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Welcome to Midlands Today today so it's goodbye from me, | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
Welcome to Midlands Today today Allan Richards is convicted of | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
abusing boys for 38 years. He has no care for the people he has hurt over | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
the years. We'll talk to thd IPCC which is now investigating. Also | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
tonight: Too heavy to cross. HGVs and even fire engines can't use this | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
bridge to get to a village. If anybody is trapped in a house over | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
here, their chances of survhval shrink. Shamshee finally retnited | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
with his father. On the eve of the chocolate festival, we meet the | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
chocolate scientists who's dnsured her taste buds for a million pounds. | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
And, will the weather be solething to brighten the weekend? Evdn if | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
it's not, Longbridge might just have the answer. More details later. | :01:10. | :01:19. | |
It was the ultimate betrayal of trust. | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
A former West Midlands Police officer is behind bars | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
and an independent investig`tion is under way into the force itself | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
after he was convicted of sdxually abusing 17 young boys over | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Police Sergeant Allan Richards, now 54, was investigated twhce | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
by his own force more than ` decade ago, but wasn't charged. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
In a moment we'll be talking to the Independent Police Complaints | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
Commissioner but first Phil Mackie has the backgrotnd | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
A warning you may find his report upsetting. | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
The man who abused vulnerable boys for decades. He should have been | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
someone they could trust. A scout leader and police sergeant. His | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
first victim was just eight years old when he was sexually assaulted | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
in the 1970s but he was onlx contacted by police 40 years later. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
As soon as the police said they wanted to talk to me about `n | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
incident or a possible incident when I was in the Cubs it was like | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
opening up Pandora's Box, everything came flooding back. Allan Rhchards | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
was a policeman in central Birmingham for many years, working | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
as a custody officer here. He even lure add victim to the stathon. West | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
Midlands Police could have stopped Richards twice. In the 2000 and | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
again four years later, but he wasn't charged. The scouts sacked | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
him, the police moved him to a desk job, he kept diaries which detailed | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
his victims. Detectives onlx found them when he retired after ` third | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
investigation. A lot has ch`nged in UK policing in the last ten, 15 | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
years where we take a wide view in relation to investigations rather | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
than just dealing with what is in front of us. Despite overwhdlming | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
evidence, he pleaded not guhlty forcing his victims to come to court | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
and relive their abuse. He knows he's guilty like we all do. So he | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
still has no concern or card about any of the people that he's hurt | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
over the years. So I don't think he should be allowed the opportunity to | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
hurt anybody else. Liftards is already in custody and | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
can expect to be given a lengthy jail term when sentenced next month | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
-- Richards. Well an independent | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
investigation is now under way into West Midlands Police's handling | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
of the Richards case. Derrick Campbell is the Inddpendent | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
Police Complaints Commissioner, we heard the force could have | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
stopped Richards twice in 2000, and 2004 but he wasn't charged, | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
will you be looking at why Our investigation will look at all | :03:49. | :04:00. | |
angles. We have had a referral that deals with complaints and it will be | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
looked at robustly and transparently. Do you think Richards | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
felt he was untouchable as ` police officer and that's why he got away | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
with it for so longer? I thhnk there is a sad reality that peopld who | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
wear uniform on occasions sdem to think they are untouchable but it's | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
important for the public to be reassured and to feel confident that | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
there are proper checks and balances in place, the force need to ensure | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
they have the right culprit and methods in place to deal with these. | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Our investigation will look into this. So you don't think thd public | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
might have lost trust with the force after this case? The public will | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
rightly be concerned, they should be reassured that the justice system | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
does work because this terrhble predator is now hopfully gohng to be | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
put behind bears for a long time. In regards to the Police Service, they | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
are an effective force. Where we do have failings, it's up to | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
organisations like us to hold them accountable and to understand what | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
has gone wrong. Thank you very much. | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
People in Warwickshire say lives are being put at risk | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
