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"The truth has died with him" - news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the words of a Birmingham woman whose sister was killed in the pub | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
bombings on the death of Martin McGuiness. | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
We'll be talking live to Julie Hambleton, who's been | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
campaigning for justice for the pub bomb victims for more than 40 years. | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
Also this evening: With the little boy he'll never see growing up - | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
a Coventry man with terminal cancer says his illness should have | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
One of the enduring images of springtime, but what's | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
the future for the region's sheep farmers post-Brexit? | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
100% of our lamb is exported to France. It is not a charity, is it, | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
we have got to be profitable. Celebrating 50 years of a much loved | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
rattler with plans for major development at the Severn Valley | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
Railway. And, today we were treated to lovely | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
sunshine, but it's back The end of the week | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
is looking better though - The sister of a woman killed | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
in the Birmingham-pub-bombings 43 years ago says "the truth has died" | :00:59. | :01:13. | |
with the death of Martin McGuinness. The former deputy First Minister | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
of Northern Ireland died in hospital He was a leading figure in the IRA | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
from the early 1970s during the times it launched | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
many bloody attacks. Julie Hambleton's sister Maxine | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
was amongst the 21 people killed when the IRA bombed two pubs | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
in Birmingham in 1974. Julie, what was your initial | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
reaction when you heard My first reaction was one of | :01:45. | :01:56. | |
sadness, because as you have said, Mike instant thought was that the | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
truth may have died with him, and that is all that we want, the truth. | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
With the truth can come justice and accountability. But now we can only | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
but hope that the likes of Gerry Adams may come forward and supply us | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
with the very information that we so desire. But what are your actual | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
feelings towards Martin McGuiness? I don't have any feelings towards him, | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
I did not know the man. But bearing in mind what he was responsible for. | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
With reference to what was claimed he was responsible for, he is not a | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
man to be revered or lauded and applauded, as he has been all day | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
across all media, and throughout our political democracy. This man had a | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
history that he very much liked to keep buried, and he was very opaque | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
about this. He was very selective in his vetoes to mix with and help. | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
There is one thing for sure, it did not help victims or their families. | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
One of our supporters, Mark, wrote to Martin McGuiness and Gerry Adams | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
some years ago, and they did not have any courtesy to respond. Nobody | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
can claim he was out there to help. Is there not a part of you that | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
recognises the pivotal part he played in the peace process. He was | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
a cog in a complex wheel. He is seen as a significant clock. That is | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
propaganda. People say he was a significant and pivotal cog, but he | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
was brought to the table. What brought him to the table? Martin | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
McGuiness would do things to cover himself, and also for himself. Could | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
you never have worked with him, for example like Colin Parry did? No, | :03:42. | :03:54. | |
but I would have considered meeting him that is the only way we may have | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
gained information from him. But with reference to his connection to | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
the Good Friday agreement, absolutely not, no. There were so | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
many people involved. You have to remember that Gerry Adams and Martin | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
McGuiness were discussing peace deals with the Prime Minister on the | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
night 21 people, including my sister, were murdered. He did not | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
wake up one day in 96, 97, 98 and think he would look for peace and be | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
part of the peace process. This had been ongoing for decades. We'll have | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
to leave it there, thank you. Thank you. | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
A man who spent nine years in agony with hip pain, | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
34-year-old David Kinnie was first told that he had an irregular hip | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
joint and two years ago, the cancer was missed on an MRI scan | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Experts say delays in diagnosing bone cancer are a serious problem. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
Here's our Health Correspondent, Michele Paduano. | :04:49. | :05:01. | |
Frankie will be four in August. Throughout his life daddy has been | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
ill, but it was only in October last year when it was too late, doctors | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
found a tumour. I don't want him to look at pictures and not know who I | :05:15. | :05:27. | |
am. Sorry. For seven years, David has been under the care of | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
University Hospital Coventry. He was given physiotherapy for an irregular | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
hip for a year, and had two operations cancelled. Having been | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
together all that time, he and Vicky are planning a wedding. I want the | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
hospital to recognise they cannot keep doing this to people. David to | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
them is a number. To me, he is my life. It is happening too much, they | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
are missing too many times are people with cancer, it is not fair. | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Documents seen by the BBC indicate an MRI in January 2015 found the | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
