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:00:00. > :00:00.The families of the victims of the Birmingham pub

:00:07. > :00:10.bombings will get legal aid because of a change in the law.

:00:11. > :00:13.You know, it is, it's marvellous, really.

:00:14. > :00:16.As long as nothing else is going to follow.

:00:17. > :00:18.We'll be speaking to Julie Hambleton from the

:00:19. > :00:23.Her sister Maxine died in the bombings.

:00:24. > :00:27.Two patients die in six weeks after being sent home from accident

:00:28. > :00:31.and emergency in Coventry - with aneurysms.

:00:32. > :00:35.She was really upset about how she had been treated.

:00:36. > :00:41.She told me they told her she was a time waster.

:00:42. > :00:44.A disaster waiting to happen - the military warn of a potential

:00:45. > :00:51.collision between its aircraft and a drone.

:00:52. > :00:58.We are at the school preparing to celebrate the life and career of the

:00:59. > :01:08.Black Country artist whose drawings were just Dandy.

:01:09. > :01:11.And after a bitterly cold day, you'd be forgiven for thinking prospects

:01:12. > :01:19.were bleak for the weekend, but it is warming up. Details later.

:01:20. > :01:22.The families of the victims of the Birmingham pub

:01:23. > :01:26.bombings have learnt today they are to get legal aid.

:01:27. > :01:30.Sir Oliver Heald QC, the Minister for Legal Aid, said this afternoon,

:01:31. > :01:33."It would be a travesty for families to be denied justice,

:01:34. > :01:37.The Government has intervened in an apparent U-turn

:01:38. > :01:39.to remove legal barriers - which had previously

:01:40. > :01:51.It has been a hard-fought and often angry battle.

:01:52. > :01:53.In a moment I'll be talking to Julie Hambleton, who's led

:01:54. > :01:56.But first here's Carolle Forde Garcia.

:01:57. > :01:58.It's been a fight which has been long and bitter.

:01:59. > :02:02.Even as the families walked to the courts for a pre inquest

:02:03. > :02:05.hearing last November they had no legal funding and were at war

:02:06. > :02:18.If we do not have parity in legal funding, then that means to say that

:02:19. > :02:21.the scales of justice will be so unbalanced that the inquest will not

:02:22. > :02:27.be able to move forward. 42 years ago, people died and nearly

:02:28. > :02:33.200 were seriously injured when bombs exploded in crowded Birmingham

:02:34. > :02:37.pubs. Julie, whose sister Maxine was killed in the bombings, has led the

:02:38. > :02:40.campaign for justice. It has taken her all the way to Northern Ireland,

:02:41. > :02:45.to this Belfast law firm. The families believe only they could get

:02:46. > :02:50.the truth. We deal with daily issues such as

:02:51. > :02:53.intelligence, field investigations, misdirected investigations. An awful

:02:54. > :02:57.lot of those issues permeate a lot of killings and unresolved

:02:58. > :03:02.contentious killings in this jurisdiction. Those issues are at

:03:03. > :03:04.play in relation to the Birmingham pub inquest case.

:03:05. > :03:06.The Northern Ireland lawyers have worked for nothing.

:03:07. > :03:09.Up to today they didn't qualify for legal aid in england and Wales.

:03:10. > :03:36.In a statement, the Minister responsible for legal aid said:

:03:37. > :03:40.Bill lost his brother James in the bombings.

:03:41. > :03:45.Tonight, he gave a cautious response to the news.

:03:46. > :03:49.It's marvellous, really, as long as nothing else is going to follow,

:03:50. > :03:53.because we have got the inquest, and then we had the story with the

:03:54. > :03:58.money. Now we have got the money, is something else could come up?

