17/10/2013 Midlands Today


17/10/2013

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 17/10/2013. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

dual fuel customers will go up by more than 9%. That is all

:00:00.:00:08.

Hello and welcome to the programme. The headlines: Police raid homes

:00:09.:00:16.

across Birmingham to track down an international drug scam, bringing

:00:17.:00:20.

heroin into the UK. They've been using human careers, who have been

:00:21.:00:24.

bringing their heroin in. Normally around four to 12 kilos each time.

:00:25.:00:30.

It follows the discovery of 95 kilos of heroin destined for the UK, with

:00:31.:00:37.

a street value of this `` of ?5 million. 700 badgers are killed in

:00:38.:00:41.

Gloucestershire, less than half the government target.

:00:42.:00:45.

The time frame is now likely to be extended. Wolverhampton council

:00:46.:00:48.

tries to save nearly ?100 million over the next five years.

:00:49.:00:52.

We are going to pay more for less which is what keeps happening. These

:00:53.:00:58.

are tough times. It's just not good. Under threat, a memorial to soldiers

:00:59.:01:04.

who died in the First World War. Now 10,000 people have signed a

:01:05.:01:08.

petition to save it. And we have the weather.

:01:09.:01:11.

Today raised hopes. Is the rest of the week going to

:01:12.:01:15.

dash them as all eyes turn to the weekend. The forecast for you later.

:01:16.:01:24.

Good evening. Five people have been arrested in early morning raids in

:01:25.:01:29.

the West Midlands, on suspicion of trafficking large amounts of heroin

:01:30.:01:33.

into the UK. Police believe they're responsible for importing the drug

:01:34.:01:36.

from Pakistan, through Europe via countries such as Spain. Officers

:01:37.:01:41.

have already intercepted more than 50 kilos of heroin destined for the

:01:42.:01:45.

British market which the dealers had tried to smuggle in via specially

:01:46.:01:47.

adapted suitcases, books and clothing. Today's raids were the

:01:48.:01:54.

first carried out in the Midlands by the newly formed National Crime

:01:55.:02:05.

Agency. Police moved quickly to capture

:02:06.:02:08.

suspected key players in an international smuggling gang. A man

:02:09.:02:13.

and a woman were arrested at this house in Stourbridge by officers

:02:14.:02:16.

from the newly formed National Crime Agency. Further arrests were made in

:02:17.:02:19.

the Bordesley Green and Alum Rock areas of Birmingham ` and in

:02:20.:02:27.

Bradford in West Yorkshire. We feel they are a significant gang. The

:02:28.:02:30.

drugs we seized as part of this operation with colleagues in Europe

:02:31.:02:35.

has been about 95 kilos. In the UK, we've seized 50 kilos and to put

:02:36.:02:40.

that into context, that has a street value of around ?5 million. It is a

:02:41.:02:42.

significant amount. Couriers are believed to have been used to

:02:43.:02:46.

conceal the drugs in books and next to clothes on flights to Europe from

:02:47.:02:49.

Pakistan. The National Crime Agency says it hopes today's operation will

:02:50.:02:52.

be the first of many investigations in the West Midlands that will have

:02:53.:02:56.

an improved joined up approach to fighting crime. Those arrests are

:02:57.:03:11.

part of an... Officers from Spanish police are here observing. Police

:03:12.:03:14.

officers from Holland and Germany have also been involved. The Spanish

:03:15.:03:16.

police observing said they hoped today's raid would seriously disrupt

:03:17.:03:19.

drug trafficking in their country too. One of the main priorities for

:03:20.:03:32.

the police is the cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, in

:03:33.:03:37.

order to fight organised crime groups who operate without frontiers

:03:38.:03:43.

or borders. Half the estimated 5,000 organised crime gangs operating in

:03:44.:03:46.

the UK are involved in drug smuggling ` tackling them and their

:03:47.:03:50.

global network is seen as a priority for this new crime fighting unit.

:03:51.:03:55.

Our Special correspondent Peter Wilson joins us in the studio now.