tumour, but it was thought to be a blood clot. Bone cancer is typically | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
slow-growing, so if we are looking at a two-year delay, then you would | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
certainly hope that his life could have been saved. The hospital has | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
apologised unreservedly for the distress caused. The medical | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
director said a full investigation said the they looked into | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
opportunities to find the cancer earlier. They want to improve care | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
for all patients. Bone cancer is rare. Only 600 cases a year, but | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
experts say too often it is diagnosed too late. A survey showed | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
nearly one in four visited their GP more than five times. One in three | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
saw three or more health care professionals, and more than half | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
had to go to accident and emergency more than once. Late diagnosis is | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
common in cancer patients -- bone cancer patients. They can be | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
mistaken for other conditions, which leads to them being treated | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
incorrectly, prolonging the time they have to wait for the correct | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
treatment to be administered. David is determined to fight for as long | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
as he can to stay with his family. A Coventry engineer has been jailed | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
for four years and eight months after sending money | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
to fund his brother, who's fighting in Syria | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
with the so-called Islamic State. 36-year-old Nadeem Hussain admitted | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
three counts of being concerned in arrangements to make money | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
available for the A convicted killer will not be | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
questioned over the unsolved murder of a newspaper delivery boy | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
near Stourbridge Staffordshire police carried out | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
a review after a TV documentary produced what it claimed | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
was new evidence. 13-year-old Carl Bridgewater | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
was shot at Yew Tree farm in 1978. The TV programme cast doubt over | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
the alibi of convicted killer Bert Spencer, | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
who lived nearby, but who has always Four men jailed for Carl's murder | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
had their convictions A man's been arrested on suspicion | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
of attempted murder in connection with the beating of a security | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
guard in Dudley. The 73-year-old guard was attacked | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
after he challenged an intruder at metal factory Stoke Forgings | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
in Vine Street on Sunday. He was beaten unconscious | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
and found by a colleague He remains in critical | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
condition in hospital. A park in Birmingham has been chosen | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
to host a memorial dedicated to the British nationals | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
who lost their lives in the two terrorist attacks that took | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
place in Tunisia in 2015. In June that year 38 holidaymakers | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
including 30 British nationals were killed in an attack | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
on a resort outside Sousse. Three months earlier an attack | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
at the Bardo National Museum killed 22 people including one | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
British national. Cannon Hill Park will be | :08:51. | :08:51. | |
home to the 2015 Sousse and Bardo Memorial, which is planned | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
to open in 2018. The park was chosen because of its | :08:55. | :09:05. | |
mixture of tranquillity and public prominence. | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
A man from Cheltenham has been sentenced to 24.5 years in prison | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
after pleading guilty to murdering a teenager. | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
17-year-old Camran Green was stabbed in the town last October. | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
Steven Sharpe admitted killing the teenager and also | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
In just over a week's time, the Prime Minister will trigger | :09:18. | :09:34. | |
Article 50 and officially start the UK's departure | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
But Brexit is already having an impact on farming | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
Right now, lambing is in full swing and, with a large amount of British | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
lamb being exported to France, a good trade deal is vital | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
Our Rural Affairs Correspondent David Gregory-Kumar reports. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Part of the familiar rhythm of the countryside. | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
On this farm near Tamworth, two generations of farmers | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
are working round the clock in the lambing shed. | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
Yes, we have a lot of healthy lambs and plenty of them. | :10:01. | :10:11. | |
But soon, this regular date in the farming calendar will, | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
of course, be taking place in a world outside the EU. | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
In the short-term, Brexit has been good for farmers who want to export | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
lambs to the Continent because a weaker pound | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
means that this little fellow is worth ?10, | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
And we do export a lot of lamb and sheep meat - | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
42,000 tonnes a year to France alone. | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
At the moment, of course, that's pretty easy. | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Well, let's ask brothers Will, Edward and George. | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
You asked us where we will be in ten years' time, and the truth | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
is, we don't really know, the future is very uncertain. | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
All we can do at the moment is carry on what we are doing. | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
We can't do any more than that at the moment, | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
