E&S reporter Dan visits West Park to see what it has to offer after being named in a top-ten list of parks in the West Midlands.
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00:00oh i don't know okay that's quite fast now mate hello my name's dan i'm a report for the express
00:05and star and today we are visiting west park or the sun in wolverhampton uh this is after
00:12it was put in a top 10 list of best parks in the west midlands as per trip advisor so we
00:16thought we'd come down and just show off a bit
00:30i also just had an encounter with a squirrel which is a first
00:44he thinks i'm a tree don't don't i'm not a tree
00:51i also thought it might be an idea to ask some people to talk to me see what they think about
00:55it because i mean at the moment it's just a grown man in a park with a camera my name
01:01is michael trainer i'm 64 and i work at west park hospital for the occupational therapy team
01:10so i i work for the occupational therapy team with stroke patients they cycle around on tricycles
01:20as part of their rehabilitation and i cycle around with them and we do three sessions
01:29three days a week three sessions a day what i like about the park is that it's enclosed
01:35so because so they can cycle safely and most of the people that we see going around are all
01:43say hello and they're friendly and it's uh they're able to the patients are able to interact
01:49with other people as well as the green areas there's also a play park that people can go in
01:53and we thought we'd just have a quick go on all the different rides so enjoy
02:02a little bit faster
02:05oh i don't know okay that's quite fast now mate okay
02:09okay
02:23that's the end of our tour of the uh the west park we've seen the wildlife we've seen the
02:27playground spoke to a few people and i'm getting a bit too embarrassed now watching people look
02:33at me as i film myself like i'm some sort of tiktok influencer so that is a wrap