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Good evening. for the news where you are. | :00:08. | :00:08. | |
Survivors of Hillsborough say they're hopeful | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
prosecutions will be brought against West Midlands Police | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
officers who investigated the 1989 disaster. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
96 Liverpool fans died as a result of a crush on the terraces | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
After a long investigation into the conduct of both | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
the South Yorkshire and West Midlands forces, | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
the Police Watchdog the IPCC has sent files to the Crown Prosecution | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Service. Giles Latcham reports. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
April last year. It felt like the final chapter. | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
An inquest jury at last agreeing with the families, | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
the 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Questions persist though about the police, not just | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
the South Yorkshire officers there on the day, but also the West | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
Midlands officers brought in afterwards to investigate. | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
to deal with what I had to deal with. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
Debra Martin admits she has no fondness for the police, | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
and yet at one time in her life policing was all she wanted to do. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
She was a special constable on duty that day at Hillsborough. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
She says she cradled one of the youngest victims, | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
15-year-old Kevin Williams, as he died. | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
She claims she was later brow beaten into changing her statement, | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
I was there that day and that child died | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
There's as much blame to lay at West Midlands as well South | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
Yorkshire, they should have behaved themselves and they should have told | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
In terms of the number of victims, witnesses and statements, | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
the Hillsborough inquiry was the biggest ever carried out | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
This former senior West Midlands officer | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
didn't serve on the inquiry, but says the team that | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
I would like to have seen personally more experienced operational | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
For all these years to pass by and certainly | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
suddenly be caught on and dragged over the coals, | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
They were interested in did I have a ticket, | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
did I have a drink, did I | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
Val Yates was a 20-year-old Liverpool fan who ended up | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
on the pitch that day trying to help. | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
She thought West Midlands officers arrived with a script already | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
written and said so to the IPCC, who failed to pick up | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
They said that I'd got no complaints against the | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
West Midlands Police, I've got every confidence | :02:31. | :02:31. | |
and that was just an absolute utter falseness. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
I never said it, I've got absolute criticism of them, they had | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
an agenda, tried to confiscate this, wanted to blame drunken | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
The Crown Prosecution services has files on eight police officers - | :02:43. | :02:52. | |
Decisions on whether to charge them are due later this year. | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
You can hope that those responsible for this | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
The truth is pretty much now writ large. | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
What's left to do then in this investigation? | :03:07. | :03:19. | |
Well, of course as we have heard the IP CC has already sent files to the | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
CBC, and this work focuses on what they call the controlling minds of | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
the alleged cover-up, those taking key decisions. But enquiries | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
continue into 170 allegations of misconduct, that's to say | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
misbehaviour by officers not criminal offences. Now, if those | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
officers were still serving, those allegations might lead to | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
disciplinary proceedings, but the reality is that few if any are still | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
employed by either force, so that process might not satisfy the | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
families and survivors who have complained. West Midlands Police | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
says it has cooperated fully with the investigation and its thoughts | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
are with the family and friends of those who died. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
Hundreds gathered in Wolverhampton this afternoon | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
to pay their last respects to Baroness Rachael Heyhoe Flint, | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
St Peter's church was packed | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
of sport including Olympic gold medallists,football and cricket | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
The former England Women's Cricket Captain worked | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
tirelessly for charity - she was also a passionate | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
There was only one place to begin her final | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
journey, the home of her beloved football club, following the very | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
same path as her own favourite Wolves Legends Billy Wright, and | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
She wanted her funeral to be like Sir Jack's, but | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
And it leaves a gap that no one else can ever fill. | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
Inside St Peter's, every seat was taken by | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
family and friends from her sporting passions, | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
cricket and football, from | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
her political career as Baroness Heyhoe Flint | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
in the House of Lords, and from her outstanding charity | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
She was best known around the world as captain of the England | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
women's cricket team, and the first woman ever to become | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
I hope that it will make the MCC realise there are | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
thousands and thousands of women who take cricket very seriously. | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
Her heart was always in Wolverhampton. | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
Educated at the girl's high school, and fiercely proud to be a vice | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
president of Wolverhampton Wanderers. | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Rachel was also a good friend of Graeme Taylor, how ironic | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
that they should both passed away within a week of each other. | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
And he would have appreciated her mischevious sense of humour. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
MUSIC: Always Look On The Bright Side Of Death by Monty Python | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
