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The headlines tonight: Saved after months of uncertainty, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
over 700 jobs are secured at an engineering firm in Coventry. | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
The team have worked very hard. The workforce are very committed to the | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
business, and it's good to say that all that success will be realised. | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
The company's been bought up by an industrial group with 17 other | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
engineering businesses in the region. | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
Also this evening: A paramedic's recovering after being seriously | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
assaulted by a patient he was trying to help. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
We go to people without question. If they need us, we go. It's not, you | :00:32. | :00:41. | |
deserve it, you don't. We don't deserve to be attacked for trying to | :00:42. | :00:42. | |
help people. Police apologise to a Birmingham DJ | :00:43. | :00:43. | |
after he was pulled over in his Bentley and told | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
it was a fact that black How the mighty are fallen and turned | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
into beautiful works of art. And the winds caused havoc today, | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
but mix rain with Arctic air and tonight and tomorrow, | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
wee could be struggling with snow. Join me for the detail | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
in a short while. Having spent Christmas | :00:59. | :01:13. | |
and the new year fearing for their jobs, at last some really | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
good news for more than seven hundred workers | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
at an engineering firm in Coventry. Covpress, which makes body panels | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
for Jaguar Land Rover and Renault, had been in administration since | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
September. But today they've been taken | :01:32. | :01:32. | |
over by the industrial group Liberty House. | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
Joanne Writtle reports. A bright day for 740 workers in | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
Coventry who have faced an uncertain future for months. | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
It is a relief, really, to realise that we have been taken over, and we | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
can only go one man that is forward. Covpress, major supplier for the | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
likes of jaguar Land Rover, went into administration four months ago, | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
despite doubling its turnover to ?100 million in the space of | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
three-year 's. Now, industrial group Liberty House has saved it. | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
There were lots of smiling faces today. Apps we allowed employees | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
today to spend a lot of time on their iPhones to eating their | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
friends, because generally, there is a feeling we have been underrated. | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
This woman was particularly relieved. She and her partner both | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
working and have a three-year-old son. The past six months have been | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
really worrying. Since we went into administration, | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
everyone is worried about their job security. Today, there is more of a | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
positive atmosphere about the factory. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
The workforce is very committed to the business, and it's good to see | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
that all that success will be realised. | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
To give you an idea of the impact this company has, just about every | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
jaguar Land Rover car made in the Midlands has a part on it made here | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
at this company. Not only that, they make gas meters, panels for | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
recycling companies, all sorts of things. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
The chief executive of the Global Liberty Industries Group has | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
travelled to the company's bases in Dubai and Poland this week alone. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Why, then, did they decide to buy Covpress? | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Acquiring this has given us a real high-quality short window to the UK | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
market. It is a key supplier, and I'm reliably told this business is | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
part of a core platform for Jaguar Land Rover, meaning we are a | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
critical part of their supply chain, but also the UK automotive supply | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
chain. A year ago, they saved jobs snapping | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
up 17 engineering businesses in the Midlands, among them this one, 920 | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
Engineering in Leamington spa. You know you have your mortgage and | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
your family, you can't plan anything else out in your life will stop so | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
you are just hanging on in there hoping someone will buy you out, and | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
frankly, Liberty did. I have been here 40 years, and I | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
think they will invest money, so hopefully, we are on the right | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
track. Back in Coventry, there are now | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
plans to expand, welcome news for workers at the newly owned Liberty | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
Pressing Solutions. Our Business Correspondent Peter | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
Plisner is at Covpress this evening. So, Peter, why was Liberty | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
so interested in this business? Well, Nick, this was a good business | :04:13. | :04:26. | |
and a good fit for the company. Another Liberty House business | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
already makes parts for the car giants Nissan, and now, as you say, | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
they are making parts through the acquisition of Covpress for Jaguar | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
Land Rover, GM and Renault. It is also a good fit strategically for | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Liberty House, which is developing itself into a vertically integrated | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
business where they make the steel and then make parts, and those parts | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
are being sold to big companies, and of course, they are also -- they | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
also have interest in renewable energy. So they make the electricity | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
that makes the steel that makes the parts. | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
And how has this company survived, when so many others have fallen? | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Well, it is an interesting one. Covpress went into administration | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
