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BBC weather website. That is it all from the BBC's News | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello, welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
As thousands of cannabis plants are grown in suburban homes across the | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
West Midlands, could this be the latest weapon in the fight against | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
drugs? Scratch and sniff cards. Each property that is used as a cannabis | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
farm is not housing a family or other people who are in housing | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
need. We'll be asking an expert about the increasing problem of | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
cannabis farms across the region. Also tonight, a criminal | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
investigation begins into the death of a 90`year`old patient at Stafford | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
Hospital five years ago. One of the best of his generation ` | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
the funeral takes place of a Staffordshire soldier killed by a | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
suicide bomber in Afghanistan. He was a smashing guy, a professional | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
soldier. A brilliant dad and a fantastic husband. | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
The new wave of bands known as B`Town, adding a new chapter to | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
Birmingham's rich musical history. And while some are calling it an | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Arctic blast, others might say it was just a brief windy spell with a | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
dip in temperatures. Either way, it's coming. All the details for you | :01:08. | :01:19. | |
later. Good evening. A surge in the number | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
of cannabis farms on inner`city estates has prompted the council to | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
give scratch and sniff cards to raise awareness among residents. It | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
is hoped they will help police drive drugs off our streets. Birmingham | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
city council say they evicted 20 residents for cultivating cannabis | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
in their homes. West Midlands Police say they have destroyed more than | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
400 cannabis farms at this year alone and with each plant estimated | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
to be worth ?450 each, it is a big business that can ruin communities. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
In a suburban street in Birmingham, this is what is going on behind | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
sealed windows. Cannabis farms. The criminals tapped into the main | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
delicacy supplier, putting the safety of the house and neighbours | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
at risk. This cannabis farm is being destroyed. It is on a lovely | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
residential street in Birmingham. Whilst many people think that | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
cannabis is harmless, these farms are being run by organised crime | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
gangs and the question is, how would you feel living next door to one? | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
This man is still worried about drug dealers in his community after a | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
cannabis farm was raided in his street. There are decent people | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
living here. We don't want this problem. I wanted quiet life. I | :02:43. | :02:52. | |
don't want to be living with 90 or a hundred people a day wandering | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
around the block. Birmingham City Council say they have a zero | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
tolerance approach to cannabis farms. They have already arrested | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
people this year. It's not just people having a few plants on the | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
balcony. It is taking over entire properties and bringing undesirable | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
people into the road at all hours of the day. Cannabis scented scratch | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
and sniff cards are now being issued to help the public identify the | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
drugs in communities. But can a scented card be an essential part of | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
a good citizen's toolkit? I wouldn't be able to tell if it was cannabis | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
or not? No. Just a funny, grassy smell. It would register. I don't | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
know what cannabis smells like! Police cannabis disposal experts say | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
the cards are drawing attention to a problem. It is representative of the | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
smell. There are lots of different strains of cannabis but this | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
educates people. Anyone who thinks there may be a cannabis farm in | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
their neighbourhood can contact Crimestoppers. | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
With us as Marcio Dixon who helps people in the community with | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
problems. Good evening. What you think the scratch and sniff cards? I | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
agree that the police need to be doing as much as they can to raise | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
the profile that they are doing something about is you. And also | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
involving communities and make them more aware. Do using these will | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
help? Potentially. There will be some people who won't mind | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
contacting the police to let them know information and other people | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
will stay away from that kind of involvement. How big is the problem | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
with the cannabis farms in the immunity? We have seen a lot of | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
people coming through who were using `` you are using cannabis who were | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
not using it before. That may or may not be a direct result of having | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
more cannabis farms around. But with the economic downturn that we have, | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
people look at different ways of being able to earn. We talk about | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
cannabis farms, can you explain what they are? It is a way of describing | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
a place that people have set up. It could be just somebody's living room | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
or bedroom. It could be the entire flat. That has been converted. What | :05:27. | :05:36. | |
are the problems for young people taking cannabis? We have seen with | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
young people that they are taking cannabis from the age of 12 or 13. | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
That young? Yes. People are talking about their drug issues and why they | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
were using from an early age so we are able to see that some people are | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
suffering from mental health problems. The jury is still out, | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
were they predisposed or has the cannabis sparked that? It is | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
difficult to say but some of the impact that we have seen is | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
