17/05/2017

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:00:00. > :00:13.Police investigating the sexual abuse of boys at a school

:00:14. > :00:16.in Worcestershire decades ago say they've sent a file

:00:17. > :00:23.It comes more than two and a half years after the BBC uncovered

:00:24. > :00:26.allegations against Catholic monks who ran St Gilberts.

:00:27. > :00:28.No one's been charged, though, and some of the victims fear

:00:29. > :00:39.50 years on, Paul Sprayson, is still looking peace.

:00:40. > :00:41.50 years on, Paul Sprayson, is still looking for peace.

:00:42. > :00:45.In the 1960s, aged 13, he was packed off to a catholic run

:00:46. > :00:47.approved school full of delinquents and runaways from Birmingham.

:00:48. > :00:50.He went on to spend 30 years in a series of jails,

:00:51. > :00:53.but says that school and the abuse he suffered in it was the worst.

:00:54. > :01:01.You're talking two or three holding you down, sexually assaulting you.

:01:02. > :01:08.St Gilbert's at Hartlebury near Kidderminster was run

:01:09. > :01:10.by the De La Salle order of Christian Brothers.

:01:11. > :01:14.It's thought as many as 30 former pupils have come forward to tell

:01:15. > :01:18.police of horrendous abuse at the hands of school staff.

:01:19. > :01:28.You couldn't close your eyes at night, you didn't know

:01:29. > :01:33.Operation Quayle was launched over two and a half years ago

:01:34. > :01:37.to investigate allegations of abuse at St Gilbert's from 1945 to 1975.

:01:38. > :01:39.In September last year, a file was sent to the Crown

:01:40. > :01:41.Prosecution Service and four suspects have been

:01:42. > :01:47.But today, no charges have been brought.

:01:48. > :01:50.One alleged abuser, named by many former pupils is Brother Roderick.

:01:51. > :01:54.He and others are now dead, but a lawyer representing some

:01:55. > :01:58.of the victims says the police have to pursue the enquiry.

:01:59. > :02:01.They have written to all the victims to tell them what's going on,

:02:02. > :02:05.but that doesn't help the anxiety the victims feel and the resolve

:02:06. > :02:13.nature of the enquiry is making their psychological condition worse.

:02:14. > :02:16.but that doesn't help the anxiety the victims feel and the unresolved

:02:17. > :02:19.nature of the enquiry is making their psychological condition worse.

:02:20. > :02:22.When we asked them in February, the police said two suspects had

:02:23. > :02:25.been released from bail conditions but were continuing

:02:26. > :02:28.Today, they told us matters are at a delicate stage.

:02:29. > :02:31.What do you want now from the police enquiry?

:02:32. > :02:38.Get some progress in it and perhaps a lot more will come out.

:02:39. > :02:45.Some will say, but it was 50 years ago, let bygones be bygones.

:02:46. > :02:47.It makes no difference, these things still happen.

:02:48. > :02:50.I don't want no gain out of it or anything.

:02:51. > :02:56.The De La Salle order has apologised to Paul and others.

:02:57. > :02:59.But for him though, time hasn't healed and the time

:03:00. > :03:09.Businesses in Birmingham have been assessing the damage caused

:03:10. > :03:11.by the controlled explosion of a wartime bomb

:03:12. > :03:16.One owner says he's losing thousands of pounds a day and doesn't know

:03:17. > :03:19.when it'll be safe to go back inside his building.

:03:20. > :03:22.The 500lb device was discovered on Monday morning

:03:23. > :03:25.and was judged to be too dangerous to be moved.

:03:26. > :03:32.The full impact of yesterday's controlled explosion

:03:33. > :03:37.is still being felt by a number of businesses on the Priory

:03:38. > :03:46.Today, they are dealing with the aftermath.

:03:47. > :03:49.Zahir Husain's warehouse is just yards from where the bomb was found

:03:50. > :03:57.He says he has now lost three days of production and it's costing him.

:03:58. > :04:02.Thousands a day, plus my main loss I'm worried about,

:04:03. > :04:12.He's not sure whether or not it's structurally safe

:04:13. > :04:18.His neighbour next door though says he couldn't wait any longer.

:04:19. > :04:29.We had already lost two days of production.

:04:30. > :04:31.We had some deliveries also scheduled to come into day

:04:32. > :04:35.Are you convinced it's safe to return to work?

:04:36. > :04:39.We checked, I came inside and I looked for any breakages

:04:40. > :04:46.The Second World War German shell had lay undiscovered here for more

:04:47. > :04:49.than 70 years and is one of the biggest devices of its kind

:04:50. > :04:57.Fred Groves was just a lad at the time.

:04:58. > :05:01.Still in the area now, he lived through the bombings

:05:02. > :05:10.The only thing you remember is the noise of the explosions

:05:11. > :05:15.because my parents would keep me confined to the air raid shelter.

:05:16. > :05:19.So I could stick my head out sometimes, looking

:05:20. > :05:34.It could be days before Mr Husain's businesses back to normal.

:05:35. > :05:37.It could be days before Mr Husain's business is back to normal.

:05:38. > :05:40.He says the priority now should be to clear the roads so suppliers can

:05:41. > :05:44.A postmortem examination has revealed an 11-year-old girl,

:05:45. > :05:47.who fell from a water ride at Drayton Manor Theme Park,

:05:48. > :05:55.Evha Jannath, from Leicester, was on a school trip when she fell

:05:56. > :05:57.from the Splash Canyon ride last week.

