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The headlines tonight: G4S admits they were surprised by last weeks | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
riots at Birmingham prison which took 12 hours | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
Staff struggled to hold off prisoners. | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
Bred as they were putting on the chain is, they were faced by | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
prisoners are advancing towards them and threatening them. Saying he | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
better hurry up. Hurry up and get a chain, because are coming. | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
transferred to other prisons, after they caused damage costing | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Also tonight: We can't rest until we know what happened. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
A new appeal to solve the mystery of two young boys | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Banned from wearing their football kit - | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
the youth teams sponsored by a tattoo parlour and a nightclub. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
It is only a bit of writing on our shirts. Are they going to ban David | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Beckham from having tattoos? In harmony for 70 years, | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
the Coventry male voice choir Storm Barbara barges | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
in before the weekend, but could another deep depression be | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
looming for Christmas? The Head of G4S prison services, | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
the company which runs Birmingham Prison, says | :01:07. | :01:23. | |
he was "surprised" by last That's despite a recent report | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
which said urgent action was needed to prevent an attack | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
on prison officers. More than 400 inmates have been | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
transferred to other jails, following 12 hours | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
of disturbances last Friday. They started after an inmate stole | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
some keys from a prison officer. Havoc and hi-jinks | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
captured on mobile phones as hundreds of prisoners took | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
control of HMP Birmingham. Lighting fires in stairwells, | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
burning paper records. Five days on, order | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
restored and a visit Just a few months ago | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
Sam Geemah was in charge I have been here today meeting the | :02:05. | :02:19. | |
staff who were on duty last Friday and talking to them about their | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
experiences and I can't emphasise how proud I am of some of the | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
individual acts of bravery that took place here to make sure the | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
situation was contained on the winks where it happened. | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
Even so, the bill for the damage is estimated at three | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
The company's also got the worry that inmates may have made copies | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
of keys they got hold of during the trouble and | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
then there's the wider matter of staffing. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
There's a riot because they were not getting what they need, the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
prisoners. There two officers four fools. -- four for girls. | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
The Government says lack of staffing and the use of illegal | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
drugs are the main factors behind Friday's riot. | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
The minister says problems at HMP Bham are replicated in jails | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
The Government is already announced major investment to deal with this. | :03:10. | :03:23. | |
We have plans to strengthen the front line and give staff tools and | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
resources to challenge and support prisoners and turn them around. | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
Turning around this place will not be simple or quick. | :03:36. | :03:36. | |
Violence against both officers and inmates is soaring. | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
in their worst state for over a decade. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
Earlier, in an exclusive TV interview, I spoke | :03:44. | :03:44. | |
to Jerry Petherick, who is the Managing Director of G4S | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
custodial services, the private firm which runs | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
I asked why it took 12 hours to bring the situation under control. | :03:53. | :04:03. | |
This was a large-scale events. We half to make sure we respond in a | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
way that maximises safety and delivers the required result. | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
Inevitably, there is going to be a time like before we have sufficient | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
staff here who are trained in the Tornado tactics, the advanced | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
tactics. And at what point with a tornado force is called in? I do not | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
know. But I do know that when I got the call, I instructed that we call | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
for assistance. That will be the subject of an investigation, whether | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
we did things right or wrong. I've yet to come across an investigation | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
that says everything went smoothly, because life is not like that. To | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
say that is an understatement. We have all seen the images of | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
prisoners wearing riot gear, which is pretty extraordinary. You show me | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
some images today of the damage that was done. You'd be paying tribute to | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
your stuff, but the plain fact is, they lost control. -- you will have | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
been paying tribute to your staff. , Yes we had to withdraw. It needs to | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
be clear that people I've talked about staffing levels and I have | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
looked at the staffing levels present at the time that this began. | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
