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The Justice Secretary calls for a full investigation | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
400 prisoners are moved out of Birmingham jail. | :00:13. | :00:22. | |
From the staff and when I've been talking to them, | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
this has been coming for at least two or three months. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
We'll be asking the chair of the independent monitoring board | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
about the state of the jail this evening. | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
The end of a line - the Wolverhampton Goodyear factory | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
closes its doors after nearly 90 years of production. | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
We knew it was coming about a year ago and I'm hoping, | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
despite some people not being happy, that at least the majority | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
A timely victory for campaigners at Dudley Hippodrome - | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
the future of the theatre is secured on its 78th anniversary. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Behind the scenes at Sport Personality of the Year - | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
how 11 months of planning get to air. | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
Add the weather might not be feeling festive, but I have got a tale that | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
might help. Join me for a full forecast later and a spot of | :01:07. | :01:07. | |
Christmas Carol. The BBC understands that 400 | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
prisoners have now been moved out of Birmingham Prison, | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
since riots on Friday. Specially trained prison officers | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
took back control of the jail late on Friday night, | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
after more than 12 hours of chaos. Stairwells were set on fire | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
and paper records destroyed during trouble in four wings | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
of the category B prison, Today the Justice Secretary ordered | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
a full investigation New footage emerged today of gleeful | :01:38. | :01:55. | |
inmates running a mark on the four wings of HMP Birmingham, seized by | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
rioters. For 12 hours or more, a prison in | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
the grip of anarchy. Outside today, I met a man whose brother and cousin | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
are inside. I'm really worried about them, because they were walking | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
around with weapons and that. It was really tense because most of them | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
are locked down. In the Commons today, under pressure, the Justice | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
Secretary responded to the worst UK prison riot in 25 years. It is | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
important to a member that these problems have developed over a | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
number of years, and it will take time and concerted effort to turn | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
this situation around. While these reforms take old, we are continually | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
working to reduce risk and ensure stability across the prison estate. | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
Periodically, vans emerge, the prisoners bumping on the sides as | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
they go. Part of a series of transfers to other jails. | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Originally, we were told 240 inmates were to be transferred. We now | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
believe that figure to be closer to 400. It appears the rioting started | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
with inmates clambering onto safety netting stretched between landings. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
One was unhappy because of a problem with a health care appointment. | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
So-called tornadoes cause of prison officers emerged late on Friday, | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
spattered in paint, having restored order. Just six weeks ago, a board | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
of independent monitors warned about the growing prevalence of | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
psychoactive drugs in the presence. It seems that it is a difficult task | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
to get it sorted. There are cracks in the system. This has been coming | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
for two or three months. They think it has been ignored, and it has | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
culminated in Friday night and the right. Evidence is being gathered | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
for a police investigation into the riot. Four wings were so badly | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
damaged, they apparently unusable. who's chairman of the Birmingham | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
Prison Independent Monitoring Board. You've been to the prison | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
this morning - It's getting back to being a more | :04:16. | :04:28. | |
relaxed place. On Saturday, members of the board were saying there was a | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
lot of aggression and shouting and anger. That has dissipated. We have | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
talked to prisoners and staff and it is getting back to how we would | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
expected to be. You raised concerns about insufficient staffing levels | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
back in July, didn't you? Have they not been listened to? I think they | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
have been listened to. G4S have, instead of appointing people as | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
people left, they have started recruiting ahead of vacancies coming | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
online. But it is a difficult job. Some who take it on not realise what | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
it is like and find it too difficult. Other have been in the | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
job for a long time, find it difficult and end up being either | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
sick or finding new jobs. The Justice Secretary has called for a | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
full investigation into what happened on Friday. Do you have any | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
idea what went wrong? I think the investigation needs to do that. | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
Depending on who you talk to in the prison, they have all got their own | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
theories about what it may have been. I figured this stage it is | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
fruitless to speculate. Then we put it a different way. Were you | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
surprised that this happened on Friday? I think we were surprised, | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
because we believed the police and is well run, we think the local | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
population... The rioting would suggest differently! Yes! You can be | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
