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Birmingham academy schools placed in special measures by Ofstdd to | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
We've spent the day inside Park View Academy to find ott how | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
It does not matter what is written down on a piece of paper, | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
A track record of cancellathons late trains and job cuts. | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
But London Midland gets an extension to its contract. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
It seems to be being done at the convenience of the Government rather | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
than for the passengers or, indeed, for the train operating company | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
The end of the road for the Bulls ` Hereford United are thrown out | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
We get the World Cup predictions of former England international | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
I think they are very sharp and quick and Roy Hodgson knows | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Even if they go through the stages by winning one nil over and over, | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
And if the recent thunderstorms have left you less than impressed | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
and with a pessimistic about the future, don?t despair | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
Parents, pupils and staff f`ce an uncertain future tonight | :01:07. | :01:24. | |
after the Government announced it was withdrawing the funding for two | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Birmingham schools ` and threatening to do the same at two others. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Park View and Nansen Primary will losd their | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
cash from Whitehall, while Golden Hillock and Oldknow Academy have | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
They have all been rated in`dequate by Ofsted and put | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
It follows an investigation into schools allegedly targdted as | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
With so much focus on how these schools are run, | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
Our Special Correspondent Pdter Wilson has spent the day at | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
Students at Parkview Academx in Alum Rock are taking | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Exams are on and results here are very seriously. | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
But these young people are digesting more than just dry facts | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Their school has been under examination and it's failed. | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
I was allowed inside and no governors or teachers will | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
talk, but I was able to spe`k to Kabir Khan who is 15. | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
His father went to the school, so too do his brother and shster. | :02:29. | :02:38. | |
This school is not inadequate. It is outstanding. It is not mattdr what | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
is written down on a piece of paper. The Government were saying that | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
young people like you were perhaps safe here. That there is potential | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
for extremism because of a narrow kind of education. I have bden here | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
for four years and I do not think I have been unsafe here. I have not | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
experienced anything bad here. I have been getting the best results | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
that I can get. My teachers have been pleased and if there is | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
anything that is bad it was `` would have happened. Do you get a wide | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
broad range of education? Especially that religion is? yes. Christianity, | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
Judaism, seekers, Hinduism. We have been taught about them all. We know | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
to respect them all equally. The Government is to cut | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
the school's funding becausd of supposed segregation of the | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
sexes and an alleged narrow Muslim She came outside to find me | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
and voice her opinion. This school has been given ` bad | :03:43. | :03:58. | |
reputation. I don't like th`t. It doesn't help anybody. What `bout | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
these allegations that girls are treated differently? actually, girls | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
are given an equal chance. Dven more favoured in some cases. The school | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
will supporters just as much as the boys. | :04:15. | :04:14. | |
Education Minister Lord Nash, writing to Tahir Alam, | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
a governor at the Academy Trust said he had grave concerns | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
He criticised the Trust for failing to promote | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
And for not encouraging the pupils to respect British values | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
of democracy, respect and tolerance of other faiths and beliefs. | :04:33. | :04:43. | |
That letter does not pull any punches. It is clear the Government | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
is determined to take money away from these schools or at le`st away | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
from the people who are currently running the schools. It is `lso | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
clear that the Department for Education is determined to change | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
the leadership here which could mean the replacement of the headteacher | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
and the governors. The Government is saying thd schools | :05:05. | :05:05. | |
are not teaching British values Outside another Academy, | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
theyb were warned their funding to could be cut and parents ard | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
reacting with astonishment. 15,000 children have been affected | :05:12. | :05:21. | |
throughout this investigation and this palaver. Why | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
At one leading Muslim charity, there was a sense of bewilddrment | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
at how the Government have handled this Trojan Horse school crhsis | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
macro we need to look at thdse issues together. We need to unite | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
and address them as one. Whdn we start doing that our young people | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
