:00:00. > :00:00.so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news
:00:00. > :00:25.teams Hello and welcome to Midlands Today
:00:26. > :00:28.with Mary Rhodes and Nick Owen. The headlines tonight: A moment in
:00:29. > :00:30.history at Birmingham Airport: The world's last passenger DC`10 makes
:00:31. > :00:33.its final flight. And as the longer runway prepares
:00:34. > :00:36.for take`off, we'll be hearing it could help create thousands of jobs.
:00:37. > :00:39.Also tonight: A Birmingham school's under investigation over allegations
:00:40. > :00:40.that non`Muslim staff are being sidelined.
:00:41. > :00:44.Vivid memories from 103`year`old Edna of a Zeppelin as it hovered
:00:45. > :00:49.menacingly over the Black Country at the start of the Great War. Went
:00:50. > :00:52.over it was just very very noisy. Like a grinding noise.
:00:53. > :00:55.No chance they'll get carried away, but it's a victory for the
:00:56. > :00:58.footballers of Tunstall for the first time since 2007.
:00:59. > :01:01.And it seemed almost spring`like today for some parts of the country
:01:02. > :01:05.with some of the highest temperatures so far this year. But
:01:06. > :01:16.will it last? All the details coming up later.
:01:17. > :01:22.Good evening. It was the end of an era as the world's last ever
:01:23. > :01:29.passenger flight of a commercial DC`10 took place at Birmingham
:01:30. > :01:32.Airport today. The DC`10, which has three engines,
:01:33. > :01:35.made its first appearance in Birmingham in a demonstration flight
:01:36. > :01:39.in 1972. Biman Bangladesh Airlines have been operating the plane, but
:01:40. > :01:42.they'll now switch to a Boeing 777 to take advantage of the airport's
:01:43. > :01:49.longer runway when it opens later this year. It's thought that the
:01:50. > :01:53.runway extension could create more than 240,000 jobs across the
:01:54. > :01:56.Midlands. Our business correspondent Peter Plisner is at the airport
:01:57. > :02:10.tonight, so a significant moment for the airport, Peter? Yes, very
:02:11. > :02:14.significant. The DC`10 type of plane has been the work course in the
:02:15. > :02:18.industry for the last few years. Some will be sad to see it go but it
:02:19. > :02:24.is a new time for Birmingham Airport because the plane that took it will
:02:25. > :02:27.be one of the first to use the extended runway that today was still
:02:28. > :02:30.under construction. Construction continuing today `
:02:31. > :02:34.already investment here has meant a new control tower. Next to open ` a
:02:35. > :02:38.new longer runway. From his office, the man in charge of the airport has
:02:39. > :02:46.a bird's`eye view of the work. He maintains that the ?40 million
:02:47. > :02:51.project is long overdue. I think the runway with has held us back for the
:02:52. > :02:56.last 30 years. When the airport was moved here in 1944, they should have
:02:57. > :03:02.extended the runway then. Other airports around about us did that,
:03:03. > :03:08.we did not. This is what you get for ?40 million. It at 450 metres to the
:03:09. > :03:15.existing one. That then becomes 3000 metres long which gives the aircraft
:03:16. > :03:18.taking off from here and extra range of 2000 nautical miles.
:03:19. > :03:22.And that means passengers will be able to fly direct to places like
:03:23. > :03:24.China to the East and the West Coast of America. Good news too for the
:03:25. > :03:27.region's businesses. For this Birmingham firm, which
:03:28. > :03:37.exports machine tools all over the world, being able to fly direct will
:03:38. > :03:41.save both time and money. I've got to engineers in Houston, Texas, they
:03:42. > :03:47.have just returned also from Islamabad. They could benefit. It
:03:48. > :03:50.could mean more regular services, rather than going to London.
