:00:06. > :00:13.Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Suzanne Virdee and Nick Owen.
:00:13. > :00:18.The headlines tonight: an end to the former career search for
:00:18. > :00:21.justice for the family of Lindsay Hawker murdered in Japan. We can
:00:22. > :00:26.try to rebuild the life which must have been on hold for the past four
:00:26. > :00:30.years. On time and on budget, the new New Street station that will be
:00:30. > :00:34.a gateway to the second city. schedule and on budget, and the
:00:34. > :00:38.first phase which will lead us towards 2012. Union fears for what
:00:38. > :00:42.they say is the creeping privatisation of the police force.
:00:42. > :00:52.And a million pounds of lottery money to preserve a monument to the
:00:52. > :00:58.
:00:58. > :01:01.Good evening and welcome to Thursday's Midlands Today. It's
:01:01. > :01:08.taken four years but tonight one family's determination to bring a
:01:08. > :01:11.killer to justice has finally paid off. When Lindsay Hawker was found
:01:11. > :01:16.murdered in Tokyo in 2007, it changed the life of her family for
:01:16. > :01:20.ever. Lindsay's parents have been back and forth from Coventry to
:01:20. > :01:24.Japan fighting to keep the investigation going. And today they
:01:24. > :01:27.were in court to see the man who killed her jailed for life. Joanne
:01:27. > :01:37.Writtle has the background to the fight for justice for Lindsay. A
:01:37. > :01:43.warning - this report contains flash photography. Lindsay loves
:01:43. > :01:46.Japan, and you have not let her down. Thank you. -- loved Japan.
:01:46. > :01:49.Four years of grief and emotion flooded out as Lindsay Hawker's
:01:49. > :01:52.father, surrounded by his wife and other two daughters, spoke briefly
:01:52. > :01:58.after watching Tatsuya Ichihashi receive a life sentence in a packed
:01:58. > :02:01.Japanese court. We have waited four-and-a-half years to get
:02:01. > :02:05.justice for Lynsey and we have achieved that and we are very
:02:05. > :02:07.pleased. -- for Lindsay Hawker. Ichihashi admitted raping and
:02:07. > :02:13.strangling 22-year-old Lindsay, from Brandon near Coventry, but
:02:13. > :02:16.said he did not intend to kill her. Her body was found in a bath of
:02:16. > :02:22.sand and soil on the balcony of Ichihashi's flat in Ichikawa, east
:02:22. > :02:32.of Tokyo. Lindsay's death made a lasting impact on her community
:02:32. > :02:33.
:02:33. > :02:37.back here at home, as her former headteacher described. the she was
:02:37. > :02:41.the daughter we would all love to have and the commemoration service
:02:41. > :02:49.at Coventry cathedral was packed. It shows just how many other people
:02:49. > :02:52.she had touched by the age of 22. It was in March 2007 that Lindsay
:02:52. > :02:55.gave an English class to Ichihashi in a Tokyo coffee shop. Afterwards
:02:55. > :02:58.she went to his apartment, telling a taxi driver to wait. But after
:02:58. > :03:00.seven minutes the driver left. The following day, the language
:03:00. > :03:05.school called Lindsay's father to say she was missing. Ichihashi
:03:05. > :03:08.escaped when police arrived at his apartment. Officers found her body
:03:08. > :03:14.on the balcony. In the months that followed the family's appeals for
:03:14. > :03:20.help attracted massive media attention. In 2008 Lindsay's family
:03:20. > :03:23.marked the first anniversary of her death with a fresh appeal in Japan.
:03:23. > :03:28.Then in November 2009, Ichihashi was arrested at a ferry terminal in
:03:28. > :03:33.Osaka. Earlier this month, Bill and Julia Hawker arrived in Chiba to
:03:33. > :03:39.watch the trial of the man who killed their daughter.