:03:56.:04:00.

So is Birmingham a major destination for heroin from Pakistan, Peter?

:04:01.:04:06.

I am not here talking about today's raids, or those that were arrested,

:04:07.:04:12.

but historically, there is a city in Pakistan called... Back in the 60s,

:04:13.:04:17.

lots of people came from there because they were building a dam and

:04:18.:04:22.

60% of the Pakistani people living in Birmingham come from that city.

:04:23.:04:26.

It's known as little Birmingham. It is also right on the route for

:04:27.:04:33.

heroin coming in from Afghanistan. There is also another community,

:04:34.:04:38.

which lives on the border of Afghanistan. Lots of people from

:04:39.:04:41.

Birmingham are from those areas as well. The vast majority are

:04:42.:04:45.

law`abiding but a small minority are linked to the heroin trade. We are

:04:46.:04:50.

hearing a lot about organised crime at the moment.

:04:51.:04:54.

What exactly does that mean? It means big business. At one time, it

:04:55.:04:58.

was estimated that drugs trade in this country alone per year was with

:04:59.:05:03.

something like ?40 billion. If you think about Land Rover doubt

:05:04.:05:11.

you are, they make ?1.6 billion a year. Drugs is ?40 billion. The sums

:05:12.:05:17.

are truly astronomical. If you years ago, I went and sat in

:05:18.:05:21.

the home of a man. I had been told he was one of the

:05:22.:05:26.

Birmingham drug lords. He told me he was a taxi driver. I had also been

:05:27.:05:31.

told he had at one time ?1 million in cash hidden under his

:05:32.:05:35.

floorboards. We went for a walk through a certain part of Birmingham

:05:36.:05:40.

in the streets and people were treating him almost like that Marlon

:05:41.:05:44.

Brando character out of the Godfather. People were bowing and

:05:45.:05:49.

scraping because he was one of the most influential people in the

:05:50.:05:57.

city. But no one had heard of him. Coming up later in the programme:

:05:58.:06:02.

Why young dads often feel isolated: a call to help fathers as young as

:06:03.:06:05.

14. The company responsible for the

:06:06.:06:08.

pilot badger cull in Gloucestershire has applied for an eight week

:06:09.:06:13.

extension to its licence. New figures were released today which

:06:14.:06:16.

showed that, in the six weeks since the shooting started, only 708

:06:17.:06:19.

badgers have been killed ` less than half the target. Our eural affairs

:06:20.:06:24.

correspondent David Gregory`Kumar is inside the cull zone for us now. So,

:06:25.:06:29.

has this all turned out to be a bit of an embarrassing failure, David?

:06:30.:06:36.

It's hugely embarassing for the Government and those running the

:06:37.:06:39.

Gloucestershire cull. It's estimated there were 2,350 badgers in the

:06:40.:06:46.

Gloucestershire cull zone. And in a programme of controlled shooting for

:06:47.:06:49.

the past six weeks, around 30% of the population have been killed.

:06:50.:06:53.

Well short of the 70% target. Now as you say the company running the cull

:06:54.:06:56.

wants to carry on for anther eight weeks.

:06:57.:06:59.

Things have gone so badly with the Gloucestershire badger cull the

:07:00.:07:02.

shooting could now carry on right up until Christmas. It is obvious that

:07:03.:07:09.

six weeks is not long enough. Somerset was granted a further three

:07:10.:07:14.

weeks. The local company have applied to Natural England for a

:07:15.:07:17.

further eight weeks and that is under discussion with them. I am

:07:18.:07:22.

very keen this is run by local people. It is down to the local

:07:23.:07:25.

company to work that out with Natural England. The Somerset cull

:07:26.:07:28.

may have faced problems but they look like achieving the cull target.

:07:29.:07:37.

So why has Gloucestershire failed so spectacularly? They will be a number

:07:38.:07:43.

of reasons why the numbers are lower than we in the culling companies

:07:44.:07:48.

have hoped. Some of them will be to do with what is happening this year,

:07:49.:07:53.

the two rain, the type of farming, what the badgers are doing and where

:07:54.:07:56.

they are eating and so on. We will consider it all in the round.

