:00:12. > :00:16.An area of the Midlands once plagued by metal
:00:17. > :00:19.theft has seen the biggest drop in the crime anywhere in the country.
:00:20. > :00:22.Last year the Sandwell area saw a 76% fall in the theft of metal.
:00:23. > :00:25.Police there have also become the first in the West Midlands to
:00:26. > :00:27.enforce new legislation regulating scrap metal dealers.
:00:28. > :00:32.With all this metal around, it's easy to see why this company
:00:33. > :00:35.in Bilston was a prime target for thieves.
:00:36. > :00:38.In 2011, a break`in cost the business tens
:00:39. > :00:41.of thousands of pounds, but since laws have been tightened
:00:42. > :00:52.on the sale of scrap metal, things have significantly improved.
:00:53. > :00:56.We haven't seen any major events where we've been targeted
:00:57. > :01:04.Major changes to the law, including the banning of cash payments and
:01:05. > :01:06.proof of the seller's identity, mean thefts have dropped dramatically
:01:07. > :01:09.across the West Midlands, with Sandwell seeing incidents fall last
:01:10. > :01:11.year by more than three`quarters, the best anywhere in the country.
:01:12. > :01:15.You'd be surprised how many people are happy to go into a scrapyard
:01:16. > :01:17.and give their photographic identification and try to sell them
:01:18. > :01:19.stolen metal, thinking they will never get caught.
:01:20. > :01:22.At this scrap metal business in Dudley, the new law means things
:01:23. > :01:27.Until just two years ago, this is how customers used to get paid.
:01:28. > :01:30.Money was put in here, it was sent through these tubes and they
:01:31. > :01:38.But due to the changes in law, everything is now done by computer,
:01:39. > :01:42.In fact, this system has become so successful,
:01:43. > :01:53.We are not a backward industry.
:01:54. > :01:56.We feel we have really come to the forefront of modern business.
:01:57. > :01:59.Police say they'll continue to work closely with the scrap metal trade
:02:00. > :02:01.and any firm found flouting the new law will risk losing
:02:02. > :02:07.The Birmingham teenager and education campaigner
:02:08. > :02:09.Malala Yousafzai is in Nigeria to meet the families of
:02:10. > :02:14.Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban
:02:15. > :02:18.in her native Pakistan in 2012. After being treated in Birmingham,
:02:19. > :02:21.she became a campaigner for girls' education.
:02:22. > :02:25.It's three months since the Nigerian girls were abducted by the militant
:02:26. > :02:32.A thousand Morgan car owners descended on the company's factory
:02:33. > :02:36.in Worcestershire today to celebrate the 100th year of production there.
:02:37. > :02:39.The company claims to be the world's oldest privately`owned
:02:40. > :02:43.car manufacturer. Joanne Writtle reports.
:02:44. > :02:45.Deep in the Malvern Hills, the 200 people who work
:02:46. > :02:50.for the Morgan Motor Company enjoy a picturesque journey to work.
:02:51. > :02:52.Today was a celebration of the century the factory's been
:02:53. > :02:57.in this setting, with a car for every year of production on show.
:02:58. > :02:59.She was registered in September 1914.
:03:00. > :03:02.She's only got two gears, no reverse.
:03:03. > :03:05.If you see someone's driveway which goes uphill, then you just
:03:06. > :03:11.ease up into it and float back. Fantastic.
:03:12. > :03:13.Roger Orford bought his 1925 Morgan for ?25.
:03:14. > :03:17.I used to drive it from home in Stourbridge, the town I lived in, to
:03:18. > :03:22.the technical college when I was 16 with another schoolmate in the front
:03:23. > :03:26.and if we were lucky we would bring two girls back from school at night.
:03:27. > :03:28.Over the years, the cars have developed, although
:03:29. > :03:33.And this is the latest model, a centenary special edition,
:03:34. > :03:43.Only 60 have been built and they cost ?70,000.
:03:44. > :03:45.Jill Price's grandfather Harry made the first Morgan
:03:46. > :03:48.for the simple reason that he was fed up of cycling to work.
:03:49. > :03:52.He made this little three`wheeler runabout and
:03:53. > :03:58.his sister Dot liked it so much, she thought, "Could you make me one?"
:03:59. > :04:04.So he made her one and then he started production after that.
:04:05. > :04:08.Little did Harry Morgan know that years later, so many enthusiasts
:04:09. > :04:16.would descend on his factory to celebrate what he started.
:04:17. > :04:23.Time for the weather now. Here's Sara Blizzard.
:04:24. > :04:31.It's a fine finish to the night and it is not as humid as last night so
:04:32. > :04:35.you might get a bit of sleep. The night`time temperatures dropping to
:04:36. > :04:38.a minimum of 10 Celsius, small amount of cloud around and early
:04:39. > :04:44.tomorrow morning maybe a bit of mist. The best part of the day will
:04:45. > :04:47.be the morning with some sunshine. In the aptly named the cloud
:04:48. > :04:52.increases and small amounts are patchy rain moving but it will still
:04:53. > :04:54.be a warm day, maximum temperature around 22 Celsius.
:04:55. > :04:58.Midlands Today will be back during Breakfast tomorrow
:04:59. > :05:09.at just before 6:30am. Have a good night.
:05:10. > :05:18.Good evening. A fine night ahead. A few showers are lingering across
:05:19. > :05:22.eastern England and eastern Scotland. They should fade away into
:05:23. > :05:28.the small hours. There will be clear skies and it will be a fresher night
:05:29. > :05:33.and last night. Temperatures will slide down into the mid-teens and
:05:34. > :05:38.lower. A decent start to the new week. The emphasis really is on
:05:39. > :05:42.start because, once the morning gets under way, wetter and windier
:05:43. > :05:46.weather. To work its way into Northern Ireland probably reaching
:05:47. > :05:50.most part by the end of the rush-hour and pushing into western
:05:51. > :05:55.Scotland by lunchtime. The same weather system will also see the sky
:05:56. > :06:01.is greying across the south-west of England and Wales. Cloud will build
:06:02. > :06:08.further east. Still with some spells of sunshine. Temperatures of 23, 24.
:06:09. > :06:12.Sunny skies across Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Wetter weather pushing
:06:13. > :06:18.into Cambria. A bit brighter for Northern Ireland later in the
:06:19. > :06:19.afternoon. A wet story. . It will continue to push