:00:08. > :00:10.The prison officers leaving or going off sick
:00:11. > :00:30.because of increasing levels of violence at Birmingham jail.
:00:31. > :00:33.An inquest hears how a woman from Tamworth was celebrating buying
:00:34. > :00:37.a house with her partner when she was killed
:00:38. > :00:45.Violence that in that prison every day frighten the hell out of me.
:00:46. > :00:47.As the number of rough sleepers continue to rise -
:00:48. > :00:52.help for the homeless from former Stoke City manager Lou Macari.
:00:53. > :00:55.In search of Sikhs to share their stories of migration
:00:56. > :01:12.And after two nights of dense freezing fog, the veil has been
:01:13. > :01:19.lifted but it's came to be frosty and very cold by tomorrow.
:01:20. > :01:22.There are claims that large numbers of officers at Birmingham Prison
:01:23. > :01:25.have been leaving their jobs or going sick because of increasing
:01:26. > :01:29.Last month inmates rioted - gaining control over four wings,
:01:30. > :01:34.staring fires and causing damage estimated at more than ?2 million.
:01:35. > :01:36.Two separate investigations continue into what happened.
:01:37. > :01:40.In a moment I'll be speaking to the head of the prison, but first
:01:41. > :01:50.here's our Special Correspondent, Peter Wilson.
:01:51. > :01:54.Birmingham prison is one of the oldest in the country.
:01:55. > :01:56.Last month saw the worst riots and disturbances
:01:57. > :01:59.Prison Officers sprayed with fire hoses, missiles and paint.
:02:00. > :02:02.The former chairman of the prison officers association at the jail
:02:03. > :02:09.claims the riot was a timebomb waiting to go off.
:02:10. > :02:18.The levels of violence that happen in that prison, everyday, frighten
:02:19. > :02:22.the hell out of me. I have seen staff badly assaulted, I've seen
:02:23. > :02:26.staff assaulted to the point they no longer wish to come back to work and
:02:27. > :02:32.had in fact walked away from the job. That horror blockbuster and
:02:33. > :02:38.He'd worked at Birmingham prison for 30 years and claims cuts
:02:39. > :02:43.in prison staff numbers was a factor in last month's riot.
:02:44. > :02:51.Because of the lack of opportunity to go to the gym, because of staff
:02:52. > :02:56.shortages, absences, illnesses, facilities were put on the wings,
:02:57. > :03:00.weightlifting facilities, during the riot, those weightlifting
:03:01. > :03:04.facilities, tremendously strong metal bars, were used to smash down
:03:05. > :03:11.doors, smashed chains. 20 years ago I made a documentary
:03:12. > :03:22.about the Victorian The governors making cuts of ?2
:03:23. > :03:27.million. The staff say it can't be done without losing control.
:03:28. > :03:29.In 1997 inmates used bed sheets and toilet
:03:30. > :03:34.paper to pass secret messages and drug deals.
:03:35. > :03:39.He must wait for the cleaner to come back. Soon as he does that, I would
:03:40. > :03:43.drop you the OK. Today it's mobile
:03:44. > :03:44.phones and even drones. Lloyd Robinson mentors young
:03:45. > :03:46.men inside the jail. He claims drug gangs
:03:47. > :03:57.are exerting their control. They have got a network outside the
:03:58. > :04:01.prison, they can also influence prisoners inside, so they're quite
:04:02. > :04:05.powerful people. If they are doing lengthy sentences and don't see
:04:06. > :04:08.themselves having any hope, what they will do, that becomes their
:04:09. > :04:10.life and therefore they will organise where are.
:04:11. > :04:15.So what is the atmosphere like this week inside the jail ?
:04:16. > :04:21.Things are pretty much back to normal, everything I would expect to
:04:22. > :04:24.see is happening today, good work being done by officers, people are
:04:25. > :04:29.settled. The biggest issue remains that drug is coming, that prisoners
:04:30. > :04:33.on occasion can be volatile within prison, and that's part of parcel of
:04:34. > :04:39.prison life and what officers and staff have to deal with. Why are you
:04:40. > :04:45.speaking out? Some might accuse you of being a bitter ex-union official?
