:00:00. > :00:00.Lack of respect - the Government's accused of fobbing off
:00:07. > :00:11.relatives of those killed in the Birmingham Pub Bombings.
:00:12. > :00:14.They need to give us exactlx the same funding rates as they gave
:00:15. > :00:17.the Hillsborough families, and the 7/7 bombing victims'
:00:18. > :00:23.It's still not clear what hdlp, if any, relatives of the victims
:00:24. > :00:26.will get with their legal bhlls surrounding the inquests.
:00:27. > :00:38.I'm on the banks of the sevdn with what has been hailed as the most
:00:39. > :00:41.exciting and ambition river restoration project in Europe.
:00:42. > :00:43.Herefordshire hospitals abott to be taken over by a neighbouring trust,
:00:44. > :00:51.Welcome back - American athletes set to use Birmingham
:00:52. > :00:58.ahead of the World Indoor Championships in 2018.
:00:59. > :01:01.And glorious views across Gorsley on a day when we had lengthx
:01:02. > :01:05.But can we hope for the milder conditions
:01:06. > :01:07.at least to continue into the weekend?
:01:08. > :01:21.The Government's been accusdd of "fobbing off" the familids
:01:22. > :01:24.of those killed in the Birmhngham Pub Bombings in 1974.
:01:25. > :01:28.Tomorrow is the deadline for submissions about
:01:29. > :01:32.what should be considered as part of the fresh inquests
:01:33. > :01:36.into the 21 people who died, but it's still not clear wh`t help,
:01:37. > :01:39.if any, their relatives will get with their legal bhlls
:01:40. > :01:45.While the families of those killed in the pub bombings
:01:46. > :01:48.took to the stage to receivd a special award for their ongoing
:01:49. > :01:57.21 people's lives, slain in cold blood for nothing.
:01:58. > :02:00.a debate taking place on the political stage
:02:01. > :02:05.along broadly the same lines - justice.
:02:06. > :02:07.In Parliament, Birmingham MP Jess Phillips
:02:08. > :02:10.condemned the Government for only just announcing
:02:11. > :02:16.that some legal aid will be granted to families,
:02:17. > :02:18.when applications for funding were made back in January.
:02:19. > :02:21.They are just ordinary, working-class people
:02:22. > :02:24.who are trying to find justhce in the face of powerful actors
:02:25. > :02:32.The appalling way that the funding for their case has been handled
:02:33. > :02:34.pushes them - and, I have to say, me -
:02:35. > :02:37.into really doubting that those in power
:02:38. > :02:42.And one of those doubters is Julie Hambleton,
:02:43. > :02:45.whose sister, Maxine, died in the bombings.
:02:46. > :02:47.The Belfast-based law firm which represents her
:02:48. > :02:52.have had their applications for funding refused.
:02:53. > :02:56.That's because the Legal Aid Agency says it doesn't have contracts
:02:57. > :02:59.with law firms outside England and Wales.
:03:00. > :03:02.Julie says all she wants is for the Government
:03:03. > :03:06.They need to give us exactlx the same funding rates
:03:07. > :03:08.as they gave the Hillsborough families
:03:09. > :03:12.and the 7/7 bombing victims' families at their inquest.
:03:13. > :03:16.Without any ifs or buts, without any caveats.
:03:17. > :03:18.But the legal aid that has been offered
:03:19. > :03:24.They are treating us as second-class citizens.
:03:25. > :03:27.An application for legal aid has been granted for one falily
:03:28. > :03:31.represented by a law firm in Liverpool,
:03:32. > :03:34.and the Legal Aid Agency has suggested
:03:35. > :03:37.that they apply for funding on behalf of the Belfast firm.
:03:38. > :03:44.The deadline for submissions needed for the inquests is tomorrow,
:03:45. > :03:47.and Julie says her lawyers will miss it because there's not been
:03:48. > :03:52.the money to pay for legal representation.
:03:53. > :03:58.the Justice Minister insistdd that families would be properly funded.
:03:59. > :04:03.The families should be reprdsented, if the case requires it,
:04:04. > :04:06.and that is the system that we are trying to creatd.
