:00:12. > :00:24.Whack to Midlands Today today. Are medical wards for the fit the answer
:00:24. > :00:31.to bed—blocking? We are better prepared than last winter. The
:00:31. > :00:35.leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage is accused of croneyism. Unfortunately,
:00:35. > :00:40.Nigel is picking people who don't argue with him or even sharpen him
:00:40. > :00:43.up. He's just wanting people to agree with him. Graduation success
:00:43. > :00:49.for the woman who had to teach herself to walk and write again
:00:49. > :00:53.after an horrific riding accident. Moorcroft Pottery celebrates 100
:00:53. > :00:58.years of bright and beautiful. But the same can't be said for the
:00:58. > :01:02.weather. The first storms of autumn are on the way. Will the weekend be
:01:02. > :01:19.a total wash out? I'll tell you later. The hospital wards for the
:01:19. > :01:22.medically fit. There are no doctors and all patients are well enough to
:01:22. > :01:28.be discharged. It might sound like a contradiction,
:01:28. > :01:33.but it's the latest idea from a health trust hoping to avoid bed
:01:33. > :01:36.blocking. It's investing £2 million for patients who could go home, but
:01:36. > :01:39.the help they need to look after themselves isn't available. The idea
:01:39. > :01:45.is that beds in specialist wards are then freed up for patients who
:01:45. > :01:51.really need them. Patients being patient. Meet the
:01:51. > :01:55.walking well, all fit for discharge. 89—year—old May Skidmore is healthy
:01:55. > :02:05.but can't go back to her own house. I was took ill. That's why I was
:02:06. > :02:12.brought in here. It's nice because you have company here. There are ten
:02:12. > :02:16.beds here at Rowley serving Sandwell. It could increase to 50.
:02:16. > :02:19.Michael had breathing problems and was homeless. Social services are
:02:19. > :02:22.trying to find him somewhere to live.
:02:22. > :02:27.I've no fixed abode. They are trying to sort me out a place to live. They
:02:27. > :02:32.have helped me a lot. Last onetering they were so busy, there were two
:02:32. > :02:39.days when there wasn't a single bed left across the entire trust. ——
:02:39. > :02:44.last year they were so busy. The wards are managed by a full team
:02:44. > :02:48.of nurses but there aren't any hospital doctors. In an ideal world,
:02:48. > :02:51.this will prevent people from blocking the queue to the hospital
:02:51. > :02:54.bed and it's a better environment for somebody that's medically fit
:02:54. > :02:59.for discharge. Instead of blocking beds on specialist wards, local GPs
:02:59. > :03:03.visit to keep an eye on them. As the GPs, we are coming in throughout the
:03:03. > :03:06.week to make sure they are healthy and ready to go home and deal with
:03:06. > :03:12.any issues that crop up prior to that. Not all bed blockers are
:03:12. > :03:15.waiting for social services' help. No—one from Sandwell or Birmingham
:03:15. > :03:32.was able to talk to us today. The council today said in a statement:
:03:32. > :03:38.The hospital's Chief Executive says everyone must work smarter. We need
:03:38. > :03:42.to make sure that our district nurses and therapists, local GP
:03:42. > :03:45.colleagues and social care colleagues work more closely
:03:45. > :03:49.together to make sure that patients move through the system. Hospitals
:03:49. > :03:54.looking after healthy people may seem strange, but these wards should
:03:54. > :03:57.save money. Our Health Correspondent joins us
:03:57. > :04:01.now. Some people will be thinking, gosh, £2 million, how can the
:04:01. > :04:06.Hospital Trust afford this? Well, they can't really because they are
:04:06. > :04:08.having to make 4% year on year savings themselves but they don't
:04:08. > :04:12.have any choice. If they don't get the patients out of the beds, they
:04:12. > :04:15.can't get people in to have operations done so don't get paid so
:04:15. > :04:20.hospitals are doing all sorts of things. University Hospital
:04:20. > :04:23.Birmingham is opening extra wards, another hospital is buying beds in
:04:23. > :04:28.care homes and putting patients in them temporarily. How bad is the bed
:04:28. > :04:31.shortage? The crisis is severe. Last year, the accident and emergency
:04:31. > :04:37.consultant said the system was at breaking point and it could fall
:04:37. > :04:40.apart. The Government's put in £250 million to the system to try to do
:04:40. > :04:45.something about it, but everyone's keeping fingers crossed that
:04:45. > :04:49.onetering will be mild and they won't have too much flu or
:04:49. > :04:53.norovirus. Coming up in the programme: Back to
:04:53. > :05:00.see Syd Smails, no longer unsung, but very much a hero to his team.