:04:46. > :04:52.Because of my concerns for my many friends. They can't speak at the
:04:53. > :04:58.they can't speak out to anybody for the of reprisals, the company will
:04:59. > :05:01.dismiss them. From raising these issues that I have raised with you.
:05:02. > :05:03.An official report into the riot at Birmingham Prison is expected
:05:04. > :05:10.to be delivered to the government next week.
:05:11. > :05:12.To answer some of those points I'm joined by the Director
:05:13. > :05:15.of Birmingham prison, Peter Small.
:05:16. > :05:19.Let's address that last point from Brian Clarke,
:05:20. > :05:21.prison officers are afraid to speak out because they're worried
:05:22. > :05:33.I don't except that. We have never disciplined anyone for raising
:05:34. > :05:36.concern or speaking out. I have been a prison officer and I know that
:05:37. > :05:41.prison officers are not afraid to tell you when there are issues. If
:05:42. > :05:45.there is an issue, and somebody doesn't feel able to speak, we
:05:46. > :05:49.become potential line and we also have the Ministry of Justice on site
:05:50. > :05:50.and the Independent monitoring board which you have seen on your clip.
:05:51. > :05:56.What about some of the other claims, What about some of the other claims,
:05:57. > :06:02.how many officers did go off sick or left their jobs altogether after
:06:03. > :06:05.those riots last month? Post-16th of December there was a rise in
:06:06. > :06:08.sickness, and it is coming back down to the levels before that, in terms
:06:09. > :06:13.of staff leaving, we have had some staff who have left the business,
:06:14. > :06:18.not just... It varies month-to-month. What is important to
:06:19. > :06:22.two thirds of our staffing group are two thirds of our staffing group are
:06:23. > :06:28.still the same staff that were there in 2011. This figure of 60 having
:06:29. > :06:35.left or gone off sick, is it something you recognise? Certainly
:06:36. > :06:40.not 60 people left, not at all. How many? Since the riots in the last
:06:41. > :06:43.month or so? In December and that maybe half a dozen people who have
:06:44. > :06:50.left but that's not all connected the problems... With the event of
:06:51. > :06:53.this extent of December. About the issue of drugs, which aims to be a
:06:54. > :06:56.doing to get a handle on that had doing to get a handle on that had
:06:57. > :07:03.they come into prisons in the first place? That's not just a problem in
:07:04. > :07:06.Birmingham, it's across the service and we are constantly combating new
:07:07. > :07:14.technology and techniques to bring less items in, such as drones, which
:07:15. > :07:18.is a major threat to prison security at the moment in terms of the way in
:07:19. > :07:25.which illicit items come in. We have other ways prisoners come in off the
:07:26. > :07:28.street with drugs on their person, coming in through the visit were
:07:29. > :07:31.being thrown over the wall. Thank you for your time.
:07:32. > :07:35.The son of a woman from Tamworth, who was killed in a terror attack
:07:36. > :07:38.in Tunisia, has told an inquest "knowing she was with someone
:07:39. > :07:39.who made her happy" gave the family "comfort".
:07:40. > :07:41.Suzanne Davey, from Tamworth, and her partner Scott Chalkley
:07:42. > :07:45.were among 38 people killed in a grenade and gunfire
:07:46. > :07:47.attack on the beach resort of Sousse in June 2015.
:07:48. > :07:52.Our reporter Kathryn Stanczyszyn has been at the High Court
:07:53. > :08:06.More harrowing evidence from these very significant inquests into the
:08:07. > :08:13.biggest terror attack on British citizens since 7-7. Today's
:08:14. > :08:19.proceedings started with a chilling video graphics, showing exactly the
:08:20. > :08:23.position of each victim on that beach in Sousse when they died, many
:08:24. > :08:28.of them still on sunbeds. Suzanne baby was on holiday with her
:08:29. > :08:35.partner, Scott Chalkley, they had watched the holiday to celebrate
:08:36. > :08:37.their first house together. We also heard from postmortem evidence that
:08:38. > :08:40.Suzanne was shot in the chest and Suzanne was shot in the chest and
:08:41. > :08:47.neck and that she would have lost consciousness almost immediately.
