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:00:12. > :00:15.Today. The headlines tonight... Placed by her family in a care home
:00:16. > :00:23.because she tended to wander off ` within weeks, she had gone outside
:00:24. > :00:26.and frozen to death. With one of the members of staff sleeping, how on
:00:27. > :00:29.earth can they run proper checks on people? Also tonight... The
:00:30. > :00:34.burnt`out home of a convicted paedophile ` an arsonist is jailed
:00:35. > :00:42.for killing him. A power station engineer feared missing as 200mph
:00:43. > :00:47.winds batter the Philippines. I just want to hear from him, see his face
:00:48. > :00:50.again. The life`size creation by an amateur baker from Walsall that has
:00:51. > :00:57.wowed judges in an international cake competition. This weekend,
:00:58. > :01:00.sunshine and showers, and it is feeling cooler. I will have the full
:01:01. > :01:08.forecast later. Good evening. The owners of a care
:01:09. > :01:15.home have been fined ?133,000 after an elderly woman froze to death when
:01:16. > :01:19.she was left outside all night. 91`year`old Hilda Fairweather got
:01:20. > :01:25.out by a fire exit although the home was supposed to have extra security.
:01:26. > :01:28.She had been back at Abele View for just two weeks ` her worried family
:01:29. > :01:32.transferred Hilda there because of her tendency to wander off. Dealing
:01:33. > :01:37.with dementia is a growing issue ` around 800,000 people in this
:01:38. > :01:47.country are affected in some way. Liz Copper has this report.
:01:48. > :01:50.Vulnerable with dementia, Hilda Fairweather was completely
:01:51. > :01:54.overlooked on the night she died. Nobody noticed as she wandered out
:01:55. > :02:00.into the cold of a January night and froze to death. Following the
:02:01. > :02:04.sentence, her family expressed their distress that she had gone unnoticed
:02:05. > :02:08.for almost 12 hours. It is just shameful that somebody is there,
:02:09. > :02:11.with a specific case plan which requires her to be checked every two
:02:12. > :02:16.hours or so, and they just did not check at all. They did not know she
:02:17. > :02:21.had gone until the morning. As you said, it is inconceivable, really.
:02:22. > :02:25.This was the care home, Abele View, near Stourbridge, where she had been
:02:26. > :02:30.placed. The court was shown this aerial photograph, highlighting its
:02:31. > :02:35.isolated location. The company which runs the home raided guilty to
:02:36. > :02:40.health and safety breaches. The judge has sent out a clear message
:02:41. > :02:44.that what took place was completely unacceptable. This was a prolonged
:02:45. > :02:49.series of failings, putting many residents at real risk. It was
:02:50. > :02:52.totally acceptable. The director of the care home's parent company left
:02:53. > :03:01.without comment. With you be paying the fine? I have got a statement
:03:02. > :03:06.here... That statement says, a new team now runs the home. An inquest
:03:07. > :03:09.is still to be held into the case of Hilda Fairweather, but today's
:03:10. > :03:13.hearing has given her family some comfort. It has been five long years
:03:14. > :03:18.now, and it is still there, we just have to stop talking about it, but
:03:19. > :03:24.this brings it all back again. It is still very difficult. But now, I
:03:25. > :03:28.think we can try and properly get over it. In handing down the
:03:29. > :03:32.sentence, the judge said this was a serious case, where responsibility
:03:33. > :03:36.must extend across the management structure of the company. He said
:03:37. > :03:39.the residents had been particularly vulnerable.
:03:40. > :03:44.Coming up later in the programme... Worcester remembers World War I, as
:03:45. > :03:45.the city gets the biggest Lottery grant outside London for its
:03:46. > :03:56.commemorations. An arsonist has been jailed for ten
:03:57. > :04:00.years for the manslaughter of a convicted paedophile in Worcester.
:04:01. > :04:04.Daniel Martin set fire to a wheelie bin outside the home of Andrew Heath
:04:05. > :04:08.in December 2011. Birmingham Crown Court was told Martin had not meant
:04:09. > :04:18.to kill him, just to frighten him into moving away. Ben Sidwell
:04:19. > :04:22.reports. The damage inside the house shows just how severe the fire was.
