:00:09. > :00:12.Hello, welcome to the programme. The headlines. A family's dismay as
:00:13. > :00:17.a schoolgirl with Down's syndrome has a her picture hijacked and
:00:17. > :00:24.ridiculed on the internet. You just feel sick, and sad that people have
:00:24. > :00:28.got so little respect, or human kindness, really.
:00:28. > :00:31.Brighter jobs news as a Chinese lighting firm moves manufacturing
:00:31. > :00:35.to Birmingham. As Syria agrees a temporary
:00:35. > :00:38.ceasefire, exiles pledge to keep up the pressure with a demonstration
:00:38. > :00:42.in Birmingham tonight. We are conscious of making sure that
:00:42. > :00:46.people continue to think about what is happening in Syria, continue to
:00:46. > :00:50.be active. 100 years after the Titanic sank in
:00:50. > :01:00.the act -- Atlantic, remember in the Midlands links with the ill-
:01:00. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:04.fated liner. Good evening, welcome to Thursday's
:01:04. > :01:09.Midlands Today from the BBC. Our top story tonight, how internet
:01:09. > :01:11.abuse has disgusted the family of a teenager with Down's Syndrome. The
:01:12. > :01:14.mother of Heidi Crowter today appealed to so-called internet
:01:14. > :01:20.trollers to stop posting sick and offensive messages about her
:01:20. > :01:24.daughter. Pictures of Heidi were copied from a parents support group
:01:24. > :01:27.website without permission. They were then posted on other Facebook
:01:27. > :01:37.pages where users were invited to mock young people with disabilities.
:01:37. > :01:37.
:01:38. > :01:42.Sarah Falkland reports. She is great fun, she has always
:01:42. > :01:47.got a caring and happy attitude. She is very sensitive. 16 year-old
:01:47. > :01:52.Heidi Crowter has Down's syndrome. Four year, she has been a victim of
:01:52. > :01:56.internet trolls. Pictures has appeared on a Facebook page,
:01:56. > :02:01.entitled, do not listen to the guy above me, she has Down's syndrome.
:02:01. > :02:05.She has always -- also been put on another more sexually explicit page.
:02:05. > :02:09.You feel sick and sad that people have got so little respect for
:02:09. > :02:13.human kindness, that they can do something like this. Until
:02:13. > :02:18.yesterday, Heidi, from Coventry, had been shielded from the truth
:02:18. > :02:26.about the trolls, but with her parents trying to tell Wedding --
:02:26. > :02:36.get wider support, she felt could not keep it a secret. I think it is
:02:36. > :02:40.an acceptable. Were you very shocked? A little bit, yes. In a
:02:40. > :02:43.statement today, Facebook says there is a policy in place for
:02:43. > :02:48.Heidi's mother to report these unauthorised photos. She tells us
:02:48. > :02:51.that she and a small army of her friends have been doing that since
:02:51. > :02:55.last October. The statement went on to say that Facebook has a real
:02:55. > :02:58.identity Prost -- policy, which makes people accountable for their
:02:58. > :03:02.actions and behaviour, and a set of rules which are intended to create
:03:02. > :03:08.a balance between enabling free- speech, and preventing harassment
:03:08. > :03:12.and abuse. One of the first high- profile cases of trolling involved
:03:12. > :03:16.this Worcestershire schoolgirl who died after throwing herself under a
:03:16. > :03:20.train. Sean Duffy was jailed for 18 weeks for targeting bereaved
:03:20. > :03:23.families on line. He is the second Pursey -- person to be jailed for
:03:23. > :03:27.trying in the UK. Bay of Risley do not know anyone with Down's
:03:27. > :03:31.syndrome, -- they obviously do not know anyone with Down's syndrome,
:03:32. > :03:35.they think things about them like they are stupid, when clearly Heidi
:03:35. > :03:42.is not and other people are not. They definitely would not do it is
:03:42. > :03:46.a new Heidi. She is intelligent. know! Is the people who did this
:03:46. > :03:54.are watching now, what would you like to say to them? I would like
:03:54. > :04:02.to say, stop doing it, please. With a snout is Professor Ellis
:04:02. > :04:06.Cashmore, who is a professor of social media -- with us now. We
:04:06. > :04:13.seem to be hearing more and more about the dark side of the internet.
