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from the BBC News at Six. So it's goodbye from me. On BBC One we now | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
join the BBC's news Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
The headlines tonight: Unpalatable and unacceptable says the leader of | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Wolverhampton Council, as cuts of ?123 million are confirmed over the | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
next five years. Look before you cut. You may be doing people who are | :00:23. | :00:32. | |
desperately in need and injustice. We'll be asking the where those cuts | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
will come and talk live to the city's only Conservative MP. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Also tonight: Get to emergencies quicker or risk being fined ?3 | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
million. The stark warning to West Midlands Ambulance Service. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Stoke's rising obesity problem, what the city is doing to help the one in | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
three who are putting their lives at risk. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
We meet the talented young musician and athlete who's setting her sights | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
on the Commonwealth Games. She also has a bobsleigh silver medal! I am | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
still only 19. I've hopefully got a long career ahead of me. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
And if recent weather patterns are anything to go by, it's never stays | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
calm for long. After a day of rest, get ready for a night of rain. | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
Good evening. In the last hour, senior councillors have approved a | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
fresh round of multi`million pound budget cuts. The decision to cut | :01:26. | :01:35. | |
?123 million over five years from Wolverhampton Council's budget was | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
described by its leader as unpalatable and unacceptable. In a | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
moment I'll be talking to a senior Labour councillor in Wolverhampton, | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
and also the city's only Conservative MP, but first Sarah | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
Falkland's been gauging opinion in the city. | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
They want to cut, cut, cut. It's just disgusting really. Why? Why | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
have you got to cut everything? There's anger on the streets of | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
Whitmore Reans in Wolverhampton. Council cuts of ?123 million are on | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
their way. Unemployment here is more than double the national average and | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
over 10% of households are single parents. Peter Walker is one of | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
them. He says the cuts have gone too far. We all need a bit of help at | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
this moment. It's a bit too much, especially because no 1's got any | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
work. If we had work, it wouldn't be so bad. Sandra Grimme uses the | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
library for CDs books and twice. Under the current proposals library | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
opening hours be reduced from over 50 hours a week to just 15. What | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
they think and what is put in practice are two different things. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
You cannot cut people down that have been used to access to things and | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
say you can only have so many hours a week. Over at the Lighthouse | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
Centre, they've learnt to cope with cuts. A vinyl night is one of the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
many diverse attractions here apart from the draw of the cinemas. | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
They've had to be proactive specially as the council's | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
withdrawing half their grant and could now shut them out all | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
together. We have been working from hand to mouth in terms of budget | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
cuts and building our audiences to fill that gap. We just don't know | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
until we are told formally and it is a worry. Pensioners Ezra and Sylvia | :03:17. | :03:26. | |
Ricketts are beginning to wonder what they're getting for their | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
council tax. Only facilities we get our dump bins being emptied. They | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
say they might struggle to do that. Well... What do they do with the | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
money they are getting? The council would say that is the problem. The | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
government is not giving them enough. | :03:52. | :03:52. | |
Live now to Wolverhampton, and Councillor Andrew Johnson. Good | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
evening. How are you going to save this money? Well, we've taken a very | :03:59. | :04:09. | |
difficult decision tonight, to make even more cuts over and above those | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
that we have already been forced to make, because of the incredible | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
reduction in our government grant. Basically, we've lost over half of | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
the ground that the government gives us for council services between 2010 | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
and 2015, 2016. That is a huge cut. It means we will have to take out | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
?123 million over the next five years out of the budget, which is | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
virtually impossible. Virtually impossible but you have to do it so | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
what effect will this have on the people of Wolverhampton and the city | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
itself? It is already having a dire effect. It is not something that we | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
want to do. I can completely empathise with the frustration of | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
the people you have interviewed today about the cutbacks. We have | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
already had announcements about libraries, much shorter hours, but | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
it will affect every part of the council's service. We simply cannot | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
make cuts of this magnitude without having service reductions which will | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
impact on the public. Will anything be protected? Well, we will | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
obviously protect statutory services we have to provide. For example, we | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
spend a great deal of money looking after children as is absolutely | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
necessary and morally right. We will protect those elements of the | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
service. But basically, in order to make cuts of this magnitude, every | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
part of what the council does will be affected. Do you accept that one | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
politician's cuts is one politician's savings. Cuts are being | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
made right across the country, not just at Wolverhampton City Council. | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
