:00:04. > :00:07.Hello, welcome to Midlands Today with Suzanne Virdee and Nick Owen.
:00:07. > :00:16.The headlines tonight: Facing a lengthy jail sentence - the Roman
:00:16. > :00:21.Catholic priest found guilty of abusing young boys.
:00:21. > :00:24.And I am bitter but I also feel sorry because it is help as much as
:00:24. > :00:31.punishment that he needs. Anger over supermarket plans which
:00:31. > :00:36.residents and traders say will turn their high street into a ghost town.
:00:36. > :00:40.We Australia gained this, we want to maintain a market town. Born a
:00:40. > :00:42.boy but living as a girl - the 10- year-old convinced she was born in
:00:42. > :00:46.the wrong body now campaigning against transgender inequality.
:00:46. > :00:56.And how American giant Coca Cola turned to a gaming firm here for
:00:56. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:04.Good evening, welcome to Tuesday's Midlands Today from the BBC.
:01:04. > :01:07.Tonight - a Roman Catholic priest has been told he'll face a lengthy
:01:07. > :01:12.jail sentence after being found guilty of abusing eight vulnerable
:01:12. > :01:15.young boys over an 18-year period. Alexander Bede Walsh, who is 58,
:01:15. > :01:22.has been convicted of 21 charges of abusing young boys, between 1975
:01:22. > :01:26.and 1993. The police officer who led the inquiry said Walsh was
:01:26. > :01:30.supposed to be a man of the cloth but he'd shown no compassion, no
:01:30. > :01:34.integrity and no humanity. And tonight the Catholic Church has
:01:34. > :01:40.said proceedings are under way to de-frock Walsh so he can never work
:01:40. > :01:43.as priest again. Alexander Bede Walsh, here on the
:01:43. > :01:48.right, was known to thousands of families in the Midlands as Father
:01:49. > :01:55.Bede. He used his revered status to abuse boys aged between eight and
:01:56. > :01:59.16 in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Michael Clifford was one of those
:01:59. > :02:03.victims. The law protects those who have suffered sexual abuse from
:02:04. > :02:08.being identified. But he's waived his right to anonymity because he
:02:08. > :02:18.says he feels it's important to speak out. He described how he
:02:18. > :02:23.feels now towards Walsh, more than 30 years on. I am bitter but I also
:02:23. > :02:29.feel sorry for the man because it is help us much as punishment that
:02:29. > :02:33.he needs. From what I can see, to this day, they are my feelings
:02:33. > :02:38.towards the man. I do want him to be punished but I think he needs
:02:38. > :02:42.help as well. How do you feel to what the Catholic Church? Very let
:02:43. > :02:47.down because I was put in an institute through no fault of my
:02:47. > :02:50.own and they were responsible for my welfare and care my upbringing.
:02:50. > :02:54.Walsh spent much of his career, here in the Staffordshire town of
:02:54. > :03:00.Cheadle. But his abuse began in Warwickshire - and later it
:03:00. > :03:05.continued when he was a parish priest in Coventry. I don't think
:03:05. > :03:08.you'd get more serious than this. And man to have entered the
:03:08. > :03:15.priesthood, revered organisation, and has abused his position
:03:15. > :03:24.massively. This may be only the tip of the iceberg. We may have mothers
:03:24. > :03:27.out there, and we have, come forward. The investigation began in
:03:27. > :03:36.2009 when it independently to victims contacted the police.
:03:36. > :03:39.Following publicity, events T6 more victims came forward. -- eventually
:03:39. > :03:42.six more victims. Walsh already had a previous conviction for
:03:42. > :03:44.possessing child pornography. He later resigned from his post at a
:03:44. > :03:48.parish in Banbury. In North Staffordshire, he'd been a
:03:48. > :03:52.respected figure - at this church in Stoke on Trent at mass on the
:03:52. > :03:55.first day of his trial, parishoners were asked to remember him in their
:03:55. > :04:02.prayers. But tonight the Catholic Church described his crimes as
:04:02. > :04:07."horrendous". This is a horrific case which has shocked and appalled
:04:07. > :04:11.me and it has cast a shadow over the lives of many people. Victims
:04:11. > :04:17.and their families, fellow priests and the people of the parishes
:04:17. > :04:21.where he served as a priest. Walsh will be sentenced next month. The
:04:21. > :04:24.judge has already warned him a long jail term is inevitable.
