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The headlines tonight: That's all from the BBC News at | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Bowls with benefits ` the National Championships bringing | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
The vision of the Council is to have the whole area buzzing. | :00:09. | :00:29. | |
We'll look at how our region is gaining a | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
reputation for staging major sports events ` and the economic benefits. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Also tonight, the Banksy artwork defaced by vandals ` just days after | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
Jazmin's jump for joy ` another medal for the Midlands to be | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
I woke up this morning, rolled over and saw the medal on my bedside | :00:42. | :00:51. | |
table and I gasped. The doubly thankful villages ` | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
our two unusual communities with no And we've certainly had some | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
beautiful weather recently ` I'm afraid it's wellies | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
and brollies at the ready for the start of this weekend ` | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
but a return to something a little Good evening, | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
the Midlands is playing host to another major sporting competition ` | :01:11. | :01:24. | |
as the region gains a reputation The National Bowls Championships | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
start in Leamington Spa tomorrow, the month long event is worth around | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
?1.5 million to the town's economy. In 2012, when Coventry hosted | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Olympic football at the Ricoh Arena, it's estimated spectators spent | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
around ?4 million in the local area. And last year, | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
the five Champions Trophy matches at Edgbaston brought nearly ?16 | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
million to the Birmingham economy. Our reporter Sarah Falkland is | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
in Leamington this evening. So this really is a big event | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
for them? It is a big event. The town has a | :01:54. | :02:07. | |
long history with all. We have had the women's National Championships | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
here for the last 30 years, but this year, it is the first year we have | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
had the men's championship. They have been working on the greens for | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
three months. They are so perfect, you could almost each or supper of | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
them. Earlier, some of the locals had a chance to play here. For such | :02:28. | :02:37. | |
a sedate sport, it is strangely compelling. In 24 hours time, the | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
carefully tended Greens will caused the country's top players. The town | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
has become the balding capital of England, with some people moving | :02:52. | :03:02. | |
here from Sussex. The central location is fantastic. It was fit | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
for purpose. Around 20,000 people are expected here during the course | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
of the championships and it is all people add ?1.5 million to the local | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
economy. The Regency town is on a roll. We have got masses of new | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
businesses coming in, we have a major furniture supplier coming into | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
the town and having their headquarters here. The vision of the | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
council is to bring people in and make the whole area bars. To have | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
the bowling here is icing on the cake. Leamington's historical parade | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
is just a few moments from the bowling green. It is good for trade, | :03:50. | :03:59. | |
good for business. It will bring far more people into the time. The whole | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
area comes alive. Just people passing by, maybe popping in to see | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
what we do. Come tomorrow, the professionals will be here and it is | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
not just the crowd who will be applauding. We didn't see quite how | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
far she got to the jack there. Good news for the economy there | :04:20. | :04:30. | |
in Leamington ` but what about elsewhere, how does our region | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
rate for hosting sports events? Well, starting with Edgbaston | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
cricket ground, it's hosting two one day international matches | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
against India in September and will The NIA | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
in Birmingham regularly hosts world class indoor athletics and the All | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
England Open Badminton Championships Next year Kingsholm Rugby ground | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
in Gloucester will host four Rugby World cup matches featuring | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Argentina and Scotland, while Villa Park has two games ` | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
you'll be able to catch South Africa Meanwhile this August bank holiday ` | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
around 48,000 people are expected to attend | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
the Evesham fishing festival . Good to have you with us this Friday | :05:02. | :05:19. | |
evening ` The old library of Birmingham ` | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
a carbuncle or We meet the man who finds beauty | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
in the concrete construction. A Banksy artwork painted | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
on the wall of a house in Cheltenham Earlier this week it was announced a | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
deal was almost secure to keep Spy Booth in the town, after campaigners | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
raised the money to buy it. Cheltenham's Banksy, eavesdropping | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
on this telephone box, these undercover spies are now covered | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
up after an overnight attack. People here had been proud | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
of their Banksy and were angry this morning as news | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
of the new graffiti got round. I don't understand why people | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
have to do this any more. This is what it looked like | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
in April. A few weeks | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
after Spy Booth was painted, there was talk of selling it to a | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
collector, but a local businessman pledged hundreds of thousands | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
of pounds to save the piece. If the graffiti cannot be removed, | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
are you still going to buy it? Obviously, it is something that | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
