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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: He inspired | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
and humbled ` thousands of tributes paid to cancer patient Steve Evans, | :00:07. | :00:15. | |
who's died at the age of 52. A gentleman who has bizarrely | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
touched the lives of hundreds and thousands of people. | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
We'll be asking the Mayor of Wolverhampton how Steve's home city | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
plans to honour him. Also tonight: Think the unthinkable ` the advice | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
to authorities dealing with suspected child abuse following the | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
murder of Daniel Pelka. We are quite a reserved country in | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
terms of talking about people behaviours and family life but that | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
reservation does not work when trying to protect children. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Amusing or irritating? The advert that some claim reinforces | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
stereotypes about the Midlands. A bit of a laugh. Some of the way the | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
Black Country people speak. We should be proud of it. | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
West Bromwich Albion's new Spanish coach, Pepe Mel outlines his plans | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
for the rest of the season at his first media conference. | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
And after all the rain we've had recently, I wish could tell you | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
that's your lot, unfortunately it's now. The details coming up later. | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
Good evening. "Amazing, funny and magical in all senses." One of the | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
thousands of tributes paid to Steve Evans. There's been an overwhelming | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
reaction to the death of the council worker, part`time magician and | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
cancer patient. Steve was 52. For two years, his positive attitude | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
while fighting terminal stomach cancer has inspired and humbled. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Steve's 26,000 Twitter followers were among the first to hear the | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
news of his death this morning. Ben Godfrey reports from Wolverhampton | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
where Steve reached, in his words, the end of his journey. | :01:54. | :02:03. | |
Steve Evans referred to himself as that bloke from the council, living | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
an ordinary life but to his thousands of followers, he was an | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
extraordinary man. I had to relax and understand that the journey was | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
starting to come to an end. Steve's journey ended this morning and there | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
has been an incredible response from many of his Twitter followers. David | :02:25. | :02:35. | |
Baddiel described Steve as amazing, funny and magical. | :02:36. | :02:47. | |
A former building surveyor turned magician who championed | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
Wolverhampton. At the Civic Hall he managed the acts making such an | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
impression, his name has joined the wall of fame. When he was first | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
diagnosed, it was a hellish time however he was more worried about | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
telling other people and the effect it would have on them. Steve called | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
his battle with stomach cancer a journey shared by family and | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
friends. You think to yourself, I must have this for a reason, that is | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
the positive. Or you think to yourself, why be? That is a | :03:25. | :03:33. | |
negative. For many, Steve did more to raise awareness for stomach | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
cancer than any health professional. He has done immense work for us. I | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
feel guilty that maybe specialists like me should do more public | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
education. A gentle man and a gentleman who has bizarrely touched | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
the lives of hundreds and thousands of people. Last year he told me he | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
was happiest at home in his summer house, close to his wife and | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
daughters. A nurse said have you decided what your vision of heaven | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
is like? My version would be a Victorian theatre. I can envisage a | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
front row that contains Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and me | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
asking them to pick a card. Steve often appeared on BBC Radio five | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
Live. His final interview was broadcast on Tuesday. Love is all | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
around and I am so blessed that I have had so much a bit around me. | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
Well, Ben is in Wolverhampton for us tonight. Ben, you met Steve Evans | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
and got to know him. What would he have made of all the reaction to his | :04:47. | :04:56. | |
death? He struck me as a very humble man so I guess there would be a big | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
element of surprise to the response today. Steve's appeal has been the | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
way he has been so honest to talk about something people find to be a | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
turbulent subject. Take a look at tonight's paper. `` taboo subject. | :05:15. | :05:25. | |
You have known him for over 20 years. Steve was a great character, | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
personality. He was Wolverhampton 's favourite son. He did a lot for the | :05:35. | :05:44. | |
city, in particular but the mayors parlour as well. Working for the | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
various mayors charities. This is a man celebrated life as well as his | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
home city. How can the city remember him? The city will remember Steve in | :05:58. | :06:07. | |
particular but it is important to give regard to the family and see | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
how they want to take the issue forward and the Mayor's pile`up will | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
support whatever the family wish to do. The Civic Hall can play a role | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
in that in the future. We have spoken to one of Steve's daughters | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
who said she was overwhelmed by the messages of goodwill and wanted to | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
thank the public for their support. You're watching BBC Midlands Today. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Still to come tonight: Extra funding for manufacturing in our region ` | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
the Chancellor on how small businesses can think big. | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
Think the unthinkable ` the advice today to authorities dealing with | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
suspected child abuse following the murder of Daniel Pelka. The Coventry | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
schoolboy was murdered almost two years ago, beaten and starved by his | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
mother and stepfather. At the time, agencies were heavily criticised. A | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
progress report is ensuring that changes to working practices are | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
taking now place. Here's Joan Cummins. | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
A boy whose short and tragic life has prompted authorities to ask how | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
they deal with suspected child abuse. Daniel Pelka was four when he | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
