24/12/2013 Midlands Today
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struggled with an Australian barrage all tour. Let's hope this guy has | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Good evening. 20 flood warnings are now in place and the Midlands as | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
swollen waters continue to rise. Flood barriers were put up alongside | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
the Severn this afternoon, and the Environment Agency says several | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
motorists are lucky escapes after their cars were stranded in | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
deepwater. The waters of the Severn are | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
expected to peak at three and a half metres in Shrewsbury on Christmas | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Day. The Environment Agency was putting up flood barriers to protect | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
the town today. It expects to have to do the same in Worcestershire | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
tomorrow. Flood warnings are in place on the Severn, the Wye and the | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Avon. The ground is already saturated, and if the predicted rain | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
comes at the end of the week, the Environment Agency says rivers and | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
streams will become much more swollen and dangerous. The high | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
waters are closed several roads and made many others barely passable. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
The moment agency says too many motorists are taking risks by | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
driving through deep surface water. I was talking to a lady ten minutes | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
ago who was telling me upstream appear she had to help pull somebody | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
out this morning. It seems to be happening all the time, people just | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
don't know what the depth is, they should not do it. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
With more rain forecast, one riverside pub was preparing for the | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
worst in Worcester. For the local wildlife, though, the rising waters | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
proved more than the `` more of a fascination in the challenge. | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
The body of a man has been found in a river in Oxford. Police believe it | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
is the body of Michael Griffiths who went missing from his home in | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
Stechford and Birmingham. His car was found nearby. The body was found | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
in the River Thame near junction 88 the M 40 this morning. | :02:00. | :02:13. | |
Jobs are to be created by the company are WK operating out of the | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
Wedgwood/Royal Doulton warehouse. A toddler is recovering at home | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
after an operation to remove a tumour the size of a tennis ball... | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
Doctors were not sure whether Thomas Phillips would survive, but he is | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
excited to make excellent recovery. Thomas Phillips is one toddler | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
academic forward to two days unwrapping presents. Today on his | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
second birthday, his parents get their greatest gift, their son at | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
home on Christmas. After all we've been through, it's | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
fantastic. To see how Mikey is now, on his second birthday, it's | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
magical. Thomas became unwell in October. His | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
head appeared tilted. GPs at first thought it was a virus, but his | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
parents decided to pay privately for an MRI scan, and they bridge was | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
found. We never imagined. We thought it | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
would happen to someone else, it's not something that happens to you. | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
Surgeons and Birmingham Children's Hospital carried out a complex well | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
our operation. The tumour was wrapped around blood vessels at the | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
base of Thomas's skull. We believe we got all of it. There | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
is a few strands in other scans, we are planning to do another scan to | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
see whether that is just an appearance after surgery or whether | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
there might be a small residue. The tumour is known as Ependymoma | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
and affects just 30 children each year in the UK. | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
If you have a headache with `` if you have a child with headaches and | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
vomiting that goes on for more than two weeks, you should seek expert | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
guidance. Expats about hospital are delighted | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
with Thomas's progress, and he is excited to make a full recovery | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
after intensive course of chemotherapy. | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
What will the Christmas weather bring us? Here is Charlie Slater. | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
bring us? Here is Charlie Good news for Santa, it will not be | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
as windy as last night so he will not be blown around too much. In the | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
main it is a dry and Green Knight, temperatures around one or two | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
Celsius. Probably a little frost on Christmas Day, but not a bad day, | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
largely dry and bright. Some showers but I wouldn't pay them too much | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
mind. Into Boxing Day, not bad either. It looks like it'll be dry. | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
It will also be largely bright at times, but unfortunately it gets a | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
little worse come Friday. times, but unfortunately it gets | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
The national weather forecast is next, but from Midlands Today, | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
that's it, this side of Christmas. . From all of us, have a very happy | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
Christmas Day. Bye`bye. it from us - we are back on Boxing | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
Day at One o'clock. Merry Christmas. | :05:04. | :05:06. |
