:00:00. > :00:09.Good evening. The Green Party in the with the
:00:10. > :00:12.Good evening. The Green Party in the West Midlands says its confident
:00:13. > :00:15.it'll pick up votes in the forthcoming local and European
:00:16. > :00:18.elections because of its opposition to the planned High Speed rail
:00:19. > :00:21.project linking London to the north of England. Supporters say the
:00:22. > :00:24.scheme will boost the region's economy by four billion pounds a
:00:25. > :00:30.year as well as creating fifty thousand jobs. BBC Coventry
:00:31. > :00:34.Warwickshire's political reporter Sian Grzeszczyk has been finding out
:00:35. > :00:39.more. The HS2 route will come through here. Chelmsley Wood, one of
:00:40. > :00:45.the battle grounds along one of the proposed HS2 line from London to
:00:46. > :00:48.Birmingham. The Greens say their opposition to it is winning them
:00:49. > :00:52.votes across the board. It is not just the rural areas who have been
:00:53. > :00:56.more vocal and better about going to the media, people here are furious
:00:57. > :01:04.about it coming so close to their homes on a huge embankment over ten
:01:05. > :01:07.m above the ground. `` ten metres. At the moment, the Greens have 20
:01:08. > :01:11.councillors across ten West Midlands councils, the most in Solihull where
:01:12. > :01:19.they have seven. The ayes to the right, 452. The noes to the left,
:01:20. > :01:22.41. Last week MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of the
:01:23. > :01:25.scheme which is now one step closer. If our highly unscientific straw
:01:26. > :01:32.poll is anything to go by, supporting Chelmsley Wood is thin on
:01:33. > :01:36.the ground. I do think we need it. It is a white elephant. It is
:01:37. > :01:40.destroying people's lives. It is the fact that I think it is a total
:01:41. > :01:43.waste of money. The Greens are hoping the issue will play out well
:01:44. > :01:47.in the European elections. Last time out they came sixth in the West
:01:48. > :01:51.Midlands behind the BNP, a long way off securing an MEP. With a
:01:52. > :01:54.fortnight to go before voters go to the polls, they will be hoping their
:01:55. > :01:58.election campaign will be right on track.
:01:59. > :02:05.And you can find more information about the elections on our website.
:02:06. > :02:09.Warwickshire Police have confirmed that they were called to a primary
:02:10. > :02:14.school after two pupils added a home made concoction to a teacher's
:02:15. > :02:17.drink. The incident happened at Clapham Terrace Community school in
:02:18. > :02:20.Leamington Spa and was believed to involve a mixture of bathroom
:02:21. > :02:25.products. The teacher didn't drink the liquid. The pupils have been
:02:26. > :02:29.disciplined by the school. Neither the school nor the teacher intends
:02:30. > :02:32.to press charges. Four people were rescued from a
:02:33. > :02:35.house fire in Coventry in the early hours of this morning. Neighbours
:02:36. > :02:38.raised the alarm after the blaze broke out in Butler Crescent in
:02:39. > :02:41.Exhall. It's believed the fire started on the ground floor of the
:02:42. > :02:45.property. Emergency services were sent to the scene but the family had
:02:46. > :02:49.already managed to get out by climbing down a ladder at the rear
:02:50. > :02:50.of the building. They were taken to hospital and treated for smoke
:02:51. > :02:53.inhalation. A Birmingham football club that
:02:54. > :02:58.specialises in helping the players find employment is preparing for the
:02:59. > :03:01.biggest game in its history. When the Saltley Stallions take to the
:03:02. > :03:05.pitch at Villa Park tomorrow for the Shapla Cup final it will be the
:03:06. > :03:11.perfect reward for a true community club. Nick Clitheroe reports.
:03:12. > :03:15.It's one of their final training sessions before they run out at
:03:16. > :03:25.Villa Park and the Saltley Stallions can still hardly believe it.
