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very much. That's all from the BBC News at Six. Goodbye from

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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight:

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Feeling the suffering of their compatriots ` Yazidis talk of their

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horror at events back home in Northern Iraq

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We'll be reporting live from Coventry, where members of the

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Yazidi community are holding a crisis meeting. Also tonight:

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A desperate search for donors as time starts to run out for two young

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people with rare forms of cancer. Struggling to cope ` the Potteries

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has some of the highest levels of debt in the country.

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It seems like your debt is never paid off.

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Prove your food has been grown locally ` strict rules bringing

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record business for a farmers market.

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And nothing more super than a supermoon on a clear night. But that

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was Sunday's highlight. Tomorrow, it's the Perseid meteor showers at

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their peak, but will you be able to see them? Find out later.

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Members of the Yazidi community say they've been traumatised by the

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Up to 400 followers of the persecuted sect have made

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They've watched with mounting horror as Yazidis flee extremists

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Our reporter Sarah Falkland is with some families tonight.

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I don't think they are coping well. It is very frustrating for them.

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Some men here tonight have been glued to the television screens as

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their wives are at home watching the horror is an fold in Iraq and

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powerless to do anything. Many of them are here in Coventry, having

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come over after the second Gulf War and have extended family there.

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Today our reporter spent time with the community.

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Jamil Shardeen Darwish arrived in Coventry 11 years ago, leaving loved

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TRANSLATION: Family is my blood, we have more than 100 family there.

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Many of them have run away to Syria, to the mountains, some of them we do

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not know where they are. The father of seven is seen

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as a head of the Yazidi community in Coventry, which is planning to

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travel to Downing Street to hold a peaceful demonstration calling

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for more British aid to help the TRANSLATION: We have a lot of people

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in the mountains but still are people there are very weak, they

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have gone ten days without food can, `` without food, but we are

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trying to say, the send help, anything is a help. `` please send

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help. Hundreds of Yazidis have

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been killed or kidnapped. Tens of thousands have fled their

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homes and are trapped on a mountain near Sinjar in northern Iraq,

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driven there by Islamic militants The Yazidi religion is

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a closed sect. It's not possible for someone

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to convert to the religion. For centuries, they have suffered

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persecution, mislabelled as devil worshippers because the name of

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the spirit they worship is similar In reality, it has elements of both

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Christianity and Islam at its roots. It's estimated that as many

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as 20,000 people may still be on the southern side of the mountain,

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all in desperate need of aid. I am here now with two men who have

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family in the attacks that area. We have all seen these awful pictures

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on TV. It must be frustrating for you. It was terrifying, it made me

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feel worse, you can see the picture of thousands of people without food

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or anything, the art kids, young, old, old the same. How many family

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do you have? We have blood family still there, we need help to get

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them food, clothes, stop. There has also been criticism of how the

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British government is handling this crisis. What do you think? I want to

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say thanks to the British people to help, but the government are too

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slow because the last element went into Iraq, and a lot of people died,

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women are in danger, kids are in danger, and we ask the government to

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go, save our family now. So you think parliament should be recall.

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How quick they can come, that would be great. Please, British people,

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help us. You have been collecting aid here. We have collect it clothes

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for our people because they have left their family and they are in

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the mountain without anything, so here we try to help our people

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there, we take clothes and give them to people. A sense of the urgency

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and frustration here amongst the Daisy Dee and Kurdish people here in

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Coventry. `` that Yazidi people. Lindsay mentioned our marked in

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Coventry. `` eight March in Coventry.

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Why plans to make this colliery into an industrial park are

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A desperate struggle is on to find suitable stem cell or bone marrow

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19`month`old Khalid Adam and 21`year`old Riya Dandekar have

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But a shortage of suitable donors from ethnic minorities means

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Our reporter Kevin Reide has been finding out more.

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Khalid Adam from Coventry was just four months old when he was rushed

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After months of tests, he was diagnosed with acute myeloid

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leukaemia and needed treatment to save his life.

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You have to be positive, otherwise it starts at the thing your mind,

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the way you think. You look at him and think he looks fine.

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After chemotherapy, things seemed to be going well,

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He now has just four weeks to find a donor to give him

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You just think, why? You cannot take it in.

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Meanwhile, in Solihull, Riya Dandekar is

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Just five months ago a swelling near her shoulder turned out to be

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anaplastic lymphoma, another blood cancer.

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The dog brought the chair forward and in slow motion said it is

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lymphoma, and my brain panicked. I didn't know what to think, I

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thought, wait, is this cancer? He said yes, the doctor said yes, and I

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didn't know what to do. I looked at my mum and we both cried.

