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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: On htnger | :00:00. | :00:30. | |
strike and locked into a warehouse, a florist fears her business will be | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
repossessed because of rent arrears. We'll be asking a retail expert ` | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
how tough is it to make a slall business a success? Also tonight: | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
Unlocking more secrets reve`led about the Staffordshire Hoard, as | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
all 4,000 fragments are brotght together for the first time. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
Dredging the Avon in Stratford, to help keep the ?335 million tourism | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
businesses afloat. Molineux history books rewritten, Wolves set a new | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
record with a ninth successhve league victory. And what a | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
difference two weeks makes ` this was the spot at Ironbridge hn | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Shropshire that was under w`ter back then ` now look at it. Will it | :01:03. | :01:14. | |
continue? Find out later. Good evening. A businesswoman from | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Coventry is tonight refusing to leave her warehouse. Dupe Adeoye | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
claims to be on hunger strike after City Council bailiffs removdd stock | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
in a row over unpaid rent and rates. She has been fighting evicthon for | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
six days and says council officials have acted unfairly. But thd council | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
claims she owes them more than ?36,000. Bob Hockenhull reports A | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
warehouse on the outskirts of Coventry is now Dupe Adeoye's chosen | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
home. She runs her florist business from here but has barricaded herself | :01:49. | :02:05. | |
in indefinitely. The reason ` she's facing eviction for failing to pay | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
?36,000 in rent and rates. She admits she owes money but claims she | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
needs more time to pay the City Council after a series of sdtbacks. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
If this is what I have to do to get some sort of justice and fahr and | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
unbiased investigation to what actually happened, I will c`rry on | :02:23. | :02:35. | |
doing it. Dupe, who says shd's on hunger strike as part of her | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
protest, set up Faith and Flowers three years ago. She says she's got | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
into financial difficulties after being burgled and is asking the | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
council to help her. And fortunately she seems to have been the victim of | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
a number of crimes against the business and the council nedd to | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
work with the police to get to the bottom of this issue. The police and | :02:57. | :03:06. | |
council came here yesterday to try to persuade her to leave but it | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
seems they were unsuccessful. Bailiffs did seize some property | :03:13. | :03:22. | |
from the warehouse last year. But the council says the value didn t | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
cover the arrears. We cannot allow her to continue an occupation | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
without contributing anything to the rent and upkeep of the building But | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
Dupe is determined to carry on occupying the warehouse and says if | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
she's allowed to continue hdr business it will create at least | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
nine jobs in the city. I am joined now by Michael Weedon from the | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
British Independent Retailers Association. This may be an extreme | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
case, how common is it for small businesses to fall into rent | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
arrears? It is quite a big sum but you often find people struggle with | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
rents and most are paid up front on what is so stretched that whll | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
accompany and cash flow is accompanied was my livelihood. Temp | :04:16. | :04:38. | |
`` a company's livelihood. Independent retailers have been | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
telling us that the overdraft is a thing of the past and where it used | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
to pay for things like rent that has largely disappeared. West Bromwich | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
West MP Adrian Bailey, who's the chairman the Commons Business Select | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
Committee, told us recently soaring business rates are "the biggest | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
single challenge" facing retailers. Do you agree? We have been talking | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
about business rates for several years and quite a few of our members | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
pay more in business rates than in rent and we think that long`term and | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
fundamental reform is absolttely necessary. One in seven of `ll | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
companies in this country wdre summonsed for late payment or | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
nonpayment of rates. We hear that the economy is recovering btt do you | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
think this is not working for independent retailers? In the last | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
year, idiots related to housing such as furniture and floor coverings and | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
DIY did quite well but most other areas suffered quite badly. Coming | :05:55. | :06:07. | |
up later in the programme, to bring history alive. Detectives at | :06:08. | :06:25. | |
investigating the shooting of a man in a Warwickshire village. The | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
victim is understood to havd received facial injuries. Otr | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
reporter Giles Latcham is in Keresley End, near Coventry. Giles, | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
what other details can you bring us? The 32`year`old, who is belheved to | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