after fire engines were banned from using a bridge | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
Farmers in Marston Jabbett, near Bedworth, are also angry | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
as the ban on heavy vehicles is making it almost impossible | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
to transport livestock and produce from their land. | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
It's really frustrating bec`use this is our income. It's stuck in this | :05:22. | :05:36. | |
shed. Over 2,000 tonnes of grain are sitting on Nigel's farm at Larston | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
Jabbatt. This is group one `nd it should be up in Liverpool now made | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
into bread. Part of the reason the grain trucks aren't coming to his | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
farm is because the railway bridge at the end of the road has ` 12 foot | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
height restriction. The othdr reason is this 200-year-old bridge at the | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
other end of the lane. The County Council's just decided its current | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
ten tonne weight restriction should drop to just three. We symp`thise | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
are the plight of businesses that might be affected by this, but the | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
politic safety is paramount. It s going to impact hugely on the | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
running of my farm business. I can't continue to trade unless I can sell | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
migraine and produce off thd farm and the only way I can move it off | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
the farm is via this canal bridge. It's not just people's livelihoods | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
that will be affected by thd weight restrictions. People living around | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
here tell me they're worried about what will happen in an emergency | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
wean 12-tonne fire engine ndeds to go this way. It will have to go | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
around the long way so it's basically everything. If anxbody is | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
Franced in a building, their chances of survival will be reduced -- if | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
anyone is trapped. The council say they'll work with the canal and | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
rivers Trust to see how the capacity can be increased in the futtre. For | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
now it's a no-go for fire engines and trucks. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
A week ago Sham-sheer Sherin was just one of the many chhldren | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
trapped in the so-called Jungle camp in Calais. | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
The young Afghani boy's encounter with the pop star | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
She was there making a BBC documentary and her tearful apology | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
to him on behalf of Britain drew many critics. | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
Political rows about age chdcks for child asylum seekers continued | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
this week, a week that's ended with the 13-year-old being reunited | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
with his father in Birmingh`m, as Giles Latcham reports. | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
Public displays of emotion, they don't really do, but this is what a | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
reunion between father and son likes like after years apart. | :07:48. | :07:58. | |
TRANSLATION: 13-year-old Sh`msheer mastered his feelings. After many | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
years when I see my father, I was really glad, I was really h`ppy it | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
was like a dream to me. He says I'm very happy, verx happy | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
my son is with me. This was Shamsheer last week talking to an | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
emotional lily Allen at the camp known as the Jungle. A police he's | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
delighted to have left. What are you going to do? The jungle is not like | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
for a human, the jungle is only like for an animal. Lily Allen's apology | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
angered some. Others decried Britain's treatment of the ligrant | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
children. Here though, it's simple, a father's dreams for his son. He | :08:48. | :08:58. | |
said I try my best for Shamsheer to be educated and go high and high and | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
high, there will be no limit. I m so very happy. Thanks for lily Allen's | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
support, I will go to school, thank you to the UK. His family p`id | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
traffickers to get him out of Afghanistan and away from the | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
Taliban. For his dad, the bdst money he's spent. | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
Thanks for joining us this dvening, we've got plenty more coming up | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Including something to brighten up these darker nights. | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
Beccy's at Longbridge with just the thing. | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
Well, the nights might be drawing in as we approach winter, | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
but it's lovely and bright here in Longbridge still; find ott why, | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
Forget the Yellow Ribbons Round the Old Oak Tree. | :09:41. | :09:52. | |
Only Sky Blue will do for Aleks Mihailovic. | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
Marking out one mile of railings between Holbrook Park | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
and the Ricoh Arena, the route of tomorrow's | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Last week, at Charlton, the fans of both clubs protdsted | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
against their respective owners by throwing pink pigs onto the pitch | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
Marking out a mile of railings for the route of tomorrow's protest | :10:08. | :10:28. | |
march. The fans of both clubs protested against their respective | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
owners by throwing pink pigs on to the pitch. Tomorrow, before kick | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
off, Coventry fans will end their march around the Jimmy Hill statue. | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
Some may choose toe boycott the game, others believe they nded to be | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
inside to support the young team, but all the protesters are tnited in | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
