:00:05. > :00:07.Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Nick Owen and Suzanne Virdee.
:00:07. > :00:11.The headlines tonight: A warning that the country's
:00:11. > :00:14.largest colliery may have to close with the loss of 800 jobs.
:00:14. > :00:18.It will close in 2014 unless we can cut costs, increase our production
:00:18. > :00:21.and maintain that increased production.
:00:21. > :00:24.Arrested and led to a temporary police station in a supermarket car
:00:24. > :00:27.park. Cracking down on offenders who'd failed to pay fines or obey
:00:27. > :00:34.court orders. The message is that we are working
:00:34. > :00:37.together as criminal justice partners. We will come knocking at
:00:37. > :00:39.your door. You will be arrested and you will be put back before the
:00:39. > :00:42.courts. Obesity's blamed for a significant
:00:42. > :00:45.rise in the number of women suffering from cancer of the womb.
:00:45. > :00:48.Womb cancer is one of the most common cancers linked to obesity.
:00:48. > :00:58.And residents in tears after ancient oak trees are chopped down
:00:58. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:07.to make way for a new shopping Good evening and welcome to
:01:07. > :01:12.Midlands Today. Our top story this Wednesday evening:
:01:12. > :01:16.Plans have been announced to shut the country's biggest coal mine.
:01:16. > :01:19.Daw Mill in Warwickshire is the last deep coal mine in the Midlands,
:01:19. > :01:24.employing 800 people. Owners UK Coal are in talks to shut
:01:24. > :01:29.it by 2014 after profits fell. Daw Mill is now the UK's largest
:01:29. > :01:33.remaining colliery, but it has been hit by productivity problems. A
:01:33. > :01:37.four month gap in production resulted in losses of �75 million.
:01:37. > :01:42.A two year pay freeze for staff was agreed, but the pit has failed to
:01:42. > :01:50.meet its targets. So, is this the end of an era for
:01:50. > :01:55.coal mining in the Midlands? Joan Cummins has this report. This has
:01:56. > :02:01.been talked about for some time. You think it review will happen?
:02:01. > :02:05.Who knows? I think it is fair to say that UK Coal have lost patience
:02:05. > :02:09.with Daw Mill. I was told today that although there are 800 people
:02:09. > :02:14.working here, the rest of the company across the country, and
:02:14. > :02:18.that is around two and half 1000 jobs, have basically been a
:02:18. > :02:23.supporting Daw Mill. It is fair to say that a few years ago, Daw Mill
:02:23. > :02:29.was producing around 70 thousand tonnes of coal a week. At the
:02:29. > :02:34.moment, that figure is down to 22,000. What UK Coal have said is
:02:34. > :02:38.that they needed very quickly to get back up to 50 thousand tonnes a
:02:38. > :02:43.week. What they have also said as they are not planning any future
:02:43. > :02:48.development works. That means looking for new faces to crack into,
:02:48. > :02:52.if I can use that sort of a man's term. If they do not actually crack
:02:52. > :02:57.in, nothing will happen. But I have been told is that basically, Daw
:02:57. > :03:02.Mill has been in what I would call a special message -- special
:03:02. > :03:05.measures since before Christmas. Every day, the tonnage that has
:03:05. > :03:13.been said that has been examined and they are trying to find ways of
:03:13. > :03:17.increasing it further. More than 800 people worked at Daw
:03:17. > :03:24.Mill. It is the last deep mine in the region. For them protection
:03:24. > :03:26.Lego -- levels has bought the future of the pit in doubt. This is
:03:26. > :03:30.no bluffer taught make people work harder. We need people to work hard
:03:30. > :03:34.and be focused on getting protection going. If we are not
:03:34. > :03:40.producing coal in a sufficient quantities and a smile is not
:03:40. > :03:45.profitable by 2014, it will close. UK Coal say that for Daw Mill to
:03:45. > :03:49.have any hope of a future, they must increase production from
:03:49. > :03:54.22,000 tonnes a week to around 50,000 tonnes a week. A spokesman
:03:54. > :03:58.for one of the mining unions said that closure was not an absolute
:03:58. > :04:05.death it. He acknowledged as he put it, that production was in a bad
:04:05. > :04:10.way. But he said that although the situation was serious, this was not
:04:10. > :04:17.the end of Daw Mill. Minus drop more than half a mile underground
:04:17. > :04:22.and then travelled to the coalface. Above ground, today's announcement
:04:22. > :04:26.shocked villagers. Daw Mill has been a life-saver for quite a few
:04:26. > :04:31.people. By Neil -- I know quite a few people that work out.
