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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today with Nick Owen and Mary Rhodes. The | :00:06. | :00:12. | |
headlines tonight: The collapse of a leading computer games company | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
leaves 175 people out of work. They have been so loyal to us, it is the | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
worst thing ever. We'll be talking live in the studio | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
to Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls about the region's wider economy. Also | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
tonight: A police presence in schools with uniformed officers | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
based on site. Gives students opportunities to reach out. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Visitors urged to disinfect their shoes to stop the spread of a | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
disease threatening a popular beauty spot. Another wash out at Edgbaston | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
— what impact's the lost business having on the books? Well that may | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
not be the only fixture caught out by the rain this week — and for one | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
day in particular, there's a storm brewing. | :00:55. | :01:06. | |
Good evening. More job losses today in an industry that's been one of | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
this region's success stories. The computer games design firm Blitz in | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Leamington Spa is shutting, with the loss of 175 jobs. Some staff were in | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
tears when they heard the news. It comes after a week of highs and lows | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
as far as jobs are concerned, although figures out yesterday show | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
unemployment in this region is still well above the national average. | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
So what's the true picture? We'll be speaking to the Shadow Chancellor Ed | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
Balls at the moment. Here's our business correspondent Peter | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Plisner. Award—winning, highly respected and has a 23—year track | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
record, but this is what the Blitz offices looked like today after the | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
company became the latest casualty of the recession. Management blamed | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
its demise on changes in the market and a lack of investors. We have | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
looked after so many creative and talented people over the years they | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
have been loyal to us and to break this news was just the worst thing | :02:04. | :02:19. | |
ever. 20 miles away in Solihull — a very different story. Land Rover's | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
state—of—the—art aluminium body shop opened a year ago. Earlier this week | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
Jaguar Land Rover said it would be investing £1.5 billion into the | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
business creating another 1,700 jobs. But suppliers know that some | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
skilled workers will come from their own workforce — making things much | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
more difficult for them. Solihull's Operations Director, Alan Volkearts, | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
who's also on the board Local Enterprise Partnership agrees that | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
concerted action is needed. Actions to address the skills gap is totally | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
cross the suppliers base, it doesn't us if we do not improve that, we | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
need to look at that in address the skills challenge. | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
But JLR aren't the only employers with vacancies — companies with | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
1,000 jobs to fill were looking for new recruits in Worcester today. It | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
is quite hard because people have been put off going into construction | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
because of the recession, it is searching in the right places but we | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
want people to come to us so we can find the right job for them. Aye | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
I've been looking for a job seven months, I have acquired for a few | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
places. I have got qualifications and a 20 year career history. What | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
you're looking for? Anything, just money at the end of the day. Why are | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
there so many vacancies and semi—people unemployed? Part of the | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
reason is some of those who are unemployed do not have the skills | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
for the jobs that are on offer. Enter the Chancellor George | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
Osbourne, in the Midlands today visiting various businesses. He's | :03:52. | :04:00. | |
adamant that we're over the worst. This has been a difficult time for | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
the country and families have felt that pressure on their budgets, it | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
has been an uncertain time for many families. What I would say is that | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
the economy is turning a corner and that means for families jobs are | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
being created and jobs are more secure. | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
Little comfort to workers at Wolverhampton Council which | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
yesterday announced 1,000 redundancies. Yes, some things are | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
getting better but there are obviously going to be many set—backs | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
along the way. We're joined now by Shadow | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
Chancellor Ed Balls. We have an unusual situation here in the West | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Midlands, unemployment figures are higher than the national average but | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
companies such as Jaguar Land Rover are recruiting — they can't find the | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
right people with the right skills, shouldn't your government have done | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
more to equip our young people for manufacturing? Across the country we | :04:44. | :05:03. | |
saw 250 —— 20,000 more apprentices. The schools and skills improved year | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