:03:51. > :03:55.And according to economists, ultimately that could mean thousands
:03:56. > :04:02.of new jobs across the Midlands. It is estimated that the impact of the
:04:03. > :04:07.extension of this runway could add another 3000 jobs board within the
:04:08. > :04:09.airport footprint but also within the Midlands economy over the next
:04:10. > :04:12.five years. But will airlines want to fly a long
:04:13. > :04:16.distance from Birmingham? Aviation experts say it's an ideal time to
:04:17. > :04:21.persuade them. If people have an excuse to go to London, they will
:04:22. > :04:25.fly to Heathrow and continue to go to the south`east. This gives us a
:04:26. > :04:31.reason for people to travel directly to your and it is up to us to make
:04:32. > :04:34.sure they stay and invest here. Ironically, the first airline to
:04:35. > :04:37.make use of the extended runway is the same one that today retired the
:04:38. > :04:46.DC`10. From June, Biman Bangladesh Airlines will fly direct to Dhaka.
:04:47. > :04:50.Well, we have seen what it looks like outside, let us look at the
:04:51. > :04:56.inside. Very 1980s decoration inside. It was one of the last
:04:57. > :05:01.become for the production line. 350 seats on`board this claim. It is
:05:02. > :05:10.about 25 years old and we believe it has carried four and three quarters
:05:11. > :05:16.passengers `` four and a quarter million passengers in that time.
:05:17. > :05:21.Have you ever flown on a DC`10? Yes, on my very first business trip. They
:05:22. > :05:27.offered me a beer, a Budweiser and I had never heard of it! Will this
:05:28. > :05:32.extended runway make much of a difference to Birmingham Airport? We
:05:33. > :05:39.are a huge manufacturing region. 3 million business trips I made
:05:40. > :05:42.unnecessarily from London airports. 38 billion and exports, the
:05:43. > :05:46.government is trying to travel exports, this is the airline and
:05:47. > :05:51.airport to do it from. The government can certainly help us by
:05:52. > :05:56.making bombing an important regional airport, talking about the portions
:05:57. > :06:01.of this airport and being in May and high`speed rail as well, that is
:06:02. > :06:06.coming, that could give us another economical opportunity. All of the
:06:07. > :06:09.cards are falling in our favour. It was ten years ago that the last
:06:10. > :06:15.Concorde flight took off from Birmingham Airport, ten years on and
:06:16. > :06:24.we have seen the last flight of the DC`10.
:06:25. > :06:27.There's more information about the DC`10 and its final commercial
:06:28. > :06:29.flight on the BBC Birmingham website.
:06:30. > :06:32.And later in the programme: We'll be meeting this former DC`10 air
:06:33. > :06:37.hostess who's now more familiar on the airwaves.
:06:38. > :06:40.A Birmingham school is to be investigated after being accused of
:06:41. > :06:42.sidelining non`Muslim staff and excluding female pupils from some
:06:43. > :06:45.sports. The Department for Education says it's looking into concerns
:06:46. > :06:48.surrounding Park View Academy in Alum Rock. Our reporter Bob
:06:49. > :06:55.Hockenhull is with me now. What exactly is being alleged?
:06:56. > :07:04.These kind of concerns have been raised at other schools in the
:07:05. > :07:07.country, haven't they? Yes, Nick, as you say, the
:07:08. > :07:10.complaints come from a former employee. They claim non`Muslim
:07:11. > :07:13.staff have been discriminated against at the school. It's also
:07:14. > :07:16.alleged the academy has introduced Islamic studies even though it is
:07:17. > :07:19.not a faith`based state school. And concerns have also been raised that
:07:20. > :07:22.female pupils were excluded from after`school tennis lessons because
:07:23. > :07:24.these were taken by a male tutor. So what has the school had to say about
:07:25. > :07:27.this? I spoke to the head teacher, Lindsey
:07:28. > :07:31.Clark, earlier today. She said there had been some faith classes taught
:07:32. > :07:34.after school hours in the past, although they weren't any more. The
:07:35. > :07:37.reason they were set up, she said, was because of general concerns for
:07:38. > :07:40.children's safety when they were attending similar classes in the
:07:41. > :07:50.community. The school's also defended its PE
:07:51. > :07:51.policy on its website. It says, "In common with the majority of
:07:52. > :07:52.secondary schools, PE at Park View secondary schools, PE at Park View
:07:53. > :07:58.is taught in single gender groups and by same gender staff." There
:07:59. > :08:03.have been similar concerns and other parts of the country, is that
:08:04. > :08:07.correct? Yes, the Al`Madinah in Derby has
:08:08. > :08:09.been ordered to close its secondary school following a series of
:08:10. > :08:12.damaging allegations. These have included claims it forced non`Muslim
:08:13. > :08:15.teachers to wear the Islamic headscarf. However, Park View in
:08:16. > :08:18.Alum Rock says it considers itself to be a completely different case.