:04:31. > :04:36.Everything it takes away jobs is sad. Of course it is sad. It is
:04:36. > :04:42.taking away fallible jobs. 60 years ago, there were more than 1000
:04:42. > :04:46.working pits in Britain. By 1981, this number had dropped to just 21.
:04:46. > :04:53.But the thousands of miners that it once worked in the pits have
:04:53. > :04:57.dwindled. This nearby area lost its pit in 1967. Local some form of
:04:57. > :05:02.minor say the area have suffered. We did not have that camaraderie
:05:02. > :05:08.again. We did not have a lot of money. We are all in the same vote.
:05:08. > :05:14.Really bad news. I cannot see them chatting it. It is privately owned.
:05:14. > :05:17.I think the Government will jump in. The progress of Daw Mill and
:05:17. > :05:20.possible survival will be assessed on a weekly basis.
:05:20. > :05:23.That news from Warwickshire comes on the day unemployment figures
:05:23. > :05:25.went up again nationally, although there was a slight fall in the West
:05:25. > :05:30.Midlands. 241,000 people are now out of work
:05:31. > :05:35.across the region. That's a rate of 9.1%. That's a drop of 1,000, but
:05:35. > :05:38.down 22,000 in the last year. Well, a little earlier, I spoke to
:05:38. > :05:41.Professor David Bailey from Coventry Business School. I began
:05:41. > :05:48.by asking him what effect the closure of Daw Mill colliery and
:05:48. > :05:54.the loss of 800 jobs there would have? I hope it does not close.
:05:54. > :05:58.This is an important plant. The biggest left in the UK. It would
:05:58. > :06:03.have a big impact on the local community. It would have an impact
:06:03. > :06:08.in terms of energy. We need as many different energy sources as
:06:08. > :06:13.possible. It is an important place for the country. Why can't they
:06:13. > :06:16.make it work? That is a very good question. The management of saying
:06:16. > :06:21.there are geological factors which means it is more challenging to get
:06:21. > :06:27.the Coalite than they thought. But also, I think the company has got
:06:27. > :06:32.problems in terms of a big pile of debt. It is not clear that they can
:06:32. > :06:34.afford to invest in a plan to make it viable. There is a two you been
:06:34. > :06:40.do. Management and workers will have the opportunity to come up
:06:40. > :06:47.with a better model, but the company will have to restructure.
:06:47. > :06:52.Let us have a little look at the bigger jobs picture. A slight fall
:06:52. > :06:58.in the number of unemployment in our region. Youth unemployment is a
:06:58. > :07:02.big problem. We really do risk having a scarred a generation of
:07:02. > :07:05.people who do not find we commend to not acquired skills and continue.
:07:06. > :07:10.I certainly think the Government should do much more to try and
:07:10. > :07:14.tackle youth unemployment. Next week is the budget. There is an
:07:14. > :07:17.opportunity to give tax breaks to companies to take on young workers.
:07:17. > :07:20.So unemployment is still worryingly high among young people and often
:07:20. > :07:24.getting any kind of structured experience of work is their first
:07:24. > :07:27.and biggest hurdle. But in Coventry, some out-of-work youngsters are
:07:27. > :07:32.getting that all-important taste of the world of work through an
:07:32. > :07:35.unusual route, ice hockey, as Ben Sidwell's been finding out.