:04:24. > :04:28.And you can read more about the background to this case and the
:04:28. > :04:32.impact it's had on the victims on our BBC Stoke and Staffordshire
:04:32. > :04:35.website. That's bbc.co.uk/stoke. Thanks for joining us this freezing
:04:35. > :04:39.Tuesday evening, coming up:. Fighting for understanding and
:04:39. > :04:46.acceptance, the 10-year-old who was born a boy but lives as a girl says
:04:46. > :04:50.the media treat her condition as a joke.
:04:50. > :04:54.The Midlands is one of the worst areas in the country for the number
:04:54. > :04:57.of empty shops, according to a new report by the Local Data Company.
:04:57. > :05:00.Wolverhampton is one of the most affected and the city council is
:05:00. > :05:03.concerned that people are also being put off shopping there
:05:03. > :05:07.because of "chuggers". Chuggers are paid to collect money for charity
:05:07. > :05:16.and now the council is introducing a partial ban to allow people to
:05:16. > :05:20.shop in peace. We have spoken to people in the City and clearly
:05:20. > :05:24.there is a concern about the level of intervention is that people were
:05:24. > :05:28.facing a going down Dudley Street, in particular. As a result of that
:05:28. > :05:32.we have taken this action to try to regulate the number of chuggers
:05:33. > :05:36.allowed on the streets at any one time. Shop vacancies are also on
:05:36. > :05:38.the rise as High Street traders are struggling to compete with
:05:38. > :05:41.superstores and internet shopping. In one Shropshire town, traders are
:05:42. > :05:45.so worried about the impact of a proposed new superstore development
:05:45. > :05:48.that they've joined forces to fight it. In the first of our special
:05:48. > :05:52.High Street in Crisis reports, our business correspondent, Peter
:05:52. > :05:55.Plisner, has been investigating. The busy high street in Newport - a
:05:55. > :05:59.market town where until now there's been no real competition from out-
:05:59. > :06:04.of-town supermarkets. But that could all be about to change.
:06:04. > :06:07.Sainsbury's is planning a huge new store on the outskirts of the town.
:06:07. > :06:15.Traders in the High Street are already worried. Anthea Gould runs
:06:15. > :06:19.a clothes store. It is all bad foot fault. We need the people to come
:06:19. > :06:25.into town to see what we have good and fast to give them the service.
:06:25. > :06:30.Meanwhile, at the local bakery the message was clear. The message
:06:31. > :06:37.would be safest market town, says the independent retailers. But in
:06:37. > :06:42.the High Street itself, opinions seem divided. We're trying to
:06:42. > :06:46.support our local traders and it is bad news. I think he will be good
:06:46. > :06:50.for the town. Retail experts maintain that the biggest threat to
:06:50. > :06:55.the High Street is from outside town shopping and there is evidence
:06:55. > :07:00.to suggest that when out of town supermarkets do get the go-ahead,
:07:00. > :07:04.places like this are far. This area forms part of the car-park and
:07:04. > :07:07.superstore. This is the land that is to be developed, currently a
:07:07. > :07:14.greenfield site and local councillors want it to stay that
:07:14. > :07:18.way. In May to of traffic this is good to create. You can see the
:07:18. > :07:28.work of the road. We are certain that the infrastructure will not
:07:28. > :07:30.
:07:30. > :07:37.cater for it. A final decision rests with Telford and Wrekin
:07:37. > :07:41.Council - although they say they are still considering objections.
:07:41. > :07:46.We will be taking all of their comments into account, looking in
:07:46. > :07:51.detail of what they have said. We will also be using our own retail
:07:51. > :07:54.consultants to look at the, it's we have received and to evaluate
:07:54. > :07:57.whether the supermarket proposals are justified or not. Councillors
:07:57. > :08:00.are expected to meeting to discuss the plans, which also includes
:08:00. > :08:04.houses and a business park, in the next two months.
