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dual fuel customers will go up by more than 9%. That is all | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Hello and welcome to the programme. The headlines: Police raid homes | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
across Birmingham to track down an international drug scam, bringing | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
heroin into the UK. They've been using human careers, who have been | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
bringing their heroin in. Normally around four to 12 kilos each time. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
It follows the discovery of 95 kilos of heroin destined for the UK, with | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
a street value of this `` of ?5 million. 700 badgers are killed in | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Gloucestershire, less than half the government target. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
The time frame is now likely to be extended. Wolverhampton council | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
tries to save nearly ?100 million over the next five years. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
We are going to pay more for less which is what keeps happening. These | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
are tough times. It's just not good. Under threat, a memorial to soldiers | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
who died in the First World War. Now 10,000 people have signed a | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
petition to save it. And we have the weather. | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Today raised hopes. Is the rest of the week going to | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
dash them as all eyes turn to the weekend. The forecast for you later. | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
Good evening. Five people have been arrested in early morning raids in | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
the West Midlands, on suspicion of trafficking large amounts of heroin | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
into the UK. Police believe they're responsible for importing the drug | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
from Pakistan, through Europe via countries such as Spain. Officers | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
have already intercepted more than 50 kilos of heroin destined for the | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
British market which the dealers had tried to smuggle in via specially | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
adapted suitcases, books and clothing. Today's raids were the | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
first carried out in the Midlands by the newly formed National Crime | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
Agency. Police moved quickly to capture | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
suspected key players in an international smuggling gang. A man | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
and a woman were arrested at this house in Stourbridge by officers | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
from the newly formed National Crime Agency. Further arrests were made in | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
the Bordesley Green and Alum Rock areas of Birmingham ` and in | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
Bradford in West Yorkshire. We feel they are a significant gang. The | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
drugs we seized as part of this operation with colleagues in Europe | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
has been about 95 kilos. In the UK, we've seized 50 kilos and to put | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
that into context, that has a street value of around ?5 million. It is a | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
significant amount. Couriers are believed to have been used to | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
conceal the drugs in books and next to clothes on flights to Europe from | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
Pakistan. The National Crime Agency says it hopes today's operation will | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
be the first of many investigations in the West Midlands that will have | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
an improved joined up approach to fighting crime. Those arrests are | :02:57. | :03:11. | |
part of an... Officers from Spanish police are here observing. Police | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
officers from Holland and Germany have also been involved. The Spanish | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
police observing said they hoped today's raid would seriously disrupt | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
drug trafficking in their country too. One of the main priorities for | :03:20. | :03:32. | |
the police is the cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, in | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
order to fight organised crime groups who operate without frontiers | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
or borders. Half the estimated 5,000 organised crime gangs operating in | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
the UK are involved in drug smuggling ` tackling them and their | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
global network is seen as a priority for this new crime fighting unit. | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
Our Special correspondent Peter Wilson joins us in the studio now. | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
So is Birmingham a major destination for heroin from Pakistan, Peter? | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
I am not here talking about today's raids, or those that were arrested, | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
but historically, there is a city in Pakistan called... Back in the 60s, | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
lots of people came from there because they were building a dam and | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
60% of the Pakistani people living in Birmingham come from that city. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
It's known as little Birmingham. It is also right on the route for | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
heroin coming in from Afghanistan. There is also another community, | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
which lives on the border of Afghanistan. Lots of people from | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Birmingham are from those areas as well. The vast majority are | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
law`abiding but a small minority are linked to the heroin trade. We are | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
hearing a lot about organised crime at the moment. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
What exactly does that mean? It means big business. At one time, it | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
was estimated that drugs trade in this country alone per year was with | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
something like ?40 billion. If you think about Land Rover doubt | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
you are, they make ?1.6 billion a year. Drugs is ?40 billion. The sums | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
are truly astronomical. If you years ago, I went and sat in | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
the home of a man. I had been told he was one of the | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Birmingham drug lords. He told me he was a taxi driver. I had also been | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
told he had at one time ?1 million in cash hidden under his | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
