go to hospital, they are very frail. In

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some of these operations they have to have a new ball joint and it can

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be dangerous. In 2002, a quarter of all people who went to Good Hope

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Hospital died from this operation. The change has been to render it ——

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been tremendous. It is a shame there has to be a target but they target

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has worked. The improvement at the weekend is staggering. Two thirds

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less people died if they were operated on at the weekend. I'd Good

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Hope it was a third less. More people die at weekends and over

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holidays. We need to get into a culture where hospitals are working

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seven days a week. Is there more that can be done to improve survival

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rates? Some of these hospitals squeeze things down to the bones,

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excuse the pun. Certain people are going with heart attacks and strokes

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and almost incidentally breaking a hip as part of that process. Each

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year the figures are getting better. Last year the people admitted to an

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orthopaedic ward within four hours fell for the first time and that is

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because of the winter pressures. If you have another bad winter, there

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is always that possibility. Coming up later in the programme:

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Transformed from a ruin into a luxury holiday home — a prestigious

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award for an old Warwickshire castle.

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More than 600 jobs are to go at Warwickshire County Council as the

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authority aims to save £92 million in the next four years. The council

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says the cuts are due to a drop in government grants, inflation and an

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ageing population. Our reporter Sarah Falkland is in Warwick for us

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tonight. Sarah, do we know which departments will be hit by this?

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They haven't given any great detail but they have said that no

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department will be untouched. I would say it is looking extremely

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likely tonight that Warwickshire fire service, which cost something

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like £20 million a year to run, will merge with Hereford and Worcester

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Fire and Rescue Service come it has been talked for five or six years.

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Apart from that, jobs are the other big saving. They have already lost

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1500 jobs in Warwickshire County Council. That is just in the last

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couple of years. A lot of that with natural wastage. Now we are looking

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at compulsory redundancies. We are looking at up to a maximum of 627

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losses over the four—year period. Most of those, I hope, will come

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from natural wastage but I cannot rule out that there will be some

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compulsory redundancies over the four—year period. At this point I

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can't quantify those. What has been the reaction to this announcement?

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The unions have not said a lot, they are meeting with the council on

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Monday. The leader of the Labour Party on the County Council is

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concerned about social care. It eats up a whopping quarter of the £350

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million budget that the County Council has. There is a ready talk

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about looking after people in their homes for longer than putting them

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into care homes. She's worried this is taking David Cameron's big

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society idea one step too far. He seems to think this country can rely

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on volunteers and when we start talking about volunteers to look

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after elderly relatives and neighbours, I think things have got

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to come to a halt. Does this level of cuts mean council tax in

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Warwickshire will remain frozen? High as these cuts are, 92 million

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is based on having a council tax rise of 2%. The council is keen to

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hear what the bill say about these cuts and council tax levels. We

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asked people, would they be prepared to pay more council tax if it meant

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preserving council services? I would rather take the 2% rise and have

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less cuts. Services are important. Council tax is better. I pay more as

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it is. You have to be prepared to pay for the services that you want.

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A 2% rise is probably a fairly small price to pay. The economy doesn't

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work on frozen because you are forcing things and there will be a

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big bubble afterwards. Give us an idea of when final decisions will be

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made. Public consultation running over the next couple of months in

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the autumn, a final decision in early Fabri next year. —— February

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next to. A prolific burglar from Birmingham

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has been jailed for 12 years for running over a West Midlands police

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officer. 50—year—old Carl Anderson knocked down PC Peter McGinn as he

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tried to escape following a burglary in Erdington in June. The

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44—year—old police officer has undergone multiple operations for

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serious leg injuries but he's hopeful of returning to duties

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within two years. A statement was read on his behalf outside

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Birmingham Crown Court. I am glad that Anderson pleaded guilty and

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acknowledged his actions on the day, I am pleased that justice has been

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concluded today and I can now concentrate on my recovery, which is

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going to be a lengthy process. I would like to take this opportunity

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to thank my wife, my family, friends and colleagues for all their help

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and support. A coroner has criticised organisers

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of a fell—running event after they failed to realise a competitor from

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Staffordshire had fallen from a cliff and died. 63—year—old Brian

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Belfield, from Leek, slipped down a mountain near Buttermere in the Lake

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District in April last year and died of hypothermia. Cumbria's deputy

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coroner Robert Chapman heard race officials had wrongly counted the

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number of finishers and that their walkie—talkies had failed.

