:00:11. > :00:14.Hello, welcome to Midlands Today with Mary Rhodes and Nick Owen The
:00:14. > :00:17.headlines tonight: As Daniel Pelka's killers are sentenced to life,
:00:17. > :00:21.social workers tells us the system is creaking.
:00:21. > :00:24.Social workers are telling us about the stresses and strains on them.
:00:24. > :00:27.Also tonight, dismay for Coventry City fans as part liquidation now
:00:27. > :00:34.looks inevitable. With the football league season
:00:34. > :00:38.starting tomorrow, it's likely the club will be deducted 15 points.
:00:38. > :00:48.is a dire financial situation. What we have been trying to do is make
:00:48. > :00:49.
:00:49. > :00:53.sure that Coventry City football. -- continues at Coventry.
:00:53. > :00:55.Conned - the 85-year-old who was tricked out of �5,000 of life
:00:55. > :00:58.savings. Showing off some of the Midlands
:00:58. > :01:02.finest motors - the Jaguar years on display in their spiritual home.
:01:02. > :01:12.And it's all change with the weather - an unsettled weekend to come, but
:01:12. > :01:17.
:01:17. > :01:21.will we see the sun at all. I'll have your full forecast later on.
:01:21. > :01:25.Good evening. It was the end of an unimaginable cruelty case, one that
:01:25. > :01:27.left members of the jury in tears. A little boy murdered by his mother
:01:27. > :01:31.and her boyfriend. Tortured, starved and beaten to
:01:31. > :01:34.death. Daniel Pelka is the fifth child in as many years to die here
:01:34. > :01:37.in the West Midlands, unnoticed by the authorities who should have been
:01:37. > :01:41.protecting him. Tonight we look at what's being done to care for other
:01:41. > :01:50.vulnerable children. But first we cross to Birmingham Crown Court and
:01:50. > :01:54.our reporter Ben Ando. There were forceful words from the judge today.
:01:54. > :01:59.The Justice like the jury some of whom were in tears today has had to
:01:59. > :02:05.sit through nine weeks of gruelling and often harrowing evidence in a
:02:05. > :02:12.case that she said involved shocking and deeply disturbing events.
:02:12. > :02:15.Sentencing the couple she said that details of unimaginable acts of
:02:15. > :02:22.cruelty and brutality inflicted over many months had exposed a torment
:02:22. > :02:28.and despair that Daniel must have suffered. The level of cruelty was
:02:28. > :02:36.reflected in a sentence. A minimum of 30 years before either could be
:02:36. > :02:44.considered for parole. What considerations did the judge
:02:44. > :02:49.have to make in setting the jail sentence? The judge had to wait up
:02:49. > :02:54.aggravating features. In this case, there were many, including the age
:02:54. > :02:59.of the victim. Daniel was just four years old. The fact there was such a
:02:59. > :03:04.breach of trust. This was his mother and stepfather who should have been
:03:04. > :03:09.responsible for him. The sustained level of cruelty. The fact it
:03:09. > :03:14.continued for so long. In mitigation, there was nothing, said
:03:14. > :03:19.the judge. We know a serious case review is under way. The final
:03:19. > :03:23.report will not be published for six weeks. Why is it taking so long?
:03:23. > :03:33.Hello Makro the serious case review is being overseen by the commentary
:03:33. > :03:35.
:03:35. > :03:39.safeguarding children board is Makro -- the serious case review is being
:03:39. > :03:45.overseen by the Coventry safeguarding children board. During
:03:45. > :03:48.the course of the nine week trial, more evidence has emerged. They say
:03:48. > :03:58.they need to consider it before they can finalise their report. It will
:03:58. > :04:02.
:04:02. > :04:05.take them at least six weeks to do that.