:04:07. > :04:09.Legal aid applications on bdhalf of the ten other families
:04:10. > :04:15.A pre-inquest hearing is dud to be held at the end of November
:04:16. > :04:23.but lawyers have already asked for that date to be pushed back
:04:24. > :04:25.Our reporter, Giles Latcham, has been following the families
:04:26. > :04:27.campaign for fresh inquests and he joins us now.
:04:28. > :04:36.What more do we know about what has or hasn't been offdred
:04:37. > :04:41.You heard Amy mentioned the Liverpool or Farnborough prdsenting
:04:42. > :04:48.one of the families. It is ly understanding that they havd
:04:49. > :04:52.received that offer amounts to one month's worth of legal fees for that
:04:53. > :04:57.solitary family, so that is the swan up until the 28th of Novembdr, the
:04:58. > :05:00.polemic new hearing. To say that the firm are frustrated my housdwork
:05:01. > :05:06.into the family concerned, they are deeply disappointed. The falilies as
:05:07. > :05:11.a whole deal that offer to be derisory, insulting even. There is a
:05:12. > :05:15.concern that all of the othdrs have no indication of what funding they
:05:16. > :05:19.will get. But the deadline is mighty close.
:05:20. > :05:23.Where does this go now? You can expect that timescale to slhp. There
:05:24. > :05:27.are still talks going on with the legal aid agency, but that one offer
:05:28. > :05:31.will be rejected and it will get even more political now. We saw Jess
:05:32. > :05:37.Phillips on her feet. Expect the Justice Secretary to be drawn into
:05:38. > :05:40.this, most probably next wedk at her question and answer session next
:05:41. > :05:44.week. The families have comd a long way, and have said that thex cannot
:05:45. > :05:48.have a fair and just inquest that presentation that they cannot
:05:49. > :05:51.afford. Do not expect them to roll over in the battle to get that
:05:52. > :05:53.funding. Thank you.
:05:54. > :05:55.It's being hailed as the most exciting river project
:05:56. > :05:58.in Europe - almost ?20 millhon is being spent on weirs
:05:59. > :06:03.along the River Severn so that fish can pass through them
:06:04. > :06:05.It'll mean that protected species that haven't been able
:06:06. > :06:08.to get upstream to breed will be able to flourish.
:06:09. > :06:10.Sarah Falkland is by the Severn to tell us more.
:06:11. > :06:25.What they are doing is giving the fish safe passage through the weirs
:06:26. > :06:30.up the seven river. They ard installing state-of-the-art gates,
:06:31. > :06:35.some of them 70 feet wide, so the fish can come from the sea tpstream
:06:36. > :06:37.to breed. This will reverse the negative ecological effects of the
:06:38. > :06:42.industrial revolution, and ht is hoped that fish that will not have
:06:43. > :06:46.been in here for well over ` century will now return.
:06:47. > :06:52.At 220 miles long, it is Brhtain's longest river. 150 years ago, the
:06:53. > :07:00.River Severn used to be full of bees. They are called shad, and they
:07:01. > :07:06.are like herring. They used to run as far as Welshpool, in thehr tens
:07:07. > :07:11.of thousands. Now they have dwindled, not to extension, but not
:07:12. > :07:15.far off. Weirs are the reason for the decline. In the biggest project
:07:16. > :07:19.of its kind in Europe, gates are being instructed in the weirs to
:07:20. > :07:22.allow the Shad and salmon and eels through.
:07:23. > :07:28.How can you be sure that thd fish will come upstream and breed? They
:07:29. > :07:33.did before the passes were built anyway, but by pure instinct we know
:07:34. > :07:37.that they will return. Rese`rch on other rivers where we have done
:07:38. > :07:40.similar projects are the fish know what they have got to go and find a
:07:41. > :07:43.way. So the fish know whethdr you are heading.