:05:00. > :05:07.A West Midlands Euro MP has resigned from the UK independent party amid a
:05:07. > :05:14.scathing attack on the party leader, Nigel Farage. He quit UKIP last
:05:14. > :05:17.night, accusing Mr Farage of being totalitarian and comparing him to
:05:17. > :05:23.the Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe. Here is our political
:05:23. > :05:27.reporter. The party leader versus the old guard. UKIP's men for the
:05:27. > :05:32.West Midlands didn't take kindly to being deselected as a candidate. Now
:05:32. > :05:35.he's jumping ship with some harsh words for his former boss, Nigel
:05:35. > :05:41.Farage. In my view, he isn't a good leader.
:05:41. > :05:46.This is a problem he has with wanting to control every aspect of
:05:46. > :05:51.the party. I would point to that and say he is in fact totalitarian and
:05:51. > :05:56.he's going to such an extreme now that the process by which mens are
:05:56. > :06:03.recruited into the different lists in the different regions is being
:06:03. > :06:08.gerrymandered, in other words fixed. UKIP says its new selection process
:06:08. > :06:13.is fair, but it's no secret that Nige Elle Farage wants to attract a
:06:13. > :06:16.broad range of candidates. He's been accused by the Prime Minister of
:06:16. > :06:21.leading a Prime Minister of fruit cakes and nutters. They are far from
:06:21. > :06:24.totalitarians. In fact, we are the opposite in every respect. Mike's
:06:24. > :06:32.been a member of UKIP for some time, he's worked hard for the party and
:06:32. > :06:39.we wish him well. These The former party chairman isn't the first UKIP
:06:39. > :06:43.men to leave. Nicky Sinclair was expelled a year after winning
:06:43. > :06:47.historic I have triwhen UKIP came in second place in 2009. UKIP surpassed
:06:47. > :06:50.expect aces last time around. The two seats they won in the West
:06:51. > :06:55.Midlands may now be held by independents but I'm told they fully
:06:55. > :07:01.expect to win them back and more at the European elections next year.
:07:01. > :07:10.That won't stop Mr Nattrass from trying his luck and he intends to
:07:10. > :07:14.stand against UKIP in May. Our Political Editor is with us now.
:07:14. > :07:18.Where does this leave UKIP and the midland? Whenever political parties
:07:18. > :07:22.parade their divisions in public, they suffer a penalty for that.
