:00:00. > :00:07.Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: Joshta
:00:08. > :00:09.Ribera's killer found guiltx of murder.
:00:10. > :00:12.Armani Mitchell's jailed for 18 years for stabbing the rap `rtist
:00:13. > :00:17.The judge said knives were 'cripplingly dangerous" for young
:00:18. > :00:21.people to carry. There is no justice but to dashboard Joshua bec`use he
:00:22. > :00:26.was too special and amazing. He could have a hundred years hn prison
:00:27. > :00:28.and it still wouldn't be justice. The judge shares knives werd
:00:29. > :00:34.cripplingly dangerous the pdople to carry. Also tonight: After they were
:00:35. > :00:37.all failed, a last chance for Birmingham's inadequate children's
:00:38. > :00:40.services to get it right. Wd have been too short`term in our thinking
:00:41. > :00:46.and always reacted in crisis mode, to every dead, `` every crisis,
:00:47. > :00:48.every bad report. No longer facing privatisation, George Elliot
:00:49. > :00:51.hospital in Nuneaton will stay under NHS control, although it's still in
:00:52. > :00:54.special measures. Two years after collapsing on the pitch with heart
:00:55. > :01:00.failure, Fabrice Muamba inspires the next generation of footballdrs. And
:01:01. > :01:02.join me later when I'll be telling you about the sweeping changes
:01:03. > :01:04.taking place this weekend that'll drag us out of the doldrums putting
:01:05. > :01:20.us back on track for Spring. Good evening. A teenager with a
:01:21. > :01:26.bright future, a rising star in rap music and a much loved son. Joshua
:01:27. > :01:29.Ribera was also a victim of knife crime, killed after 30 seconds of
:01:30. > :01:40.mindless violence. His murddrer has been jailed today for 18 ye`rs. The
:01:41. > :01:42.judge said he'd dealt with too many similar cases, and knives "were
:01:43. > :01:44.cripplingly dangerous" for xoung people to carry. Here's our special
:01:45. > :01:48.correspondent Peter Wilson. Tensions spilled over into `rrests
:01:49. > :01:52.at this murder trial. The vhctim Joshua Ribera was a rising lusic
:01:53. > :01:59.star his fans angered and dhstraught at his violent death. Today there
:02:00. > :02:03.was uproar in the public gallery as the guilty verdict was read out
:02:04. > :02:11.Joshua Ribera's mother is still in shock at the death of her only son.
:02:12. > :02:18.What is the message you want to send out? Don't go around hurting people
:02:19. > :02:23.for no reason and not expect consequences. And today, Joshua is
:02:24. > :02:28.not here, so no justice has been served but it was the right verdict.
:02:29. > :02:32.He is now in the right placd, somebody capable of killing someone.
:02:33. > :02:35.I'm happy about that. This hs the killer. 18`year`old Armani Litchell
:02:36. > :02:38.jailed today for 18 years. Both he and Joshua Ribera had attended a
:02:39. > :02:41.party last September at TC's nightclub.
:02:42. > :02:52.This was the moment that Mitchell saw Joshua Ribera with his
:02:53. > :02:58.ex`girlfriend. A fight brokd out and Mitchell left to get a knifd. The
:02:59. > :03:03.attack actually took place outside here. Armani Mitchell wieldhng the
:03:04. > :03:09.knife used a punch like movdment to drive it deep into Joshua Rhbera's
:03:10. > :03:15.heart. He was rushed to hospital and more than 20 medical staff fought to
:03:16. > :03:19.try and save his life. It is said to me that this was huge, big problem.
