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effort to put people off smoking. That is all from the BBC | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
Claims that terrorist views are promoted in a school assembly are | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
denied. Pupils have said thdy have not heard any such things. We know | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
from our internal investigations that these allegations are false. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
We will be hearing what it hs really like inside one of the schools in | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
questions. Smog causes more problems over | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Birmingham and many parts of the region. Had problems breathhng last | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
week, but I went to my GP. H got help, but still I'm having problems. | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
The controversial badger cull will start again in Gloucestershhre. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Help us protect our stunning landscape. A bid for Lotterx cash. | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
If you are under the weather, struggling for breath, join me | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
later. There is good news. There could be relief on the way. | :01:01. | :01:12. | |
Good evening. The school at the centre of allegations of Muslim | :01:13. | :01:26. | |
extremism have denied claims that extremism. It follows claimdd about | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
a plot to take over the leadership of targeted schools. Tonight, a | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
letter has been sent to every headteacher in the city warning that | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
children have a right to a broad and balanced education. | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
A dozen schools in Birmingh`m are being investigated over alldgations | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
of extremism. Today, the BBC revealed claims that the politics of | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
Al`Qaeda had been discussed during one school assembly. | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
This man was killed by the Americans. He called on western | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
Muslims to attack their own countries. It is claimed th`t his | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
views were promoted at the school according to two unnamed sotrces, | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
but Park View's governor defended the school on all news outldts. It | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
is completely false. That khnd of thing would not happen in otr school | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
and has not happened in our school either. So these allegations as well | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
as many others that have bedn made actually, they are without, they are | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
anonymous. As investigations widen into the plot to allegedly replace | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
moderate school leaders with hardliners, one MP called for swift | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
action. What is needed tor Ofsted to get their report on the desk of | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Michael Gove, so that we can take whatever decisions are needdd. | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
The school has previously h`d an outstanding reputation, takhng | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
children fr one of the most deprived areas in the country and producing | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
excellent exam results. In terms of the school, it is doing brilliantly | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
and the children are doing really well and excelling. The most | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
important thing is we do well in our GCSEs. It is a fantastic school | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
What's it like inside? One BBC reporter was allowed past the gates. | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
What did stand out was that the girls were in one part of the | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
classroom and the boys were clustered in another part. The | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
school says that's not deliberate and the children prefer to work like | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
that. I went inside other academy. The leader of Birmingham City | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Council has written to everx headteacher outlining his | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
determination that all children in the city should receive a broad and | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
balanced education. Clearly, the Trojan horse agenda | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
unnerves heads like me and to have a letter saying that Sir Albert will | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
not tolerate governance that is all about anything but standards is xa I | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
need to hear `` what I need to hear. Liam Nolan is a good friend of his | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
counterpart, Lynnsy Clarke, who is due to retire this Easter. There is | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
a brilliant headteacher in our city and has really seen that school come | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
from difficult challenging circumstances and made it one of the | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
best, not just in Birminghal, but in our country and as a headte`cher, | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
when I first became a head hn Birmingham who was supportive of me. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
The leadership of Birminghal City Council refuses to go on calera and | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
answer questions about the Trojan horse investigations, but they have | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
said their silence should not be misconstrued and that they `re | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
resolute and committed to ddaling with these matters. | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
Coming up later: David Cameron says Birmingh`m | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Airport's runway extension hs a sign of confidence and will bring | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
thousands of new jobs. Pollution got worse in parts of the | :05:16. | :05:31. | |
region today with West Midl`nds ambulance service dealing whth a | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
surge in calls because of breathing problems. Yesterday on a ten point | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
scale used to determine risk, pollution levels were around six | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
which is described as moder`te. Today they'd gone up to sevdn and | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
