:00:03. > :00:07.Hello and welcome to Midlands Today, with Suzanne Virdee and Michael
:00:07. > :00:09.Collie. The headlines tonight: 10,000 people sign a petition
:00:09. > :00:16.demanding hospital bosses keep Stafford Hospital A&E open 24
:00:16. > :00:19.hours-a-day. The people of Stafford want to keep their A&E department.
:00:19. > :00:24.Police literally sniff out big cannabis factory right in the heart
:00:24. > :00:29.of a busy city centre. I was at the back of this premises where we're
:00:29. > :00:31.stood and I smelt a very strong smell of cannabis.
:00:31. > :00:34.Market traders' anger as they're dragged into the strike that will
:00:34. > :00:39.see thousands of workers walk out next Wednesday.
:00:39. > :00:49.And it was named the most beautiful car of all time. Now the E-type Jag
:00:49. > :00:57.
:00:57. > :01:00.Good evening, welcome to Friday's Midlands Today, from the BBC. More
:01:00. > :01:05.than 10,000 people have signed a petition calling for Accident &
:01:05. > :01:08.Emergency services to be protected at Stafford Hospital. It comes as a
:01:08. > :01:10.campaign group holds its first meeting this evening, following
:01:10. > :01:15.news earlier this month that services are being closed down at
:01:15. > :01:21.night. The plan involves shutting the A&E unit at Stafford from 10pm
:01:21. > :01:25.until 8am overnight. The new system will come into place next Thursday
:01:25. > :01:28.and is due to last three months. Hospital managers say it's a safety
:01:28. > :01:31.precaution and they are hoping to have the unit fully open again as
:01:31. > :01:36.soon as possible, but campaigners worry it could be the beginning of
:01:36. > :01:39.a series of cuts. Our Staffordshire reporter, Liz Copper, joins us now
:01:39. > :01:49.from that public meeting in Stafford. Liz, have many people
:01:49. > :01:52.
:01:52. > :01:58.turned up to get their views across? Yes. This meeting has been
:01:58. > :02:03.underway for about half-an-hour. It is very well attended, and I think
:02:03. > :02:06.that reflects the feeling not just in Stafford, but in surrounding
:02:06. > :02:12.areas. The campaign group says they have organised the meeting because
:02:12. > :02:15.they are so concerned about the future of A&E.
:02:15. > :02:20.22-month-old Leo was born in Stafford Hospital and his brother
:02:20. > :02:27.and sister have also received treatment there. His mother began a
:02:27. > :02:31.campaign to support services, particularly A&E. To bring those
:02:31. > :02:35.good consultants to A&E, we have to show them Stafford is a good place
:02:35. > :02:40.to be and that is not being shown at the moment. That is our aim, to
:02:40. > :02:45.start showing the positives from a hospital. Neighbours have joined
:02:45. > :02:49.forces to plan the campaign and tonight's public meeting. I have
:02:49. > :02:53.needed that service strongly and I would not like it in any way to be
:02:54. > :02:56.harmed for the future of this community. I would like it
:02:56. > :03:00.reinstated for 24 hours because that is what is needed for this
:03:00. > :03:05.community. The temporary closure was agreed at a board meeting
:03:05. > :03:10.earlier this month. The hospital reject claims that the moves are
:03:10. > :03:15.motivated by financial considerations. What we felt as a
:03:15. > :03:19.Trust was that because of our staffing numbers, we could not
:03:19. > :03:23.continue to sustain a safe A&E service. Although people are
:03:23. > :03:27.worried about having to travel, what we feel is that we need a safe
:03:27. > :03:32.service here, and that is a judgment call around our risk and
:03:32. > :03:36.the risk of patients are having to travel. The temporary closure is
:03:36. > :03:41.due to begin from this Thursday and the board insists it is temporary
:03:41. > :03:44.and will last for just three a month. But the MP of Stafford has
:03:44. > :03:49.been hearing from many constituents who are concerned it will be
:03:49. > :03:53.permanent. This is a temporary closure. The hospital is making
:03:53. > :03:57.every effort to recruit the right of a number of consultants and
:03:57. > :04:01.doctors to fill the posts so the hospital can reopen 24 hours a day
:04:01. > :04:06.and offer what is a very good and safe service. Thousands of families
:04:06. > :04:09.have already expressed their views on the A&E services. They will not
:04:09. > :04:12.review current plans but they are hoping to influence future
