07/10/2013 Midlands Today

The 16—year—old schoolgirl shot by the Taliban, now settled in

Birmingham. Killing people, blasting schools, it is totally against

Islam. Landowners and farmers say they have been left in limbo because

of plans over high—speed rail. If they converted any of the barns we

could not sell them. The startling number of victims with learning

disabilities who suffer crimes by people pretending to be their

friends. Tai Woffinden shrugs off a broken

collarbone to take the world title. And Shefali has the weather.

Time to pile on the layers. It may be worn now but not for long. I will

have all the details of when the temperatures are set to tumble.

Good evening. The teenage victim of the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai, says

it's been hard settling into her new life in Birmingham. She's given her

first interview to the BBC since arriving in this country. It was

last October that Malala was shot in the head in Pakistan after speaking

in favour of education for girls. She was flown to the UK to be

treated in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. In July, on

her 16th birthday, she addressed the United Nations in New York. And this

week she's a frontrunner for the Nobel Peace Prize. Here's our

reporter Hollie Lewis on the remarkable story of the girl the

Taliban couldn't silence. Malala Yousafzai is the most famous

schoolgirl in Birmingham but speaking to Mishal Husain for

tonight's Panorama programme she said coping with the recognition in

her new home has not been easy. They considered me as a good girl

and a girl who worked for children's rights and who was shot by the

Caliban. They never look at me as a normal girl, their friend.

It is a year ago today that Malala was shot on her way home from

school, targeted by the Caliban for speaking up for girls' education. —

the Taliban ban. She was eventually brought to Birmingham for her

rehabilitation. Her story has not —— now been told throughout the world

but less known is the key role played by a doctor at the Birmingham

Children's Hospital. Fiona Reynolds was part of a British delegation to

Pakistan, advising on a liver transplant site —— service, when the

call came through to one of her colleagues asking for help. I was

asked to fly to give an opinion on Malala's condition.

Fiona ended up staying on to advise on Malala's treatment and suggested

Birmingham as a place for her rehabilitation.

I was an anonymous doctor at the centre of world news.

But some of the Pakistani community in Birmingham also fear that

Malala's celebrity status is detracting from the original

message. A lot is happening in Europe and England and her

associates are being deprived of education and we are taking our eye

off that. A lot of people are in similar, maybe worse positions than

heard that are being overlooked. I am not sure what impact is being

made in the regions that she was actually fighting for change to

occur in. Malala's fame is only likely to grow. On Friday she will

find out if she is the youngest person ever to be awarded the Nobel

Peace Prize. You can see more on tonight's

edition of panorama. Coming up, the parents of a little

girl who died in India say there are still questions to be answered after

her missing organs are finally returned.

It's known as Mate Crime. Victims with learning disabilities targeted

by people pretending to be their friends. Gemma Hayter from

Warwickshire was bullied and murdered. Her tragic story brought

the issue to national attention. Up to a million people like Gemma are

at risk, with some estimates suggesting nine out of ten will be

affected at some time. Anthony Bartram reports.

Gemma Hayter kept the abuse to herself. It was a classic case of

Mate Crime, people targeted because they have learning disabilities. By

retracing the final fatal journey, her sister hopes to find out if

lessons have been learned. This is where her body was found. She was

there, feet here. Facedown. Naked. Her five killers were jailed for a

total of 85 years. While there was no evidence it could have been

predicted, the case raised wider national concerns about community

safety for vulnerable adults. Does anybody in the room know what a Mate

Crime is. If you know, can you hold your —— your card up? We took Nikki

to Stoke—on—Trent to find out what is being done. Every time I get my

money they always hang around asking me to buy them a pint. About a

million people with learning disabilities live in Britain and

nine out of ten are believed to have experienced Mate Crime but hardly

any report it to the police. Nationally there are less than 2000

cases a year, only 143 in the West Midlands. It is one crime statistic

that Staffordshire police want to see go up. We talk to people in the

mental health services, alcohol abuse services, so the most

vulnerable people are being talked to. Nikki has seen how things have

changed since her sister's murder but the figures tell her that more

is won more needs to be done to protect from the OP. —— protect

vulnerable people. With us now is Cathy Jones from the

charity Assist, which aims to give vulnerable people a voice. Good

evening. How vulnerable are people with learning disability to these

sorts of crime? They will always be vulnerable because they are very

trusting and they want to be part of the community but the community

often sees them as different. People do not do different very easily.