:04:23. > :04:28.In the early hours of December 14, 2011, Daniel Martin pushed a wheelie
:04:29. > :04:31.bin under this door and set it alight. Trapped inside, Messi actor
:04:32. > :04:38.died of smoke inhalation minutes later. Attention to detail, all
:04:39. > :04:42.fresh and police detective work, going out and speaking to member is
:04:43. > :04:47.of the community and witnesses, we managed to build up such a strong
:04:48. > :04:51.circumstantial case, that Alan it was left with no option other than
:04:52. > :04:55.to plead guilty. Sentencing him to ten years in prison, the judge said,
:04:56. > :05:01.although you did not intend to kill, what you did was shockingly stupid.
:05:02. > :05:04.She said, for Andrew Heath, it must have been a terrifying experience,
:05:05. > :05:10.leading, as he must've been aware, to his certain death. 25`year`old
:05:11. > :05:14.Daniel Martin already had more than 40 separate convictions, having been
:05:15. > :05:19.first arrested at the age of ten. The court was told he knew Mr Heath
:05:20. > :05:23.and started the fire to force into moving away from Worcester.
:05:24. > :05:28.Victim's elderly parents both died without hearing the verdict.
:05:29. > :05:32.Andrew's untimely death had a devastating effect on their health,
:05:33. > :05:37.and neither was able to come to terms with what happened. In court
:05:38. > :05:43.today, Andrew Heath was called a predatory paedophile, convicted five
:05:44. > :05:49.times between 1984 and 1999 for offences against young teenage boys
:05:50. > :05:54.in Leicester and Birmingham. Despite his previous convictions, he did not
:05:55. > :05:57.deserve to die in the way he did. Martin said he was shocked by the
:05:58. > :06:06.outcome of his actions and desperately sorry about the death of
:06:07. > :06:08.Andrew Heath. Manslaughter charges have been
:06:09. > :06:11.dropped against five NHS staff who were investigated after a man
:06:12. > :06:13.collapsed outside Walsall Manor Hospital. Carl Cope died in June
:06:14. > :06:17.last year. Paramedics, ambulance workers and a nurse were all
:06:18. > :06:20.questioned about why they had failed to help him. The police say there
:06:21. > :06:28.wasn't the evidence to bring charges of gross negligence against them.
:06:29. > :06:32.One of the Midlands' Conservative MEPs has attacked what he called
:06:33. > :06:35.Labour's "grandstanding" on high`speed rail. Earlier this week,
:06:36. > :06:38.Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls renewed his warning that the should be no
:06:39. > :06:42.blank cheque for the project. But Malcolm Harbour MEP said we should
:06:43. > :06:46.stop talking about whether or not to build it, but how to deliver it. He
:06:47. > :06:49.was talking to our political editor, Patrick Burns. And there are signs,
:06:50. > :06:59.aren't there, that the debate is moving on to a new stage? I think it
:07:00. > :07:02.is. After that vote in the House of Commons last week which was
:07:03. > :07:06.overwhelmingly in support of HS2, and now, this business conference
:07:07. > :07:10.being told by HS2 Ltd in Birmingham how to bid for something like ?10
:07:11. > :07:15.billion worth of contracts in the construction phase. But now, as you
:07:16. > :07:21.say, one of our senior MEPs has rounded on that oft repeated warning
:07:22. > :07:25.by Ed Balls about no blank cheque. I think we have clearly shown in this
:07:26. > :07:29.country that we have the ability to manage big projects on`time and on
:07:30. > :07:33.budget. Look at the Olympics, which was started the last Labour
:07:34. > :07:36.government and continued through to the Conservatives. I would rather
:07:37. > :07:40.see that kind of co`operative approach taking place between Labour
:07:41. > :07:45.and the Conservatives than the kind of man standing speech that we just
:07:46. > :07:50.saw from Ed Balls. Valerie Vaz, the Labour MP for Walsall South, who we
:07:51. > :07:54.also saw there, she says Labour have indeed shown their support for HS2
:07:55. > :07:57.by voting as they did last week, although she said it was absolutely
:07:58. > :08:03.right to remain vigilant about the threat of escalating costs. . It is
:08:04. > :08:08.worth pointing out that David Cameron himself, a great enthusiast
:08:09. > :08:12.for High Speed Rail, has said, there never has been any kind of a blank
:08:13. > :08:16.cheque. I suppose really, in politics, as in so much else, it all
:08:17. > :08:23.comes down to the emphasis that you give to these things.