:04:05. > :04:08.Today, two more parents have been charged in connection with their
:04:08. > :04:11.child's death. A baby Isabella Vallance lived in a house in this
:04:11. > :04:14.street in Redditch before being taken to Birmingham Children's
:04:14. > :04:17.Hospital where she died. Tyler Vallance has been charged with her
:04:17. > :04:20.murder, along with ill treatment or neglect, and her mother Jessica
:04:20. > :04:24.Wiggins with causing or allowing the death of a child. Child killings are
:04:24. > :04:27.not common, but in the last few years there have been notable and
:04:27. > :04:31.shocking cases here in the West Midlands. Bob Hockenhull reports.
:04:31. > :04:34.Social services - under the spotlight and on the front-line.
:04:34. > :04:37.Social workers need a real determination and a real conviction
:04:37. > :04:40.in the work they're doing and the decisions that they're making for
:04:41. > :04:46.children. But in five years, there have been five high-profile cases of
:04:46. > :04:50.children being killed by those who should have been caring for them.
:04:50. > :04:54.Kyra Ishaq died in 2008. The seven-year-old form Birmingham was
:04:54. > :04:59.starved to death by her mother and her boyfriend. The Serious Case
:04:59. > :05:02.Review that followed found her death could have been prevented. In the
:05:02. > :05:09.same year, Ryan Lovell-Hancox from Bilston died from a brain injury on
:05:09. > :05:18.Christmas Eve. 14 separate agencies had missed chances to intervene in
:05:18. > :05:22.Ryan's care. In January, 2010, Keanu Williams from Ward End in Birmngham
:05:22. > :05:26.was beaten to death by his mother. A Serious Case Review into how this
:05:26. > :05:30.abuse went unnoticed will report in the next few weeks. And in May last
:05:30. > :05:36.year, 23-month-old Daniel Jones died from a heroin overdose in his home
:05:36. > :05:41.in Wolverhampton. And now Daniel Pelka - starved and beaten. He was
:05:41. > :05:46.just four-and-a-half years old. There are undoubted financial
:05:46. > :05:49.pressures on all council services. The average length of time social
:05:49. > :05:59.workers spend in the profession is only eight years, far below that of
:05:59. > :06:01.
:06:01. > :06:04.comparable professionals. Many social workers feel quite
:06:04. > :06:11.overwhelmed by their caseloads, by the fact that some of the backroom
:06:11. > :06:16.support has been cut. It has put more bureaucratic tasks on them.
:06:16. > :06:21.When you make a decision at 3am whether to take a child into care or
:06:21. > :06:26.not, it is a life changing decision. You have to respect the people who
:06:26. > :06:29.work in the field. When it goes wrong, we get a scandal. When it
:06:29. > :06:36.goes right, nobody cares. Today Ofsted said Walsall Children's
:06:36. > :06:41.Aervices had improved from inadequate to adequate. Children's
:06:41. > :06:43.lives cannot be put on hold. Our service has to continue to improve
:06:43. > :06:46.everyday. Elsewhere in the West Midlands, the picture is bleaker.
:06:46. > :06:49.Ofsted has described children's services in Sandwell as inadequate
:06:49. > :06:53.for the second time this year. Birmingham's also currently labelled
:06:53. > :06:57.inadequate. The head of its children's services department quit
:06:57. > :07:07.last month. Coventry was last described as adequate, but must now
:07:07. > :07:09.
:07:09. > :07:16.deal with the fall-out from the shocking death of Daniel Pelka.
:07:16. > :07:20.Often the focus on a particular child somehow gets lost in the
:07:20. > :07:25.professionals attending much more to what the parent is saying and then
:07:25. > :07:27.they see the child through the lens of what the parent wants them to
:07:27. > :07:30.believe. A quarter of council children's services inspected in the
:07:30. > :07:38.last year were rated inadequate. Clearly there's a lot more
:07:38. > :07:41.challenges to be met to ensure our vulnerable youngsters are protected.
