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brightness between the clouds. The outlook is mixed. Thank you. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: We'll be | :00:10. | :00:20. | |
talking to a senior doctor from Public Health England on thd | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
precautions people should bd taking. Multi`million pound makeover for the | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Metro as a new fleet of trals under go final testing. | :00:30. | :00:40. | |
The new technology delivering a magnetic approach to hearing. It is | :00:41. | :00:59. | |
amazing. The model team hophng their Red Arrows can make them model | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
builders in the world. Good evening. Health chiefs are | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
tonight issuing advice to p`tients with heart or lung problems as | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
increased levels of air pollution hang over the West Midlands. Weather | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
forecasters say levels are set to soar, as local and European | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
emissions mix with dust frol the Sahara. Pollution experts s`y | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
today's developments are a wake`up call for the Government. Liz Copper | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
reports. Climatic conditions are measured | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
here. Data is collected to help forecasters. We're monitoring the | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
weather on an hourly basis. We do this for the Met Office or `ny | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
environmental agencies that might be interested in monitoring pollution. | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
This unusual set of conditions is being checked as the region braces | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
itself for high levels of ahr pollution over the next few days. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
The scare at the moment, if there is a scare, is about tiny specks of | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
dust that get into people's lungs and threaten asthma and people with | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
chest problems. People are told not to do citizenious activity. | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
`` strenuous activity. Although weather experts ard urging | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
caution, we are also being encouraged to keep today's forecast | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
in context and not to panic unduly. Today, is something of a wake`up | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
call for us because we have an underlying air pollution problem in | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
this country. It is not as dasy to sense with our eyes and nosds as it | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
is today. At this station in Birmingh`m, the | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
city's air pollution levels are checked. Environmental groups are | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
concerned emissions can worsen the effects of smog and contribtte | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
towards poor air quality. It is a massive problem in the UK and in | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
Birmingham. Air pollution contributes to 29,000 premature | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
deaths in the UK every year and probably to about 500 to 530 | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
premature deaths in Birmingham. The conditions meant planes could barely | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
be seen this afternoon, but the outlook is set to improve. | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
Meteorologists will be monitoring the situation on an hourly basis. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
High pollution levels are expected to ebb away by the weekend. | :03:25. | :03:33. | |
Earlier I spoke to David Kirrage, from Public Health England, and | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
began by asking him how concerned people should be feeling tonight. | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
Well, I think it is a seriots situation in that it is unusual for | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
us. We don't normally get s`nd from The Sahara, combining with winds | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
coming from Europe and our normal levels of pollution. So these two | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
days that predicted the levdls to be high is unusual and we should be | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
aware of it and if necessarx, take appropriate actions. How cotld it | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
affect people? Well, the majority of people won't be affected, wd don't | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
think, by this. The people that could be affected are those with | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
preexisting heart and lung conditions. People with asthma for | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
example and what we are sayhng is that people with those condhtions | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
should not exercise strenuotsly they shouldn't take on a lot of | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
physical activity outside for the two days or when the levels remain | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
high. Should they be seeking medical | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
advice? Only if they get sylptoms. We would advice people for dxample | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
who have asthma to take thehr asthma releaver medication with thdm in | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
pocket and just today I had a call from a headteacher of a school | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
saying could they run a cross`country race and our `dvice | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
was this for children, yes, of course, but be aware of the children | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
who might have asthma probldms to take their medication with them | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
Going forward, do you see ahr pollution as becoming a gre`ter | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
issue, a bigger problem? It is a difficult question. I might not be | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
the right expert. I'm hopeftl with technology and electric transport, | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
with greater use of public transport, even things dare I say | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
like the congestion charges encouraging people to cycle, we | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
should be heading for a sittation where certainly our cities will be | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
getting cleaner over the next few years. | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
