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with Mary Rhodes and Nick Owen. The headlines tonight: An inquest hears | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
Shropshire teenager Georgia Williams was strangled. | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
22-year-old Jamie Reynolds appears in court charged with murdering her | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
Also tonight: A jury hears about a little boy reduced to stealing food | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
at school - his mother and stepfather are accused of starving | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
him to death. A good time to be an elver, | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
critically endangered a year ago the baby eels are making a comeback. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Bus wars, two Midlands cities vying for the title of longest urban route | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
in Europe. It is up to Birmingham to come | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
forward with proposals we will consider but at this moment in time | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Coventry holds the crown. And as the sun continues to shine the | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
temperatures continue to rise. How high did we get today? I'll tell you | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
later. Good evening. Police have revealed | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
that a Shropshire teenager who was found dead in woodland last week, | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
had been strangled. Today a man appeared in crown court accused of | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
murdering 17-year-old Georgia Williams. In her home town of | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Telford, the tributes continue to grow and the sixth form college she | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
attended has opened a special book of memory. Joanne Writtle reports. | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
Jamie Reynolds made a ten minute appearance at Stafford Crown Court | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
over a video link from prison. He spoke briefly to confirm his name. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
He is accused of murdering 17-year-old Georgia Williams. Police | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
later confirmed a body found in woodland near Wrexham on Friday was | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
that of Georgia. A post-mortem revealed she was strangled. | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
Meanwhile, acquaintances have expressed sympathy to family. | :01:55. | :02:04. | |
four o'clock we had a memorial thing in Wellington. I saw her mum, it | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
broke my heart seeing her mum in bits. It should not have happened to | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
her and her family. It has broken the family apart. Their world is | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
demolished. She was bubbly and cheerful. There was nothing horrible | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
about her. A police officer told the inquest that detectives believe she | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
died at a house in Wellington sometime tween eight and 9pm a week | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
ago. The same day she went missing from her parents home. George was | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
studying in Telford where many of those close to her have been leaving | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
tributes. Students have been offered counselling. The college principal | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
said students were writing condolences in a special book. | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
students club together and came up with a number of ideas and | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
initiatives to continue to celebrate her life. As a result we have opened | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
a book of memories and the students celebrated her time at the college | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
yesterday with heartfelt memories and stories and music. Jamie | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
Reynolds will appear in court on September six. The inquest into the | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
death was adjourned. And Joanne joins us now from All Saints Church | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
in the centre of Wellington, Georgia's home town. Friends still | :03:24. | :03:33. | |
coming forward in numbers to express their sense of loss? | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Yes, they really are. The town is still in mourning. There are more | :03:38. | :03:46. | |
flowers here in the church. The flowers are all over this town at | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
various places remembering Georgia. She had so many friends and many of | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
them have spent time here at the church over the last few days | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
remembering her. Police are still looking for some of her personal | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
possessions? Yes, this is an ongoing investigation and they are looking | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
for her missing items, they have issued photographs. A distinctive | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
leather satchel they want to find that, they also want to find her | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
white Samsung Galaxy smart phone and they are particularly keen to find a | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
black leather jacket which she was wearing when she went missing from | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
her parents home in Wellington a week last Sunday. Anyone with | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
information is asked to contact West Mercia Police or Crimestoppers. | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
Coming up later in the programme: With thousands of supermarket | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
trolleys being abandoned every year, the new phone app that'll track them | :04:40. | :04:50. | |
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The trial of a mother and stepfather accused of starving and killing | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
their four year old son has been told by the boy's teacher that he | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
would regularly steal food. Magdelena Luczak and Mariusz | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
Krezolek deny murdering Daniel Pelka and causing or allowing his death. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
His body was found by paramedics who were called to the family's home in | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
Coventry in March last year. Earlier, I spoke to our reporter | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Phil Mackie at Birmingham Crown Court and asked him what Daniel's | :05:12. | :05:21. | |
teachers had to add. Well, we had from two of them, Lisa | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
Godfrey, the reception teacher where he went in Coventry and the | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
classroom assistant. Both talked about how desperate for food he was | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