Maybe it is in the way they speak, the way they act, and learning

disabilities is a wide programme at so there is a range of different

learning disabilities within there. I think as a client group, when we

are working with them, they have become very accepting that this is

what happens, so they do not tend to voice... You say they are accepting

of this kind of crime? On a lower level, yes. Very accent thing that

it is OK that they are the ones that perhaps are always being asked to

pay for drinks when people have invited them into a group. ——

accepting. Or having money taken off them in terms of theft. Yes, and it

can be cases where, haven't got any money today but there is a cashpoint

over here. So, subtle. The astonishing figures say that up to a

million people could be at risk and nine out of ten have suffered this

kind of thing. Yes, because it is very hidden. As an advocacy service

we try to give a voice to people and we see people on an individual basis

who have learning this abilities and then we have the reach project which

is a group advocacy Project. Usually our job is to listen to the issue

that that individual wants to raise and then raise it with the body they

want it raised with. It is not until you get into discussion and give

examples around the table that they say, this is a problem I have got,

and then they all identified that they have had similar problems.

Thank you very much. I am pleased she will have the

pay—out she has, it will give her everything she needs and wants, but

I am angry that it is still happening to other children and the

hospital have not learned from Hollie's mistakes.

Nearly 100 taxi cabs made in Coventry have been sent to

Australia, but painted white rather than black. The London Taxi Company

has exported 98 ex—demonstrator vehicles to Perth where they'll be

used on a trial basis. If successful, the state of Victoria is

also expected to take the cabs. The MP for Bromsgrove, Sajid Javid,

has been promoted in a government reshuffle.The 43—year—old has become

Financial Secretary to the Treasury. He'd previously held a more junior

Treasury post. And Stoke—on—Trent MP Tristram Hunt has been promoted and

given charge of education in a reshuffle of Labour's Shadow

Cabinet. The director of public prosecutions

says it was right not to charge two doctors over the fact that they

claimed they could arrange abortions based on gender.

There are calls tonight for an overhaul of compensation for

high—speed rail. Some of the areas affected say they have been unable

to plan for their future. The fence on the west side of the

line is going to run down the middle of our drive to the corner of our

house. Another property blighted by HS2. High—speed line runs through

the middle of this farm in Staffordshire. He has faced blight,

disruption and lost land. Now history seems to be repeating

itself. Three years ago he successfully got permission to turn

his barns into houses at HS2 has left those plans in limbo. It has

blighted everything in this area. If we converted any of the barns we

could not sell them. With no compensation from the government and

things still uncertain, he has had to spend £10,000 renewing permission

to develop his barns. We don't know if we are throwing money down the

drain but we have to try and develop this. Pumping station experts say

his situation is not uncommon and have called for a change in the

rules. There would be a number of questions that a farmer or land

owner would ask, for example, how much land are they going to take,

when, and what will they pay and when. The answer to all of those

questions at the moment, we don't know. That is quite unfair for any

business trying to plan for the future. Some people have been

successful in getting compensation. The couple who live here have sold

their house to the government under something called the exceptional

hardship scheme. The house is 350 metres from HS2 but it was still not

easy. This couple struggled to get compensation, featured on Midlands

Today earlier this year. We feel we have been trapped. You can't move on

with your life. You can't make plans. Your life is under someone

else's control. Not everybody has been so lucky and with HS2 still a

long way off in many parts of the region the blight and misery

continues. All this week BBC Coventry and

Warwickshire will be talking to many people affected by HS2.