:08:04. > :08:07.Live now to Peter, who's in Shirley in Solihull, which has a pretty
:08:07. > :08:17.busy high street despite having a number of big supermarkets nearby,
:08:17. > :08:20.
:08:20. > :08:23.so why are some high streets doing OK and others not? In the case of
:08:23. > :08:27.Shirley there are two reasons. One is that there are already
:08:27. > :08:32.supermarkets on the High Street, which bring people in and increase
:08:32. > :08:37.the football. Another reason is that there is free parking. And
:08:37. > :08:41.there are some niche product sellers and bay, again, mean that
:08:41. > :08:47.people travel into the area and other shops benefit. What more can
:08:47. > :08:50.we do to protect the high street? Whitney is Nigel Botterill he was a
:08:50. > :08:53.small business troubleshooter. What advice would you give to
:08:53. > :08:59.independent stores that are facing the threat of out-of-town
:08:59. > :09:05.supermarkets? The shop owners have to adapt or die for. The reality is
:09:05. > :09:11.that for 17 years you ran on three things, a big ad in yellow paces,
:09:11. > :09:16.at the local paper and word of mouth. That has no change.
:09:16. > :09:21.we're working towards social media. Social media is twentieth-century
:09:21. > :09:26.word of mouth. How many businesses are engage with Facebook and
:09:26. > :09:32.twitter, are they doing events? These are things they can tap into
:09:32. > :09:36.to save themselves. How important is social media? I think it is
:09:36. > :09:41.crucial, it is where the world is right now. Half the population of
:09:41. > :09:45.the UK today is on Facebook and did you are a business you need to be
:09:45. > :09:49.there because that is where your customers are. You need to
:09:49. > :09:54.communicate with them, get offers through. Tomorrow we will be
:09:54. > :09:57.looking at another issue in the High Street, hype rents and rates,
:09:57. > :10:00.and the businesses who are going online and abandoning the High
:10:00. > :10:03.Street. Four people, including two teenage
:10:03. > :10:07.girls, have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a
:10:08. > :10:11.Worcester man who died in an arson attack. Andrew Heath was killed
:10:11. > :10:16.just before Christmas when his flat in the Warndon area of the city was
:10:16. > :10:22.set on fire. Police say two men aged 19 and 24, and two girls aged
:10:22. > :10:25.16 and 17, are being questioned about Mr. Heath's murder.
:10:25. > :10:30.Police say a 40-year-old man found murdered in Birmingham was soon to
:10:30. > :10:33.get married. Bakhitar Mirawdali died from a wound to his neck. His
:10:33. > :10:37.body lay undiscovered for two days at a hostel in Handsworth. He'd
:10:37. > :10:40.been granted political asylum but was due to return to Iraq to marry
:10:40. > :10:47.his fiancee. Detectives are appealing to members of the Kurdish
:10:47. > :10:52.community and local people for help in identifying his killer. It is
:10:52. > :10:56.important that we understand what happened in the days leading up to
:10:56. > :10:59.the discovery of Mr Mariawdali. He was a very peaceful manner we know
:10:59. > :11:02.little about him and his family and we were to urge anybody who knows
:11:02. > :11:05.to come forward. It was tragedy that left a little
:11:05. > :11:08.boy orphaned and a family distraught. Terri-Ann Barnett and
:11:08. > :11:12.her partner Tom Matts were walking down the road when they were
:11:12. > :11:15.crushed by falling timber after a lorry crashed and lost its load.
:11:15. > :11:19.Now, a year on, their family are suing the haulage firm that left
:11:19. > :11:21.the couple's son, Morgan, without a mum and dad and the bright future
:11:21. > :11:24.they'd planned for him. Amy Harris reports.
:11:24. > :11:29.Morgan Matts playing happily, blissfully unaware of what happened
:11:29. > :11:33.a year ago today. Both his parents were killed in an accident.
