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Hello, welcome to Midlands Today with Suzanne Virdee and Michael | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
Collie. The headlines tonight: Praise from | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
the Prime Minister and a Chief Constable for the calming words of | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
a grieving father, desperate his son's murder doesn't lead to more | :00:13. | :00:22. | |
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violence and rioting. Those words were so powerful, so | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
heartfelt, so spontaneous and generous. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
A quiet night on the streets, but a busy one for the courts - they sat | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
all night to bring those accused of looting and violence to justice. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
A calmer night on the region's streets, but some stores still | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
close early again. It is a bit eerie walking round and seen for | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
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shots like this. That seemed the shots. -- and seen that the shots | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
like this. And after the riots, the Home | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
Office considers banning an EDL protest in Shropshire this weekend. | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
Good evening, welcome to Midlands Today from the BBC. Tonight: It was | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
a "powerful and generous appeal for calm." That's how the West Midlands | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Chief Constable described a grieving father's appeal for an end | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
to the violence, following the killing of his son. He also said he | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
believed Tariq Jahan's dignified call for calm had stopped the | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
tensions escalating. Haroon Jahan was killed in a hit | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
and run along with brothers Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir in Winson | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
Green in Birmingham early yesterday morning. It was feared their | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
murders - as they tried to protect businesses and properties from | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
looters - could ignite more violence and rioting. Mary Rhodes | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
reports. The tributes keep coming. Members | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
of the community and people from outside the area continue to pay | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
their respects to the three men who lost their lives on Wednesday | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
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morning. I feel it bad. Very emotional? I am. We just hope that | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
everybody unites together, it does not matter what colour, whatever. | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
Because this cyst a loss for no reason. Three innocent people, it | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
is amazing this is happening. We have come to show our respect for | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
the family. Two brothers, Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir, and 21-year- | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
old Haroon Jahan were killed after they were hit by a car. The Chief | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
Constable of West Midlands Police, Chris Sims, met with Haroon's | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
father this lunchtime. Yesterday, Tariq Jahan had appealed | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
for calm. Today, at we stand here to breed | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
with all the youths to remain calm for our communities to stand united | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
-- to plead with a. Those words were so powerful, so hot felt, so | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
spontaneous and generous that I think anyone that occurred them | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
must have been moved it -- so heartfelt. And anyone who thought | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
there was any mileage from continuing his cycle of violence in | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
the name of those young men that died I think we'll have thought | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
twice about it. It seems the call has, so far, been listened to. A | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
vigil held late last night passed off peacefully. Sikhs and Muslims | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
have been branded for many years at extremists and terrorists, yet | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
there were more than 500 people and not one stone throne. The hooligans | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
are no -- the hooliganism and extremism was around the UK. What | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
did you ask the Chief Constable today? I said, how many more people | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
have to die before this hooliganism has to come to an end? He said, we | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
are working hard at this and soon it will come to an end. A brother | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
this afternoon was left grieving. have only -- I am the only some | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
left now, the backbone of the family, so I have to be strong in | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
myself and not break in pieces. I have to clear the pieces there are | :04:07. | :04:17. | |
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broken back together again. sense of shock is still very raw in | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
Winson Green, a community united in grief. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
And we'll be hearing from Chief Constable Chris Sims when he joins | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
us live later in the programme. First though, Mary Rhodes is in | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
Winson Green. Mary, what's the scene there tonight? | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Yes, detectives investigating the deaths of the three men killed here | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
have today arrested three more men on suspicion of murder. And the 32- | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
year-old man previously arrested has been bailed pending further | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
enquiries. The mood all day has been of sorrow and grief and more | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
people have been coming too late weeds and pay their respects. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
Family members have been down here this afternoon and gathering a lot | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
of support from members of the community. Today, and was struck | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
people were coming from outside Winson Green. And that sense of | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
shock and grief and wanting to unite as a community. And it seems | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
that call for calm from Tariq Jahan has been heeded and the hope here | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
and in the wider community is that will also be apparent tonight, and | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
there will be a second night of calm. The community is still deeply | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
united in grief. Thank you from Winson Green. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
