:00:00. > :00:08.Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: Radical
:00:09. > :00:17.revamp on the roads: long term plans for a possible permanent closure of
:00:18. > :00:21.Birmingham's city centre tunnels. We are not ruling out anything. We are
:00:22. > :00:24.going into a discussion. We'll be finding out why planners think it
:00:25. > :00:27.could benefit Birmingham city centre. Also tonight: A week after
:00:28. > :00:31.she was abandoned, police return to the park where baby Jade was found
:00:32. > :00:37.and appeal for her mother to come forward. We saw this man stood by
:00:38. > :00:41.the house, by the front door. You could see he was up to no good.
:00:42. > :00:46.The cleaner who gave police a crucial tip off and put a convicted
:00:47. > :00:50.killer back behind bars. One of the world's top jazz
:00:51. > :00:54.musicians lends his name and his sax to help raise funds to fight cancer.
:00:55. > :00:58.And considering how things were looking yesterday, there could now
:00:59. > :01:12.be a better outcome for the weekend. Get the full details later.
:01:13. > :01:16.Good evening, The A38 tunnels in Birmingham city centre could be
:01:17. > :01:20.closed permanently as part of major transport reforms. It's just one
:01:21. > :01:24.idea being looked at as part of a 20 year plan looking at the future of
:01:25. > :01:26.travel across the city. Every day Birmingham residents make
:01:27. > :01:30.approximately 2.8 million journeys in and out of the city, but 250,000
:01:31. > :01:36.of those journeys are less than one mile long. There are also half a
:01:37. > :01:43.million journeys on public transport across the city every day. Peter
:01:44. > :01:50.Plisner reports on what these radical proposals could actually
:01:51. > :01:53.mean for the city and its commuters. This summer's closure of the A38
:01:54. > :02:00.tunnels for maintenance. Despite fears of gridlock, congestion wasn't
:02:01. > :02:04.a major issue. Now following that closure, the debate has started on
:02:05. > :02:08.the exact role of the tunnels ` which is some places are hindering
:02:09. > :02:19.development. From here, you get a good idea of what the role of the
:02:20. > :02:23.tunnels is. On this side, a derelict land is being occupied by a car
:02:24. > :02:27.park. The road is acting as a barrier to develop into the council
:02:28. > :02:30.wants it to change. At this morning's launch of a new 20`year
:02:31. > :02:35.vision for transport in Birmingham the future of the tunnels was being
:02:36. > :02:39.talked about. They are not ruling out anything. We're going into a
:02:40. > :02:43.discussion was three or four months and all these concerns will come out
:02:44. > :02:46.in that discussion. Consultants hired by the council to put today's
:02:47. > :02:54.report together maintain the it can be done. There is an urban motorway
:02:55. > :03:03.in San Francisco that used to carry more traffic than this road, about
:03:04. > :03:05.110,000 vehicles a day and one day they decided to close that and turn
:03:06. > :03:10.it into a fully pedestrianised environment. And San Francisco is
:03:11. > :03:14.one of the most successful cities in the world. The report also talks
:03:15. > :03:18.about big improvements to public transport which in some places will
:03:19. > :03:20.mean less road space for cars. Dual carriageways like this could be
:03:21. > :03:28.changed into routes like this featuring special public transport
:03:29. > :03:33.only lanes. This is not an anti`car policy, if I was a car driver in
:03:34. > :03:37.Birmingham ten years from now, and we had done nothing, I would be
:03:38. > :03:41.frustrated whatever the time of day I was seeking to come into
:03:42. > :03:46.Birmingham. Anti`car or not, the improvements have certainly gone
:03:47. > :03:51.down well with environmentalists. I would describe it as having a vision
:03:52. > :03:58.of transport that is good for people, for pedestrians, cyclists
:03:59. > :04:01.are that is refreshing and positive. The City Council will now launch a
:04:02. > :04:05.major consultation on the ideas put forward in the new transport vision
:04:06. > :04:09.and it promises to be a lively debate. And Peter's next to the A38
:04:10. > :04:14.tonight ` this will raise a few eyebrows! How can Birmingham
:04:15. > :04:17.function without its tunnels? I think the easy answer is it can't
:04:18. > :04:23.right now but it might not have too. This is one option being discussed
:04:24. > :04:31.will stop the fact is, this is more likely to become a through route,
:04:32. > :04:35.saw the junctions being removed. Masshouse Circus on the east side
:04:36. > :04:40.was raised to the ground 15 years ago, many people said we couldn't do
:04:41. > :04:43.without that, , but what we have seen since is that the
:04:44. > :04:48.developments. We also saw it again when the ballroom was built, and
:04:49. > :04:51.there we saw a roundabout is a plea and replaced by the shopping centre.
