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industry. We are back | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Good evening. West Bromwich Albion say their striker Nicolas Anelka | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
will continue to play for the club despite his controversial goal | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
celebration on Saturday. Jewish groups around the world say they've | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
been offended by his gesture which they liken to a Nazi salute. But | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Anelka continues to defend his actions. | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
Disgusting. Just one headline from many in the national newspapers. | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
West Bromwich Albion striker Nicolas Anelka is headline news. It's not | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
his football but his goal celebration. It's called the | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
quenelle and is the trademark of the controversial comedian Dieudonne. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
Many consider it an inverted Nazi salute and jewish groups around the | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
world say they've been offended. Anything which is associated with | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
the Nazi party is something which he ought to know would have probably | :01:02. | :01:15. | |
put him in a concentration camp 70 years ago, rather than on a football | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
field and Anelka made the gesture after scoring at West Ham on | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Saturday. That is the lesson he needs to learn. Perhaps we all need | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
to learn that from this Last night defending himself on a social | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
networking site. Incident as well. He wrote, I am not anti`semitic or | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
racist and I totally stand by my gesture. In a statement, he | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
continues to strongly deny any intention to cause offence. The club | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
say he will be available to play in the next few games. But there is no | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
sense of any apology. The club held a pre`match press conference today | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
but Anelka's gesture dominated despite the press officer's requests | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
to stick to the football. The club says it acknowledges it has been | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
absurd but it does and says `` say he says sorry. Can we move it on, | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
thank you? Nicholas is training as normal. He's been out there today, | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
training like you did last week. The football Association are continuing | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
their investigations but he could still face Newcastle united on New | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
Year's Day. One of the country's biggest plant | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
nurseries is calling for tighter controls on tree imports to combat | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
disease. Hundreds of thousands of saplings have been destroyed in the | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
Midlands this year, due to ash dieback. | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
The dead of winter. The aftermath of a deadly disease is evident. More | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
than 300 larch trees have been filed. The airborne disease was | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
found here in September. It is the furthest east it has spread to land | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
there is no guarantee it has been eradicated. When the Forestry | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Commission comeback in the spring, we might find it has moved on from | :02:53. | :03:03. | |
this patch. It may have moved to the other trees within the site. 62 | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
acres of bilberry have also been affected and precautionary member `` | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
measures are being taken. We could have a similar problem at Sutton | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
Park. What we have done is identified that there is a threat. | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
The Rangers there are all organising the rhododendrons being removed. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
That is the most likely hosts the cheese. `` host species. Ash dieback | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
has also been a headache. This forest nurseries near Shropshire is | :03:39. | :03:49. | |
the biggest in the country. It has had to destroy 800,000 ash saplings. | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
The nursery's owner says a tighter control on imported trees is needed | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
to disease spreading. We should be introducing what the Australians do | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
and putting in warranties. You cannot tell by looking at the tree | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
whether or not it is hosting a disease because you may not see the | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
symptoms. In the soil, it's hard to detect. Inspection does not work. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
The nursery is playing its own part in trying to combat disease by | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
establishing this orchard. The trees have been grafted with different | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
genetic characteristics. Scientists hope at least one will prove | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
resistant to Ash dieback. If these infections are not overcome, parts | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
of our landscape may look very different in years to come. | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
The man who was found dead at a house in Staffordshire at the | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
weekend has been named as 44`year`old Anthony Hughes. Police | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
were called to the house in Newcastle`under`Lyme on Saturday | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
night. Mr Hughes, died from head and facial injuries. Two men have been | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
charged with murder and were remanded in custody till later this | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
month. Three other men have been bailed pending further inquiries. | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
A university's becoming a world leader in developing diamond | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
technology. The University of Warwick has been awarded more than | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
?7 million to work with synthetic diamonds. The technology's already | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
in use in manufacturing. Scientists believe it could also be used in | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
treating cancers. Picture a diamond and many of us | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
will have this image. The classic sparkler. But think again. Here's | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
another physicist by the name of Newton. And he's about to give us a | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
sneak peak of something just as precious. You think of the silicon | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
chip. 50 years ago, people were developing silicon to be used with | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
electronic devices. We are now developing diamonds to deliver new | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
technologies, new capabilities. The University of Warwick is growing | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
synthetic diamonds not for shops, not for your finger. They're leading | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
the UK's research into diamond technology. Here is a piece of | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
synthetic diamond and here is a block of ice. Watch this because as | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
I pushed down not very hard at all, the heat is transmitting through my | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
fingers and literally carving the ice easily. Its thermal conductivity | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
is five times better than copper. Diamonds get used in everything from | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
drill bits to quantum computers, hip joints and optical windows. | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
Obviously, it's important to understand that characteristics of | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
the material. So these odd looking diamonds are grown in the lab and | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
have essentially the same chemical composition as mined natural | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
diamonds. It's hoped that by identifying the smallest of | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
molecular defects, they can apply it to all sorts of things, even | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
medicine. You have the ability not just to measure the temperature of a | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
patient but in principle, you can measure the temperature of a patient | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
but in principle, you can measure the temperatures of individual cells | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
and then decide which is a cancerous cell and then heated up to kill it. | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
This research will allow the university to recruit 60 new PhD | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
students, who'll share their findings with other UK universities. | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
So this isn't about the bling, synthetic diamonds are fast becoming | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
science's best friend. There've been howling winds and | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
lashing rain across the region today. In Kingstanding in Birmingham | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
this morning, a large tree was blown down, narrowly missing a house. | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
Firemen had to cut a route into the house, so that the three people | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
inside could be checked over by ambulance staff. No`one was injured. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
So is there more stormy weather to come as we head for 2014? Here's | :07:19. | :07:19. | |
Shefali to tell us. Unfortunately yes. There are | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
currently numerous flood alerts in force but only one flood warning for | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
the river Severn at Tewkesbury. But of course with the ground so | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
saturated, it's not the best of situations to be in with the sort of | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
forecast we're looking at for the coming week The pattern unfolding | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
this week is one of rain. Heavy at times followed by heavy blustery | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
showers but for the time being at least it is dry out there and quite | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
calm with the skies clearing enough for a touch of frost in rural parts | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
initially before the cloud thickens up from the West later in the night. | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
It is looking quite wet for the morning. A narrow band of rain | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
spread secretly eastwards and that will leave us with much drier | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
conditions by the afternoon. Maybe even some sunshine. Again, quite | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
mild with highs of nine to 10 Celsius with moderate south`westerly | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
winds. As we welcome in the New Year tomorrow night, I'm afraid we have a | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
rash of lively showers developing. It could just start to quieten down | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
by about midnight but for New Year's Day, I'm afraid it is looking very | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
wet and quite windy. Showers by Thursday. | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
I will be back with our latest news just after 10:15pm. Goodbye. | :08:24. | :08:38. | |
Another day off strong winds, heavy rain and flooding. At least things | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
are quiet at the moment. The rain has cleared off and the wind is | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
lighter. There might be some ice in Scotland, but through the night the | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
wind picks up, lifting temperatures, but more heavy rain pushing in. The | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
rain band is not quite a significant us today, but it will leave surface | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
water flooding. Some heavy bursts clearing Northern Ireland by first | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
light. It reaches the east coast by the time we get to lunchtime, after | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
a few morning showers. The wind is falling lighter, easing down from | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
the gusty nature. A bit of sunshine through the afternoon. The | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
temperature is a bit higher than they should be at this stage of the | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
year. Some showers to finish the day in the West. They will push East on | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
a blustery wind. Some of you will end the year on a dry note. The | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
greatest chance of | :09:41. | :09:41. |