:08:48. > :08:55.The families were in court, what was their reaction? There were many
:08:56. > :08:57.dignified tears in court today, Suzanne's Sun Connor read out a
:08:58. > :09:05.statement on behalf of the family, he talked about the things his mum
:09:06. > :09:09.would miss, weddings, graduations, but he did say the families were
:09:10. > :09:12.grateful to have the facts of their loved ones's last moments heard and
:09:13. > :09:20.recorded. When it does reopen and recorded. When it does reopen and
:09:21. > :09:24.it's almost a surreal moment when you're sitting in the court room
:09:25. > :09:30.nice that it can be put to bed, is nice that it can be put to bed, is
:09:31. > :09:34.it important to us? Of course it is. Is it deeply all and end all,
:09:35. > :09:42.she will live on for ever. I've is she will live on for ever. I've is
:09:43. > :09:46.likely to continue to sometime? It's a long and complexity process, 30
:09:47. > :09:52.victims evidence to hear, this is day seven, likely to last for six
:09:53. > :09:53.weeks. Tomorrow we hear evidence from Birmingham city footballer
:09:54. > :09:57.Dennis exploits and his wife Elaine. Two people have been jailed
:09:58. > :09:59.for life, for the murder of their flatmate in a knife attack
:10:00. > :10:02.in Stratford Upon Avon. Kayleigh Louise Woods
:10:03. > :10:04.and Jack Williams tied up and killed 20 year old Bethany Hill
:10:05. > :10:06.in February last year. The prosecution described it
:10:07. > :10:08.as "a sadistic killing, Both will serve at least
:10:09. > :10:12.26 years behind bars. A 25-year-old man has been arrested
:10:13. > :10:15.on suspicion of murder, after a fatal stabbing
:10:16. > :10:17.on a Birmingham bus. Leon Barrett-Hazle was travelling
:10:18. > :10:20.on the top deck of the Number 11A in Handsworth on Monday evening,
:10:21. > :10:24.when he was attacked. The arrested man surrendered himself
:10:25. > :10:28.earlier this afternoon. West Midlands Ambulance Service has
:10:29. > :10:30.become the first NHS Foundation Trust to be rated
:10:31. > :10:33.outstanding by the Care Inspectors rated it the best
:10:34. > :10:38.across all ten ambulance trusts in England, it's continually met
:10:39. > :10:41.the required response It serves 26 NHS Trusts and responds
:10:42. > :10:52.to around 3,000 999 calls a day. In the last 18 months 850 assaults
:10:53. > :10:54.were reported on police officers across Worcestershire,
:10:55. > :10:59.Herefordshire and Shropshire. Now a new initiative has been
:11:00. > :11:01.launched to try and reduce The area's Police and Crime
:11:02. > :11:09.Commissioner says the new scheme - called "Behind the Badge" -
:11:10. > :11:11.is aimed at changing For many officers, dealing
:11:12. > :11:18.with the threat of violence And attacks don't just happen
:11:19. > :11:21.in our inner cities - PC Sherry Clifford was just 5 weeks
:11:22. > :11:24.out of training when she was kicked in the face
:11:25. > :11:34.outside a club in Evesham. The pain that excruciating, it
:11:35. > :11:37.knocked me back and knocked me out for a few seconds and then it was
:11:38. > :11:41.more, have to get back up because he is still fighting. After long kick
:11:42. > :11:45.through the face, I lost a tooth and a large factor down the side, had a
:11:46. > :11:48.massively swollen face for about three or four weeks.
:11:49. > :11:51.The new campaign aims to highlight the impact of violence
:11:52. > :12:02.People forget, I'm going home to my family, my partner, don't want to go
:12:03. > :12:07.home black and blue, people have stopped seeing us, they just see the
:12:08. > :12:10.uniform. We are a large rural force, we have police officers out there,
:12:11. > :12:12.away, I want to make sure the away, I want to make sure the
:12:13. > :12:15.community plays their part. In 2016 the force introduced body
:12:16. > :12:18.cameras which have been shown to reduce attacks in other parts
:12:19. > :12:20.of the country. And from day one
:12:21. > :12:22.officers receive this National figures show there's
:12:23. > :12:25.an attack on a police officer every 22 minutes
:12:26. > :12:28.and in the West Mercia Force area there were 850 assaults
:12:29. > :12:34.over an 18 month period. But however well trained,
:12:35. > :12:46.not everyone trusts the police Officers have suffered a variety of
:12:47. > :12:50.broken bones, can be extremely broken bones, can be extremely
:12:51. > :12:51.traumatic and officers then have to live with the injuries they may have
:12:52. > :12:55.suffered during a shift. The hope is the number of those
:12:56. > :13:00.injuries can be reduced. Thanks for joining us
:13:01. > :13:02.on Midlands Today, Shefali will bring us the detailed forecast,
:13:03. > :13:10.are we in for more fog? Not from actually but they will be a
:13:11. > :13:16.frost. Once again our weather watchers didn't disappoint, emerging
:13:17. > :13:21.in the bright sunlight produced some wonderful snaps today, a time to
:13:22. > :13:30.reflect on the week so far. Colder conditions on the way.