:08:24. > :08:28.And Patrick will be back with more on this in The Sunday Politics at
:08:29. > :08:30.the later time of 12.25 on Sunday, following our? Of Remembrance
:08:31. > :08:34.Sunday. An electrical engineer from Walsall
:08:35. > :08:37.is feared missing after one of the most powerful storms ever recorded
:08:38. > :08:40.swept across the Philippines. 23`year`old Jonathan Fitzpatrick was
:08:41. > :08:43.working in a power station when gusts of more than 200mph triggered
:08:44. > :08:49.flash floods and mudslides. His family is anxiously waiting for
:08:50. > :08:52.news, as Ben Godfrey reports. Jonathan Fitzpatrick is due home in
:08:53. > :08:56.Bloxwich next week ` but the 23`year`old can't be contacted. His
:08:57. > :09:07.family lost touch just as Typhoon Haiyan struck the Phillipines. He
:09:08. > :09:10.was pushing against the door, he and four of his friends, and we could
:09:11. > :09:15.visibly see the door being pushed open from the typhoon outside. He
:09:16. > :09:19.was putting on a strong face for us, there was only one moment when he
:09:20. > :09:22.did show weakness, and that was just before he went to the room with his
:09:23. > :09:35.friends, and he just told us that he loved us. Typhoon Haiyan has left a
:09:36. > :09:38.trail of destruction. At least four people have died, and hundreds of
:09:39. > :09:45.thousands have been forced to flee their homes. Jonathan is an
:09:46. > :09:47.electrical engineer, based in a small building on the side of a
:09:48. > :09:52.volcano on the island of Leyte, one of the worst hit areas rumble he
:09:53. > :09:55.knows what he is doing. We know that he is going to get in touch with us,
:09:56. > :10:00.as soon as. And everybody else, as well, hopefully. The islands are hit
:10:01. > :10:02.by about 20 storms a year, but the Filipino community in the West
:10:03. > :10:06.Midlands realise preparations their families made at home may not be
:10:07. > :10:09.enough. April and Reggie Gadayan are in Birmingham trying desperately to
:10:10. > :10:19.contact loved ones in Central Philippines. I was not worried
:10:20. > :10:28.earlier on because I was not able to contact them, but now, the worry is
:10:29. > :10:32.getting into me. Our house is made of concrete, with a metal roof, so
:10:33. > :10:36.it is quite strong, but having no contact makes you worried. Tonight,
:10:37. > :10:39.as families face an agonising wait for news, prayers are being said at
:10:40. > :10:44.the Filipino Christian Fellowship in Birmingham.
