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Good evening. Residents living alongside the route | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
of the proposed High Speed Two rail line have today been offered an | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
increased compensation pack`ge. Homes closest to the proposdd line | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
will be bought by the Government for their full unblighted market value | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
and owners will be offered `n extra cash payment to help with moving | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
costs. For some living along the route of | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
HS2 ` their homes have been blighted now for almost four years. Lany have | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
been stuck in a state of lilbo ` unable to sell their houses for what | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
they're worth. But what madd matters worse was that an initial Government | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
compensation scheme was difficult to access. Now that things are changing | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
with the launch today of an 'Express Purchase' scheme for those closest | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
to the line in the so called 'safeguarding zone'. But thd | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Government appears to have gone even further, with two other measures | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
including a 'Voluntary Purchase scheme' and a 'Need to Sell' scheme, | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
both designed to help homeowners outside the zone. There'll `lso be | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
cash payments to some others whose homes have been blighted thd most by | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
HS2. It is important that we do try to | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
preserve communities. What we don't want to see is whole villagds being | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
blighted by a mass exodus of people. And indeed it could change the whole | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
character of those. We are keen to help the people who are staxing as | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
well as to offer compensation to people who need to sell thehr | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
properties. MPs whose constituencies have been | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
badly affected by HS2 have given today's news a cautious welcome | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
After years of misery ` for some the HS2 nightmare could be finally over. | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
I am disappointed there is no property bond. I am interested in | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
the idea of a resident champion The cash compensation, I welcomd in | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
principle, but I don't think they have their sums correct. | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
Today's announcement appears to be excellent news for residents here in | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
Gilson, North Warwickshire. Here, the proposed line is just y`rds from | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
houses. The majority of houses are in the so`called safeguarding zone, | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
but so far only a handful of properties have been bought. Now the | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Government says it will buy the majority of them. | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
I was hopeful all along bec`use this Hamlet is surrounded by the railway. | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
It would've been unreasonable to just leave us in that posithon. So, | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
I was hopeful and thank goodness it has come to pass. | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
After years of misery ` for some the HS2 nightmare could be finally over. | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
But for others the waiting continues. Some of the meastres | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
announced today will only bdgin after another major consult`tion. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
The Lichfield MP and former Tory whip Michael Fabricant has tonight | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
been sacked as a vice`chairlan of the Conservative Party. This follows | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
his outspoken criticism of the HS2 rail scheme and the expenses row | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
involving the former Culturd Secretary Maria Miller. | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
Michael Fabricant is known for tweeting and being outspoken on many | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
topics. We see from his Twitter account, he has been asked to resign | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
by the chairman of the Consdrvative Party. But he refused, so hd's been | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
sacked over HS2 and, as he says "my views on a recent Cabinet mhnister". | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
Earlier in the day, he said on his Twitter account: "note to sdlf: if | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
ever a minister again, be lhke Mark Harper ` if in trouble resign | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
quickly and in a dignified lanner." It is those outspoken words that | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
have triggered the Conservative Party to think they do not want | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
people sounding off, off`message. They want everyone at the end of | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
this very difficult week as they go into their Easter holidays, they are | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
going to be campaigning ahe`d of the European elections, and thex want | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
all of their members, espechally those at the top, to be on`lessage. | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
The sister of one of the Hillsborough victims has told an | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
inquest jury that police "lhterally turned their backs on him" when he | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
most needed their help. Louhse Brooks was speaking about hdr | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
brother, Andrew, during the new inquests into the 96 football fans | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
who lost their lives in Sheffield 25 years ago. | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
Today was a day Louise Brooks had waited many years for. Her chance to | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
tell an inquest jury about her brother, Andrew. He was 26 when he | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
died in the Hillsborough disaster. Since I have been fighting, you ve | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
only ever seen me. You haven't gotten to know my brother. H think | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
because we are completely dhfferent personalities, it is so important | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
that people get to know my brother. After the hearing, Louise, from | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
Bromsgrove, read out extracts of what she said in court. | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
"Andrew was brought up to rdspect the police. Our parents alw`ys told | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
us that if ever we were in trouble, the police were always therd to help | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
us. When my brother most nedded their help, they literally turned | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
their backs on him. After hd died, the whole dynamics of our f`mily | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
changed. Andrew had been so important to all of us. Mum and Dad | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
never really recovered". Their mother died in 2000, their | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
father, last month. I only buried my dad came d`ys | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
before these inquests began. It makes me so angry that both my | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
parents have gone to their graves without knowing how or why their son | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
died. This is the fourth day families of | :05:43. | :05:54. | |
the 96 victims have been re`ding out portraits about their loved ones. | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
The jury has seen tears and laughter, as each relative | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
reminisced during the emotional hearing. Louise finished her | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
statement by saying she now existed for one reason: to ensure hdr | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
brother did not die in vain. One speedway result: Birmingham have | :06:04. | :06:30. | |
beaten Coventry by 46 points to 44 That's just about all from the late | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
team. Points. Time for the weather. | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
Good evening. A decent day `ll round. We'll keep that themd going | :06:39. | :06:48. | |
until the end of the week. Just a slight change tomorrow evenhng and | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
overnight. For tonight, dryhng conditions right across the board. | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Clear spells will attract mhst and fog and make it colder as wd head | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
into the morning tomorrow. @ possible murky start to the day but | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
otherwise a good deal of sunshine into the afternoon. Staying dry for | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
most of us until the end of the day when we may see some showers. Highs | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
of around 13 to 14 Celsius. The national forecast follows otr | :07:22. | :07:22. | |
outlook. weekend. If you are travelling | :07:23. | :07:34. | |
further afield here is a look at the National pig genome. -- National | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
picture. Most of us will be dry and bright | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
with some sunshine coming through. That goes for the weekend as well. | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
Look out for some chilly night. Certainly tonight in the South | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
temperatures falling away under those clear skies. As low as two or | :08:00. | :08:08. | |
three degrees in rural areas. Still some patchy rain through parts of | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
southern Scotland and Northern Ireland early on in the day. But | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
most of England and Wales have a dry start. Some spells of sunshine | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
especially across the East, but some mist and fog patches around. They | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
should not last too long. The main change tomorrow is this rain slowly | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
creeping across North West England. And eventually we have rain across | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
North Wales. To the north of that | :08:42. | :08:43. |