:07:22. > :07:26.These are particularly scathing comments which reinforce perceptions
:07:26. > :07:30.that UKIP are a bit of a one—man band. But, so far as the effects of
:07:30. > :07:33.personality politics are concerned, remember there's a big difference
:07:33. > :07:37.between European and British domestic elections. In a British
:07:37. > :07:40.election, people vote for individual, personal candidates
:07:40. > :07:46.representing the parties. In Europe, they vote for closed lists of lots
:07:46. > :07:49.of candidates to represent one giant pan regional constituency across the
:07:49. > :07:52.region. The first of the Party Conferences
:07:52. > :07:56.is getting under way. You will be interviewing all three party leaders
:07:56. > :08:00.in the next few weeks on the Sunday Politics, won't you? Is this the
:08:00. > :08:04.beginning of the run—up to the general election? Definitely the
:08:04. > :08:07.quickening of the pace is quite clear and I challenged him about
:08:08. > :08:11.this week's unemployment figures which continue to show our region
:08:11. > :08:15.well above the national average and he said it's all the more reason why
:08:15. > :08:19.the Government must press on with policies to bear down on that,
:08:19. > :08:24.including significantly, his own personal very direct support for
:08:24. > :08:29.high speed rail, Nick Clegg. As that gets going, we'll be creating 50,000
:08:29. > :08:35.jobs just on the HSII project alone in the West Midlands. Those are
:08:35. > :08:39.always wanting to be pressed ahead with, encouraging investment and
:08:39. > :08:41.working hard through apprenticeships and through particularly the network
:08:42. > :08:45.of excellent colleges in the West Midlands to provide the skills to
:08:45. > :08:48.youngsters so that when the jobs become available, it's local
:08:48. > :08:52.youngsters who have a real fair crack of the whip.
:08:52. > :08:56.Going back to the general election, the Liberal Democrats did dreadfully
:08:56. > :09:01.in the local elections, wiped out in Staffordshire. Did Nick Clegg seem
:09:01. > :09:05.concerned? I reminded him about Staffordshire, but he feels very
:09:05. > :09:09.bullish that when the election comes he can present the case that his
:09:09. > :09:12.party, yes he knew they were going to take a hit for what they've had
:09:13. > :09:16.to do politically, but it was the right thing for the country. That's
:09:16. > :09:21.the message eel present. You can see that interview with Nick
:09:21. > :09:26.Clegg on the Sunday Politics starting at 1. 30 on BBC One.
:09:26. > :09:34.A college that had banned students colouring their faces said it
:09:34. > :09:44.provided female security guards to provide checks. The college changed
:09:44. > :09:50.its policy on Vales. —— veils. The college says it needs to be able to
:09:50. > :09:55.identify individuals because of security. You will Muller Wiseman
:09:55. > :10:00.are threatening le ak action against protestors after a blockade last
:10:00. > :10:04.night. Dozens of farmers stage add protest over the praise of milk.
:10:04. > :10:08.Although farmers receive more money for milk now than this time last
:10:08. > :10:14.year, they say high production costs means they are still making a loss.
:10:14. > :10:17.In 1999, Sarah Kemp had a serious horse riding accident which nearly
:10:17. > :10:23.killed her. She was in a coma for two months. She had to learn to eat,
:10:23. > :10:26.walk and write again. She never gave up and today, she graduated from
:10:26. > :10:28.college 14 years on from when she was originally supposed to start
:10:28. > :10:37.studying. We have been to meet her.
:10:37. > :10:41.Against staggering odds, Sarah Kemp graduates in chemistry and applied
:10:41. > :10:46.sciences at Worcester Cathedral. 14 years ago, she nearly died in a
:10:46. > :10:52.horse riding accident. It's all your hard work. You did
:10:52. > :10:56.this. You put me back together. There to watch the nurse who cared
:10:56. > :11:01.for her as she lay in a coma at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
:11:01. > :11:07.For me personally and with all the hard work, it's just amazing. I feel
:11:07. > :11:11.honoured to come and see how well she's done.
