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:00:09. > :00:12.Good evening and welcome to Wednesday's Midlands Today from the

:00:12. > :00:22.BBC. Tonight: Claims that crime will rise as our region's largest

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:00:26. > :00:29.police force deals with cuts. Already this year, crime is down.

:00:29. > :00:33.An experienced detective has spoken out, as a staff survey leaked to

:00:33. > :00:36.the BBC revealed low morale at West Midlands Police. A majority of

:00:36. > :00:40.police staff feel that sense of personal responsibility to provide

:00:40. > :00:50.the best service possible and now they're feeling frustrated, because

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:00:56. > :01:06.they can. A charity is found over �100,000 after a man died after

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:01:07. > :01:11.being scalded in the bath. Good evening and welcome to Wednesday's

:01:11. > :01:14.Midlands Today from the BBC. Tonight: Claims that crime will

:01:14. > :01:16.rise as our region's largest police force deals with cuts. An

:01:16. > :01:25.experienced detective has spoken out, as a staff survey leaked to

:01:25. > :01:28.the BBC revealed low morale at West The survey, which was completed by

:01:28. > :01:32.just over a third of the workforce in July, suggests 69% of employees

:01:32. > :01:37.think that staff morale is not high and that only 31% would recommend

:01:37. > :01:43.West Midlands Police as a good place to work. It also suggests

:01:44. > :01:46.that 60% of employees don't feel fairly rewarded in their job.

:01:46. > :01:50.Tonight the force said crime was falling with last month seeing some

:01:50. > :01:52.of the best crime fighting figures for a decade. Our special

:01:52. > :01:55.correspondent, Peter Wilson, has this report.

:01:55. > :01:58.The West Midlands detective with more than 20 years experience

:01:58. > :02:03.usually investigates murders and gangland shootings. His comments

:02:03. > :02:07.come as the force tries to make �126 million savings. We are

:02:07. > :02:16.calling the detective Andrew. He has asked us to protect his

:02:16. > :02:20.identity this is not his real voice. With the experience that I have

:02:20. > :02:23.within the police force, I know that with the smaller amount of

:02:23. > :02:28.police officers there will be the opportunist people who will take

:02:28. > :02:34.advantage of it. By reducing the police family so significantly, I

:02:34. > :02:37.can only foresee that crime will Andrew says the criticism from

:02:37. > :02:43.politicians during the riots felt like a kick in the teeth to

:02:43. > :02:49.frontline officers. Morale is very low. Officers were working 20 hours

:02:49. > :02:54.a day for a week during the riots, coming in, not seeing their family.

:02:54. > :02:57.The professionalism cuts in. You want to catch the bad guys, but to

:02:57. > :03:02.have the politicians turn round and say that the police are inflexible

:03:02. > :03:04.had a massive impact on officers. In June and July this year, a staff

:03:04. > :03:09.survey of both police and non- uniformed staff revealed poor

:03:09. > :03:12.morale in the force. More than half say they don't have enough

:03:12. > :03:15.equipment to do their job properly. 73% said that burracracy was not

:03:15. > :03:22.being cut, while 72% said that communities were not being better

:03:22. > :03:25.served or protected. The Deputy Chief Constable and the man who has

:03:25. > :03:35.been tasked to balance the budget was today giving the force's robust

:03:35. > :03:39.response. I think that we're working really hard. In September

:03:39. > :03:45.we dealt with the party conference, dealing with the arrests from the

:03:45. > :03:51.disorder, a major counter-terrorism operation and robbery this month is

:03:51. > :03:55.the laws that has been in a decade. Police rank and file staff are not

:03:55. > :04:00.normally allowed to answer questions about the force. Why have

:04:00. > :04:05.you chosen to hide your identity, what do you frightened of? I want

:04:05. > :04:08.to give you honest answers and I feel that if I give you honest

:04:08. > :04:18.answers and my identity is no one at that there will be repercussions

:04:18. > :04:24.for me. So will, will crime rise of numbers fall? - - if that police

:04:24. > :04:34.numbers fall? It is too simple to say that there is an inevitability

:04:34. > :04:39.about a rising crime. So, he is being honest about its an impact?