:10:45. > :10:49.The Fire Service has been in the news in recent weeks with an ongoing
:10:50. > :10:53.series of strikes by firefighters over pensions ` just one of many
:10:54. > :10:56.changes taking place. The West Midlands brigade is one of the
:10:57. > :11:04.biggest in the UK, with 1,600 full`time firefighters. But since
:11:05. > :11:07.2011, it has had to make savings of ?16.2 million ` at around 20%,
:11:08. > :11:10.that's more than any other Fire Service. Vij Randeniya has been
:11:11. > :11:15.Chief Fire Officer since 2009, but he's retiring next week. He has been
:11:16. > :11:22.a critic of those cuts. And he joins me now. Good evening to you. Talking
:11:23. > :11:25.about those cuts, you have managed to achieve them, so does that mean
:11:26. > :11:31.those savings were there all along, and in fact, we have been paying too
:11:32. > :11:35.much the Fire Service? We have been making efficiencies year on year,
:11:36. > :11:40.but now, we have 300 firefighters less than when we started making the
:11:41. > :11:43.cuts. We have had to put in a lot of different proposals. The Fire
:11:44. > :11:48.Service will look and feel very different to what it did in 20 way
:11:49. > :11:51.when I took charge. What are the challenges? The challenges are to
:11:52. > :11:55.deliver an outstanding service, with less budget, and less people. It
:11:56. > :12:00.means being extremely creative and looking at expertise wherever it
:12:01. > :12:03.exists in the world. I have every faith that my successes and people
:12:04. > :12:08.in the West Midlands Fire Service will do a cracking job, because they
:12:09. > :12:11.are really resilient. These are the people that went to Haiti and
:12:12. > :12:17.Japan, and places around the world, they are really skilled. What they
:12:18. > :12:21.need is a fair chance to do a great job. Our homes are getting safer,
:12:22. > :12:26.with fewer fires and fewer fatalities, is that right? We have
:12:27. > :12:30.been concentrating on prevention, stopping fires happening, for the
:12:31. > :12:35.last 15 years. But if that does not work, we have still got to provide a
:12:36. > :12:39.terrific service at the front end. What about those Chinese lanterns,
:12:40. > :12:43.how dangerous are they? Are they becoming more of an issue?
:12:44. > :12:47.Hopefully, after the fire we had at Smethwick, taking them off sale,
:12:48. > :12:55.it'll have now thought, it is not such a good thing to let them off.
:12:56. > :12:58.The Times recognised the West Midlands Fire Service as the epitome
:12:59. > :13:03.of a good service. That fire gave us the prominence and the ability to
:13:04. > :13:07.raise a debate and get something done about Chinese lanterns, and we
:13:08. > :13:11.are pleased to say that progress is being made. Pensions are in the news
:13:12. > :13:15.with the firefighters, of course, and changes being proposed, and I
:13:16. > :13:19.wonder how much sympathy there is amongst the public, because so many
:13:20. > :13:22.people have had to accept that their pensions will not be what they had
:13:23. > :13:27.hoped? And that is the case in the Fire Service as well. It'll will
:13:28. > :13:34.have to work longer. This dispute is between the Government and the Fire
:13:35. > :13:39.Brigades Union. This is something between the two sides, which should
:13:40. > :13:54.be sorted out at that level. You have just got one week left. Yes,
:13:55. > :13:57.and then I am going to get a dog. Our top story tonight... Placed by
:13:58. > :14:01.her family in a care home because she tended to wander off ` within
:14:02. > :14:04.weeks, shed had gone outside and frozen to death. Your detailed
:14:05. > :14:06.weather forecast to come shortly from Rebecca ` also in tonight's
:14:07. > :14:10.programme... Both former winners who have known better days. Coventry and
:14:11. > :14:14.Wimbledon face each other in the FA Cup tonight. And I'm in a room with
:14:15. > :14:18.100s of cakes, but they're all too good to eat. Join me later to find
:14:19. > :14:27.out what's gone into making Jack Sparrow here.
:14:28. > :14:33.They're unpopular with trade unions, but zero`hour contracts are becoming
:14:34. > :14:36.increasingly common in this region. The contracts mean employers can
:14:37. > :14:42.have workers on call but they don't have to guarantee regular paid work.
:14:43. > :14:45.And while that doesn't suit everyone, some employees seem to
:14:46. > :14:49.like it, as Bob Hockenhull has been finding out.