:07:44. > :07:48.What about the rest of us? The hope is that people will be able to walk
:07:49. > :07:53.along this path, up to the weir alongside the new fish pass and then
:07:54. > :07:57.into an underground chamber, a natural aquarium, where thex will be
:07:58. > :08:04.able to see the Shad, salmon at eels as they go upstream to breed. The
:08:05. > :08:08.water quality is the best it has been for years. Largely as ` result
:08:09. > :08:11.of working with big industrx, is sewage works and that kind of stuff,
:08:12. > :08:14.the quality of stuff that goes into the river is excellent now. A
:08:15. > :08:20.healthy breeding ground, thdn. There is even talk of a Shad Fest, a
:08:21. > :08:25.homecoming party for this old species, said to be a favourite of
:08:26. > :08:31.Henry the third. Does anyond know what is they are? I would gtess it
:08:32. > :08:41.is a big to-do with a shadow? Is it an animal, insect? A type of bird,
:08:42. > :08:45.maybe? I don't know! A little bit of confusion there
:08:46. > :08:48.Work is not due to start until next summer at the earliest. It will
:08:49. > :08:53.start downstream appear at Tewkesbury. They will be working on
:08:54. > :08:57.the weir there first, but that will release the fish to come up here as
:08:58. > :08:59.far as Worcester. That'll h`ve a massive impact when work begins and
:09:00. > :09:00.the fish can start breeding in the spring. The whole project whll take
:09:01. > :09:05.at least five years. Hereford's MP, Jesse Norman,
:09:06. > :09:07.has claimed that the Trust running Herefordshire's hospitals
:09:08. > :09:13.is at risk of being taken over by another hospital
:09:14. > :09:14.nearly 70 miles away. Our health correspondent,
:09:15. > :09:16.Michele Paduano, has So what's behind this
:09:17. > :09:21.potential takeover? Hereford County Hospital has been
:09:22. > :09:24.in trouble for some time. It was put into special measures
:09:25. > :09:26.two years ago due to concerns
:09:27. > :09:28.about its high death rates and problems managing
:09:29. > :09:30.the emergency department. There was talk way back then
:09:31. > :09:33.of merger with another hosphtal Worcestershire Acute Trust
:09:34. > :09:35.made the most sense, but it has all sorts
:09:36. > :09:40.of financial and clinical problems and is wrestling with
:09:41. > :09:43.a complicated reorganisation. Gloucestershire was going to be
:09:44. > :09:46.the choice because it was already a foundation trust
:09:47. > :09:48.and just 30 miles away. But a black hole was found
:09:49. > :09:51.in its finances last month and it's had to take
:09:52. > :09:54.on a ?20 million loan. Step up South Warwickshire
:09:55. > :09:57.Foundation Trust, It has been buddying
:09:58. > :10:01.with Hereford County Hospit`l since January and has been
:10:02. > :10:03.interested in taking over This morning, the local MP told
:10:04. > :10:07.BBC Hereford and Worcester he was worried that deals
:10:08. > :10:11.were being done behind closdd doors. It should not be done
:10:12. > :10:13.without consultation. There's got to be a focus on patient
:10:14. > :10:16.well-being and the long-terl security and well-being
:10:17. > :10:19.of health care in Herefordshire None of the hospitals involved
:10:20. > :10:24.are saying anything. It was left to NHS Improvemdnt
:10:25. > :10:26.to say that Hereford County is improving and its working
:10:27. > :10:30.with the trust's Board on how best to make sure it gets the support
:10:31. > :10:34.it needs to continue improvhng and what can be done to enstre
:10:35. > :10:37.the long-term future of the services So we'll just have to wait
:10:38. > :10:41.for the announcement. A new report has found
:10:42. > :10:43.that Birmingham Prison is struggling to cope
:10:44. > :10:49.with the behaviour of inmatds who are taking
:10:50. > :10:51.new psychoactive drugs. The Independent Monitoring Board
:10:52. > :10:53.found the drugs are creating a climate of fear and bullyhng
:10:54. > :10:55.amongst prisoners. It also warns that staff shortages
:10:56. > :10:58.are making it increasingly difficult A man's been arrested
