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into Friday morning and enhance the risk of flooding. That is all | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: "A catalogue | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
of systemic failures" ` a report says the deaths of four Warwickshire | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
firefighters were caused by failings at their rescue service. Also | :00:16. | :00:30. | |
tonight; Held indefinitely in a secure hospital, the knifeman who | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
stabbed mosque`goers and a police officer who was hailed a hero. It | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
was until I return to work than I was told how close up called it was, | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
how lucky I am to have survived. Part`owner of Birmingham City, | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
Carson Yeung, resigns from the board and from the club's parent company. | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
Proof that dreams can come true, the musician that's gone from front of | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
house to centre stage And we may have got away with a largely dry day | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
today but take it as the exception rather than the rule. There are more | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
storms to come this week. Good evening. Warwickshire Fire | :01:03. | :01:20. | |
Service has been accused of failing to have an adequate plan to deal | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
with a fire at a vegetable packing warehouse in which four fire | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
fighters died. Ian Reid, John Averis, Ashley Stephens and Darren | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Yates`Badley, died in the fire at Atherstone`on`Stour in November | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
2007. In May 2012, three incident commanders were acquitted of | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
manslaughter by gross`negligence, and seven months later in December | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
2012, Warwickshire County Council were fined 30,000 pounds after | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
admitted breaking Health and Safety guidelines. Today the report by the | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
Fire Brigades Union says the deaths were caused by a "catalogue of | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
organisational systemic failings". Joan Cummins reports. | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
It was one of the worst nights in British firefighting history. Four | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Warwickshire firefighters lost their lives whilst trying to tackle a | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
blaze in a vegetable warehouse in Atherstone on Stour. The cause of | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
the fire has been established as arson although no`one has been | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
charged. Today's Fire Brigade Union report summarises the events and | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
actions that lead to the deaths. The SPU report claims the deaths on | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
systemic organisational failures, but the service say that was seven | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
years ago and lessons have been learnt. Andy Hickmott is the current | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
chief fire officer of Warwickshire. He maintains that the FBU | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
investigation is almost a historical snapshot. I don't think there is a | :02:40. | :02:49. | |
single recommendation in the report that hasn't already been dealt with | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
very, very thoroughly by the service. My focus is on the service | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
today and tomorrow, we will never forget our four colleagues who gave | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
their lives that night, but it's a report that deals with things that | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
have since been discharged and my focus is on the Fire Service today | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
and tomorrow. The deaths of Ian Reid, Ashley Stephens, John Averis | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
and Darren Yates`Badley devastated those they left behind. The families | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
have been central in demanding to know exactly what happened in | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
November 2007. Despite the passing years, multi`million pound | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
investigations and legal processes, the families still believe there are | :03:28. | :03:39. | |
unanswered questions. What we would like is a public enquiry, to get | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
down to the nitty`gritty of exactly what happened and why it happened. | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
Nothing is going to bring Ian and the crew back, but I think that on | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
this week the truth about what happened and we can have a culture | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
of open and honesty within the UK Fire Brigade, might daughter will | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
never be able to get over this. It doesn't help me, I knew the answers | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
for my son, exactly how is steady and his colleagues died in that | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
fire. `` his daddy. Changes and improvements have been made to the | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
Fire Service in recent years, which families hope means no other | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
firefighters will lose their lives. Coming up later in the programme: | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
Sacked after accidently shooting a pupil during a science experiment ` | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
thousands sign up to a campaign to get the teacher reinstated. | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
A man who stabbed a police officer and two worshippers at a Birmingham | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
mosque will be sent indefinitely to a secure mental hospital. Mohamoud | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
Elmi was charged with two counts of attempted murder and one of | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
wounding, but a jury at Birmingham Crown Court today found him not | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
guilty on the grounds of insanity. Tonight, questions are being asked | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
about the mental health services in Birmingham, who had treated the | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
psychotic man months earlier. Our Special correspondent, Peter Wilson | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
reports. The moment of frenzy and fear as a | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
