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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
It was trialled in Birmingham. Now the first pill for multiple | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
sclerosis will be available on the NHS. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Brought home to rest. Hundreds expected for the funeral in | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Stafford tomorrow of the policeman who killed himself after being | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
blinded by a gunman. He has always been there as a big brother and I | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
put him on that pedestal. He Gold Cup delight. A triumph of | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
timing for the Gloucestershire trained horse Synchronised. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
And as towns across the region bid for cash to regenerate their high | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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streets, can Twitter give Warwick the edge? | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
Good evening and welcome to the start of the weekend here on | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
Midlands Today. Our main story tonight: the world's first pill for | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
multiple sclerosis patients will be funded on the NHS after trials in | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
Birmingham. Gilenya helps prevent severe and painful relapses. It has | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
proved more than twice as effective as the current leading treatment | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
for the disease, for which there is no cure. Around 100 thousand people | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
in the UK have multiple sclerosis. A year's supply of Gilenya could | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
cost �20,000 per patient. It is approved in 55 countries but until | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
now hasn't been available in Britain. Our Health Correspondent | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
has been looking at what the new treatment could mean. | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
Multiple sclerosis patients exercising in Birmingham. Keeping | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
as supple as possible is important in fighting a debilitating brain | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
disease for which there is no cure. Clare Stevenson injects herself | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
once a day, but when that treatment stops working. She relapses with | :01:49. | :01:57. | |
terrible consequences. What it is terrifying. It is like your whole | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
body has gone route out of control. You lose the facility to be able to | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
talk and walk. Anything could be taken from you. But now patients | :02:12. | :02:21. | |
who relapse can look forward to a new treatment. It is something | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
which will stop the relapsing perimetry York and that is great. - | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
- the relapse 0 a courier sort and Multiple sclerosis is caused by the | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
body's own white blood cells. Aggressive cells enter the brain | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
and attack the sheathes around axons. What Gilenya does is to | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
block the aggressive cells from escaping from the lymph nodes, | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
giving the body time to repair itself. It is fantastic and they | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
rarely fills the gap between the very first lines of therapies which | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
have been injectable for some time and we're expecting further | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
progress over several years. I think there's a lot of promise here | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
for multiple sclerosis patients. But there are possible side-effects | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
and it can't be given to pregnant women. The first time people use | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
this, they will be a heart monitor for six hours. Afterwards, they | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
will require an I test. -- eye test. But this type of research which | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
goes beyond just controlling inflammation, is lifting MS | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
sufferers hopes that they can live active lives for longer. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Simon Gillespie is the Chief Executive of the MS Society. He | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
joins us now from our London studio. How important a breakthrough is | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
this? Well, I think it is a really good break through. You pointed out | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
in your report that there are many other countries where this is in | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
use, so we're slow off the mark. But the impact of having a suitable | :03:49. | :03:59. | |
pill for MS is a huge step forward. 55 countries have been using the | :03:59. | :04:09. | |
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struck for quite a while. Why is Italy just available here? Weir | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
23rd out of 26 countries in Europe for the take-up of therapies. -- we | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
are. Whilst Gilenya seems to be very expensive at first, the impact | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
that it is having on making people carry on with normal lives is | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
incredible and will save money in the long term. | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Still to come tonight: The grow your own revolution and how it | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
could save you hundreds of pounds at the supermarket till. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Tomorrow will see the funeral of PC David Rathband in his hometown of | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
Stafford. It is expected hundreds of mourners will turn out to pay | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
their final respects to the officer who was shot and blinded by the | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
gunman Raoul Moat. Our Staffordshire Reporter joins us now | :04:53. | :05:03. | |
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from Stafford Crematorium. First this is where David | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
Rathband's family will gather tomorrow lunchtime for the funeral. | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
He was found dead last month at his home in Northumberland two years | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
after Raoul Moat shot him. That resulted in him losing his sight. | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
Ever since those dreadful events, his family say they have been | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
struck by the level of support he received from his home town in | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
Stafford. In 2010, he switched on over the Christmas lights. This was | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
the place for he grew up and some where her he had very close family | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
ties. His twin brother has described how David would stick up | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
for him when they were growing up. He would greet me in the morning | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
outside school in the lockers and asked if I was OK. If anyone was | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
picking on me, he would step up and sort it out. He would make sure | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
they stopped bullying me. I was more quiet at school. He has done | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