:03:20. > :03:24.They said he had had a huge amount of blood which, again, just
:03:25. > :03:31.reconfirms my fear. I was throwing up. I was sick, in shock. I fainted
:03:32. > :03:38.a couple of times. And then the nurse said to me, he has gone into
:03:39. > :03:44.cardiac arrest on the bed. He's not in surgery and we need to pdrform
:03:45. > :03:49.urban hard surgery. `` open`heart surgery. And then I felt solething I
:03:50. > :03:53.cannot explain, and I knew he had died. Tragically, the party had been
:03:54. > :03:57.in memory of Joshua Ribera's teenage friend Kyle Sheehan who was stabbed
:03:58. > :04:01.to death the year before. Today Alison Cope was angry at thd lack of
:04:02. > :04:09.what she sees as real action by the police and crime commissiondr to
:04:10. > :04:13.tackle knife crime. An absolute waste of time. I asked to bd
:04:14. > :04:15.involved, asked to support ht and help them, and they chose to run
:04:16. > :04:19.with what they thought lookdd good for them and I've been left thinking
:04:20. > :04:23.what a waste of time and money. The police say they are doing a lot
:04:24. > :04:26.behind the scenes to tackle knife crime but in the last month, two
:04:27. > :04:35.young men have been sentencdd for fatally stabbing teenagers. Two
:04:36. > :04:40.young men serving life sentdnces and two young men dead as a restlt of
:04:41. > :04:42.nice crime. It's a needless loss, the message to young people is,
:04:43. > :04:50.don't carry knives `` knife crime. Joshua Ribera's future promhsed
:04:51. > :04:53.fame, fortune and fans he r`pped about finding a better path away
:04:54. > :04:58.from mean streets and hopeldss dead end attitudes.
:04:59. > :05:01.But the teenage fashion for carrying and using knives ended another
:05:02. > :05:16.bright young life. People power. How protestors won the
:05:17. > :05:23.fight to save their city centre pool. A big smile on our faces to
:05:24. > :05:27.know that we have got this swimming pool and we have saved it. @n
:05:28. > :05:29.Independent Commissioner is being brought in to try to bring
:05:30. > :05:33.Birmingham's inadequate children's services up to scratch. It follows
:05:34. > :05:36.mistakes in cases including two`year`old Keanu Williams, beaten
:05:37. > :05:38.to death by his mother. The commissioner will decide within one
:05:39. > :05:48.month whether senior staffing is adequate. He'll give his first
:05:49. > :05:52.progress report to the Educ`tion secretary at the end of Jund. If the
:05:53. > :05:55.department hasn't been turndd around by March 2015, it could be taken
:05:56. > :06:01.over. Bob Hockenhull has thhs report. The faces of the chhldren
:06:02. > :06:04.failed by Birmingham Social Services. Seven`year`old Khxra
:06:05. > :06:06.Ishaq, who died after months of abuse by her mother and her mother's
:06:07. > :06:11.ex partner. Two`year`old Keanu Williams, who was
:06:12. > :06:16.kicked or punched in the stomach with such force that it killed him.
:06:17. > :06:20.His mother Rebecca Shuttleworth is serving a life sentence for murder.
:06:21. > :06:26.Such cases led to Birminghal's childrens services being rated as
:06:27. > :06:31.inadequate for the last fivd years. It's a description 18`year`old Chloe
:06:32. > :06:33.Jordan agrees with. Since ldaving a children's home she's been `ssigned
:06:34. > :06:42.a social worker but feels she doesn't have enough contact with
:06:43. > :06:45.her. When I text her, she would not answer her messages, and thdn it
:06:46. > :06:49.took someone else to phone her to say that we need to speak to you,
:06:50. > :06:56.for her to phone me. Whenevdr I phone her, she won't messagd her. If
:06:57. > :07:00.they had a lot more staff and closer contact with the child, it would be
:07:01. > :07:02.easier. Turning things around is the purpose of today's Government
:07:03. > :07:10.commissioned report by Profdssor Julian Legrand. What the report
:07:11. > :07:13.looked at was the whole history of failure in the way that nobody has
:07:14. > :07:17.picked in the past. One of the things he says clearly is that in
:07:18. > :07:21.the past we have been to short`term in thinking. We have reacted almost
:07:22. > :07:27.in crisis mode to every death or bad report, every crisis. And wd have
:07:28. > :07:30.not had a long`term plan and stuck with it. The report does not say the
:07:31. > :07:35.council should lose control of children's services altogether. But
:07:36. > :07:38.an independent commissioner, former health minister and labour peer Lord
:07:39. > :07:41.Warner, has been appointed to oversee improvements and tackle the
:07:42. > :07:49.problem of a shortage of social workers. This is a highly ddmanding
:07:50. > :07:53.job which intrudes on your personal life. If you have to take a child
:07:54. > :07:57.into care, late in the afternoon, our social workers are out to
:07:58. > :08:03.whatever time it takes and that can be very demanding and intrudes on
:08:04. > :08:05.your private life. And the government says retaining skilled
:08:06. > :08:17.social workers is a challenge not just the Birmingham, but thd UK as a
:08:18. > :08:20.whole. Lord Warner, a former Labour Health minister, has been appointed
:08:21. > :08:23.as the Independent Commissioner I spoke to him a short while `go and
:08:24. > :08:27.asked him what changes he'd be looking to make. I don't cole with a
:08:28. > :08:29.magic wand or a bag of gold, but I come with six years of runnhng a
:08:30. > :08:32.social services department bigger than Birmingham and the authority
:08:33. > :08:37.vested in me by the Secretary of State, and what I would be looking
:08:38. > :08:42.for is the council to come tp with a credible plan, now, quickly which
:08:43. > :08:49.shows the whole council, not the children's department, taking
:08:50. > :08:54.responsibility for improving a totally unacceptable situathon. You
:08:55. > :08:57.have a year to turn the dep`rtment around and you said you want to
:08:58. > :09:02.identify problems quickly. Does a year seem about right? If wd haven't
:09:03. > :09:06.made a change in a year the children of Birmingham are in serious
:09:07. > :09:09.trouble. What we need to do now is work together, find the taldnt in
:09:10. > :09:15.the departments, help that talent flourish, and make sure that there
:09:16. > :09:18.is corporate ownership. You can never solve the problems of a social
:09:19. > :09:22.services department just by concentrating on that department.
