:00:00. > :00:07.Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: Ex`footballer
:00:08. > :00:10.Stan Collymore, who's received death threats on Twitter, says not enough
:00:11. > :00:21.is being done to police social media.
:00:22. > :00:23.A lot of people giving casual racialist abuse and casual
:00:24. > :00:27.homophobia and they are children that need protecting from
:00:28. > :00:30.themselves. We'll be asking a social media expert if anything can be done
:00:31. > :00:33.to stop abuse on the internet. Also tonight: Unemployment in the
:00:34. > :00:37.West Midlands shows the biggest fall in the country ` down by 32,000 `
:00:38. > :00:39.but still higher than the national average.
:00:40. > :00:43.I'm not racist, says West Brom's Nicolas Anelka ` he wants the FA to
:00:44. > :00:48.drop charges over his controversial on`field gesture.
:00:49. > :00:51.Do you recognise any of these people? The hunt to reunite one
:00:52. > :01:03.family with their lost history, found in a shoe box. There are
:01:04. > :01:06.wedding photos, birthdays, holidays. It is a whole life in a box.
:01:07. > :01:10.And there's something a little colder heading our way tomorrow. But
:01:11. > :01:14.the rain is never too far away, and we're back to wet and windy to
:01:15. > :01:24.finish the week. Your full forecast coming up later.
:01:25. > :01:28.Good evening. Staffordshire Police are investigating hundreds of racist
:01:29. > :01:31.and threatening tweets to the former Aston Villa footballer Stan
:01:32. > :01:34.Collymore. He went public today saying Twitter had done nothing to
:01:35. > :01:37.remove the offending comments. The social media network has become a
:01:38. > :01:41.favourite way for footballers and other celebrities to keep in touch
:01:42. > :01:44.with fans. But there are concerns tonight that abuse is likely to get
:01:45. > :01:55.even worse, unless Twitter changes its open door policy. Here's Giles
:01:56. > :01:59.Latcham. Lovely control. Down goes Luis Suarez.
:02:00. > :02:01.It started with a game of a football and this contentious moment `
:02:02. > :02:04.Liverpool striker Luis Suarez winning a crucial penalty against
:02:05. > :02:07.Aston Villa from which they scored. A former player for both clubs, Stan
:02:08. > :02:12.Collymore, who lives in Cannock, is now a football pundit. On Twitter he
:02:13. > :02:16.said he thought Suarez had dived and now he's paid a penalty ` enduring a
:02:17. > :02:29.torrent of abusive tweets, some of them racist, as well as several
:02:30. > :02:36.death threats. All I want if I was walking down broad Street and
:02:37. > :02:42.someone threatened to murder me is that that same punishment under
:02:43. > :02:44.English law is applied to Twitter. The tweets Stan Collymore's
:02:45. > :02:47.complained about are so unsavoury we can only show you brief extracts. In
:02:48. > :02:50.most cases, Collymore himself re`tweeted or republished them so
:02:51. > :02:54.his half a million followers could see what he's been subjected to. A
:02:55. > :02:57.spokeswoman for Twitter told us targeted abuse is against its rules
:02:58. > :03:05.and they have "established processes" for working with police
:03:06. > :03:07.forces. Forces like Staffordshire, who say they're investigating
:03:08. > :03:17.hundreds of tweets sent to Collymore from the UK and abroad. We need the
:03:18. > :03:22.assistance of Twitter in this case. I trust that that will be
:03:23. > :03:27.forthcoming. We will continue to use other methods to identify those
:03:28. > :03:33.involved as well. So we will run that alongside the work we are doing
:03:34. > :03:36.with Twitter. It is really important we are aware of what content we put
:03:37. > :03:39.out there. At a college in Birmingham today a timely warning
:03:40. > :03:42.for students preparing for a career in social media. Stan Collymore
:03:43. > :03:45.thinks much of the abuse he's had comes from youngsters who don't
:03:46. > :03:53.understand the consequences. Technology is evolving and everyone
:03:54. > :03:57.has Twitter. Children can use it now. This is the way society is. The
:03:58. > :04:05.biggest thing that people don't have is awareness and that needs to be
:04:06. > :04:11.taught. I have waited six weeks for 22 cases of people overtly racially
:04:12. > :04:17.abusing me to be passed on to the police by Twitter. That is not good
:04:18. > :04:22.enough. In a career of laws as well as highs, Stan Collymore has had to
:04:23. > :04:26.develop a thick skin but he says Twitter has become a cesspool he is
:04:27. > :04:29.no longer prepared to tolerate. I'm joined now by Mike Jackson,
:04:30. > :04:31.Professor of Computer Science at Birmingham City University. It's not
:04:32. > :04:38.just celebrities who are being subjected to abuse on social media
:04:39. > :04:42.but is the problem getting worse? I think it is getting worse. The
:04:43. > :04:49.Internet has always been a place for bandit 's. As more people join, I
:04:50. > :04:55.think there is more abuse to people who are not expecting it. What could
:04:56. > :05:00.be done to stop this abuse? To a certain extent, it is human nature.
