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Prince Harry from the traditional royal box and. He's been doing them for years but stopped last year is Meghan apparently has gone very good although when she said yes I really. It was while she was cooking a roast chicken confused yes you will be producing these back now we're going to be talking about smart motorways in the next half an hour calls for them to be stopped and banned altogether and we've got them on the M 6 the M 42 the M 5 all around Birmingham in the West Midlands I'm going up north further on the M 6 but now a group of M.P.'s says the rollout where the hard shoulder converts into a 4th lane needs to be stopped they believe it's putting motorists in recovery workers at risk so we want to know what people think about this are you on the motorway do you use the Smart motorways do they confuse you give us a call 8. 1056 are by helpful or are they a danger smart or don't even care we could ask smart holdups better are they smart or are they. Who has been saying for a number of years now that it's going to lead to an accident assured if there's been an accident and this woman has been told that she potentially. Could be in serious. Name it was mate. Yes it was. 95.6. I think say this for years it's an accident waiting to happen and peace demands small motorway rollout be stopped over safety is after crashes involving vehicles on the hard shoulder is what they say and you happen to you have absolutely down the road to create a running road to crazy codes campaigns against them basically there was a woman who had broken down hard shoulder on a lorry rammed into the back of the car because the lorry that lorry driver was confused you probably because earlier on that morning it was open late I see it all the time I see it all the tide drivers are confused when to use the lane when not to use the lead. Piece of gear that a piece called of them to be scrapped what you scrap a small boat if you're not sure what. That is of course Steve Winwood and Valerie we will get your calls so many people who want to have the say on the marquee story charge and rough sleepers $75.00 pounds for a. Cup of hot water that they can go and fill the pot noodles with and rehydrate the pot noodles and have a decent lesson Pot Noodles I'm not a pot noodle for years but I does if you sleep in rough a pot noodle will just take all the boxes you know it's stored G. It's pipe and ot and it's tasty and so given out these pot noodles that given these pots of pirates but they just need to hold water in the mountain anyway to be more on the throughout the morning they'll be more on that throughout the morning but if you want to have your sight as always we will get to you I do want to mention just again the whole day this radio station given you the opportunity to take the family to see the big Christmas show elf a Christmas spectacular results world arena will tell you how you can grab some tickets very soon a group of M.P.'s Let's talk small motorways a group of N.P.C. Said the rollout of a type of small motorway where the hard shoulder is turned into a 4th lane. Depending on the flow of traffic Well the M.P. Say it should be stopped the all party group but campaigners who say having no hard shoulder puts motorists and recovery workers at risk in this is more than 100 miles of all lane running small motorways with a further 225 miles planned so all the smarts are all they don't want to below double 956 you may have heard me over the is as I drive home when I drive home today and I'll be going on the M $42.00 and then the M 40 south is a stretch of small motorway on the M $42.00 and then appeals off to the end 40 I think you know and for you to get the info in the info to mix up anyway I will see or I used to say because you don't see it often because they've actually started to put these red crosses on the on the small motorway the hard shoulder to suggest listen whatever you do don't drive down the normally what they did when it was open that have like a 60 on it seen you could do 60 miles an hour and you knew that the whole child was open but in quieter times of the day they just put 60 on the 3 lanes and left the hard shoulder to well just be a hard shoulder nothing to indicate that really you shouldn't be driving on it and I used to see it all the time I used to see people driving on it all the time used to flush them and then they'd realize or sometimes you're flushing and they would know what the hell your problem was because earlier on that day that I actually used it what's your problem Paul I'm allowed to drive down here while the woman's in hospital because a broken down was hit by a truck one can only assume that the driver was confused he or she shouldn't have been used in the lane and I want to know all they dangerous are they a danger Oh a toe it won't go below double 956 I know that listening to me right now we are living in a an area populated by arterial routes all around the Midlands I'm 65 and 42 and 40 and there's loads more so all they all they a hindrance or all the real bonus cousins is head of all roads. 