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Hello, welcome to Midlands Today, with Suzanne Virdee and Nick Owen. | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
The headlines tonight: A grieving mum tells how she was | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
wrongly arrested over the death of her son. Just to think they would | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
even think I did that to my child, who was my world, my everything. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
"Give him the maximum punishment", says the father of a Warwickshire | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
teacher killed in Japan. Hundreds attend the funeral of a | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
soldier shot dead in Afghanistan. And over 1,000 years-old and more | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
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popular than ever with tourists. We Good evening, welcome to Friday's | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
Midlands Today, from the BBC. Tonight, a mother accused of | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
murdering her three-year-old son speaks out to clear her name. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Police arrested Abby Podmore after her son died following a harrowing | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
series of events earlier this year. Alfie Podmore first became ill on | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
2nd February and was sent home from nursery. The following day he was | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
taken to Birmingham Children's Hospital with a high temperature, | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
shoulder pain and a rash. Alfie was sent home after being diagnosed | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
with a virus. But on 6th February, his mother found him dead in bed. | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
To her horror, Abby was in police custody within hours, on suspicion | :01:30. | :01:39. | |
of killing her son. Joanne Writtle has this report. | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
I was devastated about losing my little boy. I was crying my eyes | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
out, saying, this isn't real. Maesteg mum was sitting with me and | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
even said, you must be joking. The officer lent into her face and said, | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
we don't joke about these things. Abby Podmore describes the moment | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
she was arrested, falsely accused of murdering her toddler. She was | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
held at Bournville Lane police station in Birmingham for 18 hours. | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
They took photos of me, fingerprints, cut my nails. They | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
did that and then obviously, I was kept in the cell. All I had was | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
Alfie's picture. A postmortem later revealed Alfie Podmore had died of | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
natural causes, after suffering from pneumonia and septicaemia. | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
Abby says she tried to tell police that he'd been ill. I even showed | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
them the medication and everything I was sent home with with Alfie. My | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
worst nightmare came true. All I have wanted was to see my little | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
boy... And then they would not let me see him for 10 days. By that | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
time, Major had taken its course and it did not look like him any | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
more. -- nature had taken its course. Alfie's bedroom in Quinton, | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
in Birmingham, is still full of toys. But Abby, a trainee dental | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
nurse, has only just moved back home, worried about false rumours | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
and bad memories. Is there a message you would like to get out | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
your community? I never heard my little boy. He died of natural | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
causes. -- I never hurt my little boy. He was taken to hospital with | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
what he had and then I had to deal with finding him and then getting | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
arrested. Abby and her family have consulted a solicitor. There are | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
grounds for concern and we are waiting for the police to try to | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
establish whether there is any justification at all as to why Abby | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
was taken into custody. He was amazing. He was always smiling, | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
singing. He always liked cuddles and kisses. Just so bright... He | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
was my world. Our reporter Joanne Writtle joins | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
us now from Bournville Lane police station in Birmingham. What have | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
the police had to say about this? It was here last February that Abby | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
Podmore was bought by officers and West Midlands Police have issued a | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
statement to us saying that the complaint is being looked into by | :04:15. | :04:25. | |
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their professional standards And what have Birmingham Children's | :04:27. | :04:37. | |
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Hospital said? They have also given us a statement saying, quite simply, | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
investigations are ongoing, but it has become clear that there was | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
more they could have done to help Alfie. We are devastated by what | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
happened to him and would like to express our deepest sympathies to | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
his family. Meanwhile, an inquest is due to be heard at Birmingham's | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Coroner's Court, when the family says they hope to learn the answers | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
to many of the questions they still have. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Thanks for joining us. You're watching Midlands Today, from the | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
BBC. Later in the programme... be, or not to be, that is the | :05:13. | :05:21. | |
question... Which of these boys will make it into the Shakespeare | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
competition? The father of the murdered | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Warwickshire teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker has asked a judge in a | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
Japanese court to impose the maximum sentence allowed on the man | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
accused of murdering his daughter. Bill Hawker was giving evidence | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
today in the trial of Tatsuya Ichihashi in Chiba, in Japan, who's | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
already admitted raping and strangling Lindsay Ann. Earlier, I | :05:39. | :05:48. | |
asked our correspondent Roland Buerk what happened in court today. | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
There was an extraordinary emotion to the day. Bill Hawker spoke in | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
court. He began by stopping near the man accused of murdering his | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
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daughter, Lindsay Ann Hawker, and that was Tatsuya Ichihashi. He said | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
their lives had been torn apart by her death in March 2007. Her body, | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
of course, was found in a bathtub full of soil and sand in a Tatsuya | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
Ichihashi's flat. He did ask for the maximum sentence possible for | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
Tatsuya Ichihashi if he is found guilty. Bill Hawker said the court | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
should show no mercy because Tatsuya Ichihashi had shown none | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
