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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: Rated | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
inadequate for four years. Now a pledge from Birmingham City | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Council to transform Children's Services. We still has some urgent | :00:10. | :00:20. | |
issues. That is why this review is clear. We need to continue to focus | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
on the safety of children. But we hear from one social worker who tell | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
us morale is at rock bottom. Also tonight. | :00:30. | :00:30. | |
Tackling extremists: a government minister in talks at a city mosque. | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
This was actions were taken forward to prevent terrorism and to ensure | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
that mosques and other fave institutions have that sense of | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
security. 20,000 jobs in the offing as | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
development plans get the go`ahead in Coventry, Warwickshire and the | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
Black Country. Football as you've never seen it | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
before: no running ` it's walking pace for the over 55s. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
And it's been calm up until now but that's all changing over the weekend | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
` in fact, even sooner then that. Hear all about it in the forecast | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
later. Good evening. There's a new plan | :01:04. | :01:16. | |
tonight to transform Birmingham's much criticised Children's Services | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
and better protect youngsters at risk. A series of child deaths and | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
damning reports have seen the department labelled a failure and | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
placed in "special measures" by the Government. The council says it's | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
going to spend more money filling vacancies among social workers and | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
improving the way it works with others safeguarding children. But, | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
in a rare interview, a front line child protection officer's told us | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
the service is in a mess and change can't come quickly enough. Giles | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
Latcham reports. Short lives, long term failure. | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Birmingham's children services have been rated inadequate for years ` | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
the deaths of vulnerable children stand sad testament to a city's | :01:54. | :02:03. | |
shame. For three`and`a`half years James has pounded the inner city | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
beat trying to protect the young and at risk, waving goodbye to | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
colleagues who've had enough. I think we are half staffed at the | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
moment. It varies from team to team. Some team, one team is only fully | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
staffed. I know other parts whether four staff. There are huge vacancy | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
rates. It is very difficult. It may get worse. And for Children's | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
Services as a whole it's been a bruising few months. In October a | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
damning report identified a "significant" number of chances | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
missed to prevent the death of two`year`old Keanu Williams, beaten | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
to death by his mother ` Birmingham's latest failure to | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
protect a vulnerable child. Later that month the head of the education | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
watchdog Ofsted, Sir Michael Wilshaw, branded Birmingham's | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
Children Services a "national disgrace". In November the | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
Children's Minister, Edward Timpson, wrote to the council's leader saying | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
he'd ordered an independent review of the council's plans to improve | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
Children's Services. The council's new plan promises an extra ?10 | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
million to recruit and retain experienced social workers and | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
closer co`operation with health professionals, teachers and the | :03:12. | :03:22. | |
voluntary sector. You can see that children cannot be guaranteed their | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
safety in this city. We set have some certain issues. That is why | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
this review is very clear. We need to continue to focus on the safety | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
of children and this is part of how other people in the future go about | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
it. For some on the front line though this is the fourth or fifth | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
attempt they've seen to overhaul the service. The staff are tired and | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
fatigued. We are now very jaded. James chooses to stay and accepts | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
there is no quick fix. Nor though is there any more room for failure. | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
Earlier I spoke to Councillor Brigid Jones, the councillor responsible | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
for children's care and family services in Birmingham. I started by | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
asking her Why should we believe this latest relaunch of children's | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
services will work? There are three key things at a difference. In the | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
past we have underfunded children's services in the city. What we are | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
proposing is a budding sustained an extra investment to bring up to the | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
level it should be. In the past we have done things on our own. We have | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
not bought our partners along with those. What's different is we are | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
going to have our partners rivers around the table making things | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
better. The third thing is that historically we have done things on | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
short`term plans. We have leapt from short`term plans to restructure, new | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
leader to new leader. What we are doing now is looking for stability. | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
We will stabilise things so we can have sustained improvement going | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
forward, looking into the future. You talked about stabilising. There | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
