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A woman from Staffordshire has welcomed a new law which means | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
from today it's illegal for drivers of wheelchair-accessible private | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
hire taxis and black cabs to refuse to carry wheelchair passengers | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Two years ago the BBC investigated Balga Vandeel's claims | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
that she was regularly being discriminated against | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
and she says up to till now - little has changed. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Balga Vandeel's used taxis in Stoke on Trent for years | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
but she realised she was being charged more than her friends | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Sure enough, secret filming revealed several clear cut cases of drivers | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
charging her more than an able bodied person for the same journey. | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
She presented her film to Stoke on Trent city council | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
We can do as much re-training as possible | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
with existing drivers but | :01:11. | :01:11. | |
we should also work with some of the disabled groups in the city | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
to make sure that anyone who uses the | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
services of our drivers know what to expect. | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
new laws have come into force meaning this kind of discrimination | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
is now illegal, and could mean a fine for a driver of up | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
I'm really, really excited to say that from today, it is going to | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
become illegal to charge extra for carrying a wheelchair. | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
There will be assistance for wheelchair users to | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
get into taxis and for using wheelchairs. | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
Stoke on Trent city council is now encouraging disabled users | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
to report any such offences and say they will take action. | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Most taxis have these telescopic ramps which don't help all | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
There is a way to get a 1-piece around what court comes into it, you | :02:06. | :02:20. | |
have to measure out the gap, have always changed, have fitted in. | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
But John Walley, who's driven for 16 years and just bought a new cab | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
at over ?31,000, says it's up to drivers to up their game. | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
You want to do the job and you want to do it properly. | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
The council is giving a period of grace | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
for drivers to comply and is drawing up a future list of wheelchair | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
friendly vehicles which any new drivers must buy | :02:49. | :02:49. | |
Well, our reporter Laura May McMullan is in Stoke for us now. | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
We saw the council making pledges in Kevin's film - | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
but did they make good on what they promised to Balga? | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
Well, the pressure is certainly mounting on any taxi driver who | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
thinks it is still acceptable to charge disabled patterns is more | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
than able-bodied people. Stoke-on-Trent City Council says it | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
has had a part to play in helping to make changes and they have | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
introduced a number of actions since that secret filming took place. We | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
have worked closely with a number of groups and individuals to make sure | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
the training we give to drivers is appropriate. | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
refreshed that and we've sent that out to all licensed hackney carriage | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
We've put information out to the general public | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
about overcharging as well because it's quite a complex area | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
and there are some nuances which mean sometimes it's difficult | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
And does this new law affect all drivers? Not quite everyone. It is | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
worth sorting out there are one or two exemptions and that is because | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
the new laws fit under the disability legislation. If a driver | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
themselves is not fit all strong enough to help and assist a disabled | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
passenger, they would be forced to but they will have to apply for | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
exemptions from the law. -- they would not be forced to. For that, | :04:21. | :04:21. | |
they need a note from the doctor. A brother and sister from Birmingham | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
have appeared in court in London It's alleged that 21-year-old | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
Ummariyat Mirza bought a knife and other items, | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
while planning an attack in the UK. His sister Zainub is accused | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
of sending him links Both were remanded in custody | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
until the end of the month. An NHS physiotherapist from Solihull | :04:36. | :04:44. | |
is facing deportation back to India Anand Kumar, who's been working | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
in Britain for the last eight years, has been told he can't stay any | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
longer because of a change He's now started an online petition | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
to highlight the issue. He has called for it to be lowered | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
to ?28,000. Anand Kumar says he was encouraged | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
to come to the UK to train He's now settled in | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
the Midlands with his wife, but faces deportation back to India | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
in 2019 when his work visa expires. We are the trained workforce, | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
trained by the NHS. Non EU workers must | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
have a basic salary of ?35,000. Even though he earns more | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
through overtime and private work, ?35,000 salary is unachievable, | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
especially outside of London, especially | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
working in the NHS and I personally feel | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
that it is disrespectful of the service | :05:48. | :05:48. | |
we provide to the NHS. Anand has started an online petition | :05:49. | :05:59. | |
asking for the salary Anand says many of his colleagues | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
here at the Good Hope But the Government's | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
said it brought in the ?35,000 threshold because it had | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