:11:11. > :11:17.In 2002, Sarah appeared on Midlandsed Today three years after
:11:17. > :11:23.her fall on Kinver Edge. Injuries included a blood clot on her brain,
:11:23. > :11:28.X—rays show some of the 18 screws and four metal plates which hold her
:11:28. > :11:34.face together. She was bleeding from the eyes,
:11:34. > :11:39.nose, mouth, ears and she was just, it was obviously... Roan dues
:11:39. > :11:45.really. At home in Kidderminster, memories of Sarah learning to
:11:46. > :11:50.swallow and talk again are etched on her father's mind. His helped her
:11:50. > :11:56.write again and kept the child—like scribbles of a then 21—year—old
:11:56. > :11:59.woman. It was dreadful to watch because we were getting where she
:12:00. > :12:10.could hardly touch the paper. I had to teach her how to walk properly
:12:10. > :12:16.because she had this terrible gait. It was really hard just to
:12:16. > :12:19.understand what I was reading on the computer on the research and the
:12:19. > :12:27.books and actually converting that to my English to write down. It was
:12:27. > :12:33.hard. What kept you going?I'm stubborn. Back to the cathedral then
:12:33. > :12:38.and celebrations. We never thought we'd make it here. This is just
:12:38. > :12:41.beyond belief really. She's proved she can do it. That was the whole
:12:41. > :12:46.point, to prove that she could do it. Until you stop and think about
:12:46. > :12:51.it, you suddenly realise, blimey, that was actually quite hard to get
:12:51. > :12:55.here, but I did it. 14 years ago, Sarah had been about
:12:55. > :12:59.to start a nursing degree. She now works in a shop which she combined
:12:59. > :13:05.with studies at Worcester College of technology. As for what's next, she
:13:05. > :13:10.hasn't decided. Inspiring stuff.
:13:10. > :13:13.Now, a report by the Health Ombudsman's criticised the number of
:13:13. > :13:18.people dying from an infection that can be spot and cured. Sepsis, or
:13:18. > :13:25.September seem that, killed 37,000 people in Britain last year, more
:13:25. > :13:29.than breast cancer, bowel cancer and HIV combined —— septicaemia.
:13:29. > :13:34.Specialist nurses have been working for a decade trying to spot signs of
:13:34. > :13:38.it before it's too late. It's estimated they've saved 1,000 lives
:13:38. > :13:43.already. Joining us now is the man behind that wise decision,
:13:43. > :13:46.consultant Ron Daniels from GoodHope Hospital in Birmingham. You started
:13:46. > :13:51.on the mission after an apparently healthy 37—year—old man died from
:13:51. > :13:58.sepsis. Explain the circumstances? This was Joe, he was 37, I was a
:13:58. > :14:02.newly appointed consultant, came on duly and found him literally falling
:14:02. > :14:07.apart in front of our eyes, there was nothing to do to save him and
:14:07. > :14:11.there had been gaps in his care in the preceding hours. I resolved to
:14:11. > :14:16.do this enwith I followed his wife down the hospital corridor and took
:14:16. > :14:20.her into a room to tell her that her strong man wasn't coming home and
:14:20. > :14:23.she was going to have to go home and tell their two young children that
:14:23. > :14:29.daddy wasn't coming home from a condition they'd never heard of. And
:14:29. > :14:34.he'd come in for something routine? Following a vasectomy, he returned
:14:34. > :14:40.to work and developed flu—like symptoms and then characteristic
:14:40. > :14:47.symptoms of sepsis. There have been a staggering number of high profile
:14:47. > :14:53.cases, Pope John Paul II and Christopher Reeve? And Socrates,
:14:53. > :14:56.Johnny Depp's daughter survived it thankfully here in the UK. There are
:14:56. > :15:01.many, many cases of this condition, obviously some of those will be high
:15:01. > :15:05.profile, but we are talking 100,000 a year affected by it. What are the
:15:05. > :15:10.signs? Presumably it's difficult to spot? It is and it's a challenging
:15:10. > :15:13.condition. In the early stages, it can look like flu but there are
:15:13. > :15:17.specific features people might want to look out for. The ombudsman
:15:17. > :15:22.report highlighted these in the early presentations of patients.
:15:22. > :15:28.Severe breathlessness, rapid shallow breathing is one. Patients often
:15:28. > :15:32.become confuse and delirious and slurred speech, some relatives
:15:32. > :15:35.describing a loved one acting drunk even though they had not touched
:15:35. > :15:42.alcohol. A third sign that people can look out for is changing in the
:15:42. > :15:49.skin colour where the skin might become pail, notled. —— notled. You
:15:49. > :15:57.have spread the word across other hospital Trusts now —— mottled. Yes,
:15:57. > :16:04.word has spread across the UK, it's now standard in Scotland and Wales
:16:04. > :16:07.and the ombudsman's highlighted that that should be an important factor
:16:07. > :16:12.in care in a report today. Thank you for coming in.
