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You can Hello and welcome to serious | :00:07. | :00:07. | |
You can Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlinds | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
tonight: Targeting wives and mothers to help stop young Muslims | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
travelling to fight with Syrian rebels. Also tonight: He's `lready | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
smashed through the ?1 millhon fundraising barrier. 24 hours later | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Stephen is closing in on ?2 million for the Teenage Cancer Trust with | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
help from celebrities. This guy is 19 and he's not bitter but he could | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
be and he would have every right to be. There's something inspiring | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
about him. We'll be speaking live to Dr Raj | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
Mattu, the NHS whistle`blowdr, about his 13`year fight to clear his name | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
and hopes for the future. Why plastic is not so fantastic in | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
Herefordshire ` objections to the growing number of polytunnels. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Well, nothing affecting the view of this landscape at Moccas in | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Herefordshire this morning ` a misty field looking resplendent at | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
sunrise. A thing of natural beauty. Can we hope for more this wdekend? | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
Find out later. Good evening. The West Midl`nds top | :01:07. | :01:19. | |
counter terrorism police officer is urging wives and mothers of young | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Muslims to convince them to stay at home and NOT join Syrian rebels | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
Hundreds of British Muslims are thought to have joined rebel groups | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
` some with links to terrorhsm. The new head of the West Midlands | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Counter Terrorism Unit todax warned that anyone fighting in Syrha faces | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
arrest on their return. Gilds Latcham reports. | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
The battle for Syria. It is brutal and extreme and the worry for the UK | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
authorities is that the extremism it breeds will reach as here in the | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
form of young British Muslils radicalised `` radicalised. The new | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
head of the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit was reaching out to | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
mothers, wives and girlfriends and through them, young Muslim len | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
tempted to travel to Syria. We already have evidence of worried | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
members of the family picking up the phone to the police saying their | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
child has gone to Syria, can you help, `` can you help? If wd can | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
generate that energy in a dhfferent way we have achieved somethhng. | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
Serious slide into civil war started three years ago and estimatd that | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
the death toll begin at 100,000 President Assad remains in power. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
The opposition are determindd but divided, ranging from rains `` | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
mainstream groups to others said to have links with terrorism, such as | :02:50. | :02:59. | |
Al`Qaeda. This is a conflict no one expects to end any time soon. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
British MPs debated whether to bomb forces loyal to President Assad and | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
some say that sent a mixed lessage. Some Muslims going out therd might | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
think, we're not doing anything wrong because we are on the same | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
side as the British governmdnt. The British government have failed to | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
explain this confusion so they need to do more. This man who appealed | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
for calm when his son was khlled in via three years ago went to Syria to | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
support a charity last May. A fellow fundraiser says worries abott to | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
hard disk mustn't eclipse the plight of refugees. I have seen thd focus | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
`` suffering first`hand `` to hardests. Let us alleviate the | :03:49. | :03:59. | |
suffering their as well. Now the battle is under way for the hearts | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
and minds of young Britons. Coming up: Making some moves. How | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
this top dance festival is putting local amateurs alongside | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
professionals. On last night's programme wd brought | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
you the news that a Staffordshire teenager with incurable cancer had | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
broken his ?1 million fundr`ising target. In less than 24 hours, | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
that's grown to more than 1.5 million. 19`year`old Stephen Sutton | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
from Burntwood tweeted what seemed to be a goodbye message and photo | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
from hospital earlier this week Our reporter, Cath Mackie, has been | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
following the story. She johns us now from Chase Town football club, | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
near to Stephen's home, where they've been helping to raise money. | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Cath, that fundraising figure just keeps rising, doesn't it? | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
Mary, it is extraordinary. H spoke to a friend of Stephen 's f`mily two | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
days ago and he had raised ?600 000. He was sick and hoping to rdach the | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
target. 48 air was later it has been blown out of the water. `` 48 hours | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
later. Now he has raised ?1.9 million. His story featured a lot | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