:07:35. > :07:37.Training of a very different kind. These aren't the latest stars of
:07:37. > :07:46.the Coventry Blaze's ice hockey team, they're young unemployed
:07:46. > :07:51.people looking to gain new skills in their search for a job. We have
:07:51. > :07:55.seen how powerful the ice hockey is as a vehicle to get people engaged.
:07:55. > :07:57.We thought we would use that vehicle to try and get them back
:07:57. > :08:00.into employment. The club's Community Foundation has
:08:00. > :08:03.set up a new �50,000 project, funded by Comic Relief. It's hoping
:08:03. > :08:11.the chance to get on to the ice will attract those currently not in
:08:11. > :08:18.education, employment or training. Contracts, temporary work, it isn't
:08:18. > :08:24.very good if you have got a house and a child to pay for. You need a
:08:25. > :08:28.permanent job. A career. But it is not all about ice hockey. There is
:08:28. > :08:31.a more serious side to this as well. Training, learning more skills and
:08:32. > :08:33.for these guys, the ultimate goal, employment.
:08:34. > :08:37.The 23-week scheme includes workshops, placements and volunteer
:08:37. > :08:45.opportunities. By the end, they'll have gained a Sport Leadership
:08:45. > :08:55.Award and hopefully the tools they need to find work. People find it
:08:55. > :09:00.hard. It is hard to find work. I would try and drive a forklift. By
:09:00. > :09:03.have been in and out of it. I work for two days on an iron off for
:09:03. > :09:06.rain and. There are around 20 young people on
:09:06. > :09:08.this project and there's enough funding for two further courses. It
:09:09. > :09:12.may only scratch the surface of the youth employment problem in the
:09:12. > :09:22.city, but for these three, the sport of ice hockey could help to
:09:22. > :09:22.
:09:22. > :09:26.And there's a special programme on the state of the region's economy
:09:26. > :09:31.next week. Our Economy: The Midlands Today Debate is on Monday
:09:31. > :09:34.night, here on BBC One at 11:05pm. Still ahead here on Midlands Today
:09:34. > :09:44.this evening: How your weight could be putting
:09:44. > :09:44.
:09:44. > :09:47.More than 60 arrests have been made during a police operation targeting
:09:47. > :09:51.offenders who abuse the justice system by failing to pay fines and
:09:52. > :09:54.obey court orders. They were brought to a temporary police
:09:54. > :09:57.station in a supermarket car park where a new style fast-track
:09:58. > :10:07.justice system was used to get them to court within minutes of their
:10:08. > :10:09.
:10:09. > :10:13.arrest. Andy Newman reports. Justice 2012 staff. The place, this
:10:13. > :10:17.car park in Wolverhampton. The issue, non-payment of fines. A
:10:17. > :10:22.suspect is led to a mobile police station where, after the briefest
:10:22. > :10:26.of legal formalities, they are walked across the tarmac and shown
:10:26. > :10:30.to their specially reserved seats in the custody van. Destination,
:10:30. > :10:34.the magistrates court. If you were wondering why this is all happening
:10:34. > :10:38.on a supermarket car-park, apart from being highly visible, it is
:10:38. > :10:42.much quicker. Offenders come reporter, Serge, process and then
:10:42. > :10:46.sent court within minutes. It is fast justice on an almost
:10:46. > :10:51.industrial scale. That scared reflected in the resources used.
:10:51. > :10:55.This, one of a fleet of 14 arrest teams, scouring the estates of
:10:55. > :11:01.Wolverhampton for offenders who what Fletcher the system by failing
:11:01. > :11:04.to comply with court or does. Here, a disabled suspect is arrested for
:11:04. > :11:11.non-payment of a six-under-par motoring fine. Just more than one
:11:11. > :11:13.of six defenders mop up by Operation crackdown. We are working
:11:13. > :11:17.together as criminal-justice partners. We will come knocking at
:11:17. > :11:21.your door. He will be arrested. He will be back before the courts.