And they were, in my view, based on 35 years of working in this | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
industry, entirely appropriate and entirely safe. Currently on your | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
recruitment website there are 25 vacancies for prison officers. The | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
salary is less than ?10 an hour. Given what happened on Friday, do | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
you really expect you will have a rush of applications for those | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
positions? That is obviously going to be one of the issues we need to | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
look out. But I can say we are recruiting and we have 16 staff | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
currently on their initial training course. This started into | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
micro-winks and spread to a further two wings, so wasn't content. Why | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
not? I spoke to the staff and another the ones who were applying | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
chains and padlocks to the gates as an additional level of security were | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
faced as they were putting on the chains by prisoners are advancing | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
towards them and threatening them saying they had better hurry up and | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
get the chains on, because they were coming. And by God, those staff | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
stood their ground. Do you take any responsibility for it? Of course, it | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
is my estate and my job to prevent that. Did you fail in that duty? I | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
will tell you that after the investigation. | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
There's a new appeal tonight for help in solving | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
the mystery of two young boys, who disappeared without trace twenty | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
David Spencer and Patrick Warren are now feared dead - | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
but the police say they're still hopeful of | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
Their families say they can't rest until they know what happened. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
David Spencer loved boxing, here he is in the ring, competing | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
Just weeks later on Boxing Day, the 13-year-old disappeared | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
along with his 11-year-old friend, Paddy Warren. | :07:27. | :07:27. | |
conference, Christmas has never been the same since. | :07:28. | :07:41. | |
I will always think of him. Constantly, everyday. The has not | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
gone by when I haven't thought of him in one way, shape or form. At | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
Christmas time is very tough. There were three brothers, | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
Lee was nine when David disappeared. He was my older brother commie | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
looked out for me, a role model. All that is gone. | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
The boys were seen playing on a frozen lake | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
near their home in Chelmsley Wood and a policeman | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
was abandoned at the petrol station. a christmas present the day before, | :08:11. | :08:24. | |
Over the years police have dug and made arrests, | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
questioning child killer Brian Field in prison. | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
There could be one person responsible for their disappearance | :08:30. | :08:41. | |
and it will be several who know what happened to them. My appeal today is | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
to anyone who knows anything about what happened to the boys to come | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
forward and tell us what they know. That bit of information could be the | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
difference between finding him and putting him to rest my family been | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
able to move on, have somewhere to go and put flowers down and | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
celebrate his birthday. Stuff that we don't have the moment, have | :09:02. | :09:02. | |
nothing. It's an enduring mystery, | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
and for the family an open wound The police have released new CCTV | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
images of men they want to trace, as they continue to hunt the killer | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
of Hereford father Christian Bagley. It's 18 months since the 30-year-old | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
was stabbed on a footpath The images show two men | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
police want to speak to. Detectives say they're convinced | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
somebody in Hereford Three men have been found guilty | :09:26. | :09:26. | |
of raping six vulnerable teenage girls in Coventry, | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
after befriending them on Facebook. Waqaar Khan, Kadeem Bourne | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
and Kenan Kelly were part of a gang of men who were said to have formed | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
a close loyal bond with each other. They were also found guilty, | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
alongside Marcus Woolcock and Zahid Chaudhary, | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
of human trafficking. Our Special correspondent | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
Peter Wilson is at Leamington So Peter, I gather this has been | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
a very complex case. trial that lasted nearly two months | :09:55. | :10:12. | |
and the jury have heard some simply harrowing evidence. The younger | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
girls in the victims, are aged between 15-17, the majority of them | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
were underage though. They were targeted by social media and taken | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
to isolated spots in Coventry and abused. We've spoken to a relative | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
of one of those girls and for legal reasons, we are protecting his | :10:36. | :10:36. | |
identity. They are despicable rats, | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
they are out there prowling though social media, | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
preying on vulnerable girls and just abusing the life out of them | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
for their own satisfaction and videoing them for | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
