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The headlines tonight: so it's goodbye from me, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
A woman in Wolverhampton dies from head injuries - | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
after a piece of debris is blown off a roof by storm force winds. | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
Everything has been shaking nonstop. I'm indoor Staffordshire, strong | :00:15. | :00:26. | |
winds brought down trees and HGVs. This is as bad as it gets, we are | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
struggling to stay on our feet. After Storm Doris caused chaos | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
throughout the country, when will there be calm? I will have the | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
details later. Also tonight: full speed ahead, | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
the final piece of legislation for building HS2 is passed - | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
we look at the winners and losers A woman has been killed | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
in Wolverhampton, after being struck on the head by a piece of debris, | :00:46. | :01:01. | |
blown off a roof An eye witness described | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
the object as a piece of wood West Midlands Ambulance | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
said the pedestrian died at the scene in the city centre, | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
after suffering very As you can see the cordon is still | :01:14. | :01:29. | |
in place, West Midlands Police is yet to release the identity of the | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
victim but we have been told in the past few minutes that the lady's | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
family has been informed of her death. Earlier this area of the city | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
centre was a hive of activity as police tried to gather evidence as | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
to what happened. From a busy shopping | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
thoroughfare to a no-go zone, West Midlands Police say a 29 your | :01:49. | :02:03. | |
old woman was walking past Starbucks when a piece of debris hit her. | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
Some shoppers say the strength of the wind in Wolverhampton has | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
It's a wonder to me, with how windy it was, | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
there wasn't more things falling off the roofs than there were. | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
My auntie phoned me up on the bus on the way here and she said, | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
do you know the main street in Wolverhampton is closed off? | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
She said apparently there's been an accident. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
You've just got to expect it from the wind. | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
Police and fire crews have been busy here all day and as a consequence | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
some of the shops in this centre had to close. | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Five hours on and the cordon is still very much in place | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
as the emergency services continue their investigations. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
West Midlands Ambulance Service said it received no fewer than 15 | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Unfortunately when paramedics got here it was clear that the victim | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
had suffered very serious head injuries and they confirmed | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
This wooden panel is now being taken away to be forensically examined | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
and the Health and Safety Executive has been informed. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
Police are now trying to piece together the sequence of events that | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
Earlier Starbucks released a statement to the BBC, saying they | :03:19. | :03:29. | |
are shocked and saddened by this terrible incident. And that they are | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
supporting the police with their investigation and they will remain | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
closed until further notice. Clearly the high winds have caused a lot of | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
problems and it is a reminder of how lethal they can be and how loose | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
objects can turn into missiles. Extremely sad to think that one | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
family tonight will have to come to terms with the loss of a loved one. | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
Thanks for joining us. The storm force winds have | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
been causing wide spread problems on our roads, | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
rail and for air travel. Rebecca Wood has been looking | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
at its impact across the Midlands. Driving rain and gale force winds | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
signalled the arrival of Storm Doris on the Staffordshire Moorlands. | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
Here, the winds Keane are gusting towards 70 mph and high sided | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
vehicles are struggling and it has been a busy day for Fire and rescue | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
teams. It proved too much for these HGVs and one by one they toppled | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
over, but thankfully there were no injuries. Fire crews had to battle | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
with the elements to rescue the driver, here, eventually walking to | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
safety. He was able to get out because the vehicle was on its side. | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
He is OK, no injuries. This is about as bad as it gets. We are struggling | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
to stay on our feet and the winds are in excess of 80 mph at the | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
moment. They often see the words of the weather here but for many today | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
came as a shock. -- the worse. We often get the brunt of things but | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
this is pretty extreme. Just a windy day. We are high up, this is Leek! | :05:13. | :05:23. | |
With callers to BBC local radio stations helping to chart the storm | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
progress, it was not just the West Midlands affected. I'm driving a | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
coach and it is absolutely murder. There is a tree down and electricity | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
cables are sparking over the road. Approach with great caution. Storm | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
Doris toppled callous trees, some bringing down street lamps and power | :05:44. | :05:44. | |
lines with them. -- campus trees. This the scene on the | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
A452 near Leamington In Hereford damage to the roof | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