proud of the management of the prison and the staff at the effort | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
they put into it, so although it has its tensions, they have come up and | :06:06. | :06:14. | |
down over the years. We would say it was a surprise that it happened. OK, | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
thank you for your time. one of Wolverhampton's | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
major employers Goodyear has been making tyres | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
at the Bushbury Lane site At its height, the factory | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
employed 7,000 workers. But in June last year, the company | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
said it was to close the plant - Unions say those workers | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
were promised help to find alternative employment, | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
but claim this didn't happen. Our business correspondent, | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
Peter Plisner, Certainly years. To night, this | :06:44. | :06:57. | |
battery is quite for the first time in decades. It visually closes | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
tomorrow, but the production ended last Friday. The tyre compounds that | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
were previously made here I now being made at sites across Europe as | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
yet another major industry leads Wolverhampton. | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
He's witnessed the demise of several major companies, | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
and today John Bull was there at the end of Goodyear. | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
Despite major investment just four years ago | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
and an efficient workforce, the company still wanted this | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
factory closed, with the loss of more than 300 jobs. | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
Wanye Deveney was one of the first to leave, | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
but like many he struggled to find work in the Wolverhampton area | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
A lot of the lads went to Stafford, which is a 27 mile run. You have | :07:35. | :07:52. | |
people out at Stafford Way, a 29 mile journey. | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
And unions have been highly critital that workers were offer redployment | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
even further away at a Goodyear factory in Mexico. | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
It shows the total lack of understanding that Goodyear have got | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
about the workforce. To add insult to injury. No one is going to go | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
there. This is the old chub factory in the | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
centre of the city, which is now a media and leisure centre. | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
This newsreel footage shows workers finishing off a spacial record | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
breaking car at the old Sunbeam factory in the city. | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
And this is the same factory today - now converted into flats. | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
Experts say globalisation means production can go anywhere. | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
If the companies are not headquartered here, and they are not | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
also putting the research and development commitment into the | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
places where they are producing stuff, there is an incentive to look | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
upon it as a production outsourcing thing, and then you move around to | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
areas where you think you will be more cost competitive. | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
So where does Goodyear's departure leave Wolverhampton - | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
business leaders maintain the city's future is still bright. | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
There is a lot of money going to regeneration in Wolverhampton, as | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
you can see when you go through. A lot of retail is moving into the | :09:10. | :09:10. | |
area. Although new industries have been | :09:11. | :09:11. | |
attracted to the city, including Jaguar Land Rover's engine | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
plant - the closure of Goodyear and the loss of jobs | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
is still a bitter blow. We asked Goodyear to put up a | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
spokesperson tonight, they declined. They issued a statement saying that | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
the majority of workers have secured alternative positions in the local | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
area. 283 workers, they say, have left the site. 37 will remain for | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
what they call a close down period, which eases acted to be completed in | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
June next year. -- which is expected to be completed. | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
A man from Birmingham, aged 101, has been jailed for 13 years | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
for historical sex offences against children. | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
Ralph Clarke, who's believed to be the oldest person in Britain ever | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
to be convicted by a jury, was found guilty last week | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
of abusing three children during the 1970s and '80s. | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
Sentencing him, the judge said Clarke | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
Police have named a man who was stabbed and killed | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
23-year-old Ibrahim Ismail was found on Moseley Street | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
in Highgate in the early hours of Saturday. | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
A postmortem examination revealed wounds to his chest and back. | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
Detectives are appealing for witnesses. | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
There has been a victory today for campaigners | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
working to secure the future of the Dudley Hippodrome. | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
Keys to the venue have been handed over, | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
as the council agreed to a five-year lease. | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
as the theatre opened its doors 78 years ago on this very day in 1938. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Here's our arts reporter, Satnam Rana. | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
The real work can start so we can finally see that building restored | :10:47. | :10:58. | |
to its own natural beauty, and once again entertainment | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
The main prop - a bunch of keys, unlocking rhe future | :11:01. | :11:10. | |
Campaigners have fought hard to save the Art Deco building. | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
Now they've been given a five-year lease by the council. | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Wonderful, because we can now start work in there, clearing it out, | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
