06/01/2017 Midlands Today

A group that's been battling to keep services at the Alexandra Hospital

in Redditch has decided to end its campaign

because it says health bosses have already made up their minds.

It comes as a public consultation is launched over the future

Here's our Health Correspondent, Michele Paduano.

This family in Redditch has had two children die

The other children are about to be tested.

They have always used the Alexandra hospital in Redditch

and they've always supported the Save The Alex campaign.

We have another child that has been diagnosed

We need closeness and emergency treatment ASAP

I'm absolutely gutted that the campaign has given up.

Outside the hospital today, campaigners say it

Here we are in 2017 with key services stripped out.

Controversially, staff resigning because they didn't

feel that the model was safe.

We are a fast-growing town with young people.

It's not going to come back and we have to say that

this campaign has failed to save maternity and paediatrics

and everything is going to go to Worcester

A candlelit vigil in 2005 marked the beginning of

the first successful attempt to keep maternity and

children's services in Redditch.

In 2012, a new organisation began and stalled.

But in 2015, maternity services were closed on safety grounds.

It has been said that there is a shortage of key medical staff.

They believe that this model will lead to

a safe and affordable care in the future.

They say that they are keen to listen.

In future, the Alexandra and Kiddiminster hospitals

will do more planned work, freeing up Worcestershire's

The town's MP said more beds desparately needed in

Worcestershire after emergency patients filled three

I've been concerned that the hospital is not big enough

Therefore, I have been pushing for an expansion.

I would like to see that brought forward as soon as possible.

The campaigners have always maintained that Worcester was too

But they say it is somebody else's fight.

Two men have been arrested following the death of a man

found with knife wounds in Birmingham last month.

A murder inquiry was launched after 23-year-old Ibrahim Ismail

was found on Moseley Street, in Highgate, in the early hours

Two Birmingham men, aged 23 and 24, have now been arrested on suspicion

of violent disorder and released on bail while enquiries continue.

A 30-year-old man has appeared in court charged

in connection with a riot at Birmingham Prison last month.

Dozens of police and specially trained prison officers were called

to the jail when inmates seized control of four wings in December.

Ross Queen from Northfield faces two charges of prison mutiny and one

of taking a photograph inside the prison during the riot.

Now, it's a far cry from the humble potting shed.

Stoke-on-Trent bus driver Anderson Jones has taken his love

of movies to new lengths by building a replica

Most people are happy with just a shed or a greenhouse

But not Anderson Jones from Stoke-on-Trent.

It all started from when I was about six years old.

My mum and dad took me to the old cinemas.

I just fell in love with the cinema and I thought I'd love to

It's taken Anderson almost five years to build,

but he's been collecting bits from cinemas that are

And it's become something of a family affair.

With wife, Jayne, supplying the popcorn and son, Ethan,

Even the carpets, which at a cost of thousands, were made especially

to replicate those that would have been in an ABC cinema.

He's fulfilled his dreams and my opinion of it is that it's amazing.

It's not a passion, it's an obsession.

I'm so pride of myself that I've managed

to save history from the ABC Cinemas because they are all gone now.

I'm just so happy that I've got stuff in

my garden that everybody can share with me.

But don't start queueing because it is just for his family

Football, and players and fans of non-league Stourbridge FC

are preparing for the biggest game in the club's history this weekend.

The Glassboys have reached the Third Round of the FA Cup

for the very first time and are the lowest ranked team

They face League 2 Wycombe Wanderers tomorrow.

It is the biggest game in the history of the football club and the

support, we are going to take well over 2000 fans don't awaken. We

could have doubled that and it will hopefully be a day that sticks in

people's memories And good luck to Stourbridge and

all our teams playing this weekend. I'll leave you now with

the weather from Rebecca Wood. It has been a slightly less cold

day today although you We have had plenty

of grey cloud and rain and, as we head through

this weekend, I'm afraid it is going to stay

rather dull and cloudy. Temperatures are steadily

starting to increase. We've introduced something a little

milder but as a result of that we have plenty of moisture in the air,

so some mist patches overnight The rain clearing the way

to the south-east. Behind that we're left

with clear spells. When we get those

we are likely to see fog patches developing

but it is a rather murky and grey. Temperatures holding up,

between three and five Celsius. There will still be the odd spot

of drizzle but it is going There will still be some mist

through the morning. Temperatures during the day

between seven and nine Celsius. More information on that

in the national forecast. I will leave you with an outlook

for the next few days.