:03:39. > :03:42.Pictures of Lindsay Ann Hawker made headline news around the world. For
:03:42. > :03:47.her family here in the Midlands, the pain will never cease, but
:03:47. > :03:50.today brings closure to a four-year nightmare. It was the power of
:03:50. > :03:56.fresh images showing Ichihashi's new face after cosmetic surgery
:03:56. > :04:00.which marked a breakthrough in the hunt for him. He had changed his
:04:00. > :04:06.appearance. A month after these images of him were released, he was
:04:06. > :04:08.spotted by a member of the public. Lindsay's family travelled to Japan
:04:08. > :04:18.frequently, determined to keep fighting for justice. They spoke
:04:18. > :04:20.
:04:20. > :04:24.out many times. I read in press reports that this man was a
:04:24. > :04:32.businessman. This was not a businessman, I believe this man was
:04:32. > :04:38.a loner. I had planned to join her in June, we were going to live
:04:38. > :04:41.together and then travel the world together. I loved her, so, so much.
:04:41. > :04:44.Lindsay Hawker went to Japan as a young graduate to teach English,
:04:44. > :04:54.never to return. As Ichihashi begins a life behind bars,
:04:54. > :04:57.Lindsay's family will try to A little earlier I spoke to the
:04:57. > :05:00.BBC's correspondent Roland Buerk who has followed the case from the
:05:00. > :05:10.start. I asked him about the Hawker family's reaction to the sentence
:05:10. > :05:14.
:05:14. > :05:18.of life imprisonment. Again there The prosecution were calling for a
:05:18. > :05:22.life sentence even though as you say, the Hawkers had asked for the
:05:22. > :05:27.maximum punishment under the law. Today it was not a possibility, the
:05:27. > :05:30.judge and the jury could have delivered a death sentence and the
:05:30. > :05:36.Hawkers said they were satisfied with the trial.
:05:36. > :05:41.So will he be freed up some point, do you think? He has been given an
:05:41. > :05:50.indefinite sentence. No minimum paraffin number of years or maximum
:05:50. > :05:54.tariff either. -- no minimum tariff in terms of numbers. This has been
:05:54. > :06:00.extremely high profile here in Japan, Ichihashi was the most
:06:00. > :06:05.wanted man in the country. That might affect whether he gets
:06:05. > :06:12.released. You did say, it has been high profile. What has the reaction
:06:12. > :06:16.been for ordinary citizens? Dozens of television crews were covering
:06:16. > :06:21.this trial and in terms of the number of people who wanted to get
:06:21. > :06:25.in, hundreds of people queued up today to try to get into the few
:06:25. > :06:29.seats available for the public in the public gallery. So many in fact,
:06:29. > :06:32.that the court officials had to organise a lottery to distribute
:06:32. > :06:38.those seats. Incredible. We have heard during the trial that
:06:38. > :06:42.Ichihashi wrote a book confessing to the killing. Will that be freely
:06:43. > :06:47.on sale, now the verdict has been passed? The book is extraordinary
:06:47. > :06:54.because it is full of drawings he made while he was on the run.
:06:54. > :06:58.Ichihashi has in fact while on remand offered the Hawkers offered
:06:58. > :07:02.the rights to the book as a gesture of apology. But they say they want
:07:02. > :07:05.nothing to do with that money. understandable, thank you for
:07:05. > :07:07.joining us. Still ahead tonight, what it's like
:07:07. > :07:17.trying to run a business in the region's worst unemployment
:07:17. > :07:19.
:07:19. > :07:29.blackspot. It is a month-by-month prices at the moment. We really
:07:29. > :07:30.
:07:30. > :07:32.Police have begun a murder inquiry after a teenage boy was stabbed to
:07:32. > :07:35.death in Birmingham. The 17-year- old was attacked on the Coventry
:07:35. > :07:41.Road near the Small Heath Retail Park at around 5pm yesterday
:07:41. > :07:49.afternoon. He was taken to hospital where he later died. Police say
:07:49. > :07:54.they believe the teenager was specifically targeted. It was not a
:07:54. > :07:58.random attack and I am appealing for witnesses. This is a busy road
:07:58. > :08:02.so anybody who was driving through this area at around 5 o'clock
:08:02. > :08:05.yesterday, we are appealing for them to come forward.
