:00:09. > :00:12.The Shadow Housing Minister and Wolverhampton MP Emma Reynolds
:00:13. > :00:15.says the country is in a housing crisis, with just half the
:00:16. > :00:20.But the Government says house building is at its highest level
:00:21. > :00:22.since 2007, with more investment in affordable homes.
:00:23. > :00:28.Lizz Wright plays house with her young daughter.
:00:29. > :00:31.Affording a real home is something of a fairy tale.
:00:32. > :00:34.We saved as much as possible, but didn't seem to be getting anywhere.
:00:35. > :00:38.We were dipping into the savings with birthdays and
:00:39. > :00:43.Christmases, and we were sort of moving at a snail's pace, really.
:00:44. > :00:46.So Lizz and her family have given up renting, and moved back home
:00:47. > :00:49.with her parents in Birmingham to save for a deposit.
:00:50. > :00:53.Lizz wants to live here in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham, where
:00:54. > :00:56.a three`bedroom house can cost up to a quarter of a million pounds.
:00:57. > :00:59.Getting on the property ladder isn't cheap.
:01:00. > :01:02.In recent years house prices in the West Midlands have risen by 56%.
:01:03. > :01:05.According to the National Housing Federation,
:01:06. > :01:10.the average deposit needed is ?35,000, with the average house
:01:11. > :01:15.Speaking on the Sunday Politics, the Shadow Housing Minister said
:01:16. > :01:19.the country was in the midst of a housing crisis.
:01:20. > :01:22.We're not even building half the number of homes that we need to keep
:01:23. > :01:25.up with demand, and actually there's been decades now of under`supply
:01:26. > :01:28.of housing, but unfortunately under this Government they've presided
:01:29. > :01:32.over the lowest level of house building since the 1920s.
:01:33. > :01:34.We've had 450,000 new homes built in the last four years,
:01:35. > :01:38.If you talk to builders right now, they're operating flat out.
:01:39. > :01:44.The building of new homes and estates is often proving to be
:01:45. > :01:47.For the Wright family, the drive for more affordable homes
:01:48. > :01:58.Eight men have been bailed following a disturbance
:01:59. > :02:00.in Birmingham which ended with the death of a young father.
:02:01. > :02:03.28`year`old Ikram Elahi died from a stab wound in the Sparkbrook area
:02:04. > :02:07.Four men arrested on suspicion of attempted murder
:02:08. > :02:10.and violent disorder have been banned from entering the city.
:02:11. > :02:14.Two other men arrested on suspicion of murder have yet to be questioned,
:02:15. > :02:18.as they are receiving medical treatment.
:02:19. > :02:22.A man has died in a crash which closed part of the M6 motorway
:02:23. > :02:25.The accident involving a car and a lorry happened just
:02:26. > :02:30.The dead man was a passenger in the car.
:02:31. > :02:32.The drivers of both vehicles received hospital treatment,
:02:33. > :02:40.68 years ago today the very first tractor rolled off the production
:02:41. > :02:43.line at Massey Ferguson's Banner Lane factory in Coventry.
:02:44. > :02:47.The plant went on to produce nearly 3.5 million tractors,
:02:48. > :02:51.becoming the biggest in the western world, but until today there were no
:02:52. > :03:00.Today was about remembering what was once one of the Midlands if not UK's
:03:01. > :03:05.important factories ` Massey Ferguson's Banner Lane plant.
:03:06. > :03:09.This day in 1946 the first Little Grey Fergie, or TE20,
:03:10. > :03:14.It was all made possible by this man, Harry Ferguson,
:03:15. > :03:20.It signifies brilliant engineering, a British tradition
:03:21. > :03:27.And it all happened here, at Banner Lane in Coventry.
:03:28. > :03:30.The administration headquarters were razed to the ground two years ago,
:03:31. > :03:33.removing all traces of what was the western world's
:03:34. > :03:38.Today it's quite hard to believe that
:03:39. > :03:42.at one time nearly 10,000 people worked on this site, producing up to
:03:43. > :03:47.Ted Everett was an official photographer for
:03:48. > :03:51.Massey's, starting there in 1952, and behind him the last tractor to
:03:52. > :03:56.Sometimes when I did visits with people, showing them round
:03:57. > :04:00.the factory, if you did a full stint of walking it was just
:04:01. > :04:05.I always came out with a smile on my face,
:04:06. > :04:09.with the atmosphere and the little bit of bantering and good humour.
:04:10. > :04:15.These days Massey's is owned by AGCO, an American firm who
:04:16. > :04:19.shifted production to France ` although they do still employ 500
:04:20. > :04:28.A memorial to two Staffordshire police officers has been unveiled
:04:29. > :04:34.The window at the force's boxing gym in Cobridge honours PC David Beech,
:04:35. > :04:37.who died in a fire at his home in Tunstall earlier this year,
:04:38. > :04:40.and PC David Rathband, who was shot in the face and blinded
:04:41. > :05:13.by gunman Raoul Moat in 2010. sense of family and
:05:14. > :05:16.Tennis, and Halesowen's Jordanne Whiley has
:05:17. > :05:22.The 22`year`old partnered Yui Kamiji from Japan to victory
:05:23. > :05:24.in the wheelchair women's doubles final, beating their Dutch opponents
:05:25. > :05:28.It's their third Grand Slam victory this year, having also won the
:05:29. > :05:31.Let's get the weather forecast now, from Charlie Slater.
:05:32. > :05:35.A relatively bright end to the weekend, I'm pleased to say,
:05:36. > :05:38.with a decent sunny spell here and there and a few showers thrown
:05:39. > :05:42.As we go into the early hours you will see a few showers,
:05:43. > :05:45.particularly in these western parts of the West Midlands; otherwise it
:05:46. > :05:49.To start us off with on Monday then, a scattering of showers,
:05:50. > :05:53.then it's going to be mainly dry through the middle part of the day
:05:54. > :05:57.Having said that, though, there will be a few showers around every corner
:05:58. > :06:00.as we continue our way through Monday, and a showery and a sunshine
:06:01. > :06:03.theme is something that will continue through the working week.
:06:04. > :06:16.Hello again. Today's big event was certainly blessed by fine weather,
:06:17. > :06:25.but there has been some rain around here and there. Those showers will
:06:26. > :06:30.continue to drift further east over the next few hours, but by and
:06:31. > :06:31.large, they should become more confined to western