:04:52. > :05:00.We stopped driving is started shopping instead. Even the bus lanes
:05:01. > :05:07.will mean less space for cars? It has been dubbed anti`car, and bus
:05:08. > :05:11.lanes are controversial. The last Administration running Birmingham
:05:12. > :05:16.decided to remove some, what is also not in this report is road pricing,
:05:17. > :05:23.that will please a fair few drivers. It is not anti`car but through
:05:24. > :05:29.people. Clearly something has to be done, is a public transport looks
:05:30. > :05:34.like the answer? They want to get people onto public transport, onto
:05:35. > :05:37.their bikes and walking. Two roentgen 50,000 journeys every day
:05:38. > :05:41.by car of less than a mile, the sort of journeys that could be done on
:05:42. > :05:45.the bike or on foot `` 250,000 journeys.
:05:46. > :05:49.Well, we've been asking for your views on the 20 year plan ` thanks
:05:50. > :06:22.for your emails, tweets and Facebook messages.
:06:23. > :06:28.Coming up, never mind Silicon Valley, is more than being
:06:29. > :06:35.transferred into the UK 's very own Silicon Hill? `` Malvern.
:06:36. > :06:40.It's exactly a week since a new born baby was found in a bag in a park in
:06:41. > :06:43.Birmingham. Now West Midlands Police have released new pictures in the
:06:44. > :06:47.hope that they'll prompt her mother to come forward. Doctors say Jade
:06:48. > :06:50.would have died within hours, if she hadn't been found by a local man
:06:51. > :06:54.walking his dog. Giles Latcham reports.
:06:55. > :06:57.In the arms not of her mother, but of a nurse at Heartlands hospital in
:06:58. > :07:01.Birmingham, eight day old Jade, the baby left in a park. In that park in
:07:02. > :07:09.Stechford today, further efforts to find members of the public who may
:07:10. > :07:13.have seen something. Since Jade was found in these bushes, police have
:07:14. > :07:19.carried out extensive house`to`house enquiries, check with hospitals,
:07:20. > :07:21.medical centres and care homes and followed up missing persons
:07:22. > :07:27.enquiries as far afield as Manchester, but no avail. So if her
:07:28. > :07:30.mum is looking at these pictures, wondering what to do and doesn't
:07:31. > :07:36.want to contact the police, what would you say? You have a beautiful
:07:37. > :07:40.baby girl, she is doing really well, she has been lavished with toys, but
:07:41. > :07:45.you need to be with her, you are not in trouble, this is about getting
:07:46. > :07:50.you reunited with Jade and making sure you are safe and well. Safe and
:07:51. > :07:53.well, largely thanks to the dog Jade is named after, Jade the German
:07:54. > :08:00.shepherd was patrolling the park with her owners again a week after
:08:01. > :08:04.she found the newborn infant. She loves children. I think it is just a
:08:05. > :08:10.natural instinct. I do think every dog would do that, I think she has
:08:11. > :08:17.to be kind of special `` I don't think. I hope the baby comes forward
:08:18. > :08:21.today can be together. Doctors say had she not been found when she was
:08:22. > :08:27.she may well have died from the cold. Their concern is for mother as
:08:28. > :08:34.well as child. The baby is fine and in the couple of days, it is really
:08:35. > :08:39.for mum, she needs to have the same examination and care as the baby has
:08:40. > :08:42.had to make sure she is well. Jade was found wrapped in a plastic bag
:08:43. > :08:45.like this one ` police believe sightings of the bag could help the
:08:46. > :08:49.investigation. A DNA swab's been taken in the hope that identifies
:08:50. > :08:54.the parents of the baby in the bushes.
:08:55. > :08:58.Plans have been revealed for a ?36 million manufacturing training
:08:59. > :09:01.centre in Coventry. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
:09:02. > :09:04.will provide half of the funding for the project which will be built on
:09:05. > :09:09.vacant land at the current Technology site on Ansty Park.
