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BBC. Tonight: thousands pay their respects to three men describe | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
today as martyrs. People should learn a lesson. Keep it peaceful | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
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and calm. What now after A-levels? The highs | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
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and lows. And what now with Harry Potter | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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having cast his final spell? It has Hailed as martyrs for protecting | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
their community. That's how three young men killed during last week's | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
riots were remembered at their funerals today. The funerals were | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
held at a park close to where Haroon Jahan and brothers Shahzad | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Ali and Abdul Musavir, were mown down in a hit and run last | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Wednesday. Around 20,000 mourners gathered to hear prayers and | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
tributes to the men with people from all religions joining the | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
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Muslim ceremony. Our reporter was that the service. Incredible scenes. | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
It was pretty amazing. People kept coming over the course of about two | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
hours. They were predominantly Muslim, but there were many people | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
here from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. They had all | :02:01. | :02:09. | |
come to offer their condolences. The coffins of Haroon Jahan, and | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
the two brothers slowly made their way into our Summerfield Park. | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
Thousands of mourners came to pay their respects. I think it is | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
amazing. Not just in Birmingham but across the country, it shows the | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
feeling that people have for the family's and what they have been | :02:31. | :02:39. | |
through. I came just for the funeral. Why did you come? I wanted | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
to pay my respects. The father of Haroon has been widely praised for | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
his appeals for calm. He welcomed the mourners as it began in the | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
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park where they played as children. We are still very much in shock. | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
Part of a says that we would not -- we would not wish anyone else to be | :03:07. | :03:17. | |
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killed. Haroon to hard and the two brothers died as they stop looters | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
last week. All three were killed by a car. Police were here in numbers | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
but remained in obtrusive. These have been among the saddest and | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
most difficult of times bought these communities, but they have | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
been praised for rallying together as one. We have always come | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
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together as a community and moved forward. Many here took comfort | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
from the huge share of support, an estimated 20,000 people. I never | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
expected this many people. It is such a sad day. I'm very proud of | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
the ceremony that has taken place today. Both as someone who lives in | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
Birmingham and as a Muslim, in terms of the dignified response but | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
everyone, not just Muslims, but the vast majority of people have shown. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
As the prayers ended, the coffins were taken away for private family | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
burial. With me now is a local youth worker. 20,000 people here | :04:28. | :04:36. | |
today. Did you expect to see anything like this? I'm not shocked. | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
I'm proud of our city and the good people of Birmingham that came out | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
today. I didn't expect the numbers to be as huge as they were. I think | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Birmingham has responded to this tragic and cowardly act with such | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
dignity and strength in terms of its numbers that we should all be | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
proud as the nation. We have said already that too weak to harm has | :05:00. | :05:10. | |
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been praised by his words to stay calm -- the father of one of the | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
brothers. We came here today, we have bought young people who wanted | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
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to be her and be part of this day - - be here. They all attended, one | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
even faster today, he was not even a Muslim, to show that solidarity. | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
That gives me hope in our generation, how they respond to | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
those words. Hopefully, the future will be brighter as well. You can | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
see behind me their dismantling the state here and getting the pop back | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
to normal. Many people will be hoping that Birmingham will also | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
return to normality. But it wasn't just in Summerfield | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Park that the community came together to remember the three men. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Shops closed along Dudley Road in Winson Green, as people took time | :06:05. | :06:15. | |
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to pay their respects. Our correspondent spent the day there. | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Birmingham City Council has set up an online book of remembrance where | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
you can log in and make your own comments. The see of bouquets he | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
has been added to. People are standing quietly again, showing | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
their sign of respect to their three dead men. At this shrine | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
seems to be of significance, not just to Birmingham but the whole | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
country, perhaps the whole world. A sign that peace and goodwill can | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
prevail over greed and violence. All sections of the community, all | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
religions. People came here to cent -- to pay their respects. To lay | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
flowers, to pause and to spend a moment in contemplation. It is a | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
loss that to accept but she never get over -- you never get over. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
whole of the UK is grieving for this. Eight days ago, three young | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
men lost their lives here. As the riots raged, they were defending | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
their community and local businesses. One man knew all three, | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
and every day he has sat and tended the mounting tributes outside | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
petrol station, unwilling to leave the place where his friends died. | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
The were really good people. All these people around, trying to look | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
after this area. Businesses were already share -- shutting up shop | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