Our top story tonight, poised to become the youngest winner of the

Nobel Peace Prize, the 16—year—old schoolgirl shot by the Taliban now

settled in Birmingham. Or so tonight, from Judge John Deed

to a member of the jury. Martin Shaw on crossing the court room in a new

drama at Birmingham Rep. And I will be finding out why rail

enthusiasts are spending their time and £400 to bring this beautiful

steam engine back to life. The parents of an eight—year—old

girl have had her organs returned from India after a six—month

campaign. Gurkiren Loyal died suddenly after being given an

injection for mild dehydration in a clinic in India. They hope that

tests here will discover the cause of her death. Here's our health

correspondent, Michele Paduano. This unassuming box represents both

the emptiness of their dreams and the fulfillment of their hope for

justice and answers. It contains their daughters organs and, without

them, pathologists here had no way of investigating the cause of

Gurkiren Loyal's death. It was horrible. It was so painful.

It was brilliant as well that she has come home but there was nothing

we could see, just letters and leaflets that they had stuck on the

outside. The eight—year—old from Birmingham,

seen here in the blue, was enjoying a holiday in India when she became

mildly dehydrated. Her parents took her to a clinic where she was given

an injection. They claim she collapsed instantaneously. Her

organs are due to be wrought to Birmingham coroner 's Court in the

next few days. It will be up to the coroner to decide what tests should

be done and whether to hold an inquest.

According to reports, Gurkiren is one of 35 British citizens who have

died in suspicious circumstances in India and where families want

answers. We were sending off e—mails, getting

no response, making telephone calls. People were quite obviously there

and they were saying they were not there. It has been a complete

nightmare. Her parents can finally lay their

daughter to rest. According to our religion she has to

be complete. We have not scattered her ashes until her organs are

cremated as well. The tales of two Wolverhampton stars

defying injury for world glory. Tai Woffinden says winning the world

speedway championship is reward for all the sacrifices he and his family

have made during his career. The Wolverhampton rider won the title in

Poland on Saturday despite riding with a broken collarbone.

He was riding in pain. But with his mum and girlfriend in the crowd he

was riding for the ultimate prize. Nothing was going to stop Tai

Woffinden becomng world champion. And when he took the chequered flag

in heat five the title was his. His nonstop wheelies showed his

unbridled joy. Tai's still in Poland so today we contacted him via the

internet. At 23 he's the youngest ever world champion. It is an

amazing feeling. A lot of people are saying I am too young, is it going

to make it harder for me in the future, but now I have tasted glory

it is something I definitely want to do again.

And Tai was quick to praise the support of his family and his father

Rob who died three years ago. My dad passed away in 2010 and I

really would have liked him to be here this weekend just gone to see

me when the championship. I want to thank my mum, this was a way of

saying thank you. You could see the smile on her face.

Woffinden's club track of Monmore Green was hosting greyhound racing

today. But promoter Chris Van Straaten was still in admiration of

their new world champion. Immense strength of character, very

much sure at 23. His father would often say, I have carved that boy

out of granite. I think that is true. The pain he must've been

suffering throughout the series was absolutely immense.

It is certainly a night that will live long in the memory of British

speedway fans. And that wasn't the end of the sporting glory for

Wolverhampton this weekend. The gymnast Kristian Thomas won a bronze

medal at the world championships in Belgium yesterday. He's the first

British man ever to win a world medal in the vault discipline. It

was a special moment for Kristian who's had to overcome two major leg

injuries this year. I am absolutely over the moon. About

three weeks ago I did not know I would be coming to the world

championships. It has been a real roller—coaster.

I seriously admire these guys. Absolutely. The three years Tai

Woffinden's family lived in a caravan to fund his dreams. He has

carried on bracing despite the injury. The speedway season has not

finished. The Brummies against Poole Pirates tonight. Kristian thought he

would not compete and it is dangerous as well so an immense

achievement. Arsene Wenger praised West Bromwich

Albion's creative football after their draw yesterday. Albion became

the first team to take the lead against Arsenal this season. Jack

Wilshire equalised for the Premier League leaders. Albion's draw takes

them up to 12th. To prove which city dominated sporting weekend,

Wolverhampton Wanderers won 3—0 on Saturday. Leigh Griffiths scored

twice. Wolves are one point off the top of league one.