:16:13. > :16:20.This is our top story: New wards for the medically fit — is
:16:20. > :16:24.this the solution to hospital bed blocking this winter?
:16:24. > :16:29.Your detailed weather forecast shortly from Rebecca and also,
:16:29. > :16:35.written a book, need a publisher? Why you should make abiline for
:16:35. > :16:43.Birmingham this weekend. —— a beeline for Birmingham this weekend.
:16:43. > :16:47.And bee hives discovered in Sutton Park.
:16:47. > :16:51.Syd Smails — the Black Country netball coach, last year won the
:16:51. > :16:55.title of Midlands Unsung Sporting Hero. He said his work in grass
:16:55. > :17:00.roots sport has given him a new lease of life and it's reunited him
:17:00. > :17:07.with old friends. Thunted is on to find this year's hero.
:17:08. > :17:14.The hunt is on. Netball has been Syd smails' love for 50 years and he
:17:14. > :17:21.shows no sign of slowing down. He admits winning the award put a new
:17:21. > :17:26.spring in his step. Last year, it was very emotional for me. It's been
:17:27. > :17:32.a wonderful year. I've almost become famous. Next year, I'll have to go
:17:32. > :17:38.back. He's so vital to the club that their name is Sydney spelt
:17:38. > :17:42.backwards. The publicity brought new recruits and it's brought old faces
:17:42. > :17:47.back into his life. A footballer I played with some
:17:47. > :17:53.30—odd years ago got in touch and we are keeping in touch and also, an
:17:53. > :17:58.old relative from 30 years ago, they got in touch as well. They found
:17:58. > :18:03.that they saw me on the television and looked me up. Winning the unsung
:18:03. > :18:10.hero was a sporting treasure for Syd, but he's just as happy on the
:18:10. > :18:14.court doing what he does best. Who can you nominate? We are looking
:18:14. > :18:19.for an individual or a pair, got to be over 16, and who give their time
:18:19. > :18:23.voluntarily and for no financial reward, to allow other people to
:18:23. > :18:26.participate in sport. You can download a nomination form on the
:18:26. > :18:44.BBC Sport website. Against the odds, a group of writers
:18:44. > :18:48.have managed to get backing to put on a literary festival. With the
:18:48. > :18:51.help of a bank, farmers' market and pub, a Birmingham suburb is seeing a
:18:51. > :19:01.literary festival looking likely to be a major draw this weekend.
:19:01. > :19:09.Preparing for a pub festival. Those with dreams of being published. The
:19:09. > :19:13.writers group are behind the pow wow literary festival bringing together
:19:13. > :19:17.fledgling authors. People offer you constructive
:19:17. > :19:20.criticism and give you different ideas to think about and consider so
:19:20. > :19:25.it's positive. Pow wow has managed to secure
:19:25. > :19:29.commercial sponsorship for their third festival with Mosley's the
:19:29. > :19:34.Prince of Wales peer garden providing the venue. We like to be
:19:34. > :19:38.small, local, flexible and keep the character. As far as I know, we are
:19:38. > :19:42.the only literary festival that takes place in a pub. Most authors
:19:42. > :19:46.will tell you writing the novel is half the battle, the next hurdle is
:19:47. > :19:50.getting published. Festivals like this give young writers the chance
:19:50. > :19:57.to hear from those that know the business. Mosley—based novelist
:19:57. > :20:01.Maureen Carter, the creator of the critically acclaimed DSB Morris
:20:01. > :20:06.novel is about to publish another novel.