:10:59. > :11:04.at Birmingham Airport The 32-year-old from Coventry
:11:05. > :11:09.was detained by officers from the West Midlands
:11:10. > :11:11.Counter Terrorism Unit Two people
:11:12. > :11:17.have been taken to hospital after a stabbing in
:11:18. > :11:19.Birmingham city centre this morning. Emergency services were called
:11:20. > :11:21.to Hurst Street just before 5am A man and a teenager
:11:22. > :11:25.were caught up in a disturb`nce Their injuries aren't thought
:11:26. > :11:31.to be life threatening. Kashmiris from Birmingham,
:11:32. > :11:33.Wolverhampton and Walsall h`ve taken part in a national demonstr`tion
:11:34. > :11:38.outside the Indian High Comlission The Himalayan region has bedn
:11:39. > :11:42.disputed since 1947, which has led to wars
:11:43. > :11:49.between India and Pakistan. We will be handing a memorandum
:11:50. > :11:52.saying to the Indian governlent that they should have a dialogue
:11:53. > :11:54.with Kashmiri people and end occupation and stop
:11:55. > :11:56.killing and torturing peopld. this issue has to be
:11:57. > :12:00.resolved by dialogue. So India has to come
:12:01. > :12:02.to the negotiation table and have a dialogue
:12:03. > :12:03.with Kashmiri people, about the suffering
:12:04. > :12:07.of Kashmiri people. since a Wolverhampton MP
:12:08. > :12:12.stood up in a Birmingham hotel and made one of the most infamous
:12:13. > :12:16.speeches of all time. when he spoke out
:12:17. > :12:21.against immigration in 1968, in what became known
:12:22. > :12:24.as the "rivers of blood" spdech It's the subject of a new play
:12:25. > :12:27.called What Shadows, which has its world premier
:12:28. > :12:30.at the Birmingham Rep tonight. Like watching a nation
:12:31. > :12:37.busily engaged in heaping up
:12:38. > :12:42.its own funeral pyre... Almost 50 years since
:12:43. > :12:45.the "rivers of blood" speech divided the country,
:12:46. > :12:47.it is being replayed on stage in Chris Hannan's
:12:48. > :12:50.play, What Shadows. and the man playing the forler
:12:51. > :12:57.Wolverhampton South West MP think the audience will be
:12:58. > :13:01.regularly, not confused, but They may move from one
:13:02. > :13:08.side to the other in And that is what you hope
:13:09. > :13:12.great drama might do, really engage with people,
:13:13. > :13:14.get them thinking, get them talking Rebecca Scroggs takes the role
:13:15. > :13:19.of an Oxford academic and immigrants' daughter,
:13:20. > :13:22.Rose Cruikshank, whose childhood was shatterdd
:13:23. > :13:26.by the 1968 speech. She says that, as well as bding
:13:27. > :13:30.divisive, it shut down debate. In his speech, there were things
:13:31. > :13:34.you can kind of understand, but then there was also very,
:13:35. > :13:38.very hateful rhetoric. The words he used were
:13:39. > :13:40.disgusting in parts. Any questioning of Britain's
:13:41. > :13:43.multicultural identity was seen as racist, because often
:13:44. > :13:47.it was framed in very racist ways. Two, four, six, eight,
:13:48. > :13:51.we don't what to integrate! Powell was inundated
:13:52. > :13:54.with supportive letters, and marchers were organised by those
:13:55. > :14:00.in favour of his views. But the speech cost
:14:01. > :14:02.Enoch Powell his job It also brought an end to a
:14:03. > :14:08.long-term friendship with the editor of the local newspaper,
:14:09. > :14:10.Clem Jones. Seen here on a family picnic
:14:11. > :14:14.two years before the speech, he had advised Powell on how
:14:15. > :14:18.to maximise media coverage. Years later,
:14:19. > :14:20.looking through the archives, his son, Nick,
:14:21. > :14:22.a former BBC correspondent, said he would live
:14:23. > :14:26.to regret that advice. The speech had been made
:14:27. > :14:28.on the Saturday afternoon, the Express and Star would have
:14:29. > :14:33.to say something about the speech. I'm reading this for
:14:34. > :14:36.the very first time. He's talking about the damage
:14:37. > :14:40.that the speech could cause, the extravagant language
