:00:04. > :00:08.Hello, welcome to Midlands Today with Mary Rhodes and Nick Owen. The
:00:08. > :00:16.headlines tonight: As Severn Trent consider selling water elsewhere,
:00:16. > :00:20.can rural communities survive the drought this summer? Our neighbours
:00:20. > :00:27.have been struggling and most of them are not farmers. They are
:00:27. > :00:32.lugging it around in jerry cans. Fighting for survival, RAF Cosford
:00:32. > :00:35.looking to the business community to save its training base. As the
:00:35. > :00:40.size of the services reduce under contract out, the industry is
:00:40. > :00:44.finding it harder to find trained people.
:00:44. > :00:51.A 12-year-old girl who was attacked by a dog says the police were wrong
:00:51. > :01:01.to shoot it dead. And what a comeback, the hatrick
:01:01. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:11.hero who gave Kidderminster victory, Good evening. Welcome to Tuesday's
:01:11. > :01:14.Midlands Today from the BBC. Tonight: Severn Trent is in talks
:01:14. > :01:17.with Anglian Water to help to supply around 100,000 homes in some
:01:17. > :01:21.of the worst affected areas in England. It would be the first time
:01:21. > :01:23.such a trade has happened. But in Shropshire, some farms and
:01:23. > :01:27.households which aren't connected to the mains have been struggling
:01:27. > :01:30.to get enough water out of the ground for months. They are already
:01:30. > :01:33.using emergency supplies. So is now really the time for Severn Trent to
:01:33. > :01:36.be selling off the region's supplies?
:01:36. > :01:40.In a few moments, we'll be speaking to a climate change expert, but
:01:40. > :01:50.first Giles Latcham reports on the problems facing part of Shropshire.
:01:50. > :01:50.
:01:50. > :01:54.In these hills, New Life Is born. Like all life though its dependent
:01:54. > :01:57.on water and for the Griffiths's among others, after a couple of dry
:01:57. > :02:01.winters and an unusually dry summer that's a big problem. It is not
:02:01. > :02:08.just the water that they drink, it is the water that falls out of the
:02:08. > :02:11.sky and makes the grass grow that the sheep eat. A spring in the
:02:11. > :02:14.forest which serves the farm keeps drying up and can no longer be
:02:14. > :02:18.relied on, instead they fill up bowsers wherever they can. We take
:02:18. > :02:25.for bowsers to my father, who is going to see as more than he wants
:02:25. > :02:31.to the summer! We also have friends in the village to have offered.
:02:31. > :02:34.Pipes leading from the guttering up their feed directly into this 1400
:02:34. > :02:39.lead to a barrister, ready to go out to the fields to supply the
:02:39. > :02:46.sheep. When your water supply is under threat, it is time to get M
:02:46. > :02:48.genius. The first borehole they attempted was inside the gate here.
:02:48. > :02:53.This retired policeman spent �7,000 sinking boreholes searching for
:02:53. > :02:59.water. When the barns next door were converted to homes his supply
:02:59. > :03:02.from a nearby spring dried up. So he had to find a fresh one and
:03:02. > :03:08.install a storage tank to guarantee the flow, but in providence he
:03:08. > :03:14.trusts. Probably within a couple of years' time, we will get more water
:03:14. > :03:18.than we'd probably do at the moment, which will then filter water tables.
:03:18. > :03:23.That is the thing we really need. Between then and now though, there
:03:23. > :03:27.could be tough times ahead. We are looking at providing central
:03:27. > :03:31.locations where we can provide it had, so that one of their supplies
:03:31. > :03:35.run out, they can fill up. It will be community operated. The of
:03:35. > :03:42.working with the parish council, the fire service, to find the best
:03:42. > :03:48.locations in the areas at risk. Here, few if any take what comes
:03:48. > :03:52.out of their taps for granted. Well, joining us now is Dr Ken
:03:52. > :03:58.Addison, a climate change expert, who lives in Shropshire. Thanks for
:03:58. > :04:01.joining us, Dr Addison. We've had a load of rain over the weekend, and
:04:01. > :04:06.indeed today, but it doesn't alter the fact we have a serious
:04:06. > :04:10.situation on our hands, does it? you're quite right. The fact we've
:04:10. > :04:15.had a lot of intense Rayner... You can see the River Severn is flowing
:04:15. > :04:21.fast behind me. A lot of this water is just heading off down to the
:04:21. > :04:24.ocean. The other ironic thing right now, and this -- and this is when
:04:24. > :04:32.the crops and gardens are coming into their Rome, the plants will
:04:32. > :04:37.take a great deal at. So is this the shape of things to come?
