Browse content similar to 30/10/2013. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
again at Birmingham's past and rediscover its treasures. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Police say, hand yourself in. We are concerned his mental health and | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
well`being was an issue and that is why he has absconded. He would have | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
been eligible for parole next year. Also denied: Polish ` petitioning | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
for paramedics. A campaigner whose grandson nearly died while waiting | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
for an ambulance, Luxor and hundreds thousands supporters. Something has | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
got to be done and I'm going to keep banging doors until something done. | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
The bookies favourite, this burning artist is up for the prestigious | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Mercury prize tonight. A dramatic night at St Andrews. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Stoker through to the quarterfinals of the league cup after beating | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Birmingham on penalties. And there is not much in the way of | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
driving that weather ` dry weather later this week. Join me later and I | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
will give you the full forecast. Good evening. A convicted murderer | :01:07. | :01:19. | |
is on the run after escaping from Hewell prison near Redditch. This is | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
Alan John Giles. He was given two life sentences nearly 20 years ago | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
after being found guilty of kidnapping and killing 16`year`old | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
Kevin Ricketts from his Birmingham home. | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
On the 31st January 1995 16`year`old Kevin Ricketts left his home in | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
Quinton to catch a bus to college but he never arrived. On the 17th | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
July 1997, despite Kevins body not being found, Giles was convicted of | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
his kidnap and murder. This is the current picture that we have of Alan | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
Giles. Police said they were trying to trace him urgently. One theory is | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
he may be intent on suicide. We are concerned his mental health and | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
well`being was an issue and that is why he has left the prison. We are | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
keeping an open mind. We are currently focusing on the South | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
Warwickshire area. We have a large team of detectives looking and | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
leaving no stone unturned. On the 31st of January, the boy left his | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
home to catch a bus to college. On the 17th of July, despite Kevin 's | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
body not been found, Alan Giles was convicted of his kidnap and murder. | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
On the 28th July 1998, the police discovered his remains in a garden | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
in Edgbaston. Giles was the boyfriend of Kevin 's older sister | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
and he murdered him as an act of revenge, after she ended their | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
relationship. At the time of his disappearance, Kevin 's family made | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
public appeals for help. They are said to be distressed by his killers | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
escape. Police officers are with them but it is not thought Giles | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
poses any threat to them. It is odd that Alan Giles should choose to | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
escape now because in less than a year, he would have become eligible | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
for parole. In the past, he has demonstrated he has a conscience, | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
telephoning the police from prison after his conviction to confess to | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
the murder of Kevin Ricketts and to tell them whether he had buried the | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
body. This prison houses more dangerous category B inmates but | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
also category D inmates. People in Redditch to go out in the open part | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
of the prison and so they should. I'm not too sure whether someone who | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
was a child killer should have been there. I'm asking those questions, | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
whether he should have been there. The police say Giles shouldn't be | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
approached. Anyone who sees it is asked to call them on 909. | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Coming up later in the programme: a return to the Ricoh? New talks on | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
the cards for Coventry City football club to go back to its home ground. | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
A man from Shropshire whose grandson nearly died while waiting for | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
paramedics ` has launched an online petition to try to improve the | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
service. Paul Passant from Bridgnorth claims people are having | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
to wait too long, because there are not enough ambulances to cover the | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
County. Our Health Correspondent Michale Paduano has the details. | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
Last Decenber, Paul Passant promised his grandson that he would improve | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
ambulance services in Shropshire, but it appears that the service has | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
run into trouble again. Baby Thomas, had a heart condition and collapsed, | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
although a paramedic arrived quickly it took 41 minutes for an ambulance | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
to reach him and he could have died. Nearly a year on, other patients | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
have had long delays. It is just not good enough. People don't seem to be | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
taking this seriously. When I started the Thomas campaign, until | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
the day I die, I'm going to improve ambulance provision. Now it has gone | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
countywide. Something has got to be done. I'm going to keep banging on | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
doors until something is done. The BBC understands that a patient | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
needing urgent surgery had to wait more than an hour to be moved from | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
hospital in Telford, to Shrewsbury on October 14th. Paul has started an | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
online petition after hearing that a dementia patient with a broken hip | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
