12/07/2014 Midlands Today

Good evening. Thousands of Coventry City fans have protested

today about the club's home matches being played outside the city.

Since the start of last season, the Sky Blues' home games have been held

in Northampton, following an ongoing row between the club's owners

Karen Kenworthy spoke to fans as they took part

in the demonstration, which was organised by the supporters group,

We've got a proud history, we need a proud future.

The message was clear from the thousands of passionate

from the site of the club's first ever match to the city centre.

The fans are still here but we'll not be here forevdr.

We are still here if you bring us back now.

What will happen in a year's time, who knows?

Last summer the owners of the club moved matches from the Ricoh Arena

to Northampton after a row with the stadium's owners over rdnt.

and numbers through turnstiles have dropped.

With many of the best players sold over the summer,

The future looks bleak in my opinion.

The crowds last season were very poor, averaging around 2000.

There's no way to survive that, really.

The club's owners said they are willing to talk about bringhng

the Sky Blues back to the Rhcoh but the owners of the stadium whll not

Fans are growing frustrated at the ongoing wrangles

and the effect it is having on their team and their citx.

We urge all sides in this debacle to get together

but for the good of the citx and the club,

they need to put their diffdrences behind them and make it happen.

This is the same bus that Coventry City paraded around in after

their FA Cup victory in 1987 but winning silverware isn't thd main

They simply want to be able to watch their home team in their hole city.

A man's appeared in court charged with the mtrder

of a healthcare assistant at a psychiatric hospital in Glotcester.

Sharon Wall, who was 53, was stabbed while working at Wooton

This morning, 61`year`old Rxan Matthews, who lived at the tnit was

He'll next appear at Gloucester Crown Court on Ttesday.

A week`long festival of disability sport has been

Its aim is to encourage dis`bled people to have a go

at a sport they've never trhed before and find out what's

on offer for them in the city. Yvonne Brissett reports.

From table tennis to cycling to football, there was something

for everyone at the launch of the Birmingham Disability Sports Fest.

Over the coming week, anyond with a disability will get the chance to

If you haven't got the opportunity to try lots of activities, who

If you can apply yourself and you

have skill, and most import`ntly, you can try all the activithes,

you have a real chance of fhnding something you have a skill `t.

If you can follow that up whth a good club and with the right

The Halesowen`born wheelchahr tennis player Jordanne Whiley was recently

crowned Wimbledon champion, and is the festival's ambassador.

I started at a camp run by the tennis foundation at thd time.

The Disability Sports Fest here is amazing because they can trx out all

different kind of sports and also for their parents,

they can see, if they have a disabled child, they can still do

Today's event is all about raising the profile

of local clubs and organisations in the city who provide acthvities

Throughout the week, up to 600 people are expectdd to

attend and try out a new sport for the first time.

The festival, now in its second year,

will bring together more th`n 1 0 volunteers and local organisations.

It's hoped the event will m`ke a difference to how people view

Let's hope the weather stays nice for them. After a very hot `nd humid

day today we are now seeing rain moving from the west, producing the

odd heavy burst and there mhght be the odd rumble of thunder btt

becoming more patchy in the early hours. A very hot and humid night,

especially in the centre of Birmingham, 16 or 17 Celsius

overnight. That weather front pulls away toward the east during the day

tomorrow. We could see the odd shower remaining but for most there

will be bright and sunny intervals and should be a fresher feel to the

day, losing that humidity at that more, so a maximum temperattre of 22

Celsius. That's all from the weekend team

for now. Midlands Today will be back

tomorrow evening at 5:50pm. Until then, have a good weekend

Bye`bye. We are seeing thunderstorms

developing. Some of these will stay with us well on into the evening to

be replaced with outbreaks of rain later in the night. The rain we had

heading into western Scotland and Northern Ireland and spreading east

across the UK. There are some heavier bursts. Coast and hill fog

around and a warm muggy night to come. Tomorrow we start with cloud.

Damp in places. Many of us will see brighter skies arrive. There will be

showers