:00:06. > :00:11.Welcome to Midlands Today with Suzanne Virdee and Nick Owen.
:00:11. > :00:16.The headlines tonight. She was looking for the love of her
:00:16. > :00:21.life but she found the internet dating cheat who cost her her life
:00:21. > :00:26.savings. I had begun to put his -- my trust
:00:26. > :00:30.in him and it turned out to be a complete lie.
:00:30. > :00:35.How or an aeroplane style black box in your car could set you -- save
:00:35. > :00:40.you a small fortune. The redundancy payouts creating a
:00:40. > :00:45.wave of entrepreneur's. If you have a very good idea, you
:00:45. > :00:49.will know that you should be able to make money from it.
:00:49. > :00:59.Her the budding tennis star who helped Britain beat Slovakia in the
:00:59. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:08.Davis Cup. Welcome to Tuesday's Midlands Today
:01:08. > :01:11.from the BBC. Conned out of �40,000, the woman who fell in love over the
:01:11. > :01:14.internet. Vicky Fowkes thought that the
:01:14. > :01:19.charming expat she met online bluffed her but he turned out to be
:01:19. > :01:22.an internet love rat who duped her into sending her life savings to
:01:22. > :01:26.Nigeria. The truth only came out when police
:01:26. > :01:32.here discovered the scam and informed her. Tonight she told our
:01:32. > :01:37.reporter that she felt humiliated and had lost her self-respect.
:01:37. > :01:43.I am a professional person, I am usually a good judge of character.
:01:43. > :01:46.I thought I knew what I was doing. In the summer of 2010 Vicky Fowkes
:01:46. > :01:51.signed up to a dating website. Fairly quickly she met a man who
:01:51. > :01:55.told her he was a British citizen working in Nigeria as a civil
:01:55. > :02:00.engineer. At as things developed, week by
:02:00. > :02:05.week we talked about everything and anything under the sun. I began to
:02:05. > :02:08.feel a harmony with him. On the day Vicky was due to meet
:02:08. > :02:12.him at Heathrow she received an e- mail saying he was being held at
:02:12. > :02:16.the Nigerian airport. All week later he said his personal
:02:16. > :02:25.possessions had been stolen and he asked for a small matter of money
:02:25. > :02:30.to help. He gave plausible reasons all the way through why it was not
:02:31. > :02:37.possible to get money from his family and friends and his bank.
:02:37. > :02:42.Because I wanted to help him, to get to know him better, I agreed to
:02:42. > :02:47.send him some money. Over the next few months she sent him almost
:02:47. > :02:50.�40,000, virtually her entire life savings. It was only when two
:02:50. > :02:56.police officers turned up at her house did she realise she was the
:02:56. > :03:03.victim of an international baiting scam. The figures are breathtaking,
:03:03. > :03:06.the losses that people incur. Sadly, I am aware of the at least two
:03:06. > :03:16.suicides that have occurred from people being conned Indies romance
:03:16. > :03:18.
:03:18. > :03:20.scams. -- in these. Figures obtained from Google by the
:03:20. > :03:27.Association of British Introduction Agencies say that 48 % of single
:03:27. > :03:30.women and 52 % of men use the internet to try to find love. This
:03:30. > :03:35.-- the Association say that you should never send money to anybody
:03:35. > :03:41.you are dating online. I am sure you have heard of people
:03:41. > :03:47.who have been caught by these scams, and you think, idiot. Absolutely,
:03:47. > :03:52.how can you fall into it? I am still intrigued by how
:03:52. > :03:56.sophisticated these scammers are. Police say that romance scams cost
:03:56. > :04:03.people in the UK millions of pounds a year and, due to the
:04:03. > :04:08.embarrassment many feel, just 5 % are ever reported. It can happen to
:04:08. > :04:13.anybody. It really can. Once you have been targeted and the initial
:04:13. > :04:17.information has been exchanged, there are obviously sophisticated
:04:17. > :04:22.minds out there working and grooming people. That is what it is,
:04:22. > :04:25.I was being groomed to be financially ruined. Vicky says that
:04:26. > :04:30.thanks to family and friends she is at last getting her life back on
:04:30. > :04:38.track and she hopes that by telling her story it will stop others
:04:38. > :04:43.falling for the same scam. How safe is online dating? We are
:04:43. > :04:47.joined now from our studio in London by the chairman of the
:04:47. > :04:52.Association of British Introduction Agencies. Thanks for joining us.
