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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines: police to introduce a | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
nice surrender to get weapons of city streets. We have seen a slight | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
increase over the last 12 months. Tonight the family of a teenager | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
stabbed to death calls for tougher sentences on knife crime. Also | :00:26. | :00:34. | |
tonight... I am live where the river seven continues to rise and should | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
peak overnight. I'll be here later with all the details on how much | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
rain we can expect, and why strong winds are just going to add to the | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
problem. Your full weekend forecast coming up later. ?1.2 million, the | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
cost of the new library of Birmingham website. It was not put | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
out to tender. The council says it is value for money. Heidi finally | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
gets the music breakthrough. She beat 80,000 people to win a singing | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
competition. `` 18,000. Good evening. The Environment Agency | :01:06. | :01:21. | |
has issued three severe warnings for the River Severn in Gloucestershire | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
and there's another 21 warnings in place in the Midlands. Flood | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
barriers have been erected along the River Severn in Shrewsbury, | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Ironbridge and Bewdley, where our reporter Ben Godfrey is this | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
evening. So, Ben, how are things looking there tonight? We have had | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
between ten and 20 millimetres of rain today. The barriers have been | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
installed. They are three feet high at the moment. More rain is planned | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
and that is of concern. How concerned are you by the levels here | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
tonight? The levels have been rising here all day. Nothing to concern us | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
at the moment. Probably another but also to go. They are doing their job | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
at the moment. Let's talk about the River Severn in Gloucestershire | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
tonight with some severe weather warnings in place. Some high tides | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
are connected with the surge of water. That is potentially quite | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
significant. What kind of a risk will it be tomorrow? It is very | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
complicated to predict what will happen. There is the combination of | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
high tides, fresh water and sewage or meeting together. In some areas | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
it may get over the top of flood defences. I know you are concerned | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
about days ahead. It is a very unsettled outlook. More rain on | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Monday and Tuesday. The rivers are already high and the catchments are | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
saturated. Through next week we could see levels building again. You | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
can see the levels are very high at the moment. There are pins down here | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
which are covered. These areas are used to being filled with water at | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
times of flooding. The message they want to get across is that they are | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
open for business this weekend and people can access the area. Rebecca | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
will have the full forecast later. You can keep up`to`date with the | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
latest flood warnings, travel news and weather on your local radio | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
station this weekend. A Burton on Trent brewery switches a new | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
production line on. Happy Chinese New Year. The campaign for an | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
archway to mark Birmingham 's Chinese quarter. The family of a | :03:54. | :04:04. | |
teenager stabbed to death after a fight in Birmingham are calling for | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
tougher sentences for those found guilty of knife crime. 15`year`old | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Hassan Mahmood died last summer. Two people have been stabbed in the city | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
in the past 24 hours, one of them fatally. Today West Midlands Police | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
said they would be introducing a knife surrender as a way of getting | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
knives off the streets of the city. This man knows the true cost of | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
knife crime. His 15`year`old nephew was stabbed to death in Birmingham | :04:30. | :04:39. | |
last July by another teenager. The whole process of seeing the body and | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
going to hospital and having to bury him. It was just terrible. The | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
17`year`old killer was found guilty of murder this week. When he is | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
sentenced next month, the judge must send a message. You'll Athey need to | :04:56. | :05:07. | |
give out life sentences. They should give them full life sentences. That | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
is the only way to deter them from doing it. Six months on, knife crime | :05:13. | :05:22. | |
afflicts Birmingham. Police were called to reports of a disturbance. | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
The 31`year`old victim was rushed to hospital but died there later. | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
Yesterday afternoon, a 17`year`old boy was stabbed and seriously | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
injured. A 15`year`old is being questioned. The community lurker and | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
part`time radio presenter says more needs to be done. We have asked for | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
a life amnesty. We want better education in schools. People must be | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