A quiet night on our streets, but a busy one in court. Magistrates sat | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
throughout the night to deal with dozens of people accused of looting | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
and violence during two nights of rioting across Birmingham and the | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
Black Country. Almost a quarter of the cases involved children. Some | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
offenders have already been jailed and sentenced. Let's go live now to | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
Ben Godfrey at Solihull Magistrates Court, where the all-night sessions | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
were held. Ben, this is very unusual to have an all-night | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
sitting like this, isn't it? It is, what we saw overnight last | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
night started at about 7:30pm and finishing at 6am today was a | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
conveyor-belt of alleged criminality come -- or, at some | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
admitted it and some did not. 20 people have been remanded in | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
custody and some sentenced and some two told to come back. We are | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
talking about burglary, theft, arson, between the ages of 14 and | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
Tell us about some of those people that have been dealt with. | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
Some of the cases include that of a 24-year-old man from Newtown in | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
Birmingham who admitted handling stolen goods almost �5,000 worth of | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
perfume from House of Fraser. He is awaiting sentence. | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
Next, a man jailed for six months for looting a Birmingham newsagent | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
of more than �3,500 worth of cigarettes. And a 15-year-old boy | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
who cannot be identified for legal reasons charged with burglary, at | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
items worth �20, he has been remanded in customer -- in custody. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
And I understand a 14-year-old girl has been arrested by police in | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
Wolverhampton, she is being questioned and has been escorted by | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
a family member to the police station he suspected her of | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
stealing clothes. David Cameron once tough sentences, | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
are magistrates responding? -- he wants. I have been to a | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
number of cases where teenagers have been sent away with probation | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
orders. One remanded in custody today. It is not just young people | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
involved, through the courts over the last day, a 44-year-old man was | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
charged with possession of a gas spray. Another look special court | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
is sitting this evening in Birmingham, it is under way now and | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
should finish by 9:30pm. Thank you very much indeed. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
On the day MPs were recalled to Westminster to debate the riots, | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
politicians from our worst-affected areas have clashed over the | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
Government's plans to cut police budgets. Our political editor, | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Patrick Burns, joins us from Westminster. Patrick, a lot of | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
people saying tonight that it seems like madness to cut police numbers | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
after these riots. Mr Cameron's reply is that if the | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
police were thin on the ground, it's because they began by treating | :08:17. | :08:26. | |
it as a public order issue rather than one of criminality. He | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
promised the Commons that even after these economies, the police | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
would be able to muster the sort of surge in numbers which we saw on | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
the streets last night. But I put it to one of his Cabinet colleagues | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
that this is a funny time to be cutting the police. | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
The chief constable in them West Midlands has made it clear that he | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
has adequate resources for policing -- the West Midlands. And there is | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
no question, the Prime Minister has made clear he will reopen this | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
issue. The key point here is to catch and prosecute those who have | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
been involved in outrageous and discussed in the offences in | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Birmingham and across Britain. is the sort of strength of feeling | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
on the opposition benches? Very strong indeed. | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Six local MPs - David Winnick, Richard Burden, Tom Watson, Pat | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
McFadden and Rob Flello - lined up behind Labour's demands for the | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
Government to reverse the cuts. And one MP whose constituency saw some | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
of the most serious disorder told me Government promises to transfer | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
police officers from the back office to the front line would be | :09:30. | :09:39. | |
counter-productive. I think that is just absolutely | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
unbelievable. And indeed, there has been a memorandum from the | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
Warwickshire police League today inviting backroom staff to take | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
voluntary redundancies with the clear indication that they will be | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
replaced by police there are currently on frontline duties -- a | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
leak. That to me demonstrates the fallacious nest of the Prime | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
Minister's position. Is this one of those issues that | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
could drive a wedge between the Coalition partners? | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
No sign of any great splits on this so far. Most Liberal Democrats | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
challenging Labour to spell out what they'd cut instead to stave | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
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off cuts to the police. There is a question of deployment. We have two | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
statements today, one is about the finances. We know the government | :10:35. | :10:43. | |
plan to have about 40% of the GDP spent on public services, more than | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
in the first Tony Blair government. If you do not get your deficit | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
under control, you have a higher deficit and more cuts. Labour have | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
to have more cuts or they have to tell us whether money is coming | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