have been in a car, is being treated in hospital following the shooting | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
at Keresley End, near Coventry. There were dramatic scenes this | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
afternoon as armed police officers in full body armour went into a | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
property close by. There has been a large police presence in thd village | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
throughout the afternoon. What have police been seeing? They sax this is | :07:11. | :07:19. | |
a fast moving enquiry would be a lot going on and a short while `go the | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
chief officer gives this update I would like to reinsure parlx`mac | :07:25. | :07:36. | |
reassure people that instances like this are extremely rare. We are | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
seeking information on a male aged in his 20s running away. I'l led to | :07:45. | :07:54. | |
believe that the victim has been operated on in hospital but there is | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
no work on his condition. It seems clear that this was a targeted | :08:01. | :08:21. | |
attack and not a random one. A 23`year`old serving soldier has been | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
remanded in custody by Telford magistrates charged with murdering a | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
corporal found dead at their barracks. Lance Corporal Richard | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
Farrell, who's 23, is accusdd of killing Corporal Geoffrey McNeill, | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
of the First Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment, after his body was | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
discovered at Clive Barracks in Tern Hill, on Saturday. Lance Corporal | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Farrell was remanded in custody to appear at Wolverhampton Crown Court | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
on Friday. Experts have unlocked more secrets about the Staffordshire | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Hoard, the UK's largest ever find of Anglo`Saxon objects. Discovdred in | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
2009 in a field near Lichfidld, the treasure has been brought together | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
in a clean state for the first time for a two`week`long research | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
exercise. Our Arts Reporter Satnam Rana reports. Each fragment of | :09:03. | :09:13. | |
Anglo`Saxon treasure has bedn meticulously cleaned up, catalogued | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
and analysed since 2012. Now, for two weeks only, all 4000 fr`gments | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
in the Stafforshire Hoard h`ve been brought together. 600 fragmdnts have | :09:20. | :09:31. | |
been joined together and new discoveries have been made hncluding | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
this decorative animal mount. This reasearch exercise has allowed | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
experts to test their throehes about what fits together physically and | :09:37. | :09:46. | |
stylistically. Here we have a group of pieces that we think makd up one | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
sword handle, for example. H've got a picture here. Here are decorative | :09:51. | :09:59. | |
pieces that fit around the handle and these more elaborate pidces but | :10:00. | :10:13. | |
there is one complete sword handle. This is one of the very large number | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
of instances where we have been able to join pieces together. It was in | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
2009 that the Staffordshire Hoard was discovered in this field near | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
the village of Hammerwich bx a metal detector. A further find followed in | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
2012, much to the amazement of the landowner. It was only when I saw | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
the archaeologist digging that I realised that was something and even | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
then it took a while to realise the significance of this. From the | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
intricate workmanship to thd gold wealth of the ruling warrior class, | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
the hoard is offering an insight into the sixth and seventh | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
centuries. But the next stage of conservation work hopes to discover | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
even more. It's going to be tricky. We do not have all the object. Lots | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
of the joins are not perfect so we will have to use supports. Ht will | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
be tricky but worthwhile in the end to finally see the shape and form of | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
these objects. Some of thesd objects will go back on display at the | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
Potteries Museum and Birmingham Museum and art gallery as wdll as | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
Tamworth Castle and Lichfield Cathedral. This is a gatherhng into | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
recognisable groups of material and people will start to recognhse | :11:37. | :11:58. | |
things. With over one million visitors across the four venues so | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
far, the public appetite for this find continues to grow. I'm joined | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
now by Simon Cane, deputy dhrector of Birmingham Museums. How | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
significant is this research work? It is very important becausd without | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
it's it is just a pile of gold. We will use the research to help | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
visitors interpret and understand what we have found. Were yot | :12:16. | :12:25. | |
surprised by what you've fotnd? It is surprising in itself and there | :12:26. | :12:36. | |
are two items such as the oldest piece and the newest ones so when | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
some of this was buried it was already old. That is unique in this | :12:43. | :12:52. | |
sort of archaeology. We saw in that report how much public interest | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
there is, what impact has the hoard had internationally? When it was | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
discovered, it went absolutdly global and we have had a huge amount | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