knife wielding maniac attacks people praying in a Birmingham mosque. It | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
was June last year. PC Adam Koch tasered the man and arrested him | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
despite several stab wounds to his chest. I have been told it has gone | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
through numerous layers and muscle, it is only when I return to work | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
that I have been told how close call it was, how lucky I am to have | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
survived. That was quite hard to hear as I wasn't aware of that at | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
the time. Two doctors praying at the mosque came to his aid probably | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
saving his life. His stab proof vest also did the job it was advertised | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
to do. I have got no doubts that it saved my life. One of the wounds | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
when three quarters of the way through it, that was over my spine, | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
had I not been wearing it, I probably wouldn't be walking. This | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
man, Mohamoud Elmi, was today judged to be insane ` he'd also attacked | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
two men praying inside the mosque. This was a terrible incident where | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
people were stabbed, but it would everybody together in a crisis | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
situation. They were members of the public helping out, trying to help | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
restrain the knifeman, giving first aid to each other. Elmi, a paranoid | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
schizophrenic, had been identified as psychotic in October 2012. He | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
later declined treatment and disappeared into the community. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Today the Birmingham Solihull Mental health trust admitted that | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
there were lessons to be learned. Greater involvement and input from | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
families and their GP before and after patient discharge. This was a | :06:51. | :07:04. | |
special verdict, not guilty due to insanity. The defendant will be | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
sentenced tomorrow. But the court accepts that he will continue to | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
pose a risk, not only to himself but also to the public. And therefore, | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
he will be detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act. | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
Four men have appeared in court in St Lucia charged with the murder of | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
a Warwickshire man. 62`year`old Roger Pratt from Moreton Paddox near | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
Stratford`upon`Avon, was attacked and killed. He was protecting his | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
wife Margaret on their yacht which was anchored just south of the | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
island. The four men have been remanded in custody until April the | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
11th when they will attend a hearing at the island's High Court. | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
Ironbridge power station had to be shut down after a fire broke out in | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
the early hours of this morning. Around 50 firefighters were called | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
to the site to tackle the blaze in the turbine room. E`on, who own the | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
station, say they'll be conducting a full investigation. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
West Midlands Police will be recruiting 450 new constables over | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
the next two years from April. Potential applicants will be able to | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
begin registering their interest by logging on to the force's website | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
from next Monday. It ends a recruitment freeze, which has been | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
in place for five years. The government is being accused of | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
"complacency" over last month's disturbance at Oakwood prison near | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
Wolverhampton. Labour say ministers are down`playing the seriousness of | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
what happened at the privately`run jail, which has been described as a | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
'full`scale riot'. But the Justice Minister, Jeremy Wright, is | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
insisting what happened was NOT a riot. To describe it as a full`scale | :08:38. | :08:46. | |
riot is inaccurate. There were 20 prisoners involved out of a total of | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
1600. The wing is now back in use and the issue was professionally | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
resolved. Goodyear Dunlop has hit back at | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
claims it was offered suitable alternatives to its Birmingham tyre | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
factory. The closure of the site would bring 125 years of tyre making | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
in the city to an end, with the loss of more than 240 jobs. On Midlands | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
Today last night, the Labour MP for Erdington accused the company of | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
turning their backs on alternative sites. An alternative site was | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
identified three miles away at the Aston advanced Manufacturing Park. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
Dunlop said, it's a good site. They have now been offered financial | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
assistance to relocate to that site. They said they would seriously | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
examined doing that but four days ago they said they wanted to walk | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
away from Birmingham. Our reporter Ben Godfrey has been investigating | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
that allegation and he's at the Dunlop factory this evening. What | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
have you discovered? It's clear the flak was flying yesterday, Dunlop | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
motorsport was accused of outrageous behaviour and being less than | :09:57. | :10:05. | |
transparent, which they deny. Sir Albert Bore of Birmingham City | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
Council also suggested alternative sites were put forward to the firm | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