Your father, Sir Jack, had a very close place in Rachel's heart. | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
So close, I think they were the greatest | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
I think Dad if you asked Dad, now than he would say | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
Only very small in stature but she packed a punch and she was always | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
fighting for things that she believed in and what she's done for | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
the women's and girls games is awesome. | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
As a Wolverhampton girl yourself, you will know more than most | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
just what she meant to the city. | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
Yeah, I mean, she was a trailblazer, a pioneer and someone | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
who said, you know, fight what you believe them. | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
It was Rachel's dying wish that her funeral should be uplifting | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
and inspirational, and everyone who was here | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
at St Peter's today would | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
agree that the service, just like her life, | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
A man's been charged with murder after a woman turned up | :06:48. | :07:00. | |
at a doctor's surgery with stab wounds and died shortly afterwards. | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
Police were called to Hawes Lane Surgery, | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
The victim has been named as 54-year-old Tina Billingham. | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
Ronald Cooke of Granville Road in Cradley Heath, will appear | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
A woman's been arrested on suspicion of obstructing police | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
after a hit and run in Evesham, which involved a police officer. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
It happened on the junction of Chapel Street and Oat Street | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
A 46-year-old man's already been arrested on suspicion | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
The officer injured during the collision is recovering | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
Investigators have confirmed that a fire at a plastics recycling | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
firm in Stoke on Trent was started deliberately. | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
More than 50 firefighters were sent to Hanbury Plastics | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
It later emerged that the plant didn't have a permit | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
and was operating illegally after the Environment Agency | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
Coventry Council is insisting a new ?300 million development | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
The authority recently gave the green light to the scheme known | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
It's brutalist and, for many, ugly, but Coventry Point is one | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
of numerous concrete buildings set to be demolished as part | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
of a ?300 million City Centre South redevelopment. | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
Previous schemes like the ambitious Jerde project failed but this time | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
What is different here is, the money is in place, | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
?200 million from the private sector, | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
for the developer, who has done developments across the country. | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
We've got ?100 million from the combined authority. | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
The permission is in place. Now we want to see it happen. | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
Coventry is already seeing a building boom. | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
This former Royal Mail sorting office site will soon | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
The first time I came here, | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
the sorting office site was still operational. | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
We acquired it from the Royal Mail when they vacated it. | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
So it was a derelict site and it's great to be investing | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
in the site and bringing it back to life. | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
This is a sign of the regeneration gathering momentum. | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
These are the former offices of the local newspaper, | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
the Coventry Evening Telegraph, which were vacated | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
The building is going to be converted into a boutique hotel, | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
It's the brainchild of Coventry developer Ian Harribin. | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
You can imagine some life coming back in this big room yet again | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
when somebody has their wedding here, for example. | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
Further down in the building, we're looking at using some | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
of the former large print room spaces for maybe a couple | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
of arthouse cinema screens so, you know, making the building work | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
Stories from Coventry have been printed many times | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
in this very building, and now a new chapter in the city's | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
Time for the weather forecast with Shefali. | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
Hello, good evening. The cloud is across most across the region this | :09:46. | :09:59. | |
morning, with mist and fog like a hangover from last night. It | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
continues through the rest of the week I'm afraid but with the cold. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
Today was a transition day, seeing temperatures of 5-6 Celsius, but | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
starting to dig in now, values depressed right one dash to Celsius. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
Tonight I cloud across but unlikely to shift. Tonight a cloudy picture, | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
but some breaks in the cloud with that easterly winds dragging those | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
temperatures down to -1 that minors to Celsius, with the odd wintry | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
element, the oddly gosh -- snow. Tomorrow we have the frost gradually | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
clearing, because cloud is across us and averages struggle in that | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
easterly wind to reach highs to Celsius. Again, the odd flake of | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
snow but the oddly -- mainly dry picture. This is how it goes for the | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
rest of the week, cloudy picture but a cold one as well, with fairly | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
light winds. Very wintry indeed. I leave you now with the Outlook. | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
cloudy and Ben Rich will take you through the bigger picture. | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
Good evening. Over the next few days I suspect it's going to feel like we | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
have been plunged into the deep freeze. Cold weather on the way and | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
not necessarily crisp cold weather, with blue skies. A lot of cloud, | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
there was some sunshine today across parts of west Wales, for instance. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
That lifted temperatures up to 11. But further east as you can see from | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
the picture, there was a lot of cloud feeding in and that pegged | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
temperatures down into single figures, because there is | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
increasingly cold air heading in this | :11:43. | :11:43. |