:14:41. > :14:44.that Enoch Powell was using. The ties between a newspaper editor,
:14:45. > :14:51.an MP and one of the world's most famous speeches
:14:52. > :14:53.are key parts of What Shadows at the Birmingham Rep
:14:54. > :14:57.until the 12th of November. And you can see more on this
:14:58. > :15:00.on Sunday Politics on BBC One Thanks for joining us
:15:01. > :15:05.on Midlands Today. The Government's accused of showing
:15:06. > :15:13.a lack of respect and fobbing off Still fairly mild for the l`st few
:15:14. > :15:16.days of October, isn't it? Six Army reservists from Birmingham
:15:17. > :15:22.and Hereford head for the Antarctic, planning to ski more than
:15:23. > :15:24.1,000 miles to the South Pole. And shedding some light
:15:25. > :15:26.on the famous works Find out why the skies
:15:27. > :15:29.above Compton Verney A special hair salon's opendd
:15:30. > :15:38.at Stafford County Hospital for people who've lost their hair
:15:39. > :15:40.through illness, such as cancer, or their soletimes
:15:41. > :15:42.gruelling treatment. The salon's providing wigs
:15:43. > :15:44.for patients at the hospital and the money to fund it
:15:45. > :15:46.has been raised Here's our Staffordshire
:15:47. > :15:54.reporter, Sian Grzeszczyk. You wouldn't know it to look
:15:55. > :15:58.at her but Julie is wearing a wig. and has returned to the new
:15:59. > :16:06.hospital salon to get it chdcked before going for her
:16:07. > :16:08.chemotherapy treatment next door. She had ovarian cancer
:16:09. > :16:11.which has now spread to her lungs. I was totally traumatised
:16:12. > :16:14.when I lost my hair, because it is a woman
:16:15. > :16:16.thing, isn't it? I used to have it covered every four
:16:17. > :16:22.weeks, had my foils, everything And then, when it started to
:16:23. > :16:24.come out, I was really, really. . I don't think I really
:16:25. > :16:28.knew what to expect. What sort of a difference
:16:29. > :16:30.does this wig make to you? And that's one of the reasons
:16:31. > :16:38.why Fiona decided to raise the ?50,000
:16:39. > :16:41.needed to set up the salon. When she was diagnosed
:16:42. > :16:44.with breast cancer back in 2009 and faced losing her hair
:16:45. > :16:46.within three weeks, she was disappointed
:16:47. > :16:49.with what was available. You had to choose a week
:16:50. > :16:52.from a brochure, and I just felt that it wasn't
:16:53. > :17:00.a really good experience. Today is a special one for Gillian -
:17:01. > :17:04.she's come in to see her wig and have it fitted
:17:05. > :17:06.for the first time. She's been without her hair
:17:07. > :17:08.for many years Then earlier this year,
:17:09. > :17:13.more bad news - she discovered
:17:14. > :17:17.she had breast cancer. To be able to come into
:17:18. > :17:19.a hairdresser's salon, a hair and beauty salon,
:17:20. > :17:21.again is marvellous. Now, WE know Gillian's
:17:22. > :17:24.new hair looks fab - So it going to feel,
:17:25. > :17:43.walking out of the salon today I'm going to feel normal
:17:44. > :17:47.and just generally different Gillian's husband, Graham,
:17:48. > :17:54.who'd been waiting patientlx outside The Ricoh Arena in Coventry
:17:55. > :18:12.is on a shortlist of venues to stage matches when England hosts
:18:13. > :18:17.the Rugby League World Cup hn 2 21. It was announced this morning
:18:18. > :18:19.that England had beaten America in the bidding process
:18:20. > :18:22.for the tournament. The Ricoh is already hosting
:18:23. > :18:25.a double header of rugby le`gue matches next weekend
:18:26. > :18:29.in the Four Nations tournamdnt. That won't be the only major
:18:30. > :18:34.sporting event coming to thd region Birmingham is staging the World
:18:35. > :18:37.Indoor Athletics Championshhps in 2018 and planning a bid
:18:38. > :18:42.for the Commonwealth Games hn 2 26. And today it was confirmed
:18:43. > :18:44.that the American athletics team are close to signing a deal
:18:45. > :18:47.to use the city as a training camp
:18:48. > :18:48.again next summer. The town hall here,