will have a bit of belief in these wonderful British values. | :05:44. | :05:44. | |
I asked Kabir if the school had prepared him for our intervhew. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
He said no, his words were his own, whatever the rights and wrongs | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
of the complex and often divisive story. | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
The young people themselves say that they are proud to be British, | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
Cath Mackie is in Birminghal city centre for us this evening | :05:57. | :06:09. | |
A lot of people might be confused with how an academy school differs | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
The schools which have been told their funding could be withdrawn ` | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
It means they are funded directly from Central Government and not | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
under authority control. I can talk and debate about its four hours but | :06:29. | :06:38. | |
it is what people do. Essentially they have more freedom. What happens | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
now? the 4th to respond to the ldtters | :06:45. | :06:54. | |
from Education Minister, Lord Nash. But we are expecting the schools | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
involved to mount legal challenges. I spoke this afternoon to | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
an education expert who says we are in pretty new territory herd | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
and we can expect to see sole legal In an ideal world, | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
if these schools are taken over by another trust, it should be | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
a bit like moving house ` you This leaves us with a lot of | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
uncertainty. So for parents of children who are due to start in | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
September, but does this me`n for them? It is a worrying time for | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
them. I spoke to one educathon expert and he said we are in | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
uncharted waters. He is expdcting a legal precedents to be set. He said | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
if an academy is taken over by another trust, in an ideal world, it | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
should be like a house move. That is, contracts exchanged, destruction | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
get to a minimum, kids go to school on Friday and turn up again on | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
Monday and all they see is the change of name. But there is a legal | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
challenge and it could all get a bit messy. 21 schools were caught up in | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
Ofsted investigation with fhve judged to be inadequate. But the | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
report said leadership was outstanding and one of them was | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
Waverley school in both league. We spoke to a head teacher caught up in | :08:09. | :08:09. | |
the Trojan Horse controversx. Bordesley Green in Birmingh`m are | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
from ethnic minorities, mostly It was singled out by Ofsted under | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
their Trojan Horse investig`tions, but unlike some of the other | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
schools, it ended up being praised. Ofsted also said leadership | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
and management where outstanding, pleasing news for the head teacher | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
of nine years, Kamal Hanif. He believes such qualities `re vital | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
when dealing with governors ` especially if they don't agree with | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
something the school is doing. If the objections it is abott | :08:40. | :08:51. | |
managing both getting the vhewpoint of the community across. Because | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
sometimes, governors are not always present a tip of community views, | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
although they may think thex are. The children are taught | :08:58. | :08:58. | |
about many other faiths, thdy go to other countries on exchange visits, | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
but also visits closer to home. With schools in white areas and | :09:02. | :09:16. | |
rural schools work students do not interact his shooters of ethnic | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
minorities, we have exchangds there and their students come and join | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
projects with us. Last time, we had a diversity day I went to a Buddhist | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
centre and we learned about different cultures and religions. | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
Last time, I looked at Hindtism I knew nothing about it beford so I | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
learned about what they belheve and away their religion works. What | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
being said in the news does not really apply to us. Our school is | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
different. Islam is not forced upon us. Everybody gets along. There is | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
no racism or anything like that But even though Waverley is | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
an undoubted success, the head teacher believes the system | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
needs improving to help defhne It's been confirmed that Tr`in | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
operator London Midland has had The firm attracted strong criticism | :10:04. | :10:31. | |
from commuters after cancelling more than a thousand trains due to | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
a driver shortage. It will continue running tr`ins | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
across our region until March 2 16. Here's our Transport Correspondent, | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
Peter Plisner. It's not been an easy ride | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
for London Midland passengers, with cancellations and late trains a | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
regular occurrence on some routes. Two years ago | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
the company was forced to c`ncel more than a thousand trains after it | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
couldn't find enough drivers. A year later it was forced to | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
apologise Then, earlier this year, | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
the company announced jobs cuts Despite that, London Midland has | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
been awarded six`month extension I am surprised. But apart from a | :11:05. | :11:25. | |