waited an hour for an ambulance in the rain. If we can get 100,000 | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
signatures, questions can be asked in Parliament to the Health | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
Secretary about what he is going to do about the situation. West | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
Midlands Ambulance Service says it needs an extra ?1.2 million to | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
provide an adequate level of service in Shropshire. That would mean two | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
more ambulances. The reality is we have been chronically underfunded | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
and we have raised this with the trusts and again two years ago with | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
the commissioners is an issue. We still have not managed to address | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
the under resourcing It says with more funding it meets its targets in | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
another rural county Herefordshire. In these areas. The Shropshire | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
commissioners say it is always difficult providing an ambulance | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
service in rural areas. They say since 2009, they provide an extra | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
million pounds and if they were to give any more, that would mean other | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
local services would have to suffer. Mr Passant doesn't care whre the | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
funding comes from, he just wants to ensure that no child in Shropshrie | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
dies. Michele is here now. There seems to | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
be a bit of a disagreement between the ambulance service and those who | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
pay for the service. It is a right royal fight. The | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
ambulance says they need an extra ?1.2 million. The commissioners are | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
saying today they are meant to make 4% efficiency savings and they have | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
got enough money to do the job. Whatever else is going on, what is | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
interesting is in the old days, these ` the NHS would not be having | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
this kind of fight but in the New World, these fights are going to | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
take place were often So is Shropshire in a unique position in | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
apparently under funding this service? | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
I understand Warwickshire has already ` historically not paid as | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
much money as some areas. There is an anomaly. We've heard that | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
Herefordshire is meeting its targets because they put more money into the | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
system. What will happen going forward is anybody's guess because | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
this is quite an unusual situation. We've got to hope that it is not | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
going to be a long cold winter because there are concerns. | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
A new ?4.5 million Helicopter has been bought by the West Midland Air | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
Ambulance. It's the first aircraft actually owned by the charity, which | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
until now has leased them instead. Completely funded through public | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
donations the ambulance will be based at RAF Cosford after being | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
fitted with medical equipment in Germany. | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
A father who set fire to his house, killing his wife and seriously | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
injuring his three daughters has been found guilty of murder and | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
arson. Mohammed Riaz Inayat deliberately started the fire in | :08:01. | :08:15. | |
Sparkhill in in April. His wife, Naika Inayat died in the blaze. | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
Sentencing him to life imprisonment, the judge told him, he must spend a | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
mininum of 22 years in jail. Coventry City Football Club have | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
called for new talks with the City's council about returning to the Ricoh | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
Arena. The club has been playing its home games in Northampton since | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
leaving the Ricoh in the summer, in a dispute over unpaid rent. | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
They released a statement today in response to comments made by | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Councillor Anne Lucas, the leader of Coventry City Council last week when | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
she said she would like to see Coventry City playing back at this | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
stage at Christmas. In the statement, the club were direct. | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
They asked the question which was, is she prepared to discuss a | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
freehold sale of the Ricoh? That would mean selling the Ricoh | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
including the hotel the casino and the conference halls as well as the | :09:03. | :09:12. | |
stadium itself to the club. The statement also added that the owner | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
of the Sisu hedge fund which owns the club. Joy Seppala will be | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
writing privately to Councillor Lucas shortly in order to find out | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
exactly what the council's position is. | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
So has the leader responded? Yes, late this afternoon, Councillor | :09:30. | :09:41. | |
Lucas said she heard an invite for Joy Seppalla to meet with her. If | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
Joy Seppala is serious about wanting to discuss a possible deal, then we | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
need to talk soon. She also says she is disappointed but not surprised by | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
the personal nature of the attack on her by Coventry City Football Club. | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
What are the fans saying? I think the fans are no nearer to | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
knowing if ever and if so when their beloved Sky Blues will return to the | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
Ricoh. One supporters' group said there's a lack of trust. There is a | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
huge issue about whether fans trust the owners of the club. There was a | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
poll in the local newspaper recently which said two thirds of people | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
actually say the arena should not be sold to them. For a long time, they | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
have been promising they are going to build a new ground so a lot of | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