more ` that's in the high c`tegory although still below peaks reached | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
in London. Here's Giles Latcham The spires of Worcester lost in the | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
murk. The BT tower in Birmingham barely visible in a pall of mist | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
made up partly say experts of particles of dust or other | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
pollutants. So were the runners and walkers out for their consthtutional | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
feeling the effect? I noticdd my throat feeling bad and my whfe is | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
feeling her eyes are bad. So the answer is yes. I haven't bedn | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
running for the past few daxs and started today and I'm reallx | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
noticing it. A heavy chest when I started off. Only a stuffy nose but | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
that was yesterday and it h`s cleared up. Carsten Skjoth forecasts | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
pollen counts and measuring the catkins on silver birch treds helps | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
him do it. He says the factors behind the high pollution ldvels are | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
not in themselves unusual ` it's that they've all come together. It | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
is common to have a high amount of gases and pollen at the samd time | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
because it is the same thing that creates these things, but h`ving | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
lots of particles, sand all the way from The Sahara, this is untsual. | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
Ian Jenkinson from Newcastld under Lyme has been asthmatic since | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
childhood. His symptoms this week have been the worst ever ap`rt from | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
a trip to Beijing two years ago He says we're failing to get to grips | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
with high levels of pollution. Plainly it is something we can do | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
something about. I'm led to believe that China used to have cle`n | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
atmosphere, it has got a very, very polluted atmosphere. So unldss you | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
manage these problems, you can fall into that situation quickly. | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
The UK has the highest rate of asthma in Europe, a condition | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
exacerbated by air pollution. At a hospital in Birmingham they've | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
pioneered the use of a ten second breath test to help treat asthma | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
patients across the NHS. It is a really useful tool to help with the | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
diagnosis of asthma, but with the management of asthma. It is less | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
physically demanding for thd patients to use this machind. | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
The long`term effect of pollution on human allergies is still not fully | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
understood. In the short`term it's wind and rain which will cldar the | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
air. So still a lot of problems. | :08:03. | :08:12. | |
Will this be the last of it, do you reckon? Well, Giles just mentioned | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
that we need wind and rain. Well, change in wind and rain as well and | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
we are going to see that by tomorrow. You can make out the smog | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
around me at the moment, but as we have heard there, is due to several | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
days of light south easterlhes. By tomorrow, that situation is to | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
change to light south`westerlies and we are going to see rain tonight | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
which should help matters. Ht is not uncommon to see highly levels of | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
pollution across the UK throughout the year as for the Saharan dust | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
that can be blown our way sdveral times. It is just that the weather | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
has conspired to keep it hanging over us. | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
The badger cull in Gloucestdrshire will continue despite a highly | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
critical report which says protesters were put at risk from | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
near misses. The independent report says the cull using rivals was not | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
humane and was not as effective as it should have been. | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
What's been the Government's reaction to this report then, David? | :09:09. | :09:18. | |
Well, Owen Paterson the Farling Minister says lessons will have to | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
be learnt. The four year culls in | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
Gloucestershire and Somerset are pilots and we always said that we | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
would learn lessons from thdm and it is crucial we get this right. And | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
that is why we're taking a responsible approa accepting | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
recommendations from experts to make the pilots better, doing nothing is | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
not an option. Well, with me is Drew, an anti`cull | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
protestor. First of all, ne`r misses. When you are out protesting, | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
bass there a danger you could have got in the way? There was a danger, | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
yeah. Several of my colleagtes where there when shots were fired near | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
them which is contrary to the licence. Another of my colldagues | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
found live rounds on a footpath The Government is saying today, Owen | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Paterson is delaying the roll out, but he is planning to go ahdad with | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
it and in the pilot zones you have three years of culling to go? Three | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
years left. The fact that wd are rolling out when they failed so | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
miserably in a pilot, it didn't meet its objectives, but we will be there | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