Yes but Wolverhampton City Council has faced worse cuts than many other | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
councils that serve far wealthier areas of the country. Also, the | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
local government sector has faced bigger cuts than any other | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
government department. This is really unfair on the people we | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
represent. Thank you. Wolverhampton South West MP is our `` at our | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Westminster studio now. Picking up on that last point, this is really | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
unfair on Wolverhampton. As in everything in life, there are two | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
sides to the story. Councillor Johnson there was talking about | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
expenditure and how it is the fault of central government. But if you | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
look at Wolverhampton council's own figures, their current day`to`day | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
spending is about ?250 million and what they are projecting to spend | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
over the next five to six years is ?312 million. That is an increase of | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
25%. The reason these figures look so bad is because no other | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
government department and no other body that I'm aware of is looking to | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
increase spending over the next five to six years. If anything, they are | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
just basically looking to stand still. That is what is making the | :07:11. | :07:23. | |
figures look so bad. You saying that councillors are crying wolf? ?123 | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
million over the next five years... They say that will have a real | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
impact on services, all but the essential services. You can present | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
the figures and the statistics in a certain way. It is important that | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
everybody who is watching this today and everybody who is a Wolverhampton | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
resident gets the full facts and a real sense of what figures are. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Talking about the residence, you will have heard one word which kept | :07:41. | :07:50. | |
coming up time and time again: Why? The simple fact I would put out | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
there, Mary, and it isn't often publicised. I'm sorry Councillor | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Johnson didn't refer to it. Wolverhampton City Council have | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
debts of over ?500 million. The interest on that debt is ?25 million | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
a year. That is the saving that the council are looking to make. What | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
makes it slightly worse than that, they are looking to borrow an | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
additional ?75 million this year. When you look at that debt | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
bombshell, for every household in Wolverhampton, that is a cost of | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
?5,000 around every household in the city. We are not just talking about | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Wolverhampton. There are cuts and savings which have to be made in | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
various areas in the West Midlands. ?840 million in Birmingham, ?109 | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
million in Staffordshire. What are you making sure to `` what are you | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
doing to make sure the West Midlands gets a fair deal? The prime Minster | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
came here a couple of months ago and spoke candidly about how we will | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
survive in the future. In the 21st century, it's not just government | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
that every household who is going to have to live within its means. The | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
reality is, we cannot shirk that responsibility. | :08:58. | :09:14. | |
Coming up later in the programme: One man's rubbish is another man's | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
treasure. An award for the recycling project raising funds for local | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
charities. West Midlands Ambulance Service is | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
at risk of being fined ?3 million for breach of contract because it's | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
arriving late to too`many emergency calls. Its Chief Executive, Anthony | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
Marsh, told staff a fine would take money away from front`line services, | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
affect the training of paramedics and the buying of new equipment. | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
This report from our Health Correspondent, contains flashing | :09:40. | :09:40. | |
images. There have been problems with | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
ambulance responses in rural areas for some time. The death of new born | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
Kate Stanton`Davies in Ludlow in 2009. Problems getting Thomas | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
Passant from Bridgnot to hospital in 2012. This Christmas day an | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
82`year`old waited four hours for an ambulance in Oswestry. Ray Salmon | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
who represents ambulance workers says its not their fault. The system | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
is simply under too much pressure. Everything contributes to demand on | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
the Ambulance Service. They are working as hard as they can. They | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
cannot do any more. It is a comeback... Taking this many of them | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
would be a disaster. It is so ridiculous. It's no laughing matter. | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
West Midlands Ambulance Service should reach 75% of Red one calls in | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
eight minutes. That's patients who cardiac arrest or stop breathing. In | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
the West Mercia area of Herefordshire, Shropshire and | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
Worcestershire, it reached 68% last year. But on bad days it was just | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
better than 50%. In Coventry and Warwickshire it was 73%. The trust | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
has nine minutes to reach Red two. That's all other life threatening | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
conditions, but in Birmingham just missed it last year at 74.5% and in | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
the Black Country it was around 73% last year. The chief executive told | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
staff in a weekly briefing that fines are a real risk. Nobody from | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
the service was able to go on camera. In a statement, the trust | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
said it hoped the commissioners would reinvest finds in the | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
Ambulance Service to ensure safe care for patients. But what simply, | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
the money back. One former ambulance boss has little sympathy. He says | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
the service isn't using its resources properly and needs to | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