:04:37. > :04:42.Currently, this winter, in the Midlands, we are somewhere between
:04:42. > :04:47.60 % to 80 % of normal rainfall. We are down a bit. In East Anglia,
:04:47. > :04:53.where the problems lie, they are down up to 60 % of the normal
:04:53. > :04:57.winter rainfall. This is due to get worse. Everyone is aware about a
:04:57. > :05:01.great risk of climate change. It's a common topic these days. If we
:05:01. > :05:05.look at just the last three or four weeks, we've had wonderful weather,
:05:05. > :05:09.lots of warm sunshine. That is because an anticyclone had been
:05:09. > :05:15.blocking out the Atlantic rainfall coming into Britain. That is likely
:05:15. > :05:22.to be an increasingly recurring feature in the future. By about
:05:22. > :05:26.2030, this summer rainfall in Shropshire could be between 5% and
:05:26. > :05:33.15 % less than now. If the International Committee does little
:05:33. > :05:37.about climate change, we are likely to be down between 40 % and 60 % by
:05:37. > :05:41.the middle part of this century. It will get worse. Should people,
:05:41. > :05:46.particularly in remote parts, be taking further steps to conserve
:05:46. > :05:50.water in the future? From what we've had already this evening, I
:05:50. > :05:54.think on the demand side, they are doing very well. They are very much
:05:54. > :05:59.aware of the need to conserve. It is the supply side that is the
:05:59. > :06:06.problem. As you'll earlier view was pointed out, as the water table
:06:06. > :06:10.drops, in the mid- to long-term future, that is likely to be
:06:10. > :06:16.increasingly a problem. About a third of the water that Severn
:06:16. > :06:24.Trent take out of the catchment is from underground water supplies.
:06:24. > :06:27.will have to leave it there. Thank you very much.
:06:27. > :06:30.We're certainly getting some April showers, but will it be enough to
:06:30. > :06:33.help with our water worries? Shefali has the answer.
:06:33. > :06:36.Well, the problem with showers is that not everyone gets them,
:06:36. > :06:40.certainly not the heavier ones. But at least we're not talking of rain
:06:40. > :06:43.that's mainly nuisance value over the next couple of weeks. There'll
:06:43. > :06:47.be something more substantial than that and after the fifth driest
:06:47. > :06:54.March this year in just over a century, we could do with it. I
:06:54. > :06:56.will have more later. The BBC's learned that RAF Cosford could sell
:06:56. > :06:58.its training expertise to the business community if the
:06:58. > :07:01.Government moves its defence operations. There are more than
:07:01. > :07:06.1,000 trainees at the Shropshire base and a similar number of
:07:06. > :07:09.civilian staff. RAF Cosford was built during the
:07:09. > :07:13.Second World War in response to an urgent need to train people for the
:07:13. > :07:16.front line. Today, it has an uncertain future. Redundancies are
:07:16. > :07:19.likely under MoD plans to train the military in Wiltshire and no one
:07:19. > :07:29.has been able to give a firm commitment that it'll continue to
:07:29. > :07:32.