:04:39. > :04:46.This officer is saying thats by hiding his identity he can be

:04:46. > :04:50.honest. Are you being honest with us? Yes, we are. It is a 20 % drop

:04:50. > :04:55.on her Budget and that is a big challenge. We need to challenge the

:04:55. > :04:59.way we work and do things differently. The way the services

:04:59. > :05:05.delivered will have to change. We were very clear about what those

:05:05. > :05:09.changes will be. We will continue to protect the public. The majority

:05:09. > :05:13.of the job losses will be felt by March next year. Tough times ahead

:05:14. > :05:16.for those working at West Midlands police. Peter Wilson joins us now

:05:16. > :05:19.from Lloyd House in Central Birmingham, the headquarters of

:05:19. > :05:21.West Midlands Police. Peter is staff morale at an all time low

:05:22. > :05:30.because of the changes and cuts that we've highlighted over the

:05:30. > :05:34.past few weeks? By have been covering the West Midlands police

:05:34. > :05:40.for more than 20 years and I had no one on many occasions that morale

:05:40. > :05:47.has been low. They deal with lots of problems and the West Midlands,

:05:47. > :05:51.but I would like to say that the officer that the spoken to his

:05:51. > :05:55.knocks somebody who would like to complain. He doesn't to be

:05:55. > :06:00.reflecting what a lot of frontline officers are thinking and feeling

:06:01. > :06:04.tonight. What are the politicians saying about this? David Cameron

:06:04. > :06:11.has said that these cuts have to happen because of the deficits and

:06:11. > :06:17.the police have to share part of the problems of so many public

:06:17. > :06:22.organisations. Police officers are having their pay, their pensions

:06:22. > :06:26.scrutinised and its at the West Midlands police they are facing a

:06:27. > :06:32.complete reorganisation, so there are a lot of frustrated people, and

:06:32. > :06:34.in some cases - - in some places angry people. That is the mood here

:06:34. > :06:38.tonight. Later in tonight's programme:

:06:38. > :06:45.Taking a gun to the pub - we will be having a closer look at the

:06:45. > :06:48.forgotten sport of bell target A Birmingham-based housing

:06:48. > :06:55.association has been fined �135,000 after an elderly man died from

:06:55. > :07:00.severe burns while taking a bath. Months later another man was

:07:00. > :07:03.scalded in a bath at a different home run by the same organisation.

:07:03. > :07:04.A court heard today that the water temperature was not properly

:07:04. > :07:14.controlled. As Joanne Writtle reports, Anthony Ironmonger's

:07:14. > :07:19.family read a statement at the end of the case.

:07:19. > :07:25.Today we should have been celebrating her dad 79th birthday.

:07:25. > :07:29.Today we're at courts because of the feelings of Midland Heart. We

:07:30. > :07:32.can only hope that after today the way that the noble people are

:07:32. > :07:35.looked after will change. family of Anthony Ironmonger spoke

:07:35. > :07:38.out after hearing at Birmingham Crown Court how he died after

:07:38. > :07:40.suffering burns in a scalding bath at a support home for vulnerable

:07:40. > :07:45.people. Summerhill Home, run by a charitable housing association

:07:45. > :07:48.Called Midland Heart, was here in Birmingham, but has since closed.

:07:48. > :07:58.The court heard how staff prised open a communal bathroom door after

:07:58. > :08:02.

:08:02. > :08:06.shouts for help were heard. She was found lying on his side in the

:08:06. > :08:12.battle of the water still running. He was in distress, saying I am

:08:12. > :08:16.burning. And member of staff said he was unable to put his

:08:16. > :08:24.temperature in the water. Anthony Ironmonger suffered 40% burns on

:08:24. > :08:27.6th December 2007. He died 12 days later. In August 2008, a second man

:08:27. > :08:36.Kevin Clarke suffered scalds in a bath at another hone run by Midland

:08:36. > :08:41.Heart. He was discharged from hospital on 17th September. The

:08:41. > :08:47.company admitted to breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act and

:08:47. > :08:51.the prosecution brought by the council. It was fined �100,000

:08:51. > :08:54.Anne's ordered to pay �35,000 in costs. A spokesman for Midland

:08:54. > :08:57.Heart said: We offer our sincere apologies to Mr Clarke and to the

:08:57. > :09:00.family and friends of Mr Ironmonger. We have taken steps to address

:09:00. > :09:04.potential risks associated with hot water in our independent living

:09:04. > :09:07.homes." Anthony Ironmonger would have been 79 today.