:11:21. > :11:26.it is not just about bringing them to book. Also available to
:11:26. > :11:30.offenders in the caravan, drugs counsellors offering immediate help.
:11:30. > :11:33.It is important to be proactive, target these individuals, have the
:11:33. > :11:39.support there for them and work together with the police and
:11:39. > :11:43.probation to actually help people move forward. A two pronged
:11:44. > :11:49.approach. Fast-tracked justice and immediate help and support. A wake-
:11:49. > :11:51.up call for Wolverhampton's wanted. Tomorrow, the team will move to a
:11:52. > :11:55.new application. They're not saying where.
:11:55. > :11:58.A man's been arrested in the Stoke area of Coventry after he locked
:11:58. > :12:01.himself in a vehicle and threatened to set himself on fire. It happened
:12:01. > :12:04.at around 11:00am this morning after a debt recovery firm tried to
:12:04. > :12:12.seize a minibus. Armed officers were first sent to the scene, but
:12:12. > :12:16.stood down when they discovered the man was unarmed. I saw him and then
:12:16. > :12:20.over to his fans. He jumped in. The police and fire engines turned up.
:12:20. > :12:25.The next thing you know, there are people coming out on the streets,
:12:25. > :12:29.saying there is a man in the van, thrown petrol around. And then I
:12:29. > :12:33.drew the -- I drove away, came back a few hours later, the police were
:12:33. > :12:36.still there and the next thing I knew, the man ran out of the van,
:12:37. > :12:39.back into his house. A 16-year-old girl and a woman have
:12:39. > :12:42.been arrested after cocaine worth about �350,000 was found hidden
:12:42. > :12:46.inside tubs of chocolate. The pair, both from the Walsall area, were
:12:46. > :12:51.detained at Gatwick Airport after arriving on a flight from Antigua.
:12:51. > :12:56.They've been bailed until a date in June.
:12:56. > :12:59.Obesity's being blamed for a big rise in the number of women with
:12:59. > :13:03.womb cancer in the region. Researchers say it's become more
:13:03. > :13:06.prevalent than cervical cancer. Research being carried out at the
:13:06. > :13:08.University of Birmingham could help victims by using low cost drugs.
:13:08. > :13:14.But surgery is the only option for many women, as Katie Rowlett
:13:14. > :13:24.Linda Beck is 66, she has womb cancer, and doctors tell her it's
:13:24. > :13:24.
:13:24. > :13:34.because she is overweight. I've always been big. I'd been a many
:13:34. > :13:37.diets are my life. At had died Beatties and staff. -- I had a dire
:13:37. > :13:41.BT's And today, in Birmingham Linda's womb is being removed in an
:13:41. > :13:44.operation that will take around 2 hours. They carry out around 200
:13:44. > :13:48.womb cancer operations every year at the city hospital and if early
:13:48. > :13:52.at stage one - the survival rate of 5 years is in excess of 80%. Womb
:13:52. > :13:55.cancer has been on the increase. Here in the West Midlands the rise
:13:55. > :13:58.has been the steepest with cases up a third in a generation. The reason,
:13:58. > :14:01.there are more overweight women here, than anywhere else in the
:14:01. > :14:09.country. Dr Sudha Sundhar carried out Linda's operation as she has
:14:09. > :14:16.with so many other women. We know that this increase is going to keep
:14:16. > :14:21.on happening. We know that this cancer is one of the most common
:14:21. > :14:25.ones are driven by obesity. Certainly, one of the things that
:14:25. > :14:31.Spurs us on is the knowledge that many women are going to be
:14:31. > :14:39.diagnosed with cancer. This is the only support group for women's
:14:39. > :14:43.cancer in the region. Helping those in treatment or recovery: It's been
:14:43. > :14:53.a heck of a journey. It's been a horrible. You have to get on with
:14:53. > :14:56.
:14:56. > :15:02.it. You have to move on. This group is my lifeline. It's helped me, my
:15:02. > :15:06.confidence, to have a purpose to get up at the morning. The positive
:15:06. > :15:09.thing is that I have met so many people, thousands of new friends.