made more aware of the consequences of carrying knives. A spate of | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
killings in Birmingham last autumn caused horror and revulsion. Police | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
concede it has been a bad 12 months but say overall they are making | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
progress against knife crime. We have seen a slight increase. It is | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
hard to put contacts to rent `` a context around each and everyone of | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
them. We need to redouble efforts with everyone. To that end, the | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
police are planning a nice surrender, a variation on the | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
amnesty. The killer will be sentenced in four weeks time. | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Birmingham City Council has confirmed tonight it's reviewing its | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
?120 million a year contract with service company Capita. Since 2006, | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Capita has run the city's IT, call centre and billing services. The | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
contract was extended to 2021. But tonight the council say they don't | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
know how much it would cost to break the Service Birmingham contract. | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
Capita has been criticised for charging over a million pounds to | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
build the new Library of Birmingham website. But the council insist it | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
is value for money. Our Correspondent David Gregory`Kumar | :07:07. | :07:06. | |
has been investigating. A modern library needs a website, | :07:07. | :07:19. | |
but did Birmingham's cost a lot more than it needed to? FOI requests | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
reveal the new Library of Birmingham website cost ?1.2 million pounds and | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
an extra ?190,000 a year to maintain. Compare that to another | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
shiny new library, The Hive in Worcester, their website cost | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
?10,000. And Shropshire Council say the ongoing costs of their library | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
website are just over 1000 pounds Even if you compare Birmingham to | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
another new UK superlibrary the costs are high. There is not much | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
colour in it. It is simple and does the job. It is keeping the costs | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
town. Why do you want to keep costs down? We cannot afford it. That is | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
honest. We cannot afford to do that. Austerity has made us change the way | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
we things. Even if you compare Birmingham with another UK super | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
library, the costs are still high. Liverpool Council spent ?50m on | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
their refurbished Central Library. But they told us the website cost | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
them four hours of staff time updating pictures and tweaking text. | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
Like Shropshire it was all done in house. Birmingham out sourced the | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
job to a company called Capita. And the Library website is by no means | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
the biggest contract Capita has with Birmingham Council. They also have a | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
multi`million pound deal to run IT, call centre and billing services. | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
Capita Service Birmingham. But the details are secret and critics want | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
it released. Way too much money has been spent. It could be done at half | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
the cost. That contract could have been cancelled 18 months ago. I | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
could have been wrong. Capita told us they agreed publication back in | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
October last year. The council say today it could be published by the | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
end of February. Only then will it be possible to tell if the | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
multi`million pound Capita Service Birmingham contract is a good deal | :09:14. | :09:14. | |
for the city. I spoke to the Deputy Leader of | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
Birmingham City Council, Ian Ward earlier this afternoon. I asked him | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
if the contract to design and run the website for the Library of | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
Birmingham was put out to tender. Well, this contract was market | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
tested. You need to remember it was not a contract that I set up. It was | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
set up by the previous Conservative ` Liberal Democrat administration. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
When I came into office, the first thing we did was to have it | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
independently validated by an outside organisation. Their report | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
confirmed the contract was value for money for the city council and that | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
there was value in continuing with it. We have to deliver more for less | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
money and that is why we are renegotiated the contract. Where are | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
you with the renegotiation? The core contract costs ?15 million. We have | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
said we will reduce that by ?20 million for the next financial | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
year. That is built into the budget. We are negotiating to see what | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
exactly that will mean. There will be a ?20 million reduction. At the | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
same time, we are considering all the other possible options. The | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
detail of the spend, the breakdown of that, it is not available to your | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
taxpayers. Published accounts are available. The 2013/2014 numbers | :10:48. | :10:57. | |
