good morning. iam good morning. i am out of the very front and to get this prized position you had to be here two days ago, at a 7am on saturday morning. it won t be long before this lot are inside. that is wherejohn and carol r. yes, good morning. the big news on day one of these wimbledon championships is the withdrawal of nick kyrgios. the beaten finalist last year and the amount s singles is out because of a wrist injury after what has been an injury ravaged season. and will it stay dry? well, actually, we are expecting some showers this afternoon at wimbledon. for most, rain in the north of scotland, rain in northern ireland putting eastwards. behind all of that, sunshine and showers. a day for taking the brolly. more later. good morning. it s monday, the 3rd ofjuly. it appears to have been a calmer night across france, after the family of a teenager shot dead by police said they did not want his death to spark riots. police made around 80 arrests overnight, down from mo
controversial end to the second ashes series. welcome back to verify life. a watchdog has found that uk drivers paid more for fuel at supermarkets last year because of a lack of competition between retailers. the competition and markets authority says drivers paid an average of an extra six pence a litre for fuel, with diesel 13 pence a litre more expensive. the government is now promising a change in the law to increase competition. simon williams, the rac s fuel spokesperson, gave us this reaction. yes, consumers have been overcharged for some considerable time. the rac has a programme called fuelwatch. we monitor the price of retailfuel but also, crucially, the price of wholesale fuel. and for the last three months, the price of diesel on the wholesale market has been lower than petrol. yet if you go to virtually any forecourt across the uk, you will see diesel being priced above petrol. now, that is simply not right, it s not fair. it doesn t reflect what s going on at al
so, what we re trying to do with this project is is recreating the high street from the 40s to the 60s. so burgin s newsagents was the real heart of the community. it was famous. it wasn t a place you just came to buy a newspaper, was it? absolutely not. it was the place for all the gossip. it also makes you feel quite. it s quite a sad feeling as well, isn t there, about what s happened? yeah, i suppose there s a melancholy there that, you know, the high street as it was doesn t exist in the same way it did. but, yeah, i think that s the beauty of recreating something like this. you ve got that nostalgia that s within living memory. people still remember these buildings very fondly. indeed. so much has gone. stanton s is now a betting shop brierley hill s marsh & baxter is a nail bar. the next door bank is standing empty. and burgin s, on wolverhampton street in dudley, closed for good seven years ago. but cynthia burgin,
of recreating something like this. you ve got that nostalgia that s within living memory. people still remember these buildings very fondly. indeed. so much has gone. stanton s is now a betting shop. brierley hill s marsh & baxter is a nail bar. the next door bank is standing empty. and burgin s, on wolverhampton street in dudley, closed for good seven years ago. but cynthia burgin, here in the middle, who ran it for 56 years, is rather pleased her little shop will live on in a museum. well, i started. i came here in 1959, aged 29. and you retired aged. 85. wolverhampton street was an extremely busy area, where the trolley bus used to come along from wolverhampton into dudley. and there was lots of shops.
a lot of empty shops these days, aren t there? a lot of empty shops, which is a shame. indeed. so much has gone. stanton s is now a betting shop, brierley hill s marsh & baxter is a nail bar. the next door bank is standing empty. and burgin s on wolverhampton street in dudley closed for good seven years ago. but cynthia burgin, here in the middle, who ran it for 56 years, is rather pleased her little shop will live on in a museum. congratulations on. thank you very much. your shop is a museum exhibit now. i know, i know. the shop the public will see in the museum is burgin s in 1959. there will even be a performer playing cynthia. but they won t be doing her seven day working week. well, i started. i came here in 1959, age 29.