people are questioning whether they are going to do it. Tonight, | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
Coventry City fans are still no closer to knowing whether their club | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
will ever play here. In the meantime, they will continue to play | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
their football in Northampton, 34 miles away. | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
The Birmingham singer Laura Mvula will find out later tonight whether | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
she's won the prestigious Mercury prize for her album Sing to the | :10:56. | :10:56. | |
Moon. She's up against 11 other artists | :10:57. | :11:27. | |
including David Bowie and the Arctic Monkeys. Laura grew up in | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
Birmingham, training at the city university's conservatoire as well | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
as being a member of the CBSO Youth Orchestra. With me now is Michael | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
Woltars who's the Deputy Head of Composition at the conservatoire. | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
You must be very proud. So you must be pretty proud? I am very proud, | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
yes. What was she like as a student? In many ways she was like every | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
other student, working on her things, trying to do watch was | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
interested in the best way she could. What was interesting, was I | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
looked today at absolute feedback and I saw there was a piece of | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
coursework where I asked her to arrange a piano piece. Students | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
could choose whatever they wanted. Most people chose a string orchestra | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
or full orchestra. She chose voice which is quite old when you think | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
about it. It's a quite odd choice. You can see that in the album. It is | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
all about voice, all about her voice and the way she uses it. The | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
foundations were already there. She is like many other students, you | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
say, but could you see something a little bit special? | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
Here, of course, but it took awhile. The way we teach condition of the | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
conservator is we are really interested in what the students can | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
bring. We don't force them to write in a certain style for example. That | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
is difficult for some students because they think they have to | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
conform but they don't have to. It takes them to a three years to | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
understand and start doing what they really want to do. | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
She is clearly doing what she wants to do now but when you see her | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
performing now, is there anything of the old student Laura that you | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
recognise as she totally different? You know, the smile. The first thing | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
that you think of as the smile, the amazing smile that she has. That was | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
always there. She was always dressing in a glamorous way, of | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
course. But then, you see the videos and you see her on stage and she | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
looks OK diva. She has been described as a diva. As a student, | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
there was nothing of the Deaver about her. She was just a lovely | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
girl. I am sure you are going to have your fingers crossed my. | :13:46. | :13:56. | |
This is our top story tonight: On the run, convicted murderer Alan | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
John Giles escapes from Hewell prison. Police appeal to hand | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
himself in. Your detailed weather forecast to | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
come shortly. Also in tonight's programme: down to the wire, a night | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
of drama in the league cup ends in penalties between Birmingham and | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
Stoke. And do you know your Brummie | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
history? The author who says its time to look again at the city's | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
past. When you're just 11 and severely | :14:19. | :14:32. | |
disabled, playing outside with other children can be a real challenge. | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
That's why Shannon Hale's parents wanted to turn their run`down back | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
garden into a safe haven. Their hearts sank though when quotes for | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
the work came in at thousands of pounds. Then they heard about a new | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
Black Country charity, Love to Give, which aims to help those most in | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
need. Shannon's garden transformation is | :14:53. | :14:53. | |
well underway. Shannon Hale from Kingswinford has | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
never seen quite so much activity in her back garden. Gone are the broken | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
fences and rough grass. In their place a team of volunteers, over | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
half way thru a free make over. It's kindness her mum and dad find hard | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
to take in. I was nearly in tears. I said don't make me cry yet! We | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
always seem to think that we have bad luck, not good enough. To us, | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
this doesn't exist. It doesn't happen to people like us. We don't | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
get this sort of support. Businessman Steve Grove and boxing | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
promoter Pete jackson are the male equivalents of fairy godmothers. | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
They set up a charity called love to give earlier this year, which aims | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
to help children and young adults. When you meet these parents, they | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
are so down`to`earth. You think, what can we do for this family? We | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
just want to help and that is what keeps us going. Other volunteers | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
come into the garden with us and we are giving something back. It costs | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
nothing to give something back. This is the first garden they did for a | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
little disabled boy called Jack from Woolaston. Organising a trip up ben | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Nevis for 45 complete strangers was one of many fundraisers. We meet | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
people and decide together. We do an event, raise the money. We don't get | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
