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The headlines: Detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act. The man

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who killed schoolgirl Christina Edkins in a random attack pleads

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guilty. It is important to know he is being put any place where he

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repeat this. As one mother calls for more action against knife crime, we

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will have a special report. Inside the Hillsborough inquiry, a

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sister's fight for justice for her dead brother. We will get the truth

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and Justice and I really believe that from what I have seen.

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An allotment for students at Staffordshire University is given a

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top award. Celebrating 25 years of dance

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production with a world premiere in Warwickshire.

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And the weather. There is still more heavy rain to

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come with possible travel disruption.

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Detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act. The man who

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killed school girl Christina Edkins in a random attack on a bus during

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rush hour. Phillip Simelane pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Birmingham

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Crown Court today. It was 7:30am on Thursday seventh March when

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16—year—old Christina got on the number nine bus at Broad Street in

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Birmingham. A few minutes later, Phillip Simelane stabbed Christina

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in the chest. She died before 8am. He left the bus as it stopped on the

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Hagley Road, but was found hiding nearby, nearly four hours later.

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Today it's been revealed that he was released from prison in December,

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where he was receiving treatment for mental health problems. Our reporter

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is on the Hagley Road this evening, so what's been the reaction from

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Christina's family? Family and friends arrived in court this

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morning wearing purple ribbons, purple was the favourite colour of

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Christina Edkins. Her parents said that the best outcome for them would

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be a Phillip Simelane was locked up forever and then he would not be

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able to do what they had done —— what he had done to their daughter

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to anyone else. 5am on a grey wet March morning in

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Birmingham. The man who would kill Christina Edkins gets on the number

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nine bus. Nearly three hours later, Phillip Simelane, who had paranoid

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schizophrenia, stabbed the schoolgirl and calmly got off. It is

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fair to say that it could have happened any time, any place, any

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person. Today, Christina's parents were in court to hear Phillip

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Simelane admit her manslaughter. A family member spoke on their behalf.

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All sorts of old instances can cause massive grief and upset. Visible

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upset at any time. I do not think they will ever get over this. The

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court heard Phillip Simelane had been mentally ill for years,

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spending weeks in his bedroom, claiming people were out to get him.

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Police were called to his home 21 times. Last year, he served two

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prison sentences, one for threatening his mother with a knife.

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In December he was released and became homeless. The High Court

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judge told him it was hard to believe that someone with his level

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of illness into beast whipping wroth with no one to help him —— came to

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be sweeping the wroth. The Birmingham and Solihull Mental

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Health Trust has announced a review into his treatment.

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This expert in psychology says alarm bells should have been ringing,

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given the symptoms Phillip Simelane had already been showing. With

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someone who has had schizophrenia and is in their early 20s, they

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should have been picked up earlier by the mental health services. It is

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not very easy for services to keep those difficult patients on—board

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because of the chaotic lifestyles they have, they come and go, they

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drop out, they become transient. Whatever lessons are learned, family

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and friends will never get Christina back. But she will be fondly

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remembered. At her school, memorial awards will be presented to pupils

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in her name for at least the next 16 years. You would want every school

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in the country to be full of girls like her. She was hard—working,

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really driven. Clearly Christina was a girl with so much promise she will

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never be able to fulfil. The judge said it seems unusual

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Phillip Simelane would be released from prison without support. Do we

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have any idea why that happened? That is one of the things that the

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review, which will report back in December, will investigate. One of

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the psychiatrist said that one of the various experts were only

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getting a snapshot of what his life was like and were not able to pick

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up a full picture. That is something the review will be looking at. I

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have spoken to one charity which deals with people with schizophrenia

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and it says that only about 10% of schizophrenia patients get the best

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treatment that is available today. They are calling for the government

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to put more money into treating people like Phillip Simelane.

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Meanwhile, a mother whose 16—year—old son and his best friend

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were killed in separate stabbings is calling for more action to tackle

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knife crime. Kyle Sheehan and Joshua Ribera from Birmingham were killed a

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year apart. Joshua died last month as he was leaving a fundraising

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event in Kyle's memory. Two friends, young men wanting to

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make a life for themselves in music. But 16—year—old Kyle Sheehan was

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stabbed in a park as he walked home last year, and then on the

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anniversary of his death his friend Joshua Ribera became the latest

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victim of Birmingham's knife crime. My son is gone. His friend is gone.