:04:52. > :04:58.Very brave of the Vicky to tell us her story. She wants to warn others,
:04:58. > :05:08.but this is a very frightening, sad story. This command ruined her
:05:08. > :05:08.
:05:09. > :05:13.self-esteem. How common is this? -- this conman. I hear stories every
:05:13. > :05:20.day, I received phone calls from all over the country. I am afraid
:05:20. > :05:27.she is not on her own. There is one thing I am curious about. Why would
:05:27. > :05:31.you send money to somebody you have not even met? I think Vicky was
:05:31. > :05:35.saying he was so plausible and sophisticated. Many people in
:05:35. > :05:41.Northern -- normal life will not have come across somebody so
:05:41. > :05:47.skilled at lying. Unfortunately this is human nature. I really
:05:47. > :05:53.would advise people to meet people within the country and to be very
:05:53. > :05:58.careful about the sort of dating did you are doing online. These
:05:58. > :06:02.days we take care over credit cards and everything else but when it
:06:02. > :06:07.comes to our personal lives we don't take the same amount of care.
:06:07. > :06:13.When we go out and meet people, it is quite extraordinary. People
:06:13. > :06:18.looking for love are very vulnerable, aren't they? They are,
:06:18. > :06:25.and that is where you really need to talk to your friends, who mostly
:06:25. > :06:30.will say, look, be a bit careful here. Make sure that you do
:06:30. > :06:36.actually meet these people in safe places and never fall in love over
:06:36. > :06:43.the phone. That is a disaster. responsibility do you think dating
:06:43. > :06:47.websites have? It is very sad. At the moment there is no legislation
:06:48. > :06:54.and it is something that we are looking into in this country. We
:06:54. > :07:00.have tried for many years now to get a part sponsorship from the
:07:00. > :07:04.Office of Fair Trading. They came back and said, they decided to
:07:04. > :07:10.change the whole procedure and we have heard nothing since. We would
:07:10. > :07:19.love to see something in place, some code of practice. Thanks very
:07:19. > :07:26.much indeed. We have had loads of Commons.
:07:26. > :07:33.-- comments are. Terry Taylor says, we were scammed
:07:33. > :07:37.out of �600. Kim Storr says that a soldier in
:07:37. > :07:44.Afghanistan said that he needed to send some money to my commanding
:07:44. > :07:49.officer -- offers. Heather said it never send money.
:07:50. > :07:58.Tanya Bagnall said that she met her husband online. It was nearly 80
:07:58. > :08:02.years ago and now we have two wonderful children. -- eight years.
:08:02. > :08:06.Let's catch up with the rest of the day's news. A woman and a teenage
:08:06. > :08:11.boy have died after a crash involving a car and attract. It
:08:12. > :08:16.happened on the B4362 near Lucton School in Lucton in Herefordshire
:08:16. > :08:20.at around 10 o'clock this morning. Two younger boys travelling in the
:08:20. > :08:23.back of the red Vauxhall Corsa were airlifted to hospital. One is said
:08:23. > :08:28.to be critical. A 21-year-old law student has
:08:28. > :08:36.denied racially abusing Stan Collymore on twitter. Joshua Cryer
:08:36. > :08:41.appeared before Newcastle upon Tyne magistrates after a complaint from
:08:41. > :08:43.Mr Collymore to Staffordshire police. Mr Collymore is now a radio
:08:43. > :08:46.presenter. The latest government figures
:08:46. > :08:50.suggest more than 4,000 people a month are being made redundant in
:08:50. > :08:57.this region but, rather than joining the ranks of the unemployed,
:08:57. > :08:58.more and more are using their redundancy payments to start up a
:08:58. > :09:03.business. Our business correspondent Peter
:09:03. > :09:06.Plisner has been finding how easy or difficult it is to start a new
:09:06. > :09:11.business. It is one of the biggest cost of
:09:11. > :09:19.and -- owning a car, but now you can do a DIY service and save a
:09:19. > :09:24.fortune. Coventry-based Ramp and Wrench is the brainchild of James
:09:24. > :09:29.Brennan. It was one of those conversations
:09:29. > :09:36.in the pub with amateur enthusiasts, not really having be professional
:09:36. > :09:41.equipment to be able to do all of the jobs on your car.
