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BBC Midlands
Registrace 22. 08. 2018
Video from the BBC West Midlands digital team and BBC Midlands Today
Tackling climate change
BBC Midlands Today's Environment Correspondent David Gregory-Kumar is attempting to reduce his carbon footprint during a special series this week on the programme.
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Scrum down for mental health
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A rugby player who made an incredible recovery from being paralysed, has now set up a team for men to talk about mental health. Zac France was playing for a Gloucestershire team when he was injured in 2015. Four years on, he now feels able to talk about how his injury affected his life - and is encouraging others to open up.
Jimmy the Mower
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Grass cutter Jimmy Broadhouse, who was last week invited to mow Wembley, appeared on BBC Midlands Today to talk about his social media celebrity status.
Reach for the skies
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A Shropshire estate agent is hoping to set a world record by flying a paramotor the length of the country. The current record stands at seven days but James Du Pavey is hoping to do it in three.
Lloyd's looking good
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A scrap dealer from Birmingham is hoping to leave metals behind him and become a fashion designer. People just love his eye catching clothes that turn heads in the city centre. Lloyd Robinson thinks nothing of stepping out in a sharp suit, self designed, perhaps paired with a bowler hat
Craft centre support
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A man who once started a fire in his school library - and another who regularly played truant, have found hope in the form of craft therapy. Crowsmill Craft Centre helps people who have fallen out of mainstream society. The Shropshire centre is helping people from the age of 12 right up to 73.
Keep on running
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Hayley Carruthers only started running in 2016 but soon rose through the ranks, representing England at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 2018
Japanese drumming
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Taiko is a form of traditional Japanese drumming. The Yamato Drummers are a world renowned troupe, keeping the tradition alive. And they've pitched up in Warwickshire
The Specials coming home
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Coventry band The Specials are still making music after 40 years. They've got a new album out, and will be playing concerts in the ruins of the city's old cathedral.
Snowdrops arrive early
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The mild weather has brought a carpet of snowdrops to Gloucestershire
The Sierra Leone Potters
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A group of footballers in Sierra Leone play under the name of Stoke City
A cup of tea at the animal cafe
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Staff and students at Halesowen College are hanging out with animals in their cafe
Tread the Globe couple share highlights
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A couple who quit their life to fulfil a dream of setting foot in every country in the world have arrived home for a Christmas pit-stop. Chris and Marianne Fisher from Telford, Shropshire, set out on the global journey in May. With their trusty camper van Trudy they have clocked up 25,000 miles, visited nine countries - and have drawn up their top five destinations so far. Thousands of people a...
Midge misery
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Researchers at the University of Birmingham say a midge, almost invisible to the naked eye and accidentally moved to an island in Antarctica, is having a huge impact on the environment there.
Satnam's cancer journey: Raising the profile
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Satnam's cancer journey: Raising the profile
Give cops bonus pay for every tailgating ticket.
In about 1995 my old group the Allstonians were playing a gig in Providence, Rhode island and Lynval just happen to be in town. He spotted the sign that said Ska Night and came in. I ended up chatting with him and asked if he'd like to come to Boston the next day to watch footy at my local pub and enjoy a proper fry up. To my surprise he showed up and after the match he came by my apartment and listened to my collection of classic ska and reggae.