financially, mental health and that fascination `` and the observation | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
that people are more withdrawn. Coming up later in the programme, | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
why a Warwickshire town's trying to become the first in the region to be | :06:23. | :06:31. | |
designated 'dementia`friendly'. For the second time, a criminal | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
investigation is underway into the death of a patient at Stafford | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Hospital. It follows a major review by Staffordshire Police and the | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Health and Safety Executive into death at the hospital between 2005 | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
in 2009. The latest investigation will focus on the death of a 90 year | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
madwoman in 2008. Liz Kopper joins us from Stafford Hospital. What do | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
we know about this latest case? This is the case of 90`year`old IV barn | :07:02. | :07:12. | |
`` IV barn. She came here after she suffered a fall in her home in | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
Stafford. Over the next four days, she had a further three falls at the | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
hospital, commentating in her death. Details of her case are being passed | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
from the police to the Health and Safety Executive who will be taking | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
the X `` examination further. This follows the case of Gillian Astbury | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
where there was an HSE prosecution. In her case, the trust pleaded | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
guilty. We are expecting a sentence in the New Year. What further | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
details have the police given? They have given us details of the | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
progress of the investigation. You get a sense of the scale and scope | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
of that investigation. 209 cases are being looked at. A specially trained | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
team of officers is looking at the evidence. All the families have | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
their own designated police officer to keep them in touch. So what next, | :08:09. | :08:17. | |
lays? The police have another 173 cases to look at and they say it is | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
complicated by the nature of the investigation. In some of those | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
cases, the police have yet to trace relatives of the patient in the | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
hospital. This investigation involves not only the police, also | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
the CPS, the Care Quality Commission, the nursing admin `` the | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
Nursing and Midwifery Council. So it shows how all`encompassing the | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
investigation is. The funeral is taking place of a | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
soldier from Staffordshire who was described as one of the best of his | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
generation. Warrant Officer Ian Fisher of the 3rd Battalion, was | :08:59. | :09:08. | |
blown up in how manned. `` was blown up in how manned. | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
A straight talking soldier, one of the best many of us had ever worked | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
with. At Lichfield Cathedral, serving soldiers and old soldiers | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
pay their respects. It has left an entire regiment numb. When he comes | :09:29. | :09:40. | |
`` I still keep thinking he will come back on the next flight. He had | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
been a master of Warrior tanks. He had relished the strategy of | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
manoeuvring them to keep his troops say. He was 42 years old. He leaves | :09:50. | :09:59. | |
behind a widow and two young sons. Ian Fisher was the 446 member of the | :10:00. | :10:09. | |
armed forces to be killed in Afghanistan since 1991. The kernel | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
of the regiment said that he had lost count of the number of funerals | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
like this he had attended. `` the Army colonel. As we face a | :10:18. | :10:27. | |
determined and very capable foe, we also need to match and over match | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
him in everything we do. I am very confident that we do `` what we do | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
as an Army is supported by the people whom we serve. Warrant | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
Officer Ian Fisher ask for the music from the film Gladiator to be played | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
at his funeral. A soldier to the end. | :10:51. | :11:05. | |
A hundred and forty jobs are at risk after the Birmingham`based | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
stationery firm Osbournes went into administration. Staff at its head | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
office and 20 branches were told today. The company was founded as a | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
printers in the city centre in 1832. All of the stores are being kept | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
open in the run up to Christmas ` and it's hoped a buyer can be found. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
It has been a difficult time for the high Street which has come and it is | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
in making losses over the last two years. The decision was made by the | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
directors to place the company into administration. That would give it | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
the best chance of finding a positive solution. The Chief | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Constable of the West Midlands has announced he's ending the practice | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
of forcing police officers to retire once they've completed 30 years | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
service. It follows a consultation about the use of the A19 pension | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
regulation which has resulted in 559 officers leaving since it was | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
brought in in March 2011. As well as now being able to keep experienced | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
staff the force also plans to start recruiting next year. | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
Anyone caught driving under the influence of drink or drugs over the | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
festive period is to be named online by West Midlands Police. They're | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
also offering 200 pounds to anyone who reports a driver who's | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
subsequently convicted. The names of people charged will be published on | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
the police website and on twitter. Protesters from the Midlands | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
fighting for the removal of shared space road layouts, where cars, | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
buses and pedestrians have equal priority, have taken their campaign | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
to Westminster. The group, calling itself Sea of Change, want traffic | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
lights put back on various road schemes in Coventry, Warwick and | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
Leek town centres. They say they don't feel safe but official figures | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
show the crossings are safer than what they replaced. | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
This is the film that the campaign group Sea of Change took to | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
Westminster. It shows a blind people struggling to deal with so`called | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