is one team appeared about which should have 24 people in there, but | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
there are only four. How can that be? We are very short staffed at the | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
moment. That is rooted problem. Until you get more great social | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
workers into Birmingham it'll be hard to get improvement going. The | :05:27. | :05:36. | |
view we have, the is high. `` view. How you get people in? We are | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
working to change our reputation. We have had the reputation for a long | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
time. That has not been held by the national coverage we have had, some | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
the Commons have been put out there. We want people to realise our | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
Birmingham is changing. We are looking to the future. Burnham | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
should be a place to have on your CV. We are the biggest place in the | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
country `` Birmingham. There are challenges here which you won't find | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
anywhere else. You can develop your career here. We have been in a bad | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
place a long time, but that is changing. We want people about their | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
attitude to improve, and who want to make a difference. | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
Coming up later in the programme: We're in Redditch where campaigners | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
are fighting to protect front line services at the town's hospital. | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
A 33`year`old man from Dudley's being questioned by police this | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
evening on suspicion of terrorism offences. The West Midlands Counter | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Terrorism Unit arrested him at his home this morning on suspicion of | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
distributing an ideological publication. The arrest came as the | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Government's Security Minister visited a Birmingham mosque for | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
talks on tackling extremism. Here's our special correspondent Peter | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Wilson. A meeting about tackling extremism. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
But this was a collection of all the faiths, held in a mosque, but | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
attended by a bishop and a Rabbi. This was about the freedom to | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
practise ones faith without fear. The me, it was good to learn about | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
Muslim fears for their security, because we in the Jewish community | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
are warned. The community building on peace, and we condemn violence of | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
all kinds. This summer tested that unity to breaking point but, | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
Birmingham's togetherness held. One man, 82``year`old Mohammed Saleem | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
was stabbed killed simply because he was a muslim. The murderer ukrainian | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
student Pavlo Lapshyn also planted three bombs outside mosques to | :07:47. | :07:58. | |
spread hate and fear. I was very struck by that strong sense of | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
community, and how by continuing to maintain that, we can be that much | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
stronger in confronting those who would seek to divide and how we | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
stand together in confronting those who might seek to use extremism in | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
that way. The government says the biggest security, some Al`Qaeda | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
style groups. Many other communities who gathered in Birmingham today say | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
that what concerns them is extremism from the far right. It is not just | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
Al`Qaeda inspired which takes at the time of us. We are also doing work | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
around the extreme right wing, around extreme rights and | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
environmental rights. We have a broad sphere of work, but not all of | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
it is Al`Qaeda. The biggest of the nail bombs was planted at the Tipton | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
Mosque. No one died due to a delay in prayer times but the explosion | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
continues to reverberate. The community itself is more vigilant | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
since then. Initially, the mosque was opened doors, and people coming | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
when they wanted. Now we have to be a bit more vigilant, and the | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
community itself is vigilant. Todays meeting was held in a Mosque which | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
once had been a piano making factory. It is a place of prayer, | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
charity and hope for the future. The mosque plays a particular role, | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
which is to enforce ideas of citizenship and belonging, and | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
letting people feel they are part of the fabric of British society. Those | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
things which we tried to reaffirm and address whether we are. There | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
were discussion about what can be done to deal with those who preach | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
hate but today was about those who preach faith unity. | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
Two out of three Midlands Air Ambulance helicopters remain | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
grounded this evening over safety concerns. It follows a fault that | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
was discovered yesterday on an EC`135 helicopter operated by Bond | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Air Services for the North West Air Ambulance. It's the same model which | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
crashed onto a bar in Glasgow, killing nine people. | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
New forensic tests could provide a breakthrough in the 22`year | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
investigation into the disappearance of Nicola Payne. The young mother, | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
who was 18, was last seen in the Henley Green area of Coventry in | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
December 1991. A number of items recovered during the police inquiry | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
have been sent for up to date forensic testing. Her parents, John | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
and Marilyn Payne, said they were waiting for test results and hoping | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