:03:59. > :04:01.This week, the victims were granted the freedom of the city. Tomorrow

:04:02. > :04:05.the law will change, allowing the Northern Ireland lawyers to seek

:04:06. > :04:09.justice that the families have always thought to get. -- vote to

:04:10. > :04:10.get. I'm joined now by Julie Hambleton,

:04:11. > :04:12.whose sister Maxine was one of the 21 killed

:04:13. > :04:22.in the bombings in 1974. Good evening, good to see you. Your

:04:23. > :04:27.reaction to the news? We are cautiously optimistic. We are

:04:28. > :04:34.not going to move further forward until the ink is dry. However, if

:04:35. > :04:39.the promise is not fulfilled, the government will look pretty silly.

:04:40. > :04:46.But it does appear that the empty rhetoric has now become reality.

:04:47. > :04:50.How did you hear the news? I was telephoned at work its so

:04:51. > :04:56.Oliver Hill, they contacted me yesterday to see if I was available,

:04:57. > :05:04.and he was almost apologetic in his tone, but he did say that it was

:05:05. > :05:12.time for us to be given access to the funds, because we file into an

:05:13. > :05:16.unprecedented funding bubble. And as such, he wanted to try and help us,

:05:17. > :05:20.and to change the law accordingly to do so.

:05:21. > :05:25.When you received the phone call, what was your overriding emotion?

:05:26. > :05:34.Well, I am still cautious about the whole situation because, when Amber

:05:35. > :05:36.Rudd telephoned me in September, she said she fully supported our

:05:37. > :05:40.application for a legal aid, and we thought that was the door open, and

:05:41. > :05:46.nothing happened from there. Another barrier was built and the door did

:05:47. > :05:54.not open. So until the ink is dry, we will sit cautiously. However, we

:05:55. > :06:01.would hope that once the firm has filled the application in again,

:06:02. > :06:06.that the legal aid agency will be expeditious in their application to

:06:07. > :06:09.get it through and ready, so that we can be fairly and effectively

:06:10. > :06:15.legally represented at the forthcoming preliminary hearing on

:06:16. > :06:21.the 23rd of debris. And the family is not Iraq are

:06:22. > :06:24.severe and is has turned the empty rhetoric of the politicians into

:06:25. > :06:30.reality. It is quite an achievement, isn't it?

:06:31. > :06:36.Absolutely, and we have to thank our supporters, from local Brummies, the

:06:37. > :06:41.Birmingham mail, the BBC, ITV, supporters all over the country, in

:06:42. > :06:46.Ireland, and even the Lord Mayor, the council leader, everybody. The

:06:47. > :06:52.Birmingham Mail, everybody. We want to thank everybody out there.

:06:53. > :06:55.Without you, we would never, ever have got to where we are, and we

:06:56. > :06:59.thank each and every one of you. All the families are indebted to

:07:00. > :07:06.everyone, thank you. From the bottom of our hearts.

:07:07. > :07:08.Julie, thank you for coming in. Other news...

:07:09. > :07:11.Two patients have died in six weeks, after being sent home from accident

:07:12. > :07:13.and emergency in Coventry with a known condition.

:07:14. > :07:15.They both had an aortic aneurysm - a swelling of the body's

:07:16. > :07:18.main blood vessel - which if it bursts, can be fatal.

:07:19. > :07:21.Both families blame a crisis in the NHS for the death

:07:22. > :07:23.Our Health Correspondent, Michele Paduano,

:07:24. > :07:27.This was June Foxwell on holiday last March.

:07:28. > :07:30.She suffered from high blood pressure and breathing difficulties.

:07:31. > :07:32.But her family are still trying to come to terms

:07:33. > :07:38.She was sent home from A twice with a known aortic aneurysm.

:07:39. > :07:42.She collapsed 11 hours later after it burst.

:07:43. > :07:57.The aorta is the main vessel carrying blood from the heart.

:07:58. > :08:00.Sometimes the wall becomes weak and begins to bulge.

:08:01. > :08:03.If operated on, 96% of patients survive,

:08:04. > :08:11.She was really upset about how she had been treated.

:08:12. > :08:15.She told me they told her she was a time waster,

:08:16. > :08:22.and a malingerer, and as my dad has said earlier, that was not her.

