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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: 22 years | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
after she went missing in Coventry, three people are arrested over the | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
disappearance of Nicola Payne. We'll be hearing what the family | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
have to say about this latest development after more than two | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
decades of torment. Also tonight: Plans for a second | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
runway at Birmingham Airport are put on hold for nearly 40 years as | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
expansion's recommended at Heathrow or Gatwick. | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
We would like Birmingham to grow but we don't think it is likely to be | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
the solution to the problem of command in London and the | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
south`east. As the construction industry gets | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
moving again, bosses warn of a "skills time bomb" ` not enough | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
young people are being trained. Celebrating with concerts just a few | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
hundred yards apart, the bands that brought us two of our best loved | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
Christmas songs exactly 40 years ago. It has become and injuring | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
thing for the public. We are part of people's Christmas. `` in during the | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
thing. And a photograph today of calm and | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
serenity at Millennium Park in King's Norton. But there's a storm | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
brewing and it's heading our way soon. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Good evening. Police investigating the disappearance of a young mother | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
22 years ago have arrested two men on suspicion of her abduction and | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
murder. Nicola Payne was 18 when she went missing after she set off to | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
walk to her parents' home in Coventry in December, 1991. Joan | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Cummins is in Coventry now, close to where Nicola was last seen alive. | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
What more do you know about the arrests? What we know is that these | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
two men are both 49, were arrested early this morning at addresses in | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
the city. We understand that detectives are also questioning at | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
51`year`old woman on of perverting the course of justice. Nicola | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
disappeared in the area behind me 22 years ago this weekend. | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Nicola Payne was a young mother with a baby and her whole life ahead of | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
her when to disappeared in December, 1991. Despite a massive | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
search, police reconstructions and numerous searches around the city | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
over the last 22 years, Nicola's whereabouts have remained a | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
mystery. Speaking just days after she first went missing, her mother | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
said she feared the worst. I feel she is lying dead somewhere, I | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
really do. Everybody says it's wrong, but I believe it. Nicola | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
disappeared on this path on a foggy day in 1991. Today, her father spoke | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
to the BBC and he said they're not their hopes up. They've been here | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
before. But they still remain optimistic that finally they will | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
find out the truth about their daughter. Today's arrests at a | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
number of addresses in the city has been keenly followed by people in | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
the community who now Nicola's family and once the mystery is | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
solved forever. At Christmas it is different because it is a part of | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
the year that everybody is getting ready and they think, how does my | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
mum feel? We are a community and we feel for our own. Most people are | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
shocked by her disappearance. People in the area she lived were shocked | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
to say the least. We are trying to build up the confidence of people in | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
that area. The police reveal that a number of items are being analysed | :03:59. | :04:08. | |
using cutting edge technology. We can't begin to imagine how difficult | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
this continues to be fun Nicola's parents. Have they said anything | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
about today's development? Today the family have said they don't want to | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
do any television interviews. Speaking to the BBC on the phone, | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
her father said this was obviously a difficult time for the entire | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
family. He said the police had been keeping them informed of every | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
development. But there was a word of caution. He said there have been | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
arrests before and nothing happened. Now they simply want to know what | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
happened to Nicola Payne. Coming up later in the programme: | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
The Premier League footballers delivering Christmas cheer on a | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
hospital ward as their club continues the search for a new head | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
coach. Plans for a second runway at | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
Birmingham to expand UK airport capacity are tonight on hold. New | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
runways at Heathrow and Gatwick are among the options that have been | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
short listed instead by the Airports Commission. In a moment we'll be | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
talking to Birmingham Airport's chief executive and a West Midlands | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
business leader. But first here's Ben Godfrey. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Passengers arriving at Birmingham Airport today caught a glimpse of | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
its runway extension, close to completion. But you won't see them | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