:20:06. > :20:09.When you are writing, you are on your own. When you have finished it,
:20:10. > :20:15.you have got to make sure people out there know that it exists. With
:20:15. > :20:20.150,000 new titles every year, how is your name going to come to the
:20:20. > :20:26.forefront? You have to go out and do turns and twirls and twinkle. Pow
:20:26. > :20:30.wow promises a two—day workshop and guest appearances. Who knows from
:20:30. > :20:37.Birmingham beginnings to the next Booker Prize winner?
:20:37. > :20:40.There are collectors around the world, some willing to pay hundreds
:20:40. > :20:44.of thousands of pounds to own the bright and beautiful designs of
:20:44. > :20:51.Moorcroft Pottery. A fraction of them descended on Stoke—on—Trent to
:20:51. > :20:55.join in the centenary celebrations. Retracing the steps of William mar
:20:55. > :21:02.croft as he moved his small team of Potters to his new factory. As they
:21:02. > :21:09.re—enacted the events of 1913, the workers were joined by workers from
:21:09. > :21:12.across the world gathering at the Moorcroft home. Be
:21:12. > :21:17.There's always a wonderful synergy between the decoration and the form.
:21:17. > :21:22.I'm besotted by this stuff because it's the best of British.
:21:22. > :21:27.Moorcroft is art pottery created by highly skilled workers and the
:21:27. > :21:32.skills used a century ago remain largely unchanged. Each piece is
:21:32. > :21:36.still hand—paint and this is the only pottery in the world using
:21:36. > :21:39.these techniques. Before being painted, each piece is individually
:21:39. > :21:42.tube lined with wet clay being applied to outline the pattern of
:21:42. > :21:48.decoration. Because it's hand—painted, it's like
:21:48. > :21:56.hand writing, it's never identical. I've been here 26 years. I think the
:21:56. > :22:00.we need to keep the skills in Stoke—on—Trent. It's the skill of
:22:00. > :22:05.its workers that's behind the company's continued success,
:22:05. > :22:11.according to its current owners. Every piece takes hours and hours to
:22:11. > :22:15.paint. That is the same technique that's been used here in this
:22:15. > :22:20.company for 100 years. That, I believe, is part of its success.
:22:20. > :22:24.As the company celebrates its centenary, it's ware is increasingly
:22:24. > :22:28.sought after by collectors. Traditional skills hoping a 21st
:22:28. > :22:32.century pottery enjoy continuing success.
:22:32. > :22:36.Beautiful. If you are having your tea, have a
:22:36. > :22:40.breather because a tiny bug never before found in the Midlands has
:22:40. > :22:45.turned up in cow pats at Sutton park. It's not the first time
:22:45. > :22:50.something now has appeared there and you could help the experts discover
:22:50. > :22:57.more as part of the summer wild life event takes part in Sutton Park.
:22:57. > :23:03.David Greggy—Kumar is there for us. How can people help —— David
:23:03. > :23:08.Gregory—Kumar. If people come down here, they can
:23:08. > :23:11.meet their favourite wildlife presenters, they'll meet baby
:23:11. > :23:17.animals and will be able to take parts in the bioblitz where they try
:23:17. > :23:22.to find as many species as possible. Last time they did that, they found
:23:22. > :23:26.something completely new. Cattle have grazed this landscape
:23:26. > :23:32.for hundreds of years and what they leave behind has shaped the
:23:32. > :23:41.landscape too. Matthew, why were you poking around in cow pow? —— cow
:23:41. > :23:48.poo? You can feigned all sorts, worms, all sorts of interesting
:23:48. > :23:56.things living and feeding. It provides food, resource, also
:23:56. > :24:03.food for birds, swallows and at night bats fly around as well. Now
:24:03. > :24:06.these grubs will become dung beetles and those gathered as part of a
:24:06. > :24:13.weekend held a bit of a surprise. On the back of the beetle they found a
:24:13. > :24:16.tiny fat—headed lolly—pop—like structure and scraped them off and
:24:17. > :24:20.put them under the microscope to have a look. This is what they
:24:20. > :24:23.found. A tortoise—shell mite never recorded in the Midlands before.