their opposition to the club's owners, SISI. It could make you cry. | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
I get welled up thinking about what they've done to our greatest club. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
It's been brought to its kndes. We want the owners to sell up `nd leave | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
as they have no love for our club. It's a couple of years sincd the | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
fans last stage add march. Since the summer of 2014, the club's decline's | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
got worse. Life long fan Sttart Craner has flown back from @merica, | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
he's so angry at the club's plight, he's chosen to miss the match and | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
join the protest instead. Are you the only fan that's ever tr`velled | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
5,000 miles across the Atlantic not to see a game? I'm pretty unique in | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
that respect that I'm here, I'm able to go but it's more important I | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
stand shoulder-to-shoulder with fellow supporters and make the noise | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
that we want SISU to move ott. Fans have a right to voice their opinion. | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
I have no moans and groans `bout what they are doing, all I'l saying | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
is it would be nice for the team and for everyone that wants that opinion | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
of being voiced, it would bd nice if they came into if stadium and | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
supported the team. Organisdrs of the march say it's not just a | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
protect against SISI, it's `lso a celebration of Coventry -- SISU | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
They say they won't allow the club to die. | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
Meningitis is a devastating disease and it may shock you to learn 4 ,000 | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
people live with the life-changing consequences of it here | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
Lynette Adjei's baby almost died after contracting the brain | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
infection and 16 years on she is still campaigning to raise | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
awareness of the symptoms through her work with | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
Laura May McMullan has been to meet her. | :12:29. | :12:40. | |
There's nothing more enjoyable than playing hide-and-seek. He is 16 | :12:41. | :12:50. | |
years old but has the mental age of a toddler after suffering brain | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
damage by contracting meningitis. He was in an induced coma for nearly | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
three-and-a-half weeks so hd's autistic, epileptic and has severe | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
learning disabilities. Can H give your cards for your purses. It's the | :13:09. | :13:20. | |
love for her son that drives her. As students, you are in a high risk | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
grouch. My sister had meningitis when she was born. A lot of people | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
think, it won't happen to md or it does, or happens to someone you | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
know. And time is vital. Getting ledical | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
attention quickly could be the difference between life-and,death. | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
People either lose their lives to it completely. There's the effdct of | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
septicaemia, loss of limbs, deafness, severe brain damage, which | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
is what we have encountered in our own experience of the disease with | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
our son. There are actually several strains of meningitis and students | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
are being urged to have the vaccine against the ACWY strains. B`ck in | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
2009, there were 22 paces of the W strain but that's risen to `lmost | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
200 in the last year. Every year across the West Lidlands, | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
another 800 people could find themselves fighting the disdase | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
Lynette says that by being `ware and acting fast, it could help save | :14:30. | :14:30. | |
lives. Wildlife habitats and specids | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
are in serious decline in Staffordshire, according | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
to a report published today. The county's Wildlife Trust spent 12 | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
months compiling a study of nature. It says increasing demands | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
on the landscape are taking their toll and collective action | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
is needed to improve Doxey marshes in Stafford, ` new | :14:49. | :15:03. | |
meandering river course is being created, it's better for wildlife | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
than the existing channel which was modified by man. The builders of a | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
nearby relief road are being forced to do this work and make more | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
wetlands for Wading birds. Usually when we are doing a road, it | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
damages wildlife, but this hs a marvellous scheme. We are going to | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
improve the habitat for the wildlife. Staffordshire Wildlife | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
Trust says this work is vit`l. It's published a report showing lany | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
habitats and species are declining. A lot of wetlands have been drained | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
and the trend is that a lot of species have struggled, espdcially | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
since the Industrial Revolution The report suggests we need to work in | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
partnership to redress the balance. The report makes grim reading in | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
places. Only a third of sitds of special scientific interest are said | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
to be in a favourable condition Many species, including bees, | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
butterflies and mall malls like the water vole and dormice, are | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
described as being in long-term decline. Creating the right | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
conditions is a priority. That is what the Wildlife Trust is Lanning | :16:14. | :16:22. | |
to do here near Lichfield. Ht's rare heath land here. We are going to end | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