the people in this town love This is what people here are | :06:25. | :06:34. | |
hoping might just save the Banksy. This is three layers of | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
anti`graffiti paint and that is a If they are quick enough | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
and use the right chemicals, they might be able to take | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
off that top layer of new graffiti This one in Bristol was hit | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
by blue paint balls. Others like this one have been | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
quickly removed, preserved, Mobile Lovers, like much of Banksy's | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
street art, will eventually be sold. Some believe it is just part of | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
the life cycle of street graffiti. For others though, these Banksys are | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
precious and should be preserved. Andrew Plant, BBC Midlands Today, | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
in Cheltenham. Police investigating a fire | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
at the former Cadbury family mansion in Birmingham have arrested three | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
schoolboys on suspicion of arson. The boys aged 12, 14 and 15, | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
were questioned yesterday evening and later released on bail | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
while investigations continue. Crews spent most | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
of yesterday damping down at Northfield Manor ` after the fire | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
was started on Wednesday night. A West Midlands Police Community | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
Support Officer has been jailed for leaking confidential information | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
to a convicted drug dealer. 43`year`old Andrew Thompson, | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
from Tipton, admitted downloading intelligence from police computers | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
and was jailed for two years. Fire fighters were called to rescue | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
a horse from The animal was found neck deep | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
in water at Walbrook Bridge, It had apparently fallen in | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
after being left tethered close to A rescue team eventually managed | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
to pull the horse to safety. The RSPCA says it's now | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
in relatively good health and is appealing | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
for the owners to come forward. Three weeks from today, | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
we'll know who'll succeed Bob Jones as West Midlands Police and | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
Crime Commissioner. Mr Jones died last month, | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
just 20 months after the first PCC elections, in which only 12 percent | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
of voters turned out. Our Political Editor Patrick Burns | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
is here. If the turnout was embarrassingly | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
low then, it could be even lower this time ` in the middle | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
of the summer holidays. Yes, if you wanted to demonstrate | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
just how low turnouts can go, Many council employees who'd | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
normally staff elections, So not all polling stations will | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
be the ones we're used to. Do check the polling cards, which | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
have gone out to the two million eligible voters in Coventry, | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
Birmingham and the Black Country. There wasn't exactly a stampede, | :09:08. | :09:19. | |
I'm told, but the four main parties Labour's David Jamieson is | :09:20. | :09:29. | |
a former transport minister, The Conservative Les Jones is | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
the former Dudley Council leader. The Liberal Democrat Ayoub Khan is | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
a barrister and former Birmingham And UKIP's Keith Rowe is | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
prominent on Birmingham's But this is as much a referendum | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
on the role of the PCC itself. We put that to the research | :09:41. | :09:49. | |
organisation who pushed for these They say recent polls suggest | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
the PCCs are recognised by ten times as many people | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
as the "invisible and unelected" police authorities they replaced, | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
so let's not get a possible low The timing of this means people will | :10:00. | :10:22. | |
be looking at the turnout as a test for the future of this role. What is | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
important is that the people of the West Midlands will be appointing | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
their new Commissioner. And with that in mind, a Labour | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
policy commission has recommended But Policy Exchange say some Labour | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
commissioners who were sceptical when they were elected, | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
have since changed their minds. Which could explain why | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
the party has yet to commit itself And you can read more about the PCC | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
elections on Patrick's blog, Campaigners trying to save | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
Birmingham's old Library are asking Friends | :10:56. | :11:04. | |
of Central Library say the building has architectural significance ` and | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
not enough has been done to come up Work on a new development | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
of Paradise Circus is due to begin And historic building that should be | :11:12. | :11:35. | |
preserved or just an eyesore. It is a conversation that campaigners have | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
had before and lost, but they're not easily put off. It is a shame to | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
lose the building, it is only 40 years old. Even back in the 1970s, | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
the new concrete skyline was controversial. How do you feel | :11:50. | :12:00. | |
affection? Where is the warmth? Now the old library is going to be | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
knocked down for eight new development starting in 2015. There | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
will be nothing like it when it is not down. What will replace it will | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
be good, but it would be outstanding, it would be special, it | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
will be like many other city centres around the world. 90% of people in a | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
consultation voted to get rid of this building. Developers say it is | :12:24. | :12:35. | |
a no`brainer. Developers say they are building will fit in with the | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
new look of Birmingham, but if you are coming up from the new station, | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