:05:01. > :05:04.What is happening is against the law and could be prosecuted but
:05:05. > :05:08.sometimes they are very difficult to locate. Isn't part of the problem
:05:09. > :05:17.that the abusers believe they can get away with it? Some people
:05:18. > :05:22.deliberately set out to be anonymous, going out to abuse
:05:23. > :05:27.somebody in such a way they are not found. They could go to an Internet
:05:28. > :05:33.cafe or change their IDE. It makes them difficult to locate. What can
:05:34. > :05:43.be done to change that to prosecute these people? I think the police are
:05:44. > :05:47.on top of it. Are they? They are clued up as to what the problem is
:05:48. > :05:53.not there are so many people doing it that it becomes difficult. It is
:05:54. > :06:01.the scale of the problem. It is not that you can't trace them just to
:06:02. > :06:11.the scale? Yes. Are you on Twitter? No. I didn't think people would want
:06:12. > :06:14.to hear the trivia of my life. We have had a huge reaction. A common
:06:15. > :06:18.reaction from many of our viewers using social media to get in touch
:06:19. > :06:22.is if you post a comment you're laying yourself wide open ` it is a
:06:23. > :06:26.form of broadcasting. That's right. Whilst I am not on Twitter, I have
:06:27. > :06:31.been on numerous discussion groups and generally what you expect with
:06:32. > :06:34.the Internet is that many people will disagree with you but there is
:06:35. > :06:42.a significant difference between that and death threats.
:06:43. > :06:45.Coming up later in the programme: A stark warning to schoolchildren on
:06:46. > :06:54.binge drinking in a bid to deter alcohol abuse.
:06:55. > :06:57.Unemployment in the West Midlands has shown the largest fall in the
:06:58. > :07:01.country. The number of people out of work in this region fell by 32,000
:07:02. > :07:07.over the last quarter. That's 222,000 people out of work ` a rate
:07:08. > :07:12.of 8.1%. So a welcome fall although we're still 1% above the national
:07:13. > :07:15.average. We can go live now to our business correspondent Peter
:07:16. > :07:20.Plisner. So, Peter, where are the new jobs coming from?
:07:21. > :07:23.Well, Mary, our location tonight should give you a clue. Here in
:07:24. > :07:27.Smethwick they're building a new school. It's one of the growing
:07:28. > :07:30.number of projects that have lead to a big increase in jobs within the
:07:31. > :07:33.construction industry. That in turn has contributed to that big fall in
:07:34. > :07:38.the region's unemployment total today. With me from Interserve, the
:07:39. > :07:44.firm that's building this new school, is Julie Bradley. It has
:07:45. > :07:49.been a tough recession but things are finally on the up. It seems so
:07:50. > :07:53.and we are confident that the local economy is picking up, we are
:07:54. > :07:57.winning more work and we recently won a contract with Birmingham
:07:58. > :08:01.University for a multi`million pound sports complex which we are
:08:02. > :08:05.encouraged by. We will be able to push that confidence to our supply
:08:06. > :08:14.chain and boost employment in the local area. Is it mostly private or
:08:15. > :08:20.public? We work a lot with public but we are also seeing interest in
:08:21. > :08:28.the private sector. We are seeing a general upsurge. Can it last? There
:08:29. > :08:31.is confidence there and we need to build on that and understand how we
:08:32. > :08:38.can impact more in the future but, yes, I think so. While unemployment
:08:39. > :08:41.has fallen again here in the West Midlands, in some parts of the
:08:42. > :08:44.region it remains stubbornly high, particularly in our biggest city.