yesterday on the national ndws when he posted a message which sdemed to | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
be a good buy. Thankfully, he posted this today: | :05:27. | :05:36. | |
And this has really inspired people to give. When I got onto his website | :05:37. | :05:48. | |
and saw some of the things he was saying, I am angry that I mhght die | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
at 90... This guy is 19 and he's not bitter or angry. He could bd and he | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
would have every right to bd. There's something inspiring about | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
him. The reason I am here is that he is a local lad and it was hdre he | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
began his fundraising efforts. John, I think you have an announcdment you | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
would like to make, haven't you That's right. This weekend, or the | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
programme sales will be dedhcated to the Teenage Cancer Trust. Also, on | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
May the 4th, we will be plaxing Steve's team down here and we will | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
put all the funds from that to the Teenage Cancer Trust. And you went | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
to school with Stephen. What do you make of what he has achieved. | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
Absolutely amazing. And you are planning fundraising as well? Yes, | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
the world record for a tanddm skydive. John, what worked `` what | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
was it about Stephen that m`de you say, yes, we will fundraiser? Beth. | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
Us involved with Stephen. You just have to meet him and you will do | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
anything. His face will be on the programme this Saturday. It will and | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
all the proceeds will go to Teenage Cancer Trust will stop along with | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
all the players, we will we`r the T`shirt is for Stephen so gdt | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
donating. Thank you very much. He is in high spirits today and hd fields | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
better. He really has inspired people. The | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
Teenage Cancer Fund say thex have never seen anything like it. I can | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
give you the up`to`the`minute figure for the amount Stephen has raised. | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
It stands at 1,000,940. The engineering firm Sandvik is | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
closing its manufacturing plant near Wolverhampton with the potential | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
loss of 143 jobs. The company says it has too much capacity across | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Europe and needs to cut production costs in the UK. The plant `t | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
Featherstone is expected to close at the end of the year. Talks between | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
management and unions are under way. Network Rail has been accusdd of | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
cutting corners on the six hundred million pound re`development of | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
Birmingham's New Street Station Original plans would have sden the | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
old Navigation Street Bridgd clad in stainless steel, but it will now be | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
virtually untouched. Network Rail says the changes will help speed up | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
construction and avoid railway closures. | :08:24. | :08:34. | |
The funeral has taken place this afternoon of Dr Mohammed Naseem the | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque, who died on Tuesday at the | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
age of 90. The leader of Birmingham City Council, Sir Albert Bore was | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
among those paying tribute. Funeral prayers were said at the mosque | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
before Dr Mohammed was laid to rest at Handsworth Cemetery. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
The head of the NHS has agrded to meet a whistle`blower who spent 12 | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
years fighting for his caredr after telling Midlands Today about two | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
deaths in overcrowded hospital bays. Last week, Dr Raj Mattu won a | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
landmark employment tribunal which concluded his dismissal was unfair. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
Our health correspondent, Mhchele Paduano, has been looking b`ck at | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
the history of the case. Walsgrave Hospital was overcrowding | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
wards in 2001, but management insisted lives weren't jeop`rdised. | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
Dr Mattu was shocked. Twelvd times he had told management about his | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
patient dying. Finally, he blew the whistle on Midlands Today. There was | :09:22. | :09:31. | |
no oxygen available. We did not have suction to suck out the airwaves. An | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
employment tribunal said th`t was the start of his troubles. Lidlands | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
Today reported in 2006 about a campaign to oust him. Securhty was | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
asked to watch him. We were asked to monitor his comings and goings in | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
the building. I questioned one former chief executive about a | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
second patient death in overcrowded base. Although... . Although Dr Raj | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
Mattu, got back to work bridfly he was accused ` among other things ` | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
of talking to Midlands Todax. He hadn't, but his health suffdred In | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
2011, He was too ill to attdnd his disciplinary hearing and was sacked. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
So, what's the final bill to the taxpayer? Legal costs for the first | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
inquiry were over ?1 million. In 2011, that had gone up to ?3.7 | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
million. Mattu's lawyers cl`im the cost of paying others to do his work | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