:04:13. > :04:16.Patrols, yes. It is a difficult question to answer -- the trolls,
:04:17. > :04:20.yes. Intentional malice is not quite enough. I imagine they are
:04:20. > :04:24.people who do not command any authority or respect from their
:04:24. > :04:29.front in everyday life, and out of their frustration with their own
:04:29. > :04:35.insignificance, they decide to try and distinguish themselves. And one
:04:36. > :04:45.they can do this with a fair degree of confidence that they will not be
:04:45. > :04:51.Is on social media sites. And they are cool, sadistic sometimes. An
:04:51. > :04:54.absolutely offensive -- and they are cruel, sadistic sometimes. In a
:04:54. > :04:59.perverse way, they are getting their own way. This is what they
:04:59. > :05:04.want. They have aroused people's anxiety and anger. And here we are.
:05:04. > :05:08.Top talking about them, right now. You can almost imagine them saying,
:05:08. > :05:12.this is a result, they are talking about us. There are so many plus
:05:12. > :05:17.point about the internet, but this darker side is so dark, what can be
:05:17. > :05:22.done? With every blessing comes a curse. And in practice, this is
:05:22. > :05:28.very difficult to police. Facebook are saying, we like to strike a
:05:28. > :05:32.balance between free speech and offensiveness. Somewhere in between.
:05:32. > :05:36.The number of people who are actually prosecuted, even
:05:36. > :05:41.identified, are miniscule compared to the number of people who are
:05:41. > :05:44.trailing. So you think it will go on? I cannot see any stop to it.
:05:44. > :05:46.Thanks for being with us this evening. Still ahead: The Caribbean
:05:46. > :05:55.schoolgirls blazing a trail to Birmingham before Jamaica's
:05:55. > :05:59.athletic superstars head to the China's largest lighting
:05:59. > :06:01.manufacturer opened a new factory in Birmingham today. The company
:06:01. > :06:05.behind it believes this region could be ideally placed to make
:06:05. > :06:08.lights and then sell them across European markets. NVC has so far
:06:09. > :06:14.created 70 permanent jobs and hopes to increase that to around 250 by
:06:14. > :06:17.2015. The welcome news on jobs, comes despite a regional business
:06:17. > :06:25.survey which says the number of manufacturers taking on new workers
:06:25. > :06:28.fell from 31% to 26% at the end of 2011. And a warning there are
:06:28. > :06:37.flashing images in Kevin Reide's report on how one firm is bucking
:06:37. > :06:39.that trend. What do the Beijing Olympics and
:06:39. > :06:44.this new warehouse in Birmingham have in common? The company that
:06:44. > :06:48.owns the warehouse was the main lighting supplier for the Games.
:06:48. > :06:53.Today its founder and owner was here to officially open it. Saying
:06:53. > :06:57.he chose Birmingham because it is in the centre of England.
:06:57. > :07:00.TRANSLATION: We are not just aiming to distribute in the UK, we see
:07:00. > :07:07.here as a stepping stone into Europe as part of global expansion
:07:07. > :07:11.plans. The company first came to Birmingham in 2009, employing eight
:07:11. > :07:14.people to import the lighting equipment it makes in China. It now
:07:14. > :07:19.assembles here and in the future hopes to begin manufacturing.
:07:19. > :07:23.have got the money to invest in our country. So it they can give the
:07:23. > :07:27.jobs to our workforce. It is lagging a little bit. If they are
:07:27. > :07:32.going to bring light into Britain, that is great. The more jobs that
:07:32. > :07:36.are available, people can get into work. I think it is a good thing,
:07:36. > :07:40.because we have got work in place so more people can get employed.
