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Plans to restrict knee and hip replacements in Worcestershire | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The hospital says they have to put a line somewhere. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
But Mike I am very frustrated and I am worried. I worried that they are | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
good and leave me like this for a lot longer. TRANSLATION: | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
The Royal College of TRANSLATION: surgeons describe | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
And following the pleas at the clamp-down on people using their | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
mobile phones whilst driving. The Liverpool player whose first | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
appearance at Anfield Getting up close with the new | :00:38. | :00:38. | |
generation of Northern Soul fans. And after a few very chilly days, | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
finally a change is on the way, but although we'll see the back | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
of the frosty scenes, Just some of the reaction | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
to plans to restrict hip and knee replacements | :00:54. | :01:11. | |
to those in severe pain. The proposal by three clinical | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
commissioning groups in Worcestershire is aimed at saving | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
around ?2 million a year. But critics say that remaining | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
mobile is fundamental for people's Here's our health | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
correspondent Michele Paduano. Severe arthritis makes a normal | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
walking and agonising punishment 72-year-old Susan Morris believes | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
the current waiting list is She had been trying for | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
a new replacement for a year, and has been on the waiting | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
list since September. Now she worries her wait | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
will count against her. They just don't seem to understand | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
exactly what the patients I would go anywhere, I said | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
I would go anywhere to have this operation done, I don't | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
even mind going up to Russell Hall or somewhere | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
like that. In future, most hip | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
and knee replacements in Worcestershire will be carried out | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
at the Alexandra Hospital. There is a scoring | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
system to qualify. Those paying for the | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
operations have made The Royal College of | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
surgeons say the arbitrary decision to restrict NHS care | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
on the basis of pain The commission hopes to save money | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
but says that ignores the potential impact of delayed | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
treatment, prolonged pain and But with the ?9 million deficit, | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
and more and more elderly needing more treatment, | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
commissioners here say they are This sits in a very difficult place | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
with the clinical I have responsibilities | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
to my individual patients, but we've also got responsibilities in terms | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
of the amount of money we have, and we are being told that we have to | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
bring down the deficit that we have We asked people in Worcester | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
their thoughts on rationing care. If people need hip operations, | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
they should be given hip operations. And I think they could | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
make savings in It is not really what we grew up | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
to understand what the But I don't see that there | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
is a lot that we can do There should be more money | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
in the health service, but there is a fundamental | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
question about whether it is going to the right places | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
and is being allocated fairly. If the British public wants | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
to spend more on the NHS, and it looks like they do, | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
then we will continue to do that. We are doing that at the moment, | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
but maybe the message For Mrs Morris, restricting her | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
movement feels like restricting her And Michele joins us now from | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch. Is Worcestershire alone | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
in taking this action? No, not at all. Shropshire took this | :04:06. | :04:20. | |
action sometime last year, and their situation was even more draconian. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
It was five points more serious before you have a hip operation. We | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
will be seeing more of this. If you look at the NHS five-year plan, they | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
look at cutting operations. Sometimes up to 20%. Many hospitals | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
have said it. It is not just hips and knees, back operations are also | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
going to be reduced. Henne has agreed to be reduced as well. We're | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
going to see less IDF being available, and the big issue is we | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
have an ageing population which require more care and we need | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
funding to provide. Could some people be waiting longer just | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
because of where they'll? This is one of the fundamental questions | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
about the NHS, because the idea is where ever you are, wherever you | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
are, you get the same treatment. This is not necessarily going to be | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
the case now. Wheels the issue of funding. Some areas do receive more | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
funding than others. We have elderly people who are deciding to leave | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
their houses in the city, liquidate their money, getting the countryside | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