on year. The skills gap goes back. These days, everybody needs skills | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
to succeed. Over decades, when the Labour government was in power. I'm | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
not denying the challenge. Grammar School, some people went to | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
university or gobby apprenticeship, and other people could get jobs when | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
you don't need skills. Everyday —— these days every job easier still. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
Jaguar Land Rover are struggling to fund the higher skills. There are a | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
load of people that can't find work. In the West Midlands, country to | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
what the Chancellor said, unemployment is up and employment is | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
down. People are seeing the living standards fall month by month. | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
Things are getting harder. Was the answer? You need to get young people | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
into work because the best way to get skills from a job. It is harder | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
to do it from out of work. We would repeal the bank bonus tanks. | :06:04. | :06:14. | |
Guarantee work for young people. —— repeat the bank bonus tax. Today I | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
have been seeing a house—building projects. We need more of that. We | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
also need to do more to help families with their budget, energy | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
prices, rail prices. Cutting the top tax for the richest will not do the | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
job. Another big issue is high speed to. You have said there is no bank | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
cheque. What is the limit? There is no blank cheque, that is the right | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
thing. What is the limit? It is £42.5 billion at the moment. Value | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
for money is two sides of the ledger. It is the cost, the cost is | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
going up and up, going to do deliver the benefits in some of the economy | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
and the investment? What we have seen in weeks and months is the cost | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
is rising. People are asking questions, and the benefits they? | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
The government need to do a better job. We need to scrutinise closely, | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
what I have said and this is contrary to George Osborne, there is | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
not a blank cheque unless we are persuaded it is value for money, we | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
will not go ahead. Is losing credibility? It has taken a big | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
knock in recent weeks and months. We have supported it, I want to see out | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
region succeed, the West Midlands and your tea, I am an MP. If I speak | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
to is the best way to spend the money, go ahead. That is the air. | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
Are you persuaded that is the right way? £60 billion in the next three | :07:48. | :07:57. | |
years. We should not decide to spend the money, I should not be a | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
credible Chancellor if I say that whatever the cost, even if the | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
benefits a question, go ahead anyway. That is not responsible. | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
What better you would pull on the —— you would pull the plug on the | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
project if the cost escalated? Of course. If I say whatever the cost, | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
I would go ahead, that would be foolish. I would not say today, my | :08:22. | :08:31. | |
limit on cost. It is more about the benefits, is a journey times, is a | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
capacity? Will bring in investment? Will work for the whole country? | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
Those questions have not been answered. Do you back it personally? | :08:38. | :08:46. | |
Personally, I have backed the project, the evidence of rising cost | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
and lower economic gains, it makes me think hard about this. I'm going | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
to write a blank cheque. Is a vet is you —— is fair to say you are | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
changing your mind? Do we take that as a yes? Thank you. Coming up later | :09:06. | :09:14. | |
in the programme: a memorial in Wolverhampton to a forgotten battle | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
and the handful of Sikh heroes who held off 10,000 tribesmen. | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
30 secondary schools across four counties now have a permanent, | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
uniformed police presence on site. Police community support officers | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
are dealing with everything from cyber bullying to vandalism. Head | :09:33. | :09:42. | |
teachers say the officers work directly with pupils and also with | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
families and the local community. Joanne Writtle reports. | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
At the Hadley Learning Community in Telford, pupils are getting used to | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
someone new. A police community support officer, who deals with all | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
kinds of things. I had to speak to a cheap —— student about the | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
appropriateness of the BlackBerry. These are serious issues, if they | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
are allowed to escalate, harm could come to children and people are very | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
adversely affected by the actions of others. People are taking their | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
lives because of cyber bullying. The school system is strong but I feel | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
that having someone else around makes you feel a lot more secure and | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
safe. Was it a problem? Are people will go for bullying and problems at | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
home. It's being run in 30 schools across | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
Shropshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Warwickshire. The | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
head teacher here says the officer will work on the playground and in | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
