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Hello, and welcome to Midlands Today. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
The headlines tonight: Time doesn't heal. | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
The parents of murdered teenager Georgia Williams talk of their | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
anguish. We get further and further away from our daughter. It does not | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
heal at all. Also tonight, a suspected victim of | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
domestic violence receives a profuse apology from West Midlands police as | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
two police officers under investigation after abusive remarks | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
were left on this teenager's phone. I felt imperative that I express my | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
shock to the complainant and my unreserved apologies. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Assessing the damage, the clear up gets underway as the flood waters | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
begin to fall. Too little too late. Nothing is being done. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
Have spade will dig. He's volunteering to unblock ditches in | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
flood hit Herefordshire and wants more of us to do the same. We have | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
got to the stage now where if we do not do something we will have | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
nowhere else at all. So, is the weather going to help or | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
hinder efforts? So far, so good, but with more rain forecast after today, | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
how bad could it be? I'll have all the details for you later. | :01:20. | :01:32. | |
Good evening. The parents of murdered Shropshire teenager Georgia | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Williams say only the charity set up in her name is keeping them going. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
In their first full television interview, Steve and Lynette | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
Williams thanked the people of Wellington for their support. But | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
they said the pain of Georgia's loss would haunt them forever. | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
It gets worse. We get further and further away from our daughter. It | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
does not heal at all. It's eight months since Steve and Lynette | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
Williams saw the community of Wellington come together for the | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
funeral of their 17`year`old daughter, Georgia, who was an air | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
cadet. Life for them gets no easier. But the charity set up in her name | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
to help young people enjoy the outdoor pursuits she did has | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
provided comfort. It has helped us over this past nine months, because | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
people have been doing semidivine things, and it has made us go out of | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
the house, where as we were inside these four walls and that was it. In | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
December, Jamie Reynolds was jailed for life for strangling Georgia with | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
a noose. Experts said he could have gone on to be a serial killer. The | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
psychologists that interviewed him have said that he will always be a | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
danger to women, so he should never be let out, never. Reynolds | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
handcuffed Georgia and killed her at his family home in Wellington, a | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
short distance from where she lived. I picture what Georgia's last | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
moments were like every day and think to myself, no`one should go | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
through that. She must have been terrified, and I would imagine got | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
the chance to plead for her life, but Reynolds showed no compassion. | :03:21. | :03:34. | |
The community of Wellington is still sharing Georgia's loss. And people | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
like Mike Sheridan are helping to raise money for the Georgia Williams | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
Trust. He's about to walk from Lands End to the AFC Telford United | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
football ground, where he and Georgia were match day volunteers. | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
After her story broke last year, like most people, I wanted to do | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
something to help, and I was given the opportunity to raise money for | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
the charity and I jumped at it. Chief Inspector Steve Williams heads | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
up the Georgia Williams Trust. For many years he has been a colleague | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
of Georgia's father, who's a detective constable. It has been | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
phenomenal, the interest and the wicked people have got behind the | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
trust. We have raised over ?40,000 and we have started to release some | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
of the money to people. And for Georgia's parents, the | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
charity has helped them try to look forward. Our home had become a | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
prison, and people were encouraging us to go out and support the charity | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
and show our appreciation. We would just like to thank everybody who was | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
involved in it. You're watching BBC Midlands Today. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
Good to have you with us tonight. Coming up later in the programme: | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
How the on air farmers in the Archers are getting to know the real | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
life drama in the flooded fields of Worcestershire. | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
Trust in the police is once again in the spotlight tonight. The West | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
Midlands force has offered a profuse apology to a suspected victim of | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
domestic violence after an abusive rant was left on her mobile phone, | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
apparently by police officers. A senior officer told us she is | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
shocked and devastated by the allegations. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
Teenager Alex Faragher had called the police claiming she was a victim | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
of domestic violence. Later, two police officers telephoned her. The | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
