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The headlines tonight: Security measures stepped up at Birmingham's | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
German Christmas Market, following the killings | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
By family had been trading in Birmingham for 100 years. They were | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
here when the IRA bombed the city. My standpoint is nothing would | :00:23. | :00:23. | |
intimidate me. We'll speak to a security expert | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
about the challenges of protecting An NHS manager receives the | :00:27. | :00:43. | |
suspended sentence. There are people with significant positions of power | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
and responsibility who have abused them. They been brought to justice. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
The Worcestershire project connecting isolated older | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
people with volunteers. join me at Lichfield Cathedral for a | :00:59. | :01:07. | |
spectacular light display. You might want to stay indoors this | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
Christmas. There is heightened security | :01:11. | :01:26. | |
surrounding Birmingham's German Christmas Market, | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
one of the largest in Europe, following last night's terror attack | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
at a similar market in Berlin. 12 people were killed and dozens | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
of others were injured when a lorry In Birmingham, armed police have | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
ringed the city's market Our special correspondent | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
Peter Wilson is at the What more can you tell us about | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
the increase in security there? West Midlands Police tell me that in | :01:44. | :01:55. | |
light of the terror attacks in Berlin, they are now reviewing their | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
security measures in Birmingham and increasing their patrols. I've been | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
here since early this morning. And whilst sometimes sombre, people here | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
have told me they are determined to celebrate their Christmas at the | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
German market. The shutters were going up this | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
morning, business as usual at Birmingham's Christmas market. The | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
largest outside of Germany. Stallholders and shoppers had a mood | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
not of fear but of defiance. My family have been trading in | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
Birmingham for 100 years. They've seen the Luftwaffe here and the IRA | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
bombed the city. My standpoint is nothing would intimidate me. Of | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
course it's really sad about what happened but you've got to carry on | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
with your life. If you dwell on it too much, and sit back and don't do | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
anything, you would become a hermit and never go anywhere. The security | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
services were expecting an outrage somewhere in Europe, targeting a | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
Christmas event. The terror attack on bailing nearly claimed the life | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
of this man from Birmingham. A large truck came through. It went past me | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
and my girlfriend. It missed me by about three metres, thereby about | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
five. It came into the entrance, hit the sides of the barriers and then | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
carried on past us. Low key and out of sight. Police armed response | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
teams, sat in their unmarked, blacked out cars at strategic sites | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
around the market area. Foot patrols were more visible. One trader said | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
the British police response was far better than those you'd experienced | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
in Europe. I am from Slovakia. When we have a Christmas market in our | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
country, there is no security at all. Maybe two policeman for the | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
whole thing. It's pretty good here. I like it. He reinforced concrete | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
bollards are here to stop any vehicles gaining access to the | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
market area. West Midlands Police say they formed part of the original | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
safety plan and are not part of any new or specific intelligence. | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Additional bollards were installed just before the Berlin attack. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Tonight, the police said they were reviewing their security tactics on | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
a daily basis. The worst thing is if you are scared to leave your house. | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
Then they've won. We've got to carry on, haven't we? Carry on and not let | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
people stop you doing what you normally do with your life. Every | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
year, the city's German market has grown now attracting over 5 million | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
visitors. Such is the scale of this event that those who wish to make a | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
statement to create will also inevitably cast their eyes at | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Birmingham. With me now is a security expert, | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
Doctor Steve Hewitt, from the University of Birmingham. Steve, | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
clearly the security services were expecting this type of attack but | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
they couldn't prevent it. You think back two years ago, this month, | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
there were two attacks in France on market, one involving a fan and the | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
other a car. Very few lives were lost. In Nice, they used a lorry in | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
July. In Berlin, they were combining those two things. The Christmas | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
market is very symbolic and that creates the possibility for | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
terrorism. How likely is an attack on such a large-scale event as this | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
one in Birmingham? There is obviously a risk but we need to put | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
it into perspective. Driving your car is riskier, walking down your | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