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All the other kids that have been killed are gone. There are mothers

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have to go through the same I am going through, no mother should have

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to bury their child. Hayley Sheehan's home is usually shuttered.

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Curtains closed, blinds drawn, she's lost her only child. Kyle and

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Joshua, she says, were not part of any gang, just the victims of a

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culture that accepts carrying knives. We cannot lose teenagers

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like this. Something has to be done about knife crime. We have to do

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something to stop these children killing each other. Joshua Ribera,

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also known as Depz, was a talented grime rapper. This was his recent

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video, a tribute to his friend Kyle. Ten days ago he was at a nightclub.

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Later, he was attacked and fatally stabbed. The irony was that Joshua

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Ribena was that this nightclub at the music events to raise money for

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a headstone for his best friend's grave. What are the facts? Since

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April this year, eat people have died because of stabbings. West

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Midlands Police say that since 2006 knife crime has fallen by more than

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60% so we should not panic, yet still young men are dying because of

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knives. At a youth club in Lozells, I meet 17—year—old Tamjir. He's

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lucky to be alive. He was stabbed last month by a group of boys

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attempting to rob him. They have said what they have to say. They

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wanted money. One of the attackers pulled out what seemed like a

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pocketknife and got me in my left thigh. I was panicked, confused, I

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pulled down my tracksuit bottoms and there was lots of blood. What's the

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answer? Another knife amnesty? Tougher sentences? More education?

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Perhaps it's stories like Kyle and Joshua's. The senseless loss that

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knives bring to families and friends.

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Peter's in the studio now. You used the word panic in your report there.

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Is that what we're in danger of doing, panicking about knife crime?

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We have seen the devastation that violent crime brings to families and

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you cannot underestimate that. With a cold detached eye of the

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statistician, looking at the police figures, we are not seeing knife

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crime going up, it is going the other way, it is falling. I was

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talking to a mother who has four sons, they go to college and school,

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but she was talking about an epidemic. When you get these

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clusters of cases you get the fear of crime and you get that sense of

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panic. You've also been talking to young people and teachers, what have

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they been saying? Young people are talking about, they never see

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themselves, but they talk about other teenagers carrying knives

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almost as they do mobile phones. One thing the teacher said was that

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schools have introduced a great deal of discipline and containment so

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that when kids are in school they know what is expected of them. It is

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when they wrote on the streets they do not seem to these boundaries and

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one person was saying that teenagers are more likely to reach for a knife

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than actually use it. And tomorrow morning BBC WM 95.6FM

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will be hosting a special debate about knife—crime.

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Swapping Birmingham for Boston, Andris Nelsons, the music director

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of the city's Symphony Orchestra announces he's leaving for America.

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A Worcestershire woman whose brother died at Hillsborough has been

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meeting the team investigating the tragedy today. 96 football fans died

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at the stadium in 1989, including Louise Brooke's brother Andrew.

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Louise Brooke's search for the truth about her brother's death at

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Hillsborough has brought her from her home in Bromsgrove to

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Warrington. I have brought Andrew's bawdy file. I have a few concerns.

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Such is the scale of this Independent Police Complaints

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Commission inquiry, it's housed in a large building with 112 staff. She's

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given a tour from the person who heads the investigation. It is

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important that the during the visit she can see the work that my staff

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are doing to getting those unanswered questions answered.

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Andrew Brookes was one of 96 football fans who died at

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Hillsborough. Last year an independent panel revealed a

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cover—up. 24 years on and West Midlands Police are also under

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investigation as part of the inquiry into alleged wrongdoing. New

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evidence is coming to light all the time. We have nine boxes full of

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documents relating to Hillsborough that were found in the West Midlands

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Police archive. Can you tell us what you have discovered? There are

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indications from witnesses, witnesses feel they were not treated

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as well as they should have been. Morag has helped to archive almost

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1,000 boxes of documents. They contain records mostly from West

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Yorkshire Police, but also from West Midlands Police. I monitor the

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temperature to make sure that the paper does not degrade. From what I

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have seen, the IPCC are as determined as families to get the

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truth and justice. Louise will be back in Warrington next spring for

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the fresh inquests into those who died, including her brother.