:04:12. > :04:20.decisions. This campaign is clearly gathering
:04:20. > :04:25.momentum. What's been said at the meeting so far? Lots of questions
:04:26. > :04:29.from the public here this evening, and very strongly-help support for
:04:29. > :04:33.the hospital being expressed. We have had some quite passionate
:04:34. > :04:37.speeches so far from members of the panel on this stage and we are
:04:37. > :04:43.expecting to hear from members of the public who will ask questions
:04:43. > :04:48.later on. The number of people who are so passionate about the
:04:48. > :04:52.hospital, we are thinking tonight we will be engaging their opinion
:04:52. > :04:55.and the wider opinion in Stafford, and some of those who arrive here
:04:55. > :05:02.this evening, we managed to speak to some of them about their
:05:02. > :05:06.concerns. My concerns are mainly the travelling for anybody in the
:05:06. > :05:11.district who use staff a hospital. We are a commuter town and we are
:05:11. > :05:15.growing, and I am concerned there will be no A&E to take our children
:05:15. > :05:24.do. We need positive moves and the people tonight are doing the right
:05:24. > :05:29.things. What are the campaign group hoping to achieve ultimately?
:05:29. > :05:32.is a newly formed group and they are keen to stress they are not
:05:32. > :05:36.political. They were only formed and the last few days after the
:05:36. > :05:40.announcement was made. They want to look towards the long-term future
:05:40. > :05:45.of the hospital but they know they cannot do anything about these
:05:45. > :05:48.partial closures that will take effect from next week. By Hospital
:05:48. > :05:52.welcomes meeting like this because it shows just how passionately
:05:52. > :05:54.people feel about the health service. Thank you very much.
:05:54. > :05:56.Later in tonight's programme, the schoolgirls from Wolverhampton
:05:56. > :06:03.who've been putting the London Olympics boxing venue through its
:06:03. > :06:06.paces. A big cannabis factory has been
:06:06. > :06:12.discovered in an old shop in one of the busiest parts of Birmingham
:06:12. > :06:16.city centre. It was found by a police officer in the area on
:06:16. > :06:21.another investigation, who literally sniffed it out. Once
:06:21. > :06:24.cultivated, the plants could have produced drugs worth �300,000. And
:06:24. > :06:28.as Giles Latcham reports, it's an industry which appears to be
:06:28. > :06:33.flourishing. Up the stairs into the warmth and
:06:33. > :06:41.moisture of a cannabis farm. Row upon row of plants, lamps,
:06:41. > :06:43.ventilation shafts and a sophisticated hydroponics system. A
:06:43. > :06:53.highly professional set-up uncovered by chance by a detective
:06:53. > :06:54.
:06:54. > :06:58.making inquiries nearby. I was at the back of this property where we
:06:58. > :07:04.stood and nice not a very strong smell of cannabis, so we forced
:07:04. > :07:11.entry to the premises using police powers. This is the largest in a
:07:11. > :07:17.commercial premises I have seen. There are six tents like this one,
:07:17. > :07:21.each with 30 to 50 plants in them. The aroma is overpowering. It is a
:07:21. > :07:24.big operation and the location is interesting, too. An old shop, slap
:07:24. > :07:27.bang in Birmingham city centre, over the road from New Street
:07:27. > :07:31.railway station. A risky enterprise, then, and brass-necked, too, but by
:07:31. > :07:34.no means a one-off. In the past four years, more than 1,400
:07:34. > :07:38.cannabis farms have been discovered in the West Midlands. That's an
:07:38. > :07:43.increase of 275%. The value of the plants seized and destroyed is an
:07:43. > :07:53.estimated �150m. Amid economic gloom, quite literally a growth
:07:53. > :07:56.industry. People who may not be involved in organised crime per
:07:56. > :08:00.assayed have seen profits that are possible and have taken steps to
:08:00. > :08:05.see if they can get on to that bandwagon. Whether this particular
:08:05. > :08:09.incident is about organised crime or not is difficult to say until we
:08:09. > :08:12.see those behind it. But it is certainly being replicated by many
:08:12. > :08:16.people. Earlier this month, a group of men, some from Staffordshire,
:08:16. > :08:18.were convicted of running a giant cannabis farm in Lincolnshire. But
:08:19. > :08:21.with production costs relatively low, for profits so substantial
:08:21. > :08:24.there are plenty willing to take the risk.
