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George. Thank you. That's all so it's goodbye from me and on BBC | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello, welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: Give us the | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
chance to spend big on your railways and airport. An offer to Birmingham | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
from cash`rich China. We've not seen anything from China so far, or other | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
Asian economies. This could be a big step forward. We'll be asking if the | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Chinese really mean business. Also tonight: With rivers still rising | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
and 16 warnings, how people are coping with the floods. Submerged | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
under the English Channel for 70 years, now the painstaking work to | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
restore the only remaining German bomber of its kind. When it first | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
came up, it was cover in slime, seaweed. The once`failing school | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
that's turned things around by taking its students outside. We have | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
seen how the rain has caused further flooding problems, so what is | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
looming on the horizon after today's calm? We will have details | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
later. Good evening. China could be about | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
to invest billions of pounds in some of the region's biggest | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
infrastructure projects, including high`speed rail and Birmingham | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Airport. In a letter to the city leaders in Birmingham, the | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
state`owned China Railway Group says it wants to make long`term | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
investments. One project is the reopening of a long disused rail | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
line. The ?280 million link would give much easier access to HS2, if | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
it eventually goes ahead. 2026 is the projected date when passengers | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
will be able to board the first high speed trains from Birmingham to | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
London. Here's our transport correspondent Peter Plisner. An | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
economic powerhouse ` China is cash`rich, with many billions of | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
pounds to invest. Something that wasn't lost on the Prime Minister, | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
who was there on a high`profile trade mission late last year. Even | :02:02. | :02:15. | |
then, Chinese officials made it clear they were keen to invest in | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
the UK and specifically plans for high` speed rail. Now in a letter | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
sent Birmingham City Council Leader, Sir Albert Bore, the China Railway | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
Group says: the UK and specifically plans for | :02:24. | :02:32. | |
high` talking about expansion at Birmingham airport and better | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
transport links, the group says they would like to explore opportunities | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
to participate in the delivery of those plans. And that could mean the | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
reopening of the former Stonebridge Railway. Its disused trackbed passes | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
close to the airport and NEC. Rebranded the Whitacre link, it | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
could also provide access to HS2 for rail travellers in other parts of | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
the region. Rail experts maintain that Chinese money will make a big | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
difference. There is European interest in putting money into the | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
UK rail industry and has been for a number of years. We have not seen | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
anything from China, or indeed other Asian economies, said this could be | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
a big step forward. It's not the first time the Chinese have invested | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
in the West Midlands. Money from China has helped restart production | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
lines at the collapsed London Taxi Company and before that at | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Longbridge where British expertise is being used to designed MG cars | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
for production in China. So why infrastructure? Why not? Some argue | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
with less government money available, the prospect of | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
investment from China could not have come at a better time. Peter joins | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
us from Curzon Street in Birmingham, which would be the site | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
of the main station for HS two. Are there any dangers in accessing | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Chinese money? I do not think it is any more dangerous than any other | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
investment coming in, currently Chinese money is refurbishing an | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
office block in Birmingham. They would expect a return. The return on | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
investment in things like the London taxi company and energy is the | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
automotive technology and ultimately they will want a profit when cars | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
are being sold. They will want a return for investment, there is no | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
doubt. What about high`speed rail, some say it is a waste of | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
taxpayers' money. Could this change the argument? Those who are opposed | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
to say it could cost taxpayers, the Chinese might want a guarantee of a | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
certain level of passengers and they point to the live through Kent which | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
has failed to achieve the number of passengers originally forecast and | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
the government is paying a subsidy. Coming up later: The latest on West | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Bromwich Albion's search for a head coach to replace Steve Clarke, | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
sacked a month ago. Drivers are being urged to take | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
extra care tonight after a man became trapped in flood water and | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