:08:19. > :08:22.It points out it's been described as being outstanding by Ofsted after it
:08:23. > :08:24.was turned around from being a failing school. With regard to its
:08:25. > :08:27.investigations, the Department for Education says all state schools
:08:28. > :08:30.must comply with equality regulations and firm action will be
:08:31. > :08:32.taken if these requirements aren't met.
:08:33. > :08:36.A school girl was killed and a woman and a young boy critically injured
:08:37. > :08:38.after a car was in an accident with a school coach.
:08:39. > :08:42.The accident happened in Bloxwich early this morning. The woman and
:08:43. > :08:45.the boy, both from the same car, were flown to hospital. Their
:08:46. > :08:48.injuries are tonight described as critical. Residents claim the road
:08:49. > :08:50.has seen a number of previous accidents and a petition has
:08:51. > :08:52.previously been organised demanding speed humps.
:08:53. > :08:56.The Lib Dem MP for Yardley, John Hemming, has told the House of
:08:57. > :08:59.Commons that some parents are facing a six`fold increase in the price of
:09:00. > :09:02.foreign travel during school holidays, compared to during term
:09:03. > :09:07.time. More than 167,000 people have signed a petition calling for a
:09:08. > :09:10."cap" on charges. A team of special police officers
:09:11. > :09:13.are working across the West Midlands to help track down criminals through
:09:14. > :09:16.technology. It's after a murder case in Stoke`on`Trent was solved by
:09:17. > :09:19.analysing text messages. In 2009, Amanda Birks was killed in a fire at
:09:20. > :09:23.her home. Her husband Christopher had sent messages from her phone to
:09:24. > :09:27.make her family and friends think it was an accident. But experts matched
:09:28. > :09:30.his writing style to the texts and determined he'd planned the attack.
:09:31. > :09:35.And you can see more on this on Inside Out West Midlands on BBC One
:09:36. > :09:39.tonight at 7:30pm. These are not crossword puzzles that
:09:40. > :09:42.we are dealing with, there will be devastated families behind a lot of
:09:43. > :09:51.these cases and you must be aware of that, that these are human stories.
:09:52. > :10:00.And you can see more on this on Inside Out West Midlands on BBC One
:10:01. > :10:03.tonight at 7:30pm. As part of our First World War
:10:04. > :10:07.commemorations, the BBC have teamed up with the Imperial War Museum to
:10:08. > :10:11.tell the story of the war at home. With the last Tommy now gone, our
:10:12. > :10:14.only link with the First World War is through the people who were
:10:15. > :10:17.children at the time. Edna Smith's first memory, back in 1916, is more
:10:18. > :10:21.powerful than most. She's been talking to our reporter Cath Mackie.
:10:22. > :10:24.Edna Smith is 103 and can remember the day the Great War came to
:10:25. > :10:31.Walsall. 31st January 1916 ` the night of the Zeppelin raid. We saw
:10:32. > :10:38.it in the sky, my mother and myself. As it went over, it was just very
:10:39. > :10:48.noisy, like a grinding noise. It must have appeared enormous. Yes, it
:10:49. > :10:54.did. It filled the sky completely. We did not know where it had gone
:10:55. > :10:56.to, but we didn't learn about it the next day that it had bombed the
:10:57. > :10:59.church. The Wednesbury Road Congregational
:11:00. > :11:09.Church was hit. A passer`by, Thomas Merrylees, was killed. He was a
:11:10. > :11:13.28`year`old template maker. I am sure that he started to hurry back
:11:14. > :11:17.that day, he would have been running and he was in the wrong place at the
:11:18. > :11:24.wrong time. The entire roof was damaged. They had the table and on
:11:25. > :11:33.that they had quite a few books that they were selling. Also a Babel. And
:11:34. > :11:39.my mother bought the Babel for me. It took off across the Channel and
:11:40. > :11:43.it was to come and lined `` inland for the first time. Two of them
:11:44. > :11:46.ended up in the Midlands. A number of people were killed as
:11:47. > :11:49.the bombs were dropped across the Black Country. The congregational
:11:50. > :11:53.church was near a railway line which may have been a target. But bombing
:11:54. > :11:58.equipment was rudimentary, it was mainly done by eye. Pilot Chris
:11:59. > :12:10.Gills followed for us the route the Zeppelins would have taken. We are
:12:11. > :12:12.just heading towards Walsall, it is a possibility that they thought this
:12:13. > :12:16.was Liverpool and made a mistake. Remarkably, the casing of one of the
:12:17. > :12:19.bombs survived. It's held in storage by Walsall Museum.