:07:40. > :07:44.All this comes as the West London's -- West Midlands's Chamber of
:07:44. > :07:48.Commerce fires a broadside at the government, claiming manufacturing
:07:48. > :07:54.jobs are in decline and blames too much red tape, saying it is
:07:54. > :07:58.difficult to recruit staff and grow businesses. If you take someone on,
:07:58. > :08:06.you commit yourself to red tape, the most simple of which is acting
:08:06. > :08:09.as a tax collector for the government. All of those complex is
:08:09. > :08:13.multiply and businesses are reluctant to take on people and the
:08:13. > :08:16.dole queue grows. That is not our experience here at all. We have
:08:16. > :08:20.grown gradually over the last few years, head count is up to 70
:08:20. > :08:23.people. The process of recruiting people have not been a problem.
:08:23. > :08:26.there may be a storm brewing between businesses and the
:08:27. > :08:30.government here in the West Midlands, but for at least one firm,
:08:30. > :08:32.the future is looking bright. The economic benefits of the
:08:33. > :08:35.proposed high speed railway from London to the Midlands have been
:08:35. > :08:38.halved in figures released by the Government. Latest predictions
:08:38. > :08:46.suggest the project will bring �1.20 of benefit for every pound
:08:46. > :08:48.invested. That compares with an original forecast of �2.40. But the
:08:48. > :08:54.Department for Transport insists the figures don't reflect all the
:08:54. > :08:57.wider advantages HS2 will bring. A lorry driver who admitting
:08:57. > :09:01.causing the death of a cyclist by careless driving has walked free
:09:01. > :09:04.from court with a suspended jail sentence. 47-year-old Karl Austin
:09:04. > :09:08.from Stoke-on-Trent was killed while taking part in an event for
:09:08. > :09:12.his cycling club last summer. Today at Derby Crown Court 62 year old
:09:12. > :09:18.Michael Bray, seen here on the far left, was given a six month jail
:09:18. > :09:20.sentence suspended for two years. A convicted arsonist who burned
:09:20. > :09:27.down mobile homes and blackmailed residents into selling their
:09:27. > :09:30.property has been forced to pay �750,000 in compensation. John
:09:30. > :09:35.Doherty was jailed for 12 years for terrorising his victims at The Glen
:09:35. > :09:41.caravan park near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. They've been
:09:41. > :09:44.compensated under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Campaigners fighting to
:09:44. > :09:47.save jobs at a Kidderminster-based carpet firm have been gathering
:09:47. > :09:51.signatures for their petition today. More than 150 posts are at risk at
:09:51. > :09:56.Brintons Carpets. The company employs 1,700 people worldwide and
:09:56. > :09:59.says the cuts will allow it to compete in the future. But
:09:59. > :10:01.campaigners want the industry to stay in the town and are planning
:10:01. > :10:05.to take their petition to the government.
:10:05. > :10:08.Protesters claim it makes no sense to close both GP surgeries in the
:10:08. > :10:12.centre of one of our most historic towns and move them to the
:10:12. > :10:17.outskirts. A campaign led by comedian Jo Brand's mother has
:10:17. > :10:19.collected 1,200 signatures. The NHS says the move is an integral part
:10:19. > :10:20.of plans for a �27 million hospital of plans for a �27 million hospital
:10:20. > :10:27.of plans for a �27 million hospital and health centre complex and any
:10:27. > :10:33.delays could kill off the project. Our health correspondent Michele
:10:33. > :10:38.Paduano reports. With muscle inflammation, and
:10:38. > :10:42.osteoporosis, 84 year-old Grace is not by far the most elderly and
:10:42. > :10:47.frail person in this complex. But she moved to the centre of Ludlow
:10:47. > :10:51.to have immunity -- amenity that the GP on her doorstep. Getting on
:10:51. > :10:58.and off buses is not easy even for me. It is worse for many people
:10:58. > :11:05.here, believe me. They are much worse than I am physically. So, yes,