:18:49. > :18:53.which was built in the 1840s. This is no ordinary tourist
:18:54. > :18:55.getting the lowdown Duffy Mahoney is the head of
:18:56. > :19:00.a delegation from the American Track and Field team who are in the city
:19:01. > :19:04.to finalise plans for a preparation camp ahead of the World Athletics
:19:05. > :19:08.Championships in London next summer. It is a confirmation trip,
:19:09. > :19:11.just to see the hotel, get it finally set, look
:19:12. > :19:13.at the competition facility for our training purposes,
:19:14. > :19:17.just get the contract inked and ready for the world
:19:18. > :19:19.Championships. We are bidding to host
:19:20. > :19:27.the 2026 Commonwealth Games, and it cannot do us any harl
:19:28. > :19:30.whatsoever to be demonstrathng to major sporting teams,
:19:31. > :19:32.one of whom are eight Commonwealth nation,
:19:33. > :19:34.that we have the facilities and the ability to host nathons
:19:35. > :19:39.for sporting events. The Jamaicans and the Americans
:19:40. > :19:43.used Birmingham as their base The US team was based
:19:44. > :19:49.at the Alexander Stadium and included discus
:19:50. > :19:50.thrower Aretha Thurmond. It was very warm, very welcoming,
:19:51. > :19:57.and I think that the beauty of the sport is that it
:19:58. > :19:59.doesn't really matter where you are from, it's just
:20:00. > :20:01.the appreciation of athletics. I figured that family environment
:20:02. > :20:07.that I think you love to grow If we can share that with a whole
:20:08. > :20:13.city and a whole community, But it is not just
:20:14. > :20:16.about sporting prestige. The council say that
:20:17. > :20:18.when the Americans and Jamahcans it bought ?8 million of economic
:20:19. > :20:24.benefit to the city. This may have been the advance
:20:25. > :20:27.party, but with the Jamaicans likely to return as well, Birmingh`m's
:20:28. > :20:30.reputation as a city of sport will be boosted
:20:31. > :20:36.once again next summer. And one other piece
:20:37. > :20:37.of sporting news. Congratulations to the Birmhngham
:20:38. > :20:40.Brummies speedway team who won the National League
:20:41. > :20:42.Grand Final last night to be crowned champions
:20:43. > :20:49.for the second year in a row. It's hard to believe that more
:20:50. > :20:52.people have landed on the moon than successfully trekked
:20:53. > :20:54.to the centre of the South Pole - and that's the feat an intrdpid team
:20:55. > :20:57.of six Army Reservists from the Midlands
:20:58. > :21:00.have set out to achieve tod`y. In doing so, they know many
:21:01. > :21:02.have lost their lives and this is them training
:21:03. > :21:12.in Iceland a few weeks ago. Today they set off to
:21:13. > :21:14.the South Pole, where they'll begin
:21:15. > :21:17.a 1,100-mile journey across one of the harshest
:21:18. > :21:27.environments on the planet. Once we climb onto the polar
:21:28. > :21:35.plateau, we will be at an altitude of approximately 900 9000 fdet. , so
:21:36. > :21:44.it will be challenging condhtions. Earlier this year, British @rmy
:21:45. > :21:46.Officer Henry Wordlsey died and this team is hoping
:21:47. > :22:03.to complete it in his honour. You want these pads to come together
:22:04. > :22:04.because a lot of strangers `nd that buckle.
:22:05. > :22:07.and have taken over 100kg of supplies -
:22:08. > :22:09.they'll live on dried food for more than two months.
:22:10. > :22:12.One of the most essential items are these crampons, which they'll
:22:13. > :22:15.strap to their feet for the final 90 miles of the journey
:22:16. > :22:18.so they can cut through what will be by then rock-hard ice.
:22:19. > :22:21.They know the risks but havd plenty of medical experience onboard -
:22:22. > :22:26.there are three doctors and a paramedic in the team.
:22:27. > :22:35.It will help when there are niggles anything, just to have a bit more
:22:36. > :22:39.medical advice. And it means we can take Cobra heads of medical kits is,
:22:40. > :22:43.so if something does go drastically wrong, there is more support there.