:08:05. > :08:07.A schoolgirl committed suicide by falling in front of a train, an
:08:07. > :08:10.inquest jury has decided. The body of 15-year-old Natasha MacBryde
:08:10. > :08:14.from Worcestershire was discovered on the railway line near Bromsgrove
:08:14. > :08:19.station in February last year. The inquest heard she'd used the
:08:19. > :08:21.internet to research methods of suicide.
:08:21. > :08:25.Controversial proposals for the biggest wind farm in the region
:08:25. > :08:29.will definitely not go ahead. The company behind it has decided not
:08:29. > :08:31.to appeal after planning permission was refused. Scottish Power
:08:31. > :08:38.Renewables wanted to build five 120-metre-high turbines on land
:08:38. > :08:43.near Lenchwick in the Vale of Evesham. But in January this year,
:08:43. > :08:46.Wychavon District Council turned down the application.
:08:46. > :08:50.An exclusive look now behind the scenes of the most complex
:08:50. > :08:57.construction project in Europe. That project is the complete
:08:57. > :09:00.rebuilding of Birmingham's New Street Station. The whole thing
:09:00. > :09:03.will cost around �500 million and work has to go on while the
:09:03. > :09:05.existing station is in constant use. Here's our business correspondent,
:09:05. > :09:08.Peter Plisner. Today at New Street the trains were
:09:08. > :09:12.running as normal but high above the station, major demolition work
:09:12. > :09:16.is under way. Covered from top to toe is what used to be Stephenson's
:09:16. > :09:24.Tower, an old block of council flats. It's coming down to make way
:09:24. > :09:29.for part of the new station. It is a spectacular view from up here but
:09:29. > :09:34.the people working up here cannot add married, these buildings have
:09:34. > :09:39.to be down early in the new year and you can see some of the old
:09:39. > :09:45.lift shafts. We have got one machine doing the breaking out,
:09:45. > :09:48.using the hydraulic breakers and we are using another machine to lower
:09:48. > :09:52.the material away into the skip and take it away.
:09:52. > :09:54.Every week and a half between now and Christmas, one floor of this
:09:54. > :10:01.block will disappear from the Birmingham skyline forever. And
:10:01. > :10:05.because it's in the centre of the city, it can't be blown up. We are
:10:05. > :10:09.right by the live station, it would not be appropriate. This is more
:10:09. > :10:14.environmentally friendly because we can control activities in terms of
:10:14. > :10:17.an explosion, that would leave a big cloud.
:10:17. > :10:20.Elsewhere there's plenty of other activity. This is the old
:10:20. > :10:24.Pallesades shopping centre car park. It will being a vast new concourse
:10:24. > :10:26.the size of the pitch at Wembley Stadium. Much of the work at New
:10:26. > :10:32.Street is to happen behind hoardings, already several shops
:10:32. > :10:38.have disappeared inside the Pallesades. Plenty of work going on,
:10:38. > :10:42.they are waterproofing then they will take up the fall below us and
:10:42. > :10:46.that will create an atrium, the centrepiece of the new station.
:10:46. > :10:49.And this is what it will look like when it's finished. This new fly-
:10:49. > :10:51.through shows just how radical the changes will be. More space, more
:10:51. > :10:54.entrances, more lifts and escalators but above all,
:10:54. > :11:00.thoroughly modern. But building the new station hasn't
:11:00. > :11:05.been without its problems. It is difficult to work on a structure as
:11:05. > :11:09.old as this one. With all the services and cables and trunking,
:11:09. > :11:12.we are constantly finding bits which don't appear on drawings but
:11:12. > :11:15.we have to work around it and get on with it.
:11:15. > :11:18.And that's exactly what they're doing. The first phase of the NEW
:11:18. > :11:26.New Street should be complete late next year and the whole project,
:11:26. > :11:29.including a new John Lewis store, should be finished in 2015.
:11:29. > :11:32.Welcome signs of much-needed investment as new figures show that
:11:32. > :11:35.the West Midlands was hit harder than anywhere else in the country
:11:35. > :11:41.during the recession. Unemployment in the region rose by 6% between
:11:41. > :11:44.2005 and 2011. At its peak in 2009, the unemployment rate hit 10.4%.
