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Good evening. It's been a day of clearing up after yesterday's huge | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
storm which left a trail of destruction. Several families were | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
forced to abandon their homes after what's described as a mini`tornado | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
swept through a village in Warwickshire. Giles Latcham reports. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
Filmed by a villager in Galley Common near Nuneaton, debris | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
everywhere, the immediate aftermath of freak weather some are describing | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
as a mini tornado. I looked out of the window and I could see this | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
tornado whipping round. Next thing we knew the whole lot was coming | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
down. Three families were moved out | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
overnight, their homes left uninhabitable. We had a load of | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
rubble collapsing. My mum got scared, I heard her shouting, and a | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
policeman knocked on the door saying part of the roof had come off. Look | :00:58. | :01:07. | |
at the back of this VW here, the tiles still in place. Can you | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
imagine what damage they would have done if they had hit a person? My | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
father's quite shocked. He's lived in the village for as long as I can | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
remember. We've never had anything like this happen. At a nearby riding | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
school, they were rehoming their horses today, the storm ripping the | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
roofs from a row of stables. There were horses running around | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
everywhere, as everybody had to run to let them out. It was pretty | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
frightening. This series of pictures shows the storm's progress across | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
the region, the darkened skies illuminated by lightning, | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
accompanied by hailstorms. The lightning struck at Ha'penny Green | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
near Bridgnorth and travelled down the television aerial of a house in | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
Stirchley in Birmingham, starting a blaze. One big bang and the next | :01:52. | :02:01. | |
thing I knew it was right up to the ceiling, all the flames. It cracked | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
all the window. A woman was treated for smoke inhalation after lightning | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
set fire to homes in Stourbridge, but there are no reports of serious | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
injury. Two international energy companies | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
have told the BBC that they've ruled out fracking in the West Midlands. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
They say the geology of this region will prevent commercial drilling. | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Ben Godfrey reports. Dart Energy wants to start fracking in the UK. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
The multinational operates a third of the 33 licensed sites looking for | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
oil and gas in the West Midlands. But their boss says they won't be | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
fracking here. This is our less attractive area from a technical | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
perspective. Our geologists have looked at the subsurface and we | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
think it is unlikely to be a significant player in unconventional | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
gas. Fracking involves drilling into shale and widening tiny cracks, some | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
less than a million metre wide. Water, sand and chemicals are pumped | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
in at high pressure to flush the gas to the surface. Another energy firm, | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
Cuadrilla, which drew protests at its Lichfield headquarters last | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
year, is also ruling it out here. The Prime Minister is offering | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
councils incentives if they support fracking, such as keeping more money | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
in tax revenue. We've got to look closely at what the Government's | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
offering for that. That's balanced against the need for cheaper energy. | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
There needs to be, if fracking did come about, real advantages to the | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
community. There's certainly no political consensus. While | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
Staffordshire hadn't ruled out fracking applications, over the | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
border and Conservative`led Cheshire East council, which includes George | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Osborne's constituency, doesn't it want it here. One planning expert | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
says there needs to be more public debate about fracking. We don't at | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
the moment have a coherent energy policy, so fracking is being evolved | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
within this gap in policy. It might appear as an opportunist cash and | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
grab. While shale rock in the West Midlands isn't even as commercially | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
viable for fracking, others have thought about drilling into coal | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
seams to extract methane. The Government has been defending | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
the salaries paid to HS2 bosses. The chief executive appointed to run the | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
high`speed rail project is being paid ?750,000, and the new Chairman, | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Sir David Higgins, who visited the Midlands this month, has a salary of | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
almost ?600,000. They're tasked with ensuring the ?43 billion scheme is | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
completed on time and on budget. It is a large salary. It is huge! | :04:42. | :04:52. | |
There is no question about it, but I'm pleased that engineers rather | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
than bankers can be seen to get big rewards for delivering what will be | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
very important pieces of national ininfrastructure. | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
Football, and the region's interest in this year's FA Cup is over. Stoke | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
City's 1`0 defeat at Chelsea means none of the Midlands clubs has made | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
it through to the fifth round. Now, what's happening with the | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
Midlands weather? Charlie Slater has the forecast. | :05:16. | :05:16. | |
it through to the fifth round. Now, what's happening with the Good | :05:17. | :05:17. | |
evening to you. We've had a bit of everything today. A lot of wet | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
weather. Unfortunately there's more to come as we go through the night. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
What's more interesting, because it is cold, some showers could turn | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
wintry. We are talking accumulations of snow mainly over higher ground, | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
where you might get a dusting. But you could get snow at lower levels | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
as well. Quite an icy start to Monday. As we go through the day, | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
there is more wet weather to come. When you throw more wet weather into | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
a cold air mass, you might get more sleet and snow. | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
We're back just after 10.15pm. Until then, have a good evening. Goodbye. | :05:53. | :06:02. | |
Until then, plenty more news on our website. Bye-bye. | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
Good evening. will keep going through the nights | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
tonight and as the air turns colder, | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
tonight and as the air turns wintry. A mixture of sleet and snow | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
leaving us with the risk advice The band of rain has cleared | :06:22. | :06:22. |