that throughout his life. He has always been there as a big brother | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
and I put him on that pedestal. of David Rathband's lasting | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
legacies is the charity that he set up. They say they will continue | :06:27. | :06:35. | |
doing work in his memory. There'll be celebrations in | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
Gloucestershire tonight after a locally trained winner took the | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
coveted Cheltenham Gold Cup - in fact the horse we featured on this | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
programme last night. It meant there was no fairy tale ending to | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
the career of Kauto Star. But it pleased the bookmakers who've taken | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
a hammering during this year's festival. | :06:56. | :07:06. | |
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MUSIC. This young Irishman sang his heart out for a popular champion. | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
The experts look forward to a classic Gold Cup. Some people say | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
this is a two-horse race, but really there is only one in the | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
focus and that his colt will star. -- Kauto Star. Synchronised had | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
travelled 10 miles up the road. It did not take long for Kauto Star's | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
dream to fade away. Two warm applause from those watching, he | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
was pulled up and synchronised pushed on to victory. There was a | :07:52. | :08:02. | |
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thrilling a finality. It was a 50-1 outsider. A hugely popular winner | :08:08. | :08:18. | |
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for this local training team. The horse is only seven. He will do | :08:30. | :08:39. | |
nothing but improve. The Gold Cup usually ends in tears of joy and | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
occasionally sadness. Tonight, there will be a sense of relief | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
that out of store -- Kauto Star has returned home safe and sound. His | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
career is now that -- part of folklore. | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
Great race. We were banging our desks this afternoon. | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
We will be back live at Cheltenham a little later in the programme. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
'60s pop star PJ Proby has been cleared of benefit fraud. The 73- | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
year-old from Twyford near Evesham seen here at an earlier court | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
hearing had denied cheating the benefits system out of more than | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
�47,000. He was found not guilty of all nine charges against him today | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
following the discovery of new evidence. | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
Solihull-based Land Rover has announced record global sales for | :09:25. | :09:35. | |
:09:35. | :09:48. | ||
With the deadline just two weeks away, several towns across the | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
region are putting the finishing touches to bids for a share of �1 | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
million of Government money. They're hoping to be chosen to | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
become a Portas Pilot. The retail guru Mary Portas has been advising | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
ministers on how to regenerate high streets after surveys revealed more | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
than 15,000 shops have disappeared over the last ten years. The | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
company says strong demand for the new Range Rover Evoque helped push | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
sales above 28,000. That is a rise of 52% compared with a year ago and | :10:09. | :10:19. | |
:10:19. | :10:22. | ||
the company's best ever monthly We have to look at the high streets | :10:22. | :10:31. | |
as multi-functional social and shopping streets. This business is | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
award-winning. Who had the ambitious young people are so keen | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
to see others do well. This is about assisting people across the | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
country. It is not single-minded. We want to be able to roll things | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
out across the UK. We feel that we have the drive and the passion and | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
community spirit to put those ideas forward. | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
Increasing rents and fears of increasing business rates are | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
worries for all businesses. In Warwick, one trader is using social | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
media to galvanise local businesses into a powerful lobbying group. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
There are trying to implement positive change in at the high | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
street. Twitter is a powerful tool. You can do things in 10 minutes | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
that used to take weeks. We have all part of the time talking to | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
each other now. The market square in Warwick might seem like an | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
unlikely location for a high-street revolution, but several towns in | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
our region are all competing for the Mary Portas project. They are | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
determined that their towns will lead the way. Just 12 times will | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
eventually be chosen to take part in a pilot. What this scheme is | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
showing to politicians and business leaders is that the high street | :12:05. | :12:15. | |
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will unite to show their survival. As well as encouraging businesses | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
to take advantage of new government grants, the British Chambers of | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Commerce is pressing the Chancellor to use his budget next week to | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
scrap a planned increase in business rates of 5.6%. Our | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Political Editor is here now. How likely is it he will bow to this | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
pressure? It is an automatic increase like the fuel duty | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
increase that we stop protesting against last week. But the | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
Chancellor cannot make exceptions for everyone in every case. There | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
could be a reduction in the burden of corporation tax. Also employers | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
National Insurance contributions. Employers see this as attacks on | :13:01. | :13:09. | |
jobs. We have heard of one place where they have doubled their work | :13:09. | :13:18. | |
force over five years. For the country, it is more to expensive | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
not to employ them. Their choice is between these contributions and | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
more people on benefit. My argument would be to get people in | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
employment and find businesses were young people can work force. And as | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
we have seen, the Labour Leader Ed Miliband has been at Warwick | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
University today, setting out his plans on youth unemployment. What | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