:07:32. > :07:40.Once a first-class fighter jet, the Jaguar is now a unique training
:07:40. > :07:43.plane for 1,000 engineers at RAF Cosford. But amid waves of MoD cuts
:07:43. > :07:52.and re-oganisations, this historic base could lose most, if not all of
:07:52. > :07:54.it's aircraft training operations. It must change to survive. We're
:07:55. > :07:57.already training people overseas, we already have trained some
:07:58. > :08:00.elements of British industry, and as the size of the services reduce
:08:01. > :08:03.and we contract out more of our services to other people, industry
:08:03. > :08:07.are finding it harder to find trained people, and its very
:08:07. > :08:10.expensive to train people, it makes sense to look at options as to how
:08:10. > :08:14.we can do that in a smarter way, we're in negotiations and its too
:08:14. > :08:16.early to say what will come from that work. A focus on business
:08:16. > :08:19.comes as it's emerged that �150 million of taxpayers money was
:08:19. > :08:25.spent on MoD plans to transfer operations to St Athan in South
:08:25. > :08:30.Wales. The project was scrapped two years ago because of cost. It is a
:08:30. > :08:38.large sum of money. Defence has an obligation to make sure it is
:08:38. > :08:41.providing best value for money to the taxpayers. In the latest plan,
:08:41. > :08:44.RAF Cosford could lose its role as a Defence Training Centre because
:08:44. > :08:47.the MoD wants to create a new service at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.
:08:47. > :08:54.1,100 trainees are continuing to be prepared for service here but for
:08:54. > :09:04.how long? Luke Dougan's 21. He's hoping for an RAF career after
:09:04. > :09:04.
:09:04. > :09:07.twice being made redundant on civvy street. I feel quite positive my
:09:07. > :09:11.job will be kept, purely because in training, they're not going to put
:09:11. > :09:14.a lot of money into me and then just cut me off. I feel that I'll
:09:14. > :09:17.do well. Defence is shrinking and therefore the number of trainees
:09:17. > :09:21.coming through here shrinks and it is inevitable that the size of the
:09:21. > :09:23.staff will also shrink and we're continuing to look at ways of being
:09:23. > :09:27.more efficient. To say the base supports the village of Albrighton
:09:27. > :09:33.is an understatement. It pumps �70 million a year into the local
:09:33. > :09:38.economy. The uncertainty is causing some problems. If Cosford were too
:09:38. > :09:41.close that's effectively going to cut the population by half.
:09:41. > :09:51.Shropshire Council supports efforts to bring new investment into the
:09:51. > :09:51.
:09:51. > :09:54.base. Given the technical expertise there is at Cosford, without a
:09:54. > :09:57.shadow of a doubt, I think there's a great opportunity for Cosford to
:09:57. > :10:05.have a large income generation scheme by selling its expertise to
:10:05. > :10:07.private companies. The Government's delayed a decision on whether
:10:07. > :10:12.Cosford could house soldiers returning from Germany until at
:10:12. > :10:15.least 2020. If it were to happen, the RAF would move out. Senior
:10:15. > :10:24.officers say they can't give a complete assurance that there'll be
:10:24. > :10:28.defence training here in five years time.
:10:28. > :10:30.And BBC Radio Shropshire has a week of special reports from RAF Cosford.
:10:30. > :10:33.Tomorrow morning, they'll be focusing on what difference the
:10:33. > :10:39.base has made to the nearby village of Albrighton and what it could
:10:39. > :10:41.mean if it closed. That's from 7 am on the breakfast show.
:10:41. > :10:45.A man's been arrested on suspicion of murder following the discovery
:10:45. > :10:48.of a woman's body at a house in the Black Country. Police visited an
:10:48. > :10:53.address in Tipton last night, where a young woman was found dead inside
:10:53. > :10:56.the flat. She's yet to be identified. The 27-year-old man was
:10:56. > :11:00.detained by police at a railway station in Bristol this morning and
:11:00. > :11:03.is being brought back to the West Midlands.
:11:03. > :11:06.A woman accused of murdering a 92- year-old war veteran has been
:11:06. > :11:10.remanded in custody. William Davis was found with severe head injuries
:11:10. > :11:13.at his house in Willenhall. 35- year-old Charlotte Frazier-Doody,
:11:13. > :11:16.who's a neighbour, didn't appear in person at the preliminary hearing
:11:16. > :11:21.at Wolverhampton Crown Court this morning. She has yet to enter a
:11:21. > :11:25.plea and was remanded in custody until June 29th.