too Lindsay. At what is the maximum punishment in Japan for this kind | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
of defence? It does retain the death penalty. That phrase did not | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
pass Bill Hawker's lips. In the past, when Lindsay Ann Hawker's | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
flatmate was called to give evidence, she said he -- she felt | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
Tatsuya Ichihashi should get the full sentence. It would be unusual | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
for that tour happened. In Japan, it is normally reserved for those | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
who have committed multiple murders, not just one. And there is the | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
possibility that the family could question Tatsuya Ichihashi | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
themselves. Do you think that could happen? I think it is pretty | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
unlikely because there is a new judicial system that gives families | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
more save. The lawyer did get a question Tatsuya Ichihashi today | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
and he was asking the accused about plastic tags and ties he had used | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
to bind the wrists and legs of Lindsay Ann Hawker. The defence in | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
this case is saying that although Tatsuya Ichihashi has admitted to | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
raping her, he killed her unintentionally. The defence say he | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
should be facing a lesser charge, one of inflicting injury causing | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
death. What happens now? What we are expecting is more evidence from | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
Bill Hawker on Monday. He will be questioned by the defence lawyers. | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
A verdict in this case is expected on 21st July. Thank you. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
Missing girlfriend and boyfriend Charlotte Ford and Luke Jarvis have | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
been found safe and well in North Wales. Following an appeal from | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
their parents, a member of the public called police saying they'd | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
seen the 15 and 16-year old in Rhyl. They were last seen at Dudley bus | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
station almost a fortnight ago and are being brought home to their | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
families in the Black Country. Hundreds of mourners have paid | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
their respects at the funeral of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
Private Gareth Bellingham, who was 22, was laid to rest with full | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
military honours. He served with the 3rd Battalion the Mercian | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
Regiment, the Staffords. He is one of 375 British soldiers to have | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
lost their lives in the conflict so far, 32 of them from our region. | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
Liz Copper reports. His coffin, bourne by his comrades, | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
Private Gareth Bellingham was described as a soldier who was a | :09:05. | :09:13. | |
fearless and loyal friend. He was shot whilst on patrol last month in | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
Helmand province. He was 22 years- old. Members of his regiment say | :09:18. | :09:28. | |
his loss has created a gulf. Somebody said he was able to make | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
friends in an empty room and he is just that sort of character who | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
would come out, go anywhere and meet people. He just had a bubbly | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
personality which people used to warm to. Hundreds of mourners | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
packed St George's Church in Newcastle-under-Lyme. They heard | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
how Private Bellingham was held in high esteem, not just by his | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
regiment, but also by the Afghan forces he was working alongside. | :09:55. | :10:04. | |
Closer to home, his death has been felt keenly by the entire community. | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
There is a pride about our young men who still feel called to be | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
there for their country. And, yes, this will draw people together. And | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
in a way, make it more real to people. About the dedication of | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
these young men. After the funeral, a committal ceremony with full | :10:29. | :10:38. | |
military honours, including a And as the cortege made its way | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
through the streets, applause, on a day when a town came together to | :10:41. | :10:51. | |
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pay tribute to bravery and self- The Culture Secretary has said he | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
wants to see small local TV stations set up across the country, | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
and already in Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent people are working | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
to make that idea a reality. It's inspired by the American system, | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
where viewers often have four or more local news programmes to chose | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
from. David Gregory has been in America to find out more. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Visiting America, you notice they have a lot more local TV than we do. | :11:16. | :11:26. | |
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Like CBS 42, Birmingham Alabama. So we're spending the day here. | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Looking at this potential running order, this could be an edition of | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
Midlands Today. We have travel, weather and budget cuts. And where | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
we have cattle in Herefordshire, they have armadillos with rabies. | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
There are four stations providing local news in this part of country, | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
all funded by advertising. So who wants to advertise on local TV? | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
you drive through town you will see 17 different fast food restaurants. | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
They are all interested in advertising with us. So... Everyone. | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
We take it. This is one argument for local TV in the UK. That | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
there's an untapped, under-served pool of potential advertisers. But | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
one Midlands agency has crunched the numbers... And doubts that. | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
Because I cannot see that there would be any real demand from the | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
consumer, I cannot see who would be watching local TV. And if the | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
television station doesn't have an audience, they haven't got anything | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
to sell. But others who have already expressed an interest in | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
local TV disagree. I am chairman of a theatre company. We and 40 | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
theatres around the country. We cannot afford, by and large, to | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
advertise on regional television. We would love to advertise on local | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
television. But we are not trying to bring the whole American | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
television system to the UK. The idea is to graft additional things | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
on top of it. The question is, well that work? | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
Armadillos with rabies! That is different, isn't it? | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
So what can we learn here from America's experience of local | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