:08:45. > :08:47.Birmingham ` a world class city with high levels of inward investment `
:08:48. > :08:50.but look beyond the landmark buildings and there's an
:08:51. > :08:53.unemployment problem. Ladywood just outside the city centre is the UK's
:08:54. > :08:59.worst unemployment blackspot with more than a quarter of the
:09:00. > :09:02.population out of work. Part of the problem appears to be a lack of
:09:03. > :09:05.skills and, with growth in the construction industry, at this
:09:06. > :09:08.college in the heart of Ladywood it's not surprising that many of
:09:09. > :09:16.those looking for work are opting for construction related courses.
:09:17. > :09:20.Romell Stewart is one of them. Since he left school two years ago, he's
:09:21. > :09:28.struggled to find a permanent job. But he's ambitious. I want to be
:09:29. > :09:33.able to open up my own business in a few years' time and have people
:09:34. > :09:38.working for me. And according the principal of the college skills are
:09:39. > :09:42.crucial. The job centres have a real issue at the moment because they
:09:43. > :09:46.have got students with no qualifications, skills or language,
:09:47. > :09:49.then we know they won't be able to put them into any kind of job and
:09:50. > :09:55.sending them to interviews won't be of any use. And that's the reason
:09:56. > :10:00.Somalian`born Hashim is improving his English. It is difficult these
:10:01. > :10:06.days. You have to learn English to get a job so you have to learn to
:10:07. > :10:09.communicate those people speak English, the majority of the UK. But
:10:10. > :10:13.it's not just people who are suffering ` a lack of skills is also
:10:14. > :10:15.holding back local businesses. In recent months this Ladywood`based
:10:16. > :10:23.engineering firm has struggled to fill its vacancies. It's incredibly
:10:24. > :10:28.hard because it takes us probably for `6 months to find somebody with
:10:29. > :10:31.the skills we require. A lack of skills isn't a problem that's unique
:10:32. > :10:35.to Birmingham but here it's clearly a major issue.
:10:36. > :10:39.So work still to be done finding jobs for many people. And the
:10:40. > :10:43.Government seems to think we could learn a thing or two from German
:10:44. > :10:46.industry. Yes, during a visit to Staffordshire
:10:47. > :10:49.today, the Trade Minister Lord Livingston has announced he plans to
:10:50. > :10:52.offer help to nearly 9000 medium`sized businesses. In Germany
:10:53. > :10:54.those companies are known as Mittelstand and they're credited
:10:55. > :10:58.with keeping that country's economy booming. The Government believes the
:10:59. > :11:04.same could happen here, as Bob Hockenhull reports.
:11:05. > :11:08.This is the family`owned Balluff factory in Stuttgart. It started
:11:09. > :11:13.life in 1921 and has grown to be a world leader in sensor technology.
:11:14. > :11:16.The great`grandson of the founder was invited to share its secrets at
:11:17. > :11:26.a conference at Staffordshire's JCB factory. We drive long`term
:11:27. > :11:30.strategies and that gives us the flexibility to try out something
:11:31. > :11:33.that doesn't seem to get the return right away but long`term is very
:11:34. > :11:35.fruitful. Mittelstand are medium`sized companies. It's these,
:11:36. > :11:41.not large multinationals, credited with creating Germany's economic
:11:42. > :11:50.success. Our Government believes a similar model here could boost the
:11:51. > :11:55.UK economy by ?50 billion. Germany has been concentrated on this for
:11:56. > :12:05.nearly 60 years so we can't do it overnight. But if you look at German
:12:06. > :12:12.company exports outside the EU, it is much higher than the UK. F Ball
:12:13. > :12:15.near Leek ` an example of what the Government wants. It makes adhesive
:12:16. > :12:17.flooring, is still family`run, has invested millions in machinery but
:12:18. > :12:21.kept the 130`strong workforce. Investing in people is one of the
:12:22. > :12:29.most vital things to ensure that the customer can get what he wants.
:12:30. > :12:31.Today's conference is taking place at JCB, which was once a
:12:32. > :12:36.medium`sized company itself. One delegate had a warning though. Don't
:12:37. > :12:42.try to copy the German model because it can never be as good as the
:12:43. > :12:44.original. Look at it and take their best out of it. It's estimated
:12:45. > :12:54.Britain would have 250,000 extra jobs if mid`sized companies had
:12:55. > :12:57.grown at the same rate as Germany's. The help announced today should help
:12:58. > :13:02.companies expand and create jobs and hopefully in future that could bring
:13:03. > :13:05.unemployment down even further. And later in the programme we'll be
:13:06. > :13:08.hearing from young people trying to find work in one of the most
:13:09. > :13:14.competitive sectors, arts and entertainments, about just how hard
:13:15. > :13:17.it is to find that first job. The Government's defeated the latest
:13:18. > :13:20.legal challenge by opponents of the controversial High Speed Rail
:13:21. > :13:24.scheme, linking London to Birmingham and the north of England. Protestors
:13:25. > :13:27.say they'll now take their case to Europe. The Supreme Court ruled
:13:28. > :13:30.unanimously against opponents of HS2, who'd argued ministers were
:13:31. > :13:36.failing to meet their environmental obligations.