of a new petrol station forced the closure for a time of the city's | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
main river bridge causing There were delays for motorists | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
on the A443 near Holt Heath, In many areas tree surgeons | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
were on standby Away from the roads | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
there were delays for train travellers too - this the Cross City | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
line near Sutton Coldfield. Many bus journeys were cut short | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
and long queues formed at Birmingham The advice from Highways Agency | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
staff at their Qunton control centre: don't travel | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
unless if you really have to - and if you do, keep | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
your wits about you. In excess of 60 trees have come down | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
in the region as a whole and quite a significant congestion and delays in | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
the region. In West Bromwich | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
garden furniture came blowing down the street - | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
bedroom furniture too in places! In Smethwick a poplar | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
80 feet tall crashed into the roof of a leisure centre | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
causing extensive damage There were many narrow escapes | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
across the Midlands, For the emergency services one | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
of their busiest days in years as the power of Doris held sway | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
across the region. And Rebecca joins us now from Leek | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
in Staffordshire and reports this evening of a woman in Stoke who has | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
been seriously injured Yes, thankfully things are calming | :07:13. | :07:22. | |
down, but it has been a very disruptive day. Down the road in | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
Stoke reports or woman in her 60s being treated at the Royal Stoke | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
University Hospital for serious injuries -- reports of a woman. It | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
is aborted a roof fell on her in a part of the city at around | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
lunchtime. -- it is reported part of a row. Storm Doris has caused huge | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
disruption on the railways. Yes, it really has. Seems at Birmingham new | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
Street with many people waiting, stuck, not able to get anywhere, | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
many lines are disrupted, not just because of trees falling, but | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
greenhouses and sheds falling, as well. No service on the Virgin | :08:05. | :08:14. | |
Trains service between London and Birmingham, and not good on the | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
cross city line is there. Suspended between Redditch and Lichfield. | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
Chiltern Railways have also stopped between Birmingham and | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Kidderminster. Finally, what about the roads? They are not great. Many | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
of them blocked, queueing traffic on the M6 because we had a tree down. | :08:39. | :08:51. | |
In Staffordshire the a 52 at Kingsley all blocked. Because of | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
fallen power cables. Rebecca, thanks for joining us. | :09:00. | :09:00. | |
And we'll have more on the path of the storm - | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
and the forecast later in the programme. | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
Our other main new tonight - the high speed rail line, HS2, | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
The law needed to begin building work on the line, | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
between Birmingham and London, has been given Royal Assent. | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
It clears the way for construction of the first phase of HS2 to start. | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
It's been almost a decade in the planning, it will be | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
almost another ten years until the ?60 billion | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Here's our Transport Correspondent Peter Plisner reports. | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
Here now today London got its link high-speed link to the continent... | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
It's been a long time in coming - this me was back in 2007 | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
That day I'd been one a select number of people on board the first | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
train to Brussels via the new HS1 link to London St Pancras | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
and the possibility of HS2 was the talk of the train. | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
We've been mad about motorways for the last 30 years. | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
I think we've got to get mad about high-speed rail | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
And mad we got - and despite many saying that high speed | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
rail was too expensive, almost three years later | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
I was there when the then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
came to Birmingham to formally launch HS2. | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
It just means huge economic transformation is possible | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
and thousands upon thousands of jobs will be created as a result of it. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
The plans would see the high speed line cutting a swathe | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
through the Warwickshire contryside on its way to stations | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
at the airport and NEC and Birmingham city centre. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
But the announcement also meant thousands of blighted | :10:28. | :10:28. | |
Nowhere more so than here in Gilson in North Warwickshire, | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
once dubbed Britain's most blighted village. | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
Here, HS2 Limited has agreed to buy almost every | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
There are around 50 house in the village and virtually | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
Mike Duley has yet to sell and he's one of the last | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
It's very sad in a way but it was bound to happen. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
When the railway comes it would be split in two and it becomes | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
Royal Assent is also a big blow for Joe Rukin - | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
the region's leading anti-HS2 protester. | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
A professional campaigner - he's devstated and | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