turning the soil for a second runway until at least 2050, if at all. The | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Government`appointed Davies Commission wants to restrict further | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
growth here for now in favour of expansion at Heathrow and Gatwick | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
airports. We would like Birmingham to grow but we don't think it is | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
likely to be the solution to the problem of demand in London and the | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
South East. If there's any bitterness, | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
Birmingham Airport isn't showing it. Today they described their role as | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
an integral piece of the long`term aviation puzzle. What's puzzling to | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
some is that a second runway's needed at all. The need for a second | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
runway is only so it is a kind of like a motorway where you can use | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
the hard shoulder in a rush hour. It is there to help the airport to get | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
traffic for these mythical business flights. It is not going to happen. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Each year, nine million passengers pass through Birmingham Airport. | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
When the new runway extension's completed in April, it will create | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
capacity for 36 million passengers a year. The airport says a second | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
runway would bring 70 million passengers and support 250,000 jobs. | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
Last year the airport was given special permission to display the | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
Olympic rings on its new control tower. It symbolised a desire to | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
switch from regional hub to international gateway. This is a | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
city in growth mode. We are seeing record numbers of visitors. The key | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
is that had we been high up the priorities it might have accelerated | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
the process. Local businesses are also | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
frustrated. This automotive parts supplier says | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
further airport expansion would boost their business in long | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
distance destinations like Malaysia. You always feel that Birmingham is | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
left behind. We are the second city, and you would think there would be | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
more support for us in the UK economy. | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
In the Commons this afternoon, local MPs queued up to question the | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
Transport Secretary. People in the West Midlands will be staggered they | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
have got to wait until 2050 before any consideration will be given to | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
its expansion. There is more availability at Birmingham airport. | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
I want to see the airport able to prosper along the lines of other | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
airports. Last month, a new aircraft hangar | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
opened here, creating 150 new jobs. And tonight the leader of Birmingham | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
City Council is claiming the commission has failed to acknowledge | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
this region's potential for aviation growth. | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
Joining us from our studio in London this evening is Paul Kehoe, chief | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
executive of Birmingham Airport. Good evening. Can you put time into | :08:16. | :08:25. | |
lobbying for expansion and not be disappointed? I welcome the report | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
because many of the things in it, we suggested. This was a 100 year | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
option. He certainly put us in the middle of that at 2050. We | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
originally said that 2037 was the earliest we wanted to consider | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
building another runway. So we are not far within the time frame is | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
micro`timeframe. `` within the time frame. Businesses and MPs are | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
disappointed. I just putting a brave face on it? Now, because we know | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
that Birmingham has got the right ingredients. I have never worked at | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
an airport where we have got such support. I'm convinced we have got | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
all the ingredients to make this work. The new hangar, the new | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
control tower, and from next year the new extension. Halfway down the | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
years, we are going to get HS2 as well. We are already the best | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
connected airport in the country. I am still hopeful, and why? It is a | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
big world. It does all seem to be about London and the south`east | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
again. A lot of people in London can't see beyond the M25. But it is | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
a two horse race now. There are eggs in a couple of baskets, he threw all | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Gatwick. The problems at Heathrow are so great that it is likely to be | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
Gatwick. That supports an opportunity in Birmingham. But 2050 | :09:52. | :10:02. | |
is so far off. In 2003, we were talking of 2035. These are long`term | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
investments. We are talking of infrastructure for over 150 years. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
I'm not surprised they are looking so far ahead. You don't consider | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
cracking on yourself with an extra runway? Now, we wanted to preserve | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
that option for the future. We have got four times the availability. We | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
can create thousands of jobs in the next few years from our own growth. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
What we were hoping for was a bit of acceleration, perhaps bringing the | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
future forward. We haven't got that. It is business as usual at | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
Birmingham airport. We have got some great assets to deploy. | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
Well, what about the impact on the West Midlands economy? I'm joined in | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