:13:31. > :13:33.Last year the former Stoke City manager Lou Macari helped set up
:13:34. > :13:37.Initially open for a two-month trial, thanks to his campaigning
:13:38. > :13:40.and setting up his own foundation, it's still in operation.
:13:41. > :13:44.And as new figures today show, the need is increasing -
:13:45. > :13:47.with the number of rough sleepers across the region on the rise.
:13:48. > :13:59.It's for being our best guest of the month. I couldn't see any way of
:14:00. > :14:02.helping them unless you get a bit close to them, if they have a bit of
:14:03. > :14:08.confidence in you, then gradually they start to tell you all about
:14:09. > :14:17.themselves. Without knowing about them, you can't help them.
:14:18. > :14:23.Congratulations! You have a bit of banter, then I go home, walked out
:14:24. > :14:30.the door, I go to a nice warm home, I've got a job that week, money in
:14:31. > :14:38.they haven't, know. It's somewhere they haven't, know. It's somewhere
:14:39. > :14:38.you can get a hot meal, somewhere you can get a hot meal,
:14:39. > :14:44.you can have a shower. And it's you can have a shower. And it's
:14:45. > :14:49.can speak to the staff here. It can speak to the staff here. It
:14:50. > :14:56.makes a massive difference. Do you think I'm crazy making him a
:14:57. > :15:02.second-in-command? Eudora? -- you can? He knows everything that's
:15:03. > :15:09.going on in here. His kind-hearted doing this, putting his heart into
:15:10. > :15:17.this. It's nice to come here and call it home. Late at night, seven
:15:18. > :15:25.o'clock you can call it home. Word is getting around, and ten years
:15:26. > :15:31.from now let's say,... It's that one-way system in step! The ring
:15:32. > :15:38.road! YouTube going round and round it and eventually you will get here!
:15:39. > :15:42.A lot of people who stay in here, they have been round the system for
:15:43. > :15:46.ages, not the same system you have talked about, being round and round,
:15:47. > :15:49.eventually you have got to try and eventually you have got to try and
:15:50. > :15:55.get them into another system which is the normal way of life. Help them
:15:56. > :15:57.try and achieve that, that would be brilliant.
:15:58. > :16:00.Joan Cummins is in Birmingham for us tonight, one of the areas
:16:01. > :16:01.with the largest number of homeless people.
:16:02. > :16:06.Joan, what's the picture like across the Midlands?
