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:00:04. > :00:08.Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Suzanne Virdee and Nick Owen.

:00:08. > :00:12.The headlines tonight. Tragedy of the double holiday death

:00:12. > :00:19.that's left four boys orphaned. People are mystified and we do not

:00:19. > :00:20.really know what happened at all. All we know is that it is just

:00:20. > :00:22.tragic. Businesses are to fund a pilot

:00:22. > :00:25.project to tackle poverty and deprivation.

:00:25. > :00:28.A lot of these young people know very well all the youngsters that

:00:28. > :00:33.were rioting and causing havoc the other week, but they wanted no part

:00:33. > :00:35.of it. Three builders remain in hospital

:00:35. > :00:42.after scaffolding at a school collapsed. An investigation's

:00:42. > :00:45.underway. And after two great wins for Stoke

:00:45. > :00:46.and Blues, the draw's announced for the next stages of the Europa

:00:46. > :00:56.League. Not many 17-year-olds like myself

:00:56. > :01:03.

:01:03. > :01:10.can say that they have played in Good evening, welcome to Friday's

:01:10. > :01:13.Midlands Today from the BBC. Tonight. Double tragedy on holiday.

:01:13. > :01:20.A mother and father have died in separate accidents, leaving their

:01:20. > :01:24.four sons orphans. Roger and Mathilde Lamb died while

:01:24. > :01:27.on holiday in Morocco. It is believed Mathilde, known as Tilly,

:01:27. > :01:30.fell from a window in an apartment where they were staying, while her

:01:30. > :01:34.husband died a few days later after falling from another building. Andy

:01:34. > :01:39.Newman reports. This is Roger Lamb, the second

:01:39. > :01:43.victim of tragically similar accidents. The first killed his

:01:43. > :01:46.wife. It happened in Morocco in the town of Essaouira where the couple

:01:46. > :01:48.had been holidaying. During their stay at the resort Mrs Lamb fell

:01:48. > :01:51.from an apartment window, her injuries proved fatal. Days later,

:01:51. > :02:01.Mr Lamb had a fall in another building. His injuries were also

:02:01. > :02:08.

:02:08. > :02:10.fatal. The couple lived with their four

:02:10. > :02:13.children at Penshen, just outside Pershore. It is a small community

:02:13. > :02:17.struggling to come to terms with the enormity of the tragedy. The

:02:17. > :02:22.idea that the couple could die in separate falls a few days apart is

:02:22. > :02:26.something friends and family are finding it hard to understand. What

:02:26. > :02:33.ever the explanation, it has left four children without a mother and

:02:33. > :02:38.father. People are mystified. We do not really know what happened at

:02:38. > :02:48.all. All we know is that it is tragic, two people have lost their

:02:48. > :02:58.

:02:58. > :03:05.lives. In a statement, the family The mayor of neighbouring Pershore

:03:05. > :03:10.told me that people were full of grief, but also full of questions.

:03:10. > :03:15.There is a lot of stories about the accident. I do not know which ones

:03:15. > :03:20.are true. It certainly seems to be a unique accent and has coast a lot

:03:20. > :03:23.of interest around the world. Mr Lamb had been living in New

:03:23. > :03:26.Zealand where he had gone to get work as an engineer. His holiday in

:03:26. > :03:28.Morocco with his wife would have been rare quality time together.

:03:29. > :03:36.The manner of its ending seemingly a coincidence of circumstances

:03:36. > :03:39.which is hard to comprehend. Our reporter John Maguire is in

:03:39. > :03:46.their home village this evening, John, this is a shocking situation,

:03:46. > :03:52.is there any more information on what happened to the couple?

:03:52. > :03:56.The information it is fairly sparse. And quite confusing. We were told

:03:56. > :04:00.that Mathilde Lamb had fallen over a cliff and her husband had gone to

:04:00. > :04:04.rescue her. It was only later that we discovered that she had fallen

:04:04. > :04:11.from that window on Wednesday night and died in hospital. It seems as

:04:11. > :04:19.if her husband's fall took place some time over the weekend. He died

:04:19. > :04:24.on Monday. What happens next?