shared spaces in Warwick and commentary. Coventry resident Jim | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Smallman is featured, he has long campaigned against them. I hope the | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
government will listen to our problems. They have taken our lights | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
away. But them back so that we can use our city like we used to. The | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
campaign has been organised by Sarah Gayton who became involved when a | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
similar scheme was introduced in another town. Blind schema `` blind | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
people are being excluded from the city centre. They are staying at | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
home. Today, their film was screened to a selected audience including | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
MPs, and people from the Dutch embassy from where the idea of | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
shared spaces originated. But it is insisted that traffic lights for | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
strivers to slow down. Statistics show there has been a fall in | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
accidents at junctions like these. The speed of cars has also fallen | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
from around 24 mph to 60 mph. In the five years before this was implement | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
it, there were 16 accidents. Since then, it there have been none. It is | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
safer than it ever was. The statistics may be stark, but Guide | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
Dogs for the Blind want things to be done. The council have listen to | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
some of our suggestions, but they have ignored others. You end up in | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
an area like this that blind and partially sighted people cannot | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
access. The council is under pressure to add traffic lights but | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
they insist that that would put more people at risk. | :14:52. | :15:00. | |
Our top story tonight, as the number of cannabis factories surge `` | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
surges across our region, residents are being given scratch and sniff | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
cards they can detect the drug. Your weekend weather forecast comes | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
later. Also, a new sound wafting across | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
Birmingham, the new guitar bands known as B`Town. And with the | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
weather getting colder, we find out if the gritters are ready and who | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
decides where and when to send them out. | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
If you have a story that we should be covering, please get in touch. | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
You can e`mail us or reach us on Facebook. | :15:41. | :15:55. | |
A Warwickshire town is aiming to be the first dimension friendly | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
community. There are millions of people with dementia in the UK with | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
numbers set to rise to 1.7 million in the UK `` I2018. An estimated 21 | :16:03. | :16:11. | |
million people in England have a close friend or family member with | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
dementia. The Alzheimer's Society believes more should be done to | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
reduce the stigma, a bit `` amid concerns people with the disease and | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
feel isolated. In the 1960s, Ted Hemming was a male | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
supermodel. His face was seen on billboards around the world. Today, | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
the 75`year`old struggles to recall much of his exuberant youth. Ted has | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. He grew up in | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
Ulster, and he is here with his wife ready to convince people that | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
dementia can affect anyone. I would come home and found him wandering | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
around. In the end `` in the past, it was not talked about. It was | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
like, mental illness, you mustn't say anything. Now it is out in the | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
open. From shops to public transport, the Alzheimer's Society | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
is challenging people to create a dimension friendly community. There | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
are criteria, including a willingness to breakdown stigma, | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
increasing awareness of the condition and also local health | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
professionals should ensure access to early diagnosis. The Alcesterr | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
campaign opened here two years ago. Families affected me tear to share | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
stories. This woman's mother died a few years ago with the disease. We | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
do singing and dancing, she would have had a go at it. Just because | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
you have dementia, you don't forget what you used to do. Ted Hemming has | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
been used to fronting campaigns but this one is closest to his heart. | :17:59. | :18:10. | |
We are joined by David Ash, Midlands operations manager for the L Simon | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
Society. What is the picture for the West Midlands, do we have a figure | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
for the numbers? The picture around diagnosis rates is varied. 64% of | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
people get a diagnosis but only 32% in other parts get a diagnosis. | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
Herefordshire is the worst for diagnosis in the UK. What do you | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
make of the idea of a dimension friendly community? It is a really | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
lovely initiative. The idea being that dimension friendly communities | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
allow people to engage in the community, very often with people `` | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
people with a diagnosis withdrawing to a family unit. A lot of their | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
friends do not want to talk to them because it is awkward or difficult. | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
A dimension friendly community mean that more people will be aware of | :19:10. | :19:18. | |
dementia and organisations within the community will also be aware. | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
They will be able to engage in their community and feel more supported. | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
Perhaps this could be done in Herefordshire, why is it so bad in | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
that county? It is difficult to say. Sometimes it is around resources. | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
Sometimes there is no not the organisation. Some councils have put | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
money into memory clinics. A great example of a dimension friendly | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
community is the Courtyard Theatre in Herefordshire which has done | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
loads of work to raise awareness of dementia. But we also need loads of | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
good as Asians to sign up as dementia friends. | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
There is a new type of music in the air to add to Birmingham's musical | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
heritage. Bands like Duran Duran have sold millions of records but a | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