died from a hedge injury `` head injury. His mother and stepfather | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
were jailed for a minimum of 30 years. The judge described the | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
treatment of Daniel as in comprehensible totality. A serious | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
case review in September found that Daniel was invisible and no | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
professional tried sufficiently hard enough to talk to him. | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
Recommendations included improving the way health, education, police | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
and social workers share information, something that is now | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
slowly changing. Sometimes it takes cases like this to make people | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
realise the level of commitment and consensus and partnership working | :08:05. | :08:16. | |
that is required. A specialist safeguarding hub is planned which | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
will enhance social assessment centres such as this. Professionals | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
in all be services have been reminded of their obligations to | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
children and despite cuts on the horizon, the council is determined | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
to prioritise child protection. We all have a responsibility, we cannot | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
guarantee that this case would never happen again but we have to ensure | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
we have processes in place to prevent it. There still remains | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
doubt in the city that the authorities are doing their best. We | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
have had experiences with people we know. It is wrong. The Council house | :08:57. | :09:05. | |
to protect children. The legacy of Daniel could be that the referrals | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
of child protection have increased after his death. | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
The Government has said there will be a full parliamentary debate on | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
the abuse scandal at Stafford Hospital, where patients died | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
unnecessarily. It comes on the day the health regulator, Monitor, | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
agreed to the break`up of the Mid Staffordshire Hospital Trust. | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
Stafford Hospital will become part of University Hospital North | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
Staffordshire and Cannock will transfer to the Wolverhampton Trust. | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Children and midwifery services will also be downgraded in Stafford. The | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, has until the end of | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
February to make a final decision. A report into safety at a quarry in | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
the Malvern Hills where two young men drowned last summer recommends | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
it shouldn't be filled in to prevent further deaths. Russell O'Neill and | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
Justas Juzenas died while swimming at Gullet Quarry, within a week of | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
each other last July. But the Royal Society for the Prevention of | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
Accidents says more measures do need to be looked at to discourage people | :10:02. | :10:11. | |
swimming there. Two former Shropshire businessmen | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
have gone on trial over ?14 million invested in children's animation | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
programmes. This series, The Boblins, did have some success, | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
Birmingham Crown Court heard, airing in the UK and abroad. But David | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
Griffiths, from Oreton near Cleobury Mortimer, and Simon Drew, who now | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
lives in East Sussex, allegedly gave investors misleading information. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
They deny deception and fraud. The Chancellor, George Osborne was | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
in the region today to announce extra funding to boost | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
manufacturing. The Government is providing ?30 million to help | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
develop new high`tech aerospace technology at the Manufacturing | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
Technology Centre in Coventry. Here's our Business Correspondent | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
Peter Plisner. A glimpse of the future, the | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
Coventry `based technology centre is already at the cutting edge of | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
automotive technology. Now it is to play a role in aerospace. A chance | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
for George Osborne to visit. The government is invested ?30 million | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
to create the centre. It will mean more jobs. In the three years we | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
have been here, we have grown to 275 employees. Centres like this are | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
helping to take the risk out of inventing research and development | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
costs. They are incredibly instance of an if an invention does not work, | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
it can be quite costly and catastrophic. Funding for a scheme | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
called catapult ensures that does not happen. It aims to bring | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
businesses and universities closer to gather. It is an area where we | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
have failed to exploit great inventions in the UK. The catapult | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
is about helping businesses grab those technologies and skills up to | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
the commercial world. And that is something that is already happening | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
at Warwick University. Here the development of composite materials | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
is helping to make cars lighter and fuel`efficient. Jaguar Land Rover | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
have already switched from steel to aluminium bodies on many models, | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
saving around a third of the weight but composite promises more savings. | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
We do see compensates being used in auto sports but it is still very | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
expensive. If we can make it cheaper and quicker to process, we will | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
start to see that in the average saloon. It is all about a British | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
economy that builds its manufacturing base. That invests in | :12:43. | :12:52. | |
the whole country. More investment here means that when it comes to | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
automotive and aerospace, this region continues to lead the way. | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
Our top story tonight: He inspired and humbled ` thousands of tributes | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
paid to cancer patient Steve Evans, who's died at the age of 52. | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
Your detailed weather forecast to come shortly from Rebecca. | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
Also in tonight's programme: What you think about this advert and | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
whether or not it mocks local accents.? It is more of a Birmingham | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
accent than a Black Country accent so people do take the Mickey out of | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
it. I do not take offence. And the Olympic legacy ` is it | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
succeeding in getting more children involved in sport? | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
An update now on the story we brought you yesterday of a family | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