:11:25. > :11:28.A girl who was attacked by a dog in Gloucestershire has said it shouldn
:11:28. > :11:31.'t have been shot dead by the police.
:11:31. > :11:37.The 12-year-old was bitten yesterday afternoon, along with a
:11:37. > :11:40.man. Police arrested a man after the dog had been killed.
:11:40. > :11:45.Despenser Road in Tewkesbury, the scene at the start of a series of
:11:45. > :11:48.events. Police had been called after reports that the dog, a
:11:48. > :11:52.staffordshire bull terrier, had bitten two people. One of the them
:11:52. > :11:55.was Sydney Ryan. She knows the dog owners and had gone to see if
:11:55. > :11:58.everything was OK after seeing the dog running around outside. She
:11:58. > :12:07.says she wasn't too badly injured and is angry the dog was eventually
:12:07. > :12:11.shot dead by the police. If they should have either grabbed the dock
:12:11. > :12:16.and can't do it for trotted with something that put it to sleep for
:12:16. > :12:20.an hour, and then calmed it down. They said they would have to shoot
:12:21. > :12:29.it but the dog wasn't exactly going to come down if you have tasted it
:12:29. > :12:33.twice. -- tasered. Police say their efforts to calm the dog with the
:12:33. > :12:36.taser gun didn't work and that it had tried to attack the officers as
:12:36. > :12:39.well. Eventually they tracked it several streets away and felt they
:12:39. > :12:42.had no option but to shoot it. They say, as a last resort. The report
:12:42. > :12:45.be had were that it was being aggressive. It had been -- it had
:12:45. > :12:50.injured two people, one of them quite badly. Police officers were
:12:50. > :12:53.not able to calm it down because it ran off into one area with children
:12:53. > :12:57.playing. They thought it was appropriate and necessary to make
:12:57. > :13:06.sure there was no further harm. Unfortunately, they took the action
:13:06. > :13:09.they did do which was to shoot the dog. Police are still questioning a
:13:09. > :13:11.38-year-old man from Gloucester on suspicion of having a dog
:13:11. > :13:15.dangerously out of control in a public place and for criminal
:13:15. > :13:22.damage after windows were smashed at the Black Bear pub in the centre
:13:22. > :13:25.of town. Lambing is a stressful time for any
:13:25. > :13:28.farmer but this year they have the added complication of a new disease,
:13:28. > :13:30.the Schmallenberg virus. The disease can affect both cattle and
:13:30. > :13:33.sheep. It only causes mild symptoms in
:13:33. > :13:36.adult animals but can have a disastrous effect on unborn young.
:13:36. > :13:39.It's an effect that only becomes apparent months later in the
:13:39. > :13:42.lambing season. Our Environment Correspondent joins us now from a
:13:42. > :13:50.farm in Gloucestershire. David, what is the situation with the
:13:50. > :13:55.virus in our region? At the moment, there are two
:13:55. > :14:01.confirmed cases in Warwickshire. Otherwise, we seem to have escaped
:14:01. > :14:08.unscathed. This is a disease that only becomes apparent as the she'd
:14:08. > :14:12.start to give birth to the Lambs. With meat is Jake, the farmer here.
:14:12. > :14:20.No sign of the disease on your farm but you know farmers of -- to have
:14:20. > :14:24.had it. Yes, I do. There have been nine or 10 cases and it is
:14:24. > :14:30.distressing, not just for the chic but for the farmers as well. It
:14:30. > :14:34.should be a time of joy and turning lambs out. To have these deformed
:14:34. > :14:38.lambs that you have to try and help get out is distressing all round.
:14:38. > :14:44.There is also a financial loss of having lambs you cannot sell.