:08:23. > :08:25.A post mortem report shows an ultrasound scan on August 22nd

:08:26. > :08:35.But after three days in hospital she was sent home.

:08:36. > :08:39.On August 30th, she was kept in A overnight, then sent home.

:08:40. > :08:42.She collapsed 11 hours later and died.

:08:43. > :08:45.University Hospital Coventry would not answer any detailed

:08:46. > :08:47.questions, said it was working with the coroner to address

:08:48. > :08:53.But the coroner has already held an inquest to a death that occurred

:08:54. > :08:59.six weeks before Mrs Foxwell's in remarkably similar circumstances.

:09:00. > :09:03.The father of Labour MP Toby Perkins died on July 15th after being put

:09:04. > :09:06.in a taxi and sent home from University Hospital.

:09:07. > :09:09.Four days earlier he had been sent home from the A department

:09:10. > :09:11.at Coventry and Warwickshire hospital with what a vascular

:09:12. > :09:14.surgeon described at my father's inquest as classical aneurysm

:09:15. > :09:19.Mr Perkins was shocked it could happen again.

:09:20. > :09:22.It is very worrying that the pressures that

:09:23. > :09:25.are on the national Health Service, and on the University Hospital

:09:26. > :09:28.in Coventry particularly in this case are such that the hospital

:09:29. > :09:31.are constantly having to make decisions about sending people home

:09:32. > :09:34.who really should be in a hospital bed.

:09:35. > :09:38.A couple for 39 years, they used to do everything together.

:09:39. > :09:45.But Dave is having to come to terms with life on his own.

:09:46. > :09:47.The military in Shropshire are warning it's only a matter

:09:48. > :09:50.of time before one of their low flying aircraft collides

:09:51. > :09:53.with a drone, causing a potential disaster.

:09:54. > :09:55.The skies above the Midlands are already busy -

:09:56. > :09:58.but planes and helicopters are increasingly being

:09:59. > :10:04.Our Special Correspondent Peter Wilson has been investigating.

:10:05. > :10:08.They have been flying here for 100 years.

:10:09. > :10:11.There's not much that scares these men and women,

:10:12. > :10:14.but the home of the defence helicopter flying school has

:10:15. > :10:20.We operate at heights below 500 feet, which is exactly where drone

:10:21. > :10:24.operators will be flying their toys, and it is only a matter of time,

:10:25. > :10:31.Drones, remote-controlled aircraft, can cost as little as ?50.

:10:32. > :10:40.30,000 were sold last Christmas by just one UK retailers.

:10:41. > :10:42.The helicopter crews in Shropshire have increasingly

:10:43. > :10:45.had to dodge the drones as they practice their

:10:46. > :10:51.We have had reported sightings in various parts of Shropshire,

:10:52. > :10:54.over Nesscliffe training area and over Telford.

:10:55. > :10:57.and, you know, drones are only supposed to be flown up to 400 feet.

:10:58. > :11:02.These viewings have been spotted up to 1800, 2000 feet.

:11:03. > :11:04.It is not only airfields that have seen near misses

:11:05. > :11:10.Prisons too, as criminals use the devices to fly

:11:11. > :11:16.The RAF has grave concerns about such flights,

:11:17. > :11:19.if they were to be operating over Her Majesty's

:11:20. > :11:26.Right opposite the main entrance to the prison is an airfield,

:11:27. > :11:31.Turnhill, and the helicopter relief landing ground.

:11:32. > :11:33.So concerned are the RAF about drones that they are saying

:11:34. > :11:36.to people living in Shropshire, if you see a drone

:11:37. > :11:45.At Harper Adams University in Shropshire, the next generation

:11:46. > :11:49.of drones are being developed for the farming industry.

:11:50. > :11:52.In the future, they may be used to spray crops.

