:00:00. > :00:13.Hundreds of jobs have been saved at an engineering firm in Coventry.
:00:14. > :00:16.Covpress, which makes body panels for Jaguar Land Rover and Renault,
:00:17. > :00:19.had been in administration since September.
:00:20. > :00:21.But today they were taken over by the industrial
:00:22. > :00:28.A bright day for 740 workers in Coventry who have faced
:00:29. > :00:36.It is a relief, really, to realise that we have been taken over,
:00:37. > :00:39.and we can only go one way, that's forward.
:00:40. > :00:43.Covpress, major supplier for the likes of jaguar Land Rover, went
:00:44. > :00:45.into administration four months ago, despite doubling its turnover to
:00:46. > :00:47.?100 million in the space of three years.
:00:48. > :00:52.Now, industrial group Liberty House has saved it.
:00:53. > :00:56.There were lots of smiling faces today.
:00:57. > :01:00.Maybe today we allowed employees today to spend a lot of time on
:01:01. > :01:02.their iPhones tweeting their friends, because generally, there is
:01:03. > :01:11.This woman was particularly relieved.
:01:12. > :01:13.She and her partner both work here and have a three-year-old son.
:01:14. > :01:15.The past six months have been really worrying.
:01:16. > :01:18.everyone is worried about their job security.
:01:19. > :01:21.Today, there is more of a positive atmosphere about the factory.
:01:22. > :01:23.The workforce is very committed to the business,
:01:24. > :01:29.and it's good to see that all that success will be realised.
:01:30. > :01:32.To give you an idea of the impact this company has, just about every
:01:33. > :01:34.Jaguar Land Rover car made in the Midlands
:01:35. > :01:38.has a part on it made here at this company.
:01:39. > :01:41.Not only that, they make gas meters, panels for
:01:42. > :01:46.recycling companies, all sorts of things.
:01:47. > :01:50.The Chief Executive of the Global Liberty Industries Group has
:01:51. > :01:53.travelled to the company's bases in Dubai and Poland this week alone.
:01:54. > :02:00.Why then did they decide to buy Covpress?
:02:01. > :02:03.Acquiring this has given us a real high-quality window
:02:04. > :02:08.It is a key supplier, and I'm reliably told this business is
:02:09. > :02:12.part of a core platform for Jaguar Land Rover, meaning we are a
:02:13. > :02:16.but also the UK automotive supply chain.
:02:17. > :02:19.A year ago, they saved 1,000 jobs, snapping up 17
:02:20. > :02:21.engineering businesses in the Midlands,
:02:22. > :02:29.among them this one, 920 Engineering in Leamington spa.
:02:30. > :02:36.You know you have your mortgage and your family, you can't plan
:02:37. > :02:39.You are just hanging on in there hoping
:02:40. > :02:41.someone will buy you out, and thankfully Liberty did.
:02:42. > :02:43.I have been here 40 years, and I think
:02:44. > :02:44.they will invest money, so
:02:45. > :02:46.hopefully, we are on the right track.
:02:47. > :02:48.Back in Coventry, there are now plans to expand.
:02:49. > :02:50.Welcome news for workers at the newly-named
:02:51. > :02:58.An ambulance technician is recovering after being viciously
:02:59. > :03:04.assaulted by a patient he was trying to help.
:03:05. > :03:07.Bob Burness was treating an unconscious man who'd been found
:03:08. > :03:11.in a stairwell in West Bromwich, when he was set upon.
:03:12. > :03:13.He spoke to our reporter Nicola Beckford to raise awareness
:03:14. > :03:15.of the rising number of attacks on ambulance staff.
:03:16. > :03:23.Ambulance technician Bob Burness thought he was on a routine call
:03:24. > :03:26.out, but it ended up with him being the one taken to hospital.
:03:27. > :03:27.He just went straight into a physical assault
:03:28. > :03:30.and head-butted me straight in the face.
:03:31. > :03:32.I was too close to move out of the way, so he
:03:33. > :03:39.This caused a significant nosebleed and watering of the eyes,
:03:40. > :03:41.and a bit of disorientation.
:03:42. > :03:43.Bob joined the Ambulance Service in 2008.
:03:44. > :03:51.It's not the first time he's been attacked.
:03:52. > :03:53.I've been scratched, bitten, pushed downstairs.
:03:54. > :03:59.It's happened to most of my colleagues at some point.
:04:00. > :04:01.Psychologically, it's by far nowhere near the worst.