:14:44. > :14:49.is a disease that comes with infected insect from Europe. It is
:14:49. > :14:53.taking hold in Europe. potential is there, certainly with
:14:53. > :14:56.climate change, you see it's now in Germany, Belgium and France. It has
:14:56. > :15:01.been spreading from the south-east of the country, towards our
:15:01. > :15:05.direction. As we going to this coming year, the period of
:15:05. > :15:09.infection will not be for us until November or December. But I think
:15:09. > :15:14.with the climate change, more midges around and more infection
:15:14. > :15:18.from the livestock this year, the risk is quite significant. It is
:15:18. > :15:25.not a disease people have to worry about. Absolutely not. And no harm
:15:25. > :15:29.in being around sheep and cattle. Certainly no problem in eating lamb.
:15:29. > :15:36.Like many farms at this time, there is an open day here and if you want
:15:36. > :15:41.to come down and see something happening, check out our Facebook
:15:41. > :15:49.page. Good to have you with us this
:15:49. > :15:52.evening. Still to come here on Midlands Today: they're murderously
:15:52. > :16:00.difficult to ride but here's a unicycle that does the balancing
:16:00. > :16:05.for you. All part of the Gadget Villagers in Herefordshire are
:16:05. > :16:09.celebrating after saving their village pub from closure. Dozens of
:16:09. > :16:10.people have joined in the clean up of The Crown Inn in Dilwyn after
:16:10. > :16:14.the parish council was handed the keys.
:16:14. > :16:21.They borrowed the money to buy the site fearing it would be taken over
:16:21. > :16:30.by developers. Armed with brushes, Hoovers,
:16:30. > :16:33.Saul's... -- saws and lots of elbow grease. The people of Dilwyn in
:16:33. > :16:36.Herefordshire set about reclaiming the Crown Inn, their village pub.
:16:36. > :16:41.It has been a brilliant pub in the past and will be again. It will be
:16:41. > :16:44.nice to be able to walk back here. When the last tenant left recently
:16:44. > :16:47.there were concerns the site would be sold to developers so the parish
:16:47. > :16:52.council stepped in. They borrowed �250,000 from the public works loan
:16:52. > :16:57.board to buy the pub. We know people use this power band so, we
:16:58. > :17:00.know it will make a good profit. If we get the right tenant, they will
:17:00. > :17:05.do well and the community will do well hopefully. The villagers have
:17:05. > :17:08.big ambitions for this place. Once the pub is up and running they want
:17:08. > :17:11.to use this building as a shop and have a restaurant at the back. It's
:17:11. > :17:18.not the first time people here have pulled together. Last year they
:17:18. > :17:26.saved the village school from closure. How has this place
:17:26. > :17:35.succeeded? Sheer determination, bloody-mindedness. We are not
:17:35. > :17:39.prepared to accept and we feel so strongly that the rural community
:17:39. > :17:42.around the country are under threat. We are not prepared to take it.
:17:42. > :17:47.is wonderful that people are pulling together and we will make
:17:47. > :17:57.this a wonderful pub. We all pull together, that is not a community
:17:57. > :17:58.
:17:58. > :18:01.is for. -- what a community is for. They're inviting applicants for the
:18:01. > :18:05.tenancy and are planning to open the pub for the village show in May.
:18:05. > :18:07.Dan's here with the sport, with the story of one of the best football
:18:07. > :18:10.comebacks in recent memory. Picture the scene. Your team is
:18:11. > :18:14.trailing 2-0 in a game they must win to keep alive their play-off
:18:14. > :18:17.dream. There's only four minutes left, so you get away early to beat
:18:17. > :18:20.the traffic. Then you turn on the car radio to find you've actually
:18:20. > :18:28.won 3-2. And your super-sub scored a hat-trick. That's what happened
:18:28. > :18:33.at Kidderminster Harriers yesterday. Lunchtime at the Malt Shovel in
:18:33. > :18:38.Great Barr. Time for a quick drink with Nick Wright, his brother Billy
:18:38. > :18:48.and a very special matchball. The same ball that produced a late late
:18:48. > :18:53.hatrick for the Harriers supersub. The unreal, quality. You are the
:18:53. > :18:57.best. With 20 minutes left, Kidderminster were trailing 2-2.