television? Our political editor, Patrick Burns, is here with us. | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
Patrick, it does seem to work over there? It does. Most of the | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
successful local channels there have the backing of the big US | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
networks. That is definitely not the route the Government one to go | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
through here. It is very much rooted in local communities and | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
there is no shortage of people coming through with business plans | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
for it and a warning for the regional press. I would be worried | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
if I were a local newspaper but we can work with them because we know | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
them. ITV and BBC, they deliver local news. But they do not deliver | :13:50. | :14:00. | |
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it in the style that city television world. -- City TV will. | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
Local TV in Great Britain failed to make money, when for most people | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
there for only five television channels. So why would now work | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
when people have the choice of 500? Does Gary Hudson have a point? | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
We've seen local stations here in the past and they all failed. | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
what is different now is that the BBC can help prime them with a | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
budget of �40 million. Today, the BBC put out his statement | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
confirming its commitment to plurality. When can we expect these | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
new local stations to start going on the air? The Government of | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
forcing the pace. Would you believe, in a year from now, some of these | :14:47. | :14:56. | |
channels could start going on air. You can find out more from my blog. | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
And there's more on this, including the man who's planning a station in | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
South Warwickshire, on this Sunday's Politics Show at the | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
earlier time of 11am, here on BBC One. | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
Now, we all learned it at school, but apart from some very famous | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
lines how many of us can recite a passage or a whole Shakespeare | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
sonnet? Well, students are being asked to do just that to win the | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
title of Schools Shakespeare Champion. It's for a BBC Programme | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
which will coincide with the RSC's World Shakespeare Festival next | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
April. Here's Satnam Rana. If you tickle us, shall we not | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
laugh? A final rehearsal for George from | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
King Edward VI School in Stratford- upon-Avon. He's one of 18 boys | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
competing to take part in Off By Heart Shakespeare, a BBC contest to | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
find a Schools Shakespeare Champion. I would like to get far in this | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
competition. It would be very nice. I am sure I can if I put my mind to | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
it. The setting - the school hall, but not any old school hall. This | :15:53. | :16:01. | |
is where the Bard himself was educated. Speak not! Reply not! Go | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
now, mauve. The battle of the words gets underway. Have you not hands, | :16:09. | :16:19. | |
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organs, dimensions? How was it for George? I think I did quite well. | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
The decision now lies with these judges behind me. They will pick | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
three boys who will make it to the regional heat of the Off By Heart | :16:29. | :16:38. | |
Shakespeare, which takes prays in the autumn. -- which takes place. | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
To get this far has been an achievement for many of these | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
thespians. The whole contest so far has challenged the boys' perception | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
of Shakespeare. And then the winners. As these three get ready | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
for their Autumn run, you, too, could be joining them. If you know | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
a school that would like to take part, you can get details on our | :16:54. | :17:02. | |
website. Take a bow! It is a long time since | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
I remember doing any Shakespeare. Thanks for joining us this Friday | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
evening. Still to come in tonight's Midlands Today, Genelle's got all | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
the details on the weekend weather. Mixed weather over the weekend, but | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
it is a slowly improving picture. Find out all the details later in | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
the programme. Dan's here with the sport now, and | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
it's a big weekend of athletics. Birmingham stages its own mini- | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
Olympics on Sunday. The city hosts its first ever Diamond League | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
athletics meeting at the Alexander Stadium. And it's attracted some of | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
the world's finest athletes, including the world's fastest man | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
and woman so far this year. This report contains flash photography. | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
A woolly hat? In July?! Well, I suppose if you're the world fastest | :17:47. | :17:56. | |
man in 2011 and you come from Jamaica, you can get away with it. | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
And he remembers the weather from his last visit. I think it was | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
raining! It went OK in the 200. There was a good crowd and good | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
support. You know, once you have the support, everything else can | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
work. Asafa Powell has yet to win a world or Olympic gold in the 100 | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
metres. But he became the fastest man in the world this year, with | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
9.77 seconds. Could he win this year's title? And those lucky | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
enough to have tickets for Sunday's sell-out will also see the world's | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
fastest woman, Carmelita Jeter. She's become a regular visitor to | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
Birmingham. I am very pleased to be back here in Birmingham. You treat | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
me so well so I will always return. We you respond to that with a good | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
performance on Sunday? I really her pan prayer I give a good | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
performance for the fans. I will compete to the best of my ability. | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
The one thing that's changed since her last is the improvement of the | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
Alexander Stadium. Jeter and Powell both plan to use it next year as | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
their 2012 Olympic training base. But if the weather's bad, they'll | :19:08. | :19:18. | |
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have to bring their own woolly It has many different names and it | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
is guaranteed to be one of the most popular sports in the Olympic Games. | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
Earlier, I headed over to Birmingham, where 55 Tennis Table | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
tables appeared. And I say to the world, ping-pong | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
is coming home. He was talking about London 2012. But if only | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