:07:41. > :07:50.Earlier I spoke to child protection expert Chris Cloke from the NSPCC
:07:50. > :07:54.and asked him first for his reaction to the Daniel Pelka case. This is
:07:54. > :07:59.the most horrific case in many years that we have come across. It is
:07:59. > :08:04.horrific that a four-year-old could be treated in this way and that his
:08:04. > :08:09.mother and mother's boyfriend could treat a child in this way.
:08:09. > :08:13.Systematically tortured over many months. You can just imagine what it
:08:13. > :08:17.feels like if you are a little for your world, to be denied food, to be
:08:17. > :08:22.beaten, to be locked away and treated with cold baths as
:08:22. > :08:28.punishment. We have heard today about the sentences. They are long
:08:28. > :08:33.sentences. It feels justice has been done. People are outraged that no
:08:33. > :08:37.one managed to step in when there were so many signs of his suffering.
:08:37. > :08:44.It is extraordinary. We do need to learn from this case. There is a
:08:44. > :08:52.serious case review currently being conducted and we owe it to Daniel to
:08:52. > :08:57.wait and see what has happened. Haven't we been here before? Very
:08:57. > :09:01.sadly, there have been a series of cases like this over the years and
:09:01. > :09:06.certainly there are aspects of this case which we are hearing about at
:09:06. > :09:13.the moment which are very reminiscent of how others were
:09:13. > :09:19.treated. Going back 40 years, Little Maria which led to the setting up of
:09:19. > :09:23.the child protection system that we have today. Strong messages come out
:09:23. > :09:27.of the cases which are very similar. Poor communication, lack of
:09:27. > :09:32.training, lack of support. We need to know why exactly these cases go
:09:32. > :09:36.wrong. The serious case review will look at it and ensure that we do all
:09:36. > :09:41.we can to learn from the cases so that children like Daniel do not
:09:41. > :09:46.slip under the net again. You think someone somewhere would have got in
:09:46. > :09:53.touch with the police and the social services, even the teachers. Someone
:09:53. > :09:56.could have come to you, the NSPCC. message we are wanting to say loud
:09:56. > :10:02.and clear is that it is really in portent that anybody who has
:10:02. > :10:07.concerns about a child takes some action Which? really important. we
:10:07. > :10:12.must either on the side of caution. if you have a concern of any sort,
:10:12. > :10:19.do something. don't think somebody else will respond. we can together
:10:19. > :10:24.talk through what the concerns are. the nspcc helpline will say what are
:10:24. > :10:34.your worries and we can talk through it and decide on the best course of
:10:34. > :10:37.action. coming up later in the programme:
:10:37. > :10:47.the police officer said by a judge to have pressed the self-destruct
:10:47. > :10:56.
:10:56. > :11:01.button after an exemplary career. one of nine men who have appeared
:11:01. > :11:05.before magistrates in the last two days. he is charged with rape. after
:11:05. > :11:12.the magistrates had dealt with his case, he had this to say. i am
:11:12. > :11:17.completely innocent. and maybe was in the wrong house, the wrong place.
:11:17. > :11:21.others like my cousins have not done it as well. the magistrates heard
:11:21. > :11:27.the men face a range of charges including conspiracy to traffic,
:11:27. > :11:32.sexual assault and rape. their cases have all been sent to the crown
:11:32. > :11:36.court. all of these offences are alleged to have been emitted at
:11:36. > :11:40.various locations across coventry. the men are accused of exploiting at
:11:40. > :11:45.least five girls aged between 16 and 18 between may and september last
:11:45. > :11:50.year. each of the hearings was relatively short with the men
:11:50. > :11:56.speaking only to confirm their name address and date of birth. they have
:11:56. > :11:58.not yet entered pleas. they will have the opportunity to do that on
:11:58. > :12:02.november the 7th when they will appear before the crown court.
:12:02. > :12:12.police say the alleged victims in this case are all receiving support
:12:12. > :12:36.