for closure at last. A ?48 million biomass plant which | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
will use waste wood to generate electricity is to be built in | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
Birmingham. It's the first of its kind in the UK and it'll be able to | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
power 17,000 homes a year. The project ` in Tyseley ` will create a | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
100 construction jobs and is due to be completed in 2016. | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
Plans to deliver more than 20,000 jobs in the West Midlands over the | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
next decade have won approval today from Government ministers. In | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
Coventry and Warwickshire, an investment of ?90m is expected to | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
create more than 15,000 new jobs by 2025. Nearly 9,000 of them will be | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
in the advanced manufacturing and engineering sector. And in the Black | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Country, more than 5,000 jobs and 1,500 apprenticeships could be | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
created over the next four years, as private investment worth ?130m is | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
pumped into Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley and Sandwell. The two schemes | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
have received the green light under the City Deal programme ` where | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
councils and business leaders are given more control over how money is | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
spent locally. From Coventry, here's Kevin Reide. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
In spite of the gloomy skies there was an air of optimism in Coventry | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
and Warwickshire today as the government announced the area was to | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
get a so called City Deal. It'll give the local authority and local | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
enterprise panel more powers to create jobs. We have to see this as | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
a first step. This is as showing governments that if they give us | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
more power, more Cash, we will spend it more effectively and we would get | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
better things for the region. Here in Coventry their user money to set | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
a clear house. It'll be a fast tracking centre the companies who | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
want to expand. One such company is Penso, who carry out specialist | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
design and manufacture for the likes of Jaguar, Land Rover and Mercedees. | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
They're quickly outgrowing their space in Coventry and plan to double | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
their size by building a new factory right next to their existing one. | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
Instead of having a number of organisations go to, and I think | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
there were over a hundred organisations we needed to approach | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
your help, now we can go to one port or they will help us finance, it | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
will help us with grants, it will help us are planning, and also | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
developing our skills for. That is brilliant. The City Deal replaces | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
the work done by the now disbanded Advantage West Midlands, and as for | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
how may jobs will be created forecasts vary, but the Prime | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
Minister said on local radio today it would be more than 10,000. | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
Today's announcement is not a complete rose garden though. We hope | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
to see extra jobs by 2025, and support growth in engineering. The | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
audit commission said other city deals had not yet demonstrated that | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
they can deliver value for money. Kevin Reide, BBC Midlands Today, | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
Coventry. Joining me now is the chairman of | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
the Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership, Stewart Towe. Nearly | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
6,000 new jobs and 1500 apprenticeships. How important is | :13:50. | :13:59. | |
this to the Black Country? This is fantastic news. We have some the | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
world players in automotive and airspace. What you really need to do | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
now is to make sure we have got those other sites, and those skills | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
available to attract supply chain in, so we can both encourage our | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
existing companies to grow, and also attract inward investment, so we are | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
making the most of those skills which are there in the Black | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
Country. Your proposal also includes support for 2,800 long term | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
unemployed. How tough is it to find work in the Black Country? It is a | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
big problem. To get our young people to understand that careers in | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
engineering are good opportunities, those tenants are there. They are | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
showing growth in all they are doing. We now have a supply chain | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
looking behind them are businesses who want to be part of that advanced | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
manufacturing in our area. We need both young people and the long`term | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
unemployed to understand that these opportunities for them, as well for | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
other people already qualified. What about the here and now? Many those | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
anchor tenants are a long way through their plan but the engine | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
plans. Those are needed built, those jobs are nearly there. We need to | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
make sure that Brownfield sites are available for the supply chain into | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
those, to make sure that when the keys are in place, we can make sure | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
the maximum opportunities are available to the people in the Black | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
Country. Does this mean the local enterprise partnerships are working? | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
It means we know what those issues are, locally. It means that the | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