and that is putting pressure on those rural areas like | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire. | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
Despite several national campaigns, some motorists continue to break | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
the law by using their mobile phones while driving, | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
Between 2014 and 2015, West Midlands Police issued over | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
2,000 penalty notices, while in the West Mercia force | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
The lowest figure in our region was recorded by Gloucestershire Police, | :05:54. | :06:03. | |
Elizabeth Glinka has spent the day on patrol with police | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
in Staffordshire where 1,800 notices were issued | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
There can't be many people who don't realise that holding or talking on | :06:09. | :06:21. | |
your mobile phone while driving is illegal. And yet people still do it. | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
She is talking to somebody. Her phone is in her hand. We are on | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
patrol with Staffordshire police. They have just stopped a woman who | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
was talking on her phone using the loudspeaker. Any use of a phone | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
other than hands-free constitutes an offence. Is that a popular | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
misconception that the loudspeaker is OK? A little bit of that and a | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
little bit of our just habit on and people won't notice. Amongst the | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
people we stopped, there seems to be a mix of confusion and those who | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
admit to a momentary lapse. It is against the law. You see as a fair | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
cop. Yeah, I understand. The typical penalty for this offence is three | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
points on your license and a fine of about ?100. These forces also have | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
discretion with some operating safety courses as an alternative. | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
All of that look set to change. The Government is introducing a new | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
system which would mean an automatic six points on your license and fines | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
of ?200. The aim is to create a deterrent in a world where we had a | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
big key to our phones. This young driver was paying a bill. Mobile | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
phone in hand. When we talk to him, it is clear that sometimes the | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
temptation is too much. It makes you want to pick the phone up and look | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
at it. Leave your phone alone concentrate on driving. That is what | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
is important. Because prices are serious. Including four other | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
members of the public. The battle for hearts and minds continues. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
A 25-year-old man from Birmingham has appeared in court charged | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
with murdering a man on a bus on Monday night. | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
36-year-old Leon Barrett-Hazle from Smethwick was stabbed | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
and killed as he rode on the top deck of the 11A in Handsworth . | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
Kieran Gillespie who lives in Handsworth denies the charge. | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
Staffordshire Police are investigating a cannabis factory | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
discovered in a series of basements in Burton on Trent. | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
Around 800 cannabis plants have so far been recovered, | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
with a possible street value estimated at ?400,000. | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
The police say it's one of the largest cannabis factories | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
It is a massive basement area underneath a large premises where | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
several rooms, all large, have been utilised to grow the cannabis, | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
including water supply and electricity. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
It is so large that a tractor and trailer was utilised in | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
order to remove the goods from here, and that was obviously noted by | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
members of the public who called it into us. | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, and there have been events | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
across the Midlands to remember the atrocities. | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
Originally created as a remembrance day for the mass murder of Jews | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
at the hands of Nazi Germany, the day also commemorates more | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
recent genocides such as Rwanda, Darfur and Cambodia. | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
You may find some of the pictures in Kevin Reide's report, disturbing. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
In wolverhampton today, many gathered to remember those | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
who perished for no other reason than for who they were. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
A service was held and wreath layed at the Cenotaph | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
in St Peter's Square, then a statement of | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
But about Holocaust Memorial Day is a chance for us to stop and remember | :09:50. | :10:03. | |
the horrors of the Second World War, and the Nazi regime, as well as all | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
those other places since then where other genocides have taken place. | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
The day was created to remember the six million Jews | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
who were exterminated in death camps across Nazi Germany and Poland. | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
Susi Bechofer who lives in Rugby survived when she and her twin | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
were amongst 10,000 Jewish children rescued from Germany | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
She's written a book about her Mum, Rosa, who had to stay in Germany | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
before being taken to Auschwitz's gas chambers, all | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
This is a tribute to browser, and all the parents who relinquished | :10:30. | :10:46. | |
their children to be safe. The majority of parents perished in gas | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