:12:20. > :12:23.This is the head of the bomb and it's really heavy. It would have
:12:24. > :12:29.been attached like that. This German incendiary bomb is very rare. It's
:12:30. > :12:32.the only one of its kind that we know of in any British museum.
:12:33. > :12:35.A fragment of leaded light was also saved from the church. As was a
:12:36. > :12:39.stained`glass window which was fitted into a new church built on
:12:40. > :12:46.the site which survived into the 1970s. That church was demolished
:12:47. > :12:50.and we decided that he ought to bring something with us. As this was
:12:51. > :12:55.going to be built as a church and the community centre, we thought it
:12:56. > :12:56.would be appropriate to bring the window and put a good Samaritan on
:12:57. > :13:00.it. But for Edna the story didn't end
:13:01. > :13:03.there. As a teenager she contracted diphtheria and to prevent the
:13:04. > :13:06.infection spreading, her belongings ` including the books in her bedroom
:13:07. > :13:11.` were destroyed. One of them was the Bible from the bombed`out
:13:12. > :13:20.church. My mother was so upset that we had to destroy it. She told my
:13:21. > :13:27.grandmother and my grandmother gave me a new Babel. `` Babel.
:13:28. > :13:29.And there's an opera due to be staged later this year in
:13:30. > :13:35.Wolverhampton, called Zeppelin Dreams. They're rehearsing this
:13:36. > :13:46.evening and Cath Mackie is with them. Tell us more, Cath.
:13:47. > :13:50.They are being incredibly quiet at the moment because we are in a small
:13:51. > :13:55.rehearsal room but we will hear from them in a few moments' time. 200
:13:56. > :14:00.local people volunteered to be part of this opera and this man can tell
:14:01. > :14:07.me more. You are directing this project, tell me about it. We wanted
:14:08. > :14:11.to create something spectacular and wonderful and thinking about the
:14:12. > :14:17.timing of this, suddenly it came about that we wanted to do something
:14:18. > :14:20.to commemorate the anniversary of the First World War and be
:14:21. > :14:25.discovered this extraordinary story that not many people know about, the
:14:26. > :14:30.Zeppelin raid that happened although she was ago. It has all the operatic
:14:31. > :14:37.weekly games that you could want for a show. `` operatic ingredients. 100
:14:38. > :14:41.of those volunteers are schoolchildren, Hannah, you are one
:14:42. > :14:45.of them. What an experience. That is right, it is really nice to do
:14:46. > :14:51.something different, I am enjoying it. The best of luck to you all. You
:14:52. > :14:55.can see Zeppelin Dreams at the grand Theatre in Wolverhampton next month.
:14:56. > :14:57.Go on their website and check the dates. We will let these performers
:14:58. > :15:17.sing us out. Our top story tonight: A moment in
:15:18. > :15:20.history at Birmingham Airport ` the world's last passenger DC`10 makes
:15:21. > :15:23.its final flight. Shefali will be here later with your detailed
:15:24. > :15:34.weather forecast. Also ahead: The scene of a remarkable footballing
:15:35. > :15:38.victory...7 years in the making! Ian's here with tonight's sport. And
:15:39. > :15:41.these are anxious times if you support Villa, Albion or Stoke?
