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Police open a murder inquiry after a man was stabbed | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
on a bus in Birmingham - patrols for passengers | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
It's absolutely terrible. If you can't be safe on the bus, where can | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
you be saved? Police are appealing for witnesses, | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
the man was stabbed in Handsworth. Worcestershire Children's Services | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
is rated inadequate. A report shows vulnerable children | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
are at risk of significant harm. The mother who's received online | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
abuse for posting a video of her baby receiving crucial | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
physiotherapy. It's had loads of use and share send | :00:32. | :00:44. | |
them we started getting nasty messages, started getting death | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
threats, saying we should be killed. And there are murmurings | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
of discontent as warnings for fog Police have increased patrols | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
on buses in the West Midlands, in an attempt to reassure | :01:03. | :01:17. | |
the public, after a man was stabbed to death on a bus | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
in Birmingham last night. The victim, who was in his 30s, | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
was attacked on the top deck of the bus in the Handsworth area | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
of the city at around Searching for evidence | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
in the Handsworth area of Birmingham this afternoon, | :01:32. | :01:40. | |
police are trying to work out why a man was stabbed to death | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
while travelling on a bus Police believe the two men | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
didn't know each other, They say the victim | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
was already on the bus. Further along the route, the other | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
man got on and sat opposite At some point, a verbal | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
altercation started which A knife was produced | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
and the victim was stabbed. When emergency services got | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
to Rookery Road at around a quarter to 11 last night, | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
they found the man, a 35-year-old from Smethwick, | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
slumped over one of the seats We know there were five people | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
sat around with the two males on the top deck, | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
so we managed to speak to one of the people who very | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
kindly stayed behind. The other four people | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
left the bus shortly It might be that they didn't realise | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
how serious the matter was and just wanted to get out of the way, | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
which is perfectly understandable. However, I would ask for them | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
to come forward to speak Good afternoon, | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
ladies and gentlemen. Extra patrols were added to buses | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
across the city today, including the 11A - | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
the route the man was travelling The aim of officers from the West | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
Midlands Safer Travel Partnership, In Handsworth, concern too | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
from people living close by. You know, what happens | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
if I'm on the bus with my children one day and then, | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
you know, someone gets stopped? Everybody on this road, | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
they're worried about, even for the businesses | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
as well, you know? If you can't be safe on the bus, | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
where can you be safe? Police says they're looking | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
for a black man, aged between 25 and 30 with short dreadlocks, | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
in connection with the murder. He was last seen wearing a puffa | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
jacket, had headphones over a baseball cap and was carrying | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
a duffel type bag. Ben Sidwell, BBC Midlands | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
Today, Birmingham. Worcestershire Children's Services | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
has been rated inadequate. A report from Ofsted showed | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
vulnerable children are at risk It's the fourth local authority | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
in the West Midlands to have their Children's Services | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
department rated inadequate. Worcestershire have | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
said they are sorry - and will spend | :03:55. | :04:04. | |
an extra ?3.5 million Tom Turrell has been speaking | :04:05. | :04:05. | |
to the people in charge It is the job at the Children's | :04:06. | :04:18. | |
Services is department here at Worcestershire County Council to | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
protect the most honourable residents in the county, children. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
I'm talking about children who are potentially in foster care, have | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
been adopted, potentially who have lived with parents who are violent. | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Today we learned that Government inspectors, Ofsted, rated this | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
department as inadequate. It said that the children here were at risk. | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
I put it to the chief executive of Worcestershire County Council that | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
we needed our response. The thing I would like to say first and foremost | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
is sorry to those children's families who feel they been let down | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
by the services or feel disappointed in terms of those services. My | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
commitment is to absolutely ensure that we pick up the pace of that | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
improvement plan, real confidence that the leadership we put in place | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
last year is the right leadership, Ofsted have said that as well. And | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
things we're put in place, single multi-agencies focus is the right | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
things as well. The County Council say a high | :05:12. | :05:23. | |
turnover of staff has not helped, possibly by low pay and the | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
pressures of the job. They also say they are hiring too many agency | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
staff by third parties and that is not helping. And the demand for | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