chambers. Today National Holocaust Day | :10:49. | :10:49. | |
is also about remembering all genocides such as Rwanda, | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
Cambodia and Darfur. At the Hive in Worcester, Jewish, | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
Muslim and Christian communities As well as children from five | :10:56. | :11:10. | |
schools. I think it is important for young people to be educated about | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
what happened, so we can pay our respects. What happened to people's | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
grandparents, parents and great-grandparents, it shouldn't be | :11:21. | :11:21. | |
forgotten. And for Susi, it's about | :11:22. | :11:21. | |
turning horror to hope. I think valuing other people for who | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
they are, whatever their race or creed, is paramount. | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
Kevin Reide, BBC Midlands Today, Warwickshire. | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
Thanks for joining us on Midlands Today, this is our top | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
story tonight: Plans to restrict knee and hip operations | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
in Worcestershire to those in severe pain. | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
You've been getting in touch with us on this story. | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
Rosalie Daubney says "If they don't agree to do my husband's knee soon, | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
it's going to cost them more in the end, because it's | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
While Timothy Evans wrote, "There is a line. | :11:56. | :12:13. | |
Your detailed weather forecast to come shortly. | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
Recording our robins and other garden birds. | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Why the RSPB needs you to keep your eyes peeled this weekend. | :12:21. | :12:40. | |
New figures released show that Coventry University is the highest | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
in student intake. More than 8000 students were accepted places across | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
the university group. The future of farming and the Brexit is still | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
uncertain. As with the referendum itself, | :12:58. | :12:58. | |
some in agriculture are optimistic, while others fear | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
for their livelihood. Joanne Gallacher has been to meet | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
two farmers who have a very different take on the future | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
of farming after we leave Newborn lambs - a sign of fresh | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
starts and new beginnings, but for this Oswestry farmer, | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
the future's a worry. Malcolm Roberts exports his produce | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
to France, Italy Spain and Germany. In fact, 40% of UK | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
lamb goes to Europe. He voted to remain in | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
the European Union and is concerned Brexit could make things | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
difficult down on the farm. Our business needs sound economic | :13:24. | :13:37. | |
growth, and my time of life I hate to say it, but if we are messing | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
around with our business for the next 15 or 20 years, that is | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
probably going my career done. The message from the Government | :13:43. | :13:43. | |
is everything will be fine, Can see the concern. And join it | :13:44. | :13:57. | |
will still be subsidies but the devil is in the detail. Every | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
individual farmer gets a different subsidy depending on the size and | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
efficiency of the farm. Farming accounts for about ?1 | :14:03. | :14:03. | |
billion worth of business a year On farms like these, farmers receive | :14:04. | :14:16. | |
around ?70 an acre in EE subsidies, but with Brexit that money is likely | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
to go. Leave campaigner Owen Paterson | :14:20. | :14:19. | |
is the MP for this area. He says farmers like Malcolm have | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
nothing to fear from Brexit. They have a wonderful opportunity to | :14:23. | :14:32. | |
help design a completely new rural policy tailored around their | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
industry and our environment. Just 50 miles away in Staffordshire, | :14:36. | :14:36. | |
the atmosphere on this 500-acre beef and arable farm | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
is one of excitement. He wants to take back | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
control and he has no We're still in Europe, we still farm | :14:42. | :14:56. | |
in Europe, we still trade with Europe. I still think in the future | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
we will be trading in Europe. They need us, we need them. | :15:00. | :15:00. | |
There may be a stand-off for now, but it's inevitable there'll be | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
a locking of horns as ministers try to get right the terms of Brexit | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
And you can see more on that story on Sunday politics | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
The RSPB's big garden birdwatch starts this weekend. | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
The charity's asking us to record the birds that visit our gardens | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
over the course of an hour, so they can work out | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
which species are doing well, and which ones are struggling. | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
So for some top garden bird-watching tips we sent environment | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
correspondent David Gregory-Kumar to meet Springwatch star | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
Kate MacRae, who took these amazing pictures | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
Last year in the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch, | :15:44. | :15:52. | |
So let's get some tips for this weekend. | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
What are your top tips for how to feed birds, | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
how to get more birds into your garden? | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
Well, I think you have to think of it a bit like a | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
The more different kinds of food you can put out | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
and different kinds of ways you can feed them, then the more | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
different species you're going to attract because not all birds like | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
the same food and not all like feeding in the same way. | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
Kate has spotted over 50 different bird species | :16:21. | :16:31. | |
