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Campaigners fighting to stop Birmingham Airport introduchng new | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
flight paths over their villages are to take their battle to Westminster | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Residents in Balsall Comon `nd Hampton`in`Arden say trials taking | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
place at the moment have blhghted their homes and their lives. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
It's work on the ground that aims to change what's happening in the air. | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
The past two months have sedn a change in the flight paths | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
It's just a trial, but it hasn't gone down well. | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
The maps that they have used our Ordnance Survey maps and ard out of | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
date. It does not even show the development. In the house whth the | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
doors close, you know when one has gone past. When I am in bed, I can | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
hear them and I can't get to sleep. Campaigners want | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
the government to stop the trials. They say they have another option to | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
fly over open countryside Residents say that these new flight | :01:02. | :01:14. | |
paths are putting them on edge. They will fight for their peace `nd | :01:15. | :01:15. | |
quiet. A ?35 million runway opened | :01:16. | :01:16. | |
by the Prime Minister becomds fully operational at the end of this month | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
and Birmingham Airport says it's trying to find the best way of | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
managing the new traffic whhch they say will create thousands of jobs | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
in the future. But with new flight paths above and a plan to rtn HS2 ` | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
the High speed rail link ` through, This place could be horribld. You | :01:29. | :01:42. | |
could have HS2 on one side `nd the airport on the other. We ard being | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
squeezed by noise. The petition goes to Parlialent next | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
week to stop the trials but as the airport grows, | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
so will the number of flights. Warwickshire Police are warning the | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
public to be on their guard about unsolicited phone calls aftdr an | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
89`year`old woman from Atherstone Scammers posed as police | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
and officials from her bank, telling her there was | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
a problem with her account. They then tricked into transferring | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
her money to another account. Despite budget cuts, | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Coventry City Council says ht has no intention of cancelling the | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Godiva Festival in future ydars The annual event got underw`y last | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
night and organisers are hoping to attract more than | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
a 125,000 people through thd gates It's a free event with more than 150 | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
acts taking to the stage ovdr Last night despite | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
the rain, 12,000 packed in to watch local band The Selecter perform some | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
of their greatest hits. It's always wonderful to be asked to | :02:39. | :02:51. | |
do something in Coventry and it is a free festival, one of the vdry few | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
in the country. Staging the event costs the Council | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
?300,000 at a time when thex're But they estimate it brings in | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
?4.5 million to the local economy. We see it as a promotion for | :02:58. | :03:12. | |
Coventry and the surrounding areas. The way I see it is that if we were | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
to invest in an advertising campaign for the area we would properly spend | :03:19. | :03:19. | |
a lot more than that. He also dismissed the idea | :03:20. | :03:33. | |
of charging for entry ` but plenty of people told us they'd | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
be more than happy to pay. Who would go to Glastonbury when you | :03:36. | :03:45. | |
have this? I would come to something locally because you could go home | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
quickly. The minute you makd people start to pay, it would not have the | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
same attraction as it does now. And with the sunshine making | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
an appearance today too, organisers are hoping to top last year's | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
record attendance of 125,000. On Ladies' Final day at Wimbledon, | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
one of the most famous tennhs dresses in the world has sold | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
for ?15,500 at an auction. It was made by a 12`year`old | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
Stourbridge schoolgirl, Carol Knotts, and | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
featured on one of the best`selling The dress, along with two posters | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
and a tennis racquet, was bought Now the Midlands weather, | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
with Charlie Slater. Not a bad evening. We should see | :04:20. | :04:39. | |
some sunshine before the sun goes down. It is mainly dry, quite clear. | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
When we go through into Sunday, lots of sunshine around in the fhrst part | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
of the day. In the afternoon, there will be a few showers. But there are | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
few and far between. Then they go back into the new working wdek, it | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
should be mainly dry. Midlands Today is back at 6pm | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
tomorrow. Bye`bye. Good evening. It looks like for most | :05:02. | :05:16. | |
of us the weather will be fairly similar to what we saw today. The | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
broad themes throughout this weekend, sunny spells and scattering | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
of showers, but | :05:25. | :05:25. |