children services is the rise. They say they are putting the problem | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
right, investing ?3.5 million extra to fix this, but the NSPCC says the | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
situation isn't good enough. To get "inadequate" | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
on Child Protection, on your work with care leavers, | :05:49. | :05:49. | |
on your work with children in care and on your overall leadership | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
is obviously a pretty damning indictment, so lots more work | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
for Worcestershire to do and our view is keep | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
the focus on the child, keep the focus on outcomes | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
from the child and learn from other authorities | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
where they have been able to turn Councils, businesses, | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
the BBC even fails at what it The problem is, when it is the | :06:10. | :06:28. | |
children services department here at Worcestershire, it leaves the most | :06:29. | :06:29. | |
honourable in society at risk. "If your child's life depended | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
on it, you would do it, too." The words of a young mother who's | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
received abuse online, after posting video of her giving | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
crucial physiotherapy Sam Carrier's daughter Daisy | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
has cystic fibrosis - and needs a type of vigorous | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
massaging called She put video of the technique | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
on social media, to try to raise public awareness of the condition - | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
which affects more than But the pictures have | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
sparked hatred and abuse. So you do it in a cupped position | :06:51. | :07:07. | |
with your hand to try and create a pocket of air. It doesn't hurt her | :07:08. | :07:08. | |
at all. It's called percussion and experts | :07:09. | :07:09. | |
say it can be the difference between life and death | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
for 15-week-old Daisy. She has cystic fibrosis | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
and the physio her Mum Sam gives her twice a day | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
helps break up mucus on her chest which could become | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
infected and deadly. The first time we started doing | :07:21. | :07:30. | |
this, she was actually three weeks old and they came to our house to | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
show us and they started doing the percussion and I just cried, it's | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
devastating to see this is what you've got to try and do to keep | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
your children a life. She is happy all the time. She is just a smiley, | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
smiley baby. Daisy was diagnosed with cystic | :07:49. | :07:48. | |
fibrosis just a few weeks It was Christmas Eve that Sam | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
decided to post a physio session with her Facebook page, | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
in a bid to raise But by Boxing Day | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
the trolling had begun. It's had loads of views and shares | :08:02. | :08:13. | |
and that we started getting nasty messages, started getting death | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
threats saying we should be killed, lots of foul language which I cannot | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
repeat. We got the told we were child abusers and we were going to | :08:24. | :08:24. | |
break her ribs. She's never replied to the trollers, | :08:25. | :08:25. | |
except to forward details of cystic fibrosis - | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
which affects one in Historically, half of all children | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
with with the condition Sam's hopeful new research and fund | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
raising will change that. Sarah Bishop, BBC | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
Midlands Today, in Dudley. There's been a lot of support | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
for Sam from many of you. Kat Cassidy posted on our | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
Midlands Today Facebook page, she and her husband used to do | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
percussion for their daughter She says, "Just keep | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
doing what you are doing "and don't worry about | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
the ignorant people jumping A cancer surgeon has pleaded not | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
guilty to fraud after claiming that he had performed 88 | :09:00. | :09:21. | |
keyhole surgery operations. Sudip Sarker was alleged to have | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
made the false claim during an interview for a consultant | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
job, at the Alexandra Hospital Mr Sarker was suspended a year later | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
and eventually dismissed, following concerns | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
about his surgical ability. Leroy Sterling strangled Wendy Mann, | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
his former partner, simply because he couldn't cope | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
with her having a new lover. At Wolverhampton Crown Court, | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
Sterling was jailed for life. Detectives have described | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
their investigation as complex. They've also apologised | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
because another man spent almost three months in custody charged | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
with Wendy Mann's murder - Here's our Black Country | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
reporter, Ben Godfrey. Cold, calculating - | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
a man intent on revenge. He strangled 26-year-old Wendy Mann, | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
the mother of their three children, after they separated and she started | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
seeing another man. It has been a long process getting | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
justice for our sister Wendy. We are happy with the verdict here today | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
and it will bring a sense of closure to our lives. | :10:33. | :10:33. | |
It's August 2015 - Sterling is seen loitering outside | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
Fueled by jealousy, he confronted his former partner and strangled | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
her. He strangled her, dragged her body | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
into her kitchen where Sterling proceeded to mop the floor | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
afterwards, hoping to wipe away Then he calmly headed home - | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
here he is on CCTV images carrying a holdall - | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
he'd snatched his childrens' He admitted no part in this offence | :10:56. | :11:05. | |
and showed no remorse whatsoever for Wendy's death. This was a very | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
complex investigation involving very detailed forensic examinations of | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
the scene. But initially, detectives | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