:11:44. > :11:46.The worst affected area was Wolverhampton where 7.7% of the
:11:46. > :11:49.workforce was still claiming benefits last month, the second
:11:49. > :11:59.highest rate in the country. Cath Mackie reports now on how
:11:59. > :12:00.
:12:00. > :12:03.Wolverhampton is recovering from the recession.
:12:03. > :12:06.If there was ever a man in need of a stiff drink, it's John Deniston.
:12:06. > :12:12.He invested �250,000 in the White Rose Hotel in Bilston and he's
:12:12. > :12:17.waiting for a return on his investment. We are living hand-to-
:12:17. > :12:22.mouth. You only think about how to squeeze blood from the stern
:12:22. > :12:27.because really there has not been anybody with the available money to
:12:27. > :12:30.spend. They are all staying in, drinking in and dining in. Clearly
:12:30. > :12:33.he's not the only anxious investor in this area. 1,300 homes were to
:12:33. > :12:37.be built at the Bilston Urban Regeneration Project but developers
:12:37. > :12:40.pulled out. While in Wolverhampton, a �300 million development at
:12:40. > :12:48.Summer Row collapsed. So news that this area's fared worse than most
:12:48. > :12:52.in the recession has come as no surprise. As a student, it has hit
:12:52. > :12:56.us quite hard. It seems to be closing down gradually. I don't
:12:56. > :12:59.think it is as bad as it is painted, Wolverhampton has got a bad name
:12:59. > :13:02.and that is a shame. People here talk of a 40-year
:13:03. > :13:05.decline in manufacturing, so I guess it would be easy for me to
:13:05. > :13:08.stand here and paint a pretty pessimistic picture of this city,
:13:08. > :13:15.but that wouldn't necessarily be fair to tell the whole story,
:13:15. > :13:18.certainly as far as the council's concerned. The new leisure centre
:13:19. > :13:21.is due to open next year. Charles Green's job is to spearhead
:13:21. > :13:24.regeneration in the city. Building on a leisure centre and school
:13:25. > :13:31.academy is well under way at the Bilston project. There's investment
:13:31. > :13:34.too planned for Summer Row and for schemes across the city. We are
:13:34. > :13:39.working with partners to bring forward site for any development,
:13:39. > :13:43.creating new jobs, helping people who are out of work into work so it
:13:43. > :13:51.is a difficult time that we are working hard to get over it. This
:13:51. > :13:56.area has got a very high work ethic. We have got thousands of businesses
:13:56. > :13:58.with millions of people -- 500,000 people working. As for John
:13:58. > :14:00.Deniston, he's hoping the turnaround in his fortunes happen
:14:00. > :14:03.before it's too late. Earlier I spoke to former CBI
:14:03. > :14:12.Director General, Lord Digby Jones, who's a business ambassador for the
:14:12. > :14:17.UK. Was he surprised this region was hardest hit in the recession?
:14:17. > :14:26.was not, I was extremely saddened but it is not a surprise. The base
:14:26. > :14:30.was a manufacturing exporting base and people did not buy and then and
:14:30. > :14:34.the stuff we did so around the world, they were not buying it.
:14:34. > :14:40.Birmingham, the West Midlands gets hit and secondarily and this is the
:14:40. > :14:45.real key, the region has made it more of a problem to make the
:14:45. > :14:50.transition and if you do value added stuff, stuff the world will
:14:50. > :14:57.buy, and stuff that Britain will buy, you cannot sell it on price,
:14:57. > :15:03.it is called a commodity, you have to select on your skill. -- sell it
:15:03. > :15:07.on your skill. We have one of the lowest skills bases in the country
:15:07. > :15:12.are. We have a company it expanding looking for engineers and could not
:15:12. > :15:15.find any, they had to go abroad. And for the region that gave the
:15:15. > :15:19.world the industrial revolution, it is awful. We have got to get
:15:19. > :15:26.ourselves up to tomorrow and that means give people skills. You could
:15:26. > :15:29.do -- you have got things like Jaguar Land Rover and companies
:15:29. > :15:35.like that but what we have got to give the world is skilled engineers.