:09:23. > :09:27.The whole council has to put its shoulder to the wheel. The report
:09:28. > :09:31.also states there's a continuing shortage of people to do thd tough
:09:32. > :09:36.work needed ` how do you address that? Child protection work is very
:09:37. > :09:42.tough. It's very difficult. It's very demanding. But it's also very
:09:43. > :09:47.rewarding. You do have to look at whether the pay is reasonable and
:09:48. > :09:50.what the recruitment practices are. It's not rocket science. Thhs is not
:09:51. > :09:55.putting a man on the moon. Ht is possible to addressed these kind of
:09:56. > :10:00.issues quickly `` address them. Will you come back and tell it how you
:10:01. > :10:03.are getting on? I certainly will, and much more pertinently I will
:10:04. > :10:08.tell the secretary of state how we are getting on. We really nded to
:10:09. > :10:11.make some change. And we must not accept that Birmingham's chhldren's
:10:12. > :10:13.services should be inadequate for a fifth year running. Lord Warner
:10:14. > :10:19.thank you. Plans to privatise the George Eliot
:10:20. > :10:23.Hospital in Nuneaton have bden dropped. Last year the contract to
:10:24. > :10:26.run the Trust was put out to tender after the hospital was put hnto
:10:27. > :10:29.'special measures'. Our reporter Joan Cummins is at the hosphtal So
:10:30. > :10:37.Joan, what's brought about this complete change? The hospit`l has
:10:38. > :10:41.been trying to improve and get things right since they werd put
:10:42. > :10:47.into special measures. The hospital serves a community of around 28 ,000
:10:48. > :10:53.people. 2500 babies are born here every year, and 1800 people rely on
:10:54. > :10:57.here for employment. But as you say, they have now decided they `re not
:10:58. > :11:01.going to look for a partner. They are giving up on the process and
:11:02. > :11:07.they are still in special mdasures. Kevin Magee, this is your ddcision
:11:08. > :11:10.to do this, a bit premature? Over the last 18 months we've done a lot
:11:11. > :11:14.of work in terms of improving quality and we've made a decision
:11:15. > :11:19.that we want to focus on th`t work and not be distracted by procurement
:11:20. > :11:23.exercises. The unions on thd local community mounted a campaign to
:11:24. > :11:27.ensure that the hospitals that have stayed in the NHS and were not
:11:28. > :11:32.farmed out, and they say thd whole thing has been a waste of money
:11:33. > :11:37.What you to that? I say that we have worked really hard and we h`ve staff
:11:38. > :11:40.on board `` what do you say to that? We've taken the decision in
:11:41. > :11:44.recognition of the work the staff has done in terms of moving the
:11:45. > :11:48.hospital forward. A patient has grabbed you and said there were good
:11:49. > :11:54.things and bad things. Do you think you got it right? Will you be taken
:11:55. > :11:57.at a special measures? We c`n never be complacent. We know we'vd done
:11:58. > :12:00.good work over the last 18 lonths but there is more to do. I would
:12:01. > :12:06.never be complacent, and we need to continue, day in, day out whth the
:12:07. > :12:09.relentless pursuit of excellence. I am reliably informed by Kevhn that
:12:10. > :12:14.if patient's ear or relativds feel that something is amiss, thdy really
:12:15. > :12:19.do want to hear from you `` that if the patients here. And that care
:12:20. > :12:21.quality inspection is due at the end of April.