comedy service has been good. Some days it is not so good. | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
And it's passenger concerns that have led to Rail Watchdog to | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
In a statement, the Department for Transport says: | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
"We want the new London Midland franchise to deliver improvdd | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
benefits and services for customers." | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
"The first part of this process involves making use of the planned | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
six month extension option built into the existing contract." | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
The fact is, the Department for Transport have few other options but | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
to extend the franchise to hold the competition and allow other | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
companies to run the chains would have taken too long. There `re other | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
issues to including a remapping exercise that could change the way | :12:11. | :12:11. | |
services are run. This map, | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
obtained by Midlands Today, shows one idea ` routes could be changed | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
to focus on commuters? servhces The proposal would also givd local | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
authorities here a bigger s`y What we are seeing in London and | :12:19. | :12:29. | |
Merseyside is real benefits to passengers coming through bx local | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
authorities controlling the rail services in partnership with | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
operator. In both those casds, we have now got top performing rail | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
operators and that is what xou want to see in the West Midlands. | :12:41. | :12:41. | |
But any changes are clearly still a long way off. | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
There's already talk that London Midland might be askdd to run | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
trains for even longer ` perhaps until June 2017. | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
We've had plenty of reaction to this story on our Facebook page today. | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
?London Midland make my short commute in to work a nightm`re. | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
When their trains are delaydd you never get an explanation or apology, | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
and, often, when they randomly cancel a train | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
?It's not that long ago there was talk about London Midland | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
being stripped of their franchise due to poor standards. | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
As a frequent commuter on the Cross City line, I can't say I've noticed | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
any improvement since ` so `m completely baffled by the r`tionale | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
Many a time I've left university at 8pm, | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
trudged in the rain to Five Ways in Birmingham, then checked at the desk | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
Then waiting around for an hour or so, freezing cold | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
and soaking wet, to eventually find it has been cancelled.? | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
and soaking wet, to eventually find it has been cancelled. | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
I travel from Tamworth to London and back fairly frequently. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
I have no problem with the service at all. | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
The only issue is the short formations in the rush hours which | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
they will eliminate by delivering new trains from December. | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
Hereford United have been expelled from the Football Conferencd. | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
They'd been given a deadline to today to pay their | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
footballing debts, but a st`tement this afternoon from the Conference | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
So the celebrations were all for nothing? It was a dramatic day. The | :14:11. | :14:26. | |
celebrations afterwards, were particularly intense becausd it | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
seemed as though it was a ttrning point at last. They had big debts | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
and suddenly he was a bit of hope and momentum. But sadly, it was all | :14:36. | :14:45. | |
for nothing. So what happens next? That is a big question. One thing we | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
can say for sure is that thdy will now go down two divisions. But in | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
the conference Premier they also run the next league below them. So it is | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
now the question weather thd Southern league will let thdm in. | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
But they have grave problems. They have not pay their debts or their | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
players since January. They have two players on the book. They h`ve no | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
manager. They are a mess. I try to speak to the club this afternoon, | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
and we do not even know who is running it it David Keyte Rhddick | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
Tommy Agombar who was brought in the new investments. If they have not | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
paid off their debts, has Tommy Agombar but in any money at all And | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
ministration brats beckons. That is 90 years of footballing history in | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
Hereford under threat this dvening. The High Court | :15:30. | :15:41. | |
in Birmingham has been told a date has been set for a jtdicial | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
review of a ?14 million loan given to the operators of Coventrx's Ricoh | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
Arena by the City Council. The council took out a loan in | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
January so operators Arena Coventry Coventry City played | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
at the arena until this sumler, The club's then owners, Sist, | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
called for the review, which is listed for the 10th of June | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
at the High Court in London. Sisu claimed the loan was | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
an unlawful use of public ftnds While some sheep around the Midlands | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
are happily skipping about without a heavy fleecd on | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
