06/03/2017 Midlands Today

A new report from an anti-extremism think-tank has labelled Birmingham

The Henry Jackson Society claims 18% of all Islamist terrorist offenders

in the UK have come from the West Midlands.

80% of those were based in the second city.

It comes on the day the new head of the West Midlands Counter Terrorism

unit urged the public not to be cautious about reporting

Our special correspondent Peter Wilson has been investigating.

20 years ago Nigel Bromage was spouting hate at

He's returned for the first time since turning his back

Within a very short time, the Cock Inn became a really hotbed

It was our area where we controlled it really.

Slowly being groomed and embracing National Socialism Nazism,

The only terror attack to be carried out in recent years

Ukrainian Pavlo Lapshyn set off nail bombs, targeting mosques

A racist, he also murdered grandfather Mohammed Saleem.

But it's Islamist extremists who have gathered most headlines.

One think tank this week publishes a report saying that 39 convicted

Three quarters living in a small deprived area of East Birmingham.

One of the things we noticed was that offenders living

in Birmingham tended to come from areas that were highly deprived

and also fairly segregated with a large Muslim population,

Heightened security around Birmingham's Christmas market,

armed police in unmarked cars, amid fears of a

The German market may be long gone but the terrorist threat

Across the country some 13 terrorist plots have been prevented over

the last four years, but West Midlands Police don't

want to tell you how many people they've arrested,

It is not going to go away any time soon.

It is highly likely that there will be a terrorist attack

Those attacks are not focused on particular locations

They can affect any community anywhere and therefore every member

of every community needs to understand that threat.

Most people who are vulnerable I guess to extremist radicalisation

or however you want to call it, phrase it, are going to be

snapped up by those people in the dark corners of society

or on the internet where the Muslim community can't be expected

Open Your Eyes To Hate is a video released now to highlight

Nigel Bromage is taking his message into schools

He says that if one man can change, then so too can a city.

Pupils at a school in Birmingham are being offered counselling

He collapsed at the Al Hijrah School in Bordesley Green on Friday

The boy was taken to Heartlands Hospital where he later died.

The police and city council have begun an investigation.

A man has appeared before Warwick Crown Court charged

with murder after a pensioner died following an assault

37-year-old Carl Pinder is accused of killing Patrick Redmond

following an alleged altercation at Riley's in Hertford

Pinder is due in court again in April.

There's a race against time to save a rare piece of Wedgwood

Fundraisers need more than ?450,000 to stop a vase made

by Josiah Wedgwood himself some 250 years ago from leaving the country

PATHE NEWS REEL: In a factory where craftsmanship

Think of some of the famous pottery names that came out

of Stoke-on-Trent and Wedgwood will almost certainly be

Josiah Wedgwood changed the way ceramics were made and his designed

designs were copied all over the world.

As his fame grew, he moved from Burslem to a brand

new purpose-built factory in Etruria where, on its opening day,

Now a fight is under way to keep one of those in the city it was made in.

Something he conceived, made, touched, held in his hands,

For 35 years it was on loan to the Potteries Museum

and Art Gallery, but now there's a hole in exhibition where it used

to sit because last year it was auctioned by Christie's

We have the finest ceramics museum in the world.

What other reason or better reason could you have than to keep

It gives it more of an identity to be here.

It means a lot to this city and to this museum.

The government has put a temporary stop on it leaving the country,

but to keep it here is going to cost almost half a million pounds

and there's not long to secure that funding.

This isn't the first time the museum has had to raise funds

to keep important artefacts here like the Staffordshire Hoard

and, of course, the famous Ozzy the Owl found on the BBC's Antiques

At a time when budgets are tight, campaigners are hoping people

in the city will help to keep this important historical

item where it can be enjoyed for years to come.

A supporters group has urged the owners of Coventry City to sell

up, in spite of the appointment of a new manager.

Today, the club announced Mark Robins would be returning

It follows the sacking of Russell Slade yesterday.

The Sky Blues Trust says having four different managers during a single

We need to have a bit of stability at the club.

We need Mark Robbins to be backed and I don't think that will happen

They've shown no sign of backing any manager in recent times,

so hopefully we can, as we've repeatedly asked,

the club to be put up for sale and there might be an interest

in there and hopefully we can get somebody come in and actually move

this club in the direction that it needs to move in.

Violinist Nigel Kennedy has been described as the man who brought

He's also one of Aston Villa's most high profile fans and he's just

To celebrate his landmark birthday and career so far,

he's performing a gala concert at Birmingham's Symphony

Cos it's time now in my life to say thank you and just to recognise how

much luck I've had in playing music and being part of it.

In the world of classical music, Nigel Kennedy

He remains the bestselling violinist of all time.

A child prodigy who grew up in Solihull, he's about to return

to Birmingham for a gala concert to celebrate his 60th birthday.

It is kind of like my voyage, a large part of my voyage

in music in one night, so there's quite a lot

Nigel will also be performing some of his own new compositions.

Like this piece called Solitude, dedicated to Yehudi Menuhin who paid

It was written and inspired during Nigel's time living in Malvern.

I think a lot of composers have been influenced by nature.

Elgar's music is very much influenced by the Malvern Hills

so I'd be trekking around the hills just in the same way that Elgar

might have been and it made some quite profound impression on me.

As well as music, there's one other major passion in Nigel's life...

I mean it's more like lion cubs at the moment.

Everyone said, "Oh, it's the end of the world,

I prefer playing in the Championship.

Going to clubs like that or going to Bournemouth and Watford,

Nigel's gala celebration concert is at the Birmingham

I'll leave you with the weather from Shefali.

Sunny skies and things beginning to spring back to life and plenty

of dry weather on offer, although we had a few showers

filtering up from the southwest towards the end of the day.

But we've got more then just a little rain on the cards

This is how it's shaping up over the coming days.

More unsettled from tomorrow night, but also milder from Wednesday

A few showers dotted about the region. The countryside and

sheltered spots getting a touch of frost but generally speaking

temperatures falling to a minimum of 5-7. Quite a mild night and I'll

start to tomorrow. Lots of sunshine tomorrow right through the day. We

will see a bit of cloud drifting in, high cloud, from the south-west,

turning the sunshine milk year through the afternoon however it

stays dry with top temperatures of 9-10. Tomorrow evening, we noticed

the changes occurring. Figure cloud ringing in this band of fairly heavy

rain, quite persistent at times. Mist and Merck developing in the

morning of Wednesday. Wednesday is a mild start to the day and

temperatures will eventually rise to about 14 Celsius across the

south-west of the region and any early rain moves to the East. --

mist and murk. Dryer enter the day with a moderate temperature. Further

ahead, frontal systems pushing in from the south-west ringing more

unsettled weather conditions. I cool, it will be windy at times as

well and still rather unsettled with some blustery showers around. That's

the London forecast and