charged an innocent man. Wendy Mann's lover Trevor Tyndale - | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
seen here leaving court - spent almost three months | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
in custody. It turned out too that Sterling | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
had tried to kill him All of the telephone data and the | :11:25. | :11:34. | |
CCTV evidence available at that early period .22 Trevor to being the | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
person that could be responsible for Wendy's death. Does he deserve an | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
of course he does, we have spoken to him over the intervening months and | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
we have apologised to him. We have supported him through this process. | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
Thanks to forensic evidence then, Sterling has been jailed for life | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
for Wendy Mann's murder and the attempted murder | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
He'll serve at least 21 years behind bars. | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
The verdict will not bring Wendy back, but it will give us some | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
comfort that someone has faced justice for this terrible act and | :12:08. | :12:08. | |
her memory has been honoured. Ben Godfrey, BBC Midlands Today, | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
Wolverhanpton Crown Court. Thanks for joining us | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
on Midlands Today, this Police open a murder inquiry | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
after a man was stabbed on a bus in Birmingham - | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
patrols for passengers Your detailed weather | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
forecast to come shortly. Looking at our canals | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
from a different angle, the divers helping to keep our | :12:29. | :12:37. | |
waterways running smoothly. Plans to run former | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
London Underground trains on the Midlands rail network | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
are still on course, despite a fire The Warwickshire company, Vivarail, | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
is converting Tube trains to help meet a shortage of carriages | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
and relieve overcrowding. It says the fire on a train | :12:59. | :12:59. | |
is still being investigated. Our Transport Correspondent Peter | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
Plisner has been given exclusive access to the firm's | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
testing facilities. Stranded after a on-board fire | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
and a problem that could have derailed the Vivarail project - | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
but almost a month on at the company's depot at Long Marston, | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
it's is busier than ever. This is the train that caught fire | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
undergoing repair work which the man in charge of Vivarail's says should | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
be back on the track by early | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
Spring. The idea of testing a train is to | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
find out how things work. Clearly the fire was a setback. The fire | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
that stop the testing of the new train was caused by a blaze inside | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
one of the engines. This is the engine that caught fire. As you can | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
see, it is pretty burnt out. The investigation is still underway, but | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
it looks like it was caused by a fuel leak. | :13:54. | :13:54. | |
But the delays caused by the fire halted plans to use the new train | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
to help get more people in and out of the Richo Arena in Coventry - | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
today Vivarail were hopeful that could still happen. | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
It will be available to go back in-service on the Coventry line if | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
required. If it is not used there, we will have it operating somewhere | :14:13. | :14:13. | |
else. And undeterred, the company is also | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
developing a hybrid train. We are building a battery test car, | :14:17. | :14:26. | |
which has the capability of running either on battery or hydrate, there | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
are lots of hybrid vehicles now, with battery and engine. | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
And there's certainly no shortage of trains - | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
There are more than 200 former London Underground carriages | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
Peter Plisner, BBC Midlands Today at Lond Marston. | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
Landlocked Birmingham is the last place you would expect to find | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
But today a diver has indeed been hard at work - | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
under the city, making sure our canal network | :14:52. | :14:52. | |
The aim is to use use an inflatable pillow to plug - and then drain - | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
a stretch of pipeline, so vital maintenance | :14:59. | :14:59. | |
Our environment correspondent David Gregory-Kumar | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
This is the Grand Union Canal on the east side of Birmingham. | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
But the team won't be diving the canal. | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
They're going much much deeper, under the canal... | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
into the hidden network of pipes and culvets that | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
Canal and river trust employed divers across the network, across | :15:19. | :15:29. | |
the country, to undertake specialised work for us. There's | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
lots of things for structure under the grounds that a lot of the | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
general public won't know about. Today's dive is about checking | :15:34. | :15:34. | |
on some vital but elderly But the diving will only start once | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
the diver gets down this 15 metre shaft to reach the water | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
inside the culvet. Now, that black is shaded there, | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
that is what will go inside and block off the culvert so they can | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
drain it out and checked the pumps. The diver himself is probably going | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
to be in there about five hours today. Get all the air out of it, it | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
is trying to push something poignant under the water, so it's difficult | :16:08. | :16:08. | |
to push him. -- poignant. It's hard work, but finally the bung | :16:09. | :16:20. | |
goes in and the team up top But why would anyone | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
want to work underwater I can't see doing anything else, I | :16:24. | :16:32. | |
love doing it. It is not everybody's cup of tea though. | :16:33. | :16:32. | |
Surprisingly good. It is not been exposed to frost. It tends to be in | :16:33. | :16:44. | |
good condition, the water at the bottom has help reserve the state of | :16:45. | :16:45. | |
