05/07/2014

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:00:07. > :00:10.Campaigners fighting to stop Birmingham Airport introduchng new

:00:11. > :00:13.flight paths over their villages are to take their battle to Westminster

:00:14. > :00:18.Residents in Balsall Comon `nd Hampton`in`Arden say trials taking

:00:19. > :00:21.place at the moment have blhghted their homes and their lives.

:00:22. > :00:28.It's work on the ground that aims to change what's happening in the air.

:00:29. > :00:32.The past two months have sedn a change in the flight paths

:00:33. > :00:41.It's just a trial, but it hasn't gone down well.

:00:42. > :00:47.The maps that they have used our Ordnance Survey maps and ard out of

:00:48. > :00:52.date. It does not even show the development. In the house whth the

:00:53. > :00:56.doors close, you know when one has gone past. When I am in bed, I can

:00:57. > :00:59.hear them and I can't get to sleep. Campaigners want

:01:00. > :01:01.the government to stop the trials. They say they have another option to

:01:02. > :01:14.fly over open countryside Residents say that these new flight

:01:15. > :01:15.paths are putting them on edge. They will fight for their peace `nd

:01:16. > :01:16.quiet. A ?35 million runway opened

:01:17. > :01:19.by the Prime Minister becomds fully operational at the end of this month

:01:20. > :01:22.and Birmingham Airport says it's trying to find the best way of

:01:23. > :01:25.managing the new traffic whhch they say will create thousands of jobs

:01:26. > :01:28.in the future. But with new flight paths above and a plan to rtn HS2 `

:01:29. > :01:42.the High speed rail link ` through, This place could be horribld. You

:01:43. > :01:45.could have HS2 on one side `nd the airport on the other. We ard being

:01:46. > :01:47.squeezed by noise. The petition goes to Parlialent next

:01:48. > :01:50.week to stop the trials but as the airport grows,

:01:51. > :01:54.so will the number of flights. Warwickshire Police are warning the

:01:55. > :01:57.public to be on their guard about unsolicited phone calls aftdr an

:01:58. > :02:01.89`year`old woman from Atherstone Scammers posed as police

:02:02. > :02:07.and officials from her bank, telling her there was

:02:08. > :02:09.a problem with her account. They then tricked into transferring

:02:10. > :02:13.her money to another account. Despite budget cuts,

:02:14. > :02:16.Coventry City Council says ht has no intention of cancelling the

:02:17. > :02:19.Godiva Festival in future ydars The annual event got underw`y last

:02:20. > :02:22.night and organisers are hoping to attract more than

:02:23. > :02:26.a 125,000 people through thd gates It's a free event with more than 150

:02:27. > :02:33.acts taking to the stage ovdr Last night despite

:02:34. > :02:38.the rain, 12,000 packed in to watch local band The Selecter perform some

:02:39. > :02:51.of their greatest hits. It's always wonderful to be asked to

:02:52. > :02:53.do something in Coventry and it is a free festival, one of the vdry few

:02:54. > :02:55.in the country. Staging the event costs the Council

:02:56. > :02:57.?300,000 at a time when thex're But they estimate it brings in

:02:58. > :03:12.?4.5 million to the local economy. We see it as a promotion for

:03:13. > :03:18.Coventry and the surrounding areas. The way I see it is that if we were

:03:19. > :03:19.to invest in an advertising campaign for the area we would properly spend

:03:20. > :03:33.a lot more than that. He also dismissed the idea

:03:34. > :03:35.of charging for entry ` but plenty of people told us they'd

:03:36. > :03:45.be more than happy to pay. Who would go to Glastonbury when you

:03:46. > :03:49.have this? I would come to something locally because you could go home

:03:50. > :03:51.quickly. The minute you makd people start to pay, it would not have the

:03:52. > :03:54.same attraction as it does now. And with the sunshine making

:03:55. > :03:56.an appearance today too, organisers are hoping to top last year's

:03:57. > :04:01.record attendance of 125,000. On Ladies' Final day at Wimbledon,

:04:02. > :04:04.one of the most famous tennhs dresses in the world has sold

:04:05. > :04:08.for ?15,500 at an auction. It was made by a 12`year`old

:04:09. > :04:11.Stourbridge schoolgirl, Carol Knotts, and

:04:12. > :04:14.featured on one of the best`selling The dress, along with two posters

:04:15. > :04:19.and a tennis racquet, was bought Now the Midlands weather,

:04:20. > :04:39.with Charlie Slater. Not a bad evening. We should see

:04:40. > :04:45.some sunshine before the sun goes down. It is mainly dry, quite clear.

:04:46. > :04:49.When we go through into Sunday, lots of sunshine around in the fhrst part

:04:50. > :04:56.of the day. In the afternoon, there will be a few showers. But there are

:04:57. > :04:58.few and far between. Then they go back into the new working wdek, it

:04:59. > :05:01.should be mainly dry. Midlands Today is back at 6pm

:05:02. > :05:16.tomorrow. Bye`bye. Good evening. It looks like for most

:05:17. > :05:21.of us the weather will be fairly similar to what we saw today. The

:05:22. > :05:24.broad themes throughout this weekend, sunny spells and scattering

:05:25. > :05:25.of showers, but