to make sure it doesn't go `head this time. Wh support have xou got? | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
The support has been growing more and more. Last year we had 400 and | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
500 people saying they would be out with us. This year, there is upwards | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
of 2,000 people saying they want to stop this. They are spending | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
millions compensating farmers for catting that contracted TB? They are | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
dealing with it in Wales, they are using vaccination and it is working | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
there. It could work here as well. All we need to do is go thehr way. | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
The Government said it will look at increased vaccination of badgers. I | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
understand there will be an announcement about that in ` few | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
weeks about extra cash for farmers to help them vaccinate badgdrs on | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
their land. More reaction tonight in tonight's 10.25pm bulletin. | :11:20. | :11:44. | |
The husband who stranged his wife `` strangled his wife has been | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
sentenced. A charity leased its three | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
helicopters. The service will be able to extend its winter flying | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
hours to 12 a day. The aircraft cost ?4.5 million, but the charity's | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Chief Executive says it will save money in the long run. It whll | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
enable us to reduce our overheads which means we can thereford | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
reinvest that money into our clinical service and into bdtter | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
equipping our aircraft. So ht will keep us safe for the long`tdrm. | :12:14. | :12:35. | |
David Cameron has rejected suggestions that Birmingham Airport | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
is being overlooked in the Government's long`term strategy for | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
UK aviation. The Prime Minister came to the airport to see the ndw ? 4 | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
million runway extension whhch is due to be completed next month. He | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
was talking to our political editor, Patrick Burns. It is not thd 40 | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
meters of added runway nor the ,000 miles of added nonstop flying it | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
enables. It is the 4,000 jobs around the airport that brought thd Prime | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
Minister here with the same number again promised for the surrounding | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
economy. But no mention of Birmingham in the Budget whdn | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
regional airports were awarded a new subsidy. Proposals for a second | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
runway here had already been cold shouldered in the Davis Comlission's | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
interim aviation strategy. H think Birmingham Airport has huge | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
opportunities. Howard Davis recognised that his report. With the | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
extended runway that could go up to 36 million. The opportunitids for | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
more flights, more trade, more business, more jobs is therd. Now | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
comes claims from Heathrow @irport that its expansion plans offer the | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
best deal for areas like ours, but managers here remain bullish. The | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
thing that will change Birmhngham's future is the local economy. With | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
Jaguar Land Rover and Rolls`Royce and JCB, people investing in this | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
community will make this air property work. `` airport work. The | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
runway development is due for completion next month, just in time | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
for the step change in Birmhngham's long haul capacity. It comes at an | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
interesting moment for Birmhngham Airport with the new runway and new | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
services direct to China and Bangladesh about to test deland | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
Politics, well that's always important in airport development, | :14:31. | :14:45. | |
but market, they are decisive. Nothing causes more problems. | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
The Grand National favouritd, his famous owner and how the de`l to buy | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
him was done after more than a few drinks! | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
The cast of Westside Story lake a surprise visit to a school. | :15:08. | :15:16. | |
Peak interest rate attracts ten million visitors a year. | :15:17. | :15:28. | |
People living in the Staffordshire moorlands worry they don't get the | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
financial help to maintain such a wonderful landscape. | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
It is one of the wildest landscapes we have in the Midlands. Thd | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
Staffordshire moorlands can look dramatic on a foggy day. A decline | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
in farming leaves some wonddring if its rural charm can last forever? It | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
is at a tipping point. We think we are at a point where we either | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
intervene now or we lose wh`t is left of the values in the l`ndscape. | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
We have seen 35% of dairy hdrds go out of business in the last 15 | :16:09. | :16:21. | |
years. That's an impact. Environmental groups have joined | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
together to bid. Local farmdr Sheila, wants to use some of the | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
money to bring the patchwork of field barns back into use. She is so | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
passionate, she produce add photographic book `` producdd a | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
photographic book detailing each one. There is so many of thdm to be | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
kept in a weather proof, re`sonable condition for the landscape value, | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
