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Welcome to Midlands Today. They headlines: Cost of the strike, | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
market traders say they will lose �5 million if there is a walkout on | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
Thursday. Our customers will just come and not know what is going on, | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
especially the people that come on a Thursday. He saved by the surgeon, | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
the teenager who was stabbed to trying to protect as stranger. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
At the moment and I am feeling quite well. A bad day on the High | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Street as another famous name faces administration. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
And European speedway is most exciting rider on his new role in | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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Good evening. In less than 48 hours a strike by public sector workers | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
will bring disruption right across the region. Members of the National | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Union of Teachers, The Association of Teachers and Lecturers and the | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
Public and Commercial Services are striking against pension changes | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
that will mean working longer and paying more. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Passengers at Birmingham airport could face delays as customs and | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
immigration officers walkout. Some courts are likely to close and | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
driving Test could be cancelled. Meanwhile, traders at Birmingham | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
wholesale markets say up to �5 million will be lost and tons of | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
food wasted. If it is a separate dispute, but | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
timed to coincide with the national strikes. Ben Godfrey has been | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
finding out the impact could be devastating. | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
It is thought 1000 traders use Birmingham wholesale market | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
sourcing and then selling produce two businesses across the region, | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
but the menu at your local restaurant could look lighter as | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
strike action looms on Thursday. They have businesses to run and | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
families to feed. Closing the market is not helping. We shall | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
lose a day's work for no reason. surely they can put a skeleton | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
staff on. This sprawling site is run by Birmingham City Sam -- | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
Birmingham City Council will also shut but Bullring 24 hours. That is | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
because cleaners are to strike over pay and conditions and the so- | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
called Birmingham contract. Trade union says staff are being | :02:36. | :02:46. | |
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asked to sign agreements that break The authority says the contract is | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
fair and necessary. The market closure well, according to traders, | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
result and �5 million loss in trade. Workers are unhappy because wage | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
still has to be paid. There will be impact around to the Bullring. | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
There will be 100 lorries with no way to go. Birmingham City Council | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
say they have given traders advance warning. Consider this, they are | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
already mangoes from Pakistan, flowers from the Channel Island, | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
Mead from Ireland and fish from Spain. | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
Traders say they only had about this this morning. They are now | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
expecting lines of banners at bringing food from around the world | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
if the traders will not be about to sell. They say, he would want to | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
eat it? In the last hour, traders have | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
obtained an injunction to try to prevent the closure of the | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
wholesale market. Birmingham City Council says it is seeking legal | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
opinion about its position. The greatest impact of Thursdays | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
strikes will be on schools. The picture is still developing, but so | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
far this is how it looks. And Worcestershire, 100 schools are | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
to close. Birmingham says at least 200 | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
schools will close. Staffordshire, the figure so far is | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
14. Although that is certain to rise as more headteachers notify | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
the local authority of closure plans. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
There was no sitting on the fence this morning amongst parents | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
outside this Stoke-on-Trent school. They were either for or against | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
says a strike in almost equal measure. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
You can understand them, but look at the holidays they have. I do | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
know teachers and I think they need to strike. It is the biggest | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
national teachers' strike in 25 years. Packmoor Primary is one of | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
the dozen schools affected. I do find it quite disrupting to the | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
children. I can't see the government taking a backward step | :05:00. | :05:08. | |
on it. It is a deep thing, isn't it? Money. These were the scenes in | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Birmingham today. Dozens protesting ahead of the strikes and in no mood | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
for compromise. I am here today because David Cameron is the head | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
of the government that is attacking our public services need less sleep. | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
We need to make sure there are enough jobs and pensions for people | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
to have a sustainable life. If we don't stand up and make a stand, we | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
do not have a say. A lecturer believes the strikes could go on | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
for months. If the teachers have a pay freeze and inflation is 5%, | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
many workers will have had a pay cut by 12%. I believe that anger | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
and anxiety will mount up. The government would do well to take | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
note of what is happening. That Fairfax School, the strike started | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
two days early. Teachers here are angry at plans to turn it into an | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
academy, but these are the scenes that will be replicated across the | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
region on Thursday. The local government secretary, | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
Eric Pickles, said there was no reason for the strikes to go ahead. | :06:22. | :06:32. | |
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It seems to me to be not a sensible or serious thing to do. The we are | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
there to do something to correct unfairness in this country. We | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
can't continue as we are, thank goodness people are living longer | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
so people will have to retire a little bit later. | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