:12:36. > :12:39.from specially trained officers. a judge has told a former
:12:39. > :12:42.warwickshire police officer with an exemplary 32-year career that he
:12:42. > :12:45.pressed the self-destruct button when he filmed a naked teenager and
:12:45. > :12:48.took pictures up women's skirts. robert tedds was given a three-year
:12:48. > :12:52.community order and he'll have to sign the sex offenders' register.
:12:52. > :12:55.joanne writtle joins us now from our worcester studio. joanne, what was
:12:55. > :12:57.said in court about what he did? worcester crown court heard how
:12:57. > :13:01.58-year-old robert tedds from leamington spa filmed the naked
:13:01. > :13:04.teenage girl on his mobile phone in june but deleted the file. it was
:13:04. > :13:05.uncovered forensically after police seized two phones and a computer
:13:05. > :13:09.hard-drive. when did the offences come to
:13:09. > :13:13.light? it was when he was spotted taking a picture up the skirt of a
:13:13. > :13:15.customer at a petrol station in leamington spa. cctv footage
:13:15. > :13:18.revealed five separate occasions when tedds had taken such pictures.
:13:18. > :13:21.similar images taken up women's skirts were also found on one of his
:13:21. > :13:24.phones, taken from different locations - the back of cars, an
:13:24. > :13:29.office environment and on a train. what do we know about his former
:13:29. > :13:32.career? he was an admin assistant in the firearms licensing unit when he
:13:32. > :13:36.committed the offences. prior to that he was a police officer for
:13:36. > :13:39.more than 30 years. a police spokesman said he'd also carried out
:13:39. > :13:42.some driving duties for senior officers, but no longer worked for
:13:42. > :13:44.the force. the investigating officer from a neighbouring force made this
:13:44. > :13:47.statement. he previously held a position of trust in the community
:13:47. > :13:52.and we hope this case sends a clear message that no one is above the
:13:52. > :13:57.law. he was previously a member of staff but no longer works for the
:13:57. > :14:01.force. judge michael cullum told tedds that he'd lost his job, his
:14:01. > :14:05.good name and had saddened those who knew him. he said, you will always
:14:05. > :14:08.be the man who filmed up women's skirts and filmed a naked girl. you
:14:08. > :14:11.invaded the privacy of a large number of people. tedds admitted
:14:11. > :14:14.making indecent images of a child and outraging public decency. he'll
:14:14. > :14:24.now sign the sex offenders' register for five years and attend a
:14:24. > :14:50.
:14:50. > :14:54.community sex offenders programme. john ledwidge loves nothing better
:14:54. > :14:57.than watching the grass grow. but not in a boring way. on the
:14:57. > :15:00.contrary, he's simply passionate about producing the perfect playing
:15:00. > :15:03.surface. john joined coventry city as an apprentice aged 16. and now,
:15:03. > :15:07.11 years later, he's head groundsman at the ricoh arena. this morning, as
:15:07. > :15:11.one man went to mow, praying for a last-minute solution that would see
:15:11. > :15:14.the sky blues return to the ricoh. john was whisked away to a staff
:15:14. > :15:18.meeting to be told that the stadium owners had rejected the final deal
:15:18. > :15:21.at the creditors meeting in london. in short, coventry city were facing
:15:21. > :15:23.the prospect of liquidation acl who own the ricoh say they rejected the
:15:24. > :15:27.company voluntary arrangement to keep coventry city football club
:15:27. > :15:31.playing in coventry and to ensure that the club is financially viable
:15:31. > :15:32.for the next few years and beyond. it is a frustrating time for
:15:32. > :15:35.everybody. ultimately, we had earmarked the diaries for coventry
:15:35. > :15:39.city to come back and play. we still have an asset to look after and we
:15:39. > :15:46.have a fantastic facility to offer. the pitch is a massive part of that,
:15:46. > :15:50.whether it be a football club or anything else. the company who own
:15:50. > :15:53.the ricoh arena say they have rejected the arrangement to keep
:15:53. > :16:00.coventry playing in coventry and to ensure the club is financially
:16:00. > :16:06.viable. none of the supporters want us to be back in the situation again
:16:06. > :16:09.in a year's time. that is why we are pushing very hard to head the
:16:09. > :16:13.proposals to reflect this. the sky blues reacted with great regret that
:16:13. > :16:17.a cva has been rejected by acl. it means coventry city football club is
:16:17. > :16:22.likely to be put into liquidation which is expected to result in a
:16:22. > :16:28.points penalty for the club going into the new season. the fans
:16:28. > :16:32.deserve better than what they have got. it is devastating. our home
:16:32. > :16:39.stadium is in northampton or something like that. disgusting.