partnership between the public and private sector is really important, | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
in terms of taking forward the opportunity for the people and the | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
jobs in the Black Country. Thank you. | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
Part of Birmingham City centre is being re`named the 'Social | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
Enterprise Quarter' to promote companies that use their profits to | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
help society. National examples include The Big Issue magazine, the | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Eden Project in Cornwall and Jamie Oliver's restaurant Fifteen, and | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
it's thought there are 300 social enterprises in Birmingham. Our | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
business correspondent Peter Plisner reports. | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
Making his daily bread. Albert Smith used to be a nurse. That was until | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
he decided to start a social enterprise bakery. For him a | :16:19. | :16:28. | |
liberating experience. I think I can make my own decisions. I am able to | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
create things that in my previous occupation I couldn't. I network and | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
I determine how much how little I pay. And Albert was there today at a | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
special market to launch Birmingham's new Social Enterprise | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
Quarter. So too was council leader Sir Albert Bore whose a big fan of | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
the concept. Every can cluster them, then it will attract others, and a | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
major scare that encouragement to individuals who are thought about | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
setting up a small business, but not done so. The brianchild of Sarah | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
Crawley the head of the Digbeth based Initiative for Social | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
Entrprenuers, the aim now is to increase the number of new firms. | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
What we expect will happen is they will do a lot of inter`trading, they | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
will work together and improve their businesses in terms of the | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
activities they do. It will improve the numbers are people they employ, | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
but also their contribution to the economy of Birmingham. This is a | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
custom factory in the centre of Birmingham. There are 30 different | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
firms operating from these buildings. One of them is SHELANU, a | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
women's craft collective making specialist cards and jewelery. It | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
has a very deep social purpose, which is why it is a sort of | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
enterprise, because it is there, providing a sense of belonging for | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
women in the city, and providing a kind of service for women. Once | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
described as the city of a thousand trades. If more social enterprises | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
are set up, then Birmingham might get the title back. Peter Plisner, | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
BBC Midlands Today in Digbeth. This is our top story tonight: Rated | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
inadequate for four years, now a pledge from Birmingham City Council | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
to transform children's services. Your detailed weather forecast to | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
come shortly from Shefali. Also in tonight's programme. | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
Forget fast and furious football: how about the more genteel version, | :18:28. | :18:38. | |
walk football for the over 55s? Lit by 20,000 lives, a winter | :18:39. | :18:49. | |
wonderland. Join me shortly. Campaigners fighting to protect | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
services at their local hospital are staging a candle`lit vigil tonight. | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
A and maternity services at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch could | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
be moved to hospitals in Worcester or Birmingham as part of a ?50m | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
savings plan. Ben Sidwell is in Redditch tonight. Ben, what's the | :19:04. | :19:12. | |
mood at the vigil? There is a small but cheerful group behind me. They | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
are pretty determined. Eight years ago to the day they were here, | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
fighting exactly the same cause. That tiny one, this time they're | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
fighting the battle again. Let's talk to the chairman. Neil, you are | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
fighting to save services? We are beamed at the two years. Basically, | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
we are appealing for the NHS to maintain accessible services with | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
the capacity to cope the people in Redditch. You get out there as a | :19:44. | :19:52. | |
group. Our leaders appointed by the numbers here? Would you expect more? | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
It is a cold December evening. We have a 55,000 strong petition. | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
People do what they can, and we just hope the NHS are listening to the | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
thousands of people they spoke to. B to the town's MP. They are talking | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
about this today. What would your message be? We do need sustainable | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
services here. It is crucial that this hospital is remains open. I was | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
assured as possible will remain open. I want to see the services of | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
this hospital open. We will carry on campaigning until that happens. The | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
guys are going to stay here with the candles. They're been here since | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
four o'clock. They will stay here till about seven tonight. The result | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
could be out sometime in early January. They should know early next | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
month. Back to you. Thank you. Think football and it probably | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
conjures up images like this ` the high`octane, lightning quick action | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
on show when teams such as West Brom and Aston Villa collide in the | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
Premier League. But, in Shropshire today, a footballer's life was a | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