Byron joined now by the newly elected President of UNISON. UNISON | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
is not involved in thus strikes on Thursday, it is very likely it will | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
be later. Do you think you'll have support? I do believe we will. The | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
public can see for themselves that the services that they want could | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
be eroded or disappear, that is not what they want. I feel that they do | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
want to support us. Thousands of people in the private sector have | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
had their pay frozen, cut, they have sinned pensions changed, | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
surely there is not going to be that much sympathy for you? | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
The thing is, in that way, the private sector it is not a right, | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
is it? We would love to support them in the way that they will | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
support us. Just because one group has been eroded, you do not want to | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
do it to the next. We support the private sector in fighting to keep | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
pensions in the same way that we have. As you know, the nation's | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
finances are in a mess. The coalition has did do something or | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
we could end up like Greece. There are alternatives. There is the | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
Robin tax. There is tax on the bankers bonus. Nobody has talked | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
about how those bankers are still getting their money than they we | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
have paid into it. This is what it is about, the deficit we are having | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
to pay and the bankers getting away with it. How conscious are you that | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
some Labour MPs are saying to be cautious? There always is a case of | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
that because they have to be mindful of having public opinion. | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
And responsibility? Yes, in the same way that we are. We are not | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
doing this lightly. It is the last resort. People going on strike at | :08:39. | :08:49. | |
this moment are realising they are striking and not getting paid. They | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
really strongly believe that the pension, which we have all paid | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
into, is going to disappear. Thank you very much. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
We would like to hear what you think about the strikes. Do you | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
sympathise? Or de you feel they should carry on working and face up | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
to what the government calls economic reality? | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
For the very latest information on school closures in your area, tune | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
into your local radio station. Good to have you with this. Later | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
on the programme: Hundreds of thousands of precious books and | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
artifacts packed up as Birmingham library gets ready for its big blue. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
Before that, an update on a story we told you last month about a | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
former policeman and his son who was stabbed outside their home. | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
They try to protect a stranger who ran their for help. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
Martin Thompson described the ordeal while his son Edward made | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
ill in hospital. 18 year-old Edward has been recovering well. Even | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
though he nearly lost his life, he told our reporter he would do the | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
same thing again. 18 year-old Edward Thompson looks | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
like any ordinary teenager. It is hard to believe five weeks ago he | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
was fighting for his life. Edward and his dad are having a quiet | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
evening in when a youth sought refuge in their home. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
It was right between the shoulder blades. | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
Minutes later both bad and son were stabbed. Edwards suffered the worst | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
injuries. A punctured lung and four days in intensive care. | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
I knew it was pretty serious because my dad could not stop | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
talking to me. When he told me what happened he said I was close to | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
death. It was such a shock. Martin was also stabbed in his side and | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
spent two days in hospital. Ironically he did not suffer a | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
scratch during 30 years as a policeman, but ended up being | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
knifed outside his front door. doctors say it was a matter of | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
inches. If it had gone a bit deeper or somewhere else, similar with me, | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
if if it had not gone into the part it had, I do not think either of us | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
would be here. The police have described this part of Birmingham | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
as a good community. All the more shocking that a teenager nearly | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
lost his life on his own doorstep. Edward has already had to cope with | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
losing his mother to cancer last year. He plans to study drama. Even | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
though this ordeal was a drama he could have done without, he says he | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
would still do the same. If anyone knocks on your door with their life | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
threatened, you will have the initiative to help them. Two people | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
have been charged with attempted murder and will eventually appear | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
in the Crown Court. Other news, the head teacher of a | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
Coventry primary-school says the death of a four year-old pupil has | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
come as a shock. The boy died while playing in a school playground at | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
Grange Hurst School. Despite efforts to revive him, he was | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
pronounced dead at hospital. The results of the post-mortem on not | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
yet known. Plans for a casino near Birmingham | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
have cleared another hurdle with the granting of a licence. It is | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
expected to form part of a larger development near their NEC. The | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
�120 million complex is expected to create 1000 jobs. | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
It was a bad day on the High Street as another chain across the region | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
warned it is about to call in the administrators. | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
Many smaller shopkeepers say they are also finding it difficult to | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
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survive. Andy Newman reports from And this in a town which has had | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
more than its fair share of ups and downs. Kidderminster suffered its | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
first big hit in the late 1980s. Then it seemed to bounce back, but | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
now, like many other traditional centres, it is feeling the squeeze. | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