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Judge Good morning how do the a feel about smart motorways Good morning good morning Danny I suppose what you saw the boxes there in your preamble is that the smart motorways is a catch all phrase for the different types of motorway changes that we're seeing across the network so we all understanding get the concept of a traditional 3 lane motorway with a hard shoulder a continuous hard shoulder but then we have smart miter ways and there are 3 types of those those manage Motorways which is still a traditional 3 lane motorway but the hard shoulder again tree over the top that can change the speed in close lanes where necessary there's then dynamic hard shoulder which is explained on the M 42 during the morning and evening rush hour the hard shoulder can be used in there should be selling saying hard shoulder in use and again can change the speeds put the red cross on when it needs to close lanes and things like that and then finally we get on to running which is 4 lanes of traffic the hard shoulder is being converted into a permanent running lane and the tradeoff there is that you get emergency refuge areas which are essentially lay by spaced potentially every mile and a half apart and again they're sort of there is the if you're if you're in a breakdancing are you need to limp yourself into one of these lay bys and then use the S.O.'s telephone box to get some assistance the problem in NO with all of that is though that if you're in between those emergency refuge areas and you're not sure where the next one is drivers tend to panic and stop in the lane that they're in and that's when we get the heightened safety issues in terms of you know if somebody's going to come and hit that vulnerable broken down vehicle in the live lane and I guess this this uncertainty would be compounded where the. Boats were poorly illuminated Sometimes I find poorly illuminated Motu as an earth and think My God I hate to break. No battery whatsoever to have your house it's on Yeah absolutely and again if you do break down and live blind people aren't quite sure what they should be doing and what drivers should be doing is get into like this is if you're in an all and running scenario or your in between emergency refuge areas so you get into lame one you may have as far left as possible but leave yourself enough room to get out of the left hand side of the vehicle get over the barrier if there is one or up the bank and then you ring 999 it is treated as an emergency service call right OK And also one would hope that the camera operators would be able to spot a car that's broken because all of these miles and miles of small motorways I hope are covered by C.C.T.V. So maybe that a motorist in distress and then all of a sudden the make that no longer a live lane although So you know I don't know what the circumstances Jack with this poor woman was whether the driver was just confused and whether reassured it was open or whether it should broken down on the live lane and no one had managed to inform the operators who knows but nevertheless this is this is a tragic consequence of that it is indeed and yes there are cameras scouring the mighty network and what they should be doing is picking up the broken down vehicle and then putting the red X.'s on the back down the system but the problem is that there is still a percentage of drivers that do not know we do not understand the significance of a red X. Now these have been out now for the past 2 years even longer in fact and for the past 2 years highways England have been issuing drivers who have gone through a red X. Line a warning letter saying you've driven in that red explained You really should not have been please thank you notes again however for the past 2 years they've sent over 170000 of these letters while that's a huge number and what we need to do is we need the Home Office now to step up to the plate and say you know why. If you go through a red X. Lane you should get a fine and points on your license because the whole point the red X. Is there is to say that there isn't there is a vulnerable vehicle there or there is an obstruction in place and if you drive in that lane Ultimately you may you know may make the situation worse you may create a fatalist even further fate ality So the real message here is if you see a red X. Above that lane get out of that lane and stay out of that lane until you see signs that say you can do maybe it's not obvious sort of judgment is going to be a flashing cross or so and maybe it's going to be pulled sating maybe it's just not obvious enough maybe 170000 most That's one hell of a big problem I didn't realize it was on such a big scale joke 170000 tickets or advisories yet so these are 170000 warning letters to drivers so it will have a static red X. In the gantry box and then red lights red flashing so beacons are on top and I right there there I go to you know B.S. A lot of what they're doing but what we've seen from our own research is that drivers tend to be a little bit like sheep so if somebody if they see somebody move into that red X. Line they are tempted to follow them yes and what we need to get across to drivers is if you see that red X. You've got to stay out of that lane into you see signs that you otherwise because ultimately that red X. Is there to try and protect something that's obstructing now it could be a vulnerable vehicle it could be a vehicle that shed its load it could be animals in the road it could be anything but the whole reason the red X. Is there is to is to how to reinforce the safety aspect and say get out of that lie do not stay in it Jack thank you nice to talk to Jack all the purse thanks for your expertise on