:09:10. > :09:13.A Birmingham MP has called on the government to investigate how the
:09:14. > :09:16.Jobcentre in Sparkhill is being run. The Labour MP for Birmingham Hall
:09:17. > :09:19.Green Roger Godsiff has tabled an early day motion which puts on the
:09:20. > :09:25.record his concerns that "unusually high" numbers of people are having
:09:26. > :09:29.their benefits unfairly cut. The Lichfield MP asked the Transport
:09:30. > :09:32.Secretary today when plans will be drawn up to limit the effects the
:09:33. > :09:35.proposed High Speed rail link will have on the Staffordshire
:09:36. > :09:38.countryside. Michael Fabricant is particularly concerned about the
:09:39. > :09:48.scheme to build a 20 metre high viaduct to take the rail line over
:09:49. > :09:52.Lichfield. He says he never loses an opportunity to make his point about
:09:53. > :10:00.objection for this particular viaducts, it was part of a route
:10:01. > :10:04.realignment which was done to help mitigate the effect, they will be
:10:05. > :10:08.the opportunity once the bill is deposited for those affected to be
:10:09. > :10:11.able to petition the Select Committee wants the second reading
:10:12. > :10:16.has taken place. He'd been on the run for nearly two
:10:17. > :10:18.weeks, but Alan Giles is back behind bars tonight after he was found
:10:19. > :10:22.hiding in Alcester. The convicted murderer had been on the run from
:10:23. > :10:26.Hewell Prison in Redditch. He was finally spotted last night by a team
:10:27. > :10:35.of cleaners as they left work, who called the police to catch him.
:10:36. > :10:38.Lindsay Doyle reports. As every detective knows, good
:10:39. > :10:41.observation is key to solving a crime. As three cleaners were
:10:42. > :10:44.travelling home from work at Alcester Grammar School last night,
:10:45. > :10:48.they spotted a prisoner, who's been on the run for nearly two weeks ` in
:10:49. > :10:51.effect hiding behind a hedge. We saw a police car go down the end of the
:10:52. > :10:56.road, we have been joking about it, scaring each other, because we were
:10:57. > :11:01.worried. We thought, has he been caught? My friend said Timmy, let's
:11:02. > :11:05.follow police car. But we didn't need to, because we saw this man
:11:06. > :11:10.stood by a house, we could tell it was him. He was trying to hide. So
:11:11. > :11:16.we pulled up the road and phoned the police. Alan Giles, who's 56, walked
:11:17. > :11:19.out of an open section of Hewell Prison near Redditch, he was serving
:11:20. > :11:26.two life sentences for the kidnap and murder of sixteen year old Kevin
:11:27. > :11:30.Ricketts in 1995. They have done a great job, it's lovely they have
:11:31. > :11:35.gone out there in the community, big ego wide as ever, looking out for
:11:36. > :11:42.the safety of the community and for the students of the school where
:11:43. > :11:47.they work. This has been a town on Monday. It is known that Giles has
:11:48. > :11:53.connections here. He worked here on day release. No one from the shop
:11:54. > :11:58.wished to comment today. I thought he would be further away, I knew he
:11:59. > :12:04.had been working in the shop, I thought he would never come back
:12:05. > :12:08.here. They were terrified, especially to let the children out,
:12:09. > :12:15.I wouldn't let my now. I can imagine they are glad he has been caught.
:12:16. > :12:20.It's hard to think what the children are actually thinking, it's pretty
:12:21. > :12:24.scary. The end of his time on the run has made social media heroines
:12:25. > :12:29.of the cleaning ladies of Alcester Grammar School. I shall be giving
:12:30. > :12:34.them some badges and medals and probably police medals! At badge of
:12:35. > :12:38.honour indeed. More than 5,000 new jobs could be
:12:39. > :12:41.created as part of a large`scale regeneration of one of Britain's
:12:42. > :12:44.first so`called 'New Towns'. The centre of Telford in Shropshire is
:12:45. > :12:47.being remodelled at a cost of a quarter of a billion pounds ` with
:12:48. > :12:51.investment from the public and private sector. Hundreds of homes
:12:52. > :12:55.are also expected to be built over the next five years. Ben Godfrey
:12:56. > :12:57.reports. Regeneration was a dirty word.
:12:58. > :13:01.During the economic crash, private investment was hard to find ` and
:13:02. > :13:08.few councils had the nerve to pump taxpayers cash into large projects.