:05:58. > :06:02.An inquest into her death was opened and adjourned this afternoon.

:06:03. > :06:05.The Royal College of Surgeons has called for a review of the way

:06:06. > :06:08.private hospitals are regulated following the case of Ian Paterson.

:06:09. > :06:11.The breast cancer surgeon is due to be sentenced at the end of this

:06:12. > :06:16.month after being convicted of unlawfully wounding ten patients,

:06:17. > :06:18.by carrying out "needless" operations at private clinics

:06:19. > :06:24.The number of English cities rivalling Birmingham to host

:06:25. > :06:28.the 2022 Commonwealth Games has been reduced to just one.

:06:29. > :06:31.Birmingham has officially confirmed it would like to take over

:06:32. > :06:33.the staging of The Games from Durban.

:06:34. > :06:37.The South African city was stripped of the right earlier this year.

:06:38. > :06:39.Manchester and London have now dropped out,

:06:40. > :06:44.leaving Liverpool as the only other competitor in England.

:06:45. > :06:48.A video of a Gloucestershire student finishing his assignment

:06:49. > :06:52.in a nightclub has gone viral and made the news around the world.

:06:53. > :06:55.But it turns out the film and story was entirely fake.

:06:56. > :06:57.University students created it to see just how far

:06:58. > :07:04.They've been speaking exclusively to our Gloucestershire

:07:05. > :07:10.It started as a project to create a comedy video to see how far it

:07:11. > :07:12.could spread online and it soon went viral.

:07:13. > :07:14.Not long after, the Press Association, a well-respected,

:07:15. > :07:17.trusted source contacted the students who decided to then

:07:18. > :07:23.PA then published the story, which was picked up by several news

:07:24. > :07:26.organisations online, including the BBC Local

:07:27. > :07:32.A university student filmed working on an essay in a nightclub has

:07:33. > :07:35.revealed he got a first for the assignment...

:07:36. > :07:37.It shows the lack of diligence in regards to the press.

:07:38. > :07:40.It kind of makes you question what's real and fake out there, definitely.

:07:41. > :07:47.And I think people should be a bit wiser when they open the newspapers.

:07:48. > :07:50.I'm a little bit shocked in terms of they haven't

:07:51. > :07:53.checked their sources, they've literally taken

:07:54. > :07:58.At the end of the day, we're just a group of students

:07:59. > :08:02.We never thought how easy it would be to do it.

:08:03. > :08:05.I call the fake news the enemy of the people.

:08:06. > :08:08.Of course, faking news isn't new as we know,

:08:09. > :08:12.But the Press Association said it spoke to the students and acted

:08:13. > :08:28.Were the students right to mislead the press in that way?

:08:29. > :08:31.We don't condone any students or any members of staff,

:08:32. > :08:33.or anybody at this university to deliberately mislead the press.

:08:34. > :08:37.What the Press Association didn't do was to contact our press office

:08:38. > :08:40.at the University of Gloucestershire and talk to us about the story.

:08:41. > :08:42.Had they done that, we would very clearly have

:08:43. > :08:54.This is the second time the Film Direction course

:08:55. > :08:56.This is the second time the Film Production course

:08:57. > :08:59.has fooled the press, and in this era of the Internet,

:09:00. > :09:03.you read and see may, on occasion, be true.

:09:04. > :09:09.Yes, I'm telling you the truth, it's all staged.

:09:10. > :09:10.Steve Knibbs, BBC Midlands Today, Cheltenham.

:09:11. > :09:13.A water mill in Worcestershire which dates back to the 14th

:09:14. > :09:15.Century has been restored to full working order.

:09:16. > :09:17.The Shelsley Walsh Watermill is found on the famous

:09:18. > :09:19.motor racing circuit, renowned for its steep hill climb.

:09:20. > :09:23.After lying in ruin for decades, a group called the Dibnahs decided

:09:24. > :09:25.to raise money and do all the work themselves.

:09:26. > :09:29.It was estimated by a mill guy, it would take between 40 and ?50,000 to

:09:30. > :09:33.But because we do it as a hobby and we don't obviously

:09:34. > :09:36.charge for labour, we had to buy in certain parts like wood

:09:37. > :09:46.It probably cost between 15 and 20,000.

:09:47. > :09:48.And that's almost all from us tonight.

:09:49. > :09:50.I'll leave you with the weather from Rebecca.

:09:51. > :10:08.We had almost an inch of rain, but it turned out quite nice. We saw it

:10:09. > :10:13.slowly progressing eastwards. Behind that we were starting to see things

:10:14. > :10:17.easing a bit and has given a spectacular sunset. Lovely scenes

:10:18. > :10:23.across the region and it looks like the sky was on fire. But tonight we

:10:24. > :10:28.get more sunshine in our forecast. But we cannot rule out the odd

:10:29. > :10:31.shower. We will continue to see the rain band progressing eastwards.

:10:32. > :10:36.Cloud linger in the eastern part but further west we look at some breaks

:10:37. > :10:40.in the Cloud and temperatures will fall away. It will be a chilly night

:10:41. > :10:44.with loans of five Celsius. But in the countryside it could be more

:10:45. > :10:48.like three. Tomorrow, the rain band has cleared away but we have another

:10:49. > :10:57.one waiting in the wings for the weekend. Tomorrow, it looks largely

:10:58. > :10:59.dry. There will be a few showers possible at times. Lots of lovely

:11:00. > :11:02.sunshine and in light winds, temperatures may be 17 Celsius.

:11:03. > :11:03.Feeling pleasant and a few more showers around