their own gratification. They just treat them | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
like pieces of meat. What of police said? The West | :10:50. | :11:03. | |
Midlands detective who has led this inquiry says that the men involved | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
all saw themselves as Untouchables and he says they have shown no signs | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
of remorse. I would say they are calculated, | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
they are evil, what they have done is purely to get | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
gratification for themselves. There has been in my view no | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
remorse throughout and no empathy of the victims, | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
what they are going through. It has been purely using them | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
to pass around the gang. What more is being done to protect | :11:22. | :11:36. | |
children from exploitation? Despite financial pressures, Coventry City | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
Council say they are investing more money in trying to protect young | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
people and the head of Child services in the city has made this | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
appeal:. and if there are other children out | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
there who have been affected in a similar way, I would encourage | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
them to speak to a trusted adult. Alternatively they could speak | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
to the police or ring All of five men are on remand and | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
will be sentenced in the New Year. Two youth football teams | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
in Birmingham have been banned from wearing their new shirts, | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
because they're sponsored Both companies are owned by parents | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
who have children in the Under ten and under 8's teams, | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
but the Football Association says they breach its rules | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
about appropriate sponsors. But at the minute, they're | :12:26. | :12:26. | |
going nowhere fast. the rules ON the pitch - | :12:27. | :12:35. | |
but everything to do Grassroots football does not get | :12:36. | :12:45. | |
help. Grassroots football | :12:46. | :12:58. | |
is on its knees at the moment. The FA says it gives us money, | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
and the Premier League, So, a thousand pounds donated by | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
the two companies was very welcome. All we want to do is play football | :13:04. | :13:15. | |
it is only a bit of writing our shirts. What are they going to do, | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
banner David Beckham from having tattoos? | :13:20. | :13:20. | |
Strict FA regulations to safeguard children have been in place for many | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
years and unfortunately these to businesses are not seen | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
It wasn't about advertising for us, but about helping in the community. | :13:29. | :13:45. | |
their decision, but when you discover there are other | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
being sponsored by tattoo studios, I think it's very double standards | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
comment on other youth teams across the country and | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
the "offending" clubs should be reported to their respective | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
It also says it sympathises with the Kings Heath Concordes | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
and any other club unsure about appropriate sponsors should | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
Unfortunately the Concordes are grounded | :14:15. | :14:23. | |
They've been suspended by the FA until they can get new shirts. | :14:24. | :14:36. | |
You've been sending us your thoughts on whether it matters which firm's | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
Andrew Webb posted on facebook "It is hypocritical of the FA to ban | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
"this sponsorship but be sponsored by McDonald's and | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
But Chris Higgins says "The rules seem perfectly sensible. | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
"It's a pity that no one at the club thought about them, | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
And Tracey Roberts thinks it's the FA which is out of order | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
as "it's all about encouraging the children - and be | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
Thanks for joining us on Midlands Today, this | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
is our top story tonight: G4S admits they were surprised by last weeks | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
riots at Birmingham prison - which took 12 hours | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
The shortest day will bring relief to everyone | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
who craves more daylight - but what about the weather? | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
Storm Barbara is a rather big tent. After the relative calm of today we | :15:22. | :15:37. | |
had some sunshine and rain and we are now hoping for a quiet and | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
peaceful Christmas, but you may be disappointed, I'm afraid. Details | :15:42. | :15:42. | |
later. More than six months | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
after travelling to Downing Street, to ask for NHS funding | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
for his physiotherapy, Ben Baddeley's family say they've | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
still not been offered any financial help to pay for the | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
treatment he needs. The 12-year-old had an operation | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
to help him walk two years ago but as the money was raised | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
privately, his family were told they had to continue | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
to pay for his aftercare. Crafted ceramic decorations | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
at Wedgwood in Stoke-on-Trent but there's only one Christmas | :16:03. | :16:12. | |
present Ben Baddeley and his family There's a lot more potential of that | :16:13. | :16:26. | |
Ben has, but that will only be the case if he gets the treatment. If he | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
doesn't, it will be a waste of time. Two years ago, 12-year-old Ben | :16:30. | :16:30. | |
from Newcastle-under-Lyme He had difficulty concentrating, | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
the hand that is steady today After a Midlands Today viewer helped | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