classrooms, as well as dealing with bullying. I would never say there is | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
no bullying in the school. With somebody like too many building, he | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
can do any resolutions for us, work with young people and he will have | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
the time to do that. It offers us an opportunity to communicate with | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
people in school and the people within the community. We can use the | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
school as a vehicle to reach into the committee to find that the | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
issues affecting our students. In his safe, and it is reassuring for | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
the kids of they don't feel comfortable going to the kids. | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
Permanent police presence may be happening here, but it has not been | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
adopted by neighbouring forces. Staff —— spokesman for Staffordshire | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
police say they have a lot of contact with police. Next on there | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
is a problem here, youngsters could find themselves being dealt with by | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
the long arm of the law. The former MP for Redditch, Jacqui | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Smith, is to take up the top job at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Birmingham. Ms Smith, who lost her seat in the General Election in | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
2010, has been appointed as the hospital's new chairman. She'll take | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
over from Sir Albert Bore at the start of December on a three—year | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
contract. Prior to starting her political career, she worked as a | :11:59. | :12:10. | |
teacher. Work's underway to try to prevent | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
the spread of a disease which is killing trees at a beauty spot near | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
Birmingham. Larch trees and bilberry bushes have been infected by | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Phytophthora at the Lickey Hills Country Park south of the city. | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
An exclusion zone has now been set up in an effort to contain the | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
disease. Bob Hockenhull reports. On the edge of Birmingham lie the | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
Lickey Hills, 8,000 square feet of woodland enjoyed by thousands of | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
visitors. But the area is under threat. There's been an outbreak of | :12:32. | :12:40. | |
the fungal disease Phytophthora. If the disease takes hold, then that | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
many, many trees will die. You need to act quickly, we tend to fell all | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
of the trees within 100 metres of the infection by the end of the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
month. The disease first attacked rhododendron bushes here. It was | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
then spread by spores in the air to larch trees — the first time the | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
species has been infected in the West Midlands. The first sign of the | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
disease in the trees is Ginger a colour. The leaves turn black and | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
purple. That is at the point that it will release pores. People have been | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
told to keep away from the infected area. Anyone going around have been | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
told to wash bicycle tyres and shoes. The Rangers are spraying and | :13:27. | :13:38. | |
burning the fungus to stop the spread of the disease. It is not the | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
first time Phytophthora has struck in the region. Cedar trees have been | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
infected on Cannock Chase. The Lickey Hills strain is more deadly. | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
It has cut some of the walks off so we are hoping the problem will be | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
resolved as soon as possible. I understand there is a lot of work. | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
If the work prevents further outbreaks of Phytophthora, people | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
will still be able to enjoy the precious landscape. This is our top | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
story tonight: 175 jobs are to go in Warwickshire with the collapse of a | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
leading computer games company. Your detailed weather forecast to come | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
shortly from Shefali. Also in tonight's programme — we'll be | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
asking why Edgbaston will miss out on Test cricket for another year. | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
And how teaching seriously ill children art is aiding the hospice | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
that treats them. A ceremony took place today to | :14:32. | :14:45. | |
commemorate the role of Sikh soldiers in the British Army. On | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
this day, 126 years ago, 21 Sikhs halted the advance of 10,000Afghan | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
tribesmen. There was a wreath laying in Wolverhampton, which has the | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
highest density Sikh population outside London. Kevin Reide reports. | :14:58. | :15:07. | |
The battle of Saragarhi being commemorated at Wolverhampton's war | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
memorial today. The city has more Sikhs than most others and so was | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
chosen to remember the 21 soldiers who gave their lives protecting | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
British interests in India. They'd managed to hold off 10,000 Afghan | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
soldiers allowing reinforcements to arrive. Many from local Sikh temples | :15:22. | :15:32. | |
came along as well as representatives from the British | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
Army. It was a communications post and there were a number of posts | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
along the north—west soap —— frontier, the 21 guys with air, it | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
is difficult to Conran, 21 seeks defending one post from 10,000 patch | :15:50. | :16:02. | |
tombs in the area. —— Afghans. He did five sorties in the force at the | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
time trying to rescue the 21. The wreath laying was all about was | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
organised by the Anglo—Sikh Heritage trail, set up to strengthen and | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
