:00:08. > :00:12.The families of those killed in the Birmingham pub bombings have
:00:13. > :00:16.The independent human rights organisation
:00:17. > :00:18.Liberty has recognised their ongoing campaign for justice.
:00:19. > :00:20.182 people were injured and 21 killed when two devices
:00:21. > :00:23.exploded at two pubs in the city centre in 1974.
:00:24. > :00:30.Kevin Reide was at the ceremony in London.
:00:31. > :00:40.Accepting the award tonight on the half of
:00:41. > :00:42.the campaigners, Julie Hambleton started by reading each and every
:00:43. > :00:46.name of the 21 young people who died in the Birmingham pub bombings.
:00:47. > :00:52.She ended with her own sistdr, Maxine, whose life
:00:53. > :00:58.21 people's lives slain in cold blood.
:00:59. > :01:06.The award is entitled Walk the Long Road and is in recognition
:01:07. > :01:08.of their successful fight for a fresh
:01:09. > :01:18.This is a poignant evening for us because it's not so much we are
:01:19. > :01:24.receiving a reward for what we've done, this award is for all our
:01:25. > :01:27.supporters who have achieved, with the painful road we walked down
:01:28. > :01:41.Tonight's awards at the Royal Court Theatre in
:01:42. > :01:43.London have been well received by the campaigners but they know they
:01:44. > :01:47.still have a long way to go before they can achieve justice for their
:01:48. > :01:51.Earlier this year they won the right to a fresh inquest but
:01:52. > :01:53.they are still fighting for the government to pay for proper
:01:54. > :02:01.And a parliamentary debate has been held tonight on the issue of legal
:02:02. > :02:04.aid for the families of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings.
:02:05. > :02:08.They're still waiting to find out what kind of financial assistance
:02:09. > :02:11.they'll get ahead of a new inquests into the deaths.
:02:12. > :02:13.The families are campaigning for parity with the
:02:14. > :02:17.Birmingham MP Jess Phillips called the debate.
:02:18. > :02:20.Hundreds of my constituents and thousands of Brummies have signed
:02:21. > :02:24.petitions and written letters to support these families.
:02:25. > :02:29.Without the certainty of parity how can any of
:02:30. > :02:31.them and in fact any citizen in this country ever believe that
:02:32. > :02:33.if the worst were to happen to their
:02:34. > :02:40.relatives that those responsible would ever face justice?
:02:41. > :02:42.Thousands of train passengers are facing disruption,
:02:43. > :02:44.with the temporary closure of the line between
:02:45. > :02:52.The new ?24 million station at Bromsgrove only
:02:53. > :02:56.Network Rail is closing the route to upgrade the line.
:02:57. > :02:57.Here's Our Transport Correspondent Peter Plisner.
:02:58. > :03:00.Not exactly the train traveller s favourite way of getting to work.
:03:01. > :03:03.You have to get up earlier to get into work later.
:03:04. > :03:06.But for passengers using Bromsgrove this morning, buses were taking
:03:07. > :03:08.the strain on the first of 12 days of disruption.
:03:09. > :03:11.An extra half an hour, 45 mhnutes, something like that.
:03:12. > :03:13.This closure's happening just three months after
:03:14. > :03:22.If there are things we can do to improve,
:03:23. > :03:28.In addition to bus replacemdnt services from Bromsgrove to nearby
:03:29. > :03:30.stations, Cross Country trahns from the South West
:03:31. > :03:33.and Cheltenham are being diverted via Kidderminster, adding up
:03:34. > :03:36.There are also longer journdys for passengers from Hereford
:03:37. > :03:41.and Malvern, with many having to change trains in Worcestdr.
:03:42. > :03:44.And this is the cause of all that disruption - engineering to upgrade
:03:45. > :03:47.track and signalling and to make a start on a project to electrify
:03:48. > :03:51.the line and then extend the Birmingham's cross city line.
:03:52. > :03:54.This is the site of what usdd to be the old station.
:03:55. > :03:57.The platforms have completely disappeared.
:03:58. > :04:01.Network Rail say the sequencing of this work means they can only do
:04:02. > :04:03.it once the old station had been demolished, hence the reason
:04:04. > :04:09.the new station has closed so soon after it opened.
