:00:03. > :00:13.Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Nick Owen and Suzanne Virdee.
:00:13. > :00:14.
:00:14. > :00:16.The headlines tonight: the bookshop owner who sold -- sold bomb-making
:00:16. > :00:18.manuals. "I didn't deserve to go to prison,"
:00:18. > :00:21.says a teenage rioter jailed for ten months.
:00:21. > :00:28.Despite Government promises, Birmingham is dropped as the home
:00:28. > :00:33.for a state of the art treatment centre for cancer. To me, the West
:00:33. > :00:36.Midlands, it is more accessible than London.
:00:36. > :00:39.And with Coventry City rooted at the foot of the table, further
:00:39. > :00:49.controversy as the former chairman decides to join the manager on the
:00:49. > :00:51.
:00:51. > :00:54.Good evening and welcome to Monday's Midlands Today from the
:00:54. > :00:59.BBC. Tonight: Guilty of encouraging others to
:00:59. > :01:05.carry out violent terrorist attacks. Birmingham book seller Ahmed Faraz,
:01:05. > :01:07.who's 32, now faces a lengthy jail sentence. West Midlands Police said
:01:07. > :01:10.some of the material he sold contained explicit instructions on
:01:10. > :01:15.how to make explosives and kidnap people, some of which was so
:01:15. > :01:18.graphic it couldn't be shown to the jury. The court also heard that
:01:18. > :01:21.information from the bookstore had been found in the possession of the
:01:21. > :01:26.man who led the 7/7 bombings in London. This report from our
:01:26. > :01:35.special correspondent, Peter Wilson. The Maktabah bookstore in
:01:35. > :01:38.Birmingham was famous throughout the world. An important source of
:01:38. > :01:41.Islamic teachings and DVDs. Today, it's merely a ladies' fashion store
:01:41. > :01:49.under new owners. But four years ago, the police raided it believing
:01:49. > :01:58.it was pumping out information of help to terrorists. The landlord of
:01:58. > :02:07.the building says he has any good words to say about Ahmed Faraz.
:02:07. > :02:10.Paul than 10 years, this shot -- This Maktabah bookstore On the
:02:10. > :02:14.street in Birmingham have the attention of the security services
:02:14. > :02:17.and MI5. Ahmed Faraz, who's 32 years old and had been studying for
:02:17. > :02:19.a PhD in Political Islam, always denied any involvement in terrorist
:02:19. > :02:23.activity but the court in Kingston- on-Thames heard that the material
:02:23. > :02:25.videos of Osama Bin laden, Al-Qaeda training manuals and instructions
:02:25. > :02:28.on how to use rocket-propelled grenades and improvised explosive
:02:29. > :02:35.devices, the types which have been used so devastatingly in Iraq and
:02:35. > :02:39.Afghanistan against British and American forces. This case involved
:02:39. > :02:42.a massive worldwide distribution of terrorist material that is really
:02:42. > :02:46.important to understand what aspects of the terrorist
:02:46. > :02:49.legislation had been breached add to bring people to justice for that.
:02:49. > :02:52.The leader of the 7/7 bombings on London, the suicide bomber Mohammed
:02:52. > :02:54.Sidique Khan, had bought material from the Birmingham bookstore along
:02:54. > :03:04.with those convicted of plotting to attack transatlantic airlines in
:03:04. > :03:08.2006. He has been able to buy a potentially attract would-be
:03:08. > :03:12.terrorists to commit violent acts, based on how he has manipulated
:03:12. > :03:15.these books. Four years ago, Ahmed Faraz, who then called himself Abu
:03:15. > :03:17.Bakr, first spoke exclusively to the BBC. He'd been arrested and
:03:17. > :03:23.then released without charge as part of the huge police operation
:03:23. > :03:33.into a plot to behead a British soldier. The police seized some
:03:33. > :03:34.
:03:34. > :03:39.25,000 books. This is what he told me in 2007.