:04:02. > :04:08.When you get somebody with an infectious disease
:04:09. > :04:11.spitting in your face and you have three or four months of blood
:04:12. > :04:14.tests to see if you have got something, that tends to play with
:04:15. > :04:20.This is where the attack took place last Tuesday.
:04:21. > :04:22.It's an area that Bob Burness says is low-risk, which goes
:04:23. > :04:24.to show that attacks like like these,
:04:25. > :04:32.ambulance staff have been increasing.
:04:33. > :04:35.Between April and September 2014, there were 325 verbal and
:04:36. > :04:39.Last year, during the same period, there
:04:40. > :04:47.The man who assaulted Bob Burness was sentenced
:04:48. > :04:50.to 12 weeks in prison and a ?250 fine, a sentence the Ambulance
:04:51. > :04:57.I don't think it is actually a deterrent.
:04:58. > :05:01.I think overall, the stance on this is that we want tougher sentencing
:05:02. > :05:03.for people that assault our emergency service staff, because
:05:04. > :05:06.overall, they're there to help you, not to hinder you.
:05:07. > :05:10.Bob's now recovered from the attack and is back at work.
:05:11. > :05:12.He says it's an outrage that staff are at
:05:13. > :05:21.risk of being assaulted by the very public they're trying to help.
:05:22. > :05:23.A 54-year old woman's been arrested on suspicion of murder,
:05:24. > :05:26.after a man's body was found in the Henley Green
:05:27. > :05:31.Paramedics were called to Henley Road in the early
:05:32. > :05:34.hours of the morning, following reports that a 50-year-old
:05:35. > :05:41.Police are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.
:05:42. > :05:43.A couple who stole clothes valued at more than ?100,000 have been
:05:44. > :05:49.Ionut and Mirela Vasile were arrested after stealing
:05:50. > :05:55.high-end clothes from Harvey Nichols in Birmingham in December 2015.
:05:56. > :05:57.CCTV footage then showed them shoplifting goods
:05:58. > :06:00.from stores in Manchester, Edinburgh, London,
:06:01. > :06:08.The Metropolitan Police in London have apologised to a Birmingham DJ
:06:09. > :06:12.who was pulled over in his Bentley and told it was a fact that
:06:13. > :06:24.black men in gangster clothes commit crimes.
:06:25. > :06:26.27-year-old Deejay was stopped by officers near Leicester Square.
:06:27. > :06:29.The whole incident was captured on a camera set up in the DJ's car.
:06:30. > :06:33.To just judge on the way someone looks, the way I think he was
:06:34. > :06:36.judging me as if, you're black, anything you wear is going to be
:06:37. > :06:40.Can you explain to me what a gangster is?
:06:41. > :06:42.I don't know what a gangster looks like.
:06:43. > :06:44.They could come in suits, could come in anything.
:06:45. > :06:47.I don't know what kind of image he has
:06:48. > :06:50.got in his head to portray me as a gangster without even speaking
:06:51. > :06:54.The Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, or ARRC, is based at Imjin Barracks
:06:55. > :06:58.It's the largest headquarters on land which NATO can put
:06:59. > :07:02.And today its role became even more significant -
:07:03. > :07:04.it took on the responsibility of commanding NATO troops
:07:05. > :07:08.Symbolising the transfer of responsibility...
:07:09. > :07:11.It was a simple ceremony, but of major significance for the soldiers
:07:12. > :07:19.The NATO Response Force pennant flag was handed
:07:20. > :07:23.from Spain to the commander of Allied Rapid Reaction Corps.
:07:24. > :07:25.Should NATO now deploy anywhere in the world,
:07:26. > :07:31.the ARRC will command and control those operations on the ground.
:07:32. > :07:33.There was general acknowledgement today that we still live
:07:34. > :07:38.in uncertain times with a fast and ever-changing global threat.
:07:39. > :07:40.The task for the ARRC in 2017 will be tackling that
:07:41. > :07:43.threat and to identify where it comes from.
:07:44. > :07:45.It's well-publicised Russia and Nato have different views
:07:46. > :07:49.There is clearly an element of a threat there.
:07:50. > :07:52.We will continue to act as a deterrent for that.
:07:53. > :07:57.You know, in terms of humanitarian crises and the unknown.
:07:58. > :08:01.That is the beauty of having response force, you
:08:02. > :08:04.can sit here and be prepared to command and control
:08:05. > :08:11.There is huge experience in counterinsurgency operations in
:08:12. > :08:14.places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland.
