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Good evening. A charity in That's it. | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
Good evening. A charity in Worcestershire which offers zero | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
interest loans to people struggling financially says demand is growing | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
so much it's just opened another office in neighbouring Shropshire. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
The "No Interest Loan Scheme" in Tenbury Wells provides an | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
alternative to payday lenders or loan sharks for local residents who | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
can't get credit elsewhere. Nadine Towell reports. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
When Graham Gordon had a stroke 14 years ago he was no longer able to | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
work. His wife Gail gave up her job to care for him, and suddenly the | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
couple went from having two incomes to living on benefits. The things | :00:43. | :00:54. | |
that we needed, you don't expect things to break down and things you | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
need to make things easier to Galway, and we found it very very | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
hard. So when their washing machine stopped working they simply couldn't | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
afford a new one. But a local charity which offers a zero interest | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
loan scheme proved to be their lifeline. And it's a resource | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
they've turned to on several occasions. Also, my cooker, we lived | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
in here and my sister gave me a cooker 14 years ago, and it was | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
really good. It lasted, but it came to the end of it stay they could not | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
afford a new one, so we went to No Interest Loan Scheme and they gave | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
us the money to get the cooker. The Tenbury "No Interest Loan Scheme", | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
or NILS, offers emergency funds to local people who can't get loans | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
elsewhere. It helps to pay for essential items like appliances and | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
school uniforms. There are lots of unscrupulous lenders out there, and | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
we are an alternative. People come to us knowing they are not charged | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
any interest. It is a place for poor people to come to us, people who | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
have usually financially excluded, but we all about financial | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
inclusion. The scheme operating here in Tenbury is though to be the only | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
one of it's kind in the country and is proving so popular they've opened | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
up a new office in Ludlow. The project is proving so popular they | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
are opening up a new office. Back at home with the Gordons, a working | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
washing machine which is now fully paid for. They say this scheme makes | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
living on a low budget just that little bit easier. | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
A teenager's been charged in connection with the stabbing of a | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
man in Birmingham. The 17` year`old's accused of causing | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
grievous bodily harm. It follows the stabbing of a 24`year`old man in | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Erdington last week. He remains in a critical condition in hospital with | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
what police have described as "life`threatening injuries". | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Demonstrators have staged a protest against plans to build thousands of | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
new homes which they say will ruin their Warwickshire village. The | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
group, from Long Marston, drove to Stratford`upon`Avon to urge | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
councillors to vote against the proposals. Our reporter Holly Lewis | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
was there. People who live in Long Marston say | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
building 3,500 houses on the nearby airfield will lead to gridlock. And | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
today they set out to prove their point by driving in convoy into | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
Stratford. We have moved here from London. We moved to a rural area, | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
and we don't want the character of the area to change. What is being | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
proposed as monolithic, not appropriate. This area is one of the | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
main attractions of this entire country, and you want to make it | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
like a suburb? You're killing the goose that lays the golden egg. The | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
campaigners say the development would increase local traffic | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
sevenfold. But a housing shortage means Stratford`upon`Avon District | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Council has to build around 10,000 new homes over the next 15 years. | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
And they have to go somewhere. The houses are to be near where the jobs | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
are. And the fact is that most jobs are north of the River Avon. This is | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
a big settlement, south of the River Avon, and people are going to have | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
to get into their cars and drive to work. The development is one of five | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
options currently under discussion by Stratford district Council. It is | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
believed to be their second choice, the first choice being a development | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
at Aden. A final decision on a site for the first phase of development | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
is expected to be made in the middle of May. | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
About 100 people have signed up as volunteers on the Severn Valley | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
Railway following a recent recruitment drive. The railway | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
already has a team of more than 1,200 working on the line. The | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
latest recruits will help drive the trains, staff the booking office and | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
work in the carriages. It attracts more than 200,000 visitors a year. | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
Onto the day's football results, and in the Championship, Birmingham City | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
are just one place above the relegation zone after they lost 4`2 | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
to Blackburn at St Andrews. In League One, Wolves go up as | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
Champions after beating Leyton Orient 3`1 in the lunchtime | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
kick`off. Elsewhere it ended goalless between Coventry and | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
Oldham. Shrewsbury look destined for relegation after they lost 5`2 away | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
at Preston. It finished 1`0 to Rotherham over Port Vale. And | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Walsall drew 1`1 with Gillingham. In League Two Cheltenham won 2`0 at | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
Mansfield, Jamie Cureton with both goals. And Burton Albion drew 1`1 at | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
Newport. Finally at the foot of the | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
Conference, Tamworth won three`two at Dartford. Hereford United's fight | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
for survival will go to the final game off the season after their 3`2 | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
win over Alfreton. Kidderminster versus Nuneaton ended goalless. How | :05:40. | :05:52. | |
about the weather? What is to come? It was a beautiful day today, high | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
of 17, 18 Celsius, down to amass of warm air wafting in from Europe. But | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
this is going to be pushed to one side because of a change in wind | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
direction in the next few days. The outcome of that is cooler conditions | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
and a few showers as well. We have had reports of hefty thundery | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
showers developing across the and Oxfordshire border. There will also | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
be showers across the northern half of the region as well. Overall, it | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
is murky" he tonight, lows of nine to 10 Celsius. Sharers will ease, | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
but it is going to be wetter than today. In between we will see | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
sunshine developing. Not quite as warm as today, 14, 15 Celsius. More | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
rain on Wednesday and further showers after that. | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
That was the Midlands Today. I'll be back at 10pm with your next | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
update. Have a great evening. Goodbye. | :06:59. | :07:02. |