:15:42. > :15:45.Yes, it was a winless weekend for all three. Two defeats and a draw,
:15:46. > :15:48.and relegation is far too close for comfort! A most frustrating result `
:15:49. > :15:54.Aston Villa's last`minute defeat at Newcastle. A defensive calamity
:15:55. > :15:57.proved costly. Villa remain on 28 points, the same as Norwich who come
:15:58. > :16:00.to Villa Park on Sunday. The most predictable result was
:16:01. > :16:05.Stoke's 1`0 defeat at Manchester City. Yaya Toure got the winner 20
:16:06. > :16:09.minutes from time. Stoke have 27 points. They're at home to Arsenal
:16:10. > :16:13.on Saturday. The most infuriating result was
:16:14. > :16:17.Albion's 1`1 draw against Fulham. Matej Vydra's late equaliser leaves
:16:18. > :16:24.them on 25 points. Their next game is against Man United, a week on
:16:25. > :16:27.Saturday. At least, there was good news
:16:28. > :16:28.elsewhere, not least for Shrewsbury Town's new boss Mike Jackson.
:16:29. > :16:30.Saturday. At least, there was good news A
:16:31. > :16:34.winning start to his new career. 29 English clubs have changed managers
:16:35. > :16:38.this season. And not many survive in the job longer than two years. Nick
:16:39. > :16:41.Clitheroe reports. There was a look of steely
:16:42. > :16:44.determination on the face of the Wolves manager Kenny Jackett as he
:16:45. > :16:47.stepped off the team bus at Brentford on Saturday. First against
:16:48. > :16:56.third in League One ` it wouldn't decide promotion, but the winners
:16:57. > :17:00.would strike a psychological blow. And it was Wolves who proved the
:17:01. > :17:03.masters. James Henry put them in front before Michael Jacobs rammed
:17:04. > :17:06.home their domination with two late goals. This sixth straight win moves
:17:07. > :17:06.them level on points at the top of the division.
:17:07. > :17:12.goals. There is a point between the clubs,
:17:13. > :17:15.Leyton Orient and ourselves and Brentford and Preston North End are
:17:16. > :17:19.only seven points behind us with a game in hand. It is a fantastic pace
:17:20. > :17:23.that is being set at the top of the league. It is very competitive.
:17:24. > :17:27.It had been a tough week for Birmingham City boss Lee Clark.
:17:28. > :17:31.Highly critical of his team last Saturday, he then parted ways with
:17:32. > :17:34.two of his backroom staff. So when Blackpool went in front it
:17:35. > :17:36.threatened to be another gloomy Saturday night in the Clark
:17:37. > :17:40.household. But Lee Novak scored twice as the Blues fought back for a
:17:41. > :17:40.win that could be critical for Championship survival.
:17:41. > :17:42.household. But Lee Novak scored twice as the Absolutely delighted
:17:43. > :17:45.with the response from my players. Especially when you go down a goal
:17:46. > :17:48.and you are way from home. The insured great courage.
:17:49. > :17:50.The newest manager in the Football League is Mike Jackson at
:17:51. > :17:51.Shrewsbury. insured great courage.
:17:52. > :17:55.The newest manager He was only given the job full`time on Friday and is
:17:56. > :17:59.only guaranteed it until the end of the season. But he celebrated with a
:18:00. > :18:00.win on Saturday at Notts County that moves them to within three points of
:18:01. > :18:03.safety. moves them to
:18:04. > :18:03.At the other end of the scale is Mark Yates.
:18:04. > :18:05.moves them to At the other end of the scale Five
:18:06. > :18:08.seasons in charge at Cheltenham make him the third longest`serving
:18:09. > :18:10.manager in English football and he won again at Newport County on
:18:11. > :18:11.Saturday. Nick Clitheroe, BBC Midlands Today.
:18:12. > :18:14.manager in English If it's true that "you only sing
:18:15. > :18:18.when you're winning" then Tunstall Town haven't heard that catchy
:18:19. > :18:20.little tune for more than six and a half years.