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Union leaders have written a letter of no confidence in the governing

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body of a Birmingham school where a boy threatened other children with a

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knife. Concerned parents gathered at Saltley School this afternoon to

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find out what action's going to be taken. The pupil had been

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permanently excluded until governors reversed the decision. The school

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says the incident was dealt with through due process, but the GMB

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union says school support staff are concerned. Primarily we are

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concerned about health and safety of our members but also the pupils

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within the school. We want to seek assurances from the school, what

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they are doing to protect our staff, our members and the pupils

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within the environment that they look after on a day—to—day basis.

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Promises of a review of High Speed Rail by an incoming Labour

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government have been dismissed by the Conservative leader David

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Cameron. The Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls told his party conference the

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project could be scrapped if the estimated costs continued to rise.

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But, as he prepared for his party conference in Manchester, the Prime

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Minister reaffirmed his strong support for it. He was talking to

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our political editor, Patrick Burns, who joins us now. He's still

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confident about it despite Labour's doubts? I think after the events of

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the past few days, David Cameron is, if anything, even more determined

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than ever. He was cataloguing the considerable economic advantages to

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parts of the country like ours. I think he feels that intriguingly, if

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push comes to shove, even Labour themselves would not turn their

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backs on this project. We need to build a new railway line. The West

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Coast mainline is full. The only question for us is do we build

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another Victorian style railway, or do we build one of these new

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high—speed ones. Of course it costs a lot of money but we will be

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spending three times as much in the next Parliament on other transport

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schemes, including rail schemes, as we will on HS2. It is not taking up

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all the budget and it is vital for our economic future. Ed Balls's

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speech was attacked, what have local MPs had to say? A Black Country

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Labour MP who chairs the all—party business select committee, I put it

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to him that Labour's intervention would deter important investment in

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potential high—speed rail projects. He said if anything was likely to

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deter investors, it is the coalition's handling of this. The

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current government has totally failed in its bid to convince the

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country that it is the best way to spend this amount of money.

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Secondly, the costs have escalated. What the Labour Party is saying is

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yes, we are still committed to this. Certainly in the West Midlands,

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leaders and members of Parliament are. We can't give the operators and

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open cheque. What else did you talk to David Cameron about? It was a

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wide—ranging interview, we touched on acute services at Stafford

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Hospital. And all those marginal seat and the issues which David

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Cameron thinks will cut through at the next general election, welfare

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reform, education reform and the improving condition, he says, of the

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economy generally. And you can see Patrick's interview

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with the Prime Minister in full in this weekend's Sunday Politics from

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11:00am here on BBC One. This is our top story tonight: death

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rates following hip operations drop by nearly 100 patients a year by

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operating within two days. Your detailed weather forecast to

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come shortly. Also in tonight's programme,

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drumming up support for Stoke — season tickets back on sale after a

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dip in crowd numbers. And recreating the trial of the

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Prince of Poisoners — one of the country's most notorious villains.

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It may be getting on for 1,000 years old, but a manor house in

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Warwickshire has landed the country's top prize for contemporary

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architecture. The transformation of Astley Castle, near Nuneaton, into a

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modern holiday home has won its designers the coveted Stirling

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Prize. The award was presented to architects firm Witherford Watson

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Mann at a ceremony in London last night. Being recognised early is one

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of the most important things about these awards. It allows you to

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communicate your ideas. It may not translate into huge business

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improvement but it is certainly really important to get ideas out

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there. Supporters of the restoration project have gathered at Astley

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Castle tonight to celebrate the award. Our reporter Joanne Writtle

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has joined them. Joanne, how important is this prize to people

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there in North Warwickshire? It is a cause of huge celebration. This

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award is a bit like the Oscars of British architecture. How beautiful

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it is. They are all having a huge party. Let's chat to one or two of

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the locals who have gathered here. Sharon is housekeeper here, she

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lives in the village. Tell me what you do. We maintain and get it ready

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for the guests. Meet and greet them sometimes. We meet lovely people. A

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wonderful place to work. What about Leonard. You have lived in Astley

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all your life, you have had lots of celebrations, what has happened in

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the past? The wedding receptions for a brother and four sisters. And it

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was wonderful. Always had great times in Astley, lived here all my

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life. That is when it was a hotel in the 50s. The Landmark trust lets

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this out as a holiday home and a short time ago, a group of eight

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friends staying here from Herefordshire and Bristol, let me

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disturb their dinner progressions to give me a quick tour of what is now

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their award—winning holiday house we have this wonderful staircase and

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on that floor, and open space. This wonderful large room which would

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have been the grand Hall in medieval times, it has been transformed into

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a modern living area. Very exciting to be in such a grand and

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award—winning plays. A medieval castle with a difference. It's only.