over the past six months ` including promise of a speedy planning | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
process. I went to the advanced manufacturing hub this afternoon and | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
it doesn't look very advanced, it's a large area of grassland, in the | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
shadow of the M6. Dunlop motorsport says it isn't right for development | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
there. To build a new factory in the timescale that we have, having been | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
given 12 months notice last May to exit the site, it's simply not | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
possible to build a factory in that timescale to maintain the continuity | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
of supply we need. What's been the reaction from workers today? | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
Certainly dismay and anger although a lot of people have been expecting | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
it. Union officials have been meeting managers today. We have a | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
consultation process, 241 jobs here are at risk when the site | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
potentially closes in September. As part of that consultation, workers | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
will be asked, are you interested in working in France or Germany? A lot | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
of workers have been reluctant to talk about this very distressing | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
news for them and their families but one did break, this morning. I have | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
seen this place, wall`to`wall tyres, this is what we have got left now. | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
We won't be here much longer. It's just a matter of time. Just a | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
waiting game. Goodyear Dunlop has been frustrated by suggestions that | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
it is shipping West Midlands jobs to Europe without thinking about it. | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
The company is clear and says it continues to employ around 700 | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
people at its office headquarters down the road in Birmingham and also | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
at its tyre plant in Wolverhampton. A number of survivors of | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
Hillsborough say they were threatened by West Midlands Police | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
officers ` who were sent to investigate the stadium disaster. | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
They've told BBC Newsnight that their criticisms of police at the | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
scene weren't properly recorded. 96 Liverpool fans died at Sheffield | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
Wednesday's ground in 1989. It's the first time witnesses have come | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
forward to question the investigation that followed. I was | :12:28. | :12:37. | |
simply told to sign with the directive Sergeant wrote, so I got | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
the courage up to say, I want to read what you have written because | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
you have been away from me the whole time, the other side of the room. He | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
said, you don't need to read it, I have written what you told me. All | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
you need to do is sign this now. West Midlands Police have declined | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
to comment because of ongoing inquiries and the upcoming inquests. | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
This is our top story tonight: "A catalogue of systemic failures' ` a | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
report says the deaths of four Warwickshire firefighters were | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
caused by failings at their rescue service. Your detailed weather | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
forecast to come shortly with Shefali `` also in tonight's | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
programme. From front of house to centre stage ` the musician who made | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
his theatre of dreams a reality. And undiscovered in a rusty tin for | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
almost a century ` the forgotten photo's of World War One | :13:28. | :13:39. | |
battlefields. The Birmingham City part`owner | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
Carson Yeung has stepped down from the club's board. He's also resigned | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
from the board of club's parent company Birmingham International | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
Holdings. But he remains one of the club's largest shareholders. Well | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
our reporter Dan Pallett is at St Andrews now. What impact will this | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
have on the football club? The day`to`day running would be | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
affected. The acting chairman has been in charge for a while. But this | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
is all about Carson Yeung and his money`laundering trial. He denies | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
any wrongdoing but the end of this month we will get the verdict, if he | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
is found guilty, he has now stepped aside from the club, it allows for a | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
smoother transition of power. And tomorrow the parent company are | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
holding an extraordinary general meeting in Hong Kong. What can we | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
expect from that? This is all to do with getting the parent company | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
relisted on the Hong Kong's exchange. Tomorrow, we expect that a | :14:42. | :14:51. | |
debt will be paid because they will give them some shares in the club, | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
and give them some new shares in the parent company. Technically, the | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
club can be sold them, but it's anyone's guess as to what can | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
happen. Yeung has always stated he's not interested in a complete sale of | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
the club. There is indication is that they want to move the operation | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
elsewhere but second`guessing the story is difficult. | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Thousands of people have given their support to a campaign to re`instate | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
a teacher in Wolverhampton who was sacked after accidentally shooting a | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
pupil in the leg during a science experiment. The online petition and | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