:09:41. > :09:45.I started to do some market research and found out that there
:09:45. > :09:51.were none of these garages in the Midlands so I thought it would be a
:09:51. > :09:57.good idea. And he was right.
:09:57. > :10:00.It is great value for money. I am extremely impressed.
:10:00. > :10:06.Running your own business can be very rewarding but first you have
:10:06. > :10:11.to find the right idea, then there are months of hard work, but if it
:10:11. > :10:16.works out it can be very liberated. -- liberating.
:10:16. > :10:21.That is the joy for Richard Kemp, who along with his wife set up a
:10:21. > :10:25.catering business in 2010 with his redundancy money. It was a big leap
:10:25. > :10:34.for a man who describes himself as a risk-averse.
:10:34. > :10:37.I always had faith in my wife's food, but you never know. That
:10:37. > :10:45.risk-averse person that lurked behind me was saying, is it good
:10:45. > :10:52.enough? Is the market too crowded? One estimate suggests that 70 % of
:10:52. > :10:56.new small businesses are being set up following redundancy. -- 17 %.
:10:56. > :11:00.Generally it is people who have a good idea, they have that spirit
:11:00. > :11:04.and they may be finding it more difficult to get back into work so
:11:04. > :11:10.they are taking that leap and thinking, I have a bit of money, I
:11:10. > :11:15.am prepared to risk it. But before you take the risk it is
:11:15. > :11:21.worth bearing in mind that some estimates suggest that one in three
:11:21. > :11:24.start-up businesses will fail in their first three years.
:11:24. > :11:29.We are joined now by Andrea Campbell from the Birmingham
:11:29. > :11:36.Business Centre. What is prompting so many people to set up on their
:11:36. > :11:40.own? People are looking for various things. Some are at risk of being
:11:40. > :11:47.made redundant, some are just looking at the opportunity, using
:11:47. > :11:54.their inherent skills to look at ways to increase their income.
:11:54. > :11:58.do you help them? We have development workshops where we talk
:11:58. > :12:01.about the realities of doing this and help people structure
:12:01. > :12:06.themselves with a business plan, look at the financial aspects, look
:12:06. > :12:11.at marketing and cover the whole variety. Do you find that they know
:12:11. > :12:15.what they are doing? Some do, some don't. Some people have been in
:12:15. > :12:18.business before and they have come back to refresh their skills, some
:12:18. > :12:28.are in business is at the moment and some are coming in completely
:12:28. > :12:29.
:12:29. > :12:34.from scratch. -- some are in business is. If they have an idea,
:12:34. > :12:39.are you honest with them and say, this is not going to work? We try
:12:39. > :12:45.to be as tactful as possible. We help them recognise why it might
:12:45. > :12:48.not work. Because I think, with all consciousness, we have to be really
:12:48. > :12:54.careful about people investing money, whether through redundancy
:12:54. > :13:00.money or their savings, to come into a business that we think will
:13:00. > :13:04.pan out. What other chances of getting a decent loan? It depends
:13:04. > :13:14.on the quality of the business plan. Banks do want a loan but it depends
:13:14. > :13:23.
:13:23. > :13:26.on the proposal by have in front of Aeroplanes have them and ships, but
:13:26. > :13:30.now you can get a black box for your car. They record details about
:13:30. > :13:32.how our cars are driven, in some cases the data they hold can
:13:32. > :13:35.dramatically cut insurance premiums. They also record useful data in car
:13:35. > :13:37.accidents and they're becoming so popular one firm here is fitting
:13:37. > :13:40.400 a day. Annual car insurance now runs into
:13:40. > :13:46.thousands, not hundreds of pounds for many young drivers, so some
:13:46. > :13:50.motorists are turning to technology to keep their bills down. This car
:13:50. > :13:53.is being fitted with as telematics unit. It's a black box that allows
:13:53. > :13:55.insurance companies to monitor speed, distance and acceleration.
:13:55. > :14:02.Careful driving is rewarded with lower premiums, something the owner
:14:02. > :14:06.of this vehicle is keen to achieve. It is getting to be a bit of a joke.