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Worcestershire County Council has confirmed it needs to make an extra

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£20 million of savings over the next four years. The Conservative—led

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authority says it's had to revise its budgets until at least 2016—17.

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No more jobs will be shed, other than the 1,500 which have already

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been announced. But the council may have to consider outsourcing more

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services. The MP for Stoke—on—Trent South, Rob

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Flello, has resigned from his front bench position as Labour's Shadow

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Justice Minister. In a statement he said he'd decided to return to the

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backbenches so he could focus on his other parliamentary interests,

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including his role as the Chair of the All—Party Freight Transport

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Group. A masterpiece by French

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Impressionist painter Monet has been loaned to a school in Shropshire.

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It's part of a scheme backed by the BBC where famous pieces of art are

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given to schools for a day to inspire pupils. Many of the works

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are worth more than a million pounds. The pupils of Lydbury and

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Onny Primary school in Craven Arms in Shropshire have enjoyed being

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able to see the painting up close. It is amazing to have it. One of his

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real paintings. In front of us. It is hard to believe. It is amazing it

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is here. It is a nice opportunity. I can tell my friends that when I was

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young I actually saw his picture. Within the last hour it's been

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announced that Andris Nelsons, the city of Birmingham Symphony

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Orchestra's music director, is leaving. Since he joined in 2008,

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Andris has become one of the hottest properties in the classical music

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world, regularly playing to sell out crowds.

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It's been a partnership that's worked from the very start.

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Receiving rave reviews wherever they've performed. When he arrived,

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he was virtually unknown. Now he is one of the busiest conductors in the

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world. While his departure is undoubtedly a massive blow to the

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orchestra, there is excitement as the search for the next big star

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begins. His success in Birmingham has led to Andris being offered the

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role of music director at one of the world's greatest orchestras, the

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Boston Symphony, and with a young family as well he's decided it's

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just not possible to continue at the CBSO. He has had to realise that he

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is only human and there is a limit to the number of concerts you can do

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in a year. It has been a difficult decision for him to make because he

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lost the orchestra and the city and we have had so many good experiences

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together. Things were very different just over a year ago when I spoke to

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Andris at the Symphony Hall, the orchestra's home. He'd just signed a

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new contract and was looking far into the future. I am really looking

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forward to many years here. The orchestra have been so nice to me.

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Nobody can say no to such a great relationship. Along the corridors of

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the CBSO Centre, the faces of the orchestra's previous music

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directors. Andris is just one of three during the past 35 years. This

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is an amazingly attractive job to any conductor and we have the most

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wonderful artist and city, one of the best holes in the world. Lots of

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people will be beating the path to our door. Andris will remain with

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the CBSO until the summer of 2015. The hunt for his successor has

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already begun. Our top story: Detained

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indefinitely, the man who killed Christina Edkins in a random attack

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pleads guilty to manslaughter. He will be held under the Mental Health

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Act. Your detailed weather forecast to

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come. The cordial graphed the Paralympic

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opening ceremony, now this company celebrates 25 years of dance. We

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would not be the type of company and we would not have grown as we have

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if we were in London or anywhere else. If you have a story you think

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we should be covering, let us know. Staffordshire University is

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celebrating doing something that no other university has accomplished,

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it's a lot and has been rated outstanding by the Royal

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horticultural Society. This report was not just about the projects you

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have in front of you, was it? No, it was not just about that. It is more

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the sense of community here full up they are quite excited about it. The

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judges said this was a haven for students and staff and someone told

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me earlier that she might have abandoned her course altogether if

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it was not forthcoming to this allotment. Thanks to her allotment,

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and have hardly spent a penny on food all summer.