this so smart motorways or dumb drivers. Maybe a bit of both Oh wait oh wait want to below double 956 although you got to say don't drive as well if there's 170000 warnings that would go when someone is driving in a lane and there's a Red Cross with full seating red lights on each side of the Red Cross what the hell are you doing on the road. Down the problem is not small motorways the problem is dummy drivers so says one text. Who says if you can listen to Goldberg's Odio clip of a family who were hit by a truck in a small motivational area was horrific he played it yes they didn't hit. Who's this morning Danny small the worst thing ever invented up in Usenet 6 or 27 years and since they have been installed I have never known so many accidents and traffic jams they are diabolical get them all took down asap taken down the grammar police just hit me that the end and good month and right it was the Ponce sorry the trousers. In the mega-mall cool Prince Ari I was right that proves what I was thinking about this woman how can you be a part time Wiig and she is so false place the cameras in is so me me me me me got pregnant really quick before the truce I came out so she would always have the position she always wanted poor I really. Want more done the 1st thing Meghan would have see when she married R. e Was the aisle The 2nd thing she sees is the alter the last thing she sees is you me I'll tell you how true are reasons of the oh yeah that's right yeah it was the trousers model makes it will only get worse. Says one touch the. Can we say no it. In a. Sling a lonely. We have the elf giveaway in right about well now wish lets go to Simon rally for now we should give away how a savage bomb motorways double smart yeah are definitely a cat a cat who I think happened on a series of Lentulus was a car club made with Mark Karr a few weeks ago actually in the Patrick cook off which snapped off in the side of the car but made of a minute by Max got the car going and he followed me up the Empire junction of Iraq where the back of Rome they hailed the best bet would be just to go on a motorway and then if ever a battery take to attack a colleague's pull over inflated hard shoulder but little did on out there was absolutely pitch black no law I think it's all across that section and follow it and of course it was the smart Most why systems if ever the car had you know could have power wise is now a plenty now has a long summer ANY think you know it would be. A case of how quickly I could get out the car before a lot of time and wipe it out wow and that was on the small motorway and it was only illuminated absolutely terrified and I got my eyes were constantly scanning literally 150 paces ahead thinking where can I just it's the car I forget the battery every car plant you know in hindsight join the motorway was the wrong thing to do absolutely absolutely of Africa technical interest and. Such lists I think you're right I think there could be a catastrophe I mean if if we accept a 170000 motorists got it wrong yes yes that's what I'm going to drive down the country all day long so say on time in Time Out Yeah absolutely and and I got to use the car for like. The inside line and it was picked by sleep just here's the truth of the 4 lines that I had these days about trust but to me they're just a waste of time well done Simon thank you now if he's only taken up English publicly thank you thank you. Right Christian hell's own right stand morning Captain Danny Captain tiny I have a ranking I work for the IRA is recovery driver in the small motorways a dangerous Me and my colleagues have had so many close encounters where lanes have been closed off and cars come inches away from us more education is needed to get this motorway to work Chris thank you very much indeed Mark says Dunn is a point for you if every driver on the road drove in accordance with the Highway Code and follow every rule to the letter that in theory there would never be any accidents that's not true one gun is not true Think about it so you would lower your speed in the snow and the ice he wouldn't go careening off and hit in a tree every driver so they observe the Highway Code make sure that they look left and right before pulling out a junctions they would keep a safe distance between the car if well maybe you're right so one morning I'm going to talk to you about why have I have become a selfish motorist while I have become a self cath Yes Downing I am turning into a selfish driver are you I am yet to tell you why only on the motorway system right on coming into burning and because if you leave enough space for safe braking on the motorway someone will come in between you and then you've got to you've got to drive really selfishly. Have you noticed safely but selfishly Yes I'm becoming a very selfish driver does that mean you're not safe though potentially that's not good Danny potentially I don't know maybe we'll do that one day whether you have to be selfish nowadays behind the wheel if you have to ask if you're driving small. I'd say dumb. Right thank you for that. That's a great question actually yeah small Don't drive through the red cross lanes on the West expressway all the time and you know if they are prosecuted John the cabbie got no pony they got a warning letter OK. No You know me I'd like to treat you something very special going on this Friday results. Arena why I'm singing I don't know. Well that