restructure. The proper way to get a fast response is to look at your | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
history, look at where the calls come from, look at which our | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
life`threatening, look at how many ambulances you need to meet that | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
demand and then prioritise where you put the ambulances. West Midlands | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
Ambulance told staff that the fine would take money away from paramedic | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
training and new ambulances. And Michele joins me now. | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
How likely do you think this fine is? | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
It should happen. They are bound by contract law and I know some of the | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
commissioners are disgruntled but nobody today wanted to talk to me. I | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
suspect that they are embarrassed this has gone into the public | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
domain. They realise they cannot really enforce this fine. The | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
Ambulance Service said it needs an extra ?6 million. It wants ?2 | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
million for Shropshire. I suspect the modern `` money will recycle it. | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
Is it right that ambulance targets can result in a fine? | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
A lot of it is out of their control. Turnaround times in hospital, | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
problems in terms of lead blocking and so on... Lots of people have | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
sympathy. Certain people think they should have restructured and they | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
have had extra money to do this sort of thing. They are still not meeting | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
the targets which have actually been debased to some extent. This is the | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
private sector coming in. If you do it right, you get paid. If you | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
don't, you won't. An investigation's underway after a | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
man died in a fire at his home in Worcestershire. Crews were called to | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
the house in the Charford area of Bromsgrove yesterday afternoon. | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
Firefighters attempted to rescue the man who was in his 40s, but were | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
unable to save him from what they describe as a severe blaze. | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
Environment Agency staff have installed temporary flood barriers | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
in the Worcestershire town of Bewdley. The removable barriers are | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
in place as River Severn water levels are expected to rise | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
overnight. The Cabinet Minister responsible for | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
Britain's prisons says the disturbance at Oakwood near | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
Wolverhampton at the weekend was the result of teething troubles. Up to | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
20 inmates were involved at the privately`run prison, threatening | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
staff and damaging cells. Justice Secretary Chris Grayling say Oakwood | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
was one of the best prisons in the country. | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
The problem of obesity has been described as reaching epidemic | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
proportions in Stoke on Trent. It's estimated it costs the NHS in the | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
city ?50 million a year. With the new year, comes a new drive to | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
tackle the problem. Nikki Brennan lost four stone in a | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
year. And thanks to a healthy lifestyle has kept the weight off. | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
It's had a transformational effect. Life changing, yes. For my children | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
as well. I mean, I started doing things from scratch, making fresh | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
food which has made the children learn how to cook things a healthy | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
way. It's been good for them as well. Some of the members of this | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
gym have been referred here after having heart problems. They're given | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
help by experts from a cardiac rehab team. There is no point in a patient | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
working with us for five weeks, doing fantastically well and | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
achieving what you set out to achieve and then going back to their | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
previous lifestyle. We are looking at a long`term change. It is all | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
about long`term behavioural change. But getting that message across | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
hasn't been easy. The scale of the problem's concerning, One in four | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
ten to 11`year`olds in this city is classed as obese. The figure for | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
adults is almost one in three. And the cost to the health service is | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
expected to rise. It is reckoned around one in ten deaths could be | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
avoided if people who live a sedentary lifestyle did at least | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
half an hour's exercise five days a week. For those who've made the | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
commitment to come to the gym, the effort's paid off. You've got to | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
want to do it and it's the same as cutting out the rubbish you eat. | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
Yeah, it is all that. You've got to want to come. It looks a lot harder | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
than what it is. It's a lot more enjoyable when you get here and | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
start doing it. The challenge is to persuade more people in the city to | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
see the benefits of exercise and to help rein in what's become a serious | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
problem in the Potteries. This is our top story tonight: | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Wolverhampton City Council confirms cuts of ?123 million. A senior | :15:51. | :16:01. | |
councillor says it will be virtually impossible. Your detailed weather | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
forecast to come shortly with Shefali. Also in tonight's | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
programme: Already a bobsleigh silver medallist, now this talented | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
law student is aiming to represent her country in the long jump. | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
And walking in the air since 1993. The Snowman comes home to the | :16:15. | :16:15. | |
theatre where it all started. Many of us have things we no longer | :16:16. | :16:28. | |
need, but are too good to go to the tip. A Warwickshire based project | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
has taken advantage of this and won an award for it. Their recycling | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
scheme ploughs the profits into supporting local community schemes. | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