it given to us. Then we spend the money on that child directly so | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
every penny raised, you can see where it is going. Speaking of the | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
pennies, Emma here might be painting Mr Tumble, but usually she works at | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
Dudley building society. Steve pulled a few strings with her boss. | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
They are top blokes, may I say? They are unbelievable. All the workers | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
that cannot help. They are unbelievable people. When it's | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
finished there'll be a Wendy house, astro turf and a swing but most | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
exciting of all, a trampoline. In the future Shannon can share | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
playtime with her younger brother and sister. | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
It was a night of drama at St Andrew's last night as Birmingham | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
City took on Stoke City in the League Cup. It went to extra time | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
and penalties as both sides fought it out for a place in the quarter | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
finals. With winter starting to bite the | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
fans had wrapped up against the chill but this was a game which left | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
everyone who watched it with a warm glow. Premier League Stoke City have | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
struggled for goals this season but took charge thanks to this this | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
stunning effort from Oussama Assaidi. Championship Birmingham | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
fought back and levelled through Tom Adeyemi. The balance of the tie | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
seemed to have shifted for good when Wade Elliott was sent off just | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
before half`time for an arm in the face of Assaidi. Stoke seemed to be | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
cruising into the next round when goals in the second half from Peter | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
Crouch and Marko Arnautovic gave them a 3`1 advantage. But this is a | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
competition in which Birmingham have thrived in recent years and the 2011 | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
winners staged a stunning comeback. Substitute Peter Lovenkrands scored | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
twice. The second deep into stoppage time and amazingly the ten men had | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
earned an extra half an hour. Once more Stoke gained the upper hand. | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Kenwyne Jones with their fourth. But sloppy defending allowed Olly Lee to | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
score his first goal for Blues and take the tie to a penalty shoot`out. | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
There was to be far less drama here as Birmingham missed their first two | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
and Stoke ruthlessly took advantage. But while their players celebrated | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
with the fans it was the Birmingham supporters who seemed to have taken | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
even greater heart. Unbelievable. To come back from that scoreline, with | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
ten men, says an awful lot for the team spirit. I thought they were | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
outstanding. You couldn't have asked for anything else really. I just | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
wished we could have been in the next round to thank the fans and | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
also let the players have some report ` reward. I'm so proud of | :18:47. | :18:56. | |
them. We made a dog 's dinner of it to be perfectly honest. They | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
switched off. Stoke City will learn their quarterfinal opponents when | :19:05. | :19:13. | |
the draw is made this evening. Best Selling Author and Birmingham | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
resident RJ Ellory, says that the people of the city have forgotten | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
its history. The crime writer is presenting his arguments at one of | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
the CityTalks Public Lectures being hosted by Birmingham City University | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
tomorrow evening. Birmingham, the UK's second city, | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
home to diverse communities and the youngest population in Europe. But | :19:33. | :19:41. | |
what do we know about its history? I know more about the Black Country | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
than Birmingham. Leaders of industry helped to promote the industrial | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
revolution. I'm sorry but we can't be much up to you. We come from | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
Dorset. Now Birmingham author RJ Ellory is on a mission to remind us | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
all about our heritage. I meet him on Vincent driveby the Birmingham | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
University Station. Here we are at the original footprint of the Roman | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
fort built on the seventh century which established the first | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
residence in this part of the country. So why are you on this | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
personal mission to educate at the moment? Birmingham is a hugely | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
undervalued, hugely under recognised and hugely underappreciated city. | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
Fed up of people viewing the city as a dark, drab place, Roger has | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
reseacrhed the orgins of Birmingham. In the 12th century it became a | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
market town. Its founders remembered inside St Martin's at the Bullring. | :20:33. | :20:42. | |
We have here teams ` tombs of the original family which established | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
Birmingham. They were the people who obtained the Royal Charter that | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
enabled a market to be opened here in the first place. And not many | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
people know about them. Even people who have lived here all of their | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
lives. And so for those who live here, a reminder to sing the city's | :20:58. | :21:10. | |
praises. From it's musical pioneers, Black Sabbath, Duran Duran and ELO | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
to industrial pioneers like Boulton Whatt and Murdoch. RJ Elloree wants | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
all of us to stand proud. It was here that the Spitfire was built. | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
Had we not had the Spitfire, it raises the question, would we have | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
won the Battle of Britain? Would we now have the nation that we have? It | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