:07:57.:08:01.

Protesters are clearly a part of that. So protesters have made a big

:08:02.:08:04.

difference in Gloucestershire. They certainly made a difference. It has

:08:05.:08:11.

meant we've had to pull back our operatives to go to other areas. The

:08:12.:08:20.

government insists this is just a pilot but the highly well`equipped

:08:21.:08:22.

protesters in Gloucestershire have cause real problems for the cull.

:08:23.:08:27.

Let's talk to some of those protesters. Nick and Jean are from

:08:28.:08:32.

Gloucestershire. What is your reaction to this extension to the

:08:33.:08:36.

cull, potentially of eight weeks? If it wasn't so tragic, the whole thing

:08:37.:08:39.

would be laughable. They've had six weeks to do this. They've only

:08:40.:08:46.

killed the third of the badgers. How do they think over another

:08:47.:08:52.

eight`week period, and how then can call that an extension, I don't

:08:53.:08:55.

know, how do they think they will achieve success in bad weather? It

:08:56.:09:03.

has been a disaster from start to finish. Nick, people like you have

:09:04.:09:08.

had an impact. There are all sorts of protesters out here every night.

:09:09.:09:11.

Feet on the ground have made a big difference in Gloucestershire. We

:09:12.:09:15.

act purely within the law. We've had over 500 people as part of our

:09:16.:09:19.

patrol. We have not deliberately set out to stop the shooters that are

:09:20.:09:25.

looking for wounded badgers. If we are in a field near the shooters,

:09:26.:09:28.

they have to go somewhere else. If we've made a difference in that way,

:09:29.:09:33.

so be it. Do you think you've stopped shooting? We know we have

:09:34.:09:36.

because I've been out in the field and we've seen the shooters. The

:09:37.:09:39.

police have been called and they've been told to stop shooting. It has

:09:40.:09:43.

made an impact. People know that we are there. We've got hundreds of

:09:44.:09:47.

people coming from all over the country. They are amazing people,

:09:48.:09:55.

from all age groups, from different occupational groups. Totally

:09:56.:09:56.

incredible, out there all weathers, from seven until seven. They are

:09:57.:10:02.

mind`boggling. If more people want to join us, we would love to have

:10:03.:10:06.

them in the wounded badger patrol. This extension has been applied for

:10:07.:10:14.

and there will be a decision as soon as tomorrow.

:10:15.:10:33.

He has been released on bail to be electronically tagged before

:10:34.:10:41.

sentencing on November the 28th. Leaders in Wolverhampton say it is

:10:42.:10:43.

unlikely that any residents in the city will be left unaffected by the

:10:44.:10:48.

council 's efforts to strip out almost ?100 million from its budget

:10:49.:10:53.

over the next five years. It is now looking at 165 proposals to reduce

:10:54.:10:58.

some services as well as putting council tax bills at the first time

:10:59.:11:04.

in four years. Lifeguards at the Central Baths in

:11:05.:11:07.

Wolverhampton, road sweepers who keep the city streets clean and

:11:08.:11:10.

youth workers helping youngsters find their feet. Just three of the

:11:11.:11:14.

groups of people facing redundancy as the City Council tries to make

:11:15.:11:24.

?98 million worth of cuts by 2019. We've been forced into this position

:11:25.:11:30.

because of the reduction in government grants that we have

:11:31.:11:36.

suffered, something like 40% between 2010 and the end of 2015/16. There's

:11:37.:11:44.

been a swimming pool on Bath Avenue since 1847. The current facility is

:11:45.:11:47.

in desperate need of a refurbishment the council can't afford. This could

:11:48.:11:50.

be one of the biggest casualties of the cuts. The council was

:11:51.:11:55.

withdrawing ?316,000 worth of annual subsidy and if another operator

:11:56.:11:58.

cannot be found, it says it will have to close. Youth services in the

:11:59.:12:05.