:08:15. > :08:18.Cyber attacks are a growing threat, but at the extreme
:08:19. > :08:21.there is war and in the current climate it is an area the ARCC says
:08:22. > :08:26.Like anything you need to practice these things.
:08:27. > :08:29.What we are doing this year and did a little bit last year is
:08:30. > :08:33.train in that style, so we do that training we do not practice
:08:34. > :08:39.The ARCC is made of 21 different nations, many from the EU, but its
:08:40. > :08:43.role and that of the UK within Nato is not affected by the Brexit vote.
:08:44. > :08:45.We are decidedly not stepping back from our responsibilities to
:08:46. > :08:55.The occasion today demonstrates we're taking the
:08:56. > :08:59.lead in a high-readiness joint task force.
:09:00. > :09:03.The control room is quiet but on stand-by and
:09:04. > :09:05.preparation and training continues to evolve to tackle an
:09:06. > :09:12.Some football news and Birmingham City have re-signed
:09:13. > :09:15.midfielder Craig Gardner from West Bromwich Albion on loan.
:09:16. > :09:18.The 30-year-old previously spent 18 months with the club he followed
:09:19. > :09:21.as a boy when he first signed for Blues from Aston Villa in 2010.
:09:22. > :09:23.A permanent move on a three-year contract is expected
:09:24. > :09:29.Finally, high winds have been causing havoc for motorists in parts
:09:30. > :09:33.In the Staffordshire Moorlands, this driver nearly lost his van
:09:34. > :09:37.after gusts lifted the vehicle off the road.
:09:38. > :09:40.The wind pinned the van to a bank near Leek,
:09:41. > :09:45.I'll leave you with the forecast from Rebecca.
:09:46. > :09:56.Good evening. It was certainly a blustery day with wind getting to
:09:57. > :09:59.about 54 mph across the Staffordshire Moorlands. Those were
:10:00. > :10:04.the strongest but we had damaged just about anywhere. Things steadily
:10:05. > :10:08.calmed down a little bit. At the moment plenty of clear spells but
:10:09. > :10:11.all change tomorrow. It is turning into something a little wintry.
:10:12. > :10:15.Weather warnings are in place for snow. Covering Warwickshire,
:10:16. > :10:19.Herefordshire and Worcestershire where we could get snow to low
:10:20. > :10:24.levels causing travel disruption. Tonight with a clear spells,
:10:25. > :10:27.temperatures falling away. Across the Staffordshire Moorlands we could
:10:28. > :10:32.see some snow and elsewhere largely clear, but a cold night with
:10:33. > :10:35.temperatures between two and four, the wind-macro keeping it up a
:10:36. > :10:41.little bit. This weather system is coming from the West. -- the wind
:10:42. > :10:45.keeping it up a little bit. As it bumps into cold air it starts to
:10:46. > :10:50.fall as snow. Plenty of rain tomorrow. A blustery day. Across the
:10:51. > :10:54.North Midlands we might escape it but Winter flurries further north.
:10:55. > :10:58.In the south, that is turning to snow, temperatures not doing well at
:10:59. > :11:00.all. On Friday we could get more snow in the rush hour. More
:11:01. > :11:04.information on start to the weekend. Time for the
:11:05. > :11:09.national weather prospects if you are on the move.
:11:10. > :11:14.Good evening, a lot going on with the weather in the next few days,
:11:15. > :11:17.numerous weather warnings in for so buried in mind if you have travel
:11:18. > :11:21.plans. Lots of isobars on the chart overnight which means it will be
:11:22. > :11:24.windy for all. The strongest winds in Scotland, lots of wintry showers
:11:25. > :11:27.with snow getting down to increasingly low levels and some
:11:28. > :11:31.wintry showers in Northern Ireland and northern England. A cold night
:11:32. > :11:37.for Northern England, particularly in more rural spots, frosty and I
:11:38. > :11:39.see for some and some of the snow really blowing around over higher
:11:40. > :11:42.ground in Scotland. Strong wind and further snow to take us into
:11:43. > :11:45.tomorrow. It may well make for some tricky travelling conditions. The
:11:46. > :11:49.forecast for tomorrow in the southern half of the UK's quite
:11:50. > :11:53.tricky. We have got mild air bumping into colder air. The boundary
:11:54. > :11:57.between the two, it will be an ugly mix of rain, sleet and snow
:11:58. > :12:00.developing. Mild air comes in behind the weather front but the rain ahead
:12:01. > :12:01.of that will be mixing with the cold