:04:24. > :04:33.We know that Mathilde Lamb will be brought back to Wiltshire where she

:04:33. > :04:37.has family members. As regards Roger Lamb, the details for his

:04:37. > :04:42.return are not been given yet. We do know that the four boys are

:04:42. > :04:47.being cared for by family members here in the United Kingdom. We will

:04:47. > :04:49.have to wait for further confirmation of details from the

:04:49. > :04:56.Moroccan police and from the British consulate who are dealing

:04:57. > :05:00.with events in North Africa. Thank you.

:05:00. > :05:03.Still to come this Friday evening. It may be a beautiful place to live,

:05:03. > :05:08.but young people are being priced out of it.

:05:08. > :05:18.I am a Shrewsbury folk festival finding out why this type of music

:05:18. > :05:25.

:05:25. > :05:28.is becoming more popular. 14 people have been jailed or sent

:05:28. > :05:30.to young offenders institutions for burglary, violent disorder and

:05:30. > :05:33.handling stolen goods during the riots in Birmingham and the Black

:05:33. > :05:36.Country. Special courts sat to deal with offenders who were jailed for

:05:36. > :05:42.between two years and 12 weeks. What kind of sentences were given

:05:42. > :05:46.For fairly tough ones. The judge said at the start of proceedings

:05:46. > :05:55.said that civil society had broken down. They had to take into account

:05:56. > :06:05.their context in which the crimes were committed. The they did in

:06:05. > :06:08.court today showed that shop behind be, the Armani Store. A mob of

:06:08. > :06:16.people brogue in and ransacked the police, stealing up to half a

:06:16. > :06:19.million pounds worth of stock. One man was jailed for 21 C even

:06:19. > :06:25.though he only took a T-shirt, handed themselves into police and

:06:25. > :06:29.pleaded guilty. There were plenty of other examples like that. People

:06:29. > :06:32.were jailed for a year and up to three years.

:06:32. > :06:37.What a police had to say? They have said that the CCTV

:06:37. > :06:42.footage has been invaluable. They are even getting film that members

:06:42. > :06:49.of the public shot themselves. The appeasing together what happened.

:06:49. > :06:53.Essentially, they are saying that they will catch you if your a were

:06:53. > :07:01.involved -- if you were involved in the looting. They are publishing

:07:01. > :07:07.photographs as well. It is where the way we do that, but the level

:07:07. > :07:15.of public interest and the desire for people to be named and shamed

:07:15. > :07:25.and has had an influence. The message is that if you do not give

:07:25. > :07:28.

:07:29. > :07:32.yourself up, you will be caught and you may be jailed for even longer.

:07:32. > :07:35.The cost of the riots in our region is still being worked out, but

:07:35. > :07:38.estimates put the damage to Birmingham alone at more than �7

:07:38. > :07:40.million. The cost to the image of Britain around the world is

:07:40. > :07:42.countless. Now the Government is trying out a

:07:42. > :07:45.new idea called Social Impact Schemes. These ask businesses to

:07:45. > :07:47.fund projects to try to reduce crime, anti-social behaviour and

:07:47. > :07:50.poor education. Our special correspondent Peter Wilson has

:07:50. > :08:00.spent the day at one project which is already teaming young people up

:08:00. > :08:04.

:08:04. > :08:06.with Aston Villa Football Club. Hoodies in the rain. This is a

:08:06. > :08:09.Garden of Eden in Newtown Birmingham. The 14 and 16-year-olds

:08:09. > :08:14.have, for the past three months, been growing vegetables, clearing

:08:14. > :08:17.allotment sites and getting used to hard work. The organic produce from

:08:17. > :08:26.St George's Post 16 Centre in Newtown Birmingham is being

:08:26. > :08:32.especially grown for Aston Villa's restaurants. None of these people

:08:32. > :08:35.have been involved and rioting. They are trying to achieve a change.