was ?3 million alone. With three High Court hearings and the longest | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
tribunal in Birmingham history, some newspapers have claimed the whole | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
affair has cost the NHS ?10 million. And through no fault of his own Dr | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
Mattu's expertise has been lost his health has deteriorated and he'll | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
never work again. And Dr Mattu joins me now. Do you | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
believe the issues which led to you blowing the whistle have bedn | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
addressed and resolved? Unfortunately not. One of mx | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
concerns about this whole hhstory is that I whistle blew because I was | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
concerned patients were placed in danger and were dying. The | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
management response was to silence me as quickly as they could and then | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
to get a dossier of allegathons against me to try and as to me. In | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
the middle of all this the patients seem to have been forgotten. Today | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
`` to date, myself and senior nurses present at the death of my patients | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
have never been questioned. The trust has conducted an audit which | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
wasn't an investigation, in my view. At this moment in time, the | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
relatives of those who died have no idea of the circumstances under | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
which their loved ones passdd away or that they may have had an | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
avoidable death. Do you regret speaking out? I don't regret | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
speaking out but I couldn't encourage anyone else to consider | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
whistle`blowing with the prdsent arrangements. Following the | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
tribunal, Coventry and Warwhckshire NHS Trust said they would continue | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
to support all of their staff to raise issues of concern. Yot don't | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
believe that? I never witnessed that from them. Right now I am a victim | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
of their lack of support for whistle`blowers. Right up to the | :12:21. | :12:29. | |
tribunal they denied I was ` whistle`blower so I am pleased the | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
tribunal came to the conclusion I am a whistle`blower and have stffered | :12:35. | :12:43. | |
detrimentally and that my dhsmissal was inextricably linked to the fact | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
that I am a whistle`blower. It is quite astonishing that, instead of | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
apologising and learning from this, that they are still in deni`l. You | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
have asked to speak with thd new chief executive of the NHS `nd he | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
has agreed to meet with you? Yes, there is a meeting planned shortly | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
and I am hopeful that will take place sooner rather than later. What | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
effect has this had on you `nd your family? It has had a devast`ting | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
affect on my career to the point that it has destroyed my career as a | :13:22. | :13:31. | |
doctor and researcher. It h`s had a damaging effect on my personal life. | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
My wife and I have been forced to make the decision not to st`rt a | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
family with this looming ovdr us. The awful effect on my health ` I | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
have been in a night of hospital on a couple of occasions with ` | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
life`threatening deteriorathon of my health. | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
Thank you. Our top story: Targeting wives and | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
mothers to help stop young Luslims travelling to help fight with Syrian | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
rebels. Your detailed weathdr forecast to come shortly. Also: | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
We've made mistakes admit Shrewsbury Town, as the club faces reldgation | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
to League Two. It will be very difficult btt we | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
have to keep going. We owe that to the club and the supporters. | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
Why these slippery customers are helping keep our longest river in | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
peak condition. If you have a story you think we | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
should be covering, we would like to hear from you. | :14:28. | :14:39. | |
If you're in the countrysidd at this time of year, it's likely you'll see | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
fields covered by polytunnels. Increasingly, growers see them as a | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
vital way to stay competitive. In Herefordshire, planning applications | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
have quadrupled in a year. Now one farmer is fighting for the right to | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
use polytunnels in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Objectors insist they spoil the landscape. Here's Bob Hockenhull. | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
A sea of plastic amid the green fields of the Wye Valley. Some local | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
residents say what's the pohnt of calling this an Area of Outstanding | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
Natural Beauty if this is allowed to happen. It is just a case of more | :15:15. | :15:27. | |
polytunnels going up day after day. All you can see is the area | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
disappearing. It is approaching an industrial landscape. Neil Cockburn | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
is the farmer. At Pennoxstone Court in Kings Caple, he grows more than | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
100 acres of strawberries, raspberries and blueberries for | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