was short but sweet Yes all day I got no I've got this the wrong way round. This is better. It's good to have you back. Yeah and even all the holiday good. Yes On this day B.T.W. I've given you the opportunity to take the family to see the big Christmas show you see the Christian let me know I haven't seen it yet no no I've not seen the film you see the film I've know it I don't know I don't like the actor who will somebody has no Will Ferrell. Is a bit wild. Because he's feral just don't like don't think it's FUNNY OK Yes all day today B.T.W. I've given you the opportunity to take the family to see the big Christmas show elf a Christmas spectacular results will to read it stores David Essex. East over this and Martine McCutcheon. We have 4 tickets for this for you have a no no date we have 4 tickets for this by the way we have 4 to. Get on on rainy Why couldn't you read that you want to OK we have 4 tickets for this Friday show at 7 o'clock in the evening and all you need to do is put all they got to do is call us. Oh wait oh wait. Double know it 56 you came up with this birdbrain idea that we are now for the next hour going to open the lines random I mean we've got calls coming in on all the talking points but no no for the next 60 minutes we'll pick one color at random the tickets are yours if your funds are the tickets call the studio Oh wait so it won't go below double 956 tickets only you've got to get yourself there without pay for a new birth and you've got to pay for parking All right we're not paying for your parking apparently but for a chance to get into this Friday show at Resorts World coolest. Just blocked with people that's the end of the debate on all of the 4 talking point 0808 just people scavenge is one in free stuff oh it's double Oh double No 56. For the West Midlands. 95.6 you came up with this system Stephen beach. As a break down than a north on the M 42 at the moment 384 so the M 40 was the surely time for the A 30 for the inside lane of the 4 closed as recovery work takes place sometimes 6 much improved 7 through 6 a great part answer was spaghetti and that follows an accident right about an hour or so ago allays have reopened the traffic back to normal problems now on the trains West Midlands railway service is delayed by 10 to 15 minutes between time respond quite and war soldiery to signal problems were taken before you travel and it will number. 33550. Stories. B.B.C. . 90. I want to. Thank you for the once movement. Blue heart. Good morning the founder of a homeless charity says it's a disgrace that a McDonald's restaurant in Birmingham is charging homeless people 75 pence for hot water for Puerto noodles and polish ports he's handing out can it allow We contacted B.B.C. About the policy at the King's Parade branch in Dail and McDonald's has apologized and says it's a decision made by the managers at their restaurant and that there is no fixed points in structure the online fashion retailer a source has issued a profit warning saying there's been a significant deterioration in trading in the one up to Christmas shares fell significantly as a result truism a will strongly reject calls for another breaks it referendum when she addresses M.P.'s later today should warn this a fresh vote will divide the country even more and undermined trust in democracy and a former director day just to you says M.P.'s were misled about how much it would cost to purchase land long the high speed rail projects proposed route Doug Thornton told B.B.C. Panorama the figure was hundreds of millions of pounds to load the estimated cost of the 1st phase between London and Birmingham is about 27000000000 pounds H.S.T. Rejects the claims the other bright and dry today but county of the softer new high of 8 degrees Celsius 46 Fahrenheit cloudy tonight with a chance of some patchy drizzle 6 degrees Celsius 43 Fahrenheit that's the news and sport for the West Midlands It's 1030 though the new young lady I now know why you have a husky voice because of the staff. Did you sing karaoke I did did you what song did you say do you not remember lowered all blurred into war it just turned into a shouting match it really did it was Madonna's Like a Prayer not like a virgin. I don't contact B.B.C. WM call for an hour until a one W. O'Donnell in 56 or takes a one trip or 3 starting your message WS. It's a standard message right see all pretty soon a taste of B.B.C. Don't forget you can see the increasing. Talk Yes you can talk to me the name of this bird brain idea that for a 60 Minutes people could just I mean it's just put the phone down hello can help us over the tickets Well you know what I meant with upper brain you're the only presenter on the station that can have the full switchboard like this. Yeah but I'm not going to mention it again while the they know the lines are open for another what was a snow another full swish But if you're going to think I mean what people supposed to call in talk about Meghan Markle or about small motorways or about I mean the full it's just full lines of scavengers but they're not going down there are little I want to win the competition to kids yes but I mean it could have been a little thing that if you really are the Christmas figuring it should've been handled in a different way here's Adam and he wants free tickets. OK Well let's get some calls on the wireless card let's talk while we talk about we are talking about Meghan Markle