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Business leaders in the Midlands have begun the push for more | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
investment in infrastructure across the region, to make sure | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
they can compete once the UK leaves the European Union. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Since the referendum vote last year, there have been mixed fortunes - | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
with some firms winning new contracts, while others have | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
Here's our Business correspondent, Peter Plisner. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
A recipe for success, or a disaster for the economy? | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
Views on Brexit are still mixed and so is the picture on | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
At this Walsall cake-maker they have seen a big | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
They have gained a bigger slice of the | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
market, because of changes in the exchange rate | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
It's made their products cheaper than | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
We are extending that right towards the end. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
This whole warehouse is going to be shifted out into the car park. | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
They're now so busy that they have brought | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
forward plans to build a new | :00:58. | :00:58. | |
production line, as retailers turn to UK suppliers. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
That majorly impacted on the whole supply chain. | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
So they needed to turn to UK manufacturers for this reason, but | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
also the other uncertainty as well with imported goods, any tariffs | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
that may be implicated in that process. | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
But not all companies are feeling a Brexit boost. | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
At this South Birmingham advanced engineering firm, they have noticed | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
a drop off in sales since the referendum | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
last year, but not only that, some of the foreign | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
firms they work for appear to have pressed the pause | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
button when it comes to investment in big projects. | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
And that, according to management, has | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
meant laying off some contract staff and trying harder to find new work. | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
We have gone from about a one in five inquiry to sales conversion | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
So what we have had to really do is put our foot down | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
on the gas to get a lot more inquiries to get the conversions. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
But despite Brexit concerns, experts maintain the Midlands economy isn't | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
Actually the West Midlands economy seems to be | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
outperforming the national economy and again we're faced with capacity | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
The region would be looking at more infrastructure | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
expenditure, particularly into the road and rail infrastructure | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
Like it or loathe it, Brexit's here to stay and | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
the business as usual attitude appears to be paying dividends. | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
Two people have been arrested after a raid by counter-terrorism | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
police in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham. | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
A 21-year-old man and a woman who's 23 were detained after police | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
Police say today's arrests were intelligence-led | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
and are not connected in any way to last week's Westminster attack. | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
A 30-year-old man arrested in Birmingham in connection | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
with the terror attack in Westminster remains in custody, | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
a 58-year-old man was released today without charge. | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
Parts of the Midlands came to a standstill this afternoon, | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
to pay tribute to the victims of the Westminster attack | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
in which four people were killed a week ago. | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
Taxi drivers, civic leaders and people from all faiths | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
were among those who gathered at this vigil in Balsall | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Prince William was at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
today, where he laid a wreath in memory of PC Keith Palmer. | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
The officer was killed in the terror attack at Westminster a week ago. | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
The Duke of Cambridge also opened a new remembrance centre. | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
A warning, Liz Copper's report does contain some flash photography. | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
The Arboretum is a place where dedication to duty is honoured and, | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
a week on from the attack at Westminster, Prince William laid | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
flowers in tribute to PC Keith Palmer, who lost his life | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
The message on the wreath read, "Your legacy is | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
For a member of the Royal Family to come and want to | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
lay a wreath for policing, to remember that a police officer's | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
given his life to protect the people in this country, is important to | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
The Duke of Cambridge is patron of the | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
appeal which funded the ?15.7 million new centre. | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
Earlier, he met children from All Saints Primary School. | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
He asked us if we had been to the Arboretum before and I have | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
been to the Arboretum before with my Gramps, because my Gramps | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
has got dementia and I think it's a really nice place for him to come. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Not a lot of people realise what the war was really | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
like and we need places like this for people to come | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
The Duke also met veterans from each of the armed forces in the | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
Arboretum's newly-built Heroes' Square. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
It's such a nice peaceful place and it's just nice to come and | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
just to reflect and remember shipmates that are no longer | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
Every day of the year, in public and in private, there are acts of | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
Telford's Accident and Emergency department could close overnight | :04:54. | :05:04. | |
A report going to the NHS board which runs hospitals | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
in Shrewsbury and Telford suggests they should start drawing | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
up plans now, to deal with serious staffing shortages. | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
Our reporter, Nicola Beckford, is in Telford. | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
So what are hospital bosses saying Nicola? | :05:16. | :05:25. | |
Well, the chief executive of the Shrewsbury and Telford | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
