Thompson told Luella it's an extremely poignant day like today will be hearing the sound of bells ringing and that was a very still a very significant way of people finding out that the long for news that actually taken place on the Birmingham service is a Thanksgiving bells rung in fact the service here at Birmingham the drill was so needed was so much in demand that it took place 3 times a day and shortly after this bulletin will be crossing live to our reporter the National Memorial operates and in Staffordshire Police have released an image of a suspect after a man was stabbed 3 times on a Birmingham boasts the 34 year old victim was on his way home from work on the X. 8 bus on Hadley road an edge to stand outside Morrison's when the attack happened on Thursday he wasn't seriously injured officers say they want to speak to 38 year old Gerald deacon in connection with the attack and to asking anyone he seen him not to approach him but to call 919 the number of people known to have died in wildfires in California has risen to 25 they also are cities in the town of Paradise which has been almost completely destroyed found 14 more bodies in the rubble of a nice flames have full surround a quarter of a 1000000 people to leave their homes Dan Haley Burson He's from the American Red Cross says exceptionally dry conditions have helped the fires to spread the area that that fire here had not received rainfall in 207 days. When you drive through California a city where there are trees there's a lot of shrubbery inside because of ice and you're a gauge of what would have been a desert Omarion getting full of light trees and agriculture Police are appealing for witnesses after a pregnant shop worker was pushed to the ground by armed robbers in miles to green at least 2 were said to have been carrying guns during the robbery which happened at the Express around quarter past 5 yesterday evening they fled with cash and cigarettes the pregnant woman was left shaken but an injured and the research shows the high streets across the West Midlands losing a record number of shops P.W. C. Tracked resale is across the region for 6 months and found that while $134.00 stores opened $223.00 closed Birmingham saw a net loss of 6 dogs with $38.00 blanks and $36.00 clashes. B.B.C. W.A.M. Noise you point 162 or 3 girls will aim to hold their losing ground as they visit also in the Premier League later even though they've suffered 3 consecutive defeats the head says his team played well against Brighton and Tottenham today's match will be live on B.B.C. With starting full West Bromwich Albion A Back in the playoff positions in the Championship after beating Leeds for one hour Robson Kanu Matt Phillips Harvey bones and Gail schooled at The Hawthorns Aston Villa one against 3 nil at doll beach on the game Tommy Abraham and Conor Hoare hand are on target for Villa Shay Adams scored a hat trick the Birmingham City as the 83 will withhold since hundreds also have reached the 2nd round of the F.A. Cup have to be seen Coventry 3 to Solihull mauls go to hitch in town for their tie this afternoon kick offs at 1245 and in boxing Tony value was knocked out of the undisputed cruiserweight champion Alexander you sick in the 8th round of their face at the Manchester Arena value his now retired from boxing says 6 the best fighter he. As a safety what's the weather mostly cloudy for a time this morning with showers or longer spells of rain later this morning and into the afternoon it will brighten up with spells of sunshine but also a few showers around the hive 12 Celsius 54 Fahrenheit a mainly dry this evening and through until midnight with long clear spells but also the chance of the odd challenge clear spells continue in it the morning but a greater risk of getting a few showers Los tonight of 6 Celsius 43 Fahrenheit that's your nice and sport for the West Midlands It's 4 minutes past 8 so it's really time Livia it is thank you very much for catch up with you 830 so. We see you at 95.6. In the 2nd half of the program again live to the national average in or was is of course is the U.K. Center of remembrance where in just a few hours a special service will be taking place and one man's quest to bring back to life the history of established street in which 54 young men enlisted and left for the western front this is really a story of putting to life real people with real stories to tell also yet to bravery which and Wolverhampton sold to the highest accolade of Victoria Cross you'll be hearing his story and my favorite singing their hearts out the military wives choir who are who are making their own mark of remembrance that Sunday breakfast with me tonight a Bally. Pluck to. Will get. A. Bill. To. Eva Cassidy time off to time it's not 9 minutes past 8 and this is Sunday breakfast now in around 3 hours time the country will fall silent tomorrow stay on this year is extra special as it marks the 100 year anniversary of the end of the 1st World War It's thought to hundreds thousands of. U.K. Soldiers died in the conflict which began in 1914 and ended in 1918 millions more do their bit for the country on the battlefields where the rest of the population were to boost the war effort our reporter Rope Trick is at the National Memorial operation in our office in Staffordshire where is service is taking place this morning good morning Rob good morning or Well good morning everybody is that rain I can hear no is on some pebbles it looks draw at the moment so fingers crossed it does stay dry excuse me for Scent of a horse I'm full of cold and I've got a sore throat but I was on the way here driving I was thinking what these men did for their country and I thought well I think having a bit of a sore throat and coming here for the morning you know signs all rather insignificant B.S. Yes well you were saying earlier on in the newspaper review that we thing everything else is on hold today you know if it really feels like yeah this this event here of bins a few of these