exactly is he proposing? He was addressing his use conference. Many | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
young people were out of a job. His answer is a plan which would | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
guarantee everyone under 25 our job is they have been out of work for | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
at least one year. We tax the bonuses of the bankers and use that | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
money to offer jobs to every young person who has been unemployed for | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
more than a year. There are 49,000 young people in that position in | :14:13. | :14:23. | |
:14:23. | :14:27. | ||
the UK at the moment. It -- this is all in the run-up to do in the | :14:27. | :14:36. | |
budget and we will have more on that in the Politics Show on Sunday. | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
And ahead of the budget there is a special programme here on BBC One | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
about the regional economy. That is on Monday evening at 11:05pm. | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
Still ahead: Staffordshire-born actor Neil Morrisey and how 45 | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
minutes in make-up transform him every night into Fagin on stage in | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
Birmingham. And I will be here with the weather | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
forecast which for the first time in ages includes some rain. But | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
will there be enough for our parched farms and gardens? I will | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
have the details in a moment. With food bills soaring, interest | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
is growing in growing your own. And it can save families a lot of money, | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
whether it is some veg in your garden or perhaps an allotment. | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Some estimates put the saving on a family food bill at up to �1,300 a | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
year. Interest is such that sales of vegetable seeds are now more | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
than double those of flower seeds. And there are 100,000 people on the | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
waiting list for an allotment. This is our report on making your garden | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
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work for you. This man is part of a growing band of that producers. | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
Maria and Gareth from Coventry are part of a growing band of food | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
producers. Research shows 26% of us now grow our own vegetables. | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
Any savings are a bonus. It is vegetables and we can make jam with | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
our for it. -- fruit. To reflect the growing interest in planting | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
and self sufficiency, the Edible Garden Show at Stoneleigh in | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
Warwickshire expects to attract 11,000 visitors this weekend. The | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
event wants to show budding gardeners they don't have to | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
confine their ambitions to traditional crops. We have a | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
selection of regular English vegetables that people are growing | :16:25. | :16:33. | |
all over the country. Lettuce, radish and a whole range of things. | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
But there are whole range of things different to this that you would | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
never expect to be able to grow in the UK. Cream tea is one of those. | :16:44. | :16:52. | |
This is like a regular chilly, but they can cope 2-5 degrees. Go you | :16:52. | :17:01. | |
will be able to use lots of chilli peppers. These goals will reduce | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
enough milk to feed a family of five every day. Residents in an | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
increasing number of villages are calling together to rear there on | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
pegs. You not make much money, but you'll get some nice meat and you | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
know the animals will be well looked after. Perhaps more of us | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
will join the Community of many farmers and growers in the coming | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
spring. It is a big weekend for Stoke City. | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
They are just one game away from the FA Cup semi-final which means a | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
return to Wembley for the third time in a year. But it also means a | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
trip to Liverpool to face Steven Gerrard who scored a hat trick this | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
week. One man not shying away from the pressure is former Liverpool | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
ace and Stoke City striker Peter Crouch. He is hoping the Potters | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
can go there and play their cards right. | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
Stoke City are just one game away from a return to Wembley. Liverpool | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
are the favourites to win, but the Potters are hoping they can be the | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
wild card. And there is one man hoping to be shuffled into Stoke's | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
starting 11 on Sunday. He wants to add to his tally of 10 goals this | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
season. He is former Liverpool front-man Peter Crouch. So what | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
does he reckon the odds are for a Stoke City victory? How are Stoke | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
going to combat Steven Gerrard? it is going to be very difficult. | :18:27. | :18:37. | |
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He's on fire at the moment. He is a top-class player. He is someone | :18:39. | :18:48. | |
that we will have to watch. What will Stoke's strengths be? You've | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
built up an impressive partnership with Jonathan Walters. Yes, he's | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
great for Stoke. We work off each other well. Your England goal | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
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I have enjoyed playing with him. You're England goalscoring record | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
speaks for itself. 22 goals in 42 games. How do you feel about still | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
not getting the call-up? Yes, I'm frustrated. I've always tried to | :19:17. | :19:27. | |
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play my best for England. If I am doing well for Stoke City, I hope | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
to catch the manager's I. Playing for England as the best thing in | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
the world. I would love to play in the European Championships. Crouch | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
also talked to me about settling well into the Stoke Squad with the | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
help of the other players. Who is the joker in the pack? Ooh, there's | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
Jonathan Woodgate and Jermaine Pennant. And that's all you're | :19:53. | :20:02. | |
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that cup quarter final and the rest of the weekend's football action, | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
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tune into your BBC local radio Let's go back to Cheltenham now. | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Our reporter is at the racecourse. There have been calls for an | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