:08:35. > :08:40.A fortnight ago, as Birmingham decended into chaos these young

:08:40. > :08:44.people were hard at work. I could have been out in it if I wanted to

:08:44. > :08:54.be, a lot of my friends were out of it, but I chose to stay away. I

:08:54. > :09:03.came here. It was kind of crazy, but I still came out of my house to

:09:03. > :09:06.help here. The order for tomatoes and beans is on its way to the

:09:06. > :09:09.Villa ground. This is an enterprise scheme giving young people work

:09:09. > :09:11.experience and business skills. The Government is about to introduce

:09:11. > :09:21.social impact bonds designed to get companies involved in community

:09:21. > :09:21.

:09:21. > :09:26.projects. They work like this. Companies such as Aston Villa could

:09:26. > :09:31.invest in community schemes like this one. If truancy levels or exam

:09:31. > :09:37.results improve or if crime was cut, the Government would pay the

:09:37. > :09:42.company hard cash. But young people's lives are priceless. If

:09:42. > :09:49.they are turned around, how much is that worth? A we are putting stuff

:09:49. > :09:54.back into the community. We are putting produce into the

:09:54. > :09:57.restaurants, we are paying for it and helping the local economy.

:09:57. > :10:03.Birmingham is one of four cities chosen to pilot the new government

:10:03. > :10:07.scheme. Keeping children out of the criminal justice system, keeping

:10:07. > :10:11.them out of care. It that we can tackle some of those really

:10:11. > :10:14.difficult problems, you save money for the taxpayer. The organic

:10:14. > :10:24.vegetables picked and grown by the youngsters were tonight being

:10:24. > :10:26.

:10:26. > :10:29.cooked and served in the Villa restaurant.

:10:29. > :10:31.A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after fire destroyed a pub. Fire

:10:31. > :10:34.crews were called to the Orchard pub in Quedgeley in Gloucester

:10:34. > :10:43.early this morning. At its height, 48 firefighters were at the scene.

:10:43. > :10:53.An investigation into what caused it is under way.

:10:53. > :10:56.

:10:56. > :10:59.A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after fire destroyed a pub.

:11:00. > :11:03.The family of a man who went missing in Libya say he has been

:11:03. > :11:06.found safe and well. Yousef Tabib, seen here on the left, was arrested

:11:06. > :11:09.by Gaddafi's militia back in March. His brother Mohammed, who works as

:11:09. > :11:12.a dental technician in Birmingham, says he and the rest of the family

:11:12. > :11:15.had no idea where he was. But on Wednesday, he had been released

:11:15. > :11:18.from Abu Sleem Prison in Tripoli and returned home. I received a

:11:18. > :11:23.call from my brother, he was crying. I could not hear what he was saying.

:11:23. > :11:26.He was saying that my other brother had been freed. It was so emotional.

:11:26. > :11:28.Three men are still in hospital tonight after scaffolding and part

:11:28. > :11:31.of a school building collapsed. An investigation into how it happened

:11:31. > :11:33.is under way and the construction firm has promised to co-operate

:11:33. > :11:35.fully. Those who heard the steelwork crash

:11:35. > :11:38.down said it sounded like an earthquake. Well, despite the

:11:38. > :11:43.incident, the school says the new term will start on time. Cath

:11:43. > :11:44.Mackie reports. Hanging limply to the wall, the

:11:44. > :11:47.scaffolding canopy makes a dramatic site.

:11:47. > :11:51.Armed with his camera William Gardiner was one of the first at

:11:51. > :12:01.the scene in Madeley in Telford. The neighbour said they had a huge

:12:01. > :12:03.

:12:04. > :12:07.crash. I grabbed my camera. There was one man on a stretcher.