the studio by Jerry Blackett, chief executive of the Greater Birmingham | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
Chamber of Commerce. What do you think of this report? I would echo | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
what Paul has said. It is a 230 page report. Read the detail, the fact | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
they are not committed to a single hub, these are things we have been | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
lobbying for. But it is very south`east and London centric. It is | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
muddled thinking. On the one hand, government is talking ambitiously | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
about rebalancing. It is putting down high`speed rail plans. It has a | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
30 year view of what kind of country this could be, what kind of economy | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
we could have. On the other hand, the airport vision is lacking. It | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
doesn't tie into a clear view of what the cities outside of London | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
could be going. We know we have got great economies, great cities. | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Aviation is key to it. We do have some more work today. But this is | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
only an interim report. We have still got more time to convince the | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
elite in London that indeed investing outside of London is | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
critical if we are serious about rebalancing the UK away from this | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
huge dependency on London and the south`east. We want London and the | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
south`east to prosper. But we're not making the most of our great cities. | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
Coming back to HS2, if it were to happen, the distance between London | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
and Birmingham airport would be about 38 minutes. That is less than | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
two Gatwick. Indeed. We're winning the rational argument, I think. It | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
just seems again that Birmingham and the Midlands is being overlooked. | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
Not for the first time. It is a long game. Are very long game! Let's | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
remember that we have won some things that we have won something | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
silly and sounds of the government's determination to move | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
away from a single hub error `` we have won something today in terms of | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
the government's determination to move away from a single hub airport. | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
We will convince London and the south`east to follow our story. | :13:02. | :13:10. | |
Thank you. The Heart of England NHS Trust has | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
breached its licence by forcing patients to wait too long in | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
accident and emergency. The trust is now legally obliged to find ways of | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
improving its performance by bringing in expert help from | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
elsewhere. The region's construction industry | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
is warning of a skills time bomb, with two thirds of contractors in | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
Birmingham struggling to recruit young workers. The construction | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
industry training board says a new generation need to be made more | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
aware of the opportunities in building. Sarah Falkland reports. | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
Parkgate, the latest addition to Shirley High Street. Shops, | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
restaurants and homes. It's all cost ?85 million. The construction | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
industry is on the up again. Thereon more jobs to be had. Nearly 20% of | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
the British workforce is set to retire in the next decade. 68% of | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
contractors here in Birmingham say they are struggling to recruit. | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
Which is why Vasile, who's from Romania, is among the 300 strong | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
workforce here. He has his own ideas as to why young British people might | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
not want to work in construction. They don't like it because it is | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
outside. Most of the time may you outside. Maybe it is difficult for | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
them. So JCB has joined forces with the | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
construction training board and embarked on a skills drive. This | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
industry expert says there's a lot up for grabs. Birmingham, as a | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
centre itself, has plans of ?17 billion of construction projects for | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
the next 5`10 years. The library is just the tip of the iceberg. Within | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
those, we can create up to 1000 apprenticeships over the next few | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
years. 12`year`old Tiger`Leigh's convinced. | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
He's on a pilot project at Greenwood Academy in Castle Vale, which offers | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
construction classes to pupils who've had difficulties at school. | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
Back at Parkgate, the project manager's confident that the 'skills | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
time bomb' feared by some won't go off. The workforce is out there. It | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
is about getting out onto the site and learning the trade. It is not in | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
a textbook. No staff shortages here ` the | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
project's on schedule for its spring opening. | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
Our top story tonight: 22 years after she went missing in Coventry, | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
three people are arrested over the disappearance of Nicola Payne. | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
Shefali will be along shortly with the detailed weather forecast for | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
the Midlands. Also ahead: The only British boxer | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
to have landed an amateur world title ` can he land the pro title | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
too? West Bromwich Albion's hunt for a | :15:49. | :16:06. | |
new head coach after the departure of Steve Clarke continues this | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