He spots ONE Tailgater. On my screen it was completely full of them. About 7 vehicles travelling in the middle and outside lanes doing 60 to 70 plus mph and only a few yards/ metres apart., My god its no wander we have Tailgating accidents if the professionals paid to protect us ie. police and Highway Officers cant see the wood for the trees or anything passed their noses. Tailgating is driving too close to the vehicle in front. Its not a case of following closely and being able to SLOW AND STOP WHEN BRAKES ARE SHOWN BY THE CAR DRIVER IN FRONT AT ALL BUT SOME BELIEVE THAT IT IS. Its being so close that in the event of an emergency or completely stopping of the car and one has insufficient space to stop in and a collision occurs. At 70 mph that being too close could be considered to be anything less than the full stopping distance as recommended in the Highway Code. That being some 315 ft or 100 metres approx. Yes as far as that. Its not just between two vehicle either. In order to avoid a collision tailgating driver may swerve left or right and that may involve other drivers, sometimes over the line and head on with another vehicle. They can involve others in a a catalogue of collisions with deaths and serious injuries resulting. So Tailgaters are in fact the most dangerous drivers out there on our road today. They are a danger not just to themselves and to the vehicle being tailgated but as said to all other road users around them at the time. Read the Highway Code S.126 and just see and learn the distances one should be giving at speeds from 20 to 70 mph. Then drive to those safer distances. Then you would be one of the safest drivers on our roads today. We could dramatically reduce the numbers of collisions, deaths, injuries and cost to the NHS as a result The seriously injured, sick and really ill people can make better use of them and by that suffer less. We would all suffer less. SAFE SPACE SAVES LIVES.
Highways England is only responsible for motorways and some arterial roads in the UK so their stats are only a % of those annually taken on all of our roads. As an example all roads in towns cities, etc do not come under their umbrella and you can possibly imagine that with a plethora of motor vehicles on them just how much we have to imagine just what the true stats from tailgating collisions are.
It might be the influence of action films and TV games.
Would love to be a copper and ask them ‘why do you tailgate’?
0:42 Grace’s husband Leonard passed away because of Mr.Nino.
The tailgater is willfully creating an unsafe situation for the purpose of intimidating the driver in front to go faster. That should be cause for a severe penalty. That 100 fine is not enough.
hate to tell you but its Hinton Manor ;skull;
Did you go to Australia?
No deterrent…..Tailgater idiots get a way with it day in day out …no law and a useless police service
A Predator laptop. Fantastic.
90% of tailgating wouldn't happen if people MOVED OUT THE OVERTAKING LANE AFTER PASSING
I was a big tailgater myself it still would happen even at high speeds
Absolutely agree! Looks like the Middle Lane Owners Club membership is still very healthy 😡
The closer they get. The harder I brake check. For I caused a tailgaiter to swerve out of control and into the ditch in other lane. They're fine. They just reversed out and drove back onto the road. And keeping half a mile distance from me lmfao 🤣🤣
Someone I knew had installed a switch which when they flicked it on put the brake-lights and the offside indicator on. He said he loved to see the panic on the drivers face that had been tailgating him when he activated it😂
Don’t be a space invader!
My little boy has just been diagnosed and I am in the Midlands as well. Can someone put me in touch?!!
It should be a major crime to tailgate I’m Sick of getting tailgated
Back when Godiva was free
Fair play fam
Tailgating is out of control. I don’t get these idiots.
Specials, banda querida acá en Venezuela, saludos desde Venezuela.
Ahh yes a tailgating victim who drives a BMW….makes sense
great job. make it abundantly clear keep it 20 meters distance . or 50 meters at higher speeds than
Just had one this morning on a dual carriageway with lights at red on the roundabout coming up. I was doing 60 in the off side lane, he was about 3 feet off my rear bumper then he got even more impatient and swerved into the nearside lane to get ahead of me, but got held up in the queue. Gave me a dirty look as he passed , I just slowed and laughed at him as I passed him. Also had an illegal 'German style' plate on his crappy old VW. What a kn*b!!
Tail gaters and under takers should get instant bans. Even when approaching exits on the motorway undertaking at 60 and 70mph because you are turning left is wrong. The car you are under cutting might suddenly remember he is turning here too and change lane without looking. And with you undertaking there will be trouble. Overtake on the left only when traffic is moving slowly in lanes. Slowly being ten or fifteen mph or less. Best move you undertakers can make is. Learn how to drive...
Tailgating needs to be three strikes and you're banned, and actually enforced
Extreme tailgating needs to be treated as using a deadly weapon to intimidate someone. The equivalent of pointing a cocked and loaded gun in someone's face. There may be no intention to hurt or kill, but extreme tailgating at high speeds can realistically result in death if the slightest thing goes wrong. The act should result in an immediate licence suspension at minimum.