celebrate bonds between the British and Sikh communities. There is a | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
strong community in the UK of British Sikhs and there are | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
third—generation Sikhs here. They want to link the Heritage between | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
the past ancestors from Punjabi India and the British. In the | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
country, we have Sikhs and other minority cultures that are based | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
here so the Army needs to be inclusive and that is what we are | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
trying to work to. A similar ceremony took place in Hyde Park | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
today and there are plans to continue to commemorate in | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
Wolverhampton each year Here's Dan Pallett with the sport. | :16:53. | :17:09. | |
Warwickshire say they're a international will not affect. With | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
India only playing one—day games at Edgbaston next year, officials are | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
battling hard to maintain finances and reputation. | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
This is what they'd come to see. The thrills and spills of international | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
cricket. But they didn't have it for long. After 15 overs the rain came. | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
And it wouldn't stop and the match was abandoned. Frustrating for the | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
fans and for Edgbaston officials. Is disappointing, we are very | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
disappointed for fans who came yesterday, it was a capacity crowd, | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
they will get a refund through the normal process and it will have | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
little impact on the scissors because we are able to ensure that. | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
—— little impact on the business. Two years ago a test against India | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
marked the opening of the £32 million pavilion. But despite it | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
being loved by the cricketers there's no Test match cricket there | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
for three years. So, have Edgbaston officials become complacent when | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
bidding for matches from the ECB? The ECB process has produced more | :18:12. | :18:20. | |
test mass jewellers —— test matches. The last two years we have missed | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
out, we're putting things in place to make sure that Edgbaston is at | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
the forefront of those decisions going forward. | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
Brian Halford covers cricket for the Birmingham Mail. Today he was able | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
to tend his garden in the sun — a contrast to yesterday's rain. He | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
says Edgbaston's finances are getting tough — but it could be a | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
lot worse. It would be a different situation if they are owed a bank, | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
they owe all of the money to the city council and the council's | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
judgement is that it has invested in the cricket club. There is no great, | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
big issue. It is hard to see the time when Warwickshire will not be | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
in debt. Australia and the Ashes return to Edgbaston in 2015 and | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
Pakistan will play a test in 2016. But the bidding's underway for the | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
three years after that and Edgbaston can't afford to miss out again. | :19:07. | :19:15. | |
And Warwckshire weren't the only ones frustrated by last night's | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
rain. The Birmingham Brummies speedway team are hoping to | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
finishing top of the elite league. And they need only a point to | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
guarantee first place but last night's meeting against Kings Lynn | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
was postponed because of the rain. It'll now take place on Monday. In | :19:27. | :19:35. | |
the Midlands are the Manchester United of the Speedway. We have | :19:35. | :19:43. | |
wolves doing brilliantly, we might be world champion, we might finish | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
number one in the league, we have got real aspirations for further. | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
Absolutely, we are the top region at the moment. | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
Football and the Midlands is one of the cheapest places in the country | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
to watch Premier League football. A new survey shows the lowest price | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
season tickets at Aston Villa, Stoke City and West Bromwich are all under | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
£350. That compares to a national average in the division of £489. | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
Arsenal's cheapest season ticket is almost £1,000. | :20:11. | :20:20. | |
Wow! That takes your breath away. Had we keep it so low? | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
Our clubs understand their fan base. They are keeping the prices down. | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
But at Stoke city, they have given free coach travel to their away | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
supporters. Unprecedented money coming into the game, they can | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
afford it. At one of our clubs, if you renew | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
our season ticket, they freeze the price. Had we measure up on the pie | :20:41. | :20:50. | |
front? Crystal Palace and Kidderminster are | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
the most expensive. They are famous throughout league | :20:56. | :21:08. | |
football though! Dan Evans is playing tomorrow and he | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
will be playing alongside any money. They face Croatia's number one. One | :21:14. | :21:25. | |
picture can be worth 1,000 words it's said and that's been true at a | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
Staffordshire hospice. Parents and staff have simply been | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
lost for words about the quality of some of the paintings children have | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
produced after working closely with artists. Tonight some of those | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