:11:33. > :11:42.Morgan's too young to understand he'll never see them again. It'll
:11:42. > :11:47.be up to his nan and auntie to explain: He has recently started
:11:47. > :11:51.asking when his money coming back, just said suing because he quarters
:11:51. > :11:55.of card. And then afterwards we discussed what to say to him when
:11:55. > :12:01.he asks again and we were going to explain to him that they're in
:12:01. > :12:05.heaven and that they love him very much. This is one of the last
:12:05. > :12:09.photographs taken of Morgan with his mum, Terri-Ann, and dad, Tom.
:12:09. > :12:12.Just weeks later they were dead. They were walking along this
:12:12. > :12:15.stretch of road in Hereford, moments after dropping Morgan at
:12:15. > :12:20.nursery, when a lorry carrying roof joists hit the bridge. The load
:12:20. > :12:24.fell and crushed them. A year on, the bridge still bears the signs of
:12:24. > :12:27.the accident - there's timber on the wall here. And the driver of
:12:27. > :12:31.that lorry has been released from prison after serving half of a one-
:12:31. > :12:34.year sentence. The couple's family believe that wasn't long enough,
:12:34. > :12:41.but they are pursuing civil action against the haulage company where
:12:41. > :12:45.he worked. The load hadn't been measured before leaving so they
:12:45. > :12:49.didn't know the height of his load - so because of that we're going to
:12:49. > :12:56.sue their insurance company for taking away the 18 years of love
:12:56. > :12:59.and support that Morgan's going to lose from his parents. The haulage
:12:59. > :13:02.company, Gammonds, wouldn't comment but if they're successful, the
:13:02. > :13:09.family want to give Morgan the private education his parents once
:13:09. > :13:14.talked about. At the scene, Diane and Claire take Morgan to lay
:13:14. > :13:24.flowers. They're determined to give him the happy childhood his mum and
:13:24. > :13:28.dad would have wanted and to make sure he never forgets them.
:13:28. > :13:33.Still to come this evening. A �500,000 windfall that spruced up a
:13:33. > :13:36.museum in the town which inspired the modern Olympics. And as the
:13:36. > :13:46.Siberian chill tightens its grip on us - could we be heading for the
:13:46. > :13:48.
:13:48. > :13:51.A charity which carries out undercover visits to care homes
:13:51. > :13:56.says it's seen evidence of "chronic neglect" in some of Stoke-on-
:13:56. > :14:00.Trent's private elderly residential centres. The comments come after
:14:00. > :14:04.the city council decided to close two of its specialist dementia
:14:04. > :14:09.units last week. Compassion In Care says local authority run homes
:14:09. > :14:12.offer a better service and privatisation does not improve care.
:14:12. > :14:21.BBC Radio Stoke's political reporter, Elizabeth Glinka, joins
:14:21. > :14:26.us from our Stoke studio. What exactly did the charity find that
:14:27. > :14:30.warranted so much? What this charity does his pretence to be a
:14:30. > :14:34.new customer so that it can get into their homes and see how people
:14:34. > :14:37.are being treated. They have been into eight homes in Stoke-on-Trent
:14:37. > :14:44.and say they have seen their arrears problems from people not
:14:44. > :14:49.being given enough food or water to more serious signs of neglect.
:14:49. > :14:56.have seen all sorts of problems in these homes. One thing there was a
:14:56. > :15:00.real concern was a resident that was walking around a home totally
:15:00. > :15:06.emaciated, her curves were dirty and she was distraught and looking
:15:06. > :15:12.for someone to reassure her. And staff just walked past. That makes
:15:12. > :15:16.me more concern than ever that they are closing dementia in units.
:15:16. > :15:20.These undercover visits came just as the city council announced it
:15:20. > :15:26.was closing two specialist dementia homes. They announced that last
:15:26. > :15:29.week as part of plans to save �24 million. The charities say that in
:15:29. > :15:32.their experience of doing these undercover visits across the
:15:32. > :15:38.country, it is council homes that offer the best care so they say
:15:38. > :15:42.this authority should think again. The council are saying how
:15:42. > :15:47.residents are our top priority and of the move people we are going to
:15:47. > :15:55.monitor them very closely. What is being done to improve the problems?