street. Cycling in Birmingham as much riskier. Statistically, | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
terrorism is way down the list in terms of risk. It is nice to see | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
people are out tonight because we should live our lives as normally as | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
possible. It's a cliche but otherwise truly, the terrorists have | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
won. West Midlands Police tonight say they are working very closely | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
with Birmingham City Council and all the different security staff that | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
are here at such a large-scale event to make it safe, pleasant for | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
everyone who attends the German market in Birmingham. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
A highly respected doctor and an NHS manager have received two year | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
suspended prison sentences, for defrauding the NHS out | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
The cash had been earmarked to cope with winter pressures. | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Dr Ian Walton and Lisa Hill will do 200 hours community service and have | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
Our Health Correspondent, Michele Paduano, reports | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
Dr Ian Walton and Lisa Hill left court today in a hurry. | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
No longer leading lights in the field of mental health, | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
but disgraced criminals who had stolen from the NHS. | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
They are people with significant positions of power and | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
responsibility. They've abused those positions. They been brought to | :07:08. | :07:08. | |
justice. We've recovered monies. In 2012, Dr Walton, a partner | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
at this practice in Tipton used a charity he controlled, | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
Primhe, to channel ?150000 of NHS money into a business | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
that he and Ms Hill hadn't declared. The judge gave him a two-year | :07:17. | :07:28. | |
suspended prison sentence and ordered them to do 200 hours unpaid | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
work. He said they'd allowed their passion for mental health services | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
to override their judgment and honesty. He said the loss of a 30 | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
year reputation was a significant punishment in itself. | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
For organisations that rely on NHS money, this doesn't feel | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
Walton and Hill visited this afrocaribbean centre for Mental | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
Walton and Hill visited this Afrocaribbean centre for Mental | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
health at the time they took the money and threatened | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
Today, it's again in jeopardy and needs ?164,000. | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
We are very angry. Where we've been struggling and fighting to survive, | :08:00. | :08:09. | |
people who are employees of the NHS can do such a thing. The level of | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
the fraud is actually more or less equal to what would run our Centre | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
for a whole year. At the time of the crime, the NHS | :08:19. | :08:19. | |
was being reorganised putting The system in Sandwell was described | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
in court as in chaos. These two people were very senior in | :08:23. | :08:32. | |
the organisation. One was a director. They had an intimate | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
knowledge of our systems and processes and it would seem they | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
used that to commit this fraud. They didn't want to talk to us, | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
but they have said they'll pay Detectives say they're "no closer" | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
to solving the murder of a notorious It comes after a coroner concluded | :08:44. | :09:03. | |
that John "Goldfinger" Palmer was unlawfully killed at his home | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
in Essex last year. He was shot six times at close range | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
in a contract-style killing. John Palmer, Goldfinger. He got the | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
nickname after being involved with the Brinks mat heist in 1983. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
Speaking to reporters at the time, he denied having anything to do with | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
it. I am completely innocent of any thing to do with this so-called | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
bullion ride. I know nothing of it. In June last year, shortly after | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
these CCTV pictures were taken, Palmer was shot six times at his | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
home. Four days, police didn't realise he'd been murdered, thinking | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
he'd died as a result of gall bladder surgery. It was a mistake | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
they since apologised for. Today, an inquest was held here in Chelmsford. | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
The coroner concluded that he had been unlawfully killed. There was | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
only one member of John,'s family present, a man called Ashley Phil | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
Thorpe. He is the partner of John Palmer's daughter. He is seen here | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
on the right leaving the hearing with policeman. DCI Jennings gave | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
evidence and said the murder investigation is ongoing. One | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
problem and detectives have is the sheer number of people who might | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
have had a motive to kill Palmer. In relation to his four conviction in | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
2001, they were listed anything up to or above 16,000 victims. There | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
could been 16,000 motives why he was killed in relation to that. And | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
there is criminality involving the Brinks mat. A number of people | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
involved in that crime have now been either killed or died. That was a | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
much consideration. And Hatton Gardens as well possible involvement | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
there. Possible. It was a line of in Cairo -- enquiry. Police say someone | :10:54. | :11:05. | |
involved in the criminal underworld know who killed John Palmer. Today, | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
officers renewed their appeal for anyone with any information to come | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
