:00:09. > :00:16.Companies based near the hotsehold recycling centres in Birmingham say
:00:17. > :00:19.their businesses are being badly affected by queues for the tip.
:00:20. > :00:21.The problems started after the city council introduced
:00:22. > :00:25.They say deliveries are being delayed and staff are
:00:26. > :00:33.Some waiting patiently, some less so, the clogged roads
:00:34. > :00:37.Now it?s the turn of businesses living near Lhfford
:00:38. > :00:40.Lane to vent their frustrathon of what they say is the effect of the
:00:41. > :00:47.It is a nightmare for us because we have clients comhng to
:00:48. > :00:51.see us from all over the cotntry and it is frustrating for them
:00:52. > :00:57.And in a couple of cases, people have given up
:00:58. > :01:03.Garden waste used to be collected for free, it?s now collected
:01:04. > :01:06.at a charge of ?35 a year, with not every gardener happy to pay,
:01:07. > :01:12.Traffic going to and from the tip is also causing hazards
:01:13. > :01:16.on nearby Melchett Road where parked cars line the way through
:01:17. > :01:21.Everybody knows there are problems with it.
:01:22. > :01:24.So I think there does need to be a review there.
:01:25. > :01:29.But irrespective what they do on Lydford Road,
:01:30. > :01:32.they need to be addressing the Lifford Road traffic issue.
:01:33. > :01:35.I think it would be easier for them to do that
:01:36. > :01:39.if they sorted out the garddn waste issue at the same time.
:01:40. > :01:42.We spoke to the council tod`y and they said they did change
:01:43. > :01:45.the layout of the site in the recent bank holidays and thdy're
:01:46. > :01:48.looking at a range of other options which could improve traffic flow.
:01:49. > :01:52.They would like to remind g`rdeners that they can still join thd
:01:53. > :02:03.Residents, businesses and the MP want ` summit
:02:04. > :02:06.with the council and the police urgent action is needed, thdy say,
:02:07. > :02:11.A pub doorman has been stabbed and seriously injured in Wolverhampton.
:02:12. > :02:15.Police were called to the H`rp Inn on Walsall Street in the early hours
:02:16. > :02:18.of this morning and found the 38`year`old with a knifd wound.
:02:19. > :02:21.The area has been cordoned off by detectives who are now appealing
:02:22. > :02:26.Hereford United have been ghven until Monday to pay
:02:27. > :02:29.The club appeared before the Football Conference board
:02:30. > :02:32.this morning, to prove they had the funds to pay their debts.
:02:33. > :02:36.They must do this by Thursday or they could bd kicked
:02:37. > :02:40.It has lain derelict for almost 80 years, but today
:02:41. > :02:43.a stretch of canal in Shropshire reopened to narrow boats.
:02:44. > :02:46.Volunteers have been working every weekend since 2007 on the
:02:47. > :02:52.Ben Sidwell went along to sde the first boat travel the w`ter
:02:53. > :02:55.Navigating the waters for the first time since 1935.
:02:56. > :02:58.This is why volunteers from the Shropshire Union C`nal
:02:59. > :03:04.Society have spent years working on one small stretch near Oswestry.
:03:05. > :03:09.And awful lot of hard work has gone into ht.
:03:10. > :03:11.Not only by myself, but other people.
:03:12. > :03:15.This is how the canal looked before work started in 2007.
:03:16. > :03:20.Today it was just a case of applying the finishing touches.
:03:21. > :03:26.It has taken a dedicated te`m of 30 volunteers seven years and
:03:27. > :03:32.?250,000 to get this special canal open.
:03:33. > :03:36.But if you look across the other side of the bridge, you can see
:03:37. > :03:40.there's plenty of work still to go. The Montgomery Canal
:03:41. > :03:45.used to run for 35 miles from Welsh Frankton in Shropshire into Wales.
:03:46. > :03:49.The ultimate aim of course hs to connect this piece of canal
:03:50. > :03:55.And then in the very distant future, to go right
:03:56. > :03:58.on to the original terminus which was in Newtown.
:03:59. > :04:12.Work on that challenge will begin in the very near future.
:04:13. > :04:31.Some lively downpours today but a better story tomorrow. A risk a few
:04:32. > :04:36.showers. Some of them could be quite heavy but they fade as the night
:04:37. > :04:44.goes on. If you clear spells allowing for mist patches to form as
:04:45. > :04:48.we head into Sunday. A largdly dry start with bright spells and further
:04:49. > :04:55.bright spells during the dax. There will be the risk of 12`macro
:04:56. > :05:04.showers. It should feel ple`sant. An unsettled start to the week, but
:05:05. > :05:06.improving by the middle part. Midlands Today is back tomorrow
:05:07. > :05:17.Goodbye. Good evening. Most of us have seen
:05:18. > :05:23.some rain so far today. It started off in the south. As it worked its
:05:24. > :05:27.way north, we lost the thunder and the lightning. Many of us ended the
:05:28. > :05:32.day on a decent note. After a decent day in the north of Scotland, that
:05:33. > :05:37.band of rain marches northwards Be hiengd it, there is a -- behind it,
:05:38. > :05:42.there is a lot of dry weather to be found. Most of us are dry by the end
:05:43. > :05:45.of the night and relatively mild.