:16:07. > :16:12.You have already mentioned the official government figures which
:16:13. > :16:13.say more than 4000 in the country, here in Birmingham the figures
:16:14. > :16:27.captured on that snapshot were 55. The ambassador for the homeless
:16:28. > :16:33.situation here in Birmingham is this counsellor. What can you did try and
:16:34. > :16:39.help these people? In Birmingham were trying to do a lot, we have to
:16:40. > :16:42.be clear about this, this is a national issue, but we are working
:16:43. > :16:47.together with a lot of different groups in the city and we are
:16:48. > :16:53.listening to rough sleepers, I think that's absolutely key to get things
:16:54. > :16:58.done. 55 sounds really low in a city the size of Birmingham, a lot of
:16:59. > :17:02.people say, I bet it's higher. It's just a snapshot that took place in
:17:03. > :17:05.November when we all went out on a particular day set by the
:17:06. > :17:08.government, we did anticipate that would rise over the festive season
:17:09. > :17:13.and we do think that happened but alongside this we are planning to go
:17:14. > :17:15.out in the spring to see if trends change, we want to keep an eye on
:17:16. > :17:22.the numbers to respond to them. 55 the numbers to respond to them. 55
:17:23. > :17:26.is not many inner-city the size of Nottingham, on their 55 pit your can
:17:27. > :17:32.give them? There are barriers to some people, the going back doors,
:17:33. > :17:37.so to speak, so we're trying to address those and reduce them,
:17:38. > :17:40.helping couples to get into a hostel together, some rough sleepers of got
:17:41. > :17:45.dogs, there wasn't provision for those and now we have a hostel who
:17:46. > :17:48.are trialling it so they can get the are trialling it so they can get the
:17:49. > :17:52.dogs in so they can reduce those numbers. It's a situation that is
:17:53. > :17:56.going on, the council so they are investing more in dealing with this
:17:57. > :17:57.issue, and they are going to carry on doing their own monitoring of the
:17:58. > :18:05.situation. Being a bodyguard is a job which can
:18:06. > :18:09.pay up to ?1000 a day - You need to be prepared to put
:18:10. > :18:15.yourself in harm's way. But if that doesn't put you off,
:18:16. > :18:26.City College in Coventry can offer They visits by Princess Diana and
:18:27. > :18:31.the Queen Mother commanded police presence, and one of those offices
:18:32. > :18:37.is passing on his 30 years of experience to the next generation of
:18:38. > :18:40.would-be bodyguards. It started with the Birmingham pub bombings were a
:18:41. > :18:44.lot of us were taken into protection work and it went on to there. The
:18:45. > :18:48.Midland is a vibrant area with Birmingham and Coventry and the rest
:18:49. > :18:52.coming here who need the protection coming here who need the protection
:18:53. > :18:57.we can provide. Keeping their eyes peeled the danger and threats,
:18:58. > :19:02.students are coming to pay ?1100 to pass the accredited 14 day course.
:19:03. > :19:04.But all training needs that willing guinea pigs. So time for my
:19:05. > :19:18.superstar transformation. The scene is set. I am popular...
:19:19. > :19:27.And I have a stalker, who is obsessed with getting a bit too
:19:28. > :19:31.close. I said it would be here to see you! This may be playacting but
:19:32. > :19:39.you do need a license legally to do you do need a license legally to do
:19:40. > :19:41.protection work. That was a close shave, but what attracts people to
:19:42. > :19:47.put themselves on the line of fire? I always wanted to get into
:19:48. > :19:49.security, come from an army background, I got into the gym and
:19:50. > :19:52.thought I needed to do something with what I achieved. You are
:19:53. > :19:58.protecting the likes of me! It's all protecting the likes of me! It's all
:19:59. > :20:04.down to define it, doesn't matter what size or shape, as long as your
:20:05. > :20:08.bit, you can take on the training. I may be safe and sound but for the
:20:09. > :20:12.real VIPs, Coventry has got their back.
:20:13. > :20:15.It's been a busy day in the transfer market for Aston Villa,
:20:16. > :20:18.who've signed the Barnsley defender James Bree and the Icelandic
:20:19. > :20:22.And there's been a rare win for Coventry City.
:20:23. > :20:27.The Sky Blues are just 90 minutes away from Wembley -
:20:28. > :20:29.after beating Swansea's under 21 side in the quarter-final
:20:30. > :20:33.Reice Charles-Cook was their star man, saving two
:20:34. > :20:43.The Birmingham boxer Kal Yafai is to make the first defence
:20:44. > :20:46.of his world title in his home city later this year.
:20:47. > :20:49.Yafai won the WBA Super Middleweight belt in Manchester last month.
:20:50. > :20:51.It made him Birmingham's first ever boxing world champion.
:20:52. > :20:53.He will defend the title at the Barclaycard Arena
:20:54. > :21:04.Sikhs across Birmingham and the Black Country
:21:05. > :21:06.are being asked to come forward to share stories of migration
:21:07. > :21:12.from the first generation right through to the present day.
:21:13. > :21:14.The project, being led by the Nishkam Civic Association
:21:15. > :21:16.is looking to create a colelctive picture of what happened
:21:17. > :21:20.Our Arts Reporter Satnam Rana takes a look at how her grandfather's
:21:21. > :21:26.story is one of the many that have been locked away for decades.