:03:26. > :03:29.Everyone is excited. The club, the players, you can see how they are
:03:30. > :03:33.training. Normally a team has one session a week but with the cup
:03:34. > :03:36.finals around the corner, we have only had four weeks to train, so
:03:37. > :03:39.double training sessions is needed. But that's only half the story of
:03:40. > :03:43.this remarkable south Birmingham club. Because in the last 18 months
:03:44. > :03:46.they've helped 16 of their young players find work, many for the
:03:47. > :03:49.first time, including here at Service Birmingham. My manager
:03:50. > :03:53.helped me with my interview tips, my CV and he told me that there would
:03:54. > :03:58.be job vacancies here. I applied for it and have worked hard and made
:03:59. > :04:04.myself permanent. I have done my NVQ in sport development. I have helped
:04:05. > :04:07.a lot of people into work. The Stallions originally formed just to
:04:08. > :04:13.play for fun in the local park but that all changed after the riots of
:04:14. > :04:17.2011. The main reason they were looting and rioting was they had
:04:18. > :04:21.nothing else to do. There is no excuse for it but it was the honest
:04:22. > :04:26.truth. That is why we thought about getting them into employment in any
:04:27. > :04:29.way we could. Word of that help has spread through the community and
:04:30. > :04:32.brought new players to the club. Victory in the cup final would be a
:04:33. > :04:41.fitting conclusion to their season. A group of Worcestershire cricket
:04:42. > :04:45.fans have raised more than fifteen thousand pounds from a sponsored
:04:46. > :04:48.walk. The group left New Road on Thursday morning and arrived at
:04:49. > :04:50.Cardiff yesterday lunchtime. They were raising money for the Basil
:04:51. > :04:56.D'Oliveira foundation, which gives children from deprived backgrounds
:04:57. > :04:58.the opportunity to play cricket. A look at the weather now, here's
:04:59. > :05:08.Shefali. We've been lucky with this bank
:05:09. > :05:12.holiday weekend ` especially if we consider how things are panning out
:05:13. > :05:16.later this week No day is entirely dry unless you fail to catch a
:05:17. > :05:20.shower. But there will be some dry weather about. And the nights are
:05:21. > :05:24.warmer than they have been. It really is a busy picture this week
:05:25. > :05:31.what with Atlantic fronts whipping through one after another and low
:05:32. > :05:34.pressure in charge. Some of those fronts produce rain ` others showers
:05:35. > :05:38.and it will turn windier by Friday and over the weekend but you will
:05:39. > :05:42.have noticed that the cloud's been thickening up all day as a prelude
:05:43. > :05:47.to the arrival of this rain which is now working its way in from the
:05:48. > :05:50.west. There'll be heavier outbreaks from time to time before the whole
:05:51. > :05:57.lot clears away Eastwards to leave a dry end to the night. And compared
:05:58. > :06:00.with last night when temperatures fell to lows of zero degrees around
:06:01. > :06:04.parts of Gloucestershire, tonight those values are only dropping to
:06:05. > :06:08.lows of eight or nine. So we start the day tomorrow with plenty of dry
:06:09. > :06:12.weather. And for a large proportion of the region, we should keep hold
:06:13. > :06:15.of that. There will be some showers breaking out in southern counties
:06:16. > :06:18.later tomorrow and few elsewhere but where we get the sunshine those
:06:19. > :06:21.temperatures should rise comfortably to sixteen or seventeen Celsius It's
:06:22. > :06:27.during tomorrow night that the showers become more widespread,
:06:28. > :06:33.before dying away altogether. The showers will be more widespread.
:06:34. > :06:40.Temperatures around 10 Celsius and we have more showers for Wednesday
:06:41. > :06:48.and Thursday. We will be back just before 10:15pm. Just a reminder that
:06:49. > :06:51.Late Kick Off will be on at 11:35 tonight and it's the last of the
:06:52. > :06:54.series. 11:35 tonight, but you can watch it tomorrow on iplayer. The
:06:55. > :07:09.national weather forecast is next. Have a great evening. Bye.
:07:10. > :07:14.The sunshine today for the bank holiday produced the highest
:07:15. > :07:18.temperature of the long weekend in eastern England today, at 20
:07:19. > :07:23.Celsius. But to the west, the cloud has been gathering. We have seen a
:07:24. > :07:25.bit of rain in Northern Ireland and western Scotland, but the thicker
:07:26. > :07:31.cloud now pushing into the south-west of England is delivering
:07:32. > :07:35.more rain. It will become more extensive over the next few hours. A
:07:36. > :07:40.ragged area of rainfall will move east as the night goes on. If you
:07:41. > :07:44.have yet to make your journey home from the bank holiday weekend, you
:07:45. > :07:51.may encounter sums are a. -- some spray. Temperatures are not too bad
:07:52. > :07:56.. The good news is that most of the rain has gone by the morning. Some
:07:57. > :07:59.may be lingering in the north-east of Scotland and into the Northern
:08:00. > :08:00.Ireland --