Facebook page were started by the pupil himself, who didn't make a | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
formal complaint about the accident. Joanne Writtle has been finding out | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
more. What happened? This is the man at the centre of | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
this. Richard West was a popular physics teacher who set up an | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
experiment to fire a pellet through paper to work out its speed and | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
deceleration. Somehow during the exercise here at the Ofsted | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
"outstanding" St Peter's Collegiate School in Wolverhampton a | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
17`year`old boy was hit in the leg. He wasn't hurt and was quoted in the | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
Express Star newspaper, saying: "You'd do more damage with a safety | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
pin. It was a complete accident and Mr West was really worried and | :16:07. | :16:18. | |
concerned." That pupil started an online petition and Facebook page | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
called Bring Back Westy ` the Legend. Thousands have added their | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
support. A friend of the injured pupil, himself a former student, has | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
given us his verdict on Richard West. One of the best. He is able to | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
engage with students that he teaches, students that he doesn't, | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
he is a great person, full of integrity. He is a great person to | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
know and be around. Many people might find the idea of air rifles in | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
classrooms alarming. But according to a science teacher we spoke to, | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
experiments using air guns are popular. Having an air pistol at | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
demonstrate momentum is common, I do it several times a year. It can be | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
done safely, it illustrates the point which the students remember. | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
One also has to understand that whenever there is a risk, something | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
can go wrong and occasionally it does, what we do is minimise the | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
probability of that. Earlier we asked for your views and we've been | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
inundated: Richard West's disciplinary hearing | :17:18. | :17:45. | |
was a few days ago and the school has told us that: "...as the matter | :17:46. | :17:54. | |
is at an appeal stage it would be inappropriate to comment further." | :17:55. | :18:07. | |
A man from Gloucester has become the first person to run coast to coast | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
across Canada unaided. It was a superhuman challenge requiring | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
extreme determination, strength and a superhero costume. And he has | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
finally done it. I dreamt about it for 11 months, every single day I | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
woke up. I didn't think I could do it. 11 months ago, Jimmy MacDonald | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
dipped his hand in the Atlantic Ocean and vowed to run the | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
equivalent of 200 marathons to get to the other side of Canada and dip | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
his hand in the Civic. Last night, that's exactly what he did. I | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
decided to put on this outfit just for a bit of fun. In the end, the | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
kids just loved it. Everywhere I went, they were giving me a high | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
five, and kids were turning up dressed up as superheroes. I wore it | :19:08. | :19:18. | |
for eight months. It stank like mad! He has been running nonstop since | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
the 9th of March last year. The epic journey has taken him through | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
freezing temperatures and a mugging to Vancouver, the first person to | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
ever manage it without help. But Jamie is no stranger to challenge. A | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
year ago, recycled Thailand back to Gloucester. Then he cycled on the | :19:39. | :19:47. | |
spot. His mission has raised more than ?120,000 for children's | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
charities. Who knows what else is on the horizon? | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
There will be a homecoming parade for Jamie on February 13. If you are | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
in Gloucester, think deserves a good homecoming. | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
Now to a dream come true for a former theatre front of house | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
worker, who longed to be on stage. Matthew Atkins has returned to | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
Birmingham where he watched stars tread the boards at the theatre | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
where he worked. Our Arts Reporter Satnam Rana has been to meet him. | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
A year ago Matthew Atkins was working off stage at the New | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham. Now he's living his dream on stage. In | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
his first professional actor musician role, Matthew's playing Mr | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
Sanders in the UK tour of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. But this | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
stop off at the New Alexandra is extra special. It was a really nice | :20:47. | :20:58. | |
feeling last night, I had this moment where I said, that's with the | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
auditorium looks like from this site. Matthew trained as a composer | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
at the Birmingham Conservatoire before taking on a front of house | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
role at he theatre. But after a year he knew where he wanted to be. When | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
we were checking the auditorium and deceit, they would always be doing | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
their warm up on stage so I was going as close as I could, to sing | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
along with the warm up and pick up some tips. Definitely watching the | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
show has inspired me to want to do this. Coming back to Birmingham is | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