the brick work. network should easily | :16:46. | :16:46. | |
celebrate its double century. David Gregory Kumar, | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
BBC Midlands Today, under Fascinating. On to sport, we will | :16:51. | :17:03. | |
meet some new faces at Birmingham City shortly, but a new start for | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
swimming at Worcester. This is exciting, isn't it? Yes, exciting. | :17:09. | :17:17. | |
Two paralympic swimmers officially opened Worcester's new ?10 million | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
Rebcca Redfern and Claire Cashmore opened the centre in Perdiswell. | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
The City Council hope the pool will benefit everyone from pleasure | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
There's often a ribbon involved in these things. | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
But today wasn't so much about cutting - as splashing! | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
Paralympic silver medallist Rebecca Redfern took | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
the plunge first, quickly followed by a school | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
But 17-year-old Redfern will train here almost every day | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
It's amazing. The facilities they have here are so much better and | :17:44. | :17:55. | |
there are so many different ways that we can improve our swimming | :17:56. | :17:56. | |
with these facilities. Today she was joined | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
by Kidderminster's Claire Cashmore who has won eight paralympic medals | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
including a gold in Rio. She says great facilities | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
make great swimmers. When there is so much money invested | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
into the pool, you feel that money is being invested in to give because | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
turning up into a bright, fantastic, clean pool really makes a | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
difference, it makes you feel proud to almost be here and you feel like | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
money has been invested into that sport. Just a superb new facility. | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
Not just for our city but for the whole county and region, in fact. It | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
is a competition standard pool. Alongside the 25 metre main pool | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
there's a training pool. The new pool also boasts 284 seats | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
for spectators. Perdiswell also revamped | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
the main sports hall. They've introduced | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
an indoor cycling centre - The age range of users spanned | :18:52. | :18:52. | |
nearly 80 years today. There really is something | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
for everyone. So great news for Worcester - | :18:57. | :18:57. | |
but the wait goes on for Yes, we still haven't | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
even got a date. Birmingham University are building | :19:01. | :19:09. | |
it. from them came just before | :19:10. | :19:10. | |
Christmas which said... Regrettably it is delayed further, | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
they are doing everything they can to finish the building. We might get | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
another update next week, but in the meantime we have to be patient. The | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
region should have 250 metre pools, the Council approved plans to | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
replace the pool in the city centre. In the long-term we will be better | :19:34. | :19:34. | |
off. On to football now. A couple of weeks ago, | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Dan Scarr was making FA Cup headlines with non-league | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
Stourbridge. And his excellent performances | :19:41. | :19:41. | |
didn't go unnoticed. Today, he began his new | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
career as a professional It's a dream come true | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
for the lifelong Blues fan, He is still looking for his first | :19:47. | :19:58. | |
wind after eight games in charge, but the blues' boss remains upbeat | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
and firmly focused on making plans for the future. He has certainly | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
been busy during the January transfer window. He's made it six of | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
new signings from as far afield as equatorial guinea and is close to | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
home as start Bridge. Dan Scarr will always have good reason to love the | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
FA Cup, because this goal against Wycombe in round not only cast a man | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
of the match performance, it also caught the eye of half a dozen | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
professional clubs. But after a week's trial with West Brom, it was | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
Birmingham City who won the race to him up. It means a lot, being a | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
blues Fan. To be here, training full time with them, couldn't ask for | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
much more, really. It's a bit surreal, hasn't really sunk in yet. | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
So Dan Scarr has packed in his day job as a part personal fitness | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
trainer. He has had goodbye to his friends in Lade, and has jumped up. | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
Full-time pro in the championship. Sad to leave, I had some amazing | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
times with the FA Cup, if I haven't got game still come down to watch | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
them, pop to training. I will never be too far away. His new Permian | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
team-mates include Emilio Nsue, Kevin Fry from the Turkish club. He | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
is an opportunity Dan Scarr could only dream of until now, no surprise | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
to guess his New Year's resolution. A fabulous story. It would be better | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
if he could help his new boss to their first wind. | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
We keep talking about changing the fortune of the players. Some of the | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
players went on to a higher level, we hope he can settle in. | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
Fortunately, his day job was a fitness coach, I think he has an | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
additive vintage on most people. Turning up to training shouldn't be | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
an issue for him, should it? Thank you very much! | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
If you're a music lover and want to see your favourite band, | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
you're likely to have caught them at one of our big live music | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
But where do you go to discover new music? | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
In the '70s and '80s, small venues were all around our region - | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Those that remain are getting a boost - | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
Our Arts Reporter Satnam Rana joins us from Birmingham City Centre - | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