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The allotment has also fed her salt, going there has stopped dropping out

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of university. I was extremely depressed. I was in a horrible

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relationship and that strike me down. It was somewhere I could go

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when I was not feeling up to doing my course and I took a bit of time

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out and I was able to get back on track. This is the man who set it up

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six years ago. He is also the Staffordshire University student

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welfare officer. He oversaw the building of the tunnels and raised

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beds. He nurtured the fruit and vegetables and the young people who

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call themselves the extreme gardeners. Last winter was an awful

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winter and we were here every Sunday, whatever the weather, doing

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something, generally working in here wear it is a bit warmer, but I think

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we were down there in minus 18 at one point. But we had fun. He is

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liked by guard dad. The allotments' sustainability also won praise. The

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judge concluded it was an organic gem and buy rating it outstanding it

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has raised the bar for student allotments throughout the country.

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When they designed the tunnels and the raised beds, they also thought

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about disabled students. You are visually impaired. You had not done

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any gardening. How has it been for you here? It is a little bit scary

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when you first to do it. The finer details can be a bit difficult day

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today. People are cool and you get the hang of it. They are pretty

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helpful. It is a great award to win. We are thrilled, I am not just build

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for myself but for all of the 600 people who have been down here over

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the past six years. It is the first time you have been nominated and the

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first time any university has one. Brilliant. It is not just about the

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students. There is an awful lot that goes on here. You are an

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administrator. We like to have plenty of cups of tea and coffee in

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the shade and share the food. Sometimes people bring in food that

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they have made from home. Do you ever squabble? It is all done very

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amicably. Looking at the weather, we shall go back to the studio.

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Birmingham City's fine home when continued last night, although their

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win against Millwall was watched by their lowest league attendance in 20

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years. One player who returned from injury scored twice. The Blues have

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scored in their last few matches at St Andrews.

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The couple behind the motion has dance company are celebrating with

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the world premiere in the Midlands. The cordial graphed the opening

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ceremony of the Paralympic Games. Athletic dancers. Digital imagery

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and the power of dance. This is a story of our relationship with the

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world. It has taken over 8000 hours to put it together and this is a

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birthday present for audiences from Leamington spa —based Motion House.

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The artistic director setup with his wife 25 years ago. My wife and I

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made sure and stuck it in the back of a Volvo with two musicians and

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worked it so that when one was on stage one could change the lights.

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It was a very small endeavour, but very thrilling. The thrills have

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continued. Last year it was a highlight of the cultural

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celebrations for the Olympics. They also made up the opening ceremony

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for the Paralympic Games. To get one of the opening ceremonies is

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unbelievable. This is a momentous year for the company. Not only are

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they celebrating 25 years, Kevin was awarded an MBE in the Queen's

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birthday honours. They have chosen to premiere at this latest

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performance just up the road from where the dancing dream began.

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Warwickshire is our home and being here has allowed us access to

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materials and resources that we could never have hoped to have got

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if we were in the city. As a thanks to the region, it premiers tonight

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in Warwick. Enough rain to warrant a warning and

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create further travel disruption through this evening and tonight.

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The warning applies mainly to northern, western and central parts

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of the region. It will lead to torrential downpours and some flash

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flooding. There has been plenty going on today and plenty to come.

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We have this obligate front. Once it got going, it moved quite quickly.

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Behind it, we have showers which are banding together to give a potential

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downpours in the south—west. Also tomorrow, we have another area of

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rain from the West and the south and this is subject to warnings as well.

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It is going to be wait for the next 24 hours. We have showers for the

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south—west. It could lead to around 15 millimetres of rain or more. You

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will find that after midnight things start to come down and it looks a

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lot drier across many parts of the region. A lot of load. Temperatures

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dropping down to 15. —— cloud. A very quick turnover from one lot of

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rain clearing to the next lot. We are looking at midday for that to

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arrive in the south—west and moving northwards through the course of the

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day and tomorrow evening. You can see some of those very bright

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colours, looking at high quantities, a lot of rain. The south—west is

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beating the brunt of the rain. It is quite warm as well. We have heavier

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burst to come through the north of the region —— bursts. Temperatures

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down to 16, but improving by the weekend.

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The headlines: The Prime Minister'smessage to the under 25 is

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that the days of going straight to benefits are over —— could be over.

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The man who killed Christina Edkins in a random attack pleads guilty to

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manslaughter and will be held under the Mental Health Act.

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I will be back at 10pm.

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