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How about that? We are joined by Caroline Standford, historian from

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the Landmark trust. Congratulations. In 1978 this was a scene of ruins

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after a fire what would have happened if you did not take it on?

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Had the Landmark trust not stepped in, it would have fallen away and

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become unrecognisable, despite being grade to listed. —— two listed.

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Inside it is ultramodern, did you preserve any of the original

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features? Sadly it was so far gone that there was nothing left of the

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internal features to restore in a conventional sense. We have kept as

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much as we can but nothing to restore. Who is one of the most

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famous residents? Elizabeth would feel was the White Queen and lived

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here in the middle of the 15th century were just before she married

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Edward IV and became the White Queen of England. People here tonight can

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feel like their own king and queen of their own castle just for the

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day. Thank you. Dan's here with the sport. And

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concern at Stoke City about falling attendances?

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They are trying to do something about it. For many fans, Stoke

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City's impressive start to the season has raised eyebrows. If they

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beat Norwich on Sunday it will be their best ever start in the Premier

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League but their home crowd is down by 7% and the club is determined to

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win back the hearts and minds of their fans.

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Something was missing from the last home game at the Brit. Not just

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goals but a full compliment of Stoke City supporters, because the gate

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was 2,000 down on the same game last season. The Britannia Stadium has or

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has been a fortress, loud and proud of its reputation as the Potters'

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12th man. When 2000 Stoke City fans fail to renew their season tickets

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in the summer, the alarm bells started ringing. Chief executive

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Tony Scholes hates to see hundreds of empty seats. It's costing the

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club thousands of pounds. So when Stoke fans told him they wouldn't

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pay good money to watch uninspiring football, he cut the price of season

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tickets to tempt them back. These have been pretty austere times in

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the potteries, is football feeling the pinch? We are very aware of that

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and our pricing reflects the fact that we are in difficult environment

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at the moment, and we live in an area that is not the wealthiest. We

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haven't put the prices up since we got promoted to the Premier League.

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The Britannia is not thought any more, why is that? I suppose it is

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down to price. Change the style of football which you would have

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thought would be more attractive to watch. I don't know why they are not

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coming. Are you getting value for money? I think so. They are one of

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the cheapest in the Premier League will stop a friend of mine went to

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the Emirates and it was over £40 for a ticket. Mark Hughes' job is to

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make Stoke City more watchable. But he knows money's too tight to

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mention for many fans, So he'll never take their loyalty for

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granted. I think people are encouraged by what they are seeing

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and the way we are playing. We think that will add a few to the crowd.

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Are you a big fan of Sunday lunchtime football? Not

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particularly, only when you win. Watching football doesn't get much

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cheaper than this. But if Stoke beat Norwich on Sunday, it'll be their

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best ever start in the Premier League. And 2,000 Potters fans may

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well tempted to reconsider their decision.

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England's netball team take on South Africa in front of a sell—out crowd

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at the University of Worcester tonight. It's a vital part of their

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preparations for next summer's Commonwealth Games where they're

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aiming to win gold. But these players have to combine sporting

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excellence with holding down a full—time job. Nick Clitheroe

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reports. Six in the morning and England's

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captain Pamela Cookey is meeting up with her team—mates for the first

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training session of a long day. It is very early in the morning.

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Sometimes it is good, you get out of bed and have to get on with it. You

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don't how hard you are working sometimes. If I don't put my all

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into it, the girls will wonder why. Sometimes you are tired and you are

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struggling but you have to help each other get through. Although she's

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from Birmingham, Pamela has moved to Bath, where the national team are

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based, to pursue her sporting dream. There's not enough money in the

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sport to be a full—time professional, so once training

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finishes it's off to her day job at an aerospace company. England have

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won Commonwealth bronze in the last two games but recent performances

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have seen them set their sights even higher for Glasgow next year. We

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actually want more, we want to come away with a different medal, and

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that is driving force. The Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, we

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are aiming for the final, that is where we want to be. I definitely

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think we are in a position to challenge for the gold medal.

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For Pamela that means when her fellow workers head home at the end

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of the day she's back in they gym for more training. But it will all

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be worth it if there's a gold medal hanging round her neck next summer.