That will not be helped by the possible loss of another big name | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
from a high-street. TJ Hughes is the latest national clubs chain to | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
hit hard times. Its Kidderminster bad -- branch is one of the town's | :13:33. | :13:41. | |
biggest stores. In will not help the town at all if it closes. | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
a 33 years all retailing under his belt, he is one of the town's | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
oldest shop keepers. The High Street in Kidderminster is very | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
flat at the moment, there are a lot of empty shops, and there seemed to | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
be shops closing every week. I think really that the people who | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
own the property in Kidderminster, rather than leave them empty, | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
should reduce the rent and let them. If John is one of Kidderminster's | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
retailing veterans, Kevin is a new boy. He opened his shop just nine | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
months ago, and so far, he has not drawn a single hounding wagers. | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
has proven to be exceptionally difficult -- difficult. You just | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
about cover your bills. I think I am one of the lucky ones, there are | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
a lot out there that are not. Evidence of the unlucky ones is all | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
around him. His shop is surrounded by vacant units, as Kidderminster | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
tries to fight back. This Monday is a chance for local people to show | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
their support for local, independent retailers. Based on | :14:56. | :15:06. | |
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today's experience, they need it. Joan Cummins is in Walsall. Empty | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
shops are a big issue there, aren't they? | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
Yes, TJ Hughes behind me came in here 18 months ago, filling the gap | :15:15. | :15:23. | |
that had been left by will works. The trouble here is that it has one | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
of our highest rates of empty shops in the region. About 27 %, beaten | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
only by West Bromwich. Adrian, you are from the council. Why is there | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
such a problem? One of the reasons is that a number of shops are being | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
redeveloped, because we did have prime mark and Co of coming back | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
into the town centre. But we have also had invest when 4th -- from | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
Marks and Spencers and Waterstone's. How about lowering the rents? | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
would be great if business rates could be dealt with by the | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
government to give an incentive for smaller retailers, and bigger ones | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
as well. Tesco had just opened a few months ago, creating hundreds | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
of jobs. That is what we need in this economy. A Walsall has more | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
empty shops and other places. Is it on its knees? No, it is not fair to | :16:23. | :16:31. | |
say that. But we do need a bit of a pick me up. We knew -- we do have | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
our new hotel being built, that is a real shot in the armed. We have | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
stopped traffic here tonight, showing that people do still come. | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
You just have to want to be here. Still to come tonight: | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
You may never have heard of him, but he's one of the biggest stars | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
in one of the most dangerous sports...And also perhaps the | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
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region's super commuter. Rare collection of children's books | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
and games is carefully being prepared and packed ahead of a move | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
to Birmingham's new library. The items are worth millions of pounds | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
and will be an attraction as a new archive centre at the new library | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
which opens in two years' time. Lindsay Doyle has been to see the | :17:22. | :17:32. | |
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Take a close look, this unique collection of children's books and | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
games is rarely seen. Hundreds of items, some dating back centuries, | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
are being packed away at Birmingham Central Library so that | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
conservation work can be carried out on them before they take pride | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
of place at the new Library of Birmingham, which opens in 2013. | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
will have storage that fits the value of these collections, and | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
enables them to keep them for generations to come. The storage | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
here is not that good. Conditions are not as good as we would like | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
them to be. We keep everything as well as we can, but it will be much | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
better in the new library. The new �188 million library in Centenary | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
Square is likely to become a major cultural destinations. With 10 | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
levels, it will be connected to the Birmingham Rep, bringing together | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
the written and spoken word through drama, poetry and performance. And | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
archive centre will house many of the city's most valuable treasures, | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
leaving millions of books, photographs and collections will be | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
on show for the first time. Many of the gains in the collection are | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
educational, such as this one, which points out stew children | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
which professions were considered to be used well. The farmer, a | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
butcher, the dance master and the poet are not thought to be so | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
useful! I have a strong feeling that broadcasters would have been | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
considered to be useless! It was donated by private collectors in | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
the 1950s. It is amongst the first to be restored in order for it to | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
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continue to bring to life that children of long ago. | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
Birmingham City have begun to sell some of their star names. Cameron | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Jerome and Scott Dunn could be on their way out. They could be about | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
to sell three players to help balance the books after relegation. | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
Craig Gardner is close to sealing a �6 million move to Sunderland. | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
Scott Stam and Cameron Jerome could both be moving to Stoke City. | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
There could be a takeover on the cards at Coventry City. Joe Elliott, | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
seen here on the left, has been asked to step down following an | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
approach from for much vice chairman Gary Hoffman. The club say | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
they have yet to receive a bid. 5,000 people have registered for | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
this year's Birmingham have Marathon. From now on, it will be | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