:12:22. > :12:25.The former owner of Birmingham City Football Club has filed an `ppeal
:12:26. > :12:29.against his money laundering conviction. Carson Yeung was jailed
:12:30. > :12:32.in Hong Kong earlier this month for six years in connection with the
:12:33. > :12:34.movement of ?55 million between bank accounts. His lawyers have now filed
:12:35. > :12:40.papers at the Court of Appe`l. John Anslow has been jailed for
:12:41. > :12:44.almost 30 years, for supplyhng drugs and escaping from custody. Details
:12:45. > :12:46.of the 33`year`old's sentences have only just been released aftdr he was
:12:47. > :12:54.cleared of murder yesterday. Anslow, who is from the Black
:12:55. > :12:55.Country, was supplying cann`bis and cocaine with a street value in
:12:56. > :13:01.excess of ?1 million. An investigation has found that two
:13:02. > :13:07.West Mercia Police officers shouldn't have tasered a man, who
:13:08. > :13:09.then fell from a roof in Worcester. The Independent Police Complaints
:13:10. > :13:11.Commission said they were gtilty of misconduct and hadn't fully
:13:12. > :13:18.considered the dangers. Campaigners in Wolverhampton are
:13:19. > :13:23.celebrating after plans to close the city's Central Baths to savd money
:13:24. > :13:27.were shelved. It's now been agreed the pool can be kept open, but it'll
:13:28. > :13:29.have to be run more like a business. Joanne Writtle's been to medt one of
:13:30. > :13:37.the campaigners. Jazz Uppal took an extreme leasure.
:13:38. > :13:43.He moved home and his buisiness to be close to Wolverhampton Cdntral
:13:44. > :13:48.Baths. When I was 18 I suffdred a prolapsed disc and I'm now 47 and it
:13:49. > :13:56.is crucial that I keep swimling Myself active. `` just to kdep
:13:57. > :13:59.myself active. It is critic`l to me to be right opposite Central Baths.
:14:00. > :14:02.My house is only a mile awax. Today, he's not swimming alone. But with
:14:03. > :14:08.those who've fought for six months to keep this pool open. A bhg weight
:14:09. > :14:13.lifted off my shoulders. A big smile on our faces on to know that we got
:14:14. > :14:16.this swimming pool and we s`ved it and we can come for a swim. The
:14:17. > :14:20.pool's been saved after the City Council took advice from thd Amateur
:14:21. > :14:24.Swimming Association and others Saving the swimming pool me`ns
:14:25. > :14:28.making it pay, so, for example, there are 1000 children on ` waiting
:14:29. > :14:31.list for swimming lessons. Hnstead of teaching or just 39 weeks a year,
:14:32. > :14:37.the plan is to offer lessons for 50 weeks. More people come and use this
:14:38. > :14:44.facility, and then we get more money, and the less subsidy that we
:14:45. > :14:51.have to give to Central Baths. Will the prices go up? We have not got
:14:52. > :14:54.any plans to put up any prices. Around the country there ard lots of
:14:55. > :14:57.swimming pool is under thre`t and councils are faced with a horrible
:14:58. > :15:01.decision to cut services. Wolverhampton has made a st`nd for
:15:02. > :15:06.the health of the people. For Jazz, relief. He moved here six ydars ago
:15:07. > :15:14.after the pool near his homd in Willenhall closed. I was wondering
:15:15. > :15:18.if this was following us around But we fought and we put up a bhg fight
:15:19. > :15:20.and we have a big smile tod`y because I think we believe we have
:15:21. > :15:27.saved Central Baths. It's 15 minutes to seven, this is
:15:28. > :15:30.our top story tonight: Joshta Ribera's killer found guiltx of
:15:31. > :15:33.murder. Armani Mitchell's j`iled for 18 years for stabbing the r`p artist
:15:34. > :15:36.Your detailed weather forec`st to come shortly with Shefali. @lso in
:15:37. > :15:40.tonight's programme, tackling dementia through sporting mdmories.
:15:41. > :15:46.Former West Bromwich Albion players help veteran fans relive gales.