:11:05. > :11:11.we just cannot lose our surgeries. The campaign group, Save the Ludlow
:11:11. > :11:17.count surgery, includes a retired GP. It is rubbing salt in the wind
:11:17. > :11:22.having collected a petition. Joyce had to go to Downing Street with
:11:22. > :11:27.her daughter, comedienne Jo Brand. Nobody is going to want to trail a
:11:27. > :11:31.mile and a bit out to the eco Park, and stand in the rain in the winter,
:11:31. > :11:36.all with small children in a pushchair and have got chest
:11:36. > :11:40.infections. They are not going to want to. Ludlow is due to get a �27
:11:40. > :11:44.million new hospital here. It is meaning more hospital services in
:11:44. > :11:50.south Shropshire. Crucially, both town centre at GP surgeries must
:11:50. > :11:56.move to the new site. To retain a surgery in the centre of Ludlow
:11:56. > :11:59.would not just undermined the integrated nature of care on the
:11:59. > :12:03.hospital site, it would greatly increase costs of the overall
:12:03. > :12:07.scheme and jeopardise the Ludlow hospital development. Bosses to the
:12:07. > :12:12.eco Park run every 20 minutes to 30 minutes. It takes about half an
:12:12. > :12:17.hour on this bus to get up to the eco Park. There is also a dial a
:12:18. > :12:22.ride service that patients can ask for 24 hours in advance, and there
:12:22. > :12:26.is a �100,000 coming for a new community bus service that patients
:12:26. > :12:33.can pay for separately. This is a historic market town is spit and
:12:33. > :12:40.there seems no room for compromise. -- is split.
:12:40. > :12:41.Also roads continue in the Premier League but good Aston Villa be a
:12:41. > :12:44.drive into the relegation nightmare?
:12:44. > :12:48.We have had the worst of the showers but the best of the
:12:48. > :12:55.temperatures, it is getting colder by the weekend. It is all coming up
:12:55. > :12:58.later. After 13 months of violence a
:12:58. > :13:01.tentative ceasefire's in place tonight in Syria and for now at
:13:01. > :13:04.least it appears to be holding. But opponents of the regime are still
:13:04. > :13:08.fleeing the country and there's fresh testimony tonight from
:13:08. > :13:16.Syrians here in the Midlands who've been aiding refugees. Giles Latcham
:13:16. > :13:20.has this report. Back home in Birmingham, husband
:13:20. > :13:25.and wife, both Syrian nationals, we are not naming them because they
:13:25. > :13:31.fear for their families in Syria. He is an NHS psychologist who spent
:13:31. > :13:34.the past nine days in refugee camps. In a clinic, he treated dozens of
:13:34. > :13:39.people haunted by nightmares and flashbacks, traumatised by it
:13:39. > :13:47.murder and torture. An ad that said that five of her family were killed
:13:47. > :13:52.a band of her eyes. -- and Lady DEC said. They planted mines around the
:13:52. > :13:59.image -- village and exploded them, children were picking vines and
:13:59. > :14:05.they saw that they were slaughtering children like a sheep.
:14:05. > :14:10.They went to Syria with the charity Hand in Hand For Syria that went to
:14:10. > :14:15.help the casualties of President Asad's crackdown. I saw a mother,
:14:15. > :14:22.she said, she did not want anything, she just wanted to remember her son.
:14:22. > :14:27.He was 16 year-old and she said he died in front of her eyes. Reports
:14:27. > :14:31.of fierce fighting as the ceasefire junior today, a Midlands-based
:14:31. > :14:36.activists will stage a vigil tonight in Birmingham, anxious to
:14:36. > :14:39.rid mind the world that Syria is still a nation in conflict. We are
:14:39. > :14:44.conscious that people continue to think about what is happening in
:14:44. > :14:47.Syria, be active in supporting Syrian people. Like standing up
:14:47. > :14:52.against anybody, you have to stand in solidarity with each other, and
:14:52. > :14:55.that is what we are trying to do tonight. Harrowing though the
:14:55. > :15:04.experience was, the doctor and his wife are planning to return next
:15:04. > :15:10.month. It is their duty, they say, to their homeland and its people.