:15:09. > :15:11.With surgery, survival rates are getting better, but low cost drugs,
:15:11. > :15:18.including some designed to treat diabetes, are showing promise into
:15:18. > :15:22.treating womb cancer in it's early stages.
:15:22. > :15:25.Joining us now from our studio in Oxford is Sean Kehoe, from the
:15:25. > :15:29.charity Wellbeing of Women and himself a cancer consultant. Thanks
:15:29. > :15:39.for joining us Mr. Kehoe, is this link between womb cancer and
:15:39. > :15:45.
:15:45. > :15:51.obesity a surprise? It's not really. The increase is quite significant.
:15:52. > :15:56.We are heading towards 8,000 women with this condition. If you have
:15:56. > :16:04.that, you retain a more female hormones, that increases your risk
:16:04. > :16:14.of womb cancer. It doesn't seem to have the profile of breast cancer?
:16:14. > :16:18.
:16:18. > :16:28.It doesn't at all. Some cancers only affect 80% of women, but they
:16:28. > :16:28.
:16:28. > :16:34.do get a greater profile. What are the warning signs? The main sign is
:16:34. > :16:38.women after the menopause, having a bleed. They should go to their
:16:38. > :16:46.doctor. The vast majority will not have cancer, but they need to be
:16:46. > :16:50.investigated. Thank you very much. Still ahead in tonight's programme:
:16:50. > :16:55.The aircraft that blazed a trail for the jet age. Is this the last
:16:55. > :16:59.chance to save them? And if it's rain you want, the wait's almost
:16:59. > :17:09.over. The weekend may not be as warm as the last but it will be
:17:09. > :17:13.wetter and that's what we need right now.
:17:13. > :17:16.What's the best way to run Stoke- on-Trent? That's the question being
:17:17. > :17:20.posed in a debate in the Potteries tonight. Historically the city was
:17:20. > :17:29.part of Staffordshire. With a total population of just over a million,
:17:29. > :17:32.all important services such as education were run county-wide.
:17:32. > :17:35.That changed in 1997 when Stoke on Trent went alone and was given the
:17:35. > :17:38.right to run affairs for its 240,000 citizens. But in an
:17:38. > :17:42.increasingly competitive world, does Stoke have enough clout on its
:17:42. > :17:51.own? Live now to BBC Radio Stoke's political reporter Elizabeth Glinka.
:17:51. > :17:58.What are people saying tonight? you said, that's the question we
:17:58. > :18:06.are going to be posing at BBC Radio Stoke, tonight, in about one hour's
:18:06. > :18:15.time. The city still faces many challenges. It has had control
:18:15. > :18:22.itself, it has an elected mayor, it is hailed as the BNP's jewel in the
:18:22. > :18:31.crown. That has led some people to say it could do better if it was
:18:31. > :18:35.part of a bigger our authority. There is a certain case to be said
:18:35. > :18:39.for Ray Bigger a priority. It would have a much bigger chance of
:18:39. > :18:44.attracting funds that we need to regenerate the area. One of the
:18:44. > :18:50.people who is going to be debating this issue is councillor Sarah Hill,
:18:50. > :18:57.she's a member of the city council. What you think? Would be a benefit
:18:57. > :19:03.from being part of a bigger organisation? I think the point is
:19:03. > :19:13.well made. It is an interesting concept. None of us want to go back
:19:13. > :19:18.to being part of a county council. Finally, what is the answer moving
:19:18. > :19:22.forward? I think the debate is a good opportunity to start talking
:19:22. > :19:26.about what the next 15 years old brass. Things are going to change,
:19:26. > :19:33.given the austerity we have as a country, and how we can make the
:19:33. > :19:39.best use of our resources. I'm Looking forward to it this evening.
:19:39. > :19:43.That debate will start in one hour's time, just down the road. If
:19:43. > :19:53.listeners want to hear the debate, it will be on the Steward Of George
:19:53. > :19:56.programme, both tomorrow and Friday. -- Stuart George.