With over 100 TV roles to his name, Martin Shaw is widely known for his

work in The Professionals and BBC drama Judge John Deed. He takes to

the stage in another legal drama, 12 angry men, before he goes to the

west end. It is Martin Shaw who takes on the

lead role as juror number eight in the classic 1950s play. It is one of

those parts you can play it lots of different ways. Henry Fonda only

needed to be Henry Fonda. I don't want to minimise that because it

took ten years of work before I learned to make it look like I was

just being myself. I think there might be more to it than simply

being a democratic, candid, fair minded voice of reason.

Martin Shaw is widely known for his work in BBC drama Judge John Deed at

his acting career started in Birmingham. The city has changed

since his childhood. There is a lot more money in it. You have the

Symphony Hall just down the road, one of the finest in the road. And

of course the new library next door. I am not so fond of the

library, to tell you the truth. I am sure it is a magnificent facility

but I think it looks a bit like a neon licorice all sort. Birmingham

remains close to his heart. A lot of my early yearnings were centred

here. I could never have believed that I would be heading up a company

like this prior going to the west end when I was 18. It is lovely to

have that sense of looking back and saying, Cheers, Birmingham.

Interesting what he said about the library! There is something very

special about steam trains. They are so evocative, a window on times

past. A group of locomotive lovers have got together to return once

steam engine back to the rails. Then stood with is next to one train that

looks ready to roll. This actually has not been on the

rails since 1986. I can tell you that we have found some pretty rare

footage of the train in service in 1982 on the seven Valley Railway.

Let me tell you a bit about the history of rock —— locomotive for

93. Built in 1929, these guys found it on a scrap yard in Wales but

recently it has had pride of place in Swindon in a shopping centre.

Luckily these guys felt sorry for it and brought it back here. Duncan

Ballard, you helped to found the friends of locomotive. She was an

iconic locomotive and nobody had cared for her so we set the group

up. For you there are some special memories because you grew up with

her. Yes, she is part of the reason why I have ended up doing this for a

living. Another man who will be paramount is Ian Walker, part of the

locomotives, the manager here at the engine works. For you, it looks

pretty good. I guess a lot needs doing. It looks in museum condition

at the moment but underneath it she needs a lot of work. We have the

cylinders to do big work on, new tyres, all of the mechanics

underneath, so a very big job. This is part of the share scheme, 2

million raised by volunteers. It is just a flagship, isn't it? Yes, we

will overhaul this and a set of Grace Western coaches to run on what

was the great Western rail line. Three years they say it is going to

help them. Hopefully this will be back on the rails by 2017.

It has been another beautiful warm day. What are we doing inside?

It has been a beautiful day. Temperatures reached 18 or 19

Celsius for the Midlands. We have the best of the sunshine in the east

of the country. Things are changing this week, a lot of dry weather

around, perhaps a bit of rain, but the main thing is that there is a

sharp drop in temperatures by Thursday. There is a lot of dry

weather around but high—pressure hovering around, which will exert

more of an influence. It will be drawing B winds from that northerly

direction and they will strengthen at times. —— the winds. That aside,

this is what we have going on tonight. A cold front descending

from the north through the day, which is why things clouded over.

Now the cloud is heading in, later on it will produce some light

drizzly rain in northern areas. At the moment it looks like the South

and central parts are largely dry overnight. The cloud will keep

temperatures into double figures, in 11 to 15 Celsius. For tomorrow the

rain finally gets a move on. It will be a dull, damp day, not a lot of

rain along the front. We are looking at much drier conditions by then,

perhaps even a spot of sunshine, perhaps some showers creeping into

southern fringes. Temperatures on the warm side for the time of year,

up to 19 Celsius in the south, with a moderate south—westerly breeze.

Then we come to the turning point, the pivotal point, which is

Thursday. Wednesday, showers through the region, a series of France from

the north. It is Thursday when we will have highs of 11 Celsius,

feeling much like tonight. The rise in 15 minute care visits

for the elderly and disabled. A leading charity says it is a

scandal. On —— in line for a Nobel Peace

Prize, the 15—year—old shot by the Taliban and now living in

Birmingham.