before and this one feels huge the actual arboretum of organized a parking right and I've never seen them do that before here in some soldiers Well I think they're actually from the Navy and from the uniforms and they have been arriving here this morning already I've spoken to some of the volunteers that said they've been here since 630 just preparing the chairs he said they want been dying because of the rain and then it rained again so they had to report the chairs . But yeah I think it's going to be a big event I have said Just talk me through it what's happening Yes Well I think events have taken place already a huge you alluded to earlier about the times and learn Piper's. And. So offense kind of start around 6 o'clock this morning at that marks the 100 year anniversary to the minute of the armistice been signed which signaled the end of the 1st World War and then 5 hours after that the guns fall silent on the western farm which is why we nag we never remember. Them for the 2 minutes on it's from 11 o'clock but here events go under way around $1030.00 at the operate some of asked us not to say too much about what's taken place here until the hour beforehand but I'm sure they remind us just talking through a few of the events that I think you'd expect would take place is say there's a musical welcome from 1030 and then at 1050 regatta that you can the Duchess of Costa arriving here then just before the 2 minute silence we've got the last post and then after that we've got the hymns Abide With Me is the 1st him after the 2 minute silence and then I think probably the most poignant part of being here is seeing the wreaths being late because just just when the music played when the music's played and you just see just so many people coming up laying a wreath for so many different organizations and 7 delegates knowing this that's what we were saying really really it's just you know it covers a whole spectrum of people just the whole you know the people that were involved in this war and the certainly the arbor recently the the national agreed to it it holds all the spaces doesn't it it's all about different areas I mean we've got people who were shot for cowardice we've got people who are you know different parts of the world we've got we've got we've got morals haven't we to that that this is the South continent and it goes on doesn't it and yet I think it's when you walk through the visitor's sense here and you see the main monument on the mound and it just gets you every single time and it's very powerful here and I think that there will be thousands and thousands of people here there are signs on the way telling people that unless they are unless they've been kind of asked to come not to use the main car parks and like I say we know we're hours away from that event and people here already think is going to be huge Yeah well we'll catch up with you in about an hour's time just before just for 9 o'clock OK Rob You keep warm I will thank you Rabbi. Now as you heard earlier I was Philip's cathedral 6 am this morning where a lone pipe starts stay small gathering to listen to Piper Robyn Gardner from the West Midlands Python and I had a bit of a chat some of the people who stopped this well there's been a few people here at some Philips cathedral gathered to hear the piper and amongst them is Tracy and Jennifer LLOYD Now you thought she came in last night I believe in stayed here overnight Yes that's correct why is it so important to you. Are fair that. The day they year 100 Jersey is a special events and if it's going to a once in a large soaring chance of ever saying this. And hearing the pipe Pakistani it's very moving was nice extremely moving it's. Just It's strange because the hearts party you know lost a father last year and I had a large part of this year and I think it is it's. Just my thing is draw it stirs the soul doesn't it Jennifer what about you kind of the same we had a long Piper at my father's funeral 20 years ago my brother used to play the pipes and it's just. Really moving and I couldn't wait to come and see the lone piper here and I knew it would stir some of these feelings up again you're not from these parts but you know America it's something that is just a significant isn't in and if anything something like today brings all the nations together do you agree yes yes and both of our parents our fathers were in the service not more war one but. It just makes it that much more sweeter to. That they were veterans one. Thank you very much you 2 get that you get back home. Thank you. That was Tracy and evaluate who were his cathedral at 6 o'clock this morning to hear Piper at the start of the Misses day. Travel for the West Midlands on B.B.C. 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It was when I was in this radio not even and I would have you know all Cortlandt it would not start with your cool one of it's mainly not Victorian houses and the streets are not that different so that would have been back in not you know 40 nights being sort of the history of my haves and there was no one here that I thought of that was mine that certain it was was decorated often. There was a young chap 19 year old lived just over the road and he thought of me just 6 days before the armistice and that sort of pique my interest really. And I realize that you didn't need to know names you could do a search just based on streets and towns and they're all court of public lecture maybe 20 Street and of them probably. Find the names of all the people lived in the streets and it seemed like a fairly easy task at 1st but to be like herding cats to get away from it I'm going to think did you find out well I mean when I 1st started off thought that I just get literally name rank and serial number in the rift you entries where that is literally all you get just 3 lines but all their entries a lot really really details you know where the people were even then things like the bodies name. Where they went to school and that was