:15:35. > :15:42.You are positive, a qualified positive, shall we say the. We have
:15:42. > :15:46.got some good universities and the Top End will be fine, but people
:15:46. > :15:51.understand. The qualification on the positivism is we have got a lot
:15:51. > :15:55.of young people, the highest population of people under 25 in
:15:55. > :16:04.Britain. Therefore we need for Liam and economic activity to make it
:16:04. > :16:07.happen. Thank you. A 72-year-old woman found dead at
:16:07. > :16:10.her home died from severe face and neck injuries, a postmortem's
:16:10. > :16:12.revealed. The pensioner was found at a house in Harborne in
:16:12. > :16:15.Birmingham on Tuesday evening. Police and forensic teams are still
:16:15. > :16:21.at the scene. A 44-year-old man's been arrested on suspicion of
:16:21. > :16:24.murder. He's still being assessed in hospital.
:16:24. > :16:26.Several private companies have expressed interest in taking over a
:16:26. > :16:29.care home in Herefordshire. The community-run Chestnuts in Ross-on-
:16:29. > :16:32.Wye was forced to close after 20 years when the rent was doubled.
:16:32. > :16:40.Half the residents have already moved out of the home and more than
:16:40. > :16:43.30 members of staff were given their notice earlier this month.
:16:43. > :16:46.The new Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford on Avon has been
:16:46. > :16:49.shortlisted for a prize. It is one of six projects in the running to
:16:49. > :16:56.win the Stirling Prize for building of the year. The theatre is
:16:56. > :16:59.officially reopened by the Queen in March following a refurbishment.
:16:59. > :17:05.Still ahead tonight, we meet cricket-mad Kearan and find out how
:17:05. > :17:09.he's determined to succeed in the sport he loves.
:17:09. > :17:13.And after a brief appearance this afternoon, it looks like the sun
:17:13. > :17:23.may come out to play this weekend. The improvements begin tomorrow.
:17:23. > :17:26.
:17:27. > :17:29.On the day more than 30,000 job losses were confirmed in police
:17:29. > :17:30.forces around the country, unions say they're concerned about what
:17:31. > :17:33.they're calling "creeping privatisation". West Midlands
:17:33. > :17:37.Police have confirmed they're exploring the possibility of a
:17:37. > :17:40.partnership with the private sector. As part of a pilot scheme, the Home
:17:40. > :17:42.Office wants them to investigate ways they can transform the way
:17:42. > :17:50.policing is delivered and also reduce costs. Sarah Falkland has
:17:50. > :17:59.West Midlands Police is having to save �126 million over the next
:17:59. > :18:03.four years. Could a private partnership be the only way of
:18:03. > :18:08.satisfying the public's expectations? They want us to be
:18:08. > :18:13.better at answering calls, at dealing with their problems and
:18:13. > :18:18.this is a rude we are examining in the context of taking substantial
:18:18. > :18:21.financial losses. Last year Cleveland became the
:18:21. > :18:24.first force to enter into a private partnership. 500 backroom staff
:18:24. > :18:27.were employed by French firm Steria in a deal heralded to save �20
:18:27. > :18:29.million over ten years. The Police Federation here say there are
:18:29. > :18:31.already signs that public aren't receiving same service, and that
:18:32. > :18:33.Steria are already eyeing police interview teams and prisoner
:18:33. > :18:35.handling staff. The West Midlands Chief Constable's
:18:36. > :18:38.distanced himself from what's happened in Cleveland. He says
:18:39. > :18:41.outsourcing is a tired model. But just by confirming he's exploring a
:18:41. > :18:51.potential partnership with private sector, he's raised concerns that
:18:51. > :18:55.
:18:55. > :19:00.this is the break-up of the police family. We are concerned that the
:19:00. > :19:07.Home Office and the Government is driving a privatisation agenda and
:19:07. > :19:09.that is what is happening here. If the Home Office pilot here in
:19:09. > :19:15.the West Midlands is judged a success, private partnerships could
:19:15. > :19:20.be imposed on every police force in the country. The opposition leader
:19:20. > :19:24.today voiced concerns. The issue is that with �1 in every five being
:19:24. > :19:27.taken at a police budgets, there will inevitably be cut in front
:19:27. > :19:31.line services and that is what the Government has been warned about
:19:31. > :19:36.but they have gone ahead anyway. Potential schemes will be put
:19:36. > :19:40.before the police authority in September.
