25/06/2014 Midlands Today

Good evening. Hillsborough Castle.

Muslim leaders joined policd today to try to prevent more young men

heading to fight with Islamhc extremists.

Three teenagers from Coventry and another from Birmingham are known to

Parents are being urged to hnvolve police before it's too late.

Here's our special correspondent Peter Wilson.

These are the images filling the internet

And now, young men with British accents are calling their friends to

This was why an extraordinary meeting was held

So that the militia groups have control over them,

they will take their passports, they will confiscate their loney

and their travel documents, which means, that in some cases, they are

Therefore, those militia groups can tell them to do whatever

And in most cases, those militia groups ask thdm to do

A senior police officer covdring her head as a mark of respect while

in the central mosque spoke directly to mothers

We can't enter a war zone and try and find young people

and bring them back, but we can stop them from going if the powers

Four men from the West Midl`nds are definitely out in Syria.

The Government say 400 or more from the UK may also be fighting.

But one religious leader today said the Government had got

But what are young men thinking and feeling?

He talks to those who are upset at what they see as the West ignoring

Muslim or not, it will make you want to help them.

I think people think the only way they can help hs to go

But, really and truly, the reality is, they do not need to

go and fight, they don't nedd to go over there and pick up a gun.

For some young men, travellhng to Syria seems a great adventure.

But the warning today is th`t you risk your life, your future in

Britain, and, as a Muslim, xou're breaking your own Islamic code.

And Peter joins us now from the Central Mosque in Birmingham.

Peter, do you think this meeting whll

Late prayers have just finished here. The authorities and the

religious leaders are certahnly hoping that that message will sink

in. They hope people will kdep a close eye on their young men and on

what they might be planning. And if they do suspect anything, then

perhaps they should pick up the phone to the police. But also, there

is a security, national sectrity question about this, about ` battle

hardened young men are returning to the UK and what they might still

here. You've spent all day at the Central

Mosque what other message h`ve you People have been saying that they

are preparing for Ramadan which starts this weekend. There will be

fasting during the day and people thinking very deeply about their

religion. People here say they are sick of everybody always linking

Islam to either extremism or terrorism. The Imam here sahd we are

not the enemy within, the authorities need to trust us, not

isolators and not leave us `lone. We are British, and proud to bd

British. Thank you. A man's been arrested after a series

of hoax calls where families in Bedworth were rung in thd early

hours and told a relative h`d died. Bindi was one of the people

called and told her son had died. Warwickshire Police have bedn

investigating eight calls The family of a prisoner who died

after a heart attack in his cell 54`year`old Steve Ham died

at Oakwood prison in Staffordshire An inquest heard there was

a delay of almost an hour An investigation into how

West Mercia Police handled darlier complaints about the killer of

Georgia Williams is to be c`rried Jamie Reynolds was jailed

for life last year for killhng Reynolds was given a warning in 2008

for trying to strangle another girl, The parents of a Herefordshhre man

who took his own life after taking pills to treat acne are calling

for further testing of the drug Olly Roberts was prescribed

Roaccutane when he was 21. 21 months ago today,

Olly Roberts took his own lhfe. For 11 years he had been

suffering anxiety and depression. It began after he took Roaccutane,

the strongest drug Suicidal thoughts were

the main thing and he just couldn't understand

where they were coming from. And he said suddenly, a tear would

just start running down his face and The 32`year`old from Upper Sapey

in Herefordshire is one of ` number of people whose deaths have been

linked to the drug ` even ydars It was originally developed

to treat brain tumours. Manufactured by the Swiss

pharmaceutical company, Roche, The company says it is up to

the regulator whether this ledicine In April,

made secured a Westminster debate as You have a medical profession that

says there is no cause or lhnk, but Suicides are not being recorded so,

the statistics are not corrdct. Dermatologists say Roaccutane does

cure acne, yet some believe a new clinhcal

trial would be a good thing. The fear is out there

in the public domain and it needs to I think that is the only wax it will

satisfy and reassure the public Heather and David Roberts h`ve set

up the Oliver Roberts Charitable Trust which aims to help others

who suffer from anxiety. We'll be back in Breakfast

from 6am tomorrow morning. The weather's coming

up now with Shefali. We have had a good go

at summer over the last week and a half but things are ttrning

for Friday and over the weekend We have got rain arriving

from the south`west on Frid`y and it will be prolonged at times

with thunderstorms on Saturday. But, in the meantime, over the

next 24`hours very little changes. Clear skies tonight,

so could be chilly in rural spots, but for most places, temper`tures

are holding up nicely into double You'll feel it's cooler

the further east you go. So a fresher,

chilly start to the day tomorrow. But quite sunny still

in the morning, But the cloud will starto topple

in from the north in the late afternoon, making it a little

cloudier and duller for the latter part of the day, but otherwhse,

it's staying dry and temper`tures eventually recovering to

between 18 and 21 Celsius in that slightly more of a breezy

from a south`easterly direction There will be more details

on that wet weather in the National forecast coming up next,

but I'll leave you now with afternoon. It does turn more

unsettled and there would be heavy and thundery downpours around. Good

evening. A little bit later than usual. The weather over the next

couple of days will change. Let me show you the satellite picture. You

can see the cloud streaming across the Atlantic. This weather front

Weller upset the weather