will come out. The details of the contract we have with Catheter, many | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
of those details of commercially sensitive and are not published. | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Having said all of that, we are going to publish the contract on the | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
website. All of the commercially sensitive information will be | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
redacted. When will that be? By the end of February. The contract is due | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
to end in 2021, how much will it cost to terminate it early? There is | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
no figure. We are involved in negotiations as to what the figure | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
will be. Said there was no figure put on an early termination? There | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
was no figure, no. We have agreement about termination of the contract. | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
There are various conditions set around that. It would not be normal | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
to put an actual number into the contract. There is an agreement in | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
place about early termination? There is. We have driven value out of this | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
contract. We need to be clear as to what is the best way forward and the | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
most cost`effective way for the council. A former head teacher from | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Stoke`on`Trent has pleaded guilty to a series of sex offences. Robert | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Haines, who held the post at Thistley Hough School in Penkhull | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
has admitted two counts of sexual activity with a child while in a | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
position of trust, five of making indecent images of children, and a | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
further charge of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
activity. He'll be sentenced later. Detectives are questioning a | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
22`year`old man in connection with the murder of a woman in the | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
Worcestershire village of Hanbury. School Road has been closed all day | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
as forensic officers carry out their investigations. Officers were called | :12:46. | :12:57. | |
to a house yesterday at 4:35pm. They attended a female in her 40s who had | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
suffered a number of stab wounds. The lady died at the scene. Two | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
companies in the West Midlands have announced major investments today. | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
The Burton`based brewery Marston's has opened a ?7.4 million pound new | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
bottling line. And flybe confirmed it is making Birmingham Airport its | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
largest UK base. The company is introducing seven new routes out of | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
the airport and creating 50 new jobs. What we have done is make sure | :13:25. | :13:35. | |
we are focusing on the areas of growth and good profit. In areas of | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
the country which are not so great we have had to change our programme | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
a bit. This is a good news story for the West Midlands and Birmingham. In | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
Burton, the multi million pound investment in Marstons also | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
benefited local companies who built the new bottling line. It comes as | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
overall beer sales have risen, and are at their strongest rate for a | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
decade. Here's our Staffordshire reporter. Burton's MP switching on | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
the new line which will fill 18,000 bottles of beer an hour. It's an | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
investment which comes as the brewery's gearing up for increased | :14:06. | :14:14. | |
production. We are seeing a real resurgence. Drinkers are recognising | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
that cask ale is interesting, flavoursome and great to drink. They | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
are coming back to beer. They are also getting new drinkers. It is | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
great to see women, who are recognising how wonderful British | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
beer is. In the last year there has been an increase in the number of | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
points sold. More of us are drinking beer at home and it is due to the | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
good weather in the summer. And it's that increase in supermarket sales | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
that's behind the building of this new line. This line will be running | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
for I suspect well over 25`year is. This really does secure the jobs for | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
the company in Burton on Trent and the people who work for Marstons. | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
Other firms in Burton have benefitted too. This is Briggs, a | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
company that's been in the town since 1740. It makes stainless steel | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
tanks and has supplied the brewery with new equipment for the | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
production line. When we won the project, we all acknowledge this is | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
a very important contract, not only for bricks but for the town. The | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
economy has suffered over the last few years. Being supported by | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
Marstons with the order was very important. This line's now up and | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
running seven days a week, continuing the long and proud | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
tradition that makes Burton Britain's brewing capital. | :15:35. | :15:44. | |
The Prime Minister 's right`hand man at Westminster has dismissed claims | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
that the economic recovery is limited to London. The Parliamentary | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
private sector is of David Cameron said the study does not paint an | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