:12:07. > :12:11.Work on the new building at the Abraham Darby Academy began in the

:12:12. > :12:15.spring last year. Obviously, a great deal of shock. We have seen

:12:15. > :12:22.at the building rise out of the grander the last few months, it

:12:22. > :12:26.will be a fantastic new facility, and this is a huge shock.

:12:26. > :12:33.Of the five workers injured, three had cuts, bruises and shock. One is

:12:34. > :12:37.believed to have broken ribs, while the fifth has spinal injuries.

:12:37. > :12:40.Staff and pupils were due to move into the new building in January

:12:40. > :12:43.but no decision on that has been taken yet. But some parents are

:12:43. > :12:53.worried. I am concerned about bringing my children to the new

:12:53. > :12:54.

:12:54. > :12:59.school. Is it could happen again? We have been out and the community,

:12:59. > :13:09.talking to people, hoping to reassure them. We assure them in

:13:09. > :13:10.

:13:10. > :13:12.what way? Reassure them that the school will be opening as planned.

:13:12. > :13:15.Meanwhile the Health and Safety Executive is investigating. Kier

:13:15. > :13:17.Moss says it will co-operate fully. The big question of course is how

:13:17. > :13:20.did this happen? Specialist construction inspectors from the

:13:20. > :13:24.Health and Safety Executive are on site trying to answer that question,

:13:24. > :13:29.but it is going to be some time yet before the full story is known.

:13:29. > :13:31.Cath Mackie, BBC Midlands Today, Telford.

:13:31. > :13:33.Good to have you with us this evening.

:13:33. > :13:36.Coming up. It has been a real rollercoaster

:13:36. > :13:40.week of weather with conditions changing by the hour. So will the

:13:40. > :13:45.Bank Holiday weekend leave us on an up or a down? Join me for the

:13:45. > :13:48.forecast in a few minutes. It's the largest officially

:13:48. > :13:51.designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, but is it becoming

:13:51. > :13:54.a no-go area for many young people born there? The Cotswolds might be

:13:54. > :13:57.admired all over the world, but a shortage of affordable homes means

:13:57. > :14:00.residents cannot afford to live in the area where they are born. Bob

:14:00. > :14:10.Hockenhull has been looking into the problem and finding out what's

:14:10. > :14:12.

:14:12. > :14:15.being done to help struggling workers. It is a beautiful place to

:14:15. > :14:18.be, but houses in the Cotswolds cost 18 times the average salary,

:14:18. > :14:21.making them less affordable than anywhere else in the Midlands.

:14:21. > :14:23.22-year-old Tim Righton was born in the area. He has to live with his

:14:23. > :14:26.mum in Honeybourne in Worcestershire as he can't afford

:14:26. > :14:30.to rent or buy. And, ironically, it's Tim's skills

:14:30. > :14:34.that are helping to preserve one of the Cotswolds best known features.

:14:34. > :14:43.He's a dry stone waller taking home �800 a month. How do you feel about

:14:43. > :14:53.this? It is upsetting. People from London come down and buy holiday

:14:53. > :14:55.

:14:55. > :14:57.homes. The council bought them and sold them of Homes should be for

:14:57. > :15:00.people who live here all the time, not just weekends.

:15:00. > :15:08.In nearby Chipping Campden, estate agent Mark Annett has been selling

:15:08. > :15:11.houses in the North Cotswolds for 32 years. The first cottage I sold

:15:11. > :15:18.was about �14,000. Today it would be �300,000. The cheapest home in

:15:18. > :15:21.his shop window is not much less than that. Without families and

:15:21. > :15:24.young people, second home owners who are not here all the time,

:15:24. > :15:27.retail shops cannot survive. There is no doubt about it, young people

:15:27. > :15:32.who were born here and would like to stay here cannot afford to pay

:15:32. > :15:35.the prices. It is a great shame. The National Housing Federation

:15:35. > :15:45.says a house in the countryside costs on average over �40,000 more

:15:45. > :15:46.