from. -- where the money. And such is the demand for MPs to | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
speak in this debate that it's been extended by an extra hour and will | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
now continue until 8 o'clock. Back to you. | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
Well, we're joined now by the Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
Chris Sims. Good evening. Thankfully, a quiet night last | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
night. Monday and Tuesday, sickening scenes of the violence | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
and looting, are do not worried as we have heard MPs are that if these | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
police cuts are planned and, you will not cope with future | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
situations like this? -- are you not worried. I am not here to talk | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
about cuts and budgets, I do not think the people of West Midlands | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
would want me talking about that sort of thing when we are still in | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
the middle of dealing with an operational set of challenges. | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
she would not be able to cope. have come to talk about the | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
operational challenges we face now. It is the politicians who would | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
think about budgets. We saw breathtaking scenes on Monday and | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Tuesday, people looting brazenly and police seemed to be holding | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
back. No, what you have seen is almost 400 people arrested in those | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
two days. More arrested, that will follow. My officers doing fantastic | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
work. Brave work, in order to bring the situation under control to get | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
a climate of deterrents back so people do not think they can commit | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
offences with impunity and to get control back on the streets, and | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
that is what you are seeing now and what she will continue to see. | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
Monday night, pictures were very different. You have to understand | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
that ordinary law-abiding members of the public cannot understand why | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
you did not just moved in and arrest people. There were lines of | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
police and people walking off with TV's. I have been all day receiving | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
support from political leaders, members of the community, I think | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
with respect they seem to have a better understanding of what | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
officers were dealing with then you seem to have from your desk in the | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
studio. Interesting to say that, I have spoken to a Westminster -- a | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
West Midlands police officer and they say that police tactics were | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
pink and fluffy policing. They say officers on the ground know what | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
needs to be done but high-ranking officers do not let them, what do | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
you say? I say 400 people are facing prosecution as a result of | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
the tactics we used. We have gone in the most robust way to protect | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
people in the West Midlands, we will continue to do that. I do not | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
know who that officer is, at a suspect he was probably a long way | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
from the action -- I suspect. And his or her colleagues were probably | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
facing real danger and making snap decisions to do the right thing to | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
protect people in the West Midlands. Nobody is saying your officers were | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
not brave, but I would also like to talk about, you have been to see | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
Tariq Jahan today, the father of one of the men, one of the three | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
men killed in the early hours of yesterday morning. What he had to | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
say was incredibly powerful and she said that, humbling to hear a man | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
grieving coming out with that kind of speech. I was honoured to be | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
invited to the house. It was a private conversation, I wanted to | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
pay my condolences to the family. I wanted to say on behalf of my | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
colleagues and the wider community that we were all astounded at the | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
bravery and frankness of the intervention that he made. At the | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
time that he was suffering as a father, he found it within himself | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
to come forward, it to represent the wishes of the community, and I | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
told him in my view, he made the difference between last night | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
becoming an issue of violence between sections of the community | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
and instead we had a-night of relative calm. And hopefully again | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
tonight. You have six officers on the street, am I correct? Around | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
10pm, we had 6,000 and have a similar pattern tonight. So the | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
people of the West Midlands are safe tonight? With support from | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
colleagues in Scotland and across the region, we will do everything | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
we can to not only make the streets safe but to offer a deterrent to | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
people who want to cause trouble. And you very much indeed for coming | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
to see me. -- thank you. There was no major trouble on the | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
streets of the region last night after two nights of lawlessness, | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
looting and rioting. Birmingham and the Black Country were starting to | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
return to something like normal today, although boarded-up shops | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
and windows betrayed the fact that it's not yet quite business as | :16:01. | :16:11. | |
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usual, with trade down by millions Birmingham City centre and West | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
Bromwich were welcoming shoppers back today. | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
In Birmingham, many we spoke to were shocked by the aftermath of | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
the riots. We were not meant to meet -- I came to meet a friend and | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
we were meant to meet on Tuesday and delayed it till today because | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