:18:57. > :19:02.And that's when Nick got the nod from the boss to stop warming the
:19:02. > :19:09.bench, and start worrying the Newport defence. He said to me, go
:19:09. > :19:12.and do something, anything. He said, do what you can do. With four
:19:12. > :19:15.minutes remaining, Nick rifled in a penalty to give a glimmer of hope
:19:15. > :19:18.at 2-1. In the first minute of stoppage time, he scored again to
:19:18. > :19:21.level the score at 2-2 and then seconds before the final whistle,
:19:21. > :19:27.Nick triggered pandemonium on the airwaves of BBC Hereford and
:19:27. > :19:37.Worcester. The key premise is it! It is there. Kidderminster
:19:37. > :19:38.
:19:39. > :19:45.Harriers! They've won it! The hat trick! It is the stuff of dreams,
:19:45. > :19:48.isn't it? Dreams are made of those sort of things. It was a great day.
:19:48. > :19:51.Surely the Harriers boss Steve Burr will never make a more dramatic
:19:51. > :19:57.subsititution if he's still managing football teams. At the age
:19:57. > :20:03.of 92. They told me a hat-trick had made the national press but
:20:03. > :20:06.something is missing! Harriers now have three games left to cement
:20:06. > :20:09.their place in the play-offs, starting on Saturday when children
:20:09. > :20:12.under 16 get in free to witness another day of high drama against
:20:12. > :20:15.Kettering. And as for the missing piece in the jigsaw, look no
:20:15. > :20:22.further than Billy Wright's scrapbook, on the day his big
:20:22. > :20:25.brother Nick made hatrick history for Kidderminster Harriers.
:20:25. > :20:27.After the busy Easter programme, Aston Villa are still looking for
:20:27. > :20:31.their first home win since Bonfire Night, following yesterday's 1-1
:20:31. > :20:33.draw with Stoke City. Villa were leading at the break thanks to a
:20:33. > :20:36.super goal from their Austrian under-21 striker Andreas Weimann.
:20:36. > :20:43.But Stoke equalised in the second half through Robert Huth, leaving
:20:43. > :20:50.Villa on 35 points, and still not quite safe from relegation. Home
:20:50. > :20:56.game, three points, and that would be a huge plus for us and the last
:20:56. > :21:02.few games. We knew Stoke Wake that type of team to put them away. They
:21:02. > :21:05.are very difficult to stop. There were contrasting fortunes for our
:21:05. > :21:08.two Championship sides over the Easter weekend. Coventry City are
:21:08. > :21:10.now four points adrift of safety after losing 3-1 at relegation
:21:10. > :21:20.rivals Bristol City yesterday. But Birmingham City are on course for
:21:20. > :21:21.
:21:21. > :21:24.the play-offs. They led 3-1 at half-time at West Ham yesterday.
:21:24. > :21:30.They were denied victory when West Ham earned a late penalty for
:21:30. > :21:35.handball against Chris Burke. And Ricardo Vaz Te scored to draw the
:21:35. > :21:45.game 3-3. But the Blues they remain upbeat after consolidating their
:21:45. > :21:50.
:21:50. > :21:54.position in fourth place. Go to the BBC's Board website for more.
:21:54. > :21:57.-- BBC Sport website. A self balancing unicycle, new
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:22:04. > :22:07.smart phone. It's all on display at this year's Gadget Show at the NEC.
:22:07. > :22:10.Advances in technology are making it easier and cheaper for everyone
:22:10. > :22:12.to own the latest gadgets and our Business Correspondent, the
:22:12. > :22:15.ultimate gadget anorak, has been sampling some of the products on
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:22:18. > :22:22.hi-tech gadgets and gizmos including a new way of advertising
:22:22. > :22:26.at bus stops. It is giving you technology in the palm of your hand
:22:26. > :22:32.and you can choose different buttons at the top of your screen.
:22:32. > :22:42.If I go for through animation, there is a close-up of all of your
:22:42. > :22:45.