You have just got to hope prices stay up and keep it going. | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
Dad has just come back from visiting France | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
I have talked to the farmers over there, they made | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
I think they feel a little bit uncertain about the Brexit | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
negotiations at the moment, but hopefully our ministers, | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
our politicians, will negotiate the right deal for us. | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
For now, Brexit is having a positive impact on lamb prices. | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
But longer term, the financial future of lambing is bound | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
up with politicians, negotiations and | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
David Gregory-Kumar, BBC Midlands Today, Tamworth. | :11:34. | :11:42. | |
It's 50 years this week since the first locomotive travelled | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
on the Severn Valley Railway to Shropshire. | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
The Number 3205 steamed into Bridgnorth Station, | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
the first train there since it was axed under | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
Dr Beeching's plans four years earlier in 1963. | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
And, half a century on, a share scheme to raise money | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
to revamp the station has hit the ?1 million mark. | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
Our reporter Joanne Writtle has been at Bridgnorth Station. | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
March 1967, and Bridgnorth Train Station burst back to life when this | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
The first train here since the station closed four years | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
One of the drivers was John Hill from Bewdley. | :12:18. | :12:34. | |
Today, full of memories, he returned. We dropped slowly down the | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
bank towards the station, and all I could see was a mass of people of | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
all ages on the platform waiting for us. As we drove in, they cheered and | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
clapped and applauded us. It was just a wonderful time. | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
Volunteers raised ?25,000 to buy and restore 6.5 miles of neglected | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
track from Bridgnorth to Hampton Loade. | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
And today steam trains run along 16 miles to Kidderminster, attracting | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
After his entry on, and fund-raising still goes on. In fact, they have | :13:00. | :13:15. | |
just sold ?1 million of shares towards a revamped and an extension | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
of facilities here in Bridgnorth. But they still need to raise another | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
?1.5 million. Dean Parkin is one of nine | :13:22. | :13:22. | |
apprentices here, recruited due to a shortage of specialist skills | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
to maintain engines. I come from Cornwall, so a little | :13:26. | :13:35. | |
way away. I come up here because it is so specialised and what I enjoy | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
doing there's not many places that do amount of engineering on steam | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
engines, so it is what brought me here because I am passionate about | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
it. Dean is also among 1700 | :13:49. | :13:48. | |
volunteers who keep In fact, many worked | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
here for decades, charmed Even the station cat Puddles arrived | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
as a stray ten years ago. And, despite attempts to re-home | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
her, she always comes back. Thanks for joining us | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
on Midlands Today, this is our top story tonight: "The truth has died | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
with him" - the words of a Birmingham woman whose sister | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
was killed in the pub bombings What a beautiful day it | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
has been, weatherwise. Rebecca's here later | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
with the forecast. Also in tonight's programme: A tale | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
of two City keepers. International Jack Butland is fit | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
again, but can he get his place back from Lee Grant at Premier League | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
Stoke? And, he's starred in more than 70 | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
films, so why is Hollywood actor John Malkovich in | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
Birmingham tonight? The stately home Shugborough Hall | :14:40. | :14:50. | |
in Staffordshire needs to attract a quarter of a million visitors | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
a year to break even, The charity took over the management | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
of the historic park in November when Staffordshire County Council | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
gave up its lease of The site opens to the public today | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
for the first time this year. Ben Sidwell has been to meet | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Mark Agnew, the man in charge. The daffodils may be blooming, but | :15:08. | :15:20. | |
looking at Shugborough, it isn't need of some TLC. What is The | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
National Trust's plan for this? We have a 10-year plan to rejuvenate, | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
restore and bring Shugborough back to life. Not just the mansion, but | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
the farm, the wider parklands, the garden and the Arboretum. Just | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
really tried to sweep away the municipal eyes Asian that has | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
happened over the last 80 years and open up the parkland for people to | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
get out and explore. We are at the beginning of a journey and we are | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
asking our visitors to come along. We have not finished everything yet, | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
this is just the start of National Trust ownership, but keep coming | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
back and having a look, and you will see a transformed over the next ten | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
years. We can see that there is a lot of | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
work to do here which will cost a lot of money. I know the | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
Staffordshire County Council are losing close to ?1 million a year, | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
which is why they have given up the lease. What was the deal, and how do | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
you make this profitable? Well, they have surrendered their lease 50 | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
years early. They are paying The National Trust ?20 million in | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