forward. The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
says he'll look into proposals which could lead to the closure | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
of the accident and emergency department | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
at Stafford's County Hospital. A plan published earlier this month | :11:22. | :11:22. | |
considered whether to move from three to two A sites | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. Mr Hunt's comments came in response | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
to a question in the Commons from the town's Conservative MP | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
Jeremy Lefroy who told MPs that A sites in Stoke, | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
Stafford and Burton were all needed. Severn Valley Railway say it's | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
a quarter of the way towards its target to raise | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
?2.5 million to redevelop The attraction is raising the cash | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
through a ?1 share issue, The Electric Light Orchestra | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
will be inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
of Fame next year. The Birmingham legends are one | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
of six new entries - going in with Pearl Jam, | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
Yes and Tupac Shakur. Nearly 70,000 older people | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
in the West Midlands will feel lonely this Christmas, | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
according to Age UK. The charity estimates | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
5% of pensioners spend It's a problem one part of our | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
region is determined to tackle. In Worcestershire, a pilot project | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
has been set up to provide "one to one" support for the most | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
isolated in society. She lives alone and knows what it's | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
like to feel lonely. Nobody anticipates loneliness. It | :12:29. | :12:41. | |
just happens. Marjorie from Kidderminster spent | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
years caring for her husband Alan. He's now in a nursing home suffering | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
from vascular dementia and no longer When Allen did go into a care home, | :12:47. | :13:02. | |
then there was a void left where you don't know to pick up and socialise | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
really. I used to board guide ox, go dancing, do lots and lots of things. | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
Then suddenly, we did nothing. Charlie Wisdom is a volunteer | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
with Reconnections - a pilot project in Worcestershire | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
that's turning around Not only does Marjorie get regular | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
visits from Charlie at home, she also attends weekly activity | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
sessions at this well being centre. She is definitely changed for the | :13:31. | :13:47. | |
better. She has become more confident. She has come out of her | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
shell and it's so good to see her happy. It has opened a whole new | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
world. You can see how friendly everyone is. They are wonderful | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
people. They've all got a story to tell. We are all chatting and having | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
a lovely lunch and doing exercises. We are thoroughly enjoying it. Who | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
wouldn't benefit from that? Anybody could. | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
A thousand pensioners across Worcestershire have already | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
benefited from the project, which is partly lottery funded. | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
Activities are tailored to each person's needs. | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
It's hoped the scheme will eventually be adopted nationwide. | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
There are a lot of people who are much more confident now. They are | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
taking part and reconnecting with their families and people who'd been | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
estranged. It's making people much happier and confident to get out | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
there and enjoy themselves again. Marjorie is showing that isolation | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
can be overcome with the right help. We've been asking for some | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
of your solutions to the problem of loneliness and you've been coming | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
up with some heartwarming ideas. The Cap n Gown pub in Worcester | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
for instance told us they close on Christmas day, | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
but they've invited some of their locals who would otherwise | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
be on their own for dinner. We'd love to hear more | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
of your stories of helping those lonely and isolated, | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
of all ages and not Do drop us a line | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
on our Facebook page. Thanks for joining us | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
on Midlands Today. an unusual way to | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
protect your property. Meet the farmer with a llama, | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
warding off would be thieves We're almost near the shortest day, | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
will there be any change Calm and cold but more crucially, | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
it won't be over Christmas. More like mild and wild | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
as Storm Babs heads our way. One of the consequences of leaving | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
the European Union will be a major shake-up of farm subsidies - | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
and that could make the intensive and expensive farming of crops | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
such as wheat and barley But some farmers in the Midlands | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
are already trying a radically different approach, which they say | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
drastically cuts costs. But does that also | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
mean it cuts yields? Our Rural Affairs Correspondent | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
David Gregory-Kumar Overbury in Gloucestershire sits | :16:09. | :16:09. | |
in a landscape that's been farmed in much the same way | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
for hundreds of years. But on these fields | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