Hospitals NHS Trust, Simon Wright, says that | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
unless the Trust can recruit more doctors for A, | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
the emergency department here at the Princess Royal will have | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
The Trust has been trying to recruit two consultants without any success. | :05:37. | :05:49. | |
Tomorrow, a board meeting of the Trust will consider that | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
a proposal to start planning for that closure. | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
Mr Wright says the Trust needs to plan now before it | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
reaches what he describes as "a crisis point." | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
What has been the reaction to the proposal? The leader of Telford | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
council said he is hoping to get the local community to put pressure on | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. It's an NHS in crisis | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
and it is not just about A, it's about women and children's | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
unit, every midwife-led unit across Shropshire under review | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
and - heavens sake - a couple of months | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
ago I they couldn't afford to put The trust says this is not a | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
downgrade by the back door of the hospital and Simon Wright says no | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
final decision will be made within the next six months. Thank you. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
The families of some of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
travelled to Westminster today to hear the Labour MP | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
Andy Burnham introduce a ten-minute bill | :06:49. | :06:49. | |
which would make it a criminal offence for members of a public body | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
to cover up wrongdoing within their organisation. | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
It would also give families the same resources as public | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
bodies to pay for legal representation at inquests. | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Since the Hillsborough verdict, the families | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
of those who died in the | :07:03. | :07:03. | |
1974 Birmingham pub bombings have - quite wrongly and unbelievably - | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
There are thousands of other hidden individual cases where bereaved | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
families are denied legal representation, while the public | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
bodies they are up against in court spend public money like water. | :07:16. | :07:25. | |
Every year, supermarkets and food manufacturers throw | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
away 270,000 tonnes of perfectly good food. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
The charity, Fareshare, have spent the last ten years | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
putting some of that to good use, by giving it to community groups. | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
In that time they reckon they've saved enough for ten million meals. | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
Look at all this food in a warehouse in Birmingham - donated by | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
supermarkets and manufacturers who would otherwise throw it away. | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Reasons include over-production, or it may have a short shell of life. | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
The charity, Fairshare West Midlands, | :07:54. | :07:54. | |
gives it to groups, including domestic violence refuges and | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
It just gives me such a good feeling to | :07:57. | :08:09. | |
know that we have helped so many people each day and it's a | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
270,000 tonnes of food is wasted by shops and manufacturers every year | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
That's enough to provide 650 million meals. | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
The Birmingham Support Group's one of | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
150 in the West Midlands to benefit and this | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
We take it up to a soup kitchen in Albert Street every | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
Wednesday and we distribute it to the homeless and the needy. | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
Next to load up the Brasshouse, which | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
provides services to people in Smethwick. | :08:47. | :08:47. | |
In Smethwick, the workers waste no time in turning food that | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
would have been wasted into nutritious meals. | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
I've made a chicken and mushroom curry with rice | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
and we feed the local community, so anybody | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
in need of a meal, anyone in | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
our area, is welcome to come and have a meal with us. | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
We have lots of families, lots of different | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
The charity makes free lunches on Fridays, today is an | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
extra, because the Fairshare warehouse is celebrating its tenth | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
He has had a spell of being homeless, but now lives in a flat. | :09:21. | :09:31. | |
It's OK coming to the community centre to meet a friend | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
and have a chat and other than being on your own and lonely. | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
For people like Tony, the mountain of | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
food saved from landfill is invaluable. | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
That's all from me for now, I'll leave you with | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
It was disappointing today, we had varying shades of grey and a enough | :09:52. | :10:04. | |
rain to draw out the snugs and snails. We should be lucky tomorrow | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
with a slight adjustment in the wind direction to southerlies and that | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
will draw up warm air from the continent. Temperatures could fall | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
into the high teens, making it the warmest warmest day of the year so | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
far. You will feel the warmth through tonight with that southerly | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
taking effect. We have got a bit of cloud and some light rain which | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
should die out in the early hours. But temperatures up to 12 Celsius. | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
Quite a mild start tomorrow. And that cloud and rain will eventually | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
clear away to the north. By the afternoon some sunshine that will | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
help boost values further. So into the high teens, between 16 to 18 | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
Celsius and a noticeable breeze, but it should be a warm breeze. The | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
national forexas is next. far. The outlook for the next few | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
days, temperatures coming down a bit but staying decent for this time of | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
year. Here is Darren Bett with the national weather. | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
The warm air coming up on a southerly breeze all the way from | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
Iberia and across France into England and Wales. To achieve the | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
high temperatures we need to get into some of this dryer air and | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
sunshine. Even with the cloud today, 17 degrees. Not just about the | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
temperatures, let's not forget there is some rain around as well. | :11:33. | :11:34. |