hours before the funeral. A local community centre brought down its | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
shutters as people hurried away to pay their respects. It is a good | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
thing we are closing as a mark of respect to the three men who died. | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
It is supporting what is going on in the community at the moment. It | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
is not a race related thing, it goes back to more deep-rooted | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
problems. It is good that all the committees have come together. | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
result of their deaths, wise heads prevailed over hot heads, and the | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
flames of the riots died down in Birmingham. As with the murders of | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
the two teenage girls are shootings in to set -- 2003, the killing of | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
these three young men seems to have been a significant moment when | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
Birmingham held its breath and stepped back from the brink. This | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
nine-year-old boy it is Haroon's cousin. He said this was a sad but | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
also a proud day for his family. As people hurried off to the ceremony | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
at the park, one friend of the dead man spoke to me. I'm comforting | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
them, helping them to get through a difficult time. We want to thank | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
everybody for their support. Tonight, as a quarter urged drove | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
past the makeshift skies -- shrine, the family stop to pay their | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
respects. As the months and years go on, do you think these men will | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
be remembered by the local community or will many -- memories | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
fade? These young men here are trying to keep these flowers alive | :09:38. | :09:47. | |
with water. Of course, the flowers were Welt, but extraordinary scenes | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
here will reverberate around the country. People will be taking | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
notice of what has happened here today. The death of the three men | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
was always going to have a big impact, why do you think it was so | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
significant? I think it was because of the words of Haroon Jahan's | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
father. I think we often underestimate the power of speech. | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
When that man said, I have lost my son but I don't want any more | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
violence, I want the by its to stop, people listened. -- I want the | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
right to stop. The quiet dignity of that father has been appreciated | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
not just in this country but in the whole world. The impact of that man | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
has really been priceless. He has maintained the peace in the City of | :10:38. | :10:48. | |
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Birmingham. Ian Beckford is the 4th man to be | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
charged with murder. Tomorrow morning, a two-minute silence will | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
be held as a mark of respect and the men. | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
100 jobs are being created as part of a multi-million-pound investment | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
at a factory in Stafford that makes engines. It comes just weeks after | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
a reported 1000 new jobs were being created at a distribution warehouse | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
Amazon. Yesterday, Stoke-on-Trent lost out to have an enterprise zone, | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
but today, the news for Staffordshire was better. This is | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
the new production line which has secured the future of a company | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
which employs 800 people in Stafford. The recession affected | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
everybody. We have a global market place and we did see a downturn in | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
our order book. We had to take appropriate action so we had to | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
lose some people. However, we have seen a recovery in the market and | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
we see a strong future for our products. Perkins makes diesel and | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
gas engines for electrical power. Several temporary staff were laid | :12:00. | :12:08. | |
off by the positions have been re created as part every �10 million | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
investment. It is brilliant news everybody and the community. It had | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
a bit of a knock back, but it is the same way of the work, whichever | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
industry. It has picked itself up. It is good news for the company. | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
The factory in Stafford is expanding at a time when Stoke-on- | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
Trent lost out on a bid to have an enterprise zone. The government | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
defended the decision by saying the area would benefit from a | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
neighbouring sown in the Black Country. I'm talking about the good | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
news here. We have got a chance to be in their. All the local MPs are | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
pushing for it. Also had good news that in suffix -- South | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
Staffordshire, it includes the I 54. 90 % of what is made here is | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
exported. The new investment is a welcome boost for workers to make | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
22,000 engines per year. A 44-year- old man from Staffordshire has been | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
arrested in connection with an ongoing corruption investigation. | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
He has been bailed pending further inquiries into alleged tendering | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
practices. Two other men already arrested remain on police bail. | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
TJ Hughes is shutting another three stores with the loss of 130 jobs. | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
Shops in Coventry, Redditch and Hanley will close later this month. | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
It follows the demise of five other TJ Hughes stores last week like | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
The Government's promising a new generation of local television | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
stations across the Midlands. Ten locations have been identified as | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
suitable and shortlisted for the new services. Culture Minister | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
Jeremy Hunt was in Birmingham encouraging people and | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
organisations to come forward and say why their town or city deserves | :13:52. | :14:01. | |
one of the new local TV stations. Clear going to issue 20 licences | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
next year, and out of 65 possible candidates, we are encouraging | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
people to write in to say why they would like their town or city to | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
beyond that initial list of 20. Then we will issue the other | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
licences shortly after that. We will have 20 pioneered licences | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
that Ofcom will issue next year. shall have to apply to want! Thank | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