and the fact he kept stealing from other children, even when they | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
locked their lunch boxes away, he found his way in to steal food. The | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
system broke down when she described a pancake race when he was so | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
desperate for food he was picking up the pancakes out of the dirt. They | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
talked about his decline before his death as he became more and more | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
emaciated. Lisa Godfrey said he or a resemblance to a child with | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
leukaemia. What else did the prosecution say? | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
Well, they have said that although Daniel was emaciated when he died, | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
the cause of death was a severe head injury and they allege his mother | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
and stepfather administered that blow. The couple that together | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
listening intently to the evidence with Polish translators. They deny | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
murder, the court will resume tomorrow. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
There's been criticism of a decision to allow the controversial private | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
security firm G4S to take over the running of two specialist centres | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
for victims of rape and sexual assault in the West Midlands. The | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
union Unison has said such sensitive services should never have been sold | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
off. But G4S has given assurances that victims will get a better | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
service. Cath Mackie reports. An anonymous house in Walsall. Jo | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
runs this sexual assault referral centre as well as another one in | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
Birmingham. The two centres help hundreds of victims of sexual | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
violence...which they'll continue to do, but under new management. G4S is | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
in charge - the same firm which was widely criticised for its failings | :07:10. | :07:19. | |
in the Olympics security contract. Unions are incensed. If you expect | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
people to go to these centres and use them, they have to feel | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
confident and I think the brand G4S is tarnished at the moment. Before | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
now these centres were in effect run by the police in conjunction with | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
the NHS and local councils, but a Government investigation said it was | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
failing to maintain minimum standards. Access to care and the | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
quality of care on offer were criticised. Question is will G4S do | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
any better. Well they've told us, they're confident they will. There | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
are adequate measures in place, we know what we are doing. We are | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
delighted to be doing this. Their confidence is backed by the local | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
NHS commissioners who awarded them the contract. G4S have lots of | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
experience of dealing with sensitive areas and doing that well. They had | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
a track record in this area as well so we were confident they could do | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
this and do it well. In future victims can self refer rather than | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
through the police, but there's a word of caution from one counselling | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
expert. What we have seen in the press about G4S before will people | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
think, they will not go there so they will never report and tell us | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
what is going on. NHS England have said they'll monitor the new regime | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
and if it's failing the G4S contract will be terminated. Police are | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
looking for a gunman after a man was shot at a block of flats in | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
Coventry. Police were called to Faseman Avenue in the Tile Hill area | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
of the city just after two o'clock this afternoon. A 34-year-old man | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
was found with a gun shot wound to his lower arm. His injuries are not | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
life threatening. Police say it was a targeted shooting and not a random | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
attack. The parents of a 19-month-old boy | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
who lost his legs and fingers to meningitis B are campaigning for a | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
vaccination to be made available to all children. Tommy Brown from | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
Walsall was only given a five per cent chance of survival when he | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
contracted the disease. Since then a new preventative vaccine has been | :09:15. | :09:25. | |
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developed and it's hoped it'll be made available from December. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Nobody should go through what we have been three. It can affect | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
anybody. Older people and we think there should be no questions asked. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
They should be introduced into the vaccine. The burden that cases like | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
this put on the NHS and the lifelong support he will require, it is worth | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
us putting the vaccine into place. Also, if we save one life then that | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
is what we want to do. For many years, the number of baby | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
eels in rivers such as the Severn has dropped to the point where they | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
were officially classed as critically endangered. But this | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
spring there's been a "once in a lifetime" explosion in the eel | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
population. Which is good news for fishermen and also conservationists. | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
Our Rural Affairs Correspondent David Gregory-Kumar has the latest | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
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report in our Springwatch series. This was going to be a story about | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