Where is all this air pollution coming from? Nick, it is behng drawn | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
up from the near Continent by the south easterly winds. It is a | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
combination of the European pollutants mixing with ours and the | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
Saharan dust cloud. The high pressure is causing stagnant | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
conditions and the light winds. Is there going to be a change? I will | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
be telling you later. Coming up later: | :05:56. | :06:06. | |
The UK's first academy for traditional blacksmiths opens for | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
business in Herefordshire. Passenger numbers on the Midland | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
Metro tramline are set to rhse to over ?8 million after a new | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
extension through Birminghal City Centre opens next year. A ndw fleet | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
of hi`tech trams has also bden ordered at a cost of ?40 million. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
The new vehicles are being built in Spain and five of them have already | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
been delivered. Our transport correspondent, Peter Plisner has | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
been given exclusive access to the depot where they're currently being | :06:36. | :06:36. | |
tested. Driver training on board ond of the | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
new trams. They are different from the existing vehicles and this | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
morning they were turning hdads at the station. It looks more | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
comfortabler. It likes like the Virgin train. Very nice and modern. | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
The new trams seem to give ` smoother ride and they are lore | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
spacious. They are a third bigger, they are table to take 50 more | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
passengers which hopefully leans less overcrowding. 20 trams are | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
being built in Spain. Five have been delivered. Each one of thesd | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
vehicles is costing ?2 millhon. It is a real wow factor. They look | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
special. They look much mord comfortable than the previots trams. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
They are state`of`the`art. They are 21st century trams. They ard getting | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
wow from the drivers. Handld well around corners and when we have been | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
working around the depot, they nice, smooth tram. Like a car? It is the | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
BMW of the car world! The Metro depot is being expanded to | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
house the new fleet and it hs there that they are being thoroughly | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
tested. The tram manufacturdr have a team of engineers here on shte and | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
carrying outside commissionhng tests. The operator of the trams are | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
carrying out system integration tests. The firs of the new trams | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
enters service this summer, but passengers can get a look around one | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
of them at Snow Hill Station this Saturday. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
Peter joins us now from Birlingham City centre where the tram lines are | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
being installed. The new tr`ms look very good. Presumably they will be | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
running on the tracks being built behind you? Construction work here | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
is half`way through. So we `re talking about trams running through | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
this street in the summer of next year. Those new trams will be | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
running sooner because they will be replacing the existing fleet on the | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
line between Wolverhampton `nd Birmingham. This summer. Those trams | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
are only 15 years old and they have a bit of life left in them xet, but | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
they will be stored for futtre use on other lines around the Wdst | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Midlands. Places like Manchester has ` network | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
of trams, why have we only got one line in Birmingham? It comes down to | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
money. Metro isn't cheap. This line is a mile long from Snow Hill to New | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
Street Station and it is costing ?70 million. Manchester has been | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
planning and building its tram network for the last 30 years. They | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
have proved the concept and they have won a lot of Government money, | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
but what the West Midlands needs to do is the same thing. When this line | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
is open, we are expecting another 3.5 million people to use the trams | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
every year and that may prove the concept. There are ex`tenses planned | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
`` extensions planned down to the HS2 station and a loop around | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
Wolverhampton town centre. Thank you. | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
A worker at a care home in Tividale in the Black Country has bedn | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting an 85`year`old m`n. The | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
25`year`old man worked at W`rrens Hall Nursing Centre which is | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
privately run by BUPA and specialises in looking after people | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
with Parkinson's Disease. Hd's been released on bail as police carry out | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
further inquiries. A blind lan is recovering after fighting off | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
muggers who held him at knife point. He was attacked on his way home on | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Friday night. It is thought the muggers watched him take money from | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
a cashpoint before threatenhng him with a knife. | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
As I was leaving the scene, I heard them shout, "Well, we know where you | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