with full order books, practically unheard of. They had cash flow | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
problems, and I think the reason they were sold as a going concern | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
was because they have strong, loyal customers like jaguar Land Rover, | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
which has led to the good outcome, with 740 jobs secured. Unusually, | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
their pension fund is being transferred to tee two, and that is | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
normally unheard-of. Normally, they are rescued by the government's | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
payment protection fund. Thank you. | :05:37. | :05:37. | |
An ambulance technician is recovering after being viciously | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
assaulted by a patient he was trying to help. | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
Bob Burness was treating an unconscious man who had been | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
found in a stairwell in West Bromwich, | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
He agreed to talk to our reporter Nicola Beckford to raise awareness | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
of the rising number of attacks on ambulance staff. | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
The results of a brutal attack. Ambulance technician Bob Burness | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
thought he was on a routine call out, but it ended up with him being | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
the one taken to hospital. He just went straight into a | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
physical assault and head-butted me straight in the face. I was too | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
close to move out of the way, so he made contact with my nose and mouth. | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
This caused a significant nosebleed and watering of the eyes, and a bit | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
of disorientation. Bob joined the Ambulance Service in | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
2008. It is not the first time he has been attacked. | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
I have been scratched, beaten, pushed downstairs. The list is quite | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
long. Unfortunately, I am not unique. It has happened to most of | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
my colleagues at some point. Psychologically, it is by far | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
nowhere near the worst. When you get somebody with an infectious disease | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
is spitting in your face and you have three or four months of blood | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
tests to see if you have got something, that tends to play with | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
your mind a bit more. This is where the attack took place | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
last Tuesday. It is an area that Bob Burness says is low-risk, which goes | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
to show that attacks like there like these, can be hard to predict. | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
And attacks on West Midlands ambulance staff have been | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
increasing. Between April September 2014, there were 325 verbal and | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
physical attacks on staff. Last year, during the same period, there | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
were 469 attacks. The man who assaulted Bob Burness was sentenced | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
to 12 weeks in prison under ?250 fine a sentence the Ambulance | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
Service says is not tough enough. I don't think it is actually a | :07:37. | :07:37. | |
deterrent. I think overall, the stance on this | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
is that we want tougher sentencing for people that assault our | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
emergency service staff, because overall, they are there to help you, | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
not to hinder you. Bob has now recovered from the | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
attack and is back at work. He says it is an outrage that staff are at | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
risk of being assaulted by the very public they are trying to help. | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
Lots of you have been sending your best wishes to Bob | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
and expressing outrage about the attack over | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
on our Facebook page, where there's more on the story. | :08:06. | :08:16. | |
A couple who stole clothes valued at more than ?100,000 | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
Ionut and Mirela Vasile were arrested after stealing high | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
end clothes from Harvey Nichols in Birmingham in December 2015. | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
CCTV footage then showed them shoplifting goods | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
from stores in Manchester, Edinburgh, London, | :08:27. | :08:27. | |
A 54-year-old woman's been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man's | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
body was found in the Henley Green area of Coventry. | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
Paramedics were called in the early hours of the morning to Henley Road, | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
following reports that a 50-year-old man had suffered a cardiac arrest. | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
The Midlands Air Ambulance is to receive ?1 million of Treasury | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
cash from banking fines to help pay for a new helicopter. | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
The charity, which covers the West Midlands and Staffordshire, | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
says it means they can now place an order for a new | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
The Metropolitan Police in London have apologised to a Birmingham DJ | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
who was pulled over in his Bentley and told it was a fact that | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
black men in gangster clothes commit crimes. | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
27-year-old DMO Deejay was stopped by officers near Leicester Square. | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
What the officers didn't know was that the whole incident | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
was captured on a camera set up in the DJ's car. | :09:23. | :09:44. | |
DMO Deejay joins us now from our London studios. Good evening to you. | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
Good evening. This has caused quite a number. | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
What do you make of it? It has been pretty crazy, to be | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
fair. How come you had a camera at the | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
ready in the first place? I had that car given to me to do a | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
promotional video for my supporters, where I was delivering me mixed CDs | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
to their house, quite a lot at night, and the cameras are actually | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
connected to the car so I can get the whole scenery of London, so when | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