:15:46. > :15:50.than a house in an urban area even though rural wages are lower.

:15:50. > :15:52.There are some some attempts to help. Projects like this in Long

:15:52. > :15:55.Compton in Warwickshire where affordable homes have been

:15:55. > :15:58.subsidised by normal value houses built on the same plot of farm land.

:15:58. > :16:08.The developer here is also involved in other building schemes aimed

:16:08. > :16:12.specifically at locals. This is housing which is built for sale,

:16:12. > :16:16.but there are restrictions on it which means that for the first time

:16:16. > :16:22.it comes on the market, it can only be sold to people from the local

:16:22. > :16:25.community. When they come to sell, the same restrictions apply.

:16:25. > :16:28.For now though, many young people like Tim can only dream that one

:16:28. > :16:31.day they will eventually be able to live independently in their own

:16:31. > :16:37.property in this beautiful part of the Midlands. Bob Hockenhull BBC

:16:37. > :16:40.Midlands Today in the Cotswolds. It certainly is beautiful.

:16:40. > :16:42.Supporters of Stoke City and Birmingham City will need two vital

:16:42. > :16:44.ingredients if they're to follow their teams across Europe this

:16:44. > :16:47.season. An up-to-date passport and plenty of cash.

:16:47. > :16:50.Stoke's man-of-the-match Matthew Upson scored on his home debut. And

:16:50. > :16:57.so did Nathan Redmond, a new teenage sensation at St Andrew's.

:16:57. > :17:01.Ian Winter reports. Midday in Monaco, and the finest

:17:01. > :17:04.brains in European football were hard at work. If 48 teams are

:17:04. > :17:08.placed into 4 pots of 12, then how long should it take UEFA to divide

:17:08. > :17:15.those teams into 12 groups of 4. It felt like a GCSE maths question.

:17:15. > :17:18.And the answer was clearly a long, long time.

:17:18. > :17:22.Plenty of time in fact to reflect on Stoke City's excellent win

:17:22. > :17:25.against FC Thun. New signing Matthew Upson marked his home debut

:17:25. > :17:29.with the opening goal and went on to be man of the match. Five

:17:29. > :17:32.minutes later, Kenwyne Jones made it two. The Swiss knew the game was

:17:32. > :17:41.up when Greg Whelan made it 3-0 before halftime. Jones' second

:17:41. > :17:45.wrapped it up in the second half to leave 24,000 Potters in fine voice.

:17:45. > :17:52.It is great to take their team through to the group stage. We

:17:52. > :17:56.worked so hard last season. This is the award for the players hard work.

:17:56. > :18:04.Back in Monaco, the complicated draw was now in full swing. And yet

:18:04. > :18:07.there was still no sign of... Eureka! The Potters finally

:18:07. > :18:09.appeared and were promptly dispatched to group E to face three

:18:09. > :18:12.marathon journeys to the Ukraine, Turkey and Israel.

:18:12. > :18:14.And so to St Andrew's where Birmingham City were looking for an

:18:14. > :18:17.early goal to settle the nerves against Nacional from Madeira. And

:18:17. > :18:26.what a goal it was. 17-year-old Nathan Redmond on his full debut

:18:26. > :18:29.for his beloved Blues. A local hero to leave the Blues fans jumping.

:18:29. > :18:33.used to set just over there and watch the other players when I was

:18:33. > :18:40.about eight years old when I first joined. Now I am on the pitch and

:18:40. > :18:42.scoring, it is a good feeling. That hard work has paid off.

:18:42. > :18:45.Blues were 2-0 up by halftime thanks to David Murphy's glancing

:18:45. > :18:48.header. And they sealed their place in today's draw when Chris Wood

:18:48. > :18:51.made it 3-0 four minutes from time. Birmingham's next opponents will be

:18:51. > :18:55.Braga of Portugal, Bruges of Belgium and Maribor, the Slovenia

:18:55. > :18:59.side which knocked out Rangers last night.