paintings are on show, and we can go over live to our reporter Liz | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Copper. Liz. Looking pretty busy in the background? | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
The exhibition has just opened on the first guests are just arriving | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
for the viewing. There are around 40 pictures on display here this | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
evening and this is artwork that is a benefit not just to the children | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
but to their families too. We're going to get this tissue and | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
make it like a pencil. She is six months painting. She has | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
a rare blood disorder and has two bone marrow transplants. This is her | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
picture in the exhibition. The best thing about painting is | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
that when I do it really slowly and I calmed down and concentrate. It | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
gives her a chance to express what she is feeling and she gets to use | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
different techniques and it is an environment where she feels safe and | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
it is really enjoyable. I can tell she is relaxed. Has been a great | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
help for everything she has been through. It has been a good | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
distraction in a positive way. The —— fabulous to do things to help a | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
fantastic cause. Money raised will go to the Donna Louise Hospice in | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Stoke—on—Trent. It provides care for children across Staffordshire. The | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
charity needs to raise £2.5 million per year to run its services. The | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
art on display has been created by children and their families. They | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
have been helped by the trust's resident art therapist in Council. | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
Every time I look —— every time I sit down with somebody find | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
something about themselves they did not know. They can use colour to | :23:16. | :23:25. | |
express how they feel, I guess I specialise in doing landscape | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
paintings. For them to put themselves in the painting and sit | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
back and tells a story about where they are. Feely's work along with | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
the other paintings will be available for sale. Or do neat and | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
inspirational pieces of art. —— BB. Melanie, why did you decide to hold | :23:41. | :23:58. | |
the exhibition. To show the breadth of the service and Donna Louise | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
Hospice. It is not just about the end of care, is a sad and depressing | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
place and we hope through the paintings, we can show people really | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
what it is all about. The focus is on the life affirming nature of the | :24:15. | :24:24. | |
work at the hospice. Children have fun on the come to the hospice. It | :24:24. | :24:32. | |
is fun for the children are not scary. Seen the artworks today, | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
we're getting a privilege to glimpse at the journeys of some of those | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
children. You have got exciting plans in the next few months? Yes. | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
We had got a government grant to refurbish buildings and we will tell | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
everybody about our plans next week in a public meeting. 18th of | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
September. Thank you for joining us. The standing of some of the | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
artwork here is absolutely brilliant. —— standard. Exhibition | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
here is free. All of the paintings will be on display until the end of | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
September. Some good sunshine at times today, | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
I'm glad to say, and not much rain. Beautiful at the University of | :25:17. | :25:17. | |
Ulster where I was. —— roster. There are some rain already starting | :25:18. | :25:32. | |
to get into some part of the region and this is going to be with us for | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
much of the night. On the plus side is going to be quite warm and body. | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
We are —— that is down to a warm sector at the moment. Once this has | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
cleared, the next one to come through will be on Sunday, that may | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
not left, the temperature by much but it is certainly big on drama. As | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
you can see the moment, it is with the intense area of low pressure. | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
All in all, it is going to be quite stormy on Sunday. Back to the rain | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
that is pushing in from the West, this is moving eastwards through the | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
night. It is going to be heavy at some stage of the night, | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
particularly through the first part of the night. Through the early | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
hours it should clear and we are looking at a lot of cloud, Miss | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
Denmark. Quite muddy conditions temperatures falling. —— Mr and | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
Merck. Although the heaviest of the rain, I | :26:27. | :26:38. | |
have just said is reserved for Sunday, we have got more rain to | :26:38. | :26:47. | |
come through. This is mostly western and central parts of the region and | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
a portion of the North will be spared. So this will be heavy and it | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
will be cool and fresh tomorrow as you can see, the temperatures to a | :26:54. | :27:03. | |
minimum of 15, two 18 Celsius. Tomorrow evening is looking quite | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
wet. It will spread to the south—east during the early hours. | :27:06. | :27:16. | |
It will be a cool and fresher nights and it then tomorrow night. Over the | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
weekend, Saturday will be the best day of the weekend. Sunday will be | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
wet and windy. And 175 jobs are to go in | :27:24. | :27:38. | |
Warwickshire with the collapse of a leading computer games company. | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
We'll be back at 10pm. Have a great evening. Goodbye. | :27:43. | :27:46. |