had to be rescued from the roof of his car. The Environment Agency says | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
a huge volume of water is running off already saturated farmland | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
leaving many rural roads impassable. There are sixteen flood warnings in | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
place. Our reporter Ben Godfrey is beside the River Severn in Bewdley. | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
That is due to peak tomorrow. How are things looking? | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Tonight, the River Severn here is rising. The flood barriers, | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
temporary, they went in yesterday, it has not got wet yet. It is a | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
changing picture, particularly in was stuck. It was clear on our | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
travels across the region that it is a changing picture and the threat to | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
people and property has not yet been lifted. | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Jacqui Smith's home in Worcestershire is surrounded by | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
water and she has not really left her home since Christmas Eve, | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
despite spending ?25,000 on flood defences. She is standing on a ledge | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
in front of a five feet drop. The waiters speak to her safely was by | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
phone. First, the river swelled and after 19 days of rain, the | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
tributaries and Brooks are experiencing a fall is of nature. It | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
is not just the depth, but the speed of water that makes it dangerous. Do | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
not be fooled by the dry and bright conditions, we are told the River | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
Severn South Worcester will reach its peak tomorrow. This morning, | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
firefighters used a boat to rescue a man from the roof of his car, when | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
he got stuck on a main road near Bridgnorth. Even away from the | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
rivers, roads are suffering. Do not enter floodwater. If you cannot see | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
the far end of the flood, do not go green and if you do go in the flood | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
water, check your brakes when you come out. The flood waters are not | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
confined to rural areas, this was a residential street in Birmingham | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
today. The root of the problem is down to the positioning of the jet | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
stream which influences the weather. When it is further south, as it has | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
been, you can practically guarantee you will have wet and windy | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
conditions. It ushers in low pressure, which in turn results in | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
high tides and couple that with storm force winds, it is a recipe | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
for disaster with torrential downpours and tidal surges. While | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
the flooding has caused frustration for many, for some, it is a source | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
of pleasure with this person, wake boarding in Worcester. An extreme | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
sport in extreme conditions. I am joined by a member of the | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Environment Agency, what is the situation? Levels in Boston are high | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
and we had to issue another alert in Worcester. They will peak tomorrow | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
morning. Upton on seven has had a flood alleviation scheme, our | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
properties protected? It is looking good at Upton. Do you know how many | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
properties have been flooded in our area? Across the River Severn and | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
River Wye catchments, properties have been flooded but the defences | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
have protected in excess of 1000. You had a day of rest yesterday to | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
prepare for today. What is staffing like? It is a 24`hour operation and | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
the incident room is opened 24 hours and we have guys out looking at | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
assets. Thanks. Just to add, defied the latest picture where you live, | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
you can go to your local BBC radio station. | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
Police and medics are teaming up for the first scheme of its kind aimed | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
at dealing better with people with mental illness. They'll travel | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
together to the scene of incidents and emergencies so suspects can be | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
assessed on the spot. It's been welcomed by the family of a factory | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
worker who died after being restrained by police. Giles Latcham | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
reports. He's a man of words. But poet Benjamin Zephaniah is never | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
more heartfelt than when he talks about his cousin Mikey Powell. Mikey | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
suffered from mental`health problems and 11 years ago, in the midst of a | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
psychotic episode, was restrained by police officers outside his home in | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
Lozells in Birmingham. He later died of asphyxiation in a police station. | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
The problem was that the police came and treated him like a criminal. | :09:58. | :10:09. | |
Within two hours, he was dead. It is that case among others that has led | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
to this rapid response car. We will be able to deal with the patient | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
quickly and their journey into hospital if needed, or signposted to | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
another avenue, it will happen quicker. 20% of the work is mentally | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
health driven and this will have an impact. Putting a vehicle, a nurse | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
and paramedic and police officer, we can solve problems at the first | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
point of contact. Can you make sure that's... | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
Things have come a long way, in cells in Stoke`on`Trent, psychiatric | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