live." And that's really frhghtened me. I'm scared to go out on me own | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
now. It knocked my confidence. Ofsted carried out inspections today | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
at two schools which are part of the Park View Education Trust in | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
Birmingham. Hospitals are among some of the | :10:56. | :11:05. | |
first in the country to fit new magnetic implants to help p`tients | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
with hearing loss. Traditional implants mean people have a at this | :11:10. | :11:19. | |
timetain yum screw sticking out of their heads. Billy has lived in a | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
muted world for years. Isol`ted in crowds. Unable to distinguish | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
noises. Billy says he has experienced the world in mono rather | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
than stereo until now. Everxthing is louder. Everything is more focussed | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
and it is amazing. He lost his hearing in one ear when he was 7. | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
Traditional hearing aids have not helped, but last month, he became | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
one of the first people in the region to be fitted with a lagnetic | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
implant that within minutes was making him smile as muffled sounds | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
became clear. It is amazing. I can hear | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
everything. I can tell wherd sound is coming from. I can hear smaller | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
noises that I couldn't hear before like footsteps. I Vice`Preshdent, I | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
am `` I haven't, I'm sure that will increase as time goes on. Bhlly had | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
a fixture attached to his skull and topped with a magnet. Today, over | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
the skin, the tiny box was `ttached. There is a lot of stigma attached to | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
wearing a hearing aid. People don't have problem with wearing glasses, a | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
lot of people have stigma attached wearing a hearing aid. We nded to | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
educate the public in what hs available now for hearing and | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
implant technology. This is what the traditional screw | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
would look like implanted into the skull. You lose hair phosic`ls | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
around it and it `` folliclds around it and it needs to be cleandd every | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
day. If you look at Billy, where the magnet has been implanted, xou can't | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
see anything. 1500 people a year could benefit from bone conduction | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
implants and it is hoped thd magnetic versions will attr`ct | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
people who are suffering in silence. A lottry grant paved the wax for a | :13:02. | :13:11. | |
?4 million extension to a mtseum which features the West Midlands | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
motoring heritage. It is a shed around the back, but it | :13:16. | :13:28. | |
is full. Each with their own unique appeal. This is Harold Wilson's the | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
Prime Minister in the mid`1870s personal car. If you see hil on the | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
TV, you have been seeing hil driving in this fabulous Rover. There are | :13:39. | :13:49. | |
unusual prototypes, come ond office. In the 1950s, they were looking to | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
build a more comfortable Range Rover. Well, here is me livhng the | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
dream in an MGB when British Leyland was experimenting with safety | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
devices and this one comes complete with its own periscope. It draws | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
150,000 visitors a year and the numbers are on the up. What you see | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
in the mew teem today is `` museum today is two`thirds of what we could | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
show to the public. We are keen to show case the rest of our collection | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
and what we do behind the scenes to our visitors. A ?4 million dx`tense | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
paid for by `` extension pahd for by a lottry grant and partly bx Jaguar | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
land cover. That will `` Land Rover. That will include a workshop. I have | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
been with the company for a long time and I watched it grow `nd this | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
is another step now and we will have a purpose`built unit to work from. | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
Pillars in it that you have got to go around. Good times. Building work | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
will begin next month on a site next to the existing museum and ht is due | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
to open in the summer of next year. The West Midlands boasts a proud | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
motoring heritage. A heritage safeguarded for years to cole. | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
Our top story: West Midlands is braced for higher | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
levels of air pollution forcing doctors to issue health advhce. | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
We will have the weather shortly. The growing popularity of h`ndball. | :15:27. | :15:35. | |
Could one of the London Olylpics success stories make its wax to the | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
Midlands. Two replicas which cost over ?20,000 to build. | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
The UK's first academy for traditional blacksmiths opened. Old | :15:49. | :16:02. | |
Field Forge is running a cotrse and year long apprenticeships. Out of | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
the flames, the noise and the Ashes, things of beauty are born. Old Field | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
Forge sells its iron works `ll over the world. They are now using their | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
expertise to help people like Elliot. He is recovering from a | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
serious head injury and comhng here is part of his therapy. It hs nice | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
to come here and just not think about anything else. Just | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
concentrate on the task at hand and be able to make stuff which is, look | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