:04:10. > :04:11.The closures are happening just as the leaf fall
:04:12. > :04:14.Last year there were scores of complaints
:04:15. > :04:17.about overcrowding after tr`ins didn't stop at certain stathons and
:04:18. > :04:20.with roadworks still happenhng on the M5 it all adds up to even
:04:21. > :04:30.The Telford MP, Lucy Allan, is calling for an independent
:04:31. > :04:34.inquiry into child sex offences in the town.
:04:35. > :04:36.She claims there's still an unacceptably high
:04:37. > :04:40.Seven men were jailed in 2002, after a major police investhgation
:04:41. > :04:41.into a child prostitution ring in Telford.
:04:42. > :04:49.Youngsters enjoying themselves on a night out in Telford
:04:50. > :04:52.During a Commons debate, MP Lucy Allan called
:04:53. > :04:54.for an independent inquiry to child sexual exploitation
:04:55. > :05:04.She said Telford has the highest recorded rate of offences
:05:05. > :05:10.and it's still increasing, according to Home Office figures.
:05:11. > :05:13.We need to be sure that we have put right mistakes and that culture has
:05:14. > :05:16.changed and it isn't about blame but it is about acknowledgelent that
:05:17. > :05:24.Seven men were given long prison sentences in 2012 for groomhng
:05:25. > :05:34.Young women we spoke to tod`y agreed an inquiry should be held
:05:35. > :05:41.If a review is going to bendfit the girls of Telford,
:05:42. > :05:44.There should be enough power to stop people like that
:05:45. > :05:49.Because Telford is popular for young people to go out
:05:50. > :05:56.A similar inquiry into child sex abuse in Rotherham in 2014 condemned
:05:57. > :05:58.the authority's failure to react and led to several
:05:59. > :06:07.But a street pastor who goes out in the town centre every wedkend
:06:08. > :06:10.doesn't believe an inquiry in Telford is necessary.
:06:11. > :06:17.He says a targeted campaign against the abusers is workhng.
:06:18. > :06:19.My one concern is about those historical victims and their
:06:20. > :06:22.families and I really believe money would be better spent on providing
:06:23. > :06:24.appropriately qualified professional help to them in some way.
:06:25. > :06:35.A review could be time-constming and very costly.
:06:36. > :06:38.Whether there is an inquiry or not, Home Office staff are soon due
:06:39. > :06:40.to meet officials in Telford to discuss progress
:06:41. > :06:54.One hundred years ago on thd Somme, one of the bloodiest battles
:06:55. > :06:56.of the First World War was at last nearing an end.
:06:57. > :07:03.The British had advanced just seven miles -
:07:04. > :07:07.among them eleven rugby players from Gloucester.
:07:08. > :07:11.This is wartime Kingsholm, some of the earliest footage of the home
:07:12. > :07:18.This is the old gymnasium, which the
:07:19. > :07:21.players from the Great War would have been familiar with.
:07:22. > :07:24.The full scale of the sacrifice made in battle by its players has now
:07:25. > :07:26.emerged thanks to a player turned historian Martin Davies.
:07:27. > :07:28.They became poster boys for the recruiting sergeants,
:07:29. > :07:32.prompting a stampede at Shire Hall in August 1914.
:07:33. > :07:35.Four rugby players went up onto the stage and signed
:07:36. > :07:36.up, which immediately caused 300 or
:07:37. > :07:44.Delving through old newspapdrs and archives Martin discovered no
:07:45. > :07:49.fewer than 30 players were killed - 11 of them on the Somme.
:07:50. > :07:53.One of the 11 who died, Harry Collins,
:07:54. > :07:56.need not have been at the Somme at all.
:07:57. > :07:57.He lost his trigger finger in
:07:58. > :08:00.an accident and was classed fit only for light duties.
:08:01. > :08:02.But he taught himself to shoot and bayonet using
:08:03. > :08:07.One of Gloucestershire's town criers knew his granddad had died
:08:08. > :08:11.on the Somme but only recently learned more of his story.
:08:12. > :08:16.He did in fact play for Gloucester on nine occasions.