floorboards. We went for a walk through a certain part of Birmingham | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
in the streets and people were treating him almost like that Marlon | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Brando character out of the Godfather. People were bowing and | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
scraping because he was one of the most influential people in the | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
city. But no one had heard of him. Coming up later in the programme: | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
Why young dads often feel isolated: a call to help fathers as young as | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
14. The company responsible for the | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
pilot badger cull in Gloucestershire has applied for an eight week | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
extension to its licence. New figures were released today which | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
showed that, in the six weeks since the shooting started, only 708 | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
badgers have been killed ` less than half the target. Our eural affairs | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
correspondent David Gregory`Kumar is inside the cull zone for us now. So, | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
has this all turned out to be a bit of an embarrassing failure, David? | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
It's hugely embarassing for the Government and those running the | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
Gloucestershire cull. It's estimated there were 2,350 badgers in the | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
Gloucestershire cull zone. And in a programme of controlled shooting for | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
the past six weeks, around 30% of the population have been killed. | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Well short of the 70% target. Now as you say the company running the cull | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
wants to carry on for anther eight weeks. | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Things have gone so badly with the Gloucestershire badger cull the | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
shooting could now carry on right up until Christmas. It is obvious that | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
six weeks is not long enough. Somerset was granted a further three | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
weeks. The local company have applied to Natural England for a | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
further eight weeks and that is under discussion with them. I am | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
very keen this is run by local people. It is down to the local | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
company to work that out with Natural England. The Somerset cull | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
may have faced problems but they look like achieving the cull target. | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
So why has Gloucestershire failed so spectacularly? They will be a number | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
of reasons why the numbers are lower than we in the culling companies | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
have hoped. Some of them will be to do with what is happening this year, | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
the two rain, the type of farming, what the badgers are doing and where | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
they are eating and so on. We will consider it all in the round. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
Protesters are clearly a part of that. So protesters have made a big | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
difference in Gloucestershire. They certainly made a difference. It has | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
meant we've had to pull back our operatives to go to other areas. The | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
government insists this is just a pilot but the highly well`equipped | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
protesters in Gloucestershire have cause real problems for the cull. | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
Let's talk to some of those protesters. Nick and Jean are from | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
Gloucestershire. What is your reaction to this extension to the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
cull, potentially of eight weeks? If it wasn't so tragic, the whole thing | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
would be laughable. They've had six weeks to do this. They've only | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
killed the third of the badgers. How do they think over another | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
eight`week period, and how then can call that an extension, I don't | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
know, how do they think they will achieve success in bad weather? It | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
has been a disaster from start to finish. Nick, people like you have | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
had an impact. There are all sorts of protesters out here every night. | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
Feet on the ground have made a big difference in Gloucestershire. We | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
act purely within the law. We've had over 500 people as part of our | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
patrol. We have not deliberately set out to stop the shooters that are | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
looking for wounded badgers. If we are in a field near the shooters, | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
they have to go somewhere else. If we've made a difference in that way, | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
so be it. Do you think you've stopped shooting? We know we have | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
because I've been out in the field and we've seen the shooters. The | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
police have been called and they've been told to stop shooting. It has | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
made an impact. People know that we are there. We've got hundreds of | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
people coming from all over the country. They are amazing people, | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
from all age groups, from different occupational groups. Totally | :09:56. | :09:56. | |
incredible, out there all weathers, from seven until seven. They are | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
mind`boggling. If more people want to join us, we would love to have | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
them in the wounded badger patrol. This extension has been applied for | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
and there will be a decision as soon as tomorrow. | :10:15. | :10:33. | |
He has been released on bail to be electronically tagged before | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
sentencing on November the 28th. Leaders in Wolverhampton say it is | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
unlikely that any residents in the city will be left unaffected by the | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
council 's efforts to strip out almost ?100 million from its budget | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
over the next five years. It is now looking at 165 proposals to reduce | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
some services as well as putting council tax bills at the first time | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
in four years. Lifeguards at the Central Baths in | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
