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more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Good afternoon. A lorry driver has died after crashing into the side of | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
a social club in Wednesbury in the Black Country. The accident happened | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
at around eight o'clock last night when the Royal British Legion was | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
open. Staff say it was lucky that no one else was killed. Ben Sidwell | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
reports. It's a scene of utter devastation. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Part of the Royal British Legion club in Wednesbury destroyed by a | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
lorry that ploughed straight into the building. It is heartbreaking. | :00:34. | :00:46. | |
Heartbreaking. I just heard a big bang. My wife and daughter were | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
shutting people out of the club. There were around 25 people inside | :00:52. | :01:01. | |
when the lorry had. Currently, `` at the time, there was a family with | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
young children, thankfully no one was harmed. These pictures show the | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
lorry embedded in the side of the social club. The area it hit was | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
where the children usually play. Louise Jones and her family should | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
have been in the building at the time, but were delayed. | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
My children could have been there playing and they would not have been | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
here today. No way could they have survived it. Terrible. Outside, | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
tributes already to the milk lorry driver who was killed. | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
One of those in the club at the time, said people thought it was a | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
gas explosion. People were coming up with their families on boxing night. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
It could have killed a lot of people last night. My own grandchildren | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
included in my family. At the moment, it looks an enormous task, | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
but members here say they'll regroup and rebuild their club. We will | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
carry on. We have our centenary next year and we are going all out to | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
work towards that. Those who run the club say they hope to be given the | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
go ahead to reopen part of the building in the next few days. | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man died | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
in a house fire in Walsall. The fire broke out at a house in South Street | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Gardens in Caldmore on Christmas Day. A 58`year`old man died and a | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
57`year`old woman has been arrested. The man has yet to be formally | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
identified. Police are appealing for help in | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
piecing together what happened to a man found dead in a pond in | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
Kidderminister. The body of 41`year`old Paul Humphries was found | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
in the front garden of a house in Chaucer Crescent yesterday morning. | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
He'd been taken ill over Christmas and was last seen at his home a few | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
minutes walk away on Boxing Day morning. His death is being treated | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
as unexplained. So what did you get for Christmas? | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
Stoke City fans may think that referee Martin Atkinson got a new | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
red card. He sent two of their players off and manager Mark Hughes | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
as Stoke crashed to a 5`1 Boxing Day defeat at Newcastle United. Dan | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Pallett reports. First it was Glen Whelan. The | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
reaction of manager Mark Hughes meant he was sent to the stands. And | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
then Marc Wilson also saw red. Stoke's Boxing Day excursion to | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Newcastle all went horribly wrong. They had made the perfect start. | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Oussama Assaidi scoring a spectacular opener to put stoke in | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
the lead. But down to nine men, they struggled and Newcastle took | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
advantage winning 5`1. The initial sending off was very harsh, | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
ridiculous in fact. The second one, we would argue against that as well. | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
And Aston Villa's problems continue to mount. | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
They lost 1`nil at home to Crystal Palace. Their fourth straight defeat | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
and their third consecutive home game without scoring a goal. I | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
cannot criticise their effort. But West Bromwich Albion are | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
improving under their caretaker management. They fell behind at | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Tottenham. But Jonas Olsen equalised to earn Albion a valuable 1`1 draw | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
which helps keep them just above the relegation zone. | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
High winds and flooding have made it difficult for drivers across the | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
region today. Dozens of roads were closed for a time as the result of | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
trees falling onto the carriageway, like this one on the Stourport Road | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
in Kidderminster. There were also some local flooding problems in | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
Shropshire and Worcestershire. 11 flood warnings are still in place | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
for the Midlands, although river levels on the Severn are now on | :04:39. | :04:50. | |
So let's find out what tomorrow has So let's find out what tomorrow has | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
in store then with Rebecca Wood. Are things calming down now, Rebecca? | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
their way down. Yes, things are starting to come | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
down. We do still have some showers moving through the region. There | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
could be a wintry element in them. But we will have some clear spells | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
as well and temperatures will fall away a day. `` fall away there. We | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
could have some icy patches in the morning, that's good spells of | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
brightness to come tomorrow. Feeling rather chilly. | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Finally, campaigners in Chelthenham hoping to get a former arts centre | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
re`opened have been given a welcome boost. Two benefactors have offered | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
to donate more than half a million pounds to buy the Axiom building. It | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
was closed by the council in 2000 as it wasn't thought to be commercially | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
viable. The agents say they're considering a number of offers. | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
That's it for now. I'll be back with the late news at a quarter past ten | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
this evening. But from all of us here, goodbye. | :05:56. | :06:09. | |
Good evening. What a week it has been, a stormy start, a law through | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
Christmas, then a wild end to the week, had to keep up, isn't it? This | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
was a vicious area of low pressure last night, but today the winds have | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
been strongest across northern areas, where it is still blowing a | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
gale. That will gradually subside as we go through the night, although a | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
windy night across Scotland with frequent, heavy showers. A few | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
showers whistling in elsewhere, but a lot of dry weather, and | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
temperatures will ease down first thing tomorrow morning. Tomorrow, a | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
different sort of day, not as windy thankfully, although still | :06:51. | :06:51. |