:22:45. > :22:48.dogs jumping into the back of the car. Press this button and all of a
:22:48. > :22:55.sudden you get the smell of their product, in this case a baked
:22:55. > :23:04.potato. It adds fund to a normal.. They can be quite dreary first
:23:04. > :23:08.thing in the morning. Got a smart phone? Then you'll love the latest
:23:08. > :23:12.in so called Augmented Reality. They led to bring together the
:23:12. > :23:15.physical and virtual worlds. We are familiar with the internet. In 20
:23:15. > :23:21.years, it has changed the way we live and work. Now what we are
:23:21. > :23:25.looking at is the outer net. Fat content will be woven into the
:23:25. > :23:30.fabric of the real world. We will use our smart phones to see and
:23:30. > :23:39.interact with it. It is evidence that the mobile phone is changing
:23:39. > :23:46.our lives. They have accelerometers, gyroscopes, GPS, biosensors and
:23:46. > :23:52.with all of these sensors in a inexpensive price, it makes the
:23:52. > :23:55.software that goes on it... It makes it do so much more than just
:23:55. > :23:57.handle phone calls. But my favourite gagdet at this year's
:23:57. > :24:05.show has to be the self balancing unicycle. Costing nearly �2,000,
:24:05. > :24:09.it's expensive but great fun. How does it work? It is simple. You
:24:09. > :24:14.lean forward to go forward, lean back to go back. The gyroscope
:24:14. > :24:17.takes care of the balance and off you go. Easier to ride than a
:24:17. > :24:25.conventional unicyle but as you can see it too takes a bit of getting
:24:25. > :24:34.used to. I'm still anxious about a tin-
:24:34. > :24:37.opener! We've been storing up these showers
:24:37. > :24:40.for months and now April's here, they all come tumbling down. That's
:24:40. > :24:44.the overriding theme this week, sunshine and showers, and these
:24:44. > :24:47.showers are likely to be quite heavy on occasion. It should be a
:24:47. > :24:55.good week for looking out for those thunder clouds, they could be quite
:24:55. > :24:59.impressive. Low pressure's going to be dominating, the centre of which
:24:59. > :25:02.is over the North Sea, the showers are caught within those rings but
:25:02. > :25:12.it's the unstable air that's going to be setting off the thunder
:25:12. > :25:12.
:25:12. > :25:15.lightening. But the template for the week is set by these first two
:25:15. > :25:18.days. So during the nights, the showers die out, the skies clear
:25:18. > :25:27.and in the coldest, sheltered spots we could see a touch of frost. But
:25:27. > :25:31.in towns and cities, values are a little higher at four Celsius. So a
:25:31. > :25:33.lovely sunny start to the day but it won't be long before we see the
:25:33. > :25:37.showers piling in from the north west, the deeper blue centres
:25:37. > :25:41.indicating where the heavy ones are going to be. They may last a while
:25:41. > :25:49.with the winds being lighter tomorrow. Temperatures are similar
:25:49. > :25:52.tomorrow but again, it'll feel colder in the winds. So that's the
:25:52. > :25:58.drill this week, sunshine and showers by day, drier, clearer and
:25:58. > :26:00.colder by night with a touch of frost. And very little change in
:26:00. > :26:10.maximum temperatures through the week until we get to Friday and
:26:10. > :26:17.
:26:17. > :26:20.A look at tonight's main headlines: Britain can extradite the radical
:26:20. > :26:23.muslim cleric Abu Hamza to the United States to face terrorism
:26:23. > :26:26.charges. And as Severn Trent consider
:26:26. > :26:31.selling water to other regions, rural communities are increasingly
:26:31. > :26:35.concerned about the impact of the drought this summer.
:26:35. > :26:37.And just time to tell you before we go tonight, that BBC Radio
:26:37. > :26:40.Shropshire's talking tomorrow about how the county's getting ready for
:26:40. > :26:43.the Olympic Games this summer. But are the councils doing enough to
:26:43. > :26:46.cash in on the tourism opportunities?
:26:46. > :26:48.BBC Hereford and Worcester will be speaking to the Route Managing