:18:59. > :19:03.Sadly, proceedings in Monaco were coming to a close. The epic event

:19:04. > :19:06.had taken the best part of an hour. It felt like saying farewell to an

:19:06. > :19:08.old friend. But at least there's another Euro draw tonight.

:19:08. > :19:18.Potentially a good deal more lucrative and definitely far

:19:18. > :19:21.shorter. Exciting times.

:19:21. > :19:24.Meanwhile, Aston Villa have agreed to sell full-back Luke Young to

:19:24. > :19:28.Queens Park Rangers, which means he will miss tomorrow's local derby

:19:29. > :19:32.against Wolves at Villa Park. That will be music to the ears of

:19:32. > :19:35.the Wolves boss Mick McCarthy who warmed up for the game by cycling a

:19:35. > :19:38.half marathon this week for charity. His team have made an impressive

:19:38. > :19:44.start to the season, winning their opening two matches in the Premier

:19:45. > :19:50.League. We deserve to win. We played well

:19:50. > :20:00.in the games. There are times when you get a result and you think a...

:20:00. > :20:06.But to play well and deserve to them is better. There have been no

:20:06. > :20:13.easy games. This game is the most imported one of the season. You

:20:13. > :20:18.have to look for words. You have to look at the next one. It is a home

:20:18. > :20:21.game, we have been fortunate enough to have two home games. You always

:20:21. > :20:24.fancy yourself against anybody at home.

:20:24. > :20:28.And BBC WM has full match coverage from 11 tomorrow morning, and of

:20:28. > :20:31.course you can follow your team by on your local radio station.

:20:31. > :20:35.Thousands of people are descending on Shrewsbury this weekend as the

:20:35. > :20:38.town holds its annual folk festival. It is not on the scale of

:20:38. > :20:42.Glastonbury or the V Festival, but it has grown from a few hundred

:20:42. > :20:45.fans into the second biggest festival of its type in the country.

:20:45. > :20:49.In fact, the festival sold out in April and has been organised by the

:20:49. > :20:55.same couple for the past 15 years. Ben Sidwell has the spent the day

:20:55. > :20:59.in Shrewsbury. So Ben, why has it become so popular?

:20:59. > :21:04.We are on the main stage, preparation is still going on

:21:04. > :21:08.around us. This stage opens and the music starts and about 30 minutes.

:21:08. > :21:12.About 20,000 people will be here this weekend to come and see some

:21:12. > :21:17.of the top fork acts from across the world. But as I have been

:21:17. > :21:21.finding out, much of its success is down to a growth in this type of

:21:21. > :21:24.music amongst the younger generation. If your idea of folk

:21:25. > :21:31.music is grey-haired men in Arran sweaters with their fingers in

:21:31. > :21:35.their ears, then think again. Sounded checking for tonight's

:21:35. > :21:39.performance this is one of the new breed of folk artists who have

:21:39. > :21:49.crossed over to the mainstream. They have played around 30

:21:49. > :21:59.

:21:59. > :22:05.festivals this summer. They are not The crowd coming to Shrewsbury for

:22:05. > :22:13.a festival is getting them were every year. We have seen a lot of

:22:13. > :22:16.younger people this year than last year. A bit more for bands are

:22:16. > :22:26.getting into the charts. I would have katydid a few years ago, but

:22:26. > :22:32.now I am at the Festival. -- I would have hated it. I think it is

:22:32. > :22:40.more indie music. Like all major festivals, it has the obligatory

:22:40. > :22:47.dance tent, but here it is rather different. Now in its 15th year,

:22:47. > :22:55.shoes but they folk Festival is still very much a family affair.