to pay for spinal surgery, 50,000 pounds was raised | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
by his family for specialist post operation physiotherapy, | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
his family took his case to Downing Street and to the NHS | :16:44. | :16:44. | |
in Staffordshire they want the specialist treatment his | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
surgeon has recommended. it would work with the family | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
to ensure Ben received the treatment that met his assessed needs, | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
something they have said again in a statement, but the family say | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
no treatment has been given. Christmas cards designed by Ben, | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
just part of the family's constant battle to fund the physio | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
they say have to pay for. We have to employ a physiotherapist. | :17:12. | :17:24. | |
She is the closest one to us, the closest in our area and she's 90 | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
minutes away. So by the time we've paid her travel costs and then an | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
hour with Ben, it is ?150 an hour and he needs about three times a | :17:37. | :17:45. | |
week. I like pop therapy, because it is a pain if I don't | :17:46. | :17:46. | |
As the new year approaches, Ben and his family say they won't | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
give up, but they are desperate for the funding to help him. | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
More than 5,000 staff at the Staffordshire digger | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
maker JCB have been given a Christmas bonus. | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
Staff at all 11 of the firm's plants in the UK are being given an extra | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Last November, they agreed to work shorter hours in order to prevent | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
But the company has since launched a new excavator with hundreds | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
of new orders, and created 85 new jobs at Uttoxeter. | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
In 2017, the market still seems quite challenging. It is our job to | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
grow the business again and with the actions we have in place and the | :18:28. | :18:28. | |
team we have, I think we can. In sport, Coventry City have | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
appointed Russell Slade He's previously been | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
in charge of several clubs, including Cardiff City | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
in the Championship. Last month, he left | :18:36. | :18:36. | |
Charlton Athletic. The deal is initially | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
until the end of this season. The Sky Blues are second | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
bottom of League One. Now when the Olympic Gold Swimmer | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
Adam Peaty tweeted his love for Jaykae in the summer, | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
not many of us would've known But the Birmingham Grime artist | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
is on the cusp of success - as he gets ready to perform | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
a headline gig in He remains unsigned, | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
but thanks to social media, is still able to make a living out | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
of what he loves. Here's Our Arts Reporter, | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
Satnam Rana. His video has had over | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
one million hits online, I started clashing here, I start | :19:12. | :19:34. | |
writing lyrics in the flats, when we was kids. I used to do loads of | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
things. Everything groaned from here for me. -- everything grew from | :19:40. | :19:40. | |
here. JayKae's lyrics are inspired | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
by his life experiences. And it's this which | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
appeals to his fans Anyone who can understand not having | :19:45. | :19:53. | |
the finer things in life when you are younger going the way struggle, | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
and Adam in poverty necessarily, but every is a struggle for some people, | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
people like me. But music was put on hold after one | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
of his best friends, fellow artsist Joshua Ribera | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
also known as Depzman, I started drinking and being a | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
nuisance and I had a fight and went to prison. Music started for me from | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
when I got out. It took me away from music for a bit. I fixed up and | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
carried on doing what I need to be doing. | :20:33. | :20:33. | |
Despite not being signed to a label, Jaykae is determined | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
Eye dropper videos, I get shows, I put the monks fortify and I choose. | :20:36. | :20:50. | |
Although Grime has seen mainstream success with likes of Lady Leshut, | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
Jaykae is one arsist who aspired to make it big - | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
To music of a very different kind now, and the distinctive | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
Coventry's has been performing in the city for seventy | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
years, but only started because of the Welsh! | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
For seventy years, the city of Coventry choir has | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
It started way back in 1946 at a former coal mine. | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
Many of the men having migrated to the city for work. | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
Mostly Welsh men came from the valleys to working Coventry at the | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
colliery and they formed a choir. They got others to join and it | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
became a very cross section choir. We've got doctors, engineers, | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
teachers, a very cross section. It nearly folded in its first year when | :21:56. | :21:56. | |
tragedy struck at the mine. long after and is now | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
the longest serving member. The original name for this choir was | :21:59. | :22:12. | |
in Welsh and it was where the disaster was the colliery. It killed | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
off the musical director and a number of people in the choir. | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