of interest from around the world with people who come specifhcally to | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Birmingham to see the horde and it is amazing people make that | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
journey. We have had an exhhbition in the USA and there is a htge level | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
of interest right around thd globe. It is great for tourists coling to | :13:24. | :13:38. | |
the Midlands? Absolutely. What next for the hoard? We are opening a new | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
gallery dedicated to the horde and a lot of these fines and secrdts will | :13:49. | :13:59. | |
be revealed to the public. We want the world to come and see it. It is | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
important that they will have the opportunity to do this. Thank you | :14:05. | :14:13. | |
very much. The River Avon is one of the biggest attractions in | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
Stratford, for the first tile in over a decade work is underway to | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
dredge the river. Each year, nearly five million people visit Stratford, | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
ploughing ?335 million into the local economy. Nine barges of | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
sediment a day is being removed from the river bed, to reduce thd risk of | :14:34. | :14:47. | |
flooding. Joan Cummins reports. Silt has built up here making it | :14:48. | :15:02. | |
difficult for boards to navhgate. `` for boats to navigate. People come | :15:03. | :15:12. | |
here for all reasons, not jtst the Shakespeare and architecturd but | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
Stratford is about the whold river environment. A specialist dredger | :15:18. | :15:29. | |
works with no harm to the environment. People sit and quite | :15:30. | :15:38. | |
happily watch the boats go by. The river is very important to | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
Stratford. The dredging has cost millions of pounds but is ddscribed | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
as routine maintenance. 2000 tonnes have already been brought up river | :15:56. | :16:14. | |
and spread on farmland. One strand `` once dried it can be used | :16:15. | :16:30. | |
agricultural. This is our top story tonight: On hunger strike and | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
barricaded into a warehouse, a florist fears her business will be | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
repossessed because of rent arrears. Your detailed weather forec`st to | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
come shortly from Shefali. @lso in tonight's programme Wolves on a | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
record run, the Molineux men make it nine league wins in a row and a | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
unique history of Worcester ` the changing face of the city over 30 | :16:47. | :17:01. | |
years brought together. Mord than 100 volunteers have come forward to | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
help keep a stately home in Staffordshire open to the ptblic. | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
Shugborough Hall, which was once the home of the Queen's cousin Lord | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
Lichfield, but Staffordshird County Council budget cuts put its future | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
at risk. Joanne Writtle reports The hall sits in 900 acres but the | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
upkeep of such blender is h`rd work. The volunteers are invaluable know | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
the number of paid staff has nearly halved to 35. We are looking to make | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
the estate more efficient and we were costing the County Council on | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
4p which we have brought down to ?800,000 which is largely thanks to | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
our volunteers. Some of the library books here date back to the 150 s | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
and every year they have to be checked for signs of lukewarm and | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
mould. This conservation officer is training this semi retired lan to | :18:00. | :18:09. | |
have an informed look at thdse books. We are looking at volunteers | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
to upgrade their skills at working with books in the library. This is | :18:18. | :18:27. | |
something you do not see as a visitor and how it is made sure that | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
all artefacts go on display. This lady is 80 years old. I do not think | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
it would get on very well if it did not have volunteers because it is a | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
big space and a lot of work for gardeners. There are newborn animals | :18:46. | :18:57. | |
on the farm to be fed. Is it sustainable, relying on voltnteers | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
to run a huge place like thhs? I think it is. We will hopefully | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
encourage more people and wd hope to get 300 people to supporters. It is | :19:10. | :19:20. | |
largely thanks to the volunteers that is bring cleaned hall will open | :19:21. | :19:30. | |
to the public very shortly. They've got reason to be celebrate ` | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
Molineux history books were rewritten last night as Wolves won a | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
ninth successive league gamd, for the first time in the club's | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
history. Kenny Jackett's te`m won four`one at Swindon to stay at the | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
top of League One. Ian Wintdr reports. Some old records gdt | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
scratched, others get hidden away in the loft, the rest are treasured by | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
collectors. It's taken Wolvds 2 years to break this particular | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
record... Which they set back in November, 1988, when Robin Beck was | :19:53. | :20:19. | |
Top of the Pops. # First tile.. # In years to come, two thousand | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
travelling fans will say I was there, at Swindon to see Wolves | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
re`write the record books. Bakary Sako and Nouha Dicko are on fire | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
right now.. The hottest shots in League One... The first half was as | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
good as anything we have done on the second half is poor as we h`ve | :20:34. | :20:44. | |
been. And together they scored three times without reply to kill the game | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
by half`time. With the notable exception of Leon Clarke's first | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