:13:09. > :13:11.That has changed ` this is 'Southwater' ` Telford's attempt at
:13:12. > :13:20.creating a thriving night time economy. We have used two major
:13:21. > :13:27.contracting groups from the told that area who have got, on average,
:13:28. > :13:32.170 men, within that there is 15% of local employment. It's costing ?250
:13:33. > :13:36.million. So far, public money's covered a tenth of the cost ` the
:13:37. > :13:41.remaining funding for a new cinema, library, restaurants and hotels
:13:42. > :13:46.comes from private investment. The Communities Secretary was on site `
:13:47. > :13:50.and on side. Backing Labour`run Telford and Wrekin Council ` which
:13:51. > :13:57.wants to create 5000 jobs, and further the town's retail and
:13:58. > :14:02.business footprint. If this was just pure public money, that would be a
:14:03. > :14:08.terrific waste. You want to involve people, you want to get people, get
:14:09. > :14:14.some private money in, because that is about the future. Telford has
:14:15. > :14:29.staked a claim to be the fastest growing town in the Midlands. It is
:14:30. > :14:32.this reckless and regeneration? It's not, industry brings more GDP in and
:14:33. > :14:40.we get some of that back into our funding. Through council tax for new
:14:41. > :14:44.homes, so we are going out of our way to get development here.
:14:45. > :14:53.Shoppers today broadly welcomed town centre development. This would be a
:14:54. > :14:58.lift for us. When it's finished, it will be a boost for the town. 50
:14:59. > :15:04.years after it became a new town, today, the talk is still of
:15:05. > :15:08.Telford's expansion. This is our top story tonight:
:15:09. > :15:11.Radical revamp on the roads: long term plans for a possible permanent
:15:12. > :15:16.closure of Birmingham's city centre tunnels. Your detailed weather
:15:17. > :15:19.forecast to come shortly from Shefali. Also in tonight's programme
:15:20. > :15:22.` ambitious plans to be announced later this evening for supporters to
:15:23. > :15:27.take over Worcester City Football Club and give it a new home. And
:15:28. > :15:28.restoring the tranquillity of a Shropshire canal ` all thanks to
:15:29. > :15:42.Lottery money. In recent years, the picturesque
:15:43. > :15:44.Worcestershire town of Malvern has become the base for a number of
:15:45. > :15:49.high`tech companies, including defence contractors Qinetiq and the
:15:50. > :15:52.internet security firm 3SDL. Now an innovation festival's taking place
:15:53. > :16:00.in the town and there are claims that Malvern is now the UK's cyber
:16:01. > :16:04.capital. Cath Mackie reports. Welcome to the future. A future that
:16:05. > :16:13.can be found in Malvern in Worcestershire. We are a software
:16:14. > :16:20.company, we supplied 50 companies `` countries all over the world. It is
:16:21. > :16:25.a garden gadget for clearing animal waste. At the Malvern innovation
:16:26. > :16:32.festival ` even still pictures can come to life ` by way of an app. We
:16:33. > :16:34.have developed this to enhance the user experience for visitors through
:16:35. > :16:39.to shopping fruity general information. In the auditorium,
:16:40. > :16:43.Professor Colin O'Halloran gives a lecture about software security. He
:16:44. > :16:49.works at a new business which solves software problems. They chose to
:16:50. > :16:57.base themselves in Malvern. There is a wealth of talent in the Malvern
:16:58. > :17:04.area which we can use but also draw upon the people in the University,
:17:05. > :17:07.further afield. The town has been a centre of scientific discovery for
:17:08. > :17:10.decades. Rumour has it that the word boffin was derived to describe the
:17:11. > :17:13.brain boxes working on defence projects here during the War. So
:17:14. > :17:17.innovation isn't a new word in Malvern. It is after all the place
:17:18. > :17:21.where radar was developed in the 1940s and later infra red and liquid
:17:22. > :17:28.crystal technologies. And's it's now recognised as the UK's very own
:17:29. > :17:33.cyber valley. Point is you cannot just stop, in order to be
:17:34. > :17:38.competitive, you have to keep innovating and it's what we're
:17:39. > :17:41.trying to encourage. There's been investment in superfast broadband
:17:42. > :17:44.for companies in the town but for more rural businesses, like Mike
:17:45. > :17:51.Gogan's, it's still a bone of contention. Just the other day, I
:17:52. > :17:55.had to send some files after Birmingham, and I used a data
:17:56. > :18:04.transfer system we have which is called the Royal mail, I posted
:18:05. > :18:10.them. That must be frustrating. We live in hope! So the lobbying
:18:11. > :18:14.continues to make sure Malvern remains cyber capital of the UK.
:18:15. > :18:17.When you want to raise money to help the fight against prostate cancer,
:18:18. > :18:21.it helps when you can call upon the world's best known jazz sax players.