inquiry into the deaths of five horses which fell during the | :20:28. | :20:37. | |
festival. What has been the reaction there? Panda lighted to | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
say there have been no more fatalities today he -- and I am | :20:42. | :20:52. | |
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delighted. But there were deaths earlier in the week. The RSPCA have | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
said they are concerned. The British Racing Authority are saying | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
that they will hold a full inquiry. This week has been very sad. But | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
things like that happen in our sport, I am afraid. In football, | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
the worst that can happen is a red card. Here, the highs and lows are | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
difficult to take. But that is what we all signed up to four Stott as | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
for the racing itself, is there anywhere with the magic of | :21:23. | :21:33. | |
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I don't think there is. It is 25 years since I first came here. | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
Every year, new racing champions are Crown. There has to be no | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
fairy-tale ending for Kauto Star today, but two local trainers have | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
done well. That was popular with the record-breaking crowd of 70,000 | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
people. The village is fast being deserted. The brick makers have | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
gone home. Tomorrow, thousands of punters will start saving up for | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
the Festival next year! Actor Neil Morrisey who was born in | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
Stafford is back on stage in the musical Oliver! At the Birmingham | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Hippodrome. He is best known for his role in one of the most popular | :22:19. | :22:27. | |
sitcoms of the 90s, Men Behaving Badly. | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
I once built a treehouse but we didn't have trees so I built it on | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
the ground! Neil was brought up in care in | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
Stoke-on-Trent, something he has talked about in a TV documentary. | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
And he can see some parallels between those early years and the | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
troubled youngsters who join Fagin's gang. | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
There are parallels. Thank goodness it was not as bad when I was in | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
care. You had to learn how to pickpocket yourself and there was | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
not an older man to teach you. You made a moving documentary about | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
your teenage years. What was it like to make it? It was difficult. | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
Meeting people that I was in care worth 30 years ago and beating | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
their children for are in care now. There are many similarities. The | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
basic thing is being torn away from your family. | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
It leaves you with a big star. It is the most damaging thing. We | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
tried to deal with that -- we deal with that within the documentaries | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
with me leaving the viewer's hand. I spoke about the system and the | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
various peoples were my life. I couldn't have done it without you. | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
We are very proud of you. Thank you very much. It took one year to | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
shoot, so it was constant heartache. You're approaching 50 this year. | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
am still the child inside. When I walk along the street, I hopped | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
along the wall and try to avoid the cracks in the pavement. Could he | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
never -- could he ever have imagined taking on a role like this | :24:21. | :24:31. | |
:24:31. | :24:34. | ||
in Oliver!? No, I could never have considered that will start but you | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
fall into age group. It took a while for them to allow me to | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
audition. It was difficult for them to see me as Fagin. I had to going | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
and sing the songs and back in front of Andrew Lloyd Webber and | :24:50. | :24:58. | |
Cameron Mackintosh. -- act. You are looking good just now, but you want | :24:58. | :25:05. | |
be in one hour. It is a massive job be in one hour. It is a massive job | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
with the make-up. There is a five piece beard and moustache to be | :25:07. | :25:15. | |
glued in place. There are so many attachments. There are two | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
microphones. It takes one hour to put it on and half an hour to put | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
:25:31. | :25:34. | ||
it off. And Neil plays Fagin at the | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
Hippodrome until the first of April Hippodrome until the first of April | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
before Brian Conley takes over the role. | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
I will think any of us really want rain at the weekend. But we have to | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
face facts. We need some wet weather and there is little in the | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
forecast. But it will be in the form of showers and there will be | :25:54. | :26:04. | |
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some sunny spells in between. If we will see some rain overnight. Some | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
bits and pieces of rain overnight. It will stay mild. There is a | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
weather front straddling across our region first thing tomorrow. There | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
is some uncertainty about how quickly this will push away to the | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
east. But I think you should move away fairly smartly. We will be | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
left for sunny spells and bright conditions. Some of the showers | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
could be heavy. Hail and thunder is possible. It all feel too bad and | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
the sunshine. Just a moderate south-westerly breeze. Initially, | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
the showers clear away in the evening and it will be cold | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
overnight. But then more showers push in from the north by the end | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
of the night. Some of those will be with us during the day on Sunday. | :26:51. | :26:59. | |
Perhaps the odd heavy one. Through the day, the showers will gradually | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
become consigned to the south of the region. If you're heading to | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
Liverpool, a lovely afternoon there. The reason for things slowly | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
turning more settles during Sunday is this ridge of high pressure | :27:14. | :27:22. | |
pushing up from the south-west. It will be significant next week. | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
There will be some rain over the weekend, but settled again for next | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
A look at tonight's main headlines: The head of the Church of England, | :27:34. | :27:38. |