call went to answer phone, and it's claimed their highly abusive | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
comments were then recorded. Because of the poor sound quality we've | :05:39. | :05:39. | |
transcribed the conversation. For years, the police have given out | :05:40. | :06:10. | |
the message that women can come forward in confidence and trust to | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
talk about domestic violence. Today, a senior woman police officer wanted | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
to talk from the heart. Commander Rachel Jones has personally | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
apologised to the victim. I was shocked, but also devastated for the | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
complainant themselves, for other victims of domestic abuse, him and | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
fearing this will undermine reporting domestic abuse to the | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
police. You cannot have confidence in the individual. Can you have | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
confidence in the service? Yes. This is not a reflection of the work and | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
care and compassion of the police staff across the West Midlands. The | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
police officers have not been suspended, but while the | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
investigation takes place, they are not dealing with the public. | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
Domestic islands is a huge problem. One woman's group spoke out tonight. | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
To pick the phone up is a real big breakthrough for a woman, and then | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
to be let down by the system, there is going to be a lot of training for | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
these officers so they can value what women go through. The woman at | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
the centre of this controversy has so far spoken only to the police and | :07:37. | :07:46. | |
the newspapers. To the latest on the floods now, and | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
with the waters falling, families in Worcester have begun the job of | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
cleaning up flooded homes. Ben Sidwell reports from a Worcester | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
street some say they've been abandoned. | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
This is a familiar sight in Diglis Avenue in Worcester. Every one of | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
the 24 houses were flooded, not just with river water, but also with | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
sewage. We are going to be like this for possibly another two or three | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
months. Hopefully shorter than that. We just do not know at the | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
moment. A few doors down at number 22, Matt | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
Beesley's garden is still deep in water. More than a week after the | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
river came in, he and the other residents are still waiting for | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
authorities to help. It is frustrating. We have had calls | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
telling us what people are going to be doing and that is where it stops. | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
The clean`up has begun here, but most of the is the residents | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
themselves. You can see, it is a huge task. Many of these people | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
might still be out of their house in two or three months, and it is | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
really frustrating, the lack of help. | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
And it's not just the inconvenience. Manhole covers were lifted by the | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
floods, meaning the water is also a major health hazard. Is dirty and | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
contains extra bacteria, and although those materials will | :09:11. | :09:18. | |
dilate, Windy floodwater lease, we have to make sure things are | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
properly cleaned up. So just how dangerous is the flood | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
water in the city? To find out, we've brought in a specialist to | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
test it. This equipment will tell us how easily harmful bacteria can grow | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
in each water sample. Firstly, bottled water. Unsurprisingly, the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
results are very low. Next, the river itself. With safe levels | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
between zero and 32, the river water only gives a reading of two. This | :09:41. | :09:51. | |
shows that the aquatic environment would not really support bacterial | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
life, which is good. Back in Diglis Avenue, it's time to test the water | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
in Matt's garden, and here the results are simply shocking. 1007 | :10:03. | :10:14. | |
internet and 74. I never expected it to be approaching 2000. `` 1774. | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
While we were there, at last what looked like help for Matt. | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
Representatives from the City Council and a charity. But | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
incredibly, Matt was told the street had been divided in two and someone | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
would be along in a couple of days to see him. Too little too late | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
trying to keep people happy. Nothing is being done. I am seething, I | :10:39. | :10:47. | |
really am. The water may be dropping on this street, but frustration and | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
anger among the residents at the response they've had, is definitely | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
on the rise. And I've got murky looking water | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
samples, this is some of the River Severn water and this is some of the | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
water we collected from near the homes we saw in Ben's report. That | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
is pretty disgusting. Ben Sidwell is in Worcester tonight. Any idea how | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
long it will take to clear up the residue? | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
I do not think anyone really knows exactly, but the estimated gas is | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
that some of the houses, probably two or three weeks to clear up, but | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
it could be months before the whole city is cleaned up properly. Let's | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
speak to the man who is in charge of the clean`up here. David, we have | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
heard from the residence a huge amount of frustration, growing | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
