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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 ...

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 pr...

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. ...

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 a...

Lined your local high street. now, as more businesses disappear, that's no longer commonplace. but a museum in the west midlands has recreated an authentic row of shops, from the 19a05 to �*60s, to give people a chance to step down memory lane, as david sillito reports. # it's a lovely day today. # so whatever you've got to do, # you've got a lovely day...# welcome to dudley, and a reminder of what so many of our high streets used to be like. # whatever you've got to do.# so we've got black pudding. black pudding. we've got pork pies, bacon. ooh, nice looking back bacon there. absolutely. an...