goal for his new club in thd 90th minute. Not only Wolves ninth | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
straight victory... Anything less and we would have been behind. He | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
has made a real difference. You have waited 25 years for this. And it is | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
not about to stop. How long can this continue? At least to the end of the | :21:13. | :21:29. | |
season. Record players may be dead but footballers never lose the | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
ability to surprise their supporters. It's taken five years of | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
hard work but finally a unipue and enormous archive detailing the | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
changing face of Worcester has been restored, and will be opened up to | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
the public. It's the biggest single collection ever put together of the | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
city ` and it all began 50 xears ago when two brothers started t`king | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
pictures of where they lived. Cath Mackie reports. That was thdn, this | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
is now. The changing face of Worcester captured over the past 130 | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
years. I was born in Worcester and I believe walking around Worcdster is | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
like taking off the layers of an onion skin. Clive Haynes has been | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
photographing the city sincd the 1960s along with his brother | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
Malcolm. I can see it at various levels of experience. The brothers' | :22:14. | :22:23. | |
own photos span 50 years. The public and city archives have added to the | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
collection ` creating a unipue pictorial history of Worcester from | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
the 19th to the 21st centurx. This is an interesting one, partly | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
because it has a different format. A team of volunteers at the chty's | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
Tudor House has spent five xears digitising and restoring thd 80 0 | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
images. We certainly hadn't realised how complex it was or how mtch work | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
there was involved in cleanhng the slides, removing glass slidds and | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
putting plastic ones on, th`t kind of thing. We've spent a while now | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
walking around Worcester trxing to match up the old photos,which I ve | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
got on my phone, with today's city. A lot of it does look simil`r, some | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
looks the same, but some of it is unrecognisable and you do fhnd | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
yourself wondering what on darth the town planners were thinking. When | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
they widen the city Bridge hn 1 32, there were two really beauthful toll | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
houses. They were simply taken away, demolished in that sense, and lost. | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
I think that is one of the biggest mistakes they ever made. Thd city's | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
library, a controversial new addition to the skyline, is now home | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
to the originals. We will protect them for the future. We will | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
catalogue them so people can search them and find interesting things | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
that come out of the photographs. And it's a collection that will | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
continue to grow, as Clive has no plans to put down his camer` just | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
yet. Cath Mackie, BBC Midlands Today, Worcester. | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
We have fog warnings that come in from two o'clock tomorrow morning | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
and on till the end of the rush hour so take care if you're out on the | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
roads as visibility will drop to 200 metres on the roads. Otherwhse, the | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
going is good as far as racdgoers are concerned. The Cold Cup is on | :24:24. | :24:32. | |
Friday. Sunshine will be largely dependent on how quickly thd fog | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
lifts. The cloud is starting again tonight and so is the fog btt | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
initially we will have clear skies which will attract that fog later on | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
and it could be quite dense in places and quite widespread. Because | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
of the clear skies, temperatures will drop to freezing in pl`ces | :24:55. | :25:03. | |
There will be a light winds which will mean a misty and foggy start to | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
the day tomorrow at the sunshine will burn through this fog `nd the | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
cloud to dissolve it so that by the afternoon we will have some very | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
pleasant spells of sunshine which will take temperatures of two highs | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
of 11 Celsius in the north `nd 3 Celsius in the South. We will see | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
fog developing quite widely tomorrow night and that will suppress the | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
temperatures to three Celsits or four Celsius. The high pressure will | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
pull away by Friday allowing different conditions by the weekend | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
which will be cloudy with a touch of rain. | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
Tonight's headlines from thd BBC. Labour says a referendum on the | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
European Union is unlikely. On hunger strike and locked into a | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
warehouse, a florist fears her business will be repossessed because | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
of rent arrears. Police are looking for a gunman in the Midlands after a | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
man was shot in the face Th`t was the Midlands Today. . I'll be back | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
at ten o'clock. Have a | :26:19. | :26:19. |