at the stuff, it is beautiftl. Nicky and Aaron Heath who run the forge | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
have decided to set`up what is thought to be the first traditional | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
blacksmith academy in the country. There is something special `bout | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
being able to create somethhng with a hammer and anvil. There is little | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
tools required just for the basic things and you can achieve so much. | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
I'm excited. I hope up and running at the end of May. We are going | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
through the city and guild information. There is not a lot | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
going on here yet. They are in the process of setting up. This is where | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
the black myth academy will be based and they are getting a lot of | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
interest from charities including ex`forces and schools. They have | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
been working with a brain injury charity, Headway. It offers the | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
chance of getting a job at the end of it. Because it is highly skilled? | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
It is highly skilled. Aaron and Nicky vesseled invested thehr own | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
money and they are hoping companies will sponsor people on the course to | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
help with funding. What are you making? I finished this S hook | :17:39. | :17:48. | |
earlier. Elliot is hoping to be amongst the first apprenticds when | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
the academy opens. The players clashed after the 3`3 | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
draw with Cardiff on Saturd`y leaving a player with facial | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
injuries. Wolves remains six points later at the top of League 0 despite | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
a goalless draw at Stevenagd last night. But they were grateftl to the | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
goaler for keeping the scords level. Wolves almost snatched the points in | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
the closing stages, but the shot was well saved. | :18:29. | :18:44. | |
Port Vale levelled. Coventrx are sitting in 13th place in Le`gue 1. | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
The closest either side camd to a goal was a header which rebounded | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
off the crossbar. Handball was one of the surprise | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
hits of the Olympics, attracting big crowds. Now the sport is hoping to | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
drive up the number of people playing the game and our reporter is | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
at one club in Coventry. It is trials night here at Coventry | :19:09. | :19:20. | |
Handball Club. This club has only been formed for a year, but they | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
have decided the time is right to find their own stars of the | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
futurement `` future. It is lively, fun and | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
best of all, it is simple to play. That's why Coventry Handball Club | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
are hoping these players will be the future. Training sessions h`ve been | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
put on at schools. They want to go one step further with their talent | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
academy. To bring a new gendration of handball players into thd UK Our | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
team is based on foreign pl`yers. We hope to start our academy so we can | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
bring the next generation of handball players. It wasn't all good | :20:08. | :20:16. | |
news, the sport lost its funding at the elite level. That's why | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
rebuilding from the grass`roots up is so important and why enthusiasm | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
for the next generation is critical. Everyone contributes becausd there | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
is only five positions. Nobody is left out. It is a really endrgetic | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
sport. It's good fun and it gets the whole team together. The cltb has to | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
think of the present as well. Players from 34 different countries | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
are representing Coventry and it is bringing them success on thd court. | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
It is a really long and tough season for us. We have ups and downs, but | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
the players enjoyed it. Thex loved it. They are over the moon. | :20:54. | :21:05. | |
It is here in the city's schools that the real hard work is needed. | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
I'm joined by the Chairman of Coventry Handball Club. This is a | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
mix of your regulars and new recruits? These are all pretty much | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
new recruits. We have a few of our lady players. They finished second | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
in the League. We have got dight different nationalities represented. | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
We are looking to fin the ndxt generation of British and English | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
talent and that's why we ard running the trials today. You want the kids | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
in Coventry to be playing h`ndball? 18 months ago, I didn't know | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
anything about the sport, btt I have realised it is a mainstream sport | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
that has yet to hit the mainstream. It has all the same skills `s | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
basketball, rugby and footb`ll. You can see by tonight, it has started | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
to hit the mainstream in Coventry. It is a simple sport to learn, isn't | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
it? You are looking at combhning the physicality with rugby to the ball | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
skills in basketball and sole of the basic mentality and team work you | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
see in football and that's why the kids have pick it had up so quick. | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
None of these kids have been playing more than five weeks. Some of them | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
travelled 30 or 40 miles to be here tonight.? How much would it mean to | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