quite touching later because you know these people's lives on men's lives were not that dissimilar to our own you know they went to the same school that children are going to doing jobs in places that were very few and there's a very familiar to us even there so it was it was it really did bring the people to life and it felt once I got all that information that would almost be disrespectful in a way not to do something with it just to put it in a drool so put it on a website which point you were doing. And I thought it would be quite nice to sort of a bit more public relations I know we've got her in Manchester they were so put. Plex on to street names and things where people died. And that accounts about it which Misty seal the border artist does and sometimes I sit with the posters and he ran with it and he felt you know that we could put a poster into each of the houses where the house was still standing where the man leaves and that's what we endeavor to do so it's actually 61 names on the website now with the last little bit of publicity that the project had bloke with knowledge is complete which is worth I was sitting in front of a computer really are people are sort of getting into it saying that there was a chap with the name Bill Street he's on the census he's not on this you know on that but they know that they live there so I'm updating the website as we go and even yesterday Steve made to pull 3 posts out the back for the granddaughter of a man that died and his 3 and his 2 brothers but it's just around the course that was that was quite touching actually to meet a very definite family connection and I think to what brings it home is that this wasn't just about the men it gives indications The whole lives of these families Yeah yeah they were leaving wives children mothers fathers. And you know it was it wasn't as though they were sort of professional soldiers there were a handful 2 maybe 3 people who were professional soldiers who'd brought in the army before the war these were just men who were leaving their jobs as you know printers and and butchers leaving prospering businesses to go off to war and coming back in a country that's not I mean 99 can you. Come to rest on that one can you. Just a child it is it's there it's it's it's great to hear I love to hear about things like this because I think it's just wonderful that we keeping this going and long may it last and you know the lovely thought that people have the same idea because you know it's it's be great wouldn't it in a 100 years time when people are still remembering it never forgetting these men. Right and it's not that difficult just to still be talking to men and the war records are a bit sketchy for World War One a lot were destroyed Unfortunately during the last war so every time it is a handle on it you find that a bit more structure is actually just checking up the street where you lived in a mile such fantastic street name in reporter night because they've done it in old age for a puppy popular drawing Yeah. Thank you for telling us about this and well done you thanks as has Eva very hard on this project Thank you thanks for joining us that made up thank you by now we were saying ironic all of this week when we've been looking at the impact of the 1st World War on the West Midlands Let's hear now the story of one handsome soldier who was given the Victoria Cross for an act of bravery in the last few weeks of the war and I just remind you in total 628 come with soldiers were given the V.C. Between 19141918 report Iraq tricks being looking at the life of Roland L. KOCH When I'm squinting what Anon the secretary of the war front and civic and Historical Society when he was born in writing 99 and he's listed as living at 52 hour must remove Hunton and he's got 5 Baba brothers and sisters on easy on this one so we know he joined the Army when he was 15 Yeah so we reckon he joined the Army in 1014 on our gaffer when he was 15 years of age and he joined the SAS staffs regiment but what's interesting is when the army realised he was on the right age I sent him home. Mad King to be a soldier because when he was eating with the North 117 he joined up again he didn't choose the staffs to join in joined a Scottish regiment so he could have joined the world's Scots because he didn't want them finding that that he'd already been kicked out of the Cyprus now possibly that he was still possibly on the canal or the I age limits cusp of that and he was deliberately shocking to look for it easier why into the army what was it for the movies he was given his V.C. For gallantry was an embrace of the what he did he actually captured a German machine gun position by that stage will there no trenches the Germans are retreating and bison where they can put up a machine gun to hold up the. Suboxone he was he spotted that there was one holding him all the violence and then his own initiative we saw today captured several German soldiers as well the following day he did something also capturing German soldiers and a little my dear. You can see. This is where the action took place around only a coup Troy was the reason why the battle. And use of new soldier call back to Corporal So that's a positive thing. And the granddaughter of that would. But I don't Don haven't met him like I said but for all intents and purposes what must he was fun loving he was a daredevil he was fraid of nothing and obviously his actions in the 1st world will prove that and ever so much paperwork a little bit and some lovely pictures as well what was the picture of him in there . In the future king apparently this was the inspection of service when his royal highness shaking hands with Sergeant obviously was a sergeant at that stage the future came and asked to meet. It wasn't just there because oh yes you can speak be introduced he requested that he personally meet. So you can shake his hand that's a legacy isn't it just how do you keep your granddad's legacy a lawyer when I'm at the point