walking through Victoria Square, heading for the bars and restaurants | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
or at the new library, you don't want to see this on your way | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
through. What do the public thing? The old buildings look good. That | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
doesn't look nice at all. I think it would be sad to knock it down, | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
because it is part of Birmingham's yesterday. They have a new one much | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
better than that. Birmingham City Council says it is a done deal. | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
Permission to knock it down was granted in 2013, but campaigners say | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
they will continue the fight to make sure this particular concrete | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
remains. John Grindrod has written a book | :13:25. | :13:33. | |
about the rebuilding of post`war Convince us ` why shouldn't | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
the old Library be demolished? It is a unique building and it | :13:37. | :13:52. | |
represents a time in history when there was a unique optimism. A lot | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
of our viewers may get the unique part but not the fantastic park. | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
Partly, it is this shape, it is an upside`down pyramid. Nobody thought | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
that was possible. Also, the wait is constructed, it is fascinating | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
inside with the huge atrium. It is a lovely building to walk round. But | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
90% of people asked said get rid of it. Though at the moment, it really | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
needs to be washed and looked after, it hasn't had a lot of care | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
for many years. It is surrounded by weird additions of shops that | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
weren't there in the first place. If it were spruced up, I am sure a lot | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
of people would like it. We can look beyond Birmingham for many examples | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
of buildings that people are not sure, but you have followed in love | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
with them. Have a look at this. This is a tower block in Coventry. Love | :14:56. | :15:05. | |
it or loathe it? I do like it. There is a school of architecture that it | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
represents, that glass curtain wall. Again, that building hasn't | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
been looked after, so it looks tired and tatty. This next one might even | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
test your love for all things concrete. It is in Kidderminster, | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
apologies to residents, but I have relations with live there and | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
they're not terribly fond of it. What do you think of it? It is the | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
post office? Yes, that really never was a great design. Have I found a | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
little chink in your armour? I am quite happy to admit that there are | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
good and bad buildings in that post`war period. That is what is | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
great about the library is it is a fantastic building, it is not a | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
boarding building, it is really memorable. People always remember it | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
because of its unusual shape. Thanks very much. | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
Bowls with benefits ` the National Championships bringing | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
Rebecca's standing by with the weather for the weekend. | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
The vault with a fault ` but Christian Thomas still picks up | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
And we visit the two communities who have reasons | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
to be doubly thankful when it comes to remembering the war dead. | :16:28. | :16:39. | |
Well, that's what Gavin Sanford from Selly Oak is planning to do. | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
He's going to start at John O'Groats, but rather than take | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
the shortest route to Lands End, he'll run around 1200 miles taking | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
in cities such as Edinburgh, London and Cardiff along the way. | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
The former soldier, who now works for the NHS, is raising money for | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
Here's our Health correspondent, Michele Paduano. | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
Everything Gavin Sandford needs for his ordeal has to fit | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
For the past three months, for three hours each morning he has | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
The ex`infantryman, who works in hospital theatres, is on a mission. | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
Having seen horrific injuries, he believes better physiotherapy | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
equipment would lead to better outcomes for soldiers | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
I need to dig deep into some of the things I have seen. Even I have to | :17:25. | :17:43. | |
crawl over by the skin of my teeth, I will see it. | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
And these are the children that Gavin is determined to help. | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
Mohammed Nahib has a muscle waiting disease. | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
This is the furthest the five`year`old has ever walked. | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
Four`year`old Seb Whatton is recovering from leukaemia. | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
The exercises here are to strengthen his arms and legs. | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
I need something I can slide on. This is what it is about. This is | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
why I am putting myself through this thing. I will get the money to get | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
these children the equipment they need to get them to a better place | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
as fast as possible. The cash will be shared between the | :18:16. | :18:26. | |
Birmingham Queen Elizabeth Hospital To see somebody do this in 45 | :18:27. | :18:41. | |
marathons, it is the craziest thing I have ever seen done for the | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
hospital. We are amazed by him and what he is doing. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
His test of endurance begins on Tuesday. | :18:52. | :18:52. | |
And it's been another great 24 hours for Midlanders at the Commonwealth | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
Kristian Thomas won a silver today, he has three in total. South Africa | :19:00. | :19:35. | |
squad their way back into the match at the end, it went to sudden death | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
and they lost. The highlight last night was | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
20`year`old Jazmin Sawyers Jazmin, who's from Stoke, | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
was winning her first medal I spoke to her a little earlier | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