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Decent crowds expected at the netball — let's hope the numbers

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pick up at Stoke. Elsewhere this weekend it's Manchester versus the

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Midlands. In the Premier League tomorrow Aston Villa are at home to

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Manchester City while West Bromwich Albion are at Manchester United.

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There is nothing to lose, the pressure is off both teams. The odds

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against them both winning, 66—to one, it perhaps says it all.

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Before I go, don't forget we're looking for nominations for our BBC

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Midlands Unsung Sporting Hero Award. We're looking for an individual or

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pair aged 16 or over who give their time on a voluntary basis to help

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others to participate in sport. You can download a nomination form on

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the BBC Sport website or you can ring 0845 308 8000 and we'll send

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one to you. pair aged 16 or over who give their

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time on a Calls cost up to 5p a minute from a landline, but may be

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more from mobiles. can download a nomination form on

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The closing date is October 14th. A Stafford Threatre Company has

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taken over the town's former Crown Court to recreate the trial of one

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of the county's most notorious villains. Rugeley doctor William

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Palmer is thought to have killed at least 15 people in the mid—19th

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century. He was finally convicted for the murder of a close friend in

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1856. Laura May McMullen has been to see Victorian justice in action.

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June 1856 and the trial of Dr William Palmer gripped the nation.

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Are you guilty or not guilty? Not guilty. He was tried for the murder

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of his friend John Parsons Cook, but it's alleged the doctor — also known

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as the Rugeley Poisoner — killed at least 15 people, including his wife

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and children. Now, his trial has been recreated by a Staffordshire

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theatre company with members of the audience making up the jury. We have

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done this four times. It seems a very popular one. Whether Stafford

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people are more morbid than others, who knows? I suppose he was one of

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the first mass murderers in British history and until that time, he

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probably killed more people than anybody. His trial was due to take

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place in this courtroom in Stafford, but such was his notoriety it was

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moved to the Old Bailey in London. It is fascinating. I was on the jury

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last time I was here, some years ago. It is interesting to see the

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history of what happened. I live in Rugeley, it is more interesting than

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it would be for other people. In 1856, it was the custom to make a

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death mask after someone had been executed. After studying his cast

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the phrenologist said "the head was altogether the worst kind". William

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Palmer, you have been found guilty of the heinous crime of murder. More

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than 30,000 people gathered outside Stafford Prison to witness the

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hanging of one of history's most notorious villains.

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How very grizzly. Can we squeeze more sunshine out of

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the last days of September? Rebecca has the forecast.

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Yes, we can, but it is a bit of a North—South divide. It will be

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pleasant for pretty much all of us. We will have strong winds to content

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with. It will be generally dry, with the sun coming out at times but also

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with temperatures above average for the time of year so feeling very

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pleasant. It is because of this area of hide pressure to the east of us

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are managing to keep weather fronts at bay but also keeping things

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settled. We have had a good day with good spells of sunshine. Still a

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little to come through late afternoon. Overnight we will see

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largely clear skies. The cloud will start to fill in but it will be a

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dry night for most of us. Under that cloud the temperatures will manage

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to stay just into double figures but it will still be colder in rural

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spots and a chilly night to come. It means Saturday will start off dry

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and bright for most. Strong easterly winds so we will get breaks and

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sunshine. Further South we will see the cloud thicken and we can't rule

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out the odd shower across Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.

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They will blow through. Temperatures getting up to 18 or 19. Where the

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sun is out they could get into the low 20s. More sunshine to come

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through the afternoon, a few more showers but they will blow through

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quickly and it will be a similar picture to tonight. A few clear

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spells but temperatures managing to just stay into double figures.

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Sunday is a very similar picture to Saturday. Dry and bright with good

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spells of sunshine. The winds are picking up so that will take the

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edge off temperatures. Still 18 or 19 so not too bad. The high pressure

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is sitting with us as we move through Sunday into Monday. Perhaps

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more cloud by Tuesday. For late September it is not looking too bad.

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More sunshine left in last few days of September?

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Let's recap tonight's top stories: The BBC has learnt that uncertainty

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about who was in charge of responding to the attack on a Kenyan

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shopping centre may have helped gunmen to prolong the siege.

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And death rates following hip operations down by nearly 100

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patients a year by operating within two days.

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We'll be back at 10:00pm. Have a great weekend. Goodbye.

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