Wolverhampton, road sweepers who keep the city streets clean and | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
youth workers helping youngsters find their feet. Just three of the | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
groups of people facing redundancy as the City Council tries to make | :11:15. | :11:24. | |
?98 million worth of cuts by 2019. We've been forced into this position | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
because of the reduction in government grants that we have | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
suffered, something like 40% between 2010 and the end of 2015/16. There's | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
been a swimming pool on Bath Avenue since 1847. The current facility is | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
in desperate need of a refurbishment the council can't afford. This could | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
be one of the biggest casualties of the cuts. The council was | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
withdrawing ?316,000 worth of annual subsidy and if another operator | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
cannot be found, it says it will have to close. Youth services in the | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
city will also lose ?1.1 million. These young people are on a course | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
that combines maths and english basics with learning about the music | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
industry. It's privately funded, but at least three of the students are | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
there because of council run projects. The duty is being used all | :12:16. | :12:24. | |
the time so there is definitely a need for youth provision, more youth | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
provision within Wolverhampton. To know there are going to be cuts in | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
the city is quite sad because we're not going to be able to do some of | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
the good work. Council tax bills are also expected to go up for the first | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
time in four years. But one of the city's MPs says growth in the | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
private sector should offset some of the job losses. In the West Midlands | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
between 1997 and 2010, we were the only part of the country which saw a | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
decrease in the number of private sector jobs. We are going to have to | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
rebalance the economy and there are real positives which points to a | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
positive future. The council says the financial crisis isn't their | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
mess, but it's up to them to clear it up and everyone in the city will | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
feel the impact. Teenage dads desperately want to be | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
good parents, but often feel isolated, according to a report from | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
the charity 4`Children. Now a Black Country group's calling for more | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
help for them from the government in a region with one of the highest | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
teenage pregnancy rates in England and some fathers as young as 14. | :13:26. | :13:35. | |
Louise was just 15 when she became pregnant. 16`year`old Luke stood by | :13:36. | :13:45. | |
her. Anyway, I feel like I've lost my youth but in another way, I've | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
gained something from fatherhood. It is just amazing. The couple who live | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
in Sandwell, admit it's been a struggle. But they're still up at | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
five every morning, ready to leave the house at seven so Ethan can go | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
to nursery and they can both go on to college. I want to be | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
successful. I want my son to see that he can do what he wants to do | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
when he is old enough, and go for it just like I have. You are doing | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
really well. We pride view. Simon Jakeman became a father at 18. He | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
too has been helped by the Sandwell charity Krunch which helps young | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
fathers get into education, training or to find work. They helped me get | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
my maths and English qualifications. That has led to me getting this job. | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
I can provide for my family. What do you think you would have done | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
without this? I would be unemployed, probably on the book `` | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Dole. I would be getting into trouble. We do parenting courses, | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
cooking classes, basic life skills, how to use a washing machine. The | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
charity has helped around a hundred young dads in the last four years in | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
the Sandwell area. Teenage pregnancy rates here and across the West | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
Midlands are some of the highest in England. Ethan is now six months | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
old. His parents say they're determined to provide him with | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
positive role models and they're working hard to get their lives back | :15:19. | :15:19. | |
on track. This is our top story tonight: Five | :15:20. | :15:34. | |
people are arrested in raids across the West Midlands as police target | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
an international drug smuggling gang. | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
Your detailed weather forecast to come shortly from Shefali. Also in | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
tonight's programme: Keep on running ` a dilapidated athletics track | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
transformed as part of our Olympic legacy. | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
And why the dodo isn't quite as dead as we thought. Well, not in | :15:54. | :15:54. | |
Herefordshire anyway! A public meeting's just got underway | :15:55. | :16:04. | |
in Warwickshire to discuss controversial plans to extract gas | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
from deep underneath the countryside around Marston. Cluff Natural | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
Resources has applied for a licence to use a technique known as | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
Underground Coal Gassification. Holes are drilled into coal seams | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
deep below the surface and then set alight. That releases gases which | :16:20. | :16:31. | |
can then be used to produce power. The Coal Authority is still | :16:32. | :16:33. | |
considering the application which the energy firm says would create up | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
to 400 new jobs. Our reporter Giles Latcham is in Leamington Spa where | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
the meeting is taking place for us now. So who's arranged this tonight? | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
It has been organised by a small group, newly formed to contest this | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