compensation for that, which we will receive over next three years. As we | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
know, they were losing huge sums of money and there was a backlog of | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
conservation work it. Then is ?2.8 million that needs to be spent on | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
it. We have already invested in the infrastructure and made it says, but | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
the keep for us to make this work, we need to attract at least 250,000 | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
visitors a year. I think it is going to be a big benefit for the local | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
people, and hopefully an improvement on what the county council were able | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
to do. They will do a lot of repairs and it will be a long project, but | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
we will be interested to see how it goes. When I heard that it was going | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
to be open all year round, I was absolutely thrilled about that. This | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
area here is the real difference because this is somewhere that | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
people have not been, isn't it? Yes, we have opened up the whole of the | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
parklands and the arch so you can come up here, look up across this | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
fantastic view, for the first time since Shugborough has been back, The | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
National Trust has opened up for everyone to have a look around. | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
Mark Agnew, the general manager, speaking to our | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
Now for sport, and to the Ricoh arena in Coventry, | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
where the Sky Blues and Port Vale are both battling relegation. | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
Ian Winter's there, but Ian, fresh developments in the row over | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
Yes, Coventry fans have been resigned to relegation for weeks. | :17:48. | :17:59. | |
But they could find themselves sharing the Butts Park Arena | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
with Coventry Rugby Club when their current deal runs | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
David Johnson was at the Sky Blue Trust meeting | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
He said that they have got a plan with the backing of the chairman of | :18:14. | :18:26. | |
Coventry Rugby club for this ground share. The problem is, the sounds I | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
have spoken to know the area well and know that ground, they don't see | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
that the infrastructure can be put in place to seek a ground suitable | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
for Coventry City. It might work in the National League, but if we have | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
got aspirations to get out of League 2 next season, which is well you | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
going, to League 1 on the championship, I can't see it | :18:47. | :18:47. | |
working. Phil Sherwin is a huge | :18:48. | :18:48. | |
Port Vale fan. You're only a couple of points | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
adrift of safety, with games in hand More than I was two weeks ago, now | :18:51. | :18:59. | |
that we have had two wins we are looking better, and hopefully we can | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
break our away problem since October. We have had a lot of ups | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
and downs, but hopefully we are turning the corner now. | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
The Sky Blues are cast adrift at the bottom | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
We are playing for pride and entertaining football, and a big | :19:16. | :19:28. | |
game at Wembley on the 2nd of April. 45,000 city fans going to Wembley. | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
Michael Brown has been the PV caretaker manager since Boxing Day - | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
do the fans believe he's the man to take the club forwards in future? | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
He has done a good job. He has brought ten or 11 players of his own | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
in since January and we are slowly moving up the league. | :19:44. | :19:44. | |
Now, let's meet two goalkeepers who are both fully focused | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
There's been a new face in the Stoke City ticket office today. | :19:51. | :20:01. | |
And the good news for fans is that goalkeeper Lee Grant was only | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
Today, Grant and fellow keeper Jack Butland met fans to thank them | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
for their support and to encourage them to renew their season tickets. | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
Enthusiastic and hardened supporters here. | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
It's great to see them out in force today. | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
No matter what it is, home games or away games, | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
there are always fans there and they always turn out. | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
So, they agree on that, but there the similarity ends. | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
And a good save from Grant, and he did it again! | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
The 34-year-old was signed on loan from Derby in the autumn | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
Really enjoying the good times, playing every week | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
in the Premier League, there's no better feeling. | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
I almost don't want this season to finish, to be quite honest. | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
In contrast Butland broke his ankle against Germany 12 months ago | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
When you're staring out of the gym window, | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
watching all the other boys training, it is difficult | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
It is a tough time, you are really low for quite a long time | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
because you are not able to do what you want to do. | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
But he's now back in full training and desperate to play. | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
Who are the fans going to see in goal for Stoke City in August? | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
This is the club I am at, this is where I want to be, | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
and I am determined to get that number one shirt back. | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
For me personally, it is a great challenge and one | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
I want to be part of every single game between now | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
The fans will look forward to the battle. | :21:31. | :21:43. | |
Coventry City are aiming to do the double tonight. Can they manage it? | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
Tonight's game is live on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
By the way, well done to Tunstall Town. | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