:11:53. > :11:57.Already the drones are being used by farmers to survey their fields,

:11:58. > :12:00.and researchers are now working with the military to make sure

:12:01. > :12:04.that their drones can be seen by the helicopter crews.

:12:05. > :12:07.So, a cloudy day, lights work really well.

:12:08. > :12:11.On really bright sunlight days, you can't see lights too well,

:12:12. > :12:14.hence mirrors on the system here, the disco balls, allowing it to be

:12:15. > :12:17.visualised by flashing light from the strongest source

:12:18. > :12:23.More than 50 flights a day take off from Shawbury.

:12:24. > :12:26.The helicopter crews pray that they will not be the first

:12:27. > :12:35.The family of former Birmingham City footballer Denis Thwaites,

:12:36. > :12:39.who was killed in the Tunisia terror attack, have told an inquest that

:12:40. > :12:43.an "evil and twisted" ideology had torn apart their lives.

:12:44. > :12:46.Mr Thwaites, and his wife Elaine, were among 38 tourists who died

:12:47. > :12:53.Mr Thwaites, who was 70, played 87 times for Birmingham City from 1962

:12:54. > :13:02.A gang who groomed and raped teenage girls in coventry have been jailed

:13:03. > :13:13.The judge said the five men accused social media to exploit teenage

:13:14. > :13:15.girls. Marcus Woolcock and Zahid Chaudhary

:13:16. > :13:17.were told they would be expected to serve half of their respective

:13:18. > :13:20.sentences before being Waqaar Khan, Kadeem Bourne,

:13:21. > :13:25.and Kenan Kelly were told they would also be placed on the sex

:13:26. > :13:29.offenders register for life. Labour has named its candidate

:13:30. > :13:31.to fight the Stoke-on-Trent Central Gareth Snell is currently a

:13:32. > :13:34.councillor in Newcastle-under-Lyme, and will contest the seat vacated

:13:35. > :13:37.by Labour's Tristram Hunt. Mr Snell started his

:13:38. > :13:39.campaign with a visit to the Wade Ceramics factory,

:13:40. > :13:42.along with Shadow Brexit Secretary, Mr Snell said he now wanted the best

:13:43. > :13:53.outcome for the city. We accept the referendum outcome,

:13:54. > :13:57.and now it is our duty to make sure My focus will be getting the best

:13:58. > :14:01.deal for the Potteries. And I think it is important

:14:02. > :14:04.that the Labour Party now comes forward and supports the triggering

:14:05. > :14:06.of Article 50 because that's There's a full list of candidates

:14:07. > :14:13.on the BBC website. Thanks for joining us

:14:14. > :14:14.on Midlands Today. The families of the victims

:14:15. > :14:18.of the Birmingham pub bombings will get legal aid

:14:19. > :14:23.because of a change in the law. We'll have your detailed weather

:14:24. > :14:25.forecast from Shefali shortly. A big rise

:14:26. > :14:29.in production at Jaguar Land Rover, making it Britain's biggest car

:14:30. > :14:41.maker for the second year running. Firefighters are still tackling

:14:42. > :14:43.a huge fire at a derelict factory It started at a former paper

:14:44. > :14:48.manufacturers in the Fordhouses area At its height over a hundred

:14:49. > :14:54.firefighters were on site, as they worked to protect

:14:55. > :14:55.neighbouring businesses. Piled high with rolls of paper,

:14:56. > :15:03.it did not take long The intense heat burning

:15:04. > :15:08.through walls and ceilings. This was a substantial fire,

:15:09. > :15:13.really severe fire. At the height of the blaze we had

:15:14. > :15:16.20 fire appliances here. That was a total

:15:17. > :15:17.of 100 firefighters. A severe incident which has

:15:18. > :15:21.taken protracted time At the heart of an industrial

:15:22. > :15:27.estate, work went on through the And this is why getting it under