evening, with Gianfranco Zola, who resigned as manager as Watford | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
yesterday, the new bookies' favourite. But life goes on at the | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
Hawthorns, and today the club delivered some festive cheer to | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
hospital patients in the Black Country. Here's Dan Pallett. | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
What a moment for six`year`old Subhan Ali. He'd left the ward for | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
an X`ray and returned to find four of his Albion heroes waiting for | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
him. He has now got a better reason to skip his daily wash. Yes, the | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
patients on the children's ward at Dudley's Russells Hall Hospital were | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
full of Christmas cheer today. People like Sam Taylor and his Dad | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
Andrew were thrilled. Amazing! It has made your day, your year. Yeah. | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
It is going to be the best Christmas. | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
But there was one thing missing. The club photo still shows Steve Clarke | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
at the helm, but he was sacked on Saturday and that's affected the | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
squad. It has been a massive influence to me. Coming to the later | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
stage of my career, I am looking to doing my coaching badges. I am | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
looking to go forward. The last 18 months, he has been a massive | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
influence. Gianfranco Zola has emerged as a bookies' favourite to | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
replace Clarke. But whoever takes over now has a battle on just to | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
keep the Baggies in the top flight. At the moment we have got to get out | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
of the position we are in. It is all well and good talking about top half | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
finishes, but at this moment we are in a fight with half the Premier | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
League to get into that top half. We need to get out of the position we | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
are in. I don't think we can look ahead any further. | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
It's going to be in interesting festive period at the Hawthorns. But | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
today they showed they haven't forgotten what Christmas is really | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
about. So what's the mood of West Brom fans | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
tonight? Dan is downstairs here at the Mailbox in the BBC WM radio | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
studio for the football phone`in with Paul Franks and Hawthorns | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
favourite Richard Sneekes. What are they saying? The debate is raging. | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
West Bromwich Albion and the sacking of Steve Clarke is dominating. Port | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
is on air. Let's have a quick talk with Paul. What the fans been | :18:26. | :18:35. | |
saying? It is very mixed. Some are saying it was wrong to get rid of | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
Clark. Others are saying it is fine, the calendar results have not | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
been good. But now, with four key games coming up, they are saying, | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
well, who are we going to get? Whoever comes in as head coach has | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
got to work with the same group of players. Quite a few fans are saying | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
there is an imbalance within the squad. So, no managers spend on who | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
is going to come to the hawthorns, Richard? Gem Franco Zola, to be | :19:05. | :19:15. | |
frank. `` GN Franco. They would like to see somebody like that. They will | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
need somebody experienced as an assistant, somebody who has been at | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
the mission manager. `` a premiership manager. And he is the | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
favourite, and the head coach. He is. He has just resigned at | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
Watford. The football he would like to play is the kind of football West | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
Brom fans would like to say. They want to act fast because there is a | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
lot of games coming up. And the football phone`in continues | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
on BBC WM until seven o'clock. Birmingham's Frankie Gavin has a | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
unique place among British boxers. He's the only Briton ever to win an | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
amateur world title, but in 2014 Frankie plans to become a | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
professional world champion as well. And the next step on that path comes | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
in Leeds this weekend, when he defends his Commonwealth title. Just | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
a warning, Nick Clitheroe's report contains flashing images. | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
It's only when you get this close to a boxer that you see just how hard | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
they hit. I wouldn't want to get in the ring with Frankie Gavin. Plenty | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
of his potential opponents might not fancy it, either. So that's why he's | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
having to be patient as he waits for the world title shot he craves. I'm | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
not in boxing for the fame. I am in it to be the best in the world. The | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
more you know and the more money you earn, which is good because I have a | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
family, but rather I would win war titles. | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
As an amateur, Frankie was world and Commonwealth champion. But there | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
were disappointments, too. He missed out on the Beijing Olympics because | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
of problems making the weight. But since turning pro there have been 17 | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
straight wins, 12 of them knockouts. If we are standing here in 12 | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
months, we will be talking about him as world champion? Definitely. | :21:10. | :21:19. | |
Within 18 months. But it is also about money, politics and the right | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
man in the right place at the right time. | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
Former world champion Amir Khan is a potential target, but whoever steps | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