:19:56. > :19:59.There's anger and disbelief after a much-loved ring of oak trees was
:19:59. > :20:02.felled to make way for a new shopping complex. The local council
:20:02. > :20:11.allowed developers to chop them down after experts said they
:20:11. > :20:15.wouldn't survive being moved. Sarah Falkland reports. I could cry. It's
:20:15. > :20:18.so sad. Ann Turner can hardly believe her
:20:18. > :20:22.eyes - big business has wiped out the ancient ring of oak trees in
:20:22. > :20:29.Shirley Park. She's spent the best part of 30 years trying to protect
:20:29. > :20:36.them from developers Soon to rise from the soil. I walked down this
:20:36. > :20:46.path in the 1940s with my parents. All of a sudden, it is just gone.
:20:46. > :20:49.
:20:49. > :20:52.How can you replace the 250-year- old trees? It incredible. Soon to
:20:52. > :20:55.rise from the soil: 36 Parkgate, an �85m shopping and housing
:20:55. > :20:59.development. The supermarket giant ASDA will be at the heart of it and
:20:59. > :21:02.there'll be some 600 new jobs. But what happened to promises to keep
:21:02. > :21:04.the trees? When developers won the right to build, on appeal, last
:21:04. > :21:06.summer, Solihull council stipulated the trees be uprooted and replanted.
:21:06. > :21:08.But in a statement today the But in a statement today the
:21:08. > :21:10.authority said expert opinion showed the trees wouldn't have
:21:10. > :21:15.survived the process...some had suffered fire damage and decay, so
:21:15. > :21:21.had to be felled. But why so had to be felled. But why so
:21:21. > :21:24.quickly residents ask? The reality is that the bird nesting season is
:21:24. > :21:29.imminent, and we have to get on with the removal as quickly as
:21:29. > :21:32.possible. Local MP Lorely Burt's described what's happened here as a
:21:32. > :21:37.betrayal of the people of Shirley. She's angry the trees have been
:21:37. > :21:40.felled before she had the chance to chain herself to one of them. A
:21:40. > :21:44.small piece of oak salvaged from the site is little consolation for
:21:44. > :21:53.Ann and her husband. On Friday there'll be a vigil here for
:21:53. > :21:55.residents to formally say goodbye to the landscape they've held dear.
:21:55. > :21:58.Football and the Birmingham City manager Chris Hughton admits his
:21:58. > :22:02.team is going through a difficult period, after their latest defeat
:22:02. > :22:05.to play-off rivals Leicester. Wade Elliot's penalty put the Blues in
:22:05. > :22:08.Elliot's penalty put the Blues in front. But the lead didn't last
:22:09. > :22:12.long. Jermaine Beckford made it 1-1 before half-time. And then two
:22:12. > :22:15.goals in the last ten minutes sealed a 3-1 victory for Leicester.
:22:15. > :22:18.Birmingham drop one place to eighth in the Championship. But they still
:22:18. > :22:22.have a game in hand on most of the have a game in hand on most of the
:22:23. > :22:26.teams above them. It's a sad day for many West
:22:26. > :22:30.Bromwich Albion fans. Ray Barlow, one of the club's truly great
:22:30. > :22:33.players, has died at the age of 85. Ray was the last surviving member
:22:33. > :22:37.of the Albion team to win the FA Cup at Wembley in 1954. He played
:22:37. > :22:40.almost five hundred games for the club, but only once for England. He
:22:40. > :22:43.was voted in the top 16 players of all-time by West Brom fans. The
:22:43. > :22:53.club said Ray Barlow was a true legend, and a world-class
:22:53. > :23:00.
:23:00. > :23:10.footballer. You're a big fan of him once you? -
:23:10. > :23:11.