nurses support offices in assessing suspects when they are arrested. `` | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
police officers. But this scheme should mean that they do not go to a | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
police station, but a mental health facility. If this scheme had been in | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
place, I am pretty sure he would be alive now because anybody in the | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
area of mental health will see that what he needed was somebody to talk | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
to and to calm him down, not somebody to arrest him. Mikey | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
Powell's family campaigned for this scheme and hope it will run into the | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
future, averting tragedies like theirs. Our top story tonight: Give | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
us the chance to spend big on your railways and airport: an offer to | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Birmingham from cash`rich China. Shefali's on stand`by with a | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
detailed weather forecast in a few minutes. Also tonight, the fight for | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
every penny. Why the arts are amongst the hardest hit by spending | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
cuts. And we are at an outdoor classroom where plants grow and also | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
the imaginations of children at a one staining school. A special | :12:06. | :12:18. | |
report now on the painstaking restoration of a World War II German | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
bomber. The Dornier was recovered from the English Channel last year | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
after 70 years under water, but that was just the start of years of work. | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
From the RAF Museum in Shropshire, Sian Lloyd reports. | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
It looks like a crumpled wreck, but, gradually, every part of the | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
last remaining Dornier 17 bomber is being brought back to life. The | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
barnacles and seaweed washed away by citric acid, simple lemon juice. | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
When it came up, it was covered in the reader deposits, slime and | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
seaweed, but the process of the spraying is removing it down to the | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
bare metal. It was lifted out the channel six months ago, virtually | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
intact. The wings were later removed for the journey by road to the RAF | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
Museum's conservation Centre. It is thought the plane was shot down in | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
August 1940, when the wing tip hit the water, it went spinning and | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
tipped onto its back before sinking on the sands of the Kent coast. The | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
Dornier was the mainstay of the German fleet, attacking British | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
cities in the Battle of Britain. They went out of service in the | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
mid`1940s and it was thought none had survived. The Dornier was | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
nicknamed the flying pencil because of its narrow fuser large. When you | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
crouch inside, you can see why is `` fuselage. Four crewmembers would | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
have been cramped in the space. Eventually it will be rebuilt inside | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
the museum workshop, but for the moment, only a few pieces are ready | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
to work on. This strip of aluminium was found near the bomb release | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
system, the German instructions can still be seen. The idea would be to | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
pick and flick the corrosion rather than in density artefact. This | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
oxygen cylinder is one of nine recovered from the plane and looks | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
as good as new. It has had eight, 12 hours work on it. There is plenty of | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
work ahead and funding to be found before it will be ready to go on | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
show at the RAF Museum in London. I think they will need to be patient. | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
January is a crucial time for arts groups as they try to balance their | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
books and apply for what funding is still available. Over the last few | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
years, public spending on the arts has been cut at national and local | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
levels. So what does this year hold for organisations trying to keep the | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
cultural flame alive? Here's our arts reporter. The Birmingham Royal | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
Ballet. The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. And the Royal | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
Shakespeare Company. They've all taken cuts but they are big enough | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
and famous enough to survive For smaller organisations, like Vamos | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
Theatre in Worcester, ensuring the show goes on is harder. Every pound | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
counts. They're taking this production. Finding Joy, to the | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
London Intenational Mime Festival later this month, thanks to new ways | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
of generating funds. The fact that we're not totally dependent on the | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
Arts Council, that's also made us more robust so we found other | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
partners. Creating partnerships is one way arts organisations are | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
looking to lessen the blow of dwindling grants and budgets in the | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
public sector. The Arts Council cannot replace money that was cut by | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
local authorities. We can work with partners to be as strong as they | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
possibly can. Local authorities are the biggest investors in arts and | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
culture, but budgets are squeezed and in Birmingham, the council | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
slashed 19% from 11 regularly funded organisations. In response, 14 of | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
the major organisations in the city have formed the Birmingham arts | :16:22. | :16:30. | |