:14:50. > :14:54.Jules Evans from Bromsgrove works with young offenders. At her local
:14:55. > :15:00.church, she's looking for suitable projects for her clients. But Jules'
:15:01. > :15:03.job isn't full`time. Her contract with Worcestershire County Council
:15:04. > :15:12.means she only works when needed and is only paid for hours worked. My
:15:13. > :15:16.zero`hour contract suits me down to the ground, with my lifestyle and
:15:17. > :15:20.with everything else that I do. I am quite a busy lady, so it frees me up
:15:21. > :15:25.to do what I want to do. If I need more money, Isthmus is coming up,
:15:26. > :15:28.then I go out and I work more. Jules' love of the working
:15:29. > :15:32.arrangements isn't universal. Union leaders say use of the contracts is
:15:33. > :15:39.on the rise in this region, and it is eroding workers' rights and
:15:40. > :15:42.conditions. I myself have had members calling upon the phone,
:15:43. > :15:46.appalled at the conditions they are being asked to work, 15 hour days,
:15:47. > :15:52.being paid for a fraction of it. It is abuse, it is a black mark on the
:15:53. > :15:54.West Midlands and on our society. Some research suggests numbers of
:15:55. > :15:57.people on zero`hour contracts nationally now exceeds a million.
:15:58. > :16:08.Younger workers are most likely to be employed on the contracts. The
:16:09. > :16:08.figures show the number of under`24s on zero`hour contracts
:16:09. > :16:17.more than doubled in four years. Whether young or old, this lecturer
:16:18. > :16:26.in human resources believes having a zero`hour contract needn't be a
:16:27. > :16:30.negative experience. Contracts go both ways. In this
:16:31. > :16:34.situation, a worker can actually say no to work. So, there is some
:16:35. > :16:38.flexible at the both sides, not only on one side. The contracts may be
:16:39. > :16:41.here to stay, but the Government has launched a consultation to try to
:16:42. > :16:43.make sure those on them aren't abused.
:16:44. > :16:47.Ahead of Remembrance Sunday this weekend, Worcestershire is
:16:48. > :16:52.celebrating news that it is to get ?350,000 to help mark the centenary
:16:53. > :16:57.of the First World War. The grant, from the Heritage Lottery Fund, is
:16:58. > :17:00.one of the largest outside London. Veterans say it is a fitting
:17:01. > :17:10.reflection of the part soldiers from the county played in the conflict.
:17:11. > :17:14.Giles Latcham reports. Soldiering runs in Nick's family. When he
:17:15. > :17:20.visits this park in Worcester, his thoughts turned to his grandad, an
:17:21. > :17:25.infantryman in World War I. He used to have this knife with a piece of
:17:26. > :17:29.bread and cheese, and he used to cut chunks of it and feed it to me when
:17:30. > :17:32.he was working on the ground. He would not say anything about the
:17:33. > :17:36.war, because that was the boom in our family. We were told not to ask
:17:37. > :17:43.him because he went through such a lot. Nick's grandad fought against
:17:44. > :17:46.the Germans in Belgium. Those who died in the blood and thunder of
:17:47. > :17:54.that battle remembered here in the peace and quiet of this park. This
:17:55. > :17:57.rare footage of the opening of the park in 1922 shows how that
:17:58. > :18:02.generation sought to commemorate and honour the sacrifice of thousands.
:18:03. > :18:07.Now, Worcestershire is preparing to mobilise again, to organise
:18:08. > :18:12.exhibitions, concerts and modern`day parades to mark the centenary, and
:18:13. > :18:20.it has been awarded ?350,000 to do it. It is it is four years' worth of
:18:21. > :18:23.money to really commemorate, to educate and to note the importance
:18:24. > :18:30.of the First World War in Worcestershire. This is a photograph
:18:31. > :18:34.of the soldier himself on Albert Hall never came home to Redditch.
:18:35. > :18:37.This photo and his last letters to his mother now belong to a museum.
:18:38. > :18:43.What more family treasures may now come to light? I would certainly
:18:44. > :18:47.hope that people would be able to either donate one end as stuff which
:18:48. > :18:51.we could use in our displays over the next four years. Nearly 10,000
:18:52. > :18:55.soldiers of the Worcestershire Regiment died in World War I. There
:18:56. > :19:03.is a proud history here, and they will remember.
