17/04/2017

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:00:09. > :00:10.Good evening. big time beckons.

:00:11. > :00:12.Detectives are looking for arsonists who deliberately destroyed

:00:13. > :00:15.a fleet of vans belonging to a North Staffordshire business.

:00:16. > :00:19.Staff are now working overtime to keep the company running.

:00:20. > :00:25.Whoever it was, they came prepared, smashing the windows of three

:00:26. > :00:28.delivery vans belonging to a joinery firm, tipping petrol

:00:29. > :00:32.inside and setting a fire which destroyed them all.

:00:33. > :00:35.For the owner, who set this business up nearly 30 years ago

:00:36. > :00:38.on an industrial estate in Newcastle-Under-Lyme,

:00:39. > :00:43.Obviously a massive shock to everybody.

:00:44. > :00:53.You don't expect to come down at 3am to find all your wagons on fire.

:00:54. > :00:57.Some have given up their Easter holidays to ensure orders

:00:58. > :01:02.go out to customers in replacement vans tomorrow.

:01:03. > :01:05.The vans were parked here at the back of the factory.

:01:06. > :01:08.You can see the mess the heat has made of the tarmac.

:01:09. > :01:10.Flames licked up the side of the building -

:01:11. > :01:16.Eight weeks ago, an attempt was made to break into these vans.

:01:17. > :01:20.There is a concern now that someone has got a vendetta.

:01:21. > :01:23.It's either a personal thing, which I can't believe,

:01:24. > :01:32.Or it's targeted against the company itself.

:01:33. > :01:36.You're talking about people's jobs, mortgages, everything

:01:37. > :01:41.It's not just a random thing that you can pass over.

:01:42. > :01:44.Police are looking at CCTV footage from neighbouring firms.

:01:45. > :01:47.The company says the malice of this attack won't stop

:01:48. > :01:56.The Birmingham City manager Gianfranco Zola has resigned

:01:57. > :02:03.The 50-year-old Italian won just two of his 24 games in charge.

:02:04. > :02:06.Today they lost 2-0 at home to Burton, leaving Blues 20th

:02:07. > :02:08.in the Championship, just three points above

:02:09. > :02:11.the relegation places with only three games remaining.

:02:12. > :02:14.When predecessor Gary Rowett was sacked in December,

:02:15. > :02:21.A minute's silence was held at a football match today in honour

:02:22. > :02:23.of the Birmingham University student who was stabbed to death

:02:24. > :02:28.20-year-old Hannah Bladon from Burton upon Trent

:02:29. > :02:32.She'd been on an exchange programme at the Hebrew

:02:33. > :02:36.The club held a minute's silence ahead of kick-off

:02:37. > :02:40.in this afternoon's match against Huddersfield Town.

:02:41. > :02:44.Alternative accommodation has been found for all 24 elderly residents

:02:45. > :02:50.of a care home which was damaged by fire on Saturday.

:02:51. > :02:51.17 people were re-homed yesterday after the fire

:02:52. > :02:53.at Standon House in Tamworth, which was caused by

:02:54. > :02:56.a discarded cigarette in an external smoking area.

:02:57. > :03:00.Staffordshire County Council has confirmed places have now also been

:03:01. > :03:02.found for the seven residents who were taken to hospital following

:03:03. > :03:09.the fire and who are likely to be discharged in the coming days.

:03:10. > :03:12.A jeweller has been commissioned to make replicas of the Leek-frith

:03:13. > :03:15.gold, which was found buried in a field in

:03:16. > :03:20.The family, who own the land where the Iron Age artefacts

:03:21. > :03:23.were discovered, have asked a local silversmith to create exact copies.

:03:24. > :03:27.Here's our Staffordshire reporter, Liz Copper.

:03:28. > :03:30.Jacqueline Harold at her workshop in Leek, beginning work on replicas

:03:31. > :03:38.She is recreating jewellery fashioned more than 2500 years ago.

:03:39. > :03:40.The Leekfrith gold was unearthed in a field

:03:41. > :03:43.in the Staffordshire Moorlands, and the landowners have

:03:44. > :03:48.Before starting work, Jacqueline made sketches of the jewellery

:03:49. > :03:51.while it was on display in the Potteries Museum.

:03:52. > :03:56.It has been there buried for all that length of time,

:03:57. > :03:59.and now I'm trying to recreate what was possibly done

:04:00. > :04:04.not too far from where the studio is here in Leek.

:04:05. > :04:06.The original bracelet and three torcs are some of the earliest

:04:07. > :04:10.examples of Iron Age gold found in the UK.

:04:11. > :04:12.From these sketches, you get a real sense

:04:13. > :04:17.It is thought they were originally made somewhere in Europe.

:04:18. > :04:21.Experts believe they would have been worn by wealthy, powerful women,

:04:22. > :04:23.perhaps who had married into the community

:04:24. > :04:31.Jacqueline will be using age-old techniques to make the replica.

:04:32. > :04:33.It's a challenge to get it right, I suppose.

:04:34. > :04:35.And to get the dimensions, because I have not

:04:36. > :04:43.But I suppose the way that it's made isn't dissimilar to how

:04:44. > :04:47.The gold is currently being examined by experts and valued.

:04:48. > :04:49.The replicas made by Jacqueline will themselves be one-off pieces

:04:50. > :05:01.Before we go, congratulations to Birmingham City Ladies,

:05:02. > :05:04.who are through to the final of the Women's FA Cup.

:05:05. > :05:06.They beat Chelsea 4-2 on penalties and take

:05:07. > :05:11.I'll leave you now with the weather from John Hammond.

:05:12. > :05:33.Some showers overnight but they will have cleared away by tomorrow. Back

:05:34. > :05:38.to tonight and some showers, pretty hit and miss. Drifting away south.

:05:39. > :05:45.They will move out of the way by dawn. We expect Frost in some rural

:05:46. > :05:52.spots first thing in morning. A cold start but bright and crisp. A lot of

:05:53. > :05:57.blue sky around tomorrow. Dry with the wind fairly light but again

:05:58. > :06:00.feeling chilly at around 11 or 12 degrees.