application to drill in an area south of here. About 60 people have | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
turned out so far, many fear it will spoil the countryside. Sue is one of | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
the founders of this group. This application is a speculative one to | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
see if the product is viable. It could be five years away. If it | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
happens, you jumping the gun? I don't think so because once in while | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
has been drilled, it is therefore perpetuity. Very many wells leaks | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
and we don't want to see a polluting well which could spawn into hundreds | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
of thousands. We need to know now what this could turn into. Important | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
to distinguish this is not fracking. It uses similar technology but | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
rather than using water and chemicals, the coal in the ground is | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
set on fire. This is therefore quite risky business because who knows | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
what is down there, who knows what you can release. It's a very | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
experimental technology which almost every test has been shut down for | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
pollution incidents. Gas prices have gone up again today. There is a rich | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
seam of coal here. We can't ignore that, can we? They are not linked. | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
This is an expensive technology. It takes a lot of energy to get gas | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
from coal so deep in the ground. When it comes out, you cannot plug | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
it in to the gas that we use. This would be used for diesel, jet fuel, | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
it's completely fictitious to say this is helpful in that way. Many | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
people are already very concerned about this. | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
Almost 10,000 people have signed a petition to save a memorial to | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
soldiers who died in the First World War. It's inside the former | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
magistrates court in Stoke`on`Trent ` which is now for sale after it was | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
closed as part of government saving plans. Fenton Town Hall, until | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
recently a Magistrates' court. Inside a unique record of soldiers | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
who gave their lives during the First World War. Made from Minton | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
tiles, Fenton's history is built into the very fabric of the walls | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
here. But now the building's for sale and facing an uncertain future. | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
It is just so incredibly important that these men, most of them very | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
young, are not forgotten and desecrated, because that is what | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
would happen if the building was demolished. The memorial cannot be | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
removed without being demolished. Jane Jones and Callan Chevin both | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
have great grandfathers who fought in the North Staffs Regiment. The | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
thought of a possibility it could be destroyed is disgusting. It is so | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
dishonourable. As a young Pip `` person in Stoke, I feel it is my | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
duty to carry on the memory of these fallen heroes. The war memorial | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
outside a building makes reference to the names recorded inside. The | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
mystery of Justice has said any sale of the building will involve a | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
condition that the tile memorial will be preserved. It says the | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
government has a duty to taxpayers to provide best funny for money when | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
the property is sold. The campaigners have collected a | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
petition with almost 10,000 signatures, they'll be delivering it | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
to Downing Street at the weekend. They're also got poppy seeds which | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
they're planning to plant on all roads into the town. If we can plant | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
poppies around the town, what the residents are saying is we haven't | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
forgotten about you. We are remembering you. Ultimatately the | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
campaigners want the chance to buy this building themselves. They | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
hoping it can be saved, and in doing so, they can honour the memory of | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
soldiers who sacrificed their lives. A Birmingham athletics club which | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
faced merger or even closure has been saved, thanks to the Olympic | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
legacy. Sparkhill Harriers was formed more than a century ago, but | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
its home track had fallen into disrepair and was no longer fit for | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
use. Today, though, that track re`opened after a face`lift costing | :21:06. | :21:16. | |
more than ?300,000. This is the Olympic legacy they | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
promised, young people inspired by the London Games being coached by | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
top British athletes. But just as important is the Olympic legacy | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
under their feet. A brand new track costing 325 thousand pounds that | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
will be home to Sparkhill Harriers. It is really good. It was better | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
than the last track because the other track had massive holes in | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
it. It is nice to run on it and I don't trip up sometimes. I can feel | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
it underneath my feet, it's a lot more bouncy. It's really good. I've | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
never felt a track like this before. It's really soft for your spikes to | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
go on. What a legacy. The good condition of this particular track | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
will carry on for years and years. It is so good to see so many young | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
people enthusiastic about running. It will be well used. It was | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
desperately needed. A year ago I filmed the shocking state into which | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
the Fox Hollies track had fallen. Rotting equipment and an | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