the social history value and wildlife. There is a lot of | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
wildlife, especially birds, using these to live in. The childness is | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
part of this countryside's charm. It needs people if its charactdr is to | :17:05. | :17:15. | |
be maintained. If skills ard lost, traditional features will crumble | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
and disappear. If the bid is successful apprentices | :17:24. | :17:33. | |
will be trained up. It is really important we don't lose | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
the skills. Apprenticeships will get people to stay in the area, to value | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
the area and for people to care for it in future as well. | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
Country lovers are invited to contract their ideas on the Peaks | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
preservation. Ideas which m`y stop this area being abandoned in years | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
to come. Sport now. Dan is here with news of | :18:00. | :18:08. | |
a massive setback for Aston Villa. The Villa striker Christian Benteke | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
could miss the rest of the Premier League season and the World Cup | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
because of injury. The Belghan has damaged his achilles tendon in | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
training. He will miss the World Cup and the start of next season. | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
The New One, trained in the Cotswolds by Nigel Twiston`Davies | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
and ridden by his son Sam, gained compensation for his unluckx third | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
in Cheltenham's Champion Hurdle by winning today's Aintree Hurdle. But | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
it was close. The New One whth the red silks hit the front just before | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
the final fence but had to work hard to win the race by a head from Rock | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
On Ruby. But after the disappointment of Cheltenhal this | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
meant a lot to the trainer `nd the owners. So what about Saturday's | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
Grand National? Could it be won by the best mistake Mike Tindall's ever | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
made? When the rugby World Cup winner Mike Tindall got carried away | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
at an auction he spent ?12,000 on a horse he knew nothing about. But | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
four years later Monbeg Dudd has proved a winner for his owndrs who | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
include Gloucester team matd James Simpson`Daniel. And on Saturday the | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
horse is among the favouritds in the National. What a ride it has been | :19:17. | :19:27. | |
for trainer Michael Scudamore and for the owners. What were you | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
thinking in the aftermath of that hammer going down? I was hoping the | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
hammer didn't go down! The aftermath was how can I mitigate | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
these costs? I didn't want ht on my own. Monbeg Dude has done nothing | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
but delight, he won at Cheltenham and the Welsh National. He has been | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
a special horse and dream for us. And people use the word it hs a | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
dream story, but it really hs. We can't hide for that. We bought a | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
horse for next to nothing in comparison to what a lot of people | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
spend on them. We didn't know anything about it and we had the | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
most amazing time with them this last several years. | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
This is a small stable with just 20 horses, but throw in a couple of | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
rugby players with a Grand National entry and look at the interdst. The | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
Scudamore family have a long association with Aintree and the | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
Grand National. Michael Scudamore senior won the | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
1959 national. His son Peter and grandson Tom haven't managed to win | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
it as jockeys. Now his own grandson, Michael, will try as a trainer. We | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
probably had one go since 1859. There has been a Scudamore name | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
associated with grandad ridhng. It is time one of us put it right. | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
He is a hands on trainer. Hd washes them too. Michael is one of the | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
owners and they are all hophng Monbeg Dude is one part of ` winning | :21:05. | :21:20. | |
national team. Hereford United are less th`n | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
?20,000 away from raising the money they need to avoid a winding up | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
order next week. Fans from clubs all over the country have made donations | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
to help the Bulls pay off an unpaid tax bill of 78 thousand pounds. | :21:31. | :21:39. | |
Almost almost ?20,000 has bden raised by The comedian Omid Djalili. | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
Although he's a Chelsea fan he's donating the proceeds of two shows | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
in Hereford on Sunday to thdir fighting fund. They need ?300,0 0 to | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
get them through the summer and by Monday the players have been unpaid | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
for half of February and all of March. Still long`term problems If | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
there is a little silver lining the next two Saturdays, they ard at | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
home. Last Saturday, just over ,500 fans were there. That's good for | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
them. That's very good. If they had 2,000 all season, they wouldn't be | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
in this mess. It is all abott momentum, but at least therd is | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
hope. This time last week, there didn't seem to be. I think | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
communities in times of trotble pull together. Sports clubs are | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
community, aren't they? Absolutely. It is why people I spoke to in the | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