:08:24. > :08:26.The Aston Villa footballer Barry Bannan has been banned from driving
:08:26. > :08:29.for 18 months after admitting drink-driving and three other
:08:29. > :08:32.offences, following a motorway crash last month. 21-year-old
:08:32. > :08:37.midfielder, from Sutton Coldfield, was also fined �4,500 at Nottingham
:08:37. > :08:40.Magistrates' Court. The court heard he was almost twice the legal
:08:40. > :08:45.drink-drive limit when he crashed his Range Rover Sport on the M1 in
:08:45. > :08:48.Nottinghamshire. Three Warwickshire fire officers
:08:48. > :08:51.have appeared in court charged with the manslaughter of four of their
:08:51. > :08:53.colleagues in a blaze at a vegetable-packing warehouse.
:08:53. > :08:56.Station manager Timothy Woodward, and watch managers Paul Simmons and
:08:56. > :08:58.Adrian Ashley, who attended court in uniform, were charged with
:08:58. > :09:05.manslaughter by gross negligence, following the fire in Atherstone-
:09:05. > :09:08.on-Stour. Warwickshire County Council also faces a charge under
:09:08. > :09:12.health and safety legislation. None of the defendants was required to
:09:12. > :09:20.enter a plea. Ashley Stephens, Darren Yates Bradley, John Averis
:09:20. > :09:21.and Ian Reid died four years ago. Police have confirmed this
:09:21. > :09:24.afternoon that human remains recovered in Gloucestershire
:09:24. > :09:29.yesterday are those of Kate Prout, who was murdered by her husband
:09:29. > :09:32.four years ago. They were discovered close to where Adrian
:09:32. > :09:36.Prout told police he had buried her body after he unexpectedly
:09:36. > :09:39.confessed to her murder. Today, Mrs Prout's family spoke of their
:09:39. > :09:44.relief and said they hope they can now finally lay her to rest. Steve
:09:44. > :09:48.Knibbs reports. Kate's Prout's family describe the
:09:48. > :09:56.last week as surreal, traumatic. It, of course, started with the news
:09:56. > :10:03.that Adrian Prout had finally confessed. We were very shocked at
:10:03. > :10:08.first. And we weren't quite certain whether it was the truth. We were
:10:08. > :10:11.devastated and just full of emotion again. The whole thing boils up
:10:11. > :10:17.again. We have never forgotten Kate but we never thought we would get
:10:17. > :10:20.to the end and that she would be found. So when the news came, we
:10:20. > :10:26.were totally devastated. As the search started to recover Kate's
:10:26. > :10:30.remains, difficult memories came flooding back. Knowing that perhaps
:10:30. > :10:35.she would be found, in a way, it has been just as bad as going
:10:35. > :10:41.through the trial, though we have not had to go to court every day.
:10:41. > :10:46.The emotion and feeling as you go through and the anxiety of waiting,
:10:46. > :10:50.it just tyres you out and it has been just as traumatic, hasn't it?
:10:50. > :10:55.Yes. Their driving force now is the future and Kate's funeral, but it's
:10:55. > :11:00.tangible just how harrowing the past four years have been. We have
:11:00. > :11:05.been like prisoners. It has been like a prison sentence for us,
:11:05. > :11:09.hanging over our heads all the time. We will never forget Kate and this
:11:10. > :11:13.has been such a traumatic event in our lives, that we are hoping that
:11:13. > :11:19.now we can get her back and say goodbye properly, it will close the
:11:19. > :11:24.book. Here there is a sense of relief that the cases coming to its
:11:24. > :11:29.conclusion. The murder of Kate Prout has been a dark cloud hanging
:11:29. > :11:38.over the village for four years. A cloud that is, at last, starting to
:11:38. > :11:41.lift. As the police operation came to a close in Redmarley today,
:11:41. > :11:45.there was only one thought on everyone's minds. The woman who
:11:45. > :11:47.disappeared but has now been found. Public sector unions say they're
:11:47. > :11:50.expecting next Wednesday's strikes to be the biggest display of
:11:50. > :11:53.industrial action since the 1970s. In this region alone, hundreds of
:11:53. > :11:56.thousands of workers are expected to walk out. But there's growing
:11:56. > :11:58.anger about the possible disruption and inconvenience. Market traders
:11:58. > :12:01.in Willenhall, in the Black Country, have been told they risk
:12:01. > :12:04.prosecution if they trade during the strike, for safety reasons, as
:12:05. > :12:08.council workers will be absent. Cath Mackie reports.
:12:08. > :12:11.Amanda Mason has run a pet stall at Willenhall Market in the Black
:12:11. > :12:20.Country for 20 years. But next Wednesday, she could be forced to
:12:20. > :12:23.take a rare day off. The strike is closing the market on Wednesday.
:12:23. > :12:26.All the traders have had a letter from Walsall Council saying that
:12:27. > :12:31.because of the public sector strike, the market will be closed.
:12:31. > :12:35.thought it was disgusting, to be fair. It is nothing to do with us.
:12:36. > :12:41.They can do that and it is they Union, but I do not see why we
:12:41. > :12:48.should have the day off. It is our livelihood. We have 60 traders sell
:12:48. > :12:52.it will have a big impact on Wednesday. For the traders it's a
:12:52. > :12:56.catch-22 situation. If they turn up next Wednesday, they could lose
:12:56. > :13:01.their licence to trade. If they don't, they could lose a day's pay.
:13:01. > :13:06.And all for a strike they say is nothing to do with them. I am sure
:13:06. > :13:10.it is important for them, but what we are saying is, don't drag us
:13:10. > :13:13.into your dispute. The council says it stands to lose �3,000 income
:13:13. > :13:18.from its markets but it has no choice. This is a council service
:13:18. > :13:23.like any other, so the council staff that run it cannot be here to
:13:23. > :13:25.make sure the market is run safely and properly next Wednesday. This
:13:25. > :13:30.might be just a local argument, but across the West Midlands,
:13:30. > :13:35.widespread disruption next Wednesday is guaranteed. In the
:13:35. > :13:40.West Midlands alone, we are looking at hundreds of thousands of workers,
:13:40. > :13:43.teachers, binmen, been women, taking action to defend their
:13:43. > :13:46.pensions. As for Willenhall Market, Walsall Council says it's unlikely
:13:46. > :13:49.they will revoke licences, but if traders do turn up on strike day,
:13:49. > :13:53.they will be trading illegally. And protest rallies are planned
:13:53. > :13:55.right across the region on Wednesday. The biggest will be in
:13:55. > :13:58.Birmingham and there'll be others in Stoke-on-Trent, Telford,
:13:58. > :14:03.Wolverhampton, Coventry and Worcester. Our political editor,
:14:03. > :14:11.Patrick Burns, is with me now. Everyone seems to think these
:14:11. > :14:16.strikes will definitely go ahead, don't they? Yes. Realistically,
:14:16. > :14:22.that is the case now. We have seen school sending out notification to
:14:22. > :14:27.parents about closures and local authorities dusting off contingency
:14:27. > :14:32.plans. The Government accused the unions of jumping the gun while
:14:32. > :14:37.negotiation was in process. But the unions say it is nothing of the
:14:37. > :14:43.sort. They say they are left with no option but to go ahead with the
:14:43. > :14:47.strike. Nobody wants to take industrial action. It is not
:14:47. > :14:51.something they do lightly. They stop providing the services they
:14:51. > :14:56.are committed to. So we want to bring the Government back to the
:14:57. > :15:06.negotiating temple with a better offer to bring our members. -- the
:15:07. > :15:11.
:15:11. > :15:16.negotiating table. How much of an impact will it have? It will be a
:15:16. > :15:19.wide impact but what people do not know is that it will also include
:15:19. > :15:24.Community Support Officers and the backroom staff. Health workers as
:15:25. > :15:29.well. Emergencies will be dealt with as usual, but a elective
:15:29. > :15:33.appointments, people should not be surprised if they find they are
:15:33. > :15:36.postponed. And then we have the developing story at the airports
:15:37. > :15:41.with immigration officers, the Borders Agency, which is an
:15:41. > :15:45.evolving story and we have a major UK border at Birmingham Airport and
:15:45. > :15:50.the airlines are warning passengers they may have to adjust their
:15:50. > :15:54.timetable. We'd like to know what effect the
:15:54. > :15:59.strikes will have on you next Wednesday. Are you having to change
:15:59. > :16:03.your plans or lose work, maybe? You can get in touch via the Midlands
:16:03. > :16:06.Today Facebook page or email us. Still to come in tonight's
:16:06. > :16:09.programme, Sarah Cruickshank is here with all the details about the
:16:09. > :16:13.weekend's weather. We might be avoiding the worst of the weather
:16:13. > :16:23.but it is looking like a very windy weekend ahead. Some places are at
:16:23. > :16:27.
:16:27. > :16:31.risk of seeing gusts up to 65mph. Tower Bridge, the Channel Tunnel,
:16:31. > :16:33.the Vulcan Bomber and the Bletchley Park code-breaking machine. All
:16:33. > :16:38.previous winners of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers' Heritage
:16:38. > :16:43.Award. But the prestigious award, which recognises British
:16:43. > :16:46.engineering excellence, has never been given to a car. Until now.
:16:46. > :16:49.Today it was awarded to the E-type Jaguar. Designed and built in
:16:49. > :16:59.Coventry, it caused a sensation when it was launched in 1961 and
:16:59. > :17:01.
:17:01. > :17:05.remains an icon of motoring to this day. Sarah Falkland reports.
:17:05. > :17:08.It was special all right. So special it became a motoring icon.
:17:08. > :17:15.Sleek curves and a top speed of 150 miles per hour, all for under
:17:15. > :17:25.�2,000. Enzo Ferrari famously said it was the most beautiful car ever
:17:25. > :17:29.
:17:29. > :17:36.made. This is a well-known quote from him. He said, there's one
:17:36. > :17:40.thing wrong with it. I said, what is that? He said it does not have
:17:40. > :17:43.the Ferrari back. Norman Dewis, from Shropshire, was the chief
:17:43. > :17:46.development test engineer for the E-type. Now 91, he was at Jaguar's
:17:46. > :17:49.Heritage Centre in Coventry today to see it honoured by the
:17:49. > :17:53.Institution of Mechanical Engineers. It combined beautiful lines with
:17:53. > :17:58.exceptional performance, but underneath it there was some
:17:58. > :18:07.extremely interesting engineering advances, particularly in the way
:18:07. > :18:11.the chassis was built, with framed to look after the engine.
:18:11. > :18:15.Recognition for engineering in this country is always a great thing and
:18:15. > :18:18.the E-type is such a special, iconic car for this country. We
:18:18. > :18:23.should have it for many years. Another reason for Jaguar Land
:18:23. > :18:26.Rover and its current work, now under Tata ownership, to celebrate.
:18:26. > :18:29.Such is the popularity of the E- type, Jaguar enthusiasts have been
:18:29. > :18:36.clamouring for a new two-seater in its image. The C-X16, unveiled at
:18:36. > :18:42.this year's Frank Motor Show, is a clue to what could be coming soon.
:18:42. > :18:46.The E-type is a typical car of the 60s. A very sporty car for sports
:18:46. > :18:50.stars and rock stars and celebrities. Hopefully the new one
:18:50. > :18:53.will have the same sense of style and adventure. E-types can fetch
:18:53. > :19:02.anything from 50,000 to 500,000 today. Norman Dewis says now he
:19:02. > :19:09.wishes he had put two or three aside for his later years. They are
:19:09. > :19:13.dreamy! I want one! �500,000. You never know. You can clean the
:19:13. > :19:16.spokes on the wheels. That must be a nightmare! Beautiful!
:19:16. > :19:19.Earlier this year, Wolverhampton was chosen as the location for the
:19:19. > :19:22.Olympic training camp for boxers from one of the world's smallest
:19:22. > :19:31.nations. Four boxers from the Caribbean island of Dominica will
:19:31. > :19:33.train in the city next year. I didn't say that right! Sorry! And
:19:33. > :19:36.to prepare, two Wolverhampton schoolgirls have been given an
:19:36. > :19:39.exclusive opportunity to watch a special Olympic test event in
:19:39. > :19:46.London. Ben Godfrey joined them. Chloe and Lauren have never claimed
:19:46. > :19:50.to be boxing fans, but they've been won over. How long have you been
:19:50. > :19:52.boxing? As part of the BBC News School report, the 13 year-olds
:19:52. > :20:00.from Deansfield Community School got press passes for Excel in
:20:00. > :20:05.London, for a rehearsal of the Olympics boxing event. Before I did
:20:06. > :20:09.all this, I was not interested in it at all. I just thought it was a
:20:09. > :20:13.sport for the Olympics and not very good. But now I have learned more
:20:13. > :20:16.about it, I like it. They're here because they've been inspired by
:20:16. > :20:19.Wolverhampton's big boxing moment. Next summer, at the city's amateur
:20:19. > :20:21.boxing club, these children will get the chance to watch four boxers
:20:21. > :20:24.from Dominica, who'll swap their small Caribbean island, with a
:20:24. > :20:31.population of 75,000, for three months of bruising bouts in the
:20:31. > :20:39.Black Country, before heading to London. Chloe and Lauren got to
:20:39. > :20:47.interview the club secretary. club has just signed a 25-year
:20:47. > :20:53.lease, so we are not going in where. Basically, we hope to provide some
:20:53. > :20:59.more Olympians in that time. With the kids saying they want to be
:20:59. > :21:02.boxers when they grow up, it is interesting. We can see that
:21:02. > :21:06.Wolverhampton is not a city where nothing happens. At the test event
:21:06. > :21:11.in London, Chloe and Lauren were busy scoring the bouts, and I was
:21:11. > :21:16.ringside. This is not simply a test event for the organisers. It is
:21:16. > :21:20.also a test for the Olympic hopefuls, fighting in the ring and
:21:20. > :21:24.learning how to answer questions from people like me. The organisers
:21:24. > :21:28.of London 2012 want the Games to reach out to all, to inspire people
:21:28. > :21:38.to get involved in a new sport in their communities. In Chloe and
:21:38. > :21:41.
:21:41. > :21:46.Lauren, they may have their role models. Don't argue with them!
:21:46. > :21:50.used to go boxing, didn't you? Absolutely exhausting but I was
:21:50. > :21:54.pretty rubbish at it! And to see more on how the girls
:21:54. > :21:57.got on, you can go bbc.co.uk/schoolreport.
:21:57. > :22:00.The lost history of Birmingham's gay community is being brought to
:22:00. > :22:03.the stage for the first time in a new theatre production. It's being
:22:03. > :22:06.performed at a National Trust property in the city centre and
:22:06. > :22:09.features untold stories stories that stretch as far back as the
:22:09. > :22:11.19th century. Here's our arts reporter, Satnam Rana.
:22:11. > :22:20.Actors revealing hidden histories from Birmingham's gay past in the
:22:20. > :22:26.setting of the city centre's Back To Backs. Madness has historically
:22:27. > :22:31.been seen as a fall from grace. Homosexuality was a form of madness.
:22:31. > :22:36.The tale of Charles, born in 1820. He ended up in a lunatic asylum
:22:36. > :22:41.because of his "unnatural desires". He is a lunatic! And then there's
:22:41. > :22:47.the rags-to-riches story of the Saltley's Fred Barnes.
:22:47. > :22:50.# Give me the moonlight, give me the girl... A butcher's son turned-
:22:50. > :22:53.entertainer. The production Gay Birmingham Back To Back is an
:22:54. > :23:00.extension of an oral history project, Gay Birmingham Remembered.
:23:00. > :23:05.It's to contextualise our past. Where we have come from. That is
:23:05. > :23:08.really important. A group of children in their teens came and
:23:08. > :23:13.they were profoundly affected because they did not know that is
:23:13. > :23:16.where it had come from in their community. There are stories of
:23:16. > :23:23.women meeting women in wartime Birmingham. And the struggle
:23:23. > :23:27.between race and homosexuality in the 1970s. I will be standing
:23:27. > :23:32.outside the club trying to pluck up the courage to go into the women's
:23:32. > :23:35.only disco, to find others like me. This production has been put
:23:35. > :23:38.together by Women & Theatre as part of The Shout Festival, celebrating
:23:38. > :23:45.what organisers call queer culture. For the National Trust, it's a way
:23:45. > :23:50.of engaging with diverse audiences. It has enabled us to communicate
:23:50. > :23:54.with the gay community and introduce them to the National
:23:54. > :24:01.Trust and the Back To Backs. Beyond the production there is a lasting
:24:02. > :24:08.legacy. The stories here will be visualised and it will be a
:24:08. > :24:11.permanent record of what has been, up till now, the city's hidden gay
:24:11. > :24:13.past. And you can watch the production at
:24:13. > :24:22.Birmingham's Back To Backs tomorrow. For more information, follow the
:24:22. > :24:31.link on our Facebook page. It started off beautifully but what
:24:31. > :24:37.It is looking very windy indeed. The wind will start to pick up
:24:37. > :24:42.overnight tonight. But on the plus side, it will be dry as well. The
:24:42. > :24:47.cloud we have had this afternoon will start to break up, so we will
:24:47. > :24:53.be under clearer skies overnight. Temperatures will take an early dip
:24:53. > :24:58.so it will feel quite chilly but it will stay dry. Temperatures dipping
:24:58. > :25:03.to around four or five degrees in the morning. But the wind will pick
:25:03. > :25:10.up tonight, so the Met Office have issued a yellow warning four-strong
:25:10. > :25:15.wind tomorrow morning. It is all down to this area sitting to the
:25:15. > :25:20.north of us, creating tightly- packed isobars. We will see very
:25:20. > :25:23.strong winds through the day, but it will be mainly dry and bright,
:25:23. > :25:29.with the best of the sunshine through the first half of the
:25:29. > :25:35.morning. Temperatures will be peaking at around 11 or 12 degrees.
:25:35. > :25:40.But a windy day, so it will feel chilly. Gusts up to 65mph during
:25:40. > :25:45.the region tomorrow. Its days dry through the day, turning cloudy
:25:45. > :25:48.overnight and we could see spots of rain overnight from Saturday to
:25:48. > :25:53.Sunday. But the pressure is starting to build across the region
:25:53. > :25:57.for Sunday, so looking like a mainly dry day and bright as well.
:25:57. > :26:03.Plenty of sunshine on offer. Temperatures peaking again at 12,
:26:03. > :26:08.13 degrees. The wind will be moderate on Sunday. Monday, his
:26:08. > :26:13.star as dry and bright, but Det cloudy through the day. On Tuesday,
:26:13. > :26:17.we will see the rain heading away. But over the weekend, dry and
:26:17. > :26:27.bright and the wind will increase through the day tomorrow. Monday,
:26:27. > :26:32.
:26:32. > :26:35.looking chilly and then wet and A look at tonight's main headlines:
:26:35. > :26:37.Heathrow tells passengers to expect delays of up to 12 hours on strike
:26:37. > :26:40.day next week. And here, 10,000 sign a petition
:26:40. > :26:44.demanding hospital bosses keep Stafford Hospital A&E open 24 hours
:26:44. > :26:49.a-day. Earlier in the programme, we asked
:26:49. > :26:53.you how next Wednesday's public sector strikes will affect you.
:26:53. > :26:56.Matt Lakin wrote on our Facebook page: "In many areas, working to
:26:56. > :26:59.rule and overtime bans would be far less disruptive and far more
:26:59. > :27:03.effective". Gill Evans says: "I work in the
:27:03. > :27:07.private sector. Who cares about my pension or lack of it?!"
:27:07. > :27:10.Andi Conway wrote: "If it's a stand against this government, then of
:27:10. > :27:13.course services will strike, and they have that right. We still live
:27:13. > :27:16.in a democracy". Vincent Hayes says: "I support the strike. The
:27:16. > :27:20.Tory Party are trying to dismantle the public sector and the NHS". But
:27:20. > :27:24.Lucy Garman says: "I have had to take the day off work and will lose
:27:24. > :27:28.a day's pay so I can stay at home to look after my son. It would of
:27:28. > :27:31.cost �37 for a school day in child care. What makes me angry is the
:27:31. > :27:34.fact that three weeks ago, we were sent a letter warning that parents
:27:34. > :27:37.who take holidays or days off in term-time will be recorded as