accurate picture of the economy in the West Midlands but is showing | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
signs of recovery. We are seeing a massive growth in the Midlands. In | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
my constituency you can see unemployment down to 1.9%. You can | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
see investment with Jaguar Land Rover building a new engine plant. | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
Manufacturing is starting to plough ahead. In the Midlands, we are in a | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
premier position to benefit. And you can see more on this on the Sunday | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Politics at 11am on Sunday with Elizabeth Glinka. This is our top | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
story tonight: Police to introduce a knife surrender to get weapons off | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
the city streets ` as the family of a teenager stabbed to death calls | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
for tougher sentences. Rebecca's standing by with the weekend | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
forecast. A warning it'll be wet. Also in tonight's programme... It | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
could be their biggest deal in the Midlands on transfer deadline day as | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
Stoke City agree a deal with Sunderland for Lee Cattermole. | :16:59. | :17:07. | |
It's Chinese New Year and a campaign is being launched tonight to raise | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
money to pay for an arch to mark the entrance to Birmingham's Chinese | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
quarter. It's one of the few major cities in the UK without one. | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
Lindsay Doyle is in Chinatown tonight, so Lindsay how much could | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
this all cost? It will cost an astonishing ?1 million. I am told | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
the Chinese community is confident it can raise that money. Birmingham | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
is one of the last cities in the country with a large, vibrant | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
community not to have an arch. Liverpool, London and Manchester all | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
have one and Newcastle have two. I am joined by the chair of the | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
Chinese Festival community. Apologies. We seem to have a problem | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
down in the Chinese quarter. Now, it is transfer deadline day. We only | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
have a few hours left. Dan has the details. Stoke City have agreed a | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
fee with Sunderland for the midfielder Lee Cattermole in what's | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
likely to be the biggest deal in the Midlands on transfer deadline day. | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
But while Premier League clubs across the country have been | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
spending millions lower down the divisions it's all about trying to | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
find a bargain. It has been one of those days when the assistant | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
managers get to meet the media because the managers are too busy | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
doing deals. This is Lee Cattermole, the man Stoke City believes will add | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
extra bite to their midfield and beef up their bid to avoid | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
relegation. He has attributes which can enhance any club. He is a good | :18:47. | :18:55. | |
footballer as well. He is certainly a player that can bring good | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
qualities to any side. Signing a new player in the January transfer | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
window can be a massive gamble. This month, Premier League clubs have | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
spent ?100 million foot at a very different story in the championship | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
for Birmingham City. When Southampton release Aaron Martin, | :19:16. | :19:26. | |
they snapped him up. There is no money to spend on wages. At West | :19:27. | :19:44. | |
Bromwich, what did Pepe Mel make of it? Maybe two, three new players | :19:45. | :19:54. | |
here. Midlands clubs have not exactly been splashing the cash. The | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
main moves have been away from him. Wolves are a classic example of | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
that. Lee Griffiths, one of three strikers who left today. Beyond | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
cygnets and has gone on loan to a Norwegian club. | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
Three strikers out the door. What about the ones that got away? There | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
are bound to be dozens of those. Wes Houlihan, midfielder with Norwich | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
City. They were reluctant to sell because Paul Lambert did not want to | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
sell to him. We thought West Bromwich Albion might come into that | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
that has come to nothing as well. The transfer window stays open until | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
11pm. All those that do go through will be listed on the BBC Sport | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
website. And let's not forget it's a big weekend for Rugby with the start | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
of the Six Nations. And what a prospect for Gloucester's Jonny May. | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
The biggest game of his life, without a doubt. He needs to play | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
for England against France in Paris. He is 23 and a winger. He says he | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
just cannot wait. It is probably the biggest thing for a World Cup in | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
terms of rivalry between the home nations and the way the nation gets | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
behind each of its team. It will be amazing with France being such a | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
passionate Nason. `` nation. I have heard the stadium is amazing. I | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
think he is right. Let's get back to the Chinese quarter. Hopefully we | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