streets of Hereford, who don't care about football, but they care about | :22:38. | :22:38. | |
this. It represents their chty. Five years ago, Sinead Kennx was | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
performing to a few hundred people in her school's musical. We reckon | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
she must have been pretty good because in the years since, she s | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
been treading the boards in front of thousands in the revival of the | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
Broadway and West End smash 'West Side Story'. And she made good on a | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
promise to go back to her old school, as her show now opens in | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
Birmingham. Here's Ben Godfrey. It's a classic story of love and honour | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
in 1950s New York. West Sidd Story is a streetwise and savvy Romeo and | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
Juliet. Now it's reached Birmingham on its UK tour.and there's ` | :23:21. | :23:34. | |
homecoming for a rising star. Sinead Kenny plays the fiesty Constelo a | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
tough Puerto Rican girl with bleached blonde hair. She's also | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
understudy to the leading role of Anita. I was confident and focussed. | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
It is a hard process. But as long as you stay determined and foctssed and | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
you believe that you can do it, then you can do it. | :23:49. | :23:58. | |
The 23`year`old was invited back to Arthur Terry School where she caught | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
the performing bug at the age of 16. It is all very strange. It hs like | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
it is fate. When she came to us at sixth form, | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
she had one goal and that w`s to be successful. | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
Sinead enjoyed ballet and t`p from the age of four. Her parents took | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
her to classes around the Mhdlands. My dad a massive fan. | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
Fellow cast members joined her this morning to inspire performing arts | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
students. It really inspired me to do the same. I'm determined to | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
succeed in what I want to do because of being inspired by them. | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
Sinead Kenny is performing `t the New Alexandra Theatre until April | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
19th. Let's get the weather now. | :24:53. | :25:07. | |
I'm surrounded by smog. The levels of pollution have been high across | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
the Midlands Today, but for urban areas, if you ventured out of towns | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
and cities, the levels have been moderate. The levels are set to | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
drop. They are set to drop by tomorrow and that's because we need | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
the winds to change direction and then to pick up as well and for us | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
to get rain and we're getting all three in the coming days and it is | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
not often I say that's good news, but it is. We can see what hmpetus | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
for that is. We have got a cold front wriggling across the region. | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
That is going to make a difference once it moved to the north. It will | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
switch the direction from a south easterly to a south`westerlx that's | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
going to draw in much cleardr and cleaner air from off the Atlantic. | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
There are a couple of systels that are lurking to the south`west that | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
are going to be heading our way over the weekend and that's going to | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
bring extra rain. Let's get back to this first frontal system that's | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
over us right now and you c`n see that's producing a bit of hdavy rain | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
across Wales. The fortunate thing is by the time it heads our wax, it | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
will fragmentks but there is `` fragment, but there will be heavy | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
bursts embedded in that. We are looking at showery outbreaks of | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
rain. Elsewhere, it is cloudy. It is dry and where we get the brdaks in | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
the cloud, we are looking at mist and fog and low level cloud as well | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
developing. Temperatures on the mild side, down to about nine to ten | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
Celsius. Then for tomorrow, well that rain should be out of the way. | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
We are looking at cloudy conditions. We are looking at sunny spells as | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
well and temperatures rising to about 15 Celsius. | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
Tomorrow night, nothing really changes. It is going to be cloudy, | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
but dry. Just a few showers dotted about the place. We have another | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
warm sector heading up from the south`west. It will be cloudy, but | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
dry on Saturday and then we have got rain spreading in from the west As | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
for Sunday, well we are looking at another band of rain as well. Again | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
heading up from the south`wdst with stronger winds. | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
Branding on cigarette packets in the UK is set to be banned to m`ke them | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
less appealing to the young. The families of the 96 Liverpool | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
fans who died at Hillsborough begin personal tributes at their hnquests. | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
Claims that terrorist views are promoted a school assembly hn | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
Birmingham are denied. Smog causes more problems over | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
Birmingham and many other p`rts of the region. | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
That was the Midlands Today. I will be back at 10pm. | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
Bye for now. | :27:44. | :27:48. |