:19:04. > :19:12.It is time for the sport now, and a real weekend to savour for the
:19:13. > :19:19.non`league teams. 16 years ago, non`league Hednesford Town reached
:19:20. > :19:27.the fourth round. Tomorrow, they are facing Crawley town, from League
:19:28. > :19:36.One. Ian Winter reports. When he is not selling mobile phones, Elliott
:19:37. > :19:41.Durrell is scoring goals for Hednesford Town . it that they will
:19:42. > :19:48.not make it to Wembley, but Elliott has already guaranteed his it is
:19:49. > :19:59.probably something that I will never get to do again, so it Elliott
:20:00. > :20:05.Durrell will player of the round hit the target on Tuesday night against
:20:06. > :20:16.Colwyn Bay in but they were being closely watched. I have a little bit
:20:17. > :20:29.of banter with I believe that I I Elliott is a great player, here's
:20:30. > :20:32.our about Hednesford Town van Chris Brindley. He is now the assistant
:20:33. > :20:43.manager of a club which has lost only three games all year. It is a
:20:44. > :20:49.happy camper, we are delighted to be here, we will give it our best
:20:50. > :20:54.shot. I have got no doubt in my mind it is going to be a very tough game,
:20:55. > :21:02.but I am sure, if we play to our full potential, hopefully, we can
:21:03. > :21:06.cause an upset. Keys Park can hold 6039 supporters. Tomorrow it will
:21:07. > :21:10.not be full of fans, that it will be full of noise to unsettle Crawley,
:21:11. > :21:16.who have not scored in the last four games. That is why the new pink ball
:21:17. > :21:20.could bring joy to Hednesford Town. Well, the first round actually gets
:21:21. > :21:23.under way tonight, with a battle between two former winners. Coventry
:21:24. > :21:26.City lifted the trophy for the only time in their history back in 1987,
:21:27. > :21:29.with that dramatic win over Spurs. And tonight, they visit AFC
:21:30. > :21:33.Wimbledon, the club who took over the name of the 1988 winners after
:21:34. > :21:43.the original team moved to Milton Keynes. It would be brilliant if
:21:44. > :21:48.they could make themselves heroes themselves. It is a very difficult
:21:49. > :21:50.game for us on Friday night against AFC Wimbledon, they are a very
:21:51. > :21:58.well`organised team. But it is a game which, if we go about it in the
:21:59. > :22:01.right manner, we should win. Whatever the Premier League say,
:22:02. > :22:08.this is so glamorous 14 is lower down the pyramid, isn't it? It means
:22:09. > :22:14.so much and it is so exciting. `` for teams. Looking at the fixtures,
:22:15. > :22:21.we have already speaking about, what are we going to do on Monday? That
:22:22. > :22:24.would be a great story... I was drawn to Stourbridge, the lowest
:22:25. > :22:29.ranked team we have got left in the petition. They are on a great run of
:22:30. > :22:31.form, winning in 11 out of 12, they are playing Eagles weighed.
:22:32. > :22:38.Everybody will be loving that. Maybe they could host Wolverhampton
:22:39. > :22:44.Wanderers in the next round. But also, we have got yes, Walsall
:22:45. > :22:51.against Shrewsbury, and Hereford, the money is invaluable to clubs at
:22:52. > :22:57.this level. You get a team that for winning this round, 27,000 for the
:22:58. > :23:03.next round, weighing up to ?67,000 if you win in the third round. That
:23:04. > :23:06.is massive money, isn't it? It can keep these clubs going for quite a
:23:07. > :23:19.while. And even more importantly, it could be talking about it in 25
:23:20. > :23:23.years' time Now, there's no doubt the nation has been inspired by the
:23:24. > :23:28.TV programme The Great British Bake Off. In the last few years, the home
:23:29. > :23:32.baking market has doubled, with a quarter of us now baking at least
:23:33. > :23:35.once a week. And some of those creations are on display this
:23:36. > :23:38.weekend at the Cake International Show near Birmingham. Laura May
:23:39. > :23:45.McMullan is at the NEC for us this evening. Laura ` not just your
:23:46. > :23:49.standard Victoria sponges, then? We have got more than 1000 cakes here,