:22:44. > :22:48.The challenge of a lifetime, the opportunity of a lifetime. Only six
:22:49. > :22:51.people have ever traversed Antarctica, so to be amongst those
:22:52. > :22:53.will be absolutely fantastic. They plan to post daily
:22:54. > :22:55.podcasts of their adventure, and are raising ?100,000
:22:56. > :23:00.for the soldier's charity ABF. Something Henry Wordlsey
:23:01. > :23:09.would be proud of. He's been described
:23:10. > :23:12.as England's greatest gardener. Lancelot "Capability" Brown
:23:13. > :23:15.was responsible for more th`n 150 gardens surrounding stately
:23:16. > :23:18.homes and estates in Britain, He also designed the grounds
:23:19. > :23:23.at Compton Verney where tonight they are celebrating
:23:24. > :23:39.his 300th anniversary. I'm not sure capability Brown ever
:23:40. > :23:43.expected the landscape here to look quite this spectacular. Thex are
:23:44. > :23:47.using lights to showcase ex`ctly what there is here, and we can even
:23:48. > :23:51.have a go at changing the lhghts. You see that box in the distance
:23:52. > :23:56.across a lake, that is wherd you have a go. You can also try your
:23:57. > :24:02.hand at making lanterns. All part of this art installation, which is the
:24:03. > :24:08.brainchild of this artist. What a campus to put your work on. It is a
:24:09. > :24:12.fantastic canvas. The size of the trees, the dimensions, the lake the
:24:13. > :24:17.water. The mist as well, it is a fantastic place to interact with and
:24:18. > :24:24.do the lighting installation. What is the inspiration for it? Ht is
:24:25. > :24:26.trying to play, to understand that landscape using light. We w`nt
:24:27. > :24:31.people to interact and understand what they are looking at. That is
:24:32. > :24:41.what we have been tried to do with the light which is our meditm. It is
:24:42. > :24:49.a lovely exhibition, but it is not just about the parkland, is it? No,
:24:50. > :24:59.it works well with the anniversary this year. The mansion and the
:25:00. > :25:02.renovated chapel. We also h`ve an installation in the chapel this
:25:03. > :25:06.weekend, by a Chinese artist commission will be lighting up the
:25:07. > :25:13.floor with illuminated rice, calling it The Ritual. They can bring their
:25:14. > :25:19.own torches and make their own patterns. They want people to get
:25:20. > :25:22.involved. I am going to havd a go with the lights.
:25:23. > :25:24.So here we are, four days short of Halloween,
:25:25. > :25:26.and it's still really quite warm out there.
:25:27. > :25:38.The westerlies are doing all they can to boost the temperaturds, but
:25:39. > :25:43.sunshine is lagging behind, and that is the issue in the coming days
:25:44. > :25:47.Again today, the cloud was stubborn to left, but the South fared better
:25:48. > :25:52.in terms of sunshine than the north of the region. Temperatures were
:25:53. > :25:55.higher here. In parts of Worcestershire, temperatures reached
:25:56. > :25:58.highs of 15. In the north of the region, they were slightly lower,
:25:59. > :26:03.but still decent enough. Not all parts of the North were dogged by
:26:04. > :26:11.the cloud. We had some glorhous sunshine here in Staffordshhre. Some
:26:12. > :26:15.sunshine around. It is going to be a largely cloudy picture, but dry and
:26:16. > :26:22.fairly mild. The reason for this cloud is the position of thd high
:26:23. > :26:26.pressure. It will move across us, and we have got hardly any hsobars
:26:27. > :26:30.across us, so very light winds and nothing to stir up why did take the
:26:31. > :26:34.cloud, or any mist and fog we get in the morning. At the moment, we have
:26:35. > :26:38.a frontal system across the North. That is producing more in the way of
:26:39. > :26:42.cloud and we will see that spilling in overnight and producing some rain
:26:43. > :26:47.across the northern fringes. This will slowly start to slip southwards
:26:48. > :26:50.during the course of the night. Where we get the clear spells, get
:26:51. > :26:55.mist and fog developing in the morning again. Under cloudy skies,
:26:56. > :26:59.temperatures drop to a minilum of ten or 11 Celsius. I'm older night.
:27:00. > :27:03.Another mild start to tomorrow, but we still have the mist and fog
:27:04. > :27:06.around, and the cloud. But that will hopefully break up during the
:27:07. > :27:10.afternoon. Generally a fairly dull day tomorrow, with spots of rain
:27:11. > :27:15.first thing. Try during the afternoon. Temperatures reaching 14
:27:16. > :27:20.or 15 Celsius, still above `verage for the time of year. It should be
:27:21. > :27:23.around ten or 11 right now. The winds are lighter from the westerly
:27:24. > :27:27.direction, so it will be difficult to break up the cloud, and we might
:27:28. > :27:32.be stuck under that for most of the time. That will continue into
:27:33. > :27:36.tomorrow night and into the weekend as well. So looking fairly dull but
:27:37. > :27:39.still fairly mild. Thank you.
:27:40. > :27:43.I'll be back at 10:30pm with another update.