known as the Great Birmingham Run. It has a limit of 15,000 runners | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
and will take place on 23rd October. Just four months ago, speedway fans | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
feared that the Coventry Bees had been forced out of the Elite League. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Then, a compromise was reached with the sport's Daventry -- governing | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
bodies. Now, they have signed arguably the most exciting rider in | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
Europe. Never seen before on the back lawn | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
of a suburban semi-detached house in Coventry. At I am from Russia, I | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
am riding for the Coventry Bees. One a Russian rider, one Polish | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
mechanic, and one fast bike. People say that Emil Sayfutdinov is the | :21:00. | :21:08. | |
rising star. He is a very good rider, he is aggressive and | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
competitive, and maybe one day he will be the world's champion. | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
he is enthusiastic, he is fast and he is good enough. Two have been in | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
the Grand Prix and the senior league is just about as good as it | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
can get. This is why he is such a big favourite. When the tapes go up, | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
his will to win takes over, often with spectacular results. In | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
Cardiff, this crash on the first bend proved costly. Much to his | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
frustration, he was excluded and finished 4th. He looked very angry | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
to be excluded. Yes, of course. But it is the referee's decision. | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
Signing Emil Sayfutdinov was a real boost for the Coventry Bees. He is | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
also pulling in the crowds all over Europe. On Sunday, he flew home to | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
compete in Poland. But he came back for last night's League meeting in | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
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Wolverhampton. That is a taste of his busy life in the fast line. | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Provided he does not lose his passport, he will make his home | :22:19. | :22:29. | |
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debut for the Coventry Bees against King's Lynn on Friday night. | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
Back now to our top story, the public sector strikes now less than | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
48 hours away. Earlier we asked for your views and thanks to all of you | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
who got in touch. Michael Collins says strikes are | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
the only way to get people to listen. | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
Steve Grimsley has no sympathy for the union's claim for pension | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
rights from the taxpayer. Alan Henshaw emailed to say he | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
supports the strikes: 'The working people of this country did not | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
cause the financial crisis but they are being used as scapegoats'. | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
And a final word from Mark Flowers. 'The strike over pensions by | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
teachers and other public service workers is wrong. They should be | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
glad that they have pensions at all'.$$NEWLINE A look at tonight's | :23:12. | :23:22. | |
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main headlines: David Cameron addressed Conference leaders in | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
Birmingham today, and appealed for the strike to be called off. | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
What is the mood there? It really does depend on which | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
council used be to. All the Conservative councillors are very | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
positive and are toeing the line that David Cameron was talking | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
about. But all that Labour councillors I had been speaking to | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
were negative. If some of them were saying that David Cameron was a | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
smoothing over the cracks in his policy, and saying that they have | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
real sympathy for the workers he will be going on strike. I enjoyed | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
by Philip Atkins. David Cameron was there talking about how this is | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
essential, and that this is fair. But for a public sector workers, | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
they are looking at working for a longer, paying more and getting | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
less. Do you have sympathy with them? I have sympathy with people | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
who are coming to terms with the fact that we are living longer, and | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
that the cost of that pension is going to cost the country more. And | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
then we have to think about how we get contributions, or whether we | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
work longer. The discussion has to take place. And I think that is | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
what the Prime Minister, it is the first time any Prime Minister has | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
come to their local government conference. That is what he meant. | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
There will be huge disruption. Should be government not give a bit | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
of ground? No, I do not think so. Eight is to bigger question to duck. | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
They could perhaps... I would make a plea that people think about the | :25:12. | :25:22. | |
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effect of what they do. Nick Clegg takes the podium tomorrow. | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
You can read more about Thursday's national strike day on our | :25:28. | :25:36. | |
political editor Patrick Burns' political editor Patrick Burns' | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
blog. Now, a look at the weather. The | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
showers we have had over the last 24 hours have not been impressive. | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
Not much rain later this week, and temperatures by the weekend should | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
be rising, which is good news. The reason for this improvement is | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
because there is high pressure moving in from the South West by | :26:03. | :26:12. | |
Thursday. It will drop will winds in from be Warner place. Today, we | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
will see any remaining showers dying away. The cloud will begin to | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
break up and leave clear skies overnight. Temperatures dropping | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
down to secure the -- single figures, around eight or nine | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
degrees Celsius. Cooler tomorrow morning as well, but there will be | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
a lot of sunshine. Cloud will move in during the afternoon, that will | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
bring some showers as well. Temperatures rising to about 20 | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
degrees Celsius, there will still be sunshine between they showers. | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
From Thursday on words, it starts to improve. Thursday may be a bit | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
cloudy, but temperatures around 18 degrees Celsius. Gradually climbing | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
to 22 degrees Celsius on Saturday, slightly above the average for the | :27:03. | :27:13. | |
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A look at tonight's main headlines: A general strike in Greece turns | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
violent. Demonstrators oppose plans to raise taxes and cut spending. | :27:31. | :27:34. |