It's bewildering after seven years that it has come to this | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
because we have won every single argument but politics | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
But politcians appear to have been swayed by the prospect of thousands | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
of new jobs in places like Birmingham which is currently | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
experiencing something of a boom in development. | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
This is the new HSBC headquarters being built in Birmingham. | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
When it is completed next year more than 2,000 people will work here, | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
including 1,000 who will have relocated from London. | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
And part of the reason it's being built here is HS2. | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
Not far away, another major devlopment. | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
Also given a boost by the prospect of high speed rail. | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
From his office, Birmingham City Council leader John Clancy has | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
People want to bring their businesses and indeed | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
their headquarters to the city because they see that actually | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
in terms of the economic activity it makes sense, | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
but also nine years down the line, we are at the centre | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
of the economy of the UK in a new and very real way. | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
And during the next nine years while HS2 is being built, | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
development will also happen around Birimngham's second HS2 | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
The man in charge of what's called UK Central reckons | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
It's a key catalyst for the growth agenda around UK Central Hub | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
and I think without HS2 the growth opportunities are significantly | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
So, big benefits, but also damage to the environment | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
With Royal Assent secured, it would seem that now there's no | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
stopping the arrival of the high speed train. | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
Peter's on the site of what will become the HS2 station serving | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
You have followed every twist and tile. | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
It's got Royal Assent, what have people been saying | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
about the fact it's finally going to happen? | :13:07. | :13:07. | |
Well, it's taken seven years to get to this point - | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
But that has allowed more time for debate | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
But ultimately HS2 enjoyed cross-party support | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
in Parliament and that seems to have a crucial factor. | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
Many still questioning why it won't be ready until 2026. | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
It won't be easy to build and it is not really needed until then. | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
Today we've been finding out what other questions | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
Yes, we know the plans, but how effective is it | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
It will mean faster journey times to places like London, 45 minutes, down | :13:44. | :13:52. | |
from one hour 22 minutes. People have been asking why it is costing | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
?56 billion. It would be good to understand how | :13:55. | :13:55. | |
we might afford this. It is a lot of money and that is for | :13:56. | :14:05. | |
certain. It could be spent elsewhere, many people are saying | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
that. But hopefully it will generate money by boosting the region's | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
economy. This is a question many people wanted to ask. | :14:15. | :14:15. | |
How much is it going to cost to use the train? | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
And will there be disruptions if there's any leaves on the rail? | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
We simply don't know at the moment, but there are expected to be | :14:22. | :14:33. | |
reductions in Inter-City services on the West Coast Main Line - | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
so it's hoped that might mean that HS2 tickets won't cost much more. | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
But we won't know about that until it opens. | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
If they are building a new lines - they will make | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
sure that there aren't any trees near the line! | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
We'll have more with Peter later, on the impact of HS2 on our region - | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
and we'll be hearing from some of those living in | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
The automotive engineering group, Liberty House, has announced plans | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
for a ?10 million centre of excellence in Warwickshire. | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
The firm, which recently rescued Coventry company Covpress | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
from administration, plans to build the facility next | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
Management also announced plans to develop a new Supercar, | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
as it continues to expand in the automotive production market. | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
Every car which is released in the country now has | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
We're the largest privately owned engineering business in the country | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
The polls remain open in the Stoke on Trent Central by-election. | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
Tristram Hunt resigned as the MP last month, | :15:34. | :15:34. | |
to take up a new role at the Victoria and | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
There are 10 candidates - the polling stations shut | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
We'll be in Stoke in our late bulletin at 1030. | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
And on BBC Radio Stoke there will be a special results programme | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
And there'll be updates from the count during Graham Torrington's | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
A jury's been told that a firearms dealer manufactured and supplied | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
home-made bullets found at more than 90 crime scenes - | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
including fatal shootings and a gun attack on a police helicopter. | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
It's claimed Paul Edmunds from Hardwicke near Gloucester sold | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
