Inside Out West Midlands
A closer look at stories from around the West Midlands
Inside Out West Midlands - 01/02/2010
Mary Rhodes and Giles Latcham investigate what the Kraft takeover will really do to Cadbury's. Plus Pete Waterman argues that modern apprenticeships are a waste of time and money.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 01/03/2010
Mary Rhodes investigates the mystery surrounding the death of a Midlands teenager. Plus we meet the men planning a daring attempt to fly around the world.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 01/10/2008
Surprising real-life stories from familiar places. Hazel Westwood reports on the battle against sudden death syndrome. Adil Ray heads to Shropshire to become a young farmer.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 01/11/2010
An investigation into the council millions wasted on incinerators. An equality guru puts political correctness to the test, and following the speedway legends making a comeback.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 02/11/2009
Mary Rhodes asks if city centre living is threatening live music. Plus, can medical research save the life of a Midlands woman? And is the Spaghetti Junction past its sell-by date?
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Inside Out West Midlands - 03/10/2007
Ashley Blake investigates the mini-motorbikers terrorising parts of the Midlands, and Phil Upton gets a sneak preview of Birmingham’s Town hall.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 04/02/2009
Local magazine programme. Ashley Blake joins the motorcycle paramedics who risk life and limb to provide emergency care to the seriously ill patients of the West Midlands.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 04/03/2009
Local stories. Phil Upton gets on a bus for the first time in years to find out why so many of us will not use them. Pete Waterman investigates Coventry's city centre development.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 04/04/2008
Will the West Midlands share in the rewards of the 2012 Olympics as the Government promised, or is the capital set to be the real winner?
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Inside Out West Midlands - 05/11/2008
Local stories. With the credit crunch hitting top football clubs, Phil Upton visits the academies where local children, as young as 7, have been signed up for a footballing future.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 06/12/2010
How a vital donor organ was rescued from the wreckage when a transplant flight crashed at Birmingham Airport. And Phil Upton asks if the region can afford another cold winter.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 07/03/2008
Investigates a firm that owes thousands of pounds to motorists who were unfairly clamped. Ashley Blake goes on the trail of modern-day poachers.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 07/11/2007
Ashley Blake investigates the abuse suffered by taxi drivers in the Midlands. We ask who is looking after Falklands veterans, still suffering 25 years after the war.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 07/12/2009
Mary Rhodes asks whether terror suspects in the West Midlands are paying too high a price for public safety. Plus, discover the abandoned boats from a long-forgotten rescue mission.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 08/02/2010
Nick Lawrence reveals the authorities are struggling with a massive rise in child asylum seekers. Mary Rhodes asks if Birmingham's failed Olympic bid paved the way for London 2012.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 08/03/2010
Nick Lawrence investigates why profitable pubs are being forced to close their doors. Mary Rhodes searches for the Midlands filmmaker who brought real life to the small screen.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 08/10/2008
Surprising real-life stories from familiar places. Ashley Blake investigates the 'slips and trips' compensation that's costing council tax payers a fortune.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 08/11/2010
Mary Rhodes meets the woman who pleaded with Saddam Hussein to free her husband. Phil Upton investigates cycling safety in Birmingham. And John Challis goes in search of UFOs.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 09/11/2009
Fighting to keep their children, women with learning difficulties are forced to give up their babies. Plus, is Ironbridge really where the Industrial Revolution began?
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Inside Out West Midlands - 10/01/2011
Mary Rhodes meets the dogs joining the war on drugs. Plus the volunteers rebuilding a steam railway in Shropshire and the breast cancer patient inspired to help others.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 10/10/2007
Ashley Blake reveals the shocking truth about horse riding accidents in the Midlands and former Eastender Nick Bailey goes in search of a black role model.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 11/01/2010
Nick Lawrence investigates the shocking criminal past of some Midlands taxi drivers. And Mary Rhodes finds out whether noisy nightclubs can permanently damage your hearing.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 11/02/2009
Local magazine programme. Matthew Gull meets the schoolgirl whose online diary captured people's hearts, and Josie D'Arby compares the Midlands' finest wines with French offerings.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 11/03/2009
Matthew Gull investigates the killing of the Warwickshire language student, Lindsay Hawker. The programme uncovers new evidence about the night she died in Tokyo.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 11/04/2008
Ashley Blake investigates the abuse faced by paramedics in the West Midlands. Plus, the Coventry computer hacker who now helps the kind of companies he once stole from.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 12/10/2009
Mary Rhodes exposes the Dudley preacher who claims to cure cancer, and Pete Waterman asks if Churchill deliberately let bombers destroy Coventry.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 12/11/2008
Local stories. Ashley Blake joins the Border Control Agency as they clamp down on illegal immigration, and Chris Packham goes on the trail of the cat killers of Derbyshire.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 13/12/2010
Are some out-of-hours doctors doing more harm than good? Plus, the crusading litter heroes trying to stamp out big brand rubbish. And can comedy give women more confidence?