young Prince Harry whether he wears the trousers not relationship and do people change once they get married who's noticed that someone's change when I got that ring on my finger Have they become a different person what's that song Kath about to ring on the thing beyoncé. Put the ring around the finger on that how does it go down in your fingers. Now down the block I'd like you to pick up the photos with all those talking points but you won't get through because everybody still. Under going to face you can be to tell me. We have incoming calls. Because of a bunch of calls you yeah well done yet we've got it sorted now download only the cold I know you've got you know when you look totally bubble out so you look like one of those burglars heathy on that program on B.B.C. One in the wake crying what. Are you going to say one of the overload bug was no well yeah another is that there is more of a hope. On Friday I was saying that the studio's too cold be a condition it's like a walk in fridge but you like a. Cold though not all the time I like it toasty. Mind. I'll come and warm you up. But as a. Meeting with a well placed well let's go to John just. A little yak about a passport both ways of the smarts or they don't or indeed if there are most ways to make the drivers dumbos if they use the. The only thing smart about them is the fact that they're a cash cow so in that sense they are smart if you earn any money out of the. Problem not they're playing in the backside Now imagine you are doing a run from say Busy other Busy now London Scotland or whatever Mike and you come across in small limited speeds is the answer for you 60 mile an hour you're already tired once you start go not that low speed and just you know he just told his own busy I'm a man you get tired you know you're frustrated you're even more frustrated you get more toilet a misdemeanor charge of the next you know. You know well you know how can I just tell people screaming at the radio saying you shouldn't be driving if you just. Know you shouldn't be but people do yes. You know they can. Possibly what it is not right is they have to take a break something if it's if they can get away with not taking a break they want. Well that they've got to they tuck a graph they have. To have to have got more choice now if they have a choice where they can stop this tech or you know or didn't have a taco it would not take a break it's peculiar You can drive an H.G.V. By law you need to take breaks and demonstrate in print that you take but if you drive like a highside the panel van for a living you're still going to be just as tired as the drive if you drive from town to South but you don't have to take a break of course you're the difference is if you've got a high side economy and 9 times out and you've got a humble the Stop the back and hand wallet on and what not with his you really you know. Truck right now it's on that and it's also just you know not in most of those busy different. Tony. Just. Good luck thanks have a great Christmas for those speech before thank you have a great one thanks just thank you sir thank Spence inhales Oh and he wants to thank you for your patience by the way but I know you called up 1st thing this morning you want to talk about the McDonald's in Thailand Birmingham charging rough sleepers 75 pence for a cup of hot water they say that they can rehydrate and have a tasty pot noodle that they've been given by charities promoted but not in the popular guy. Thank you Maria. It's a sad story all around now have 320000 people homeless you know during the sort of decade 2000 to 2010 homelessness was almost eradicated and there is a now I mull over sponsibility I think all of us to pick up the pieces to support those who are struggling because of what is now a fighting government. That is tragic with McDonald's It's a difficult one it's totally controlled by Coke responsibility ready right now McDonald's due to a loss of charge they have the wrong women don't have charity. Done and yes I am familiar with the help you know it's the yes. About housing close to one hospital grounds for families whose children are but it's. Not necessarily just the evil corporations and of course as I think somebody said earlier in the show this one is a franchise outlet as well now franchise owners sorry franchisees are really they're just small business owners so that job to bail out. The rest of us now isn't I think the problem is one of them I have a model of this that it might not be as simple as just turning on a kettle. You know that water comes from machines. Health and safety of the little man I think they would have they would have a powerful a hot water because if you want to hot chocolate or coffee or tea then they're going to need it to handle me. Of course access to health water but. Can they put. Under it I don't know know what they what the problem was Ben is that they would put a pot noodle under it the only way of of rehydrate the pot noodle would be for them to provide the hot water in a McDonald's styrofoam cup for that they wanted some to fight which I think I think it's a shame that we get that I don't. Believe in bad faith but to me didn't feel I should be demonizing. The McDonald's outlet the decided to charge for hot water you know wouldn't it be nice to think that maybe the staff could just take a kettle in the back and that the franchise owner might let them do that you know I