partnership. By speaking with one voice, we are not allowing ourselves | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
to be in competition with each other but to be making the case, | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
increasingly strongly and with good effect, that investment in the arts | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
is an important part of the health of the British and the Birmingham | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
economy. There's no turning away from reduced public spending in the | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
arts. But as we enter 2014, the keyword is parternerships. For | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
organisations coming together, it is hoped they will create a stronger | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
case for culture to ensure investment in the arts continues. | :17:02. | :17:14. | |
It's time for sport now and Dan's here. Into a new year now. Any news | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
of a head coach for West Brom? Not quite yet. It has not stopped | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
transfer speculation. The Sunderland manager Steve Bruce has apologised | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
to West Bromwich Albion and dismissed reports that they've | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
agreed a transfer fee for the Baggies striker Shane Long. | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
Meanwhile, Albion's search for a new head coach has now been going for | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
almost a month and there's still no appointment. The chairman of West | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
Bromwich Albion supporters club is growing impatient. John and | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
thousands of baggies fans cannot help wondering why it is taking so | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
long to appoint a new head coach. One would have thought they would | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
have a contingency plan when they did get rid of Steve Clarke. | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
Obviously, it appears they did not. They might have had names they would | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
consider, but they had not got one at the forefront. It will be four | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
weeks on Saturday since Cardiff scored the goal that brought the | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
sack for Steve Clarke. 26 days before `` since he was placed on | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
gardening leave and 26 days of speculation. During that time the | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
bookies have had no shortage of favourites, who have quickly turned | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
ice`cold. Roberto De Matteo, Martin Jol, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, | :18:36. | :18:51. | |
yesterday, Thomas Schaf. What is the problem? They did not have a list of | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
people when they sacked him. Now it is finding the right person to work | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
with. I think it will be somebody nobody has thought of and it will be | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
a surprise. Which direction will Albion take? All should be revealed | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
before the trip to Southampton on Saturday. So we still don't know | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
who'll be taking over. How damaging is it to keep going on | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
without knowing? It is damaging for the club. People accuse them from | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
dithering `` of dithering. But you are wondering what is the problem, | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
why has nobody gone their? The person coming in could be | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
undermined, being seen as the fifth, sixth choice, not a great start. | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
Remember when Wolverhampton sacked Mick McCarthy and struggle to find a | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
replacement and that ended up in relegations. We heard today from | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
Thomas Hitzlsperger on his decision to come out as being gay. | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
He hopes it will fight the problem of homophobia. He had five seasons | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
with Aston Villa. He revealed his sexuality this week. He has retired | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
from football because of injury, but he hopes because he came out, it | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
might encourage current players to do the same. I certainly think it is | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
possible and it will happen. In my case, it took Ron `` it took longer | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
to realise I was gay and admitted to myself, but young players these | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
days, when they are sure about their feelings, they can talk about it. | :20:32. | :20:40. | |
Coventry City's planned stadium could be built just two miles from | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
their former home at the Ricoh Arena. Nuneaton and Bedworth Council | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
have admitted holding preliminary talks. The site is believed to be a | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
former golf course. And Steve Bruce, he is in charge at Hull | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
City, he used to be the manager at Sunderland. More than 500 children | :21:00. | :21:09. | |
in one of the most deprived parts of the Black Country are celebrating | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
tonight after seeing their school make massive improvements following | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
the worst possible Ofsted report. Among the improvements made is a | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
forest school, a way of taking lessons outdoors that the kids seem | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
to love. And that's where we can join our reporter Joanne Writtle. | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
What's happening tonight? This huge outdoor classroom is | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
officially launched tonight. The National storytelling lorry at is | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
telling stories by the fire because the Forest School is said to | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
stimulate the imagination and creativity of children and help with | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
literacy. This came about after the school really did hit rock bottom. | :21:42. | :21:51. | |
The Priory School in Dudley is transforming itself. Everybody is | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
keen to learn, which is what the school wants so that we can have a | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
good future. But a damning Ofsted is Beck should lead to inspectors | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
saying this. In their experience it was the worst inspection they had | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