:24:23. > :24:28.This isn't the first time something new's turned up in the park. 60 or
:24:28. > :24:35.so years ago, you wouldn't have found this. This is called a gall
:24:35. > :24:43.and there are some healthy acorns and there's a wasp lava in there.
:24:43. > :24:47.Now, this wasp didn't live in this country until about 60 years ago and
:24:47. > :24:51.the first place I found it in Britain was here in Sutton Park.
:24:51. > :24:56.This weekend, you might discover a new species if you look hard enough.
:24:56. > :25:01.We have come inside now. There's plenty of shelter here in the summer
:25:01. > :25:08.of wildlife event but the forecast for the next two days isn't too bad.
:25:08. > :25:12.More details on our Facebook page. You will also find a link to other
:25:12. > :25:18.wildlife events happening across the weekend if you can't get here.
:25:18. > :25:21.One final piece of advice for all prospective wildlife enthuse yas, if
:25:21. > :25:26.you are poking around in cow poo, it can be very interesting but do wash
:25:26. > :25:31.your hands afterwards. Great advice.
:25:31. > :25:34.I don't know about you, I got gently drenched this afternoon. Wasn't too
:25:34. > :25:37.pleasant. Will the weather be better tomorrow?
:25:37. > :25:41.A soggy end to the day, a soggy end to the weekend and on top of that,
:25:41. > :25:45.we have autumn storms to contend with. There will be a brief break in
:25:45. > :25:49.that. We have a pleasant day tomorrow with good spells of
:25:50. > :25:53.sunshine, but then through Sunday, stronger winds to contend with and
:25:53. > :25:57.also the return of some rain. There's plenty of rain about to end
:25:57. > :26:01.today. Heavy pulses still to come. We could see up 2010 mm of rain
:26:01. > :26:05.falling in places. It will eventually start to move off through
:26:06. > :26:11.tonight to leave a dry start to our Saturday. Some cloud overnight is
:26:11. > :26:14.helping temperatures a little so they'll stay in double figures,
:26:14. > :26:18.possibly dropping to nine in Herefordshire. We start off Saturday
:26:18. > :26:22.with a bit of cloud here and there. That rain moves off and the cloud
:26:22. > :26:25.will start to break and we'll see the sun come out. It will be a
:26:25. > :26:29.pleasant day tomorrow. The sunshine will help the temperatures. They
:26:29. > :26:34.will manage to get into mid teens for most. Under the cloud, they'll
:26:34. > :26:38.struggle a little. It will be a fine and dry tend to our Saturday,
:26:38. > :26:42.something to enjoy, the calm before the storm, so to speak. It will be
:26:42. > :26:46.clear skies overnight with light winds. Temperatures will fall away
:26:47. > :26:51.and we are looking at them dropping down into single figures, possibly
:26:51. > :26:57.even getting down to six in Herefordshire. Waiting in the wings,
:26:57. > :27:01.the next weather front. It's coupled with a deep low which is causing
:27:01. > :27:06.real substantial wind to come through on Saturday. We could see
:27:06. > :27:10.some really strong gusts on Sunday and there will be some gale force
:27:10. > :27:14.winds coming through as well, particularly to the north of region
:27:14. > :27:18.and then the rain will come in, so it will feel cooler and unpleasant.
:27:18. > :27:22.Temperatures still managing to make it to mid teens, but with the wind,
:27:23. > :27:26.it will feel unpleasant. As we move through to the start of the new
:27:26. > :27:31.working week, staying unsettled with more wind on the cards as well.
:27:31. > :27:35.Diabolical. Thank you! Let us recap on the top
:27:35. > :27:40.stories: A mother and her three children are killed in a house fire
:27:40. > :27:46.in Leicester. The police say it's nurseder.
:27:46. > :27:47.—— murder. Is medically