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The fact is that if Khalid and Riya were white northern European,

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they would have a 90% chance of finding a donor, but

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because they're of Asian heritage, they're chances are just 40%.

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Riya has enlisted the help of her friends at

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Dorridge Music School to demonstrate just how simple taking a swab test

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And she's now planning swab sessions in predominantly Asian communities.

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We have been talking to parents and students when they come in, so

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hopefully we will spread the word a lot. I was ignorant on the subject

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but I find out it is easy, three quick and straightforward steps.

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Exploding the myths is half the problem.

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Many are unsure what stem cell or bone marrow donation entails,

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but both are done without the need for surgery.

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I am 95% of cases just collecting themselves from the blood, which is

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having injections for four days and on the fifth day, needles will be

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put into arms and the blood flows through the machine to collect this

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themselves. Only a minority of blood conditions will we need to collect

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the bone marrow, and the bone marrow is also done under general

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anaesthetic. I going to die because I'm not responding to Chemotherapy?

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It is a difficult question and to be honest with you I try to avoid it

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because it is so difficult. Riya is planning to set up her own

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charity to encourage potential donors, particularly from the Asian

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community, and if she doesn't survive, she

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hopes any legacy will help others, A teachers' organisation has

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criticised anti`extremism measures introduced in the wake

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of the "Trojan horse" inquiry into radicalisation

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at Birmingham schools. The Association of School

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and College Leaders says new standards have been "rushed through"

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and could have unintended An inquest has recorded

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a suicide verdict on a grandmother who was worried

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about losing her home because Stephanie Bottrill,

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known to her family as Doreen, She left a note saying

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the government was to blame, before walking in front

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of a lorry on the M6. On the morning of May 4th last year,

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Doreen Bottrill walked across the M6 motorway and

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into the path of a lorry. In suicide notes left for her

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family, she blamed changes to the housing benefit system and said she

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couldn't cope with the stress of Political opponents have called it

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a bedroom tax and it's been one of the coalition government's most

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controversial policies, leading to From April last year,

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councils and housing associations could reduce the amount

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of benefits paid to tenants with The government said up to half a

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million homes were being underused With Doreen Bottrill's family gone,

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she was living alone Her choice was to find,

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from somewhere, an extra ?80 At today's inquest,

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Mrs Bottrill's brother said his sister's death was a tragedy,

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but he understood why the government For social housing to work, it needs

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for everyone to take their turn, and went you are adequately housed by

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successive governments and your needs are met, then you must give

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somebody else a turn. It is terrible that people in this country are

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cramped into one or two bedroom flats for children while other

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children `` other people set in two bedroom houses.

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Solihull council said if Mrs Bottrill had decided to move out

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of the home where she'd lived for more than 20 years,

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As a verdict of suicide was recorded, the family

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said their thoughts went out to the driver whose life had been blighted

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Feeling the pain of their compatriots ` Yazidis living

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in Coventry talk of their horror at events back home in northern Iraq.

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Shefali will be with us shortly with the very latest weather forecast.

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How the FA plans to encourage more young

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And all produced locally ` how strict rules have been

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a business winner for a farmers' market in Shropshire.

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More people are struggling to pay their debts in Stoke`on`Trent than

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A study by two charities found more than a third of children

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in the city were living in families with debt problems.

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The report's authors say many feel taking on credit is

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Here's our Staffordshire reporter, Liz Copper.

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Enjoying the school holidays with her children,

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She's happy to be debt`free now, but when she was 16 she took out a

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loan and for a while her financial problems spiralled out of control.

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Sleepless nights, you worry about people knocking on your door and you

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worry about money especially when you have children, all the

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responsibilities and you feel like you have failed because you have no

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money. It is just a domino effect. And in Hanley city centre,

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plenty of other families were also You think you have the money and it

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can only go so far. I don't really believe in loans. I think they just

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get you in more debt, so I wouldn't risk it.

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But despite some families being reluctant to take out loans,

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a study out today suggests this city is one of the worst affected areas

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The report found half of children in families with problems that said it

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caused arguments and nine out of ten families said they cut back on

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essentials like food, clothing and heating.

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And at this food bank at a church in Bentilee, every week volunteers

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Sometimes as well as handing out bags of food,

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We have people in that they cannot buy anything because they cannot pay

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their way. The first thing they need to do is pay the debt and worry

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about food later on, and that is what we have found.