:09:07. > :09:10.Two men have been arrested after police were shot at during rioting

:09:10. > :09:15.in Birmingham in August. Shots were also aimed at a police helicopter

:09:15. > :09:20.during disorder in the Newtown area of the city. The two men, both aged

:09:20. > :09:23.20, were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Police today also

:09:23. > :09:29.released CCTV footage in an attempt to trace a third man wanted in

:09:29. > :09:32.connection with the incident. A 21-year-old man has been arrested

:09:32. > :09:35.on suspicion of murder in connection with the deaths of three

:09:35. > :09:39.men during the riots. Haroon Jahan and brothers Shazad Ali and Abdul

:09:39. > :09:42.Musavir were hit by a car in the early hours of 10th August in

:09:42. > :09:52.Winson Green. It brings the total number of people arrested in

:09:52. > :09:56.

:09:56. > :09:59.connection with their deaths to 13. Nine people have been charged.

:09:59. > :10:03.Lawyers who concealed a report that suggested a young man's death may

:10:03. > :10:05.have been avoidable said they did it because they were acting in the

:10:05. > :10:07.best interests of Stafford Hospital. Hospital Trust Secretary and Head

:10:08. > :10:10.of Legal Services Kate Levy and Trust solicitor, Stuart Knowles,

:10:10. > :10:13.were at the public inqury to answer questions about their conduct

:10:13. > :10:21.following the death of a 20-year- old man. Here's our Health

:10:21. > :10:28.Correspondent, Michele Paduano. The family arrived at the hospital

:10:28. > :10:38.having had their complaints against the witnesses thrown out. The

:10:38. > :10:38.

:10:38. > :10:42.solicitors had done nothing wrong. We are angry, upsets. Real mixed

:10:42. > :10:49.emotions today. For the family it will be a really difficult day to

:10:49. > :10:55.trying get through. Their son had an accident on his mountain bike.

:10:55. > :10:59.He was sent home from the hospital and bled to death. But a report by

:10:59. > :11:06.a senior doctor would said that the debt may have been avoidable was

:11:06. > :11:11.never sent to the coroner. Kiki Dee as the doctor to take up his report

:11:11. > :11:21.so because it could cost the family distress or looking bad for the

:11:21. > :11:21.

:11:21. > :11:26.hospital. She said: Although Kate Beagley father with hindsight the

:11:26. > :11:29.edited report should have been sent to the coroner, the trust solicitor

:11:29. > :11:34.disagreed. Neither of them could remember whose decision it was not

:11:34. > :11:44.descend in the reports. Mr Knowles said he would point out major

:11:44. > :11:52.

:11:52. > :11:59.feelings, but this case did not There are a lot of questions about

:11:59. > :12:03.lots of vital evidence that was missed. We are shocked by the

:12:03. > :12:08.tameness of the inquiry. We have been representations to them, but

:12:08. > :12:12.they don't think it will alter anything. Quite shocked. Mr Knowles

:12:12. > :12:16.and mislead the left by a back door to avoid answering any more

:12:16. > :12:18.questions. Michele joins us now from Stafford. Michele, so how is

:12:18. > :12:26.it that hospital solicitors can withhold this sort of in

:12:26. > :12:29.information? It does seem strange, but if you think about a solicitor

:12:29. > :12:33.working for a big multinational company and perhaps there was some

:12:33. > :12:37.pollution of a river, you would not expect the solicitors to admit

:12:37. > :12:43.immediately that there was a problem, and it is the same for

:12:43. > :12:47.trust solicitors. They say they walk a tightrope and there is a

:12:47. > :12:50.move towards more openness, but this will have to pick about the

:12:50. > :12:57.hospital. What rights do coroners have to demand this sort of

:12:57. > :13:02.information? There is no legal reason why they have to hand over

:13:02. > :13:06.this information. It is done on the basis of goodwill. I was shocked to

:13:06. > :13:11.find that out because I always thought that they would have all

:13:11. > :13:15.the information. Charities are warning they will

:13:15. > :13:18.have to cut staff after a big drop in donations. They say the current

:13:18. > :13:21.economic climate, rising bills and living costs mean more and more of

:13:21. > :13:24.us are holding onto our cash rather than give it to a good cause.

