07/06/2014 Midlands Today

Companies based near the hotsehold recycling centres in Birmingham say

their businesses are being badly affected by queues for the tip.

The problems started after the city council introduced

They say deliveries are being delayed and staff are

Some waiting patiently, some less so, the clogged roads

Now it?s the turn of businesses living near Lhfford

Lane to vent their frustrathon of what they say is the effect of the

It is a nightmare for us because we have clients comhng to

see us from all over the cotntry and it is frustrating for them

And in a couple of cases, people have given up

Garden waste used to be collected for free, it?s now collected

at a charge of ?35 a year, with not every gardener happy to pay,

Traffic going to and from the tip is also causing hazards

on nearby Melchett Road where parked cars line the way through

Everybody knows there are problems with it.

So I think there does need to be a review there.

But irrespective what they do on Lydford Road,

they need to be addressing the Lifford Road traffic issue.

I think it would be easier for them to do that

if they sorted out the garddn waste issue at the same time.

We spoke to the council tod`y and they said they did change

the layout of the site in the recent bank holidays and thdy're

looking at a range of other options which could improve traffic flow.

They would like to remind g`rdeners that they can still join thd

Residents, businesses and the MP want ` summit

with the council and the police urgent action is needed, thdy say,

A pub doorman has been stabbed and seriously injured in Wolverhampton.

Police were called to the H`rp Inn on Walsall Street in the early hours

of this morning and found the 38`year`old with a knifd wound.

The area has been cordoned off by detectives who are now appealing

Hereford United have been ghven until Monday to pay

The club appeared before the Football Conference board

this morning, to prove they had the funds to pay their debts.

They must do this by Thursday or they could bd kicked

It has lain derelict for almost 80 years, but today

a stretch of canal in Shropshire reopened to narrow boats.

Volunteers have been working every weekend since 2007 on the

Ben Sidwell went along to sde the first boat travel the w`ter

Navigating the waters for the first time since 1935.

This is why volunteers from the Shropshire Union C`nal

Society have spent years working on one small stretch near Oswestry.

And awful lot of hard work has gone into ht.

Not only by myself, but other people.

This is how the canal looked before work started in 2007.

Today it was just a case of applying the finishing touches.

It has taken a dedicated te`m of 30 volunteers seven years and

?250,000 to get this special canal open.

But if you look across the other side of the bridge, you can see

there's plenty of work still to go. The Montgomery Canal

used to run for 35 miles from Welsh Frankton in Shropshire into Wales.

The ultimate aim of course hs to connect this piece of canal

And then in the very distant future, to go right

on to the original terminus which was in Newtown.

Work on that challenge will begin in the very near future.

Some lively downpours today but a better story tomorrow. A risk a few

showers. Some of them could be quite heavy but they fade as the night

goes on. If you clear spells allowing for mist patches to form as

we head into Sunday. A largdly dry start with bright spells and further

bright spells during the dax. There will be the risk of 12`macro

showers. It should feel ple`sant. An unsettled start to the week, but

improving by the middle part. Midlands Today is back tomorrow

Goodbye. Good evening. Most of us have seen

some rain so far today. It started off in the south. As it worked its

way north, we lost the thunder and the lightning. Many of us ended the

day on a decent note. After a decent day in the north of Scotland, that

band of rain marches northwards Be hiengd it, there is a -- behind it,

there is a lot of dry weather to be found. Most of us are dry by the end

of the night and relatively mild.