Wellsbourne tip was threatened with closure two years ago under council | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
savings, a charity stepped in and with the help of volounteers and a | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
small workforce the site has now been praised by Downing Street. The | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
system is simple. People dump their rubbish, they're helped to recycle, | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
which in turn raises cash to keep the centre running. The scrap value | :17:02. | :17:11. | |
of small appliances is worth about ?150 per tonne. They are getting | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
around 20 times a month and the money from that helps pay for staff. | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
David Cameron wasn't recycling his Christmas waste today but there were | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
plenty of others grateful for a local resource on their doorstep. | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
More local involvement more personal responsibility. I think it's | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
excellent. I hope it encourages other people to bring things along. | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
It is important that every time `` town has a facility like this. We | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
get income from wealthy cycling and items we resell in the shops. The | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
business pays for itself essentially. The re`use shops offer | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
more than just bargains. Cash raised here will go to local charities and | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
it offers opportunities for volunteers. It is a feeling that | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
you've done something and contributed to the community. When | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
you are driving out grants of ?500 to ?1000 to a small group, that | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
money can actually make a really big difference. There are thousands of | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
community groups throughout Warwickshire which are under the | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
radar. Now almost in a full recycling circle the volunteers are | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
going to decide which local charities should benefit from the | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
profits of our rubbish. Time for sport now and Ian has news | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
of one football club who've got a new manager and one who are still | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
looking. Good evening. Just 24 hours after | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
sacking Steve Burr, Kidderminster Harriers have named Andy Thorn, the | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
former Coventry City manager, as their surprise choice to take over | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
at Aggborough. Thorn has been scouting for England since leaving | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
Coventry 18 months ago. His first job is to halt a dismal run of four | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
defeats in five league games. Harriers have slipped from second to | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
seventh in the Conference Premier. But still no sign of a new | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
appointment at West Bromwich Albion, more than three weeks after the club | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
sacked Steve Clarke. The latest bookies' favourite for the job is | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
the German Thomas Schaaf. He spent 14 years as manager of Werder | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
Bremen. His impressive CV has five major trophies including one | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
Bundesliga title. In League one, Shrewsbury Town lost | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
again, their fifth defeat in a row at home, beaten 2`0 by Leyton | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
Orient. Shrewsbury missed a few decent chances to go in front. But | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
they fell behind just before the half hour mark. And a late header | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
sealed the Shrews' fate. And lifted Orient above Wolves into the | :19:35. | :19:43. | |
automatic promotion places. Two years ago, Jazmin Sawyers jumped | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
into a bobsleigh and won a silver medal at the Winter Youth Olympics | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
in Austria. Now, Jazmin is bidding to compete in the long jump at this | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
Summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. 2014 could be a big year | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
for the versatile young athlete from Stoke`on`Trent, who's possibly the | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
busiest, most talented teenager I've ever met. | :20:03. | :20:12. | |
Nine months ago, Jazmin Sawyers had never played a single chord. Then | :20:13. | :20:30. | |
she spotted a guitar in a charity shop, taught herself online, wrote a | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
few songs and now and now she's playing gigs with an EP out soon. | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
There's no doubt about it, Jazmin's got talent. And not just for music. | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
Because first impressions don't begin to tell the full story, about | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
the university law student with a passion for sport. I am ridiculously | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
busy. There is barely a free moment but I prefer it that way. It is | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
manic but it works. Midlands Today first met Jazmin when she was only | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
13. Competing in the high jump at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium. The | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
rain poured down, but her star potential was on the up and up. | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Three years later, she was competing at the Winter Youth Olympics in | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
Austria. Touching 70 miles an hour in the bobsleigh. She was thrilled | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
to bits to win a silver medal. Unbelievable. There are no words. | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
Honestly, it's the best feeling I've ever experienced. But this is where | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
Jazmin's true love really lies, in the long jump. And her sights are | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
firmly set upon the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer. What | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
is the connection between Bobsleigh and long jump? People ask that. They | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
are similar. With both use print and jump. One is nice and you are | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
pushing something. But the skills that you need are really similar. | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
You've got speed and power. To qualify for the Commonwealth Games, | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Jazmine must add an extra seven centimetres to her best jump before | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
the team is announced in June. But she's confident she'll deliver in | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
time. We've got the Bobsleigh, the long jump, your music, your law | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
degree, your part time job. What do you do in your spare time? There | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
isn't any spare time. I make sure there isn't any! You are buzzing | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
about 2014, aren't you? And excited. I feel myself constantly excited at | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
the moment. I got so much to be excited about and what a great way | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
to be. With guitar in hand, her stage name is Jazmin Jayne. But in | :22:21. | :22:30. | |
the athletics arena, it'll be the long jumper Jazmin Sawyers, who's | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
bidding to make a name for herself in Glasgow. | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
Only one thing's for sure, the next few months will be even busier than | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
normal for Jazmin. Good luck! You saw her here first. | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
Seen by over one million people worldwide, the stage version of the | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
Snowman is back in Birmingham to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
live version of Raymond Briggs' children's classic was created at | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
the Birmingham Rep. The magical tale of a young boy's | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
adventures when his snowman comes to life on Chrismas Eve. This stage | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
version was created in 1993 at the Reperatory Theatre in Birmingham. It | :23:05. | :23:14. | |
is very much about that. It is associated with the stage version so | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
when we take it to London, it plays in London's West End every | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
Christmas. It's Birmingham 's name that is up there. It has been to | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
Japan, Holland, career, all those people around the world have seen | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
what was made in Birmingham and exported from the Wrap. `` Rep. The | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
show's music is well known. Walking in the Air reached number five in | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
the UK charts in 1985 when Aled Jones sang it. But the additinal | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
music for this show was composed right here backstage. They are | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
starting to rehearse the cast and I'm going to write new dances on | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
things so it would be great to try it. I will adjust them and I can be | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
there. It was fun and it works brilliantly actually. I'm very fond | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
of this theatre. The Birmingham trademark is all over this show. All | :24:09. | :24:17. | |
the costumes are handmade here in the wardrobe department, taking the | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
workmanship right across the world. Now, there are 60 costumes per show | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
and 11 snowman costumes each taking a week to make. They are made out of | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
11 miles of white net. And it's not just costumes made here. The | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
original boy was from Solihull. This is the first place that I was on | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
stage. This is Birmingham. This is the way I remember it, Birmingham, | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
and the fact it was the first place to show the Snowman, is quite an | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
honour. And for the next ten days, the Snowman is back where it | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
started. As we saw earlier, flood defences up | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
in Bewdley. Shefali, that suggests more heavy rain tonight? | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
Warning from The Met office for this evening, tonight and running into | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
tomorrow morning for Herefordshire and Shropshire. They will be heavy | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
rain. That will not only add to current problems but lead to a delay | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
in recovery. At least today gave us a breather and there is more dry | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
weather to come. Focusing on the positives, this is how it is looking | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
for the dry weather over the next few days. It is dry tomorrow and | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
dryer on Saturday. This is when we have the rain arriving. It will | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
arrive tonight and it is this crossbow feature coupled with low | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
pressure that is pushing it through. After that, under the front will | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
come through on Friday. This one could also have some heavy rain | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
along it. It is followed by high pressure which settles things down | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
for Saturday. What we cannot project onto in this current run is the rain | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
that will arrive later on Sunday and into the start of next week. What we | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
also see towards the weekend and also into next week is temperatures | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
dropping and it becoming a lot colder. For this evening, we had | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
this rain leading into the West earlier on today. It has now | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
stretched across this reason `` region. It is not all light rain. In | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
fact, a lot of it will be heavy. Particularly so for the western half | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
of the region. It will clear during the early hours but will be followed | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
by fairly lively, heavy showers as well. Temperatures will be down to | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
six or seven Celsius. Still on the mild side. These should clear by | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
tomorrow. If you clipping the extremities of the North. On the | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
whole, they will be dry, bright and fairly sunny and places. Just a few | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
dotted around the north eastern half of the region through the day. A lot | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
of dry weather to be had in highs of seven to eight Celsius. Tomorrow, we | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
sense things becoming a lot colder. It is dry, we have clearing skies | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
and the temperatures will be near freezing with a touch of Frost. Rain | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
later on Friday. Try on Saturday. Tonight's headlines from the BBC: It | :27:11. | :27:21. | |
was the death that sparked riots in London and beyond. A jury decides | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
Mark Duggan was lawfully killed by police A US military helicopter | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
crash in Norfolk `` four people died when the aircraft came down last | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
night Wolverhampton City Council confirms cuts of ?123 million must | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
be made over the next five years And get to emergencies quicker or risk | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
being fined ?3 million. The stark warning to West Midlands Ambulance | :27:38. | :27:38. | |
Service. That was the Midlands Today. I'll be | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
back at ten o'clock with more on the likely impact of those cuts in | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
Wolvehampton. Have a great evening. Goodbye. | :27:46. | :27:48. |