think that there are solutions that if people can we. Can make a difference and last that shouldn't be the case suddenly. The sponsor of the. Outlet to solve this problem it's a bigger problem than that nice to talk you have a great crimbo but if I don't talk to you thank you Mike good luck thanks value your input you know of the Thanks James in Birmingham James not much to the well I actually have sympathy for the franchisee don't you James good morning. I mean the world if it's been switched on her blog he was on them are you know what he was and it was as good an homage I can understand why give them food reviews are my Given I'm trying noodles haven't made up of Asians from spare to warm up you know surely it would be better if we had like contacted side of McDonald's and said to you Mark How can US. So in the mind help us oh my Because of ranged for them to heat them up a local police station which in the other you know it might it was bad timing yet maybe I think maybe the the organizers of this is 100 at the wrong food restaurant main army was to someone who's homeless dry food I need water heater provisions battered woman Hope you should what I should have read them I think is arrange for certain a list will lead them to the top and say there's some theory which applies to Larry it's a joke I mean it is a franchise a lot like I said. Another fine charges on the McDonalds are expensive and you did Mike with money out of them but it's still a business and if you look at it from a malicious point a fish a harmless person coming in and his stuff serving them and then someone comes in and then after all that isn't going to go then he's lost as that's a great point. Yeah you cannot if I will say you can a 5 or 6 rough sleepers that in the counter if you like all addressed after a couple hot water and then all of a sudden someone says forget this let's go around the killing this is too busy. It was at night time they're not going to list the stand anyway as I always are there's less stuff not want in the daytime so I just don't think it's you know I don't think people should be doing demonizing these guys are franchise or McDonald's are not the last time the seasonal people point to things the Messiah type on this type of May question I think the guy who was actually right in the food. Chain just a final point Malcolm I think it was around about an hour or so ago said that it would be actually there is a Terence because he wouldn't just to paraphrase he wouldn't won't rough sleepers will can through his restaurants and people would say complainers and how do you feel about that. Arks you know that's a model I mean it's a balance which I can understand in some ways because some people will not want to gun it somewhere where there's no sleep because people perception of them being you know seeing some things in by the servants and yeah you got that point but I think the guys probably were actually costs more than anything else I think is probably taken in September starts wages their water the division of. The markets elected not sure just a final point James if he does it for one he's going to do for thousands Yeah and then he's going to believe that financially is right I mean how many thousands would want a cup of hot water I don't know but it's the principle I suppose in business is that sometimes judge you have a great Christmas loud Thank you. And. When it's easy mistake. To take a ninety's. And catch a break these guys trajectory. To get it done is going to be a melting pot costs to disrupt innovators and shaking up the world around us sounds music radio. Download the free app now to listen without limits. On wonderful Christmas from your friends. 6. After 11 o'clock want to talk about dating Yeah absolutely a good they get lympics women are Sharon Davies She's 56 wiped 11 years of a rage on Tinder trying to push their luck because she thinks she'll have more luck with the younger and she's going on online to do this and many how to chat about this earlier wanted me how on romantic It seems very clinical I go online on an app to look for love you're so right so after 11 o'clock. We want to talk about your nightmare your success stories of finding love online but also also because I'm so conscious that so many of you listening to me now have never got involved with online dating the most unusual ways that you met your love OK the most unusual ways you met saying that it might not have worked out so the most unusual ways you found romance Yeah let's send it like that the most bizarre stories please I mean if you're a regular listener to the show you'll know that the reason that I'm married to Danielle is that it's. Grandmother Danielle's mum used to listen to my show and they asked me one day to to go to you know know that it must be to go to New York I was going to. I was going to go I was on my way to your ex-girlfriend Carrie and I was talking about it on the show running to the afternoon show and at 4 o'clock I was just about to legate to get the 3 minutes past 4 train so I could spend a couple of weeks off and go to New York and there's a phone call in those Aussie Riaz who used to answer the phone at the time says Don This one was told to your brothers in New York and he wants to show you around the diamond dealers or so and I didn't know who the hell this one was and so I thought OK I'm going to be trained but nevertheless the woman made an effort to