how the eels and elder population is crashing and the environment agency | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
go on patrol to stop fishermen taking them from the River Severn. | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
In the start of May, that changed. When it gets dark, we will show you | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
what we mean. These are elver fishermen. They have a long | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
historical rights to be here. grandfather, his grandfather before | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
him. And this is what they are fishing for. Right now, millions of | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
them have returned from the sea and made their way to the River Severn | :11:00. | :11:08. | |
as to Tewkesbury. This is the moment of migration, millions and millions | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
floating across the Atlantic. Right now we have a tailback of 50 miles | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
worth of elvers from Tewkesbury to sharpness. There are properly tens | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
of millions in the river system coming up now. They are surfing on | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
the currents. That may sound like a lot of eels | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
but numbers have actually been declining. But this year, it will | :11:36. | :11:46. | |
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buck the trend and in a spectacular way. The tide came through, we took | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
the net and there was a bucket. All I can explain it as is the river | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
turned white. It looked like grass covering the river. It was all | :11:58. | :12:06. | |
elvers. Once-in-a-lifetime site. This glut is something the group | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
want to capitalise on. Where we are on the River Severn, this is the | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
greatest problem. We have a series of navigation with matching spree | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
and very few elvers can get past the barriers. What we are wanting to do | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
on the River Severn is to locate them, pick them up and move them | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
over the barrier and release them the other side. These days we do not | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
need many elvers in this country but that might change with this glut. | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
am quite sure elvers have been enjoyed on toast in Gloucestershire | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
which is something that hasn't happened for many years. Not all of | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
the locals like them. I don't like them. An acquired taste! These | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
little fellas would not be ending up in a Spanish tap at spa. They will | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
be relocated and transferred and they will go to a place where they | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
can grow to adult eels and they will boost the population as a whole. | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
I hope you are enjoying your tea! They've been a feature of | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
supermarkets since they were invented in America in 1937. But far | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
too often we see them like this. Of the two million trolleys in Britain, | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
it's estimated a staggering one million are abandoned every year. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
And only half that number are returned to the store. But that | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
could be about to change, as our Business Correspondent Peter Plisner | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
reports. Supermarket trolleys end up getting | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
dumped in some of the strangest places. While many are recovered | :13:40. | :13:49. | |
others never get reported and often this one in Leamington Spa - here | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
they reckon they lose hundreds of a monthly. Although many are returned | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
- it's still a big problem. Very frustrating. We have had a few | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
customers this has happened to numerous occasion and it is local | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
residents coming in, doing shopping and rather than carrying a shopping | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
home, or getting a taxi from the store, they simply take trolleys | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
home and abandon them in the local roads. Now a new Smartphone software | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
developed for a could dramatically improve the situation. You download | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
the softer -- software and take a picture of the trolley, it works out | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
where it is using satellite technology and then you send the | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
signal and it is sent to a retrieval crew. Chris Burton is one of those | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
receiving the messages. It comes up with a picture of the trolley, the | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
address and we can access the trolley and we retrieve it. It's the | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
brainchild of Warwick based Trollywise which has been set up by | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
one of the worlds leading trolley manufacturers. At the moment we | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
circulate in the area finding the trolleys. We will now know exactly | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
where they are and that will make us more efficient. Back at the | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
supermarket it's plaudits all round from shoppers. A very good idea. | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
Nobody wants to see trolleys everywhere. It is a good idea. | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
Ultimately, it could all mean fewer sites like this in the future. This | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
is our top story tonight: An inquest hears 17-year-old Georgia Williams | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
was strangled. Your detailed weather forecast to | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
come shortly also in tonight's programme: 12 months on, we catch up | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
with the children of Ladywood who have added a new string to their | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
bow. And find out why the people of | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
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Wolverhampton simply love where they Hundreds of primary school children | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
have taken to the stage in Birmingham today for a very special | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
concert. The pupils are part of a project which aims to improve | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