:14:06. > :14:12.I've already started looking for my insurance policy this year and it
:14:12. > :14:18.looks as though it will be another furred on top of what I'm paying
:14:18. > :14:21.already. -- Another third. The devices are fitted by RS Fleet
:14:21. > :14:24.Installations, a company based in Perry Barr in Birmingham. It's
:14:24. > :14:26.taken on over a 100 new workers to help cope with the demand for the
:14:26. > :14:30.black boxes. The insurance companies are not interested in
:14:30. > :14:35.knowing where you've been. That is not what the issue is. What they do
:14:35. > :14:41.care about is sensible driving. They want to know that you drive at
:14:41. > :14:46.a reasonable speed, in at the correct areas. The increasing
:14:46. > :14:50.popularity of the devices coincides with soaring insurance claims.
:14:50. > :14:55.Whiplash injuries have increased by 70 % in six years for example. It
:14:55. > :15:00.is something the Prime Minister has vowed to tackle. The government
:15:00. > :15:04.says 1500 claims per day are hiding �90 per year to the average
:15:04. > :15:09.insurance bill. Because of that, industry insiders predict the boxes
:15:10. > :15:13.will be fitted as standard within the next few years. Anything that
:15:13. > :15:23.brings insurance costs down is likely to be welcomed by a newly
:15:23. > :15:24.
:15:24. > :15:31.qualified drivers. I was quoted 1500 pounds and enough or �1,630. I
:15:31. > :15:35.cannot get a good job to pay for this. A burden it is hoped that
:15:35. > :15:45.this black box when ease, at least for careful drivers. A be great
:15:45. > :15:51.
:15:51. > :15:58.invention, isn't it? Our reporter is at West Mercia
:15:58. > :16:03.police headquarters right now. How much are they having to say?
:16:03. > :16:09.There is a whole package of cuts. The force is said to make �3
:16:09. > :16:14.million in savings over the 2012 / 2013 financial year. That fits into
:16:14. > :16:22.a much bigger picture. �38 million is having to be cut overall. That
:16:22. > :16:26.is a process that began in 2010 and will run until 2016. �20.8 million
:16:26. > :16:30.has already been saved. Part of that is the �3 million that has
:16:30. > :16:38.been identified for this year. �17 million has still to be identified
:16:38. > :16:40.in future years. A short time ago I spoke to the shift Constable --
:16:40. > :16:45.Chief Constable and asked him what reassurance he could give to the
:16:45. > :16:50.public. This is a big challenge. We have to take a big hit on our total
:16:50. > :16:53.budget. We've been planning this now for well over two years. Howard
:16:53. > :17:00.change programme will take another three years. It is happening over a
:17:00. > :17:07.long period. How many job cuts are you facing? 287 were quoted. Will
:17:07. > :17:11.there be compulsory job quotes -- cuts? We are trained to manage this
:17:11. > :17:15.irresponsible way and keep the workforce on side. They are a
:17:15. > :17:21.fantastic group and we needed to carry them with us. You cannot take
:17:21. > :17:26.something like �38 million out of the budget and not have an impact
:17:26. > :17:31.on people. You are closing several stations for example. That is
:17:31. > :17:34.likely to invoke anger. The I don't think there will be anger. We have
:17:34. > :17:40.spoken to the public quite a lot around this and the police
:17:40. > :17:44.authority have done some exhaustive consultation. I think the public
:17:44. > :17:47.understands... Yes, they do like police stations to be open but we
:17:47. > :17:53.are not shutting any police stations. We are trying to make
:17:53. > :17:57.sure they are open in the cases and that the times they are needed. The
:17:57. > :18:02.few years ago we did not have mobiles, tweeting or Facebook so
:18:02. > :18:06.there are lots of different ways the public can contact us. Surely
:18:06. > :18:10.treating a police force is not the same as face-to-face contact.
:18:10. > :18:13.people prefer it. For many parts of the committee, people are
:18:14. > :18:17.contacting us in a way that they never used to. What resources are
:18:17. > :18:21.you sharing with Warwickshire police? Quite simply, the answer to
:18:21. > :18:24.that is we are saying we do it once unless there is a compelling reason
:18:24. > :18:28.not to. Some tangible things that we are looking out of things the
:18:28. > :18:33.public would expect around personnel and human resources, some
:18:33. > :18:41.call management, information technology, the way we use the
:18:41. > :18:46.fleet. What has a Russian been to the Chief Constable's plans?
