:00:00. > :00:07.on BBC One will be at the earlier-than-usual time of
:00:08. > :00:10.Good Afternoon. A month aftdr the floods began in Worcester,
:00:11. > :00:14.businesses affected say thex need money from grants and hand`outs as
:00:15. > :00:16.soon as possible to help thdm survive. This week, Worcestdrshire
:00:17. > :00:21.County Council announced ?200,0 0 had been made available to help
:00:22. > :00:32.companies who lost trade. Bdn Sidwell reports. The water lay have
:00:33. > :00:37.long gone, but the damage it caused is still very much evident `t this
:00:38. > :00:44.hotel in Worcester. Here thdy had to shut for two and half weeks due to
:00:45. > :00:48.the floods. I cannot give you an exact figure, but it is thotsands
:00:49. > :00:51.and thousands, enough to catse real hardship for me and my business
:00:52. > :00:55.partner. As well as money promised from the Government, the hotel's
:00:56. > :01:01.owners could also now receive up to ?3,000 from Worcestershire County
:01:02. > :01:05.Council. When we get it it will be a great help, but it is a question of,
:01:06. > :01:09.can I survive until that pohnt? We understand that businesses need that
:01:10. > :01:17.help now, to help them deal with the immediate clean`up and recovery
:01:18. > :01:22.effort. But it is not just the businesses. Take this restatrant,
:01:23. > :01:25.because of road closures, they lost more than two thirds of thehr trade
:01:26. > :01:28.over two weeks, even though they were not flooded themselves. These
:01:29. > :01:31.photos taken during the height of the floods show just how bad things
:01:32. > :01:39.were around Detroit's restatrant compared to now. We were hugely
:01:40. > :01:44.affected, we had to lay off a lot of staff. On a busy night we do 18
:01:45. > :01:47.covers. That week, not more than 20. The county council says bushnesses
:01:48. > :01:50.like this, that were affectdd but not actually flooded, could still
:01:51. > :01:54.receive up to ?1,500. But unless some get the money soon, thd fear is
:01:55. > :01:59.they may not still be trading when it eventually arrives.
:02:00. > :02:04.Relatives of some of the 21 people killed in the 1974 Birmingh`m pub
:02:05. > :02:07.bombings have been demonstr`ting outside Downing Street this morning.
:02:08. > :02:11.It's over the so called "amnesty letters". The Government adlitted
:02:12. > :02:14.that as many as 200 former HRA suspects were told they thex
:02:15. > :02:19.wouldn't be prosecuted for past crimes as part of the Northdrn
:02:20. > :02:23.Ireland peace process. Brian Hambleton's sister Maxine dhed in
:02:24. > :02:31.the pub bombings and he says they want her killers to brought to
:02:32. > :02:35.justice. Our only weapon against the
:02:36. > :02:42.authorities is our voice. And we will continue, what ever barriers
:02:43. > :02:45.and doors are put up in front of us, as a campaign, we will have to try
:02:46. > :02:47.and walk through them or delolish them, because I will not give up
:02:48. > :02:52.until I die. A Birmingham dentist who was jailed
:02:53. > :02:56.for seven years for stealing ?1 4 million from the NHS has bedn told
:02:57. > :02:59.she's got to pay most of it back. Joyce Trail from Sutton Coldfield
:03:00. > :03:02.spent the cash on exotic holidays and designer shoes. She madd
:03:03. > :03:06.thousands of false claims for treating patients, many of whom were
:03:07. > :03:09.dead. She was found guilty two years ago.
:03:10. > :03:22.Time for the weather, with Sara Good afternoon. We started off very
:03:23. > :03:26.cloudy this morning, it's took its time to brighten up but we `re
:03:27. > :03:30.starting to see the sunshind now. And it will be a very pleas`nt
:03:31. > :03:38.afternoon, feeling quite mild. The wind will be blustery and southerly.
:03:39. > :03:45.Daytime temperatures of 14 Celsius. And the mild night on the c`rds as
:03:46. > :03:49.well. A minimum temperature of just five Celsius. That's it for now
:03:50. > :03:51.I'll be back at the earlier time of half past four this afternoon, with
:03:52. > :04:13.your tea`time news. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Our weekend forecast
:04:14. > :04:15.did include some sunshine and warmth but was never going to be
:04:16. > :04:20.wall-to-wall across the whole country. We started with a lot of
:04:21. > :04:26.mist and murk and cloud but you can see how, to the south, sunshine has
:04:27. > :04:27.been breaking through. More cloud further north and a weather front