:03:39. > :03:45.If you had seen yourself on BBC television, interviewed, would you
:03:45. > :03:48.have bought yourself, no smoke without fire? Surprisingly, that is
:03:49. > :03:53.exactly what I thought. I thought everyone will be thinking and I
:03:53. > :04:00.will be thinking there is always... There is always something because
:04:00. > :04:03.there is no smoke without fire, but there is no fight in this instance.
:04:03. > :04:07.On charges of disseminating terraced fabrications and
:04:07. > :04:15.possession of material of these to a potential terrorist, Ahmed Faraz
:04:15. > :04:17.was found guilty and he would be sentenced tomorrow. -- will be
:04:17. > :04:22.sentenced tomorrow. You've been speaking to his family,
:04:22. > :04:28.people who know him. What's their view on this outcome? I have sat
:04:28. > :04:32.down with this man and talked about his book shop and his books. And he
:04:32. > :04:37.is an impressive man, face-to-face. I have just come off the phone
:04:37. > :04:43.speaking to his brother and he says he is incredibly saddened by the
:04:43. > :04:49.jury's verdict. He is on my way to see him. But case took place in
:04:49. > :04:53.Kingston on Thames. His family say they feel there were no legal
:04:53. > :04:57.grounds to the prosecution. They see him as being a bookstore owner
:04:57. > :05:02.and the fact they live in a country where there is freedom of speech,
:05:02. > :05:09.they cannot understand why somebody publishing books can end up going
:05:09. > :05:14.to prison. This sounds like a very complex case for the police. It was
:05:14. > :05:19.massive complex and this bookstore was also operating on mine. There
:05:19. > :05:23.were some 2 million computer files that police had to go through. An
:05:23. > :05:27.incredibly complex case for the jury to understand and I have to
:05:28. > :05:30.say that tonight it is something of a victory for West Midlands Police
:05:31. > :05:35.to get this conviction, if this man had been acquitted, lots of
:05:35. > :05:41.questions would have been asked about the poll is handling a man
:05:41. > :05:44.and concentrating on his bookshop for so many years. Now it looks
:05:44. > :05:47.vindicated. Still to come tonight:
:05:47. > :05:50.The illegal Warwickshire gypsy site where families and protesters are
:05:50. > :06:00.preparing for their second Christmas with no sign of an end to
:06:00. > :06:00.
:06:00. > :06:04.the stand-off. A teenage girl jailed for taking
:06:04. > :06:07.part in the August riots says she didn't deserve to go to prison. 19-
:06:07. > :06:12.year-old Danielle Corns is serving a ten month sentence for stealing
:06:12. > :06:14.two left-footed trainers from a shop in Wolverhampton. She's one of
:06:14. > :06:18.more than 700 people who've been arrested in connection with the
:06:18. > :06:22.riots in this region. Of those, more than 160 have been charged and
:06:22. > :06:25.put before the courts. Mary Rhodes reports on how Danielle Corns
:06:25. > :06:34.became part of those statistics after she was identified from
:06:34. > :06:39.security camera footage. Can you tell me what you were doing
:06:39. > :06:45.at that point might? I was just walking around, looking, watching
:06:45. > :06:49.people. Danielle and her lawyer look back at the moment she became
:06:49. > :06:53.a riot are, as the link two let trainers in Wolverhampton. This is
:06:53. > :06:58.the main evidence in the case. just went in there to be nosy, I
:06:59. > :07:08.didn't intend to steal anything. I just regret it. There was no need
:07:09. > :07:12.