:18:46. > :18:49.-- What has been the reaction. These cuts are very real but at the
:18:49. > :18:55.same time, this force took on 40 officers from other forces last
:18:55. > :18:59.summer had plans to take on another 20 new recruits in April. This
:18:59. > :19:03.forced has built up a reserve of around �30 million over the last 10
:19:03. > :19:08.years. This is what the Secretary of the West Mercia Police
:19:08. > :19:15.Federation had to say about it. assurance is West Mercia, as it
:19:15. > :19:19.stands, the financial director is being financially astute. If you
:19:19. > :19:23.get rid of your reserves, where do you go then? That is an issue for
:19:23. > :19:27.us. The chief constable will be doing it live web chat at 6:30pm
:19:27. > :19:33.tomorrow when members of the public can send in the questions for him
:19:33. > :19:42.to answer directly. You can get more information about that on the
:19:42. > :19:51.forces website. Still to come here on Midlands
:19:51. > :19:55.Today: A boating club with no water can set sail again. And we will
:19:55. > :20:05.have some frost-free nights but it is back to winter by the weekend,
:20:05. > :20:16.
:20:17. > :20:21.A Dan with sport. What's the latest Alan Curbishley has been out of
:20:21. > :20:26.work since leaving West Ham in 2080 has confirmed he is interested. It
:20:26. > :20:35.is possible worlds my it offer a 13 game deal until the end of the
:20:35. > :20:38.season and then reassess once the Premier League status is decided.
:20:38. > :20:40.When our number one tennis player, Andy Murray pulled out of Britain's
:20:40. > :20:43.Davis Cup match through injury, a window of opportunity suddenly
:20:43. > :20:46.opened up for Dan Evans. And he certainly grabbed it with both
:20:46. > :20:52.hands. Dan, who's from Birmingham, hit top form to clinch a thrilling
:20:52. > :20:55.victory over Slovakia. Whether it was cricket or hockey, squash or
:20:55. > :21:05.tennis, Dan Evans was never short of options as a youngster at the
:21:05. > :21:08.West Warwickshire Sports Club. His dad played squash, so Dan did too.
:21:08. > :21:10.But when he turned nine, tennis became his passion. And now, aged
:21:10. > :21:16.21, that passion is flourishing into his full-time profession.
:21:16. > :21:20.Because Dan is ranked fifth in Britain, 270th in the world. He has
:21:21. > :21:25.got a natural flair. You can see it straight away. He has timing with
:21:25. > :21:30.the ball. He was always a good athlete. Has he got what it takes?
:21:30. > :21:34.I think he has. He has proven he has the ability and the mental
:21:34. > :21:37.strength. Certainly he has the desire to go on to great things.
:21:37. > :21:41.Dan's still on cloud nine after playing a starring role for Britain
:21:41. > :21:44.in their Davis Cup victory over Slovakia. He was only in the team
:21:44. > :21:48.because Andy Murray was injured. But he managed to win both his
:21:48. > :21:51.singles matches against much higher-ranked opponents. I was more
:21:51. > :21:55.happy tonight did it for everyone else in the team, a sense of
:21:55. > :22:00.achievement. Everybody pulled together for the whole week and got
:22:00. > :22:06.the winner. What was the atmosphere like in Glasgow? The atmosphere was
:22:06. > :22:11.good, especially on the last day with the final set. It was really
:22:11. > :22:14.loud and everybody got behind it. In June, Dan would love to make it
:22:14. > :22:17.third time lucky by winning his first match at Wimbledon. And his
:22:18. > :22:27.long term goal is to make the world's top 100. You are very
:22:28. > :22:37.driven. Yes, I suppose I am. Everybody in the tennis world is
:22:38. > :22:39.
:22:39. > :22:42.driven so it is the ones who are more driven who will come through.
:22:42. > :22:44.Next he's off to play in France and Mexico and Miami, before Britain's
:22:44. > :22:47.Davis Cup quarter final against Belgium in April.
:22:47. > :22:50.The organisers of the Great Birmingham Run are aiming for
:22:50. > :22:54.20,000 runners at this year's event. And a former Olympian will be among
:22:54. > :22:58.them on Sunday, October 21st. Iwan Thomas was a Commonwealth champion
:22:58. > :23:01.at the 400 metres but he now runs distance events for charity. And he
:23:01. > :23:07.says raising money for good causes can inspire anyone to complete the
:23:07. > :23:12.half marathon course. When you do do the race and if it does begin to
:23:12. > :23:16.hit, You ask, why are you doing this? If it is raising money for
:23:16. > :23:21.charity, you keeper digging in. When you get to the finish line,
:23:21. > :23:31.it's a great feeling. When you finish, you will want to come and
:23:31. > :23:36.