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Bentilee is typical of many estates in the city,

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Children will often pick up on the anxiety there parents feel around

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financial problems and it is well known that they could be extreme and

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relationships. `` they put a strain on race and ships. `` on

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relationships. Zoe Walton's finances are now

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trouble free, but for many families, escaping the cycle

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of debt remains difficult. A public meeting's being held

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tonight over controversial plans to turn the site

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of the region's last deep coal mine Daw Mill Colliery in Warwickshire

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shut last year. The pit had been struggling to break

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even, but the final straw was a devastating fire underground,

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which took months to put out. At one time it was one of Europe's

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biggest collieries. And when it shut last year,

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Daw Mill was the last remaining deep coal mine in our region,

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employing nearly 700 people. Now he's a councillor

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and he's worried about the future I feel we've got to do something

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on the site. It's got to be a business park but

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it's got to be the right sort of business, so we've got to look at

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the infrastructure carefully, about But the hope is 1400 jobs could be

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created in a new industrial park ` twice

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the number who worked underground. That could mean dozens of lorries

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like this on winding country lanes, through villages which are already

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too familiar with the effects I think most people welcome jobs but

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the concern here is that we have a site which is extremely inaccessible

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and most people fear the worst of both worlds, where we will get very

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few jobs created and massive amounts of traffic

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from heavy goods vehicles that will And it's not just

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the neighbours who are worried. Five miles away in Coleshill, the

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prospect of even more traffic is People, children cross the road,

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it's a route for the kids to get to school,

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pushchairs, elderly people crossing We have no pedestrian crossing,

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you can't cross at the moment, so more traffic,

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more damage to the area, damage to It may not look like much now,

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but one of this site's main assets is that it has access to

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the rail network for freight. The developers say that will cut

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down on the number of lorries coming here,

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and they also say they're willing to This is Danny Bath, who is one of

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very few rich agents playing in professional football. That is

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something the FA wants to change. Nick,

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the Football Association is very And that's why they've organised

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a series of forums in places with large Asian communities, like this

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one tonight here at the Hawthorns. Across the Midlands, thousands of

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British Asians have a real passion for football, as I discovered

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in the Black Country this morning. The school holidays are

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in full swing Around two dozen lads have turned up

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for a training session with Jerusalem Rangers, one of many clubs

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around the Midlands encouraging youngsters to play the beautiful

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game at a grassroots level. I've been playing here for two

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months and it's really good because I want to do this path so I can

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become a professional footballer. So how many British`born Asian

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players are playing professional football in the top four English

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leagues? The answer is just eight,

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including Adil Nabi at West Brom, Malvind Benning at Walsall,

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and Danny Batth at Wolves. Danny's father is Indian and his

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outstanding talent has made him a He said, "It would be great to

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see more Asian footballers making If that does make me

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a role model for other aspiring young Asian players,

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that can only be a positive thing." We need to increase

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the participation at a foundation level, at a grassroots

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level, therefore that will filter up to hopefully finding more people

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in the professional game. And in five or 10 years, will

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that picture look very different? There is a shift in culture

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at the moment where football is You have eight players

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across the four leagues. Let's give the kids that push,

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let's give ourselves that push to In the meantime, Adam and thousands

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of youngsters just like him can only work hard and dream of breaking

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through the glass ceiling and making the grade, but the stats don't lie

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for British`born Asians aspiring to Let's talk to a couple of guys with

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an interest in this subject. Adil is one of the young professional agent

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that owners of the year. Do you regard yourself as a role model? If

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that is what you want to call it, yeah, a role model to young Asians

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in deprived areas like I was from, so it can help young lads do what I

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have supposedly done now, great. You have put in so much hard work, not

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just yourself but all your family. Yes, if you want to get to the top

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you have to put hard`working, my mum, my dad, my brothers, so it is a

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whole family thing, but obviously I get the headlines but there is a lot

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of work from the family that has to be done. Your father had to change

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jobs and to all of his brothers on the playing staff. Brendan, a former

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legendary players here and consulted on equality matters. What more can

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the FA do? Forums like this where they are having consultations with

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the Asian community, who make up 5% of the population here, and we want

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to embrace everyone and we have had one or two come through but we need

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a deeper pool of talent for that to rise to the top, so that all is

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lovely, you are welcome, just come forward and be part of it. Is

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progress being made? I think there is work being done that hopefully

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you will see, but this problem keeps rising year in year out and we need

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positive action, which we are trying to do now. The FA's that all four

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continues here this evening. `` football forum continues.

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The owner of Hereford United has confirmed to

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the BBC that he has failed the Football Association's fit and

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proper person test and is no longer allowed to be involved in the club.