:15:55. > :16:01.To put it into perspective, this charity went into eight homes and
:16:01. > :16:05.there are nearly 300 across this city. The charities say they are
:16:05. > :16:09.going to be informing the charity watchdog and the watchdog have told
:16:09. > :16:13.us that they are happy to hear this information and they will be
:16:13. > :16:17.prepared to look at any problems and investigate further if
:16:17. > :16:20.necessary. A 10-year-old who was born a boy
:16:20. > :16:23.but lives as a girl has started a petition against transgender
:16:23. > :16:27.discrimination. Livvy James has gender dysphoria, which means she
:16:27. > :16:30.feels she is a girl trapped in a boy's body. She's now campaigning
:16:31. > :16:35.against what she says are offensive words used in the media when
:16:35. > :16:39.covering such issues. We first met Livvy and her mum last September
:16:39. > :16:49.when she went back to school as a girl for the first time. Cath
:16:49. > :16:51.
:16:51. > :16:55.Mackie has been back to meet them. What unearth are the parents up to?
:16:55. > :16:57.Livvy James and her mum, Saffy, are visibly upset and angry as they
:16:57. > :17:01.read through readers' comments posted in response to today's
:17:01. > :17:04.newspaper reports about them. The family from Worcester have heard
:17:04. > :17:07.the insults before, but are fighting back with a petition to
:17:07. > :17:17.stop what they regard as transgender discrimination in the
:17:17. > :17:19.
:17:19. > :17:22.media. Gender bender, trannie, sex change, gender confused, that is a
:17:22. > :17:28.good one. They are not confused, the people writing the stories are
:17:28. > :17:33.confused. I don't like reading stuff like that because we are not
:17:33. > :17:39.try any or all of that stuff that is put into the newspaper, it is
:17:39. > :17:42.complete rubbish. We don't want that being put down. I am really
:17:42. > :17:48.frustrated at the moment. Livvy has gender dysphoria and until recently,
:17:48. > :17:57.she lived a double life. At school she was a boy. To herself and her
:17:57. > :18:02.family she was a girl. They have all been pretty calm except for
:18:02. > :18:08.just a few parents and a few children. But you are much happier?
:18:08. > :18:11.Yes, definitely. I would not say it was a mistake. She now attends her
:18:11. > :18:14.primary school as a girl. Livvy says she sometimes feels suicidal
:18:14. > :18:23.trapped in the wrong body - her mother says she's behaved like a
:18:23. > :18:26.girl since she was a toddler. frustrates me that people are so
:18:26. > :18:30.uneducated that they think I could mould a child to be something that
:18:30. > :18:34.she does not want to be. Livvy will start taking hormone blockers when
:18:34. > :18:38.she's 12 as part of a new trial, but can't have surgery until she's
:18:38. > :18:42.18. More than 600 people have signed her petition, she hopes
:18:42. > :18:46.it'll help other people like her. One of our top gaming firms has
:18:46. > :18:50.been hired by Coca Cola to turn the stars of their adverts into digital
:18:50. > :18:53.fans who react to a Superbowl game just like the real American fans.
:18:53. > :18:56.It's a complicated process, but they've pulled it off, and our
:18:56. > :19:06.science correspondent, David Gregory, has been to find out how
:19:06. > :19:06.