:23:36. > :23:39.back and do it again. Work on a �5.5 million engineering
:23:39. > :23:41.project at one of the region's major reservoirs is nearing
:23:41. > :23:43.completion. Chasewater reservoir was drained in 2010 following
:23:43. > :23:46.concerns about the safety of the 200-year-old dam.
:23:46. > :23:50.Today more than a hundred tonnes of concrete was pumped into it, to
:23:50. > :23:52.help control the flow of water. Through the smallest of tubes, a
:23:52. > :23:55.hundred tonnes of concrete's squeezed inside a new dam. It'll
:23:55. > :24:01.help regulate the flow of water from the Chasewater Reservoir to
:24:01. > :24:07.surrounding areas. During flood conditions, the water will build up
:24:07. > :24:13.for this side and eventually it will flow over the top. It will be
:24:13. > :24:22.directed into the canal. The mile- long reservoir was built in 1797.
:24:22. > :24:25.Crucially, it supported local industry, keeping waterways open.
:24:25. > :24:28.But centuries of erosion brought cracks, and a high risk of flooding,
:24:28. > :24:31.so it was drained two years ago for repairs. There was an inspection
:24:31. > :24:35.done by the authorities and that report said that if something was
:24:35. > :24:39.not done to strengthen it, to make sure it was safe, up to 85 lives
:24:39. > :24:42.could be lost. On occasions rescuers had to help a few stuck in
:24:42. > :24:49.the sticky mud. The Chasewater Country Park is also home to a
:24:49. > :24:53.sailing club which hasn't been on the water for two years. We are
:24:53. > :24:59.keen for the work to progress quicker but there is such a good
:25:00. > :25:03.social side, it has kept everyone together. Even though the work is
:25:03. > :25:09.nearly complete, as you can see, this reservoir is nowhere near
:25:09. > :25:14.capacity. But these are the most substantial repairs done here for
:25:14. > :25:19.two centuries. Even so, the rainwater should fill the space and
:25:19. > :25:24.by summer of next year. It is up to God. Staffordshire County Council
:25:24. > :25:32.is a fairly powerful but when it comes to rain, we need to rely on a
:25:32. > :25:34.higher force. Predicting just when a billion gallons of water will
:25:34. > :25:37.fall from the skies seems a perilous business but the sooner
:25:37. > :25:47.the better. Chasewater's a site of special scientific interest, with
:25:47. > :25:48.
:25:48. > :25:54.an array of rare bird and fish species.
:25:54. > :25:57.Well, the temperatures were definitely up today although if you
:25:57. > :26:00.were caught in the winds you probably wouldn't agree. These
:26:00. > :26:03.winds will continue to hound us over the next few days and
:26:03. > :26:12.introduce more cloud. Although it should stay mild. Until the weekend
:26:12. > :26:15.that is. By then low pressure begins to dominate from the North
:26:16. > :26:22.and the source of that air will be a lot colder and then another takes
:26:22. > :26:32.over from the West on Sunday. So if nature isn't confused enough
:26:32. > :26:36.already it soon will be. So tonight, the winds are going to pick up a
:26:36. > :26:39.little more and drag in more cloud with the odd spot of rain but it
:26:39. > :26:45.stays largely dry and a touch milder than last night with lows of
:26:45. > :26:48.three or four so the majority of places staying frost free. So with
:26:48. > :26:51.that as our starting point tomorrow, it'll be duller morning but as well
:26:51. > :26:56.as importing more cloud the breeze is likely to help break up that
:26:56. > :27:01.cloud through the day to give us some sunshine. It'll add a wind
:27:01. > :27:08.chill but temperatures up to 10 Celsius. Tomorrow night even milder
:27:08. > :27:11.with lows of just five. Again dry but it's on Thursday night that the
:27:11. > :27:21.Westerly's kick in and rain starts to flow in from the that direction
:27:21. > :27:26.
:27:26. > :27:30.A look at tonight's main headlines: New figures on the cost of living.
:27:30. > :27:33.Inflation drops for the second month in a row.