:15:47. > :15:50.And today's teenagers take on the roles of the boys who went to war
:15:51. > :16:02.from Birmingham a century ago. What happens when your lifetime s
:16:03. > :16:05.dream is taken from you? Th`t's the reality for hundreds of trahnee
:16:06. > :16:13.footballers every year, who strive to make it in the game, but don t.
:16:14. > :16:17.Many of them were in Coventry today where they met a player whose own
:16:18. > :16:23.career was cut short in the most dramatic way. They might have the
:16:24. > :16:28.skills for football, but do they have the skills for life? Today 1000
:16:29. > :16:34.young footballers came to ldarn what happens if the dream dies. Obviously
:16:35. > :16:38.the main dream of these young footballers is to turn profdssional
:16:39. > :16:44.but the statistics are good. Of those signed aged 16, only 05% are
:16:45. > :16:48.on a contract still aged 21. Even if they do make it, careers can be over
:16:49. > :16:52.in a flash. Two years ago, Fabrice Muamba suffered a heart att`ck while
:16:53. > :16:58.playing in an FA Cup tie. Hd survived, but had to retire. The
:16:59. > :17:02.former Birmingham city midfhelder is still only 26 and is retraining as a
:17:03. > :17:07.journalist. He was on hand to give advice. I was living my dre`m, and
:17:08. > :17:11.my dream was taken away frol me because of a health issue. Not
:17:12. > :17:16.because I was a bad player or anything, it was just a health
:17:17. > :17:21.issue. That this allows me to play football. I had to get up and go to
:17:22. > :17:27.a different thing `` this dhsallows to play. Today the youngsters got
:17:28. > :17:31.advice on careers and futurd education. A host of clubs from the
:17:32. > :17:34.Midlands were involved. You get engrossed with the club and you
:17:35. > :17:38.don't see much outside of it, so it's good for people to comd along
:17:39. > :17:42.and talk. To give us a bit of a broader vision of what life is
:17:43. > :17:47.about, maybe, than what is `vailable beyond football. It was org`nised by
:17:48. > :17:51.the football league and the players union. Most of them come into it
:17:52. > :17:55.with their eyes open these days They want to make it in the game but
:17:56. > :18:00.there's a realisation not everybody can. Today is about preparing them
:18:01. > :18:03.for future beyond football. There is no harm in chasing your dre`m, but
:18:04. > :18:06.today showed there is no harm in having a plan B.
:18:07. > :18:12.One in three over 65's will develop dementia. One way of helping those
:18:13. > :18:16.with the condition is to tap into the moments which mean the lost to
:18:17. > :18:19.them ` and that can often bd sport. Former West Bromwich Albion players
:18:20. > :18:21.have been helping to stir up some old memories. The results h`ve been
:18:22. > :18:36.remarkable. Lindsay Doyle rdports. Nice to see you. A footballhng star
:18:37. > :18:39.from the 60's, Stan Jones c`me to share memories with West Bromwich
:18:40. > :18:42.Albion fans struggling with the onset of dementia the brain illness
:18:43. > :18:45.which can take those memorids away. Stan and I were talking last night
:18:46. > :18:52.about football, obviously, because we don't talk about anything else. A
:18:53. > :18:54.therapy group at Edward Strdet Hospital in West Bromwich
:18:55. > :18:57.concentrates on Albion supporters with mild dementia, with thd help of
:18:58. > :19:03.the West Bromwich Albion Supporters club, former players like Stan are
:19:04. > :19:07.helping to stimulate memory. Football clubs should possibly be an
:19:08. > :19:17.ideal beacon for spreading this sort of information and help. Wh`t does
:19:18. > :19:22.it cost, two hours a week? Ht was Stan Jones who gave West Brom the
:19:23. > :19:27.choice. We want to remember things about what we enjoy, things that
:19:28. > :19:31.frighten us, but we are likdly to remember things we are passhonate
:19:32. > :19:35.about, and football is one of those. When we played, they tackled hard,
:19:36. > :19:38.and you took it. Alan Roper played professional football for W`lsall in
:19:39. > :19:45.the late 50's, retaining a lifelong love of the game till suddenly
:19:46. > :19:49.something changed. I didn't find the games as interesting as when I used
:19:50. > :19:52.to watch it when I was younger. Whether it was because of what was
:19:53. > :19:57.wrong with me, I don't know. It wasn't the same. Since I've come
:19:58. > :20:03.here, it's like somebody opdning the book and you come to whichever page,
:20:04. > :20:06.and everything is alive agahn. Most of the Scottish clubs are involved
:20:07. > :20:11.in this form of therapy. West Bromwich Albion's supporters club is
:20:12. > :20:21.one of the first in England to get following. You see the playdrs from
:20:22. > :20:27.the past that you've only sden on the pitch, and to actually leet
:20:28. > :20:30.them, it's marvellous. A footballer's career is a short one
:20:31. > :20:36.but the memories with a little help can last a lifetime.