:22:55. > :23:01.Organised by this couple. We met at a festival, got married and moved

:23:01. > :23:06.to Shropshire. We had only been there a few months will be decided

:23:06. > :23:11.that the town needed a folk festival. This year's festival is

:23:11. > :23:17.the most successful yet. It is different when it is your own

:23:17. > :23:22.festival. The love to see people happy. When it you what an audience

:23:22. > :23:26.that is loving something on stage, you do feel proud. The festival

:23:26. > :23:31.sold out in April, but for those people not lucky enough to have a

:23:31. > :23:37.ticket, they can still see the acts live on stage thanks to this

:23:37. > :23:42.caravan. It was sent that their performances across the world. With

:23:42. > :23:46.folk music becoming more popular, festivals like this one in

:23:47. > :23:54.Shrewsbury look like they have a very bright future. Let's speak to

:23:54. > :24:03.the lead singer of the main headline act are tonight. Why is

:24:03. > :24:10.there the young people are getting back into folk music? I think

:24:10. > :24:17.recorded music is getting more disposable and people are valuing

:24:17. > :24:21.the live experience more. Folk music, traditional music is the

:24:22. > :24:30.most live kind of music you can have up. The instruments are played

:24:30. > :24:34.live, not always the case with other types of music. This is one

:24:34. > :24:39.of the bigger folk festivals across the country. It is, yes. It is one

:24:39. > :24:44.of the biggest and one of the best. In terms of the quality of their

:24:44. > :24:48.experience, there is a whole range of different stages. There are

:24:48. > :24:54.always new idea has come into the Festival, they are very inventive.

:24:54. > :25:00.You are playing tonight, there are plenty of people waiting here. We

:25:00. > :25:08.need to get off stage so they can do their sound check. Thousands of

:25:08. > :25:11.people are waiting outside. Back to you.

:25:11. > :25:14.And you can hear highlights of the folk festival on Genevieve Tudor's

:25:14. > :25:16.Folk Show from 7pm on Sunday night on BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC

:25:16. > :25:19.Radio Shropshire and BBC Radio Stoke

:25:19. > :25:29.One of the most venomous spiders in the world has been found at a

:25:29. > :25:30.

:25:30. > :25:40.But what is the weather going to be But what is the weather going to be

:25:40. > :25:42.

:25:42. > :25:46.Mixed. It has been a bit wet. But for the weekend, sunshine at an

:25:46. > :25:50.showers is the best way to sum it up. Plenty of showers today. He is

:25:50. > :25:57.the radar picture. We have this band of persistent rain that pushed

:25:57. > :26:00.up through it eastern parts of our region. We have been left with

:26:00. > :26:06.these showers. Do not be surprised if you hear the odd rumble of

:26:06. > :26:10.thunder. It will clear away to the east and by the end of the night,

:26:10. > :26:15.most of us should be dry. Temperatures of nine or ten Celsius.

:26:15. > :26:23.This is how things look to the start of the day on Saturday. An

:26:23. > :26:28.area of high pressure really in control of our weather. The winter

:26:28. > :26:32.is coming in from the north-west, - - the wind is coming in from the

:26:33. > :26:38.north-west, so it will feel cool. But we will have drier and brighter

:26:38. > :26:42.spells that we have seen today. Temperatures still disappointing,

:26:42. > :26:52.around 18 Celsius. Tomorrow night, most of those showers should die

:26:52. > :26:56.away. On Sunday, again it, some showers. But some good sunny spells

:26:56. > :27:06.in between. Barley after them, more general dry weather heading into

:27:06. > :27:07.

:27:07. > :27:15.the North. -- by the afternoon. For Monday, few were showers, but

:27:15. > :27:21.temperatures feeling disappointing. Some slow improvements, but nothing

:27:21. > :27:24.spectacular. A look at tonight's main headlines.

:27:24. > :27:27.Colonel Gaddafi is nowhere to be seen as rebels still battle to

:27:27. > :27:30.assume total control of the capital. And a Worcestershire couple have

:27:30. > :27:40.died in two separate incidents on holiday in Morocco, orphaning four