I edit it I can add that into there. Luckily enough, I did not know it | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
was rolling, but was rolling when I got stopped, so when I went back to | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
edit it, I saw the footage and could just about hear it, so I had to turn | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
up the volume. So, what did you think when the | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
officer said to you what he said? When he said it to me, it registered | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
in my head, but it did not register in my head. I did say to him, you | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
can't say that to people. But he was saying, it is just a fact. It is not | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
racist, it is just a fact. I said, do you know what, that is just your | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
opinion. You must have been horrified. | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
It is humiliating, to be fair, it is humiliating. | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
And it is not the first time you have been stopped, obviously. | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
No, it is not the first time at all. So the Met Police and apologise now. | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
Have you accepted their apology, or do you want to take it further? | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
I accept their apology, but I would like to create some kind of | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
awareness about this. There are other black people who get stopped | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
in this situation, it is frustrating at times when you need to be | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
somewhere and they are taking time out of your day just to do stuff | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
they do not really need to be doing, especially when you have a NPR | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
monitors, and if something is up, you can tell already. These are | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
traffic officers, there were three people in the traffic car, and only | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
one officer who was really enforcing the kind of, it is a black thing. | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
The other two were all right, but there are all the facilities for | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
them to do their prior checks and find out the car was all right. In | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
the end, I was completely clean. They let me go, and after they tried | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
to educate me on why I got stopped, which I was quite confused about. | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
DMO, we will leave it there, thank you for talking to us. | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
As we mentioned earlier, the Met have apologised, and in a statement, | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
they said, we are aware of the footage circulating. | :12:09. | :12:31. | |
A blind man from Birmingham has won a national award for his efforts | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
Mohammed Rashid has had to overcome many cultural and religious | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
Some Muslims believe that dogs are unclean but, | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
thanks to Mr Rashid and friends at his local mosque, | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
his guide dog Solo has been welcomed into his community. | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
Our special correspondent, Peter Wilson has spent the day | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
Can I touch his poor? You certainly can! | :12:49. | :13:02. | |
Mohammed Rashid is well-known to the children of St John's Primary School | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
And Will 'S Park Hill. He And His Guide Dog Solo Are Volunteers. For | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Many Of These Birmingham Children, A Guard Used To Be Something Fear, But | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Not Any More. . Petrified. Where you? Why? Because | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
I have never met a dog before. I have never stroked a dog or seen | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
one. Two two has changed my life in any | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
different ways. He has given me back my eyes. -- Solo. He has given me | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
back my sense of independence. Mohammed was blind and got his dog | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
three years ago, but many Muslims do not trust dogs. Mohammed had to | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
convince his own family was the right thing to have Solo in their | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
home and their lives. My wife being from Pakistan, | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
obviously, she was saying, no, I can't have a dog in the house, | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
because it is not the norm. If you have the dog, I am going to have to | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
move, or you are going to have to move, one or the other. It is me or | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
the Dunhill Olivia. That has all changed, and his wife | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
loves Solo, and has even decided to keep her husband too! Mohammed's | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
cousin is also blind, and she has faced criticism for relying on a | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
guide dog. Rouble see me, the way I'm dressed, | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
and then they see the dog. I have had things said to me like, you are | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
not a proper Muslim. People say, if you have a dog, don't dress like | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
this. Choose one of the other which it will be. | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
Mohammed has won awards for his work for Guide Dogs For The Blind. A | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
local businessman has also helped win over the community inspired | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Hill. Back home, we have the dog in our | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
family. People love dogs, and they love dogs here as well. But if the | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
dog is wet, we cannot touch them, because we cannot pray. When the dog | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
is Jaidee, you can touch them, you can play with the dog, there is no | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
problem, and we should be fine with dogs. | :15:06. | :15:06. | |
There are both positive and negative references to dogs in the ground, | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
but there is no getting away that many Asian people are very fearful | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
of dogs. But Solo have both done more than anybody else in the | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
country to overcome those fears. -- Solo and Mohammed. At the local | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
mosque, everyone has been positive about the guide dog. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
They have even installed a kennel so that Solo is safe while Mohammed | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
praise. Not having eyesight doesn't mean I | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
can't still be a devoted Muslim, because with the help of my guide | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
dog, to come to the mosque, I can still have the same outcome and | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