from Telford fined for taking their children on holiday in term time. | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
Stewart Sutherland was told he had to pay nearly ?1,000 in fines and | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
court costs. Nearly 60,000 people have viewed the story on our | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
Facebook page and we've had hundreds of comments. Sharon Plimmer said, | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
"The act of truancy is clearly different to a family holiday. | :14:06. | :14:31. | |
Well, the Department for Education declined to be interviewed about | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
this today. But they did say children who attend school regularly | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
are nearly four times more likely to achieve five or more good GCSEs than | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
those who are regularly absent. What seems to be confusing a lot of | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
parents is that until last September, head teachers could grant | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
leave for the purpose of family holiday for up to ten school days. | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
Now it is only to be done in the most exceptional circumstances. | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
One education expert at Birmingham city University told us that even | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
short holidays can have a big impact. The child is always catching | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
up because of the students will know what they are doing, they know what | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
is expected of them. They will have missed all of that so it is an | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
issue. Meanwhile, a London businessman is | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
so incensed by the issue and what has happened to the Sutherlands that | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
he's trying to raise the money to pay their fine and costs. And, of | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
course, we'll keep you in touch with developments. | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
Something else now that's been getting people hot under the collar. | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
It's an advert for a hotel chain that seems to mock the accents of | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
Birmingham and the Black Country. Amusing or irritating? You can make | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
your own mind up. But does it reinforce negative stereotypes about | :15:48. | :15:59. | |
the Midlands? Here's Holly Lewis. And aspirational couple plan a mini | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
break in Paris but it is the accent that has everyone talking. When the | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
advert appeared on you chew it prompted plenty of comment, most of | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
it negative. One said, this is a shameful effort to mock the good | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
people of the Black Country and another, this advert makes me feel | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
physically sick. But in Smethwick, most people could see the funny | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
side. I saw it on the telly and it made me laugh. At first, I did not | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
know what was going on because you don't hear that sort of accent on | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
TV. It is more of a Birmingham accent so people do take the Mickey. | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
It does not bother me. It is a comedy thing. It is the latest in a | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
long line of similar controversies. Linguist Ursula Clarke has been | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
studying accents in the Midlands. Whereas in other regions in the UK, | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
people are very proud of the way they speak whereas the people in | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
this region are ashamed of the way they speak and they should be proud. | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
There was no shortage of pride in Smethwick today. We found the | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
Southern accent funny like they find our accent funny. | :17:33. | :17:43. | |
Well, Holly is with us now. Holly what have the company which | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
commissioned this advertisement had to say? We have had a statement and | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
they said, we wanted to create a popular due road that people would | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
warm to that is why we cast a Birmingham born and bred actor. We | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
wanted to use a friendly act to help create a distinctive character. | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
Quite a lot of debate about whether the accent was authentic but it does | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
appeared the actor is local. What is the general perception of Birmingham | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
and Black Country accents? Ursula Clarke has done a lot of work in | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
this area and she was saying the problem is that most studies tend to | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
link the Birmingham or Black Country accent to low intelligence. Which is | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
perhaps why something like this, people are sensitive about but one | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
of the recent studies linked Birmingham or Black Country | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
accents, that they came out on top for trustworthiness so it is | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
interesting to see how difficult it is to change perceptions but if | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
there are more people in the media with a certain accent, it certainly | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
does begin to chip away at these prejudices which are stirred up by | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
things like this. Football, and West Bromwich Albion | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
agreed to sell striker Shane Long to Hull City today. The fee's thought | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
to be ?7 million after various add`on clauses are included. So does | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
that give their new head coach Pepe Mel money to spend in the transfer | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
window? Well, he's held his first media conference today and a warning | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
there's flash photography in Dan Pallet's report. | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
He arrived through the gloom hoping to bring some Spanish sunshine into | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
Albion's season. Pepe Mel is days into the job and has a big challenge | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
ahead. Pepe Mel took Riel batters into Europe last season but this is | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
his first job in England so it is a big test. Good afternoon. I am | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
pleased to be here at West Brom. I am sorry for my English. I am not | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
worried because this summer, everybody will speak Spanish. No | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
problem. But he was also quick to point out he will not bring in new | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
background staff despite an interview last week stating he | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
would. There was no confusion at all. West Brom will keep their | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
existing team, the future will tell whether our systems come and join us | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
but I am happy at the moment and everyone is working well together. | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
Pepe Mel took charge of his first training session on Tuesday. He is | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
able to communicate his messages from a football point of view quite | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
easily, so he will be having lessons, he is keen to learn. He | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
does want to learn the language and he will have lessons over the next | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