anger, and they are saying that today is the first day they have had | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
any contact in ten days. I would like to sympathise with anyone who | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
has been flooded. We have been in touch with a number of people in all | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
of the flooded properties over the last week or so I'm including the | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
fire service in the early stages. `` or so, including the fire service. | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
From today, we have allocated and environmental professional to each | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
of the households to give some personal advice. Do you think you | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
have done enough? It is a big event. There is an enormous amount of | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
resources being deployed across the agency team. There are difficulties | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
getting into clean up when there is still wants her on the ground. | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Tomorrow morning, we will be up at that particular avenue with a large | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
resource beginning a full`scale clean`up. The clean`up is the | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
important thing. Absolutely. The water has gone down from the | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
houses, and our first priority is to help the householders. You can see | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
how much the river is still quite high. We would like to get it | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
cleaned as possibly `` as quickly as the public can. We have to leave it | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
there. The good thing is, at the river is dropping quite fast now. | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
The floods have disrupted lives, damaged homes and devastated | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
thousands of acres of farmers' fields. Against the force of nature, | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
it can seem there's little we can do. In Herefordshire, though, one | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
man believes he can make a difference. And as Bob Hockenhull's | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
been finding out, he wants others to follow his lead. | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
This is an entirely voluntary road maintenance team. Michael and his | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
family are out clearing ditches near a remote village. A little bit of a | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
struggle here. After months of torrential rain, many of the roads | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
have been flooded, and are in a poor state. With no sign of counsel | :13:50. | :13:58. | |
repair teams arriving, Michael has decided to take action himself. I | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
have got to the stage now where I think that if we don't make an | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
effort, we will have no roads to dry on in these little backwaters here. | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
I think it is a bit of a joint effort required by all. The general | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
public, ourselves, the farming community, everyone. If everyone did | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
a little bit I think we could minimise this problem. Michael is | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
campaigning for more residents in rural areas to help. He says the | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
lack of effective drainage is ruining countryside roads. As you | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
can see, the water is starting to flow away from the road as a result | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
of the work being carried out here, and it is not just ditches that the | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
team is attending to. They have also been clearing away debris from | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
gullies and strain. The number of potholes growing day by day, the | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
budget is tight, and it is welcoming, the can`do spirit of | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
Michael. I would love our people to do this sort of work was to their | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
properties. The council can do some work itself, but we do not have | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
duties and lots of places to clear roadside date `` drainage. An extra | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
?20 million is to be spent on highways, but now the garden or's | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
labour of love will have to continue. We will not have any roads | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
if it stays like this, so it is better to do it now. Clearly, this | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
family will not let the flood speak them. | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
This is our top story tonight. Time doesn't heal, the parents of | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
murdered teenager Georgia Williams speak of their anguish. Shefali will | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
be here with the weather forecast shortly. Also tonight: Set up in the | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
60s to challenge conventional art in Birmingham, the Ikon Gallery turns | :15:57. | :15:57. | |
50, but is it still cutting edge? There's been another sharp fall in | :15:58. | :16:14. | |
unemployment in our region. Today's figures show the biggest quarterly | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
reduction in any region outside South East England. 226,000 people | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
are now out of work here, that's down 31,000. But at 8.3%. Our | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
region's unemployment is still more than one percent above the UK | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
average. Our Political Editor Patrick Burns has been studying the | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
figures. Patrick, what's the significance of these numbers? They | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
confirm the virtuous circle between falling unemployment and rising | :16:47. | :16:55. | |
employment. On the last month, Last month's report by the accountants | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
KPMG, which showed job creation here was outstripping every other region, | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
including growth in full`time working. `` there are people who are | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
working part who wants to work longer hours. But it's not good news | :17:08. | :17:18. | |
everywhere, is it? The 2,000 job losses announced yesterday by | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
Wolverhampton City Council more than outweigh the 1,400 that will be | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
created up the road at the new JLR engine plant. I regret to say there | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
