19/03/2017 Midlands Today

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A Hereford man claims his wife will be left homeless

and in fear if she's deported to the Philippines tomorrow.

Marinel Bristow, who's 33, has been detained at an immigration

centre in Bedfordshire.

Ben Godfrey reports.

Just to see his wife Marinel, Rob Bristow must make an appointment

at Yarlswood Immigration Removal Centre.

I brought a suitcase of some of her things.

The couple married eight years ago in Herefordshire.

Her visitor visa expired but back in the Phillippines, in 2013,

a devastating typhoon left her homeless.

Rob brought her back to the UK, but legal appeals for her to be

granted refugee status have failed.

She lost up to 50 family members, neighbours, relatives,

some of which I had met and she only really was able to survive

at the time because she was living in a concrete structure

that we were renting for a business there at the time.

Marinel Bristow couldn't provide officials with evidence that Rob's

earnings as a photographer reached the threshold for

an appeal to succeed.

She believes she'll be deported as early as tomorrow.

A spokesperson for Rob's local MP Jesse Norman said: Marinel Bristow

agreed to speak to us on the phone.

I'm feeling down, being here.

I've been here for ten days.

How do you feel about returning to the Philippines?

Going back again, not knowing what's going to happen to me.

We're told the Home Office's decision has been upheld

by an independent immigration judge.

In a statement, they told us all applications are considered

on their individual merits and in line with the

immigration rules.

Two people have been charged with the murder of a 45-year-old

Staffordshire man who was found stabbed in his car in Leicestershire

on Thursday evening.

Timothy Smith from Fazeley was discovered at an industrial

estate in Shepshed.

Police initially thought he'd been involved in an accident,

but paramedics discovered a stab wound.

You'll have heard no doubt of the sad news this weekend

of the death of rock 'n roll giant Chuck Berry, but did you know

that his biggest hit - the one morality campaigners tried

to ban - was recorded during a live gig in the Midlands?

Audrey Dias has the story.

# And I let her play with my ding-a-ling-a-ling...

It was the song that gave the rock and roll

legend him his only number one, recorded not in his native Missouri

but right here in Coventry.

Chuck Berry was taped live while playing at an arts festival

in the city in 1972.

It's crazy because you talk to these rock and roll people,

they love Chuck Berry and it was probably the worst thing

he ever did, the innuendo going on, but it was the only number one not

only in Britain, but also in America and we love the fact

it was recorded here in Coventry.

The Locarno is now the Central library, but do the people Coventry

know that musical history was made here?

Amazing!

Loads of stuff happened in Coventry back in the day!

I think it's really cool, because I didn't know anyone

famous had been here, except The Specials.

He was an inspiration for the Rolling Stones

and the Beatles and John Lennon, so he'll be sadly missed, I suppose.

Professional DJ Kevin Boddy was meeting friends in the city today.

He says My Ding-A-Ling is more than just a novelty record.

Early '70s was a very dry time for music and it was just,

like, a refreshing song.

Chuck Berry's influence went beyond the music.

But it was one night at the Locarno when the star really

left his mark on the Midlands.

Here's Alex Hamilton.

Good evening.

We've got more sunshine and showers on the way over the next few days.

Breezy at times as well, as those isobars start

to squeeze together.

Now, looking at detail overnight tonight, we will see that rain

starting to work in, particularly in the early hours,

lows tonight of around 1 Celsius and take care -

there could be spray and standing water on the roads.

Tomorrow morning, that rain will be with us for quite some time,

but it will slowly and steadily get drier and brighter over the course

of the day with highs of around 12 Celsius.

I'll leave you with the outlook - sunshine and showers on the way

and turning noticeably cooler over the course of the next few days.

That's it for now.

Midlands Today will be back tomorrow just after 6pm.

Goodnight.