and we now need to get the next stage going. | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
The next stages are, of course, fundraising. | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
We need to raise funds for feasibility studies, | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
we need to find out what needs to be done to get the building repaired. | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
We've got to get the services connected. | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
And then we've got to look at what we need to put inside it | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
In its heyday, the theatre was a magnet for great entertainers - | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
and comedy duo Laurel and Hardy appeared in 1947. | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
having been transformed from a theatre to a bingo hall. | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
So what's made the council hand out the five-year lease? | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
We simply haven't got the money to be able to invest in this. | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
But what we've done is worked with the Friends Of The Hippodrome | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
to at least give them the opportunity to raise that revenue, | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
to bring acting life back to the Hippodrome, | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
In all, ?10 million is needed to reopen the building. | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
Plans include a side extension and a glass frontage. | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
In five years' time, it's hoped that the curtain | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
will once again be raised here at the Dudley Hippodrome. | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
But this time, not just as a theatre, | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
but also a multiuse venue, hosting both sporting and cultural events. | :12:38. | :12:47. | |
250,000 school children from around the world have been | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
in Birmingham, competing in a special tournament, | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
which tests teamwork and engineering skills. | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
They've built robots from Lego for the first Lego League - | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
an international research and engineering competition. | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
Last minute checks by this young engineering enthusiast, | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
but can his team's robot move this pig without knocking it over? | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
And for the boys in green, another confident start, | :13:13. | :13:26. | |
A couple of minutes later, a chance to discuss the scores. | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
It sometimes works and it sometimes doesn't. | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
Even if you programme it and everything is perfect | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
in the testing, in the real thing, it goes wrong. | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
The pupils are judged on their robots and teamwork. | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
160 children from 16 schools across the West Midlands | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
are taking part in the regional heat. | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
Woodrush High School is keen to do better than last year. | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
We looked at other teams, and that's been helpful. | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
We've looked at what they've done and put that into our own programs, | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
I don't think we ever expected come first, | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
because we have got quite a basic kit, | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
but anywhere between first and fifth is where we're looking to get. | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
is to create the next generation of engineers. | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
Employers say to us at the University that they need | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
highly trained and highly skilled graduates who are capable | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
So it's important for us to find these people and help them come | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
through on the pathways into those engineering careers. | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
This Leicestershire-based school were the eventual winners | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
and will go through to the UK heat in Bristol. | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
The final competition against other countries | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
will take place in America next year. | :14:45. | :14:54. | |
More than enough sport to get stuck into - including | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
Sports Personality Of The Year in Birmingham last night. | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
Stoke City fans will still be shaking their heads in disbelief | :14:59. | :15:08. | |
after they threw away a two-goal lead against ten men on Saturday. | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
A win would have taken them level on points with West Bromwich Albion | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
after they were beaten at home by Manchester United. | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
Nick Clitheroe rounds up all the weekend's football action. | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
By the end of the first half, it looked like | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
all of Stoke's Christmases were coming early. | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
Bojan put them in front from the penalty spot | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
against ten-man Leicester before Joe Allen scored his fifth | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
It was astonishing, then, that the champions fought back | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
when Daniel Amartey grabbed a late equaliser. | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
West Bromwich Albion's fine recent form was always going to be tested | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
by Manchester United and an early goal from Zlatan Ibrahimovic | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
The Swede was lucky to avoid a red card for this challenge | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
on Craig Dawson but he stayed on to score a second | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
Everybody's had a three-game week, and it's been tough. | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
You know, we've played against a team that have found some form, | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
and you can see why they've found some form. | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
Gianfranco Zola's first game in charge of Birmingham City | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
They led until eight minutes from the end against | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
promotion-chasing Brighton, who went on to win it | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
in the fifth minute of stoppage time. | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
In recent seasons, Aston Villa haven't enjoyed away games | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
so imagine the delight of the travelling fans | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
putting both those failings to bed at QPR yesterday. | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