an experiment is underway. Farmers have been ploughing for | :16:23. | :16:32. | |
centuries, dragging a plough behind a horse and then a tractor, turning | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
over big lumps of soil. Increasingly, farmers are starting | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
to ploughing altogether. This field hasn't been | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
ploughed for four years now. It's rich, crumbly and | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
full of earth worms. And for farmer Jake Freestone | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
the sniff test is the clincher. Break it open and inhale it as you | :16:46. | :16:58. | |
break it open. Richard... That's earthy and smells of compost. That's | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
what we want. Encouraged by the results | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
in this field, He also grows "cover crops" | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
in between the wheat and barley, He's part of a growing | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
online support group. We share the knowledge and share the | :17:17. | :17:26. | |
mistakes. Hopefully, one person makes a mistake and then tells the | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
rest of the group not to be so stupid. | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
We've visited Jake several times this year. | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
Watched him plant the main crops straight into them, | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
no ploughing remember? Seen the harvest. | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
And now with the last of his oilseed rape just sold, | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
The year I get every crop right is the year to retire because it'll | :17:47. | :17:55. | |
never happen again. Overall, very happy with the rate has gone. It's | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
been a big investment but one which will pay back in financial terms and | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
in environmental terms as well. There are big upfront machinery | :18:02. | :18:02. | |
costs like this drill, but cost of production and tractor | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
fuel bills have roughly halved. And yields are still | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
around the national we could see more farmers | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
abandoning their ploughs. Interesting idea. You can find out | :18:11. | :18:30. | |
more about the plywood free farm on the BBC News website: | :18:31. | :18:48. | |
meet Bill, Morse and Lewis. One alpaca and two llamas. They've just | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
been appointed for guard dog duties and wild Bill is placid, Morse and | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
Lewis are more than for the job. During the daytime, they are chilled | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
out. You wouldn't have any problem often. At night-time, if they did | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
catch you, you're likely to get spat at which is particularly disgusting. | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
And also the potential to be kicked Britain as well. The idea has been | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
imported from South Africa where it is common for Lewis -- llamas to be | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
guard llamas. I wouldn't like to come in and I cannot see a llama | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
facing me, would you? Would you be scared? That's really unusual | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
actually. Very unusual. Especially bumping into that dark brown one. | :19:39. | :19:47. | |
You wouldn't see him, would you? The farm once their stock of Christmas | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
trees protected and weighing around 13 stone and being six feet tall | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
with good eyesight, they have all the necessary faculties. Christmas | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
trees are very valuable at this time of year and sought-after by the | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
right and wrong people. Making sure they don't go amiss. During daytime | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
hours, Lewis and Morse lead pretty much a dogs life it looks like the | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
same can now be said of their evenings. | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
You couldn't make it up! You may remember earlier this year, | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
four Yorkshire women in their 40s became the oldest | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
women to row 3,000 miles Well, another four from Shropshrie | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
are training to outdo them - They'll leave their families just | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
before Christmas next year to try conquer, | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
among other things, 40 foot waves! Joanne Writtle has | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
been to meet them. Miles from the sea, | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
at Shawbury in Shropshire, is primary school teacher | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
and grandmother, Debbie Bass. At 55, aiming to beat the four mums | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
from Yorkshire who, in February, became the oldest to row | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
across the mighty Atlantic. It's a long way away from baking a | :20:56. | :21:06. | |
cake for Christmas, which I probably won't be doing this time next year. | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
There'll be more than pet goldfish out there and next | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
December Elaine Theaker from Abergavenny will leave | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
I think she's a bit crazy. Do you? I didn't think you'd actually do it. | :21:13. | :21:24. | |
Di Carrington, from Pontesbury, is a former outdoor adventure teacher. | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
I was once in the British slalom canoe scored. That was when I was | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
21. And midwife Sharon Magrath will swap | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
dog walks near home in Bayston Hill I was approached by Diane in the gym | :21:37. | :21:49. | |
and I couldn't believe it that I've been thinking about it and thought | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
this is never going to happen. Now these for ordinary women are trained | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
to do something extraordinary. I can see a wave coming! And there will be | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
pain along the way. A lot of sore bottoms and skin that leaves a lot | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
of attention. We might have to examine each other's patterns from | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
time to time to make sure they are as healthy as they can be. You might | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
be wondering why we haven't seen these ladies in a boat yet and you | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
know what, those are very good reason for that. They haven't had it | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