will be more announcements like that as other spending plans for the | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
coming year. That is one reason why the unemployment is 1% above the UK | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
average. The worry is that public sector jobs are being lost, but that | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
is being outweighed by the creation of jobs in the private sector. What | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
worries me is youth and long term unemployment concentrated in parts | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
of Birmingham, Black Country, and North Staffordshire, which have some | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
of the UK's highest unemployment rates, low skills, poor educational | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
attainment. And we have important elections coming up. The government | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
says this confirms that their plan for the economy is working, helping | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
people into real productive work. But other figures also out today | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
show that wages are still lagging behind prices. There are predictions | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
that wages could start catching up in a big way later this year, just | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
in time maybe for a feel`good factor before the general election. | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
Interesting. Thank you. More than 50 firefighters are | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
tackling a fire at a luxury housing complex in Leamington Spa. Eight | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
crews were called to Blackdown Hall in Sandy Lane this afternoon. An | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
emergency rest centre has been set up at a nearby school after the | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
building was evacuated. There are no reports of any injuries. | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
A 22`year`old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
Gloucester hairdresser at a salon in the city. Hollie Gazzard, who was | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
20, was attacked inside Fringe Benefits on Southgate Street just | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
before six o'clock yesterday evening. She later died in hospital. | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
It's believed the victim and the alleged attacker knew each other. | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
This is an isolated incident, an incident whereby the victim and | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
suspect did know each other, they were in a previous relationship. I | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
want to ensure people that this is a safe community. | :19:22. | :19:30. | |
50 years ago the Birmingham made Mini was the car to dry and mini | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
skirts were causing a sensation on the city's streets. But the art | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
scene was pretty conventional, until a new gallery opened with a mission | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
to bring cutting edge exhibitions to Birmingham. And it's still going | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
strong. Our Arts Reporter Satnam Rana is at the Ikon Gallery for | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
birthday celebrations tonight. And it's been an eventful half century, | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
hasn't it? The artwork is continuing today. | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
Tonight, celebrations are underway for the 50th birthday. The gallery | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
has had five directors, and here is a taste of what has happened so far. | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
The bullring shopping centre is symbolic of the new Birmingham. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
There is nothing quite like it anywhere else in the world. | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
1965. The Rotunda had recently become part of Birmingham's skyline. | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
And over near the Bullring, a so`called gallery without walls has | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
been founded by emerging contemporary artists in a glass | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
kiosk. John Salt, who went on to pioneer the photorealism movement, | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
painting images that look like photos. He became the first artist | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
to exhibit at the Ikon. His is work is back on display for its 50th | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
birthday. I was really pleased to be offered the show there. The first | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
show there was really making history. The 1970s brought a move to | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
the Pallasades to get closer to the local audience. It was here that the | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
Ikon was bombed by the IRA, the likely target being the army and | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
navy recruitment office next door. The early 70s was a time when we | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
head a great optimism on the crest of a wave of a can`do attitude, so | :21:07. | :21:17. | |
it had expanded enormously. Lots of visitors, lots of people who would | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
not normally go to an art gallery, and that was very intentional. The | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
1980s and UB40 are making sounds across the city, and the IKon is now | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
in another home. This time, a disused carpet factory in John | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
Bright Street. And then, in 1998, a final move to the former Oozells | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
Street School where it won lottery funding to covert the Grade two | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
listed building. And it's here where a year long series of exhibitions | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
and events begin today to mark 50 years of contemporary art in | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
Birmingham. Tonight there is a great buzz in | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
this gallery for the opening of the celebratory exhibition by an | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
artist. I am joined now by the current director of the gallery. | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
What has the success been down two and the last 50 years. Essentially, | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
it is the fact that it is such an independent art gallery and it is | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
quite old. We try to be as relevant as possible. We want to engage with | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
the local community. You have about 130,000 visitors coming through the | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
door every year, but what about those people who do not come into | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
galleries? We like to think of ourselves as outgoing. We are doing | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