is a reminder that should never be forgotten of how much we, as | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
Birmingham citizens, have contributed to culture, industry, | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
the arts all over the world. From the old to the new. He once all of | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
us to celebrate Birmingham 's rich heritage. | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
Of course Birmingham's rich heritage also includes the history of the | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
motor car. By the late 1960s Longbridge was the largest car plant | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
in the world and employed around 250,000 workers. But in 2005 the MG | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
Rover Car plant closed. Now though the area is being given a boost with | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
some public art. So what's happening? | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
Well, tonight here at Bournville College there's a taster of whats to | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
come over the next 12 months in Longbridge. A new annual festival of | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
lights inspired by the Fete des Lumieres from Birmingham's sister | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
city Lyon, as well as pieces of public art made by atrisst alogn wth | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
residents here are some of the highlights that feature in this nwe | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
Public Art Strategy for the area. Let's speak now to the lady leading | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
the project. Why do this? Bournville College has an important milestone | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
coming up with their centenary. They asked me to develop a strategy to | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
further support the community and the regeneration of Longbridge. How | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
will it work? Imminently, we will have nine artists in residence that | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
will be spread across Longbridge and they will simply have conversations | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
with people here. They will be inspired by the historical context | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
and hopefully that will inform their concept development for public art. | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
It doesn't sound very interesting. Let me turn to the leader Birmingham | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
City Council, Sir Albert Bore. To what extent can public art | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
regenerate an area? Public art doesn't in itself regenerate an | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
area. It brings life and character into an area which is being | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
regenerated. Public Art of this quality, I think, is essential, to | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
help bring the area alive and make it somewhere that people want to be. | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
This project will cost ?400,000. Bournville College and arts Council | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
West Midlands have funded it. To what extent can public art play a | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
role in regeneration? Without vibrancy and public art, without | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
culture, the city is not alive. This all kicks off next year with a | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
festival for the community. It will bring brightness to an area which | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
has seen some dark days. We are struggling on that front | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
because we have come to the part of the week where we are moving from | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
November... From October to November. It will bring showers and | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
any dry periods will be brief indeed. Once again, the winds are | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
also going to be strengthening as we head into the weekend. That does not | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
bode very well for Halloween or those bonfires. At the moment, | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
fortnight as tomorrow, we have these two fronts which are passing | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
through. After that, the remainder of the week is driven by low | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
pressure pushing in from the West. We have two areas this time that | :24:29. | :24:37. | |
pushing in but it will not bring storms. Nevertheless, there will be | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
gusty winds and heavy rain showers. As for this evening, right now, we | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
have light rain crossing the region. It will move away to the south`east, | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
leaving or parts dried, clear and quite cold. Particularly so for | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
rural areas. Elsewhere, temperatures will be at around six to nine | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
Celsius. Some fairly widespread mist and fog patches developing through | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
low`lying areas. Once that disburses, it will shift eastwards | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
and we could see a spot of sunshine first thing. More cloud is going to | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
gradually piling during the course of the day. It will bring a band of | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
rain to all parts. Some of that could be heavy. Most of it is going | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
to be light. Temperatures although the degree also lower than today, | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
the wind will also be slightly stronger from that south`westerly | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
direction. Overall, it would be quite cool. The rain will still | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
linger into the night tomorrow. It will eventually clear up and then we | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
will see more piling from the West. With all that cloud, it will not be | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
quite as cold as tonight. We will not see any frost. As I said, as we | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
head into Friday itself, we've got rain and more rain and showers over | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
the weekend. Tonight's headlines from the BBC: | :26:01. | :26:09. | |
The prosecution opens its case in the phone hacking trial and says | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
former News of the World bosses knew what was going on. On the run, | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
convicted murderer Alan John Giles escapes from Hewell prison, police | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
appeal to hand himself in. That was the Midlands Today. I'll be | :26:20. | :26:39. | |
Everyday normal things that everybody does is where I use my energy. | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
I haven't got an extravagant lifestyle, | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
I've not got a hot tub outside or something like that. | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
In essence, it is a choice between heating or eating. | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
We will still eat and we will still have heating | :26:53. | :26:56. |