:18:21. > :18:23.But after 171 games without a victory in the Staffordshire County
:18:24. > :18:31.League, a football miracle happened on Saturday. And 12 fans were there
:18:32. > :18:36.to see it, as Ben Sidwell reports. 2007. The year Rihanna dominated the
:18:37. > :18:41.charts, Gordon Brown stepped into Tony Blair's shoes and the bank
:18:42. > :18:45.Northern Rock collapsed. In Stoke`on`Trent, little did one club
:18:46. > :18:55.know, it would also be the year that the most unwelcome run in football
:18:56. > :19:02.began. On the 29th of September, 2007,
:19:03. > :19:09.Tunstall Town one that day. But it then took them several years to get
:19:10. > :19:16.another victory. That is over 3 million minutes between victories.
:19:17. > :19:20.For me it was better than winning the World Cup. Better than winning
:19:21. > :19:26.the Champions League, Premier League or FA Cup all rolled into one. The
:19:27. > :19:29.euphoria you get from such a victory as fantastic, but when you have to
:19:30. > :19:31.make six and a half years, it becomes legendary.
:19:32. > :19:36.When Tunstall Town last won a league game, Adam Rose wasn't even a
:19:37. > :19:41.teenager. On Saturday, the 17`year`old scored the winner and
:19:42. > :19:45.re`wrote the club's history books. Winning the game after a gap of six
:19:46. > :19:46.and a half years, it is very special.
:19:47. > :19:49.After delivering the victory, Tunstall's manager was back at his
:19:50. > :19:58.day job, still reliving that magical moment. The referee found eight
:19:59. > :20:00.minutes of injury time, I was on edge, the longest eight minutes of
:20:01. > :20:03.my life. And now they've got the winning
:20:04. > :20:11.feeling, their next opponents Longton better watch out.
:20:12. > :20:14.Well done Tunstall Town. Could they really make it two`in`a`row on
:20:15. > :20:26.Saturday? Excitement is mounting in the Staffordshire County Senior
:20:27. > :20:29.League Division Two, Nick. The final passenger flight of the
:20:30. > :20:33.DC`10 above the skies of Birmingham was a moment in history that many
:20:34. > :20:41.aviation enthusiasts didn't want to miss. Our reporter Ben Godfrey has
:20:42. > :20:47.spent day with one fan of the DC`10. As a boy, Gordon stretch lived under
:20:48. > :20:51.the flight path of Birmingham Airport and became a plain
:20:52. > :21:03.photographer. Lovely spray, look at that. Reverse thrust deployed. A
:21:04. > :21:08.historic Douglas DC`10 operated by Biman Bangladesh Airlines lands at
:21:09. > :21:13.Birmingham ahead of its final flight. The next generation aircraft
:21:14. > :21:20.are so quiet you can hardly hear them take off. And the early 1970s,
:21:21. > :21:24.the DC`10 revolutionised air travel. The era of no thrills flying began
:21:25. > :21:30.with this workhorse of disguise. It's wider body enabled the first UK
:21:31. > :21:39.budget flights operated by the budget airline. It gives me a
:21:40. > :21:44.competitive way of dealing with mine arch rivals. This is the last ever
:21:45. > :21:49.DC`10 passenger flight. It is going on a scenic tour with 216 people on
:21:50. > :22:00.board. It is headed to Scotland and back to Birmingham.