:19:06. > :19:09.they did it. The 46th Superbowl between New York
:19:09. > :19:13.Giants and The New England Patriots. A sporting event, but also a
:19:13. > :19:16.vitally important advertising event too. So while Coca Cola paid
:19:16. > :19:20.millions for these painstakingly animated commercials to run on TV
:19:20. > :19:24.during the game. They wanted to do more with these characters and have
:19:24. > :19:32.them watch the game with the fans. Live, for four hours. And to do
:19:32. > :19:37.that they turned to Blitz Games in Leamington Spa. It is something
:19:37. > :19:40.that had never been done before and it was issued a challenge because
:19:40. > :19:43.these of furry creatures. He need for hours of performance out of
:19:44. > :19:46.them, they have to re-read constantly and they have to be
:19:46. > :19:51.pleasant and engaging. These bears are basically very sophisticated
:19:51. > :19:55.puppets. Controlled not by strings, but by video game controllers. The
:19:55. > :20:03.aim is to capture the attention of the 60% of viewers who watched the
:20:03. > :20:10.game on TV while also surfing the web. People watching these big
:20:10. > :20:14.sporting events there are watching other information on smart phones,
:20:14. > :20:20.laptops, and this was where the best lift. They were screened live,
:20:20. > :20:23.reacting to the show as it went on. And the people watching the bears
:20:23. > :20:27.during the Super Bowl? They know that a million different devices
:20:27. > :20:31.were locked on and probably more than one person was watching each
:20:31. > :20:35.of those computers. Frankly, that is much more than Midlands Today
:20:35. > :20:44.gets on a very good day. You know these bears are pretty good at this
:20:44. > :20:48.TV lark - watch the one on the right. After more than four hours
:20:48. > :20:52.of live reaction to the game and the comments of viewers, the bears
:20:52. > :21:02.were a hit. It might not be long before we see something similar
:21:02. > :21:02.
:21:02. > :21:05.here. Curious, to say the least!
:21:06. > :21:09.In football, Stoke City have lost their appeal against Robert Huth's
:21:09. > :21:12.sending off on Saturday. It's a big night for Birmingham City and
:21:12. > :21:15.Cheltenham Town in their promotion campaigns. Birmingham will go third
:21:15. > :21:18.in the Championship if they beat Portsmouth at St Andrews, while
:21:18. > :21:22.Cheltenham will be five points clear at the top of League Two if
:21:22. > :21:28.they win at rivals Crawley. The manager isn't setting any promotion
:21:28. > :21:37.targets though. We are not in two starts and stops like that. Just
:21:37. > :21:42.more of the same from the players. It is something like two league
:21:42. > :21:45.defeats in 21 or 22. If we do that, will be promoted. And there's full
:21:45. > :21:48.commentary on the Cheltenham game live on BBC Radio Gloucestershire
:21:48. > :21:52.this evening, coverage starts at just after seven.
:21:52. > :21:54.On to cricket, and the Warwickshire batsman Ian Bell has been dropped
:21:54. > :21:58.from England's one-day squad after disappointing in the Test series
:21:58. > :22:03.against Pakistan. Bell scored just 51 runs at an average of 8 as
:22:04. > :22:07.England lost the series 3-0. The England coach Andy Flower says Bell
:22:07. > :22:10.took the news well and that improved form could see him return
:22:10. > :22:14.to the one-day squad. This summer, all eyes will be on
:22:14. > :22:17.London for the Olympics, but tens of thousands of people are also
:22:17. > :22:20.expected to make the trip to the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock.
:22:20. > :22:23.Its Olympian Games are credited as inspiring the modern Olympics and
:22:23. > :22:30.today, one of the town's main attractions, its museum, opened its
:22:30. > :22:34.doors after a major facelift. Ben Sidwell reports.
:22:34. > :22:37.Followed the 100 years, the Olympic Games have brought the sporting
:22:37. > :22:43.world together. There is a real possibility that it would not have
:22:43. > :22:47.happened without Much Wenlock. Today, after a major makeover, the
:22:48. > :22:52.museum reopened its doors, to tell the story of how it helped shape a
:22:52. > :22:56.Olympic history. We are thrilled that it has been completed with
:22:56. > :23:00.this makeover that makes our artefacts, the metals, the cups
:23:00. > :23:05.that a part of the heritage of the society, now on display for
:23:05. > :23:11.everybody to see, locally, nationally and internationally.