@@MuertoPorDentro512 agree wholeheartedly!
Jeff Wayne is a legend well done Jeff well done everyone stay strong stay safe takecare 2022 becareful out there dont let guards down sending luck love from headway Nottingham UK xxx
If you don't realize the danger of tailgating, you shouldn't have a driver's license. My god that's scary
Yet many drivers do it regardless and don’t give it a second thought. Particularly if they’re driving a larger vehicle, like a van or a Land Rover or something. When that happens, the chances are they want you out their way. It’s bullying. It’s snobbish, arrogant and dangerous. Tailgating a larger vehicle, like a lorry, to get better fuel economy is one thing (as petrol is getting more expensive I am seeing an increasing number of drivers doing it), but tailgating a smaller car when you’re driving a giant Range Rover is just brutal. Drivers guilty of this practice are basically conveying the message that they’re driving a bulldozer and right in their 12 o’clock position is an 8 x 12 foot garden shed. They can obliterate it and its contents.
The route was partially axed during the pandemic but its been reinstated
That Predator laptop though
I was driving on a motorway in torrential rain. Inside lane, driving about 45 to 50. As fast as it was safe to go in those conditions. Behind me...two feet behind me was a police van. I eventually put on my hazzards before he got the message and backed off. Police have no room to talk about bad driving.
Yeah cops are utter knobheads
Many staff are allowed to drive police vehicles. No special training.
The closer they get the slower I go, that way it gives a slightly better stopping distance at least. And perhaps even makes them overtake and bugger off.
That's exactly what I do,and it pisses them off🤣
I signal with my left indicator that they can overtake but it seems like UK drivers are not familiar with this at all. In my home country as soon as I indicate, the tailgater starts overtaking me.
I do that. No response, use screen wash. They have to wipe. Give them another spray. Oblivious. Couple of flashes of hazard lights. Then slower and slower.
The Highway Code does actually say to increase the gap between you and the car in front. However, in case I have to suddenly brake anyway, I slow to an idiotic speed. Especially if they get even closer. Got to 15 mph the other day :) after he kept trying to intimidate me into speeding up. He got so close I couldn't see his lights at all, that's when I carefully slowed to 15 mph. He finally buggered off.
@@cancelled_user Do you have a UK licence?
Hi eats happened to Duncan
Tailgaters are lowlife scum.
Am we just take a moment to appreciate that laptop! Jesus. Do they really need that for office work?
What I was thinking lmfao probably plays warzone on the sly at work
I think I'm going to kill myself. That's all
My pet hate, don’t see the point completely useless thing to do.
Bless up Godfather
Big up yourself Lloyd. Well done. God bless you.
Maybe short in height but definitely not in stature
Wondering which brand of whisky thats she had ???
Seen it live 4 times. Excellent !!
man i feel for him, but what they said is true.
You're a clown
This Is a #scammer
#fakenews
I don't think so...
Make him do a dna test
I just love this story.
What a bloke he is 😉
Why does some motorway analysts have a gaming laptop
Trying to simulate tailgating in Need for Speed?
My potters My passion My life
i used to watch the news and think...how can an organisation i,e Sandwell childrens services fail every inspection for a decade or so running ?, how can thousands of children already known to childrens services die every year? . Well a massive thanks to sandwell childrens services, I can say that after having first hand dealings with this absolute circus of an organisation...i can completely understand why. And when some of the so called "professionals" within this circus are caught out with facts and evidence to prove their incompetence, the exact evidence which they deliberately ignored and lie in their reports about. A formal complaint is only brushed under the carpet with a "sorry" we will learn from this and do better next time, thanks for telling us that we are absolutely useless but we cant do anything to fix it now. Regards from the senior managers who protect the circus act.
I went to this school and am now in y8 and believe me I am happy I have left this school is sooo broke I get more money then they do in a year🤑😂 Do not go to this shit school teachers took me out of lessons for nothing and half of my education was wasted there cuz of how many times I was taken out of lesson DO NOT GO THERE YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!!!!