learning and confidence through music. This afternoon they got to | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
show off their new found skills in front of a packed audience at the | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
Symphony Hall and Ben Sidwell was there to see how they got on. | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
Just a year ago these children had never picked up an instrument, let | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
alone played one, but this afternoon they were performing at one the best | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
concert halls in the world. I feel excited because my parents will be | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
here watching me. It's been an amazing experience. It is a new | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
thing to do and it can be something for when you get older, playing a | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
violin. It's the culmination of generation Ladywood and more than | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
5000 children would have either been taught how to play an instrument or | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
have learnt how to sing. And every single child will get the chance to | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
perform on the stage. The children here today come from Birmingham's | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
inner city primary schools, many of them in Ladywood, one of the most | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
deprived areas in the country. gives them opportunities they have | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
never had before. Playing a violin or a cello and performing at | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
Symphony Hall is an experience they will remember for the rest of their | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
lives. Hosting today's concert, Blue Peter presenter Barney Harwood. | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
is difficult to make friends anyway and when you have 16 schools here | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
today with one universal topic, music. It has brought them together | :17:37. | :17:45. | |
and they are making noise and enjoying themselves. It was | :17:45. | :17:53. | |
absolutely fantastic. Everyone was here. It was really fantastic.This | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
is our first time coming here. hope is now they've had a taste of | :17:57. | :18:05. | |
music, these children will continue to play for many years to come. | :18:05. | :18:14. | |
They make a fantastic sound. A "Groundforce" type operation swung | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
into action today to create a new community allotment in the Black | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
Country. Students from the local secondary school will take over half | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
the plotsand what they grow will be turned into soup for a homeless | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
hostel. BBC West Midlands have been getting their hands dirty, helping | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
to transform the patch of wasteland, as part of their 'Loving Where you | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
Live' tour around Wolverhampton this week. | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
Making soup at Wednesfield High School is on an industrial scale. | :18:38. | :18:48. | |
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Stock. Sweet potato. They have been making 50 litres of vegetable soup | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
every week for two years. The soup is for the Salvation Army in | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
Birmingham. We had a surplus in the school allotment and it gave the | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
students a sense of social purpose and pride in helping the local | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
community. Soon, the school be able to make much more soup, more cheaply | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
that's because of what's happening here in a once overgrown patch of | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
land in the middle of a housing estate. It is an operation where we | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
are doing this over here, making it civic grow crops and vegetables. | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
organic allotment will be for both the school and the community. BBC | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
WM's "Loving Where you Live" project has been helping spread the word. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
has been amazing, so many people want to get involved and they have | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
offered so many things, donating plants, we have laws and fences and | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
what we need is hands feet and people to get stuck in. Back at | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
school and students are being told about the impact their soup is | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
having. Ian found himself staying in a Salvation Army hostel for six | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
months when a relationship broke down. The fact that children have | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
taken time to make it, it is something they will think how | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
lovely. It's very nice. It is just nice. You cannot beat home-cooked | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
food. And once the new allotment is up and running, production can step | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
up a gear. And BBC WM will be back, live in Wednesfield, tomorrow | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
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morning with the Pete Morgan breakfast show. Speaking to MPs on | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
the Commons health select committee, the chair of the ambulance service | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
said it will not happen again. have reinforced the values of the | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
ambulance service locally and more widely and I'm confident it was an | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
isolated incident as sad as it was and we have taken measures to | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
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prepare -- prevent a recurrence. Protesters have been surveying | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
badger sets near Tewkesbury several months. Anti-Aja Cole groups plan to | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
disrupt shooting by any means possible to bring it to a halt. | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
were concerned they were shooting badgers. We were concerned it had | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
started. We are checking in the same area to see if it has happened. The | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
estate is our main point in the farm zone they own for % of the badger | :21:35. | :21:45. | |
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cull zone. Buses aren't usually the type of subject that gets people | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
excited ...but now a record busting bus war has broken out between two | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