:22:01. > :22:05.The DC`10 has its admirers but for a time had a catastrophic safety
:22:06. > :22:09.record. In 1974 a Turkish airlines jet crash near Paris killing all 345
:22:10. > :22:15.people on board, many of them British. The plane has been retired
:22:16. > :22:21.because of its age. Today's trip was a required taste for the passengers,
:22:22. > :22:26.just like the decor! They were 24,000 feet in the air. What they
:22:27. > :22:34.make of this flight? The power of the take`off was fantastic. It is a
:22:35. > :22:40.great aircraft, great take`off, super flight. Earlier there was a
:22:41. > :22:46.clamour for merchandise, T`shirts, model planes and, yes, even a sick
:22:47. > :22:50.bag, yours for ?1. One hour later, we were back on the ground, the
:22:51. > :22:55.DC`10 was greeted by a celebratory water cannon. This plane is destined
:22:56. > :23:01.not for a museum, but for Bangladesh, where it will be broken
:23:02. > :23:09.up, sold to the highest bidder. Ben Godfrey, BBC Midlands Today,
:23:10. > :23:13.Birmingham Airport. Joining us now from the airport is
:23:14. > :23:15.someone who worked as an air hostess on DC`10s before moving into
:23:16. > :23:19.broadcasting. She made her name nationally on Radio 1 and on Top of
:23:20. > :23:27.the Pops and currently has a show on EBC Radio 2, good evening, Janice
:23:28. > :23:32.Long. Great to talk to you. It was absolutely fantastic, I joined in
:23:33. > :23:36.1974, I was 18 years old but I had never been abroad, so was very
:23:37. > :23:41.excited to learn about this fabulous plane. This spot was very important
:23:42. > :23:45.for me because this is where I used to put the movie on. Before all of
:23:46. > :23:53.that, you would stand here, help the passengers, all of that, get them
:23:54. > :23:59.settled and after take`off, we would set up all of the stuff here. Here
:24:00. > :24:02.are the ovens, we used to get the temperatures, ready to cook all of
:24:03. > :24:09.the meals. All of the other bits and pieces, glasses and cutlery would be
:24:10. > :24:12.in here. We would start of the fight with aid rings service and I would
:24:13. > :24:21.pull that the trolley and we'll get there in the cabin. Ask people what
:24:22. > :24:28.they want. We have got a great picture of it. We just have a
:24:29. > :24:33.picture of you win back several years! I am still as smart and
:24:34. > :24:38.demure! It was a wonderful experience. Incredibly hard work,
:24:39. > :24:43.you were on your feet for most of the time. You cannot please the
:24:44. > :24:47.public all of the time and they would be cutting their fingers or
:24:48. > :24:50.asking me to fashion stuff out of a sick bag! Thank you for talking to
:24:51. > :25:05.us, Janet. It hasn't been a bad day at all,
:25:06. > :25:14.once the rain cleared away, it opened up quite nicely. A definite
:25:15. > :25:20.hint of spring in the air. Highs of 12 Celsius and the likes of
:25:21. > :25:25.Staffordshire. The Southeast had even one at 14 Celsius. That is
:25:26. > :25:29.generally how the week is looking, much more milder weather to come.
:25:30. > :25:34.The winds will also pick up and take a shine off of the temperatures. It
:25:35. > :25:38.will also be much more unsettled. There will be a mixture of rain and
:25:39. > :25:43.showers, but nothing like the extent we have seen recently. It is looking
:25:44. > :25:49.busy, nonetheless, especially on the pressure chart. You can see those
:25:50. > :25:53.isobars tightening up. That is going to replicate during the week from
:25:54. > :25:57.time to time, bringing in that quick succession of rain. At this stage
:25:58. > :26:01.the only dry the looks to be Wednesday. But back to this evening
:26:02. > :26:07.and overnight and we saw this morning's rain cleared out of the
:26:08. > :26:10.way, a few showers about. Next we have this other band of rain pushing
:26:11. > :26:16.and quick quickly from the West. There will be an narrowband with
:26:17. > :26:20.heavy bursts. It is moving quite quickly so it will be out of the way
:26:21. > :26:25.by the early hours. Much clearer skies taking temperatures down to a
:26:26. > :26:28.minimum of five or six Celsius. Through to make those winds will
:26:29. > :26:32.pack up and we are looking at blustery and squally showers
:26:33. > :26:38.developing tomorrow. They could be heavy at times but we are looking at
:26:39. > :26:41.gusts of up to 50 mph over the exposed areas, particularly to the
:26:42. > :26:46.North and across the hills. Some brightness in between but generally
:26:47. > :26:51.quite a cloudy day. Temperature still quite mild at ten or 11
:26:52. > :26:56.Celsius. A cold night tomorrow night. The showers will dig out but
:26:57. > :26:58.this will prepare us for some sunshine and decent dry spells on
:26:59. > :27:04.Wednesday. The headlines: Trapped by the war in
:27:05. > :27:10.Syria, more than 20,000 people with no help, food or be out.
:27:11. > :27:13.Birmingham Airport, the world was my last passenger DC`10 makes its last
:27:14. > :27:20.flight. Goodbye.