achievement as people with sight. Solo and Mohammed have both changed | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
each other's lives, and they're working to help others too. | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
Good to have you with us here and Midlands Today. The top story this | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
evening: After months of uncertainty, over 700 jobs are saved | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
at an engineering firm in Coventry. Parts of the region are bracing | :16:10. | :16:10. | |
themselves for snow in the next 24 hours or so, but today one | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
of the big problems has Yes - these were some of our peak | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
gusts across the region today and as you can see, the strongest | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
were recorded at Leek in Staffordshire, which | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
is near to where this van was spotted being buffeted | :16:24. | :16:24. | |
by the winds, pinned to the bank while the wheels lifted off | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
the ground and many more incidents reported today including road | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
closures due obstructions caused by the winds. | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
And soon there'll be snow. I'll have all the details | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
on that later on. Also in the programme, | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
the craftsman transforming fallen Business owners in Kidderminster | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
are demanding to know what's being done to re-ignite | :16:40. | :16:53. | |
multi-million pound regeneration plans they were promised | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
to keep their High Street alive. Some shop keepers have told us today | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
they've had their worst Christmas in decades - | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
they're struggling to attract customers when there are so many | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
empty units in the town. Joan Cummins has spent | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
the day talking to traders. Worcester Street in Kidderminster | :17:08. | :17:20. | |
used to be the heart of the town. Now, with vacant shops and to let | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
signs visible everywhere, it feels in need of care. In 2015, we spoke | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
to this man, who had been business since 1979. Back then, he did not | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
think things could get worse, but they have. | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
We are down nearly 50-60% down in the last year. We are putting our | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
pension money in the shop to pay the bills. I got one customer on Monday, | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
nobody on Tuesday. It is nearly 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock in the morning. | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Nobody comes inside the door, not even this morning. | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
It was hoped developers would flatten Crown House behind me, | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
described as one of the ugliest buildings not only in Kidderminster, | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
but also in the country. But that has been shelved. | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
The property developers are in the private sector, and at the end of | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
the day, if the money does not stack up for them, they have to make | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
commercial decisions for them and their shareholders. We are putting | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
in ?1 million to open up Worcester Street to traffic. There will be | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
learned in the latter part of this year. | :18:29. | :18:37. | |
In 1998, -- 19 88, this area was captured on camera. But nearly 30 | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
years on, people are accepting that things have to change. | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
It is very sad. I was born in Kidderminster, and I find it awful | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
to look around here. High Street are probably becoming less necessary. | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
They are open for a few months, and then they go downhill. | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
The High Street is changing, and I think people need to be aware of | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
that. People themselves are aware of it. They are happy to use the | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
internet, but I think we shops and the retailers need to be cleverer. | :19:07. | :19:15. | |
But retailers on the street are being more pragmatic, saying 2017 is | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
a battle to survive, rather than thrive. | :19:20. | :19:20. | |
A new dance group launched in Gloucester last night, | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
hoping to draw on the popularity of Strictly Come Dancing. | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
Gloster Swing Dance attracted around 140 people to its opening night, | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
with many people trying it for the first time. | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
Have you ever wondered whether a winter of dancing | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
on the telly makes more of us have a go? | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
Well, this is what happened in Gloucester last night, | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
Well, this is what happened in Gloucester last night, | :19:41. | :19:49. | |
140 people turned up, and for those beginners | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
The one thing you need to remember about swing dance, you can go wrong | :19:57. | :20:07. | |
for the whole hour! See you later. And I'm sure many did go | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
wrong, but gradually, the room moved as one, | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
probably ahead of time. You can be fat, then, old, young, | :20:13. | :20:25. | |
black, white, enabled or disabled. You are welcome swing dancing. | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
I just want to do it properly. Never having done anything like this | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
before, it is good to feel like you are doing something new. | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
Just so friendly, getting together and dancing. Who doesn't like | :20:36. | :20:36. | |
dancing? We dance to New York, we dance in | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
Spain, we danced and loads and loads of places. Did lots of collaborating | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
for charity, and it is the best thing ever. | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
Anyway, back to the professionals, and a special moment. | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
Five weeks ago, Gary Boon had a heart attack. | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
If I wasn't fit, slim, a nonsmoker, a nondrinker, and if I didn't do | :20:52. | :21:05. | |
this, I may not be here now. This has saved my life. And it looks like | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
it could change many more. From the exotically mobile | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
to something that's stubbornly static, dead trees, and a man who's | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
been making a living out Robot Cossey is well know in region | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
