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Good evening. An area of the Midlands once plagued by metal | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
theft has seen the biggest drop in the crime anywhere in the country. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Last year the Sandwell area saw a 76% fall in the theft of metal. | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
With all this metal around, it's easy to see why this company | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
in Bilston was a prime target for thieves. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
In 2011, a break`in cost the business tens | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
of thousands of pounds, but since laws have been tightened | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
on the sale of scrap metal, things have significantly improved. | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
The theft has been reduced quite dramatically really. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
We haven't seen any major events where we've been targeted | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
by anybody. I've seen no activity. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Major changes to the law, including the banning of cash payments and | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
proof of the seller's identity, mean thefts have dropped dramatically | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
across the West Midlands, with Sandwell seeing incidents fall last | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
year by more than three`quarters, the best anywhere in the country. | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
You'd be surprised how many people are happy to go into a scrapyard | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
and give their photographic identification and try to sell them | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
stolen metal, thinking they will never get caught. | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
We are catching these criminals and prosecuting them. | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
At this scrap metal business in Dudley, the new law means things | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Until just two years ago, this is how customers used to get paid. | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Money was put in here, it was sent through these tubes and they | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
But due to the changes in law, everything is now done by computer, | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
In fact, this system has become so successful, | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
It really changes us and puts us, we are not a backward industry. | :01:46. | :01:58. | |
We feel we have really come to the forefront of modern business. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Police say they'll continue to work closely with the scrap metal trade | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
and any firm found flouting the new law will risk losing | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
The Birmingham teenager and education campaigner | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Malala Yousafzai is in Nigeria to meet the families of | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
After being treated in Birmingham, she became a campaigner | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
It's three months since the Nigerian girls were abducted by the militant | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
A third person's been charged with the murder of a 28`year`old man | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
Father of four Ikram Khan was stabbed | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
in the neck during a disturbance on Stratford Road in Sparkbrook. | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
The man, who's 25, is due in court tomorrow. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
A thousand Morgan car owners descended on the company's factory | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
in Worcestershire today to celebrate the 100th year of production there. | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
The firm claims to be the world's oldest privately`owned | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
car manufacturer. Joanne Writtle reports. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
Deep in the Malvern Hills, the 180 people who work | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
for the Morgan Motor Company enjoy a picturesque journey to work. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Today was a celebration of the century the factory's been | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
in this setting, with a car for every year of production on show. | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
She was registered in September 1914. | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
She's only got two gears, no reverse. | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
If you see someone's driveway which goes uphill, then you just | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
ease up it and float back. Fantastic. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
Roger Orford bought his 1925 Morgan for ?25. | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
I used to drive it from home in Stourbridge, the town I lived in, to | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
the technical college when I was 16 with another schoolmate in the front | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
and if we were lucky we would bring two girls back from school at night. | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
Over the years, the cars have developed, although | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
And this is the latest model, a centenary special edition, | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
Only 60 have been built and they cost ?70,000. | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
The Morgan's been part of hill climb competitions and a firm favourite | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Jill Price's grandfather Harry made the first Morgan | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
for the simple reason that he was fed up of cycling to work. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
He made this little three`wheeler runabout and | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
his sister Dot liked it so much, she thought, "Could you make me one?" | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
So he made her one and then he started production after that. | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
Little did Harry Morgan know that years later, so many enthusiasts | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
would descend on his factory to celebrate what he started. | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
The Wolverhampton speedway star Tai Woofinden finished second in | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
last night's British Grand Prix as he bids to retain his world title. | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
Woofinden, wearing the white helmet, was beaten by American rider | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
Greg Hancock in the final race in Cardiff. | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
But after scoring more points on the night, | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
Woofinden now leads the overall standings with five meetings to go. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
Time for the weather now. Here's Sara Blizzard. | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
We will be holding on to the drier weather as we head through the | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
evening. Clearer skies coming in overnight. There could be a little | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
mist in the early hours but it will be a much fresher and night, not the | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
community we experienced last night, a minimum of ten Celsius `` not | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
disunity. Tomorrow morning there will be brightness then cloud | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
increasing in the afternoon and a weather front moving in. It will | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
produce some patchy light rain around tea`time but it will still be | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
a warm day tomorrow, temperatures reaching a maximum of 22. We have a | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
good deal of dry weather in the middle part of the week but it will | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
gradually turn humid again and it will feel very hot by Thursday. | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
Hello, most places are enjoying a fine end to the weekend with some | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
sunshine. You might be firing up the barbecue ahead of the World Cup | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
final but we have seen torrential storms in East Anglia and they still | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
have showers. They will ease but showers in Eastern Scott and into | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
eastern England. Elsewhere, it is dry and clear and misty and places, | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
and cooler, sunspots in single figures. -- some areas. 20 of | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
sunshine first thing but the weather will change from the West. Northern | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Ireland is first to get rain in the morning and that will head into | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
western Scotland, quite heavy and reaching parts of western England | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
and Wales in the afternoon. In the East, not much. Cloud will build | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
across central and eastern Scotland but they -- but there will still be | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
sunny spells and it will feel warm. Northern Ireland, temperatures held | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
down by rain but it will ease by the evening but it will still be wet in | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
western Scotland and some of that rain will head East later in the | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
day. Wettest in Scotland in the | :07:16. | :07:17. |