Wolves moved five points clear of the relegation zone as goals | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
from Helder Costa and Ivan Cavaleiro gave them a 2-0 win | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
Burton Albion put up a brave fight against Newcastle, | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
with Lloyd Dyer equalising for the Brewers | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
before Mo Diame ensured victory for the leaders | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
in the first ever meeting between the clubs. | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
The only winners in League One were Shrewsbury Town, who climbed off | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
the bottom of the table with a 2-0 home victory over Bristol Rovers. | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
It's the first time they've won back-to-back games this season. | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
And Cheltenham Town will also enjoy a tastier Christmas dinner | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
after their first win in the league since the 22nd of October. | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
It's only an inferior goal difference | :16:55. | :16:55. | |
which means they're still in the relegation zone. | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
Now all three of our Premiership rugby clubs lost in Europe | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
at the weekend, but Wasps' defeat was extremely controversial. | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
Yes, they were in front at Connacht in the European Champions Cup | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
Now, in rugby, the clock then stops and the game ends | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
But, on this occasion, the referee allowed Connacht to take a line-out. | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
They scored a try and kicked the conversion | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
In a statement today, Wasps say they're extremely disappointed. | :17:26. | :17:36. | |
But, on the plus side, they're still top of Pool Two. | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
they'll still reach the quarterfinals. | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
It's been a big weekend for a teenager from Stoke-on-Trent. | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
17-year-old Jim Moston made it to the final | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
of the Junior World Darts competition | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
before losing to his Dutch opponent at the Alexandra Palace. | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
The college student has only been playing competitively for a year, | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
and has already won the European Junior title. | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
Laura May McMullan has been to meet him. | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
It's every dart player's dream to play there. | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
There's no mercy, you have to earn your right to play. | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
Jim Moston is one of the sport's rising stars. | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
The 17-year-old from Stoke-on-Trent made it to the finals | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
of the Junior World Darts Championship. | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
He's only been competing seriously for about a year, | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
and says he didn't even know if he was any good. | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
I just gave it a go and obviously the hard work and the practice that | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
I've been putting in in the local leagues, in the pubs, | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
To get to the final of the worlds, we've joked about it, | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
not really actually believing it would happen. | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
Whatever he does, he tries to perfect. | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
Doesn't matter what it is, he perseveres, | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
and he's just got that kind of personality. | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
When he said one day, "I can do this, Mum," | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
His mentor - Andy "The Hammer" Hamilton - | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
He's achieved probably a lot more than kids his age, at 17 years old. | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
The good thing about Jim, his feet are on the ground, | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
And even getting to play the world's biggest | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
He's just a normal person, playing darts. | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
He's just a bald man with a green T-shirt. | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
Unfortunately, Jim lost in the final to his Dutch opponent, | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
but he is the current European champion. | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
Next year, he'll make the move to the senior professional tour | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
And we had another near miss yesterday with Nick Skelton. | :19:51. | :20:03. | |
Yes, he finished third in the BBC's Sports personality of the year | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
58-year-old Skelton from Warwickshire | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
Last night, Skelton finished behind the runner-up, Alistair Brownlee. | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
that a key member of his family hadn't voted for him. | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
I've got a bit of a bone to pick with my wife, | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
because she actually told me about an hour ago | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
So not smart from her, with Christmas coming up. | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
If that vote would have counted, it would've a different result. | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
Yes, Nick was just one of those I interviewed last night, | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
The culmination of a wonderful year of sport - | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
all pulled together by a big team at the BBC. | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
Almost 10 million switched on to watch Andy Murray | :20:57. | :21:10. | |
along with 12,000 inside the Genting Arena. | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
This celebration of sport has been months in the planning. | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
Well, come with me, and we'll find out. | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
Here are the 16 for 2016, and the details you need to vote... | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
Six hours before the programme goes on air, | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
the technical rehearsal irons out any last minute niggles. | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
The scale of this production is huge - one camera in the wrong place | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
and the whole programme could fall apart. | :21:43. | :21:43. | |
Everyone needs to be ready for their cue. | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
Technical rehearsals are over, all seemed to go well. | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
So let's go and have a chat with one of the stars of the show. | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
There's not many people I'd let into my make-up room, | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