:20:37. > :20:44.Now across the BBC it's the day when young people get behind the
:20:45. > :20:48.microphone or in front of the camera for School Report. Rebecca Wood has
:20:49. > :20:49.spent the day with some of our young reporters.
:20:50. > :20:54.It's not often I give away trade secrets, but that's what today was
:20:55. > :20:58.all about for BBC School Report The focus of this year's project was the
:20:59. > :21:05.weather. And for Lola, it w`s a chance to put presenters on the
:21:06. > :21:10.spot, and show off her skills. What is your top tip when you ard doing
:21:11. > :21:13.the weather? Take a deep brdath before you start. That will relax
:21:14. > :21:16.you a bit. And there was pldnty more for the students to get thehr teeth
:21:17. > :21:19.into, from football comment`ry masterclasses, to finding ott
:21:20. > :21:29.exactly what goes in to a BBC Midlands Today bulletin. It's been
:21:30. > :21:34.interesting to find out what happens behind the scenes and see how hard
:21:35. > :21:39.everybody works. It's been interesting to see how it's all put
:21:40. > :21:42.together. It's what you see outside, and it doesn't make sense, but
:21:43. > :21:44.coming here has been an eye`opener. And they took it all pretty
:21:45. > :21:54.seriously. Well, most of thd time. Glad to see they discovered how hard
:21:55. > :21:58.we all work. And you can find out how Lola did with her weathdr
:21:59. > :22:01.forecast a little later on. A century ago young men in thdir
:22:02. > :22:05.thousands were saying goodbxe to family and friends and headhng off
:22:06. > :22:08.to war. Many of them died in the mud and misery of the trenches. This
:22:09. > :22:11.weekend some of today's teenagers will be reliving those days, in a
:22:12. > :22:14.theatre performance in Birmhngham. Our arts reporter Satnam Rana has
:22:15. > :22:16.been finding out about a unhque project to keep alive the mdmory of
:22:17. > :22:22.those young soldiers of 1914. 100 years ago, thousands of young
:22:23. > :22:34.men across the country are volunteering to take part in World
:22:35. > :22:38.War One. 100 years on these boys are representing just some of those men.
:22:39. > :22:41.They're exploring how the w`r may have been experienced by Birmingham
:22:42. > :22:43.lads through an improvised performance called Chocolatd
:22:44. > :22:47.Soldiers,.named after a poel written by a Birmingham Soldier in 0916 I
:22:48. > :22:50.don't think we will take it as much for granted as it was. It is in the
:22:51. > :22:56.past, but that history affects us. It shapes our future. I acttally
:22:57. > :22:59.haven't learnt about the First World War before and I didn't know that
:23:00. > :23:03.much. Now I know about the trenches and what they wore, the equhpment,
:23:04. > :23:06.everything. It's a joint project between Women Theatre, thd Royal
:23:07. > :23:12.Regiment of Fusiliers Museul in Warwickshire and the Birmingham
:23:13. > :23:15.Hippodrome. This is probablx the best history lesson you will have.
:23:16. > :23:18.Getting into character they can understand the reasons for the war
:23:19. > :23:22.and the effect it would havd had on social life and the families left
:23:23. > :23:26.behind. It can also make thdm start thinking about the war in gdneral.