:16:39. > :16:43.ella macro so many promises and they don't seem to happen. gutted. -- so
:16:43. > :16:46.many promises. like all sky blue fans, john ledwedge has suffered
:16:46. > :16:49.more than his fair share of frustration in recent years. but
:16:49. > :16:52.he's the only man in the country who's prepared the finest pitch
:16:52. > :16:58.never to be seen in league one this season.
:16:58. > :17:02.ian, the football club have been meeting with the football league.
:17:02. > :17:06.what is the latest? the football league have issued a statement
:17:06. > :17:12.saying they are prepared to transfer the golden share, membership of the
:17:12. > :17:16.football league, two commentary city's owners, provided they are
:17:16. > :17:21.prepared to accept a ten point penalty deduction from the start of
:17:21. > :17:25.next season which begins tomorrow. let us talk to the sky-blue trust.
:17:25. > :17:30.what is your reaction? we are pleased it is only a ten point
:17:30. > :17:33.reduction but we were hoping they may look into things more deeply as
:17:33. > :17:40.to ownership and everything that has gone on before. it does not solve
:17:40. > :17:49.the fact we will still be playing in northampton. we want commentary back
:17:49. > :17:55.in coventry. the major factor is coventry back in coventry. what has
:17:55. > :18:02.it been like to be a coventry city fan over the last few months?
:18:02. > :18:12.lot of fun. their first home game at northampton will be on sunday, 11th
:18:12. > :18:16.
:18:16. > :18:19.of august. and there's a special sky blues
:18:19. > :18:22.programme for your views on bbc coventry and warwickshire until 7pm
:18:22. > :18:26.tonight. stuart linnell will be getting reaction and expert opinion
:18:26. > :18:29.to today's developments. this is our top story tonight: as
:18:29. > :18:32.daniel pelka's killers are sentenced to life, a social workers says the
:18:32. > :18:36.system is creaking. your detailed weather forecast to
:18:36. > :18:39.come shortly from rebecca. also in tonight's programme: with 12 new
:18:39. > :18:42.signings in the squad, what are birmingham city's prospects for the
:18:42. > :18:46.new season which starts tomorrow? and reliving its proud past - jaguar
:18:46. > :18:54.show off some of their finest historic models going back nearly a
:18:54. > :18:57.hundred years. an 85-year-old grandmother has been
:18:57. > :19:01.tricked out of her �5,000 life savings by conmen. cherrie
:19:01. > :19:04.bartholomew got a phone call at her home in warwickshire from a man
:19:04. > :19:08.claiming to be a police officer. as lindsay doyle reports, she was told
:19:08. > :19:17.her card had been cloned and was advised to withdraw all the money in
:19:17. > :19:20.her account. a victim of her own trusting nature.