:15:10. > :15:14.Time for the sport now. What a dreadful night for a Black Country
:15:14. > :15:18.side's. A month from now and it'll all be over. But we're still a long
:15:18. > :15:20.way from learning how many of our teams will survive when the dust
:15:20. > :15:23.settles on the Premier League relegation battle. Wolves
:15:23. > :15:25.increasingly look doomed but Aston Villa could still join them in the
:15:25. > :15:28.Championship. Nick Clitheroe reports.
:15:28. > :15:32.There's no lack of spirit about this Wolves team but the gulf in
:15:32. > :15:35.quality was illustrated yet again as Arsenal swept into Molineux.
:15:35. > :15:40.Once Neil Swarbrick had awarded a penalty and sent Sebastian Bassong
:15:40. > :15:43.off after just 9 minutes victory for the visitors seemed a formality.
:15:43. > :15:49.Within a couple of minutes it was two.Theo Walcott doubling the home
:15:49. > :15:56.fans dismay. And any hope of a revival was completely quashed when
:15:56. > :15:59.Yossi Benayoun added Arsenal's third. If they get five more
:15:59. > :16:05.efforts like a got tonight with 11 players on the pitch, we will get
:16:05. > :16:10.as many as we possibly can. It is a tough time, and things seem to go
:16:10. > :16:14.against you when you are in the bottom of the league. But the
:16:14. > :16:17.spirit and the togetherness of the lads showed today, I can only ask
:16:17. > :16:20.for for the next five games. Wolves may look relegation certainties now
:16:20. > :16:23.but they're not the only Midlands side in trouble. Wigan's victory
:16:23. > :16:26.over Manchester United means Aston Villa are only six points above the
:16:26. > :16:29.bottom three. West Bromwich Albion are realistically, if not
:16:29. > :16:33.mathematically, safe and it looked that way as they succumbed to
:16:33. > :16:36.Manchester City's revival of the title race. They were a goal down
:16:36. > :16:40.inside six minutes but it was the second half when the deluge of
:16:40. > :16:50.goals arrived. They can look forward to another Premier League
:16:50. > :17:06.
:17:06. > :17:09.season. Their two biggest Midlands Chris Wright took the 10th and
:17:09. > :17:19.final wicket to claim for in the innings. Rain-affected play, a
:17:19. > :17:23.
:17:23. > :17:26.short time ago, Warwickshire were 91-three in reply. The Birmingham
:17:26. > :17:29.Brummies won the first big Midlands derby of the Elite League season
:17:29. > :17:32.with a 50 points to 42 victory over Wolverhampton. A dramatic 11th heat
:17:32. > :17:34.was the outstanding race of the night at the Perry Barr stadium.
:17:34. > :17:38.Sebastian Ulamek held off Wolverhampton's Freddie Lindgren
:17:38. > :17:41.round the final bend to open up an eight point lead. It was the
:17:41. > :17:44.Brummies' first win of the season. A netball team from Jamaica is in
:17:44. > :17:47.Birmingham this week as part of a sports exchange leading up to the
:17:47. > :17:50.Olympics. The Jamaican under 16 national squad will play a series
:17:50. > :17:53.of matches in the city. Later this year the stars of Jamaica's track
:17:53. > :17:56.and field team will be based in Birmingham ahead of the Games in
:17:56. > :18:00.July. Nadine Towell reports on our Jamaican Connection in the run up
:18:00. > :18:03.to the greatest show on earth. Bringing a flavour of the Caribbean
:18:03. > :18:07.to the council house in Birmingham. For many of these Jamaican
:18:07. > :18:11.teenagers, this is their first overseas trip. They are here as
:18:11. > :18:15.part of a pre- Olympics exchange programme, building up to the
:18:15. > :18:18.arrival of the Jamaican athlete in Birmingham this summer. So after
:18:18. > :18:25.their formal welcome, the girls were then introduced to the sites
:18:25. > :18:29.and the shops. It is very wonderful, just the buildings are amazing. The
:18:29. > :18:36.different look. It is very nice. Festival, the temperature, it is
:18:36. > :18:40.very cold! As well as the building, they are larger, much larger.