been a part of, with the school failing in every speck, teaching and | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
learning, leadership, and even the behaviour of pupils. Inspectors had | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
said that lessons were often dull and repetitive and pupils made to | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
little progress. 19 lessons were a next `` were unacceptable but | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
recently, 17 were judged as good and one was judged as outstanding. | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
recently, 17 were judged as good and one was judged I have a good teacher | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
Mr Adams and he is really fun. It is important because if I go to high | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
school, I will get good grades. The new Forest School is taking learning | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
outside the classroom, to encourage creativity and independence. There | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
are other benefits. Building a shelter covers literacy, maths, | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
science, physical education, just by putting up rights together they are | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
using nonstandard measures and looking at angles and discussing the | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
working out of the groups. I like the theme of nature, it is a really | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
nice topic. Now, we get to do a lot of stuff outside and we get to live | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
with the trees. This school is still under close observation, is special | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
measures, but with an almost entirely new set of teachers, recent | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
is actions have recorded progress. A fire sculpture spelling out the | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
name of the school has just been licked as part of the celebration. I | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
am joined by the headteacher. `` just been lit. This school has a | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
special place in your heart? I came through this school as a child and | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
so did my children. My mother lives close by. When you were promoted as | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
headteacher, what did you tell children at that first assembly? It | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
was emotional. When I stood in front of the children I reminded them I | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
had sat where they are sitting on that day, and I think that was | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
powerful, because our motto is to believe in themselves and I think | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
that is what the children can be, anything they want to be. The school | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
is still in special measures, are you disappointed? I am not. I knew | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
the job would be a challenge and I am `` we are up for that challenge | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
and we are along the path towards coming out of special measures. Lots | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
of parents are here tonight, including Andrew, and you moved here | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
as the school went into special measures. You must have been | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
worried? Really, really worried. But, what Mrs Bennett has done and | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
Mr Smyth, they have turned the school around and it is fantastic | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
now. It has brought out my son and daughter. My daughter has now left. | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
It is the nominal. Thanks for joining us. This school is still in | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
special measures but there is a warm glow of optimism here. | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
Calls me old`fashioned, I am sure I saw some sunshine this afternoon. | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Was I dreaming? You were fully awake. There was sunshine around, | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
but it was colder and this trend will continue. You will probably | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
feel the effect as soon as early as tonight. We have a Met office | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
warning for widespread ice tonight. That is on untreated surfaces. This | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
is how it is looking over the next few days with things turning colder. | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
We have night frost and rain later tomorrow afternoon and into the | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
latter part of Sunday. Having said that, the rain that is arriving on | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
Sunday will be heavier and it will be coupled with strong winds. High | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
pressure is dominating for the weekend and that will keep things | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
largely dry until later on Sunday when the low pressure comes in, and | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
the cold front associated with it will bring in the rain, which will | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
be happy. Overnight tonight, we have some showers affecting extremities, | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
but apart from that it is looking drive. It will turn colder. Down to | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
two degrees in the cities and in the countryside, it will be close to | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
freezing. This will give us ice and frost and perhaps isolated fog | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
patches. The folk will lift readily tomorrow. `` the fog patches will | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
lift readily. We will have some showers tomorrow but only affecting | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
the north and south and perhaps the East. The rain is coming in from the | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
west later in the afternoon. It will probably be more persistent along | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
the Welsh borders, but as it heads eastwards, it will start to decay. | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
It will clear and be frosty and foggy. | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
Tonight's headlines from the BBC. A pledge from the Metropolitan Police | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
in the wake of the Duggan inquest. They need to do better with black | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
communities. Give us the chance to spend big on your railways and | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
airport ` an offer to Birmingham from cash`rich China. That was the | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
programme today. I will be back at 10pm. I will have the latest on the | :27:45. | :27:46. | |
flooding. | :27:47. | :27:47. |