become too easy to recruit workers from overseas rather | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
than training up UK citizens. Yet physiotherapy is an occupation | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
struggling to attract enough staff. The UK needs 500 new recruits a year | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
just to stand still. The Chartered Society | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
of Physiotherapy says to lose We have a shortage of | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
physios in this country, a If you speak to most of the local | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
managers in the West Midlands, they will say, | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
to fill band five and Anand says he could move | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
to London to boost his salary but his life and heart | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
is now in the Midlands. The home of Gaelic Sport | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
in the West Midlands for almost 30 years- | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Parc na Hairan is The road's design means it would go | :07:05. | :07:27. | |
straight through a site used by Gaelic sports teams from all over | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
Britain and Ireland. Highways England says its not | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
made any final decisions Wildlife experts are warning that | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
a new form of animal trap, designed to kill pest species | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
like rats, stoats and weasels, could The hedgehog population's been | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
declining for a long time now, despite efforts | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
to boost species numbers. Our Environment Correspondent David | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
Gregory-Kumar's been following two rescue animals | :07:50. | :07:50. | |
which are being rehomed. For Mark Ecclestone, | :07:51. | :08:00. | |
this is his office. He makes a living copicing this | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
ancient wood on the edge of Telford and he's looking forward | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
to providing a home This is the end of a | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
long journey for two Staffordshire hedgehogs, | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
brother and sister. Rescued, kept safe over the winter | :08:11. | :08:11. | |
and now ready to be released into the wood and under | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
Mark's watchful eye. We're not quite sure | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
which one is the brother and which is sister, because it is quite | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
difficult to tell when they are Overall hedgehog numbers | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
continue to decline and now conservationists warn | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
they face a new danger. This animal trap from New Zealand, | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
now licensed for use here. In New Zealand, this trap | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
is used to kill stoats, Here, the government | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
insist this trap can't be the British hedgehog preservation | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
Society is still really worried Obviously, because | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
they were developed Hedgehogs have enough to deal with, | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
they are in decline and the another thing we have | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
to worry about in terms And numbers are declining, | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
at a startling rate. This year, for some | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
reason, hedgehogs have We're just getting | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
around about 70% less records and they got | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
this time last year. These two are starting | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
a new life in a perfect But for the rest of our hedgehogs | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
life remains as difficult as ever. A special service of dedication has | :09:07. | :09:19. | |
been held at Hereford cathedral to mark the installation | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
of a million pound artwork. It's been designed to honour | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
the Special Air Service which has "Ascension" is made up of two parts | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
- a nine metre high stained glass window and a monument made | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
from stones taken from Scotland, We wanted it to be about the past, | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
present and future. Something not cluttered, something colourful be | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
simple but had meaning. Something that underscored are understated | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
excellence. What was not boastful in any way. Sounds beautiful. I will | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
leave you with a look at the weather. | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
Good evening, certainly fine and dry today. Some sunshine, in sunshine, | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
temperatures up to the mid-teens but more of this to chase around to | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
moral. Trapped under that high, lots of clouds, hit and miss but it is. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
Where we have it, temperatures are not going to fall way too far. In | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
shelters, rural sports, dipping down to 2-3 C. When we see that, a jot of | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
graphs frost. A chilly start for some to moral. -- grass frost. The | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
crowd will thin and reckon we'll get some sunny spells. For today, the | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
north and west of plenty of cloud cover. We will see that breaking | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
down a little more as he had through to moral. More brightness across | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
Staffordshire and Shropshire. 14 Celsius across the board, heading to | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
the weekend, better news, high pressure slipping with much warmer | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
air coming up. Temperatures heading into the need to hide genes. Moral | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
that any national forecast next. I that any national forecast next. I | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
Hello. There was some warm sunshine around today, but it's set to get | :11:01. | :11:13. | |
even warmer this weekend. 18 Celsius in London this afternoon. This was | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
the scene in Chiswick, much quieter than it was on Sunday for the boat | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
race. Under the cloud for example here in Cumbria, temperatures | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
struggled to make double figures. Through the night we're going to | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
hang onto a lot of cloud across north-west England, North Wales, | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
Northern Ireland and western Scotland, where there will be a bit | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
of drizzle on the breeze. Zero skies across many southern and eastern | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
parts of England, together with eastern Scotland and in the | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
countryside again, temperatures won't be far away from freezing. | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
Just | :11:44. | :11:44. |