Once described as the worst team in the country after their winless | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
run stretched to 171 games, now they've finally got something | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
to celebrate after winning the Staffordshire Cup. | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
They beat Lichfield City Reserves, 7-1. | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
With nearly 100 films to his name, American actor John Malkovich has | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
Tonight he's in Birmingham for the UK premiere | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
It's a far cry from Hollywood, so we sent our Arts reporter | :22:19. | :22:28. | |
Actor John Malkovich, taking on the role of a fictional | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
dictator Satur Diman Cha in Just Call Me God. | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
This is actor John Malkovich. I have listed myself up into absolute | :22:35. | :22:49. | |
Regent, and I am the absolute sovereign! | :22:50. | :22:50. | |
The music drama has its UK premiere at Birmingham's | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
A lot of people watching tonight will be asking, John Malkovich, | :22:53. | :23:03. | |
Hollywood actor in Birmingham. Yes. Well, just finding out that Gladys | :23:04. | :23:14. | |
Knight will be a in the summer, so if it is good enough for her, it is | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
good enough for me. Tonight's performance sees John's | :23:17. | :23:17. | |
character perform with a musical response from Austrian organist | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
and conductor Martin Haselbock. A lot of people will identify you | :23:20. | :23:31. | |
with the film such as Dangerous, liaison is, but how it differ being | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
in a film and performing in front of a live audience, for you? Theatre is | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
a living, ephemeral thing. What happens tonight is what matters. | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
That is what people take away, or leave behind. Movies are much more | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
manufactured, and much more manipulated. They are not real. | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
This is the second time John Malkovich has come | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
to perform in Birmingham, a city which has his approval. | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
It seems to be really busy. Incredibly busy. Everyone rushing | :24:08. | :24:20. | |
around, lots of activity. I had a nice impression when we came a few | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
years ago and it remains. Tonight's premiere is | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
a one night only show. But the production will continue | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
its UK tour in London next week. Satnam Rana, BBC Midlands | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
Today, Birmingham. A car in Birmingham has been parked | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
illegally for so long that it's racked up 26 fines, | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
which would cost more Whilst most of the tickets | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
on the Y-Reg Hyundai have been The vehicle's been sitting | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
outside a row of shops In the meantime, Britannia Parking | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
have issued fines adding up Everyone asks about it - | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
literally everyone asks about this car that's got so many | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
tickets on it. The fines are going to be | :25:01. | :25:01. | |
?1000, ?2000, but we just can't do anything about it, | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
we don't whose it is. I'm getting to like | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
this Spring business! Fabulous weather when I | :25:11. | :25:11. | |
stepped out this morning. Presumably unbroken sunshine now | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
until October? Rebecca, Maybe not October, but we may make | :25:16. | :25:26. | |
it to April, it is only ten days away after all. It has been a | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
glorious start to spring today for some places. It was very cold this | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
morning, and we have unbroken blue sky to start the day. But tempered | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
as did fall to one or two Celsius. We saw them rising a little bit, | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
helped by the sunshine, and we reached eight or nine Celsius today. | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
A few breaks in the cloud, and if you escaped the wind, it did not | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
feel too bad. But through this afternoon, we saw the cloud breaking | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
and giving us some showers, and some contained this. This is pale this | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
afternoon. More of that into tomorrow with low pressure driving | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
our weather. A very messy system with weather fronts wrapped around | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
it. It will be over the top of us tomorrow, which is one benefit, but | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
it comes with showers head of it this evening which will push to | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
overnight tonight, and then that rain band will work its way in from | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
the West. Heavy at times and it arrives through the early hours of | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
the morning. Our temperatures are listing slightly. So, a wet brush | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
our and there will be some lively showers, which could contain Hale, | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
sleet and snow. Some rumbles of thunder as well, and it does take | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
its time to move. Once it does, we will get a few breaks in the clouds, | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
with temperatures reaching nine Celsius. Pleasant with those lighter | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
winds in the sunshine. Eventually it does start to work further north, | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
and behind that we will be left with some holes in the cloud and we could | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
get some fog patches developing. That is the weather system wrapping | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
itself back in, so we are not done with it yet. A few showers on | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
Thursday pushing in from the east. Some places will escape it during | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
the day, but as we head towards the end of the week, and for Friday, | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
pressure builds and it will be much calmer. Cold nights, but pleasant | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
with some sunshine for Mother's Day. Tomorrow we will find out about a | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
mural which has been discovered in a church in Coventry. It was painted | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
at Saint Marks Church, but it has been hidden behind a partition wall | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
since the 1970s and it will now be restored. | :27:38. | :27:38. | |
I'll be back at 10.30pm with your late update. | :27:39. | :27:42. |