supermarkets. Next month, at a public inquiry, he'll appeal against | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
an enforcement notice from Herefordshire Council demanding that | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
he removes most of the polytunnels. If the inspector comes down against | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
us than the business will cdase 100 jobs will be lost. I apprechate some | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
people don't like the look of them and we try and screen them wherever | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
possible and we move them around. A lot of people though are perfectly | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
comfortable and want to havd British fruit grown in England are not have | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
it flown in from abroad. Thd Council for the Protection of Rural England | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
calls Mr Cockburn "a plastic baron". It estimates he and other f`rmers | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
are responsible for covering nearly 2,000 acres of Herefordshird with | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
polytunnels. In this one poly tunnel, there are 10,000 punnets | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
worth of strawberries ready to pick in two weeks. In the shops, they | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
will fetch ?20,000. But if there was no cover, the farmer says hd would | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
not be able to grow the fruht at all on a commercial basis. Before the | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
1980s, the farm here survivdd as a pick your own. But Neil Cockburn | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
says 21st century economics dictate that's no longer possible. | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
One of Europe's biggest dance events got underway in Birmingham today. It | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
will include outdoor perforlances and several new productions. It is a | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
show which has given local dancers and opportunity to perform `longside | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
top professionals. These dancers come from right across | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
the West Midlands, but some of them have never danced alongside | :17:24. | :17:24. | |
professionals. Until now. And this is what they are working | :17:25. | :17:38. | |
towards. Performing with thd creme de la creme in Mathew Bournd's | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
adaptation of Lord of the Flies which comes to the Birmingh`m | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
Hippodrome next month. I watched the film which I continuously w`tched | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
and enjoyed. When I came to the workshops it was the same. Ht was | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
great. It is an amazing expdrience to be part of the show. I dhdn't | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
think I was such a dancer to start off with. I had to do it at college. | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
Seeing this and knowing that I can it has opened a lot of things for me | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
and I am happy I am doing it. It's all part of the Internation`l Dance | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
Festival Birmingham. Over the next four weeks, people across the city | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
can sampled various `` various dance forms from hip`hop... To hakka. | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
Tap... And T. `` T. The festival opens tonight with | :18:35. | :18:45. | |
three works from the Birmingham Royal Ballet. One of which sees the | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
return of former soloist now turned choreographer Aleander Whitley. The | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
real privilege for me to be associated with Birmingham Royal | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
Ballet and the other artists. Great contemporary choreographers I have | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
huge admiration for so to bd alongside them is a great privilege | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
for me. Really nice to kick it off. This is the fourth Internathonal | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
Dance Festival. Since 2008, thousands have turned twinkdltoes ` | :19:12. | :19:12. | |
sampling all forms of dance. You can find out more about the | :19:13. | :19:29. | |
festival by following the lhnks on our Facebook page. | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
Only a near miraculous set of results can help Shrewsbury Town | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
avoid relegation to League Two this weekend. It will come at a financial | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
cost as well with their revdnue likely to drop by around a lillion | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
pounds. The club have admitted making terrible mistakes thhs | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
season. Now they've promised to repair the damage by putting their | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
faith in home`grown talent. They were training in the spring | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
sunshine this morning, but there is a dark cloud hanging over this club. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Even if these players can ptll off an unlikely win against Petdrborough | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
on Saturday, they will prob`bly still dropped to the bottom division | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
of the football league. With two games to go, they are six points | :20:10. | :20:22. | |
below the safety line. They have to do it for themselves. The board | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
apologised to the fans this week, admitting they borrowed to heavily | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
from players from other teals and they have promised a complete | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
review. Shrewsbury have used an astonishing 20 players on loan from | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
other clubs and it hasn't gone down well with the bands. It has carried | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
on this season. You just don't know who will be on the side each week. | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
We need a dedicated team. I thought we were a big enough club to stay | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
up. I thought we would posshbly go for the championship this ydar. Part | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
of the solution will be to find local talent. But going down that | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
path will require patience, which is often in short supply in football. | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
You can pay loads of money `nd by senior players. That doesn't build | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
for continuity sometimes. It is like boom or bust and the club doesn t | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
want to be in that situation. For now, Jackson and his players are | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
still focusing on the most tnlikely of great escapes. | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
They are not everyone's favourite but our rivers need them. Thousands | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
of baby eels have been rele`sed into the River Severn today to hdlp | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
repopulate an area where thdy had almost disappeared. They were taken | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
from close to Gloucester whdre eel numbers are at a 30 year high. | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
Replenishing the heels of Shropshire. There were plenty of | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
visitors to the estate this afternoon are willing to lend a | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
hand. Conservationists have been working to move thousands of baby | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
eels from downstream in Gloucestershire where they have | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
become trapped and were dying. Eels have been in decline for about 0 | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
years but they can't get ovdr in possible barriers of tidal locks and | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
weirs. We are working with the industry to catch thousands of eels | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
and move them to give the population a better chance of being | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
sustainable. Each year, trillions and trillions of baby eels `re born | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
in the sea and hundreds makd it to the River Severn. But because of the | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
man`made barriers, by the thme they get here to Shrewsbury, the numbers | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
are just a few hundred. Puphls at Shrewsbury School are also doing | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
their bit for eel conservathon. We feel proud that we are maintaining | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
the ecosystem and keeping everything going and it is interesting. Eels | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
are pretty cool. Although it helps, human intervention is at thd | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
long`term answer for improvhng stocks in Shropshire. The fhsh needs | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
specially built passes like this one to help them navigate man`m`de | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
obstacles. It is basically ` wooden tube in which there are loads of | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
Nilan bristles and it slows the water up so the eels can wiggle all | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
the way to the top. Of the 00,0 0 release to, 90,000 are expected to | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
survive before making the trip back to the sea `` 9000. | :23:51. | :24:00. | |
After the splendours of the gardens at Shakespeare's birthplace trust | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
yesterday, are you grateful to be dry again? | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
I am. From what I hear from some of the reporters, the Sun todax was | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
enough to create a tan. We could do with this weather over the weekend | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
although I don't think we whll get too much of it. Some sunshine on | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
offer but it is a case of r`in and showers and cooler conditions in a | :24:28. | :24:36. | |
breeze. We have eight dense cluster of showers starting to Spiller from | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
the south`east, mainly affecting the south eastern half of the rdgion. | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
There is an art of fairly intense rain swelling up from the | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
south`west. It is shackled to the area of low pressure so we have will | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
have a raft of showers on Stnday as well. Tonight, in comparison, it is | :24:58. | :25:05. | |
looking quiet. There are cldar spells to begin with but cloud will | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
thicken up later. But largely dry and temperatures will only fall to | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
around seven Celsius. The coolest part will be in the west of the | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
region under clear skies. Not as much fog and mist as we had last | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
night so not too much of th`t to start the day tomorrow. A cloudy | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
start, though, and a raft of showers moves up from the south`east. Fairly | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
widespread and some quite hdavy but they restrict themselves to the | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
eastern half of the region. They will pep up tomorrow night `nd will | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
be met by the next area of rain moving up from the south`west in the | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
early hours of. Dreyer the latter part of Saturday. | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
Delight headlines: Police appealed to British Muslim women to stop | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
their sons and brothers going to Syria to fight. Staffordshire | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
terminal cancer patient, Stdphen Sutton, is helping to raise money to | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
help other teenagers deal whth the disease. Donations now stand at | :26:18. | :26:26. | |
1,000,950. We will be live hn Staffordshire again at ten o'clock. | :26:27. | :26:28. | |
Have a good evening. All across the country, | :26:29. | :26:52. | |
millions of families are waking up to a Britain in which they | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
find it harder to get on. Whilst the Government keeps | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
telling people everything is fixed, no longer stops the pound | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
in their pocket getting smaller or the bills getting | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
harder to afford. gas and electricity bills have | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
increased by more than ?300 | :27:11. | :27:16. |