for his sculptures and if you live anywhere near Hednesford | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
in South Staffordshire, So what is it that makes him turn | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
felled trees into works of art? Who better to find out | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
than our Arts Reporter Satnam Rana? Chipping away at his sculpture in | :21:34. | :21:45. | |
Hednesford Park in South Staffordshire. | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
I just love creating things out of something that would normally go on | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
the fire. Robot Cossey is a man who works | :21:50. | :21:49. | |
with nature's waste. He gives dead trees | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
a new lease of life. I think when I am on the chisels, I | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
am thinking about, obviously, I am focusing on the area that I am | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
carving, but I am also thinking about what I'm going to do next. | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
At the end of last year, 16 over-mature trees were felled | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
in the park to make way for new ones. | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
But some were pollarded for Robot's work. | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
These sculptures are all part of a Heritage Lottery Fund Will Toggle | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
Funded Project To Enhance Enjoyment For Passers-by. And If I'm Right, | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
there is so muddy behind me right now taking apart a graph of them. . | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
The Friends of Hednesford Park and Canncock Chase COuncil have | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
worked with local schoolchildren to come up with the designs, | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
I wish I was as talented as him to be able to bring them back in this | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
way. I have noticed them a the past few times I have gone through the | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
park, what a creative thing it is to do. | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
It is nice to see when you walk around the park. You follow the | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
statues around the park. If he does some on the other side, which he | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
probably will do, it is a nice journey around the park. | :22:56. | :22:56. | |
Robot's work stretches right across the region from Solihull | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
It is therapeutic. That is a word for it. Especially when you are | :22:59. | :23:08. | |
working in a park like this, it is really nice. | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
From stumps to sculture, he's the tree man who | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
Yesterday we took you back to a very cold 1982, | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
where Shropshire set the record for the lowest | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
Hundreds of you got in touch with your memories. | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
Karen Fryer told us it was a week before she got married, | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
her husband-to-be David got stuck in Wales, but he made it in time, | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
she says the day was "perfect, clear blue skies and pure white snow." | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
Hazel Hampton remembers "heating soup and water for tea on the log | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
"burner as the oil for the central heating had frozen in the pipes". | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
But we're in for a testing day or two, aren't we, Shefali? | :23:51. | :24:03. | |
Yes, gusts of 50 miles an hour in some parts today. And mortar come. | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
This was the scene at other stone railway station today, or a | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
trampoline was blown into the overhead lines. But elsewhere | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
throughout the region, more subtle. Beautiful, dreamy sunsets after day | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
here in Worcestershire. That get onto the meaty stuff, the rain and | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
snow heading our way for tomorrow. This is what is happening in the | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
next 24-48 hours. Winds will become lighter through tonight, then | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
tomorrow, my other, with this area of rain that across the southern | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
half of the country, which will bump into colder air sweeping down from | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
the North. At that meeting point, that snow will be created. It all | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
clears away, with high dominating by the weekend. A relatively benign | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
picture for this evening and overnight. A lot of dry weather | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
about, cloudy skies, a few clouds dripping in through the Cheshire | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
cat, with some having a wintry element, but nothing much to speak | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
of. Temperatures will be above freezing tonight. In the south of | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
the region, milder air starts to feed him. Into the morning and | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
overnight, we start to see the rain cutting across the southern half of | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
the region and the two central parts as well. Some will be light, a lot | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
will be heavy, and it will meet up with the colder air. We haven't | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
mentioned quantities as such for these areas subject to warnings. | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
That is Herefordshire, Worcestershire, in Warwickshire, | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
where there is a bit of a white out. The rain will last for several hours | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
and could be heavy in places. Temperatures only rising to 4-5. | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
Into tomorrow night and evening, the snow will persist in River Wear, and | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
we have showers moving into the Cheshire gap which could turn wintry | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
as well, so a warning for Shropshire as well. Perhaps 2-3 centimetres of | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
snow at low levels, ten centimetres in high places, but that is the | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
absolute maximum and it is localised. Ice will be a problem as | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
we head into Friday morning. Thank you. I am filming in all that | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
snow tomorrow! Water you thinking ?!. | :26:11. | :26:11. | |
I'll be back at 10.30 with the late bulletin. | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
Have a great evening. Goodbye. | :26:15. | :26:34. | |
I think my political beliefs are really quite straightforward. | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
I believe that our country needs to work for everyone. | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
Not just for the rich, not just for the privileged, | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
not just for those who know the right people or who've got | :26:44. | :26:47. |