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Inside Out West Midlands - 14/01/2009
Local magazine programme. Inside Out looks at why rail passengers on one Midlands route are being subjected to overcrowding, while Mark Hoban visits a school for bodyguards.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 14/11/2007
Ashley Blake investigates the sale of fake cigarettes that do far more damage than the real thing. Plus we follow a former soldier to Italy to meet the family who saved his life.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 15/02/2010
Mary Rhodes asks whether noisy nightclubs are creating a generation of people with damaged hearing. Plus, Digby Jones tries to find work for unemployed people in the Midlands.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 15/10/2008
Surprising real-life stories from familiar places. With kids as young as seven being arrested for possession, a look at the extent of drug use among young people in the midlands.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 15/11/2010
Mary Rhodes asks if vulnerable people get a raw deal from the justice system. Stuart Maconie on the woman who gave Dr Who his theme tune. And the race to save Hartlebury Castle.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 16/11/2009
Mary Rhodes investigates the Midlands' new criminal gangs, actor David Harewood goes in search of his ancestors, and John Challis confronts his hatred of wind farms.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 17/09/2008
Surprising real-life stories from familiar places. On the streets with the team who confront disabled-badge cheats and hand out record fines.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 17/10/2007
Satnam Rana investigates the sale of dangerous and illegal skin bleaching creams. Also, the divers risking everything to find the Titanic's rescue ship.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 18/01/2010
Mary Rhodes presents three surprising stories from right across the West Midlands. Are people in the Midlands being forced to go abroad for better, and cheaper, dental work?
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Inside Out West Midlands - 18/02/2009
Local stories. Phil Upton witnesses bad behaviour on West Midlands buses, while Rob Weaver investigates whether there really are big cats on the loose in Gloucestershire.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 18/04/2008
Ashley Blake investigates why so many young people in the Midlands are being killed in road accidents.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 18/10/2010
On the road with the new unit designed to stamp out violence at West Midlands premiership games. And Mary Rhodes investigates claims that the oak is facing extinction in the region.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 19/09/2007
Real-life stories from familiar places. Ashley Blake exposes the work of bogus faith healers, and Inside Out tells a tragic love story that could have inspired the film Titanic.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 19/10/2009
The businessman and the ruby: the story behind the collapse of Wrekin construction. Plus the unsung wartime heroes still fighting for recognition.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 21/01/2009
Local stories. Adil Ray goes behind the scenes at an Islamic court to witness Sharia law at work, while Ashley Blake looks at the renaissance of the region's film industry.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 21/03/2008
Ashley Blake joins the animal activists who monitor former fox hunts in Gloucestershire and Matthew Gull explores the hidden limestone caves of the Black Country.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 22/02/2008
Satnam Rana investigates the cannabis farms of suburbia. Coventry boy Pete Waterman heaps praise on our much-maligned railways.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 22/02/2010
Are people paying too much in council tax? Trish Adudu asks why the Midlands' most loved train service is coming under threat, and Nick Lawrence discovers a hidden killer.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 22/10/2008
Local stories. Bill Buckley finds out just how much he has lost on his Midlands buy-to-let, and asks why we are still building city centre flats.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 22/11/2010
Mary Rhodes investigates the loan sharks terrorising the Midlands. Conservationists protecting sea life from a county without a coast. And rare film of the legends of Formula 1.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 23/11/2009
Why some of the Midlands' poorest residents are paying for the most expensive credit in the Western world. Plus the nuns who gave up Worcestershire for a new life in the North.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 24/09/2008
Surprising real-life stories from familiar places. The massive MoD fire in Shropshire and the cover-up which followed. On the road with the far-right BNP in Stoke.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 24/10/2007
Satnam Rana exposes the benefits cheats whose life of leisure is paid for by us, and Liz Kershaw looks for an heir to the English throne in Coventry.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 25/01/2010
Josie d'Arby asks why a convicted sex offender was allowed to set up a website for schools. Mary Rhodes reports on an MS sufferer campaigning for the right to take illegal drugs.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 25/02/2009
Local stories. Giles Latcham investigates the Staffordshire fraudster who made millions in an elaborate VAT scam, and Bill Buckley looks at traditional recipes making a comeback.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 25/04/2008
Jane Dodge meets the people who sell their homes, then rent them back in a bid to pay off their debts. Ashley Blake gets a preview of the restored Rotunda in Birmingham.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 25/10/2010
An investigation into fire safety in high rise blocks, a unique snapshot of the Handsworth riots 25 years after the fact, and the journey of a Himalayan stone to a West Mids temple.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 26/09/2007
Local real-life stories. Ashley Blake finds out that illegal dangerous dogs are being openly bought and sold in the Midlands, plus the story of a new school for autistic children.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 26/10/2009
Mary Rhodes discovers the bullying of nurses is putting patients at risk. The Midlands car company beating the recession. And can Birmingham put on the UK's biggest school choir?
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Inside Out West Midlands - 28/01/2009
Local stories. Trish Adudu investigates how to help kids with serious weight problems, and the show visits the Staffordshire town where people are rebelling against road humps.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 28/03/2008
Ashley Blake investigates the delays and spiralling costs behind West Bromwich's fifty million pounds arts centre, and Adam Henson goes on the hunt for wild boar.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 29/02/2008
Satnam Rana investigates claims that there are only 12 people sleeping rough in the West Midlands. Radio presenter Phil Upton traces his roots back to Pakistan and Northern Ireland.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 29/10/2008
Surprising real-life stories from familiar places. Ashley Blake joins the police and Trading Standards as they clamp down on counterfeit goods.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 29/11/2010
Mary Rhodes investigates uninsured taxis. Pete Waterman indulges his passion for model railways, and the inspiring story of a teenage girl fighting a public battle against cancer.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 30/11/2009
Mary Rhodes finds out about a new treatment to help soldiers with mental scars. David Gregory meets a man who fought to stop Welsh water being taken by English cities.
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Inside Out West Midlands - 31/10/2007
Ashley Blake gets his own back on the lotto scammers who con thousands from vulnerable people. Plus Carl Chin asks, 'What's wrong with the black country?'.
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