:13:24. > :13:30.Voluntary organisations are having to think of more inventive ways to

:13:30. > :13:32.prevent them from folding, as Bob Hockenhull reports.

:13:33. > :13:41.The Noah's Ark Trust has been supporting bereaved children in

:13:41. > :13:45.Worcestershire and Herefordshire for 13 years. Being able to talk to

:13:45. > :13:50.the charity means that we could get our emotions out. We didn't need to

:13:50. > :13:52.be embarrassed. I got very depressed, so without their help I

:13:53. > :13:55.don't know what I would have done. But the charity is facing a

:13:55. > :13:58.shortfall of �18,000 a month. It relies almost totally on donations,

:13:58. > :14:08.these have reduced considerably. Six out of 12 staff are facing

:14:08. > :14:11.

:14:11. > :14:14.redundancy. It is terribly tragic. I just don't know where those

:14:14. > :14:18.children will go. So some people might argue that families should

:14:18. > :14:24.pay for your services. There are some families who can afford to pay,

:14:24. > :14:31.and to those families are plies if you can afford to, please do pay. A

:14:31. > :14:34.lot of children cant afford it. recent survey found that 90 % of

:14:34. > :14:39.charities were feeling less confident about securing adequate

:14:39. > :14:44.funding than they were at the height of the recession in 2008.

:14:44. > :14:48.There are 30,000 fewer paid staff working in charities than there was

:14:48. > :14:51.12 months ago. Times are not great at the minute. To survive,

:14:51. > :14:53.charities are looking at new ways of funding. This voluntary

:14:53. > :15:02.organisation, which provides after- school clubs in Birmingham, sells

:15:02. > :15:05.recycled products donated by big business to make extra money.

:15:05. > :15:11.have been working with a small group of other voluntary providers

:15:11. > :15:14.to think about how we can put together a consortium bids. So, the

:15:14. > :15:17.signs are many charities will also need to be entrepreneurs if they're

:15:17. > :15:25.to function effectively. Still to come in tonight's

:15:25. > :15:28.programme: Shefali has all the details as autumn arrives.

:15:28. > :15:38.Yes, just in case you've forgotten what it feels like, and who's to

:15:38. > :15:41.

:15:41. > :15:44.blame you, then a timely reminder The Prime Minister gave his keynote

:15:44. > :15:47.speech to the Conservative party conference in Manchester today. In

:15:47. > :15:50.it he warned of the possibility of another global recession, but said

:15:50. > :15:53.he remained firmly committed to the Government's deficit reduction plan.

:15:53. > :15:58.Satnam Rana went to politically divided Dudley to find out what

:15:58. > :16:03.people there made of it. Dudley, the second largest town in

:16:03. > :16:08.the UK. It is also a town that's politically divided. In the north,

:16:08. > :16:12.MP Ian Austin holds the labour seat with a majority of 649. In Dudley

:16:12. > :16:15.South it is Chris Kelly who won the seat from Labour in the last

:16:15. > :16:24.General Election with a majority of 3,856, a seat Labour had held since

:16:24. > :16:29.1997. But will opinion be just as divided over David Cameron's

:16:29. > :16:31.keynote speech? Take the leader of Dudley Council, a local business

:16:31. > :16:40.leader, some students at Stourbridge College and their

:16:41. > :16:46.Principal gave their views. froze council tax this year, and

:16:46. > :16:50.his George said on Monday, we will freeze it again next year, too.

:16:50. > :16:55.do have some concerns because weld the subsidy is there we can manage

:16:55. > :17:00.at the funding. If it is removed, we will have to find the funding

:17:00. > :17:06.someone else. I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for less

:17:06. > :17:09.for a child for a poor background than one from a rich one. It is

:17:09. > :17:15.important that children from deprived backgrounds to get a

:17:15. > :17:20.chance for exit - - get a chance for information. He did not mention

:17:20. > :17:25.the costs of universities. He'd did not mention their educational

:17:25. > :17:32.allowance, which was a fund that helped students who could not miss

:17:32. > :17:36.the early get to college. We must build a new economy, inventing,

:17:36. > :17:41.creating, exporting. I would have liked to have seen more about help

:17:41. > :17:46.for manufacturing businesses, encouraging exports. Also looking

:17:46. > :17:49.at changes to the tax structure perhaps to encourage businesses to