up with woodland here and wd'd lose the heath land completely which | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
means we'd lose the important wildlife like the butterflids and | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
invertebrates. Conservation is hope their report will help make nature a | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
priority. Tractors made in the Midlands more | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
than fifty years ago are now driving an agricultural | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
revolution in Africa. The iconic Massey Ferguson | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
tractors are being sold to dealers in Sudan, | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
where they are used It all started in Coventry, | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
with the little grey Fergie, as our Rural affairs correspondent | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
David Gregory-Kumar reports. Most tractors don't have a birthday | :16:59. | :17:11. | |
party, let alone a parade that brings the city centre to a stand | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
still. If you ask me what the beating heart of Coventry chty, the | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
motor city really is. It's not a flashy jag or a 4 X 4, it's this, | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
the Ferguson TE 020, the Little grey Fergie. It's the tractor th`t Edmund | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
Hillary took to the South Pole. It's a collectible, a star of its own | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
children's Conservative show and has its own theme park ride in Norway. | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
And this is the site of the former Ferguson factory at Banner Lane in | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
Coventry. So 70 years ago, the little grey Fergie was being built, | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
then on Christmas Eve, 2002, the factory here closed its doors for | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
the very last time. And now, as you can see, it's a housing est`te. The | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
tractors they made here, thd ones that came after the little grey | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Fergie, well they are still working hard in the fields, not just here, | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
but all over the world. A tractor sale outside Cambridgeshire. These | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
tractors are the direct descendants of the little grey Fergie. Lany of | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
the buyers today are from the Sudan, Hamsa has bought over 150 tractors | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
here over the years. Why do people like them? Because they use it for | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
really, really, really long time, they can work 24 hours in one go. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
That's true apparently. In the Sudan, tractor drivers do 24-hour | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
shifts, one sleeps while thd other drives, then they swap over and the | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
Massey Ferguson just keeps going. You see the tractor here, it's old, | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
it will be refurbished. If xou see the job they do on it, I don't think | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
the person would believe it. The fact these Coventry-built tractors | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
are still working and working hard, it's a tribute to the craftsmanship | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
and the engineering that went into them. No wonder they inspird so much | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
passion. You can trace everxthing right back to the little grdy | :19:15. | :19:15. | |
Fergie. This weekend sees Birminghal's | :19:16. | :19:35. | |
first chocolate festival, but just imagine a job wherd you're | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
actually paid to eat Well that's what Hayleigh Ctrtis | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
does in her role as a chocolate What's more her taste buds | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
are so precious they've been insured Hayleigh Curtis might just | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
have the best job in the world. You have the smoothness, thd | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
caramel, then the sharpness. Hayley is a chocolate speci`list, | :19:57. | :20:09. | |
creating new chocolate bars and making sure they taste yummx. Some | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
of the best work has come from the strangest combinations, thex just | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
tend to work. If you don't overthink things, that's when you get the | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
magic. Can I have a go? Yes, that's what we are here for isn't ht? | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
With so many choices, I didn't know where to start or end. | :20:27. | :20:42. | |
I wouldn't put that in Dairx Milk, but feel free to try it. So | :20:43. | :20:51. | |
important are Hayley's tastd buds, they've been ensured by Lloxds of | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
London for ?1 million. In the policy, there are a few things. I | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
can't become a magician's assistant because that might involve sword | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
swallowing and also I've got to be careful with spicy food, so over a | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
certain level, I can't eat that because it would damage the taste | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
buds. But Birmingham's the home of the curry so I still have a korma | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
every now and then. With thd kitchen working their magic, it was time to | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
see if my creation would pass the test with the very expensivd taste | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
buds. I think it's a bit too adventurous | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
for our consumers. What do they know? ! I liked it, any how | :21:32. | :21:46. | |
If that's left you hungry for chocolate you'll be | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
pleased to hear Birmingham's first chocolate festival starts tomorrow. | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
The Choc-ival details are on our local live page now. | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
You may have seen the high profile Channel Four campaign 'Stand up | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
to Cancer.' Tonight a speci`l programme will be aired to raise | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
awareness and funds to fight the disease and a group | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
of Staffordshire firefighters have pitched in to help. | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
You're about to see the burly chaps of Blue Watch as they've | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
Don't be fooled by the tutus these 6 fellas | :22:11. | :22:24. | |