:07:12. > :07:16.for me to go in there. And... The average sentence for those
:07:16. > :07:20.involved in the riots has been 12 months and in the West Midlands
:07:20. > :07:27.community sentences have been handed out to fewer than 1 in 10
:07:27. > :07:31.rioters. That is a mistake, says one charity. They are significantly
:07:31. > :07:37.cheaper than short-term prison sentence and they are likely to be
:07:37. > :07:42.more effective in preventing crime being repented and, thirdly, they
:07:42. > :07:47.are quite visible, you can see what is happening and that offenders are
:07:47. > :07:51.repairing the damage. This is rather than pushing prisoners out
:07:51. > :07:56.of sight, into very expensive prison places for short periods of
:07:57. > :08:00.time with an incredibly high reoffending rate, which is just not
:08:00. > :08:05.worth king. Wolverhampton's Conservative MP believes the
:08:05. > :08:09.sentences have been a fair. There was fear around the city and the
:08:09. > :08:13.whole country. It was important a message was sent her out and I used
:08:13. > :08:18.to find that from constituents and shopkeepers, they would say to me,
:08:18. > :08:25.it is vital we send out a message that this is wrong, and this sort
:08:25. > :08:28.of no -- behaviour has to be nipped in the bud. The family had hoped
:08:28. > :08:33.for a community sentence but Wolverhampton Crown Court decided
:08:33. > :08:38.she would be jailed for 10 months. Well, we're joined now from her
:08:38. > :08:43.home in Wolverhampton by Danielle Corns' mother Sharon. Very good
:08:43. > :08:50.evening to you. Why do you think Danielle's sentence was unfair,
:08:50. > :08:55.after all, she did break the law. Looting is a serious crime.
:08:55. > :09:00.I think it is unfair because he has got no previous convictions and
:09:00. > :09:05.everyone is judging her as a rioters. She didn't intend to ride
:09:05. > :09:11.that day. I had taken her to do some shopping and left her there.
:09:11. > :09:14.She was being a curious teenager, at the end of the day. We have had
:09:14. > :09:18.many emails and Facebook comments and the majority of people,
:09:18. > :09:23.although this isn't scientific, they say she deserved the sentence.
:09:23. > :09:27.Let me read you a couple of these. We had won here saying she chose to
:09:27. > :09:31.take the train is going equally well it was wrong. As a criminal,
:09:31. > :09:37.you don't get to choose what to punishment is. Another wants us, if
:09:37. > :09:42.you cannot do that time, to not do the crime. Only one was saying that
:09:42. > :09:46.the sentence was unfair. Another one says that if ten-month stops
:09:46. > :09:54.her from doing it again, it is a lesson well learnt. What is your
:09:54. > :09:59.reaction? They don't know my daughter or the full story. She
:09:59. > :10:04.went to look around. Where the story has come from, why she has
:10:04. > :10:10.picked up two trainers, I don't know. She was a curious teenager,
:10:10. > :10:15.she had a look round, not to riot. The shutters fell on her, she
:10:15. > :10:20.picked up two objects, and she went out of the shop. Somebody had to
:10:20. > :10:25.lift the shutter up for her to get out. She just picked them up to
:10:25. > :10:29.throw. You can see her on the CCTV throwing the objects and then
:10:29. > :10:36.another girl picks them up and goes down the street with them. It is
:10:36. > :10:40.unfair. So shouldn't intent to steal them? No, she didn't. It was
:10:40. > :10:45.a man's clothing shop. She picked them up because she panicked,
:10:45. > :10:53.because she was locked up. How is Daniel coping and when will she be
:10:53. > :10:58.freed? I don't know. But she is not coping very well. She is upset. She
:10:58. > :11:05.should not be in there, at the end of the day. It is very unfair. My
:11:05. > :11:09.daughter has no previous convictions. My daughter has no
:11:09. > :11:13.previous convictions. And she should not be sentenced to prison.
:11:13. > :11:23.Thank you. And you can see more on this on
:11:23. > :11:24.