:19:40. > :19:43.A factory that's a time capsule of Victorian life is to be preserved,
:19:43. > :19:45.thanks to �1 million Lottery grant. The work done there involved the
:19:46. > :19:47.funeral trade, putting the final touches to the coffins of, amongst
:19:48. > :19:51.others, Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill
:19:51. > :19:54.and Princess Diana. Here's Ben Sidwell.
:19:54. > :19:59.Looking at this building today, it's hard to imagine it used to be
:19:59. > :20:02.the leading coffin fitting factory in the world. Known as the Coffin
:20:02. > :20:11.Works, Newman Brothers operated on this site for over 100 years. When
:20:11. > :20:15.they closed in 1997, they left nearly everything in the factory.
:20:15. > :20:20.They literally did just walk out of it and they left everything, tens
:20:20. > :20:26.of mushroom soup on the shelves! Carbon paper in the draw and a
:20:26. > :20:31.massive amount of stock. He said this was the polishing shop, this
:20:31. > :20:34.must have been a tough place to work. Tremendously tough. People
:20:34. > :20:39.working on polishing leaves for eight hours per day or more
:20:39. > :20:45.depending on the light and it was filthy, dirty work and they had to
:20:45. > :20:48.polish as much as this possibly could, because they were on piece
:20:48. > :20:51.work. Now thanks to almost �1 million
:20:51. > :20:54.from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Birmingham Conservation Trust are
:20:54. > :21:01.set to restore the building to its former glory and turn it into a
:21:01. > :21:04.working tourist attraction. This is the stamp room, probably the most
:21:04. > :21:12.significant place in the building and that is because nothing really
:21:12. > :21:14.changed here from when it started in 1894 until 1997.
:21:14. > :21:20.The company produced coffin fittings for some of the world's
:21:20. > :21:23.most important people, including One of the last orders they
:21:23. > :21:32.completed before they closed was for Diana, Princess of Wales'
:21:32. > :21:35.coffin. A lot of people live and work in Birmingham, do they care if
:21:35. > :21:42.it remains? I think they care generally about what their city
:21:42. > :21:48.looks like and how it appears to people outside of the city and they
:21:48. > :21:51.care about the regeneration and heritage can play an important part.
:21:51. > :21:53.Included in the restoration are plans to open commercial workshops
:21:53. > :21:55.for small businesses connected to the funeral industry and a scheme
:21:55. > :22:04.to train apprentices in conservation skills. It's hoped
:22:04. > :22:09.that will help to bring this Victorian building back to life.
:22:10. > :22:16.Ben is at the factory now. Will anybody really want to go and
:22:16. > :22:21.visit? It is slightly macabre, to visit a place where coffins were
:22:22. > :22:25.made. Fascinating but not the most cheerful place. There are a number
:22:25. > :22:30.of people interested in that sort of subject but remember, there were
:22:30. > :22:37.no bodies here, just part made for the coffins and were sold on. But
:22:37. > :22:43.you also must remember that this in the late 1800s really was the world
:22:43. > :22:48.market leader in the industry. At the time when Birmingham was a
:22:48. > :22:55.manufacturing dominance. It is a snapshot of the city. When will it
:22:55. > :23:00.be open to the public? Birmingham association now have the
:23:00. > :23:05.money they need and they are the group that are also behind the back
:23:05. > :23:10.to back buildings. They were built a while ago, obviously, and
:23:10. > :23:13.restored and are now a big, popular attraction in the city. They are
:23:13. > :23:18.hoping people will come here as well. The plan is with all the work
:23:18. > :23:28.done and the workshops, it will be open to the public in 2015. Thank
:23:28. > :23:32.But it is macabre. Now the story of a young cricketer
:23:32. > :23:35.who is quite simply inspirational. Kearan Gibbs was born without hands
:23:35. > :23:38.or forearms. But he's become a fixture at his local cricket club
:23:38. > :23:39.thanks to his batting and his bowling. Dan Pallett's been to meet
:23:39. > :23:44.him. He's a remarkable cricketer, but he
:23:44. > :23:47.just wants to the part of the team. And he works tirelessly to improve
:23:47. > :23:57.his skills. You'd think bowling would be impossible without hands
:23:57. > :24:00.