into the ring with Gavin faces a man with utter determination. I hate | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
losing. Even if I am playing with my five`year`old stun on the computer, | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
if he is winning, I will turn his pad off! | :21:40. | :21:51. | |
Future opponents have been warned. In 1973, Wizzard and Slade were two | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
of the biggest bands in the country, one from Birmingham, the other from | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
up the road in Wolverhampton, and both battling it out in December for | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
the highly prized Christmas number one. 40 years on, and with both | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
songs now Christmas classics, the battle resumed as both acts last | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
night played live at different venues in Birmingham, a couple of | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
hundred yards apart. Ben Sidwell had tickets for both. There is some | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
flash photography in this report. It was the night that Christmas 1973 | :22:14. | :22:23. | |
returned to Birmingham. It is bringing the knee back to my youth. | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
`` bringing me. Almagro I had posters on my wall. I can't believe | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
40 years has gone. It is shocking. 40 years ago Slade and Wizzard, led | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
by singer Roy Wood, dominated the UK singles chart. Between them in 1973 | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
they had five number ones and released two of the biggest | :22:47. | :22:47. | |
Christmas hits of all time. When I wrote it, I didn't even think | :22:48. | :23:09. | |
it might still be around. People say, do you get fed up of it? I say, | :23:10. | :23:23. | |
no way, it is wonderful. 40 years on and they are still packing them in. | :23:24. | :23:34. | |
Down the road, the man responsible for that other song is playing here | :23:35. | :23:35. | |
at the Symphony Hall. I can still remember the day we | :23:36. | :23:53. | |
recorded. It was the summer of 1973 in the `` New York. It was 100 | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
degrees outside. They thought we were crazy English men. Neither of | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
us knew the other one was doing a Christmas song. Strange. Any other | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
year, it would have been great. In the end Slade won the chart | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
battle and got the Christmas number one. From humble beginnings in | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
Walsall, 'Merry Xmas Everybody' is now thought to have been heard by | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
42% of the world's population. I keep thinking, everybody must have | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
this record by now! How does it keep on selling? Well, more people keep | :24:29. | :24:37. | |
getting born. I am 26 and I the song. It has got us in the mood to | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
party. Our kids are six and seven and they love it. So it's bands the | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
generations. If I knew the secret, I would be a very rich man. This time | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
of year, it is for a time. `` it is time. | :24:58. | :25:06. | |
That choir playing their they were the sons and daughters the original | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
choir from Erdington and Birmingham on the original recording. Amazing. | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
No complaints about the weather today, albeit a bit chilly, but it | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
is December after all. Here's Shefali to take us through the | :25:21. | :25:22. | |
forecast. is December after | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
It is December and it is about to turn to winter. That is why we are | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
beginning to feel then it in the air. Today was basically the calm | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
before the storm. The stormy conditions will be arriving tomorrow | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
in the shape of heavy rain and wind from the West. We have basically got | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
back to back systems. The second will be more potent, only because of | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
the steep area of low pressure pushing it along. Right now out | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
there it is fairly calm. We have got some showers in the far south`east | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
of the region but they will clear later on. After that it is going to | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
be relatively dry and clear. Again, this area will attract some itch `` | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
patchy mist and fog. The wind later in the night will pick up and | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
probably clear that. The wind is picking up ahead of the system for | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
morning. Temperatures remain above freezing for most places around. It | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
is going to be a wet and windy start to tomorrow. The rain is pushing | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
eastwards through the morning. It is not going to be persistent but it | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
will be heavy in places. By the afternoon kitchen start to show | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
signs of easing a bit. Temperatures will be on the slow side. We have | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
temperatures of 9`11d. It is not going to feel that mild with a | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
winds picking up two `` with wins picking up to 40 mph. Tomorrow | :26:50. | :26:58. | |
evening we have strong winds and potentially two inches of rain | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
falling in a short space of time. This will all be clearing eastwards | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
tomorrow night. In contrast, the end of the night will be much drier. | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
Again, temperatures remain above freezing. On Thursday we have got | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
the slackening isobars can indicate in calm conditions. You can see | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
those speckles of white which represents now on the highest | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
ground. `` which represent snow. Tonight's headlines from the BBC: At | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
least one new runway is essential at an airport in south`east England, | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
according to a Government commissioned review, with any | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
expansion plans for Birmingham to be put on hold until 2050. | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
And police investigating the disappearance 22 years ago of Nicola | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
Payne in Coventry have arrested three people. | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
That was the Midlands Today. I'll be back | :27:46. | :27:46. |