:23:11. > :23:15.- won't you? Bobby Moore said he styled his play on him. I saw him
:23:15. > :23:18.at a charity match. They've been all but abandoned for
:23:18. > :23:21.more than a decade but now some of the country's most historic
:23:21. > :23:24.aircraft are getting a permanent home in Gloucestershire. The Jet
:23:24. > :23:27.Age Museum was split up twelve years ago and the collection has
:23:27. > :23:35.been stored, out of sight, in barns ever since. Sabet Choudhury reports
:23:35. > :23:39.from the planned new home for the museum at Gloucestershire Airport.
:23:39. > :23:44.They were pride of the RAF. Cutting technology built by the Gloster
:23:44. > :23:53.Aircraft Company. But now many of them lie weathered and broken,
:23:53. > :24:03.waiting to be rebuilt for the new Jetage Museum. Some of them have
:24:03. > :24:08.
:24:08. > :24:13.deteriorated. The aircraft fuselages made a balsa wood. --
:24:13. > :24:19.made of a balsa wood. It's taken John and other trustees the over
:24:19. > :24:25.ten years to raise the �250,000 pounds they need for the museum.
:24:25. > :24:29.sounds as if it's not much money, in this then aged isn't. To try and
:24:29. > :24:35.raise that money to house old aeroplanes, which people refer to
:24:35. > :24:40.as pieces of rusty metal, is very difficult. In asking people whether
:24:40. > :24:45.they want a museum, everybody wants to have an aviation museum, but
:24:45. > :24:48.then you say, please give us some money, and they say, no. Of course
:24:48. > :24:51.not all of planes are in pieces, some like this Gamecock hidden away
:24:51. > :24:55.in a barn in the countryside is already being re-constructed. Once
:24:55. > :25:05.flown by world war 2 fighter pilot Douglas Bader. Today this is the
:25:05. > :25:12.
:25:12. > :25:16.only one of it's kind in existence. Once the museum is open this will
:25:16. > :25:20.be the centrepiece of the museum. A replica of the E28 - the first
:25:20. > :25:23.british jet plane. Built in 1941 in Gloucestershire to test Sir Frank
:25:23. > :25:25.Whittle jet propulsion system. Sidney Dix, now 93, was just a
:25:25. > :25:32.teenager when he worked on the project at the Gloster Aircraft
:25:32. > :25:41.Company. It was the best colour my life. It was like making a model
:25:41. > :25:45.airplane. We have to mark all the ribs on the Template. Sidney is
:25:45. > :25:55.hopeful the new museum, will inspire future generations. Giving
:25:55. > :25:57.
:25:57. > :26:00.them a chance to see the wonders that once ruled the skies.
:26:00. > :26:05.I wonder how these guys are looking I wonder how these guys are looking
:26:05. > :26:11.tonight and tomorrow? I will tell you.
:26:11. > :26:21.We had a delay on the sunshine, that put a cap on the temperatures.
:26:21. > :26:22.
:26:22. > :26:26.Tomorrow will be the warmest day of the week. We will see some rain
:26:26. > :26:32.coming in from the West, from Friday into the weekend. That
:26:32. > :26:36.produced quite a deluge of rain. It will give us some light relief.
:26:36. > :26:41.Back to the presence, and because of that late sunshine, we are
:26:41. > :26:51.looking at clear skies to start tonight. That's going to lead to a
:26:51. > :26:52.
:26:52. > :27:02.cooler night, temperatures dropping to a minimum of two-or three
:27:02. > :27:02.
:27:03. > :27:07.degrees -- two-to-three degrees. It will be a cooler night. A cloudy
:27:07. > :27:11.start tomorrow, we will see some sunshine, hopefully it will be the
:27:11. > :27:21.warmest day of the week. Temperatures should reach at 12-13
:27:21. > :27:23.
:27:23. > :27:29.degrees. Tomorrow night, the cloud will thicken up. The first signs
:27:29. > :27:32.are rain will appear over Wales. That will hold off for us,
:27:32. > :27:34.appearing on Saturday. Some showers appearing on Saturday. Some showers