:24:00. > :24:04.and forearms. Impossible nothing. He has a natural ability for
:24:04. > :24:08.cricket and the disability does not come into it. Bowling is an immense
:24:08. > :24:14.achievement for him. Just holding the ball with such a small amount
:24:14. > :24:17.of body touching the ball, just a small bit of flesh to grip, is
:24:17. > :24:22.really a huge challenge for the release of the ball and to get the
:24:22. > :24:25.accuracy is something I can't really understand how he does.
:24:25. > :24:32.11-year-old Kearen's also handy with the bat. He took up the game
:24:32. > :24:36.three years ago after joining in with a game of beach cricket.
:24:36. > :24:40.and determination is all you need to succeed, and he has that. He
:24:40. > :24:42.concentrates and that is what he loves to do. And if Kearan's not
:24:42. > :24:51.playing cricket, he loves nothing more than watching his favourite
:24:51. > :24:55.team, Warwickshire. Ian Bell, Jonathan Trott, Chris Foulkes and
:24:55. > :25:04.Darren, I love those. Why do you like them? Because they are all
:25:04. > :25:06.good at but they are. -- at batting. And now there's a real help with
:25:06. > :25:13.Kearan's cricketing obsession. The Wellchild charity is installing a
:25:13. > :25:18.cricket net in the back garden of the family home in Redditch. I have
:25:18. > :25:22.had windows broken, balls hit me in the head but now that the thing has
:25:22. > :25:25.been done in the garden, he can go out and do it there.
:25:26. > :25:35.And if he carries on with this much practice, it won't be long before
:25:36. > :25:37.
:25:37. > :25:42.Seriously cool, but watch out for your mum! Incredible story a will
:25:42. > :25:51.stop but he is accurate as well. Brilliant. Good luck. And now for a
:25:51. > :25:54.This weekend is not too bad after this week, we have seen some
:25:54. > :25:58.sunshine but it was a brief appearance from the Sun, it has
:25:58. > :26:02.gone back into hiding, we could see some more showers before the night
:26:02. > :26:06.is over, that is because of the cloud around but it should be
:26:06. > :26:11.mainly a dry night to come. Some clear spells and they will stay
:26:11. > :26:16.with us overnight. We were expecting to see the odd shower as
:26:16. > :26:23.we go into tonight and it is a fairly mild night, looking at lows
:26:23. > :26:26.of around 12-13 Celsius. But is not too cold. As we go into tomorrow,
:26:26. > :26:29.though showers lingering on but there should be lighter in nature
:26:29. > :26:33.and a bit more scattered than today and we should get some brightness
:26:33. > :26:39.mixed in with it as well. When we did he see the brighter spells, it
:26:39. > :26:43.should not feel too unpleasant. -- where we do see the brighter spells.
:26:43. > :26:49.Tomorrow night, a similar to the past few nights, we will see the
:26:49. > :26:53.showers easing off, a few clear spells but it is a touch cooler.
:26:53. > :26:58.Lows of nine Celsius. That means we go into single figures. We are
:26:58. > :27:01.talking about high and low pressure over the weekend, and if the low
:27:01. > :27:05.pressure comes any further west, it could put a dampener on things for
:27:05. > :27:10.Sunday so we are hoping that stays off. We are hoping for a decent
:27:10. > :27:20.weekend, a bit brighter, drier and warmer than recently. Not much
:27:20. > :27:20.
:27:20. > :27:23.warmer but warm enough with highs A look at tonight's main headlines:
:27:23. > :27:25.The murder inquiry at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, now two more
:27:25. > :27:28.deaths are being investigated. And justice at last for the family