city will also lose ?1.1 million. These young people are on a course

:12:06.:12:09.

that combines maths and english basics with learning about the music

:12:10.:12:12.

industry. It's privately funded, but at least three of the students are

:12:13.:12:15.

there because of council run projects. The duty is being used all

:12:16.:12:24.

the time so there is definitely a need for youth provision, more youth

:12:25.:12:28.

provision within Wolverhampton. To know there are going to be cuts in

:12:29.:12:31.

the city is quite sad because we're not going to be able to do some of

:12:32.:12:34.

the good work. Council tax bills are also expected to go up for the first

:12:35.:12:39.

time in four years. But one of the city's MPs says growth in the

:12:40.:12:42.

private sector should offset some of the job losses. In the West Midlands

:12:43.:12:47.

between 1997 and 2010, we were the only part of the country which saw a

:12:48.:12:51.

decrease in the number of private sector jobs. We are going to have to

:12:52.:12:56.

rebalance the economy and there are real positives which points to a

:12:57.:12:58.

positive future. The council says the financial crisis isn't their

:12:59.:13:02.

mess, but it's up to them to clear it up and everyone in the city will

:13:03.:13:10.

feel the impact. Teenage dads desperately want to be

:13:11.:13:13.

good parents, but often feel isolated, according to a report from

:13:14.:13:18.

the charity 4`Children. Now a Black Country group's calling for more

:13:19.:13:22.

help for them from the government in a region with one of the highest

:13:23.:13:25.

teenage pregnancy rates in England and some fathers as young as 14.

:13:26.:13:35.

Louise was just 15 when she became pregnant. 16`year`old Luke stood by

:13:36.:13:45.

her. Anyway, I feel like I've lost my youth but in another way, I've

:13:46.:13:50.

gained something from fatherhood. It is just amazing. The couple who live

:13:51.:13:55.

in Sandwell, admit it's been a struggle. But they're still up at

:13:56.:13:58.

five every morning, ready to leave the house at seven so Ethan can go

:13:59.:14:03.

to nursery and they can both go on to college. I want to be

:14:04.:14:10.

successful. I want my son to see that he can do what he wants to do

:14:11.:14:15.

when he is old enough, and go for it just like I have. You are doing

:14:16.:14:22.

really well. We pride view. Simon Jakeman became a father at 18. He

:14:23.:14:26.

too has been helped by the Sandwell charity Krunch which helps young

:14:27.:14:29.

fathers get into education, training or to find work. They helped me get

:14:30.:14:39.

my maths and English qualifications. That has led to me getting this job.

:14:40.:14:45.

I can provide for my family. What do you think you would have done

:14:46.:14:49.

without this? I would be unemployed, probably on the book ``

:14:50.:14:53.

Dole. I would be getting into trouble. We do parenting courses,

:14:54.:14:58.

cooking classes, basic life skills, how to use a washing machine. The

:14:59.:15:04.

charity has helped around a hundred young dads in the last four years in

:15:05.:15:08.

the Sandwell area. Teenage pregnancy rates here and across the West

:15:09.:15:11.

Midlands are some of the highest in England. Ethan is now six months

:15:12.:15:15.

old. His parents say they're determined to provide him with

:15:16.:15:18.

positive role models and they're working hard to get their lives back

:15:19.:15:19.

on track. This is our top story tonight: Five

:15:20.:15:34.

people are arrested in raids across the West Midlands as police target

:15:35.:15:36.

an international drug smuggling gang.

:15:37.:15:41.

Your detailed weather forecast to come shortly from Shefali. Also in

:15:42.:15:43.

tonight's programme: Keep on running ` a dilapidated athletics track

:15:44.:15:47.

transformed as part of our Olympic legacy.

:15:48.:15:53.

And why the dodo isn't quite as dead as we thought. Well, not in

:15:54.:15:54.

Herefordshire anyway! A public meeting's just got underway

:15:55.:16:04.

in Warwickshire to discuss controversial plans to extract gas

:16:05.:16:07.

from deep underneath the countryside around Marston. Cluff Natural

:16:08.:16:10.