:15:28. > :15:32.control was so important. This is the side of the factory

:15:33. > :15:36.which was on fire, and this is the perimeter

:15:37. > :15:38.of Marston Aerospace, where last night the team

:15:39. > :15:40.on the night shift had If the fire had jumped just

:15:41. > :15:44.this short distance, By morning, the fire was under

:15:45. > :15:50.control, but still burning. The concern now, to find out

:15:51. > :15:54.if the chemicals contained in tanks By the afternoon, specialist teams

:15:55. > :16:02.working with the Environment Agency We've identified the chemicals,

:16:03. > :16:08.they are not harmful to human life. However, we don't want

:16:09. > :16:10.them entering the canal, We've also got a brook,

:16:11. > :16:15.which runs very close So we're trying contain the water

:16:16. > :16:19.on the site along with the chemicals and we are in the of putting

:16:20. > :16:22.the fire out. That work is expected

:16:23. > :16:25.to go on into the night. The owners of the site did not

:16:26. > :16:28.want to appear on camera, but told me this afternoon

:16:29. > :16:30.they are working closely with the Fire Service to provide

:16:31. > :16:53.as much information as possible Still quite a lot of activity going

:16:54. > :16:56.on this evening, around 40 firefighters still on the scene,

:16:57. > :16:59.working to put out the fire. You may be able to see a bit of a glow and

:17:00. > :17:03.smoke behind me, that is the fire still alight. Good news this

:17:04. > :17:09.evening, we are told that most of that is steam as opposed to smoke,

:17:10. > :17:12.which is good news for people living and working in the area who have

:17:13. > :17:14.been told to keep windows and doors closed for most of the day.

:17:15. > :17:19.Firefighters are actively trying to put out the fire in the centre of

:17:20. > :17:22.the building, they have been avoiding trying to do that for most

:17:23. > :17:25.of the day, not wanting to put warm water onto the situation, because of

:17:26. > :17:29.concerns about those chemicals. However, they have been allayed, and

:17:30. > :17:35.there is a plan in place. Much more work to do, to get the fire out, so

:17:36. > :17:36.that the hard job of investigating how this fire started can get

:17:37. > :17:39.underway. "An animal wouldn't be allowed

:17:40. > :17:41.to suffer like my son does." The words of the Mother

:17:42. > :17:43.of five-year-old Alfie He has a rare and severe

:17:44. > :17:48.form of epilepsy. Alfie has been hospitalised

:17:49. > :17:50.scores of times, His mother Hannah believes

:17:51. > :17:54.an alternative therapy, She's campaigning for

:17:55. > :17:58.the Government to legalise Five-year-old Alfie in Warwick

:17:59. > :18:11.Hospital just a few weeks ago. He is about to experience

:18:12. > :18:15.a mild seizure. He had 16 seizures in a row,

:18:16. > :18:19.which we had to treat, Alfie's mum, Hannah,

:18:20. > :18:24.who is from Kenilworth, Every seven to ten days,

:18:25. > :18:29.Alfie will experience It is because he has a very rare

:18:30. > :18:38.form of epilepsy, called TCDH 19. When he comes out of it,

:18:39. > :18:41.he is hysterical, crying, he must have a headache,

:18:42. > :18:45.he's frightened, he's confused, he can't talk properly

:18:46. > :18:46.because obviously his When Alfie was eight months old,

:18:47. > :18:51.he very nearly did not pull through. They basically put him to sleep

:18:52. > :18:54.on a life-support machine. It was just horrendous,

:18:55. > :18:58.it was just the worst. We went from being a happy family

:18:59. > :19:02.to that within hours, it was awful. It obviously really upsets me now

:19:03. > :19:05.just thinking about it, Since then, Alfie's been

:19:06. > :19:10.prescribed a series of drugs, He is being pumped full of drugs

:19:11. > :19:16.all the time that don't work, he is being held down

:19:17. > :19:18.against his will for these drugs to be put into him,

:19:19. > :19:22.and as far as I'm concerned You wouldn't allow an animal to go

:19:23. > :19:26.through what he goes through, Which is why she is now

:19:27. > :19:30.campaigning for cannabis oil, which has helped children like Alfie