think and think of me and try and do something favorable for me so I rather than. I actually spoke to a Mystery Train and this is a woman called Michelle from Dollar and she went on to say that her brother Ivan who is known as Gary left the Midlands about 40 odd years ago married to New York and worked at Tiffany's the diamond deal is. Cold and I've been on he's looking for to show you around and at that point I thought Who the hell are you trying to plan my holiday but I didn't say that so and sure enough Carrie and I walking around Manhattan bulls and I said oh yeah. That's right Tiffany's and so we walked in and quite for she was asleep Ivan was actually working not day and he showed us around the diamonds not only expensive you know multi-million pound bracelets and necklaces and you name it he then I thought this often I think open to the public champagne as well oh yeah that's right they they open champagne for people who buy and gauge rings and Kerry and I had a lot about the champagne it was great fun so soon as we got back from New York the 1st thing I do is ask you to get me the number of the woman who called to thank her and of course Gary had told by then come around and then she goes down and my mom is a big funny used Is it possible that we can meet you my God Was this guy. And it turns out we actually I went round to Potts for breakfast that's right used to drive and I went around and she's a wonderful woman and then parts and this old woman if you like an older woman became friends and then one day I was introduced to her granddaughter. And look at that for the irony listen to the next song called meant to be. Totally unplanned by the way in the system. Where the. Sound. As you. Make it. In business is. The biggest magic. Solution. To. The most glaring. Of so. Bold don't you know you. Can see the city business is. Think about the old romantic. Of the day. You're finding romance and love and maybe other things as. Left if you like you swipe right if you don't like. What's left. To declare the arrest on the visa application being arrested. Which I do not see it is. OK have a little think please let's look for the let's look for the best story about how people found romance before the Internet have a little think. Double 956 now then counting down the days this week ready for a well a few days off over Christmas I think I'm a further weaken a bit spare a thought though for the stuff that burning in Children's Hospital they of course will be working every day to care for the children all this week with behind the scenes at the hospital as they get ready for crimbo and we can join Ritchie. At the hospital. Good morning and welcome here to the Reno units here at the Children's Hospital if you cast your mind back to 2008 you may remember a kidney kids appeal and it kind of feels like an age ago now. To refresh anybody's memory the idea was to raise 1500000 pounds to help finance this fantastic and even now 10 years on it's still so well lit up everybody happy on the wars the stuff fabulous and as you walk through that it will hold in everything away to move the pictures of. The war. I didn't quite make it but that's fine I'm not bitter. Is it when. In the hospital you see all the staff and it's their job obviously to make the children upbeat or to make them better she will see a lot of people maybe carry medicines or pushing trolleys around but we have a gentleman today in a black shirt with lots of multicolored stars on it with a bag full of balloons and what looks like a box that could contain an animal so I want to each member of staff this is it's magic Ross everybody high magic rather high doing Ritchie OK really good thank you so just tell me a bit about yourself when I come on to the ward every couple of months and I do magic tricks for older kids blue models for them and what do you do that because a lot of people think in a hospital a magician goes around you know what it just puts a real big smile on the kids' faces we have such a range of ages of children and all abilities really so some people want to see a trick some kids are still in their balloon model so a whole range of tricks and balloons for all of them really how long have you been a magician for a magician for 17 years now you know my mom does still think I'm actually a magician Yeah so tomorrow I go to get away that I don't know how I What was it that inspired you to want to be a magician I went to Las Vegas in 2000 and got bitten by a magic bug really heavily into David Blaine and time went to Vegas now selling all these type of tricks and effects and when I came back to you K. I was a salesman on the road and I was doing tricks through my customers and in the end I mean I remember doing more for my tricks and I did for what I was selling really about in a minute we've also got Jane Katra with us who is the manager of the Reno unit and I'm porn is it that you have people out Russ come around to entertain the children it's absolutely fantastic because the children get to see the same people day in day out because they. Want to so they come to the hospital lots and lots of times a week so for them to see somebody else and to look at the face of something different is absolutely fantastic for them why I love when I walk in here because if you know we've been to this hospital before I think when you think of hospitals you kind of think maybe not great places quite dark places all the