Boris had been in Birmingham today, because the city's just gone table | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
tennis-tastic. And everywhere you looked, people were itching to have | :19:46. | :19:55. | |
a go. It is good. I like playing it. It is good exercise. I saw this | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
when I came down to the library and I started playing. I love it. | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
a game everyone can play. No matter whether you are a to or 80, you can | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
pick up a bat and play. Fitting neatly into that age range, I | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
grabbed a bat and went to pick up a few tips from the experts. Danny | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
Reed and Chris Doran are ranked amongst the top five in England. | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
They both play professionally in Europe. And next month they're off | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
to China to train for next summer's Olympics. In amongst the crowd, a | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
couple of familiar faces gave the royal seal of approval. I have won | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
a few games but maybe we will take it a bit more professionally. | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
is competitive as well. everybody saw the funny side but it | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
was the Victorian upper classes who made table-tennis popular. You can | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
now play ya in St Paul's Square, one of the 55 tables dotted around | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
the city. -- now play here. It is great fun and great to get people | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
involved. It is great to see people you haven't played before getting | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
on the tables in random places and enjoying it. Back in May, two of | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
the most powerful men in the world decided to take part. They found | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
they might just have met their match in these two. | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
With the royal couple playing table tennis in Birmingham, who are those | :21:26. | :21:36. | |
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impostors who went to Canada? know! A fabulous name. | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
It's longer than Hadrian's Wall and is a truly demanding long distance | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
walk. We're talking about Offa's Dyke. The 177-mile footpath is 40 | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
years-old and more popular than ever. It follows an 8th-century | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
mound and ditch built by King Offa. Despite its success as a tourist | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
attraction, there are fears the upkeep of the path might be | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
affected in the future by spending cuts. Bob Hockenhull reports. | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
Britain's longest scheduled ancient monument passes through beautiful | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
and remote countryside in Shropshire and Herefordshire. | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
Offa's Dyke, a ditch built by the King of Mercia to keep the Welsh | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
out, may be 1,200 years old, but the long distance footpath next to | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
it has only existed since 10th July 1971. And to celebrate the 40th | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
anniversary, this halfway Fingerpost has been elected on the | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
hills above Newcastle, telling walkers they are exactly midway | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
between these two places. The grand opening made national headlines. | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
Since then, tens of thousands of walkers have enjoyed the scenery. | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
People who have walked it have said they did not know we had such | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
countryside in Britain. It is old- fashioned countryside, lots of | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
small trees, hedgerows and pathways. But the path comes at a price. | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
Eight different authorities contribute to its upkeep, so could | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
funding be a problem in the future? We do not know yet but there are | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
cut left right and centre, and the management of the path are both | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
funded from the public purse. funding is available, work is being | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
carried out to improve accessibility. It's estimated | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
visitors have increased by 25%. have been working very hard with | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
the landowners and manager of authorities to try to move as many | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
styles as we can and it makes the trail as accessible as possible to | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
everybody. Is there great danger the place might lose its | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
tranquillity? I don't think so, because we have a 177-mile trail | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
here, and like today, there is a few people walking and it is never | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
going to be like the Lake District and his other places. Even so, | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
people travel from all over the country to take on the challenge. | :23:51. | :24:00. | |
What I appreciate about it is that it is so unspoilt. We have been | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
elsewhere but here, the people and scenery make-up for it. Those who | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
live near the path largely don't seem to mind the attention it | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
brings. They are very important to our tourist trade. This Sunday, at | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
the Offa's Dyke Centre in Knighton, there'll be a fair to celebrate | :24:16. | :24:26. | |
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By Sunday, we are expecting to have some fairly decent weather. This | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
evening, we are expecting any showers to be scattered. That is | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
because they were quite prominent today and quite heavy, but we're | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
expecting they will be fewer and further between. We will actually | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
have some sunshine next to him between the scattered showers for a | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
nice end to the week. From this radar picture, you can see how many | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
showers have gone through in the day. One minute we had sunshine and | :25:03. | :25:12. | |
the next, it was chucking it down! We should have more brightness | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
tomorrow and drier spells overnight. The temperatures are the same as | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
last night. Those carry through to tomorrow's so there will be fewer | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
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showers and a bit more sunshine. We are looking at times of 22 degrees | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
Celsius on Saturday, so if you are in the sun, it will feel very | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
pleasant. By Sunday, those showers should fade away completely. Sunday | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
night, fairly mild, just a touch cooler than tonight. High pressure | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
begins to build and takes charge and we see temperatures rising as | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
we go into Monday. Still a few showers, but mainly sunny. | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
That is lovely. Let's have a look at tonight's main headlines. The | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
Prime Minister's former spin-doctor is arrested in the phone-hacking | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
inquiry. And here, a grieving mother tells | :26:10. | :26:14. |