:19:31. > :19:33.in other countries, to be If all these countries recognise

:19:34. > :19:40.this cannabis herb has this extraordinary medicinal value,

:19:41. > :19:43.surely we should move, But for people like the Deacons,

:19:44. > :19:49.it cannot be too soon, these children with severe childhood

:19:50. > :19:53.epilepsy, they need medication now, But the Conservative government

:19:54. > :19:58.is still saying it has no plans It argues that cannabis damages

:19:59. > :20:04.mental and physical health. Epilepsy is a very dangerous,

:20:05. > :20:07.dangerous illness that can kill you, and I have to have the right to use

:20:08. > :20:12.this for my son, and if that means I have to take him a broad then

:20:13. > :20:15.fine, but I will still fight for everyone to have

:20:16. > :20:18.the right to use this. In two weeks, she has got 1500

:20:19. > :20:22.signatures on a petition, which she plans to hand

:20:23. > :20:25.into the government later this year. One of the biggest employers

:20:26. > :20:38.in the West Midlands has reported a significant

:20:39. > :20:50.increase in production. Production is up 11%, with more than

:20:51. > :20:53.500,000 vehicles coming off the production lines at its two plants.

:20:54. > :20:59.It is welcome news for thousands of employees and the many companies

:21:00. > :21:06.which supply car parts. Our reporter reports on another bumpy year.

:21:07. > :21:08.Jaguar's first SUV has been a phenomenal success after it went on

:21:09. > :21:14.sale last year, along with new and refreshed models, which has helped

:21:15. > :21:18.Jaguar Land Rover retain its position as the UK's number one

:21:19. > :21:23.car-maker. It is a source of relief for the staff at Solihull.

:21:24. > :21:27.Everyone has been working hard, and it is picking up, and everyone has a

:21:28. > :21:30.bright future. Proud to work here and be part of

:21:31. > :21:34.the company. Solihull is one of three car

:21:35. > :21:39.manufacturing plants run by Jaguar Land Rover in the UK. The company

:21:40. > :21:45.said reduction has increased by more than 240% since the recession in

:21:46. > :21:51.2009, and in the past five years sales have doubled, and the number

:21:52. > :21:54.of jobs has more than tripled. We've invested ?3 billion per year

:21:55. > :21:58.on new factories, new products, new technologies. And therefore we have

:21:59. > :22:01.a business plan that is delivering the sort of production figures you

:22:02. > :22:06.have heard today, and the sales figures.

:22:07. > :22:09.80% of the cars made here are exported and many are being sold in

:22:10. > :22:16.EU countries will stop what does Jaguar Land Rover want as we move

:22:17. > :22:19.towards Brexit? We have been a beneficiary of what

:22:20. > :22:22.has been in place with the EU for a long time. We hope the government

:22:23. > :22:28.can negotiate an ongoing, tariff free environment. Additionally,

:22:29. > :22:33.still secure the best people from Europe and the UK to work for Jaguar

:22:34. > :22:36.Land Rover. If conditions are right the company

:22:37. > :22:41.wants to expand further with a new factory near Coventry. With new

:22:42. > :22:46.models, production could rise to another million cars per year by the

:22:47. > :22:51.end of the decade. Millions of us chuckled at his

:22:52. > :22:55.drawings as children, yet few if any could name him. That is interchange

:22:56. > :23:02.in the Black Country, where this comic artist lived all his life. He

:23:03. > :23:05.was commemorated and his contribution to legendary

:23:06. > :23:11.publications like the Dandy remembered.

:23:12. > :23:15.A very special guest on my show, you are here further especial reason to

:23:16. > :23:22.talk about your dad. Many others grew up with Charlie

:23:23. > :23:24.Griggs. But we never knew it. It was an expose of cigar!

