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0:00:13 > 0:00:13Good evening. stories on the BBC News Channel.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16A Hereford man claims his wife will be left homeless
0:00:16 > 0:00:18and in fear if she's deported to the Philippines tomorrow.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21Marinel Bristow, who's 33, has been detained at an immigration
0:00:21 > 0:00:22centre in Bedfordshire.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Ben Godfrey reports.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28Just to see his wife Marinel, Rob Bristow must make an appointment
0:00:28 > 0:00:31at Yarlswood Immigration Removal Centre.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33I brought a suitcase of some of her things.
0:00:33 > 0:00:37The couple married eight years ago in Herefordshire.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41Her visitor visa expired but back in the Phillippines, in 2013,
0:00:41 > 0:00:47a devastating typhoon left her homeless.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51Rob brought her back to the UK, but legal appeals for her to be
0:00:51 > 0:00:52granted refugee status have failed.
0:00:52 > 0:01:02She lost up to 50 family members, neighbours, relatives,
0:01:02 > 0:01:06some of which I had met and she only really was able to survive
0:01:06 > 0:01:08at the time because she was living in a concrete structure
0:01:08 > 0:01:13that we were renting for a business there at the time.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Marinel Bristow couldn't provide officials with evidence that Rob's
0:01:16 > 0:01:17earnings as a photographer reached the threshold for
0:01:17 > 0:01:22an appeal to succeed.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26She believes she'll be deported as early as tomorrow.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29A spokesperson for Rob's local MP Jesse Norman said: Marinel Bristow
0:01:29 > 0:01:35agreed to speak to us on the phone.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37I'm feeling down, being here.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39I've been here for ten days.
0:01:39 > 0:01:45How do you feel about returning to the Philippines?
0:01:45 > 0:01:51Going back again, not knowing what's going to happen to me.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53We're told the Home Office's decision has been upheld
0:01:54 > 0:01:56by an independent immigration judge.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58In a statement, they told us all applications are considered
0:01:58 > 0:02:00on their individual merits and in line with the
0:02:01 > 0:02:05immigration rules.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Two people have been charged with the murder of a 45-year-old
0:02:09 > 0:02:12Staffordshire man who was found stabbed in his car in Leicestershire
0:02:12 > 0:02:14on Thursday evening.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16Timothy Smith from Fazeley was discovered at an industrial
0:02:17 > 0:02:19estate in Shepshed.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21Police initially thought he'd been involved in an accident,
0:02:21 > 0:02:30but paramedics discovered a stab wound.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33You'll have heard no doubt of the sad news this weekend
0:02:33 > 0:02:36of the death of rock 'n roll giant Chuck Berry, but did you know
0:02:36 > 0:02:39that his biggest hit - the one morality campaigners tried
0:02:39 > 0:02:42to ban - was recorded during a live gig in the Midlands?
0:02:42 > 0:02:43Audrey Dias has the story.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45# And I let her play with my ding-a-ling-a-ling...
0:02:45 > 0:02:48It was the song that gave the rock and roll
0:02:48 > 0:02:51legend him his only number one, recorded not in his native Missouri
0:02:51 > 0:02:54but right here in Coventry.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Chuck Berry was taped live while playing at an arts festival
0:02:57 > 0:02:59in the city in 1972.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02It's crazy because you talk to these rock and roll people,
0:03:02 > 0:03:08they love Chuck Berry and it was probably the worst thing
0:03:08 > 0:03:12he ever did, the innuendo going on, but it was the only number one not
0:03:12 > 0:03:15only in Britain, but also in America and we love the fact
0:03:15 > 0:03:16it was recorded here in Coventry.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19The Locarno is now the Central library, but do the people Coventry
0:03:19 > 0:03:21know that musical history was made here?
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Amazing!
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Loads of stuff happened in Coventry back in the day!
0:03:27 > 0:03:29I think it's really cool, because I didn't know anyone
0:03:29 > 0:03:33famous had been here, except The Specials.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35He was an inspiration for the Rolling Stones
0:03:35 > 0:03:40and the Beatles and John Lennon, so he'll be sadly missed, I suppose.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Professional DJ Kevin Boddy was meeting friends in the city today.
0:03:43 > 0:03:49He says My Ding-A-Ling is more than just a novelty record.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Early '70s was a very dry time for music and it was just,
0:03:52 > 0:03:57like, a refreshing song.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58Chuck Berry's influence went beyond the music.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01But it was one night at the Locarno when the star really
0:04:01 > 0:04:08left his mark on the Midlands.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Here's Alex Hamilton.
0:04:18 > 0:04:19Good evening.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22We've got more sunshine and showers on the way over the next few days.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Breezy at times as well, as those isobars start
0:04:24 > 0:04:25to squeeze together.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28Now, looking at detail overnight tonight, we will see that rain
0:04:28 > 0:04:30starting to work in, particularly in the early hours,
0:04:30 > 0:04:33lows tonight of around 1 Celsius and take care -
0:04:33 > 0:04:35there could be spray and standing water on the roads.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Tomorrow morning, that rain will be with us for quite some time,
0:04:38 > 0:04:41but it will slowly and steadily get drier and brighter over the course
0:04:41 > 0:04:44of the day with highs of around 12 Celsius.
0:04:44 > 0:04:49I'll leave you with the outlook - sunshine and showers on the way
0:04:49 > 0:04:55and turning noticeably cooler over the course of the next few days.
0:04:55 > 0:04:56That's it for now.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59Midlands Today will be back tomorrow just after 6pm.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02Goodnight.