few months. Pepe Mel knows there was work to be done. His task begins on | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
Monday with a visit to Everton and that will be no Spanish holiday. Dan | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
is at the hawthorns now. What did you make of the new head coach? He | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
came across really well today, very friendly, personable. He does speak | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
a bit of English. He has clearly done his homework on the Albion | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
fans. He knows it will be tough over the next four months but he said, | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
come the summer he might sign some Spanish players. The level of them | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
will depend on whether he can keep them in the Premier League. What | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
about that perceived language barrier because I'm not sure that | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
many Albion players speak Spanish? You would be surprised. It is so | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
international, Premier League football. Four of the team are fluid | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
in Spanish and an important member of the backroom staff. He | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
understands and speak it a little bit better than he let on today. He | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
is having intensive lessons so within a matter of weeks or months | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
he will be more fluid. Football is an international language and he | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
should not have problems getting his message across on the training | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
ground. It's almost 18 months since the | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
London Olympics, but the drive to build its legacy continues. A | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
competition to get more school children involved in sport was | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
launched today in Birmingham. Nick Clitheroe has been to meet one of | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
the city's rising sport stars taking part in the School Games. | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
This is 14`year`old basketball fanatic Rebecca. Two years ago she | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
was looking for a new sport to try so the teachers at Heartlands | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
Academy picked for the basketball team at the Birmingham School games. | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
I want to play in America for college basketball and then | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
represent Great Britain in the Olympics. I want to do my own battle | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
club in Africa. In Edgbaston they were launching the latest drive. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
Setup to build on the legacy of the London Olympics, there is plenty at | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
stake in getting it right. Nationwide, more than ?100 million | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
has been spent on the School games in the run`up to 2015 so has it all | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
been worth it? In the citywide competition we have 95 schools | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
involved, 1600 competitors and over 80 volunteers. There is still more | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
to be done and we want to make sure that we give as wide an opportunity | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
to the Birmingham schools as possible. It is not all about | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
targets as sport is supposed to be fun. We have been doing the javelin | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
and long jump. Good because everyone can join in. If Rebecca is part of | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
that British Olympics basketball team in Tokyo 2020, remember where | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
it all began. It's fair to say it's been a wet | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
start to 2014, with many places being flooded, including Worcester | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
county cricket club. Today though, the clean`up operation got underway | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
at the New Road ground. Flood waters have now started to go down, and it | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
was all hands on deck to tidy up the mess left behind. So, is there more | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
rain to come? Rebecca is here with the forecast. | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
I am beginning to worried that I sound like a stuck record because | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
all I talk about is rain. There is plenty more in the forecast. We have | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
showers around tonight. They will stick with us into tomorrow and by | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
Saturday, more persistent rain to come. By Sunday, we will see things | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
getting colder but that is by the time we get to Sunday. Though | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
showers already rattling through the region to Mike. Some of them will be | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
quite heavy at times. Brief periods of respite but most places will | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
continue to see showers right the way until tomorrow morning. With | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
plenty of cloud, rain, temperatures will not fall too low. Loans of five | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
or six Celsius but further west it could drop lower. Tomorrow morning, | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
we have though showers around, some will be heavy. The possibility of | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
help and thunder through the morning but by lunchtime, we will start to | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
see things using as a ridge of high pressure builds. Good spells of | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
sunshine. Not a bad way to and Friday. Temperature is around seven | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
or eight Celsius. Winds will be lighter and it will feel pleasant. | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
For Friday night, we continue to keep these calm conditions. Clear | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
spells to begin with so temperatures will drop away. The cloud then | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
builds once again ahead of the next weather system working its way | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
through on Saturday. Some mist and fog patches developing but | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
temperatures will be around four or five Celsius. Through Saturday we | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
have this next band of rain moving through. Between five and ten | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
millimetres of rain. With all that saturated ground, it will add to | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
that. By Sunday we will see the isobars widening and the wind will | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
drop out so things will stagnate. Temperatures will fall away, some | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
frost as well. It is staying cold as we make our way into next week but a | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
soggy weekend to get through before that. | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
Tonight's headlines from the BBC: the Chancellor George Osborne backs | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
an above inflation rise in the minimum wage. | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
Finally tonight, the death of Steve Evans this morning, in | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
Wolverhampton. He called himself ordinary. But the way he dealt with | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
terminal stomach cancer, often with humour, was simply extraordinary. | :27:24. | :27:34. | |
I know there are many people who are on limited journeys and far too many | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
with cancer, but what makes our journey I is the amount of people | :27:40. | :27:48. | |
that are on it with it with and the amount of love we are surrounded | :27:49. | :27:49. |