also a chance to catch up with former colleagues. People join us in | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
theatre wanting to move onto stage. Very few ever make it but you do get | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
people that do make it, so it's quite an achievement for others who | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
come along and say, if Matt can make it, it's a chance for someone else. | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
Matthew will always consider Birmingham to be his home ` the | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
place where he trained, a place where he yearned to embark upon his | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
dream ` a dream which he is living. They lay undiscovered in a rusty tin | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
for almost a century, but now a pile of forgotten photographs are | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
revealing new images of the battlefields of the First World War. | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
They were found by the grandson of the soldier who took them ` and | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
they've now been published in a book. Cath Mackie reports. | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
Sometimes devastating, sometimes surprising, but always beautifully | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
framed. The photos by Sergeant Hubert Berry Ottaway reveal life in | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Flanders at the end of the Great War. That's the first one that was | :22:40. | :22:49. | |
discovered. That is a German howitzer, it has been damaged, you | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
see the helm there. They were discovered by Hubert's grandson | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
Peter when he was looking through his attic at his home in Much | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
Dewchurch in Herefordshire. Absolutely fascinating. Each one | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
that we have been able to use tells a story. Hubert Berry Ottaway joined | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
the Royal Engineers in 1901 and was 35 when war broke out. By 1918 some | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
villages near the battlefields, had been razed to the ground. Hubert | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
recorded the carnage after battle on his box brownie camera. Two | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
soldiers, holding a home`made banner, just a pile of rubble. A | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
photographer friend of Peter's Jack Tait helped to restore the images ` | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
around 40 in all ` and collate them in a book. This is the nearest | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
camera we could get to match the one Hubert used. The negatives are | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
surprisingly good. They want to damaged. We found two pictures which | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
were mystifying, Chinese men, fitted out in uniforms and formed the | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
Chinese labour corps. Hubert Ottaway survived the War. He was decorated | :23:59. | :24:08. | |
for bravery. I only remember him as an elderly gentleman, poor eyesight, | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
used to sit in a chair and he refused to talk about the war. Like | :24:13. | :24:20. | |
many of his generation? Absolutely. But Hubert's photos do the talking | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
for him ` a witness to an extraordinary and devastating moment | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
in history. A brighter, drier day for most ` but | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
will it last? That would be wishful thinking, I'm | :24:31. | :24:45. | |
afraid? Ordinarily, I wouldn't give out an term forecast because these | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
things can change but it is doubly worthwhile. We have more wet and | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
windy weather to come, leading to further flooding through the rest of | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
the month. A perfect example of that over the next 24`hour, nasty spell | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
of weather to come, and this is the culprit, a deep area of low pressure | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
heading in from the south`west. Once it's clear, we have another spell of | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
wet weather from the South followed by another ferocious system moving | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
in for the start of the weekend. Let's take a closer look at the | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
first band of rain arriving, it will spread eastwards, some torrential | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
downpours, this will clear away later in the night. A lot of energy | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
packed in this lot, and strong winds as well. We are looking at around 20 | :25:54. | :26:03. | |
millimetres of rain out of the heaviest downpours. Once it is | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
cleared, the skies are still cloudy. Those showers will get going again | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
with another spell of rain. Those showers will form longer spells Tom | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
there is the potential of very heavy out breaks, quite widely. In it all, | :26:23. | :26:32. | |
the benefit of those more the values of nine or 10 Celsius are completely | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
lost. This rain will continue into tomorrow. It won't be until after | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
midnight and receive drier conditions developing. As for the | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
rest of the week, Thursday and Friday are the driest days. | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
Tonight's headlines from the BBC: The boss of BP ` one of Scotland's | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
biggest employers ` raises doubts about independence. Prince Charles | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
meets flood victims in Somerset ` he says it's a tragedy nothing has been | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
done for so long. 'A catalogue of systemic failures' ` a report says | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
the deaths of four Warwickshire firefighters were caused by failings | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
at their rescue service. And held indefinitely in a secure hospital, | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
the knifeman who stabbed mosque`goers and a police officer. | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
That was the Midlands Today. Congratulations to an 11 strong | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
Lottery syndicate of Aston Villa fans who scooped ?1 million. The 11 | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
men are all from Sutton Coldfield. Too bad the transfer window had | :27:39. | :27:39. | |
closed! | :27:40. | :27:41. |