The video's been made by thd boys at Henley fire station, | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
It's a hit online, so far more than 100,000 of us have seen it | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
Tonight though it gets its big showing - on Channel 4's St`nd Up | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
We've had lots of comments `bout the legs. Not all good. I look good in | :22:40. | :22:51. | |
tights, apparently. LAUGHTER. | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
You can't raise more awarendss than five or six blokes dancing hn tutus. | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
Some skills were better than others. My best skills were edited out! | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
These guys have a serious job to do. When fame calls, it's hard not to | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
get just a little carried away. You may remember | :23:13. | :23:26. | |
a fortnight ago we told you about the devastation c`used | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
by burglars who stole a thotsand pounds from a training centre | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
for vulnerable adults Since our report, more | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
than five thousand pounds h`s been donated to the centre by kind | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
hearted members of the publhc. It means the group can | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
have the Christmas party thdy'd They've sent us this | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
photograph to say thank you. Right, it's dark outside, | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
but we've got just the thing to brighten up our lives, | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
it's Beccy who's in Longbridge Welcome to Longbridge | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
where are rather illuminating art exhibition is under way for one | :23:54. | :24:03. | |
night only - tomorrow. More than 30 artists | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
are behind the work here, and the theme this year is 'Shadow | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
Factory'. Our festival director is Cl`ire | :24:13. | :24:23. | |
Farrell. What is the festiv`l all about? It's a very exciting light | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
and arts festival that will take place tomorrow night in Longbridge | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
with pop-up theatre, music, a night-time market, food trucks, | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
exhibitions in interesting spaces and a contemporary dance group in | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
Sainsbury's cafe. There's loads going on isn't there, even the car | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
park is getting involved and it s supposed to tell the tale of | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
Longbridge isn't it? It is, yes What makes this so special hs so | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
many of the artists, there `re over 35 from Birmingham, the UK, Germany, | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
America, and so many of thel have been working with community groups | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
and local schools to shape, inform and create the work. What is your | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
favourite bit? I really can't answer that. I think the most spechal part | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
about the festival is the community involvement in shaping and hnforming | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
the work. Thank you very much. It's all taking place tomorrow nhght | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
it's of course all free. If you are coming down, I would suggest that | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
you bring a coat because it's certainly feeling rather autumnal | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
through the next few days. We still have the Scandinavian high blocking | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
things off, keeping things calm this weekend. It will be mostly dry. | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
We've got a nagging weather system sitting on the East Coast. @s the | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
wind direction changes, we could see a few spots of rain, but it will be | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
largely dry and feeling chilly as we head through the next few d`ys. | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
Overnight, we have a bit of cloud cover, clear spells mostly hn the | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
west and where we get those, it s going to be chilly. We see the | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
temperatures dipping Don to a possible four Celsius, that's the | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
temperature in the towns and cities. In the countryside, it will be lower | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
than that. We could even sed a frost. We are likely to get mist and | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
fog patches developing as wdll. Tomorrow, there is going to be mist | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
and fog around through the start of the day. Then we start to sde a | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
little bit of sunshine coming out. That will start to break up the | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
cloud. Hazy sunshine through the start of the morning but it's going | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
to start to brighten up. We've got that weather system though sitting | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
out to the east of the country, threatening us with a few spots of | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
rain. Temperatures getting tp to a possible 13, so it will feel OK in | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
the sunshine. We have an easterly breeze which will take the ddge off | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
temperatures. Tomorrow, it's very similar so tonight. We'll h`ve a few | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
spots of cloud here or therd, a few clear spells and where we gdt the | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
clear spells, we are going to see temperatures plummet to thrde or | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
four Celsius. Mist and fog patches will develop as well. For Stnday, | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
it's going to be similar to tomorrow. Perhaps a bit mord cloud, | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
a few more showers blowing hn from the east. It's going to stax largely | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
dry, again there'll be some sunshine into the start of the new working | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
week. High pressure hangs on for a bit longer, it will eventually | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
change but we are staying dry this weekend but I would recommend | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
wearing coats and thermals. Thanks Beccy. I'm back at 10. 3 . | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
Have a great evening. Goodbxe. | :27:26. | :27:31. |