from Glasgow. And I began by asking if her | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
success had started to sink in. I think it will take awhile. I woke | :19:50. | :20:05. | |
up this morning and saw the medal on my bedside table and gasped to | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
myself. I still can't believe it. Talk us through being on the podium, | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
because you have these was a picture. I could hear the crowds and | :20:16. | :20:25. | |
my friend told me to go out there. A lot of people had left by then, but | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
unbelievable. Everyone was screaming unbelievable. Everyone was screaming | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
and cheering and I was just so proud. I couldn't believe it. You | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
will all two centimetres off the gold. Have you thought about that | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
today? Today, I have. Yesterday, it didn't register. But I am over the | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
moon with the silver and I feel I have many years to grab that gold. | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
Let's say you're a silver medal clearly. This is just the start of | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
your career. Do you think you'll get into the European Championships now? | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
I don't think so, I don't have the qualifying standard for this year. | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
There isn't time, so not for me, but I am just so over the moon with the | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
can now take it forward to training can now take it forward to training | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
and work on it. 20 to look forward to. Q1 the silver medal in the youth | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
Olympics in 2012. During a singer songwriter, studying for a law | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
degree. Is there anything you can't do? Plenty, I just don't do it. It | :21:42. | :21:51. | |
has been a great week for the Midlands. How many medals to we | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
have? The latest for the Debenhams is 12 medals in total. If the West | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
Midlands was a country, we would be eight. There would be a campaign for | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
independence for the West Midlands them. | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
A war memorial is a feature of nearly every village | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
But there are two small communities in our region where | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
Middleton on the Hill in Herefordshire and Upper Slaughter in | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
Gloucestershire are known as Doubly Thankful Villages ` remarkably none | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
of their residents died in either the 1st or 2nd World Wars. | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
Middleton on the Hill near Leominster and Upper Slaughter | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
70 miles apart but they share a common bond. | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
Nobody in either community died in two world wars. | :22:40. | :22:51. | |
They're known as Doubly Thankful villages ` | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
there's only 13 in the country and only these two in the Midlands. | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
Tony Collett's father George was one of 60 soldiers who returned | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
He served in both wars and made these plaques, listing | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
Life is a very placid thing in this Cotswold village. | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
As this film made in 1939 just before the outbreak of war shows, | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
But it wasn't the case on February 4th, 1944. | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
Hundreds of incendiary bombs were dropped by the Luftwaffe on Upper | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
We were very fortunate that it didn't go off. It went into timber | :23:16. | :23:26. | |
shades. `` shades. Tony Collett still has one | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
of the shells and is thankful the village's record on war | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
survivors didn't end that night. Soldiers from 16,000 villagers from | :23:38. | :23:50. | |
across the UK fought in the two world wars and to give you an idea | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
of how lucky this village was, 99.92% of those villagers will cost | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
at least one of them men. In the churchyard at Middleton | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
on the Hill, a lantern celebrating the safe return of every soldier is | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
a permanent reminder And now there's another one ` | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
this roll of honour was recently found stuffed away in a drawer | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
of the back of the church, the names of all the men who came | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
back recorded in fading pencil. When you think of all the people who | :24:14. | :24:27. | |
got killed in the war, but all of ours came home and it is a minor | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
miracle. And BBC Hereford | :24:30. | :24:39. | |
and Worcester will have more about the thankful villages | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
as part of the World War at Home Let's find out if we're in for a wet | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
weekend ` Rebecca has the forecast. Yes, we are. We have had plenty of | :24:45. | :25:07. | |
showers already and flash flooding. More rain in the forecast, but it | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
will mark be a complete wash`out. But we do have sunshine by the time | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
we get to Sunday. We have had this cloud and rain coming in from the | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
South West, lively downpours in there. Those continue over the next | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
few hours. There will be some breaks in it, but with all that cloud and | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
rain, temperatures will be about 13 Celsius. Tomorrow, fronts moving | :25:48. | :25:57. | |
through right the way through the day and a yellow warning in place | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
for heavy rain. Rain continuing through the mining, but slowly, as | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
the pressure begins to move its way northwards. Temperatures getting up | :26:09. | :26:25. | |
to 22 Celsius. Slowly through the day, it does improve and overnight, | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
the last of the rain will clear the way. Overnight temperatures around | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
13 Celsius. It will mean a pleasant start to Sunday. Good spells of | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
sunshine and definitely the best day of the weekend. Rain picking up and | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
there will be a breeze on Sunday, which will make things fresh air. | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
Into the new working week, we continue with the pattern of | :26:55. | :26:56. | |
sunshine and showers. Tonight 's headlines, and other | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
cease`fire collapses in Gaza. | :27:03. | :27:15. |