:11:24. > :11:30.tonight's Inside Out on BBC One at 7:30pm. It is looking likely that
:11:30. > :11:32.Birmingham has lost up to Manchester and London in getting a
:11:32. > :11:35.centre with a pioneering new treatment for cancer. Proton
:11:35. > :11:39.therapy is a type of radiotherapy that targets cancer more precisely
:11:39. > :11:47.causing fewer side effects for patients. Last year, the Government
:11:47. > :11:51.would have a share of the �43 million funding for the treatment.
:11:51. > :11:52.Tonight, they say no final decision has been made. Our Health
:11:52. > :11:54.Correspondent, Michele Paduno, reports.
:11:54. > :11:58.Christmas is coming, but Tom Blakemore has already had the best
:11:58. > :11:59.present of all. He's had proton therapy in Florida in the United
:11:59. > :12:09.States. The 11-year-old from Halesowen had three months
:12:09. > :12:14.in future children could be treated in Birmingham. If there is the West
:12:14. > :12:21.Midlands Centre, they could have for treatment near their home. It
:12:21. > :12:26.affects the whole family. We travelled a long way. But it was
:12:26. > :12:28.such a big upheaval. So why is proton therapy so good? Well,
:12:28. > :12:32.protons are large, positively charged particles that can be fired
:12:32. > :12:34.more accurately to kill just cancer cells. Normal radiotherapy fires
:12:34. > :12:38.smaller negatively charged electrons which are harder to
:12:38. > :12:44.control, spreading into healthy tissues and so aren't as good for
:12:44. > :12:47.complex cancer like children's brain tumours. Last October, the
:12:47. > :12:54.Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, told the BBC that
:12:55. > :13:00.we would get proton therapy. I have made it clear we will support over
:13:00. > :13:04.the next four years with �43 million the roll-out of proton
:13:04. > :13:07.therapy at a number of centres and the University Hospital in
:13:07. > :13:10.Birmingham will be one of those centres. We were then told that the
:13:10. > :13:14.Government was looking at either three centres nationally which
:13:14. > :13:19.would include Birmingham or just two centres. The centre would have
:13:19. > :13:24.been built hit on this car park. I was told in an e-mail that two
:13:24. > :13:29.strongest bids were from London and Manchester. The reality was that if
:13:29. > :13:33.they were going to go for a two centre innocent -- two centre of
:13:33. > :13:35.the solution, there would be one in the South and North. Doctors at
:13:35. > :13:38.University Hospital, Birmingham, have just installed tomotherapy,
:13:38. > :13:41.which is state of the art equipment, but for some cancers, protons are
:13:41. > :13:46.better. They're worried that adults in particular could miss out.
:13:46. > :13:50.will happen for children because children and parents, particularly
:13:50. > :13:55.parents, are very keen to get the best treatment for their children.
:13:55. > :13:59.For adults, we will wait and see. Patrons will not want to go to
:13:59. > :14:03.either side of the country. They might accept what is not quite as
:14:03. > :14:05.good. Officially, the decision has not yet been made, but it appears
:14:05. > :14:15.that Birmingham's geographical position has left the city playing
:14:15. > :14:20.
:14:20. > :14:26.Our correspondent joins asked now. There has been a response from the
:14:26. > :14:30.Department of Health in the last hour. Yes, last week Iris told we
:14:30. > :14:35.would have a decision before Christmas but tonight we have been
:14:35. > :14:45.told that no decision will be made until 20th March 12. There will be
:14:45. > :14:45.
:14:45. > :14:50.an announcement tomorrow. But there are still three hospitals,
:14:50. > :14:54.including banning them, they are looking closely at the business
:14:54. > :15:00.case and no decision will be made until March. For the people working
:15:00. > :15:07.here on the bid, that is good news. If we do not get this centre, how
:15:07. > :15:12.bigger bloke is it for Birmingham? It is a big blow up economically.
:15:12. > :15:16.This hospital is trying to integrate this to make it a major
:15:16. > :15:21.canter -- Cancer Centre internationally. There is the
:15:21. > :15:24.question of trying to attract top quality doctors and for the
:15:24. > :15:32.Children's Hospital here in Birmingham, this will mean treating
:15:32. > :15:36.loss of children and there is a need to have that here. Thank you.
:15:36. > :15:40.Four men who robbed and murdered a shopkeeper in an attack witnessed
:15:40. > :15:46.by his children have been jailed for life. Suppiah Tharmaseelan was
:15:46. > :15:50.stabbed in his shop in Birmingham last November. The judge told twins
:15:50. > :15:54.the end and John mean an and brothers Anthony Bayliss and Liam
:15:54. > :15:59.Ryan that it was a mindless attack on a vulnerable person. This case
:15:59. > :16:04.was always very challenging due to the fact that the children
:16:04. > :16:08.witnessed the attack in the shop. They were still traumatised after
:16:08. > :16:12.the murder itself, but today they can close this wicked chapter in
:16:12. > :16:16.their lives. More ahead tonight including:
:16:17. > :16:19.destroyed by vandals - now a village war memorial is being
:16:19. > :16:24.rebuilt and it will be replaced and the heart of a Gloucestershire
:16:24. > :16:34.village. And it is a stormy mix this week
:16:34. > :16:39.
:16:39. > :16:42.with lash and rain Gayle, snow and Gypsies who illegally developed
:16:42. > :16:47.land in Warwickshire will spend a second Christmas facing local
:16:47. > :16:51.campaigners who have set up their own protest camp. The action under
:16:51. > :16:58.planning laws is pending against both sides. They have been facing
:16:58. > :17:01.each other every day for the last 18 days in a failed in Meriden. One
:17:01. > :17:06.gypsy leader says they will move if the council finds them somewhere
:17:06. > :17:12.else to go. It is 590 days since gypsies
:17:12. > :17:16.started illegally developing this land. Residents started a campaign
:17:16. > :17:20.angry that planning laws were being flouted. Now both sides have fallen
:17:20. > :17:26.foul of planning laws with the question now being asked, which
:17:26. > :17:31.illegal encampment will be made to leave first? We are not here to
:17:31. > :17:35.waste taxpayers' money. When would you go? We will work that out with
:17:35. > :17:41.the council. We want clear enforcements. You will not go until
:17:41. > :17:44.the gypsies go? We will go at a time we think is appropriate.
:17:44. > :17:53.Gypsies say they would move tomorrow if Solihull council can
:17:53. > :17:57.find them all alternative site. can be arrested, if I pull on the
:17:58. > :18:01.side of the way. I have no place to go. I have asked the council if
:18:01. > :18:07.they could provide a place for me to go and if they could, I would
:18:07. > :18:10.gladly go there. As the temperature drops, the stalemate continues.
:18:10. > :18:14.Residents preparing for their second Christmas of protest and
:18:14. > :18:18.gypsies the stated that the site has turned into a quagmire unable
:18:18. > :18:23.to be improved because of an injunction preventing a temporary
:18:23. > :18:29.roadway. The protesters have got it wrong. They should be at the
:18:29. > :18:33.council offices protesting at what the council have never done,
:18:33. > :18:38.failing to provide us somewhere to live. In a statement, the council
:18:38. > :18:42.said they did not have any appropriate sites available in the
:18:42. > :18:46.area at the moment. They did say they were engaged in a public
:18:46. > :18:52.consultation exercise asking people where they think suitable sites
:18:52. > :18:58.should be put. In the meantime, the married and gypsies are staying put
:18:58. > :19:04.and the protesters say they are not going anywhere either. -- Meriden
:19:04. > :19:11.gypsies. Now the sport. Worrying time for
:19:11. > :19:15.Coventry City supporters. Not good. War in a moment. First to the
:19:15. > :19:24.Premier League and two vulnerable victories for Aston Villa and Stoke
:19:24. > :19:29.City. Marc Albrighton scored first and then Stiliyan Petrov on target
:19:29. > :19:34.to set up their first away win of the season. Stoves game against
:19:34. > :19:40.Spurs followed a similar pattern. Matt Etherington scored both their
:19:40. > :19:46.goals. Stoke are lying 8th in the table. They are away to Wolffs on
:19:46. > :19:51.Saturday. Tottenham are a topside. It was how we defended as a team
:19:51. > :19:56.and we did that brilliantly. It was a great result for stop Coventry
:19:56. > :20:00.City fans cannot wait to see the back of 2011 but things could get
:20:00. > :20:04.worse in 2012. The Sky Blues are at their lowest ebb for more than 40
:20:04. > :20:08.years. Cast adrift at the foot of the championship, a manager under
:20:08. > :20:12.pressure to stop the rot. Death when they thought nothing
:20:12. > :20:16.about events at the weaker arena could surprise them, Coventry City
:20:16. > :20:20.proved them wrong. On Saturday Geoff Foster and Clive Eakin looked
:20:20. > :20:25.down at the home team dug-out and had some shocked used for their
:20:26. > :20:31.listeners, because this man was on the bench. Only nine months ago,
:20:31. > :20:34.Ken Dulieu had replaced Ray Ranson as the club chairman. On the 2nd
:20:34. > :20:38.December he resigned as chairman and became head of football
:20:38. > :20:46.operations. On Saturday, can take his place in the dug-out alongside
:20:46. > :20:52.Coventry manager Andy Thorn. radio commentary phoned in after
:20:52. > :21:01.the match. They were pretty angry. People suggesting he may be lining
:21:01. > :21:07.himself as caretaker manager. took him on at the bench. He was
:21:07. > :21:12.down there. Were you happy with that? He can do whatever he wants.
:21:12. > :21:16.He is right, can-can but the manager did not look happy. Not
:21:16. > :21:21.least because Coventry's self- appointed head of operations seemed
:21:21. > :21:28.clear about his role. I will not get involved on the pitch or
:21:28. > :21:34.training. I think Andy has done a very good job. Playing good
:21:34. > :21:38.football, played the top three and I am bound to say this but we were
:21:38. > :21:42.unlucky in those games. That verdict could have applied to
:21:42. > :21:46.Saturday's defeat by Hull. Lady Luck may have deserted the Sky
:21:46. > :21:51.Blues but they have taken just three points from the last games
:21:51. > :21:56.and they are seven points adrift of safety. Some degree of financial
:21:56. > :22:01.backing is required if a club is to succeed. In the absence of that, we
:22:01. > :22:07.may face relegation from the championship. Heartbreaking.
:22:07. > :22:10.Worried faces on the bench, anxious players on the pitch, and that this
:22:10. > :22:17.fans in the stands at the Ricoh arena.
:22:17. > :22:22.A year ago, they were 5th in the championship. What a contrast. What
:22:22. > :22:27.would happen if they went down? would be massive. Not least in this
:22:27. > :22:32.respect that if Coventry City are in League One, that is a massive
:22:32. > :22:38.deterrent for potential investors to buy the club of the current
:22:38. > :22:45.owners SISU. In three weeks' time, transfer windows open. Could their
:22:45. > :22:49.best players go? That is a fear. The club has no cash for new
:22:49. > :22:52.players. Many feel sympathy for Andy Thorn but that will not keep
:22:52. > :22:56.him in a job if results do not improve.
:22:56. > :23:00.Elsewhere, the former striker Marlon King was on top form for
:23:00. > :23:06.Birmingham City. He got both goals in the second half as they came
:23:06. > :23:12.from behind to beat Doncaster 2-1. Perfect time and just ahead of
:23:12. > :23:18.Thursday's game against Maribor in the European League. And Cheltenham
:23:18. > :23:24.Town's excellent one continues. They beat Southend 3-0. You can see
:23:24. > :23:28.all the goals on the BBC website. Finally, just to whet the appetite
:23:28. > :23:32.for the cricket season, Worcestershire have signed
:23:32. > :23:38.Australian batsman Phil Hughes. He has paid 16 Test matches and he
:23:38. > :23:43.will arrive at New Road in June. Cracking!
:23:43. > :23:47.Thank you. It was an act of wanton vandalism that shocked the people
:23:47. > :23:51.of a Gloucestershire village who woke to find their war memorial
:23:52. > :23:57.smashed to pieces. It had stood for almost 100 years in tribute to
:23:57. > :24:02.those be left to fight in the First World War. Now work is under way to
:24:02. > :24:08.create a replacement and to restore it to the heart of the community.
:24:08. > :24:12.It is a slow but highly skilled process recreating a war memorial
:24:12. > :24:16.from scratch. Made more difficult by the state of the original,
:24:16. > :24:20.decades of decay leaving vague clues to its original glory. But
:24:20. > :24:27.the job has been helped by the public who have sent in photos of
:24:27. > :24:32.the original. There were a couple of figures that you could make out
:24:32. > :24:35.but there was on the other side, St George and a dragon which we found
:24:35. > :24:40.out recently forced up the new money-mad is being made from box
:24:40. > :24:45.ground stone. It has just started to be mined again and the plan is
:24:45. > :24:50.for the new memorial to blend in with the past. For the first couple
:24:51. > :24:55.of years it will look newer, but there with a lot of greenery around
:24:55. > :24:59.where the moral is and that will help the process of it weather vane.
:24:59. > :25:05.Police are still searching for those who left the memorial in
:25:05. > :25:13.pieces. CCTV of someone dumping pieces of the work had not brought
:25:13. > :25:16.results. There are people still living in Prestbury whose ancestors,
:25:16. > :25:22.grandparents are named from the First World War and other campaigns
:25:22. > :25:26.on that Memorial. There was total anger. There is the hope that
:25:26. > :25:31.another positive could come out of this. Not only will the memory will
:25:31. > :25:37.be replaced but the council is working on plans for a new memorial
:25:37. > :25:42.for villages who gave their lives in the Second World War.
:25:42. > :25:48.We both agreed the weather yesterday was a vile. It was
:25:48. > :25:51.hideous! I believe there is worse to come. Yes.
:25:51. > :26:00.Today things have been deteriorating in a build-up to what
:26:00. > :26:09.deteriorating in a build-up to what will be quite a bad day. Sunshine
:26:09. > :26:15.under this huge swathe of cloud. Rain is lurking. Up to 20 mm of
:26:15. > :26:19.rain and gusts of up to 50 miles per hour. You can see it eases by
:26:19. > :26:27.the second half of the night and it is looking clearer. Temperatures of
:26:27. > :26:30.three Celsius, although a fake -- fair breeze will be blowing. Winds
:26:30. > :26:37.picking up through the morning and behind this band of rain we have
:26:37. > :26:43.showers. It becomes progressively colder through the day. Show was
:26:43. > :26:49.turning wintry. To the north, at any areas above 200 metres, will be
:26:49. > :26:56.covered by snow. Those are rain showers at lower levels will turn
:26:56. > :27:02.sleet here. Winds could gusts up to 40 mph. It will feel much colder
:27:02. > :27:07.than that in the wind chill. Tomorrow night, temperatures
:27:07. > :27:11.plummeting to near freezing. Seeing as we are continuing a feeder
:27:11. > :27:15.showers from the south-west, some frost and icy patches on any
:27:16. > :27:23.untreated roads. They show was continue on Wednesday, looking
:27:23. > :27:25.drier by Thursday, but it is on Friday we have to keep our eye on.
:27:25. > :27:30.Friday we have to keep our eye on. Before we leave, let's take at the
:27:30. > :27:34.main headlines: David Cameron defends his EU veto saying signing
:27:34. > :27:37.up would have left Britain with no protection force stop and guilty of