:13:37. > :13:38.A former Police Community Support Officer from Cheltenham caught
:13:39. > :13:42.smuggling drugs into Indonesia has been sentenced to 14 years in
:13:43. > :13:45.prison. 43`year`old Andrea Waldeck, who worked for Gloucestershire
:13:46. > :13:48.Police, claims she was coerced by her boyfriend. She was arrested last
:13:49. > :13:56.April with 1.5 kilos of A report by the Conservative Party
:13:57. > :14:00.into the organising of a Nazi`themed stag party by the Cannock Chase MP
:14:01. > :14:03.Aiden Burley says his conduct was offensive and unacceptable. Mr
:14:04. > :14:06.Burley was sacked from his job as a ministerial aid after these pictures
:14:07. > :14:10.emerged in 2011. The Conservative Party says Mr Burley has apologised,
:14:11. > :14:15.and paid a high price for his foolishness.
:14:16. > :14:19.The MP for Birmingham Perry Barr Khalid Mahmood is recovering after a
:14:20. > :14:32.kidney transplant. The operation took place yesterday at the city's
:14:33. > :14:35.Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Our top story tonight: ex`footballer
:14:36. > :14:39.Stan Collymore, who's received death threats on Twitter, says not enough
:14:40. > :14:43.is being done to police social media.
:14:44. > :14:46.Your detailed weather forecast to come shortly.
:14:47. > :14:50.Also in tonight's programme: can a new scheme help young people find
:14:51. > :14:54.work in one of the toughest sectors to break into?
:14:55. > :14:56.And 100 years of history abandoned in a shoe box ` the pictures that
:14:57. > :15:10.tell one unknown family's story. There have been more developments in
:15:11. > :15:12.the row surrounding the West Bromwich Albion footballer Nicolas
:15:13. > :15:16.Anelka. It's emerged that the Premier League club could lose two
:15:17. > :15:20.more sponsors as a result of Anelka's controversial gesture. And
:15:21. > :15:24.the French striker has been writing about the incident on Facebook. Ian
:15:25. > :15:31.Winter is at the Hawthorns tonight. What's he been saying, Ian?
:15:32. > :15:40.Mary, this row continues to simmer away, with no end in sight. Just to
:15:41. > :15:44.recap: This is the controversial gesture ` the quenelle ` that's been
:15:45. > :15:48.described by some as an inverted Nazi salute. But today Nicolas
:15:49. > :15:52.Anelka has been on social media to say that he is neither racist nor
:15:53. > :15:56.anti`Semitic. On his Facebook page the Albion striker refers to a
:15:57. > :15:59.Jewish leader in France who believes that Anelka's gesture could not be
:16:00. > :16:05.considered to have an anti`Semitic connotation. And that's why he's
:16:06. > :16:10.asking the FA to lift the charges that have been made against him.
:16:11. > :16:14.But two of Albion's sponsors are believed to be reconsidering their
:16:15. > :16:17.position? Yes, on Monday, it was Zoopla, the property website, who
:16:18. > :16:27.said they wouldn't be renewing their ?3 million deal at the end of the
:16:28. > :16:30.season. Now, Jack Wolfskin, the outdoor clothing company, and Holler
:16:31. > :16:33.Watches are both understood to be reviewing their sponsorship deals
:16:34. > :16:38.with West Brom, as they await the outcome of the FA verdict. As for
:16:39. > :16:42.Nicolas Anelka, he's facing a minimum five`match ban if the FA
:16:43. > :16:45.charge is upheld. And he's got until six o'clock tomorrow evening to
:16:46. > :16:52.respond to those allegations against him.