Midlands Cities. For decades Birmingham has held the honour of | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
having the longest urban bus route in Europe, but now contender | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
Coventry has snatched the title. Joan Cummins reports. Top speed 90 | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
miles an hour. Capable of 11 mpg but it is not what is going on in the | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
engine that's important. More where it is going. The 360 which launches | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
officially at the weekend orbits the outer circle of Coventry connecting | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
landmarks in the city in a record breaking 31 and a half mile route | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
..Five and a half miles more than the previous record holder | :22:19. | :22:29. | |
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a tourist attraction in its own right? We certainly hope so. It can | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
be a main attraction and we feel it is time for Coventry to be in the | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
limelight. Have you done this to have a go at Birmingham? No, but it | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
helps. On a rehearsal run for the 360, the boss of the transport | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
authority hopped on board but refused to talk of rivalry between | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
neighbouring cities. It is up to Birmingham to come forward with | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
proposals which we will look at and consider but at this moment in time | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
Coventry holds the crown for the longest bus route in Europe. | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
Coventrian bus users though were delighted at the prospect of a 31 | :23:11. | :23:20. | |
mile trip for just �2.30. Well done to Coventry. We have had a bad press | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
for Coventry but it is nice to have something that is record-breaking | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
for the city. It will be nice to see where it goes. Would you stay on for | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
the whole journey? I don't see why not. Other toilets? But Birmingham's | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
number 11 has admirers. More than 20,000 calendars celebrating its 26 | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
miles have been made and today the memorabilia creator admitted to | :23:40. | :23:50. | |
being upset at the Coventry record breaking takeover. It is like a | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
dagger to my heart. It is awful what they have done overnight. Jealousy, | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
I am envious of Coventry. Records aside, the most important thing to | :24:02. | :24:12. | |
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most passengers though is will the bus be on time. | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
Who knew buses could raise so much passion? This is what you have been | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
waiting for. A calf that got its head stuck in a tree in Shrewsbury | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
had to be rescued by firefighters and a crane. It was wedged in the | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
tree and unable to move in Coseley Field, Monkmoor. Firefighters tried | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
to free the calf using various pieces of equipment but were unable | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
to. It was eventually freed by a crew using a large animal harness | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
and a crane. The operation took over an hour and the animal appeared to | :24:46. | :24:55. | |
be uninjured. Extraordinary. Another glorious day. Just as Shefali Oza | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
said it would be. How is it looking? It is looking promising. Slight | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
variations in the weather as the week goes on but they are only | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
cosmetic and unlikely to enjoy -- spoil the enjoyment. Cloudy | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
conditions tomorrow and breezy by Friday but apart from that | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
temperatures were ideal. Tempered only by the breeze, reports of it | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
being quite fierce in places. There were three places that shared the | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
top spot for temperatures. Stoke, Hereford and Worcester with highs of | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
20 Celsius. Elsewhere, anything from the high teens to 20 Celsius. It has | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
been glorious. The beautiful weather does have drawbacks, this is the | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
first lengthy spell of dry sunny warm weather the beginning of the | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
year, the pollen counts are coming into focus and they have been high | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
today and will be high again on Thursday and Friday. Tomorrow there | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
is additional cloud but UV levels will be very high. They were today | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
and will be on Thursday and Friday. Take those precautions. If we look | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
at the region now, hardly a wisp of cloud. That changes as the night | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
goes on. A bank of cloud in the East will gradually worked its way in | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
from that direction as the night goes on. Some cloud cover, a breeze | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
as well through the night holding temperatures up. Temperatures around | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
nine or 10 Celsius. It is not as cool as last night. However, because | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
of the cloud, we do not start with dazzling sunshine we had today, | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
tomorrow a dull start, the sunshine will burn through layers of cloud in | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
the morning producing sunny spells. Because of the sunshine, cloud | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
bubbling up. It stays dry, at temperatures will be knocked on the | :26:55. | :27:04. | |
head. In the north, highs of 16, in the south, 18 with less breeze. The | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
weather front is trying to get into the Northeast on Thursday but it | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
will be killed off by the prevailing high pressure. The isobars are | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
tightening up. Thursday and Friday, the breeze picks up and it will be | :27:17. | :27:26. | |
sunny and warm. 60 years on - the Queen marks her | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
decades as monarch in a special service at Westminster Abbey. And an | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
inquest hears 17-year-old Georgia Williams from Shropshire was | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
strangled. I'll be back at ten, with an | :27:39. | :27:41. |