They are getting ready for a gig here tonight. This venue has been | :22:29. | :22:48. | |
the talk of the BBC radio six music. One radio host has been doing a show | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
from beanie and burn them -- BBC Birmingham. He will be heading down | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
later on. An musical community, | :22:58. | :22:58. | |
not just for new bands but also for groups who, | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
you know, don't they don't play the O2 Arenas or even big 1000-capacity | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
venues, but they play to an audience, a really | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
enthusiastic audience. They might be slightly musically | :23:08. | :23:08. | |
left of centre, but there are no less culturally | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
worthy, I think, so it's great that there's a place | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
that you can see them. Now by bringing his show to the city | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
- Steve Lamacq has also given a platform for some local bands such | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
as Goodnight Lenin - here they are with their most recent | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
video. And I caught up with them ahead | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
of their studio session. It's pretty big for us, we've done | :23:28. | :23:49. | |
some stuff for the BBC before but it's nice to do something national. | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
Steve is a massive name, we listen to the show, when we were hers. He | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
plays awesome music. -- when we were hers. Bit of a legend in the field. | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
What about the people that come to these venues? In 2015, five .5 | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
million people across the West Midlands got their music, live | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
music, from small independent venues like this one. But speak to some in | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
coming to the gig tonight. What attracts you to these sort of | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
venues? The independence of the venue, really. It's quite an | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
intimate venue, you can feel like you're around the musicians were | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
playing, and integral part to Birmingham's unity. One of the best | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
record labels in the world are here come a everybody can drink together. | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
You can see a great passion for the live music in the city. It's all | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
about supporting upcoming bands and local venues as well. Sounds great, | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
thank you very much. Let's find out how it's looking | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
for the next few days. Is that Dean going to continue? I'm | :24:58. | :25:07. | |
gathering probably yes. -- that beam? Plenty of sunshine out | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
there, but whether I not he can fight the fog. Dense fog during the | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
morning today, as the day went on or progressed, it started to left and | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
we had glorious sunshine. The frost is down, the fog is returning | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
tonight. We have ideal conditions for that to form, clearer skies and | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
freezing temperatures. Those temperatures. To pick up towards the | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
end of the week. In the meantime, it will be utterly cold. On Thursday, | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
the winds start to veer southeasterly. We have warnings in | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
place for fog and ice. Dense patches once again, tricky conditions, | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
driving conditions into the more. Let's look at it what's happening | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
this evening. The fog began to form, more prominent sports the | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
southeastern corner of the region. We could get more frost, | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
temperatures will fall to around minus one Celsius, but most places | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
where there is cloud, the values will remain above freezing. It will | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
be a dry night. Frog and frost, greeting us to start the day | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
tomorrow. During the morning, gradually starting to lift. Western | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
half of the region that sees the best of the sunshine through the | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
morning. In the East, we start to see another layer of cloud living in | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
from that direction. They'll here for most of the day, it even once | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
the fog has dispersed. Temperatures rising to between five Celsius to | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
around seven or eight Celsius towards the southwest, with a breeze | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
coming in at a moderate speed. Tomorrow night is a different story. | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
We're not looking how much fog at all and that is because the cloud | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
will start to stretch across the region. It will hold those | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
temperatures to above freezing in some parts, but generally speaking, | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
because the air is so cold, below freezing. Widespread frost as we | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
head into the day on Thursday. Chilly indeed. | :27:11. | :27:11. | |
Tomorrow, we'll be meeting the students from all over | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
the world, who're travelling to Coventry to learn how | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
Their teacher has 30 years experience protecting the likes | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
of Princess Diana along with the Queen Mother - | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
It all started with the Birmingham pub bombings when a lot of us were | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
taken from CID to protection work and it went on from there. I was | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
lucky enough to be involved with the protection of some of the royal | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
family. Princess Diana and the Queen Mother Tomic particularly when they | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
were visiting the Midlands. That is on tomorrow's programme. We will be | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
back tonight You might get the impression | :27:48. | :27:55. | |
that history is just a record Very often, | :27:56. | :27:57. | |
the line between fact and fiction In this series, I'm exploring how | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
three turning points in our history have been manipulated to become | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
our greatest historical legends. I want to be entertained. | :28:12. | :28:24. | |
Entertain me. It's the last chance | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
to impress the judges. What have you been up to? | :28:30. | :28:44. | |
Something grubby? | :28:45. | :28:47. |