:18:40. > :18:43.This is what they are really here for, a series of competitive
:18:43. > :18:46.netball matches between the Jamaicans and a team from
:18:46. > :18:50.Birmingham, been played every day for the rest of this week. This
:18:50. > :18:55.time last year, a team from Birmingham went to Jamaica on the
:18:55. > :18:58.first leg of the exchange. Now they are in no mood for revenge. It was
:18:58. > :19:02.very competitive last year, they beat us in every match. This year,
:19:02. > :19:10.we are hoping to change it and beat them tonight. They are amazing,
:19:10. > :19:14.really good. I am hoping to win today! These girls are the first
:19:14. > :19:18.Jamaican sports team to come into Birmingham in 2012. They are well
:19:18. > :19:22.aware they are being followed here by their countrymen later this year,
:19:22. > :19:29.including Olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt.
:19:29. > :19:31.are seeing them, we hope we have her set the stage for them. We hope
:19:31. > :19:36.they receive the wonderful hospitality we have received from
:19:36. > :19:38.Birmingham. On court, the Jamaicans won the first match of the series
:19:38. > :19:43.by a tight margin. Up the atmosphere here is anything to go
:19:43. > :19:50.by, the athletes arriving for the Olympics this summer should expect
:19:50. > :19:55.a hero's welcome. Just give us the timetable of when
:19:55. > :19:59.our visiting Olympians are arriving. We are only 14 weeks away from the
:19:59. > :20:09.Jamaican team arriving, July 15th. The following day the US team
:20:09. > :20:12.
:20:12. > :20:18.arrives. The city of Coventry arena is the first game in football.
:20:18. > :20:23.Let's go back to cricket, in seven county matches today, 77 wickets
:20:23. > :20:26.fell. The batsmen did not want to be out
:20:26. > :20:32.so long! The ball was moving but not as much as it should have done
:20:32. > :20:35.for the amount of wickets. It is perishing out their! It's 100
:20:35. > :20:39.years since the sinking of the Titanic. But not many people
:20:39. > :20:41.realise how much of the liner was built right here in the Midlands.
:20:41. > :20:44.Well, now a new exhibition's commemorating this region's role.
:20:44. > :20:53.Bob Hockenhull reports on our links to the Titanic disaster and on the
:20:53. > :20:57.lasting effect on the lives of people even today.
:20:57. > :21:02.On route to the spot where the Titanic sank. But not all on board
:21:02. > :21:06.this week's anniversary crews are descendants of the victims. We
:21:06. > :21:11.spoke to Sheila from Hall Green in Birmingham, just before she set off.
:21:11. > :21:15.She has no family connection to the disaster, yet felt compelled to
:21:15. > :21:20.join the cruise, retracing the chip's fate full journey. She had
:21:20. > :21:23.been collecting memorabilia connected to the tragedy since her
:21:23. > :21:27.father described seeing a sinking ship during the Second World War.