But about a lot of the cheap stuff is bowled out with wheat, and the | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
only species that are going to like the plea by the pigeons. It isn't | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
worth saving up spending a little bit more and having a bit more of a | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
gourmet mix, you will get a better selection of species. Cake has | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
bodied many different species. The Midlands gardenwatch top five: | :16:51. | :16:51. | |
sparrow, blue tip, starling, blackbird and wood pigeon have | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
all been caught by her cameras. But she records less | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
common visitors, too, Well, one that is always | :16:57. | :16:57. | |
really exciting to get is the woodpecker, and Great Spotted | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
Woodpeckers were another species that have taken advantage | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
of our changing in the way we feed. And this year the whole | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
event has been extended by a day | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
to cover the Monday as well as the weekend, | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
and that means you don't | :17:14. | :17:14. | |
have to do a whole hour in your garden, | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
you could Garden Birdwatch is our largest | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
citizen science experiment, providing vital information on how | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
all our garden birds are doing. David Gregory-Kumar, | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
BBC Midlands Today, Lichfield. And for more details on how | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
to take part in the garden FA Cup fourth round weekend - | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
always a treat, if your It's only a two-horse race, | :17:35. | :17:49. | |
but Wolves are the 10-1 outsiders to pull off a shock | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
victory against Liverpool. Anyone who saw them cruise past | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
Stoke City in round three might But one former Liverpool player | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
knows exactly how tough He was born in the red half | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
of Merseyside, joined Liverpool's Academy aged six, | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
spent 15 years with the club, played twice for the first team, | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
But never at Anfield ... How are you? 24 hours before the big | :18:21. | :18:36. | |
game. But Mac I can't wait. It is good to be a great occasion. | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
Everyone is looking forward to it. No wonder Conor Coady was chuffed | :18:39. | :18:39. | |
to bits when Liverpool Because he'd already set his heart | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
on playing for Wolves at the home If only Wolves can repeat the sort | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
of form they showed three weeks A little bird tells EU went bananas | :18:47. | :19:01. | |
when the draw was made. Yak, to draw them was fantastic. It is massive | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
for everybody. Everybody was to be on the best team. | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
If only Wolves can repeat the sort of form they showed three weeks | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
ago to beat Stoke City, they must have a chance. | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
Ok, so the bookies disagree and make Liverpool | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
But few people know the Reds manager Jurgen Klopp better | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
They go back a long way, and share a strong connection | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
Very nice guy, but even when he is nice, I would like to send him home | :19:24. | :19:36. | |
with empty hands. Tomorrow lunchtime, | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
Klopp's got the Kop, but Lambert's got lots of very loud | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
Wolves fans, more Labour's support has been fantastic | :19:41. | :19:51. | |
since I have been here. We're going to have two weather a storm at | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
Anfield, but the supporters will help us. If the sport is the winning | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
normally do it will be a great atmosphere. Will you touch the | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
Anfield sign? ' no, I play for Wills. It is the other way around, | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
maybe. Not this weekend. Good luck. But today an apology | :20:10. | :20:20. | |
from Saido Berahino to Albion fans. Yes we heard from Berahino | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
today for the first time since making his ?12 million move | :20:26. | :20:27. | |
from Albion to Stoke City. Now Berahino has been | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
agitating for a move away from the Hawthorns | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
for the past two seasons. But today the 23-year-old | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
said that the Albion I have got regrets, I could have | :20:38. | :20:53. | |
handled it better. I was still a young lad, I was in a situation | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
where most footballers ever BN. You live and learn. We are here now, and | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
I'm just glad to be here. The Birmingham Bears were given | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
a civic reception this afternoon. That's to recognise their victory | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
in the One Day Cup They were at Lords on the 29th | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
of August last year. But for cricket-lovers the good news | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
is that it's only 70 days Nick will be delighted it is only 70 | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
days away. Northern Soul, the dance and music | :21:31. | :21:39. | |
movement which emerged in the '60s and '70s still has | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
many dedicated fans. But now, a new generation | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
of followers is on the scene, and their story is being highlighted | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
in a new exhibition. We sent out Arts Reporter Satnam | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
Rana to see them in action. The next generation | :21:50. | :22:04. | |
of Northern Soul Lovers. The Northern Soul first | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
emerged over 50 years ago, orginating from the Tamala | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
and Mowton Studios But it was unkown singers that | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
defined the music of the movement. it is all about as young people, | :22:11. | :22:25. | |
which highlight, because it comes from an older generation and it is | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
nice that we are taking over. 18 years old and they're going out on | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