built yet. Building starts in January and hopefully it will be | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
completed by the end of March. But before that, they're raising | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
?150,000 sponsorship What's more, two of them have | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
scarily little experience, September. Are you crazy? Probably. | :22:36. | :23:00. | |
Yes. I cant work out if they are inspirational or plain bonkers! | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
The Christmas angels have arrived a little early in Lichfield - | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
and they're certainly making an impact. | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
Just be aware this may contain some flashing images. | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
Sian Grzeszczyk is at the Cathedral this evening. | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
Mary, the light show is well under way. It has taken three months to | :23:13. | :23:23. | |
put this together. There are several projectors that are beaming all | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
kinds of that incredible artwork onto all 38 metres of the Cathedral. | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
I am joined by the Dean of the Cathedral. It's incredible. There is | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
a lot in it for everyone. Take us through it. Briefly, we start with | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
customers -- Christmas customs, the excitement of Christmas, then some | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
Christmas carols and as you can see now, we are moving into the great | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
climax of it, which is the message of the angels, culminating in the | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
Nativity. Let's step out of the way so people can take a really good | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
look at what the crowds are seeing. Just looking across, everyone is | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
completely mesmerised. What are we moving into now? Hark the Herald | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
Angels sing. You can hear it on the soundtrack. The angels are here, it | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
will say. Is this a more effective way of getting across the Christmas | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
story? It's a very engaging way. Continental cathedrals do this and | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
we thought it would be great in this field. The crowds are huge. We are | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
expecting about 10,000 people this week to come and see it. That's | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
quite a reach. What is your favourite part? We are coming into | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
it now. See all the angels inside the Cathedral placard it on the west | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
front and here they are. The angels are here. It's incredible how | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
effective it is. Such a large front to the cathedral. Really | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
spectacular. It is. This is English decorated architecture, the finest | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
of its kind in the country. If you want to come along and see the show | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
for yourself, it's on every night until Friday. 6:30pm until 8pm. | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
Some welcome brightness around today. | :25:15. | :25:15. | |
Thank you. Storm Barbara will be arriving by the time you get to the | :25:16. | :25:30. | |
weekend. It's all going to be changing, which I will talk about | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
more in a moment. First, let's take a look at the pictures. It's been | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
quite pleasant today with lots of dry weather and sunshine. It's going | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
to become even colder by the time we get to tomorrow night. Frost on the | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
cards as well. Storm Barbara is going to be arriving by the time we | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
get to the middle part of Friday. It's hurtling in from the West. By | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
the time we get to Christmas Eve, that's when it starts to change. A | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
lull in the weather. Another storm is heading in from the Atlantic and | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
that will be for Christmas Day itself. This could become the third | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
named storm of the season. I can't emphasise enough that you should be | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
keeping in touch with the forecasts as we approach the weekend because | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
it's going to be quite tricky. Batten down the hatches. This is a | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
jet stream that is driving all the systems in from the Atlantic. But | :26:27. | :26:38. | |
let's take a look at this evening and it is driver now. We've got a | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
weather system that is moving in from the north-west. That will | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
introduce more in the way of cloud. By the end of the night, that's when | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
we start to see clearer skies. Before the rain arrives and by the | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
time it clears away, we will see temperatures dropping down to three | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
Celsius. It will be chilly but not frosty. Into tomorrow morning, the | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
rain clears the south-eastern corner of the region. A dry spell for a | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
time. Another system, a narrow band of rain moves in from the | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
north-west. They could be some heavy bursts embedded in that. | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
Temperatures will be into single figures. A colder air mass sending | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
temperatures down to near freezing tomorrow night. | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
On tomorrow's programme we'll be meeting some of the members | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
of the City of Coventry Male voice choir who've been singing together | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
They're rooted in the area's mining history but are always on the look | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
You only grow old once, so you might as well enjoy it. | :27:36. | :28:02. | |
Four go mad in Florida and Japan in search of the perfect retirement. | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
The Real Marigold On Tour starts with Florida. | :28:09. | :28:19. | |
Celebrating 20 years of one of Britain's best-loved comedians, | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
with a collection of some of his finest and funniest festive moments, | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
brought together for the very first time... | :28:31. | :28:34. |