:19:21. > :19:24.at 85 years of age, cherrie bartholomew has been conned out of
:19:24. > :19:27.her life savings. it began with a phone call to her home in henley in
:19:27. > :19:31.arden, pertaining to be from the police, telling her that her
:19:31. > :19:35.barclays bank card had been cloned. i have always hung up and said, no,
:19:35. > :19:42.thank you, to any of the people on the phone. this time i really
:19:42. > :19:48.thought it was the police. be very careful. he even gave me the police
:19:48. > :19:54.number, 101. when she was originally called, the conman hadn't put the
:19:54. > :19:58.phone down. the line was still open. when she rang what she thought was
:19:58. > :20:01.her bank, a bogus bank official who said her card had been cloned, money
:20:01. > :20:11.was due to be transferred the following day, she was advised to
:20:11. > :20:18.withdraw it. he also said to me, they may query the amount, just say
:20:18. > :20:21.you are going to buy a car. the scam artists arranged for a courier to
:20:21. > :20:24.call at her home. later the same day, she handed the money over,
:20:24. > :20:28.believing her account had already been reimbursed. in a statement,
:20:28. > :20:31.barclays said, if you are advised not to disclose the reason for the
:20:31. > :20:34.withdrawal to your local bank staff, this should immediately raise
:20:34. > :20:38.suspicion. we would never send a courier to collect a card or cash to
:20:38. > :20:41.be handed over from the home. one of those scenarios where i am
:20:41. > :20:43.dreaming about it all night and i wake up in the morning and i cannot
:20:43. > :20:46.believe it is real. i cannot believe how low they would stoop.
:20:46. > :20:50.additional �300 was withdrawn from an atm in whitechapel in london,
:20:50. > :20:56.leaving the bank account empty. just hope that nobody else gets
:20:56. > :21:06.caught like this. it was all my savings gone. no more holidays.
:21:06. > :21:06.
:21:06. > :21:09.nothing. the football league season kicks off
:21:09. > :21:13.tomorrow. in the championship, it'll be a very different-looking
:21:13. > :21:15.birmingham city that takes to the field, with no fewer than 12 summer
:21:15. > :21:18.signings. but with big names gone and wage
:21:18. > :21:26.bills slashed, just what are blues' chances? ben sidwell's been finding
:21:26. > :21:29.out. there were plenty of unfamiliar
:21:29. > :21:34.faces as birmingham city lined for their team photo. a dozen new
:21:34. > :21:38.recruits, but not a penny spent. everyone on a free transfer or loan.
:21:38. > :21:46.all we can do is create a siege mentality. we can be strong
:21:46. > :21:49.together. i mean me, myself, the staff, the supporters, the fans.
:21:49. > :21:53.even the manager didn't know everyone in the team photo. taking
:21:53. > :21:56.his seat next to the boss, mick duffy, a lifeline blues fan who'd
:21:56. > :22:03.won a competition to be in the start of season snap. at the beginning of
:22:03. > :22:09.every season, i think, we are going to do something again. over the
:22:09. > :22:12.years, we have been let down. i am not saying by the players but
:22:12. > :22:17.circumstances prevail. more often than not, we do not have a great
:22:17. > :22:21.season. this year we will have a great season. on hand to offer some
:22:21. > :22:27.advice to new captain paul robinson, 80-year-old fan les clews. you have
:22:27. > :22:33.got to be optimistic. obviously, they have got a lot of work to do.
:22:33. > :22:36.there is a lot of talent there. i think they will do ok. the squad may
:22:36. > :22:39.be young and inexperienced, but they'll still be plenty of hope and
:22:39. > :22:48.expectation among the fans at st andrews tomorrow afternoon when
:22:48. > :22:51.blues kick off the season at home to watford.
:22:51. > :22:55.lots of luck to them. and you can find commentaries,
:22:55. > :22:58.reports and analysis on all our teams' performance on your local bbc
:22:58. > :23:01.radio station tomorrow. it is funny how the optimism is the
:23:01. > :23:05.same at the beginning of the season!