:08:17. > :08:19.When John Price went to join up he was told the Gloucestershire s
:08:20. > :08:23.were full and instead he was packed off to the 10th Worcesters to train
:08:24. > :08:29.alongside men from Dudley and Halesowen.
:08:30. > :08:33.He referred to them the Foreign Legion or the y`m yams.
:08:34. > :08:36.I lived in the Black Countrx for ten years so I
:08:37. > :08:39.have the greatest love for that Black Country people but he couldn't
:08:40. > :08:43.As Remembrance Sunday appro`ches, those who swapped playing fheld
:08:44. > :08:48.for battlefield live on as legends of Kingsholm.
:08:49. > :08:51.A Wolves fan has raised thotsands of pounds for a charity,
:08:52. > :08:53.with a book about his uniqud collection of the club's shhrts
:08:54. > :08:55.Steve Plant started collecthng the jerseys when his father
:08:56. > :09:01.Now, four years after his f`ther's death, Steve's book
:09:02. > :09:04.featuring his collection is raising money for the Birmingham
:09:05. > :09:30.If I'm honest I took a masshve gamble and if the book hadn't been a
:09:31. > :09:36.success I would probably have had to sell the house. I took one chance
:09:37. > :09:37.and it was on one track and thank goodness it has done well!
:09:38. > :09:41.You can find more on Steve's story and the fund raising he's doing
:09:42. > :09:44.for Birmingham Children's Hospital on our Facebook and Twitter pages -
:09:45. > :09:57.Thank you. It was a chilly start. Things are starting to turn around
:09:58. > :10:01.and today we saw temperaturds pushing 17 and 18 Celsius across
:10:02. > :10:06.parts of the midlands. It h`s been a stunning entered day. It wotld cloud
:10:07. > :10:08.The divide between North and south The divide between North and south
:10:09. > :10:13.through the night and into tomorrow we keep that theme although it will
:10:14. > :10:16.be mostly dry and there will be a thickening cloud. High pressure
:10:17. > :10:22.sitting over the south of the country, dividing things up. Across
:10:23. > :10:27.the south we are likely to see a few breaks in the cloud and when we get
:10:28. > :10:30.those temperatures will fall away. Lows of five Celsius. Furthdr north
:10:31. > :10:35.where we keep the blanket of cloud we will see temperatures hovering at
:10:36. > :10:40.around about 11 Celsius. Thd breeze overnight but even so we ard likely
:10:41. > :10:43.to see Mr unfold through thd early part of tomorrow. Further north we
:10:44. > :10:48.see the cloud and it could squeeze the odd spot of drizzle. Pldnty of
:10:49. > :10:52.breaks through the day and bright spells of sunshine. As the wind
:10:53. > :10:57.direction changes to a westdrly it won't feel bad in the sunshhne and
:10:58. > :11:01.we could see temperatures up to 15 or 16 Celsius. Or information on the
:11:02. > :11:02.National forecast. I leave xou with the Outlook.
:11:03. > :11:03.out the outlook. Temperatures are looking very promising indeed. Nick
:11:04. > :11:15.Miller has the National forecast. If you like your forecast to include
:11:16. > :11:20.cold weather, this is not for you. Temperatures have been heading up,
:11:21. > :11:25.helped by sunshine showing off the autumn colours. 19 Celsius in
:11:26. > :11:29.Cheshire. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales got to 16 or above. The
:11:30. > :11:32.mild hour feeding around high pressure from the Atlantic will
:11:33. > :11:36.continue for the rest of the week into the weekend, even the start of
:11:37. > :11:41.next week. Not a huge amount of sunshine with it. Colder areas
:11:42. > :11:46.lurking to the north, it will try to come away later next week, bringing
:11:47. > :11:52.temperatures back close to average. We will keep you updated. A bit
:11:53. > :11:54.chilly overnight in rural spots sheltered Scottish glens, for
:11:55. > :11:58.example. For developing weather winds are right across southern
:11:59. > :12:02.England, that will be dense into the morning. Stronger winds in northern
:12:03. > :12:05.Scotland, another weather French bringing outbreaks of rain by the
:12:06. > :12:08.end of the night. The fog in the morning, the Met
:12:09. > :12:09.Office has a weather warning in