:23:50. > :23:53.competitors from all over the world, and you would not believe what is
:23:54. > :24:00.standing right beside me now, a nearly life`sized replica of Jack
:24:01. > :24:08.Sparrow, who has been made by the very talented Lara Clarke. How have
:24:09. > :24:13.you done him? It has been an awful lot of time and effort. But he is in
:24:14. > :24:17.one piece, so I am thrilled. He is basically made of rice crispies,
:24:18. > :24:21.marshmallows and icing, and his head is made of a block of solid white
:24:22. > :24:26.chocolate which I have carved. How long has it taken to make him? About
:24:27. > :24:32.20 hours to plan and 70 hours to execute. Did you get him here OK? We
:24:33. > :24:38.had to bring him here by minibus, which was a bit too small, so we had
:24:39. > :24:43.to tip him horizontally. That is a relief that he has got here in one
:24:44. > :24:47.piece. This is the largest event of its kind in the world. With me is
:24:48. > :24:51.one of the organisers, Troy Bennett ` has there been a massive increase
:24:52. > :24:56.in baking? Without a shadow of a doubt. This show has doubled in size
:24:57. > :25:02.within two years. The competition pieces have gone from 600 up to 1000
:25:03. > :25:06.this year. The array of talent on display is unbelievable. We have
:25:07. > :25:10.sold out of tickets for tomorrow. We have got some tickets left for
:25:11. > :25:16.Sunday, so this is the time to come down and see it for yourself. It is
:25:17. > :25:20.unbelievable. I have to say, it is very hard being in a room full of
:25:21. > :25:25.cakes which are too good to eat. The judging takes place, the results
:25:26. > :25:29.tomorrow, and if Lara wins, that could be the icing on the cake.
:25:30. > :25:38.Let's find out how the weekend weather is looking, with Rebecca.
:25:39. > :25:42.We are going to get everything thrown at us over the next few days.
:25:43. > :25:46.Temperatures are tumbling. That means we could have some frost over
:25:47. > :25:51.the next couple of mornings. Today, we saw plenty of ranger that area of
:25:52. > :25:56.rain has now moved away, and behind it, we are getting clearing skies.
:25:57. > :26:02.`` plenty of rain. We have still got a few showers around. Under those
:26:03. > :26:15.clear skies, temperatures are going to be falling away quite rapidly. We
:26:16. > :26:22.will wake up to a frost in some places tomorrow morning. Then we
:26:23. > :26:28.will see the cloud building. By lunchtime, the heavy rain will start
:26:29. > :26:33.to move away, and conditions will be improving. When the sun comes out,
:26:34. > :26:38.temperatures might get up to 10 Celsius in Hereford. Saturday night,
:26:39. > :26:44.another similar night to tonight. A ridge of high pressure is settling
:26:45. > :26:48.things down a little bit, and once again, under the clear skies, the
:26:49. > :26:55.bridges will be falling away once again, down to about three Celsius
:26:56. > :27:02.but we will see a widespread frost. Remembrance Sunday will be a cold
:27:03. > :27:06.and crisp day. The wins will have changed to a north`westerly, making
:27:07. > :27:13.it colder. By Monday, it is starting to get milder. `` the winds.
:27:14. > :27:17.Tonight's headlines from the BBC... A Royal Marine is found guilty of
:27:18. > :27:20.executing an Afghan insurgent in cold blood. One of the strongest
:27:21. > :27:23.storms ever recorded tears through the Philippines. Hundreds of
:27:24. > :27:26.thousands of people are forced to flee their homes. In the Midlands,
:27:27. > :27:29.placed by her family in a Stourbridge care home because she
:27:30. > :27:33.tended to wander off ` within weeks, she had gone outside and frozen to
:27:34. > :27:37.death. And an arsonist is jailed for ten years for setting fire to the
:27:38. > :27:42.home of a convicted paedophile and killing him. That was the Midlands
:27:43. > :27:46.Today. We'll be back at ten o'clock with the latest on today's main
:27:47. > :27:48.stories. Have a great evening and a terrific weekend. Goodbye.