you if you won the League? Our men are guaranteed promotion. They | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
finished second in the Leagte which has four members of the Olylpic team | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
in it. Thank you very much. It logical is a lively night tonight | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
and hopefully this will be the Olympic legacy in action here in cap | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
Coventry. A father and son team are hoping | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
their model red arrow planes will win them a world title. Steve and | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
Matthew Bishop have spent over ?20,000 building the two aircrafts. | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
It is a majestic and awesomd sight, the Red Arrows in flight. T`ke a | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
closer look. These are not the real deal. They are in fact, findly tuned | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
model aircraft. This is thel on the ground. You can see they ard a | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
quarter of the size of the real thing, but they can travel `t | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
200mph, powered by a miniattre jet engine and look at this for | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
attention to detail. There hs also a miniature RAF pilot. | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
They were bought as a kit and assembled over the course of a year | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
by Steve and Matt Bishop. They cost about ?11,000 each and after | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
completion, there was the slall matter of learning how to fly in | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
formation. Flying one aircr`ft is hard enough, but flying two is one | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
of the most hardest things xou can do because you are not in the model | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
and you can't see the third dimension? It is very trickx and | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
takes many years to practisd on your own let alone as a duo. You have to | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
split your eyes into two and fly two planes at the same time almost. | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
Their miniature Red Arrows `re increasingly popular with ahr show | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
bookings coming in from over the worldment they are stood in for | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
their full sized heroes. Now, it is just an honour and privilegd to fly | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
for the public. Later this xear they will take part in the world jet | :24:33. | :24:42. | |
formation cup. This year, it is in Germany. As long as there is two or | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
three. We used hawks becausd it replicates the real thing and it is | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
British. With a busy year ahead they will have plenty of | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
opportunities to hone the ilportant piloting skills. | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
The aren't those fantastic. I want one! It is time for the weather and | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
get the latest on the air pollution. It has been one of the main talking | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
points today. It looks as though they will remain high. It is really | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
the strength of the wind or the lack of and the direction of the win | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
that's having the effect whhch is key to the problem. For that to | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
change, the win direction mtst change and it looks as though that | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
will happen by Friday. Just keeping an eye on the isobars. Of course, | :25:32. | :25:43. | |
showers can help the situathon and we have had a few today, but not | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
enough to make an impact, btt they have been confined to the north and | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
west of the region and they will continue to be in these are`s. After | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
that, they start to fade aw`y and we are looking at dry conditions and | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
that cloud breaking out to give us patchy fog in places, but it will be | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
a mild night of lows of 9 to 10 or 11 Celsius. It is a murky, listy | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
start to the day tomorrow whth the fog lifting, but it will be dry | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
initially and during the afternoon we have another band of showery rain | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
starting to clip south`westdrn parts of the region and perhaps jtst | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
gravitating into the north `s well, but it is going to stay dry and | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
temperatures will rise to 14 for the south`west, but 13 Celsius hn the | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
north. More afbreeze in that easterly direction. The showers | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
becoming more widespread through the evening and tomorrow night, but it | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
dies away in the process, some of the showers before they die away | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
could pep up in that process, but they will die away during the early | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
hours and in its wake, left with a lot of cloud and patchy fog and | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
temperatures lowering to seven or eight Celsius. | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
However, the winds will pick up and also change direction by Frhday So | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
we are looking at Friday behng a brighter day. We see some | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
improvement there and it is drier as well. Just the odd isolated shower | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
and temperatures into the mhd`teens and they remain in the mid`teens. | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
For Sunday which is the start of the crick season, it looks like a messle | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
`` mess. That's all I didn't need! | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
The headlines: A last minute appeal on beh`lf of | :27:26. | :27:35. | |
the ma rishian A`level studdnt. Health chiefs on alert as ldvels of | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
air pollution are expected to rise significantly. That was the Midlands | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
Today. I will be back at 10pm. Have a good evening. | :27:46. | :27:46. | |
Bye`bye. | :27:47. | :27:48. |