more recent scene has emerged in B`Town, based around guitar bands. | :20:21. | :20:34. | |
The glory days returning the city? In rehearsals for their biggest | :20:35. | :20:44. | |
headline tour so far. Peace are a big band. This scene has been around | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
for a lot longer, people are just starting to notice. The National | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
music and media have labelled the current music scene B`Town. Peace's | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
album has made the top 20. I guess we were lucky, we were always making | :21:12. | :21:25. | |
the first impression a bit. But it is not just Peace glove enjoyed | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
chart success. Swim Deep have also seen their album go top 20. But not | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
everybody in Birmingham wants to be associated with the B`Town band. It | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
started to great with people in Birmingham. There was a backlash | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
with people saying they didn't want to be called a B`Town band. But it | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
had people talking about Birmingham. They were not | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
necessarily have talked about the city before. `` they would not | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
necessarily. Despite the hype, the two biggest musical successes to | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
come out of Birmingham have got nothing to do with B`Town. The | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
re`emergence of black sabbath saw their new album topped the charts | :22:12. | :22:21. | |
across the world. And soul singer Laura Mvula's debut album was a top | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
ten Hill `` top ten hit. She was also a big winner of a MOBO award. | :22:28. | :22:38. | |
Despite getting the publicity, Peace are keen to lose the B`Town label | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
and forge their own identity. No one is ashamed to say that they started | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
in Birmingham, . It hasn't been a hindrance. B`Town may be a fad, but | :22:50. | :22:59. | |
with Peace doing their tool up to `` in front of 3000 fans in Birmingham, | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
the biggest band to come out of the scene could have a much longer | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
appeal. The weather forecast in a moment. It | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
is due to get colder. The gritters will be on stand`by, but who decides | :23:16. | :23:24. | |
where to send them, and when? Last winter, Staffordshire's | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
highways team were coping with freezing temperatures and snow fall | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
between December and April. The team is ready and waiting in case it | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
should happen again. But it is not as simple as watching the forecast. | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
There is a science as to how much grit goes down. This tells us what | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
the weather is going to be like for the next week. We can see that it is | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
going to be cold overnight for the next five or seven days. So we need | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
to get ready for action and we will probably get `` be going out | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
gritting. The data includes the ground temperature and weather snow | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
is likely or not. Unlike regional forecasts, it can forecast exact | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
conditions on different roads. This is one of several weather stations | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
around Staffordshire. It records weather conditions around it which | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
is sent to the depot which knows where to great. Tonnes of great have | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
already been stockpiled with an extra 10,000 tonnes in reserve. That | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
should keep us moving and there is a science about how it works. It is | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
mixed with Brian and molasses to make sure it sticks to the road. | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
What we are trying to do is get the right amount of this, sold, or | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
great, onto the road, mixed to the moisture on the road, so it stops it | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
freezing. It does not stop there. High`tech gritting lorries are | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
helping those that go out to keep us moving. It can control the width of | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
the spread, the angle of the spread and how much we apply. And with the | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
cold weather only just starting, there is a busy few months in wait | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
for our teens. Probably not cold enough for | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
gritting yet, but who knows? The gritters will need to be out | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
later in the week, because it is turning colder. All the hype | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
surrounding the Arctic blast is probably not worth the bother. It is | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
only with us for a brief period of time and it is will `` it will be | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
mainly affecting the Northern part of the country, not the Midlands. | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
This is how I would sum up the next bit of the week, it will be windy on | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
Thursday and colder by Friday. It is this area to the north`east with the | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
tightly packed isobars and the cold from sinking southwards during | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
Thursday. Behind that is the colder air. We can see what is going on in | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
Technicolor and in pictures from this air mass child. Milder air | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
coming across on Thursday but it is on the cusp of his colder air which | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
will be rushing along with these north`westerly winds behind it. That | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
is what is bringing the cold to riches on Friday. Tonight, a lot of | :26:15. | :26:24. | |
cold air with a cold front. That is bringing light, patchy rain. But we | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
are looking at the odd heavy burst in that. It is moving quickly. As it | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
clears, temperatures fall. There is just the slim chance of a bit of ice | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
on untreated services because of the damp and falling to bridges. This | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
rain will be clearing southwards tomorrow morning. Then a largely dry | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
day. Just the odd shower. In a lot of sunshine developing from the | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
North. Ten bridges will rise to about 79 `` seven or nine Celsius. | :26:59. | :27:07. | |
Tomorrow night, the skies were clear so we are looking a fairly | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
widespread frost. It images below freezing in the countryside. `` | :27:12. | :27:25. | |
temperatures below freezing. The headlines. Britain's | :27:26. | :27:36. | |
schoolchildren for further behind in the global classroom. And a surge in | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
the number of cannabis farms across the West Midlands. A criminal | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
investigation into the death of a 90`year`old woman at Stafford | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
Hospital. I will be | :27:48. | :27:49. |