:17:49. > :17:53.innovate more. The Prime Minister warned against becoming paralysed

:17:53. > :17:57.by gloom and fear. In this room at least, that doesn't appear to be

:17:57. > :18:01.happening. Our Political Editor Patrick Burns

:18:01. > :18:04.is with us. Let's talk about how this speech will go down in places

:18:04. > :18:12.such as Dudley. There really isn't much to be optimistic about, is

:18:12. > :18:17.there? There is not. He accepts that. His words will strike a chord

:18:17. > :18:20.with the people in Dudley when he said that he knows what an anxious

:18:20. > :18:25.time it is for people when they turn on the news into reports of

:18:25. > :18:30.closures and job losses and rising household bills. But he was saying

:18:30. > :18:36.today is that you don't do anything about that a sinking back into a

:18:36. > :18:42.cant to culture. You don't degenerate into benefit dependency.

:18:42. > :18:46.If you can work, due do. There was an implied criticism of businesses

:18:46. > :18:50.not providing enough apprenticeships. We to understand

:18:50. > :18:53.that the government will push on things like that in the Autumn

:18:53. > :18:57.Statement next month. He had a message in his speech to people

:18:57. > :19:01.planning to go on strike next month in the so called Day of Action?

:19:01. > :19:06.understands their right to protest, he says, but public sector pensions

:19:06. > :19:11.are unaffordable. He said that people have to accept that people

:19:11. > :19:17.are living longer and it is not unreasonable for the taxpayer to

:19:17. > :19:22.ask a little bit more - - but to pay a little bit more. How do you

:19:22. > :19:25.feel the speech will have gone down in the Midland marginals? I think

:19:25. > :19:30.certain things will go down well. Getting public and private schools

:19:30. > :19:36.to work together, the revamped house building programme. The key

:19:36. > :19:39.thing will be people feel optimistic in 2015.

:19:39. > :19:41.Two of the region's best-known buildings have been put on a list

:19:41. > :19:44.of endangered architecture today. Birmingham's controversial Central

:19:44. > :19:46.Library has been included as a prime example of the British

:19:46. > :19:49.Brutalism school of design. The ruins of Coventry Cathedral have

:19:49. > :19:53.also been added to the World Monument Fund Watch List. It comes

:19:53. > :19:59.just days after it was revealed the cathedral is in danger of collapse.

:19:59. > :20:02.Joan Cummins reports. Today the ruins of St Michael's stand in the

:20:02. > :20:04.shadow of its post-war replacement a testament to the brutality of war,

:20:04. > :20:06.gutted in 1940 by a hail of incendiary bombs Coventry has

:20:06. > :20:16.rebuilt and remembered simultaneously, but time itself is

:20:16. > :20:20.

:20:20. > :20:26.now taking its toll on the medieval sandstone. The old cathedral was

:20:26. > :20:34.never meant to be open to the elements on the insider. We have

:20:34. > :20:37.invested huge resources over recent years, but we have run out. Putting

:20:37. > :20:40.the ruins on an endangered watch list of the world monuments fund

:20:40. > :20:43.doesn't mean any extra cash, but does highlight the need to support

:20:43. > :20:47.our cultural heritage. Some things are of such importance that will be

:20:47. > :20:51.irresponsible not to look after them. The inheritance of our

:20:51. > :20:58.forefathers, especially on a site which talks about the collective

:20:58. > :21:03.suffering of people, an ongoing issue, but also a city of 400,000

:21:03. > :21:06.people of which this building is the hearts, that is important.

:21:06. > :21:09.Cathedral now resides in prestigous company, such as the Taj Mahal and

:21:09. > :21:12.the Great wall of China, but visitors to the Cathedral today re-

:21:12. > :21:20.iterated that this was richly deserved for such a iconic British

:21:20. > :21:24.landmark. It is a magnificent sight. Whenever we go back to Australia

:21:24. > :21:29.and showed photographs, many other friends went to come over you and

:21:29. > :21:34.see it. Very special. Mosques in the City said they want to come

:21:34. > :21:41.together to raise money for the renovation. They see it is

:21:41. > :21:45.something important to all people of the city. Next year the new

:21:45. > :21:51.cathedral will celebrate its golden anniversary, once more put in

:21:51. > :21:55.Coventry on the map as the City of reconciliation.