knees all night is and are still dancing. It is fantastic. It is | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
never going to die. Good looking round, people bouncing, music | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
playing, nothing like it. Also on the dance floor, | :22:41. | :22:41. | |
Sarah Raine, a researcher from the Birmigham Centre for Media | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
and Cultral Research, When I dance, and lose myself, and | :22:44. | :22:55. | |
it is our freedom in that which I think is important. | :22:56. | :22:56. | |
and potographer Bethany Kane they've decided to document | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
I found the Northern Soul scene to my friends at work and I was | :22:59. | :23:10. | |
involved in the reggae scene, I was a reggae DJ, as it came naturally. | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
There's a surprise in a matter of young people. There are more the | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
time. Today Sarah adn Bethany are exposing | :23:17. | :23:17. | |
the young soulies as their work goes public in a free exhibition | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
at Birmingham City university's A lot of the books and films and | :23:21. | :23:30. | |
adverts are about the older generation, and the young generation | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
are as passionate. I think it is important to look at that side and | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
how it affects their lives. Northern Soul is still dominated | :23:37. | :23:37. | |
by its orginal fans but new followers are determined | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
to keep the faith, too. After a cold week, how's the weather | :23:41. | :23:49. | |
looking for the weekend? Rebecca is here with the forecast - | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
and you've been in search Yes, Mary, tomorrow marks the start | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
of Chinese New Year, and with that There will be celebrations taking | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
place throughout the region. Today they began in Birmingham | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
City Centre, and I went Bringing a splash of colour | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
to a cold January day in the centre of Birmingham - | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
celebrations to mark the start For Chinese people, it is about | :24:17. | :24:30. | |
having a new start to do away with bad things. We see things like... It | :24:31. | :24:40. | |
means to which prepares it -- prosperity, always smiling and | :24:41. | :24:40. | |
cheerful. Each year the event brings | :24:41. | :24:41. | |
in thousands of people to the city, and organisers are hoping this year | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
will be bigger than ever. Brown has a lot of culture and good | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
things happening, so I want to try and embrace that. A lot going on | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
across the city, in including dancing, and it is good luck to | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
touch one of these. But it's not just Birmingham | :25:03. | :25:03. | |
celebrating, across the West Midlands there are events taking | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
place, for these children in Stoke-on-Trent, there | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
was the chance to sample Festivities will take place | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
for the next 15 days, so all that's left for me to say | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
is...kung hei fat choy. I should be full of some luck. The | :25:16. | :25:29. | |
year of the Rooster, but is more suited to ducks and the weather this | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
weekend. It was a co-star today from any of us, but there has been a | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
battle taking place out there above us, and is between high-pressure and | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
this look pressure which is good is weeping and steady start to change | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
our weather. That'll happen this weekend. Today we started to see it. | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
Breaking through the clouds during the day for some of us, we got some | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
glorious blue skies, our weather Watchers helped to tell that story. | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
Cloud started to thicken this afternoon, and it is bearing some | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
rain as we head to this weekend, that is what we have got to come. We | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
will still get brightest bells, the sun coming through tomorrow | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
afternoon, and it is going to be less cold, I hesitate to say mild, | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
but as the Gulf through tonight the warm front will bring rain, and that | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
full P Withers overnight, and any second one sleeps in from the left. | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
Damages between three and six Celsius, yesterday many places | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
didn't get above freezing, are overnight averages will be much | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
better. We see that killed five turning into a westerly wind. That | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
is bringing something more pleasant and then as next weather system | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
comes in for Sunday. Tomorrow it is good to be a damp start for the day, | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
the rain cleared away and we will see some brightness. Showers never | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
too far away. I tempered as I started to climb, about whether we | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
should be for this time of year. Skies were clear and averages will | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
fall away for a time, plenty of moisture around, Subic gets hill | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
fog. Damages will be around freezing and four Celsius. It is the start of | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
Chinese new year celebrations in Birmingham, so take your brolly for | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
that. This is that weather system, still some discrepancy about how -- | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
how far north it will go. It will be a rather soggy Sunday, but | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
temperatures an increased during the week. | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
From all of us on Midlands Today, have a great weekend. | :27:37. | :27:53. | |
We know you understand the risks associated with your pregnancy. | :27:54. | :27:55. | |
Because I'm smaller, people think my hopes are not so great. | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
You know what it's like when help is needed. You just jump in. | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
Are you saying that he's stalking you now? | :28:07. | :28:20. |