we feel safer. I am shocked looking around. You carry on, what can you | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
do? Let them stop quite complete the? No! As calm returned to | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
Birmingham city centre, this newsagent, who's spent 26 years | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
building up her business, said she would not be deterred. We have got | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
to compensate losses and pay my staff and pay the bills. Somebody | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
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has to pay for that. Business as usual for a dry cleaners, refusing | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
to close early. We cannot let these people win, we have to make a stand | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
and carry on as normal. gleaming office blocks in the city | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
centre may not be boarded up, but there's a hidden cost. The Chamber | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
of Commerce estimates that sending staff home early in financial and | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
legal firms could have cost �3.5 million. And there's a global | :17:21. | :17:30. | |
reputation to protect too. I do not think it will take as long to | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
forget the riots. It might take a bit longer to recover some of that | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
reputation will damage, pictures that have gone not just across this | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
country but probably more worryingly in overseas markets in | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
China, India, Brazil, Russia. Countries we want to invest in | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
Birmingham because it is a brilliant City to invest in. | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
Bullring said initially it would stay open until 8pm, it has been | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
revised until 6:00pm. A spokeswoman for the Bullring said additional | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
security measures had been put in place, adding that the primary | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
concern is for the safety of shoppers and retailers, and they | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
continue to work closely with the police. In West Bromwich, a vibrant | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
scene. All a far cry from the terror it's suffered. This needs to | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
stop and we are a community, a multicultural community, and people | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
need to work together. They should be dealt with really severely. | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
Birmingham tonight, at a quiet scene outside the usually busy | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
restaurants. Birmingham and West Bromwich is slowly returning to | :18:40. | :18:50. | |
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normal, but memories of the last few days are still vivid. | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
So what is the situation now? Much, and more peaceful as people | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
make their way home from work and shopping -- much more, and more | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
peaceful. The newsagents behind me is still open having closed early. | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
It will stay open until 9pm. West Midlands police have the same had | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
the presence, about 1,000 public order trained officers. In the | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
jewellery Quarter, one bar owner said on his Facebook page he is | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
determined it is business as usual tonight and he will not be deterred | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
by the troublemakers. So an air of normality returning to | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
the streets of Birmingham tonight - a huge relief for all those who | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
live, work and care about the city. And joining us now is the Leader of | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
Birmingham City Council, Councillor Mike Whitby. First of all, your | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
reaction to the events of the past few days? | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
It has been terrible and it has been very sad, and something we do | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
not want to experience again it's a black as simple as that? It is a | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
terrible experience and has harmed our reputation. It has dented | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
people's prosperity and has frightened many people. And while | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
we all want normality, we are creeping towards it. So what do we | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
do about it from the City council's point of view? Salford, Greenwich | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
and Nottingham said those found guilty of criminality will be | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
evicted if they are in council houses, is Birmingham doing that? | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
am not sure, but we are working in conjunction with the police and | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
anybody caught will be published. And the you process carried out. | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
Would you be tempted to do that? have seen terrible scenes in | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
Birmingham, at we have three councils acting robustly against | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
people found guilty. What robust action will the council here take? | :20:47. | :20:57. | |
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At the moment, we will certainly make sure those people intimidating | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
people utilising our services, there has to be a relationship | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
between that and a penalty. Meaning what? People using it your | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
services... We have not made a decision and I do not want to make | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
that here. We now have the power to affect people, but there are social | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
consequences of course. If you evict people, where do they go? We | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
do not want to just immediate the respond to it. But they should be | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
some fought of punishment and I know viewers are quite rightly | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
saying the action we have taken, the moronic idiocy and criminality | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
needs to be punished, and we will do all we can see. To what extent | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
do you hold with the argument that people are reacting to what they | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
see around, the court and sew one, the difficulties they are facing? - | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
- the cuts and so on. The City council is making cuts in areas | :21:56. | :22:04. | |
where people say it matters. walked a deadly road the morning | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
after the sad death of the three young men and I spoke to a range of | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
people, Muslims, Christians, black, wide, Brown, from all over the | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
world, and every person said those looting and rioting were | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
fundamentally criminals and it was not related to that. But we now see | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
