14/09/2014

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:00:14. > :00:13.Good evening. on the BBC News Channel, we are back

:00:14. > :00:16.A nurse is calling for more research to help dhagnose

:00:17. > :00:20.Anita Evans says it took six years for confirmation that her

:00:21. > :00:23.Stephen Evans was just fiftx one when he started to deterior`te.

:00:24. > :00:26.His family was told he was too young to have the illness.

:00:27. > :00:29.The number of people under the age of 65 being diagnosed with dementia

:00:30. > :00:37.Stephen Evans has deteriorated from being a loving husband

:00:38. > :00:48.It's been very hard to see somebody like him, such a big character,

:00:49. > :00:55.Worst still, it took six ye`rs for him to be diagnosed.

:00:56. > :01:02.They said he can't have Alzheimer's because he's too young

:01:03. > :01:05.for Alzheimer's and dementi`, you don't get until you're over 60

:01:06. > :01:13.Stephen was presenting a good case, there was something really going

:01:14. > :01:16.Anita and her family joined 1500 people on

:01:17. > :01:21.a charity walk through Cannock Chase to raise awareness of dementia.

:01:22. > :01:26.For Stephen's daughter, it was a time to reflect.

:01:27. > :01:29.You sort of anticipate your grief because although he is still alive,

:01:30. > :01:35.Stephen is now in a rehabilitation hospital.

:01:36. > :01:41.There are more than 73,000 people across the West Midlands with

:01:42. > :01:46.dementia and according to the Alzheimer's Society, by next year

:01:47. > :02:04.The relatives suffer more than the patients.

:02:05. > :02:19.They are suffering from it, but it is the family that are grieving

:02:20. > :02:21.Police are investigating after a man was killed

:02:22. > :02:24.when he fell onto the railw`y track at Nuneaton train station.

:02:25. > :02:27.Detectives had been trying to trace him in connection with the lurder

:02:28. > :02:30.of a woman whose body was found at the Premier Inn in Bedford

:02:31. > :02:35.The man's not been formally identified but is believed

:02:36. > :02:39.Ten Birmingham MP's have wrhtten to the Business Secretary asking

:02:40. > :02:44.for the proposed High Speed Rail College to be based in the city

:02:45. > :02:45.It's where the engineers needed to construct

:02:46. > :02:50.Around 2,000 apprentices ard expected to be part of the scheme.

:02:51. > :02:53.The MPs say it would benefit the whole of the West Midlands to

:02:54. > :02:59.have the training facility for High Speed 2 here.

:03:00. > :03:02.A West Midlands based Scotthsh MP says more power should be ddvolved

:03:03. > :03:06.to English regions such as the West Midlands after Thursday's rdferendum

:03:07. > :03:10.Speaking on Sunday Politics, Steve McCabe,

:03:11. > :03:13.the Labour MP for Selly Oak says many voters see Westminster as being

:03:14. > :03:29.I think that is the feeling that people should be able to decide more

:03:30. > :03:34.locally, investment policies, transport policies, how things are

:03:35. > :03:40.done. I think there sense that Westminster is to reward. `` remote.

:03:41. > :03:43.A new pensions survey commissioned by the BBC's Inside Out programme

:03:44. > :03:46.has found as many as half of the regions 18 to 60 years olds

:03:47. > :03:50.When people were asked why, the most common answer was they

:03:51. > :03:52.couldn't afford to pay into a private or company scheme.

:03:53. > :03:54.Tomorrow night's programme takes to the streets of Stoke

:03:55. > :03:58.on Trent with a money expert to find out why so many women are worse

:03:59. > :04:03.off than men and how you can improve your pension prospects.

:04:04. > :04:10.I think for women saving for the retirement is tougher than for men.

:04:11. > :04:17.The error in less than men `nd they live longer. They may take time out

:04:18. > :04:19.from work to have a family. Women find it more off`putting and do not

:04:20. > :04:25.engage in pensions as much. Inside Out's Pension Speci`l is

:04:26. > :04:27.on BBC 1 tomorrow night, One

:04:28. > :04:30.of the most successful Paralympians ever, Baroness Tanni Grey`Thompson

:04:31. > :04:33.has been in the region todax. She's praised sporting venuds

:04:34. > :04:35.for trying to improve access to The 11 times gold medallist was

:04:36. > :04:50.in Stafford to support the Access to disability sport hs

:04:51. > :04:58.getting better all the time. We know that following 2012, disabldd people

:04:59. > :05:04.want to be active they just do not know the ways. The hardest thing if

:05:05. > :05:09.you are disabled is to turn up for the first time. If you come with

:05:10. > :05:13.friends and it is a comfort`ble environment, you are more lhkely to

:05:14. > :05:17.do it. So without things like this, disabled people would not bd

:05:18. > :05:18.supported and would not get into sport.

:05:19. > :05:25.Onto the weather now ` here's Charlie Slater with all the details.

:05:26. > :05:35.Good evening. You can see that the clothes of picking up tomorrow

:05:36. > :05:39.morning. We could have some light drizzle in the early part of Monday

:05:40. > :05:46.morning. Lots of cloud and very overcast. A few showers herd and

:05:47. > :05:53.there, perhaps couple of brhght spells. These will be a bonts rather

:05:54. > :05:57.than a guarantee. Temperature is doing well with the Jim MacLeod and

:05:58. > :05:59.drizzle. Largely settled and this will continue as we meet through the

:06:00. > :06:03.rest of the week. ``