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Tommy Agombar took over Hereford in June and attended their opening game

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He says he's invested around ?240,000 in the club

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and fears that without his support, Hereford will "crash".

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It's been a successful day for Midlands athletes at the European

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19`year`old Matthew Hudson`Smith, from Wolverhampton,

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was an impressive winner of his heat in the men's 400 metres.

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He's through to tomorrow's semifinals.

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Stoke's Ashleigh Nelson set a personal best of 11.19 seconds to

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qualify for the semifinals of the women's 100 metres.

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And Birmingham's Hannah England has reached Friday's final

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Just like our high streets, markets have had to change

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One of the big successes has been farmers'

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markets providing produce you don't find on a supermarket shelf.

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Some are becoming increasingly strict

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They say that's helping to attract record visitors and sales.

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In the second part of our series on the state of

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the region's markets, Ben Godfrey's been to Ludlow, a Shropshire town

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There's been a market in Ludlow for over 900 years.

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In the shadow of the castle, 40 stallholders promise quality

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This isn't Oxford Street where you can sell rubbish

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People who don't sell quality, who do not maintain quality,

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So if you didn't hear that message loud

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Anybody that trades here has to be within 30 miles of that town.

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Everyone has to make their own product, so if you are selling raw

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Appleteme are a small company selling apple juice

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Seven miles away from Ludlow, Jane Cullen and her business

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partner produce 6000 bottles a year, and they pick, crush and bottle it

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We supply a growing number of pubs and restaurants

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and we are stretching as far as Shrewsbury now, so we would

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like to grow but we want to keep the character of our product.

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A decade ago, Ludlow built a reputation as a foodie capital,

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but the recession saw some producers and restaurateurs struggle.

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The produce market adapted, catching the tourist trade and moving from

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I'm quite interested in food that's locally grown.

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I live in Bournemouth and I love to come to Ludlow every time I'm here.

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For every pound spent here, there is another ?3 that stays

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There are plans to build a large supermarket

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It comes as British Market Authorities are seeing reduced

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footfall as the big players spread more local convenience stores

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We've got markets now that are reducing in size,

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Increasingly people are doing what we call click and collect,

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or shopping via the internet, and that's used now, I think 32

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However, it removes the human interaction.

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And that's something this produce market prides itself on ` and

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the belief that people will travel from afar to buy the local label.

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Bit of a grey day today weather`wise and somewhat damp in the last couple

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We are hoping it will be, and we are hoping for the skies to clear

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tonight, especially in the early as of tomorrow because there is a

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galactic spectacle in the night skies. We have a supermoon and also

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the meteor shower, both competing with each other, but the meteor

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shower were willed peak later tonight, especially towards dawn. By

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all accounts it looks as though the skies will clear later tonight

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because the showers today caused by this area of low pressure, which

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will swing off to the east by tomorrow, that will clear the way

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for drier conditions. If we look at what is going on now, we still have

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some angry looking showers over the region or the next couple of those

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`` couple of hours and those will fade away to leave dry conditions in

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the early hours and clear skies developing, not everywhere, central

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parts may have the best chance of seeing the meteor showers, at

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temperatures will drop to a minimum of 12 Celsius, but tomorrow morning

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there is a lot of sunshine to be had. Not as wet as today, a lot of

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dry weather and sunshine but we will see the winds turned to

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north`westerly as today they were south`westerly. It will cut off the

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flow of showers from the south`west, there are still a few trickling

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through the Cheshire gap, very light and sunshine to take temperatures up

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to around 20 Celsius. We have winds picking up again tomorrow night and

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that will draw in more showers through the second half of the night

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and into Thursday, so Thursday we are looking at a return of some

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fairly lively and prolific showers and that will also lead to winds

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picking up and it will feel quite cool, but drier by Friday, cooler

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and quieter. Before I hand back to Nick, a quick mention of Twitter. I

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am on that, so you can find my official account online.

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The actor and comedian Robin Williams has died.

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He's believed to have killed himself.

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Feeling the suffering of their compatriots `

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Yazidis talk of their horror at events back home in Northern Iraq.

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And a desperate search for donors as time starts to run out for two young

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MUSIC: "It Don't Mean A Thing" by Duke Ellington

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celebrating the music of Count Basie and Duke Ellington.

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We've got factory boys and butchers' apprentices and office clerks

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Don't stop moving! If you go back you'll die!

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Espionage. Who would possibly assassinate him?

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Deception. There's so much more to this story than I thought.

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And even murder. With a knife! Real shock.

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Unravelling the mysteries of their family tree.

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A baker?! Well, I'm damned.

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