things all the time out and about in Birmingham and in the region. The | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
most exciting project we have this year is a canal boat which is being | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
crewed by young people, sailing from Birmingham and around the Black | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
country, and they are going to meet lots of people along the way and | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
there will be so many events and performances. This gallery is about | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
giving emerging artists a showcase. Yes, right from the beginning, the | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
gallery was there to support young artists. Of course, young artists | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
get older, and we are celebrating the 50th anniversary, so the young | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
ones who started it are in their 70s and 80s, and we celebrate them, what | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
younger ones are coming up all the time. Thank you very much. This is | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
the start of a year`long set of celebrations. In 1964, at the artist | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
came up with the idea, and it was in 1965 that the gallery opens to the | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
public. A final word tonight on floods, and | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
they've been adding reality to the drama in Radio Four's The Archers. | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
Millions tune into the programme each day, made in our studios right | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
here at BBC Birmingham. Episodes have been re`written to reflect the | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
flooding crisis. To get a real insight into the problem, some of | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
the cast visited a Worcestershire farmer whose land is under water. | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
Just a warning, this report from David Gregory Kumar contains shots | :23:57. | :24:07. | |
of the Archers characters! Fact meets fiction as Archers | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
actors, Tim Bentinc and Felicity Finch see first`hand the reality of | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
life on a flooded farm. It is coming up through the floors in the shed. | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
That isn't any good at all. Farmer Steve Page has lost whole fields to | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
flood water on his farm near Worcester. He's had no choice but to | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
bring 1,000 of his sheep inside and that costs. At the moment it will | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
cost us an extra ?300 a day to keep them in. We have been underwater | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
since Christmas, and it looks as if we could be for the next month or | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
six weeks. Ambridge too is preparing for a | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
flooding storyline. But for the actors confronting the real thing is | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
a sobering experience. To actually hear their problems and what they | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
are having to face, it is an extraordinary thing to see it in the | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
flesh and it pulls you up, no doubt about it. One of the things that | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
hadn't occurred to me you're talking about when the water recedes, I said | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
that would be `` what's with the grass be like, and he said it would | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
be contaminated. Farmers will be coping with this for months. Talking | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
about this story and the programme is a good way to remind people about | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
farming after the flood water goes down. The Archers flooding storyline | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
continues this evening. David and Ruth don't look like that in my | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
head. We have got some are sunshine and | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
the way this week, tomorrow, to be precise. This is how the rest of the | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
week is looking. We have got rainfall followed by showers and | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
then it turns windy and cold by Friday, followed by the next area of | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
rain. The track is uncertain as is the timing of that. I do not often | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
do this, but I am going to skip ahead to next week, because there is | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
something significant to talk about, the jet stream, which I am | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
sure you are familiar with. Things always get worse the further south | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
it goes, and it could slip further south for Monday and Tuesday, going | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
into Wednesday as well, so we could be looking at more significant | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
amounts of rainfall. Or the immediate future, let's look at this | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
rain that is heading our way overnight. We have a few showers | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
dusted about the region, and then this band of rain moves in from the | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
west. It is not particularly heavy, and the heaviest outbreaks will be | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
about ten mm at most, but under that cloud and the winds, the | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
temperatures should the main well above freezing. We have further | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
pulses of rain moving through central and eastern parts of the | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
region through the morning tomorrow, but it clears away to sunnier | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
conditions, and that is going to take us up to about 11 Celsius | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
tomorrow morning. A few blustery showers to go with that as well. | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
Tomorrow night, skies clear and the temperatures start to plummet. That | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
pesky jet stream! Tonight's headlines from the BBC: The hacking | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
trial is told Tony Blair advised News International's Rebekah Brooks | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
on handling the scandal just days before her arrest. Time doesn't | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
heal, the parents of murdered teenager Georgia Williams talk of | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
their anguish. And two police officers under investigation for | :27:47. | :27:48. | |
leaving abusive messages on this teenager's phone. | :27:49. | :27:49. |