embarrassing running surface. A club founded in 1902 and with an Olympic | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
silver medallist in their Hall of Fame faced an uncertain future. We | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
were having great difficulty in seeing how we could keep the club | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
going because we thought we might even have to lose the junior | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
section. The work has gone in with various organisations to produce | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
this new track is of importance to us. Already, to `` together with the | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
Olympic effect, we are seeing a new influx of people coming. But funding | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
from the city council, Sport England and Ninestiles school has | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
transformed it. And who knows one day one of these young runners could | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
swap a Sparkhill vest for a British Olympic vest. | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
Now, what's the most famous of all extinct species? Surely it has to be | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
the dodo, as in dead as. Dodos lived on the island of Mauritius and are | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
thought to have grown to a large size because they had no natural | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
predators. But then man arrived in the 16th century and astonishingly, | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
within just a few decades, it had been wiped out. Now the bird forms | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
the centrepiece of a new exhibition in Herefordshire, carrying a strong | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
environmental message. Nature left unspoilt can look like | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
this. The stunning secenery of the Black Mountains on the Herefordshire | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
Welsh Border. But meddle with nature and you get the story of the extinct | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
dodo. It's a story brought to life in this exhibtion at Monnow Valley | :23:47. | :23:56. | |
Arts Cntre in Walterstone. Why bring this exhibition to Herefordshire? | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
There is an important reason because this is a beautiful is it `` | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
beautiful, unspoiled area. We are trying to get the message across to | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
preserve the area and not to do as we did centuries ago with the dodo | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
in Mauritius. And you've actually got the bones of the bird to bring | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
the story to life as well. We have indeed. This is the prime exhibit | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
here. These are actual dodo bones, the last remains of a beautiful bird | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
that would still be alive today if it wasn't for us. The bones belong | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
to this man. Ralfe Whistler inherited them from his late father. | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
His Suusex home is like a permanent museum to thr woerld's largest | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
collection of all things dodo. It is fun! It brings a smile to most | :24:39. | :24:52. | |
people 's faces. If you are a collector, you like collecting | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
almost anything. I do collect and it is almost now Ralfe's fascination | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
for the The peculiar bird is being shared in our region. Built in. The | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
name of this extinct bird comes from its rather fat behind so when the | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
Dutch founded, they named it fat bottom. Over time, it became known | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
as a dodo. Alas poor dodo may be dead as can be but the flighless | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
bird sends us alla warning to look after our natural surroundings | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
before tis too late. Let's catch up with the weather. | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
Slightly better today, Shefali. What's the forecast? | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
We had some sunshine today and very few showers. Yesterday, we were | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
expecting some heavy ones but there have not been any reports of any. | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
There has even been a positive development on the rain for | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
tomorrow. There is still heavy rain to come but it looks as though the | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
alignment of it was a little further west. We should miss the worst of | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
it. Also, we have, piling in behind it, if you heavy showers. Is there | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
anything over the weekend, there are showers will be heavier than the | :26:00. | :26:15. | |
rain tomorrow. We have got blustery showers on Sunday. It is also going | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
to stay quite mild. It will be fairly breezy. We got some sunshine | :26:19. | :26:20. | |
in between those showers as well. Because of today's sunshine, we | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
start the night off with clear skies and because of that, we could see Mr | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
developing early on, even fog for the east of the region where we hold | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
onto the clear skies for longest. There will be time for that to | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
develop into fog. Later in the night, we will see the cloud | :26:35. | :26:36. | |
thickening up from the South West, head of this rain for tomorrow. The | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
coldest spot would be the south`west. The morning tomorrow, | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
we've still got that fog to contend with. As the cloud pushes further | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
eastwards, that will lift them stand for Clinton low cloud. It is a dull | :26:57. | :27:07. | |
day tomorrow. Perhaps some heavy bursts in the rest of the region | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
tomorrow but the temperatures will be lower tomorrow. If at all, it's | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
tomorrow night that we will see the rain pepping up a little bit. A damp | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
wet night tomorrow night. For the weekend, we are looking at some | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
showers and some sunshine. Tonight's headlines from the BBC. | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
British Gas is the latest energy supplier to put up its prices ` up | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
to eight million households face higher bills. And police raid homes | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
across Birmingham, as they track an international drugs gang, bringing | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
heroin into the UK. That was the Midlands Today. David | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
Gregory`Kumar will be back at ten o'clock with latest update on the | :27:47. | :27:48. | |
day's news. | :27:49. | :27:49. |