you for joining us. Still to come: Find out how Harry Potter worked | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
his magic on these actors. First, though, if you got your A | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
level results this morning, I do hope you got what you wanted - it's | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
always a nerve wracking time. Overall, it's been another | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
successful year, with pass rates rising once again. But there won't | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
be many as successful as Ellie Davidson from Harborne in | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
Birmingham. She's sealed her place at Oxford University to study maths | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
with a stunning achievement... Wait for it... She got eight A* grades, | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
and even taught herself some of the modules at home. | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
I really don't know what to say. I cannot believe it. I worked hard | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
and I thought I would do OK but I never expected to do this well. It | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
has surpassed all expectations. looks a bit pleased! | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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Congratulations to her. Ellie has already got her uni place sorted, | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
but this year there's extra pressure for university places, as | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
students try to get on a course before tuition fees rise to up to | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
�9,000 next year. But for many students, university is no longer | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
the only option. Sarah Falkland was with students at the Q3 academy in | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Great Barr in Birmingham as they opened their results. | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
A picture for the press - but university is out of reach for half | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
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this group. Luke got A, D, B. He's going to take up an in house | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
apprenticeship at the academy with the aim of being a PE teacher. | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
thought about university, but obviously with the costs, and the | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
fact I play for at all, it just was unsuitable. Debbie did well, with | :16:25. | :16:33. | |
an A star and two As. I'm just excited I have got my results and I | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
can focus on going to university now. Jonathan got two Bs, but is | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
going to take advantage of the academy's Inqbate scheme which will | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
mean he can set himself up in business as a photographer. I will | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
get premises where I can set up a studio for myself. I get �500 | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
start-up costs, I get a mentor. with 3 As and a C, Aimee is going | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
to take a year out before applying to drama school - but fees will | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
then be at a record high. I am hoping maybe they might be reduced | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
by the time I actually get there. The academy's had an above average | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
A level pass rate. It only opened 18 months ago - it is pretty swish. | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
It has raised aspirations and made them believe they really can | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
achieve. And of course it is not just a building that leads to | :17:25. | :17:33. | |
success. It is what goes in the building. Such a definitive day. | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
What they get inside this envelope can decide the rest of their lives. | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
I'm trying to find out if I have got a place. And inevitably, some | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
are disappointed. Ben has just heard that Nottingham won't take | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
him with slightly lesser grades. For him and others, results day | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
means shattered dreams. Joining us now is Kathryn Jones | :17:57. | :18:07. | |
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from Birmingham City University. This means a very busy day for | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
clearing. At one point, 400 calls a second. How has it been for you? | :18:16. | :18:25. | |
Frantic. We have had 3,500 calls and we are open until 8pm tonight. | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
People are really upset when they don't have their grades. This is a | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
pivotal part of their educational life, going on to choose probably | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
their future career. It is. We are dealing with very anxious, | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
distressed people. There is lots of coverage about the reduction in | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
places. The message we're trying to get across is to stay calm, speak | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
to the universities because they may still accepted, although as we | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
know the pressure is rising and places are limited. But also | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
consider other options - you can still take a gap year, you could | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
consider a another subject for another level. Or perhaps part-time | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
study. You said you were busy, had you still got places at Birmingham | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
City University? We started out with between 203 hundred places. | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
The last count we at less than 100. We have some left on law and | :19:24. | :19:32. | |
specialist areas of Nursing like learning disabilities. Engineering, | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
technology and planning are also difficult to recruit for but there | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
is a store -- a shortage of those skills, so do think about what you | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
want to study. A scary time, but there are still some places out | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
there. Let us talk about some real success. | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
So, the England cricket team have successfully established themselves | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
- officially - as the best test side in the world. And we're proud | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
to say they got there thanks to two of Warwickshire's stars. But Ian | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
Bell and Jonathan Trott's successes with England leave the Bears | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
pushing hard to win the County Championship without them, as Nick | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
Clitheroe reports. As he proudly leads out his team, | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
Jim Troughton knows Warwickshire have a real chance of winning their | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
first County Championship title for seven years. The Bears have been | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
through a lean spell in recent seasons that even included | :20:18. | :20:27. | |
relegation, but this year they seem to have got it just right. | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
Generally, the 16 games over a season of cricket to terms -- | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
determines who is the best side in the country. So it is important ask | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
what is going on at the club. Conditions have been quite tough. | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
Where in a position now where we can challenge and it is important | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
we played good cricket from here on in. Warwickshire a fourth but just | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
17 points behind their leader, Durham. It didn't go too well at | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