:23:27. > :23:29.The performance has been inspired by real stories like Fred Sanddrs, an
:23:30. > :23:31.ex`pupil from King Edward's School in Birmingham. He signed up to fight
:23:32. > :23:42.at the age of `` 22. I don't think a lot of young
:23:43. > :23:48.people know about the hardship. I don't think they realise wh`t a
:23:49. > :23:52.struggle it was. In fact, Fred was one of 1400 blows from the school to
:23:53. > :23:58.serve in the army and their stories have also been shared. Many of the
:23:59. > :24:05.ball memorials are acronyms, `` war memorials. They are quite
:24:06. > :24:08.meaningless and away, but a photograph speaks volumes. So when
:24:09. > :24:12.they saw the photographs and letters it really brought these stories to
:24:13. > :24:14.life. And it's these stories that'll be retold on Sunday afternoon at The
:24:15. > :24:26.Hippodrome by today's young men Let's turn to the weather. Still a
:24:27. > :24:31.chill in the air, but Shefali maybe something a little warmer in the
:24:32. > :24:34.next few days? We are banking on it with the clocks going forward, but
:24:35. > :24:38.I'll give you the extended version of the forecast in just a moment,
:24:39. > :24:41.but first, earlier on we he`rd about BBC School Report, and how this
:24:42. > :24:45.year, weather was the focus. So we handed over the reins to Lola. After
:24:46. > :24:47.a bit of a masterclass, she decided to find out how the weekend's
:24:48. > :24:59.weather was looking where she lived. I'm Lola, and I come from S`int Paul
:25:00. > :25:03.schools for girls, and I'm doing the weather for School Report. The
:25:04. > :25:07.weekend is looking lovely bdcause on Saturday we have Sunny spells with
:25:08. > :25:12.temperatures up to 15 Celsits. On Sunday, we have more Sunny spells
:25:13. > :25:16.with the temperatures up to 15. But don't plan to much for Mothdr's Day
:25:17. > :25:20.because in the evening it's going to be wet and miserable.
:25:21. > :25:27.Let's take a look at that wdather forecast in more detail.
:25:28. > :25:32.The weather's been very up `nd down today. Reports of thunderstorms and
:25:33. > :25:39.hailstorms one minute and then lovely sunshine the next. Btt the
:25:40. > :25:44.good news for the rest of the week is that we have one more dax of this
:25:45. > :25:46.cold, showery weather to go and then drier, warmer conditions return for
:25:47. > :25:50.the weekend. Temperatures m`y be getting into the mid teens between
:25:51. > :25:57.15 and 17. The low pressure pulls away to the West, sitting there in
:25:58. > :26:00.the Atlantic. The change in wind direction to a Southeasterlx
:26:01. > :26:03.initiates the temperatures rise all of this warm air sweeps up from
:26:04. > :26:08.northern France. One featurd that will be moving up from the South
:26:09. > :26:11.West at the end of the week will bring in some showers at thd start
:26:12. > :26:15.of next week, and because of that, in the process it will lead to more
:26:16. > :26:19.clout towards the tail end of Sunday, so out of the two d`ys,
:26:20. > :26:22.Saturday will be the Sunny one. And also because we have dry air
:26:23. > :26:26.filtering from the south`east, that will break up the cloud nicdly to
:26:27. > :26:30.give this hazy sunshine. For now, still a lot of showers across the
:26:31. > :26:34.region and these are packing a punch. Thunder and hail in them but
:26:35. > :26:37.they will confine themselves to the north before fading away colpletely
:26:38. > :26:42.during the second half of the night, so dry conditions at that stage and
:26:43. > :26:45.in sheltered rural spots thd cloud will break up to send the
:26:46. > :26:50.temperature is low enough for patchy frost, and maybe some ice and fog
:26:51. > :26:56.patches in the morning. A dry start, but fairly dull one. Once again the
:26:57. > :26:59.showers bubble up, particul`rly towards the southern countids.
:27:00. > :27:03.Elsewhere, dry air with sunshine and again, some of these showers could
:27:04. > :27:06.contain hail and thunder. They will be slow`moving and longer l`sting.
:27:07. > :27:08.Temperatures are higher, up to around 11.
:27:09. > :27:13.Tonight's headlines from thd BBC: The big six energy companies are to
:27:14. > :27:15.be investigated to see if they're charging customers too much.
:27:16. > :27:19.Alarming and unacceptable weaknesses. The official verdict on
:27:20. > :27:21.the way police in England and Wales handle domestic violence.
:27:22. > :27:26.Joshua Ribera's killer found guilty of murder. Armani Mitchell's jailed
:27:27. > :27:29.for 18 years for stabbing the rap artist.
:27:30. > :27:31.And after they were all failed, a last chance for Birmingham's
:27:32. > :27:36.inadequate children's services to get it right. That was the Lidlands
:27:37. > :27:40.Today. I'll be back at 10:00pm. Have a great evening. Goodbye.