The average age of the men here is in the mid-seventies, | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
and they're always on the look out for new members. | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
We want to show others how special we and encourage others to come and | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
join us, because we have such a fantastic time. It is great for | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
learning, social aspect having fun, confidence building, you name it, it | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
is a great thing to do. The city of Coventry | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Male Voice Choir has performed all over the country | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
including at the Royal Albert Hall, and members are hoping to keep | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
up their performance portfolio Now, just last month, | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
BBC WM's Richie Anderson was put through the ringer, | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
as he undertook a 250 mile tandem ride, with selected "friends", | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
raising money for Children in Need. It was tough going at times, | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
but he powered through, inspired by the amazing children | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
at Edward's Trust, So we sent him back to report | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
on his progress - he went by car. Last time I was here | :23:07. | :23:21. | |
the people I met blew me away. I can't wait to see them all again. | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
I was in tears the last time I was here, because the stories are so | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
incredible. Hello, everyone! In my darkest times on the bike he | :23:33. | :23:51. | |
was thinking about their stores that kept me going. Damaged a raise? 6 | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
million! I raised ?10,000. One of the story that touched me the | :23:59. | :24:10. | |
most was eight-year-old Liam who lost his dad to haemophilia. What | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
you do here? We talk about it and play games so we don't get that | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
upset, we just speak about it and then we forget about it a little | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
bit. But you can never really forget what has happened. It is like | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
something that is a stain on you. In the Midlands, Children in Need | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
raised ?4 million. One of the councillors he says the money makes | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
a real difference. With things being tougher than many, people haven't | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
got money to give, so people like you coming along was amazing. That | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
was incredible. And thanks to you and your donations, Children in Need | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
is able to fund some incredible things, such as brief councillors | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
and just the chance for these young people to be around others in the | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
same boat as them. It is a job well done. | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
Warnings of stormy weather on the way. | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
But at least we're at the shortest day. | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
Longer days from now on until the summer solstice. But Italy prolong | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
the agony if that is all filled with bad weather. But this week they will | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
only be longer buy a fewer seconds. Today, we welcomed the winter | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
solstice with a bit of rain followed by sunshine. Some beautiful photos. | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
The clouds gathered from the North West and brought us more rain. They | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
cleared away at the end of the day. Looking towards Christmas Day, this | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
is it. Drizzly but dry, cloudy but mild and windy. Ahead of the | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
weekend, this is Friday, Stormer Barbra arrives and it is bringing | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
strong winds and heavy rain. The winds across the Midlands will | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
probably rise to 50 mph north of the region. No warnings at the moment, | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
but that could change. We have a respite on Christmas Eve. Fairly | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
blustery, but settled. Christmas Day, another deep depression to the | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
North West. Temperatures in double figures. Little rain. In sharp | :26:29. | :26:40. | |
contrast for tonight, it is looking quite wintry. Temperatures down to | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
-2 in rural spots. Frost in places in the clear skies. Dry. A crisp | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
starts tomorrow. Sunshine to start. Cloud from time to time and a fewer | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
showers, but mainly dry tomorrow and temperatures up to 7-8 C across the | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
region. Light winds from the South West. The calm before the storm, | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
because on Friday, that is when Stormer Barbra arrives. Temperatures | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
will probably rise by then, but there is rain and all because the | :27:17. | :27:17. | |
winds. On tomorrow's programme, we'll be | :27:18. | :27:19. | |
reporting on a worrying group of attacks on buzzards in | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
Herefordshire. Three birds of prey have been found | :27:22. | :27:22. | |
shot in the county in recent weeks. Now the RSPCA is putting up a reward | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
to try and find the culprit. That's on Midlands Today tomorrow | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
evening at 6.30 with Nick. That's all from me, I'd like to wish | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
you a Happy Christmas. Elizabeth Glinker will be | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
here with your late The roads we walk have demons | :27:38. | :27:39. | |
beneath them... ..and yours have been waiting | :27:40. | :27:59. | |
for a very long time. What is this? We can't do this. | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
Is this supposed to be a game? I thought this was some | :28:05. | :28:12. | |
kind of... What? ..trick. Of course it's not a trick. | :28:13. | :28:14. | |
It's a plan. What's the very worst thing | :28:15. | :28:16. | |
you can do... | :28:17. | :28:20. |