Resources has applied for a licence to use a technique known as

:16:11.:16:15.

Underground Coal Gassification. Holes are drilled into coal seams

:16:16.:16:19.

deep below the surface and then set alight. That releases gases which

:16:20.:16:31.

can then be used to produce power. The Coal Authority is still

:16:32.:16:33.

considering the application which the energy firm says would create up

:16:34.:16:37.

to 400 new jobs. Our reporter Giles Latcham is in Leamington Spa where

:16:38.:16:40.

the meeting is taking place for us now. So who's arranged this tonight?

:16:41.:16:49.

It has been organised by a small group, newly formed to contest this

:16:50.:16:57.

application to drill in an area south of here. About 60 people have

:16:58.:17:03.

turned out so far, many fear it will spoil the countryside. Sue is one of

:17:04.:17:11.

the founders of this group. This application is a speculative one to

:17:12.:17:14.

see if the product is viable. It could be five years away. If it

:17:15.:17:18.

happens, you jumping the gun? I don't think so because once in while

:17:19.:17:23.

has been drilled, it is therefore perpetuity. Very many wells leaks

:17:24.:17:31.

and we don't want to see a polluting well which could spawn into hundreds

:17:32.:17:35.

of thousands. We need to know now what this could turn into. Important

:17:36.:17:46.

to distinguish this is not fracking. It uses similar technology but

:17:47.:17:50.

rather than using water and chemicals, the coal in the ground is

:17:51.:17:55.

set on fire. This is therefore quite risky business because who knows

:17:56.:18:00.

what is down there, who knows what you can release. It's a very

:18:01.:18:07.

experimental technology which almost every test has been shut down for

:18:08.:18:12.

pollution incidents. Gas prices have gone up again today. There is a rich

:18:13.:18:16.

seam of coal here. We can't ignore that, can we? They are not linked.

:18:17.:18:21.

This is an expensive technology. It takes a lot of energy to get gas

:18:22.:18:25.

from coal so deep in the ground. When it comes out, you cannot plug

:18:26.:18:30.

it in to the gas that we use. This would be used for diesel, jet fuel,

:18:31.:18:36.

it's completely fictitious to say this is helpful in that way. Many

:18:37.:18:42.

people are already very concerned about this.

:18:43.:18:44.

Almost 10,000 people have signed a petition to save a memorial to

:18:45.:18:48.

soldiers who died in the First World War. It's inside the former

:18:49.:18:50.

magistrates court in Stoke`on`Trent ` which is now for sale after it was

:18:51.:18:54.

closed as part of government saving plans. Fenton Town Hall, until

:18:55.:18:58.

recently a Magistrates' court. Inside a unique record of soldiers

:18:59.:19:01.

who gave their lives during the First World War. Made from Minton

:19:02.:19:09.

tiles, Fenton's history is built into the very fabric of the walls

:19:10.:19:15.

here. But now the building's for sale and facing an uncertain future.

:19:16.:19:23.

It is just so incredibly important that these men, most of them very

:19:24.:19:29.

young, are not forgotten and desecrated, because that is what

:19:30.:19:33.

would happen if the building was demolished. The memorial cannot be

:19:34.:19:38.

removed without being demolished. Jane Jones and Callan Chevin both

:19:39.:19:40.

have great grandfathers who fought in the North Staffs Regiment. The

:19:41.:19:48.

thought of a possibility it could be destroyed is disgusting. It is so

:19:49.:19:57.

dishonourable. As a young Pip `` person in Stoke, I feel it is my

:19:58.:20:00.

duty to carry on the memory of these fallen heroes. The war memorial

:20:01.:20:05.

outside a building makes reference to the names recorded inside. The

:20:06.:20:09.

mystery of Justice has said any sale of the building will involve a

:20:10.:20:13.

condition that the tile memorial will be preserved. It says the

:20:14.:20:16.

government has a duty to taxpayers to provide best funny for money when

:20:17.:20:19.