:21:27. > :21:30.The faces of immigration and Wolverhampton in 1968, documented in
:21:31. > :21:34.a TV programme. It was my maternal grandfather,
:21:35. > :21:36.Prakash Singh Tahim who made a journey from North India
:21:37. > :21:52.in Punjab to the UK in 1963. And finally to a place I call home,
:21:53. > :21:56.Wolverhampton. But finding work wasn't that easy. I lost my
:21:57. > :22:12.grandfather a few weeks ago. TRANSLATION: He couldn't find work,
:22:13. > :22:17.the city looked to hold, then his cousin said you may have two tick
:22:18. > :22:26.off your turban and shave your bit. Once you did the same factories who
:22:27. > :22:28.went turned away the key man. But 1966 first of his family had joined
:22:29. > :22:32.him in they are many years later. My grandfather always
:22:33. > :22:35.wanted his chldren to build a better life through education -
:22:36. > :22:37.something he was denied in India and this was his main
:22:38. > :22:47.reason for migrating. Everyone used to say, why are you
:22:48. > :22:53.educating your children, especially your daughters? Answered, if you can
:22:54. > :22:57.send my to London to study, why can't you send bitterness and
:22:58. > :23:00.college in Birmingham. He agreed. The youngest went to university to.
:23:01. > :23:03.It is stories like ours that the Nishkam Civic Association
:23:04. > :23:05.in Birmingham is looking to document.
:23:06. > :23:07.The Heritage Lottery funded project is seeking out men and women
:23:08. > :23:10.who have made journies here from the '50s
:23:11. > :23:19.That generation is getting older and as they are passing, they're taking
:23:20. > :23:23.their stories with them so unless their stories with them so unless
:23:24. > :23:25.they have told you something personally, you won't know who these
:23:26. > :23:28.people were and what they contributed to the region.
:23:29. > :23:30.When my grandfather retired he returned to being
:23:31. > :23:34.Along the way he helped set up a gurdwara too.
:23:35. > :23:37.And he's left behind a legacy spanning generations,
:23:38. > :23:50.We have at the forecast is the last few days. Fog and frost. I nearly
:23:51. > :24:01.got it wrong! More on the way. Yes, we were shrouded in that frog
:24:02. > :24:07.dismally, dense, freezing fog, it was mostly across the South-East of
:24:08. > :24:14.the region, either in the west it was a much better picture. Here we
:24:15. > :24:22.had the best of the sunshine once the fog lifted. For once, that's not
:24:23. > :24:27.going to be obscured by fog tonight, there was cloud on the way, it has
:24:28. > :24:36.been nibbling away at the sunshine to the west throughout the day and
:24:37. > :24:41.now it is right across us. This will draw in cold air and the wins will
:24:42. > :24:45.turn to southerly, south-westerly is by Friday and that will come with a
:24:46. > :24:53.caveat, we have rain heading in from the west. Sunday is going to be the
:24:54. > :24:59.best day of the weekend. Looking at this evening, that cloud still
:25:00. > :25:03.starting to stretch across to the West, continuing its journey that
:25:04. > :25:08.way, so by the end of the night, cloud right across us, undercutting
:25:09. > :25:13.that we have the colder air being drawn in by the Southeast police.
:25:14. > :25:15.You can see the odd grain of snow, largely dry picture and with that
:25:16. > :25:23.cold air, temperatures will to form the below freezing. A fairly
:25:24. > :25:26.widespread frost as we head into the morning tomorrow. So a frosty cloudy
:25:27. > :25:33.start to Thursday, however it's going to be mainly dry, we will
:25:34. > :25:36.continue to see the snowflakes falling, but mainly dry picture. We
:25:37. > :25:40.might see a bit of brightness breaking through as the crowd thins
:25:41. > :25:46.out in places but you can see, it's good to be bitterly cold. With the
:25:47. > :25:51.wind chill, it can to feel even wind chill, it can to feel even
:25:52. > :25:56.colder than that. Into tomorrow night, we start to see those guys
:25:57. > :26:02.not clearing but the cloud thickening up again -- those skies.
:26:03. > :26:05.You can see Frost start to develop once again and perhaps even the
:26:06. > :26:11.likelihood of a bit of snow as we head into Friday.
:26:12. > :26:39.I am back with you at half-past ten to
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