:23:25. > :23:36.I could nip upstairs and watched dad drawing, that was part of life for

:23:37. > :23:41.me. It was great. Johnny drew tens of thousands of

:23:42. > :23:47.strips from desperate Dan to Corky the cat. Many of them on the Dandy's

:23:48. > :23:54.front cover, read by 2 million children per week.

:23:55. > :23:59.During his heyday, millions of people must have seen his work. It

:24:00. > :24:09.brought a lot of joy to people, I think, and that is nice.

:24:10. > :24:13.OK, tell you what, see if you can score a goal against me?

:24:14. > :24:19.Charlie grew up in Langley in the 1930s. Thanks to a campaign begun by

:24:20. > :24:23.a Black Country radio personality, a commemorative plaque is to be placed

:24:24. > :24:26.at his old school. He had the opportunity to move, he

:24:27. > :24:32.could have moved up north, but he chose to stay in his room and draw

:24:33. > :24:36.his cartoons, because he loved the Black Country so much.

:24:37. > :24:43.The Dundee -based publishers would not allow artists to sign their

:24:44. > :24:49.work, making recognition for Charlie at his old school all these years on

:24:50. > :24:52.all the more important. It is a real source of inspiration

:24:53. > :24:56.for these children to say, he is a local hero.

:24:57. > :25:01.He did a nice line in seaside postcards as well, which did bear

:25:02. > :25:03.his signature. But in truth he was a modest man who did not crave the

:25:04. > :25:13.live late. -- limelight. I bet that brought memories flooding

:25:14. > :25:23.back for many of you. The weather got rarely above freezing, so are we

:25:24. > :25:30.in a more chilled mood? Yes, another cold and raw night.

:25:31. > :25:37.There may be clouds glowing with iridescent colours. But the pictures

:25:38. > :25:42.of the neon lights in Birmingham earlier this morning. Otherwise it

:25:43. > :25:49.was dull and drab. But at least it was dry. We had snow around, and it

:25:50. > :25:53.was very cold, temperatures barely got above freezing. With the wind

:25:54. > :25:59.chill, more like -6 in parts of the region. So these were the high

:26:00. > :26:07.temperatures from today, and if we take a look at them, -1 at Churchill

:26:08. > :26:10.offered, and 0 degrees in Birmingham, so not very good at all.

:26:11. > :26:13.But this is how it is looking over the coming days, milder conditions

:26:14. > :26:18.heading in as winds they are around to the south-westerly. As they do

:26:19. > :26:22.so, they will draw in rain from the West, coming in for a later

:26:23. > :26:28.tomorrow. But also into Sunday as well. We will have to see how far

:26:29. > :26:30.north as area of rain gets, but the best day out of the weekend will be

:26:31. > :26:36.Saturday, where we have gotten sunshine. Turning milder, there will

:26:37. > :26:40.be spells of rain around as well, but some brightness on the cards as

:26:41. > :26:46.well. But let's take a look at this evening. Some fair spells developing

:26:47. > :26:51.right now, when temperatures will plummet to below freezing, so

:26:52. > :26:56.looking at -2, minus three Celsius, without much of a wind. It may feel

:26:57. > :27:01.a touch milder than it was today, but we have got mist and a little

:27:02. > :27:07.bit of fog in the odd sheltered hollow. But otherwise, a bit of

:27:08. > :27:14.cloud starting to fill in later tonight, giving us a cloudy start.

:27:15. > :27:18.That mist will start to lift, and we will get them as a brightness coming

:27:19. > :27:21.through. Then the cloud thickens up from the South West, bringing in

:27:22. > :27:24.this light, patchy rain, and that will continue its journey

:27:25. > :27:30.north-eastward during the course of tomorrow night. Temperatures

:27:31. > :27:37.tomorrow, 45 Celsius, much better than today, could be into 7-8.

:27:38. > :27:42.Thank you. On tomorrow's Midlands Today, we will be catching up with

:27:43. > :27:46.the big garden bird watch. That's all from me, I will be back at

:27:47. > :27:49.10:30pm. Have a good night.