:21:27. > :21:32.He said it was a terrible thing to witness the death of a ship, and it
:21:33. > :21:36.seemed such an emotive expression it stayed with me. To me, that
:21:36. > :21:42.Cruise is an opportunity not only to pay respects to the hundreds of
:21:42. > :21:48.people who died, but also to the ship herself. Sport in the White
:21:48. > :21:51.Star liner uniform worn by the Titanic crew, Andrew has also let
:21:51. > :21:55.the 100 year old tragedy have a profound effect on his life. The
:21:55. > :22:00.amateur historian has spent 30 years uncovering the region's
:22:00. > :22:04.forgotten contributions to the ship, not just the anchor, famously made
:22:04. > :22:10.near Dudley, but much more. She is registered in Liverpool, so the
:22:10. > :22:15.people of Liverpool thinks -- pink she is a love of will ship. She was
:22:15. > :22:18.built in Belfast so they think it is a Belfast ship. But 70% of the
:22:18. > :22:23.interiors were made in the Birmingham and Black Country, so
:22:23. > :22:28.she is a Birmingham and back- country ship. Andrew has set up a
:22:28. > :22:34.museum, collecting bits of the ship itself. This debris was found by
:22:34. > :22:37.fishermen in Ireland. Visitors will be able to get up close to this
:22:37. > :22:41.genuine Titanic sidelight. It was brought up on the seabed in the
:22:42. > :22:45.1990s, and is now owned by the Coventry-based Titanic Heritage
:22:45. > :22:50.Trust. More and more is being uncovered about the victims from
:22:50. > :22:54.the Midlands. One of them, William Higgins, was a former MD at the
:22:54. > :23:00.engineering company where Andrew's exhibition was being staged. It is
:23:00. > :23:03.about people, people who's lives were never fulfilled. Generation
:23:03. > :23:07.it's a who never went forward. That is the most poignant thing about
:23:07. > :23:12.the whole story. Andrew's research has found it is a story about life
:23:12. > :23:16.as well as death. Worcester confectioner Henry Morley died in a
:23:16. > :23:20.tragedy, but Kate Phillips, the 19 year-old shop assistant he was an
:23:20. > :23:27.open with, survived, and gave birth to their daughter. Three brothers,
:23:27. > :23:30.Jess of Alfred and John Davies from West Bromwich died, but there are
:23:30. > :23:33.parents set up a successful business in America with the
:23:33. > :23:38.compensation money. A country so many other people were destined
:23:38. > :23:42.never to reach. It is an intriguing story and
:23:42. > :23:44.continues to be fascinating. I interviewed 80 Turkic -- Titanic
:23:44. > :23:48.survivor years ago, it was fascinating.
:23:48. > :23:53.Tomorrow, we will have report on the captain of the Titanic, Edward
:23:53. > :23:57.Smith. He came from Staffordshire. How much was he to blame for the
:23:57. > :24:00.disaster? For a lot more, go to the website.
:24:00. > :24:09.The weather has been causing some interesting outcome in the cricket
:24:09. > :24:13.Things have been kicking off in Coventry. Earlier on we had report
:24:13. > :24:20.of thunderstorms there. April has not release Brown any surprises on
:24:20. > :24:23.us so far. At the beginning of the week we had a westerly which meant
:24:23. > :24:28.temperatures were reasonable. That will change by the weekend, we will
:24:28. > :24:32.see northerlys flooding in and washing away those warmer colours.
:24:32. > :24:39.Mrs Howard looks in summary. Wintery showers come the weekend,
:24:39. > :24:43.also it will turn more windy and it will be colder. Back to tonight and
:24:43. > :24:46.this evening, first of all. Showers will be dying away in the next
:24:46. > :24:52.couple of hours. Looking much clearer and dry across the region,
:24:52. > :24:56.so it will be cold as well. It could be freezing across rural
:24:56. > :25:01.parts, we will see a widespread frost in those areas, more so than
:25:01. > :25:08.on previous night. For tomorrow morning, we will be soaking up the
:25:08. > :25:12.rays once again. A beautiful sunny start. Then the show was full role
:25:12. > :25:18.in from the north-west by the afternoon. -- the showers will roll
:25:18. > :25:25.in on the afternoon. Top temperatures still quite reasonable.
:25:25. > :25:30.As the northerlys sink in, like winds tomorrow, it will turn colder.
:25:30. > :25:35.The days are cold, the night will become colder. Tomorrow night,
:25:35. > :25:39.temperatures could get below freezing. Again, a widespread frost.
:25:39. > :25:46.For gardeners, it can do watch out for his Saturday night into Sunday.
:25:46. > :25:55.Or widespread frost and wintry showers as well. Dry ice under. But
:25:55. > :25:58.A fragile ceasefire in Syria appears to be holding tonight.
:25:58. > :26:02.And internet abuse for a girl with Down's syndrome, her family say
:26:02. > :26:06.they are disgusted and appeal for aid to stop.
:26:06. > :26:10.There have been reports of a big bang similar to a large explosion
:26:10. > :26:17.across cock -- Coventry, Warwickshire and Northern
:26:17. > :26:21.Oxfordshire. Houses shook and windows shook, as far as rugby.