have re`established the line. I am joined by Jeffrey from the Chinese | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
Festival community in Birmingham. We were talking about the magnificent | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
arch, what will it look like? It will go across the road. We are | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
starting to fund raise tonight. It is a vibrant area. Hopefully | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
businesses will get behind it and also the Birmingham public to buy a | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
brick and we will get an arch built in Birmingham. Wonderful! We deserve | :22:13. | :22:22. | |
one. What plans to rehab for Sunday? It is a free event. The street is | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
shut and a fairground. Come down and enjoy yourself. All that remains to | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
be said is to wish you a happy New Year from the Chinese quarter. Just | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
as Heidi Browne was on the verge of giving up on her dream of being a | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
singer, after ten years of trying and accepting a job in engineering, | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
her path's taken an unexpected twist. She beat more than 8,000 | :22:45. | :22:59. | |
people to take the Open Mic UK title. Ben Sidwell's been to meet | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
the Shropshire singer`song writer. A warning his report contains flashing | :23:03. | :23:11. | |
images. The winner is... Heidi. You can see on the video, I am walking | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
out in astonishment. Then there is all confetti. My friends were | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
telling me about what happened. I was like, did it? Did it? Ten days | :23:22. | :23:33. | |
have completely changed her life. Don't touch my hair... I was meant | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
to be starting a new job, a sensible career path. I had to bring up and | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
say, sorry, I cannot do it. I need to devote my time now to music. | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
Heidi joins the list of winners of Open Mic UK, the most successful | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
being Birdy, who's gone on to have chart success, including a top ten | :23:59. | :24:09. | |
album. I sat next to Jake Bugg and he got picked and I was not. Each | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
time I was the one that was not pushed through. I was starting to | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
lose heart. This reignited my belief. White rabbit she comes from | :24:18. | :24:27. | |
a musical background. Her dad is a successful session musician. She has | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
done everything herself. She is very driven. She has written loads of | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
songs and has worked really hard. As the winner when she gets ?5,000 | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
towards the development of her career and is set to record her | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
first single. She's also hoping to tour Europe later this year. | :24:50. | :25:00. | |
I am sure I am not the only one getting very wet and windswept | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
today. Rebecca's here with the weather. A warning, she's got a lot | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
of warnings! Plenty of hazards to come over the | :25:13. | :25:24. | |
next 48 hours. The first one is ice. Then we move on to strong winds and | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
some showers by Saturday. Through Sunday, we start to get a brief | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
respite as things calm down but only for one day. Then we have got | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
attention turning to flooding. Three severe flood warnings in place | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
across the Midlands. 21 flood warnings and more than 30 flood | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
alerts. This rain is coinciding with high spring tides to mark and a | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
storm surge. If you are concerned, that is the number... The rain is | :25:52. | :26:01. | |
slowly moving away. Behind that the air is colder. Some could turn a bit | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
wintry, particularly over high ground. Then the risk of some frost. | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for ice. As we wake | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
up tomorrow morning, it'll be treacherous and assert. It has all | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
changed. The yellow weather warning will be. Winds in Hereford and | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
Shropshire. There will be gusts of up to 60 miles an hour. This will | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
clear away and they will rattle through the region. Most of the | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
showers will be scrawny through the day. The possibility of some hail. | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
Rather unpleasant with the strong winds and rain. Temperatures | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
hovering between six and eight Celsius. By Sunday, things do come | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
down briefly. We will start to see perhaps a little bit of sunshine | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
through Sunday afternoon. It would still be a breezy day. Temperatures | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
again hovering around seven, eight Celsius. It does not last. By | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
Monday, we have this next band of rain moving in. There is another | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
yellow weather warning on that as well and it stays and settled into | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
the new working week. Tonight's headlines from the BBC... Meredith | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
Kercher's murder. As guilty verdicts are reinstated for Amanda Knox and | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
her former boyfriend, she says she will never willingly return to | :27:21. | :27:21. | |
Italy. Sandbags at the ready. Police to introduce a knife | :27:22. | :27:32. | |
surrender to get weapons off the city streets, as the family of a | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
teenager stabbed to death calls for tougher sentences. That was the | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
Midlands Today. I'll be back at 10pm with the latest ins and outs as the | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
transfer deadline draws to a close. Have a great evening. Goodbye. | :27:45. | :27:46. |