kids behind you know our beds behind curtains but you walk in here and the 1st thing you say Jane is neon lights for a comma disco How important is it that it's so well lit in air it's fantastic because we have lots of children with lots of different abilities so the lights of . Good for the children that got special needs that you might place inviting them bright but all of what you see here today is because of the radio to be I'm giving kids a pay or so the price only looks like it does because of what you did for us so we are going to be eternally grateful to you for the magic that was 10 years ago I mean on the ward I mean you've got a lot of children on dialysis which I imagine could be quite tough but again when you walk around the ward I think this is pretty credit to your staff everybody just seems so. Absolutely I think they are you know you can all do to make a positive out of something negative and we try to be positive with them and they're not positivity just breeds I'm with them really so it's fantastic so we're never negative or positive about everything and your number one trick then to kind of entertain the masses the potato tomato trick that's the number one treat all asking for yeah show you later how does that work the potato tomato trick I love that well I can I can show you later if you know something is so much magic Ross here is currently about to go and send the children on the ward telling you in there for over 2 hours this morning Jenny you're working all over Christmas and I'm just of Christmas Day. Boxing Day and then I'm working the rest of the time so important that you make the kids feel Christmassy over Christmas Oh definitely you know we all extraordinary Christmas and we've got all sorts of things going on this . Week for activities for all of the children not even things going or may not be for people looking forward to it thank you so much and I'll be here at the Children's Hospital here on B.B.C. Good lad Richie well done per. Say hi to all the go down there thank you B B C W M travel T.V. The West Midlands movie Stephen beach morning. Good morning better news North. 384 the M 40 up there was surely for the I 34 inside lane of the 4 was closed for breakdown last night before they recovered and traffic returned back to normal so when I'm sick still busy 10 Freeway was all the answer was a link with the M 5 and there's a queue forming now westbound on the M 54 between the 2 Wolverhampton one and say Stafford rate and this is due to road works taking place Q half way back towards the M 6 at junction town I for the time being public transport wise no real issues on the trains or trams to make you aware of anything else you do say usual number here or B B C W M. 335. Stories music. B.B.C. 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In the West Midlands for 2 decades 6 people were killed on Belgrade middleway in Birmingham when a car crossed the centuries of ation at more than 100 mph it is a taxi driven by in tears Mohammed killing him and his 2 passengers Jenkins and Lisa Davis since then the brother in law Tony Wirth has been campaigning for a safety barrier to be installed on the road was a very difficult time for us all to have to cope with not open is the word really mean that we are Mr Coe the support of each other and close friends all I can do is keep working to try and get the improvements are saying our plan to put in place and having City Council says safety on its roads is paramount in average speed cameras were turned on a long Belgrave middleway last week the prime minister has to tell M.P.'s there's another breaks it referendum would do irreparable damage to the integrity of British politics some of her close allies have had to deny reports that they're planning for a new vote the government's describing new employment laws as the largest upgrade in workers rights in more than a generation the measures are aimed at protecting agency workers and people on 0 hours contracts but James Fowler from the independent workers' union who's a former driver says penalties need to be increased when the governors announces morning that they'll be quadrupling of penalties from 5000 pounds 220000 pounds that means nothing for a firm like until we see criminal sanctions very severe penalties I'm afraid we won't see the improvement in the labor market that we need to see if I'm a director he just he says M.P.'s are misled about how much it would cost to purchase land along the high speed rail projects proposed route Doug Thornton told B.B.C. Panorama the figure was hundreds of millions of pounds to load the estimated cost of the 1st phase between London and Birmingham is about $27000000000.00 pounds he just he rejects the claims and says it followed the correct process for keeping parliament updated about budget treaty changes and the weather bright and dry today but becoming cloudy of the soft and you know high of 8 degrees Celsius 46 Fahrenheit cloudy tonight with a chance of some patchy drizzle a low. 6 degrees Celsius 43 found hike that's in use for the West Midlands It's 3 minutes past 11. To the west. Point 6 Jenny Jenny. Will get you to McDonald's story that we're leading with the news just there 11 o'clock about a local market these who are charging roughly percentage 5 pounds for hot water that they can rehydrate a partner to have something hot and to use they'd.

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