the property is sold. The campaigners have collected a

:20:20.:20:21.

petition with almost 10,000 signatures, they'll be delivering it

:20:22.:20:24.

to Downing Street at the weekend. They're also got poppy seeds which

:20:25.:20:27.

they're planning to plant on all roads into the town. If we can plant

:20:28.:20:35.

poppies around the town, what the residents are saying is we haven't

:20:36.:20:38.

forgotten about you. We are remembering you. Ultimatately the

:20:39.:20:41.

campaigners want the chance to buy this building themselves. They

:20:42.:20:44.

hoping it can be saved, and in doing so, they can honour the memory of

:20:45.:20:50.

soldiers who sacrificed their lives. A Birmingham athletics club which

:20:51.:20:53.

faced merger or even closure has been saved, thanks to the Olympic

:20:54.:20:58.

legacy. Sparkhill Harriers was formed more than a century ago, but

:20:59.:21:02.

its home track had fallen into disrepair and was no longer fit for

:21:03.:21:05.

use. Today, though, that track re`opened after a face`lift costing

:21:06.:21:16.

more than ?300,000. This is the Olympic legacy they

:21:17.:21:19.

promised, young people inspired by the London Games being coached by

:21:20.:21:24.

top British athletes. But just as important is the Olympic legacy

:21:25.:21:28.

under their feet. A brand new track costing 325 thousand pounds that

:21:29.:21:37.

will be home to Sparkhill Harriers. It is really good. It was better

:21:38.:21:41.

than the last track because the other track had massive holes in

:21:42.:21:45.

it. It is nice to run on it and I don't trip up sometimes. I can feel

:21:46.:21:50.

it underneath my feet, it's a lot more bouncy. It's really good. I've

:21:51.:21:56.

never felt a track like this before. It's really soft for your spikes to

:21:57.:22:02.

go on. What a legacy. The good condition of this particular track

:22:03.:22:07.

will carry on for years and years. It is so good to see so many young

:22:08.:22:12.

people enthusiastic about running. It will be well used. It was

:22:13.:22:15.

desperately needed. A year ago I filmed the shocking state into which

:22:16.:22:19.

the Fox Hollies track had fallen. Rotting equipment and an

:22:20.:22:22.

embarrassing running surface. A club founded in 1902 and with an Olympic

:22:23.:22:26.

silver medallist in their Hall of Fame faced an uncertain future. We

:22:27.:22:33.

were having great difficulty in seeing how we could keep the club

:22:34.:22:35.

going because we thought we might even have to lose the junior

:22:36.:22:40.

section. The work has gone in with various organisations to produce

:22:41.:22:43.

this new track is of importance to us. Already, to `` together with the

:22:44.:22:50.

Olympic effect, we are seeing a new influx of people coming. But funding

:22:51.:22:53.

from the city council, Sport England and Ninestiles school has

:22:54.:22:56.

transformed it. And who knows one day one of these young runners could

:22:57.:23:00.

swap a Sparkhill vest for a British Olympic vest.

:23:01.:23:05.

Now, what's the most famous of all extinct species? Surely it has to be

:23:06.:23:11.

the dodo, as in dead as. Dodos lived on the island of Mauritius and are

:23:12.:23:15.

thought to have grown to a large size because they had no natural

:23:16.:23:18.

predators. But then man arrived in the 16th century and astonishingly,

:23:19.:23:21.

within just a few decades, it had been wiped out. Now the bird forms

:23:22.:23:25.

the centrepiece of a new exhibition in Herefordshire, carrying a strong

:23:26.:23:31.

environmental message. Nature left unspoilt can look like

:23:32.:23:36.

this. The stunning secenery of the Black Mountains on the Herefordshire

:23:37.:23:41.

Welsh Border. But meddle with nature and you get the story of the extinct

:23:42.:23:46.

dodo. It's a story brought to life in this exhibtion at Monnow Valley

:23:47.:23:56.

Arts Cntre in Walterstone. Why bring this exhibition to Herefordshire?

:23:57.:23:59.