:16:53. > :16:58.A survey of 5000 under`18s in Staffordshire has revealed nearly
:16:59. > :17:02.three quarters have tried alcohol. 63% had their first drink under the
:17:03. > :17:06.age of 13 and some admitted drinking before they were ten. A new campaign
:17:07. > :17:10.warning about the effects of binge drinking has been launched, as Laura
:17:11. > :17:14.May McMullan's been finding out. I haven't had a drink now for 15
:17:15. > :17:21.months. Dan Kendrick is 24 years old. He started drinking when he was
:17:22. > :17:39.16. It got to the stage where he was drinking two litres of vodka and
:17:40. > :17:44.five pints of cider a day. I was stuck in the same circle. I was in
:17:45. > :17:48.hospital regularly. Dan was able to detox and get help with the BAC
:17:49. > :17:52.O'Connor charity in Burton on Trent. He's says it's been life changing.
:17:53. > :18:02.It's like they've rebuilt me back to how I was. You get to know the real
:18:03. > :18:05.you. A new social media campaign warning about the effects of alcohol
:18:06. > :18:08.is now targeting 11`14 year olds across Staffordshire. Animations
:18:09. > :18:21.will also be screened at local cinemas. So you know anyone who's
:18:22. > :18:27.tried alcohol? Yes. Maybe it is Rivaldo and not everybody does but I
:18:28. > :18:30.think a lot of people drink. Well, out of 5230 youngsters in
:18:31. > :18:33.Staffordshire who were surveyed, 73% said they'd had a drink. 63% tried
:18:34. > :18:38.their first drink before they were 13 and some admitted to trying
:18:39. > :18:41.alcohol under the age of ten. Alcohol support charities say the
:18:42. > :18:44.number of young people drinking has declined in recent years but the
:18:45. > :18:52.amount consumed by those who do remains high. Dan Kendrick says he's
:18:53. > :19:03.just glad he was able to beat his addiction before it damaged his
:19:04. > :19:06.health and his future. Now, whilst this region saw the
:19:07. > :19:09.biggest fall in unemployment anywhere in the country today, the
:19:10. > :19:13.number of young people without a job remains high. And that first job can
:19:14. > :19:16.be the hardest to get. In Birmingham 16 to 24`year`olds are being offered
:19:17. > :19:24.paid positions with arts organisations to help them into a
:19:25. > :19:30.hugely competitive industry. Here's our arts reporter Satnam Rana.
:19:31. > :19:32.Sophie is one of the first apprentices on the Creative
:19:33. > :19:37.Employment Programme ` a Government scheme offering opportunities in the
:19:38. > :19:39.arts and cultural sector. She's a design apprentice with learning
:19:40. > :19:42.provider Creative Alliance, here helping pupils at Victoria Park
:19:43. > :19:52.Academy Smethwick with their school magazine. I think when I was looking
:19:53. > :19:56.to go straight into work without having a degree it was a lot harder
:19:57. > :19:59.so getting an apprenticeship was a good opportunity to get into the
:20:00. > :20:04.workplace. At The Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham, Bethany is
:20:05. > :20:09.four months into her apprenticeship. I applied for lots of different jobs
:20:10. > :20:11.but nobody would hire you without paid work experience so this will
:20:12. > :20:17.really help me to get another job later. Now 30 paid apprenticeships
:20:18. > :20:20.and internships are all up for grabs for unemployed 16 to 24`year`olds.
:20:21. > :20:26.15 arts organisation are taking part in a jobs fair at the Rep this
:20:27. > :20:30.Saturday. This is the cultural sectors response in the city to
:20:31. > :20:36.youth unemployment. The company is coming together to invest our own
:20:37. > :20:43.time and experience to support young people into finding work. This
:20:44. > :21:15.centre in Aston is offering seven Charlie is one of those who got a
:21:16. > :21:19.job follwing his apprentiship with softwarre company Trilby. It all
:21:20. > :21:21.fell into place at the right time. The hope is that these
:21:22. > :21:27.apprenticeships will create the wokers of tomorrow.
:21:28. > :21:31.Dozens of old photographs ` some dating back to the start of the last
:21:32. > :21:34.century ` have been discovered in a shoe box by staff at a Solihull
:21:35. > :21:38.charity shop. They form an irreplaceable record of one family's
:21:39. > :21:42.history. Now staff want to get them back to their rightful owner. Sarah
:21:43. > :21:51.Falkland has the details. Precious memories from a bygone age.
:21:52. > :22:00.Magical milestones of life. But whose life? It's Downton Abbey
:22:01. > :22:02.style. It reminded me of that. We enjoyed looking through it and
:22:03. > :22:09.looking at their hairstyles and fashion. The photos were inside one
:22:10. > :22:13.of half a dozen shoe boxes dropped off to the Acorns Hospice Shop at
:22:14. > :22:17.Castle Bromwich by an elderly lady. It was obviously a mistake to bring
:22:18. > :22:23.them in because all the boxes were the same sort perhaps she thought it
:22:24. > :22:27.was shoes as well. It is a family history in a box. Those wedding
:22:28. > :22:31.photos, Christmases, holidays. Why would you want to throw that away?
:22:32. > :22:34.While some recall the days of World War I, many are much later. They're
:22:35. > :22:40.so endearing, staff here have turned detective in the hope of finding out
:22:41. > :22:44.who's who. Look, a rubber dinghy. Weston`super`Mare. One thing that
:22:45. > :22:52.comes up again and again is not a face but a place ` Bodenham Manor in
:22:53. > :22:58.Herefordshire. There is a letter of reference from the lady who used to
:22:59. > :23:01.live here in connection with her chauffeur. It says he had been in
:23:02. > :23:05.the service of the family for 21 years during which time he proved
:23:06. > :23:11.himself a thoroughly trustworthy and hard`working servant. There was a
:23:12. > :23:16.rent because well from an address in Kings Norton. We are thinking the
:23:17. > :23:19.chauffeur moved from Hereford to Birmingham. Another clue is a
:23:20. > :23:26.memorial card for one Clara Gibbs, who died in 1944 at the age of 84.
:23:27. > :23:28.Did he come back from the trenches? Did she find true love? Someone must
:23:29. > :23:42.have the answers. If you can solve the mystery, please
:23:43. > :23:45.get in touch with us here. Some lovely sunshine around today.
:23:46. > :23:46.How's it looking for the next couple of days, Rebecca?
:23:47. > :23:49.of days, Well, things are getting a little
:23:50. > :23:53.colder for the next couple of days. That doesn't mean it's time to get
:23:54. > :23:58.the sledge out just yet though. It's a bit of a mixture to come over the
:23:59. > :24:02.next few days ` we'll get some sunny spells at times, but the rain is
:24:03. > :24:06.never too far away, and by the time we get to Sunday, The Met Office has
:24:07. > :24:09.a yellow weather warning in place for that heavy rain. Today though
:24:10. > :24:12.it's certainly been a different picture. Although we had plenty of
:24:13. > :24:19.cloud about through the day, as the afternoon went on we got more breaks
:24:20. > :24:23.and some sunny spells. . And to begin with tonight isn't looking too
:24:24. > :24:26.bad either. We still have a few showers rattling through but for the
:24:27. > :24:29.first half of tonight it'll be a largely clear. The wind will drop
:24:30. > :24:33.out initially which means temperatures could fall quite low
:24:34. > :24:37.for a time. There is also plenty of moisture in the air which means we
:24:38. > :24:55.could see the odd patch of mist and fog. Some rain through the rush
:24:56. > :25:01.hour. Once it clears away, it will be a lovely sunny day. But it'll be
:25:02. > :25:06.chilly in the breeze. Temperatures around 5`6 Celsius. Then to begin
:25:07. > :25:10.with tomorrow night temperatures will fall away ` and it'll be chilly
:25:11. > :25:13.for a time, with the possibility of some places getting down to `1, but
:25:14. > :25:17.it's not long before cloud builds ahead of the next band of rain.
:25:18. > :25:22.Heavy rain to come by Friday morning ` again we could see some wintry
:25:23. > :25:26.bursts in there. Tonight's headline from the BBC:
:25:27. > :25:30.Ex`footballer Stan Collymore, who's received death threats on Twitter,
:25:31. > :25:32.says not enough is being done to police social media.
:25:33. > :25:36.And you've been getting in touch with us on social media to let us
:25:37. > :25:39.know what you think about that story. On our Facebook page, Dawn
:25:40. > :25:42.Turner says, racist remarks and death threats should not be
:25:43. > :25:45.acceptable in any form. On Twitter, Julie G writes, it's utterly
:25:46. > :25:47.disgraceful. If that abuse was shouted in the streets then the
:25:48. > :25:51.foul`mouthed louts would be arrested! Carl Medlin posted on
:25:52. > :25:58.Facebook, if you don't like it, don't use Twitter ` simple. Thanks
:25:59. > :26:01.for all your comments. That was the Midlands Today. I'll be
:26:02. > :26:02.back at ten o'clock with more