:23:05. > :23:08.i am guilty of that. historic models from jaguar's rich
:23:08. > :23:11.history of car making have gone on show in its spiritual home of
:23:11. > :23:14.coventry. a new gallery has opened at the city's transport museum
:23:14. > :23:17.featuring 17 of its most famous models, built from the 1920s to the
:23:17. > :23:19.present day. it comes at a time when jaguar land
:23:19. > :23:25.rover's expanding in the west midlands and improving sales
:23:25. > :23:29.overseas. ben godfrey reports. through the years, jaguar has prided
:23:29. > :23:38.itself on good looks and high performance. as a brand, it doesn't
:23:38. > :23:44.do modesty. but then this is a brand that's stood the test of time.
:23:44. > :23:48.is where it all started. this sidecar was established in 1922.
:23:49. > :23:51.they got a huge order and moved their business to coventry. the
:23:51. > :23:55.jaguar gallery at coventry transport musuem takes you along a timeline.
:23:55. > :24:00.here's the famous e-type, which achieved more than 70,000 sales, a
:24:00. > :24:04.motoring classic of the 1960s. and there's the new kid on the block -
:24:04. > :24:11.the all-new f-type. this one was first off the production line at the
:24:11. > :24:18.castle bromwich factory. it will introduce a new generation to the
:24:18. > :24:23.quality of jaguar and the history of jaguar which has had a major part,
:24:23. > :24:26.probably with their parents, grandparents and great grandparents.
:24:26. > :24:30.the car's not always the star. norman dewis was jaguar's test
:24:30. > :24:33.driver for 30 years. he's driven a million miles for the company. ahead
:24:33. > :24:42.of his 93rd birthday, he joined a procession of models from solihull
:24:42. > :24:46.to coventry. i rolled a c type, the deed type. i had a big crash in one
:24:46. > :24:49.of them. i always got out and was back at work the next morning.
:24:49. > :24:59.although jaguar stopped making cars in coventry, its engineering hq is
:24:59. > :25:03.
:25:03. > :25:07.in the city. the cars we are working on at the moment of for about
:25:07. > :25:09.2015-2017. i cannot tell you what they are. but we have huge
:25:10. > :25:17.ambitions. today, jaguar land rover sells vehicles in 170 countries.
:25:17. > :25:20.it's a far cry from the swallow sidecar and the first order of 500.
:25:20. > :25:30.let's find out what the weekend weather has in store. sunshine or
:25:30. > :25:42.
:25:42. > :25:48.change. let me take you back to 1990. we got up to 10 degrees higher
:25:48. > :25:53.than this weekend. we will see some showers. temperatures are going to
:25:53. > :25:57.be down a little bit. we have seen some showers over the region today.
:25:57. > :26:01.some have been quite heavy. if you have been caught in them, you have
:26:01. > :26:07.known about them. over the next few hours, we will continue to see the
:26:07. > :26:16.showers. some will be quite heavy. there will be drier spells. it will
:26:16. > :26:18.be quite a bright end to the day. a little bit cooler overnight.
:26:18. > :26:25.temperatures around 15 degrees. a bit more comfortable compared to
:26:25. > :26:29.last night. the showers are with us tomorrow. bands of showers moving
:26:29. > :26:34.through the region. some will be quite heavy. the temperatures are
:26:34. > :26:38.going to be falling a little bit. back to where we are used to seeing
:26:38. > :26:43.them around this time of year. the winds are picking up as well.
:26:43. > :26:48.showers remaining with us saturday afternoon as well. we will continue
:26:48. > :26:52.to see them a bit heavy in places. then they will start to ease a
:26:52. > :26:57.little bit. across staffordshire and shropshire, they will remain through
:26:57. > :27:01.the night. temperatures once again around 14 degrees. sunday is looking
:27:01. > :27:05.a dry and bright start for most of us. but then we will start to see
:27:05. > :27:10.the cloud building and we have got the showers starting to move up from
:27:10. > :27:15.the south. temperatures once again around 20 degrees. low-pressure
:27:15. > :27:18.sitting over us at the start of the new working week. staying unsettled
:27:18. > :27:25.so umbrella that be ready for the weekend.
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