There is an important reason because this is a beautiful is it ``

:24:00.:24:04.

beautiful, unspoiled area. We are trying to get the message across to

:24:05.:24:09.

preserve the area and not to do as we did centuries ago with the dodo

:24:10.:24:13.

in Mauritius. And you've actually got the bones of the bird to bring

:24:14.:24:16.

the story to life as well. We have indeed. This is the prime exhibit

:24:17.:24:21.

here. These are actual dodo bones, the last remains of a beautiful bird

:24:22.:24:25.

that would still be alive today if it wasn't for us. The bones belong

:24:26.:24:29.

to this man. Ralfe Whistler inherited them from his late father.

:24:30.:24:33.

His Suusex home is like a permanent museum to thr woerld's largest

:24:34.:24:38.

collection of all things dodo. It is fun! It brings a smile to most

:24:39.:24:52.

people 's faces. If you are a collector, you like collecting

:24:53.:24:55.

almost anything. I do collect and it is almost now Ralfe's fascination

:24:56.:24:58.

for the The peculiar bird is being shared in our region. Built in. The

:24:59.:25:02.

name of this extinct bird comes from its rather fat behind so when the

:25:03.:25:09.

Dutch founded, they named it fat bottom. Over time, it became known

:25:10.:25:14.

as a dodo. Alas poor dodo may be dead as can be but the flighless

:25:15.:25:17.

bird sends us alla warning to look after our natural surroundings

:25:18.:25:25.

before tis too late. Let's catch up with the weather.

:25:26.:25:28.

Slightly better today, Shefali. What's the forecast?

:25:29.:25:35.

We had some sunshine today and very few showers. Yesterday, we were

:25:36.:25:40.

expecting some heavy ones but there have not been any reports of any.

:25:41.:25:43.

There has even been a positive development on the rain for

:25:44.:25:46.

tomorrow. There is still heavy rain to come but it looks as though the

:25:47.:25:49.

alignment of it was a little further west. We should miss the worst of

:25:50.:25:55.

it. Also, we have, piling in behind it, if you heavy showers. Is there

:25:56.:25:59.

anything over the weekend, there are showers will be heavier than the

:26:00.:26:15.

rain tomorrow. We have got blustery showers on Sunday. It is also going

:26:16.:26:18.

to stay quite mild. It will be fairly breezy. We got some sunshine

:26:19.:26:20.

in between those showers as well. Because of today's sunshine, we

:26:21.:26:23.

start the night off with clear skies and because of that, we could see Mr

:26:24.:26:25.

developing early on, even fog for the east of the region where we hold

:26:26.:26:28.

onto the clear skies for longest. There will be time for that to

:26:29.:26:34.

develop into fog. Later in the night, we will see the cloud

:26:35.:26:36.

thickening up from the South West, head of this rain for tomorrow. The

:26:37.:26:44.

coldest spot would be the south`west. The morning tomorrow,

:26:45.:26:52.

we've still got that fog to contend with. As the cloud pushes further

:26:53.:26:56.

eastwards, that will lift them stand for Clinton low cloud. It is a dull

:26:57.:27:07.

day tomorrow. Perhaps some heavy bursts in the rest of the region

:27:08.:27:10.

tomorrow but the temperatures will be lower tomorrow. If at all, it's

:27:11.:27:17.

tomorrow night that we will see the rain pepping up a little bit. A damp

:27:18.:27:26.

wet night tomorrow night. For the weekend, we are looking at some

:27:27.:27:28.

showers and some sunshine. Tonight's headlines from the BBC.

:27:29.:27:33.

British Gas is the latest energy supplier to put up its prices ` up

:27:34.:27:37.

to eight million households face higher bills. And police raid homes

:27:38.:27:40.

across Birmingham, as they track an international drugs gang, bringing

:27:41.:27:42.

heroin into the UK. That was the Midlands Today. David

:27:43.:27:46.

Gregory`Kumar will be back at ten o'clock with latest update on the

:27:47.:27:48.

day's news.

:27:49.:27:49.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS