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A BBC investigation has found that drivers in Birmingham | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
and Wolverhampton have received more fines for driving in bus lanes | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
than almost anywhere else in the country. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
The two cities issued over 110,000 fines in the last financial year. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
But council officials have denied claims by one motoring organisation | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
that they're effectively overseeing a 'cash bonanza'. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
?3 million - that's how much Wolverhampton | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
and Birmingham Councils made between them from bus | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
It's a figure that horrifies taxi driver Garry Aldridge. | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
He received a demand for ?30 after driving into a bus lane | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
But because he's not paid, the fine has now come up to over ?400. | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
I just think it's a cash cow, basically. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
This bus lane in Wolverhampton's Victoria Square made more money | :01:01. | :01:19. | |
through fines than any other bus lane in England | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
Birmingham was number five in the fines league table. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
It didn't take long for our cameras to spot cars | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Nearly half of the 55,000 fines issued by Birmingham City Council | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
in one year were incurred by motorists driving down this bus | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
lane at St Martin's Queensway next to the Bullring shopping centre. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
Motorists we spoke to said they felt it was too easy to make a mistake. | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
If I came up this way with my car, I wouldn't have thought this | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
I don't think there's another warning at all. | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
I don't think there's enough warning at all. | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
They are making a lot of money out of it, aren't they? | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Birmingham City Council insists the signs are adequate. | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
It says the money raised pays for improvements | :02:00. | :02:00. | |
And labelling bus lanes as lucrative is wrong. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
Is this fining people for going in bus lanes simply a cash | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
That's not what bus lanes are for at all. | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
They are there to maximise the capacity of our roads. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
If people break the law and get in the way of that, | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
they would expect the full force to come down on them like it | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
would if they were driving and texting at the same time. | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Some drivers have successfully appealed against fines after taking | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
Campaigners say such motorists are in the minority. | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
And they will continue to fight against the bus lanes. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Our reporter Joanne Writtle's been following the story and she joins us | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
And, Joanne, a leading motoring organisation's been somewhat | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
critical of the amount of money being paid out by motorists? | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
The RAC's described the fines as the latest cash bonanza, | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
But the councils argue the money is ploughed back | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
The RAC says the issue needs investigating. | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
Bus lanes shouldn't be about raising money, | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
they should be about making sure people don't drive in them. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
But perhaps we need to look at where the cameras are positioned. | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
Sometimes the cameras may be positioned in the very | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
start of the bus lane, so if you make an honest mistake, | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
it's too late by the time you realise it and correct yourself. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
This topic has sent our social media into meltdown. | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Jonty Edward from Coventry says his sat nav took him up a road | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
with no markings or signs to say it was a bus lane. | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
The next thing he knew a ?40 fine came his way. | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
Amy Rennocks was caught in Wolverhampton. | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
She says, "The road was blocked off with ply board and the only route | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
But Jen Walker says, "Don't drive in a bus lane | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
unless the active times are clearly indicated, people pay more | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
attention to their sat nav than their own common sense!!" | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
Anorexia is responsible for more deaths than any other | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
mental health condition, but there's concern that GPs aren't | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
recognising it and youngsters aren't getting the treatment they need. | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
Claire McKenna claims that she's currently receiving no NHS treatment | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
at all and it's her family that's kept her alive. | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Here's our Health Correspondent, Michele Paduano. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
At this point now, I'm more worried about dying. | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
Claire's in her final year at university. | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
In the future, she wants to help children with mental health | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
problems, and she wants GPs to have better training because of her own | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
They said, "Oh, well, bring her to McDonald's | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
because all kids love McDonald's, I'm sure she'll eat there." | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
In the meantime, I was just getting more and more ill, | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
Week after week, I was going back and they just kept | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
It was her teachers who realised how ill she was. | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
When I got to the hospital, they took my blood sugar | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
levels and it was like, I think it was one or something, | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
and they said I was going to go into a coma. | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
So they quickly put me on drips and tubes and things like that. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
With the help of her family, she is improving. | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
But she will only eat the same things at the same time every day | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
and her family admits it's been hard. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
It's like being at your wits end, you just don't know what to do next | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
And you don't know where to go to get help. | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
Specialist beds in hospitals are in short supply. | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
Treatment is intensive and expensive. | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
I was told one organisation yesterday had one bed in Glasgow. | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
Experts say the government has recognised that GPs are under | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
pressure and says a report into eating disorders is out in May. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
Think it is a significant problem for all communities, | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
and the draft report does highlight that not only general practitioners | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
but even paediatricians and mental health services need to work | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
together in order to manage this problem. | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
She no longer qualifies for children's services and says | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
They said I would have to go straight to hospital, | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
and there was no way I was going to go back to hospital. | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
So I've just been kind of left on my own. | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
A wooden water tank cover which struck and killed | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
a 29-year-old woman during Storm Doris showed signs | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
of neglect and decay, a coroner's been told. | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
The inquest into the death of Tahnie Martin, from Stafford, | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
opened today at the Black Country Coroner's Court. | :06:42. | :06:42. | |
Ms Martin died near Wolverhampton's Mander Centre last Thursday | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
after being hit by a two metre long piece of timber in high winds. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
A former beauty queen has made a fly-on-the-wall | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
style documentary about the Miss Universe Great Britain | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
contest, following the winner as she travels to India to meet | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
Natalie Cutler's film Not In Vain had its premiere in Birmingham. | :06:58. | :07:11. | |
You may be shocked by some of the images in the following report. | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Natalie Cutler from Stourbridge knows more than most | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
I won Miss Black Country when I was 17, and then a few years | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
She travelled the world as a fashion model, was a Miss Universe finalist | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Her film Not In Vain goes behind-the-scenes | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
of the Miss Universe Great Britain contest, following the winner | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
as she travels to India to meet and raise money for victims | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
It's not beautiful women going over there and being like, "Oh, poor you, | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
It's about we can see past this, we're not about, you know, | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
how we look and you're not about how you look. | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
We're about something collectively bigger than that. | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
Which is not stereotyping females for their features. | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
Last night, Natalie arrived at her film's glitzy premiere | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
in Birmingham with her partner, the Wolves captain Danny Bart. | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Hopefully the film takes off and people like what they see | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
Miss Universe GB, Jaime-Lee Faulkner from Sheffield, said meeting acid | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
attack victims in a cafe where they work in India had had | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
I didn't know how I would react when I got there and saw | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
I thought straightaway it'd be quite emotional. | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
To be honest with you, as soon as you see them, | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
it is really sad, but they're so upbeat and happy and they've | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
And you can tell they really rely on each other, | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
The glamorous premiere was in stark contrast to the raw lives | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
Afterwards, guests including footballers reacted. | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
Gut wrenching at times, you know, watching it. | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
To see what's actually going on in other parts of the world. | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
The documentary will go on the film festival circuit, though it's not | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
A school cook from Solihull has been named among the best in the country | :09:03. | :09:13. | |
at the national School Chef of the Year competition. | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
Jose Kochakkadan is a former professional chef who joined | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
Marston Green Infants Academy, in Birmingham, so he could spend | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
He finished in the top three in today's final | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
at Stratford College after being highly | :09:25. | :09:25. | |
Join us in Midlands Today tomorrow when we'll be meeting the female | :09:26. | :09:34. | |
boxer who's preparing for her first professional fight. | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
That's at 6.30 tomorrow evening here on BBC One. | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
For now, I'll hand you over now to Rebecca for the forecast. | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
At times today we had some stunning conditions out there, with lovely | :09:43. | :09:56. | |
blue sky. We ended the day with the spectacular scenes. Some lovely | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
shots of the skies as we ended the day. I'm afraid it's all change as | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
we head into tomorrow. The weather starts to turn more unsettled and it | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
will get wet and windy once again. Tonight, we have largely clear | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
skies. The wind starts to ease slightly, so temperatures will fall | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
away. It stays largely dry, although chilly. Temperatures starting to | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
fall away. The next area way is steadily progressing. By the start | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
of tomorrow, it works northwards. It's across as much of the day. Some | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
heavy downpours on that as well, and the wind strengthens as well. It | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
arrives through the morning, cloudy ahead of that and it will be heavy | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
at times. Quite persistent through the day, and it will take its time | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
to clear away across the South by the end of the day. We might get | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
something attached drier and brighter. Temperatures better, | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
perhaps getting up to ten underneath the cloud and | :10:52. | :11:00. | |
weekend, we have more rain in the forecast. Rain at times this | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
weekend, not all the time. Good evening. Things are turning | :11:04. | :11:16. | |
more unsettled today was not bad. The sun was setting the moon | :11:17. | :11:18. |