touch more genteel. In fact, everything was done at walking pace. | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
Here's Laura May McMullan. It's still the beautiful game. It's | :21:18. | :21:27. | |
just played at a slower pace. Anyone runs and it's a foul. Walking | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
football was set up in Shrewsbury back in September. It's one of three | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
groups across the county set up to improve the health of older men. | :21:38. | :21:49. | |
Even if you're unfit, don't think you can't do this, because it is | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
walking. It's got tremendous benefits. The sessions are aimed at | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
men aged 55 and over. Robert Formby is the oldest member at 76. I've had | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
my knees done twice but this is great and it keeps me healthy. White | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
alike? For the exercise. It is good fun. I must have said a dozen times, | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
referee, he is running. It is hard to work out whether you're running | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
all you are a fast walker. Health experts say not enough people are | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
exercising. Only a third of adults in England do the recommended 2.5 | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
hours a week of moderate exercise. But making a switch in your late | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
40's or 50's can be a benefit. It's about changing people's perceptions | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
and we're finding it's hard to get older men doing exercising The | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
sessions take place every Thursday morning at the Monkmoor recreation | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
ground and more new members are joining every week. New Age UK says | :22:52. | :23:07. | |
a healthy heart is a healthy head. Members are joining every week. | :23:08. | :23:16. | |
For the last nine years, Dave Edwards and his family have | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
brightened up Christmas in their neighbourhood with a vast array of | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
festive lights. And this year, Dave has decked out his home with a | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
staggering 20,000 LED lights to raise cash for a Birmingham hospice. | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
Lindsay Doyle is there now. It looks spectacular? It is incredible. | :23:34. | :23:43. | |
20,000 lives. We have Christmas trees, we have Father Christmas and | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
reindeers. It is incredible. The men behind it is Dave Edwards. Dave, | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
you're been doing this for a number of years? I've been doing this since | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
I was five years old. I'm 22 now. White Highlanders take to you to put | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
them up? It is about 14 hours a day. What is your lectures the belike? It | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
is 90% more efficient than it was before. We hardly even noticed it. | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
It is all the charity? Yes. We tried to raise for local charity. Caters | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
with me now. You must be delighted they do for you? It is fantastic. | :24:31. | :24:40. | |
Dave has already raised ?250 for the hospice, and we would love to travel | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
it, because that put a carer by the bed for at least a week. Come and be | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
inspired by these lights. These are wonderful, Ashley when the ball. You | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
don't know they're here and be inspired by these lights. These are | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
wonderful, Ashley when the ball. You don't know they're here until you | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
can. I was astonished when I saw it. It is fantastic. There is a | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
donations box, if you want to come along, take a look at this | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
spectacular display, and donate if you're able to. Back to you. | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
Time for the weather, and it's been quite mild today, hasn't it? Will it | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
go on, Shefali? Anything the only thing that inspired it is it turning | :25:26. | :25:42. | |
wintry. Rain is coming. You can see that there is increasing pressure | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
around that, which indicates the winds are increasing as we head into | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
the weekend. We get the ball rolling this evening and overnight. The rain | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
is already starting to sweep up on the south`west. It is very | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
fragmented, but there will be some dark centres, indicating where the | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
heaviest outbreaks will be. This will ease in the early hours. In | :26:02. | :26:12. | |
some places there are loads of nine to 10 Celsius. `` Loews. For a brief | :26:13. | :26:22. | |
time tomorrow morning, it is looking very dry, quite quiet, then it is | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
not long before the next band of rain comes. This one could be a bit | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
heavier, more active. You can see a lot of dark colours there. It would | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
be quite torrential, and possibly contain thunder. It won't last for | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
too long. Later on in the afternoon, it will get dryer, but it is milder | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
than today, with highs of 11 degrees. As rain rattled through, it | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
will turn a bit breezy. This is what is going on over the weekend. We | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
have two more bands of rain coming through, but because of the timing | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
of those, one is Saturday and the other is Sunday into Monday. It | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
deals still going to be mild, although it will be quite windy. | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
This is what the weekend is looking at. Highs of nine to 11 Celsius. | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
at. Highs of nine to Tonight's headlines from the BBC. 22 | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
air ambulance and police helicopters are grounded after a fault is | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
discovered. And rated inadequate for four years, | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
now there's a pledge from Birmingham City Council to transform children's | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
services. That was the Midlands Today. I'll be | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
back at ten o'clock with more on the ?48 million biomass plant planned | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
for Birmingham which will be able to power 17,000 homes a year. Have a | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
great evening. | :27:43. | :27:46. |