empty streets, this is the office - - this is the image going around | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
the world of Birmingham, is that a problem for you? I have gone to the | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
cricket and it is good, we are winning and doing well. We are | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
carrying out as much as we can in normal conditions. There is a | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
healing process and we have to review what we have learnt, liaise | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
with the police and the community. A lot of work, this is the healing | :22:51. | :23:00. | |
process. Thank you very much indeed. The Home Office is considering | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
banning a demonstration by the English Defence League in Telford | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
on Saturday. The local council has made an application to stop it | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
taking place. It's come too late for Telford | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
United Football Club though - their game against Luton Town has been | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
called off. Ben Sidwell reports. Businesses in Wellington, in | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
Telford, are preparing for the worst on Saturday. Nearly all are | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
closing, many are also boarding up windows for the arrival of the | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
English Defence League. It is a waste of resources and a waste of | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
time, I hated. It is causing us so much heartache wondering if we even | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
have a shock to come back to. would be foolish not to realise the | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
strength of feeling of people around here who do not want this | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
March. If there is nothing good about it. We will just say to them, | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
please leave the March this time? Following the rioting around the | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
country over the past few days, police have asked Telford & Wrekin | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
Council to try and get Saturday's march banned. The police think it | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
is the right thing to do, so do the council and the Muslim business | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
community also stock Mac -- also. At AFC Telford United, that ban | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
will come too late to save their opening game of the season. | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
Everything was ready for the arrival of Luton Town and a crowd | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
of around 5,000 were expected to see the club's first game back in | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
the Football Conference. The court had already moved the fixture twice | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
from its original 3pm start. First took a lunchtime kick-off and then | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
to 7:45pm -- first to a lunch time. But West Murcia Police asked them | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
to call the game off altogether leaving them no choice but to | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
postpone the match. Banning the march does not stop people from | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
gathering on Saturday, but people here hope it will be enough of a | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
deterrent to keep them away. The owner of Birmingham City has | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
been banned from leaving Chinese territory after appearing in a Hong | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
Kong court on money laundering charges. Carson Yeung's defence | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
team offered to increase his bail payments to almost a quarter-of-a- | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
million pounds so that he could fly to Birmingham for this weekend's | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
home game. But a magistrate ruled that he's got to remain in China | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
ready for another court appearance later this month. | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
Profits at the Midlands car maker Jaguar Land Rover are up following | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
strong sales in China and Russia. The firm made pre-tax profits of | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
�248 million in the second quarter of the year. That's a rise of nine | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
million on the same time last year. Sales of vehicles are up 50% to | :25:24. | :25:34. | |
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62,000. We're seeing signs of it clearing | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
up now, so for cricket, the weather doesn't pose too many problems. | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
There's probably a greater risk of being caught out during the weekend. | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
A showery one - and with the nature of showers - you either get them or | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
you don't, and it's difficult to pinpoint where they'll strike. But | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
as far as tonight goes, the showers are quite regimented towards the | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
South, but on their way out now. There's just this area of rain to | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
the North that could just clip parts of Staffordshire. But all | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
other areas looking mainly dry overnight and cloudy, but warm and | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
humid, with lows of 15-16 Celsius. The winds are calming right down | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
too tonight. A bit of mistiness over the hills tonight. A bit murky | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
and grey tomorrow morning, but there'll be some sunnier spells | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
breaking through during the afternoon. It's a mainly dry | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
picture tomorrow, but you can just see the threat of rain to the West | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
of us, and we could see a few spots of rain from that at some point | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
during the day, but nothing disruptive. A warm and humid day, | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
with a top temperature of 21 Celsius, with light-to-moderate | :26:41. | :26:50. | |
south-westerly winds. And then tomorrow night looks wetter, as | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
this band of rain starts to move eastwards, but it's tending to | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
break up now, so there'll be pockets of heavier rain, but it's | :26:56. | :27:06. | |
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mostly patchy in nature. Warm and muggy once more. Showers for the | :27:11. | :27:20. | |
A look at tonight's main headlines: Hunting down the rioters one by one | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
- police make more arrests, as David Cameron pledges whatever it | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
takes to restore law and order. And here - a Chief Constable pays | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
tribute to a grieving father's appeal for an end to the violence. | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
That's all from us this evening, but on tomorrow's programme, we'll | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
be looking more at the challenge Birmingham now faces marketing | :27:34. | :27:37. |