first as Hampshire got off to a flying start under grey skies. But | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
soon the visitors found themselves feeling the force of Warwickshire's | :21:01. | :21:09. | |
determination to lift the county title again. Champions in a great | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
new stadium. Brilliant. We're just worried a rather weather. That is | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
the worst thing. On top of his new pavilion, winning it would be the | :21:22. | :21:30. | |
icing on the cake. The cups are all right, but the championship is the | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
main one, definitely. Wickets fell regularly, to the delight of a | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
crowd which wasn't big but was certainly enthusiastic. And | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
Warwickshire took control of the match, with Hampshire all out for | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
just 141. Onto football and Stoke City have | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
already kicked off in their Europa League play-off in Switzerland this | :21:46. | :21:56. | |
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evening. The score there is currently FC Thun 0, Stoke - 1. | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
Birmingham City kick off in about an hour against the Portuguese side | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
Nacional. It's their first game in a major European competition for 50 | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
years. We have to make sure we are still in the Thai come next | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
Thursday. If we had a choice, we would have done it this way, away | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
from home first. Taking it back to son Andrew's next week, that is | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
what we've got. It is up to was. And if you want to follow | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
Birmingham City or Stoke City in the Europa League, you can hear | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
full commentary on BBC WM and BBC Radio Stoke. | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
Harry Potter is the most successful film franchise of all time, turning | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
a whole load of unknown teenage actors into worldwide stars. Among | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
them, our very own Oliver and James Phelps from Sutton Coldfield, who | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
were cast in the roles of the Weasley Twins. Now, after eight | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
movies it's all come to an end. Ben Sidwell's been to meet the brothers | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
and find out what the last 11 years of their lives have been like and | :22:55. | :23:05. | |
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We told all our closest friends we were going to be in Harry Potter | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
and they did not believe us. We any told a few people, and they did not | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
believe us. Then a week later we turned up with ginger hair, and | :23:21. | :23:31. | |
then they said, OK, maybe you are. At school we were just going into | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
year 10. We picked our GCSEs, and neither of us picked drama. It was | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
not on our radar at the time. 14, Oliver and James Phelps, from | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
Sutton Coldfield, began filming the first Harry Potter movie. Back then, | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
no one had any idea just how big it would all become. We knew they | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
would make two, and there were whispers of three or four. But to | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
do eight... And the premiere for the last one last month, to bring | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
the whole of London to a standstill, because they reckon in and around | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square, they reckon there were | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
20,000 people. The twins have received a similar reception around | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
the world and get plenty of fan mail. Some more unusual than others. | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
The weirdest one was recently. James got a massive box. A huge | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
package. I thought, this should be good. I opened it up and there was | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
a water melon in sight, which said, please sign and send back. Despite | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
the fame and adulation and money they have received, both James and | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
Oliver still live in the Midlands and have no intention of leaving. | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
Earlier in the year we were in the States the two months. Although it | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
was really nice weather and quite miserable over here, when we came | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
home, we said, I'm glad to be home. We still go down to Birmingham and | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
we both go down to Gloucester to watch the rugby. The Midlands is | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
our home. Both Oliver and James continue to make movies. But | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
whatever the future brings, they have some fantastic stories to tell | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
their children in the future. never kept a scrapbook, but no | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
friends and family who have kept scrapbooks. We saw a couple of | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
weeks ago, things we forgot even happened. As you say, it will be | :25:31. | :25:41. | |
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great to show kids and Gran kids. We're very lucky. | :25:43. | :25:52. | |
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Now, a look at the weather. Can you do any magic on that? I am afraid | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
not! We have had many changes since the start of the week, so the | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
weekend is unsettled but still warm. Temperatures in the low twenties. | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
That is thanks to this area of low pressure. It will produce a narrow | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
but fairly intense band of rain tomorrow night and into Saturday | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
morning. The best day in terms of dry weather and sunshine will be | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
tomorrow. In the interim period, we are looking at today's main | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
clearing to the north-east. Under clear skies, temperatures will dip | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
to lows of around seven Celsius, so in other chilly night ahead. It | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
does mean that tomorrow morning we start off with a good deal of | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
sunshine right across the board. It stays dry today even though we get | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
an increasing cloud. Temperatures rising to 20 Celsius, so it will be | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
warmer than today and it turns even warmer during the weekend. Tomorrow | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
night we get the cloud increasing and rain moving in. Even then those | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
temperatures already left, with loads of about 13 or 14 Celsius. | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
Fairly wet on Saturday, some heavy showers on Sunday but highs of 23 | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
A look at tonight's main headlines: The frantic scramble for a | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
university place - tens of thousands are expected to miss out | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
after another record A level year. And around 20,000 people turned out | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
in Birmingham at the open air funerals of three men killed during | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
last week's riots. That's all from us this evening, | :27:35. | :27:37. |