:18:22. > :18:25.Courtney Pine has taken time out of his busy touring schedule to help an
:18:26. > :18:29.old friend and give out a stark message to black men. Michele
:18:30. > :18:33.Paduano has been finding out more. Meet John Hoo ` he says he's not a
:18:34. > :18:36.professional, he doesn't practice enough, but he toured for years with
:18:37. > :18:44.the late great saxophonist, Andy Hamilton.
:18:45. > :18:54.So when he decided to raise money for prostate cancer, who better to
:18:55. > :18:59.call than the legend, Courtney Pine. John is not an old boy, he is always
:19:00. > :19:06.young to me. When he picks up those ex, he always cuts through. `` those
:19:07. > :19:12.aches. He carriages musicians to play. For the past three years, John
:19:13. > :19:15.has been treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
:19:16. > :19:26.Like many black men, his disease was discovered late. It was in my lymph
:19:27. > :19:33.nodes, I have got a permanent lake that doesn't perform very well. It's
:19:34. > :19:35.a serious problem. Men in the black community don't go to the doctor
:19:36. > :19:45.enough, particularly about their water works. It's roughly twice as
:19:46. > :19:52.likely to occur in men of African origin than of the Caucasian origin,
:19:53. > :19:58.it's a double whammy, increased risk and increased risk it will turn bad.
:19:59. > :20:10.Sunshine gives people the dim indeed, and with the UK climate,
:20:11. > :20:13.black men struggle to get enough vitamin B12 But there'll be plenty
:20:14. > :20:15.of sunshine tonight at the Bramall music building as jazz shines a
:20:16. > :20:29.spotlight on the disease. That concert is at 7:30pm this
:20:30. > :20:32.evening at the University of Birmingham.
:20:33. > :20:35.Worcester City Supporters Trust is meeting this evening to try to
:20:36. > :20:38.secure their club's long term future. Worcester City don't have a
:20:39. > :20:42.ground after leaving St George's Lane in April and at the moment are
:20:43. > :20:44.playing their home Games at Kidderminster. Dan Pallett's in
:20:45. > :20:51.Worcester now ahead of tonight's meeting. So Dan, tell us what's
:20:52. > :20:55.happening? I'm at Tudor Grange Academy ` the school is on the
:20:56. > :20:58.Bilford Road and it's in this part of the city where supporters hope to
:20:59. > :21:01.build a new community based stadium to bring Worcester City back to
:21:02. > :21:07.Worcester. Rob Crean is the secretary of the supporters trust.
:21:08. > :21:14.You told us about the plans in April, remind us what they are. Last
:21:15. > :21:18.time we spoke we were at the old ground, we had no home to go to, we
:21:19. > :21:24.are planning to ground share with Kidderminster, we thought we needed
:21:25. > :21:28.an alternative, to get the club surviving so we have looked to at a
:21:29. > :21:30.planning a patient in with the City Council to build a community`based
:21:31. > :21:38.stadium within the confines of the city. `` planning application. How
:21:39. > :21:47.big will it be and how can you pay for it? 4300, and in terms of how we
:21:48. > :21:51.pay for it, some will come from the sale of the ground, we hope to get
:21:52. > :21:56.some funding, we will talk about that at the meeting, about making
:21:57. > :22:01.the Constitution of the club different, encourage more funding
:22:02. > :22:08.and look for a community share off, try and raise shares to build the
:22:09. > :22:13.stadium. Getting fans to own the car, that's interesting, we saw the
:22:14. > :22:17.great crowds in April, over 4000 people, are people still caring and
:22:18. > :22:24.will you get the club through this period in Kidderminster? We have
:22:25. > :22:27.realised we can't exist ground sharing forever so we're trying to
:22:28. > :22:35.get a groundswell of opinion going, get people to support what we're
:22:36. > :22:39.doing. Suggestion making it a fan zone `` fan owned club, who think
:22:40. > :22:47.the more involvement we can get the more we can make it a success.
:22:48. > :22:53.Difficult times for Worcester City, but you can see the fans do care,
:22:54. > :22:57.that is maybe the way forward. Plans to restore a Shropshire canal
:22:58. > :23:01.have moved a step closer after the project was awarded money from the
:23:02. > :23:03.Lottery. The ?160,000 grant is a key step towards securing the ?3.7
:23:04. > :23:10.million needed to bring the Montgomery canal back to life.
