08/06/2014 Midlands Today

Good evening. Plans by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service to share

control room facilities havd been criticised by politicians. The Chief

Fire Officer told the Sundax Politics in the Midlands th`t he

needs to save money. But MPs have questioned why the brigade hs

holding almost ?9 million in its reserves. BBC Radio Shropshhre's

Political reporter, Joanne Gallacher, has the details. Another

cold comes through at the c`ll centre in shoes Billy, does it

really matter where your call is an search? Shropshire's director says

they could save millions each year if they shared a call centrd. We

must start making proposals to save money to balance the budget. Times

are undoubtedly tough. They have already cut their budget by the 2p

since 2010. A further ?900,000 has to be saved. It is reckoned that

?300,000 could be saved by lerging call centres. With pressure mounting

on budgets, there are questhons from local MPs about the amount they have

in their reserves. One thing still not answered by the fire authorities

is about their reserves of ?9 million. I am keen to find out what

they are going to do with those considerable reserves. The chief

fire officer said the money might be needed to meet future challdnges.

The money might be used over the next five or six years. It does give

the fire authority options `bout changes that can be made in the

future. The consultation is due to end in September. A woman h`s died

after the car she was driving, crashed near the Ettington Park

Hotel in Stratford upon Avon. Two cars were involved in the accident

on the A3400 around 8:40 last night. A woman driving the second car, was

trapped for more than an hotr, and is now in a stable condition in

hospital. The Education Secretary will announce the fate of 20 schools

in Birmingham tomorrow caught up in the so `called Trojan horse affair,

alleging increasing radicalhsation of Muslim practise in some city

schools. Ofsted will also ptblish their inspections into the schools

over recent years. More than 3, 00 people in Birmingham have shgned a

petition calling for the ending of a racist witch hunt in Birmingham

schools. But an education academic says all of these investigations

actually throw the academic system into question. The Trojan horse

School has called into question the academy project, the free school

project. These are schools that have been prompted to be autonomous, to

go their own way. If in so doing they become more fragmented and

surveys smaller population over the interests of the larger comlunity it

creates a problem for the schools community as a whole. And Adrian

Goldberg will have a special programme on the Ofsted reports into

the Birmingham schools linkdd to the so`called Trojan Horse plot on BBC

WM from one to four tomorrow afternoon. A piece by a

prize`winning composer, inspired by a visit to an Arsenal footb`ll match

20 years ago, has had its premiere in Birmingham. Around 1,000 singers

performed Crowd Out. It's ddscribed by composer David Lang as bding "an

orchestra of people using their voices". It will be performdd in

Berlin and London later in the month. It's been a mixed dax but

warm. Let's find out now wh`t's in store for this week with Mel Coles.

Good evening. For many placds it has been a fine day with plenty of warm

sunshine but there have been some showers this afternoon which will

continue into this evening, am heavy and sundry. Cloud increases bringing

the risk of ardour showers hnto Monday morning. It will feel humid

with temperatures not dropphng below 11 degrees. Tomorrow starts damp in

some places. There will be showers during the morning. Then a dry spell

but showers will develop ag`in during the afternoon, some heavy and

potentially thundery. That's it for time being. I'll be back with our

late bulletin at 10:15 tonight. I hope you can join me then. But from

all of us here for now, havd Good evening. We got to 25 Celsius

this afternoon. There were some heavy showers elsewhere. Low

pressure to the west of the United Kingdom, anticlockwise winds around

that, dragging in some warm air from the near continent. The showers will

tend to fade away from Scotland and Northern Ireland overnight. Further

showers drifting up. 8.00am, in the South West, it is largely fine and

dry. Fairly warm, though. Could be 17 or 18 at 8.00am. So quite a warm

start to the day. Maybe one or two showers in the south. A much