many others are still sweltdring. Farmers have fallen behind schedule | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
because of the wet weather. They'll also be hoping | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
for more money for their wool this year th`n 1 | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
months ago, when the price crashed. Here's our Rural Affairs | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
Correspondent, David Gregorx`Kumar. On this Albrighton farm | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
in Shropshire, a mix of sunshine and showers is | :16:26. | :16:26. | |
holding up the sheep shearing. It has been a problem this xear It | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
is the wet one day, try the next. This morning it rained. And the one | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
thing we can do is she a shdep when they are wet. Will will not store | :16:37. | :16:37. | |
when it is wet so we have them dry. Wool has always been import`nt | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
to the Midlands and Wolverh`mpton Today, farmers are grateful | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
if the price of the fleece covers And they certainly don't want a | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
repeat of last year's price crash. The wool price has not been that bad | :16:47. | :16:58. | |
thanks in part to the Chinese market. Last year, the Chindse | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
pulled out and so the wool price reflected that. This year though, | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
they are back and the prices have recovered. | :17:09. | :17:09. | |
Our farmers sell 95% of their wool through the Wool | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
If you don't go through marketing boards you can look into sm`ller | :17:13. | :17:21. | |
scale business options such as spinning it and making your own wool | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
products. Such as jumpers or blogs which people make themselves. There | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
is one chap who has even coffins made of wool. He has lined with it. | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
So just be innovative and do what else you can with it. | :17:38. | :17:37. | |
Wool linings for coffins will likely remain a niche market. | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
For now, our sheep farmers will be hoping the Chinese want lore | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
And our sheep will be hoping for a dry spell so they can finally | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
David Gregory Kumar, BBC Midlands Today, Albrighton. | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
Birmingham academy schools placed in special measures by Ofstdd to | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
Your detailed weather forecast to come shortly. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
The schoolchildren counting down to Rio ` how the World Cup is helping | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
Fashion and the far east. The campaign hots up to build a Chinese | :18:11. | :18:24. | |
arch in Birmingham. Aston Villa have signed the former | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
England midfielder Joe Cole Cole, who's 32, also played | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
for Chelsea and Liverpool He's agreed a two`year contract | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
and says he's really excited The World Cup in Brazil is just two | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
days away, with England's fhrst game And the former Wolves strikdr Steve | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
Bull believes Roy Hodgson's squad During his prolific goal`scoring | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
career at Molineux, And he was part of the Engl`nd squad | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
that reached the World Cup 24 years ago, World Cup sticker | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
books like this contained His chocolate Labrador Besshe is | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
blissfully unaware that Bully had scored so many goals in the lower | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
leagues for Wolves and that Bobby Robson thought he'd bd perfect | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
to play for England at Italha ' 0. five years ago I was an amateur | :19:23. | :19:32. | |
footballer so it was a dreal come true really. I couldn't belheve it. | :19:33. | :19:45. | |
I thought, I'm standing next to these world`class players I couldn't | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
believe it. This was the moment he clinched | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
his place in the World Cup squad. And today, | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
the Wolves legend is still so proud Bully was on the bench | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
for that heart`breaking semh`final He was just about to come | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
on with 10 minutes left. Then Lineker's goal sent | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
the match into extra`time and Bully If he had been on the field for | :20:05. | :20:17. | |
England, would you have takdn the kick? I stood by, the others do it. | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
The only get one chance of scoring in the World Cup and if you get to | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
take a penalty get out therd in your head down. | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
Last Saturday night, Bully was one of the celebrhty | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
And he's confident that England won't end up Pointless against | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
I think they are sharp and puick. Roy Hodgson knows what he's doing. | :20:40. | :20:51. | |
Even if they go to the statd is winning over won over and over | :20:52. | :20:52. | |
again, they will take them `ll. His World Cup shirt is one | :20:53. | :20:53. | |
of Bully's most prized possdssions. How he'd love to see this England | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
team do even better than Bobby's For many school children, | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
the temptation to chat in class about the World Cup over thd coming | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
weeks will be overwhelming. Well, at one school in Shropshire | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
they're being encouraged to do just that ` and they'll be learnhng | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
something in the process. Joanne Writtle's been to visit | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
the Year Sixes at Market Dr`yton Junior School, who are dedicating | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
their lessons to events in Rio. They may be supporting their | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
homeland, but in class, youngsters at Market Drayton Junior School have | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
been given a country each to study. Here's a flavour of what thdy've | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
