:00:00. > :00:00.Good evening. on the BBC News Channel,
:00:07. > :00:09.It's emerged that the Chief Executive of Birmingham City Council
:00:10. > :00:12.is leaving his job just days before a crucial meeting
:00:13. > :00:18.Mark Rogers took over the role in 2014 after seven years
:00:19. > :00:22.He's dealt with the fallout from the so-called Trojan Horse
:00:23. > :00:24.affair and faced pressure from Government to improve services
:00:25. > :00:32.There are fears that public parks in the West Midlands are set to slip
:00:33. > :00:34.into years of decline as a result of budget cuts.
:00:35. > :00:37.Many local authorities are looking to slash spending on green spaces
:00:38. > :00:39.as they struggle to balance their books.
:00:40. > :00:46.Birmingham's got 591 parks and it's proud of them.
:00:47. > :00:49.In some, volunteers to do the things you might expect
:00:50. > :00:53.the council or even the Environment Agency to do.
:00:54. > :00:56.But times are tough and look like getting tougher.
:00:57. > :00:58.We rely on park staff, park keepers and rangers
:00:59. > :01:02.to support us and if those jobs are going, it's going to get harder
:01:03. > :01:05.for us as an established group to do work
:01:06. > :01:08.but more importantly, it's going to be much harder
:01:09. > :01:09.for new friends groups just getting started.
:01:10. > :01:12.The council won't say whether jobs will go,
:01:13. > :01:15.but they are planning cuts of 1.2 million from the parks budget,
:01:16. > :01:19.cuts forced on them, they say, by central Government.
:01:20. > :01:22.None of us like the decisions we're making, but the fact
:01:23. > :01:25.that we have not had a fair settlement in the city
:01:26. > :01:32.Across the West Midlands, recent surveys show 70% of
:01:33. > :01:35.local authorities are looking at transferring
:01:36. > :01:40.Less than half our park managers feel their parks
:01:41. > :01:46.And the percentage of parks in decline looks set to
:01:47. > :01:49.more than double over the next three years.
:01:50. > :01:53.Fran started a friends group six months ago to reclaim her
:01:54. > :01:56.local park and it's a work still in progress
:01:57. > :02:04.The rangers do provide valuable help, advice and can do a lot more,
:02:05. > :02:09.so without the rangers, it would be very, very hard to keep going.
:02:10. > :02:12.Visitors are surprised how green the city is.
:02:13. > :02:15.The challenge now, keeping it pleasant for people
:02:16. > :02:22.A man from Wednesbury has defied death not once,
:02:23. > :02:28.Father of three, Ray Woodhall, had a heart attack whilst playing
:02:29. > :02:33.He was rushed to the Worcestershire Royal Hospital where doctors
:02:34. > :02:36.revived him, but his heart stopped working a further 26 times
:02:37. > :02:46.Given what happened to Ray Woodall, his recovery feels like a miracle.
:02:47. > :02:48.I think I should be getting a little breathless at times,
:02:49. > :02:53.but I've never experienced that.
:02:54. > :02:56.Ray's heart stopped beating not once but on 26
:02:57. > :02:57.separate occasions after having a heart attack
:02:58. > :03:02.One moment, Ray felt a pain in his chest.
:03:03. > :03:05.The next thing he knew, he was in accident and emergency
:03:06. > :03:06.at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
:03:07. > :03:08.The amazing thing was I always thought
:03:09. > :03:11.So when I woke up and there were people around me
:03:12. > :03:14.I was going, I've just been asleep here, it's OK.
:03:15. > :03:19.Doctor Goyal saves lives most days, but rarely does he save
:03:20. > :03:23.one man's life 27 times in a single shift.
:03:24. > :03:26.I think when people have multiple cardiac arrests, there is a
:03:27. > :03:29.very high chance that one of them could be the last one and we
:03:30. > :03:33.may not be able to bring them back, so we have to use different
:03:34. > :03:36.treatment regimes to try and help people in this sort of situation
:03:37. > :03:41.to try and maximise their chance of survival.
:03:42. > :03:44.Every time Ray stopped breathing, the team of doctors and nurses
:03:45. > :03:46.got his heart are going again.
:03:47. > :03:49.Now, thanks to a couple of stents in his heart, he's strong enough
:03:50. > :03:57.It's just a minute spot on my wrist, that's all I've got to show
:03:58. > :04:00.for all the trauma that I went through
:04:01. > :04:04.Ray feels indebted to the medics received his life but they
:04:05. > :04:15.He should be back playing walking football within a couple of months.
:04:16. > :04:18.The future of Peugeot's headquarters in Coventry is at risk according
:04:19. > :04:20.to a motor industry expert in the region.
:04:21. > :04:22.The warning comes as the Prime Minister Theresa May
:04:23. > :04:25.has agreed to meet the boss of the French car group
:04:26. > :04:30.to discuss its proposed takeover of Vauxhall in the UK.
:04:31. > :04:32.There are concerns within the industry that any takeover may
:04:33. > :04:38.have an impact on thousands of jobs, many of them in the Midlands.
:04:39. > :04:43.then they will only need one UK headquarters.
:04:44. > :04:47.There are hundreds of people employed at the Peugeot
:04:48. > :04:51.I think the question then is will it be that operation
:04:52. > :04:53.that stays open or will it be General Motors' head office?
:04:54. > :04:58.Rugby and Premiership leaders Wasps have been stunned by Sale Sharks.
:04:59. > :05:08.Wasps came back from being 31-9 down.
:05:09. > :05:10.Let's have a look at the weather forecast now.
:05:11. > :05:14.After a mild weekend, our temperatures are going to
:05:15. > :05:17.continue to rise as we go into the working week.
:05:18. > :05:19.Overnight, plenty of low cloud around.
:05:20. > :05:21.I think we'll see one or two outbreaks of light,
:05:22. > :05:25.There will be some mist and murk and hill fog around.
:05:26. > :05:28.Overnight lows of 9 or 10 degrees Celsius, so really mild for the time
:05:29. > :05:30.of year and not much down on our daytime highs.
:05:31. > :05:34.It will be a mild start the day tomorrow and a fairly cloudy day.
:05:35. > :05:37.One or two bright intervals and feeling pleasant in any sunshine.
:05:38. > :05:39.That cloud thickening up with some outbreaks
:05:40. > :05:46.We will see a bit more in the way of a breeze.
:05:47. > :05:50.We are looking at an unsettled week and I think it will
:05:51. > :05:53.feel noticeably cooler by the time we get to midweek.
:05:54. > :05:56.I'm back with the late bulletin at 10:22pm.
:05:57. > :06:21.on and on. It is because of the direction of the wind. Tomorrow's
:06:22. > :06:25.temperatures might be higher than today by a couple of degrees. There
:06:26. > :06:29.has been a lot of cloud. But we had some lovely pictures coming in. Some
:06:30. > :06:36.sunshine, but predominantly the clouds have been -- the skies have
:06:37. > :06:43.been cloudy. This will continue as well as a smattering of rain. For
:06:44. > :06:47.all those reasons it isn't going to be a cold night. In fact a night's
:06:48. > :06:51.temperatures will be higher than the daytime maximum averages for this
:06:52. > :06:56.time of year. A murky grey start in the morning. Hill and coastal fog.
:06:57. > :07:00.Rainfall western Scotland and Northern Ireland and a real
:07:01. > :07:01.buffeting from the winds. East of the Grampians could be particularly
:07:02. > :07:03.nasty on