Clare, of all the things you do the BBC sport, | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
And it's because of the live audience. | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
But also, in all those front seats, you're looking out | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
and there's Ian Thorpe and there's Michael Phelps and Adam Peaty | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
and Jason and Laura Kenny are in the front row. | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
if you get anything wrong, they will notice. | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
But I'm not a showgirl, you know what I mean? | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
I'm not used at the lights and the razzle-dazzle, | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
and the guns going off with the ticker tape and all that. | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
So I don't know, it's a much bigger show, it's a huge show. | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
I'd love Nick Skelton to be top three, obviously! | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
You know, it will never happen again. | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
He doesn't think he'll ever be on the list again. | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
People are starting to take their seats now for the big show, | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
which started in the planning, way back in January. | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
Let's meet one of the team who's put it all together. | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
We've got 17 articulated trucks that deliver the set, | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
We're using 130 microphones, seven sound mixers. | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
We've got ten kilometres of power, forget about the camera cables. | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
including all the various BBC regions that are here. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
Using 17 in the main arena and a number around backstage as well. | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
Do you actually get to enjoy this, or is it just a complete nightmare? | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
I get to enjoy it on about Monday afternoon. | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
I will spool it back and have a look, | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
"where could we have done better?" | :23:31. | :23:31. | |
Or a sit-down after Christmas to look through it. | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
Some final fine tuning and a chance to shake off the pre-match nerves, | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
11 months of planning boil down to two hours of slick TV. | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
Clare even got her wish of an award for Nick Skelton. | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
The weather might not be feeling very festive, | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
but there's certainly some Christmas cheer where Rebecca is this evening. | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
You're the king very festive yourself! | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
Thank you. I would like my own choir to accompany me for the rest of the | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
festive period. It might look festive here at the moment, but it | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
was a different scene last week because the tree and then the 70s | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
scene -- nativity scene were stolen. Helen is in charge for putting this | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
display in. When you saw it was stolen, how did you feel? I felt | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
stunned, actually. I could not stay in for the rest of the day, I had to | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
go out. I could not believe that Christmas had been stolen for the | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
second time in two years. Everything was taken. They came back a few days | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
later and took the stand away, a smaller nativity set had been on. We | :24:51. | :25:02. | |
have the local police officer. What does it mean when the community gets | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
together like this? It is an amazing example of what can happen when the | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
community comes together. We have three trees here now, but no sign of | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
the nativity scene. If that makes you feel warm ahead of Christmas, | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
that is the only thing that is. In fact, today is the last of the | :25:22. | :25:32. | |
settled weather because we are going to start to see a change after | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
tomorrow. For tomorrow, it is a brighter picture, with a chill in | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
the air. It will feel fresher for a time as well. As for tonight, it is | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
dry at the moment, surprisingly, but we have a weather system which is | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
about to come in from the east which will give us some downpours | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
overnight. As that clears, we'll be left with holes in the cloud which | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
will lead to mist and fog patches, but nothing like we saw yesterday. | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
It will be a clear start across the South and east tomorrow, with some | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
dry and bright spells to come through the morning. But it will be | :26:08. | :26:09. | |
chilly because temperatures are likely to dip down to between two | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
and five Celsius. A touch of frost in some places. A dry and bright | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
start for the Southeast, steadily spreading north and west. We will | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
see the skies clearing, some pleasant spells of sunshine and | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
light winds. Averages should push up to around seven Celsius. As we had | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
through the remainder of tomorrow, we will start to see the cloud | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
thickening and that will be ahead of a weather system which comes in from | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
the west. Plenty of rain to come as we head through Tuesday night into | :26:41. | :26:42. | |
Wednesday, with temperatures hovering between two and five | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
Celsius. As we head towards the remainder of the week, it was the | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
Christmas weekend, it will continue to get more subtle. Heavy downpours | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
at times, strong winds as well. If you are looking for a white | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
Christmas, the only chance of that is if you get to higher ground and | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
even then it is more likely to be falling as sleet. We have some | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
fantastic music here, all from the West Midlands Police choir. I will | :27:14. | :27:15. | |
leave you with them singing. That's all for now, | :27:16. | :27:36. | |
your next news at 10:30pm. Ben dropping | :27:37. | :27:47. | |
a frozen turkey on Mum's foot. Put me down! | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
No, we talked about this. | :27:53. | :27:55. |