antique firearms to another dealer, along with ammunition - | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
who passed them to a criminal gang based in the West Midlands. | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
He denies the charges and the trial continues. | :16:22. | :16:33. | |
The police service in Northern Ireland and the Met Police | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
have been asked if they had advanced notice of the Birmingham pub | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
bombings, which killed 21 people in 1974. | :16:39. | :16:39. | |
The coroner overseeing the inquests has today asked them to disclose any | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
information they may hold about the attack, which remains | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
Our special correspondent, Peter Wilson was at today's | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
The families of some of those killed in the Birmingham pub bombings | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
gathered at the city's memorial to the dead. | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
Before walking the short distance to today's pre inquest hearing. | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
The inquest was ordered after new information alleged | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
that the police and security services in 1974 had advance | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
warnings that the bombings were due to take place. | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
Today the court heard that Government departments had uncovered | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
no such evidence but the coroner has asked for more searches | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
If the government comes back and says that they still have no | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
information, how on earth would that be possible? | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
When this is the biggest unsolved mass murder of England's history | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
And they are telling us they have no information, | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
The coroner Peter Thornton QC promised that the inquest, | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
when it does get underway later this year, will be thorough | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
21 people died and nearly 200 were seriously injured when two | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
Now the prison service, and the police in Northern Ireland | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
and the Metropolitan police have all been asked to disclose evidence. | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
We would prefer to have everything in the process because as you know | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
this is the last time for an independent investigation. | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
We prefer to have everything in, both disclosure and scope, | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
than leave anything out which may be significant. | :18:16. | :18:16. | |
So this is a good move by the coroner. | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
Peter Thornton, the coroner, clearly understands the public | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
He's authorised that a website should be set up so that everyone | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
can follow the hearings once they get underway. | :18:30. | :18:30. | |
Peter Wilson for BBC Midlands Today, Birmingham. | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
And the full inquest is expected to begin in September, | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
we will of course be following it here on Midlands Today. | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
Let's return to our main story, Storm Doris, which has been ripping | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
Shefali has been keeping an eye on its path, | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
this was exceptional - what caused it? | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
It was a result of Storm Doris deepening quite rapidly over a | :18:55. | :19:03. | |
period of 24 hours. The central pressure dropped by 24 millibars in | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
that period and it turned into what meteorologists have referred to as a | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
weather bomb, the process of explosive cyclo- Genesis. That is | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
what happens when you have a number of factors coming together, a strong | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
jet stream and a low pressure, and that is what occurred and it was | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
exceptional on this occasion. It also covered the whole of the | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
region. Often they are just one area. Weather watchers have been | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
very busy. Amber warnings still in force until eight o'clock, by the | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
way, and it has sparked a flurry of these pictures. Depicting the kind | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
of damage and debris that has resulted from the wind. The | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
strongest gusts were across Staffordshire, 71 miles per | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
recorded. Elsewhere wind speeds of 55-65 mph. More of that to come in | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
the next couple of hours. But those weather warnings will be lifted by | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
the time we get to eight o'clock this evening. After that things calm | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
down. Storm Doris is on its way out. But we will see more on that in the | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
forecast later. Our other main story tonight is HS2, | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
which has been given the final For dozens of communities up | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
and down the Midlands, Our reporter Bob Hockenhull | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
has been meeting some of the winners and losers - | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
living in the path of Abandoned, a thriving racing | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
stables. 50 horses were in training | :20:44. | :21:07. | |
at Horsley Brook farm Now all but one are gone - | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
sold off because HS2 will slice through a business built up | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
over 23 years. It is taking a third of my property, | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
and that is not right. But as I said... There are many other people | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
affected, I'm not the only one. We've been in this all our lives. | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Things have got to change, unfortunately. | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
Ed is still waiting for his final compensation settlement. | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
But says HS2 means his past successes in the racing world | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Water Orton Primary in Warwickshire - | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
it dates back to Victorian times - the new line will go | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