:21:55. > :21:58.If you're off to the pub for a pint this evening, you might well enjoy

:21:58. > :22:01.a game of darts. But instead of firing arrows, how about air

:22:01. > :22:07.rifles? We've all heard of beer and skittles, but 100 years ago

:22:07. > :22:10.Birmingham pubs played host to a very different sport. It was even

:22:10. > :22:14.more popular than football, and it's still alive today, as Ian

:22:14. > :22:17.Winter reports. Something's going on at Great Barr

:22:17. > :22:23.Conservative Club. And it's clearly got nothing to do with David

:22:23. > :22:25.Cameron, who has been otherwise engaged in Manchester. No, this is

:22:25. > :22:28.something unusual because bell target shooting is one of those

:22:28. > :22:38.sports that's rarely seen these days in pubs and clubs across the

:22:38. > :22:43.Midlands. How times have changed. Back in the early 19 hundreds

:22:43. > :22:48.virtually every pub in Birmingham had its own bell of target shooting

:22:48. > :22:55.team. Alan Tidman was only 11 when he first took aim with an air rifle.

:22:55. > :23:04.60 years later, he's still got a keen eye on the target. When you

:23:04. > :23:07.score a bull, you get a nice little ring. Bell target shooters have

:23:07. > :23:10.been aiming for a nice little ding ever since the 1890s when working

:23:10. > :23:20.men were encouraged to improve their shooting following the Boer

:23:20. > :23:21.

:23:21. > :23:26.War. Most pubs had their own team and competiton was fierce.

:23:26. > :23:35.doosra set up by the winners and meal. They had to ship - - they had

:23:35. > :23:38.pursued for their supper. This Lincoln Jeffrey's rifle was made by

:23:38. > :23:47.the Birmingham Small Arms Company in 1905 and it's still in fine

:23:47. > :23:49.working order. But today only 70 bell target shooters remain in Brum.

:23:49. > :23:55.Amongst them Jenny Boden, arguably the hottest shot at the Walton

:23:56. > :24:00.Lions Air Rifle club. You have to be very steady and have good

:24:00. > :24:05.eyesight, definitely. Guns in pubs don't always make a good

:24:05. > :24:09.combination. But these marksmen take safety very seriouslym and

:24:09. > :24:11.bell target shooting is still alive in Great Barr.

:24:11. > :24:21.The former Worcestershire and England pace bowler Graham Dilley

:24:21. > :24:22.

:24:22. > :24:25.has died at the age of 52 following a short illness. During the late

:24:25. > :24:28.1980s, Dilley helped Worcestershire win four trophies in three years.

:24:28. > :24:31.The chief executive at New Road, David Leatherdale, paid tribute to

:24:31. > :24:41.Dilley saying he played a big part in the club's success and he said

:24:41. > :24:44.

:24:44. > :24:52.his sudden death had come as a Let's now looking at the weather

:24:52. > :25:02.forecast. So far this week we've had a drop in temperature since

:25:02. > :25:05.

:25:05. > :25:08.Monday but the values have still been above average. The extent of

:25:08. > :25:14.the drop will be far steeper tomorrow, just so that there's no

:25:14. > :25:17.mistaking that Autumn has at last arrived. Now we're going to start

:25:17. > :25:21.to see the changes from tonight as this band of rain that's currently

:25:21. > :25:31.across us starts to work its way in from the north-west. Some of it

:25:31. > :25:34.

:25:34. > :25:37.will be heavy as the flickers of iridescent colour show. But once it

:25:37. > :25:40.starts to clear the region we see a change in wind direction to north

:25:40. > :25:43.westerly and the origins are from a much colder northerly source so

:25:43. > :25:46.temperatures will drop to around eight celsius or slightly lower

:25:46. > :25:49.than that. But it's the strength of the winds that prevent values from

:25:49. > :25:52.falling any lower. There'll be a few showers to end the night, but

:25:52. > :26:02.for most tomorrow starts dry. Although through the day showers

:26:02. > :26:07.

:26:07. > :26:13.begin to pile in from the north- west. Some of them quite heavy.

:26:13. > :26:15.Hopefully we will have some dry weather over the weekend.

:26:15. > :26:20.David Cameron gives his keynote speech to the Conservative Party