26/12/2013 Midlands Today


26/12/2013

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throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. We are back with

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Good evening. Shopping centres across the region

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have been busy today as thousands of people turned out for the Boxing Day

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sales. There were 100 metre queues to get into Telford Shopping Centre

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at 6am, while retail managers in Cheltenham and Coventry were both

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expecting more than 25,000 shoppers today. And customers also seemed

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ready to spend, as Sarah Falkland reports.

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It is quarter to six. Are you ready to shop?

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That is all 2000 of them ready to spend money. That is how long the

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queue was at Next at 6pm. Right at the front was this lady with a

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raffle ticket. How long have you been waiting?

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Six `` since 12:30am. And the queue at Selfridge's began

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to grow. This woman had been holding the top spot since 4am.

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It is the adrenaline rush that I get being the first and spending money.

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An estimated 200,000 people will be shopping in the Ball ring today.

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Football is down than before Christmas. But to spend is up. How

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much have you spent? ?1400. It took me half an hour. I've

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bought three of my siblings with me. I am feeling all right and happy.

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Do you think that you got good bargains?

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Yes, I did. I got a whole wardrobe for my husband and.

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It has been a very strong start for us today. Next and Selfridge's

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queues were probably longer than they have been in years.

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But what of Rebecca, who was hoping to buy designer handbags?

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There was a blue one on the side, I thought I wasn't sure, I later went

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back and it was gone. The moral of the sales, those who

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snooze lose. Insurance assessors have been

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examining the wreckage of flats and businesses destroyed by fire in the

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centre of Birmingham yesterday. Firefighters were called to

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properties above a shisha bar on Digbeth high street early on

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Christmas morning. Two people were taken to hospital with broken bones

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after jumping to safety. 11 more were rescued from neighbouring

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buildings. Detectives have been given extra

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time to question a man after the body of an elderly man was found in

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Stafford. The 22`year`old was arrested on suspicion of being unfit

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to drive through either drink or drugs. The body was found in

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Shakespeare Road in Highfields in the early hours of Christmas

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morning. And an investigation's under way

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into the death of a man in Kidderminster. He was found this

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morning in a pond in the front garden of a house in Chaucer

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Crescent. He hasn't yet been formally identified by West Mercia

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Police. Moving onto sport and today's

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football fixtures. We'll start with the Premier League, where Aston

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Villa lost to Crystal Palace 1`0. Stoke City travelled to Newcastle

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and were also beaten, 5`1. West Bromwich Albion held Tottenham to a

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1`1 draw. In the Championship, there was a

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draw too for Birmingham City, who ended the match against Wigan 0`0.

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Onto League One now and Coventry beat Peterborough 4`2. Walsall lost

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to Bristol City, 1`0. Port Vale were at home to Notts County, beating

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them 2`1. Shrewsbury lost to Tranmere 1`0. Wolves came away with

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a win, beating Crewe 2`0. In League Two, Burton Albion beat

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Northampton, the score there 1`0. And it was a similar story at

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Cheltenham, who beat Exeter 1`0. Finally the Conference, with a 1`1

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draw between Tamworth and Nuneaton. And Kidderminster beat Hereford 2`1.

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Time to check on the Midlands weather now.

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Good evening. We have wet and windy conditions now because of this low

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pressure. It has been developing out of the Atlantic and has begun to

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work its way in. It will increase the wind, up to 50 mph. This band of

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rain moving to the east. There will be localised flooding. Throughout

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the first part of tomorrow morning, then, once the rain clears, there

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will be some brightness, but it will stay very windy. The winds will read

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is `` reach gale force at times. But better weather on the way for the

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weekend. More on the weather in a moment. And

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the programme will be back at 10:15pm. Goodbye.

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Hello there, most of us have had a quiet Boxing Day, mostly dry,

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chilly, lingering mist, light winds. That is all about to change. The

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next storm arriving on our doorstep right now, over night tonight will

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see wet and windy weather. The winds peak tomorrow lunchtime. It has

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started raining in Cornwall, the rain will sweep eastwards. For all

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of us overnight wet and windy weather. Snow to the Pennines. For

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most of us wet and very windy. 40-50mph gusts inland, 60-70mph

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around exposed coasts. Any extra rain will be unwelcome particularly

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for those most prone areas across parts of southern England and up

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into East Anglia. 10mm inland, 0mm around the coast. The rain could

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well linger for a time across the south-east. It will clear.

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Brightness, but a whole lot of showers wrapped around the centre of

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the low pressure across the west of Scotland. It will not feel all that

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cam foshl out there. Particularly

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