Hs2 has agreed to pay for a brand new ?5 million | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
school on a new site away from the construction work. | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
It would be fantastic to the children to have a new building | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
which will have very little maintenance and it will mean we can | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
focus our efforts on the education and learning and the enjoyment. | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
HS2 has proved painful for many people but clearly not | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
everyone in its path feels they are losing out. | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
Let's return to our Transport Corresondent, Peter Plisner, | :22:22. | :22:32. | |
who's at Curzon Street in Birmingham where the city's HS2 | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
Peter, when will construction work actually start? | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
Some work has been done by engineers based in Birmingham, but we are now | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
hearing that proper construction will not start until the middle of | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
next year. Our preparation works start this year and what that will | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
mean is undertaking key survey work and ground investigation and | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
environmental work, such as relocation of local wildlife, but | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
major construction does not start until next year. Phase one was | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
approved today between London and Birmingham and phase two between | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
Leeds and Manchester, still on track, but that will take until 2023 | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
over before that is open. Some work will start. In Curzon Street we are | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
likely to see hoardings going up to protect this historic building, the | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
first railway station built in the city and I'm being told that it is | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
the rarest railway building in the world. No surprise that they want to | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
protect the building, but don't expect construction of the station | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
to start any time soon. It will be 2020 before construction of the | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
Birmingham HS2 station actually starts. Thanks for joining us. | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
Pretty momentum day and there is more in-depth analysis on the BBC | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
website. The weather has been | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
dominating the news all day - We call it actually. I don't want to | :23:57. | :24:16. | |
give an agenda. It is on its way out. -- I don't want to give it a | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
gender. We have had a window on the damage which has been done, falling | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
trees and debris, the water whipping up into a frenzy. Plenty of | :24:28. | :24:36. | |
structural damage in various places and building damage. In | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
Staffordshire, we had up to 71 miles per. But it was quite widespread. | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
Across the region. The warnings are now decreasing. Storm Doris is now | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
heading to the east and it will continue in that direction before | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
its arts to die away. It would take a wing of concentric circles and | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
strong winds with it. Much lighter winds tomorrow and a ridge of high | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
pressure which will calm things down. It will make it much drier, as | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
well. The amber warning for strong winds will be lifted by eight | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
o'clock. In the next hour, then things will calm down but we have | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
another warning in place, that is for ice, later. Showery outbreaks | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
across the region. Heavy pulses in there, embedded in some of those | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
showery outbreaks, but they will be dying away later. Clear skies to | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
end. Dry conditions and temperatures dipping to just 1-2 across most | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
towns and cities and in rural areas near freezing. Across the North we | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
might have a bit of ice, across Staffordshire, for which we have a | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
warning. The ridge of high pressure working quite nicely. Plenty of dry | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
weather. Sunny spells, as well. Behind that, showery outbreaks of | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
rain, much colder air. Temperatures will rise to 7-8 and the winds | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
significantly lighter from the north-westerly direction. Just ten | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
mph. Tomorrow night, skies will clear further and we will see | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
temperatures dropping low enough for a touch of frost and showery | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
outbreaks again as we head into the morning. | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
A bit of calm after the storm. We will end our coverage of Storm Doris | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
with scenes from Birmingham new Street as well as other stations | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
where things have been pretty chaotic as travellers tried to block | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
their way around the disruption caused by the powerful winds. We | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
have been in the station since 130 and now we are getting a taxi from | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
our workplace. Very frustrating. The boards have stopped working. Train | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
appears, disappears, more and more people building up. Just madness. A | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
lovely young woman who lives in Stafford, she was coming by train to | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
Birmingham and she heard me asking about getting to Birmingham and she | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
said, do you want a lift? And she gave me a lift. The kindness of | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
strangers. Absolutely, she was called Bella and she was lovely. You | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
can keep up-to-date with the local travel situation on the BBC local | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
radio station and the local website. I'll be back at 1030pm, | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
when we'll be in Stoke on Trent with our political | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
Editor Patrick Burns, as the polls | :27:44. | :27:46. |