learnt so far, kicking Italy has a population of 60 million | :21:31. | :21:46. | |
people. They invented the Phsa in 1860 and have won the World Cup four | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
times. It is the smallest country to ever win the World Cup. There are | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
500 kilometres of beaches in Uruguay. The capital of this country | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
is San Jose. The project's the idea | :22:03. | :22:03. | |
of their sport`mad teacher, and as well as geography, they'll | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
be learning other skills too. They'll be looking at match | :22:06. | :22:17. | |
statistics and 20 work out hf there is a pattern with specific teams. | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
They will look at who has won how money games or points. It is fun and | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
exciting. Will you be able to stay up and watch the game on Saturday | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
night? I hope so. To get to learn quite a lot of facts about countries | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
all over the world. I got Bdlgium which is famous for beer and | :22:41. | :22:41. | |
chocolate. Yes, PE too is dedicated to | :22:42. | :22:42. | |
the beautiful game. I am taking notes and I'm going to | :22:43. | :22:58. | |
write a match report later. I am the match photographer. | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
Teachers here are already planning a similar project based | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
on the Rugby World Cup next year and the Olympics the year after | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
For now though, all these youngsters are looking forward to, is the start | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
Plans to build a ?1 million arch in Birmingham's Chinese quarter are | :23:10. | :23:18. | |
moving a step closer tonight with a major event in the city cdntre. | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
Birmingham is one of the few cities in the UK with | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
a major Chinese population that does not have an arch. | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
Lindsay Doyle is at the International Conference Centre | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
Lindsay, how is the fundraising going? | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
Going well. They have raised ?5 ,000 but still a way to go to get a | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
million which is needed. Fundraising begins in earnest tonight. We have | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
designs, a fashion show and, as you say, Birmingham is the only major | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
city in the UK not to have ` Chinese arch. London, Liverpool, Manchester | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
all have one. Newcastle has too Well, to change all that is Jeffrey | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
here. Why is it important wd have an arch. It is very important for | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
Birmingham to have an arch because it is an attraction, it brings | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
Intourist, it brings in mondy. We are the last city... We call | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
ourselves the second city and we want an arch. People can look at our | :24:23. | :24:32. | |
website, get a form, and by a brick! It will be history for | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
everybody in Birmingham to support this arch. Where will it be? It will | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
be on the Ladywell walk in Chinatown. It will cross thd whole | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
of the Chinatown area. Good look with the fashion show tonight. The | :24:50. | :24:59. | |
guest of honour this evening is a major star. His name Bloch `nd we | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
caught up with him in rehearsal earlier today. We will let him | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
players out. `` play us out. Rumours of a warm week ` | :25:09. | :25:24. | |
any truth in them Shefali? Weather does improve after today and | :25:25. | :25:35. | |
things are becoming warmer `nd drier. We are hoping that this area | :25:36. | :25:47. | |
of high pressure that is buhlding from the South is one that can be | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
relied on. In the next couple of hours that should work its lagic and | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
kill off today's showers. And he takes his position in the ndxt few | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
days the frontal system would ordinarily slip south, but this high | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
pressure will fend off any rain The most damage it will do is increase | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
cloud and mist over the weekend Just a quick word about pollen | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
levels and UV levels. If yot have been suffering today from h`y fever | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
then it will get worse becatse the sun will set the level is hhgher. | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
Right now we have showers, lively showers actually, still blowing in | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
along the western plank of the region. Because of that | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
high`pressure they will start to fizzle out and fade away le`ving the | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
end of the night dry and also fairly clear. Because we are in a warm air | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
mass at the moment temperattres will only dropped to a minimum of ten or | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
12 Celsius. This is how we start the day tomorrow, with clear skhes and | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
quite a bit of sunshine comhng through. It will be dry right across | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
the region. If there is the odd shower it will fizzle out qtickly. | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
Temperatures in the sunshind will rise to about 19 or 20 Celshus with | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
light, south`westerly winds. Tomorrow night, try again, but it | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
will turn a darker with clotd. But it will be on the mild side with | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
lows of around 10 Celsius and this trend will continue through Thursday | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
and Friday. There will be hhghs of 22 and 23. Ty's headlines. The | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
energy regulator calls on the big six energy firms to drop thdir | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
prices. And on the big six dnergy firms to drop their prices. And an | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
uncertain having their fundhng withdrawn. That was the Midlands. | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
Join me at 10pm. | :27:46. | :27:47. |