:23:11. > :23:13.Joanne Writtle reports. The Montgomery Canal runs for 33
:23:14. > :23:22.miles between Shropshire and Wales and is more than 200 years old. This
:23:23. > :23:25.section's near Oswestry. 2000 narrow boats travel along this section of
:23:26. > :23:28.the canal every year. When they get to this section, they have to turn
:23:29. > :23:33.round and go back again. That's because only eight miles are
:23:34. > :23:38.navigable here. The rest's fallen into disrepair. Now the Canal and
:23:39. > :23:43.River Trust has secured ?160,000 of Heritage Lottery money. It paves the
:23:44. > :23:53.way for a larger bid of ?3.7 million to restore just over a mile. We want
:23:54. > :23:56.to increase the number of boats we have on the canal, and we also want
:23:57. > :24:05.to increase access for people who want to use the tow paths for
:24:06. > :24:08.recreational butties. `` activities. Once canals were crucial in England.
:24:09. > :24:15.This photograph shows the Montgomery Canal before large parts were ruined
:24:16. > :24:19.following a breach in 1936. For decades volunteers have worked to
:24:20. > :24:25.restore this canal. This section's expected to be finished next May.
:24:26. > :24:32.It's hoped it will link up with the stretch the Heritage Lottery Fund is
:24:33. > :24:37.set to pay for. I think it's fantastic, it means we can carry on
:24:38. > :24:43.to the net stage and carry on working slowly but surely so we can
:24:44. > :24:47.hopefully link up the whole canal. It's been under restoration for 40
:24:48. > :24:51.years now and we're probably only halfway through the process. As for
:24:52. > :24:55.boat owners like Tony and Christine Hesslegrave, they're delighted. How
:24:56. > :25:02.do you feel about the fact they are hoping to do the work? Looking
:25:03. > :25:07.forward to it very much, the sooner the better! He may have to wait,
:25:08. > :25:09.though. Work isn't expected to start until 2015.
:25:10. > :25:11.Much brighter weather`wise today than wet Wednesday. More of the same
:25:12. > :25:20.please, Shefali. I may be able to comply! It is
:25:21. > :25:25.looking quite good for the weekend. Generally it is going to be
:25:26. > :25:31.unsettled, it will also be breezy, if we concentrate on Sunday alone
:25:32. > :25:35.for Remembrance Day parades and services, compared with what I said
:25:36. > :25:38.yesterday, there has been a turnaround. It is now looking dry
:25:39. > :25:45.and sunny, crisp and cold, rather like today, the rain we were talking
:25:46. > :25:51.of yesterday will arrive later on in the day. Taking a closer look we
:25:52. > :25:55.have a lot of rain around us, just not across us in the next couple of
:25:56. > :26:01.days. Having said that, they will be some sharp splinters showers to the
:26:02. > :26:05.west and the South, these will affect us on Saturday. A ridge of
:26:06. > :26:10.high pressure builds for Sunday, that's when the rain arrives from
:26:11. > :26:15.the West, that's later on Sunday, through the course of the night.
:26:16. > :26:20.This evening, we still have some showers drifting up from the
:26:21. > :26:23.south`west. They should stay out of the region, for most of us it will
:26:24. > :26:30.be dry tonight, especially the further east you go. Towards the
:26:31. > :26:36.North`East, here you could see some patchy frost developing in right
:26:37. > :26:45.areas, but generally, those of around four to six Celsius. The
:26:46. > :26:52.showers will be developed `` defected to the North and the South,
:26:53. > :26:58.so it would be much like today. Temperatures up to about eight to 10
:26:59. > :27:03.Celsius, maybe a maximum of 11, with a moderate south`westerly breeze.
:27:04. > :27:09.During tomorrow night, we start to see the rain encroaching from the
:27:10. > :27:15.West. Perhaps longer bands of rain but they will split into showers
:27:16. > :27:20.during Saturday itself. Sunday will be dry.
:27:21. > :27:25.Tonight's headlines from the BBC: In the trial of three marines accused
:27:26. > :27:28.of killing an Afghan, the court hears a recording of them talking as
:27:29. > :27:31.the man was shot. A radical revamp of the roads is on
:27:32. > :27:34.the cards for Birmingham: plans announced for a possible permanent
:27:35. > :27:37.closure of the A38 city centre tunnels.
:27:38. > :27:40.That was the Midlands Today. I'll be back at ten o'clock discussing
:27:41. > :27:42.Birmingham's transport plans with an expert from the University of
:27:43. > :27:45.Birmingham. Have a great evening.