:23:11. > :23:16.museum tells the story of William Brookes and how he started the Much
:23:16. > :23:21.Wenlock Olympian Games. enthusiasm for the collections here
:23:21. > :23:24.has grown over the last few years. With some of the money that we had
:23:24. > :23:27.from Heritage Lottery Fund we have been able to get a lot of those
:23:27. > :23:35.objects conserved so we have been able to make sure that they will
:23:35. > :23:42.still be here for games to come in the future. �500,000 has been spent
:23:42. > :23:46.getting the music time for the share's Olympics. But now how row
:23:46. > :23:50.has broken out over just how often the doors will be open. Despite the
:23:50. > :23:55.major investment it will only be open for 2.5 days up until Easter
:23:55. > :24:00.including just a few hours at the weekend. How many days it will open
:24:00. > :24:04.up to that is still being finalised. Hope he won the new season comes
:24:04. > :24:07.round at Easter time that the news in will be open full-time.
:24:07. > :24:11.Otherwise, why have Heritage Lottery Fund given us money for
:24:11. > :24:17.such a problem thing in a prominent time and it is closed from due for
:24:17. > :24:21.people. It is a one-off opportunity and we cannot afford to miss it
:24:21. > :24:29.because of the economy. It is an economy earner for this part of the
:24:29. > :24:33.world so we have to sort it out. is not all old. The 2012 when lock
:24:33. > :24:40.my Scott is the latest chapter in the history. With tens of thousands
:24:40. > :24:44.of people expected to visit this year, it is hoped that the doors
:24:44. > :24:53.will be able to remain open seven days a week.
:24:53. > :24:57.This get an update on the weather Let us take a quick look at what is
:24:57. > :25:02.going on later in the week. On Thursday night into Friday there
:25:02. > :25:06.has been mention of another clash of cold air with milder which could
:25:06. > :25:10.potentially gives some snow. At this stage it has done it like it
:25:10. > :25:14.for us here in the West Midlands. The mild air will win on this
:25:14. > :25:20.occasion. It is the use Midlands where they could potentially be
:25:20. > :25:25.some snow. Nothing on the scale that we had at the weekend. Just a
:25:25. > :25:29.word of warning if you're heading in that direction. Our main concern
:25:29. > :25:33.tonight is the cold. Temperatures are plummeting and it could turn
:25:33. > :25:43.out to be the coldest night of the winter so far. That is if we get
:25:43. > :25:47.what we are expecting, which is a red minus 12 in more remote spots.
:25:47. > :25:55.We have cloud rolling in from the East later tonight but it will not
:25:55. > :25:59.have much impact because the air is so cold. Temperatures could move to
:25:59. > :26:04.minus four 4 minus five intense or cities. Outside the city limits,
:26:05. > :26:12.temperatures could fall as low as minus eight. It will lead to a
:26:12. > :26:16.widespread and severe frost but it is a dry night. Eight bitterly cold
:26:16. > :26:22.start to the day tomorrow. They could be some brightness but this
:26:22. > :26:27.cloud is moving a little bit quicker. It will stay dry but the
:26:27. > :26:31.cloud will be in the temperatures down. It will be colder than today.
:26:31. > :26:39.Once again tomorrow night is looking very cold and frosty, not
:26:39. > :26:49.quite as cold as tonight. On Thursday, it is looking dry but it
:26:49. > :26:50.
:26:50. > :26:55.It is could be perishing for football fans tonight.
:26:55. > :26:59.A look at the main headlines. The Metropolitan Police admit acting
:26:59. > :27:03.unlawfully over the phone hacking scandal. And a Roman Catholic
:27:03. > :27:08.priest from Staffordshire is facing a lengthy jail sentence after being
:27:08. > :27:12.found guilty of abusing young boys. Tomorrow morning, you can have your
:27:12. > :27:17.chance to ask questions and hear from the movers and shakers in your
:27:17. > :27:23.area as they put in the hot seat on the local radio station. On BBC WN
:27:23. > :27:26.from 11 am, they will be joined by their chief constable of West
:27:26. > :27:32.Midlands Police and BBC Hereford and Worcester will be speaking to
:27:32. > :27:35.the Vice-Chancellor's of were State University. On Radio Stoke, bosses